The daily Alaskan., 1914-02-04
AL Alaska Paragraphs

Ruby now has a mems social club It contains reading and card rooms, and, oI course, a buffet. The Ruby club is said to be one of the finest iu Alaska.
 Women are not wanted in the Chi ana. according to Grace Bostwick. She wrote that there are fifteen wO- men in the camp, but there are, how ever, no business openings for wo- men of any sort whatever.
 Judge Frederick F. Fuller, of the federal court at Fairbanks, refused to accept the report Of the grand jury there last week, because it se- yereIy cr.ricisd the conduct of Dis rricl Attorney J. J. Crossley. The grand jury was 5ummarily discharg- ed.
 There vas an accident at the pub lie school last Wednesday, says the Wraugeu Sentinel. The steam heat is on the hummer today and the school is out of business. Apparent lv there was a fire started in the furnace and after the boiler was hot. cold water was turned in and the whole front section burst ed. This is very unfortunate oc- entrance to happen at this time of the year when the hea is an abso- luJe necessity.
 Because Of the wrceking of the Str. Jeaaie in Queen Charlotte sound British Columbia, December 18th, Katalla has been without steamboat communication with the outside for two months and the few people re maiuing in the once prosperous city are now almost without provisions. The telephone line from CordOya to EataIIa has been abandoned because the Jew subscribrs in Eatalla could no. afford to maintain the line across the wiuswept Copper River delta
 The Indian village of Rake has commented to put on the ways of the whites. Recently the 25O in labitants created town government by the election of council and this body under the direction of George J. Beck, superintendent of missious at that place, have pHssed several improvement ordinances. The town has already commenced making street Improvements and otherwise undermining the community. The custom of livino in tribal or com munity houses is being discouraged 1 and many of the inhabitants are building individual family habita- JjOus.-LN
 The new detention hospital in Fairbanks is now completed and ready for use. As there has been ! no appropriation made by the gov ernment for the new hospital, it is not known when it will open. The citizens of Fairbanks gre indignant over the matter as they donated the ] lot on which the hCspial was built.
 Thirty eight gold dredges were operated in Alaska in 1912, com pared with twenty seven in 1911, ac cordiug to the United States geol- l OgicaI survey. In addition to those | a dozen or more were in various stages of contraction. It is es- timated that these dredges handled between 3,00O,OOO and 3,5OO,OOO cubic yards of material, recovering i gold to the value of S2,OOO,OOO.
 Judge c. D. NIurane, who recent l ly was summariIy removed from
 the federal bench at Nome by order ,. of Attorney General McReynolds, is 1 preparing to bring suit in the court
 of claims for the salary that he
 would have received during the rest of his term. Murane will base the
 suit on the grounds that the civil code of Alaska, enacted by congress in 1900, provides that judges of
 the territory shall be appointed fol
 a term of four years unless sooner removed for cause. MuTanes term
 does not expire until December IS
 next and by that time his salary
 will have amounted to $S,5OO.-Cor
 dOva Alaskan.