Empress Theatre
The Dasliimr Screen Star
GEORGE WALSH
In the Thrilling Five-Act Melodrama
THE ISLAND OF DESIRE
Wonderful Scenes, Pretty Girls, Smugglers, Pirates and
Honest to-(ioodnoss Cannibals
PATHE EDUCATIONAL- Photographing the Moon
“HOOLIGAN, THE WHITE HOPE -Cartoon
This Fine Program Will Finish with tin* Comedy
“THE MALE GOVERNESS’’"
Tonight at 8 Sharp Admission 30c and 10c
Minister Saved Money by “Dicker” With Footpad
BIRMINGHAM, AI.A.—A very Interesting story rame to light Sunday, when
It was related thnt a very distinguished minister of the Methodist church,
Dr. Pluto Durham, had been held up by a young white man as he alighted
from a car and startl'd toward the
place where he was stopping, lie hav
ing Just returned from a session of
the state Sunday school convention iajo,
at the First Methodist church.
The minister got off the car, and
as he wulked half a block away and
the car vanished he wus confronted
by a man who thrust a cocked pistol
against his Htornuch and demanded
that his hands go up.
"No, I won't raise my hands. Rut
what do you want? There Is no need
to shoot; Just tell me what you want and I will give you anything that I
have," suld Doctor Durham.
*'I want money, and 1 need It badly, and 1 am going to have It.”
"Well, I have $0, a five and four ones, here," replied Doctor Durham,
"and I will give you the four and I will keep the live, for I am a Methodist
minister, and you know that we preachers don't have much money, so I think
you ought to leave me the blg’end of it."
“Well, I'll he d-■" replied the amateur road agent: “ain’t this a - of
a business for n white man to be engaged In? Why, this Is a nigger’s Job;
but I tell you I need money, and l need it bad, so give me the tive and keep
the four ones.”
"No; 1 think you ought to leave me the biggest pile, for I am hard up,
too," replied the preacher; “so here are the four ones, and 1 will keep the
five-spot,” and he liumted the nightman the four one-dollar notes.
"All right,” said the unknown masked man; "but you won't shoot as I
walk away, or you won't report this to the police, will you?"
“No,” replied Dr. Plato Durham, and he has up to this hour kept his
word,
HAPPENINGS OF WCAL
AND PERSONAE INTEREST
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Two steamers from the westward
are due here on Sunday.
Charles Ross came in today from
his ranch at Strawberry point
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Dr. W H Chase will leave for Fort
I.lseum tonight to be examined for
service in France.
Fred Schiller has returned from
Abercrombie canyon, where he was
llshing, and will remain here
Superintendent Caleb Corner has
returned from a tour of inspection
over the Copper River railway
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Nineteen prisoners from Anchorage
are hooked to tie taken to the States
mi the steamship Northwestern.
1). II. White, manager of the Ka
| talla-Cordova long distance telephone
company, came over from Katalla yes
terday on a business trip.
Victor Swanberg, bookkeeper for
the Ohm Fish and backing Company,
came in from the plant tills morning
j to spend a few days here on business.
I’arke Griswold wrenched bis back
while working for the Alaska Trans
fer Company and is resting up for a
few days.
Today beter Cars, an employe of
the railroad, and John Kscabda, son
of the Indian chief at Chitina, were
Operated upon at the general hospital
by Dr. W. W Council.
James Watson will leave tonight for
Fort I.lseum to join the Fourteenth
infantry. He was registered in Se
attle, hut was transferred to Cor
dova. where he was inducted into the
service
Walter Gaffney has purchased a
gasoline launch, and Jack Kline gave
the new little craft a tryout Iasi night
in a run to Shepard's point, where he
had business with the captain of one
I of the Admiral boats.
Charles Spangler, the hostler, who
was recently arrested at Chitlna for
attempting to break into jail, is agfcin
in the tolls. While out on bail he
was caught in the act of packing away
a cord of wood, and is now in jail
awaiting trial on that charge.
Ktnll Hagen, a member of the U. S.
National Guards, came over from Fort
l.iscum on a few days' visit with his
old Cordova friends. Kniil is the
baker for the guards, and he has the
reputation of making bread that ap
peals to all the boys.
George Walsh in the live-act thrill
ing melodrama, "The Island of De
sire," an interesting educational pic
ture of the moon, Hooligan cartoon,
and the comedy, "Male Governess,"
will furnish a good entertainment at
tile Kmpress theater this evening
John Moore and Jerry O'I.earj ar
rived in town today on a launch from
Fidalgo bay. when1 they have been
working for the Ohm Fish Company
They intend upon their return in a
few days to engage tor themselves in
the business of putting up herring and
codfish.
The I’acilic Steamship Company's
freighter Admiral Walnwright left
here with Cl.u'o cases of canned sal
mon and 600 barrels of salted herring.
She will take on 8,000 more cases at
Yakutat and 15,000 cases in Southeast
ern Alaska, reaching Seattle with 66,
uou cases and 600 barrels of sea food,
a record cargo.
United States Deputy Marshal
James Milsap came down from Me
Carthy on yesterday afternoon’s
train, bringing with hint three pris
oners—D. Oliver, <’. i’aloni and Will
iam Sapas, who have been bound over
to the grand jury and will be taken
to Valdez on the next boat. They
are charged with being slackers,, for
failure to register under Section 5 of
the conscription act
There is a wrong impression as
to the standing of members of the
United States National Guards, who
rank second In the army. First come
the United States Regulars, then the
Guards, and third, the United States
National Army. The Guards are com
posed of a fine set of soldiers, who
are not mostly pro-Germans, as gener
ally believed, but men who have
slight physical defects which unfit
them for overseas service.
ILLUMINATED HONOR ILL j
OF MASONS IN SERVICE
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Lust evening Mount McKinley
■Lodge No. ’ fK?. F k A. M., was
presented with an Illuminated minor
[roll of Masons who have entered the
service of the government in the pres
ent world war. The names of the fol
lowing members appear on the roll:
Klmer it Caldwell. Harold t'had
i wick. John J Courtney, Harry llelvig,
. William B. C.ilbert. John (iillis, Angus
V. Ilalliday, Kinor Hoel. Clyde A. Net
tletoti, Harry Nettleton. Robert L.
I’atton, Theodor C. Thisted
It Is a work of art. and reflects
great credit upon Rev. K 1’. /.eigler.
who executed it. The honor roll has
been framed and now occupies a ron
i pil lions pla e on tin1 walls of the
lodge room, where it is greatly ad
mired by all wlio have seen it.
The interior ol tin- roll, in a deli
cate shading under tile names in
scribed. contains a painting of a
"charge of (he French soldiers.” with
the Victory of Samothraee in the skv.
The border is made up of acanthus
leaves. There are excellent minia
tures of (ieorge Washington and
Thomas Jefferson, Masonic emblems,
paintings of Valley Forge ami a naval
battle, a miniature copy of the origi
nal painting of Mount McKinley by
Sidney Laurence, In the possession of
Dan Dreenig. an airplane in flight and
a battle in the sky
SALVAGE WASTE MATERIAL
FOR NECESSITIES BE WAR
KL PASO, Texas, Aug. 1 Indus
trial alcohol made from cacti, overalls
for American soldiers in France and
old tin cans are some of the things
the war industrial survey has discov
ered of value in its recent survey of
K1 Paso. One local firm makes a
specialty of manufacturing blue denim
overalls, and It may be possible to
obtain cotton for these from the La
guna cotton fields, near Torreon, Mex
ico. The alcohol, used extensively in
the manufacture of munitions. Is man
ufactured at the cactus alcohol plant
near Fort Bliss from desert cacti. Tin
cans are bought at the smelter here
for the metal contained In them and
will be salvaged from the city dump
piles.
The "anglers" say "we have the
right kind of tackle to get the big
ones." Hetter outfit from the North
western Hardware Co
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Have you looked over our stock of
Congoleum rugs? The Northwestern
Hardware store.
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,\ new stork of and "0-caliber
Newton rifles for your inspection h
the Northwestern Hardware Co
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The Northwestern Hardware Com
pany has just received a shipment ot
"Ilpsolvo" sewer and drain pipe clean
ers.
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most for your money — the
most comfort, the most serv
ice, tlte most value.
For practical, everyday wear—
for lasting comfort—you can’t
beat the Buckhecht Army
Shoe. Made on the Munson
Fast—specified by the U. S.
Army — worn by all of our
soldiers and thousands of men
in civil life.
l.ook for our registered trade mirk
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every pair to protect you.
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Get the styleplus habit. You ||
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