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YOUR FRIENDS
Samuel Tull booked pasage on the
Admiral Watson today for Anchorage.
Sylvester Meredith has purchased
the old jail buiding on C avenue from
Captain A. E. Lathrop.
W. R. Maillard, a mining man from
Valdez, arrived in town on yesterday’s,
boat.
M. Swanson and Mrs. Prescilla
Swanson and son went to Kodiak on
the Watson.
James Hyland returned this morn
ing to Abercrombie canyon, having
spent Sunday in town.
J. B. O’Neill, manger of the Mc
Carthy Mercantile Company, arrived
in town Saturday afternoon on a short
business trip.
Glenn Carrington arrived from the
westward yesterday afternoon and re
ports that business conditions there
are very good.
United States Commissioner Ralph
V. Anderson of Seldovia ha3 resigned
his position. His successor has not
yet been named.
The launch Swan came over from
Katalla yesterday, towing a scow load
of gasoline from the plant of the Chil
kat Oil Company.
Mrs. B. V. High, of Seward, is a
passenger aboard the Northwestern
for Seattle and expects to visit rela
tives in North Carolina.
George A. Harmon has had the creo
soated piling driven for his new
machinery building, which he will at
once erect at the ocean dock.
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Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Stannard and
Mr. and Mrs. Caleb Corser left on
today's boat for Seattle, where they
will remain a couple of weeks.
The following round trippers are
aboard the Admiral Watson: Miss
May Ashby, Miss Mabel Howland,
Miss Grace Quindley, Miss Marguerite
Hussman, Miss F. Howland, R. B
Teefy, F. D. Winkley, Mrs. F. D.
Winkley, J. Ray Moore, Mrs. J. Ray
Moore, Max Friend, Mrs. Max Friend,
M. E. Hbrnleln, Mrs. Max Hornleln,
H. A. Hornlein, Mrs. H. A. Hornleln.
Miss Ruby DeGraff left this morn
ing for Anchorage, where she will re
main several weeks looking after
Captain Lathrop’s interests over
there.
Professor C. C. Georgeson, of Sitka,
who Is at the head of the agricultural
experimenting stations in Alaska, is
a passenger aboard the Watson for
Kodiak.
Mrs. T. A. Hoxby, wife of Dr.
Hoxby, who is in charge of the Ken
necott Copper Company’s hospital at
Latouche, was a Cordova visitor on
'her way to the States.
Attorney T. J. Donohoe has award
ed the contract’for the building of a
new home on Fourth street to Bartley
Howard, who has a force of men at
work excavating for the foundation.
Miss Una Korth, stenographer in
the Bank of Anchorage, visited with
Cordova friends this morning while
the Watson was in port. She is re
turning home from a trip to the
States.
Malcolm Brock has purchased the
home he occupies from the S. Blum
estate, and contemplates making a
number of improvements to the prop
erty, including the installation of a
new heating plant.
Miss J. Shorr, stenographer in the
office of E. P. Clark, assistant freight
and general passenger agent of the
Alaska Steamship Company, at Seat
tle, is a round tripper on £he North
western.
F. S. Gordon, a Fairbanks business
man, returned yesterday from Valdez
and left for his home on this morn
ing’s train. He had intended going
over the trail from Valdez in an auto
mobile but was compelled to abandon
the trip on account of the deep snow
over the summit.
The steamer Admiral Watson ar
rived from Seattle at 6 o’clock this
morning with the following passen
gers for Cordova: O. E. Bowers, E. W.
Tillman, Alan M Bateman, Professor
Rollin T. Chamberlain, Professor Ben
Heyberg, Thomas Larson and three
third cabin passengers.
Miss Rilda Ferguson, principal of
the Pocatello, Idaho, public school,
and Miss Maud Turman, principal of
the Idaho Falls public school, are
round trip passengers on the steamer
Northwestern and were pleasantly en
tertained here while the boat waa in
port.
. W. A. Hesse returned yesterday
afternoon from a business trip to the
Granby mine, near Valdez.
Major General John F. Morrison,
head of the western department, U.
S. A., will arrive in Valdez on the
steamship Alaska, for the purpose of
inspecting conditions here first hand.
General Morrison is an old campaign
er, having served in Cuba and the
Philippines and is one of the best
posted men on Alaska at the head of
the army.
Ed. Sanders, the Valdez miner, ar
rived on the steamship Northwestern
from Kennecott, where he has been
working for some time. Before com
ing up to Valdez Mr. Sanders visited
the coal fields at Bering river and re
ports considerable work being done
a that point. He says wages have
been raised recently at Kennecott
and a lot of new men employed.—Val
dez Miner. ,.
Major Shillerstrom, inspector gen
era af the western department of the
army, was in town yesterday and left
on this morning’s train for the in
terior. Major Shillerstrom is making
a tour of the forts and places where
soldiers are now stationed preparing
for the transfer of the men now in
Alaska and for more troops to be sent
north within the next couple of
months. He is accompanied on his
trip by M -J. Hughes, aide clerk.
A1 I. Smith, who filmed Miles
glacier two years ago and also took
several situations in the Copper river
valley for an Alaska movie picture, is
a passenger on the Watson for Kodiak
where he will stage a screen play.
The members of the company who are
with him include F. M. Roessler, Mrs.
F. M. Roessler, Miss Dixie Dawson,
A1 I Smith, E. E. Gittens, Mrs. George
A Learn, Miss Goldie Learn, Mrs.
Thomas H. Morton, Thomas H. Mor
ton, Miss Agnes Stewart.
Nazimova, the great star of the
Metro pictures, “Revelation,” which
will be presented at the Empress thea
tre tonight, shows her ability as an
artistic interpreter of classic dancing
in this photodrama. Dressed as a
bacchante, a priestess of Bacchus, god
of wine and revelry, with leaves in
her hair, a garland of grapes across
her shoulders, with a goblet in one
hand, and a cluster of grapes in the
other, she performs “La Danse Bac
chanal,” typifying the exhuberant
spirit of revelry of a Parisian cafe.
The great Nazimova executed
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dance with true artistry and poetry of p
motion- in graceful movements which
were ideal for registration by the mo
tion picture camera. On the screen,
this dance is a revelation in accurate
presentation of dance movements in
motion pictures.
It is none to early to begin the work
of decorating the town for the big
week-end celebration.
Alan Bateman, geologist and min
ing expert, arrived on the Admiral
V/ason and will leave on a launch for
Katalla, to examine the oil and coal
fields.
The indications are that a large
number of people will come to Cor
dova to help celebrate the Fourth,
many of whom will remain in town
over Sunday.
A1 girls, between the ages of 16 and
21 years, are requested to meet at the
Red Dragon tonight to complete ar
rangements for participating in the
Fourth of July celebration.
Angus McDougall left on this morn
ing’s train for Strelna, where he will
spend the summer looking after min
ing properties in which he is inter
ested. On the War Eagle group, Kus
kulana river, two diamond drills will
be operated. The Mt. Wrangle Cop
per Company is the name of a new
corporation Mr. McDougall organized
and which is being financed by Cali
fornians. They own the Mineral King
and Broken Leg groups of claims and
development work will start upon
these properties as soon as supples
are delivered on the ground.
The steamer Northwestern sailed
for Seattle late this afternoon with
a full cargd ot freight from here, in
cluding one thousand tons of copper
and 80,000 cases Cf salmon. The out
going paaengers were: Isaac Brown,
C. C. Hall and wife, F.,Turner, J. E.
Jacksqp. E. T. Stannard and wife,
Mrs. L. A. George, J. B. Bell, Thomas
Bevi« and wife, Caleb Corner and
WifetfF. Danielson, J. J. Hurley, Mrs.
Eva*Owens for Seattle; D. Beaton, J.
E. Coffee, Ketchikan; B. L. Gruber
and wife, Angel Rlese, Maud Plem*
mine, Juneau.
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Cordova drug store. Soarboi&ugh, pho
tographer. , 14-tt
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