VOL. V. NO. 60 _CORDOVA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1920_PRICE TEN CENTS
OFFICIALS CHARGED WITH COLLECTION OF EXCESSIVE PREMIUMS
CAPTAIN BUUN IS INDICTED
FOR THIRD TINE ON CHARGE
I OF BRIBERY AT SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Peb. 10 (by Associated
Press).—Captain Blain was today in
dicted for the third time on the charge
of having received bribes in connec
tion with the building of ships for the
government.
The grand jury also indicted Alfred
Sefeubach, president of the Grays Har
bor Motorship Corporation of Aber
deen; Monty Ward, manager; A. B.
Shav and A. S. Hoonan, directors of
the same corporation, charged with
•oHecting $10,400 from the govern
ment as a premium for the advance
delivery on a hull when they had only
$3,000 premium coming.
Captain W. A. Magee, former North
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Pacific district manager of the Ship
ping Board; Bruce C. Shorts, a Seattle
atrotney for the Aberdeen firm, were
also indicted in connection with the
collection of the premium.
The grand jury also indicted Phil
lips Morrison, president of the Sea
born Shipbuilding Company of Ta
coma, and C. N. Seaborn and H. F.
Ostrander, directors of the Seaborn
company, charged with collecting
$54,000 from the government for extra
work on ships which was never done.
The Aberdeen men’s bail was fixe
at $2,500 each and tbe Tacoma men’s
bail was fixed at $5,000 each. Attor
neys gave bail for all.
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PARLIAMENT
!- OPENED WITH
f
-u
LONDON, Feb. 10 (by Associated
Press).—Parliament was opened to
day with full state ceremony, for the
first time since 1914.
King George, Queen Mary and the
prince of Wales, escorted by the life
guards, proceeded from Buckingham
palace to Westminster in state car
riages.
The king read the speech from the
^ throne, in which he urged that seri
ous consideration be given to eco
nomic conditions throughout the coun
try. He urged the settlement of the
Irish question, better educational fa
cilities and the regulation of the liquor
traffic. The king laid emphasis on the
* necessity for the production of more
tmdstuffs at home.
CAMPAIGN IS
WAXING WARM
I SEATTLE
L.
8BATTLE, Feb. 10 (by Associated
Press).—Mayor Fitzgerald, in a cam
paign speech last night, denounces
the claims of Duncan, one of the
mayoralty candidates, tnat policemen
and firemen should be unionized.
Roosevelt Post, Veterans of Foreign
W Wars, has passed resolutions declaring
that Councilmen Oliver Erickson and
W. D. Lane, candidates for re-election,
are unfit to hold office in any American
municipality. The resolutions declare
tti&t Erickson and Lane are friendly
to the radicals.
HOOVER’S DECLARATION
IS PLACED ON RECORD
BY IDAHO SENATOR
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Senator Borah of
Idaho yesterday had the statement of
Herbert Hoover that he was not a
presidential candidate placed in the
Record. He said he expected to refer
to the matter in a speech to be de
livered later.
HARM LAW
IS DECLARED
AT LEXINGTON
LEXINGTON, Ky„ Feb. 10 (by As
sociated Press).—The city is under
martial law, and it is expected that
eleven hundred troops will be on duty
here.
Veterans of Chateau Thierry are pa
trolling the streets to prevent new
outbreaks.
Lockett, the negro whose crime was
the cause of the disturbances, and
who was yesterday sentenced to death,
is confined in a steel cage in the court
house.
It is rumored that fifteen hundred
mountaineers are en route here to
Lynch Crockett. Troops are guarding
every road.
PRESIDENTIAL
Cl IATEST0
BE BANQUETED
NEW YORK, Feb. 10 (by Associated
Press).—General Leonard Wood, Gov
ernor Coolidge of Massachusetts and
Chairman Will Hays of the Repub
lican national committee will be the
speakers at a banquet to be given by
the Young Men’s Republican Club.
All presidential possibilities are to
be asked to attend, and invitations
have been sent to Senator Hiram John
son and Herbert Hoover, the latter
of whom has belonged to the club for
years.
RUSSIANS THREATEN
TO KNIFE GUARDS
AND OVERTURN LAW
SEATTLE, Feb. 10 (by Associated
Press).—Extra guards have been
placed at the immigration detention
station here because of a note sent
by forty-seven Russions confined there
to Immigration Commissioner White,
threatening to tear down the build
ing, knife the guards and overthrow
law. ,
The men will be taken to Everett
for safekeeping.
SIBERIAN BOLSHEVIKI
TAKE ISLAND CAPITAL
HONOLULU, Feb. 10 (by Associ
ated Press). A Tokio dispatch says
that Siberian Bolsheviki have cap
tured Alexandrovsk, the capital of
the island of Sakhalien, and that it
is feared the radicals may enter Japan
proper.
FORTY TWO
FOR CORDOVA
ON ALAMEDA
SEATTLE, Feb. 10 (by Associated
Press).—The steamship Alameda
sailed at 9 o’clock this morning for
Northern ports, carrying 187 passen
gers. Those for Cordova were: Pete
Randen, W. W. Elmer, Mrs. E. Jones,
Frank Righine, George W. Nelson, J.
W. Frame, G. G. Frame, Mrs. J. H.
Sellen, J. H, Sellen, Jr., Frances Sel
len, Mrs. J. W. Coleman, G. W. Kent,
F. J. Jones, J. E. Berry, Mrs. J. F.
Cunningham, W. J. McDonald and
wife, E. A. Graham, Mrs. G. H. Ly
beck, Miss E. Morris, Otto Larson,
Roy Blake, A. D. Conway, N. J. Orloff,
Tom Bergen, C. P. Swanson, F. J.
Hart, C. Collier, M. McAllen, Mrs.
Alice Graves, Ray F. Henderson, Tom
Sairs, Harry Takato, J. B. Haywood,
John T. Hurley, Mrs. Gene Richards,
John Richards, C. W. Ritter, and four
steerage.
ARMY TRAINING
WILL BE ISSUE IN
LOWER HOUSE
' WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (by Associ
ated Press).—Senators and representa
tives hold differing views regarding
the probable effect of the house Dem
ocrats voting disapproval of the en
actment of universal military training
legislation.
Chairman Wadsworth of the senate
committee on military affairs said to
day that he would press the army
training bill, but that he expected that
the measure would be fought on the
floor of the house.
RAIDERS CAPTURE
IRISH POLICE STATION
AND FIVE OFFICERS
CORK, Ireland, Feb. 10 (by Associ
ated Press).—After a rifle attack by
two hundred armed men, Castle Marty
police station and five policemen who
defended the station were captured by
the raiders. Arms and ammunition
were seized before the raiders took to
flight.
ACCIDENTS GALORE
IN SPIRIT CITY
DURING JANUARY
SEATTLE, Feb. 10 (by Associated
Press).—Trafiflc accidents in Seattle
during January resulted in the killing
;Of seven persons and the injury of
184. It is estimated that there were
671 automobile accidents.
HOUSING CORPORATION
TO BE ABOLISHED
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The senate yesterday
passed the bill abolishing the housing
corporation, and transferring its
powers to the treasury department on
June 30. The bill now goes to the
house.
BORDERTOWN
Gil GROUSE
IS DESTROYED
MEXICALA, Lower California, Feb.
10 (by Associated Press).—Fire last
night destroyed the noted Owl gam
bling house and other houses occupy
ing an immense block. The Owl was
a landmark of the vanishing West,
and burned to the accompaniment of
shots and screams.
Three men who attempted to rob
the tables when the fire started were
wounded, and three women were in
jured when caught within the wall of
flames.
The Mexicans attempted to hamper
the work of the American firemen from
Calexico by cutting the hose and steal
ing the apparatus.
Manager Boose Byers estimated the
loss sustained by the Owl at $250,000.
The place may be rebuilt.
FIREARMS IS TO
BE A FACTOR
t
MONTESANO, Wash., Feb. 10 (by
Associated Press).—At the trial of the
alleged I. W. W. for the Centralia
murders yesterday the state intro
duced in evidence maps and a minia
ture exhibit of the Centralia blocks
where the shooting took place. Six
rifles and five pistols and revolvers,
alleged to have been the weapons used
by the defendants, were also intro
duced by the prosecution. The de
fense admitted the ownership of all
the weapons except one rifle, said to
have been the one fired by Barnett,
t’*e alleged slayer of Warren Grimm.
Engineers told of tracing the direc
tion of the bullets to where it is al
leged the "wobblies” were stationed.
Stipulations admitting ownership by
six of the elevent defendants of rifles
and pistols taken after the Centralia
shooting were read into the record
today.
A dispute arose about - the owner
ship of the .38-55 rifle which the state
claims shot the bullet which killed
Warren Grimm. The rifle was found
in the Avalon hotel. The state claims
it belongs to Eugene Barnett, one of
the defendants.
NEBRASKA’S GOVERNOR
TO SPEAK AT LINCOLN
BANQUET IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Feb. 10 (by Associated
Press).—Governor McKelvie of Ne
braska arrived here today. He will
speak at the banquet of the Young
Men’s Republican Club on Lincoln’s
birthday, Thursday next.
YOUNG LADY SCHOOL TEACHER
CANDIDATE FOR LEGISLATURE
-WARD BOOSTING LOST CAUSE
Wilbur Ward, a former Cordova
newspaper man who is now at Juneau,
where he will have charge of the new
Alaska Daily Capital, which Charley
Herron is starting, has sent the Daily
Times the following prepaid cam
paign propaganda, which is published
for what it is worth:
Juneau, Feb. 9.—The Republicans
of Juneau are exerting their efforts to
induce P. C. McCormick of Wrangell
to file as the Republican candidate
for senator. There is a general im
pression among leading Republicans
here that the senator to be elected
this year should come from the south
ern* end of the division, and that the
situation demands that sentiment be
crystallized in favor of McCormick.
Only two possible candidates for
the Republican nomination for attor
ney general have been Tnentioned thus
far. John Rustgard has signified his
intention of filing, and it is possible
that O. P. Hubbard may make the
race.
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A Disinterested Tribute!
The regular Republicans of Juneau
are giving their whole-hearted sup
port to Charles Herron of Andmr
age, who filed for national commit
teemen Saturday. The Republicans
here resent the fact that the Empire
of Juneau and the Chronicle of Ketdhl
kan, both Democratic newspapers, tra
supporting McBride and attempting t®
create division in the Republican
party.
And in Passing
The first issue of the Alaska Daitr
Capital, owned by Charles Herron, vrtil
appear March 1.
Woman for Representative
SEWARD, Alaska, Feb. 10 (Special
to the Daily Times).—Alyce E. Ander
son, a school teacher now at Chignfk,
and previously for years stationed at
various places on Cook inlet aa a
teacher, in a letter received here to
day announces her candidacy for mem
ber of the house of representatives
the territorial legislature on the Dem
ocratic ticket.
CROWN PRINCE
MAKES OFFER
TO SURRENDER
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 10 (by Associ
ated Press).—It is reported that the
former German crown prince has
wired to the kings of England, Italy
and Belgium, and the presidents of
France and the United States, offer
ing to surrender himself in the place
of the Germans whose extradition is
demanded by the allies.
A German Subterfuge
BERLIN, Feb. 10 (by Associated
Press).—The German government is
preparing a list of allied officials ac
cused of violating the laws of war, and
will submit it as a counter-proposal
to the demand of the allies for the
extradition of Germans.
Offer Received and Filed
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (by Associ
ated Press).—President Wilson today
received the wire from the former Ger
man crown prince, offering to act as
substitute for the Germans whom the
allies demanded should be given up
for trial.
SENATOR HITCHCOCK
MAY RUN FOR PRESIDENT
ON DEMOCRATIC TICKET
OMAHA, Feb. 10 (by Associated
Press).—The friends of Senator Hitch
cock have begun the circulation of
petitions throughout Nebraska to
have his name placed on the Demo
cratic presidential preferential ballot.
LANE’S RESIGNATION
EFFECTIVE MARCH 1
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The resignation of
Franklin K. Lane as secretary of the
interior is to become effective on
March 1.
WALK OUT OF
RAILROADERS
THREATENED
DETROIT, Feb. 10 (by Associate*
Press).—Allen Barker, president a*
the Brotherhood of Maintenance «f
Way and Shop Laborers, announce*
last night that the men would walk
out February 17.
“No federal injunction will stop aa,”
he said, “and we will spend our teat
dollar for the success of our orgaatiaa
tion.” ,
Railroad Strike Imminent
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (by Aspa
ciated Press).—The wage negotiatlaaui
of the railway employes with Diroahw
of Railways Hines hare reache* a
critical stage.
Officials of the Brotherhood of Raft
way Trainmen say that a strike ip a
possibility unless the demands of (ha
railway men are settled satisfactorily.
W. G. Lee, president of the Brother
hood, told Director Hines today that
the men were very insistent, and that
they must have a definite answer soon.
Mr. Hines said he could not answer
until he had talked with the entire la- j
bor representation. j
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TELEPHONE CO. <
WORKERSTOGO
OUT ON STRIKE
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10 (by As
sociated Press).—It is announced that
the electrical workers employed by the
Pacific Telephone Company in Ore
gon, Washington, California, Idaho
and Nevada have voted to strike un
less they receive a dollar a day in
crease in wages. The officers have
made no provision for a strike as yet.
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