SHORT STORIES
ABOUT ALASKA
OCCURRENCES
W. G. Weigle, for whose transfer
from the Alaska forestry service to
that of Washington, with headquar
ters at Seattle, orders have been is
sued, has sold his recently acquired
residence at Ketchikan to Dean C.
Cannon.
Ketchikan has re-employed as
teachers in her public schools Super
intendent W. A. Knox, Miss Mayme
Brewster, H. C. Hughes, Miss Mar
garet Osborn, Miss Izma Gaines, Miss
Georgia Henry, Miss Army Barlow,
Miss Nettie Thomasson and Miss
Harriet Rossiter. Miss Louisce Field,
who formerly taught at Ketchikan
has been employed as librarian.
Ketchikan is preparing for a base
ball season. Grounds are being pre
pared, and some good material is said
to be ready for the great American
game.
The Ketchikan Times says
Gudri Trano has arrived from Chris
tinia, Norway, at Seattle to become
the bride of Captain Hironius Naro
of the schooner Dora, operating out
of Ketchikan. The prospective bride,
who was expected to arrive at Seat
tle before the Dora sailed for the
north, was delayed in getting pass
ports and transportation to the United
States, and Captain Naro had to sail
without her.
James M. Shoup, formerly United
States marshal and later of Ketchi
kan, has opened a law office in San
Francisco. ,
j. C. Carroll recently arived at
Ketchikan wher he became assistant
for Pacific Steamship Company Agent
V. A. Peterson.
There has been an advance in the
price of bread at Ketchikan from 10
cents a loaf to 15 cents, or two for a
quarter.
A. E. Lucy, at one time deputy
United States marshal at Yakutat,
and later employed by the Libby, Mc
Neill and Libby Company at Yakutat
and by the Hoonah Packing Company
at Hoonah, has been appointed game
warden of Ketchikan by Governor^
Thomas Riggs, jr. Mr. Lucy succeeds
Patrick Hamilton.
John McCarty, Tenakee merchant,
■who has been undergoing treatment
at the Mayo Bros, hospital at Roch
ester, Minn., the past few months, ar
rived from the South on the Jefferson.
He is much improved in health.
Once more the men of the Alaska
Gastineau Mining Company have
come to the front. An average of
more than $200 each has been sub
scribed by 349 of the 500 employes of
the company at Thane and Persever.
ance to the purchase of Victory Lib
erty bonds. The total subscribed by
the Gastineau men Is $72,000.
Burnett Ashley and Frank Ashley,
two sons of Mayor Howard Ashley
of Skagway, have returned from
France to the United Staes. Frank
Ashley was recently discharged from
the service at Camp Lewis. He saw
active service at the front from Janu
ary, 1918, until October, being under#
fire much of the time. Only 17 men
of his unit escaped with their lives
and without serious injuries. Frank
was gassed in October and an attack
of influenza and pneumonia followed.
He was in the hospital for three
months.
Word has been received in Fair
banks to the effect that the verdict
rendered in the district court in the
case of the United States vs. G. A.
Vedin, charged with filing false affi
davit of assessment work, has been
confirmed by the court of appeals in
San Francisco. Attorney J. A. Clark
received the wire from Fernand de
Journel and Leroy Tozier, who are
at present in the California city.
Vedin was tried on three separate
counts and a verdict of guilty re
turned on all three. On appearing
for sentence the court pronounced
one year and one day on each count
at McNeill’s island penitentiary. This
makes three years and three days
the Vedin will serve at the federal
institution. The mandate in this case
will not be Issued for a period of
thirty days and another thirty days
will probably elapse before Vedin is
taken to serve sentence.
A lone prospector has been working
on old Rosy creek during the past
winter but was unable to get to bed
rock on account of the water. He
went down 47 feet before the water
drove him out, sinking the hole alone.
Many attempts were made on this
creek during the early days to get
down to bedrock as it is considered
to be a desirable location. Rosy
creek heads up against Ester and
empties into the Tanana below Chena.
The depth to bedrock and the wet
condition of the ground has always
prevented those attempting to put
down a shaft from doing so. Many of
the oldtimers believe that a paystreak
exists on this creek.
Advices were received in Fairbanks
that the circuit court of appeals at
San Francisco had affimed the de
cisions of the district court or the
Fourth division in the cases of O'Con
nor vs. Cascaden and Bell vs. Cas
caden. In the first mentione case the
decision of the court was in the sum
of $9,524.15 together with an order
of the court directing Cascaden to
deed to O’Connor a one-half interest
in the Gold Dollar Association claim
on Livengood creek. Interest at eight
per cent per annum from April 17,
1918, was also allowed. In the case
of Bell vs. Cascaden a judgment had
been entered for the sum of $4,000,
with interes tat eight per cent per an
num from October 1, 1916. Both cases
arose out of mining transactions.
MAGAZINE PRAISES “THE
BARD OF KUSKOKW ”
In a recent number of Forest and
Stream is a page illustrated writeup
about C. Edward Cone, of Anchorage,
together with a poem entitled “The
Fish Wheel of the Kuskokwim,” writ
ten by Mr. Cone. John P. Holman as
sociate editor of Field and Stream, in
his preface says:
“Last spring, during one of those
long northern evenings of late twi
lighs, we were sitting in the lobby
of the Crescent hotel. Anchorage,
Alasfla, talking of men and things
and waiting for it to grow dark
enough so we could go to bed with
clear consciences, when the door
opened and a man stepped briskly
into the room.
“‘Ah, Mr. Cone!’ exclaimed Red
wood, our genial host, and he then
introduced us to a man about fifty
years of age on whose weatherbeaten
face was written many a tale of hard
ship. The smile ho gave in greeting
portrayed a kindly philosophy of life
and there was a curious twist about
the corners of his mouth that be
spoke a depth of humor. Redwood
had introduced him as the “Bard of
the Kuskokwim,” and then hastened
Ig^xplaln that Mr. Cone was a poet
of soime remote among his fellow
townsmen. We became interested at
once and begged him to recite some
of his verses. He reluctantly did so
and amused us for an hour or more
with many original pieces, portaying
life in the north. A few days later I
visited him at his cabin on the out
skirts of town and enjoyed reading
some more of his poems and stories.
They were all filled with the spirit of
the north and told in a very novel and
picturesque way.
“Mr. Cone is a real pioneer of
Alaska, having come to the country
away back in the eighties and has
trapped and prospected over a large
part of the country. While prosjSect
ing along the Kuskokwim river he
had a tragic experience with a fish
wheel, which he has put into verse.
A fish wheel is an engenious contriv
ance which is just what its name im
plies—a large wheel, anchored in the
stream and turned by the current
it has broad paddles upon which the
fish, and especially salmon that live
in the Alaska streams during the
early months of the summer in great
hordes, are lifted out of the water and
deposited in a box arranged for that
purpose. Sometimes large catches are
made in this manner, but in Mr.
Cone’s case, like many other things
in life, it didn’t work just as well as
he had expected it would."
MAY SET LIMIT ON
COPPER RIVER FISHING
The vist of government experts and
scientists to the Alaska Ashing
grounds within the next month may
result in a limit being set by the gov
ernment on salmon catches in the
Alaska district.
In recent seasons a shortage of the
salmon run in the Copper river dis
trict has been noted, according to lo
cal officers of the federal Asheries
bureau.. In this connection, Dr. Henry
Ward, salmon expert and scientist of
the University of Illinois, will inspect
the river spawning beds with Superin
tendent Russell of Washington state
Ash hatcheries. If it is found that a
sufficient number of salmon cannot
proceed to their spawning beds with
out being caught, a season limit on
Ashing in that section may result.
If you change your address, do not
notify the carrier boy—report your
new address tothe of Ace.
FISHERMAN IS
ORIGINATOR OF
USEFUL DEVICE
An automatic device has been In
vented by Tom Running, a fisherman
and for 12 years a resident of Alaska
and now living in Juneau, which may
revolutionize the fishing industry.
The invention will enable three men to
operate a big purse seine boat where
about eight men are now needed, and
the automatic apparatus, if it will do
the work claimed of it, will let out and
pull in the seine by power from the
boat’s engine, and will do the work
much more rapidly than can be done
with manual labor, and coils the seine
up on the deck of the craft.
The working model is in Juneau
and has created much interest among
practical fishermen and they claim
that it works without a hitch and
has great possibilities. It is said it
can be^nade to fit any kind of boat.
Mr. Running has applied for patent
to his invention which he calls “Run
ning’s automatic purse seiner.”
DOUBLE TAX ON WET
GOODS AVOIDED BY LAW
There has been considerable con
fusion regarding the new revenue tax
on “wet goods.” However, emphasis
is laid on the fact that only “soft
drinks compounded or mixed at such
at place of business” are taxable to the
consumers by retailers. Those who
have studied the law claim no tax
is imposed on near beer and soda
water and other bottled goods secured
from the wholesaler or manufacturer,
since the latter must pay the tax.
For instance Section No. 630 says:
"That on or after May 1, 1919, there
shall be levied, assessed and collected,
and paid a tax of one cent for each
ten cents or fraction thereof of the
amount paid to any person conducting
a soda fountain, ice cream parlor, or
other similar place of business, for
drinks commonly known as soft
drinks, compounded at any place of
business, or for ice cream, ice cream
sodas, sundaes, or other similar ar
ticles of food or drink, when any are
sold on or after such date for con
sumption or in proximity to such
place of business. Such tax shall be
paid by the purchaser to the vender
at the time of the sale and shall be
collected, returned and paid to the
United States by such vendor in the
same manner as provided in Section
502.”
The official blanks on which to
make returns to the internal revenue
offices for taxes paid and collected
have not as yet arrived in Cordova.
To get all the witchery there is in
kodakery have us do the finishing.
Agency Cordova drug store. Scarbor
ough. 14-tf
The Daily Times Job plant Is
well equipped for all classe of com
mercial printing.
Advertise in the Daily Times.
NEW NEEDLE ART SHOP
All kinds of Stamped Em
broidery Goods, Fancy Knitting
Yarns. Sweaters and Socks
knit to order.
Lessons Given in
EMBROIDERY, KNITTING
AND CROCHET WORK
IDA DQWALDER
C St., Adams Bldg.
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Appreciate |
THROUGH our Family Laundry |
Service we will take your entire
washing out of the home and return
it spotlessly clean. The flat pieces,
| such as bed and table linen, towels, hand- i;i|
kerchiefs and the like, are immaculately
ironed. The others are starched so that
you can finish then^at your leisure. \
Then, too, you have the satisfaction of
knowing that your clothes are laundered
far better than you could do them.
The softest of water, the purest of soap,
gentle sousing instead of violent rubbing,
and numerous rinsings, all make for
clothes that are whiter and cleaner than
could possibly result from home methods.
And the expert finish, smooth and velvety, |
will appeal to you.
| Let Us Relieve You |
I of all your wash-day troubles. Spend time ,|;
more profitably. Just bundle your clothes |
and our man will call for and return them If
at a definite time each week. The cost |
of this service is so low that home washing
is no longer justified.
Modern
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AT
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SPECIAL NOTICE
All Periodicals and Magazines for Sale at the
Publishers’ Marked Prices
NORTHERN DRUG CO.
“THE DRUG STORE OF ALASKA”
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
“SERVICE” Is our motto j
CLEAN-UP NOTICE
If you have not cleaned up your
premises you had better do so at
once. Prosecutions will be started
immediately against those who have
failed to do so.
HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
W. H. Chase, Health Officer.
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TOKENS OF RESPECT I
A well conducted funeral Is a
token of respect to the deceased.
Our methods of conducting a
funeral have given us an oppor
tunity to serve you In a manner
that will command respect. We
are equipped to serve you satis
factorily.
K. E. HOLDEN PARLOR
Second Street, between
A and B Avenues
just received!
A LARGE SHIPMENT OF
LIVE CHICKENS
Excellent Roasters
FRESH EGGS
FOR SALE
joeTrey
Phone 22
Manhattan Hotel
Electric Lighted. Hot Water. Turkish and Tub
Baths.
OPPOSITE CORDOVA GRILL, CORDOVA, ALASKA.
PHONE 99
To the Men Who Know
Valuation, quality and Style, we ask
you to inspect our line of Woolens.
We can save you $10 to $20 on a suit.
Pitting all done in this shop.
Tom Hubbert, Tailor
Clothes That Fit
Come in and let me make your next Suit. I will make It for
you right here in town, in my own shop. I will give you two real
flttings, and you will get a Suit of Clothes that fits you. Heavy
Blue Serges, Bankers’ Grays and Novelty Tweeds on hand.
HARRY NELSON, TAILOR
new line of
Crockery, Mirrors
Light Underwear and Negligee Shirts
AT ROCK BOTTOM PRICE8
Come In and Look Them Over
THE BARGAIN STORE
JOHN RAW80N
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