Cordova Daily Times
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H. G. STEEL
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
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MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1918.
A GOOD TICKET
The municipal election takes place
on Tuesday, April 2, and upon the
solicition of a large number of voters,
seven of our representative citizens,
regardless of political or factional
alignment, have decided to enter the
race for councilmen on what is known
as the Cordova ticket. These men
have all been successful in the man
agement of their own business at-.
fairs and are in every way qualified to
look after the interests of the city.
With the annexation of the ocean
dock and several canneries to the cor
porate limits the revenue of the city
will be considerably increased and if
is generally recognized that there
should be a wise and judicious ex
penditure of this money. That it can
be entrusted to such men as A. 1.
Adams, Malcom Brock, Will Clayson,
W. II. Hillery, A. .1. McConnell, Chas.
M. Rosswog and Jack Sapiro goes
without saying.
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THAT GAME BILL
When a few days ago the news dis
patches reported a furore of opposi
tion to Delegate Sulzer’s bill relating
to the killing of wild game in Alaska,
local citizens were at a loss to know
what it was all about, as nothing re
lating to the measure had been pub
lished here. It seems to have been a
tempest in a teapot, however. Inter
ior Alaska papers note that hunters
who killed game during the open sea
son were unable to bring it to market
during that period, and were awaiting
authority from Washington to do so.
And the Juneau Empire has the fol
lowing explanation, which is given for
what it is worth:
“In his frantic opposition to the bill
Introduced in Congress by Delegate
Sulzer, to permit the use for food of
big game killed within the terms of
ihe law during the period of the war
and for one year thereafter, Dr. W. T.
Hcrnaday, director of the New York
Zoological Hark, is making a some
what remarkable display of ignorance
of Alaskan conditions and of the bill
itself.
“The Sulzer bill, prepared in the
bureau of biological survey of the de
partment of agriculture, is being sup
ported by Mr. Charles Sheldon, chair
man of the game preservation com
mittee of the Boone and Crockett
Club, by George Bird Grinnell and
other influential members of this fam
ous big game club which was founded
by Theodore Roosevelt in 1887. It
also has the uncompromising approval
of Dr. E. W. Nelson, superintendent
of the bureau of biological survey.
The bill does not increase th^ number
of game animals a single individual is
permitted to kill. It limits the num
ber of moose to two, of sheep to two
| and of caribou to three. It shorten!
i the open season in which these ani
mals may be killed by ten days. I
simply provides that game killed with
in the open season may be tagged am
disposed of at any time after the elos<
of the open season instead of compell
ing all game to be disposed of withi)
fifteen days from the date killed. I
provides that it shall only apply t:
that section of Alaska north of th>
62nd parrallel and that game killei
north of that line cannot be shippei
out of the section but must be con
sumed north of the designated line.
“Dr. Hornaday characterizes this
bill, designed to conserve and prevent
waste, as an ‘assault’ in favor of ‘th<
wholesale commercial slaughter o
Alaska game.'
"A bare statement of the case make1
the situation clear to Alaskans with
out further comment. The whole si*
uation was expressed very clearly bj
Representative Merritt, a Republicat
representative from Connecticut, wher
he said the other day, *f regard It a
significant that all those Alaskans
who have first hand information favoi
the bill while those who oppose th«
bill get their information second, thin
and fourth hand. Mr. Merritt had jus
heard the statements of Mr. Hornadaj
and ‘Dr.’ H. W. Elliott, who. upon be
ing asked, declared that his knowledge
of Alaska consisted of having beer
‘back of Sitka and in the vicinity ol
the headwaters of the Stickine and Yti
kon rivers.’ These rivers head in Brit
ish Columbia.”
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GET IN CLOSER TOUCH WITH THE
PEOPLE
The advertising merchant is a
moulder of public opinion.
He has the best channel of com
munication with the customers and
ought-to-be customers of his store—-the
channel of display advertising in their
home newspaper.
He can make his store policies plain
to all the people. He can discuss with
them the buying problems—from his
own standpoint and from theirs. He
can make them realize the difficulties
he is encountering in serving them, in
a period of increasing manufacturing
costs.
The live merchant, through thus
keeping in touch with his customers,
can serve them better in these days
than ever before. He can take them
into his confidence about prices and
profits. He can show them that the
prices he fixes in retailing goods al
low him no larger margin of profit
than when such goods were less ex
pensive to him.
The difficulties of the buyer for the
home, confronted in many cases with a
depreciation of the buying power of
the dollar, yet with little additional
income, are real. Such people turn to
the store ads as to guides in buying
wisely. They must not be disappointed.
The store ads must show them the
wray to solve their problems.
The merchant who, in such a period,
really serves the people—through sac
rificing his opportunity to earn largt
profits—will build his store upon a
foundation which will endure through
the years. He will build up the assel
of good-will to unshakable proportions
Get in (Hose touch with the people
Let them realize that your store i.
working for them every hour of ever;
day. Through your advertising creat
and mould public opinion in favor o
your store as an institution for publii
service.
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Our old friend. Mayor Frank J. Col
ter, of Seward, is having a book o
poems printed in New York and i
will be off the press in June. “Rhyme
of an Alaskan Roughneck” are sur
to make a decided hit and make ou
neighbor both famous and rich.
LOCAL JOTTINGS
the Pinnacle Rock* Canning Com
pany will start Its new clam plant
. this week. All of the machinery is
now installed, a supply of cans on
hand and comfortable quarters fitted
up for the employes.
C.uy Banty took a party of friends
, on a trip to Ellamar yesterday in his
launch.
j
, The Lighthouse Canning Company
I today began work on he erection of a
I new two-story warehouse, 40x70 feet,
on the water’s edge at the city dock.
: The clam plant will be in full opera
tion by April, giving employment to
sixty-five men and women, practically
jail of whom were secured in Cordova.
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, The freighters Ketchikan and La
,! touche are in port today, having
. brought 2,000 tons of coal, four flat
i cars and a tank for the Copper River
I railway.
1 FISH QUOTATIONS
KETCHIKAN. March 18.—Prices on
I fish today are as follows; Halibut,
i ldl-4c; sable, 4c; red rock, 2c.
ORDER SETTING TIME FOR HEAR
ING PETITION AND GIVING
NOTICE
In the District Court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division—In the
i Matter of the Alteration of the
boundaries of, the enlargement of
the corporate limits of and the an
nexation of new territory to the
town of Cordova, Alaska, incor
porated.
A petition having this dav been prek
sented to the above entitled court for
the purpose of instituting proceedings
\ required by law for tlie annexation of
'territory, therein described, to th< ‘n
j corporated town of Cordova. Alaska;
| and it appearing to the court that said
j petition is signed by enough qualified
j electors of said town to constitute
| more than one-fifth of the number of
| votes cast at the last municipal: elem
tion hefd in said town, and by more
than five actual residents or owners of
substantial nronertv interests in hind
j or possessory rights m land or tide land
or improvements upon land or tide
land' within the limits of the territory
so proposed to be annexed and in
corporated within the limits of the cor
porate town of Cordova aforesaid,
said petition setting forth the boundar- '
ies of the territory so proposed to he
annexed to said town, and bein^Foci
fied by two of the signers of sain peti
tion, and having attached thereto a
plat based upon an actual survey Jay a
competent surveyor, setting forth the
limits and' boundaries thereof by metes
and bounds, and stating the number off
inhabitants therein:
Now, therefore, It appearing to the
court that said petition is in the forum
and substance required by law,
It is ordered and decreed that said'
petition be heard and considered by.
the court on the 15th day of April.
1918, at 10 o’clock a. m. of said day, at
the court room of this court in either
Valdez, Alaska, or said Cordova, if said
day be a day of jurisdiction in said
court, or if the same be not a dby of
jurisdiction, then said hearing shall
be held on the first day of jurisdiction
thereafter. It is further ordered that
notice of such hearing be given by
posting printed or typewritten iwpies
of this order in three conspicuous
places within the limits of the cor
| porate town of Cordova, Alaska, and
j by posting such copies in three con
i spicuous places within the limits of
S the territory so proposed to be an
nexed to and incorporated' within the
limits of said town of Cbraiova, andi
s by publishing a copy of this order for
four consecutive weeks in the Cordova
' Daily Times, a daily newspaper of gen
eral circulation published hi said town
of Cordova, such publication to be
made in said newspaper once each
week until five publications have been
made.
1 Dated at Cordova, Alaska, this 11th
3 day of March, 1918l.
s FRED M. BROWN.
r i District Judge.
March 12-18-25-Apr. 1-8.
I “We Are a Nation |
| of Economic Illiterates ” |
I FRANK A. VANDERLIP, THE HEAD OF
THE BIGGEST AMERICAN NATIONAL
BANK, SAID THAT. HOWEVER, THE FI
NANCIAL EFFORTS OF OUR GOVERN
MENT ARE PROVING THAT AS A NATION
WE ARE LEARNING.
THIS BANK ADVERTISES COMMERCIAL
ACCOUNTS, SAVINGS ACCOUNTS AND
CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT. BUT DO
YOU KNOW WHAT THESE ARE?
YOU ARE WELCOME TO COME AND ASK
US QUESTIONS WHETHER YOU DECIDE
TO PLACE YOUR MONEY WITH US OR
NOT. WE ARE AS COURTEOUS TO THOSE
WHO DO NO BUSINESS WITH US AS WE
ARE TO THOSE WHO DO.
I Bank of Alaska
Alaska's Branch Banking System
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Reaches Every Resident of
Cordova and the Copper
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JUST RECEIVED WORD THAT EASTER
Merchandise will not he shipped before March
1. On or about March 15 we will have on dis
play Gage and Fiske Millinery, Silk Sweaters,
Dress Skirts, Suits, Dresses, Baronette and Roy
alty Satins, Yosan Silks, Chinese Silks, Broad
cloth Coats and Suits, Tricotines, Poiret Jerseys,
Silver Tone and Serges, Shoes, Waists, Petti
coats, Gloves, Underwear, Gossard Corsets and
Silk Hosiery. A most complete line of staples
and domestics. Best and most complete line
ever brought into Cordova.
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