THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1920
A RANK INJUSTICE
A news item in today’s Daily Times
calls attention to the flourishing con
dition of the finances of the Alaska
cable system, operated by the signal
corps of the United States army. It
appears that last year the cable sys
tem “turned about $189,000 into the
treasury and, in addition, carried
5800,000 worth of official business
free.” In other words, besides paying
an extremely high tariff for their busi
ness and private messages transmit
ted by the Alaska cable to the States,
the people of Alaska not only paid for
the transmission of $800,000 worth of
public business messages on all man
ner of subjects, some of them not even
remotely connected with the welfare
of the territory, hut paid an additional
tax of about $189,000 for the privilege
of doing so. ,
All of which leads up to the query
as to whether it is not high time that
the cable tolls were reduced. The
cable system is practically the only
means of telegraphic communication
between Alaska and the States, the
wireless system being used almost ex
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clusively, except in case of interrup
tion to the cable service, in the trans
mission of government business. It
would seem that the figures quoted
would justify some action on the part
of the government looking to a reduc
tion in the nresent tolls.
But as in many other instances of
federal administration in Alaska, it is
difficult for the authorities at Wash
ington to visualize the situation here.
Recently an appropriation bill was un
der consideration in congress which
contained an item of some $90,000 for
the repair of about one hundred miles
of the Alaska cable which was de
clared by the signal corps officials to
be “rotten.” Although there was avail
able a large sum of money, many
times the amount asked for the re
pairs, in the hands of the army offi
cials, the item was stricken from the
bill in the house, and was only re
inserted in the senate after a strenu
ous fight.
Such incidents as this lend color to
the belief that the bill introduced by
Chairman Curry of the house terri
tories committee, for bringing the ad
ministration of federal affairs in
Alaska into closer touch with the peo
ple of the territory, may have consid
erable merit.
VOICE OF ThhE ALASKA PRESS
Love is said to be blind, but at the
same time we advise any married man
not to parade around town with a
chicken unless he knows his wife is
far away.—Hyder Miner.
The Republicans are sure their can
didate for President will be elected
this fall, while the Democrats are say
ing little but doing some tall hustling.
While it is rather early to attemept
political prophecy, we’ll bet a batch
of delinquent subscriptions that one
side or the other is disappointed.—
Valdez Miner.
It is getting so that safes are no
longer safe. Those burglars in Ju
neau who carried off a 500-pound safe
a few mornings ago had more nerve
than anyone we know around here.
The fellows were very obliging in one
way, and that is that when touching
the cash register they rang up “No
sale.” They did not want to misrepre
sent matters.—Douglas News.
Have you noticed how the days are
lengthening? Old Sol is staying up
later and later, until a fellow has to
wait until after supper to visit a boot
legger’s shack, or some place where
they would talk about him if they
saw him going "there, and you don’t
have to turn the lights on so early in
the day. The sun’s fire sets the
Alaska world ablaze and the embers
of it die out later every day, and the
first thing you know Fairbanks will
have a day that is longer than the
day of other camps, and twice as beau
tiful.—Fairbanks News-Miner.
Seward is coming right to the front
in the political arena of Alaska. Sew
ard has two candidates for territorial
senator—E. E. Chamberlain on the
Republican ticket and John Noon on
the Democratic ticket. Now the can
didacy has been filed of J. J. Finne
[ gan, who is seeking the nomination
on the Republican ticket for attorney
general. Seward is in the Third divi
sion, and this division has two candi
dates for national committeemen—
Jack Chovin and Charles E. Herron,
both of Anchorage. George Hazelet
of Cordova, that city also being in the
Third division, has received the dis
tinguished honor, never before ac
corded Alaska, of being on the com
mittee of Republicans to draft planks
for the national platform. Hurrah for
our city and our division!—Seward
Gateway.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE TO CREDITORS .1
In the United States Commissioner’s
Court for the Territory of Alaska,
Third Division, Cordova Precinct, at
Cordova.—In Probate.
In the matter of the Estate of John
Kachik, deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the un
dersigned administrator of the estate
of John Kachik, deceased, to the
creditors and all persons having
claims against said estate, to exhibit
them, with the necessary vouchers,
within six months after the first pub
lication of this notice to the said ad
ministrator at the Bank of Alaska, at |
Cordova, Alaska, the same being the
place for the transaction of the busi- j
ness of said estate.
G. K. BETTS, Administrator.
First publication. March 5, 1920.
Last publication, April 2, 1920.
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Price List:
Suits Sponged and Pressed.$1.50
Surface Cleaned .2.50
Renovated and Steamed. 3.50
Dresses French Dry Cleaned $3 and up
Plain Skirts, French Dry cleaned $1.75
Plain Sweaters, French Dry Cl’d 2.00
; Plain Waists, French Dry .Cl’d—. 1.50
| Gloves Cleaned.25c and 50c
j Fancy Dresses Dyed.$6.75 and up
Plain Dresses Dyed.$5.50 to $6.50
Plain Skirts, Dyed..$2.75 to $3.50
Suits Dyed . 6.00 to 7.50
; Long, Heavy Coats Dyed 6.50 to 8.00
Work Called For and Delivered
Phone 130
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this problem.
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SEATTLE SHIPYARDS
TO OPEN TEMPORARILY
SEATTLE, Mar. 6 (by Associated
Press).—Five wooden ships, recently
purchased from the United States
Shipping Board are to be fitted with
engines and other machinery at the
Seattle plant of the Meachem and
Babcock Shipbuilding Co., it was an
nounced recently.
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The Meachem and Babcock plant,
which has been closed and in the
hands of a receiver, will be opened
for seventy days and will employ
three hundred men to fit out the
boats. O. G. Heifner, receiver for
the yard, obtained the contract for
the work from the National Oil Co.,
New York, which purchased the boats
from the board.
CANADIANS WILL SPEND
Their money at home
SEATTLE, Wash., Mar. 6 (by Asso
ciated Press).—High discount rates
and prohibition are checking Cana
dian tourist travel to the United
states, according to Seattle steamship
men.
Canadians who leave their homes
with $1,000 in Canadian money find
they have only $800 when they reach
the United States wnere in many
cities the discount rate is twenty per
cent.
Prohibition in California has caused
many Canadians to abandon their for
mer winter trips to the Southern sec
tion of the state, the steamship men
believe. More liberal liquor regula
tions in Canada aid the northerners
to make up their minds to remain at
home.
MEXICAN PRICES LOW
COMPARED TO AMERICAN
JUAREZ, Mex., Mar. 6 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Comparison of the
prices of groceries in Juarez with
those that prevail in El Paso, opposite
here, reveal that most foodstuffs are
cheaper on the Mexican side of the
river, according to a compilation just
prepared by Stephen E. Aguirre, vice
consul for the United States at
Juarez. Rice and sugar are three cents
a pound less in Juarez than in El
Paso.
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The Cordova Jazz Orchestra will give away to its lady pa
':■< trons durin gthe months of January, February and March $50 in :•:•
gold in three prizes to the ladies guessing the amount of beans
j:j: in a glass jar. The conditions of the contest'are as follows: •:•:
Each lady will have one guess for every attendance at each X;
•x dance during the three months. The prizes will be $25 for first x*
prize, $15 for second and $10 for third.
:jj Ladles, come often and guess.
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