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GOSSIP ABOUT
YOUR FRIENDS
The freighter Skagway is in port
with si cargo of coal.
An effort is now being made to
salvage the sunker steamer Mariposa.
R. W. Baxter, Caleb Corser and
Falcon Joslin left on this morning's
train for Kennecott.
Miss Grace Osborn arrived yester
day from the states and will visit her
sister, Mrs. Parke Stump.
The launch Donaldson returned to
Fort Liscum this morning, after hav
ing been inspected here.
Attorney T. J. Donohoe and family
left on the Alameda for Valdez, where
they will remain for a couple of weeks.
BQth local banks will be closed to
morrow, Memorial Day, and the post
office and cable office will observe
holiday hours.
James Kennedy, who is one of Skag
way’s leading merchants, arrived on
yesterday’s boat to visit his brother,
George Kennedy.
The government cable was repaired
late yesterday afternoon and communi
cation has been reestablished between
Alaska and the States.
A box brought from Chilkat on the
launch Swan for Miss Elizabeth
O’Loughlen was taken from the city
dock and the owner would appreciate
its return.
Tony Lynch, who has been confined
to the general hospital for some time
through injuries received by being
gored by a bull, was able to be about
town last night.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Coats were Cor
dova arrivals on yesterday’s boat and
left on this morning’s train foi
Strelna, where Mr. Coats will make ar
examination of the Alaska Coppei
Company’s property.
Link Wain has purchased the tw<
lots adjoining the Windsor hotel am
he has let a contract to Bartley How
ard to remodel the ground floor of th<
lower wing of the hotel, transformini
it into a number of large and com
fortable rooms.
J. h. Downing and wife arrived
from Seattle yesterday and will locate
here, Mr. Downing having accepted a
position in the hardware department
of the Blum, O’Neill Company store.
Francis Flynn, a discharged soldier
who arrived here yesterday from Fort
Liscum, was arrested for violating
the bone dry law. He plead guilty
and Commissioner Noaks fined him
$100 and costs.
The last chance this evening to see
handsome “Bill” Russell in “The
Twinkler,” also a Hearst-Pathe News
and a Triangle comedy. Don’t miss
this good program. Tomorrow, Torn
Moore in "The Clown.”
Dr. Bunch, formerly surgeon for the
Kennecott Copper Corporation, was
killed in an auto bus accident while
going from Camp Merill to New York
city. This information was received
by Archie Field in a letter from our
former townsman, Angus Holliday,
who is at Camp Merritt. Dr. Bnnch
enlisted early in the war and had but
recently returned from overseas,
where he had seen considerable serv
ice and was both gassed and wounded.
LOTS OF FUN IN STORE
FOR TOMORROW NIGHT
Patriotic celebrators finish up the
day in memory of our fallen boys right
by helping the W. C. T. U. Jubilee
Fund. Come young, and old, to the
old Northland Club rooms on Friday
evening. Have a peek into the future;
one of the best fortune tellers procur
able will read your palm. If you want
good music our younger set will sing
In fact all amusements will be found
somewhere. If its fun you want
come and at the same time bring your
dimes. Ice cream and cake, 25 cents.
We must raise $1,000,000 and Cordova
must do its share. The funds are to
be divided as follows: Child welfare,
$150,000; health and morality, $100,
000; Americanization, $200,000; wom
en in industry, $30,000; education and
information, $50,000; world prohibi
tion, $300,000; headquarters, Evanston
and Washington, $50,000; equipment
and repairs, $20,000; field service,
$30,000; administration, $70,000. If you
can’t atend the social drop in Hegg’s,
i Cordova or Northern drug stores or
l the theatre, or Windsor, Northern or
- Alaskan hotels and put in a contribu
> tion in the glass containers placed for
; that purpose.
SHORT STORIES
BOUT ALASKA
OCCURRENCES
A Telegraph creek Indian recently
sold his fur catch at Wrangell for
$820.
A fifth teacher is to be added to ;
the teaching staff of the Wrangell
public school this year.
The ice has gone out of the Sti
kine and the river is now being nav
igated, although the water is very
low.
The coal mines at Tantalus on the
Yukon have been leased and the coal
will be mined there on quite a large
scale this season.
A big rock slid onto the White
Pass & Yukon track near the Denver
station one day last week, blocking
traffic for a short time.
Work will soon commence on the
job of moving 3,000 tons of steel railB
from Seattle to Anchorage for use on
the government railroad.
The keel is to be laid soon at Prince
Rupert on the first of a number of ves
sels that are to be built there for the
Canadian government.
Superintendent Cash, of the Royal
Mail service, recently put in 84 hours
of almost continuous work in trans
porting people across Lake LeBarge
on the ise.
Two men who recently arrived in
Wrangell from a three-weeks trip
up the Stikine river sold the fur that
had been caught on the trip for $1,300.
A Seattle firm recently was the suc
cessful bidder on the contract to furn
ish one million feet of lumber for the
Alaska railroad. The lumber will be
used in rebuilding bridges on the road
out- of Seward.
The William Britt drug store, after
having been operated continuously for
the past twenty years in Skagway, is
to be moved to Juneau where it will
be conducted as a branch of the Britt
store there.
Limerick Alley, at one time jfcta
mous thoroughfare at Skagwa|ymkt
which for a number of years hafe. hot
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been used, will again come into the
limelight. The office of the town
treasurer will be reached in the future
by way of the alley.
Rev. T. K. Thorvilson, who for a
number of years was the pastor of
the Lutheran church at Petersburg,
died recently at his home in Minne
apolis. The Rev. Torvilson occupied
the pulpit in Douglas several times.
Percy DeWolf, the mail carrier on
the Dawson-Eagle route, lost two
valuable horses by drowning in the
Yukon a short time ago. The mail
carrier narrowly escaped death him
self in attempting to rescue the an
imals after they had fallen through
the river ice.
Frank M. Bitinger and Miss Esther
White were married in Skagway last
Sunday. The groom is a quartermaster
general and will be stationed on the
government steamer Jeff Davis this
season on the Yukon. The bride is
from San Francisco. The two met in
the Philippines.
The schooner Casco, which once
belonged to Robert Louis Stevenson,
has left San Francisco on a myster
ious voyage. On board the boat are
thirty men who have formed a com
pany to work a placer mine some
where in the Arctic regions. The
Casco will sail for Dutch Harbor and
leave that place for the Arctic as soon
as the ice will 'permit.
STOP! LOOK! LI8TENI
Did you see the glass jars at the
Empress theatre box office, Hegg’s,
Cordova and Northern drug stores and
the three leading hotels. Go in and
see what others have done and do your
share! Listen: Do unto others as you
would be done by!
NOTICE
Will the parents of children suggest
the picking of bouquets of violets, etc.,
that the children may be represented
in full force at tomorrow’s program
and a the signal may file by the monu
ment and deposit thereon their little
bouquets.
TAG*DAY
Get all tagged up for a good cause.
Twenty-five cents a tag. Boys and
girls will sell them on the street Sat
urday.
Home portraits of quality. Agency
Cordova drug store. Scarborough, pho
tographer. 14-tl
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