The Chitina leader., 1911-06-03
Local News


 Tom Holland by a party of capital ists, including President Young. of the Copper River & Northwestern Railway company. to guide them on an exploring expedition through cer- tain parts of Alaska in the near fu- ture.
 E. F. Gray. of Copper Mountain. left on Fridays train for Cordova where he will wait for the steamer leaving Seattle June 1st, on which his wife is a passenger, and who will spend the summer with her husband at Copper Mountain.
 Jack Rockafellow. the affable bookkeeper for the Orr Stage Con- pany, left on Tuesdays stage for his home in Fairbanks He will return again in the fall and expects to bring his family here to reside.
 Teh last interior mails left there on Tuesday morning, there being three yet to come from the inside. Man ager Jesse Martin states that it will take about two weeks yet to wind up the Orr Stage Company's affairs here for the summer.
 Dr. M. E. Smith, chief surgeon of the Katalla Company, who made a trip up the line last week as far as Chitina, stated that there were but few men on the road now needing medical aid and the list of accidents was very small. Dr. Whiting, who is under contract with the com pany to take care of the sick and injured from Chitina to the mines, also makes a favorable report as to hospital conditions.
 H. L. Baird, who recently met with an accident while en route on his dining car. has been of the run for a few days and confined at the Katalla Company hospital at Cor dova under the care of Dr. Smith.
 Some splendid strings of lake trout and grayling are being brought in every day from Trout lake in front of town.
 Several car loads of ore from the Bonanza mine went throush to Cor dova on Wednesdays train, making thirteen car loads to go out on the Alameda's last trip south.
 A gang of bridge carpenters. un- der the foremanship of Hugo Fels, left this week to take out the false work from the Kuskulana bridge.
 Fire broke out in the room occu- pied by Mrs. Wallace at the Katalla Company boarding house on Tuesday afternoon. The burlap caught from a fire in the stove and smouldered some time before it was noticed. Most of Mrs. Wallace's clothing was ruined and a few articles damaged, but nothing of more serious nature resulted.
 A. G. Baker, the we'll known time keeper, has resigned his position with the Katalla Company and has been succeeded by T. c. McCauley. MT. Baker will go to Katalla, where he will join the party composed of John L. Steele, Hartman, Gwin and oth- CTS of the Alaska Coal & Develop ment Company, who are largely in terested in the oil fields of Katalla. The Leader and the many friends of MT. Baker wish his good luck in his new fields of labor. ,.-.
 What do you know about the train making such good time on Thursday that the big leather mail sack con- signed to MT McCune at camp 146. caught fire? Anyway, when Con- ductor Jack Connley threw the sack from the car it was seen to be smok- ing and no time was lost in dumping out the contents. Someone had sent a package of tobacco and matches to one of the boys at the front and in some manner the matches caught fire just as the mail bag reached Chitina, but nothing was damaged.
 J. Singleton is the new chef at the Katalla Company boarding house here under the management of Mrs. Wallace.
 Sam Bloomquist, partner of Frank Iverson, killed an old she bear this week, which had three cubs. some thing out of the ordinary, according to old-timers.
 The American ditcher, which has been doing some effective work down