The Cordova Daily Times
VOLUME in, NUMBER 120 ~ CORDOVA, ALASKA, NOVEMBER 24, 1917. ' ~ 1MUCK~fEN CENTS
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—
Admiral Sims has cabled the
state department that an Am
erican destroyer sank another
submarine. The depth of the
bomb damaged the submarine
which sank with all aboard
after the destroyer attached a
line and attempted to tow her.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—
After the destroyer hit the sub
marine with a depth bomb the
submersible came to the sur
face and 1 lie Americans fired
on it. The submersible showed
no signs of life and sank. When
the destroyers got a line
aboard the two destroyers
, participated a battle.
MARIPOSA
(Bv Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Nov. 24.—The
salvage tug Salvor began oper
ations on the steamer Mariposa
yesterday. Captain Need, of'ihf
.Jefferson, which arrived from
the north and brought many oi
the wreck survivors. They say
a young man from Anchorage
played the piano while the wa
ter poured into the hold of the
Spokane, and cglmed the pass
engers who began to sing.
SEATTLE, Nov. 24.—The
telephone strikers are awrait
ing the report from the feder
al committee before taking i
referendum vote on the terms
reached by the committee. The
terms include recognition oi
the union and a partial wag*
increase. The union considers
the terms a victory and it is
expected the employes will be
back to work next wek.
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BUFFALO, Nov. 24—James
A. Duncan, of Seattle, in speak
ing on the restoration and
pledging the federation sup
port in organizing the North
west lumbermen said: “If the
federation didn’t organize the
men and obtain the eight
hour day for them they
would flock to the Industrial
Workers of the World.”
Rev. A. G. Shriver returned yester
§ terday from a visit to the Missions at
Chitina, McCarthy and Kennecott.*
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(By Associated Press)
VICTORIA, B. C., Nov. 24.
—The salvage company lias |
been notified that the steamer
Spokane is not in a dangerous1
position and will probably be1
floated in the next two days.
The Vancouver dredge com
pany sent gear to the wreck.
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Right F.ey. P. T. Rowe, bishop of
Alaska for the past 22 years, and a
pioneer in the Alaska work, is on his
way to Washington D. C., to secure
title for the Episcopal native mission
included in the government townsite
reservation at Nenana. v ”.*r;
Bishop Rowe established the mis
sion in 1905, and the Nenana townsite
was declared a reservation by the
government in 1910. The Native vil
lage is now adjoining the part of the
city in which the white population
lives.
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Bishop Rowe has received assur
ances from prominent people and gov
ernment officials that they will aid
him in securing title, and the protec
tion of the rights of the mission.
At the present time in Alaska there
are Episcopal missions as follows:
Among white people—Sitka, Juneau,
Douglas and vicinity, Skagway, Cor
dova, Chitina, Kennecott, Valdez, Se
ward, Anchorage, Fairbanks and
Nome. *
Among natives—Fort Yukon, Circle
City, Nenana, Anvik, Point Hope,
Chena, Allakaket, Salchaket, Tanana
Crossing, Steven’s village.
Among white people and natives—
Ketchikan, Wrangell, Tanana .and
Eagle.
The Episcopal Mission has two hos,
pitals in Alaska, one at Fort Yukon
and the other at Tanana, each costing
$20,000 and maintained practically in
the wilderness, each having a staff of
one physician and two nurses. Bishop
Rowe said these hospitals were the
only purely benevolent ones in Alas
ka, since they were maintained by
the mission, without expense to the
territory. The Bishop expressed him
self as greatly pleased with the work
or the Juneau church.—Ex.
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ENTERTAINED AT CARDS.
Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Cornelius
I. Murphy entertained at cards, “500”
being the game played. Mrs. Durand
Mosser had the highest score and
was awarded th| first prize. Mrs.
Ed. Kelter won the second prize.
Dainty refreshments were served and
all present had an enjoyable time.
The guests were Mrs. D. Monsell,
Mrs. D. H. Shoemaker, Mrs. Durand
Mosser, Mrs. Ed. Kelter Mrs. C. E.
; Winkler, Mrs. J. M. Rasor, Mrs. R. K.
I Brown and Mrs. J. E. Currier.
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ONLY ONE PLACE
To go on Saturday night—to Eagle
hall—the Rag Time Ball—You dance
the hesitation and you s^ing to Syn
copation—The time you’ll have will
be simply grand—at tonight’s big
dance by the Rag Time Band.
CORDOVA OBJECTS PROVISIONS
GENERAL LEASING LAW
At a meeting of the executive com
mittee of the Cordova Chamber of j
Commerce the following resolutions
were unanimously adopted and copies
sent to the different members of th&|
committee on Public Lands in both the .
senate and the house of representa
tives :
Whereas senate bill 2812, known
as the General Leasing Bill, was re
ported for passage by the senate com
mittee On public lands, on Sept. 8,
1917, and the same is now on the
calendar. Said bril provides for the
leasing of all coal lands belonging to
the government except the coal lands
in Alaska, probably on the theory
that there is already a coal leasing
law for Alaska. Said bill offers the
alternative right to purchase coal
lands by competitive bidding when
the lands are situate in “Any State of
the Union,” and denies by such lang
uage the right to purchase coal lands
in Alaska, and ,
Whereas by reason of the drastic
provisions of the.Alaska coal leasing
law and regulations, it has proved
wholly inoperative, two leases only
having been granted on which only
a small amount of prospecting work
is being done and no coal is being
mined, while the need for coal in Al
aska, always urgent, has proven more
so within the last year by reason of
the shortage of the fuel oil supply
from California and the high cost of
ocean transportation, and
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Whereas, for more than twenty
years the people of Alaska have been
striving for the right to mine and use
some of the vast coal deposits in the
Territory, while the general govern
ment which owns the land, has,
through its bureaus, constantly frus
trated all efforts to develop the coal
fields and has nullified no less than
live separate acts of congress, pass
ed and intended for that purpose.
it is hereby resolved that it is the
sense of the Cordova Chamber that to
grant the right to purchase coal lands
in the states and deny the same right
to Alaska would be a rank and cruel
discrimination.
We heartily commend the action of
Delegate Sulzer in striving to secure
an amendment to said bill S. 2812,
and we demand that the unfair and
unreasonable discrimination against
against Alaska be removed and the
same opportunity for development be
granted to Alaska that may be of
fered for the western states;
Whereas senate bill 2812, known as
the General Leasing Bill has been re
ported for passage by the senate com
mittee on public lands, and,
Whereas said bill proposes to of
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fer for lease the public oil lands in
Alaska, as well as other oil lands be
longing to the government, and.
Whereas more than seven years ago
^all the oil lands In Alaska were by
executive order issued without no
tice temporarily withdrawn from en
try and the development of the oil
lields of Alaska stopped, and,
Whereas a number of oil claims
had been located or claimed pre\ ious
to the said order of withdrawal and
many thousands of dollars in the ag
gregate of development work done on
them under the terms of the law then
in effect, it is therefore
Resolved that It is the sense of the
Cordova Chamber of Commerce thatj
R • iVoCh claimants should have the!
right to proceed now with develop
ment -work and complete their titles
under the terms of the law in effect
when they began work:
That we denounce the provision hi
! Section 16 of said bill which provides
that such claimants shall be required
to lease their claims and pay a roy
| alty of one-eighth of the output to the
government and declare that such a
I condition would be an act of bad faith
i and would still further deter "the
development of the oil resources of
the Territory.
V’e aiso denounce the provision re
, quiring that the discovery of oil on
such claims in Alaska should be by
I that at leaat S1000 should
I have Bt» expended upon or for each
claim as no such conditions were
ever before imposed in the United
States and are not know imposed on
! on any state or territory except Al
aska:
That we commend the reasonable
ness and justice of Section 17 of the
bill which provides that any person
who was a bona fide claimant of oil
lands open for appropriation under
i existing law and who at the date giv
en in the act was preparing to develop
such lands shall be entitled to con
tinue such work and secure patent to
the same under existing law, and de
mand that the same principle of fair
: ness be shown to Alaska. To grant
such right to claimants in Wyoming
and other states and deny it to claim
ants in Alaska is a discrimination
without justice or fairness.
That we urge upon congress and
the executive departments that the
i Alaska oil fields are almost wholly
undeveloped, that they lie in nearly
, uninhabitated areas and are remote
from transportation or facilities for
I treating, refining or marketing their
product, and that the most liberal
laws are necessary to encourage their
development.
EXTREMISTS NOT
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—
Russian Ambassador Bakli
meteff lias formally notified
the state department that the
embassy does not recognize
the authority of the. extremists
controlling Petrograd foreign
office. Three of the chief of
ficers of the embassy havexee
signed to avoid having rela
tions with a Bolsheviki. Bah
liemeteff said Bolsheviki was
not representative of the true
will of the Russian people.
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Sporting goods, cutlery, flashlights,
at The Northwestern Hardware Co.
A. McHugh, a reported
wealthy farmer of Auburn,
Y\ ash., and his twenty-five
year old son John Edwin Mc
Hugh, were convicted on the
charge of violating the selec-i
tivo service law. The govern
ment charged that when the
soon was drafted recently the!
two made false affidavits to!
prove that the father was de
pendent upon the son for sup
port.
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The Rag Time Trio Tonight.
I)ATKIT,KSS—It einforced by
divisions from other sectors on
the western front the Germans
are desperately preparing for
an advance on Camhrai,
around the fountain of Notre
Dame, less than three miles
west of Cambrai and also at
Bourbon wood nearby. There
is strenuous fighting and the
British are progressing.
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The steamer Mariposa, which was
wrecked fifty miles ^vest of Wrangell
last Sunday, was valued at $1,000,000.
althought the purchase price was
only $225,000. Her cargo consisted
of 1,200 tons of Kenecott copper ore
valued at $350,0P0; 19,000 cases of
salmon worth approximately $150,000;
65 boxes of halibut, $5,200; 40 boxes
of Chicagoft' mine concentrates, $2,
09©; grand total valuation of ?cl
j and cargo was $1,507,200.
Mariposa Historic
i The Mariposa is one of the histor
• ic ships of the Pacific Coast and
was built in Philadelphia in 1883.
She was brought to the Pacific coast
and for many years operated from
San Francisco to Honolulu and Aus
tralia under the flag of the old
Spreckles line. Later she was laid
up at Oakland for several years and
was later purchased by the Alaska
Steamship company, together with her
sister ship, the Alameda, for the
northern run.
The Mariposa was 314 feet in
length, 41 beam, 17 feet depth and
3,158 gross tonnage. She carried a
crew of 50 men and her engines de
veloped 3,500 horse power. She was
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one of the fastest boats on the north
ern run and the record run from
Seattle to Ketchikan has long been
disputed between ’the Mariposa and
Alameda.
Officers of Steamer
In addition to the ore cargo on
board the Mariposa had a large ship
ment of canned salmon which had
been taken on board at Shakan, just
a couple of hours previous to the
time she struck.
Captain Charles J. O’Brien, of the
Mariposa is one of (he older navi
gators on the Alaska run. He has
been in command c ■ :ps on this run
tof the past twenty or more years.
This is his sec' >ud accident, and the
first time he has lost a ship. About
three years or more ago the Mariposa
struck a rock at Bella Bella, B. C.,
but was saved. Captain O'Brien was
not on watch at that time.
Other officers of the ship were
Captain Joe Dodge, pilot; Ed. Mar
gan, purser; C. M. Blaine, chief clerk.
The chief engineer, first mate, chief
steward and other of the officers
were extra for this trip while the
regular force took their vacations and
their names are not known to the lo
cal agents of the Alaska Steamship
company.
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FRESH WHIPPING CREAM.
The richest and the best cream in
Alaska, absolutely fresh, can be had
for Thanksgiving dinner. Leave your
order at the Sanitary Candy Kitchen
next to Cordova House—Phone 188.^
BATTLE MS
WITH GREAT
LOSSLIFE
,/By Associated Press)
ITA LI AN HEADQUART
ERS, Nov. 24.—A battle of the
mountains is raging with unex
ampled “violence. The Italians
again hold Monte Tomba and
Monte Persiea positions, wljich
they lost last night. There are
terrific losses on both sides,
those of the Teutons exceeding
those^f the Italians.
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ALASKA
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SEATTLE, Nov. 24.—Dele
gate Chas. A. Sulzer arrived
here yesterday aboard the Jef
ferson and left today for Wash
ington. He will use the wreck
I ed Mariposa as an example in
i urging congress to provide
! more lights and buoys for Al
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1ST SELL ill
! GOVT. FIXED"
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—
Fuel administrator Garfield
I has warned the ^Michigan coal:
operators that the government
will commandeer and operate
1 the mines if they carry out
their threat of refusing to sell
coal at government fixed
prices.
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FUND IS GROWING.
As the list of names must be for
j warded on the steamer Alaska to be
j in time to enclose in the Christmas
packages for the American boys in
: France, those who desire to contri
bute must do so at once. Those en
; rolled during the past twenty-four
hours were: W. L. Funsman, H. W.
Hawes, Miss Madeline Buchanan, Ed.
Anderson, Mrs. Walbank J. B. Fer
rell. Mrs. E. L. Harwood, h! A. Slater,
Thos Strimple, Arthur VVittig, George
Kennedy, Mrs. Clayson, Miss Anita
Ames, Mrs. Z. Beyer, Mrs. Kerr. Mrs.
Helen Sutton. May Kelly, Gene King,
Peter Paul, Mrs. Helen Bell, F. M.
Ford and Miss Louise Walker.
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DEATH OF CHAS. HAND
Chief Deputy Clerk, Charles Hand,
of Valdez, died in the Red Cross hos
pital at that place on Thursday night.
He had been ill for three months and
recently underwent an operation. "Mr. ^
Hand was well and favorably known
among all the old-timers and has been
an official of the district court for
a number of years. He was about fit)
years of age and prior to coming to
Alaska was secretary to the governor
of Idaho.
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The Women's Guild will have a Good
Eats Sale at Finklestein and Sapiro’s
store Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 2S.
There will be cakes, pies, plum pud
dings, jellies and all sorts of goodies
for your Thanksgiving dinner. 3t
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