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Consisting of a Full Line of
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and Supplies |
| NORTHERN DRUG CO. |
Every Article;
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In My Store Makes
A Suitable Gift |
and I Have thousands of
them for Young and Old.
Come in and inspect our selected stock
PAUL BLOEDHORN |
JEWELER AND WATCHMAKER
■ KENDRICK BUILDING FIRST STREET
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THE CITY BAKERY
WE ARE SPECIALISTS IN FINE CAKES AND PASTRY
FOR
Parties and Receptions
Makers of the Famous “Cream LoaF’ Bread
Sun “Maid” Raisin Bread—A Treat Indeed
Rye Bread Graham Bread
LUNCH ROOM—WHERE YOU GET THOSE EXCELLENT
LUNCHES
j SAVE MONEY!
i COME TO THE BARGAIN STORE
And se what we have in the line of workmen’s clothing,
beds, mattresses and canvas goods of all kinds, tents and
shovels, kitchenware, furniture, stoves, etc. We also
carry a full line of mirrors—plate glass and plain.
THE NORTHERN BLOCK
First Street
Copper River
and Northwestern Ry.
FOUR TRAINS WEEKLY BETWEEN
CHITINA AND KENNECOTT
Leave Cordova, Second Street Depot, on Mon
days, Thursdays and Saturdays
Leave Chitina for Cordova Sundays, Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Fridays
Leave Chitina for Kennecott Sundays, Tuesdays
and Fridays
Leave Kennecott for Chitina Mondays, Wednes
days, Thursdays and Saturdays
The above schedule subject to change without
notice.
Dining Car in Connection with all Regular
Passenger Trains between Cordova and Chitina.
Freight received and delivered at Cordova
Wharf from 9 a. m. to 5 p- m., except Sundays.
Tickets on sale at Second Street Depot office
one hour before departure of trains.
CALEB CORSER W. E. BROWN
Superintendent Agent Cordova Wharf
R. K. BROWN, Jr., Ticket Agent
/ PROFESSIONAL /
DRS. DAGGETT & BLYTH
Northern Hotel Building,
Cordova.
DENTISTRY
Hours 9 a. m. to 9 p. m.
Special Attention to
Prophylaxis and Pyorrhea.
PHONE 200
WM. A. HESSE
Mining Engineer,
U. S. Mineral Surveyor,
U. S. Deputy Surveyor.
BOX 13 CORDOVA, ALASKA
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DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
Calls May be Left at Cordova
Drug Store. Residence,
Alaskan Hotel
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DR. W. W. COUNCIL
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office and Residence: Cordova.
General Hospital (Ostrander Build
ing-.
Phones—Residence 115; office 132
DR. C. L. HALE
DENTIST
| Office: Over Blum, O’Neill’s Store
ROBERT SIMPSON ....
JUNEAU, ALASKA
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Glasses Fitted. Lenses Ground
| . HUBBELL & WALLER
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Civil and Mining Engineers.
U. S. Mineral and Deputy Land Sur
veyors for Alaska.
1102 L. C. SMITH BLDG-, SEATTLE
WILLIAM PALLISTER, M.D.
Specialist in the treatment of
diseases and deformities of the
eye, ear, nose and throat; glasses
fitted.
JUNEAU GENERAL HOSPITAL
SMITH & McCONAGHY
PLUMBERS AND STEAMFITTERS
Cor. Front and B Streets
Office Open Evenings.
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
Room 1.
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA
FRANK H. FOSTER
Attorney at Law
Room 1 Alaskan Hotel
FIRE!
A resident of Cordova had a
small fire in his house the other
day. It was extinguished by the
family at a loss of 1150.00. The
next day he insured through us.
The cost of his insurance for
three years was less than his
loss at this trifling fire. Are
you. Mr. Property Owner, going
to wait until you have had a fire
before protecting yourself from
loss 7
Any person wishing to build
can secure a fine residential or
business lot in Cordova from us
on exceptionally liberal terms.
F've hundred lots listed.
REAL ESTATE
INSURANCE
ABSTRACTS
SURETY BONDS
CORDOVA ABSTRACT and
REALTY COMPANY
ROOM 1, ADAMS BUILDING.
EXHIBIT OF GUNS TAKEN BY THE FRENCH |i
Hundreds of German guns captured by tin* French In the battle of the
Clierain des Dames nre on exhibition for the French populace in front of a
famous old church in Solssons.
PARISH PRIEST
USED AS SHIELD
Brand Whitlock Tells of Cowardly
Act of Commander of Ger
man Detachment.
HUGH GIBSON ADDS EVIDENCE
Tells of Priests Compelled to Walk Be
fore “Huns” to Form Screen—
Cardinal Mercier’s Statement
as to Taking of Hostages.
Thai the Germans in Belgium
made use of women, children, and
priests as screens to protect the in
vaders from Belgian troops is shown
by the following testimony gathered
by the committee on public infor
mation:
Minister Whitlock, in his report of
September 12, 1917, to the secretary of
states, gives au Instance of the Ger
man practice of seeking protection.
“The Germans attacked Hougaerde
on the 18th August; the Belgian troops
were holding the Gette bridge in the
village. The Germans forced the par
ish priest of Autgaerden to walk in
front of them as a shield. As they
neared the barricade the Belgian sol
diers tired and tlie priest was killed.
After the retreat of the Belgians the
Germans shot four men, burned 50
houses, and looted 100.”
Hugh Gibson, in “A Journal From
Our Legation in Belgium,” page 155,
gives another incident:
“Two old priests have staggered in
to the - legation more dead than
alive after having been compelled to
walk ahead of the German troops for
miles as a sort of protecting screen.
One of them is 111, and it is said that
he may die as a result of what he has
gone through.”
Statement of Cardinal Mercier.
“At the time of the invasion Bel
gian civilians, in 20 places, were made
to take part In operations of war
against their own country. At Ter
ruonde, Lebbeke, Dlnant and elsewhere
in many places, peaceable citizens,
women and children were forced to
march in front of German regiments
or to make a screen before them.
“The system of hostages was carried
out with a tierce cruelty. The procla
mation of August 4th, quoted above,
declared, without circumlocution;
•Hostages will be freely taken.’
“An official proclamation, posted at
Liege, in the early days of August, ran
thus: ‘Every aggression committed
against the German troops by any per
sons other than soldiers in uniform
not only exposes the guilty person to
be immediately shot, but will also en
tail tiie severest reprisals against all
the inhabitants, and especially against
those nutives of Liege who have been
detained as hostages in the citadel of
Liege by the commandant of the Ger
man troops.
“These hostages are Monsignor Rut
ten. bishop of Liege; M. Kleyer, burgo
master of Liege; tlie senators, rep-e
sentatives, and the permanent deputy
and sheriff of Liege.”
The above quotation is taken from
“An Appeal to Truth," addressed No
vember 24, 1915, by Cardinal Mercier
and the other bishops of Belgium to
tiie cardinals, archbishops, and bishops
or' Germany and Austria-Hungary.
“Some ten or a dozen American cor
respondents. of whom 1 was one, wit
nessed the first German drive through
Belgium. Most of us were so appalled
ami horrified by what we saw as to be
come anti-German for life." Will Ir
win in Saturday Evening Post, Octo
ber *5, 1917, page 41.
Robbery Under Guise of Fines.
The contracting nations, including
Germany, who signed the conventions
of the second peace conference at The
Hague, 1907, pledged themselves to the
following:
"Article L. No general penalty, pe
cuniary or otherwise, shall be inflicted
upon Hie population on account of Jilt:
acts of individuals for which they can
not he regarded as Jointly and several
!y responsible.’’
“Article LIT, Requisitions In kind
and services shit 11 not be demanded
from municipalities or Inhabitants ex
eept for the needs of ttie army of oc
cupation. They shit 11 lie in proportion
to tile resources of the country, and of
such a nature ns not to involve ttie in
habitants in the obligation of tnkinu
part in military operations against
tin ir o\\n country.”
The German authorities have violat
ed these articles from the very begin
ning. As soon as they invaded Bel
dam. heavy tines were laid upon indi
vidual communities as reprisals for
some act against the German army or
11s regulations which was committed
within their boundaries, in “An Ap
peal to Truth” Cardinal Mercler cites
the following cases:
"Malines. it working-class town,
without resources, has had a fine of
20,000 marks inflicted on it because
tlie burgomaster did not inform the
military authority of a journey which
the cardinal, deprived of the use of hi.s
motorcar, had been obliged to make
on foot. In fuel, upon the flimsiest
pretexts heavy tines are inflicted on
communes. The commune of Puers
was subjected to a tine of 3,000 marks
because u telegraph wire was broken,
although the inquiry showed that it
had given way through wear.”
Merciless Exactions.
In addition to such arbitrary,
sporadic exactions, in December, 1914,
the Germans demanded 40,000,000
francs ($8,000,000), u month to he
paid by the Belgian provinces Jointly.
Concerning this enormous imposition
Cardinal Mercler says, In the “Appeal
to Truth :”
"Now, in December, 1914, Belgium
was devastated. Contributions of war
Imposed on the towns and Innumerable
requisitions in kind had exhausted her.
The greater part of the factories were
idle, and in those which were still at
work, raw materials were, contrary to
all law, being freely commandeered.
"it was on tills impoverished Bel
gium, living on foreign charity, that a
contribution of nearly 300,000,000
francs was imitosed."
The German military rules have also
made the families responsible for acts
committed by or charged against mem
bers as Is shown in the following ex
amples, which are quoted from the
“Appeal to Truth, cited above:
"The Belgian government have sent
orders to rejoin the army to the mi
litiamen of several classes. . . . All
those who receive these orders are
strictly forbidden to act upon them.
. . . In case of disobedience the
family of the militiaman will be held
equally responsible.”
Punishment “Without Mercy."
The commander in chief of the Ger
man army in Belgium posted a procla
mation declaring:
“The villages where acts of hostility
shall he committed by the inhabitants
against our troops will be burned.
“For all destruction of roads, rail
ways, bridges, etc., the villages in the
neighborhood of the destruction will
be held responsible.
“The punishments announced above
will be carried out severely and with
out mercy. Tlie whole commun'ty
will he held responsible. Hostages
will be taken in large numbers. The
heaviest war taxes will be levied.”
At the end of the "Appeal to Truth”
Cardinal Mercler says:
“But we cannot say all here, no*
quote all.
“if, however, our readers wish for
the proof of the accusations . . .
we shall be glad to furnish them.
There is not in our letter, nor in the
four annexes [to the “Appeal tc
Truth], one allegation of which we
have not the proofs in our records."
SMI FHimCIIIS
m snow runs
(By Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 15.—While
the residents of large Eastern cities
have a surfeit of cold and snow this
winter, San Franciscans are organiz
ing parties with a view to hunting the
uold and snow in its lair.
New Year’s holiday week ends amid
the snows of the Sierras are annual
events, and now the California Alpine
[Flub is arranging for a three days’ ex
cursion to Trucnee, with plenty of
snow as the main attraction. On one
or two occasions a truckload of snow
has been hauled from the mountains to
this city. Its presence on Market
Btreet, the principal thoroughfare, haa
attracted crowds which required the
presence of the police to keep moving.
CONFUSION CONSEOUENCE
OF AMERICAN BLACKLIST
(By Associated Press)
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 15.—The Amer
ican black-list has had something of
the effect of a commercial tornado on
certain business houses in Mexico.
And, like the Kansas species of the
phenomenon, it has performed some
queer antics. For instance, a French
business man, with six relatives in
the trenches, figured on the first list.
Slips like this however, have been
rectified readily through the various
legations at the capital.
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Finest Billiard and Pool Ta*
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BEST GRADES OF STAND' f
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CORDOVA
MACHINE WORKS
E. R. GARNES, Prop.
Residence Shop
Phone 101-3. Phone 182
Machine Wo»k of all Kinds,
Blacksmltliing, General Repair
ing, Horse Shoeing, Oxy-Acety
lene Welding and Cutting.
HARMON MACHINERY
BUILDING
Cordova, Alaska.
Out of Town Jobs Given Strict
Attention.
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