The Alaska daily empire., 1919-11-14
ALASKA NOTES

The contract to carry a weekly | mail service on the Ketchikan-Wran- gell-Dcyhof-Petersburg route was let to Voss and Opperman and the mail service has been inaugurated. The boat leaves Ketchikan every Thurs day morning.
 Miss Vera Reynolds, government teacher at the Hydaburg school, fel' and broke two ribs recently. She was taken to Ketchikan for medical attention, where she is rapidly i'm proving.
 More than 1000 people of Ketchi kan had joined the Red Cross up to Saturday. November 8.
 H. E. Crowther has been doing survey work near Hollis the past week. He returned to ketchikan last night and is registered at the Revilla. Chronicle.)
 H. B. Nelson, well known in V dez, having been bookkeeper for s Blum and Company, for some time died recently in Seattle, following al operation for appendicitis. After leaving Valdez he opened a law of flee in Seattle. the Valdez Miner says Mir. Nelson was a young man of ex- cellent business ability, and made many friends while in. Valdez. He leaves wife and infant son to mourn his loss.
 While the Premier crew at Nine Mile were eating their breakfast Mon 1 day morning, the bunk tent took fire, and when discovered the flames fhad gained such headway that hardly |, anything in the tent could be gotten out. To make matters worse, a fly made Of tar, paper covered the tent, and this went up like an explosion M. A. Pierson lost all his belongings md the other workmen, among them , Douglas Potts. J. Mcleod and the foreman, s. Jackson were also heavy losers. This crew is engaged in building halfway station for the freight crews this winter. and were in temporary quarters when the fire cleaned them out They all come tc Hyder to obtain new outfits. return. ing to work Tuesday.
 Sidney Shaw, husband of Mis- Alice Coles, a former Valdez girl and : I A 1R ~L ,f that place. died recently in Wash ington.
 E. A. Graham has sold his inter csts in the Alaska Sea Foods com. pany to his partners J. D. Reagh ind U. M. Dickie, who plan doubling he equipment and installing three new traps-Cordova Times. :. Otto Liebeg of Cordova was held , ap in that city one night last week Ind had $195 extracted from him by he bandits. He also suffered a frac tured jaw for resisting. M Ptarmigan will be plentiful this winter as hunters report focizs of hundreds upon the mountain tops, waiting the first blow and snowstorm 10 drive them to the shelter of the valleys William Egan willed Il Sat urday and IS Sunday on the noun tain side near town, and another party got 30 on the Mineral creek range-(Valdez Miner)
 H. Mclaughlin, sailor of the freighter Cordova, died at the General hospital in Cordova recently.
 MT. and Mrs. c. L. Hoyt will leave shortly for olson island to spend the winter on the fox ranch of Hoyt & Ross The firm has a, large number i5sn fine animals, and win reap, a rich ! Harvest of furs rom now on ,3 S'a9 Carl A. cllsa Carlson npaan aid iinogene Gle i,ents of Cordova were married there recently by, U. s. Commissioner R. L, Noaks.
 George Bemis. pioneer jeweler of Fairbanks, but for the last flow years in business at Tanana, will spend the winter on the outside.
 Miss Belle L. Neff and Edward Lindberg, well known residents of Cordova, were married there recent ly.