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THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
Entered at the Postoffice at Cordova,
Alaska, as second-class matter.
~ H. G. STEEL
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THE AMERICAN PRESS iSOClATION
FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1921
THE NORTH DAKOTA FAILURES
,A discussion of the current banking
situation in North Dakota calls for
considerate treatment. It is easy
enough to brand the upwards of twen
ty-five bank failures in that state as
but the obvious consequences of non
partisan tinkering. Insofar as the
league had any hand in encouraging
its member-farmers to hold their grain
for higher prices, thereby preventing
liquidation of bank loans, it is clearly
reprehensible. But there is a more
serious indictment against it. Four
years ago, when the non-partisan
league obtained control of affairs in
North Dakota, it secured the enact
ment, among other measures, of one
providing that all public funds of the
state, counties, municipalities, school
districts, etc., must be deposited in
the “Bank of North Dakota,” a non
partisan creation. Of these funds,
several millions were invested in long
time real estate loans, a state-owned
mill and elevators, a creamery and in
a state-owned home-building associa
tion, through failure of the non-parti
san pilots of the state to market a
$15,000,000 bond issue, provided for
that purpose. Before this time these
public funds had been deposited in the
local banks, and constituted a needed
addition to the working capital of
these institutioris in assisting the
growing, harvesting and marketing of
the locality’s grain crop. It is clear,
therefore, that the diversion of these
funds into permanent investment
channels, because of the state’s going
into business, caused a drastic cur
tailment in local banking power.
In another way—(more arbitrary and
uncertain—were the local banks ham
pered in financing the huge crops.
The law permitted the Bank of North
Dakota to redeposit these public
'funds in local Institutions. This it
did, using its own judgment as to lo
cality and amount, the larger amounts
going to the more drought-stricken
areas, where many renewals were ne
cessary, with the result that the total
going to the sections with more boun
teous crops was correspondingly re
duced.
November’s election revoked the
Bank of North Dakota’s exclusive
monopoly on public funds, the old cus
tom being again instituted. But it
will not be a simple matter to restore
banking conditions existing prior to
this four-year disarrangement of
credit funds, however unsound the
latter may have been.
THE BUREAU OF EDUCATION
Recently, at the convention of the
convention of the Alaska Native Bro
therhood, resolutions were drawn up
demanding that the government
schools for natives be placed under
the jurisdiction of the territory, to be
handled in conjunction with white
schools. Charges of Inefficiency and
mismanagement were made. And a
close observation by any citizen will
disclose a state of affairs which give
just cause for the complaint.
During a period of years in Alaska
it has been our privilege to meet but
four men engaged as teachers in the
work of the bureau of education. If
these four were any sample of all the
rest, or if their selection for the work
was any indication of the capacity of
the bureau for getting teachers, they
may be said definitely to be unfit for
the work.
As to the four teachers, one of them
worked his way through school by
stump speeching, making talks of the
variety bordering on the red; the sec
ond was an out-and-out radical and
believer in the Soviet government of
Russia, made no bones of his attitude
on the subject; a third was a weak
ling mentally, with radical tenden
«ies; the fourth, after leaving the bu
reau’s work and starting for a com
pany in Seattle was discovered with
in a few days to be in close associa
tion and consultation with the most
radical leaders of the great strike of
that city during the early sprong of
1919.
Some of the teachers of the bureau,
it is true, have been of the highest
character and quite competent, but
from the selection of the others, it
may be said that it was not due to
perception on the part of the bureau
officials that they were chosen; rath
er, by accident.
Last year, as an illustration of the
incompetence of the bureau, may be
pointed out a case not far from Ket
chikan. At Hydaburg a teacher was
in charge who had a hobby for print
ing. He got in a small outfit and
started to teach the native what any
devil in a printshop learns within a
month. The students went about their
work the whole year,, or possibly for
two years, learned how to throw to
gether a few sticks full of type and
they got out a small publication.
This year the teacher in charge has
no hobby for printing and therefore
the printing plant is abandoned, and
actually for sale. The hours and hours
spent by the natives on their work
were thrown away and they probably
will never have another opportunity
to make use of what little they did
learn.
Each teacher is evidently permitted
to gratify his whims or hobbies. No
system. No anything. The Curry de
velopment hoard, if it ever becomes
operative, can do no better than turn
the management of these schools over
to the territory giving Alaska the
same amount of money that is now be
ing expended annually by the bureau.
—Ketchikan Chronicle.
WHEN DUTY CALLS
When the infuenza epidemic was
at its height among the aborigines o£
Alaska, and in some regions entire
populations were ill or dying, the gun
boat Vicksburg chanced to be sta
tioned in Alaskan waters. What was
done is told with extreme brevity in
the report of the surgeon-general of
the navy for the last fiscal year:
“It was apparent that if the exter
mination of the natives was to be pre
vented, the ship must not only feed
them and extend medical treatment,
but sufficient men must be landed
from the ship to nurse :he entire
population. Volunteers were called
for and out of practically the entire
ship's company that volunteered, four
teen were accepted. They prepared
food, buried the dead and improved
the sanitary conditions.”
There is nothing, we believe, In
the terms of enlistment in the navy
that calls for nursing Eskimos in
Akutan or Ugashik (where this in
cident occurred) or elsewhere. Pre-,
sumably the boys who took service
under the flag were lured, more or
less, by gaudy posters extending to
them an invitation to "see the world
at the expense of Uncle Sam.” Yet
when the call came romance and ad
venture were forgotten, and “practi
cally the entire ship’s company” saw
duty only, though duty took the un
lovely shape of ministration to the
lowliest possible of human beings
amid indescribable squalor and filth.
It was no mean sacrifice, when one
stops to think about it. Yet the gloiy
of it is that in all probability no man
who volunteered, and none who
served, thought he was doing a big
thing. No medals were awarded, the
men were not even mentioned by
name and the portentous fact is df'
missed with less than one hundred
words in the official report.—Port
land Oregonian.
THINGS WE THINK
Things Others Think and What We
Think of the Things Others Think.
Hot air doesn’t raise anyone perma
nently.
Many a kind deed causes sorrow
for the moment.
Trying to go ahead too fast puts
many people far behind.
How can there be love at first sight
when love is said to be blind?
Good cooking is the best thing in
the world for a man’s morals.
Many people are like frogs—croak
ing when they are right in the swim.
You can’t tell the neighbors any
thing about how hard a girl works to
become an accomplished pianiste.
More men fall from being light
i headed than because they can’t bal
ance what they have in their upper
stories.
Doesn’t it get your goat when you
have told a good story and have got
ten a good laugh on it, to have some
one say, "Well, now, I heard it this
way” and proceed to make some min
or correction that doesn’t change the
point of the story?
WANT FEDERAL
CONTROL OVER
EASTERN FISH
NEWARK, N. J., Jan. 7 (by Asso
ciated Press).—A movement has been
started in New Jersey to save from
extermination the migratory fish
which spawn in one place and move
along the Atlantic coast with the
changang of the seasons—such as
mackerel, menhaden, herring and
numerous other varieties peculiar to
certain localities on this coast. Ex
perienced fishermen declare that the
supply of these migratory fish has
been seriously depleted by the pollu
tion of the areas in which they spawn
and by the reckless manner in which
they have been caught in nets.
The method proposed by the New
Jersey Fish and Game Conservation
league to prevent from extermina
tion is to induce the United States
government to take control of and
regulate the catching of these fish
and stop pollution of the spawning
areas. It is contended that only in
this way can the increasing cost of
fish food to the consumer be checked
or reduced.
efforts to cope with the problem
through state regulation here have
failed utterly, the last straw being
the complete breakdown of the state
board of fisheries, which had been
created by legislative enactment with
a view to increasing the supply of
food fishes and reducing the cost to
the consumer. The five members of
the board resigned in a body in July,
1919, and there have been no reap
pointments.
Investigation by a committee of vet
eran coast men disclosed an eually
deplorable condition, it is said, in
other seaboard states. It was learned,
also, tha*- fisheries officials of Con
necticut and Maryland agreed with
those of New Jersey that a federal
law was the only remedy.
ONLY ONE DOCTOR FOR
EVERY SEVEN THOUSAND
AFTER POLAND SCOURGE
WARSAW, Jan. 7 (by Associated
Press).—Poland lost 400 doctors from
typhus fever last year and now has
only 4,000 for a population of 28,000,
000, or one for every 7,000, according
to an official report made to the
American Red Cross by the ministry
of public health. The American Red
Cross is constantly reinforcing its
medical men in Poland for the pur
pose of helping the local health au
thorities to offset their losses in na
tive physicians.
WILL QU1ZZ DANIELS
ON DISARMAMENT
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (by Associ
ated Press).—Secretary of the Navy
Daniels has been asked to appear be
fore the house naval committee next
Tuesday and state his opinion as to
whether the reduction movement for
the navies of various nations is a
“real and sincere one.”
DEPUTY SHERIFFS HOME
WRECKED BY EXPLOSION
PITTSBURG, Kan., Jan. 7 (by As
sociated Press).—The home of Under
Sheriff O. M. Lamb of Crawford
county, near Girard, was wrecked yes
terday by an explosion. He has been
active recently in raids on dry law
violators.
SECURITY CO. AGENT IS
ARRESTED FOR BRIBERY
NEW YORK, Jan. 7 (by Associated
Press).—Lawrence Malawista, agent
of the National Surety Company, was
arrested yesterday on charges of of
fering government agents bribes
totaling $100,000 for assistance in
connection with liquor permit frauds.
FIND BODY OF GIRL
DROWNED IN CREEK
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WALLA WALLA, Jan. 7 (by As
sociated Press).—The body of 13-year
old Goldie Eaton, daughter of J. E.
Eaton, who was drowned several days
ago in Garrison creek, was found
after most of the water in the creek
had been diverted to the flat lands
of old Port Walla Walla.
It is Very
Dangerous
TO NEGLECT A COUGH OR COLD
By Taking Our
F.UCALYPTOL
and HONEY COUGH CURE
you may save yourself many
miserable hours of
suffering
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“THE DRUG STORE OF ALASKA”
“SERVICE” is our motto.
The satisfaction of knowing
that these big, warm Overcoats
are distinguished by quiet sim
plicity, distinct individuality
and correct style is worth much
for your peace of mind.
And the satisfaction of know
' ing that you’ve paid a full third
less will go far in your efforts to
be thrifty and save. All wool
fabrics—the tailoring is admir
able throughout.
WILL
CLAYSON
The Daily Times Job Plant is well
equipped for all classes of commercial
printing.
A BRKAKFAST NOOK in
X~\. tile home creates a chum
my homelike atmosphere. It
• t : day ri.i'.t. It sa• c8 labor aiul
1 Ti t f: r the hoj-ewife. In your build
ing plans include a breakfast Nook. We
..!-o manufacture sash, doors, and mill
work. We are creators of * Better Mill
\ k.” Rovig, 2219 First Ave.S,. Seattle.
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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
FOR SALE—AN I. X. L. HEATER.
Phone 19-2 rings. 6-tf.
FURNISHED GARINS FOR SALE—
Mrs. Ed Lee, phone 78, 2 rings. 30-lm
FOR RENT UNFURNISHED Apart
ment over Cannon’s store. Apply
downstairs. 28-tf.
Write Violet Ray S. Dennison,'
Ohio., if you wish a pretty and
wealthy wife. Enclose stamp.
FOR RENT—CORNER STORE. AP
ply Michelson & Currier. 7-tf.
FOR RENT—THREE-ROOM FURN
ished Apartments. S. J. Jones, 142
oi’ings. 30-tf.
CR SALE—TWO ROOM FURN
-£■•eu ’conse. Large flat top desk,
l ukOD sled. Apply S. J. Jones, tele
phone 142—Srmgs. 26-tf.
FOR RENT—FURNISHED HOUSE
and apartment. See Chas. J. Good
all. 3-tf.
FOR SALE AND RENT—PIANOS.
Expert piano tuning. Anderson
Piano Shop, Juneau. 2-tf.
FOR RENT—APARTMENTS IN THE
Burkhart Flats. Phone 61. 3-tf.
FOR RENT—FURNISHED CABINS.
See Dooley.
1ST RECEIVED
A LARGE 8HIPMENT OP
LIVE CHICKENS
FINE ROASTERS
JOE FREY
Phone 22
THE UNIVERSAL CAR.
Touring Car .$440.00
Touring Car, startar
type .$510.00
Runabout .$395.00
Runabout, starter
type .$465.00
Chassis .$360.00
Chassis, starter type.$430.00
Truck Chassis, solid
tires, rear.$505.00
Truck Chassis, pneu
matic tires .$545.00
These Prices f. o. b. Detroit
OWEN l HEALS
v-ALDEZ, ALASKA
Authorized Agent
NOTICE OF SALE OF PERSONAL
PROPERTY
WHEREAS, on the 20th day of
March, 1920, George Kennedy, of Cor
dova, Alaska, made, executed and
delivered to A. J. Adams, of Cor
dova, Alaska, a certain chattel mort
gage on the hereinafter described pro
perty situated in the town of Cordova.
Alaska, to secure the payment of the
sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000).
and interest thereon amounting to the
sum of $40.00; and default having
been made in the payment of said
principal and interest according to the
terms of said mortgage, the said A.
J. Adams, on the 3n! day of January,
1921, foreclosed said mortgage and in
structed me to take possession of said
property according to the terms and .
stipulations contained in said mort
gage; and,
Whereas on the 20th day of March,
1920, the said George Kennedy, made,
executed and delivered to John Raw
son, of Cordova, Alaska, another
certain chattel mortgage on the
hereinafter described personal prop
erty to secure the sum of thirty
four hundred thirty-one and 30-100
($3431.36) dollars, on which there
has been paid the sum of six
hundred sixty eight and 97-100
($668.97), leaving a balance due or
twenty seven hundred sixty two and
39-100 ($2762.39) dollars; and the
said John Rawson under the terms of
said mortgage has duly declared the
said mortgage and the amount of th#'
note for which said mortgage was
given due and payable and declared
the said mortgage to be in default,,
and the said mortgagor having de
faulted in the payment of the prin
cipal sum according to the terms of
said mortgage, and the said John.
Rawson having heretofore duly as
signed transferred and set over said
mortgage together with the debts se
cured thereby to A. J. Adams of Cote
•dova, Alaska, and the said A. J.
Adams on the 3rd day of January,
1921, foreclosed said mortgage and in
structed me to take possession of gaid
personal property acceding to the
terms and conditions of said mort
gage: •
Now therefore, notice is hereby giv
en that on the 3rd days of January.
1921, pursuant to (he provisions of
Section 749 of the Compiled Laws of
the Territory of Alaska, and the stip
ulations and agreements contained in 1
each of said chattel mortgage, and the
written instructions given me by the
said A. J. Adams the mortgagee
named in one of said mortgages amt
the assignee of the mortgagee named
in the other of said mortgages. I
seized all of the personal property de
scribed in each of said two mortgages
and hereinafter set forth and on Sat
urday the 15th day of January, 192!
at the hour of 2 o’clock in the after
noon, in the store building situated on *
Lot eleven (11) in Block one (1). of
the Town of Cordova, said buiiding
being situate on the north side of C.
avenue between First street and the
Copper Kiver and Northwestern Rail
road track, in the town of Cordova,
Alaska. I will sell at public auction to
the highest and best bidder, for cash,
all the personal property described
in said two mortgages and herein
after set forth, or so much thereof as
shall be necessary to pay and dla
charge the principal and interest now
due on said two mortgages, to-wit. .
the sum of thirty-eight hundred and
two and 39-100 ($3802.39) dollars, to
gether with the costs and expense®
of said sale, and taxes assessed
against said property by the town of
Cordova amounting to the sum of
$26.25.
The property to be sold in accord
ancee with the above notice and de
scribed in said two mortgages is
follows:
All of the stock of goods, wares and
merchandise, furniture and fixtures
tools and appliances contained in that
certain store room heretofore locat
ed in the south end of the Northern
hotel, town of Cordova, territory of
Alaska, known as and called “Raw
son’s Store,” a more particular de
scription of said property is as fol
lows, to-wit:
Merchandise—(71 flannel shirts; 75
work shirts; 15 fine negligee shirts;
37 loggers shirts; 36TTress shirts; 304
pieces underwear; 15 pieces under
wear, union; 41 water repelant shirts
and coats; 9 mackinaws; 57 pairs of
pants, cotton and wool; 37 jackets;
56 pairs water repelant pants; 100
pairs overalls, men’s, women’s and
children’s; 17 oil coats; 22 pair oil
pants; 19 pair cook’s pants; 14 doz.
canvas gloves; 93 pair mittens and
gloves (wool and leather); 150 as
sorted ties; TVi doz. pair men’s cash
mere hose; 4 doz. suspenders; 34 doz.
men’s heavy wool hose; 2 carpen
ters aprons; 3 folding cots; 21 par
kas; 35 head nets; 23 cook’s aprons;
21 quilts: 20 blankets, cotton; 5 pair
sporting boots; 45 pair shoes: 10 pair
leather slippers; 27 pair rubbers; 11
pillows; 39 caps, canvas; zx caps,
cloth; 72 fine hats; 65 oil hats; 9
fishermen aprons; 14 cans dressing;
1 bunch shoe nails; 1 box miscellan
eous articles; 1 bundle handker
chiefs;; 16 hairbrushes; 8 belts; 7
pair oversleeves; 1 bundle arm
bands; 1 doz. stockings; 1 wool
sweater; 1 lot shoe findings; 1 leath
er suit case; 2 ratan suit cases; 1
box miscellaneous suff, combs, etc.;
8 knapsacks; 19 pair suit straps; 5
pairs pack straps; 1 hunch shoe
laces; 16 pairs arctic straps; 1 roll
burlap; 1 bundle lining; 1 pair shoe
packs; 1 box nails, shoe thread, etc.;
1 box assorted merchandise; 5 doz ra
zor strops; 3 lbs. leather; 9 leather *
belts; 1 lot miscellaneous notions.
Store fixtures—1 lot counter shelv
ing:! 30-inch paper rack; 3 counter
cases; 8 display stands (1 tie stand
included); 1 desk roll top and chair;
1 safe; 1 counter, glass sides; 1 candy
case (floor); 1 glass floor case: 2
14-foot counters; 1 6-foot counter;
65 feet back counter and shelving; l
large mirror, plate glass; 1 estate
heater and 25 joints stove pipe.
Dated at Cordova, Alaska, this 3rd
day of January, 1921.
F. R. BRENNEMAN,
United States Marshal
for the Third Division.
Territory of Alaska.
By Wm. L. FURSMAN, Deputy.