VANGUARD OF NAVY’S
DIRIGIBLE EXPEDITION
INTO ARCTIC ON WAY
SIX MEMBERS OF ARCTIC EXPEDITION TO LEAVE
ON STEAMER ALASKA FOR SEWARD—MAKE
TRIP OVER GOVT. RAILROAD TO INTERIOR—
ESTABLISH NAVAL BASE AT NOME.
SEATTLE, Feb. 15—The vanguard of the Navy’s dir
igible Arctic expedition, composed of Lieut. B. H. Wyatt
in command, Lieut. F. R. Hewes, civil engineer corps, and
senior inspector; A B. Jack, aviation chief; H. A. Ander
son, rigger; R W. Caster, machinist mate;.Albert A. Fran
cis, quartermaster first class: arrived in Seattle today
from Washington, and will sail on the liner Alaska for
Seward.
Make Trip to Nome by Dog Sicd
They will go over the government railway to Nenana,
thence by dogsled to Nome, and will carry equipment for
the establishment of an aeronautical station in the Arctic,
where weather conditions will be studied and reported in
preparation for operations of naval air craft over the Arc
tic during the coming summer.
The party plans to reach Nome the latter part of
March, and will there select a landing field for a 100 foot
mast to which the dirigible will be moored.
HUGHES SAYS OIL LEASES
NOT COME BEFORE HIM
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—A sug
gestion in the senate yesterday by
Senator Norris, republican, Nebraska,
that Secretary Hughes, a former mem
ber of the supreme court, should have
called attention to the “plain illegal
itv” of the oil eases when they vs tie
discussed by the cabinet was follow
ed today by the issua ice >. f mis state
ment by Mr. Hughes:
‘ The questions ol the 1'jgality or
propriety of the oil lease? now under j
discussion in congress were never
brought before the cabinet for its
discussion. My opinion upon these
-questions v a« never sought or ex
i reared, either in or out of the cab.
net. If the oil ieases were ever re
ferred to in cabinet meetings I do
not recall that they were, it was cer
tainly only by way of general refer
ence and without requiring any re
sponsible action, which, of course, I
should not have been willing to take
without examination of the papers and
statutes. Having plenty of work in
the department of state I had no oc
casion to consider these questions of
law and fact involved, and I have not
been called upon to take any respon
sibility in the matter.”
CHIROPRACTORS KILL GIRL
CHICAGO. Feb. 15—The three chir
opractors, who were arrested for the
death of Elizabeth Faw'cett, age 11,
who died with a broken spine, have
been released on bond pending trial.
It is alleged the men dislocated the
girl’s vertebrae by twisting and
kneading her spinal column.
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DAN CREEK MINING CO.
SEARCHING FOR PAY
(From McCarthy News)
Charley Range, winter manager of
the Dan Creek Mining Company is in
town on a short business trip. Com
menting on the creek, Mr. Range stat
ed that while the winter has been
drifting by, Martin Radovan has been
sinking along the rim in search of a
third bench channel that is supposed
to exist.
Radovan has been doing all the
thawing with wood fires, so the pro
gress has necessarily been slow,
but spring will see the completion of
the prospecting and will prove the ex
tent of the benches on one part of the
creek.
If the old channel is found to exist,
it will probably lie at the contact of
the greenstone and the soft shale that
forms the bedrock, upon which the
placer values are now found. In case
the channel is not to shallow, it is
expected that this is where the rich
est gravel will be found.
M’NAUGHTON IS RECEIVER
FOR CANNING PLANT
JUNEAU, Alaska—Guy McNaugh
ton, cashier for the B. M. Behrends
bank was today appointed temporary
receiver for the Southern Alaska-Ca
nadian company, operating salmon
canneries at Rose Inlet and Quadra
Bay, in an order entered by Judge T.
M. Reed, in the district court.
TACOMA PREACHER MAY HAVE
DROWNED WHILE FISHING
TACOMA, Feb. 15.—A rowboat a
drift in the narrows here with a hat
and coat in it is the only clue to the
whereaboutts of the Rev. Arthur De
jaeonby that can be found. Dejacon
by was pastor of the Roosevelt
Heights Christian church and a teach
er in the Fife school. He was a post
graduate of the University of Wash
ington and a former teacher in the
Broadway High school is Seattle. Mrs.
Dejaconby declares that her husband
had no lnancial worries.
ESCAPED PRISONER NOT
YET BEEN RECAPTURED
RIDGEFIELD, Wn, Feb. 15.—“Scot
ty” Thompson, a Federal prisoner,
who escaped from his guards Sunday
by jumping from a moving train has
not been recaptured, and up to the
present time no trace has been found
of him. He %vas not handcuffed.
OPERATION SUCCESSFUL
Mrs. Eli Dehon, of Fairbanks, who
passed thru Seward about three weeks
ago en route to Seattle for surgical
treatment, underwent a successful op
eration in Providence hospital. Mrs.
Dehon was injured in an auto acci
dent at Fairbanks last summer.
ALASKA RAILROAD LEASES
PALATIAL RIVER STEAMER
The steamer Yukon, one of the
largest and best river steamers op
erating in the far north, has been
leased by the Alaska railroad from
the White Pass and Yukon rail
road company and will augment the
river transportation system of the A1
aska railroad next summer in handl
ing what promises to be a record
breaking volume of tourist traffic.
The reported leasing of the Yukon
could not be confirmed at Anchorage
headquarters, but it is understood the
deal is practically completed.
ABOLISH CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
AUSTIN, Tex., Feb. 15—The peti-'
tion being circulated for the abolition,
of capital punishment in the state, has j
secured 50.000 signatures with more j
being added daily. It will be present-1
ed to the legislature soon. The pe
tition was caused by the execution of
five negroes on one scaffold.
CALLS CHICAGO SCHOOL
PUPILS UNDERNOURISHED
CHICAGO, Feb. 15.—Asserting that
between 35 and 40 percent of the
children attending Chicagos public j
schools are under-nourished, a eon
mittee from the Physicians’ Fellow
ship Club has taken steps by which
it hopes to bring about the adoption
of corrective measures for this con
dition.
“Conditions in the S( hools have
reached a point which necessitates
immediate action,” Dr. Ritter, a
member of the club, explained. “The
physical and mental development of
many children is being seriously re
tarded.
“Few parents know how to feed
! their children or care for their health.
Education alone will eradicate this
condition. Our plans will not con
flict with any action now being con
templated by the Board of Educa
tion.”
U. S. HALTS SALE OF
SAVINGS CERTIFICATES
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 15
Sale of Treasury savings certificates
by postmasters in seventeen Middle
Western and Western states has been
suspended by Postmaster General New
until further notice, with the approv
al of Secretary Mellon of the Treasury
in order to assist in the present finan
cial stress among the small banks of
those states.
Postmasters in North Dakota, South
Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa,
Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Texas,
Arkansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah,
New Mexico, Idaho, Arizona and Mon
tana were ordered to discontinue the
sale of certificates.
ANCHORAGE ASKS FOR A
RIGHT TO F'.OAT BONDS
The town of Anchorage will ask
congress for permission to bond the
city for $200,000 to be used in build
ing one of the finest and most modern
I school buildings in Alaska.
Another bill will be introduced ask
ing for permission to raise $100,000
for a municipal building.
WOULD GIVE FIRPO $200,000
TO MEET HARRY WILLS
BUENOS AIRES. Feb. 15.—Luis
Firpo, the Argentine heavyweight, re
ceived a cablegram from Te>. Rickard
recently, offering $200,000 for a fight
between him and Harry Wills in July
and proposing another fight between
Firpo and Jack Dempsey in Septem
ber.
Firpo said he would not decide
until the arrival of Hugh Gartland,
his New York representative, who
is on his way here, and who notified
Firpo that he had an offer of $250,
000 for a fight with Wils from New
ark, N. J., promoters.
Must Fight
BUENOR AIRES, Feb. 15—The
South American Boxing Federation
passed a resolution yesterday declar
ing that Luis Angel Firpo must accept
within sixty days from December 8
last the challenge for the South Am
erican heavyweight championship
from the former Chilean heavyweight
Quintin Romero Rojas, now living in
France. It also ruled that the match
must take place within ninety days of
the same date, or Firpo will be de
prived of his title.
Drastic Rule.
NEW YORK, Feb. 15.—The South
American Boxing Federation has tak
en a leaf out of the New York state
athletic commission’s book of fistic
procedure in fixing a time limit for
Luis Firpo to defend his heavyweight
title against Romero Rojas, Chilean
challenger.
Its action in giving Firpo ninety
days to meet his rival is even more
drastic than the rule of the New York
solons who compel champions to de
fend their title within six months af
ter the filing of the challenge.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—President
Coolidge late today withdrew the
name of Strawn as special counsel in
the oil lease scandal, and at the same
time gave notice that he would insist
on the confirmation of Poinerene.
ANCHORAGE WILL TRY
TO GET ARMY PLANES
The Anchorage Chamber of Com
merce will send a representative to
Seward to meet Lieut. Clayton Bis
sell in charge of the army flight
around the world, and attempt to in
duce him to take the planes to An
chorage. The chamber calls atten
tion to the exceptional landing sites
offered is that city, together with the
new aviation field.
As the planes are equipped with
pontoons for landing on water, it is
hardly probable the field will be of
any advantage.
FLEET OF TOURING CARS
Galen and Sheldon, operating the
Richardson Highway Transportation
Company, will have a fleet of ten six
cylinder cars on the run this summer
to handle the tourist trade. One par
ty of 130 tourists has been booked
over the highway.
COMMISSARY CLOSED
The railway commissary at Anchor
age has been closed dowTn, and the
supplies will be held there until navi
gation opens in the spring, wiien they
will be used on the boats operated by
the railway.
Fresh Haas Candies—Alaska Shop.
Notice of Hearing on the Final Report
And Account of Administrator,
No. 82.
In the Probate court for the Territo
ry of Alaska, Third Division, Ke
nai Precinct, at Seward.
In the matter of the Estate of Daniel
A. Sullivan, deceased
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
Edgar R. Tarwater, the duly appoint
ed, qualified and acting administrator
of the estate of Daniel A. Sullivan,
Deceased, has filed in the above en
titled court his Final Report and Ao
j count, and that March 22nd, 1924, at
| the hour of 2-00 P. M. O’clock in the
| court room of said court at Seward,
! Alaska, has been set as the time and
place for the hearing on said final re
port and account
All persons having any interest in
theabove entitled estate are hereby
admonished and cited to appear at
said time and place and offer their
objections if any, -why said final Re
port and Account should not be ap
proved and settled and said estate be
closed in accordance with law.
This notice is dated and the date of
its first publication is the 19th day of
January, 1924.
EDGAR R. TARWATER,
Administrator of Estate of Daniel A,
Sullivan, Deceased.
Jan. 19, 26; Feb. 2, 9, and 16, 1924
application for permit
Department of the Interior, United
states Land Office, Anchorage (for
merly- Juneau), Alaska.
XT . January 31, IP24.
Notice is Hereby Given that John
H. Costello for himself and as trus
tee for Edward W. Hoffman, Thomas
V°stello, John H. Costello, Jr.,
William O. Brunskill, John Brunskill,
Wm. o. Stevens and Percival Bruns
kill, has applied for oil and gas pros
pecting permits under section 22 of
the act of February 25, 1920, (41
Stat., 437) for the following described
lands:
Serial 04713
Rex Oil Claims Nos. 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10,
11, 12, described as an area commenc
ing at corner No. 1, of said Claim No.
1 from which the northeast comer
Sec. 1, T. 29 S., R. 41 W., S. M., bears
north 14 deg. 34 min. 44 sec. west,
15,162.28 ft. distant; thence from said
comer No. 1, S. 41 deg. 00 min. W.,
7920 ft., thence S. 49 deg. 00 min. east,
10,560 feet.; thence north 41 deg.
00 min. east, 2640 ft.; thence north
49 deg. 00 min. west, 5280 ft.; thence
north 41 deg. 00 min. east, 5280 ft.;
thence north 49 deg. 00 min. west,
5280 ft. to the place of beginning.
Containing 1280 acres situate in the
Kodiak Recording District, Alaska and
on Rex Creek, a tributary of Dry
Bay. on the Alaska Peninsula.
Serial 04855
Bear Creek Oil Claims Nos. 3, 4, 5,
6, 7, 8, 23 and 24, described as an
area commencing at a point of said
Claim No. 23 known as Comer No. 4
from which the northeast comer
Sec. 36, T. 29 S., R. 42 W., S. M.,
bears south 88 deg. 46 min. 59 sec.
W., 18,657.70 feet distant; thence from
said Comer No. 4 of Claim No. 23,
south 46 deg. 45 min. E„ 5284 ft.;
thence south 49 deg. 00 min. E., 10,560
ft.; thence north 41 deg. 00 min. E.,
3960 ft.; thence north 49 deg. 00 min.
W., 10,560 ft.; thence south 41 deg.
00 min. W., 1320 ft.; thence north 46
deg. 45 min. W.f 5284 ft.; thence
south 41 deg. 00 min. W.. 2640 ft. to
the place of beginning, said area em
From ivoodchuck to wolf—
the new Savage Sporter
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.25-.20 cal $23.50
.32-.20 cal $23.50
ALL the fine points of the pop
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all kinds of small and medium game.
Just look at that bolt action for
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The loading is quick and positive.
You simply push in the box maga
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SAVAGE ARMS CORPORATION
Dept.— Utica, N. Y.
Owners and operators of the J. Stevens Arms Company
bracing 1280 acres and being situa
ted in Kodiak Recording District,
Alaska, and on Bear Creek, a tribu
tary of Lake Becharof on the Alaska
Peninsula.
Serial 04856
Salmon Creek Oil Claims Nos. 4, 5,
6. 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, described as an
area commencing at a corner known
as Corner No. 3 of said Claim No. 13
from which the southeast corner
Sec. 36, T. 29 S., R. 42 W., S. M.,
bears north 71 deg. 9 min. 45 sec.
W., 11,173.03 ft. distant; thence from
said Corner No. 3 south 37 deg. 15
min. E., 5393 ft.; thence south 49
: deg. 00 min. E., 10,560 ft.; thense
north 41 deg. 00 min. E., 2640 ft.;
thence north 49 deg. 00 min. W., 5280
ft.; thence north 41 deg. 00 min. E.
1320 ft.; thence north 49 deg. 00 min.
W., 5280 ft.; thence north 37 deg. 15
min. W., 5393 ft.; thence south 41
deg. 00 min. W., 3960 ft. to the place
of beginning, said area embracing
1280 acres and being situated in Ko
| dialc Recording District, Alaska, and
i on Salmon Creek, a tributary of Lake
! Becharof on the Alaska Peninsula.
Serial 04857
Bear Creek Oil Claims Nos. 9, 10,
11. 12, 13 16, 21 and 22 described as
an area commencing at a point known
as Corner No. 4 of the said Claim No.
21 from which the northeast corner
Sec. 36, T. 29 S., R. 42 W., S. M., |
bears north 84 deg. 36 min. 40 sec.
west, 16,996.61 feet distant; thence
from said corner No. 4 south 46 deg.
45 min. E., 5284 ft.; thence south 41
deg. 00 min. W., 2640 ft.; thence
south 49 deg. 00 min. E., 5280 ft.;
thence north 41 deg. 00 min. E., 2640
ft.; thence south 49 deg. 00 min. E.,
5280 ft%; thence north 41 deg. 00 min.
E., 2640 ft.; thence north 49 deg. 00
min. W. 10,560 ft.; thence north 46
deg. 45 min. W., 5284 ft.; thence south
41 deg. 00 min. W., 2640 ft., to the
place of beginning, said area embrac
ing 1280 acres and situated in the Ko
diak Recording District, Alaska, and
on Bear Creek, a tributary of Lake
Becharof on the Alaska Peninsula.
Any and all persons having adverse
or conflicting claims to said land are
hereby notified that a full statement
under oath of such claim, should be
filed in this office showing a superior
right to a permit or lease under said
act, or valid existing adverse or con
flicting claim to the land, or the min
erals or oil therein under the public
land laws on or before March 12, 1924,
otherwise, such claims may be disre
garded in granting the permits or
leases applied for.
FRANK A. BOYLE,
Register.
First publication Feb. 5, 1924
Last publication March 11, 1924
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