AIT.C" ::.3C?a ALIA I
r'hc Northern Lights hav.e- been thra^ ,
ir.g their curtains of light across »
the shy for 2 nights this week. h.iey :
are silver, mostly, but some tim es '
are colored. This time they weresil- :
ver. They came from 10:20 P. to j
1:00 0. F. "’hen they come colored !
t he per son thr t f cr st sees themtells \
the other people so they can als o
see the beautiful sight.
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Dr. ?. 3. Gillespie took uilian
C1 ough, registered ^urse anc! wen t j
to Chistochina and tie country near)
to fix tli: 0ick Fatives. ~:ome of \
them have an adhearation of the eye j
lid to the eye ball making them nea- i
ly blind. Some of them are children ;
and some of thr grown ups with large
familys and they could hardly live
if the:' were blind. Th?y are tryinr
to fix it. "r. Gillespie has dome
much gopd t'o this part of, the coun
try since he came.
School Fev/s
A. few days ago it was rumored that
"verett Davis (1st Gr.) had the
mumps. Be cause he was not in school
for a day. But it was found, that
his mumps were nothing mere than a
nice Vacation out the r'rail.
ALASKAJ VEGETABLES
ARE BETTER THAF AFY
The growing season for vegetables
is over, now as the killing frosts
have come. rh03e who had vegetable
g ar d e ns are: lhr s . 1m C ame r o n , Frs.
Jack Coats, Frs. ^rank Davis, Frs.
^rank Shipp, Frs. A1 Foore, Frs.
Ben strada and Frs. Sigurd Somon
son. "ome vegetables grow best in
the States and some grow best in
Alaska, -ome of tbw vegetables that
grow best in Alaska are: "urnips,
" ootabeg er s, " uhbarb, Lettuce, Cab
bages and Coliflower. Tn the next
is rue we will attempt to prove it.
•JTOTHTR BAD GLIDE OF THE RAILROAD
There was a rock slide this week
at mile 127. The slide was 75 ft.
long no 10 to 20 ft. deep.^hey
cleared it in record time. But the
train got to Cordova too late to
catch the boat but the mail went
down on a gasoline speeder. I
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THE NATIVES ARE UNLUCKY
Some of the Natives have swollen
glands. Some of them are swollen so
badly that they have mumps. But it
has'not spread far under Dr. Gilles
pies efficient care. Nrs. Delehanr.t
has gotten back from Copper Center
where she has been teaching all sum
mer so the Natives will have plenty
of care and advise. .
GOT HIS GOAT l .
.8 we statrted to tell you last
•week Tony Peat and his son Geo.,13
yrs. also went up on the !£t. back of
town hunting. The goat did not like
the looks of his gun so he went to
the top, and rcn >.long the ridge,
till Tony shot it. They rolled it
own the rt. as it weighed too much
to carry. And the goat got to the
bottore ne?r first 1 ake . It weighed
LOO pounds. The Natives had a big
feast of the meat with Tony at the
head, __
RETURNIN G ’TO GULKANA LODGE
Hans Pittman the very well liked
man of Gulkana Lodge is coming back
to Gulkana next weeks boat. The res
idence of Gulkana and the Business
men of Chitina will be very glad k
his return.
Rumored
Rumored. R. R. closes on th: first
of the year. Airplanes will probably
bid for the mail job. It probably
won t be pp e n e d an til pr i 1. The mails
will be farther apart that! ever.
WH\T 17 J\IL 7OR?
I Recently a man went up to U.' 3.
'"arsh-al ' or by and told him he wanted
him to lock him up in Jail for the
night that he was goine to Core’ova
in the* morning and that he that he
\ was crazy lane n>. eded to be locked up,
Corby didn't know wheather he ought
! to be or not. Co he asked some of
the other officials and they said
they didn't think there was much
cahance of! his being crazy. But Scrby
thot best not to take a chance so
locked him up. T-7e are just wondering
whet' kind of man this is that wants
to get his nights lodging free from
the Government, nd just why he a?ou1:
want to go to the Chitina Jail, ?'c
must be a little crazy to our opinion
to want t6 even spend one night in
suck a place as that.
GILL4F3 PLOTS WORKING FOR COURT
Rarly next week pilot Gillam will
fly to Inch or age with 2 testimonies
of court. It will take two days. It
will take 2 days for these 2 passengE
to do what other witnesses are taki&
? weeks to do by tra.in and steamboat.