The Alaska daily empire., 1919-12-22
ALASKA NOTES

Bay View is forging ahead all
 the time Thirteen new houses have 1 been built this year. Ninety pupils lare enrolled in the school. All the l teachers are cooperating with the citizens in working for the uplift of the community.
 ] The records of the surveyor gen. l erals office shows that during the fiscal year ending June 30th. 1919, iS townships. whole and fractional
 were approved II on the Seward
 meridian and ' on the Fairbanks
 meridian. There have been surveyed | in Alaska, to this date, 134 town
 ships. whole and fractional S2 on
 he seward meridian, 39 on the Fair
 banks meridian, and 13 on the Cop
 per River meridian.
 The total reeepits off the Tongass
 and Chugach National Forests for I the fiscal year ending June goth, 1919, were $l02.8l3.7l. The total
 cost of administration of the two for
 ests for the same period was SAB i 45i14.
 Petersburg raised SPA from the recent Red Cross Roll Call That
 with s10O previously collected from yarn sale was sent to headquart- ers at Juneau.
 Dr. Brown-kcarsley formerly Dr. Anna Brown, who was married to F. Kearsley. well known citizen of Wrangell, Thanksgiving Day, has announced that she will continue to operate her hospital at Wfangell. The native town of Bay View is to have a barber shop and bathhouse which will he operated by an Indian native of Alaska. Thomas Davies of the ketchikan plumbing and sheet metal works of Davies & Gilbert, after planning for months to leave for visit with , is sister who lives in Pennsylvania, had secured his ticket and was about to take the boat. which was at the wharf, when he was deliver cd telegram announcing the sis ters death He continued the trip. N. R. Walker. the Kctchkan drug gist and ex-scrvicc man. has begun the construction of a residence in that city that will cost $5,00o.
 The Dawson Northwest Mounted Police is about to send the first expedition of the winter from Daw- son ta Fort MPrcrson on the Arctic. IL will be in charge of Sergeant | Dempsey. who has commanded sever al similar expeditions. He will take with him Constables Brine. Tyack and Beasley. Thp Police at Ram part House will send an expedition i to meet the Dawson expedition on l inc trail. anl return to Rampant l House and then go on to Herschel | 'sland Medicine and mail will be | carried by the expedition.
 1 Captain James Goddard Roberts,
 pioneer of the north since 1898, l for dozen years in charge of the l White Pass docks at Whitehorse and afterward master of the lake
 steamers Cleanor and Tutshi, died
 reccnily- at Oakland, California where he was spending the winter
 for his health He was a native of
 the Island of Jersey. England and
 49 years of age
 There are at present nine radio stations in Alaska. namely St. Paul St. George. Dutch Harbor. Kodiak Seward Cordova, Sitka,, Juneau ard
 Ketchikan. The number of men on duty at all these stations is ap proximately 100 The number o' men attached to the individual sta tions ranges from ] attached at St
 George to 30 men attached td Cortova.
 Frank Antone Rozich and Miss Dorothy F. Gillette of Petersburg
 were married at that place recently
 They will reside at Petersburg. | Alaska has one national park ithe
 Mount Mckinley National Park and
 one national monument (the katmai National Monument).
 David Westerberg and Mrs. Wester
 berg recently arrived at Petersburg
 from Ttxas and will locate in the Al
 aska town They are brother and sis
 ter of Mayor and Mrs Peter Jorgtn 'sen of Petersburg.