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The Cordova daily times., 1923-01-12
MAIL DELIVERY IN ALASKA IS
 EXPENSIVE

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12. = The highest per capita cost of the United States Postal Service is in Alaska where the Government spends $200,- 900 per year for overland mail ser vice to serve 3S,00O white men. Pack trains, dog teams and other primitive methods of transportation are em- ployed. However the importance of this service is illustrated by the fact that these men regulate their lives by the postal routes. The Government inspector who recently visited Alaska found that men served by their mail routes waited until two and three o'clock in the morning for the ar rival of the carrier. The coming and going of mail carrier in these communities is distinctly an event, it being the only time the communities come in touch with the outside world
The Cordova daily times., 1923-01-12
NOME WINTER SERVICE
 BETTER THAN LAST YEAR

In comparing the present mail ser vice between Nome and the States with former years, the Nome Mug get has this to say: Peter Curran inaugurated the winter mail service from Nome to the Outside on Thurs day, November 16 According to in- formation given it is understood that the mail from the States is in the of Unalakett and would leave for Nome about the same time that MT Curran started east.
 "If weather conditions permit we should receive our first winter mail about November 24, about one month earlier than in former winters. The Government railroad has facilitated mail movements in Alaska and Nome will benefit accordingly. After the next mail departure from Nome a regular weekly schedule will be observed"
The Cordova daily times., 1923-01-12
WHITE BEM0ANS LACK OF
 KANSAS INDUSTRIAL LAW
 BREAKER FOR TEST CASE

is only another way of saying that he intends to have it repealed in the forthcoming Kansas Legislature which meets this month. Advocates of the law want to know how he is going to do it with Legislature of an opposite political faith, which-the millennium not having arrived-is ex' pected to oppose anything the Demo- cratic governor advocates, the day not being so long past when, according to tradition, Democrats in Kansas were hunted with hounds.
 Battle at Capitol
 At any rate Kansas is in ferment and the industrial court law is the ferment. The battle over the law will be fought, but in the state capitol at Topeka instead of in the courtroom at Emporia.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-01-12

IN THE COMMISSIONERS COURT KA, THIRD DIVISION, CORDOVA PECINCT, BEFORE HONORABLE A. J. ADAMS, UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER AND EX-OFFI- CIO PROBATE JUDGE
 In the Matter of the Estate of Joseph White, Deceased.
 NO. 15O
 NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT OF
 FINAL ACCOUNT
 Notice is hereby given that V. c. Vance, Administrator of the estate of Joseph White, deceased, has rem dered and presented for settlement and filed in said court the final ac- count of his administration of said estate; and that Monday, the 18th day of March, 1923, at the hour of 2 o'clock in the afternoon of said day, at the court room of said court in the Town of Cordoya, Territory of Alaska, has been duly appointed by said court as the time and place for the settlement of said final account at which time and place any person interested in said estate may appear and file exceptions in writing to said account and contest the same.
 Dated at Cordova. Alaska, this 9th day of January, 1929.
 V. G. VANCE,
 Administrator of the Estate
 of Joseph White. Deceased. First publication, January 6, 1923. Last publication, February 3, 1923.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-01-12
VERSATILE NEGROES
 VIVID CAREER ENDS

BERLIN, Jan. 12.-A twenty seven year-old negro, William Munume, from Duala, who recently appeared before the judge at Wiesbaden, proved to be man of many talents. He had made a fairly decent living as a waiter, proprietor of pros porous ladies' fashions store in Wiesbaden and as-a fire-eater in wandering circus shows. But all these rather prosaic pursuits did not quite satisfy the cravings of his TO- mantle heart. He went to Hungary, where he appointed himself consul of the black republic of Liberia, accredited to the Budapest Govern ment of Count Andrassy and Baron Teleki. Profiting by the lure which foreign money exercises at present on the Central European mind living in the flimsy realms of depreciated paper, Consul" Munume set himself deftly to forge checks on Liberian banks which he circulated among the gullible. public in payment of his official" and private expenses. Sev- eral large German banking houses in Hamburg, Dresden and Stuttgart suffered losses of several hundred thousand marks. On a trip to Han over Munume was arrested. The Wiesbaden courts, allowing for cer- tain extenuating circumstances, sen
The Cordova daily times., 1923-01-12
ALASKA'S REAL COST $l,@0,00O
 INSIDE HISTORY MADE PUBLIC

That the real price paid by the Unit ed States to Russia for Alaska was S1.400,000, instead of $7,200,00 as is generally accepted to be true, is the statement made by the late Franklin K. Lane, which appears in the recent ly published book, Letters of Frank line K. Lane" (Houghton Mifflin Co) The other $5,SOO,000 involved in the purchase was money owing to Russia for a friendly display of war vessels during the Civil War, according to MT. Lanes account.
 MT Lane based his statement on in, formation coming to him from Charles w. Glover, president of Riggs Nation, al Bank, Washington, D. G., who han. died the warrants for payment and was told by w. w. Sorcoran, famous Washington financier and founder to the Art Gallery there, of the entire transaction.
 Glover Tells of Transaction
 The following extract of one of Mir. Lanes letters giving the account of the Alaska purchase, is taken from the volume mentioned above:
 Washington, Dec. 29, 1911.
 Last night I dined with Charles Henry Butler, reporter for the Su- preme Court and a son of William Allen Butler for so long leader of the New York bar.
 In the course of the evening MT. Charles Glover, president of the Riggs National Bank, told me this bit of history. That when he was a boy, in the bank one day MT. Cochran (W w. Corcoran) came to him and handed him two warrants upon the United States Treasury, one for $1,400,000 and the other for $5,S0000O. He said Put those in the safe" MT. Glover did so, and they remained there for a week, when they were sent to New York. MT. Glover said "These war rants were the payment to Russia for the Territory of Alaska" Why were there two warrants? I never knew until some years later, when l learned the story from Senator Dawes, who said that prior to the war, there had been some negotiations between the
The Cordova daily times., 1923-01-12

Fresh, clean milk delivered to all parts of town. Lakeside Dairy Phone 176-4. R. H. Koch, Prop. 29-tf
The Cordova daily times., 1923-01-12

KANSAS CITY, Kan, Jan. II. - Kansas Industrial Court Law.
 Such is the plaintive vail going up from one William Allen White, of Elm poria, Kansas, and second fiddle in the Henry and Me" case. Governor Henry J. Allen, of Kansas, played first violin in the case, which 'blew up' at Emporia recently when the county attorney, acting on orders of Attorney General Richard Hopkins, who in turn received his instructions from Gov ernor Allen, had the case against White dismissed.
 Now the industrial court law con- tinues flying from the masthead with none to say may" while William Allen White, discomfited and shorn of his avowed purpose to test it's legality through all the high courts of the land in order to find out wheth- CT or not free speech" is a dead issue in the Jayhawker State, walks the stage of Kansas politics as melan- choly as the Dane of Shakespeare's creation.
 Battle Invited
 When White defied the pet law of his old-time friend, Governor Allen, during the railstrike last summer and posted prominently in the windows of his newspaper placards expressing varying degrees of sympathy for the striking shopmen and was duly ar rested, the stage was all set for a titanic court battle to test the val idity of the industrial court law.
 Freedom of speech and other con- stitutional safeguards were to be iudicially vindicated in Kansas - or dragged in the dust. '-~
 When the smoke of battle cleared away not only had no law been tested but not even a trial had been held. Today free speech in Kansas is exact ly what it has always been-whatever that is.
 Vioator Sought
 Hence the anxiety of the opponents of the industrial court law to have somebody violate it again in order that the test may be made. Governor elect Jonathan M. Davis, self-styled dirt farmer and Democrat, says it is unnecessary. Davis says when he gets through with the industrial court law it will no longer be an issue. Which
The Cordova daily times., 1923-01-12
HEALING ANSWERS TO
 MATERlALISTS SAYS BISHOP

LONDON, Jan. 12.-"Christendom is on the eve of the recovery of the power of spiritual healing / declared the Anglican Bishop of Kensington at the Lyceum Club.
 Spiritual healing,' he said, "has been taking place by spiritual means inside and outside the Church.
 Father Woodlock, introduced as the great authority on Lourdes, spoke Of the conspiracy of silence" regarding the cures of Lourdes.
 "This really supernatural type Of miracle, which cannot be explained away" he said, "has been given to this age in Gods goodness as an answer to the materialistic criticism of the Gospels. Christ has been doing at Lourdes for 50 years just the same thing as he did in Galilee."
The Cordova daily times., 1923-01-12
BEAN ROOT EASY TO
 PULL; MILD WINTER IS
 PREDICTED THIS YEAR

SYRACUSE, N. Y, Jan. 12.-Cancel that order for heavy winter undies.
 It's going to be mild winter.
 So advises Hartman Thron, Rome weather prophet, who for years has correctly told Central New Workers the variety of winter they could eX- pect.
 Throns prediction is based upon the study of roots of bean vines. When the vines are easy to pull the winter will be a mild one; when the roots are pulled with difficulty a severe winter will follow y
The Cordova daily times., 1923-01-12

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The Cordova daily times., 1923-01-12

United States and Russia for the pur, chase of Alaska, and the price of $1,4000O0 was agreed upon. In fact this was the amount that Russia asked for this great territory, which was regarded as nothing more than a barren field of ice
 Where Help Was Needed
 During the war the matter lay dor mant. We had more territory than we could take care of. When England, however, began to manifest her friend ly disposition toward the Confederacy, and we learned from Europe that Eng land and France were carrying on ne- gotiations for the recognition of the manifestation by their fleets against the blockade which we had instituted, (and which they claimed was not eff fective and merely a paper blockade,) we looked about for friend, and Russia was the only European country upon whose friendship we could rely. Thereupon Secretary Seward secured from Russia demonstration, in American ports, of Russian friendship Her ships of war sailed to both of our coasts, the Atlantic and Pacific, with the understanding that the ex- pense of this demonstration should be met by the United States, out of the contingent fund. It was to be a se- cret matter.
 Way Is Found
 "The war came to a close, and inn mediately thereafter Lincoln was as sassinated and the administration changed. It was not longer possible to pay for this demonstration, secret ly, under the excuse of war, but way was found for paying Russia thr ough the purchase of Alaska. The warrant for $1,4O0,000 was the warrant for the purchase of Alaska, the warrant for S5, ,SO0,00O was RuSSlaS expenses Tn her naval demonstration in our be- half, but history only knows the fact that the United States paid S7,200,000 for this territory, which is now dem onstrated to be one of the ricEest portions of the earth in mineral de- posits."
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PAGE FIVE

Lake fishing rod which he lost last August.
 Fishing through the ice he hooked large bass, and when the bass had been landed found that it had another hook in the mouth. Pulling in the line of the second hook he finally drew from the waters the lost rod It was at spot five miles from where he lost it.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-01-12
ANGLER CATCHES BASS;
 RETRiEVES LONG LOST ROD

SYRACUSE, N. Y. Jan. 12. - Try this one on the next meeting of the Anglers Club:
 Dr. Floyd s. Hoyt of Central Square, near here, has recovered from Oneida
The Cordova daily times., 1923-01-12

fenced him to three years imprison- ment and 5000 marks fine.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-08

OF thousand miles per hour. and calling it
SPEEDY
Inc fact is that everything is comparative. There
IS no fast no Slow no big little whale isa
vast mountain to ninnow And gigantic steamship
OF iron will cut through whale like knife through
butter The village constable is big to the little boy
looking up in Napoleon Is big to the historian
Both the village constable and Napoleon tiny human
insects on this grain of sand we call the earth are
less than nothing in the eye of eternal history.
Act well your part, there all the honor lies as
the poet says is good advice for this life For if you
act YOUR part WELL it doesn't matter whether you are
big or little, fast slow, nhabitant of garng blazing
BetelgueSe, or this tiny earth.
Nothing matters whether you are field MOUSE
or a teId MARSHAL, except DOING YOUR BEST"
MIR. McCay' interesting philosophizing, printed
above, tells admirably the story of his picture
It is indeed fact that everything is COM
PARAT1VE. There is no REAL speed or REAL,
slowness. The earth turns around one thousand
miles per hour This seems fast but you can easily
realize how very SLOWLY it turns. Take from
your pocket nickel or a twenty five cent piece
Hold it between thumb and finger and try to turn
1t so slowly that it would only 60 round ONCE in
twenty four hours. You will not be able to see it
move If that twenty -five-cent piece were one
hundred feet in diameter, and turned round only
once in twenty four hours you could not see it
moving.
The giant planet Jupiter, biggest in our little
family of planets, sailing around the sun turns
around the sun only once in fifty years, so that
z year In Jupiter lasts fifty years. And young
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-08

in twentyfour hours. The roughness of the surface
and the wide waters make that impossible But the
absolutely smooth road of air above heads makes
it quite likely that flying machine will 60 around
the earth some day, high up where no rough wind
blows at speed equal to the apparent speed of the
sun. T. ~.
However, If man did travel q thousand miles
every hour. that would seem nothing to old Father
Time. He sees very different speeds In her clip
ticaI journey around the old Mother Earth
els every year than five hundred million miles:
figure out for yourself the speed per hour And that
little trip of five hundred million miles per year does
not include the extra distance travelled by the earth
as she is pulled through space the suns own in
dependent journey.
Talking about speed. take off your hat to old
Mother Earth for she is the SpeedeSt thing you will
ever travel in this life. For hundreds of millions
OF years. as scientists prove she has kept up ter
FfIc speed, without ever missing lap, and she is
still going And she makes the trip so smoothly that
you don't even know she is nnong. You imagine that
YOU are the boss of the whole works.
Then consider the sun. around which our earth
travels like small pea revolving around busheI
basket. The sun is going off journey of his own
somewhere in space, toward star called Vega lust
over our heads. So astronomers tell u.s. nd the sun
has very respectable speed of his own-THIRT-EN
MILES PER SECOND-on his journey through
space. That amounts to $50 miles a minute or $500
miles per hour.
For all we know, sun may be REVOLVING
around some blgger sum- travelling in gigantic
eLipSe absolutely beyond comprehensive .iuSt
our earth travels in her eLHpSe around the sun.
Compared with other suns our planet and our sim
SLOW knowing institutions =
Surely old Father Time would LAUGH NJ a IjttIe
Au@aa being craving around the sart6 At the rate
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-08

4 We SPEED through life; our ablest minds
are concentrated on speed. The fast automo.
bile, flying machine, wireless, radio all mean
speed.
Messages that men once carried on foot
now travel through the ether or over wires at
a speed equal to 'seven times around the world
In one second"
"A shark, it is said can swim one hundred
miles on hour. We call that terrific speed. Some
birds can fly about as fast, and that is great
speed.
Light travels $4,000 miles per second,
speed that we call inconceivable. It takes light
eight minutes to travel between the sun and the
earth, whereas human thought can leap instan-
taneously to the suns surface, dwell on the
wonders Of that star and come back again, all
within half minute
WHAT Is SPEED? It is all matter Of
comparison.
Mr.. McCay thus describes his idea, in max
ing the picture that you see here.
This picture shows an automobile going around
the EARTH on imaginary smooth track, just exactly
as fast as the sun SEEMS go around the earth!
OF course we know that the isn't going around
the earth but that the turning on its axis makes
the sun SEEN to go around. That fooled the people
of the earth into believing for centuries that the sun
was taking the trouble to around little planet,
just children in a railway are fooled into be-
AeVing that the trees and houses flying past them
Men have gone hundred miles and more in ons
hour in automobile. They have travelled three
hundred miles in an hour In flying machine The
widest dream of any automobile flying machine
would probably be thousand miles Der hour
That is the speed that try show in this pictvy.
IF man in automobile arou I'd the .sr+b
starting towa-d the west at the one Thousand
miles per hour starting with the directly sbov.
his head, the would remain directly abov. III,
head throughout the entire trip around the earth
The man would be travelling westward over the earth
Just fast the earth would travelling esst,.,d
under ms wheels. but regards the suns position
above him. ne would stay in the place.
IT he travelled to the east, / suppose he ,vor,d
see two sunsets and two SunrSes in twentvfo,-
hours Ne automobile eyer vii 20 around the earth
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Speed, Like Bigness Littleness and Other Things
Is All Comparative. Lump Of Sugar Is Small Conn
pared to Mountain. That Same Lump Is a Noun
tain Compared with Microbe If a Man Ran a
Mile i'm Four Minutes, That Would Be Wonderful
Speed. 1t Would Be Miserably Slow for a Trottine
Horse, Almost "Wallk" for an Automobile And
a Bullet at Such Slow Speed Would Not Remain
i'm Notion 1T Would Fall. I'm This Picture MR.
McCay Shows Automobile SUPPOSED to BE
Travelling One Thousand Miles an Hour That
Would Be IMPOSSIBLY Fast for an Automobile:
Very Slow for Some Other Thines
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-08

lady aged eighteen on Jupiter would be ninety
years old on this earth.
The magnificent flaming sun, travelling on his
strange journey thirteen miles per second, and
dragging our little planet with him, is in our minds
of great size, million times as big as the earth.
But our sun is small compared with other suns, Of
which some are million times as big as ours
Everything is comparative bigness, Ittleness,
speed, slowness do not matter. A very great
scientist said, "There are undoubtedly in this uni
verse creatures compared with whom man would
seem like black beetle compared to man."
But if the black beetle does everything that he
CAN do, if he obeys the laws under which he is
created and under which he works, if he is thor.
oughly conscientious, HARD WORKING black
beetle, he is just as good as the man whose heel
brushes his back or whose pillow turns up his home
in the field.
And man, small and unimportant as he u.s. if he
does the best that is in HIM. if he works honestly
and conscientiously, giving to other men his best
efforts, he is just good as the greatest created
creature on the greatest of all planets or suns,
assuming that the suns have inhabitants of their
own, which is highly probable.
r.,
MIR. McCay chooses well his lines from Pope.
That poet, all his life suffering invalid, taken
care Of by maid, was sewed up each morning in
stiff canvas jacket to help hold up his weak
backbone while he did his writing He was poor
PHYSICAL specimen but he did THE BEST
THAT WAS IN HIM. There was considerable
bitterness in him, due to suffering. But the good
REMAINS and the bitterness is forgotten.
Many Americans might take down the desk
motto Life is one -- thing after another
and substitute Pope's quotation:
"Hon0r and fame frono mn rond;tIou Else
Act well your part there all the honor lies"
The greatest genius on the greatest sphere in
this entire universe deserves no more honor than
the humble but glorious Frenchman Pasteur. He
did his best for all humanity. The good American
father who brings fancy dresses to his daughters
and fancy automobiles to his son is not doing any
more than the hard working robin bringing plenty
of worms to the little robins in the nest.
The robin has this great advantage over the
kind human father. The robin isn't spelling his
sons and daughters as he stuffs the worms down
their threats.
t'Act well your part,4,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-08

Z live in an age Of speed. The
automobile hearse takes us to
the grave at about twenty miles
an hour. Before the automobile
came the hearse horses trotted
rapidly, much to the amazement
of visiting Europeans.
The Washington times., 1923-10-27
STUDENT IS
KILLED At
j. Of Ill.
Freshman is Shot by Police
man-CIassmate Who
Is Held.
By international News Service.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill.,, Oct. 27.-
One University of Illinois student
Is dead today, from a shot fired
,by a classmate, and anothe1 is
held for questioning in connec-
ton with an alleged theft out of
which the Staying grew.
.,~ssslat Esnlie Glassmate.
Ill t8enty-two, fresh
man at tie university. fell with a
bullet wound from which he died
when he refused to halt at the
command of j. d. Hillyer, motor
cycle policeman, also a freshman.
With Sharp just before his death
was Alexander Schulz. a son of
Prof. w. 7. Schulz, Of the depart
ment of physics at the university.
Police stated today that the boys
had bought an old automobile, in
which they planned to drive today
to the Illinois foot
ball game at Chicago. They had
over-hauled the machine.
Says They Were Stealing Tire.
Hillyer stated he found his class.
mates taking a tire from another
car. When he called to them to
halt, Schulz fled in the car. and
Sharp ran down an alley. Hillyer
fired and Sharp fell. He died al.
most Immediately. Schulz is being
questioned today.
The Washington times., 1923-10-27
AUTO ACCIDENT MAY
BRING THIRD DEATH

ATLANTA, Ga, Oct 27.-Hospital
attendants said today there is lit
tie chance of recovery for Howell
Lloyd, fifteen-year-old youth who
was a victim of an automobile accI-
dent which already has claimed two
lives. He is suffering from a frac-
tured skull.
Walter Edwards, fourteen, and
r.. c. Word, fifteen, were killed out
right, while Roy Brant, twenty-five;
Hubert Bishop, 16, and c. P. Camp
were injured. The accident occurred
last night when the automobile in
which they were riding at a terrific
speed crashed into a street car. Wit
nesses to the tragedy said the ma
chine was going sixty-five miles an
hour.
The speedometer, when taken from
the wrecked automobile, registered a
speed Of fifty-six miles an hour.