• SHORT STORIES
ABOUT ALASKA
OCCURRENCES
Nenana musicians are organizing
a band, a canvass of the camp being
made to round up instruments.
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A short time ago a barge left To
keen, southeastern Alaska, with 200
tons of marble. The product of the
quarry will be taken direct to Seattle
by barge.
A. H. Range, inventor of a machine
for taking the meat out of crabs, has
been at Wrangell trying to interest
the people of the city in a packing
company to utilize the invention.
In a special election held at Ketch
ikan last week the citizens voted
wft their approval to the extensive street
improvements that are to be carried
out in the town, and the people of
Nickeyville, a Ketchikan suburb, vot
ed to unite with the city.
Mail contractor Tom Gibson recent
ly placed the mail in Fairbanks
eleven days out of Seattle, not the
best time which has been made over
the route, which is seven days from
Seattle by way of Valdez, but a great
improvement over conditions the past
winter. The last day’s run was from
Donnelly to Fairbanks.
Work started last week on the Mc
Leod wagon road north and east of
Anchorage, Antone Edie being in
^ charge. The road serves about 30
farmers from Anchorage to Eagle
river. A road is also being built to
Spenard lake and from Anchorage to
Pioneer lake.
Joe McAskill, aged 37, a carpen
ter, employed by the commission on
the government railway at Nyberg’s
camp, about Mile 81, committed
suicide last week by blowing himself
to pieces with dynamite. The fore
man heard an explosion in the woods
and upon investigating found the re
mains of McAskill badly mutilated. He
<yvas a former resident of Prince Ed
ward Island.
Miss Mary Thompson of Juneau was
chosen to represent the Goddess of
Liberty in the Independence day par
ade, after a close and exciting con
test. The Juneau papers say Miss
* Thompson is very easy to look at.
Miss Angeline Bosalom second on the
list represented Alaska, and rode in a
specially constructed float.
Chris Hoover, owner of the liberty
Theater in Ketchikan, was in Hyder
the latter part of the week looking
over the situation with a view to
erecting a theater there. He did not
make a decision while there but said
that he would write from Ketchikan
in a few days.
Much activity is reported at Hyder
by H. A. Zeller, of the Forest Ser
vice, who has just returned from that
place after a three-week’s visit. Four
claims were recently staked about a
mile and a half from the town all of
which show good prospects. Exten
sive prospecting is going ahead on the
Premier. The new bridge across the
Salmon river about nine miles from
the town is about completed.
H. Hanawa, a Japanese employed
at the Pybus bay cannery, ran amuck
at the plant last week, striking a fel
low canneryman on the head with an
axe, making a large sized dent in his
skull. After assaulting his victim he
attempted to commit suicide by hang
ing himself with a towel, but both
times the towel broke. He is being
examined for his sanity.
Articles of incorporation and a
statement of financial conditions of
the Robinson Packing Corporation
were filed recently in the office of
the territorial secretary. It is a Wash
ington concern, its incorporators be
ing Ray R. Robinson, Gus Hensley
and George A. Joiner, all of Aanacor
tes. The company is incorporated for
$100,000. Of this amount $50,000 is
represented in cash subscriptions and
land owned in the vicinity of Valdez;
a sailing boat is valued at $40,000
and boats, machinery, and equipment
at $10,000. The company’s place of
business in Alaska is designated as
Valdez.
SWEDEN AND
FINLAND MAY
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STOCKHOLM, July 15 (by Associ
ated Press).—A critical situation has
arisen between Sweden and Finland
over Sweden’s attitude toward a dele
gation from the Aland islands which
represented to the Swedish govern
ment that the population of the islands
desired self-determination on the basis
of a referendum. After a sharp ex
change of notes between the two gov
ernments, a battalion of Finnish troops
has been landed on Aland and en
camped near Mariehamn.
The Finnish government has arrest
ed two leaders of the Aland deputa
tion on a charge of high treason.
Sweden has despatched a note to
Finland urging the Finnish govern
ment to consent to a plebiscite by
which the population of the islands
would decide whether they shall be
long to Sweden or Finland, but it is
understood the Finnish government is
unshaken in its determination to op
pose any such measure.
Official opinion here is that Fin
land’s attitude is based upon the as
sumption that the initiative for sep
aration of the Alands from Finland
was taken in Sweden, whereas, it is
declared, the agitation began with
Alanders who based their right of self
determination on historical grounds
and upon principles recognized by the
League of Nations.
The Finnish government has an
nounced that it “absolutely rejects all
such claims as are irreconsilable with
her sovereignty over the Alands,
which Sweden recognized without les
ervation.”
The Aland archipelago, in the Gulf
of Bothnia, consists of 80 inhabited
islands, with a population of 24,000,
of whom 12,000 reside on Aland island,
the principle town of which is Marie
hamn. The islands formerly belonged
to Sweden but were taken by Russia
in 1809. The Finnish government
holds that the political importance of
the islands is so great that no Finnish
government could cede them to a for
eign power and that united with Swe
den they would constitute a constant
source of danger to Finland.
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Graham Bread fresh every day at
the City Bakery.
Just Arrived—A shipment of the
250-3000 Savage Bolt-Action Model
1920 sporting rifle. Come in and give
| it the once over. Blum-O’Neill Co. 3-tf
MEXICO CITY, July 15 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Woman suffrage in
Mexico in the near future was pre
dicted by Provisional President Adol
fo de la Huerta at a conference with
the teachers and students of a wom
an’s school here, according to El Dem
ocrata.
The young woman who today votes
for the directoress of her school, to
morrow will vote for her public offi
cers, the provisional president is
quoted as having told the delegation,
which called on him for permission to
select a head for the school in case
the present directress were removed.
The request made by the young
woman showed that Mexico’s woman
hood is beginning to prepare for the
ballot, Senor de la Tuerta said.
He granted the privilege asked for on
one condition that the women would
choose from a list of three names
that he would submit them.
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Office and Residence, Cordova
General Hospital vOstrander
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Phones—Residence, 115; Office, 133
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Physician and Surgeon
Lathrop Building
Phone 9
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DENTAL OFFICES
LATHROP BLDG. PHONE 200
CORDOVA, ALASKA
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CIVIL ENGINEERS
U. S. MINERAL AND DEPUTY
SURVEYORS
FISH TRAP SURVEYORS
McCarthy, alaska
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Bedford-McNeill Code
Cordova, Alaska
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CIVIL AND MINING ENGINEER
U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
Juneau, Alaska
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