The Cordova
VOLUMKHI, NUMBER185 ~~ C()KL)< )VA,AiIaSKA, FRIDAY,
BOLSHEVIKI REFUSES
GERMAN PEACE TERMS
Teutons Will Now Resume Operations on North
ern Front, with Petrograd as Objective
—To Negotiate with Rumania
(By Associated Press)
DATELESS.—The Bolshevik! gov
ernment has refused the German peace
terms, and Germany will resume oper
ations in Northern Russia, probably
with Petrograd as the objective, ac
cording to information just received
of the result of a conference between
Kaiser Wilhelm, General Von Hinden
berg and General Von Ludendorff.
The peace conference at Brest-Lit
ovsk ended in a stormy session, dur
ing which Foreign Minister Trotzky
proposed the Russian plan of ending
the war on a basis of “no annexations,
no indemnities.” The German dele
gates rejected this declaration, and
the armistice which has been in exist
ence during the peace conference was
brought to a close.
Will Now Try Rumania.
AM STL. HD AM, Feb. 15.—Berlin
newspapers intimate that peace nego
tiations are about to be opened with
Rumania. It is assumed here that the
Rumanian negotiators, who will first
discuss the prolongation of the armis
tice, have arrived at the place agreed
upon.
NEW no IS WOE
III MU CONSTRUCTION
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—Secretary
of the Navy Daniels today announced
that the destroyer Taylor, launched at
the Mare Island, California, navy
yard yesterday, is 60 per cent complete
*- four months after her keel was laid.
This establishes a new record in con
struction for the navy.
BABY GIRL IS BORN.
The stork visited the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Howell I. Lewis this morn
ing and left a baby girl. Mother and
daughter are doing nicely.
LETTERS FROM SOLDIERS
OF INTEREST LOCftLLY
Charles M. Rosswog has received the
following letter from Sergeant A. C.
Elliott, Company D, Eighteenth Engi
neers. It is dated January 4, 1918, and
is written on Y. M. C. A. stationery:
“Dear Sir: A line or two to ac
knowledge receipt of Christmas pack
age, which arrived yesterday. It was
kind of you to think of it. The articles
sent are hard to get here, and I was
much pleased with your selection. I
wish you would thank all the boys
who contributed and give my compli
ments to the lady who made the cake.
It was excellent.
“I cannot tell you much of interest
about our operations here without be
ing rudely squelched by the censor.
I am working very hard and very
steadily on construction work, prepar
ing for the wallop the old United
States is going to hand the kaiser, and
one has only to be here to realize that
it is going to be some punch when it
comes.
“I have not seAi Taylor or Bennett
for a long time, as we are in different
companies anc^ separated. I hear from
them occasionally, however, and they
are both in pretty good shape yet. I
suppose you will hear from them of
ten.
“I must close now', thanking you
again for the package, and if you will
you might tell some of the boys to
write occasionally. Letters are very
welcome over here. Respectfully
yours, “SGT. A. C. ELLIOTT,
“Co. D, 18th Engineers, Ry., U. A.
Army, P. O. 705, A. E. F. in France.
“P. S. Got a promotion for Christ
mas.”
A Boost for the Marines
The Daily Times is in receipt of a
letter from J. W. Jones, dated Vallejo,
Cal., February 3, in which he says
that he has enlisted in the Marine
corps and expects to be located at that
point from seven to nine w'eeks before
being sent to the East coast. “The
grub here aad also the quarters are
the finest on the Pacific coast, and I
am glad that I picked this branch of
the service,” he concludes.
His address is Marine Barracks,
Mare Island, Vallejo, Cal.
GERMANS' FAVORITE II
used for pnon
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15—The much
ridiculed German sausage is possibly
playing an important part in the disin
tegration of the kaiser’s army. Ac
cording to a story just received here
the French are sending to the Ger
man troops messages in sausage meat,
telling them they would do well to
surrender and give the password,
“Kamerad republique.”
Many of the recipients, of the unique
messages have availed themselves of
the chance to surrender, and there
were few spies among them.
WILL SOON BE IN SHAPE
TO STIR BP SOUTHING
(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Feb. 15.—Colonel
Roosevelt expects to leave the hospi
tal for his hotel within a fortnight,
so satisfactory is his condition, ac
cording to his attendants. He will
return to his home as Oyster Bay ten
days later.
ROMANCE IS REIIEIIEED
IN RAZINC BUILDING
(By United Press)
CHICAGO, Feb. 15.—Chief Jawtowa
hoo fell in love with Lucy Falstaff,
daughter of one of the earliest set
tlers on the western shore of Lake
Michigan, married her, and took her
to live with his tribe. The color line
!was drawn and they were ostracized,
X tribal court decreed that they should
he sealed up in a tomb and left to die.
*rhis sentence was carried out.
Laborers razing an old stone struc
ture on the estate of D. S. Boynton, in
Highland Park, recently found the
skeletons of a man and woman who
had died in each other’s embrace.
James R. Skinner, student of Indian
lore, declares this was the tomb and
these the remains of Jawtowahoo and
Lucy Falstaff. ,,
SEA EDlIsSHtsiP
EDOM FLOATING MINE
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Feb. 15.—How five sea
gulls w-ere the means of saving a
steamer from destruction was related
by the pilot of the steamer on arrival
at an English port. He noticed five
gulls perched on a dark object which
w'as bobbing up just ahead of the ves
sel. Closer examination revealed that
a seagull was siting on each of the
five prongs of a floating mine and
there was just time to alter the ves
sel’s course and prevent a disaster.
FORTY BABIES
LOSE LIVES IN
(By Associated Press)
MONTREAL, Feb. ’6.—'The Convent
of the Grey Nuns in this city burned
last night, entailing the entire destruc
tion of the buildings and a possible
loss of life estimated at between fifty
and one hundred persons. The bodies
of forty-one babies already have been
found in the ruins by workmen and
firemen engaged in the search.
’ A number of returned soldiers, in
valided home, were in one of the
buildings, and many of them have lost
their lives in the holocaust.
Heroism of Sisters
Later.—The bodies now recovered
total fifty-two. The hdroism of the
sisters, who were nursing invalid sol
diers, was all that prevented the fatal
ities from being even greater.
BRITISni CRAFT
VICTIMS OF GERMANS
(By Associated Press).
LONDON, Feb. 15.—Eight British
| craft engaged in hunting subarines
jhave been sunk by a German raiding
! flotilla of destroyers.
SOUP
BEING SBIPPEO10 [1ST
(By United Press)
SI. PAUL, Minn., Feb. 15—Carloads
) of live soup are being sent east almost
I weekly.
The average ear contains 1,000 live,
peppy, snapping turtles for bejew„ied
and broadclothed epicureans of the
effete east. The average car weighs
20,000 pounds.
C. Wicklund, Twin City turtle soup
king, realises about $3,000 annually in
profit from the business. It takes a
force or men six weeks to catch and
sack one carload of turtles.
This will be the last year in which
the turtle business will be good in
Minnesota.. Since the average age of
the product is 300 years, newspaper
readers are not likely to be bothered
by a repetition of this story.
The turtle are caught by training a
400 candle power gas lantern on the
surface of a lake. Ten to twenty tur
tles usually catch each other by the
tails, and come to the light. Then a
screw driver is used to pry the turtles
loose from each other.
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HONOR DANCE TONIGHT
The dance given in honor of the
Fairbanks boys, who are on their way
to the states to enlist in the service of
Uncle Sam, will start promptly at 10
o’clock this evening at Eagle hall.
Mutic will be furnished by the Rag
Time Trio. A cordial invitation is ex
tended to all.
TO INCREASE PHOIIUCTION
OF FLU IN IBM
(By Associated Press)
BELFAST, Ireland, Feb. 15.—The
, British government soon will launch
a £10,000,000 scheme for increasing
the cultivation of flax in Ireland, ow
ing to the importance of flax for the
manufacture of airplane wings. Es
timates by experts show that the
quantity of flax usually grown in Ire
land would not be sufficient in the
coming year for this and other de
mands. Farmers who own land suit
able for the purpose will be offered
subsides, and the government prob
ably will secure in addition large
acreas of land in the midlands and
south of Ireland. There is likely to be
a scarcity of seed, and experiments
are to be made with the use of Cana
dian seed.
ATTACK ON
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(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—Senator
Weeks of Massachusetts delivered a
speech in the senate today in which]
he vigorously criticized the war de-|
partment and other branches of the
government and charged that Presi
dent Wilson had deliberately Injected
politics into the controversy over the
efficiency of the war department.
Senator Weeks is a Republican mem
ber of the senate military affairs com
mittee.
The Massachusetts senator declared
that the lack of a central body to di
rect the war activities of the govern
ment was responsible for the present
troubles, and urged the passage of the
measures which provide for the forma
tion of a war cabinet and the appoint
ment of a munitions director.
WONDERS OF WARFARE
UNDER MODERN METHODS
(By Associated Press)
PARIS, Feb. 15.—Two French hydro
airplanes fought with a German sub
marine in the English channel. Bombs
from the air craft finally sank the
underseas vessel.
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(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Feb. 15.—Ten mem
bers of the crew of the Spanish steam
r,iv»iwigv il del Arrinaga, officers and
seamen, perished in mid-ocean when
the the vessel foundered on February
6, according to information just
brought here.
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WILL MEET ZBYSZKO
(By United Press)
DES MOINES, Eeb. 15.—The
heavyweight wrestling championship
laurels may change hands—or rather
heads—here soon. Earl Caddock
title holder and now a private in the
ranks at Camp Dodge, will try to keep
Wladeck Zbyszko, the giant Pole from
tossing him to the mat at the Colis
eum.
Caddock is a native, son and be
cause of his “thousand holds’’ is fav
orite in the betting, though the arrival
of Jack Curley and other New York
ers with the Pole brought in quiet a
bunch of Zbyszko money.
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PREPARING DRAFT LIST
The local exemption board is busily
engaged in preparing a list of Cordova
registrants in the order of their li
ability for military service pursu
ant to instructions from the provost
marshal general. This list will be
completed in a couple of days and
then published in the Daily Times.
The questionnaires will also be sent
out shortly.
GREAT BELLiff COLOGNE
SACRIFICE TO WAR NEEDS
(By Associated Press)
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 15.—The great
bell of Cologne Cathedral (‘Maria
Jloriosa’) was rung for the last time
on New Years’ eve, and the metal,
which weighs several tons, will be
ised for war purposes.
The bell was first rung on the birth
lay of William I, on March 22, 1877,
and was cast from French guns cap
tured in 1870-71.
VERNON CASTLE KILLED
AT TEXAS FLYING CAMP
Goes Through Ordeal of War’s Horrors Safely,
Only to Meet His End on Peaceful
Southern Aviation Field
(By Associated Press)
FORT WORTH, Texas, Feb. 15.—
Captain Vernon Castle of the British
Royal Flying Corps was killed today
while flying fifteen miles east of here.
The accident which resulted in his
death was caused by his trying to
avoid a cadet in another machine.
Captain Castle swerved his machine
until it got beyond his control, and
he was unable to right himself and
fell to his death. The cadet was un
injured.
Irony of Fate
, Captain Castle had made more than
one hundred and fifty flights over
the German lines, and was the hero
j of many daring exploits in the war
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zone. Recently he had been Instructor
in aviation to the Canadian airplane
contingent here.
Captain Castle, whose real name was
i Vernon Bly, with his wife, had won
world-wide fame as dancers prior to
the war. They later conducted the
| Castle house, in New York, which,
i w as a fashionable dancing school. Clap
tain Castle was 31 years of age. Mr
and Mrs. Castle formerly were on the
legitimate stage.
Wife Prostrated
NEW YORK, Feb. 15.—Mrs. Vernon
j Castle, who is now a motion picture
star of note, was prostrated when in
' formed of the death of her husband.
WILL BRIDGE AND TUNNEL !
BETWEEN CONTINENTS
(By Associated Press)
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 15.—The Tur
' kish parliament has awarded to a
I Budapest firm a contract to build a
I tunnel and bridge across the Bosporus.
| Work on the projects is to begin some
time during the coming April.
The Bosporus is 1,800 feet wide at
the point where the improvements are
to be made.
rra hide from thkio
FOH COLONEL ROOSEUELT
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(By United Press)
TOKIO. Feb. 15.—Tiger hunting is
the latest pastime devised by Japan
ese narikin, or war millionaires, to re
lieve them of their surplus wealth.
! As a result the skin of a big Korean
tiger will soon be on the way to Col.
Theodore Roosevelt.
Tadasaburo Yamamoto, smiled upon
by fortune and the shipping boom,
has just returned from a lavish hunt
ing expedition into the wilds of Korea.
The bag consisted of tigers, leopards,
bears, wild goats, wild boars and deer.
The hide of the largest tiger, an
nounces Mr. Yamamoto, will be offer
ed to Col. Roosevelt.
Upon his return to Tokio the nar
ikin gave a tiger dinner, at which his
j friends feasted upon the cold meat of
| the jungle beast, not, however, until
after the toughness and original tiger
aroma had been removed by a week’s
process of pickling.
Twenty-one newspaper reporters
were invited on the Korean tour by
| Yamamoto, who, it may be added, is
I not adverse to publicity.
KNITTING BAGS TABOO
IN SENATE GALLERIES
(By United Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—Because
innocent-looking knitting bags might
contain bombs in their capacious
depths, senate gallery doorkeepers
have tabood them.
Knitting in the galleries—very well;
but the wherewithal must not be
camouflaged under several yards of
bag.
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LIQUOR FOUND IN
RESTRICTED DISTRICT
Today Minnie Robinson was arrest
ed on the charge of violating the bone
dry law and she will be given a hear
ing before the United States commis
sioner late this afternoon. Liquor was
found in the possession of the defend
ant in the restricted district.
CARRANZA’S GOVERNMENT
TO BE AIDED WITH GOLD
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(By Associated BresKjt <
WASHINGTON, l-'eb. 13—The
United States government proposes to
permit the exportation of enough gold
to Mexico to satisfy Carranza’s needs,
as part of the commercial agreement
entered into between the two govern
ments, gold being badly needed in
Mexico at present.
Mexico has large amounts of gold
in American banks, and no loan by
the United States is contemplated.
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FUNERAL TOMORROW
The funeral of the late Mrs. \V. S
Newlin will take place tomorrow after
noon. Services will be conducted at
the Red Dragon at 3 o’clock by Rev
E. F. Zeigler and all friends of the de
ceased are invited to attend.
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FLOURISHING BUSINESS
OF LOCAL FISHERMAN
A visit to the fishing station of the
well-known local fisherman, Gus Ohm.
causes surprise that such a flourish
ing business has caused so little com
ment, though located so close to Cor
dova.
Mr. Ohm has a staff of twenty-five
connected with the station and ten in
dependent fishermen who are also fish
ing for him. He has a large, airy
bunk-house with three rooms and
store-room above it. A cook-house
with bright, sunny office overlooks the
bay, while about fifty yards away are
situated a fish house and saltery, with
a large warehouse above them. The
location is on a landlocked bay, mak
ing an ideal harborP
At present halibut is being shipped •
in large quantities to Seattle, besides
halibut, cod, herring and red-snapper
to various mining camps in the Cop
per River valley. Considerable cod
has already been salted and shipped,
while more is being salted every day.
Scotch-cured herring, which the gov
ernment urged last summer, is also
handled. A building is in course of
construction to render cod-liver and
shark-liver oil.
The steamer Inverness is under
charter with two Columbia river boats
belonging to the station and several
dories. To see the “fleet’’ in harbor
is indeed a pretty sight, giving an ap
pearance of a truly thriving industry.
HI Milt’SEISE
III EUDIFTEI Ml
LONDON, Jan. 15. (By Mail)—Eu
rope will soon have aerial mail serv
ice. “As soon as the military situa
tion will admit, international aerial
posts between London and the prin
ciple capitals of Europe will be in
stituted,” Albert Illingworth, postmas