The Chitina leader., 1913-09-16

 duties of telephone operator during the absence of Mrs. Lucy Smith, who will enjoy a vacation and accompany MT. and Mrs. c. F. Byers on a trip to the states, leaving on the Alameda.
 The Rev. w. H. Ziegler, of Valdez, arrived on this mornings boat. He will be the guest of Rev. and Mrs. E. P. Ziegler for about ten days.
 c. E. Ellsworth, U. s. geological survey, was an arrival on the Ala meda from the westward. He is a guest at the Windsor.
 George and Charles Osborne will make a trip to Juneau to look over the business situation.
 Handsome new bar fixtures are being installed today at the Horse shoe They are of the Brunswick Bake make and are very complete and elegant in design. The old fix lures have been sold to Fred Schrenger, who will install them in his restaurant.
 Dr. J. A. Holmes, of Washington, director of the Bureau of Mines, ac- companied by his son, arrived on the afternoon train and are at theWind- sor hotel. They have been to the Fairbanks country and came out over the trail as far as Chitina. They will go over to Seward and likely make trip into the Matanuska coal fields, where government employees are securing a quantity of coal for steam testing purposes.
 Mrs. H. s. Coleman who has been turned on the Mariposa and will go to her home at Flag Point on the morning train.
 o. B. Young, of Seattle, is a re- cent arrival from the Chisana. He and his companions made a number of locations below lower discovery on Johnson creek. These they have bonded to Funston and Coles, two old-timers of the Fairbanks country who are now in the new diggings. The claims included are numbers l, 2, 4, 5, 6, and 2. They will be worked this winter, as thawing ma chimes and drills have been sent for and will be taken in over the ice. The intention is to sink several holes sto bedrock on each claim. This property is just below the Little Caribou claim located by Jack Hosfeld. < e5 hF~
 Dr. c F. Montgomery has received a letter from his friend Michael McGovern- at Ruby, dated August IS. He states that he intends leav- ing in a day or two for the Chisana gold diggings. He evidently has faith in the future of the new camp, as he already has property that would seem we'll worth working in the Ruby district. He says: Our ground on Greensboro looks pretty good. Drake, Coffey and Bowers, above us on the creek have been doing open cutting and their ground is going $40 to the shovel. I have the assessment work done on all our ground"
 When U. s. Marshal Brenneman was in Cordova yesterday he stated that he had offered the position of dell, of Katalla, but that he pre- ferred to remain where he has per- sonal interests to look after. As a consequence he will be named as the deputy at Katal1a. The marshal an- nounced that he would now appoint John Bouse as his chief deputy, a position that he has acceptably filled during the incumbency of Marshal Sullivan. MT. Brenneman told the Cordova applicants for place that he would decide on no appointments until after he had taken office, which will likely be late this afternoon, after the arrival of Judge Brown on the steamer Mariposa
 The wireless station at Kodiak, located ou Woodv island will he re- stored at once. It was destroyed a month or more ago by the exhaust from a gasoline engine. In the meantime a small receiving instru ment has been able to pick up near messages but the station has not been able to send out anything. Lieut.. Mcconnell, accompanied by his wife
 ,oH 1ou