The Alaska daily empire., 1919-08-23

frock of too severe simplicity.
 ing again looms up in the distance, and this time the Sleeper" has been ruthlessly awakened by our local Chamber of Commerce and Delegate Grigsby If we keep hammering away at this public improvement Uncle Sam may eventually cut the purse springs and allow flow of the sur plus gold coin in the treasury to drift Cordovaward.-( -(Cordova Times.)
 The Nenana coal fielcs which lies about two hundred miles north Of Cook Inlet, Alaska, and will be reached by the new government rail road from Seward, 364 miles distant. has been examined by G. c. Martin of the United States Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, whose report on it has just been published. The field is about one hundred miles south of Fairbanks, the inland ter. minus of the railroad, and is more accessible to the gold mines of the Panama valley than any other coal field in Alaska.
 J. H. Russell, well known pioneer of Atlin, Fairbanks and Nenana, has received the news of the death of his brother, Robert Russell of Walkerton, Ontario.
 Jack Lahte, mining operator on Dome creek, and Miss Hilda Hakkin, in of Fairbanks were recently mar ried.
 Mail is being carried between Fair banks and Seattle by way of the Richardson road in eight day to two weeks time. The trip was recently made in two and a half days over the Richardson road from Fairbanks to Chitina.
 A Whitehorse man, while put fish ing recently, was standing talking to friend while holding his fishing rod on his shoulder. He was startled at a tug on his line, and discovered that hawk had mistaken his artificial fly for a real one and had swallowed 1t. The hook was firmly embedded in the birds throat and was with difficulty extracted.
 While there have been severa! new strikes made in the KOyukuk during the last year there has been no ex. citement in that country and nothing there which would warrant a stam- pede.
 Work on a wagon road leading from Indian river crossing to the summit of Broad Pass, under the direction of the Alaskan Engineering Commission, is under way. Bridges are to be built where necessary along this proposed road, which will be about sixty miles in length. This wagon road, of course, isl tor the purpose of conveying con struction materials and supplies tol be employed in the building of the government railroad. This. of course. is the primary object-the real req son for it's construction. But other benefits will flow from its building. -( Anchorage Times.l
 Rev. Robert. J. Diven, of the Pres byterian Church at Nenana, has been elected secretary of the Commercial Club there to succeed H. B. Joseph. who has left for the outside.
 On the first of August 563 men were employed on the Nenana divi- sion of the Alaska Railroad and 52 on the Fairbanks end of that road.
 Charles Bertrand recently sold his interest in the Munson roadhouse at Salcha on the Richardson road to his partner, George Hiliar. Bertrand has left for the outside.
 Jay Busby, Fairbanks boy. re- gently returned to that place from a visit to Oregon and California, bring ing a bride with him. They were re- gently married in California.
 People who are particular about the quality of the food they eat and the way if js served and the