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The Cordova daily times., 1919-09-11

which he can market in adjoining towns or use on his own table, spe- cializing on garden truck which would otherwise have to be shipped in from the States and sold by the re- taller at higher price than the local product.
 Compared with France, Alaska has more than thirty times as much farm ing area. Yet France in the midst of wars has supported seven million peasant families for generations on tiny farms tucked away in most un- expected corners of the landscape With markets assured, with an area vastly greater and resources infin- itely richer, without the devastations of wars for distraction-who may venture to predict the agricultural future of Alaska-America' last frontier? ..,r
The Cordova daily times., 1919-09-11
Solution of Problem

With a constructive governmental policy to further such development
 with the completion of the Alaska government railroad and better trans portation facilities throughout the territory, and with assistance ex- tended to the homesteader during his first year, Alaska may hope to build a population which will number mil lions instead of a few thousands.
 Herein lies the solution to per manent population of hOmebuilders for Alaska, and until such changes are effected farming in Alaska will be a minor activity and population will continue to fluctuate as has been the case since Alaskan history com menced. The wise farmer will con- fine his efforts to diversified crops
The Cordova daily times., 1919-09-11
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
CITATION

 In the Probate Court for the Terri tory of Alaska, Third Division, Valdez Precinct, at Valdez. In the matter of the estate of Robert D.. Gray, deceased.
 The President of the United States, to L. T. Gray, and all other persons interested in the abOve-entitled estate, Greeting:
 Notice is hereby given that James Smith, eXecutOr of above estate, has filed a petition in the above-named court, alleging that said estate is in- solvent, and asking for an order di' recting the sale of the property of the estate, and that a hearing will be given on said petition on the 22d day of October, 1919, by the Judge of the abOve-named court, at his office 1n Valdez, Alaska, at 10 o'clock of the forenoon of said day, and at said time and place all persons having Ob- jections to the granting of said peti- tion will appear and file their objec tiOns thereto.
 Tn Witness Whereof, I have hereuntC set my hand and official seal this Fist day of August, 1919.
 GEORGE J. LOVE,
 U. s. Commissioner and ex-
 offcio Probate Judge. First publication August 28, 1919 Last publication September IS, 1919
The Cordova daily times., 1919-09-11
WAR SOUVENIRS TO
 AID IN DISPOSAL OF
 WAR SAVINGS STAMPS

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. Il (by As sociated Press.-Banks of the Twelfth Federal Reserve district have ordered 6O,OO0 hand grenades which were ready for shipment to the American expeditionary forces when the armistice was signed and which have been turned over to the treas ury department for use as savings banks to stimulate thrift The only to convert them into savings banks was the removal of the TINT charge and the cutting of a slot as a coin way.
 The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, which is handling the dis tribution of the grenades to the banks and trust companies, anticipates or ders aggregating 100000 of the war souvenirs. Robert E. Smith, director of the War Loan Organization for the W01LCn SuSI al IlSoSIN6 ulSIIICC, said "These American-made hand grenades constitute one of the best souvenirs of the war one could pos sibly get. Some months ago an East ern firm managed to get some of them and disposed of them readily at one dollar each"
 It is planned to distribute the grenade banks to the public through banks and trust companies exclu- siVely. The only conditions imposed by the treasury department are that to gain ownership of grenade:
 Persons 1 to 12 years of age must purchase $5 War Saving Stamps;
 Persons F to IS must purchase at least two $5 War Savings Stamps; Persons over IS years of age must buy either one $1OO or one $1,O0O Treasury Savings Certificate, which is the big brother to the War Savings Stamp, bearing the same per cent in terest compounded quarterly and run ming for five years.
 Naturally the supply of grenades is limited" said Director Smith. "Orders for them will be filled in the order received, and after the supply is exhausted no more will be manu- factured Eastern banks and trust companies have asked for hundreds of thousands of them. In all the war department had only 15,O00,000."
 The grenades are expected to ar rive in San Francisco within thirty days.
The Cordova daily times., 1919-09-11
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

In the Commissioners Court for the Territory of Alaska, Cordova Pre- cinct, before R. H. Noaks, United States Commissioner and EX-OficiO Probate Judge, in the matter of the estate of of Mathew PedrOdas- kaIakis, known in Alaska, and here matter referred to as Mike Paros. No. 130.
 The undersigned hereby gives no tice that he has been appointed ad- ministrator of the estate of Mike Paros, deceased, and that all persons having claims against said estate are requested to present the same with the proper vouchers within six months from the date hereof, to the undersigned administrator, at his office in Cordova, COrdova Precinct Territory of Alaska.
 Dated at Cordova, Alaska, this 20th day of August, A. D. 1919.
 B. o. GRAHAM, Administrator of the Estate of Mike Paros, deceased.
 Date of first publication, Aug. 20, 1919. Date of last publication, Sept. IT, 1919
The Cordova daily times., 1919-09-11

Fresh Ever-Ready Flashlight Bat teries, all sizes. Blum O'Neill Go. 3-tf Job printing at Daily Times office.
The Cordova daily times., 1919-09-11
w. H. DUGDEIL.
Administrator of the Estate of Jamt
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

In the United States Commissioners Court in and for Cordoya Precinct, Territory of Alaska.-In Probate.- In the matter of the Estate of Yer mund Martin Olson, deceased.
 Notice is hereby given by the under signed, administrator of the estate of Vermund Martin Olson, deceased, to the creditors of and all persons hav- ing claims against the said deceased, to exhibit them, with the necessary vouchers, within six months after the first publication of this notice, to the said administrator at the office of Frank H. Foster, attorney at law, Cor dova, Alaska, the same being the place for the transaction of the business of said estate. E. P. ZIEGLER,
 Administrator
 Dated July IA, 1919.
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lnstaIIs Test Mill

InstaIIs Test Mill
 J. Weist, one of the pioneer farm CTS near Fairbanks, has installed a small test mill with a view to milling homegrown flour. Officers of the Fairbanks station claim that suffi- cient flour can be mil1ed next fall to supply the entire Fairbanks district if last falls grain was saved for seeding this spring. Fine crops of barley, oats and rye have been raised every season for several years in the Interior valleys of the territory.
 Alaska is the home of the wild berry. From Douglas island, where the blueberries grow as large as small pie cherries, to the Arctic Cir cle, some variety of wild fruit may be found. Cranberries, both high and low bush varieties, are most abund- ant and supply appropriate sauce for the grouse and duck which the North ern hunter knows both how to bag and how to cook. Raspberries, sal mon berries, red and black entrants all flourish in different sections of the territory although attempts to cultivate them have proved only partially successful
The Cordova daily times., 1919-09-11
PAPER MANUFACTURER
 VISITING ALASKA COAST

D. den Bleyker, one of the incor- porators and stockholders of the Cas- code Paper Company, whose pulp and paper making plcnts are located at Steilacoom, Wash, was a recent Ju- neau visitor MT. den Bleyker, who was instrumental in the organization of the Cascade Company, has been interested in the paper situation in Alaska. He says the possibilities
The Cordova daily times., 1919-09-11
Agricultural Possibilities

You may take your pick of the farming land in Alaska. If you don't like the southeastern part of the ter ritOTy where the big stra yOerries thTive, you may go into the val 'ys of the Copper, Yukon, Tanana, Susit- na or KuskOkWim rivers. Alaska has 6,400000 acres of land suitable for farming and grazing and capable of producing vegetables which arc su- HeriOr tO those ra,sed in mAI2 south
 o:n latitudes, because of the long hours of sunshine which produce a tenderer and }0O~a intensive growth.
 Several tons e. potatoes raised by z: rmers 4 the Matanuska valley, along the government railroad, are purchased each year by the Alaskan engineering commission for the use of those engaged in building the government railroad. There is al ways enough besides to supply the needs of the local community. Cab bages develop heads often more than four times as large as the head of the average person, and a rutabaga, grown last year at Dawson, the me- tropolis of the Klondike in the Yukon territory, measured forty seven inches around. Peas, turnips, car
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Obstacles

Yet is doubtful if there are 1000 farmers in all Alaska today. While farming will undoubtedly become one of the leading industries and the basis of that stable and growing pop ulatiOn for which the territory as pires, farming now and for many years to come must continue a sec ondary activity. The difficulty of the Alaskan farmer is not in growing his crops but in marketing them. Markets must first be created which will care for the produce after it is matured. Last year several hundred tons of potatoes went to waste in the Matanuska valley because the local market was too small and inadequate transportation facilities and high freight rates prohibited shipment to other sections of the territory where they were needed.
 Markets can only be developed through the opening up of the terri tory's vast wealth of natural re- sources-of the mineral area which has been "barely scratched" of the fishing industries which are handling only twenty of the 125 varieties of marketable fish, of the thousands of acres of Alaska spruce adapted to pulp manufactures; of the billions of tons of coal as fuel for Pacific ship ping service-to say nothing of the oil and other possible developments of the future.
The Cordova daily times., 1919-09-11
GREATEST NEED OF TERRITORY
 IS INCREASE OF lTSPOPULATION

(By Lena Henrietta White, Librarian Alaska Bureau, Seattle Chamber of
 Commerce.)
 With resources incomparably richer than those of any similar area with fascination which grips even those who have spent a few months within her boundaries, Alaska is today little more than village in matter of population. Numbering less than 50,0O0 at the outbreak of the world conflict, Alaska offered nearly half that number to help win the war. The majority of the young men en- listed with the fighting forces, while "sourdoughs" who hadn't boarded a street car for twenty years, caught the ''mushing" fever and stampeded to the States to engage in war in- dustries.
 Today one need only attempt to ob- tain reservation on one of the steam ship lines to realize the reaction which has followed Alaskans are going back, taking with them a new loyalty for the territory, a new de- termination to win for Alaska the recognition it deserves, and a new population attracted by a spirit of hxy %f10 opportunities which the territory has to offer.
 The soldier from Alaska, in the cantonments of this country and in the trenches of France was the best press agent the North ever had. Fighting side by side with the dough boy from Texas, the Alaskan talked constantly and enthusiastically of his home land and it's people. To the Northerner who told of "eight straw berries to the quart and rhubarb six feet high the Southerner had no re- ply. Either the Alaskan was a happy liar or he wasn't, and the Texan, with dozens of others has gone North to discover the truth for himself since the signing of the armistice.
 Some have gone to prospect for un- discovered riches of minerals, some to win or lose a fortune from the great fishing banks, others to work on homesteads for whatever the soil has to yield
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The Cordova daily times., 1919-09-11
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

In the United States Commissioners
 Court for the Territory of Alaska,
 Third Division, Kayak Precinct. In Probate.
 In the matter of the Estate of James Warddell, deceased.
 Notice is hereby given that the un- dersigned was duly and regularly ap- pointed by the probate court of the Kayak precinct, territory of Alaska, on the 4th day of August, 1919, ad- ministrat0r of the estate of James Wardden, deceased Notice is hereby given to the creditors of and all per sons having claims against the said deceased to exhibit them with the necessary vouchers. within six months after the first publication of this no tice, to said administrator at his resi- dence or place of business in the town of Katalla territory of Alaska, the same being the place for the transac- tiOn of business of said estate in the territory of Alaska.
 Dated at Katalla, Alaska, this 4th day of August, 1919.
 w. H. DUGDELL. Administrator of the Estate of James
 WarddeII, deceased.
 Date of first publication Aug. 6, 1919.
 Date of last publication Sept. 4, 1919.
 Donohoe x Dimond, attorneys for the administrator.
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for a great pulp and paper manufac- turing business are very good.
 MT. den Bleyker was for many years associated with the paper man. ufacturing business in Michigan.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-09
SHOP AND CAR
MEN STRIKE
i. ON RAILROADS
Men Leave Work in New Haven,
Stamford, East Hartford,
Waterbury.
'TIEUP OF THE SERVICE
New Haven Road Drops 102 Pas
senger Trains-Hines Auth
orized to Act.

Railroad passenger service through
out the country is partly tied up this
week because of strikes by railroad
shop EMPLOYEES. President Wilson on
Thursday night notified Director Gen
eraE Hines to take up the demands of
railroad shop employees for higher
wages and decide them on their merit
The President wrote that the chief Oh
etacle to a 1ecision had beer created BY
the men themselves who went on strike
and >repudiated the authority of their
officers.
In New Haven over 1900 employees
quit. The decision to strike was made
at a mass meeting held in the Arena
on Wednesday night. The strikers held
mass meeting yesterday morning
They will have headquarters in Trades
Council Hall. The men who walked out
were connected with seven affiliated
crafts employed in the shops ard round
houes, also telegraph and telephone wirc
repairmen. Train inspectors also left
their work Henry Potter of West Ha-.
ven is general chairman of the fedora
ton III Charge of the strike. All crews
IN the shops walked out except the
wrecking crew.
- Shopmen TO the number of 40, the
entire force quit work in Stamford
Thursday morning. They repair cleo
trio locomotives.
In Waterbury, 65 n,achinists and me-
chaH4cs quit work on Thursday morn
ing. No effort was made by the COM
pany to combat the strike. . j."
Several hundred machinists, boiler
makers and helpers i'll the car shops in
East Hartford walked out Thursday
and 500 additional went out yesterday.
Because of the strike, the New York,
New Haven & Hartford railroad order
ed the discontinuance of 102 passenger
trains leaving SIS in the service The
timetable is suspended and all. dining
car and parlor cars are eliminated.
In Massachusetts, and New Hamp-
shire. it is estimated that 10000 me-
chanics employed in shops, round
houses and terminals have gone on
strike. The Boston & Maine road took
off many trains yesterday. The Boston
& Albany road was not affected as much
as the others. s
Director Hines wrote to B. NJ. Jewell,
acting president of the railway en-
ployees' department of the A. F. of L.
that the railroad administration is
ready to take up the wage question on
its merits with the duly accredited in
terpational officers and their authorized
committees as son as the employees
return to work. t.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-09
THE BIJOU.

Mabel Normand, the rampish little
Goldwyn comedy star, will appear at the
Bjou theater- next week in her new
picture, Upstairs"
The whimsical actress is seen as the
n1older of fancy ice creams in the Gel
lar of palatial hotel. She wears
boys toys, a rakish cap, and boots far
too roorny for her tiny feet.
A feature of her rig is the enor-
nous shoes, of wooden sole and rubber
top-to fiippeEy-hop around the ice
cream freezers in the dank cellar of the
place where upstairs is fairyland
unknown to her"
Through the aid of al supposed bell
boy, played admirably by Cullen Lands,
she is able to view the higher precincts
of the hosiery in a fine 1adys gown.
But her shoes She is so entranced
by the fnery that she forgets her awk-
ward footwear until she is in the lobby
The elevator operator laughs at her, but
she scorns him, parading in fine style
until bump! She stubs an ungainly
toe on monster heel, and comes up
frowning, only to discover the absence
of proper slippers.
Her wits are at an end, until she
spies lady at a writing desk with slip
pers removed from burning feet, SO she
slides over, starts a note, then. slips the
clod-hoppers off and the 1ady's pumps
on. She makes her escape, but runs
smack into detective l-now just what
would you have done if you were this
marauding young child? -
But see what Mabel Normand as the
slavey did, and how she won Eve
thousand dollar reward, married the
bell-boy'' millionaire, and was happier
than any girl in fairy tale.
The vaudeville will have Charles
Dingle & Co. with four other acts and
added attractions Dancing contest
Tuesday night.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-09

For a good solid Is minutes of song
advertisement Billy Tracey and Doro
thy Vail have what the popular YER
nacular terms "the goods" Billy
Tracey is one of the recognized lyric
writer's of the day having to his credit
the word sections of some of the really
big song successes.
No finer examples of the benefits of
physical culture are appearing before
the public than DAmour and Douglas
whose fitness and dexterity have en-
abled them to assemble about the finest
routine of hand balancing listed in vau-
dcville.
Beauty, harmony and catchy synco-
patton ethe stocks in trade used by
the Four Woodrow Girls to provide a
right smart and thoroughly entertain
ing vaudeville combination. This quar-
tet asks no odds of the best of them in
their method of delivering something
that audiences take to without hesita-
ton.
The Three Beauties, a trio of singers
and dancers included what competent
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-09
ORNBURN ORGANIZES
SEAMEN'S ASSOCIATION
Will Include Coal Trimmers,
Teamsters, Stablemen, Chauf-
feurs and Doclmen.

Secretary Ira NJ Ornburns of the
Connecticut Federation of Labor, who
has been in Bridgeport since the strike
of the corset workers and machinists
began, made flying trip to New Ha-
ven the first of the week although he
did not come in an aerop1ane. He or
ganized a new union composed of men
who are employed about the docks and
boats.
The meeting was held in Trades
Council Hall at 10 O'Clock on Sunday
morning and was attended by nearly
200 men. This union is to be modelled
York, which includes teamsters, chauf-
feurs, stablemen, helpers and, coal
trimmers. Mr.. Ornburn spoke at some
length upon the necessity of such an
organization and told what had been
accomplished in other cities in this line
of work. Anthony Merlino, business
agent of the BARRIERS Union of New
Haven, spoke of the benefits of or
ganization. ---*
One of the sections of the agreement.
of the New York local is as follows
Fhe local union will appoint one of its
members to act as stable steward, whose
duty it shall be to see that the conditions
of this contract are not broken by either
employer or employees, and IN case, OF
slack season he shall be the last team
ster or chauffeur to be laid off, and
under no consideration shall he be dis
eliminated against
Another section reads: SHOULD any
difference arise between ernployer and
employee the same shall be submitted
to arbitration by both parties; failing
to-agree they shall mutually appoint an
umpire, whose decision shall be final
and binding. If teamster or chauffeur
is removed from service for any doubt
full cause, he shall have fair and i'm
partial investigation within thirty days,
at which he may be present and have
the right to cali in member. of his
committee who will be present at the
entire investigation, and if found guilty
he shall suffer the penalty, and if not he
shall be paid for time off,
One of the rules provides that drivers
are not TO be asked to do stable work
or, warehouse work unless paid at the
rate of 90 cents per hour extra.
It is expected that the New Haven
union will be fully organized. soon and
a charter obtained in two weeks.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-09
THE PALACE.

So many choice gems of vaudeville
have been set into the Palace bills for
the coming week that the programs
booked simply radiate with dazzling
.bri1liancy. Of the half-score of acts
due to appear there isn't single one
that has not been highly classified in the
records of ultra vaudeville.
Entitled to a feature position in any
company with which they may be billed
clever George Moore and dainty Miss
Bellaire are looming up on the vaude-
vile horizon with one of the most orig
inal and out of the ordinary vaudeville
ideas of the year. Propaganda for
Squirrels" is the title this pair has given
the act and the package is just as odd
as its label.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-09
GARMENT WORKERS
ARE ORGANIZED
General Secretary Barroff of In
ternational Addresses Meeting
of New Haven Union. =

4 New Haven Local of. the Ladies'
Garment Workers Union was organ
lied at the Labor Lyceum on Tuesday
night by Abe Barroff, of New York,
general secretary of the International
Ladies Garment Workers Union.
Those who joined this organization
have been meeting at this hall for sew
c-a1 weeks and there was a good at
tendance at the meetings. A commit
tee of the workers went to New York
recently and secured charter and the
formal organization was effected on
Tuesday n;rht.
General Secretary Rarroff spent con-
siderable time in Bridgeport when the
corset strike was started and he told
his hearers that I'm NJ. Ornburn. sec
rotary of the Connecticut Federation O.:
Labor, did great work during the
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-09
CLOTHING WORKERS.
New Haven Organization to Make
Demands of Employers.

The New Haven Local of the Anal
gamated Clothing Workers met in the
Labor Lyceum on Thursday night and
formulated a list of demands to be
made of the employers This list will.
be sent to the headquarters of the or
ganization IN New York and if ap-
proved there it will be present I'd to the
employers in New Haven. 1t is be-
lieved that the workers will demand a
44-hour week and week work instead of
piece work.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-09
CARPENTERS MEET.

The New Haven Local No. -,
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join,
ers, met in Trades Council Hall on
Monday night. and after transacting the
usual routine business adjourned for
one week, =
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-09

the super class. Given a fine, strong
vein of romance surrounded with love
and heart interest, relieved with just
enough of the lighter moments to pro-
vide distinctive high 1ightings to its
dramatic situations.
Just as bright just as good and just
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-09

strike. In the words of the general
secretary, Mr.. Ornburn is a prince"
Benja Leventha1 of the Capmakers
Union and Miss Helen Shields of the
Tobacco Shippers Union, who did
valiant work in organizing this union
were called upon and commended for
their efforts.