The Alaska citizen., 1915-08-16
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LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF.

The excursion given the children Monday on the steamer Tana was we'll attended and everyone had a lovely time The crowd was taken to the usual place below Cinema, where they spent the entire day, returning during the early evening without an accident.
 After being out for fifty hours. the jury in the Tobie trial which was held at Ruby, reported that they were unable to agree, and they were discharged The case will be retried at the Fairbanks term of court.
 city that John F. Dillon underwent his operation under the hands of Mayo Bros, successfully and that he was feeling fine and had left the hospital.
 The funeral of Charles Lindstrom, who took his own life a couple weeks dSO DS SuOoNlHS lllllocil was lltIu from the undertaking parlors We'd nesday morning. No communication could be had with his relatives. The Harmonic society held cele bration at their hall over the fall of Warsaw.
 Albert Alzina, while returning from, tho To1ovopa diotr;ct ovar tha Chatanika trail, lost a horse belong ing to Emil Dorfner, of Olnes, by drowning, in an endeavor to cross Ruby creek. between Chatanika and Olnes.
 Mrs. Roy Rutherford won the $2o which Gordon had placed in his store for the person who would pin tag nearest the place where it was concealed.
 Charles 0. Tackleson and Miss Zita Quarita were married at Cinema Tuesday evening. MT Tackleson has been ill for some time and will go Outside for treatment in the near future.
 Mrs. Alice Hyde, of the Hyde ranch, between Fairbanks and Cinema, made final proof of her homestead Tuesday
 Sam Godfrey, in writing to friends in this city from Tolovana, reports that he i5 drifting into good pay on the Gold Dollar association. | Leo Preg is taking a Keystone drill into the Tolovana camp, where he expects to operate it during the coming winter.
 Commissioner Thomas Riggs, Jr.. has notified the home office that he will become a passenger with Bob | Sheldon on his next trip. It is likely that Commissioner Edes will accom- pany him.
 A farewell dance was held at Cleary i city Tuesday evening in honor of | people were in attendance. Fred Dunbar, who was accused of giving liquor to Indians, was declar- cd not guilty by a jury at Ruby Tuesday.
 1 Sergeant Schmanke, who has held the position of cashier in the local office of the signal corps for the past year. has been relived and left for the Outside on the steamer Tanana He will report in Seattle. but does not know where he will be stationed thereafter. Sergeant l Coleman succeeds Schmanke.
 Word has been received in this city that an appropriation og $2.00O has been made for the improvement of the winte: trail between Panama and Wiseman, on the Koyukuk river. This is the first allotment in ten years assigned to that section of the' country by the government.
 Arrivals from the upper Tanana. bring the news that Huddleston &, Co.,, who are operating on discovery, Portage creek. are in good pay, and are blocking out ground for futuI@ operations. They have eight men working
 William R. Taylor. who has spent a number of years in the Kantishna district, being commissioner of that district, left for the Outside Thurs day for the purpose of viewing the two fairs It is his first trip out in eleven years.
 The Sheldon auto left Thursday for the coast with a full load of passengers and expected to make a
 record run to Chitina. The follow ing were his passengers: w. F:
 Thompson, James Funchion, Fra, K
 Carroll Billy Taylor, F. Rodge IT. and George Herring
 George Hunter, of the Pr lsks store, returned on the Panama T hurs day from short trip to Rub. r.
 A. B. Funk. who is prospect n ol IO'Connor creek, was an arrival il
 the city last evening.
 Dave Finley, the Tolovana ,opers tor, is preparing to return to tn scene of his operations today afte