The Cord«wa Daily Times
Only Afternoon Paper In Ala&ka With Associated Press News
VOLUME"ill# NUMBER!? CORDOVA, ALASK^^CWDAYTjULY 2~T917. =^-- :-raiCK TFX ( ryrs^
AMERICANS CALLED TO COLORS SEPT.l
DOWN WITH IMPERALISTIC WAR; CRY OF THE RUSSIANS
♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦it*
♦
♦ HOW SELECTIVE DRAFT WILL BE CONDUCTED
♦ _
♦ WASHINGTON, July 2.—President Wilson lias is
♦ sued tlie regulations for the selection of the war army
♦ from the registered millions. There will be no class ex
♦ emptions and each individual case decided on its merits.
♦ The local exemption board will pass upon claims for ex
♦ emption, except those based upon industrial or agricul
♦ tural occupation, subject to appeal to the district board.
♦ The men will be called to the colors about September 1,
♦ or as soon as cantonments to house them have been
♦ completed. ^
♦ *"'*'*.
CHARGES PRESIDENT WITH BLOCKING PROHIBITION
WASHINGTON, July 2.—Virgil Hinspan, in the chamber
of the national prohibition committee, attacked President Wil
son’s action in asking the prohibition leaders not to delay the
passage of the food control bill, by insisting on the prohibition
of beer and wines. He says the United States would liavf pro
hibition within thirty days but for Wilson coming to the rescue
of the brewers in the final hour. The president will not take a
vacation, but remain in Washington whether congress adjourns
or not.
The senate contest over prohibition has been complicated
by the agricultural committee’s endorsement of Senator Gore’s
substitute, stopping the distillation of beverages and giving the
president authority to suspend the manufacture of beer and
wines. Chamberlain’s administration compromise was re
jected.
I
Sedition among federal employees
and attempts to delay government pro
jects and incite ferment and disorder
by disloyad persons is the startling
condition pointed out by the Anchor
age federal grand jury in its final re
port to Judge Brown.
Concerning these charges the report
says:
"Investigation by us has revealed
that there is an element in our midst,
some of whom are earning their live
lihood from the government, who are
disloyal to the government, opposed to
the present war, who seek to ferment
discontent and disorder, and who are
trying to impede the prosecution of
governmental projects and enter
prises, and we therefore recommend
that congress enact a law that will
amend our present law on sedition and
make it offense for any one who by
word or deed tries to stir up strife, to
arouse difficulties and disorder in our
industrial conditions, interferes with
or obstructs governmental enterprises
and undertakings, and who in any
manner strives to impede the govern
ment in the prosecution of the war or
in carrying out all governmental pro
jects.”
Another paragraph in the report be
sides the usual findings follows:
"We wish to call the court's atten
tion to the phenomenal growth of this
section of the Third division, and ow
ing to the increased court business,
the urgent necessity for a federal
building suitable for court purposes at
Anchorage."
-v
STRINGER MAY RECITE THE
DECLARATION AT JUNEAU.
Some of the friends of Louis C.
Stringer are urging him forward to
recite the Declaration of Independence
on the Fourth of July. Mr. Stringer
Is the "professional orator of Alaska”
for the Declaration of Independence,
having recited it within the Arctic
circle at Tanana. on the mouth of the
Tanana river, at Fairbanks, at C'hitina
and Cordova. He puts life and vigor
and inspiration int othe interpretation
and instead of people turning away
they sit up and take notice.
“The Declaration of Independence,"
said Mr. Stringer, "is not only an Am
erican classic, but it does have a coun
terpart in the literature of the world.
Every American should learn it by
heart. It breathes patriotism. It is
all the more fitting that it should be
made an important part of this year's
Fourth of July program, owing to our
war with Germany.” — Juneau Em
pire.
WILL TRAIN ENGINEERS FOR
NEW FLEET AT UNIVERSITY.
Seattle, July 2.—Engineers for the
new American merchant fleet will he
trained on the campus during July.
Following hews of it government ap
propriation for the expenses of in
struction arrangements are being
made by Professor O. E. EaBtwood,
head of the department of mechanical
engineering. The classes will begin
July 2 and continue for the remainder
of the month. Instruction will be
given in steam engineering, machine
design, gas engine construction, re
frigeration, boilers and engines and
steam laboratory.
-♦
WASHINGTON NOW BONE DRY,
MANY ARRESTS MADE SEATTLE.
SEATTLE, July 2. — The state ol
Washington went bone dry Saturday
at midnight. Thirty-four arrests for
drunkenness were made here on Sun
day and the police say that straight
alcohol is easily obtainable.
-♦
McCarthy man arrested
FOR ALLEGED ROBBERY
Word was received at the marshal’s
office that one Charles Gordon hat
been arrested at McCarthy for the el
leged theft of a diomond ring, gold
watch, nugget chain and a check foi
$117.85 from the person of Catherine
Palmer, a resident of the railroad
camp. Gordon was haled before Com
missioner O'Connor, and bound ovei
to appear before the district court al
Valdez.
-♦
FEWER ATHLETIC COACHES
AT UNIVERSITY NEXT YEAR
SEATTLE, July 2.—Although th<
war will not cause the abandonmenl
of university athletics, as was at firsl
supposed, the football coach next yeai
will probably not have an assistant
according to Manager J. Arthur Young
of the Associated Students. Tentative
plans had been made for hiring Archie
Carlson, of the University of Minne
sota, but the decrease in the- numbei
of men enrolled will probably leave
an aggregation which can be managed
by Coach Claude J. Hunt alone.
-♦
NOME PEOPLE GIVE $5,000.
The Red Cross subscriptions a
Nome totaled $5,000. This amount In
eludes the immediate mining diltric'
and some outlying places.
-»
HOLDS THE RECORD FOR
SINGLE HANDED TALKER
(By Associated PreBS)
London, July 2. — According t(
Hansard, the official record of parlla
ment, John Dillon was the greates
talker during the session from Febru
ary 7 to May 4, his speeches and re
marks occupying 183 columns of th<
record. Laurence Qlnnell, anothe
Irishman, easily holds the record fo
wanting to know things, 344 question!
standing to his credit.
FORMER JUSTICE
CALLED BY
DEATH
(By Associated Press)
HAVERK. Hill. July 2, — William
II. Moody, whose Illness forced h|s re
tirement as associate justice of the su
preme court of the United States In
1U10, died at his home last night. Ardu
ous service, notably as head of the de
partment of Justice during the anti
trust campaign of the Roosevelt ad
ministration. and then four years on
the supreme court bench, during which
he was remarkably active, resulted in
a nervous collapse, which, with a se
vere attack of rheumatism, developed
a prolonged illness.
Mr. Moody was born on a farm In
Newbury, Mass., December 23, 1853.
After his graduation from Harvard
college he studied law In the office
of Richard H. Dana, author of “Two
Years Before the Mast." His skill
as a public prosecutor, first shown
when he was city solicitor of Haver
hill. Mass., won him the appointment
as district attorney of Eessex county.
When the attorney general of Massa
chusetts was prevented by illness from
representing the state In the famous
Uzzle Borden murder trial, he selected
Mr. Moody to take his place. HU con
duct of the trial attracted wide atten
tion.
Always Interested in outdoor sports,
Mr. Moody at one time was president
of the New England Baseball League.
Until the several severe attacks ol ill
ness which marked the latter part of
his public cateer, he found his chief
recreation by walking, bicycling, horse*
riding and golf. The latter part of his
life was spent quietly at his home in
Haverhill, Mass.
_A._
SUL TOWNS
FOREST FIRES
(By Associated Press)
HAKODATE, July 2.—A disastrous
forest fire which swept northern Hako
date recently cost the lives of at least
23 persons and utterly wiped out sev
eral hamlets. So rapid was the onrush
of the flames that many inhabitants
were either burned to death or forced
to jump into the streams, where some
were drowned or suffocated.
Lack of rain is causing numerous
fires throughout the empire.
-*
MARRIAGE LAW IN EFFECT
HERE TOMORROW.
The new marriage law passed in the
last Alaska legislature, and which has
just been printed, provides that hence
forth no person shall be joined In mar
riage in the territory without first
having secured a license. The law
passed on May 3, and as It goes into
effect after sixty dayB, it will be in
effect tomorrow. Both contracting
parties shall be identified by the pro
per commissioner, both must be of
marriageable age, they must have the
consent of parents if between the
marriageable age and the legal age,
on the whole, all snap marriages are
made impossible.
-«
NO ADVANCE IN FREIGHT RATES,
Freight rates to Alaska will not be
advanced. This was unofficially an
nounced by the traffic officials of the
Alaska Steamship Company and the
Pacific Steamship Company. Several
weeks ago the announcement was
made by the two above companies that
owing to the high cost of materials
and an increase in wages of the soa
. men, freight rates would be raised at
least twenty-five per cent, and possibly
fifty per cent.
i -♦
WIDOW OF COL. SWANITZ DEAD.
Mrs. A. W. Swanltz, widow of the
first construction engineer of the old
s Alaska Central organization, later the
• Alaska Northern and now the govern
• ment railroad died at her home In
i Alameda recently. She survived her
husband less than a year.
FREIGHT BITES
WILL NOT OE
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦*♦♦«♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
♦ What Shippers Claimed the IB ♦
♦ Cor Cent Freight Hate Advance ♦
♦ Means.—"An added annual tax ♦
♦ of $H60 upon every American fam- *
♦ lly."—Clifford ^Thorne. ♦
♦ Why the Illllroada Asked the ♦
♦ Increased itat^H. - sixty million ♦
♦ dollars wage Increase due to the ♦
♦ Adamson lawf Claimed mater- ♦
♦ ia 1 a and supplies increased forty ♦
♦ per cent slnoe start of war. ♦
♦ Asked tners&sed revenues to ♦
♦ make railroads more efficient for ♦
♦ war service. ♦
♦♦♦♦♦♦«♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, June 30. — The In
terstate commerce commission has
suspended until October 28. 1917. the
proposed general fifteen percent in
crease In railroad freight rates.
Immediately after the supreme court
held the Adamson eight hour railroad
law constitutional last Moreh, Ameri
can railroads announced they would
need an advance ot If per cent in
freight rates to meet pie increase in
employees’ wages. Shippers’ and
farmers’ organizations thereupon
launched the bigg eat fight in the inter
state commerce i ommlssh n s history.
The requested iimrgZMj* was the lafrg
Wit ~*.ar w-ed I rjUl roads at one
time In the commission’s existence.
The railroads cited the war and the
■Increased cost of raw materials as ad
ditional reasons for the advance in
rates. Hearings on ex parte 57, as
the case is docketed, began May 7 in
Washington.
For four days the carriers presented
evidence in support of their request.
Then a rest was taken until May 23,
to permit the shipperB to prepare tes
timony and rebuttal for presentation
and to plan cross-examination of the
railroad representatives. The ship
pers’ and farmers’ organization were
heard by the commission in daily ses
sions from May 23 to June 8. The car
riers’ lawyers on cross-examination
further advanced their claims to hun
dreds o/ millions of new revenue to
offset increased cost of operation.
War efficiency became the railroads’
new slogan in pressing their request.
Three days were given over by the
! commission to oral arguments by the
ablest railroad attorneys and shippers'
.counsel in the country. Six thousand
pages of testimony and hundreds of
exhibits were piled up during the hear
ings. Speeches on both sides bor
dered on personal recrimination. The
shippers charged the railroads with
exaggerating increased costs and ne
glecting to consider increased gross
revenues.
i ne snippers neciareu mey were
loth to pay Increased dividends on
“watered stock." The railroads re
plied with a promise that the added
revenues from the 16 per cent in
crease would be devoted solely to
meeting higher costs or would be put
back in improvements so that the rail
roads would be more efficient In war
service.
Lack of patriotism In making the re
quest for 15 per cent in the midst of
the war was alleged by the shippers.
To this the railroad lawyers replied
that farmers have been collecting an
advance of 100 per cent on food pro
ducts as a result of the war.
-*
SELDOVIA TRAPPER
18 ADJUDGED INSANE.
Oscar Carlson, of Seldovia, was ad
judged insane by a jury in the commis
sioner's court. Carlson has been trap
ping in the vicinity of Cook inlet for
the past two years, generally alone,
and gives evidences of being mildly
unbalance. He imagines thut there
are efforts being made, without ap
parent reason, to kill him and will not
go trapping again through fear that
it will be done. Carlson will be taken
on an early boat to the institution
where Alaskan patients suffering with
his ailment are treated. It is believed
that he will recover completely In a
short time.
-»
Madame Lydia, the great palmist,
will be In Cordova July 4 and 5.
COPPER LEADS
1
Tho exports from Alaska for the
month of June of the present yonr ex
ceederi $3,000,000, and heat the record
of the paBt month by several hundred
thousand dollars. The figures for the
month's exports were given out by
the customs office at Juneau Saturday,
having been compiled by M. S. Whit
tier. The figures for the month fol
low ;
BoneR, hoofs, etc.. . $ 375
Copper ore.2,16*.616
Curios. 370
Fresh fish.. ... 44,252
Dried fish. 333
Pickled fish. 1,048
Canned salmon. 161,227
All other salmon. 101,714
Shell fish. 69,044
All other fish and products.. 13.874
Purs. 8,979
Gypsum. .. 15,200
Jewelry. 40
Lead ore ... 8,970
Oils, animals and fish. 18,872
All ftther articles . 4,478
Total Alaskan products. $2,616,412
U. 8. goods returned. 83,385
Total.$2,699,797
Gold bullion. 283,115
Gold ore. 210,243
Silver ore. 51,888
Grand total.$3,245,043
STEAMSHIP CO.
TAKES OVER
76 SNIPS
LONDON, July 2. — The Peninsular
and Oriental Steamship Company has
come to a provisional agreement wlth|
the Union of New Zeulnnd Steamship
Company, whereby the latter's 76
steamers of 243,278 tons gross, under
control of the Peninsular and Oriental
Company, which will now operate "fi6
steamers of 1,727,465 tons gross.
-«
INSANE MAN JUMPS
FROM BOAT AND IS DROWNED.
L. Undurich, an insajio man from
Unalaska, while being transported to
the Morningside asylum in Oregon, In
charge of Deputy United States mar
shal C. W. Mossman, of Anchorage,
and three guards, escaped from the
steamer Mariposa on its last trip
south while the ship was between
Seward and Valdez by crawling
through the port hole of his state
room, and was drowned. There were
two other insane patients aboard, be
ing taken to the sanitarium .
Undurich was in irons at the time
of the escape. He was a man of slen
der build and it was stated aboard the
ship that he very likely found little
difficulty in squeezing through the
port hole.
-♦
GOVERNMENT TO OPEN TWO
MATANUSKA COAL MINES.
Mine Inspector Sumner S. Smith has
received Instructions from Washington
to open two coal mines in the Muta
nuska field for the government, pre
sumably to supply the railroad there
with fuel and tonnage.
This action on the part of the gov
ernment would also Indicate that it
does not Intend to make a workable
coal lease, but will operate the mines
itself. The second claim that Mr.
Smith has been directed to work is
about twenty-five miles off the line
of the railroad, and to which a branch
will likely be built.
-«
LITTLE DELTA ROADHOUSE
BURNED TO GROUND.
The roadhouse at Little Delta, on
the Chitina-Kalrbanks trail, burned to
the ground Thursday night, according
to a report from the local Signal Corps
office. The roadhouse, which was one
of the old landmarks of the country,
was owned by Joseph Sala. The cause
of the fire was not stated.
♦
♦
♦ RUSSIA WANTS ARMISTICE TO DISCUSS PEACE ♦
^ -- ♦
s I M ROORAD, July 2.—There was a great demon- ♦
* dilation by the workmen’s and Socialist delegates and ♦
the revolutionary democracy held yesterday without dis ♦
order. Unarmed processions of mam thousands marched ♦
8 through I’etrograd to the military parade grounds. ♦
where victims of the revolution are buried. Headed by ♦
* bands and carrying banners assailing the wealthy and ♦
♦ bourgeois classes, a body of infantry soldiers carried a ♦
* banner reading: “Down with imperialistic war; we ♦
♦ want an armistice on all fronts to discuss pence ’’ ♦
*♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦*♦
TEN THOUSAND TEUTONS ARE CAPTURED.
1 LTKOGRAD, July 2.—It is officially stated that the Rus
sians captured Konuichy, on the Galician front, taking one hun
dml and sixty-four officers and 8,400 men as prisoners.
CIVIL WAR THEREATENING IN CHINA
MACHIT, July 2.—A dynasty in China is demanded by a
general change of Shun and other military leaders. Accord
ing to state department advices a civil war in China is feared.
T ■ " 1
RUSSIA BEGINS BIG OFFENSIVE MOVEMENT
WASHINGTON, July 2.—Russian War Minister Kirensy
informed Secretary of State Lansing three weeks ago that a big
Russian offensive would begin the first week in July.
I hTROGRAl), July 2.—rI lie Russians advanced to Kon
uichy stream and captured seven heavy guns. Teuton prisoners
continue to arrive.
m BALL b A NIL
nil
The first of the series of three ball
games between the Seward and Cor
dova clubs did not take place thiB
afternoon, os the visitors from the
westward will not reach here until
9 o'clock tonight. Five of their play
ers, however, arrived in Cordova on
the steamer Alameda from Seattle.
They are a likely looking lot of ball
tossers, and have been playing semi
professionally on the Pacific coast.
Percy Chamberlain has pitched some
good games, while M. Hemenway is an
excellent catcher, with a strong wing.
They will likely do the battery work
for- the Seward team in the opening
game tomorrow afternoon. E. Mc
guire, shortstop, W. Coughlin, second
baseman, and O. Beam, third base
man, are the other imported acquisi
tions to the Seward team.
Miller will occupy the box for Cor
dova and Ripley will handle his deliv
ery, with Conway playing first, Nourse
second, Frederickson third, Mauseth
short, Rogers, Truckee, Council. Har
wood and Beebee fielders. Fillinger,
Ontai, Betties and King will be the
other pitchers for the series.
The interest in the contests is be
coming acute, and both teams feel
confident of victory. The Seattle
players offered to bet $100 that Sew
ard would win the first game, and this
amount was covered. Cordovans feel
confident the local team will win two
out of the three games, and are willing
to make bets accordingly.
-«
PLUNGED INTO
(By Associated Press)
NIAGARA FALLS, July 2. — A
crowded trolley car was thrown from
the tracks into the Niagara river gorge
yesterday.. Ten are known to be dead,
four are missing and were probably
drowned, while twenty-four were in
jured.
-♦
WELLS RESTAURANT WILL
REOPEN IN MORNING.
Mrs. Wells has decided to reopen
her restaurant and she will be ready
to serve all of her old customers and
the public generally from tomorrow
morning on.
MU PUBLIC
BUILDING BILL
When President Wilson signed the
sundry civil bill and made it a law,
I Alaska gained in one lump sum the
amount of $8,215,540. A statement by
Delegate Charles A. Sulzer, of Alaska,
who looked after the Alaska items
in the bill and whose vigorous appeal
to the committee when the bill was in
conference, resulted in obtaining $12.
500 additional for medical relief in
Alaska, shows that the items for Alas
ka in the measure include the fol
lowing:
For continuation of public building
at Cordova, Alaska, $35,000.
For continuation of investigation of
the mineral resources of Alaska. $100,
000, to be immediately available.
For Alaskan engineering commis
sion, for railroad construction, $7,500,
000.
For care of insane in Alaska, $75,
000.
For education of Eskimos, Aleuts
and Indians in Alaska, $200,000.
For medical relief in Alaska to Es
kimos, Aleuts and Indians, $62,500.
For support of reindeer stations in
Alaska, $20,000.
For suppression of liquor traffic
among Indians, $15,000.
For Alaska service, bureau of fisher
ies — Pribiloff islands, $28,600; Afog
r.ak hatchery, $8,220; Yes bay hatch
ery, $8,220; officers and crew of fish
eries boats in Alaska service, $16,000;
protecting seal fisheries, $75,000.
For salary, field expenses and clerk
hire of mine inspector for Alaska, $7,
000.
"The tabulation does not include,"
Delegate Sulzer said, “such items as
expenses of the courts, marshals' and
district attorneys’ offices of Alaska, as
they are lumped together with the ex
penses of similar offices in the states."
Provision is made in the bill for re
pairs and preservation of the govern
ment buildings and wharf at Sitka,
Alaska. The secretary of the treasury
Is granted the privilege of requiring
the lessee to make the repairs to the
wharf at Sitka in case it is leased.
Special agents in the field service
of the general land office are granted
not to exceed $3,000 a year by the
bill, with an additional $5 per diem
for subsistence.
-«
UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR DIES
FROM ATTACK OF GRIPPE.
(By Associated Press)
SEATTLE. July 2.—Dean Arthur
Haggett. of the University of Wash
ington. died of pernicious grippe last
night, aged 47 years.