The Cordova daily times., 1920-01-21
SH0RTSTORIES ABOUT ALASKA
 OCCURRENCES
Shows in the Interior have been un- usually deep this year.

usually deep this year.
 \. H. Holt has charge of the Carle- ton store at Nome for the winter
 Four mails arrived at Fairbanks re- gently from four different directions.
 Charles Dahlquist has opened the old Cape Nome roadhouse and has stocked it with supplies for the winter.
 The launch Rupert made a trip from Nome to Golovin bay to pick up the last of the herring pack, which was sent out on the Victoria
 The overland winter mail service It goes over the long winter trail to %the mouth of the Yukon, thence to Fairbanks, then to the Coast, round about way, but the only one to be had
 The schooner Jewel Guard made the trip from Nome to Teller with sup plies for the camp just before navi- gation closed This will be the latest trip in many years to the Teller sec tion, the date of sailing being Mo- vember IA
 Lumber prices are expected to take a sharp advance of from two to three dollars in the near future, according to information received from the States by many dealers. Common lum Der has been selling at $25 per thou sand feet board measure, in South eastern Alaska, and this probably will he raised to $35.
 Joe O'Connor of the Terminal went from Nenana to Fairbanks recently, and while eating at the Model fish bone became lodged in his throat, and for a time it was feared that he was going to die. A few moments more delay and he would have choked to death. Dr. J. A. Sutherland arrived in time and extricated the offending fshbone.
 Alex GuStaVSOn, veteran mining Op- orator and freighter of the Fortymile district, is busy this winter hauling supplies from Dawson and Fortymile to Dennison Hill, Chicken creek and other camps. Gus recently arrived in } Dawson from bigger trip with nose the color of a Brother Jonathan apple and fingers twisted and warped by the cold; but he gamely loaded up and started on another trip.
 Ketchikan doctors have announced a raise in prices. Out of the office calls are to be $3 in the future. Taxi charges will be added to the bill. Of flee and night calls will be the same as in the past, $250 and $3. The charge for normal confinement cases will be $50. Doctors say their ex- penses have increased from 50 to 300 per cent. and that the new rates have A been made uniform with those in the States
 4 native named Perry of Nome was fined for wife-beating. The evidence disclosed that Perry's brunette wife looked too long and often at her pale face neighbors, which was an act not to be tolerated for a moment. So the jealous husband took a club and ln- cuIcated a love of home and husband in his wife's breast. All would have ended as it should, but the man was arrested by the hotel keeper and was given a s20 fine or jail sentence. He paid.
 Between $1,5OO and s2,000 worth of genuine liquor was seized at the Taku tIuD at hoLCulhdu 1CSOAlLly, ooAAo oA the stuff being bonded stock, evidently cached before the recent epidemic hit Alaska. George Radenbaugh, proprl- ieer of the place, was arrested but was later released on his own recogni- xance. The liquor was found secreted in the walls, where boards had been removed and the bottles placed De- tween the studding. Conslderaple hootch of various degrees of poten- . tiality was also taken.
 The annual election of officers II 4ha Nenana Igloo. Pioneers of Alaska, took place recently, with large mum Der of old-timers on hand to partlc1- pate in the important proceedings. The