The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1919-09-03

The Valdez Miner received letter
from Chicago on the last boat ad-
dressed to Valdez, Y. T.
The P. A. P, the only Moose paper
published in the territory, has made
It's appearance at Anchorage.
The Ketchikan Packing Company,
operating one line, packed 1851
cases of salmon recently in one day.
Two Iditarod men are planning a
25-ro9m hotel building for Hyder,
the new boom town on the Portland
canal.
The steamship Alameda took on
number of cases of fish at the San
Juan dock at Seward on her recent
trip south.
Tom Mcdonald, a representative Of
, the Treadwel people, is in the Ne
mana district looking over some By
gold quartz propositions.
According to advices received there
is nothing to the story of the strike
on BEETLES river. The denial of
strike was brought down the river
by the steamer Reliance.
Charles Bertrand, who, with George
Hitler, has been conducting Munson's
roadhouse for more than four years,
has disposed of his interests to Mr..
Hitler and left for the States.
Mrs Vivian Harvestry of Seattle,
daughter of George Brown of Seward,
who died recently, was passenger
to Seward on the Alameda to look
after the remains of her father.
Late arrivals from the States say
that Seattle restaurants are charging
80 cents for bacon and" without
including spuds and a second cup OF
coffee. These prices are higher than
in Alaska. -, ~ ..s~. r. W.
Homer ]. Amend and Miss Ella
Kelvin were married at Fairbanks
recently. The bride came to the In
terror from Tacoma, while the groom
has been an employe of the T. V.
RR. for some time.
J. H. Patton, former Fairbanks
hotel man, is said to have invented a
new auto tire which is meeting with
favor among Puget Sound auto own
ers. It is a solid tire with cushion
effect almost equal to air.
The storm windows Of the PreSby-
terrain church of Whitehorse were
taken off recently and placed in the
yard. The next day when they were
to be put back on it was found that
some one had stolen five of them.
A Ketchkan man was recently ap-
pretended with forty quarts of booze
in a trunk. When asked by the Of
ficials what the trunk contained he
replied carpenters tools. When it
was opened the whiskey was found.
The steamship Ruby arrived in
Seward recently with between 300
and 500 tons of freight aboard for
the Nushagak teachers and govern
ment officials. An orphanage will be
built at Dillingham; by the govern
ment.
Captain Bell of the royal Northwest
mounted police, who has just re
Gently returned from an inspection
trip to the country back of Haines,
reports that blue grouse by the thou
sands swarm up and down the Chill
kat valley.
George Brown, an oId-timer in the
Seward district, who has been loco
motive engineer on a switch engine
in the railroad yards Tor several
years, was seized with stroke OF
apoplexy while standing on the street
recently and died before aid could be
rendered.
Work on the wagon road under
construction from Indian river to the
Broad pass is progressing rapidly and
it is stated will be completed in time
to take care of the winter travel. The
Alaskan engineering commission is
building the road with crew Of
thirty men.
T. Diaz and Marco Bacelli, two
Italians from San Francisco, were
Jailed at Ketchikan recently for rob-