PURELY LOCAL
GOSSIP ABOUT
YOURFRIENDS
George Mutchler, who spent the
past week here, left today for hit
home'at Iditarod.
Jake Hepfinger is having a barber
shop fitted up in one corner of the
Horseshoe pool hall.
The W. C. T. U. will, meet on Friday
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the resi
| dence of MrkJUVi G. Vance1.' :
1 Superintendent, Caleb f<i(ir&i>
^ Cashier Frank Ford returned this
morning from a,trip to Kennecott.
George C. Hazlet will leave tomor
row for Katalla, taking over with him
ten miners to work for the Bering
River Coal Company.
John Gillis left on today’s train for
Alganack, where he will spend the
summer looking after his interests
there. He expects Mrs. Gillis to join
him next month.
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Our townsman, M. Finkelstein, and
M. Lund of Seattle, have purchased
the stock of Chris Tjoesevick in the
Clarke-Graham cannery, and Mr. Fink
elstein will come to Cordova on one
of the next boats.
J. E. Laurie, who was recently dis
charged from Fort Liscum, was a pas
senger on today’s train torJdcCarthy,
where he and his brother, Sam, ijdn
duct a clothing store, the stock of
which was damaged by the recent Art
there.
The iaunch Waif returned at ar
early hour this morning from Valdes
and will leave tomorrow for Katalla
the weather permitting.
The cannery‘tender Paulina, recent
I ly purchased by the Alaska Sea Food
Company, left Seattle today for Cor
dova, towing a scow loaded with oil
and supplies. The tender is a seventy
five foot boat, equipped with an
eighty-flve-horse-power Union engine
Frank Kern, a Fairbanks mining
operator, left here today for the In
terior.
C. M. Jackie was an outgoing pas
senger on today’s train for his home
at Hot Springs.
H. Marcua,*ySjk'tu£ known W the
"Hipress 'ftf^n. tills morning’s
train for ChltYna, McCarthy and Ken
nicott.
The Admiral Farragut is due here
Saturday and will remain in port long
enough to take on 500 barrels of crude
oil for Kodiak.
Mrs. L. F. Cooley of Fairbanks, who
spent the past week here on her re
turn from the States, departed today
for her Interior home.
The steamer Alameda is due here
on Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock,
bringing the largest passenger list of
the season for Cordova.
Travel has again been resumed on
the Copper River railway, a rotary
having arrived at 5:10 this morning,
and the local left for Chitina at 8
o’clock.
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MILITARY POLICE WILL
COMBAT WORK OF REBELS
MEXICO CITY, March 20—To carrj
out his plan to extend the operations
of the military police to all parts ol
the republic, Colonel Manuel Triana
chief of the military police of ths
capital has requested the war depart
ment to place at his disposal 300 of
ficers who have completed their
courses of study in the school con
ducted by the general staff. Colonel
Triana proposes to divide the repub
lic into twelve departments, with
members of the military police in all
the principal cities. Their duties will
be to investigate the conduct of army
officers and take steps to prevent
rebel propaganda and the furnishing
of arms, ammunition and information
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CHINESE COOLIES ARE
DEPORTED FROM JAPAN
TOKIO, March 20.—The prohibition
of cheap immigrant labor, except
under special permission of the au
thorities, is by no means a dead letter
in Japan. Eight hundred Chinese
coolies recently were sent back to An
tung under police escort by the home
minister.
Commenting on this incident, M.
Zumoto, editor of the Herald of Asia,
tells his countrymen that the policy
that excludes Japanese labor from
America and Australia makes it pos
sible for Japanese laborers to earn a
living at home.
The coolies in question had been
imported from Antung by an iron
manufacturer at Hiroshima, who lost
|25,000 by the operation.
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OVERSEAS BOYS
INSISTING UPON
JOBS AT HOME
CHATEAU-VILLAIN, Hute-Marne,
Peb. 10 (Correspondence of the Asso
ciated Press). To save soldiers who
have battled in Prance with the 77th
division from having to fight for work
on their returA to the United States,
there has been organized In this little
village by the Marne, the 77th Divi
sion Association. Major Spencer P.
Weaver has been elected chairman
and Captain George G.'McMUrtry sec
retary and treasurer. The 77th divi
sion 'was" organized at Camp tip ton,
and isi:composed largely of men from
NOW York ’Arid1 vicinity.
Major Weaver informed the Asso
ciated Press that one of the primary
objects of the 77th division Associa
tion was to secure positions for all
men in the division requiring them.
All company officers have been re
quested to confer with each man in
their organization and have filled out
a questionnaire as to the position
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All officers and soldiers who have
served overseas with the division
automatically become members of the
association
The association is arranging for the
suitable marking of all graves of the
officers and soldiers of the division
who have fallen in France.
Steps will be taken to provide as
sistance for the dependents of the sol
diers of the 77th division who died or
have been disabled.
In order that a permanent organiza
tion may be established and that the
spirit of loyalty and democracy
among the members of. the division
may be maintained, a club will be
founded in New York where officers
and soldiers may meet.
The association is to be without any
political shade,, and one of the by-laws
says: “No member of the associa
tion, in his official capacity, shall give
public expression to an opinion on
any -political question, nor take any
action to influence legislation.’’
The, executive committee is com
posed as' follows: Major Spencer,
chairman; Major Lewis Saunders,
152d field artillery brigade; Major
Julius O. Adler, 153rd infantry brig
ade; Mkjor James A. Roosevelt, Inde
pendent units; and Captain McMur
trv.
INFORMATION for
THRIFT STAMP BUYERS
Purchasers of 1919 War Saving
stamps should not place them on
1918 folders—technically known as
War Saving Certificates—is the warn
ing of Samuel Hubbard, director of
War Savings for the Twelfth Federal
Reserve District. If the 1918 certifi
cate has blank spaces just put the cer
tificate away without filling it with
1919 stamps.
The same Thrift Stamps and Thrift
Cards are used this year and when
the Thrift Card holding sixteen stamps
is filled It will be_exchanged for the
1919 War Saving Stamp on payment
of the additional cents which repre
sent the difference between the price
of the War Saving Stamp and $4, the
value of the sixteen Thrift Stamps.
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•BULGARS ATTEMPT TO
EXTERMINATE PRIESTS
PIROT, Serbia, Feb. 20 (Corre
spondence of the Associated Press).—
One of the most terrible indictments
against the Bulgarians during the war
has been pronounced here by Mlhailo
Natetch, Serbian metropolitan for Pi
rot district, who declared to the Asso
ciated Press that of 300 Serbian
priests deported by the Bulgars, 156
were' shot 'or hanged apd twenty
Keveti Others' * jfeti of starvation of
dfseahe'. ‘Vv‘< f''
Dr' Natetch, who was himself de
ported, personally knew most of those
killed by the Bulgars. He said Bul
garia’s purpose was the extermination
of the whole of the Serbian priest
hood because of their influence on the
civil population who remained after
the Serbian retreat. It is asserted
that the Metropolitan’s statement is
supported by government records.
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GERMANC CLOSING OUT
BU8INESS IN JAPAN
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TOKIO, March 20.—The dosing or
the German business firms in Japan is
significant of the change of situation
in this country. One of the largest
German business houses in Yokohama
before the war, dealing in machinery,
drugs and other Imports, announces
that their buildings and lands are for
sale, x
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MYSTERY* SHIP SINKS
NINE BRITISH VESSELS
LONDON, Feb. 20 (by mail).—
Among the war stories that Britist
naval men feel free to tell now is on<
about a "ghost ship” whose myster;
has never been solved.
In 1917 a convoy of twelve shipi
left a British port. At dawn on thi
day .after sailing the escort com
mander discovered thirteen shipi
under his charge. While the identitj
of the extra ship was being discussec
the convoy was suddenly attacked b;
German light cruisers and most o
the escort and nine of the merchant
men were sunk. The Germans thei
made off.
Survivors positively assert tha
there were thirteen ships and that thi
mystery vessel disappeared ai
strangely as she had appeared. Thej
are certain that the ship was no
sunk. Official inquiries failed ti
throw any light on the nature of th<
craft. It was ascertained that ah<
could not have been a disguised Ger
man raider, and her presence wai
“InC'II’ftd” hv Iho oaport pnmmandor
BELGIUM RECOGNIZES
POLISH INDEPENDENCE
BRUSSELS, March 20 (by Associat
, ed Press).—The Belgian government
has formally recognized the indepen
, dence of Poland.
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For drainage purposes what is
claimed to be the largest wind-miir
in the world, a steel afTair fifty feet in
diameter has been installed in Hoi
. land.
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MASONIC MEETING
Mt. McKiclefr lodge No. 183, F. & A.
M., will hold a regular meeting Thurs
day night at 8 o'clock. Work in first,
degree.
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