The Cordova daily times., 1919-08-28
SHORT STORIES ABOUT ALASKA
 OCCURRENCES

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 Many of the cannery crews to the westward are returning to the States on account of the short pack.
 Harry Williams recently had the misfortune to break his leg. The ac- cident happened this side of Richard son on the Valdez-Fairbanks trail.
 Experience in raising Swiss milk goats, of the Saanen-Toggenburg strain, are to be attempted at the government farm near Fairbanks. Sheep raising also will be experiment. ed with at the farm.
 At a meeting of the Douglas City Council the other evening, tax levy of 17 mills was adopted, taxes to be come delinquent September 30, a dis count of per cent to be given on all taxes paid before that date, making the levy practically the same as last year. The city released the dock from the Treadwell people for a pc riod of ten years.
 J. M. Dougherty, one of the oldest of old-timers in Alaska, known as E'Nigger Jim," registered recently at the Overland, in Seward. He was the first man to get piano into Dawson after the big strike. Various for tunes have been made and have slipped through his hands, but he is as happy today as in the palmy days of the big strikes.
 An American eagle with stretch of wing of ' feet inches was shot a few Sundays ago at the mouth of Campbell creek in the Turnagain Arm district by E. P. Heddberg, mas ter mechanic for the Alaskan engin- eering commission. The eagle is the largest of it's species ever seen by An chOrage residents. It will be mount ed and will perch in the future in stuffed glory in the office of the master mechanic.
 Instructions have been received by A. E. Lucy, special fish war den, to prosecute any persons found fishing for salmon in Ketchikan creek, either with net, fishing line or in any way. By order of Decem- Der 21, 1918, Ketchikan creek is made a reservation and no one is permitted to take salmon from the stream in any way. It was reported to MT. Lucy that there have been violations of the law recently.
 Tt looks bad for the cannerieS this year The run should be at it's height now said John Hume, owner of the Nakat inlet, who was in Ju- neau a few days ago. There may be a run but the prospects are not the best" The Nakat cannery put up six teen hundred cases Wednesday ac- cording to Mr. Hume, while their ca pacitv is twenty-five hundred cases. They are practically up with the pack of last year at this time, being one thousand cases behind at the close of work on Wednesday.
 William Hiltz was found dead in his bed at ChickaloOn the morning of the Fourth of July. He was em- ployed as hoisting engineer for the Alaskan engineering commission, in the coal mines He was 69 years old and left a brother in Montana and niece in Portland. He was familiarly known as Montana Bill" deriving the name from the state of Montana, his birthplace The deceased was an Old-timer in the coastal district of Alaska and was we'll known, espe- cially among the prospectors, which vocation he followed for many years. His death same as a surprise, as he appeared perfectly normal the af- ternoon of July third.
 There is no certainty regarding the richness of the reported placer strike on the Northern Teslin, according to Marion Goldstein, who returned to Juneau from the Atlin country re- gently. He says one stampeder re- turned to Atlin after mushing eighty miles, saying that there had not been sufficient work done to reach bedrock in the new diggings and the surface prospects did not justify a stampede. The little work done has been mostly hv Indians GOIdstein roDOrtS good