The Alaska daily empire., 1920-01-14

Representative George W. PennlnG- ton, who located in Texas shortly after the last Legislature adjourned. is now located at Amarillo, Tex. and is enthusiastic over that and other oil sections of Texas. He is auditor of the Dixon Oil Company, a holder of large block of stock ill the concern.
 The use of airplanes to locate school of fish will be tried out by the Department of Agriculture. Re cent experiments off the New Jersey coast have proved successful. If further experimentation should dem onstratc it to be favorable, the ex- pertinent will be, extended to the Pacific Coast states and Alaska.
 w. E.. Terrjii. pioneer packer on the Skagway trail who has followed tho freighting game in the interior ever since the completion of the White Pass railiDadl announces that he has quit the game for good.
 
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 The women relatives of members of the Eagles lodge at Fairbanks bave organized a club for social pur. poses and to aid the Eagles lodge. They have elected Mrs. Minnie Gois president; Mrs Eliza Mitchell vice. president; Mrs. Bertha Moody, sec retary; Mrs. P J. Rickert, treasurer. Two casualties have been report ed on the Nenana ice rink -sated in front of the Commission dormitory. Norman Russell fell while skating and fractured wrist. In similar fall, Fred Douse broke rib on his left side.
 The Yukon river closed at the mouth of the Hootalinqua December %.
 It is claimed by the company tha, the Tantalus Butte coal property, two,and-a-half miles south of the present Tantalus coal mine contains no less than 100.000000 tons of coal, something enormous. It is hIe, high grade coal, as fine as can be found in Pennsylvania, and carries, according to Dr. Cairnes, less than three per cent ash, which is lar De low anything now. being mined on the Yukon. Both the TantaluS properties are owned in St. Paul. and it Is hoped by the company that condi tions will warrant the operation o1 both properties before many years.
 Dawson people are contributing t a nationwide memorial fund to cree a monument of some kind for th' late Sir Wilfrid Laurier. for man! years Premier of Canada.
 The engagement of Miss Florence Fraisure of Cordova and E. c. La Belle of that place has been an nounced.
 William Wagner, the. Naked lsla1i' fox farmer and fur King. was siigi,tl. injured by, the accidental discharg' of a shotgun. which he drew out p a. boat muzzie foremost, The loa' passed across his forearm breakln' the skin and lacerating the fesl slightly. but fortunately doing littl damage. Naked Island is in Princ' William So,nd
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 Joseph Bourkc. .Goyernrent asc'i for inc suppression of liquor trafh' among alternatives. reports that bea yer arc getting very numerous q many interior points. He says thci dams may be seen along the Coppe rilycr railway at lnany places. an' ihc natives are all wearing beaver skin caps.-tvaldez Mincr.l
 U. $. Marshal and Mrs. r. H. Bren neman are rejoicing over the arrisa of bouncing baby girl. born a Valdez. This is the third daughter to grace the home Of Mr. and Mrs Brenneman.
 Chilli and Taniales for sale at l5' Front Street. adv
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