The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1915-11-01
Whitshed radio station.


Kinley Lake gold quartz from prop
ties now being exported by that COM
pany.
Yesterday the three men who we're
badly burned by an explosion at the
Whitshed radio station on October IA
were removed from the railroad COM
pany hospital to the collier Prone
theus and are on the way to recovery.
David Barry, civilian member of the
working party from the Prometheus,
suffered the greatest injuries, and for
a time his condition was critical, but
he is now getting along nicely. A. ].
Holton, gunner of the U. S. Navy. and
M. Schajkowski, machinst at the wire
less station, was also badly burned
about the face and hands, but their
wounds are healing and they will soon
be about again.
FRIDAY
The freighter Seward Is in port,
loading 1000 tons of copper ore for
the Tacoma smelter.
Mrs. Maude Rice is spending few
days in town.
o. E. Jones, of Mile SO, is spending
few days in town.
Tomorrow's train from Chitina is
expected to arrive shortly after noon.
Mrs. X. G. Robinson yeft on this
mornings train for Mccarthy. where
she has accepted position as teacher
of the schools there, which open on
November /.
Mrs. Thomas C. Price and daughter.
Miss Ethel, will shortly leave Cordova
having disposed of their cottage on
Fourth street to Harry I. O'Neill They
will visit relatives at Juneau and
Treadwell before proceeding to Arl-
ington, Wash, where they expect to
make their future home. Mrs. Price
and Miss Ethel have many friends in
Cordova, who will regret their re-
moval from our midst.
F. A. Jones received word in the last
| mail that his father, C. E. Jones, of
Stockton, Cal, had been stricken with
paralysis and as he is we'll advanced
in years, being Ga, Frank and his wife
will leave an the Alameda for the
formers old home, and expect to be
gone five or six weeks.
E. T. Stannard. mining engineer
for the Kennecott Copper Corpora
ton, arrived from the westward on the
Alameda and will go to Kennecott on
the next train.
Thomas Riggs, Jr., member of the
Alaska Engineering Commission, is in
town today on his way to Washington.
Mr. Riggs made a trip to Seward to
confer with Chairman Edes, who ex-
poets to leave for the states on the
next sailing south of the Admiral
Evans, and will spend the winter in
Washington. Lieutenant Mears will re-
main at Anchorage.
Falcon Poslin was a returning pas
senger today from Anchorage. where
he inspected the construction of the
government railroad. Mr.. Joslin is
president of the Tanana Valley rail-
way at Fairbanks and is on his way
to the states, where he will spend the
winter.
R. C. Wood, president of the First
National bank at Fairbanks, returned
on the steamer Alameda from a trip
to Anchorage and he expresses him.
self as very much impressed with the
townsite and character of buildings
erected at the new railroad terminal
Mr.. Wood took a trip out the line,
the rails having been laid for a dis
lance of seven miles, while the grad
ing extends towards Matanuska for
about forty miles. He says the
Commission expects to receive a de-
ficiency appropriation in December
and by laying track at the rate of a
mile day expect to have the rails
laid for the forty miles by the end of
the year.
SATURDAY
]. d. Reagh, manager of the Domin-
ion Commercial Company, at Fair
banks, was a passenger on yesterdays
train and left on the Alameda for the
states.
Miss M. A. Davis, representing an
outside publishing house is spending
a few days in Cordova.
F. A. Jones and wife left on the Ala
heda for California, where the form
er's father is ill.