The Cordova Daily Times
V( M'rMK 1T- M’MBER 529. CORDOVA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AVGUST 31, 1916. ~ PRICF TFX < FXTS
EREECELIKELYTO
DECLARE WAR
1 ON TEUTONS
NTIIKN'S, Aug :u. The diplomat
ic situation is such that it is likely to i
compel (ireece to aiiattdon '.ter neutral- j
tty within the next forty-eight hours, t
The king will receive the allied min ) ;
islet-s tomorrow after which confer- 1 i
once is expected to declare war against | \
the Teutons. In anticipation of this!
move all staff officers have been re- j
called from their leave of absence.
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IXIHAXAPOI.IS, Aug. 31. — {'has. \
NY. Fairbanks was today formally no-1 {
tilicil of ids nomination as vice-presi
dent b\ tiie republican convention.
Senator Sherman delivered the ad
dr. >s. which was responded to by Fair
banks.
Tiie second payment on the lots at j t
Anchorage is now due, and some con- j a
fn-ion is expected to arise from the v
fact Hint the land office will recognize ! o
only the original purchasers, having ( o
no it il knowledge of transactions car | f.
tied out since the first payment 1 n
DENIES ATTACH
STEAMER WAS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31. — Ger
lany lias sent a note to the slate de
nrtnient in which she disavows any
infriendly intention in the subniarini
ttack on the American steanie
)wego several weeks ago. The Owegc
fas fired on hut escaped uninjured.
HOPPER PROFITS
TO SE AGAIN
NEW yOHK, Aug. 31, — Extra divi
ends for five copper companies ar<
nnouneed. They include tlie Utah
tutte-Surprise, Nevada Consolidated
hino and Law Consolidated.
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NIVERSITY PROCESSOR
HONORED BY SCIENTISTS
SEATTLE, Aug. 31. — Prof. T. C
rye, head of the department of Isil
ny of the University of Washington
as selected as one of the members
f the executive committee of the Pa
Ific division of the American Society
>r the Advancement of Science, at a
leetiiij, just ended in San Diego, Cal
Roumanians Drive Austrians Back
ATHENS, Aug. 31.—Fighting is very general along the en- BERLIN, Aug. 31.—It is officially announced that the
tire Macedonian front. The Bulgarians lost 15,000 men in a Roumanians have penetrated well into the Interior of Transyl
fierce battle with the Serbian troops on the allies’ left flank, vania, while the Austrians fell back west of Osik and Ozereda
The Bulgarians attacked the Serbians in close formation, after for fifty miles northeast of Kronstadt
the German style, and rapid developments followed. _
~ ~~~ PARIS, Aug. 31.—The Roumanian troops continue to ad
BERNE, Aug. 31.—General Mackensen has been appointed vance and now occupy the Bulgarian city of Rustchuk on the
commander of all Balkan armies of the Germanic league. Danube river.
HOW RUSSIANS MOW DOWN AUSTRIANS
VIENNA, Aug. 31.—The Russian offensive against the.
Autsor-Hungarian troops, is being conducted, according to Aus
trian officers returned from the front, with tactics that hardly
have a precedent in the history of the wars of the world.
These tactics are, briefly, to annihilate the Austrians by
forcing the Russian soldiers to advance in their own artillery
fire, drawing the Austrians from their bomb and shell proof
shelters into hand to hand combat, and then mowing down both
Austrians and Russians by a withering drumfire. Great Rus
sian losses, it is claimed, are due to this method of warfare.
The Russian method of attack in the Bukowina and Volhy
nia, the Austrians says, consists of artillery preparation lasting
from 24 to 48 hours. Then come the first Russian infantry
troops, from six to fourteen rows, driven forward by Russian
nachine guns and by Cossacks armed with the dreaded “Naga
kas,’’ or lead-tipped whip.
As they advance the Russian artillery fire abates some
what, but between it and the Austrian fire from 40 to 50 per
cent of the first troops sometimes reach the trenches. Their
arrival naturally forces the Austrians to abandon their shelters,
and as soon as they do so the Russian drumfire begins again, j
In both the Bukowina and the Volhynia offensive it is es
timated that the Russians use up about two million shells every
24 hours — shells of Russian, Jaoanese and American make, and
thrown from every calibre of gun, including naval pieces appar
ently dismounted from warships.
BIG RAILROAD STRIKE IS CALLED OFF
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.—The brotherhoods late this af
ternoon decided to accept the eight hour bill as a basis for call
ing off the railroad strike. The bill has been introduced in the
house, where it immediately will be passed, and the senate
will act on it tomorrow.
TO BUILD FOUR
FINE LINERS
SKATTI.K. Aug. A,I The Alaska
Iteamship Company his announced
hat it will build three large passen
;er liners here, which w ill have more
peed and comfort than any vessels
if their present fleet. The new boats
'ill he operated on the Alaska run
luring the summer and to Philadel
ihia through the Panama canal in the
'inter
A new steamer "ill he built to re
dace the ltora. which is on the run
rom Seward to the westward. The
■ompanv will also bin four freighters
or the Alaska business, to cost
ton,000 The Jefferson and lad
thin will he used in the ca niter > trade
sxclusively.
SKATT1.K. Aug I, The Wash
Ington state militia re intent which
went to Calexico last month, h is been
ardered home, together with Hunter
aus other regiments and there is a
feeling that they are to lie sent to the
Mexican border
WILL PASS 8 HOUR LAW
\Y\SlllN(iTON, Aug. 31. — Presi
dent \\ ilson wont to tho capitol at II
o'rioot. this morning, and summoned
the administration leaders for a con
i r m i regarding special legislation
to imer the present strike situation.
(Till ACO. Aug. 31. — The manag
bf ers m the railroads are expecting a
general trike on Monday next. They
do not share the optimism prevailing
at Vi'ai hington that the eight hour hill
will result in a settlement of the dif
ferent.- The freight embargo has
began, and the railroads have warned
all passengers that they should end
their journeys before seven o'clock on
Monday morning or expect an indefi
nite delay. Strike breakers "111 be
hired hy a central agency and given
lo the roads as (hey are needed. The
roads will work comparatively 36,000
shopnient on the twenty railroads west
of Chicago on the eight hour day and
give them five cents an hour increase
in wages.
WASHINGTON, Aitg. 31. Presi
dent Wilson’s face beamed with a
broad smile when he left the confer
ence tie held with congressional lead
ers. He said tie had just been keep
ing in touch with things to see that
they kept moving, and they were mov
ing.
Chairman Adamson, of the house In
terstate Commerce Commission com
mittee, said:
“We will pass an eight hour day
bill tomorrow. Ineluding provision for
an investigation of the effect of the
eight hour day on railroads." The
senate plans to pass the lull Satur
day.”
President Lee, of the Trainmen's
Brotherhood, said the passage of the
lilll would be sufficient justification
for calling oil the strike, but declared
that it must lie passed before Satur
day night, however.
WASHINGTON', Aug. 31. — Four
brotherhood chiefs again conferred
with President Wilson at the White
House today, but they did not gain
any assurances in regard to a settle
ment of the strike.
ENGLAND BUILDING BIG FLEET
LONDON, Aug. 31. — There is
certain small section of British watei
front whore more ships are under cor
struction today than the entire sliii
building facilities of ativ other natio
could undertake at one point. The*
Include every t\pe of craft from suf
marines to battleships, and front steai
trawlers to Atlantic liners. Most go\
ernments lay down their battleship
and cruisers singly, and the lesse
eraft perhaps in pairs, but here bai
tleships loom up as twins, light cruh
^ ers by the half dozen, destroyers i
rows of ten, with many braces of Ion
submarines, and an occasional tnon
tor.
The war fleet under the hamme
and the paint brush here would ran
In the naval list above the estahllsl
ments of several modest maritlm
powers. It could demolish the tw
to- squadrons which fought the battle c
Maptla hay with one volley, and the
steam against the combined America
and Spanish fleets of Santiago, wit
confidence. And the merchant ship
In the stocks are as many as the Un
ted States mercantile marine has ac
dod to its register in several years.
"We have trained crews ready t
step on hoard all these ships as soo
as they are fitted," a naval officer r<
marked.
The general stage setting for thi
swift review of the fighting and trac
ing vessels under construction cot
sisted of several miles of waterfron
lines as thickly as could he crowds
with skeletons and hulls. The stock
carried everything of the final type
untit next year, or next week, fo
every naval campaign meana ne*
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a | ideas, new devices, new lines of con
struction. Two years of active ser
- j vice under war conditions have
i- brought a great advance to the Brit
i | ish navy, already acknowledged to lie
a leader in most naval matters. Every
| ship, and every detail of a ship, is the
i ; Iasi word in its class, according to the
- | war-bought judgment of engineers and
i fighting officers. In one noticeable
r details at least British naval arelii
j tects appear to have been converted
-I to ihe principle of one feature of Am
i j erlcan warships.
; The monitors make an appeal to an
American because there is a suspicion
that other navies were disposed to
r scoff at them for years. Yet here
< they are, with all their superficial
- changes and embellishments a tribute
a to what the brain of .lohn Ericsson
) conceived in the sixties. The monitors
f have been very useful to the British
1 navy In this war. They have been
i employed in the shallow waters off
a the coast of Belgium, and even more
s effectively at Gallipoli. The corres
pondents there described them fullv.
,Two or three strata of the outlying
hull may be penetrated by torpedoes.
a and the monitor can still keep at work
a with her guns.
i- Two battleships, almost prepared for
Ihe water, according to information
s rendered, are expected to demonstrate
• themselves the most efficient ma
- chines of their family ever commls
t sioned, and they look it. The battle
1 ship standing in the Umbers on land
3 with all its lines revealed, showing its
adaptability for speed, presents a dif
r ferent picture from the fighting ship
i seen above water and bas a eugges
lion of a rac ing yacht. These had been
constructed in something like half the
time consumed in making a big war
ship in pre-war days. There evert sev
^ oral so-called destroyers c ertainly us
J long ns many light c ruisers of earlier
j times, ten of them extended side by
: side in one row. and others elsewhere.
Just where the super-destroyer
| leaves off and the light cruiser begins
| is not it matter of length today. Be
| yond the destroyers was a line of long
thin skeletons of submarines, whose
size could not he judged at all ac
curately in a passing view, even if it
could he reported. Compared with
the now old fashioned submarines
they are as the Aquitania to the Phila
delphia.
Floating alongside a dock was a
brand new submarine, painted and pol
ished like a touring cur fresh from
the shop. Her young commander
stood alongside and proudly pointed
out some of her attractions. From his
transparent enthusiasm she might
have been a pleasure yac ht Instead of
the vehicle for the most dangerous
form of adventure that fighting men
undertake. "Of course we are not
in the same class w ith Horton and Hol
brook," he explained, “hut I hope you
will hear something from X Seven
teen," pointing to the number painted
on the turret. He observed also that
this thing could submerge in twenty
seconds.
From this largest ship building sta
tion in the world, with Its miles of
smoking factories, and with Us rever
berating clangor of thoqpands of ham
mers ringing upon steel, the party
travelled over night to the most ex
SEATTLE, Aug. 31. - A. ]•' Haims
lias been appointed general manage
of the Pacific Alaska Navigation Con
panv, with headquarters in this city
I!. .1. Kingwood was elected vice-pre
sident of the Admiral line.
SEATTLE, Aug. ill. Louisa Itore.i
Denny died at her home in tills city
last night. She is the last udult sur
vivor of the expedition that found Sc
attle. Deceased was eighty eight
years of age.
GUIDE DIES 91
DAWSON, Aug. 31. — "Skookum
Jim" Mason, the Indian who aeeompan
fed Carmack as a guide when he made
the first gold discovery in the Klon
dike, in August. 185M>, died at Careross
yesterday.
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Last week while the steamer Clean
er was at the wharf at Tagish, one of
the lady tourists, while walking the
deck with her eyes raised toward Ihe
towering snow capped peaks surround
ing the lake, accidentally stepped over
board. She was a woman well along
in life, and of plentitudlnous propor
tions, and had gone down for the
second time whep rescued.
tensive naval base in the world. This
was a place w here ships run in for re
pairs, for oil, which is almost the only
fuel these days, for ammunition, und
for stores. Here they are replen
ished, refitted, repainted frequently,
and then disappear into the mists ol
the North sea, of which a typical one
was encountered on the morning of
this visit
TO BUILD MORE HOMES
There is a movement on foot to or
ganize a building association In for- ^
dm a. as the need of residences to ac
commodate the numerous families
now locating here is apparent to all.
Iti fact the demand for homes is so
great that a number of business pen- ,
pie have already signified their wil
lingness to join such an association,
as it appears that no one person is in
it position to furnish enough capital
to finance the proposition. A meeting
has been called for the Chamber of
1 Commerce rooms tonight at s o'clock
and it is desired that all who are in
lor, Mod in the upbuilding of the town
be present, in order that the matter
may take some definite shape.
It is the intention to organize what
will be known as the Cordova Build
ing Association, with a president, se*
retary and treasurer and a governing
board of ni least, five responsible men,
to tie elected by the members. The
business of the association will be the
erictioti of residences suitable tor tin
accommodation oi the average Cor
dova family , the same to be sold on
the monthly installment plan or rent
ed for a term of years with the privi
lege of purchase All buildings erected
shall be passed upon and approved
by lh»* board of governors,
II is not believed it will he neces
sary lo at once pay in the entire am
ount of subscriptions, but that a per
centage sufficient to cover the cost of
the erection of the first house or
houses would he all that \ • i!.i he re
quired. leaving the remainder to he
‘ all* d for as needed the* e tab
liahrnent of homes in a town depends
the welt are of the bu ine : • men and
for tl» 11 reason it i of vital import
:tnee to them to attend tonight s m* * f
tng. when the detail- of -ueh an i ^o
elation proposed will he discussed,
with a view to making it a permanent
organization.
Proposals are asked for the per
formance of emergent > start rout** ser
vine I nun Seward !•> Vn horage. one
round trip per week, tor the period
from the dose of navigation at An
< horage in Pal*. t.» the opening of navi
Ration at \m horage in Pal 7
STOCKING STREAMS WITH FISH
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 21 Some,
interesting statistics are furnished by
Frank M. Newltert, a member of the
California fish and game commission,
^ regarding the propagation of fish and
^ their distribution among the streams
and lakes of the state.
“Contrary to public opinion," says
Mr Newhert, “when the first white
man came to the state he found fish j
only in the ocean, the hays and the i
streajns up to the first waterfalls, and j
of comparatively few species. Since
thou the federal and state authorities
have introduced many valuable and In
tcrestitig varieties and have planted
and transplanted almost every spe
cies so that today California is one‘of
the greatest fishing regions of the
! world, the result of Intense propuga
tion and conscientious protection.
"The first planting of fish was
made in 1S71. From 1X71 to 1915 In
clusive the state has imported, propa
gated and released to the waters of
I California 7115,731,295 game and food
fishes. Shad, striped and black bass,
trout of many varieties, crappie, blue
gill, perch, suufish and the plebian
but toothsome catfish
“In 1915 the fish and game commis
sion propagated and distributed IS,
rtUO.OOO fish (30,000,000 salmon and
11,000,000 trout), enough fish to
weigh 40,00(1 tons and to fill four stun
; dard freight trains of 43 carR each,
i The total would provide each man, wo
man and child in the state with 16
I fish, in 1915 the fish and game com
mission propagated and distributed 62.
519,445 fish The people of the state
say they want 100,060,000 fish distil
butcd each year, and tlie fish and
game commission is doing its best to
get them.
"\ $60,000 ti“h hatchery is now he
ing built in Inyo country, while plans
are being made for the efficient plant
in the Feather river district and other
points in the stale. Tilt' entire cost
of rearing, distributing ami protecting
fish and game in this state is paid la
the hunter anti fisherman. Not one
cent is contributed by the taxpayer
through legislative appropriation
Santa Clara university, which, with
I,eland Stanford Junior university,
continues to play itughy football, has
made an early starl in preparation for
its annual game with its only rival
Charles Austin, former Stanford star
hack field player and now coach of
Hie Santa Claran, already has begun
work with the advance guard of the
candidates for the team. Austin, in
his playing days, was one of the fast
est hacks over developed on the roast
and the opinion is general that the
roach will insist on speed as the key
note of both his offensive and de
fense.
It bus been rumored for some time j
that Maurice Klrksey. the fastert
sprinter in northern California, and
now at Stanford, intended to leave
that place and enroll at Santa Clara,
hut it is said he has denied this. How
ever. Vustin will have an abundance
of material with which to work, the
majority of last year's players being
expected to report before the opening
of college. Among these are Schultz.
Bias', Fowler and Millmru The two
Australians. Ja< U |*ye and Arthur
Bates, will tie lost to the fifteen, as
they have joined the colors in the
great war.
Of the promisin' new material there
is Dick Berndt, the i.ow,ll l.;,b school
start of Iasi season; McKecknee, of
Berkeley hicli school How el-. ,,f the
Oakland high school, and Tral. who
played a star game while al (he i'.tlo
Alto high school
Austin is expected to have at least
ten veterans of last year’s team on
which to build up his mm bine.
Sfx athletes have been named to
represent the southern branch of the
Amateur Athletic t’nion ti ilie nation
al track and field championship to la
held at Newark. N .1. September S
and ft They are Fred Kelly, Karl
Thomson, Howard Brew. |‘ 1 louse,
tvter lluguard and Albert Hates Th ?v
will all compete under the colors of
• he Isis Angeles Athletic Club. Kell'
will attempt something entire!' new
to him when h'e competes in the ill
around championship lie has been
training with the view to this event in
particular, and his work in the actual
competition will attract as much. If
not more, attention ihan that of the
other men entered In the meet.
(leorge K. Baldwin, the well known
mining engineer, was a recent visitor
tn Juneau Mr. Baldwin gained na
tional fame several years ago by his
attacks on conservation at a session
of the American Mining Congress at
Chicago.