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V< "•1N,K IL NrMBEB r,6S. CORDOVA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1916. "
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, SUBMARINE BREMEN NOW GIVEN UP AS LOST
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Th“ Interstate Commerce Oommls
s|‘on. wliieh will make an investigation
"I transportation rates in Alaska,
which is being done upon (he request
ol liclegale Wickersham, as stated by
him at his meeting last night, has
finally decided to visit the territory j
next month. The local Chamber of
Commerce today received the follow
ing telegram from Secretary Me-i
guintv at Washington:
“('an you reserve room in which to
hear Ua.ska investigation set for No
vember 11 at Cordova."
To lhe above wire the Chamber re-J
plied that a room would he in readi
ness for the hearings as required. j
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NATIONAL GAME
or POLITICS IS
LOriSYlLLK. Oct. IP. — Theodore
Roosevelt spoke at fourteen eastern
towns yesterday and to a big crowd
in this city last night.
XKW YORK. Oct. IP. — Tlic rail
road men at the Grand Central sta
tion insisted upon a speech from Pre
sident Wilson yesterday and he thank
ed them briefly.
XKW YORK. Oct. IP. - Democratic
National Chairman McCormick told
Woodrow Wilson that the west was
afire with Wilson sentiment.
XKW YORK, Oct IP - Much inter
est is centering on the presidential
election in this state, which the Re
publicans are confident of carrying
for Hughes.
CHICAGO, Oct. ip. President Wil
son arrived here before noon and was
the guest of the Press Club at lunch
eon. After addressing a non-partisan
woman's league, he went to the union
stockyards and spoke before the new
citizens of the Allegiance League.
GRAND R MMDS, Oct. 19. —Hughes
midp ml nos tings at May City, Sagi
naw and Flint today. He will speak
at Youngstown. Ohio, tonight.
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SHALL HELP
CHOP
OMAHA. Oct 19. — A blizzard, ac
companied with snow, today over
spread South Dakota, Nebraska and
■western Iowa, from which the wheat
crop has been greatly benefitted.
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FLOUR AGAIN ADVANCES;
NOW $9.50 A BARREL.
CHICAGO, Oct. 19. — Flour has ad
vanced to $9.50 per barrel and local
bakers threaten another Increase in
the price of bread.
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MILK GOES UP.
SEATTLE, Oct. 19. — The price of
milk has been increased to twelve
cents a iptart In this city.
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SCHOFIELD HERE TOMORROW.
George D Schofield, Republican cun
didate for attorney general, wired to
day to Dr. Chase front Copper Center
that ho would be here Friday after
noon, and If possible will address the
NEW YORK, Oct. 19.—The Cunard liner Alaunia, of thir
teen thousand tons, was sunk in the English Channel, between
Falmouth and London, by a mine. She sailed from New York
on October 7, with a hundred and eighty-five cabin and fifty
eight steerage passengers, as well as crew of two hundred and
fifty. There were a few Americans aboard, mostly passengers,
and they were probably landed at Falmouth. All of the pas
sengers and a majority of the crew were saved. The Alaunia
carried a cargo of eleven thousand tons, including war supplies,
and the entire cargo was lost.
W ASHING I < >N, Oof. 19.—The loss of fhe German subma
Hne ni(*ichiiiif m;in Bremen is virtually conceded by tin* ranking
Herm;m diplomats familiar with the movements of fhe vessel.
The Bremen is now a month overdue.
LONDON", Oct. If).—German officials here and in the
I nited States are without knowledge of the Bremen and be
'■eve sin* was lost and not captured.
I .< >N DON, ()ct. 19.—The French troops have penetrated the
hostile trenches west ot \ ardor river, in the center of Mucednn
ian D'ont, to a depth of a quarter of a mile, indicating that the
;i!Ii<*s offensive in force is being extended. Tin* line of advance
lime lies along the railroad toward Uskup. The unsettled con
litions hi Greece have probably delayed the allied offensive on
tia* Macedonian front. The French continue pressing toward
_ i .«b* d & #1... £ lift
I ’h I KOG R AI), Oct. 19.—Fierce fighting continues at
>vinusky and \ olhynia, all of tin* German attacks thus far hav
ing been repulsed.
IN (’ll A REST, Oct. 19.—Tin* Roumanians are pushing
hack fhe Teutons on the Transylvania border at 1’raedel. The
lentous were driven beyond the border and the Roumanians
inns forced the Teutons to retire and took six humli,pi i mm i
and twelve cannon. The Roumanian dctachin. n! attacking
from Gorcasa, in the Trotus region, surprised the 1". atm, ,ip
three hundred prisoners were captured.
MERLIN, Oct. 19.—It is officially announced that after
desperate fighting yesterday along L.snis and .Mma.d i'cmt
the German positions were held or recaptured alter beiim lost.
The German troops took tlu> offensive in Yoliiynia and captured
Russian trenches west of the hank of Ktokhod. Tim Pas -ij„ at
tacks near Ruhnon were repulsed with h.-avv los-e-.
LONDON, t)ct. 10.—rI he British and <1.■iniau nidi i he
lieve the war will last another year. The Germans ar< t .• th
ing every western village a fortress and .\ er\ vnll\ m Icrat r
a machine gun post. The Germans are apparent I mi. nti.it
ing every gun and man against Roumania, Impin ■ t ■ i w . h
the great allied offensive begins next spring tin '| . mu- will
not he obliged to defend the immense length .if the I’., mi nian
frontier.
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PARIS, Oct. 19.—The Serbians have eaptu’ .l the \ , la n
of Brod, on the western . it I of the .Macedonian li nt. The
French took the whole village of Sailly SaiUis. l and < i<j t
against fierce counter attacks. They also ma<h tint m pro
gress between Biaches and Lamaisonctte.
ATHENS. Oct. 19.—The French marines, fearim racks
from the anti-allvists, liav(> abandoned the mutii.-i, ;h theatre
and are encamped in the gardens near the pala. . . Tl e situa
tion is intense and martial law has been declared.
WASHINGTON, (let. 19. Assistant S. ret: > ta<.
Polk says the last memorandum defining the -if.. , <; th«
sinking of the steamship Lusitania are unaeeept.-<I. lie -,i\s
that lie will not publish the reports, as they would h. circulat 'd
for partisan purposes.
Last night Delegate Janies Wicker
sham spoke at Empress Theatre be
fore the largest crowd that has at
tended any political meeting during
the campaign, and that he gave a good
account of his stewardship as the peo
ple's representative at Washington
there is no doubt. The meeting was
attended by many ladies and all agree
that the delegate made a most favor
able impression and one that will re
sult in increasing his majority In Tor-,
dova at the election next month.
The meeting was called to order at
S o'clock by Mayor H. A. Slater, who
introduced the speaker, and for two
hours the latter held the attention of
his auditors, devoting most or his time
in giving a detailed and Interesting
account of his work at the national
capital, lie referred to the bills he
bad introduced and the legislation he
attempted to secure for Alaska.
"You have a right to know what
your delegate in congress has been
doing," he said, "and I am here to
give an account to you of my steward
ship."
He said that the state of Nevada,
with two senators and one congress
man, had about the same population
as Alaska, but no coast line, and was
not to be compared with Alaska's re
sources and potential wealth, and
pointed out that merchandise import
ed to Alaska had reached the value
of $321,000,000; that Alaska had paid
into the United States treasury the
sum of $170,000,000; that the fish and
fur industry had produced $326,000,
000; that there had been taken from
the mines of Alaska the sum of $333,
000,000, and that after adding this sum
to all money spent by the federal gov
ernment in Alaska there was still a
balance to the credit of the territory
of $9,700,000.
Heading from his platform of 1908
the delegate called attention to the
fact that in that document he pledged
himself to work for a government rail
road, and for territorial government.
"I introduced that bill which pro
vides the present system of territorial
government,” said Wlckersham. “This
is conceded even by my enemies, now
that defects are beginning to show In
the system evolved, and I am being
blamed. That la the way it is with
some of my enemies. They deny that
I have worked for the good measures,
but when they find anything wrong
they blame me.
"Just now I am being accused of not
getting the railroad bill passed. Wait
till about ten years from now when
they find things about the railroad
that do not work out well In practice
and they will blame me with it all.
"The government railroad bill was
not a party measure. It was passed
by both Republican and Democratic
votes. There Is no politics in the rail
road now, and there ought never to
be.”
The delegate then went Into the
history the railroad, showing that
President Taft appointed the first
commission shortly after he signed
the territorial government hill lie
read letters showing that he, at the
request of others, drew the eighteenth
section of the act, providing for the
appointment of the railroad commis
sion named by Taft, which included
Morrow, Cox, Tfrooks and Ingersoll.
This committee reported favorably to
Taft, and in his message of February
6, 1913. he urged congress to take im
mediate action.
The delegate took up the question
of the "full form of territorial" gov
ernment and said there were now 26
governments in Alaska besides the
Alaska legislative government. He
said the twenty-six other governments
were controlled by bureaus tit Wash
ington, and that they overlapped and
Interlocked and were mtenselv jen
lous of their prerogatives and tended
to choke and smother development in
Alaska.
He said that of all these govern
ments the bureau of fisheries had
given him the most trouble, stating
it purposed to monopo]i.. itie f, -herie
end that there was ;,lwnv a ]->||. in
Washington tor tin ii>li»-ri* and
from other source--, i , tli -i the
honey from Alaska
The speaker luicl ,v. htsterv
of the \le\nnder fish hill, which he
declared had been reported fa\ 11 1
and if passed would take out oi tie
hands of the territory the right to
regulate, control or t.iv tie ishite- in
terests at least for another fifty year
lie said that a corporation could lo
cate as many fish t: - - - a res
eat h as it desired and I; dd (hem in
perpetuity against all e. > li
characterized the hill a- a si al. pure
and simple, and declared that that w ■
the kind of h'gislation which .1 nemo
oratlc niiminlstration was tryin 1: to
foist on Alaska.
The delegate read ren a 1 show
that ht; liatl paid the .0 am at print- 1
er $lXf> for printing his speerhe - and j
he said he had tint avail) d himself of I
the franking privileges, Imt paid the
postage. He stated that lie h: d read
tsith Hit* Republican and I'emocratlc
territorial platform- and t; voted the
Republican as Pest lie n . ,1 Ids
candidacy by petition and -tat- I that
he was not pledged to any m n or set
of men, and if elected would continue1
to represent the people oi Aliska to
j ».he best of his ability.
NEW TREATMENT
MANILA, Oct. 19. — An experiment
In criminology has been gradually at
taining a brilliant success in the Phil
ippines. It is the Iwahig colony, to
which long term prisoners are sent
from Ililibid, the central Insular pri
son, as a reward for good conduct.
At Iwahig, under proper supervision
and guard, the prisoners manage their
own community, and except for the
necessity of not straying from their
homes, they are free men. The fami
lies are allowed to Join them and life
is made far pleasanter than It was In
prison. Many of them "graduate”
from Iwahlg Into positions of proini
nesB for the bearings as requested
communities which they call home.
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STEAMER ALASKA TO GO
TO ATLANTIC COAST.
The steamship Alaska, of the Alas
ka Steamship Company, has gone Into
drydock at Seattle to undergo alter
ation and repairs to be In readiness
for the inter-ocean traffic via the Pa
nama canal, which will be Instituted
about November 12. The Alaska will
make the initial trip to Philadelphia,
which is to be the Atlantic terminus
of the run, and return, the schedule
calling for one trip per month. If
conditions warrant this service will
probably be enlarged and other steam
ers added to the run.
HOLLAND PLANS
TO ANNEX
THE HAGUE. Netherlands, Oct, 19
.—Peaceable, unaggresslve Holland.
haB caught the annexation fever. It
proposes to annex a twelfth province
from Its old enemy the sea.
It proposes to entrust Its clever
array of hydrographic engineers with
the task of bridling the waters of the
Zuyder Zee, snatching 529,575 acres
of agricultural land from its embrace,
and converting the remaining 362,000
acres into a freshwater lake. For the
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present, the scheme just embodied in
a government hill is re tri t< <1 in die
reclamation of some i::::,n:.n seres, and
Is estiniutcd to cost a total sum of
*14,000,(1110, whereas lie . Uintaie for
the complete reclamation '■. heme is
$88,800,000 It is computed that oven
the restricted scheme till require til
teen years
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SFATTI.K, Oct. is — The steamer
Admiral Farragut sailed for so >h
western Alaska last night. Her only
passenger for Cordova was I II Her
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I)r. M F Hall, who was convicted
at Fairbanks of having mistreated a
little girl, hus had the ease reversed
by the appellate court. The court
held that the evidence was wholly un
reliable and insufficient
Be a Dally Times reader.
SEATTLE, Oet. IT. — The Alaska
Steamship Company i« reported to be
negotiating a counter merger to off
“t tin- merger of the Pacific Alaska
Navigation Company and the Pacific
'* t Steamship Company, engineered
i \ President Mexander of the Pacific
\la>ka ( ompany. and which makes
Mi*1 combination one of the strongest
* !l the Pacific coast. President Bax
ter, of the Alaska Steamship Com
!*an\. has just returned from a trip
tn Portland, am' while he refuses
t<» talk on the subject, it is stated that
during ids visit to that city he ne
gotiated lor the purchase or long-time
01 the steamers great Northern
1 ml Northern Pacific, owned by the
(»i eat Northern Steamship Company,
ami it is generally believed in steam
up cin l**s that the deal was practl
111 >* completed. The (Ireat Northern
ami Northern Pacific are sister ships
ol about 8.25u tons. They are 509.5
icet in length, f,1 feet beam and 21
• t depth of hold. They were built
in Philadelphia in 1914 at a cost of
ahme two million dollars each, and
an- among the* finest vessels on the
I *ac :: ic coast.
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LOCAL CASES IN
THE DISTRICT
Attorney K. K. Medley, attorney for
lie Canoe Puss Packing Company, in
d'cied lur illegal fishing, appeared for
I hi' act used and pleaded not guilty,
ilc also asked lor a continuance of the
i use over lhe term.
Attorney Ik F. Kitchle, representing
(leorge iilouen, indicted on the
charge of selling booze at Chitina
without a license, announced that his
client wtis present in court and de
manded an immediate trial The court
said that he did not see how the case
could lie tried while District Attorney
Spent e was under the weather. Mr.
Jntchic saitl he understood that Mr.
Dennett was an assistant district at
torney, anti that there was another
assistant on the way to Anchorage,
lie thought there should be some pro
vision for trying nten who were ready
and anxious to he tried for alleged
crime. The court stated that the case
would he set for Thursday, and he
could not push it along any faster.
This cast* was up yesterday and Mr.
Kilt hie registered a protest when he
found tin* ease could not be tried. He
stated that his client hud been wait
inu around on bond five weeks at his
own expense for the privilege of con j
testing the charge, and he thoughtj
a further delay was a violation of an j
accused person's constitutional right j
to a speedy trial.
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RESTORATION TO ENTRY OF
MATANUSKA VALLEY LANDS.
On September 20, l&lri, President!
Wilson, on the recommendation of j
i tary Lane, restored to entry all j
lamia included w ithin Alaska Townsite j
Withdrawal No t. In sections 22. 23, j
2ti and 27. T. 17 N., K. 1 W., Seward,
meridian. This land was withdrawn,
at a time when it was thought that
it would be needed for railroad and j
townsite purposes. The line of the
railroad has now been definitely lo j
rated, and it is found that there is
no need for the land It Is located tn
the Matanuska valley, about one-half
mile from the main line of the rail
road and within two miles of the new j
town of Wassilla. on the Hulk-Willow
creek wagon road, and moat of It has
agricultural possibilities.
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W. C. Edes, chairman or the Alaskan
engineering commission, recently re
turned from Anchorage and reports
excellent progress on the construction
ofg the railroad
Fifty-nine miles of track have been
laid from Anchorage. With the 71
miles of the old Alaska Northern rail
way that is now in operation to Kern
creek, there have been completed 1 it)
miles of the ;7o that will connect Sew
ard and Fairbanks The track so far
laid from Anchorage consists of six
miles south toward Seward; thirty
eight miles of main line northward to
Fairbanks, and fifteen miles on the
Matanuska branch into the Matanuska
coal fields.
The right of way has been cleared
from I’otter creek on Turnagain Arm
to Kings river in the Matanuska coal
field, a distance of seventy seven miles
and on the main line from Matanuska
to the Kittle Susitna river. Rail will
be laid this fall as far as Kings river
on the Matanuska branch a distance
of sixty-two miles from Anchorage,
and to Wassilla on the main line, ap
oroxlmateiv fifteen miles from Mata
nuska. On the main line in the Susit
na valley, between Montana creek and
Indian river, a distance of fifty five
miles, the right of way is 70 per cent
cleared, and a number of grading con
tracts have been let. Grading of the
right of way will proceed in this sec
lion from Talkeetna to Willow creek,
and north to Broad Pass At Willow
creek it will connect with the work
under the Matanuska district, and at
Broad Pass with the work from the
Nenana division
Kail will be laid in the near future
as far as Potter creek, which Is fif
teen miles southeast of Anchorage on
Turnagain Arm, and from which point
the rink work on Turnagain Arm will
be attacked during the winter.
For the week ending September 9.
15,568 men were employed on the \n
chorage division, which includes com
mission employees, stationmen and la
borers, the August payroll being
$768,330.
The work at Anchorage is under the
immediate supervision of Lieutenant
Frederick Mears, one of the members
of the Alaskan engineering commis
sion, and is divided into four separate
districts, all of which report to the
head office at Anchorage. These are
the terminal district at Anchorage,
which has charge of the construction
and maintenance of ail terminal facili
ties, such as machine shops, round
houses, water supply, material yards,
electric light and telephone, construc
tion of quarters for employees, office
buildings and the ballasting and main
tenance of the right of way of the
constructed line as well as the opera
lion o( the trains; the Matanuska dis
triet, wlta headquarters at Matanuska
Junction, has charge of the construc
tion of the line front Matanuska to
Chickuloon on the Matanuska branch,
and from Matanuska Junction to Wil
low creek on the main line; the Turn
again Ann district has charge cf the
construction front Anchorage south to
Kern creek, the north terminus of the
Alaska Northern railway, with head
quarters at Anchorage, and the Tal
keetna district, with headquarters at
Talkeetns. has charge of the construe
tlon of the main line from Willow
creek to Broad Pass.
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A couple of Eagle river prospectors
who bad a can of luminous paint in
their outfit, caught a porcupine and
painted his quills. It is stated that
every native in the district who
caught sight of the animal at night
has stampeded the district.
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An unusual volume of mining is re
ported to have been in progress in
the Port Clarence district above
Nome, this season, and a majority of
the miners have done well.