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DOLLARS SOCIETY
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£a£es on improved real estate, in city,
state and U. S. Government Bonds
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we have never on savings
paid less than t left with us
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NOTICE TO WATER CONSUMERS
This Company has spared neither time
nor expense to give Cordova a continuous
WATER SUPPLY. To do this the Company
must have your co-operation to stop the waste
that occurs from letting the water run to avoid
freezing the pipes. Where we find this con
dition still to exist we shall SHUT OFF THE
WATER for the winter without further notice.
ALASKA PUBLIC UTILITIES
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First Street Phone 13
PLANT MAY BE
ABANDONED AS
NOWJSELESS
GRETNA, England, Jan. 12 (Corre
spondence of the Associated Press).
—With the ending of hostilities the
British government has on its hands
unused a $50,000,000 military chemical
plant, the most important in the em
pire, employing during the war 22,000
persons. Apparently the government
is undecided whether to try to util
ize it or to abandon it. Ecenomists
say it is too inaccessible for private
commercial use and that its plants
and machinery should be scrapped
and the government should pocket the
loss.
The workers are rapidly being de
mobilized, and the population of
Gretna has shrunk to 5,000. Recruit
ed as they were, from almost every
branch of industry, many of them un
skilled and inexperienced, the absorp
tion of these workers into the new
economic order is giving no little con
cern to the government and to them
selves, for economically Great Brit
ain has not yet recovered her bal
ance.
The unemployed workers—and
id \juiy uue government, au
tivity of many similarly affected
are taking the "unemployed wage”
provided by the government, and are
making the most of it. As this wage
is much less than they received while
making shot and shell, being about
$7.50 a week, there are fears that
they will soon miss their high wages
and in time may become the cause of
industrial unrest. Some time must
elapse while military plants are being
transformed into factories that will
produce the things needful in ordi
nary life.
The factory has a wonderful hous
ing system, with comfortable homes,
churches and recreation halls for the
workers, and in ordinary circum
stances it ought to be useful for many
years to come. But the highly ex
plosive nature of the product neces
sitated the planting the industry out
side the ordinary walks of commerce
and manufacture. This makes it rea
sonably certain in the minds or econ
omists that Gretna will have to be
abandoned. , '
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French lessons, private and class,
for children and adults. Ida Dowald
er, experienced teacher. Adams build
ing, C street. 34-3t
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D. H. Sexton has purchased Robert
Gottschalk’s interest in the Alaskan
hotel, and all persons having bills
against the hotel should present them
at once to Mr. Sexton, who has as
sumed these accounts. 3-tf
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well equipped for all clasfie of com
mercial printing.
HOW REINDEER
INDUSTRY IN
NORTHBEGAN
On December 9, 1897, a resolution
was introduced in congress looking
to the relief of the people in the
Alaska gold fields who were reported
to be in a starving condition and in
need of government aid. On Dec. 18,
1897, the bill passed and became a
law. The bill authorized the secre
tary of war to purchase and import
reindeer into the territory and bring
and import drivers and caretakers, not
citizens of the United States, into the
country. In pursuance of this act,
and by an arrangement with the de
partment of the interior, Dr. Sheldon
Jackson, an agent of that department,
was instructed to proceed to Norway
and Sweden to purchase 500 reindeer,
with sleds, harness and drivers, and
bring the same to the United States
as soon as possible. Lieutenant D.
V. Decore, U. S. A., accompanied Dr.
Jackson as disbursing agent of the
expedition.
The expedition landed in New York
on the steamship Manitoban, Feb. 27,
1898, with 113 immigrants, 538 head of
reindeer, 418 sleds, 411 sets of har
ness and a large quantity of reindeer
moss for forage. After due advertise
ment a contract waa let to the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company to trans
mit the exnedition to Seattle. Wash..
fo- $10,418.75. The reindeer train ar
rived at Seattle on March 7, 1898,
without accident or loss, the animals
being in excellent condition, the run
across the continent having been
made on passenger train schedule.
On March 10, 1898, the secretary of
the interior transmitted to the secre
tary of war a communication in which
he stated that he had directed Dr.
Sheldon Jackson to proceed at once
to Dyea to confer with Captain Ray,
in charge of the relief expedition, in
regard to the best method of driving
337 head of reindeer to be sent by
way of Lynn canal, across the Dalton
train to Circle City. Dr. Jackson was
also instructed to go o Circle City
and secure a suitable pasture for the
animals until the following May,
when, In accordance with an under
standing with the secretary of war,
they were to be turned over to Dr.
Jackson as the agent of the depart
ment of the interior. It was under
stood on the part of the secretary ot
the interior that the war department
was to be in charge of the transporta
tion of the animals until they were
delivered to Dr. Jackson in May. Fifty
of the 337 head were to be turned
over to the department’s representa
tive until the middle of April, 1898.
The last named number of1 animals
were intended for use by the United
States Geological Survey on its trip
over the Dalton trail to a point near
Circle City, in Alaska. By an un
derstanding with the war department
subsistence, was to be furnished by
that department for the reindeer at
tendants for at least one year. It
was further understood that the trav
eling expenses and subsistence of Dr.
Jackson while engaged in this duty
were to be paid out of the relief fund.
Dr. Jackson was subsequently de
i.Jl.J 41.« Jullnn nKrtirn nomhft
with definite instructions as to the
duties he was to perform.
In the meantime Lieutenant (now
General) Richardson, later head ot
the road commission, was detailed to
Investigate conditions along the Yu
kon, and reported that while there
was a shortage of provisions there
were no cases of actual want. He
commandeered the stores of the
Alaska Commercial Company and the
Northern Conrfhereiai ' Company and
furnished the destitute miners provi
sions, taking notes from them for the
amount, which were sent in to the
department for future collection.
Subsequently the secretary of the
Interior reached the conclusion that
it would be better after the expedi
tion reached Haines that the 337 head
of deer be turned over to Dr. Jack
Bon at once, who would be responsible
for their wife delivery at Circle. On
March 167 1898, the assistant secre
tary of war, G. D. Meikle)ohn, in
formed the secretary of the interior
that he had no authority from the
war department to pay the traveling
expenses and subsistence of Dr. Jack
son from the fund heretofore named
after the animals should have been
delivered at Pyramid Harbor or >
Haines Mission, as his connectlonwith
the war department would then cease
and he would become the agent of
the department of the Interior. The
assistant secretary of war, however,
stated that Jackson would be author
ised, should h« so desire, to purchase
army subsistence under the condi
tions usually granted agents of other
departments In cases where the pur
chase Ot army subsistence was desir
able.
In the meantime the gold seekers
were appealing for relief, and many
lawless acts were being perpetrated
on account of a scarcity of food. After
a voluminous correspondence between
the secretary of war and the secre
tary of_ the interior as to which de
partment should provide subsistence
for Mr. Jackson the affair was satis
factorily terminated. A large num
ber of the deer died from eating al
falfa hay, the supply of reindeer moss
having long since become exhausted.
A number of others died during ship
ment to Alaska. The reindeer were
shipped north on the steamship Semi
nole, and'were taken overland to Cir
cle by Dr. Jackson.
Upon the conclusion of the relief
the deer were turned over to the na
tives, and immense herds have been
raised from them. They are now in
charge of the bureau of education.
PENSION FUND STARTED
FOR BRITISH SEAMEN
LIVERPOOL, Feb. 7 (by Associated
Press).—J. Bruce Ismay, son of the
founder of the White Star shipping
line, has given £25,000 in war loan
stock to inaugurate a “national mer
cantile marine fund,” the object of
which, he says, “is to mark his ad
miration of the very splendid and gal
lant manner in which the officers and
men of all ranks of the British mer
cantile marine have ‘carried on’
throughout the war.”
The fund is intended primarily to
provide grants or pensions to seamen
and to provide for widows and or
phans of British mariners.
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DRAFTED MEN OF HAWAII
RETURN TO PLANTATIONS
HONOLULU, Jan. 5 (,by mail).—■
Hawaii is awaiting the demobiliza
tion of thousands of men who were
inducted into service here and re
placed the garrison of regulars, who
were withdrawn to the mainland.
There is no labor problem of conse
quence to be solved, as a large ma
jority of the men are plantation la,
borers, and their former employers,
the sugar planters, are more than
anxious to have them back, having
struggled with a critical labor short
age for many months.
Many of the demobilized soldiers,
it is expected, will take advantage or
the homesteading program now being
carried out by the territorial govern
ment and will obtain sugar farms for
themselves. Thousands of acres of
sugar cane land, which for years past
have been leased to plantations, are
now being subdivided for homestead
ing as the leases expire. The home
steaders pay the appraised value of
the lands to the territory, being given
five years in which to establish them
selves.
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The final proof on the homestead
of Mrs. Ida May Berry has been made
and entered. The homstead is on
the Valdez trail about three miles
from town, and is better known as
the Joy ranch. This makes the second
proof to be filed during the week and
is only another step to the making of
the interior. There are several oth
er homesteads that will be filed with
the land office in the near future.
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Lessons in dancing every evening
at American bakery. tf
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If you change your address, do not
notify the carrier boy—report your
new address to the office.
Alaskan Grill
FRANK A. DOUGLAS, Proprietor
“The Home of Quality and Attention”
The Popular Restaurant of Cordova. Everything First-Class
Special Attention Given to Parties ^
One Visit to the Alaska Grill Will Make You a
Regular Patron
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I Fresh Beef, Pork, Veal, Mutton |
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Copper River
and Northwestern Ry.
Trains leave Cordova for Chitina every other day
and return from Chitina to Cordova on the following
day. Trains between Chitina and Kennecott run every
other day, making connection with trains between Chit
ina and Cordova.
The above schedule subject to change without no
tice.
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
quo hour before departure of trains.
CALEB CORSER Superintendent
D. L. LEATON, Ticket Agent