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J 10:00 A. M. until Noon
4:00 P. M. until 10:00 P, M.
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and I Have thousands of |
them for Young and Old.
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for the Holiday trade
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I KENDRICK BUILDING FIRST STREET
THE CITY BAKERY
*>'< WE ARE SPECIALISTS IN. FINE CAKES AND PASTRY
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Parties and Receptions
MAKERS OF THE FAMOUS .“CREAM LOAF” BREAD
SUN “MAID” RAISIN BREAD—A TREAT INDEED
RYE BREAD GRAHAM BREAD
LUNCH ROOM—WH;RE YOU GET THOSE EXCElL
Jt ENT LUNCHES
SAVE MONEY!
COME TO THE BARGAIN STORE
And see what we have in the line of workmen’s clothing,
beds, mattresses and canvas goods of all kinds, tents and
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 WEEKLY BETWEEN
CHITINA AND KENNECOTT
Leave Cordova, Second Street Depot, on Mon
days, Thursdays and Saturdays.
Leave Chitina for Cordova Sundays, Tuesday*
days, Thursdays and Fridays.
Leave Chitina for Kennecott Sundays, Tues
days and Fridays.
Leave Kennecott for Chitina 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.
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[PERILOUS TRIP
SLATE CREEK
MINERS
(By Associated Press)
On the morning of September 4,
1901, says arecnt issue of the Valedz
Miner, in recounting early day events,
a party of six men, who had spent the
summer mining and prospecting on
Slate creek and vicinty, left that
place en route for Valdez. They tra
versed the ten or twelve miles sep
arating Slate creek from the Chisto
china, and at the camp of Hazelet &
Meals, who in addition to mining op
erated a sawmill, secured sufficient
lumber to build a boat. On September
7 the boat was completed, and the
party, accompanied by a maiamute
dog belonging to one of them, em
barked on the dangerous voyage down
I the Chistochina and Copper rivers to
the coast.
The Chistochina was very high and
rapid, and the first stage of the voy
age to the cabin at the confluence of
the Chistochina and Copper rivers, a
distance of about fifty miles, was
made in about six hours, and owing to
being thrown in contact with several
rocks and snags, the boat was some-!
"hut damaged, bo the party remained
\ at the cabin for two days repairing
| the craft.
Down Copper River
On the morning of September 3 the
party re-embarked for their trip down
Copper river. The voyage to Copper
Center, about fifty miles down the
river, was made without incident, the
waters of Copper river being far less
turbulent in its upper stretches than
the Chistochina. The voyage was suf-1
ficiently exciting, however, to cause
j one of the party, who had a poke of
j gold amounting to about $4,000, to
I abandon the voyage at this point and
| make his way overland to Valdez.
) While the party was at Copper Cen
: tor two other miners who had been at
| Slate creek during the summer came
down the Copper on a raft, and
joined the party for the remainder of
the voyage down the river, together
with “Ginger,” a water spaniel belong
ing to one of them. T8he party was
j still further augmented by the addi
j tion of a niusher who had been shot
i and painfully wounded by a native
i youth in a fleshy part of the anatomy,
which made walking burdensome.
Taxed Capacity of Boat
This party taxed the capacity of the
boat th the utmost, but they started
out on the morning of September 10
for the last stage of the journey down
the lower Copper. They made the
voyage to the mouth of the Tormina!
that night, and the next morning
started on, stopping at the Indian vil
lage of Taral. Here Hanuaglta, chief
of the Taral tribe, warned the voy
agers against continuing their jour
ney, as the Chitina river was running
bank full and pouring a torrent of
muddy water into the Copper, render
ing the river unusually turbulent. Em
boldened by their good fortune thus
far, they paid no attentio nto the warn
ing of the chief, and pursued their
voyage down stream by easy stages.
They stopped at the Bremner and
spent a day goat hunting, after hav
ing sucessfully negotiated the rough
water of Wood canyon.
Reached Head of Rapids
On the evening of September 13 the
party reached the head of the rapids.
Here they camped for the night, and
the next morning they started to line
their boat through these dangerous
waters. They had made but little
more than half a mile when the boat
was swung by the swift current
against a huge boulder and com
menced to fill and capsize. One of
the party, who had a poke with sev-1
eral thousand dolars in it, tied to one
of the seats, jumped into the stream
and, reaching the boat, cut the string
which held the poke and threw it to
shore, narrowly escaping with his life.
Grub, blankets, clothing and pokes
with several hundred dollars in them
were washed away and went on down
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stream. An attempt was made to snub
the boat by fastening the towlfnes to
trees, but they broke like twine string
and away she went, leaving the party
without a bite to eat and without
means of securing food.
Blanket Cut in Strips
Each member of the party was in
his shirt sleeves, and the only cover
ing left was a blanket which one of
the party had wrapped around his
poke and was packing on his back.
This was cut up into small pieces so
that each might have a section to wrap
about bis shoulders aR a protection
from the cold winds from the glaciers,
which would soon have chilled them
to the marrow.
There was nothing left but to make
the coast as speedily as possible or
perish of cold and starvation, so they
set off. That great ice barrier, Miles
glacier, stood in their path. They
started to cross it, and while on this
huge ice field the entire party nar
rowly escaped destruction. Miles gla
cier is a live one, throwing off im
mense bergs into the Copper river.
The path chosen by the party was but
a short distance back from the face of
the glacier, and when part way across
a tremor of the ice warned them that
the glacier was about to slough,
ice Begin* to Move
The ice on which they were stand
ing began to move, and they dashed
back at top speed, just getting off the
dangerous spot as the ice slid down
hundreds of feet into the raging tor
rent of the river below.
They crossed tba glacier without
further accident, and at nightfall had
reached the morraine on the lower
side. Here they built a wall of rock
to protect themselves from the biting
wind. Fortunately all had matches,
and they made a big fire of driftwood
which kept them from freezing. The
next morning, breakfastless, they
started on their way toward the coast.
But here they met with another diffi
culty, for to reach any settlement they
had to cross to the west side of the
Copper river.
Doomed to Disappointment
They had hoped to find sufficient
logs with which to build a raft, but
they were doomed to disappointment.
Not a log could be found, and they
were compelled'to return that night to
their old camp on the morraine. Their
chance of reaching civilization
seemed very remote at this time.
Nearly dead with cold and hunger,
they were almost ready to give up the
struggle, but “Dinger,” the spaniel,
saved their lives.
No, he did not find a cache or bring
in meat, he simply gave his body to
sustain the shipwrecked argonauts.
He was killed and eaten. Invigorated
by this food, four of the party
recrossed the glacier to where, above
the rapids, they had noticed an old
boat half buried in the sand.
Made Rough Repairs
They dug it out, and with no other
tools than their pocket knives and
stones they made rough repairs on the
boat, calked its open seams with their
uiciuiveis, emu apuncu un py uespera*
tion, started in their crazy craft to
navigate the turbulent waters of the
rapids.
it was odds on that their old dere
lict would never survive the voyage,
but the unexpected always happens,
and within a short time their craft had
safely passed the dangerous waters l
and was floating safely in Nicholai
slough. The next morning they pro
ceeded down the river to where they
had left their companions, and found
them almost perished of cold and hun
ger. Taking them aboard, the entire
party started for Alganik, and after
several days of disheartening experl-'
ences they finally reached food and
shelter at Eyak.
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NOTICE.
All parties who are indebted to the
Cordova Mill & Lumber Co. for more
than 30 days will please call at the
office and settle or make satisfactory
arrangements. 14-3t j
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All the latest and most authentic
telegraphic news in the Daily Time*
Advertise in the Times
rONSORIALISTS OF ANCHORAGE
ENGAGE IN BITTER WARFARE
War to the bitter end is being
waged by the Anchorage barbers, ac
cording to a statement made to the
Times of that city by one of the pro
prietors of a barber shop there.
At a meeting of the barbers held
tome time ago it was decided that In
k-iew of the eight-hour law, which went
into effect on January 1, and the high
cost of living, it was necessary to
raise the price of a shave to 50 cents.
The schedule went into efTect with the
new year.
After trying out the Increased prices
for the short period of three hours,
one barber shop went back to the
former price of 25 cents. Then fol
lowed another shop, which now adver
tises the price of a shave as of old,
25 cents.
It was planned to try out the new
schedule for the period of thirty days.
If at the end of this period the bar
bers were able to outdistance starva
tion the schedule was to be made per
manent.
The barbers in the other shops say
they will continue to maintain the newr
price, although they admit they are
doing very little business.
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The deep-seated democracy of the
Bolsheviki is indicated in Trotzky’s
announcement that if they don't have
a majority in the Constituent Assem
bly they will overthrow it.—Chicago
Herald
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uary 4, the launch Georgia M., owned
by John McWilliams, of Juneau, was
blown up in its winter quarters in;
the town limits. The officials arej
working to discover who dynamited
the launch. A piece of fuse was1
found and presents practically the^
only clue to the guilty person.
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H. Harkness a rancher near Mat
anuska, was recently brought to An
chorage charged with insanity.
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING.
WANTED—Bright young man as book
keeper. Must be a hustler. Apply
this office. 17-tf
FOR RENT—A sewing machine.
Phone 135. 12-tt
WANTED—Work of any kind. Wm.
Crompton.
FOR SALE—Singer Sewing Machine.
$20.00. Phone 166.
WANTED—A maid for general house
work. Apply to Mrs. E. L. Har
wood.
FOR SALE—Miscellaneous household
furniture. Apply Alaska Transfer
Company. 16-3t
FOR SALE—One pair hickory skiis.
Inquire H. Larson, Windsor hotel.
16-2t
(By Associated Press)
HONOLULU, Jan 18.—Maria Heuer,
a teacher in the College of Hawaii,
who has been under the fire of public
sentiment because of reports of her
alleged un-Americanism, has handed
her resignation to President Arthur
L. Dean. Miss Heuer is a German,
and has been a teacher of modern lan
guages. In reply to a request from
all of the college teachers for a state
ment as to their stand toward Amer
ica. Miss Heuer answered that she
was "not loyal to any country at war.
but only to her convictions of the
truth.”
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WAR COMMUNITY MOVEMENT
SEATTLE, Jan. 18.—Large boxes
are being placed on a number of Se
attle street corners, and people are be
ing urged to drop into them their old
magazines and newspapers for the use
of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Club
which has been established here as
a part of the War Camp Community
movement.
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A MAN’S TASK
J. B Beattie of Iditarod, accompa
nied by Roy N. Crltchlow of Oakland.
Cal., special Deisel engine expert, left
Seward on January 10 with dog teatmc
for the Interior. The two men are
taking In a 970-pound shaft for one of
the dredges in the Iditarod.
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Tt must be consoling to Roumanta
to know that she has the Teutons in
front of her and the Bolsheviki be
hind her.—St. Louis Star.
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NOTICE.
Will those who have odd balls and
temnants of yarn that they are will
ing to part with for Junior Red Crosa
work please send it to schcol by school
pupils, or telephone us and we will
send for it.
FANNIE E. BRAYTOX.
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