CORDOVAN IS
UNDER ARREST
AT FAIRBANKS
E. E. Durgin, who was at one tim(
employed as a printer on the Cordovs
Alaskan, has been arrested at Fair
banks, charged with rifling mail boxes
in the Fairbanks postoffice, abstract
ing therefrom envelopes, or packages
containing money. He was arraigned
before Commissioner Reed Heilig and
will be given an opportunity to entei
his plea later. The complain upon
which a warrant was issued was
sworn to by Captain Gohres, of the
fire department, who is said to have
been a witness to the alleged act.
While none of the parties connected
with the matter have made any state
ment, it is said that the accused man
had at least one letter containing
money on his person at the time of the
arrest, and that the letter had been
taken out of the First National bank
post office box.
After being arraigned Mr. Durgin
was given the usual opportunity of se
curing bondsmen which he did and
was released.
GOLD SEEKERS
VE FRISCO
FOR ARCTIC
SAN FRANCISCO, June 1 (by As
sociated Press).—There sailed out of
San Francisco bay a few days ago a
little company or thirty men whose
ship now is pointing toward the Arctic
seas. Gold is the age old lure which
inspired this adventure, which means
cold and loneliness and discomfort.
Possibly hunger and death.
The schooner Casco/' is the vessel
which is bearing the treasure seekers
northward and in her cabin Robert
Louis Stevenson once wrote many a
romance which these modern argo
nauts are likely to parallel. The ship’s
company includes men who have
delved in the earth in all parts of the
world. On them will devolve the op
erations required in mining. Men who
have sailed the seven seas are on
board, and they will see to the naviga
tion. Then there are men who have
been successful bankers and business
men. To several of the latter, rated
well fixed in the matter ot^ worldly
good, the adventure impelled rather
than any prospects of financial re
turn. But all thirty are shareholders
in the Northern Mining and Trading
Company.
It is another story of a search for
a rich mining area where gold nug
gets may be picked off the surface of
the earth and where the ledges are
incrusted with the precious ore. The
location is a secret.
L. S. McGirk a mining' engineer,
who has worked in the earjh from
Panama to Nome, is at the head of
the party. His office is the musty
little cabin in which Stevenson work
ed. The battered old desk on which
Stevenson wrote still is in the cabin,
splotched by ink stains from his pen.
It is reported the adventure that led
to the new voyage of the Casco was
thrust on the man that found, untold
wealth in the Arctic, when he and
other members of the crew on a poach
ing sealer were chased by a Japanese
cutter, and their small boat was
wrecked.
He was starving when natives
found him. But he forgot his hunger
as his eyes rested on gold that fairly
seeped through the earth. Without
equipment, he says, he returned to
civilization with gold worth thousands
of dollars.
McGirk and others heard the Btory.
Adventurers banded together, each
providing his share of the estimated
expenses: Some of the thirty sold all
they had to get money for the ven
ture. Others, like Albin Johnson, sec
retary of the corporation, and
Emanuel Johnson, the vi,ce-presldent,
had found much gold 1# Alaska and
are rich enough to buy a dozen mines.
More than 600, McGirk says, had
the money and the desire to go. But
no man was chosen unless he knew
something of mining.' Captain C. L.
Oliver, the navigator, Is not so much
a miner as a seaman. Lleutnant Cor
bett Eland, who has been stationed at
the Presidio for two years, is one of
the thirty.
Then there is “Pat.” Pat is a dog
of the North, possibly a Russian wolf
hound. He was picked up at the city
pound. His great-grandparents track
ed through the snow of the Arctic.
BATHING GIRLS
GIVE BOYS A
GREAT TREAT
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PHOENIX, Ariz., June 2 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The first bathing girl
parade ever held in what formerly was
cactus, greasewood-covered desert
was what Phoenix witnessed today.
Atlantic City on the eastern coast,
or Venice on the California seaboard
never have exhibited more striking,
colorful bathing costumes than those
which passed in review here. This, at
least was the opinion of those who
came from every corner of the Salt
river valley to see the parade, which
marked the re-opening of one of the
city's parks.
Giant cacti, sentinels of the out
skirts of the desert that defied every
colonizing effort of man until the
Roosevelt dam poured the water of
agricultural life into this valley, stood
out in primeval contrast to the shim
mering silks of beach costumes that
might well have graced a Newport
water fete.
Desert prospectors, whose acquaint
ance with water for years has been
limited almost to what they carried
in their canteens, gaped in amazement
as the array of abbreviated styles
went up, borne by the handsomest
automobiles the city and valley could
muster.
cowboys irom some or me great
ranches of the southwest, leather
chaps flapping, spurs clanking and
broad sombreros shading their wonder
ing eyes,,stood here and there along
the route of the procession in a sort
of stunned awe.
But the prospectors and the cow
boys were the exceptions in that
crowd. The great percentage of it,
from the young women in the. beach
costumes who formed the main at
traction, to the thousands who turned
out to view the spectacle, belonged
to the new order, modern, metropoli
tan.
It was just one more piece of evi
dence that Phonix and Arizona have
outgrown the era of the spur and the
g-un. The prospector, the cowboy and
the burro have given place to the
banker, the big businessman, the au
tomobile—and the bathing girl. '
COLORADO BOYS TO '
GIVE FARMERS A LIFT
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DENVER, June 2 (by Associated^
Press).—Colorado high school boys 1
again this summer are going to give i
the farmer a lift and help him harvest <
his crops during the summer school i
vacation. Already enlistments are be
ing received for the boys working re- ]
serve which performed valuable work 1
for the farmers in the summer months t
during the war when so many men 1
from the farms were in military or f
naval service. <
“The busy boy will become the ban- t
ner citizen,” said L. Stimson, in charge f
BOOTLEGGERS
OF CALIFORNIA
QUITE BUSY
ASTORIA, Ore., June 2 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Not until the nation
goes dry on June 30, and perhaps not
then will the troubles of the authori
ties of Astoria and other northern Pa
cific ports with the bootleggers of
California be over. Ever since the
state of Oregon was captured by the
prohibitionists trafficking in contra
band liquors has been carried on be
tween San Francisco and the Colum
bia river ports more especially Astoria
because of the numerous natural ad
vantages afforded for the safe de
livery of the wet goods.
The authorities here, in their ef
forts to run down the bootleggers,
have searched hundreds of lumber car
rying steamers and schooners, the ves
sels plying regularly between San
Francisco and Columbia river ports
as well as the ships making occasional
calls at these ports, their last previous
stop having been some southern port.
Their tireless efforts have made
the path of the carrier of contraband
an anxious one and their efforts have
brought thousands of dollars into the
municipal and county treasuries. But
there has been much of the contra
band liquor which has escaped their
vigilance.
One of the favorite ways of evading
the authorities is to toss the contra
band overboard at a designated point
at the mouth of the river where it is
picked up by the person in collusion
with the custodian from San Francisco
to the Columbia river port. Then it
is “fished” up and sold at from $15 to
$25 a quart. The price delivered at
Astoria runs from $90 to $120 a case,
but that is for bonded goods.
As high as 10 and 15 cases have
been known to be carried on one ship
and the oH tankers have proven a ter
rible field for the authorities until
svery one of them was searched as it
locked.
With the nation going dry the traf
ickers are devoting their attentions
,o devising some means of continuing
he supply and Sheriff Ole Nelson, of
Clatsop county says illicit stills un
loubtedly will spring up in the remote
imbered districts of the lower Co
umbia.
if enlistments for the working re
erve. “The finest thing that can hap
len to a boy is to learn something
bout farming. He will be better
iquipped for all other lines of business
f he has training on a farm.”
The farmers are said to be well
ileased with the success of the plan
ast year and are eager to employ
he school boys again this summer,
•arents, too, have been found willing
or the Summer vacation in hard work
n the farm means better health when
he boys come home to school in the
all.
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CHAS. GOLDS™ & COMPANY
of Juneau, Alaska
Offer to the trappers and dealers of the North
the fo'llowinig prices for No. I Prime Furs:
Lynx, Extra Large No. 1.$30.00 to $32.50
Lynx, Large No. 1. 25.00 to 30.00
Lynx, Small . 15.00 to 20.00
Mink, dark coast skins... 5.00 to 7.00
Mink, dark coast skins, small. 3.00 to 5.00
Mink, fresh water. 5.00 to 10.00
Land Otter. 12.00 to 18.00
Red Fox, No. 1 large... 30.00 to 35.00
Cross Fox, according to beauty........ 50.00 to 100.00
Muskrats ...■.75 to 1.50
Silver and Black Foxes, as to color
Wolverine.. 7.00 to 15.00
Wolves ..;. 5.00 to 20.00
Ship ps your Furs! As soon as receivod we will grade same and
wire our best offer. It our prices are not satisfactory wa will retain
the furs and pay transportation charges on same both ways.
References: Any bank In Alnaka, Dexter Horten National Bank, Se
attle; National Bank of Tacoma, Tacoma, Wash.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED
We operate the largeet Fur Manufactory north of Ban Francisco.
JEWELRY I
We Have the Most Complete Stock in
Cordova
If Vou Want the Correct Time, Call 43
•now Qlaeoee of Ail Klnda.
PAUL BLOEDHORN
_ Watchmaker and Jeweler
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Comparative j
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|;: As reported by the banks of the Third Division j
j ; under call of Territorial Banking Board April 30th, ;
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j Bank of Anchorage...$280,531.00 |
Bank of Alaska, Anchorage. 290,117.83 I
j First Bank of Valdez. 245,064.24 f
| Bank of Seward . 197,895.50 |
|j j Harriman National Bank, Seward.*172,917.06 IS
Bank of Alaska, Cordova. 142,845.42 ;
: j First Bank of Cordova.677,056.22
j Deposits of the First Bank of Cordova over 50 per j
| i cent of combined deposits of all other banks in S
• | Third Division. |
| These figures plainly reflect the growth of our dis- I j
! | trict, a solid growth based upon the development j :
• i of our natural resources. •
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! | i ^Under call of Comptroller of- Currency, May 12, 1919 i •
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* Pioneer Bank of Co rdova and Copper River Valley S
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ROSSWOG
WE LEAD—OTHERS FOLLOW
.OVERA MONARCH CIGARS.
2 for 25c
IPTIMO STANDARD CIGARS.
2 for 25c
IPTIMO SENATOR CIGARS.
2 for 25c
IOZART MAGNIFICENT CIGARS
2 for 25c
IOZART CORONA FINA...
2 for 25c
Velvet tobacco, tins.
3 for 50c
jrUXEDO TOBACCO, TINS .
3 for 50c
’RINCE ALBERT, TIN8 ....
3 for 50c
M.L OTHER CIGARS AND TO
BACCO AT POPULAR PRICE8
CORDOVA
C. M. ROSSWOG
8TATIONER, NEW8DEALER,
NOTIONS,
T0BACC08, CONFECTIONERY.
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CORDOVA MACHINE
WORKS
C. R. OARNCS, Prop.
RooMonoo Phono 101-3
•hop Phono 1«fc
Kaohtao Work of all Kinds,
Blaektahhlap, Qonoral Ropalr
k& Horn Bkootns, OzysAcoty
UM WToldla* and Oattlnc.
■ ' ONloo and •hop*: City Cook*
CORDOVA, Alpoka.
| Out of Town John Olvon •trim
i Attention.
mmsaaessssammaasuasuaBm
Prices are coming down. So are
our ham and eggs. Now 50 cents at
the City' Bakery. 2-6t
The Daily Times Job plant is
well equipped for all classe of com
mercial printing.
Aunty
Keating’s
Wee Shop
Take a peep in the Wee Shop,
And I’ll bet you my all
You’ll want to stop in
If only to call.
There are lots of Toys,
Picture Books and Games,
Marbles and Candies and
Dolls without names—
Silks and Laces,
Ribbons.by the mile—
And Frances Fraisure there
To give you a smile.
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Cordova
The City Beautiful
Help to keep it so by using a
Garbage Can. Plenty of them at
CORDOVA
8HEET METAL WORKS
Phone 143
Sixty Steam-Heated Rooms, Electric-Lighted
Hot and Cold Water in Every Room
With or Without Bath
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Cordova House
DOOLEY A GREEN1G
Headquarters fpr Railroad and Mining Men
Satisfaction Guaranteed :: Rates Reasonable |