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GOSSIP ABOUT
YOUR FRIENDS
Joseph Most returned on today’s
train to Abercrombie.
Chief Clerk R. J. De Leo went out
the line on today’s train on a trip of
inspection.
Hub Bollinger has returned from
Port Wells, where he finished driving
a fish trap.
The steamship Alameda left Ketchi
kan at 6 o’clock last night and is due
here on Wednesday.
Mrs. George Guyer, who has been
visiting her sister, Mrs. Arthur Holt,
today returned to her home at Chitina.
Dr. W. W. Council, Roy E. Hegg and
Frank Cunningham left early Sunday
morning for Montague island in search
of bear.
Len Cox left on this morning’s train
for the north end to relieve George
Buchanan, who has been summoned
to Valdez for jury duty.
A meeting of the Cordova fire de
partment will be held tomorrow even
ing and a full attendance of members
is requested.
Peter Lorentzen and two partners
from Fairbanks will go into the hali
but fishing business, having fitted up
the boat Sound for that purpose.
A force of carpenters are today re
modeling the front and making other
changes in the old Empress theatre
building, which is to be occupied by
The Club billiard hall.
Hereafter the Copper River railway
will run two trains a week from here,
connecting with the boats. The north
end local will be taken off and the
train to Chitina will run through to
Kennecott the following day.
Yesterday six soldiers returned in
a launch from Fort Liscum, where
they were mustered out of service,
after having been discharged) from
Camp Grant. They were Ed. Oss, Wal
ter Haws, Paul August, Martin Beng
sten, James Byrnes and Leon Chat
rink, all of whom enlisted from Cor
dova and the Copper river valley, ex
cepting Chatrink who is from Fair
banks. It is said that there are forty
more Alaska boys at Fort Lawton,
awaiting transportation to this terri
tory, where they will be mustered
out.
Ernie Miller recently came down
from McCarthy and will be associated
with Tom Cloninger when he opens
The Club billiard hall.
The cableship Burnside has located
the break in the cable between Valdez
and Sitka and It Is believed that It
will be repaired by tomorrow.
Charles Ray in “The Family Skele
ton,” and a late Hearst-Pathe News
this evening at the Empress theatre.
Everybody liked Charles Ray in “The
Pinchhitter” and "The Clodhopper,’1
and you will like him in “The Family
Skeleton.”
LABORllON
PUTS UP MAN
FORDEEGATE
Following up a movement that was
started in Chicago some months ago
for labor to enter politics the Ketchi
kan local of the Alaska union has
named J. L. Jones of Ketchikan as
candidate for delegate to congress, it
is announced, and have wired other
locals in the territory, asking that he
be endorsed.
Labor leaders say that they are in
the field to make a big fight for the
office and they will try to secure the
aid of all union men in the territory,
as well as others.
With the entrance of Mr. Jones into
the race there will be at least two
candidates in the field. George
Grigsby, attorney general of the ter
ritory, will stand as a candidate of
the Democratic party.
There is yet much time for other
candidates to appear, if they can se
cure sufficient backing to get their
names on the ballot, as the law under
which the special election is to be held
provides that nominees may be put
up almost any time before election
day.
Big reduction in yarn at $1.10 per
hank at the Cordova Dry Goods Co. 7-3
Tub and shower baths at the Holden
pool room barber shop. 9-tf
Best coffee in town at the City
Bakery. 2-6t
Special dinner served from 11:30
o’clock every day at the City Bakery.
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NATIVES FEEL
THEYHAVEA
GRIEVANCE
Just because Christopher Columbus
dubbed the copper-skinned aborigines
of American Indians, in the belief that
he had run into India on his historic
voyage from Spain, is no reason why
the natives should be continually
called Indians.
So complains The New Native, the
only native Indian newspaper in
Alaska, set up, printed, published ^nd
circulated by native school boys jkd
girls without outside assistance at'Hf
daburg, Alaska. The New Native fee
gan circulation early this year and
is issued semi-monthly until "the
type setting class acquires sufficient
speed to get out every week.”
In complaining against the name In
dian, the native paper says.
“America, beloved land, took its
name from Amerlcus Vespuclus. The
great honor was misplaced. Columbus
the discoverer should have had the
honor. Then our great country would
be Columbia. Columbus called the new
people of tanned complexion Indians.
He thought he had reached India, east
of Europe, hence the name. The poor
fellow died before the real facts came
to light. The aborigines of Alaska re
sent being called Indians and prefer
the name ‘Native.’ ”
Industry and Education Urged
The days of Indian ceremony, in
cluding the ancestral medicine man
and the potlatch, no longer have a
place in the romantic life of our north
ern Indians. Instead of these and
other ceremonials, which are con
demned by the native newspaper, in
industry, thrift, and” education are
urged. One of the pages shows a re
production, made into a newspaper
cut by the editor with a sharp knife,
and a hardwood block, of a memorial
window of the village church. To the
departed natives this memorial is
dedicated. It replaces the Indian pot
latch as a means of showing reverence
to the departed.
Hydaburg Has Model School
Hydaburg has a population of less
than 500 Indians. Here the govern
ment, under the direction of W. T.
Lopp, chief of the Alaska division jand
superintendtnt of the natives
Alaska, with headquarters in Seattle,
is conducting a model school. A coop
erative sawmill, store and other en
terprises are carried on by the na
tives. Mr. Lopp returned last week
from an inspection tour of the district
and brought back with him the first
copies of the Indian newspaper and
the news that the enterprising/natives
had just held a prosperous village
fair.
An event in Hydaburg must be of
primary importance before it “breaks
in” the news columns of the New Na
tive. To illustrate, the following news
paragraphs are reprinted, as written,
from the newspaper::
“The mill has full team up as we
go to press.
“Whe nthe priitng class has acquir
ed a great degree of rapidity in type
setting we hope to come odt weekly.
Until then it will be twice monthly.
Population Increases
“Population increases—Mr. and Mrs.
Natoong had a visitor yesterday from
the stork at 9 a. m., who brought a
lovely guest with him. a sweet baby
girl.
“The town council is busy making
dog tags.
“The kaiser has taken the title of
Count. We grant him the title of “no
account.’
“We wonder why so many nice
girls in Hydaburg remain single and
unharnessed.
“Why does not some native start to
salt and pack herring?
“Our reporter took very copious
notes at the convention but we regret
our shortage of type.
"Raeding a newspaper without pay
ing for it is like riding on a jitney
without paying the fare.” — Seattle
Post-Intelligencer.
Would whoever borrowed Louis
Hile's wagon from in front of the
tailor shop kindly phone 188 and he
will call for it. 26-tf
Tour eyes fitted. Compound and
stlgmatlc lenses replaced. See Os
borne.
The best and quickest route to Fair
banks and interior points. Burgess
Karstens Auto Line, Chltlna, Alaska.
The celebrated K-W Spark Colls are
for sale by the Northwestern Hard
ware Co. 14-tf
NOTICE
The dog ordinance is to be strictly
enforced and ownerB of canines must
take care of them or the city will do
it for them, as there is to be a general
cleanup of all d<ws running at large.
POLICE AND HEALTH COMMITTEE
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