The Cordova Daily Times
GREATER CORDOVA’S GREATEST NEWSPAPER
ASSOCIATED PRESS TELEGRAPHIC REPORT8.
H. G. STEEL. C. H. WILCOX, C. H. 8CHEFFLER, Publisher*
H. G. STEEL, Editor and Manager
C. H. WILCOX, City Editor.
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CORDOVA, ALASKA, Fit I DAY. FEBBtlABY 12,1915
This being Lincoln’s birthday it is observed as a holiday
in many of the states.
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With the raise in the price of Hour bread has advanced a
few notches in Cordova.
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i ’resident Wilson seems determined to keep Congress in
session until it passes the Ship Purchasing bill.
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A Tacoma lawyer was held up and his pockets yielded $8.
A lawyer with $8 just now ought to sit up with it.
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T he editor ol our contemporary has wandered to such an
extent that he now finds himself with Daniel in the lion’s den.
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Congress is still debating the Sundry Civil Rill, which car
ries with it an appropriation aggregating $2,868,000 for Alaska
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In less the report of the Alaska Kailroad Commission is
soon forthcoming our valentine will not reach us on schedule
time.
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They are fighting on skis in the Vosges mountains. Since
all Europe has a “skate on” (his is in consonance with things
as they are.
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If there is a durable satisfaction in creating and prolong"
ing strife in a small town let us do nothing to vitiate the
pleasures of the “near great.”
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In one of the eastern “movie” theatres eggs are taken in
lieu of money, but it may be a case of self protection. Many
an actor’s face might lx* saved if tlx* eggs were collected at the
door.
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A “Hot Air Hotel” is the latest talked-of innovation
at .Juneau and should it be launched Cordova can spare a few
individuals of “hot air” proclivities as regular boarders, to
the relief of a suffering public.
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The Cologne Gazette insists that Secretary Bryan is the
mouthpiece of Great Britain, but we do not believe that at all.
Mr. Bryan’s mouth is his own, we firmly insist. At any rate lie
has always taken all the profits from it.
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The Alaskan is demanding aterm of the District court in
Cordova, and' we’re with it. If the matter is properly present
e dto Judge Brown we believe lie will see the justice of our claim
and whenever there is sufficient business to warrant it hold
court here.
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According to telegraphic advices yesterday 45,000 Ger
mans were put out of action in a week’s fighting in one area
alone. T his terrific loss of human life is most heartrending,
it s 110 wonder a general appeal has been made throughout
the civilized world for peace.
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All foodstuffs to Germany, Austria and Turkey have been
declared contraband by Great Britain. That ruling was a
certainty and it is in accord with belligerent principles. Why
it should have been delayed six months may be attributed,
friends of the allies can say, to English patience.
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Amos Pinchot, on the witness stand in New York, criti
cizes the news-handling of the Associated Press, basing his
criticism, as usual, on ignorance of facts. Fabre, the great
Fiench naturalist, wrote this comment. “Ignorance is al
ways abusive; the man who does not know is always full of
violent affirmations and malign interpretations.”
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Oregon proposes compulsory voting. There are two sides
to it. One is that every citizen ought to he aroused to the in
telligent performance of a solemn duty; the other is that igno
rance and neglect driven to do what it dislikes to do is^not
likely to do it welt The law will cause some to bestir them
selves to a better citizenship; it will also fill the ballot boxes a
little more nearly full of unthinking.
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Our old friend, “Dick to Dick,” has again bobbed up at
Washington, in the person of Richard S- Ryan, of Katalla,
who now seeks notoriety by offering the goeermnent to build
a railroad from Controller bay, up the Copper River and to
Eagle, on the Yukon river. This is believed to be one of his
bluffs for the purpose of complicating the building situation,
but fortunately he is not taken very seriously back east.
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The solemnities of war have not in the least subdued the
antics of the milliners, and the new spring output is just ns
artistic and sweet as the waste-basket, butter-tub and garbage
can styles of the years agone. They are copying submarines,
battleships and aeroplanes. Perhaps we shall see a few 42
centimeter guns and automobile ambulances. But it will be
dad who will see the most of the barbed-wire entanglements
when the bills come in.
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Our “near great” contemporary continues to harp on its
“telegraphic” service, the greatest portion of which it receives
by m&il from the Tinted I ress, and raises the dates so as to
give a semblance of being late news. As a matter of fact that
paper gets about the smallest cable service received by any
newspaper in Alaska. While the Daily Times never claimed'
to receive a 15,000 word daily service it is a regular member of
the Associated Press, and the important happenings of the
world are daily reflected through its columns. This is more
than can be said of our contemporary, as it gets less than half
the amount of telegraphic service received by the Times.
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It you make yourself the center of the universe all your
perspective is skewed.” 1 his sentence from a speech made* re
cently bj I resident \\ ilsou, and nothing in the gospels is truer.
And yet, almost every day in Cordova, we see evidence of men
with their views of life and their duties to the community ns
wasted life A life of rancor and hatred towards all people
is folly sublimated.
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As at Messina six years ago, the* accounts agree that under
the crush ot the earthquake the walls of the houses collapsed
and fell mostly inward—a general ruin. This is generally
ascribed to faulty building. A more reasonable conclusion is
that the houses have* stood so long—many for centuries-—that
the timbers have had all their strength taken away by dry rot,
and at the first pressure crumble to dust. At least had the
studding and joists been sound not more than half the buildings
would have fallen inward; had the joists been anchored to steel
they would, unless tin shocks were overwhelming, have held a
great many of the walls in place
'Che pictures of the ruins made by the shells in the present
war in Ilnrope show that the shock of the shelh’ explosions
caused whole structures to crumble. MV suspect that weie the
woodwork examined in the houses destroyed by the earthquake,
they would show that they have not bee n safe to live in for
perhaps a century. Houses like those who live in them, after
awhile outlive their usefulness.
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHY8ICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
Calls may be left at Cordova
Drug Store. Residence,
Rainier-Grand Hotel
DR. C. L. HALE
DENTIST
Office In Adams Building
ROBERT E. CAPERS
Attorney at Law
General Civil Practice
Suite 3, Adams Block
CORDOVA, .... ALASKA
E F MEDLEY
Attorney and Councellor at law
Room 1
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA.
J. F. R. APPLEBY
CIVIL ENGINEER
Phone 4. CORDOVA, ALASKA
V. A. SCHMITZ
PRACTICAL OPTICIAN
Office at
CORNER DRUG STORE
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Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketch
ikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez and Seward, via
INSIDE PASSAGE
Sails frcm 8*e«H - Sails from Cordova—
February 1. ALAMEDA .. February 8
February 8 .MARIPOSA.February 15
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas, Cordova. Ellamar, Valdez and Latouche. Explos
ives, S. S. Seward. 8. S. Seward, 5th; 8. S. Latouche, 15th; S. S.
Cordova, 25th of 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,
General Agent Ticket Agent
Pacific-Alaska Navigation Co.
.ALASKA PACIFIC S. S. CO. ALASKA COAST CO.
PUGET SOUND ALASKA ROUTE
Next sailing from Seattle will be
ADMIRAL WATSON, February 5, Through to Kodiak.
ADMIRAL EVANS, February 15
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., Local Agents
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EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 24, 1914. ;;
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Chitina for Kennecott— ::
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