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(ONLY CORDOVA PAPER WITH ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES)
VOLUME ONE. NUMBER FORTY-ONE. CORDOVA, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22,1915. PRICE TEN CENTS.
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GERMAN SUBMARINE SINKS BRITISH STEAMER
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Assistant District Attorney Guy B
Brubaker returned to Valdez last ev
ening on the steamer Alameda, aftei
attending to official duties here. It
is currently reported that Mr. Bru
baked shortly intend* to sever hia
connection with the district attorney's
office, with which he has served un
der Judge Murane, Judge Walker and
the present incumbent, Mr. Spence,
and during his employment by Uncle
Sam as a prosecuting officer, Mr.
Brubaker has acquitted himself most
creditably, and has succeeded in es
tablishing for himself a reputation as
one of the leading legal lights of this
section of Alaska. While in Cordova
a representative of the Times ques
tioned Mr. Brubaker as to the authen
ticity of the statement that he had
already tendered his resignation, but
he stated that he preferred that no
publicity be given the matter at this
time, as he first desired to consult
with his superior officer, who is now
in the States, but expected back in
Valdez shortly, before making any an
nouncement. But since the matter
leaked out we do not feel any longer
obliged to withhold the news.
Mr. Brubaker arranged with Judge
Bunnell, before the latter left for
Fairbanks, to take up his law prac
tice, and this he will do as soon as
District Attorney Spence arrives in
Valdez. From a Juneau paper we
also learn that Mr. Brubaker has made
application by mail to the Governor’s
office for appointment as a notary
public.
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FOUR KILLED 8F
BOILER TUBE
LA PAZ, Mexico, Jan. 22—The blow
ing out of a boiler tube today on the
cruiser San Diego, flagship of the Paci
fic fleet, resulted in the killing of four
pien and the injury of nine men of the
boiler room force. The tube blew out
when the boiler was under heavy
steam pressure, blowing off the fur
nace doors and filling the boiler com
partment with scalding steam.
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W. H. O’Neill, who for the past two
jnonths has been at the Company
hospital suffereing with a visitation of
a number of carbuncles, has so far
recovered as to leave the hospital.
UP BT TORPEDO FIRED BT
ROTTERDAM, .Ian- 22—The British steamer Durward, a
vessel of 1,300 Ions, was torpedo today by a Gorman submarine
off the Dutch coast. A large hole was blown in tin* hull of the
steamer and she went down within a few minutes. The crew
succeeded in getting the boats overboard and escaped from the
sinking steamer without loss of life.
The Durward had forty tons of provisions belonging to the
American Relief Committee, designed for tin* Belgians, when
she w as sunk.
LONDON, dan. 22—Newspapers here interpret the sink
ing of the Durward as the beginning of a German naval policy
against British merchant ships in an endeavor to starve Eng
land by destroying all shipping. Two small English ships
were sunk recently in a similar manner off Cherbourg.
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PERISHING FROM IRE CIO
HD FAMISHED WOLVES
KIEVE, Russia, Jan. 22—Hiding from tin* Austrians, who
are retreating from the Bukowina district, the inhabitants of
the Carpathian mountan district have left their homes and are
living in pits dug in the deep snow. They are perishing by
hundreds from cold and starvation, their plight is becoming
more dangerous because of the fact that huge hands of wolves,
attracted by the scent of blood on the battlefields, are swarming
over the region and do not hesitate to'attack the living.
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OFFIFTEENBILLION DOLLARS
PARIS, Jan. 22—Lloyd-George, chancellor of the ex
chequer for Great Britain and Alexander Ribot and M. Bark,
the French and Russian ministers, held a conference in this
city today. The object of the conference was to consider a
joint loan of $15,000,000,000 to France at 3% per cent, to enable
her to carry on the war.
LOCAL JOTTINGS.
Mat Mattson, whose eyes were seri
ously injured by the explosion of a
“missed” hole at the Kennecott mine
recently, was an arrival on today’s
train from the interior. He will go
outside to recieve treatment, being ac
companied by Mr. Erickson, of Kenno
cott.
H. Cary Morgan, of New York, who
was a member of the hunting party
which has spent the past several mon
ths in the Mt. McKinley region, is an
arrival in town from the interior.
Mrs. Rushworth, of Fairbanks was
among the passengers for Cordova on
the Alameda, and she will leave on the
next train for her home.
HOUSE DEFEATS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22—The House
today voted down Gardner's amend
ment to the arm appropriation bill, ap
propriating one million dollars for
aeroplanes for the army. Three hun
drend thousand dollars of this
timount was to provide twenty-five
new aeroplanes at once.
Penalties Are Severe
PARIS, Jan. ^2—According to a
prominent manufacturer at Maubeuge
who escaped before the Germans occu
pied the town but who says he has re
ceived news through underground
channels, the population is in sore
straits, those of limited means being
unable to pay the prices the Germane
demand for provisions; some even be
ing reduced to taking remains fo the
soldiers’ repasts.
The curfew rings at six o’clock; any
one found out after that is considered
as spying.
Six hostages are required to insure
a special police service and serve as
intermediaries. These hostages are
changed each week and are warne<
if they do not render exact justice tc
the Germans iliey will be shot.
There is neither salt, nor burning
oil in the town and coal is becoming
scarce. Beans cost the equivalent of
twenty cents a pint. Half a pound of
bread is served to each of the inhab
itants each day; other provisions be
ing reserved to the Germans except
ing certain things the army sells to
the population at extraordinary prices.
The cafes and tobacconists shops
have been taken over by the military
authorities and clerks brought from
Germany to run them.
Taxes are regularly collected by
German fiscal agents, part of the pro
ceeds being considered government
Tovenue and part attributed to relief of
the population.
The street railroads are in opera
tion for the benefit of the general
public but tho railroads are reserved
to the German troops and it is ascer
ted that tho inhabitants, on pain of
death, are forbidden to watch the
passage of trains. The reason for
this is said to be the use of the Nau
beuge line for the removal of the dead
from the battle lines along the canals
of Belgium and France. The inform
ant said forty-two trains with such
loads passed Nauberg in one day.
All the forts of the camp of Neu
beuge, he says, have been blown up
and all the roads that might serve an
amy advancing from the south have
been blocked.
Most of the important factories of
Meubeuge, excepting those where sol
diers are quartered, have been dis
mantled and installations shipped.
Angelo VeliBalis, who was shot nnd
robber last summer a short distance
from town, died at Douglas, Alaska.
January 15, as a result of his wounds.
Velisalis was shot twice, once
through the hand and the other bul
let penetrated the left side, lodging
In the spinal column, rendering him
helpless. He laid where he fell from
early early on Saturday afternoon un
til about 4 o'clock the following day,
when he managed to attract the atten
tion of a passer by on the railroad,
who gave an nlarm and the victim was
taken to the hospital. Papas fled from
the scone of his crime, and was Been
in the vicinity of the wireless station,
and later out the line, where he was
ventually captured by Tom Teets. He
was taken to Valdez for trial and sen
tenced to a term of fifteen years at
McNeil Island.
Velisalis was taken to Valdez as a
witness and after the trial remained
for a time in the hospital there. Hater
his brother came up from Douglas and
took him to that place, where he went
to the hospital for treatment. But lit
tle hope has been held out for his
recovery from the first, and he gra
dually failed until death claimed him
last Friday.
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PUEBLA
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22—An official
dispatch received here today states
that the Zapata forces were only four
miles rfom the Mexican city Pue
bla last night. Carranza forces oc
cupying the city were busy loading
artillery and equipment, apparently
with the intention of retreating and
leaving the city to the enemy. The
army of Gen. Carranza drove the
tomblned Villa and Zapata forces out
of Puebla a short time ago, inflicting
losses. The army of General Villa is
now at Heata.
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THAW
NEW YORK, Jan. 22—Prosecuting
Attorney Jerome left here this morn
ing for Manchester, N. H., armed with
a bench warrant for Harry Thaw,
whom he will bring here as a prisoner
to stand trial on the charge of con
spiracy to escape from the insane
asylum at Matteawan.
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ALAMEDA DUE HERE
TOMORROW EVENING
The steamer Alameda is expected
to arrive here tomorrow evening be
tween four and live o‘clock, and will
sail south about 9.
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.Jtev. and Mrs. J. L. McBride re
turned on the train this afternoon
from a trip to Chltina, McCarthy and
Kennecott.
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Is your name on the Times list.
RUSSIANS NEARING THE PRUSSIAN
BORDER, WHILE GERMANS FALL
BACA BEFORE ADVANCE
LONDON, Jan. 22—North of the Vistula river, in (lie vicin
ity of Lipno, the advance guard of the Russian army marching
on East Prussia is now within twenty miles of the border, and
threatening Thorn, an important point on the Thorn, Alien
stein & Insterburg railroad. To the northeast of Lipno, at
Skempo, twenty-five miles from the Prussian border, the Ger
mans have abandoned the town before tin* Russian advance.
Military experts state that if the Russians follow up Skempo
successfully and continue the forward movement now in pm
gross, they will gain an unbroken front dangerously near the
'German frontier.
ANTICIPATED GERMAN ATTACK
BAS FAILED TO MATERIALIZE
LONDON, Jan- 22- With the heavy reinforcements being
■ rushed to the front by the Germans, it has been anticipated by
the allies that a concentrated attack upon some strategic point
would be made by the Germans. So far this attack has not
materialized.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIER APPEALS
TO PEOPLE TO ENLIST IN ARMY
MELBOL'RNE, Australia, Jan. 22—The Premier today
made a stirring appeal to the people for more recruits for the
army to tight against the Germans, lie said that every avail
able man is needed at the front to save the empire.
TERRIFIC HAND ID HAND EIGHT
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PARIS, Jan. 22—An official bulletin issued by the war office
today states that the fight ing in Alsace is proceeding with great
ferocity. In the vicinity of Hartmann and Weilerkopf the
infantry is engaged in hand-to-lmnd fighting, with heavy losses
on both sides.
LOCAL JOTTINGS.
L. W. Rogge was an arrival from
the states on the Alameda, and will
leave tomorrow on the train, enroute
to Fairbanks.
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Mrs. Z. J. Edwards, of Fairbanks,
arrived on the Alameda yesterday, and
will leave on the next train for the in
terior.
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MEMBERS CORDOVA
CHAPTER O. E. F.
The members of Cordova Chapter
Order Eastern Star are requested to
meet at Masonic llall at 2 o'clock Sat
urday afternoon to accompany the
Masons to the wharf with the body of
Brother A. N. Hayes.
O. C. MEYER, Secy.
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IF SEIZED ILF
MAKE TEST
CASE
GAVIiVESTON, Texas, Jan. 22
Clearance papers were Issued today
for the steamship Dacia, loaded with
cotton destined for Rotterdam and
thence to Germany. She will prob
ably sail tonight, and if seized by the
allies will make a test case of the
seizure. Great Britain has declared
cotton not to be coniraband of war,
but still continues to detain vessels
loaded with that staple consigned to
Germany.
Although discharged from custody
at the preliminary hearing In Cordova
on the charge of obtaining money un
der false pretenses, C.eorge Hazzard,
who was brought back here from Ju
neau, will have to face a similar charge
at Seward instead of going back to
Juneau.
last evening Deputy Marshal Sam
Brightwell received a telegraphic
warrant from Seward charging Haz
zard with obtaining money under
false pretenses at that place. The ac
cused was taken into custody and
Marshal Brightwell left on the Ala
meda last evening for Seward with his
prisoner.
It is also rumored that Mr. Hazzard,
being given a hearing at Seward, may
have an opportunity to explain some
transactions of a financial nature
which occurred In Valdez.
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TO RAISE ARMY
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22—The Sen
ate bill to maintain a mobile army at
a maximum strength, and to increase
the number of officers by one thousand
'was favorably reported by the commit
tee today.
AMERICAN SHIP
TAKES FOOD
NEW YORK, Jan. 22—The Ameri
can steamer Wilhelmina cleared from
this port today for Hamburg with a
cargo of foodstuffs. The supplies are
shipped by an American concern and
are consigned to American citizens in
Germany. The shippers assert that
the food is for civilians only. There
is considerable interest manifested by
shipping men as to whether or not
Great Britain will allow the vessel to
proceed in case she is overhauled by a
British warship.
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Mrs. T. W. Cloninger was »a ar
rival from Chltina this afternoon for
it short visit in town.
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Robbers Infest China
CANTON, Jan. 22—More than 5,000 j
robbers are said to be at work in the j
Fa lln district of Canton province.
Fa Un, the principal city of the dis
trict, is surrounded by a band of a
thousand who demand payment of be
tween flffteen and twenty thousand
dollars, Mexican.
Achapel of the Berlin Missionary
Society in I.uk Huang, about ten miles
away from Fa Un city, has received
a threatening letter demanding $5,000
Mexican.
A large valley on the other side of
the city has been assessed by the rob
bers $45,000, Mexican, about $1 per
capita.
Hast month a Christian preacher
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was captured and not released till his
family bad succeeeded in raising the
sum of $200, a large sum for a poor
Chinese family.
In another section of the troubled
district the soldiers levy a tribute of
a certain number of catties of rice per
Chinese mou, or acre and the robbers
likewise levy tribute. It is reported
that the district magistrate has com
mitted suicide through mortification
at his inability to cope with the situ
ation.
A chapel of the New Zealand Pres
byterian Mission in Lung Choung Hln,
not far from the line of the Canton
Hankow railway, was literally cleaned
nit recently by the robbers. This was
the second time within six months
The usual kidnapping of girls is go->
ing on also.
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ADMIRAL EVANS DUE
HERE IN THE MORNING
The steamer Admiral E .ms is due
to arrive here early tomorrow morning
and will sail a short time after for
Seattle und way ports.
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Miss Kate J. Hansen, of Tac
was an arrival on the Alameda ye
day, enroute to Chitina.
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Bargains in Men's Undent ca
S BLUM & UO’s.