The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-13

Ketchikan Progressive Miner Quite a number of large boats have been hauled out and the ways are work ing finely.
 Kan Smith, an oldtime employee of the Forest Service who left Ket- chikan about year ago for the South after Mrs. Smith died. has returned there and taken his old position again.
 E. A. Stuart, head of the Carna- tion Milk Company, has been elect ed Vice-President of the Pacific Steamship Company.
 Wallace Owen. formerly of Daw- son, later of Iditarod. now Capt. Ow- en of the Canadian Army, is a recruit ing officer at Chicago for the Can adians He saw three years of ser vice in France, and was wounded. He went from a private to Cap taincy on his record.
 Thomas F. Gordon, formerly of Fairbanks, recently had half of his stomach and five inches of his in testined removed in a hospital in Pennsylvania He has recovered and says he feels better than he ever did in his life.
 Ernest Schumacher, miner or Candle recently tied a cord around his neck ard kicked the chair from under him. He is dead. He was well l known in the North. He was min ing partner of Emil Johnson who committed suicide in the same cabin last winter by shooting himself. The long, dark, cold monotonous winter is believed to have been responsible for the death of Schumacher. The Lighthouse Canning Company at Cordova has started operation with a plant that is employing 75 people.
 The Pioneer Clam cannery of Cor dova has resumed operations with improved equipment and is employ
 ing 200 people.
 Horace Marshal Lawrence and Miss l Mannnal1 arrival at Cordova from Massachusetts were united in marriage by Rev. Fr. Van der Pol, who has helped Cupid unite more couples than any of the es- teemed churchmen of the Territory.
 A party of six men from the Un' ion Construction Company of San Francisco recently arrived on Fair banks Creek to erect the big dredge ) being constructed by the Fairbanks Gold Mining Company. The dredge which is a collosal one costing $15O,' 900. will be completed this summer. After being out .55 minutes Fair banks jury recently found A. Vedin ) guilty of perjury by falsely swear ing to assessment work alleged to , have been done on mining claims on Poker Creek
 That Uncle Sam's heroes are not all in France is proven by the over land carriers on the Susitna route | | srfn men
 have endured the greatest hardships | and yet with their splendid dog | teams. have never missed briniag tLt mail in or t:m,. The carrier n
 the Knik-Susitna run, used horses
 and was compelled to put snowshoes
 on them to get in. The last heavy
 mail for the coast was taken out by John Lein, who crossed the Susitna river, a perilous feat, for the chan mel was open for 150 feet, filled with
 broken ice and running like a mill race. The dogs plunged in without hesitation and swan to the other shore, but the men were compelled to build boat.
 A new discovery was made on Jenkins Greek, which is on the left bank of the Hammond river in the Koyukuk river While the pay streak is not as good as some of the larger propositions if is rich enough to War rant working.
 The past Winter was so severe anG the snow so deep to the Westward that trappers report that mot of the fur-bearins animals were forced to migrate or revert to canniba'ism for self preservation. All of the mink were killed off by the lafeer