’’Alaska Soda Fountain’'
ALL KINDS OF MIXED DRINKS
CIGARS CIGARETTES CANDIES
BILLIARDS i
Ice Cream and Ice Cream Sodas
Copper River
and Northwestern Railway
THROUGH SERVICE TO CORDOVA TWICE WEEKLY
CALEB CORSER Supt. C. P. PUGH. At;ent
Kennecott Laundry
lakes Oare of tke Family VV asli
F. H. FOSTER
ATTORNEY
Notary Public Real Estau
Transactions oJ all Kinds
Legally arranged.
Cor dova,
Alaska
ASA C. BALDWIN
U. S. Mineral Surveyor
SEATTLE. WASH
.">12 Hoge Building
McCarthy
Alask*
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The McCarthy Club
On Second Street
CARD TABLES
CIGARETTES, CIGARS
TOBACCO and SOFT I)KINKS
Neat— Glean—Newly Furnished— Rooms
■' For All Guests. Charley Chong Prop.
McCarthy Stage
WINTER SCHEDULE
Leaves McCarthy For Kennecott
Daily at 4 P.M.
Returns From Kennecott to
McCarthy at 6. 80 P.M.
Leaves McCarthy for Kennecott
11 P.M.
Returns from Kennecott to Me
Carthy at 12 midnight.
Sunday & Wednesday even
ings stage leaves McCarthy for
Kennecott at 7 and returns at
10:30 P: M.
Bill Berry Props Henry Olsen.
Here and There
In Alaska
Bert Hedsrtom was recently
j rescued from death by I ndians,
in the Grenville channel. While
hunting on Pitt Island, he be
| came last and finally improvised
a raft and attempted tv cross to
the msmland. Tide and wind fail,
ed him and when he was picked
up by two natives he was com
pletely exhausted. Hedsirom is
i now recuperating from the ill ef
fects of his adventure at Prince
Rupert B. C.
If we Don’t Suit
Tell US
“The Silver Dollar”
Cigars & Tobacco Sof‘ Drinks
Card Tables
Messenger and Annunciator Service
Patrick Mahoney, an old time |
resident of the Fairbanks section
was recently found frozen, by a
woodcutter, named Chris Jokoia.
The deceased worked as a wood
cutter and was well advanced in
the seventies.
George Kennedy, a one-time
resident of Cordova, was badly
bruised when a truck upon which
he was riding was side swiped
by a flat car in the Anchorage
yards.
The wooden bridge crossing
Eagle river, on the Alaska Rail
way, is to be replaced by a steel
span some tlirr hundred feet in
length. Specifications have been
sent out for steel to bridge Pla
cer river, at mile 54, the scene
of much damage caused by freak
storms last October.
The Gypsum Mining Co. a con
cern that has operated steadily,
for the past several years,on the
Cniehagoff Island, has ceased op
erations. The company has en
tirely worked out their claims.
This mine being the only one in
the Territory that has produced
gypsum, its cecession of activities
will be noted. There is, however,
a large deposit of the same min
eral laying adjacerft to the prop
erty that has been adandoned,
and the owners hope to raise
money to open up the claims.
The Indian Mining Co., located
near Hyder, is to install a mill of
approximately two hundred ton
capacity; this year. Ore, suffici
ent to keep the mill Working for
some time to come, has been
blocked out, and a large crew is
to be put on mining and further
developing the property.
Miss Dorothy Hawley, clerk of
the last legislature and recent
ly appointed Tourist Agent,with
headquarters in Juneau, states
that ‘‘the railroad has issued a
good line of advertising matter
that will advertise all the Terri
tory as well as that portion of
it served by the rad road and its
dary equipment. The advertising
matter gotten out by the road
will be distributed in all tourist
centers in the U.S.”
When a ‘‘fella", breaks inta jail
at Anchorage, for the winter, he
can’t even sleep, on account of
the noise made. Recentlyan Aus
trian laborer, named James Ku
oil, went insane and was confined
in the local bastile. Not being in
dined toward sleep,Kucil regaled
prisioners and guards with brok
en English and on one occasion
screamed and yelled for thirty -
six hours. The prisioner has
been kept in a straight jacket,
in a padded cell.
Johnnie Harris, the merchant’s
exclusive night patrolman, of Ju
neau has “pounded, the beat”, to
the extent of 7,900 miles, since
October, 1920,according to a ped
ometer that he carried.
“The Pioneer", a new monthly
magazine devoted to Alaska news
will make its initial appearance
at Seward the first of February
Sidney Charles, a veteran news
paper man, who was formerly
connected with the Juneau Dis
patch, has p urchased the Peters
burg Report from M.S. Peririns
an d will add new machinery.
A sweeping reduction of rates
of livestock has been made on the
Alaska Railroad for the purpo$e
ofst:mu!ating farming. On breed
stock approvrd by the Depart
ment of Agriculture, a still low
ower rate applies.