PROSPECT FOR
NIZINA BRIDGE
IS BRIGHTER
(From the McCarthy News)
At last there is hope of some action
on the bridge question. The contin
ued agitation of our Commercial club
and others has resulted in the matter
being placed before the territorial
legislature in the shape of a bill re
cently introduced by Representative
Slater for an appropriation of $25,000
to complete the Nizina bridge.
The Hon. H. A. Slater is making
every effort to secure us, by the pass
age of this bill, as large a grant as is
available this session. This appropri
ation, however, is totally inadequate
for the work which is to be done, but
acting on the principle of “a bird in
the hand is worth two in the bush,”
it would be well to use the appropria
tion if the bill is passed, always keep
ing in view the fact that we must
have a permanent structure, and that
it will cost a much greater sum than
any that has yet been granted.
An appropriation of $25,000 would
allow for the salvage of the present
bridge, which is worth $20,000.
A logging crew could be sent out
this fall to cut piling and the same
could be hauled out over the ice next
winter. Meantime a competent engi
neer could be testing the gravels, so
that the error of trying to drive
through hardpan or false bedrock, or
whatever it might be, would not be
repeated.
By the fall of 1920 the construction
of the permanent bridge could be be
gun. All this will be feasible if the
present structure is saved and an
other appropriation secured.
The following would be a fair esti
mate of the expense to be incurred:
$4,000 to save present structure;
$2,500 to cut and haul piling; $3,000
for engineer’s tests—a total of $8,500,
which would leave a balance of the
appropriation on hand of $15,500,
which, with the $20,000 of lumber
saved, gives us $35,500 for a starter
on flTat permanent bridge. Now an
other appropriation of $15,000 would
bring the fund up to $50,000, the
amount required to build a bridge
over the Nizina and build it right.
Then we would have* a bridge which
would be a source of comfort and
benefit to the residents o|f either sidjp.
The many ihvestors who are only
too ready to listen to mineral projects
where there are trails and bridges
would begin to come in and would de
that forbidding expanse of the now
velop the rich minerals which lie over
unbridged Nizina.
In the case of W. R. Hanlon vs. the
Chichagoff Mining Company, tried at
Juneau last week the jury brought
in a verdict for the company. The
case was an equity one and is a con
troversy over the construction of a
deed which Hanlon gave to the com
pany in 1913 to an interest in the
Pacific lode mining claim. In the com
plaint he alleged that he deded only a
half interest in the claim to the com
pany which he alleged had taken out
$200,000 worth of ore, and he sued for
a half interest.
The Daily Times Job plant la
well equipped for all classe of com
mercial printing.
TO ARGUE SHEA CASE
BEFORE CIRCUIT COURT
District Attorney W. A. Muitley, of
Valdez, was in town today on his way
to San Francisco to argue the appeal
case of William Shea who was found
guilty of the murd.gr of Ranee Book.
While outside Judge Munly expects
to meet his son, Captain William C.
Munly, now first assistant to the chief
surgeon at Leterman Military Hos
pital at the Presidio, San Francisco.
Captain Munly has the distinction of
passing the highest examination of
any officer in the United States in the
medical examinations conducted last
year by the National Board of Exam
iners, and ^s regarded as one of the
most promising and efficient young
officers in the medical corps of the
regular army.
Last Sunday Mr. Munly’s son, Ser
geant Edmund F. Munly, wired his
parents that he had just safely ar
rived in New York from France and
he will likely be in Portland when
his father arrives there.
Edmund is a member of the famous
Ninety-First division and went with
that division through the historic bat
tle of Argonne forest and was with
them in the subsequent drive against
the Germans on “Flander’s fields” just
prior to the armistice. He has since
been at Ceton, France, awaiting
return.
During the absence of the United
States Attorney Munly, Assistant U.
S. Attorneys Bennett at Valdez and
Murphy at Anchorage, will have
charge of the office.
COURT TERwfCALLED
FOR VALDEZ JUNE 2
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Judge Fred M. Brown of the district
court has announced that an order
will be issued about the first of May
calling for a trial jury to be in attend
ance at court June 2 for the purpose
of trying a number of cases now on
tbe court calendar. The drawing of
the jury will take place in the court
room at Valdez on Tuesday, May 6. A
grand jury will not be called at this
time and it is likely that none will
be called until fall.
Job printing at Dally Times office.
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CORDOVA, ALASKA
MANY AMERICAN HEARTS
WON BY FRENCH GIRLS
PARIS, April 8 (Correspondence of
the Associated Press).—That Cupid
was nearly busy as Mars with the
members of the American Expedition
ary Force and that romance bloomed
in France in spite of war’s talarms is
shown by the fact that more than six
thousand French women have been
wooed and won by American soldiers
within one year. The majority of the
French girls who have become Amer
icans through marrying men and offi
cers of the American Expeditonary
Force are stenographers, salegirls or
teachers with a sprinkling of peasant
girls and those of the middle class or
bourgeoisie.
The romances are in most cases
very similar. A soldier would be bil
leted with a French family a member
of which would be a girl of marriage
able age. Together they would delve
into the intricacies of the French lan
guage, sign language being promptly
superseded by a combination of Anglo
French jibberish.
The clean cut, healthy physique of
the Americans, their politeness and
generosity would appeal to the heart
of the French girl who saw in the
American the realization of her
dreams. As a rule, the Americans
also made no secret of the particular
sympathetic feeling they had for the
French girls and so as a natural se
quence, marriages resulted.
Many such pairs now are puzzled
whether the wife should accompany
her husband to America or the hus
band should make his home in
France. It is expected that fully fifty
per cent of the benedicts will adopt
France for their future home.
NOTICE.
It is imperative that all rubbish in
back yards, on vacant lots and in fact
in all parts of the city be immediately
removed. Those who fall to comply
with the health regulations will be
prosecuted.
W. H. CHASE, Health Officer.
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