LOCAL AND
PERSONAL
MENTION I
The Admiral Watson is due from
Seattle at 5 o’clock this afternoon.
Geo. Moody and wife returned on
today’s boat from a trip to the states.
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Father McMillan will leave on the
steamer Alaska for Valdez on a short
visit. *
The rays of Old Sol are rapidly j
diminishing what is left of the win- j
ter’s snow.
Peter Vachon, of Fairbanks, came
to Cordova on today’s boat en route
to the interior.
Two passenger boats and a train
from the interior brought many peo
ple to Cordova this afternoon.
Now that the city election is over
interest centers on the territorial pri
maries to held Tuesday, April 27.
Mrs. J. B. Sapiro. who has been
visiting her mother in Seattle fbr sev
eral months, returned home this after
noon.
Mrs. Malcolm Brock returned on
the Admiral Watson this afternoon
from a trip to Seattle, greatly bene
fitted in health.
Mrs. W. A. Caswell and little
daughter Alice, who spent the past
several months back East, were ar
rivals home today on the steamer
Alaska.
Lars Holland and wife have return
ed from a trip to the states and will
leave on the next train for Chitina,
where Mr. Holland will be in charge
■of the Alaska Road Commission work.
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The launch Myrtle H, which is under
contract to the Pioneer Packing Com
pany until Majr 1, has entered into
an 110 day charter with the Central
Alaska Fisheries Company at Drier
Bay.
The annual meeting of the Cordova
Fire Department will be held in the
city hall Thurday evening, April 8.
The election of officers for the en
suing year Mill be in order. A full
attendance of members is expected.
Sam McDonald, Mho conducts drug
stores at Seward and Anchorage is
here today on his return from a bus
iness trip to Seattle. On the Mray
north he stopped over at several
towns in Southeastern Alaska and re
ports that the Republicans are strong
ly in favor of Jack McBride’s candi
dacy for national committeeman.
The Bering River Coal Company is
having built in Seattle a tender, 65
feet long and 18 feet wide, with a
draft of four feet, which, will be used
as a toMr for the tw’o coal barges,
Miiich will bring a supply of fuel to
Cordova during the summer, beginn
ing^ July. Two barges, of 200 tons
capacity each, have also been secured
James Hadnut Mill be the captain of
the tender.
W. T. Young, president of the W.
T. Young Bridge Company, of Nash
ville, Tenn., and Dick Chapman, of
PaVis, Texas, M'ere arrivals in Cor
dova today and will spend the sum
mer in this section on a big game
hunt, under guidance of Capt. J. P. Hu
brick, of McCarthy. Three or four
weeks* Mill be spent on Montague
Island and the launch Rolfe has been
chartered for the cruise.
MUNICIPAL OFFICERS
ELECTED YESTERDAY
FOR ENSUING YEAR
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Yesterday’s municipal election ex
cited but little interest and as a con
sequence a light vote was polled.
This Mas due. to the fact that there
Mas but one ticket in the field. The
vote resulted as follows:
For mayor: A. J. Adams.
For council (tMro year term): Wal
ter M. Wolf, 67; T. J. Donohoe, 63;
Fred Haef, 61. One year term: E.
L. Harwood, 59.
For town clerk: K. G. Robinson, 70.
For toM-n treasurer: Thos. S. Scott,
68.
For treasurer of school board: Mrs.
F. M. Schaupp, 72.
DANCE TONIGHT
At Heggs Hall with music by the
“Rag Time Trio”—Follow the crowd.
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Ladies and gents shoes shined at
The Club barber shop 7-6t
There promises to be considerable
activity in oil development in this
vicinity during the next few months,
as several of the companies which
have kept up their assessment work
during the many years that the land
has been withdrawn, have filed oi]
their claifns, with a priority right to
lease them under the act recently
passed by Congress.
The Chilkat Oil Company has had a
patent to their ground and have sunk
twelve wells, eleven of which are pro
ducers. None of these, however,
have been drilled as deep as they
intend to go and the work will now
be pushed to ascertain what can be
found in oil at a much greater depth.
The Alsaka Consolidated Company,
which took over forty-two claims of
160 acres each from the old English
company, has arranged to start work
next month. Two rigs will be install
ed. one on Bering river and the other
on Yakataga beach. The assessment
work on these claims has been kept
up for sixteen years, according to
Superintendent Beeper. They are lo
cated in the Bering, Nickawak and
Yaktaga fields.
On Mirror Slough the Alaska Coal
Oil Company started to drill, and after
reaching a depth of 1,000 feet the
entire plant was destroyed by fire.
A new outfit is now to be inistalled
and one rig wull be ini operation with
i na few months.
LABOR COUNCIL FAVORS
PRIVATE LEGION FOR
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS
SPOKANE, April 7 (by Associated
Press).—The Central Labor Council
has indorsed the Private Soldiers and
Sailors’ Legion, and has asked that a
chapter be established here. An at
tack will be made on the American
Legion.
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