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The Douglas school board has
elected Frank It. Foster, a for
mer instructor at the U. of W.
to act in the capacity of superiu
tendeni of schools in that city
during the coming school term
The former superintendent, Gor
don C. Mitchell has resigned to
aecept a position in the same
capacity at Ketchikan.
It is reported that the Engin
eer mine, located near Atlin B
C., has been sold to the Hollinger
interests. The consideration is
said to be around one million dol
lai*8, most of which was paid in
cash.
Charley Anderson, who took’
out over a half a million dollars
from No, 29 on Eldorado, and'
who wa* later ’’gypped”, out of
it by a woman he married, has
recently found a rich quartz ledg
on Texada Island, B.C.,according
to an old time prospector, who
recently came North.
The Whistle cafe and bakery
closed its doors recently on ac
count of a shortage of supplies,
which exists in Nome. It is said
that everyone is on short rations
A permit to obtain trout spawn
from Alaskan streams has re
cently been issued the game com
missioner of King County Wash
ington. He will obtain the cut
throat variety.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Clark,
who for the past year have had
charge of the Overland hotel at
Seward recently left for Califor
nia, where they will make their
home.
J. W. McCord, better known as
"Slippery Jack,” prominent in
oil development and other Alas*
ka activities, plans to go into
fox farming on a large scale. He
will stock an island with ten paii
of blue foxes, to be followed lat
er by an order for twenty pairs
more.
Furriers claim that rabbit skin
after being dyed and plucked, is
being offered on the markets as
sealskin, and is a surprisingly
good imitation*
A group of Los Angeles capi
talists has taken an option on a
lode property located on BaranOf
Island, near Petersburg, owned
by Capt. I. M. Hofstad and sons.
The lod<; carries a large mineral
c>intent of nickel.
Harry Christie, a Cordova trap
per, is publishing 4,000 copies of
a book describing the best me
thod of trapping fnr bearing ani
mals.
The silver grey fox farm at Pafl
mer, owned by Jones and Camp
bell, has eight or ten pairs of fox
es which have begun to breed.
The partners last winter sent
two silver grey pelts to the states
for which they refused $750.
George Wray, Oscar Nord, and
Chas. Ohearn were severly burn,
ed by a powder explosion which
occurred in a car in which they
were working at the Anchorage
dock recently. The car had been
used to haul black powder for
railroad work and had not bten
cleaned out*. It is presumed that
it was ignited by sparks from
the men's shoe nails and iron on
, the floor.
Copper River
and Northwestern Railway
THROUGH SERVICE TO CORDOVA TWICE WEEKLY
CALEB CORSER Supt. C. M. BOROUGHS . Agent
LEGAL ADVERTISING
Notice (of Publication
Department of the Interior
U.S. Land Office at Juneau, Alaska
May 14, 1923.
NOTICE is hereby given that George
C. Gwin, of McCarthy, Alaska, who,on
Nov. 27, 1922, made homestead entry
No. 05586, forSE^, SVfcNE^ seel;
T. 6 S., R. 14 E., C. R. M. apd Lots
5 & 6, Section 6, Township 6 S.,
Range 15 E, Copper River Meridian,
has filed notice of intention to make
three-year Proof, to establish claim to
the land above described, before Wm.
D. Coppernoll, at McCarthy, Alaska,
on the 80th day of June, 1923.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Sam Seltenreich, of McCarthy, Alaska
Charles Lubbe, of
Bill Henry, of
John W. Nickell, of
Frank A. Boyle
Register
Date of first publication May 26,1923
Date of last publication June 16,1923
NOTICE
Notice Is Hereby Given that
all persons found trespassing or
or using any of the buildings
tools, timber or tunnels on the
Cole Bench Placer Claim, desig
nated as Survey No. 1457, will be
prosecuted according to law.
C. F. M. Cole
Owner
NOTICE TO DELINQUENT
CO-OWNERS
PETE DIECH and J. B O’NEILL
their heirs and assigns.
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED
That during the calendar yeai
f 1921, the undersigned ex
pended more than One hundred
dollars on each claim in labor
and improvements upon the Cam.'
bier group of Copper Claims Nos.
4, 6, 7 and 8 situated along the
Dan Creek, a tributary of the
of the Nizina River, in the [ un
organized ]Mining District with
in the McCarthy Precinct, in the
Territory of Alaska, in the lode
mining locations you show an
undivided' interest as shown in
the Notices of location thereof ,on
record in said recording precinct
That said labor was performed
and the expenditure and improve
ments made as and for the an
nual labor for the respective cal
endar year by the provi
sions of the Revised Statutes of
the United States, and amend
ments thereto, concerning the
annual labor and improvements
upon mining claims, and the a
mount so expended., was the a
mount required by law to hold
said claims for the yedr of 1921
which year the same was ex
pended. - *
You are therefore indebted f$
the undersigned in the sum Of
$138.33% and an additional sum
of $2.00 recording fees, a total
of $135.33% and you are notifies
that unless you contribute and
pay the undersigned yotiP por
tion to wit: The sum of $1&>.33%
within ninety days after the per
sonai service of this Notice upon
you, or within ninety days after
the publication ef this notice,
which ninety days shall be com*
puted from the date of the last
publication as below stated,your
claim shall be forfeited to the
undersigned who has made such
expenditure and will .become his
property by law.
Payment of such amount may
be made to the undersigned at
McCarthy, Alaska, J
Dated this 24th day of Feb. 1923.
George Marhoffer
First publication Feb .24, 1928.
Last publication J une 2, 1923.