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Tonight at 8 Sharp—One show
Introductory Picture-PICTOGRAPH
THE EXCELLENT ACTRESS
PAULINE FREDERICK
IN THE 5-ACT DRAMA
“DOUBLE CROSSED”
A Play with a Good Plot, Fine Acting,
and Pretty Scenes.
General Admission 30c and 10c j
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SULZER NOW LEADS
BY TWENTY-SIX VOTES
The1 returns from the only missing
precinct in the Fourth division. Kan
tishna. have been received They
give Sulzer a plurality of three, thus
increasing his lead in the territory to
21. There are eleven precincts in
this division that have not yet re
ported election returns. They are
Koggiung. Nushagak, Sanak. Chisana,
Kenai. Iliamnn, Susitna. TJnga. Xenil
chik. Chignik and Naknek. There are
nearly 200 voters in these precincts.
latter It is unofficially reported
that the vote at Susitna was Sulzer
7. Wickershatn 2’. If this is correct
Sulzer's plurality in the Territory is
twenty-six.
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KILLS SON BY ACCIDENT
\rrivals at Seward from the In
terior report that just before they left
Flat City T Twitchell arrived there
and reported that he had shot and
l.illed his son by accident It seems
that while Mr. Twitchell was trying
to hill a wild pack horse it hull t
glanced from the horse's hack and
killed his son. Mr. Twitchell was
formerly with the Knskokwim Trail
, ing Company, but is now in the rein
deer business.
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CHICAGO CUBS LOSE
THEIR BEST PITCHER
CHICAGO. Dec. 3.—Grover Cleve
land Alexander, the Cubs' famous
pitcher, is with the American army
of occupation in Germany, and ''•ill
he unable to pit* li next year.
The Cubs will train on the Pacific
coast next spring if they can arrange
a dual training trip with some \nieri
can League club.
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Your eyes titled Compound and
stigmatlc lenses replaced See Os
borne.
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HAPPENINGS
ABOUT TOWN
The freighter Cordova is in port,
loading copper ore.
( has. Cerney hoarded the Alameda
for a look at the big outside.
T. M Hunt of the forest, service
went to Seattle on today's boat.
,J. <). Patton of Seward is among
those going outside on the Alameda.
K ('. Keesley and family of Valdez
• are Alameda passengers for Seattle.
The P. S. S. Saturn is now on the
way to China for wireless work.
Dan ('. Whiteford has leased the
Frisco cafe, and it will be open for
business tomorrow morning.
(). F. Jones departed on today's boat,
for Seattle, where he will join Mrs.
Jones and spend the winter.
T. \V. Hawkins of the firm of Brown
' Hawkins of Seward, is aboard the
Alameda hound for California.
The Ladies’ Altar Society will meet
at the home of Mrs. Rosswog at K
o'clock mi Wednesday evening.
The Ladies' Aid of the Presbyterian
church will meet at the home of Mrs
Currier Wednesday afternoon at 2:30.
Robert Sommers and W. W. Mc
Kinnon of Fairbanks left for tbe
States today, after a plea ant stay of
a week.
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Miss Jane Murray, who served the
usual live days at the detention hos
pital. is again among lor Cordova
friends.
K. \ Macintosh, a mi-sionary at
Tanana Crossing, was an arrival in
town on yesterday's train • n his way
to the States.
Mrs Howard Ballard and little son
left on the Alameda for Smith Bend
Wash, when* they will vi it the for
nn r's parents
Captain Davis of the Homtah Pack
ing Company is in town today, after
having been discharged from the de
tention hospital.
Senator Luther <\ Hess, It. L Vin
ing and Waiter Cathcart of Fairbanks
I left here today for the States oceom
I pnnicd by their wives.
There were IL'J passengers aboard
the Victoria from Anchorage, and
when they arrived at Seward they
were taken direct to tin- boat.
K. Harris, manager of the Cache
Creek Dredging company, is a through
passenger on tin* Alameda He is uc
companied by Mrs. Harris and son
F. .1 Haves. Democratic politician
of Valdez, is an Alameda passenger on
a trip to his old home town in Iowa.
Babe ' says he will return to Alaska
in the spring.
Dan McKenzie. John Kneeland,
John Lund, Jack Holder and Dan Me
Hinnis, all well known people of Flat
and Iditarod. arc passengers for the
< hitside on the Victoria.
A1 Winehell, and employe of tin*
Yukon Hold Company at Flat, whose
wife and children were victims of
the Prim e Sophia wreck, is a passen
! gel* for Seattle on the Victoria.
'i'll** body of Corporal Lester Van
Fleet of tie Fourteenth infantry, who
died at Anchorage several days ago.
is on the Victoria, being shipped to
his old home in the South for burial.
-Mrs Chav. Naud of Valdez is en
route to th** States to join her bus
hand, who is a member of the Four
teenth infantry She will also visit
her mother. .Mrs N«*ls J* p-on, who is
ill
“Double crossed, a ver> clever and
classy production, and played with
great skill 1>> Pauline Frederick, v. ill
he shown at tie* Kmpiess theater f«>
night. Also current event in th
I ’ietogniph.
Jam* 11>laud, who has I• 11 a pat
i**nt th** Cordova g* i• r.11 hospital,
left today for Maui Mm - ' iu titu’* :i«
Koehest, r. .Minn., uh-n }*•• \ ill mile,
g" an nperat i«*ti M r Flor* tie- Salli
\ an accompanied him a tier ..
1 it.ittri .1 smith, I 'Uini i lei! wiih
Kill ., ill-edge mi fitter creek, in the
Idltarod. was a pa sengi-r on the Vie
toria. He says there will in- tmt
two hundred persons in Flat City din
ing the winter. Many are coming out
over the trail, he reports.
A1 Walsh one of the best known
operators of Interior Alaska, wa a
passenger on the Victoria. Lack of
water hampered Mr Walsh's opeia
tions during the past sc - mi. Inn in
had a successful run early in the
summer lie will return as u uni next
spring and go in over Ihe trail.
Among the outgoing passengers on
the Victoria was Cecil Harlow, who
had with him a ST.ati nugget which he
found in the Idltarod. Mr Harlow is
making his first trip to the Outside
in twenty-one years, and the other,
boys from the Interior have a baiter
around his neck so that he will not
stampede at the new noises he might i
encounter.
Herb Davis, formerly of Cordova,
who has been an engineer on con
struction with the government rail
rotid at Anchorage for several years
pact, accompanied by his family, is
en route to the States He will visit (
with his parents and other relatives,
residing at 1‘eoria, 111. Mr. Davis has
not been home for the last twelve i
years, and this vacation for the win-1
ter months is well due him He will
return early in the spring and bring
two or three other young men with i
him.
The steamer Alameda sailed this |
afternoon at 4 o'clock for Seattle with
the following passengers from fordo-i
vn: Koht Sommers. \Y W. McKin
non. \V. fathcart and wife. Luther f.
Hess and wife, Mrs. (’. K. Bryon, Miss
Julia Durkee. Mrs. H. 1). Thompson.
Mrs. May Ashcroft, J. Camhudge, (’has.
Cerney. T M. Hunt. It. L Vinine and
wife, B F. Marshall and wife, A j
Mauer and wife, Chas. Orr and wife,
Mrs. 11 !•’. Ballard. Mrs. Van Zesch.
Mrs. Florence Sullivan. <). K. Jones,
James Hyland and Geo. F Barrett.
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J. G. Murdock of’Flat is among j
the passengers on the Alameda bound j
for the States. This is Mr. Murdock's 1
first trip Outside in twenty-one years, j
Ho joined the gold rush into the Yu- j
kon In 1897 and has lived in the In
terior since that time. Mr Murdock j
states that the Yukon Gold outfit is j
dismantling its plant and will suspend |
operations for one year. The twenty
five or thirty members of the crew
are all planning on a trip to the
States, and at the time Mr. Murdock
left the Interior they said they would
leave for Anchorage about Dec. 10.
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SKATES
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Caps, Etc. to keep you warm
while enjoying our Winter Out- £
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