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SAN JUAN, Jan. 18. — Whether
Porto Ricans are to be successful this
year in getting the United States Con
gress to admit them to American citi
zenship is the question uppermost in
the minds of most Porto Ricans at
present. Although citizenship has
been promised since the days of the
Spanish-American war, and American
occupation, seventeen years ago, each
Congress since that time has failed to
pass the necessary laws. The Island
ers are now' hopeful that the first
Democratic administration since 1898
will act favorably and give them a de
finite political status. ' At present
Porto Ricans are merely "citizens of
Porto Rico.”
In the hope that favorable legisla
tion may be obtained, Governor Ar
thur Yager is in Washington urging
Congress to act. Rills providing a
new organica act to take the place of
the temporary Foraker act, which
went into force in 1901, establishing
civil government, and which lias been
in force ever since, have already been
Introduced in Congress by Chairman
Jones, of the house committee on in
sular affairs, and by Senator Willard
Saulsbury, of Delaware.
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ALASKA’S REPRESENTATION IS
THE SAME.
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The Republican national convention
next June will contain 93 less dele
gates than the convention of 1912.
This is due to the reduction of the
delegations from the states that voted
Democratic, so most of the losses fall
upon the Southern states. There will
be no representation from Hawaii,
Porto Rico and the Philippines. The
District of Columbia representation
will be two instead of six as last time.
Alaska gets two delegates, the same
as before.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 18. — The
government, immigration officers have
decided not to any longer oppose tlm
admission of Mrs. Emmeline Pank
hurst. the noted English suffragette,
into the United States. Mrs. Parik
hurst is the leading exponent among
the women of taking violent meastires
to obtain the suffrage. President
Wilson has advised the officials that
he was opposed to the woman's ex
clusion.
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RAILROAD BUNGLED DECLARES
DALTON.
"Jack" Dalton, famous Alaska path
finder, passed through Juneau on the
Northwestern, bound for Cordova. He
expects to visit Seward, and perhaps
Anchorage before returning. His son,
Jack Dalton, Jr., is employed by the
Alaska railroad engineering commis
sion at Anchorage.
Mr. Dalton believes that the Alaska
railroad engineering commission has
bungled the work on the railroad. He
said last night: "The commission has
spent two and one-half million dollars,
and they have only six miles of track
laid. Experience has taught railroad
men that in countries where transpor j
tation is difficult a mile of railroad
should be built over the rockiest kind >
of a right of way for $26,000.”
Mr. Dalton declares thnt Thomas
Higgs. Jr., whom he characterizes uh
the “ablest man on the commission,"
has been too much in the background.
“They have put Higgs on the survey:
end, in the interior; they haven't1
given him a chance, and he Is in high
standing In Alaska, as an engineer.”—
Juneau Empire.
ACTION OF HARVARD TEAM
DISAPPOINTING
ST. PAUL, Jan. Ik. — Football fol
lowers in the middle west are disap
pointed that the name of none of the
eleven universities of this section ap
pear upon the schedule of the Harvard
ieven for next season. Apparently
the Crimson favors the south rather
than the west, for the University of
Virginia and North Carolina Univer
sity both play at Cambridge next au
tumn. Virginia was defeated 0 to 0
last fall, but North Carolina is a new -
comer.
Empress Theatre
TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1916.
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Pathe Weekly News, No. 73.
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THE SHELL OF LIFE,
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THE LOST CHORD,
A Vitagraph Comedy.
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NEW YORK. .Inn. 18. — The change
In ownership of the Chicago National
League baseball club, which will he
completed on Thursday, when Chas.
VV. Weeghman and his associates pay
to Chas. P. Taft $400,000, balance due
on the half million transaction, marks
an epoch in the history of one of the
famous clubs of professional baseball.
Since the Chicago club was organized
in 1870 It has always held a prominent
place in the professional game. Dur
ing its existence of forty years many
championship pennants have been
nailed to its flagpole. Probably no
other club in the senior major Teague
has been so fortunate financially, as
money, or the lack of It, has never
troubled the Chicago management. At
all times the owners of this organiza
tion have endeavored to secure the
services of great players regardless of
cost, as the roster shows, and this
has been one of the strongest factors |
in the club's success. In forty years j
only six men have held the majority j
stock in the club, the recent deal Tiav- j
ing transferred control into the hands!
of Charles W. Weeghman, so that
owners of the team have been few. j
William A. liulbnrt and the late Al
bert. G. Spalding organized the team:
in 1876. Later James A. Hart pur
chased a controlling interest from
Spalding, and held it for fourteen i
years. Then, in 1905, came Charles1
W. Murphy from Cincinnati wtth
$125,000, and in buying out Hart's in
terest, the club passed into the joint
possession of Murphy and Charles P. j
Taft. Frank Chance was made man
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years Chicago gathered together the j
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SAYS VILLA IIS
EL PASO, Jan. 18. — Enrique Kul,
formerly private secretary to General
Villa, nrrivei! here today and an- j
nounced that he had severed all con
nection with the revolutionary move
ment In Mexico, and that his chief
had done likewise. Rul denied em
phatically that Villa had any connec
tion with the murder of eighteen Am
ericans at Santa Ysabel last week, and
claimed that the crime must have
been the work of bandits acknow
ledging no military or civil authority.
He also denied the reported state
ments that Villa had goven orders to
his followers to kill all the Americans
in Mexico.
NOTICE TO WATER CONSUMERS.
During the day water will be shut
off from 1 o’clock until 4 o’clock p. m.
During the night water will be shut
off from 9 o’clock in the evening until
6 o’clock in the morning.
Telephone service will be continued
during the night while the water is
shut off.
In case of fire notify central at once
and water will be turned on.
CORDOVA POWER CO.
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NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS.
Notice Is hereby given that the
ixes on real and personal property
■lthln the corporate limits of the
own of Cordova for the year 1915,
re now due and payable at my of
ce, on First Street, Cordova, Alaska.
The said taxes shall be dellquent
at 6 p. m. on the Becond Monday in -4
February, 1916, and unless paid prior
thereto 5 per cent will be added to
the amount thereof.
H. I. O’NEILL, Town Treasurer.
Cordova, Alaska, December 22, 1915.,
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