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APPLICATION

United States Land Office, Juneau
 Alaska, April 1, 1917.
 ALASKA PACKERS ASSOClA- TION, assignee of David Jenkins, be- ing entitled to the benefits of Section 2306 of the Revised Statutes of the United States granting additional lands to soldiers and sailors who serv- ed in the Rebellion, does hereby apply to enter United States Survey No 1928, situate on the left bank of Nak- nek River, between United States Surveys Nos. 69 and 527, about fifty seven (57) chains southwest of latter survey, Bristol Bay, Boring Sea, Dis trict of Alaska, and more particularly described as follows, to-wit:
 Commencing at M. C. Corner No. l on the left bank of Naknek River whence Witness Corner bears South 1.O3 chains; thence south l2.37 chains to Corner No. 2, whence southeast corner of cannery building on Survey 544 bears North D deg. 23 min. West and mast at Wireless Station adJoin- ing Survey 69 bears South 6S deg Oo min. West S3.SS chains, and 3-inch iron pipe marked "U. $. l.. M." bears South 49 deg. co min. West lo.45 chains; thence East 12.17 chains to Corner No. 8, whence southeast cor ner of Camery building bears North 76 deg. 45 min. West, and Witness Corner to Corner No. 1, Survey 527 bears North 20 deg. 57 min. East STOP chains, and United States Location Monument, Survey 1928, bears North 31 deg. 35 min. East PATIO chains; thence North l4.22 chains to M. C. Corner No. 4, whence Witness Corner bears South .9S chains, from whence southeast corner of Cannery building bears North S2 deg. A min. West; thence meandering along the shore line to Naknek River;
 CD North 60 deg. 31 min. West 1.61 chains; (2) North A deg. 5S min. East 1.98 chains; (3) North 10 deg. 09 min. West O.S3 chains; (4) North 6l deg 36 min. West 0.66 chains; (5) South 63 deg. O6 min. West 3.53 chains; (6) South 73 deg. 9S min. West 1.77 chains; CD South 33 deg. O9 min West 2.40 chains; (8) South 49 deg. Al min. West 0.7S chains; (9) North 75 deg. 40 min. West 2.27 chains; (lO) South 72 deg. 12 min. West 1.53 chains; CID South 57 deg. 21 min. West i.22 chains to M. c. Corner Mo- 1 and the place of beginning.
 Area 17.87 acres. Variation 21 deg. 33 min. East; as additional to the original homestead entry ot DaVld Jenkins, No. GIT, at Sioux City, Iowa, dated November 4, 1867, containing 120 acres.
 Notice is hereby given that any and all persons claiming any portion ot the above described land are required to file a protest during the period ot publication or thirty days thereafter, in accordance with law, with the Reg ister and Received of the United States Land Office at Juneau, Alaska ALASKA PACKERS ASSOCIATION
 By Harry F. Fortmann, President Address: San Francisco, California.
 Notice of the above application will be published in the Seward Gate way" printed at Seward, Alaska which I hereby designate as the news paper published nearest the land ap- piled for in said application.
 c. B. WALKER,
 Register, United States Land Office,
 Juneau, Alaska.
 First publication May 15, 1917.
 Last publication Sept. 16. 1917.
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Serial No. 01675 NOTICE OF SOLDIERS ADDITION. AL HOMESTEAD ENTRY
United States Land Office, Juneau Land District, Juneau, Alaska, April 6, 1917.

Notice is hereby given that the Alaska Fishermen's Packing Com pany, a corporation organized under the laws of the state of West Virginia, has made application to the United States Land Office at Juneau, Alaska, pursuant to the laws of the United States, to make Soldiers Additional Homestead entry of land embraced in U. s. Non-Mineral Survey No. 11O6, situate in Latitude 58 deg. 50 min. 34 sec. North and Longitude 156 deg. 57 min. O sec. West on the nOrtherly shore, that is to say, the right bank of Graveyard Slough above its Junc- ton with Kvichak River, which said river is a tributary of Bristol Bay an arm of Bering Sea, in the Third Judi. Cia, DiviS- on of the Territory os Alas ka, and more particularly described as follows, to-wit: Beginning al MIG Or ner No. !, running thence West 11.SS chains to Corner No. from which Corner No. 2 U. s. l.. M. Survey No. 1106 bears North 30 deg. 31 min West a distance of 5.56 chains; then run ming from said Corner No. south 1874 chains to Corner No. 8; running thence East 5.5S chains to MIG Corner No. 4; thence by meanders along the line of mean high tide, North 6 deg 9S min. East 3.75 chains; North 33 deg. 23 min. East 4.53 chains; North Al deg. 40 min. East PIG chains; North 25 deg. 46 min. East 3.22 chains; North 9 deg. 04 min. East S.92 chains; North 1 deg. 49 min. West 2.S6 chains to Corner MIG Corner No. 1 the place of beginning, comprising 17.40 acres; Magnetic variation 22 deg. 45 min. E..
 c. B. WALKER, Register.
 IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the foregoing notice be published for the statutory period in the Seward Gate way, a newspaper of general circula- ton printed at Seward, Alaska, the nearest newspaper to said above de- scribed claim or survey.
 c. B. WALKER, Register.
 First publication May 23, 1917.
 Last publication August 25, 1917.
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S2OOO FIRE IN
 VALDEZ LAUNDRY

VALDEZ. - (SpecialD Fire was discovered in the boiler room Of ln- dependent Laundry on the City dock about 3 o'clock in the morning of June 1. and although the fire department arrived at the scene of the blaze with in a very few minutes after the alarm was given the structure and machln- cry were damaged to the extent ot about S2OOO.
 But little insurance was carrle0 on the building, stoc'; or fixtures, and Mir Kings loss is a heavy one.
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Survey 661, Serial 01SO5 IN THE UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE, JUNEAU, May z, 1917.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
 PATENT

NOTICE is hereby given that MEL SON LAGOON PACKING COM PANY, as assignee of George P: Hol. land, being entitled to the benefits ot Section 23O6 of the Revised Statutes of the United States and the amend ments thereto, has applied to make entry of the lands embraced in Unit ed States Non-mineral survey No. 661 situate one-half mile Southwest of mouth of Bear River, Bering Sea, Alaska, and more particularly describ- ed as follows, to-wit: :. :,
 Beg. cor. No. 1 at ordinary high tide beach Boring Sea, cor. not set, wit. cor. bears East 7S9 chs, dist, from which wit. cor. U. S. L. M. Sur 1149 bears N. IS deg. or min: w. 40.61 chs; thence from true cor: No. East 12.Ol chs. to cor. No. 2; thence South 14.12 chs. to cor. No. 3; thence West
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-06-11
Serial O180S, Survey 664 In the United States Land Office, Jul neau, Alaska, May z, 1917.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
 PATENT

Notice is hereby given that NEIL SON LAGOON PACKING COM. PANY, a corporation, as assignee of John Betcher, being entitled to the benefits of Section 2306 of the Revised Statutes of the United States and the amendments thereto, has applied to make entry of the lands embraced in United States Non-mineral survey No. 664, situate on Sand Spit at Port Mol Ter about IA miles west of U. s. Sur. HAS and 1-2 mile Northeast of liar bor Point, Port Moller, Bering Sea, Alaska, and more particularly de- scribed as follows, to-wit;
 Beg. Cor. No. shore Port Moller
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The work of grading the streets ot Nenana, which was begun about the first of May, was suspended several days in the middle of the month be- cause of the cold weather, nightly frosts having rendered the ground too hard to work with the scraperS.
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Serial No. 0l601 Additional Entry Under Section 23O6 of the Revised Statutes of the Unit ed States.
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Survey 663, Serial 01797 Tn the United States Land Office, Ju neau, Alaska, May 2, 1917.
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Survey 729, Serial 01799 NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
 PATENT United States Land Office, Juneau, Alaska, April a, 1917. NOTICE is hereby given that Petes
Morris tribune., 1917-09-21
MannIfaanA KaIaAaur.

One of the greatest natural wonders
In the world is the falls Of KRieteur, In
British Guiana. The valley through
which the river flows, below the falls,
Is quite impossible, and probably no
one has ever reached the bottom Of
the fall The fall is TAI feet high,
more than four times the height of
Niagara, more than three times the
height Of Bunker Hill monument, 200
feet higher than the Washington mon
ument and 800 feet higher than st. Pc
ter's dome. A smooth but rapid river,
nearly 400 feet wide, flows quietly to
the brink and turns quietly downward.
In its fall it breaks into soft white
mist and reaches the bottom in a chaos
of seething clouds. There is a gentle
roar. Only now and then, from the
hidden caverns at the bottom, a deep,
thunderous growl arises that gives
some hint Of the forces contending
there.
Morris tribune., 1917-09-21
Boston Transcript.


From the best accounts it appears
that the first bicycle meaning by the
term a two wheeled machine for hu-
man locomotion-was made In France
about the year 1916. This pioneer ma
chine was a very awkward affair, con-
sisting of a couple Of heavy wooden
wheels Of equal diameter, one behind
the other and Joined together by lon
gitudinal wooden bar on which the rid
er's seat was fixed, the mode Of pro-
pulsion being the pushing of the feet
against the ground. Not for fifty years
was any real progress made. In 1869
the machine with the big driving wheel
with the little hind wheel was invent
ed by Michaux Of Paris, and a few
years later came the safety" which,
with many improvements, is the ma
chine we have today.
Morris tribune., 1917-09-21
BEWARE THE CLOSED MIND.
Keep Always In Touch With Me-" Ideas
and New Methods.

Keep Always In Touch With New Iosas
and New Methods.
Senator Lodge in an address deliver
ed at the Massachusetts Institute or
Technology coined remarkable phrase
in warning the students to beware of
the closed mind" a gentle reproof of
the cocksureness Of the newly gradu-
ated. Senator Lodge said:
Beware Of the closed mind. This
sounds like q paradox when addressed
to young men, yet it viii, I think, bear
examination. 1t Is a truism to say that
the danger Of maturity, and especially
of age, is the closing Of the mind to
new ideas. Habit, most powerful OF
influences, hard experience, the very
passage Of the years, all alike tend to
stifren the muscles and to harden the
arteries Of the mind as they do those Of
the body It is a misfortune with
which advancing age must struggle,
and the effort is severe and too often
either neglected or fruitless.
''But the same peril besets youth, al
though not for the same reason. The
great mass of young men go forth from
our universities, our institutes and
schools, prepared to learn and eager
for the knowledge which experience
alone can bring. Yet the disease Of the
closed mind turks all about them and,
curiously enough, is most likely to af-
feet the cleverest, the ablest and the
most ambitious This comes from
their very talents, from the high conf
dence which youth ought always to
have, and from the somewhat hasty
conclusion that because they have
thought for themselves nobody else has
performed the same feat before.
ut is we'll to remember that the very
greatest men died learning, like Bacon
and Pasteur. The greatest benefac-
tons to humanity, the greatest services
to human thought, have not all been
bestowed or rendered by men under
twenty-five or even under forty years
of age, a fact sometimes worthy Of re-
memDrance. Do not, then, fall victims
to Overconfdence and close your mind.
The injunction is as important for
youth as for age-easy Of attainment
for the former, difficult for the latter,
possible for both. The past and the
present, youth and age, new and old,
all have their place in the sun; all are
needed for the widest learning, for the
highest achievement, for the best de-
velopment Of mankind"
Morris tribune., 1917-09-21
THE BATTLE OF LIFE.
What a Man Should Have and Be at
the Age Of Thirty-fivs.

What q Man Should Have and Be at
the Age Of Thirty-fiVs.
Jack Lait says in the American Mag
aZine:
lat thirty-five a citizen should have a
wife and children; he should have a
permanent trade, business or profess
sion; he should own home; he should
have money in bank and a cOmmensu-
rate endowment policy half paid off;
he should be through with experiment.
ing and on his way, realizing the
dreams he dreamt when he had time
to dream, walking over the paths he
laid in the road building years, hiking
on his second wind beyond the point to
which he laboriously strained his way
Heretofore.
Youth is a tonic and its manifesto
tons ere grit and gamcne9s, hope and
yearning, ambition and hard tackling.
energy and pep and good as new recov-
cries and gay times and extravagances.
But youth Is a bargain commodity
priceless to own, cheap to buy.
"'He's only a boy says the world,
and he goes at fifty cents on the dol
lar
Therefore youth is the time to In
vest. and sometimes later comes the
time to collect. Somewhere Is the turn
ing peak. think it is marked '35.'"
Morris tribune., 1917-09-21
OUR PHYSICAL HEALTH.
This Critic Claims We Are Only Half
Living and Working.

This Critic Claims We Are Only Half
IL. Living and Working.
That the average man and woman in
the United States today is only half
living and is not doing half of the work
nor getting half Of the joy from work
and life that the human being is capa-
BILE of getting is the opinion Of DR.. Ir-
wing Fisher Of Yale university, the
great student and authority on eco
nomic health conditions. In a recent
study that he has made Of rural health
and national we'll being he finds that
only something like per cent Of peo-
pie are really well and free from i'm
pairment.
Interpreting this low state Of phys
ical health in terms Of what it means
to the individual, the writer says, cit
means that we are losing a large part
of our rightful life not only by death
itself, which cuts off many years we
might have lived, but also from dis
ease and disabilities which are not IA
tai, but which cripple the power to
work and mar the joy Of living"
AS to what this state Of physical In
efficiency means to the producing pow
er of this country, the writer again
says: 1--WE may assume that on the av-
erage for every death per annum there
are two persons sick during the year.
This makes about 100000 people con-
stantly lying on sick beds in the United
States, Of which on the most conserva-
tive estimate at least half need not
have been there. If we translate these
preventable losses into commercial
terms we find that even by the most
conservative reckoning this country is
losing over $1,5OO,OOO,OOO worth Of
wealth producing power every year.
PERSONALLY" says Professor Fisher.
Il believe it can be shown that the
chief cause Of this degeneration is the
neglect of individual hygiene, partly
from ignorance, partly from indihfer-
ence, partly from sheer helplessness.
The degeneration Of our bodies follows
degeneration Of our habits. The cure
for the degenerative disease is more
personal hygiene more scientific habits
Of daily living"
Morris tribune., 1917-09-21
Nae%a on the Water,

It ts almost unthinkable that a bird
should build a nest on the water. Yet
that Is exactly what the grebes always
do. With reeds, grass and plant stems
the grebe makes regular floating is
land, somewhat followed out on top,
usually near the open water Of a
mGrshy or reedy lake. We have sew
e1al kinds Of grebes, but their nests are
much alike, sometimes moored to the
reeds, but usually floating freely on the
water.-St. Nicholas.
Morris tribune., 1917-09-21
sTILLED THE BATTLE.
A Touch Of Nature That Halted Wars
Carnage For q Moment.

A Touch Of Nature Thst Halted Wars
Carnage For q Moment.
A day was dawning ON a battlefield
in northern France through a fog SO
thick that none could see more than q
few yards from the trenches. In the
night the Germans had drawn back
their lines a little, and the French had
closely advanced, but between the two
positions q lone farmhouse was still
standing As the sun rose and the fog
cleared and the gunners found their
ranges, heavy guns began to boom and
answer back. Thus began the old, old
wear4some story Of day after day Of
desolat1on and death.
But suddenly on both sides the firing
ceased, and there fell a peculiar dead
stiffness Midway between the trenches,
near the now shattered farmhouse,
there was-no, it must be impossible,
1t must be q delusion! But, no-there
in the green meadow, crawling on its
hands and knees, was a little child, a
mere baby. It appeared perfectly hap
py and contented, and In the sudden
dumbness Of the soldiers the baby's
laugh was heard as It clutched at a
dandenon. Not sound was heard but
that; not a shot was fired; scarcely did
a soldier on either side dare breathe.
Suddenly a soldier Jumped out Of a
German trench and ran to where the
child was crawling. He tenderly took
It up and carried it back to shelter.
From the trenches Of the French there
came no shots, but there rang along
both lines a mighty cheer.
But soon, alas, the guns were boom
ing again and answering back, and the
towering bit Of meadow was plowed
by shells, for war Is war, and men
must not long yield to pity.-Christ1an
Herald
Morris tribune., 1917-09-21
TOO MUCH FOR DEWEY.
He Frankly Admitted There Was One
Thing He Couldn't Do.


Thing He Couldn't Do.
A curious coincidence surrounds the
entering of George Dewey as a cadet at
the naval academy, from which he
graduated with great honor In 1853.
His appointment was that Of alternate
to another Montpelier Vt) boy, son Of
Vermont physician, also named
George. They had played together and
fought many sham battles side by
side In the little old red schoOlhouse.
George I. received the naval appoint
ment, but for family reasons decid-
ed to enter the ministry, and the va
cancy was taken by the alternate,
George Dewey, who was ready for any
fight on land or sea, as he many times
proved In the little Montpelier school
house.
No one remembers better than the
writer the great demonstration In Bos-
ton Oct. IA, 1899, when Admiral Dewey
was the hero Of the hour. Congratula-
tons were telegraphed from the old
playmate, George, Of the Montpelier
days: "Bully for you, George. Have
you ceased swearing as you did in the
old boyhood days2 could not have
fought that battle of Manila, but am
sending you a sermon. preached it
last Sunday in my Syracuse church"
The reply came:
George, I may have fought like q bulldog,
and I may still swear at times, but could
not have preached that sermon.
GEORGE DEWEY.
-ROStOn Transcript
Morris tribune., 1917-09-21
A Racifaf.

At the age Of three years Reginald
was already celebrated coward. Par
ticularly he was afraid Of all four foot
ed animals. There was talk In the fam
fly of adopting a dog.
Would you like to have a dog, my
SOM" said the proud parent.
''No," said Reginald.
Somewhat later Reginald returned to
his fathers side. Evidently he had
been turning over In his mind the prop
Osition recently submitted.
ia like to have a dog" said he, ''if
I could have one with his mouth shut.
New York Post.
Morris tribune., 1917-09-21
STORY OF A PAINTING.
The Change the Artist Made In 1.-THE
Spirit Of Seventy six"

The Change the Artist Made In 1.-THE
Spirit Of Seventy elk"
1.-The Spirit Of Seventy-six"-thef IA
nous, drum and fife trio-came from
the brush and genius of Archibald NJ.
Willard.
The artist emerged from overalls and
Wellington co. wagon shop. A pic
ture called "Pluck No. l." displayed in
Cleveland art dealers window, at
tracted the attention Of the discrimi-
mating and paved the way to a kind of
partnership with James II. Ryder,
through whose suggestion the Seven
ty-six" picture was begun.
In its early stages this painting was
called yankee Doodle" and it was
first planned along serio-comic lines
But one day." declares Mr.. Willard, II
caught a CLINT in the eye Of the old
man who posed for the center figure
who was posing, and in a fash it re-
vealed itself to me what all this stood
for, and I could go no further. The
real picture pushed everything else
aside and went ahead and painted IT.
self"
The old man whose flashing eyes in
spired this change Of conception was
the artists father Rev. Daniel Willard.
a man of revolutionary stock.
Thus curiousIy it was only by the
merest switch Of an inherited senti-
ment that this symbol was prevented
from becoming a fanciful burlesQue to
live only for the brief day of it's crea-
tiOn.-Everybo Magazine.
Morris tribune., 1917-09-21
A Poisonous FROG.

People in general look upon all spe
cies Of the frog as being perfectly harm
less. Should you be travelling In New
Granada Omitted States Of Colombia),
however, you would do well to let Ger.
tain little tree croaker severely alone
He secretes poison equally as deadly
as that Of the rattlesnake. 1t exudes
from his skin In the shape Of a milky
LIQUID.
Morris tribune., 1917-09-21

No one ever gets to heaven before his
time, and to most Of US it's long time
coming.
The good Lord helps US to hold our
ground while the old worlds turning
to the brighter side, but we seldom
credit Providence with that good work.
Ever stop to think that there are
just storms enough in life to make the
rainbows we sigh forT-Atlanta Consti-
tuition
Morris tribune., 1917-09-21
00N9.

Dragons used to be armed with q
short musket which spouted out fire so
fercely when the trigger was pulled
that it was called a dragon" after
the fabulous beast whose breath is fire.
So well tablished did this name be-
come for this firearm that a dragon
was engraved on the barrel, and the
men who used this particular weapon
were called Dragons"
Morris tribune., 1917-09-21
Not 80 Cruel.

II heard the other day Of a man In
difficulty who was calling repeatedly
for help, and nobody would 60 to. his
aid"
How cruel!'
mot necessarily. He wanted a cook,
and there was none to be had."-Balh-
more American
Morris tribune., 1917-09-21
PaaaimiRtie.

Mike-1 wish had never been born.
Pat-Then you'd go around shouting
that you'd been cheated out av some
thing, ye Observation-Disclosures Bull
Ietin.
Morris tribune., 1917-09-21
Last Kind the Worst.

Teacher-How many kinds Of poetry
are there? Pupil-Three. Teacher
What are they? Pupil-Lyric, dramatic
and epidemic. Life.
Morris tribune., 1917-09-21

Whats all that pounding In the 9th
er roomT' questioned a drummer while
he was waiting to see the buyer.
Dunno" replied the Office boy. II
heard the boss say he'd got to frame a
speech, an guess he's dom it."-Phil-
adelphia Record.
Morris tribune., 1917-09-21

There is no effect without q cause"
quoted the wise guy.
How about when a woman changes
her mindT' asked the simple mug
Philadelphia Record.
Morris tribune., 1917-09-21
Small Addition 70 the Total.

She-Don't you feel you owe me an
apology for the way you talked last
night? Hell do; but in my present
financial condition owe so many per
sons am just going to let this new
obligation stand. - Richmond Times
Disnatch
Morris tribune., 1917-09-21

How did you happen to quit the
stock market?"
We'll my margin got very narrow
and sort Of slipped ofrr-The Lamb.
Morris tribune., 1917-09-21
Commando.

"Do you believe the adage that
money talksT
"wel, I've often heard of money Or
ders"-Lamb.
Morris tribune., 1917-09-21

Dentist-Which tooth is It that trou-
bles you, Sam? Pullman Porter-Low.
er Five, sah.-Boston Transcript.
Morris tribune., 1917-09-21

The nose kiss exists In races so far
apart as the Eskfmos Of the arctic and
the Maoris of New Zealand.
Morris tribune., 1917-09-21

What a pity it is that man uses his
reason much oftener to Justify his con-
duct than to guide it'll