SHORT STORIES
' ABOUT ALASKA
• OCCURRENCES
The Pido Club is a Wrangell insti
tution.
Valdez has just completed a new
$2,500 floating dock for small boats.
The city financed the proposition.
Henry Bourdelais," "an old pioneer
miner of the Klondike, was found
dead in his cabin on Glacier creek,
fifty miles west of Dawson.
Ewens Cameron and George Ste
phens mushed from Dawson to the top
of Midnight dome and back to Daw
son recently, and planted a big Brit
ish flag on the summit.
The remains of the late George M.
Cunningham, who died recently at
*<-. Lookout Mountain, were taken to
Mayo and interred. Many persons
traveled more than thirty miles to at
tend the funeral.
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While cleaning a cold-storage
chicken recently a Fairbanks lady
found a diamond valued at about $45.
The stone was cut and evidently had
been lost from a ring. This is not a
paid advertisement for the butcher
shops.
A couple of outfits are working on
Spruce creek, in the Ruby district.
But one man, Fred Labelle, has found
anything worth while. As far as min
ing activities are concerned, the rest
of the district is stagnant, with no
new creeks reporting pay.
C. E. Moore, a war veteran of Daw
son. and winner of the Distinguished
Conduct cross, recently rowed down
the Yukon in a small boat from White
horse. He had many exciting adven
tures on the way.
A man named Lee of Seattle has
written to Wrangell councilmen asking
about the opportunities for starting a
jitney business in that town. While
Wrangell would welcome a jitney man,
it is feared his business would not be
a lucrative one.
A quantity of serum has been mailed
to Dawson from Leland Stanford uni
versity, to be used in cases of poison
ing by ptomaine germs. The physi
cian is sending samples of the blood
of the men who died to the university
for a test. The bacteriologist of the
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university stated that the boiling for
thirty minutes of food infected with
the bacillus botulinus would kill the
germs.
Dave Cunningham, Sam Stein and
a man named Quinn went from the
upper Yukon to Dawson in a small
boat. They worked their way around
the ice in Lake Laberge and got into
Dawson a few hours later than the
mail launch, which started a day
ahead of them.
According to advices from the lower
Yukon, three local strikes have oc
curred in the Ruby district, viz: At
Long, Poorman and Fourth of July.
Twq claims on Greenstone turned out
unexpectedly well. The new pros
pects on Long and lower Poorman are
as yet merely holes down to bedrock,
there.
Scientists are busily investigating
the botulinus poisoning, on Hunker
creek, which caused the death of
twelve men. Dr. Thomson, a toxicolo
gist of note, is trying to locate a se
rum for the poison. It is reported
that nine victims are dead in the
Champagne district, near Whitehorse,
and that many more victims are dy
ing. Dr. Clarke, a Whitehorse physi
cian, left for the district to investi
gate the rumor.
Special turkey and chicken dinner
served at the Cordova Grill on Sunday
from 12 to 8 o’clock. Price $1.00.
Your eyes fitted. Compound and
stigmatic lenses replaced. See Os
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CALIFORNIA VINEYARDS
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EVENT OF PROHIBITION
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SACRAMENTO, July 9 (by Associ
ated Press).—Several methods have
been proposed for salvaging the wine
j grape vineyards of California and pre
venting the total loss threatened by
national prohibition.
There are about 170,000 acres of
wine-grape vineyards in California, ac
cording to the state viticultural com
mission. It cost $25,000,000 to estab
lish the industry. The product of the
vineyards last year returned $10,000,
000 to the growers. It would cost ap
proximately $2,000,000 to remove the
vines preparatory to using the land
for other crops.
In changing the crops, virtually the
only recourse of the vineyardist would
be rotation of crops until the soil was
renewed, according to experts. This
condition would result from the fact
that the method of “clean cultivation”
in the vineyards of California has
robbed the soil of its organic matter.
In some cases land in the coast
counties, the dry wine region of the
state, probably could not be utilized
profitably in growing other crops, ac
cording to representatives of the viti
cultural commission. In this district
most of the wine-grape vineyards
would have to be abandoned or re
moved, they said, while in the Sac
ramento and San Joaquin valleys it
would be possible to transform the
vineyards less than ten years old into
raisin or table-grape vineyards by
grafting at a cost of about $150 an
acre. The crops of the older vineyards
could be sun-dried, experts said. A
limited portion could be used for man
ufacture of grape syrup. If removal
were the only recourse it would cost
about $10 to $15 an acre.
A report to the commission pub
lished recently said the grafting proc
ess would be almost useless in the
coast counties, but that if “drying
wine grapes for wine-making should
prove feasible, the coast county grapes
dried in evaporators will undoubtedly
be superior.”
“If grape juice of a fine quality can
be marketed profitaby it is the best
grapes of the coast counties that must
furnish the rawr material,” the report
added.
Shipping fresh wine-grapes to East
ern states last year brought growers
$2,700,000. These shipments could be
continued and increased if individuals
were permitted to make their own
wine, but it would be impracticable to
ship them a greater distance than to
Mexico.
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WORKS
E. R. GARNES, Prop.
Residence Phone 101-3
u Shop Phone 182
Machine Work of all Kinds,
Blacksmithing, General Repair
ing, Horse Shoeing, Oxy-Acety
lene Welding and Cutting.
AUTOMOBILES
REPAIRED
Office and Shop: City Dock
CORDOVA, Alaska.
Out of Town Jobs Given Strict
Attention.
ROSSWOG
WE LEAD—OTHERS FOLLOW
LOVERA MONARCH CIGARS.
2 for 25c
OPTIMO STANDARD CIGARS.
2 for 25c
OPTIMO SENATOR CIGARS.
2 for 25c
MOZART MAGNIFICENT CIGARS
2 for 25c
MOZART CORONA FINA.
2 for 25c
VELVET TOBACCO, TINS..
3 for 50c
TUXEDO TOBACCO, TINS ..
3 for 50c
PRINCE ALBERT, TINS_
3 for 50c
ALL OTHER CIGARS AND TO
BACCO AT POPULAR PRICES
CORDOVA
C. M. ROSSWOG
STATIONER, NEWSDEALER,
NOTIONS,
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Prices are coming down. So are
our ham and eggs. Now 50 cents at
the City Bakery. 2-6t
The Daily Times Job plant is
well equipped for all classe of com
mercial printing.
Aunty
Keating's
Wee Shop
Take a peep in the Wee Shop,
And I’ll bet you my all
You’ll want to stop in
If only to call.
There are lots of Toys,
Picture Books and Games,
Marbles and Candies and
Dolls without names—
Silks and Laces,
Ribbons by the mile—
And Frances Fraisure there
To give you a smile.
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Plumbers and
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ALL KINDS
Brick and Lime
CORDOVA MILL AND
LUMBER CO.
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Electric Wiring
and Repairs—
JOHN G. YOUNG
Leave Orders at Cordova
Sheet Metal Works.
Phone 143
Cordova,
The City Beautiful
Help to keep it so by using a
Garbage Can. Plenty of them at
CORDOVA
SHEET METAL WORKS
Phone 143
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Sixty Steam-Heated Rooms, Electric-Lighted
Hot and Cold Water in Every Room
With or Without Bath
Cordova House
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