AUTHOR’S NOTE: Cooper Landing, on the Kenai Peninsula, was once identified with a postal inspector named Charles Arthur Riddiford. In fact, residents of the landing named their first post office and their first school after Riddiford, a man who never lived in Alaska. This is the story of how that naming likely came to be.
oday marked the 100th anniversary of the Tunnel 13 Robbery. At the Odd Fellows Eastwood Cemetery in Medford, Charles ‘Coyle’ Johnson was honored at his gravesite along with the other 3 who died: Elvyn Dougherty, Marvin Seng, and Sidney Bates.