The Alaska daily empire., 1912-12-05
l: Alaska News Notes

Mrs Thomas Charlton, the hrst white woman to mush over the Dal- ton trail, to the Klondike, in 1898, died recently at Dawson. She was 60 years old.
 w. T. Lopp, superintendent of the reindeer industry in Alaska, is now in Washington where he will submit his annual report.
 
 Ice appeared in the roadstead at Nome on Nov, 5.
 The Alice Mines Company, oper- ating at shoup bay Valdez district have a 1OO.horse power boiler dou- ble cylinder hoist, a SOO-pound com pressor and two steam drills, Four teen men are employed.
 Ruby now has money order of, fee.
 The Nome Nugget has issued a splendid, illustrated Mining-Dredging Edition.
 Sam silyerman, the Seward mining r,o, hoe eacured control of the prop erty of the Tasnuna Mining Company, on the Tasnuna divide, Copper river The Valdez Prospector says that the total vote in the territorial cleo ton in the Third division will be over 2.OOO. The vote in the delegate cleo tion was 1867.
 w. F. stavert, of Montreal, presi- dent of the Alaska Northern railroad and Congressman J, w. Bryan, of Bremerton, Wash, will visit Alaska next summer, according to a report Joe Anderson. an Enamar youth, filled his right hand with buckshot when his gun was accidentally dis charged He was taken t" Valdez for surgical attention.
 Mrs las. J. Crossley, her young daughter, and Miss Hyde, her sister accompanied Attorney CrOssley from Fairbanks to Valdez over the trail. The natives at Katmai have been moved to a new village called Perry 65 miles from Chlgnik, a place where they can get plenty of game and fish. Houses were built for them by the government
 Four tunnels will be driven on the Midas copper property in Solomon gulch. Valdez district. The property is controlled by the Guggenheims.
 
 Colonel o'Nen, the commander at Fort Liscum has asked the War De- partment for $4O,OOO for the COnstruc, tion of a wagon road from the post to Valdez.
 The Fairbanks Times aided by the chamber of commerce will soon is- sue a "Quartz EditionY illustrated with 50 cuts.
 A whale just outside the harbor of sitka got tangled up with the whaler Tyee, Jr., of Ketchikan. The boat was slightly damaged but the whale got away,
 Fairbanks has organized night school with 34 men and women pupils. A. Wittenberg, a Nome merchant is out $5 because he offered that amount to an Eskimo. believing that he could not lift a box of shot weighing 500 pounds. The Eskimo proved to be g Samson.
 According to Health Officer Sloan 55S people have died in Nome since 1900. No record was kept in 1899 and the total number of deaths would probably be more than 600. Many of the deaths were not due to natural causes. drowning fatalities having been numerous in the early days.
 Joe Smith. chief operator at the Valdez cabel office has been making telephone tests with Fairbanks over common telegraph wire. The test was successful as far as Gulkana, but ow' ing to the lack of repeating coils it was impossible to hear beyond that point.
 
 Victor Hallin, of Unga, is serving three months in jail at that place for malicious destruction of property, and Charles Schmidt was fined $25 and costs for disorderly conduct in the presence of women, by Commissioner DrifReld.
 The show window of the Purity Pharmacy displays some elegant hand painted china.