The Alaska daily empire., 1919-09-16
ALASKA NOTES

After twenty years following the mining game in the United States and foreign countries, D. H. McDon- aid has returned to hunt for a. ledge of gold-bearing rock he discovered in the lower end of the Willow creek district. in 1899. He recently ar rived at Anchorage. Word has been received at Anchor- agei of the marriage of Mrs Henriet- ta Sharts and James A. Wilkinson of that place. The marriage @oc- cured at Seattle. where MT and Mrs Wilkinson will reside during the winter
 Frank J, Cleary, for whom CIeary creek in the Fairbanks district was named, spent the summer prospect ing in the Broad Pass district He recently visited Anchorage
 Miss l.. Maravish of North Platte. Neb., and Miss Olive Wolf of Twisp. i Washington, will teach school this year at Rake They have arrived at their destination.
 The Beaux Arts Moving Picture actors, who have been making pic lures in the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, and at Seward and Valdez, were southbound passengers on the last trip of the Alaska. Herschel Mysall was the leading man of the company
 The Port Chatham Cold Storage plans it practically completed and they will begin handling fish and shipping lumber from the mill before October 1, according to reports from that district. qa m
 Mathew Eaton, a native boat build CT living att Metlakatla, was found II, and taken home. He died the next morning. He was 50 years old and is survived by wife, three child ren and two brothers +.
 Mrs. Ada Richardson of Fairbanks has sold the stock of goods in her women's furnishing store at that place to Mrs. Melish and left for the outside. sfp
 Word has been received at Nenana that a gold strike has been made on Kako river about eight miles above Russian Mission on the Yukon river. It is said the paystreak is very rich. The discovery has caused consider able excitement along the lower Yu- kon river.
 The Nenana baseball team finally got away and met the Fairbanks team late last month for a return series of games, and lost. Each team has now won series, and it is planned to lave two more series this fall, if possible, one at Nenana and one at Fairbanks. &
 Berry picking is in full swing and the ladies may be seen vending their way to the hills with pails and baskets The berries are a welcome addition to the Alaskan dietary.- | (Valdez Miner.) Valdez is rapidly becoming the l trading center for the ranchers and fox farmers of Prince, William Sound The new float is lined with small boats of late, and the wisdom of the council in appropriating $2,500 to build it is already apparent. Mrs. J. Harmon Caskey, wife of the publisher of the Fairbanks Citizen, will spend the present winter out side. -I N' Charles Ward, pioneer in the Cook Inlet country and flor several years a Willow creek AproApector died recently at Mile "a. Alaska Railroad
 Jack Minis and Roy Trachsel. An chorage boys in the army, have rel turned to that place.
 R. c. Wood, President of the First National Bank of Fairbanks., recent !; ly made trip over the Nenana branch of the, Alaska railroad. and is highly complimentary of the man ner the work has been done there.
 Bishop Bunoz of the Catholic church. who has spent considerable |