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this store will be open from
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Sundays
10:00 A. M. until Noon
4:00 P. M. until 10:00 P. M.
| NORTHERN DRUG CO.
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Eve r y_ Art i_c le
In My Store Makes
A Suitable Gift
and I Have thousands of
them for Young and Old.
Come in and inspect our selected stock
for the Holiday trade
I PAUL BLOEDHORN
| JEWELER AND WATCHMAKER
KENDRICK BUILDING FIRST STREET
THE CITY BAR: RY
WE ARE SPECIALISTS IN. FINE CAKES AND PASTRY
FOR
Parties and Receptions
MAKERS OF THE FAMOUS .“CREAM LOAF” BREAD
SUN “MAID" RAISIN BREAD—A TREAT INDEED
RYE BREAD GRAHAM BREAD
LUNCH ROOM —WHERE YOU GET THOSE EXCELL
ENT LUNCHES
SAVE MONEY!
COME TO THE BARGAIN STORE
And see what we have in the line of workmen’s clothing,
beds, mattresses and canvas goods of all kinds, tents and
shovels, kitchenware, furniture, stoves, etc. We also
cany a full line of mirrors—plate glass and plain.
THE NORTHERN BLOCK
| First Street
Copper River
& Northwestern Ry.
FOUR TRAINS WEEKLY BETWEEN
CHITINA AND KENNECOTT
Leave Cordova, Second Street Depot, on Mon
days, Thursdays and Saturdays.
Leave Chitina for Cordova Sundays, Tuesdays
days, Thursdays and Fridays.
Leave Chitina for Kennecott Sundays, Tues
days and Fridays.
Leave Kennecott for Chitina Mondays, Wednes
days, Thursdays and Saturdays.
The above schedule subject to change with
out notice.
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. in., except Sundays.
Tickets on sale at Second Street Depot
office, one hour before departure of trains.
CALEB CORSER, W. E. BROWN,
Superintendent. Agt. Cordova Wharf
R. K. BROWN, Jr., Ticket Agent.
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(By Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 17—With
the great interest developed in boxing
by its prominence at the army train
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ing camps, and with more than forty
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entries already received, the Denver
Athletic club’s annual amateur boxing ^
tournament this winter is attracting
more than usual attention. Last year j
there were more than 160 men enter
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ed in the seven boxing and four
wrestling classes of the tournament
and this is expected to be exceeded ^
heavily this year. The contest opens
January 21.
Kntries so far received include sev
eral front Wyoming and three from
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Nebraska, where newspapers are co
: operating with the club in securing
| entrants. In former years, though by
, far the greater number of entrants
| have represented regular clubs, many
| men have entered as "unattached."
This practice is encouraged, as teml
> ing to bring in all possible entrants.
The prizes this year are gold and
silver watches. Only amateurs in the
strict sense of the word are permitted
| to compete. Decisions are made by
three judges, whose names are not dis
closed and who are changed each
night of the tournament. The tourna
ment generally lasts seven or eight
days, with from fifteen t<j eighteen
boxing or wrestling matches nightly.
This year it probably will continue
longer. Besides the two states named,
entries may be made from Utah, Colo
rado. New Mexico, Kansas and Okla
I horn a.
The classes tor boxing are divided
| ns follows: Under 108 pounds, UiS to
lj 115 pounds; 115 to 125 pounds; 125
|j pounds t■> 135 pounds; 135 pounds to
1 145 pounds; 145 to 158 pounds and
) heavyweight.
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While the majority of California's
I star tennis players have joined the
! United States land or sea forces in
i one capacity or another, the mill which
I turns out these stars keeps grinding.
The municipal courts at the Golden
Gate park are as crowded as ever and
i the Golden Gate Junior Tennis club
, continues to hold its monthly tourna
ments without interruption.
Such internationally known players
as Maurice McLoughlin, William John
stone. and practically every other Cal
ifornia player who has become na
I tionally famous on the courts is a
graduate of this club and their play
ing was fostered and encouraged by
this organization. The park courts
have heen termed the "cradle" of
California players and the Junior Ten
nis club the “wet nurse.”
Prizes worth the winning are play
ed tor at each of these monthly tourn
aments held during each of the twelve
months in the year. It has been found
that competition, with the added in
centive of prizes, is the best method
of getting the youngsters to take up
tennis with a view of becoming pro
ficient and to this is ascribed, in a
large measure, the success of Cali
j fornia players.
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Well-Known Official Resigns.
| SAX DIEGO, Cal., Jan. 17.—After
I 8®rving continuously as secretary of
i the San Diego Rowing club for fif
teen years, Xeil E. Brown, a well
known expert in Pacific coast aquatic
circles, has announced his resigna
tion. During the time that Brown
has been in office the club has grown
from 62 to 604 members. He was the j
sponsor for the rowing and swimming j
championships held at Coronado Tent1
t ity last summer at which a number i
of world’s records were shattered.
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NOTICE.
All parties who are indebted to the
Cordova Mill & Lumber Co. for morej
than 30 days will please call at the
office and settle or make satisfactory'
arrangements. 14-3t
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More Ships Using the Water- e
way, and Fewer Slides are
Noted in Annual Report. \
WASHINGTON^ Jan. 17,-Traff.c '
through the Panama cana, ,asf year I
Increased largely over the prev,OUR ‘
years, according to the annual report'
of Colonel Chester Harding, governor .
of the canal. A total of 1,876 vessels
of all classes passed through the ca
nal from July l i916> to June 30
1017. inclusive.
Of these. 905 passed from the At
lantic to the Pacific, and 071 from the '
Pacific to the Atlantic, in the fiscal '
year 1016,1,088 vessels passed through
the canal, and in 1016, 787. The total '
number of vessels transiting the canal
since it opened for commercial traffic
in August, 1014. is 0.761. The total '
net tonnage, canal measurement, for
the several years is as follows: 1016.
TSJO.n:::,; imo. 2,479.762: and 1017
6,009,3:i8. The cargo tonnage trans
ported war. for 1915. 4.969.792; 1916.
3.140.046; and 1917, 7.229,255.
I car from Present Traffic Rules I
The traffic for the year yielded n
revenue of $5,631,781.66 from tolls.
1 he rulo3 for levying tols have thus
far remained unchanged.
It will ho remembered, says the re
port. that under present law and regu
lation tolls are based on canal ton
nage. at the rate of $120 per net ton.
except when this product exceeds the
registered net tonnage, United States
rules, at n rate of $1.25 per ton. In
which case the lesser amount is col
lected. The confusion, lack of uni
formity and loss in revenue to the
canal resulting from the present ar
rangement have been fully discussed
in previous reports, and remedian leg-1
islntion is now pending in congress.
In this connection attention is in
vited to the fact that the revenues
from tolls for the past fiscal year
would have been $6,668,247.32 if canal,
rules alone had governed, which is
$1,036,46566 more than the amount
actually eolected.
Dredging Work of the Year
The year's dredging chargeable to
construction, which includes all tho
excavation in the canal prism at lo
cations where the full widths and
depths have not been once obtained.,
is as follows; Gaillard cut. 183.99 t cu
bic yards; between Gamboa and I’edro
Miguel lock, 246.998 cubic vards; rind
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Pacific entrance. 221.138 cubic yards J
At the end of the year there remained .
1.409.140 cubic yards of original ex
cavation to he done within the limits
of the canal prism.
Cucaraoha slide has given no fur
ther trouble since the large move
ment that blocked the canal in Aug-^
list. 1916. as described in the report '
of last year To reduce the chances'
of interruptions to traffic due to fu-l
tore similar movements, if they occur. ^
the material in the slide was removed
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for a distance of 100 feet outside the
canal prism.
It is believed that in the future the
great slides of the canal will be of his-1
torie interest only.
Collections and Disbursements
Disbursements were made by the
paymaster to the amount of $28,150,
610.55 during the year, of which
amount $9,363,739.34 was on account
of the Panama railroad. Employes
on the gold roll of the canal were j
paid $6,206,950.72, and those on the
silver roll $5,914,259.72. Collections
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by pay-roll deductions were made from
employes in the sum of $4,028,566.94;
of this amount the sum of $3,8.2.212.07 ;
was collected for commissary coupon !
ooks and meal tickets and $55,025.07 f
i
ir rent of quarters by silver em- c
loyes. The collections during the v
ear repaid to appropriations amount- 1
d to $7,844,602.02. j 4
Deducting from the total canal ap- *
roprfations all appropriations for pur^
>oses other than construction, there "
emains a total of $378,611,853.92 ap
iropriated for the construction of the
anal and its immediate adjuncts.
Locks Operation and Maintenance 5
Locks operation and maintenance
ncreased from $622,293.01 during the
iscal year 1916 to $737,430.39 in 1917.
I he marine division expense increased
rom $154,891.97 to $313,036.43,‘ this in- “
I
-rease being largely due to increased r
msiness during the year and to ex- f
>enditures incurred on account of the 1
lefense of the canal. Offsetting the 1
otal receipts of $5,808,398.70; from 1
oils, $5,631,781.66; licenses, taxes,
ees, and fines, $137,189.39; and profit J
>n business operation, $39,427.66. *
The total business operations car- (
icd on through Panama canal funds ■
undented to $7,540,160.78, the reven- 1
lies derived therefrom being $7,579,
>88.44. i
Scarcity of Skilled Labor.
Unusual difficulty was experienced •
in securing an adequate supply of
skilled mechanics in the United States 1
,w* ifii mr iMimnn, »■>ictuj jii
he shipbuilding and repairing trades,
duo tn the abnormal activities in the
various manufacturing plants and
shipyards. Fifty-four per cent of
those tendered employment failed to
accept, as against 48 per cent during
the preceding fiscal year. j
j
The total force of silver employees
of all grades employed on the canal
on .Tune 30 1017,-was 24.146. The'
available supply on the Isthmus has
i
been more than sufficient to meet
our demands, and no recruitment of
contract labor has been done. The
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average number of employees on the
rolls of the canal and railroad for the
t
year was 34,548 as compared with 33.
548 in 1916.
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A total of 8,890 orders were placed
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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING.
WANTED—Bright young man as book
keeper. Must be a hustler. Apply
this office. 17-tf
FOR RENT—A sewing machine.
Phone 135. 12-tt
WANTED—Work of any kind. Wm.
Crompton.
FOR SALE—Singer Sewing Machine.
$20.00. Phone 166.
WANTED—A maid for general house
work. Apply to Mrs. E. L. Har
wood.
FOR SALE—Miscellaneous household^
i
furniture. Apply Alaska Transfer'
Company. 16-3t^
FOR SALE—One pair hickory skiis.
Inquire H. Larson. Windsor hotel.
16-2t
(trough the Washington office of the
anal during the year, as compared
ith 8.856 for the preceding year, the
:ttal value of the orders being $10,
13,996.08 for 1917, as compared with
M95.099.59 for 1916.
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Jhown by Reports of German
Railroads According to
German Paper
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Jan. IT.
-Passenger traffic revenues on Ger
lan railroads in the third war year
how an increase of 5.3 per cent over
he record figure of the last twelve
tonths of peace (August, 1913—July.
914), according to the Norddeutsche
■ llgemeine Zeltung, In the first war
ear revenues fell off 32.1 per cent,
nd in the second war year 21 per
ent. As regards freight traffic, this
delded an increase of 8 per cent on
he record figure reached in the year
'tiding July 31. 1914. These figures
nclude the receipts from rnilifary traf
ic, which, it is declared, taking the
tverage of the three years, formed
inly an eighth part of the total ratl
oad income.
The revenues for the month of Au
gust, 1917, are specially quoted as
■bowing the development of railroad
raffic. Compared with the corres
ponding month of 1916, the passenger
raffic showed an advance of 30.6 per
■ent. and of 14.1 per cent as com
tared with August, 1913, the last cor
responding month of peace. Freight
raffic rose 11.6 per cent as compared
ivith August. 1916, and 19.1 per cent as
ogainst 1913.
\ Vienna disnatch snv« the reven
lies of the Austrian State railroads
have risen since the last peace year
from 820,000,000 crowns to 1,080,000..
000 while expenditure for the current
financial year is put at 1,190,000.000
crowns. . *
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Erick Ness, owner of the gas boat
Lovera, has filed suit in admiralty
court to collect $1,200 damages from
the gas boat Eunice of Petersburg.
Ness claims that his boat, while
loaded with fish, was rammed and
severely damaged in Fredericks
sound on August 12, and that the col
lision was the fault of the captain and;
crew of the Eunice, ’
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Will those who have odd balls and
temnants of yarn that they are will
ing to part with for Junior Red Cross
work please send it to schrol by school
pupils, or telephone us and we will
send for it.
FANNIE E. BR1YTOV
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