YOU want the best
SO GO TO
Tine Alaska House
NEWLY REMODELED AND FURNISHED ROOMS.
BATHS
EXCHANGE
C.B. Smith one of the oldest
risidents around Valdez, recen
tly left for Pennsylvania, where
J13 will make his home in the fu
ture. For many years past Mr.
Smith has been interested in in
surance and realty business in
the town of Valdez.
J.H. Hume, of the Scow Bay
Cannery Company in, Southeast
e.*n Alaska, was arrested recen
t’y by government officials char
ged with having thrown large
(; nantities of good salmon away,
during the last fishing season.
George T. Masur.v a soldier
stationed at theChilcoot barracks
was recently awarded the Dis
tinguished Service Oioss for ex
t ’ lodin try bravery during the
fighting in and around Vlavivos
tok in 1918. Unassisted he es
corted women and children out
of a burning depot and to safety
through a fire swept zone.
Igloo No. 1 at Nome recently
wired President Harding asking
him to include Nome in his itin
erary of the coming summer.
On a recent trip along the
coast of Prince of Wales Island
T) r. R.V. Ells performed 78 oper
ations on native children, remov
ing tonsils, adenoids and other
useless parts. In a day and a
half the doctor made 52 operat
ions. One native with 14 children
had them all operated on. Kind
had to do it to keep peace in
my jealous family opined the old
n ttive when the doctor asked
him what the idea was.
The town of Brooks is work
ing on a landing field for the
Fairbanks airplane and will have
one of the best takeoffs in the
division. It now costs about $40
and takes three days to make a
trip to Fairbanks from Brooks
whereas the airplane can make
the trip in a half hour.
Very lively Alaska will have a
nother visitor this summer who
is nearly as well known as Pres
ident Harding; if letters received
by Mrs. Drake, of Juneau fulfill
their promises. Jdrs. Drake is a
sister in law of the famous poet,
humorist and short story writer
Walt Mason, and has received
advices that W ilt is "l'lggerin,”
on a trip to Alaska.
Wrangell is to have a new break j
water to be constructed at the i
cost of $50,000. The bay opens to (
the North a^d during the time
ot storm, fishing boats are im
periled. The break water is to be
about 350 leet in length and 20
or 25 teet high.
Juneau city fathes have begun
constructian on a building to be
used as a public market by the
farmers around Juneau. The
produce can be sold either re
tail or wholesale.
The customs collector’s report
for the month of April shows a
decided improvement over the
preceding month, about one-half
million dollar increase being no
ted. The total exports lor the
past month was valued at $1,801,
867. Copper exported was valued
at $1,174,000 salmon at $379,164,
frozen fish, $75,219, fur $59,818,
shrimp $27,569, stone and mar
, ble $24,821, wood pulp $17,000,
Copper River
and Northwestern Railway
THROUGH SERVICE TO CORDOVA TWICE WEEKLY
CALEB CORSER Supt. C. M. BOROUGHS . Agent
gypsum $9,000 and it being an
off month only $2,371 worth of
herring were exported. Im
ports amounted to $180,693
Shoes For The Family.
A Quebec shoe dealer recently
receive the following order from
a French Cmili i i customer—
You will put some shoe on my
little families like this, and send
by Sam Jameson the carrier: —
One man, Jean St.Jean [me], 42
years; Sophie St.Jean [she], 41
years; Hermedes & Lenore, 19
years; Honore, 18 years; Celina,
17 years; Narcess, Octavio, 16; Ol
ive, 14 years; Philippa, 13 years;
Alexander, 12 years; Rosina, 11
years; Bruno, 10 years; Pierre,
9 years; Engine, vve lose him; Ed
ouard, and Elisa, 7 years; Adri
en, 6 years; Camille,5; Zoel, 4;
Joseph,3; Moise, 2; Muriel, 1; and.
Hilarie go barefoot. How much?
NOTICE
Notice Is Heueby 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
I PETE DIECH and J. B, O’NEILL
; their heirs and assigns.
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED
That during the calendar year
Qf 1921, the undersigned ex
pended more than One hundred
dollars on each claim in labor
and improvements upon the Ram
bler 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 [urn
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 year of 1921,
which year the same wTas ex
pended.
You are therefore indebted to
the undersigned in the sum of
$1313-:!% and an additional sum
of $2 03 recording lees, a total
>f $135.33V3 and you are noiitiea
that tinles-; you contribute and
nay the. undersigned your por
tion to wit: The sum of $135.331/*
within ninety da\ s alter the pei ’
sonal service of this Notice upon
you, or within ninety days after
the puolication of 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,
Dated this 24th day of Peb. 1923.
George Marhoffer
Fiist publication Feb .24, 1923.
Last publication J une 2, 1923.