’’Alaska Soda Fountain”
ALL
CIGARS
KINDS OF MIXED DRINKS
CIGARETTES 0 A N DIES
BILLIARDS
Ice Cream and Ice Cream Sodas
Copper River
and Northwestern Railway
THROUGH SERVICE TO CORDOVA TWICE WEEKLY
CALEB CORSER Supt.
C. F. PUGH. At?ent
Kennecott Laundry
fates Care of ike family 'Wask
F. H. FOSTER
ATTORNEY
Jvotar y } i'b]ic Real Estatf
Transactions of all Kinds
Legally arranged
Cordova,
Alaska
ASA C. BALDWIN
U. S. Mineral Surveyur
SEATTLE, WASH
M2 Hoge Building
M cCarthy
Alaska
“The McCarthy Club”
< >n Second St reel
CARD TABLES
CIGARETTi S. CIGARS
TOBACCO and SOFT DRINKS
Neat —Clean—Newly Furnished- Rooms
For All Guests. Charley Chong Prop.
McCarthy Stage
WINTER SCHEDULE
Leaves McCarthy For Kenneeott'
Daily at 4 P.M.
Returns Prom Kenneeott to
McCarthy at 6. 80 P.M.
Leaves McCarthy for Kenneeott
it 11 P.M.
Returns from Kenneeott to Me
Carthy at 12 midnight.
Sunday & Wednesday even
ngs stage leaves McCarthy for
Kenneeott at 7 and returns at
10.30 P.M.
Hill Berry Props Henry Olsen
MEN’S SUITS
Cleaned and Pressed
$2.00 and up.
MRS. JOHN UNDERWOOD FRONtt ST.
Charley Veach of the Bonanza
mine was down to the city for a
couple of days this week attend
ing to business connected with
his different interests around t he
community.
Try the News for Printing.
Here and There
In Alaska
An anchovy canning plant has
been started at Valdez .by Ar
thur Silberman, better known as
’’The Count.”
A second shipment of foxes
has been sent from Seldovia to
VVasilla, where fox farming is
becoming quite an industry. This
shipment consisted of four pair
of dark silvers
Old timers of Dawson who
feared that the Yukon would
soon have rubber trees skirting
its banks have had their fears al
layed by the recent spell of 65
low zero weather, and now they
are happy again.
A deposit of tungsten ore, as
sayed by the School of Mines at
Fairbanks to be worth $2,000 a
ton has been discovered in the
El Nido claim of the Lisianski
mining properties. The presence
of the dyke has been known for
some time; but its value was not
suspected.
Matanuska farmers are going
at it right. They have organized
the first Agricultural Associa
tion of Alaska. The purpose of
the Association is to secure rates
from the railroad for dairy pro
ducts, and to discuss farming
methods. The Experiment Sta
tion is giving the farmers much
practical assistance, especially
in dairying.
The Healy River Coal Co. * is
now producing from 225 to 250
tons of coal daily.
University of Washington
Receives Gift of a Quarter
Million
The University of Washington
will have the best facilities for
the study of forestry and lum
bering in the country when its
new College of Forestry, the gift
of Mrs. Alfred H. Anderson, wi
dow of a pioneer Seattle lumber
man, is completed. Mrs. Ander
son presented the board of re
I gents of the university $250,000
Death Claims Well-known
Prospector
Continued from Page 1 Col 4
Born some thirty six years
ago in a well to do land owners
family near Helsingfors, Finland
A1 early developed that wander
lust which landed him, evntually
in Cordova during the exciting
construction days. It was not
long before he had heard of the
prospects of placer then opening
up on Chititu and the sorround
lng creeks. He was among the o
riginal claim owners when con
solidation began to be effected
and was soon placed in charge of
hydraulic plants.
He soon gained the reputation
of being the ablest man in the
district, being competent to do
anything with his hands.
He was counted as the best of
fellows and always had a smile
for everyone. He had his faults
but they were more than over
shadowed by his virtues.
A1 is survived by a brother
and a sister in Finland and a
nother sister in the states.
A letter received today from
S.H Palmer the manager of the
Andrus property states that he
will be back next year,” grinding
out a few hours each day. tryin*
to make water run up hill etc.
He has recently finished the
reports for the past year and
states that in spite of all difficult
ies the cleanup turned out very
well indeed
Mr. and Mrs. Palmer and son
Ralph are starting south to take
a vacacion of a month or so.
Bill Berry leaves for about a
week’s trip to the Homestead to
morrow. He-will take out a load
of freight to the glacier that the
Wire and E^ans outfit will take on
into Chisane. During Bill’s ab
sence Henry Olsen will keep the
stage schedule up.
to be expended for a building t o
be called ’’The Anderson Hall of
the College of Forestry” in tri
bute to her husband.