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your funds until they reach us.
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£a£es on improved real estate, in city,
state and U. S. Government Bonds
For over 17 years fri per annum
we have never lA ~/rt on savings
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NOTICE TO WATER CONSUMERS
This Company has spared neither time
nor expense to give Cordova a continuous
WATER SUPPLY. To do this the Company
must have your co-operation to stop the waste
that occurs from letting the water run to avoid
freezing the pipes. Where we find this con
dition still to exist we shall SHUT OFF THE
WATER for the winter without further notice.
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CARELESSNESS
CAUSED MOST
OF BIG FIRES
NEW YORK, Jail. 21 (by Associated
Press). Careless smokers and users
of matches were responsible for $15.
724.550 of the total loss of $00.100.054
worth of property by "preventable
fires" in the I'nited States during H»1N.
according to the members of tie Fire
j Marshals' Association of North Amer
, lea. who recently held a two days’
conference here with the National
Hoard of I’nderwritors.
Figures showing that the I'nited
States leads the world in property de
struction by fire were given in the
opening session, the damage p* r cap
ita being stated as $2.10 annually in
thi* country as compared with 41* cents
in France. 'V.\ cents in England. 2H
cents in (lermany. 25 cents in Italy
and Austria. 15 cents in Switzerland
1 and 11 cents in Holland.
Homer Rutledge of Lansing/ Mich..
! fire marshal of that stat* hi. cuh; *d
"the arson trust." and showed how in
cendiarries had burned $S. 121. Sir,
worth of property in one year during
' the war. exclusive of the many other
millions destroyed indirectly bv ex
plosions. Ob* O Roe of 1»*'- Moines,
fire marshal of Iowa, in an address
on "Pyroniania." said education was
one of the most efficient means of
combating this evil. F. R Morgar
idge of New York, formerly assistant
fire marshal of Indiana, said most fire
bugs were adolescent boys and girls.
He advocated proper home and school
t raining.
Despite the fact that the t'niteil
States was at war anil that enemy
agents were active, twenty states re
ported a slight decrease in the num
ber of cases of arson While it was
! announced as a fact that in the first
i nine months after America drew the
'sword $t:t nnn.OOb worth of war indus
tries went up in smoke, in only 10
per cent of these eases was there even
1 suspicion of spy work. "Carelessness"
was designated as the biggest firebug
1 of alt. One grain elevator lire alone
destroyed enough wheat to make a
year's supply of bread for HuO.OOO soi
! diers.
Many (ires at first attributed to tier
i man spies and pyronianiaca were
| found upon investigation to be due
i to other causes. One notable instance
! was a spectacular and costl? 'wnter
i front fire in Hrooklyn. the Dow stores.
| in which a vast quantity of grain in
i tended for shipment to the allies was
destroyed. II was discovered tlrnt the
blaze was the result of a dust expio
sion caus' d by a spark either from
friction or static electricity Another
conspicuous instance was the Haiti
' more pier lire, which at first was posi
tively ascribed to pro-German plot
ters. Rigid investigation by federal
agents, according to fire marshals, def
initely determined its non-incendiary
1 origin.
Following a reference to the Mor
gan, N. J., disaster, in which nearly
one hundred lives were lost and $20,
000,000 damage was done, delegates
spoke of the work accomplished the
past year by the fire prevention sec
tion of the war industries board. This
bureau, it was stated, hail inspected
more than 2,000 large plants, valued at
more than ten billions of dollars, and
in a large percentage of cases the
"safety" recommendations of Its vol
unteer dollar-a-year engineers were
carried out.
It was stated that fire prevention
methods adopted for the sixteen large
army cantonments throughout the
Fnited States had proved most offer-|
tive. although these camps consisted
of wooden buildings. Hazards were |
reduced to the minimum by proper
watchfulness, water protection* iso
, lation. eonduifing and enforcement of
regulations in regard to smoking and
the use of matches and lights.
H. (’ Broarly, one of the speakers.'
said New York city was In imminent
peril of a great conflagration when on
November 7. after the erroneous re
port of the German surrender, a
"storm" of paper was thrown from
the windows of business buildings, lit
tering the streets to a depth of sev
! oral inches, and many miles of ticker
tape, covering telegraph and telephone
wires, constituted a fire hazard of the!
nth power. Fire Chief Kenton of New
York city declared that if a serious
blaze had started at that time, or on
November 11, four days later, when
the scenes of pnndernoniium were re
peated. all New York might have been
laid in ashes. The fire departments
would have been crippled also, he
said, by the crowds of traffic conges
tion in the streets. As one of the dele
gates expressed it, "Thus was invited
the greatest loss of life and property,
perhaps, in American history.”
The fire marshals present at the
conference with the underwriters in
eluded five committees on co-opera- j
tion bt^ween the two organizations,
whose efforts are directed to "war- !
ring on careb ssnes -" and to increas i
ing the efficiency of fire prevention in j
the Fnited Sv-f* The<e committees |
follow : Incendiarism and Arson F.
S. Bartow, New York, chairman; Ho-!
mer Rutledge. Lansing. Mich.; F R
Morgaridge. New York; Ole o Row.
Des .Moines. Iowa. Actunrrial Bureau
James Wyper. Hartford. Conn,
chairman; John G (ianiber. Spring j
field. Ill ; Charles 11 bum. New York;
L. T. Hussey. Topeka. Kan Fire Pre
vention and Construction of Build
ings Sheldon Catlin. Philadelphia,
chairman; James R. Young. Raleigh.
N. C.; George \V. Booth. Ira 11 Wool
son and Chief John Kemlon of the
New York fire department. Public
Relations F. \V West of Glens Falls.
N Y.. chairman; Goodwin Lee. T. A
Fleming and H C Brearly of New
York.
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TEXAS PEANUT CROP i
HAS BEEN FAILURE |
DALLAS, Texas, Jan It 1 (by Assn
dated Press) A shortage of peanuts j
lias resulted from unfavorable weather |
conditions in Texas last summer, ac j
cording to big dealeres here. IS. \V. j
Higginbotham, one of the leading buy
ers, said the Texas crop this year
would be only 25 per cent of normal.
The severe drought last summer pre !
vented farmers from raising more than i
a small share of the usual crop. The
drought was followed by excessive
rains that caused damage before the j
peanuts had reached maturity.
The government estimate showed i
that 15,000,000 bushels of peanuts
were raised in Texas in 1017. One
section which in 1917 produced 2,000
carloads this year produced only 300
carloads.
Conditions in east and south Texas
were better than in northwest Texas,
which heretofore has been the princi
pa I district of production.
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D. H Sexton has purchased Kobert
(Jottschalk's interest in the Alaskan j
hotel, and all persons having bills j
against the hotel should present thorn j
at once to Mr. Sexton, who has as
sumed these accounts. 3-tf
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ALASKA
will soon become a second
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$100 Invested Today in the
Little Gem Mine
will make you several thousand dollars within
a year or two.
I am authorized to place a limited amount
of shares at
TEN CENTS A SHARE
and will accept Liberty Bonds at par value.
Will be at Smith’s Hotel for one week
only.
R. DAVID REESE
Mining Engineer
Alaskan Grill
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