FREIGHT RATES!
THE STATES
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11—After pro
longed hearings and listenings to much
testimony, and arguments on behalf
of the western railroads for an in
crease in rates for certain classes of
freight, the Interstate Commerce Com
mission has granted an increase in
the freight charges charges for bitu
minous coal, coke, fruit and vegeta
bles. The same roads were denied
an increase in the carrying charges on
live stock, grain and packing house
products. The decision of the Com
mission while far from satisfying the
demands of the roads, who have been
contending that the present rates are
confiscatory, nevertheless in the opin
ion of railroad financiers will do much
to relieve the stringency which the
transcontinental lines have been ex
periencing.
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208,800 WAR PRISONERS
PUT TO WORK BY RUSSIA
PETROGRAD, Aug. 11—The num
ber of war prisoners at present en
gaged in agricultural and other work
in Russia is given officially as 208,500.
The prospects of a fine harvest have
caused a large demand for prisoner
laborers for the farms. Their month
ly wage is fixed at about $5, or about
half the oridinary market rate. Their
work is generally proving satisfactory.
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Knoll. Apply Alaska Transfer Co.
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MRS. SHELDON’S MOTHER
IN CRITICALLY ILL
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Fay Sheldon has received a mes
sage from his wife, at Tacoma, an
nouncing the serious illness of her
mother, Mrs. Oanty, who Uvea on a
ranch near that city. Mr. Sheldon
will leave for her bedside on the
steamer Northwestern, which sails
from here tonight.
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CHARGE COAI. MINE
LONDON, Aug. 11—Lady Macworth,
who was one of the survlors of the
Lusitania disaster, has taken over the
management of the Cambrian Coal
Combine, aggregating $100,000,000 a
year, during her father’s absence in
America on war work for the govern
ment. Her father, D. A. Thomas, is'
the head of the Combine. His gen
eral manager, Leonard Llewellyn, has
also been detached from the company’s
offices on war work.
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All the Real News in the Times.
Empress Theatre
FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 13, 1915.
PATHE WEEKLY NEWS No. 17
A TRANSPLANTED PRAIRIE FLOWER— '
An Edison Drama.
HIS WEDDED WIFE—
A Vitigraph Drama.
THE SLAVERY OF FOXICUS—
A Kalem Comedy.
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To Our Patrons
We have been busily occupied for the past two weeks
getting our Retail Department settled in our new location,
the Adams Corner, and are glad to be able to announce that
we are now in a good position to serve our patrons.
We have placed our Groceries, Hardware and Men’s
Goods in the new store and all our Retail Business will be done
from the Adams Building, Phone 6.
Our Wholesale and Furniture business will be handled
from the Second Avenue store.
We soicit your business.
THE BLUM, O’NEILL CO.
THROWN FROM BICYCLE
BOY BREAKS HIS EEC
Yesterday afternoon while little
Harry, O’Neill, one of the Daily Times
carriers, was bicycle riding on Second
avenue the tire came off one of the
wheels and Harry wns thrown violent
ly to the ground, breaking a leg. He
was removed to his home, where
Dr. Council reports that the boy is
resting comfortably and doing as well
as can be expected under the circum
stances.
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DECORATE WITH CORN
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BERNE, Switzerland, Aug. 11—The
use of ears of corn for trimming ladies
hats or for preservation in the form
of ornamental bouquets has been pro
hibited in the grain growing districts
of Austria by official decree.
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AND CREW
CHICAGO, Aug. 11—The state grand
jury has returned a report after Inves
tigating the Eastland marine disaster,
in which nearly one thousand lives
were lost, and has Indicted the captain
of the vessel, the chief engineer, and
four officers of the company owning
the vessel. The men are charged with
committing manslaughter through
their criminal carelessness.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 — The
American note rejecting the demands
of Austria in regard to her contentions
of the violations of international law
by the United States through the large
shipments of war munitions to the
allies, has bsen dispatched to Vienna.
Austria contended that the heavy ship
ments being made to Europe were
threatening the neptrality by the very
size, and not because the shipment of
war material in the abstract was an
un-neutral act on the part of the Unit
ed States. The administration flatly
denies the Austrian contentions, and
insists that the United States Is pre
serving a strict neutrality in accord
ance with the recognized principles
of international law, and that the un
neutral thing to do would be for this
country to forbid the selling of muni
tions to any country who wished to
buy.
ELECTION HELD
SOUTH AFRICA
CAPETOWN, Aug. IX—A general
election for the Union of South Africa
will be held in September. General
Botha is expected to undertake a poli
tical tour in the Orange Free States,
which is the hot-bed of his opponents,
the Herzognites.
The first intention to postpone the
election would have necessitated a
suecial session of the legislature to
amend the Constitution, but the tri
umphant termination of the campaign
in Southwest Africa enables the gov
ernment to avoid this much-criticized
alternative.
SYDNEY, Australia, Aug. 11—
Among the Australians killed at the
Dardenelles was ('apt. Edward P. R.
Bage, a member of Sir Douglas Maw
son’s Anarctic Expedition in 1911. He
served in that expedition as astrono
mer, assistant magnetician and re
corder of tides. He was the leader of
a party which covered 600 perilous
miles with sledges, and he afterwards
contributed a chapter to Mawson’s
books.
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Shay Drew Four Month*.
In the case of the United States vs.
John Shay, on the charge of assault
and battery, the defendant was this af
ternoon sentenced by Judge Medley
to serve four months in the federtal
jail.
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LOCAL JOTTINGS
The city is gretly improving the
roadway to the ocean dock.
Mr. and Mrs. D. \V. Walker, of Al
ganick, are spending a few days tn
town.
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Stephen Birch, president of the
Kennecott Copper Corporation, arriv
ed from the Interior this afternoon.
There will be a wedding in town to
night, after the arrival of the steamer
Mariposa, the bride being one of her
passengers. The groom is a mining
man from the interior.
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ANOTHER INCREASE IN
CORDOVA’S POPULATION
H. I. O’Neill is today receiving the
congratulations of his friends upon
the arrival of a twelve pound boy at
his home this morning. Dr. Council
reports that mother and son are doing
nicely.
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Groceries
Good goods, good service, right
prices at Cordova's Co-Operative
Store. Phone 21.
MISTAKEN FOR SPY
IS BEATEN TO DEATH
LONDON, Aug. 11—Two young sol
diers at Galway have been sentenced
to a year’s Imprisonment each for
killing a man whom they took to be a
German spy. The evidence showed
that the soldiers arrested the man
while he was in a train, took him to
a lonely railroad station, and beat him
so severely that he died. The man
proved to be a former British soldier
of long service.
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VIENNA WOMEN ABE
THE GRAVE DIGGERS
GENEVA, Aug. 11—According to^^h
Austrian newspapers women are now
employed in Vienna as undertakers
and gravediggers, and generally for all
work connected with funerals.
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