SHELDON’S AUTOS
Four days from Chitina
to Fairbanks
Take the Automobile Line at Chitina for all
points on the Winter Trail.
Fare to Fairbanks $100
Steam Heated Centrally Located.
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OSTRANDER BLDG. CORDOVA, ALASKA
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AN OFFER FOR SIXTY DAYS ONLY.
575 Town Lots in Cordova.
I Ranging in price from $50 up to $3000, and 000
Town lots in Chitina from $50 to $10(X). Any
or all of them on easy terms.
Now is the time to buy.
For particulars—Call on or write to
GEO. C. HAZE LET, I
Cordova, Alaska. Trustee and Agent.
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THE HOTEL
CHITINA
ENLARGED AND COMPLETELY RENOVATED
SPACIOUS LOBBY .... STEAM HEATED
CAFE AND BAR
The Comfort Home of the Interior
T. W. CLONINGER ... A . ,
Proprietor Cnitina, Alsaka
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No, this isn’t an appeal for funds. It’s a sug
gestion to put in your “Jimmy Pipe’’ and smoke.
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COME ACROSS!
bo a little publicity work for your business and
Cordova. Carve your name in the Hall of Fame.
The Cordova Daily Times wants your advertising.
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AUSTRIAN CROWN PRINCE VISITS GERMANY.
Photo' by American Press Association.
Ar.-h.lnke Charles Frftcla Joseph (In uniform In center) while In Germany conferred with Kaiser Wilhelm.
DLD-T1ER TELLS
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Ernest Davies, an old-timer in the
Yukon, who joined the stampede to
Chisana two years ago, later went to
Prince Rupert, and here joined the
contingent for the front, sends the fol
lowing interesting letter from Lon
don:
“I was one of 500 picked out to go
to France to reinforce the Princess
Patricia regiment, now on the firing
Rne. We got orders to put into
Liverpool. Three submarines were
after us. They sank three ships the
night we got in, but we traveled with
all our lights out and got through.
When we got to Salisbury they had
sent a draft in our place, so they sent
us to the Canadian Scottish. I re
ceived twentyfour hours leave, as I
was to go out with the Highlanders
to France. Two hours before we left
an order came from the war office ro
send us back to the Pats. When we
got to Tidworth we were ordered back
to the Sixteenth, but the regiment had
left, so we will go out as reinforce
ments, as they need us. By the time
you get this letter I shall have Joined
the big stampede to Berlin, and, be
lieve me, when the sledding gets good
in the spring we will surely get there.
It is wonderful to see the army Kitch
ener has gotten together. When it
gets to Frnnce it will be the best ar
my that ever went to battle,
"You would not know there was a
war at all here excepting that nearly
everyone is a soldier. My dad has
joined. He Is on home defense.
When he heard I was going straight
to France he went to headquarters and
volunteered for active service, but
they would not take him as he is too j
old. My brother is coming to see mo!
Saturday. He is leaving for the
front soon. There are eleven men in
our family altogether, and ten of us
are serving. Nearly all are married,
too. That's not bad, eh? It is j
quite a change soldiering after being
so long in the North. We can Iook
up and see flying machines flying a
bout all day here—sometimes a doz
en at a time.”
FREIGHTS 12 TONS
CHITINA TO FAIRBANKS
William Terrill, the big trail
freighter, reached Fairbanks this
noon from Chitina with twelve horses
hauling twelve tons of freight from
the coast He left Chitina the morn
ing of March 18, so that he has been
a little over two weeks on the trail,
and is fortunate to have made such
good time with the roads in the con
dition they are at present.
Heaving Chitina they had fine sleigh
ing and experienced no difficulty In
making good time until they reached
Dry Creek. There they ran into
bare roads and the "doubling up” pro
cess began. Never a hill did they
come to without doubling their teams
and it is recorded that on the flat be
tween Martin's on the Tanana river
and the Overland roadhouse that they
used as high as ten horses on one of
the big loads. At this rate their
progress was slow. Jack Heath,
who came through with Terrill, thinks
he is the best freighter on earth as
he conquered some pretty tough ob^
stacles In getting through. Many
believed that he could not make It i
nt all under prevailing road condl-;
tlons.—Fairbanks News-Miner.
CENSORS' DUTIES
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VIENNA, April 15—Forty thousand
letters, in more than forty languages
and dialects, to be read daily; secret
messages written in cipher with in
visible inks to be discovered and puz
zled out; all manners of questions
from distracted parents about the
whereabouts of their sons to be an
swered; thousands of complaints from
Austrians regarding their treatment
in foreign detention camps and pris
ons to be investigated.
These are some of the duties of the
censors—between 200 and 300 of them
—who form the personnel of the cen
sorship bureau of the Austrian em
pire, which is located in the war min
istry, and which has been dubbed j
"The Organized Babel.” Both in-1
coming and outgoing letters have toj
be scrutinized carefully, and the vari- j
ety of dialects in the empire, In ad
dition to the large number of tongues
spoken by the Austrian prisoners, 1
make it necessary to keep the larges
bureau in Europe.
The staff Includes more than 200
voluntary workers, who are divided
inio groups accoruing to their famil
iarity with Russian, Czech, German,
Slavic, Serbian, Croatian, Italian, Hu
manina, Huthenian, Polish French and
English languages and dialects. The
Russian censors are divided in turn
into groups who know the Esthenlan,
Finnish, Lettish, Armenian, Persian,
Turkish, Tartar and Hebrew tongues.
The Russian prisoners even receive
letters in Bessarabic and Sanskrit.
At the head of each group is a
responsible official, before whom must
be laid each suspicious letter, and each
letter containing useful information.
He, in turn, makes monthly reports
to the chief censor, and the latter re
ports to the minister of war.
More or less innocent attempts to
deceive the censor, especially in noti
fying friends and relatives of their
exact location and condition, are
made repeatedly, particularly by the
Russians. Ninety per cent of such
efforts originate among Russian pris
oners, who appear from earlier exper
iences in their own country to be
familiar with ways and means of
sending out secrets, and who think
tHat even innocent information must
he sent this way.
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STYLBPLUS Clothes, *17.00 the
suit, at S. Blum & Co’s.
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LAWRENCE BARRETT a mild
Havana smoke at all dealers.
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If you are looking for a nice cool
smoke wliy not try a BARRETT.
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The best meals In town served at
the Windsor grill.
HOW THE STORY
OHTSIOE
You never know from where you
sit just how your picture is going to
look after the photographer finishes
with you, but those outside pen por
trait-makers can take an Alaskan and
retouch him until the folks at home
wouldn't know him if they met him
on the street Also, at times, the
Alaskan is inclined to take a shade
the best of it when he gets out where
the grazing is good and the sympa
thy bottle is open to all pilgrims and
strangers, and sometimes he forgets
or wats not that the least of them can
not get their names into the smallest
weekly paper on the outside but that
a press clipping bureau will cut that
story out and mail it to the paper
back home—that's what happened to
I’eter Steil, of Fairbanks.
Peter decided to go Outside, and as
it is, in more ways than one, easier
to walk to Ohitina than it is to dig up
the fare and sit in a stage over tne
trail, he walked to Chltlna. Arriv
ing at Los Angeles with a gunnysack
full of hardrock, he conceived the idea
that a little free advertising wouldn’t
hurt any quartz promoting he might ■
desire to do in the future, so he had
himself interviewed by the Los An
geles Express, and this !b the way the
story reads. We wouldn’t add a
line to it for fear of spoiling it:
Out of Alaska
Peter Steil, aged 65, who has spent
a number of years in Alaska, has re
turned to his home, having "mushed
mil " nf Ihn fne nnirflinm,
“Mushed out” of the Alaska interior
means that Mr. Steil walked the entire
distance of 312 miles from the Fair
banks quartz belt to Chitina, which is
on the seaboard. The feat is re
garded as remarkable, especially when
it is considered that it was performed
by a man 65 years of ago. His long
tramp required 14 days, of which
three and one-half days were spent
in crossing the mountains, showing
that lie averaged more than 22 miles
n day. He visited many of the im
portant towns on his way home, lie
brought with him many samples of
told and silver bearing minerals, which
it is his Intention to present at the
mineral collection museum at Expo
sition Park, Los Angeles. One of
the richest minerals he has assays
at $8,000 a ton. He reports that 13 ■
mills are operating in the Fairbanks
quartz belt now and that the outlook
is quite encouraging for the companies
interested there.
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Must Be Fully Equipped
Collector of Customs Pugh says
that all motor boats plying on Cook
inlet "must be fully equipped and car
ry licensed operators." He will visit
inlet points in May.
LOVEHA’S now made In bond bet
ter than ever—THY ONE.
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you are supporting a Cordova enter
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Great shoe bargains. See our
special sale of shoes at $3.50. S. Blum
& Co.
The northern hike insurance company b««
again to report a successful year, with marked gains
In every direction.
The assets were Increased One hundred and Thirty-five
Thousand Dollars! the resrve for the protection of Policy
holders. One Hundred and Sixteen Thousand Dollars.
Accident and Sickness Claims of $28,478.00 were paid,
and Death Claims of $33,463.00.
No death Claim has ever been disputed
All claims are paid immeditely on receipt of proofs.
Total paid to policyholders in 1914 was $116,209.26.
The Company’s yearly Income was increased to $416.
605.00.
After paying dividends of eight per cent, to stockholders
and dividends of $32,661.24 to policyholders—
I he nPt surplus of the Company was Increased more
than seventeen per cent, over the preceeding year.
r RUE you need Life Insurance for the benefit of the
I wife and children, hut you want insurance for more
than that alone.
Suppose you should get sick, or by accident you had
your hand mangled or your limbs crushed, or any of the
thousand and one mishaps which are liable to take place
—where does an old fashioned Ufe Insurance policy avail.
I he Insurance for you and for evertaxly Is the kind
that fully insures by combining all of these features.
in 1 is the answer
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one premium.
Write or phone now for full information.
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. 1 A. E. RANSOM
Div. Supt. for Alaska
. A. J. Adams, Local Represen
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