The Cordova daily times., 1919-09-09
SHORT STORIES ABOUT ALASKA
 OCCURRENCES

B. c. Sprague, a veteran of the United States Civil War and who has been prospecting in the Yukon coun- try for many years, recently arrived in Dawson. He brought the news of a rich tungsten ore strike on his properties in Dublin gulch.
 pr. Malcolm B. Smith has arrived back at Nenana, after having spent fourteen months in the hospital ser vice of the United States army, most of the time being in France Dr. Smith resumes his position as chief surgeon of the railroad hospital at Nenana.
 A Yukon man has had great sue cess in preparing kippered grayling for winter use. He prepares a quan- tity of them for his own use each year and says that they are most delicious fish when kippered. The grayling abounds in the streams ot the Interior country.
 "Sonnie" Schmidt an automobile man of Valdez, recently had mar TOW escape from drowning in the Lowe river. The road on the bank of the river caved in and his ma chine fell into the stream. The owner was forced to swim several hundred feet and the auto has never been seen since.
 A party of picnickers at the Big Bend, five miles down the river, from Whitehorse, discovered cOt- fin containing the body of a young white man who had evidently been buried many years before. No one knew the name of the young man. The caving of the bank had exposed the coffin.
 William Kelly, 13-year-old son of Jack Kelly, was accidentally killed at Lake Bay not long ago. The boy was picking berries when he stepped on log that was balanced on rock. The weight of the boy start ed the log rolling. The boy fell and the log passed over him, crushing his head.
 J. B. Durham, president of the Game Protective and Propagation Association, has gone for trip up the White river in a polling boat. He had not visited the interior Ot Alaska since 1898, at which time he shot the WhitehOrse rapids ana Miles canyon on scows carrying supplies.
 Tn a recent baseball tournament at Nenana three games were played bv the teams from Nenana and Fair banks inside of twenty-four hours. Besides this. members of the teams danced all night Saturday, and the Fairbanks men had a long, tiresome trip from their homes to Nenana. It's a great life if you don't weaken.
 Delegrate Grigsby has introduced bill in congress to give the city or Petersburg authority to bond itself for $75,OOO to build a municipal power plant and a school house. The bonds are to run for twenty years, bearing interest Fifty thousand is to build the power plant and $25,- 900 for the school house.
 After serving for eleven years, Dr. Gable is resigning his position as physician for the White Pass & Yukon Route. He will leave for the South. Dr. Thomas H. Runnals of Puyallup will take the vacant place. The new doctor is the son of pr. Runnals, who was the company physician years ago and who resigned to act in a similar capacity for the Mounted Police.
 The management of the Princess S May Hydraulic Company of McDames creek in the Cassiar country is mak- ing plans to operate the plant at full capacity next season. A ditch over a mile in length has been constructed and it is thought that 1,5OO cubic feet of gravel will be handled each day. A crew of men will go in over the ice next March to get ready for 1920 seasons work.
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