Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1920 — DOCTOR KILLS HUGE BEAR [ARTICLE]

DOCTOR KILLS HUGE BEAR

Finally Settles Long Feud Between Two Medicos. Cordova, Alaska, population 400 In winter and 2,000 in summer, which boasts of being the ore shipping center of Alaska and of being the port where the ships to the outside stay the longest when they put in every eighth day, finally considers as settled a long feud between the two medical men of the community. x Since the days of the Klondike the medicos of Cordova, Dr. W. W. Council and Dr. W. H. Chase, have been rivals, not so much in the practice of their profession as in the gathering of bear pelts. By this time each has bagged enough pelts, so Cordova people say, to pave a block of Market street And each time one gets one bigger than usual he throws but his chest and considers himself the champion bear hunter of the community. But the championship seems to have been settled when Doctor Chase recently bagged a brown bear .measuring a trifle more than from tall to snout