ANCHORAGE DAILY TIMES
AND COOK INLET PIONEER
COOK INLET PUBLISHING CG.
Anchorage, Alaska.
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Entered in the Anchorage Postofflce June 5, 1915, as second class matter
under the Act March 3. 1873.
For President—Charles Evans Hughes.
For Delegate to Congress—James Wickersham
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 19, 1916.
LIKELY TO CALL CARRANZA’S BLUFF.
An so Carranza again insists that the American troops must
not only withdraw from Mexico, but that any further move
ment made by them from their present lines will be considered
an overt act and be the signal for hostilities, lie is afraid that
the honor <5f Mexico may be trenchdu Upon; that honor that
skulks across the line and butchers American women and chil
dren, but makes no effort to punish the assassins.
~ But Carranza should go a little slow. The national political
conventions are over, and it would require only half as much
of an effort to cause a Democratic president and Congress to
set a l'eal invasion of Mexico in motion as it would have re
quired six months ago. Then, too, while the mills of “the gods
grind slowly, they grind exceedingly small,” and should that
invasion he set in motion Carranza knows that order and a
reign of law in Mexico would soon follow and his occupation
would he gone. It is the wrong year and the wrong time in
this year to do much bluffing with the United States.
CHAMBER COMMERCE’S GREAT WORK.
Despite the war, France has finished the canal which now
connects Marseilles with Aries on the Rhone.
It is fifty miles long, and by its connection with the Rhone
it is also brought in connection with all the internal canals of
France and the river Rhine. It has been under construction
twelve years and lias cost $20,000,000. With its opening last
month came the announcement -that henceforth Marseilles
would be a free port. This the French people believe will soon
make Marseilles a strong rival of Hamburg in the world’s
trade, for it practically will be the very center of all the ex
port and import trade of France, and practically places the
factories of Central France on the sea shore.
It opens the same opportunities to Marseilles that has made
Hamburg the great commercial center that it is, with the ad
vantage that while Hamburg is a port on the North sea Mar
seilles is on the warm Mediterranean and in close connection
with all her ports and the countries behind those ports, and
the more distant countries that trade with Southern Europe.
The great advantage of a free port is that merchandise can
be brought into it free of duty; stored in its warehouses; re
packed or mixed, and then as .market conditions dictate sent
to interior manufacturing towns or to foreign countries. In
free ports foreign merchants can maintain sample or consign
ment stocks, and the harrassing control of customs house offi
cers is mostly eliminated.
One feature of this canal connecting Marseilles with Aries,
which should not be lost sight of in Anchorage, is that its con
struction was more due to the work of the Chamber of Com
merce of Marseilles than any other one factor.
When the business men of a city are organized and work
together, keeping in mind that the more advantages secured
for the workers outside and around a city the greater is the
return to the city, the filial result is sure to be an advantage
to the city itself. Then progress always follows.
The weather man is certainly overlooking the fact that the
summer months are here and we are entitled to a little more
sunshine.
We doubt very much if the attempt of certain politicians
to inveigle Bishop Rowe into the race for delegate to con
gress will prove successful.
If Anchorage is to have good, clean baseball this . season
there should certainly be a can tied to all the idle gossip and
disaffection among some of the players, the rattle of which
could be heard in all parts of Cook inlet.
The people of Anchorage are showing their appreciation
of the fact that The Daily Times is publishing the largest
newspaper in all of Alaska by extending to it the patronage
that its effort^ deserve.
Wednesday will be the longest day of the year, and as there
will be continual daylight it would be a good idea to have a
ball game that evening. Fairbanks, Dawson and other north
ern towns always hold athletic contests at that time, and why
not Anchorage?
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Mistakes sometimes happen even in the best of regulated
newspapers. On Saturday the Daily Times, in reporting the
alleged death of Emperor Josef, of Austria, said his son had
been assassinated in Serbia, which had led to the present Eu
ropean war. It should have stated that it was his nephew.
The knocker is a most despicable character and seems to
be indigenous to all countries and sections of countries. He
exists under all climatic conditions. Like bacilli of tubercu
losis knockers are universally present, but do but little harm
to the healthy and strong. Fortunately, Anchorage is not af
flicted with many people of this stripe and whenever these
microbes of calamity show they should be effectually stamped
out.
Launch Swan
Daily Trips to Knik
For Schedule See Bulletin Boards
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EMPRESS THEATRES
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Theatre will Positively Open
Saturday, July 1
WITH A BIG FEATURE
PROGRAM
This new theatre is 40 x 130 feet, with a seating capacity
for 700 people and will be the most attractive and up-to-date
theatre north of Seattle., Steam heated and electric lighted
throughout, and by the Installing of numerous fire exits the
management takes pride in announcing that the entire build
ing can be emptied in 90 seconds.
Remember the Date!
Remember the Date!
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y Attorney-at-Law
Seward
ARTHUR FRAME
Lawyer
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Sherman Duggan
Court Reporting, Shorthand, Type
writing of All Kinds,
Law Office James & Woolley, Fourth
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Anchorage
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J. TURNER
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FRESH MEATS AND}FISH
[ Wholesale and Retail
Barton’s No. 1 Steer Beef
Circle W Spring Lamb Corn-Fed Pork
Also Dressed Chickens, Livers, Hearts,
Pigs’ Feet, Etc.
Pork Sausage Made Every Day.
Live Chickens Dressed to Order.
'Anchorage Laid Eggs. Fowls for Breeding.
NOTHING BUT THE BEST.
SHIP CREK MEAT CO:
Anderson & Jensen, Proprs.
Choice Meats at Economical Prices:
Sugar cured hams.22c
Sugar cured bacon.25c
Choice steer round steak.25c
Chuck Steak.20c
Pot Roast Beef.18c
Boiling Beef . 16c
Sausage—Pork Link . 20c
Bologna...20c
Head Cheese .20c
Weinerwurst .r.:.. 20c
Boiled Ham.30c
Pork Chops...25c
Lamb Chops.25c
Veal Chops.25c
Leg of Lamb.25c
Mutton Stew.,.17c
Dry Salt Pork.15c
BUTTER EGGS.
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Special Attention Given to Out-of-Town Orders.
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