The Cordova Daily Times
VOLUME TWO. NUMBER 412. CORDOVA, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 12, 101<L PRICE TEN CENTS.
4 it SOLD FI
The George Krancis Rowe Company, |
composed of capitalists from Seattle,
i^nd Spokane, has purchased twenty-'
tJ'o claims on Hidden Creek, about
seven miles northwest of Kennecott,
from the Tjosevlg brothers, who have
done considerable development work
on the property. The amount in
volved in the transaction was not
made public, but it is supposed to be
in the neighborhood of $150,000. The
new company plans on building a
tram across the glacier, work upon
which will begin in July.
In this connection it is interesting
to note that the Tjosvig brothers, who
have been fighting each other for the
past seven years, finally agreed to set
tle their difficulties and make a deal
for the sale of this property, which is
considered one of the hest undevel
oped copper mines in Alaska, and may
some day be as big a producer as the
now famous Itonanza mine.
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GEM'S SCT
WASHINGTON, April 11. — A cnbi- :
net meeting was held this afternoon,
and when it adjourned it was learned
that the administration was as yet
uyt'cided as to taking definite action
in regard to the activities of the Ger
man submarines. The president and
the members of the cabinet are not
confining their deliberations to the
sinking of the Sussex alone but are
considering the accumulation of cases
of the destruction of ships, which have !
been attributed to the torpedoes of
the U boats since Germany gave this j
country her assurances that merchant
.vessels would not be attacked without
warning. Whatever action the United
States may decide on will be based
largely on that feature of the matter,
and not on the Sussex alone.
BURNETT BILL
IS FAVORABLY
CONSIDERED
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WASHINGTON. April 11. — The
Senate committee on immigration. •
through Chairman E. I). Smith, of
South Carolina, voted favorably on'
the Burnett immigration bill, which!
printed tilt* house by a big majority.
anT the measure will be immediately
reported to Hie Senate. The commit
tee retains the bill in practically the
same form in which it passed the
house, preserving both the strong
Asiatic exclusion clauses and the lit
eracy test, which has been the rock
on which the bill foundered in prev
ious administrations.
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« STORM DAMAGES LAUNCH.
i'he launch Alice, running between :
Cordova and the clam beds at Mum
my Island for the Lighthouse Packing!
Company, was thrown high and dry on I
the rocks near the latter place, doing
considerable damage to her. It will
take several weeks to get the launch
in commission again.
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. Frank Lawson, a well known mining
^ftyerator of the Tanana valley, arrived
t|rom Fairbanks on yesterday's train,
and will leave for the outside on the
first southbound steamer on a business
trip.
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Special by Associated Press.
PAUIS, April 11. — The greutest of
all the German attacks against Verdun
since the drive forninenced last Feb
ruary, was started when the Teutons
let loose their divisions In a general
offensive all along the line last Sun
day. When the attack commenced
the fighting line extended along thir
teen miles of front, but It has gradu
ally lessened until now it is restricted
to a two mile front, with all the ac
tivity centering west of the Meuse.
The French successfully met the as
saults on the east bank and prevented
the Teutons from making further ad
vances. The outcome west of the
Meuse is still in the balance, nothing
further having been won by the enemy
since the French abandoned the vil
lage of Bethincourt because the posi
tion became untenable. Fighting con
tinues but the Germans are being held
in check. The French infantry east
of the river has been particularly for
tunate in having the German attacks
repulsed largely by the French artil
lery. The plains east of the river end
at the present line of conflict, and the
Germans face low hills, which are
well fortified, and whose guns have
an excellent advantage in being able
to sweep any charge directed against
| the French trenches by the enemy.
The object of the present operations
of the Germans is the positions known
as "Le Mort Homme," * Headman's
Hill, situated north of t'hattancourt
and slightly west of Curnieres. This
eminence lias earned its name by the
dreadful slaughter which has wit
nessed the fight for its possession. The
Germans have apparently thought the
hill In their possession several times,
but on each occasion the French have
rallied and driven them out. Berlin
has previously announced its capture,
but the tact is that the French are
still in possession. The Germans can- ,
not make further advances west of
the Meuse until this hill is captured,
and they are bending all their efforts
to win the position. They have sac
rificed enormous numbers of their best
troops already In the attempt, and the
French believe that they will never be
driven out. The French general staff
is fully aware of the Importance of
the position, and is leaving nothing
undone to retain the advantage. The
fight raged around the Hill all day
yesterday, but night fell With the
situation of the two armies unchanged.
The Germans lost heavily. The
streams of liquid fire were much used
by the Germans against the French
trenches, but tbe French have in
. ented a shield which successfully
vlthstands this device, and often sue
•oed In spraying the flaming liquid
•ii the Germans themselves, when the
ipparatus is hit by a well directed
(hell. The French artillery maintains
i curtain of fire in front of the French
•ositlons whenever the Germans at
empt to charge.
BERLIN, April 11. — The war office
innounced today that the German of
ensive against Verdun was progressi
ng satisfactorily, and that consider
ng the strength of the French resist
nice, and the natural configuration of
he ground, which was favorable to
he defenders, the attacking army un
ler the crown prince, had made re
narkable advances. Since February
f 1, when the first attack was launched
he Germans have won twenty five
quare kilometres of ground west of
he Meuse alone, and besides have
aptured thirty-six thousand French
•risoners. These results have fully
net the expectations of the general
staff, who realize the difficulties of
heir task, and the higher officers of
he army unite in saying that the
ierman troops have met every de
nand upon them with courage and
error, performing almost impossible
feats of assault and capture of posi
tlons which the French considered ini
pregnable. That the Germans will ac
complish their object and take Verdur
is confidently looked forward to by the
German press and public, and Majot
Moraht, writing in the Berliner Tage
blatt. says that the offensive will
never he abandoned, until Verdun it
taken, and that the German general
staff Is prepared to go to any length
to accomplish its object.
BERLIN. April 11. — The war of
flee Issued an official bulletin today
announcing that the British troopt
made a strong hand grenade attack
last night against the Teuton posi
tions south of Stelol. The Germans
repulsed the attack, and now firmly
hold the position involving a minf
crater, which lias been the scene ol
much bloody fighting, having changed
hands several times In the past few
weeks.
BERLIN. April 11. — It was off!
daily announced today that through
out all day yesterday the fighting be
fore Verdun progressed with grea
vigor on both sides of the Meuse. Th<
statement says that both sidei
launched attacks at various points it
tlio line, tint records no gains or losses
for either the French or the Germans
VILLA IS REPORTED DEAD
Special by Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, April 11. it is
unofficially reported that General
Villa is dead. The information, which
lacks confirmation, was received by
Senor Arredondo, the Mexican ambas
sndor, from officials of the de facto
government at Queretaro. The admin
istration refuses to accept the rumors
as accurate, although it is pointed out
that the eircumstances regarding
Villa's reported injury and the rigors
of his long hurried flight across a
rough country, without decent medical
aid, supported in a litter on the
shoulders of his men, in places where
no wagon could go, and transported
by a rude carriage over rough trails,
gives color to the report of his death.
PERSHING'S HEA! Hi CARTERS IN
MEXICO, April 11. — General Persh
ing is actively investigating more or
less authoritative reports received
front captured Villaistas and from
other sources that General Villa is
dead. The latest rumor also states
that the rebel chief has been buried
by his men. The cavalry columns are
closely pursuing scattered bands of
Villaista bandits, and Pershing is go-, <
ing ahead regardless of the reports of 1
Villa's death. 1
COLUMBUS. April 11. — Lieutenant t
Dargue. of the United States army, nr- (
rived here today after flying 33n ntiles
in his army aeroplane from San An
tonio. Mexico. He brought with him t
the much discussed report of Villa's 1
death, and stated that in the field t
much credence was given to the mat- l
ter. According to the lieutenant's t
story, the rebel leader died from blood <
poisoning, due to lack of proper modi- <
cal attention when Villa was wounded <
in the left leg. Dargue himself is in- f
dined to credit the story, and says f
that he was told by natives that Villa <
was shot through both legs, and in J f
the stomach. He said that the Ameri- t
can cavalry were vigorously pursuing f
the bandit, and that when he left Per- 1
siting believed that the detachment 1
which is supposed to be escorting Villa
was entirely surrounded by the Am
erican troops. *
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QUERETARO. April 11. — The 1
Mexican war department announced 1
fficlall.v today that It had reason to|
elieve that General Villa had been!
filed in action. The\ also stated
hat searching parties had been sent
ut in an effort to locate the grave
f the rebel leader.
COLUMBUS. April 11. — Stray I
ews items of the activities of the
'ilia bandits continue to trail across
he border to this city through the
,merican line of communication be
wecn here and the headquarters of
ieneral Pershing, it was learned to
av that a band, composed of a hun
red Villaistas, had attacked and
acked the village of Santa Rosalia,
ive miles northeast of Parral, two
ays ago. Another item reveals the
ict that a battle occurred between
he Carranzaistas and the Villaistas
ifty miles south of Chihuahua city
ist night, the Villaistas being severe
t defeated.
WASHINGTON, April 11. — The
ar department announced today that
lere were twelve thousand American
•oops in Mexico at present. Besides
lese men 18,500 others have been j
concentrated on the border, compris
ing nearly all of the troops in the con
tinental United States. In additior
to these troops, which may all be sai(i
to be doing service in the Mexican
imbroglio with Villa, there are but
four thousand regular soldiers left ii
the country.
EL PASO, April 11. — Three of the
leaders, followers of Felix Diaz, who
were concerned in the plot to sieze
Juarez last Sunday and overthrow the
Carranza garrison there, were lined
up before a firing squad in Juarez
this morning and shot.
EL PASO, April 11. — Four cap
tured bandits, who were thought to
be concerned in the raid with General
Villa on the city of Columbus, New
Mexico, were executed in Madera by
the Carranza officials today.
SAN ANTONIO, April 11. — It was
officially announced this afternoon
that the advance columns of Persh
ing's cavalry had reached the town of
Satevo, forty miles south of Chihua
hua city. last night.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, April 11. —
The people of Nleiragua are to b«
given the right to express their wil
for the selection of a president. Thai
will be a remarkable state of affairs
for Nicaragua where, for twentj
years, dictatorship and revolution havt
interdicted and made such a condi
tion impossible. As the secretary oi
state expressed it in an official let
ter when he dismissed the Nicaragua!
minister from the United States ii
1909: “It is equally notorious thal
under the regime of President Zelaya
republican institutions have ceased tc
exist in Nicaragua except In name
that public opinion and the press hav«
been strangled and that prisons hav<
been tbe price of every demonstratioi
of patriotism.”
President Diaz has just issued an
announcement' through the press, and
| says he will make it official by a pro
clamation in the Official Gazette, that
"it has been the basis of my program
of government to restore in Nicaragua
! all tile republican practices." To that j
j end, lie continues, the most important !
j is the succession of one-terra presi- j
dents in the executive power, selected
by popular will.
I As the presidential election in Ni
Icaragua occurs October 1 next, and as
! politics are warming and the parties
I are gathering themselves together, this
announcement is most significant. The
present generation texcept the older
people who were active before 1893)
know nothing of a popular discussion
of candidates for the presidency, of
a free registration of voters, or of any
expression of the popular will. Such
things were not permitted under Pre
sident Zelaya trout 1893 to 191U.
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Thomas Lloyd arrived from Fair
banks on yesterday's train. He is on
his way to the Republican convention
at Seward, and has most of the prox
ies from the Fourth division.
TACOMA MERCHANTS WANT THE;
ALASKA MAIL EARLIER.
Tacoma merchants are peeved at
ivhat they consider is a decided ad
vantage held by Seattle merchants in
regard to the delivery of mails from
Alaska.
The trade and commerce bureau of
the Tacoma Commercial Club has
taken the matter up and will make
a strong effort to have the Alaska
mails delivered earlier in Tacoma than (
at present. ,
Alaska mails arriving in Seattle at j
midnight do not reach Tacoma until c
noon the next day. long after Seattle
merchants have received their mail, ,.
although it takes less than an hour t
lo cover the distance between the two
cities. This gives Seattle merchants!
a decided advantage over their Taco-,
ma brethren. Hence the kick.
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The revenue cutter Manning has i
cancelled her trip to Seward and re- f
turned to Sitka. j t
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Joe Pellerin, of Yakntat, was ar
rested the other day, charged with t
Kelling liquor to Indians.
COPKNHAHKN, April 10. — Henrik
>ergsen. the widely known Norwegian
lerchant, who has spent twenty years
1 Germany, declares that in that
ountry there is now stored $1,500.
00. 000 worth of cheap merchandise,
lostly produced by women, ready to
e sold to tlie world, immediately
eace is declared.
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TO COME TO ALASKA.
J. Cassin Williams, clerk in the
;iggs National Bank at Washington,
1. (’., will he the disbursing officer
jv the railway commission, to he sta
ioned at Fairbanks.
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The Harmon Machinery Company
as received a fifty horse power Rest!
Lgine fcr liie h unch Waif.
SEATTLK, April II. — William T.
Burns, twice a member of (he Alaska
territorial legislature, is registered at
the University of Washington as a
special student. He is doing research
work in the college of mines, prepara
tory to devising a system of flotation
for antimony ores. Mr. Burns owns
vast mining interests In interior Alas
ka. Among them are some properties
containing antimony, and as that me
tal is much needed now in war mu
nitions manufacture, their develop
ment Is being hastened.
Mr. Burns is one of the best known
men in Alaska. He has been men
tioned prominently as probable Demo
cratic candidate for delegate to Con
gress in the coming election. He was
author of the banking bill, passed by
the first legislature, and the school
bill, passed at the second session.
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BOSTON, April 11. Tin' Anteri
can Woolen Company, owning numer
I mis immense woolen mills throughout
: New England, announced through
President Wood, of the company, to
day that all of its employees would
receive a ten per cent increase of
wages. The other textile manufactur
ing interests of New England will an
nounce a similar advance in wages
within a few days. The number of
employees affected will total a hun
dred thousand, the American Woolen
Company employing twenty-five thou
sand alone.
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WASHINGTON. April 11. — The
! House today passed the rivers and
I harbors appropriation measure, and
the bill now goes to the Senate for
action by the upper house. The mea
sure as adopted by the House carries
j an appropriation of forty million dol
lurs.
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BERLIN, April 11. — The answer
of (he foreign orfice to Ambassador
Gerard's request for information re
garding Germany's responsibility for
the sinking of the Sussex, Will be de
livered to the American representative
| today. No inkling of the nature of
! Germany’s response has been made
j public.
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A young man named Gaske. of Fair
banks, who arrived in Cordova on
J-yesterday’s train, is being detained at
i the federal jail and will be given a
hearing before the United States com
missioner on the chare a of insanity.
. Charles Quinton has returned from
a pleasant visit to the States.
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