Five teachers are to be employed
in the Petersburg public schools this
year.
Along with the increased price of
other commodities, box rentals inthe
Ketchikan post office have advanced.
Seven men were fined at Ketchikan
last week for gambling. They got
fines averaging from to $20 to $50.
A Grass Widowers Club has been
organized at Wrangell. The club
plans considerable activity during the
coming winter.
The Alaskan Engineering Commis
sion has six thousanr tons of steel
rails in Seattle ready for shipment to
the north.
Ketchikan just had a coal - famine.
There was no coal to be secured in
the city pending the arrival of a
coal beat.
The Wilson & Sylcester mill at
Wrangell has been cutting lumber to
be used in the construction of a pulp
mill at Speel river.
Two weeks after he was downed
at Loring, the body of Fred Patch
ing was found a thousand feet from
the spot where he met his death.
It is said that the town of Iditarod
that boasted of a large population
during the boom days, now has a popu
lation of five women and a dozen
men.
Parents at Wrangell are warned
that, if their offspring use profane
language, as they have been doing in
the play shed at the school house,
they will be punished.
It is said that a chechako, Boyd
Marsh, recently located a rich mine
carrying values to $3,000 to the ton
in the Kantishna country, near what
is known as the Aitken property.
The city of Petersburg is advertis
ing for sale of $6,000 worth of hydro
electric bonds. The bonds bear 7 per
cent interest, payable semi-annually.
The principle is due in 1920.
Every vehicle in Seward, including
the fire truck, was on Broadway a
short time ago when that street
had its picture taken for “Dorothy
of Alaska,” a moving picture there by
the Blalblock Moving Picture Com
pany.
Emil Savola recently shot and Killed
his partner, John Partti, - at Knik
Arm. He was arrested but soon after
wards released, as it was said that a
shot gun was accidentally discharged
and the charge hit Partii, killing him
instantly.
Three Fairbanks women gave the
people a scare a short time ago by
remaining out at the berry picking
grounds longer than was expected.
They were found dry and comfortable
in an old cabin where they had taken
refuge from a storm.
Due to a recent earthquake shock,
it is said, Columbia Glacier, near
Valdes has been unusually active
lately. Boats have had to steer far
out of their course to avoid the huge
ice fields that have been caused by
by the ice that broke off.
A longshoremen’s strike at Daw
ieon last month did not last long, j
The men struck for a dollar an hour
straight time and a dollar and a half
for overtime. 'The compromised at a
dollar an hour for all time put in.
This was raised of ten cents an hour.
Emmett Ward, who this spring
left Fairbanks for Quebes, was killed
in an auto accident there a short
time ago. Mr. Ward, who had not
been out of Alaska for twenty years
was formerly cashier in the Alaska
Commercial Company office in Fair
banks.
“With her enormous forests of
rapidly growing, species suitable for
pulp, her water power, and her tide
water shipment of manufactured
products,” Alaska will undoubtedly
become one of the principal paper
sources of the United States,” says
Secretary of Agriculture Meredith.
SANTA BARBARA, Cal., Sept. 24
(by Associated Press).—Competition
from Italy and increased freight rates
have caused an acute crisis which is
facing California’s lemon ipdustry, ac
cording to James Bires, manager of a
local fruit company.
On account of the high exchange
ralue of United States money in Ital
ian lire, and the present low tariff of
one half a cent per pound makes it
possible for Italians and Sicilians to
sell their lemons in American mar
kets below the cost of producing the
California lemons.
It is stated that the Italian grower
who are selling a box of lemons for
$2 in New York has more than $6
when he has exchanged his money in
to Italian money. Growers here assert
that a box of California lemons cost
approximately $3 to produce, and upon
adding the present freight rate of
$1.45 per box to New York, the cost of
their product in that city is about
$4.45 per box. <
DOME TAX
NOT LIKED IN
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BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 24 (by As
sociated Press).—Protest against the
assessment of the United States in- j
come and excess profits tax upon Am
erican citizens and business firms re-;
siding and operating abroad is voiced
in a resolution adopted by the chamber
of commerce of the United States in
Argentina and sent to the government
at Washington. Amendment to the;
law is asked on the ground that it is !
proving an obstacle to the develop
ment and extension of United States
foreign commerce.
Collection of the tax not only in
creases the heavy expenses- of Amer
icans residing abroad, but constitutes
a serious handicap to them in trade
competition, the resolution states,
since no such tax is collected from the
nationals of other countries. It is
further pointed out that American cit
izens and business houses must pay
heavy taxes levied by the country in
which they are located and are thus
taxed twice without representation
either in the government of|that coun
try or their own.
Already the assessment of the ex
cess profits and income tax has caused
many American business interests op
erating abroad to change their idenity,
by organizing as concerns of the coun
try where they conduct business, it is
asserted, “thus causing a serious loss
to the prestige of American commerce
in foreign markets.”
It is contended that when relative
high cost of living and other disadvan
tages incurred by foreign residence
are considered, incomes abroad that
appear large are not really so in com
parison with those paid in the United
States, and the collection of the tax
upon them tends to make foreign resi
dence and business operation finan
cially disadvantageous.
CHINESE FINANCIERS
PLACE A BAN ON
GOVERNMENT BONDS
SHANGHAI, Sept. 24 (by Associated
Press).—All of Shanghai’s larger Chi
nese commercial and banking institu
tions have placed a ban upon the lat
est issue of bonds offered by the Pek
ing government and sold for a time in
Shanghai at 12 per cent of their face
value. It was reported in Chinese fi
nancial circles in Shanghai that the
Peking government brought out $20,
000,000 worth of these bonds after
failing to obtain money for current
needs from JaJpan or other sources.
The attitude of the commercial and
financial interests in connection with
the bonds was set forth in a tele
gram of protest that was sent to the
Peking government. This was signed
by 52 local organizations and the
Shanghai street unions, representing
all the larger trading guilds of the
seaport. In this message it is point
pointed out that these bonds will in
time come into the hands of foreign
ers who will enforce the demand that
they be redeemed at their face value.
FOREIGN BUYERS CANCEL
GERMAN TOY ORDERS
BERLIN, Sept. 24 (by Associated
Press).—Cancellation of orders by for
eign buyers amounting to 60,000,000
marks suffered by German firms of toy
makers on account of the recent more
favorable standing of the mark
prompts the Tageblatt to observe that
the charge made against the Germans
of being guilty of breach of business
morals because in isolated cases they
used similar pretexts to evade contract
obligations no longer holds good. The
German toy makers claim that ship
ments already on the way and out of
Germany have also been refused ac
ceptance, on the ground that prices
based on the recent improved status
of the mark exceeded the world mar
ket prices.
BIG PINEAPPLE SHIPMENT
FROM HAWAIIAN 1 NDS
HONOLULU, H. I., Sept. 24 (by As
sociated Press).—Eight hundred thou
sand cases of canned Hawaiian pine
apples were loaded within a recent
ten-day period on seven ships which
will deliver the cargoes at San Francis
co, Los Angeles, Portland, New York,
Boston, Philadelphia and other points.
It is estimated that the total pine
apple pack for the Islands this year
will be six million cases.
Alimony is probably a contraction
)f allhismoney.
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VIENNA, Sept. 24 (by Associated
Press).—In its efforts to find a solu
tion of its financial difficulties the
municipality of Vienna is resorting to
taxations not approached in any coun
try during the war. As a first step it
has raised the deposit of gas consum
ers from between 100 and 300 crowns
to 8,000 crowns per meter. No interest
is paid on this deposit.
The new schedule of taxes contem
plates a heavy levy on practical every
daily activity. There wall be a tax of
2 per cent on all salaries of employes
to be paid by the employers. Hotel
rooms are taxed 20 per cent, and a
graded tax is levied on apartments
to be baid by the occupant. On
apartments renting for 3,000 crowns
a month the tax will be three times
the rent. If more than one domestic
servant is employed the employer
must pay a high tax on each addi
tional servant.
Ten per cent on the customer’s
bill in a restaurant, an occupational
tax for certain "forms of semi-profes
sions and many kinds of new business
licenses are to be imposed.
RIGA, Sept. 24 (by Associated
Press).—Adolphe Jol’fe, head of the
Russian peace delegation proposed an
armistice which he said must be ac
cepted within ten days or the Soviets
will inaugurate a winter campaign
which they wish to avoid.
RAILWAY TO CONNECT
PACIFIC OCEAN WITH
THE AMAZON RIVER
SANTIAGO, Sept. 23 (by Associated
Press).—Construction of a railway
which would connect the Pacific ocean
with the Amazon river serving the Re
publics of Ecuador, Columbia and
Venezula on the north and Peru, Bol
iva and Brazil on the south, is involved
in a concession which has been au
thorized by the Ecuadorean govern
ment. Authority for the construction
of the railway, according to the Chil
ean weekly, was obtained from -the
government at Quito by Ignacio Leon,
former Chilean diplomat, for a syndi
cate capitalized at $25,000,000 mem
bers of which include many prominent
Chileans.
The route would start from the port
of Boliva on the Pacific and run to
Port Borza on the Amazon. The
proposed railway, in addition to serv
ing a zone bordering on what is said
to be among the best petroleum bear
ing districts in Peru, would afford a
means of connecting the four large
and isolated provinces of southern
Ecuador, with 500.000 inhibitants, with
the rest of the country.
An article recounting the details of
the project quotes Senor Leon as say
ing: “Apart from the establishment
of inter-oceanic communication, of
great "future importance, the railways
penetrating East Ecuador, combined
with the naVagable riverways, will
enable the exploitation of an enor
mous extension of extraordinary fer
tile virgin territory which will consti
tute the most admirable sources of
wealth for Ecuador.”
LAUNCHES ARE USED
TO SMUGGLE BOOZE
TACOMA, Wash., Sept. 24 (by Asso
ciated Press).—New launches, com
pletely equipped with underwater ex
hausts, to still their engines, have
appeared among the boats used on
Puget sound to smuggle liquor into
the states from Canada, according to
Donald McDonald, federal prohibition
director for the state. These special
boats are cabable of making twenty
knots an hour, Mr. McDonald says.
There is considerable agitation to
wards the elision of the word “obey”
from the marriage service. We fail to
see that its presence there has caused
any harm, worked any hardship or
caused any qualms of conscience upon
the part of the parties pronouncing it
in the ceremony referred to. Its re
moval, however, will cause no great
3elsmic disturbance in the marital con
iitions of this great land of the free
ind home of the brave. ■
SALMON PACK
SEATTLE, Sept. 23 (by Associated
Press).—The Pacific Canned Fish
Broker’s Association has published es
timates showing a total salmon pack
for Alaska, Puget Sound, British Col
umbia and the Columbia river of over
6.500.000 cases valued at sixty mil
lion dollars.
This pack is one million cases less
than the pack of last year.
The Alaska pack this year indivi
dually was 4,250,000 cases which is
250.000 cases less than that of last
year. The output this year of Puget
sound canneries has greatly dimin
ished over that of the year previous.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Here are some of the
campaign expenditures of G. H. Foree,
a defeated Missourian congressional
aspirant, which he listed under oath
in his expense account filed recently
with W. Tyler Page, clerk of the house
of representatives.
“August 1. Postage for 25 letters
to influential men in m^ district tell
ing that I was trusting to the kindness
of the people and the mercy of God
to elect me (both failed), 50 cents.
“August 2. For professional ser
vices of a tonsorial artist in shaping
up the sand whiskers of an influen
tial son of Erin, 35 cents.
“August 3. One jar ‘face creme’ to
fascinating blonde for passing out my
cards, 35 cents.
“August 3. Another par of ‘face
creme’ to charming burnette for pas
sing out more of my cards, 35 cents.
“August 4. For her work and influ
ence among her many friends and ad
mirers, a pair of open-work hose for
a plump widow; the less saic&the bet
ter, special, $1.00.
“July 7. For street car fare to sum
mer garden where Tony Steuver and
congressional committee held election
ene night a week previous to legal pri
mary and nominated my opponent for
congress in the tenth district, 14 cents.
NEW RAILROAD WILL
SOON BE STARTED
NEVADA AND IDAHO
CARSON CITY, Nev., Sept. 24 (by
Associated Press).—Notice has been
served upon, the governors of Neva
da and Idaho that a new railroad
line, to be known as the Idaho Cen
tral, will be constructed from Wells,
Nevada, to Rogerson, Idaho, connect
ing the Southern! Pacific and Union
Pacific lines. The new line will be
built along the route via Contact, Ne
vada, covering a distance of 90 miles.
The proposed railroad will open up
northern Elko county, Nevada, and fur
nish shipping facilities for the large
number of cattle and sheep raised
there. It will also provide an outlet
and inlet to the Contact mining dis
trict, where vast deposits of copper
ore have been opened up and will
likewise serve an irrigated district'
aggregating 600,000 acres in the Snake
river section of Idaho.
All kinds of mechanical alarm clock
devices for feeding chickens have been
invented, but biddy still retains the
prerogative of laying her egg accord
ing to her own schedule.
ADVISES ACTION
Editor Cordova Daily Times:
What about some action in getting
this Athletic Association into effect,
as winter is coming and if any organ
ization is any use, the proper time is
winter.
As a suggestion to assist in meeting
current expenses incurred on any in
vestment that the Athletic Association
might make, why not construct a
building that would permit the leas
ing of certain rooms to other organ
izations different nights every week,
and as one is now active with a large
membership, namely, the Ladies Ath
letic Association and The Cordova
Rifle Association of 50 members, only
waiting for equipment to get into ac
tion. Why not construct a building
with lower floor suitable to rent three
nights a week for target inside range,
•and the upper floor equipped with an
athletic apparatus.
The writer would like to see action
now, and not wait until next spring
to start construction.
A SUBSCRIBER.
INDEPENDENCE
OF IRELAND IS
NOT AN ISSUE
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NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—The bureau
of combustibles said that the package j
picked up by the police at the Reed
avenue elevated station was a bomb
with the fuse burning when the police
found it.
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MARION, Sept. 23 (by Associated'
Press).—Declaring that the Irish prob
lem was “not a question for official;
America,” Senator Harding, in a!
statement today said in his opinion j
the movement for Irish independence!
under the League of Nations would be
a subject not entirely international,
j but domestic.
| Senator Harding, in addressing a
gathering here declared that universal
realization and material progress must
go hand in hand if the nation is to
■attain an ideal state of social welfare.
He asserted that neither the social
reformers nor industrial chieftains
must view the problem of social bet
terment strictly from their own view
point.
WHAT DID HE DO WITH
“TOO MANY MILLIONS?”
“Too Many Millions,” in which Wal
lace Reid is seen tonight at the Em
j press, is a delightful comedy of money,
; love and adventure.
Suppose you were a young man who
never had had an extra dime and sup
| pose someone left you forty millions.
Then suppose someone stole the
money from you. And suppose you
were caught in a fire with the one girl,
and you and the girl escaped with your
lives but without much clothes? What I
would be your next move?
Wally Reid got a job, and he mar
ried the girl, and then, but why spoil
a good story when you can see for
yourself just what happened?
A Pathe News and an interesting ed
ucational reel complete this attractive
program.
Coming Sunday, is vivacious Dorothy
Gish in “Battling Jane.” 1
NEWSY ITEMS
AT KENNECOTT
KENNECOTT, Alaska, Sept. 18.—
Mrs. R. Schultz and Mr. and Mrs.
Schneeberger and baby left on Thurs
days train for a short trip to Strelna.
Mrs. Charlie Dustin just returned to
her home in Cordova after spending
a week with Mrs. James Dennis.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack J. Saddler took a
trip to McCarthy on Sunday afternoon
and returned on the stage over the
Birch highway.
School started on the seventh and
there were eight pupils enrolled. Miss
Johnstone of Washington is teaching.
A bridge party was given in honor
of Mrs. M. S. Wilson on Saturday
afternoon at the home of Mrs. J. Den
nis. Those present were Mrs. W.
Wilson, Mrs. W. C. Douglas, Miss R.
Hallet, Mrs. E. L. MacDonald, Mrs. R.
Osbourne, Mrs. J. Saddler, Mrs. J.
Vickery, Mrs. R. Schultze, Mrs. W. R.
Sommel, Mrs. J. Groff, Mrs. J. Pagit,
Mrs. Lyons, Mrs. E. Papin. Refresh
ments were served and all had a very
enjoyable time.
Charles Hoyt went on a little fish
ing trip Sunday afternoon. We hftpe he
catches some speckled trout and
won’t forget his friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas and Miss Hal
let just returned from a short vaca
tion at Long Lake, where Mr. Douglas
spent an enjoyable time fishing. He
caught a salmon that measured three
feet from tip to tip and weighed over
thirty pounds, but let the biggest fish
get away.
Mr. and Mrs. V. Olson just returned
from a trip to the states. On their
arrival they were the dinner guests
of Mr. E. S. Sweeney given at the pri
vate mess.
Mr. and Mrs. McDonald and son
Kenneth will be leaving for the states
soon.
Mrs. Walter Sommer gave a dinner
on Sunday evening. Those present
were Copenhagen Anderson, Mrs. Ole
Berg and Mr. and Mrs. Sommel.
Mr. James F. Dennis expects to take
a hunting trip very soon to Cordova
where he expects to slaughter a few
ducks. He is also going to go to La
touche to see his, young grandson.
Miss Anna Johansen of Latouche ex
pects to make a visit to Kennecott in
the near future.
PIONEER MAGAZINE
NOW INCORPORATED
Articles of incorporation for the
Pathfinder Publishing Company were
filed recently with the territorial sec
retary. It is the publisher of the Path
finder, a magazine launched a year
ago by the Grand Igloo, Pioneers of
Alaska under the editorship of John
W. Frame, Grand Historian of the
order.
The magazine is said to have ex
perienced an encouraging growth.
The stockholdersare limited to the
members of the organization. The di
rectors named in the articles of incor
poration are A. J. Dimond, H. B. Selby,
A. M. Dierenger, D. D. Stewart, all of
Valdez, and Joseph Ulmer, of Ket
chikan. The capital stock of the cor
poration is $25,000 composed of 25,
000 shares at $1.00 each.
When your wife is your banker, a
bill of particulars must be attached to
every check drawn against the ac
count.
The person who doesn’t speak ex
cept only when occasion demands it
usually has something in store.
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1 Good Passenger and Freight Service to
I Interior Alaska
Trains leave Cordova for Chitina Monday and Thursday i
Trains eave Chitina for Kennecott Tuesday and Friday
Trains leave Kennecott for Chitina Sunday and Thursday
Trains leave Chitina for Cordova Tuesday and Friday
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