The Cordova Daily Times
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COlflX )\' A, ALASKA, M<>X1>AV. SK1TK.MHKK Jn. 1!>ir>.
IS EVERYTHING OUT OF JOINT.
Can the stag-gazers inform us what warring planets are in
conjunction now? Have the elements caught the infection from
the razed nations of Europe and turned the world over to dis
cord and violence. Floods in British Columbia, the hurricane .
that smoote and' wrecked the Texan coast, the deluge at St.
Louis; the overturning and murders of the Eastland in Chicago;
the moh in Georgia; the hell in Mexico;—has mankind gone
mad and all nature’s elements lost control of themselves? Is
the course of nature being retarded by hot boxes in its running
gear? It begins to look that way and no one can read the por
tents whether a millenium of peace is about to be ushered in, or
a falling back to original chaos.
THE WAR’S LOSSES.
The story of the war losses in men is beginning to come
across the sea. Nothing like it was ever read before. “Only
so many millions killed and wounded” is the burden of the
news. So many millions killed', so many millions maimed, to ■
be tax upon friends and the state so long as they live. And
how many million of hearts are broken because of those dead?
And what for? Nothing that could not have been peaceably
settled save for ambition, pride and lust for more territory and
more power.
Will the result be a lifting up of the poor and an insistence
on their part that they must be consulted before the next war is
sprung?
If it could have that effect the sacrifice would not have been
entirely in vain.
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GRAVES’ EYES ARE OPENED.
The tour of Alaska lias opened the eyes of Henry S. Graves,
chief of the forest service of the United States. He find's that
instead of placing redtape restrictions about Alaskans and
classing them as thieves who are trying to steal something be
longing to the whole people of the United States, that they need
encouragement; that, in fact, they are up against a hard game
in trying to make a commercial empire out of the Northland and
that pioneering in Alaska is no joke.
The Dispatch repeats that every man who settles on the
public domain in Alaska to make himself a farm; every miner
who devotes the better part of his life to prospecting for min
eral in the face of real hardships, such as are encountered north,
and every housholder who settles in the more isolated com
munities of Alaska away from all that they hold dear, should be
given a premium, instead of having technical penny-a-liner
clerks in Washington, D. C., camping upon his trail to discover
technical fraud in his location and dispute his good intentions.
Mr. Graves glimpsed something of this when lu* made the great
swing around the Arctic circle.
When he rturns to Washington he promises to do all in his
power to encourage and assist Alaskans and help overcome the
sentiment which has wrought this territory so much damage al
ready in keeping back and retarding development. The Dis
patch believes he is sincere. If he will do this, if he will carry
out his promises and let his freshly formed impressions of Alas
kans and conditions sweep him past the dry rot of redtape
regulations which have been strangling enterprise in the North^
he will have earned the blessing of all Alaskans and have ma
terially assisted in creating another great commercial empire
under the American flag.
As Mr. Graves well stated that the work of developing the
resources of Alaska are too great for the people to accomplish
unless given the fullest encouragment at the hands of congress.
There is only one other way in which Alaska can be fully
developed—for Congress to throw off all its leading strings and
allow the people themselves to handle their own affairs. If
Alaska was entirely independent of Congress and all judicial
and administrative and executive matters were left to the peo
ple, the country would rapidly realize its great commercial and
industrial possibilities. The next nearest workable plan to that
is full statehood. Meantime, Congress should release its
strangle-hold and give the Red-headed orphan a chance to
grow. Mr. Graves seems willing to do his part. The Dispatch
hopes so.—.Juneau Dispatch.
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The chief naval coaling station of the Pacific will be at
Seward! The claims of any other place are something like the
claims of Portage Bay as the terminal of the government rail
road. Seward, first of all, is hundreds of miles closer to the
states than any other port on the route of the government rail
road, and it is a port from which coal may be taken at any time
of the year. THESE ARE TWO VITAL FACTS WHICH
ML ST BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT BY THE NAVY DE
PARTMENT SHOULD THE COUNTRY EVER BE THREAT
ENED WITH WAR!—Seward Gateway.
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We note that C. K. Snow, the father of the prohibition bill
in the late legislature, does not allow his grape-juice tendencies
to interefer with the income of his newspaper, the Ruby Record'
Citizen, to such an extent as to refuse advertising from the
saloons. The Record-Citizen carries two such, and one of them
right at the bottom of the editorial column.—Fairbanks Citizen. *
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CHITINA ALASKA
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DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Jffice over Cordova Drug Store.
Calls may be left at Cordova
Drug 8tore. Residence,
Rainier-Grand Hotel
DR. W. W. COUNCIL
Physician and Surgeon
Office at Company Hospital
Sours—10 to 12; 1 to 6 p. m.
DR. C. L. HALE
D E N T I 8 T
Office In Adams Building
ASA C. BALDWIN
Civil Engineer
Patent Surveys
Address: Valdez, Alaska
GEO. F. WHITE
The Assayer
Assaying and Ore Testing
VALDEZ, ALASKA
Established 1911. Formerly 12 years
with Tacoma Smelter
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E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Counsellor at Law
Room 1
Adams Block CORDOVA. ALASKA.
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Attention
CHARLES GAME
E. A. HEGG
PHOTOGRAPHER
PHOTO SUPPLIES
Views and Post Cards
STATIONERY
PICTURES and FRAMES
M. C. Thompson H. C. Murphy
The MECCA
Thompson & Murphy, Props
Dealers >n
WINES, LIQUORS AND
CIGARS
Phone 107.
One Visit
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Make You
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Regular Patron
At
Slater’s
Restaurant
Private Boxes
For
Large or Small
Parties
GOLD-COPPER
FOR SALE
A high grade Gold property, ten
mllee from Valdea with several
hundred sacka of high grade ore
on the dump. Thla property ad
joins a producing mine and sev
eral veing of high flrade ore are
properties on Prince William
exposed on the surface of this
ground.
Also tour groups of copper
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 flthke a fortune.
For prices and terms apply to
S A. HEMPLE, Valdez, Alaska
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UppIIoIeI
CANNED GOODS
HIGHEST GRADE I
Selected Vegetables i|
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Fast and commodious steamers sailing between 8eattle, Ketch
ikan. Wrangell. Juneau. Skagway, Cordova, Valdez, Seward and
ANCHORAGE, via INSIDE PASSAGE.
8alls from Seattle— Sails from Cordova—
September 9.... NORTHWESTERN_September 18
September 14.MARIPOSA.September 23
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez ard Latouche. Explos
ives, 8. 8. Seward. 8. 8. Seward, 5th; 8. 8. Latouche, ‘iSth; 8. 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
or freight will not be received at the dock later than one hour before
sailing time. „
P. B. TRACY, T. J. TALLENT, ^
General Agent Ticket Agent
Pacific-Alaska Navigation Co.
ALA8KA PACIFIC 8. 8. CO. ALA8KA COAST CO.
PUGET SOUND--ALASKA ROUTE
Next sailing from SeAtle will be ^
ADMIRAL FARRAGUT, September 5
ADMIRAL EVANS, September 15
Via the INSIDE PASSAGE for Ketchikan, Juneau, Yakutat,
Katalla, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Cook Inlet points and Kodiak
Island.
Seattle-San Francisco connecting with steamers Yale and Har
vard »or Southern California Ports.
Schedule subject to change without Notice.
ALASKA TRANSFER CO., Local Agents
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| Copper River &
j Northwestern Ry
Effective June 12th, 1915.
Two trains every six days between Cordova and £
ji;i Chitina, one of these trains leaving Cordova making ;i>
•iji connection with Alaska Steamship Co. steamers arriving :
jiji from Seattle.
Trains between Chitina and Shushanna Junction, %
jiji and Kennecott connect with trains between Chitina and |i
ll Cordova. j|
All trains from Cordova leave from Second Street :
jiji Depot.
Dining Car in Connection With all Regular Pessenger Trains Be
tween Cordova and Chitina. i?
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 £
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