The Chitina leader., 1914-12-22
.OF GENERAL INFORMATION

Carthy since last September, for eastern capitalists, was . passenger from the interior on Tuesdays train and will return to his home at Juneau on the steamship Mari posa. MT. Nash declined to express himself for publication. regarding observations and conclusions.
 Cordova, December IT
 A shipment of 40 foxes valued at about $20,000 was made on the steamer Mariposa last night. They are from the Fundy Fox Co.'S as sembling station here. are consigned 10 St. Johns, New Brunswick. and are in charge of c. D. Colwell, sup ertntendent of the local station.
 Each fox occupies a separate crate. Thirty-seven of the foxes are # the blue variety and three are the silver gray cross.
 These animals go to replenish the herd at the Fundy Company's big propagating farm. While the con- pany is engaged in propagating on several islands of Alaska, it also has about a dozen men purchasing throughout Alaska and the North vest territory. The furs of the sil- yer gray variety are valued at s1,25O to s1,500 eacn, those of the blue at $50 to s60, hence the in creasing number of fox farms in this part of the country.
 MT. Colwell will accompany the eoxes to their destination and ex- poets to return to Cordova about March 1, 1915.
 Cordova. December IS
 Damages sustained by the steam ship Admiral Evans when she struck on a reef at Bird Island several days ago, while on her trip to the westward, were more serious than first reported here. Maj. l.: H. French, who is passenger on the vessel from Seward to Seattle, in formed the Daily Alaskan last even ing that a hole seven feet long was ripped in the outer sheeting of her bottom. The fact that she has a double bottom is responsible for the vessel being able to proceed with the temporary repairs which she underwent after being beached. The cavity was patched up with cement md the vessel will go on the dock for permanent repairs when she reaches Seattle.
 The boat struck during a heavy snowstorm when she was under a slow bell and did not hit hard.
 The light repairs on the hull Of the steamer Dora, made necessary when she was hung up on a rect near Kodiak on her last trip to the westward, were completed on the heach at Seward in time for the old reliable packet to start on schedule time for the westward last Tuesday
 Cordova, December 19
 
 To get the accumulation of parcel post packages and newspapers which have accumulated at Cordova in ex- cess of the limit allowed under the mail contract, Postmaster Deal of Fairbanks has wired to the depart ment at Washington. The News Miner says he surmises that most of this parcels post is Christmas stuff and that without it Fairbanks and the creeks will have only half a Christmas tree.
 He hopes to receive an authoriza- ton to have this additional ton taken in by stage right away. The department usually lets a contract in December for extra tonnage Of mail from Cordova in excess of the regular contract, but that has not been done this winter. Besides the parcels post there are 5000 pounds of advertising matter.
 Cordova, December 21
 Jack Heath, a mining man well known throughout Alaska, who had been missing from Seattle for about I month, after going out from Fair banks, has been located at Hills 5oro, Ore. He had been out of d sickbed only two days when he wrote his father. A dispatch re- ceived by the Daily Alaskan at the time of MT. Heath's disappearance expressed the fear that he had com mitted suicide because of despond- ency resulting from loss of money invested in moving picture show at Seattle. Mrs. Heath and her Drother-in-law commenced suit against the man who sold MT. Heath an outfit he did not own and for which he could not give a bill of sale. The fellow who bunkoed MT. Heath turned over some suburban property in Portland and is at tempting otherwise to square him. self'' to avoid prosecution.