The Cordo m Daily Times
Only Afternoon Paper In Alaska With Associated Press News
VOLUME III. NUMBER85._CORDOVA, ALASKA, Tl'Ksp.w. MARCH l:i, 19J7. PRICE TEN CENTS.
NEW \ ()RTv, March 13.—Information received by the na
tional conference committee, composed of the managers of the
great railway systems, indicates that the four brotherhoods
have completed arrangements for a progressive series of strikes
beginning at (i o’clock, eastern time, on Sunday night, if the
conference here on the eight hour question Thursday fails to
reach a satisfactory agreement.
The first call will he on 40,000 men in the freight service of
the New York Central, Baltimore & Ohio, Erie, Atlantic Coast
Line, Southern, Louisville & Nashville and Seaboard Air Line.
The southeastern freight employees are to strike Monday
night, and the northwestern freight trainmen, including the
Hill roads, will strike Tuesday night.
If the railroads still resist all freight and passenger train
men in the United States will strike on Wednesday night.
WASHINGTON, March 13. — The railroad brotherhoods
wrote to President Wilson on March 7, formally notifying him
of a conference with the railroad representatives, scheduled for
March 15. The brothedhood leaders expressed themselves
hopeful of making a satisfactory adjustment, and it is said Wil
son will use his utmost efforts to prevent a strike.
If the nation should become involved in a war while negoti
ations with the railroads is pending, the men would co-operate
to the fullest extent with the government.
GERMANY Lie
(By Associated Press)
CHRISTIANIA, March 13. — It is
reported that Germany is considering
an alteration in its submarine block
ade, as she is anxious to avoid war
with the United States.
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INTO MORE
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, March 13. — It is official
ly announced that the British cavalry
men from Bagdad have occupied Ka
zimain, on the Tigris river, five miles
above Bagdad.
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(By United Press)
WASHINGTON, March 13. — The
supreme court may decide the Adam
son eight hour law any day. The court
is now in session, and the emergency
legislation which President Wilson
forced through congress to avert a na
tion wide strike of railroad men,
which would have tied up the traffic
of the country may be decreed con
stitutional or unconstitutional at that
time.
Should this decision not be among
those handed down tomorrow there is
a chance that it may be handed down
next Monday. Railroad men say that
upon the court’s decision in this case
depends the amicable settlement or
renewed fight between the railroad
operators and the trainmen. The law
was to have gone into effect January
1, but pending the supreme court’s
decision the additional pay of the
railroad men under its provision has
been held up. If the law is declared'
constitutional the 400,000 railroad men
will receive this additional pay.
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THAW SAME OLD TIME LUNATIC.
(By Associated Press)
PHILADELPHIA, March 13. —
Harry Thaw has been declared a luna
tic by the common pleas court pending
his extradition to New York.
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PRESIDENT REMAINS INDOORS.
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 13. — Presi
dent Wilson’s health is improving, but
he is compelled to remain indoors.
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The steamer Alaska is due to arrive
here from Seattle on Wednesday af
ternoon at 4 o’clock. She has 1,200
ons of freight to unload and will be
In port until the following day.
SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT
MEXICAN NOTE
(By Associated Press)
COPENHAGEN, March 13. — Am
bassador Bernstorff has arrived, and
he prepared a statement of Foreign
Minister Zimmerman’s note to Mexico.
LEGISLATURE IS
NEW BILLS
(Special to the Times)
JUNEAU, March 13. — The house
met this morning and then adjourned
until tomorrow to allow the commit
tees to get to work. Three bills were
introduced yesterday, the first by Rep
resentative Day for a permanent tax
commissioner; bill No. 2, by Burns,
for a uniform school system; bill No.
3, by Snow, fixing eight hours for un
derground work. Joseph H. Murray,
of McCarthy, member-elect from the
Third division, was seated yesterday.
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(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 13. — The
state department indicates the early
withdrawal of all American participa
tion in Belgian relief, including the re
call of Brand Whitlock, American
minister, from Brussels. As a result
of the pressure of German submarines
the significant submarining of the
Storstad has intensified the situation.
MORE EVIDENCES
OF GRAFT IN
GILL TRIAL <
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(By Associated Press)
SEATTLE, March 13. — In the Gill
trial, Ora Billingsley, brother of Lo
gan Billingsley, testified that they
paid Detective John Poolman $200 for
protecting liquor shipments, and later
they paid $20 a barrel for services.
Ora testified that Poolman suggested
getting shipments in by billing them
to Alaska, then diverting them to the
Billingsleys here.
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BRAZILIAN STATE SOLID COAL.
(By United Press)
RIO DE JANEIRO. March 33. — On
his return from a trip to the interior
today the Brazilian minister of Indus
tries declared that the Btate of Minas
Geraes (about the size of Oallfornla)
is practically one solid bed of coal.
Imported bituminous coal '(the only
available kind) is selling in this city
for twenty-five dollars a ton.
ANCHORAGE NOW
AFTER SEAT OF
JUSTICE
Valdez held a mass-meeting last
night to protest against the moving of
the seat of court from that place to
Anchorage, word having been received
from Washington that the department
of justice was considering such action.
A set of strong resolutions were
adopted, in which was fully set forth
| the advantages of retaining the head
I quarters at Valdez and explaining the
; inaccessibility of Anchorage and the
lack of court business in that section
of the division.
Upon the request of Valdez the Cor
dova Chamber of Commerce has joined
our neighboring town in protesting
against the suggested move, in the
following wire, which was today sent
to the department of justice:
"This chamber, representing most
highly developed section of Third di
vision, strenuously protests against re
moval district court from Valdez to
Anchorage. Valdez is most centrally
located tpwn in division, both geo
graphically and as to population, and
court business. Anchorage has little
litigation and is closed to navigation
from November to April. Valdez is
open port year round. Removal court
would necessitate all persons living
Cordova and Copper river valley hav
ing court business to travel from five
to seven hundred miles each way. Let
ter follows."
It is understood Chitina, Strelna,
McCarthy, Kennecott and Katalla will
also go on record as being opposed to
the change In the court’s headquarters
from Vuldea to Anchorage.
(By Associated Press)
SHANGHAI. March 13. — Foreign
newspapers printed in Shanghai are
conducting an energetic campaign
against bogus insurance companies,
and endeavoring to bring about a re
gulation of insurance companies by
the Chinese government which will
protect the public against fraudulent
institutions. While there are many
reliable Chinese insurance companies,
there are also scores of wildcat com
panies writing fire, life and marine
insurance.
(By Associated Press) .
MANILA, March 13. — Eugene E.
Reed, former congressman from New
Hampshire, and one of the Democratic
leaders of that state, has been named
as president of the Manila Railroad
Company, transfer of which from the
stockholders to the Philippine govern
ment was completed recently. Mr.
Reed thus steps from the Philippine
commission, where he had held the
post of secretary of commerce and
police until the reorganization of the
ment finally abolished that body, to be
the first head of the railroad system
under government control.
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Dan Callahan, who is now serving a
term of ten years at McNeil Island-for
statutory rape, committed at Fair
banks, and whose case was recently
remanded back to the court at Fair
banks for retrial, by the appellate
court, has been admitted to ball in
the amount of $2,000, and as soon as
the bond is approved will return to
Fairbanks to stand trial again, with
a good chance of acquittal.
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Patrolman F. 8. Anderson tendered
his resignation yesterday.
The Woman's Guild will meet with
Mrs. Frye tomorrow afternoon at 2
o'clock.
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(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. March 13. —
Complete and definite instruc
tions for armed guards to be
placed aboard American merchant
craft, bound through the German
submarine zones, have been com
pleted by the navy department,
and approved by Secretary Lan
sing. They will be given to the
navy and personally aboard mer
chantmen whenever armed ships
are ready to sail. The orders will
not be broadcasted, but a copy
furnished each officer command
ing gunners aboard ships.
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♦ In 1905 the death rate was ♦
♦ 200.7 per 100,000 population; in ♦
♦ 1916 the death rate was 146.8 per ♦
♦ 100,000 population. ♦
♦ In 1905 there were about 100 4
4 sanatoria and hospitals; in 1916 4
4 there were 550 special tuberculo- 4
4 sis sanatoria and hospitals. 4
4 In 1905 there were less than 2n 4
4 special tuberculosis clinics and 4
4 dispensaries; in 1916 there were 4
4 over 450 clinics and dispensaries. 4
4 In 1905 there were less than 30 4
4 anti-tuberculosis societies; in 4
4 1916 there were nearly 1,400 anti 4
4 tuberculosis associations and 4
4 committees. 4
♦ In 1905 there were not one open 4
4 air school; in 1916 there were 4
4 300 open air schools listed and 4
4 600 more of which details are 4
4 unoUtaifuMo. , . 4
4 In 1905 there were 8,000 hospi- 4
4 tals and sanatorium beds; In 1916 4
4 there were 40,000. 4
4 In 1905 there were less than 4
4 50 tuberculosis nurses; in 1916 4
4 there were over 4,000. 4
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(By George Martin, United Press)
NEW YORK, March 13. — The Na
tional Tuberculosis Association an
nounced today that the holiday sale
of Red Cross Christmas seals had
raised $1,000,000 for the tuberculosis
campaign.
"Without the co-operation of the
newspapers these tremendous results
from the Red Cross seal sale would
have been impossible," said Dr. ('has.
J. Hatfield.
The association is proud of the fact
that the slogan of the campaign, "one
seal for every inhabitant of the Uni
ted States,” has been realized. The
sale last fall amounts to a voluntry
1 tax of one cent for each man, woman
and child in the country, except the
insular possessions.
Seals were sold in every state and
1 territory of the United States except
Guam, Tahiti and Samoa. Counting
the school children, who sold seals
numbering approximately 300,000, the
total number of agents approaches
500,000. This includes school teach
ers, merchants, storekeepers, profes
sional men.
The association says the little
Christmas token have been respon
sible, not only for the control of tu
berculosis, but also for tremendous
advances in the whole field of public
health work.
Open windows the whole year
through are today the rule rather
than the exception. Tuberculosis Is
today generally recognized as a cur
able and preventable disease, while
ten years ago a vast number of pco
pie still held to the theory that it was
inherited , incurable and unprevent
able.
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RED HEADED MESSENGER
NOW COLLEGE PRESIDENT
MINNEAPOLIS, March 13. — plain
red headed Marion Burton twenty-five
years ago came to Minneapolis, open
ed up Tom Gardiner’s Nicollet avenue
drug store, swept it out, and delivered
packages for the store seven days a
week, for $0 per week, from 6 a. m
to 7 p. m. Today Dr. Marion Le Roy
Burton is president of the University
of Minnesota, at a salary of $10,000
annually. But he is the same Marion,
and all he Bays about the change is
that he did his best.
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A. Van Vecbten ha srented the homo
at the corner of Fourth avenue and
C. Btreet, formerly occupied by w. B.
Hancock’s family.
FREIGHTERS AT
M'CARTHY ARE
KEPT BUST
(Special to the Times)
MCCARTHY, March 10 — Thtr trails
are in excellent condition at present,
for the hauling of heavy loads, and the
frighters are taking advantage of this
fact. William Longly has finished his
contract putting in supplies for the
Dan Creek Mining Company. The
Mother Lode Company has already
hauled over 1,500 tons of high grade
ore here for transportation to the
smelter and the bunkers at the mine
keep filling up. Ore from the Bonanza
mine is now reaching McCarthy, and
being piled up here. The Kennecott
Tjosevig management is here and
will start hauling supplies to their
Hidden reek properties, recently pur
chased front the Tjosevlg brothers.
The Blum, O'Neill Company, who re
cently purchased the W. W. Harvey
& Co. store, are putting in a large
stock of general merchandise. Har
vey & Co. contemplate going into the
mining business.
Camp McCarthy, No. 33, Arctic Bro
therhood, will give a ball on St. Rat
rick's eve, March 16.
Shorty Gwinn has just returned
from the summit of Roahn glacier,
where he has been staking the Shu
shanna winter trail, and freight will
now begin to move into that placer
ramp.
Wm. Bode says he will be able to
land a carload or two of high grade
ore here before the winter trail
breaks up.
Our new dentist has returned after
an absence ot two months, bringing
a bride with him, thus setting a good
example for some of our bachelors.
Captain Hufireck’s four airedales
are now being trained to hit the trail
of the first grizzly who comes out of
his den next month on the Chltina
river. They have already cleaned up
all the bull dogs around Cloninger’s
place.
FIBRE MEN OF
MANILA, March 13. — Last year
saw an increase of more than 100 per
cent in the Philippine production of
maguey, according to statements at
the insular bureau of agriculture.
Where 1915 saw' 59,940 bales of this
fibre sent to the market, 1916 saw
129,263 bales,
There was also a slight increase in
the Philippine production of hemp,
the 1915 figures of 1,011,336 bales hav
ing been increased to 1,174,663 bales.
The prices of both fibres were con
siderably higher than in 1915 — an
item which spelled great prosperity
for the fibre men of the Islands.
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The Bungalow Club pleasantly en
tertained at a hard time ball last
night.
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Two freighters are due Thursday.
The Valdez in the morning and the
Cordova that night.
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Wm. C. Douglas, who is connected
with the Bonanza mine at Kenneeott,
came to town on today's train.
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The long standing controversy over
the ownership of the Sheldon home
stead, located onThe MeUdcnhall'Toad,
outside of Juneau, was set nt rest re
cently when the land office at Juneau
received word from Washington that
the protests of Messrs. Price and
Johnson against the Sheldon claim
had been dismissed by the secretary
of the interior.
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At a recent meeting of the Fair
banks Igloo of the Women’s Auxiliary
of the Pioneers of Alaska, Mrs. Wal
ter Grould was installed as president.
Mrs. R. J. Gels as vice-president, Mrs.
W. W. Archibald us second vice-presi
dent, Mrs. E. M. Stroecker as secre
tary, Mrs. Thomas Foster as sergeant
at arms, and Mrs. F. G. Passy as
guard. The retiring president, Mrs.
J. H. Caskey, was presented with a
handsome bracelet watch by the mem
bers of the igloo.
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I HILADKLPHIA, March 13. — Captain Boy-cd, former
naval attache of the German embassy at Washington, was in
Philadelphia a week ago, according to Frank Gnrbarino, head
of the city bureau of investigation. Boy < d is suspected of be
ing the brains of the smuggling plot, in which five Philadel
phians, including th ee prominent German-Amoricans, are un
der arrest for getting articles from the two interned commerce
raiders.
Boy-ed returned to the United States on the German sub
marine Deutschland or a submarine, with its base in Mexico.
He was dismissed' from this country by President Wilson in
Decernlwr, 1!>U>, for conspiracy, and returned to Kurope.
CHINESE POSTAL RECEIPTS
SHOW INCREASE
(By Associated Press)
PEKING, March 12. — The Chinese
postal department shows a surplus of
$500,000 gold for the year 1916. The
postal administration was first inau
gurated in China in 1896, and oper
ated at a loss until 1913, when the
net surplus amounted to $125,000 gold.
Since that time the increase in sur
plus has grown each year.
NAVY LEAGUE IS
PRO-ALLY
(By United Press)
LONDON, March 13. — The British I
public has been told that the United
States navy is pro-ally. As authority
for this statement, the London Morn
ing Post publishes a letter from W.
H. Stayton, executive secretary of the
United States Navy League, which ac
companied a friendly message from
the directors of that body to the Brit
ish Navy League:
“1 hope,” writes Mr. Stayton, "you
will notice that in our December is
sue of ‘Sea Power’ we asked for aid
for the British orphans of the Jut
land fight. Of course, some of our
Teutonic fellow citizens have shrieked
at our lack of neutrality, but we have
had the pleasure of sending to his
royal highness Prince Louis of Bat
tenburg a sum collected from many
people.
“There are times when we feel that
the sayings and doings of our admin
istration may mislead you as to the
sentiments of our people. In our cen
tral and western states there are un
doubtedly pro-Germans, but through
the course of the war I have person
ally heard only one man express a
view favorable to the Huns. The
great body of our people, and especial
ly all connected with the navy, know
that you are fighting the battle of
liberty and civilization, and that we
are playing a none too worthy part.'
AMERICAN SHIPS
(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK, March 13. — Higher
wages paid sailors on American as
compared to English merchant ships
will handicap this country at the close
of the war in its competition with
England for commercial supremacy of
the seas, according to Dr. George Sid
ney Webster, of the American Sea
men's Friend Society. Dr. Webster's
opinions are based on observation in
-■1 mimtvoy nf Vmerirnn ports alld i'S
pecially in the port of New York,
where a large sailors’ home is main
tained on the North River water
front.
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Chairman Edes, of the Alaska engi
neering commission, has announced
that the commission has decided to
lease to the San Juan Fish Company
of Seattle, for a period of twenty years
a 300 foot section of the waterfront
at Seward on which the company is
to expend $150,000 for a cold storage
plant and other facilities for handling
fish.
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Have you registered yet* If not,
you had better do so now.
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Lynn Smith, of Ruby, was an arri
val in town on today's train.
52,000.000 AH
(By Associated Press)
HONOLULU, March 13. — Work on
the construction of army buildings on
Oahu, to cost in the aggregate two *
million dollars, is to begin immediate
ly, according to a statement by Lieu
tenant Colonel Richmond Me A. Scho
I field, of the quartermaster corps, who
arrived here on the transport Logan.
The plans include eight concrete
barracks at Schofield Barracks, situ
ated at Leilehua, twenty-five miles
north of Honolulu, and almost a mil
lion dollars' worth of officers' quar
ters at Schofield, Port Shafter and
the various coast artillery posts on
the island.
SUFFRAGE BILL
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(By Associated Press)
SALT LAKE CITY, March 13. — In
common with one or two other states
in the west. Utah has its women leg
islators. There are three women
members of the lower house, and all
of them take an active part in the
transactions of the sessions. They
are Mrs. Elizabeth Hayward, I)r.
Grace Stratton-Airey and Mrs. Daisy
Allen, who represents Salt Lake coun
ty. All of them are Democrats.
It remained for one of the feminine
members to show the legislature how
to force through in record time a joint
memorial to the national congress,
urging the national lawmakers to
make operative the Susan B. Anthony
amendment to the constitution of the
United States. It was introduced in
the lower house by Mrs. Hayward, was
passed within a minute afterward un
der suspended rule and sent to the
senate. There the same fast time was
made and Governor Simon Bamberger
signed the memorial a few minutes
later.
PUBLICLTBEAD
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(By Associated Press)
JlTAREZ, March 13. — The days of
the town crier were recalled here re
cently, when the new Mexican con
stitution, adopted at the Queretaro
constitutional convention, was public
ly read on C’alle Coinercia, the main
street.
Hundreds ot person's. Including lmsi
ness men, lawyers, working men and
even the poorest class of peon labor
ers gathered in front of the custom
house while a government clerk read
the long constitution, clause by clause.
As Mexicans have infinite patience,
the crowd remained until the docu
ment was finished, cheering the vari
ous clauses in which has been em
bodied the revolutionary reforms.
Reading the constitution and other
public documents is necessary in Mexi
can towns because most of the lower
classes can neither read nor write,
hence would not be informed, publi
cation in a newspaper being therefore
useless.
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W. R. Taylor, of Kantlahua, arrived
on today's train, eu route to the states.