PURELY LOCAL
GOSSIP ABOUT
YOUR FRIENDS
Miss Lenora Murray has accepted
a position in the Alaska hotel office.
The Harmon Machinery Company
has added a Universal grinder to its
plant.
E. S. Herzinger and family arrived
in town from the interior on this
afternoon's train.
The Pioneer Packing Company has
closed a three-year contract for power
with the Alaska Public Utilites.
• Frank Kenan returned today from
the Nizina district, where he recently
disposed of his mining property.
M. Finkelstein, who has been
housed through illness for the past
four days, is able to be about again.
The siren fire whistle was tested
today at noon and demonstrated that
it can be plainly heard in all parts of
the town.
A meeting of the Republican Club
will be held at the city hall Sunday
afternon at 1 o’clock and all members
are urged to attend.
J. H. Smith has had returned to him
a pair of binoculars which he loaned
to the navy department and they
show that they have had considerable
use.
“Skinner's Bubble” at the Empress
theatre tonight. Bessie Barriscale
Sunday in “Bawbs O’The Blue Ridge”
and Monday and Tuesday Bill Hart in
"Wolf Lowry.”
The board of managers of Cordova
Chapter, American Red Cross, held
a meeting this afternoon and prac
tically closed up the affairs of the
local organization.
A case of smallpox developed last
night, the patient being a young man
named Anderson, At a special meeting
of the city council held today it was
decided to rent the buildings in the
rear of the soda works factory and fit
them up as a pest house, where pa
tients can be isolated.
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NIZINA PLACERS TO BE
EXTENSIVELY WORKED
L. H. Carvey, who returned on the
last boat from the states, where he
spent the winter, left Cordova on yes
terday's train for Nizina, where he
will operate extensively during the
coming season. He owns some good
placer ground there and is also as
sociated with John Andrus, of Yonk
ers, N. Y., who has valuable holdings
in the Nizina district and recently
purchased all of the mining claims
and water rights owned by Frank
Kernan. Mr. Carvey will have entire
charge of all this property, which in
cludes fifteen claims on the Chittitu,
nine on White, twelve on Rex and
twenty benches. He will employ a
crew of about seventy men and is tak
ing in supplies and additional machin
ery, which will be freighted from Mc
Carthy. The plant on Chittitu will be
immediately moved up the creek
about a mile and a half in order to
take water out on No. 2 White. The
principal work this season will be
done on No. 8 Chittitu.
NEW CANNERY PLANT
AT YAKUTAT PROGRESSES
Charles Cerney, who recently re
turned from Yakutat, reports that the
Koonah Packing Company is making
good progress on the erection of its
new cannery buildings, which our
townsman, Contractor A1 Lund, is
putting up.
A two-story bunk house, a large
Oriental building, a mess house, two
story store building and a two hun
dred foot extension to the cannery
are among the improvements under
way. Piling has been driven for a
fish house and also a new dock. A3
soon as more lumber is received and
the machinery installed the plant will
be ready for operation, which will be
in plenty of time for the first run of
salmon.
GREATEST ARSENAL
FOR TROY, NEW YORK
TROY, N. Y„ April 26 (by Associ
ated Press).—The government will
spend $14,000,000 to make the Water
vliet arsenal at this place the greatest
arsenal in the worid, not excepting
the Krupp establishment in Germany.
BARREL AND
BOX FACTORY
FOR CORDOVA
A new industry is to be started in
Cordova and one which will be duly
appreciated by cannery owners. It is
a barrel and box factory, which will be
located at Sheep bay and expects to
be in full operation within sixty days.
The new concern is known as the
Sahlin Falls Lumber and Box Com
pany, being composed of Anacortes,
W,ash., people who arrived on the last
boat and are now busily engaged in
getting things in readiness for their
plant. The company is composed of
Julius Sahlin, a constructing mill
wright; David Collier, carpenter, and
M. E. Kenney, filer, all of whom are
experienced in their particular lines
of work. The machinery for the plant
has also arrived.
A No. 3 American sawmill outfit,
with a capacity of 25,000 feet daily,
will be immediately set up and the
lumber gotten out for the main build
ing, 40 by 60 feet, which will later
be increased in size. A large store
building and warehouse will also be
erected this fall.
There is 2,000 horsepower running
over the falls and two large pelton
wheels will be used to develop 200
horsepower in the start. The rough
lumber will be utilized in the manu
facture of boxes and the best timber
used in making barrels for the can
neries. There wil also be a good grade
of lumber placed on the local market.
The mill will employ twelve men and
the owners say they are here to stay
and develop a new industry.
STEAMSHIP MOVEMENTS
The steamer Alaska is due from
the westward late Sunday night.
The freighter Admiral Sebree will
sail from Kodiak direct to Southeast
ern Alaska ports. She will go on the
Nome run in June.
The next boat due here from Seat
tle is the steamer Northwestern, sail
ing May 1, which comes direct to
Cordova via the outside passage, and
should be here May 4.
The steamship Alameda leaves
Seattle next Wednesday.
The steamship Admiral Farragut is
scheduled to sail from Seattle May 3.1
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|| We Will Deliver a 5-cent Order Just as Cheerfully as We Would $5,000.00
Centennial Best Flour, 49s, per Royal Baking Powder, 12-oz. can . .40 Del Monte Plums, 2£s, per can .40
II 8ack .$3.25 Standard Corn, 2s, per can. .15 Small White Beans, per lb..10
11 Fisher’s Blend Flour, 49s, per sack 3.50 Laundry Soap, per case 6.00 Speckled Bayo Beans, per lb.07£
Carnation or Federal Milk, per case 6.50 Laundry Soap, 4 bars for.25 Best Evaporated Prunes, per lb.16 2-3
11 Hill’s or Alta Coffee, per lb.45 Gold Dust .30 Best Evaporated Peaches, per lb.18
1§ Lipton’s Tea, per lb.80 Del Monte Peaches, 2£s, per can.... .40 Macaroni, per pkg..10
11 Premium or Star Hams, per lb. .43 Del Monte Pineapple, 2£s, per can .40 Spaghetti, per pkg..10
11 Premium Bacon, per lb. .60 Del Monte Apricots, 2£s, per can . .40 Del Monte Catsup, per bottle.30 ||
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