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AN OFFER FOR SIXTY DAYS ONLY.
575 Town Lots in Cordova.
Hanging in price from $50 up to $.,!(HM), and 600
Town lots in Chitinn from $50 to $1000. Any
or all of them on easy terms.
Now is the time to Imy.
For particulars—Call on or write to
GEO. C. IIAZELET,
Cordova, Alaska. Trustee and Agent.
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CHITINA
OVERLAND
HOTEL
CHITINA, ALASKA
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CAFE and BILLIARD ROOM
A Large Parlor and
Heading Kooni
H. T. STAFSHOLT
PROPRIETOR
THE HOTEL
CHITINA
ENLARGED AND COMPLETELY RENOVATED
SPACIOUS LOBBY —- STEAM HEATED
CAFE AND BAR
The Comfort Home of the Interior
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proprietor Chitina, Alsaka
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FIRST BANK OF CORDOVA
CAPITAL STOCK $25,000
4% on Time Deposits
Our Stockholders Are
S. BLUM GEORGE C. HAZELET
M. BROCK FRED GLASBRENNER
A. E. LATHOP DELIA LYONS
I" JAFET LINDEBERG
DESPOSITORY FOR TERRITORIAL FUNDS.
1 GERMAN CHILDREN
STUDY WAR HISTORY
BERLIN, .Inn. 18-—(Correspondence
of the Associated Press) Ttie Oermnn
educational authorities nre taking care
to tench children the history o( the
war as fast ns history Ib made. The
Prussian Ministry of Education has
just sent a circular letter of instruct
ions to the school inspectors itointlng
out that the hour devoted to teaching
history must he devoted principally
to giving pupils a clear idea of the
course and development of "the Great
War.”
“There must be nwnkened in the
children," says the circular, “an un
derstanding of the serious and thril
ling time in which they are living.
While everything must be kept out of
the schools that might implant Into
the hearts of the children overween
Ing self-conceit or contempt, nnd
tmtred for other peoples, still they
should be filled with a Joyous and
conscious pride that they nre mem
bers of a great people who are
making heroic sacrifices In a just
struggle ngainst overwhelming odds.”
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WHALE MISTAKEN
FOR SUBMARINE
ROTTERDAM, Feb. 6—A dead
whale which drifted ashore a few
days ago on the northern part of the
Dutch coast was found to have been
kille^ by three-inch naval shells.
Presumably it has been mistaken
for a submarine by some of the patrol
ling warships.
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SENTENCED TO JAIL
CALLING ALLIE GERMAN
LONDON, Jan. 19—(Correspondence
of the Associated Press)—A London
police court has decided that in Eng
land to call a man a German if he is
not, is to abuse bim nnd render one
'self liable to prosecution. In the case
before the magistrate, the prisoner
had said of two men whom he met,
"They are a couple of Germans.” He
was found guilty of "committing an
act whereby a breach of the peace
might have been cause," and was sen
tenced to pay a fine of ten shillings or
spend seven days in prison.
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DEBTS OF HONOR TO
STAND UNTIL END WAR
POIJLOGNE, France, Jan. 19—(Cor
respondence of the Associated Press)
—Debts of honor can stand over till
the end of the war. Such is the pre
cedent established, says a letter from
Praia, by the seconds of two gentle
men who had come to blows in the
course of argument. The principals
were informed by their seconds that
every French sword should for the
present be at the service of the nation,
and that shedding of blood in a duel
would be inexcusable as long as war
lasted.
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CORPORAL FINDS TWO
DIAMONDS IN AFRICA
LONDON, Jan. 16—Correspondence
fif the Associated Press—How an
Irish Corporal picked up two diamonds
(from the drifting sands of his sentry
post in German Southwest Africa, is
told in a letter which has just reach
ted his family here.
“My present post is in a desert of
sand unes,” he writes. “A mirage
shimmers continually on the horizon.
The sand, blown by the wind, fills the
eyes and throat and bites into the
skin.
“It is our duty to keep the railroad
open. That means very little solder
ing, but a great deal of shoveling; all
day long the native shovelers push
teside the drifting sand, which would
soon hide the rails if left to its own
devices.
“Today, while I stood idly watching
a group of complaining shovelers, my
■eye caught nil unusul flash, and I
stooped and picked up a diamond, the
the size of a bean, I searched a little
longer and found another, a bit smal
ler. There were no more.”
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PRESENT PETITION AGAINST
RESTAURANTS IN SALOONS
At the last Seward council meeting
a petition was presented by the local
resturanteurs protesting againBt sa
loons conducting lunch counters. The
tpiatter was turned over to the city
attorney who will look up the law gov
erning such matters^ if there is any.
When the secretary of the interior
naked for only two million dollars for
Construction work on the Alaska rail
road he practically fixed on Seward as
the terminal. That looks like saying
too much but if we analyze the matter
we can see where there Is really a
solid foundation for the statement.
•Two million dollars would not be
enough to build any sort of a line any
where from Portage Bay. That means
that Portage Bay Is, so to say, dead
officially. Two millions are not
•enough to purchase the Copper River
fra 11 road and that means that the bogey
(about building to the coal fields from
Cordova Is laid to rest for ever. The
chief aim of the government, as we
•all know. Is to build to the Matanus
vka coal fields as quickly ns possible
and Secretary !,nne has already told
us that actual work on the construc
tion of the railroad will begin this
spring. What can we deduce from all
•those facts?
There Is only one deduction, and
that is that the government will begin ,
Immediately to build to the coni mines.
The building may begin at Ship creek,
or that place may be the headquarters
for the work but the Alaska Northern
railroad will be the chief gateway.
It is quite possible that the govern
ment may have made some arrange
ment with the owners of this road. It
Jias been stated that only a quarter of
li million dollars are required to place
this road In working order. However
•that may be, the fact that only two
•million dollars have been asked for
shows that Portage Bay and the Cop
per River Railroad are out of the run
ning as competitors with this district.
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—Seward Gateway.
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TELEPHONE GREAT AIO
TO SURGERY AT FRONT
LONDON, Jan. 19—(Correspondence
of the Associated Cress)—The use
of the telephone as an aid to sur
gery by communicating to the oper
forceps or probe with foreign bodies
forceps or probe with foreigb bodies
imbedded in the flesh, has been dis
covered and perfected by Sir James
Mackenzie Davidson, who says his
method will do much to simplify mil
itary surgery.
The X-ray. says Sir James, has se
rious limitations. It shows the pres
ence of the foreign body, but gives
no idea of the depth this body has
penetrated or of its relation to the
parts among which it is lodged. Sur
geons often fail to find the object seen
in silhouette on the flourescent
screen.
It is not necessary to have a man
full of shrapnel brought from the
trenches to demonstrate the nse of
the telephone in surgery, as a potato
and a nail will do quite as well. The
surgeons uses a double pair of rece
vers, such as worn by wireless opera
tors. One of the telephone wires is
attached to a piece of platinum foil.
In real operation, this foil is held in
place on the patient’s skin by plaster
or bandage. In the experiments, the
potato is dipped into salt water and
placed on the foil. To the end of the
other telephone wire is attached a
small, sterilized silver wire, which in
turn is made fast to the knife, probe,
neddle or forceps used in sounding
the wound or incision.
When the surgeons instrument
touches metal, whether in flesh or in
a potato, a distinct and unmistakable
({rating noise results. This means
the foreign body is discovered.
There exists a popular fallacy that
it is necessary to remove not only
bullets hut every scrap of metal from
the wound. Hut experience has shown
that the human body does not mind a
little metal, and the removal of bul
lets iB often too dangerous to attempt.
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you are supporting a Cordova enter
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Kjntiey has a corner ou Coffee.
What we mean is COFFEE, not the
wlshy-wishy kind you bay* been
buying and nicknamed coffee. On*
can of Dwight Edwards will convince
WOVAN APPLICANT TOR
POSITION CLERK COURT
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A petition la being widely circulated
In Fairbanks by lady friends of Miss
C. C. Held, asking Judge Bunnell to
appoint her as clerk of the district
court for that division. She is at
the present time clerical assistant In
the office of Clerk McBride, also hav
ing served as deputy during the sum
mer of 1914. Miss Held has had a
long experience in court work In the
North, having served three years In
the United States Attorney's office at
Juneau, two years In the United
States commissioner's office In Fair
banks and four and one-half years In
her present position. Now that wo
man suffrage has come to Alaska, her
candidacy Is looked upon as a strong
one and that she is eminently qual
ified Is not doubted. Should she
succeed In securing the appointment
she will have the honor of becoming
the first woman clerk of the court
to have ever served In Alaska.
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HARES OF BLEGIUM
SPORTS FOR OFFICERS
LONDON, Ian. 19—(Correspondence
of the Associated Press)—The offi
cers of the 4th Dragoon Guards at the
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front have been diverting themselves
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by dinning the hares of Belgium. The
past week, Lieut. Charles Homer
Williams of this regiment made a
special trip to his home in Northam- \
tonshlre for some hunting doges, and
received the loan of a pack from a
sympatheic country gentlemen, Lieut.
Williams, who was the master of the "
Eton beagles when a student at Eton, J
now has the dogs with him at the I
front. I
GERMAN SOLDIERS
FOND OF CHOCOLATE
LONDON. Jan. 19—(Correspondence
of he Associated Press)—“We call the
Germans the Chocolate Soldiers,"
writes a soldier from the front, “be
cause they appear to be always eat
ing chocolate. When they attack or
are attacked, when they are wounded
or sick; by night and day, it's all the
same. We have found some of their
dead with cakes of chocolate between
their fingers.
"During one of our Christmas arm
istices, one of the (Herman soldiers
told me that the chocolate ration had
been recommended by scientists as a
convenient pnd exceedingly nutritious
food, and had sustained them very
well In some of their long marches
where other foods were not available."
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DRY ALASKA TOWN
PEDDLES' ‘NEAR BEER'1
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Three persons have been arrested
at Sitka as the result of the “near- '
beer” that has been peddled to the '
Indians and others in that section ^
since the town went dry. J
The arrests were made at the in
stance of a special United States offl \
cer. and the evidence will be placed <
before the grand jury.
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SEWARD COUNCILMEN ;
ENGAGE FIST FIGHT,:
A member of the city council was ‘
lined fifty dollars this afternoon by |
the United States commissioner for :
an assualt on another member of the :
city council says the Seward Gate?.ay. J
The defendant appealed the case. :
The names are not mentioned because .
both of the principals in the case are
good, honest citizens who should nev
er stoop to vulgar physical quarrels.
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SHELLS FURNISH
TROOPS FISH DINNER
BERLIN, Fob. 3 An unexpected
fish dinner was enjoyed by some of
the German troops around one of the
Masurian lakes in East Prussia re
cently. The Russian batteries were
shelling the German position. Many
of their shells dropped into the lake,
where they exploded and stunned or
killed great numbers of perch and
pike. They rose to the surface and
were collected by the natives in boats.
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Big Show and Dance Keb. Gth.
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Some cooking at the Windsor grill
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Eresn shipments of corn on the cob
at Kinney's.
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