LEROY TOZIER
IS CONFIDENT
AS TOFUTURE
“Placer mining ground in the Fair
banks district which averages about
40 cents to the yard of bedrock will
yet give up approximately $200,000,
000, according to estimates made by
John A. Davis, superintendent of the
federal bureau of mines ’experimental
station, who has just completed an
extensive investigation,” declared
Leroy Tozier, well-known attorney of
interior Alaska, who arrived in Seat
tle recently, to a reporter for the Post
Intelligencer. The property has been
taken up and held for years by old
timers, he says.
“Mr. Davis will recommend that the
government build a central power sta
tion in interior Alaska to furnish
power to operate the mines, or if con
gress does not see fit to build the
plant itself, to lend such aid to pri
vate capital that it will be possible
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for outsiders to take this great step,”
Mr. Tozier pointed out. “It has been
estimated by Mr. Davis that the
power plant will cost $2,500,000, a
small investment when the returns
arp pnnsirlprpri
“In the Nenana coal fields are mil
lions of tons of coal available for op
erating the plant, and Mr. Davis will
recommend, I am informed, that the
proposed plant be constructed to use
coal instead of depending on water
power.
“At the present time wood for min
ing operations costs about $16 a cord
in the Fairbanks district, and when
it is considered that two cords of
wood are not as good as one ton of
coal, one can readily understand the
enormous cost of operation under pres
ent methods. If this power plant is
built it will mean that mining can
be carried on for about one-third what
it costs now, and will bring a greater
boom of prosperity to interior Alaska
than it knew in the first gold strike.”
Mr. Tozier also offers the opinion
that if Secretary of the Interior Frank
lin K. Lane accepts the report of Mr.
Davis and makes the recommendation
to congress it will go through without
much opposition.
“In fact,” he says, “we of Alaska
look for much from the incoming Re
publican congress. Although Secre
tary Lane has been much interested
in the territory, he has not had the
support from congress that he should
have had, as is shown by the cuts in
the railroad appropriations. The rail
road was a Republican proposition,
originated by President Taft, and I
am sure that the incominig congress
will do more for us than did the last.”
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OXFORD UNIVERSITY
REOPENED TO STUDENTS
OXFORD, Eng., Feb 10 (by mail).—
Oxford University is once again alive
after four years of war quietude.
Twelve hundred undergraduates are
in residence, many stiM in khaki,
some on crutches, others lacking a
limb. Rhodes scholars are expected l
to arrive in record numbers very soon.
Problems face the authorities, how
ever. Overcrowding is feared,
changes of education are demanded,
and already a large proportion of the
students want to take up chemistry
and science while a still larger portion
are studying history instead of clas
sics. The authorities are said to be
perturbed at the upheaval facing them.
Outwardly the colleges show little
change from pre-war days. The
trenches and other signs of war train
ing have disappeared and scouts, port
ers and the old permanent staff are
around ready to do the bidding pf the
students and dons.
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MANY PRIESTS
MURDERED BY
BOLSHEVISTS
LONDON, Feb. 10 (Correspondence
of the Associated Press).—Murders of
clergymen constitute the latest fea
ture of Bolshevik terror in Russia,
says . Professor Peter Sturve, a dis
tinguished Russian economist, who
has escaped from Russia and arrived
in England after hiding from the Bol
sheviki for months in Moscow, and
after a long journey on toot to reach
safety in Finland, He was compelled
to disguise himself to escape death at
the hands of the adherents of Lenine
and Trotzky. Professor Sturve was
representative from Petrograd in the
second Duma and a member of the as
sembly convoked by Alexander F.
Kerensky.
“Altogether ten bishops had been
shot and many priests murdered, and
the dean of Kazan Cathedral and his
two sons were drowned in the Neva
by the Red soldiers,” said Professor
Sturve. “Near Kotlas all the monks
in one monastery were shot to death.
Professor Kartasheff, minister of re
ligion in Kerensky’s government, who
has escaped into Finland, says that
persecution of the church in Petro
grad is only comparable with the per
secution of the early Christians.
‘.‘In Moscow all the shootings take
place at night, but in Petrograd the
victims of the Bolsheviki are shot in
the afternoon in the courtyard of the
headquarters of the executive com
mission and, in order to drown the
noise, it is usual to start up the en
gines of the motor cars which are
waiting in the vicinity.
“At the beginning of the Bolshevik
movement I publicly expressed the
opinion that not even a German would
hold converse with a Bolshevik. As
a Russian Constitutionalist it is com
pletely inexplicable to me how any
allied government can contemplate
discussion of any sort, in any circum
stances or at any place, with anyone
who calls himself a Bolshevik.
“Those who imagine that there can
be any pact between the forces of
civilization and Bolshevism have no
conception of the real state of affairs
in Russia. The most moderate form
of restoration of order and liberty in
Russia would make the existence of
Bolshevism Impossible. Bolshevism
is complete tyranny, which is abso
lutely incompatible with any form
of ordered liberty and constitutional
government. It is entirely false to
say that Bolshevism is a popular form
of government. If Trotzky would
walk a verst through Moscow he
would be killed. No czar lived in
greater terror of his subjects than the
chiefs of the Bolshevik government.
There was more law and justice under
serfdom than under the Bolsheviki.
“It is untrue that the armed forces
of the Bolsheviki can offer any serious
resistance to organized and well
armed pressure, and the failure of the
Bolsheviki in Esthonia, where they
yielded before small but compact
forces. Is much more characteristic of
their real nature than the successes
they gained in the north and the east
against driblets which were put in
action there.
"To represent the Bolsheviki as be
ing strong is not only false but very
dangerous, because it creates the very
impression that the Bolsheviki desire
to create. They aim at world revolu
tion, and to create a false impression
Of their power is to further their
aims. Civilization must not shirk
from the problem; it can be dealt with
easily if it is grasped firmly. The real
strength of the Bolsheviki lies in the
irresolution of the leaders of civiliza
tion.”
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ZAPATA GENERALS
WANT TO SURRENDER
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 25 (by mall).
Rafael del Castillo, one of Zapata’s
“generals,” has surrendered uncon
ditionally and, with his.followers, has
promised to return t(/ peaceful pur
suits, according to announcement by
the military authorities. Castillo,
when Zapata’s followers controlled
tho capital at various times during
1914-16, served as military commander
of the city. He was considered to be
one of Emiliano Zapata’s most able
lieutenants.
Genovevo de la O, long regarded as
Zapata’s right hand man, is said to
have opened negotiations for his own
surrender to the government troops
engaged in the pacification of the state
of Morelos. The whereabouts of Za
pata himself is a matter of mystery,
but with the surrender of de la O, the
last dangerous Zapata adherent will
have been accounted for.
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HEARD an^HN
ai CAPITAL!
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National Guard? Then It Must Be Reconstructed
WASHINGTON.—If congress determines to continue the National Guard as
the army of reserve of the nation, Secretary Baker states, the Guard
service will have to be reconstituted from the ground up. When the men
are discharged they will return to
civilian life without any obligation
either to the federal or state govern
ments to continue in National Guard
service. Should some system of uni
versal military training be worked out
it is probable that the National Guard
will cease to exist.
There are many National Guard
units organized since the war which
are not affected. The great mass of
the Guard, however, was merged into _ __
the temporary forces of the army of
the United States for the war, thereby losing its Identity. These regiments
must be reconstituted, recruited to necessary strength and again presented
to the federal government for recognition before they can take a place in the
federalized National Guard.
Mr. Baker said he believed that state authorities generally would not
attempt to reconstitute any of the old regiments of National Guard until
after the divisions into which they had been merged return from France. It
would seem desirable, he thought, that men to be discharged from those divi
sions be given a chance to re-enllst in the guard. This would enable, he said,
the reconstituted ^giments to be In fact as well as in name a continuation
of the old organizations, with every right to carry the names of the historic
battles in France—of Chateau Thierry, the second Marne, the Ourcq, the
Vesle, St. Mihiel, Argonne forest, Sedan, Cote Chatillon and other places the
divisions made famous—on their banners.
, .SIDE LIGHTS ®
Yank in Repose the Finest Piece of Camouflage
ASHINGTON.—The American fighting man is a puzzle to the French and
German peoples. He seems to them to be a dual personality. In repose
he is the finest example of the art of camouflage that the great war has pro
duced. In action he is exactly wliat
Sherman said war is.
The French grew sick at heart
waiting for the Yanks. And when
the Yanks came the French were dis
appointed. The Yanks were big and
husky. But they were very young
and they were all smiles and laughter.
They bought everything In sight and
never asked the price. The French
had hoped to see grim, world-wise,
veteran fighting men. Could these
frolicking boys fight? If they couldn’t—
~ When these same Yankee boys not only stopped the Hun in his tri
umphant advance on Paris, but also drove back bis .selected shock troops
and kept them on the ran. It Is no wonder.^Mit France went delirious with
ecstasy. They saw in Chateau Thierry the turn of the balance. They knew
Paris was saved. They knew the war was won.
The German officers believed—and told their men—that the Yankee*
would not come; would not be equipped; could not fight. Official expressions
from the firing line reveal the German emotions when the Yankees finallj
got into action: “We can kill them, but we can’t stop them.” “Every tlm«
we fire on them, they charge.” "Tell them to surrender and they say “Go tc
hell I” "They keep on coming at a machine gun till they get It; this weaken*
our morale.” "Too reckless: In too much of a hurry.” “Devil dogs.”
In short, the Hun Is echoing the Spaniard of 20 years ago: "They tried tt
take us with their bare hands.”
And now the German people In the occupied territories are finding ou1
that this same “Devil dog” Is the decentest fellow in the world.
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Universal Military Training Is Lesson
of the Great War for America
By L1EUT-GEN. S. B. M YOUNG
Universal military training in time of peaoe and equal national
service in time of war, for the United States, is the lesson of the world
war, now victoriously ending.
The forces are active for and against this policy; the issue is on;
it has become a live political question—not in a partisan sense, but in the
sense that any national policy is essentially a political question and must
be acted on by those in authority, supported by the people.
This is the most important and serious matter the war has placed
before us and it would be wise for all those who desire to forward the
will of the people to give to it a whole-hearted and aggressive support.
The National Association for Universal Military Training feels that
if this is not done the confidence of those whose suffrage they enjoy will
be forfeitedL
TRAPPERS ATTENTION TRADERS
SHIP TO
GEORGE R. GOSHAW, Inc.
DEALER IN
RAW FURS
Seattle— New York—
Alaska Building 127 W. 27th Street
We do business direct with you and solicit all Raw Purs. Your ship
ments are handled by expert graders and New York market prices are
paid on correct grading the day. received. It desired, your shipments will
be kept separate in order that our prices may be approved by you. Pro
viding that our valuation does not prove satisfactory, the furs will be
returned to you, transportation charges prepaid. Ship by insured parcel
post or express. Ship in a dry condition. Always inclose an itemised
list of contents, with name and address. Also attach duplicate list to
the outside of bundle. Special Instructions, if any, must accompany ship
ments. Payments are made by check on the Seattle National Bank, or
in any other manner desired. Ship now.
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I PROFESSIONAL \
DR. W. W. COUNCIL
PHYSICIAN and 8URGEON
Office and Residence, Cordova
General Hospital (Ostrander
Building).
Phones—Residence, 115; Office, 132
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
Calls May Be Left at Cordova
Drug Store
Residence, Alaskan Hotel
DR. W. D’ARCY CHACE :
Physician and Surgeon
WINDSOR HOTEL
Hours:
1 p. m. to 3 p. m. and 7 p. m. tc 8 p. m.
Dr. Chas. Daggett
Northern Hotel Building
Cordova
DENTISTRY
Hours 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. .
Special attention to i
Prophylaxis and Pyorrhea
PHONE 200
FRANK H. FOSTER
ATTO R N E Y-AT-L A W
ROOM 1 OSTRANDER BLDG.
F. F. MEDLEY
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR
AT LAW
Room 1, Adams Block
CORDOVA, ALASKA
DONALD C. FAIRMAN
Will accept a limited number of
pupils for piano instruction
STUDIO EMPRESS BLDG.
Phone 29-2
Mrs. T. N. Hubbert
Teacher of Voice and Piano
RESIDENCE
Street Leading to Dock
DIMON NICKOLOFF
Shoe Repairing
RED CABIN OCEAN DOCK
YOUR FURS MADE TO ORDER jg
Best work guaranteed. Low
est prices. Over 2,000 Alaska
customers. $•
R. W. Drew |
Tacoma’s Expert Furreir
11th’and B’dw’y, Tacoma, Wash. •:£
NEW NEEDLE ART SHOP
All kinds of Stamped Em
broidery Goods, Fancy Knitting
S Yarns. Sweaters and Socks
knit to order.
Lessons Given In
EMBROIDERY, KNITTING
AND CROCHET WORK
IDA DOWALDER
C St., Adams Bldg.
Auntie Keating’s
Wee
Shop
has outgrown its original
location, and has removed
into the
WILLIAMS BUILDING
First Street
with a complete line of
Men’s, Women’s and Chil
dren’s Goods.
Come in and look my
stock over.
TOKENS OF RESPECT
A well conducted funeral is a
token of respect to the deceased.
Our methods of conducting a
funeral have given us an oppor
tunity to serve you in a manner
that will command respect. We
are equipped to serve you satis
factorily.
K. E. HOLDEN PARLOR
Second Street, between
A and B Avenues
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Cordova !
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The City Beautiful !
Help to keep it so by using a J
Garbage Can. Plenty of them at !
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CORDOVA S
SHEET METAL WORKS
Phone 143 !
FOR SALE
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FOR 8ALE:
Choice business and resi
dence property.
FOR RENT
Furnished and unfurnished
apartments and cottages.
INSURANCE
Fire and marine, ill* and ac
cident.
BONDS
Fidelity and surety.
CORDOVA ABSTRACT and
REALTY COMPANY
ROOM 1, ADAMS BUiLDINO.
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FOR SALE
New Boat Hulls
Fish and Clam Power Boat
Hulls now ready at shop on Sec
ond street, next to jail building.
E. D. LACY
Alaska
Barber
Shop
Has been removed to Kenny
Holden's pool room, where -the
best of service will be given.
Two chairs, with Frank Cun
ningham and Ben Sherman,
formerly of Fairbanks, always
on the job.
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1HH HOTEL
L. WALN, Prop.
WHERE YOU GET
COMFORT AND SERVICE
And the Rates Are Right.
CORDOVA, ALA8KA
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