The Alaska daily empire., 1919-10-21
s2 i sA |. .fs,f rf r Z ALASKA NOTES

l Lester Blue fand Robert Ross. two
 the University of Washing. oD, were
 victims of holdup recently at Seat
 tie, and lost their cash anl a watch
 M S. Perkins, United States com missioner at Petersburg. and pub
 fisher of the Petersburg Report, is
 Ketchikan visitor for few days
 as witness is1 the Mrs. Mar Kim l murder case which will come before
 the coming term of court. -(Ketchi-
 kan Chronicle.) ~~'--.
 Miss M. M. Eversole, formerly of
 Juneau, Skagway, Fairbanks, Cordo; va and Anchorage, has accepted a
 position in the Miners and Merchants
 Bank of Ketchikan. She came to
 Juneau in 1892, was in Skagway in
 1897, from there she went to Fair banks. Later she occupied position
 with the Northern Bank and Trust Company at Seattle, from where she
 went to Cordova, thence to Anchor age. At the latter place she served
 on the school board.
 The U s. Lighting tender Cedar left this morning for Prince Rupert
 whore she will go on drydock.. She has just returned from a trip Of in
 spection to Lynn Canal. It .s not expected that she will be on the dry dock for more than ten days CT two weeks.-(Ketchikan Chronicle.
 Ben Hoerler of Fairbanks has dis posed of his water wagon and gone | ing water for many years in the in
 terior metropolis, using tank on wheels, with stove in each end for cold weather.
 John Johnson, a Valdez packer who has been employed by Territorial Road Supervisor James E. Wilson of the Third Division, has been missed at Valdez since October 1, and vig-| orous search has failed to locate him. He arrived at Valdez from Shoup| Bay the night of October 1 with twol , other men. He left the boat 50 gQI | up town, saying that he would re- turn soon. The men on. the boat went to sleep, and Johnson has never been seen since. It is believed he was drowned in the bay while at- tempting to board the craft. He was B years of age and native of Nor way He was member of the Eagles.
 Herschell c. Parker, noted Alaska explorer, formerly a professor at Go lumbia and scientist of national re- nown, who is. interested in mining in Alaska, is being sued for divorce by his wife. She asks for $125 a 1 week alimony. She alleges that she is neglected by her husband
 Tom. Aitken, the Marshall opera tor will haul 1000 tons of silver lead orc 30 miles over the s snow from Nixon Fork to the ThcotnaS He has ! ordered 10000 sacks for the ore. s.
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 MT. and Mrs. L. H. Heard. pioneers of Dawson, are going outside for good and will settle some place on ! the coast. The Heards have been in Dawson 22 years.
 The run of silver salmon in south { western Alaska is exceeding all OK E pectations. gA Is also said that the seal there are doing lot of dam age to the fish. Seiners have to bat tfe with the seals to drive them from the nets.-(valdez Miner} Marion, the baby daughter of Mr and Mrs. W. F. Thompson, Of Fair banks, recently fell and broke herE collarbone. The fracture was re- duced and day or 90 later the babJ wofked its hand out of the sling and 1 axain broke the bone. Following lthfs insident she worked her walk 1 err oyef to the stove and severely burned her good hand. Mir. Thomp- son is editor of the News-Minsr atI the inland metropolis. Headsusseers fsr LAdvsuitb eoal Juneau Tfansfsr ce.. phone Ss. i