Seward daily gateway., 1925-12-05
NORTHLAND NOTES

regular meeting recently in Cordova nominated officers, who will be vot- ed on at the December election. Plans were laid for a series of so- cial affairs to be given this winter w. J. McChancellor for Alaska, who has been on a trip outside, told of his visits to other lodges in the west
 From the last mail received by the Cordova chamber of commerce was gleaned an interesting inquiry from J. R. Cuff, a Milwaukee chir- opractor, who says he is contem- plating coming to our frozen land" if he can find a demand in the north for drugless healer.
 Complaints that three more chill dren have been bitten lately by dogs in Cordova have caused E. G. La- belle to announce that any dangerous dogs found loose on streets will be killed immediately. He expects to ask the council to make more strin- gent regulations regarding Cordova's s motive power.
 While setting traps near Johnson Bay, on the Sound opposite Cor dova, Gus Stevens, 12-year-old son of Sock Stevens, a native living in town, accidentlly shot himself, the bullet entering the thigh bone above the knee. He was brought to the hos pital and the bullet was extracted.
 Community building bonds of the American Legion of Ketchikan, is- sued year ago with interest at six per cent on January l, 1926. This was decided at the regular meeting of the Ketchikan post recently.
 Harry Raymond, pioneer Juneau ite and for many years engaged in business in that city, has purchased the Warm Springs Bay (Baranoff postoffice) property from Doty and Linton, and will conduct the same as a health and pleasure resort.
 Laden with quantities of camp equipment, Bill Gussey and Neil Newman departed from Cordova for Mile IT, where they expect to trap this winter. Gussey was out all summer with Joe Janey trapping muskrats used by the government to stock Kodiak Island.
 Deaths of two children in Old Town (Cordova) were reported to the United States commissioner. Ten year-old Josephine, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Alex Johnson, succumbed to tuberculosis. Mr. and Mrs. Selkin Deischoff also lost their 14-day-old infant girl.
 Letters received in Cordova state that R. L. Stevens, formerly federal game warden at Cordova, is now liv ing near Long Beach, California, and is employed as travelling engineer for railroad construction company.
 Encrusted with the dust and grime of century or more, a small paint ing of St. Michael was recently dis covered in the basement of the Russian church at Sitka and has been given to the Cordova temple of worship now under construction on the Eyak road
 Miss Francis Cosno, former principal of the Territorial school at Wrangell for three years has been awarded her degree of Master of Arts by the University of Wash ington. Her subject chosen to write her thesis was "A Partial Bibliogra- phy of Alaskan Literature" valua- ble work for which she deserves great praise.
 The camp of the Yukon Gold Co.,, near Dawson, has been closed and men employed there are being trans ferred to the Malay Peninsula, where the company, which is owned by the Guggs, has large tin mines.
 Despite the fact that the Yukon is running pretty heavily with ice, says the Dawson News, A. D. MacKeen and William Ferguson still continue to carry passengers back and forth from the opposite shore.
 An outstanding figure in Dawson came suddenly to his eternal rest when Robert Craig, pioneer of the North and native of Scotland, passed away from heart failure some time last Saturday nite.
 Chief Isaac, faithful leader and potentate of the Moosehide Indians. dropped into the Dawson News office recently to sound note of warning in connection with the increasing numbers of wolves and coyotes which l are investing the country for miles around Dawson.
 Juneau republican leaders and 'taunch administration supporters ,or the most part declining to make my comment on John Frames brief