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Alaska News Notes The bridge at Dearlman slough. Fair banks, has been completed. Wire drag work for pinnacle rocks in the inside channel has beeQ completed by the Geological Survey vessel Ex plorer. Thtrtv-five men are engaged in the construction of the vak lake highway, near Cordova. The road will be com pleted this summer. Joe Covner, pioneer resident of the Interior, was found dead in his cabin on Ester creek, recently. Death was due to natural cause The Juneau oitv council recently put up a price of.#13 for the Bov Scout making the best showing in the paint up and cleanmp campaign. The Teeter ti ip settej' has been placed on the mar ret by a Ketchikan firm, which recently manufactured 3,500 traps. Or:I s are being received from all parts of the United States. Charles Erown. Sr., who has been special officer for the prevention of sale of liquor to natives, has resigned, and Robert James, an old timer and former president of Nome Igloo, has been ap pointed to the position. Carl Lumen, of Nome, a pioneer in the reindeer industry, has arranged to ship 6,500 ■ reindeer carcasses to New York this season. The sales agency for the company Is being removed from Minneapolis to Seattle. Evidences of progress are shown on every hand, in Seward. Concrete and stucco buildings are going upon every lot: the local sawmills are employing about sixt.v men, and the bureau of public roads has taken every available man on road work. William Reid, of McCarthy, was in jured a few days ago when a Ford car he was driving took a notion to climb the Copper River* rail way roundhouse. He suffered a fracture of the hip. Wm. Hair, who was with him, saved him self bv jumping.' The car was badly smashed. The two mammoth gold dredges con structed at Nome during the past win ter were launched June 1, at Little creek, the entire town declaring a half holiday and turning out to witness the ceremony. . The dredges were built for the Hammond Consolidated Gold Com i pa^y Fred Bowers. 40, one of the best known athletes in the Interior, died in Dawson recently, under peculiar cir cumstances. He was found unconscious in his bachelor cabin and was evidently suffering from internal troubles. He passed away at the hospital without regaining consciousness. The Galena Bay Mining Company ■ has offered the Seattle Chamber of Commerce a copper nugget, weighing three tons, to be placed in Pioneer Square, if the transportation companies will take it to Seattle free. The com pany tillers to move the nugget 16 ■ miles from Strelna to the coast next winter. The Seattle chamber lias wired acceptance of the offer. Hart Humber has been appointed deputy United States marshal for the Tokotna First Class in Every Respect Private rooms, with spring beds. Good Meals Served for $1.00 Batli room, with sanitary toilet. Pure well water. Good, clean dog house. First division. iTo was for years a res ident of the Nome division, where fo" a time he was mail carrier on the winter run between UnaTakleet and Nome. On this run at various times were such men as Faul Denhart. Alex. Smith and Sport Smith, all crack mushers. Dr. L. S. Sugden. a noted lecturer and pioneer of the Dawson district, was I drowned a few days ago at Stewart Falls. He fell oil a barge that wa being towed to Dawson, and his body was washed away and not recovered, fie had come north to take pictures < the Yukon district, with a view to i corporating them in his lecture. A 720-pound brown bear was killed afewdavs ago by the purser on the steamer Queen, when that vessel lar i ed at Funter bay for a time. The pur ser took a 22-calibre rifle and went out in the woods a short way. Me hear ! a noise and saw a brown hear looking over a log at him. He t hrew the ri > to his shoulder and fired, the bu! penetrating the eye, killing the anii instantly. The bear was feeding < u the carcass of a deer, which was partly eaten. llobert McConnell, an old-time tr.: per and hunter of the Dawson distri who recently returned to that cry from the upper Klondike vail y. brought in a freak fur of some ani . I which has not yet been classified by the trappers of Dawson. Some think the animal from which it was takeu was an offshoot of the tiger family, as the markings were exactly like th.o e of the royal outlaw of India. The measured 118 inches long and had an average width of 8 inches. It was of a tan color, and had markings on the breast similar to those of a house cat. The animal weighed about lifty pound.' Dr. W. W. Council, accompanied by Mrs. Council and J. W. Gueker, re cently returned to Cordova from Yaka taga beach with the pelts of nine black bears, one of which was killed with a bow and arrow. The doctor, who is an ardent sportsman, recently claimed he could kill a bear- with an arrow and was laughed at by Cordova hunters. He took his bow and arrow along to prove it, and when he saw a black bear across a creek from him he brought it down with his first arrow, which sev ered the spinal cord, and the bear dropped as if shot with a bullet. One arrow went clear through the body of the bear, tha second being so deeply imbedded that it could not he pulled out. Clearings are necessary, says the doctor, in hunting with a bow and ar row. He claims the high power has nothing on a how and arrow as a means of killing game. Notice of Forfeiture. To Bennett. James, John Holmgren Charles E Taylor. George VV. Al brecht, and Edward MeArdle and Charles Knell, and their and each of their heirs, executors, adminis trators.'successors in interest, and assigns: You and;each of you will phase take notice that the undersigned, a co-ownei in placer mining claim No. One above Discovery on Moore creek, in the Mt. McKinlev mining and recording pro cinct, Alaska, has caused the annua.) assessment work to he done on the above described claim for the years 1920 and 1921, amounting to one hun dred dollars for each year, and for each of said years has paid for said work, including the proportion due from the abovfe named parties; And you are further notilied that, unless you and each of you pay your proportion of the assessment work done on said ground for each of said years, within ninety days after the last pub lication of this notice, your and each of your interests in and to said property will become forfeited to the under signed, as provided by Section 2324 of the revised statutes of the United States and amendments thereto. Joseph H. Smith. Date of first publication, .tune 9,1923. Date of last publication. Sept. 8, 1923. Notice of Forfeiture. To Michael Lucey. vou- heirs, oleeutors and assigns: You and each of you will please take notice that the undersigned, a o-owner in placer mining claims No. and No. 3 Above Discovery on Moore creek, has caused the annual assessment work to be done on the above described claims for the years 1921 and 1922, amounting to one hundred dollars for each year, and for each of said years has paid for said work, iuclud, >- the proportion due from the above named co-owner. And you are further notified that unless you pay your proportion of the assessment work none on said claims for each of said years, within ninety days after the last publication of this notice, your interests in and to said property will become .'orfeu & to the undersigned, as provided by Section 2324 of the revised statutes of the United States and amend men < thereto. Uic;:ix, B ixjw, Co-Owner. Date of nrst publi ion, ■ i;.y 7. 1923. Date of last publication, Oct. 13,1923. Notice or Forfeiture. To Bennett James, John Holmgren, Charles E. Taylor, George W. Al brecht, Edward Me. .rdie and Charles Knell, and their and can i of their heirs, executors, admiais..' ors, suc cessors in interest, and as igns: You. and each oi you, will lease babe notice that the un iersigned,co-owner in placer mining claim Good T >-,c|t Frac tion, situated between No. ! sad Mo. 2 Above Discovery on Moore er; ek( ii. tiie Mt. McKinley mining and record ing precinct, Territory of Alaska, has caused ’ he annual assessment work to be done on the above described claim for the years 1920, 1921 and l',i22, amounting to one hundred dollars for each year, and for each, of said years has paid for said wot', including the proportion due from the above named parties. And you are further notified that, unless you and each of you pay vour proportion of the assessment work done on said ground for each of said years, within ninety days after the last pub lication of this notice, your and each of your interests in and to said property will become forfeited to the under | signed, as provided by Section 2224 of the revised statutes of the United ;State-, and amendments thereto. Josisph H. Smith, Co-Owner. Date of first publication, July ", 1923. Date of last publication, Oct. i3. ironrriifTiri J. H. ! Our Shelves Are Filled Once More An Up-t (-date Line of Groceries. Best Brands of Clothing, Boots, Shoes, anti Men’s Wen, ing Apparel We Buv and Soli Fur Rough and Dressed Lum ber of All Kinds McGrath, Alaska Provisions Notions Furnishings Indian Mitts. Moccasins and Snowshoes Furs Bought and Sold White Fish and Lvt- Feed | Dog Harness Collars Sled Lashings Tank heaters DIRECT SERVICE Seattle to Euskokwim River Via Inside Passage Personal Attention Given to Freight ( clered for the Euskokwim. Send in Your Ciders. For Kates and Accommodations apply to Euskokwim Fishing & Transportation Co. 7 Colman Dock. Seattle, Wash.