The Cordova
VOLUME TT. NUMBER 517. CORDOVA, ALASKA, TUESDAY
AUSTRIANS
• Italian Dreadnaught is Sunk and 400 Men Are Drowned
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. — The
Democrats are planning to launch
their national campaign early in Sep
tember, when President Wilson will
start on a speaking tour of the coun
try. Many orators of prominence will
also take the stump, especially in the
doubtful states, and nothing will be
• left undone to stem the tide which
appears to be drifting with the Hughes
boom.
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The circuit court of appeals has de
cided that the failure to record a pow
er of attorney in Alaska invalidates
title to a mining claim, thus interpret
ing the Wickersham act, as passed by
congress in 1912. This is a decision
growing out of the Shushanna strike,
and the case involved was instituted
in the Third division, at ('ordova,
brought by Dan Sutherland vs. F. W.
Purdy. O. A. Tucker, now of the Ju
neau bar, filed the suit, and during
the trial at Cordova, associated with
him were Messrs. T. J. Donohoe and
E. E. Ritchie.
The legal points involved included
the question as to whether it were
necessary to record a power of at
torney before the location of the claim.
The plaintiff, through his attorney, in
sisted that the recording of the power
of attorney was a prerequisite to the
location. The court, then sitting at
Cordova, held that the recording prior
to location was not a prerequisite to
location. According to the telegraphic
report received, Judge Brown has been
„ " reversed, the contention of the plain
tiff sustained, and the title to the
ground given to Sutherland.
The case is one of several that ex
cited a great deal of comment in the
Shushanna district for several years.
Gold was first discovered in the Shu
shanna in 1913, and a man named Wil
liam James of Dawson, Y. T„ hearing
of the same, rushed into the new camp,
accompanied by G. L. Gates, W. E.
McKinney and William Johnson, and
located about twenty claims for them
selves and about twenty more by pow
er of attorney. Other prospectors,,
who arrived later, found the best
ground practically all located, as they
claimed “blanketed,’ and many of the
claims so located by proxy were re
located by the later arrivals, and out
of this condition grew the controversy.
Judge Tucker arrived in the camp
during the month of August, 1913, and
was later employed to represent many
of the litigants.
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WASHINGTON. Aug. 15. — The re
vised administration revenue bill is
expected to yield $225,000,000 annual
ly. It has been approved by the
Democratic caucus, and will be repre
sented to the senate tomorrow.
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CIVIL WAR OFFICER
DIES IN BOSTON.
BOSTON, Aug. 15. — General C’has.
J, Paine, a well known civil war offi
cer. died at his home in this city yes
terday. Deceased was 83 years old.
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' Fifteen men, in the employ of the
Alaska road commission, under Super
intendent Jack Hayes, are engaged in
building the wagon road from Skag
way to the boundary.
DEATH LIST HUS
1,464
NEW YORK, Aug. 15. — The infan
tile paralysis epidemic was worse to
day and 103 new cases and 39 deaths
were reported. This makes a grand
total of 0,532 new cases and 1,404
deaths since the diseace first got a
foothold in this city.
NEW VICE-PRESIDENT OF
BANK OF ALASKA
SKAGWAY, Aug. 15. — Two an
nouncements have been made by the
Bank of Alaska, both of which have
created great interest. William R.
Hillery, for some years cashier of the
White Pass route, has been elected to
the vice-presidency. The directors an
nounce that an additional bank will
be established in Alaska, its location
being made public shortly.
Mr. Hillery’s election anticipates the
enlargement of the bank’s system and
he may remain here or go to the new
field.
BUILDING BOOM
—
The Lighthouse Packing, which wan j
the first plant to put the Cordova j
claims on the market, finds that its
business has increased to such an ex
tent that more commodious quarters j
must be secured. As soon as the lo
cation has been decided upon a new
building, 30x70 feet, and a warehouse
the same size will be erected.
This will mean an increased output,
and the employment of a large force
of people. In order to properly care
for the latter it has been decided to
erect five or six cottages, and as the
lumber for both the plant and the
dwellings is now here it will not be
long before work is begun upon these
buildings.
The Pioneer Packing Company is
ready to go ahead with the erection
of six new cottages on the corner of
'-'ifth and C streets.
Cordova is also soon to have at least
one and possibly two, apartment
houses, plans for which are now being
prepared.
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SCOPE DE BANKS
BEEN LARGELY
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. — Amend
ments to the federal reserve act de
signed to broaden the scope of the
banks operating under it in relation
to real estate loans, dealing with for
eign banking institutions, and the es
tablishment of domestic branches has
been adopted by the senate. The
banks lying contiguous to the federal
reserve district lines are permitted to
loan on real estate within a radius
within 100 miles without regard to
lines.
Banking associations possessing a
capital of $1,000,000 or more, upon fil
ing application with the board will be
permitted to invest not more than 10
per cent of their paid-up capital stock
and surplus in stocks of banks en
gaged principally in foreign banking.
Banks having $1,000,000 capital would
be permitted to establish not more
than 10 branches within a radius of
25 miles.
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A late census shows 418 people at
Nenana, the new interior railroad
town, of whom 313 are employed by
the engineering commission.
PARIS, Aug. 15.—It is reported that the Italians have en
tered the suburbs of Tolmino and are shelling the city, which
is being evacuated by the Austrians.
GENEVA, Aug. 15.—The southwestern suburbs of Tolmino
are now a mass of flames, and the fall of the city is expected
momentarily. The Italians are now within thirteen miles of
Trieste, from where the greater part of the Austrian fleet sailed,
its destination being unknown.
ITALIAN DREADNAUGHT IS SUNK.
PARIS, Aug. 15. — It is unofficially reported that the Ital
ian dreadnought Leonardo Vinci was blown up at Taranto,
Italy. Four hundred of the marines were drowned. The vessel
was of 22,000 tonnage, and built in 1911.. She carried thirteen
12-inch guns.
BRITISH RECAPTURE MANY TRENCHES.
LONDON, Aug. 15.—Nearly all the remaining trenches
northwest of Pozieres, which the Germans entered last Sunday
have been recaptured by the British.
GERMANY ADMITS BRITISH SUCCESS.
BERLIN, Aug. 15.—The war office announces that the
British troops have made gains near Pozieres, by obtaining a
footing on the first line of trenches.
CANADIANS TRANSFERRED TO SOMME FRONT.
OTTAWA, Aug. 15. — The Canadian troops have been
transferred from Ypres salient to the Somme front. While at
Ypres these men fought several hard battles, suffering casual
ties totaling 30,000.
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ANOTHER BIG LOAN FOR ENGLAND.
NE WYORK, Aug. 15.—The announcement of a new $250,
000,000 loan to Great Britain is to be made soon .according to
j information given out by leading financiers.
KAISER PERSONALLY VISITS BOTH FRONTS.
BERLIN, Aug. 15.—The kaiser returned from a visit to the
I 3omme region, where he conferred with his war generals, and
immediately left for the east front.
AND PETROGRAD SAYS THEY ARE ADVANCING.
PETROGRAD, Aug. 15.—The war department saya the
rapid advance in Galicia continues and the troops are crossing
the Zlota Lipa, advancing along the upper Stripa.
FRENCH ALSO DO A LITTLE TRENCH STUNT.
PARIS, Aug. 15.—The French army has captured the Ger
man trenches on a three hundred yard front, and a hundred
feet deep, northeast of Verdun.
ITALIANS HARRASSING THE AUSTRIANS.
ROME, Aug. 15.—The Austrians have suffered further re
/erses on the Carso plateau, and the Italians captured all of
their trenches east of Gorizia.
BERLIN SAYS RUSSIANS WERE REPULSED.
BERLIN, Aug. 15.—The Austrians-Germans have repulsed
the 3trong Russian attacks along the upper Stripa.
BRITISH LOSE DESTROYER LASSOO.
LONDON, Aug. 15.—It is officially announced that the
British torpedo boat destroyer Lassoo has been sunk.
PROPOSALS OF THE RAILROADS
ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE TO MEN
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. — The un
ion leaders met with President Wilson
last night in reference to the impend
ing railway strike. This morning the
railroad managers had another con
ference at the White House, after
which it became known that a propo
sal w>as under consideration for the
railroads to accept the eight hour
principle, leaving its application to the
Interstate Commerce Commission or
some body formed for that purpose.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. — When
the union representatives went to the
White House this afternoon the offi
cials expressed doubt as to whether
the employees would accept the pro
posal made by the railroads and the
leaders expressed rather a pessimistic
view of the outlook for a settlement
of the differences.
NEW YORK, Aug. 15. — The crisis
in the railroad situation was reached
in this city on June 15 last, when the
conference between the representa
tives of 235 railroad systems in the
United States and 400,000 employees
failed to arrive at an adjustment of
their differences. The conference be
gan June 1, following the presentation
on March 30 of the demands by the
men for an eight hour day and time
and a half for overtime.
It had been hoped that the con
ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALASKA GUMPS
A prospector near Ruby has a pet
moose which he uses to haul wood
with.
Brooks, the Tolovana camp, is all
swelled up over having an ice cream
parlor.
The main street in the new town of
Nenana will be eighty feet in width.
Forest fires in Yukon territory have
done considerable damage, and a num
ber of bridges) have been burned for
the Dominion.
J. E. Busch, special agent of the
general land office, has arrived in An
chorage, and will make that place his
headquarters.
l.ivingood creek to date has pro
duced more than $200,000 and would
have produced more but for the short
age of water.
Antone Ostrom was recently bound
over to the grand jury at !>ouglas on
the charge of supplying liquor to an
Indian.
Eastern capitalists are testing the
W. W\ Woodward placer claims on the
Klchatna river, a tributary of the
ferencc might make the unnecessary
taking of a strike vote by referring
the questions at issue to arbitration.
After hearing the demands of the
unions, however, the railroads declined
to make a counter proposal and dts
missed the subject by offering to fur
ther discuss what they termed a "ten
tative proposition” which granted the
men’s eight hour demand but refused
all others.
The unions declined to consider the
"tentative” offer and the railroads
then suggested placing their differ
ences before the Interstate Commerce
Commission for decision, or if that
body was without authority, that both
aides join in petitioning congress to
grant the necessary power. If this
proved unsatisfactory to the unions
the railroads suggested arbitration
1 under the Newlands act.
The men rejected the two proposi
tions. Their spokesman, A. B. Garret
son, president of the Order of Hall
way Conductors, in an impassioned
speech, said that the men would never
consent to arbitration because of the
failure of the unions to obtain justice
in prior disputes through that method I
The leaders of the four unions, the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men and Engineers, the Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen, and the Order
of Hailway Conductors, upon with
' YetUna, with drills, preparatory to
putting on a dredge.
Berry growers of Haines and Skag
way have formed an association for
the purpose of marketing their pro
duct.
Skagway berry raisers shipped forty
crates of the luscious fruit to interior
points one day recently .beside sup
plying the local demand.
Hazel Brown, a 10-year-old Fair
banks girl, has been ordered sent to
the Bethany Home for Girls, at Glen
dale, Ohio, by the authorities.
A party of prospectors on the Alas
ka dome reported seeing forty-seven
brown bears on a two weeks' trip re
cently. Some bears.
Wolves are so numerous on the
headwaters of the Yukou that protec
tion is asked for the game of that re
gion.
F. J. Date, superintendent for the
Alaska road commission, has a crew
of men at work on the highway be
tween Ruby and Long.
The Republicans of Haines have en
dorsed Delegate Wickersham as the
party nominee for delegate to con
gress.
Bay running to 10 cents to the pan
I and from six to fifteen feet deep is re
ported to have been uncovered on the
drawing from the conference, lost no
time in drafting the strike ballot and
in order to expedite the rote caused
their distribution throughout the
country by the 600 union delegates
that had also attended the conference.
It was pointed out at that time by
the brotherhoods' leaders that a vote
ordering a general strike did not ne
cessarily mean the immediate institu
tion of the strike. It was explained
that the strike order would not be
issued until every effort looking to
ward an amicable settlement had been
exhausted.
In statements issued by the rail
road heads, following the break up of
the conference it was held that the
eight hour day demanded by the men
did not actually mean a shorter work
day but rather an increase of 25 per
cent over existing wages for the same
amount of work, and an increase in
many cases of 87 1-2 per cent for over
time as compared with present rates
The demands pc'tain only to freight
and not to passenger service.
The railroads maintained that to al
low the increase would add $100,000,
000 a year to the operating expenses
of all roads in the United States, “for
the benefit of men whose average pay
per day was increased from 30
to 42 per cent from 1903 to IS 14, while
the wages of the western engineers
were further increased in 1915 ”
Stewart ground on Boulder creek, on
the west side of Snake river, near
Nome.
The Juneau lodge of Odd Fellows
has cleared off the last indebtedness
against its hall and now possess a
$10,000 building free from all indebted
ness.
H. ’F. Lewis, the owner of extensive
placer ground in the Totallanika coun
try, has left Seattle with a prospecting
drill for the purpose of testing the
ground, and will start work on an ex
tensive scale of the tests show the
ground holds up to expectation.
Kaehael G. Ferguson, one of the
popular nurses at the St. Ann hospi
tal at Juneau, and Duane M. Kline, of
Thane, were married recently at Ju
neau.
Col. Nugent, who was heavily in
terested in Nome quartz properties,
is reported to have died in Seattle.
Charles J. Brooks has filed suit at
Nome against the Columbia Mining
Company of that place, for $1,127.85
for services alleged to have been per
formed by himself and others for the
company.
The Brooks Whirlpool is the name
of a new publication gotten out by
Mrs. Clara K. Wright at the new Tolo
vaua camp. The paper la printed on
The men's proposition submitted at
the conference pnvMzt that DO nules
or less, or eight hours or less should
constitute a r*. ty. with overtime begin
nin gat the expiration of eight hours
on runs of less than 10O miles, ar.d
as soon as 100 miles had been run on
longer trips, overtime to be computed
at one and one-half times the pro-rata
rate, no one to receive less than they
previously received for a minimum
day. The men were to be guaranteed
the right to retain any rates of pay
or schedule in effect January 1, 1916,
which would he preferable to the new
schedule.
The roads contended that the men
made no allowance for the difference
between railroad and industrial ser
vice. They pointed out that railroad
enginemen or trainmen are guaran
teed payment for a full day no matter
how few hours they work, and re
ceive pay for more than a full day
if they work more than either the es
tablished miles or hours. In other
lines of industry, the railroads held,
the employe does not receive a day’s
pay for less than a day's work, and
ordinarily he cannot earn more than
a day’s pay for less than a day's work
without working more than the regu
lar number of hours.
Old papers 10 cents a bundle —
Times office.
a typewriter and carries a large
amount of advertising.
Rev. F. B. Iirane was ordained to
the priesthood at Fairbanks recently
by Bishop P. T. Rowe. The newly or
dained preacher will succeed Rev. Ma
dara as superintendent of the Tanana
valley missions.
T. H. Deal, postmaster at Fair
banks, has returned to his post after
a visit to the states, where he was
called by the illness and death of his
mother.
CORDOVA MERCHANT JOINS
IN BUSINESS CONSOLIDATION.
A consolidation of the Matanuska
, and Knik hardware stores was made
yesterday and articles of incorporation
were filed in the secretary' office at
Juneau, and with the clerk at Valdez.
The name of the new hardware firm
will be Dohrmann-Herning & Com
pany, Inc., with a paid-up capital of
$26,000, and Henry C. Dohrmann, O. Q.
Herning and H. C. Feldman as stock
holders.
The new firm will open for business
in the new concrete building on the
west half of lot 8 in block 26. that will
be constructed by Mr. Dohrmann. —
Anchorage Times.
MILITIA UNITS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. — The war
department has suspended the order*
for the remaining mobilized units of
the militia to proceed to the Mexican
border. No official explanation is
made regarding the change of attitude,
but It is understood that the threat
ened railway strike will affect about
25,000 members of the militia.
STATES
William A. Gilmore, ex-mayor of
Nome and Republican candidate for
delegate to congress two years ago,
arrived from Seward peninsula today
to join his wife, who has been in Cor
dova for several days awaiting his
coming. Gilmore was one of the dele
gates to the Republican national con
vention, and denies the published re
ports that he was elected national
committeeman, but asserts that he
nominated C. D. Murane for that po
sition and that he was elected.
Gilmore has an invitation from the
national committee to campaign the
states of Indiana, Ohio and Illinois
during the month of October for the
national political ticket, and after
visiting the coast towns in the in
terest of the territorial ticket will
leave for the states.
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TOKIO, Aug. 15. — The appoint
ment of Baron Gonsuke Hayashi, as
minister to China, simultaneously with
the announcement of the Russo-Japan
ese alliance is regarded here as being
of great significance, and as opening
a new chapter in the relations betw'eeu
Japan and the Chinese republic. Baron
Hayashi was ambassador to Italy at
the time of his selection for the post
at Peking, at which capital he served
as minister several years ago. The
Japanese consider him one of their
foremost diplomats. He accepted the
place at Peking, which brings him
back to ministerial rank at the urgent
solicitation of Japanese statesmen.
The representative to China freely
discussed the Chinese situation with
the representative of a prominent Jap
anese newspaper. He expressed the
opinion that it was premature to con
clude that the death of President Yuan
Shi Kai benefited Japan. To China,
his death may have been fortuitous in
so far as it has contributed to settling
the turbulent situation. Still, what
the final result would be remains to
be seen.
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HUGHES VISITS PRINCIPAL
PACIFIC COAST CITIES.
TACOMA, Aug. IS. — Charles E
Hughes arrived here at noon and will
deliver three addresses this afteruoou.
speaking tonight at Seattle.
WHEAT HAS ADVANCED
TO $1.42 PER BUSHEL.
CHICAGO. Aug. 16. — Reports of
the administration that the crop has
been damaged caused wheat to ad
vance four and a half cents for Sep
tember. When the market closed to
day it was selling at $1.42 per bushel.
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Prospectors for scheelite tn the vi
cinity of Nome are generally met with
disappointment. The mineral is ap
parently in pockets, but no large do
I posits have been located.