The Chitina leader., 1913-11-25

south are being fished out and it is now almost necessity that they come to the waters of Prince Will liam Sound. A captain of one of the halibut steamers declares that 65 vessels are now engaged in the hali- but trade and he predicts that next year more than half of them will be coming to the waters in the neighborhood of Cordova. They will bring their catch into the port to be iced and boxed, ready for quick shipment to Seattle That will mean that these vessels will make their headquarters at Seattle, with from six to forty men on each vessel doing their trading and getting their enjoyment at this port.
 Cordova, November 24
 Judge L. T. Erwin, of Fairbanks, who recently assumed the duties of U. S. marshal for the Fourth divi- sion, returned from a trip outside yesterday. He took several insane men to Morningside. While in Seattle he purchased four fine horses which he brought up on the Alameda and took out with him on .bo {,o;, 4b;c ,,,0rp;,r ua cleo bo T supply of poultry for Arthur Will Hams, the Fairbanks restaurant man, and will freight it in with the horses from Chitina. Judge Erwin will use the horses in the interior for wood delivery, as he is also engaged in that business.
 George c. Hazelet returned from the interior on the train yesterday, fully satisfied that the winter trail had been established over the glaciers. He will prepare a report of the work done by his expedition and will present it to a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce to be held likely tomorrow evening at City Hall.
 A pool had been formed to guess on the first date that the snow rotary would go out this winter. A number of guesses placed the date between November 15 and Decem- Der 8. Three made the correct guess of November 24, as the rotary was sent out this morning. Last year it went out for the first time on November IT.
 Henry T. Ray, of Fairbanks. ar rived on the Alameda yesterday. He has been out attending the annual camp of the Arctic Brotherhood at Seattle, at which he was elected Grand Arctic Chief for the ensuing year. He says that the question of establishing lodges in places other than in Alaska has finally been dis posed of as the Grand lodge deter mined that no charters should be issued for outside the territory. It was decided that the next meeting should be held at Seattle but after that the sessions will be held in Alaska. It is believed that these concessions will satisfy the element in Southeastern Alaska that met last spring and after practically depos- ing the officers previously elected at Vancouver, proceeded to elect new officers. Chief Ray expects to soon get that element in line and again have a united order. He says that one of his first official acts was to sign a charter for the Chitina camp, which was presented for his sigma ture at Skagway by Secretary Keller. He rather expects to install the officers of the Chitina camp to- night, as he intends to take the stage for Fairbanks tomorrow. Mir Ray is the government trustee for the Fairbanks town site.
 The steamer Alameda arrived at Cordova last evening shortly after 6 o'clock, bringing 32 passengers, 6 horses and 300 tons of freight for this port. She sailed this morning at 6:30 for Valdez and is expected back on Wednesday evening. She will take on copper ore here and sail south on Thursday morning. The following passengers came for this section of Alaska:
 For Cordova-Mrs. w. K. Faddis and family, J. A. Nicolet, F. A. Douse, J. Sundin, Carl J. Anderson, T. Handbook, F. Schmitz, M Brock and wife, NJ. W. Pickle and wife, c.