OF GENERAL
Cordova, June 24.
Frank M. Jordan and daughter
Miss Helen, of Seattle, were passen
gers today on the steamer Alameda,
, going to Ellamar, where Mr. Jordan
has for years past been operating
the big mine there.
William Kruhrn registered at the
Rainier-Grand this afternoon, hav
ing returned from a trip south. He
will leave on the next train to the
Xizina country, where he has valu
able mining property, which he ex
pects to develop on a larger scale.
Mayor E. E. Ritchie, of Valdez,
circled among many town friends
» today. He is a passenger on the
steamer Alameda, returning from a
vacation and business trip outside.
He has been as far east as Kansas
I City and Chicago.
The, steamer Alameda reached
port today about noon. A train was
at the wharf ready to take a party
of ten excursionists out to the
glaciers, to view one of nature's
greatest sights. They returned to
town shortly before 5 o’clock and
alighted at the First street station,
giving them opportunity to view the
town before proceeding o the dock.
The excursionists consisted of Miss
M. Bright, Geo. Bettes, Miss V.
Byrd, Miss A. O. Christensen, Miss
A. Mayer, Miss Gardiner. S. Samut,
Miss Von Worrner, Miss M. Jamison,
Miss E. Weil.
Cordova, June 25.
W An enthusiastic gathering of
Maunch men assembled at the city
w dock this morning to witness the
■•race between the boats of Admiral
X. J. Black and Captain Link Wain,
the former boat being equipped with
an Evinrude, engine while the latter
was equipped with a Koban. Ar
rangements were completed by the
selection of H. B. Burkhart as
starter, Ben Elliot time keeper, and
S. B. Cochran as referee. Both men
were at their engines ready to start
and when Mr. Burkhart gave the
word, “go,” each of the men swung
to the right with a firm grasp on the
wheel, and they were off for the
9-mile race. The first part of the
race was uneventful but the finish
was exciting, Captain Wain winning
by 200 feet. When they had
anchored Admiral Black challenged
the. winner to a return race for $25
a side. It is maintained by spec
k tators that Admiral Black needs
^ some tutoring as to steering h:s boat
\ as he showed deficiency in the quali
fications as a pilot, otherwise he
Vould liaely have bee.n the victor.
/• a small gathering of Republicans
assembled at the town hall last night
and elected Judge Frazier as presi
dent and Tom Scott as secretary.
The matter of forming a permanent
organization seemed to meet with
favor by those present. W. H. Crarv,
of Valdez, made a short address and
set forth the advisability of main
taining an organization and working
for a membership of the club. It
was finally decided to again meet on
Thursday night next, when it is be
lieved that a much larger crowd can
#e induced to turn out and perfect
a permanent organization. The tem
porary officers were constituted a
committee to endeavor to increase
^r^he membership roll from the present
number of 15.
Cordova, June 26.
F. L. Bassett, who came from
Ketchikan two or three months ago
to try his luck in the Chisana, re
turned on the train yesterday even
ing from the interior. He left the
gold camp on the 16th and pro
ceeded leisurely over the Russel
glacier and Skolai pass summer trail
to McCarthy, reaching there in five
days. He states that the camp has
had much cold weather and but
little water for sluicing. As a con
sequence very little gold had been
-. washed out, although Fincher Hain
shaw and the, 50 men that he
employs were expect ng to soon get
busy. As wood is very scarce and
>but few secured a supply before the
streams opened, Mr. Bassett states
that the. cold weather has prevented
much prospecting this summer as
yet. Laborers are paid from $5 to
$7 a day and board, with a greater
supply than there is demand. Mr.
Bassett states that the most recent
discovery was by Dan McGuire, on
Dry Gulch, two miles below
Bonanza. He, was down 70 feet but
had not yet reached bed rock. Pans
were giving him from 10 to 12 cents.
He says that many of the men are
going down stream to Fairbanks and
other places, so that there are not
Ymore than 300 in the camp. Com
bing out Mr. Bassett learned of the
finding of the body of Capt. Taylor,
about 31-2 miles from McCloud’s
road house. He disappeared last
December and it is supposed he died
Jrom exhaustion, as he was old and
fio? prepared to endure the hard
ships of trail travel.
Cordova, June 27.
H. Holdersen was a passenger on
the fishing steamer Albatross from
the Alautian Islands. He represents
the Seattle Packing Company, that
operates on Puget Sound, and is
looking for a location to which he
might bring their floating cannery.
He found no suitable place to the
westward, but is of the impression
that the neighborhood of Cordova
would afford the opportunity desired.
It is suggested that he might ge.t an
ample supply of fish from the Copper
river and that they could be treated
i and canned on his steamer cannery
| if it were anchored in the bay. He.
states that on Puget Sound tne price
| paid for fish is 40 cents, but that this
price makes the work unprofitable.
Under the direction of Harry
Thisted, vice president of the Cham,
ber of Commerce, Mr. Holdersen
| secured data today that may result
\ in favorable action when he reports
j to his people in Seattle, as he. sails
south on the steamer Alameda to
morrow night.
ivcv. x . /iicgit'i, \\ xiu lias uccu
! doing service at Cordova for the past
six years, has been granted a leave
of absence of one year by Bishop
Rowe.. In all probability some one
will be sent here to temporarily
take charge of St. George's Episcopal
Mission. Mrs. Ziegler, with the
baby, has been spending a few days
with friends at Seward. They will
return on the Evans this afternoon
and the Rev. and his family will
leave next week on the steamer
Northwestern. They will spend the
balance of the summer with Rev.
Ziegler’s family at Point of Pines, a
noted resort in the Straits of
Mackinaw. Later Rev. Ziegler will
attend a school of divinity at Middle
town, Connecticut.
The members of the Eastern Star
held an enjoyable meeting Thursday
I night at Masonic hall. There was a
! good attendance and the social fea
] tures continued until after midnight.
Cordova, June 29.
Sam Blum, head of the big mer
cantile firm of S. Blum & Co., and
president of the First Bank of Cor
dova, was an arrival on the steamer
Alameda from Valdez and is circu
lating among his numerous Cordova
friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred B. lies came
I over from Valdez yesterday and are
at the Windsor hotel. Mr. lies has
received word that Baron Bulow Von
Ravens and five other directors of
the Alaska Copper Corporation are
on their way from New York aud
will take the steamer Mariposa from
Seattle on the night of June 30th,
for Cordova. They will be accom
panied by four ladies. The latter
will likely remain at Cordova while
the men of the party will take the
train on Tuesday, July 7 for Strelna.
From there they will take horses
and ride about ten miles up to a
point near the Kuskulina river,
where the copper holdings of this
company are located. Mr. lies states
that upon the result of the exami
nation to be made by these men will
depend the expenditure of a large
I sum of money for the building, of a
] branch line of railroad, the. erection
of a concentrator, the putting in of
power drills and other machinery.
He states that the money has been
pledged, providing the report of the
directors and engineer who accom
panies them is favorable. If possible
Mr. lies will get to the mines before
the coming of the visitors to make
such preparations as will make them
■ eojnfortable.
The steamer Alameda made a fast
run to the westward, returning to
Cordova yesterday at noon. She
took aboard 8 cars of copper ore and
some fish, departing for the south
shortly before 5 o’clock in the after
noon. Her passengers from here
were as follows:
For Seattle—Marie Gravelle, Mrs.
F. M. Schaupp, J. Snaith, H. Holder
son, D. F. Casey, G. Gay, Mrs. H. N.
Wilson, Mr. Robinson, Mr. Wagner.
W. H. Crary, R. W. Baxter, R. R.
Pierson, and 6 second class.
For Juneau—E. Hanley and E. L.
Britt.
The steamer Admiral Evans de
parted for the south on Saturday
night and had as passengers from
here for Seattle, Capt. P. H. Uber
rotli. R. E. Hegner. J. W. Spaulding.
For Juneau—G. Handy, V. Scott and
B. W. Burns were passengers.
Cordova’s municipal railway, for
the present at least, is a thing of the
past. No longer will those dirt cars
that operated on a gravity system
fly down First Street. Superintend
ent Goodall has completed the work
of filling in the bulkhead, and now
there is a permanent street of gravel
and dirt, instead of a sliding em
bankment covered with planks. The
tracks are being removed today and
with the relaying of sidewalk plank
ing south of the Borden Building
the work will have been completed.
It also resulted in the leveling of the
thoroughfare at the upper end of
First street, as the dirt and gravel
was taken from the heavy grade that
caused a strong pull for horses and
autos, in the effort to reach the
wharf.
Dr. E. Lester Jones was not
enabled to get away on Saturday
night as he wished to visit and make
an investigation at the Orca cannery.
He also was desirous of securing
photographs of the proposed site for
a hatchery at Lake Evak, his photog
rapher accompanying him there to
day. The Albatross will go to Valdez
tonight and from there go to the
westward as far as the Pribilof
Islands. Dr. Jones will not likely
leave Alaska before October, as he
wishes to make, a thorough study of
the fisheries conditions and to hear
and see all sides of the question, al
though he may return to Cordova
in August for a short trip to the
interior.
Dr. Jones is very enthusiastic over
the site at Lake Evak for a fish
hatchery. He says it is the best one
be. has yet seen in Alaska, and he
will recommend that a hatchery be
established there. He urges that a
bill appropriating $50,000 for the
construction of this hatchery be pre
pared and introduced in Congress by
Delegate. Vickersham, and that the
people of Cordova petition the Dele
gate to use his strongest endeavors
lo secure the passage of the bill. In
its operation it would prove, eventu
ally to be worth millions of dollars
in preserving and perpetuating the
fisheries of the north.
Father Van Der Pol and Father
Shepard were passengers on the
Alameda for Juneau where they will
meet Father Cleason, the new
Provincial.
Cordova, June 30.
The building on the south end of
the wharf, which was erected for the
use of fishermen in which to store,
their fish, is not now- in use, and
until it is again needed for the pur
pose for which it was erected it will
be at the disposal of any of the local
merchants. Any freight that they
de.sire to temporarily leave on the
dock can be stored in this ware
house.
On the steamer that goes to Val
dez tomorrow will be bank drafts
for $6,000 to pay for renewal of
liquor licenses in Cordova. At pres
ent there are seven dealers but it is
stated that Gilovieh & Carscadden
will not seek a renewal at present.
Although licenses expire, today a
wire to the clerk of the court
brought forth the information that
no inconvenience would result if the
money was received within a day or
two. It is assumed that there, will
be no trouble about renewals, as
there has been no protest against
any of the dealers.
It was about 4 o’clock this after
noon when the train arrived from
Kennecott and Chitina. bringing in a
few passengers. The next train out
will be soon after the arrival of the
steamer Xorthwestern. due to arrive
on Thursday morning.
Reports from Chitina indicate
that there will be a grand old time
at the. interior town on the Fourth
of July. Miners from the camps for
many miles around are expected to
be present. The program is full of
interesting events.
The steamer Sampson is due to
arrive at Cordova tomorrow* about
; noon. She sailed 'westward from
| Juneau yesterday afternoon at 3
j o’clock and will make stops at
j Yakatat and Ivatalla.
The freighter Seward is expected
in port soon, sailing from Seattle on
the ISth. She left with piling fcr
the construction of the new powder
j dock fcr the Dupont Powder* Co. at
j Smugglers’ Cove, near Juneau. It is
! the intention to maintain a large
powder magazine, at this point, from
which all Southeastern Alaska will
be supplied. Also included in the
cargo of the Seward is construction
material for the new concentrator
which the Beatcon Copper Co. plans
to erect at its mines on Latouche
Island.
The Seward will "go to the west
ward as far as Seldovia, at which
port she will deliver the stern-wheel
river boat Cholitna and a barge 12
by 50 feet, built in Seattle for the
Alaska railway engineers. From Sel
dovia, which is near the entrance of
Cook Inlet, the Cholitna will pro
| ceed to the Susitna River under her
[ own power, towing the barge. It is
said that the small 75-foot stern
wheeler has a draught of only IS
inches and will be propelled by a
50-horsepower gasoline engine.
It is expected that there will be a
large catch of fresh water trout
brought to town early this evening.
A party of expert nimrods went out
this morning on the Alpha, expecting
to lay to at Canoe Pass, Hawkins
Island, and whip the lake that is a
little distance back. In the party
are: Capt. Lathrop, Fred Tracey,:
Harry Kerr. Charley Cerney, Miss
Ruby DeGraf and Miss Whaley.
R. S. Giddings, formerly with the
Alaska Road Commission, is at the
Rainier-Grand and will take the next
train for the interior, to do a little
prospecting on his own account.
Judge Chapin has not been feeling i
well for several days past and Dr.
Chase sent him to the hospital today. ;
The many friends of the Judge are i
hopeful that nothing serious will i
develop.
Manager Council announces that :
the Cordova baseball team will go i
to Valdez on the steamer Sampson i
tomorrow afternoon. They desire to ■
be there so that the.v may have time '
to do some practicing on the Valdez
grounds and be in better positon to |:
do team work, as they have had little i
opportunity to practice together in
Cordova. The members of the.
ream have about been selected, al
though 'it will not be known defi
nitely until tonight just who will go.
The new uniforms for the ball
team that were ordered a couple of
weeks ago are expected to arrive
tomorrow . At the dance held on
Saturday night about $120 was
cleared, which will go a long ways
towards paying the cost of para-!
phernalia secured for the boys.
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All the old timers in this section of j
Alaska will remember Dan S. Kain. !
who was one of the original dis- i
covere.rs of the Bonanza mine at j
; Kennecott. He recently died in Cal1
! fornia and the Portland Oregonian
I has the following reference to him:
Word was received of the death of
j Daniel S. Kain at his home in Long
! Beach, Cal. At the time of his
I death he was president of the Long
Beach Tuna Club. He was 52 years
old and is survived by four brothers,
one of whom, J. H. Kain. lives in |
: Medford, Ore. Sixteen years ago he j
'
I organized a party from Salem and j
Portland, and following the Yukon
; excitement, went into the Copper
River section in Alaska, where they
j developed the copper property, after- J
j ward sold for $1,100,000. During
the several years in which it was in
: a promotion stage Mr. Kain and his
j associates did considerable work in :
| endeavoring to interest the mercan
tile life of Portland in the Alaskan ,
I trade. He. was born in Iowa, but
; came as a boy to Marion County and
j lived there until the first Alaskan ex
citement in the 90's.
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At the recent meeting of the
grand lodge of the Masonic order,
held at Tacoma, Roger D. Pinneo. j
of Seattle, was elected grand lec-!
turer for Alaska, and he now con- j
templates a trip to this section. He
was deputy grand lecturer for j
Alaska for more than six years.j
Masonry in Alaska extends back to,
the time of the organization of the
first lodge at Skagway in 1900.
There are now eight different lodges
in the North, at Nome, Fairbanks,
Cordova, Valdez, Juneau, Douglas,
Ketchikan and Skagway.
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Seward is to have a good baseball |
! ground, and as they have a good 1
: level stretch of country near the
j town it will only take $400 to im
I prove the. present grounds. This sum !
the Commercial Club has guaranteed
and it will be raised among the
business huoses.
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TOKYO, June 30.—The foreign
minister has stated that the treaty1
' negotiations over the attitude, of
California with reference to the I
treatment of the Japanese would
not be announced at present. This j
action is taken out of deference to :
a request of the United States.
WASHINGTON, June 30.—The.
Senate committee on military affairs
has favorably reported Chairman
Chamberlain’s resolution authorizing;
the President to recruit the army to i
its full war strength, exceeding the
! stationary limitation.
TORREON, June 30.—The Consti
j tuticnalists are all up in the air over j
a further continuance of hostilities.
An element of the rebels insist upon
keeping up the fight while others
believe that the time has come to
j
! bring about peace. President Car- j
ranza has just arranged a conference
with Gen. Villa, with reference to j
i the latter’s abandoning his campaign
i of destruction. The president of the j
rebel forces wishes to aid in the j
restoration of order and prosperity.
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WASHINGTON, June 30—Advices
nave been received here indicating
hat the bubonic plague has broken
nut at New Orleans. Surgeon Gen
eral William C. Gorgas will at onte
ake charge of the situation. He!
vill adopt stringent measures that
te believes will soon have the effect
>f eradicating the evil.
WASHINGTON, June CO.—This
ifternoon. by appointment, Presi
lent Wilson met 700 Suffragettes in
he east room of the White House.
Uter listening to their plea he
dated that he believed that the ques
ion of woman’s suffrage was a mat
er for the various states and not
he federal government to decide,
rhis immediately brought forth a
nabble of protests from the women
md when they continued to heckle
he President, he turned around and
valked out of the room.
WASHINGTON, June 30.—Repre
sentatives of the negroes have had
m interview with President Wilson
■elative to office holding. They main
ain that the 10,000,000 negroes in
he United States should be entitled j
:o proportional representation in the;
natter of holding public office. The
President announced this morning'
hat he would fill all federal posi
ions now held by negroes with other
negroes in case any change were
made. And it is taken that this will
nrove satisfactory to the colored race
is thej- scarcely hoped for anything 1
ike proportional representation.
SEATTLE, June 2r>.—Frank G.
Pickarts, a pione.er Alaskan who has
nperated in the various carats of the
north, was married last night co
Miss Alice M. Gill, a sister of Mayor
Gill.
LONDON, June 30.—The foreign
secretary, Sir Edward Grey, in ad
iressing the House of Commons,
stated that England has had no cor
respondence with the United States
nn the subject of the Panama Canal
since President Wilson’s election,
rhis statejnent was made to dispel
reports that England and the United
States had an agreement on the tolls
luestion.
BUTTE, June 30.—The Butte
Local, Xo. 1, Western Federation of
Miners, resumed business last night
with 80 members in attendance at u.
meeting. Ali-*efl:'orts to compromise,
the differences in the union have
failed, so the. former or seceding
members have organized an inde
pendent 'union, claiming to have
2,775 members. Trouble is likelv
to break out anew as it is claimed
by the regulars that the executive
board of the Western Federation
will now be compelled to call out
the engineers and members of the
other unions affiliated with the
Western Federation. It is contended
that the men of the regular organiza
tions will not be allowed to work
with the large army of seceders.
SAX FRAXC1SCO, June 30.—
Francis Butler Imomis, of Spring
field. Ohio, who is now in this city,
declares that Secretary Bryan’s pro
posed Colombia treaty is vicious and
that the motives that inspire it are
unworthy the United States. Mr.
Looniis was assistant secretary of
state from 1902-05, serving as secre
tary of state ad interim, from July 2.
He was forme.rly a newspaper man
and has held several diplomatic
posts.
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FOR SALE CHEAP
Stampede restaurant range and
furnishings. Apply to W. H. Bogue
or R. J. Kennefick, Cordova.
NOTICE OF PRORATE
Notice is hereby given that 1 have
been appointed administrator of the
estate of Paul d'Heirrv, deceased,
which estate is now being probated
in the Probate Couit of the Chitina
Precinct, Alaska. All persons hav
ing claims against the said estate
will please present them for pay
ment with the proper vouchers,
within six months from the 29th
day of April, A. D. 1914.
HORACE LEACH,
Administrator.
Dated at Chitina, Alaska, April
29, 1914.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP COMPANY
Past and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketchikan,
Wrangell. Juneau. Skagway, Cordova, Valdez, and Seward, via
INSIDE PASSAGE.
Sails from Seattle— Sails from Cordova—
June 25.NORTHWESTERN.July 4
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Regular freight service for Ketchikan. Juneau, Sheep Creek.
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This company reserves the right to change schedule of steamers
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Tickets on sale at up-town office Alaska Steamship Eldg. Baggage
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sailing time. ^
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Cordova. Valdez, Seward, Cook Inlet points and Kodiak Island.
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