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(By Associated Press;
NEW YORK, Jan. 19.—There never
was a time when fewer promising
lightweights were scintillating around
the country. The men who are be
lieved to have a chance to topple
Benny Leonard from his throne as
lightweight champion are all men
who have been battling for years and
years. There isn't a man who came
out overnight.
Willie Jackson looked to be this sort
of a man for a few' brief moments,
and then he Sivvered. Jackson’s name
Is rarely mentioned now as a probable
opponent for the champion.
There is just one good boy who
comes to mind among those who
haven’t yet been given a look-in at
the championship. He is little Billy
Whalen, a St. Paul lightweight.
St. Paul has given so many high
class fighting men to the game that
it goes without saying Whalen is a
plucky, hard-fighting little individual.
Mike Gibbons trained the youngster
through all his early days of battling,
and the little fellow looks and acts
like the St. Paul wizard.
Whalen hasn’t been rushed to de
struction. He is going through a
course of sprounts that may lead him
to a championship battle. He had
met some excellent boys, and most of
them he had won from. Tie Is gradu
ally growing into the select class of
top-notchers.
And Whalen is the only lightweight
of tender years who stands out as a
probable opponent some of these days
for the championship. Leonard evi
dently has overlooked this youngster
In his policy of stepping out and cufT
Ing ambition out of all the youngsters
who look as if they might make some
trouble.
Leonard declares there is little
fighting in sight for him now, for he
has gone to work as a boxing instruc
tor at Camp Upton, Yapkank, L. I.
Benny came in for considerable criti
cism for the manner in which he kept
away from this camp after receiving
an appointment, but he has stepped
into work now, according to reports.
Leonard announced immediately after
he won the lightweight title that he
would join some branch of service, so
the criticism was coning his way
when he didn’t get into it.
FULTON IS THE “CLASS”
OF HEAVY CHALLENGERS—-BUT
(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK Jan. 19.—Fred Fulton's
greatest fault, seems to lie in an un
suppressible ability to gum things up
for himself just at the moment when
things look rosiest.
A year ago Fulton stood out as the
logical man to meet Jess Willard for
the world's heavyweight champion
ship, but he soaped his own track
when he met Carl Morris in New York.
Fulton gained a reputation for being
just a trifle yellow as a result of that
bout, for he lost on what was declared
to be a deliberate foul. Morris was
winning by a rough-house style.
Fulton got another crack at the
Oklahoma giant and beat him. so the
stigma of the New York bout was
wiped away.
Then the lanky challenger again
stood out as a probable opponent for
Willard. But he gummed It again
when he met Bill Tate in Tuttle Rock,
for he lost again in the same manner.
The only procedure open to Fulton
now' is to meet Tate again and either
w'in or lose fairly. TTe accomplished
a come-back at the expense of Morris,
so it shouldn’t be impossible for him
to repeat against Tate.
As a matter of cold, unbiased fact.
Fulton is far the best of Willard's
challengers, and is the only one wrho
has done well enough to deserve a
championship match.
Misfortune or a bad case of nerve
is about ready to beat him out of it.
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WAR AEROPLANE WOULD
BE USEFUL ABOUT FARM
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—The hard
wfare going into a simple war type
aeroplane is sufficient to nail 2,163
shingles on a roof; screw down the
I coffin lids on a thousand Germans;
j veneer fifty-seven square feet of din
ing room table; hang the kitchen with
fifty-seven pounds of aluminum; wire
j a third of a mile of three-strand
fence; spruce the porch for at least
244 square feet—and in addition put
fifty-eight feet of pine on the chicken
coop, thirty-one feet of ash on the dog
house, and still have a few things left
over, such as 798 forgings and 921
steel stampings and turnbuckles for
the junk man.
Diver Not Needed.
K J. Karr, agent for the White
1 U8H road, received a visit from a dlv
er recently, who stated that he had
heard that the line had lost a steamer
in Lage LeBarge, and sought a job
<" salvage her. “Do you know how
lleep Lake LeBarge is?’’ asked Mr.
I arr. VNo,” replied the diver, “but
I have handled some very deep jobs.”i
v' eH, it’s about three feet,” said the
agent. “Then I reckon you won’t need
my services,’’ said the diver, and de
parted.
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Admitted to Aviation Corps.
John G. Shepard, son of H. R. Shep
ard of Juneau, recently successfully
passed an examination for the army
aviation corps and expects to get his
commission about the first of Febru
ary. in writing to his parents of the
matter he stated that out of the eigh
teen taking the examination at the
same time he did only five passed and
three of those were Alaskan. Young
Shepard is twenty-three years of age
and held the distinction of being the
youngest mining superintendent in Al
aska.
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Mail was Lost.
Advices received from Nome from
Captain tieckla, of the ill-fated White
Bear, wrecked while enroute to Nome
with mail and considerable gold bul
lion. states that the mail and bullion
was not saved. C. L. Ross, who is
heavily interested financially in the
vessel and cargo, wired back to Heck
la to take plenty of provisions and as
soon as conditions permitted to make
an attempt to secure the cargo of the
vessel, which is caught in the ice.
To Our Customers and the
General Public ,.
In compliance with the general orders issued by the United
States food administration, that all retailers sell “licensed
goods” at a fair margin of profit, the prices named in last
evening’s paper, were but a few of the actually listed licensed
goods, which prices are set by the food administration and at
which all retailers will have to sell them.
We have not advertised prices, altho we have complied with
the board’s request and reduced the price and will continue to
lower prices whenever possible to conform with the food ad
ministration’s edict.
When prices on all ‘ ‘Licensed goods” are set, we will advertise
the list complete.
Honest merchants do not cajole their customers by giving
the impression that one dollars worth of goods is sold for six
ty nine cents, for the days of ‘‘goldbrieking an intelligent
public is past.”
One’s money worth, no more no less, is offerred, and on such
a basis of honesty our business is beng established and built.
Beginning with the first of this year we are trying to put into
effect the requirements of the food administration, namely:
Closing at six o’clock, one delivery a day and limiting credit
to thirty days.
With our customers and the public generally helping us out
by complying with our request, we and all other merchants
are going to be able to reduce the price and still make a fair
margin on our investment to which we believe we are en
titled.
In helping your retail merchant you are following out that
good and grand slogan “It’s what we do over here that
counts over there.”
Eight Hour Working Day One Delivery a Day Beginning January 1st
THIRTY DAYS CREDITS
FINKELSTEIN & SAPIRO
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“The House That Satisfies” I
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ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
This company reserves the rlgnt to change schedule of steamers
without notice.
LEAVES SEATTLE
VICTORIA.,.JANUARY 10th
NORTHWESTERN . JANUARY 16th
LEAVES CORDOVA
ALASKA .JANUARY 11th
VICTORIA . JANUARY 17th
The freighters Cordova, La touche, Juneau, Valdez
and Ketchikan also make regular trips.
Tickets on sale at up-town office Alaska Steamship Bldg. Baggage
or freight will not be received at the dock later than one hour before
eeMMg time.
Agent; S. R. HEDGES, Agent. F. B. TRACY, General
—Next Steamer—
S. S. ADMIRAL EVANS
LEAVES SEATTLE .JANUARY 12th
DUE CORDOVA, WESTBOUf D . JANUARY 18th
SAILS SOUTH FROM CORDOVA . JANUARY 21st
CALIFORNIA ROUTE
Special Ocean Excursions from Seattle to Sunny California. $35 to
San Francisco and return, final limit of sale February 28th. $50 to
Los Angeles and return. $54 to San Diego and return. Three sal!
■ ings a week from Seattle to California points. Arrange your winter
outing through your local agent. I
FOR FULL PARTICULARS APPLY
W. A. NOURSE, Agent. Empress Building.
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DELIVERY OF COAL
On account of eight hour law, coal orders must be re
ceived before 1 p. m. to insure delivery same day. No
coal delivered after 5 pm.
ALASKA TRANSFER
COMPANY
Office—Northern Hotel Building. Phone 85.
NORTHERN MEAT MARKET I
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Wholesale and Retail Dealers in U
FRESH BEEF, PORK, VEAL, MUTTON AND PRO- I
VISIONS
t Particular Attention and Prompt Service Given te order* fr*m
Mining Camps, Roadhouses and Interior Points
HALIBUT and Other Fresh Fish of all Kinds Will be |
Kept in Stock When Available.
SMITH & GLASBRENNEB, Props. |
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(Sixty Steam Heated Rooms Eletric Lighted
Hot and Cold Water in Every Room
With or Without Bath.
Cordova House
DOOLEY AND GREENIG
Headquarters for Railroad and Mining Men
Satisfaction Quran teed
Rates Reasonable
Gas I
4 to 5 CO Horse Power
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General Electric Motors |
Roebling Tramways
Pelton Water Wheels
Chicago Oil Engines and Compressors
| Harmon Machinery Co. Inc
Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting
| CORDOVA, ALASKA
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