BATCH OF NEW
WAR - SAVINGS
STAMPS HERE
1'ntil recently there was some doubt
as to jitHt what would be done about
the thrift and war savings stamps that
have been issued by the government.
The matter lias been all set straight
by the receipt at the Cordova post
office of a pamphlet telling all about
it. ami after that the office received
the tew issue of stamps
Tile previous issues of war stamps
were green in color, bearing the head
of Washington upon them. They were
placed on sale the (irst of last year
at tie- price of $4.12 each, with a raise
in price of 1 cent for each month, be
ing sold for $4.22 in the month of
December. Ibis. At maturity on .Ian.
!, 1222. they will be worth $.'. each.
They were affixed to certificates that
held twenty stamps.
The new issue of 1 !• 11* is blue in
color, slightly smaller than the 191S
issue, and bear the head of Franklin
upon them. They will be sold during
the month of January for $4.12 ami
will raise in price 1 cent each month.
They will mature on January 1. 1924.
one year later than the previous issue.
The little green thrift stamps cost
ing 2.. cents each will continue to be
Issued in the same manner as for
merly, and may be exchanged at any
time for stamps of tho new issue when
the difference in price between the
value of the full card and the going
price of the war stamp is paid No
one need to redeem their cards until
they wish to. as ample warning will
be given before the issuance of stamps
ceases.
War HiivingH Htampa of the iHHtie of
1919 can not be affixed to certlflcaten
having Htamps of the iHBue of 1918
upon them, but new oertlflcateH will
be given with the new HtampH.
TO CULTIVATE
SOIL BY USE
OFTRACTORS
(IKK AT FALLS. .Mont. Jan If ( by
Associated Frews) Wheat will be
•harvested next fall from one of the
, world's largest farms, comprising
! about 200,(MM) acres of Indian lands
iu Montana and Wyoming. Of this
big tract, about 333,000 acres of irri
j gated land have been plowed and
I weeded, and the remainder, it is an
nounced. will lie cultivated during the
■ coming summer
The land is located on the Crow
| lilackfeet and Fort Feck reservations
in Montana and the Wing River reset
| vat ion in Wyoming. To make this
land productive a corporation witl
I $2,000,000 capital was organized las
spring when Thomas I). Campbell. ;
| North Dakota farmer, conceived th»
J idea of cultivating the thousandw o
acres of the Indian lands in Montana
and Wyoming. He lacked the capital
but obtained the approval and as
sistance of the secretary of the in
terior. Franklin K. lame, and J. F
Morgan and other Heading New York
bankers. The corporation was thei
1 formed, with several of these bank
ers as members of the board of di
rectors and Mr Campbell as presi
dent.
On this huge farm not a horse will
used. Instead large tractors, ca
pahle of turning over large quanti
ties of prairie sod. were purchased, in
all fifty-two of these machines are
now the property of the corporation,
and the plowing record for last sum
mer was more than one acre a min
ute for the working time, on one
day 1.NS0 acres were turned ami
broken.
It is proposed to organize the farm
into a.nuo acre units, each with it*
own group of permanent buildings,
modernlv equipped and in charg** of
a competent farm manager. Kach
farm will be separately managed. Con
tracts for the leasing of tin- land on
long term agreements have been exe
cuted with the government through
Secretary Lane.
Many acres of similar land exist in
practically all of the Pacific coast
slates, as well as in Colorado, and
steps are being taken to open that
land to tin* returning soldiers. No
steps have thus far been taken in
Montana to invite soldiers to settle
on the uncultivated land.
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AGREEMENT IS REACHED
FOR RAILROAD CONTROL
TOKiO. Jan H (!iy A -,,,i .■!
Dress). It is reported that Japan and
the United States have reached an
agreement regarding joint control of
the Chinese and Kastern Silu rian rail
roads operated under a joint commis
sion. of which John F Stevens, the
American engineer, is president.
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Now is ilte time to have voiir
clothes disinfected by having them
thoroughly renovated at Tom Hub
hert's. a;;t
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well equipped for all classe of com
mercial printing.
NEW SLED IS
INVENTED FOR
ALASKA USE
Mashers for many years have beef
crossing huskies with wolves, St Her
minis with wolves, ami different spe
cb s of dogs, with the hope of finding
a more perfect animal for the arduous
tasks of the Northern trail, and have
met with some success. Hut now
comes K. (;. Horner, a resident o
Alaska for twenty years, who has in
vented a sled, a cross between a war
tank and an old-fashioned dog sled
which he claims will do tin; work of i
dozen dom teams and in less time.
Mr. Horner's invention has all tin
features of the ordinary dog sled, ex
cept that it is longer. On either side
are wheels with light caterpillar
treads, working as do the war tanks
In front of the sled is a rudder
worked hv a wheel in tin- rear, am
which can he regulated to cut deej
into the snow or just skim it lightly
T! motor which propels the sled is
in the rear, and is sufficiently heav>
to weigh down tin- hack of the mn
chine so that as it glides over tin
snow it has much tin* effect of a hy
droplam* in water.
Yesterday tin* machine was demon
strafed at Twelfth avenue and Madi
son street, and while there was m
snow for it to plow through, it was
plainly seen that it would dev* lop ;
high speed and that it would carry ;
good load.
Early next month Mr Horner will
go to Alaska to demonstrate tin* prac
ticability of his invention under work
ing conditions. |{epr*-entati v«s of
the* war and postal departments will
he in attendance, tin* inventor says,
and if their report an* favorable In*
expects tin* government to purelm-**
a numb, r of tin* -b*d for u • in Si
b. r: i. One of ’In- teatur- ot tin
machine whic h make it pra* Meal lot
use in th> far North is that it has an
improved air-cooh d motor S* atth
I*.»-1 Intelligence r
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NEW CHAIRMAN OF
COMMITTEE ON TERRITORI
Word comas from Washington that
Representative Charles F. Curry of
Sacramento, Cal, will be chairman of
the committee on territories in the
next national house of representatives,
succeeding Representative W. ('.
Houston of Tennessee. The committee
on territories has charge of Alaska
legislation.
Representative Albert Johnson of
Washington is the senior Republican
member of the committee on terri
tories. hut the retirement from con
gress of Representative K. A. Hayes
of California also leaves him the sen
ior Republican member of the com
mittee on immigration and naturaliza
tion. mil it is understood that he pro
fers the chairmanship of that commit
tee t i the committee on territories.
Curry ranks next behind Johnson
among the Republicans on the com
mittee on territories.
As chairman of the committee on
immigration. Johnson will succeed
Representative John R. Burnett of Ala
bama.
Representative Curry has been
elected to congress four times. Be
fore going to congress he served
twelve years as secretary of state for
the state of California. Previous to
that he was county clerk of San Fran
cisco. going there from a position In
the San Francisco postoffice.
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If you change your address, do not
notify the carrier boy--report your
now address to the office.
NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT OF
ACCOUNT
in the United States Commissioner's
Court, Cordova Precinct, Territory
of Alaska (In Probate).
In the Matter of the Estate of Gun
nartl Johnson. Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that V. G.
Vance, administrator of the estate of
Guimard Johnson, deceased, has ren
dered and presented for settlement to,
and filed in the probate court of said
Cordova precinct, his final account as
such administrator, and that Tuesday,
the 15th day of April, 1919, at 10
o’clock a. m„ at the court room of our
said probate court at Cordova, Alaska,
has been duly appointed by the pro
bate court for the settlement of the
final account, at which time and place
any person interested in said estate
may appear and file his exceptions in
writing to the said final account and
contest the same.
Witness the Hon.
(Seal) A. J. ADAMS,
Judge of the said Probate Court, and
the seal of said Court affixed, this
10th day of January. 1919.
PERSONAL AND LOCAL
NOTES OF INTEREST
Y. II ( iSW'il 1- lluU (Olll.neiJ to
t. 1:•» |»11.11 through si-iiotis Hue-. .
'I'll.. S S< oft. wlin has spent . e\
. i';. 1 wc.'ks with )u family in Seattle,
expei ito return t" ('nrdova on tin*
teamer \laska. .scheduled tu :.iil
flout Se.it t !»• mi Thursda).
Tile t«.tin hip Alanteila leu \ able/,
at 1" o’clock, topping ;it Kllamar, and
will arrive here a! out 7 o'clock this
evening. She will b,. in p rt about
twelve hours, loading * upper ore.
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Among the pasengeru leaving here
I for Seattle on the Alameda will he
Mr. and Mrs. () .1 Ilerg, \Y C Roe
! and 11 Moe, of Strelna. Miss Karla
Anderson and Mrs .luhn II Nelson.
Mrs. Rose C.rimm. who has been
one of the nurses at he Cordova (Jen
. eral hospital for several months past,
| will return to Seattle on the .Maine
! da to join her husband who is on his
way home from France.
Charles Metzdorf will leave on the
Alameda for the states, where he will
met his son Dewey at Seattle he hav
ing returned there after starting on
his way overseas as a member of
Company K. of the. Cniveraity ol
Washington.
V .1. Swanherg is at the Windsor
hotel, room 9. and will be glad t > give
you detailed information regarding
the new cannery of the Hinchinbreok i
Packing Company Call personally or
by telephone, or drop him a letter, 1
anil he will call upon you.
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This afternoon a committee from
tin local council of national defense
ai.d the city council met with Captain
M. II Faust of Valdez, who is in
charge .1 the signal corps in this di
visit n, in reference to the moving ot
Jh cable office to a more central loca
tion. After the matter had been fully
explained to Capt; n Facet be saw
th. - advisability of making the change,
and will make a favorable report to
Colonel Lenoir for the removal of the
office to the ground floor of the gen
eral hospital building, in the front
room formerly occupied by the pout
ed! co.
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GERMAN HELMETS FOR
USE IN LOAN DRIVE
WASHINGTON. Jan. 14 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Eighty thousand Ger
man helmets captured by Americans
have been ordered for publicity work
In connection with the Fifth Liberty
loan campaign. They will be given
as prizes for campaign achievements.
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ESKIMOS BEING
WIPED OUT BY
SK \T I LE, kill II i In \ .un ,r• -ii
I’i • i w n! ill.- ravages worked
by lie Spini-h lutbieii/.a among lie
L I.linos of Seward peninsula. Alaska,
lias been received among Alaskans
and others familiar with the districts
affected with keen regret The intlu
ell/.a. it appears, has cut down th*
very flower of the Eskimo race in i ■ r
tain sections.
Probably the highest type of Ks
kitno of the North n sided in tie vil
lage of t ap" Prior, of Wale- on li>
ring strait, where a population of
..." natives has been reduced to .
adults and Inti children Tin. farthest
west community on the American con
lincut showed the Eskimo at his best
There was not a single white man
there Even the bureau of education
work was carried on by native teach
ers.
News of the havoc worked in the
village by influenza will he particu
larly sad to W P. Lopp. chief of the
Alaska division, bureau of education,
now on a mission to Southern Alaska
it was Mr Lopp's pioneer work which
brought the (’ape Prince of Wales peo
ple to the health and prosperity which
they enjoyed until the influenza
scourged them Lopp went to Cape
Prince of Wales in ISHtt. when the
natives were debauched from the
liquor traffic carried on bv the whal
ers. His colleague was murdered by
the natives, but he stayed on. remain
ing twelve years, until the liquor traf
tie was no more and the reindeer im
ported by the bureau of education for
th.- natives had increased into great
herds.
Thu.- the Cape Prince of Wale - men
became great reindeer herders One
man alone owned U.dOO reindeer, an
other 1,000. Nearly every man in the
village owned some The animals
browsed on the tundra for a distance
of one hundred miles from the vil
luge, in addition to the reindeer in
dustry the natives llshed and hunted,
catching walrus, seal, fish and polar
bear. Last winter two dozen of the
white bear were slain.
The natives maintained their own
church, conducted the bureau of edu
cation school for eighty pupils, under
the progressive leadership of a young
Eskimo, Arthur Nagozruk. and man
aged a co-operative store.
Now has come the deadly epidemic
which the Eskimo has been unable to
resist, and what was once a flourish
ing and happy community is a scene of
desolation and orphan children. Only
a remnant of the band has been ieft,
according to reports, to crawl out of
their Igloos by the frozen sea at the
foot of the great, silent, white hills.
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WINTER
WEARING
APPAREL
TO KEEP YOU WARM
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Arctic Overshoes
Shoe Paks, Felt Shoes
Mackinaw Coats
Large Stock of Quilts and Blankets
Heavy and Light Wool Underwear
Wool Overshirts
FINKELSTEIN & SAPIRO
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Phones—Grocery 21; Office 74
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TOVES
To eliminate the necessity of carrying over heaters
until next season, and also to make room for new goods,
the following prices will prevail (until stock is exhausted)
on Agate, Garnet and the 12E size Cole’s Hot Blast:
Prices that will Interest You
Regular Special
Four only 1 1-in. “Garnet” $15.00 $11.50
Four only 13-in. “Garnet" 17.00 13.50
Two only 14- n. “Agate” 26.50 21.50
I wo only 16-in. “Agate” 30.00 24.50
Three only 12E “Cole’s Hot Blast” 27.50 24.75
These are good, serviceable coal heaters of attractive design and
ornamentation. Large swing front feed doors with screw register
draft. Ample range of sizes for any room. One joint of pipe, with
damper, and the setting up free with each stove.
The Blum-O’Neill Co.
MONARCH AND LANG R ANGES
Hardware Phone 48
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