The Cordova daily times., 1920-07-12
SHORT STORIES ABOUT ALASKA
 OCCURRENCES


 white men to locate in Wrangell ar rived in that city recently on visit.
 Mrs. Romaine Elliott Lawson gave violin recital at Ketchikan last week for the benegfit of the park fund.
 Hugh Gillis, who was arrested at Juneau for giving liquor to natives, was acquitted of the charge by the grand jury.
 The Hyder recording district has been rearranged by order of Judge Jennings, in order to meet the re- qCirements necessary.
 Wright Weinright and prtner Jack Johnson returned to Juneau recently after winters trapping trip on the Taku river, with poor luck.
 Eugene M. Link, who entered the U S. military academy at West Point from Wrangell two years ago, gradu- ated with the class of 1920.
 w. A. Knox, for the past four years superintendent of the Ketchi- kan schools, has rendered his resig- nation to the school board. Wrangell, like many other towns, is troubled with speed demons who madly race over the streets. The city council is threatening to prescott all offenders. Work on the foundation of the fed eral building at Ketchikan has been authorized. The foundation has be- come weakened and the building has started to settle. Mrs. Clara S. Breakey and Richard Ernest Lambert, of Brooklyn, N. Y, were married recently. The wedding took place in Skagway on June 16. MT. Lambert is also a teacher.
 The benefit fund for Mike Stepan off being collected at Juneau has now reached over $500, and the invalid will be sent to Mayo Bros. Hospital at Rochester, Minn. for treatment.
 George Boles, foreman of the plant nf 4bo 1oc a act week after a ten days illness of ty- phoid pneumonia. He was born in Juneau 39 years ago and spent prac- ticalIy his entire life in the district.
 No trace has been found of J. F. Reynolds, who went insane while working for packing company near Petersburg. The searching party found tracks showing that the missing man had walked about in circles for time, and then all traces were lost. The search was abandoned.
 The breakup of the upper Kuslo' kWim river caused considerable dam age at McGrath and other points. Four feet of water stood in the wire less plant, and all of the high ground in the vicinity was inundated The water rose to a very high level at Ophir, where a portion of the road house was undermined and swept away. Mir. and Mrs R. Y. Strubble of Frederickton, Ohio, returned to Wran- gelI last week from bear hunt on the Iskoot The couple killed but one bear, although more than forty were seen. Their poor luck this time is attributed to the rifles they car ried, which were new guns and diff ferent from those they were accus- fomed.
 Sergt Kinloch, who is in charge of te1egra phic work for the Signal Corps on the interior end of the Val deg trail, recently encountered four pears III tue foau oH Cllp) Co o'Al banks and his construction crew a short time before came across @ bear chasing a moose calf, which the crew rescued and is keeping for an official mascot.
 Judge F. E. Fuller, former United States District Judge at Fairbanks, and before that U. s. Commissioner at Nome and later practicing law at Skagway, is visiting Juneau and other places of his early days. Since resigning as District Judge at Fair ho.,1zc nh oro bn 1uoc crnoondnd hu q