FIRST BANK OF CORDOVA
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We Sell Travellers' Checks
Gold Dust Bought at Highest Market Prices
DESPOSITORY FOR TERRITORIAL FUNDS.
Northern Drug Co.
Do You Like
The very best Candies?
Well, we have them.
By the Box and in Bulk
Fresh on every boat
Come in and try them at the
Corner Drug Store
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Five days from Chitina
to Fairbanks
Take the Automobile Line at Chitina for all
points on the Government Trail.
Fare to Fairbanks $75
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Cordova Power
Company
LIGHTS, WATER, PHONES
AND POWER
25 and 40 Watt Lamps.35c. '"7\
60 Watt Lamps.50c. s
100 Watt Lamps.75c
250 Watt Lamps.$2.00 V
200 Watt, Gas Filled Lamps.$3.00
Office: FIRST STREET.
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AN OFFER FOR SIXTY DAYS ONLY.
575 Tewn Lots in Cordova.
Ranging in price from $50 up to $3000, and 600
Town lots in Chitinu from $50 to $1000. Any
or all of them on easy terms.
Now is the time to buy.
For particulars—Call on or write to
GEO. C. HAZELET,
Cordova, Alaska. Trustee and Agent.
The Leading Hotel of Alaska
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SOLDIERS DONT
LIKE FARM
PARIS, July 10.—Service at the
front seema to indispose men for
work In the fields. The military au
thorities gave a great many leaves to
reservists to permit them to do the
work of seeding; they were obliged
later to ask the local authorities to
send back to the front all men who
neglected the work for which they
were sent home.
An employment bureau organized to
recruit farm help to replace the men
at the front succeeded in placing only
3,600 refugees from Belgium and
Northern Prance. Spaniards, Kagyles
from Algeria and Moors were tried un
successfully, yet, thanks to the
women, the total wheat acreage is
11,446,256 acres against last year's
12,986,660, of which 696,204 acres
were in invaded territory.
Reports from the eleven regions
Into which Prance Is divided for pur
poses of statistics give the wheat crop
prospect as averaging 72 which Is
considered quite satisfactory.
This average is about the same as
that of last year. Eight departments
show up better than last year and
eight not so well.
The departments that were invaded
and are still partiatty occupied show
the astonishingly high percentage of
76.
The cash wheat market in Prance
is paralysed by the government’s re
quirement that no wheat may be
shipped from one department into
another unless there ts shipped bnck
in return an equivalent quantity of
flour.
Barley, oats and nearly all other
crops promise as well as wheat.
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SUPREME COURT
CLEANS OP
WASHINGTON. July 10.—Adjourn
ment of the Supreme Court for the
summer months marks the completion
. of 25 years operation of the present
Judicial system, instituted by the
Evarts law of 1890. This law created
the nine circuit courts of appeals,
which virtually became a sort of .sub
supreme courts to relieve the highest
tribunal of the great pressure of cases
which were congesting its docket and
contributing to the law’s delays.
At the opening of the new system
the Supreme Court was three years
behind in Its work, and much more
time elapsed before cases were de
cided. Three years passed between'
the time a case was docketed there
and the time its was presented, com
pelte, to the justices for decision.
Today, the Supreme Court is only
one year behind on its work. During
the 25 years, 10,706 cases have been
filed there—an average of 430 a year,
more than one for every day. During
that time the court has disposed of
11,419 which included 1,200 waiting
when the new system went into effect.
But for the latter the court now would
be abreast of its work.
During the court year Just ended,
528 cases were filed and 539 were
disposed of and the docket now con
tains 536, the smallest number dur
ing the last six years. Only three
years In the court’s history saw more
cases disposed of. They were 1890.
1912 and 1913.
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Just received a new shipment of
STYLEPLUS Clothes at 8. BLUM A
Co.
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NOTICE
Notice Is hereby given that the
annual meeting pf the stockholders
, °f the First Bank of Cordova
will be held at the office of said
bank In the Town of Cordova, Alaska
$ on Tuesday July the 13th, 1915, at the
i hour of 4 o’clock p. m. of said day at
| which meeting the directors of said
| bank shall be elected for the ensuing
[ year, and such other business trans
\ acted as may regularly come before
> said meeting.
H. I. LEWIS,
■ Assistant Secretary.
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; then subscribe for The Times, n-'jiy
| or Weekly, or both.
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All the Real News In the Times.
STATISTICS ON
WEALTH IN
ENGLAND
LONDON, July 10.—An analysis of
government statistics made by the
Fabian Society shows that In the
United Kingdom there are 1,500,000
persons whoBe Incomes exceed $3,500
a year, 4,500,000 with Incomes be
tween $800 and $3,500 and 39,220,000
who receive less than $800 annually.
It Is calculated that the average wage
of the adult laboring man equals
$6.50 a week and of the adult woman
worker but $2.75 weekly. Since 1895.
the purchasing power of a pound has
declined to little more than half; that
Is five dollars now goes no further
than $2.95 did in Great llritnin in
1895.
Out of a national annual income of
eleven billion dollars, something over
a billion and a half are absorbed In
rent, two billion nnd a half go for in
terest and $2,760,000,000 for profits
and salaries.
Peace has its tolls no less than war,
for In 1913 there were 4,863 persons
killed and 222,061 Injured In industrial
accidents with 625 cases of poison and
anthrax in factories, resulting In 34
deaths.
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HELP GIVEN TO
BRITISH BY
MELBOURNE, Australia, July 10.—
Australia has set a number of records
for distance including the despatch of
troops thousands of miles to the fir
ing line and the extraordinary ex
ploits of the submarine AE-2 in eov
©ring 30,000 miles before her loss at
the Dardanelles. Hundreds of wounded
Australians are also to be brought
back to the Commonwealth from the
hospitals at Alexandria as soon as the
heat of the Red Sea has lessened. The
influx will begin about next October
or November, but already steps are
being taken to cope with the situation.
The Red Cross will bear the brunt of
the burden and arrangements for
money, supplies, hospital room and
other necessities are being made.
Many offers of private homes are
forthcoming although it will be sev
eral months before the wounded men
arrive.
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SWISS LEVYING
N E W MS
BERNE, Switzerland, July 10.—An
amendment to the Swiss Federal Con
stitution, providing for the levying of
a special war tax to meet the expenses
incident to mobilization of the army
for the maintenance of Swiss neutral
ity, which was submitted to a refer
endum vote of the entire people has
been accepted by an overwhelming
majority, the vote being 436,600 to
26,600.
The new taxes are both on property
and Income. Persons possessing less
than $2,000 worth of property or earn
ing less than $600 a year are exempt.
The rate of tax is progressive, rang
ing from $1 to $15 per thousand on
property and from $5 to $100 per
thousand on income.
Stock companies will be taxed at a
rate rising from $2 to $10 per thou
sand dollars of capital. The rate will
vary according to the rate of dividend
paid.
The campaign on behalf of the war
tax amendment to the constitution
had the support of all the political
parties. The tax Is expected to yield
about $10,000,000. The remainder of
the Swiss indebtedness on account of
the war will have to be funded
through the issue of bonds. The
present cost of the war to Switzerland
is estimated at nearly $5,000,000 n
month.
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ELEVEN MiTIS
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LONDON, July 10.—The Norwegian
ship Hansen has Just arrived at
Shoreham, England, from Sweden,
after being eleven months on a trip
which ordinarily occupies less than a
fortnight. The excessive cnution of
the skipper in avoiding war dangers
W'as responsible for the delay.
A few days after the Hansen left
Sweden the war broke out, and the
vessel immediately put Into a Nor
wegian port to wait for things to settle
down. Several times during the
autumn and winter the skipper re
solved to make a new start, but each
time he was deterred by news of mine
fields or submarine activities in the
vicinity. It was April when he fin
ally got away, and then, In order to
avoid submarines, he took a round
about course north of Scotland and
west of Ireland.
His caution was in vain for off the
south Irish const he was stopped by
a Herman submarine, but after some
delay was allowed to proceed.
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Situation Wanted .
By widow lady to take charge of a
rooming house or to cook at a camp,
or roadhouse. Mrs. H. Phillips,
f’hitlna, Alaska.
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Just received a r.ew shipment of
STYLEPLUS Clothes at S. BLUM &
Co.
Restoration to Entry of Lands in
National Forest
Lists 6-1496,-1512,-1513,-1541.
Notice is hereby given that the
lands described below, embracing
469.88 acres, within the Cbugach Na
tional Forest, Alaska, will be subject
to settlement iuid entry under the pro
visions of the homestead laws of the
United States and the act of June 11,
1906 (34 Stat., 233). at the United
States land office at Juneau. Alaska,
on August 16, 1915. Any settler who
was actually and in good faith claim
ing any of said lands for agricultural
purposes prior to January 1, 1906, and
has not abandoned game, has a pref
erence right to make a homestead
entry for the lands actually occupied.
Said lands were listed upon the appli
cations of the persons mentioned
below, who have a preference right
subject to the prior right of any such
settler, provided such settler or appli
cant is qualified to make homestead
entry and the preference right is
exercised prior to August 16, 1915, on
which date the lands will be subject
to settlement and entry by any quali
fied person. The lands embrace a
tract of 160 acres, described by metes
and hounds as follows: Beginning at
Corner No. 1, situated on the bench
immediately north of the town of
Ninilcbic, east shore of Cook Inlet, a
post marked H-l whence U. S. L. M.
No. 1, bears 3. 49 deg., 45 min. Wf
17.88 chs.; extending thence N. 14 di j
K., 15.15 chs.; thence meandering east
shore of Cook Inlet 60 feet back from
line of ordinary high tide, N. 41 deg.
E., 7.53 chs.; thence N. 28 deg. E„
17.27 chs., to Corner No. 3; thence EJ
35.17 chs.; thence fl. 35.75 chs.;
thence W. 51.82 chs., to the place of
beginning, listed upon application of
Alex Homan, Homer, Alaska; List
6-1496.
A tract of 153.60 acres, described by
metes and bounds as follows: Begin
ning at Corner No. 1 a spruce post set
in ground 60 feet distant from mean
tide line on east bank of Laida Creek,
east shore of Cook Inlet approxi
mately % mile northerly from Apex
of Anchor Point, marked H-l, whence
Forest Service Monument No. 10 at
Granvoss Creek east bank Laida
Creek, bears N. 20 deg. E., 44 chs.;
extending thence along the east bank
of Laida Creek N. 51 deg. E„ 7 chs.;
thence N. 21 deg. E., 14 chs.; thence
N. 28 deg. E., 4.44 chs., to Corner No.
2; thence E. 66.81 chs.; thence S.
21.40 clis.; thence W. 79.27 chs., to
the place of beginning, listed upon
application of Jacob Petaja, Homer,
Alaska; List 6-1512.
A tract of 86.78 acres, described
by metes and bounds as follows. Be
ginning at Corner No. 1, Forest Ser
vice Monument (hereinafter de
scribed) bears N. 24 deg. W„ 90 links;
extending thence along the east shore
of Forberg Bay 60 feet back from line
of ordinary high tide S. 54 deg. W.,
2.90 chs.; S. 43 deg. W.. 5.16 chs.; S.
34 deg. W„ 5.80 chs.; S. 22 deg. W„
3.33 cits.; S. 50 deg. W„ 6.88 chs.; S.
46 deg. W., 6.33 chs., and §. 40 deg.
W„ 9.60 chs.; to Corner No. 2; thence
S. 24 deg. E. 18.30 chs.; thence N. 58
deg. E., 36.58 chs.; thence N. 24 deg.
W., 29.55 chs., to the place of begin
ning. Forest Service Monument con
sists of a post set in mound of stones
on top of bluff 10 feet above high
tide line on east shore of Forberg Bay,
marked F. S. M. 11. whence Passage
Point bears N. 7 deg. E.. and Observa
tion Point bears N. 48 deg. E. Listed
upon application of Peter Forberg,
Cordova, Alaska; List 6-1613.
A tract of 69.50 acres, ^escribed by
metes and bounds as follows: Begin
ning at Corner No. 1 situated on the
south shore of Boswell Bay a post
marked H-l; extending thence N.
63 deg. 45 min. E„ 10.59 chs., to Cor
ner No. 2, identical with Forest Ser
vice Monument, whence Northernmost
point of Boswell Hock, a conspicuous
lone rock 80 feet high on mud flat
near south shore of Boswell Bay,
bears N. 87 deg. 30 min. W„ 36.43
chs.; thence N. 45 deg. E.. 9:41 chs.;
thence E. 24 chs.; thence S. 26 deg.
30 min. E„ 20 chs.; thence S. 76 deg.
30 min. W„ 1.59 chs.; thence W. 49.12
chs.: thence N. 7.15 chs., to the place
of beginning listed upon application of
William Boswell, Cordova, Alaska;
List 6-1641.
C. M. BRUCE,
Assistant Commissioner of the
General Land Office.
Dated April 17, 1915.
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THE NORTHERN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY has
again to report a successful year, with marked gains
in every direction.
The assets were increased One hundred and Thirty-five
Thousand Dollars! the resrve for the protection of Policy
holders. One Hundred and Sixteen Thousand Dollars.
Accident and Sickness Claims of $28,478.00 were paid,
and Death Claims of $33,453.00.
No death Claim has ever been disputed.
All claims are paid Immedltely on receipt of proofs.
Total paid to policyholders in 1914 was $116,209 26.
The Company's yearly Income was increased to $415
605.00.
After itaying dividends of eight per cent, to stockholders
and dividends of $32,661.24 to policyholders
The net surplus of the Company was Increased more
than seventeen per cent, over the preceedlug yeai
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