The Cordova daily times., 1920-09-16

SHORT STORIES ABOUT ALASKA
 OCCURRENCES

| N$
 Felix Belmonte, a Mexican has been adjudged insane at Wrangell and or dere sent to Morningside.
 Nine men were arrested recently in Ketchikan for gambling and were fined before the city magistrate.
 The Petersburg hospital is being modernized. Among the improve ments is a steam heating plant with steam pressure of 250 pounds. A sterilizer also has been installed
 John Powell and Miss Mildred Lane were united in marriage at Hunting ton Beach, California. Both parties were formerly residents of Douglas. The newly married couple will live at Fullerton, California.
 A subscriber to the Wrangell paper stats that tourists are being cheat ed out of @ chance to see Alaskan towns by the fact that the steamship companies do not give them a chance to see the towns along the route.
 Uncle Sam's harvest of seals on the Pribilof islands this season will repre- sent value of more than S2,OOO,OOO according to preliminary advices of the 1920 catch received by Seattle headquarters of the United States bu- real of fisheries which has control of the Boring Sea islands.
 Ten thousand dollars was recover ed from the purser's safe of the wrecked steamer Princess Sophia, re- gently opened at Juneau. Many purses and wallets were found in the pur- ser's safe which will probably he un- claimed. An unfortunate feature of the wreck is that relatives of those drowned are compelled to go to liti- gation to recover property lost at the time of the catastrophy.
 Five little Indian girls from far up in the Arctic Circle at Rampant House arrived at Dawson a short time ago and got their first glimpse of civilization. They had never be- fore seen electric lights, and horses and they followed them around all day, calling them big dogs. Bicycles were also a wonderful sight to them. The little girls were brought out by Bishop Stringer and placed in the h. dian school at Carcross.
 H. Kindersley, son of Lord Kin dersley, governor of the Hudson Bay Company, was recently in Dawson, af- ter having with one companion been on long trip in which he traversed the length of the Mackenzie river from Fort McPhersOn. He canOed and portrayed from there to Fort Yukon on the Yukon. He then came up the 1 Yukon to Dawson and was to continue on to Whitehorse and on down the coast to Vancouver by steamer.
 The overnment gas boat Beaver operated by the territorial bureau of Indian education made the trip to Su- sitna for the purpose of taking about a dozen native children to the Tyonic reservation. These children were all made orphans by the flu epidemic of last year, which took about thirty natives from the settlement at the station. The children were Ioath to leave their homes and the agent had some difficulty in rounding them up.
 Seattle teachers in the government schools located in the Eskimo region about Boring Strait and the Kotze- bue district have experienced a cold and stormy summer along with con- siderable suffering as the result of de- pleted food supplies, according to a communication received by w. T. Loop. Alaska chief of the United States bureau of education, from Cape Prince of Wales, the western point on this continent. Word came to Dr TOnn from Fred R Tait world war