WAR DOES NOT
AFFECT POSTAL
PARIS, .Inly 9.—War tum had con
trary effects on the postal service of
Prance Obstructions to WMMIW
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and Industry resulted In a great dr
crease In business correspondence,
but this Is more than compensated by
the Increase In personal letters be
tween members of dispersed families
and the soldiers and their relatives. In
n single day the postal department
handed 14,000,5(10 letters, 780,000 regis
tered letters nnd packages, 135,000
newspapers and 57,000 postal orders.
The volume of matter has steadily in
creased since December.
Rut the moratorium, the closing of
a number of financial establishments
and the suppression of discount has
also turned a great flood of collection
business to the postal department.
Naturally, "dead letters” have alRo
largely increased, partly through the
impossibility of delivering the letters
or packages to their destination, but
largely on account of defective ad
dresses. Retween December 1914, and
May 5th last. 8,500,000 letters and
nearly 60,000 packages were thrown
into the refuse heap. Among the let
ters that have gone to the “Dead Let
ters Office” during that time were
found bank bills to the amount of
360,000 francs, of which the depart
ment has been able to return to Its
J owners only about 30,000.
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MEN AT FRONT
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PRIZES
MUNICH, July 9.—Uolng in tho
field on soldier duty has not prevented
eleven metaphysics students from tak
ing time to compete for the 1,000
mark prize offered hy the Kant
Society for the best answer to the
question, “What genuine advances
have metaphysics made in Germany
since the time of Hegel and Herbart?”
Hr. Oskar Rwald of the University
of Vienna, now at the front, was
awarded the 1,000 mark prize, which
was donated by Prof. Dr. Karl Gut
tler of the University of Munich.
Another serving in the war. Dr.
Kynast of Ifreslau, won the second
prize of 500 marks. The judges were
l’rof. Mussel of Gottingen. Prof. Hou
se] of Krlangon and Prof. Messer of
Giessen.
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TIFLIS, July 9.—Hadzshina, a wild
little 6-year-old Kurdish girl, has be
come the mascot of a Russian artillery
regiment operating on the Persian
frontier. She was left behind when
the population of the Armenian vil
lage of Hazar fled and Russian sol
diers found her, clad in a filthy Hhirt,
hiding in the depths of a bake oven,
j After she had recovered from fright
under the kind treatment of her cap
tors, the little one told through an
interpreter how she had been left
behind by her mother, who escaped
taking with her another child. Her
father, she said, was a soldier and
had been taken prisoner Dy the Rus
sian troops.
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Situation Wanted .
By widow lady to take charge of a
rooming house or to cook at a camp,
or roadhouse. Mrs. G. Phillips,
Chltina, Alaska.
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NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that the
annual meeting of the stockholders
of the First Bank of Cordova
will be held at the office of said
bunk in the Town of Cordova, Alaska
[ on Tuesday July the 13th, 1915, at the
hour of 4 o’clock p. m. of said day at
which meeting the directors of said
bank shall be elected for the ensuing
year, and such other business trans.
acted ur may regularly come before
Raid meeting.
H. I. LEWIS,
Assistant Secretary,
A
THE UNKIND WORD
If I hnd known in the morning
How wearily all the day
The words unkind
Would trouble my mind
I said when you went away.
I hnd been more careful, darling,
Nor given you needless pain;
nut wo vex our own
With look and tone
We might never take back again.
For though in the quiet or the
* evening
You may give me the kiss of peace,
Yet well it might be
Thnt never for me
The pain of the heart should cease.
How many go forth in the morning
Who never come home at night,
And hearts are broken
For harsh words spoken
That sorrow can never set right.
We have careful hearts for the
stranger,
And smiles for the sometime guest.
Hut oft for "our own”
The bitter tone,
Though we love our own the best.
Ah! lip with the curve impatient:
Ah! brow with the look or scorn,
’Twere a cruel fate
Were the night too late
To undo the work of morn.
—Margaret E. Songster.
TELL DIRt™
Of SHELLS BE
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BERLIN, July !>.—The war has de
veloped what might be termed an
artillery ear" especially among the
soldiers in this branch of the service,
which enables them to judge accur
ately what kind of a shell is being
fired at them, and whether or not it is
aimed at their battery or at some
other spot. Many lives have been
saved by this gradually developed
oral alertness.
The artillerist, explains an officer,
who has been in the field for months,
is able almost instinctively to tell
whether a shell is headed for his bat
tery or not. The men have learned
to pay not the slightest attention to a
shot that gives off the peculiar sound
indicating that it is aimed at some
other battery or position.
Because of the confusing noise of
the artillerists' own battery, the
squad tending it usually is divided
into two groups, one of which listens
for the shells of the opponents, and
gives the warning to dive for the shel
ters hack of the guns. The men learn
to talk with pauses between each
word, listening meantime for the tell
tale whistle of the dangerous shell.
Only in the case of a small field can
non, fired at a range of, say 2,000
yards, is it impossible to hear the
shell in time to dive Into the security
of the sheltering “understand." Those
shells have reached their mark about
as soon as the sound of their dis
charge.
The 12-centimeter flat-trajectory
guns on the other hand gives just
enough warning so that the men can
make one dive. There isn’t one frac
tion of a second to be wasted, but by
quick action the artillerist can save
himself.
The big howitzers however give
nearly half a minute's warning. As
the officer puts it, one can hear the
shells from these guns, and still cut
off a slice of wurst and take a swallow
from one’s "field bottle” before seek
ing shelter. The shelter in this case
must be a genuine shelter, consisting
of about three layers of heavy wood,
and two yards of enrth and stone. Else
the shelter and artillerists are gone.
GERMANS ASKED
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TO TURKS
HEREIN, July 9.—Through the j
agency of the "Deutsche Durerbund” j
in Constantinople, an appeal has gone i
out throughout Germany for German
literature which may be placed at the
disposal of the Turks.
“The Turks,” says the nppcnls, "like
their army, will bo advanced in cut
ture after German pattern." Germans
therefore are asked to give their sup
port to the move to supply Turkey
with German literature. It is hoped
and expected to establish reading
rooms In Constantinople at which Ger
man books will be obtainable.
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n The first ease
of a O charged with
interfering output of muni
tions was severely by the
local court workman, James
Marshall, was with assaulting
Rnnther because he was
turning out too many shells. The
court's sentence of three months at
hard labor was accompanied by the
following statement:
“Although you are making 22 cents
an hour and have constant work, you
are finding fault with a fellow work
mnn because he is doing his duty to
his country In its hour of ngony. This
,i..i.ault was committed by you to in
timidate him from doing his work like
a man. If this happened in Germnny
—although I think It is hardly pos
sible—you would have been taken out,
put up against a wall, and Bhot. The
same thing would have happened in
Prance. I am sorry it cannot be done
lo you here."
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So complete in every detail is the
Gritish commissariat system that the
men in the fighting line nre being sup
plied with fresh water, which Is car
ried daily across the channel from
Dover.
Garon Montono, doyen of the diplo
matic corps at Fetrograd, is one of
Japan’s foremost diplomats. He has
lived at Fetrograd since 1906.
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Restoration to Entry of Lands In
National Forest
Lists 6-1496,-1512,-1513,-1541.
Notice is hereby given that the
•anils described below, embracing
169.88 acres, within the Chugach Na
tional Forest, Alaska, will be subject
to sell lenient and entry under the pro
visions of the homestead laws of the
United States and the art of June 11,
1906 Cl-l Slat.. 2.13), at the United
States land office at Juneau, Alaska,
on August 16. 1915. Any settler who
was actually and in good faith claim
ing any of said lands for agricultural
purposes prior to January 1, 1906, anil
has not abandoned qnmo, has a pref
erence right to make a homestead
entry for the lands actually occupied.
Said lands were listed upon the appli
cations of the persons mentioned
below, who have a preference right
subject to the prior right of any such
settler, provided such settler or appli
cant is qualified to make homestead
entry and the preference right is
exercised prior to August 16, 1915, on
which date the landB will be subject
to settlement and entry by any quali
fied person. The lands embrace a
tract of 160 acres, described by metes
and hounds as follows: Beginning at
Corner No. 1, situated on the bench
immediately north of the town of
Ninilcbic, east shore of Cook Inlet, a
post marked H-l whence U. S. L. M.
No. 1, bears 3. 49 deg., 45 min. W*
17.88 chs.; extending thence N. 14 de/
I'., 15.15 clis.; thence meandering east
shore of Cook Inlet 60 feet back from
line of ordinary high tide, N. 41 deg.
E., 7.53 chs.; thence N. 28 deg. E.,
17.27 chs., to Corner No. 3; thence e!
35.17 chs.; thence *. 35.75 chs.;
thence \V. 51.82 chs.. to the place of
beginning, listed upon application of
Alex Homan, Homer, Alaska; List
6-1496.
A tract of 153.60 acres, described by
metes and bounds as follows: Begin
ning at Corner No. 1 a spruce post set
in ground 60 feet distant from mean
tide line on east bank of Iraida Creek,
east shore of Cook Inlet approxi
mately Vi mile northerly from Apex
of Anchor Point, marked H-l, whence
Forest Service Monument No. 10 at
Granross Creek east bank Laida
Creek, bears N. 20 deg. E„ 44 chs.;
extending thence along the east bank
of Laida Creek N. 51 deg. E., 7 chs.;
thence N. 21 deg. E., 14 chs.; thence
N. 28 deg. E„ 4.44 chs., to Corner No.
2; thence E. 66.81 chs.; thence S.
21.44 chs.; thence W. 79.27 chs., to
the place of beginning, listed upon
application of Jacob Petaja, Homer,
Alaska; List 6-1512.
A tract of 86.78 acres, described
by metes and bounds as follows. Be
ginning at Corner No. 1, Forest Ser
vice Monument (hereinafter de
scribed) bears N. 24 dog. W., 90 links;
extending thence along the east shore
of Forberg Bay 60 feet back from line
of ordinary high tide S. 54 deg. W.,
2.90 chs.; S. 4.1 deg. W.. 5.16 chs.; S.
34 deg. W., 5.80 chs.; S. 22 deg. VV..
3.33 chs.; S. 50 deg. W., 6.88 chs.; S.
46 deg. W., 6.33 clis., and S. 40 deg.
W„ 9.60 chs.; to Corner No. 2; thence
S. 24 deg. E. 18.30 chs.; thence N. 58
deg. E.„ 36.58 clis.; thence N. 24 deg.
W., 29.55 chs., to the place of begin
ning. Forest Service Monument con
sists of a post set in mound of stones
on top of bluff 10 feet above high
tide line on east shore of Forberg Bay,
marked F. S. M. H. whence Passage
Point bears N. 7 deg. E., and Observa
tion Point hears N. 48 deg. E. Listed
upon application of Peter Forberg,
Cordova, Alaska; List 6-1513.
A tract of 69.50 acres, described by
metes and hounds as follows: Begin
ning at Corner No. 1 situated on the
south shore of Boswell Bay a post
marked 11-1: extending thence N.
63 deg. 45 min. E., 10.59 clis., to Cor
ner No. 2, identical with Forest Ser
vice Monument, whence Northernmost
tKiint of Boswell Hook, a conspicuous
lone rock 80 feet high on mud flat
near south shore of Boswell Bay,
hears N. 87 deg. 30 min. W„ 36.43
chs.; thence N. 45 deg. E„ 9:41 chs.;
thence E. 24 chs.; thence S. 26 deg.
30 min. E„ 20 chs.; thence S. 76 deg.
30 min. \V„ 1.59 chs.; thence W. 49.12
cho.; thence N. 7.16 chs., to the place
of beginning listed upon application of
William Boswell, Cordova, Alaska;
List 6-1541.
C. M BRUCE.
Assistant Commissioner of the
General Land Office.
Dated April 17. 1915.
FIRST BANK OF CORDCVA
CAPITAL STOCK »25.000
4% on Time Deposits
We Sell Travellers’ Checks
| Gold Dust Bought at Highest Market Prices
l despository for territorial funds.
SHELDON’S AUTOS
Five days from Chitina
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Take the Automobile Line at Chitina for all
points on the Government Trail.
Fare to Fairbanks $75
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Company
LIGHTS, WATER, PHONES
AND POWER
25 and 40 Watt Lamps.35c.
60 Watt Lamps.50c.
100 Watt Lamps.75c
250 Watt Lamps.$2.00
200 Watt, Gas Filled Lamps.$3.00
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