SHORT STORIES
ABOUT ALASKA
OCCURRENCES
' The Fairbanks band has been re
organized.
A commercial club has been organ
ized at Craig.
A territorial school is to be estab
lished at Ward’s Cove.
The Wrangell fire department had
an honor roll of ten names.
The first clean-up of the Free Gold
mine at Port Wells was $9,000.
The Wrangell firemen's annual ball
took place on Washington’s birthday.
For the first time in many years
wolves have been seen this winter
near Fairbanks.
The Hydaburg basketball team re
cently defeated the Wrangell team
by a score of 67 to 12.
The Whizz Canning Company is the
name of a new firm that will operate
near Valdez this season.
Officers and men of Fort Liscum
are boosting for a road to be built
between that place and Valdez.
It is thought that Fairbanks people
will secure government deeds to their
property on the townsite next spring.
Prospecting is going on at Hunch
creek, a tributary of the South fork of
the Big Chena, in the Fairbanks dis
trict.
The gross receipts of a benefit show
given for St. Joseph s hospital, in
Fairbanks, a short time ago, were
$1,164.75.
Mrs. Mabel Matheson has been ap
pointed administratrix of the estate
of her husband, the late Mayor Mathe
son of Wrangell.
I
Stikine Tribe of Red Men, at Wran
gell. have received a personal letter
of thanks from the great incohonee of
the Red Men for that tribe’s activity
in war work.
Mr. and Mrs. Walt Crawford of Sew
ard celebrated their golden wedding
anniversary at Seward this month.
The couple are still active and cheer
ful.
The Ryan lode claims, situated in
the Fairbanks mining district, have
been incorporated, and a man has left
Fairbanks for the States to raise
money for development work.
The Seward Chamber of Commerce
is insisting that the Alaska railway
commission complete the railrorad
from Seward to the coal fields before
attempting any other work.
A physical culture club has been or
ganized at Wrangell, and the members,
who are of both sexes, meet twice a
week to go through the various stunts
that go with the organization.
A Wrangell man, W. E. Parrott, has
made a success of ginseng farming
on an island near that place. He re
ceives $10 a pound for the roots,
which are used for medicinal pur
poses.
A silver dollar was lost by someone
in Wrangell a few days ago, and the
one who lost it advertised in the
paper for it. It can’t be possible that
dollars are so scarce in Wrangell that
every dollar in town can be identified.
Four hundred and ninety still views
and 5,600 feet of film for motion pic
tures were taken to depict scenes on'
the Anchorage and Seward divisions
of the government railroad last year
hv the government official photogra
pher.
Making a record for the distance,
Harry Karstens, in a Ford car, re
cently made the run between Fair
banks and Nenana in three hours and
fifty-five minutes. It was a cold day,
with the thermometer registering SO
degrees below zero. The auto fare
between the two towns is $15.
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UNDOCUMENTED
VESSELS MUST
BE NUMBERED
In compliance with an act of congress
approved June 7, 1018, providing that
every undocumented vessel, operated
in whole or in part by machinery,
owned in the United States and round
on the navigable waters of the United
States, except public vessels, and ves
sels not exceeding sixteen feet in
length measured from end to end over
the deck, excluding sheer, temporar
ily equipped with detachable motors,
shall be numbered, and the customs
house is prepared to issue numbers to
the vessels requiring them.
The act provides that tie numbers
be awarded on application of the own
er or master of the boat, shall be
awarded by the collector of customs
of the district in which the vessel is
owned and a record of the number
kept in the customs house of the dis
trict in which the owner or managing
owner resides.
The numbers are to be not less in
size than three inches and painted or
attached to each bow of the vessel in
such a manner and color as to be dis
tinctly visible and legible. No num
bers not awarded by the collector of
customs, however, shall be allowed to
be carried on the bows of brats.
Notice of the destruction or aban
donment of such yesels or change in
their ownership shall be furnished
within ten days by the owners to the
collectors of customs of the districts
where the numbers are awarded, ac
cording to the act and vessels sold in
to another customs district may be
numbered anew in the latter district.
The act provides a penalty of $10
for the violation of any of the provi
sions in the act for which the vessel
shall be liable and may be seized and
proceeded against in the District
Court of the United States in any dis
trict in which such vessel may be
found.
The act took effect six months after
its passage.
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ARMY SUPPLIES
NOTTHROWNON
OPEN MARKET
WASHINGTON, March 4—All army
surplus property will not be thrown
on the open market. A plan has been
worked out whereby it will be offered
for sale to the state institutions. It
is hoped "thus to prevent the flooding
of the market with finished material
and at the same time offer the state
institutions an opportunity for provid
ing employment for inmates. As soon
as the states notify the waste reclama
tion service of the department of com
merce of their needs the request will
be turned over to the war department
for action. Captain H. L. Balden
sperger has been assigned by the war
department to assist in the work of
the waste reclamation service.
This program has been worked out
by Hugh Frayne, chairman of the la
bor division, war industries board,
who says: '
“In co-operation with John J. Man
ning of the American Federation of
Labor, and Captain Baldensperger,
who has been an executive of a prison
reform association, I have sponsored
a movement for a nation-wide system
of reclamation by means of the labor
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of the inmates of public institutions.
As preliminary to this program we
worked for a system of reclamation
in the army whereby this work was to
be done by prisoners of war, general
prisoners and men unfit for line duty.
“The success of the salvage activ
ities of the army strengthens my be
lief that a similar system snouid be
adopted by the States. ’ We have rec
ommended that the army material be
repaired by the inmates for the use of
institutions and in order to success
fully dispose of this material and to
insure its widest distribution possible,
we have requested the governors of
the states to appoint a board to handle
the matter in each state and to make
an inventory of the needs of their in
stitutions. As soon as the State noti
fies the waste reclamation service of
their needs. Captain Baldensperger
will take up the matter to ascertain if
the same is available. It will not be
the function of the waste reclamation
service to make the actual sale, but
to stimulate the demand and make
suggestions as to the method of sal
vaging the material.”
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NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF
PARTNERSHIP
Notice 'a hereby given that the
partnership heretofore existing oe
twsen W'il'iani Croolcer 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
W'aif hereafter will be by Mathews
& Arnold. Regular trips to Katalla
and way points.
MATHEWS & ARNOLD.
Dated Feb. 6, 1919.
NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT OF
ACCOUNT
In the United States Commissjoner’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. j
Vance, administrator of the estate of:
Gunnard Johnson, deceased, has ren- j
dered and presented for settlement to, '
and filed in the probate court of said j
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 Couct, and
the seal of said Court affixed, this
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To L. T. Gray, heir and devisee ot
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 noti
fied that 1 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, f
in the Kayak recording precinct, ter- 1
ritory of Alaska, and known as and |
called: . 1
The Brown Bear Association Min- I
eral Oil Claim,
The Bald Eagle Association Min- f
eral Oil Claim, and ..
The Gray Wolf Association Mln- f
eral Oil Claim,
the location notices or certificates of j
which may be found of record in Book I
6, at pages 148 and 149, of the records j
of Mining Locations and Declaratory i
Statements, in the office of the United f
States commissioner and ex officio I
recorder in and for the said Kayak |
recording precinct, at Katalla, Alaska, \
that is to say, I have so expended la 1
such 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), f
in order to hold said claims under |
the laws of the United States and f
the Territory of Alaska relating to |
the annual labor upon mining claims, j
being the amount required to hold -j
said mining claims and each of them j
for the period ending on the 31st day 1
of December, 1918.
And if within ninety days after the j
publication of this notice, to Wit, [
within ninety days after the 8th day j
of May, 1919, you fail or refuse to I
contribute to me, the subscriber, one I
of the owners in common of said min- ]
ing claims and each of them, your j
p'roportion of such expenditures, j
which amounts to the sum of fifty \
dollars ($50) for each of said claims, j
or a total of one hundred fifty dollars j
($150) for all of said claims, your 1
interests in each claim for which you 1
so fail or refuse to contribute will I
become the property of the said sub- 1
scriber under the provisions of Sec. f
2324 of the Revised Statutes of the l
United States. I
A. T. COTTON.
Residence and postoffice address, [
Katalla, Alaska,
First publication, Feb. 6, 1919.
Last publication, May 8, 1919.
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