The Chitina leader., 1911-06-24
Local News

DR.. Whiting, who came down from
146 on Thursday, stated that the two
men who fell from the water tank
at that camp are improving nicely.
Shorty" Mcfarland was pretty bad
ly bruised and is nursing a creek
ed rib. The men fell about thir-
ty feet caused from broken scat
fold.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. T. Andrus, c. M.
and W. H. Van Cleek were passen-
gers on Thursdays train from Cor
edova on trip to the front. Mr..
Andrus, who is son of the princi-
pal owner of the placer properties
superintended by Geo. Max Esterly,
with his brother made trip up here
two years ago, and made the thrill
ing trip down the rivers, at which
time two men were drowned and all
in the boat narrowly escaped death.
Chief Mail Clerk Alvah Ames, of
Valdez. arrived here on Thursday
nights train and left the same eve
ming for trip up the line.
Simons and Cordes, the Chitina
Heights merchants, finished Install
ing big display window in the cor
ner of their store this week, which
shows up their line of merchandise
to much better advantage
Mrs. Wildt, wife of Eddie Wildt,
who is running between here and the
front on engine 100, arrived from
Cordova on Tuesday evenings train
and expects to remain here for the
summer. Mr.. and Mrs. Wildt have
rented the cabin formerly occupied
by Mr.. and Mrs. Carey, on Chitina
Heights.
A report from the steamer on
which DR.. Whiting shipped a few
Alaska squirrels to his wife in
: Seattle is to the effect that the little
fellows gnawed thier way out of the
wooden cage in which they were con-
fined and are now the real mascots
of the ship. The doctor shipped two
more this week, but not in a wooden
cage, putting them in an oil can, so
there is no chance for them to get
away.
E. o. Ellsworth, the we'll known
fireman, left on Fridays train en-
route to Montana, where he will join
his wife and relatives and recuper-
ate from bad attack of lung trouble
which has affected him so badly for
the last few days he was compelled
to quit work and advised by the COM
pany doctors to take rest for the
balance of the season. His many
friends wish him a speedy return to
health and Chitina.
Geo. Cappell and S. B. Combast,
the mining men who have recently
acquired some promising looking iron
holdings in the vicinity of Mt Wran-
CELL, and who recently left for the
coast on a business trip, returned
again on Thursdays train and with
John Gage left the following day on
another prospecting trip in the vicin-
ity of Mt. Drum.
P. w. Pinneo, who lett last week
for the Dan creek diggings, returned
on Wednesday and stated that the
Nizina river was too high for any
one to cross. and that even the hor-
ses and freight outfit which went in
ahead of him, dared not come across
the torrent at the present time. AS
the water may remain high for sew
Cordova yesterday
Claude Snyder, one of the old
Emerly conducted a bowling alley at
the coast terminal, was an arrival in
town this week, and expects to leave
for work at the front in few days.
Henry Thoday, the we'll known car
spenter, arrived on Tuesday evening S
train and will be in charge of the
work of constructing the new depot
for Chitina.
w. S. McCune and V. ]. Dwyer,
two well known Katalla company Of
ficials located at camp LAG, were
down the first of the week on bust
ness trip.
Mrs. v. G. Vance arrived in Chit
ina on Tuesday evening and left the
following morning with her husband
who is at work along the line with
the track and nile driver crew Mrs