ANCHORAGE DAILY TIMES
AND COOK INLET PIONEER
VOL. 1. NO. 175.
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, TIICRSDAY, MAY 25, 1010.
PRICE 10 CENTS
COPPER MAGNATE
TO SOON MARRY
f NEW YORK. May 24.—Announce,
ment has been made of the engage
ment of Stephen Birch, president o
the Kennecott Copper Corporation,
to a St. Paul young lady, the wed
ding to take place on June 25. Mr.
and Mrs. Birch will leave on their
honeymoon, going direct to Seattle,
and from there they will sa l July 5
on the steamer Mariposa for Cor
dova.
ANCHORAGE’S ADVANTAGES
ADVERTISED IN THE STATES
Secretary Koch is in receipt of
letter from the Alaska Bureau ac
knowledging receipt of the pamph
lets sent to them by the Anchorage
Chamber of Commerce. These
pamphlets are descriptive of Anchor
age and vicinity and answer hun
dreds of questions bearing on the de
velopments and resources of this
country and have proven of great
value to the Alaska Bureau at Se
attle in answering the numerous i
quiries that come into that office.
Any new arrival desiring one of
these pamphlets'may secure same by
calling on Secretary Koch.
WILL DEDICATE PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH ON JUNE 25TH
• Rev. McBride, pastor of the Pres
byterian church, announces that ser
vices dedicating the new church on
Fifth avenue and F street will take
place June 25th, and in the mean
v time Sunday school will be held
every Sunday, morning, with church
services every Sunday evening, in
Robarts’ hall.
WASHINGTON, May 2 4.—Jacinto
Trevinto, a Carranza officer, is com
manding 30,000 troops in the Big '
Bend district, according to official
advices received here today, and the
war department is uneasy over the
presence there of such a large force
of soldiers. General Funston is pre
paring an order for the Second and
Fourth Texas militia to patrol the
Brownsville district. '
EL PASO, May 24.—The Texas
Rangers have telephoned here that
a large number of Mexican bandits
are approaching Leobo, Texas, eight
miles north of the border.
JUNEAU’S LIVE DRUGGIST
TO LOCATE IN ANCHORAGE
Z. J. Loussac, who owns the Ju
neau Drug Company and is well
known in interior Alaska, where he
has also been engaged In business, j
is erecting a large building on
" Fourth avenue, between C and D
streets, where he will open a drug
store within a few days. Mr. Lous
sac is a live wire, and intends estab
lishing the largest drug store in the
territory at Anchorage. He has at
tractive fixtures and a big stock of
goods. The secret of his past suc
cess is largely due to his motto,
which he strictly adheres to, and is
as follows: The store that has what
you want—when you want it.
Dr. C. C. Benedict }ias been added
to the medical staff of the Alaskan
Engineering Commission. Dr. Bene
dict will give his special attention
and entire time to matters pertan
ing to sanitation of the Commission,
the different camps and the city of
^ Anchorage.
Miss Elsie Ware and Miss Cfecelia
Burrows have been re-appointed I
teachers in the Cordova public school ]
for the next year.
PARIS, May 24.—Arriving at Verdun, the German infantry
hurled a large force of soldiers against the French lines at dif
ferent points along the twenty-four-mile front during the en
tire night. Today’s commique stated that at some paints the
Germans succeeded in capturing and holding positions, while
at others they were forced to retreat after winning their ob
jective point. The battle was a desperate one, and the Ger
man losses were tremendous. Artillery duels continued
throughout the night at other points, but no advantage was
gained by either side.
DECLARES TEUTONS WILL ULTIMATELY WIN.
VIENNA, May 24.—The Emperor today declared that he
was certain the Central Powers would ultimately triumph in
the present war. He also gave ifnstinted praise to the Austrian
troops for their offensive movements against the Italians.
“They proved themselves an exceedingly brave body of men,”
said the Emperor;
PRINCE OF WALES AT THE FRONT.
LONDON. May 24.—The Prince of Wales has returned from
the front in Egypt to the British fighting lines in the west.
UNCLE SAM RESENTS MAIL INTERFERENCE.
WASHINGTON, May 24.—President Wilson today sent to
the State Department a completed draft of the new note to
Great Britain, protesting against the interference by that
country to American mails, which declares that the practice
must cease immediately. A duplicate of the note will also he
sent t)o the French government.
FRENCH RECAPTURE FORT DOUAMONT.
PARIS, May 24.—The French have recaptured the greater
part of Fort Douamont, which was taken by the Germans at
the outset of the assault on Verdun.
PARIS, May 24.—When the news of the victory of the
French troops at Douamont was received in this city it was
the signal for a big celebration, in which practically the whole
populace participated. The report sav- the Germans were
driven out of all save the northeast corner.
LONDON, May 24.—A denial has come from P>erlin that the
Germans lost Douamont.
ALL PEACE TALK GOES GLIMMERING.
WASHINGTON, May 24.—A damper was put on all peace
discussion at the capital today by the statement that, the
French premier had received a communication from the Rus
sian Duma that the war must continue until the allies triumph.
BRITISH CRUISER CAPTURES A FREIGHTER.
VICTORIA, May 24.—The schooner Lenora, a general
freighter under charter to the German interests in Mexico, has
been captured by a British cruiser and is now held at Esqui
mault.
H. P. Warren, with F. U. Mayhew,
resident engineer, left this morning
for a trip over the line.
J. E. O’Reilly, acting district en
gineer, spent Saturday night and
Sunday in Anchorage, returning to
his work Monday morning.
Lieut. F. Mears, accompanied by
Mr. Hansen and Chas. E. Herron, of
the Times, left this morning on the
Chickaloon for Matanuska Junction.
Work on the telephone line is
going steadily forward, and a large
party of men are busy setting the
poles and insulating cross arms and
wires.
Walter De Long, general store
keeper, accompanied by L. C. McCoy,
superintendent of bridges and build
ing, left this morning for Turnagain
Arm to look over proposed site of a
gridiron to be located at Potter
creek.
Material for a radio station has
been received, and the erection and
equipment of this plant will com
mence at once. The plant will be
located at the terminal and will be
of great benefit to the Commission
and a much needed asset in the lo
cation of ships.
A regular train service has been
inaugurated on the line between An
chorage and Matanuska Landing,
regular trains running on Mondays
and Thursdays, leaving the yards
about 7 a. m. In addition to the
regular train, work trains will run at
juiu *ais ao uo
nuska Landing, which will accommo
date passengers.
This work, in connection with the
construction of the government rail
road, is divided into four separate'
districts, as follows: Terminal dis
trict at Anchorage: Matanuslta dis
trict, from Matanuska Junction to
Chickaloon; Talkeetna district, from
about Willow creek to Talkeetna,
and Turnagain Arm district, from
Anchorage to Kern creek. These
districts are under separate manage
ment and office force, hut all report
to the Anchorage main office.
From the fact that Anchorage is
primarily a railroad town and the
majority of her people derive their
source of income from the Alaskan
Engineering Commission, and be
lieving the people here and at large
are vitally interested in this great
work being carried on by the gov
ernment, The Times has made ar
rangements, through the courtesy of
Lieut. F. Mears and his equally
courteous and' efficient staff, to give
its readers a general summary of the
week’s work in a condensed form,
together with any personal or local
items of interest.
EXPERIMENTAL STATION TO
ESTABLISHED AT
M. D. Snodgrass, who is connect
ed with the government experimen
tal station at Kodiak, is temporarily
stationed at Matanuska Junction,
and is of material assistance to the
new farmers of this section and is
doing everything in his power to de
velop the country.
Sir. Snodgrass is making plans
now for the experimental station
that will be established on the direct
railway line running from Anchor
age to the north. The station win
he a first class one in every partic
ular, and not only a great help to
the farmer, hut a credit to the en
tire community. The establishment
of this station comes as the direct
result of the detailed report made to
the Department of Agriculture dv
Messrs. Rice and Bennett after max
ing a thorough investigation of the
A small amount of track was laid
last week from Matanuska Landing ,
north to Station 5148.
F H. Dose, locating engineer, will
leave today for Talkeetna with a j
party of men to establish headquar
ters at that place.
R. L. Kuney will establish a camp
at the mouth of Montana creek, with
the view of making line revisions
north of that place, and left this
morning with a party of nine men
to start the work at once.
F. W. Mitchell, formerly private
stenographer of Chief Accountant
Wilkinson, has been promoted to po
sition clerk to H. C. Bennett, su
perintendent of construction for the !
Talkeetna district, and leaves today !
with Engineer Dose’s party.
J. C. Seeley, accountant in Chief
Accountant Wilkinson’s office, will
be in charge of the Talkeetna office, •
and Ed Oldfield, stenographer in the 1
same office, will be transferred to
the Talkeetna district, leaving with- i
in a few days.
On the Anchorage and main line
during the past week the steam
shovel operating'•^'Olson’s cut, near
Peter’s creek, excavated 11,428
cubic yards of gravel, which was
practically all used for railroad bal
last.
On the line south of Anchorage
the clearing of right of ways is
about completed on the line for eight
miles, and grading has been started
on the large cut between Ship and
Chester creeks. A temporary wire
cable foot bridge across Chester
creek has also been completed and a
camp site has been cleared at Mile
112.
On the Matanuska branch, be- |
tween Camps 2 and 8, the work is
conditions existing on behalf of tms
department last year.
It is gratifying to know that the
claims and assertions made by the
early pioneer farmer of the great
Matanuska valley have been substan
tiated and that their efforts have not
been in vain, but are to be recog
nized in the substantial manner of
this experimental station that will
be established as soon as the funds
are available from the Agricultural
Department, which will be in the
very near future. This is not news
to the old-timers in this section, as
they have always pinned their faith
to this country as being a farming
country surpassed by none, and An
chorage may as well commence now
to boast of the farming country of
the Matanuska valley as another one
of ;ts many resources and can add
farming to its many assets.
entirely covered except for 4,000
feet, and three gangs are now en
gaged in this work. With the ex
ception of the contract of Nick Man
dii & Co., all the station work be
tween Camps 8 and 10 will be cim
pleted within ten days. A number
of gangs have started right of way
clearing between camps 10 and 16.
The wagon road from Matanuska
Junction to Moose creek, including a
bridge over Moose creek, is com
plete, as is the wagon road from
Matanuska Junction to Cottonwood
creek.
ENROLLING MORE MEMBERS
FOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
in addition to the names of pro
gressive Anchorage citizens who
have previously signed the honor roll
as members of the Anchorage Cham
ber of Commerce, the Times takes
pleasure in naming the following cit
izens who have signed within the
past few days: F. B. Tracy, Dr. K.
A. Kyvjg, J. L. Waller,, F. B. Wood.
W. Bjornson, L. Ganton, H. C. Dohr.
mann and Chas. E. Brown. The sec
retary, A. S. Koch, is giving this mat
ter his undivided attention and is
making a personal solicitation of the
people, and is entitled to the undi
vided support of the entire commur
ity, who should appoint themselves a
committee of one in the interest of
;he Anchorage Chamber of Com
merce.
S. M. Peterson, Richard Neklason
and Howard L. Graybeal have for
warded applications to the land
office at Juneau for taking up home
steads in the Matanuska valley.
I
The board of directors of the
Bank of Anchorage held a board
meeting last tiight it 7 o'clock in the
offices of the bank and accepted the
resignation of H. S. Balderston as
cashier. Mr. Balderston will re
main in Seward in active charge oi
the Bank of Seward. Sidney Ander
son. vice-president, was elected to
fill the vacancy, making him vice
president and cashier of the Bank of
Anchorage.
Winfield Irwin, who has so com
petently been looking after the in
terests of the Sew ard Bank at Brown
* Hawkins' local store, was elected
to the office of assistant cashier.
Miss Eversole was employed as bank
bookkeeper, and I). Vucetich will
have charge of the foreign exchange
department of the hank. This per
sonnel, in addition to the stockhold
er! and directors, gives certain as- ,
; surance for success for the Bank of
I Anchorage.
—
Goodman Was Acquitted.
The case of the Territory versus
1 J. Goodman on the. charge of a d.s
j play of firearms, was decided in
favor of the defendant. The case
j was heard in the commissioner’s
! court before a jury, of which J. E.
Parker was foreman, and the de
fendant was represented by Attor
neys Stowe and Coffey.
During Che past two weeks it is
estimated that 7r' prospective home
steaders have visited the Matanuska
I valley with the view of locating, and
: it is safe to say that at least 30 of
them will he taking up homesteads
| in this section of the country.
J _
05 Ohm, of Cordova, is in Anchor
age trying to interest local capital
in a big fish company he is promot
ing. Mr. Ohm comes to the city well
recommended and will put the prop
osition before the people next Mon
1 dav night at the Chamber of Com
j merce meeting.
C. C. Bush, the man who has the
iionor if building the first cabin in
Anchorage, has started in the ex
press and transfer business. Mr.
Bush waa one of the first to reach
Anchorage last year, and has had the
satisfaction of watching his Anchor
age property materially increase in
value since the original purchase.
His business will be handled from
Tex Jones' store, The Panhandle, and
will be known as "Bill’s Express.”
Joe Ira Wills, whose parents have
been seeking him for some time, has
been located working on the rail
road on tho Matanuska branch.
OYSTER BAY, May 24.—In reply
to former Secretary of Navy Meyer,
who officially notified him that the
Republican committee had been or
ganized, consisting of members from
thirty states, and would work for
his nomination for president at the
regular Chicago convention. Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt enumerated the
principles for which he declared he
would be fighting. “They are prin
ciples you are organizing to support,
and with all my heart I welcome
such support,” declared Roosevelt.
Meyer headed a delegation of
twenty-five members of the commit
tee.
Porto Rican Bill Passes.
WASHINGTON, May 24.—The
House today struck from the Porto
Rican bill the amendment designat
ed to grant woman suffrage to the
Island. The bill then passed with
out a roll call, being the measure as
originally introduced.
MANY MONTANA PEOPLE
ARE COMING TO ANCHORAGE
E. V. Parrish, of Three Forks,
Mont., formerly connected with the
C hicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul rail
road at that place, came in on one of
the last boats. Mr. Parrish says that
Anchorage is well advertised in his
section of the country and has numer
ic is friei.Js who are contemplating
making the Alaska trip this summer,
with Anchorage as their objective
point. He further states that he is
not at all disappointed with the in
formation received from the Anchor
age Chamber of Commerce and will
probably locate here permanently.
ALASKA NEWS
FROM ALL PARIS
The Indian school at Tatitlik has
closed down for the summer.
Sunday baseball games are a
weekly affair these day sat Seward.
Sam Godfrey has purchased the
interest of A. K. Thompson in the
Sunny bench claim on the Tolovana
for $10,000 cash.
Nine hundred and eighty-one vot
ers legistered at Nome for the last
el ec lion.
A branch of the Bank of Alaska
at Skagway was recently opened at
Wrangell.
Douglas has a new' brass hand
composed entirely of the Italian res
idents of that city.
The Juneau schools, both gram
mar and high, will close for the year
on Friday, May 26.
Governor J. F. A. Strong and wife
have returned to Juneau from an ex
tended visit to the states.
Jack Dalton ,of Cordova, the “Al
aska Trail Blazer,” will construct a
40-room-hotel in Cordova.
The Indians at Tatitlik have
killed five bears already this season.
They are reported fat and Juicy.
Charles Gay and George Riley, if
Iditarod, will operate a scraper on
their Willow creek claim this sum
mer.
Englishmen and Canadians thru
out Alaska are preparing to cele
brate the birthday of King George
on June 3d.
The Cordova city council has voted
the sum of $25 per month toward
the support of the Firemen's Club of
that city.
The bear crop is ripe, and good
stories may now be secured from
nimrods who "nearly killed the
largest bruin in the territory.”
T.vo prospectors have been work
ing on a tin prospect at York, on
Seward peninsula, and have taken
out a fair-sized bunch of ore.
Mat Gordon, employed in the Gor
don MacDonald camp at Thomas bay,
had Tiis collarbone broken by being
caught in a haulback.