The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-07

l required to play the fish and bring it alongside the boat where it was gaffed and then taken aboard.
 AXel Jensen, oldtime prospector, died recently at Cordova.
 Mrs. Mary Bayless, 84, died at the home of her son and his wife, MT. and Mrs. Otto Bayless, at Fair banks. Mrs. Mary Bayless and her husband, William Bayless first came to Alaska in 1897. They land ed at Skagway and went into Daw- son the next year William Bay less died 16 years ago.
 When the chief of police at Fair banks arrested seven men in one day he had to release three of them on their own recognizance. The capacity of the jail is four.
 A. H. Anthony has left Dawson for Fort Yukon. There he will embark in a gasboat and go up the Porcupine. He is headed for the Bear Lake and Mackenzie River districts, where he will trap and trade for furs. Anthony first went into the Mackenzie River country from Edmonton in the early sos.
 Mrs. Emily Hull Bedding, who taught school at Fortymile, and Willard D. Hansen, formerly of Eagle, but now with the Alaska Road Commission in the Livengood district, were married at Fairbanks.
 Miners re [ UT nj nj g to Fairbanks from the Koyukuk say that the shallow gold digglngs in that dis trict appear to have been worked out and that while there is gold in deep ground operators with limited means cannot afford to work it.
 Bear Creek in the Kuskokwlm district will be entirely dredged over, it is reported by the Kusko Times. The Bear Creek dredge did not work last summer.
 Wild cattle on Chirikoff are not l to be slaughtered, as has been re- ported. A 20-year lease on the | island is held by the Chirikoff Is- land Cattle Company, in which c. | H. Frye, Seattle, is said to be heavily interested. He plans to cross the wild cattle with sturdy | stock imported from Washington | State and thus build up beef | herd.
 Arvid Benson drowned himself in Moves Slough near Fairbanks. He | tied 12-pound sledg ehammer to l his neck.
 TWO deer swan from Hawkins l Island to Cordova and played | around the City Wharf several | hours.
 From the east shore of the Cop per River at Chitina a mother | moose swam to the west shore. Her | cali was drowned trying to follow her, says the Chitina Herald.
 MT. and Mrs. Adolph Ammarin | recently returned to Chitina from doing assessment on their copper | claims 20 miles from there. They | have performed the same task for | 30 years. This year, the three hors- | es they took with them got away and the husband and the wife had | to walk the 20 miles over a rough | country back to Chitina. Each of | the couple is past TO years old.
 Fur-bearing animals in the Chit ina district were very scarce last winter, having migrated to the coast, it Is believed, to get fish for food. Birds and rabbits were few in the district last summer They ! are beginning to make their ap- l pearance again. With their return 1t is thought, fur-bearing animals | will be more plentiful next winter. l
 Time" the ntional magazine re- ! gently printed letter received from the boy editors of the Chitina | Weekly Herald, few news articles taken from the publication and one of it's jokes. As a result the lads ] have received 50 subscriptions and many letters from all parts of the | United States. The Herald is a typewriter newspaper.
 Only IF adult fur seals and two pups were taken by Sitka Indians | from the herd migrating to the ! Pribilofs this year. The natives | received but $8 for the pelts.