• SHORT STORIES
ABOUT ALASKA
OCCURRENCES
Many of the old timers who left
Alaska at the beginning of the war
are clamoring to come back.
A small fire at the Sum! residence
in Fairbanks gave the department a
run in 8 below weather last week.
An overheated stovepipe was the
cause.
Billy Ford, former* Manley Hot
Springs roadhouse man, has gone to
the Chena hot springs to take treat
ment for a severe attack of rlienma
tism.
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Fred T. Congdon, Dawson lawyer
former Governor of Yukon Territory
and former Member of Parliament
from that Territory, is ill at Vancou
ver, B. C.
Snator Heckman who made a tour
of the territorry with his wife last
is planning to go over the Richard
son road the coming season with his
own machine.
Howell and Sherrard have put
down three holes on the Coyner
branch opposite 6 below, right limit
of Esther creek. Water was encoun
tered in the first two holes.
^Many Valdez citizens raised pota
toes and other vegetables in sufficient
quantities to last them until another
crop comes in. Many citizens have
also raised their own pork this year.
Trains are running between Sew
ward and Anchorage,-proving that the
railway can be kept open during the
"* winter unless unusual severity of
weather sets in.
The recent trial of William Demp
sey, convicted of the murder of Isaac
Evans and Margeret Lavor will cost
the government between twenty-five
and thirty thousand dollars.
A case of rum in consignment from
Dawson to Whitehorse was broken in
to by some rum-lapper and two quart
bottles taken. Some one also stole a
case of butter from the warehouse in
Whitehorse.
Work for the winter has been stop
p«*V on the Alaska Endicott Mining
company’s property at William Henry
Day in southeastern Alaska. Work
will be resumed in the spring, a mill
being planned for the property.
Capt. A. D. Bell, late commanding
officer at the Whitehorse Royal North
west Mounted Police barracks, is now
stationed at Vancouver, B. (’. as pay
master and quartermaster for the
western division of the R. N. W. M. P.
The signal corps telepraph stations
between the coast and Fairbanks
have two men on each station, and
the operator and an infantryman. The
life is a lonely one, and the men hunt
for both food and to relieve the
tedium.
C. Branstetter, a pioneer miner ol
the Salkachet district, has been three
years running a ue.PooiC drain in the
shape of a tunnel to carry the watei
off his property on Caribou creek
The ground, though wet and spotted
is considered quiet rich.
The Alaska Trust Company has
been incorporated under territoria
laws for the purpose of conducting
a general banking business in Ketch
ikan. The first directors are Dear
C. Cannon, James Dickson, F. J. Fur
nivall, F. E. Ryus, N. F. Zimmerman
Karl Brandenburg was taken intc
custody at Ketchikan last weel
charged with impersonating an officei
in California ports and with passing
bogus checks in Seattle. He is being
held until arrangements can be made
for his extradition.
The town of Petersburg has beer
named by Judge Robert W. Jenninge
as a new recording district U. S
Commissioner M. S. Perkins will ac
as a recorder with his other duties
Petersburg is a central point for a
great many boats and the new office
will be convenient.
Another body of high grade coppei
ore was run into on the lower level!
of the Copper King mine at White
Horse recently. A big shipment of ore
from this mine went out on the las
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sailing of the freighter Redondo from
Skugway, consigned to the Tacoma
smelter for treatment.
A remarkably well shaped human
skull, that of a white man over 30
years of age, was picked up on the
Juneau heich recently by Re H. K.
Greeniug^and efforts have heen made
to see whom it belongs to. So far »'o
one has came forwar dto claim it
and some Juneau man Is running
I about with his cranium missing.
A small boat named the Hoho, was
picked up In Dixon's Entrance by the
gas boat Norma, A. Jacobson, master,
while en route from Prince Rupert
to Ketchikan last week. There are no
marks on the hull to indicate where
it belonged. It has a small pilot house
■ ar.d had apparently been fitted with
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a gasoline engine at some time but
rlid not have one in when found.
Shippers from Fairbanks to Nena
nn are already complaining about the
rates on the governmcint railroad.
The friegt «i'rom the interior metrop
olis to JVenana costs $2u a ton, on a
S milb haul. Freight from Nenana
to Fairbanks (coal is the only commo
dity) costs ?2 per ton. The difference
is so extreme that residents have
taken the matter up with the proper
officials.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
ORDINANCE NO. 68
Ann Ordinance amending Ordinance
5, entitled “An Ordinance to pro
vide for general and special elec
tions in the Town of Cordova ,in
the Territory of Alaska.”
Be it ordained by the Common Coun
cil of the Town of Cordova Terri
tory of Alaska.
Section 1. That section Five of Or
dinance No. 5 entitled "An ordi
nance to provide for general and
special municipal elections in the
Town of Cordova, Territory of Alas
ka”, is hereby amended and made
to read as follows: The qualifica
tions of a voter for members of the
school board for the Cordova school
district shall be as follows: All
adults, male and female who are
citizens of the United States, bona
fide residents of the Territory of
Alaska for one year or more and of
the town of Cordova for at least
six months immediately proceeding
the date of election.
Soctlon 2. All ordinances or parts of
ordinances in conflict herewith are
hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. This ordinance shall take ef
fect immediately upon its passage.
Sec. 4. This ordinance shall be pub
lished for one week in the Cordova
Daily Times at Cordova, Alaska.
Passed and approved, December 15th,
1919.
SEAL. A. J. ADAMS Mayor
K. G. ROBINSON,Town Clerk,
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FRESH FROM OUTSIDE
Beef, Pork, Veal, Mutton and Poultry
Wholesale and Retail
All Orders Given Prompt Attention
NORTHERN MEAT MARKET j
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NEW
BILLIARD
| TOURNAMENT
Wednesday another
series of handicap
billiard matches will
begin at the
HORSESHOE
Contestants will be
handicapped accord
ing to their averages
in the tournament
just ended.
Players who desire
to enter the series
will leave their
names at the counter
at the Horseshoe.
FIRST PRIZE—$25
SECOND PRIZE—$15
THIRD PRIZE—$15
THE HORSESHOE
BILLIARD HALL
E. L. HARWOOD, Prop.
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MR8. J- W. KENNEDY
Chitina, Alaska
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SANITARY PLUMBING
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Sheet Metal Work
SECOND STREET, NEXT DOOR TO FEDERAL JAIL
PHONE 72
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Pool and Billiard Parlors
CIGARS, SOFT DRINKS AND TOBACCO.
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