The Alaska daily empire., 1914-01-05


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 The total assessed valuation of prop erty in Fairbanks is estimated at $2.- S77,675, of which amount $1,61T462 represents personal property. A total of 1.275 pieces of real estate is assess ed at $1,26O,21S. The rate of taxation for 1913 was one and one-half per cent. in the sum of $4S,165.12, less discounts allowed for payments before Jan. 15.
 Mrs. Samuel Wilcox, having been a resident of the Yukon and Alaska F years, died Dec. 16 in St. Joseph's hos pltal in Fairbanks.
 Officers elected by Commandery No. 1, Knights Templar, in Fairbanks Dec. 18th. are Sir Henry Nash Shead, em- minent commander; Sir Louis Chas. generalissimo; Sir Guy Bur ton Erwin, captain.general; Sir Rob ert Lavery, senior warden; Sir Frank Robins Clark, junior warden; Sir liar, ry E. St. George. treasurer; Sir John James Buckley, recorder.
 Mrs. Aurora Barthell has been ap- pointed the adminlstratrix of the es- tate of her husband. Herman Barthel, the well known brewer of Fairbanks. The estate is valued at $25,OOO, bonds of s5O,OOO are required.
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 Patrick Breen and Axel Alamdal. of Council City, recently passed through Fairbanks with dog teams headed for the Chisana diggings.
 
 Upon an order of court, Receiver Moves of the Washington.Alaska bank, sold the lower 66O feet of the Oregon association placer claim on Vault creek, Fairbanks, to Henry Cook for s2,5OO, to satisfy a judgment against A. E. Stone and L. L. Brandt for $3,- 7O6.94.
 H. c. Jackson, formerly city editor of the news-Miner of Fairbanks, writes friends in Alaska that he will open a real estate office in San Jose, Calf.
 Deputy Marshal Ed. Heppenstall writes his chief in Fairbanks from the Koyukuk that Bauman & Schofeld made a recent find on Hammond river to $14,OOO. Elsie Morse and Emma E. McCarty were fined $15O each for selling liquor without a li- cense: and Mrs. Frank Smith was fined $25 and costs.
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 An ice rink on Willow river near Iditarod City with benches and trees and searchlight for guiding skaters, Is one way of enjoying winter sport in that country.
 A jury in the Iditarod convicted H. Bismarck and Felix steen of gambling, the defendants having pleaded not gull ty to the charge.
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 A mining engineer has been advis. Ing the miners in the Iditarod to ser iously consider the using of Alaska peat for fuel, claiming that 1t would prove more economical than the best grade of coal at low cost.
 The halibut steamer Chicago touched at Ketchikan recently with catch of 10000 pounds of halibut from Yak utat.
 The citizens of Valdez recently held a rousing "get-together meeting" addressed by Hon. Judge Fred M. Brown, to which all were invited re- gardless of political or factional diff ierences. The better feeling engen- iered has already resulted fayorably in setting on foot active measure for advancing the interests of Valdez. Seward, mindful of the example, is now agitating a similar movement through the Seward Gateway.
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 W. w. Clark, of Iditarod City, while in Seward, stated that the coming sea- son in his camp would prove the ban ner year, and after that the Iditarod would resolve itself more and more into dredging operations
 Igloo No. g, Pioneers of Alaska, at have elected the following off, cers: W. M. Saures. president; J. O.. Patten, vice-president; H. E. Els worth, second vice-president; Issac Evans, Secretary; F. W. Small, treas urer; J. H. Romig, historian; Robert cuost r,os+ar of orns. q. UannipO