The Alaska daily empire., 1918-11-12
ALASKA NOTES

l f1OIznelmer at Nome, was the v1ctlm of an accidental discharge of a 22 rifle at a skating party. She was shot in the foot, but recovered nicely from the accident.
 | s. M. Irwin, at one time associated with the traffic department of the
 White Pass, is with the Red Cross in Europe. Seattle papers recently con tained accounts of vacation he spent at the old Irwin home in Ire land.
 Fifty tons of coal from the Alaska Petroleum and Coal Co. of Katal. la had been marketed at Cordova November 1.
 i Henry Mlron Chamberlain was sen fenced to ten months in jail when he pleaded guilty to not registering for the selective draft.
 Former United States Commission CT A. J. Adams at Cordova is serv- 1 ing as commissioner again during the absence of Commissioner E. F. Med ley, who is visiting at his old home at Boston, Mass.
 l Mike Saroff of Nenana died recent, l ly at Camp Dodge of pneumonia, the result of influenza.
 l Axel Running, who was injured by heavy box of machinery falling on l him, died of his injuries at Nenana, October 26 He was pioneer of l Dawson, and was 37 years of age. l Over 800 quarts of whisky and Oth- CT liquors were poured out at Cordo- va by Deputy Marshal William Furs- man.
 Dr. George E. Chamberlain, JJr., 1 son of Senator Chamberlain of Ore | gon, in charge of government health and surgical work at the Chickaloon ] coal mine on the Alaska railroad, l says the health of that place is excel lent and there has been no serious accident at any time. The Standard Oil Company has 1 opened offices at Ketchikan where J. L. Speath, recently appointed agent, will have charge of the company's business.
 William Morris Jones of Cordova
 was recently buried in France where he was killed. Two Seward boys were among his pail bearers. o. c. Palmer, of Wrangell has re- ceived word of the death of his bro- ther, Herbert Ernest Palmer, at Boulder. He is 38 years of age and survived by his widow and two small children. The deceased formerly re- sided at Wrangell.
 George F. Forrest, Jr., of Ketchi- kan recently sustained broken arm when cranking the engine of his l transfer car at that place. Fred Tracy, for sometime agent for the Alaska Steamship Company at Anchorage, has been transferred to Cordova where he will have charge of the agency at that place. s. R.. | Hedges, the Cordova agent has been l transferred to the States. | There are eleven lighthouses in Alaska which are tended by keepers. And over 100 automatic lights which require no attention for year. J. H. N Nelson, manager of the Chitina Cash Store, was recently married at Cordova to Miss Bessie Trees, from the States. | William E. Crouch and Miss Clara l Cooley, an accomplished musician of Boston, were recently married at Cordova.
 | Dr. F. M Boyle has been chosen chairman of the Anchorage city council the advisory board to the A.
 E. c. in municipal matters.
 At the annual meeting of the Cor dova Chapter of the American Red Cross Mrs. w. w. Council was re- elected chairman of the chapter. Mrs. George Lacey was elected vice-chair-
 man, John Miller, secretary and Jack
 Sapiro, treasurer. The following
 board of managers were elected: H.
 A. Slater, chairman, Mrs. John Day,
 Mrs. Fred Long, Mrs. Kilbourne, Will
 fam Fursman, H. B. Walking and
 Rev A. G. Shiver.
 Jack Courtney, of Cordoya, has
 been cited by General Pershing in
 an official communique and has been awarded the distinguished service cross
 Long continued rough water this
 summer. for the second season, re- | cultad in on aIvv,ost uouoro1 tio-up Of