The Alaska daily empire., 1920-02-18
ALASKA NOTES

{ George Pucher, Fairbanks boy
 who went to Seattle after graduating from the eighth grade at Fairbanks, went through the Broadway High School, graduating at the head of his class and was valedictorian, then went through the University of Wash i ington where he won a free post graduate course at Yale, will com plete his course there this year and return to the west. He specialized in chemistry, and has already done
 work for the government in inyesti- gating latest wood pulp nh hthods. Billy James and partners have To- cated good pay on Fourth of July Hill on Fairbanks creek. Fourth of July Hlll discovery was made July 4. 1903
 A late arrival from Brooks reports that five horses belonging to Chris Steddleman were suffocated at West Fork recently when some horsc- blankets hanging over a stove in Steddleman's barn caught fire dufing thenight- -(Fairbank News -Miner)
 That good pay has been recently struck on Lucky Gulch. tributary of Livengood creek is the cheering news brought here by a recent ar rival from the Tolovana camp.
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 The Nenana Commercial Club has already launched a campaign for the purpose of having the winter mails routed via Seward and the Broad Pass and the abandonment of the present route from Chitina to Fair banks.
 The Nenana Commercial Club is endeavoring to secure an advance in wages for men employed by the Alas ka Engineering Commission in the Interior. ?
 Forty chickens belonging to James F'eastef of Fairbanks perished when the house in which they were roost ing was burned.
 Walter Rowson. former Fairbanks boy, who was recently discharged from the United States army with the rank of captain, has opened law office at Tonopah, Nevada.
 
 The Canadian Mounted Police expe- dition to the Arctic left Twelvemile and thereby lost communication with Dawson February !. There were seven men and five dog teams in the party The journey from Dawson to Fort McPherson is 800 miles in dis tance, and the expedition is expected back at Dawson toward the end of March. Medicines, various supplies and the mails were taken in the heavily laden sleds and toboggans. The deflcencyf appropriation bill carries an appropriation of $90.00d for 100 miles of new cable for the
 Alaska cable. Last year the Alaska cable and telegraph service turned i $1S9,000 into the Federal treasury 1 and did in addition ,$300.000 worth of | government business. Col. Saltzman.
 chief of the Signal Service Bureau,
 says the Alaska cableship Burnside
 should he replaced by new one.
 She is too old for service in north i ern waters.
 l The Anchorage Chamber of, Com.
 merce has a committee on aviation
 and it has been instructed to get in
 touch with all Alaskans who were en- l gagged in the aviation service and the
 Northwest Aviation Club of Seattle. l A peculiar incident occurred some time ago on the Panama valley DOT
 ton of the railroad lines operated by
 the Alaska Engineering commission
 A slight earthquake, which apparent
 ly did no damage elsewhere. dried
 up the stream which supplied the
 water tank at Olnes. station about
 34 miles from Fairbanks. This
 stream was apparently turned into
 some near underground channel. and
 the water tank has been moved to
 another station where water is avail able. Frank Lester Preston. pioneer of Nome, and Mrs. Sarah Florence Par
 low were married in December al Nome. se
 The officers of the Nenana Repub
 lican Club are R. c. Southworth. pre-
 sident; J. Hampton Miles. secretary
 Joseph O'Connor. Martin Nash and
 Alfred Eicklund. members of the ex
 ecutiye committees.