The Alaska daily empire., 1919-01-30

effects except what they had on.
 Coal is now being burned exclus- ively by the railroad at Nenana, and most of the residents of that city
 George Nesteroff was accidentally shot and killed on Eureka Creek, Panama Hot Springs district, recent ly. A shotgun was accidentally dis charged.
 William Elsemenger got into Fair banks without detection by the guar antine officers and was arrested and sentenced to go into quarantine.
 Vincent Koucheck arrived at Long City from the Ophir trail recently with both feet and hands badly froz en. He reported that he had been travelling with another miner named Hogan, but that his feet got so bad that he left Hogan with a sled and provisions and hurried along ahead to get his feet attended to. Kaucheck was so badly frozen that he was sent to the Army hospital at Fort Gib bon. Hogan did not show up, and searching parties went after him. At last accounts he had not been To- cated He is believed to be dead.
 United States Marshal L. T. Er- win of the Fourth Division is on the way out from the Interior with batch of prisoners according to word received at Cordova.
 The Fairbanks mining experiment station has been authorized to make assays and quantitive analysis Of samples submitted by prospectors and mining men. A quantitive ana lysis or assay is one that determines and reports the exact amount of giv en metal, or metals, that may be pres ent in a sample, as distinguished from an identification test, in which the presence or absence, but not the quantity of minerals or metals is de. termined. A nominal charge of $1 is made for each metal in a sample determined by quantitive analysis or assay.
 Sergeant Hilary Bunch. Company l. 10th U. s. Infantry. son of John H. Bunch, general freight and pas senger agent for the Alaska Steam ship Company, has been twice deco rated for bravery in action, letters to his parents state. He first re. ceived the Croix de Guerre and lat CT was awarded what he describes as "a green and yellow cord that circles the shoulders with gold tipped bar hanging over the chest"
 Cordova is developing a large num- Der of most excellent and graceful skaters-on ice. This is a healthy and exhiliarating sport, and when indulged in moderately is certainly one of the best tonics that can be taken.-(Cordova Times.)
 Alaska is due for the largest min ing boom in the history of the en- tire world" said Fred R. Davy. a veteran mining man and operator of Cerdova, who is at the Cour d. Alene MT Davy operated in the Slo, can district 25 years ago and is we'll known to the old-time mining men of Spokane. He left Cordoya in November and expects to return this month.-( Spokane Sopesman-Re- view)
 One thousand tons of hay per year can be cut around Valdez, according to Road Commissioner James Will son, who also is the pioneer freight CT of the Third Division. MT. Wilson has run thirty head of horses out of Valdez for years. and has put up a great deal of hay necessary to win ter the animals in and around Val dez. This year, despite the heavy crop of grass MT. Wilson was unable to secure labor to put up the hay, and is therefore paying high prices for the feed he uses. He states that he could make a fine thousand-acre farm near the old townsite on Miner al Creek.
 Seven solid trains of flat cars which if coupled together would reach nearly mile and a half will take sea voyage from Balboa to Seward as the result of the contract recently signed by the Commission and the Coastwise Shipping and Barge Company. operated by the shipping firm of James Griffith & Sons. of Seattle. The equipment was used in the construction of the Panama Canal and was formely oper- ated on the Panama railroad. . Frederick D. Brown. engineer in charge of the Alaskan Engineering 6tr,r,a aof4 D~f- A