The Cordova daily times., 1919-05-13
SHORT STORIES ABOUT ALASKA
 OCCURRENCES

The Treadwell Company is offering a reward of $10 for information lead ing to the arrest of the person or per sons who turned in two false alarms of fire recently.
 Three carloads of Ignite coal from the Burns mine were taken to Nenana last week. Several more carloads of coal are due to arrive there in the near future from the same mine. l In the great central valleys Of Alaska the coldest days of winter are not as cold as are reported from time to time in the prairie states of the west, like Nebraska, Montana and North Dakota. ! George Walheim, the Dexter creek operator near Nome, had the misfor- tune to lose valuable horse he was driving recently by the animal break ing through the crust of snow on the ground and fracturing a leg. Allan Crane, a former A. E.. c. en- ploye at Nenana, recently returned to that town after a trip to Seattle, and the coastal region of the Seward peninsula, the Kobuk and Koyukuk region.
 Charles w. Thrift, former conduc- tor on A. E. c. trains, who has been outside for the winter has returned to Nenana, and says that Alaska is in- comparably better than the states for laboring man.
 | The Deep Sea Fishermen's Union at Seattle have agreed to accept the | 1918 prices for fish. A referendum vote was taken on whether they should strike for a 33 1-3 per cent increase or accept last years prices and the result was as above stated. The rate of pay on the fishing steam ships are cents pound for halibut, | 2 cents a pound for black cod and 1 1-2 cents pound for all other fish. This applies only on company boats; on independently owned boats the men work on shares.
 The shelter cabin owned by the territory IS miles east of Golov1n was burned recently. The burned building has been bought and fixed up by the road commission for the use of mail carriers and travellers, and was one of the most comfortable on the run. It was constructed of logs, fitted with hunks, stove, cooking uten- sils and had roomy dog barn at tached This cabin and the one at Moses are the only places of shelter on the trail How the fire originated is mystery as no one seems to have been stopping there at the time, but | it is presumed that some careless musher built up big fire and did not put it out when leaving. Many Nomeites are at present en- ployed in Seattle. Tom Ochman and Teddy Lundgren are triggers in the Ames shipyard John Christensen is working in Skinner & Eddy's yard as triggers; Skookum Thompson, Jimmy Partland, Louis Nelson, Frank Smith, Victor Widell, Alfred Hansen, Billy Wheeler, Jim Connors, Oosak, Dick Willis, Dan Cassidy, Sam Larson are longshoring. Lucky Peterson went to sea on the Alaska run. Pete SWede- man and Billy Sheridan are working in machine shop. Captain Nelson is working for Skinner & Eddy; Henry lDorsch from Council is in Seattle. Jack Winters is working in the Duthie yards; Jack Shiney Anderson 1 is in the city. Big Charles Johnson and Albert Braten are in Seattle. John Holm is in Oakland; German Gus Berndt is working as boss rigger in Oakland.
 | The ladies of Nenana have formed what is called the Orphans Fund club.
 l George Mails of Nome has been discharged from the U s. army and is following his old vocation as cook in a San Francisco restaurant.