The Alaska daily empire., 1919-09-04
ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER A. l9l9
ALASKA NOTES

married at the latter point June 2l, 1919
 Miss Thora Slippern, daughter of J. A. Slippern of Nenana. has just been graduated from the Munson school of San Francisco. She and
 her mother are visiting in Los An
 geles.
 Fairbanks City Council is consider ing improving the system for water supply for fire protection. WhitehOrse friends of Barney Me
 Gee, a resident of that place, sent d | telegraphic order to Seattle to pur
 chase Whitehorse wreath for his casket.
 Salmon are being caught in the Yukon river at Whitehorse, having
 come 1000 miles in fresh water from | the mouth of the Yukon. Work is under way on the erection of memorial monument at Whitehorse | for the soldiers of southern Yukon who served in the war for their coun | try.
 Court and Jean Mack, two Yukon 1 prospectOrs, recently arrived at Car | macks with 60 ounces of gold dust | which they had taken out of Nansen | creek.
 Tom Aitken, one of the best known of the Interior mining men, left early 1 in August for the Kantishna from
 which good reports have been re- | ceived, on prospecting expedition.
 MT. Aitken has been prosecuting de
 velopment work on the upper Kus- i kokwim, where he has producing property, this summer.
 Private Secretary J. P. Tumulty,
 responding to the invitation of the
 Nenana Commercial Club to Presi- dent Wilson to visit Alaska, said the | larger affairs of the nation would not permit the absence of the President | from his desk long enough for him to visit Alaska, notwithstanding that he would very much like to do so. J. F. Zimmerman, well-known Fairbanks hard rock miner. who went into the Kantishna district several
 week ago, is engaged at the present time in making search for galena ledge on the right limit of Eureka creek, near the headwaters of that stream Arrivals from the Kantishna state that Zimmerman recently found galena float in the creek, and he is now working on the theory that the ledge is near by. He is very hope full of locating the ore body before the close of the season.-(Nenan News.)
 Harry Slough, who for the last several years has operated stage line between Wasilla and Willow creek, Cook Inlet country, has sold his automobiles and left for the States to investigate the practicable ity of establishing an airplane service between the two points. He expects to bring at least one airplane with him when he returns north, according to the Anchorage Times.
 L. F. Shaw, formerly editor of the hoo lpf fnr hn outside. He may return to Alaska, but will spend the winter in Walla Walla and other sections of the out side.
 Mrs. William Christie of Anchorage died at that place recently aged 6S years. She has been a resident of Anchorage for two years, and is sur vived by her husband, two daughters. Mrs. J. A. Coburn and Mrs. Eva Rob bins, and son. William Christie, all of Anchorage and a son. George Christie of Seward.
 j.. E. O'Reilly and George Campbell Anchorage real estate owners are in terested in Cook Inlet mining prop erty, have interests in the Hyder Stewart country, and recently visited that camp.
 The Anchorage Times is urging the construction of public mill for reducing gold ore at Willow creek, where there are many properties be ing developed, and few being op erated on a paying basis.
 Dr. George E. Chamberlain, IT,. son of Senator Chamberlain of Ore gon, and Miss Phoebe Osborn, of San Francisco and graduate nurse. were married recently at Anchorage.
 Fred Marath, of the San Francisco office of the Northern Commercial Company, has been assigned to duty at the Nenana store of that company
 Five bents of the trestle on the government railroad crossing Placer