Summer Contest
For Boys
The Times is going to give away
to the two best hustlers
in Cordova
A Bicycle
AND
A Gold Watch
These two articles will be given away on July 30 to
the two boys having the largest number of votes to their
credit at 6 o’clock on that date. The boy having the
largest number of votes to his credit will be allowed his
choice of the articles.
The contest is open to all boys of 16 years and under.
All who wish to enter the contest must first leave their
names at the Times office.
All that is necessary is for the contestants to see
their friends and acquaintances and get them to sub
scribe for the Times.
This will entitle them to a specified number of votes,
which will be credited to them. Mail subscribers count
the same as those in Cordova .which is as follows:
New subscribers, one month. 50 votes
New subscribers, six months. 500 votes
New subscribers, one year.2000 votes
Weekly subscriptions count one-fifth the number of
votes as the daily.
Present subscribers who pay in advance will be en
titled to one-half the number of votes as new subscribers.
All subscriptions must be paid in advance, and in order
to get the votes the money must accompany the order.
The subscription rates are:
One month.$ 100
Six months (in advance) . 5.00
One year (in advance) . 10.00
Circulation Manager, Times:
Enclosed please find $., advance pay
ment for the Cordova Daily (Weekly) Times for a
period of.
Please place.votes to which I am
entitled to the credit of.
ONE VOTE FREE.
•v iJ
Circulation Manager, Times:
Please place this vote to the credit of.
> ■ .— ' " I- -1!V—"H. J."""
First Bank Cordova 1
§
CAPITAL STOCK *25,000
-- . I
4°0 On Time Deposits
_ |
We Sell Travellers’ Checks
Cold Dust Bought at Highest Market Prices
DESPOSITORY FOR TERRITORIAL FUNDS.
:mmmmmmmmmmmmsimmmm
u 'S.V • l
BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN
FRANCE, June 29. — (Correspondence
of the Associated Press.) — No mill
! tary leader Is more averse to pub
licity o rwnrks more silently than Sir
Douglas Haig, the British commander
In chief In France. To those who are
importunate for the offensive his an
swer Is patience, and yet again pa
tience. while the new munition fac
tories begin to produce and he con
tinues his building. Hio generals say
that he never tells them his plans;
only what they are to do.
Probably not one man out of ten
of the million or more under his com
mand would recognize him If they saw
him. Not given to reviews or any
kind of display, this quiet and studious
Scotsman was the choice of the pro
gressive, practical driving element of
the army, as the one fit by equipment,
training and experience to succeed Sir
John French. At fifty-five he Is nine
years younger than Sir John, and ten
years younger than Joffre or von Hin
denburg.
There is a story that he entered the
army as the result of a boyish wager.
He went through Oxford with dis
tinction before he went to the military
school at Sandhurst. His choice of
arm was the cavalry, which has had
so little to do so far in this war. But
no sooner had he received his commis
sion, later in life, than most officers
because of the time that he had spent
at Oxford, than he set out with the
thoroughness of the student to mas
ter every branch of his profession.
He studied the French army, too,
and the history of all campaigns wlthj
the systematic thoroughness that he
applied to everything. It was the
same with his pastimes as his pro
fession. Whether he had talent for
It or not he made himself a first
class golf player, though the form he
developed did not excite the envy of
professionals.
At the British Army Staff College,
where officers learn organization, he
was a marked man before he acted as
chief of staff to General French in
South Africa in the operations that
made French’s reputation. He was a
soldier's soldier, who had won solid
professional esteem though the pub
lic had hardly heard of this reserved
undemonstrative worker.
Going out in command of the first
army of the British expeditionary
force, Sir Douglas had seven <n
months' experience, Mona, Y,v-} »rd
Loos, of warfare of the western fior.t
—which all agree is the toughest
school any soldier has ever known.
There was n odoubt who command
ed the first army. It was Ha‘g He
was no figurehead for the work of an
able chief of staff. London yossip did
not bandy his name about; ho was not
a personality to the public thought
he was to the army.
When anyone asked at the front
who was the best man to take Sir
John's place, the answer was almost
invariably: "Haig.” He had not cap
tured the army's imagination, but its
reason. The tribute was one to
brains.
The new army was arriving in great
numbers from its English drill grounds
when he took over command. His
first operation, carneu uui
a hitch and unknown to the Germans,
was the taking over of the trenches
occupied in the Arras sector by Gen
eral Petain's army, which was released
for Verdun. This gave the British an
intact front of about one hundred
miles; and waB decided upon by the
allied commanders as wiser than a
premature British offensive in the
mire and bog of the flat country of
Flanders and northern France.
A wisp of a flag and two sentries
designate the entrance to the chateau
smaller than that occupied by many
division generals which is the head
quarters of the commander in chief.
The only occupants of the chateau
beside Sir Douglas are his private
secretary and his aides, who are
"crocks,” which is the army word for
officers who have been wounded and
are not fit for the physical exposure
of the trenches.
The hour of any appointment is ex
act to the minute; and whoever has
one at his chateau Is expected to be
there on the minute, general head
quarters time. There is little cere
mony. One of the aides receives the
caller, and a minute later the man
with Iron gray hair and moustache,
sturdy, athletic of build, slightly above
medium height, who comes Into the
hall could not be mistaken, whether
in or out of uniform, for anything but
a soldier though something about the
well chiselled, regular features also
suggests the scholar.
In one of the rooms of the ground
floor the walls are hung with maps
’ including a series which have been
IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE
TERRITORY OF ALASKA, THIRD
DIVISION.
Notice of Term of Court at Cordova,
Alaska.
The President of the United States of
America, to the Residents of the
Third Division of the Territory of
Alaska, and to All Whom It May
Concern, Greeting:
You, and each and all of you, will
please take notice that by an order of
the court, duly made and entered, a
term of the District Court for the Ter
ritory of Alaska, Third Division, has
been called and will be held in Cor
dova, Alaska, beginning on the 17th
day of July. 1916, and will continue as
long thereafter as the public welfare
may require.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 13th
day of June, 1916.
FRED M. BROWN,
District Judge.
(District Court Baal)
Attest: Arthur Lang, Clerk.
— ♦
i Hair'll 11
crowded on a roller. Any portion of
the front In all Its detail* may be
referred to In a moment In the cen
ter of the room a desk; and against
the wall a table with more maps and
drawings, and some of those strange
photographs from aeroplanes of gray
ish lines of trench systems In a dusky
field of shell and mine craters which
make on think of the dead world of
the moon. Out of doors a field of
daisies, birds singing, a typical sunny
day In northern France.
The man and his method are as
quiet as the room. With a battle
front which remains in the same place
month after month the routine of his
work has become almost as set as his
habitation .and not unlike that of the
autocrat of some great business or
ganization. The regular staff offi
cers are in a town not far away. Su
bordinate chiefs of the different army
branches, be it operations, intelli
gence, ordnance or supply, come to
him In succession at hours set during
the morning to make their reports
an dreceive their Instructions. They
do most of the talking; and they have
learned how not to do more than ne
cessary. He listens, decides.
Like General Joffre, he sleeps long
hours. A rested mind is a clear mind
for great responsibilities. Like von
Hlndenburg, he never reads fiction.
When reading his not to do with his
profession. It Is of serious books and
monthlies and quarterlies. Even dur
ing the battle of Ypres, when it was
touch and go with disaster, he slept
as soundly as Joffre during the bat
tie of the Marne. At a crisis of the
retreat from Mons he remarked as
quietly as if he were giving a direc
tion to an aide: “We shall have to
hold on here for a while if we all die
for It.” There Is never any fustlon
about these modem scientific soldier
organizers. Again, during the retreat
when a certain general became some
what demoralized. Sir Douglas took
him by the arm and walked up and
down with him in silence till he was
over his fit of nerves on that terrible
August day. Those who work with
him know that his sign of anger is a
prolonged silence of a telling kind.
He has a temper, but does not let It
get past his lips, they say. He has,
too, a keen sense of humor, with a
Scotch flavor.
The impression he leaves on a call
er Is that of a leader without Illusions;
a soldier who sees with a soldier's
logic; who is not afraid to be patient.
"In our Civil war,” he said, “it was
a case of raising armies of untrained
men to fight armies of untrained men,
while with us the small nucleus of
regular officers who survived the re
treat had to train even larger forces
to meet a military machine which had
hod forty years of preparation. Not
only man to man, but in organization
must we make ourselves superior to
our powerful enemy. The training of
battalions and the manufacture of
guns in England and their transfer to
Prance represented only the first
stage of real preparation for our task.
Here they must be organized into di
visions, corps, and armies under the
actual conditions of warfare before
they could become worthily effective
as a whole in any dicisive effort
against a foe whose staff training, re
inforced by experience in the field,
must remain excellent, however ex
hausted he becomes. Every day he
grows weaker and we grow stronger
Owing to the indomitable spirit of our
officers and men in learning we are
accomplishing what seemed the im
possible to many soldiers at the out
set of the war. Our cause gives us
strength; for we are fighting for civi
lization. Those who have looked to
us for victory will have their patience
rewarded.”
—--;o:
Paul Shultz, 23 years of age, while
attempting to dig out a charge of
dynamite in the bottom of a shaft
that had failed to explode, set off
the charge, receiving serious injuries
about the face and head. He was
taken to Eagle and later sent to Daw
son for treatment.
FRENCH WILL ISSUE MEDALS
OF UHATITUDE TO FOREIGNERS.
PARIS, June 2U. — M. Refund, pre
sident of the cabinet and minister of
■foreign affairs, has presented a re
port to President Poincare, proposing
the creation of a "medal of gratitude,"
In recognition of services rendered
voluntarily to France by subjects of
foreign countries during the war. The
distinction will comprise three Hasses
and the medal will be vermeil for the
first, silver for the second and bronze
for the third. On one side will be
engraved in French "French firati
tude,” and persons on whom the dis
tinction is conferred will be given a
diploma recalling the services that
the medal commemorates.
i I
One Visit
Will
Make You
A
; Regular Patron
At
Slater’s
Restaurant
Private Boxes
For
Lar^e or Small
Parties
■ ■■■ 1 -1 ~
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
i The I
♦ *
j Northern I
I ----- I
J For the Best Brands of ♦
| WINES, j
LIQUORS l
AND i
! CIGARS j
$ Call at the t
l POPULAR CORNER :
$ First Avenue and C Street ♦
The I
MINT
Thos. Davis, Prop.
STRAIGHT WHISKEYS
IMPORTED WINES
KEY WEST CIGARS
BONDED GOODS
NOTHING BUT THE BEST
INSURANCE
FIRE, MARINE, LIFE and ACCIDENT
Insure your property against fire in
reliable Insurance Companies.
We represent the Niagara, London,
Phoenix. Hartford, Northern, Globe
and Rutgers, and others; all strong
Board Companies.
We also represent the Maryland
Casualty Company, and issue Fidelity
and Surety Bonds.
Northwestern Realty & Trust Co.
E. A. HEGG
PHOTOGRAPHER
_
PHOTO SUPPLIES
Views and Post Cards
STATIONERY
PICTURES and FRAMES
< i
The Leading Hotel of Alaska
‘ WINDSOR
* HOTEL
: CORDOVA, ALASKA
'-- - ------ <1
.. •
1 Alaskan Hotel I
THE HOUSE OF COMFORT
§ |
*: IS
THE BEST EQUIPPED HOTEL
IN ALASKA
Hot and Cold Water Alestric Bells, Electric
Lights, Steam Heat, Suites With Bath.
Bar in Connection Si
m mb
v
X ROBERT GOTTSCHALK Proprlteor* ART CLONINGER :¥
% s
S CORDOVA, .... ALASKA :
.
» ■ ...— —i———>1
Sixty Steam Heated Rooms Eletric Lighted
Hot and Cold Water in Every Room
With or Without Bath.
Cordova House
H. C. ROSS, Proprietor.
Headquarters for Railroad and Mining Men
Satisfaction Guranteed
Rates Reasonable
... .1 I Ml .. .11
Just what the Miner and
Camper needs.
A Lang Camp Stove.
Known Throughout
Alaska.
Light, but made to stand
rough usage.
Will not warp.
First class bakers.
Six styles. Fifteen
sizes.
Have the Lnn p
Hot Air princi
ple of burning; the
fuel from tin* top.
If your dealer can
not supply you,
write to us.
F.S. LANG
MFG.CO.
Seattle, Wn.
Let Us Help You Enjoy Your Fourth of July.
Northern Drug Co.
Special for the Next Three Weeks at the Fountain:
STOKES’ Fresh Strawberry lee Cream.
SEATTLE Chocolate Ice Cream.
MADE Neapolitan Brick Ice Cream.
Frozen Lemon Phosphate.
Fruit Specials—Egg and Plain Malted Milk.
Kodak Finishing—Enlargements Made From Your
Negatives.
XV:VXV.V..VA-.V.V/.WA%V.V.V.V.-.V..V.V/.V..W.V.V.V.V.V.-V.V.V.V.V.WW.V.-.V.VAV.W. •«
1 Foos Gas Engines 1
4 to 5C0 Horse Power
General Electric Motors g
Roebling Tramways
| Pelton Water Wheels
Chicago Oil Engines and Compressors
| Regal Boat Engines |
| Harmon Machinery Co Inc f
| Oxy-Acetylene Welding.
CORDOVA, ALASKA
|NORTHERN MEAT MARKET i
1 •— . ' " A1
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
| Fresh Beef, Pork, Veal, Mutton |
| and Provisions |
I Particular Attention and Prompt Service Qlven to ordere from *
MINING CAMPS, ROADHOUSES AND
INTERIOR POINTS
SMITH & UI*ASBRENNER, Props. 1