The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-05

Kracke. General Superintendent of the company with headquarters here tofore at Petersburg, will have his office in Seattle. visiting Alaska about twice year. The company recently sold it's Petersburg store to the cooperative concern at thar place.
 The oil lands stampede from Sew ard led in many directions. Cold Bay Illiamna, Lake Clark, Kialagvik, Been arof Lake, Ugashik, Kaguyak, ana other points of destination are gwen.
 The Alaska Railroad will have two latest Russell snow blows Tor use on it's lines next winter They Will be used in addition to the rotary snow blows.
 Miss Dorothy Wilson, aged 16, a Fairbanks girl who resided with herI grandmother at that place died re- gently at Spokane
 Word has been received at Circle of the death in California recently of Charles Lamb. pioneer of Circle. the Fortymile and later of Dawson.
 William Paulson, a we'll known resident of Nome where he belonged to the Moose Lodge, died recently at Seattle.
 w. B. Van Valin, government teach CT at Point Barrow, advocates a closed season for walrus. He says the slaughter of walrus has already made it difficult for the Eskimos.
 Frank J. Nolan for many years manager of the N. A. T. X T. mines and other properties and business at Dawson, and elsewhere on the Yukon, died recently at Rock Island, H. He was a pioneer of the Inter for, going into the country in 1899. and shortly thereafter becoming as sociated with the@ company he served so long. His promotion was steady and rapid He left Dawson a yeal and half ago to attend to invest ments he had made on thes Outside and was visiting a sister at Rock Is land when he died of pneumonia.
 The wet and dry campaign was hotly waged in Yukon Territory dur ing January and February. The drys had two headquarters in Dawson. One was in charge of men and was directed by Major William Noble, and the other was in charge of women.
 Ralph Morgan, Dawson boy. where he was greatly interested in sports during his school days and who went from Dawson to the Uni versity from which he graduated and who became secretary of the Sha ron, Pa., Chamber of Commerce af ter leaving college, has been appoint edAmericanization Agent for the gov ernment in the Shenango Valley of Pennsylvania. The Sharon Herald says he is ''very popular young man" with hundreds of admirers and friends"
 F. A. Vert, pioneer of Dawson died at Seattle recently. His wife died a few weeks before he passed away They went Outside from Dawson last fall. He went to Dawson in 1897
 Tom Aitken was recently appoint ed administrator of the estate of liar " A. Monroe, one of his mining part ners, who committed suicide at San Francisco. the appointment was made at Fairbanks.
 Miss Florence Ballaine, daughter or MT. and Mrs. John F. Ballaine formerly of Seward, was married re gently to Dana w Andrews of Se- attle.. They will reside at Seattle Alaska Steamship Company. says the Victoria which will sail from Seattle on her first trip to Nome June 2, has 150 messengers booked and is assur ed of a full cargo of freight.
 The steamer Valdez of the Alaska | Steamship Company, operated by the Thorndyke- Trenholme Company in South American trade. will continue i in that trade. The Thorndyke Com pany, of which Herman W.Ross, for mer newspaper man is now Vice i President and manager is charterlne more vessels for that trade.
 Reports were received in Ketchikan yesterday that influenza had broken out at Hyder; that there were sey' eral cases there but that they were all mild ones. The patients were reported to be showing improvement and precautions were being taken to prevent the spread of the disease. I'll (Ketchikan Chronicle.)