r^rOVA SUFFERS WHEN
HIGH WINDS SWEEP CITY
A windstorm which raffed with al
most the violence of a cyclone swept
Cordova a few weeks ago, doing
property damage to the extent of be
twen $25,000 and $30,000. Although
the air was filled with flying debris,
no one was sprioasly. injured either in
Godorva or Eyak, where the storm
was felt with iequal, force. 1
Chief-d;«nag* was done to the new
Cordova, school building. The roof
was lifted-'off -in one piece but came
, down in- sections, pieces being scat
tered »U- over the town. Heavy rains
of almost torrential force poured
. down into the unprotected building,
ruining the interior of every room.
Through the help of many, equipment
wAs moved to dry places, thus avoid
ing additional-loss. The building will
have to- be entirely replastered and
possibly fefloored as well as-reroofed.
This work will cost between $10,000
and $12,000 and will make necessary a
hond -issuance to cover the cost. Until
repairs are completed school will be
he'd in the Presbyterian church.
Net--satisfied with the damage to
the school building, says the Cordova
Times,-'.,the wind carried the heavily
ta> re-itscovering along to1 aid it in- its
wbrk- of creating havoc. The large
* plate glass windows and two smaller,
ones. in. the Times office were broken,
by -the- flying rooffing and a shower
of .g'.hs* and tar covering strewn
through the mechanical department.
Folio tvi-ag a straight line, the wind
Iifteri-^he aerial from the Times
building and sent it through. Ross
wfcog'a'.roof and then toppled over the
he wy. false front of the Cordova
Drog-rStore and Dineen’s grocery,
^ sending a. ton of hoards, rooffing and
planks, crashing to the sidewalk and
snapping, off the heavy iron street
light as though it were a match.
Ftfim First street the “wooley”!
swept toward the bay, carried the
OtcaiCannery warehouse with, it in
one .piece,, tipped over the Cordova
’ canndvy fish ladder, and then ended in
a fimik flourish by sweeping Cordova’s
new^Controversial” municipal ware-,
house into the bay.
Ti#*damage, however,.was not con
fined: tn*one fiendishly playful “wool-j
• ey.”' ^ {ale, estimated at 85 miles'
an fafkrt, swept the town from one end'
of theft own to the other. One “play
ftfl ioWeze” dropped a stump in front
of a speeded between miles 4 and 5.
The speeder, driven by Paul Herring,
and occupied by U. S. Deputy Mar
shal H. G. Cloes, and Joe Janey, pris
oner,; was hurtled from the track and
completely demolished. None of the
occupants was even scratched.
The same breeze ripped its way
fhrough the railroad rotary shed and
left it in ruins, tore the front . iTthe
• Lakeview Hotel and dropped it
across the street, twised'Pete-Olson’s
house from its base, dropped tHr ball
, park fence into a heap,, turned,' board
walks? into kindling,, tangled, tele
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phone and light wires, anc^ smashed
windows with reckless abandon.
Besides this damage, the storm
swept over the heavy roof truss on
the Club building, picked up or broke
off six telephone poles, wrecked the
sidewalks between Mark Thompson’s
place and the turnoff to the Red
Dragon, about 400 feet, left the rail
road depot warehouse careening, tore
up the walk between the railroad and
'•'the Episcopal church, and broke win
dows in the Presbyterian church; the
Windsor Hotel, the Reception and •
other buildings.
The tennis court was damaged
again and the sides left hanging pre-1
cariousty, a large tree was snapped j
off at the base and dropped against !
Tom Nestor’s house, and Dr. W. H. i
Chase’s garage was nearly demol
ished. Several unidentified skiffs
were blown to sea.
FOR FELT AND PELF
(Seward Gateway.)
One way to exterminate black and ;
brown bear on Kodiak Island and
Afognak to the future well-being of;
the livestock industry th«J-e would be j
to lift the ban on the selling of bear
pelts by the man who shoots them,
according to recent arrivals from the
islands where they are all wrought up
over their livestock losses and where
they demand a show-down between
the bear and the sheep and the cow.
If the natives were permitted to j
sell the pelts they might gett from
flO to $50 per hide and' there would
e a merry game of hunting. Bruin
would soon find himself on the brink :
of extinction as far as the islands are
concerned. This matter is to be j
placed before the Alaska Game Com
mission, which is reported to be seri- j
ously considering the Kodiak problem
for the aid of the stockmen and with '
the further conviction that the big
game hunters will not suffer, as there
are plenty of bear for them to shoot
on Alaska Peninsula, where stock
raising is not considered feasible.
Maybe You’ve Heard This One..
“Why don't you advertise?”
“It’s no use. It ruins my busi-!
ness.” !
“Ruins your business? How?”
“I tried it last year and the people
bought nearly everything I had.”—
Ex.
THOSE PRINTERS?
(Yakima Republic.)
A lady who- takes this paper says
she likes everything about it but the
typographical errors. She says she
counted fourteen in the paper last
night and1' she wishes we would tell
her why they happened. We will ex
plain. The printers make those mis
takes, aud they do it purposely, hop
ing- thereby to be revenged on a re
porter, or on the foreman, or the
boss, or somebody else who fancy
tells them has injured them. As they
have about 500,000 little pieces of
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In the District Court for the Terri-I
tory of Alaska, Fourth Division.
Hans S. Hanson, plaintiff, vs. Dan j
Nicholson and Mrs. William M-!
Graves, defendants. No. 8058,
Alias Summons.
The President of the United States
of America, to the above-named de
fendant; Mrs. William M. Graves,
greeting,; -
You are hereb ynotified to appear!
in the District Court for the Territory
of Alaska,'1 Fourth Division, within!
thirty days after the last publication |
of this Summons, to-wit, within thirty j
days after February-2, 1929, .and an-j
swer the complaint of the plaintiff in i
this action, on file in the above en-,
titled Court.
That in said action the plaintiff dc*j
mands judgment against you in the;
sum of $844.00 and interest thereor. I
at the rate of 8 per cent per annum,
from August 17, 1927, and the further j
sum of $26.00 for preparing and re-1
cording Notice of Laborer’s liens; also !
for $300.00 attorneys’ fees and the |
costs and disbursements of this ac- j
tion. And that the said laborer’s liens
be foreclosed in the manner provided
by law and that your rights and’in
terests in the Bonanza Group on Lit
tle Creek, in the Innoko Precinct,;
Fourth Division of Alaska, be sold to
satisfy the said judgment, costs and
attorneys’ fees.
And in the event you fail to so ap
pear and answer the said complaint,
the plaintic will take judgment
against you for want thereof and will
apply to the Court for the relief de
manded in said complaint as afore
said.
This Summons was ordered served
by publication thereof by order of the
above Court dated November 8th,:
1928.
Witness the Honorable Cecil H.
Clegg, Judge of said Court, and the
Seal thereof hereunto affixed on this
14th day of November, 1928.
ROBERT W. TAYLOR,
(Seal) Clerk,
By Ed Tonseth, j
Deputy Clerk.
First publication Dec. 22; last pub*;
lication Feb. 2, 1929 .
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
| Tn the Commissioner’s Court at Me- j
I 'Grath, Mount McKinley Precinct,!
Fourth Division, Territory of)
Alaska, before W. T. Vanderpool,
I U. S. Commissioner and ex-officio1
Probate Judge.
In the matter of the estate of Rob-!
ert R. Jones, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the un-'
dersigned has been duly appointed ad- j
ministrator of the estate of Robert R.
Jones, deceased. i
All persons having claims against j
said estate are required to present'
the same, duly verified, with proper'
vouchers attached, to the under- ■
signed, at Mcdfra, Alaska, within six;
! (6) months from the date of this no-,
; tice.
I Dated, McGrath, Alaska, December
10, 1928. C. M. WINAN,
Administrator.
First publication Dec. lf»r last pub.
| Jan. 12, 1929.
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