SHORT STORIES
ABOUT ALASKA
Alfred Usted, committed to Morn
ingside from the First division, died
recently. He was from Hoonah.
On a recent trip up the Chena river
from Fairbanks Rev. Marple says he
saw sights that he will never forget.
Caribou were massed in dense droves,
and the divine watched them pass for
hours. He stated that he saw more
caribou than he ever knew existed.
« While the town of Petersburg is
not quarantined on account of the
smallpox cases which recently broke
out there, every precaution is being
taken to prevent the spread of the
disease. Steamers are allowed to land
and unload fright, but passengers are
not allowed to land or leave the
boats,
Nenana sportsmen are planting
wild rice in the ponds and sloughs of
the town, in the hope of inducing some
of Alaska’s wild fowl to the section.
Most of the ducks and geese raised in
Alaska go Outside, where they are
slaughtered by sportsmen who do not
noon thp meat which is verv accept
able to an Alaskan’s dietary.
Notwithstanding that there is a
great demand for men on the Interior
end of the government railroad, the
commission finds it practically impos
sible to get men, and the force is
steadily becoming smaller, the num
ber having dropped from 605 ot 578 in
one week.
I. S. Loos, representing the Che
ntewa Indian school, at Chemewa, Ore.,
recently returned to the States with
thirty native pupi'4- gathered from
Southwestern and Southwestern
Alaska. The natives will be educated
in trades and given a tenth grade
scholarship.
A committee from the Alaska Labor
Union at Ketchikan deny the report
in the Pacific Fisherman that the fish
were dumped overboard by the fisher
men on Baranoff island on account of
their being small. The men state that
no fish were dumped in those districts,
as they were working there at the
time.
H. V. Henrickson, secretary of the
Ketchikan Labor Union, recently re
signed from his office because he said
the affairs of the union were in the
hands of the I. W. W„ whose actions
were un-American. B. R. Sawyer, now
on bail under a charge of evading the
draft, was elected in his stead.
Charles Gadt, a well-known old
timer of Dawson and Fairbanks, died
recently at his home in Michigan, be
ing interred there. He was 61 years
of age at the time of his death. He
came North during the tush of 1898
and from the Klondike worked up to
T7t„ u-Vi Am hn ti’nt’lfPil fllT
Alaska road commission for several
years.
Fred E. Patching, the absconding ex
press agent, who was apprehended in
Eastern Canada after having left Ket
chikan with several thousand dollars
of the express company’s cash, was
charged with embezzlement on three
counts recently at Ketchikan. Patch
ing got away with about $12,000
George Van der Veer, a noted at
torney of the Pacific coast, will be em
ployed by the Ketchikan Gabor Union
to defend Secretary 11. R. Sawyer,
who is under indictment for evading
the draft law and other charges con
nected with war activities. Sawyer is
out on $4,000 bail, and has induced
the members to put up money to de
fend hint.
Captain James Robertson, superin
tendent of the Todd Packing Company,
died at St. Ann’s hospital recently of
diabetis, at the advanced age of 73
years. He had been a resident of
Alaska for twenty years. Captain
Robertson started life as a navigator
on the deep-sea vessels on the Atlantic
coast. About sixteen years ago he be
came identified with the fishing in
terests of Funter bay, lately being in
terested in the Todd company.
Dick Creighton, who was placed un
der arrest near Fairbanks several
days ago, entered a plea of guilty to
the charge of operating a still, to ob
taining permission to visit his cabin
on Cleary hill, returned to town with
his still, which he turned over to the
federal officers. Creighton was fined
$500, which he paid.
Rev. W. A. Thomas recently arrived
in Nenana from the Arctic, where he
was stationed last winter .and left for
Fort Yukon, where he will take up
the winter work of Archdeacon Stuck,
visiting the scattered Indian tribes of
the Interior. From Fort Yukon the
reverend gentleman will go to Circle
by dog team, thence over the Chand
ler, returning to the Yukon by way of
Gibson, a trip that will consume prac
tically all winter, over roads deep in
snow, and many times being forced
to camp in the open. The life of a mis
sionary in the North is not full of
pink teas and small gossip.
MINING IN ALASKA
WILL BE ILLUSTRATED
The Alaska bureau of the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce is forwarding
an Alaska exhibit to the twenty-second
annual convention of the American
Mining Congress, to be held at St.
Louis November 17 to 22. The ex
hibit will be entirely photographic,
and will illustrate the mining indus
try in the territory by a series of en- -
largements from selected negatives.
Among the subjects treated are
cleaning up of bedrock in placer min
ing; dumps from deep placer ground
as brought up during the winter for
washing in the summer; the clean-up
of the winter dump; and the drifting
and thawing underground in deep
placers of the beach lines of Nome.
Hydraulic mining, where the placer
deposit is raised by hydraulic pres
sure from the deep pits to the sur
face for sluicing, is also pictured,
while other views detail the dredging
operations on the Solomon river.
Operations in the copper mines of
the territory are pictured by photos
of the mill at Kennecott and of the
famous Beatson mine at Latouche. A
number of interesting pictures of the
marble deposits of Tokeen are in- ■
eluded in the exhibit. Lode mining
is presented through pictures of the
10,000 ton per day mill of the Alaska
Gastineau Gold Mining Company. In
addition to the mining exhibit there
will be a large collection of photo
graphs forwarded to the congress by
J. L. McPherson of the Alaska bureau
from Washington, D. C., where they
were used in hearings on the Alaska
railroad appropriation bill.
Ham or bacon and eggs, 50c, at Cor
dova Grill._
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Steamship Company
Regular 8aHings Between 8eattle,
Ketchikan, Juneau, Cordova, Valdez,
Ellamar, Llecum, Latouche, 8eward
FROM SEATTLE— 8AIL8 SOUTH—
Nov. 1 ...—ALASKA.Nov. 9
Nov. 9 ._.ALAMEDA... Nov. 17
Nov. 20 .NORTHWESTERN .Nov. 29
Steamer Alameda will make trip to Anchorage.
Frequent sailings of freighters carrying explosives.
This schedule subject to change without notice.
F. B. TRACY, Agent
^PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY^ Jl
Alaska—Washington—California ALA8KA ROUTE 1
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LEAVE CORDOVA LEAVE CORDOVA
Nov. 12.WATSON .Nov. 23
Three Sailings per Week from Seattle for San Francisco, Los An
geles and 8an Diego. For further Information call
Office phone 223. L. A. COUNTS, AGENT Res. Lathrop Apts.
Copper River and
NorthwesternRy.
Trains leave Cordova for Chitina Monday and Thursday.
Trains leave Chitina for Kennecott Tuesday and Friday.
Trains leave Kennecott for Chitina Sunday and Thursday. !
Trains leave Chitina for Cordova Tuesday and Friday.
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Dining Car in Connection with all Regular
Passenger Trains between Cordova and Chitina.
Freight received and delivered at Cordova
Wharf from 9 a. m. to 5 p m., except Sundays.
Tickets on sale at Second Street Depot office
mie hour before departure of trains.
CALEB CORSER Superintendent
D. L. LEATON, Ticket Agent
THE NORTHERN CLUB
FRED HAEF, PROP.
POOL, CARDS, TOBACCO
Soft Drinks of All Kinds
The Popular Corner
PHONE 47 CORDOVA, ALASKA
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