The Cordova daily times., 1919-01-25
NEWS FROM ALL SECTIONS
 OF ALASKA

vas charged but refreshments were sold for 25 cents. The natives of this section of Alaska have been unusu- ally patriotic and have donated large sums to war work.
 Alaska's pioneer herring Cannery, the Port Walter plant of the Alaska Herring X Sardine company. now con troled by the Wilson Fisheries com pany, has been almost completely re- the direction of Lee II. Wakefield, and the plant is now one of the most complete and modern fish packing es- tablishments in the country.
 John Gilligen. a resident of Juneau, died recently from influenza He was q native of Victoria. E. C.
 A severe windstorm recently visited Anchorage which was said to be the worst ever known. The large ware house of Brown X Hawkins was blown over and is complete wreck A large amount of merchandise was injured.
 The new Wilson. Sylvester mill building at Wrangell is nearing com pletion and will soon be cutting lum- Der. The mill has a capacity of from forty to fifty thousand feet daily A box factory will also be aded The m:ll was built to replace the one de Htroyed by fire last year.
 Unalaska is said to have escaped the influenza epidemic. according 70 wireless messages sent from that place to the bureau of education
 A Valdez transfer man advcrtisos that he will not deliver coal unless it is paid for in advance Quite a slam at the honesty of Valdez people Douglas Island News
 Thirty per cent of the adult native population in the Kuskokwim, Mar shall and Nelson island districts have died of influenza. according to q cable message received by Gov. Riggs from Frank H. Waskey. the Marshall City mining man. Conditions are serious and unless relief is secured there is grave danger the entire population will be wiped out.
 The DoyhOf Fish company, whose business has for some time been han dlCd by the G. w. Hume company, has POW been taken over by the latter concern. and hereafter the company will be operated under the name of the G. w Hume company, being des- ignated as their Scow Bay cannery. The Doyhof Fish Products company las operated for the last three sea sens near ketChikan, its property con sisting mainly of d one-llne cannery at Doyhof. on Wrangell Narrows.
 Fire of unknown origin broke out in the buildings ol the Little Susitna Coal company at Houston. recently. and caused loss of approximately $2.000. All the buildings are complete loss and the employees lost all their personal effects, one man losing nugget chain worth $15O.
 Dan Callahan, who for many years has reside in Fairbanks, suddenly collapsed Saturday night week ago, faL tn iu h1r ,,, unri ous condition. At present he Is able to sit up and receive his frineds
 J. A. Gustafson, Brooks merchant and Mir. and Mrs. Frank Fontas, miners. arrived in Fairbanks recent " from the Tolovana. The trip was made in a double ender as far as Fox and the balance of the way in an auto.
 The wireless station at Atka to the westward. has been completed by the United States bureau of education. ac- cording to Arthur II. Miller south we3tcrn representative Mir Miller received n wireless recently stating that number of reindeer had been Filled for use by the natives. There are about 100 natives at Atka, who conduct q cooperative store under tEc supervision of the bureau of edu- cation. Atka ia one of the farthest islands to the westward, one of the Andreaofsky group.
 Native hunters around Sitka report very few deer killed the past open season and many tables which were went to be supplies with venison have been entirely witko1t meat. Several explanations are offered for tEe scarcity of deer Some attribute 1t to the ,ong. severe winter of last year when thousands starved to death; others sry tEat the warm fall has enabled the deer to remain far back in the inaccessible parts of the mountains Others say that the many bears which have roamed the beaches tl:e seoson have drjyen tho 6enr away