The Cordova Daily Times
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VOLUME II. NUMBER 580. CORDOVA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2,1916. PRICE TEN CENT?
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SEATTLE, Nov. 2. — The steamer j
Alameda sailed this morning and is ,
taking a largo number of passengers
to Cordova, among them being several
notables who will attend the prelim- ■
inarv Interstate Commerce hearing on
Alaska transportation rates at Cor
dova on November 11. Among them
are B. S. C.rosscup, counsel, and II.!
S. James, assistant general freight!
agent of the Pacific Coast Steamship
Company; Judge \v. P. Bogle, counsel
for the Alaska Steamship Company,
and H. C. Wilson, the Commerce com
mission examiner. The others hooked
for Cordova are Mrs. It. S. Games,;
Mrs. B. S C.rosscup, Mrs. A. J. lien-1
neke and baby, A Pearson and wife!
and child, C. Lee, Mrs. E. Smith, A.
E. Zipf, II. Brandt, Mrs. L. Walters,
W. H. Gorham, Mrs. Charles Ellund
and Fred B. Reck.
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AxenoK.\<;i:. x»v. 2. — w. J.
Henry, of this city, whose name ap-,
k.. pears on the official bail"! as a candi- |
date for representative, is not eli
gible for the office, and is making no j
attempt to gain votes, but his name
is left there to omharra. « William IV
Henry, of Seward, regular Republican
nominee. M. .1 Henry, Socialist, is
now supporting William P. Henry.
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The grand jury, in its recent report,
made the following recommendations
in reference to the schools and the
indigent of the territory
In the several precincts in this
Third division there is at present no
provisions mad? for the care of the
indigent, other than the fund dis
bursed by the district judge, th ■ ha! j
ance of which fund, wo understand. ]
has * ) he turn'd into the department
at tlie end or earn quarter, nor i» (
there any provision made for Ihe bur
ial of people without means or friends J
or relatives to provide this service [
We would respectfully recommend
that a fund lie provided for this pur
pose, and that the IT. S. commissioner
in the several preeincts tie authorized
to use the same when necessary for
these purposes.
We are advised the territorial gov
ernment has no jurisdiction over the
sehools other than that delegated the
governor in Ihe Nelson bill. As the
several municipalith s throughout the
territory find the funds secured
through municipal taxation inadequate
for the proper maintenance of the
public schools and the fact that sev
eral children are attending these
schools whose parents are not resi
dents or taxpayers of the municipali
ties, we would respectfully petition
congress to grant the territorial legis
lature the power to enact legislation
whereby a part of the territorial funds
could be used for the maintenance of
public schools.
The grand jury commends the work
of the Alaska division of the bureau
of education, department of interior,
among the natives of Alaska.
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Buried at Eyak cemetery yesterday
afternoon at 3 o’clock, Alehnndro Alb
litel. Rev. E. P. Ziegler officiating
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Our former townsman, H. P. King,
of Valdez, Is spending a few days with
local friends.
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The lighthouse tender ICukul, ('apt.
Gregory, arrived in port today to take
on a hundred tons of coal.
NLLISTIS HOLD
LOOT IT
CHIHUAHUA, Nov. 2. — After
shooting twenty nine Carranza mill
■arv guards of a south bound passen
ger train which left Juarez on Mon
day the Villa bandits looted the train
and passengers and even took cloth
ing from women passengers. The Vil
listas had wagons in readiness and
with them carted away their loot.
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WITH STUFF
NEW YORK, Nov. 2. •— President
Wilson is campaigning in New York
City and will make four speeches this
afternoon and tonight. He was met
at the station by Colonel House, his
close personal friend, and National
Chairman McCormack. They motored
to the Yacht Club pier and went
Bboard the Mayflower for a political
conference. The president will spend
some little time at national head
Itiarters, where he will meet his staff
>f lieutenants and see the machinery
iperating.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2. — The presi
dent in addressing the Wilson Busi
nessmen's League, criticised business
for resisting changes and declared
that Wall Street had no vision. He
taid that the men who treat employes
is partners in business remain ever
prosperous. It was a notable gather
ing of business men from all parts
of the country. Charles It. Crane, of
Chicago, who introduced Wilson, said
American business had been under the
direction of too small a body of men.
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J. (!. Galvin, the well known mining
man, had an option on the Berry
Morton property near Ellamar, is now
engaged in opening up a copper pro
perty in Groundhog basin, about 18
miles from Wrangell. In reference to
this project, the Wrangell Sentinel
says:
J. G. Galvin, of the Bon Alaska Min
ing Company, arrived from New York
Thursday, Mr. Galvin will leave in
a couple of days with a force of fif
teen men for the Groundhog basin,
where his property is located.
From the mouth of Mill creek, eight
miles from Wrangell, a wagon road
will be built to Groundhog basin, a
distance of about ten miles. Work
will begin at once on the construction
of a dock and warehouse at the mouth
of Mill creek. The necessary houses
will also be built for the men who
will be at work there this winter. Sev
eral horses which arrived on the Hum
boldt Thursday night will be taken in
with the party and used to pack sup
plies over the trail.
As soon as the snow clears away in
the spring the work of laying steel
for the railroad from the mouth of
Mill creek to the mine will be begun.
It may be that a portion of the wagon
road will be used as a right of way
for the railroad. Once the laying of
steel is begun the railroad will be
pushed to completion as rapidly as
possible in order that shipments of
ore may begin.
The work done this winter will be
chiefly in the nature of preliminary
work. It Is Mr. Galvin's intention to
get everything in readiness to rush
work in the spring in order that the
shipment of ore may begin as early as
possible.
This is the best news that the peo
ple of Wrangell had for a long time.
It is the beginning of big things in
the much talked of Groundhog basin
which is at last coming Into its own.
MARINA IS IN CONTROVERSY
FORT V AI X, Nov. 2.—Verdun lias finally been evacuated
by t!!{' Jlf!P. •*()!! OW! Lr yiVi'B orfbir **»»-! •elf Imnt l,o|» 11
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turbed by the enemy.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—The state department is still
awaiting Germany’a version of the destruction of the steamer
Marina and the six American lives lost, also the arrival of the
affidavits of the American survivors. Secretary Lansing snvs
Germany’s pledges not to sink a merchantman unwarned and
without providing for the safety of the passengers and crews
applies to ships with armament, and that no distinction was
drawn in the correspondence between armed and unarmed
ships. The state department will not accept any contention that
Germany’s responsibility is limited to those ships that are un
armed.
BUCHAREST, Nov. 2.— The Roumanians continue the
pursuit of the retiring Teutons west of Jiul valley, in Transyl
vania. The Teuton attacks were repulsed'after long fighting in
Prahova valley and in the region of Dragoslavle.
NEW Y()RK, Nov. 2.—The extraordinary additions of gold
to the bank reserves of the country in the form of heavy impor
tations has been declared undesirable, because it is not required
for the purpose of carrying on the normal business of t'i >
country, and if used as a basis of credit is likely to bring about
a debt expansion that is dangerous in proportions, according to
a bulletin issued by the National City bank. The advisabilitv
ot making further foreign loans is urged. The net total of for
eign i On ii,-. in 111 e i in ted Ft; j t»- s -11 iee the war broke out is nearly
$2,000,000,000.
ROME, Nov. 2. In tl> new offensive against the Austrians
the Italians advanced ami scored some points. Forty-seven
hundred prisoners were taken.
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PARIS, Nov. 2. I he French troops hist night gained
I ground between Eesbovas and Sadly Saillisel. Yesterday they
took six hundred prison* rs in this section.
NEW I.ONDoN. Nov. 2. Tin1 sulnnarin*1 Deutschland
cargo is valued at $l<),u<M),l)()(), i- S;iiii to consist largely of drugs
ami dyestuffs, but probably there are also included securities
and .jewels. The captain refused' to permit the public to visit
t he 1 feutsehland.
Rinsing* n >toi m d the Ru. dan posit ions on the left bank of
Stokhod river, inflicting heavy losses and capturing fifteen bun
dred Russians.
HEREIN, Nov. 2. The Fn nch gained small advantage in
the sectors of Eesboeuls and Riincourt.
HF( 'I IA REST, Ab-v. 2. tbneral Sakharoff, commander of
tin* Russian forces in < ialh-ir. .,i i ive*l at Hucharest ami will take
command of the army tit Eobrudja.
LINE OPEN TO
NEXT YEAR
Chairman EdoB, of the Alaskan en
gineering commission, will leave Sew
ard for Washington on the return trip
of the Admiral Watsou, taking with
him records and data necessary for
his report to the department of the
interior on the work accomplished for
this year.
In discussing the work the chair
man stated that while a large mile
age of grade had been built and right
of way cleared this season the actual
number of miles of track laid is not
near as great as will be laid in 1917.
"Only 20 miles of track were laid
the first year, us we had a late start,"
said the chairman. "By December
1 of this year 66 miles of new steel wdll
be laid, which includes work done be
tween Anchorage and Turnagain arm,
work on the main line and the line
to the coal fields.
“Extensive clearing has been done
north along the main line both ways
from Talkeetna and south from Ne
The coming congress ends in March !
and more rapid action is expected onl
all hills.
It is probable that Seward will see |
little of the chairman next year as all j
of the construction work will be In I
the interior except that along Turn-|
again arm and his duties will keep |
him somewhere near the “front," that
ever moving section on a new rail
road where the questions to be decided
are most numerous.
Considerable of the funds for this
year's work on the railroad are tied
up in supplies and construction nia
terial, which will bo used during the
winter or early next spring.
The report now being drawn up by
the commission w ill show clearly just
how much of the money received so1
far has gone into equipment which j
will be used in building the entire l
line and how much has been used in
clearing, grading and track work al
ready aecom plished
All of the money expended in the
town of Anchorage for municipal Im
provements is to be collected from |
the property owners by assessments I
covering not only street Improvements
but the cost of the water plant. When
the goveritmcat gives deeds to the
lots at the expiration of five years
and turns the municipal control over
to a council the city will then own
its water plant.
PEKING, Nov. L’ Be an - c of the
late Yuan Shi Kai’s espousal o- r.in
fucianlsm and the important part that
religion, or philisophy, play, j in the
effort to restore the monarchy, ultra
republican members of parliament re
cently made an attempt to have Con
fucianlsm abolished by legislation on j
the theory that such action would*
grant greater freedom of conscience
and insure the perpetuity .u tin rc
public.
This step aroused great in.I -motion
among the modern admirer m c,u j
fucius and called forth a -bower o'
protests. Wang Yu wei. the di-lin
guished scholar, who is am as tin
prominent publicists w ip) oppo.-o tin
eradication of Confucianism, til
graphed to the central government
declaring that the Conim-laii is-l ion *
is distinctly the religion of china, and
that if it be rejected Chinese would j
become like brutes. “What would la
the use of knees," he asked, if they
In' not employed for tlfe worship of
Confucius."
HUGHES SURE OF
OHIO AND
BATAVIA. Nov. 2. — Charles K.
II Ties today told a large audience
that he was entirely confident of the
el 1 Hi result in Ohio and Indiana.
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LOCAL JOTTINGS.
I i Windsor hotel is installing a
n< . holler for its heating plant.
l i t Admiral Watson is due from
the westward tomorrow evening, and
ill take on 700 tons of copper ore
here before sailing for Seattle.
steamer Northwestern left Ju
tie hi at 0 o'c lock last night and is diet
at r nlova tomorrow morning.
>d of the Alaskan barber shop has
returned to the stales and his posi- |
no i i being tilled by Sandy, former
ly of the Horseshoe barber shop.
'I he W. C. T U. will meet Friday
afternoon at 2:15 o’clock at the home
of .Mrs. Clifford II. Phillips. c
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j nana, along all of which track will be
laid next year. Our plans for 1917
provide for the laying of about 150
miles of steel during the coming sea
son.
i “Of this track 100 miles will be on
! the main line north from Matanuska
Junction beyond the track now laid,
j and the rest will be along Turnagwin
J arm and south from Neuanu."
Chairman Kdes expects to return
north much earlier next season than
was possible this year owing to the
delay by congress in acting on bills.
RETAIN ITS
PARIS, Nov. 2. — “French families
could be as large as those of any
country, not excepting Germany,’' said
Professor A. Pinard, of the French
Acad emy of Medicine, In an Interview
with the Associated Press
Professor I’inard. who has devoted
the past two years to the care of
"war babies.” is one or France's most
ominent physician!, and perhaps the
best authority on the physiology of
repopulation. Me declares that the
trouble with the birth rate of France
is a voluntary resistance with econo
mic reasons at the bottom of it
The state must get at those reasons,
he says, and overcome them by appro
priate legislation, while the individual
must learn more concerning what
makes a numerous and physically su
erior population. Kugenlcs he re- :
irds as certain to have an enormouB .
nfluence on the future of the human j
ace, while a theory of his own that
ie lias named Kugennetlque, will fa
ilttate the practical application of
iigenit s. He is now appealing to par- I
lament to enforce the application of
ils doctrine by obligatory education
if the future mother while she is still
school girl. Huerieulture, as he calls i
t — or moral and physical education I
■ombiued — he wants taught as cur
■ently us reading, writing and arith
netic.
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ODDS AND ENDS
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BATTLE
After an analysis of the vote of two
years ago the Fairbanks News Miner,
a Democratic newspaper, publishes
some Information for dopesters that
is amusing even if it is misleading.
Admitting that Wlckersham had a
plurality of 756 votes over Bunnell In
the First division, and at least 700
more votes will be cast there this
year, it says that if Wlckersham
should lose 400 of his old support and
not get any of the new votes cast and
if Lena Morrow Lewis polled less
votes than the Socialist candidate did
(wo years ago, this would leave It all
to Sulzer. and he would carry the
First division by 900. Still Editor
Thompson states that in Fairbanks a
number of even bets have been placed
‘hat Wickersh am will fnrpu fa LMrof
In the Second, or Nome division,
Wickersham had a plurality of 126
.-otes in 1914. The News-Miner says
f Sulzer gains 20 per cent of the
A ickersham vote and 60 per cent of
he Socialist vote It would give him
i plurality of 168.
Our contemporary fails to cook up
iny preelection dope whereby Wick
irsbarn can possibly lose the Third
livlsion, but by juggling figures re
luces his plurality to 100, and does
t in this way: Wickersham must lose
0 per cent of his old vote, gain no
lew support and only get a 50-50 split
rom the largely increased vote at
inchorage and other coast towns,
'an you beat it?
In the Fourth division Wickersham
b conceded a plurality of 732, just
ibout half of what it was two years
igo, and the other votes as well as
00 of the 548 Socialist votes are dl
Ided so that in this way of reckoning
iulzer is made to appear as having
ained considerable strength over
funnell in the Fourth
After taking away from Wickersham
tore than twenty per cent of his old
upport, falling to admit that he has
ained any new votes and only giv
tig him an even break at Anchorage,
t the same time cutting the Socialist
ote In two and giving it all to the
(emocratic candidate, the Fairbanks
Jews-Miner says: "Thus Sulzer not
nlv has a chance of election, but he
ias a chance that Ib better than even."
igure it Out for yourself find see »f
ie has.
There will be an unusually heavy
ote polled in Cordova next Tuesday.
Cordova Democrats are pinning
heir faith in Wilson and have made
nme bets that he will be re-elected.
Our former townsman, Thomas C.
rice, of Anchorage, will receive a
irge vote in Cordova and throughout
he Copper river valley for represen
Ative. Advices from the westward
re to the effect that he will be given
hiff maiorltv In the Cook Inlet
ountry.
Rut little money has thus far been
fagered in Cordova on the territorial
lection. It seems to he generally
onceded that Delegate Wlckersham
111 be reelected and as no bets are
ffered on Sulzer at even money there
as been placed $500 at the Dally
'lines to wager against $400 that
Vlekersham wins.
Attention is being called to the of
Iota 1 ballot which, as it is printed
nder the election law by the terrl
orial legislature, gives rise to con
iderable confusion where names of
andldates are similar.
The case at hand is that of W. J
fenry and W. P. Henry, both of whom
ire candidates for the assembly. So
ar as the average voter outside of
Joward and Anchorage is concerned
'ew know these Henrvs apart, there
>eing no way to Judge except by the
•jr and the “P."
•» • * %■ - •-Ja — neAvi.
HttU lut icKihiatuio uiouv « •
lion for a party designation to folow
:he name on the ballot, or some other
means of identification such as resi
lence this could have been obviated
VV. P. Henry Is the Republican nomi
nee living at Seward, while W I
Henry is the Socialist nominee living
st Anchorage.
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