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H. G. 8TEEL, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
""CORDOV'A. ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, «RTLY r_\ I'.m;.
TO OUR MAIL SUBSCRIBERS.
The Times is doing all in its power to insure the prompt
delivery of the paper along the line of the Copper River &
Northwestern Railway. Many complaints have reached us that
the paper is not being received regularly. Our subscribers will
confer a favor on the Times if they will write us, specifying the
dates which are missed, in the future, and we will take steps to
find out where the trouble lies.
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IS YOUR SUBSCRIPTION PAID?
On June 15 the Times sent a circular letter to its mail sub
scribers, in which it was announced that all who are in arrears
on July 15 will be dropped from the list. -
The increased cost of paper makes it impossible for the
Times to carry the large number of accounts as it has in the
past. We want a large circulation, but it must be a paid cir
culation.
If you miss your paper of .July Hi you will know it is be
cause you neglected to send in the money due for past papers.
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ANCHORAGE MAKES A BREAK.
It is probable that the action of the Anchorage Republican
Club, which last night met and nominated James Wickersham
as delegate to congress, will be followed by many other clubs of
like character throughout the territory.
it now seems unlikely that the committee appointed at the
convention at Seward to nominate a candidate as delegate after
that body had been unable to agree upon any one man, will
fulfill its duties.
Valuable time is slipping past, and it is certain that unless
the Republicans take immediate steps to name a candidate it
will be too late.
The Democrats already have nominated a strong man.
Sulzer is a man who will make a better run than any other can
didate the Democrats ever have nominated. He already has
men in the field looking afteMiis interests, and if reports are
to be believed, they are making headway in their work.
Wickersham always is in the field. He has built up an or
ganization which is carefully watched by loyal adherents, and
it only requires his presence or a word from him to set it in
motion.
The Republicans now are'not organized into an efficient
machine. The convention at Seward was a farce, and did
much to belittle th<? party in the eyes of the Alaskan electorate,
it is now up to the rank and file of the Republicans to undo the
harm which that convention did.
It is an open secret that the majority of the Republicans
wanted Wickersham nominated on that ticket. This wish was
overruled at the behest of one man. It now remains to be seen
if the Republicans will accept the dictates of a political boss
and remain quiescent when convinced that they are being
robbed of their rights and the party is being doomed to defeat
at the polls because of the personal aspirations of one man.
It is not too late for the Republicans to rectify the wrong
which has been done. If the different clubs throughout the ter
ritory will follow the lead of the Anchorage club, and exercise
the great American right to revolt from the leadership of any
man or body of men when such becomes irksome, it may yet
be possible to force the men on the nominating committee to
name James Wickersham as the Republican candidate, thus in
suring his election and the sending of a Republican delegate to
congress.
Republican politics in Alaska too long have been in the
control of the men from the Alaska panhandle. Their work
has been unsatisfactory to the majority of the staunch party
men, and it is time that such control is wrested from them.
With Wickersham at the head of the ticket, the Republi
cans may rest assured that no one man or body of men will be
able to make him do their bidding, but on the contrary, lie will
be the man who will issue the orders.
With Wickersham at the head of the Republican ticket,
that party will go into the fight with the intention of winning,
and not merely to make a showing which will secure to the na
tional committeeman from Alaska the handling of federal pat
ronage in the North.
What is the opinion of Cordova Republicans?
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SOMETHING WRONG THERE.
The commissioners in charge of the government railroad
at Anchorage have repeatedly warn'd the public not to go
there with the idea that work could be obtained easily, as there
were more men than were needed. A late paper from there
says that a canneryman being in need of help, made a special
trip to the city, and w ith the assistance of two other men, final
ly secured the services of nine men and was “compelled to
leave without getting the number of men he went after.”
From an unquestionable source the Progressive-Miner
learned yesterday that the town is overcrowded with idle men;
and has been so ever since it was started, so to speak. It is said
that those who have been fortunate enough to secure employ
ment on the railroad, stick to their positions because there is
nothing else to do. One man who has been there with his family
for the last six or eight weeks, solicited our informant to help
him secure a position—at anything; but failed. Now4 why
should a newspaper which claims to have the interests of a
community at heart circulate such misleading reports as the
above, is not clear to us. Really, it looks as though there was
something wrong somewhere.—Ketchikan Miner.
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Sologub is a popular Russian lyricist. He ought to. do
something to atone for his name.
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After dining on Vienna rolls, the Austrians shouldn’t mind
a little thing like Russian cannon bolls.
SPORTS
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Gossip About Events of National
Importance and the Person*
Who Are In the Head
Liner Classes.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 8. — Fol
lowers of sports in all its branchei
ere wondering what effect the pres
ent Mexican trouble wllWvwe on coni
petition in the different lines of ath
letlc endeavor. Hundreds of athletes
are members of the National Guarr
organizations to be sent to the border
and scores of teams are likely to b«
disorganized as a result. It is gen
■ rally thought at least from one t(
three months will elapse before th<
men are mustered out.
Behr and Pell, the eastern tennh
players, are the first athletes of na
ttonal prominence to be called to th<
colors. Their absence already hai
disorganized several tournament!
which were to have been held. Nt
branch of athletics has escaped anc
nil are likely t<? suffer.
Football will be the first of th(
great sports to be affected, for it li
the consensus of opinion that then
will be little opportunity for the mei
returning In time for the coming sea
son. The trainers and coaches al
ready are preparing to find ways ant
means of filling the gaps that havt
already been made in their squads
Many of these men are stars, ant
whether the quality of the game thii
season will suffer as a result of theii
absence remains to be seen.
It is not anticipated that any game1
will be called gff, for none of thi
teams Is known to have lost more that
a player or two, but it may mean tha
the coaches will have to do consider
able shifting which will put the pla;
back somewhat. Where a star, arouni
whom the offensive or defense of i
team has been built, Is missing, thi
problem will be more serious for thi
coach, but these instances will be thi
exception. The University of Wash
ington is among the hardest hit, fivi
members of the squad being guards
men.
As yet there has not been suific.en
(o learn just wrhat athletes are wi'l
the colors, but when the rot! lias beei
called it is anticipated that s jvera
track and field stars are likely to bi
numbered among those missing whet
the Amateur Athletic Union’s chant
plonships are held at Newark thii
Call. The Mexican trouble is known ti
have drawn heavily on the elude
path men.
FISHING IN BACK YARD.
That angling enthusiasts, many o
them, can have fishing in their own
back yards by the judicious manipu
lation of neighboring streams, is thi
statement made by Dr. E. Viet.;:
Smith, assistant piofess'or of z lologi
at the University of Washington. Thi
state of Washington, especially in thi
western part .according to Dr. flmib,
furnishes an excellent field for art I
flclal fish ponds on farms because cf
the favornhln climatic conditions and
water supplies
Not less than one acre > ' ground
'"’ould he i utd for a pond sav-i Hr
! 3 • Dh ,;.nd I's greatest lc>'h > ti uld
nut c\ce d ‘•’v tcct. The po.d nm. be
stocked from neighboring streams. 11
fish arc easily transport 1 '< lift dis
tances In milk cans thp. have been
properly cooled and aerated by dip
ping the water from one can to im
t*her. In some cases me bur an el
fisheries furnishes eggs for docking
ponds. As a rule It has boon found
beFt to stock the ponds with fish
that are native to rather quiet waters
with a temperature similar to that
which they are to inhabit.
“The ponds will furnis.i 11 year
round supply of fish which are rich
In protein, an important moment in
body building, often found larking in
quantity^ in the average farm dietary,"
' Dr. Smith Is quoted as saying. “The
' ease and facility with which the fish
are obtained have been large factors
In favor of the farm ponds In the
Middle Western Btates, where their
number Is constantly increasing.’
HOME RUN RACE.
An unusually interesting race is cn
In the Pacific Coast Leagui to pre
mier honors as a home run get'.or. It
Is a three-cornered affair, In which
i j Brief of Salt Lake, Gulsto of Portland
land Bodle of San Francisco me the
! ,‘ontenders. Their four bass d. lvcs.
: as distributed at the present time are
■ as follows: Brief 13, Gulsto 11. IJ-rdie
9. Bodie holds the retord of the
i the Pacific Coast League for the
i greatest number of homeruns In one
i season. He acquired the title in 1910
: when he hit the ball for 30 full circuits
■ of the diamond. The following is the
’ record from 1903 to 1915, inclusive:
l 1903, Ragan, Sacramento, 13; 1904,
i Eagan, Tacoma, 25; 1905, Eagan, Ta
i coma, 21; 1906-7, no record kept; 1908,
! Heitmuller, Oakland, 12; 1909, John
! son, Portland, 13; 1910, Bodle, San
Francisco, 30, 1911, Ryan, Portland,
i 23; 1912, Coy, Oakland, 19; 1913, Coy,
Oakland, 18; 1914, Lober, Portland, 9;
1915, Schaller, San Francisco, 20.
WILL SEND CREW EAST.
SEATTLE, July 8. — Expense of
sending the University of Washington
eight-oared crew to Poughkeepsie next
year to take part In the annual inter
collegiate regatta held on the Hud
son will be borne by Horace C. Henry,
wealthy railroad man and philanthro
pist, he informed President Suxzallo
of the school today. The expenses of
the trip amount to about $4,000.
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BULGARIAN CAPITAL RAIDED
i BY FRENCH AERIAL SQUADRON.
> LONDON, July 11. — A squadron
' of French aeroplanes visited Sofia
this morning and dropped bombs on
! the military buildigs there, says a
i Reuter dispatch from Saloniki.
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Advertising
Not an Expense
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ADVERTISING IS AN
INVESTMENT
Not An Expense, and Should Be Treated as Such.
Because it has been the habit of
some merchants to look upon it as an
expense, A WRONG VIEW HAS
BEEN GAINED. Perhaps the miscon
ception arose from the fact that in
bookkeeping it has been the habit to
charge advertising to expense.
ADVERTISING PRODUCES NEW
BUSINESS — It SWELLS THE VOL
UME OF BUSINESS AND PROFIT—
THEREFORE IT IS AN INVEST
MENT.
Only the man who looks upon ad
vertising as an expense, who is afraid
of it, prejudiced against it, loses
money In advertising.
THE MAN WHO TREATS ADVER
TISING AS AN INVESTMENT AND
GIVES IT THE ATTENTION AN IN
VESTMENT REQUIRES — KNOWS
THAT EVERY DOLLAR RIGHTLY
INVESTED IN THIS DIRECTION
YIELDS COMPOUND INTEREST —
AND MORE.
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WM. A. HESSE
Mining Engineer,
U. 8. Mineral Surveyor,
U. 8. Deputy Surveyor.
BOX 358. CORDOVA, ALASKA.
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DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug 8tore.
Calls may be left at Cordova
Drug Store. Residence,
Alaskan Hotel
DR. W. W. COUNCIL
PHYSICAN AND SURGEON.
Office Hours—10 a. m. to 12 noon,!
Railroad Hospital; 2 to 6 p. m., Adams I
Building, lloom 6.
Phones—Residence, 115; Hospital, 1
46; Office. 132.
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Counsellor at Law
Room 1
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA.
ASA C. BALDWIN
Civil Engineer
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Patent Surveys
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Address: Valdez, Alaska
DR. C. L. HALE
D E N T I 8 T
Office In Adams Building
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EVERYTHING BOUGHT
AND SOLD
For anything you can’t find In
town, go to J. Rawson's Second
Hand Store and see what he has
got. We carry new and second
hand goods of all kinds, clothing
and kitchenware.
We have an experienced man
who does all kinds of repair work.
Give us a call.
JOHN RAWSON,
First Street
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M C. Thompson H. C. Murphy
The MECCA
Thompson & Murphy, Props
Dealers in
WINES, LIQUORS AND
CIGARS
Phone 107.
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Choice Tobaccos, Cigars and
8mokers Sundries—Wholesale
| and Retail Cigar Store.
The
Horseshoe
POPULAR RECREATION PLACE * ’
■Eilliards and Pool
Headquarters for the Petersen,
Wellington, Calabash and
Garrick Pipes.
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Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketch- 1
Ikan, Wrangell. Juneau, Skagwsy. Cordova, Valdez, Seward and
ANCHORAGE, vis INSIDE PASSAGE.
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Bails from Seattle. Sails from Cordova.
July 3. NORTHWESTERN . July 13
July 6.MARIPOSA . July 17
July 12.ALASKA. July 23
Regular freight service tor KetcniKan, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas, Cordova, Ellsmee, Valdez ard Latouche. Explos- ^
Ives, 8. S. Seward. 8. S. Seward, 6th; S. S. Latouche, 15th; 8. 8 *
Cordova, 25th c.f 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,
Ger. ral Agent Agent
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Pacific-Alaska Navigation Co.
ALASKA PACIFIC S. S. CO. ALASKA COAST CO.
PUGET SOUND ALASKA ROUTE
Next tailing from Seattle will be
ADMIRAL WATSON . July 16
ADMIRAL EVANS .July 23
ADMIRAL FARRAGUT .July 30
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 Notice.
ALASKA TRANSFER CO., Locnl Agents
The World's Mightiest Locomotives
Now haul the "Olympian" and the "Columbian" over the
Bitter Roots and Rockies with the electrification of 440
miles of its main line, the “MILWAUKEE" is better
than ever prepared to look after the comfort and acco
modations-of its patrons.
Remember this when you come outside.
TOM TALLENT. Agent.
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RY.
A. E. Harris, T. 1’. A., Juneau, Alaska.
Copper River & |
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| EFFECTIVE MAY 1, 1916. |
I;!: Three Trains Weekly Between Cordova and Chitina. iji:
jjjj Four Trail; s Weekly Between Chitina and Kennecott. jjjj
iji! Leave Cordova, Second Street Depot, on Mondays, Thurs- jijj
jjjj days and Saturdays. jSj
jjjj Leave Chitina for Cordova Sundays, Tuesdays and jjjj
jijj Fridays. jjjj
jjjj Leave Chitina for Kennecott Sundays, Tuesdays, Thurs- ijij
days and Fridays.
jjjj Leave Kennecott for Chitina Mondays, Wednesdays, jijj
jijj Thursdays and Saturdays.
jjjj The above schedule subject to change without notice, jijj
■iji Dining Car In Connection With alt Regular Pessenger Train* Be- jij:
tween Cordova and Chitina. 8
jiji Freight received from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M.
jijj Tickets on sale it Depot or up town office, Alaska -jij
jiji Steamship Company building . 8
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| Caleb Corser S. R. Hedges |
iji Superintendent Cordova Agent jjjj
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Cordova Power
Company *
LIGHTS, WATER, PHONES
AND POWER
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25 and 40 Watt Lamps.35c.
60 Watt Lamps.50c.
100 Watt Lamps.75c
250 Watt Lamps.$2.00
200 Watt, Gas Filled Lamps.$3.00
Office: FIRST. STREET.
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