PURELY LOCAL
GOSSIP ABOUT
The ball team will meet at the park
tonight for practice.
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Mr. and Mrs. Ben Silverman of Val
dez are Cordova visitors.
Postoffice Inspector Alvah Eames
returned today from an official trip to
the westward.
Ed Ross, an old-time prospector
from Anchorage, was in town today
on his way to the States.
W. H. Caswell has been appointed
by Governor Riggs as a member of
the territorial pharmacy board.
Mrs. C. H. Wilcox, wife of the dep
uty clerk of the court at Valdez, is
the guest of Mrs. W. H. Caswell.
Major E. R. McFarland and daugh
ters, Edna and Amy, of Anchorage,
were held today on their way to the
States.
Mrs. George A. Harmon and Miss
Kate Elliff, who have been visiting at
Valdez for the past ten days, returned
home today.
Mrs. H. B. Selby of Valdez is spend
ing several days here as the guest of
Mrs. James L. Galen. She is the wife
of the editor and proprietor of the
Valdez Miner.
W. A. Browne, local agent for the
Pacific Steamship Company, who has
been transferred to Seattle, left on the
Watson this afternoon for the States,
accompanied by his wife.
William Martin, an attorney of Se
attle, who is a mining operator while
at Anchorage, where he owns valu
able quartz property, was here today
on his way to the States.
L. Erwin Jacobs of New Haven.
Conn., past supreme representative of
the Knights of Pythias, made a most
interesting talk to the members of
the local lodge at their ^meeting last
night.
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The steamship Admiral Watson ar
rived from the westward late this
afternoon, and the following passen
gers are booked for Seattle: W. A.
Browne and wife, Mrs. Calder, Mrs.
Lamphrey, John Uhlrickson, C. H.
Blossom, William Bluecher, Ed Mat
son, L. Erwin Jacobs, T. J. Wilson
and wife, T. W. Cooper and twenty
nine steerage.
C. P. Gilland of Latouche is spend
ing a few days in Cordova.
C. J. Dardis, traveling auditor of the
Admiral line, was a town visitor to
day.
The steamship Northwestern is due
from the south tomorrow afternoon at
4 o’clock.
Some of the employes of the local
canneries left on the Alameda today
l'or the States.
J. F. Appleby, who conducts a fox
ronch on Peake island, is spending a
couple of days in town.
The steamship Victoria will likely
stop in Cordova on Thhrsday on her
way south from Nome.
James Sheridan has been appointed
foreman of the railroad company’s ma
chine shop, to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of C. C. Keenan.
The Ladies’ Aid Society will not
meet Wednesday at the home of Mrs.
Hesse. Announcement will be made
later of the time of the meeting.
Colonel D. C. Jackling and party are
passengers aboard the Admiral Wat
son, returning to Juneau, where they
will board the former’s private yacht
for the States.
William H. James, superintendent
of the Kenai Packing Company, ar
rived in town this morning from the
westward and will spend a couple of
days here on business.
O. A. Landstrom, a passenger on the
steamship Alameda, attempted to take
his life by cutting his throat. His
condition is serious, and he is receiv
ing treatment at the Cordova general
hospital.
W. H. Lindig returned this morning
from a trip to Valdez, and brought
back with him some samples of the
ground containing platinum, which is
causing some little excitement in our
neighboring town.
George Wilson, who is one of the
pioneers of Alaska, dividing his time
between prospecting and the printing
trade, arrived from the westward to
day, and will remain here for a time,
having accepted a position in the me
chanical department of the Daily
Times.
The steamship Alameda sailed this
afternoon at 4 o’clock for Seattle, with
a capacity load of passengers, most of
whom were from the westward. Among
those booking passage from Cordova
were George Weaver and wife, Mrs.
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J. C. Snyder and two children, Mrs.
B. H. Cornelius, Mrs. G. Hilliard, Miss
June Wertz and Bessie Armstrong.
Attorney E. E. Ritchie of Valdez
came to Cordova this afternoon on a
business trip, and will return home or
the Northwestern.
The employes at the Kennecott cop
per mines have been given an increase
in wages of $1 per day. The Coppei
River & Northwestern railway has
changed to an eight-hour day, and
also followed the Kennecott increased
pay.
F. P. Davy, a Spokane mining man,
has taken an option on twelve gold
quartz claims at McKinley lake from
Charles Canavan, and he left today
for the States, but will immediatel>
return and do some prospecting on the
property this fall.
A. D. Longmore, who installed the
$18,000 Kimball organ in the new Em
press theater, has returned from a
trip to Anchorage, and will remain
here for a week or two. He is ac
companied by Mrs. Longmore and
their bright young son.
Charles Glaze, organist and man
ager of Captain A. E. Lathrop’s Em
press theater at Anchorage, arrived
in Cordova this morning and will
spend a month’s vacation here. Char
lie is a live wire, and his friends
from the wrestpard say he is the in
dividual who put the “p” in “pep.”
Tonight’s program at the Empress
theater, beginning at 8 o’clock sharp,
will be an all-comedy one, .with Bry
ant Washburn in the five-act comedy
drama, “Filling His Own Shoes,”
described as “some laugh,” and the
extraordinary freak comedians, Nar
poleon and Sally, two trained African
chimpanzees, in a scream monkey
comedy, which shows the clever train
ing of these two giant monkeys. A
Selig Weekly News also will be
shown. Tomorrow evening Olive Tell
will be seen in “Secret Strings,” a
play of intensity and intrigue. There
will be a special musical score for
the organ.
SEATTLE, Aug. 5 (by Associated
Press).—The first official copy of the
peace treaty in Japanese left here to
day on board the steamship Fushimi
Maru, in the care of a special courier,
Lieutenant Colonel H. Ninoniya.
Electricity for service, that’s why
we sell electric waffle irons, toasters,
grills, toast-stoves, immersion heaters,
curling irons, cozy-glow heaters,
and everything. Northwestern Hard
ware company.
Tub and shower baths at the Holden
pool room barber shop. 9-tf
REGRADE WORK I
TO BE DON
The contract for the regrade, of I
First street north of D avenue was
last night awarded by the city council
to the Alaska Transfer Company, its
bid being the lowest, $3.75 per yard.
Bogart Robinson were also awarded
the painting of the city hall for $260.
Attention was called to the poor
condition of the road to Oldtown, and
$150 was appropriated for necessary
repairs, to be made under the super- §
vision of the street committee.
Henry A. Slater and George K.
Betts addressed the council in refer- |
enee to the closing of the alleyway I
on their property on First street, be- I
tween B and C avenues. No action
was taken.
The fire committee was instructed
to have the telephone removed from
the city hall to the fire hall; and also
io have a telephone installed in the
fire station on C avenue. It was de- j
cide l to purchase the fire siren from !
the Alaska Public Utilities for $295, j
the latter to keep up the repairs and
blow the whistle free of charge. A
lengthy discussion followed as to the !
manner in which the lire department ]
is handled and paid, with a view to
increasing its efficiency, but the mat
ter was finally laid over until a later
meeting.
The health officer in his monthly
report called attention to much-needed
repairs to the private sewer in block
7, and the committee on health and
police was instructed to see that the
sewer was put in proper condition.
A communication was read from the
Cordova fire department stating that
it had elected a fire chief and assistant
chief, but the matter was referred
back to the department, as the selec
tions were not acceptable to the coun
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Home portraits of quality. Agency
' Cordova drug store. Scarborough, pho
tographer. • 14-tf
Your eyes fitted. Compound and
stigmatic lenses replaced. See Os
borne.
If you do not receive your copy of
the Times regularly, please notify the
circulation manager. _
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