The Alaska daily empire., 1919-10-09
ALASKA NOTES

Roy Southworth, William Gagnon, Oscar Rothenberg, William Taylor, Thomas Smith and H. S. Parks have been elected City Councilmen for Ne mana. The election took place Sep \ tember 16.
 Fairbanks appropriately observed Constitution. Day, September F.
 A. L. Hannot, one of the best known mining mesh of the Fairbanks district, was married recently at Sc I attle to Miss Helen Jane Goodman, Seattle girl and daughter of Mrs R. E. Goodman.
 The business houses and offices of Nenana were closed at the funeral of Jack Hanson, a member of the Nenana baseball team and one of the most popular young men of the ! city who died there recently. The pail bearers were team mates on the baseball team
 | Woodbury Abbey has completed l the coal survey on the Healey Fork and will leave on the first boat for Juneau.-( Fairbanks Citizen. Sept. 14.)
 1 Frank Slaven and Jack Boyle got away in a small boat this morning for Coal creek and Woodchopper, where they will spend the winter. Slaven and Harvey will work placers on Coal, and Boyle will work on Woodchopper, and also plans to do some prospecting on other nearby creeks.-(Dawson News.) .a
 Efforts to organize a new mining
 company on Jack Wade creek have been undertaken of late with consid
 erable success by Frank N. McCand
 'ess, pioneer Tacoma real estate man Mr. McCandless arrived in Dawson
 Friday from Jack Wade after having
 spent a month there examining the
 ground and getting options on prop
 critics. He left here yesterday for
 his home in Tacoma, and hopes tc
 be back before many months, and
 to get the property well under way
 next year-(Dawson News.)
 One of our local hunters went out
 Saturday after ducks, and during his
 wanderings saw an animal which he
 mistook for a bear cub making its
 way through the bush. Taking hasty
 aim he fired and had the satisfaction
 of seeing the object at which he had
 shot roll over in convulsions and agony of dissolution. When the ex ultant hunter came to examine his prize he found he had killed an extra large porcupine.- -(Whitehorse Star.)
 Harry Ellsworth, Seward mining engineer, who recently examined the Jap mine in the Willow creek dis trict believes great future is in store for the Willow creek country. l Fairbanks has rechristened Easy | street and hereafter it will be known IS Blanchfield street in honor of Percy Blanchfield, graduate of the Fairbanks High School, who was the
 first Fairbanks boy to lose his life l in action in France.
 l Attorney Carl NJ. Amy of Anchor age is taking testimony at Seldovia. I Kodiak and other westward towns for Delegate George B. Grigsby in the election contest. Babe" Hays of Valdez is taking testimony in other towns.
 Judge J. L. Waller of Anchorage. 1 writing for the Anchorage Times. says fox farming is one of the coni- ing great industries of the north. He believes the time will come when Alaska's production Of fnrs7 from do-' mesticated wild animals will be great CT than her present output of wild animal furs. Silver-lead ore veins as high as five feet in width on the surface are reported found on the properties ot1 Axel Erickson and Tommy Mckay. on Keno Hill, at the head of Light ming creek, in the Mayo district. Other surface veins three to four feet wide are reported on other claims on the hill. Especially good outcrops of this nature have been found on claims owned by Jim An derson and on some others-(Daw son News)
 J. T. Cooley, old time Yukon min CT, who has been engaged on Kirk man creek the last several years. is in the city preparing to return to the creek for the winter. He says: "Kirkman has kept IF men busy this season, and they have made