The Cordova Daily Times
VOLUME m. NUMBER 3. CORDOVA, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1916. PRICE TEN CENTS
. THREATENS LIFE
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 2. — A man
giving the name of Jonathan Krause,
wiio is evidently mentaly unbalanced
and whose condition was aggrevated
by drink, was arrested at the Penn
sylvania railroad station. He was
carrying a butcher knife and mutter
ing threats against President Wilson.
In his rambiings Krause also men
tioned the names of Morgan and
Rockefeller.
JAUREZ, Doc. 2. With the Mar
guia column attacking Villa front the
south a new battle is developing at
Chihuahua City. General O/.ana is
north of the city to cut off the Villa
retreat there, but it is feared that
Villa may go west over the Mexican
<fc Northwestern railway, following the
loot already shipped by train.
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LONDON, Dec. 4. The Lord May
or's Fund at its last meeting passed
a vote of thanks to Willoughby Smith,
the United States consul at Tiflis, for
the great work he did in helping them,
^ and other kindred organizations, to al
leviate the distress of the Armenian
refugees.
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Dec. 2.
—The Telegraaf's frontier oorrespon
dent learns the Empress Charlotte,
widow of Emperor Maximilian of Mex
ico, still resides at the castle of Itou
chout, near Brussels. The castle and
the park have not been touched by the
Germans and soldiers are forbidden
to enter the grounds. The empress
has never been informed of the war,
but often asks why King Albert and
Queen Elizabeth do not \ isit her any
more.
The Empress Charlotte has been suf
fering front insanity for many years.
DUCKS DIGUES!
FLIERS DF 1
, BIRDS
PA HIS, Dec. 2. — A French arm;
aviator. Captain G-. when not (it
recting the squadron he commands
gives his attention to the ways of cer
tain birds in the air.
He has observed that swallow
when migrating fly at an elevation o
about 8D0 yards, while wild ducks, a
a similar period, fly aH high us 2,0Oi
" yards. The green necked species, h
noted, flew at about 85 miles an hou
when mounting and about 95 mile
when in horizontal flight. Lapwing
were seen by the aviator at over
mile and a half high.
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STATUE of liberty to
be ILLUMiNATEC
NK\V YORK, Dec. 2. - Presides
Wilson has arrived to participate i
the ceremonies of putting in operatic
the illuminating system in the statu
of Liberty.
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The Admiral Kvans went to Kodia
this trip and is not due here soutl
bound until about Friday.
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ATHENS, Dec. 2.—Admiral Fournet, of the French navy,
I landed four hundred marines early yesterday morning. He im
mediately marched them towards Athens and seized Philopa
phos hill, overlooking the city. The Greek guards on all roads
leading to the capital refused to permit the second marine de
tachment to advance further on account of the intense excite
ment in the city. Four hundred British marines reinforced the
French forces in the Seaphion industrial exhibition building.
At the south end gardens of the royal palace and from the
surrounding hills the Greeks poured bullets into the Seaphion
building, and for a time it looked as though a general clash was
imminent. On invitation of the Spanish and Dutch ministers
the entire Greek cabinet and the allied departments met at the
French legation last night and arranged an armistice. All fir
ing then ceased, but not until after many civilians had been
killed.
ATHENS, Dec. 4.—King Constantine personally ordered
the Greek artillery to stop firing on the allies in Zeppiona,
where Admiral Fournet personally commanded the allied
marines.
ATHENS, Dec. 2.—After a day of terror King Constantine
agreed to surrender all ammunition as demanded by the allies,
who are now withdrawing their troops except a small guard.
LONDON, Dec. 2.—The general impression prevails that
a smaller war council, with the infusion of new blood, is eon
templated. Premier Asquith conferred with King George to
day. Major General Sir Stanley Vondonop has been replaced as
master general of ordnance of the British army by Major Gen
oral First, member of tin* general staff.
1.< )X I)(>X, Dec*. 4.—The cabinet crisis is the result of more
forceful conduct of war on the part of great Britain.
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PFTROGRAI), Dec. 4.—-The Russians have gained a foot
ing in the town of Kirlibaba, where the Germans were occupy
ing houses and defending them to the last extremity, the re
serves being concentrated in the western part ot the town for
a counter attack. Kirlibaba controls one of the most important
passes in the Carpathians, and if the Russians take them they
would have little difficulty in crossing the ridge of the Car
pathians and advancing into Hungary.
PFTRt )GRA D, Dec. 2. The Russian troops have gained
possession of the western part of Chernavoda bridge, across
the Danube river, south of Bucharest. The Teutons were driven
back and the villages of T/.omans and Gostinari captured.
I.OXDOX, Dec. 2.- The Manchester Guardian says the
cabinet changes, involving the resignation of Premier Asquith,
are impending. The Fxprcss says a political crisis has sudden
ly arisen and a coalition government is likely to be formed.
Some of the other morning papers reflect the popular dissatis
faction with the government. Floyd George is prominently
mentioned as Asquith’s successor as premier.
BFRF1X, Dec. 2.— A great battle has developed in western
Roumania. The German troops, advancing from the region of
Campulung, defeated the Roumanians in a pitched battle,
breaking through the lines and capturing over f>,000 Rouman
inns, and forty nine cannon. In the advance toward Bucharest
the Teutons reached the Argechu river.
CONGRESS CONVENED 12 TODAY
WASHINGTON, Deo. 4. - The
Sixty-fourth congress reconvened at
noon today for its second session,
which will end w’ith the life of the
present congress on March 4 The ad
ministration, although asured of con
trol for four years more in all
branches, excepting possibly the house
of representatives, has an ambitious
legislative program, all of which can
not lie crowded into the next three
months.
Where the administration is to draw
the line on general legislation has not
been determined. Party conferences
will outline the program to be attempt
ed in addition to the appropriation
bills which must be passed to meet
expenditures of government for the
fiscal ypar 1917-18.
When congress adjourned last Sep
tember, the Democratic senate caucus
agreed that the immigration bill, with
its oft-vetoed literacy test, would be
taken up and passed before considera
tion of any other legislation. It also
had agreed to act on the Owen corrupt
practices bill, a measure to limit ex
J* penditures in national political cam
paigns and to provide new penalties
for election frauds. Both measures
had been passed at the end of the ses
sion, to the embarrussment of both
parties, and were abandoned by mu
tual consent despite the urgent de
mauds of a few members.
Besides those two measures the
memorable railroad eight hour day
fight which marked the last days of
the last session had ended with legis
lation suggested by President Wilson
unconsidered. It will be urged upon
the congress by the administration
above all other subjects. In fact the
joint committee created by congress
to investigate the whole subject of
i railroad problems has been in session
RAISING FUNDS
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NEW YORK, Dec. 2. — An appea
for a fund for the relief of the widows
< and orphans of Germany, who hav<
1 been made innocent victims of the
1 war, has gone out from the America!
relief committee. This is in accor<
with the proclamation of I'resldeu
Wilson, in designating the annua
. Thanksgiving, in which he caiis atten
tion to the sufferings and urgent neet
t of the people of Europe, who have
l been made to feel the burden of the
l war. It is the purpose to give thii
s fund to Ambassador Gerard to take
back to his post in Berlin, for him ti
distribute to the million widows am
£ orphans of Germany, through the Am
erlcan consuls and other suitable
agencies.
two weeks preparing recommendations
and it is apparent that this will be
the dominating feature of the session.
Tn view of the probability that the
administration is face to face with a
divided Oath congress or at best a non
dependable plurality in the lower
house, it is the hope of Democratic
leaders to complete before the March
adjournment what remains of a con
structive program of reform legisla
tion long ago conceived. All are con
vinced. however, of the paramount im
portance of supply hills, and these
must take precedence, general legis
lation to he considered whenever time
will permit.
Of the supply measures there is
again more than usual importance at
tached to the naval appropriation hill
Hearings already have begun before
the house committee. The hill must
provide for the Becond year’s con
struction in the elaborate three year
building program authorized at the
last session as part of the administra
tion's plan to strengthen the national
defense. There also remain to be act
ed upon important conservation mea
sures, which the president and many
^ members of both legislative branches
have been advocating.
Besides those measures I’residenl
Wilson wants congress to enact the
Webb bill to make it legal for Ameri
can corporations to maintain collec
tive selling agencies for foreign e-oun
tries. Under terms of the Clayton
anti trust law, such agencies would be
unlawful. The president was disap
pointed over failure of the senate tc
pass the bill in the closing days oi
the last session and expressed his re
grets in a formal statement.
With regard to the national defense
there are, besides the regular army
navy and coast defense supply hills
several measures bearing on the inili
"There is real need In Germany foi
this work," said Ambassador Gerard
"and in distributing the money, 1 shal
be careful to let the German public
know from whom it comes. American!
have sent more money to other na
tions than to Germany, hut I hope the
Germans will come to realize that the
people of America sympathize with the
sufferings and needs of the widow-!
and orphans everywhere, and are will
ing to ameliorate such canditioni
wherever found."
"The money will he sent to me
through the United States depart
ment," continued Mr. Gerard, "and
will distribute it through the Unltee
States consuls In Germany whereve
! the need is greatest. 1 think all per
sons who are interested, not only ii
j helping the real nee^ssities of th
widows and orphans of Germany, bu
! also tn promoting more friendly feel
i Ing throughout the world, ought t
i help in this work.
, “If 1 am able to go back to German
I taking a substantial sum of money
- 1 do not know of anything better t
) aid relations between this country an
Germuuy, and when the Germans se
tary training modelled after the Swiss
system. Hearings are to be held by
the senate military committee, but ac
tion before adjournment seems im
probable.
Kstimates on the naval bill call for
an expenditure next year of approxi
inatelv $300,000,01)0, and authorization
for construction of three dreadnaughts
and at least one battle cruiser to add
to the four dreadnaughts and four bat
tie cruisers ordered constructed as
soon as possible in the big naval bill
of the last session. To keep up with
the three year building program pro
vision also should bo made for addi
tional scout cruisers, destroyers, fleet
and coast submarines and auxiliary
sltips.
Conservation legislation will be de
manded by its champions, but whether
time will permit is a dubious matter.
Water power bills which failed at the
iasi session will be revived. They in
clude the public lands water power
hill and the measure to provide for
development of water power sites in
navigable streams by private capital
There also is pending the Newlands
$<>0,000,000 Hill for general develop
ment and co-ordinated control of the
country's waterways. Measures are
pending also for tile conservation of
mineral resources and improved eon
trol of flood waters. Other measures
left over for which attention will be
asked arc the Shafroth bill to provide
civil government for I’orto Hieo and
the iloke Smith Hill to create a system
of vocational education with federal
aid throughout the states.
The senate will have three new
members to inaugurate when the gavel
falls today. It also must elect a new
president pro tempore owing to the
death of Senator James 1*. Clarke, of
Arkansas. A new majority leader
I must be elected for the next senate
that the fund has been raised by a
committee distinctly American, it can
not but make a most excellent lmpres
sion upon the people there.
Checks and money orders intended
for this relief, may be sent to the
treasurer of the American Relief Com
mittee, John 1). Crimmins. 13 i’ark
Row, New York, N. Y.
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CHRISTIANIA, Norway, IX<<\ V --
' The Norwegian coal company, which
bought the American coal fields on
> Spitsbergen, has now completed the
, preparatory work for getting the intn
> ing started, and this year will have
i mined more than 60,000 tous — 19,
9 000 tons of which already have been
owing to the defeat of Senator Kern,
of Indiana, and there is considerable
manoeuvring among Democratic son
ators for the honor of president pro
tempore. Some senators who covet
the leadership in the next senate arc
being urged to accept the vacancy,
Dut are reluctant to do so. Among
those under consideration are Senat
ora Saulsbury, of Delaware; Walsh,
of Montana; Overman, North Caro
lina; and Bankhead, Alabama. In the
selection the Democrats must take In
to consideration what is likely to tie
lone with the majority leadership
next year. If that is to go to a south
rn Democrat and the successor
to Kern most prominently mentioned
is Marin, of Virginia — the new pre
sident pro tempore probably will be
chosen from the northern Democrats
Three new senators who took their
seats today were James E. Wat
son. Republican, of Indiana, elect
cd in place of Thomas Taggart, Demo
crat, to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Senator Shively; Bert M
Fernald, Republican, of Maine, who
succeeds Senator Burleigh, deceased,
and William F. Kirby, Democrat, of
Arkansas, succeeding the late Senator
Clarke. The election of Watson re
duces the Democratic majority in the
senate from 10 to 14, the senate now
being composed of 55 Democrats and
41 Republicans. In the new senate the
majority will tie reduced to 12.
There will he three new members
also to take seats in the house; Thos.
W. Harrison, Democrat, succeeding
James Hay, of Virginia: Harry 0.
Woodward, Republican, of West Vir
ginin, who succeeds Republican Moss,
deceased, and Henry S. Benedict, Fro
gressive, or California, elected for the
short term in place of Republican Ste
phetis, who resigned to become lieu
tenant governor of his slate.
exported to Norway in the time from
August 15 to October 1. It is the aim
of the company in 1020 to have a year
|y production of 400,000 tons. Favor
able weather for the four months from
June to September will allow an av
erage of loo days for the shipping of
the coal — and there is no difficulty
in keeping the mines going the year
rouiiu.
There are now under construction
at Advent Hay great piers, with the
most modern loading machines so as
to permit 'he loading of 4,000 tonB a
day. Later similar facilities will be
provided at Green Harbor
it is claimed the quality of this coal
is superior to the best ICnglish coal
and the Norwegian industry, navy
and mercantile marine will take all
they can get.
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A regular meeting of the city coun
ell will be held tonight, and after the
business coming before it has been
disposed of the members will sit us a
board of equalization to hear com
plaints on the tax assessment.
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Job Printing at Daily Times office.
m STATION
PRACTICALLY
All work on the new government
radio station at Mile 11, along the
Copper River & Northwestern railway
has been suspended for the winter,
and the contractors and crews arrived
in Cordova on Sunday's train on their
way to the states.
Chris Kuppler & Sons have com
pleted the buildings, and they have
been accepted by the government
They include a one-story structure
2<ix47 feet for the operating depart
ment; dormitory quarters for eight
men, a building 25x5h feet, one and
a half stories high, and the chief op
erator's cottage, 2tix2t> feet
Two towers have been erected and
practically completed. All that is now
necessary is to put in place (he in
sulators, spark caps and switches, blit
as the former have not arrived, the
lowering of the towers on the insulat
ors and a few other details will not
receive attention until spring. N
eholas Kleinness h s the contract fo
constructing the towers. About Hu
men have been employed for severs
months past on the work at the new
wireless plant.
WOLF DOGS ARE
SEWARD, Dec 2. Destruction <>
the large packs of wild dugH which in
fest the Alaskan peninsula from IT
Alaska to Nushagak, is sought by Dr
L. French, medical officer for th.
school at Kanakanak, who is here In
French says he will bring the matte
to the attention of the next territor
ial legislature, which will he asked t.
provide a bounty law whereunder th
dogs may be killed.
The movement for the destructim
of the dogs is supported by the claiti
that reindeer call be used for the sum
purpose of transportation that th.
dogs are used for. it is pointed ou'
that the destruction of the dogs would
permit the reindeer to increase lit
number more rapidly, thtiH furnishin
ample transportation as well as foot
supply.
Native dogs breed rapidly, and al
though these creatures are of eon
siderahle value in the winter timt
as sled pullers, the destruction o.
animal life and an occasional human
being during the year outweigh ant
good derived, according to Dr French
"No living animal can exist around
the settlement in western Alaska, ex
rept these large bands of dog, in
which the weaker ones are continual
It being killed off by the stronger.'
said l>r. French. "Hogs, chickens
sheep or any other domestic animal
must be kept behind strong fences
and cannot at any time be allowed to
graze on the luxuriant grass which
abounds ou the ranges."
At the government hospital for na
fives, conducted at Kanakanak, many
cases have been treated where severe
injuries have been caused by the
fangs of these wolf like dogs, which
do not hesitate to attack women and
children when driven by hunger.
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AMERICAN CLUB
INSISTS UN ITS
OXFORD, England. Dec. 2. — The
American Club at Oxford University
at its last meeting defeated by a small
majority a .resolution for the discon
tinuance of the use of Its funds for
the purchase of liquors The resolu
tion bore the signature of 22 of the
members, but it was defeated by a
vote of 35 to 28.
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The Cordova Power Company are
making extensive repairs to the dam
at the [lower plant. While the repairs
are being made, probably for a week
or ten days, the power will be shut
off from 10 o'clock in the morning
until 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
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A hundred additional lock boxes
were Installed In the local postoffice
yesterday.
SERVICE FDR
A. rangoments have Iteen made hy
the postorfiee department at Washing
ton for the dispatch of some fifteen
tons of mail from Cordova to Fair
hanks !>v emergency service during
the u inter This should clean up prac
thally all of the surplus mail for the
interior, so that everybody in the
future Hill he sure ol getting their
papers and magazines with greater re
gularity during the closed season, and
it tnay he possible lo get through
Borne parcel post packages also
Second Assistant Postmaster (ien
erai Otto I’raeger has arranged this
extra service, hy the following authori
zation :
"An order has been issued author
izing the t hief i lerk of railway mail
service at Cordova, Maska. to employ
a carrier to perform emergent! ser
vice on route No. TSJtll from Cordova
to Fairbanks, Alaska, one way, for
'he transportation ot not exceeding
i.huu pounds of mail a month from
November I. inns, to March 1917.
and not exceeding 7.non pounds from
April 1 to in. 1917
l*.v idetice 0! the service on forms
JJe 1 and 777, should he forwarded
is soon as practicable after the per
format]! e ot tht- service in order that
payments may lie made to the carrier
promptly."
BEST PEOPLE BN
A meeting oi Gorduva members of
•tie Benevolent I’rote ti\e Order of
Kills was held at the Northland flub
ill Sunday afternoon for the purpose
•I organizing a serial club There was
i good attendance of Hills. ' and Ge
Dooley explained to them the object
of the call, after which Geo o North
in was elected chairman ami .1 V.
I .yd iik secretary The giiing of a big
dance, in the near future, was dis
cussed and tin* following committees
were named to look after the affair:
.Arrangements George W Ken
nedy, M \V I tied rick anil t lias. M.
UoSSVVOg.
Music M ill Cla> son and (leorge
I Hxdey
Refreshments — Thomas Davl* and
Teddy Dailey.
It is believed that there an- between
thirty and forty Klks in Cordova, and
m effort will be made to have them
ill affiliate with the proposed new or
ganization.
'SUSPICIOUS I
CHEAP BUZZ
m i:NOS \YKKS. Argentina. Bee.
4 V case of considerable interest to
American exporting houses has crop
ped up here. A c onsignment of motor
< urs from an \merican fac tory arrived
at Ituenos \yres. The invoice price
of the cars sent to the agency at Bue
I nos Ayres, were, by the customs au
thorities, deemed exceedingly low
The minister of finance was induced
to believe that some fraudulent inten
sion underlaw the Invoice prices, which
ranged from $L'>>n to liSOO gold He
fixed the value of the cars, for the
purpose of revenue, at from $:!4n to
$ci4.r> gold On behalf of his princi
pals, the local agent invited the au
thorities to take over the cars at the
invoice prices After much delay the
minister has gone out of office with
out giving a decision on the point.
The cars remain in storage pending
the decision of the new minister of
finance.
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'launch pansy is solo
TO CLAM PLANT OWNER
(’apt. Harry Itoife has sold his
| launch Pansy (o (’apt Morgan, former
pilot on the steamer Alameda, who re
gently came to c’ordova and purchased
an interest in the Turner clam plant,
which he intends to operate on a large
scale, ('apt Itoife will soon leave for
the states to purchase another boat
to put on the Prince William Sound
ruu.
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