The Cordova Daily Times
GREATER CORDOVA’8 GREATEST NEWSPAPER
ASSOCIATED PRESS TELEGRAPHIC REPORTS.
H. G. STEEL. C. H. WILCOX, C. H. SCHEFFLER, Publisher.
H. G. STEEL, Editor and Manager
C. H. WILCOX, City Editor.
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CORDOVA, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1915
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UNLESS DELEGATE FATHERS IDEA
IT IS NO IDEA, ONLY A DREAM
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El > 1 l OR RIVARD, of the Ketchikan Progressive, who has
always been a staunch friend and strong supporter of
Delegate Wickersham, now has a greivance against the
gentleman who represents Alaska in Congress, and in the last
issue of his paper he gives vent to his feelings as follows:
Some years gone by, we were told that in the event
we wanted a favor from congress, we had better whis
per in our Delegate’s ear what we wanted, and then
then keep quiet; and that pretty soon the Delegate
would claim to be the father of the idea—he is inclined
to be fatherly anyhow—and then and there would' strut
a fight for it; whatever it was. We thought at the
time that the friendly admonition was a slander.
Simple minded, we never suspected that unless the
Delegate is acknowledged to be the father of every
idea; it is no idea at all, it is but a dream. In other
words, he must be the originator of ideas, otherwise
you may as well keep your idas under your hat for all
the encouragement you’ll got. It looks very much like
it today.
Here is the point, just for the lack of terminal
rates to hold our commerce, we are on the verge of loos
ing our very means of living, yet, the Delegate posi
tively and irrevocably—at least not for forty years—
refuses to lend us his support in an endeavor to prevent
the blow of the impeding danger threatening us, and
apparently for no other reason than that he is not the
the father of the indea. Not only that, but he has
refused to listen to our entreaty to discuss the mat
ter, but said: “You cannot get my support for that in
forty years.”
hor peace’s sake, we hope that there is a misun
derstanding somewhere, because we would' hate like
sixty to wake up to find that a selfish or conceited man
has been representing a people whos broad-mindness is
world famed. We must admit that of late years; like
some of our present territorial solons, the Delegate
appears to have faults to find with everybody. He
even went so far as to say that one of the Juneau
newspapers had the terrieorial legislature “buffalo
ed.” This attack will no doubt lead some one to ask
the impertinent, but not irrelevant question: Was
the Delegate sore because lie was beaten to it? While
the Delegate’s accusation may have the element of
truth as to a certain number of the lawmakers, we
know some metiers whom no newspaper or delegate
can buffalo; thank goodness.
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Let it be hoped that the founders of new towns along the
Alaska trunk line will not forget the names of Wilson and
Lane. There will be a big town at Matanuska. When the
coal fields are under full operation it may be the biggest city
in Alaska with the exception of Seward. Wilson would be a
good' name for it. And Ship Creek cannot always remain Ship
Creek. There will be a goodly sized town there also. The
name of Lane would be appropriate.—Seward Gateway.
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Oh, quit kiddin’ us. Our esteemed contemporary insists
upon publishing a story every day or two about the building
of a railroad to the Bering River coal fields, although neither
the government or the Guggenheims have given out any infor
mation that would lead one to believe that any construction
work is to start on that branch this summer.
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A Kansas editor has invented a gas range equipped with a
self-stopper and which also is trained to pronounce correctly
“Przemysl” whenever it runs out of gas, thus saving the editor
the sin of swearing. A punctured automobile tire that could
emit its air in polysyllabic now invites the attention of inven
tive uplifters.
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The world gets more curiosly curious as the population in
creases and living becomes more complex. A New York man
declares he slept in a chair in the kitchen for'two years because
his wife talked in her sleep. He’s a subnormal. Normal men
don’t even hear curtain lectures.
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The bursting of leaf and flower, and the tang in the air has
aroused the spring poet of the August, Kas., Bugle, and he
flutes as follows: “The rooster does the crowing, wears the
plumes and yellow legs, wants to ‘boss’ the whole creation—
but the hen she lays the egg.”
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After the Daily Times appeared on the streets last even
ing Judge Medley was the recipient of the congratulations of
many friends upon his api>ointment as United' States Commis
sioner, the good news having been made public through our
local columns.
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You can’t beat the variety of weather we have been hav
ing during the past few weeks. Rain, wind snow, and a very
little sunshine have prevailed to such an extent that the ad
vent of a few pleasant days would be heartily welcome.
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With its circulation constantly increasing the Daily Times
is inclined to be optimistic, notwithstanding the weather and
the fact that Uncle Sam is not giving Cordova the consideration
we feel it is entitled to.
The dispatches say Senator Poindexter is going to try to
bring all the bull moose back to the republican party. Perhaps
the task of finding them will la- greater than the effort to con
vert them.
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After having read' the exchanges for a week we are con
vinced that the Caucasian race’s only excuse for existence in
the last few weeks has been to recover the heavweight cham
pionship.
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An international strike involving 20,000,000 men, for tin
purpose of ending the war, is proposed. Let’s stop for a mo
ment to consider the differences, if there be any, between the
frying pan and the fire.
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHY8ICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
Call* may be left at Cordova
Drug Store. Realdence,
Rainier-Grand Hotel
DR. W. W. COUNCIL
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Physician and Surgeon
Office at Company Hospital
Hours—10 to 12; 1 to 6 p. m
DR. C. L. HALE
DENTIST
Office In Adams Building
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Councellor at law
Room 1
Adams Block CORDOVA. ALASKA.
J. F. R. APPLEBY
CIVIL ENGINEER
Phone 4. CORDOVA, ALASKA
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Kinney has a comer on Coffee.
What we mean is COFFEE, not the
wishy-wlshy kind you have been
buying and nicknamed coffee. One
can of Dwight Edwards will convince
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