Steam Heated Centrally Located.
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OSTRANDER BLDG. CORDOVA, ALASKA
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575 Town Lots in Cordova.
Ranging in price from $50 up to $5000, and 600
Town lots in Chitinu from $50 to $1000. Any
or all of them on easy terms.
Now is the time to buy.
For particulars—Call on or write to
UFO. C. HAZFLFT,
Cordova, Alaska. Trustee and Agent.
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CHITINA
OVERLAND
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CHITINA, ALASKA
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CAFE and BILLIARD ROOM
A Large Parlor and
Reading Room
H. T. STAFSHOLT
PROPRIETOR
THE HOTEL
CHITINA
ENLARGED AND COMPLETELY RENOVATED
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Details of how the system of free
lease of ten nere tracts of coal land
In Alnskn Is to be put into effect are
set forth in a circular letter which
Secretary Lane is sending to the land
office officials in the territory. Ac
companying the circular will go a sup
ply of printed blank applications and
blank leases, or permits, as they are
termed, with a view of giving Alas
j kanB nccess to the coal beds for do
■ inestic and local use at ns early a date
, as possible.
i After reciting section 10 of the coal
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’ leasing law, which permits the grant
ing of free use permits. Secretary
Lane says in the letter:
“Owing to the legal embnrrass
| ment occasioned by existing claims
and there being no settlements or lo
cal industries In or adjacent to the
Bering river or Matanuska coal fields,
ttiese regulations and the permits pro
vided for shall not at present apply
to coal deuosits in these fields.”
Only Citizens May Lease
Quoting Section 3 of the leasing act
as to the qualifications that must be
possessed by applicants, the circular
continues:
“Only citizens of the United States
above the age of 21 years, associations
of such citizens, corporations and mu
nicipalities organized under the laws
of the United States, or of any state
or territory thereof, provided that the
majority of the stock of such corpora
tion shall at all times be owned and
held by citizens of the United States,
are eligible to receive a permit to pros
pect for and mine coal from the unre
served lands of Alaska."
And it is set forth also that all per
mittees may mine coal for sale, except
railroads and common carriers, who,
by the terms of section 3 of the act,
are restricted to the acquirement of
only such an amount of coal as may
be required and used for their own
consumption.
Permit May Be Extended
While the law permits these permits
to be issued for a period of not to ex
ceed ten years, the regulations con
tained in the circular provide for only
two years, beginning at the date of
filing, subject to the approval of the
commissioner of the general land of
fice. The circular adds, however:
“Upon application and satisfactory
showing as to the necessity therefor,"
the permit “may be extended by the
commissioner for a longer period, sub
ject to such conditions necessary for
the protection of the public interest
as may be imposed prior to or at the
time of the extension."
It is provided also that the permit
may be revoked for misrepresenta
tion, carelessness, waste, injury to
the property, charging unreasonable
prices for coal, or material violation of
such rules and regulations governing
operations as shall have been pre
scriben In advance of the issuance of
the permit.
Need Not Cover Ten Acres
While the act limits the amount of
land under a single permit to ten
acres, the circular explains that “it is
not to be inferred from this, however,
that the permit granted thereunder
shall necessarily cover that area. The
ground covered by a permit must be
square in form and limited to an area
reasonably sufficient to supply the
quantity of coal needed.”
, A permit grants only a license to
prospect for, mine and remove coal
free of charge from the unreserved
public coal lands in Alaska, it is set
forth, and does not authorize the min
ing of any other form of mineral de
posit, nor the cutting and removal of
timber.
The circular instructs that the ap
plicant shall make out his application
on the simple blank which is to be
provided fbr the purpose, and trans
mitted by registered mail to the local
land office, or tiled there In person.
Prior to executing the application, the
applicant nni^t have gone upon the
land, plainly marked the boundaries
uiereof by substantial monuments, and
posted notice setting forth his inten
tion of mining coal thereon.
Must File Statement
"The application must contain the
statement that these requirements
have been complied with, aud the de
i
scription of (he land as given In the
application must correspond with the
descriptions as marked on the ground.
“The permit, if granted, should be
recorded with the local mining district
recorder, if the land Is situated with
in an organized mining district.
"Tn view of the fact that by reason
of the long distances and limited
means of transportation many appli
cants may be unable to appear in per
son at the United States land office
to file their applications, It has been
deemed advisable to allow such appli
cants the privilege of mining coal as
■ soon ns their applications have been
duly executed and sent by registered
I mail to the proper United States land
office. Should nn application be re
jected, upon the receipt of notice there
of all privileges under this paragraph
terminate, and the applicant must
cease to mine coal.
• Land Officers Have Authority.
The officers of the local land offices
are given authority to issue permits
and to suspend or reject them, sub
Ject to the usual appeal to the commis
sioner of the general land office. The
register of the local office Is required
to keep a record of all permits. The
register, on granting a permit, is re
quired to forward to the commissioner
of the general land office the original
application and 11 CODV of thn hormlf
11,1,1 transmit copies to the chief or the
Alaska field division and to the local
representatives of the United States
bureau of mines.
It is provided that an applicant may,
where no public land surveys exist, de
scribe the land for which he Is apply
ing by metes and bounds.
Reasonable Price Enforced
In the application he must state that
he has not applied within two years
for a permit of like character in the ]
same field; he must agree to exercise
“reasonable diligence, precaution and
skill in operation to prevent injury and (
waste.” and to agree "to charge only
such prices for coal sold to others as
represents a fair return for the labor
expended and reasonable earning value
to which the Investment in the enter- (
prise 1s entitled, without including any
charge for the coal itself."
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HOLLAND IN UNIFORM ;
BUI NUT AT WAR:
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(By Associated Press Correspondence) '
1 UK HAGUE, Feb. 6—Martial scenes *
without the horrors of war are still as 1
frequent In Holland as In any of the 1
belligerent countries, notwithstanding !
that the Netherlands are absolutely 1
neutral. The Dutch army, was, In '
fact, the first to mobilize and since 1
the beginning of European hostilities 1
the streets of its cities and its coun- 1
try roads have swarmed with armed 1
men proceeding to or from their bur- 1
racks and their manoeuvring grounds. 4
The cafes, the restaurants, the thea
tres, the clubs and other public gather
ing places are crowded every day with
men in uniform.
The cost of all these preparations
for the defense of the country against
a possible attempt to commit a breach
of its determined neutrality is borne
almost with equanimity by the people,
as was evidenced by the oversub
scription of the recent Government
loan. Diminution of trade has follow
ed in the wake of the war outside
boundaries. This has been due prln-1
cipally to the embargo placed on the
exportation of various articles and to
the difficulty of obtaining coal, much
of which was imported from Germany,
the figures showing that only 264,919
freight cars crossed the Dutch-Ger
man frontier last year as compared
with 337,268 In 1913. Coal Imports
were reduced from 125,766 car loads in 1
1913 to 98,278 car olads last year.
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NEW DISTRICT ATTORNEY
CONFIRMED BY SENATE '
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James A. Smiser, of Columbia, Tenn.
has been confirmed as United Slates
attorney for the First judicial division <
according to private advices from Se
attle. It is said (he United States
senate ratified President Wilson's ap
pointee, at a session held in Wash- ,
ington on Feb. 1.
Mr. Smiser wns at thut time In ,
Washington to receive Instruction. It
is believed he is now on his way to
Juneau.
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CLOSING OUT— Two dozen Ladle's
Sweaters at $1. and $1.60 at S.
BLUM & CO.
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Fresti shipments of corn on the cob
at Kinney's. i
NEW 565,000 EIGHTHS
TENDED IS LAUNCHEI
In the presence of n large crowd
the new $65,000 lighthouse tende
Kern. Intended for operation In Alaski
waters, was launched last week li
Seattle. She will be ready for serv
Ice early In the spring.
The Kern is a singe screw, wooder
hull, oil burning vessel with a lengtl
of 112 feet over all and 100 feet at th«
waterline when loaded, a beam o'
twenty-two feet and a depth of tei
feet, three and a half inches. Shf
will be equipped with 300 horsepowei
triple expansion engines manufactured
by the Heffeman Engine works of Se
attle. With a normal load she will
have a draft of eight feet and a dls
placement of 225 tons.
Unusually commodious quarters
have been provided for the officers
and crew and for the use of the light
house inspectors who will use the ves
sel in their tours for the various sta
tions in the North. The quarters for
the officers and inspectors are finished
in hard wood. The crew will be
housed in the forecastle.
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GERMAN WOMEN ACTIVE
IN BEHALF OF SOLDIERS
(By Associated Press Correspondence)
BERLIN, Feb. 6—Cooperative soeie
ies in Germany have done excellent
vork among their members and their
lependents during the six months of
he war. Over five and a half million
>eople, mostly of the working classes,
>elong to these societies, which pos
iess a to al capital of $1,500,000,000
md cover a large field of operations,
he chief of which is the running of
tupply stores. The endeavor of these
mpply stores has been directed toward
teeping down prices of food stufTs
md this has been of great assistance
o the families of those members who
tave been called to the colors. The
itores In consequence of the en
couragement they have given to
hrifty people to save in time of peace,
tave found that in most cases they
tave not had to break their rule call
ng for ready money settlement for
lurchases. Other cooperative organ
zations, such as cooperative building
ocieties, have hnve experienced more
rouble in collecting the installments
owards paying off the cost of con
(ruction of workmen’s houses, but
Ills difficulty has generally been over
come by the aid of the cooperative
tanks, which grant loans at small in
erest. The cooperative workshops
tave found it difficult to obtain raw
naterials, but those which have uttder
aken military contracts have been ex
eedingly prosperous.
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CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES
DOING GOOD WORK
HANOVER, Feb. 6—Over a million
vomen are engaged throughout Ger
nany in work for the soldiers at the
ront. Members of over two thous
ind women societies give their ser
vices voluntarily to the various
tranches of assistance botli for those
Igbting in the trenches and for those
vho have returned disabled by wounds
tr disease. Not only are they doing
plendid work in nursing in the Held
ind in the hospitals, but they are
ooking after those who are conval
escing in private houses and public in
titutlons or recuperating In order to
te able to return to the firing line.
In the numerous recreation halls
chore the wounded soldiers gather tlu
vomen also do their best to provide
tnterl&lninent. In other respects nisi
hey are kept busy-for instance, in or
ganizing popular kitchens where food
8 provided cheaply for the indigent
lependents of the soldiers. They also
mit and make warm garments for
he troops, while many of them do
fote themselves to the care of the
children of poor women obliged to go
o work to keep their homes togethei
luring their husband’s absence.
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K.innoy has a corner on Coffee.
iVhat we mean is COFFEE, not the
cishy-wishy kind you have been
mying and nicknamed cofTee. One
•an of Dwight Edwards will convince
J Northern Meat Market 1
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