A regular meeting of +hc Northla il I
Club will be held tonight at 8 o’clock, j
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Mrs. Martin M. Fry, of McCarthy, is
a Cordova visitor.
The steamship Alameda is due from
the westward tomorrow.
H. S. Dean and Teddy~Thisted, who
are with the steamshovel crew at
Mile 67 spent last evening in town.
Edgar J. Davis has returned from
the fishing game to accept a position,
in the auditor’s office of the Copp
River Railway.
Richard Bacon, who has been visit
ing in the states, is returning to Cor
dova on the Northwestern, which left
Seattle this morning.
After a visit of two months here
with her son Tad. Mrs. M. Matson
will return on the Alameda to her
home at Polsbo, Washington.
Mrs. Dick Chapman, of Texas, will
arrive here next week to join her
husband, who is spending the sum
mer in this section on a big game
hunt.
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Fred Peterson and Emil Hagan
have taken over the Alaskan Grill
and it will be reopened as soon as
some of the necessary repairs are
made.
Grant Bullock, after spending sev
eral weeks here visiting his sister,
Mrs. Lou Hegg, and recovering from
an operation for appendicitis, returned
•today to his work at Kennecott.
A dozen or more of the tourists who
came in from Fairbanks on the last
train, and have been staying at the
Windsor, left at nine o’clock this
morning on Captain Raleigh Davis’s
boat, St. Martin, for Johnston Point,
to see the salmon traps brailed.
The freighter Cordova is in port,
having arrived from Nome and St.
Michael. At the latter place it loaded
8,000 cases of salmon for the Car
lisle Packing' Company and some ma
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ehinery of the Yukon Dredge Com
pany.
A good crowd is expected tonight
at Eagle hall—A nice, cool evening
to enjoy dancing—Better be there.
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Mrs. W. J. Crooker Is returning
home on the steamer Northwestern,
which sailed from Seattle this morn
ing, after a pleasant visit with friends
in the states.
The work of building a boulevard
around Eyak lake is progressing very
satisfactorily. Mr. Allen has a com
plete construction camp near the com
pany cemetery and with an exper
ienced crew of ten men, is completing
one hundred feet of the roadway a day,
Mr. Allen served in the European war
from 1914 to 1918 with the Canadians
and is one of twenty-seven members
of his battalion who returned. He was
severly wounded at Ypres, France and
is in the possessor of a certificate oi
honor signed by King George.
Por weeks past Scoutmaster David
Czerwenka has been keeping score
of his scouts in aVontest based upon
such items as prompt and regular at
tendance at the Friday night meet
ings, building of bird houses, wear
ing uniform to meetings, refraining
! from the use of tobacco and unclear
i speech, etc. Last night the averages
were calculated and tabulated ir
order. Four of the scouts showed r
rating decidely higher than the res
of the troop. Their names, with theii
scores, are as follows; William Me
Gowan, 37.25; Raymond Johnson, 34.
16; Waldo Walker, 33.75; Matt O’.
Loughlen, 32.64.
Promptly at 9 o’clock last evening
the freighter Skagway docked, bring
ing a cargo of gasoline, dynamite am
piling. She has 78,000 feet of lumbe:
for Seward and 100,000 for the com
mission at Anchorage. The piling sh<
brought to Cordova will be used ii
repairing the ocean dock. Joe Ryan
a local diver, put on his submarim
overalls yesterday and went down un
der the water to investigate the condi
tion of the piling. Although the pres
ent. supports were treated with creo
sote to make them less popular roost
ing places for barnacles, teredos, etc.
it is likely that extensive replacements
will be necessary.
Cordova Jazz* Orchestra Dance a1
Eagle Hall on Wednesday and Satur
day nights. Music by the Ragtime
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TERRITORIAL NOTES
According to election returns re
ceived by the clerk of the court at j
Fairbanks Theo. Kettleson, Andrew
Nerland, P. J, Rickert, and H. H.
Ross have received the nomination as
candidates for the territorial legis
lature. Joe Smith is just seven votes
behind Kettleson. There are a few
returns yet to be received but it is
considered doubtful if they will make
any changes in the standing of the
several candidates.
Sister Mary Zeno, Avho established^
the St. Ann hospital and Catholic
school in Juneau over 35 years ago,
and who also established the Catho
lic hospital at Dawson, arrived in
Juneau recently on a visit, accompan
ied by sister Alexandrie, assistant
general of the St. Ann society.
S. J. Weitzmann, one of Haines old
est settlers died suddenly last Satur
day from hemorrhage of the brain.
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Weitzmann Avent to Haines over thirty
years ago and engaged in the mer
cantile business until less than a year
ago. Last fall he promoted a pack
ing company to can salmon and the
vegetables of the Chilkat valley, in
1 corporated as the Chilkat Packing
Co. Deceased Avas about 60 years of
; age.
Father Allard, who recently ar
rived at Atlin, B. C., narrowly escap
ed injury and possible death at the
hands of Gus Brunich last week, ac
cording to Skagway advices. Brunich
came on the priest as he was talking
to Larry O’Connor and Taku Jack,
chief of' the Atlan Indians and tried
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’ to draw a revolver from beneath his
coat. O’Connor grappled with him
^' and in disarming him sustained a
slight cut on the hand from the ham
mer of the gun. A knife was also
; taken from off Brunich. Father Al
1 lard says that Brunich’s animosity
extends back over a period of ten
years when the priest and his sister
■were missionaries in Atlin. Brunich
made himself very objectionable to
Miss Allard and the young native
girls and was finally forbidden by the
police to go into the village.
NOTICE
The men of St. Joseph’s Parish are
: requested to meet at the office of
■ James Galen tomorrow afternoon at
3:00 o’clock. Important.
WM. McMILLAN, S. J., Pastor
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