The Alaska daily empire., 1920-01-27
ALASKA NOTES

r, *|s, Y ..--@s------- s -.S 2, < Ei x Q,
 oren F. Hill expects to. open his drugstore at Hyder about February |
 The Hyder sawmlll Is expected to be operating by February l.. sy :. <
 Robert Granville colored of Ketohi.
 kan was, recently arrested: and charged with shooting at Ad. Smith. also colored. 1t is said the quarrel resulted from trouble over the .af. factions. of woman. @ 4 J. F. krause, who is in the auto
 mobile business at Ketehikau., was given the Crojx de Guerre by France for gallantry in the war. He was a machine gun man in an airplane and, noticing that tho pilot had. been killed, he, quit firing, guided his ma. chine back of the French lines. The
 plane was hit and destroyed within a few seconds after he had carried the dead pilot and the photographs out of the machine.
 The townsite. of Hyder, or rather that portion of 1t platted by Dan Lin, deburg, the. homesteader, has been sold for the cash consideration, of ss0,00o. Seattle parties being the puf. chasefs, according, to adr.ces from the new. mining town on Portland canal. The. sale does not inclndes 1 hundred or, more lots that were sold by IAhdebnrs, the original owner. Z
 ,s..T'sS. {, s-..-.-> /. < ssS3. Ssi.tfi
 The law has, come to Hydar,. and is .pefsoni6ed by Marshal John fto- nan. who took soffica Wednesday NJ. Ilonan is an ,e1-SenAtor Of Alaska, 2 genuine sourdotigh who las beeni sia practicailS, every. stAmpedk since the Klondike rnsh.i He .is Also owner of tho Montana Hteup ofs claims up the Salmon and the stnter6sts of the district afee titall5 his, interests. 3ffts appointment gives. general satisfae. ton Whils the camp vas in it's isfahcy, and 1cheechAcos were .cph. spnicuous by thelf absence, the. old, timers who started ,l1ydef got alobs very we'll together, To athe credit of the camp it may be saidl that there has never been a crime acommitted here and up to the present a local officer has. not been necessary. With the spring rush about to start, how ever, the administration has thought it about time to have someone fl authority here-tHyder Miner) <
 N. A. McNurney. for six months in charge of the Petersburg. cable of, fee has been discharged from the service, his term of enlistment hay ing expired, and with Mrs. McNurney he went south After 8 visit with relatives at Los Angeles be- will 10. cate in Seattle. He retired with the rank of Master Signal Electrician. He has been succeeded at Peters burg by First Class Sergeant Lacy. A.. H. Rolling of the, Petersburg: of. d1ce has been transferred to the Seat. tie office. He was succseded by Clarence Lawrence. Tom the Wran gell office. Carl M. Chenowith has arrived from Seattle to be. attached at the Petersburg office.
 Y There were 24 births. eight mar riagcs and nine deaths last. year at Petersburg. Nearly sll of those mar ffed there are residents in that scity .i.. Under charter to the Alaskan SEA gineefing Comfnissio the stea niSlslt Anyoz and barge B&rddK sAof kHs ceastwises Steamship {. .& ;Barse- CSJR rany will leave Seattle yat the snds scl the month for Balboa to load iso IA care and four locomotives for AnchoF aSe. Alaska. The; ]. equipment has been turned oyer to- tho Al&skaS Commission by tho Canal Zone auth critics and will be added toathe roll ine stock of the governments he!! railroad ia the north It Will be uset in construction work.a sws :.
 j, c. H.gyanison of sthev Cox Enyineef ing Company has arrived at Peters burs from Seattle to nAaks ! sufre, of the proposed water power ant mako plans for the hydfo-electri' plant the city will install at tAa place. s-s r. J. rufnivaii has resigned a' manager of the Aiaska Trust end In vestment Company bank 1t KctcAi kan and & L. Caldwell has beei chosen to succeed him.
 Ketchikan spent SiIy $se lest yea for the aid of destitute people. S i The Cityi Council oe Ketehiksn' AaI notiasd people that the iaw- asssns throwine ashes In the streets VII be enforcsd against any one thf0x ing out ashes to prefent tho boy md sifie from caaefIns