The Alaska prospector., 1906-10-11
Of Local Interest
Tax Ro1i Cesal1lete.

The tax-T6li rfUr this year has been completed and is now in the lnntfs of the Town ,;C4stk 'for inspection. The roll ifoots up $e6S, ,3e5.0O which .is About .sSO, ,0oO'higherthan 'iast year. This an ount lis divided amongst, real and personal property .und inn .provsmsnts.&s follows. Real estate $qlEe5d; Improvements l4, ,935; personal property sH05lO.
 The'board of equalization had sittmgs as advertised Monday and Tuesday of this week and will have the final meeting ssext Thurs day. Any complaints against the assessment on property must be presented to the board at one of these meetings. On the last Mon. day in this month tine Council will decide upon the rate of taxation and taxes will 'be due the first Monday in November. A month is allowed for payment of the taxes, after. which a penalty of ten per cent iis added for delinquency.
 Dr. K. c. Dalton has secured the Raymond building for a private hospital. Mrs. Patton is acting as nurse now and another has 'been sent for. Rates will be reasonable and service of the best. There are ;private rooms with the finest fur nishings'for patients; the location is convenient and the attending doctor will have offices'in the samo building.
 There w:s fierce wind at Cor dova this week. blowing down all the tents and moving a number of buildings from their foundations. One man was blown up against,e high stump and severely bruised. besides suffering considerably from hunger before the wind a4ated enough to let him fall to the ground.
 We sell only the Best 'at the Valdez Market. Phone 29.
 Simeon Poot entertained Mir. and Mrs. Dedney, Mrs. Capt. Zim Moore and Mir. W. Glendenning at Wikidei's Restaurant Saturday evening. MT. and Mrs. Debney leaves for the States'on the Bertha. A Bon Voyage and many gsed wishes were expressed over n1al- lard duck etc. during the evening.
 To The Public.
 On my return from business trip down the Sound 1 saw in your valuable paper an item in which it stated that party grubstaked by me had jumped the'olaims of Chas. and Lthsrs on 'Knightr island and l would like to state the facts about this. l grub-staked Billy Hogan and Back Whaling this spring to go to Madison island to prospect. They got out in quite a storm and it was reported for several days that they were lost. they went back to Knights island and commenesd prospecting and struck what is one of the best pros- poets there. Unfortunately Mfr. Hogan was blown up and was laid up for quite a while in the hospit@l at Ellamar. In the meantime Mir. Whaling continued prospecting and put some stakes on the prop erty mentioned. This came to my knowledge and I told Mir. Whaling that this property was not open for location. He assured me that he understood that it was open for location and had put stakes on same but after 1 notified him be did not record it. 1 asked him to throw off the stakes and he said # he got down there he would but ii not, to tell the parties who owned it to ttr.yw of the stakes. Sc when Mir. Sandterg and Simpson returned to town 1 matfe it my business te state tke facts to them and 1 was EraetE surprised to see f ba notice iD lt,S1- SCg.ner aS thu WEE sHet VI orth mention ius $s 'tbe,grestnS %ss net recorded hs NJ. ~h&Ess
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 ,lack Maller ;und ;koais Scf1Sffes left On the SuHta 'Clsssa ivr Seattle, where Jack and Miss Jennie Schaffer are te be married. They ,,;II u,,,,.I tl,o rr;,tor .n tho o.vSt