The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1919-09-20

residence and municipal shed,
The Ketchikan Chronicle offers as
a proof of the rapid growth and
wonderful business activity of the
city, the fact that folks have to
wait their turn to ride on the auto
street-car line there.
Three distillers were recently
fined $3.50 each at Stewart for dis
tilling out of season. Stewart is the
Canadian town mile or two from
the American camp of Hyder.
Bears are still very plentiful in the
vicinity of Whitehorse. Several duck
hunters from that city recently saw
one and broke all records for the dis
lance in getting away from the imme-
date locality.
Captain Royal PuIlen, accompan-
led by his wife, has arrived at Skag-
way for a visit with his mother, Mrs.
Harriet Pullen. Captain Pullen, who
enlisted for the war from Treadwell,
served twelve months in France in
active service.
A party of seventeen persons, in
o1u6ipC CANA coppOrx, v,o,, owl n
government nurse, recently arrived
at Seward to catch the Admiral Wat
son for the south. They mushed all
the way overland from Dillingham;,
Nushagak and other Bristol Bay
points.
A new gold strike has been reported
on Buster creek, a tributary of the
KOkO river which empties into the
lower Yukon on the right limit about
eight miles above Russian Mission
No details of the strike have been
learned except that gold has been
found on five claims on the creek.
The passing of the open bar in
the Yukon was accompanied by no
marked demonstration. Several of
the saloons remain open, selling soft
drinks only. A public vendor and
assistant have been appointed by the
government to handle spirits at
Dawson, and others will soon be ap-
pointed at other places.
Several hundred pounds of copper
ore have arrived at Valdez from the
Red Metal copper mine, located on
Columbia glacier. The ore is nearly
all solid copper and is very rich. It
is estimated that nearly $4,000 tons
of this ore is in sight and the opera
tors are convinced that the mine
will become one of the largest pro-
ducers in the district.
Henry Wanke, an 8-year-old child |
at Loring, recently picked up an OBJ
ject on the beach there and lit a i
match to it. The explosion blew off |
all the fingers of the little ones left |
hand with the exception of the little
finger. No one knows for sure what
the object was that exploded, but
it is thought it was a nitrO-glycerine
cap.
1t has become a practice in the
States now to discount Canadian
silver coins at the banks and bust
ness houses. The reason for it is
that spectators were making a prac-
tice Of bringing it over the line and
making a profit on it. The Ketchi-
kan bank has made the statement
that as long as Canadian silver is
received in the ordinary course of Il
business there will be no discount
on it.
vi AuSuSL 40 CnSIS was d Dig
dance held at Eska to celebrate the
completion of the new school house
there. 1t was attended by every
person in Eska as we'll as by most
of the population of Chickaloon and
many people from Anchorage. Dane
ing began at o'clock in the evening
and continued until 2 in the morning.
The Anchorage Jazz orchestra fur
Eska the lunch.
Captain George Black, organizer
and commander Of the Second Yukon
Motor Machine Gun Battalion. was
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