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VOLUME III. NUMBER 200 _CORDOVA. ALASKA. THUJA FEN CENTS
SEATTLE, March 7.—The Post-Intelligencer’s special dis
dispatch from W ashington this morning says that it is under
stood that Governor Strong of Alaska, whose successor was
named yesterday hv President Filson in tin* person of Thomas
l'ig?vS dr., ol the Alaskan engineering commission, tendered his
resignation. Members of the senate committee on territories
assert that Alaska is now governorless, Surveyor General Davi
son being acting governor. Strong having resigned and Higgs’
appointment being unconfirmed.
The dispatch further says that Senator Pittman of Nevada,
chairman of the senate committee on territories, recently told
Secretary of the Interior Lane that any nomination save that of
Strong for the position of governor of Alaska would meet with
opposition in the committee.
Senator Pittman declined to comment on Governor
Strong’s resignation until he had confirmed the news. He indi
cated that no appointment would be made to fill Higgs’ place on
tin* Alaskan engineering commission. No successor lmd been
appointed to fill Colonel Wears’ place on the commission, which
was now reduced to one member, Mr. Edes, who, it is under
stood, would bo in entire charge of the government railroad
work hereafter.
A ASj^LNlJTOJv-, Ala-fclt i.— Ali*"h Property 1 On-Htobrnn j
Palmer lias asked congress for legislation empowering him to
s ■!! any enemy property in America within his discretion, the
proceeds to he turned into the United States treasury and list'd
;:s the government saw fit. The proceeds might he returned to
the owners after the war.
The sale of enemy property will hamper Germany and aid
America, said Mr. Palmer. Under the'German law American
property in Germany can he treated similarly.
WILL BE BLOW TO GER3YLAN KULTUR
Mr. I aimer plans to break up the vast German holdings in
Hit* l nited States and place them in other hands, so that f.fter
the war they cannot he used as outposts of German “kultur.”
I he senate has appointed a special committee to co-operate
with Mr. Palmer in his endeavor to secure the necessarv legisla.
tion to enable him to sell the property.
SEITTLE JURIST
GOES TO MEET
SEATTLE, March 7.—Judge George
E. Morris of the state supreme court
died at his home in this city yester
day. He was appointed to the bench
in 1909 to fill a vacancy, and was twice
re-elected.
Judge Morris was 54 years of age,
and was chief justice of the court dur
ing 1915 and 1916.
MEN SEIZES PEETS
AND OWNER IS FINED
Two thousand dollars’ worth of furs
which are alleged to have been ob
tained in violation of law were seized
at the store of the Northwestern Fur
Company, at Anchorage, by Samuel
Gowen, special fur warden for Alaska,
recently. The seizure consisted of
ninety-five beaver skins, forty-one
mink skins and one land otter.
Shortly after the seizure Warden
Gowen telegraphed to the bureau of
fisheries at Washington, notifying it
of the seizure and asking for instruc
tions regarding tlie disposal of tho j
| pelts. Pending receipt of instructions j
| the furs will he in the custody of the j
| warden.
Ike Koslosky, representative of the
Northwest Fur Company, who has been
buying furs in considerable quantities
for several months in the district, was !
arrested. He was charged with hav
ing in his possession furs in violation
of the Alaska game laws, and with op
erating a mercantile business without
first obtaining a license from the ter
: ritory. He pleaded guilty to both ac
cusations and was fined $100 and costs
| amounting to $30 on the first charge,
! and $20 and costs amounting to $12
i on the second by United States Com
j missioner Leopold David.
The furs were confiscated by the
! government and were held at the jail
1 pending instructions from Washing
ton.
The catching of beaver is prohibit
| ed in Alaska until November of this
veer. The mink skins which were
seized were caught out of season, ac
cording to Game Warden Gowen. The
catching or trapping of land otter is
prohibited.
This is the first seizure made by
Warden Gowen, who was appointed
■last November.
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NOTICE.
The Star of the East Auxiliary will
meet at the home of Mrs. Jack Sapiro
on Monday afternoon at 2:3o o'clock
Everybody invited.
MRS. SOPHIA SCOTT,
Secretary
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SEATTLE. March 7.—Judge Jere
miah Neterer of the federal district
court yesterday sentenced L. C. Orr,
a hardware merchant of Bellingham,
to one year’s imprisonment in the
Whatcom county jail for bringing
whisky into the state from British Co
lumbia.
It is one of the heaviest penalties
yet imposed for violation of the Reed
amendment.
BID Gilil'oiSIBB
It T11B0BIHS
Recent arrivals at Nome from Coun
cil bring an amusing story of a bad.
bad. gunman who came to grief
through the wiles of two Eskimos who
not only captured him, gun and all.
but packed him bodily to the bastile
and left him in durance vile, says the
Nome Nugget.
The gunman in question was Vin
cent Sayre, a well-known character
of Council, who suddenly conceived
the notion that the two Eskimos were
following him about. His suspicions
were groundless.
lieterrurned to end forever ,Ke^
posed Sherloeking propensities of the
natives, Sayre hied him to his cabin,
secured a huge cannon and started to
round up the Eskimos.
The gun was not loaded, but Sayre
presumably thought that an empty
gun was sufficient to bluff an Eskimo
with, and failed to charge his weapon.
The natives were located in a car
penter shop on the main thoroughfare
of the town, but would not respond to
the Sayre invitation to disclose them
selves.
The gun wielder brandished his
weapon and uttered words of right
eous wrath, but the enemy would not
surrender to his war whoop.
Imbued with the go-get-’em spirit,
Sayre then decided to enter the shop
and dig the enemy out. He got as far
as the kor, all right, but there he
nie«»u#'n and unexpected discomfi
fiture. t'jf the aborigines were in am
hush titiind the lintel and grabbed
the *belij fcerent Sayre before he was
aware ofjwhat was going on. The nn
vtlehttheii proceeded to pack him bod
ily q’/erlo Commissioner Flannigan’s
court aai turn him over to the tendei
merhiesi)f the judge, with the sage
retajfHi,TTIim white man. him heat
dmf.frwl Eskimo fixutn."
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!W3* by cries to “Foote rmt.
tins iohnson. station man at Mile 7
on the government railway, workinj
for Peterson & Co., ran directly inti
the path of a huge snowslide on Turn
again arm recently, and in the twin
kltng of an eye was buried beneatl
many tons of snow, which kept slidinj
out into the inlet.
A crew of between sixty and sev
enty men were kept digging in thi
snow ail night in the hope of find’inj
the body of Johnson, and in the morn
ing other men began their work, bu
at last accounts all efforts had prove!
of no avail.
It is thought probable that Johnsoi
was caught in the first mass am
pushed with it into the inlet, and dur
ing the high tide his body might hav<
been washed out with the snow.
SAMMIES’LUCKY ESCAPE
FROM DANGEROUS POSITION
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY, March 7.—An American
patrol, comprising an officer and eight men, who had been miss
ing sinc<> last night in the sector northwest of Toni, suddenly
emerged trom a shell hole close to the German lines today and
dashed across “No Man’s Land” without a shot being fired at
them.
BOTH SIDES ACTIVE IN RAIDS
DA I EL ESS, March 7. -Military operations on the’western
Von! are confined to trench raids' artillery bombardments and
cnal activities, both sides being equally active in raiding oper
turns. The Germans have raided several points from Flanders
to the Vosges.
AMERICAN COLONEL’S EXPLOIT
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY, March 7.—An American
■olonel, while with a French raiding party for the purpose of
btaining information recently, captured a Prussian lieutenant
in an enemy trench.
AMERICAN POSITIONS
WASHING 11 IN, March /.—America troops now are hold
ng more than eight miles of trenches. The line is so laid out
■at a flanking fire is impossible.
AMERICANS CONGRATULATED
AMERICAN ARMY HEADQUARTERS, March 7. The
\meriean forc.ee have repulsed still another German raid in
orraine. The French commander has formally congratulated
he American troops.
f
ts
iarg^f%Hflber of men will be called
to the a#iy during the present year,
the 'watjklepartment plans no addi
tional di|sions for organization dur
ing jilts Jt was announced today.
The ssjtond draft, which it is ex
pected vfji probably be of about eight
hundredi thousand men, will be sum
■monbirl gradually during the year to
complett .existing organizations.
BOLSHEVUG WILL SUBMIT
TO “POLITICAL BANDITS”
PETROGKAD, March 7.—rI’lic central executive commit
ee of soldiers’ and workmen’s councils, while recognizing that
the German peace terms are those of political bandits, has called
m its delegates to the Moscow congress to vote for the ratifica
ion of the peace treaty, says he Izvestta, the Bolsheviki organ,
this action is advisable, continues the newspaper, because
peace would afford the social revolution an absolutely necessary
1 "spite.
SOCIALIST PAPER SKEPTICAL OF FUTURE
AMSTERDAM, March 7.—Despite the general German re
joicing over peace with Russia, the German press is doubtful
of the future in the east. The Vorwaerts says that the German
occupation of Russia is not likely to endure, and that it would
have been wiser had Germany not exploited the helplessness of
he Russians and forced its peace ttrms upon them.
SHATTUU, March <.—Steamship companies have been ad
‘ eised that the government will ship from Anchorage on the first
boat in the spring several thousand quarts of seized liquor, now
to red in t he Anchorage .jail.
The liquor will be consigned to tin* United States I ndustrial
■ Alcohol Company, Baltimore, Md.
Marshal Brenneman and Deputy Marshal Mossman, at An
vhuxage, arc a mailing the shipment.
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NI-.W \()h,K, March 7.—Gorman newspapers issued dur
n.u .January, just received liere, indicate that President Wril
1 j son’s .January address, in whicli lie defined fourteen conditions
i! l,r' P,*ac‘** ,lils acted llko leaven in Austria’s political life Th *
, onditions often are referred to as possible as a concrete basis
. j or negotiations.
PORTLAND. Ore.. March 7— Col.
Disque. in charge of the government's
! spruce production campaign, an
nounces that the eight-hour day with
ten hours' pay will go into effect in
the Oregon white pine industry on
I March 10.
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; MAIL ORDER TEACHERS
At a recent meeting of the Doug
las school board the ban was placed
on securing mail order tea: hers from
the States. It seems that several
agencies in Pacific coast cities keep a
list of teachers and get them jobs,
charging them a fixed fee and a per
cent of their salaries for the first year,
(he teachers' salaries being practical
ly mortgaged to these sharks. A reso
lution was passed by the hoard to the
effect that such practices on the part
i of teacher-supplying bureaus are
harmful to the best interests of edu
cation in Alaska, and are unfair to
the teacher. A circular letter will he
sent to other boards in the territory
asking that a ban be placed on the
practice. The state of Washington lias
a law against such agencies, but they
exist in Oregon and California An ef.
fort will be made to stamp them out
by refusing to accept tea hers from
such sources.
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Commercial punting at Times ofTiee
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WITHIN BOB
LONDON, March 7.—Eighteen Brit
ish merchant ships were sunk by
mines or submarines during the past
week, according to announcement of
the admiralty today. Twelve of these
vessels were of 1 ,«t*0 tons or more.
The same number of vessels were
similarly lost during the previous
week.
SERVICE BY"WIRELESS
WHEN CABLE IS 001
SEATTLE, March 7.—Colonel Le
noir, who is in entire charge of the
Signal Corps system in Alaska, has ar
ranged to furnish the Cordova Daif>
Times with its regular Associated
Cress day service by wireless, at
press rates, when the cable is down
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FISH PRICES
SEATTLE, Man h 7 CO ■■ t c
fish at noon <o(nv were as folk.'*
Halibut, 15 .V1; ruble fish. -id
cod, 6 l-2c.