LOCAL AND
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A train is due here from Chitina
early this evening.
W. J. Shepherd has started the work
of taking the census of Cordova.
The steamship Alaska will be here
from Seattle at 7 o’clock tonight.
D. T. Phillips has sold the North
west Soda Works to C. W. Walker.
On Wednesday evening next the
Northland Club will give a dance at
its club room.
Mrs. Jack Heath, formerly of Cor
dova, is now working for Frank S.
Gordon in his store at Georgetown, a
suburb of Seattle.
Clarence Johansen won two out of
three games from Hub Bollinger in
the pool tournament at the Club last
night. The scores were 68 to 75, 75
to 50 and 75 to 58.
The Ladies’ Altar Society will meet
Thursday evening at 8 o’clock at the
home of Mrs. Whalen. All members
are requested to be present, as there
will be an election of officrs.
Viola Dana in the interesting drama,
"The Riders of the Night,” will be
shown for the last time tonight at the
Empress theater., Tomorrow evening
Olive Thomas in the rollicking five-reel
story, “Arizona—Broadway,” an educa
tional, and the comedy, “Circumstan
tial Evidence,” will be the bill.
WASHINGTON ,Jan. 15 (by Associ
ated Press).—Charles E. Magoon, once
minister to Panama, and former gov
ernor of the Canal Zone, died here last
night.
MASONIC MEETING
A meeting of Mount McKinley Lodge
No. 183, F. & A. M., will be held
Thursday evening at 8 o’clock. Stated
communication. Visitors welcome.
J. H. SELLEN, W. M.
W. E. BROWN, Sec.
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CONGRESS MAY
SOON PASS OIL
* The coal and oil land leasing bill
is in conference between the two
houses of congress, with every pros
pect of agreement and early passage.
It is not the intention to change the
coal leasing bill. It will remain as it
now exists. In the pending bill Alaska
will receive more liberal considera
tion than states of the Union, as the
following provision specifies:
“Provided, That in the territory of
Alaska prospecting permits not more
than five in number may be granted
to any qualified applicant for periods
not exceeding four years, actual drill
ing operations to begin within two
years from date of permit, and oil
and gas wells shall be drilled to a
depth of not less than 500 feet, unless
valuable deposits shall sooner be dis
covered.
“That upon establishing to the sat
isfaction of the secretary of the in
terior that valuable deposits of oil or
gas have been discovered within the
limits of the lands embraced in any
permit, the permittee shall be granted
a lease for as much as 160 acres, the
area to be selected by the permittee.
“Such lease shall be for a term of
twenty years upon a royalty of 5 per
centum of the value of production and
the annual payment in advance of $1
per acre, the rental paid for any one
year to be credited against the royal
ties as they accrue for that year. The
permittee shall also be entitled to a
preference right to a lease for the
remainder of the land in his prospect
ing permit at a royalty of not less
than 12y2 per centum in value of
; production.”
Rach prospecting permit may con
1 tain as much as 2,560 acres of land
at the option of the applicant.
. Under the caption, “Alaska Oil Pro
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; 7iso,” the bill recites that “any bona
ide occupant or claimant of oil oi
gas-bearing lands in the territory ol
Alaska who, or whose predecessors
in interest, prior to withdrawal, hac
"om plied otherwise with the require
ments of the mining laws, but hac
blade no discovery of oil or gas in
wells, and who had made substantial
improvements for the discovery of
oil or gas on or for each location, or
had prior to the possage of this act
expended not less than $250 in im
provements on or for each location,
shall be entitled, upon reliquishment
or surrender to the United tSates
within one year from the date of this
act, or within six months after final,
denial or withdrawal of application
for patent, to a prospecting permit, or
permits, lease or leases, under this
act, covering such lands, not exceed
ing five permits or leases in number
and not exceeding an aggregate of
1,280 acres in each.”
EXCHANGE IS
ELUCIDATED
BY BANKER
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national stability and greater ability
to pay, the depreciated money is ef
fecting some strange changes. A din
ner which, before the war, in Paris
could be had for a nominal sum, now
costs from 20 to 50 francs.
American manufacturers, mean
while, who desire to sell their prod
ucts abroad, are demanding payment
in American dollars at par. Recently
the Belgian government, it is said,
bought twenty American locomotives
i for which payment Instead of being in;
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Belgian money was demanded in
American dollars, thus adding from 15
to 20 per cent to the manufacturer’s
normal profit. Naturally this dis
courages foreign buying.
On the other hand, a big American
| locomotive concern, apprehensive ofi
! the turn of political affairs abroad!
; due to delay over the peace treaty, I
j is reported practically to have can
‘ celed all foreign advance orders.
| Such orders, calling for delivery in
1 three, six, or nine months, are said to
| be practically non-existent in the lo
| comotive trade. Similar conditions
| exist in other industries. That is
; why American manufacturers have
been saying. “If the peace treaty is!
not soon signed it will mean the com
plete loss of our foreign trade.”
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:* business' men, representing the Amer
ican Bankers’ Association, the Unit- I t
ed States Chamber of Commerce and
the International Trade Conference
who have been at work on the prob
lem of foreign exchange for months
and who wrill be ready to remedy the
present situation as soon as the peace
treaty becomes a fact for the Ameri
can nation.
“It is a noticeable thing,” said one
Wall street banker, “that foreign ex
change has had its most precipitous
and serious decline since the rejec
tion of the peace treaty by the sen
ate. This month it has reached the •
lowest figure on record. Wholly apart
f. from the League of Nations neither
:* the American manufacturer nor the
•: investor is going to put millions into
:j foreign investments until they know
more of what Washington’s political
relations writh Europe are going to be.
:• “Meanwrhile, England, in the past
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:• labor, currency and formidable prices
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:• mg her imports by $478,000,000 and isj
otherwise strengthening her econom-|
;i ic position. Her exports for the same]
:• period have been $1,787,000,000. Ourj
own October figures show that the
:j United States’ excess of exports, in
ten months trade with England was
$335,000,000 greater than the year be
f: fore.”
IEXTREMESOF
1 WET AND DRY
IN HAWAII
HONOLULU, H. I., Jan. 15.—One !
locality in the Hawaiian islands reg
isters almost rival the Sahara in dry- |
ness, says L. V. Daingerfield, head of i
the weather bureau here. !
The rainfall on Mount Waialeale, Is
land of Kauai, has averaged 476 in
ches a year for the past several years,
said Daingerfield. A higher record
than this was established in 1918 at
Puukukui where there was a precip
itation of 562 inches, while eight and
one-half miles away to the south the
rainfall in 1912 registered only two
and one-half inches.
Scarborough Pictures that please at
prices that are right. Over Cordova
drug store. Phone 140—3 rings. —
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Over on the comer
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Stands the House of Sweets.
Bring yourself and friends fl
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along,
Choose yourself some seats.
Gaze upon the menu—
Plenty there you’ll find—
Everything from soup to nuts,
Drinks of every kind.
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