The Nenana news., 1917-12-29

elect new one. MT. Munuy SalG that it was one of the hardest trips of his experience. They could not find suitable shelter or food fit for the stomach of a white man. A late copy of the Dawson News says that all the dredges of the Yukon company have shut down for the winter season. The last one stopped October 24th, due to the cold shutting off the water supply in the mountains.
 A ton of coal was recently raffled off by the Eagle lodge of Valdez, at a masquerade ball, the proceeds, amounting to SAG, going to the to- bacco fund for the soldiers in France
 Juneau hunters claim that grouse are more plentiful this season be- cause of the bounty placed on eagles. The eagles were responsible for the destruction of many grouse in pre- ceding years and the nuisance to a large extent has peen abated.
 Brick Ness owner of the gas boat Lovera, has filed suit in admiralty court to collect $1200 damages from the gas boat Eunice of Petersburg. Ness claims that his boat while load ed with fish was rammed and severe ly damaged in Fredericks sound on the 18th of August and that the col lision was the fault of the captain and crew of the Eunice.
 Traffic officials of the Alaska Steamship company recently began arrangements for the shipping of 13O-ton locomotive and forty steel flat cars from Seattle to Cordova, where the train will be placed on the Copper River & Northwestern railway The forty flat cars are of the fifty-ton variety.
 City Councilmen Rose, Poteet, and City Treasurer Murphy, of Nome, have handed in their resigna tions and left for the great Outside.
 Mrs. A. G. Thompson, of Anchor age, who was under quarantine for scarlet fever in the family, was re- gently released and has resumed her work as secretary and treasurer of the day and night schools of An chorage.
 A total of 182 dressed reindeer were shipped from Nome Outside on the last trip of the Victoria to the States. With the exception of ten carcasses, the entire shipment was again destined for Minneapolis.
 While the steamer Ella Rohlffs was enroute from Ketchikan to Pet ersburg with a scow loaded with 14O drums of oil, the scow broke away during heavy storm. Sev- eral attempts were made to hook on to the scow again, but each time the tow line parted and the steamer finally abandoned the attempt and went on to Petersburg and unloaded her deck cargo of 60 drums of oil. Later she went in search of the barge, but without success. A day or two later the halibut schooner Hazel arrived at Petersburg and re- ported salvaging 21 drums of oil off Middle Island, in Chatam Strait, and that blanks strewn about in that vicinity indicated that the scow had gone to pieces.
 A coroner's jury at Anchorage re- gently determined that James Tur- tie, whose body was found in Camp bell creek, had accidentally drowned while hunting. He had $2Oo on his person when found.
 The Cordova Times contains a notice of sale to the highest bidder of the Whiteshed station buildings. The bids were to be opened by tha master of the U. s. s. Saturn.
 Next year the candidates for cleo tion in the territory of Alaska will be nominated at primary election, according to a law passed by the re- cent legislature. .
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