The daily Alaskan., 1916-02-11
ALASKA MINES
 AID MINERS

HI A manual training department \ has been opened in the Valdez pub !. lie school
 H One huadred and niRey couples \ paid admission to the New Years dance a- Fairbanks at $500 per. H Native hunteu at Nome are get !. ting seals away out on the ice and i replenishing their larders with this II welcome koW kOw.
 | Fifty-one cent pans are reported to have been struck on No. 4 above ! discovery On Dime creek and the ! locators are taking out a winters < dump,
 I Harry Reiley's dog team won the race held at Nome on New Years
 day. This Is the third successive time he has won this race with the same team.
 A shipment of four hundred and fifty sacks of gold concentrates Was recently made from the Chi~ cag,I mas near sitka to the Ta- ! coma .-..scr.
 Ia -.r,s, who Is well known ia ia...- Alaska, has located on Dime ,.--- in the Koyuk district and W.. -tteDd to the wants of
 the miners in his line. Recent arrivals in Fairbanks from the To!oyana state that the freight CTS have been experiencing consid- erable trouble in getting their horses over the TOlOYana divide owing to deep snow-
 There is every Likelihood that an emergency mail service will be established between Fairbanks and Toloyaua, according to the Fair
 banks Citizen. Tom Patterson, the recently appointed postmaster at loIoyaua, has gone to the new camp with the parphernlia for opeu-
 ing the office.
 Teddy Hudson and Tom Blaylock
 are prospecting on 8 below, Bear
 creek. They have. reached bedrock
 and are reported to have found
 dirt that runs 30 cents to the
 pan. This was the first hole put down on Bear creek. Several oth- CTS are reported to be on the creek uow.-FaIbank Times.
 News has been brought to Nome
 by a native from Pete-ma-tu-luk
 that close to Q hundred reindeer
 had d.cd between St. Michael and
 KotIik. It is supposed that their deaths were caused by rabies from the bite or a dog. The whites ara
 Investigating the report which has I net as yet been confirmed, Application for permission to cut fourteen thousand feet of pling from the timber lands at l Goose bay on Knik arm, was re- ceiycd by the Juneau land office from the Deep Sea Canning Com pany. The timber is located on the public domain and comes under tn jurisdiclion of the land office. Mir. Lofstrom, better known as Jack the swede," arrived from Latanuska on Wednesday, and reports that the farmers Up there
 are building a social hall, it being about 25G25. Every one seems busy clearing land in order to prepare for the coming season, which is looked forward to with great ant.cipatiOD.-AnehOrage AL
 askau.
 It la reportea that an agent of
 the Alaskan Engineering Commis-
 si.u a.. .een sent from Anchorage
 ty 5..... to select baHges and a
 la.-- w.ich will be used to aa.H- anchorage lighters for
 the c-.- .sslon next summer. Of-
 Lty.uls -- he comisaion claim that 2 with u.-ler equipment no trouble B would Lave been encountered in 1; landing all the freight routed to Anchorage last fall.
 The residents of Dime Creek, KOyuk river, applied for a pOstof- flee to be called Dime City. A cor respondent of the Nome Industrial Worker blys the application was rejected because the name was ob- jectioRable. They were officially ! advised to select another name bearing no reference to any denOm- inaticu of United States circulating i medium, and also to cut out the