The Alaska daily empire., 1919-11-07
ALASKA NOTES

OH one OI the last boats rom White horse.
 Miss Katherine Fowler, formerly of Anchorage where her father was owner of the Pacific Grocery Com pany store, was recently married at Everett. Washington, to Capt Leland Wilson of San Diego, Cal, recently of the United States army.
 Charles and AL Harper, Cache creek operators, will spend the win ter on their property after a visit of a few weeks at Anchorage, where they are now.
 Anchorage Post, "the farthest north" branch of the American Le. zion, was organized there recently.
 The few hundred souls in the Kus- kokwim district of Alaska, who each winter have wondered whether or not they would be found alive and in good health when the sun came again to warm the tundra, will not suffer for want of food this year. Diff ficulty to reach at best because of early ice and rough waters, this Kuskokwim district has furnished a problem for transportation companies from Seattle, on whose efforts de- pended the life of the districts win ter toilers. But this year new and large power schooner, the Ozmo, safely reached Bethel with two car goes of supplies for miners and traders of the Kuskokwim valley and fish packers near the mouth of the river
 Word has been received at Fair banks that Capt Frank P. Wood, bro- iher of R. c. Wood, President of the First National Bank of Fairbanks, has reached New York from France, and that he will not return to Alas. ka. He, expects finally to locate in California.
 There were 5S9 names on the En- gineering Commission payroll at Ne mana on the first of October.
 Dog owners at several places on the Yukon river will have to kill many of their dogs for the reason that they did not catch enough fish 10 feed them during the winter. At Hot Springs dog owners are experi. nenting with potatoes as dog feed and they say it works well. The po- tatoes are mixed with sugar, beans. meal and bran.
 Jay P. Jeffries of Anchorage was recently called to Boston on account of the serious illness of his mother.
 There is now little doubt but that trains will be running between Fair banks and .Nenana by the end of the month. Engineer Browne promised hem for Thanksgiving, but he will do better than he advertised. Only ten or a dozen miles remain to be built of the Fairbanks-Nenana road, and then it will be uninterrupted rail travel between the two places. This is not expected to hurt either place a bit.-(Fairbanks News-Miner)
 c. G. Morrison, engineer for the Alaska Road Commission, has re- turned from an official trip to Chitina and will make a preliminary investi- gation of a proposed roadway in the Chugah forest reserve, for which pur- pose funds are available. It is the intention to build a road from Cor dova as far as the radio station, fol- lowing the bank of Eyak lake. The actual work of construction of this road is expected to take place next spring Times.)
 When Driver Yaeger arrived this morning over the trail in car which contained two caribou, other cars ,tarted from here for Richardson. or Tenderfoot creek. where the caribou are stopping traffic on the road in their winter travels south. Yaeger arrived there just in time to run into the run" and he killed three while he was waiting for them to pass and let his auto by. When he got to town with his kill" others started out to try and land in the middle of the first run" of the sea -(Fairbanks News-Miner)
 Col. Mears made the statement ill Seward last Thursday that trestie work. tunnel work and snow sheds work would be completed on the Seward division. temporarily, within the next six or seven weeks. This will insure train service all winter between Seward and Anchorage Steward Gateway)
 William Gerig has been appointed assistant chief engineer of the gov