The Cordova daily times., 1919-11-13


 On recent trip up the Cinema river from Fairbanks Rev. Marble says he saw sights that he will never forget Caribou were massed in dense droves, and the divine watched them pass for hours He stated that he saw more caribou than he ever knew existed C While the town of Petersburg is not quarantined on account of the smallpox cases which recently broke out there, every precaution is being taken to prevent the spread of the disease. Steamers are allowed to land and unload fright, but passengers are not allowed to land or leave the boats.
 Nenana sportsmen are planting wild rice in the ponds and sloughs of the town, in the hope of inducing some of Alaska's wild fowl to the section. Most of the ducks and geese raised in Alaska go Outside, where they are slaughtered by spOrtsmen who do not need the meat which is very accept able to an Alaskan's dietary. Notwithstanding that there is a great demand for men on the Interior end of the government railroad, the commission finds it practically impos- sible to get men, and the force is steadily becoming smaller, the num- Der having dropped from 6O5 ot 57S in one week.
 I. S. Loos, representing the Che niewa Indian school, at ChemeWa, Ore, recently returned to the States With thirty native pupils gathered from Southwestern and Southwestern Alaska. The natives will be educated in trades and given a tenth grade scholarship.
 A committee from the Alaska Labor Union at Ketchikan deny the report in the Pacific Fisherman that the fsh were dumped overheard by the fisher men on Baranoff island on account Of their being small. The men state that no fish were dumped in those districts, as they were working there at the time.
 e IL H. V. Henrickson, secretary Of the Ketchikan Labor Union, recently re- signed from his office because he said the affairs of the union were in the hands of the l. w. w., whose actions were un-Amercan. B. R. Sawyer, now on bail under charge of evading the draft, was elected in his stead.
 Charles Gadt, WellknoWn old timer of Dawson and Fairbanks, died recently at his home in Michigan, be- ing inferred there. He was 61 years of age at the time of his death. He came North during the rush Of 1858 and from the Klondike worked up to Fairbanks, where he worked for the Alaska road commission for several years.
 Fred E. Patching, the absconding ex- press agent who was apprehended Ill Eastern Canada after having left ket- chikan with several thousand dollars
 
 charged with embezzlement on three counts recently at Ketchikan. Patch | ing got away with about $12,OOO
 George Van der Veer, noted at- torney of the Pacific coast will be em- ployed by the Ketchikan Labor Union to defend Secretary E. k. sawyer who is under indictment for evading | the draft law and other charges con- nected with war activities Sawyer IS out on $4,O0O bail, and has induced the members to put up money to de- fend him.
 Captain James Robertson, superin- tendent of the Todd Packing Company, died at St. Anns hospital recently of diabetis, at the advanced age of 73 wears. He had been a resident or Alaska for twenty years. Captalh Robertson started life as navigator on the deep-sea vessels on the Atlantlc coast About sixteen years ago he be- came identified with the fishing ln- terests of Funter bay, lately being ln- terested in the Todd company
 Dick Creighton, who was placed uh- der arrest near Falrpahks se'elai days ago, entered plea of guilty to a.atinu O still tn Oh-