The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-10-02
NEWS GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS
 OF N0RTHLAND
Brief Items of Interest S t Concerning Persons
 and Occurrences

a quarter of a mile northeast of Shelton. The field is 150 feet wide and 1000 feet long.
 For the fall term of court at Nome, petit jurors reported for duty September 15. Grand jurors had reported one week previously.
 Herbert w. Johnson has been ap- pointed United States Commission CT at St. Michael; Jacob l. Ander- son, United States Commissioner at Teller; Stanley R. Morgan, United States Commissioner at Point Bar row and Arthur J. Allen, United States Commissioner at Wainwright by Judge G. J. Lomen of the Unit ed States District Court at Nome.
 In Petersburg, oh ldren with humps must be more considerate than they are of children who haven't humps. Those with humps must remain at home while they are afflicted or their parents will be prosecuted for violating health regulations. according to notice given by the City Council.
 Deer are plentiful in the vicin- ity of Blind Slough, the source of Petersburg's water supply J. l.. McKechnie, who is repairing the dam for the city, urges residents who like deer meat to get it at the slough.
 Labor liens to the amount of $34298 have been filed against the Wrangell NarrowS P a k in g Company of Petersburg by fisher men and by persons who supplied material and labor in the con- struction of the company'S can nery and wharf.
 A boom of spruce logs, contain ing 100000 feet, has been given its final lashings at Ketchikan, and will be lowed to Puget Sound by the tug Akutan, Captain Jen- nings. A similar boom of 100000 feet, which was lowed to Belling- ham last August by the Akutan, was the first boom of native tim Der ever taken south. The ex- portation of these logs is under special permit of the Forest Serv- ice, as regulations provide that no logs or manufactured timber can be taken from Alaska.
 c. T. Gardner of Juneau was a guest of the Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce last week and ex- tended to that organization the greetings of the Juneau Chamber |of Commerce.
 Joe Crosson of Fairbanks. pilot of the Alaskan Airways Corpor- ation, who is honeymooning with his bride in the States, met the French transatlantic fliers, Capt. Dieudonne Coste and Lieut.. Maur- ice Bellonte, at St. Paul, Minn.. last week. MT Crosson will go to Hatton, N. D., the home of the late Carl Ben Eielson, to con- fer with a committee that is ar ranging to erect a memorial there to Lieutenant Eielson. efn.
 E. L. Bartlett, associate editor Iof the Fairbanks News-Miner, and Miss Vida Gaustad were married in Valdez and will make their home in Fairbanks The bride was born, in Dawson and brought up in Fairbanks. She taught school for while in Wrangell. Last year she taugh school in the States.
 Mayor Bahlke, who for many years was owner of .Bahlke's Res taurant in Nome and last year disposed of the business to engage in fox farming, is making a suc- cess of his new venture. He bought breeding stock from Susitna Valley farms near Anchorage. He is now advertising in the Nome Nugget five pair of young mink for sale, at $l25 a pair.
 One hundred and twenty two mink from the Wasilla farm of Gerit Snider, near Anchorage, were shipped the middle of September to the Hercules Fur Farm, near Spokane, owned by Chastik Bros. The animals will form part of a large shipment by Chastik Broth CTS to Europe. Last year they shipped breeding stock, valued at s250,0O0 to Norway, Sweden and Finland. with the loss of only two animals. Besides the fur farm near Spokane, the brothers also own one at Glencoe. Minn. On both places, there is total of 1 200 fox breededs and 700 mink breeders. W ara
 To get one letter, the airplane Claire, with pilot and mechanic, flew from Mayo to Dawson, and after obtaining the single piece of mail, started at once for Carcross