.-SHORT STORIES
ABOUT ALASKA
OCCURRENCES
0 Alaska is about one-fifth the size
of the United States.
The first cement sidewalk in
Wrangell is now being built.
Blinkers will be installed in
Ketchikan so that central may call
the police when needed.
The yield of placer gold in the
Yukon for the past season is esti
mated at close to $5,000,000.
Including the superintendent, J3
tf)®hers are employed to teach in
Ketchikan schools this term.
Felix Belmonte, a Wrangell Mexi
can was adjudged insane in the com
missioner's court of that place last
week.
The Gedney recently arrived at
Ketchikan with a quantity of TNT
that is to be used near there by the
road commission.
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Pulpwood will be sold from the
Alaskan national forests with such
provisions for future supply as will
assure the permanence of the indus
try in Alaska.
Alaska is not all snow and ice.
Potatoes, turnips, beets, sugar beets,
carrots, parsnips, celery, rhubarb,
radishes, onions, cabbages, cucumbers
and peas are grown in Alaska.
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The preprietor of a soft drink em
porium was recently arrested for
having her Ketchikan establishment
hidden from public gaze by frosted
windows.
Dawson Aerie of Eagles recently
held impressive memorial services for
something like seventy members who
have died since the aerie was organ
ized in that town.
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With a loss of several hundred
thousand dollars, the Naket Inlet
cannery in the Ketchikan section,
was consumed by fire recently.
The Sunny Point Packing Com
pany of Ketchikan, to supply a local
demand, is offering to sell a limited
quantity of canned pink salmon at
* $4 a case.
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According to government estimates
* it is believed that a complete explor
ation of the national forests in
Southeastern Alaska will show that
there is a quarter of a million horse
power of undeveloped water power
possibilities.
On account of an alleged deal in
booze at Ketchikan recently, one man
is in the hospital -’suffering from
knife wounds, another paid a fine
of $200 for disorderly conduct and
a third is held in the federal jail on
the charge of assault with a danger
ous weapon. The mixup was over
the ownership of a suitcase full of
liquor.
For a time it looked as if there
would be a famine of newsprint pa
per in the west when the Wrangell
Sentinel sold more than 100 extra
copies of the paper containing an ac
count of the landing of the air
planes.
Nine men were arrested in “Spark
Plug’’ Shafter’s cigar store at Ket
chikan last Sunday night charged
with gambling. A deck of cards
and a quantity of silver coins were
seized as evidence. The men were
released on $550 cash bonds.
The Behm Canal timber unit, on
the Tongass forest, Southeastern Al
aska, has a stand of approximately
one billion feet board measure, of
which 88 per cent is spruce and
hemlock timber, all suitable for pulp
j^wood.
Agents who are boosting the sale
of lots on the new townsite of
r Wacker, in Ward’s Cove, say that it
is to be the Los Angeles of Alaska.
The new town is six miles from
Ketchikan, and a road is being built
to connect the two places.
The records of the weather bureau
in Alaska show that the average
winter temperature of the ports of
Prince William sound, 30 degrees
above zero, is the same as that of
New York and Boston, and that of
Nome (zero) is similar to that of
Manitoba and Montreal.
Harry Calder, old-time Cariboo
stampeder and also one of the first
in the Klondike rush, arrived in
Dawrson recently from his home on
Hunker creek for the second time
in about twenty years. The old
sourdough, who is about eightw-years
of age, came into town to see the
airships.
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BRYANT WASHBURN AND j
WANDA HAWLEY PLEASE |
MOVIE FANS AT EMPRESS
Bryant Washburn, who can easily
pose as the perfect type of popular
matinee idol, supported by pretty
Wanda Hawley, who’s as clever as
she is good looking, and by Cas
son Ferguson in an irresistable role
of happy go lucky young Irishman,
made a distinct hit last night in
“The Gypsy Trail,” repeated for the
last time tonight.
On Sunday night only, our local;
favorite, Sunny-haired Ethel Clayton,!
in a story that combines a dash of i
mystery, a bit of spice, and a touch
of humor, “Vicky Van.”
There is drama, and tragedy end
ing in a delightful romance. A fas
cinating story, involving just the
right mixture of mystery, intrigue, \
adventure, love and romance.
Booked for Monday and Tuesday, i
is the big special eight reel produc
tion, “The Undardonable Sin,” adap
ted for the screen from the story j
by Maj. Rupert Hughes, and played j
by Blanche Sweet. It is an attrac- j
tion to be looked forward to, out ofj
the ordinary, intensely dramatic. |
Those who enjoy a good play well;.
enacted will not fail to see it.
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JUST RECEIVED
A LARGE SHIPMENT OF
LIVE CHICKENS
FINE FRIERS
JOE FREY
Phone 22
WHEN IN
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Chassis . 735
Chassis, starter
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Truck Chassis, solid
tires, rear . 800
Truck Chassis,
pneumatic tires ... 845
These prices for delivery at Cor
dova and Valdez, Alaska.
OWEN E. MEALS
VALDEZ, ALASKA
Authorized Agent
LADIES’
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KITCHEN APRONS
WAITRESSES’ APRONS
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LADIES’ MIDDIES
PETTICOATS
UNDERMUSLINS
FLANNEL NIGHT DRESSES
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