PURELY LOCAL
GOSSIP ABOUT
YOUR FRIENDS
William Urlass came down from
McCarthy on today’s train.
Tonight at 8 o’clock the local band
will meet in the fire hall for practice.
J. E. Most, superintendent of the
Abercrombie canilery, arrived in town
on this afternoon’s train.
There will be the usual Friday
evensong at St. George’s Episcopal
church tonight at 8 o’clock.
The Cordova public schools closed
for the term this afternoon, appro
priate exercises being held in the dif
ferent rooms.
The stealner Alaska left Juneau at
4 o’clock yesterday afternoon and
Agent Tracy reports that she is due
here tomorrow morning at 5 o’clock.
Dave White, manager of the Katal
la-Cordova Long Distance Telephone
Company, is spending a few days
along the route of the line making
necessary repairs.
Dr. Schwartz, who recently arrived
here from Seattle will leave on the
next launch for Katalla, where he has
been retained as physician by the
Bering River Coal Company and Chil
kat Oil Company.
The article in yesterday’s paper on
territorial transportation, under the
caption of “Alaska Ship Plan Lacks
in Judgment” was reprinted from the
Seattle Railway and Marine News,
and through an oversight the proper
credit was not given.
The returns are all in from the Vic
tory Liberty loan and as usual Cor
dova went “over the top.” Our quota
was $90,000 and we subscribed $132,
800, as follows: Cordova, $93,700;
Kennecott, $20,100; McCarthy, $6,750;
Katalla, $8,300; Strelna, $2,800 Chit
ina, $1,100.
Red Crawford, Pat Dullea and Dick
Little had a narrow escape from
being dorwned while going from Cor
dova to Katalla in a small launch.
When off Egg island they ran into
rough weather and the launch was
battered to pieces. The men made
their get-away in a dory.
The scow which the Pinnacle Rock
Packing Company lost a couple of
weeks ago, while being towed from
here to their cannery has been found
by Joseph Ibach in Nellie Juan bay.
It was loaded with lumber, coal, gaso
line and baggage when a storm was
encountered and the barge had to be
cut loose from the launch. The barge
and its contents are all intact.
The bear hunting season is now on
and thus far Cordovans have been
fairly successful in “bringing home
the bacon.” It is different, however,
with Falcon Joslin, president of the
Bering River Coal Company. He is
not on friendly terms with any specie
of this beast and what’s more he don’t
want to be. Reports from Katalla are
to the effect that the other day Mr.
Joslin came running into camp, all
excited and out of breath, exclaiming
that he had run across bear tracks.
He now refuses to venture far from
headquarters unless he is well-armed
and at times he represents a walking
artillery, with guns dangling from all
sides..
BUSTS OF LATE EMPEROR
ARE ORDERED REMOVED
COBLENZ, May 16 (by Associated
Press).—According to German news
papers published in the unoccupied
districts beyond the American bridge
head many schoolmasters during the
revolution removed the busts of the
emperor and the crown prince which
decorated their class rooms. Some
time afterward the busts were re
stored to their places but recently the
ministry of education has ordered
them down again. There was also a
proposal to change the names of all
streets in Germany named in honor
of royalties. This has been met by
the press with some hilarity and sug
gestions that there were more import
ant topics for discussion just now
than that of the names of the streets.
BOXING BEING TAUGHT
IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
EL PASO, Tex., May 15 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Boxing has been in
troduced as a regular course in the
El Paso high school and a number of
boys are taking the course. El Paso
is believed to be the first city where
boxing is being taught in the schools
and the experiment being made by
Professor Allan H. Hughey is being
watched by educators throughout the
state.
Jack McDonald, local patron of the
amateur fight game among the sol
diers and civilians, was selected as
instructor in boxing by Professor
Hughey and already has won the title
of “Hard Boiled Jack” from the boy
pupils because of his hard hitting pro
clivities. The classes met in the
boys’ gymnasium and a series of arpa
teur boxing bouts for the class is
being arranged.
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SNOWSUDES TO
BE REMOVED
BY SLUICING
Work will start this week to clear
away the snowslides on the govern
ment railroad track between Anchor
age and Seward. To determine the
nature of the task, William Gerig, en
gineer in charge of the Anchorage
division, and F. A. Hansen, engineer
of maintenance of way, made a trip
to Mile 76%, where there is a slide
25 feet dqep over the track, and Mile
72, where there are two slides, one of
which is 50 feet deep. R. J. Wier, en
gineer in charge of the Seward divi
sion, who was in Anchorage from
Saturday until Monday for a general
conference on railroad matters, dis
cussed with Mr. Gerig the removal of
the snow blockades.
Sluicing will be the method invoked
to clear away the slides. Hillside
streams occasioned by the melting of
snow will furnish the necessary
water. These streams will be avail
able for about two weeks, after which,
the snow having melted, they will
dry up.
Besides the blockades at Mile 76%
and Mile 72, there are large slides at
more points farther south on the
Seward division.
The ditcher, with a gang of 10 men
in charge of Arthur Sessions, con
ductor, left Anchorage Friday to clean
out mud slides along the track be
tween Anchorage and Chickaloon.
Twelve additional trackmen were
employed in the past week to keep
the tracks between Houston and Mon
tana in condition to run trains.
Three hundred and forty-six poles,
which are to be used in erecting snow
sl-.eds, were produced last week at
Indian on Turnagain Arm. The poles
aggregate 8,581 feet in length.
The steam shovel at Bird, on Turu
again Arm in the past week loaded
5210 cubic yards of rock, which was
dumped for riprap and bank widening
along Turnagain Arm.—Alaska Rail
road Record.
INTERNATIONAL AIR
SERVICE BY THE FRENCH
PARIS, April 17 (Correspondence
of the Associated Press).—Elaborate
plans for international air-service;
are now being worked out by the
French government and it is probable
that some of them will be inaugurated
soon after the peace conference has
finished work and promulgated its do
cisions for the control of aviation
In addition France will establish aii
"outes which will be entirely within
her own boundries and therefore
under her control alone.
One of the most pretentious
schemes Is that for a service whict
will run London-Paris-Marseillas
Rome-Naples-Brindise- Constantinople
Another line will be established be
tween Paris and Morocco, and Paris
and Madrid probably will be linkec
up.
There are at present two services
out of Paris, one to London and the
other to Lille and Brussels. The for
mer is at the moment for military
business only but plans have been
laid for a service that will benefit the
general public. So far there is no in
tention to make this a passenger ser
vice but the feasibility is being dis
cussed of sending telegrams and spe
cial delivery letters between the two
capitals by air. It takes only about
three hours for the trip so that tele
grams could be delivered quicker in
this manner than by wire. It is prob
able that a charge of perhaps three
francs would be made for the carry
ing of letters.
The line between Paris and Brus
sels is for passengers and an airplane
is making one trip a week each way.
The fare is about three hundred
francs. This service is a private en
terprise run by one of the big airplane
firms, although it is government con
trolled.
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Two other firms are about to start
similar services with the permission
of the government. In view of this
it is probable that no regular gov
ernment service will be established,
although of course, military airplanes
arc carrying supplies and dispatches
to the front daily. The time required
to fly to Brusels from Paris is about
two hours and a half.
Ther is a barber at Nenana that
carries “requisites” as a side line.
The Empress orchestra at the Eagle
Dance tomorrow evening in Eagle
hall at 9:30.
The Fairbanks tennis court is now
being operated.
A new bottling works has been es
tablished at Valdez.
FOUND—A bunch of keys. Owner
can secure same at First Bank of
Cordova. 16-tC
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