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^ Overland Mail Arrived
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^ March 3, 4, 9, 11, 14, 17,
^ 19, 20, ‘24, 27, 30.
^ April 3, 7, 10, 13, 18, 20.
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10 START SUITS
Los Angeles, Sept. IT.—The rela
tives of the victims of the Times ex
plosion will soon file suits for dama
ges against General Otis, proprietor
of the paper.
San Francisco, Sept. 17.—Walter
Pomeroy swims to Oakland in two
hours, this remarkable feat being
witnessed by a large crowd of peo
ple.
Seattle, Sepi. 11.—The daughter of
Mrs. Lizzie Magnuson, of Valdez,
who mysteriously disappeared last
February, has been located in the
Sister’s school in San Francisco,
and she will return to her home in
Alaska.
Toronto, Sept. 15.—In the politi
cal betting the odds are three to one
that Laurier will be re-elected and
the present government returned.
“Eight Days to the States,is the slogan adopted by the
Fairbanks Daily Times, which is making an aggressive fight
for an all-summer mail route to the interior, via Cordova. In
a recent issue it shows that but seven mails have been received
at Fairbanks .since navigation opened, and during the same
period of fifty days last winter, seventeen overland mails ar
rived from Chitina. In commenting on this present deplorable
summer service the Times says:
“One of the strongest arguments in favor of a short route
from the Tanana Valley to the outside is contained in the fig
ures on either side of this column. Those figures show that
beginning dune 20, when the first outside mail arrived in
camp by boat, a period of over 50 days, only seven mails have
arrived from the outside. During a similar period of fifty days
during the winter, when the mails came over the trail, seven
teen mails arrived from the outside, and four of these were
double mails.
“During the mouth of March, the mail contract over the
trail calls for delivery three times a week; during the month
of April twice a week. The river contract calks for six round
trips a month during the summer. It will be noted that :n
ihe figures above a period is taken for comparison, not entirely
in the three-times-a-week period, when the overland service is
at its best, but including also the two-times-a'week service.
The figures for the river service are taken entirely from a
season when the service should be most efficient. In the com
parison, therefore, the river service h is all the best of it. •
“There is no doubt tl it with the perfection of the road
from Fairbanks to Chitina, the mail service between Fairbanks
and the outside will be switched to Fie overland trail, and the
service will be both more rapid and more frequent. There is
no reason why there should not be three mails a week in the
summer, when business is active, as there are during the
middle of winter, when business is at a standstill.
“On Tuesday, April 30. 1911, a stage left Chitina for Fair
banks, and arrived in Fairbanks 3 days 17 1-2 hours later.
The mail it brought was 12 days from Puget Sound. It is not
common sense or good business to send mail away around
by the north pole when a short, direct route is available with
only slight trouble and expense.!’
A telegram was also sent to Colonel Kiehardson, of the
Alaska Eoad Commission, asking how long a time it would
take to convert the Fairbanks-Chitina trail into a good automo
bile road for summer use, to which the following reply was
received:
“A summer automobile road from Fairbanks to Chitina
could probably be made usable, with suitable appropriation,
late next summer, and could be finished the following year.”
Vienna, Sept. 17.—The high price
of necessities lias caused several riots
with the result that the mob battles
savagely with the troops, many being
killed and wounded.
IN FLIGHT
New York> Sept. 18.—Carl Rodg
ers, the third aviator to start across
the continent in tne flight for a if-lO,
000 prize was wrecked at Middlelon.
Seattle, September 12.—1The steamer Ramona, owned by
the Pacific Coast Steamship company, and operated on the
Southeastern Alaska run, was wrecked off Baranoff Island,
near Sitka on Sunday night and is a total loss. But meagre
particulars of the accident have been received, but it is be
lieved that the vessel ran into a huge iceberg and sunk.
The streamer Northwestern southbound from Cordova,
was reached by wireless, and came to the assistance of the
distressed boat and rescued the passengers and crew.
The Ramona was in command of Captain Martin Taffe.
when she struck. She had a number of passengeers and a crew
of fortysix aboard at the time and fortunately not a single
life was lost.
She was built in Oakland, California, and was 10,1 feet
long with a thirty-two foot beam Iler gross tonnage was
1061.
OF
OIL TANKS
Los Angeles, Sept. IT.—Several
il liarks exploded causing a loss of
,250,000.
Washington, Sept. 17.—The Ameri
can Red Cross Society is collecting
a fund of $5,000,000 for the relief
of the Chinese flood and famine vic
tims.
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PARSON TAPPED
THE. TILL
Eureka, Sept. 17.—Rev. Adams la
caught in the act of robbing the till
in a store of $75.
CABLE RUMOR IS
DENIED
New York, Sept. 17.—The report
that the Western Union Teelegraph
C-o., will control tlie Atlantic cables
is d( nied.
EDNA NOW WIEE
Paris, Sept. 17.—Edna Goodrich,
former wife of Nat Goodwin, lias been
married to liaron Keane, an Englisii
sportsman.
We will make the following prices on lumber delivered in Chitina
on cars in car load lots, terms cash.
Rough timber and dimension 2x3, 2x4, 2x6, 2x8, 2x10, 2x12 up
to 22 feet at $42.00
1x8 shiplap, mixed lengths.$42.00
6 in. drop siding.50.00
6 in. Rustic.50.00
4 in. flooring, tongued and grooved, slash grain in short
lengths 4’-5’-6’-7’-8’-9’-1 O’, $45.00
4”=flooring V. G. 4’ to 16’ $60.00
lx4,-5”-6”-8”=10”=12” surfaced four sides finishing lumber $60.00
Shingles $5.50 per thousand. Lath $6.50 per thousand.
We also carry plaster, roofing pitch, tar paper, P. & B. Building
paper, flalhoid roofing, nails and sash and doors on which we will
make SPECIAL PRICES.
ARCTIC LUMBER CO.
CORDOVA