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H. G. STEEL, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
COR POVA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1916.
CAUSE FOR CONGRATULATIONS.
That the Pioneer Packing Company has been able to obtain
a site on the ocean dock, which will enable it to erect a plant
and ship its goods direct from Cordova is good news to the citi
zens of this city.
While the plant, if it had been erected on Hawkins island,
where at first it was thought the promoters could' find the only
available site, it would have done much to aid in the develop
ment of this city, and have brought many persons to Cordova,
with the plant at the ocean dock the benefits will be im
measurably greater.
It now will be possible for all the people working in this
plant, and it is estimated there will he at least 150 when it first
opens, to live in Cordova and become identified with its in
terests.
The workers in the cannery will trade at our stores, live in
homes within the city limits ,and send their children to our
schools. All this means that the city will become bigger and
better. It means that more families will be here, and after all
is said and' done, it is families, and families only, that make a
permanent city.
The plant of the Pioneer Packing Company will remain in
operation the year round, and there will be employment at all
times for men and women who want to work. It is the inten
... the company to bring with it only such experienced
workers as is necessary to start the plant without unnecessary
delay. Once started, the local people will be given first chances
in openings that might occur from time to time.
It is such industrial plants that build up a city. Cordova
is fortunate in having been the place selected by the owners,
and it is more fortunate in having had men in Cordova who
could unite to have the cannery built at a point where it be
comes a part of this city.
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CORDOVA MUST HAVE HOUSES.
Tlu* advent of the Pioneer Clam Cannery in Cordova, which
when it is ready for ojteration will require homes for its em
ployees, again raises that vexed question of houses in Cordova.
It is now time for the people of this city to stop talking
about building houses, and get together and BUILD them. No
thing is more necessary for the welfare of this community than
suitable houses in which the people who will come here to live
can find places to make their homes.
If the houses are not built here, it may be necessary for the
Pioneer Packing Company to erect dwellings for its employees
at some point outside the city limits ,and that would lead to
endless confusion regarding schools, fire protection and other
kindred matters.
We want these people to hi* a part of Cordova. We want
them to vote and have a say in the local government, and the
only way we can get tluit is to have homes for them to enter
when they arrive.
The people of this city have been aware of the handicap
which tin* lack of homes has placed' upon Cordova, and now is
the time to remedy it. The summer is slipping away, and un
less something soon is done, the city will find itself in tlu* same
predicament next summer.
It has been suggested that a building association be formed
which will build suitable houses. The idea is good. Anything
is good that will get the houses, but the houses we must have.
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If the last credit asked by Premier Asquith is granted, it
means that Great Britain will have spent £2,832,000,000 on the
great war. When it is remembered that a pound is equal to
nearly five dollars, the magnitude of the sum is appalling. The
mind cannot conceive such sums, and yet it is spent in the ef
fort to kill other humans. Such is our civilization.
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For once new rocks which are a menace to navigation have
been found in Alaskan waters before a ship struck them. Ordi
narily a ship strikes a rock and then it is put on the chart. Yet
the efforts to get money for the coast and geodetic survey in
Alaska is a harder task each year.
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Home rule for Ireland will not be debated while this war
is on, according to Premier Asquith. After fighting in France
the Irish can come back home and demand self government,
and get it, but not before.
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Yesterday there were two advertisements in the Times
seeking men to work. One for carpenters and the other for
cannery hands. And yet they say Cordova is not the best city
on the Alaskan coast.
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The shoe now is on the other foot, and the Mexicans are
complaining about Americans raiding their territory. It
might not be a bad idea to give them a taste of their own
medicine.
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It is becoming necessary now for the United States after
writing a note to a foreign power to write another, asking that
a reply be made to the first. They all like to make ns wait.
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Cordova is now becoming a great port, into which the
ships famous in their early days are coming. The last vessel of
this character is the Henry Villard, now in port.
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A prominent New Yrork woman suing for separation and'
alimony, says the trouble started' when her husband ill-treated
her bulldog at the table. Heartless wretch!
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Although the freight rates to Alaska are high, they seem
low in comparison to the tariff now prevailing on trans-Pacific
steamships.
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Kennecott is getting to be some wild camp. Witness the
badger fight. It is a wonder the U. S. marshal did not attempt
to stop it. __ _
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Gossip About Events of National
Importance and the Persons
Who Are In the Head
Liner Classes.
VIENNA, July 10. — (Correspond
ence of the Associated Press.) — The
great annual Austrian derby, the bnn
ner race of the sporting season for
all Austria-Hungary, this year proved
even more than the anticipated suc
cess. It far outdid the derby of 1915,
in general Interest, attendance and
sporting features.
Many of the big features in society
and the smart and brilliant gowns of
peace-time were lacking, but the
threatening weather was largely to
blame for that.
The Austrian race track crowd is
totally unlike the one-time American
crowd. The nerve racked excitement
of the American track is lacking, and
when the horses come thundering
down the track — from right to left
instead of from left to right, and on
sod instead of solid earth — there
are seldom any shouts for this or that
horse.
A feature of the Austrian track is
the surprising number of women who
bet on the races. Thousands of them
crowded to the pari-mutuel booths on
Derby Day, feverishly thrusting their
ten and twenty crown bills to the
cashiers, and jostlingly making their
way after each race to the pay-off
booths. The women, too, furnished a
sight that is not common on an Ameri
can track, for countless numbers of
them strolled about the paddock, or
leaned against the,rail smoking cigar
ette after cigarette. They stood about
the huge announcing board with cig
arettes betwee ntheir lips, program in
hand, carefully and skilfully checking
off the numbers of the horses to
in the next race and the names or
Jockeys who were to ride them.
The only signs of war, if they would
strike even the outsider, were the
gray uniforms of officers and soldiers
who mingled with the crowd.
The most popular favorite did not
win, so there was a sorrowful element
in the homeward bound crowd, but on
the whole it was a happy and carefree
throng, certainly one that gave no
hint that fathers and brothers, hus
bands and sons are spread out along
several hundred miles of battle line,
or wounded in the hospitals or dead
and buried.
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KING WINS TRAP SHOOT.
CASPER, Wyo., July 14. — R. A.
King, an amateur of Delta, Colo., yes
terday won the state championship
trap shooting tournament with a per
fect score of 100 targets. In the pro
fessional division Rush Razie, of Cur
tis, Neb., was high with a score of 99.
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One year's subscription means 2,000
votes for one of the boys.
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JOKES
Some Are Funny; Others
Are Not; But All Are
Nonsensical.
HIS MISTAKE.
A professor, absent minded and
short sighted, was walking through
\ the streets of a southern town.
A cow was being driven toward the
quays. The professor, deep In thought,
| bumped into the animal. Doffing his
tall hat, he elaborately begged pardon,
when a friend explained to him, "It
jvas not a lady—it was only a cow.”
Shortly after the professor was re
turning by the sam way, and collided
, with a fashionable old lady. The poor
: man, reverting to his previous experi
ence, and much annoyed, burst out:
j “Oh, here is that wretched old cow
again."
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NO ESCAPE.
An Irishman, an Englishman and a
: Scotchman happened to meet, and the
| conversation turned to escapes.
"If you fall in the river there are
life buoys,” said the Englishman. Said
the Scotchman: "If you fall In a well
there’s a rope. "Bedad," said Pat, "if
you fall in love, there’s no escape."
NEVER AGAIN.
On one occasion an old lady was in
the same railway car as a party of
golfers.
"I found fearful trouble this morn
ing," sa'd one. “At the first I fell
right into the middle of a blackberry
bush and at the second l was struck
up on the top of a tree. I pitched out
of bounds Into the farmyard at the
third, got caught by the wire at the
fourth, stuck fast In a deep hole at
the fifth, found myself buried in the
mud in the sixth. It was lying in a
' cap of rough stones at the seventh,
lost at the eighth, and finished up
r the bottom of a dirty ditch at the
last hole.”
"Gracious me!" cried the horrified
old lady from her corner of the car,
"and they told me that golf was an
old man's game! I'll never let my
Edwin play again.”
HE WILL BE THERE.
"Fore!”
Just a moment too late the golfer
gave warning. The ball had struck
the shabby wayfarer who was pass
ing by the golf course, and rendered
him unconscious for a few moments.
When he recovered he found the
culprit bending anxiously over him
and apologizing. Moreover, in his
solid palm there nested much money.
"Thankee, sir,” he said wheezily, as
i his gloating eyes lingered on the com
pensation. “And when will ye be
playin’ again, sir?”
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Whitehorse is constructing an addi
tion to ltfl school house for high school
purposes.
Advertising
Not an Expense
ADVERTISING IS AN
INVESTMENT
Not An Expense, and Should Be Treated as Such.
Because it has been the habit of
some merchants to look upon It as an
expense, A WRONG VIEW HAS
BEEN GAINED. Perhaps the miscon
ception arose from the fact that In
bookkeeping it has been the habit to
charge advertising to expense.
ADVERTISING PRODUCES NEW
BUSINESS — It SWELLS THE VOL
UME OF BUSINESS AND PROFIT—
THEREFORE IT IS AN INVEST
MENT.
Only the man who looks upon ad
vertising as an expense, who Is afraid
of it, prejudiced against It, loses
money In advertising.
THE MAN WHO TREATS ADVER
TISING AS AN INVESTMENT AND
GIVES IT THE ATTENTION AN IN
VESTMENT REQUIRES — KNOWS
THAT EVERY DOLLAR RIGHTLY
INVESTED IN THIS DIRECTION
YIELDS COMPOUND INTEREST —
AND MORE.
WM A. HESSE
Mining Engineer,
U. S. Mineral Surveyor,
U. S. Deputy Surveyor.
BOX 358. CORDOVA, ALASKA.
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHY8ICIAN and 8URQEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
Calla may be left at Cordova
Drug 8tore. Reeldence,
Alaekan Hotel
DR. W. W. COUNCIL
PHY8ICAN AND SURGEON.
Office Hours—10 a. m. to 12 noon,
Railroad Hospital; 2 to 5 p. in., Adams
Duilding, Room 6.
Phones—Residence, 115; Hospital,!
46; Office. 132.
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Couneellor at Law
Room 1
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA. |
ASA C. BALDWIN
Civil Engineer
Patent Surveys
Address: Valdez, Alaska
DR. C. L. HALE
DENTIST
Office In Adame Building
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EVERYTHING BOUGHT
AND SOLD
For anything you can’t find In
town, go to J. Hawson'a Second
Hand Storo and see what he has
got. We carry new and second
hand goods of all kinds, clothing
and kitchenware.
We have an experienced man
who does all kinds of repair work.
Give us a call.
JOHN RAWSON,
Flrat Street.
M. C. Thompson H. C. Murphy
The MECCA
Thompson & Murphy, Props
Dealers in
WINES, LIQUORS AND
CIGARS
Phone 107.
I
I Choice Tobaccos, Cigars and
Smokers Sundries—Wholesale
and Retail Cigar Store.
The
Horseshoe
POPULAR RECREATION PLACE I
■Billiards and Pool
Headquarters for the Petersen,
Wellington, Calabash and
Garrick Pipes.
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ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
Fast and cofhmodiou* i«am<ri tailing between Seattle, Ketch
Ikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez, Seward and
ANCHORAGE, via INSIDE PASSAGE.
Kails from Seattle. Sails from Cordova.
July 13.ALASKA . July 24
July 16 .ALAMEDA . July 26
July 25 .NORTHWESTERN . Aug. 2
Regular freight aervlc. for Ketchikan. Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez ard Latouche. Explo.
Ivea, 8. S. Seward. 8. 8. Seward, 5th; 8. 8. Latouche, 15th; 8. 8.
Cordova, 25th of each month.
This company reserves the right to change schedule of steamer,
without notice.
Tickets on sale at up-town office Alaska Steamship Bldg. Baggage
or freight will not be received at the dock later than one hour before
tailing time.
F. B TRACY, T. J. TALLENT,
General Agent Agent
Pacific-Alaska Navigation Co.
ALASKA PACIFIC 8. 8. CO. ALASKA COAST CO.
PUGET SOUND ALASKA ROUTE
Next sailing from Seattle will be
ADMIRAL FARRAGUT.July 30
ADMIRAL WATSON.August 6
ADMIRAL EVANS.August 13
Via the INSIDE PASSAGE for Ketchikan, Juneau, Yakutat,
Katalla, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Cook Inlet points and Kodiak
Island.
Seattle-San Francisco connecting with steamers Yale and Har
vard for Southern California Ports.
Schedule subject to change without Notice.
ALASKA TRANSFER CO., Local Agents
The World's Mightiest Locomotives
Now haul the “Olympian" and the "Columbian" over the
Ritter ltoota and Hookies— with the electrification of 44 o
miles of its main line, the “MILWAUKEE" is better
than ever prepared to look after the comfort and acco
modations of its patrons.
Remember this when you eoine outside.
TOM TALLENT. Agent.
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RY.
A. E. Harris, T. P. A., Juneau, Alaska.
: V* * '' jr.
|| Copper River &
|| Northwestern Ry.
If if
J EFFECTIVE MAY 1, 1916.
if Three Trains Weekly Between Cordova and Chitina. If
If Four Trains Weekly Between Chitina and Kennecott. f|
if Leave Cordova, Second Street Depot, on Mondays, Thurs- fi
f| days and Saturdays. fi
f| Leave Chitina for Cordova Sundays, Tuesdays and If
if Fridays.
If Leave Chitina for Kennecott Sundays, Tuesdays, Thurs- f;
j if days and Fridays. if
If Leave Kennecott for Chitina Mondays, Wednesdays, If
f| Thursdays and Saturdays.
The above schedule subject to change without notice. If
Dining Car In Connection With all Regular Pessenger Train* Be- jf
j:- tween Cordova and Chitina.
If Freight received from 9 A. M. to 5 I*. M.
If Tickets on sale at Depot or up town office, Alaska fi
if Steamship Company building fi
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| Caleb Corser S. R. Hedges
f| Superintendent Cordova Agent If
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Cordova Power
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
Office: FIRST STREET.