The Cordova Daily Times
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H. G. 8TEEL, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
CORDOVA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1!>17. f
HELP YOURSELF '
Do you want the widows and orphans’ bill to become a
law? Do you want soldiers’ preference laws passed by the
general government and by the various states! There is one
way in which this may be accomplished, Mr. Veteran, and only
one. Show your strength.
Are you affiliated with the United States Spanish war
veterans? If not, why not? They are making the fight for
you and yours. Lend them your assistance. ,
If you are a member of the organization, are you active or
passive? Do you not personally know one or more eligibles
whom a little talk would bring into tin* fold? Every man
counts. Don’t let them be “slackers” while you are on the
“firing line” in their interest.
The American Standard has been in the forefront of every
endeavor that made for the betterment of conditions surround
ing those who have followed the flag. It is still leading the
fight for the widows and orphans, and expects to continue to
do so. Hut we could fight with more vim, with more vigor,
and to a more successful conclusion if only the veterans them
selves displayed a little more interest in things concerning
their own welfare.
A little more enthusiasm, a little more life, some sign of
an intimation that you really are in earnest about the things
you have asked for will go a long way toward obtaining
results.—Ex.
AND INDIGO BACKGROUND
“Tin* greatest right in the world is the right to be#wrong.
When you apply ugly epithets to men who venture to dis
agree with popular movements, you are digging away the
foundations upon which Democracy stands. Particularly in
times like these when the frenzy of war carries most of us off
our feet, a great need exists for enough opposition to get the
unpopular side before the country. Tolerance of minority opin
ion is the highest token of popular government.”
Thus writes Bert Moses in Newspaperdom, and he then
wades into Ambassador Gerard for denouncing, at a banquet,
the New York Evening Post, as the “German Evening Post.”
Gerard undoubtedly blundered. He had no business saying
what he said—it was the excited exaggeration of an infantile
guesswork, and yet a stroke at the freedom of the press. The
New York Post is deeply patriotic, as every reader of it
knows, but that doesn’t mean that it invariably follows the
president or supinely osculates the sod as congressmen pass.
In times of war, more than at any other time, grow strong
the attempts of the autocratic to diminish the sway of demo
cracy1. In congress just now is seen the effort to weaken the
press of the country by muzzling, by narrowing the zone of
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ISf.P.r juVTifir*wi imrjwmoc iIlHlgTJ fMCK
ground.—Tacoma News.
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HERE IS A PATRIOTIC LAND OWNER
Patriotism rises in many and some unusual ways in these
war days. Here is a Texas land owner who answers the call
for food production and at the same time levies a tithe plus
lo per cent of all crops produced for the government. A
Brownsville item says free rental of several hundred acres of
irrigated land in the lower Kin Grande valley, valued at more
than $200 an acre, has been offered to worthy farmers by John
II. Sharv oi Mission, in an effort to increase the production
of food.
Mr. Shary said that he would advance the water charges
to any fanner not able to pay. Of the crop grown, Mr. Sharv
stipulates that one-fourth must be turned over to the United
States government at the nearest railway station, the other
three-fourths to be retained by the farmers.—Tacoma News.
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JAPAN SETS THE PACE
The Japanese are making speed records in ship building.
A cargo boat ot tin* 9,000 ton type was recently launched at
the Kawasaki dockyard, Kobe. This is one of seven steamers
built on the dockyard’s own account. It has taken only three
months for the vessel to be made ready for launching, and she
is to be rigged out and delivered in three weeks, the whole
construction taking not more than four months. If we in Am
erica can do as well at just a few of our shipyards we may
hope to get in some good food licks in this war before the
summer is gone.
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FIRES AND THE HIGH COST OF LIVING
The National Board of Fire Underwriters is out wffg a
bulletin on fin* prevention, in which are some startling stale
meats. It calls attention to the fact that in New York state
alone 200,000 persons are employed in turning out an annual
product ol nearly $400,000,000 in wood manufactures. Strik
ing at the basis of this great industry, hundreds of human
lives, and millions ot dollars’ worth of property are destroyed
each year by forest fires, which might be prevented with
proper care.
Then it hits us all right where we live, declaring that, if
America were to reduce her fire losses to the fractional figures
of most other countries the cost of living undoubtedly would
be materially lowered. It must never be forgotten, adds the
report, that 21.4 per cent of this unusual bonfire is due to
strictly preventable causes, 37.9 per cent to those* which are
partly preventable, and that tin* remaining 40.7 per cent from
“unknown” causes is probably largely preventable.—Tecoma
News.
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It is one sate bet that those Congressmen who are shout
ing loudest for the adoption of the volunteer system failed to
volunteer themselves when the opportunity was presented in
1898. If they failed to volunteer then, will they tender their
services now, when the nation is calling loudly for red-blooded
men ?
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Cotton used to be king, but its imperial position has been
usurped by the spud—aye, even by the modest and virtuous
navy bean.
MRS. V. P. ABBOTT *e
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PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER
/indsor Hotel • • Cordova.
E. F. MEDLEY.
Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
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.darns Block CORDOVA, ALASKA
WM A. HESSE
Mining Engineer,
U. S. Mineral Surveyor,
U. S. Deputy Surveyor.
SOX 13. CORDOVA, ALASKA
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. W. COUNCIL
PHYSICAN AND SURGEON.
Office and Residence: Cordova
General Hospital (Ostrander Build
Ing).
Phones—Residence 115; office 132.
DR. C. L. HALE
DENTIST
Specialty of
Porcelain, Inlay, Bridge Work
Office: Over Blum, O'Neill’s Store.
DR. CHARLES DAGGETT
AND
DR. HOMER BLYTH
DENTAL OFFICES
Suite 1, Northern Hotel Block.
Phone 200. Cordova,
P. O. Box 186. Alaska.
Hours: 9 a. m. to 6 p. m.
Evenings by Appointment.
ROBERT SIMPSON
JUNEAU, ALASKA
HUBBELL & WALLER
Civil and Mining Engineers.
U. S. Mineral and Deputy Land Sur
veyors for Alaska.
1102 L. C. SMITH BLDG., SEATTLE
PATENT SURVEYS
A. C. BALDWIN,
U. S. Mineral Surveyor.
VALDEZ . ALASKA
SMITH & McCONAGHY
PLUMBERS AND STEAMFITTERS.
Cor. Front and B Streets.
Office Open Evenings.
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Restaurant
Private Boxes
For
Large or Small j
Parties
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The Place To Eat
Everything In Season
Service The BEST
Boxes For Large Or Tray Service
Small Parties Our Specialty
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Mining Supplies - - Sporting Goods
Stoves
Northwestern Hardware Co.
Boat Supplies
Agent^4<v Regal and Gray Gas Engines
NOW ON DISPLAY
; A Large Assortment of the Newest and Prettiest
Creations in
Waists
They are Chic and Stylish and What Every Woman De
mands in her spring outfit. Call and See them.
At ROLFI’S
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M. C. Thompson H. C. Murphy
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Thompson A Murphy, Props
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WINES, LIQUORS AND
CIGARS
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MEET ME AT
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POPULAR RECREATION PUCE
Where We Can Always Find Our ;
Friends.
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rln*st Billiard and Pool Tables In <
Alaska.
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BRANDS OF CIGARS.
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Call at the
POPULAR CORNER
First Avenue and C Street
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Sixty Steam Heated Rooms Eletric Lighted
Hot and Cold Water in Every Room
With or Without Bath.
Cordova House
H. C. ROSS, Proprietor.
Headquarters for Railroad and Mining Men
Satisfaction Guranteed
Rates Reasonable 1
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PACIFIC STEAMSHIP (°
ADMIRAL LINE
Sailings From Seattle—May 19,28, June 4 12 20 28.
SAILINGS FROM CORDOVA
Southbound Westbound
ADMIRAL EVANS j ADMIRAL FARRAGUT
MAY 23 may 25
CALIFORNIA ROUTE
Sailings From Seattle—Mondays, Fridays, Saturdays.
Steamers President, Governor, Admirals Schley and Dewev, Queen.
Through Tickets to All Parts of the United States and Canada.
Right Reserved to Chance Schedule of Steamers Without Notice.
FOR FULL PARTICULARS APPLY
W. A. NOURSE, Agent. Empress Building.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketch
ikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez, Seward.
April 28 . MARIPOSA . May 8
May 4.. NORTHWESTERN .May 14
Sail from Cordova seven days later.
■ The freighters Cordova, Latouche, Juneau, Valdez
and Eureka also make regular trips.
This company reserves the right to change schedule of steamers
without notice.
Tickets on sale at up town office Alaska Steamship Bidg. Baggage
or freight will not be received at the dock later than one hour before
sailing time.
F. B. TRACY, S. R. HEDGES,
General Agent Agent
FOR GENERAL TEAMING, BAGGAGE
TRANSFERRED, AUTO SERVICE,
COAL AND WOOD.
ALASKA TRANSFER
COMPANY
UNEXCELLED WAREHOUSE FACILITIES
For Storing and Insuring Baggage,
Mdse and Household Goods.
Office—EMPRESS BUILDING, CORDOVA—Phone 85
| WHY NOT OWN YOUR OWN HOME? |
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j:j: Many families are Paying out from $200 to $500 in i|
rent each year. Why not put that into a home of your jjl
i| own? I
ijjj Call on Geo. C. Hazelet, Trustee of the Townsite, and ?|
;§ see if it pan’t be arranged.
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NORTHERN MEAT MARKET J
|| WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
1 Fresh Beef, Pork, Yeal, Mutton 1
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| and Provisions
: Particular Attention and Prompt Service Given to orders from
MINING CAMPS, ROADHOUSES AND
INTERIOR POINTS
| SMITH & GLASBKRNNER, Props. I
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Manhattan Hotel
R. W. FERRELL, Prop.
Electric Lighted. Hot Water. Turkish and Tub
Baths.
OPPOSITE CORDOVA GRILL, CORDOVA, ALASKA.
PHONE 99
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Whan Ordering Job Work Don't
Think It le Your Duty to Build Up
Concerns In the States, But Give
The People Who Are Paying
Wages and Spending Their Money
In Cordova a Chance to Live.
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