The Alaska daily empire., 1920-05-19
{ ALASKA NOTES


 Interior, passed away at St. Jo- seph's hospital, Fairbanks. Death was due to heart trouble and came suddenly, as he was just out of the i hospital but a few hours prior to the end Little is known of his an 1 tecedents, save that he spent his early years in Salem. Mass, and at
 one time served an enlistment in the
 navy He came to Alaska with the army and was stationed at Fort l Fgbert, Eagle, before the stampede 1 to Fairbanks. After his discharge
 from the army at Eagle he came to
 Fairbanks, where he has been en- gagged in mining for some time,
 serving occasionally as a reporter
 on a Fairbanks paper.
 A fine of $500 was imposed on o. | Samuelson in the police court at
 Dawson recently, the defendant be-
 ing accused of having P beaver
 skins in his possession Samuelson, who had arrived in the city only re- I gently from the Ladue section, went
 before the police to arrange for
 shippnig his furs, and they, learn | ing that he had beaver in his pos session, imposed the fine. Samuelson claimed that the law prohibiting the killing of beaver in the Yukon Ter ritory had been passed while he
 was in the hills, and he was un- aware of it, but the local Solomon informed him it was his business to keep posted on the laws.
 Fred Edwards, of the Annette Isi and cannery crew while driving piles yesterday, suffered such a SC. we're injury to his left hand that it was necessary to amputate the thumb. The accident occurred 12 miles from ketchikan yesterday af ternoon and it was not until last night that he reached Ketchikan, where he was treated by Dr. J. H. Mustard The thumb was so badly torn, however, that it could not be saved.-(Ketchikan Chronicle, May 10)
 F. F. Fedderson is receiving on every boat mail from California au- tomobile users, all praising the MiloLite, the invention of a Ketch- ikan man. The company which was organized some months ago are in hnnno nf ntIftin0 if tho mo rot on a large scale within short time and the advance demand for them gives the assurance that they will meet with approval everywhere, Mir. Fedderson says.-(ketchikan Chron- icle)
 Advices were received in Valdez last week telling of the death of Mrs. Anna B. Dieringer, of that community, at Colby, Washington, where she had been visiting friends Mrs. Dieringer was the mother of A. M Dieringer, agent for the Al. aska steamship company at Valdez She was one of the pioneer residents of that town and was preparing to return to the North at the time of her death 1nterment will be made at Seattle.
 In announcing the suspension of the Ketchikan Times, the lessees, H. V. Hendrickson and E. A. Heath, declared that the accounts which caused the paper to go into bank ruptcy were not contracted by them but they were the debts of the own ing company. This is borne out byI the list of liabilities, which show that the company owed Mir. Hendrix son $400 and that he and Mir. Heath owed the company nothing.
 Belle, the mare originally brought to Alaska by George c. Hazelet atl the time of the Chisana rush in 1902-3, and sold to Shorty Gwinn that fall. died at Mccarthy recently, after long and useful life. MT. Gwinn had owned the mare from the time of her purchase until her death.-(Valdez Miner)
 Pete McMullen was recently ap- pointed United States deputy mar shal for McGrath and will be sta toned on the Kuskokwim perman- ently The Kuskokwim has never had a resident marshal, and the nearest deputy was at Iditarod. over a hundred miles distant
 B. F. Heintzelman, of the Port land office of the Forestry Depart ment, is now in Southeastern Alas ka and will spend the summer making surveys and rendering aid to proposed pulp plant installations. Petersburg Report.)
 Anna Bonner, a former resident of committed suicide in NewI York recently, after having been ar rested for stealing some 300 d.a- monds and other precious stones on t.rsv, th1 x~rnr1d