The Alaska daily empire., 1918-01-22

iSSSltiy "CHt lO DISCONeTy, Ollel Creek. with a string of fifteen dogs Early in the evening the dogs find ing themselves free started for home without a pilot and arrived there not a particle of rigging broken and the sled right side up.
 4 cod fishing station has been opened at Kodiak by the Northern Fisheries Company. The w. J. Frs kine Company is also interested in the enterprise as their boats form part of the equipment of the new company There is no longer any need for the Natives around Kodiak to be without food as they can fish for cod and make good money. M BlOomberg and Erie Westman recently made the trip from Nenana to Fairbanks by way of Broad Pass rail- which they stated is in excel lent condition. They slept out two or three nights without suffering from the cold. They reported also that Joseph Sampson, an elderly man, started from Nenana with them but fell behind at one Of the road houses. They went back to enquire about him and then made a report of the matter 10 the marshal It is believed that as MT. Sampson is an old-timer he may be hunting. All hope has been abandoned for
 he safety of Ben Swesey and Wm
 Weaver of Seward who have been missing since October. Early in No yeInber Deputy Marshal Harrington of Seldovia received a message ask ing if Swesey had left Seward as a box bearing his name had been picked up at Elizabeth Point. They left Seward the 15th of October in
 l dory equipped with an Evinrude for Alitiak Bay on a bear hunt. Ev- cry effort was made to find the men but without avail and it is believed that they must have perished in the storms off Point Elizabeth A dory was found by the Indians badly stove up near Chatham Point. Swe- sey and Weaver, guides and pros pectors, were we'll known throughout Southwestern Alaska.
 The temperance sentiment which has been rapidly growing in Kodiak was recently strengthened by the drunken brawls of fishermen which took place there. Those who were merely indifferent became convinced IS to the merits of the case. H. s. Fink who has been at the Esko Creek Coal Mines for some time was recent Anchorage visitor. Af- ter a short time there he left for the Willow Creek district as he stat ed he was confident that that was where the big money was to be found
 "Old Man" Jones on Ga Diamond Creek in the Iditarod region took out $500 from an open cut last fall.
 The Matanuska Farmers Asso- citation donated large sack of Mat anuska potatoes to the Alaska Labor Union for it's big dinner on Christ mas day.
 Bob Lowrie, illiam Alexander, Jip Wilson and Bill Ames will start ex- tensive operations in the spring on their property on Mastodon Creek. The Hobson Creek dredge at Nome which was recently sold to Dr. Kit tleson was dismantled and will be taken up Basket Creek.
 November, 1917 was the coldest ever experienced in Fairbanks. Dur ing only eleven days in the month was the thermometer above zero. The first six days the temperature ranged from forty-five to forty-eight below. Wm. R. Taylor, the man who first climbed Mt. Mckinley, arrived in Fairbanks recently from Kantishna. He came by dog team requiring five days of travel to make the trip. He reported things very dull in Kan tishna with practically no mining go ing on.
 C. Brian Sweeney of Fairbanks, was recently served with an injunc- tion causing him to refrain from in terfering with any one who might purchase certain wood cut in tres pass on the Sweeney homestead. There has been trouble of this na- ture before and would be buyers wanted to be sure there would be no come back for Sweeney. John Lundquist, a resident of Mat anuska was recently hailed before the court at Anchorage charged with assault with deadly weapon. It IS alleged that Lundquist was eating in the dining room of hotel and Ina. | n