The Cordova daily times., 1920-05-12
SHORT STORIES
 OUTAL.IASKA .. OCCURRENCES

J. H. Long of Juneau is installing considerable machinery in his her. ring plant. The cannery will employ Qore help this year than last.
 The people of Wiseman are much disappointed over the fact that no phSIcian has taken the place of the late Dr. Danforth.
 George s. Maynard has purchased the plant and equipment of the Nome Industrial Worker and will consoli- date it with the Nugget plant.
 Hans Lunberg was arrested last week in Juneau and sentenced to pay fine of $25 and spend twelve days in jail for drunkenness.
 A native named Noel was arrested in the Second division for imbibing too profusely and running amuck in the village. He ran his wife out of his igloo and annexed another mans wife by force.
 Two men who made locations last summer are working on Hog river, in the Koyukuk. They recently made a trip to Ruby to locate their claims A trader is going in with supply of goods.
 Axel Bard Moss gulch miner, re- ports that rain and bad weather dur ing the fall caused mining operations to practically suspend in his district, which is in the Second division.
 Fred Daniels and Nels Peterson, for mer Nomeites, who are now located at Burlington, Wash, have purchased 6 hotel at that place and are doing a good business.
 ANCpOA tS AIo4A4 OoLAy HIS SSCI1OIlS O1 the Nome district say that whooping cough is epidemic among the natives. The malady is also epidemic at Mis- siox, a short distance east of Golovin
 Arthur McCafferty, a wide1y-known old-timer and former mail carrier from Nome to Dime creek, died recently at Mission of tuberculosis.
 The first iron anchor, which weighed 4.200 pounds, on rush order of 200 tons, was cast recently by the Enter prise foundry at Juneau. The anchors will weigh from 2,O0O to 10000 pounds, and will be used on floating fish traps.
 Al Davey, aged AZ, was instantly killed at Wrangell recently by pile of lumber falling on him while re- pairing the dock of the St. Michael Trading Company. He was member of the Ketchikan Masons, and also an Odd Fellow.
 United States Marshal E. R. Jor- dan returned to Nome recently from the Yukon section with native pris- oner, after having very stormy trip. He reports very little travel in the lower Yukon section. Marshall is very quiet, and the population during the winter was small
 George Gemalls of Nome was tried before the commissioner on a charge of supplying liquor to a native woman, wife of one Sautuk, an Eskimo, who is rated as one of the leading rein deer owners of the district. After spicy, the jury acquitted the defendant.
 Elmer F. Smith, ex-mayor of the city of Douglas, and prominent drug gist of that place, is in the hospital at Ketchikan, suffering from heart trouble. An attack of influenza year ago left MT. Smith in @ weakened condition, and he has never been able to recover from it's effects. He ex- poets to sell his business and go out IA the States.
 A big sea lion engaged in ar excit- ing battle with Captain Martin Holtz of the halibut boat Anna H., in Lynn canal, rand was finally killed by rife fire The mammal was thirteen feet is estimated to have weighed 5000 pounds. A native cut it open and took from it six inches of oil and blubber. Tho lion wac +Ownd to T1Inhau for oX-