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Copper River
and Northwestern Railway
THROUGH SERVICE TO CORDOVA TWICE WEEKLY
CALEB COR6ER Supt. C. F. PUGH, A^ent
Kennecott Laundry
I aikes Oare of tike iHamily VV asli
F. H. FOSTER
ATTORNEY
Notary Public Real Estate
Transactions ol all Kinds
Legally arranged
Cordova,
Alaska
ASA C. BALDWIN
U. S. Mineral Surveyor
SEATTLE, WASH
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Alaska
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McCarthy Stage
WINTER SCHEDULE
Leaves McCarthy For Kennecott
Daily at 4 P.M.
Returns From Kennecott to
McCarthy at 6. HO P.M.
Leaves McCarthy for Kennecott
11 P.M.
Returns from Kwnnecott to Me j
Carthy at l'J midnight.
Sunday & Wednesday even
ings stage leaves McCarthy for
Kennecott at 7 and returns a
10.30 P.M.
Jill Berry Props Henry Olsen1
Here and There
I n Alaska
The Fairbanks Hon ring mill
has closed down for the winter.
This fall the mill cleaned up all
the available grain in seven days,
producing twenty tons of tiouv
all oT which was bought by local
stores.
If everything goes on schedule
H. P. Karstens, superintendent
of the Mt. McKinley Nationa
If we Don’t Suit
Tell US
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Park will be one of the two men
selected in theU.S. to accompany
the British Mt. Pverest expedit
ion that will attempt the ascent
ol the mighty peaK this summer
The expedition reached the alti
tude of 27,000 feet, last year, but
was forced to descend on ac
count of terrtble storms and a
nearly impassable cliff that was
encountered. With added equip
inent and the knowledge of the
ground already traversed, the ex
pedition is confident it can
reach the summit.
E E. Jesson and Bartley How
ard are shipping machinery to
Moose creek on the Alaska rail
road preparatory to opening a
coal property they have acquired
recently. The proposed tunnel
will cross six large veins of high
grade bituminous coal. Howard
was at one time a contractor in
Cordova.
Many vacancies are being made
in the office staff of the Alaska
railroad. Manager Landis is elim
inating all dead wood and a gen
eral shakeup will occur all along
the line. F. A. Hansen, engineer
maintenance of way, Dave Rose
ass’t road master, Jack Larson,
storeneeper and A. A. Haag, gen
eral storekeeper,are all out,their
posts having been abolisned.
Four bun dred caribou were
killed this fall by the Peel River
Indians,and the tribe is well sup
plied with meat.
The treasurer’s office states
that 4,500 eagles were killed this
past year.One man at Rocky pass
turned in 400 pair of claws.
P. J. Rickett, former member
of the legislature says that the
past year has been the best ever
experienced in the Territory
1f i'oih the agricultural standpoin t
| He sold 150 tons of a foodstuff
i in Fairbanks last season and is
confident that there is local mark
et for all five hundred farmers
could produce.
|
it is .reported that the Premie
: mine near Hyder will issue an
dividend this month, whim
| will make five millions of dollars
that the Premier lias paid in divi
dends within the last two /e ir.s.
Tne halibut boat Majestic re
cently arrived in Ketchikan from
a trip tiiatnetted each man $K<s5
The trip extended fourteen days
During the past four months an
average of one-thousand dollars
per man per month has been the
record of this iucky crew.
The Norwegian Arctic explor
er Christian Loden, recently re
turned from a long period of re
search in Greenland, bringing a
remarkable ethographic and zoo
logical collection for the Peabody
museum of Brooklyn, New Yor*.
Leden believes that his investi
gations conclusively prove that
the Indian and Eskimo are an i
dentical race. He arrives at this
conclusion mainly thru a similar
ity in music.
Exception to the statement
that the word “Husky",the name
familiarly applied to the U of
W. atheletes, was derived from
the word “Eskimo”, has been
taken by Briegeman, editor of
the Brooklyn Standard. He says
the word is derived from the
Eskimo word “ossikee”, which
means man.
G. W. Branner, a Juneau fisher
man was recently robbed of $300
when thieves entered his room.
When they were leaving, one of
marauders shot Branner in the
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