The Cordova Daily Times
GREATER CORDOVA'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER
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H. G. STEEL, C. H. WILCOX, C. H. SCHEFPlKft, PuMlahers
H. G. STEEL, Editor and Manager
C. H. WILCOX, City Editor.
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CORDOVA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1915.
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WHAT A GOVERNMENT RAILROAD
. MEANS TO RESIDENTS OF ALASKA
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THERE are many people who still seem to think the build
ing of the Alaska government railroad means no more
than the building of some of the other roads in the terri
tory in the past. It is hard to get them to realize that this is
a new land which one of the greatest nations on earth has de
cided to open to humanity. The mere building of the railroad
itself is only, so to speak, the cutting of a trail to what is beyond
and around. The very opening of the coal mines means the
future employment of thousands of men but that in itself alone
is as nothing to tin* crowds that will be attracted. Human be
ings are like pigeons and many other sorts of birds—they travel
in flocks. They attract each other. Take an undeveloped' land
and it is harder to get the first thousand people into it than it
is to get a hundred thousand people afterwards. The opening
of the mines and the building of tin* railroad will reveal possi
bilities which we cannot now perceive without comparing Al
aska’s story with the history of every territory under the sun.
There is no place in the world today whose population is not in
creasing no matter how ancient that place might be and how
much overpopulated. Here is a virgin territory where men can
have hundred's of acres when they couldn’t get one outside —
where there are minerals and coal resources, and fish and game,
nnd where any man can support himself without the crowd and
can gain affluence with it. Today Alaska has a better outlook
than the state of Washington had about a generation ago.—Se
ward Gateway.
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The platiform of the Citizens’ ticket makes interesting
reading and should be carefully digested by the voters. It
promises much, but so did this same crowd last Spring, and
how little of the former platform has been carried out all known.
Empty pledges of this kind fool but few.
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THE CRITICAL COLONEL HAS
A LITTLE ADVICE TO IMPART
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The unwonted and surprising silence of Col. Roosevelt
may be accounted for partially at least by the fact that
he is in the hire of a magazine which pays him for what
he has to say, and which may, for aught we know, retpiire of
him that he shall say through its columns all that he desires
to say. The Colonel is not overpleased with the progress of
affairs under the direction of Pdesident Wilson, regarding
whom he makes the following comment in the March Metropol
itan.
The course of the administration in regard to Mexico has branded our
eountry with the brand of febleness, timidity and vacillation. A weakling
who fears to stand up manfully for the right may work as much mischief
as any strong-armed wrongdoer. For two years President Wilson has de
creed that Mexican malefactors shall be allowed at will to spill the blood
of the innocent, and because of this attitude of President Wilson, American
men have been wantonly murdered and American women outraged, while
the famine stricken of Mexico mourn, and among the starving children there
is no laughter.
How the Colonel would have attended' to the matter had
he been in the White House we art* left for the present in a
state of the deepest ignorance, and anyway most of us are glad
that he never had the opportunity for experimentation.
The Colonel also writes of Japan, saying with the cordial
emphasis which characterizes his enthusiasms:
Japan is as advanced and civilized a power as the United States or any
power in Europe. She has as much to teach us as we have to teach her. In
true patriotism—for there is no such thing as true patriotism that does not in
clude eager and foresighted desire to make one's country able to defend her
self against foreign attack—Japan is far ahead of us. There is no nation
in the world more worthy>of admiration and respect.
Part of which we do not believe, though accepting it in
part. The concluding paragraph indicates that the Colonel
has changed somewhat in his views since he last expressed them
by word of mouth on this western coast some time ago, for he
says:
It is essentially to the interest of both (that is, Japan and the United
States,) that neither should admit the workers—industrial or agricultural or
engaged in small trade—from the other, for neither country is yet ready to
admit such settlement in mass, and nothing but grave harm can come from
permitting it.
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The Alaskan is doing is in duty bound to support the ticket
it named, but it requires the ballots of the voters to elect it.
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WITH a Rppulican rainbow looming up on the 1916
horizon, gossip as to the probable candidates of the
Republican party for President in that year is wide
spread. A score of possible candidates have been discussed
in the East which is the meeting place of politicians, but
it seems to be generally conceded that the party in all probabili
ty will look to New York for its standard bearer.
The men most frequently mentioned hail from the Empire
State. They are Supreme Court Judge Charles E. Hughes,
United States Senator Hliliu Hoot and Governor Charles S.
Whitman.
Senator Hoot retired from the Senate March 4. Whether
or not he would accept the Republican nomination for President
in 1916 is unknown, but he has a number of warm friends in
Washington, hailing from all parts of the United' States, who
declare that lie would make an excellent candidate.
Justice Hughes’ attitude is likewise unknown. Some of
his friends assert that under no circumstances would he leave
the Supreme Court, while others are rooting hard for his selec
tion.
Governor Willis of Ohio, Senator Borah of Idaho, and
Myron T. Herrick of Ohio, are talked of as being candidate
timber.
A six year term for the President with the provision that
when he leaves the office of presidency lie become a member of
the Senate is one of. the advanced ideas that is expected to
crystalize into form during tin* 64th Congress. It will require
a constitutional, amendment to bring about the result sought,
and it is believed that the incoming Congree will favor this
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Compare the two councilmanic tickets in the field and then
vote for the men whom you think are best qualified to fill the
office.
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It is noticeable that the fighting over the Champagne coun
try is always very desperate.
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and 8URQE0N
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
Calls may be left at Cordova
Drug Store. Residence,
Rainier-Grand Hotel
DR. W. W. COUNCIL
Physician and Surgeon
Office at Company Hospital
Hours—10 to 12; 1 to 6 p. m.
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 Law
Room 1
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA.
J. F. R. APPLEBY
CIVIL ENGINEER
Phone 4. CORDOVA, ALASKA
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Fast and commodious stearifers sailing between Seattle, Ketch
ikan, Wrangell, Junaau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez and 8eward, via
INSIDE PASSAGl.
Sails frcm Sails from Cordova—
March 2.ALAMEDA.March 9
March 8.MARIPOSA .March 15
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez ard Latouche. Explos
ives, S. S. Seward. S. 8. Seward, 5th; S. S. Latouche, 15th; S. S.
Cordova, 25th of each month.
This company reserves the right to change schedule of steamers
without notice.
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
sailing time.
F. B. TRACY, T. J. TALLENT,
General Agent Ticket Agent
Pacific-Alaska Navigation Co.
ALASKA PACIFIC S. S. CO. ALASKA COAST CO.
PUGET SOUND- ALASKA ROUTE
Next sailing from Seattle will be
ADMIRAL EVANS, March 5
ADMIRAL WATSON, March 15
Vis the INSIDE PASSAGE for Ketchikan, Juneau, Yakutat,
Katalla, Cordova, Valdsz, Seward, Cook Inlet points and Kodiak
Island.
Seattle-San Francisco connecting with steamers Yale and Har
vard for Southern California Ports.
Schedule subject to change without Notice.
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EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 24, 1914.
Trains leave Cordova, depot at foot of Second Ave- 11
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Chitina for Kennecott— :!
; Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays
; Kennecott for Chitina— -
; Wednesdays, Saturdays and Mondays.
Chitina for Cordova— ■ •
Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays ;;
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Freight received from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. ;;
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Superintendent Cordova Agent
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Cordova, Alaska,
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