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VOL. V. NO. 116 CORDOVA, ALASKA.^ SATURDAY. APRIL 17,1920_ PRICE TEN CENTS
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AGUA PRIETA, April 17 (by Asso
ciated Press).—It is announced that
the Sonora government will appeal to
the United States for recognition as a
belligerent, to forestall permission be
ing granted to Carranza’s troops to
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cross the American boundary in order
to attack the state from the border.
The state government of Sonora
has not proclaimed a republic, nor is
she withdrawing from Mexico, but has
merely withdrawn from the Carranza
government, according to Francisco
Elias, leader of the revolutionary
movement.
VILLA IS ON DECK
jjThe Carranza garrison at Culiacan
has been defeated by the Sonora
t r^jps. Many prisoners were captured.
Villa has offered his aid to Sonora.
REQUEST DENIED
WASHINGTON, April 17 (by As
sociated Press).—Senator Knox told
the senate today that he had been in
formed that the state department had
refused Carranza’s request for permis
sion for his troops to pass over United
States territory.
BLAMES PRESIDENT
Henry Lane Wilson, former United
States ambassador to Mexico, painted
a gloomy picture before the senate
committee on foreign relations yester
day concerning the Mexican situation.
He charged the present administration
with responsibility for the prevalent
conditions, because it recognized Car
ranza.
State department officials had said
the request came from high officers
in the Mexican army, and not officially
from the Mexican government, and
that it had been referred to the war
department.
The statement was made in response
to vigorous protests made by Senators
Ashurst and Smith of Arizona in op
oosition to granting the request.
Senator Ashurst denounced the Car
ranzistas as murderers, and said he
hoped the governor of Arizona would
repel with force the Mexican maraud
ers.
DE VALERA IS
NEW ORLEANS’
HONOR GUEST
NEW ORLEANS, April 17 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Despite the protest of i
the British consul here, Eanionu De
-#/alera, “president of the Irish repub
lic,” was given a great welcome here j
a§- a distinguished visitor yesterday.!
The freedom of the city was accorded
him.
A protest has been filed with the
mayor in the name of the British gov
ernment.
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OF STRIKE IS
LOOKED FOR
The speedy termination of the rail
*i>ad strike is indicated by dispatches
received from various centers by the
Associated Press today. Employes of
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nappy of the big roads returned toj
work today in order to retain their
seniority.
Officers of the outlaw union at Chi
cago have refused the proposals for a
resumption of work, and are making
new demands on the roads.
Elsewhere the situation is much im
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& ficials report.
MORRISON IS WRATHY
B WASHINGTON, April 17 (by Asso
pPiated Press).—The conclusions of i
Attorney General Palmer that the rail-1
road strike was caused by radicals i
was sharply challenged by Frank Mor-1
rison, secretary of the American Fed-j
eration of Labor, today.
Mr. Morrison said it was a plain,!
ordinary strike for more pay, but wasj
disavowed by organized labor. He
charged that the government was stu
pitiUy trying to make criminals bf the
strike leaders.
PACKERS ARRESTED
FOR PROFITEERING
NEW YpRK, April 17 (by Associ
ated Press).—William Clark, Brooklyn
manager for Swift & Co., and Harry
Mills, assistant superintendent of the
Armour company’s plant in Brooklyn,
were arrested yesterday by depart
ment of justice agents, charged with
jarwiSteeriitg.
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SPOKANE, April 17 )by Associated
Press).—S. S. Hopkins and Robert J.j
Kearns of Spokane have brought suit
against R. W. Wood and A. B. Trites,
shareholders in the Premier mine, in
British Columbia, for $300,000.
The complaint alleges that each of j
the complainants is entitled co a third!
interest in the mine, and that Wood
and Trites sold half of the shares to
the Guggenheims for $1,250.0000.
PITTSBURG, Kan., April 17 (by As
sociated Press).—Judge Andrew J.
Curran has ordered Howat, president
of the Kansas district of the United
Mine Workers, now in jail for con
tempt, and other union officials to or
der the striking Kansas coal miners to
return to work, or to show cause for
failure to do so on April 27.
All the mines but one are idle. About
twelve thousand men are on strike.
PRINCE GIVEN FINE
FOR ATTACKING FRENCH
OFFICERS IN HOTEL
BERLIN, A^ril 17 (by Associated
Press).—Prince Joachim Albrecht of
Prussia has been fined 500 marks be
cause of an attack on French officers
at the Hotel Adlon.
MINIMUM^ SALARY
FOR TEACHERS FIXED
SEATTLE, April 17 (by Associated
Press).—The minimum salary for
school teachers has been fixed by the
directors of King county districts at
$1,000 per year.
C0NVICTEDW0BBLIES
TO APPEAL THEIR CASES
MONTESANO, Wash, April 17 (by
Associated Press).—Notice of appeal
has been given in the cases of the four
“wobblies” recently sentenced to
prison terms of from one to ten years
for criminal syndicalism.
Alaska Is Still
As Dry as a Bone
JUNEAU, April 17 Special to
the Daily Times).—In the Unit
ed States district court yester
day Judge R. W. Jennings held
that the Volstead act does not
repeal the Alaska “bone-dry”
law.
Grigsby Is Active
In Alaska’s Behalf
WASHINGTON, April 17 (Spe
cial to the Daily Times).—Dele
gate George Grigsby of Alaska
today secured a favorable report
from the public lands committee
on the bill abolishing the eighty
rod reserve of public lands in
front of navigable waters, and
also the sixty-rod limitation.
JAP AND RUSS
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VLADIVOSTOK, April 17 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Severe fighting has
taken place between the Russians and
Japanese at Chabarovsk, at the mouth
)f the Amur river. There were many
casualties.
The towns along the Ussuri River
branch of the Transsiberian railroad
are held by the Japanese.
The Russians have started guerrilla
warfare in thS hills.
WOOL GROWERS TO
GET EXCESS PROFITS
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WASHINGTON, April 17 (by Associ
ated Press).—The department of ag
riculture announces that excess profits
amounting to more than a million dol
lars, obtained by wool dealers during
the war period, when the national sup
ply was under regulation, will be col
lected by the bureau of markets and
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returned to the growers.
CORK, April 17 (by Associated
Press).—The coroner’s jury which in
vestigated the death of Mayor Me
Curtain, who was assassinated in his<
home recently, has rendered a verdict -
charging Premier Lloyd George, Gen. j
French and Ian McPherson, late chief
secretary for Ireland, together with
several police inspectors, with willful
murder.
MORE HUNGER STRIKERS
* ARE GIVEN FREEDOM
DUBLIN, April 17 (by Associated
Press).—Eleven more hunger strikers
have been released from Mountjoy
prison.
Fifty armed men held up a mail train
near Cork and seized all the letters.
CABRERA AND
ISARMYHAVE j
SURRENDERED
WASHINGTON, April 17 (by Asso-1
ciated Press).—President Cabrera of
Guatemala, with his army, has sur
rendered to the Unionists, according
to advices received by the state de
partment.
The revolutionists guaranteed per
sonal safety to the members of the
former regime, together with retention
of property legally obtained.
FOUR DESTROYERSTO
VISIT ALASKA SOON
LOS ANGELES, April 17 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Admiral Rodman, com
manding the Pacific fleet, announced
today that four destroyers would visit
Alaska waters during July and August.
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OTTAWA, April 17 (by Associated
Press).—A syndicate of British pub
lishers is prepared to spend $40,000,
000 in Canada to insure an adequate
and continuous supply of news print
paper, according to G. H. Hall Caine,
a son of Hall Caine, the author, who
is the representative of the syndicate
here. It is proposed to buy a thou
sand square miles of timber and erect
mills.
LEADER OF GERMAN
REVOLUTION ARRESTED
STOCKHOLM, April 17 (by Associ
ated Press).—Wolfgang Kapp, head of
the recent revolutionary movement in
Germany, has been arrested at Seed
ertelje, disguised and with false pass
ports. He came from Germany in an
airplane ten days ago. He is being
held in jail.
SEATTLE, April 17 (by Associated
Press).—-Governor Thomas Riggs, Jr.,
of Alaska, who is en route to Juneau
after an jsxtencbed stay in Washington
in the interest of Alaska legislation, ad
dressed a meeting of the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce last night.
The governor said that the attitude
of congress and Eastern business men
toward Alaska would change when
they understood the need and the im
portance of the development of the
territory. Continuing, he said:
“Everywhere I was asked why the
natural resources of the territory had
not developed, where formerly the
questions ' principally concerned cli
mate.
“Everybody is interested in Alaska,
and while I do not expect a large
amount of legislation at the present
session of congress, the way is paved
toward a constructive policy.”
COURTRERJSES
TO THROW OUT
HEARSTS CASE
WASHINGTON, April 17 (by Associ
ated Press).—The motion of the Unit
ed States Shipping Board to dismiss
the application of William R. Hearst
for an injunction to prevent the sale
of twenty-nine former German liners
was overruled in the supreme court
of the District of Columbia today.
The board probably will appeal.
OVERALLS ARE NOW
POPULAR IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE, April 17 (by Associated
Press).—An overall club has been
started at the county and city build
ing. Many officials have decided to
don denim.
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IS ATTEMPTING TO DICTATE
TERRITORY’S POLITICAL POLICY
SEATTLE, April 17 (Special to the
Daily Times).—Bona fide Alaskans
who are in this city either on business
or pleasure have just learned of a
deeply-laid scheme on the part of a
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bunch of Seattleites and near-Alaskans
to control the political affairs of the
Northern territory, and they are natur
ally very indignant at this outside in
terference in the affairs of Alaska.
Think of it! Then try and calm your
self at the nerve of these self-starter
politicians from Seattle, the fifth di
vision of Alaska.
A meeting of about twenty-five of
these “guardians” of a sturdy race of
people living** in Alaska recently met
in the offices of Attorney William A.
Gilmore and selected a “slate” that
they are attempting to “put over” at
the primaries to be held in Alaska on
Tuesday, April 27. Among the promi
nent figures at the conference were
Colonel W. T. Perkins, Attorneys
George D. Schofield and Ira D. Orton,
who left the Nome country many
years ago.
A campaign of propaganda was
launched in support of the candidacy
of Herron for Republican national
committeeman; Valentine and Reed
for delegates to the national conven
tion, with Wickersham promised the
governorship in the event of a change
in administration. It’s a beaner, and
no mistake!
Then came what was supposed to
be the grand coup. Scores of tele
grams were sent by these alleged
friends of Alaska to parties in differ
ent parts of the territory to get “into
line” to support and work for this
framed-up ticket. The only consola
tion received by these meddlers in
the political affairs of a territory long
since deserted by them has come from
Nome, where they succeeded for a
time in whipping into line some of
their satellites and secured an indorse
ment of Herron, Valentine and Reed.
Since the expose of methods used
and Nomeites have awakened to the
fact that they are being used as dupes
for the Seattle ring, there has been
a revulsion of sentiment, and what
little support the Herran combina
tion mustered up in the territory ia
now dwindling, and even his Seattle
boosters admit that they can see noth
ing but defeat staring them in tbe
face.
RICH RUSSIANS
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BUCHAREST, April 17 (by Associ-!
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ated Press).—Rumanians have been!
puzzled at the finding of a yacht!
stranded at the mouth of the Danube,
containing the bodies of eleven noted
Russians, all of whom had been shot
in the head. Fourteen million rubles
were found on board.
It is believed to have been the work
of the Bolsheviki.
AERIAL MAIL
GIVEN ALASKA
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WASHINGTON, April 17 (by Associ
ated Press).—The postoffice appropri
ation bill, which is now in the hands
of President Wilson, provides for an
aerial mail service for Alaska.
Final action was reached on the bill,
when the house adopted the conference
report.
The bill carries $462,500,000, includ
ing $1,250,000 for air mail service be
tween New York, Chicago, Omaha and
San Francisco.
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IRON INDUSTRY MAY
SOON BE OPERATIVE .
IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
VICTORIA, B. C., April 17 (by Asso
ciated Press).—This province may
soon possess and operate an iron and
steel industry, according to a state
ment made by William Sloan, minis
! ter of mines, to the provincial legisla
ture. A bill extending the operative
period of the iron ore bounties act for
five years is under discussion by the
law-makers.
SEATTLE FOOD PRICES
ARE BEING PROBED
SEATTLE, April 17 (by Associated
Press).—J. F. McAuley of the bureau
of investigation of the department of
justice announced yesterday that plans
are under way for a full investigation
of food prices here, and that a number
of additional men will be put to work.
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SCHOONER GOES
ADRIFT NEAR
CAPEFLATTERY
SEATTLE, April 17 (by Associated
Press).—The sailing schooner Henry
Wilson of the Libby cannery fleet,
which cleared Wednesday for Port
Graham with supplies and workers,
has been picked up off Cape Flattery
in a waterlogged condition, and with
a sharp list to starboard. She was
towed to Neah bay by the steamer
Stanwood.
DES MOINES, Iowa, April 17 (by As
sociated Press).—A state-wide confer
ence of Democrats, held here yester
day, took action toward presenting the
name of Secretary of Agriculture Mere
dith as a candidate for the Democratic
nomination for President.
Resolutions were presented and
adopted urging the Ipwa delegation in
the national convention to push his
nomination. '•
ANOTHER NEW CANDIDATE
WASHINGTON, April 17 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Senator Howard Suth
erland of West Virginia yesterday an
nounced his candidacy for the Repub
lican presidential nomination.
JOHNSON FILES IN MARYLAND
ANNAPOLIS, April ,117.—Senator
Hiram Johnson yesterday filed a peti
tion for a place on the Republican bal
lot at the coming primaries as a can
didate for the presidential nomination.
Similar papers for General Leonard
Wood were filed Thursday.
DESPONDENCY CAUSED '
BY ILL HEALTH DRIVES
MORGAN TO SUICIDE
PALO ALTO* April 17 (by Associat
ed Press).—Percy T. Morgan, a trus
tee of Stanford University, and a bank
director of San Francisco, Is reported
to have shot and killed himself while
despondent because of ill health.