The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-01-25

 students at the Alaska Agciultural College and School of Mines last |fall. asf | Ray 0. Lockhead, veteran en- ployee of the Alaska Railroad and pioneer mink farmer of the An- chorage district, and Miss Ida Kirby were recently married at Anchorage. They will make their home there.
 | Dog owners at Cordova complain of market completely depleted of dog feed, not can of Towser mulhgan or dried salmon to be had.
 At meeting of the American Legion Post at Ketchikan the World War was vividly recalled by the collation.. It consisted of dough- nuts and coffee and was served b ylassies of the Salvation Army. James Andrews, half brother of Thomas Harris, who was found dead on his fathers boat near Ketchikan with a rifle bullet wound through his body, has been released from the Ketchikan jail. Andrews had been held as a possible witness for possible action by the grand jury. Two suicide" notes were left by Harris, but doctors said that the bullet had entered his back and had come out of his chest. Fifteen beaver pelts constituted the first catch of this kind of fur to be brought into Cordova this season. The arapper was Al Roth, whose camp is about 39 miles north of Cordova. The pelts were sold to the O'Neil Company of that city.
 In the Rat River district. in the Canadian Arctic north of Fort McPherson, Constable A. w. King of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, was shot ill the chest by | a demented man named Johnson. King and Constable R. o. McDowell had gone to Johnson's cabin to see him as result of complaints by Indians that he had been acting "queer." Johnson fired through the door of the cabin. McDoweH immediately loaded King on their dog sled and in a fierce blizzard drove to Aklavik, 30 miles, in 20 hours. King is in the Catholic Hospital at Aklavik. He will re- cover. A detachment of Mounted Police have left for the Rat River district to arrest Johnson. Don White, of Copper Center, has a crack dog team sired by Sinful Peck and Queenie. The dogs of the team are one-fourth wolf, but they are gentle and kind in the harness. No road is too long for them, the Chitina Trail de- clares.
 Sons and Daughters of Norway Lodge at Ketchikan has installed the following officers: L. A. Berg lund, president; Mrs H. Nordness, vice president; Gust Olsen, judge; A. M. Bue, financial secretary; Mrs. Q. Field, recording secre- tary; Mrs. Gust Olsen, assistant recording secretary; H. M. Peder- sen, treasurer; T. Aus, marshal; Mrs. Olaf Ericksen, assistant mar shal; Btar1le T'hane, inside guard; T. A. Olsen, outside guard; Mrs. J. Q. Business, librarian, Dr. J. H. Mustard, physician; and John Nun son, trustee, with L. P. Sunderland as the holdover trustee.
 Building owners in Cordova who shovel snow from roofs into alleys must remove 1t from the alleys Or the city will remove it and charge the cost to the building owners. The city is paying a truckman 75 cents an hour and one of his assistants 60 cents an hour for removing snow from Main Street. The city supplies the truck and it's gasoline.
 Cordova's tax rate is 10 mills, said to be its lowest of any town in Alaska. except Eagle and Nenana.
 Capt. Oscar Olson and rMs. Ethel Clara Bolan were married in Cordova. They will make their home there.
 While the steamship Victoria on it's last trip westward was at Cordova. J. J. Connors of Juneau
 Democratic National Cimmittee- man on his way to the Territorial Democratic convention at Fair banks. circled among Cordovans
 the Cordova Times says.