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CORDOVA, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1917.
THE DOG PROBLEM IN OTHER TOWNS.
(Ketchikan Miner.)
Speaking of keeping dogs off the streets the other day,
brought out many complimentary remarks. Everybody favors
the idea, and have promised to help the movement along: and
the chances are that the council will be asked to take the mat
ter up. And we don’t know but what the council should. If it
is lawful for one community to keep dogs off the streets, we see
no reason why it should not be lawful for the people of Ketchi
kan to do the same. We believe that an ordinance could he en
acted covering the point, enforced and incidentally rid the
streets of the biggest nuisance that a town is subject to, unless
it be a herd of cattle with bells on.
(Douglas News.)
In our opinion certain Alaska papers are going too far in
their attempts to subdue and regulate from sight all dogs. It
is a fact that dogs, next to the hardy pioneers themselves, hud
more to do with the development of Alaska than any other
agency. True, many dogs are worthless, but nearly every dog
is the property of some boy, and to deprive and rob that boy
of his friend and pet is inhuman. The trouble with too many
men is, that while they have not forgotten that they were boys,
they have forgotten what kind of boys they were—forgotten
that they ever loved a dog. Vive la dog.
(Anchorage Times.)
Like every other Alaska community, Anchorage sooner or
later, will have to settle the dog problem. And this presents a
real problem, too, because then* are two sides to this question.
The problem is, “shall dogs be allowed to roam at large in the
community, or shall they be tied or penned up, as the owners
may elect?” As every Alaskan knows, the dog is a beast of
burden in the northland. What the pack horse or the donkey
is to the prospector in the western states, the dog is to the pros
pector in Alaska. If not our most useful animal, the dog ranks
as at least one of the most useful and serviceable. The dog is
used in most of our mail teams, and practically all of our win
ter mushing teams, going over roads and trails that the horse
could not accomplish. The dog is a valuable animal, and one
whose services are recognized by Alaskans.
But in the summer time, the dog has no employment. It
lies about the streets, on the sidewalks, in front of the business
entrances, and generally manages to make itself a nuisance to
pedestrians. Not only that, but a dog that is part native is
liable to be a menace to small children. If a child falls, a pack
of these dogs is just as liable as not to attack the little one.
These attacks are not numerous, but they occur, and they are as
liable to occur in this community as elsewhere. As to gardens,
it. is quite impossible to think of raising anything unless one
builds a fence as a protection against these playful animals,
who, just for the fun of the thing, will romp round and ruin the
growing plant life.
Of course, the owner of the dog will say, let the household
er fence his garden, and the householder will insist that the
dogs should not be allowed to invade private grounds. But the
fencing of the gardens does not solve the problem, because there
is the menace to the little one remaining.
As we see it, either the children or the dogs must be denied
the liberty of the streets, and as much as we like the dogs, we
like the children better, and shall vote in favor of the dogs being
kept within the confines of the owner’s property. That is the
way other Alaska towns have settled this problem.
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Good evening, are your potatoes up?
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Yankee ingenuity has been called to the colors.
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The draft will get some of those who have cold feet.
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All the stuff in print about fat reducing may be important,
but the thin people can’t quite see it.
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It appears that the much advertised drive that Germany
planned against Petrograd was an underground affair.
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High wheat prices go against the grain—of all but those
who are lucky enough to hold some of the precious kernels.
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Despite the fact that Von Betlunann-Hollweg is our arch
enemy, we can’t help feeding for the predicament in which he
finds himself with all sides dissatisfied—the Socialists because
he hesitates about giving our peace terms, and the conservatives
because he leans toward the Socialists.
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Pacific coast shipbuilders- to- be are getting almost as ner
vous as the coast artillerymen who paraded about their daily
work for days in their service uniforms expecting momentarily
to be called out, and finally to be told that it would be two
months before Uncle Sam could use them.
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To the national guardsman and shipbuilder straining at
the leash, the United States seems to be slow in getting started.
However, there is considerably more to raising an army than
merely issuing a call to arms, and very much more in building
a great fleet of submarine dodgers than merely signing orders
and contracts.
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If the prices keeps rising it soon won’t take any govern
ment regulation or congressional enactment to make us cut
down our consumption of wheat. As it is now the man on the
ordinary wage cannot afford to buy much more than a thimble
ful of flour and when the millers adjust prices to fit $3 wheat
a half thimbleful will be a ration. If only the goveornment
could find some way of bustling the speculators off to the
French front with that first consignment of railroad men, it
might help some. With his enormous profits . eliminated the
consumer and producer might be able to get down to a compro
mise that would enable us to get a sack of flour without wreck
ing the bank account, and at the same time give the farmer
such a price as would stimulate him to added effort in increas
ing his spring wheat yield. _
MRS. V. P. ABBOTT (
PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER
Windsor Hotel • • Cordova.
E. F. MEDLEY.
Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
Room 1
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALA8KA
WM. A. HESSE
Mining Engineer,
U. 8. Mineral Surveyor,
U. S. Deputy Surveyor.
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BOX 13. CORDOVA, ALASKA
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DR. W. H. CHASE
PHY8ICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
Calls may be left at Cordova
Drug Store. Residence,
Alaskan Hotel
DR. W. W. COUNCIL
PHY8ICAN AND SURGEON.
Office and Residence: Cordova
General Hospital (Ostrander Build
ing).
Phones—Residence 115; office 132.
DR. C. L. HALE
DENTIST
Specialty of
Porcelain, Inlay, Bridge Work
Office: Over Blum, O'Neill’s Store.
DR. CHARLES DAGGETT
AND
DR. HOMER BLYTH
DENTAL OFFICES
Suite 1, Northern Hotel Block.
Phone 200. Cordova,
P. O. Box 186. Alaska.
Hours: 9 a. m. to 6 p. m.
Evenings by Appointment.
ROBERT SIMPSON
JUNEAU, ALASKA
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U. S. Mineral and Deputy Land Sur
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Sailings From Seattle—May 19,28, June 4-12-20-28.
CALIFORNIA ROUTE
Sailings From Seattle—Mondays, Fridays, Saturdays.
Steamers President, Governor, Admirals Schley and Dewey, Queen.
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Y© ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
Fact and commodloue ateamera calling between Seattle, Ketch
ikan. Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez, Seward.
April 28 .MARIPOSA . May 8
May 4. NORTHWESTERN . May 14
Sail from Cordova seven days later.
The freighters Cordova, La touche, Juneau, Valdez
and Eureka also make regular trips.
Thla company reaervea the right to change achedule of ateamera
without notice.
Tlcketc on aale at up-town office Alaaka Steamahlp Bldg. Baggage
or freight wlii not be received at the dock later than one hour before
calling time.
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General Agent Agent
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