THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
Entered at the Postoffice at Cordova,
Alaska, as second-class matter.
H. G. STEEL
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
FRIDAY, JULY 111, 1919
LURE OF ALASKA
Alaska is calling to many of the re
turning soldiers, both because the army
life has given them a desire to re
main in the open and because the far
Northwest offers chances for employ
ment with the glamor of suddenly
made fortunes that still attaches to
the prestige gained by Klondike,
Nome and Fairbanks’ palmy days.
Claim is made, probably with justifi
cation, that many districts of Alaska
remain to pour forth fortunes at the
bidding of the hardy prospector’s
labor.
Secretary Lane is said to have re
ceived thousands of letters from sol
diers regarding employment in Alaska,
especially on the railroad which the
government is building, and for the
completion of which he recently asked
congress to appropriate $13,500,000.
Many of the applicants see in the rail
road employment an opportunity to
“grubstake” themselves for months in
subsequent prospecting.
The department of the interior, in
answer to most of the inquiries, has
replied that the government does not
pay transportation to Alaska for rail
road employes and is following a pol
icy of employing labor already there
before encouraging or asking for labor
to be imported. Still the opportunity
for employment exists if a man goes
there and is capable and willing to
take his chances. It would be well for
those whose eyes have turned toward
Alaska to have in view other oppor
tunities and be prepared to safeguard
themselves against disappointment
through not receiving remunerative
employment on the railroad.
The government road, when com
pleted, will extend from Seward to
Fairbanks, an estimated 400 miles to
the northward. The road has been
completed from Seward to a distance
north of 230 miles and from Fairbanks
south for about forty-seven mies,
leaving only 123 miles of construc
tion work to be done. But a number
of branches are proposed, one of 38
miles to the Matanuska coal fields be
ing already completed.
Estimate of the original cost for
the work fixed $35,000,000 as the sum
required, but war-time increase in the
cost of material and labor has swelled
that estimate by $9,800,000.—Idaho
Statesman.
ALASKA AND SAN FRANCISCO
“Alaska holds many things in store
for San Francisco, and likewise Alaska
looks to San Francisco for many
stores,’’ says a bulletin recently issued
by the San Francisco Chamber of
Commerce. “While economic condi
tions have not been and are not in
the best possible state for commercial
relations between San Francisco and
Alaska, it might be well for San Fran
cisco merchants to bear in mind the
future that can be developed along the
lines of trade with our Northern ter
ritory.
“The coal situation in Alaska means
much to San Francisco, and the de
velopment of commercial relations
serves to increase the speed of the
time which must elapse before coal
from Alaska fields may be available to
this city. In order to bring out coal
we must ship merchandise in, and this
shipping must be done in large quanti
ties.
“The present indications are that
general business activities will begin
in Alaska this year nearly a month
earlier than usual. Already the can
nery people have started their annual
overhauling and improvements in get
ting in supplies for the season. Among
the opportunities for development in
Alaska are gold dredger operations,
the production of sugar beets, ferti
lizer reduction works and many min
ing operations.
“Recent reports indicate that things
are moving forward in the Northern
country, and the indications are that
many hundreds of people will be em
ployed this coming year. Through
the establishment of proper trade rela
tions there is an immense field for
the consumption of general merchan
dise of all varieties, and particularly
such materials as are supplied by the
machinery supply houses of this city.”
QUEER LEGENDS
OF NATIVES OF
KODIAK ISLAND
Did the Kodiak natives know of the
Chaldean flood? Had they any knowl
edge of the biblical theory of the first
man anad woman? Are these natives
identified with Alaska or did they mi
grate to Alaska from other countries?
Some of their myths and legends
are so nearly identical with those of
the Bible that it seems as if they
must at some early day have talked
with nations having the same tradi
tions as the Egyptians and Israelites.
Are they the descendants of the lost
tribe of Israel? Did the stories told
in the igloos and barabaras of the race
to the westward come down from the
days of Moses and other biblical char
acters?
No one can tell, but it is a curious
fact that the Kodiak natives have a
legend of the first man and woman
in close relationship to the story of
Adam and Eve, gra^s causing the
downfall of the original genus homo
instead of the traditional apple,) a
fruit indigenous to Persia,
According to the Kodiak version,
Shliam Shoa was the master of the
world, and he was worshiped as the
supreme god by the Kodiaks up to the
time of their conversion by the priests
of the Russian church in the latter
part of the seventeenth century.
Shliam Shoa created the heavens and
the earth, but of light there was none.
He sent two humans, a boy and a girl,
upon the earth to enjoy the fullness
thereof, but before going he enjoined
them not to eat grass. The girl was
curious to know what might be the
result of breaking the command, and
said to the boy, “Let us eat of the
grass. What harm can follow our act?
Shliam Shoa will never miss what we
eat from the abundance around us.”
But the boy demurred and urged her
to desist, saying that it might cause
them injury and that if the light came
they might be ashamed to look one
upon the other.
The girl, however, could not resist
the temptation. She refused the fat
of the seal and the choicest portions
of the game set before her, saying that
it was as the stones on the shore, un
less eaten with the grasses springing
up so luxuriantly around them. The
importunities of the girl finally had
their effect, and the boy and girl
plucked of the grass anad did eat
! thereof.
i Ana Denoia: tne nrst aawn DroKe
in the eastern sky; the sun sending
its ray to all parts of the world, and
the hoy and the girl looked one upon
the other and were ashamed of their
nakedness, and fashioned garments of
feathers of the eider duck to cover
their nakedness. And Shliam Shoa
was angry and demanded of the boy
and girl why they had broken his
command and eaten of the grass. And
i the man said the woman temepted him.
And Shliam Shoa drove them from
the land of plenty out into the world,
where the boy was forced to labor to
support himself and the girl who had
I followed him. They tried to return
to heaven, but found the doors locked.
: and upon the steps leading to the home
! of Shliam Shoa they looked upon one
| another and the boy saw the woman
! was fair to see. They loved each
i other, and five children were born to
; them, but died shortly after, to their
| great sorrow. Just before the birth
of the sixth child Shliam Shoa came
j and asked, “Why do you grieve?”
They replied, “All children born to
us die.”
“Do not grieve any more,” said
Shliam Shoa. “I will sing you a song
and you shall have children thereafter
which will grow strong and multiply
and cover the earth. And they shall
' pay me tribute of one skin each sea
son of the Kaioog-ya-at (the season
the seals breed), and you shall live
long and find good hunting.”
And thus it came to pass. The chil
dren of Kyktag, the first man, cov
ered the earth and from them the
whole human race sprang. But after
several generations the payments to
Shliam Shoa ceased and were refused,
wicked ones asking, “Why should we
pay for that which is ours?”
And Kyktag was warned that the
waters of the sea would cover the
earth, and he builded himself and his
sons a huge bidarka, taking thereon
the meat of the seal and food for a
year.
And it came to pass that when Kyk
tag and his wife and sons had em
barked in their bidarka great storms
arose and the waters of the sea swept
the earth, drowning all but the favored
Kyktag and his family. The flood
(aliak) is said to have destroyed every
living thing and covered the face of
the earth for the space of a year.
After sailing around for many days
the bidarka grounded upon Kodiak
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island, where Kyktag landed and of
fered thanks to Shliam Shoa.
He sent his sons to the four corners
of the earth in order that it might
again be populated.
The Kodiak ever afterward gave
tribute to Shliam Shoa before em
barking on a hunt. The offering con
sists of seals, sea otters and other ani
mals, but never of human beings.
The offerings are supposed to in
sure good fortune to the hunter. Iyak
was the god of fortune. He lived in
the earth, where he listened to the
shamans.
In case the offerings were delayed
or were unacceptable, Shliam Shoa be
came angry and would make thunder
and black smoke in the mountain tops
about Kodiak.
In the volcanoes about the island
live men who are stronger than the
Kodiaks, and who, when they heat the
water for their baths or to cook their
food, cause fire and smoke to issue
from the volcanoes.—Valdez Miner.
BASEBALL SNAPSHOTS
The New York Yankees charged
Carl Mays was using an emery ball,
but now having beaten him they may
conclude they were mistaken.
* * *
Manager Lee Fohl of Cleveland is
well pleased at what George Uhle has
shown him and declares the young
semi-pro is going to be a real star.
* * *
Joe Wilhoit, a star in the Coast
league three or four years ago and for
a moment looking like a star in the
big show, seems to huve fizzled out
with Seattle.
* * «
Hugo Bozdek has benched South
worth and played Lee in right field.
The former, who hit for .341 in 04
games last seas- u, has been doing un
der .100 this season.
* * *
Shortstop Jimmy Cooney, who did
not join the Detroit Tigers and who
thus is technically a member of the
Boston Red Sox, is finally out of the
army and no place to go.
* * *
A left-hander can’t hit a southpaw.
Not at all. Casey Stengel only got four
hits, one of them a triple, against the
mightiest boy in the National loop,
Jim Vaughn, the other day.
* * *
An all-star association football team
will go to Sweden this summer under
direction of Secretary Thomas Cahill
of the United States Football associa
tion, the governing council of the
sport.
* * *
Manager Miller Huggins assigned
Duffy Lewis to center field to start
the season, but soon changed his mind
and switched Duffy to left. Ping Bo
die went to center. Ping will keep
an going if he doesn’t watch out.
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