The Alaska daily empire., 1918-07-08

| erating on the Panama and it's tribu
 taries, is now in sunken condition 1 at the mouth of the small slough i just below the Dominion Commercial 1 Company warehouse. The water is about half way up to the house and
 much silt is on the engine. The Dar will not be raised or put in repair until the water goes down, says the | Fairbanks Citizen.
 On Boulder Creek of the lditarod section two outfits are planning on
 working this Summer Anderson and Kline are opening up some ground near the mouth which they claim will pay to work. Frank O'Leary is working just below them. Since the beginning of the camp consider | able work has been done on Boulder Creek but not until now has workable pay been found.
 1 A call for bids has been issued by Lieut.. Ove M Olson, acting quar- termaster of the 14th Infantry at Fort Gibbon. for the erection of barracks at that place. The specifi- cations for the building are at the various stations throughout the ln- terior.
 M B. Dahl, formerly with the NOrthland Trading and Packing Com pany, has organized a $30,O00 com pany to engage in mild curing. The new company is the M B. Dahl Com pany, and MT. Dahl is it's manager. His headquarters will be at Wran- gell, though his operations will take him as far North as Port Alexander. Having missed the inspectors for her annual inspection the Americ was taken to Seattle to undergo inspec- tion there. The Amerfc Is owned in Petersburg by Hogue and Tveton S. L. Hogue accompanied the vessel South, and will bring a cargo of merchandise North when she re- turns.
 Hans Hanson and Miss Guri Ot ness of Petersburg were married at that place last month.
 Max Smith, for many years con nected with the Northern Commer- cial Company at Fairbanks, Nulato and Nenana, has left Alaska for the Outside.
 w E. Terrill and the Fairbanks Gold Mining Company have started work on their new dredge which is being erected on Fairbanks Creek. Ninetysix hours without food or shelter, being out alone in the woods in the flooded section between Ol- nes and the Snowshoe road house is the narrowing experience related by Mrs. J. M. Harris of the Aatalinka road house. Mrs. Harris arrived in Fairbanks in a shaken condition as the result of an experience that few women have ever gone through. and which only the Alaska fortftude and stamnia could have combatted. She has left for the Outside.
 A letter received from R. D. (Dug) Morgan by the last mail states that Dug, who was so many years with the News-Miner as linotype man. and who was the towns crack shot and first class violinist, Is now located in his old home town of Vienna, Vir- ginia. where he Is running the lino- type on the Vienna Herald for amuse- ment and helping work the farm of his aged parents as business. = Fairbanks News Miner.)
 l A mother fox of Peter Vachon's died few days ago on his fox farm at Birch Hill, says the Fairbanks | News-Miner, and Pete brought the pups to town to raise by hand. They were all blacks and silver grays. and yesterday one of the pups died. | NENANA-The remains of VII liam F. Carpenter, whose body was discovered lying in slough yester. day with the throat cut, was buried today. The body was so badly de composed that removal was impos. sible. and it was buried at the place where found The Bank of Ruby has sold all of its assets to the Northern Conner. cial Company June 1st. and on June 18th it closed its doors and quit busi. ness.
 The Pacific Cold Storage Company has sold all of its Alaska stations, I all located in the Interior to Waech ter Brothers. The latter are now the only big meat company operat ing on the Yukon River.