VOL. V. NO. 71_CORDOVA, ALASKA, MONDAY. FEBRUARY 23, 1920_PRICE TEN CENTS
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GOVERNOR EDWARDS TO MAKE HARD FIGHT FOR ITS ADOPTION
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'LAND 01 FOR
LOCATION UPON
APPROVAL BE
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WASHINGTON, Feb, 23 (by Associ
ated Press).—The coal and oil land
sy leasing bill, which is now in the hands
of President Wilson for signature, pro
vides a maximum acreage by any one
applicant for oil lands of 3,200 acres.
The ground will be open to selection
immediately after the approval of the
"bill. The location notices must be
posted after the. signing of the bill,
and proof must be made that they
w^re posted after the measure be
comes a law.
michiganIs
NOW FIGHTING
p PROHIBITION
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CHICAGO, Feb. 23 (by Associated
Press).—Major A. V. Dalrymple, fed
eral prohibition director for the Cen
tral states, announces that a “rebel
lion against prohibition” has broken
out in the iron country of Michigan.
The supervising prohibition agent
that district, through Major Dal
rymple, has applied to Attorney Gen
eral Palmer for assistance.
Major Dalrymple has ordered the
assembly of a force of picked prohibi
tion agents, who, he says, will start
on an armed expedition to clean up
the iron country. The Washington
department has promised assistance.
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' SAYS TREATY
SHOULD NOT BE
1 PARTY ISSUE
BALTIMORE, Md., Feb. 23 (by As
sociated Press).—Herbert Hoover,
speaking at Johns Hopkins University
yesterday, declared in opposition to
making the question of the ratifica
tion of the peace treaty an issue in
* the presidential campaign. He said
the arguments on the treaty would
"‘obscure our pressing democratic is
sues.”
Mr. Hoover said the country already
■had made up its mind on the treaty,
and there could be no party credit in
a treaty fight. Hope for the immedi
ate ratification of the treaty, he said,
Tested in the acceptance by the lesser
reservationists of the mild reserva
tionists’ proposals. Both parties, he
^id, appeared to be agreed on the
league’s major ideas. The real peace
of the world would be delayed until
the United States ratified the treaty,
declared the speaker.
BIG SUM TO BE RAISED
FOR HOME FOR GIRLS
HELENA, Mont., Feb. 23 (by Associ
ated Press).—Mrs. C. L. Bovard of
4 Helena, field agent of the “Big Sister”
movement, has organized a campaign
in a number of Montana cities, and ex
pects to visit all the laregr centers
within a few weeks in the interests
of a fund for the Montana Florence
Crittenten home for girls here. It is
hoped to raise $50,000 in the state by
> spring.
HYDROPHOBIA PATIENT
BECOMES UNRULY AND
IS SHOT BY GUARDS
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MONTGOMERY, Ala., Peh: 23 (bj
Associated Press).—James Tolliver, i
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negro who was bitten two years age
by a pet dog, and who developed hy
drophobia, was shot and killed by of
fleers yesterday, who were called tc
subdue him after he had attacked the
surgeons at the hospital.
SOVIET RUSSIA
IS LIKELY TO
BE RECOGNIZED
LONDON, Feb. 23 (by Associated
Press),—It is believed that Premier
Lloyd George and the Italian premier,
Nitti, favor the resumption of rela
tions with soviet Russia. Premier
Millerand is inclined to await Ameri
can action on the Question, which
will be diseussed at a meeting of the
three premiers today.
The Chronicle says that candid
minds must recognize that soviet Rus
sia is all of Russia, as there is no
anti-Bolshevik organization now in ex
istence.
ARREST CHINK
AND UNEARTH
STOCK OF DOPE
VANCOUVER, B. C., Feb. 23 (by As
sociated Press).—James J. Wing,
Chinese, alias Chan Chin, was arrested
by the police here yesterday. Under
his bedroom floor were found drugs
worth $20,000 wholesale.
Letters also were found from Spo
kane, Seattle, Butte, Denver and Ta
coma ordering drugs for $75 per ounce.
While the police were in Wing’s
rooms his telephone bell rang fre
quently, and calls were received from
residents in all parts of the city order
ing drugs.
The police say the seizure is one of
the largest ever made on the Pacific
coast.
EALY IS ACQUITTED
OF MURDER CHARGE
SEATTLE, Feb. 23 (by Associated
Press).—The jury in the case of Will
iam Fay Ealy, charged with the mur
der of Mrs. Mary Bryan on October 19
last, brought in a verdict of acquittal
Saturday evening.
DEMAND FOR TIMBER
BUT SUPPLY LIMITED
MISSOULA, Mont., Feb. 23 (by As
sociated Press).—The timber cut in
the national forests of Montana and
Idaho for the first six months of the
present fiscal year amounts to 62,
806,000, approximately the same re
ported for the same period last year.
That there will be little increase in
the cut during the coming two years,
despite the fact that the sales expect
ed in that period will triple those of
past years, is the prediction of forestry
officers.
POLAND TAKES
■ STAND AGAINST
1 SOVIET MENACE
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CHICAGO, Feb. 23 (by Associated
1 Press).—A mass meeting under the
auspices of the Polish National Com
mittee, the first of a series to be held
throughout the country to combat rad
■)
icalism, featured the Washington’s
birthday program here.
The speakers asserted that the re
public of Poland must be strengthened
in her resistance to the advance of the
soviet menace.
Poland, devastated and starving, it
was declared, was making a desperate
^ stand against the Bolsheviki.
CHOOSEJUROR
IN PLACE OF
SICK {
MONTESANO, Wash.. Feb. 23 (by
Associated Press).—The trial of the
I men charged with the Centralia Armis
tice day murders is expected to be
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resumed tomorrow. An alternate
juror will be chosen by lot to replace
Edward Parr, the juror who is suf
fering from influenza. J. H. Fitz, the
county physician, says Parr will be
confined to his bed for ten days.
OFFICERS CAUSE
SMALL RIOT AT
ENTERTAINMENT
DENVER, Feb. 23 (by Associated
Press).—An incipient riot took place
Saturday night at the army recon
struction hospital at Aurora, a sub
urb of this city, when officers ordered
enlisted men to leave the Auditorium,
where a vaudeville performance was
being given. The seats from which
the soldiers had been ordered had
been reserved for officers.
It is said that the guards were
called out and that several of the sol
diers were arrested.
INFLUENCE KILLING OFF
STOCK IN MONTANA
POPLAR, Mont., Feb. 23 (by Asso-j
ciated Press).—Federal veterinary sur
geons, after inquiry into the mysteri
our malady that has been carrying off
stock in northern Montana, are said
to have decided that it is influenza or
i
hemorrhagic septicemia.
LYNN, Mass., Feb. 23 (by Associated
Press).—Four inmates of a home for
aged women in this city were burned
to death in a fire which destroyed the
buildings last night. A score of the
inmates made their way painfully
downstairs to safety.
Julius Anderson, one of the princi
pal owners of the Fairbanks Laundry
Company at Fairbanks, has disposed
of his interest to E. M. Taylor, for
merly in charge of the People’s store
at West Fork.
DEMOCRATS MAY
FACE ISSUE OF
PROHIBITION
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J„ Feb. 23 (bj
Associated Press)--Governor Ed
wards announced yesterday his inten
tion of attending the national Demo
cratic convention, to be held at Sat
Francisco in June, prepared to fighi
for an anti-prohibition plank in the
party platform.
Governor Edwards says that prohi
bition is the livest issue that will come
before the conventions of both parties.
Aspires to Presidency
LANSING, Mich., Feb. 23 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Governor Edwards of
New Jersey has qualified in the Michi
gan presidential primaries for the
Democratic nomination for President,
WOMAN VOTES
AGAINST HER
CONVICTIONS
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TACOMA, Feb. 23 (by Associated
Press).—Mrs. Mattie Strickler, who
voted for a verdict of guilty in the
case of the thirty-six “wobblies” re
cently convicted of syndicalism here,
has made an affidavit that her opinion
was that the defendants were not
guilty. She said that physical exhaus
tion and the representations Qf the
foreman of the jury induced her to
vote against her convictions.
On the strength of these represen
tations counsel for defense has filed a
motion for a new trial.
GUESTS DRIVEN FROM
THEIR HOTEL BY FLAMES
NEW YORK, Feb. 23 (by Associ
the room of William H. Edwards, col
lector of internal revenue, last night,
drove four hundred guests from the
Marie Antoinette hotel.
Edwards, who is a former Princeton
football captain, lost priceless football
trophies.
ARMY TRANSPORT IS
ON WAY TO VLADIVOSTOK
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 23 (by As
sociated Press).—The army transport
President Grant, formerly a Gernian
liner, and second in size only to the
Mount Vernon, has arrived here en
route to Vladivostok to aid in the re
patriation of the Czechoslovak troops.
NEVER LEFT HOME
IN THIRTY-SEVEN YEARS
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GREAT FALLS, Mont., Feb. 23 (by
Associated Press).—Mrs. Sadie Ghulz,
aged 76, who resides on a ranch near
Fort Benton, visited Great Falls re
cently, and for the first time in her
life saw street cars, motion picture
shows and hotel elevators. She said
she had resided in Teton county for
thirty-seven years, and during that
time had never been outside of the
county or farther away from home
than Fort Benton.
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SEATTLEITE NAMED AS
RIO JANEIRO AGENT
OF SHIPPING BOARD
. WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (by Associ
ated Press).—It is announced that E.
P. Erckenbreck of Seattle, formerly
manager of the Chilberg line, has
been named as the Rio Janeiro agent
of the United States Shipping Board.
RAGING FLOODS
CAUSE ALARM
IN SOUTHWEST
PHOENIX, Ariz., Feb, 23 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Floods reaching an
alarming stage are prevalent here.
The water is rising a foot an hour
at the Granite Reef dam, which regu
lates the flow through the Salt River
’ valley. Eight feet of water is flowing
over the dam, which is the highest
in its history. The water is seven
feet deep over the spillways of the
Roosevelt dam, and is still rising. The
power house is under water four feet
deep and the plant has been shut
down.
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NAVALHONORS
AT FUNERAL OF
LATE ADMIRAL
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The body of Admiral
Robert E. Peary was buried yesterday
with full naval and military honors.
Captain Carroll Wright, chaplain of
the Washington navy yard, officiated
at the ceremonies.
The casket was carried to the ceme
tery on a gun limber draped in the
national flag which Peary raised at
the North Pole. A company of sailors
from the presidential yacht Mayflower
fired a salute and a navy bugler
sounded “taps.”
COMPROMISE RAILROAD
BILL PASSED BY HOUSE
WASHINGTON, Feb, 23 (by Associ
ated Press).—The house on Saturday
approved the compromise Esch-Cum
mings railroad bill.
VICTORIOUS BOWLERS
TO GET BIG PRIZES
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MISSOULA, Mont., Feb. 23 (by As
sociated Press).—The biggest prize
list in the history of state bowling
tournaments in Montana is promised
by the managers of the forthcoming
competition which will be held in this
city March 20-25. Fully $2,500 is to
be offered, according to State Presi
dent Thomas Farley. Entries for the
contests close March 18.
FISH QUOTATIONS
KETCHIKAN, Feb. 23—Prices for
fish on Saturday, February 22, were
as follows: Halibut, firsts, 10c; sec
onds, 7c; sable, 3c; red rock, 2%c.
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AMENDMENT TO
RESERVATIONS
IS DEFEATED
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WASHINGTON, Peb. 23 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The senate on Satur
day defeated a motion by Senator
Hitchcock to amend the Republican
reservations to the peace treaty so
that a joint resolution of congress
would be required to serve notice of
withdrawal from the League of Na
tions. The vote was 38 to 26.
By a vote of 32 to 33 a change pro
posed by the Lodge reservations re
garding withdrawal from the league
was defeated and the senate then re
s'
adopted the original reservation by a
vote of 45 to 20, ^
KICKED OUTBY
REPUBLICANS
FARGO, N. D., Feb. 23 (by Associ
ated Press).—The Nonpartisan League
members of the Republican state com
mittee will hold a meeting in Bismarck
on Friday next, at the call of William
Lamke, the chairman, on account of
the recent action of the Republican
state convention in declaring vacant
all positions on the Republican state
committee held by league members, on
the ground that they belong to an
other political party, and not the Re
publican party.
In the meantime the Republican
state committee is being reorganized
by the appointment of Republicans to
membership in place of the league
members.
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MEAT DEALERS
MUST REDUCE
THEIR PRICES
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CHICAGO, Feb. 23 (by Associated
Press).—Attorney General Palmer de
clares that the retail meat dealers
throughout the country must reduce
their prices as wholesale prices for
meats decline, or submit their books
to a federal agent for an investiga
tion of their profits.
Wholesale meat prices at the Chi
cago stockyards have dropped to pre
war levels for some grades.,
ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL
TRAIL TO BE BUILT
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HELENA, Mont., Feb. 23 (by Asso
ciated Press).—In commemoration of
the late former President Theodore
Roosevelt’s action in establishing the
forest service, the state highway com
mission has designated as Roosevelt
pass the pass over the Rocky moun
tains fom Belton to Glacier national
park, it recently was announced here
by the chief engineer of the commis
sion. The forest service, it was said,
will be asked to construct the ten
miles of highway necessary to nego
tiate the pass. The main highway
running east and west across northern
Montana, extending on to the Pacific
coast, is known as the Roosevelt Me
morial trail.