The Cordova Daily Times
■VOLUME TL NUMBER 512. CORDOVA, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 191f>. PRICE TEN CENTS.
7 HALF A SST AT SOMME
Germans Lose Thiaumont Works and Miles of Trenches
NEW YORK, Aug. ».—The threat
ened railroad strike, Involving 400,000
men, has been averted, the Brother
hoods having accepted the proffered
offer of the United States board to
mediate their differences.
NEW YORK, Aug. it. — The nation
al conferences held by the railroad
managers has resulted in a decision
to reject the demands of four rail
road brotherhoods that Its members
be granted an eight hour day and
time and a half for overtime, also the
proposed submission of all differences
to the United States board of medi
ation and conciliation.
The proposition was submitted by
A. B. flarretson, representing the
brotherhoods, and rejected. The medi
ation board is now sitting, flarretson
expressed his willingness that the
railroads make an appeal to their or
ganization for a settlement of the
differences.
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CHICAGO, Aug. 9. — Swift & Co.
announce that it has established a
pension fund for its employees with
-^a foundation of $2,000,000. The fund,
the accumulation of six years, will
benefit employees of the company
throughout the country. It is stated
that more than 30,000 men and women
are eligible to come under its pro
visions.
One of its features is that employees
do not contribute to it, the company
furnishing all the money necessary
to pay pensions. In this connection,
the company says it expects to be
called upon to pay $400,000 a year in
addition to the income from the fund,
in order to meet the demands. Pen
sions are limited to a minimum of
$240 and a maximum of $5,000 a year.
In Chicago alone 8,000 persons will
come under the plan as outlined. A
pension board has been organized,
consisting of five members who are
officers or employees of Swift & Co.
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WANTS JUDGE JENNINGS
COME TD VALDEZ
Judge Fred M. Brown, of this divi
sion, has sent a wire asking that Judge
Jennings come to Valdez on Septem
ber 11 to hear one of the mining
cases which will come to trial there
at that time. A brother-in-law of
/Judge Brown is interested in the suit.
Judge Jennings has called a term
of the district cdtirt for Juneau on
September 11, and it is not known
whether he will leave or not. The
cable was forwarded to him at Vic
toria.
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WEDDING OF CORDOVANS
SOON TO TAKE PLACE.
On Tuesday evening next two of
t'ordova's popular young people will
Ifcbe united in marriage, when Miss
Frances Elizabeth, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Samuel Robert Hedges, be
comes the wife of Mr. David Thomas
Phillips. The ceremony will be per
formed in the Presbyterian church
at 8:30 o’clock, Rev. Shriver officiat
ing. A number of friends of the con
tracting parties will be invited to the
wedding.
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immigration drops off
during the past year.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. — The fis
cal year just closed shows an immi
gration of only 169.000, which is the
smallest during the past eighteen
years.
PARIS, Aug. 9.—General Joffre’s methodical offensive
continues at Somme and Verdun, where he is slowly but steadily
making advances, and is very hopeful of the final outcome. On
the right bank of the Meuse river the French offensive has been
extended to the Vaux, Champitre and Lechrois region, while
gains have been made in the Fleury and. Thiaumont. sections,
where the French are progressing slightly. The Germans got
a foothold at Thiaumont works, but all efforts to capture the
French trenches in commanding positions have failed. The
French regained the works in the last three days, and won
trench after trench along a line four miles long adjoining the
British, and pushed forward the whole French line for half a
mile.
BERLIN, Aug. 9.—The French artillery fire is now demol
ishing the famous old French city of Peronne, destroying price
less treasures.
TEUTONS WITHDRAW SOUTH DNEISTER RIVER.
BERLIN, Aug. 9.—On the south of the Dneister river the
Teutons have withdrawn their troops behind the Niznioff, Tys
mienta and Ottynia line.
ARMENIAN TOWNS TAKEN BY TURKS.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 9—The Turks have captured
from the Russians the Armenian towns of Bitlis and Mush.
AIRSHIPS KILL FOUR AND INJURE FOURTEEN.
LONDON, Aug. 9.—The Germans are again active and yes
terday raided the east coast of England, and the southeast
coast and Scotland. Three women and one child were killed
and fourteen persons injured.
BRITISH STILL CAPTURING TURKS.
LONDON ,Aug. 9.—It is officially announced that the
British have advanced north of Pozieres, in the Somme district,
and the British are also still driving the Turks and capturing
many prisoners.
RUSSIA’S GOOD SHOWING IN GALICIA.
PETROGRAD, Aug. 9.—The Russians have occupied Tys
1 menitsa, on the river Verone, in Galicia. General Letchiszky’s
army took 7,400 prisoners, including 3,500 Germans, on Aug. 7.
ITALIANS MAKE A LITTLE COUP.
ROME, Aug. 9.—The Italian troops have entered Gorizia,
where 10,000 Austrians were captured, and the cavalry is now
pursuing the fleeing Austrians beyond the Isonzo river.
AUSTRO HUNGARY PREPARING FOR WINTER.
AMSTERDAM, Aug. 7.—War office advertisements ap
pearing in Vienna newspapers indicate that preparations are
being made in Austro-Hungary for another winter campaign.
Tenders are invited for the supply of furs and woolen goods of
! all kinds for the protection of the troops against cold.. Deliver
ies must be made before September 15.
TURKS TREAT GENERAL TOWNSHEND COURTEOUSLY
LONDON, Aug. 9.—General Townshend, the British defen
der of Kut-el-Amara, which was captured by the Turks after a
siege of several months, is, according to unofficial advices re
ceived here, being treated very generously by his captors. He
lives in a well appointed house on the island of Halki, but
spends much of his time in Constantinople, a navy steam
launch and a military motor car being entirely at his disposal
for visits to the city.
ALLIES WILL NOT ABANDON CORFU.
CORFU, Greece, Aug. 9.—The completion of the transport
of the Serbian army from Corfu to Saloniki, according to allied
naval officers on the island by no means indicates that the allies
are going to abandon the island. Corfu is too valuable as a na
val base from which the exit of the Adriatic can be commanded
With the Italian naval base at Brindisi, the British base at Ta
remto and the French bases at Corfu and Argostoli, the chances
of Austrian or German vessels slipping into the Mediterranean
from Pola or Durazzo are very small. It will be a long time be
fore the French flag ceases to float from the walls of the ancient
fortress overtopping the town of Corfu, or convalescent French
sailors to bask in the sun on the warm terrace of the Emperor
William’s villa, the Acnmeion.
RUSSIAN MINISTER OF WAR
PREDICTS COMPLETE VICTORY
PETROGRAD, Aug. 9.—The present strategic situation
gives ground for the conviction that a complete victory in the
European war will be won by the entente allies, declares Gen
eral D. S. Chouviaeff, the minister of war, in a statement made
to the Associated Press on the military situation at the close of
the second year of the struggle.
“Uninterruptedly preparing during forty years for an at
tack upon neighboring countries, the Austro-Germans in the
first period of the war,” said General Chouviaeff, “were natu
rally superior to their opponents in the quantity of the means
of warfare prepared by them. But a desire to break the enemy
created a groat spirit of enthusiasm among the people of the
countries of tne anti-German group, which-people, ardently tak
ing up the work of providing their armies with the necessary
supplies, built up within a short time new military industrial
enterprises many times increasing the former production.
“The end of the second year of the war was marked by the
results of this patriotic upheaval among the allies, which found
expression in a successful adoption of the offensive by their
armies, now abundantly supplied with war material and power
ful artillery.
‘ ‘ In complete unity with all the allies, the Russian army a
month and a half ago dealt a destructive blow from its left flank
and from that time has uninterruptedly continued one blow af
ter another against the Austro Hungarians. In the same way,
our Caucasus troops are persisting in driving the Turks from
supposedly impregnable heights in Asia Minor.
“Thus, at the beginning of the third year of the war, strate
gic conditions which have now become favorable for the allies
on all of the fronts, more than ever give ground for the convic
tion that complete victory will be gained over the enemy.”
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NEW RAILWAY UNION RESULT OF WAR.
THE HAGUE, Aug. 9.—The General German Railway
men’s Union, an organization embracing all ranks and classes
of employees on state and private railways, came into existence.
The new organization owns its birth to the fact that the
hundred thousand railwaymen who have joined the colors since
the beginning of the war have been replaced by employees from
other unions, such as engineers, metal workers, transport work
ers, etc. Having been released from their old allegiances, the
latter joined together formally not only with the object of main
taining their status as union men, but for the purpose of consti
tuting an important reinforcement of the railwaymen s union.
AERO SQUADRON
MEETS IRIS
MONTEREY. Cal., Aug. 9. — En
couragement of aeronautical work in
| all the Pacific coast and Rocky moun
tain states, and more especially the
establishment of aeronautical squad
rons at the civilian military training
camps at American lake, Wash., on
August 14, and Salt Lake city, Utah,
on August 21, probably will be one of
| the outgrowths of the aeronautical
1 work at the civilian military training
camp here. Another direct result like
ly will be the organization of an aero
nautical company at Berkeley and an
other at 1-os Angeles, Cal. Men front
several states who are studying avia
tion here are planning to continue
their work after the close of the camp
on August 5.
The pending army appropriation bill
carries $13,000,000 for military aero
nautical purposes. If the bill goes
through the senate unchanged, $4,000,
000 will go to the regular army and
$9,000,000 to the reserve aeronauti
cal squadrons. These will be main
tained as an army reserve force and
not as par^ of the organized militia.
Some of the best known men in
California belong to the areo spuad
ron here. Los Angeles and Pasadena
are largely represented, although other
parts of the states, and points out
side the state, have not been ne
glected. From Los Angeles such men
as H. Albert DeWit, L. Farwell, Karl
Remington, E. E. Watchorn, B. J. Wil
liams, J. Lyons, W, A. Loomis, J. K.
LaGrone (the aviator), F. O. Booth,
W. H. Allen. H. R. Harris, R. S. Lit
tle and L. A. Gary are working in
both the first and second companies,
DeWit being squadron adjutant, Far
well supply officer and Remington en
gineer officer.
Pasadena is out strong for aviation,
and these Pasadenians are in the
squadron: L. L. Snow, L. C. Riddell,
Tod Ford, who commands the first
company; H. B. Christensen, J. C.
Whitworth, J. A. McBride, E. J. Smyth,
F. C. Crowley, E. S. Gardiner, C. G.
Emery, N. I’rosser and N. S. Ballou.
Oakley and Berkeley make a good
showing with such men as P. R. Mc
. Donald, M. I). McLeod, W. Mayer, E.
K. Martin, H. C. Puter, A. N. Selby;
and San Francisco has contributed Q.
Wolfe, C. E. Allen, Ray E. Montrose,
E. J. Dutton. W. A. Lanky, the aviator;
G. A. Steffen, otherwise known as
Willie Ritchie, who is working harder
at aviation than he ever did at the
fight game; H. 1. Orth, C. H. Small
and P. Tourgee.
E. J. Shuman came all the way from
Chicago to learn aviation, and D. B.
Murphy, of Boston, travelled 3,0rt0
miles from the Massachusetts metro
polis to be a high private in the squad
ron. A score of smaller places in
California, Nevada and Arizona are
represented.
The Rev. D. Charles Gardner, chap
lain of Leland Stanford, Jr., Univer
sity, is one man in this camp who has
been able to combine pacifism with
militarism to such an extent that he
will emerge from his military course
trained to arms without having
touched a lethal weapon.
Dr. Gardner joined the camp as a
regular recruit, but reported to Bri
gadier General William L. Sibert,
camp commander, that he had consci
entious scruples against a man of the
cloth using a service rifle. Dr. Gard
ner said he wanted to perform every
one of the duties of a soldier except
the part of killing, so throughout the
camp he has drilled, waited on tables,
done police duty and everything he
has been told to do, but he never lias
had a rifle in his hand.
WHAT IS TRANSPIRING
OTHER ALASKA TOWNS
It is reported that potatoes and
other vegetables promise a large yield
in the Matanuska valley this year.
It is reported that all the operators
on Cleary creek are working, and are
taking out from good to fair pay.
P. R. Strong, an operator on Indian
creek, near Anchorage, reports that
he has struck pay on his claims.
Thomas P. Aitken, the well known
Dawson and Alaska mining man, was
married recently at Vancouver to
Miss Emmel McHenry, of Dawson.
Round trippers on the steamers to
Anchorage are kicking because of the
lack of facilities for landing and re
turning to the steamers at that place.
The number of men employed by
the Alaska engineering commission
along the line of the government rail
road has reached a total of nearly
:t,ooo.
Contracts for station work and
ties between Kern creek and Talkeet
na were recently let by the engineer
ing commission, amounting to $113,
000.
Report has it that an attempt will
lie mnde to ship copper ore from the
Ward mine in the Kougarok country
: to outside smelters during the sum
1 mer.
WASHINGTON, Aug 9. — Hon.
Franklin K. I,ane, secretary of the
interior department, and Supreme Jus
tice Brandeis have been selected by
(’resident Wilson as members of the
American international commission to j
settle the difficulties with Mexico. The j
name of the third member has been
withheld pending his acceptance.
WHEAT HAS ADVANCED 11
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CHICAGO, Aug. 9. — There was
quite a flurry on the stock market j
today when wheat rose eleven cents
a bushel on the United States and
Canadian crops. The condition is now
very favorable for a continuance of
this increased price.
DEATH CHINESE
PRESIDENT
FORETOLD
PEKING, Aug. 9. — Superstitions
played an Important part In the life
of Yuan Shi Kai, and even influenced
his last hours. Like most Chinese of
the old school. Yuan Stat K«rconstant
ly sought fortune tellers and astrolo
gists. Many years ago he was told by
a fortune teller that he would die
when he was about fifty-eight years
old. This gloomy forecast had a de
cided effect upon the late president.
The men of his family had all been
comparatively short lived. His father,
his grandfather, his uncles and older
brothers did not attain the age of
sixty. Consequently Yuan Shi Kai be
lieved his span of life would be simi
larly limited, and was strengthened in
this belief by the fortune teller's state
ment.
Men who were close to Yuan Shi
Kai when he was planning the mon
archical movement were aware that
his haste to ascend the throne was
prompted by the belief that his days
were few.
Yuan Shi Kai believed thoroughly in
charms of various sorts, and was con
stantly calling upon Chinese doctors
who used mediaeval methods. He fre
quently gave ginseng to officials and
friends who were ill. He strove con
stantly to retain his youth by taking
tonics of lion bone and ground deer
horns, which are believed by supersti
tious Chinese to have great medicinal
i
j value.
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EVANS MUST CUT OUT THE
PLATFORM SPEECHES
ST. PAUL. Aug. 9. — Republican
candidate Hughes finds that in order
to save his voice until the end of the
campaign it will be necessary for him
to cut out all speeches from the train
platform. He spoke at St. Paul and
Minneapolis today, and was given a
rousing ovation at both places.
Dr. E. S. Jones and wife recently
left Juneau for a trip to Skagway in
two medium sized Peterboro canoes
strapped together and propelled by an
Evinrude motor.
Winter rye, 6 feet 3 inches high,
was raised on the Whitney ranch near
Matanuska this summer.
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The Anchorage Chamber of Com
merce is gathering together an exhib
it to send to the Northwestern Pro
; ducts Exposition to be held in Seat
j tie next October.
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John Ronan and Bennett James are
operating an arastra at their claim
i near Moose Pass.
CREW OF VESSEL
TOKIO, Aug. 9. — The Japanese le
gation at Ifangkok reports that a Ma
layan schooner laden with salt was
boarded off Minala recently by Chi
nese pirates, who massacred the entire
crew with the exception of two, who
saved themselves by swimming ashore.
The Siamese government dispatched
a gunboat in search of the murderers.
DRASTIC MEASURES MADE
CHECK EPIDEMIC
WASHINGTON, Aug 9. — The state
health authorities have been requested
by the government to send represen
tatives here for a national conference
on August 17 to discuss means ot
checking the epidemic of infantile pa
ralysis.
SENATE PASSES
CHILD LABOR
BILE
WASHINGTON, Aug 9. — The child
labor bill has been passed. Senators
Penrose and Oliver, of Pennsylvania,
voting with the Democrats. The sen
ate tw nrnr rttsrusstng the administra
tion shipping bill and its passage 1*
assured.
ALASKA LOBBYISTS ARE
SCARCE AT CAPITAL
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. — One of
the notable features of this session of
congress is the absence of of Alaskan
lobby. In former years Washington
was filled with men seeking Alaskan
legislation of one sort or another, but
that all has been changed. The pas
sage of the railroad bill sent some
of them away. Others left when the
coal leasing bill passed. And as one
after another of the Alaskan problems
are being settled, Alaskan lobbyists
have disappeared, until there are none
left.
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FIFTYSEVEN MORE DEATHS
AND MANY NEW CASES.
NEW YORK, Aug. 9. — The record
of deaths from paralysis is fifty
seven and a hundred and eighty new
cases.
PEACE NEGOTIATIONS TO
BEGIN THIS YEAR
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. — Emily
Balch, the Ford peace conference dele
gate, told President Wilson today that
peace negotiations might begin the
coming fall or winter. She also stated
that Henry Ford was hopeful of se
curing the services of William Jen
nings Bryan in the conference after
the presidential campaign.
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NEW ARMY BILL WILL
SOON BECOME EFFECTIVE
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—The army
appropriation bill, carrying $268,000,
000, Is now ready for the signature of
the president.
An electric pump with the capacity
of 1,200 gallons of water a minute,
to supply the stamps at the Ready
Bullion mine at Douglas, has recently
been Installed.
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The Juneau land office has issued
a final certificate of patent to John
Barrett for him horostead of 296
acres of land near McCarthy.