The Cordova Daily Times
GREATER CORDOVA'S GREATEST NEW8PAPER
ASSOCIATED PRESS TELEGRAPHIC REPORTS.
H. G. STEEL. C. H. WILCOX, C. H. SCHEFFLER, Publishers
H. G. STEEL, Editor and Manager
C. H. WILCOX, City Editor.
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Entered at the Postoflice at Cordova, Alaska, as second-class matter.
CORDOVA, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, l«>15.
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I ALASKA MERCHANTS SHOULD FURNISH
SUPPLIES FOR GOVERNMENT RAILROAD
HE report that the government will call for bids for sup
plies needed in the construction of its Alaska railroads
from Seattle, Tacoma, Portland and San Francisco
prompts the Juneau Dispatch to inquiry: Why not also in Se
ward, Valdez, Cordova, .Juneau, Fairbanks, and other Alaskan
towns? Alaskan merchants at least should be given a chance
to bid. In these several towns there are mercantile houses
which do business on a large scale, which, on short notice, can
outfit even a government railway project. Perhaps'they might
not be able to land all of the contracts, and it may be that they
will secure none of the contracts, but certainly no harm can re
sult in giving them the same opportunity as outside merchants.
Even recognition by the government that there are firms in
Alaska capable of bidding will more tliouroughly impress on
people outside of the commercial importance of Alaska. More
over, the Alaska merchants are better acquainted with the ex
isting conditions in Alaska; they know how to pack good's so
that they will reach their detination in good shape, and they are
close to the source where they can more quickly supply goods
for emergency and other orders.
Still another consideration is contained in tin* fact that Al
aska should impress upon the people outside that it s no longer
simply a side issue of Seattle or any other Pacific coast trading
center, but is a territory ambitious t ostand upon its own
foundation, to become' self-supporting as rapidly as possible',
and' thoroughly able* to conduct its own affairs as an equal,
not subservient, to any outside influence.
This is a subject the commercial organizations coulel well
take' up and agitate. Ne> doubt a simple; mpiest to Secretary
Lane* will give the Alaska merchants a chance* te> bid on all gov
ernment supplies.
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Turkey seems to be Greccing the ways fo further difficul
ties.
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The birth of George Washington, the father of Our Coun
try, is being appropriately observed today, not only in Cordova,
but throughout the United States.
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A Palo Alto tailor fasted GO days to cure indegestions.
Tailored stomachs will become more and more the mode as the
price of wheat and other foodstuffs go up.
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.y,-•,-! his epuntry is all right, and so are its pepole. The people
% Way need a little “fixing” in spots, but on the whole they are
above the average.—Fairbanks News-Miner.
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The German press is getting even with that section of the
American press which has been lampooning the kaiser. It is
possible that the controversy may strike a dangerous spark.
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A big Pittsburgh steel company has refused to take a con
tract for $450,000 worth of war materials for the allies. Here’s
a corporation that has either a heart or German ownership or
both. 1 ’
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The senate has talked itself out, and lulled the shipping bill
into the calm reaches of innoeus desuetude for the time being.
The battle is to be shifted to the house, where there awaits
another battery of orators with ammunition enough- the antis
think, to last until March 4.
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ix siring Diood tor a dying man in Los Angeles $75 a pint
was offered. That seems high in view of the spill of gore in
Europe* but after all it is costing more than that there. It was
announced by Chancellor Lloyd George recently that the allies
were figuring on an expenditure of $10,000,000,000 for this year.
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Dr. Umphrey, assistant professor of Spanish in the Univer
sity of \\ ashington, thinks Zapata is the man most likelv to
come to the top of the Mexican muddle. He pictures this man
as a real military leader, and with marks of genuine patroitism
-—a virture the existence of which in Mexico most of us have
begun to doubt.
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It is said that the Indians at Haines, have refused to go to
church because their dance hall has been taken from them and
they are deprived of the pleasures which tliev have been findim
in the tango and' other modern dances. The very old question
whether men and women can dance their way to the pearly
gates here assumes a new angle.
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The Missouri anti-trust law has just been used to fine five
beef packing firms $25,000 each* or $125,000 in all, to which en
ormous attorney’s fees, court costs, etc, must be added Who
m reality pays these bills? We, Us & Co, the everlasting goat
the ultimate gazabo. Some day we shall learn how to handU
these big concerns without picking our own pockets.
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T he American Medical association looked squarely into the
mirror while meeting in Chicago, and annunced after an in
spection of the reflection that the testimony of insanity experts
had passed from ‘‘a joke to a scandal.” Few things have in
jured a great profession so much as the squabbling of alienists
in the courts for a price. And few influences have resulted in
so many serious mis carriages of justice.
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In its inquiry into the cost of dying the San Francisco La
X't council finds prices have increased UK) per cent in 10 years
erlmps it’s the same old story of the effect of the automobile
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in so many phases of living. Passing out on rubber tires, with
a handsome procession of limousines trailing, is the modern
way, and it appeals to tin* funereal emotions. Undertakers
can t run $4,000 hearses merely for the fun of hearing tin* pis
tons purr.
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Let those who desire believe to their heart’s content in
Kodeshanity, the principle of which is that we are living in a
hallow sphere, something like a double-tailed gold fish in a
globe. What matters it if centuries of scientific investigation
tell another story? There are many who still believe the world
is fiat, that peanuts should be planted in the dark of the moon
an dtliat a dried potato carried in the pocket w ill dispel rhea
matism.
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Some of the Republican newspapers and speakers are hav
ing much pleasure with President Wilson’s recent speech before
the American Electrical Railway association, in which Ik* said
that “enterprise has been checked in this country for almost 20
years.’’ Let’s see, that period would carry us back to 1895.
It is curious, though perhaps irrevelant to the question, that
the star of William Jennings Bryan was just then visible on the
Nebraska horizon.
DR. W. W. COUNCIL
Physician and Surgeon
Office at Company Hospital
Hours—10 to 12; 1 to 6 p. m.
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug 8tore.
Calls may be left at Cordova
Drug Store. Residence,
Rainier-Grand Hotel
DR. C. L. HALE
dentist
Office In Adams Building
ROBERT E CAPERS
Attorney at Law
General Civil Practice
Suite 3, Adams Block
CORDOVA, .... ALASKA
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Councellor at t aw
Room 1
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA.
v. A. SCHMITZ
PRACTICAL OPTICIAN
Office at
CORNER DRUG STORE
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J. F. R. APPLEBY
CIVIL ENGINEER
Phone 4. CORDOVA, ALASKA
THE ARCTIC
LUMBER CO.
Still In Business and Carry
LUMBER OF ALL
descriptions
And Building Material
Price# Made on Order# for
Material
IRE MODERN EIUNQRK
Phone 66
FANCY FLANNELS AND
STARCH WORK OUR
SPECIALTY j
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HOUSEBUILDERS
attention
We make a specialty of Wall
papering, Kalaomlning, Painting,
Tinting and Sign Painting
Compare Our Prlcea With Corn
Competitors Before
Ordering
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Hegg Bldg. c street
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Restaurant
Private Boxes
For
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Parties
CLOTHES
CLEANED AND PRESSED
All Work Given Prompt
Attention
CHARLES GAME
If your shoes need Repairing,
bring then to
RUDOLF
The Shoemaker
He does flratclass work. Satis
faction guaranteed. Prices Rea
sonable.
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The MECCA
Thompson & Murphy, Props
Dealers in
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CIGARS
Phone 107.
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ALASKA
\ " STEAMSHIP CO.
Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketch
ikan, Wrangell, Juneau, 8kagway, Cordova, Valdez and Seward via
INSIDE PASSAGE.
Sails frcm Seattle— Sails from Cordova—
February 16.ALAMEDA.February 23
"February 24.MARIPOSA.March 2
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas. Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez ard Latouehe. Expios
ives, S. S. Seward. 8. S. Seward, 5th; S. 8. I stouche, 15th; S. S.
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 be received at the dock later than one hour before
sailing time.
F B. TRACY, T. J. TALLENT,
General Agent Ticket Agent
Pacific-Alaska Navigation Co.
ALASKA PACIFIC S. S. CO. ALASKA COAST CO.
PUGET SOUND ALASKA ROUTE
Next sailing from Seattle will be
ADMIRAL EVANS, February 15
ADMIRAL WATSON, February 25
Via the INSIDE PASSAGE 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 Scuthern California Ports.
Schedule subject to change without Notics.
ALASKA IRANSFER CO., Local Agents
Travel East
OVER THE
“MILWAUKEE”
The Newest and Shortest Line to the East
Crossing the Cascade Mountains, the Kittitas Valley, the Colum- i
Dia River, the Hitter Root Mountains and Montana Canyon, trav
ersing a country of surpassing scenic grandeur, historical interest
and wonderful development.
TWO FAST THROUGH TRAINS DAILY
“The Olympian” and “The Columbian”
The NEW ALL-STEEL TRAINS to
IJtTTTK. MILES CITY. SIOCX CITY,
MINNEAPOLIS, ST. PAUL, MILWAUKEE aud CHICAGO
£n onr,or»dd[eTJUati0n reearJinK fares- train >erv!ce. reservations, etc.,
City Ticket Offices, Alaska Steamship Co. or Alaska Coast S. S. Co. i
Cordova, Alaska,
City Ticket Offices, Chicago, Milwaukee Sc St. Paul Railway i
443 Hastings St. West, Vancouver, H C. j j
OR
Second Ave. and Cherry St., Seattle
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I Northwestern Ry.
:: EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 24, 1914. ! I
;; Trains leave Cordova, depot at foot of Second Ave- \ '•
•> nue— ;;
:: Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays :.
;; Chitina for Kennecott— ;;
;; Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays I!
;; Kennecott for Chitina— ' : I
:: Wednesdays, Saturdays and Mondays. ::
!; Chitina for Cordova— 1 !
Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays ;;
,, 1 lie above schedule subject to change without notice. ; j.
! Freight received from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. ;;
; rickets on sale at Depot or up town office, Alaska <’
;; Nteamslnp Company building ;;
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| Caleb Corser S. R. Hedges
';.. Superintendent Cordova Agent -
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Cordova Power
Company
LIGHTS, WATER, PHONES
AND POWER
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Office: FIRST STREET.