The Alaska daily empire., 1919-10-01
ALASKA NOTES
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scow machine shop near the Citizens dock, Hans Petersburg, and Thomas Olson have secured a permit and have placed stock on Channel Island, near Wrangell, and will operate fox ranch there. Twenty foxes have already been put on the island and others will be added.
 The Eureka Native Store at Kake has been fiourishing since it's begin ming last December and now finds it necessary to build new quarters. The work will begin as soon as labor and material can be secured.
 The Forestry Department has made arrangements for building road from Rake village to the San, born-Cutting cannery one mile east.
 The United States Bureau of Edu- cation is erecting a teachers home near the Petersburg school building It is to be thoroughly modern in every way with quarters up stairs for light housekeeping. It is estimated the home will cost $4.00O.
 The body of a man, supposed to be Spanish Joe" was found in a cabin about eight miles from the Iditarod river and 125 miles from Iditarod City, last month by Matt De Courcey and Philip Kelly The nan had been dead. about year The body was lying in the bunk, dressed in a shirt with mosquito mans clothing was in the cabin, but there were no supplies of any kind visible. Spanish Joe" left Iditarod in 1917 with a party of woodchop- pers About 200 cords of wood arc ricked up on a creek bank near the cabin in which the body was found
 Spanish Joe" was native of Argen- inc. A search was made for him ] ast spring, as he had not been leard from since leaving Iditarod, put it was unavailing.
 Sportsmen and others in this vicin- l ty who are interested in the preser- vation of wild game will be glad to 1 ,now that deer which some time ago l were placed on Hinchinbrook and the Hawkins Islands by the Territorial | game authorities have been extended further protection, and they will be | given an opportunity to propagate without molestation. Great interest
 las been displayed in the transplant
 d animals, and reports brought to | he city from time to time seem to indicate that the deer are doing fair
 " well in their new habitat. It is to De hoped that the cooperation of the
 people of this vicinity will be given 70 the efforts of the game wardens to ! introduce these animals in this sec
 ion of Alaska.-( -(Cordova Times.) With the last fresh food products | 10 be received this year by the in- habitants of the remote towns and camps of the Kotzebue Sound re yions, the freightor Cordova, Capt. 2. V. Westerlund, sailed from Scat tie recently She had a full cargo, consisting of food products, merchant 1ise, coal and gasoline. With her departure Kotzcbue Sound will settle down to another long winter and spring, waiting for the first 1920 voy' age in June. Each summer the Cor dova makes two voyages to Kotzebue Sound, one in June and tho other in August.
 Reports received from Ruby say that favorable prospects for a good camp appear to exist on Hog river on the lower Koyukuk river. Ernest Mcleod, who spent last winter in the Hog river country, and who brought the first reports to Ruby last spring. believes that there is good future 'n sight there. Several parties of stampeders who left Ruby early this summer have returned there and re- port that they were able to do very little prospecting as the ground, while shallow averaging from four to eigh. feet deep is thawed to bedrock and1 is very wet. Mcleod sunk several holes by freezing them down and says that the prospects indicate al large body of pay running from 30I 10 40 cents to a square foot of bed rock.
 Dr H. B. Ward. Prof. Oldfatther-
 z and J. R. Russell alleged Bureau or Fisheries experts, who investigated