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(From McCarthy News)
Delegate Grigsby has not forgotten
that spring is at hand in Alaska. A
shipment of government seeds has
been received at the postoffice for dis
tribution.
Roy Snyder and wife have leased
the Cole house and store at Nizina,
which will now be known as the Chit
titu store.
% With the price of oats at $7.50 per
sack and hay $10 per ton, it would not
surprise us if the packing rates were
boosted up a notch.
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Shorty Gwin had the bad luck to
lose one of his gray mares recently.
The animal was taken sick and died
on the trail. This mare, “Belle,” with
her mate, “Flora,” was originally
brought into the country by Gorge
Hazelet at the time of the Chisana
stampede, and sold to Gwin the same
fall. The latter has used them ever
since between here and the creks.
Mr. Gilliland, who is employed by
tl*e Kennecott Copper Corporation at
the Jumbo mine, has just finished a
very beautiful piece of carving in his
spare time. It is 'in the form of a
S^ir, and is of highly polished coba
lite. He is sending it to the Eastern
S^ir chapter at his home in New
York.
Mrs. Lottie White, a resident of
Chisana, spent a few days in town,
resting up after her trip out over the
glaciers, and then left for a visit Out
side to spend the summer.
Jimmie Brown, who was badly
frozen on the Rohn glacier last Janu
ary, is being operated upon fqr the
removal of the injured toes and fin
grs.
Bob Johnson left yesterday for Dan
creek, where he will be employed by
G. H. Birch for the summer.
F. P. Miller-'left for Nizina on Mon
day. He will be associated with the
Andrus company next season.
George Nickles was in town on
Thursday on his way to the creeks,
after a winter in Seattle.
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Fred Lubbe and Con Miller left on
* tlfeir last relay trip to the Bremner
on Thursday.
Mrs. Hubrick’s many friends were
glad to see her return on Tuesday
from her trip to New York.
Mr. and Mss. Radovan were in town
from Dan creek for a few days this
week to secure their season s outfit.
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At the school election last Monday
Sam Seltenreich was elected director,
Mrs. John Barrett clerk, and John Un
derwood treasurer.
LITTLE BRIGHT EYES
AT EMPRESS TONIGHT
* Enid Bennett again tonight at the
Empress. Your last chance to see
this popular star in one of the very
strongest plays she has ever appe&i ed
inf “Keys of the Righteous.” A hu
man play so perfectly produced and
so wonderfully well portrayed that
you live with l£e characters through
out the five reels. Also the two reels
of Pathe comedy “From London to
Laramie,” that is the best possible
little chaser for the pessimist. To
morrow Francis X. Bushman and
Beverly Bayne in “Social Quicksands”
and a two reel comedy, “N$ Mother
to Guide Him.”
MONTANA POSTMASTERS
TO MEET AT HELENA
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HELENA, Mont., April 20 (by Asso
ciated Press).—A committee headed
%j C. S. Fortman, local postmaster,
has begun to prepare for the meting
of the Postmasters’ Association of
Montana, which is to be organized here
June 18 and 19. This will be the first
convention of its kind in the history
of the state.
The association, which will include
all postmasters of every grade who de
sire to join, will take up problems
peculiar to the postal service and en
deavor to obtain greater co-operation
and effifieincy in the postal system in
the state.
Best coffee in town served at the
€ity Bakery.
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CHIEF OF FLATHEADS
TO VISIT WHITE HODSE
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HELENA, Mont., April 20 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Chief Sam Resurrec
tion of the Flathead Indian tribe,
which inhabits the former reservation
in the west end or the state recent
ly announced, while on a visit here,
that he shortly will accept an invi
tation from President Wilson to pay
the White House a visit.
When Mr. Wilson was in the city
last fall, during the tour that was
cut short by his illness, Chief Sam
had a chat with the president. The
chief never attended' school, he can
not read or write and he speaks only
broken English. He has ruled the
Flatheads for many years but com
plains that lately there have been too
many cases of interference by the
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whites ■ in the internal affairs of the I
tribe.
He says that he means to make a
plea to the president to permit him
to take the question up openly with
the Indian bureau.
Your eyes fitted. Compound and
stigmatic lenses replaced. See Os
borne.
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