FIRST BANK OF CORDCVA
CAPITAL STOCK *25,000
4% on Time Deposits
We Sell Travellers’ Checks
Gold Dust Bought at Highest Market Prices
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SHELDON’S ADTOS
Five days from Chitina
to Fairbanks
Take the Automobile Line at Chitina for all
points on the Government Trail.
Fare to Fairbanks $75
Cordova Power
Company
LIGHTS, WATER, PHONES
AND POWER
25 and 40 Watt Lamps.35c.
60 Watt Lamps.50c.
100 Watt Lamps.75c
250 Watt Lamps.$2.00
200 Watt, Gas Filled Lamps.$3.00
Office: FIRST STREET.
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575 Town Lots in Cordova.
in price from $50 up to $3000, and 000
ts in Chitina from $50 to $1000. Any
or all of them on easy terms.
; time to buy.
particulars—Call on or write to
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POOR TRAIL WILL
LIKELY BE
IMPROVED
The Chamber of Commerce hns np
pealed to the Alaska Itoad Commission
to repair the trail over Sourdough Hill,
pointing out the immediate necessity
of improving this highway which is so
much used by miners, prospectors
and freighters in the Interior country.
Captain Cllenn K. Kdgerton, engi
neer officer of the Commission, writes
encouragingy to the local chamber as
follows:
“As you are doubtless aware, the
funds appropriated for our work by
the Inst Congress are not available
until the beginning of the fiscal year
and the money at present available
will barely suffice to actually pay
crews now in the field. For this rea
son, all other considerations nside,
we are unable to undertake the work
desired at present.
“I am Informed that the Territorial
Rond Overseer for this Judicial Divi
sion expects to make an expenditure of
several thousand dollars on this trail
as soon as the formal transfer of
funds from the Territorial Treasury
hns been made. It Is hoped that the
work he can do will make the trail
passable again.
“I am personally familiar with the
trail nnd you may be sure the diffi
culties of travel over It are not un_
appreciated in this office.
"Colonel Richardson is away at
present but the matter will be taken
up on his return shortly after our ap
propriation becomes available.”
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NORWAY FOOD SUPPLY
COMES FROM AMERICA
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CHRISTIANIA, July 29.—The pub
lic committee having supervision of
food supplies has issued a statement
to the effect that Norway is assured
of sufficient flour and wheat for the
present year, due to the fact that so
much has been imported from the
United States. Prospects for the Nor
wegian crop of wheat, are poor, as
there, has been no rain to speak of in
ten weeks and cold wenther with much
wind has prevailed throughout the
summer. In many places the farm
ers have suffered from the Inck of
hay, as much of the surplus from last
year has been exported to belligerent
countries at exorbitant prices
AERIAL INDEMENITIES
PAID BY PARLIAMENT
LONDON, July 28.—The Parliamen
tary Committee which was appointed
after the first German naval rnid on
the British coast, to investigate and
compensate raid sufferers, lias thus
far distributed $450,000 in indem
nities to those who suffered property
damage in coast and air raids. Up to
June 25 there had been altogether 14
attacks on Great Britain by hostile
.aircraft, with total casualties as fol
lows:
Killed: 66, of whom 24 were men, 21
women, and 11 chidren. All the men
killed were civilians.
Wounded, so far as ascertained, 138,
of whom 86 were men, 35 women, and
17 children.
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VIENNA WOMAN AS
A CHIMNEY SWEEPER
VIENNA, July 29.—Many women
since the outbreak of the war have
taken up cpieer and unusual oecupa
tions, mainly nmRculine work, but no
one has chosen a more unexpected
"line" than Fraulein Schaer of Meran,
who, since her father was called out
as a reservist, has been conducting
his business as a chimney sweeper.
Originally the father and one son
bad a monopoly of the chimney sweep
ing business in Meran. The son went
off to war soon after it began, and the
father, by herculean efforts, was nble
to do the work of two. When Italy
came in however he too had to go to
the front as a sharp shooter.
The business threatened to go to
smash entirely, but the young Frau
lein astonished everyone by stepping
into the breach. In masculine attire
she is now a familiar figure in Meran
and haB more business than she can
attend to.
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Just received a new shipment of
ST VLB PLUS Clothes at S. BltUM &
Co.
NORWAY TO BUILD
MORE SUBMARINES
CHRISTIANIA, July 29—Parlia
merit tins voted the sum of $R,600,000
for building submarines nnd fortifying
the entrance to Christiania.
JAPAN ESTABLISHES j
JUVENILE COURT
OSAKA, Japan, July 29.—As a re
sult of a visit of Judge T. Kakihara
to the United States, n Juvenile crim
Inal court has been opened in Osaka.
Juvenile criminality, according to
statistics, is on the increase in Japan.
Judge Snto of the Osaka Court of
Appeals attributes this to moving pic
ture shows and a fall in the standard
of life in the household.
NO FOREIGN PHYSICIANS
CAN PRACTICE IN BERLIN
BERLIN, July 28,—Foreigners will
lie forbidden to practice medicine in
Berlin if the German Federation of
Physicians’ Associations lias its way.
Its business commission, in a petition
to the Federal Council, has just re
quested the issuance of such a prohibi
tion, grounding its petition on the al
legation that a great number of for
eign physicinns are now practicing in
Berlin "In a quackish manner,” not
withstanding the fact that these physi
cians have had to comply with the
same rules applicable to domestic
physicians before being admitted to
practice. The federation desires not
only to forbid practicing by physicinns
now here, hut to make impossible also
the admission of foreign physicians
after the war.
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SALARIED CONSULS FOR
CHICAGO AND 'FRISCO
CHRISTIANIA, July 29.—The Nor
wegian government has decided to
establish salaried consuls in Ohicngo
and San Francisco, and to Increase
the salaries of the Norwegian minis
ter and the consul general in Wash
ington and New York. The Norwegian
representatives in Chicago and San
Francisco are now American citizens
holding only honorary posts. The de
cision to pift these posts on a salary
basis also includes the plan of send
ing representatives direct from Nor
way to take charge. It is reported
that F. Herman Cade, at present the
Norwegian government’s commis
sioner at the San Francisco exposi
tion, will be appointed to one or the
other of the posts.
It is desired to improve the con
sular service particularly because,
since the outbreak of the Kuropean
war, the attention of Norwegian ex
porters and importers hns been
directed to the enormous American
market more than ever before. Nor
way has lately considered herself
handicapped by the fact that the other
Scandinavian countries were more
fully represented hy consular officials
in the United States.
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OF MUNITIONS'!
A VERY BUST OFFICIAL
LONDON, July 29.—David Lloyd
George, minister of munitions, has
proved himself a man of “push and
go” in his new office. The hustle
that pervades the new department
would do credit to an American busi
ness firm. During the first week of
its existence it opened 400 local bu
reaus for recruiting munitions work
ers; set up a largo central staff; wrote
and placed eighty full-page newspaper
advertisements; Issued 2,000,000 post
ers and leaflets; and organized other
plans for pushing munitions work in
every section of the country.
The home of the department, In
White flail Gardens, has been built
up around it while at work. Carpen
ters were still setting up walls and
petitions around the officials at the
end of the first week, and a number
of typewriters and stenographers were
temporarily accommodated in a bath
room. Lloyd George and the mem
bers of his personal staff worked six
teen hours a day. Within three days
the returns from their nation-wide
campaign for munitions laborers, was
found to be in excess «f all expecta
tions.
The munitions courts, wnich will
deal with offense* under tire new
Munitions act. are to be made up of
a chairman, appointed by Lloyd
George, with an equal representation
of employers and workmen.
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HOW ZEPPELINS'
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LONDON. July 29.—Zeppelin hunt
ing is not bo ensy as It seems to the
landgolng critics, who think It gross
carelessness that any Zeppelin has
been allowed to snll over English soil
and get, away.
The first message of n raid mny
come from a point In Holland or
Flanders or some outlying English
coast watch station. It gives the time
of passing, the general direction and
the estimated height of the airship.
On receipt of this at the aerodrome,
the scout planes start out.
Usually the Zeppelin chooses n
dark night for a raid. Its machine
guns amply protect Its giant frame
from air attacks at its height, level
nnd below. But the gas bags render it
vulnerable from above. To be at an
advantage, the chaser must arise to a
greater height than the Invader, which
is able to attain a maximum height of '
about 11,000 feet.
Unlike the gas ship, which can
ascend swiftly at will, the aeroplane
has to circle up slowly and labori
ously. The scout probably starts out
In the pitch dark with clouds to pass
through. After the necessary altitude
is reached, he has to speculate per
haps vaguely as to his position and
then settle on his course. If he is sail
ing over country occupied by the Her
mans, he has to dodge the search
lights which are touching up the
clouds. Once caught, the shrapnel
from the anti aircraft guns begins to
burst. The scout then has to dive,
circle, reverse and dodge about until
he gets out of range and safe into
the dark again. It requires all the
nerve the airman possesses to keep
himself under control while the shells
burst with blinding flashes and the
searchlights play on the clouds.
Safe into the dark, the hunter
watches for his first clue—a Zeppelin
signal from below In the form of fire
flashes. This seen, he shapes his
course for it.
If the moon is due to come tip at
this time, the work is simplified, for
the form of the Zeppelin may be
easily seen if within range. If un
aware of the impending nttack, the
enemy's course is regular with the
long sausage like form running on a
level.
The problem Is now to keep clear of
the Zeppelin’s ears. The Zeppelin’s
engines can be slowed down so that
the louder buzz of the aeroplane may
be overheard.
If the Zeppelin detects the noise of
the attacker, he flashes lights that
illuminate all of the surrounding
clouds. Once he sees the object of
Ills search, his machine guns begin
to play.
There is a case recounted by an
aviator where his pausing aeroplane
took refuge in a cloud and then passed
over and dropped bombs along what
he thought was the Zeppelin’s prob
able course, which he based on the
sound of the enemy’s machine guns.
At the same time, the Zeppelin was
firing Into the cloud In the hope of
getting in a chance shot at the pur
suer. Each lost the other in the
clouds, and the Britisher returned to
his base without knowing whether or
not he had damaged his enemy. The
Zeppelin probably did the same
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NAMES Of FLOWERS
SUGGESTED B¥ WAR
LONDON, July 20.—The annual ex
hibition of the Royal Horticultural
Society shows several hundred new
flowers, most of them bearing names
suggested by the war. “Souvenir di
Lieutenant Warneford” is the label
attached to a new variety of del
phinium, which wins the prize in its
partlcular class, while flie gold medal
orchid is called the “Queen Eliza
beth” after the famous battleship
which has been so prominent In the
Dardanelles operations. Among other
prize winners are flowers named
"Queen of the Belgians,” “Ixiuvatn,"
and “Hill 60.”
For Sale
One black fox; a beauty; either
male or female. Price $500. Five
cross female foxes go at $50 each.
Three extra dark cross male foxes go
at $50 each. Sixteen mink, $7.50 each.
Foxes were most all raised on my farm
and are 14 months old. Address H.
Christie, Alganik Fur Farm, Alganik,
Alaska.
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Just received a new shipment of
STYLEPLUS Clothes at 8. BLUM »
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THE NORTHERN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY has
again to report a successful year, with marked gains
In every direction.
The assets were increased One hundred and Thirty-five
Thousand Dollars! the rcsrve for the protection of Policy
holders. One Hundred and Sixteen Thousand Dollars.
Accident and Sickness Claims of $28,478.00 were paid
and Death Claims of $33,453.00.
No death Claim has ever been disputed.
All claims are paid immeditely on receipt of proofs.
Total paid to policyholders in 1914 was $116,209 26.
The Company's yearly income was Increased to Min.
605.00. 1
After paying dividends of eight per cent, to stockholders
and dividends of $32,661.24 to policyholders
The net surplus of the Company was Increased more
thnn seventeen per cent, over the proceeding year
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wife nnd children, but you want insurance for more
than that alone.
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thousand and one mishaps which are liable to take place
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. A. E. RANSOM
Div. Supt. for Alaska
Age:...... A. J. Adams, Local Rcprcserv
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