The Chitina leader., 1914-04-21

in port this morning shortly before
IL o'clock. She had 100 tons of
| freight and "a passengers for Cor
| dova. Of the latter number 40
| sailed from Seattle and the rest got
| on at Alaskan ports. The steamer
| sailed for Valdez and the westward
| this afternoon about 8 O'Clock. Fol-
lowing were the passengers from
Seattle for Prince William Sound
| ports:
| For Cordova-Geo. Max Esterly
and wife, Volney Richmond, F. A.
Hotchkiss, Chas. Grimm, ]. A. Fair
born, J. w. Hill, H. Frydenlund, H.
| Bellows, S. R. Weiss and wife, D.
Cameron, D. P. Murphy, o. Spahgler,
5. Lalac, H. Loner, ]. E. Sommer,
J. R. Hurst, F. w. Sommer, ]. w.
Forester, Henry Prather, J.. CHS
holm, w. B. Stewart, R. H Mackey,
p L. Burnett, Major Milligan, P. J..
Warwick and 10 second class.
For Valdez-C. l.. Erwin, F. F.
Elkins, Geo. Elkins, J. Mcdonald,
A. w. Hewitt, E. B. Wheat and wife,
E. Eckern, W. H. Foust, A. Wilcox
and second class.
For Seward-W. H. Hughes, R.
| Putnam, G. E. Anderson, E. McGet-
tigan, A. ]. Carlson, A. Hanson, w.
E. Ludy, F. B. Sturgis, ] E. Loub-
ner, F. Sully. l.. B. Cotter, S. H.
Robertson, c. Nlcolotis, D. NJ
Naugh, c. NJ Nutter and second
class.
Cordova, April 20.
Judge j. ]. Finnigan, accom-
panied by his wife and young pat"
departed on the train this morning
for Mccarthy. There they will take
a dog team and proceed into the
Shushanna.
Geo. Max Esterly will not leave
for the interior until Thursdays
train. Mrs. Esterly will remain at
Cordova until the southbound trip
of the Mariposa, about Monday next,
when she will return to her home at
Seattle.
Among the passengers passing
through on the steamer Northwest
ern were w. w. Hughes and three
associates, representatives of the U.
S. Mining & Smelling Co. They
eXpectsgto go to handbook Bay, near
Unalaska, to open up a gold quartz
property.
The gasoline schooner Northland
returned Sunday, after having made
trip to Katalla for a cargo of oil
that was distributed at Valdez and
Port Wells.
Pete Froberg, of the steamer
Taku, has his new gasoline launch
finished and placed in commission.
w. C. L. Byers, who brought a
party of Cordova men to town from
Port Wells, in his gasoline launch,
returned yesterday to the mining
camp
Another little touch of winter to-
day, after Sunday of sunshine and
| warmth.
The snow blockade that has pre-
vented regular traffic on the Copper
River & Northwestern Railway for
several days past has been broken.
Immediately after the wind subsidized
on Saturday night a crew of men
started work on the drifts in the
neighborhood of Mile 33. A clear
| ance was made and the rotary that
preceded the train that had been
showed in was able to move forward
The snow that had filled up the
tracks for some miles was soon
hnadled, with the result that last
evening the train started to move
forward and reached Chitina this
morning. AS the crew must take a
rest of ten hours it will be toward
evening before the return start will
be made for Cordova. 1t is expected
that this train with passengers and
mail will reach here tonight shortly
after midnight. The interior mail
will go southbound on the steamer
Letters received here indicate that
the halibut schooner Dewey has been
wrecked in Southeastern Alaska
waters. The Dewey came north to
Prince. William Sound last winter
and left for the south early in
March. She brought her frequent
catches of halibut to Cordova, it
being shipped from here on the
regular steamers to Seattle.
Cordoya, April 81.
The train from the interior ar
rived in town this morning at 1915,
having left Chitina at 4:30 yester-
day afternoon. Over so sacks of
mail were brought in, much of it
from Fairbanks, which was worked
over in the Cordova post Office and