Alaska sentinel., 1905-08-03
Our Local Crist.

Sing Lee made trip up the country last week to visit his cousin,
 There was the usual social hop at Rcd Mems hall, last Saturday evening.
 NIT. NJ. R. Rosenthal, after being quite i'll all last week, is on the streets again.
 Several children in town are whoop- ing as ii they had the regular old cough.
 Ole Johnson and three other men are over at work on the Basin mining prop erty.
 The Wrangell Robe Tannery will tan your furs and Hides properly.
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 Sim Freeman says he wouldn't have minded so much the falling overheard and getting a ducking ii ae hadn't lost those three plums.
 \ picnic party of ladies and gentlemen went to Mill Creek one day last week, on the Patience, and spent the day very pleasantly.
 Mrs. Worden and children reached home from Seattle, on the Dolphin, last week. She left her father, Mr. Turner, very poorly.
 Mr. z R. Cheney, one of Juneau's bright young attorneys, was in Wran- gell several days during the week on le- gal business.
 Herman Siemer, after being absent for several months. returned on the Humboldt from the north. He has been at different points.
 It will take 60000 feet of lumber for l those government buildings, and Day,d Johnson has the contract for deliverir 2 it at $1.75 per NJ.
 The young gentleman in town wi 0 was looking for ''oil to make green light' is advised that '.red lamp-black' is an excellent substitute.
 F. W Carlyon accompanied Messrs. l Harvey and singer to Whitehorse, last 1 week, where he is interested in the new mines being developed there.
 No one in Wrangell has a nicer collec- l tion of flowers than can be seen at the 1 Churchill home. 4 Daillia in the list is one of the finest we have ever seen. Lost-On the streets of Wrangell. H-link Gold Watch Chain. that had i been broken off close ta watch. Finder will be satisfactorily rewarded by retufL- ing to SENTINEL office.
 The many friends of Capt Edwin Hof- stad at this place will he glad to know that his reported rich find mentioned in another column, is q stern reality. He is deserving of success in its fullest measure.
 Messrs. Engstrom, Darwell and Nick erson have had splendid luck in their salmon salting business. With POO bar rels filed it made load for the schoon- CT Port Royal. It was necessary to ship l these below. And the season is scarcely half gone.
 Walter Campen Is experimenting on smoking salmon, for lunches that prom ises to be all right. They are slightly salted and then thoroughly cured by smoking, but not enough to render them hard and unpalatable as is the case in many instances. The one brought to the SENTINEL office is just right.
 K.J. Knyg returned from below. the fore part of last week, where he went to dispose of the fish put up by himself and Messrs. Syindseth, Olsen and Sum. mers. He had 21 tierces, that it took the four men about six weeks to put up, and these readily brought S1200.
 The SENTINEL goes to press Wednesday 2nd, to announce the wedding of AIr. 1 Lauros k. Alilligan, well and favorably known here, and Miss Nina A. Burns, to be solemnized at the Peoples Church, by Rev. II. P. Corser, this "Wednesday evening, and to which all are cordially invited to be present.
 Lawrence Horgheim is suffering from badly broken left forearm. Last Thursday he fell from the picket fence surrounding the house yard, and, catch ing the arm between two pickets, broke both bones square off. Dr DeVighne was called, adjusted the broken parts, and Lawrence is doing well.
 We notice by Juneau papers that II. H. Hunter has gone below with his fam ily. This would indicate that he will not be here to take up the development work on the Johnson-Olson claims this year, at least After that it will be too late for MT. Hunter, as other parties are anxious to take hold of the property.
 Rev. and Mrs. Jenkins and two chil- dren came up from Ketchikan on the Seattle. Mrs. Jenkins remains for few days to give the children a chance to en- iov themselves on our grassy plats. Rev. Jenkins delivered an interesting sermon at Peoples church Sunday eyen- ing.
 Mir. L. J. Swartz, who is looking after the interests of the Barnes Lake Bay cannery, was in town last week and came in to tell the SENTINEL that they are getting along nicely, having put up lover 1, GOO cases of first-class salmon. We hope to see this cannery get full pack this season.
 Prof. Fred Chase of shakan came up on the Clatawa and spent Sunday in our town, returning on the boat. He says things are running smoothly at Shakan ; the cannery has put up about 1000 cases of salmon, the contractors have the new teachers residence well along and it will soon be completed. Prof. Chase expects to be employed at Shakan as teacher for