The Cordova Daily Times
, VOLUME IIT. NUMBER 16._CORDOVA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER lit, 1916. PRICE TEN CENTS
ARMY IN FAVOR UNIVERSAL TRAINING
f
THEIR LIQUOR
, AT CAPITAL
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19. — Senator
Smott's prohibition bill, which would
not only prohibit the manufacture and
sale of liquor at the capital, but also
prevent the importation for personal
use, was rejected by the senate, the
vote being til to 8.
wheTTcrop is
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19. — The
American farmers, foreseeing the con
tinued heavy demand for wheat from
the warring nations of Europe, planted
an acreage last autumn second in size
in the nation's history, but the poor
weather conditions sent the crops into
winter dormancy. They are two per
cent below the condition of last De
cember’s crops and four and a half
per cent below the last ten years' av
erage. The wheat condition is seventy
two per cent of normal.
CARRANZA HAS!
NOT INTO
PHILADELPHIA, Deo. 10. — Car
ranza has not as yet signed the proto
col for the settlement of difficulties
with the United States, hut regards
* the terms favorably.
POSTMASTER AT
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name of Fred B. Wood, the present in
cumbent, was sent by President Wil
son to the senate for confirmation as
postmaster at Anchorage.
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DEATH CLAIMS
PROMINENT
PEDDLE
WORCHESTER, Mass., Dec. 19. —
Former Congressman John R. Thayer,
one of the prominent Democratic lead
ers of this state, died at his home here
today.
CHICAGO, Dec. 19. — Princess Chi
may, daughter of Eber II. Ward, of De
troit, died yesterday at Padua, Italy.
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tax rate fixed by
COUNCIL AT TEN MILLS.
At a meeting of the City Council,
held last night, a tax rate of ten mills
for the ensuing year was placed on
property valuation of $948,271. This
will give sufficient funds with which
to conduct the municipality until
April, 1918, regardless of what action
is taken in reference to the license
money now derived from the saloons.
In case this is still available there will
be funds on hand for sewer and street
Improvement.
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SPOKANE MAKES HIT AS
A PASSENGER VESSEL.
The steamer Spokane made Its ini
tlal trip to Cordova yesterday and
was inspected by a large number of
townspeople, who were favorably im
pressed with its appointments. The
private baths are an innovation on ves
gels on this run. The Spokane is
owned by the Pacific Steamship Com
pany and will return to Cordova next
month, taking the place of the Ad
miral Evans.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—Major General Scott, chief of
the staff of the army, told the senate military committee that
the army and general staff recommended, without apology, that
a voluntary system be installed, because the time had arrived
when the United States, unless it intends to avoid wars at any
cost, must resort to the universal liability to military training
and service. Scott said that the volunteer system was extrava
9int, inefficient and dangerous; that universal training was
dunocratic, reliable, efficient and economical and within a few
ears would render the United States immune from attack.
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\\ ASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—General Leonard Wood told the
;enate committee that the recent militia mobilization showed
its complete inefficiency.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—President Wilson told callers
hat lie had reached no decision in reference to universal train
mg and' would not do so until definite answers had been laid be
'°re bun. He stated, however, that the idea was attractive, but
bad decided on no definite plans. The president did not agree
1 but the national guard was a failure.
MADRID, Dec. 19.—A twenty-four hours’ general strike
throughout Spain was called as a protest against the papers
published.
ROMK, Dec. 19.—Foreign Minister Sonnino fold the cham
ber of deputies that the German peace proposal contained no
sign of conditions or a basis for negotiations, and that the an
swcr of the allies to the proposal will be published when
drawn up.
BERLIN, Dec. 1!).—The Gentians captured over a thousand
Russians and Roumanians yesterday on the Roumanian front.
I lie Russians and Roumanians at Dobrudja continue to retreat
and are approaching the lower Danube river.
BERLIN, Dec. 1!).—The Bulgarian government announces
that 120,000 Roumanians and 3,000 cannon have been captun d
PARIS, Dec. 10.—General doff re has handed over the com
mand of the armies in the north and northeast to General Ne
ville, the new French commander in chief. Joffre has been
made president of the allied military council.
LONDON, Doc. IS.—The peace note of the central powers
was today delivered to the British government by Ambassador
Page.
LONDON, Dec. is.— Bonar Law told the house of commons
that Llo\d George would state the British government’s war
policy tomorrow.
LONDON, Dec. 10.—'I lie food restriction became operative
yesterday. Hotels and restaurants are forbidden to serve over
t wo courses of food for breakfast or luncheon and three courses
for dinner.
ROME, Dec. 11).—Ambassador Thomas N. Page has been
gathering evidence from twenty five American hostlers aboard
the Italian steamship Paalermo, which was torpedoed and sunk
olt the Spanish coast. The testimony showed that the Paaler
mo was sank unwarned ami made no attempt to escape.
FIREMEN WANT
rOUR MORAL
SUPPORT
To the Property Owners and Business
Men of Cordova:
Last year the Cordova Fire Depart
ment gave their annual dance, and in
the general payment of all bills the
department showed a deficit of 80
cents. Now, Mr. Business Men do you
realize that there are men in this de
partment who are willing at all times
to take a chance on life and limb in
your behalf, and are willing at all
times to respond to any and all alarms,
and these same men have nothing at
stake in Cordova? Do you realize
that by your lack of interest in fire
matters that you make it a struggle
to keep a competent bunch of men en
thused? We have, therefore, accept
ed your donations and will say that
you have not been cheap or niggardly
with us, but by your non attendance
at our affairs other than smokers, and
then in very small proportion, you
have showed utter neglect.
\\ e don t want your financial sup
port. Give us more of your moral
support; be with us even if you have
to come to criticise. Tell us your
needs; find fault and tell us what
you think of us.
But be there! Do you also realize
that 1 could count the actual number
of business men on the fingers of one
hand that take any interest in the ac
tive service of this department.
We have about 75 men on the active
1,81 of th*« department, and have never
tailed to be on the job in case of need,
and we are considered one of the best
volunteer fire departments on the
coast.
The city has done its duty in regard
to our quarters, and we have a gym
nasium, shower baths and to my know
ledge there are business men here
that have never seen the place.
Now, Mr. Business Man, we are
going to try and give you a good time
on the last day of this month in the
form of a masquerade, and want you
to be there. This letter is meant to
call to mind also that there are busi
ness houses here that have no repre
sentation In this organization. We
will take a chance on any able bodied
man that is willing to join us. In
closing we ask you to be with us and
of us, and in a very short while I
guarantee you one of the finest organi
zations In the North.
Do you also realize that all money
paid by the city for drills and fires
is not taken by members individually?
It all goes into the treasury for the
use of the department as a whole for
social events. Now, Mr. Business
Man and property holder wake up to
the fact that we need you, and you
need us.
Turn out at our affairs en masse
and show your appreciation.
CORDOVA FIRE DEPARTMENT.
By Geo. Dooley, Chief.
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Be a Dally Times reader.
SAFETY IS
GOLDEN, Colo., Dec. 18. — The
first school or college class in mine
safely in the country, it is said, now'
is in operation here. Students prac
tice mine rescue and first aid work
under conditions as nearly those of
actual mine disasters as it is possible
to obtain. J. C. Roberts, formerly
head of a mine rescue car for the fed
eral government, is in charge of the
course.
Practical experience is given the
students by sending them, with oxy
gen helmets and other apparatus, into
prospect holes and old mines filled
with formaldehyde gas and smoke,
when they “rescue” members of the
class "overcome” by the gas. First
aid squads at the mine mouths demon
strate revibatory methods on the
“victim.”
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DEPUTY MARSHAL SULLIVAN
DIES AFTER OPERATION.
A telegram was received today from
Seattle, announcing the death of De
puty Marshal Albert Sullivan, of Val
dez, who was recently operated on for
eppendicitis. Deceased was well and
favorably known throughout Alaska,
and his many friends will be pained
to learn of his death.
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HAD HIS FEET FROZEN
MUSHING FROM BUILDING.
Clad In his night clothes and in his
bare feet, Jimmy Chisholm, proprie
tor of the Birch Lake roadhouse, on
the Chitina Fairbanks road, was com
pelled to mush about 30 miles in 20
degrees below zero and through ankle
deep snow to the nearest roadhouse,
following the burning of his place re
cently. HIb feet were badly frozen.
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SILVER LOVING CUP IS
PRIZE NOME DOG RACE.
John Borden, the Chicago sports
man, who financed Captain I.ouis
Lane's Great Bear expedition, which
was wrecked on Pinnacle Rock In
Bering Sea, and who was personally
a member of the expedition, has sent
a massive silver cup to Nome to be
raced for under the auspices of the
Nome Kennel Club.
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PAINTING EQUIPMENT GREEN.
All the steamships of the former Pa
cific Coast Steamship Company are
being repainted green, buff and white.
Even the docks in Seattle are adopt
ing these colors, all of which is to
conform to the standard of the Ad
miral Line, or the new Pacific Steam
ship Company, which is operating
both fleets.
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Job Printing at Dally Times office.
Job Printing at the Times.
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RETAIN AFTER
WAR THE
NORFOLK, Va . Dec. 18. — Predict
ing that the American manufacturer
would be able to compete on equal
terms with European manufacturers in
the foreign field after the war. An
drew J. Peters, assistant secretary of
the treasury, spoke before the South
ern Commercial Congress. "Our for
eign trade has reached heights hither
to undreamed of," he said. "To hold
it is the permanent idea of the hour."
The cost of production in Europe
by reason of war taxes would be much
higher than in the past, he said, off
setting the advantages in the nature
of commercial agreements, gigantic,
combinations and governmental assist
ance, which European manufacturers
would have.
Mr. Peters declared the American
manufacturer would be further encour
aged to make a bold fight against his
competitors by the attitude of the
United States government, which was
eager to co-operate with him in the 1
expansion of his foreign trade by pro
vidlng the necessary legislative mu
chinery to enable him to compete on
equal terms.
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CORDOVA YOUNG LADY
DIES AT SANITARIUM.
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. j. sneparu received tne sad news |
of the death of his daughter, Miss Ag
nes, in yesterday's mail. She had been
in poor health for some time past, and
left here about three months ago to
receive treatment in a sanitarium in
Idaho. Recently her letters have been
very cheerful and she reported that
her health was slowly improving, so
that when the news of her death was
received it was a great shock to her
family and friends. Miss Shepard was
popular among the younger set, and
well liked by ull who knew here.
ANCHORAGE MONEY ORDERS.
The money order business of the
Anchorage postoffice averages around
$55,000 per month. About $1,200 goes
to foreign countries.
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DREDGING SEASON PROFITABLE.
Reports from the Circle district I
state that considerable work was done I
there this summer. The Berry Dredge
Company had one dredge working on
Mammoth creek, and hydraulic plants
on Kagle, Mammoth and Mastodon
creeks, and the season was a profit
able one despite the lack of rain.
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KNiFE Did A GOOD job.
While cutting tobacco for his after
dinner smoke, Tom Carrigan, an em
ployee of the Treadwell mine, his
knife slipped, severing the tendons and
big arteries of the left wrist and tak
ing out a circular cut of flesh nearly
the width of the wrist. It is said the
tendons will have to be sewed together
again or he wilt lose the use of Ills
hand.
. OF PUBLIC
—
NEW YORK, Dec. 18. — People do!
not get their money's worth out of the ■
three billion dollars annually expen
ded for public purposes, declared Pro j
lessor Thomas Sewal Adams, of Yale
I'niversity, before the Association of
Life Insurance Presidents, In advo-i
eating the creation of standard units
of governmental performance bv which
to measure the quality and quantity |
of the output in each department of
public work. i
"Public expenditures seem to thrive
on opposition," said Professor Adams,
"in the very face of the unceasing
opposition of the taxpayer.
"The fundamental trouble is that
the public has no means of accurately
ascertaining whether a particular ac
tivity of government is productive or
unproductive, efficient of inefficient
We must, somehow, devise standard
units of governmental performance by
which to measure the quality and the
quantity of the output in each depart
ment of public work. In many depart
ments of government we could direct
ly measure the output with as much
accuracy as most factories measure
departmental productivity.
"And almost always we have the
deadly parallel, the comparison with
the activities and costs of similar de
paiimeius in oilier places, in short, j
the solution of our problem lies in the i
permanent maintenance of practical j
efficiency commissions. Their first
function should be to uphold the hands j
of the public servant who Is doing his
work well. There should he both pub
11c and private efficiency commissions.
U’e have tried them tentatively in the
past. They have been guilty of some
bonehead' plays. But that merely
means that they are just learning the
game. We must rise above our mis
takes — put more heart, more 'pep.’
more time, more money in this un
avoidable undertaking which in the
end will pay big dividends."
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ALASKA STEAMERS ARE
PUT ON ’FRISCO RUN.
The steamers Northwestern and
Valdez have been taken off the south
western Alaska run and are now ply
ing between Beattie and San Fran
cisco. This is construed as an open
ing wedge on the part of the Alaska
Steamship Company to run In oppo
sition to the Pacific Steamship Corn
line. The Alaska Steamship Company
is now negotiating foi the palatial
steamers Northern Pacific and Great
Northern, built and operated by the
Great Northern railroad.
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SNEAK THIEVES AT WORK.
Sneak thieves are becoming preva
lent at Fairbanks. Recently one fam
ily lost <30 worth of provisions and
several others have reported losing
clothing taken from the lines.
POLITICS
—
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 18. — At a sea
<Ion of the quadrennial meeting of the
Federal Council of the Churches of
'hrist in America, the Rev. Worth M.
Tippy, of Vanderbilt University, read
the report of the commission on
•hurch and social service, outlining
in exhaustive program of general so
■ial welfare.
The attitude of the church to re
creation, was one of the subjects on
which he laid stress. This attitude,
he said, "has been on the whole ci iti
cal and negative; it should now be
come sympathetic, positive and ag
gresslve. It should be contended that
it is a Christian service, a natural ex
presslon of Christian love."
The commission urged better or
ganization among the churches for
education for social service, and dis
cussed the relation of the pulpit to
politics. It said, in part:
"In their relation to public officials,
ministers, evangelists and ministers'
associations are urged to reduce the
prevailing attitude of criticism to
ward public servants and to adopt one
of sympathy and co-operation, reserv
ing public attacks, as workingmen re
serve the strike, to lie used only as
a last resort. The remarkable ad
vance in municipal government in the
United States during the last decade
justifies such a change of attitude."
It also took up the problem of un
employment, and declared that "when
a period of unemployment due to in
dustrial depression strikes a common
itv, it is immensely important for the
churches to organize in a great snv.
to meet the emergency."
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CENSUS BUREAU
WASH 18.—Ac |
cording to the annual report of Direr I
tor Sam 1,. Rogers, of the bureau of!
the ensus, to Secretary William ('
Redfield, of the department of com
merce, covering th ? fiscal year ended
June 30, 1816, whit h has just been
made public, the census bureau dur
ing that year compiled and published
the greater part of the primary or fun
damental statistics from its latest can
vass of the manufacturing industries
of the country and carried on numer
ous other inquiries which it Is direct
ed by law to make at regular inter
vals. The preliminary figures from
the manufactures census — wnich
show, among other things, that during
the calendar year 1814 the inanufac
turlng Industries of this country turn
ed out products valued at over twenty
four billion dollars and gave employ
ment to more than eight million per
sons, to whom were paid approximate
ly $5,367,000,000 In salaries and wages
—were published at earlier dates, re
latively to the period covered, than
the corresponding ones for preceding
censuses. The bureau has begun the
issuance of the final reports in the
form of a series of bulletins which
will later be bound together in large
volumes.
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LOCAL JOTTINGS.
Territorial Mining Inspector Wil
Ham Maloney left yesterday for the
westward.
James Holmes, of Tacoma, ('. J
Rathbone and Alex Hoffman, of Seat
tie, were Cordova arrivals on the
Spokane.
K. J. Rasmussen, first officer on the
Mariposa, is not coming north on the
present trip of the Mariposa, having
laid off so that he might take unto
himself a bride.
It is reported that the cableship
Burnside, which is in the Yakutat har
bor, has had her wireless apparatus
carried away by the storm which has
been raging there.
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PUT ONE OVER UNCLE SAM.
Passengers on the government rail
road who fail to get their ticket be
fore boarding a train will be penal ■
Sued 25 cents each, according to a re- j
cent ruling. The rule was brought
about through several mushers having
escaped paying fares by springing [
$100 bills on the conductor.
LARGEI LIGHT IS
NEEDED CAPE
Mariners on the southwestern Alas
ka run are emphatic in their assertion
that a larger light and one with a
longer flash is needed at f'ape Spen
cer, the entrance to Icy Straits.
“1 he light on (’ape Spencer is one
of Ihe small blinker lights used by
the lighthouse service and is auto
matie in its action,” said a captain of
one of the steamers running to south
western Alaska “It blinks for five
seconds and is then dark for fifteen
seconds, on dark nights it is hard
to pick it up exactly. You are stand
ing on the bridge looking for it. It
flashes and by the time your glasses
are turned on it is out. With a boat
swinging in a heavy sea it is impos
sible to keep the light located and the
next time it blinks it may be away off
to one side. The next time it may be
WaV Off tO fllP nth or uicln _»
hick weather the Hashes may not he
seen at all on account of snow or rain
squalls obscuring the light just at the
time it flashes
"You can say for me that the light
is better than nothing, and it is en
tirely inadequate for the prominent po
sition it occupies in the navigation
of those waters. In the Canadian wa
tors the lights ire never out. They
Hash and then die down, lint there is
always enough light burning to see,
and they can be located without
trouble. The Canadian lights gener
ale their gas as they use it. but those
kind ot lights are impractical for the
Was.am water , as tin- water in the
works ot tlic hitov would freeze
I maintain that a permanent light
Station should be established on the
1' tpe. and that it is IIRt us important
m the light on Cape St. Elias. Speak
ing of the latter light, it is a good
light, but it was spoiled by the loca
,,on of ri|Pc St. Elias is almost a
straight mountain ],.">"n f.. t in height,
with a pinnacle rock off the outer end
md several hundred feet in height.
I he light was loc ated at the base
"f the high mountain Ss feet above
Hie water, which, counting the height
it the ship allure the water, gives it a
•■ti.vc of fifteen miles In dear weather.
In murkv weather its light is not vis
ible until within a few miles of it
W the same time the pinnacle rock
oil the outer end of the Cape obscures
the light lor a distance ot many miles
while passing Hi,. Cape. The light
■an be seen from nelthc side of the
t’ape, but while passing the Cape it is
ibscured entirely,
"I maintain that the light would
have -been far more effective if the
government had cut a shelf in the
Hde of the mountain several hundred
•eet above the water level and in
stalled the light, or blasted off the
lop of tip. pinnacle rock and placed It
in top of it However, that light is in
md there is no use crying over spilled
milk, but the light on cape Spencer
's a crying need, and one that should
miuii us possible.
COURSE IN FOOT
BALL AT IOWA
Intri
cate football problems together with
he best methods of conducting a train
ing table, are among subjects to be
taught at the latest college course to
be offered at the summer session of
the t Diversity of Iowa here next sum
uier. The course lectures will be de
livered by Coach Howard Jones, who
has just lead the university football
team through a successful state chain
pionship season.
This is said to be the first time that
such a course has been formally of
fered by any university In the I'nited
States. A school for football coa hes
is said to have been in existenc ■ at
the university of California at one
time The new course at Iowa is open
to all who desire to study the science,
besides coaches and teachers of high
school* *ii»i r-olhu'c* u bo desire to
combine coaching with their other
work
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WILL SAVE HIS SIGHT.
Assistant District Attorney Harry
Pratt, of Fairbanks, who went outside
recently to have his eyes treated,
fearing permanent blindness, wired l\is
wife at Fairbanks that his eyesight
will be saved.