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erating on the Tanana and its tribu taries, is now in a sunken condition at the mouth of the small slough just below the Dominion Commercial Company warehouse. The water is about half way up to the house and much silt is on the engine. The Dan will not be raised or put in repair until the water goes down, says the Fairbanks Citizen. On Boulder Creek of the Iditarod section two outfits are planning on working this Summer. Anderson and Kline are opening up some ground near the mouth which they claim will pay to work. Frank O'Leary is working just below them. Since the beginning of the camp considerable work has been done on Boulder Creek but not until now has workable pay been found. A call for bids has been issued by Lieut. Ove. M. Olson, acting quartermaster of the 14th Infantry at Fort Gibbon, for the erection of barracks at that place. The specifications for the building are at the various stations throughout the Interior. M. B. Dahl, formerly with the Northland Trading and Packing Company, has organized a $30,000 company to engage in mild curing. The new company is the M. B. Dahl Company, and Mr. Dahl is its manager. will Wranhis operations gell, His headquarters though be at will take him as far North as Port Alexander. Having missed the inspectors for her annual inspection the Americ was taken to Seattle to andergo inspection there. The Americ is owned in Petersburg by Hogue and Tveton. S. L. Hogue accompanied the vessel South, and will bring a cargo of merchandise North when she returns. Hans Hanson and Miss Guri Otness of Petersburg were married at that place last month. Max Smith, for many years con nected with the Northern Commercial Company at Fairbanks, Nulato and Nenana, has left Alaska for the Outside. W. E. Terrill and the Fairbanks Gold Mining Company have started work on their new dredge which is being erected on Fairbanks Creek. Ninety-six hours without food or shelter, being out alone in the woods in the flooded section between Olnes and the Snowshoe road house is the harrowing experience related by Mrs. J. M. Harris of the Aatalinka road house. Mrs. Harris arrived in Fairbanks in a shaken condition as the result of an experience that few women have ever gone through, and which only the Alaska fortitude and stamnia could have combatted. She has left for the Outside. A letter received from R. D. (Dug) Morgan by the last mail states that Dug, who was so many years with the News-Miner as linotype man. and who was the town's crack shot and first class violinist, is now located in his old home town of Vienna. Virginia, where he is running the linotype on the Vienna Herald for amusement and helping work the farm of his aged parents as a business. (Fairbanks News-Miner.) A mother fox of Peter Vachon's died a few days ago on his fox farm at Birch Hill. says the Fairbanks News-Miner, and Pete brought the pups to town to raise by hand. They were all blacks and silver grays, and yesterday one of the pups died. NENANA-T remains of William F. Carpenter, whose body was discovered lying in a slough yesterday with the throat cut, was buried today. The body was so badly decomposed that removal was impossible, and it was buried at the place where found. The Bank of Ruby has sold all of its assets to the Northern Commercial Company June 1st, and on June 15th it closed its doors and quit business. The Pacific Cold Storage Company has sold all of its Alaska stations. all located in the Interior to Waechter Brothers. The latter are now the only big meat company operating on the Yukon River.
