MANY MHOVBItfflS AM UNDER WAY
Work Begun on Machine Shops and Car Shops for the Copper River and
Northwestern Railway- Warehouses Being Built and
Repairs Hade at Steamship Dock
Work was today started on the foundations for the Copper
River & Northwestern Railway’s new machine shop and car
shop, which are to be erected near the round house in the old
town. The machine shop will be 120x80 feet and the ear shop
200x80 feet. They will be equipped with new machinery in
cluding shapers, planers and lathes, which are now on the
ground. F. C. Gorman, who is a passenger on the Northwest
ern. will be master mechanic and have entire charge of these
new shops, although his coming does not mean any change in
the personnel of the officials now employed.
It is the intention to hereafter do all the repair work for
the railroad in Cordova, which will necessarily mean an in
creased force of workmen. The piling is on the ground for
putting a circular track in the yard, so that trains can be
turned. This will prove a great benefit during the winter as
the rotary can then plough out the track and save delays ex
perienced last year in getting out trains. At times, during
some of the more severe snow storms, it took sevei’al hours
to get the turn table cleared so that engines and rotaries could
be turned.
Repairs being made to Dock.
A force of men is at present employed on the dock repair
ing the damage done by the recent fire and also building new
warehouses. The railroad track is to'be laid along the face
! of the dock and the warehouses built close to it. The roadway
for teams will be back of the warehouses, instead ot in trout
as was formerly the case.
Ready to Build Snow Sheds.
All lumber for the snow sheds has been received from the
states and is now being loaded on cars and sent out the line.
Nearly a mile of additional sheds are to be built at once at
different points, where last winter’s experience found them to
be necessary. It has also been already decided to instal more
sheds next year at whatever points bad slides occur this
season. The company is determined that there shall be no
accidents on the road that can be prevented by providing this
class of protection.
Other Improvement Notes.
Work is progressing satisfactorily on the different con
struction jobs and all items for which appropriations have been
made will be finished on time.
The steam shovel at mile (17 has finished its work at the
north end and gravel is now being brought down, as far ns
mile 55 for ballasting the track. It is expected that the steam
shovel at mile 183 will again be in operation within a few
weeks. As soon as its work is completed at file end of the
line this shovel will be brought to Cordova and used in open
| ing up First Street to the railroad station.
ELEVEN BURNED TO DEATH
IN JUNEAU HOTEL EIRE
Juneau, September 5.—Eleven persons were burned to,
death and fourteen injured, two perhaps fatally, by the de-j
struetion of the Juneau Hotel and McGrath building last |
night. Both structures were frame and when the flames got
a start it was impossible to get them under control, although i
the firemen did heroic work.
Every occupant of the hotel lost all of his baggage and
personal belongings. The majority fled from the building;
absolutely nude, their night clothing being burned while they
were making their escape. The hotel register was burned and j
as the day clerk is dead it is impossible to fully check up tne j
list of people who occupied the hotel last night.
With special policemen patroling the burned district, |
and firemen digging the hotel ruins are today being sifted for
the bodies of the missing ones, seven of which now lie j
cold in death at the morgue as silent witnesses to the de-!
struetion of a three story wooden hotel building, without fire!
escapes, containing narrow halls and hemmed in by other
buildings.
William Arthur Southworth, a machinist born at Lansing, j
Michigan, died at the hotel last night of burns received, lie
leaves a mother, sister and two brothers residing at Lansing.,
Alma S. Boxberg was identified as one of the female bodies j
recovered. She was born at Hammerstoek, Sweden, and came
here with her sister from Los Angeles on June 18. The
body was charred beyond recognition, and was identified by j
her bible lying in the bed clothes with her name written in it.1
Dennis Harrington, employed at the Ebner mines as a
miner, was one of the victims. He was born in Cork County,
Ireland. He has brothers residing at Valdez, Bisbee, Arizona
and San Francisco.
Another body is that of an unknown woman, who arrived
the dav before the fire, to work in the hotel as chambermaid.
She is described as tall, wearing glasses and of quiet demeanor.
She was last seen at the windows trying to fight her way out
but was finally plunged back into the flames.
Nickboce, the dead hotel cook, was an Austrian.
Walter Davenport, the burned painter, was a member of
the Tacoma Order of Moose.
William Morrison reached the third story window safely
but could not jump with the others to a roof some six feet
away, and fell striking his head on the sidewalk, death re
snlting instantly. He was a member of the Masonic Order.
Fully a dozen others who were making their way out of the
hotel at the same time as Morrison escaped uninjured.
J. Z. Kimberlin, the night clerk, fought his way through
the flames to the third floor of the hotel, and dragging his
wife with him, both escaped with their lives but are badly
burned and in the hospital. Kimberlin says that no water came
from the standpipes in the hotel when the hose was manned to
fight the fire from the second story inside the building.
Investigation discloses that out of over twenty lines of
high pressure hose in use at the fire not one was out of order
or gave any trouble.
FISHER FAVORS A LEASING BILL
Secretary Says Private Exploitation of Coal Hust Cease, But Wants to See
the Railroads of Alaska Extended But Says Goverment
Regulation is Necessary
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FAKE PROMOTER
ARRESTED
San Francisco, Sept. 9.—Dr. Ed
man, a promoter and society man,
has been arrested for the fraudulent
use of the mails in sending out value
less stock.
G. W. Wolf, a former at mile 146,
was in town Tuesday and reports
crops doing well in that section.
He says oats, clover and timothy are
all a good yield this year and those
looking for farming lands in this,
section can do no better than in his
Seattle, Sept. 8.—At a banquet tendered Secretary of In
terior Walter L. Fisher last night upon his return from a tour
of investigation of Southwestern Alaska, by the local com
mercial Clubs, there was a large turnout of prominent citizens
all of whom were anxious to learn what solution Mr. Fisher
proposed for the opening of the coal fields in the north.
Mr. Fisher stated that although he did not have his plans
fully formulated he declared that the private exploitation of
coal must cease. He inclines towards a leasing bill, which will
be liberal enough in its scope to encourage capital in the de
velopment of the fields, at the same time providing against
any monopoly. He is a strong advocate of the extension of the
railroads in Alaska, but regulation of them by the government
is necessary.
Secretary Fisher and party will make a trip through the
Yellowstone Park before returning east, where the secretary
will have a conference with President Taft. The latter is to
attend the Conservation Congress at Kansas City the latter
part of the month and will there outline the administration’s
Alaska policy.
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AGAINST WOMAN
SUFFRAGE
Los Angeles, Sept. 9.—A large
number cf prominent men have or
ganized to fight woman suffrage,
believing that the place for the
gentler sex is the home and not in
politics.
Cherbourg, Sept. 9.—Gaby Deslys
with King Emanuel’s consent, sails
for New York, expecting to find the
stolen Monalisa.
Dawson, Sept. 9.—The internation
al boundary survey has reached the
Arctic, completing its heliocope work.
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Richmond, Va., Sept. 9.—Henry Clay Beattie, the banker,
was found guilty of murder in the first degree for the death
)f his wife. When the jury returned its verdict the Chesterf
ield court house was crowded with interested spectators, on
account of the prominence of the defendant and the sensational
features of the trial.
The case has been bitterly fought on both sides and Beattie
expressed himself throughout the trial as confident of being
acquitted.
After the verdict was read the judge sentenced the niur
derer to death.
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Itliica, Xt*\v "S ork, Sept. 4.—Jacob S. Schurman, president
of Cornell University, has just returned from a trip to Alaska
and is very emphatic in his_ declaration that the government is
throttling Alaska by means of bad land laws. He made a
careful study of conditions, during his short stay in the north,
and teels that the men who pioneered that country are entitled
to immediate relief from its present stagnant condition, due
to the tact that every obstacle is being placed in the way of
having its resources opened up.
President Schurman said that private enterprises should
be encouraged rather than hai ipered as is the case at present,
in their efforts to develop a great empire. He is also of tin*
opinion that this development should be under the control of
the government, in order that the people’s interests are prop
erly safeguarded; that every ton of coal mined should pay
i royalty and this money expended in Alaska for the benefit
>f its residents.
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WHEN COMING TO CORDOVA REMEMBER
Cordova Steam Laundry
THE ONLY REAL LAUNDRY IX TOWN
Let us wash anil clean your canvass covers, blankets, clothes,
overalls, etc.
If you are in a hurry we can ilo your work in an hour's time if
necessary.
Leave your work at uny hotel, rooming house or barber shop
and it will receive prompt attention. j
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