The Alaska daily empire., 1919-08-18
ALASKA NOTES

@A>O' VI 'oiuSL, hoo tohDh o POSitioh with the Cordova Daily Times for the winter
 Mrs Charles Drugan, a pioneer woman of the Yukon passed away at her home in Klondike City recently. She is survived by her husband and five children
 Dr. Niellor, dentist, known in southeastern Alaska, has opened an office at Dawson.
 It is said that more building activ- ities are going on in Cordova than at any time in the past ten years.
 c. A. Jeckell, who is in charge of Indian affairs at Dawson temporarily during the absence of Indian Agent Hawkesley, states that the Peel river Indians who were in need of food were supplied recently on application to him and that he knows of no cases of destitution or starvation among them. The natives are said to be very short of clothing. however. | A returned Canadian soldier re- gently made a record trip to the Yu- kon. He was just F days on the road from the day of authorization at England until he reached Dawson. | Mrs. William Atkinson passed through Skagway recently en route to her birthplace at Edmonton, Can ada. where she will spend several , months visiting. This was the first 1 time Mrs. Atkinson had ever seen salt water. When a small child she was sent to convent which is main tained by the Catholic Church near the Great Slave lakes and there she received her education. After her marriage she moved to the Pelly river going in over the trail from the inside Although she had lived Q number of years in Alaska, she had never before seen salt water.
 Lieut.. J. G. Coleman, formerly of the Signal Corps at Fairbanks, where he was employed in the United States telegraph office, is the only Alaskan, as far as reported, to have reached Berlin. He was there only a short time, and was not pleased with the town. He said living cost was enor- nous
 
 , A. MT. and Mrs. Sullivan of Seattle have opened restaurant at Hyder
 The people of Hyder had the pleas ure of watching bear come right down in the city by the creek and pick berries. Several pictures were taken of the animal and he was not afraid of people or dogs.
 Louis Belney of Whitehorse was decorated for gallantry on the field of battle
 According to reports received at Fort Liscum the 21st infantry will leave for Alaska within short time. 
 The big dredye wbich has been at the mouth of the McQuesten river for some time was delivered at Mayo re- cently, says the Dawson News. It was lowed up the river by the steam CT Dawson, which had hard time making Sterling bend. The dfedge will be dismontled and hauled tOI Highet creek.
 Trappers on the lower Kuskokwim report finding large brown bear re- gently totally blind from mosquito bites. They stated that the bear was guant and emaciated and that he was mass of sores from the attacks of the mosquitoes. He was shot and put out of misery. Stories of ami malls being blinded by mosquitoes have been told by the natives, but this is the first authentic case seen by white men, It is reported that the mosquito pest is worse this year than for several years previous, even the natives suffering from their bites
 Jack Laurie, Mccarthy man. was married in Seattle recently. and will take his bride to Mccarthy with him.
 Martin Nelson, for many years prospector and miner in the Nizina and Young creek districts, recently returned from Europe where he was with the Twenty-seventh engineers, having enlisted with them in Cordo- va early last year. He will spend the summer in the Nizina district.
 The new dredge of the Fairbanks Gold Mining Company at Fairbanks creek is working at full capacity sew eral days in the week. double sniits being run. The new machine Is work ing very satisfactorily and the own CTS are pleased with the earnings.