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liLPMK 111, NUMBER 131 ' CORDOVA, ALASKA, \VKDX __ PRICK TKlf CENTO
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(By Associated Press)
JUNEAU, Dec. 12.—At Secre- ♦
tary of War Baker's request ♦
Governor Strong intends soon to ♦
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suspend the Alaska eight hour ♦
-law as far as it concerns fishing. ♦
The act is effective January 1 ♦
and by its suspension it will al- ♦
low longer days to produce more ♦
food, which is needed by the ♦
fighting forces. ♦
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RAISE RATES
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(By Associated Press)
SEATTLE. Dec. 12.—'The steamship
jfrompanies operating from Seattle tc
southeastern and southwestern Alas
Ua are considering advancing freight
and passenger rates after the first
of the year and later revise the rates
to* Nome, on account of the cost ol
Operation being increased by the war
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(By Associated Press)
m LONDON, Dae. 12.—The premiei
" announced to the house *of commons
that General Allenby, the British com
1 mander. has entered Jerusalem or
foot Tuesday.
BERLIN, Dec. 12.—The allies los
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two hundred and five aeroplanes ant
the Germans sixty during November
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—Nationa
army men are not to be given fur
loughs, unless they live within trollej
distance of the cantonments.
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(By Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES. Cal., Dec. 11—Tin
eleven o’clock toast of the Elks' lodgt
was given here last night under cir
cumstances said to be unique in th<
history of the fraternity, when Lot
Angeles B. P. O. E. No. 99 unveiled i
great monument to departed Elks a
its plot in Inglewood cemetury.
The Elks of the local lodge, ant
many visiting brethern, gathered a
the plot a few minutes before elevei
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o’clock, and when that hour arrived
it was heralded by the striking of i
gong. The monument was then un
veiled with the usual ceremonies, aug
mented by the eleven o'clock toast t(
absent brothers.
The new monument is a bronze elk
standing on a huge rock, left in nat
ural formation.
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Read the Tinea end keep pested.
(By Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 12.—Alex
ander Vongirsewald, former German
consul at Seattle, has been arrested
in this city as a dangerous alien.
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(By Associated Press)
♦ SEATTLE, Dec. 12.—The trus- ♦
♦ tees of the Seattle Chamber of ♦
♦ Commerce adopted resolutions ❖
♦ yesterday urging congress to mod *
♦ ify senate bill No. 2812 to allow ♦
♦ the purchase of Alaska coal lands #
♦ b>f competitive bidding and pro- ♦
♦ viding for a prospecting permit, ♦
♦ likewise to promote the develop- ♦
♦ ment of the Alaskan oil fields, 0
T—'decides
DE1B0LIZE
ITS ARMY
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♦ COPENHAGEN, Dec. 12.—A 4
4 semi-official German newspaper 4
4 agency says the Russians are de 4
4 mobolizing and pea/ce negotia- 4
4 tions have been authorized. 4
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The federal bureau of mines i:
opening its services to women as nev
er before. Since the beginning o
1he war it has more than quadruplet
its clerical force of women employet
in the department of the interior a
Washington.
In addition to its regular force o
stenographers, typists, filing clerks
etc., who work during the day, tht
Bureau has been compelled to em
ploy a night force, and this includes
about twenty-five women. These nigh
workers are employed at the rate o;
, fifty cents an hour. The bureau o
, mines is endeavoring to make this
. work helpful to women who are out o:
i work or awaiting employment, or re
t quire this extra help. No womai
employed bjt the government during
the day is permitted to join this nighi
force.
I At the new Pittsburg experimen
: station, which has just been complet
i ed by the government at a cost oi
. half a million dollars, women are be
, ing employed as fast as male vacan
■ cies require and permit the substitu
- tion of female service. In the bureai
i of mines’ former force of two hundrec
employees at*this station, which oc
, cupied the old arsenal grounds, nos
■ a single woman was employed. Thej
are now being employed as rapidh
as vacancies occur which they cat
fill.
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(By Associated Press)
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♦ SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 12.— ♦
♦ The first license to mine Alaska ♦
♦ coal since the opening of the ♦
♦ fields as a means of alleviating ♦
♦ the fuel shortage, was issued to ♦
♦ the Chickaloon company, \Vhich ♦
♦ is capitalized at $1,200,000. It is an ♦
♦ Italian-Ameriean corporation and ♦
♦ the company intends to serve ♦
♦ California and Seattle with fuel ♦
♦ at a lower price than is at pres ♦
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—The sen
ate military committee today began
its investigation into the war depart
ment's work in equipping forces as
the first move in the congressional
; inquiry into the general conduct ol
i the war. Major General Crozier, chiel
of ordnance, said that the one yearlj
obstalce was that the military policj
defined in the national defense ad
of 1P1K contemplated a force of 1,
000,000 men to be raised in five years
The original program did not contem
plate pa'Tictpatton In 0*e‘War bj; the
j United States, and which has com
pressed a five year program into one
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4 WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—Sec 4
4 retary of Interior Lane’s report 4
4 for the fiscal year, ending in 4
4 June, was filed today. It says 4
4 Alaska had a fairly prosperous 4
4 year. The war stimulated oop- 4
4 per mining, but retarded gold 4
4 lode mining by raising the cost 4
•> of supplies and a labor slmr*- 4
4 age becoming acute as high <2
4 wages lure men to the outside. 4
4 Thp trade for 1916 was the great- 4
4 est in the territory’s history. 4
4 Lane quotes from Governor 4
' 4 Strong s report. which says 4
4 “Alaska neds a population that 4
4 will become attached to the soil” 4
4 and also “Alaska suffers too 4
4 much from the reservation of its 4
4 resources.” 4
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A fire broke out recently in the has
pital tent of Dr. Martin, at Brooks on
Livengood creek, which burned tht
entire roof of the tent, but stopped
there, leaving the sides intact. An
I overheated stove is believed to be the
! cause of the fire.
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While the steamer Zapora was fish
ing off Yakutat recently a gale blew
; up quickly and two men and one
■ dory were lost. After Searching for the
men for hours the captain gave them
up as lost. Both men are single and
resided in Seattle.
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♦ WASHINGTON, Dee 12.—kcc- 4
♦ rotary Dane yesterday annoui red ♦
4 the opening of a new tract In the ♦
♦ Mata mi ska coal field. He ifaya ♦
♦ the government Is ready to# re- ♦
♦ ceive applications for tlYese ♦
<» mines. The United States t per- ♦
♦ ation he believes will dei\on- ♦
♦ strate the possibility of simply. 4
♦ ing the navy and Pacific cfeast ♦
♦ with fuel from this field. 4
FREiTll IS
DELAYED * BY
POOR TRAIL
M’CARTHY. Dec. 10.—Ah no work
has been done on the Sourdough trail
freighting from here to the Nizina
will not begin until January 1 and
then the supplies will have to be
transported over the frozen river. By
improving the old trail the delivery
of supplies to the interior mines
could be made six weeks earlier.
Jim Wilson brought his freighting
outfit on Tuesday's train to begin
hauling copper ore from the Westovei
group to the railroad here.
Jack Laurencer and -two Natives ar
rived here from Shushana with twe
dog teams last week. This is the first
trip over the trail jM^-winter. They
are to start on thdjreCitrt) trip fa
morrow, carrying mail.
it is reported that the Mother Dod«
company is going to close down froir
the twenty-second of this month un
til January third.
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jSLM REFUSES
COMISSION
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Private Frank Slavin, one time pro
fessional boxer, who has seen nearly
three years' fighting, has returned tc
Halifax. He enlisted in the Yukon.
| Although an Australian by birth
Slavin has resided in Canada for 2(1
years. A mining engineer by profes
v --ion, he was operating in Yukon ter
dtory when the war broke out. and
offered his services, but was declined
on account of his age, being fifty-four
last winter. A new western battalion
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was about to be organized and the of
1 ficer in command, who wanted men
like himself with experience on the
frontier whether young or old, enlist
ed Slavin as the first recruit. Private
Slavin in less than a month, acting
as chief recruiting officer, secured 800
men for his battalion, the 67th of Van
couver.
Slavin was offered a commission,
but declined, stating that he promised
those he recruited that he would stay
iu the ranks with them. The 67th
went across in 1916, and on the other
side it was broken up, most of the
j men being transferred to the 4th Pio
; neers.
i Slaviu’s son is fighting in France
with a Sritisty Columbia battalion,
having cony? frfon the Yukon to enlist.
While in England he won the heavy
weight boxing championship of his
brigade. Youn ; Slavin, like his fath
er, is a minin [ engineer.
mm have
CAPTURED
MONCLHVA
(By Associated Press')
EAGLE PASS. Tex., Dec. 12.—It is
reported that the Villistas captured
Monclova, a hundred and fifty miles
trom here. The wires have been cut
and no details can be learned.
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(By Associated Press)
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♦ ITALIAN HEADQUARTERS. ♦
♦ Dec. 12.—Representative Tink- ♦
♦ ham, of Boston, was the first ♦
♦ American to fire a shot against ♦
♦ Austria when he pulled the string ♦
♦ of a hundred and forty-nine milli- ♦
♦ meter gun sending a shell across ♦
♦ the Piave river to Austrian posi- ♦
♦ tions at Gonfo. The Italian troops ♦
♦ cheered as the gun fired and a ♦
♦ cloud of smoke marked the place ♦
♦ where the shell struck. ♦
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.1 LOS ANGELES. Cal., Dec. 11.—
Barbering, like other things, “on ac
count of the war.” has gone up. Hair
1 cuts, shampoos, and massages, which
were twenty five cents last night,
were forty cents today, under a scale
| announced recently by the Master
Barbers’ association.
The "neck shave,” which has been
"thrown in” with the fifteen cent
shave for many years, now is an ex
I tra price, five cents.
The restaurants of Cordova have
agreed to observe meatless and wheat
less days on Tuesday and Wednesday,
respectively of each week, in the fol
l lowing signed statement:
i “We, the undersigned, wish to show
: our loyalty to our government and
to that end pledge ourselves to strict
ly observe the following conservation
rule:
My place of business will not serve
•beef, mutton or pork on Tuesdays
nor wheat bread or wheat products
i on Wednesdays.
This rule to be followed for the
duration of the war unless govern
ment necessity should require amend
! ment to the above.
WELLS RESTAURANT.
SCHILLER’S RESTAURANT.
SLATER'S RESTAURANT.
ALASKAN GRILL.
CORDOVA GRILL.
CORDOVA CAKE.
TOM HAMAKAWA.
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(By Associated Press)
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♦ DA FELES8 — The Bolsheviki ♦
♦ power in Petrograd is menaced ♦
♦ as the opposition becomes solid!- ♦
♦ fied. There Is unrest in Petro- ♦
♦ grad and at Moscow, the extreme- ♦
♦ ist strongholds. The Cossacks ♦
♦ have advanced northward from ♦
♦ Don to fight Bolsheviki, Itus- ♦
♦ sian officials in London assert ♦
♦ the anti-Bolsheviki forces are all ♦
♦ leaders. Other parties and anti- ♦
♦ leaders expect by spring the ♦
♦ Russians will be fighting the Ger- ♦
♦ man with a formidable force. It ♦
♦ is expected that 400.000 Cossacks ♦
♦ will be back with the counter *■
♦ revolution, which the Cossacks ♦
♦ supported. They were defeated ♦
♦ in their first fight near Bielgorod. ♦
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DESCRIBED AS
A FAILURE
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Syndicate articles are appearing in
numerous newspapers of the States
attacking the Jaekling properties, par
ticularly the Alaska Gold. The follow
| ing was released by the Boston News
; Bureau and printed in Eastern papers.
“It is not surprising in view of the -
! disappointing exhibit made by Alaska
iGold for the three months ended Sep
tember 30 that the stCM/k .should drop >
to new low levels, around fSSfSJl1.
“There are $3,000,000 bonds, which
have recently sold down to 58. At
the low price for both bonds and
stock, Alaska Gold has a stock market
1 selling value of less than $4,000,000.
“Alaska Gold represents a capita!
investment of $10,500,000—750.000
shares at $10 per shore and $3,000,
000 bonds at par. This is on top of
the investment made by the Alaska
Gastineau people before control was
sold to the new interests.
"That even the brightest minds in
the mining industry an the best en
gineering talent can sometimes make
mistakes is well exemplified in the
failure of Alaska Gold.
“There is nothing the matter with
the milling process or with the gen
eral operating scheme. It is simply a
case of the ore running from 60 to 75
cents per ton less in gold than had
been figured on.
“For the quarter ended September
30 the ore averaged but $1.01 per ton.
The final net profit per ton was only
1.6 cents, or a total of $8,735 for the
three months' output, which of courRe,
was insufficient to provide bond in
terest of $37,500, to say nothing of
sinking fund reguirements.
“There is a further item to be tak
en into account, known as 'deferred
charges to operations,' which appears
only in the annual report. This rep
resents * development c harges which
are not made a part of current ex
penses. On December 31. 1916. these
charges had amounted to $746,255.
and must, of course, some day be tak
en care of. as they represent an oper
ating charge and are not properly
capitalizable.
“There is no disguising the fact
that Alaska Gold has been a huge
disappointment, although the reports
continue to hold out a faint possibil
ity that better results may be some
day forthcoming.”—News Bureau.