The Cordova daily times., 1920-04-27
SHORTS STORIES
 ABOUT ALASKA OCCURRENCES

Jimmy Lloyd and John Beckman veteran hard rock men of the Col, Run district, near Dawson, have driven fifty feet of tunnel on theil property this winter, which cost then SzY a linear foot. The rock show. high values
 Russell Herman sold his interest ir the Valdez Drug Company to his part ners and will leave on one of the next boats for Anchorage. MT, Herman has been a resident of Valdez for many Wears.
 Stewards only dairy will be sold out and restocked. Several of the cows failed to pass the tubercular test, and MT. Adleman will sell the remaining tested cows and restock. Sewardites are now looking to the canned bossy for their nourishment.
 John Emel, superintendent of the Valdez Packing Company, made 8 deal whereby he acquired the controlling interest in the Valdez Packing Com pany, purchasing the stock of l. M. Foster, Jack TusIey and D. W. Hart zell, Outside capitalists who have been with the company since it started. In 1917.
 Recent advices received at Fain baRks indicate that Anna Bonner, a former resident, engaged extensively D the collection of diamonds after leaving the North, being credited with the theft of 300 stones in various parts of the world. When finally rounded up by the police in New York, she escaped trial by committing suicide,
 Jake Hepfnger, the well-known ninety-eighter, who formerly conduct ed barber shop at Valdez, and re- gently returned from the States, was appointed 8 deputy United States mar shal by United States Marshal F. R. Brenneman, and left for the scene of his labors at the end of steel on the new government railroad.
 They have plenty of snow at Fort Yukon and little fur coming in, but the merchants are doing a land office business, all because the potlatch sea. son has been working overtime. Be- tween three hundred and four hun dred Indians visited the post during tbe holidays, some of them coming from 200 miles distant. Nightly feasts, dRnces and gifts made the aborigines happy.
 The Members of the First section of the signal corps, with headduarters at Valdez are publishing a Breezy semi monthly magazine, F"The Northern Lights which is Guite interesting, and contanis mdeh matter pertaining to the boys dn the service. Vol. i, No, 4, is just off the press, or mimeo- graph, rather, and contains several good illustrations, number of good jokes and considerable news of hap penings along the trail,
 1g1oo No. 7, Pioneers of Alaska, of Valdez, consummated a deal recently whereby it became the owner of the George Love building, at the corner @f Hobart avenue and Alaska. The building is 9 two-story structure, mod ern in every detail, and has large lodge room upstairs, which will be oc- cdpied by the new owners. The lower floor j s divided into offices, with a large Court room in the rear, in which Con ahfssioner Love holds court.
 g1fe Alaskan engineering cOmmis- .R5n has decided upon the abandon afent of the Cinema branch of the Tan aha Valley railroad, to which the Fair banks club offered vigorous objection oon the ground sthat the Cinema line is the connecting link between Fair banks and sbavigable water on the Tan ana river during the summer months It was pointed out by Colonel MearS that the Cinema line was no longer es sential to the delivery of freight al Fairbanks in summer, and he ex 3pfained that the track could be used to advantage by the commission else