LOCAL AND PERSONAL HENTIOnI
The Watson is due in Cordova from
the westward at 4 o’clock a. m. Mon
day, and will sail at 6 o’clock a. m.
Carl Johnson, who is conductor on
the train P. D. X 52, was an arrival
in town last night to receive medical
treatment.
Fred Liljgren and daughter, Miss
Amanda Liljgren, of Storey island,
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. R. Appleby of Peak
island, and Mrs. Ralph Reed of An
chorage composed a party which ar
rived in Cordova yesterday evening
for a few days’ stay.
George Dooley and Dan Greenig,
proprietors of the Cordova house,
have had D. Kelly working the past
few days making improvements in the
interior of their hostelry for the con
venience of their patrons. New car
pets have been laid on the stairways,
new rugs in different rooms, new
beds and new furniture in general
have been placed through the build
ing. Both Mr. Dooley and Mr.
Greenig state there is nothing too
good for their guests.
Nels Anderson, W. I. Taylor and
William Hesse returned from Yaka
taga beach late yesterday afternoon
on the launch Tonsina, after being
absent from Cordova thirty-four days.
After landing Mr. Hesse and William
Canavan at Yakataga beach, Ander
and Taylor went to Katalla and were
kept there three weeks longer than
they anticipated, owing to the rough
weather which prevented them from
making the return trip. Mr. Cana
van remained at Yakataga beach,
which makes five people who will
spend the winter there. At one time
there were more than three hundred
miners working on the beach and con
siderable more than a quarter of a
million dollars was taken out.
Back in the old unenlightened days
they used to stand their women up be
fore the public and sell them ' as
slaves to the highest bidder. We en
lightened people almost shudder
when we think of it. But stop a min
ute and look around. How many
women can you point out who were
sold on the auction block—perhaps
with their mothers wielding the ham
mer and shrieking for a higher and
higher bid? There’s a woman who
married an old man—rich, it’s true,
but otherwise unattractive. She does
not love him; she knows and admits
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! it. He bought her at the auction
block. Rex Beach wrote this great
story—and Rex Beach knows pretty
thoroughly whereof he speaks. “The
Auction Block” will be shown at the
I Empress tomorrow.
Mrs. Kate Rolfe is having some ar
! tistic lettering placed in the windows
of her store. J. V. Carter is doing
| the work.
C. A. Eby made th' trip to town
this afternoon from Pinnacle Rock
and will return to his home some
time tomorrow.
No word up to the time of going to
i press had been received relative to
the movements of the Alaska. Agent
Tracy reports that she is due in
Cordova some time tomorrow.
SAD SPECTACLE
IS WITNESSED
BYCORDOVANS
“Ye that have tears to shed, pre
pare to shed them now,” or words to
that effect, was the exclamation of
Deputy Marshal Bill Fursman this
morning, when, in the presence of
Rev. E. P. Ziegler and Henry Slater,
official witnesses, he officiated at the
ceremony of dumping seven barrels,
more or less, of perfectly good whisky
into the gutter in front of the United
States marshal’s office on Second
street.
The sight was, indeed, enough to
make any old rounder weep. There
were assembled barrels, kegs and bot
tles bearing names of world-wide re
nown, some of whom had been re
garded as almost household compan
ions to many of the spectators since
boyhood. Colonel Pebbleford, that
mild-mannered friend of the moderate
drinker, was there, and Colonel Bel
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i mont, and John Dewar, seeming to
emit a troubled Scotch ejaculation
with a decided burr at his unceremoni
ous handling. And there was the old
familiar Old Crow, whose containers,
bearing marks of age and seclusion,
bespoke many a “snack” that would
! have delighted the heart of the bon
; vivant. Altogether, it was generally
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agreed, no sadder sight had ever been
enacted in the history of this fair
young city.
The ceremony was, however, not
universally deplored. There were
those who regarded the event as an
augury of the fact that prohibition
•was at last a reality, and who regard
ed the destruction of the liquor as a
benefit rather than as a calamity. The
whisky would do less harm in the gut
ter than in the internal regions of
poor, deluded mortals, these men ar
gued. Others, while approving the
confiscation of liquor, believed that
it could have been put to good use by
donating it to the hospitals for the
use of the sick in certain cases, and
among those who took this humani
tarian view were Dr. Council and Dr.
Chace. And then there was the more or
less secretive bootlegger, who despair
ingly calculated on the many thou
sands of perfectly good coin that
could have been accumulated by the
judicious distribution of the wet
goods. It may be reported with truth
that all of the witnesses, those ap
proving and disapproving, official and
unofficial, viewed the ceremony with
very solemn faces befitting the occa
sion.
The destruction of this liquor was
the result of a court order issued by
Judge Bunnell yesterday, on receipt
of a decree from the circuit court of
appeals in the case of the United
States vs. the Northern QommeTcial
Company.
When the prohibition law went into
effect in Alaska, on January 1, 1918,
all intoxicating liquor then in the ter
ritory was subject to confiscation. The
dealers had been given an extensive
period in which to dispose of their
stocks, and most of them had com
plied with the law. The Northern
Commercial Company had a larger
stock in the Interior than it could dis
pose of within the time' limit, and
the seven barrels destroyed yesterday
were shipped out over the trail for
transportation to San Francisco. Ow
ing to delays on the trail, however,
the shipment failed to reach Cordova
in time to be placed on shipboard be
fore the first of the year, and in con
sequence it was seized by the United
States marshal. The lower court de
creed its destruction under the law,
and the appellate court at, San Fran
cisco confirmed the decree.
It has been figured out that at
the current prices for liquor in Oor
tlova the seven barrels would have
brought about $35,000 at retail here.
The scene was perpetuated for the
benefit of theater-goers in a series of
I movinig pictures under the direction
of Captain Lathrop, and it may be that .
the Pathe people will soon be exhibit
ing the notable scene in the four cor
j ners of the earth. The pictures would
have been enhanced in value could
they have portrayed the wistful look
cast on the condemned wet goods by
i Alaska’s theatrical magnate.
SHIP’S COMPANY PROBABLY
PERISHED WITH VESSEL
KEY WEST, Sept. 27 (by Associated
Press).—No trace has been found of
the four hundred and eighty-eight pas
sengers and crew of the Spanish
steamship Valbanor, which was lost
in the quicksands during the recent
hurricane.
VOLCANO IN ERUPTION
HONOLUULU, Sept. 27 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Mauna Loa is again in
eruption.
Job printing at Daily Times office.
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
HUB BOLLINGER has taken charge
of the pressing and cleaning de
partment of T. N. Hubbert’s tailor
ing shop. 27-tf
WANTED—Girl for general house
work. Apply to Mrs. T. J. Don
ohoe. 27-tf
NICELY furnished rooms for parties
attending court at the Southern
Hotel, centrally located, Valdez.
Proprietor, Nels Nelson. 25-1
FOR SALE—An upright piano, also a
sewing machine. Apply Apartment
R, Lathrop building. 24-tf
APARTMENT FOR RENT—Inquire
of Charles J. Goodall. 19-tf
FURNISHED ROOM FOR RENT—
Apply Dr. Council. 18tf
FOR RENT—Bachelor apartment.
Phone 185 15tf
TRADING post, roadhouse and fox
ranch for sale; best location on
Fairbanks-Chitina road; truck and
car. For particulars inquire at of
fice Windsor Hotel, or Chitina Cash
Store.
FOR SALE—Good stock of rabbits for
breeding purposes. Apply A. Cohen.
Phone 167- 3 rings. 19-tf
FOR RENT—Furnished cabins. See
Dooley. L
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