The Alaska daily empire., 1916-06-20

to get busy. Skagway will, howey. CT, celebrate the Fourth on the first. Wrangell will celebrate the Fourth in the good old-fashioned way. The Valdez Bremen will handle the Fourth celebration. Ketchikan will undoubtedly play Prince Rupert base ball on July 4th.
 Prof. F. X. Carver four teachers and the janitor resign from the school faculty at Fairbanks. All will go outside
 James Howell. a pioneer of the Valdez section died last week of heart trouble.
 The first humpback of the season was caueht last Friday in traps near Ketchikan.
 R. G. Southworth now edits and manages the Fairbanks Times, A. C. Bell having disposed of his in- terest and gone outside.
 A movement has been started at Skagway to tear down the old build. ings long deserted and now only eye sores.
 Three weeks ago a severe cold spell and heavy snow stopped all operations on the creews in the operations on the creeks in the
 Several papers along the coast claim that Bishop Rowe is being considered as Republican candidate for Delegate to Congress.
 The Fairbanks city council, upon request of the women of the town, may pass a curfew law which will keep two certain young girls who have figured in certain obnoxious court cases. from the streets at night.
 The townsite at Nenana will be surveyed within the next two or three weeks.
 Joseph B. sherman, of Bellefourche N. D., is now enroute to Fairbanks to take charge of the land office there.
 Noah Roulx, an old timer of the Circle country, died recently in Fair banks
 The first herring of the season was taken into Petersburg last week.
 Ray c. Larson has been elected chief by the fire boys at Anchorage.
 Cigarette stubs started three diff. ferent fires at Seward last week. Damage was nominal.
 sa5,ooo Mlne Deal
 Jack Leach and Dick Thorson are now the owners of No 1S below, Cleary creek. purchased from Pete Malone for S25.O00, says the Fair banks Times. The deal is one of the most important ones consum- mated in the Fairbanks district this summer, and adds another chapter to the interesting history of the Cleary Creek claim
 The five.stamp mill and tram. be- longing to the Cordova Mining and Company, has been sold to the Sea Coast Mining Company, and will be shipped to the property of the latter company on Shoup Bay. says the Cordova Times.
 Calvin c. Hazelet. son of George C. Hazelet, will be married to a Miss Nancy DermOnt at Omaha on July 17. The newly weds will re- side at cordova.
 Capt. Langley Remembered
 Just before sailing today Captain Wallace Langley was presented with a beautiful set of ivory and nugget cuff links. scarf pin and tie clasp by the children and mothers of chil- dren Of Fairbanks, says the Fair banks News-Miner of May 29th. The gift was presented as a mark of ap- preciation of the children for the kindness showered on them by Cap tain Langley in former years when he furnished his boat for the an- nual excursion to the beach some miles below Cinema.
 Under the terms of lease. with. an option to purchase at the expira' ton of three years, Link Waln on July 1 will take over the Windsor Hotel at Cordova.
 Seward Gets Convention
 That the divisional convention of the Democrats will be held in Sew ard is now virtually certainty says the Post. The representative Dem ocrats of the other towns are in fa-