The Cordova Daily Times
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VOLUME TWO. NIJMBKK :iss. CORDOVA, ALASKA, WHDNKSDAV j&ORNING, MARCH 15, 1916. PRICE TEN CENTS.
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WASHINGTON, March 14. — The
administration officials, including
President Wilson, are much incensed
over the publication in certain Am
erlcan newspapers of reports to the
7 effect that the United States expects
to have trouble w'ith General Carran
za because of the punitive expedition
against Villa. Some of the officials
have openly expressed their resent
ment against the editors in question
for their unpatriotic actions in de
liberately trying to embarras the gov
ernment while it is trying to handle
a delicate foreign situation, involving
the murder of American citizens. Some
of the officials have gone so far as
to state that in their belief the pub
lications were disseminated for the
purpose of forcing this country into
war with Mexico, and that the ele
i rnent behind the movement were act
! ing for their own selfish advantage,
| regardless of the principles Involved,
’t and without any conception of their
duty to their own country. These in
j eiters of public anger, are well known
to President Wilson and his advisers,
. and steps are now being considered
to stop the publication of all alarmist
* reports. All of the official reports re
< reived from Mexico assert that there
was no outbreak of feeling on the part
of the Mexicans against the United
! States when it became known that
the American troops were planning to
' enter that country. According to what
can be learned from the consuls the
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! reports of the Pershing expedition
I were favorably received by the Mexi
can people. It is also reported that
General Carranza was favorably ira
' pressed with the tenor and evident
j sincerity of the American note.
SAN ANTONIO, March 14.—A rigid
censorship has been ordered at Co
lumbus by General Funston. He in
structed General Pershing today to
take charge of all telegraph offices,
watch all automobile routes in and out
of the city, and guard the telegraph
wires from being tapped. He an
nounced that anyone caught attempt
ing to violate this censorship would
be severely dealt with, and that if
the censorship was unsuccessful, mar
tial law would be declared, and the
civil administration of this portion of
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New Mexico taken over by the army.
KL PA80, March 14. — Reports re
ceived here today state that (leneral
Villa and his band of outlaws are
heading southward from Galena, and
it is said also that they are now en
circled by Carranza troops. These ad
vices were received at Juarez from
General Guiterrez, the commander in
chief of the Carranza forces In the
state of Chihuahua. It is said that
Guiterrez has fifteen thousand sol
diers under him in Chihuahua, and
that heavy reinforcements are moving
forward to him from the state of So
nora. Guiterrez is reported as saying
that Villa has but a small chance to
escape.
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WASHINGTON, March 14. — Offi
cial reports concerning the Mexican
situation so far have contained no in
formation of the movement of Ameri
can troops across the border, although
it was thought yesterday that Persh
ing and his men would get under way
before sunset today. It is hardly
thotiRht that the expedition has started
yet.
DOUGLAS, Arizona, March 14. —
The tension which has existed be
tween the Mexican and American
troops on opposite sides of the border
| was noticeably eased today. General
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(’alien, the Carranza commander in
chief in Sonora, is only waiting the
official communication from his chief
in Mexico City, to the effect that an
agreement has been consummated
with the United States, before co
operating with the forces of General
Funston.
WASHINGTON, March 14. — The
department of state was officially ad
vised by Senor Arredondo, the Mexi
can ambassador, today that the reply
sent by his government to Carranza’s
request for reciprocal arrangements
in regard to the pursuit of Villa, had
met with a most favorable reception
by Carranza and his advisers in the
seat of the Mexican government.
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SINKING SILIUS
CHRISTIANIA, March 14. — The
Norwegian people have expressed
much resentment over (lie torpedoing
of the bark Silius at Havre, without
warning, and the press of the coun
try have been unanimous in their ex
pression of indignation over what is
termed an unwarrantable outrage. The
government has taken cognizance of
the matter, and upon receipt of the
# story of the master of the vessel, an
** official note was dispatched to the
Berlin foreign office, requesting an
explanation of the attack.
WASHINGTON. March 14. — It
was unofficially intimated to the state
department today that Germany would
make complete amends to the 1 nited
States if it was found that the Nor
wegian bark Silius, attacked without
warning while entering the Havre
roads, had been torpedoed by a Ger
man submarine. There were seven
American sailors among the crew of
the Silius, and while none of them
were among the killed, one of them,
a boy of eighteen, was severely
wounded.
COL. RICHARDSON
SENT MEXICAN
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WASHINGTON, March 14. — Col.
k Richardson, chairman of the Alaska
* road commission, with headquarters
at Valdez, has been detached from his
activities in the north and ordered
to active service. He will at once
proceed to duty along the Mexican
frontier. While the order does not
definitely remove Colonel Richardson
from his post as head of the road com
mission. it is likely that he will not
go to Alaska this year.
CHITINA DELEGATES TO SEWARD
CONVENTION.
CHITINA, March 14. — At the Re
publican primary held here last Sat
urday. the following delegates were
elected to attend the Republican con
vention at Seward on April 19: Oscar
Kish, F. M. Schnapp, Jos. Brown and
fleo. Slade.
The steamer Admiral Farragut left
Natalia at 5:30 o'clock yesterday af
ternoon and reached Cordova at 3
o’clock this morning.
BUIU SlUtS Anti
PARIS, March 14. — The war office
issued an official communique this
morning to the effect that the chief
activities along the fighting front
north of Verdun was confined to ar
tillery bombardments, both sides using
their big guns. The artillery tire lias
slackened somewhat in most places,
and last night was one of comparative
quiet, with the exception of the line
west of the Meuse river, where the
cannonading was continuous and fair
ly violent. A reconnaissance in force
attempted by the Teutons in the
Haudremont wood was easily checked,
the enemy being forced to retire,
leaving dead and wounded before the
French positions. The fighting for
Fort Vaux was not of the hand to
hand nature that has been going on
heretofore, no infantry attacks being
attempted, the French maintaining
their positions, and replying vigorous
ly to a severe bombardment from the
Germany artillery. The same situa
tion is reported in the plains of the
Woevre, the infantry being inactive,
although the men in the trenches were
subjected to a continual shell fire, in
tlie Impede good, a fair sized detach
ment of Germans attempted to take
some French positions by storm, hut
was repulsed, the French losses being
slight. The military observers con
tinue to express the utmost confidence
in the ability of General Joffre to pre
vent the Germans from breaking
through, and the public is reflecting
the same condition of mind.
ASQUITH SEIZED
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LONDON. March 14. — Premier As
quith was confined to his bed today
and yesterday, and did not appear to
take up his duties as head of the gov
ernment. Asquith lias been seized with i
a severe attack of bronchial catarrh,
which, while not serious, has made the |
minister quite ill. The physicians j
state that he will be out and around
again in a few days.
Asa C. Baldwin, a civil engineer
from Valdez, who spent the past three
: or fouh days here, returned to his
home on the Farragut this morning.
For Sale — Singer sewing machine.
Good bargain. Apply Cordova Dress
• making Parlor's, Adams building.
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WASHINGTON, March 14. Kx-!
President William Howard Taft, and
six other former presidents of the Am
erican Bar Association appeared be
fore the Senate sub-committee, which
has been holding hearings on the ap
pointment of Louis O. Brandeis to the
supreme court, and protested vigor
ously against the President's choice.
Among the matter given to the com
mittee was a letter signed by Talt
and five of these ex-presidents of the
American Bar Association, which
stated positively that in their opinion
Brandeis was not a fit person to hold
the exalted position of a plnco on the
court made famous bv John .Marshal,
and other noted American jurists.
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BILLS
WASHINGTON, March 14. — Presi
dent Wilson today again conferred
with the leaders in the House, and
asked them to hurry the preparedness
billH. He talked with Chairman Pad
gett. of the House naval committee,
and especially requested haste on the
bills now being considered before that
committee. Padgett assured the Pre
sident of his hearty support in the
matter, and said that the hearings on
the bills for increasing the navy would
end within the next two weeks, and
also asserted that the committee
Would act favorably ^>n the bills for
strengthening the sea service. The
sentiment in the houses is strongly in
favor of the navy bills, and when the
committee reports there is no ques-,
tion but that the report will be adop
ted by a large majority.
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Miss Kathryn Monauan, who spent
the past week here on court work,
left for her home at Valdez this morn
ing.
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A number of tickets have already
been sold for the dance on St. Pat
rick’s night.
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J. M. Ball and W. Jean, deputy fish
commissioners, left on the boat this
morning for the westward.
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Snyder and Burnette will open/
within the next day or two, The Stag
Cafe, which they will conduct in the
rear of O'Brien <& Simpson’s saloon.
bLNAIUh MUM
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WASHINGTON, March 14 — United
States Senator Benjamin F. Shively,
of Indiana, died in this city today af
ter a short illness. Deceased was
born at South Bnd, Indiana. March 20,
1857; was educated in the public
schools and at the Northern Indiana
Normal school, and the University of
Michigan; taught school from 1874
to 1880, after which he engaged in
joonralism; was president of the
board of trustees of Indiana Univer
sity. In 1884 he was elected a rep
resentative to the short term of the
forty eighth Congress, to fill a va
cancy caused by the resignation of
.Major Calkins; was reelected a mem
ber of t,he succeeding three Con
gresses; declined a renomination in
1892; was the Democratic nominee
for governor of Indiana in 1896; was
elected to the United States Senate in
January, 1909.
PROTEST ACTS
OF HUES
WASHINGTON. March 14. — In or
der to show the United States that
the Teuton submarines were not the
only ones violating the principles of
accepted international law’ which this
country has been contending for. the
Austrian government today presented
the state department with the facts
In two cases where Austrian merchant
vessels, unarmed, were torpedoed by
allied submarines without warning.
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WOOLWICH, Kng., March 14. —
Ten thousand boys, too young to fight,
are doing what they consider the next
best service for their coun|ry—turn
ing out munitions in the government
arsenal here. In ordinary times
many would have become office boys,
clerks or telegraph messengers, but
today the majority come from points'
miles from the factory and help the
older men make the shells and guns
needed by the men at the front.
Alii DILL WILL
WASHINGTON. March IS. — In ac
cordance with the expressed desire of
President Wilson to expedite the vari
ous preparedness measures before
Congress, the committee on rules of
the House today appointed a sub-com
mittee to confer with Speaker Champ
Clark oi^ methods of side-tracking all
other business after the passage of
the bill repealing free sugar. If this
can be done the House will immedi
ately enter upon consideration of the
army bill, which has already been re
ported by the committee on military
affairs.
WASHINGTON. March 14. — A re
solution will be introduced in the
House within a day or two, probably
tomorrow, which, if passed, will per
mit the war department to raise the
standing army to its full strength of
one hundred thousand men. This will
include all branches of the service.
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SUPPLIES AT
VLADIVOSTOK, March 14. — Con
gestion of war supplies at Vladivos
tok continues to grow worse. At pre
sent there are twenty-eight steamers
in the harbor or waiting in the bay
to enter the harbor. Pier facilities are
lacking to accommodate these steam
ers. The thermometer registers 20
degrees below' zero, and the extreme
temperature ahd ice at'b adding to the
confusion. The cranes ou the piers
are not heavy enough to lift locomo -
tives and other heavy weights, and
consequently lighters must be utilized
for this purpose. As there are only
sufficient lighters to unload four
steamers, the handling of locomotives
is greatly delayed.
Four hundred and fifty American
locomotives were sold to Russia for
use in speeding up war supplies, an!
so far less than fifty of these have
been unloaded at Vladivostok. Ameri
can manufacturers are also sending
twenty thousand steel cars to Vladi
vostok. Heavy floating cranes wefro
brought from Japan to handle the wfrr
supplies, but It is almost impossible
to move these in the ice, and they are
of an old type not well adapted to the |
present work.
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James Kish has returned to Valdez,
after a short stay here.
LAIMIb IA Htb
SHORT OUTING •
WASHINGTON. Marih 14. — Secre
taVy of State Lansing left Ms office at
the state department today to spend
a week's vacation at Hinehurst, South
Carolina. Lansing has been working
hard of late, and this is the first
opportunity he has had rt> leave bis
desk for any length of time since he
succeeded Bryan in the cabinet. It is
understood that the Mexican situation
is entirely in tlie hands of the war
department, and that that affair will
not demand his presence in Wash
ington.
DRY AFTER ;
WINNIPEG. .March 14. — The pro
vince of Manitoba adopted prohibition
today by an enormous majority. The
law will be effective May 31. after
which time the sale of intoxicating li
quor in any form will be barred. Even
this city, where the liquor men were
supposed to be strongly entrenched,
voted in favor of prohibition by a big
majority. The decision is a severe
blow to the liquor interests, and means
the practical destruction of an enor
mous capital now invested in saloons
and liquor stocks.
SIGNAL LIGHTS
FOR ZEPPELIN
LONDON. March 14. — Following
the Zeppelin raid on the midland
counties, this uotlce was posted in a
Lincolnshire town:
"In future any person seen flashing
a light or letting off any sort of rocket
or firework when hostile aircraft are
present, or expected, will he fired on
without notice.”
So much fable has grown up around
the Zeppelin raids that it is impossible
to tell whether or not there is any
basis of fact to the stories of spies
communicating with the invaders by
means of signal lights. After every
raid a crop of stories appears about
mysterious motor cars with a brilliant >
upturned light concealed in the body.
These stories are well vouched for,
but always come by hearsay.
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