MAPI GSOF
L. K. Rhocfa of Kennecott is a Cor
dova visitor.
The launch Pioneer leaves for Ka
talla Monday morning.
Latouche wants the local ball team
to play there next Tuesday.
John Abrahamson of Fidelgo bay is
spending a few days in town.
The steamer Admiral Watson is
scheduled to sail from Seattle tomor
row.
First street and the road to the
dock are being repaired and put in
good condition for travel.
James Chadwick is receiving the
congratulations of his friends upon
an addition to his family. It’s a girl.
Dr. W. A. Mulholland of Juneau, who
spent several days here, returned
home on the Admiral Evans yesterday
afternoon.
A native child died at the hfcspital
yesterday with tuberculosis. The fun
eral took place this ''afternoon, serv
ices being conducted by Rev. F. A.
Lashier.
The married women of town met
at the city hall last night and organ
ized an athletic club. There were
about twenty persons and all are en
thusiastic over the new organization
and its plans for indoor sport.
The steamship Alameda is due from
the westward late tomorrow night oi
early Monday. As there are a num
her of excursionists aboard and lots
of copper ore to load, the Alamedc
will not likely sail for Seattle til
Monday noon.
J. S. Hubbard, Jas. Chamberlain, J
B. Berling, J. O’Keefe, O. A. Carlson
Walter Grigby and a working crew oi
five from the local radio station left
on the Admiral Evans yesterday after
noon for Sitka, where they will dc
some repair work.
Capt. R. E. Davis, of the oonah
Packing Company, came over from
Chilkat this morning.
The cable was out of commission
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again from 8 o’clock this morning
which accounts for our lack of tele
graphic news today.
Major Glenn E. Edgerton, corps of
engineers, United States army, for
merly of the Alaska road commission
with headquarters at Valdez, and well
t
known here, is receiving congratula
tions on the birth of a second child, a
daughter, at Columbia hospital, Wash
ington, on July 11. The little girl has
received the name of her great-grand
mother, Diana Trent.
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George Stimson was made a life j
member of the Pioneers at Ketchikan
last week. He is keeper of the Mary
Island light.
Trapping was good the past winter
at Wainwright. Sixty polar bears and
close to 600 foxes were taken by the
whites and natives.
Mrs. Susie Williams of Wrangell,
died last week after an illness of sev
eral weeks duration. She leaves a
son and two daughters.
The Polet Grocery of Nome has re
opened new quarters on the south
side of Front street, formerly occu
pied by the Modini cafe.
John A. Wilson, a Nome man re
siding in the states, had one of his
arms broken when a Lizzy he was
cranking kicked back at him.
Thomas O’Hara and Mrs. Agnes Bil
| son were united in marriage at Fair
i banks recently. O’Hara was the Fair
I banks manager of the Brower stage
line.
,: Charles Watson of Nome was made
seriously ill last month by inhaling
the fumes of dynamite while blast
ing on his claim a few miles from
town.
H. A. Pinger, formerly manager of
the mercantile department for the
Treadwell company at Douglas, is re
’ ported to have died recently in Ne
t
vada.
The Federal court house at Ketchi
1 kan was slightly damaged by fire last
week, the judge’s chamber and
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office of the clerk being slightly
damaged by water.
Tony Strunk, a well known old
timer of the Brooks district, died re-,
cently at Fairbanks. Strunk wns a
'"hi •'
barber at Brooks and had been a res
ident of the camp for many years.
The gas "boat Montclair was sold
to Chas. Williamson at Ketchikan
last week. The gas boat Valid was
also purchased by Alfred Howe. Both
vessels are used in the fishing busi
ness.
The best game of baseball played
in Ketchikan for several seasons was
one between Metlakatla and Ketchi
kan, ending 2 to 2 in the seventh in
ning, the game being called at nine
o’clock on account of darkness.
The recent influenza epidemic cost
the town of Nenana about $15,575.29,
of which amount the town is obligated
for- $7,333.50, the commission for
$7,865.84, and the Indian fund for
$397.95.
Alex Mathewson, a mining operator
of Iditarod, was recently severely in
jured by having his arm so badly
crushed it is feared amputation will
be necessary. He was taken to Holy
Cross hospital.
The Rust house in Nenana has been
taken over by Mrs. Charles Stanford,
who is widely known in interior
Alaska. She has lived in all the camps
in the interior from one end of the •
Yukon river to the other.
A launch propelled by a gasoline
motor and air propeller has , been
built at Dawson for use on the Forty
mile. The boat is steered by a
; water rudder but can also be steered
with an air rudder if desired.
Tom Gibson, summer mail carrier
from Cnitina to Fairbanks, has been
making and breaking records since he
took over the contract. He recently
took the mail in to the interior metrop
olis in 41 hours from the coast.
Harry C. Casper, one of the old
time Yukon printers and a live mem
ber of the craft in the days when
Dawson had between 20 and 30 men
belonging to the union, is in one of
the prosperous towns of Ontario.
Cordova Jazz Orchestra Dance at
Eagle Hall on Wednesday and Satur
day nights. Music by the Ragtime
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