The Cordova daily times., 1919-10-29
short STORIES
ABOUT ALASKA
OCCURRENCES

ed chief deputy clerk in the office of
Dick Thorne, Fairbanks movie mag
nate, has received notice of his ap-
pointment as Alaska representative of
the Fox Film News, a weekly picture
service similar to the Pathe.
According to information received in
Fairbanks, Thomas Jackson, a former
wellknown mining operator of the In
terror, recently passed away in Sc
attic. Mr.. Jackson was in the mining
game both in Fairbanks and Iditarod
districts. He went to the States about
a year ago for his health
Rev. w. A. Thomas, who arrived in
Nenana several days ago from the Arc
tic, where he was stationed last win
ter, is now en- route to Fort Yukon
to take up the winter work of Arch
deacon Hudson Stuck, visiting the
scattered Episcopal missions through
out the Interior The archdeacon
will spend the winter in the States
Recent arrivals from Brooks tell of
the uncovering of fairly good pay on
Lucky gulch that camp. Lucky gulch
is small tributary coming in at the
head of Livengood creek, and the pay
was found in the benches thereon. The
paystreak is not wide, but it is wide
enough to encourage the prospectOrs.
Much prospecting will be done there
this winter, and they have hopes of
finding a greater and wider paystreak
J. FOulke and James Dunning, hunt
ers from New Zealand, who have been
on Kenai peninsula for the past two
months, accompanied by their guides,
George Cotter and Jack Lean, have
returned to Seward. The hunters
had splendid luck, securing the quota
of trophies, but were unfortunate in
losing the greater part of the results
tow line of the boat containing the
trophies broke, the boat was swamped,
and the trophies, with the exception
of those carried in launch, were lost.
The hunters brought back several
sheep heads and one moose head with
a spread of antlers of 6S12 inches. The
other moose trophy, with a spread of
20 inches, was one of the trophies
lost
1t happened at lis p. m. October
IS. Old Mother Earth bumped her
back and shook like a Wild West
show, seemingly in the attempt to
buck everybody in Our Town Off her
back. In the upper stories of the
ore-than-one-story buildings in town
it looked as though the building might
fall, but the people hung on, and
Mother Earth had to quit shaking. 1t
was probably the worst earthquake
Fairbanks has ever experienced.
When the people came down town
in the morning, in the weather that
was suspiciously with us then, they
knew that something would happen
before the day ended, but most of
them expected it to be in the shape of
rain. Instead of that it was an earth
ouake.-Fairbank News Miner.
E. Struther Bunch, for several years
engaged in newspaper work at FAR
banks, and his wife, Miss Daphne Pol
lard, the actress, made big cleanup
in England and are returning to the
United States, according to Seattle
papers. The Seattle Times tells the
story like this:
after a season of tremendous sue
cess in England and establishing her
self as a favorite in musical reviews
in London, Daphne Pollard is sailing
for home October IS on the Maure-
tania.
"The dainty little Seattle actress
and her Seattle husband E. Struther
Bunch, have annexed a bank roll all
out of proportion to their size during
their stay in dear old London.
at is understood that Miss Pollard
will shortly be seen in new produc-
ton in New York"
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