The Alaska daily empire., 1920-05-19

!
 The lots were sold at an averag
 price of s25 each and that s136l , was realized from the sale Thi
 money, together with other none. already collected from the sale o
 lots will be turned over to the cit!
 within the next two weeks and vii
 amount to approximately $1,6OO.- Petersburg Report)
 ,I 1t-ea ;. s7. s..- l The people of Valdez gave Col John c. Gotwals, President of tn,
 Alaska Board of Road Commission
 CTS, public reception while he wa,
 there. and about 300 persons attend
 ed. Judge Fred R. Brown presided
 and made speech in which he gay.
 the history of the road from valde; to the Interior. Col. Gotwals, re
 spending to the speech of greeting
 assured the people of Valdez that
 the road from that place to the In f terior through Keystone Canyon
 would be permanently repaired
 John Smith was found guilty al
 Valdez of criminal syndicalism re- gently. The evidence showed that
 he had expressed pleasure when he heard of the Centralia massacres and said that he wished he had been
 there to help them. The case was
 tried before jury, and the prose
 cution was conducted by Judge w.
 A. Munly, the United States Dis | trict Attorney.
 ! William Ellis, Mrs. Ellis and
 their son left Seward recently for
 the South. They expect to motor 1 across the continent from Seattle to | New York. From New York they
 will sail for England to visit MT.
 Ellis parents MT. Ellis has been | manager for Frye Bruhn at Seward. The recent grand jury at Valdez
 praised all the Third Division Fed eral officials, including the District l Attorney, United States Marshal, Clerk of the Court and the United States Court Commissioner, and their | the Valdez public schools. The Federal grand jury at Valdez | urged the appointment of an assis- tant District Attorney to reside per manently at Cordova. It also recom- mended that the Valdez Fairbanks road be opened and kept open John McFall. for year in charge of the telegraph office for the U. S. Signal Corps at Panama, was south bound passenger on the Northwest crn. We will receive his discharge from the army at Fort Lawton. Judge Charles E. Bunnel of Fair banks is on the way out from that place to Valdez where he will re- sentence Dempsey, who was convict ed of the murder of Deputy Marshal Isacc Evans at Seward and Margaret Lavore at Anchorage
 Herman Nelson, station laborer at Mile 354. Nenana Division of the Alaska Railroad. was killed recent ly as the result of the premature l explosion of a blast. He was for
 merly a partner of Charles Swanson l on Slate Creek
 l R. J. Briggs and Robert E. Jones, two Bremerton attorneys. will tour Alaska in 60-fOot gasoline launch. pf tA ing Sea and, perhaps, up the Yukon River.
 The Latouche baseball team has challenged Valdez for a series of games. It is said Valdez will have 1.-two teams again this year. Mrs. Hattie Bell Erwin, who has been doing newspaper work in the Interior, has returned to her old
 home in Iowa
 E. P. Hopkins of Valdez has re- ceived his discharge from the Sig nal Corps and left for Montana | where he will resume service with tne Nortnern Pacffic.
 Mrs. Villa Mitchell and Frederick J. Date. we'll known at Nenana,
 were married at that place recent Fly.
 | Fred L. Bergen, at one time su- perintendent of the Pueblo copper
 mine at Whitehorse. was killed re-
 gently by poisonous gas in a shaft
 at Burke. Idaho.
 | Warm weather along the Yukon
 river from Whitehorse to Dawson is
 causing the ice which has held the
 aver in leash during the winter
 to break.
 I The native hunters of Wainwright
 Tn the Second division have had ex-
 ceiient success fox hunting this win : ter. some of the trappers hay
 ing bagged upward of twenty.