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H G. STEEL, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
CORDOVA, ALASKA. Till RHDAY, APRIL I d 1!»U;.
NORTHERN AIR ROUTES.
The recent decision of the United States government to
call for bids for carrying the mail over a number of Alaskan
routes in summer and winter lias attracted attention through
out the world, and everywhere the comment is favorable. Thu
press everywhere recognizes the feasibility ot the plans. Not
on I v are the ideas endorsed along the lines of economy and least
resistance, but as ends to quickest possible delivery and fre
quent service.
With aeroplanes now being designed to earn fifty pas
sengers, and aeroplaning proved practically as safe as other
means of travel, when the circus and acrobatic feats of dare
devils are eliminated, no doubt the air routes are destined soon
io handle no little share of passenger as well as express and light
freight business.
Tile world moves rapidly in this day. rl eii years ago such
service was hevond the dreams oi the masses, and scarcely
thought of by the most imaginative. Now all are ready to
concede the practicability, while the most alert in each com
munity are ardent advocates of the aeroplane for service in re
mote field's as much as they are of the radio telegraph system
for spanning stretches of sea waste and land wilderness and
desert areas.
The Northland is not going to be behind the times. Alaska
is moving. Yukon must shake itself, and get in the procession.
Soon the expert aeroplane men returning from the wars will
supply Canada and America with a great corps of flyers for
tin- commercial air routes. These daring and enterprising men
will not remain idle, a.id the\ will not fail to find moneyed'
men ready to back them. It i> a safe venture that ere many
moons Yukon will be in the procession, bawsou News.
A GASOLINE EXPLOSION.
The price of gasoline seems to be on the mind of Congress.
The senators are as fussed up over it as though the fate of the
nation depended upon tomorrow ’s figure, which it isn’t. The
price of gasoline is important to many public carriers, and, in
,i reflective way, is important to the consumers of other com
modities. It can not, however, go so high as to compel mer
chants to increase prices on the commodities which their truck
deliver, nor will the jitney cease to be a .jitney. To the thou
sands who drive cars for pleasure, the increasing price is a
blessing in disguise. Their legs have been in need of a shak
ing these many months. The price of gasoline really is not of
much consequence to the great majority.
But the prices of many other things, including some of the
supposedly fundamental necessaries, are of great importance to
the great public, and, if the Senate is of a mind to go into the
business of price regulation, let it not be content merely with
dabbling in gasoline.
Merchants are of the opinion that they are being dra
gooned in some instances by manufacturers, who not only ar
bitrarily are lifting prices to the pearly empyrean, but are try
ing at the same time to frighten them into buying before it
everlastingly is too late, with the result, as the report goes, that
some are over buying. The war panic has us in its jaws. We
are nightmaring ourselves into a vast armament frenzy, sell
ing off whatever we have to those who are angry, and growing
angrier, at us for doing so or not doing so; depriving ourselves
of vast resources for the benefit of a few; and we are riding to
a fall that is likely to shake the shekels out of our jean- faster
than they have been put in.
The I’nited States Senate, by the judicious clapping on of
a few well riveted embargoes, could do more for the country
in sixty days than can be done with twenty years of gasoline
investigation and legislation.
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HOW MAYOR O’CONNOR “CAME BACK.”
The election returns from Alaska municipalities this week
tell no more interesting tale than that of the “coming hack” ofi
former mayor ami Mayor-elect Michael J. O’Connor, of Doug-|
las. It was stated only a few weeks ago, after the defeat of his!
ticket for delegates to the Republican territorial convention,!
that he had been disposed of in Douglas for “good and all.”)
Hut here he comes back and leads a successful ticket at the mil-!
nieipal election with himself at the head of the poll. And that
is not all, a clear majority of all the electors of his city gave him
their votes.
Whatever else one may think about it, there is none who:
must not admit that Mayor <)’Connor is not a “dead one,” and
that he is entitled to warm congratulations.—Juneau Empire.
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Valdez can show more men over six toot than any other j
town in Alaska, considering her population is but 1,200. We
have probably 100 citizens who will scale six feet and several
who can scratch their heads at six feet four.—Valdez Miner.
The best wav to tow a presidential boom is to let it drift,
is the experience of Justice Hughes.
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Cmbrellas ribs are up 500 per cent, which means that um
brellas will be more difficult to raise.
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Mr*. Catherine J. Palmer, Proprietor
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DR. W. H. CHASF
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Address: Valdez, Alaska
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Attorney and Counsellor at Law
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STEAMSHIP CO. ,
Fast and commodious steamers sai'lng between Srattie, Ketch
ikan, Wrangell. Juneau. Skagway, Cordova. Valder, Seward and
ANCHORAGE, via INSIDE PASSAGE.
Hails from Seattle. Sails from Cordova.
April 11.NORTHWESTERN.April 20
April 20. ALASKA . April 28
Regular freight service for Ketcnlkan, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglaa, Cordova, Fllamar, Valdez ard Latouche. Exploe
Ives, S. S. Seward S. S. Seward, 5th; S. 8. Latouche, 15th; S. 8.
Cordova, 25th of each month. SL
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.
F. B. TRACY, T. J. TALLENT, 1
_General Agent_ Ticket Apent |
Pacific-Alaska Navigation Co. [
ALASKA PACIFIC S. S. CO. ALASKA COAST CO.
PUGET SOUND-ALASKA ROUTE
Next sailing from Seattle will be
FARRAGUT.April 16
WATSON.April 23
EVANS.April 30
Via the INSIDE PASSAGE for Ketchikan, Juneau, Yakutat,
Katalla, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Cook Inlet points and Kodiak
Island.
Seattle-San Franclaco connecting with steamera Yale and Har
vard for Southern California Porta.
Schedule aubject to change without Notice.
ALASKA TRANSFER CO., Local Agents
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Copper River &
Northwestern Ry.
Effective October 4th, 1915.
Two trains every six days between Cordova and
Chitina, one of these trains leaving Cordova making lii
connection with Alaska Steamship Co. steamers arriving jM
from Seattle. §V
Trains leave Cordova depot, at foot of Second Avenue, !;ij
Mondays and Thursdays.
Leave Kennecott, Tuesdays and Fridays.
Leave Kennecott for Chitina, Wednesday and Saturdays. |
Leave Chitina for Cordova, Tuesdays and Fridays.
The above schedule subject to change without notice. %
Dining Car In Connection With all Regular Peeeenger Train* Be
tween Cordova and Chitina. ™
Freight received from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. ijij
Tickets on sale at Depot or up-town office, Alaska l|
Steamship Company building
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Caleb Corser S. R. Hedges
Superintendent Cordova Agent l§
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Aeroplane Motors
Investigate these motors for driving aeroplanes, &
flying boats, pleasure and fishing boats, scows, etc. Can
be attached in half an hour; 16 to 80 horse-power. %
Adopted by railroad commission.
K.-W. Spark Coils and Magnetos. Everything for ig
the boat. g;
Harmon Machinery Co Inc |
Oxy-Acetylene Welding. §!
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