The Cordova daily times., 1919-06-25
SHORT STORIES ABOUT ALASKA
 OCCURRENCES


 now in the transport service of the United States, expects to be discharged about August and will probably come back to Alaska.
 The Hurdle Creek Mining Company is moving in machinery to open up their property on Hurdle Creek, sev- eral truck loads of machinery being on the way, including mill.
 Now that the town has new mayor Seward has a horse corral for the safe keeping of stray horses. Other important matters have been attended to by the action ofth new regime of officials.
 The Tonsina tribe of natives were practically wiped out by the recent influenza epidemic, but two members remaining. The natives are deathly afraid of the influenza and succumb easily to it's ravages.
 d60 udS VII Cu 0OCA Ot0Ay DoA- iels to permit the U. s. s. Vicksburg to be there on July 4, in order to par ticipate in the celebration, who replied that the commander had authority to act as his discretion.
 Sixty three piles aggregating 3O26 lineal feet were driven during the week ending June IA for the new ex- tension of the dock at Seward, accord ing to the report of R. J. Weir, en- gineer of the Seward division.
 D. B. Tewkesbury, editor of the Alaska Railroad Record, at Anchorage, who recently went to Ketchikan to ac- cept the management of the Daily Times, has already tired of his new job and will return to Anchorage.
 At Copper Center following the re- cent influenza epidemic the natives tore down all their cabins, and mov ing them few feet from their for mer sites rebuilt them again, think ing this would be preventive of a second epidemic.
 Anchorage experienced two earth quake shocks early Sunday morning. The first one about 1 o'clck was of several seconds duration and the shock was felt in different parts off town The second one, coming about 3 o'clock, was not so violent.
 Jimmy Cane, Fairbanks resident was recently fined $15 before the city magistrate for shooting neighbours dog which was bothering his pigs. h. stead of giving him a medal the mag istrate fined him for discharging fire arms inside the city limits.
 Mike Riley one of the original in- vestors in Anchorage real estate, has been heard from after several months of silence. Mike is in Hoquiam, Wash ington, according to the daily paper of that place which says that MT. Riley is there looking for an investment.
 Thirty-two hundred short tons of coal were mined at the Eska creek coal mine and 150 tons at the Chicka- loon mine during the month of May, 1919, according to report of Sumner s. Smith, resident mining engineer in charge of the two coal mines operated by the Alaskan Engineering Commits sion.
 Dr. Charles A. Winans, one of the oldest practicing physicians in Valdez, and pioneer of Alaska, is planning to leave the Territory in the near future and locate at some point as yet undetermined in the States. Dr. Win ans has been identified with the town since the beginning, and has been in nearly every stampede out of Valdez.
 William Martin, prominent attorney of Seattle, and vitally interested in the quartz mines in the Willow creek district, is representing a large num- Der of the heirs of victims of the Princess Sophia wreck MT. Martin spent several days in Juneau last week in gathering evidence and data con nected with the suit that will be brought against the Canadian Trans portation Company.
 Judge Munly received letter from his son, Captain William c. Munly, who has been stationed at the Letter-f man Military Hospital at San Fran cisco, stating that he had been ordered to France to report or duty. Captain Munly is one of the youngest medical officers in the service and passed one of the highest examinations before the