The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-12

cn duty at these statiois is aprox- imately 100. The number of men at individual stations range from one at St George to 30 at Cordova.
 Just before retiring from his office as Secretary of the Interior, Franklin k. Lane sent the following message to William Gerig, assistant chief engineer of the Alaska Engin- eering Commission: q greatly regret that must leave you. 1 do so how ever in the confidence that you will carry on your work to a successful conclusion as well as it has been begun
 \ Mrs. Will G. Smith of Cordova, has received the sad news of the death of her sister, Mrs. Von Barger, at Aberdeen, Wash, from influenza. | o. w. Brehmer has sold an inter- est in his drug store at Mccarthy to Jack Conway, who has been ass0- ciated with the KennecOtt Copper Corporation for a number: of years, and is well known in the Interior. MT. Brehmer will start drug store at Cordova.
 The Fairbanks News Miner says that more than $1OO,O00 have been lost in publishing newspapers in Fairbanks.
 The Third dividend has been paid to the creditors of the American 1 Bank at Fairbanks which is in the hands of a receiver. The dividend was S1a percent. This makes the total dividend paid to date, 33B percent. The amount distributed in the third dividend will be between $1O,OOO and s11,0OO
 Il Miss Ethel Burroughs who taught school at Cordova in 1916-1917 is now teaching in Creston City, Cal.
 Ii Miss Florence James who has the distinction of being Cordova's only chauffeuse. recently returned from a stay of several months outside, and lis again running the White Star taxi cab. -(Cordova Times.)
 An Igloo of Pioneers of Alaska with 42 members was recently organ ized at Cordova Alvah Ames, of the United States Mail service, was elected president for the first year, and with the following officers: Julius Stuck, first vice president, J. w Date, second vice president George Dooley,' secretary, JDr. w. H. Chase, chaplain. L. L. Laska, treas urer, George c. Hazelet, historian Henry Brandt, sergeant at arms James Galen, trustee 'oneyear term .lT. w. Cloninger, trustee. two-yea, Iterm, Lincoln Wahln, trustee, three year term.
 Thomas Holland. formerly ol ;l Chtina writes friend at Cordoya that he is one of 1900 students en . rolled ill an auto tractor school ln |. Kansas City. Mir. Holland was for
 merly representative in the Terri
 torial legislature.
 John Gills, who was formerly ii { charge of the radio station at Mile : l4. on the Copper River Railroad, is . now working in shipyard in Sar
 Francisco.
 |
 J. B. Kershaw. hardware merch , ant of Atlin, and Mrs. E. Winnifret
 Tallmire, interested in mining il the Atlin country, were married re
 gently at Skagway and left for th' . South to spend their honeymoon.
 Miss Nellie Wilson, for severa lyears in charge of the purchasing de , lpartment of the Alaska Engineerini iCommission at Fairbanks. has beei Transferred to the purchasing depart Iment at Nenana. She had man! . friends at Fairbanks.
 There are so few inmates in th' Federal Jail at Fairbanks. accordinl n Ito the Fairbanks News Miner, tha U | . .. ? they are unable to keep the sidewali
 in front of the public property clear : ed of snow. The Fairbanks pape
 says there would be more in jail 1
 it were not for Tom Marquam, thu
 leading criminal lawyer of that place
 es3fst . ;l Tony Lynch has considerable faitl
 lin the future of Cordova and hi . dairy business is constantly increas 6 ing, he will leave on tonight's boa for Seattle. where he will purchas
 several COWS. -(Cordova Times.)
 The temperature at Dawson aver
 agedS less than sS degrees below ger
 for January this was six degree - lower than normal g