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575 Town Lots in Cordova.
Ranging in price from $50 up to $3000, and 600
Town lots in Cliitina from $50 to $1000. Any
or all of them on easy terms.
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GEO. C. HAZELET,
Cordova, Alaska. Trustee and Agent.
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CHITINA
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CHITINA, ALA8KA
All Rooms Heated
CAFE and BILLIARD ROOM
A Large Parlor and
Reading Reom
H. T. STAFSHOLT
PROPRIETOR
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THE HOTEL
CHITINA
ENLARGED AND COMPLETELY RENOVATED
SPACIOUS LOBBY — STEAM HEATED
CAFE AND BAR
The Comfort Home of the Interior
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Proprietor Chitina, Alsaka
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mow EXPLOSIVES
ARE MADE IN
(By Associated Press Correspondence)
LONDON. Feb. 17—How the Brit
ish make their explosives is described
by a writer who was given permission
to go through a factory now turning
out much of the material used in the
British and French shells.
The factory grounds are connected
by telephones and tram lines, says the
writer, nnd in addition to the build
ings there are a number of embank
ments. Some of the sheds are high
ly dangerous. First among these
comes the nitrating room, In which a
tank filled with a mixture of nitric
and sulphuric acid Is kept In n state
of violent agitation by means of com
pressed air jets, shot up from the
bottom. Above the acid a small
stream of pure glycerine trickles in.
Below the vat is a pool of water in
which the vats's contents could be
drowned were the mixing to go
wrong. The acids when mixed with
the glycerine become nitro-glycerlne
—ten times more powerful than gun
powder and likely to explode at the
slightest shock.
The fumes arising from the tank
are closely watched while the con
tents are cooled by means of chilled
brine, forced through a coil of pipe
at the bottom. Should the slightest
trace of red appear, the attendant |
must drown the stuff on the second. I
When ready the crude explosive
runs through a lead pipe to another
room. There it is allowed to settle
in vats, and the surface is skimmed
off. If the compound has not been
properly mixed, a ring of peacock
green appears on the surface of the
tank, and the attendants dash out
of the building to save themselves
if they can.
The third building is devoted to the
washing of the nitro-glycerlne to get
rid of the excess of free acid. Two
I washings are gone through, the first
! in pure water agitated by air jets and
the second time in water to which
j a strong solution of soda has been
added to neutralize the remaining
i races of acid.
Nitro-glycerine is now used for
many purposes in the form already
reached. But to make dynamite, it
is taken to a fourth shed, where fine
ly ground wood pulp and Chilean salt
petre are added. This yellowish,
soapy mixture is harmless enough un
less fired by strong concussion, gen
erally by a cap of fulminate of mer
cury, an explosive that goes off at
the merest touch.
Dynamite is rarely used in torpe
does, because gun cotton is mone
convenient. Some forms of it, how
ever, enter into submarine mines.
The making of Melinite and picric
acid and of trinito-touol, the the terri
ble explosives used in aerial bombs,
is kept from the public, while abso
lute secrecy surrounds the making of
cordite, lyddite and the mysterious
"B” powder. Not even the work
men and the chemists employed in
making these explosives know the
combinations into which they are
mixed for service use. It is said that
some of the materials turned out in
the explosive factories, which em
ployes and chemists think are abso
lutely necessary to the production of
service charges, are not used at all.
They are asked for simply to mislead
possible traitors who would betray
government secrets.
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AGED MILITARY
FIGURE IS DEAD
(By Associated Press Correspondence)
POTSDAM, Germany, Feb. 17—An
interesting military figure of the
Franco-Pruuian War of 1870-71 passed
away here recently in the person of
Wilhelm Koers, the standardberarer
of the 1st Battalion of the First Guards
Regiment. When the first Emperor
William was proclaimed in the Mirror
Hall of Vesailles Palace in 1871 Koers
held over his monarch’s head the flag
of his regiment, Koers, who had
reached his 71st year just before hiB
death, was a custodian of the Royal
Palace at Potsdam. In the latter days
of the late Empress Augusta when she
had become very feeble, Koers always
accompanied Her Majesty when she
went out. He was well known to all
the members of the Imperial Family.
OLD SCHEME WILL
NOT WORK NOWADAYS
Soldiers stationed in Alaska who
are desirous of quitting the service
will have to originate a new scheme
from that which has been practice
in the past. In days gone by they were
able to get out of the service by get
ting into jail for a short term by sel
ling liquor to Indian^* .Convictions
in civil courts were always followed
by dishonorable discharges from the
United States army. Now it is dif
ferent. After a convicted soldier has
served his time In prison he is turned
over to the military authorities and
subject to a court martial. If con
victed the sodler goes to Alcartraz
prison in San Francisco instead of
leaving the army with a dishonorable
discharge.
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ADMIRAL JELLICOE
HAS COOD RECORD
(By Associated Press Correspondence)
LONDON, Feb. 17—No popular sail
or is so little known personally to
the British people as Admiral Jelli
coe. Yet the Admiral has an adven
turous record and has three times in
his career recovered from wounds
that were at first believed to be fa
tal.
Jellicoe comes from a family of
French extraction, and his father was
a sailor. As a midshipman he ex
celled his fellows in his studies and
attention to duty and won nearly all
the prizes offered on his training
ship. He took part in the bombard
ment of Alexandria, fought at Tel-el
Kebir, and narrowly escaped from
drowning when the Victoria sank. He
also fought through the Boxer rebel
lion in China. As an administrator
his career has been no less distin
guished, for he served as director of
naval ordnance and as controller of
the navy.
A writer describes him as a slender
man, below the average height, with
calm grey eyes and an air of perfect
confidence. At the same time there
is a lurking sense of humor in the
lines about the eyes and mouth. In
his small, wiry figure, he resembles
the late Lord Roberts.
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END OF FAMOUS
DIVORCE CASE
The Rota tribunal has rejected
Count Bonl de Castellane’s suit for
the annulment of his marriage to Anna
Gould, now the Duchess of Talley
rand. Arguments in the third trial
of the case were closed on February
10, after which the court announced
its decision.
Count de Castellano's appeal to the
Vatican courts for the annulment of
his marriage to Anna Gould has been
pending since 1910. Under the ecclesi
astical judicial system, before a re
ligious marriage is annuled, the case
must be heard three times by the Roat
tribunal, each time by three different
judges, and two decisions must favor
the contestant before the judgment is
final. In the Castellane case the
present Duchess of Talleyrand has
won two of these decisions.
If the Count had been successful in
obtaining annulment of the religious
marriage he would have been enabled
to marry again. Under the French
law he would have obtained possession
of their three children who given into
the custody of their mother when she
obtained a divorce in the Paris courts
in 1906.
De Castellane based his petition
upon affidavits made by Prince del
Drago and Jean de Castellane, the
Count's brother, who declared the then
Miss Gould invalidated the religious
by declaring to them a quarter of an
hour before the ceremony was per
formed that she intended to divorce
her husband if ever he were unfaith
ful to her.
Anna Gould, daughter of the late
j Jay Gould, was married to Count de
Castellane in New York city, March
4, 1895. After her divorce from him
she married Prince Helle de Sagan on
July 7, 1908, and became the Duchess
of Talleyrand when her husband suc
ceeded to the title on the death of his
father in Paris, February 21, 1910.
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Kinney has a earner on Coffee.
I What we mean is COFFEE, not the
! wishy-wlshy kind you have been
i buying and nicknamed coffee. One
can of Dwight Edwards will convince
GERMANS SAVING
FOR WAR EOAN
(By Associated Press Correspondence)
RERLIN, Feb. 17—A report on the
Oerman savings banks shows that they
have done a satisfactory business
since the war began. In the days
around the end of July about $24.
000,000 more was withdrawn from
them than was paid in; but iti Aug
ust the deposits exceeded the with
drawals. In October, owing to the
payment of subscriptions on the big
national loan, the withdrawals again
exceeded the deposits by some $90
y
000,000, but the reduction of deposits
during the second half of the year
was altogether only about $23,000,000;
and if the Interest credited to depos
itors at the end of the year be taken
into account, their holdings for the
half year actually increased by al
most $50,000,000. For the entire year
the Increase was over $200,000. A con
siderable number of savings banks
have already issued their annual re
ports for 1914, and not one of them
shows a reduction of deposits. Since
the beginning of the new year n con
siderable improvement in the husi
ness of the banks has been observed
From various parts of the country
it Is reported that deposits have been
heavier than ever before. People are
apparently laying by money to sub
scribe to the next big war loan, which
will probably be brought out In about
two months.
BRAVERY DF GIRL
BRINGS RICH REWARD
(By Associated Press Correspondence)
BOCHUM, Germany, Feb. 17—Both
the iron cross and the medal for life
saving decorate the breast of Frau
lein Aust. a girl still In her 'teens and
a native of Bochum. When the war
broke out, Miss Aust, like many other
girls, experienced the desire to join
the Red Cross. She knew her parents
would object, so she obtained permis
sion of them to visit relatives at
Muenster, but instead of proceeding
there she went to a Red Cross train
ing home and was soon drafted to the
eastern front as a nurse. There her
bravery on the batlefields of Poland,
where she tended the wounded under
fire, attracted attention from her su
periors, who reported instances of her
courage to Field-Marshal von Hind
enburg. The commander-in-chlef
thereupon decided to award her the
Iron cross which he himself pinned
on her blouse. A short time after
ward Miss Aust, while on the Silesian
frontier, jumped into the swollen
river Oder and saved two children
from drowning. For this heroic deed
she was given the Life-Saving medal.
She returned home at the end of Jan
uary for a short rest and gave a com
plete surprise to her parents who had
all the time believed she was with her
relatives in Muenster.
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SHOULD ELECT A
PARENT AS DIRECTOR
The time is near at hand when
a nrw school director must be elect
ed. and before the matter of select
ing candidates is given more atten
tion, it would be well to consider
the adcisability of giving parents the
the advisability of giving parents the
preference in the matter.
It would not be natural for a nnu
or woman who has not a child of
school age^o take as much personal
interest in the public schools as one
who has a selfish interest in the wel
fare of the schools. Thus to get the
best services out of a school director,
he or she should be a parent.
In the past, this phase of the ques
tion has usually been lost sight of,
and while the schools have managed
to get along, it is probable that more
general satisfaction would have re
sulted if only parents had been elect
ed.— Kx.
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Eight Indians Drowned
Eight Indians, four men and four
women, were drowned from a gasoline
launch while crossing Taku inlet near
Juneau a few days ago. A sudden
squall came up and swamped the boat
which was 33 feet long and about the
handling of which the inmates prob
ably knew but little.
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