The Cordova Daily Times
GREATER CORDOVA'8 QREATE8T NEWSPAPER
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C. H. WILCOX, City Editor.
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CORDOVA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FKBRUARY 9, 1915.
The slang makers have a new name for the movies_
“jitney operas.”
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Some people have water on the brain and others politics,
and then again some have both.
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Mexican President Flees” says a caption in an outside
paper. Move to amend as follows: “Mexican presidents
fleas.” ’
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The Turks on one side anr the Cossacks on the other art1
managing to make fire insurance hard to get in the eastern
theatre of war.
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That prescription of rhubarb and sasafras tea still holds
good for those suffering from hydro-politics, if the disease has
not already become chronic.
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Dr. Charles Elliott says that it is a “grave misfortune” for
a man to have $100,000,000. Let’s hear his characterization
of a man who has only 30 cents.
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“Mother” Jones and young Rockefeller each is learning
that the other is a human being. The “personal touch”
makes the whole world kin.
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The grownig deficit in government finances is said to he
alarming the officials in Washington, but congress seemingly
has not heard of the calamity.
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Chicago women must toll their ages when they register,
but it might be worse. Consider the calamitous contingen
cies of being compelled to tell the size of their shoes.
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One of the inscrutable curiosities of the human character
is that it will assume the role ofa dictator in all things local
that the “big four” favors, and yet hollers like a maniac against
“boss” rule. This is consistency, with a vengeance.
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The parasites and undesirables are now “unfortunates,”
according to city official organ, but in the same breath says
“here they are kept under strict surveilance” and a little fur
ther on in its apologetic editorial adds “and they are gradually
induced to move on.”
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A Seattle minister said in his sermon recently that “when a
woman begins to nag it is worse than the hiss of hell.” Those
of us who haven’s experienced either merely recognize the
remark as a well turned sentence. But it is a fact that in all
languages a woman’s tongue and the raging fires of Topliet
always have been regarded as diabolical companion pieces
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Congressman Hobson is winding up his carrer with a cat
aract of sensations. He accuses the administration with hav
ing promised' Japan that this country will soon withdraw from
the Philippines, and of being afraid to send the Atlantic fleet
into Pacific waters. The conclusion of Mr. Hobson’s congres
sional service in March will be mourned by the “armament
ring.”
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Of course the police committee of the city knows that Cor
dova is the mecca for a number of vicious charcters and after
having its attention called to it the work of cleaning tin* town
has apparently begun. Now if the “move on” sign has been
displayed in good faith we will not follow the lead of our near
great contemporary and make the silly charge of just playing
“peanut politics.”
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An economist, writing of the food situation, says it is go
fing to be but a short time until steaks will be 50 cents a pound,
unless cattle producing is undertaken on a much larger scale.
He says there are fortunes in stock raising and that Americans
never faced such opportunities. If war and other causes of
the present stress drive people back to the land, all will be
better off by it. The rapid increase in city population has
had much to do with evil economic conditions. The lure of
me white lights is cosung uie nation ueariy uuui in oasn aim
ill citizenship.
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The mind of old General Miles runs at times in queer
channels. He thinks that after the great war in Europe the
people, as of old, will resort to polygamy to restore the losses
in men.
In her decline the women of Greece reared children from
their slaves. But if men can be of no better use than the
present generation is being used for in Europe, why should
more men be desiredf Unless a halt is soon called in Europe
there will be great danger of such demoralization there that
there will be no marriages or giving in marriage in the dis
tressed land, for there is a limit to the endurance of civilization
itself, when all its ordinances are being outraged.
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According to our contemporary we committed a grievous
error in reprinting from a Fairbanks newspaper a criticism
of the Seward-Iditarod mail route. Well if we did
the example was set by this same “holier than thou” sheet,
for in its issue of January 25, on the fourth page, under a
“scare” head, is over a half column article on the poor mail
service of the Iditarod and Takotna districts. This fact was
evidently overlooked when the “near-great” paper of Cordova
made its brag that “if nothing favorable can be said of a project
or enterprise, pains are taken not to knock it.” Lapse of mem
ory evidently, on the part of our neighbor, who always seems
ready to administer one of its “deserved rebukes” to a legiti
mate newspaper, while it is simply the organ of his own little
coterie of followers.
Negotiations between the federal authorities and railway
representatives indicate that the government is likely to ac
quire existing railroads, with the termini both at Cordova and
Seward, in addition to building other short lines that may tap
the coast, including the Ship creek to the Mntnnuskn coal
fields by the way of Cook inlet. The report of the Alaska
Enginerring Commission is due about the first of February,
and selection of routes by the president and the secre
tary of the interior will follow soon after. Authoritative an
nouncements will be followed by grand rushes on the part of
the enthusiastic pioneers who sense a great business awaken
ing once the termini are selected.
The stumbling block to early disposition of the railroad
route questions is tin* negotiation with the Alaska Northern
railway bondholders, who have indicated a disposition to drive
a shrewd bargain.
Ample terminal facilities on the Central Alaska coast and
plenty of them will meet Seattle’s views and tend' to strengthen
the commerce and rapid building up of the regions tapped.
There is ample tonnage in sight in the great mineral belt back of
the coast, and the more terminals there are the greater will be
the development. It is safe to say that tonnage could be sup
plied to half a dozen terminal points to keep railroad's and
steamships busy indefinitely in the future.-Seattle Post In
telligencer
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DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
Calls may be left at Cordova
Drug Store. Residence,
Rainier-Grand Hotel
DR. C. L. HALE
D E N T I 8 T
Office In Adams Building
ROBERT E. CAPERS
Attorney at Law
General Civil Practice
Suite 3, Adams Block
CORDOVA, .... ALASKA
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Councellor at I aw
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Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA.
J. F. R. APPLEBY
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Phone 4. CORDOVA, ALASKA
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Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketch
ikan, Wrangell, Jurteau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez and Seward via
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Sails frcm Seattle— Sails from Cordova—
February 1.... ALAMEDA .. February 8
February 8 . MARIPOSA. February 15
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez and Latouche. Exploe
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Tickets on sale at up town office Alaska Steamship Bldg. Baggage
or freight will not be received at the dock later than one hour before
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ALASKA PACIFIC S. S. CO. ALASKA COAST CO.
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ADMIRAL WATSON, February 5, Through to Kodiak.
ADMIRAL EVANS, February 15
Via the INSIDE PASSAGE for Ketchikan, Juneau, Yakutat,
Katalla, Cordova, Valdez. Seward, Cook Inlet points and Kodiak
Island.
Seattle-San Francisco connecting with steamers Yale and Har
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