The Chitina leader., 1915-05-11
Cordoya. Nav s

dova on his return from several
months spent with his wife in Cali
fornia, has. again opened an Office IN
Valdez and is prepared to do assay
ing for all persons in this section of
Alaska a& IS
After ten days, of sunshine and
warmth the streets began to dry up
and get dusty SO a gentle rain today
is having the effect of making
] things look and feel natural about
4 town again.
Il Harmon & Deever received an
other 5-horse power Regal engine on
the steamer Thursday. They had
just sold two of these wonderfully
popular engines.
Father Cremont will be a pas
senger over from Valdez on the
steamer Northwestern early tomor-
row morning, and will hold services
at ST. Joseph's Catholic Church.
Cordova, May 10.
/ Caleb Corser, superintendent of
the Copper River & Northwestern
Railway, was an outgoing passenger
on the steamer Northwestern last
night He will join his wife and
family at Seattle and together will
journey to San Francisco and enjoy
the expositions. Mr.. Corser has
been working hard for the past two
years and is taking a we'll earned
vacation of month or five weeks.
During his absence his duties here
will be looked after by the efficient
train dispatcher, Harry N. Wilson.
The warm and bright weather yes
terday had the effect of drawing
: large crowd to the new base ball
park. The first game of the season
was played, and it was thoroughly
enjoyed, even though most of the
boys were out. of practice. The con-
test was between the Married Men
and the Single Men. resulting in a
victory for the. former by a score
of II to g.. But the. defeated nine
next time and give assurance that
they will reverse the score. DIR.
Chase, who is the president of the
baseball association and father of
the park movement, gave the audi
ence a fetching little talk about
j there still being an indebtedness
4 against the park, which he thought
should be wiped out that all might
enjoy the games this summer with
out the thought of any. clouds hover
! ing about. The hat was then passed
contributed, which now leaves an
indebtedness of only about a similar
amount. r1
Assistant District Attorney Mum
ley has just returned from Ship
creek or Woodrow Creek, or Ship
Anchorage. or whatever the new
terminus is called, and declares that
already 700 people have gathered
there, with more coming every
week. -fff4E NH}1
Maurice McGurk, who has been
enjoying a vacation outside and
incidentally viewed the wonders of
the California expositions, returned
IN the last steamer and left on the
train this morning for Kennecott,
where he will resume his labors at
the mine.
Billy Bolte. formerly of the COM
missary department of the railway,
recently took a bakery outfit to Ship
Creek 1t is reported that this he
sold and returned to Valdez to buy
a stock Of hardware to take over 20
the new railway terminal.
Il Charley Goodall started in this
morning on a contract to enlarge
and otherwise improve the home of
!, c. NJ Rosswog. He will raise the
i building and put in 6-foot base
J, ment and add a building 20x22 feet.
The steamer Northwestern reached
Cordova yesterday morning about
II o'clock, having stopped at Ella
. mar several hours to take on 500
I tons OF copper ore. She remained
at CordoVa for twelve hours and
loaded 90 cars or 100 tons of
copner ore from the Bonanza ami
, Jumbo mines. -.--------.
, The passengers going south on.
the Northwestern from Seattle were,
- e. d. ~ u
Caleb Corser and F. B. Carter for
Seattle, and F. E. Hicks for Ketchi-
! kan.
! Capt Lathrop is preparing to
ship part of his transfer outfit to
J Ship Creek, to engage in business.
! He is also shipping the new auto
, mobile he received last year back 30
the states with the idea of having
a motor truck sent uD to CordOva in