SHORT STORIES
ABOUT ALASKA
OCCURRENCES
H. C. Schudder, chief warden of the
Alaska service, United States bureau
of fisheries, has returned to the bu
reau after service at ('amp Lewis.
The residents of Brooks, a little
town in the Tolovana district, have
taken eleven fatherless children of
Prance under their care.
Among the best knitting records in
the country, it is believed that of Mrs.
John Lhote of Ketchikan will stand
high. Mrs. Lhote has turned in her
sixty-fifth sweater, knitted within one
year. J|or the Red Cross.
Reports received at Juneau say that
Dawson and Yukon territorial officials
will extend a hearty invitation to the
governors of the United States to visit
the Yukon territory in the event of
their holding a 1919 conference in
Alaska.
The general craze for war trophies
has spread to Alaska. Juneau and
Cordova are among the first towns to
take steps to secure souvenirs of the
war. such as cannon, machine guns,
etc., which they desire for use in
parks or public buildings.
Islands of the Aleutin string far to
the west from Valdez may provide ex
cellent grazing ground for sheep, ac
cording to two Portland, Oregon, men,
A. L. Mackintosh and W. B. Rider,
who went through Valldez recently to
investigate the islands as possible
range ground.
Thirteen ounces of platinum, val
ued at $1,313, has been found in cop
per ore produced in the mines at
Kanaan, according to the January re
ports of the custom house. Values of
other minerals produced in the terri
tory during January were gold, $127,
492: copper, $1,539,767; Silver ore,
$57,027 and chrome $16,900.
Seward now has hopes of being
made a “water base” for United States
transports going to and from Siberia
and for navy vessels to be maintained
along the Alaskan ceast next summer.
The navy department has requested
a Seward water company to furnish
a bid on supplying water to govern
ment vessels.
Arctic ocean tides rise and fall only
from one-half foot to two feet, accord
ing ton an announcement of the Can
adian department of naval affairs,
which is classifying the report turned
over by Vilhjaltnur Stefansson, re
turned Canadian Arctic explorer. On
Hudson's Bay, farther south, the tide
rises thirty feet, according to local
"records.
Fur exports from Alaska during the
lisca! year ending 1918 were valued
at $2,281,782, according to the annual
report of the territorial customs col
lector. A large part of this increase
over the 191E total, which was $379,
590, is due to the fact that in 1918
there were no reports received on the
value of the skins of fur seals killed
by the government on the Pribiloff
islands.
Natives of Hoonah, an Indian vil
lage near Juneau, have recently taken
such radical steps toward an advanc
ing trend of civilization that other
native villages are wondering what
they will try next. First, the Hoonah
tribe abolished the cider business, an
apparent harmless one, but one which
was said to have caused much trouble
among the natives. Next, the Hoo
nah natives declined to attend an In
dian feast at Swanson Harbor, t' ereby
hoping to discourage the giving of
feasts and continuing of ancient cus
toms. After electing a native coun
cil, Hoonah built a jail and hospital.
Whether as a reward for those signs
of progress, or not, the Forestry de
partment has agreed to se’ d an agent
to survey Hoonah townsite so that
each native may receive title to a
i building lot.
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JAPAN TO REVISE
ITS CUSTOMS TARIFF
■ TOKIO, March 4.—To prepare for
expected economic competition after
peace is signed Japan has also decid
ed to organize a special commission
for the revision of her customs tariff.
The commission will he placed under
tlxe direct supervision of the foreign
minister.
A special treaty revision commis
sion will be organized with, not more I
than thirty members, representing dif
ferent. departments affected by the I
proposed changes in tariff.
FIRE PITS ARE
POURING OUT
THEIR LAVA
SAN FRANCISCO. March 4—The
greatest activity in l'orty-five years is
reported from Kiloauea, Hawaii, one
of the world’s greatest volcanoes, in a
letter received here from R. W. de
Vis-Norton, secretary of the Hawaiian
Volcano Research Association.
"I have returned from a prolonged
stay at Kiloauea volcano,” he wrote.
| “The lava column is undergoing an
unprecedented rise and is overflowing
in all directions from the fire-pit into
the main crater. There now are five
lakes instead of one. I have walked,
with Professor T. A. .Tagger Jr., the
observatory director, over the whole
of the, area of the fire-pit, on the sur
face of the lava column, end came
away with a sort of bewildering kal
eidescope of white-hot caverns, plash
ing fountains, and seething turmoil,
impossible of connected description.
It is a wonderful experience to stand
at the side of a glowing cone ten feet
high and look down through a kind of
window into \a roaring inferno be
neath, while the ground rocks and
heaves under one’s feet.
‘‘As the lava will continue to rise
until March 21, we are in for some
very wonderful displays, and it is
forty-five years since we have had
such intense activity at the crater.
Manna Roa (on Hilo island) is becom
ing restless and four great columns of
smoke and incandescent gas have
been rising for some days, but the
absence of earthquakes, and of night
glow from the summit appear to indi
cate that no immediate eruption is to
be feared.”
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TOWN CLERK’S REPORT
FEBRUARY 28TH, 1919.
Receipts.
From Council, 1917-18.$ 8,480.18
From Rent . 130.00
From U. S. Government. Li
censes . 4,689.30
From Police Court Fines.... 217.00
From Miscellaneous Receipts 55.00
From Municipal Tax. 13,138.30
Disbursements
Board of Education.$ 3,500.00
Light .. 1,806.60
Printing aatd Publishing. .. . 319.35
Public Building Improvem’t 1,374.48
Assessment and Collection,
Taxes . 230.00
Election Expense . 118.95
Expense Account. 1,188.50
Fire Department . 2,249.36
Police Department . 2.886.70
Public Buildings and Im
provements . 1,374.48
City Float . 825.86
Cleaning and Repairing
streets . 3,310.36
Collection Account . 282.25
$19,432.73
Cash in Treasurer’s hands.. 7,277.11
$26,709.84
NATHANAEL GREEN,
Town Clerk.
Bills Ordered Paid.
Bills ordered paid by the Town
Council of Cordova on March 3, 1919:
William Tiernan .$ 6.00
Cordova Fire Department,. 46.00
John Costello . 140.00
George McDonald . 140.00
NATHANAEL GREEN,
Town Clerk.
Fresh shipment Brookfield saus
age arrived on this boat. Blum,
O’Neill Co.
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ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE.
Take notice that the undersigned,
administrator of the estate of Orazio
Salvini, deceased, will sell at public
auction to the highest bidder, for
cash, the following described personal
property. Sale to take place at the
place of business of the undersigned
on C street, in the town of Cordova,
Alaska, on the 10th day of March,
1919, at the hour of 10 o'clack a. m.,
and to continue until said property is
sold.
List of Property.
12 Oars.
1 new herring net, 2-inch mesh.
6 empty barrels.
1 box twine.
2 sacks sea corks.
6 cork lines.
Lead lines.
2 water breakers.
400 fathom salmon net.
FRED SCHRAMM,
Administrator,
lated the 24th day of February, 1919.
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NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF
PARTNERSHIP
Notice la hereby given that the
partnership heretofore existing oe
twaen William Crooker and Charles
Mathews in the operation of the
launch Wail has been dissolved. All
accounts due will be collected and all
bills payable will be settled by Will
iam Crooker. The operation of the
Waif hereafter will he by Mathews
& Arnold. Regular trips to Katalla j
and way points.
MATHEWS & ARNOLD.
Dated Feb. 6, 1919.
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NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT OF
ACCOUNT
In the United States Commissioner’s
Court, Cordova Precinct, Territory
of Alaska (In Probate).
In the Matter of the Estate of Gun
nard Johnson, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that V. G.
Vance, administrator of the estate of
Gunnard Johnson, deceased, has ren
dered and presented for settlement to,
and filed in the probate court of said
Cordova precinct, his final account as
such administrator, and that Tuesday,
the 15th day of April, 1919, at 10
o’clock a. m., at the court room of our
said probate court at Cordova, Alaska,
has been duly appointed by the pro
bate court for the settlement of the
final account, at which time and place
any person interested in said estate
may appear and file his exceptions in
writing to the said final account and
contest the same.
Witness the Hon.
(Seal) A. J. ADAMS,
Judge of the said Probate Court, and
the seal of said Court affixed, this
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To L. T. Gray, heir and devisee of
Robert D. Gray, deceased, to all other
heirs of the said Robert D. Gray, de
ceased, to James Smith, executor of
the last will and testament of the
said Robert D. Gray, deceased, to all
persons claiming liens upon or against
the interest of said estate, of said ad
ministrator, or of said heirs, in the
mining claims hereinafter described,,
and to all whom it may in any manner
concern:
Yo and each of you are hereby ripti
fied that I have expended during the’
year 1918 one hundred dollars ($100)
in labor and improvements upon and
for the benefit of each of those three
certain mineral oil mining claims, all
situated at the head of Mirror Slough,
in the Kayak recording precinct, ter
ritory of Alaska, and known as and
called:
The Brown Bear Association Min
eral Oil Claim,
The Bald Eagle Association Min
eral Oil Claim, and
The Gray Wolf Association Min
eral Oil Claim,
the location notices or certificates of
which may be found of record in Book
6, at pages 148 and 149, of the records
of Mining Locations and Declaratory
Statements, in the office of the United
States commissioner and ex officio
recorder in and for the said Kayak
recording precinct, at Katalla, Alaska,
that is to say, 1 have so expended in
snch labor and improvements upon
and for the benefit of all of said
claims during the said year 1918 the
sum of three hundred dollars ($300),
in order to hold said claims under
the laws of the United States and
the Territory of Alaska relating to
the annual labor upon mining claims,
being the amount required to hold
said mining claims and each of them
for the period ending on the 31st day
of December, 1918.
And if within ninety days alter the
publication of this notice, to wit,
within ninety days after the 8th day
of May, 1919, you fail or refuse to
contribute to me, the subscriber, one
of the owners in common of said min
ing claims and each of them, your
proportion of such expenditures,
which amounts to the sum of fifty
dollars ($50) for each of said claims,
or a total of one hundred fifty dollars
($150) for all of said claims, your
Interests in each claim for which you
so fail or refuse to contribute will
become the property of the said sub
scriber under the provisions of Sec.
2324 of the Revised Statutes of the
United States.
A. T. COTTON.
Residence and postoffice address,
Katalla, Alaska.
First publication, Feb. 6, 1919.
Last publication, May 8, 1919.
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LIVE
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Excellent Roasters
FRESH EGGS
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Phone 22
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