The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-03
N ALASKA NOTES

Charles and Jesse Craw fond oi Valdez have sold all the holdings of the Crawford Lumber Company ol Latouche to the Ladysmith Smelling Corporation for $25,000.
 Dr. Parker, who recently completed the examination of the dairy cows al Valdez, found them all in perfect condition.
 The Valdez post of the American Legion unanimously adopted resolu tions favoring road building in Al aska and asking the Alaska Board of Road Commissioners to expend IS much money and time as possible in improving the Richardson Road.
 Alvah Ames. chief clerk of thc railway mail service has been in structG by the department to award I contract for the transportation ol four thousand pounds of accumulated mail to Chitina and Fairbanks.
 Miss Olive Audette. of Cordova who has been in New York doing stenographic work for the govern ment for the last two years, will re. turn to Cordova soon and again work for the Alaska Transfer Company at that place.
 Joe Silver, known as Portugese Joe. trapper at Marshovia, Bay, acci- dentally shot and killed himself While out looking over his traps. He left his house on the morning of December Sth to look over his trap line. He did not return and for d few days it was presumed he had gone to Axel Samuelson's. December t4th it was learned that he had not been to Samuelsons and search. ing party was immediately organized and started out to to look for him and the following day he was dis covered lying alongside of one of his traps. There was a fox paw in the trap and from the position oi the body and the rifle he had ap parently tried to kill the fox by club ping it to death with the butt of his rifle and the rifle went off, killing .hlm.-(Valdez Miner)
 Milo Segura. who was sentenced to death last summer for the murder | of George Riley in Iditarod, has beer re-sentenced by Judge Bunnell, tn, execution having been set for Apri second.
 Newspapers of Prince Rupert, Ket chikan. Cordova and Seward hav' raised their advertising prices owin, to the high price of paper and tn, increased cost of production. Late last year, Ruby's supply o meat arrived in the shape of 80 heat of reindeer driven in for Tom Devin, by two Laplanders. Ruby's meat sup | ply is mostly reindeer meat. and thii shipment makes 150 head of reindeer Ruby has consumed, The deer ar' butchered in Ruby and sold mostly or the creeks adjacent thereto.
 Seward will have another sawmil within few weeks. William Bryai announced that he would move hil sawmill from Mile 21. The locatio, of the Bryan mill will probably bt lon the lagoon at Seward. thus afford ing opportunity to secure logs iron all around the bay as well as iron along the railroad. Mir. Bryan ah nounced further that he had secured 2 good contract from the flask; Engineering Commission.
 Eight feet of snow is reported a lDeadhorse-hill. on the new govern ] lment railway. Within the last fey days, eight inches of new snow ha fallen making transportation diff cult. Work of freightiug governmen 
 railroad supplies, however is unde way and the trail gradually gettin l in good shape. -(valdez Miner.) Capt. John J. Finncgau was one c the earliest stampcders to the Col Bay country to locate oil lands unde the new oil lands leasing bill. H chartered special boat to take hir from Kodiak to the scene, and l is believed that he was the first on ! to reach the oil stampeders' Mecca. Nick Mandic. one of tho most activ ,contractors on the government raj way project in Alaska, who went or
 for the winter last fail, has lande
 Ia contract for scme iconstructio | ~tx- >.Dx.