The Alaska daily empire., 1919-08-26


 Frank Roul ke of Nenana recently
 received word of the death of his sister, Mrs. Charles Taubert, in ar automobile accident at Reno. New.
 'PiX" Wood, brother of Richard Wood, President of tho First Ma tional Bank of Fairbanks, is still ir Paris in the government service, ac cording to word received at Fair banks, where he lived for many years.
 Among yesterdays arrivals in Ne mana was Rev. F. L. Forbes, DID. superintendent of the Upper Yukon District of the Bureau of Education who is making his first visit to the upper Tanana as representative Of the federal department having jur isdiction over Indian affairs in Alas ka.-(Nenana News, Aug 4.)
 There is the possibility, Dr. Forbes informed a representative of the News yesterday, that native board ing-school will be established at Hor ner Hot Springs, on the Yukon river about one hundred miles below Tan ana The matter has not yet been decided definitely, but there is press ing need for such a school and the location is ideal-(Nenana News, Aug. 4.)
 Bowles c. Sprague, old time Klon- diker, who has been interested in quartz properties in the Mayo dis trict the last several years, and par ticularly in the Dublin gulch local ity, arrived here on the last trip down of the launch Hazel B., and reports that the finding of rich scheelite tungsten ore on properties on Dublin controlled by himself and one or two others.-(Dawson News.)
 Rev. Arthur c. Field. for many years with the Church of England in the Yukon, has locatel in England where he will reside in the future He was connected with the Canadian troops in France.
 Chris Yarn, well known old time Dawson barber, and family left Dow son this morning on the steamer Sel- kirk They are going to Juneau, where MT. Yarn will join an old friend in the barber business. MT. and Mrs. Yarn leave a great many friends here. They were married here and their two charming little children, William and Marguerite, were born here.-(Dawson News)
 Berry pickers are blamed for forest fires that prevail in the Interior.
 Capt. Richard Babb and Lieut.. George Crookston, two Dawson lads who saw much fighting in France. have returned as far as Vancouver.
 Development work on the Yukon property on Lookout Mountain, Yukon Territory, is prov ing very satisfactory, says the Daw- son News.
 Speaking of the Yukoners who en- listed under his command, Capt Black was enthusiastic, says the Dawson News in an interview with the former Governor of Yukon Terri tory. He said: There were no finer men in the Canadian corps and that is saying a great deal They were self-reliant and capable. adapting themselves quickly to all situations. After getting to England we were converted from infantry to machine gunners and went to France as the Seveteenth Canadian Machine Gun Company. After some months of trench warfare the company was ab sorved by the Second Canadian-Motor Machine Gun Brigade and fought in all the big battles in which the Canadians were engaged. beginning with Omiens on August 8; then at Ar ras. Cambrai and Mons. The Yukon CTS were in Mons, hotly engaged with the Huns, when the armistice vas signed, which means that they, were with the most advanced troops on the western front. Most of the boys saw a great deal more fighting than l did as I unfortunately was put out of action in the battle of Amiens' hut was fortunate in being with them in Germany when they moved up to the Rhine:"
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