The Alaska daily empire., 1919-11-01

the last year or two at Nenana, has opened shop at Fairbanks, which he regards as the most promising town of the interior.
 Harry Grow, who had been operat- ng the Merchants Cafe at Fairbanks, las closed it down and purchased he Igloo restaurant in that place. which he enlarged and improved be- fore opening it to the public. @ ..,. George w Dana, enlisted in the Signal Corps and attached to the Fairbanks office as an emergency man. recently went from Fairbanks to Valdez and received his discharge | there and then returned to Fairbanks where he will engage in farming. He has a good homestead in the Fairbanks region.
 Three h-ndred and thirty men are now working in the mines at La touche according 10 F. c Golden. He says the ca-sy Gas every evidence of prosperity '8s :; bas.ness Is good there
 Last Asg fEllard of this city bought : es eh cost him s265 aaoh- Ia ~as.sa. = he got s53 eggs rom his L-s. ar.' now has g foung chicken for ssys He lost
 hree settings from climatic condi.
 ions. His expenses were about $25 or feed and fencing material. At the 'ocal price he got ss0 worth of eggs md has about $50 worth of frying size chickens. He still has the orig inal number of chickens.-(valdez Miner)
 George II. Mead, sheet metal works It Valdez, and Mrs. Mead will spend
 he winter in the states. h
 A female humpback whale having 'wo hind legs, 50 inches in length, has been caught at the Kuykot whai- Ing station. Manager Ruck of the Consolidated Whaling Company says hat in his 20 years of whaling ex- ,crience he has never heard of Q whale having legs on the exterior. He pointed out that whales have atrophicd legs within their bodies,
 hese being boomerang shaped and 20 inches in length. They are use 'ess portions of the anatomy evident V once used by the mammals or and after. the manner of dinosaur. hut which have sunk into the body rom disuse---(Valdez Miner)
 H. H. Eazel!e- and Claus Johnson, 'wo Fairbanks farmers! have received patents to their FairbaDks farms.
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 Louis Klopsch. formerly Fair banks newspaper man and who pur chased the old Fairbanks Times. which died on his hands after he had operated it as a Wickersham organ for a few months. is in New York working for the Fox Film Corpora tion. according to news received at Fairbanks by Dick Thorne, the movie man of that city, Y.
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 Al Doze. proprietor of a 16-acre farm near Mccarthy has made a great success of agriculture. He says he has no difficulty in selling all the products of his farm to Kennecott mine in his vicinity q -f i
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 That eastern hunting parties are doing more damage to big game in Alaska than all the prospectors in the Territory is the declaration of Al Doze. the Mccarthy farmer. He says they destroy game for the game trophies and that the meat is allowed to spoil. and they drive the game back into the remote hills. William Conley and Quince Fish of Valdez. who recently returned home from Portage Bay, discovered some papers and letters belonging to Cor sporal Ralph Pulyer who was killed , on the Portage last winter by a snow slide which were overlooked by those who recovered the body. They say goats are plentiful h that country. and many of them are being killed { at NiniicA1k-a ,sa q sss