SWISS CREDIT IS!
INCREASING BY
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GENEVA, Switzerland, Dec. 29.—"It
is a veritable financial absurdity,”
says the Tribune de Geneve, comment
ing on the low price of the dollar in
Switzerland, which is now worth five
francs fourteen centimes, whereas the
norma! price is five francs eighteen
centimes, while Swiss money is at a
great premium in Paris, London and
New York. In Paris, for example, a
100 franc Swiss note is worth 114 to
118 francs today. Americans living
in Switzerland are losing by the ex
change rates. The Tribune adds that
the situation is extraordinary because,
whereas America is full of gold and
lending millions to the belligerent na
tions, Switzerland is surrounded by
fighting nations and has contracted a
debt since the war, of over 700,000,000
francs, but its credit is increasing as
the war progresses. The Swiss gov
ernment intends shortly to raise an
other loan of 100,000,000 francs for
mobilization and other purposes.
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HELP STUDENT PRISONERS
IN EUROPE’S WAR CAMPS,
SEATTLE. Dec. 29. — A fund Is
being collected among the students
at the University of Washington to
provide the students and teachers im
pounded in the detention camps of
Europe with books and other material
to help them keep their minds off
the horrors of the fighting front. Sim
alar funds are being collected at other
big universities throughout the coun
try. 1
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ALASKAN DIES IN SOUTH.
The governor's office has been ad- *
vised by the Sanitarium Company of
Portland, Oregon, of the death on De
cember 9 of Fidel Labon, who entered
the sanitarium on August 23, 1912, |1
from Bristol bay, Alaska. Interment j
took place In the Mulnomnh cemetery,
Portland.
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Apparatus almost automatic in op-'
eration has been invented to enable !
policemen to time automobiles accu- j
rateiy and arrest violators of speed
law's.
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Fresh eggs for sale at Lambert’s.
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The manufacture of carbide is a new'
Industry planned for New Zealand.
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shined. Alaskan Hotel barber shop, j
Prompt delivery.
FIGHTING OVER
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LONDON, Dec. 29. — Legal wrong
ing which has been going on for 80
ears over "John Mobbs’ millions,"
rill be ended next spring with the
ale at auction here of the immense
properties which have caused so many
leart burnings.
The auctioneer knows these prop
■dies as the “London estates of Lord
Arlington,” and their value is some
where in the neighborhood of sever
jiillion dollars. They include factor
les and docks, covering scores o!
icres on the Regent’s canal in I>on
Jon, together with more than 2,50(
houses, rented for various terms o
years to working clas stenants.
Mobbs' millions have for nearly f
century been a glittering bubble t<
hundreds of "rightful heirs” who hav<
cither turned up in quest of them 01
been turned up by lawyers in quest o
the large fees.
John Mobbs was a Northampton
shire coachman. In 1757 he marriet
the daughter of his old master, a riel
London distiller, and thus became thi
owner of a large agricultural estab
in the then outskirts of London. Bu
Mobbs’ use of the land was restrictei
by certain ancient "rights” which thi
citizens of London possessed to prac
tice "free archery" over them, an*
there were stone "archer's marks
dotted over the fields when Mobbs be
came their owner.
Mobbs, however, granted leases im
providently over the greater part o
the estate, and then mortgaged th<
whole thing to a merchant namei
Sturt. The greater part of the Mobb
meadows thus fell into the hands o
the Sturts, the head of whom is nov
Lord Arlington.
Building began on the Mobbs mead
ows in 1823, and twenty years late
they were all covered with houses an'
factories, wharves and coal yards, cs
lial basins and timber sheds. Th
golden acres have ever since been s
occupied. Hideous slums grew u
there too, which the taxpayers ha'
to buy up at high prices in order i
replace them with parks and healthie
dwellings. As London increased i
value the value of the property wen
up, and various descendants of Johi
Mobbs went into the court, carried oi
lawsuits, seized empty houses, an
otherwise endeavored to assert the!
alleged claims.
Many of the original leases did no
expire until 1870, and there was thei
a great reopening of the legal hostil!
ties. The attempts to regain the pn:
perty for the descendants of Mobb
always failed, however, although ther
seemed to be plenty of legal technl
calities to justify their pleas. At oik
itme professional pugilists were em
ployed to garrison the empty houses
but the Sturts won in the end and th*
Mobbs meadows are now to be din
persed by the auctioneer’s hammer.
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TO REPUCE
portant “living buddahs" of Mongolia
the old Kanchurwa Hutuhktu, recent
ly died and his senior disciple, Lami
Akewangyenlinpuleh, is now in Pekini
preparing to make a pilgrimage inti
Thibet in search of a young boy ii
whom the soul of the old Hutuktu hai
been reincarnated.
The Chinese government has grant
ed the Lama the use of a private ca
to the end of the government rallwa;
in Mongolia, and from that point hi
will proceed by caravan into Thibet
where he will search for the young
buddha to replace his old master.
Inquiries will be made by him ii
Thibet for boys born in a miraculoui
way, with divine signs, such as a rei
light or other forms of supposed di
vine manifestations, at about the timi
the old Hutuhktu passed away, A1
the boys thus secured will be thei
carried to Lhassa, where their name
will be written, on slabs of wood am
placed in a golden urn. The bo;
whose name Is first drawn out afte
due ceremony will be declared the re
embodiment of the dead buddha.
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NOTICE.
All creditors of the Cordova Pack
ing Company, who have not heretc
fore presented their claims to M
Brock, at the Blum. O’Neill store, ar
requested to do so at once.
LOCAL JOTTINGSI
ABOUT PEOPLE
AND DOINGS |
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The Bungalow Club will give a g
dance at the Hegg hall on New Year’s fi
night.
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Mrs. Van Slyke, who broke one of P
her legs some time ago, is slowly re- --•
covering from the effects of her ac- gf
cldent. p
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There will be many elaborate as ^
well as grotesque costumes worn at l
the firemen’s ball. See that you are P
there to help swell the crowd.
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.1. W. Forrester is the proud father g
of a bouncing boy, which was born at p
the hospital. Dr. W. W. Council re- |
ports that both mother and son are h
1 doing nicely.
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"Cordova, the New Boom Town of g
1 Alaska,’’ is the caption of a half
column article in the Juneau Daily g
Dispatch, showing the business im- |
prevement at this place.
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! Peter Clausen and wife have re- g
s turned from a trip to the states and f
t will leave on Saturday's train for |
I Chitina, where Mr. Clausen has been
• engaged by the Alaska road commis- -
. sion IJqg several years past.
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■ Yesterday afternoon a heavy piece
. of machinery fell on the bands of E. =
A. Anderson at the company shops.
. He was immediately taken to the hos
f pital, where it was found that two
, fingers on each hand were broken. r
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, George Mosser. who ran part of a
f needle in his foot while at Anchorage
r last summer, and has recently suf
fered considerably from the accident,
. had Dr. VV. W. Council remove the
, broken needle, by performing a minor
j operation. Mr. Mosser is now get
. ting along nicely, although he will be
, housed several days until the wound
j heals.
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) Big assortment of ladies' embrol
, dered handkerchiefs just received at
- Clayson’s. Dron In and see them
, IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR THE
TERRITORY OF ALASKA, THIRD
1 DIVISION, CORDOVA PRECINCT,
l AT CORDOVA,
i No. 112.
r In the Matter of the Estate of J. W,
Durnen, Deceased.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
I The undersigned executor of the es
i tate of J. \V. Ilurnen, deceased, here
. by gives notice that all persons hav
_ ing claims against the said estate, are
admonished and required to present
( the same, with the proper vouchers,
within six months from the date here
of, to the undersigned executor at his
office and place of business, namely at
Slater's Restaurant, on First Street,
in said Cordova.
Dated at Cordova, Alaska this 27th
day of December. 1916.
HENRY A. SLATER,
Executor of the estate of J. W. Durnen,
Deceased.
Date of first publication, December
29, 1916.
Date of last publication, January 26,
1916.
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