The Cordova daily times., 1920-07-28
SHORT STORIES
 ABOUT ALASKA
 OCCURRENCES III" .H I'M &E \ WV I. .n

Alec Allen, who has been working this summer on river steamers ply ing between Whitehorse and Daw- son, is a composer of songs. He re- gently left for Vancouver, B. C., to put some of his songs on the market.
 After the city of Ketchikan had cleaned lot of old garbage out of Ketchikan creek, which flows through the town, some rascal threw lot of dirty junk in again fOuling the stream. The people are looking for him.
 A forest fire near Dawson recently destroyed 1,500 cords of wood that had been cut and piled on the banks of Wounded Moose creek. The wood had been stored there in preparation S of being hauled to Dominion creek the coming winter.
 C. Rowland, stranger in Peters burg, was recently picked up there and found to be insane. He was taken to the hospital as he feigned illness, and after getting there he raised such rumpus that he had to be subdued with club.
 
 Dr. Dickinson, of Ketchikan recent 1y presented the city council of Peters, burg with a bill of $1,500 for services rendered during the smallpox epidem- ic of last winter. The council dis claimed any liability in the matter and refused to pay the bill
 The postoffice department is asking for bids for a monthly mail service to the Kantishna district. The weight limit is to be 400 pounds. If this serv- ice is put in, it will be the first reg u1ar service in the district since the. discovery of gold there a decade ago.
 A Wrangel1 man, unable to secure reservations on boat out of Seattle to his home town, went to Prince Rupert on a Grand Trunk boat. From Prince Rupert he went to Ketchikan on the Tillamook and from Ketchikan he secured accommodations on the v Jefferson to Wrangell.
 It is planned to install gas engine to cost S6,900 at the Petersburg cleo trical plant there and to make it pos sible to furnish electricity needed. The addition to the plant would only be used until the new hydroe1ectric plant for which the town is to bond it. self can be constructed.
 Mrs. Josie Savioci, chambermald employed at the Royal hotel at Ketchikan, died recently from swal- lowing cherry pits. She ate cherries while on a picnic and swallowed the pits About o'clock in the even- ing she complained of feeling i'll. An operation was performed, but it was too late.
 Five thousand dollars have been spent by Kctchikan business men to make a park there. They have as yefNery little to show for the money invested. The Chronicle is advocat- ling the carrying on of the work and the spending of more money so that the city may have a recreation grounds.
 The Petersburg Lumber Company has been awarded fine stand of 2,450,000 board feet of timber in Pillar Bay by the Forestry Service recently Board used at the Shrin- CTS buffet luncheon were sawed from timber in the vicinity and were 1912 inches in width, 1 IA inches thick and 34 feet long, entirely free from knots.
 The fish situation at Petersburg as far as it concerns seiners, gill; netters and trollers, is said to be > acute Very few mild curefs are op- erating there this season and the weather has been so warm that it is Y7hard tO keen tha fish for the fresh fish market The Ripley Fish Com pany has stopped buying for time.