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H. G. STEEL, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
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CORDOVA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, li)16,
ISN’T IT THE TRUTH.
Picturesque language is employed by W. P. Benn, a former
resident of Fairbanks, who has moved to the states, to write
1 • is friend, W. F. Whitely, also of the interior metropolis, how
lie longs for the northland. The experience of Mr. Benn is but
the experience of hundreds of others who have departed from
Alaska to take up what they consider will be a permanent resi
dence in some state of perpetual sunshine and flowers. When
they depart, it is with the thought that they will never return
to this big, free land. But after residing in the states for a •
while, things are not just as expected. They begin to yearn for
tin* northland again. The call of the wild is continually with
them, and in many eases they respond to this persistent call and
return. We see every day on the streets old-timers who have
gone from Alaska, only to return among us. There is something
appealing about this vast domin; there is something alluring;
something that does not exist in any other country on God’s
green earth. What the call is cannot be well defined. Ask any
of the rich miners who have returned to the states with enough
of tin’ world’s goods to insure them independence through life
and who build themselves palatial homes in some favored spot,
and they will tell you that the happiest days of their lives were
passed in Alaska or the Klondike, in a humble log cabin, with
bacon and beans the chief contents of the larder.
After stating that he was homesick for the north, tin* old
timer says, regarding himself and wife: “I began to think I
would have to side-hobble the old girl to keep her from skipping
the rope and starting for Fairbanks. She is homesick for the
north and 1 am cussing the day 1 ever left it.
“We have a truck farm, but it isn’t worth much. Friday
I picked nearly forty pounds or nearly two bushels of string
beans. It took mo four hours and it took me the balance of tin*
day to sell them, and 1 received the munificent sum of $1.20
for my labor. Wouldn’t that sour tin' milk of human kindness
in the best old sourdough that ever lived? They’re a hide
hound lot on the outside.
“If things come all right next spring I may get enough
ahead to buy a ticket to Fairbanks, but if 1 don’t, it’s walk for
me.
“Peaches and cream, sunshine and flowers may be O. K.,
but give me the frozen north and a blueberry pie.”—Ex.
A DISTRAUGHT SCHOOLMARM.
An < tregon school mistress who taught some form of social
ism and anarchy, as the complainants against her alleged, was
discharged and slie brought suit against the school authorities
to collect what would have been due her under her contract if
she hadn’t hutted down the fences of pedagogical decency.
The court well held that a school board has the right to dis
charge a teacher, contract or not, who skates away on a political
or other tangent in the school room. The ground for this is
quite distinct, apart from the offense which radical teaching
may give to the parents of the children. It is ,simply, that a
teacher thus proves her own disabilities. She establishes her
incapacity to know the child mind, as well as a failure to re
cognize the breadth of the public. For the public school is no
place for a cult. The public school is limited to no narrow view.
It fails utterly to meet its ideals if it teaches one, and not the
other, side of any question.
If one teacher assumes the right to fill infantile minds with
a form of socialism, some other teacher may assume the right
to inflate her pupils with the delights of capitalism; another
with infidelism; another with Confucianism, and so on without
end.
The public school system soon would collapse under such a
burden of fanatietism and nonsense. A teacher who presumes
to use the public school room to advocate any radicalism is un
fit because there is a definite understanding of the public
school’s fundamentals. And besides it is a wanton attack upon
the simplicity of childhood’s mind'. It is unfair to the child.
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New York schools now give pupils'credit for manual labor
at home. The lad who keeps the wood box full and does the
barn chores finds himself just that much farther along in his
school credits. Besides encouraging efficient work for the
work’s sake this plan is another step in the direction of closer
co ordination of the work of school and home. It brings just
a little nearer together the embryo citizen and the institutions
he must cherish and support.
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According to the statement of an eye-witness, a British
man o’ war was hoisting United States mail out of a neutral
ship just as the Americans on board were listening to the read
mg of the Declaration of Independence. One oscillates between
a chuckle and a humiliating ejaculation. But never fear, beau
tiful rhetoric continues to ooze from our beloved president.
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Tennessee has lynched two more negroes and Georgia one,
neither state proposing to be left behind' by Ohio in the 191G
anarchv record.
If You Have Any
FREIGHT !
to haul to any part of the inter
ior Inquire for
Mike Johnson
in care of CHITINA CASH j
STOUR, Chitlna, Alaska.
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Howard & Lund
Contractors and Builders
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Estimates Furnished.
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THE GOOD EATS CAFE
Michelson & Currier Building.
FOR HOME COOKING.
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Fancy Pies, Cakes and Jellies.
Hot Waffles with Home-made
Jelly.
Home-made Bread.
Board by the Month.
MRS. BOURKE,
Proprietor.
Sheldon Auto Stage
SERVICE,
CHITINA TO FAIRBANKS.
Starts June 15.
Cars Now Running Regularly.
Weekly Trips.
Fare $75.00.
40 Founds Baggage Free.
Office: Chitina Hotel, Chitina,
i Alaska.
EVERY TOILET ACCESSORY
you can Imagine la Included In our
display of such specialties. For the
bathroom and dressing table we offer
a line of high grade articles such as
are used by refined people. You will
not find an unworthy or meretricious
article in the entire display. They are
the "Just right" kind, the gort we know
will appeal to you.
Northern Drug Co.
MAIL ORDERS GIVEN PROMPT ATTENTION. jj
! Alaskan Hotel |
g THE HOUSE OF COMFORT
THE BEST EQUIPPED HOTEL
IN ALASKA |
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g Hot and Cold Water, Electric Bells, Electric
iji; Lights, Steam Heat, Suites With Bath,
g Bar in Connection g
ROBERT GOTTSCHALK Proprlteors ART CLONINGER g
1 CORDOVA, .... ALASKA |
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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
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B. W. FERRELL, PROP.
Electric Lighted, lint Water. Turkish and Tub
Baths.
OPPOSITE CORDOVA GRILL, CORDOVA, ALASKA.
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Kiri
ATTORNEY GENERAL
OF ALASKA
George Grigsby
Election November 7.
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CALIFORNIA REACHED QUICKLY via SEATTLE
PORTLAND AND SAN FRANCISCO ON THE ALL
RAIL
scenicThasta i
ROUTE
Throe Trains Daily.
SHASTA LIMITED, CALIFORNIA EXPRESS,
SAN FRANCISCO EXPRESS.
Through Standard Sleeping Cars from Seattle and
Portland to San Francisco and Los Angeles. Dining
and Observation Cars.
ARE YOU GOING EAST?
The cost via California is practically tin* same as on
the Northern Routes.
For Information Call on or White to
Southern Pacifc Ry.
C. M ANDREWS.D. F. & P. A.,
712 Second Avenue, i
SEATTLE.WASHINGTON
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WM. A. HESSE
Mining Engineer,
U. S. Mineral Surveyor,
U. S. Deputy Surveyor.
BOX 358. CORDOVA, ALASKA.
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
Calla 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.
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Counsellor at Law
Room 1
Adame Block CORDOVA, ALASKA.
ASA C. BALDWIN
Civil Engineer
Patent Surveys
Address: Valdez, Alaska
DR. 0. L. HALE
DENTIST
Office In Adame Building
Alaskan Hotel
Barber Shop
Baths at All Hours, Day and
Night.
Accommodations for Ladies.
Ladies’ Facial Massage and
Shampooing.
Razors Honed, Children’s Hair
cutting.
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EVERYTHING BOUGHT
AND SOLD
For anything you can't find in |
town, go to J. Rawson’s Second [
Hand Store and see what he has
got. We carry new and second
hand goods of all kinds, clothing |
and kitchenware.
We have an experienced man j
who does all kinds of repair work.
Give us a call.
JOHN RAWSON,
First Street.
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M. C. Thompson H, C. Murphy
T ic MECCA
Thompson A Murphy, Props
Dealers in
WINES, LIQUORS AND
CIGARS
Phone 107.
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Choice Tobaccos, Cigar* and
Smokers Sundries—Wholesale
and Retail Cigar Store.
The
Horseshoe
POPULAR RECREATION PLACE
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Billiards and Pooli
Headquarter* for the Petersen,
Wellington, Calabash and
Garrick Pipes.
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GOING TO FAIRBANKS
Take
FRAME'S AUTO STAGE
Leaves Chlttna for Fairbanks
on July t> and every six days |
thereafter.
Wire Chlttna Hotel for reaor
vatlons.
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ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO. *
Fast and commodious steamer* tailing between Seattle, Ketch
ikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez, Seward.
ANCHORAGE, via INSIDE PASSAGE.
Bails from Seattle. Sails from Cordova.
let. 7.NORTHWESTERN.Oct. 17
let. 12 ~T. .ALAMEDA.Oct. 22
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Regular freight service Tor Ketchikan, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez ard Latouche. Explos
ives, 8. 8 8eward. 8. 8. Seward, 5th; S. S. Latouche, 15th; 8. 8.
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, S R HEDGES,
_General Agent_ Agent
Pacific-Alaska Navigation Co.
ALASKA PACIFIC 8. 8. CO. ALASKA COAST CO.
PUGET SOUND ALASKA ROUTE
, Next sailing from Seattle will be
1TEAMER FARRAGUT.October 18
TEAMisR EVANS.October 8
Seattle-San Francisco connecting with steamers Yale and Har
vard for Southern California Ports.
Schedule subject to change without Notice.
ALASKA TRANSFER CO., Local Agents
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Over the Top of the World
By Electric Power
The “Olympian” and the “(’olumbian,” the
Milwaukee’s crack transeont mental trains arc
now hauled over mountain harriers by electric power.
Take these smooth ri.iins A I.I.-STEKI. trains and avoid
the smoke, soot and cinders Incident to steam travel.
S- K. HEDGES, Agent.
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RY.
A. E. Harris, T. 1*. A., Juneau, Alaska.
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I EFFECTIVE MAY 1, 1916.
!;!• Three Trains Weekly Between Cordova and Chitina.
| Four Trains Weekly Between Chitina and Kennecott. I
g Leave Cordova, Second Street Depot, on Mondays, Tliurs- I
g days and Saturdays.
I Leave Chitina for Cordova Sundays, Tuesdays and £
g Fridays.
g Leave Chitina for Kennecott Sundays, Tuesdays, Tliurs
days and Fridays.
| Leave Kennecott for Chitina Mondays, Wednesdays, !
g Thursdays and Saturdays.
1 The al>ove schedule subject to change without notice I
g Dlninfl C*r ln Connection With all Regular Pessenger Train. Be- g
tween Cordova and Chitina.
I Freight received from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M.
I o. Tic,k.ets on 8a,e at Depot or up town office, Alaska i
g cueamship Company building
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| Caleb Corser W. E. Brown I
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the woman who receives
her guests under the soft light of elec
tricity looks her best and knowing
this feels at her best. No other light
Is so adaptable to artistic arrangement
or more convenient adjustment. If
>our home is not equipped for and
with electricity let us show you why
you should have it so at once.
Cordova Power
Company
LIGHTS WATER PHONES POWER
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