The Alaska daily empire., 1918-08-13
ALASKA NOTES

Fairbanks is again eating fish The last papers from that city said they were catching king salmon 1T the Cinema river
 Judge F. R. Barnes died recently at Kennecott He was one of the pioneers of Alaska, having gone tc Dawson 20 years ago.
 A locomotive and three duml cars jumped the track on the Alas ka railroad recently and turned tur tie. The engineer and fireman es. capped without injury.
 The light recently established at Cape St. Elias has 100000 candle power and is visible for a distance of 50 miles out on the ocean.
 Peter Lorentzen, formerly of Fair banks, has told Cordova papers that nC CApCCtS u lOCutC III thS AoteOi city soon.
 Fairbanks celebrated the French National holiday with athletic sports and dance in the evening. The sports included a lively baseball game.
 Mrs F. c. Blocker of Fairbanks has received word that her son. Ed. ward F. Blocker has joined the En. gineer Corps of the army, and is in training at the University of Neva- da. The Fairbanks boy had been attending the University of Califor mia for three years.
 A scarcity of labor is retarding the mining work at Willow Creek, and may cause a reduction in the output of the camp, according to William Martin, the principal producer of the district.
 The coal mine of McNally and Maitland at Bluff Point, Cook Inlet, is said to be showing up we'll.
 A scow load of spruce timber bound for Prince Rupert turned tur. tie recently and was lost. according to the Prince Rupert News.
 
 Logging is very active on Louise Island, according to the Prince Ru- pert News.
 F. w. Doherty, formerly manager of the Royal Bank at Prince Ru- pert, has been promoted to the posi- tion of Supervisor of Bank Premises for Alberta. Saskatchewan and Man itoba, with headquarters at Winnipeg.
 A $50 foot tunnel between the Mother Lode. and Bonanza mines at Kennecott. which will greatly expe. dite the. transportation of ore from the Mother Lode to the railway will be completed in a few days. is information received from Kennecott The two mines are on opposite sides of the mountain and when owned by seperate interests the ore from the Mother Lode. had to be hauled 20 miles around the mountain to bring it to the railway. After this mine was taken over by the Kennecott Copper Corporation the ore was taken over the ton of the mountain and handled by the Bon anza mine tram. When the tunne is cvompleted it will be possible tc handle all the ore from the Mother Lode mine on the same tram that carries the ore. from the Bonanza.
 The pink salmon run in Masse Inlet. Queen Charlotte Island, is big ger this year than 1t has been fol several seasons, says the Prince Ru pert News. One seine took 1000 fisl at one haul in Naden Harbor. 4 boat with crew of. six hauled il 5000 in one night The. place wal literally alive with salmon. The si, seines have already caught 5000 sal mon this season. They are all ta ken by the Wallace canneries. He ring are equally plentiful in som places but none of them have bee used.
 Renorts from the Skeena stat that the run of salmon is consider ably above the average. The canne' ies are all working to capacity an 1 in some cases are finding 1t difficul to handle the fish that are comin in.