The Cordova daily times., 1921-05-11
SHORT STORIES ABOUT ALASKA
 OCCURRENCES

Henry Maulin, who went to France
 last fall, returned to the Atlin bistrict to work his property
 The Rake schools have closed for the season. Rainy weather prevent
 ed the usual last day picnic. Louise Babcock, formerly manager Of the kasaan Bay Mining Company
 died recently at Wterbury, Vermont. Chums, Humpies, Sockeyes and Cohoes 1re the names of the four diff ferent baseball teams of the Ketchi kan baseball league.
 R. M. Grant and son, big game hun ters from New York, have left Whitehorse for the Klahue district
 where they will search for bear. Katherine Gilmore, eleven years
 old daughter of MT. and Mrs. P. F. Gilmore, of Ketchikan, died recently
 after an illness lasting nearly one year.
 Rev. L. H. Pederson, formerly pas tor of the Presbyterian Church at Skagway, now located at Auburn,
 Wash, recently married Ada Marion Holt.
 E. J. Shaw, one of the best known transportation men in Alaska. being agent for the Alaska Steamship Co.,,
 at Skagway, was recently taken to the
 White Pass Hospital for treatment. F. Smith, who has been watchman at Dundas this winter, arrived in Ju- neau to secure passage for Kodiak, where his family is residing, but find ing that all first class accommodations
 on the Alameda, due to the heavy traffic, were sold out was forced to
 wait.
 With the season two weeks early in southeastern Alaska practically everyone having plot of ground is getting busy preparing their soil for
 planting. Some flower seeds are al
 ready in the ground. Farmers on the Thane and Salmon creek roads are also busy.
 Recent reports from Mayo indicate | that the following goods are short at that place: nails, building paper, fuse,
 ham, bacon, butter, dried eggs, can dies, picks, coal, drill steel, and also 1 stoves. The Yukon Gold is we'll SUD-
 piled in all lines for it's own use, but 1 the prospectors will have to wait for | the first boat for the above articles. Senator E. B. Collins of Fairbanks states that the wheat growth in the
 Tanana valley is equal to any pro-
 duced in the world. He Is confident l that as soon as the railroad is con- pleted that Fairbanks will be in a po- sition to export wheat to the outside
 as we'll as supply the interior of I Alaska with flour.
 The Misses Ruthmund, who have
 been in charge of the White Pass hos l pital for the past year have severed l their connection with this popular in- stitution as their contract expired on
 a recent date and their successors will arrive soon. During their stay in l Skagway these ladies have made
 many friends and it Is hoped that 1 they may remain there.
 A. s. (Shorty) Austen, from Car. | cross, was an outgoing passenger on
 the Princess Mary. Mr. Austen is one
 of the most prominent big hunter guides in the Yukon and is now on his way to Victoria and Vancouver, at which places he will purchase a num-
 her of horses to be used this summer  with the big games hunters whom he will take out in the mountains. Funeral services for Herbert Duke, a Yukon old timer who was recently drowned at Prince Rupert were held in Seattle. Duke settled in Port An geles with his parents in 1884. A few years later he went to Seattle and lived there, with the exception of few years spent in Port Townsend, un- til 1S97 when he joined the rush to the Klondike. He was in Dawson for twenty-two years, making only one trip to the outside in that time.
 With 300 dozen bottles piled up in
 barrels and boxes alongside of the courthouse, at Juneau, that portion of