The Alaska daily empire., 1918-07-09

will represent the bank in the future. He relieves Harry Locey who has been inducted into the Army.
 Brooks, the Tolovana metropolis, has placed a baseball team in the field to compete with the Fairbanks and Nenana teams for Interior SUI premacy. An effort is being made to get Fort Gibbon team in the league"
 Fred Pali, who has been engaged in the mining game at Tolovana, has gone Outside to enlist in the army. At one time he was Fair banks champion splinter.
 Married men and single men are in a deadly baseball feud at Fair banks. At last accounts each had won one game, and another was be- ing arranged for the championship.
 NENANA, June 14.-The searching party which came down from Fair banks to locate the body of Knute Helenius, the lower river mail car rier, ended their search today. The party started over the trail from Minto Road House to this town, keep ing a close watch for any signs of The body was found by Jack Des- mond and Jack O'Connor and was lying about 10 feet off the trail near the 45-mile roadhouse.
 FAIRBANKS, June 15.-Among the arrivals on the steamer Washburn was c. A. Coleman, manager of the N. c. Company here. He has been making an extended visit to the Tolo- vana country in the interests of his company. He reports that the coun- try is looking good.
 Twelve thousand tons of 70-pound steel rails will be used by the Alas. ka Railroad at Nenana this year.
 The fur catch in the Ruby section last Winter was small according to information from there
 Ward Estey, formerly with the Alaska Road Commission at Ruby, is employed as bookkeeper in one of the Seattle shipyards.
 The reindeer herd at Ruby did fine last Winter notwithstanding the se- verity of the weather. There are about 100 lawns in the herd. The Kokrines herd is also in fine con. dition.
 F. B. Walker was killed by cave-in in the drift of his own mine, the Mascot Bench, on Long Creek, Ruby District, May 31st. He was buried June 3d. All the mines and places of business in the vicinity were closed on the day of the funeral which was attended by practically everybody in the neighborhood
 
 popular men in his section of Alaska.
 The Spring breakup carried away more than 1000 cards of wood on the Yukon river between Ruby and Kaltag.
 The Ruby Record Citizen says those people who are opposing the estab, lishment of salmon canneries on the Yukon are wrong. It sees no danger to the Natives lurking in the develop. ment of cannery business on the Yukon river, and hopes to see more of them started
 A Republican Club was organized at Nome recently with between 40 and 50 members. J. F. Hobbswas chosen President and G. J. Lomer Vice-President. The Nome Demo cratic Club contains about 300 mem bers.>
 Capt. J. T. Westermann, formerly i of Skagway and later of Anchorage where he was connected with the Bank of Alaska, has been placed ir charge of a battalion at Camp Ere mont. Cal, made up of men whose slowness in training had been hold ing back others who had made good progress. There are about 1000 mer in the battalion. who will be vigorous ly trained after the other troops with whom they have been serving have been sent to France. Capt Westermann. Dr. Westermann in civ il life, served for 10 years with the New York National Guard. and is re garded as a highly capable officer for the work assigned to him. A. B. Shea, an engineer of the Copper Queen Mine at Whitehorse