The Alaska citizen., 1915-08-09
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LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF.
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. . . . . . . . c . . . c | Volney Richmond w H. Fairbanks.
 Howard Turner and Thomas McGow- an. all members of the Northern Commercial company, made trip of the creeks on Tuesday in an auto for the purpose of looking over the situation and arriving at a personal l lygained conclusion of the conditions of the country surrounding Fairbanks | Harry Averll, who had filed on | a homestead at the edge of town, located in the name of another party. of which action much adverse crit l icism was made, went into the land office on Tuesday and signed a re- linquishment, thus ending nasty matter
 1 A bunch of license money was turned over by the clerk of the court last Monday to the incorporat ed towns of the district Fairbanks got $9,665 of the cut, Iditarod fel. heir to s1.465, the town of Tanana got $370 and Eagle $50.
 Forest fires over the district GOV cred by the coast end of the Valdez trail have destroyed many of the bridges, making travel by that route difficult. Heavy rains have also made the route hard one to get over.
 Steamer Yukon arrived at the dock Tuesday about II o'clock and deposited about 20 passengers. MT. Charles Swanson, a mining man of Rampant. and Miss Josephine Hunt, of San Mateo, California, were married at Rampant the first part of July. They left immediately for 1 their future home on Hunter creek A native is reported to have found the body of man floating in the Yukon near Birches on last Mon day. The body is not identified, but is thought to be that of a man named Hudson.
 | Grant Crossan, who went Outside
 
 on account of his health, in let. ter to a friend, reports that he has found what he went after, and that | he would return in the near future 1 Madge Jordan, who left the Bos- i tonians at Dawson for the purpose of making her future home in Fair banks, arrived in the city on the last beat.
 Dr. and Mrs. Leblanc, who have been Outside for the past several months, have returned and will re- sume their family residence, which was occupied by Henry Ray during their absence.
 At Ruby few days ago, Judge Bunnell approved the findings of Referee Cecil H. Clegg, in the Wash | ington-Alaska bank matter. This de cree marks the real commencement ] hope to recover their money from that defunct institution. s. T. Pinkham, postal inspector, dropped into Fairbanks on the last boat and is taking a squint at the records of the different offices iE this district
 Mrs. Roy Rutherford returned to l her home in Fairbanks Tuesday af 1 ter an extended visit in California. Society will be augmented upon i the arrival of the next steamer by the arrival of three young ladies | from the Outside, two of whom are ! Fairbanks girls and the third of i whom will become so by virtue of her future residence here. They are the Misses Hertha Barthel Hazel Pauli and Frances Boelen the lat | ter being he cheechaco. Angus Bronson, the man who was convicted in Iditarod in 1912 upon the charge of robbery, wherein he was accused of holding up the tram car running between Iditarod and
 Flat City and taking therefrom $30,000 in gold dust, has written letters to several people in Alas ka, among them Dan Callahan, of this city, asking that they interest themselves in his behalf to the eX tent of asking former Judge Over field to recommend his pardon on the ground of the showing he is making that he was innocent of the crime charged.
 It is reported that the Totatlanika 15-mile relief cabin has been de stroyed by fire, and travellers are warned to take camp outfit when travelling on that trail.
 The commissioner of the general land office has denied the applica tion of Cinema for townsite for the reason that they have not shown proper diligence in their application, which was filed some seven or eight years ago.
 Mrs. and Miss Winecoff, wife and daughter of the deputy marshal sta tioned at Fort Yukon, were passen- gers on the Yukon Wednesday to join husband and father. They will spend the winter at Fort Yukon.
 Miss Clara c. Held, who resigned