The Cordova daily times., 1920-05-10

W1F0l6SS SLdLlOn l6IL yesterday for the States.
 W. K. Young of the Ladysmith mine at Lat0uche was in town today on business.
 G. K. Betts returned yesterday from Valdez, where he was in attendance at court as a witness.
 The remains of Chin Yuen Boy, for merIy employed at the Carlisle can 'nery, who died at the hospital yester- day, will be shipped to a Chinese soc1- ety at Portland.
 B. P. Hopkins of Valdez, who has received his discharge from the sig nal corps, was in town yesterday, en route to Billings, Mont, where he will enter the employ of the Northern Pa cif1c railway.
 The freighter CordOva arrived in port yesterday with a shipment of coal for the Alaska Transfer Com pany. She also has aboard 1000 tons of steel rails and quantity of lumber for the Alaskan engineering commits sion at Anchorage.
 Superintendent Caleb Corser left on the Alameda last night for Seattle, where he will atteend a conference with B. T. Stannard, the new vice president of the Copper River & Northwestern railway.
 A. M. Dieringer of Valdez was an outgoing passenger on the Alameda yesterday for Colby, Wash, where he has been summoned on account of the death of his mother Mrs. Anna B. Dieringer, a former resident of Valdez.
 The funeral of the late Grant Caughey took place yesterday after noon, services being conducted at the Episcopal church by Rev. B. P. Zieg- Ter. The remains were shipped on the Alameda to Omaha, Neb., for burial.
 J. E. Pegues, former editor of the Fairbanks Citizen, and later minute clerk of the federal court for the Fourth division, spent yesterday with Cordoya friends. He is on his way to Juneau, where he will accept the city editorship of the Daily Empire.
 Chris Anderson of Valdez was a pas aenger on the Admiral Watson for Jul mean to take examination before the board of inspectors for a captains license, MT. Anderson has made ap' plfcation for the position on the Don, sIdson vacated by Captain Erickson.
 ). P. Walker of the Juneau land Of flee was a Cordova visitor yesterday on his return home from Valdez, where he testified before the grand jury against Robert Cullen JOhnstone, who was indicted for forgery in connec, ton with government warrants stolen from MT. Walkers office and cashed in Cordova.
 Judge F. M. Brown of he district court at Valdez has received a tele gram from Delegate Grigsby stating that assessment work on mining claims in Alaska must be done this year There is no probability, he says, that the law will be modified so as to allow this work to remain undone this year
 Charles B. Heron of Anchorage did not come to COrdova on yesterday boat, as expected, to answer to the charge of criminal libel made against him by George c. Hazelet, as a con tinuance of the case was granted until the arrival of the steamship North western from the westward, which will likely be next Saturday.
 The crew of the U. s. s. Saturn have issued challenge to the local players for a game of baseball on Wednesday evening, and it is up to the Cordovans to accommodate them While there is no regularly organized team here, no trouble should De ex perienced in getting nine together to meet the visitors on the diamond.
 Norma Talmadge, in the vivid dra matic play booked at the Empress to