United States Must
Prepare For Defense
Against Aggression
or Perish :: :: ::
By Rear Admiral BRADLEY A.
FISKE, U. S. N., Retired
UNLESS history stops right to
day, unless it runs contrarj
to what it has been, we niusl
prepare or perish. SOME TIME
PERHAPS BEFORE LONG, THI
WAR HI NO NATIONS WILI
C 0 M E T C
TERMS. Whei
they do come t(
terms they wil
have practically
all the jihysica
force of the ole
t world in theii
hands. Whai
have we to meel
the possibili
ties? We hav
a large potentia
power for de
fense in thi
country, but nol
Asauclatlon a large active
B. A. FISKE. POWer- The,ef
tectiveness of ar
army is not essentially in its regi
merits, its companies or its officers
but depends upon unity.
AN ARMY IS A UNIT. WE MUST
HAVE A UNIT, WITH A MAN OF
EXCEPTIONAL MILITARY TRAIN
ING AND EXPERIENCE AT ITS
HEAD.
CADETS TO FIGHT
BUTTLE BF
(By United Press)
CHICAGO, March 22. — The nattlt
of Gettysburg soon will be fought ovei
again in all its intricate detail here
on Chicago soil. Again in forced
marches the invaders will come from
the southland in the persons of a
picked team of the Washington, D. C.,
high school cadets, to meet the Chi
cago cadets in the new war game.
The battle will be fought on a mini
ature battlefield, twenty feet square.
Bed and blue pegs, the opposing arm
ies, will sway back and forth over the
canvas, until the United States army
officer judges award the victory to one
or the other faction.
Captain E. Z. Steever, assigned by
the war department to organize the
high school boys of the middle wesl
into military units, has ben here foi
several weeks preparing his team foi
the contest. It wUl be the first inter
city war game contest ever played bj
the cadets.
PETTICOAT HLILE
THREATENED
(By United Press)
EVANSTON, 111., March 22.—Weari
ot having mere men mayors and coun
oilmen who spend their waking hour:
working in Chicago and let municipa
affairs in this exclusive suburb g(
hang, the women of Evanston hav<
drafted a system of petticoat politic:
and plan to elect a woman manne<
city administration this spring.
The women here have the franchis*
and the men rather expect them t(
put their plan into effect. Alreadj
they have one woman elected to th<
Bchool directorship and another a jus
tice of the peace, the first in Illinois
The plan is to have the women win al
the elective offices, then appoint wo
men to all the appointive offices, in
eluding the positions of fire and po
lice commissioners. However, th«
firemen and policemen themselves wil
continue to be men.
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♦ WHETHER OR NO. <
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♦ The confirmed criminal puts a <
♦ comma instead of a period at the <
♦ end of h*s sentence.—Old Man <
♦ Sage. <
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Andy Oarbin, who some time ag
located 21 claims on Central creek, 1
the Nome district, is reported to hav
discovered rich pay on the grount
The ground had been prospected b<
fore, but nothing was found wort
staking. Central creek is a tributar
of Squirrel river.
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Gus Lessing, a well known and ei
teemed trader at Allakaket on th
Koyukuk, committed suicide there ri
cently. The body was found in be
with a 22-calibre rifle tied to the be
post and a string attached to the trii
ger. Extreme loneliness and discou
agement were the causes of the act.
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Job Printing at Dally Times offlc
YESTERDAY WAS
SPRING
(By United Press)
KANSAS CITY, March 21. — This
Is the first day of spring and here is
a story to fit it. Every year the same
robin red breast returns to the flow
er garden of Thos. G. Reaham's home
and makes his nest in the snowball
1 t bush. Robbie is easily identified be
cause he has only one leg. Or, if he
has another, he never lets it down. He
has an eye for beauty, too, this robin.
Every spring he brings the prettiest
little girl robin of the whole bunch for
his mate; and the spot he has chosen
for his home Is one of the most beau
i tlful and artistic in all Kansas City.
Robbie's advent is looked and hoped
for by children and grownups for a
block around. He is expected almost
any day.
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CAUGHT IN ACT!
OF SMUGGLING
ON BORDER
(By Associated Press)
I STOCKHOLM. March 21. — A total
11 of more than 200,000 roubles in Rus
i sian paper money has been found in
I the last four days by the Russian bor
| der police on persons who were trying
j to smuggle the money into Sweden,
t In one case 150,000 roubles were
j seized, in another 42,000. Rusian regu
J lations permit the traveler to carry
; only 500 roubles out of the country.
Smuggling into Sweden of Russian
paper money is at present a highly
profitable occupation when it suc
ceeds. At present rates of exchange
the smuggler can buy a check on a
Petrograd bank at the rate of 98
j crowns for 100 roubles to repay the
j person entrusting him with the notes.
| He can sell the notes themselves at
the rate of 109 crowns for 100 roubles,
j giving him a profit of eleven crowns
I per 100 roubles. The smuggler with
| the 150,000 roubles could, for in
stance, have made a profit of 16,500
| Swedish crowns if his attempt had
| succeeded.
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!♦ SAVE THE BABIES. ♦
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♦ These are authentic quotations ♦
♦ from the pamphlet on babies by ♦
♦ Dr. L. Emmett Holt of Columbia ♦
♦ University and Dr. Henry L. K. ♦
♦ Shaw of Union University. ♦
♦ A child 2 to 3 years old should ♦
♦ eat dinner at 1:30 or 2 p. m., and ♦
♦ should have half a cup of chick- ♦
(♦ en, beef or mutton broth or soup ♦
♦ thickened with barley or rice. A ♦
♦ chop, rare roast beef, rare steak, ♦
♦ or chicken or broiled fish, boiled ♦
♦ or baked potato, asparagus tips, ♦
♦ carrots, string beans, peas or ♦
♦ spinach. All vegetables should ♦
♦ be thoroughly cooked and ♦
♦ mashed. For dessert baked ap- ♦
♦ pie, plain bread or rice pudding, ♦
♦ corn starch, custard, junket or ♦
♦ stewed prunes with skins re- ♦
♦ moved. +
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PROPOSE MERGER
PAPERS
(By United Press)
LONDON, March 22. — A shadow
' fell across the placid path of English
journalism today. There is a move
ment to Induce all London newspapers
* to pool their properties and issue a
1 single sheet, thus releasing the staffs
1 of all but one for active duty at the
front. They’re trying it on the dog
first. When the staffs of the two lo
* cal papers in the little village of Pet
► erborough appeared before the mlll
► tary tribunal for their regular seml
► annual exemption they were informed
* that the mayor had decided the two
9 papers should merge into one, and that
* half of them could go and get meas
9 ured for khaki.
* The proprietors naturaly set up on
their hind legs and howled. But the
} ears of a tribunal are deaf, and the
1 publishers have less than a month to
3 think it over. Meanwhile, the move
* ment is spreading to London. ,
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1 Diamond drill exploration may be
V undertaken in the copper country of
the upper Chitina river if a prelimin
ary examination of the country about
h to be made by P. J. Lynch, the dta
6 mond drill expert of Juneau, proves
satisfactory. Lynch came north to
4 Cordova on the Admiral Evans en
4 route to the Kennecott property.
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"■ Of course you want the war news^
and the Daily Times furnishes it to
[ you at $1 per month, or six months
». for |6. .
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School Savings Banks
Encourage Children
to Thrift
By MILTON ▼. HARRISON,
American Banker*' Aiaociatlon
II--4
SIX months ago there were thir
ty school banks in New York
city. Today they number 1T53,
with 70,000 depositors, compared
to 19,000 depositors a brief half
year ago. Havings have increased
from $91,000 to $175,000 in the
same period.
PRACTICALLY ONE - THIRD OF
ALL THE 8CHOOLS IN THE CITY
NOW HAVE BANKS WHICH HOLD
WIDE OPFM THE DOOR TO THRIFT
FOR THREE HUNDRED AND THIR
TY THOU8AND PUPIL8.
The children are taking increas
ing interest in the plan every day,
gaining a sense of importance from
the possession of an account that
gives them a new understanding of
life’s responsibilities. Once started
on the road to savings and they ap
ply themselves with all of the en
thusiasm of youth. Bear in mind
that every one of the 70,000 ac
counts in New York school banks is
in a sum of less than $5.
GET
SERVICE
(By United Press)
NEW YORK, March 22. — For the
first time since its colonization in
1789 by mutineers and Tahitian wo
men, Pitcairn island, that_ geographi
cal period in the Pacific ocean be
tween Panama and New Zealand,
where steamers stop sometimes as of
ten as once a year, will receive mail
service from the United States via
the steamship Australplain, sailing
from this port today. Probably the
only person in the United States to
whom this news is valuable is Miss
Emily McCoy, who left Pitcairn 15
years ago to come to the United
States to study nursing. There are
about 150 inhabitants on the island.
Miss McCoy says divorce and unequal
suffrage are unknown among the is
landers.
PARIS SOCIETY
HAS PLACE OH
BATTLEFIELD
(By Associated Press)
PARIS, March 21. — The statistics
of the Parisian “blue book," called
“Tout Paris” for 1917 shows 2,600 men
skilled on the field of battle out of
a total of 31,564 names composing
what is understood as Parisian society
—noble, aristocratic and simply “bour
geois" Included.
More than five hundred of the dead
possessed genuine titles of nobility,
and among them were three princes—
Prince Ernest d’Ahrenberg, Prince
Louis Murat, a descendant from Napo
leon’s marshal, and Prince Henry de
Polignac. There are In the number
the three Dukes de Caylus, de Lorge
and de Rohan, the latter a member of
the chamber of deputies. The rest of
the 522 titled Parisians who have died
for the country comprise twenty-four
marquises, 240 counts, 171 viscounts
and 97 barons.
Paris society has thus far lost 43
generals and 119 colonels. From civil
life the legal profession has furnished
the greatest sacrifice, with 130 dead,
followed by the writing craft with 116.
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BUILDER LAUGHED AT,
MADE MILLIONS OUT OF IT.
(By United Press)
NEW YORK, March 22. — George
C. Boldt was laughed at and called a
fool for throwin'g his money away
when he built the hotel Waldorf with
"400 rooms to cater to the rich,” 24
years ago today. Boldt, who was a
poor man then, died a few weeks ago
leaving a fortune well up into the
millions of dollars, all of them made
from the hotel.
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Frank Moran, a well known miner
of Iditarod district, is believed to have
drowned in the Aniak river last fall.
Moran left Aniak last September in a
poling boat heavily loaded with pro
visions, bound for Marvel creek, and
two months later had not reached bis
destination. A search of all likely
places has been made and no trace
of him has been found. The Aniak
is a treacherous stream and it is be
lieved his boat was swamped and he
lost his life in its waters.
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Simmle Fiendle, the veteran stage
driver on the Whltehorse-Dawson
route, recently made the trip between
those points during the coldest weath
er of the winter. One day he covered
seventy miles, while the thermometer
waB 70 to 76 degrees below aero, driv
ing from 6 o'clock in the morning un
til 12 at night. His nose and chin
were badly frostbitten
FLYW "IT CHAMPION
NDED ON FIRING LINE
■Y United Press)
LONDO March 22. — Young Dan
do, flywel it champion of northeri
Kngland, » been wounded on thi
firing line In northern Prance. Pan
do is a shifty little boxer. Ills bom
fights wert against Jimmy Wilde, whr
shaded hlio three times over the 20
15 and 10 i'Ound routes.
Charles aggie. who left Nome foi
Council, haiifc narrow escape when In
drew near l| the storm belt around
Solomon, ft encountered the usua
blizzard and*got lost, lie traveled
way out on tne li'e nijd when he rea
llzed that he was lost and that hb
dogs were all in he decided to un
hitch them and strike with the ani
mals for a camp. He was nearly al
In before he reached Solomon and
was badly frostbitten. A native was
sent to bring In the sled, but returned
with the report that he could not
find it. At last accounts It had not
been recovered and is believed tc
have been blown away.
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Ruby Igloo No. 5, Pioneers of Alas
ka, Is planning to mark the fiftieth
anniversary of the raising of the Am
erican flag in Alaska on October 18
next by the erection of n monument
over the grave of Mrs. John Bean, the
first white woman to penetrate inter
ior Alaska, the first to bear a white
child and the first to die in that coun
try.
W. E. TERRILL
FREIGHTER
Baggage and Freight Taken
over the Trail to Fairbanks.
TEAMS LEAVE CHITINA
FEBRUARY 5
MARCH 15
Baggage can be left at the
Chitina Hotel, Chitina, or Alas*
kan Hotel, Cordova.
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COPPER PROPERTY WANTED.
If you have a property of meritor
ious character, close to transportation,
communicate, giving price and terms,
together with such other information
as is procurable. Address,
3-5-Gt DR. W. H. CHASE,
Cordova, Alaska.
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Of course you are reading the Daily
Times. Why not save a dollar by pay
ing six months' subscription in ad
vance; $5 will do the trick.
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The Daily Times is a member of tho
Associated Press. Got the news
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^ i He average savings account in this country is $41!> for 3!
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ffl each depositor. Does your rainy day fund average up to this? r
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pg Moral: A Bank account hero means “rainy day” cheer. M
I The First Bank \
j Of Cordova |
ij Territorial Depositary.
1 * r ■i,n.United States Depositary for Postal Savings Funds.
Commercial Department. ‘"““’savings Department.
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STATIONERY AND PHOTO SUPPLIES
Developing and Printing Phonographs
Views and Postcards Columbia Records
Art Pictures, Art Supplies gheet Music
Picture Frames „ A1 „ ,
Picture Framing Candies Always Fresh
Toilet Articles Cigars and Tobacco
MAIL ORDERS GIVEN IMMEDIATE ATTENTION.
1 Foos Gas Engines 1
$ *. 4 to 5C0 Horse Power
g: :g
General Electric Motors
I Roebling Tramways
Pelton Water Wheels
Chicago Oil Engines and Compressors
| Regal Boat Engines
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j Harmon Machinery Co Inc |
8 Oxy-Acetylene Welding. j|
| CORDOVA, ALASKA
—i
Sixty Steam Heated Rooms Eletric Lighted
4 Hot and Cold Water in Every Room
With or Without Bath.
Cordova House
H. C. ROSS, Proprietor.
&
'Vv* Headquarters for Railroad and Mining Men
,.*9 Satisfaction Guranteed
' Rates Reasonable
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Cordova Mill
and
Lumber Company
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Manufacturers and Dealers in
Rough and Dressed Lumber
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* f Also Outside Lumber.
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I Orders Fr»m Up the Line Promptly Attended to.
Office and Mill Opposite Railroad Depot. Phone No. 5
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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 *4
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I Alaskan Hotel I
THE HOUSE OF COMFORT
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THE BEST EQUIPPED HOTEL
1 IN ALASKA P
I BAR AND BARBER SHOP IN CONNECTION.
Hot and Cold Water, Electric Bells, Electric
Lights, Steam Heat, Suites With Bath. j|
Bar in Connection |1
S ROBERT QOTT8CHALK Proprlteor* ART CLONINQER S
| CORDOVA, .... ALASKA I
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ALL THE LIGHT ON THE BOOK,
and none in tho eyes is what makes
the electric light so superior for night
reading. And its brilliancy brings out
the type with the utmost distinctive
ness so that reading is accompanied
by no strain on the eyes whatever.
Have you electricity in your hornet
Cordova Power
Company
LIGHTS WATER PHONES POWER
Office: FIRST STREET.
| Copper River & j
j Northwestern Ry. 1
EFFECTIVE MAY 1, 1916.
| Three Trains Weekly Between Cordova and Chitina. j|
|l|j Four Trains Weekly Between Chitina and Kennecott. ^
Leave Cordova, Second Street Depot, on Mondays, Thu»- ^
|| days and Saturdays.
I Leave Chitina for Cordova Sundays, Tuesdays aad |
j|! Fridays. ' 1
llj Leave Chitina for Kennecott Sundays, Tuesdays, Thura- |
|j| days and Fridays. §
j | Leave Kennecott for Chitina Mondays, Wednesdays, |
|| Thursdays and Saturdays. -i
III The above schedule subject to cliaage without notice. §
1 Dining Car In Connection With all Regular Reaaenger Traina Ca
twaan Cordova and Chitina. j|
Freight received from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. §i
Tickets on sale at Depot or up town office, Alaska ^
Steamship Company building ^
| Caleb Corser W. E. Brown 1
j j; Superintendent Cordova Ageiit|