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Cordova, April 16
By special invitation Judge Brown
addressed the children of our public
schools this morning. He gave an
interesting talk, advocating obedi
ence to teachers and diligence in the
pursuit of their studies. In Valdez
the practice of parents and citizens
visiting the schools and making
short remarks has been found to be
productive of much good.
Jack Miller, who came from
Seattle on the Alameda and went
through to Valdez, returned last
evening on the Sampson. He sent
his men and supplies through by
way of Cordova and Chitina to the
Slate creek country a month ago. He
and J. A. Hazelet are both largely
interested in hydraulic placer min
ing near Chisna, and will leave for
the interior on the first train. They
complain of the inadequate mail
service in the Slate creek section.
Last year the service was confined
to two trips during the season, one
in July and the other in August, and
the plans for this season do not con
template any additional trips. * In
view of the fact that there are
about 75 men on the creek from
May 1st to the end of September,
they think that there should be mail
service during this entire period.
Cordova, April 17.
Judge Oscar Fish wires us from
Chitina today information that will
be very gratifying to the men now
■ here who are waiting to go to Fair
banks, and other interior points, as
well as many who will come on the
steamer Northwestern tomorrow'. He
states that a heavy snow storm has
continued for nearly three days past
and that as a result the interior trail
is now better than it has been for
30 days. All the bare spots and ruts
have been filled in with a snow that
is compact and will last for some
days.
The Cordova band will give a
dance on Saturday night, the 25th,
at Eagle Hall. Leader H. G. Kirby
will leave town on the following day
and the affair is to be given in his
honor.
Commencing this morning S. R.
Hedges took charge of the wharf, as
agent for the C. R. & N. V. Railway.
He will be assisted, by G. A. Strat
man. Thos. J. Tallent w'ill no longer
have charge of the freight accounts
at the wharf. He will devote his
time to the up town steamship and
railroad office, with the additional
duties of looking after the business
at the First street station on the
arrival and departure of trains. The
wharf is now under the entire opera
tion of the railroad company.
Cordova, April 18.
Volney Richmond, who looks
after the Orr Stage Line and other
possessions of the Northern Naviga
tion Company, was an arrival on the
Northwestern. He spent the winter
in San Francisco and on the firm
train will go inland, on his way to
Fairbanks. He is accompanied by O.
Grimm, of San Francisco.
E. F. Pittman, who has been
V
' employed at the Orca cannery for
several years past, has accepted a
position at the Bonanza mine and
will leave for Kennecott on the first
train.
The members of the Cupid Club
held a pleasant party last evening at
the Windsor hotel. There was danc
ing, singing, games and a good old
fashioned time, followed by dainty
refreshments. Their next affair will
be on the night of May 1st and
President Gaffney promises that it
will be some party, complimentary
to one of the popular lady members
who is soon to embark on the high
seas of matrimony.
J. w. Forrester, division engineer
on the C. R. & N. W. Ry., was an
arrival on the Northwestern from a
^ trip outside. His headquarters are
at Chitina and he started in to work
this afternoon, going out the line
with a special crew that will assist
in opening up the road.
Judge F. M. Brown, Secretary Ike
Hamburger, Clerk of the Court
Arthur Lang, U. S. Marshal F. H.
Brenneman, Deputy John Bouse and
stenographer Miss Kate Monohan
left on the steamer Northwestern
this afternoon for Valdez, where a
term of court will open on Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Max Esterly
were arrivals on the Northwestern
today, from Seattle. They will
take the first train for the interior
where Mr. Esterly will start opera
tions for the season on his extensive
hydraulic placer grounds on Chittitu
f creek. If there should be plenty of
w ater this season Mr. Esterly expects
to clean up a quarter of million of
dollars. F. A. Hotchkiss is con
nected with Mr. Esterly's company
and is an arrival also. He will look
after the operations on „ Rex creeK
* unfJl the arrival of his brother-in
law, H. F. Andrus,
The steamer Northwestern arrived
in port this morning shortly before
11 o’clock. She had 100 tdns of
freight and 64 passengers for Cor
dova. Of the latter number 40
sailed from Seattle and the rest got
on at Alaskan ports. The steamer
sailed for Valdez and the westward
this afternoon about 3 o’clock. Fol
lowing were the passengers from
Seattle for Prince William Sound
ports:
For Cordova—Geo. Max Esterly
and wife, Volney Richmond, F. V
Hotchkiss, Chas. Grimm, J. A. Fair
born, J. W. Hill, H. Frydenlund, H.
Bellows, S. R. Weiss and wife, D.
Cameron, D. P. Murphy, O. Spangler,
S. Lalac, H. Loner, J. E. Sommer,
J. R. Hurst, F. W. Sommer, J. W.
Forrester, Henry Prather, J. Chis
holm, W. B. Stewart, R. H. Mackey, |
P. L. Burnett, Major Milligan, P. L. '
Warwick and 13 second class.
For Valdez—C. L,. Erwin, F. F.
Elkins, Geo. Elkins, J. McDonald,
A. W. Hewitt, E. B. Wheat and wife,
E. Eckern, W. H. Foust, A. Wilcox
and S second class.
For Seward—W. H. Hughes, R.
Putnam, G. E. Anderson, E. McGet
tigan, A. J. Carlson, A. Hanson, W.
E. Ludy, F. B. Sturgis, J. E. Loub
ner, F. Sully, L. B. Cotter, S. H.
Robertson, C. Nicolotis, D. M.
Naugh, C. M. Nutter and 3 second
class.
Cordova, April 20.
Judge J. J. Finnigan, accom
panied by his wife and young “Pat,”
departed on the train this morning
for McCarthy. There they will take
a dog team and proceed into the
Shushanna.
Geo. Max Esterly will not leave
for the interior until Thursday’s
train. Mrs. Esterly will remain at
Cordova until the southbound trip
of the Mariposa, about Monday next,
when she will return to her home at 1
Seattle.
Among the passengers passing
through on the steamer Northwest
ern were W. W. Hughes and three
associates, representatives of the U.
S. Mining & Smelting Co. They
expect to go to Landlock Bay, near
I’nalaska, to open up a gold quartz
property.
The gasoline schooner Northland
returned Sunday, after having made
a trip to Katalla for a cargo of oil
that was distributed at Valdez and
Port Wells.
Pete Froberg, of the steamer
Taku, has his new gasoline launch
finished and placed in commission.
W. C. L. Byers, who brought a
party of Cordova men to town from
Port Wells, in his gasoline launch,
returned yesterday to the mining
camp
Another little touch of winter to
day, after a Sunday of sunshine and
warmth.
The snow blockade that has pre
vented regular traffic on the Copper
River & Northwestern Railway for
i several days past has been broken.
J Immediately after the wind subsided
on Saturday night a crew of men
started work on the drifts in the
neighborhood of Mile 33. A clear
ance was made and the rotary that j
preceded the train that had been'
snowed in was able to move forward. |
The snow that had filled up the I
i tracks for some miles was soon'
| hnadled, with the result that last:
I evening the train started to move
: forward and reached Chitina this
| morning. As the crew must take a
j rest of ten hours it will be toward
evening before the return start will
be made for Cordova. It is expected >
that this train with passengers and '
mail will reach here tonight shortly
after midnight. Thp interior mail
1 will go southbound on the steamer
Letters received here, indicate that j
! the halibut schooner Dewey has been ;
wrecked in Southeastern Alaska
waters. The Dewey came north to
Prince. William Sound last winter
and left for the south early in
March. She brought her frequenti
catches of halibut to Cordova, it
being shipped from here on the
regular steamers to Seattle.
Cordoba, April 21.
The train from the Interior ar
rived in town this morning at 12:13,
having left Chitina at 4:30 yester
day afternoon. Over 60 sacks of
mail were brought in, much of it
from Fairbanks, which was worked
over in the Cordova post office and
the outside mail delive.red to the j
steamer Northwestern, which was
held here until 4:30 this morning.
The train also brought in a consign
ment of mail from the Shushanna,
reaching Cordova in three days from
the time it left the gold diggings. It
reache.d McCarthy in 31 hours and
40 minutes. The railroad tracks
are again clear and in good condi
tion. At noon today a train of
freight cars was sent out. The regu
lar train will leave on Thursday
morning. Another train bringing
passengers and mail from the in
terior arrived at Cordova this after
noon at 3:15 o’clock.
M. Tierney, who has been con
ducting a boarding house for the
railroad workmen in a car at Mile
173, is in town and will return to
the interior on Thursday’s train. He
is arranging to transfer his board
ing house to tents for the summer.
He says that a saw mill is about to
be erected at Mile 173, to supply
lumber for McCarthy and other
points in the interior.
The barge America, in tow of the
ocean going tug Tatoosh, arrived at
Valdez yesterday at noon. This
fleet left Seattle on April 4 and re
ports bad been circulated that both
tug and barge, had been lost. They
brought 40 carpenters and a large
lot of machinery for the Granby
Mining Co., in connection with oper
ations on the Midas mine. For sev
eral days the wires from Seattle had
been kept hot trying to locate the
tug. as nothing had been heard from
her since she left Ketchikan on
the 10th.
Ned Hill returned last night from
a short trip to Valdez. He will
leave on Thursday’s train for the
Shushanua.
John Zug, one of the superintend
ents of the Alaska road commission,
came over from Valdez on the
Northwestern and will go to the
interior on Thursday’s train. He is
at the Windsor.
B. F. Watson, general agent of
the company that operates the
Admiral steamers, came over from
the westward on the Northwestern
and will return to his headquarters
at Juneau on the Evans.
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SEATTLE, April 21.—Franklin
D. Roosevelt, assistant secretary of
the navy, is now a visitor in this
city, having come up from Califor
nia. In an interview on his arrival
yesterday morning he said, ‘ the
navy is fifteen times more powerful
»ow than it was during the Spanish
American war.” Yesterday after
noon he spent several hours in con
ference with Admiral Doyle, who
is in charge of the reserve fleet at
Bremerton. Referring to his visit
to the coast Mr. Roosevelt said:
“I am here to make a thorough
investigation of the naval needs of |
the Pacific Coast, that the plans cf j
the navy department may be ma
tured as soon as possible. We have
two well-equipped naval stations on
the coast at present, and another is
to be established at this end of the
Western Coast line. If the un
pleasantness in Mexico is settled by
next year, you will see a much I
bigger fleet of battleships here than
that which made the round-the
world cruise. In any event, I hope,
you will have a fleet of 17 first
class battleships, 20 destroyers and
eight or ten auxiliary vessels on the
coast for six months during the
exposition.
“As a permanent thing, though,
the department never will consider
a division of the battleship fleet,
with half the vessels stationed on
each coast. The Pacific is entitled
to half the navy, but it will be
divided in time and not in strength,
as it would be a fatal error to split
our sea forces. Almost any nation
could defeat us if they got at one
half of our fleet at a time, but only
two nations, England and Germany,
could, by the wildest stretch of
imagination, defeat the fleet as a
unit.”
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NEW YORK, April 16.—Vincent
Astor is now considered out of
danger and it is possible that his
marriage on the 30th to Miss Hunt
ington will come off according to
schedule.
SEATTLE, April 21.—The three
masted gasoline schooner P. J. Abler
is fitting out for her trip north,
to sail for the northern coast of
Siberia on May 1 and remain in the
Arctic waters until late this fall.
The Abler has been chartered by the
Arctic Commercial Company, a new
corporation, capitalized at $50,000.
Capt. Ole Aannevik, who last year
took the steam schooner Kit into the
Bering sea on a walrus hunting
trip, will be in command of the
expedition. The Abler is owned by
E. A. Borne, of Ballard, who will
accompany the expendition.
NEW YORK. April 21.—The in
jury to the jaw of Corporation
Counsel Polk, who received a bullet
intended for Mayor Mitchell, is
gradually improving, since the re
moval of the bullet. The assailant
has been definitely identified as
Michael P. Maloney, and some con
tend that he is a little queer in his
mind. When he was arraigned in
court and his bail fixed at $25,000
he exclaimed, "why not boost it a
little higher, the more the merrier.”
Maloney is nearly 70 years of age.
Eastman Kodaks and supplies a:
list prices. E. A. Hegg.
Read the Daily Alaskan.
SEATTLE, April 21.—Two mag
; nificeht steel passenger steamships,
^ now building for the Hill railroad
system in 1 hiladelphia and to be
operated between Astoria, Ore., stud
San Francisco, will be launched in
July this year, and will be sent
through the Panama canal to the
Pacific. While the actual construc
tion of what Louis W. Hill, presi
dent of the Great Northern, declares
will be the finest passenger vessels
ever built in the United States, was
placed with an eastern ship building
firm, Seattle talent and Seattle
executive capacity play a big part
in the designing and equipment of
the two vessels.
C. C. Lacey, marine superintend
ent of the Great Northern Steamship
Company, will have charge of the
equipment and furnishing of the
two vessels, which are to be named
Great Northern and Northern Paci
fic. J. V. Paterson, president of
the Seattle Construction & Dry Dock
Company, is the naval architect who
designed the two vessels, which are 1
to cost close to $5,000,000.
These two magnificent passenger
vessels are to have a speed of 23
nautical miles an hour. They will
be alone in their class as to speed,
safety in construction and operation
and elegance of interior furnishing,
either here or in the Atlantie coast
wise trade. They will be 524 feet
long over all, 50 feet 6 inches depth,
molded and 63 feet beam. Expensive
hard and soft woods will be used ]
in the interior finishing. There will
be very spacious dining saloons and
lounging and smoking rooms, and
elaborately furnished staterooms
and suites.
No one yet has definitely deter
mined the time that will be con
sumed in the voyage between
Astoria and San Francisco by the
new Hill steamships. It will prob
ably be a day and a night trip—not
much in excess of 24 hours. The
ships wiH be oil burners and they
will carry a maximum of 450 first
class passengers, 110 second-class
and 200 third class.
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INSIDE PASSAGE.
Sails from Seattle— Sails from Cordova—
April 12.NORTHWESTERN.April 21
April 18.MARIPOSA.April 27
Regular freight service for Ketchikan. Juneau, Sheen Creek.
Treadwell, Douglas, Cordova. Ellamar, Valdez and Batouche. Explosives
S. S. Seward. S. S. Seward, 5th; S. S. Batouche, 15th; s. S. Cordova.
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Tickets on sale at up-town office Alaska Steamship Bldg. Baggage
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Steamers leave Seattle every ten days of each month on the
5th, 15th and 25th
Via the UfSIOE PASSAGE for Ketchikan, Jnnean, Takntat, Katalla,
Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Cook Inlet points and Kodiak Island.
Seattle>San Francisco connecting with steamers Tals and Harvard
for Southern California ports.
Schedule subject to change without notice.
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