VOL. V. NO. 63 CORDOVA, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1920 PRICE TEN CENTS
INCREASED WAGES FOR RAILROADERS MEANS HIGHER LIVING COSTS
PROVISIONS FOR STAKING CLAIMS
IN ALASKA UNDER LEASING BILL
-THOUSANDS ARE READY TO FILE
SEATTLE, Feb. 13 {by Associated
*♦
Press).—A special to the Post-Intelli
gencer from Washington says that
the coal, gas and oil land-leasing bill
.just agreed upon by congress pro
vides that before application for the
lease of any particular area may be
filed the applicant must locate the
3and§ in a reasonably compact form,
and according to legal subdivisions of
the land if surveyed, and in approxi
mately square or rectangular form if
the land has not been surveyed.
The length of the area applied for
- must not exceed two and one-half
times the width. A monument not
less than four feet high must be
erected in a conspicuous place.
This monument must bear a writ
ten notice that application for a per
mit will be made within thirty days
after the notice has been posted.
The notice must contain the name
of the applicant, the date, descrip
tion of the area and other data, and
must contain the names of witnesses.
The seeker after a particular tract
must be the first on the ground after
the bill is signed, and must prove
that notices were posted after the
signing of the bill.
The White House is trying to de
vise some means that shall be fair
to all of issuing notification when the
bill is signed, so that the race may
be fair.
Thousands Await Signature
The Post-Intelligencer correspon
dent says that thousands of persons
in all parts of the country, including
Alaska, are eagerly awaiting Presi
dent Wilson’s signature to the leasing
bill before rushing to file on govern
ment oil reserves. The bill gives
priority* in leases to those who file
first.
OBJECTIONTO
SELLING SHIPS
r BELOW VALUE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Senator Ashurst has
introduced a resolution in the senate
directing the United States Shipping
Board not to sell the thirty former
German liners which the board plans
to aell at public auction on Monday
aext.
Senator Ashurst said the board
planned to sell the ships to the Inter
national Mercantile Marine for $28,
#•♦,000. The vessels, he said, were
worth $154,000,000 before the war, and
were now worth $300,000,000.
Senator Ashurst would permit the
auction only after three months’ ad
vertising. He charged that the board
ni trying to sell the ships under a
.secret agreement with Great Britain.
Willie Enters Objection
r WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (by Asso
ciated Press).—William R. Hearst, as
a taxpayer, has petitioned for an in
junction restraining the United States
Shipping Board from selling ships.
SHIPS BAR TO
BE ENLARGED
* FOR THIRSTY
SOUTHAMPTON, Feb. 13 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Passengers on the
liner Mauretania, which arrived here
today, besieged the bar as soon as the
vessel had passed through the three
mile limit after leaving New York,
and drank the vessel’s record stock of
liquors before she arrived here.
* The ship’s storage room for liquors
will be increased.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 13 (by Associated
Press).—Four persons were injured,
none of them seriously, when a street
ear on a viaduct fell on a train pass
ing beneath.
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CANADA INSISTS
ON ITS VOTE
I LEAGUE
OTTAWA, Feb. 13 (by Associated
Press).-The Canadian government
has notified Great Britain that it ob
jects to the proposed changes in the
covenant of the League of Nations
which would prevent her from being
a full-fledged member of the league,
with a vote in the assembly.
The Canadian cabinet is urging
Great Britain not to accept the reser
vation offered by Senator Lenroot in
the United States senate, now under
consideration, -which cuts Canada out
from a vote in the League.
WANTS DENMARK TO
JOIN LEAGUE OF NATIONS
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 13 (by Associ
ated Press).—The Danish minister of
foreign affaris has asked parliament
to consent to Denmarks’s becoming a
member of the League of Nations.
ARMENIANS KILLED
BY THOUSANDS IN
ASIATIC TURKEY
LONDON, Feb. 13 (by Associated
Press).—The Armenian delegation in
attendance at the meeting of the
League of Nations council here de
clares that in the Nationalist attacks
in Asia Minor two thousand Armenians
were killed in cold blood.
STEAMSHIP WEST ALETA
IS REPORTED AGROUND
LONDON, Feb. 13 (by Associated
* *
Press).—The steamship West Aleta,
which sailed from Seattle for Cardiff
and Hamburg on December 16, is
aground off Tersch^lling island, in
the North sea, according to reports
just received here.
NOTED WOMAN EDUCATOR ISSUES
APPEAL TO PREVENT BREAKDOWN
OF OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
SEATTLE, Feb. 13 (by Associated Press).—Mrs. Josephine Cor
liss Preston, president of the National Educational Association, and L
state superintendent of public instruction of Washington, in a speech
here last night declared that one hundred thousand teachers were
needed in the nation,
America, she said, faces a breakdown of its educational system.
She blamed low salaries for existing conditions. 5
Mrs. Preston will ask the governor to call a conference of state I
educational heads to launch a drive for teachers. Other states are (
planning similar drives.
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SEATTLE, Feb. 13 (by Associated
Press).—Governor McKelvie of Ne
braska, speaking at the Lincoln day
banquet of the Young Men’s Repub
lican Club here last night, attacked
the Democratic national administra
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tion.
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History failed to record, said Gov.
McKelvie, a period during which the
country labored under such abuses of
mismanagement as during the last
seven years.
He predicted a Republican victory
at the next election, and said the Dem
ocrats had failed to live up to their
promise to reduce the cost of living.
The speaker advocated the elimi
nation of war-time boards, commis
sions and bureaus as a step in the
direction of lowering the cost of ad-|
ministration.
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American Leadership for Labor
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 13 (by As
sociated Press).—General Leonard
Wood was the principal speaker at a
banquet last night under the auspices
of the Lincoln American Alliance.
In his address General- Wood said
that “we must do what we can to
give labor an American leadership.”
The bulk of the disturbances, he
said, came from alien leadership. He
declared that vigorous steps must be
taken to deport the “red” element.
A Notable Banquet
Governor McKelvie and Governor
Hart left today for Olympia and Ta
coma. Governor McKelvie will speak
at Spokane tomorrow.
Fifteen hundred persons attended
the Lincoln day banquet here. It is
believed to have been the largest gath
ering of the kind held in the country
yesterday.
WANT HOOVER
AS REPUBLICAN
CANDIDATE
PALO ALTO, Cal., Feb. 13 (by As
sociated Press).—The fellow-towns
men of Herbert Hoover have organ
ized a Hoover-for-President club here,
to obtain for him the Republican nom
ination. Many Democrats belong .to
the club.
All advocates of Hoover’s nomina
tion are urged to telegraph their in
dorsements here.
ELECTRICAL
WORKERS TO
GO ON STRIKE
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 13 (by As
sociated Press).—D. P. Fullerton,
manager of the Pacific Telephone and
Telegraph Company, has refused the
wage increase demands of the elec
trical workers, and a strike has been
ordered, effective Saturday, it was
announced last night.
WQMANSUFFRAGEIS
REJECTED BY VIRGINIA
RICHMOND, Va., Feb. 12 (by As
sociated Press).—The house of rep
resentatives yesterday rejected the
federal woman suffrage amendment.
ROOTHONORED
BY COUNCIL
OF LEAGUE
LONDON, Feb. 13 (by Associated
Press).—The council of the League of
Nations has invited Elihu Root to be
come a member of the committee to
prepare plans for the constitution of
the permanent court of international
justice.
A. J. Balfour declared that the
league should have the benefit of Mr.
Root’s great name and learning.
LABORLEADERS
ARE ATTACKED
BY POINDEXTER
UTICA, N. Y., Feb. 13 (by Associ
ated Press).—Senator Poindexter of
Washington, aspirant for the Repub
lican nomination for President, de
livered an address before the Repub
lican Club here last night.
Senator Poindexter charged that
behind the announced pledge of the
American Federation of Labor to
support candidates for congress and
for the presidency favorable to its
policies existed a sinister movement
on the part of a small* coterie of labor
leaders who had grown powerful by
contributions they levied upon la
bor to set up a government within a
government. (
PRESIDENT IN CONFERENCE WITH
RAILROAD BROTHERHOODS BUT
REFUSES TO GRANT INCREASES
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (by Associ
ated Press).—President Wilson, sit
ing in a wheel chair, received the
lelegation of the railroad brotherhoods
md conferred with them for fifteen
ninutes.
It is reported that the President
tave the men his unalterable decision
m their w'age demands, saying the
government’s policy was based on jus
dee to all interests.
President Wilson’s decision has not
/
been made public, but it is understood
that it contained a proposal. It is be
lieved that the President refused to
grant the wage increases.
Secretary Tumulty said that Presi
dent Wilson told the railroad men that
the increases in wages would mean
higher freight rates, which would in
crease the cost of living.
The conference was the first to bo
participated in by President Wilson
outside of his sick room since hi*
illness began.
RADICALS IN
HALL ON DAY
OF SHOOTING
MONTESANO, Wash., Feb. 13 (by
Associated Press).—Thomas Morgan,
L9 years old, who was in the rear of
;he hall of the “wobblies” at Centralia
it the time of the shooting on Armis
;ice day, testified today for the state
n the trial of the alleged radicals for
;he murders. He said he saw several
3f the defendants in the hall.
He said that the former soldiers
waited, marking time, when the first
shot was fired from opposite the
ivobblies’ ” hall. He said the sol
iiers did not break ranks before the
shots were fired.
The witness testified to a conference
Df “wTobbly” leaders being held in the
aall just before the shooting occurred.
LANE WANTS CONGRESS
TO REIMBURSE ALASKA
FOR COMBATTING FLU
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Secretary of the In
terior Lane has asked congress for
$80,000 to reimburse the Alaska terri
torial government for money expended
during the influenza epidemic last
year.
NAVAL BASE SITE AT
ALAMEDA IS ACCEPTED
BY SECRETARY DANIELS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (by Associ
ated Press).—Secretary of the Navy
Daniels, in tentatively accepting a
deed for a naval base site at Alameda,
Cal., today, told the Alameda delega
tion that the navy’s most pressing
need was the establishment of a naval
base in California.
WOMAN DIES FROM
INJURIES RECEIVED IN
PARACHUTE ACCIDENT
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 13 (by As
sociated Press).—Mrs. Ethel Broad
wick, aged 19, a professional para
chute jumper, died last night as the
*
'esult of injuries received when she
lumped from an airplane. The para
chute failed to open and she fell
me thousand feet.
BOLSHEVIKI
ARE LOOTING
AT ODESSA
LONDON, Feb. 13 (by Associated
Press).—Official confirmation has been
received here of the report that Ad
miral Kolchak, with his minister,
Pepeliayex, was shot at Irkutsk on
February 7 by the revolutionary com
mittee which directed the rebellion
against Kolchak.
Bolshevik Loot of Odessa
The Bolsheviki captured three gen
erals, two hundred other officers and
three thousand soldiers, together with
four armored trains, one hundred gun*
and great quantities of war material
at Odessa.
EXTRADITION OF
GERMANS NAMED
IS INSISTED UPON
LONDON, Feb. 13 (by Associated
Press).—The allied supreme counoil
has agreed to insist on its demand*
for the extradition of all the Ger
mans named in the list recently sub
mitted to the German government.
GEN. DAVISON
PASSES AWAY
IN NEW YORK
SEATTLE, Feb. 13 (by Associate
Press).—Brigadier General Peter W.
«
Davison, formerly a member of tha
Alaska road commission, died in New
York yesterday, at the age of 50.
General Davison formerly was sta
tioned at Fort Egbert and other Alaska,
posts. He commanded the Camp
Lewis depot brigade during the war.
He had seen service in Cuba and the
Philippines.
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MUCH DAMAGE DONE
BY TWO TORNADOES
MACON, Ga., Feb. 13 (by Associ
ated Press).—Two tornadoes, two
miles apart, south of Meigs, yester
day destroyed eight houses and large
tracts of timber, and seriously in
jured one woman.