The Alaska daily empire., 1917-11-08
ALASKA NEWS NOTES

w. T. Benn an old-timer of the interior in writing to w w. Clark, from the outside, advises all of his friends to remain in Alaska
 Dick Thorne has offered a prize of $20 to anyone who will give him the best suggestion of handling the new war tax in connection with his theatre in Fairbanks.
 Dr. w G. Cassels, formerly of Fairbanks. has been given a com mission of captain with the medical corps at Camp Lewis.
 There was good skating on the ice at Fairbanks Oct. 30th.
 The cinnibar properties on the Kus- kOkwim, near Georgetown, have turned out we'll this season. 1t is reported that Fuller Willis and Mil lett, who are operating the proper ties, have done well this season and have retorted considerable quicksil- yer.
 Judge C. E. Bunnell, of the Fourth Division, has named Joseph c. Van Orsdell as United tSates Commis- sioner for the Kantishna precinct to succeed former commissioner William E. Taylor. The headquar- ters of the commissioner will be on Glacier Creek
 At Akak on the lower Kuskokwim Karl Thiele is building two big ware houses and a large store building at the mouth of Crooked river.
 c. Fielder, a well-known interior business man, is reported to have bought out the Kuskokwim Com mercial Company's store at Bethel and will conduct the business there.
 The employees of the offices of the Engineering Commission at Ne mana alone subscribed for $22,000 worth of the new issue of the Lib erty Loan, and the townspeople add ed to this amount to the tune of $4,000. These subscriptions were ta ken in during the first twenty-four hours the list was opened
 George Anderson, who took a lease on the Little Gem property on Will low Creek last July, has driven tunnel on the property distance of sixty-five feet, and has tapped a fine vein of ore As a result of this development he has ordered 5-ton Buster Brown mill, and will install it on the property next spring.
 The embargo placed by the gov ernment on the exportation of iron and steel to Japan and China is said to have knocked the props from under several prospective million aires of Nome. With quotations at Seattle $40 per ton for scrap iron they had bought up everything in the shape of metal on the Seward Peninsula and just as the shipment was nearing Seattle the embargo went into effect and the price was knocked S25 per ton at one fell swoop.
 E. II. Mack. of Fairbanks, former ly deputy clerk of the court at Val dez, has had the honor of Knight Commander of the Court of Honor according to advices received by him from F. B. Husey, Grand Chancel- Tor of the Scottish Rite Masons for the Northern District.
 Fred D. Mccullough, business man of Anchorage, has disposed of his store and real estate interests in that place and will devote him self to the search for the steamer Annie J., in which he held large interest, and which. together with a cargo of dynamite which it car ried, was stolen in the harbor of Honolulu two years ago.
 An attempt was recently made by some unknown miscreant to rob the ! sluice boxes on the Fontas lease on Livengood Creek. The robber had lifted the rifles in three of the boxes and was preparing to raise those in fourth box when a flow of water through the boxes warned him that the men would be at work sluicing in a few moments and fled. leaving no clue. but a pick. used in raising the rifles. which is unlike any other utensil on the creek. Ow- ing to the interruption the thief got nothing.