The Alaska daily empire., 1918-08-14
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 a Four auto trucks have been dis tributed along the ValdezFairbanks road to take the place of horses by 1 the Signal Corps It has been found that autos do the work much cheaper and require no expensive feed in the Winter time. Lieut.. Faust, the pro- moter Of the experiment is confident of it's success. "-
 About 45O carloads of dressed rein , deer carcasses were sent Outside on the steamship Victoria from the | Nome herds. It will be shipped to Eastern cities to take the place of beef t@
 The Alaska Sea Food Company has built a new cannery about seven miles from Cordova near Cape White shed to replace the one burned last year, and expects to put up good pack this year. A new dock $50 feet long has been built running from the cannery to the shore, pna rr
 J. H. Miles, manager of the Alaska Mines Corporation. has plan under consideration for utilizing peat moss for fuel in the power plant of the company. The idea is to subject quantities of the moss to pressure rollers whereby the water contents will be removed. The peat will then pass on down by heated chambers losing more of its moisture feeding itself into the furnace. u is believed this system will save the company considerable money in fuel and tests are being made as to it's feasibility.
 Max Manager, owner of the Aurora Head Claim arrived in Fairbanks re gently making the trip from Seattle to Fairbanks in seventeen days, two of which were spent resing at a road house because of the swollen .condi tion of his feet, the result of muching | from Chitina to Munson's where he | stopped over. "
 Teddy Brown of Fairbanks receiv- ed severe burns recently while he and some playmates were playing | with a loaded shotgun she'll They | placed the shell on a bon fire and | iment
 Miss c. D. Fernstrom, Cordova's lady barber. was married July 31st to Private P. k. Brown, of the Four | teenth Infantry. by United States Commissioner A. J. Adams.
 Rev. A. Fletcher. who has been in | charge of the Catholic Church at | Seward for the last month, has gone | to Portland from where he will re ceive an assignment for some other locality Rev William 'McMllan. of Havre. Mont, will succeed him at Seward
 L.. E. Barnham, an old-time pris- pector and trapper, froze both feet in an overflow at Good News Bay B. A. Smith brought him to the Gov ernment hospital at Akiak. where Dr. Lamb amputated part of the toes on both feet
 Charles Rogers. of Finkelstein & Sapiro at Cordova, has left for the States to enlist in some branch of the Government commfssary depart ment Mrs Rogers has remained in Cordova for the present. i'
 The Gold Cord Mine on Willow Creek has been sold by Byron Bar tholf Charles Bartholf and w. S. Hornng to John Smith and Joseph B. Swan, capitalists from Pittsburgh, Pa 1aha'a sef-s 4':' i
 J. T. Sullivan, the well known old timer of the Seward Peninsula dis trict, returned to Nome on one of the first boats after several years absence and will devote his attention to mining interests there. Joe Sulli- van is a brother of former United States Marshal Harvey P. Sullivan of Valdez. and was formerly mem Der of the Seward Peninsula mining firm Of Sullivan and Berger. e' '-'