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Consisting of a Full Line of
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and I Have thousands of
them for Young and Old.
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JEWELER AND WATCHMAKER
; KENDRICK BUILDING FIRST STREET
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FOR
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MAKERS OF THE FAMOUS .“CREAM LOAF” BREAD
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And see what we have in the line of workmen’s clothing,
beds, mattresses and canvas goods of all kinds, tents anil
shovels, kitchenware, furniture, stoves, etc. We also
carry a full line of mirrors—plate glass and plain.
THE NORTHERN BLOCK
| First Street
Copper River
& Northwestern Ry.
FOUR TRAINS* „vTEKL\ BETWEEN
CHITINA AND KENNECOTT
Leave Cordova, Second Street Depot, on Mon
days, Thursdays and Saxurdays.
Leave Chitina for Ucrdova Sundays, Tuesdays
days, Thursdays and Fridays.
Leave Chitina for Ke>*«ecoL. Sundays, Tues
days and Fridays.
Leave Kennecott for Chitfoa 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. m., 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.
PROFESSIONAL 3|
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Northern Hotel Building,
Cordova.
DENTISTRY
Hours 9 a. m. to 9 p. m.
Special Attention to
Prophylaxis and Pyorrhea.
PHONE 200
WM. A. HESSE
Mining Engineer,
U. S. Mineral Surveyor,
U. S. Deputy Surveyor.
BOX 13 CORDOVA, ALASKA
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
Calls May be Left at Cordova
Drug Store. Residence,
Alaskan Hotel
DR. W. W. C 0 U N C I L
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office and Residence: Cordova.
General Hospital (Ostrander Build
ing-.
Phones—Residence 115; office 132
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DENTIST
Office: Over Blum, O’Neill’s Store
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JUNEAU, ALASKA
Glasses Fitted. Lenses Ground;
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’ | U. S. Mineral and Deputy Land Sur
I veyors for Alaska.
1102 L. C. SMITH BLDG., SEATTLE
WILLIAM PALLISTER, M.D.
, Specialist in the treatment of
diseases and deformities of the
eye, ear, nose and throat; glasses
fitted.
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PLUMBERS AND STEAMFITTERS
Cor. Front and B Streets
Office Open Evenings.
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
Room 1.
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA
FRANK H. FOSTER
Attorney at Law
Room 1 Alaskan Hotel
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FIRE!
A resident of Cordova had a
; small fire in his house the other
day. It was extinguished by the
family at a loss of $160.00. The
| next day he insured through us.
The cost of his insurance for
three years was less than his
loss at this trifling fire. Are
you, Mr. Property Owner, going |
to wait until you have had a fire
before protecting yourself from
loss?
Any person wishing to build
can secure a fin© residential or
business lot in Cordova from us
on exceptionally liberal terms.
Five hundred lots listed.
REAL ESTATE
INSURANCE
ABSTRACTS
SURETY BONDS
CORDOVA ABSTRACT and
REALTY COMPANY
ROOM 1, ADAMS BUILDING.
GERMANS EXCUSE
ATROCIOUS ACTS
Murder, Pillage and Arson Part
of Deliberate Scheme of
Warfare.
HIGH OFFICERS GO ON RECORD
No Possible Evasion of Responsibility
for Bestial Acts Which for Centu
ries Have Had No Parallel—
Officially Indorsed.
The people of the United Slates
are beginning to learn the truth con
cerning the conduct of the war by
Germany. Proof is offered that Ger
man officials deliberately lied in
their statements concerning atroci
ties committed by the Belgians anil
allies. That their own soldiers were
disgusted by the cruellies practiced
at the order of high officers of the
kaiser is shown. Extracts taken
from pamphlets issued follow:
The Vorwaerts of Berlin, October 22,
1914, said:
“We have already been able ! es
tablish the falseness of a great number
of assertions which have been mj^lg
with great precision and published
everywhere in the press, concerning al
leged cruelties committed, by the popu
lations of the countries with which
Germany is at war, upon German sol
diers and civilians. We are now in po
sition to silence two others of these
fantastic stories.
“The war correspondent of the Ber
liner Tageblatt spoke a few weeks
ago of cigars and cigarettes filled with
powder alleged to have been given out
or sold to our soldiers with diabolical
intent. He even pretended that he had
seen with his own eyes hundreds of
this kind of cigarettes. We learn from
an authentic source that this story of
cigars and cigarettes is nothing but a
brazen invention. Stories of soldiers
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torn out hy francs-tirours arc circulat
ed throughout Germany. Not a single
case of tills kind has been officially es
tablished.
"It matters little that reports of this
nature bear an appearance of positive
certitude, or are even vouched for by
eye-witnesses. Tin* desire for notoriety,
the absence of criticism, and personal
error play an unfortunate part in the
days In which we are living. Every
nose shot off or simply bound up,
every eye removed, is immediately
transformed into a nose or eye torn
away by tin* francs-fireurs. Already the
Volkszeitung of Cologne has been able,
contrary to the very categorical asser
tions .irotri Aix-la-Chapelle, to prove
that there was no soldier with his eyes
torn out in the field ambulance of this
town. It was said, also, that people
wounded In this way were under treat
ment in the neighborhood of Berlin,
but whenever inquiries have been made
in regard to these reports, their abso
lute falsity has been demonstrated. At
length these reports were concentrated
at Gross IJcliterfeide. A newspaper
rnhlished at noon and widely circu
ited In Berlin printed a few days ago
in large type the news that at the
'..ar.aretto of Lichlerfelde alone there
ere ‘ten German soldiers, only sllght
•v wounded, whose eyes had been wick
edly torn out.’ But to a request for
’nformation by Comrade Liebknecht
fhe following written rpply was sent
hv the chief medical officer of the
above-mentioned field hospital, dated
the eighteenth of the month:
"‘Sir: Happily there Is no truth
whatever in these stories.
‘Yours obediently,
‘PROFESSOR RAUTENBERG,’ ”
German Soldiers Protested.
Thus the teachings of the German
War Book and of the German apostles
of frightfulness, suspicion and hatred,
had now begun to hear their natural
fruit. But the voice of protest was
not entirely silent. A considerable
number of letters hy German soldiers
who were shocked hy the German
atrocities were sent to Ambassador
Gerard, because he was the representa
tive of the United Slates, the leading
neutral nation. The three letters
which follow, in translation, were re
ceived by the American ambassador
from German soldiers.
Here is the protest of a German sol
dier, an eye-witness of the slaughter of
Russian soldiers in the Masurian lakes
and swamps:
“It was frightful, heart-rending, as
these masses of human beings were
driven to destruction. Above the ter
rible thunder of the cannon could he
heard the heart-rending cries of the
Russians: ‘O Prussians! O Prussians!'
—but there was no mercy. Our captain
had ordered: ‘The whole lot must die;
so rapid fire.’ As I have heard, five
men and one officer on our side went
mad from these heart-rending cries.
But most of my comrades and the offi
cers joked as the unarmed and helpless
Russians shrieked for mercy while
they were -being suffocated in the
swamps and shot down. The order
was: ‘Close up and at it harder!’ For
days afterwards those heart-rending
yells followed me and 1 dare not think
of them or I shall go mad. There is no
God, there is no morality and no ethics
any more. There are no human beings
any more, but only beasts. Down with
militarism.
“If you are a truth-loving man,
please receive these lines from a com
mon Prussian soldier.”
Following Is the testimony of another
German soldier on the enstern front:
“Russian Poland. December 18 '14.
"In the name of Christianity I send
roti these words.
“Wounded Russians are killed with
he bayonet according to orders. .
“And Russians who have surrender
'd are often shot down in masses ac
'ording to orders. In spite of their
tenrl-rending prayers.
"In the hope that you. ns the repre
sentative uf a f'hrlstlan state, will
protest against this. I sign tnyself.
"A GERMAN SOLDIER AND CHRIS
TIAN."
The third letter, from the western
Tout, shows the same horror of the
\vstcnt of which the writer was a wit
ness.
"To the American Government,
Washington. U. S. A.
"Englishmen who have surrendered
ire shot down In small groups. With
the French one is more considerate. I
ask whether men let themselves be
taken prisoner In order to be dis
armed and shot down afterward? Is
that chivalry In battle? It is no longer
a secret among the people; one hears
everywhere that few prisoners are
taken; they are shot down in small
groups. They say naively; ‘We don't
want any unnecessary mouths to feed.
Where there Is no one to enter com
plain!, there Is no judge.’ Is there
then no power in the world which can
put an end to these murders and res
cue the victims? Where Is Chris
tianity? Where Is right? Might Is
right.
"A SOLDIER AND A MAN WHO IS
NO BARBARIAN.”
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Socialists Oppose System
Many of the Germans, as has been
already Indicated, do not believe tlie
reports of the atrocities committed by
the Belgian civilians and refuse to ac
cept the system of frightfuluess. Tile
Yorwnerts, the lending socialist paper,
which has a very wide circle of rend
ers. lias opposed the policy of fright
fulness. All honor to IF? editors who
have so courageously opposed the pow
erful military authority! Its editorial,
entitled “Our Foes,” published August
2.*?. 1914, reads as follows;
“What should one when even i
such an nf-gan ns the Deutsches Offi
zier-Blfitt expresses its sympathy with
a demand that ‘the beasts' who are
taken as franes-tirears should not he
killed, hut only wounded so tlmt they
may then he left to a fate ‘which makes
any help impossible?' Or what should
we say when the Deutsches Offizier
Blntt states that ‘a punitive destruc
tion even of whole regions' cannot ‘af
ford full recompense for the hones of a
single murdered Pomeranian grena
dier?’ Those are the desires of blood
thirsty fanatics and we are thoroughly
ashamed of ourselves because It i>
possible that there are people among
us who urge such things."
“Barbarism,” Declares Vorwaerts.
On the following day, August 24
1914, the Vorwaerts returned to the
attack in an editorial “Against Bar
barism.”
. , . “One might, in the first
place, possibly believe that such a de
mand for a bloody vengeance [against
alleged Belgian outrages] emanates
from a single disease-racked brain;
hut it appears that whole groups
among certain classes who represent
German kulfur want to indulge in or
gies of barbarism and to devise a
whole system for the purpose of or
ganizing ‘a war of revenge.’
“What of law and custom! Such
thoughts do not stir a ‘great nation.’
Tims In a leading article of the Ber
liner Neueste Nachrichten. t lie de
mand is made that all the authorities
in Brussels—one, the second burgomas
ter, is generously excepted—should be
Immediately seized and subjected to
trial in order to expiate the wrongs
which, according to fragmentary and
highly uncertain reports, were said to
have been committed by the people.
They demand that the captured city
should immediately pay a fine of 500.
000,000 marks; that all stores of the
conquered territory be requisitioned
without paying the inhabitants a single
penny for them."
Vorwaerts in Protest.
Three years later, August 26, 1917.
the Vorwaerts quoted the following
passage from the Deutsche Tageszei
tung:
“We have a ring of politicians who
hold that might makes right (Macht
polltiker), who despise the forces ol
the inner life and believe that they
must eliminate all ethical points of
view . . . from foreign and social
politics. For them, Germany of the
present and of the future Is the coun
try of the Krupps and Borsigs, of the
Zeppelins and the U-boats. Any idea
of a connection between politics and
morals is rejected and any reference
to tlie right of a moral method of con
sideration is ridiculed as delusion and
sentimentality.”
The German officers were provided
with the forms to fie used in terror
izing the conquered people. The com
mon soldiers were provided with
phrase books which would enable them
to Impose their will upon the terrified
people. Minister Brand Whitlock in
his report to the state department on
September 12. 1917. writes:
“The German soldiers were provid
ed with phrase books giving alternate
translation in German and French of
such sentences as:
“‘Hands up.’ (It Is the very first
sentence in the book.)
“ ‘Carry out all the furniture.
‘“I am thirsty. Bring me some beer,
gin, rum.
“ ‘You have to supply a barrel of
wine and a keg of beer.
“‘Lead ne to the wealthiest inhabi
tants of this village. I have orders n>
requisition several barrels of wine.
“ ‘Show us the way to -. If you
lead us astray, you will he shot.’ ”
CRIPPLED SOLDIERS
WILL RE CARED FOR
With a vision which looks far to
the future, America is already facing
he after-the-war problems of the re
turned soldier. Peace will present
new conditions to the country’s de
fenders and these are being antici
pated by leaders of American thought
One of the problems to be faced is
svhat to do with the soldier who has
Peen to seriously injured that he must
ake up life on new terms.
The experience of the allied na
tions is before the American Red
f'ross in its planning. To the end
hat it may intelligently cope with the
‘reconstruction" of the wounded and
maimed soldier, the Red Cross has
faken over the Cripple Ifureau of the
Hudson Guild, which has been in
aperation at 436 West Twenty-seventh
street. New York, since its organiza
tion in 1316. This Institution will be
thoroughly studied preparatory to the
establishment of a graining school
where crippled soldiers and sailors
may learn how best to utilize those
faculties which have not been sacri
ficed to the cause of democracy. The
new organization is known as the Red
Cross Institute for Crippled Soldiers
and Sailors, and is under the active
direction of Douglas C. McMurtrie.
with headquarters at 311 Fourth ave
nue. Similar stations may be estab
lished throughout the country.
Miss Gertrude Stein, director of the
Cripple Bureau of the Hudson Guild,
will continue as director of the insti
tute and is enthusiastic over the possi
bilities in this field of effort. “We
are really only beginning intensive and
constructive work along these lines."
she declared.
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FRENCH GOLD RESERVE
GREATEST IN EUROPE
(By Associated Press)
PARIS, Dec. 8— (By mall,).—When
the moment comes for settling ac
counts, whatever trumps Germany may
hold, France is sure of holding the ace
of trumps—the greatest gold reserve
of any country in Europe. The geld
reserves which every country has been
busily accumulating, rank as follows:
Millions
of Francs
France . 5,328
England . 1,40!»
Italy . 835
Russia . 3,453
Rumania . 493
Germany . 3,005
Denmark . 282
Spain . 4349'
Holland . Ml 9
Sweden . 288
Switzerland .. 349
Austria. Bulgaria and Turkey do not
figure in the. list, for the simple reason
that since the war began these' states
have published no information regaudl
ing their financial status.
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Man is a reasoning animal who earr
figure out many things. But this
problem defies him. A woman's shoes
are higher and sell for more, but her
dresses are shorter and sell ibr more,
too.
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Eat at least one wheatless meat
a day.
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Madame Lydia, the palmist, wlit be
found in the Currier & Mickelsor*
building on C. street. 18-tf
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Your eyes fitted. Compound and?
astigmatic lenses replaced. See Os
borne.
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Keating's
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Opposite city Bakery.
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