SHORT STORIES
ABOUTALASKA
OCCURRENCES
Roy Ashland, a former Cordova boy,
now in the transport service of the
United States, expects to be discharged
about August 1 and will probably
come back to Alaska.
The Hurdle Creek Mining Company
Is moving in machinery to open up
their property on Hurdle Creek, sev
eral truck loads of machinery being
on the way, Including a mill.
Now that the town has a new mayor
Seward has a horse corral for the
safe keeping of stray horses. Other
important matters have been attended
to by the action ofth e new regime of
officials.
The Tonsina tribe of natives were
practically wiped out by the recent
influenza epidemic, but two members
remaining. The natives are deathly
afraid of the influenza and succumb
easily to its ravages.
Anchorage has wired Secretary Dan
iels to permit the U. S. S. Vicksburg
to be there on July 4, in order to par
ticipate in the celebration, who replied
that the comamnder had authority to
\ act as his discretion.
Sixty-three piles aggregating 3926
lineal feet were driven during the
week ending June 14 for the new ex
tension of the dock at Seward, accord
ing to the report of R. J. Weir, en
gineer of the Seward division.
D. B. Tewkesbury, editor of the
Alaska Railroad Record, at Anchorage,
who recently went to Ketchikan to ac
j cept the management of the Daily
* Times, has already tired of his new
X job and will return to Anchorage.
At Copper Center following the re
cent influenza epidemic the natives
tore down all their cabins, and mov
ing them a few feet from their for
mer sites rebuilt them again, think
ing this would be a preventive of a
second epidemic.
Anchorage experiecned two earth
quake shocks early Sunday morning.
The first one about 1 o’clck was of
several seconds’ duration and the
shock was felt in different parts of- •
town. The second one, coming about
3 o’clock, was not so violent.
Jimmy Cane, a Fairbanks resident,
was recently fined $15 before the city
magistrate for shooting a neighbor’s
dog which was bothering his pigs. In
stead of giving him a medal the mag
istrate fined him for discharging fire
arms inside the city limits.
Mike Riley, one of the original in
vestors in Anchorage real estate, has
been heard from after several months
of silence. Mike is in Hoquiam, Wash
ington, according to the daily paper
of that place which says that Mr. Riley
is there looking for an investment.
Thirty-two hundred short tons of
coal were mined at the Eska creek
coal mine and 150 tons at the Chicka
loon mine during the month of May,
1919, according to a report of Sumner
S. Smith, resident mining engineer in
charge of the two coal mines operated
by the Alaskan Engineering Commis
sion.
Dr. Charles A. Wlnans, one of the
oldest practicing physicians in Valdez,
and a pioneer of Alaska, is planning
to leave the Territory in the near
future and locate at some point as yet
undetermined in the States. Dr. Win
ans has been identified with the town
since the beginning, and has been in
nearly every stampede out of Valdez.
William Martin, prominent attorney
of Seattle, and vitally interested in
the quartz mines in the Willow creek
district, is representing a large num
ber of the heirs of victims of the
Princess Sophia wreck. Mr. Martin
spent several days in Juneau last week
in gathering evidence and data con
nected with the suit that will be
brought against the Canadian Trans
portation Company.
Judge Munly received a letter from
his son, Captain William C. Munly,
who has been stationed at the Letter
man Military Hospital at San Fran
cisco, stating that he had been ordered
to France to report or duty. Captain
Munly is one of the youngest medical
# officers in the service, and passed one
of the highest examinations before the
medical board of any military surgeon:
yet examined. While in San Fran
cisco on a recent business trip Judge
Munly visited his son at the hospital
and at that time the latter had no in
timation that he would be soon de
tailed for foreign service.
Job printing at Dally Times office.
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thereon direct to the Government.
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Of the hours of backbreaking work
before the family wash is on the line—the
hands red and burned from strong soaps
and washing powders, the offensive odor
penetrating the whole house—Precious
time wasted that could be utilized in
pleasanter and more important duties.
You can eliminate this disagreeable
wash day in your home by sending your
work to the
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where your clothes will be washd and fin
ished, or rough dried with less wear and jiji
tear on the fabric and in a more sanitary j§
way than could be done at home. Try it §j
for a month and be convinced of the time
saving, money saving, health protection it
means to the whole family to get rid of
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R. W. FERRELL, Prop.
Eleetric Lighted. Hot Water. Turkish aad Tub
Baths.
OPPOSITE CORDOVA GRILL, CORDOVA, ALASKA.
PHONE 99
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