The first hill introduced In the third
Alaska senate was by Senator Aid
rich, and is an act to create an organ
ized national guard for the territory.
The bill contains thirty-six sections.
All ordnances and ordnance stores
are under the control of the governor
as commander in chief, to be held as
the property of the territory. The na
tional guard is to consist of all able
bodied male persons, resident in the
territory, between the ages of 18 and
45 years, excepting such persons as
are now or may hereafter be exempt
ed by the laws of the terltory or of
the United States.
The governor is empowered to ap
point an adjutant general, inspector
general, quartermaster general, com
missary general of subsistence, a pay
master general, judge advocate gen
eral, surgeon general, and a muster
ing officer, each with the rank of
colonel of cavalry, and six aides de
camp, with the rank of lieutenant
colonel of cavalry. He may also ap
point such clerks as are needed.
The following sundry sections de
fining the duties of the above men
tioned officers.
Section 1G provides that all persons
subject to military duty under the
laws of the United States and of the
territory of Alaska and such other
male persons as may volunteer, shall
be divided into two classes, one con
sisting of those who enlist in the ac
tive militia, to be known as the Alas
ka national guard; the other to con
sist of all those subject ti .military
duty, but not included in t e active
militia, the latter class to be known
as the Alaska reserve militia.
Section 17 sets out those exempt,
viz: judicial and executive officers of
the government of the United States
and of the territory, persons in the
military or naval reserve, customs
house clerks, persons employed by the
United States in the transmission of
mails, artificers and workmen em
ployed in the armories, arsenals, and |
navy yards, pilots and mariners in |
actual sea service.
The term of enlistment shall be for !
three years. The bill then defines the |
method of enlistments, the manner of j
maintaining armories, creating courts i
of inquiry and of imposing fines and J
issuing discharges.
The final section of the measure di-1
rects that the commander in chief of
the national guard may when he!
deems it necessary for the good of
the service that an annual encamp
ment be held at the time and place j
to be designated in a general order, j
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BIG PLANS FOB
BABY WEEK i
(By United Press)
WASHINGTON, March 29. — Baby
week conferences in the United States
this year will take various forms and j
be held on various dates, according to
reports reaching the children's bureau
of the department of labor here today.
National baby week officially, how
ever, is May 1 to 6.
Several states have selected some
one phase of infant welfare work for
special emphasis in this year’s cam
paign. Many will devote most of
their time to a study of the high mor
tality rate among women just before
child birth. It is shown by statistics
that 15,000 prospective mothers die
just before or during child birth in
the United States every year.
Delaware will specialize on the pre
vention of infantile paralysis, which
took such a heavy toll of infant life
throughout the country last year, and
others are looking toward the keeping
of more complete records for a more
intimate study of the infant mortality
rates from all causes.
In Nebraska the state committees
are suggesting local campaigns dur
ing different weeks so that circuits
may be arranged for speakers. This
plan has made a decided hit with the
children’s bureau.
The same state, the bureau said, is
planning the earliest baby week of
1917, and early dates also are expect
ed from Pennsylvania, Massachusetts
and California cities. Most of the 502
communities already heard from by
the bureau, however, will hold their
conferences the first week in May, as
the bureau had planned.
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NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that the reg
istration book for the registering of
voters for the municipal election to
be held in tl e Town Hall, in Cordova,
on Tuesday, April 3, 1917, is now open
in the office of Charles M. Rosswog,
the registrar, at the Postoffice Store,
on Second street, Cordova, and that
said registration book will be closed
on Saturday, March 31, 1917, at 4
o’clock p. m.
CHARLES M. ROSSWOG,
Registrar of Voters,
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Photo by American Tress Association.
Ur. Cary T. Orayson, personal physician to Presidents Taft and Wilson,
whom the latter has suggested for promotion as head of the naval medical
service with rank of rear admiral.
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♦ to his wife. ♦
♦ He gets up early in the morn- ♦
♦ ing with a grouch and has to ♦
♦ leave before it does. Consequent- ♦
♦ ly he has no time to be decent to ♦
♦ her in the morning. ♦
♦ He arrives at the office feeling ♦
♦ fine; and he continues to feel ♦
♦ fine until along in the afternoon. ♦
♦ when his duties begin to crab and ♦
♦ fag him. By the time he gets ♦
♦ home at night he is disgruntled ♦
♦ for the evening. Thus he has no ♦
♦ time to be decent to her in the ♦
♦ evening. +
♦ On Sunday he is too worn out ♦
♦ with the work of the week to do ♦
♦ anything but eat and mope. ♦
♦ The average man has plenty of ♦
♦ good disposition, but no time to ♦
♦ practise it on his wife. ♦
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GIANT FIELDER
BIG TOUTED
(By United Press)
NEW YORK, March 29. — John J.
McGraw’s declaration that Davy Rob
ertson, Giant outfielder, is as great
a ball player as Ty Cobb, if the Giant
star cares to be, was almost the ex
cuse for bringing out American flags
and holding a public mass-meeting to
send thanks by the citizens of Eliza
beth City, North Carolina.
Dave used to play in the town team
at Elizabeth City, and they have
known for some time down there that
Georgia has nothing on South Caro
lina in the matter of sending great
ball players to the major leagues.
Dave has been gallivanting around
the National league for some time. He
ups and cracks the ball on the nose,
beats out a new infield, hits a year,
steals a base or two, turns in a few
fielding sensations each year and calls
it a whole twelve months crammed in
to three or four or whatever the case
may be.
Dave is temperamental. He Is a
southerner with a southerner’s con
tempt for the northerner’s brusque
ness. He is a great ball player and
he knows it fairly well. But Dave
wants to be great in his own way. If
he doesn’t feel like stretching his legs
in a sprint to first base, why it’s no
body’s business, so he does as he
pleases.
McGraw has been grilling Robert
son for a long time, using his own
successful way in making a great man
of his potential great. This year, ac
cording to McGraw, Robertson is go
ing to step out as the only real rival
of the famous Georgia Peach in all
Around ball playing. Dave .has added
a few promises of his own and it may
be that he will forget temperament
and try to make them stick.
Last year Dave busted into the first
days of the season with a few well
timed crashes that placed him at the
head of the batting list with no trouble
at all. He played like a fiend, or a
Cobb, and he made such a furore that
everyone, McGraw included, said the
star had at last begun to shine. But
it was premature praise, for Dave
struck a slump, forgot his good reso
lutions and ended the season with
a batting average of .307, barely with
in the hall of fame.
Now a .300 mark isn’t to be sneezed
at any time, but Dave is capable of
more, and McGraw is determined he
shall show it this year.
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Times office.
CABIN OF STURDY
(By Associated Press)
CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 29.—The
first cabin built in the Rocky moun
tain region by Jim Baker, famous fed
eral scout, Indian fighter and big game
hunter, is being shipped here from
near Baggs, Wyoming, and will be re
constructed in its original state in
Frontier park as a monument to the
trapper of half a century ago.
Jim Baker was known all over the
west for his deeds of daring and many
residents of Wyoming, Colorado and
Utah still remember him.
He was born in Belleville. 111., De
cember 19, 1818. As a youth he chafed
under the restraint of "civilization,"
and as soon as he reached young man
hood he broke away for the frontier.
In 1838 he joined a company of re
cruits for the American Fur Company
and travelled with them up the Mis
souri river into Wyoming and spent
some time as a trapper and buffalo
hunter in the Jackson hole country.
Baker was a stalwart, long-haired,
grizzled out of doors man, and had
an Indian wife. He was unable to en
dure the restraints of modern cloth
ing for more than a few days at a
time. On one occasion he had resolved
to return to the Mississippi valley and
buy a farm with the money he had
made in trapping. He become involved
in a game of Spanish monte, a popu
lar card game of the time ,and lost
his whole fortune, $9,000.
Baker bore many scars of his bat
tles with Indians and animals. Once
a friend brought him a modern rifle
from the east and when he was learn
ing to manipulate it the whole side
of his face was mutilated by a dis
charge.
Baker died in 1898 at the age of 80
years.
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EASTER LILIES IT
PRICE
(By United Press)
CHICAGO, March 29. — You may
not be able to eat the once aristocratic
egg for Easter, but along with the
new suit or dress one week from
Sunday you can sport a bouquet of
violets or even the custom decreed
Easter lily. They’re not going up in
price. Florists in Chicago and the
rest of the country so announced to
day.
— At the annual national gathering
here today of horticulturists, whole
sale and retail, it became appar
ent that neither the tariff, war or sub
marine blockade could by the most
vivid stretch of imagination be as
cribed as an excuse for an advance in
the cost of milady’s corsage.
Lilies, the florists declare, will al
ways remain the flower of Easter.
Corsage bouquets of violets, livened
up with lilies of the valley or an or
chid will also be the correct thing for
Easter day.
Other information of note was the
declaration that the tendency of the
times is to return to the old June
roses of yesteryear, the round petaled
flowers which grow in the country.
The Wieland and the Storey varieties
are scheduled to become the most
popular.
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| In the district court for the terrl
tnrv of Alaska, Third Division.
Notice of ter mof court at Cordova,
Alaska.
The president of the United States
of America, to the residents of the
Third division of the Territory of
Alaska, and to all whom It may con
cern, greeting;
You and each and all of you, will
please take notice that by an order
of the court, duly made and entered,
a term of the district court for the
territory of Alaska, Third division,
has been called and will be held In
Cordova, Alaska, beginning on the
2nd day of April, 1917, and continue
as long thereafter as the public wel
fare may require.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 2.3rd
day of February, 1916.
(District FRED M. BROWN,
Court Seal) District Judge.
Attest: Arthur Dang, Clerk.
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When Ordering Job Work Don't
Think It is Your Duty to Build Up
Concerns in the States, But Give
The People Who Are Paying
Wages and Spending Their Money
In Cordova a Chance to Live.
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W. E. TERRILL
FREIGHTER
Baggage and Freight Taken
over the Trail to Fairbanks.
TEAMS LEAVE CHITINA
FEBRUARY 5
MARCH 15
Baggage can be left at the
Chitina Hotel, Chitina. or Alas
kan Hotel, Cordova.
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FRESH FISH
Halibut, Herring, Red Snappers and Codfish Sold
by the pound and ton, wholesale and retail.
Delivered Wednesday and Thursday.
Shipping Day—Thursday (on railroad).
Orders can he left at the Blum, O’Neill Co. store or
write to me at Cordova.
GUS OHM.
Cordova Mill &
Lumber Company
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Manufacturers and Dealers in Rough and
Dressed Lumber.
Also Outside Lumber.
Orders From up the Line Office and Mill Opposite
Promptly Attended to. Railroad Depot. Phone 5
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STATIONERY AND PHOTO SUPPLIES
Developing and Printing Phonographs
Views and Postcards Columbia Records I
Art Pictures, Art Supplies gh Music
Picture Frames
Picture Framing Candies Always Fresh
Toilet Articles Cigars and Tobacco
MAIL ORDERS GIVEN IMMEDIATE ATTENTION.
roos bas Engines I
4 to 5C0 Horse Power
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General Electric Motors
Roebling Tramways |
Pelton Water Wheels |
Chicago Oil Engines and Compressors
Regal Boat Engines |
Harmon Machinery Co Inc |
Oxy-Acetylene Welding.
CORDOVA, ALASKA - — |
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Sixty Steam Heated Rooms Eletric Lighted
Hot and Cold Water in Every Room
With or Without Bath.
Cordova House
I H. C. ROSS, Proprietor.
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"V Headquarters for Railroad and Mining Men
r Satisfaction Ouranteed
■ \ j * Rates Reasonable
I Notice To Our Patrons 1
| The Bank Will Discontinue Its |
I Saturday Night Service Banking I
| | Hours Will Be From 9 a. m. to 3 |
I P» m. As Formerly, f
| The First Bank I
I Of Cordova ■*
x Territorial Depositary.
1 United States Depositary for Postal Savings Funds.
I Commercial Department. Savings Department.
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R. W. FERRELL, Prop.
Electric Lighted. Hot Water. Turkish and Tub
Baths.
OPPOSITE CORDOVA GRILL, CORDOVA, ALASKA.
PHONE 99 ,M
| Alaskan Hotel I
THE HOUSE OF COMFORT '(>
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THE BEST EQUIPPED HOTEL
IN ALASKA |
BAR AND BARBER SHOP IN CONNECTION.
Hot and Cold Water, Electric Bells, Electric
Lights, Steam Heat, Suites With Bath. >
* Bar in Connection |j
ROBERT GOTT8CHALK Proprlteors ART CLONINQER :-fj
OOBOOVA, - AI.AHITA g
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ALL THE LIGHT ON THE BOOK,
and none In the eyes is what makes
the electric light so superior for might
reading. And its brilliancy bringi out
the type with the utmost distlnetive
nes8 so that reading is accompanied
by no strain on the eyes whatever.
Have you electricity in your hommT
Cordova Power
Company
LIGHTS WATER PHONES POWER
Office: FIRST STREET.
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I Copper River & I
| Northwestern Ry. I
| EFFECTIVE MAY 1, 1916. |
|;i| Three Trains Weekly Between Cordova and Chitina. 1
|| Four Trains Weekly Between Chitina and Kennecott. §
Leave Cordova, Second Street Depot, on Mondays, Thun-' *
days and Saturdays. S
| Leave Chitina for Cordova Sundays, Tuesdays aad 1
j§ Fridays. ^
f. Leave Chitina for Kennecott Sundays, Tuesdays, Than- |
days and Fridays. 1
:§ Leave Kennecott for Chitina Mondays, Wednesdays, ||
|; Thursdays and Saturdays. 1
IThe above schedule subject to change without notice. |
Dining Car In Connection With alt Regular Reeaenger Trains Be* 8
tween Cordova and Chitina. ||
Freight received from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M.
Tickets on sale nt Depot or up-town office, Alaska
Steamship Company building
j Caleb Corser W. E. Brown
Superintendent Cordova Agent