The Chitina leader., 1911-01-28
Local New S.

| Gays In town this week, coming in
from the front on Monday evenings
train. The big doctor is most opti-
mistic regarding the future of the
country all along the line of rail-
road, ana in particular from Chit
ina to the Bonanza.
l.. B. Erickson returned this week
from freighting supplies to Deans
Basin. Dick Flick, John Gage and
AL. Church are interested in the
quartz there, and will drive a 30-foot
tunnel in the spring They received
returns on an assay going S2735 to
the ton. The ledge is 13 feet wide
and runs over the mountain for over
four miles. The boys are satisfied
it's something good.
1t was some cold this week. The
lowest report was so below in Chit
ina, while across the river it was
down as low as 81.
Harvey Palmer, an old-time cook,
who has been at the upper Tonsina
roadhouse for the past year, arrived
in Chitina on Wednesdays stage. Mr.
Palmer, after a few days rest, will
return to work, but at the lower
| roadhouse at Pollard's, instead OF
the upper one.
Dick Flick made trip to mile
LAG this week to visit an old friend
of his, who is now in the hospital
at that place with frozen feet. Dick
says the man is getting along nicely
and will only lose a few toes from
the freezing.
Mrs. Jack Sapiro arrived on Thurs
day evenings train from Cordova,
and Jack now wears a smile that is
broader than the one he wore at the
potlatch last week.
A dog out at mile 146 was fool
ish enough to put his tongue to the
steel rails one frosty morning this
week, with the result that the poor
animal was held fast. Some work
men, seeing the predicament of the
animal, attempted to cut him loose,
and in doing so severed over half
the poor dogs tongue, and he had
to be killed.
Tommy Brady, the old-time con-
ductor and trainman, who has been
in business in Chitina for several
months, couldn't resist the call of the
road, and is now pilot on the snow
pillow between here and Cordova. He
still retains an interest in his bus
mess here, however, his partner, AL.
Church, looking after the store in
his absence.
Tom Parker, the we'll known Alas
kan, who has been doing extensive
prospect work this past season, and
who has been in Chitina the past
two weeks awaiting the return of his
partner, has decided to start out with
the supplies the first of the week.
He will take a dog team and pro-
visions and go to the headwaters OF
the Tanana river, where his part
ner, Roy Wilson, is now at work.
VIM. Lauson, the well known sta
ton agent at the Chitina terminal,
received a telegram this week an
nouncing the death of his wife in
Seattle. The sad and unexpected
news was a severe blow to Mr.. Lau-
son, and he has the deepest SYM
pathy in his bereavement.
Messrs. Coleman, Sapiro, Scott and
Bennett received cordial invitation
the first of this week to attend a
potlatch given by Chief Escaldita
near Taral this week. Ask any one
of the quartet If they went. 1t isn't
safe to ask 'em in a bunch.
Peter Cordes has moved all his
secondhand goods. into his new
building on Chitina Heights, just
back of Cages store. If you are
looking for anything in the second
hand line, such as stoves, dishes, |
tools. ETC., it will pay you to see
Peter, for he has good stock of
goods in his new place of business.
Louie Spite, Mike Larsen, d. c.
Sargent, w. J.. Macdonald and wife,
~. v. Winchester, ]. L. Sale, j.. c.
Readman, Sam J. Newman, D. E.
Dunbar. c. w .Tolber, Max Schmidt.
w. H. Mendham and Mrs. Cronin
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