The Cordova daily times., 1919-12-30
SHORT STORIES ABOUT ALASKA
 OCCURRENCES

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 John T. Spickett, manager of the Palace theatre who went to Sitka to install a new Orpheum theatre, has returned to Juneau.
 The Ketchikan Times force experi- enced all the rigors of an Alaskan winter when the boiler in the heating | plant went out of service recently. | A big birthday party was given at Quartz creek at McMillen recently to
 celebrate the 21st birthday of Chris
 Fothergill. Dawson creek sent a large
 delegation.
 A half dozen outfits which were
 working all summer in the .Tolsti country met with so much encourage ment that prospecting will be contin- ued through the winter RI Charles Thomas of Ocean Falls was killed while hunting recently He fell over a cliff fracturinf his skull. Thomas left a wife and several children in Vancouver.
 Considerable work is being done this year in the Beaver country where several outfits are putting down holes according to word received from Fair banks. The prospects are good. Every large boat going to Seattle from the North during the past few weeks has had a capacity cargo of | halibut, and the price consequently has tumbled to a point where there is | little profit in taking the fish Sev- eral of the boats will lay up during | cold weather.
 It is said that fully 150 persons have moved from Nenana to Fair
 banks since the completion of the
 railroad between the towns. Better living facilities and larger population are given as the cause for the remov- al. It is alleged that the climatic conditions are also better at Fair l banks.
 President Frank M. Boyle and Sec retary Roy N. Mover of the Anchorage | Cha nhar of Con,r,orco bovo co1oo+od | the following as members of tine ex- | cutive cOmmitte: Cr. J. B. Beeson, Leopold David, Frank I. Reed, Ray c. Larsrn, R. M. Courtney, M. J. Cop rov, z. J. Loussac, D. H. Williams, 1 Sidney Anderson and M. H Lyuch. That Alaska is rapidly loosing her population and is reverting to the wild conditions of years ago is pro- ven by the number of wolves seen on the beach just below Thane It is said that their bowling can plainly be heard by the people of that place. It is believed the animals have been driven down by hunger and deep , snoWs
 At a recent meeting of the Metkah- i tia town council recently the natives passed resolution to form 100 per | cent American clubs. The natives also notified any members of the town that any one believing in Bolshevism would be given a hot parting. The na- tlves stated that it was only just that
 they should support the United States government
 Alex Gibson of the Northwest | Mounted Police at Dawson and Mrs. Ida Mclaughlin were married at
 Prince Rupert, Nov. l. MT. Gibson formerly served in France with the Dawson contingent. Mrs. Gibsons former husband was chief electrician for the Yukon Gold at Twelve Mile and died of the flue in California | last winter.
 The first carload of coal from the Burns mine near Lignite for use by private consumers in town, reached Nenana lately from the end of steel, the entire shipment of thirty tons be- ing consigned to Tom Smith, proprie- tor of the Southern Hotel, says the Nanana NaWs of a raoant dato Tba