Summer Contest
For Boys
The Times is going to give away
to the two best hustlers
in Cordova
A Bicycle
AND
A Gold Watch
lnese two articles will be given away on July 30 to
the two boys having the largest number of votes to their
credit at 6 o’clock on that date. The boy having the
largest number of votes to his credit will be allowed his
choice of the articles.
The contest is open to all boys of 16 years and under.
All who wish to enter the contest must first leave their
names at the Times office.
All that is necessary is for the contestants to see
their friends and acquaintances and get them to sub
scribe for the Times.
This will entitle them to a specified number of votes,
which will be credited to them. Mail subscribers count
the same as those in Cordova .which is as follows:
New subscribers, one month. 50 votes
New subscribers, six months. 500 votes
New subscribers, one year.2000 votes
Weekly subscriptions count one-fifth the number of
votes as the daily.
Present subscribers who pay in advance will be en
titled to one-half the number of votes as new subscribers.
All subscriptions must be paid in advance, and in order
to get the votes the money must accompany the order.
Tlje subscription rates are:
One month.$ 1.00
Six months (in advance) . 5.00
One year (in advance) . 10.00
Circulation Manager, Times:
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Enclosed please find $., advance pay
ment for the Cordova Daily (Weekly) Times for a
period of.
Please place.votes to which I am
entitled to the credit of.
ONE VOTE FREE.
Circulation Manager, Times:
Please place this vote to the credit of.
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ADDITIONAL NOTICE.
The Contest will be closed to entries at 6 o’clock the
afternoon of July 20. Any boys who yet wish to enter
the lists for a try for the watch may do so up to that time,
but thereafter the contest will be confined to the boys in
the running at that time.
Get busy. All it needs is a little hustling.
None of the boys yet have much of a start, and a good
brisk campaign will put any hustler in the lead.
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' CIR INSPIRATION
At the far end of Rier 1!. Seattle,
headquarters of the Alaska Steamship
Company, stood for several weeks dui
ing the month n modern business ear
awaiting shipment on one of the
freight steamers to Cordova The ear
was painted with the corporate name
I of the Copper Itiver & Northwestern
Railway, and ill gold lettering on the
side panels is the name Kennecott.
The car is to lie utilized by various
officials of (ho line and of the mining
company in Alaska, nnd to the casual
observer the name quite naturally
comes Tram that of the famous copper
mine of Alaska, which has suddenly
forged to the front as Ihe producer
of the highest grade copper in the
world, ns well as one of the large
producers.
Leaving Seattle one Sunday morn
lnK recently was a party of local peo
ple with some eastern guests who
were going to Tacoma on the steam
ship Tacoma to enjoy an attractive
dinner on the shaded balcony of the
Tacoma hotel. As the steamship
backed out and then made its turn,
passing within fifty feet of the end of
the Alaska Steamship pier, the newly
painted car attracted considerable at
tentlon and almost immediately the
question was asked as to why it was
named Kennecott, nnd what Kennecott
meant. The answer was made that
the car took its name from flic mine,
Ihe mine took its name from the moun
tain, glacier and pass and those had
received their names by different ex
plorers and geographers in honor of
Robert Kennicott. The discrepancy
in the spelling is merely one of those
errors that once made, cannot well
be changed, and while the station of
the railroad is spelled with an ‘ i," the
inline was errone uislv spelled with an
“e,” and since the property has be
come so impottant it is doubtful if
ft will ever be (bunged.
One of the- most interesting librar
ies in Seattle is one owned by Mr.
George W. Solidity, and he being ap
plied to, brought out reference books
touching upon the subject at hand, li
the investigation it was found tlm.l
Robert Kennicott died in Alaska when
on a most important mission, and in
place of this being a story of a name
it leads to one of the most truly in
teresting recitals of pioneer Indus
trial development of the northern ter
ritory.
Mr. Soliday looked up Dali's vol
ume on Alaska, and also found a very
interesting book entitled "Tent Life
in Siberia," published in 1S70 by 1‘ut
nam & Sons, from the pen of George
Kennan. The latter work, while be
ing a narrative covering the life of
a party of engineers in Siberia, yet
has a direct bearing upon the life and
death of Kennicott, who at tin- time
of his deiuJse was engaged bj the
Western Union Telegraph Company
In its projected work of completing a
telegraph line through British Colum
bia, Alaska and across Bering strait,
through Siberia to all points In Eu
rope. It was while on the reconnais
ance work for this company that Ken
nicott met his death at Nulato. Quot
ing the preface of “Tent Life in Si
Derm:
“The attempt which was made by
the Western TTuion Telegraph Com'
pany, in 18G5-G and '7, to build an over
land line to Europe via Alaska, Ber
ing’s strait and Siberia, was in some
respects the most remarkable under
taking of the present century. Bold
in its conception and important in the
ends at which it aimed, it attracted
at one time the attention of the whole
civilized world, and was regarded as
the greatest telegraphic enterprise
which had ever engaged American
capital. Like all unsuccessful ven
tures, however, in this progressive
age, it has been speedily forgotten,
and the brilliant success of the Atlan
tic cable has driven it entirely out of
the public mind. Most readers are fa
miliar with the principal facts in the
history of the enterprise, from its or
ganization to its ultimate abandon
ment; but only a few, even of its ori
ginal projectors know anything about
the work which it accomplished in
British Columbia, Alaska and Siberia:
the obstacles which were met and
overcome by its exploring and work
ing parties, and the contributions
which it made to our knowledge of an
hitherto untravelled, unvisited region.
Its employees, in the course of two
years, explored nearly six thousand
miles of unbroken wilderness, extend
ing from Vancouver island on the Am
erican coaBt, to Bering strait, and
from Bering strait to the Chinese fron
tier in Asia. The traces of thehir de
serted camps may be found in the
wildest mountain fastnesses of Kam
chatka, on the vast desolate plains of
northeastern Siberia, and throughout
the gloomy pine forests of Alaska and
l.ritish Columbia. Mounted on rein-!
deer, they traversed the most rugged j
passes of the north Asiatic mountains; j
the} fluated in skin canoes down the
great rivers of the north; slept iu the
smoky pologs of the Siberian Chook
chees, and camped out upon desolate
northern plains iu temperatures of 50
degrees and 00 degrees below zero.
The poles which they erected and thej
houses which they built now stand
alone in an encircling wilderness —
the only results of their three years’
labor and suffering, and the only
monuments of an abandoned enter
prise.' Railway and Marine News.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE
TERRITORY OF ALASKA, THIRD
DIVISION.
Notice of Term of Court at Cordova,
Alaska.
The President of the United States of
America, to the Residents of the
Third Division of the Territory of
Alaska, and to All Whom It May
Concern, Greeting:
You, and each and all of you, will
please take notice that by an order of
the court, duly made and entered, a
term of the District Court for the Ter
ritory of Alaska, Third Division, has
been called and will be held in Cor
dova, Alaska, beginning on the 17th
day of July, 1916, and will continue as
long thereafter as the public welfare
nifty require.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 13th
day of June, 1916.
FRED M. BROWN,
District Judge.
(District Court Seal)
Attest: Arthur Lang. Clerk.
QUEER MOTHER
LONDON. July 12. — Perhaps none
outside his Immediate family was
more grief-stricken at the news of
l.oi'I Kitchener’s tragic death than
Queen Alexandra. The attentiveness
of the soldier lo the queen mother had
long been notable, and there was a
very strong bond of sympathy between
these two, undoubtedly two of the
loneliest figures prominent in contem
porary London.
Indeed there was something pathet
ic in the lonely bachelorhood of .the
war secretary, who occasionally to his
intimates dropped remarks bearing
on his Iat k of a home and near rela
tion-. Not a week passed during tho
war in which he has not paid a visit
to Marlborough House, where he
would remain for long visits with
Queen Alexandra, and come away with
a long list of those combatants of
whom her friends had made special
inquiries. However pressing the de
mands of the campaigns on- the vari
ous fronts, he would always return
within a few days with the desired
Information.
land Kitchener had promised to be
the queen mother's guest during .the
coming summer at Sandringham. He
constantly had Indies to lunch at His
seat in Kent, Broome Hall, near Can
terbury, on Sundays, and would show
them how he was developing his gar
dens and dilate to them on the beau
ties of Ills china. Younger women
were conspicuous by their absence at
these times, the guests being chiefly
peeresses and experts on gardening,
as well as the wives of men who had
served under him in various cam
paigns.
At York House, St. James' Palace,
he gave a number of dinner parties
to men only, the military element be
ing not always conspicuous at these
lie liked doctors, though marod no
lliing for actors or musicians. Several
of the higher clergy in London en
joyed his friendship and hospitality.
Lord Kitchener was personally well
known to the owners of many of the
more expensive curiosity shops in Lon
d >n. He would bargain over purchases,
but did not possess the commercial
sense, and in the end would always
pay a goo I price after delivery, the
check often being post-dated a month j
or two.
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Hot and Cold Water in Every Room
With or Without Bath.
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H. C. ROSS, Proprietor.
Headquarters for Railroad and Mining Men
Satisfaction Guranteed
Rates Reasonable
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Just what the Miner and
Camper needs.
A Lang Camp Stove.
Known Throughout
Alaska.
Light, but made to stand
rough usage.
Will not warp.
First class bakers.
.-'i\ stylfs. Fit teen
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If your dealer can
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write to us.
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Northern Drug Co.
Have just received a shipment of fruit and nut dain
ties for our soda fountain.
Plenty of Fresh E. K. C. Films.
Victor Victrolas Victor Records
. $15.00 up. for July Here.
MAIL ORDERS GIVEN PROMPT ATTENTION.
f Foos Gas Engines I
4 to 5CO Horse Power
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General Electric Motors
Roebling Tramways
Pelton Water Wheels
Chicago Oil Engines and Compressors
Regal Boat Engines I
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