Furnished Rooms
Cigars and Tobacco
"THE GOLDEN'
THE PLACE WHERE FRIENDS MEET
POOL SOFT DRINKS CANDY
.JAMES HUSSEY
LUNCH Counter in Connection
F. H. FOSTER
ATTORNEY
Motary Public Real Estate
Transactions ol all Kinds
Legally arranged
Cordova,
Alaska.
ASA C. BALDWIN
U. S. Mineral Surveyor
SEATTLE, WASH
512 Hoj?e Building:
McCarthy
Alaska
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NEWS FROM CHJTINA
Chitina August 2.>—The Cinti- j
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na school will commence this J
year on or about September 10.
Miss Elsie Spence, who formerly
taught in Cordova, and last year
at Circle City, will have charge.
Miss Spence is an experienced
teacher, and isexceptionally well
qualified, having been engaged,
before coming to Alaska, in Nor
mal school work.
A nine months school, with a
monthly salary of one hundred
and seventy five dollars, will be J
maintained. Considerable repairs
will be made to the school, for
which a liberal allowance has
been grantes. At least eight nu
• pils will be enrolled, represent
ing four grades.
When the truck owned by C.
D .McCauley, horticulturist and
carpenter of Fairbanks, left Chi
tina last Friday morning it
may not have had the earmarks
of a wedding chariot, yet that is
exactly what it was. The previ
ous day Mrs. Alma Hathcock and
Mr. McCauley had been married
at Chitina.
Mrs. Hathcock, with her three
year old son had just arrived
from the states, having come
from Atlanta, Georgia. She was
met here by Mr. cCauley, with
his nine year old son, and the
wedding occurred immediately.
Next morning the luggage was
put aboard the Ford truck, leav
ing just space enuf behind the
seat for the two youngsters; the
biide and groom slipped cozily
into the seat and they Were off
on the three hundred mile honey
moon jaunt to their interior
home. Mr. and Mrs. McCauley
hot come from Atlanta, but they
had not met previously, the court
soil) having been carried on by
correspondence.
A public reception is being
planned by the people of this
town for Governor Bone when
he arrives from Fairbanks in the
near future. The governor, ac
companied py his wife and daugh
ter were expected to arrive in
Seward on the last Alameda.
Here a meeting of the Fish Com
mission, appointed by Secretary
Hoover, of which Governor Bone
is chairman, will be held. Then
the party will journey to Fair
banks over the government rail
road and to Chitina over the
Richardson Highway.
Word has been received from
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Alaska Soda Fountain'*
ALL KINDS OF MIXED DRINKS
CIGARS CIGARETTES CANDIES
BILLIARDS
Ice Cream and Ice Cream Sodas
Copper River
and Northwestern Railway
THROUGH SERVICE TO CORDOVA TWICE WEEKLY
CALEB CORSER Supt.
0. F. PUGH. Agent
Around in Alaska
Clippins F^om Territorial Papers
igloo No. 15, Pioneers of Alas |
ka, has begun a movement for.
the erection of a monument in
honor of our kite president, War
ren G. Harding. The resolutions
passed regarding the matter stal
| te that the plan is to have the
monument erected by the people
| as individuals, hence individual
contributions of one dollar will
| be received by the secretary of
! each igloo, the lodge merely act
i mg as the working organization.
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Two cowyaks will be brot to
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the Broad Pass district from
jWainwright, alberta, by Field
agent M. L). Snodgrass on the
next trip of the Admiral Watson.
The animals will be crossbred
with Galloway cattle in the dis
trict.
Miss Mollie Iverson, sister of
Iver Nearhouse of Anchorage,
whom she had been visiting,
was reported by Captain Johan
son of the Alameda to have dis
appeared from the boat in the
Grenville Channel, south of Ju
neau, on August 12. Miss Iver
son’s home is in Chicago.
Gold ore, carrying values be
tween $5,000 and $(>000 to the
ton was discovered at Shoup Hay
in the Valdez district, on the
propei ty of E. E. McDonald re
cently. Mr. McDonald has had a
small mill on the property for
several years, but, feeling that
the returns were not commensu
rate with the values in the ore,
ne had an analysis made which
revealed the presence of nagya
gite, a telluride ore rich in gold.
The shoot runs about fourteen
inches in width as far as develop
ed and a considerable quantity
has already been blocked out.
Chris Peterson and Frank
Brown took to Valdez 376 ounces
of gold as the result of the work
of three men lor a period of less
than thirty days at the Ramsay
' Rutherford mine near the Valdez
glacier.
And in Juneau they’re finding
gold in the dirt excavated in the
streets. C. Bender City Street
Commissioner noticed a glitter
in a shovel full of dirt taken out
of a ditch, that is being dug for
a sewer main on anew street in
that city. Examining itmoreclos
ly, he found th^ glitter real, and
present in nearly every shovel
full taken out.
The steamer Santa Anna re
turned to Seattle recently with
a cargo of furs valueb at $200,
000 and gold valued at $125,000
from the Kuskokwim country.