The Cordova daily times., 1919-12-26
SHORT STORIES ABOUT ALASKA
 OCCURRENCES

The houses of Ketchikan are to be numbered and a city directory published.
 On the, last of November there was a deficit in the Ketchikan city treas ury of close to $3,O0O.
 The wind blew so hard at Wash ington bay a short time ago that the cannery warehouse, which is 300 feet in length, was twisted on it's foundation.
 Two plots of ground in the Ketch. ikan cemetery in which 80 graves can be placed have been donated to the Pioneers of Alaska by the city council of Ketchikan.
 Ketchikan Post of the American Legion is now well organized and has started work finding jobs for returned serivce men. The Post is to have a smoker at an early date.
 The captain of the Admiral Wat son has made a statement that the engineers of his ship tried out a quantity of Matanuska coal on a re- cent trip and find that it is the best that they have ever used.
 Kptnhil9n 1assed an ordinance making it a crime for any boy or girl to have tobacco in their possession. It also makes it crime for any one to sell to them.
 Rev. Father William A. Shepard, formerly of Anchorage, has arrived at Ketchikan to take charge of the Catholic church there. Father Shep- ard was stationed at Ketchikan sev- eral years ago.
 The Jumbo mine at Sulzer has been closed down until spring. The reason for closing is given that the manager, John D. Field, is sick in a Los Angeles hospital, and also the failure of delivery of supplies to the electrical power plant.
 Fire in the officers quarters at Fort Liscum destroyed consider able amount of personal property be- +r oCE was done to the building One off cer saved his life by jumping from an upstirs window.
 A wholesale grocery business is to be established at Ketchikan. The organizers of the company are J. R. Heckman, w. A. Bryant, A. l.. Spaeth and A. R. Larson, all of Ketchikan Associated with the men will be the West Coast Grocery Company of Ia coma, Washington
 Joe Burke of Valdez, on a recent trip among the natives to the West ward, found an ancient Moorish rifle similar to those used by the Arabs of the desert. He has added it to his collection of ancient weapons. No, one seemed to know how the rifle ever got to Alaska. Colonel LeNoir of the Alaska cable service has written to the Valdez Chamber of Commerce that he is strongly in favor of large wireless station for the town. He also says he favors the Alaska route for the trans-Pacific cable to the Philippines.
 The last wishes of the late D. M. Anderson of Fairbanks were that his ashes be cast into the waters of All aska. On the last trip of the City of Seattle north, the vessel was slowed down when it reached Queen Char lotte Sound and the small urn con- taining the ashes from the body, which had been cremated, was cast into the sea.
 Early this month the Sons of Nor way Trading Company store at Pet ersburg was destroyed by fire It Is thought the fire started from a de- fective electric wire The loss is es- timated at between thirty and forty thousand dollars, about one-third covered by insurance. The store was conducted on a cooperative basis and stock was owned by many Pet ersburg people.
 The bond measure carried at Pet ersburg at the election there recent ly. Tn final vote showed 6S for