© ALAS KA
\ 4 STEAMSHIP CO.
This company reserves the right to change schedule of steamers
without notice.
Steamers Alaska, Alameda and Northwestern
for Speed and Comfort.
Tlu* freighters Cordova, Latoucho, Juneau, Valdez
and Ketchikan also make regular trips.
Tickets on sale at uptown office, Alaska Steamship Bldg. Bag
gage or freight will not be received at the dock later than one hour
before sailing time.
J. H. Bunch, G.F.& P.A. S. R. Hedges, Agt.
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Pacific Steamship Co.
Safety Courtesy Service
Two Sailings per Month via Inside Passage
Through Tickets to All ('alilornia and Kastern Points
For information as to rates and sailing dates see agent
J, H. KLINE, Agent
Phone Residence 2'J'J Knipress Building
ARE YOU GOING OUT THIS FALL.'
Visit San Francisco and Stop with
Mark C. Thompson
at his new hotel in the heart of the eit \ hot ween
I’owell and .Mason Streets.
The Dale-Tallac Hotel
140 ELLIS STREET
Special Rates and Headquarters for Alaskans.
ALASKA TRANSFER
COMPANY
Transfer Storage Coal & Wood
AUTO SERVICE-DAY or NIGHT
Office- Northern Hotel Building. Phone 86.
THE NORTHERN CLUB
FRED HAEF, PROP. PHONE <4"7
POOL, CARDS. TOBACCO
SOFTjDRINKS OF ALL KINDS
THE POPULAR CORNER!
CORDOVA ALASKA
| NORTHERN MEAT MARKET
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
I FRESH BEEF, PORK, VEAL, MUTTON AND PRO
| VISIONS
Particular Attention and Prompt Service Given to Order* from
g; Mining Camps, Roadhouses and Interior Points
Halibut and Other Fresh Fish of All Kinds Will Be Kept
gj in Stock When Available
SMITH & GLASSBRENNER, Props.
PRISON LABOR
IS ADVOCATED
FOR THE WAR
PITTSIlPlUiH. Sept. 27. Prison la
bor as a factor in winning tin* war
I is being urged by Warden John Fran
i ( is of the Western Penitentiary, who
is recognized as an authority on the
management of penal institutions, and
reclaiming recreant manhood. Mr.
Francis has taken up the subject
with the Chamber of Commerce of
Pittsburgh, which bod> has called up
on ((ingress to enact legislation that
will permit r.o.oon inmates of prisons
in tlie country to engage in war work.
According to the views of Mr. Fran
cis the criminal is a patriot according
to his lights II. will be glad to help
to win the war if allowed to do so
State laws passed to tit peace condi
tions prevent this He holds that if
should If possible to suspend tlies*■
laws for war purposes during the con
tinuain** of the war by act of con
gr* That it lias not been don* Mr.
Franci.' thinks is due to an oversight
rattier than to tin* determination of
anybody to refuse to make use of
the resoiin • - of flic prisoners' labor
Mr Francis expressed a firm belief
in tin- patriotism of labor and do*
not think it will oppose the u: •• of
prison labor in making supplie un
d« r present conditions
I am in po ion of data which
show that live per » • nt of tin* prison
labor of fin- <uiinfr\. engaged on th
manufacture of socks will turn out
1.nun.iiimi don/.ciis of pairs in a v.-ar
time." Mr Francis r**cit**- \\
should have bad twice that man
'' >. I. I '.Ml \ in •' • II • I III our s(i|' I |ej
in l-’ianr. in k*•»*|» them from fr«*« /in
| during tin- ruining winter We .mi!
ha\e had thmn i! this proposition -
mu |*i i oin i had n allow •• I r
• work on t h' iM
What i- true of neks is tru* <
other oipplie There are building
and 111a> hinery availahh to turn or
minimi •*• .piant it i- • of supplies an '
iIn- • an not being 11 -.•.l Tin-re at
. ... |»ei suns rott ing in id 1«*n«• • i
pn ■ m • e|| m thi country he. m
' !ie\ h i . e n i employno-nt Tin. ai
__ ilegei,, rat ing morally, mentally all
ph> -n all v . w bile their count ry an
fin people of lhirope need the .or
they would he glad to give. Som^
thing should he done to change this
:*:* » ondltion of tilings."
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Lorraine and
Alsace Workers
Compelled Save
N'KW VnitK. Sept 117 Workers of
S, Alsace ami Lorraine under eighteen
year of age may receive only L'l
marks a week of their earnings
Mveryfhing fiver tin* prescribed sum
• must lie deposited in a savings bank
A {and cannot I• drawn during the war
1 except with the consent of the mayor
of the municipalities in which tin y
live
rinse restrictions are only part of
a system of eompulsorv saving de
vised for the young of Alsace and
Lorraine and made mandatory by a
decree issued by the commander in
, chief of the army group of Duke
1 Albrecht of Wuerttemburg. according
to tile ( ’ologne Ua/ette
Tropical Fish in
Hawaiian Waters
Photographed
•*. | HONOm.r, S«*pt. L'7 Professor
j \V. IP Longley of (loitray College, Pal
timore. has just completed a set of
thirty-two underwater photographs of
the hrilliantly colored tropical fish
which inhabit tin* waters of Hawaii
>:*• I ;!lie11 with a specially designed •am
era. Professor Longley hopes to de
' clop tin plates to reproduce the nat
v* oral colors lie believes they are the
first photographs of flu* kind taken.
Tin* plates have been packed in air
;j:j tight cases for shipment to Baltimore,
w here they will he developed.
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Your eyes fitted Compound and
stigmatic lenses replaced See ()s
borne.
British Refused
to Bomb Cologne
Without Range
LONDON. S( |»t ‘JT "('lends save
Cologne from attack." read: tin* le a-1
line of a newspaper article detailing a
recent air raid carried out by British
air forces.
"What really saved Cologne.' i>
a semi-official statement of lie Koval
air force., "was the British refusal
to imitate Germany's outrageous po]
icy of indiscriminate bombing. The
British s.juadron. finding n imposed
ble to observe and range upon their
objectives of military important*, re
trained from tie- casual bomb drop
ping which might have bit ho pital
. . . 1.0,1....,
DESCRIBES HOW
DESTROYER IS
SUNK BY PLANE
a iturns11 naval \iu Knun:
i;as!•; in i:n<;i.ani). s. pt Tin
(lest met inn n! .t (Icrillan d< trover h>
a Hrittsh --a plane r craphi .!!*. de
.(Tilled hy Captain Haul Itov her w lin
nliM-rv■•■d tin itm-ual nn i r mm ■ : i«*: i
tin- cockpit of a t.i t lint; h l.omhnir
plane
He was ll\ uiK off fhe lie!, an co.i -<
v, In n In- a two I'.rit h m.o him in
front ot him
"Suddenly. In- vv rit» "t lie t1 -mt
machine t m tod t.. th- rialit and l><
Kan to 11 y I o w a rd tin- < < -a t It < -
ell pa n t • had - <1* tit !*. -■ u <m iet hin.
i t import, *m ■ Lo.ii. m: | . ].i .• | aw
a few mile • t roll, t in- Z-- !•** I.a- Uio].
1 \ little -ll;: p- ah:* 1» eth- d -fa
t n.n ir> on flu c ■. • i
"They *. • |e ( U: : 11 de O foVe: -
w ha h • . re in j, alitv ?. •: in. a! t »p
speed toward Hi. .-at Crain.1!,
t In- - plan- -i: fiea t . r uni
a ml sion w ere Pit tew in i 1 * • - f r-n i
tin* land
" N >■ i r the : r-n t u: a« hit: • - ; p- : • U
a small Mark hall ot smoke. Another
appeared, and a not her. and I * ould
hear tin- ha t p er.u 1. of mi rs tint:
shells
"Now. however, they wen almost
ov er t In- dest mv cr . w hi. h en l».
; nnitiK to /it:/..:!' ■ a . the dancer of
the romiiiK attack was reali/ed.
"1 saw six hlack cylinders drop
from the front nia< him* Near the tie
stroyers appeared the white smoke
util spiay ..f lioiiilu. Another followed,
and another Then on one ••! the de
trovers a . "cat red tla h iippeared
and tin* center ot the boat vv a left
clouded in moke It a 11 a kcr had
scored om* direct hit
"I shoillcd excitedly to tile pilot a -
one of tin* «!*• -trover* dropped out of
the line and made >w it'tlv for it nmr
tally w minded . otisort
‘Tile airplane - ret urn* d to report
\ patrol roll ru iw; a few hours later
St;.ft d that they had seen live Her
man de-trovers returniitK toward t »s
tend Hv then th.ixth. torn and
shattered lay with manv another
t vvi ted and ru -t' d < ompai.am, under
tin* sea
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Held to Post
with Ambulance
All Shattered
11 Will': Frame, Sep! 27. Ambu
lance weti is no! Hi" safest job irn
agiuahle ilurinc a battle, nccnr ling
I In the re pi irt in' lieutenant F \ Fish,
commanding \merican Ked t’russ ,ec
| lint! "SS ini." til the Ked Cross direc
} tor of transporfa!ion
During the lighting of duly 21-27
I the section, consisting of twenty am
; liulances. worked day and night in
| a gas ridden and shell swept area. Al
| though it handled 1.2'di wounded dur
| jng the seven days of lighting, the
} section found time to assist a liritish
ambulance in evacuating gas cases.
The report mentions I,. I, W tnhiim,
who. after his car had been wrecked,
took that of another driver who had
collapsed, and worked both posts. It
tells of ambulances being so shot up
that the sides resembled sieves. In
once case the driver found himself
holding only the wheel of his steering
apparatus a shell had scatter'd the
other parts to the winds.
(Paid Advertisement)
CHAS. A. SULZER
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR
DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
DEMOCRATIC TICKET
FOR DELEGATE
CHARLES A. SULZER
lor Senator
THOMAS C. PRICE
l or Representatives
JOHN NOON JAS. H. PATTERSON
ELBERT E. RAY ROBERT D. SMALL
I* or Road C ommissioner
JAMES E. WILSON
Tiie above are the regular nominees of the Democratic
party. They are men who are heartily in accord with President
Wilson in the conduct of the war and his policies, and with
Governor Riggs in his program for Alaska's development.
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Sixty Steam Heated Rooms Eletric Lighted ]
e1
Hot and Cold Water in Every Room
With or W'ithout Bath
.
Cordova House
DOOLEY AND GREENIG j
Headquarters for Raiiroud and Mining Men
I
. Satisfaction Guranteed
Rales Reasonable
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Manhattan Hotel
R W FERRELL, Prop.
Klectric Lighted Hot Water Turkish and Tub
Baths
OPPOSITE CORDOVA GRILL. CORDOVA. ALASKA
PHONE 99
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