1 HUE i T Cordova Daily Times (HE 1
VOLUME ONE. NUMBER SIXTY-SIX. CORDOVA, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1915. FRIGE TEN CENTS.
NOME FAVORS CHANGE SUNDAY Cl OSING LAW
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STRS, AlihlEDA
The steamer Alameda arrived in
port from the south at 10 o'clock yes
terday morning and left at 12:30 for
the westward. She is expected to re
turn and sail about midnight tomor
row. The Alameda carried a large
number of passengers, among whom
were the following:
Cordova—Mrs. L. K. Tillman, Mrs.
A. D. Read, A. F. Erickson, W. A.
Johnson and wife, A. H. Bryant, C. W.
Joynt, G. L. Perrusse, Mrs. J. Mc
Crary, J. H. Untenmeyer, E. L. Scrof
ford, J. Keith, E. G. Schemer, F. F.
Denman, C. Nettleton, W. H. Aiken, C.
A. Sclionacker, W. C. Baird, R. H. {
Chadwick, G. P. Reilly, F. Safford, G.
^ Gold rich and 8 steerage.
Valdez—Mrs. E. E. Johnson, J. Smith
and wife, A. R. Evanson, and 3 sleer-i
age.
Gatouche—A. E. lledfern.
Ellamar—J. V. Smith.
Hnga—R. J. Cornwall.
KodlakC. H. Parker.
The steamer Admiral Evans arrived
from the south yesterday afternoon
and after a stay of a little over an hour
left for the westward, and will go as
far as Kodiak. Her passengers for
points in this vicinity were:
Cordova—R. C. Scofield, J. Scofield,
A. Birch, G. A. Vinger, and 3 second
class.
Valdez—Mrs. M. Fisher, ,T. VV.
Spaulding, Frank H. Tasher, B. C. Dal
zelle, and 1 second class.
Seward—John Gale, F. B. Antrim
and 5 second.
Kodiak—G. G. Harding.
Seldovia—H. M. Putnam.
(hie of the Territorial representatives from
Nome. W. \Y. (letchell, who is now in Cordova, on
his way to Juneau, granted an interview to a Times
reporter in which the matt r of the Sunday closing
law was fully discussed.
It seems certain that a hill will he introduced
to change the present status of the Sunday law in
Alaska, and the people of Nome are unanimous in
their disapproval of present conditions there. 10very
thing is closed on Sunday except what is expressly
excepti d by the statue- such as drug stores, and even
a fruit store can not sell its goods on the Ijord ’s I)ay .
Mr. (letchell cited an example of what happend
at the opening of navigation last year. As ev ry
body* knows the opening of navigation in the spring
is in the nature of a holiday for Nomeites as on that
day their supplies of fresh vegetables, fruits and
other delecacies which they have been doing without
all winter are replenished. Last year the first light
er brought ashore the perishable goods, composed
largely of fruit, which was early seized by the mcr
chants to whom it was consigned’, and put on dis
I piny in flic two fruit stores in Nome.
Tluit fruit looked pretty good to tin* people then
whose only fruit in several months had been tin
canned varietyUnd the two stores commenced to do
a rushing business. What was the dismay of tin
merchants and people however, when they received
word to dose their stores and stop selling the fruit
! because it was Sunday, and unless tin* merchant
did shut up at once they wore threatened with arrest
and’ imprisonment. Of course there was nothing t<
do but close, and all that day the people of None
walked' longingly before the wire screens of the tw»
fruit stores and allowed their mouths to water at tin
I sight of the fresh fruit they craved so much.
It is such instances as this that have arouscc
t!n> people of the Second Division to such oppositioi
of the present Sunday law. For some reason, tie
district attorney’s office did not close the movin’
picture show, apparently deciding on the ground thn
it was .111 educational exhibition. Yet, it is interest
ing to note that the authorities in Valdez closed til
\ moving picture show in Seward on Sunday. Tliei
pictures were perhaps not educational.
According to Mr. Gctchell, the people of the*
other divisions of Alaska, do not realize the hardship
imposed on the people of the Second Division by the
enforcement of the Sunday law. No clothing store
or retail merchant of any description can do Inisi
ness on Sunday. The man from the Creeks who was
wont to come in to town on Sunday to buy groceries,
clothes and other supplies, is now prevented from ac
complishing his purpose* and yet in many cases
Sunday is the only available day he has in which to
come to town.
The legislators from the Second Division are all
n §
in favor of a change in the law, and while there has
been not much thought given to the matter in the
other divisions because the law has not been enforc
ed, it would seem that after hearing the story of the
unbearable conditions forced on the people of Nome
without warning by outsiders holding official posi
i tions, but who were unacquainted with Alaskan
■ ideals and sympathies, the legislators of the rest of
•j the territory will be in favor of a change in the law.
NIZ1NA PLACER TO BE DEVELOPED
WILL USE CORDOVA-MADE MACHINERY
S. K. Sanderson, who tor some mouths past lias
been superintending the prospecting of the Hex
('reek placer ground on which Manley, Price and
Ives, held option, has branched out into the mining
game on his own account, ami this summer will pros
pect a large group of claims in the Xi/ina country
for the purpose of installing machinery to operate
on an extensive scale if further prospecting bears
out the present showing.
To this end Mr. Sanderson left this morning for
McCarthy to arrange for the transportation of a car
load of machinery, which is to be shipped in a few
days by Hannon & Deveer, of this city, numufac ,
tmers of mining and drilling machinery. Among
the machinery ordered is one of the H. & I). Standard
drills. Mr. Sanderson, who has operated prospect-j
ing drills for a number of years, and who is an ex- !
port in the business, was immensely pleased with this
drill and immediately placed his order for one, ad
milling that it contained a number of improvements
over other makes of drills he had previously used'
and was admirably suited for the work ot prospect
ing in ground where heavy gravel drilling was re
quired.
The selection of Cordova made machinery speak
well for the local firm and its product, which has al
ready gained a wide reputation for the efficiency
and durability of its “Alaska Made” machinery.
.lust where Mr. Sanderson’s property is located
aside from the fact that it is in the Nizhni district
has not been made public. This district has been fi
productive one, by hydraulic methods, for a nunibei
of years, and among the largest operators are <}eo
Max Esterlv, on Chititu and Howard Birch, on Dai
creek. Both of those parties have taken out larg.
sums of money, and have sufficient ground yet un
worked to keep thin busy for some years to come.
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TRAVELING MEN
ARRIVE IN PLENTY
/
The North evidently looks good to
the traveling men these days, Judging
from the number who came up on yes
terday's steamers. Among those who
stopped at Cordova were W. C. Baird,
representing the Washington Shoe Co.,
C. P. Schonacker, representing the
Sehonaker Brokerage Company, of Ju
neau; Geo. P. Reilly representing Glb
by, McNeil & l.lbby; R. H. Chadwick,
representing the U. S. Rubber Co.; G.
A. Vlnger, representing J. B. Caro &
Co., of Juneau; William Aiken, “Schil
ling's Best.” Those who continued on
to the westward were Frank H.
Tosher and B. C. Delzelle.
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FORMER CORDOVAN
IS REPORTED KILLED
Sant Mandisch. a former Cordovan,
and brother of Mrs. Peter (filovich.
who left Juneau a couple of months
ago at the head of a number of his
countrymen to fight for Serbia, is re
ported as having been killed at the
front, says (he Juneau Dispatch. A
; party from Treadwell stated that he
had read of Mandlsch's name in a
Polish paper.
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CORDOVA DRUGGIST SAYS
HIS TOWN KEEPS BUSY
Dr. V. A. Schmitz, the well known
I druggist of Cordova, Alaska, is in Ju
: neau and will leave on the Georgia for
! a "rest cure" at Dr. Goddard's fa
j mous hot springs resort near Sitka,
j where he will remain several days.
“Cordova is doing a nice little husl
| ness all the time," he said when seen
i at tlie Alaskan. “There is a consider
| able volume of trade from the over
| land traffic to Fairbanks, and the
| trade volume from along the Copper
'[ River & Northwestern railway is in
creasing right along."Juneau Dispatch.
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PARIS, Fob. 12—The record of 7'.> wounds received by an
army surgeon bus been broken by bene \ idol, reser\i>t, ot
Rainey.
While in the trenches a shell exploded imm.-diatly behind
him and the lower part of his body and limbs were riddled
with shrapnel.
From eight in the morning until evening lie lay in tin
trench without even the first aid. When he arrived at tin
auxiliary hospital a thorough examination showed' traces of 129
seperate and distinct wounds.
11 is ease was considered desperate as he had lost an extra
ordinary quantity of blood, but he is now able to get about on
crtuches.
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PARIS, Feb. 12—The Frangfurther Zcitung reports tha
the Germans have pierced the hills from .Toeui in French teni
tory to Moyeuvre-la Grand in Lorraine to facilitate communi
cations. The tunnel has been completed in two months’ worl
and cost $6,000,000. This tunnel was long ago proposed b\
miners and manufacturers in the iron mining district of tin
valley of Bricy but opposed by the government for strategica
reasons. The executions of the work by the Germans is takei
as indicating a determination on their part to hold this riel
mining country at all hazards.
SEEK SHELTER IN BASEMENTS AT
t
HULL, England, Feb. 12—When the whistles blow i
night, street lamps will be switched off, street cars stopped an
all citizens should run for their basements. Such are the pp
cautions against German air raids made by the military ui
thorities at Hull. It was first proposed to cut off the elect)
system and the gas mains entirely- but in as much as the lions
holders promised to keep their blinds down this idea wi
abandoned.
ANNAPOLIS CADETS FROM THE RANKS.
IUtiei the new law the secretary ot tin navy .-tin appoint fifteen uien from the ranks of the navy each year to
1 the Annapolis Naval academy. Here ate dve of the men who have been na med From left to right they are John
W. Rowe. Horace S. Corbett. William W Wurlick Harold II Hnnstnte and William Burk.
j TELEGRAPHIC NEWS SHY
ACCOUNT OF HOLIDAY
,
^ This being a legal holiday, and as|
itie cable office was open only an hour
The Daily Times did not receive its
usual Associated Press telegraphic ser
^ vice.
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GAME WARDEN TO
, INVESTIGATE COMPLAINTS
,(*
Complaints of the violation of the
s game laws In the vicinity of Copper
Center have reached the governor’s of
flee.
Game Warden Peter S. Erickson of
McCarthy lias been sent to InvestiRate
the reports and will look Into the re
ported violations of the native liquor
law which have emanated from the
same district.
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CHANGES AT LOCAL
WIRELESS STATION
Carl Hupp, who has been connected
with the navy wireless station al
Whiteshed for several years past, hat
! been transferred to Bremerton and In
and his family will leave for the states
on the Alameda tomorrow. G. li. ITil
nerher arrived in Cordova Sunday
from Mare island to take Mr. Hupp’s
place.
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Kinney lias a corner on Coffee.
What we mean is COFFEE, not the
wishy-wishy kind you have been
buying and nicknamed coffee. One
lean of Dwight Edwards will convince
Today's news in today’s Daily Times
CLOSING OUT— Two dozen Iatdle’t
, Sweaters at Jl. and $1.50 at S
! BLUM A CO.
TO LEJWETHE COUNTRY
GFAFA'A, Feb. 1_’ According to official statistics there are
’•J.fMH) (iernians of both sexes engaged in trade in Italy, 40,tHH>
n tin* north chiefly at Milan and Turin. These Germans have
•eceived notice to leave the country as soon as they can arrange
heir business matters through the German consulates. The
•xpress trains arriving at Chiasso for Basel- on the St. Gothard
ijine and at Brieg via the Simplon Tunnel are crowded with
lemians and Austrians returning to their countries. Certain
portions of the Swiss frontier have been reinforced.
CHRISTIANIA, Norway, Fob. 12—The Department of
Justice' has issued an ordinance for the exercise of a vigorous
control over foreigners and travellers. Kvery hotel and board
ing house must file with the police within twenty-four hours a
complete statement regarding each new guests giving full name,
profession, nationality, residence, reason for coming and where
last. Norway has been receiving about f»0,<KH) tourists annual
ly. Heretofore the police has taken little interest in them,
whether foreigners or subjects.
NORTHAMPTON, Feb. 12—OUT men who had either re
tired from work or had been crowded out by their youngers,
some of them even taken from the almshouse are employed at
good wages in Nottingham, making army boots. Riveters who
lost their places because the invention of mechanical substitutes
are now busy hammering hob nails into soles. The gardens
and even the farms have given recruits to the factories, which
are now turning out IK),(KM) pairs of boots a week. Men whose
ages range about 70 years are welcomed by the contractors.
LONDON, Feb. 12 Owing to the scarcity of offerings, the
great fur sales usually held in London have been abandoned.
It has been decided however, to hold the March auction as usual.
[ London is one of the world’s greatest fur markets.