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JEWELER AND WATCHMAKER
KENDRICK BUILDING FIRST STREET
THE CITY BAKERY
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FOR
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And see what we have in the line of workmen’s clothing,
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
and Northwestern Ry.
FOUR TRAINS WEEKLY BETWEEN
CHITINA AND KENNECOTT
Leave Cordova, Second Street Depot, on Mon
days, Thursdays and Saturdays
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Thursdays and Fridays
Leave Chitina for Kennecott Sundays, Tuesdays
and Fridays
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days, Thursdays and Saturdays
The above schedule subject to change without
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 o p- m., except Sundays.
Tickets on sale at Second Street Depot office
one hour before departure of trains.
CALEB CORSER W. E. BROWN
Superintendent Agent Cordova Wharf
R. K. BROWN, Jr., Ticket Agent
A PROFESSIONAL
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Northern Hotel Building,
Cordova.
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Hour# 9 a. m, to 9 p. m.
Special Attention to
Prophylaxis and Pyorrhea.
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WM. A. HESSE
Mining Engineer,
IT. S. Mineral Surveyor,
U. S. Deputy Surveyor.
BOX 13 CORDOVA, ALASKA
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
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Drug Store. Residence,
Alaskan Hotel
DR. W. W. COUNCIL
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office and Residence: Cordova.
General Hospital (Ostrander Build
ing-.
Phones—Residence 115; office 132
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JUNEAU, ALASKA
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, U. S. Mineral and Deputy Land Sur
veyors for Alaska.
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diseases and deformities of the
eye, ear, nose and throat; glasses
fitted.
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[ PLUMBERS AMD STEAM FITTERS
Cor. Front and B Streets
Office Open Evenings.
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
Room 1.
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA
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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
i three years was less than his
loss *t 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 fin3 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.
AIMED TO MAKE t
POLAND DESERTi
Jerman System Reckoned on
Starvation of People to Pro
mote Imperial Ends.
/ON KRIES REVEALED PLOT
Country, After Population Had Been
Systematically Done to Death, Waa
Be Restocked by Settlers
From Germany.
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' he extent of human misery in
Poland caused by the German oc
cupation was as great as that in Bel
gium and France. The entire heart- j
jrssness which characterized the kai
ser's high officers is well shown in a j
statement by Mr. Vernon Kellogg,
prepared for a pamphlet issued by
the committee on public informa
tion. which we copy.
The systematic exploitation of hu
man misery by the German authorities
In Poland followed the general plan '■
laid down by the kaiser’s orders, in ^
order to prove the Identity of proced- I
ore It will he enough to present the j
detailed report prepared specially for a :
pamphlet issued by t^ie committee on i
public Information and written by Mr. j
Frederic C. Walcott. A fuller and In
some ways more touching treatment
Is given In his article, ‘‘Devastated
Poland.” in the National Geographic
Magazine for May. 1017,
‘•September, 1017.
“Poland—Russian Poland—Is per
ishing. And the German high com
mand, Imbued with the Prussian sys
tem. is coolly reckoning on the neces
sities of a starving people to promote
Its Imperial ends.
‘‘West Poland, which has been Prus
sian territory more than a hundred (
years. Is a disappointment to Ger
many; Its people obstinately remain
Poles. This time they propose swifter
measures. In two or three years, by
grace of starvation and frightfulness,
they calculate Fast Poland will he
thoroughly made over into a German
province.
"In «he great Hindenburg drive one
year ago. the country was completely
devastated by the retreating Russian
army and the oncoming Germans. A
million people were driven from their
homes. Half of them perished by the
roadside. For miles and miles, when 1
sr.w the country, the way was littered
■with mudsoaked garments and hones
picked clean hy the crows-—though the
hu ger bones had been gathered by the
thriftv Germans to he ground into fer
tlllzer Wicker baskets—the little bas
ket !n which the baby swings from the
rafters in every peasant home—were
scattered along the way, hundreds and
hundreds, until one could not count
them, ea<h one telling a death.
Deliberate Policy of Starvation.
"Warsaw, which had not been de
Mrovisl —once a proud city of a million
people—was utterly stricken. Poor
folks by thousands lined the streets,
leaning against the buildings, shivering
In snow and rain, too weak to lift a
hand, dying of cold and hunger. Though
the rich gave all they had. and the
poor shared their last crust, they were
starving there in the streets in droves.
"In the stricken city, the German gov
ernor of Warsaw issued a proclama
tion. All able-bodied Poles were hid
den to gn to Germany to work. If any
refused, let no other Pole give him to
eat, not so much as a mouthful, under
penalty of German military law.
"It was more than the mind could
grasp. To the husband and father of
broken families, the high command
gave this decree: Leave your families
to starve; if you stay, we shall see that
you do starve—this to a high-strung,
sensitive, highly organized people, this
from the authorities of a nation pro
fessing civilization and religion to mil
lions of fellow Christians captive and
starving.
“General von Kries, the governor,
was kind enough to explain. Candidly,
they preferred not quite so much star
vation; It might get on the nerves of
ihe German soldiers. But. starvation
being present, it must work for Ger
man purpose. Taking advantage of
this wretchedness, the working men of
Poland were to he removed ; the coun
try was to be restocked with Germans.
It was country Germany needed—rich
alluvial soil—-better suited to German
expansion than distant possessions. If
the Poland that was had to perish, so
much tlie belter for Germany.
To Make Poland Germar, Province.
“Remove the men, let the young and
weak die, graft German stock on the
women. See how simple it is: with a
r'.afty smile. General von Kries con
cluded, ‘By and by we must give back
freedom to Poland. Very good ; it will
reappear as a German province.’
"Slowly, I came to realize that this
monstrous, Incredible thing was the
Prussian system, deliberately chosen
•y the circle around the all-highest,
ind kneaded into the German people
ill it became part of their mind.
“German people are material for
wilding the state—of no other account.
Hher people are for Germany’s will to
vork upon. Humanity, liberty, equality,
he rights of others- all foolish talk.
Democracy, an idle dream. The true
Prussian lives only for this, that the
3ertu:m state may be mighty and great.
"All the woes in the long count
igalnst Germany are part of the Prus
sian system. The invasion of Belgium,
he deportations, the starving of sub
'ect people, the Armenian massacres, ]
itroctties, frlghtfulness, sinking the
msitnnla, the submarine horrors, the
“nslavemcQt of women—all piece Into
he monstrous view. The rights of na
lotis, the rights of men. the lives and
Ihertles of nil people are subordinate
o the German aim of dominion over ■
ill the world. : t
“FREDERIC C. WALCOTT.” c
Mr. Vernon Kellogg’s statement Is ' ,
as follows:
Saw Only Massacre and Ruin.
“It was my privilege—and necessity
-In connection with the work of the
commission for relief in Belgium to (
spend several months at the great I
headquarters of the German armies In
the west, and later to spend more ,
months at Brussels ns the eornrnls- , |
slon’s director for Belgium and occu
pied France. It was an enforced op
portunity to sec something of German !
practice In the treatment of a eon- •
quered people, part of whom (the 1
French and the inhabitants of the Bel
gian provinces of East and West Flan
ders) were under the direct control of
the German general staff and the sev
eral German armies of the west, and
part, the Inhabitants of the seven other
Belgian provinces, under the quasi- .
civil government of Governor General
von Biasing. I did not enter the occu
pied territories until June, 10ir>, and
so, of course, saw none of the actual in
vasion and overrunning of the land. I
saw only the graves of the massacred
and the ruins of their towns. But I
saw through the long, hard months
lnu,’h too much for my peace of mind
of how the Germans treated the un
fortunates under their control after the
occupation.
Destruction Complete.
“As chief representative for the com
mission, it was rny duty to cover this
whole territory repeatedly In long mo
tor journeys In company with the Ger
man officer assigned for my protection
—and for the protection of the German
army against any too njucti seeing. As
T tiad opportunity also to cover most oi
Belgium in repeated trips from Bras
sets into the various provinces, I nec
essarily had opportunity ..input-*
the destruction wrought in the two re
gions.
"I could understand v. (tv certain
towns and villages along the Meuse atm
along the lines of the French and Eng
llsh retreat were badly shot to pieces
There had been fighting in these towns
and the artillery of first one side and
then the other had worked their havoc
among the houses of the inhabitants
But there were many towns In which
there had been no fighting and yet ah :
too many of these towns a Is*}'were in
ruins, it was not ruin by 'shells, but
ruin by fire and explosions. These
were the famous ‘punished’ towns
hither a citizen or perhaps two oi
three citizens bad tired from a window
on the invaders—or were alleged t*
j have. T hereupon a block, or two oi
: three blocks, or half Die town was
methodically and effectively burned oi
Mown to pieces. There are many ot
these ‘punished' towns in occupied.
|i ranee. And between these towns anc
along the roadways are innumerable
Isolated single farmhouses that are nlsc
In ruins. It Is not claimed that there
I was any sniping from these farm
houses. They were Just destroyed along
. the way and by the way, one may
! *u.v. When the roll of destroyed vil
lages and destroyed farmhouses in oc
cupied France Is made known, tht
| world will he shocked again by tills evi
| deuce of German thoroughness.
Found Neutrality Impossible.
"But the horrible methods of that
deportation were such that we, al
though trying to hold steadfast to a
rigorous neutrality, could not but pro
test. Mr. Gerard, our ambassador tr
j Berlin, happened at the very time of
j this protest to make a visit to tht
j great headquarters In the west and tht
matter was brought to the attention
j of certain high officers at headquarters
I on the very day of Mr. Gerard’s visit
J and in his hearing. So thaf he added
J his own protest to that of Mr. Poland
our director at the time, and furthet
deportations w ere stopped. But a ter
rllde mischief had already been done
Husbands und fathers hud been taken
from their families without a word of
good-by; sons and daughters on whom
perhaps aged parents relied for sup
port were taken without pity or appar
ent thought of the terrible conse
quences. The great deportations of
Belgium have shocked the world. But
these lesser deportations—that is,
lesser in extent, but not less brutal in
their carrying out—are hardly known,
Germany Must Be Civilized.
“I went into Belgium and occupied
France a neutral und I maintained
while there a steadfastly neutral be
havior. But I eante out no neutral. 1 1
cannot conceive that any American en
joying an experience similar to mine
could have come out a neutral. He
would come out, as 1 came, with the
ineradicable conviction that a peopl
or a government which can do what the
Germans did and are doing in Belgium
and France today must not be allowed,
if there is power on earth to prevent it,
to do this a moment longer than can he
helped. And they must not he ai
l-wed ever to do it again.
“I went in also a hater of war, and I
came out a more ardent hater of war.
But. also. I came out with the ineradic
able conviction, again, that the only
way in which Germany under its pres
ent rule and in its present state of
mind can be kept from doing what it
lias done is by force of arms. It can
not be prevented by appeal, concessh
or treaties. Hence, ardently us I hope
that all war may cease, I hope that
this war may not cease until Germany
realizes that the civilized world simply
will not allow such horrors as those
for which Germany is responsible in
Belgium and France to he any longer
possible.
“VERNON KELLOGG.”
IUMANE PUBLICATION
INTERESTS CHILDREN
(By Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 14.—“Our
inimals,” a monthly publication issued
y the local society for the Prevention
f Cruelty to Animals, has announced
prize contest for boys and girls writ
ng the most helpful letter on "What
am doing to win the war.”
It's purpose is to interest the chil
ren to do their share In aiding the
^resident, the army and the navy, and
o interchange ideas and give each
ither suggestions which will best
test serve this purpose.
Among those who will pass on the
nerits of the letters submitted are
fudge Thomas F. Graham, chairman
>f the San Francisco Council of De
ense; George E. Gallagher, president.
}f the board of education and Mrs.
<’rank Fredericks, chairman of the
iVomen’s Defense Council.
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UNIQUE CONTRIBUTION
OF GREEK FISHERMEN
(By Associated Press)
TARPON SPRINGS, Fla., Feb. 14 —
The Greek-American sponge fishorinea
here have made one of the most unique
gifts that the American Red Cross has
yet received. Each fishing captain a*
his boat unloaded, contributed a bunch
of sponges to the lot being gathered
frr the Red Cross. Today the sponges
were sold for $808 at public auction o«
the sponge enxchange here, the only
public sponge market in the United
States. The money was sent to tha
Red Cross. .
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