The Cordova Daily Times
Only Afternoon Paper In Alaska With Associated Press News
VOLTMK Tir. NUMBER 88. __CORDOVA, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH If,, 1917. ~ ~ PRICE TEN CENTS
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STRIKE RAILROADERS MAY STILL BE AVERTED
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♦ PKTKOGRAD. March 16. — ♦
♦ The Czar of Russia has abdicated ♦
♦ and is succeeded by his thirteen ♦
♦ year old son, AlexiB, with the ♦
♦ hoy's uncle, Grand Duke Nlcho- ♦
♦ las, as regent. The pro-German ♦
♦ influence lias been overthrown ♦
♦ and Russia is united for a vigor ♦
♦ ous prosecution of the war. ♦
♦ Grand Duke Nicholas has ar- ♦
♦ rived and will probably take com- ♦
♦ niand of the troops. The emper- ♦
♦ or is expected at Tsarkoselo pal- ♦
♦ ace. Several regiments are has- ♦
♦ tening to the same place and ♦
♦ remarkable feature of the ♦
♦ revolution was the speed with ♦
♦ which the people resumed nor- ♦
♦ mal life. 4
♦ The council of nobility held ♦
♦ special meetings and fifteen pro- ♦
♦ vinces endorsed the new revolu- ♦
♦ tionary government. The food ♦
♦ situation precipitated the revolu- ♦
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♦ LONDON, March 16. — Chan- ♦
♦ cellor of the Exchequer Bonar ♦
♦ Law told the house of commons ♦
♦ that the abdication of the Czar ♦
♦ of Russia and the appointment of ♦
♦ Grand Duke Nicholas as regent ♦
♦ had not as yet been effected, al- ♦
♦ though decided upon by the ex- ♦
♦ chequer power. +
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♦ PETROGRAI), March 16.—The ♦
♦ provisional government is doing ♦
♦ its utmost to straighten out the ♦
♦ numerous tangles, with the duma ♦
♦ and zemstvo council co-operating, ♦
♦ although through separate pro- ♦
♦ clamations. Despite the non- ♦
♦ appearance of newspapers the ♦
♦ public is better informed of the ♦
♦ happenings than ever before. A ♦
♦ special squadron of motor cars ♦
♦ go about the city distributing ♦
♦ printed bulletins with authentic ♦
♦ news, which Is free to every- ♦
♦ body. 4
♦ President Rodzianko, of the •»
♦ executive committee, haB ap- ♦
♦ pealed to the people not to in- ♦
♦ jure the government buildings, ♦
♦ factories and other public struc- ♦
♦ tures; also to continue the pub- ♦
♦ lie services and avoid bloodshed. ♦
♦ Radzianko is earnestly tackling ♦
♦ the food question and adequate ♦
♦ supplies are expected soon. ♦
♦ Large quantities of flour have al- ♦
♦ ready been discovered. ♦
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♦ PETROGRAD, March 16 — Ke- ♦
♦ renki, the new minister of jus- •
♦ tice, Is a Socialist, and has ac- ♦
♦ cepted under the stipulation that ♦
♦ there be absolute freedom of ♦
♦ speech and of the press and a full ♦
♦ political amnesty be granted. ♦
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(By Associated Press)
LONDON, March 16. — It is official
ly announced that a portion of the
town of Bukubab, on the right bank
-■■of thp n<»ta thirty miles north
east of Bagdad, has been occupied by
the British troops. The Turks con
tinue to fall back on the right bank
of the Tigris river.
NATIONAL BREEDERS’ SHOW
"BUSTING” OUTLAWS
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FORT WORTH, March 16. — Some
of the toughest "outlaw” horses in the
country are due to get "busted" dur
ing the National Feeders’ and Breed
ers' Show, which is in session here.
Real buckers have been imported from
all parts of the west and southwest
for the championship events, in which
the best men and women riders will
participate.
RUSSIANS DRIVE TURKS
OUT FORTIFIED POSITION
(By Associated Press)
PETROGRAD, March 16. — The
Russian troops have dislodged the
Turks from the fortified positions on
the summit at Narleslikian, in north
western Persia.
EIGHT HOUR DM
(Special to Daily Times)
JUNEAU, March 16. — There were
two bills introduced in the house this
forenon. One by Representative Ben
son, provides for an eight hour day for
females in all business, except homes.
The other by Representative Sowerby,
limits the powers of commissioners.
No bills were reported from the com
mittees.
Yesterday the senate adopted a new
procedure and reduced the number of
committees from thirteen to Beven.
JUNEAU, March 15. — The debate
on several changes in the rules of
the senate was the principal business
for an hour this afternoon after which
an adjournment was taken until 3
o’clock. An effort is being made to
cut the number of committees from
thirteen to seven, and recording the
roll calls taken in committee uieat>
ings.
NO liOECHEDIT
BY GHEYENNE
CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 16. —
Cheyenne grocers have issued an ulti
matum to the eating public that here
after all credit will be strictly on a
thirty day basis, and there will be no
more balances on current bills after
April 1. Customers who do not live
up to the terms of the ultimatum will
be penalibed with a charge of eight
per cent interest, according to an an
nouncement published in local papers.
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ACCIDENT WILL
HELP CRIPPLE
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VAN HORN, Texas, March 16. —
Miss Bertye Diltz, one of the few
feminine deputy sheriffs in the county,
does not find tt at all necessary to
wear sombrero nor huge loaded re
volvers In the most conspicuous man
ner possible. Instead she wears mod
ish tailored suits, stylish hatB and her
revolver is most conspicuous through
being carried concealed in her muff.
Miss Diltz says she has never yet
had occasion to use her revolver to
compel a prisoner to accompany her
to jail. She arrests malefactors of
greater or lesser wealth, whenever she
has a warrant for them and takes
them to the county jail just as do her
male associates on the sheriff's Staff.
FOOD CHilNSWEnS n
DOUBLE PUPROSE
BERLIN, March 16. — The food
card system in Germany, however,
much of a nuisance It may be for
housewives, has materially aided the
police and military authorities in one
reBpect. It has just occurred again—
a thing that had often occurred be
fore—that a man wanted in connection
with a crime surrendered himself to
the police because he had found it im
possible to get enough to eat without
a set of cards, and these he could not
obtain without registering himself at
the police station of his precinct.
TORPEDO BOAT
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, March 16. — It is of
ficially announced that a British tor
pedo destroyer struck a mine in the
English channel and was sunk. The
officers were all saved, but one man
was killed and twenty-eight sailors
are missing and presumably were
drowned.
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(By Associated Press)
COLORADO SPRING8. Col., March
16.—As the result of an automobile
accident south of here two months ago
Miss Helen Martin, a cripple, will be
able to walk nearly normally, her phy
sicians say. A companion in the
wreck was killed.
Miss Martin has been a cripple all
her life, one leg being shorter than
the other. She sustained four frac
tures of the longer leg in the accident
and as a result it has shortened to
virtually the same lanais »» otk»r
leg, physicians say. Miss Martin will
have to use crutches for a year, but
surgeons assert, the accident has re
moved her physical disability.
PERSONAL GOSSIP ABOUT
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
The jitney dance last night was well
attended and a big success.
The Assembly Club will dance at
the Bungalow Club tonight.
The Admiral Farragut is due here
from Seattle at 6 o’clock this evening.
The street committee has a force
of men at work today clearing off the
crossings.
The freighter Cordova arrived this
afternoon, bringing 300 tons of coal
and a quantity of freight.
E. T, Stannard came down from
Kennecott on yesterday’s train and
left on this afternoon’s boat for La
touche.
The Alaska Sea Food Company and
Lighthouse Packing Company are
making regular shipments of canned
clams on the southbound boats.
The steamer Admiral Evans arrived
from the westward at 4 o'clock this
afternoon, and will be in port about
five hours loading 700 tons of copper
ore. >
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The first passenger boat scheduled
to sail from Seattle to Anchorage is
the Alameda, on March 23. The
freighter Eureka also leaves the states
for the new railroad terminal on
March 21. V
The committee in charge of the St.
Patrick's ball, to be given by the Loy
ola Club at Eagle hall on Saturday
evening,, have perfected all arrange
ments for the affair. The Bon Ton
orchestra will furnish the music and
refreshments will be served.
William Kuhn, of Chena, arrived in
Cordova on yesterday’s train, and will
leave on the next boat for Seattle
where he will meet his old partner
Patsy Wyant, and together with twc
other men they will leave for Edmon
ton, from which place they will atari
out for the Arctic. They will go down
the Mackenzie river this summer
From the Arctic they will cross ovei
to the Yukon, from which place they
will return to Fairbanks.
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Every incoming boat is bringing i
large number of passengers to Cor
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Keil.a me limes and keep posted.
BUBS PBEPABE
STRIKE
WASHINGTON, Mareh 1G, — The
cabinet has decided upon Secretaies
Lane and Baker and Ban I el Willard
and Samuel Gompers As members of
the advisory committee, of the coun
cil of national defence. They will
confer with the representatives of
both sides of the railroad controversy.
President Wilson and hts advisers ex
pect this move will avert a strike.
The mediators will ask the brother
hoods and railroads to postpone the
strike. If It cannot be averted, on the
grounds of national emergency.
NEW YORK, March ltk — A hun
dred general chairmen of the brother
hoodB on the eastern lines met here
today to arrange the details of the
railroad strike, beginning Saturday
night. The national conference com
mittee of railway managers has in
formed the Individual railroads that
an embargo on all perishable freight
Is advisable.
NEW YORK, March 16. — The sixth
floor of the Grand Central terminal Is
being fitted up by the New York Cen
tral railroad with cots and other fa
cilities for strike breakers and men
who do not go on strike. Other east
ern roads are making similar prepa
rations.
NEW YORK, March 16. — The Indi !
cations are that both the railroad
managers and the brotherhood chiefs
are marking time, pending the pos
Bible action of President Wilson In re
ference to the threatened strike. Each
group is prepared to respond to over
tures from the other side.
NEW YORK, March 16. — President
Lee, of the Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen, said the leaders expected
one in twelve trainmen would refuse
to strike. He declures the brother
hood was always willing to submit the
whole differences to President Wil
son.
(By United Press)
PHILADELPHIA. March 16—More
than 26,000 negroes have settled in
Philadelphia in the last six months
and the city government doesn't know
exactly how to meet the problem of
congestion in their section of the city.
Small flats are housing as many as
five and six families. The influx is
said to be due to the fact that the
negroes think they will be more cor
dially received here than in other Am
erican cities.
RELIGIOUS SECT MEXICO
CANNOT OWN PROPERTY
(By Associated Press)
MEXICO CITY, March 16. — Repre
sentatives of the Methodist missions
in Mexico, which are affected by the
rulings of the new constitution which
prohibits the ownership or manage
ment of real estate by a religious sect,
estimate the holdings of the Metho
dist church in Mexico, or rather the
investments of the church in schools
. JJld..atber institutions at ten million
dollars. These representatives are en
deavoring to find a method by which
the properties may be administered.
It such a way is not found, it is an
nounced the schools and churches will
be closed.
MEXICAN INSURANCE CO.'S
MUST MAKE GOOD
(By Associated Press)
MEXICO CITY, March 16—Insur
ance companies operating in Mexico
have been given an additional period
of two months in which to adjust pay
ments and premiums, parts of which
have been paid in paper currency now
practically retired from circulation.
HEADED FOR
SEATTLE, March 16. — The steam
er Northwestern sailed this morning
with a large passenger list, 116 of
whom are booked for Cordova, as fol
lows: Herman Anderson, C. Sea
brook, I. Hamlll, Charles Hartman,
Moore Elmer, J. Elmer, C. Johnson
and wife, Teddy Berkley, William
Igo, Otto Meyer, Billie Berkley, W.
Patrick, Hugh McKay. Pearl Morgan,
Mrs. James Reddington, Thomas Sui
ter. Henry Jurglar, Miss Jean I-arson,
Axel Helstrom, Emil Larsen, E. Erick
son, Nick Chanales, R. Lloyd and
wife. Prank Gibbs, George TraHfey, R.
Hover, Mrs. E. C.ossman, W. Mackin
non, E. Barteau, J. Fairborn, Joe Wil
liams, Harold Anderson, A. Anderson,
Gay Elliott, Miss B. Elliott, Olaf Hoi
ted, A. Cook Tom Murphy, AJefred
Holm. Blanch White. Alice Miller, El
mer Alt and wife, Andrew Anderson,
Anton Anthony, Mrs. L. Thompson,
Mrs. Wittig,, Mrs. Gertrude, Peter
Campbell, C. llarpst, B. Croon and 6.1
steerage, including 57 Chinese for can
neries.
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(By United Press)
CHICAGO. March 16. — Freakish
styles in the costumes of American
women are doomed. The 1,500 design
ed dressmakers, here for the sixth an
nual convention of the Fashion Art
League of America, said today. They
will compete for prizes offered for the
best and simplest designs of various
gowns, including tailleur, afternoon
and evening frocks. Exhibitions of the
gowns on mannequins will feature the
convention, which ends Thursday
evening. As an example of the pres
sure the designers are bringing to bear
in the effort to eliminate freakish
modes, the style committee has is
sued an edict, tabooing “summer
furs.” No longer will milady appear
in the torrid temperature of a July
day, bundled to the eare in furs, if
she would display good taste.
The designers, however, are dis
criminating carefully between the sen
sihle and the extreme, and have there
fore made no effort to banish the very
practical short skirt.
“Skirts are to hang straight, with
two to two and a half yards about the
hem. They should be six to eight
inches from the ground — a ‘tiny bit’
longer than last season,” said Mme.
Allie E. Bailey, president of the
league.
Dresses are to be of wool, or com
binations of wool and silk, and the
| hats, parasols and other accessories
j are to be of contrasting color to en
I livon the ensemble.
RUSSIA PLANS GEOLOGICAL
EXPLORATION MINERALS
(By Associated Press)
PETROGRAD, March 16. — An im
portant geological expedition is to be
undertaken by Russian scientists into
the mountainous region of Juban.
South Caucasus, for the exploration
Ttf*TirrtreTal beds—there. It is hoped
that the expedition will be able to re
commend the exploitation of extensive
beds of coal and certain rare min
erals. The expedition will be led by
M. Androussov, a well known Russian
geologist.
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A JITNEY SOCIAL.
A jitney dance was given at Hegg’s
Bungalow hall last Wednesday night
it being the first of its kind pulled
off in Cordova. The famous Bon
Ton orchestra furnished the music,
and a large crowd had a most enjoy
able time. Watch the Times for the
next of the series of jitney dances.
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Everybody Is invited to attend the
St. Patrick's dance at Eagle hall to
morrow, to be given by the Loyola
Club.
GREAT BRITAIN MAINTAINS
BIG SECRET SERVICE
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, March 16. — Great Brit
ain’s secret service now costs £500,
000, an Increase of £400,000 since the
beginning of the war. The Increase In
the cost of the secret service depart
ment was greatest during the last fis
cal year—£120,000 over and above the
estimated amount to run it being re
quired.
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DUTY
(By United Press)
WASHINGTON, March 16. — Sweet
girl graduates of the Firs! National
Service School, women’s section of the
Navy League, will delve deep into the
intricacies of warfare when they go
Into their second encampment here
at Chevy Chase on April 16.
Post-graduate companies have been
organized for the encampment this
year, and those who served in 1016
are eligible for places. They will take
up a higher course in diatetics, camp
cookery, may reading, motor car driv
ing, repairing, bicycling, advanced sig
naling, plain and wireless telegraphy.
Formar aiudaiiu uses have applied
for membership in the companies be
fore March 10. The regular courses,
mostly for girl rookies, still have a
number of vacancies, but officers in
charge of the encampment declare it
will be even more successful than last
year. Camp will open April 16, and
will be broken May 26, giving forty
whole days of military training. A
Plattsburgh idea will be put into ef
feet this time, the red, white and blue
system. By this plan those women
who attended but one course last year
will wear red and white service
stripes, while those who took up two
courses are entitled to the coveted
red, white and blue stripes.
Plans for the second encampment
are practically complete. Women have
been enrolled from Baltimore, Phila
delphia, New York, Chicago and Bos
ton, as well as many southern cities.
Powder puffs and “party” dresses will
be replaced by khaki and drab som
breros, while these women learn sol
diering. A.large building will be added*
to the equipment this year, where lec
tures may be held in inclement weath
er. Captain E. B. Creecy, who has
returned front Haiti, will have charge
of laying out the camp and Mrs. Hugh
L. Scott, wife of the chief of staff of
the army, will head the camp com
mittee.
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PERFECT BERN IS
(By Associated Press)
COLORADO SPRINGS, March 16.—
The El Paso county bean will become
a favorite among epicureans if plans
inaugurated at the recent Colorado
Springs corn show materialize.
The one hundred pounds of beans
which won the first and second prizes
in the show were distributed among
the first five exhibitors of beans af
ter they had. promised to plant them
under special conditions and reap the
1917 harvest for seed purposes.
The committee in charge of the
show aims at a perfect bean, adapted
to El Paso county soil conditions and
if the plan meets with success, Boston
will have to look out for its laurels
local bean enthusiasts say.
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♦ WHETHER OR NO. ♦
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♦ The man who lets you In on the ♦
♦ ground floor usually winds up by ♦
♦ kicking you out of the window.— ♦
♦ Old Man Sage. ♦
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Three large passenger boats and a
freighter were in port today.
INK ITALIANS
TO EMIGRATE
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(By Associated Press)
ROME, March 15, — The Bteracy
test clause of the United States Im
migration laws, which is to take ef
fect May 1, has already resulted in
the stimulation of the study of Eng
lish among Italians who expect to
emigrate to America when the war is
over.
An interesting phase of Immigration
possibilities is the belief expressed in
some quarters that many of the hither
to well to do Italians of the educated
classes who have suffered by the war
may go to America to recoup their
fortunes.
While Italy furnished the largest
number of emigrants to the United
States before the war of any single
nation, for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1914, the number being 823,738, as
compared to 278,152 from Austria
Hungary, the Italian government fav
ors rather than objects to the new
literacy test.
When the news of the passing of the
law over President Wilson’s veto was
printed in Italy, the newspapers at
once editorially stated that the law
would help rather than injure Italy.
Those newspapers gave two reasons
for this position. One reason was that
the law would force Italians to edu
cate themselves. The second was that
, Italy hoped tn the fu ture to export
the manufactured products of labor
rather than labor itself, and thereby
increase the wealth of the nation.
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SAN FRANCISCO , March 16. —
"Bah! I hate dishwashing.” In this
brief sentence Mrs. L. U. Grant, San
Francisco's only woman carpenter
and house builder, epitomizes the thou
sand and one reasons she might give
for engaging in the business she does.
When she made the statement she
was clambering about the third story
of a new house she is building in one
of the residential sections.
With some reluctance she told of
her first experiment in building. She
had two lots that would not sell un
less they w'ere improved. She decid
ed, she says, to build two bungalows
“with a shoe string.” It was almost
heart breaking, she declares. The
bills mounted up way beyond what
the builder had estimated. So she
eliminated the workmen and finished
the job herself.
“Of course,” she concluded, “they
were a terrible fizzle. I didn’t make
a cent, but I broke even. That was
some satisfaction."
TMPSiOTINC EXPERTS
READY ANSWER GALE
(By United Press)
PHILADELPHIA, March 16. — Six
hundred and seventy-five thousand
crack trap shooters will answer the
nation’s war call if it comes, accord
ing to a statement here today by
Charles Henry Newcomb, national
amateur champion trap shooter of the
United States. Pennsylvania alone
could furnish about 30,000 of them,
he said.
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*20,000 A YEAR FOR
PTOMAINE POISON PROBE.
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(By United Press)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass , March 16. —
The National Canners’ Association to
day offered *20,000 annually for three
years to be used in the investigation
of food poisoning. This has been ac
cepted by Harvard university, and an
extensive research into the subject
of ptomaine poisoning, with especial
reference to canned goods is to be
made by the Harvard medical school,
under the direction of Dr. Milton J.
Rosenau, professor of preventive me
dicine.