FAMOUS VESSEL
IMPRACTICAL
LOSS BY FIRE
NEW YORK, Feb. 4 (By Associat
ed Press).—The passenger steamship
St. Louis with a record of having
served with distinction through two
wars in which the United States was
a belligerant, and in the interval
carrying passengers across the At
lantic under the American flag, is
5how a blackened hull, the victim of
a fire started by a painter’s torch.
The big ship was being recondition
ed at a ship yard for service after her
second honorable discharge from the
“colors” when the accident took
place. Her owners, the American
Line, says she can be repaired, but
it will mean practically rebuilding
her and it is a task of many months.
^The St. Louis, was christened by
Mrs. Grover Cleveland. Her construe
tion and launching was an epoch in
American shipbuilding in that she wa£
the first ocean “greyhound” to be
built in this country. She made her
first voyage in June of 1895. Under
a contract with the American govern
ment she was entrusted with the fast
mail of England and Europe.
Under command of Captain W.
Goodrich, U. S. N., she was equipped
with heavy guns as an auxiliary cruis
er in the Spanish-American war. Her
first adventure of note was when she
was ordered to cut the cable between
Santiago de Cuba and Kingston, Jam
aica. Running up until she was under
the direct fire of the guns of Morro
Castle, American gunners sent hack
shot for shot and succeeded in sil
encing all but the mortar batteries
of *the fortification, while sailors
were fishing out and cutting the cable
line.
On June, 1898, she captured the
British freighter Twickenham which
was taking a cargo of coal into San
tiago presumably to be used for the
Spanish fleet. She was off that port
when Admiral Cervera made his dash
for the* open sean, and she brought to
Portsmouth N. H., the captured Span
ish Admiral and 746 members of the
crews of his defeated fleet.
In 1917 when the United States
joined the war against Germany, the
St. Louis was one of the first Amer
ican passenger ships to be armed and
to defy the German submarines and
fnines. She had many narrow' escapes,
and was once actually hit by a tor
pedo but without damage. She carried
to and from France thousands of Am
erican soldiers and she was one of the
last ships to be released from wax
duty to return to the pursuits ol
peace.
MILLIONS OF ACRES OF
LAND TO BE ADDED TO
> WESTERN FOREST AREA
^ MISSOULA, Mont., Feb. 4 (by As
sociated Press).—Five and a half mil
'lion acres of privately-owned and
state-owned timber lands may be add
ed to the national forests of District
No. 1. If the national forestry pro
gram, soon to be presented, is adopted
try congress, the service may receive
these lands by exchange or purchase.
In the First district there are 2,801,
283 acres of privately-owned lands
which are located within the national
forests. In addition, the states of
Montana and Idaho own 175,860 acres
In the national forests. There are
also 2,136,007 acres of forest lands
^ outside the national forests and pri
vately owned which are desirable for
national forestry purposes, while the
two states have title to 289,240 acres
of such land.
HORSES ARE REPLACED
AS HAULERS OF ORE
BUTTE, Mont., Feb. 4 (by Associ
ated Press).—Replaced by miniature
locomotives, the horses that for years
ipulled cars of ore through under
*ground passages of the Anaconda Cop
per Company’s mines are being turned
out to pasture for the remainder of
their days.
OLDEST CALIFORNIA MILL
HAS BEEN CLOSED DOWN
OAKDALE, Cal., Feb. 4 (by Asso
* ciated Press).—The rapid passing of
the wheat era in the great San Joa
quin valley, giving way to more in
tensive cultivation, was demonstrated
by the closing here last month of the
9^
Stanislaus mills, said to be the oldest
flour mills in the state.
The mills were established first at
Knight’s Ferry, in 1853, when wheal
was virtually the only crop planted
on the plains. Later they were re
moved to Oakdale.
MEX1CANREV0LUTI0N
RESULTS IN ORPHANS
BECOMING THIEVES
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JUAREZ, Mexico, Feb. 4 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Among the things that
the Mexican revolution has damaged
is the boyhood of the country. Juarez
is full of urchins, orphaned by the va
rious political upheavals that Mexico
has undergone during the past decade.
So troublesome to the peace of the
town have these'boys become that the
police recently rounded up twenty of
them in an effort to put an end to a
wave of petty thefts and begging.
STATE 1NC0 ’ TAX
PLANNED IN MONTANA
HELENA, Mont., Feb. 4 (by Associ
ated Press).—A state income tax is
< suggested in a questionnaire being
circulated among county commission
ers and assessors for the purpose of
outlining a new taxation bill for the
next legislature.
Other questions include: Should
all classes of property bear the same
burden? Is the present exemption of
mortgages wise?
Advertise in the Daily Times.
Scarborough Pictures that please at
prices that are right Over Cordova
drug store. Phone 140—3 rings.
Fresh Ever-Ready Flashlight Bat
teries. all sizes. Blum-O’Neill Co. 3-tf
Job printing ai Daily Tiuico office
| PROFESSIONAL
DR. W. W. COUNCIL
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office and Residence, Cordova
General Hospital i Ostrander
Banding).
Phones—Residence, 115; Office, 132
DR. W. H. CHASE *
Physician and Surgeon
Lathrop Building
Phone 9
Established Cordova 19M
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DR. W. D’ARCY CHACE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
WINDSOR HOTEL
Hours:
1 p. m. to 3 p. m, and 7 p. m. to 8 p. m.
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DR. CHARLES DAGGETT
DENTAL OFFICES
LATHROP BLDG. PHONE 200
CORDOVA, ALASKA
* DR. CORA DAGGETT "
SPECIALIST
DENTAL PROPHYLAXIS
PYORRHEA X*RAY
OFFICES WITH
DR. CHARLES DAGGETT
DR.VONZESCH
Dentist
ADAMS BUILDING
I [ JN6H0E k DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Offices:
CORDOVA and VALDEZ
FRANK H. FOSTER
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
ROOM 1, OSTRANDER BUILDING
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E. F. MEDLEY
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR
AT LAW
Room 1, Adams Btfick
CORDOVA, ALASKA
4-4
I R. H. L NOAKS
ATTORN EY-AT* LAW
8ECOND 8T., OPP. HOSPITAL
4-4
D. C. FA1RMAN
TEACHER OF PIANO
4-4
FRANK A. METCALF
CIVIL AND MINING ENGINEER
U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
Juneau, Alaska
LIFE INSURANCE
MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO.
Accident and Health Insurance
United States Fidelity & Guaranty
THOS. S. SCOTT
4—-4
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i CORDOVA MACHINE i
WORKS
E. R. GARNES, Prop.
Residence Phone 101-3
Shop Phone 182
Machine Work of all Kinds,
Bhfcksmithing, General Repair
ing, Horse Shoeing, Oxy-Acety
lene Welding and Cutting.
AUTOMOBILES
REPAIRED
Office and Shop: City Dock
CORDOVA, Alaska.
Out of Town Jobs Given 8trlct
Attention.
Helps You
On Built-In
Features
Our Catalogue for the Home-builder contains draw
ers and bins, cases for them, kitchen cabinets and other
pieces, knock-down or set-up. Study of these will aid
In planning a new home or improvements in an old one.
Write Rorig. 2229 1st Av. S. Seattle. "Better Mill
work, Sash and Doors,"
Costs Nothing
I OB'S LAWS
STILL IN EFFECT
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It’s a long time since Moses came
down the side of the mountain with
the ten fundamental laws, but they
are still in effect. They apply in Cor
dova as well as in the wilderness or
any other place.
You, Mr. and Mrs. Reader, violate
any of them at your peril. The wages
of sin is death in one form or another.
We reap what we sow in morals as.
well as on the farm. i
Why not strengthen your religious
convictions by regular church attend
ance at our church? Come every
Sunday. You need the Gospel and we
need you at the
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
“The Church with a Message”
a
II a. m. 8 y, m.
H. B. WOLKING & CO.
Licensed
UNDERTAKERS
And
EMBALMERS
Phone 133—3
FRESH FROM OUTSIDE
Beef, Pork, Veal, Mutton and Poultry
Wholesale and Retail
All Orders Given Prompt Attention |
NORTHERN MEAT MARKET
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STEAM heat electric light* |
Overland' otel :
MR8. J. W. KENNEDY
Chitina, Alaska
POOL TABLE IN CONNECTION
BOOT BRAND8 OF CIQAR8 KEPT
CORDOVA
SHEET METAL
WORKS
Goods Manufactured to Order, of
Sheet iron, Galvanized iron, Tin
and Zinc
Phone 143
Second St., Next to Hospital
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A Few Words to Husbands
About Washday Help
New ideals have come to hus
bands on the question of what
should be expected of a helpmate.
No husband now asks of his wife
anything that he would not do
himself.
But many husbands forget
about washday, with its heavy
labor. And because they just
haven’t thought about it, still
permit their wives to struggle on
with this trying task.
It need not be so in the future.
Our Family Laundry Service
offers a happy way out. This
is a modem service—the cost is
no more than washday at home,
and usually it is less.
We wash everything in water
delightfully soft and in fleecy
suds of flaked soap. Nowhere
in our process is there any of
the old-fashioned rubbing or
scrubbing. Washed in our way
every garment is sweet and fresh
—a joy to wear.
Then we iron the flat pieces—
the bed linens, the tablecloths,
the napkins, and so on, in our
improved manner. Other things,
like skirts, the children’s clothes,
and shirtwaists, we starch and
make ready for the housewife
to iron. Many of the undergar
ments, because of the airy way
we dry them, need no ironing.
In substance, we do all the
back-breaking work of washday,
leaving to housewives only the
lighter ironing.
We will be glad to tell you
more about this family laundry
service. Telephone us any time.
Or mail us your address and we
will have our man call for your
family bundle.
We treat your clothing white
JONES’ "LAUNDRY
The Modern Laundry
“Yes—Six - Six, Please”
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