The Cordova daily times., 1920-08-05
SHORT STORIES ABOUT ALASKA
 OCCURRENCES

l Another drive is on at Ketchikan | to raise money for the children's play ground and baseball park Up until the last of last week, the l Petersburg Packing Company plant had up a pack of 17,500 cases of sal mon.
 The seiner's strike is reported to | be practically settled at Wrangell, with the seiner's prices being met in most cases.
 It is reported at Valdez that the Keystone canyon road which was de molished in places last year, is be- ing rapidly rebuilt by the government road gangs.
 Subscription lists are being circu- lated in Skagway for the purpose of securing money with which to buy a siren to notify people when there are fires in the city.
 Dr. Carr, of Winnipeg, who was appointed medical officer of South ern Yukon, after holding down the job for three weeks, resigned and went back home
 I MT. Santiago Taison, a Filipino, and Miss Hazel Reese, and American girl, were united in marriage last week in Ketchikan at the Methodist church by Rev c. M. Van Marter.
 soldier at Fort Liscum has been found to be mildly insane He in- sists that he is a whistler or marmot and crawls around on the floor on his hands and knees initiating that animal.
 Photographer Kaiser of Anchorage took moving pictures of the 4th of July sports at Anchorage and had them developed and on the screen of the show house six hours after they were taken. >sa.
 Scores of Alaska prospectors are re- ported crossing the Boring sea to work Siberia's beaches and hills for solo. Advlces from Point Barrow north of Nome are that approximate " 1oo men have left the Point Rar- row section for Siberia. ihe Alaska Railroad Record. off, clal publication of the Alaska oov. ernment railroad, discontinued nub ilcation the last of June. It was or dered discontinued as matter of economy by the secretary of the in- terior.
 According to steamboat men of the , fuKon, the salmon run this year on that river will be exceedingly large Above the cannery, big catches were helng made by the natives and the , 1lsh racks were hanging full early this month.
 A raft of logs was recently brought to the Petersburg sawmil that scaled 250,000 feet. There were but 9l logs in the raft, including the . boom sticks and swifters. The logs , were all of an even size averaging five feet in diameter.
 A Wrangell man, Frank Spauld- ing, had the pleasure recently Of see ing his first cousin, Henry Krauss, a noted French actor, play "Jean
 Valjean" in the screen production - Les Miserables" when that picture | was shown at Wrangell. Western hemlock and spruce are are the standard mechanical and sulphite pulpwoods for the United States mills in the Pacific Northwest. the hemlock, being consumed in much greater amounts than any other single species. Hemlock forms six per cent of the merchantable stand of timber on the Tongass National : forest, Alaska.
 Aside from neWsprint paper, cnIy a few grades of building and mill wrap ping paper are made at the British Columbia pulp plants, but hemlock- spruce sulyhite fiber is shipped to the outside mills for the production of bond, manila, tiuuse, pure fiber, print ings, and other high-grade papers re-