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The quota of Cordova and the Copper jj
River Valley for Armenian relief is three jj
Ij thousand dollars. What are YOU going j|
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! lj ing people is a duty develving upon the jj
more fortunate nations. Cordova is asked m
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(Capital $170,000.00
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ALASKA TRANSFER COMPANY
TRANSFER AND STORAGE
GOAL AND WOOD
AUTO SERVICE
DAY OR NIGHT
Office, Northern Hotel Bldg. Phone 85
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ARE YOU GOING OUT THIS FALL?
Visit San Francisco and Stop with
Mark C. Thompson
at his new hotel in the heart of the city between
Powell and Mason Streets,
The Dale-Tallac Hotel
140 ELLIS STREET
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j Special Rates and Headquarters for Alaskans.
THE NORTHERN CLUB
FRED HAEF, PROP.
POOL, CARDS, TOBACCO
Soft Drinks of All Kinds
The Popular Corner
PHONE 47 CORDOVA, ALASKA
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OSBORNE BROS.
JEWELERS AND
OPTICIANS
WATCH REPAIRING
JEWELRY TO ORDER
CORDOVA, ALASKA
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Cordova
Adjustment
Company
K. G. ROBINSON, Mgr.
Collections, Reports,
Insurance
Ostrander Bldg., Cordova, Alaska
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ABOUT ALASKA
The Seward tax levy was set at 12
mills at a recent meeting of the c;t/
council.
A heavy rain storm accompanied
by thunder and lightning visited Sew
ard recently. Alaska has very litUe
thunder and lightning.
Miss Jack, an artist of note, recent
ly visited Fairbanks, on one of the
tourist excursions, and while in the
city painted portraits of the residents
in oil and crayons.
Ketchikan has a reformer in the
person of Edith Clark Schell, who is
out waging war on the blind piggers
and other ills she sees in the offing.
Edith may have good motives in
adopting the role of reformer, but
she will find the way both rocky and
hard sledding, says an exchange.
Inspecor Hicks of the Standard
Oil Company is expected from Seattle
on one of the next boats. Upon his ar
rival at Juneau work will commence
on two 96-foot tanks. When these
tanks are finished the company will
handle fuel for Deisel engines. This
oil has not been handled ni the past
by the local firm. A steam heating
plant for fuel oil will also be put in
at the local dock.
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E. W. Merrill, the photographer,
artist and bird specialist of Sitka, who
is the official caretaker of the Indian
park at Sitka, classed as a national
monument, has accomplished won
ders with the small appropriation al
lowed him. He has cleared out the old
underbrush from a large section of
the park, has located benches at vari
ous points where the view is good, im
proved the trails and roadways and
is now engaged in repainting the to
tem poles. To follow the original
colors of the Indians, every color and
carving having a distinct meaning, is
not such an easy task as it may seem.
However, Mr. Merrill knows the na
tive sign language and is producing
it in coloring.
The hearing of George Griggs and
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Joe Adamson, who were accused of
robbing a fish trap on Lynn canal on
July 11, was held before Commission
er Burton, at Juneau. When the men
appeared in the court room the wit
nesses for the prosecution said that
they were not the men who commit
ted the robbery and the case was dis
missed. The men were arrested in
Haines several days ago on a war
rant telegraphed from Juneau, the
warrant having been issued by the
commissioner's court. The men had
many witnesses with them in the
court room who would swear that the
two men did not own a boat on July
11 and also that they were at their
homes in Douglas on that day.
To the Admiral Watson of the Pa
cific Steamship Company’s fleet has
fallen the honor of being the first and
only ocean going vessel to land at the
government dock at Anchorage, ac
cording to Alaskans returning from
the westward. At that port ships are
obliged to anchor in the roadstead
and land passengers and freight by
means of lighters. But on a recent
trip of the Watson to the westward
the vessel lost one of her propeller
blades and Captain Robert McGilvray
decided to take a chance and lay up
at Anchorage for repairs. So he wait
ed for high tide and then sailed bold- ,
ly up to the dock, made his vessel
snug and fast and waited for low tide. -
The receding waters left the Watson
high and dry on the mud and the
repairs were quickly completed. At;
high tide the ship made a quick get
away. The crowd of excursionists
on board and the people of Anchorage
enjoyed the novel experience.
Well I guess so—Sure. Eagle hall.
Electric irons, 3 pounds to 6%
pounds. Prices $3.50 to $6.50 at the
Northwestern Hardware Company.
Try the Club Billiard Hall for
golden, silver and royal fizzes. 23-tf
Best coffee in town at the City
Bakery. 2-6t
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on Prince William Sound, a House
Scow, same having gone adrift in
heavy gale.
For identification, both ends plainly
marked A. S. F. Co. No. 2.
REGISTRY NO. 166,675.
Finder please deliver to, or commu
nicate with, the undersigned and se
cure liberal reward.
ALASKA SEA FOODS CO., -
Cordova.
EARTHS IN SOLAR SYSTEM
Thousands of Asteroids, Mostly Small,
Known to Be Swinging Around
the Sun.
Swlngipg around the sun between
the planets Mars and Jupiter there are
more than a thousand little earths,
ranging in diameter from three to 485
miles. These are known as the aster
oids, and although they pursue their
individual ways in the solar system
much like our own globe they are
too small to support any sort of life,
being unable to hold an atmosphere.
From time to time new asteroids are
discovered, not by astronomers pa
tiently peering at the heavens through
a telescope, but by means of the photo
graphic plate. A thousand have al
ready been found, but it is likely that
thousands of smaller asteroids remain
to be discovered.
The four largest asteroids, Ceres,
Pallas. Vesta and Juno, are respec
tively 485, 804, 248 and 118 miles in
diameter. A few more asteroids may
exceed 100 miles in diameter, but the
great majority are simply huge rocks
five miles or less in diameter. Unlike
the major planets, the asteroids are
not spheres, but simply jagged rocks,
huge mountains hurtling through
space, whirling round and round on
their axis as they journey about the
sun.
Possibly, as some have suggested,
they may be the larger fragments of
periodic comets of unusual size that
have in the course of ages been shorn
of their appendages.
LIKE GEM IN RARE SETTING
Lake Kluahne, Close to Arctic Circle,
Is Beautiful Spot Seldom Vis
ited by Man.
Lying amid the heights of encir
cling mountains as a mere dewdrop
in a titanic crinkle of tin* continental
surface, is the 50-mile length of Lake
Kluahne, once reputed source of the
Yukon, flowing from it 1.200 miles
or more north, northwest and south
west to Boring sea. Barely 850
miles south of the arctic circle, south
ern boundary of perpetual snow 'and
ice, it is compassed about with moun
tain ranges and peaks rising abruptly
from its waters, says Christian Science
Monitor.
The shores of the lake are bare of
vegetation, save for the dwarf birch
and the hardy northern willow, tundra
grasses and lesser brush.
Lapped in the perpetual silence of
the unpeopled North, sternly isolated,
untouched by human presence, save
for at long intervals a casual Indian
or passing prospector, Lake Kluahne
has in its very silence and sternness
of aspect a beauty of that hardly ex
pressed. indefinable, but none the less
deeply felt nature which, conscious of
it or not, is a main factor in holding
the prospector or other man of the
open places in his wandering ways, in
the sand deserts of the South, or the |
mountain wilderness of the extreme '
Northwest alike.
IRON STAYS HOT
YOU STAY COOL
In the torrid summer
days when the thermometer
! stands at a hundred in the
1 shade the
UNIVERSAL
Electric Iron
comes to the relief of the
busy housewife with a com
forting sense of work more
easily done in the very cool*
est way, Efficiency and
economy account for the
popularity of UNIVERSAL
Electric Irons.
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Public
Utilities
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Alaska
; Steamship Company
Regular Sailings Between Seattle, ^
Ketchikan, Juneau, Cordova, Valdez,
Ellamar, Liscum, Latouche, Seward
FROM SEATTLE- SA1LS S0UTH
Aug. 21.NORTHWESTERN.Aug. 31
Aug. 29.ALASKA ......Sept. 7
Sept. 7..ALAMEDA...Sept. 14
Steamer Alameda will make trip to Anchorage.
Frequent sailings of freighters carrying explosives.
This schedule subject to change without notice.
F. B. TRACY, Agent
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HIP COMPANY^ II
Alaska—Washington—California ALASKA ROUTE
Safety Courtesy Service Speed
OFFICE EMPRESS BUILDING
WEST BOUND SOUTH BOUND
LEAVE CORDOVA LEAVE CORDOVA t
About Sept. 1 6....WATSON... About Sept. 25
Three Sailings per Week from Seattle for San Francisco, Los An
geles and San Diego. For further information call
Office phone 223. L. A. COUNTS, AGENT Residence Windsor hotel
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I! ipper River and
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drains leave Cordova for Chitina Sunday and Thursday
Trains leave Chitina for Kennecott Monday and Friday
Trains leave Kennecott for Chitina Monday and Friday
Trains leave Chitina for Cordova Tuesday and Saturday.
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Dining Car in Connection with ali Regular
Passenger Trams between Cordova and Chitina.
Freight received and delivered at Cordova
W hart trom 9 a. m. to 5 p- m., except Sundays.
Tickets on sale at Second Street Depot office
uii Hour before departure of trains.
vALEB CORSER Superintendent
D. L. LEATON, Ticket Agent
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Our new fall line of Blue Serges,
Bankers' Grays, Fancy Wor
steds and Imported Tweeds.
All suits will be made here
HUBBERT & STEEINE
PHONE 130
FRED M. SCHAUPP
SANITARY PLUMBING
Steam-Fitting, Marine Pipe and Tank Work
Sheet Metal Work
SECOND STREET, NEXT DOOR TO FEDERAL JAIL
PHONE 72
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Manhattan Hotel
R. W. FERRELL, Prop.
Electric Lighted. Hot Water. Turkish and Tub
Baths.
OPPOSITE CORDOVA GRILL, CORDOVA, ALASKA.
PHONE 99
KENNY HOLDEN’S
Pool and Billiard Parlors
CIGARS. SOFT DRINKS AND TOBACCO. 4
FIRST-CLASS BARBER SHOP
IN CONNECTION
MUSIC EVERY NIGHT PHONE 15