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FOR
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beds, mattresses and canvas goods of all kinds, tents and
shovels, kitchenware, furniture, stoves, etc. We also
carry a full line of mirrors—plate glass and plain.
THE NORTHERN BLOCK
First Street
Copper River
& Northwestern Ry.
FOUR TRAINS* y'FEKIA BETWEEN
CHITINA AND KENNECOTT
Leave Cordova, Second Street Depot, on Mon
days, Thursdays and Sa^vlrdays.
Leave Chitina for Cordova Sundays, Tuesdays
days, Thursdays and Fridays.
Leave Chitina for Ke^-ecoU Sundays, Tues
days and Fridays.
Leave Kennecott for Chitiaa Monaays, Wednes
days, Thursdays asd Saturdays.
The above schedule subject to change with
out notice.
Dining Car in Connection With all Regular
Passenger Trains Between Cordova and Chitina.
Freight received and delivered at Cordova
Wharf from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m., except Sundays.
Tickets on sale at Second Street Depot
office, one hour before departure of trains.
CALEB CORSER, W. E. BROWN,
Superintendent. Agt. Cordova Wharf
R. K. BROWN, Jr., Ticket Agent.
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Cordova.
DENTISTRY
Hours 9 a. m. to 9 p. m.
Special Attention to
Prophylaxis and Pyorrhea.
PHONE 200
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Mining Engineer.
U. S. Mineral Surveyor,
U. S. Deputy Surveyor.
BOX 13 CORDOVA, ALASKA
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
Calls May be Left at Cordova
Drug Store. Residence,
Alaskan Hotel
DR. W. W. COUNCIL
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office and Residence: Cordova.
General Hospital (Ostrander Build
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Phones—Residence 115; office 132
DR. C. L. HALE
DENTIST
Office: Over Blum, O’Neill’s Store
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JUNEAU, ALASKA
Glasses Fitted. Lenses Ground
. HUBBELL & WALLER
Civil and Mining Engineers.
U. S. Mineral and Deputy Land Sur
veyors for Alaska.
1102 L. C. SMITH BLDG., SEATTLE
WILLIAM PALLISTER, M.D.
Specialist in the treatment of
diseases and deformities of the
eye, ear, nose and throat; glasses
fitted.
JUNEAU GENERAL HOSPITAL
SMITH & McCONAGHY
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Cor. Front and B Streets
Office Open Evenings.
E, E. MEDLEY
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Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
Room 1.
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA
FRANK H. FOSTER
Attorney at Law
Room 1 Alaskan Hotel
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FIRE!
A resident of Cordova had a
| small fire in his house the other
day. It was extinguished by the
family at a loss of $150.00. The
next day he insured through us.
The cost of his insurance for
three years was less than his
loss at this trifling fire. Are
you, Mr. Property Owner, going
to wait until you have had a fire
before protecting yourself from
loss?
Any person wishing to build
can secure a fine residential or
business lot in Cordova from us
on exceptionally' liberal terms.
Five hundred lots listed.
REAL ESTATE
INSURANCE
ABSTRACTS
SURETY BONDS
CORDOVA ABSTRACT and
REALTY COMPANY
ROOM 1, ADAMS BUILDING.
BELGIANS HERDED
IN CATTLE PENS
Participant’s Testimony of Deg
radation Accompanying De
portation From Mons.
SCENES OF FIENDISH CRUELTY
Women Forbidden to Give Food and
Clothing to Men Facing Privation
and Cold—United States'
Appeal Unheeded.
Conspicuous among cohl-blooded
ads of cruelty committed by the
Germans, to their everlasting dis
grace. the deportation from Mons is
prominent. Official documents pub
lished by the committee on public
information tell pari, of the harrow
ing story.
A vivid sketch of the deportations |
from Mons, ordered by German author-!
Iflos, drawn by a participant, may well
be cited here:
"I will take the 18th of November
of last year [1916], A week or so be- !
fore that a placard was placed on the |
walls telling my cupltal city of Mons
that In seven days all the men of that i
city who were not clergymen, who
were not priests, who did not belong to
the city council, would be deported.
"At half past five. In the grny of the
morning on the 18th of November, {
they walked out, 6,200 men at Mons, I
myself and another leuding them down
the cobblestones of the street and out
where the rioting would he less than
In the great city, with the soldiers on
each side, with bayonets fixed, with
the women held hack.
"The degradation «>f it! Tlie degra
dation of il ns they walked into tills;
great market square, where the pens I
were erected, exactly as if they were
cattle all the great men of that prov- j
ince—tin1 lawyers, the statesmen, the I
heads of the trades, the men that had
made the capital of liuinaut glorious j
during the last ‘JO years.
“There they were collected; no ques
tion of who they were, whether they
were busy or what they were doing,
or what their position in life. ‘Go to
the right! Go to the left! Go to the
right!’ So they were turned to the
one side or the other.
“Trains were standing there ready,
steaming, to take them to Germany.
You saw on the one side the one
brother taken, (lie other brother left.
A hasty embrace and they were sepa
rated and gone.
'Toy saw the women in hundreds,
with bundles in their hands, beseech
ing to be permitted to approach the
trains, to give their men the last that
they had In life between themselves
and starvation—a small bundle of
clothing to keep them warm on tlieir
a.v lo Germany. You saw women ap
proach with a bundle that had been
■purchased by the sale of the last
of their household effects. Not
one was allowed to upproach to give
her man the warm pair of stockings or
the warm jacket, so there might be
Miuie chance, of his reaching there. Off
tiny went!"—John H. Gade. in the Na
t'onal Geographic Magazine, May, ■
lbl7.
'i he Belgian women sent a touching
apputl to Minister Whitlock:
Appeal of Belgian Women.
“Brussels. Nov. 18, 1»16, 46 line de la
Madeleine.
“Ills Excellency, Mr. Brand Whitlock,
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary of the United States
of America.
“Mr. Minister:
"From the depths of our well of
misery our supplication rises to you.
"In addressing ourselves to you, we
denounce to your government, as well
as to our sisters, the women of the
nation which you represent in our
midst, the criminal abuse of force of
which our unhappy and defenseless
people is a victim.
w*“vv wvjiuuiug vn ims uiru*
clous war we have looked on impotent
ly and with our hearts torn with every
sorrow at terrible events which put
civilization back into the ages of the
barbarian hordes.
“Mr. Minister, the crime which Is
now being committed under your eyes,
uauiely, the deportation of thousands
of men compelled to work tm enemy
soil against the interests of their coun
try, cannot find any shadow of excuse
on the ground of military in cessity, for
it constitutes a violation by force of a
sacred right of human conscience.
Called “Monstrous Extremity.
“Whatever may be the motive, it
cannot be admitted that citizens may
be compelled to work directly or indi
rectly for the enemy against their
brothers who are lighting.
“The convention of The Hague has
consecrated this principle.
“Nevertheless, the occupying power
is forcing thousands of men to this
monstrous extremity, which is con
trary to morals and international law,
both these men who have already been
taken to Germany and those who to
morrow will undergo the same fate,
if from the outside, from neutral Eu
rope and the United States, no help is
offered.
"Oh! The Belgian women have also
known how to carry out their duty In
the hour of danger; they have not
weakened the courage of the soldiers
of honor by their tears.
"They have bravely given to their
country those whom they loved. . . .
The blood of mothers Is flowing on the
MtttefleIdH with that of their sow.
"Those who are taken away today
do not go to perform a glorious duty.
They are slaves in chains who. In n
dark exile, threatened by hunger,
prison, death, will he called upon to
perform the most odious work—service
to the enemy against the fatherland.
Right* of Honor and Conscience.
"The mothers cannot stand by while
such an abomination Is taking place
without making their voices heard in
protest.
"They address you in the name of
the unalterable rights of honor anil
conscience.
"It has been said that women are ‘all
powerful suppliants.’
“We have felt authorized h.v this
saying, Mr. Minister, to extend our
hands to you and to address to your
country a last appeal.
“We trust that in rending these lines
you will feel at each word the unhap
py lienrtbeeuts of the Belgian women
and will find in your broad and hu
mane sympathy imperative reasons for
Intervention.
“Only the united will of the neutral
peoples energetically expressed can
counterbalance that of the German au
thorities.
“Tills assistance which the neutral
nations can and. therefore, ought to
lend us, will It be refused to the op
pressed Belgians?
“Be good enough to accept. Mr. Min
ister, the homage of our most distin
guished consideration."
(Signed by a number of Belgian
women and 1!4 societies.)
The L'niled States government did
not full to respond to this touching ap
peal and to others of a slmilur nature.
The American embassy at Berlin
promptly took up the burning question
of the deportations with the chancellor
and other representatives of the Ger
man government. In an interview
with the under secretary of stafe 7or
foreign affairs, Mr. Grew was handed
an official statement of the German
plans, which is, in translation, as fol
i u u n .
German Camouflage.
“Against the unemployed in Belgium,
wlm are a burden to public charity,
in order to avoid friction arising there
from. compulsory measures are to he
adopted to make them work so far as
they are not voluntarily inclined to
work, in accordance with the regula
tion issued May 15, 1916, by the gov
ernor general. In order to ascertain
such persons the assistance of the mu
nicipal authorities is required for the
district of the governor general in
Brussels, while in tin* districts outside
of tlie general government, i. e., in the
provinces of Flanders, lists were de
manded from the presidents of the
local relief committees containing the
names of persons receiving relief. For
tlie sake of establishing uniform pro
cedure the competent authorities have,
In the meantime, been instructed to
make the necessary investigations re
garding such persons also in Flanders
through the municipal authorities;
furthermore, presidents of local rebel
committees who may be detained for
having refused to furnish such lsits
will he released.’’
Mr. Grew pointed out that the depor
tations were a breach of faith and
would injure the German cause
abroad. In his official summary of the
negotutions which he carried on he
says:
“I then discussed in detail with the
muter secretary of state for foreign af
fairs the unfortunate impression which
I his decision would make abroad, re
minding him that the measures were
in principle contrary to the assurances
gi\en to the ambassador by the chan
cellor at general headquarters last
spring and dwelling on the effect which
the policy might have on England's at
titude towards relief work in Belgium.
I said I understood that the measures
had been promulgated solely by the
military government in Belgium and
that I‘ thought the matter ought at
least t^be brought to the chancellor’s
personul attention in the light of the
consequences which the new policy
would entail, llerr Zimmermanu inti
mated iu reply that the foreign office
had very little iutluence with the mili
tary authorities and tliut it was un
likely that the new policy iu Belgium
could be revoked. He stated, how
ever, in answer to my inquiry, that he
would not disapprove of my seeing the
chancellor about the matter.”
Solemn Protest by United States.
The formal protest of the United
States was as follows:
"The government of the United
States has learned with the greatest
concern and regret of the policy of the
German government to deport from
Belgium a portion of the civilian popu
lation with the result of forcing them
to labor in Germany, and is constrained
to protest in a friendly spirit but most
solemnly agaiust this action which is
in contravention of all precedent and
those humane principles of interns
ttonat practice which have long In 4ftf
accepted and followed by civilized nu
tlons in their treatment of uoucombn
tuuts in conquered territory. Further
more, the government of the United
States is convinced that the effect of
this policy if pursued will in all prob
ability be fatal to the Belgian relief
work, so hutpanely planned so su<
eessfully carried out, a result wide*,
would he generally deplored anr
which, it is assumed, would seriously
embarrass tlte German government.”
This protest was followed by those
of the pope, ttie king of Spain, the
government of Switzerland and other
neutrals. They were of no avail, ex
cept, perhaps, to lead the German au
thorities to draw a tighter veil over
their detestable proceedings. But the
evidence has in some measure come
through, although the full facts will
not be known until the liberation of
heroic Belgium.
LITTLE STORIES OF WIH
FROM Will SOKE
Paris has a new apartment house,
reports Figaro, “which will rent to no
one without children. To rent the
smaller suites one child will do, for
the medium-sized apartments a pros
pective tenant must have a minimum
of two children while the large apart
ments require a family of at least four.
A woman who defied the German
army to save the archives of her com
j inune was recently awarded the Gross
of War. She is a school teacher in the
Marne district, a Mme. Fiquement. Fier
citation reads as follows:
“A woman of the highest courage,
brave and devoted among all at Taisey.
during the German occupation, had the
power, by her noble and energetic at
titude, to impose her personality upon
the occupying forces by refusing, even
under the most brutal menaces, to
give up to them the archives and the
maps of the commune. In spite of the
incessant bombardment undergone by
a villap-fi nnw tho
ground, she continued up to the very
hour fixed by the military authority
for total evacuation to administer, ail
by herself, the affairs of the com
mune. With a courage and abroga
tion above all eulogy, she rendered the
very greatest services to her fellow
citizens, giving to all the beautiful ex
ample of energy and of never failin?:
devotion."
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Madame Lydia, the palmist, will be
found in the Currier & Mickelsota
building on C. street. 16-tf
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If you want printing of any kind
call up the Times office.
CORDOVA !
MACHINE WORKS
E. R. GARNES, Prop.
Residence Shop
Phone 101-3. Phone 1S2
Machine Woik of all Kinds,
Blacksmithing, General Repair
ing, Horse Shoeing, Oxy-Acety
lene Welding and Cuttiug.
HARMON MACHINERY
BUILDING
Cordova, Alaska.
Out of Town Jobs Given Strict
Attention.
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