The Alaska daily empire., 1914-02-26

Percy Reid, who mas neIu Nho OAiNS for some years. Mo Lean has resided in Yukon Territory for 10 years and was appointed upon the recommends ton of Dr. Alfred Thompson, member of parliament.
 The sidestreams Navigation com pany that operated line of steamers on the Yukon river between Dawson and Whitehorse last year in opposition to the White Pass has announced that 1t will continue this year and that fight will be made for the business
 Rev. John Hawksley, rector of the Church of England at Dawson, is to be appointed Indian Superintendent for Yukon Territory, effective March 1. Rev. Hawksley has been in Yukon Territory and adjacent territory for more than a quarter century and talks the native tongue.
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 Former Deputy United States Mar shal w. F. schnabel and Mrs. Selma bel. of wrangeu, have loft that place and will locate at Portland, Oregon. In addition to serving as deputy mar shal MT. Schnabel has been chief of tbe Wrangell fire department.
 Sergeant terrell, of the 3Oth infan- try company that is located at Fort Gibbon at the mouth of the Panama river. committed suicide February Il.
 Wrangell will build a new dam and have a new municipal water supply. It is proposed to build the dam 25OO feet farther up on the stream than the present dam and at an increased ele- yation of 50 feet. The new reservoir will include nearly ten acres and hold S1, ,OOO,OOO gallons of water. The dam will be 20 feet high.
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 O. S. Ryerson, representing an Amer lcan fox company with farm in No va Scotia, shipped 1S silver grey and cross foxes from Skagway for the East last week. The foxes were pur- chased in the Canadian interior.
 
 An Indian was in town few days ago with a rabbit skin which is jet black. save for a little white on the tail The animal which inhabited the now empty skin was killed by the h. dian on the Pelly river in December -Whitehorse Star.
 George Mowl, pioneer business man of skagway, is about to embark in the moving picture business in ad' dition to carrying on his merchant tail bring establishment. He has acquired the lease of the building formerly oc- cupied by the skagway Moving Pic ture company. The manager of the latter company last week opened the Nugget theatre at that place.
 Editor Louis Klopsch, who was con victed of contempt of court at Fair banks by Judge Frederic E. Fuller for criticising the court for its ruling on matters that are still pending, was sentenced to six months in jail and to pay a fine of sSOO The newspaper mans attorneys will appeal. Klopsch is out on bail.
 Twenty feet below the first bedrock on No. 16, below, Cleary creek, sec ond bedrock was located on which was found pay dirt that will run $4 to the square foot.
 The ice went out of Whitehorse rap ids Feb. 15. The rapids did not freeze over this year until after the first of January, and there was little to go out. Usually the rapids are sol i'd until about April 1st.
 
 H. w. Rabbit, of Ketchikan, died at that place Feb. Il. His son, w. H. Rabbit of Fish Egg, was notified of his fathers serious illness, but was unable to reach eKtchikan before the end came.
 Miss Grace Reiner, principal of the skagway public school, and Miss Adele I,alonde. a teacher of the intermediate grades, have notified the school direc- tors of skagway that they will not ac- cept positions at that place next year The vacancies will be filled by the school board March 18th.
 L.F. Anderson, of the United States Department of Agriculture and at the sitka station, who is an expert on small fruits, says conditions in South eastern Alaska are favorable for small fruit farming. He thinks the native berries could be domesticated and i'm proyed immensely.