The Cordova Daily Times
VOLUME TWO. NUMBER 38L CORDOVA, ALASKA, TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 14, 191(5. PRICE TEN CENTS.
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COLUMBUS. March 13. — The a
tual concentration of American trooi
for the purpose of entering Mexico :
pursuit of the outlaws who raided th
V'city Thursday morning, is going c
expeditiously, and it is apparent th;
this city has been selected as the ba;
from which the operations will 1
directed. The Carranza garrison i
Palomas, across the border in Mexic
has received large re-enforcement
and now numbers about two thousar
men. General Villa, with a small boc
of men, has been reported as fleeir
south, away from the'United Stati
border, into the mountains whic
pareliel the state border line betwee
Sonora and Chihuahua. He is movii
in the general direction of Guerrer
which is the place where Villa begs
his career of outlawry years ago. O
ficers of the United States army hei
express the opinion that Villa can «
hide himself in the mountains, ar
that he is so familiar with the cou:
try here .that it may take months
track him down and capture him.
EL PASO, March 13. — A detacl
ment of Mexican cavalry was di
patched today from Laguna, a town
is! north of Chihuahua city, to Casas
n Grande, in order to protect the five
is hundred Mormons who are concen- ^
n trated there. The Mormons have been
it reported as being in danger from Villa (
e and his outlaws. All telegraphic com- ,
ie munication with their community has :
it been cut. and much anxiety has been j
a, expressed for their safety. Attempts f
b, have been made from both Chihuahua j
d city and Juarez to get in touch with j
y the Mormons, but they ended in fail
g ure. General Gavira, the Carranza
‘8 commander at Juarez, came to this
h city today and held a conference with
n General Pershing, of the United States
g army. While the two were discussing!
3, | the proposed plan of the United States,
n'to send troops across the border, un-^
t-1 official word was received that Car-!
■e ranza’s request for a reciprocal ar
o rangement was likely to be granted,
d Gavira received the news cordially,
i- Afterwards both Gavira and Persh
o ing stated that the conference was en
tirely satisfactory.
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j- WASHINGTON, March 13. — The
United States has accepted the propo
sal made by General Carranza for re
ciprocal pursuit of the Villa bandits,
:hus allowing Mexican forces to enter
this country in case Villa should cross
:he border. Carranza’s ambassador,
3enor Arredondo, was officially noti-'
’ied of this decision by the secretary
jf state this afternoon. Mr. Lansing
ssued a statement to the press, say
ng that the miltary operations in
Mexico, to be undertaken by this (
country, would be scrupulously con-,
fined to the object already announced, I
tamely, the capture or death of Villa, J
ind the disposal of his outlaw band.
He said that under no circumstances
would the American troops be allowed
ir suffered to infringe the sovereignty
if Mexico in any degree. Neither are
they to be allowed to intervent in any
way in the usual govermentai affairs
if our sister republic.
WASHINGTON, March 13. — In
granting reciprocal permission for the
soldiers of General Carranza to pur-|
sue the Villa bandits into American
territory, the United States informed
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ihe Mexican government that the only
reason for our action in the matter
Is the inability of the Mexican troops
to handle the situation in northern
Mexico so that Amerioan lives and
property can be safeguarded. It is
realized that Carranza is in a delicate
position with his de facto government,
and that he Is forced to satisfy the
conflicting elements in his own coun
try. The manifesto ‘ issued to the
Mexican people by Carranza is not
regarded here as a communication to
the United States, and the statements
therein that our troops would not be
allowed to enter Mexico unless the
same privilege was granted to the
Mexican troops, is not being consid
ered by the Wilson administration in
determining its policy.
The first instructions sent to Gen
eral Funston to pursue Villa, given
before the Carranza manifesto, have
not been changed, and probably will
not be. It is considered likely that
the Senate will interpose no objec
tions if the President makes a tem
porary arrangement with Carranza,
such as has been outlined. Wilson
.conferred with Speaker Champ Clark
and Majority Leader Claude Kitchin <
today, and urged them to speed up <
the House so that Congress could dis- j '
pose of the bills for increasing the (
army and navy, the tariff measures, i
the Philippine bill and the shipping i
bill. I 1
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WASHINGTON, March 13. — The
United States will send an official re-!
ply today to General Carranza in re-ji
! sponse to his request for permission t
I to pursue the Mexican bandits lnto^l
American territory, in case such an t
event became necessary. The gov- i
'ernment will probably consent to such j i
a reciprocal agreement, and little fear I
is expressed that the occasion will I
[ever arise for Mexican troops to en
ter the United States. Carranza yes
j terday issued a manifesto to the Mex- <
ican people saying that no American ;
troops would be permitted to enter ] i
Mexico in pursuit of General Villa! i
and his band of Mexican outlaws, un
less a similar permission was granted j
to the Mexican forces for them to en- \
ter the United States.
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SAN ANTONIO, March 13. — Gen
ral Fre<l Funston, commander, in
hief of the American forces which
vill pursue Villa into Mexico, said to
il y that the expedition would not
sove before tomorrow at the earliest,
le announced officially that General
’ershing would be in actual command
if the men in Mexico.
WASHINGTON, March 13. — It Is
inderstood, but not confirmed as yet,
hat President Wilson and Secretary
,ansing have agreed to send an im
nediate reply to Carranza's note ask
ng for the right to pursue the bandits
nto American territory. The rumor
s that they have agreed to suggest
he Mexican suggestion in the matter.
SAN ANTONIO. March 13. — Gen
•ral Funston announced postively this
ifternocn that there would be no
novement of American troops across
he international border today. He
efused to disclose when the expedP
ion would start on Its pursuit of
i’illa, except stating that it would be
soon.
, SEWARD VISITED
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BLAZE
SEWARD. March 13. — Seward was
visited by another destructive fire,
which commenced in the Daggett
block at 7 o’clock this morning. Be-i
fore the flames could be checked the
entire Daggett block was destroyed.
The building was the newest business j
block in Seward, and was owned by
Dr. Charles A. Daggett, the dentist,
who had his own offices therein, j
Other buildings destroyed before the
i fire was checked were the Daggett
residence, S. L. Colw’ell s store, which
was a new building. Mr. Colwell’s re
sidence and two or three adjacent cab
ins. The Rainier Buffet, a saloon in
the Daggett buildings, lost its entire
stock and fixtures, and the Alaska
Evening Post, one of Seward’s daily
papers, lost practically all of its plant,
including the newspaper press and
linotype machine. The fire was caused
by an overheated furnace in the Dag
gett building, and the firemen were
hampered because of the lack of water
due to the prolonged cold spell. The >
total loss is estimated at $35,000. The j
owners of the Alaska Evening Post
announced after the fire that a new
plant would be ordered at once.
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KATARI.A, March 13. — The launch
Waif will salvage the barge Washing
ton, which was wrecked near here
several weeks ago, with a cargo of
lumber for the Copper River railroad, j
The Waif got a Hne on the barge, has]
placed a man in charge and will take
off the lumber.
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igt Will Cluyson is coming home on the j
*T Northwestern, after a business trip to
Skagway and Seattle.
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Mrs. W. H. Seagrave is returning on
the steamer Northwestern from an ex
tended visit to the States.
RUSH STILL UN
FROM STATES
SEATTLE, March 13. — The steam
er Northwestern sailed late Saturday
afternoon with a capacity load of pas
sengers, 136 of whom are booked for
Cordova, as follows: Sam McGunn,
Mrs. Spence, James Keller, II. D. Fos
ter, Mrs. N. Jones, Mrs, D. D. Bowers.
Mrs. Ida Douglass, Dave Friedman,
Mrs. W. W. Seagrave, S. Spanglar
and wife, A. Keller, C. Hanover, J.
Frank, Mrs. L. Frank, H. Robson,
Mrs. R. Taylor, Miss Lolo Turner,
Mrs. L. Walters, W. Garner and wife,
Roy School, Charles Peterson, B. Lee.
Mrs. M. Duff, Winnifred Brown, J.
Turner, Will Clayson. H. Roseburg,
E. Sutherland, M. Donahoe. George
Rudd, John Reese, M. Foss, C. Schon,
Carl Larson, Charles Fleeman, Charles
McClurg, Mark Stein. O. Stein, A.
Garner, J. Clayworth, R. Longley, A.
Williams and wife, Sam Nagun and
wife, Mrs. Kate Brown. Mrs. W. W.
Council and daughter, I. Herrington,
Thomas Kiel, August Burglund, Emil
Vanrose, and seventy- two steerage.
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BERI,IN, March 13. — For nearly a
year and a half the American business
men and firms in Germany, cut off al
most entirely from the goods with
which they do business, have been
making desperate but comparatively
unorganized efforts to stave off the
ruin that has been staring them in the
face. Some have tried to import
stocks surreptitiously, while others
have attempted by curtailment and
economy to weather the storm. But,
just as steadily as they have curtailed
just so steadily has England tightened
its blockade, until today the man
who receives a shiptftent of anything
that is non-contraband is envied of
all his fellow American business men.
This situation became Immeasurab
ly worse last year, when the facilities
of the parcels post no longer were
available. More than one firm had
eked out its existence by this means.
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YESTERDAY
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PARIS, March 13. — The war office
official communique issued today re
counts further particulars of the fight
ing to prevent the Germans breaking
through the French lines at Verdun.
The night was comparatively quiet,
The Teutons ceasing their infantry
attacks, so that the men in the tren
ches had a much needed rest. The
artillery bombardment continued at
intermittent intervals, but no damage
of consequence was caused by the
enemy’s guns. Practically the only
activity along the western front is
confined to the zone north and east
of Verdun, and in the plains of the
Woevre. Officers arriving here today
from the scene of the battles assert
that the German losses in trying to
capture Fort Vaux last Friday and
Saturday surpassed all previous rec
ords in this war. The Germans charged
j in great columns, their ranks being
four deep, dashing forward from their
own trenches only to melt aw'ay under
fixe, nf tlin Pr/mnh hflH
machine guns. When the smoke and
dust cleared away after the Germans
had been hurled back the spaces in
front of the French positions were
heaped up with the bodies of the dead
and dying Germans. Military observ
ers assert that the German losses
have been so enormous that their at
tacks have already lost two-thirds of
their effectiveness.
PROSPECTOR BELIEVED LOST IS
SAFE AT CHISANA.
Judge Fred M. Brown, of the district
court, has received information from
Shushanna via McCarthy that Ernest
Bryson, the prospector who was be
lieved to have been lost while en
route to the headwaters of the Tan
ana river, is alive and well in Chisana.
When the prospector was reported
lost and probably in need of assist
ance application was made to the court
for funds to send out a searching
party to the rescue. As the court
has no funds for that purpose. Judge
Brown put the matter up to Governor
Strong, with the result that $100 was
made immediately available to make
the search for the missing man. The
news was brought to McCarthy by a
man who had recently come over the
glacier from the Shushanna, and had
seen Bryson there.
SHACK CARRIES!
PRIMARIES AT
JUNEAU
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JUNEAU, March 13. — The Wicker
j sham-Shackleford combination carried
'practically all the Republican primar
ies in the First division on Saturday
afternoon. The precincts heard from,
including Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell,
Skagway, Haines, Sitka. Wrangell and
^ Ketchikan, making fifty-four delegates
out of the sixty that will be controlled
by the new political alliance. Shack
leford carried Juneau by a vote of 513
to 76 against the Rustgard delegation.
The fight at Douglas was closer the
O'Connor crowd being bealen by a
vote of 101 to 71. Shackleford claims,
1 from advices he has received, that he
will control the Seward convention.
SEWARD. March 13. — There was
but one ticket in the field at the Re- |
' publican primaries on Saturday, the ^
delegates elected being^J. Allison Bru
ner, E. L. Wittemore, ©r. J. M. Sloan,1
Matt Button, E. E. Chamberlain, J. J.
Finnegan, W. P. Henry and 1,. U.
James, Jr.
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NO FERTILIZER ON PRIBILOFF
ISLANDS.
Delegate Wickersham has exploded
j the theory of Secretary Redfield, of;
the department of commerce, that the
government owns valuable fertilizer
deposits on the Pribiloff islands, which
! would furnish cargoes for vessels re
' turning from the north.
The Alaska representative, in an in— j
tervlew printed in a Washington news
paper, says that the seal bones on the
Pribiloff islands have been tested and
found to have no value whatever as
a fertilizer. The delegate believes
that with the development of the re- ,
sources of Alaska that there will he
no lack of tonnage for vessels in the [ i
Alaska trade. ii
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TWO TUGS PURCHASED BY THE i
COMMISSION. i
Two tugs, the Annie W. and W. L.
Roscoe, of Portland, have been pur- ]
chased by the Alaskan engineering I
commission for use In transferring I
supplies and construction material to 1
the shore at the head of Cook inlet, i
The boats were purchased for $42,000. i
The Annie W. will be used on Turn- !
again arm aud the W. L. Roscoe at I
Anchorage. I
PORI ILLS
A deed has been placed at Valdez
which transfers the Port Wells No. 1,
Port Wells No. 2 and Granite mineral
claims from Jonathan Irving and Mark
L. Tatum to W. H. Millard, for a con
sideration of fifty thousand dollars.
The instrument bears date of Febru
ary 19. 1914.
The above property is that which
has been developed by, the Granite
Gold Mining Company, of which Sen
ator B. F. Millard is the president,
and W. R. Millard the superintendent,
and which has produced bullion valued
at nearly three hundred thousand dol
lars since active development was
started two years ago.
The placing of the deed on record
shows that the purchase price has all
been paid, when it is considered that
the mine has been equipped with one
of the best and most expensive plants
in Alaska for the treatment of its ores,
at a cost of more than seventy thou
sand dollars, and that nearly all of
the indebtedness has been paid off
by the output of the mine its future
appears to be gilt edged.
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COLLEGE RACES
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NEW YORK, March 13. — Although j
he stewards of the Intercollegiate!
lowing Association have not as yet!
leclded definitely upon either the
Poughkeepsie or Ithaca course for the,
916 regatta, Cornell authorities have,
tutllned the possibilities of Cayuga
,ake as the scene of the intercollegi- j
ite crew races. From the spectators’ |
itandpoint observation car facilities
:an be provided for as many pe^ons
it Itahara as on the Hudson river
it retch.
The railroad tracks parellel the lake
ihore and the view of the rowing races
s excellent, the crew nearest the bank
leing less than a hundred feet away
rons the observation train. No build
ngs or woodland obstruct the view at
,ny point along the proposed three'
nd a quarter mile course, and there
re vantage points along the high
lonks for thousands, who prefer them
o the rolling grandstand.
PEOPLES TICKET
FOR APRIL
The Peoples’ Ticket is the first one
in the field for the coining municipal
election. It contaius the names of
Henry A. Slater, Edgar J. Davis, Wil
liam L. Smith, Bartley Howard and
Geo. A. Harmon, who are at present
serving as councilmen. and also those
of A. J. Adams and E. A. Hegg for
council, and Harry 1 O'Neill for school
director. Petitions were circulated
yesterday by the friends of tiie above
named me nasking (hat they stand as
candidates and their names be printed
on the official ballot.
The five members of the present
council, who are seeking re-election,
are willing to stand on their record,
believing that they have conducted
the affairs of the city in a manner
that should meet with the approval of
the voters. The other two candidates,
Messrs. Adams and Hegg, are among
our largest property owners, and are
well and favorably known by the peo
ple of Cordova. Mr. O’Neill has
served on the school board before and
gave a most satisfactory account of
himself. Thus far this is the only
ticket that has been submitted to the
voters for their support, and there is
likely to be little or no opposition to it.
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AMERICAN PIJNT
IN MEXICO 1C
SHUT DM
NEW YORK, Marc h 13. - T I
office of the American Smctc 0 &
Refining Company in this city y
announced that all of the ecu.,.. „■ 's
employees of Athericau citi p,
had been withdrawn from >.
This step was taken as the sa . f
the men was feared for In th t
that Funston and his men cm a
border in pursuit of Villa. Th
pany’s works are now totally ct
iown.
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Miss Lola Turner, who has- n
back east with her parents f <
eral months, is returning to C. >,