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LOT
2
11
12
1
2
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
17
‘20
22
3
5
6
8
12
13
14
1.7
16
17
18
19
6
11
13
1
9
10
13
14
15
2
4
5
6
10
11
14
15
16
1
6
8
3
11
12
17
20
21
24
1
2
5
7
Notice of Delinquency
In the Payment of Assessments on the Following Lots
ALASKAN ENGINEERING COMMISSION
TOWNS1TE OFFICE
Nenana, Januray 28, 1919
BLOCK
1
1
1
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
4
5
5
6
6
6
6
C
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7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
8
8
8
0
<t
19
10
M
10
30
10
11
11
11
11
amount
$15.19
79.97
84.97
12.69
7.69
72.47
72.47
72.47
72 47
72.47
72.47
143.66
79.97
* 79.97
* 79.99
10.02
10.00
10.00
1000
62.89
55.53
2.66
LOT
11
2.66
2.66
2.66
2.66
2.66
36.29
30.04
1003
100
25.79
22.79
22.79
22.80
22.67
18.63
18.63
6.35
5.35
12.01
24-66
22.67
22.79
10.76
2.03
22.65
4.53
24.43
31.92
10.02
35.08
39.37
39.37
39.37
77.28
115.02
69.99
69.97
69.97
13
17
20
1
9
4
8
12
1
11
12
1
2
8
12
13
14
19
3
5
10
13
2
3
4
6
11
5'
11
15
5
6
11
12
1
2
6
1
9
6
7
1
7
8
9
1
4
8
9
10
1
15
16
3
11
8
10
13
BLOCK
11
11
11
11
12
12
12
12
12
13
13
13
14
14
14
14
14
14
14
18
18
18
18
20
20
20
20
20
’ 21'
21
22
23
23
23
23
25
25
25
26
26
27
27
29
33
33
34
34
34
41
45
45
46
51
55
55
56
57
57
AMOUNT
71.24
181.05
17.69
17.69
87-49
82.49
27.50
17.69
106.38
106.40
71.24
72.49
171.05
69.97
64.99
86.38
51.57
46.25
27.50
11.99
11.99
6.13
.4
5.00
4.38
4.39
4.18
6.89
4.38
7.51
5.01
7.51
16.30
16.30
16.30
17.56
15.06
13.81
12.56
8.75
20 40
1.26
1.25
1.13
1.13
36.52
28.27
15.07
14.98
14.98
1.13
31.46,
2.75 1
10.96
20 91
20.91
16.63
3.12
3.02
1.13
1.14!
If the above assessments together with 10% are not paid on or
before February 28, 1919, the lots will
and the title revert to the Government
458 and 554^
be reported for forfeiture,
according to circulars Nos
CARt SCHMIDT,
Townsite Manager.
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IEFI TRAPS IN
WALK Of AH
LONDON.—Detection by British
army investigators of German
“booby-traps” saved the lives of
many an officer or man of the
British armies during the period
when the Germans were retreating
from France. “I am convinced,”
says one officer, “that we nipped
many of the Hun's favorite plans
by capturing near Bray a little fac
tory where he made his booby-traps.
When we occupied it we learned
much from the partly completed
traps we found lying about the
place.
“One of them was an iron plate.
This the wily Hun dropped in a
roadway so that it would likely be
trod upon by soldier or horse of
our advancing troops. The plate
was in two parts, with a spring in
side, and usually contained a de
tonator connecting with a heavy
charge of explosive. When the
weight of the foot was removed,
the spring sprang into place and ex
ploded the detonator, and the dam
age was done.
These spring: detonators were
the German’s specialty. They con
sisted of a tube containing' a little
spring with a hook at one end.
Attached to the hook was a string
or wire connecting with the ex
! plosive charge. Any arrangement
j by which the spring could be dis
tended and then suddenly contracted
] served U) jerk the string, and the
■ charge was exploded,
j “One night 1 received a call from
our lieutenant colonel who had spent
the day directing movements from
a recently captured German dugout.
He told me he was nervous, and be
lieved he was associating with
a “booby”, and asked me to send
him a squad of engineers to look it
over. I went myself.
“The colonel sat in the dugout,
about ten feet down, on a chair
by a table. Directly in front of
the chair was a petrol can, and it
was the can he feared. He had
noticed it early in the morning
when the dugout was first occupied,
but had been so busy during the
day he had had no time to examine
it until evening. Then he found
nothing, but he had a ‘hunch’ that
it was a trap' and wanted expert
assistance. f
“I dug a little trench around th.*
can, but could find no wires, and
then tapped it, but received no
sound other than that which might
come from any , old empty can.
There was nothing to do but open
it, and borrowing the colonel’s can
opener, I went at • it as gingerly as
I could. *
j “It was partly filled with about
I eight pounds of one of the most
• deadly powder explosives known to
science. This 1 removed very care-:
! fullv, and in the bottom of the
j ’
; can found the spring detonator. It
^ had been fastened to the bottom
; of the can in such a way that if
1 the can had been lifted from the
floor of the dugout the charge
would have exploded and the colonel
and his party would have been
blown to bits.
i “The colonel paled a little when
I showed him just what he had
been associating with all day, and
very fervently thanked himself for
obeying his ‘hunch’ to let ihat can
alone.” ...it., i
i The engineer regiment raised by
j Col. Frederick Mcars, formerly tf
the Alaskan Engineering commission I
1 is slated for an early return to
the United States and discharge, ac-j
cording to word received at An- j
chorage.
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. LONDON—Northern Russia’s new .
ruble currency, that is, the currency
arranged by the British government
to assist the Archangel Provisional
Government in stabil'zin-r finances,
has a fixed rate of exchange of >
forty rubles to one pound. That:
! places the ruble at six pence, rough- j
ly twelve cents in American money- i
Exchange on the old rubles, both
those issued under the imperial gov
ernment and the Kerensky govern
ment, has been extremely unstable
throughout the Bolshevik regime in
all parts of Russia. The distribu-1
tion of money is uneven. Money
famines are constantly appearing
in many sections, regardless of the,
fact that all money presses are kept |
going day and night.
E. M. Harvey, an English banker,
has been named head of the bureau
of the Archangel Provisional Gov
ernment entrusted with the control
ling the new rubles. At a later
date agreements may be reached
with American and French Banks
ti^ keep deposits of francs and dol
lars and thus facilitate business be
tween those countries and the Nor
thern Russian government.
LATIN-AMERICANS ARE
IN FIELD FOR VESSELS
MEXICO CITY.—Twelve freight
ers of 4,000 tons each will be bought
by the proposed Latin-American In
ternational Commercial Alliance, if
the plans announced are put into
effect.. The project presented by
Jose A. Lavalle, commercial delegate
from Peru, which has been approved
by the Mexican government and
which, will, if approved by enough
other Latin-American government,
result in the formation of an inter
national corporation to increase
commerce between the countries
forming the corporation, is said to
i be on the verge of consumation. The
Tehauntepic railway, now completely
.controlled by the Mexican govetn
■ ment, will figure as the keystone of
the proposed commercial structure.
INSURANCE COMPANIES
HIT HARD BY FLU
I CAPE TOWN.—It is authoriivcly
I”.. ' .
COONEY MOTEL
Not Better Than the Best,
But Better than the Rest.”
NENANA . ALASKA
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-ft
i stated here that the epidemic of in- j
; fluenza in South Africa has resulted
! in a financial loss to the leading in-!
I surance companies of approxim • ly ,
; $7,500,000. One insurance man \ er
said it was a startling fact ‘■hat in
the course of a few weeks the epi
demic had cost the companies more
than they had been called upon to
pay for all of their war risks.
NENANA TO TALKEETNA
DISTANCE TABLE
Talkeetna is the end of steel on
the coast division.
From Nenana to No. Miles j
Nenana Crossing (by rail) . 43
Lignite . 52
Riley Creek 70
Jack River ... .90
Broad Pass Summit 110
Sullivan’s 128
Indian River 162
Dead Horse 182 i
Talkeetna 202
The distances given arc approxi- [
mate. '
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