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NORTHERN DRUG CO.
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Every Article;
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In My Store Makes
A Suitable Gift
and I Have thousands of
them for Young and Old.
Come in and inspect our selected stock
PAUL BLOEDHORN .
JEWELER AND WATCHMAKER ;
| 1 KENDRICK BUILDING FIRST STREET
THE CITY BAKERY
WE ARE SPECIALISTS IN. FINE CAKES AND PASTRY
FOR
Parties and Receptions
MAKERS OF THE FAMOUS ."CREAM LOAF" BREAD
SUN “MAID” RAISIN BREA D—A TREAT INDEED
RYE BREAD GRAHAM BREAD
LUNCH ROOM—WHIRE YOU GET THOSE EXCELL
ENT LUNCHES
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And see what we have in the line of workmen’s clothing,
beds, mattresses and canvas goods of all kinds, tents and
shovels, kitchenware, furniture, stoves, etc. We also
carry a full line of mirrors—plate glass and plain.
THE NORTHERN BLOCK
First Street
Copper River
& Northwestern Ry.
FOUR TRAINS .vTEKIA BETWEEN
CHITINA AND KENNECOTT
Leave Cordova, Second Street Depot, on Mon
days, Thursdavs and Sawrdays.
Leave Chitina for Goudova Sundays, Tuesdays
days, Thursdays and Fridays.
Leave Chitina for Ke^necoC. Sundays, Tues
days and Fridays.
Leave Kennecvtt for Chitiiia Mondays, Wednes
days, Thursdays and Saturdays.
The above schedule subject to change with
out notice.
Dining Car in Connection With all Regular
Passenger Trains Between Cordova and Chitina.
Freight received and delivered at Cordova
Wharf from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m., except Sundays.
Tickets on sale at Second Street Depot
office, one hour before departure of trains.
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CALEB CORSER, W. E. BROWN,
Superintendent. Agt. Cordova Wharf
R. K. BROWN, Jr., Ticket Agent.
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Northern Hotel Building,
Cordova.
DENTISTRY
Hours 9 a. m. to 9 p. m.
Special Attention to
Prophylaxis and Pyorrhea.
PHONE 200
WM. A. HESSE
Mining Engineer,
U. S. Mineral Surveyor,
U. S. Deputy Surveyor.
BOX 13 CORDOVA, ALASKA
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
Calls May be Left at Cordova
! Drug Store. Residence,
Alaskan Hotel
DR. W. W. COUNCIL
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office and Residence: Cordova.
| General Hospital (Ostrander Build
ing-.
Phones—Residence 115; office 132
DR. C. L. HALE
:
DENTIST
Office: Over Blum, O’NeiH’s Store
ROBERT SIMPSON ...
JUNEAU, ALASKA
Glasses Fitted. Lenses Ground
. HUBBELL & WALLER
Civil and Mining Engineers.
• i U. S. Mineral and Deputy Land Sur
veyors for Alaska.
1102 L. C. SMITH BLDG., SEATTLE
! WILLIAM PALLISTER, M.D.
Specialist in the treatment of
diseases and deformities of the
eye, ear, nose and throat; glasses
fitted.
JUNEAU GENERAL HOSPITAL
SMITH & McCONAGHY
' PLUMBERS AND STEAMFITTERS
Cor. Front and B Streets
Office Open Evenings.
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
Room 1.
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA
* FRANK H. FOSTER
Attorney at Law
Room 1 Alaskan Hotel
FIRE!
A resident of Cordova had a
small fire in his house the other
| day. It was extinguished by the
family at a loss of 1150.00. The
I next day he insured through us.
The cost of his insurance for
three years was less than his
loss «t this trifling fire. Are
you, Mr. Property Owner, going
to wait until you have had a fire
before protecting yourself from
lodb?
Any person wishing to build
j can secure a fine residential or
business lot in Cordova from us
on exceptionally liberal terms.
Five hundred lots listed.
REAL ESTATE
INSURANCE
ABSTRACTS
SURETY BONDS
CORDOVA ABSTRACT and
REALTY COMPANY
ROOM 1, ADAMS BUILDING.
GERMAN HONOR
DRAGGED IN DDST
Solemn Promises Made to Bel
gians Proved to Be Worse
Than Worthless.
ALL APPEALS WERE FLOUTED
Pathetic and Dignified Supplications of
Municipal Governments Answered
by Rebuke and Heavy Fine
Imposed by General Hopfer.
Over the earnest protest of Cardi
nal Mercier, heroic head of the
church in Belgium, the terrible
platus of the kaiser’s high officers
concerning the deportation of the
people were carried out. The sol
emnly pledged word of the German
governor general of Belgium count
ed as nothing in the malignant hate
shown by the kaiser's creatures.
Cardinal Mercier attempted to per
suade the German authorities to aban
don their terrible plans for the seizure
of Belgians to assist in the prosecu
tion of the war, reminding them of
their solemn promises in the past:
“Malines, 19th October, 1916.
“Mr. Governor General:
“The day after the surrender of Ant
werp the frightened population asked
Itself what would become of the Bel
gians of age to bear arms or who would
reach that age before the end of the
occupation. The entreaties of the fa
thers and mothers of families deter
mined me to question the governor of
Antwerp, Barou von Hnene, who had
the kindness to reassure me and to
authorize me in his name to reassure
the agonized parents. The rumor had
spread Bt Antwerp, nevertheless, that
at Liege. Namur, and Charleroi young
men had been seized and taken by
force to Germany. I therefore beg
ged Governor von Huene to be good
enough to confirm to me in writing the
guarantee which he hud given to me \
orally, to the effect that nothing sim
ilar would happen at Antwerp, lie
r»i *» iimiuwliotalc ti,.if *Vi.i ....
mors concerning deportations were
without basis, and unhesitatingly lie
sent me in writing, among other state
ments, the following: ‘Young men have
no reason to fear that they will be ta
ken to Germany, either^to be there eu- \
rolled In the army or employed for
forced labor.’
“This declaration, written and sign
ed, was publicly transmitted to the
clergy and to those of the faith of
the province of Antwerp, as your excel
lency can see from the document en
closed herewith, dated October 16th,
1014, which was read in all the church
es.
Solemn German Promises Broken.
“Upon the arrival of your predeces
sor, the late Baron von der Goltz, at
BrusselgJ had the honor of presenting
myself at his house nnd requested him
to be good enough to ratify for the en
tire country, without time limit, the
guarantees which General von Huene
hud given me for the province of Ant
werp. The governor general retained
this request in ids possession in order
tv examine it at his leisure. The fol
lowing day he was good enough to
come in person to Malines to bring me
his approval, nnd confirmed to me, in
the presence of two aides-de-camp and
of my private secretary, the promise
iuat the liberty of Belgian citizens
.v< uld he respected.
"To doubt the authority of such un
dertakings would tiave been to reflect
upon ihe persons who had made them,
and I therefore took steps to allay, by
all the means of persuasion in my
power, the anxieties which persisted in
the interested families.
“Notwithstanding all this, your gov
ernment now tears from their homes
workmen reduced in spite of their ef
forts to a state of unemployment, sep
arates them by force from their wives
and children and deports them to en
emy territory. Numerous workmen
have already undergone this unhappy
lot; more numerous are those who are
threatened with the same acts of vio
lence.
Mercier's Moving Appeal.
“In the name of the liberty of domi
cile and the liberty of work of Belgian
citizens; in the name of tbe inviola
bility of families; in the name of mor
al interests which the measures of de
portation would gravely compromise;
In the name of the word given by the
governor of the Province of Antwerp
and by the governor general, the im
mediate representative of the highest
authority of the German empire, I re
spectfully beg your excellency to be
good enough to withdraw the measures
of forced labor and of deportation .an
nounced to the Belgian workmen, and
ro be good enough to reinstate in their
homes those who have already been
deported.
“Your excellency will appreciate how
itainful for me would be the weight of
the responsibility that I would have
to bear as regards these families, if
ihe confidence which they have given
you through my agency and at my re
quest were lamentably deceived.
"I persist in believing that this will
not he the case.
“Accept, Mr. Governor General, the
assurance of m.v very high considera
tion.
“P. T- CARDINAL MERCIER,
“Arch, of Malines.”
Municipal governments in Belgium
appealed to the German authorities to
observe their promises. The two doc- j
i
tumems which Pol'.ow illuHmtte !!■ '.lO I
appeals and German answers.
“In the matters of the requisition
made by the German authorities on Oc
tober 20, 1916 (requisition of a list of
workmen to be drawn tip by the mu
nicipality) .
“The municipal council resolves to
maintain its attitude <>f refusal.
"it further feels It its duty to plaee j
on record the following:
“The city of Tournai is prepared to
submit unreservedly to alt the exigen
cies authorized by the laws and cus
toms of war. Its sincerity cannot be
questioned. For more thun two years
it lias submitted to the German occu
pation, during which time it has lodged
and lived at close quarters witii the
German troops, yet it lias displayed !
perfect composure and lias refrained
from any act of hostility, proving
thereby that it is animated by no idle
spirit of bravado.
“In his declaration dated September
2, 1914, the German governor general
of Belgium declared: ’I ask none to
renounce his patriotic sentiments.’
“The city of Tournai reposes con
fidence in this decs ration, which it is
hound to consider as the sentiment of
tlie German emperor, in whose name
the governor general was speaking. In
accepting the inspiration of honor and
patriotism, the city is loyal to a funda
mental duty, the loftiness of which
must be apparent to any German ofli
cer.
“The city is confident that the
straightforwardness and clearness of
this attitude will prevent any misun
derstanding arising between itself and
the German army.”
Answer Is Lecture and Fins.
“Tournai, 23rd October. 1916.
“In permitting itself, through the
medium of municipal resolutions, to
oppose the orders of il»e German mili
tary authorities in the occupied ferr
rltory. the city is guilty of an unexam
pled arrogance and of a complete mis
understanding of the situation created
by the state of war.
"The ‘clear and simple situation’ is
in reality the following:
“The military authorities order tne
city to obey. Otherwise the city must
bear the heavy consequences, as I have
pointed out in m.v previous explana
tions.
int* general commanding the army
has Inflicted on the city—on account
of its refusal, up to date, to furnish
the lists demanded—u punitive con
tribution of 1200,000 marks, which must
be paid within the next six days, be
ginning with today. The general also
adds that until such time as all the
ligts demanded are in his hands, for
every day in arrears, beginning with
December 31, 1010, a sum of 120,000
marks will be paid by the city.
“HOPFER, Major General,
“Etappen-Kommandant.”
The Commission Syndlcale of Bel
gian workingmen also attempted to in
duce the German authorities to aban
don their terrible plans.
Recited Wrongs of Workmen.
"Commission Syndlcale of Belgium,
“Brussels, 30th Oct., 1010.
[To the Governor General of Belgium.]
“Excellency: The measures which
are being planned by your adminis
tration to force the unemployed to
work for the invading power, the de
portation of our unhappy comrades
which has begun in the region of the
etapes, move most, profoundly the en
tire working class iu Belgium.
‘‘The undersigned, members and rep
resentatives of the great central so
cialist and independent syndicates of
Belgium, would consider that they had
not fulfilled their duty did they not ex
press to you the painful sentiment
which agitate the laborers and convey
to jmu the echo of their touching com
plaints.
“They have seen the machinery
taken from their factories, the most
diverse klDd of raw materials requisi
tioned, the accumulation of obstacles
to prevent the resumption of regular
work, the disappearance one by one of
every public liberty of which they were
proud.
“For more than two years the la
boring class more than any other has
been forced to undergo the most hit
ter trials, experiencing misery anj
often hunger, while its children far
away fight and die, and the parents
of these children can never convey lo
them the affection with which their
hearts are overflowing.
Pathetic Appeal bisregarded.
"Our laboring class has endured
everything with the utmost calm and
1 lie most impressive dignity, repressing
its sufferings, its complaints and heavy
trials, sacrificing everything to its
ideal of liberty and independence. But
the measures which have been an
nounced will make the population drain
the dregs (of the cup) of human sor
row ; the proletariat, the poor upon
whom unemployment has been forced,
citizens of a modern state, are to be
condemned to forced labor without
having disobeyed any regulation or
order.
“In the name of the families of
workmen among which tiie most pain
ful anxiety reigns at present, whose
mothers, whose fiancees, and whose
little children are destined to shed so
many more tears, we beg your excel
lency to prevent the accomplishment
of this painful act. contrary to in
ternational law, contrary to the dig
nity of the working classes, contrary
to everything which makes for worth
and greatness in human natrue.
"We beg your excellency to pardon
our emotion and we offer you the hom
age of our distinguished consideration.”
(Appended tire signatures of mem
bers of the national committee and
the Commission Syndlcale.)
Von Biasing in his reply. November
3, practically admitted the truth of the
complaint by attempting to justify the
measures protested against.
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP'
OE RAILROADS INEVITABLE
The railroads have only themselves
to thank for the loss of private owner
ship; this is the conclusion of Brad
ford Merrill, after careful study of the
records, which he makes public in
the article, “Railroads Themselves
Prove—” in the February number of
Hearst's Magazine. Public ownership
has become necessary because the
public has been systematically and
for many years deceived and cheated
•ut of Its just dues. High finance
sometimes seems too complicated to
he readily understood, but Mr. Merrill
brings out with a clearness which can
not be withstood the sensational story
of the rise of the New York Central
lines to power, and the means which
were taken to get every possible con
cession from the state, while seeing
that the public never got the benefit
of their success. The story reads like
a novel of big business, or, with a
change of details, like the depredations
af the robber barons of the middle
ages who held the highways and ex
acted toll from every one who passed
How money was borrowed from the
state and never repayed, how railroads
which never existed off of paper were
capitalized at large figures, how sur
plus profits were turned into this over
capitalization, and how, after all this,
the railroads have put up a cry of a
need for increase in rates which wouid
put a burden of $400,000,000 on the
nation’s cost of living, is a startling
revelation which the public has been
sorely needing, and which clearly ex
plains the reason why the railroads
have forfeited their right to the un
questioning trust of the public to
whom they acknowledge no obliga
tions. This question of government
ownership is one of the most impor
tant in our present domestic affairs,
and it is one which no one, after read
ing Mr. Merrill's article in Hearst’s
for February, can fail to understand
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