The Alaska daily empire., 1920-05-26
ALASKA NOTES

The first fatality recorded in con nection with the rock work in Nenana Canyon occurred recently near mile 354 on the government railroad. Herman Nelson, laboler on contract work engaged in "bhll- dozing" started to investigate shot which failed to respond promptly and as he approached the explosion caught him tearing off his head and one arm.
 Extensive development work will he done this gunner on the property of the Jewel Gold Mining Company and next year it is proposed to have everything in readiness for actual operation. The company owns valu- able property on Crow Creek. A permanent camp will be established and d wagon road constructed, pro- visions, other supplies and equipment will be freighted in this summer
 C. R. Brook and Miss Grace Towlc were married recently at Seward by U. s. Commissioner Whittlesey The newlyweds are prominent Seward peo- pie. MT Brook being employed by the Alaska Engineering Commission and Mrs. Towle owner of the Broadway Shop.
 w. c. Cheney who did considerable work next to the Lowell oil well in the Katalla oil fields ten years or more ago has arrived at Katalla and says he expects to have rig in stalled and work resumed on his property within six weeks
 M. B. Mallory and Miss Bessie NJ. White were recently married at Seward MT. Mallory is engaged in the fishing business to the Westward. Miss White was for several years a teacher in the Cordova schools.
 O. P Brown, with a crew of twen- ty men, recently went to Craig to start the sawmill at that place. The mill has been closed since it went into bankruptcy shortly after the ending of the war.
 Rev. and Mrs C. M. Van Marter of Ketchikan received the news re- gently of the death of their daugh- ter Mrs. Marie Rife, aged 23 years. She was married about a year ago
 The new City Council at Ketchi- kan finds the city $25,0 in debt, and has started campaign of re- trenchment.
 Parents of many Ketchikan school children recently held meeting at which it was voted to urge a, sub stantial raise in the salaries of the school teachers.
 Petersburg has voted to raise the price of light and power 15 per cent, beginning June 1st.
 A shipment of steel-head trout was recently sent from Petersburg to Seattle and netted 1212 cents a pound to the shippers.
 The Seward Ig1oo, Pioneers of AL aska, recently purchased two lots on Third Avenue and will erect a club building thereon.
 After two days visit. the U. S. g. Saturn left Seward on May 1 5 for Bremerton. The Saturn will return to Seward next August.
 Barney Rice, formerly a printer on the Ketchikan Chronicle. was mar ried recently at Seattle.
 A late Seattle Times contained the announcement of the marriage of William & Seeley, formerly of Juneau, and Miss Lucille Fox, for merly of Douglas.
 Henry Ramon of Portsmouth, O., and his wife recently went up the Stikine river for bear hunt, in the Cassiar district
 J. Cargill, formerly connected with the Canadian customs service at Prince Rupert, has been assigned to duty at the Canadian Boundary on the Stikine river.
 MT. and Mrs. R., Y. Struble of Fredericton Ohio, arrived at Wran- gell recently to have bear hunt on the Iskoot river.
 The lighthouse tender Cedar has returned to Ketchikan from her ov- erhauling at San Francisco.
 The Alaska Mines Corporation re- gently shipped 800 tons of copper ore to Tacoma smelters. Twenty five men are employed in this company's mines at Fidalgo Bay this season.