Copper Ore Shipments From Cordova Alone Are Over $1,500,000 Each Month
I ! The Cordova Daily Times i 1
VOLUME t. NUMBER 157. CORDOVA, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY,.TUNE9,1915. PRICE TEN CENTS.
' SECOND NOTE IS SENT TO GERMANY
BRYAN FAVORED ARBITRATION OF LUSITANIA MATTER
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ATLANTA, June 9.—The Georgia
Prison Commission has declined to
> recommend to the governor that the
death sentence passed upon Leo
Prank, the Jew convicted of murder
ing a young girl in his pencil factory
in Atlanta be commuted. The case of
Prank has attracted the attention of
the entire nation having been three
times before the Georgia Supreme
Court, and twice before the United
States Supreme Court. This new de
cision is another blow to Prank and
his friends who have been working
night and day in his behalf, and they
will now appeal dried to the governor,
as under the law, the decision of the
Prison commission is not binding upon
him.
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DROPPING
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ROME, June 9.—An Italian aero
plane was destroyed this afternoon in
an effort to drop Incendiary bombs
into the Austrian city of Fieume. The
aeroplane caught fire when circling
over the city, and the aviator was
forced to volplane to the ground,
reaching safety only to fall Into the
hands of the enemy. The machine
waB entirely destroyed.
VENICE, Italy, June 9.—An Aus
trian aeroplane flew over this city
today, and dropped many bombs. The
property damage was small, as several
of the explosives fell harmlessly into
the canals, and did no damage except
shattering a great amount of window
glass. One person was killed and
Beveral Injured as the result of the
raid.
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Father vader Pol, who has been laid
up in the states for some time past,
has sufficiently recovered to be able
rto return to Alaska and Is at present
at Juneau.
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WEDDING BELLS RING
IN NEIGHBORING TOWN
KATAL.LA, June 8.—A very pretty
wedding took place here last evening
at 9 o’clock, when Miss Nellie Barrett
became the wife of ('has. P. Luc
chlni. United States Commissioner
Gray performed the ceremony in the
presence of a large number of friends,
after which a wedding suppor was
served.
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Mrs. M. A. Redfleld and son Rny
^ mond will leave on the Alameda for
Seattle, where they will spend the
summer,
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Dr. L. C. Smith and wife, of Cbitlna,
will go to Skagway on the Alameda
and from there go to Fairbanks, where
they expect to locate.
Mrs. W. B. Hancock and family
have gone to housekeeping In ThoB.
S. Scott's residence.
L, Mlkkelson has retunred from a
trip to the westward.
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J. dlllls and Dr. W. H. Chase re
turned last evening from a bear hunt
hack of the Nelson townslte. They
had plenty of experiences but got no
game.
TAItNOW, Galicia, June 9.—The
ltuHHiun army approaching the Vistula
are driving the German forces under
General Mackensen before them, and
there is a strong probability that a
general retiring movement wili have
to be instituted by the Teutons to
preserve their alignment.
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BRIDGE PARTY GIVEN IN
HONOR OF MISS CRABB
This afternoon Mrs. A. J. Adams
and Mrs. E. L. Harwood entertained
a large number of friends at bridge,
In honor of Miss Nellie Crabb, who
leaves Cordova next week for Anchor
age, where she will make her future
home.
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M. W. Hope and J. M. Dennis, who
have been on a hunting trip for sev
eral weeks In the Interior returned
to Cordova yesterday.
S. Blum & Co. disposed of their
delivery horse to a Fairbanks man
and a new animal was received on to
day’s boat from Valdez.
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Jno. A. Coply, former mayor of
Nome, who is representing a whole
sale liquor house, Interviewed the
local trade today.
Chief Clerk Alvah Eames and wife
returned today from a pleasant trip
of several week’s to the westward.
LONDON, June 9—Premier Herbert
Asquith was interrogated in the House
of Commons today concerning the
total British casualties since the pres
ent war started. Asquith informed
the members that the number was
258,000.
FLOATING COURT STARTS
ON ITS TRIP WEST, JULY 10
A term of court will be commenced
in Knik on July 13. It will be held as
part of the floating court which will
leave Valdez on the Cutter McCulloch,
July 10. District Attorney Spence has
just visited Knik and recommended
the holding of the term. Several cases
will come up, Including one murder
trial.
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Notice to Moose
Regular meeting in the Eagles TIall
Thursday, June 10, at 8 p. m.
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The Coast and Geodetic Survey ship
Explorer, Captain R. S. Patton, has
arrived at Seward, where it will make
its headquarters.
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Jack Dalton has returned to Cor
dova, after an absence of several
months in the states.
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Captain Porter who has been exam
ining the Ice and weather conditions
to the westward for the engineering
commission has been transferred to
Katalla for similar work.
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MINERS SPECIAL Red Sole Boots
$9.50 at S. Blum & Co’s.
LONDON, June 9.—The British offi
cial statement issued today asserts
that a German submarine was sunk
by a torpedo boat destroyer in the
North Sea yesterday. The entire crew
consisting of six officers and 25 men
were made prisoners. Although there
has been a great deal of agitation in
England detnandln gthat the subinar
ine crews be not treated as ordinal)
prisoners in case of capture, the gov
ernment has announced that thest
men will be given the same treatment
as all other prisoners of war.
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TORPEDOED
LONDON, June 9.—A German sub
marine torpedoed and sank the Ilritisl
steamer Lady Salisbury, yesterday, ii
the North Sea. The crew of the ves
sel, which is of 900 tons burden, wer
saved.
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MINERS SPECIAL Red Sole Root
$9.60 at S. Blum & Go's.
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The revenue cutter Unalga is nov
* at Seward.
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PETROGRAD, June 9.—In the naval
battle between the German anil Rus
sian fleets in the Baltic Sea last Sat
unlay, the Russian submarines at
tacked ten German warships seeking
to enter the Gulf of Riga. One of the
warships was disabled by the sub
marines, and was towed into Libau.
The German steamer Hindenberg was
sunk by a Russian mine. The German
fleet was acting as a convoy to trans
ports trying to effect a landing on the
Russia ncoast near Riga, and several
of the transports were sunk, with a
large loss of life.
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i COLLEGE ATTENDANCE
AFFECTED BY WAR
OXFORD, Eng., June 9.—-The sum
mer term has began at Oxford, with
the roll of students showing a still
further diminution. The number of
undergraduates in residence for the
autumn term was 1,400, for the Len
ten term 1,000, and it has now fallen
below 900. Oriel College, chief of the
"sports colleges," has only 18 stud
ents. Kings and Queens has the most,
with 60. Few of the other colleges
have more than 90 or 40.
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Deputy Marshal \1 Dowling is a
passenger on the Alameila, taking an
Insane woman from Naknek to the
sanitarium at Portland.
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Read the Times, Daily and weekly.
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SEATTLE. June 9.—The Booth
Fisheries Company has further in
creased its holdings in Alaska and
Washington by the purchase of the
Gorman canneries that have been op
erating in those waters. The transfer
includes the canneries at Shakan and
Kassan in Southeastern Alaska, and A
the canneries at Neah Bay and at
Anacortes, Wash. In all probability
the Booth Company will operate the
canneries the present season. The
Gorman company will continue in the
fish brokerage business in this city
ST1SLAU AND
PRISONERS
BERLIN. June 9.—The German offi
cial statement to<lay snys that the ad
vance of the German forces in Galicia
continues. The town of Stanislau
was captured yesterday from the Rus
sians. Stanislau is 75 miles southeast
of Lemberg.
BERLIN, June 9.—Another official
statement issued this afteronon gives
the number of Russians captured al
the town of Stanislau, in Galicia as
4.500.
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OUTGOING PASSENGERS
ON STEAMER ALAMEDA
The steamer Alameda arrived from
the westward at 4 o'clock this morn
ing and will sail for Seattle between
ti and 7 o'clock tonight. The outgoing
passengers will be: Mrs. M. A. Red
field and son Raymond, Misses Ruth
and Emma Smith, Mrs. J. Bayer, J.
0. Griffith, Alex Arvas, Fred Davis,
M. S. Jones, T. J. Anderson, M. Whit
ney, J. M. Dennis, M. J. Rope, Seattle;
Dr. L. C. Smith and wife, Skagway;
L. D. Cook, Juneau.
A large quantity of copper ore will
go to the Tacoma smelter and a big
shipment of canned salmon, from the
Henley cannery at Mile 55, goes to
Seattle.
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TRANSFERS TIMBER
TRACTS TO RAIROAD
All the ties and piling that it is
possible to secure will be cut by the
railroad engineering commission along
the right of wray, the forestry depart
ment having already transferred great
tracts or timber lands to the railroad
builders. L. K. McCullough of the
Forestry service, says that the depari
ment has given to the comimsslon five
miles on each side of the right of
way for Its use and, particularly, for
the timber. He sao's that some of
the timber in the district will be per
fectly fitted for railroad uses, espe
cially the hemlock. The fires which
occurred last month near Anchorage
threatened the place seriously and the
service had to spend $;{<>(> in that
month alone to fight the flames.
RUSSIAN COUNT _
KILLED IN BATTLE
BONBON, June 9.—Count 1‘eter
Benckendorf, a former Kussian am
bassador to Oreat Britain was killed
in the battle of Kovno.
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Reduction in C.asolin# at S. Blum &
Co.
EPIDEMIC Df CHOLERA
BREAKS OUT INNS
MADRID, June 9.—The government
of Austria-Hungary officially an
nounced that an epidemic of cholera
has broken out in Vienna. Drastic
measures are being taken by the nu
thoritie sto prevent a spread of the
disease.
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REPORTED LEASING OF
ANCHORAGE LOTS INCORRECT
Mr. Christensen of the land office
says the chief desire of the govern
ment officials is to have haste made
in deciding on matters connected with
the Anchorage townsite so that the
people over there will not be com
pelled to move from their present
locations until the permanent town
site is ready. Mr. Christensen also
says the report that he spoke of
leasing lots was a mistake.
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II. L. Jaffe, of the Jaffe Liquor Com
pany, Seattle, returned yesterday from
a trip to Chitiua and will be an out
going passenger on the Alameda.
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Misses Kmma and Ruth Smith, of
Chitina. arrived in Cordova on yoster
- day’s train. '
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1 Dob McIntosh, the Valdez freighter
■ is in town from the interior.
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Yesterday's train brought down 21
cars of copper ore from Kenuecott.
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W. K. Martin, representing Ruh
staller's brewery, is in town today.
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All the Real News in the Times.
Special to The Times By Associated Tress.
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 9.—The second
note from the Wilson administration to Germany
on the Lusitania disaster was placed on the wires
directed to Berlin at 2 o’clock this afternoon. The
dispatch will make 1,500 words.
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 9.—The second
official note to the Imperial German government will
be sent to Berlin this afternoon addressed to the
American ambassador, James W. Gerard, who will
deliver it in person to the German foreign office. The
note will be given to the newspapers for publication
in the morning papers on Friday. This will mean
that the United States will not wait for official noti
fication that the Berlin government has received the
note, before apprising the American public of the
contents.
Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan
retired from his office today, and spent a busy morn-!
ing cleaning up his affairs. The secretary bade fare
well to the employees of the State Department, who
crowded around him and wished him well, express
ing their regrets at his departure. Bryan was in the
best of humor and had a pleasant word and a hand
clasp for all the secretaries and clerks,
administration behind the twenty or more arbitra
join the rest of the cabinet in approving the note as
drawn up by President Wilson. Neither could he
reconcile the principles enumerated in the note to
the cause which has always been nearest his heart,
and which he has worked unceasingly as Secretary
of State to further, namely, the prevention of war
and the promotion of international peace, and the;
policy of disarmament among the nations. The
secretary has been the moving force in the present
Bryan resigned because he felt that he could not
tion treaties that the United States has entered into
with foreign governments. He favored a moderate
note, which would not commit the country to any
action provided Germany did not assent to our
demands. The majority of the cabinet opposed
Bryan, as well as the president, and this action
being so contrary to the avowed principles for which
he stood, the secretary thought it best to resign, and
relieve the cabinet from any embarrassment caused
by a dissenting member.
President Wilson has written the ex Secretary
of State a letter in which he expresses his sincere
regrets for the loss of Mr. Bryan’s services to the
nation. Wilson said that he was not separating
himself from Bryan in the objects which the latter
has so long and so earnestly sought to promote, but
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that they could not agree in the proper methods by
which to accomplish their common aims. The presi
dent and the other members of the cabinet are fully
as anxious as Bryan to prevent war, and to keep
our country out of any foreign entanglements or
alliances, but they differ from the Nebraskan in
believing that it is essential that this country affirms
the demands set forth in the first note to Germany,
and that the United States should not recede from
the position it has taken, as that position is what our
country has always stood for, and is the cause of
humanity and justice.
The note to Germany is so worded that the
Berlin foreign office, and the other European
countries cannot fail to realize that it is the firm
intention of the United States to insist on its rights,
which are the rights of all neutrals, and to take
action to enforce those rights, if any action becomes
necessary. Mr. Bryan has announced that he is a
supporter of the president and will continue to
support him politically.
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 9.—Among the
government officials here it is believed that Bryan’s
resignation will be a big force in impressing on
Germany the fact that the United States intends to
insist upon its rights as a neutral, to travel the high
seas in unarmed merchant vessels of whatever
nationality. High German officials believed that the
present Washington administration was committed
to the policy of uninterrupted peace, and that it
would not make war under any circumstances. Ber
lin now realizes that this view was a mistake, and
that their diplomats have not rightly judged the
calibre of Wilson and the members of his cabinet.
They so misjudged the English attitude when the
war broke out owing to the complications in Great
Britain over Ireland, and it is thought that Germany
will not wish to make any further mistakes of that
nature.
Bryan has issued a statement in which he says
that he favored the arbitration of the Lusitania
matter by an International Commission. He thinks
the government should take all steps possible to
prevent Americans from travelling on the ships of
a belligerent country, and that all American passen
ger ships should be prohibited from carrying
ammunition. Joseph P. Tumulty, private secretary
to President Wilson said that the chief executive
would under no circumstances discuss Bryan’s state
ment. When Wilson and Bryan parted at the White
House today, they both shook hands warmly, and
each said to the other “God bless you.’’
Bryan looked to be perfectly cheerful over the
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situation, and he told his friends that he slept well
last night for the first time in many months. The
letters which both Bryan and Wilson have explain
ing the friendly relations between the two, have been
cabled to the American diplomatic representatives
in all the belligerent countries, so that they may
understand the situation fully.
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 9.—Robert Lan-;
sing, the counselor of the State Department has
received a formal appointment from Wilson making
him an ad interim Secretary of State. Lansing’s
signature will be appended to the second note to
Germany. Bryan has announced that he will make
a public statement setting forth the causes of his
resignation as soon as the note to Germany is
dispatched.
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 8 —William J.
Bryan called at the White House this afternoon to
i take leave of his former chief, President Wilson,
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WASHINGTON, D. C., June 9—William J
Bryan, ex Secretary of State, took formal leave of
his under secretaries and colleagues in the State j
Department today. In saying good bye to hisj
co workers Bryan remaked that his affection for
President Wilson was unchanged, and that his resig
nation would in no manner affect the cordial rela
tions that have always existed between them. He
continued by saying that he also knew that the presi
dent felt warmly towards him. It has been authori
tatively announced that the Nebraskan will continue
to be a staunch supporter of Wilson in the affairs of
the Democratic party. Bryan believes that he can
j even assist the president in the sentiment that Wil
I son is trying to build up in favor of the arbitration
of disputes between the United States and foreign
countries.
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 9.—The report'
that Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels had
resigned from the cabinet has been flatly denied and
there is absolutely no foundation for the rumor. The
rumor was started by the enemies of Daniels, who
I have almost as many opponents in public life as the
1 ex-secretary of state had. Daniels has always been
| a warm friend and supporter of Bryan, but in this
; matter of the crisis with Germany he sided with
the president, as did all the others in the cabinet
with the single exception of Bryan. Some of the
cabinet members even went so far as to strongly
urge that the note should be made even stronger
I than it is.
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