The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1918-08-19
ASKA NEWS

GeOrEC MaikuS, or NlIoduNS' ""S succeeded HIP Curtis aS the head ot the stores department oE the A.E.C., at Nenana.
 Of the last three mails sent to Flat City from the coast only one sack reached it's destination the others hay ing been lost in the Roam river dur ing floods.
 WE Rock. of Denver, is reported to have purchased the Miller Barthott property on Craigy Creek in the Will ow Creek district north of Cook In- let.
 Dr. H.G. Wallace, leading dentist Ot Aucnoruge, mas (. OseU ills Snop aHo gone JO lne states.
 UnIy three uredgeS are working on Otter amt rlaC creeNS SnOwlng that there iS very uJtIe OOlng m the lnno- NO JmS summer
 The Ancuorage Times has suspend ed Us Sunday vuuIOn and the weekly Democrat naS entered that field re- celylug Iut mgnJ AsSoclatted Press report.
 George Murphy, former well known Alaskan and who headed the Alaska Uemocrat delegation at the St. Louis convention, dled suddenly m Seattle recently. Alurphy went to Nome from Montana In 1899 and m company with lex Richard opened the Northern Saloon. Murphy made mon ey. sold out and later took up his res idence in Seattle engaging m the ReaI estate business.
 William Carpenter, missing at Ne mana since May Is, Sulcided, his body having been found in slough two miles east ot NeOana, with his throat cut.
 There Is a shortage of farm labor in tne mSU1cJ aGJaceut 10 Juneau.
 A. payuc, memOer or the l4tn ln- fantry Stationed at Anchorage, and Mss Laura Taylor, were recently marIed m that cIty.
 Three team DaSeUall league at An chorage haS closed the season in the following order: City, Commission and Soldiers.
 Charles Dankheart, of Candle, who arrived at Nome on the first boa from the Outside, received news on his arrival ot the death Of hlS wife m California.
 The Hot Springs section of the Tan ana district will produce as much gold this year as usual, according to the Fairbanks Citizen.
 The National forest receipts for A aska last year amounted to $96,9@". 07.
 Under the direction of WIG. Wei gle of the forest service road will be built this summer from kaSan to the 1t" mine.
 Tekla and Company, known in Fairbanks as the Lucky Films, cleaned up $&O,OOO on their Dome Creek claims before the end Of June and expect to take out SlOO,OOO betoie the end of the season.
 Work has begun on the construct ion of the agricultural college and school of mines at Fairbanks.
 Candle, way up on the Arctic in the Seward Peninsula country, claims the honor of the largest per capita sub scription to Third Liberty Bonds. Nearly Sll ,0OO were sold in the town.
 Ludwick Olsen and Karl LendgreN Ketchikan people who were convicted of SeditiouS utteranceS at ketchikar,, have been ordered deported by the United States immigration service.
 The Ketchikan Progressive Miner says Mir. and Mrs. Greenbaum, for merly engaged in business at Juneau and Ketchikan, have located at Bell ingham, Washington, and will not r>- turn to Alaska.
 VIC. Weigle, of the Alaska Pores try Service. has been elected scout master and Assistant United States District Attorney Steve Ragan and Norman Pike, assistant scoutmaSterS, for the Ketchikan Boy Scouts.
 Dr. WsJ. Pigg of Petersburg has received official notification of his having been commissioned a First Lieutenant of the Medical Reserve Corps. He expects to be called for act i've service soon.
 F.S. RyuS, formerly townSite man ager at Neuana, is in Juneau, taking an examination for
 Juneau taking an examination for a commission m an Engineering Corp.
 Robert Sparks, holding a masters degree from Harvard University, has been chosen principal of the Juneau Public Schools. Mrs. Robert Cragg, wife of the assistant agent of the Alaska Steamship Co.,, has been elect ed teacher Angliah in me H [ . School
 JR. LangSeth is conducting the business of the Douglas Island News owing to the owner, E.J. White de- voting all of his time to his duties as head of the Alaska Bureau of Publi- city.
 Thomas P. Killeen has been ap- pointed by Gov. Riggs special agent for the suppression of the liquor traf- fife at Nome.
 JE. Ward of POorman has taken o,,o,. tb, interests of Frank Carpenter