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CHITINA. ALASKA
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PROPRIETOR
THE HOTEL
CHITINA
ENLARGED AND COMPLETELY RENOVATED
SPACIOUS LOBBY ~~ STEAM HEATED
CAFE AND BAR
The Comfort Home of the Interior
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Proprietor Chitina, Alsaka
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FIRST BANK OF CORDOVA
CAPITAL STOCK $25,000
4% on Time Deposits
Our Stockholders Are
S. BLUM GEORGE C. HAZELET
M. BROCK FRED GLASBRENNER
A. E. LATHOP DELIA LYONS
JAFET LINDEBERG
DESPOSITORY FOR TERRITORIAL FUNDS.
its S ys LOOK
tint FOUR
The closing clown or the slot ma
chines in this division has resulted
in considerable criticism on the port
of many people in Cordova, through
out the Copper Hiver valley. Katana,
Valdez and Seward .is to > lie cause
of the action being taken by .the f'd
eral authorities.
The Seward Gateway says, imong
olher things
“The machines were forbidden in
the First division some time ago and
have not been used in the Second
for years, so the First, Second and
Third divisions are now three of a
kind, and if the Fourth division has
the same law enforced it makes two
pair which makes us look like four
white chips.”
From a lengthy article in the Val
dez Prospector ttie following ex
cerpts are taken:
“No more will the hingle lie in use
an lithe familiar call of 'diamond in
the middle' or 'heart on tho end’ he
heard.
"Everybody in the district, at least
those of the male sex, knew that slot
machines were being operated lint
the fede* officials evidently toler
ated the mild form of amusement,
knowing that they could issue the or
abolishing the machines at any time
that a complaint was made.
"When the matter came up at the
hearing in Cordova, and was officially
called to tin; attention of tin- court,
Judge Fred M. Brown instructed Dis
trict Attorney Spence to look into
tlie matter. The order abolishing
ttie machines followed."
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FOREIGN MONEY ORDERS
ISSUED AS USOAL
All postoffices throughout the coun
try have resumed the issuing of for
eign money orders for any amount.
Immediately' after the war broke
out in Europe, there was a great de
mand for money orders, large and
small, to assist stranded Americans
in Europe. The rush for moey or
ders was so great and the chance of
them going astray and causing Innu
merable mlxups and trouble to the
postal departments were so numerous
that it was decided to limit the re
mittances.
The order issued by the department
s as follows:
“Until otherwise advised, the notice
of AOugnst 3, 1914, limiting the issue
orders payable in European countries
to $100 in favor of one person, is
hereby rescinded. The transaction
of international money order business
may now’ be resumed under the gen
eral rules and regulations in force
prior to August 3. 1914. In the event
the demands for money orders in very
large amounts are made, post masters,
before issuing the orders, should re
port same promptly to the third asssl
tant postmaster general, division of
money orders. If deemed of suffic
ient importance, the telegraph may
be used. This notice applies to the
following countries: Denmark, Ger
many, France, Great Britain and Ire
land, Greece, Hungary, Italy. Kuxem
berg, Netherlands, Norway, Russia,
Sweden and Switzerland.”
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GERMAN GUNS ARE
TAKEN TO ENGLAND
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(By Associated Press Correspondence)
CONDON, Keb. 17—All the machine
guns captured from the Germans in
France and Flanders are being brought
to England for distribution among the
hew army units at their training
camp. The guns are very similar
to those used in the British army, and
are being used for instruction pur
poses.
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Homesteaders to Westward
About 150 homesteads have been lo
cated in the Matanuska valley and on
Knik Arm. Most or them have been
located since June last.
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Kinney has a corner on Coffee.
What we mean is COFFEE, not the
wlshy-wishy kind you have been
buying and nicknamed coffee. One
cun of Dwight Edwards will convince
STAMPEDERS RETURNING
TO THE TOLOVANA
The report that what is consider
ed by miners to be fairly good pay
had been discovered on a creek near
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Oacy’s roadhouse, on the Tolovana
river has started a new stampede In
that direction. Many of the miners
who only recently returned from that
district discouraged by failure to lo
cate pay, are now backtracking to
the diggings.
It Is nlso reported on reliable au
thority that pay averaging $1 per
square foot has been uncovered on
Idvingood creek, where the first dis
covery was reported to have been
made.
Dave Oascadden, who is regarded
as one of the most reliable miners
In interior Alaska, apparently believes
the Tolovana will make a good camp.
Me has secured permit from the land
oflice to cut 2,000,000 feet of lumber
on the Tolovana river about fifteen
miles below the first strike. Me is
preparing to install a large sawmill
at an early date next spring.
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ALONG FIRING LINE
LONDON, Feb. 17—A letter received
by an English family from a daugh
ter serving as a Red Cross nurse in
Flanders gives a thrilling glimpse of
a girl's life in the Nieuport-Dixmude
line.
"We had a lively day of shelling on
Monday," she writes. "At about 10:
30, whiz-bang! just outside our house,
and all our glass came shattering
down. Whiz-bang! another, and an
other and yet another. Just then
the Belgian doctor came in and told
us we had better go into the cellar.
We went down Into the cold, damp
cellar and stood about on bits of
bits of wood and coal, and listened
to the continued whiz-bang and crash
of big shells. The noise was pretty
near deafening, and they must have
plumped in about 100. Out of all
that lot luckily we got only two woun
ded men—a priest, wounded by a fly
ing bit in the face, and a soldier. It
was extremely lucky that on that day
the trenches opposite our house were
not occupied or there would have been
many killed and wounded."
Continuing her letter on the follow
ing day, the writer says: "The big
cannonading is still going on. There
must be a tremendous battle, I am
hoping they are gaining ground, and
that we shall soon move on down the
road. I should just love to move
forward into Brussels. The weather
has been truly awful lately, nothing
but rain. I live in knee-high rub
ber boots and my oilskins. I am
sure I will never be able to get back
to hobble skirts and ‘fashionable
sides,’ as our American nurse says.
"We are thinking of going to Fur
nes for the afternoon, just for a joy
ride. We have been at it for nearly
a fortnight without a break, so we
think of going in. You have no idea
what a pleasure a trundle into Furnes
is, when you have not done a thing
but remain in two dingy, smelly
posts day in and day out. 1 will
tell you what the pleasure consisted
of: Getting into a motor ambulance
that has seen its best days, and
trundling over broken, holey roads
that nearly jolt one’s insides out;
probably at least once, and perhaps
more, sticking in the deep mud, and
all having to get out and push and
shove to get the car out, and event
ually arriving at Furnes, and having
a mad rush around the shops and grub
bing all stores we can find, but it all
seems so new and interesting after a
desolate town.
"Then a mad rush back again over
the same bumpy, holey road and home
to our tumble-down cottage. Yet
you have no idea what a great treat
it seems to us."
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THREE BIG WHALES
SEEN IN VALDEZ BAY
Residents along the waterfront re
port the presence of three large whales
in Valdez bay Wednesday afternoon.
This is an unusual occurrence as the
monsters are seldom seen inside the
narrows. The presence of the whales
indicates a run of herring or other
small fish in that bay.
You will be pleased If you eat at
the Windsor grill.
"The shifting of the Japan current
Is the cause of our present cold spell."
said L. M. Tyrrel yesterday. "If
you have noticed the inild weather
In Alaska you can see that the Japan
current has been shunted past the
Aleutian Islands and is causing mild
weather In that part of the country.
It has not been so cold in Alaska this
winter as it has been here. I have
noticed the weather reports front day
to day and have been struck with the
mildness of the weather there. The
explanation is easy. The winds have
drifted the ice in a line extending
south of the Aleutian islands and
the Japan current has been turned
from its usual course and deflected
along the Alaskan coast. As a con
sequence we have lost the modi
fying effect along the const off the
sound and are having colder weather,
while Alaska is having unusually j
warm weather for this time of year.
The change will come when the ice
floe breaks up and the Japan cur
rent returns to its usual channel. It
Is hard to say when this will happen,
but it is liable to come at any time.
The winds have caused present condi
tions and if they shift the current will
toon wear its. way through the ice floe
md return to its course along the
toiitid. We will then have a Chinook
wind and warmer weather." North
V'akinia Republican.
1TISH HOSPITAL
SHIP IS ATTACKED
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LONDON, Keb. 17—The Britisli Red
’ross hospital ship Asturias, which
he allies assert was subjected to a
submarine attack, is by far the finest
hospital ship in the Britisli service.
It plies between Havre and South
hampton. In the old days the ship
was in the South American passenger
tervice and was then noted for its
uxurious accommodations and steadi
ness inrough weather. Luxurious fit
ings are now cleared away, but noth
tig lias been lost on the side of com
fort. There are twelve hundred
swinging beds for the wounded, who
receive every care possible in a land
hospital. While surgical operations
it sea are generally avoided on hospi
tal ships, unless of a minor kind, the
operating theatre of tne Asturias is
*o well equipped that many serious
rases are handled there.
The Asturias is painted white with
green stripes, and carries a huge
square cross painted in red amidships
on both sides. At night the red
cross is illuminated by electric lights
and can be clearly seen rrotn a long
distance. Besides the doctors and
orderlies there are twenty women
nurses aboard.
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FAVORS REPEAL OP
TAX ON COPPER
Senator Charles Sulzer, of South
eastern Alaska, is in favor of the re
peal of the territorial tax on the out
put of one of our greatest minerals.
He says:
"The tax of ten cents a ton on cop
per is not fair to the small copper
mines. The copper properties pro
ducing in Alaska are being developed
under expensive and unfavorable
conditions. In most instances ex
tensive and costly tram systems are
required to convey the ore from the
mines to tide water, and the ore
shipped to Pacific coast smelters at
heawy freight rates and high smelter
charges. Ten cents a ton does not,
to the average person appear high,
but to those familiar with copper min
ing, particularly in the infancy of the
industry in a newly developing coun
try where there is no economical
method of smelting, the charge is a
burden which should not be contin
ued."
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