The Cordova Daily Times
GREATER CORDOVA’S GREATEST NEWSPAPER
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H. G. STEEL—PUBLISHERS—C. H. SCHF.FFLER
H. G. STEEL, Editor and Manager
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“ALASKA DAYS WITH JOHN MUIR.7
The Daily Times is in receipt of a very interesting and
attractively printed book on “Alaska Days With John Muir.”
The author is our former townsman, Rev . S. Hall Young, an
Alaska pioneer and for many years superintendent of Presby
terian missions in this Territory. As the title of the book
would indicate, it is an account of Dr. Young’s associations with
the great naturalist. The book should have a place in all Alas
ka libraries. The descriptions are by one whose knowledge of
Alaska is thorough and whose graphic pen is directed by a
schollary mind. But, above all, is the intimate view the reader
gets of one of the greatest, if, indeed, not the greatest of the
Pacific Coast’s naturalists. •
Dr. Young came to Alaska in 1878, and the “Days” of
which he writes are those of the following two years when he
and John Muir explored the mountains and inlets of Alaska’s
Southeastern coast. Muir Glacier got its name from what
John Muir wrote about it following their visit to it.
“Alaska Days With John Muir” is from the publishing
house of Fleming II. Revell, of New York and Chicago. It is
neately printed and bound. It contains 226 pages and is sold
for one dollar.
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UPBUILDING OUR MERCHANT MARINE.
The editor of the Marine News of New York city proposes
for the advancement of the American merchant marine:
1. Graduated pay for ships of two classes for carrying the
mails under government contract according to a modification
of a law enacted 24 years ago. This would bike care of ships
on regular lines.
2. Return to the early preferential policy of import duties
and tonnage dues favorable to American shipping. The re
application of that old preferential policy in the manner of the
ante-bellum days would meet the requirements of American
trump steamers.
He believes in privately owned American steamers rather
than government owned lines.
This is one of several suggestions made to hoist the U. S.
merchant marine into international respectability. But there
is doubt if there is medicine strong enough to do this as long as
the LaFollette law is in force. That law, it now appears cer
tain, must be modified, though it was enacted with the good in
tention of benefiting American seamen. It will not benefit
them if it removes them from employment.
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The middle west has formed a league to promote the build
ing of a merchant marine and perhaps its first act will be to
scuttle Senator LaFollette.
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Barbers are coming back into their own. They are serving
as surgeons in Russia. Probably after amputating a leg the
barber says unctuously, as is the habit of the craft, “have it
stringed?”
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Photographs of the lynched Leo M. Frank are in tremend
ous demand for Georgia parlor albums. Perfectly natural that
the citizens who have lived through an achivement of such
moment should desire to leave to posterity visual evidence of it.
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According to an interview published on the Pacific coast
Isaac Guggenheim, head of the family that is so largely inter
ested in Alaska the Copper River & Northwestern railway will
be extended to the Bering river coal fields just as soon as the
government allows that fuel to be mined'.
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The trouble that the freighters are experiencing in taking
a cargo of copper concentrates from Prince William Sound to
Tacoma emphasizes the necessity of establishing a smelter at
Cordova, where these concentrates cen be brought on scows at
little cost and also avoid the danger of damage or loss to the big
boats, on account of this cargo shifting while in transit.
Cordovans learned with regret of the accident which yes
terday befell the steamer Admiral Watson in the Seattle har
bor. While the vessel was run into and sunk by another boat
it is gratifying to know that the Watson has been raised and as
soon as repaired will again be on this run. The Pacifie-Alaska
Company has also decided to add the Admiral Farragut to its
line ol‘ steamers to Southwestern Alaska.
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The Georgia vernacular is receiving wide dissenination.
Kx Governor Slaton talks on the enforcement of law; the mayor
of Atlanta apoligizes for the mob. The maj?or warns the ex
governor to stay away fro mliome; the ex-governor says he
expects to return on the date provided for in his tourist ticket,
namely September 15, and again excoriates Georgia for viola
tion of law. The mayor of Atlanta, even if he were correct in
assuming that Frank was guilty, is altogether wrong in condon
ing his lynching. He is pandering to the mob spirit and in
viting trouble when he warns Slaton to stay away. But the
public is enjoying the controversy, as it is throwing additional
light on the Georgia state of mind', which it may be sair with
out offense, because it is true, is vacuous in a few places.
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DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
Calls may be left at Cordova
Drug Store. Residence,
Rainier-Grand Hotel
DR. W. W. COUNCIL
a
Physician and Surgeon
Office at Company Hospital
Hours—10 to 12; 1 to 6 p. m.
DR. C. L. HALE
DENTIST
Office In Adams Building
ASA C. BALDWIN
Civil Engineer
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Patent Surveys
Address: Valdez, Alaska
GEO. F. WHITE
The Assayer
Assaying and Ore Testing
VALDEZ, ALASKA
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Established 1911. Formerly 12 years
with Tacoma Smelter
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Councellor at Law
Room 1
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA.
CLOTHES
CLEANED AND PRESSED
All Work Given Prompt
Attention
CHARLES GAME
E. A. HEGG
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PHOTOGRPHER
PHOTO SUPPLIES
Views and Post Cards
STATIONERY
PICTURES and FRAMES
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M. C. Thompson H. C. Murphy
The MECCA
Thompson 4L Murphy, Props
Dealers in
WINES, LIQUORS AND
CIGARS
Phone 107.
One Visit
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Make You
A
Regular Patron
At
Slater’s
Restaurant
Private Boxes
! For
Large or Small
Parties
I GOLD-COPPER
FOR SALE
A high grade Gold property, ten
miles from Valdez with several
hundred sacks of high grade ore
on the dump. This property ad
joins a producing mine and sev
eral velng of hig.h firade ore are
exposed on the surface of this
ground.
1 Also four groups of copper
properties on Prince William
Sound, adjoining navigable water.
All of these properties could be
made producers with a small
amount of money and for a party
who can open same up or can se
cure the capital to do so, this Is
an opportunity to make a fortune.
For prices and terms apply to
S A. HEMPLE, Valdez, Alaska
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FLO R DE
CLEAR HAVANA
QIGARS
MADE IN BOND
Lovera Cigars are Sold
by all Best Dealers
Schwabacher Bros, and Co. Inc.
-Distributors
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
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®\ ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
Fast and commodloua steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketch
ikan. Wrangell, Juneau. Skagway, Cordova. Valdez, Seward and
SHIP CREEK, via INSIDE PASSAGE
Sails from Seattle— Sails from Cordova
August 13.ALAMEDA.August 23
August 20.NORTHWESTERN.August 29
Regular freight service Tor Ketchikan, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez ard Latouche. Explos
ives, 8. S. Seward. S. S. Seward, 5th; S. S. Latouche, 15th; S. 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
gr freight will not bs received at the dock later than one hour before A
sailing time. *
F. B. TRACY, T. J. TALLENT,
General Agent Ticket Agent
Pacific-Alaska Navigation Co.
ALASKA PACIFIC S. S. CO. ALASKA COAST CO.
PUGET SOUND-ALASKA ROUTE V
Next sailing from Seattle will be
ADMIRAL FARRAGUT, September 5
ADMIRAL EVANS, September 15
Via the IN8IDE PAS8AGE for Ketchikan, Juneau, Yakutat,
Katalla, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Cook Inlet points and Kodiak
Island.
Seattle-San Francisco connecting with steamers Yale and Har
vard for Southern California Ports.
Schedule subject to change without Notice.
ALASKA TRANSFER L(J., Local Agents
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Effective June 12th, 1915.
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Two trains every six days between Cordova and g
g Chitina, one of these trains leaving Cordova making g
g connection with Alaska Steamship Co. steamers arriving
g from Seattle.
Trains between Chitina and Shushanna Junction, |
g and Kennecott connect with trains between Chitina and
8 Cordova.
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All trains from Cordova leave from Second Street g
g Depot.
Dining Car In Connection With all Regular Pessenger Train* Be
tween Cordova and Chitina.
The above schedule subject to change without notice.
Freight received from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M.
Tickets on sale at Depot or up-town office, Alaska g
g Steamship Company building
| Caleb Corser S. R. Hedges
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