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H. G. STEEL, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
CORDOVA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY i::. l!»in.
PETITION ATTRACTS ATTENTION.
d’hat the petition from the Cordova Chamber of Commerce
to President Wilson is attracting attention of the people on the
outside to the injustice which is being dom- this city by the fail
ure of the Alaskan engineering commission to build the short
line of railroad from Cordova to the Bering coal fields, is evi
dent from the press comments of influential papers.
The lengthy editorial from the New York d imes, printed
in yesterday’s Cordova d'imes, has proven of invaluable service
to the friends of the petition now at Washington.
Such support cannot be purchased. It is given only to
projects which are deserving, but when it is proffered, it is
given without reserve.
In order that the readers of the Times may become more
familiar with the petition sent from the local Chamber, this
, paper, beginning Monday, will each day print an installment
of the document. A careful perusal will prove both interesting
. rid educational to many persons in Alaska who do not realize
xlm harm which is now being don<y his city.
U. S. TROOPS TO SUPPRESS STRIKERS.
A dispatch from Fort l.iscum, Alaska, stated tliat a portion
of the Fourteenth S. infantry had been ordered to Anchorage
for patrol duly in connection with the strike of laborers em
ployed in tin1 construct ion of the government railroad. At the
same moment if was announced from the east that some .‘>00,
000 men were about to tie up railroads, factories and practically
ev< ry industry of this country b\ starting a strike for unheard
of wages covering the work of engine and train men on rail
road. in this country. There is an illustration. A punitive
strike on the government road in Alaska, very largely created
by press agents, calls for the immediate movement of troops,
ii.; should the entire United States army or any portion of it
railed to nr serve order in the industrial war tliat wiil be
< ; ■ ned if tin* .‘100,000 railroad men carry out their threat, it
w 11 lcl be followed by howls from the demagogue, oratory in
congress, denunciation by the Socialists and finally a complete
laying down on the part of the government, latter, official de
nials were made.-Railway and Marine News,
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JOBLESS MEN AND THE MANLESS JOB.
Two measures of interest to labor and employers, and to
students of the problem of getting the worker to work at the
right time, are pending in congress. One of them, by Senator
Kern, provides for the regulation of all private employment
agencies doing an interstate commerce, and the other, by Sen
ator Newlands, proposes to authorize the interstate commerce
commission to permit railroads to give reduced fares for carry
ing men where employment awaits them. The Newlands meas
ure would be of great value in the wheat and corn belts of the
middle west, as well as in fruit districts.
The United States department of labor is well pleased with
its experimental work in conducting employment agencies, and
particularly with tin* state of Washington. Commissioner of
Immigration Caminetti points to the eight cities in which the
government employment service is organized—Tacoma, Spo
kane, Seattle, Aberdeen, Bellingham, Everett, North Yakima
and Walla Walla—and'says that in April this state led all the
others in procuring places for the unemployed.
“We feel proud of our achievements in Washington
state,” says the commissioner. “The success achieved there is
attributed to co-operation with state and local officials.”
The national service is now operated through eighteen
employment zones and it is the intention of the department to
establish one zone for each state, with a director in charge, he
to have his headquarters in the state capitol building where
possible. It is the belief that such a system would bring the
service into closer co-operation with state officials and with
private employment agencies.
The new plan will arid'considerable to the cost, but it is tin*
opinion of the commissioner that the better co-operation and
closer surveillance will, as a matter of fact, save money, after
the new plan is working well. It is a government function
with which practically everybody sympathizes, and if it cant
be conducted so as to bring the manless job and the jobless man
together the taxpayers will not worry about a little added ex
pense.—Tacoma News.
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Paradoxical as it may seem, the government’s determina
tion to make the forest reserves, as well as the national parks,
dry, is apt to help in forest fire prevention.
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The signers of the Irish declaration of independence met
the fate that Franklin had in mind when he said: “If we don’t
hang together we will hang separately.”
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Headquarters for Chamberlain’s Auto Service
CHITINA - - - ALASKA
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Hot and Cold Water in Every Room
With or Without Bath.
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Headquarters for Railroad and Mining Men
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DR. W. H CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
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Office over Cordova Drug Store, j
Calls may be left at Cordova
Drug Store. Residence,
Alaskan Hotel
DR. C. L. HALE
DENTIST
Office In Adams Building
ASA C. BALDWIN
Civil Engineer
Patent Surveys
Address: Valdez, Alaska
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Counsellor at Law
Room 1
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA.
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Prescriptions Carefully Compounded.
We are the authorized agents for the U. S. Coast
• and Geodetic Survey Charts and Tide Tables.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO. v
Past and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketch* ■
Ikan, Wrangell, Juneau. Skagway, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, and
ANCHORAGE, via INSIDE PASSAGE.
fcniils from Seattle. Sails from Cordova.
May 5.NORTHWESTERN.May 12
May 5.MARIPOSA.May 16
May 11 .ALASKA May 21
Regular freight service for Ketcnikan, Juneau, 8heep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez ard Latouche. Explos
ives, S. S. Seward. 8. S. Seward, 5th; 8. 8. Latouche, 15th; 8. 8.
Cordova. 25th of each month.
This company reserves the right to change schedule of steamers
without notice.
Tickets on sale at up-town office Alaska Steamship Bldg. Baggage
. or freight will not bo received at the dock later than one hour before I
sailing time.
F. B. TRACY, T. J. TALLENT, 1
I General Agent Agent j
Pacific-Alaska Navigation Co.
ALASKA PACIFIC S. S. CO. ALASKA COAST CO. •»
PUGET SOUND--ALASKA ROUTE
Next sailing from Seattle will be
ADMIRAL WATSON . May 14
ADMIRAL EVANS . May 21
ADMIRAL FARRAGUT . May 28
Via the INSIDE PASSAG^ for Ketchikan, Juneau, Yakutat,
Katalla, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Cook Inlet points and Kodiak
Island.
Seattle-San Francisco connecting with steamers Yale and Har
vard for Southern California Ports.
Schedule subject to change without Notice.
ALASKA TRANSFER CO., Local Aeents
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EFFECTIVE MAY 1, 1916.
Three Trains Weekly Between Cordova and Chitina. g
Four Trains Weekly Between Chitina and Kennecott. g
Leave Cordova, Second Street Depot, on Mondays, Thurs- ii
days and Saturdays. I
Leave Chitina for Cordova Sundays, Tuesdays and g
Fridays.
Leave Chitina for Kennecott Sundays, Tuesdays, Thurs- g
days and Fridays. fi
Leave Kennecott for Chitina Mondays, Wednesdays, g
Thursdays and Saturdays.
The above schedule subject to change without notice, g
Dining Car in Connection With all Regular Peesenger Trains Sj g
tween Cordova and Chitina. W
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