GOVERNESS GETS
CREDIT MATCH
ROME, Dec. 22. — The least known
and yet one of the most influential wo
• men in Italy at present is Miss Mar
garet Brown, the English governess
of three of the girls of the royal
family.
Since the publication of the arrange
ment of a marriage between Edward
Albert, Prince of Wales, heir apparent
to the English throne, and Princess
Yolanda, eldest daughter of the king
and queen of Italy, the position of this
humble governess as the domestic
power behind the throne is said to
have been greatly strengthened.
Should the marriage between young
Edward and the wealthiest royal heir
ess of Europe take place, as is expect
ted, Miss Brown will receive due credit
as the matchmaker.
The mystery that has grown up
around the personality of Miss Brown
is one of the sources of her influence.
Also, it is of the kind that pleases
the king, who has a horror of the pub
licity which his position forces upon
him. Those persons of the court life
who dislike Miss Brown because of
her confidential position, because of
her power to hold her tongue, and her
custom of standing beside the queen's
chair during receptions, have tried
in vain to discover exactly who she is.
To date, all they have learned is that
she is a strong minded person of some
45 years, who appeared on the scene
at the birth of Yolanda, the first child,
and who has been in charge of the i
children ever since. It appears that
the king and queen wanted their child
ren brought up after the English fash
ion, and that Miss Brown was recom
mended by some member of the Eng
lish royalty.
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TOWN OP CORDOVA.
Municipal Taxes.
Town taxes are now due and pay
able to the town treasurer, H. I.
O'Neill, at his office.
Said taxes will be delinquent on
the second Monday in February, 1917,
at the hour of 6 o'clock p. m. Upon
all unpaid taxes after that time a pen
alty of five per cent will ve collected.
11. I. O'NEILU,
Town Treasurer.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 22. — Although
the majority of the eastern college
football schedules for the season of
1917 are still in the making, it is evi
dent that intersectional games will
be featured to a record extent next
autumn. The popularity of these con
tests proved one of the oustanding fea
tures of the past fall, and it is certain
that they will be duplicated on a
larger scale next year. If various ru
mors and reports have any basis in
fact not only will there be more of
these intersectional games, but the
larger and more important colleges of
the east, middle west and far west
will appear upon the schedules of
teams many hundred miles removed
from their own campus.
Whatever next season’s play may
bring forth in the way of victory or
defeat, the eastern college elevens
have no reason to be ashamed of their
records made in the intetpectlonal
;r; idiron struggles of last fall. Dur
ing the months of October and Novem
ber eastern teams participated in 18
intersectional games against southern
or middle western elevens, winning 15,
tying two and losing one.
In six games against the middle
west five were won and one lost, when
Michigan nosed out Syracuse by a
score of 14 to 13. In these six con- i
tests the eastern elevens rolled up
4 total of 103 to 64 points. Michigan j
was the only team to figure in more I
than one game, the Wolverines play-1
Ing three, losing to Pennsylvania and !
Cornell and winning from Syracuse.
Against the southern teams the east
lid still better. All told twelve games
were played, of which ten were won
*nd two tied. West Virginia held
Dartmouth to a 7 to 7 score, and Rut
gers played Washington and I.ee a
13 to 13 tie game. The total number
yf points scored in the intersectional
fontests were: East, 270; south, 36;
making the aggregate for the eighteen
earnest East, 373; opponents, 100 If
the University of Pittsburg and
Georgetown University are considered
is eastern combinations the score can
be increased still further, while if
Georgetown, with the southern institu
tions, its victory over Dartmouth, 10
to 0, gives the south one win in addi
tion to the two ties.
Baseball statisticians continue in
lustriously to delve Into Pacific coast
league records for material with which
o regulate winter months of the en
husiaBts.
Bos Angeles, 1916 Coast League
hampions, never dropped below the
first division during the year; Port
land and Salt Lake never stopped over
night in second place, although both
teams stayed a few days in first place
U various times during the year.
With these three exceptions every club
in the league finished at least one
playing day in every position from
top to the cellar in the ponnant race
ranking.
Counting two Mondays, when games
were played, there were 182 playing
days in the 1916 season. Of these Oak
land spent 143 days in last place, and
was in first place seven days. Port
land spent 23 days in last place and
three in first place; the fourth place
San Francisco was on top for seven
lays and the bottom one day; the third
place Salt Lake was on top four day*
In third place 21 days, and spent nine
days In last place of the 157 days that
Salt Lake was rated as a second di
vision outfit. The second place Ver
non club was in last place one day
and only spent six other days In the
second division; for sixty days Ver
non was in first place and for 95 days
in second place. The league cham
pion Angels were In first place 113
days, in second place 49 days and
only dropped as low as third place for
20 days.
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THE WOMAN WHO RECEIVES
her guests under the soft light of elec
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this feels at her best No other light
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your home is not equipped for and
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you should have it so at once.
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EFFECTIVE MAY 1, 1916.
Three Trains Weekly Between Cordova and Chitina.
£1 Four Trains Weekly Between Chitina and Kennecott.
Leave Cordova, Second Street Depot, on Mondays, Thurs
days and Saturdays.
1 Leave Chitina for Cordova Sundays, Tuesdays and
it;. Fridays.
If Leave Chitina for Kennecott Sundays, Tuesdays, Thurs
days and Fridays.
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| Thursdays and Saturdays.
The above schedule subject to change without notice.
Dining Car In Connection With all Regular Peeeenger Tralna Be
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