The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1911-07-22
Local News

Frank Clarkin, one of the popular
conductors on the Chitina branch.
left on Wednesday mornings train
for short business trip to Cordova.
Road Overseer Fred Schaupp and
Roland Healey, deputy road tax col
lector. left on Tuesdays train for
the front. where they expect to make
arrangements with the mine owners
in the different sections to have
much necessary road work done on
the various trails in that vicinity.
DR.. Whiting received a post card
from the well known comedian Fred
Stone who was here on a bear hunt
with Rex Beach two seasons ago.
The card came from Norway and
was mailed on June %, arriving here
on the last mail, making fast time
from Norway, being less than three
weeks enroute. The comedian is on
his way to Greenland to hunt polar
bear and states he will drop card
to his friends here on his return.
Tom Holland left on Tuesdays
train for the front, taking his old
meat inn the pot" Winchester and a
small pack. He is heading for Nc
Connells' camp and may be gone a
week or ten days
Mrs. Fyler, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Baird, who conduct the dining
car on the local run between here
and Cordova, is visiting her parents,
and made a round trip on the car
leaving Cordova Monday.
Capt. A. E. Lathrop, mayor of
Cordova arrived on Monday evenings
train, accompanied by Fred Butter
worth, the civil engineer of Valdez.
Capt. Lathrop is interested in the
group of claims on kotsina river and
will on this trip run the final lines
necessary to prepare the claims for
patent.
The California Alaska Mines &
company, who own this
group of claims, have been doing
development work On them for the
past five years, and now have four
men employed in finishing the work
for patent.
B. F. Ulrich, one of the best civil
engineers who ever squinted through
transit on the Copper River &
railroad, and who has
been with the company off and on
since early katalla days, has re-
signed his position as transitman
with the special engineer party at
the front, and left for Cordova on
Friday mornings train, expecting to
take one of the next outgoing steam
ers for the states. The many friends
of Barney, as he is generally
known. wish him good luck in pas
lures new. as he states that he ex-
poets to survey other fields as prom
Using as Alaska.
Miss Mia Dixon. who has been
visiting friends along the line of
ANYWAY do idl DIS the heHueCOtl,
since leaving Cordova on July 4th,
returned to her home again on Fri
day mornings train. She was the
guest of Mrs. John Reed at mile 1873,
and of Mrs. Thos. Cloninger while
in Chitina.
Hugo Fels, the well known car
penter who has been with the Kat
ALA company since the early con-
struction days at Katalla. left on
Fridays train for Cordova, and
will take the steamer Northwestern
for the states. Hugo has been suf-
fering from a bruised hand caught
between the ratings of the Kusku-
lana bridge, and while the injured
is healing, will spend his
vacation at Sierra Madero, Cal,
where he has a sister living.
Mrs. Josephine Meyers. who has
been along the line of railway since
the early Eyak days, and resident
Of Chitina since the town first start
ed, left on Fridays train for Cor
1ova and will take the next steam
or for Seattle, expecting to visit in
Montana.
Mrs. Kate Johanson and son
Clarence, came up from Cordova and
spent few days visiting her hus-
1and Antoine Johanson, who is at
work on the new Chitina depot.
D. A. Stantien, formerly electro
ian at Copper Mountain, who last
week left on a trip to the Kotsina,
'eturned Thursday evening and says
that the copper properties there
IN which he is interested look most
promising. He left on Friday morn
ng's train for a business trip to
Cordova.
Cook Il West who have been in
Chitina since last December, closed
Out thar husinoss On Thursday Of