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Show MM Wd M ; ME ALASKA i A SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 12. Ncwh b of the death of Dr E. G Cannon, ono i of the most prominent citizens of jj Nome. Alaska, and head of the Mor- ly , mon church in tho Seward peninsula kjj district, was received In a letter from ty Nome today Dr. Cannon, who was 90 i M yoars old, died in November, after S tho last boat had sailed out of Bering r sea, and the letter containing an- , nouncement of his death was sent out over the trail. ! i Dr. Cannon maintained a Mormon 1 tabernacle which ho moved on wheels m V from one settlement to another. This M ? traveling church was one of the slght3 m I of tho North. 1 1 |