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Now that the grand Jury has ad
journed, a few Chitina residents are
congratulating themselves at escap
ing a summons.
Everyone should read Governor
Clark’s annual report concerning
Alaska, which appears in the Cor
dova Daily Alaskan this week. It’s
most interesting and instructive, giv
ing statistics and data on many
things with which every Alaskan
should familiarize himself.
Bowling is now in full swing in
all the Alaska towns, challenges, big
scores and club meets being reported
in all our exchanges. That reminds
us. There are plenty of bowlers in
Chitina, and if some enterprising
business man should install a set of
alleys, it would be the money.
Cats are in demand In Chitina.
There is hardly a cabin in the town
if occupied for any length of time,
but what has its share of mice. The
little pests are a sort of field mouse
and can be found all over this part
of the country. Food particles soon
collect around the cabins and the
little fellows do not hesitate to take
up their abode with the Chitina resi
dents.
Now and then we hear a rumor
of Chitina people patronizing mail
order houses on the outside a little
too strong for the good of the com
munity. It's true, the living expen
ses here are a little higher than on
the coast, but it’s better to pay a
few cents more on an article and
keep the money at home than to send
it to the outside, thereby benefitting
no one in Alaska. Figure out the
prices, freight rates, etc., and you’ll
find our merchants are giving you as
square a deal as possible.
According to a dispatch from Se
attle the Black Hand society is again
at work. Must be a cousin to the
Chitina hand, only here it’s white.
On one of the cabin doors on Chit
ina Heights last week was painted
a perfect hand in white, and, while
it was undoubtedly an innocent
prank by some friend of the inmates
of the cabin, it gave the lady of the
house an uneasy feeling. We opine
It would have given the perpetrator
of the joke something stronger than
an uneasy feeling, could he have
known that a big “six pistol” was
pointed in his direction when the
woman in the cabin heard him
monkeying around the door in her
husband’s absence.
The press of Alaska and the Alas
ka-Yukon Magazine is coming out oc
casionally with editorials on the poor
ly constructed game laws governing
In Alaska. For some unknown rea
son the Alaska bear is protected. This
is about the biggest fool law the
game protectors ever made for Alas
ka, for there isn’t a prospector or
old-timer in Alaska who will not say
“damn the bear.” Within a few
miles of Chitina only last fall a poor
devil was nearly killed by a vicious
she bear, and many instances all
over Alaska can be cited where men
have been attacked by these too num
erous animals. Oke the great sym
bol of American liberty, the eagle,
they are no good for anything we
know of. They prey on small game
and are so numerous that it will re
quire many years to kill them off.
Protecting these beasts is a mistake
and the law should be changed.
If the prices of meats keep on
dropping, the Alaskan prospector can
soon figure on a change from his old
standby, the “porky.”
The Copper River & Northwestern
railway is now figuring on putting
on a dining car service. Who said
there was no up-to-date railroad ser
vice in Alaska?
Quartz seems to be the real thing
all over Alaska these days. Valdez,
Cordova and the recent finds along
the Copper River way are not the
only showings, as Skagway now
boasts of having the fashionable
Stuff right in her back dooryard.
A much better cable service to
Alaska will soon be in effect. The
eableshlp Burnside is now installing
a duplex system by which means mes
sages can be transmitted in both di
rections at the same time, thus doub
ling the capacity of the cable and
eliminating the heretofore crowded
conditions at the different cable sta
tions.
Congressman Humphrey, at a big
pow-wow before the Arctic Club
members in Seattle, recently, made
the statement that he would do ev
erything in his power at the com
ing session of Congress toward se
curing the recognition of Alaska's re
sources. Well, we can wait and see,
but in the meantime, “keep on a
yellin’. It won’t hurt none.”
Local News
Mark Tatum, the well known old
timer and mining man, who has been
in the material yards as one of the
foremen for the contracting com
pany, will be an outgoing passenger
on the Bertha for Juneau. After a
short visit there it is rumored he will
return and take charge of some of
the many promising looking quartz
mines at the McKinley lake district.
Erickson & Johnstone, partners in
the Dean Basin mining property, left
for Tonsina on Tuesday to pick up
some tools they left there last sum
mer, having need of them at their
mining property.
Monday evening’s train brought a
number of Chitina people back from
Cordova, who were down attending
coutr.
C. M. F. Cole, who has been away
for several weeks, returned on Mon
day evening, and will again resume
charge of his roadhouse at mile 133.
M. Finkelstein, of the firm of
Finkeltsein & Sapiro, arrived from
Cordova on Saturday night and is
now in charge of their Chitina store,
Mr. Sapiro returning to Cordova to
take charge of their business there.
L. B. Erickson, who has been in
charge of the water wagon, has sold
his holdings to “Happy” Cottner.
Some of the boys say Erickson was
on the water wagon as long as he
could stand it anyway.
N whouse & Co. have just receiv
ed a fine line of French chocolates
and the freshest of candies for Christ
mas. 12-10-tf
H. H. McCutcheon returned Sat
urday evening from a few days busi
ness trip to Cordova.
Tuesday, Friday and Sunday are
the days the train is now scheduled
to leave Chitina, arriving here Mon
day, Thursday and Saturday even
ings.
E. F. Gray, of Copper Mountain,
was in town Monday awaiting tele
grams and mail. Mr. Gray has a
temporary camp on the Strelna, near
mile 146, from where there is a good
trail leading to his mines. He says
he mushed, from the mines to 146 in
four hours. On his return he will
take some machinery back to the
mines, which he has had stored at
mile 133.
Eddie Wester returned from Cor
dova on Monday evening’s train.
Oscar Breedman, who returned
from Cordova the first of the week,
says he will now stay until the new
hotel is finished throughout, which
should not be later than the 15th.
It would be a poor Christmas with
out candy. Get it from Newhouse &
Co. They have as good a line as can
be found in the states, just fresh from
the factory, too. 12-10-tf
While at his morning duties at the
Chitina bar, Tommy Richmond found
a whole dollar. He's afraid to ad
vertise it for fear the owner might
possibly see it in the Leader and lay
claim to it and, of course, he would
n’t think of spending It. If you are
shy the price ask Tommy for it. He
has more money now than he knows
how to spend.
Earl Cutting, who was with the
Katalla Company last spring, but
with the contracting company’s forces
at the front this summer and fall,
has received a ninety days’ furlough
and left the first of the week for a
visit to his home in Saginaw, Michi
gan. Earl was recently promoted
from brakeman to charge of one of
the trains at the front.
Those of the train crews which
were stopping at mile 140, are now
at mile 146, a few of the engines
being laid off until after the Kusku
lana crossing is finished.
If you want any wood or coal haul
ed see Frank Alba. Frank has con
tracted for plenty of dry wood, and
can furnish you any length on appli
cation. He is after the business in
freighting and hauling, and from
the way he is rustling and advertis
ing there is no question but what
he’ll get his share. The Leader is
printing letterheads and envelopes
for him this week and he has secur
ed a space among the Chitina adver
tisers in the Leader. Read what he
has to say to you.
Gus Thiele returned from Cordova
on Monday evening’s train, having
been called as a witness at the rer
cent term of court. -
Deputy Marshal Brown returned
from a business trip to Cordova on
Monday evening’s train. He is soon
to make another trip to Valdez, but
will return in a few days, bringing
with him his household effects, which
he will install in his cabin here.
When the cabin is ready he intends
to give a little house-warming, and
we know it will be a good one.
J. Morey, of Valdez, was an ar
rival in Chitina this week. Mr. Mor
ey is connected with the Alaska Drug
Co. and is a prospective locator here
with a full line of drugs in the near
future.
Rudolhp Pohlner made a round
trip to Cordova on business this
week, to confer with his partner, Geo.
Blouen, who is now in Cordova await
in the license of the firm to start a
saloon here. Rudolph says he thinks
there will be no question but what
the license will be granted.
Charley Johnson, the machinist,
took a run down to Cordova this
week.
We heard an old-time Alaskan the
other day tell Of a positive cure for
after effects of frost-bitten feet or
hands. People of this country, and
the colder states in Uncle Sam’s do
main, often suffer from chilblains,
a swollen or inflamed and Itching
sensation, which nearly sets the suf
ferer insane if no relief is found, and
it is well to remember that the old
Alaskan advises: Simply bathe the
feet in port wine, a few applications
of which will relieve the inflama
tion without a recurrence until pos
sibly the following w’inter, when the
operation can be repeated.
E. E. DAVID
CONTRACTOR
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Pete’s Lodging
House
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SECOND HAND STORRE
CHITINA HEIGHTS
Bunks 23c; Beds 30c.
PETER CORDES, Prop.
GHITINA BARBER SHOP
CHURCH A BRADY, Props.
And Cigar Store
SOFT DRINKS,
CONFECTIONERY
First-Class Barbers
First-Class Goods
The towers are well under way oh
both sides of the Kuskulana bridge,
but it is thought that tralhB cannot
be running over the gorge much be
fore the first of the New Year.
‘Axel Fast, who was called to Cor
dova to attend court, was a return
ing passenger Thursday.
Subscribe for the Chitina Leader.
RED CROSS DRUG GO.
MRS. C M. KING
Drugs, Stationery, Fruit
Tobaccos, etc.
Mile 133
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Trading Post
NEWHOUSE & CO., Props.
Opposite Chitina
MILE 133
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