THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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GREATER CORDOVA’S GREATEST NEWSPAPER
H. G. STSEL. C. H. WILCOX, C. H. SCHEFFLER, Publishers
H. G. STEEL, Editor and Manager
C. H. WILCOX, City Editor.
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CORDOVA, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1915.
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COMMENTS OF ALASKA NEWSPAPERS
OF SUBJECTS OF'LOCAL INTEREST
From the Iditarod Pioneer—
A great deal of rot was published during the recent political
campaign about demanding for Alaska “a lull territorial form
of government.” Those newsjajers which were loudest in
voicing this demand will now relegate such buncombe to the
rear and forget it. It had no foundation whatever, and was
merely a politician’s trick of creating an issue- The fact of the
matter is that Alaska has’tpiitc enough home rule of the kind
already.
From the Ketchikan Mail—
We are in receipt of 32 page pamphlet entitled “200 Ques
tions and Answers an Alaska.” by the Alaska Publicity and
Trade Agency of Seattle. The object of this little book appears
to be the booming of Alaska, and to condense a large amount of
reliable knowldge, and as such it’s a cracker jack. In fact tin
book contained considerable information heretofore unknown
to Alaskans themselves. It states that the Copper River and
Northwestern railroad extends from Cordova to Ketchikan, it
distance of 196 and a half miles. Now with limited knowledge
of us Alaskans we have formed the idea that to construct a
railroad from Cordova to Ketchikan would necessitate tunnel
ing under the sea a distance of perhaps 1000 miles as a cost of
$974,076,376,294.94, and in fact we had so much other matter
to attend to that none of us knew that this road had bon com
pleted until this little book revealed the fact. The publication
also contains many other startling and romantic statements
and is well worth the price of two-bits.
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From the Valdez Prospector—
Mistaken kindness always gets folks into trouble. Last
Sunday the Miner printed verbatim extracts from the pros
pectus published'in Chicago for the “Alaska Utilities Develop
ment Company” by O. P. Hubbard. The miner didn’t charge
a cent for the advertising, and yet some local guardians of tin
public weal art- offended. Last night half a dozen persons who
call themselves the Valdez Chamber of Commerce held a meet
ing on the state of the country and roasted the Miner. Today
Hon. Joseph C. Dieringer, general public censor, affirmed that an
effort to sell lots in Swanitziville at $150 per or more to people
in Chicago is a good' thing for Valdez.
Such being tin- case why should anybody kick because the
Miner printed whole paragraphs from the prospectus? A
meritorious project always courts publicity and extensive ad
vertising. If the luminous plans of the “Alaska Utilities De
velopment Company,” personnel and legal status unknown,
seek radiation from 105 La Salle street, Chicago, through print
ed matter, why not in Valdez?
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From the Seward Gateway—
John Pierpont Morgan probably controls this road as well
as the Cordova road. We all know that he is interested in
directly, at least, in the Alaska Northern But we really do not
know how much John Pierpont Morgan controls the fate of
this railroad. The great financial interests are dovetailed and
intermixed to such an extent that we probably haven’t the faint
est idea of the real facts and liavn’t the fainest idea to get at
- those facts. As a matter of fact, for aught we know to the con
trary, the offer of the sale of the Alaskan Northern and the offer
of the sale of the Copper River and Northwestern may be pawns
in one and th same game. The price asked for the A. N. may
be affected by the price wanted for the C. R. and N. and vice
versa.
If John Pierpont Morgan wanted' to sell the Cordova
road and if he believed for a minute that the Seward road in
terfered with his plans John Pierpont Morgan would have the
Seward road by the throttle in twenty four hours, and, again,
vice versa.
Itis a well known fact that people have worked for the
Guggenheims and the Morgans right here in Alaska for years
without knowing who were their paymasters, and worked in
rather responsible positions at that.
From the Juneau Empire—
The provision in Delegate Wickersham’s road'bill that on
* and after July 1, 191(5, the proceeds from the occupation or
license tax collected by th eFederal government outside of the
incorporated towns in Alaska shall be turned into the Terri
torial treasury, and applied hv the Alaska Legislature in cer
- tain manner therein set forth, should be defeated. There is
only one excuse for the continuation of the Alaska license tax
^system. That is its encouragement to Congress to appropri
ate money from the Federal treasury to go with the proceeds
from the tax toward aiding in the construction of Alaska roads,
ff that excuse is to be removed, the whole system should be
abolished.
The taxation of the people of Alaska, except insofar as they
are taxed under the general revenue producing laws of the
vyhole Nation, is of right a matter that concerns only the people
(i this Territory. The people of Alaska, through their Legis
lature, should levy all the taxes that are imposed upon them
selves, and provide for the expenditure. If the people of the
Territory are not capable of this they are not capable of any
manner of self-government.
The people of Alaska have recognized the iniquity of the
,%deral license tax law forfmany years, but as it has been a
.cans toward securing appropriations from the Federal gov
>rnment, for Alaska road purposes they have refrained from st
acking it earnestly.
Delegate Wickersham’s bill, if passed as it was introduced,
yould destroy the sole excuse for the system. It should be
-bolished entirely or it should remain as it is.
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PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY
DR. w. H. CHASE
PHY8ICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
Calls may be left at Cordova
Drug Store. Residence,
Rainier-Grand Hotel
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DENTIST
Office In Adams Building
ROBERT E. CAPERS
Attorney at Law
General Civil Practice
Suite 3, Adams Block
CORDOVA, .... ALASKA
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Councellor at I aw
Room 1
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA.
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Phone 4. CORDOVA, ALASKA
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PRACTICAL OPTICIAN
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ikan,’Wrangell, Junaau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez and Seward, via
INSIDE PASSAGE.
Sails frcm Sssttka—- Sails from Cordova—
January 1G. ALAMEDA . January 23
January 24. MARIPOSA.January 31
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez and Latouche. Expio*
Ives, S. 8. Seward. S. 8. Seward, 5th; S. S. Latouche, 15th- S. S.
Cordova, 25th of each month.
This company reserves the right to change schedule of steamers
without notice.
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
sailing time.
F. B. TRACY, T. J. TALLENT,
General Agent Ticket Agent
Pacific-Alaska Navigation Co.
ALASKA PACIFIC S. S. CO. ALASKA. COAST CO.
PUGET SOUND ALASKA ROUTE
Next sailing from Seattle will be
A.DMIRAL EVANS, January 25, To Seward only
ADMiRAL WATSON, February 5, Through to Kodiak.
Via the INSIDE PASSAGE for Ketchikan, Juneau, Yakutat,
Katalla, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Cook Inlet points and Kodiak
Island.
Seattle-San Francisco connecting with steamers Yale and Har
vard for Southern California Ports.
Schedule subject to change without Notica.
ALASKA 'I KANSFKK CO., Local Agents
Copper River &
Northwestern Ry.
EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 24, 1914. 11
Trains leave Cordova, depot at foot of Second Ave- ! I
nue—
Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays L
Chitina for Kennecott— !!
Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays.
Kennecott for Chitina— ::
Wednesdays, Saturdays and Mondays.
Chitina for Cordova— 1I
Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays ;;
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Freight received from 9 A. M. to 5 I*. M. ;;
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Caleb Corser S. R. Hedges
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