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AND POWER
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A 60 Watt Lamps.50c.
v 100 Watt Lamps.75c
250 Watt Lamps.$2.00
200 Watt, Gas Filled Lamps.$3.00
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i;i In the New York World, some time
ji; back, there appeared an interview
& with W. F.' Thompson, of Fairbanks,
■< that is typical of the well known
newspaperman. Mr. Thompson was
in the mood when he gave this in
terview to the reporter Outside, and
the reporter got tlie mood just rfght.
i It is worth reprinting for that reason.
B The story follows:
“We have a dinky little narrow
gtiage railroad there, financially in
bankruptcy in a thousand ways, In- 1
efficiently equipped, and therefore run '
at an enormous extravagance: can't '
pay the interest on its bonds, and is 1
therefore getting worse all the time..'
Somebody made the supreme court 1
conclude that the railways in Alaska
came under the Interstate Commerce 1
Commission, and the clerks of the 1
| commission began to hand out orders 1
hv mail.
“Kvery railroad in Alaska had to 1
quit except the Guggenheim road, the
White 1’ass & Yukon and our little '
forty-five mile road. Our road could
* not quit, so long as they kept run- I
- ning they were on earth and had a '
chance—when they quit they were
I (lead.
“Finally, after the Interstate Com
merce Commission had piled up about
$100,000 fine and 2fi2 years in jail
for the president, the manager — a
very good carpenter, by the way
eatne crying to me. asking what be
should do. It was so funny I told
him to forget it and leave it to me.'
“Three weeks later Franklin K.
Lane, president of the interstate
Commerce Commission, received a lei
ter from me. which read:
" 'Dear Frank: When you and 1
used to work together on the old Ta
coma News, a generation and more
ago, you used to he a good fellow,
but today you are not, and ir you I
5 don't change your system something
. bad is apt to happen to you. For in
stance. you threaten to put our little
i line of railroad out of business unless
it hauls dynamite in ten ear lengths
from the engine. In the first place,
tlie blamed railroad hasn't got ten
cars, and in the second place it hasn’t
an engine that could haul ten cars if
it had them. The only way they can
comply with your demands is to hitch
a car of dynamite onto the engine with
^ a ten ear lengths rope. Do you rare
r to lie responsible for what happens
I to tlie engine and crew thereof when
jtlie train starts down hill?’
“I continued in the letter with the
I actual story of the construction of the
road, and three weeks later both the
railroad and myself received letters
from Lane, assuring us that the Tn-j
jterstnte Commerce Commission would i
make no more trouble with the road
-—and they have kept their word.
“For six months afterward, afterj
Lane became secretary of the inter-j
ior. I kept getting letters from dif-!!
fereiit members of the Interstate Com j *
meroe Commission explaining why
they had ‘mixed it’ with our railroad, | 1
niiH a rmlniri v inir
"Three months ago the commission 1
formally remitted the immense fines
against President Joslin. told him tie i 1
needn’t go to jail for more than 300
years, to which punishment he fell j
heir under the interstate rules—Con ;'
gross has passed a new law remitting'
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the tax of $100 a mile on all Alaska i
railways for all time to come — just |
because Lane and I’ used to work to-i’1
gether more than twenty years ago on 1
a little hand-set daily paper in the jS
state of Washington, and because he j1
t is a human man when you can get ^
j him to forget his official position.” js
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
CULL IS ISSUED j:
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Chairman J. A. Baxter lias issued a
call for the convention of the Demo- 1
crutlc party convention of Alaska, to
be held at Juneau, May 24. at 10 A
o’clock a. m., for the purpose of nom
N THE U. S. COMMISSIONER S
COURT FOR THE TERRITORY OF
ALASKA, THIRD DIVISION, AT
CORDOVA.
lefore Edward F. Medley. U. S. Com
missioner and ex-officio Probate
Judge.
a the matter of the estate of A. N.
Hayes, deceased.
lotlce of Hearino on Final Account.
In accordance with an order of the
hove named probate court, issued on
‘ebrtinry 12, 1916, notice is hereby
iven that the undersigned adminis
ator-of the above estate has filed his
nal account therein, and that the
■tid probate judge has set the 13th
ay of April. 1916. as the day for a
earing on said final account; on
■hlcli day. in the office of said pro
ate judge, in Cordova, Alaska, at 2
’clock in the afternoon, any person
iterested may appear and file objec
ons to said final account ami contest
le same.
Dated, Cordova. Alaska. February
2, 1916.
C. M. FRAZIER.
dinlnistrator of the Estate of A. Nj
Hayes, deceased.
noting a candidate for delegate to
'ongress front Alaska, to elect dele
gates to the national Democratic con
tention. to be held at St. Louis. June .
4. 1916. and to transact such other
tuslness as may properly come before ,
he convention. ,
rOUIIISTS Tn RETURN VIA
CORDOVA
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Manager A. K. Zipf. of the Ameri-}
■an Yukon Navigation Company, says
■very effort Is being made to stlmu
ate tourist travel to Alaska the com
tig summer, and gives out the follow
ng information:
“Regarding our publicity campaign^
or 1916: We are proposing and ad- I
•ertlsing two Midnight Sun excur- ■
dons to run from Seattle to Fort Yu
con and return early in June: we are
dso proposing to run one Relt Line
excursion front Seattle via Skagway,
lawson. Fairbanks, St. Michael. Nome,
inward, Valdez and Cordova in con
tection with the Victoria either in
dily or August, the exact date not set.
n addition to these excursions we in
end to maintain an active campaign
or tourist business to interior Alas
;n points, especially with reference to
lelt Line excursions, Seattle to Se
ttle. via Dawson, interior Alaska,
■.'otne, and direct to Seattle.”
JWNER FLEMING ISLAND
HAS EXPERIENCE
W. H. Fleming, owner of Fleming <
daiul. in Prince William sound, and
larry Jones, who played end on tlie ■
I'nshington Fniversity football team,
ecently narrowly escaped a frightful
euth near Knight's island, when Ilieir
oat drifted ashore and was wrecked.
July the Crusoe qualities of the voy
gers saved them. Mr. Fleming has
fox ranch on his island, and left the
ilaee with Mr. Jones with two blue
ox to exchange for foxes at the ranch
wned by Guy Whitehead and Pr.
lexbv. Three miles from Knight's
stand the engine broke down and a
rind sprang up. which took away their
inly sail. The boat drifted between
Jreen and Little Green islands, and
tri to the rocks of Montague island,
'hey lived on clams for a couple of
iays, until they succeeded in making
boat from scantlings with a jack
;nife and using a butcher knife. The
mils were secured by burning them
nit of drift lumber. The caulking
ras done with old sacks they had.
Vith this boat they reached Green is
and in an exhausted condition after
owing seven hours. In the meantime
liss Klla Fleming, becoming worried,
tarted out in a boat with her little
mother in search, and rowed twenty
ive miles to Latouche. from which
dace a party went out and found the
hipwrecked mariners. To round off
his story properly and give it the
lecessary touch of romance it need
mly be said that Mr. Jones and Miss
■'lorning are engaged to be married.
Cordova Pressmaking Parlors. Work
aiaranteed. Prices reasonable. Adams
uiilding.
NOTICE TO WATER CONSUMERS, f
During the day water will be shut
srcept between the hours of 6 and 8
i. m.
During the night the water will be
ihut off, excepting between the hours
>f 6 and 8 p. m.
Telephone service will be continued
luring the night while the water is
ihut off.
In ease of fire notify central at once
ind water will be turned on.
CORDOVA POWER CO.
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