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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28. 1018
FREE HOMESTEAD SURVEYS
The free survey of homesteads '
where subdivisions! township surveys j
i \* not been extended over the land I
embraced within the entries is au
thorized by H. It. No. 856:!. The bill
has passed both houses of congress
• mil is now a law.
The act provides that ontrymen
i iv. alter dm- compliance with the |
f< .ms of tie* homestead law in the
n.after of residence, cultivation and
proveinents, submit to tin* register!
. ml receiver of the local land office |
• idetice as to mi eh compliance, duly]
t meliorated by two witnesses, and
r if appears that the homesteader is
■ position to make final proof, the
surveyor general of the territory will.
n* prper instructions for the sur
m y o: the land so entered, without I
• vpense to the entryman. who may
t T : * a! ter 'ilnni* !;ua! proof a. in
mil ii entries of surveyed lands.
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V/HAT A BELIEF!
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S ) we are not to see the "Weekly
War News Digest" any more! What
e in have happened at Washington to
• mve (ieorge Creel to abruptly sus-i
rend publication of his pet organ?1
re fund short, or print paper scarce,
ei is i: just barely possible that the*
tiepera! Staff isn't taking tin* Censor
i Chief into it- confidence any long
er? At any rate. Creel’s weekly
"stories of activities and conditions
throughout the 1'nitcd States and on'
the I file trouts." as lie was pleased
' sty • the stulf. are to be no longer
‘i t! !'ii:i and now in company j
with ir ! tiilei editors we will be'
oblige to look *1 sew here for ourj
Soiiej ,i . r news.
M* ii ; a . . .ie< lirious to b arn
ji a 1 !i lie* ii.ae of t 'reel i las j
i i,« \ i:: i 1; i' i*»M tin illy got his
rig’ll n eu** and decid'd to put the
(piictu; n him? It would seem so,
» I » ia in view o, the fact that
<*i i sva dispatch**- are coming to us
Mi. ight Hem the front these days.
A1 a ' i 1 ei claries o! war and the
innts mw. and General March isi
m.king a busim* s <»i meeting tin* I
i • w sji.. ,j*t men im-ry <la> or two and |
giving them the war new.-* hot off tin*
griddle Whether t'reel is permitted
to attend tie <• 1 i111 < onlidentiaT c hats
wi do not know, nor does anybody
I artieul.iidy car*-, hut it is a genuine
i 'diet' t•. get up to tie- minute int'or
'; ition tie • days, and from a reliable
source, at that. Perhaps the censor
in chief is simply taking a summer
\ leaf ion.
THE LITTLE CORPORAL.
During the discussion the other day
with a close student of modern war
fare, this question was projected:
"V,'» re tin* great Napoleon alive to
day. on which side* would he he found
and what would le* he likely to accom
plish ?”
The question invites all sorts of
fanciful speculations, yet it is only
.air to *ssume th.1t he would he light
ing for France and that hr* would he*
in high command. As to what he
might achieve, who can say?
H why speculate in this fashion?
Is i nejl sufficient to say that al
though the matchless Napoleon has
been in bis grave for almost a oen
nr . b indomitable spirit still lives I
in th h* irts of his wonderful country
men atnl inspires and sustains them <
in the struggle? \nd just as Amer
ica end ..ll her allies Lain moral ;
- pi: i ion and uhlaiica- t hroti di »I"
memory of Washington ami Lincoln,
so it may lie assumed that the mili
tary genius of the Incomparable
Freni liman and the recollection of
Ills marvelous exploits have made a
lasting impression on the great grand
sons of the splendid soldiers who
followed The Little Corporal and the
Fugles of France in the celebrated
campaigns of a century ago The
chances are that there are thousands
of men under the tricolors today in
whose homes are still preserved a
sword, a set of spurs, a medal, or
some other cherished souvenir that
saw service ill tile Napoleonic wars.
Moreover. It is no secret that the
French artillery is the finest on the
field today. Is tills due entirely to tile
ingenuity of their present day en
gineers, or can it he traced in part
to tin inspiring tradition that stret hes
all the way back to the days when
their master gunner lirst brought ar
tillery into full play and organized
and maneuvered his armies on the
theory that Cod was always on the
side of the heaviest guns?
Then, too. is it likely that the
grudge of a hundred years has been
altogether forgotten? Surely the glor
ious achievements of French arms at
Austerlitz and Jena and Wngram are
still fresh in the minds of the poilll,
and the memory of how the Old Cuard
once camped in Berlin must move
them to superhuman efforts against
their ancient foe. The spirit of The
Little Corporal still cheers them on
CANNOT STAND REVERSES.
Among men one meets these days
the belief is growing that the end of
the war is already in sight There is
a surprising number of level-headed
citizens who arc (irmly convinced in
their own minds that the peace confer
ence is not even as far distant as the
next holiday season. And they invar
iably base their belief on tin* assump
tion that the Herman is a fair-weather
lighter and that he hasn't the stam
ina to stand up under repeated re
\ ernes.
Such com lusions arc purely spec
ulative. of course, and derived from
the process of making tin* wish lather
to tin* thought, and yet they an* not
altogether fanciful Your average
'A-ni'nii is credulous as a child in
c« rtain respects, and thick headed to
hoot His naive mind has been much
like plastic clay in the hands of his
military masters. They moulded his
ideas in line with their own nefar
ious designs, hut they never over
looked the necessity of painting tho
future in the most glowing colors.
The miserable creature who was
forced to do their bidding was per
mitted to gaze upon the grandoise
scheme of world dominion only
through colored glasses, and under the
old order of things it was not given
him to reason for himself or inquire
into the practicability of the tremen
dous enterprise*. Hy skillfully man
ipulating the prism the y so managed
to distort his vision that ho could
i t* nothing hut rainbows in the sk>
So it was for forty years in the* Her
man empire, and so it has been during
he four long years of war. Nov.
that i In* blasts of unexpected adver
j slty have suddenly started to beat
| about him with unparalleled Ilerce
ness, it is only a matter of time until
■ the Hun will give up the ghost. Sure
| I) be lias a mind of his own lurking
j somewhere within the cavity of his
| hard-shell head, and when the con
sciousness of Ills own reasoning pow
ers finally flashes within him he is
j due to strike at his masters with a
| vengeance that will cause the whole
| civilized world to stand aghast Either
, this must come to pass, or else the
, Herman is shorn of every single at
I tribute of the human passions.
The time is at hand when the Hun
no longer dreams of world dominion,
j He now stands at bay before the ser
ried steel of an outraged world in
arms while pestilence and starvation
stalk across the fatherland. What
matters it that he has overrun other
lands and that he still camps on for
eign soil? He must realize that he
has spent his force and that his doom
is sealed. And as he contemplates
the futility of continuing the struggle
it is not unlikely that he will choose
mutiny and then surrender in prefer
ence to being chained to a gun and
siiot down like a dog. Hut when this
will happen, no man can foretell. And
yet to say that it w ill test the stamina
of the German private to light off the
enemy during the remainder of the
sunnimer and then be subjected to
the rigors or another winter in the
i tenches, cannot he classed us al
: together idle speculation. The peace
i we seek may be closer at hand than
the pessimists would have us believe.
Still we must not allow ourselves to
be deluded with false fancies; we
must press on with unabated vigor
until tile enemy is completely crushed
in spirit and in military strength.
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Stop at the
Hotel Golden
I WHEN IN
McCarthy
Alaska
The Cordova
Dining Room
Next Cordova House
Just a little bit better place than
any other to eat
Max Rosenberg, Prop.
A new thing
for a cigarette to do—
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also lx* able to handle a crew. Ohm
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WANTED — Cabin, furnished or un
furnished; rent or buy. Stale price
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WANTED—Girl for general house
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WANTED—A boy to learn laundry
business; inside work; chance to j
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SNAP—For sale cheap to right par
lies, one-half Interest in paying fox
farm; two men required to roniiurt
the business; must have six or;
seven hundred dollars cash to close j
the deal: must make sale bv lathi
of September. For more Informa
| tlon call at the Bargain Store, or
address P. O. Box ITtia. John Haw
son. L’7-fit
MAMMOTH Belgian hares for sale;
breeding stock and youngsters. J
F. Randall. Cordova 2n-»;t
FOR SALE—Sohmcs upright piano.
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Northorn Hotel Building, ;
Cordova.
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Office over Cordova Drug Store
Calls May be Left at Cordove
Drug Store. Residence,
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DE. W. W. COUNCIL
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office and Residence: Cordovs
General Uospltal (Ostrander Build
lng-.
Phones—Residence 116; office 11: j
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DENTIST
Office: Over Blum, O'Nelll'a Stcr<
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Office Open Evenings.
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Counsellor at Law
Room 1. k
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Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA
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FRANK H. FOSTER
Attorney at Law
Room 1 Alaskan Hote,
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\ >i' tlio t lav-il;> il ml nilmnii of tin*
Tirou< if you w.ml »• • nit *
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$193,000.00 RESOURCES
$140,000.00 DEPOSITS
Reserve, 40 per cent (double legal requirements)
The ('ordovn Branch ul'the Bank of Alaska opened one
year ago (August l!0, 1! M 7 ). A solid year of growth is re
fleeted in the figures given above. But the biggest gain
has been in the loyal friends and pat tons of the
Bank of Alaska
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Little
Americans
Do your bit
Eat Corn meal mush*
Oatmeal- Corn, flakes
Hominy and rice with
milk^.Eat no wheat cereals.
Leave nothing onyour plate.
|«N.T«D STATES TOOU *DMINItTUTlON
“Bevo” Is Here
It’s a drink that surely fills the bill.
Delivered to the trade or families in
large or small quantities
FRED HAEF, Distributor
Alaskan Grill
JAMES & DOUGLAS, Proprietors
“The Home of Quality and Attention"
The Popular Restaurant of Cordova. Everything First-Class
Special Attention Given to Parties
(>ue \ isit to the Alaska Grill Will Make You a
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Alaskan Hotel
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