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CAPITAL STOCK *25,000
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We Sell Travellers’ Checks
Gold Dust Bought at Highest Market Prices
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| Alaskan Hotel |
:£ THE HOUSE OF COMFORT
THE BEST EQUIPPED HOTEL
IN ALASKA
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jiji Hot and Cold Water, Electric Bells, Electric
jjji Lights, Steam Heat, Suites With Bath.
Bar in Connection
ROBERT GOTTSCHALK Propriteor* ART CLONINGER* :j:|
| CORDOVA, .... ALASKA |
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Steam Heated Centrally Located.
HOTEL NORTHERN
V. G. VANCE, Prop.
OSTRANDER BLOG. CORDOVA. ALASKA
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Cordova Power
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LIGHTS, WATER, PHONES
AND POWER
25 and 40 Watt Lamps.35c.
60 Watt Lamps.50c.
100 Watt Lamps.75c
250 Watt Lamps.$2.00
200 Watt, Gas Filled Lamps.$3.00
Office: FIRST STREET.
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two a minute. "No Man’s Land" and
when they go up one lias to either
throw himself down instantly or stand
perfectly still until it dies down, or
you are as good as dead, because you
would instantly draw the machine gun
and rifle fire on you. Two men go
out and stay an hour and then they
are relieved by two others, and then
you creep back and try and get your
blood in circulation by walking up and
down the trenches. There are no
fires in our trenches, only a small
brazier for the cooks. One is chilled
to the bone, and in our case we were
wet to the skin, as it was raining all
night. And after your hour is up you
creek back again over ’Death Valley’
and take your turn again, and so on
ad infinitum until daylight. There arc
a few' men lost every night along the
line going and coming from the ‘Post,'
as there is spasmodic rifle and ma
chine gun fire all night, but none of
us care a darn for a bullet. It is the
shells that get our Angora. Well, even
a night like that has an end. and l!
was glad of it.
“Oh. by the way. probably you wan
der how we would let our friends know
If we saw anything of a suspicious;
j nature occurring? Well, 1 can't tell j
you even a trifling thing like that, butt
I we have the means. You know with
| these green envelopes we are put on
jour honor not to put any information
I at all of a military nature in our cor
respondence. and a man must obey,
besides it might be examined at the;
base. ,
Well, wo tttarteu tlie day in the
trench, ‘which was mud and water,
varying from six inches to two and j
one half feet in depth.' God. I was,
cold and tired. We had some bread
and jam and wrater. and as we were
not allowed to go in the dugouts, ‘as
there was an attack expected.’ we laid
down on the firing platforms and
tried to sleep, but I was too cold, hav
ing had no gum boots. I had to cross
a creek every hour on the way out
to the listening post, and got wet to
the waist, besides the rain, so I wan
dered miserably around until noon,
when we iiad some bully beef, bread,
cheese, jam, etc., and some had hot
tea. and we all got a good shot of
rum. It tasted like nectar for the
gods.
‘‘I went down to the cooks, and the
place was jammed with fellows with
their dixies full of water waiting their
turn to use the brazier, so I went
away, and at 2 p. m. Corporal Connew
and myself went down again and at
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list managed to gel our dixies on the
fire. Connew (pronounced (’on you) Ir
was a huge, splendid fellow, ’English." st
and every inch a soldier and a man. —
U'e walked up and down (he trench
waiting for our tea to steep, but alas!
poor (’on was destined never to drink!
anything again. Suddenly the whine
of a shell arrested our attention, and
we saw a puff of white smoke above
a group of trenches a half mile in our
rear, whirh were used by the army for
tools, engineer's stores, etr. We knew
them at once for shrapnel shells. Then
a number burst simultaneously over
them. Wp watched it Idly, then 'all
hell let loose.’ The air was filled with
terrible sounds nnd Immediately the I
heavens seemed to vomit shells of all
descriptions on our luckless heads. We
could hardh realize for a minute that
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it was all meant for us, but we were1,*
not long kept in doubt. A huge shell *
suddenly hurst on the Inner side of *
the parapet, and we were deluged +
with flying debris. If I were Daniel J
Webster I could not begin to explain X
to you the inferno of sounds that foi- T
lowed. If there is a hell, then the If<1 J
was taken off. It was absolutely J
fiendish, and altogether unlike any *
other sounds on earth. *
"The shells they were high explo- *
she, French Mortars. G and 8 Inch t
shells. Ariel Torpedoes, ’Whizz Bangs,’ X
and ‘Coal Boxes' ( a ‘Coal Box,’ next J
in size to a Jack Johnson, makes a £
hole about ten feet across and from f
six to eight feet deep), shrieked. T
whistled, roared, hissed and moaned r
in a medley of sound that was awful, t
The ‘Whizz Bang' is well named, and ♦
mines by you and explodes faster than *
yon ran say the two wprds. The X
'Coal Boxes’ come fairly slow, but X
they always let you know when they I
arrive, ha! ha! The French mortars X
seem to go a mile in the air above you _
and you ran hear them coming down
in a hurricane of sound. They land :V;
with a ‘whump.’ and the whole trench
seems to rock anil sway. One shell,
what it is we don't know, sounds like ';:j:
u gigantic frying pan full of fiercely
frying bacon, going by yon with fear
ful velocity. ;|:j
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>ve cruiicneu now u mill wuueu iui
the death which was so soon to come :¥
for many of our comrades. There ;j:.
were bursting shells everywhere — in
front, behind and overhead — and the •>:
air was filled with flying shrapnel. In
about fifteen minutes word was passed
along for our captain, who was a doc
tor in civil life, to come on the double,
as our dear old Major Kane was hit, ....
and one of our strecher bearers ran
by. saying he was coming, and that
both the major's legs were broken :•:!
by shrapnel. About two minutes later :£
the word came that Captain Monkman
was dead, killed instantly. All this
time the shells were coming in a con- £:
stant rain of shrieking Iron, and some
landed In the trench and on the para
pet, and gaping holes showed here and :$
there. 1 figured that my time to die
had come and I might just as well •>:
have a smoke first. 1*
(To Be Continued.)
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For Kent—Two housekeeping rooms
the Kendrick building, on Front
reet. Apply J. V. Carter, Phone 171.
We Don’t Insist On J
Ruhstaller’s Gilt Edge j
When Ordering Beer
But We Would Like to Have
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Best Beer Brewed I?
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Public Messenger §
For All of Cordova
Phone 72 J
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EVERYTHING BOUGHT
AND SOLD
Tor anything you can’t find in
town, go to J. Rawson's Second
Rand Store and see what he has
got. We carry new and second
land goods of all kinds, clothing
»nd kitchenware.
We have an experienced man
who does all kinds of repair work,
jive us a call.
JOHN RAWSON,
First Street.
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First Avenue and C Street |
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Choice Tobacco*, Cigar* and
Smokers Sundries—Wholesale
and Retail Cigar Store.
The
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POPULAR RECREATION PLACE
Billiards and Pool
Headquarter* for the Petersen,
Wellington, Calabash and
Garrick Pipes.
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STRAIGHT WHISKEYS
IMPORTED WINES
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NOTHING BUT THE BEST
FOR GENERAL TEAMING, BAGGAGE |
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COAL AND WOOD
ALASKA TRANSFER CO. |
Cordova and Anchorage jjij
UNEXCELLED WAREHOUSE FACILITIES
For Storing and Insuring Baggage,
Mdse, and Household Goods
Office—EMPRESS BUILDING, CORDOVA—PLone 85 |
575 TOWN LOTS IN CORDOVA
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Ranging in price from $50 up to $3,000, and 600 g
Town lots in Cliitina ranging in price from $50
to $1,000. |
Will sell any or all on terms to suit purchaser. jjj
For particulars—Call or write to
, GEO. C. HAZELET, |
Cordova, Alaska. Trustee and Agent.
HUKlilUKH M£A1 MAKMil
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
Fresh Beef, Pork, Veal, Mutton |
and Provisions
Particular Attention and Prompt Service Given to order* from
MINING CAMPS, ROADHOUSES AND
INTERIOR POINTS §
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INSURANCE i
FIRE, MARINE, LIFE and ACCIDENT l
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Insure your property against fire in reli- ♦
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We represent the NIAGARA, LONDON, ♦
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We also represent the Maryland Casualty ♦
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