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FIRST BANK OF CORDOVA
CAPITALfeSTOCK »26,000
4% on Time Deposits
Our Stockholders Are
S. BLUM GEORGE C. HAZELET
M. BROCK FRED GLASBRENNER
A. E. LATHOP DELIA LYONS
JAFET LINDEBERG
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PLANKING OF FRONT ST
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j orlunal petition circulated by Mr.
Keldmann and Mr. Lathrop Is as fol.
I lows:
"Whereas it is desirous to widen the
S14 foot alley extending through block
2 and the north portion of block 3 of
(the Town of Cordova Into a street 30
feet in width, and Geo. C. Hazclet,
trustee has agreed to dedicate 16 feet
of land along the westerly side of said
alley for said purpose. Said dedica
tion to be made when the expense of
opening and planking said street shall
have been provided and the improve
ment of said street assured and where
as the opening and improment of said
street will be beneficial to the property
of the undersigned. Now, In conslder
tion of the premises and of the mu.
tual promises of the the undersigned,
we do hereby promise and agree, the
one with the other and with the said
Geo. C. Iiazelet, trustee, that we will
pay the sum set opposite our re
spective names toward the opening
and improvement of said street, the
same to be due and payable when the
said street shall be opened and the
Improvement of the same commenced.
"George C. Iiazelet is hereby made
the repository of said funds and the
trustee for the collection and disburse
ment of the same.
H. C. Keldmann.$ 300.00
Kinkelstein & Sapiro . 300.00
C. P. Mickelson . 300.00
J. E. Currier . 300.00
Cordova Drug Co. 300.00
Townsite Company, by Geo.
C. Hazelt trustee .1,000.00
^ Shiels and Simpson . 600.00
l K. Gammon . 300.00
J A. J. Meals . 600.00
► H. A. Slater . 100.00
) E. L. Whlttemore . 160.00
l A. J. Adams . 100.00
E. A. Hegg . 100.00
Cordova Commercial Co. 100.00
Leach and Johnston . 200.00
Hy the foregoing petition it can be
seen that the building of Front street
was endorsed by the above business
houses and property owners, and that
that the building of the street was for
their benefit and not for the benefit of
Mr. Iiazelet or the Townsite Co. And
it can also be seen that Mr. Hazelet
was specifically chosen by the above
j signers to act as their trustee in the
The whole proposition was iri the
nature of a public improvement de
signed to benefit the town as a whole
as well as the property owners on the
proposed street, as it can be seen that
Messrs. Slater, Adams, Hegg and
Whittemore gave money although they
had and have no property along Front
street.
Furthermore, it may well be noted
that other persons besides the Town
of Cordova, which later gave $«00.00
to this project, subscribed their mon
ey, although they did not sign the
original petition and did not agree to
pay anything at that time. John
; Meyer, whose name does not appear
contributed $300.00 and Geo. Ueed,
whose name does not appear above
contributed $600.00. Daniel Hedlcon
contributed $300.00 and the Olympia
Brewing Co. contributed $600.00 aL
though neither signed the original
subscription list. Now, it was no
more wrongful for the latter gentle
men to pay their proportion of the cost
of the street than it was for the Town
of Cordova to do so. Ffty feet of
Front street was built on what is now
town property, and the town in pay
ing $600.00 toward the cost of the
improvement only paid its proportion
ate share as the others did.
The Townsite Company, which Mr.
Will A. Steel would have the voters
believe was guilty of some trickery
and graft through their trustee Mr.
Hazeiet, instead of getting any money
out of the building of Front street put
[ in $1,000. in cash and freely dedicated
} 16 feet along the alley to the public
I and dedicated B street from First to
| Front.
Mr. Hazeiet in accepting $600.00
\ from the city to help pay for the street
j was acting as the agent of the above
i signers, and not for the Townsite Co.
\ or for himself, and therefore the above
j signers got the benefit of the city’s
{ money and if anyone is to be blamed,
[ they are all in the same boat. That
[ is, Messrs. Boyle, Currier, and Mickel
1 son who are actively interested in
j condemning Mr. Hazeiet tor this trans.
! action are among the chief benefici
I aries of it, and it acting as he did, he
i was acting as their agent, and his act
j is therefore their act. Mayor Boyle
is among the benficiaries as the Cor
J dova Drug Co. is his store.
As a matter of fact there is nothing
wrongful about the whole transaction,
with the exception that certain of the
signers, being those who are violent
in their attacks on Mr. Hazeiet, have
not fully paid up their subscriptions.
The proposition was explained to all
the signers at the time the petition
was circulated and how can Messrs.
Boyle, Currier and Mickelson affirm
at this time that it was not the in
tention to have the city pay $600.00.
All the other signers knew that it was
understood, and if there were no pol
tlcs in the matter, they would also
admit that the payment by the city of
$500.00 to help defray the coat of Front
street was perfectly tegimate and a
proper expenditure of the city's funds.
In the Cordova Dally Alaskan for
March 20, 1915 is what purports to he
a statement of the facts respecting
Front street In the editorial columns,
and the editor says "Again we defy
any member of the gang to point out a
misstatement." It must be admitted
thnt no member of the "gang" would,
if they could, point out any misstate,
ments In the article because all the
members of the gang are opposed to
Mr. Hazelet and are either running for
office on or supporting the Citizens’
Progressive Ticket in the coming
municipal election. However, if the
invitation to deny be construed as a
general one, the foregoing statement
of facts serve that purpose, and expose
the reason of Will A. Steel In trying
to bambozzle the public.
In the same article of the Issue of
March 20, 1915, is the assertion that
"no suggestion was made at the time
the street was built that the town
should pay part of the expense.” It
is clear from the unprejudiced state
ment of Mr. Feldmann that the sug
gestion was made at that time, and
that it was clearly so understood by all
the signers to the agreement, and
other citizens.
The article alBO says "fifteen months
later Councilman Hazelet decided that
the town should contribute to the
fund." No, Mr. Will A. Steel, you are
wrong again. The idea of having the
town contribute did not originate with
Mr. Hazelet; neither did it arise fif
teen months later, ft was so under,
stood by the signers to the petition at
the time they subscribed. Mr. Haze
let did not present the matter to the
town at once for two reasons. First
he waited until the official dedication
to the public of D street from First to
Front, and of the additional sixteen
feet added to the width of Front street
was made. Secondly, he wait because
he was trying to be able to say to the
Council that all the other subscribers
had paid their share. He was unable
to do that because those who are
villifylng him today still owe part of
In the agrement above set forth is
a provision that "dedication to be
made when the expense of opening
and planking said street shall have
been provided for.” The dedication
was actually made before the expense
was provided for as some of said ex
pense has not been paid to this day.
You. who critize Mr. Hazelet for delay
in dedicating, should remember that
he was not to do so until the expense
had been taken care of, and some of
you personally know that you owe on
this matter.
In the same article Is the assertion
that Mr. Hazelet promised that B
street should be open from First to
Front. The written subscription
agreement above does not show that
Mr. Hazelet promoised any such thing.
He agrred there to dedicate sixteen
feet along Front street. However, al
though Mr. Hazelet did not promotse
to open B street as charged, he did
verbally promise to dedicate B street
from First to Front, and he did so,
sticking harder to a verbal agreement
than some of his detractors do to a
written one.
In regard to the payment by the
town of $600.00 on this Front street
proposition attention is called to the
following statements from the columns
of the Daily Alaska, to wit:
In the isue of March 20. 1915, in a
letter signed “H. T.” a probable pseu
donym for Will A. Steel, is asked the
following question. “Who induced the
Council to pay $600.00 for some work
on a street that was never ordered by
the town, and who recived the mon.
ey?" The answer is that nobody in
duced the town to pay for the work,
but that the Council voted to pay
what in law and in fact was a moral
obligation, and they so voted with a
full knowledge of the facts of the case
and that the persons who received the
money were Messrs. Boyle, Currier,
Mickelson, Feldmann and all others
who have property today along Front
street, for they received the benefit
thereof, and Hr. Hazelet was acting
as their agent as is shown above.
In the editorial column of the Daily
Alaskan under date of March 17, 1915,
appears the following quotation with
reference to the Front street project
“Several years ago the Cordova Town
site Company conceived the scheme of
widening and planking an alley that
ran from C avenue to beyond B. They
induced the abbutting property owners
on both sides of the alley to con
tribute money and a certain number
of feet of their land. * * * * * But the
sequel, and the serious part of the af.
fair came to light during November.
1911. Councilman Hazelet, upon be
half of the Townsite Company submit
ted a bill for $600.00 in payment for
the crossing and planking of B aven
ue.” The above statement deliberate
ly composed and printed in his paper
by Mr. Will A. Steel is a tissue of
lies, calculated to asperse the charac.
ter of Mr. Hazelet and to cast odium
upon the Tonwsite Company. Again
we call attention to the testimony of
of Mr, Feldmann, who all will agree
Is unprejudiced, to refute Bald state
ments. Mr. Feldmann says that the
scheme was conceived by Leopold
8chmldt, who discussed it with him
before any action was taken. Mr.
Feldmann says that he and Mr. I>a
thop circulated the subscription list,
and that It was only upon insistent
urging that Mr. Hazelet agreed to act
as trustee for the signers. The Town
site Company nppronched no one to
ask them to contribute and instead of
doing so actually contributed $1,000.00
themselves. Councilman Hazelet never
presented any hill on behalf of the
Townslte Company on the Front street
matter to the city council. He pre
sented a bill on behalf and as the
agent and trustee of the signers to
the subscription agreement, and he
received the money as the agent of
said signers and applied It to their
In the Daily Alaskan of March 6,
1915, appears a letter signed "A Re_
cord Advocate," It is uncertain who
Record Advocate is as he did not have
the courage to sign his own name to
his letter, hut as it appeared in the
Dally Alaskan it must linve had the
endorsement of its editor, so we will
quote from the letter as follows.
“Heretofore when the I’ower Company
or Townsite Company wanted any
thing, George's hypnotic smile always
made the way easy. So the record
shows that he had a winning address.
Why, didn't he even induce Council a
year or two ago to donate $600.00 to
the Townsite Company for a crossing
at the foot of B street.” Consider for
a moment, Mr. Citizen of Cordova,
how absolutely false that statement Is.
The city never paid $600,000 to the
Townsite Company for the Front
street crossing. A man signs himself
a Record Advocate and deliberately
falsifies the record, for it is to be
presumed that the writer had examin
ed the record before he chose his pen
name. The records shows a payment
of $600.00 to George C. llazelet, trus
tee. But George C. llazelet was true,
tee for the men who signed the sub
scription agreement above and as their
trustee he received the money from
the city. So instead of inducing the
city to pay $600.00 to the Townsite
Co. be induced the city to pay $600.00
to Messrs. Boyle, Currier, Mickelson,
Reed, Meals, Feldmann, Gammon.
Shiels. Simpson and others set out
ahovp
Now, there has been so much loose
talk about this $600.00, that it is only
fair that the people of Cordova should
know who eventually got the money.
The town paid it to Geo. C. Hazelet,
as trustee for, the men named in the
subscription agreement, and as their
trustee he used the money to pay the
debts incurred by said afore mentioned
gentlemen in constructing Front street
all of w'hich liabilities have not yet
been paid because certain of the sign
ers have failed to make good on their
written agrrements. This famous
famous $600.00 was paid in full to the
Arctic Lumber Co., as part payment
for the lumber furnished by said com
pany to plank the street. The money
was paid to the lumber company on
Dec. 4, 1911, and the recipt for the
payment is signed by R. R. Stewart
for the lumber company, who was then
manager of the concern.
The money paid by the council went
to pay the lumber company for the
building of Front street, and certainly
Front street is a public street, and
the town receives some benefit there
from. The adjoining property holders
also receive some benefit from the
construction of Front street and they
have paid in proportion the same as
the town. Now, to all fair minded
people, the statement of Mr. Feldmann
as to how the proposition started and
the clrcumstnaces connected there
with, must carry conviction. The
editor of the Daily Alaskan, and the
secretive writers of the various let
ters that have appeared in his paper,
are convicted either of being fal: ifiers
or, of that which is just as bad, sland
ering a reputable citizen without first
acquainting themselves with the facts.
They even go so far as to sign them
selves as Record Advocates and then
deliberately distort the record, and
read into them things which nowhere
appear therein.
A close perusal of the columns of the
Dally Alaskan shows that this Fron
street affair has been the foundatior
most of the charges against Mr. Haze
let, and the different councils or
which he has sat. An impartial ex
animation of the facts laid bare in thli
article will show, that the Front stree
proposition was entirely leglmate, am:
the payment of *600.00 by the towr
thereon, perfectly justifiable.
The matter simmers down to a sei
of unscrupulous politicians attempting
to secure converts to their cause by
crudely misrepresenting thp facts
The statement of the case by Mr.
Feldman shou'd convince all honest
men and wop;-n that Mr. Hazelet is
being unjustly maligned by the Dnily
Alaskan, and that paper has gone so
far in Its untruths on this matter,
that one would be justified in repent
ing anything the paper had to say on
the political situation, and concerning
the candidates on the People’s Ticket,
as being in the same class with what
it hns said on the Front street en
terprise. The people are the Jury
who will decide the coming election,
and if the matter was being judicially
decided, the court would instruct the
jury that whenever they find it to be
a fact that a witness has testified
falsely on one matter, they may dis_
regard his whole evidence. The Daily
Alnskan, ns far as the coming munici
pal election is concerned is a dis
credited witness.
NOTICE OF MARSHAL'S 8ALE
In the United State* District Court,
Third Division, Cordova, Precinct.
Charles K. Cano van, plaintiff vs. Mc
Kinley Mining Co., a corporation, de- ,
fendant.
NOTICE OF MARSHAL'S 8ALE.
Whereas, I am commanded by vlr
eue of a writ of Execution, issued by
the above entitled court in the above
entitled action, on the 23rd day of
February, 1915, to make the sum of
$585.40 with interest and costs
amounting to $15.05.
Whereas, the property of said de
fendant, described below, has been
attached In said action, and is held
by me perHuant to said attachment;
therefore. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIV
EN. that on the 20th day of April, 1915
at 2 o'clock in the afternoon of that
day. In front of the United 8tates
Marshal's Office, In the town of Cor
dova, Territory of Alaska, in said pre
cinct, I will sell all the right title and
Interests of the McKinley Mining Co.,
Inc., and improvements thereon or
sufficient thereof to satisfy said Judge
ment and costs and accruelng costs
at public auction, for cash, to the
highest and best bidder, claims known
as the FALCON, HAWK, EAGLE.
CROW. GROUSE, PTARMIGAN, JAY
BIRD, YELLOW-HAMMER, RAVIN,
and SNOW-BIRD, LODE CLAIMS sit
uated about 20 miles north of the town
of Cordova, Alaska, and in the Terri
tory of Alaska near McKinley Lake.
Said sale is for the purpose of satisfy
ing the judgement recovered by plain
tiff agalnRt defendant in said action.
F. R. BRENNEMAN,
United States Marshal.
By S. T. BRIGHTWELL, Deputy.
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