The Alaska daily empire., 1920-05-13
ALASKA NOTES

| ALANAA NUIES
Mrs. Joseph Mcdonald of Ester
Creek has received the news of the
death of her brother, William Regain,
at Seattle.
The Cordova Chamber of Commerce
mas endorsed the proposed Alaska
Development Board.
William Thompson, pioneer res
ldent OF Cordova, died at that place
recently He is survived by a. brother
at Cedar Ridge, Mont, and a sister at
Boise, Idaho, The funeral occurred
at Cordoya
Eleven members were admitted to
the Cordova Igloo of Pioneers in one
night
George r. Goshaw, formerly United
States Deputy Marshal in the Third
Division, who has been in the Nome
country and the Alaska Interior buy
ing furs for two years, recently left
for New York He made the trip
overland from Nome
A mail service has been estab-
lished between Sulzer and Chomley
A contract for the delivery of the
nail has been awarded to E. j. Will.
Jams who carried the mail from
ketchikan to the portage at Sulzer,
owner of the Rough Rider and the
Taku H.
Salvage from the Libby, Mcneil
and Libby barge, Dashing Wave
is being brought into Ketchikan.
A large part of the cargo, consisting
of machinery and cannery supplies,
have been saved. The Dashing
Wave was wrecked a few weeks aga
bound from Seattle to Alaska
P. L. Neil, Postoffice inspector,
pau w dl ucl III
Ketchikan, who has resigned, in order
to accept the position of United
States Commissioner at ,Ketchikan
the compliment of saying: you
have the most efficient and accommo
dating office in the country and
the department regrets losing such
competent executive who has hand
led the local situation so success
fully"
The Petersburg City Council has
elected l.. ], Morrison City Clerk
and Magistrate, c. C. Clausen City
Treasurer, w. P. Moves City Elec
trcian and E. N. dinner Chief or the
Fire Department.
Anton Eide, for the Road Com
mission, has started work on the
road from Petersburg to Scow Bay.
Rev w. ]. Maakestead, pastor CT
the Lutheran church at Petersburg,
has left that place for Tacoma,
where he will reside in the future.
Robert w. Kellen, old-timer of the
Alaska Interior and father of Mrs.
M. A. Schaeffer and o. w. Kellen,
died hecently.
r. E. Small, of the Seattle firm of
KellyClark Company, who has re
turned to Seattle from a trip through
out the East, says the outlook is
for a marked improvement in the
salmon market. He predicts there
will be little difficulty in selling the
1920 pack.
Ketchikan will appropriately OBJ
serve Memorial Day, May 80. Among
the features of the observance will
be a parade in which the American
Legion will join.
NJ S. Dobbs has been elected school
tax collector at Ketchikan, vice Geo
rye Woodruff, who was called to
Seattle to attend to his fathers
fur business on account of the i'll
ness of the latter. a
Joe Ulmer of Ketchikan, who took
a party consisting of H. A. Warner
Perry Warner and William Fortuny
to the Unuk river and returned to
Ketchikan, says the season is a
month late at the Unuk. The Warner
party is taking supplies and an out
fit up the Unuk river for party
of engineers who will mark the inter
national boundary at that place with
monuments. They will take the out
fit up the river jim a polling boat and
expect to be back at the mouth oil
the river to meet the. engineers May
18th.