Notice of Forfeiture in Skukut Creek Claim Cook Inlet
Co owner A C Carrier informs co owners Harry McCormack C J Walters James McGill Thos McConety Gee Hanson Win Burns Alfred Noel that $912.50 per person was spent on mining improvements within Skukut Creek river claim Cook Inlet near Skakum Creek. If not paid within ninety days after publication, their one eighth interests may be forfeited to Carrier per section 2324 Revised Statutes. first published January 4, 1908.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cook Inlet
Harry McCormack
C. J. Walters
James McGill
Thos. McConety
Gee
Hanson
Win
Burns
Alfred
Noel
Cook
Skakum Creek
United States
A. C. Carrier
Panama Canal Costs and Work Reported for 1907
The Isthmian Canal Commission details 1907 operations under army engineers. Expenditures total about 48.3 million dollars besides 50 million paid to the French company, with overall project cost estimated near 139.7 million, plus zone infrastructure costs. Working force reaches 29,000. dredging totals about 8 million cubic yards. Secretary Metcalf calls Congress to appropriate 77.77 million for naval construction including battleships cruisers destroyers and submarines.
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Washington
Panama Canal
Isthmaia Canal Commission
Isthmus
Panama
Congress
Board of Consulting Engineers
Colon
Metsksconshington
D. C
Navy Department Gress
Navy to dispatch torpedo boats to Pacific coast
Secretary of the Navy announces nine torpedo boat destroyers and five torpedo boats will be sent to the Pacific coast immediately to protect the entire coast in an emergency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Metcalf
Navy Department
Pacific Coast
Salt beds near Salt Lake redefine western railroad depot
Utah dispatch reports vast salt beds eight miles wide and forty miles long along the Western Pacific line from Salt Lake City. Depth unknown beyond six to seven feet with blasting holes for telegraph poles seldom reaching bed bottom. Salt purity about 9 per cent, immense commercial value, with beds largely taken up by placer mining near the desert rim around Salt Lake City.
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Utah
Western Pacific, Il
Salt Lake
Salt Lake City
Dr William Rockefeller Buried in Freeport Oakland Cemetery
The New York World reports proof that Dr William Rockefeller father of John D Rockefeller is buried in Freeport Minor Oakland cemetery and died there in May 1906 Known locally as Dr William Livingston he farmed and sold medicine nearby An attempted body theft for ransom was made recently.
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New York World
William Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller
Freeport
Oakland Cemetery
Tle
William Livingston
Yukon Declared Safer Than Seattle by Yukon High Sheriff
Yukon high sheriff R J Kilbeck says the Yukon Territory is safer for human life than Seattle and other large American cities. He has served seven years and reports no murders in the Yukon Territory for the past three years.
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R. J. Kiltbeck
Yukon Territory
Methodist Services At M E Church With Illustrated Lesson
Methodist services will be held at the M E Church at 11 oclock morning with text Matthew 54. Sunday school convenes at 12 15. An illustrated service using the stereopticon is planned for 7 30 in the evening. All are welcome. Mackinaws at Claysons.
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M. FE
Matthew
Tanana Mine Owners recruit for April work program
Seattle based Tanana Mine Owners' Association leader Ronan signs men to work in April with a guaranteed $5 per day and board for the summer, aiming to hire 1500 men. Separately Tacoma papers report efforts to obtain a Kodiak bear for Point Defiance Park, with only four bears known in captivity nationwide.
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Seattle
Ronan
Tanana
Tacoma
Counterfeit Half Dollars Hit Catholic Churches in New York
A New York report warns ushers to stop giving change in church collections after counterfeit half dollars circulated widely. One church found 32 fake coins in a single Sunday collection as pastors urge heightened scrutiny. The piece cites Army and Navy Life for February on the need for a strong navy amid global tensions.
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Greater
New York
Magellan
Jeoast
Man Disclaims Debts After Wife Leaves Home in Karluk
Karluk Alaska notices that Chas Duncker declares he will not pay any bills contracted by his wife Martha Alpink Duncker after January 18 1908. The notice is signed by Chas Duncker with witnesses M Hansen and A Grown.
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Martha Alpink Duncker
Karluk
Alaska
Chas, Duncker
M. Hansen A. Grown
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Bill
Dodgers
Gateway Publishing Company
Seward
Secretary
Yukon
Mackinaws At
Clayson’s
THE
America
G. W. Palmer
General Merchandise
Knik, Alaska
Susitna
Yentna
Interior
Pacific Coast Trading CO
Barington Hall
T. D. Corlew
Geo. Sexton
Fourth Avenue
Seward, Alaska
Alaska Transfer
Christiensen & Lausner
Alaska Coast CO
U. S. Mail
Alaska-Pacific Express
Juneau
Portland
Bertha
Seward Ltd
Forth Nation
Yesler Way
Brown & Hawkins
Seward, Ala
Alaska Steamship Company
Seattle - Seward
Outside Passage
Saratoga
Santa Clara
Northwestern
Sewa
Dora” Sietinning
Seward Mar
Seattle Mar
Unalaska
Way Ports
Seldovia
E. G. McMicken
G. F
P. A
Seattle, Wash
First Ave
Seattl
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