THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1920
REPUBLICAN TICKET
For President—
WARREN G. HARDING.
For Vice President—
CALVIN COOLIDGE.
For Delegate to Congress—
DAN SUTHERLAND.
For Attorney General—
JOHN RUSTGARD
For Senator—
E. E. CHAMBERLAIN.
For Representatives—
A. E. LATHROP
N JOS. H. MURRAY
R. E. ELSNER
A. H. FRAME.
For Road Commissioner—
GUST JOHNSON
NOME ADVERTISES
Beginning several weeks ago the
Nome chamber of commerce, Nome,
Alaska, launched a campaign de
signed to rebuild the camp by instill
ing new life into old industries and
opening up new opes. The chamber
of commerce, states the Nome Nug
get, "aims at exploitation of the re
sources and development needs of
Nome and the Seward peninsula.”
It is a praiseworthy ‘ effort that the
Nome people are making and is de
serving of the fullest success. Her
business men are proving that they
are wide awake to the opportunity
offered them by the present attitude
of interest in the Territory' being dis
played in every part of the United
States. Capital is lookifag for a place
to invest where it may be assured of
reasonable return.
Commenting on the work under
taken the Nugget says: "Nome can
and will prosper far beyond our
most optimistic hopes if the enor
mous resources of the surrounding
district are exploited and made pro
ductive and the highly desirable re
sult can be achieved only by advertis
ing as broadly as possible what we
have to attract the settler and the in
vestor.” Not only is this true of
Nome,- but it applies equally to other
towns in the territory, including Jun
eau. Our town needs outside capital
to realize the immense possibilities
of its potential resources. Three of
these, fishing, mining and timber for
making wood pulp, require consider
able investment to make them com
mercially beneficial to the town. And
Juneau is a center for all of them.
Juneau, situated nearer than any
of its neighbors to the fishing indus
try. From geographical reasons
alone, it should be ahead of all other
Alaskan towns, and when the other
advantages, the fact that the town is
in the center of shipping, its port
facilities, the banks and large busi
ness houses necessary supply credits
for legitimate trade purposes, are con
sidered, make it beyond all question
the most desirable town in the whole
territory for the location of any big
fishing enterprise.
B. h. Thane, referring to the pro
posed establishment of a big central
paper manufacturing plant on Gastin
eau Channel, revealed a realization of
the possibilities of this district when
he said that compared to the im
mensity of the opportunity offered
here, he and those whom he repre
sents are only an incident, his idea
•being that if they did not take ad
vantage of the opportunity others
would eventually do so. Of course
the establishment of the proposed
plant is really more than an incident
to Juneau and the Gastineau Channel,
but it merely serves to emphasize
the great future for the pulp industry
and those allied to it. Tt, like fishing
end-mining, needs consistent and
steady advertising through every leg
itimate channel and without advertis
ing development will be slow in com
ing.—Juneau Empire.
VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS
Col. Richardson is the best friend
and adviser Alaska has ever had. He
has worked indefatgably for the con
struction of roads and trails in the
territory, and the military road from
Valdez to Fafrbanks was named in
honor of its chief builder.—Valdez
Miner.
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Many Alaskans had their first sight
of a real live cabinet member when
the destroyer fleet bearing Secretaries
Daniels and Payne were in port.
Neither of the distinguished gentle
men are at all superhuman in appear
ance and stack up about like the ordi
nary run of mortals.—Douglas News.
The navy is going to mine the coal
in the Eska and Chickaloon districts
for both commercial and naval pur
poses. A coal washer, to cost between
$250,000 and $300,000 will be installed
on the mainland of the government
railroad below Eska to handle the coal
I from Eska to Chickaloon. Sumner
Smith estimates that when work is
started with a full force, 1,000 tons
can be mined daily from the two
places.—Seward Gateway.
To a Carolina senator is credited
the oft-repeated saw “It’s a long time
between drinks.” We glory in Secre
tary Daniels decided stand on prohibi
tion but, in the same breath we hope
the other gentleman from the Caro
linas, the Honorable Josephus Daniels,
will add laurels to his fame by dis
covering the ridiculously long distance
between the last territory and the
national capital in the matter of gov
ernment. We sincerely trust that
both Secretary Daniels and Secretary
Payne have seen the light and will
use their influence to see that the
people of Alaska are given the right
to govern themselves without the
hindrance of some twenty odd bureau
cratic heads who are absolutely un
qualified to act from the long dis
tance.—Anchorage Times.
WM. VANDERBILT
DEAD AT PARIS
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having built the Alva, which was sunk,
and the Valiant, steam yachts, he was
a member of- several syndicates or
ganized to build defenders of the
America’s cup.
During the war, Mr. Vanderbilt was
active in hospital work and relief
abroad and in promoting the work of
the Lafayette Escadrille. On one oc
casion he contributed $40,000 to the
Neuilly hospital fund and at another
time gave 1,000,000 lire toward war
relief in Italy. Because of his work
for the American aviators in France
he was made honorary president of the
Lafayette Escadrille and presented
with the rosette of the Legion of
Honor. During'the summer of 1919
Mr. Vanderbilt was reported to have
presented to his daughter, the Duchess
of Marlborough, a gift of $15,000,000.
Mr. Vanderbilt was born on Staten
Island, N. Y., December 12, 1849. After
receiving an academical education in
America he studied for several years
in Geneva, Switzerland. He married
Miss Alva Smith of Mobile, Ala., (now
Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont) in 1874, and
to them were born, beside Consuelo,
| two other children, William K. Jr. and
j Harold Vanderbilt. On April 23, 1903,
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i Mr. Vanderbilt married Mrs. A. H.
i Rutherford in London, England.
Upon completing his studies in Swit
zerland, he entered the office of C. C.
Clarke, treasurer of the Hudson River
railroad, first as a bookkeeper, and
was gradually placed in positions of
trust and responsibility in connection
with the great Vanderbilt railroad sys
tem. From 1877 to 1883 he was sec
ond vice president of the New York
Central & Hudson River railroad. He
was also chairman of the board of
directors of the Lake Shore & Michi
gan Southern railway for many years,
as well ak a director of the New York
Central; Michigan Central; Lake Erie
& Western; Chicago & Northwestern;
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul; Chi
cago, Cleveland, Cincinnati & St.
Louis; New York & Harlem; Pitts
burg & Lake Erie and West Shore
railroads. He was also a director of
the Metropolitan Opera Company and
unietd with his brothers, Cornelius,
George and Frederick, in establishing
the Vanderbilt Clinic in New York at
a cost of more than $500,000. His
sons, William K. Jr., and Harold Van
derbilt, are directors in more than 150
railroad and other corporations.
SHORT STORIES
ABOUT ALASKA
| OCCUI CES
Fred Swanson of Nokatak is reno
vating his schooner preparatory to
sailing for Nome.
Metlakahtla recently defeated the
team of Prince Rupert in a ball game
by a score of 10 to 8.
Frank Stipek, one of the few Nome
boys who served in France, has re
turned to his home town.
Herman Rudolph, of Teslin Lake,
was recently fined $50 and costs for
putting poison out for wolves.
Miss Lessie George of Juneau was
married last week to Martin Burk
land, an Oregon business man.
The Wrangell Sentinel announces
a rate of $4 per year for its weekly
owing to the high price of paper.
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The recent census of Nome gives a
population 0!” nearly 900, and the
steamship Victoria dumped 450 pers
ons in that town shortly after, giving
the city a newr impetus.
Dr. A. N. Kittleson, of the Uplift
Mining Co., of Nome recently return
ed to the northern city from a trip to
the states. He wrill spend the summer
looking after his mining interests.
The Wilson canneries at Ketchikan
and Port Walter were sold last week
to the Austin Nichols Co., wholesale
grocers of New^ York and Chicago.
The entire pack of the canneries will
be handled by the firm without be
ing purchased through brokers.
Chas. Carlson and Fred Webster,
both of whom spent the winter out
side, returned to Unalakleek last
month, by way of McKinley district.
They say they say enough quartz pro
perty on the trip to pay the nation’s
war debt.
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Complaints of illegal fishing have
been filed in southwestern Alaska
against six packing companies for il
legal fishing, the complaints charg
ing the defendant companies with
operating their traps during a timq
when the law required them to be
closed.
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The dredge constructed on Sifft
set creek in the Port Clarence district
last summer was sold at Nome recent
ly by the marshal to satisfy a judg
ment secured by employes for wages
due them. The dfedge yeas bid in by
Charles Rice, one of the judgment
creditors. >
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The run of dog salmon in Icy
Straits and other points to the north
is much greater this year than last
and in many places the run of pink
saimon is slightly below what it was
last year, according to Senator J. R.
Heckman, who is making a tour of
the canneries.
Casey and Wart, two infantrymen
stationed at St. Michael, had a thril
ling experience with a polar bear
while on a hunting trip recently. The
bear was chasing walruses on the ice
when first seen and gave battle to
the soldiers who threw down a bar
rage and bagged him.
The auxiliary power schooner Ru
by used in trading between Nome
and Siberia, called ino Ketchikan on
her way north last week. The vessel
will go to point Barrow, and from
there 600 miles east to the MeKenzie
islands where Capt. Whitlam will
trade with the natives.
Louis Doumains was taken into cus
tody by the Fairbanks police re
cently on the charge of robbery and
turned over to the federal authori
ties for a preliminary hearing before
Commissioner Heilig. Doumains is re
ported to have been caught in the
act of “rolling” a man in the re
stricted district.
The Hunter, a famous resort of he
early days of Nome, located at the
corner of Front street and Hunter
Way, was re-opened last week as a
billiard and pool hall, selling soft
drinks. The new proprietor will be
Sol Warren^who ran the establish
ment. when something harder than
sodas wrere retailed and dance hall
girls raked down their commission..
Warren at one time was in the news
paper game and was the man who ex
posed the famous Midas creek fake,
thereby preventing a wild and danger
ous stampede.
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PACIFIC FLEET
SOON TO USE
ALASKA COAL
Secretary of the Navy Daniels, who
is on his way to the states from a
hurried trip through the coast of the
territory, has wired to his department
at Washington that the Alaska coal
fields may eventually afford a source
of supply for the entire Pacific fleet.
He says test of the coal showed it
entirely suited for naval uses and the
deposits appear to be large. Secre
tary of Interior Payne has also ex
pressed the belief that Alaska’s coal
supply will be adequate for the navy
before long. In a recent interview he
said: “There is supposed to be a great
leal of oil in Alaska, but that is not
i matter of certainty as yet. We do
snow that the territory has immense
-esources of coal, and we are starting
to get it out. The Matanuska fields,
in South-central Alaska, offer 48
square miles of possible coal, bitu
minous; but the formation is irregu
lar, the beds covered by gravel and
exposed only in stream banks, so that
no estimate can be ventured of the
riuantity available.
“Much the same description applies
to the Bering fields, near the coast
and east of the mouth of Copper river.
They can be reached by constructing
a branch from existing Copper river
railroad, which was built to develop
very important copper deposits near
the head waters of the same stream.
“We are starting to develop the
Matanuska fields for the navy. Up
to now the coal needed for our war
ships on the Pacific coast has been
carried across the continent by rail,
but before long an adequate supply
will be obtained from Alaska.”
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