The Cordova daily times., 1920-09-25
NEWS OF
 ALASKA

Five teachers are to be employed in the Petersburg public schools this year.
 Along with the increased price of other commodities, box rentals inthe Ketchikan post office have advanced. Seven men were fined at Ketchikan last week for gambling. They got fines averaging from to s2O to $50.
 A Grass Widowers Club has been organized at Wrangell The club plans considerable activity during the coming winter.
 The Alaskan Engineering Commits sion has six thousanr tons of steel rails in Seattle ready for shipment to the north.
 Ketchikan just had a coal famine. the city pending the arrival of a coal boat
 The Wilson & Sylvester mill at WrangeH has been cutting lumber to be used in the construction of a pulp mill at Speel river.
 Two weeks after he was downed at Loring, the body of Fred Patch ing was found a thousand feet from the spot where he met his death.
 It is said that the town of Iditarod that boasted of a large population during the boom days, now has popu- lation of five women and a dozen men.
 Parents at WrangeN are warned that, if their offspring use profane language, as they have been doing in the play shed at the school house, they will be punished.
 It is said that a chechako, Boyd Marsh, recently located a rich mine carrying values to $3,000 to the ton in the Kantishna country, near what is known as the Aitken property.
 The city of Petersburg is advertis ing for sale of $6,OOO worth of hydro electric bonds. The bonds bear per cent interest, payable semi-annually The principle is due in 1920.
 Every vehicle in Seward, including the fire truck, was on Broadway a short time ago when that street of Alaska" a moving picture there by the Blalblock Moving Picture Com pany.
 Emil Savola recently shot and killed his partner, John Partti, at Knlk Arm He was arrested but soon after wards released, as it was said that a shot gun was accidentally discharged and the charge hit Partii, killing him instantly.
 Three Fairbanks women gave the people a scare short time ago by remaining out at the berry picking grounds longer than was expected They were found dry and comfortable in an old cabin where they had taken refuge from a storm.
 Due to- a recent earthquake shock it is said, Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, has been unusually active lately Boats have had to steer fa1 out of their course to avoid the huge ice fields that have been caused by by the ice that broke off.
 longshoremen's strike at Daw son last month did not last long The men struck for dollar an hour straight time and a dollar and a half for overtime. The compromised at a dollar an hour for all time put in This was raised of ten cents an hour. Emmett Ward, who this spring left Fairbanks for Quebes, was killed in an auto accident there a short time ago. MT. Ward, who had not been out of Alaska for twenty years was formerly cashier in the Alaska Commercial Company office in Fair banks.
 With her enormous forests of rapidly growing. species suitable for pulp, her water power, and her tide water shipment of manufactured products,' Alaska will undoubtedly become one of the principal paper sources of the United States" says Secretary of Agriculture Meredith.