Douglas Island news., 1906-03-28

i last season of the shortage of tonnage to supply the demands of trade and many persons in Alaska suffered heavy loss through the failure to secure con- signments of freight which they had ordered, but could not be shipped be- cause all cargo space was taken.
 NOTICE OF MASTERS SALE
 WHEREAS, on the 18th day of March, A. D. 1906, the Honorable District Court for Alaska Division No. 1, at Jupeau. Alaska. in Cause No. 603, on the Docket of said court, entitled BERNEP BERNERs DfG7;' B1Y' MINING lIS5il AND | MILLING COMPANY, ct al., DE PENDANTS, made and entered an ord9r appointing me, the undersigned John l c. Held, as Special Master and author, izing and directing me as such Speclal Master, to sell according to law and the practice of said Court, all the proper, ties now in the custody of the sad Court. in said cause by it's Receiver, +. i D. Novel;, which said properties are described as follows, towit:-sltuated at or near Berners Bay in the District of Alaska, and being those certain Lode Mining Claims, Placer Claims and Mill Sites described as follows:
 LODE CLAIMS ] Acropolis Harvard
 Alaska Maid Kensington l American Last Chance ! Banner Little Nell ! Bear Lucky Boy 1 Bear Extension of Bear No. ,. ! MoItke Chilcat | Northern Bell Columbian l North Star or Northern Star 1 Columbian East Extension 1 Columbian West Extension ! Northwest OphT ] Comet Poor Richard . Comet Extension Portsmouth ] Cumberland Rustter ! Eclipse Savage
 FImira Savage Extension 1 Esmeraldo Savage Extension Mo-. ? 1 Eureka Selkirk i Excelsior Seward
 Fraction Seward Extension ] Frisco Seward N0. 7 ! Hartford Triangle Snowflake Utica 1 Thomas Yellow Jacket ] also the following named Mill Sites ! Bear No. , Mill Site Esmeraido Mill Site Comet Extension Mill Site ! Opbir Mill Site Cumberland Mill Site i Seward Mill Site Thomas Mill Site also the following described water rights:
 ! Ophir Creek Water Right Sherman Creek Water Right 1 West Ophir Creek Water Right 1 Seward Creek Water Right
 also a certain forty (40) stamp quartz mill, railroad and equipment running 1 from the wharf at Seward City, Alaska, on the beach about four (4) miles to said Mill, together with all machinery, ! tools, equipment, ditches, fumes, pipe i lines. tramways, buildings, boarding ! houses and personal property of every kind and description situated on or ap- purteuant to the properties above mentioned.
 AND FURTHER ORDERING, that the said properties be sold as an entirety and not in separate parcels, and that the ! purchaser or purchasers at said sale shall pay to the Master ten (lO) per cent in cash of the amount bid and the balance shall be paid in cash upon the confirmation of the sale, and that the said Master shall convey to the pur- ] chaser or purchasers, all the title of the 1 Berners Bay Mining and Milling Company, Ophir Gold Mining Com pany, Seward Gold Mining Company, Northern Belle Gold Mining Company and the International Trust Company, and freed and discharged from all claims and eucumbrances and demands of every kind and nature now held or claimed by them,or either of then, and of all persons in privity with them, and freed and discharged from any and all charges and claims, encumbrances and demands by virtue of the Receivers Certificates or other indebtedness of the Receiver by Contract and of all costs, expenses and disbursements of said Receivership;
 AND FURTHER ORDERING, that the Master accept no bid for said proper ties for a less sum than FOUR HUN DRIED THOUSAND (40O,000) DOL . LARS; which said Order is of record in the Journal entries of said Court and Cause.
 Now THEREFORE, NOTICE is hereby given that under and pursuant to the above and foregoing Order of Sale, 1, as such Special Master, will on Saturday, the 2S day of April, A. D. 1906, at the Court House door in the City of Ju- neau, in the District of Alaska, be- tween the hours of nine (9) o'clock in the morning and four (4l o'clock in the afternoon of said day, offer for sale the above mentioned and described prop critics at public outcry to the highest and best bidder for cash as an entirety, and not in seperate parcels; that the successful bidder at said sale will be required to pay over to me in cash at the time of said sale ten j10J per cent. of the purchase price bid.
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