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IV. NO. 228 _CORDOVA. ALASKA. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER t, 1919 _ PRICE TEN CENTS
ELTY OF CHINESE BOLSEHVISTS
FEEDS THAT OF REAL ARTICLE
\1SK, Siberia, Sept. 1 (by Associated Press).—More
wentv thousand persons were killed in Ekaterin
ifter the Bolshevik occupation of the town. The
,Hl and Hungarian detachments of the “red” army
yed the most cruelty.
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ill be no trouble in putting
i Northern in first-class
one of the few instruc
ts me by Secretary Lane
nieto the Alaska Northern
ie road in shape for heavy
every day of the year. If
head on these instructions
'ill be speedily rushed just
i the money is available.—
rick Mears.
to the people of Alaska,
, illy to the people of Sew
;he government railroad is
Meted as soon as possible;
prtion of the railroad from
the north, connecting with
age division, is to be com
L and that Col. Mears is
i) see that this is done.—
Secretary Hallowell.
above promises were given
by Colonel Mears and As
cretarv Hallowell, of the
t of the interior, under
isdiction the government
Alaska is being construct
epresentative gathering of
lien meeting under the aus
ie Seward chamber of com
die office of R. J. Weir, in
ad building.
Mears stated he was glad
glad to be back on the
,b, and the first and fore
k he would undertake as
of the Alaskan engineering
in, and chief engineer,
;o put the Alaska Northern
fihape so that trains can be
(very day of the year.
. tructions from Secretary
to go ahead on the above
Dl Colonel Mears.
Mears reviewed the fight
made in congress for the
jion of $17,000,000 and stat
t ate would pass this appro
11. and it was conceded the
| Id do likewise as the com
inost favorable. “Speakers
on the floor of the house
the appropriation,” said
ears.
t Secretary John W. Hall
that he brought good cheer
‘ etar / Lane, and made the
as given above.
i ry Lane regretted that he
til e to make a trip to Alaska,
of you who are read
vspapers realize the im
tt i ters row before the cabi
gress, and as one of the
<L ole advisors of President
cretary Lane could not
RENEZVOUS OF
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MONTEREY, Cal., Sept. 1 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The Pacific fleet left
here at noon today for Bolinas bay,
north of San Francisco, for the big
review in San Francisco before Secre
tary Daniels.
The dreadnaught New York, having
on board the secretary of the navy,
dropped anchor here today, complet
ing her five-thousand-mile trip to the
Hawaiian islands.
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TIGER OF FRANCE
IS NOT CANDIDATE
FOR PRESIDENCY
PARIS, Sept. 1 (by Associated
Press).—It is not believed here that
Clemeneeau will be a candidate for
President of France. Poincare is not
a candidate for re-election. Paul Des
chanel, president of the chamber of
deputies, is mentioned as a probable
candidate.
GERMANS IMPRISON
BRITISH DIPLOMATS
COPENHAGEN, Aug. 29 (by Asso
ciated Press).—It is reported that
three members of the British mission
in Luthania have been arrested by
the Germans and taken to Mitau.
They were released later when the
British mission at Riga complained.
leave Washington, D. C., at this time
when so many important matters are
being discussed.
“The congressional committee was
also forced to delay the proposed trip
for the same reasons, great amount
of important legislation.
“You have Colonel Mears to com
plete the government railroad, his in
structions being to that effect, and
this will be done just as soon as the
necessary money is made available.
Colonel Mears can finish the job, and
will do so in the quickest and most
economical way.”
Secretary Hallowell spoke of the
splendid work Colonel Mears had
done with the transportation corps
in France, and read the letter from
Commander Pershing signed by the
adjutant general, conferring upon Col.
Mears the distinguished service
medal for extraordinary work, effi
ciency, etc., while with the transpor
tation corps in France.—Seward Gate
way.
OF DOUGHBOYS AND FRENCHWOMEN
APT ILLUSTRATION OF PROVERB ABOUT
ARRYING IN HASTE AND REPENTING AT LEISURE
US, Sept. 1 (by Associated Press).—Sixty-two French
dio were married to American soldiers and were subse
, divorced in the United States have returned to France
ij e past week. They were unahle to adapt themselves to
' j ican mode of living. Most of them stated that they
| no personal differences with their husbands.
NOME, Kept. 1 (by Associated Press).—Kinrock Mission,
thirty-two miles west of Nome, was burned to the ground Sat
urday night. Sixty native1 children, orphaned by the influenza
epidemic of last winter, were rendered homeless. Two of the
survivors of the fire who were left naked died from ex
posure.
dent Wilson, in a Labor day message to the American workers,
issued last night, announced that in the near future he would
call a conference of representatives of labor and industry to
di. uiss fundamental means of bettering the whole relationship
of < a pit a 1 and labor and putting the whole question of wages
upon a different footing than at present.
This conference will be called soon after the President re
turns, at the end of September, from his speech-making tour
of the West.
Officials here believe that the President’s announcement
wi'b help to alleviate the tension existing in the ranks of organ
ized labor.
SEATTLE SHIPBUILDING FIRMS
TO BE CALLED BEFORE COURTS
TO ANSWER CRIMINAL CHARGES
SEATTLE, Sept. 1 (by Associated Press).—The congres
sional shipyard investigation committee closed its hearings here
yesterday and left today for Tacoma, Olympia and Portland.
It is intimated that the government is contemplating crimi
nal prosecutions against local shipbuilders in connection with
alleged misappropriation of government funds spent on the
shipyards during the war.
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SEATTLE, Sept. 1 (by Associated Press).—Daniel W. Ed
wards, formerly special agent of the department of justice, was
arrested here today charged with violations of the Reed liquor
amendment, prohibiting the shipment of intoxicants between
dry states in interstate commerce.
He was released on bail of $5,000. The officials believe him
to be a member of a syndicate which has been engaged in ship
ping liquor into Seattle in large quantities.
RACE RIOTS BREAK OUT IN SOUTHERN STATE
AND SEVERAL PERSONS ARE KILLED AND WOUNDED
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 1 (by Associated Press).—Lieutenants
Frederick Waterhouse and Cecil H. Connelly Rockwell, field
pursuit pilots, who have been missing in Lower California since
August 20, did not land or crash in the desert, according to the
opinions of aviators who have flown over the wastes of the pe
ninsula. They believe that the two aviators landed somewhere
in the rough country between Trinidad and the coast and a
point between Rosario and San Pedro mountains. About seven
hundred square miles have yet to be explored and.reported on.
COMMITTEE WILL HAVE CHANCE
TO QUESTION PERSHING AT HOME
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PAKIS, Sept. 1 (by Associated Press).—General
P> ishing declined to testify before the congressional com
mittee investigating war expenditures because his records
were not available. The committee will question him
later in the United States.
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SOROKA, Russian Poland, June 30
via London, July 28 (Correspondence
of Associated Press).—Pushing for-;
va ■ d da’Jv into territory of the Bob'
i sheviki and often under fire, the
American railway troops on the,
Murman front in two months Mans
formed 75 miles of dynamited and
burned bridges and railway, wrecked
and destroyed by retreating Bol.she
\:ki, into a workable railway which
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tained.
To these troops the British com
mand gives much of the credit of the
seventy-five miles’ advance toward
Petrozavodsk. In the contingent
were 36 officers and 675 men, com
prising the 167'h and 168th com
panies of railway troops as a special
i battalion under Major E. E. MacMore
! land, Kansas City, and every kind of;
railroader.
The Yanks worked so fast in fact
that the Bolheviki, according to pris-j
oners taken, believed that they had i
miraculous machines for tracklaying
and adjustable bridges which they
dropped is as they wrent along. It
was all done by a gang under Cap
tain C. J. Jones, of Patterson, N. J.,
who in Alaskan and latin-American j
jobs was nicknamed “Hurrv-up j
Jones.” The men worked seventeen
hours daily w-ith the enemy right
ahead and the British artillery right
behind awaiting construction. There
were also battles and skirmishes in
many small sidings w’here on several
occasions the construction and also
the trains’ cre^s were under fire.
On May 19, while building a bridge j
under shraphel fire, the Yanks were |
surrounded by Bolheviki skipping
through the woods and dynamiting j
the bridge three versts in the rear.
On the way back to repair the bridge |
the Yanks were again attacked at
close range but managed to escape.
The shop detachment, under Cap
tain C. E. McMillan, of South Amer
ica and Panama, formerly from Oma
ha, had to tranform junk pile equip
ment into workable rolling stock.
Then the Yanks, under Captain H.
G. Odell, former assistant and super
intendent at Santa Fe, built and op
erated an eight-mile street railway in
Murman. Under Lieutenant Charles
B. Tuttle, they operated and manned
an armored train.
Railway men who formerly drew
high pay in Boston, Pittsburgh, or
Indiana, shared in making these rail
way enterprises a Yankee success.
PARIS, Sept. 1 (by Associated
Press).—Premier Clemeneeau, For
eign Minister Pichon and Colonel An
dre Tardieu were among the high
French officials who bade farewell to
General Pershing on his departure for
Brest today.
General Pershing will sail tomorrow
on hte Leviathan for New York.
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WILSON S SUGGESTION
EMBODIED IN BILL
NOW BEFORE HOUSE
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (by Associ
ated Press).—Congressman Jones of
Indiana has introduced a bill compell
ing merchants to mark the cost price
on merchandise offered for sale. This
is one of President Wilson’s sugges
tions to cut the cost of living.
EDUCATION OFFICIAL
ON TOUR OF INTERIOR
Commissioner of Education L. D.
Henderson left Juneau for the In
terior on the Northwetern recently
to visit the schools of that section
and inquire into educational mat
ters.
Mr. Henderson will catch the
Whitehorse train at Skagway and a
Dawson steamer from Whitehorse.
He will go down the Yukon river to
Ruby and from there return to Tan
ana, thence up the Tanana river to
Fairbanks and over the Richardson
road to the coast. He will visit Cor
dova. Valdez. Seward, Anchorage and
other coaot towns after reaching the
coast. He will be away from Juneau
a month or six weeks.
REV. CONDIT UNABLE
TO REACH POINT BARROW
After attempting to reach Point
Barrow for three weeks. Dr. James
H. Condit, superintendent of Presby
terian missions in Alaska, has given
up the prospect of visiting the
farthest north mission and was to
sail for Seattle from Nome on the
30th of August, according to word re
ceived by Mrs .Condit at Juneau.
Dr. Condit left Juneau for the
westward several weeks ago and
boarded the United States revenue
cutter Bear, bound for Point Bar
row. Because of the Arctic ice, the
Bear was unable to reach Point Bar
sow.
LOWER CALIFORNIA STILL BEING SCOURED
FOR TWO LONG-MISSING AMERICAN AVIATORS—
large section of country yet to be explored
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 1 (by Associated Press).—One
white man and two negroes were wounded today in rioting
between whites and blacks growing out of disorders which took
place last night, when seven persons, including two national
guardsmen, were killed.
Twelve hundred national guardsmen are now on duty in
the city.