The Cordova Daily Times
VOLUME II. NUMBER 537. CORDOVA, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13,1916 PRICE TEN CENTS
. GERMAN AIRCRAFT RAIDS SEA FORCES
NEW YORK, Sept. 13. — Kew sur
face cars were operated today and
passengers were obliged to use the
subway and elevated trains, causing
an extreme congestion. Policemen
were stationed on the roof tops last
night and prevented several outbreaks
of violence.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 13. — The un
ion has accepted the arbitration points
at issue, but has decided not to re
sume work.
IS CAUSING
SHANGHAI, Sept. 13. — English
newspapers in Chinese treaty ports
devote much space to discussion of the
Ann ican naval building program,
i'r.ic.i, ill all the English papers have
printed editorials on the subject in
which they speculate as to what use
the I'nited States will make of a great
fleet after it acquires it.
The following comment from the
North China Daily News of Shanghai
is typical of the English expressions:
"America obviously intends to have a
big fleet. What, when it is ready,
does she intend to do with it? Pre
sumably we shall get an answer when
wo know what ‘undiluted American
ism' means.”
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REPUBLICAN NOMINEE HAS
FINISHED STUMPING TRIP.
NEW YORK, Sept. 13. — Charles E.
Hughes yesterday ended his first cam
paign trip for the presidency. He
spoke in twenty-six states.
>- i,. Wernsiedt, of Portland, formerly
connected with the local forestry of
fice, is in town.
POINDEXTER IS
LEADING FOI1
SENATE
SEATTLE, Sept. 13. — The scat
tering primary returns show that
Poindexter is leadhig Humphrey in the
Republican nomination for United
States senator. McBride will probably
carry the primaries for governor, and
in the first district John Miller is
in the lead for congressional nomina
tion. Whitney comes second in the
race and John L. Ballaine, owner of
the Seward townsite, is in the "also
ran" class. Governor Lister was re
nominated by the Democrats without
any opposition.
ENLISTED MEN
GIN ESTATE
AFTER M
LONDON, Sept. 13.— An estate of
12,000 acres on which soldiers and sail
ors can settle after the war has been
given to Scotland. The donor is the
Duke of Sutherland, who owns large
tracts of fine land in northern Scot
land. It is the first practical step In
the United Kingdom in a movement
to provide small farms for veterans
of the great war. The estate is situ- j
ated to the west of the river Naver in
the county of Sutherland in the ex
treme north of Scotland.
In making the announcement, the
duke said that there would be asbo
lute conveyance to the state, he re
serving to himself and his successors
only certain fishing rights on lochs
and rivers. A provision is that the
land is to be settled by soldiers and
sailors who have been on foreign ser
vice, have enlisted voluntariiy and
have good records.
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H. II. Bennett, of Washington, D.
who is connected with the forestry
service, was an arrival from the west
ward today.
ALLIES CAPTURE MORE TOWNS
BERLIN, Sept. 13. — A German aeroplane squadron at
tacked and sank a Russian destroyer in the Gulf of Riga. The
German naval planes also raided the Russian battleships in tin*
Black sea.
LONDON, Sept. 13. — Combles has been cut off on the
south and is in a dangerous salient, while the central forces are
now in a favorable position for a strike from the north on Per
<»nne, which is seriously threatened by the new French advance.
PARIS, Sept. 13.—The French troops captured the village
of Bouchavesnes, on the Somme front and also the wood six
hundred yards east of the road from Peronne to Bethune, on the
Verdun front. The war department further officially an
nounces that the French have progressed in the northern part
of Vaux Chapitre wood.
ROME, Kepi. 13.—The Italian troops in Dolomite Alps,
the far northerly line of tie* Russian front, captured the posi
tion commanding Travenazas pass, and cutting Austrian com j
mnnication between Travananzas valley and the Lagaznoi re -j
gion.
LONDON, Sept. 13.—King Constantine lias accepted Pre
mier Zaimis’ resignation, and Greece’s entry into the war is
soon expected.
PETKOGRAD, Sept. 1.3. — Russians are holding the
ground won in the recent fighting in the Carpathians, despite
the heavy counter attacks.
A 1 HENS, Sept. 13.—The French and Serbian troops took
the offensive on tlie western end of the Macedonian front and
captured the town of Sotovitz, near Fiorina.
BERLIN, Sept. 13.—Since General Hindenberg became
chief of staff the discussion of the resumption of submarine
warfare on the old basis has almost ceased, and it is unlikely
that the present policy will be changed.
LONDON, Sept. 13.—The military police made an exten
sive raid for shirkers from military service at the Newmarket
race course today. Racing has been in progress for a month,
and thousands of men are attending. Everyone of military age
is obliged to account for himself. Two Irishmen claimed im
munity from resigtration.
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CANDIDATES GOVERNOR
ARE RENOAAINATED
DOVER, Sept. 13. — Governor Geo.
Carlson was renominated by the Re
publicans of New Jersey for this of
fice.
COLUMBIA, Sept. 13. — Richard
Manning was renominated for gover
nor of South Carolina, defeating for
mer Governor Blease.
WILSON HAS RETURNED TD
LONG BRANCH
NEW LONDON, Conn., Sept. 13. —
President Wilson has departed for
Long Branch, on the doctor’s advice.
His sister, Mrs. Howe, is dying. She
may live several days, hut is con
stantly under opiates and unable to
recognize him.
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E. T. Stannard, manager of the Beat
son mine at Latouche, is an arrival in
Cordova.
MONTE CARLO OF AMERICA
LOSES ITS CRIMSON TINGLE
JUAREZ, Sept. IT The milling,
strident, colorful Juarez of a year ago
is no more. The Monte Carlo of Ame
rica has lost the crimson tinge of the
Villa regime and returned to its even
ing walks, its motion picture shows
and its carriage rides. Once more it
is just the border settlement across
the Rio C,ramie from El Paso.
The night lights, which for several
years, until the Carranzistas took the
town last January, attracted thousands
of human moths from over the conti
nent, are gone. The myriads of col
ored light bulbs, which once showed
the way to the electric keno rooms,
the faro banks and the roulette wheels
hang unusued before the vacant store
rooms. The illuminated face of the
custom house clock offers the only
attempt at municipal lighting in the
downtown district.
In place of the strident wail of the
cabaret singers in the Tivoli, the
Black Cat and the other widely known
cafes, comes the tolling of vesper
bells from the Mission of Gadeloupe,
built on a mount in the center of the
town in 1547 by the Spanish padres.
Orderly knots of men drink their beer
—no other intoxicant is sold in Jua
rez nowadays in the saloons that
line Calle Comercio, the leader street.
(.one are the jangling electric pi
anos. Gone is the crashing of wreck
ed furniture for, according to the au
thorities, it takes very little disorder
to result in the closing of a saloon.
Chickens pick their way about the
Juarez race track and the stands and
stables are empty but for an occasion
al workman. None professes to know
whether the track will be in operation
again this winter.
In the evening Calle Comercla Is
thronged with quiet promenaders.
Slender boys officers of Carranza -
in their khaki, leather puttees and
enormous revolvers, stroll along with
a senorita (young lady) or two on
their arms. Shuffling along the
street carrying driftwood, pots, pans,
bedding and other objects, may be an
infantry regiment, bound to the bar
racks and perhaps to take up post for
the night on the river bank opposite
from American patrols.
In almost every doorway are beg
gars, crippled old men, haggard old
crones and thin children with color
less cheeks. Kach asks for “clnco
centavos, senor!” (five cents, mis
ter). Cavalry officers canter along
through the dust and occasionally a
vaquero (cowboy) lends a heightened
color to the picture with his chapar
jos, his sombrero laden with silver
braid, his soft high heeled, embroid
ered boots, his enormously roweled
spurs and his saddle, the horn of
which would reach as high as his col
lar button did he but wear one.
It is the motion picture that has
become the dominant factor in the
new night life of Juarez. The mayor,
commandants, the federal authorities,
military officers, ragged sombreroed
"soldados" (soldiers) from the garri
son and merchants and workmen and
their families all atend. The spectat
ors read the titles, printed in Spanish,
aloud as if learning a lesson by rote
The Juarez of today sees on the
screen ut “las vistas" (motion pic
tures) violence, such as it once knew
in reality. Because of recent orders
thut all executions must take place
in Chihuahua City, the state capital,
It is about all the violence Juarez does
see. The proprietor of one theatre
pointed out that the more bloody 4
screen execution, lynching, killing 01
death, the more anxious are the resi
dents of the town to take their Am
erican dimes, their children and theii
dogs Tor an evening's diversion.
Of course, there is an occasiona
"baile” (ball), for as Genera! Fran
cisco Gonzales, commandant, polntec
out, the Mexican must have his danci
even if the shadows of war hover ovei
him. In addition to the smaller danc
ing parties there are the large muni
cipal affairs, held in the building
which everyone attends. These “fi
! ““tas " (feasts), with the moving pic
tures. make up Juarez's only amuse
ments nowadays.
Tourists, a few of them are agait
beginning to drift across from El Pas<
frequently comment on the high pricei
marked upon goods offered for sale
but it is always explained that a si:
dollar price mark on a package o
cigarettes is in Carranza currenc;
and that the package can be bough
for about ten cents in Americai
money, and that ham and eggs do no
cost fifty dollars in Charlie Sam’i
restaurant, but about forty cents U
S. silver.
There are those, who in proof tha
Juarez of the past is no more, wil
draw you aside and whisper that thi
birds have come back to feed in thi
plaza. The plaza blackbirds, so thi
story goes, for years had been ac
customed to spending the day in thi
grain fields south of the town am
roosting in the plaza trees at.night
Put with the first shot of the firs
revolution they left and have neve
returned. Some peons say that whei
the birds return Mexico will havi
peace.
KENICOTT CO.
A deal of considerable magnitude
was consummated when the Wilson
Kittle property passed from the hands
[ of Us original owners to the Kenne
| cott Copper Corporation for the sum
.[of $'!!),(KlO cash.
I The property consists of a group of
I ten claims, together with millsile and
I water rights, and is considered the
I most promising on the island. A large
■ amount of development has been .done
I on these claims, consisting of more
1 than 1,700 feet of tunnel, developing
[ a considerable body of copper ore.
I The property is well equipped with
air compressor, drills and a complete
electric plan for lights and power, op
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j erated by a never falling watei power,
\ developing ample power for all re
1 qulrements.
It is said that the new owners con
template the immediate develop! lent
of the property on an extensive scal^
and have given a contract to Mr W'l
son to lay six thousand feet of water
pipe for the furtner development of
the water power. M.' Wilson left
Valdez on the Alaska for Katouche
to commence work on iis p-yperfy.
The company will begin mining op
erations within u few ilavs and ox
pect to place the claims ou a produc
ing basis within a short time.
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PULITZER'S SON IS DOWN
WITH PARALYSIS
BAR HARBOR. Sept IS. — Ralph
Pulitzer, son of Joseph Pulitzer, pub
lisher of the New York World, has
been attacked with infantile paralysis,
and the family is quarantined.
GOVERNOR'S ANNUAL REPORT
BEING COMPILED
Secretary W. W. Shorthill and his
assistant are deeply engrossed in the
compilation of the governor's annual
report to the secretary of the interior.
The clerical department of the office
of the chief executive of the territory
' is indeed a busy center at this time
of the year. The report will be read>
for distribution early in January.
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The steamer Mariposa arrived at
i Cordova last evening from Seattle
with the following passengers for
here: Raymond FtUtnger. Hugh Mc
Niben, H. A. Malone, Miss B. Freder
I icks, K. Yamasaki, Mrs Yamasaki and
i five steerage.
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i Arthur H Miller, who has succeeded
Dr. Schloden as acting superintendent
i of the bureau of education, arrived in
I town on the Watson. He will leave
on the next train to investigate the
food supply of the natives of the Cop
• per river valley.
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» Centennial Best Flour $4.00 per
sack. The Blum, O’Neill Co.
LIGHTHOUSES SUSPENDED
LACK OF OIL
ATHENS, Sept. 13. — Three of the
principal Greek lighthouses — those
of Paros, Scopelos and Othonai—have
been extinguished by the Greek gov
ernment for lack of petroleum to con
tinue them, and the government has
notified shippers that no regularity In
the working of the remaining ligh*
houses on the Greek coast can be as
sured.
HUGHES WELL PLEASED
CAAAPAIEN WORK
NEW YORK, Sept. 13. — Charles E.
Hughes conferred this afternoon with
Republican and Progressive leaders
and expressed himself as greatly !
pleased with the efficiency of the pre- ;
sent Republican campaign manage
ment.
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Three ocean liners were tied up at
the dock today.
COOLIES DEFUSE
TO SHIP TO
TIEN TSIN. China. Sept. 13. — Oer
man agent* have stirred up much un
rest among the thousands of Chinese
coolies which the French authorities
are sending from Tien Tsin to south
ern France. Agents of the French
government have represented to the
Chinese that they are to be exclusive
ly used as agricultural laborers. Ger
man agents have circulated reports
among the coolies and persuaded
many of them that the French intend
to use them in digging trenches and
making actual war against Germany
and her allies. Reports of this char
acter have been widely discussed
throughout Tien Tsin as well as in
Shantung provinces, where the French
agents are recruiting Chinese.
Recently many of the Chinese
brought to Tien Tsin have refused to
ship for France, and a number of them
NBW YORK, Sept. 1 !. President
Shonts, of the Interborough Traction
Company, has refused to consent to
Mayor Mitchell's proposal to arbitrate
the differences between the company
and employees The strikers will hold
a conference with Mitchell today.
PARIS. Sept. IT The diplomatic
mail pouch is proving very handy, ac
cording to the French papers, as a
means of transporting to some of the
diplomatists in (lermany w ho are ex
periencing the effect of the country's
shortage of rations. The Paris Midi
says: "In fact the diplomatists resid
ing at Berlin are bringing in food front
nearby countries and even front Fng
land and America. One rich foreigner
attached to a diplomatic mission gets
all his groc erics from an establish
ment at London The ambassador of
one country, and the consul general re
reive their food supplies twice per
week through their consul general at
Stockholm. There was a time when
the diplomatic washing was sent to
London for laundering, but war con
ditions have made that impossible
The Mariposa arrived at ti o'clock
last evening, the- Masha at 1 o' Iock
this morning, and tin- Watson at 7
a. m. The Farragut is clue tonight.
jumped overboard and swam back to
shore after they had a> tually started
on their long voyage.
The French authorities have been
authorized by the Chinese government
to recruit fifty thousand coolies. The
term if ihoir service is in lie three
years.
PATHETIC NARRATIVE OF
“THIRD BAN” SERBIANS
ISLAND OF CORFU, Greece, Sept,
j 13. The Serbian army has long since
| gone from Corfu — but not all the
Serbs Besides those who rest for
eternity in alien soil, on the sunlit
slopes of the island of Vido, some six
hundred living Serbs remain here.
| The war goes on without them. They
are the “third ban" men, too old or
too badly maimed ever to fight again.
Many of them are ill even now, and
the two hospital tents at Potamo un
der the supervision of Miss Emily
Simmons of New York, an English
trained- nurse sent out by the Ameri
can Red Cross, are generally full Just
now, out of the six hundred ban men
In camp, there are 115 in the hospi
tal. The remainder are in charge of
two English Quakers, acting for the
British Serbian relief committee.
Those w ho are well enough to work
at trivial tasks to fill their empty days
—they who have been heroes. They
carve canes of white olive wood, or
weave baskets to sell to tourists —
anything to keep the fingers busy and
dull the dreams of what is passing
over there, behind the Albanian hills,
in what was once Serbia. Save what
has come to them from the American
Red Cross or the British Serbian re
lief, they have nothing. They stag
gered through Albania leaving by
the roadside all their meagre posses
sions — even at the last their useless
guns, for which there was no more
ammunition Here and there one or
two have kept the torn and mud
stained blankets. One, through all
the vicissitudes of that hideous re
treat, clung to a deep, tong handled
saucepan, a mountain helriooin of
other ages.
And now the saucepan haa come in
to Its own. A miraculous metamor
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phosis is in progress. Over the oval
bowl bends the gray head of what
seems an old. old man. He is fifty
six—but be looks seventy. His two
sons are dead, his brother and hts bro
ther's three sons; his sister's hus
band and her son — all are dead,
somewhere between the Danube and
the Adriatic, on the road from Krag
ujevatz to Durazzo. He alone remains
— third ban man, his fighting done,
his family come to an end, and of
what was once his home only an an
tique saucepan. He is stringing a
cord of twisted horsehair across the
hollow bowl to the far end of the
wooden handle On the ground beside
him lies an olive wand bent in the
shape of an arc. its tips connected by
another string of woven horsehair
The old man's task is completed
Mumbling to himself, he picks up the
saucepan and balances it on his knees
In his right hand the Improvised bow
sweeps acros sthe solitary string with
s tone vibrant and low. The fingers
of his left hand grip the handle and,
pressing the cord, vary the tone in a
scale of half a dozen notes.
Gently the old man draws his bow.
experimenting with his new made in
atrument. Around him gather the
ttlhers In the tent, one by one draw
Ing near the unaccustomed sound, A
guslal Angusla!" they cry, delighted,
prenaing doner.
“Aye." he replies, proudly, fondling
the transformed saucepan, "A gusla
And in half vole* be begins to sing,
accompanying the word* with the few
primeval notes of hts saucepan gusla
At first It Is the chant, five centur
ies old, of the fugitive Serbs after
their defeat on the plains of Koaaovo
—th* chant that ta called "The Bloody
Night"
"Beloved, my beloved!
Will it end at last, this tragic night
At whose dawn you must go to
battle?"
But there have been so many bloody
nights since then, so much that is
now to be added to the ancient legend
The old man abandons the song of
centuries old and raising his voice, he
begins the narrative of another defeat,
a re center and more poignant trial
of the soul of Serbia.
"Heroes, do you remember," he be
gins, monotonously; and step by step
he traces across the mountains of Al
bania the blood stained pathway of re
treat. He named each pass, each
bridge, each brook and height. He
recalls the names of those who died
fighting and of those who fell of him
ger and exhausion by the way. And
(hose who listen, as the narative pro
j reeds remind the singer of an Inci
dent forgotten. At once it is incorpor
ated in the improvisation.
Hour upon hour the chant contin
ues, and the gusla moans its hummed
accompaniment
Sometimes at twilight, at *he cage
of the crowd that surrounds the hard,
bending over his transfigured sauce
pan, a short, wiry youth stands, half
lost in the shadows. His dark eves
gleam in the candle light: his tger
mobile face reflects the exaltation of
somber harmonies and sublime words.
Silent, he too listens to the heroic
story of his race, his nervous hands
opening and shutting, his countenance
glorified by a strange, inner flame Un
obtrusively he slips from the circle
at last, unmarked, and strides off into
the dusk.
It is Prince Alexander of Serbia —
the last of the Karageorgevitches —
or "Black Georges."