The Cordova daily times., 1920-02-03
SHORT STORIES
 ABOUT ALASKA OCCURRENCES

clarence BOatman, manager Of George Morrison's fork farm at Hot Springs, recently shipped thirty-five silver fox skins to an Outside fur house.
 Fifteen young Fairbanks couples, mostly high school students, enjoyed hayride to the government expert ment station, returning home after midnight
 Walter Rowson, former Fairbanks boy, who was recently discharged from the United States army with the rank of captain, has opened a law office at Tonopah, New
 Miss Emily Townsend, who was en- ployed for a time at the Fairbanks telephone, office, has accepted a posi- tion as stenographer in the marshal's office at Fairbanks, succeeding Miss Marian Creamer, now Mrs. R. C.. Wood.
 A small fire at the residence of M. B. Snodgrass, superintendent of the government experiment station, called the Fairbanks fire department out re- gently, and the blaze was extinguished without difficulty and with practically no damage.
 The necessity of proper and ade- quate roads for the Interior of Alaska is to be considered at meeting of the Alaska Chapter of the American Mining Congress, which will be held on February at the Fairbanks sta tion of the bureau of mines
 Robert E.. Sheldon, veteran auto stage man of the Fairbanks Chitina trail, has acquired third interest in the Samson Hardware Company att Fairbanks, having purchased the in- terest in the concern held by Mrs. Cora Hamilton The sale is reported to have involved considerable sum of money.
 Deputy Marshal Long of Ruby has been ordered to proceed to Flat City, in the Iditarod district to take charge of an insane native who was recently taken into custody there. Long will take the native to Gibbon, from which point the Gibbon deputy will take the prisoner up river to Fairbanks. I
 Commission men, wholesalers and | others through whose hands provi- l sions pass before they reach the con- sunSer are responsible for existing high prices, according to Ed Wolcott, secretary to Judge Charles B. Bun nell. who returned to Fairbanks re- gently from a stay of several weeks in central California, where he owns fruit ranch.
 Manager Dick Thorne, movie mag nate of Fairbanks, announced that be- ginning February but one show night would be given at his theater. It has been the custom to give two shows nightly except on Sundays and special feature nights, but the popula- tion has dwindled to such an extent that one show is now sufficient to &C., commodate the picture fans.
 According to telegra phic advices re- ceived from Seattle, the Brewer stage line or the steamship companies op- erating between Cordova and Puget sound, or both, made miserable mess of carrying Interior Alaska Christmas packages to the States. The outgoing service during the month of Decem- Der was worse, If possible, than the service northward, and is occasioning ,much complaint-Nenana News
 9he Russell home at Nenana was the scene of jolly farewell party which was given in honor of Franklin J. Rogers, former employe of the Alaskan engineering commission, whoI left for the coast to have a look atl the Portland canal district, where there is promise of boom of consid- erable proportion during the early spring.
 laska will not benefit from the teaching, of Americanization as pro- vided in bill recently introduced in congress, according to information ob- tained by the Alaska bureau of the { Seattle Chamber of Commerce. The bill provides for the appropriation of