The employes of the clam and sal
mon plants on the ocean dock say that
it’s a pity that territory is not now
annexed to the corporate limits as
they are interested in seeing the en
tire Cordova ticket, which stands for
good government, elected at the mun
icipal election.
Congressman Rainey of IUiuc/is!
thinks Fuel Administrator Garfield has
done more for his country than some
United States senators. How a man
can say such a thing after looking at
a senator passes all imagination.
From all reports a house-cleaning is
needed at McCarthy anti this state
ment in view of the fact that it may
lie construed as an unpatriotic ut
terance, as the federal offciials there
are all administration appointees.
A New York man sent, his wife a
Chow dog for a wedding present, with
a C. O. I). for $100 attached. She had
him arrested for being insane. The
jury could no nothing but agree that
he was away off.
If you don’t register berore Satur
day night you will have no voice in
the election April 2, neither have you
a kick coming as to who is elected to
fill the city offices. Get the point?
Some men are down to the level
where they are good for nothing on
earth but to pick out flaw's. And that
profession is so overcrowded that they
can’t command living wages.
A certain young lady says she
dreamed last night she had dropped
a stitch in the sweater she was knit
ting, and when she awoke she was
unraveling her union suit.
Political canards are now being cir
culated but are checked up so quickly
that they will prove a boomerang to |
the candidates or their friends circu
lating them.
Another good thing about the wide
bottom trousers the sailor boy wears
is he can reach the seat of the trouble
when he feels his socks coming down.
A fashion critic says fat women
display poor taste when they wear
short skirts. She might have made
it stronger by saying “bad form.”
Austria is said to be demanding that
King Ferdinand of Roumania abdicate
in favor of his brother. But maybe
his brother is a Republican?
Not to be outdone by any other
towns, Cordova now has its waterless
days, notwithstanding the fact that
the territory is bone dry.
The Russians probably signed their
peace treaty in the dark for the rea
son that they will have time to read
it during the millennium.
Maybe the reason Von Hindenburg
is so slow' about starting his drive is
because he can't get his propaganda to
work out right.
Martial law in Poland may add to
the inconveniences of the Poles, but
not to their pride, supposing they
have any left.
Some of the shipbuilding contrac
tors say they are losing money. Why
don’t they quit contracting and go to
carpentering
The steamer Northwestern, leaving
Seattle on Sunday, will bring a big
bunch of girls to Cordova, the home of
the clam industry.
Cordova is at least metropolitan to
the extent of being able to stage a!
vaudeville show that will be a hum
dinger. t
Even if reporters could understand
them, what the Armenians are saying
about the Russians wouldn’t be fit to
print.
Alaska is a territory of Infinite re
sources, but strange as It may seem
rain is not one that Cordova can brag
about.
Another thing—how would it do to
compel every cigar smoker to carry
a whisk broom to keep himself dusted?
Now that Colonel Roosevelt is able
to leave the hospital, liow' would it
do to hide his megaphone from him?
Quakers and queens, Quakers and
queens—if you don’t raise gardens
you will have to buy beans.
Our idea of a gross materialist is
one who always imagines the martyr
is making money out of it.
As a general thing, the man with the
simplest tastes is the one who has to
do his own cooking.
Another thing—will the Browning
machine gun be adopted by the ladies
literary clubs?
Sometimes it looks like every time
John Barleycorn sees a toboggan he
takes a ride.
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Porkless Saturday has been abolish
ed, except for those who haven’t the
price.
Switzerland faces a fpod famine.
Nothing like being conventional.
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NEW YORK, March 21.—America
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has created merchant shipping within
the past three years to the extent |
which ordinarily would not be de
veloped throughout a quarter of a cen
tury had not Germany's submarine
warfare destroyed tonnage in quanti
ties so vast as to create a crisis in
the world’s maritime situation. This
building of cargo ships which will re
store the American flag to the seven
seas is today only in its infancy, and
the preparing of young men to take
their places as sailors and officers
on these vessels, and on those which
are to come, is the problem which the
United States shipping board has
agreed to solve, through a sea train
ing bureau established by its recruit
ing service.
The work of this sea training bureau
was actually put under way on Jan
uary 1. Beginning April 1 it will grad
uate into the nation’s merchant marine
about fifty boys daily. Seventy-five
boys were transformed from farm
hands, store clerks and others of civil
ian character into sailors during a
period of training which terminated
February 26—the firs: group of 50.000
which the shipping board plans to
place in active service. This national
system of turning landlubbers into
seamen is in operation for the first.
time in America's history.
The United States shipping hoard is
not basing its system of training on
war conditions. Millions of tons of
new shipping will go into commission
under the American flag during th-' |
next two years and the cry "Man the
new ships!” must be answered by
thousands of American boys who live j
far from the seacoast, according to
Eugene E. O’Donnell, the shipping,
board’s supervisor of sea training. |
New England boys, including many j
runaways, first responded to this call
because the national headquarters of
the sea training bureau was estab
lished at Boston. The age limits were
then 17 and 27 years. Later they were
changed to 21 and 30 years.
The United States shipping board
chartered from the Eastern Steamship
Company last December the steamer
Calvin Austin, formerly in passenger
service between Boston and Atlantic
ports farther north. Subsequently a
sister ship, the Governor Dingley,
was taken into this service. The
Meade, once an army transport, may
become the next unit of this fleet;
and announcement is made that, with
the establishment of a training sta
tion at San Francisco, the Princeton,
a United States gunboat, will be taken
over. As the system expands, other
ships will be chartered for service
along the Pacific coast, and there
will be vessels for the Gulf coast.
Life on board one of these training
ships combines instruction and play.
At 6 a. m. the 600 boys at present on
the Calvin Austin arise and tidy their
rooms. Breakfast and general work
takes up their time until 9:30, when
discipline and instruction begin. Then
comes inspection, boat drill, “cleanup,”
and dinner at noon. Fire drill, seaman
ship, boat drill, knotmaking and gen
erai worn occupy the afternoon hours
until supper. In the evening the boys
have recreation—cards, dominoes,
moving pictures, shower baths, sing
ing, sometimes shore leave. At nine
o’clock the recruits turn in.
The boys receive better food, it may
be stated, than they may expect to
receive on the merchantmen on which
they will serve in later years. It is
ample and nutritious. The Hoover
program is observed by the chefs.
As Boston, Stanton H. King has
the only war job of its kind. King
is official chantie man of the new
merchant marine. At the weekly en
tertainment which the recruits enjoy
ashore at Boston, they are instructed
by King in the ballads of the sea.
Although a majority of the recruits
will serve on steamers, some will ship
on sailing vessels; chantie singing is
considered to be valuable for noth
classes of men, as it insures teamwork
when a crew is pulling on ropes. "Blow
the Man Down,” which came from the
Atlantic sailing packet shio« of old,
and “Shenandoah" are among the fav
orites with these recruits.
While the recruit’s job is a volun
teer one, he “signs articles” for the
duration of the war. agreeing to serve
under the United States shipping
board, if he is of draft age, he is auto
matically exempt front military serv
ice. The government places him on a
ship, when he has completed his
training in some position which he
has preferred or for which he has
shown particular aptitude—seaman,
fireman, coaler, oilor, water-tender,
cook or steward. Six weeks of train
ing on the vessels of the Calvin Austin
type qualifies him for service on a
merchantman, with his legal status
assured.
After two years of service subse
quent to his graduation the recruit
many enter ono of the shipping board s
Iree schools in navigation, of which
thirty are In operation along the coasts
and at the Great Lakes, and here he
may fit himself for officer’s license,
rising in a few' years to the command
of a vessel while still in his early
twenties. During his training on the
( alvin Austin and other vessels of
this fleet the recruit receives $30 a
month.
This merchant marine will be thor
oughly American. Only Americans are
"cnepted as recruits. The new mer
c intile fleet will not have Spanish
mess boys, Greek stokers, Chinese
cooks, or Norwegian deck hands,
elimination of this foreign representa
tion on American vessels is one of the
i niled States shipping board's aims.
While all this is in progress, the
country’s maritime organizations are
co-operating in a campaign of “sea
education” in the interior of the
United States. This has its object,
the infiltration of the idea that federal
legislation is necessary to keep the
American flag throughout the world
when the war is over. These mari
time authorities fear that the congress
at Washington, during the future
peace days, will be indifferent and
that "the vicissitude of politics" will
permit another degeneration of Amer
ica’s merchant marine through failure
to encourage the present development.
For this reason the “special drive on
the interior” is being made—not only
with an eye to the future but for the
purpose, meanwhile, of obtaining re
cruits for the sea training of today.
At the present time this campaign is
centered in Kansas.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the Probate Court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division, Cordova
Precinct, at Cordova.
In the matter of the estate of Erma
Bell Walker, deceased. No. 118.
The undersigned Administrator of
the Estate of Erma Bell Walker, de
ceased, hereby gives notice that all
persons having claims against said
Estate are admonished and required
to present the same with the proper
vouchers to the undersigned Admin
trator of said Estate, or to the Judge
of me above named Probate Court, at
Cordova, Alaska.
Dated at Cordova, Alaska, this 13th
day of March, 1918.
D. W. WALKER,
Administrator of the Estate of Erma
Bell Walker, Deceased.
First publication March 14, 1918.
Last publication April 18, 1918.
NOTICE.
United States of America, Territory oi
Alaska, ss. to A. F. Stowe:
You are hereby notified that we
have expended during the year 1916
th;ee hundred dollars in labor and im
provements upon the “Big 4,” “Mof
fetl’ and “Crow’s Nest” lode mining
cleans, known as the Big Four group,
which are contiguous and in one
group, situate on right limit of Chitti
stone river, about eight miles from the
mouth thereof, in Nizina mining dis
trict, Chitina recording precinct, Al
aska, the location certificates of which
are found of record in book 9, pages
142. 143 and 144 in the office of the
recorder of Chitina recording precinct,
at McCarthy, Alaska, in order to hold
said claims under the provisions of
'section 2324 of the Revised Statutes of
the United States, and the amend
ments thereto, approved January 22nd,
18SU, concerning annual labor upon
mining claims, being the amount re
quired to hold said lodes for the period
ending on the 31st day of Dec. 1916.
And if within ninety days from the
personal service of this notice, or
within ninety days after the publica
tion thereof, you fail or refuse to con
tribute your proportion of such ex
penditure as a co-owner, which
amounts to seventy-five dollars, your
interest in said claims will become
the property of the subscribers, your
co-owners, who have made the requir
ed expenditures, by the terms of said
section.
J. J. MILLER.
OSCAR HANSON.
First publication January 22, 1918.
Last publication April 2, 1918.
ORDINANCE NO. 56.
To select judges for and hold an elec
tion. for selection of candidates for
territorial offices and delegate to
congress from Alaska.
Be it ordained by the Common Coun.
cil of the Town of Cordova, Alaska:
| Section 1. That a primary election
in accordance with Chapter 48, Ses
sion Laws of Alaska, 1917, be held in
the Town of Cordova. Alaska, between
the hours of 8 o'clock a. m. and 7
o’clock p m. on Tuesday, April 30,
1918.
Section 2. That the polling places for
! said election shall be the second floor
of the City Hall on Second Avenue, in
i said Cordova.
Section 3. That the Judges of said
election shall be C. S. Bretton, Ben
Osborne and F. H. Foster; and the
Clerks of said election shall be H. B.
Wolking and C. M. Rosswog.
This ordinance shall be published
once in the Cordova Daily Times, and
shall become effective and in force on
! and after the date of its passage.
Introduced, March 18, 1918.
Rules suspended, March 18, 1918.
Approved, March 13, 1918.
(Town Seal)
W. H. CHASE,
Attest: Mayor.
EDWARD F. MEDLEY, ■
Clerk.
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that a gen
eral municipal election will be held
in the town hall at Cordova, Alaska,
on Tuesday, April 2, 1918. Polls will
be open between the hours of 8 a. m.
and 8 p. m. There will be selected by
the votes of the qualified electors of
said Cordova, seven councilmen and a
clerk of the school Doard, and a refer
endum will be, taken on an ordinance
adopted by the town council granting
the Cordova Power Company, its suc
cessors and assigns, a franchise to
operate a steam-heating plant in said
.town.
The qualifications of a voter for
councilman are as follows: He or she
shall be a citizen of the United States,
or one who has declared his or her
intention to become a citizen of the
United States, over 21 years of age,
who has resided continuously one year
next preceding the date of said elec
tion within the territory of Alaska,
and in the town of Cordova for the
six months next preceding the date of
said election.
All adults, male and female, who are
citizens of the United States, or who
have declared their intention to be
come citizens of the United States,
and who are residents of the town of
Cordova, are qualified to vote for the
clerk of the school board.
EDWARD F. MEDLEY,
Town Clerk.
ORDER SETTING TIME FOR HEAR
ING PETITION AND GIVING
NOTICE
In the District Court for the Territory
of Alaska. Third Division In the
Matter of the Alteration of the
boundaries of, the en'argen-ent of
the corporate -holts of and the an
nexation of new territory to the
town of Cordova, Alaska, incor
porated.
A petition having this day been pre
sented to the above entitleJ court for
the purpose of instituting proceedings
resuired by law for ibe annexation of
territory, therein described, to the in
corporated town of Cordova. Alaska;
and it appearing to the court that said
petition is signed by enough qualified
electors of said town to constitute
more than one-fifth of the number of
votes cast at the last municipal elec
tion held in said town, and by more
than five actual residents or owners ot'
substantial property interests in land
or possessory rights in land or tide land
or improvements upon land or tide
land within the limits of the territory
so proposed to be annexed and in
corporated within the limits of the cor •
porate town of Cordova aforesaid,
said petition setting forth the boundar
ies of the territory so proposed to be
annexed to said town, and being veri
fied by two of the signers of said peti
tion, and having attached thereto a
plat based upon an actual survey by a
competent surveyor, setting forth the
limits and boundaries thereof by metes
and bounds, and stating the number of
inhabitants therein:
Now, therefore, It appearing to the
court that said petition is in the form
and substance required by law.
It is ordered and decreed that said
petition be heard and considered by
the court on the 15th day of April.
1918, at 10 o’clock a. m. of said day, at
the court room of this court in either
Valdez, Alaska, or said Cordova, if said
day be a day of jurisdiction in said
court, or if the same be not a day of
jurisdiction, then said hearing shall
be held on the first day of jurisdiction
thereafter. It is further ordered that
notice of such hearing be given by
posting printed or typewritten copies
I of this order in three conspicuous
| places within the limits of the cor
| porate town of Cordova, Alaska, and
by posting such copies in three con
spicuous places within the limits of
the territory so proposed to be an
nexed to and incorporated within th*>
limits of said town of Cordova, and
by publishing a copy of this order for
four consecutive weeks in the Cordova
Daily Times, a daily newspaper of gen
eral circulation published in said town
of Cordova, such publication to be
made in said newspaper once each
week until five publications have been
made.
Dated at Cordova. Alaska, this 11th
day of March, 1918.
FRED M. BROWN,
District Judge.
March 12-18-25-Apr. 1-8
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