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The Nome nugget., 1925-12-19
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.

To Elma McNausht and John Me
 Naueht. Your aac eGch of yOul
 heirs, executors administrators
 grantees and assigns.
 You are hereby notified that tn, undersisned. and it's srantors and assignors. have expended durinp each of the years ending at F o'clock Meridian July 1st. 1922 1923. 1924 and 1925, the sum O. one hundred dollars in labor and improvements on each of those cer 'ain placer miniuc claims situated in the Cape Nome Recording Dis trict Territory of Alaska. Second Division known and described as follows:
 Yankee Doodle Claim or Group T Bench on Snake River. notice of location of which is recorded in Volume 153, page 24S of the Re cords of said Cape Nome Record ing District:
 Yankee Boy Claim or Group, ? Bench on Snake River. notice of location of which is recorded ir Vol. l53, page 2i4 of the Records of said Cape Nome Recording Dis trict:
 Minnehaha Claim or Group. 2 Bench on snake River. notice Of location of which is recorded ir Vol. 153, page 2i6 of the Records nf said Cape Nome Recording Dis trict:
 Said labor was performed and improvements made for the pur. pose of holding said claims under the laws of the l'nited States and Territory of Alaska.
 And you and each of you are hereby notified that if within ninety days after the service o' this notice on you by publication thereof for the period of ninety days.you fail or refuse to contri bute to the undersigned your pro portion of such expenditures as co-owners Of said mining claims your interest in said mining claim. will become the property of tht undersigned by whom and b, whose grantors and assignors tht said required necessary expendi lures were made.
 { Dated at Nome. Alaska, this 7tf day of November, 1925.
 Lomen Reindeer and Trading
 Corporation, by CARL ]. LOMEN. President Office and Post Office Address. Nome, Alaska.
The Nome nugget., 1925-12-19
MAYOR BROWN SAYS
 WILL RUN FOR REELECTION

Seattle, Dec. IA. (P)-The Judic- iary Committee of the city council unanimously recommended denial of the petition to impeach Mayor Brown, and declared it was unfair to ask the council which would try him. The accused, they suggested for the people to pass on him in as much as Brown has announced to file on December 26th for re-elec- tion. The committee expressed the belief "that the council is disquali- flied, offering personal prejudices by some members from giving the Mayor fair trial to which every person IS entitled" Councilman Erickson added his plea for city manager plan on which the people will be asked to vote on March 19 next year.
The Nome nugget., 1925-12-19
INVITES BURGLARS TO RETiRN GOODS"IF
 NOT SATISFACTORY

Philadelphia, (A', A Philadcl- phia store that was robbed invited tEe burglars to bring back the goods they took if not found satis- factory.
 Realizing the power of adverti- sing the store inserted display ad in local papers headed Notice, To the Burglars Who Robbed Our Store:'' The notice said:
 "You boys are not using your powers of observation. tAn unpar- donable trait in any burglar) If you had read our advertisements and noticed our very low prices you could have saved yourself the trou- ble of breaking in to get the things you wanted. We are glad to know. however, that you prefer OUR merchandise. Every article in our store is absolutely ;.l arant erti by us whether you buy Il or steal II HiitheS ilp utls | 'H' 's IT " net H'' fellows took doe nos i've you good service. bring II bae!; and We will make it good--v>th the assistance o' General Butt ,,'."
 Special reception for bnr&- lars calling after our store Is clos ed. Bring your friends along"
The Nome nugget., 1925-12-19
UNIFIED STATES OF SOVIET REPUBLICS MAKES
 OFFICIAL STATEMENT

Tokyo, December II, P)-The Navy Department announced that the destroyers Fuj. and Tsuta are beached at Tientsin where fifty sailors were landed.
 Ambassador Kopp of Russia, in a statement to Foreign Minister Shi- dara, said, ''n view of rumors suspecting the peaceful policy of the United States of Soviet Repub- lies were aiming to prejudice rela- tions with Japan, have the honor Q declare that the United States of Soviet Republic does not intend to pursue in the Far East any az gressive plans and doesn't intend to menace the interest of Japan
The Nome nugget., 1925-12-19
McCORD TO PLACE VICTORIA
 DEStHNMPS IN CONVENT

Missolua, December 18th, (P) - John Warren McCurd, the Alaska mining man left here after visiting the father and mother of Victoria Deschamps and announced that it was his inten ions to take Victor d out of High School in San Fran cisco placing her in Notre Dame Convent at belmont, California, for special training in music. McCord further said that he parents. With whom he conferred yesterday, neither forbade or agreed to this arrangement, and that the mother said the adoption plans "will he side tracked for the present but may he pushed to completion after about q years time"
The Nome nugget., 1925-12-19

Seattle, December IF. N9 Capt. Oscar Wisling Nsili go with Captain Ronld Ariundsen's dlrigible eApedi
 tion after he pays visit to his fam I'll in Norway. Captain Visiting is leaving Seattle sIlorly to go to San Francisco to visit his son who is aboard q Norwesian ship there, he said he hates tor leave the exploring ship Maud and that he understood it will be sold and used for Herring fishing. although Norwegians here offered to subscribe the amounts of debts. Twenty seven boxes ol relics which hay. been for several years in the ice. were seat to the Norwegian go' ernmont museum.
The Nome nugget., 1925-12-19
ELECTRIC SHOVEL TO
 EEyOLlfTIONIZE MINING
 IN ALASKA

Seattle. Dec. 12, @-The cleo ,ric shovel will make possible the working of frozen muck and gravel which will revolutionize mining in Alaska, A. N. C. Treadwell, told the Seattle Mining Club at a recent meeting. Treadwell has been pro- minent in the Yukon country for a quarter of century. and said he would engage in dredging op- erations on a big scale on Coal Creek, about two hundred and fifty miles from Dawson. He said the new electric shovel Is capable of handling four thousand yards of earth each day and would place operations at a quarter of the cost of a dredge. He also made a plea for highway construction supple ment to the Alaska Railroad in or der to increase tonnage.
The Nome nugget., 1925-12-19
NOTICE OF FORFEITVRE.

To Monzo n McCumbsr. Mrneo n
 McCumher and NJ n McCumber
 your and each of your heif5. ex.
 ecutors. administrators. grantees
 and assigns:
 You are hereby notified that the undersigned, and its prantors and assigns. have expended during the year 1920: also during each of the years ending at I2 o'clock Meridian July 1N. l9@2. 1929. 1924 and 1925 tlr snm of on" hundred dol lars in labor and improvements up m that taf'ain ri,eef clau know n and described aS Mctnnh,l trnnp q Snak" River Eenrh Claim. situat cd in the Cape Natue Reeordinp District, Territory of Alaska. Ser ond Division. original notice of location of which is recorded in Vol, 13i,= page 2u2 of he records of said Cape Nome Recording Dis rict.
 Said labor WIS performed and Improvements made for the pur. pose of holding said claims under he laws of the United States and Territory of Alaska
 -Nit NVH anu th'i bt you HTt' hereby notified that if wi hin ninety days after the service of this notice on you by publication thereof for the period of ninety days.you fail or refuse to contri bute to the undersigned your pro portion of such expenditures as co-owners of said mining claim your interest in said mining claim will become ihe property of the undersisned by whom and by whose grantors and assignors th, whose eranturs and assi%Hnrs thc said required ncces ary oNpcndi lures were made.
 Dated at Nome, Alaska. this 1th day of November. 1925.
 Lomen Reindeer and Trading
 Corporation by
 CARL ]. T.OMEN. President Office and Post Office Address. Nome. Alaska
The Nome nugget., 1925-12-19
STRAWBERRY CITY PREPARES TO ANSWER
 MID-WINTER CALL

Plant City. Fla, Fi- S-t-r-a-w- b-e-r-r-i-e-s, This midsummer cry in Northern and Western cities will soon he echoed here w,ien the Flo rida berry growers begin gathering their crops. The greatest yiell of the local fields comes shortly after Christmas when thousands of crates are shipped to distant markets.
 The Strawberries require special method Of ultiva'ion involving ex- pensivn irrigation systems and con stant field work. The crops in this vicinity are valued at more than Sl,oo0.oo 2 year and the straw berry acreage i7 constantly increa- sing.
The Nome nugget., 1925-12-19

Juneau, alaska, Dec. 15, tP1- Pioneers who witnessed Soapy Smith kill Frank H. Reid and who finally both died from being shot on July eight, 1908. ridiculed the story that Jessie Rose of Vancouver killed herself with Soapy Smiths gun and said that Smith used q rifle to kill Reid, but that Reid used revolver and further state that the Mounted Police were not connected with the affair which occurred on American soil, they said George Wright was a friend of Reid and was given Reid'a revolver. and that Reid had two guns in his pocket when the duel was fought.
The Nome nugget., 1925-12-19
MEXICAN WOMEN CAMPAIGN AGAINST IMMORAL POSTtA ARDS

Mexico City. (4', A campaign against the sale O. display of i'm moral postcards, pictures or pub lications fGs been undertaken by the Nation Council of Mexican Women Secretary of Education Puig, petitioned by the Council to take action upon the ground that the youth c: the country is being subjected ;o evil influences, ex pressed his sympathy with the movement and promised his gov erhmental influence in it's support.
 Government inspectors have been i.,structed to investigate the con ditions complained of by the Wo- mems Council
The Nome nugget., 1925-12-19

Tacoma, Dec. 14, (P-Federal Stills last Thursday and found q gigantic still which was protected with mines connected by wires to two hundred pounds of dynamite. The Drys severed the wires leading to the explosives and prevented the blast; their search of the pre- l. misses disclosed three hundred gallon still and three thousand gal Ions of mash, radio aerial receiv- ing apparatus used by the opera tors was also found, which evident H assisted e-eperntors- of the still in making good their escape.
The Nome nugget., 1925-12-19
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.

To John Roland and Karl Karlin
 your and each of your heirs. ex-
 ecutorS. administrators and as signs
 You are hereby notified that the undersigned has expended the sum i of one hundred dollars during each of the years 1920. 1921, 1922. 1923 and 1924. in labor and improve ments upon each of the following named claims, The Blue Jay Group, and the Polar Bear Group. placer mining claims. situated on the CasaDerpaga River, in the Council City Mining District and Precinct. Territory of Alaska, the location certificates Of which are found of record in the office of the Recorder of said district and pre- cinrt in order to hold said claims under the provisions of the laws of the United States, and the Ter ritory of Alaska. concerning annual labor upon mining claims. Such expenditures being the amount re- quired by said laws to hold said claims during said period.
 And you are further notified that if within ninety days from the completion of the publication here of. for the period of ninety days you fail or refuse to contribute to the undersigned your proportion of such expenditure as q co-owner your interest in said mining claims will become the property Of the undersigned your co-owner, who has made such required expendi- ture.
 Dated at Nome. Alaska. the 31st day of October, 1925.
 EUGENE w. GRAHAM,
 Cr-Ownrr.
The Nome nugget., 1925-12-19
PORTAGE BAY CHANNEL
 Is DISAPPROVED

Washington, December Ia, tH)- The War Department report to Congress disapproved of the i'm provement of the portage between the Yukon River and kuskokwim river. Major General Taylor, chief of the Army Engineers, said, the District Engineer who recommended q channel twenty feet wide and six feet deep thru each one of the sections, one mile long, Doubt has been expressed as To whether the Improvement would enable an earl fer Summer for the beginning Of gold mining on the upper kusko kwim. Taylor opined that tthe benefits are to doubtful and to limited to justify Federal assist anre even on q cooperative basis, which the District Engineer propos- ed" II was also pointed out that T limited number of steamers from Seattle calling at Kuskokwim was apparently because of the inactiv- ity of that region The District Engineer had declared in favor of the Portage route despite the i'm proved condition of the main route for mail and passengers during the summer months.
The Nome nugget., 1925-12-19
JAMES SWARTZEL DIED
 IN HOSPITAL SUNDAY

James A. Swartzel proprietor of the Golden Gate Hotel and an old sourdough of early Klondyke days, died in the Maynard Columbus hos piial Sunday morning. the Frater- nal Order of Eagles of which he was a member. will take charge of the funeral arrangements, ann state that the funeral will be held next Sunday at 1:30 from the Fed eyoted church. In telegram re- ceiyed by Geo. S. Maynard this morning from MT. Swartzel's rela- lives in Pennsylvania, they request h,s body be shipped to them.
The Nome nugget., 1925-12-19
NOTICE OF FoRFEITURE.

To Dan Donovan. Tom Phelan. Tom
 Kelleher. Anthony McGettigan.
 Mike Kelly. Jerry Donovan. your
 and each of your heirs. eXecu
 tors. administrators and assigns;
 You and each of you are hereby notified that the undersigned has expended the sum of one hundred dollars. each year during the years 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913. 1914. 1915, 1916. 1917. 1920 ending on Dee. 31st and 1921. 1929. 1923. 1924 ending at F o'clock Meridian July 1st, in labor and improve mer'4 upon the Randsburg Group Placer Mining Claim. situated on Coal Creek, tributary to Solomon River, in the Cape Nome Mining and Recording District. Territory of Alaska. the location certificate of which is found of record in Vol. 1884, page 479, in the office of the Recorder of said district and pre- cinct. in order to hold said claim under the provisions of the laws of the United States. and the Terri tory of Alaska, concerning annual labor upon mining claims. Such expenditure being the amount re- quired by said laws to hold said claim during said period.
 And you are further notified that if within ninety days from the completion of the publication here of, for the period of ninety days you fail or refuse to contribute to the undersigned your proportion of such expenditure as a co-owner your interest in said mining claim will become the property of the undersigned your co-owner, who has made such required expendi- ture.
 Dated at Nome. Alaska. the 3lst day of October. 1925.
 N. ]. MCCARTHY. ! Co-Owuer.
The Nome nugget., 1925-12-19
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.


 ENGSTROM. yoilr heirs, admin istrators, executors and assigns: You are hereby notified that tn" undersigned has expended the sum of one hundred dollars during each of the years 1924 and 1925 in labor and improvements upon placer mining claim known as tbe rR EEZEOTT Placer Mining Claim on Mcdonald Creek in the Cape Nome Mining and Recording Dis trict Second Division Territory oi Alaska. the location certificate of which is of record in Volume HIS at Page 417, of the records of said mining and recording district, in order to hold said claim under the provisions of the laws of the United States and the Territory of Alaska concerning annual labor upon min ing claims: such expenditure being the amount required bv jaw 10 hold said claim during said period
 And you are hereby notified that f within ninety days from the com-- pletion of the publication hereof. you fail or refuse to contribute to the undersigned your proportion of such expenditure as Il co-ownrr your in crest in said placer mining claim will become the property of the undersigned. yonr co owner, who ha5 made such required eN- peaiiturH
 Dated at Nome Alaska this 3fd day nf October. 1925,
 A. 4. WATSON,
 cn-Owner. Publish Oct 3. To, IT. 24, a1, Nov. '. If. 21. 2S. Dec. ,. 12, 19, 2G 1425
The Nome nugget., 1925-12-19
INTERN tTIONAL RING
 SMUGGLING OPIUM

Honolulu, Dec. IA, R)-Opium smuggling totaling millions of dol lars will be described to the State Department when George Fuller,
 he American Vice Consul at Teh- eran, Persia, reaches Washington. In an interview he said, through the arrest of A. M. T. Woodward, an American in Persia, it was re- vealed that an international ring were engaged in smuggling opium aboard Chinese warships which was guarded by Chinese soldiers, and later transhipped to the Unit- cd States.
The Nome nugget., 1925-12-19
TELEORApHIC pRny1T1Es

Washington. D. C., December 15, R-Delegate Dan Sutherland, An- troduced . bill in Congress to pro hibit the stationary fishing and use of appliances in the tide waters of Alaska. Nets traps and all Ike devices gre proposed to be banned and penalty of i've hundred dol lars for the first violation with Jail sentence ofsthree months to a year for the second ofense.
The Nome nugget., 1925-12-19
WEDNESDAY, (TELECRAPHic> RAISE SlFRTAX
 RATES FAILED

Washington. D. C., Dec. Is, (P) Tine first effort to raise the Sur tax rates was contained in a new tax bill which failed in the House when an amendment by Represen- tative Laguardma, socialist of N Y., introduced it proposing max imum rate of thirty percent. Il was defeated by vote of two hun dred and sixty six to fifty four
 The rate in the-present bill Is twenty percent,
The Nome nugget., 1925-12-19
seward, Alaska, December 1G,DP,

Seward, Alaska, December l6dIb
 Setting record for Alaskan Newspapers, the seward Gateway having recently published sixty paga special Prosperity Edition featuring the resources and general conditions here and the Westward districts The issue contains more than hundred photos and Alaska car oGns and the Seattle Chamber of Commerce ordered hundreds of copies, thosuands of copies are being mailed throughout the United States.
The Nome nugget., 1925-12-19

New York, December 15. (P)- Battling Ski was mysteriously slain last night at Hells Kitchen district and was found face down. ward with two gunsho: wounds in the back, pistol with two ex- Dloded shells was found nearby. Physicians pronounced Siki dead with bullet in the lung and an other in the kidney. Ski was shot where he was attacke dlast sum mer and almost killed with knife
The Nome nugget., 1925-12-19
DUBLIN PASSPORT
 AREA ENLARGED

Dublin. (F)-- In October the free State counties of Cavan, Monaghan. Leitrim and Donegal will be trans ferred to the Dublin area for paas- port purposes to the United States. Formerly persons in those counties were obliged to, their passports through Belfast.
 When the change is made the Belfast office will deal only with applicants from the six Ulster coun- ties. The Belfast office at present has an average of 70 applications day.
The Nome nugget., 1925-12-19

Victoria, Dee. 15, N9 Robert Henderson. a veteran prospector of the Yukon Territory and credited with the discovery of the Klondyke and Indian River gold fields, who has been prospec ing for several days on Vancouver island was bad ly injured when he fell thirty feet from cliff on the face of Mount Finlayson. last Sunday.
The Nome nugget., 1925-12-19

Picking. Dec. 3.(P-Four miles beyond Dangstnn, General Lings troops fired on the International train which left here yesterday with eighteen American passengers, the American Infantry guard train returned to Yangstud with the pas sengers who hired automobiles and vent to Tientsin. General Ling explained he feared General Fengs armored train was approaching un- Ter cover of foreign flags
The Nome nugget., 1925-12-19
MONDAY
 (TELEGRAPhiC1
MAYOR BROWN ASKS
 FOR CHANGE VENUE

Olympia, Wash, Dec. 12, R- The Supreme Court issued an or der recurring Judge Smith of the King County Superior Court, to show cause on December 18th why he should not grant change or venue in the case Of Mayor Brown seeking to expunge from the Court records the grand jury condemna- tiou of his administration.
The Nome nugget., 1925-12-19

Washington, D. C., December IA (P)-It is given out unofflcially that representatives of legislatures from ten different states talked with President Coolidge to ascer- tain If Congress could find a way to return to the States dominion over it's own affairs. and also peti- tioned for the abandonment of the Federal Inheritance taxes.
The Nome nugget., 1925-12-19

offices in Paris which have to deal with loc1l administrative affairs. i' is not unusual to find official docum n on whicl space for the mayors signature is filled by a cross with the regulation phrase; States he canno. write"
 These illiterate m"yors belong mostly to small and remote villages where t is difficult to find anyone To assume the duties of local sCverument at small pay
The Nome nugget., 1925-12-19

Olympia. Wash, Dec. 12. R- Immediate development of the nine million dollars kittitas irragati0n project Is possible when Governor Hartley signs the compromise re- clamation bill, ordering the state to sign contract with the Federal government when the District agrees to underwrite settlement for expenses.
The Nome nugget., 1925-12-19
JESSIE ROSE, STENOGRiPIIER
 SHOOTS SELF

Seattle, Dec. 14, (P1-The Post ntelligencer in T Vancouver dis patch said, the gun that killed Jes- sic Rose a stenographer of the Bro kerage firm of Davidson X Wright, last Friday. killed John Reid of Skagway in fight with Soapy Smith at Skagway in the Klondyke rush. the gun is said to belong to A. C. Wright. . D, rtncr Of the firm who kept it in Ike pocket of his automobile. IL ia believed that Jessie while using the car became Respondent using the gun to shoot herself
The Nome nugget., 1925-12-19
DUTCH HtRBOR REPORTS
 AN EARTHQUAkF r.

Dutch TIarbor December IT. tP)
 An earthquake was felt here last Tuesday night about ten o'clock. he quake was slight but very noticeable. The steamship Starr 4arrying mail and passengers arriv- 'd here after severe rip from seward ihe vessel was iced down several times during ner journey in heavy seas.
The Nome nugget., 1925-12-19

New Yorl, December II, GPj < The statue of the famous leader "Balio" which is one a'.d one third natural size, was unveiled yeste"- day. bronze plae af the ha q describes ihc d,s recH with the serum, endnraae" tdolliS and in irilscnee 'i;altotf tep leader of the 'eaia, himself was present ft She unveiiin@. according In in. tole- gram.
The Nome nugget., 1925-12-19
ONE SHILLING \
 DAY FOR LIQUOR

Birmingham, Eng. (P- A shill- ing a day for liquor seems "a moderate allowance for man" said Lady Sclborne in the course of q speech before the National Coun- cil of Women. "Drunkenness is the evil" she declared, "aot moderate consumption of liquor. which Is a gift of God for our benefit"
 MAYORS FOUND
The Nome nugget., 1925-12-19

Anchorage. December II. N- Bruce Rider aged 20. stationary fireman with the Talkectna bridge construction crew. has been given up as doad. 4 hole has been found in the ice near the place whore hs was lnst, seen and 1t ii { bslfeysd he must .ave fallenl in Bruce lived long time in Valdez with his father, who is now here being interested in the Birch RrQ- ducts Corporation for speeps and McComb, having cut a half million feet of bircn e:id two miliionSfect of sprues.
The Nome nugget., 1925-12-19
BILL. WOULD ABOLISH
 DEATH PENALTY

Sydne:t. x. s. W. GE'i- 4 bill 10 abolish the death penalty will be presented 10 the next session of the legislature bv the state cabinet.
 The measure would substitute imprison,l for han%ir" in ca-cs of corvicte murderers. ,he sen tence varying in scyeiily in accor dance wi;h the cireumstaNc Of tEe crime.
The Nome nugget., 1925-12-19
JUDGE THOMAS BURKE
 LAID TO REST

Seattle, Dec. 12, P)--Final rites over the remains of the late Judge Thomas Burke, were held today, he was one of the founders of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce; ; those acting as honorary pail bear CTS included Stephen Penrose presi- dent of Whitman College; captain Robert Dollar, Frank Waterhouse. Shinro Miyaziaka, acting Japanese consul. Coon Dip. Chinese Consul. and Joshua Green.