The Alaska daily empire., 1920-04-07
ALASKA NOTES

Charles F. Wamsley. formerly of Seward has purchased the Alice Arm Hotel at Alice Arm, B. c. Jack Leedy, who with J T. lief fernan, the Seattle capitalist have purchased group of claims from J. H. Cam, expects to come North as soon as the weather conditions be. come settled and begin extensive development work
 O. w. Ashby, formerly of Juneau and Nome, is heavily interested in oil prospects in the State of Wash 1ngton located between Grays liar bor and the Straits of Juan de Fuca He also is interested in Wyoming lands Mining operations in the Hot Springs district are being held back this winter by an unusually heavy snow fall according to Leo Rodrigue. who returned to Nenana recently from stay of several weeks in the lower river camp. The snow is so deep he says, that it is impossible for teams to get around in the woods with the result that fuel is scarce on several creeks, with no relief in sight Difficulty also has been ex- perienced in getting supplies to the more remote parts of the district There has not been enough travel to keep the trails open to horses and the dog teams now offer the only source of relief. The snow covers the ground to depth of betweea. three and four feet
 Mrs. H. U. Bollinger of Cordova died recently of influenza. She was B years of age and was born ill Illinois. She was married in Wichita, Kansas, in 1902, and came to Cor. dova in 1907. residing there up to tue. time of her death.
 
 Hest settlers of the Fairbanks district died of heart failure recently. He was 52 years of age, a member of theF Seattle camp of Woodmen of the World and leaves brother in Minne-i sota
 w. F. Connor recently left Fair banks with four dogs for fishing. site on the Yukon, where he will can few cases of choice salmon and smoke and dry enough fish for nex.. winter.
 Col. Lewis, head of the Signal. corps at Gibbon, has left the post on a tour of inspection and will visit, all the posts along the river be- tween Gibbon and the upper Panama with side trip to Brooks.
 Jack Rooney found pay on Bettles Creek in the Koyukuk and sluicedl up $3,200 in gold last year
 Kid" Brown, Valdez character of the early days is in the Texas. oil fields and is said to be in the money.
 Wallace Cathcart of Fairbanks, who is on the outside, has gone into the auto accessory business in Seattle and is doing we'll.
 Miss Ida May Berry died at eNnana March 2, as the result of an opera tion. She was an Eastern Star, a 1 Rebekah and Pioneer.
 Teddy Winfield's native trapper Persuck, who became famous last year on account of his big catch of furs at Teller has greatly increased his fame by large catch of foxes. Among some thirty odd, he has trap ped one very fine blue fox. The Great Northern company teams lat Nome have landed all the freight left by the dry land squadron last fall safely on the Blnestone and will at once begin moving the dredge from the mouth of the Bluestone .on the Tucsuk river to the field of operation.
 The Broad Pass Coal and Develop ment Company has contract with the Alaska Engineering Commission at Nenana to supply it with 5000 tons of coal p
 George Bemis, former Tanana and Fairbanks jeweler and merchant died recently at San Francisco fol lowing an operation for cancer. The radio station at Brooks which was closed sevefal mouths ago has been reopened under the superyis- ion of the war department which