The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-30
ALASKA NOTES

' Is Bishop Rowe will this year cele- brate his twenty fifth anniversary as bishop of Alaska.
 The Bryan sawmill at Seward has
 received contracts to furnish two mil
 lion feet of lumber for the Alaska
 Railway Commission.
 ~The Anchorage brass band is to give dance on the night of April l. The proceeds Of the dance are to be used to buy uniforms for the band members Charles Townsend's famous farce | comedy Capt. Rackett," was present ed. at Dawson on St. Pairicks Day by home talent Maxine Landerville of Dawson has ; been elected President Of the Yukon Territorial Association for the com. Ing year.
 Lieut.. Col. Lewis. officer in com mand at Fort Gibbon recently was
 on tour of inspection ci the mil itary stations. of Interior Alaska Mrs. John F. Coffey. wife of the Assistant United States District At torney at Ketchikan, has joined her husband at that place.
 George Winston, j. A. Anderson,
 George Morrison, Rev. A. Sliepucs,
 Dr George Dickinson and c. A. pat- terson have filed for election as City Councilmen at Ketchikan. Three are to be elected.
 The municipal registration at Kat.
 chikan last Friday had reached 439. William Don Dickinson of Ketch;- kan has announced his candidacy
 as a labor candidate for the Alaska Legislature from the First Division. 1 q P. J. Hussey and Fred Walker, l formerly of Seattle, will establish | newspaper at Kodiak. It will be i called the Weekly Independent and will be a four page, four column | newspaper
 1 The Grand Camp of the Pioneers I of Alaska has raised the limit on
 necessary residence in Alaska to be- come member of the order. It now makes all those who were in
 the Territory in 1905 qualified for I membership. The provision in the Constitution for meeting every other year at Juneau while the leg iislature was in session was repealed. The next meeting will be held at
 Seward on Seward Day, March 90, l 1921.
 Tue following were elected grand
 officers of the Pioneers of Alaska at
 the recent Anchorage meeting: I Grand President, Thomas w Nelson of Anchorage. First Vice Grand President John Noon of Seward.
 Second Vice Grand President. Thomas
 B. Towle. of Seward. Grand Treas
 urer. John Gilpatrick of Seward.
 Grand Secretary, A C. Thompson of l Anchorage Grand Sergeant. George l Dooley of Cordoya. Grand Chaplain, Thos II. Hunt of Valdez. Grand His,
 toran, John Frame of Valdez. Trus-
 tees. Cal Brosius, Dr. Sloan. H. L.
 Smith of Seward; J. Russell Walle
 of Nenana. and Jay Thompson Of 1 fditarod. I Harry Badger. rancher who has a farm on the slough near Fair. l banks, raised sixty bushels of wheat
 -at his place last season, for a starter. I He is going to have some of the
 wheat miiled and has orders for
 all of the flour that he can spare. | The Iditarod Pioneer has been in
 definitely suspended on account of the
 illness of George M. Arbuckle. the l publisher. es
 Of the twenty one Igloos which
 compose the organization, the fol
 lowing were represented at the re- 1 cent Grand Igloo session at Anchor age: Valdez by Jehn W. Frame; Wiseman, by Charles w. Kemp; Sew
 ard, by M. A. Green; lditarod. by
 Jay Johnson; Cordeya by M. H Lynch: Nenana. E. Walla; and An
 chorage by w. A. Sherman.
 Mrs. Miriam D. Ridley, daughter
 of Mr. and Mrs. John Davis Of Met
 iakatia, and sister. of Mrs. H. D Watson of Ketchikan. was married | ,,acorSIv ta Cauf Gr0ree E Bert