The Cordova Daily Times
VOLUME TWO. NUMBER 359. CORDOVA, ALASKA, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 10, 1916. PRICE TEN CENTS.
CARRY SUPPLIES
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9, — The
. Alaska engineering commission
/^through Thomas Kiggs. Jr., one of the
members, announced today that it was
making an investigation of the prac
ticability and possibilities of com
municating and carrying supplies to
the field forces of the commission by
the use of hydro-aeroplanes on the in
land waters of Alaska, along the line
of the government railroad. He said
that the matter was being seriously
considered, and if favorable reports
were made, the government would be
using aircraft in Alaska the coming
summer.
MORAN TO FIGHT
NEW YORK, Feb. 9. — The final
1 • articles of agreement have been signed
' for a bout between Willard and
Moran. It will be a ten round go
with no decision, and will take place
at Madison Square Garden, on March
8. The rules of the state boxing com
mission will govern the contest.
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LONDON', Feb. !*. — The Weekly
World In its issue yesterday gave
# considerable prominence to a report
that Lord Kitchener, the secretary of
stale for war. was about to take the
field in person, leading the British
forces in northern France. The same
article claims that Lord Derby, the
originator of the successful recruiting
campaign just completed, will take
Kitchener’s place in the cabinet. The
same story says that if the Germans
should threaten Egypt with an inva
sion, Kitchener is certain to take the
field and direct the British forces in
that country.
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TURKEY AFTER
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BERLIN, Feb. 9. — The society re
cently organized for the economic
study of the Near East has begun a
course of lectures at the University
of Berlin, which Is one of many indi
cations that the economic exploitation
of Turkey after the war is already en
gaging much attention here. The
first lecture was given by It. Junge.
who has spent many years in study
of economic conditions in the Near
East, and who has just published a
book under the title of “The Euro
peanlzatlon of Oriental Business Life.'’
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W. E. t’athcart left on the North
0 western yesterday on a trip to Uhi
r cago, and expects to be gone about
six weeks.
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Everybody has the Empress habit.
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THEATRICAL STARS UNITED
IN MARRIAGE
NEW YORK, Feb. 9. — Geraldine
Farrar, the noted grand opera singer
and prima donna, was married here
today to Lee Telleman, the actor. The
ceremony was a private one, and the
announcement came as a surprise to
the numerous theatrical friends of the
pair.
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PETROGRAD. Feb. 9. — General
Polivaroff, the Russian minister of
war, said today that munitions and
armies of the Czar were now abun
dant, despite the reports to the con
trary. The factories of the empire
have been greatly enlarged and much
valuable material is coming into the
country from the new Russian winter
port by way of the steamship line
from Tromsoe in Norway. The port
of Vladivostok is also busily engaged
receiving large numbers of ships from
Japan and America loaded with guns
and ammunition, which Is being rap
idly transported across the Siberian
railroad to the front. Polivaroff also
said that excellent plans had been de
vised. which would properly see to the
recruiting, and that the regiments at
the front would be kept up to their
full fighting strength.
STR. DORA TO CALL AT CORDOVA
ON RETURN TRIP.
Agent Tallent, of the Alaska Steam
ship Company, says the little steamer
Dora, which plys between Seward and
[Cnalaska, will make her transfer of
freight and passengers at Cordova on
I her return from the westward, the
'latter part of the month. This is ne
jpessary, pending the repairs to the
! Seward dock.
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NEW YpRK, Feb. 9. — Bullish
news concerning the co'pper market
ami reported immense new orders for
future deliveries, caused a wave of
excitement to sweep over the exchange
today, which reacted on all the leading
copper stocks. All of the well known
securities registered substantial ad
vances over yesterday's closing prices'.
The outlook Is that the market will
continue to be a bull one, as the spec
ulators in the street have concluded
11hat there is no possibility for an
[early peace, and the prevailing opin
lion is that Congress will surely pass
■the new administration measures for
i increased national defence. All this
I means, in the eyes of the market, that
[there will be a big demand for copper
'for a long time yet, and it is conf
idently predicted that the price of the
j metal will go much higher than it is'
[ now.
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FIRE EXTINGUISHER TO BE
DEMONSTRATED.
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At a meeting of the Cordova fire
de
will be a practical demonstration of
he Pyrene fire extinguisher by J. F.
Orady. The members of the city
i ouncil have been invited to bo pres
nt and the probabilities are all of
them will attend.
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WASHINGTON, Keb. 9. — High ad
ministration officials staled yesterday
that a settlement of the main points
of controversy in the Lusitania nego
tiations between the United States
and Germany was now in sight. These
officials, while not committing them
selves as to the opinions of the cabi
net members on Germany’s latest pro
positions, go so far as to say to the
press correspondents that the wording
of the agreement proposed by the
Berlin foreign office seems to cover
the position of the United States in
the matter, and that the newspapers
could draw their own conclusions. The
proposal of Germany is substantially
satisfactory, and it is unfair to as
sume that this government will make
a new answer to Germany, demanding
more admissions of culpability on the
part of the commander of the subma
rine which torpedoed the Cuuard liner.
I or asking further concessions from
Germany on the matter of submarine
warfare.
WASHINGTON, Keb. 9.—Germany's
latest proposal for settlement of the
Lusitania case, having proven sub
stantially satisfactory to the govern
ment of the United States, a final set
tlement of (lie controversy is expected
within a few days. Some minor alter
at ions in the form of the agreement
will be made to meet the wishes of
tlie American government, and Am
bassador Hernstorff has consulted the
Berlin foreign office in regard to
these, it is not thought that any fur
ther hitch will occur, but a reply from
Germany cannot lie expected lor at
least six days. It Is confidently lire
dieted that the end of the whole
troublous submarine question is about
to be reached.
RUSSIA PLACES
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TOKIO, Feb. 9. — Japanese woolen
mills have accepted a war order for
2,000.000 yards of woolen cloth for the
Russian government for delivery, be
ginning at once and continuing until
July. The order amounts to 6,000,000
yen or about $3,000,000. It is under
stood that the Japanese companies
have agreed to accept Russian treas
ury bills in payment, a Japanese bank
ing corporation having promised to
discount the bills.
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BERLIN, Feb. 9. — The war office
issued an official bulletin this after
noon, announcing that the Germans
had attacked the French positions
west of the town of Vimy. and taken
by storm a line of French trenches
four hundred yards long. The Ger
mans consolidated the captured posi
tions. and held them despite the strong
counter attacks by the enemy.
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James MacCormac left on yester
day's steamer for the Sitka Hot
Springs, where he will spend a couple
of weeks recuperating his health,
whi.'h has not been of the best, lately.
ARTILLERY DUELS
ONLY BATTLES
BEING FOUGHT
PETROORAD. Feb. » — Advices
from the front in Russia and Galicia
tend to explain the lack of news from
the firing line by saying that a lull
has occurred in the battles, and that
outside of intermittent artillery duels
neither of the combatants is exerting
himself to any great extent. Along
the Dvinzk Riga line nothing is oc
curring but aeroplane warfare, ami
mining operations. The sappers of
both armies have been driving tunnels,
and exploding trenches of their op
ponents. No decided or important
gain has been made along this por
tion of the line for a month. Russia
has received information that a large
body of the seasoned irops, which
were under llindenberg in his great
march through Poland last summer
and fall, have been transferred from
the eastern to the western front. This
is taken by the Russian military ex
perts as an indication of Germany's
probable plan of campaign in the
spring, it is now though that the
next German offensive will be direct
ed against the left flank of the allied
line in Belgium and northern France,
in an effort to smash through to Ca
lais and Dunkirk. The German gen
eral staff, for the present, seems to
be content with holding its own in
itukowina, and in the northern sec
tion, and are preparing to devote their
major attention to the French and
English. In the middle section of the
eastern line, the situation lias not re
solved itself yet sufficient to satisfy
either side, the Russians threatening
the Austrian forces along the Stripa.
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The government cable is still out
of commission, hut the radio plant
at Sitka is again in working order,
which helps some.
LANCASTER. Eng., Eeb. 9. — The
Miners' Conference, in session here,
today discussed the conscription mea
sure passed by the late parliament.
The members almost unanimously op
posed the principle of compulsory en
listment and some of the speakers
vehemently condemned the govern
ment for the action taken. At the
close of the debate a resolution was
adopted by a big vote, expressing op
position to the spirit of conscription
and stating that the organization
would exercise vigilant scrutiny and
persistence to see that the present
law was not extended. The military
service act is far from universal at
present, as it applies only to unmar
ried men, but already there is talk in
England of enlarging its scope, and it
was this talk of ipcreasing the scope
of the law that particularly invoked
the disapproval of the miners.
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STEAMER NORTHWESTERN SAILS
FOR SEATTLE.
The steamer Northwestern sailed]
for Seattle at 10 o'clock yesterday j
morning, after loading 1,300 tons oC
copper ore for the Tacoma smelter.1
The outgoing passengers from Cor
dova were: Mrs. J. K. Bryson, Miss]
Ruby ltizor, Ed. Cathcart. Chris Theo
pons. James Duke, Joseph Duke. J. O.
Ellis. A. R. Thorne, Mike Romas. J
It. Gibson, for Seattle. W. Clnyson.
1. D MncConnas, E. S. Gordon and
wife, E. A. Suter and wife, Lars Ly-j
shel, for Juneau.
FORMER FOOTBALL STAR
WILL FLY FOR COUNTRY
SEATTLE. Feb. 9. — Hugh P. Shi
vely, a graduate of the University of
Washington law class of 1914. with
something of a football record behind
I him, has been appointed to the avia
tion class of the United States signal
: corps. He has been sent to San Diego.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. — A bill
for the erection of a government
! armor plate factory was reported by
jlhe House committee on miltary af
| fairs yesterday. The measure carries
;an appropriation of eleven million for
I construction and equipment of the
I plant. Ttie measure will meet strong
| opposition in both Houses from the
representatives of till" armor plate
manufacturers, who are represented
by a strong lobby in Washington. The
probabilities are that the measure will
become law, as it has the support of
the administration, and is in litie with
President Wilson's promise to the
j people in his recent speech-making
tour, when he answered the criticisms
that his preparedness program was
for the benefit of the armament man
ufacturers, by saying that the govern
ment would build its own factories
and manufacture the things it needed.
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RAILROAD COMMISSION TO BUY
EIGHT BARGES.
The engineering commission has
decided to purchase eight barges for
its work in landing supplies, accord
ing to a recent issue of the Seattle
Times. Four of the barges have a
capacity of two hundred tons each,
and four will have a capaciD of four
I hundred tons each.
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GERMANY PLANS
BELGIAN PORI
AMSTERDAM. Feb. 9. — A report!
was received here today, smuggled j
over the Dutch-Belgian frontier, to
the effect that six hundred thousand
Germans had recently arrived at the
western battle line, coming from the
army along the Dvina river in the
north. It is rumored that the Germans
are planning to extensively fortify the
Belgian port of Zeebrugge, as it is
intended to make this the base for |
important naval operations. Barge
enough guns are to be installed to
prevent the British and French fleets
from approaching the shore and bom
barding the Germans in the trenches
at this point of the line.
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WILL EMPLOY BIG FORCE ON
COAL ROAD.
There will soon be 1.000 men at
work on the Matanuska branch of the!
government railroad.
Contracts are being let rapidly for
clearing the rigid of way along the
Matanuska branch from the junction
to the heart of the coal fields on:
Chickaloon creek.
Many additional teams have been
put on hauling supplies from the end
of the present railroad to construction
points along the branch road
A contract for the construction <fj
a commissary building has been let
and work will start immediately.
PEACE OFFER
ROME. Feb. 9. It is reported here
that Germany has made propositions
of peace to Belgium. According to
the statement now current. Germany
offered his country back to King Al
bert. and also offered to pay a large
indemnity for the damage caused to
the people and the nation by the Teu
tonic invasion a year ago last August.
In return for this Germany only asked
that Belgium give her certain privi
leges and concessions in the port of
Antwerp, which would have practical
ly made that seaport a German city.
The Belgian government at ilavre im
mediately refused the offered terms.
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WILL RESTRICT
LONDON. Feb. 9. A royal com
mission. which has been investigat
ing the ever ascending rate of ex
change. has recommended that the
government restrict the importation
of sugar, as that would have a large
effect towards steadying the rate and
react in favor of Great Britain.
TRENCHES TAKEN
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BERLIN. Feb. 9. The war office
officially announced this morning that
tile chief activity along the western
front was being manifested in the
region south of the river Somme. In
this section the' French made a strong
attack on the German trenches, taking
a few hundred yards of the German
positions, which were afterwards re
taken by the Teutons, who hurriedly
reinforced their lines and made sev
eral counter attacks, supported by ar
tillery fire.
BRANDEIS CASE
GIVEN PUBLIC
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WASHINGTON. Feb. 9. — A sub
committee of tiie Senate judiciary
committee today commenced public
hearings on the confirmation of the
appointment of Louis 1). Brandeis to
succeed the late Justice Lamar on the
supreme court bench. The first wit
ness heard in opposition to the Presi
dent's choice was Clifford Thorne,
chairman of the railroad board of the
state of Iowa. Mr. Thorne said that
lie believed Brandeis was guilty of in
fidelity to his clients. He said the
lawyer had broken fHitii and conimit
!ed unprofessional conduct In the case
de conducted against the railroads in
1913, in opposition to their demand for
i general increase of freight rates.
Pile matter in question was heard be
'ore the Interstate Commerce Cont
nission.
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