The Cordova daily times., 1919-10-10
SHORT STORIES ABOUT ALASKA
 OCCURRENCES

structing two 95-foot steel tanks at Ketchikar.
 The Petersburg Sawmill Company has begun work on a foreign contract for 59,OOO,OOO of lumber.
 The Petersburg Packing Company put up 80,000 cases of salmon this sea- son. The Washington bay plant packed 2,OOO cases.
 John the Creek" or John Klonos, a former resident of the Iditarod sec tion, is now an inmate of the Pioneers Home at Sitka.
 The Richardson post of the Ameri- can Legion is being formed at Valdez by returned soldiers. About twenty members will be on the charter roll
 Out of twenty-five pupils admitted to the University of Washington this year from Alaska, seven are from Skagway, a fine showing for the gate way to the Yukon.
 A crew of men have been working for several months on the Basin road, near Juneau. Several bridges and cul- verts have been put in, and the road has been placed in fine shape.
 Mrs E. M Kelly, who has been con- nected with the Fashion store at Ju- neau for three years, left recently for Port Angeles, Washington, accompa- nied by her daughter EllanOre.
 The store of the Juneau Hardware Company was visited by petty thieves recently, who climbed up on a pack ing case at the rear of the building and pried off the window sash
 Taylor, Drury, PedIar & Go. have opened negotiations to purchase the Yukon river steamer Thistle The steamer Kluane, belonging to them, is too small to supply the five trading stations which the company maintains.
 Mrs Anna B. Young, a dry goods dealer of Flat, and a pioneer of the NOrthland, recently sold her stock of Ir 41 NTpC I 1n md fro Seattle. She will live with her son, Harold Young, who recently re- turned from overseas.
 Citizens of Nome are working hard to prevent the fort from being taken away from that city. Senator Key Putnam, who used to reside in Nome in the early days, is working with the war department to prevent the fort from being abandoned.
 Captain Peterson of the Fish Hawk, owned and operated by the P. E. Har- ris Packing Company, has sailed with the boat for Seattle for the winter. The company made a pack of 45,OOO cases of fish. The crew at Flaw inlet was taken out on the Evans.
 Officers of the revenue cutter Bear report that an enormous herd of wal rus was seen on the lower edge of the Arctic ice pack during the recent trip of the cutter along the coast. Thou sands upon thousands of the huge mammals were sighted, an unusual occurrence.
 Ketchikan may have another indus try located there by the end of the year. Milo Cauighrah, an engineer of the city, has perfected new lamp for automobiles and has been granted a patent on it. A company has been formed by local men to manufacture the new fight.
 The governors office at Juneau has been busy the past month making out the official report, which has been forwarded to Washington. The gov ernor's annual report will be interest ing this year, as it will deal with many questions of vital importance to Alas kans
 The new boat Ambassador, being built at Tacoma for the Chichagof company, is nearly completed, and will be brought North soon. The boat is being made exceptionally strong to buck the great gales of Southeastern Alaska. She will cost about $150,000 when completed.
 Major Mehaffey, who was formerly stationed in Valdez with the road oor, c;Op oc ouUinnar ic cboxyp in