VOL. V. NO. 95 CORDOVA, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1920_PRICE TEN CENTS
CORDOVANS WILL BE FURNISHED WITH LOCAL HIGH GRADE FUEL
ALASKAN DEVELOPMENT BOARD
TO HANDLE FEDERAL BUSINESS
IN TERRITORY PLAN OF SENATOR
SEATTLE, March 24 (by Associated
Press).—A special to the Times from
Washington says that Senator New
|pf Indiana, chairman of the senate
committee on territories, is planning
to submit to the secretary of the in
terior his bill providing for a resident
commission to transact the business of
the federal government in Alaska.
Senator New says he hopes hearings
will start soon. The senator says he
would just as soon have one resident
commissioner vested with full author
ity to transact all government busi
ness in Alaska, but says the bill will
be subject to modification. He is in
troducing the measure, he says, to
get things started.
“AWFUL” DUPLICATIONS
The duplication in the control of
Alaska affairs is “something awful,”
said the senator.
The bill as drawn by Senator New
provides for the formation of an
‘Alaskan development board,” to con
sist of three members to be named
by the President, who shall serve for
H a term of seven years. The chairman
of the board is to receive a salary of
158.500, and the other members $8,000.
The board would have broad juris
diction over the resources and trans
portation lines.
STEAMSHIP LINE PROPOSED *
The bill also gives to the Alaskan
engineering commission, which con
trols the government railway now un
der construction in Alaska, authority
to develop business along the line of
the railroad, as the pioneer railroad
builders did in the States. Ten thou
sand dollars is -appropriated to the
commission for development work.
The Times special also says that
Secretary of the Interior Payne is plan
ning a government line of steamships
from Seattle to Seward and Anchor
age next summer. Secretary Payne,
it is stated, wants to develop the coun
try along the line of the railroad.
M’PHERSON IS OPTIMISTIC
J. L. McPherson of the Alaska bu
reau of the Seattle Chamber of Com
merce, who has just returned from
Washington, predicts that rail con
nection will be made between Seward
and Fairbanks, with the exception of
the Tanana river crossing, by the end
of 1921, or early in 1922. He says that
five million dollars is available for
immediate work. -
The committees on territories of the
two houses of congress are to make
an extensive study of Alaska’s affairs,
Mr. McPherson says. Congress real
izes, he declares, that Alaska must be
developed in order to make the rail
road a success.
SENATOR SAYS
UNKIND WORDS
ABOUT WILSON
NEW HAVEN, March 24 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Senator Brandagee, in
opening the Republican state conven
tion here yesterday, criticized Presi
dent Wilson for his treaty-making and
Mexican policies.
The Democratic administration, he
skid, was responsible for American un
preparedness at the beginning of the
war.
The senator declared that the state
department was a mere shell, and that
the operation of the postoffice depart
ment was a big joke, if it was not a
scandal and a tragedy.
COLBY WANTS CHARGES
MADE AGAINST HIM
PUBLISHED TO WORLD
' WASHINGTON, March 24 (by As
sociated Press).—Bainbridge Colby,
who assumed his duties as secretary
of state yesterday, has asked Senator
Lodge, chairman of the senate commit
*tee on foreign relations, to make pub
lic the evidence brought out before the
gommittee while his confirmation was
under discussion.
INTERNATIONAL LABOR
OFFICE AT LONDON
LONDON, March 24 (by Associated
Press).—The governing body of the In
ternational Labor Bureau, established
under authority of the League of Na
tions, has decided to organize an in
ternational labor office to collect and
distribute information and prepare a
program for the annual conference.
B
T. LANSING
JOINS ATTACK
AGAINST NAVY
WASHINGTON, March 24 (by As
sociated Press).—Captain Harris Lan
sing, assistant chief of the bureau of
navigation of the navy department dur
ing the war, told the sub-committee of
the senate committee on naval affairs
today that virtual chaos existed in the
navy department when the United
States entered the war.
The personal characteristics of Sec
retary of the Navy Daniels, said the
witness, made it impossible frequently
to get his approval of really important
policies. •
GEN. LEONARD WOOD
HA NOTHING TO SAY
ABOUT USE OF FUNDS
NORFOLK, Va., March 24 (by As
sociated Press).—General Wood was
interviewed here yesterday, but re
fused to make further statements re
garding campaign funds. He said he
had nothing to add to the statement
made by his manager.
WANTS COMMISSION TO
ADJUDICATE TROUBLES
OF LABOR IN NEBRASKA
LINCON, Neb., March 24 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The constitutional as
sembly opened here yesterday. A pro
posal to provide an industrial commis
sion to adjudicate labor disputes is one
of the problems being considered.
MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE
OF FAMOUS NEWSPAPER WRITER
MAY BE CLEARED UP AT LAST
SEATTLE, March 24 (by Associated Press).—James H. Wilkins,
a special writer, who has just returned from Mexico, says he has pos
itive proof that Ambrose Bierce, a noted American newspaper writer
whoTnysteriously disappeared several years ago, was put to death
by a Villista firing squad in Mexico.
UNREST OF FORMER SERVICE MEN
DUE TO FAPRE OF GOVERNMENT
TO PROVIDE FOR THEIR WELFARE
OLYMPIA, Wash., March 24 (by As
sociated Press).—After an all-night
fight between senate and house, the
special session of the legislature was
adjourned at 4:30 o’clock this morning,
after passing the soldiers’ bonus bill
with a referendum clause submitting
it to popular vote in November.
The senate opposed the referendum
clause and substituted an emergency
provision, making it effective immedi
ately.
The American Legion lobby _favored
the emergency provision, but the house
won the fight for the referendum.
UNREST AMONG SERVICE MEN
WASHINGTON, March 24 (by Asso
ciated Press).—J. E. Holden of Utah,
state adjutant of the American Legion,
testifying before the ways and means
committee of the house of representa
tives today, said the failure of the
government to aid the former service
men had resulted in the I. W. W. mak
ing a drive to get such men into their
organization.
The witness said the “wobblies”
were spreading their organized propa
ganda to discredit the government and
to aid in undermining the American
Legion. Many unintelligent -service
men, he said, were joining the “wob
blies,” who, he declared, were plotting
the overthrow of the government,
J. G. Sti'ugham, a member of the
executive committee of the American
Legion, testified that the service men
were discontented, and feel that they
have not gotten a square deal. They
are chafing with unrest, he said.
GENERAL WOOD
IS FAVORITE IN
SOUTH DAKOTA
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SIOUX FALLS, S. D„ March 24 (by
Associated Press).—Partial returns
from the Republican presidential pri
maries, held yesterday, show that
General Leonard Wood received 22,100
votes; Governor Lowden, 17,435; Sen
ator Hiram Johnson* 15,996, and that
Senator Miles Poindexter polled only
a small vote.
MILES IN “ALSO RAN” CLASS
Poindexter ran strongest in Pierre,
where he received 64 out of 1,100 votes
cast. Most of the counties gave Poin
dexter from five to fifteen votes. Thir
ty-five counties gave him a total of
700.
General Wood is in the lead in 31
counties, Johnson in 11 and Lowden
in 11.
B0LSHEVIKI REPULSED
ON POLISH FRONTIERS
WARSAW, March 24 (by Associated
Press).—It is announced that ex
tremely heavy, fighting has taken place
on the Polish frontiers. After heavy
artillery preparation the Bolsheviki at
tacked the Zwichel bridgehead, but
were repulsed.
FAMOUS HAWAA1AN
DIES IN HONOLULU
SAN FRANCISCO, March 24 (by
Associated Press).—Colonel Samuel
Parker, former prime minister to
Queen Lilioukalani, died in Honolulu
today. He left a fortune valued at
several millions of dollars, and was
one of the best-known Hawaiians.
COMMANDER OF
KAPPS FORCES
UNDER ARREST
BERLIN, March 24 (by Associated
Press).—It is officially announced that
General Von Ruemwitz, military com
mander in the Kapp revolt, and Ad
miral Von Trotha, chief of the admir
alty in the Kapp government, have
been arrested. It is supposed that
Kapp is on his estate in Prussia.
The strike committee has pro
claimed the general strike to be at an
end.
President Ebert has decreed the abo
lition of the drumhead court-martial.
He said he believed that order could
not further be restored.
COMMUNISTS DEFEATED
COBURG, Germany, March 24 (by
Associated Press).—The reichvvehr
have inflicted a heavy defeat upon the
Communists, who lost more than a
thousand men in killed alone, accord
ing to the reichwehr commander.
HOSTILITIES AT WESEL
WESEL, Germany, March 24 (by As
sociated Press).—Six thousand Ger
man troops have been engaged in bat
tle with fifteen thousand Communist
guards. It is reported that sixty-two
were killed.
EBERT FORCES IN BAD WAY
TERICH, Rhenish Prussia, March
24 (by Associated Press).—The Com
munists have besieged the constitu
tional army in Wesel. It is reported
that the Communists have a large,
well-trained army of war veterans. The
Ebert forces are nearly surrounded. ,
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LONDON, March 24 (by Associated <
Press).—Mrs, Humphrey Ward, the i
noted novelist, died here today of 1
heart disease: 1
COAL FROM BERING RIVER I D
WILL BE PLACED UPON MARKET
WHILE MINE IS BEING DEVELOPED
Bering .River coal, equal to semi-anthracite; and which
has more heat units than any other coal in the United States,
is to be marketed in Cordova during the coming summer.
In a telegram received today by George C. Hazelet from
Falcon Joslin, president of the Bering River Coal Company,
who is at present in New York, lie states that it has been ar
ranged to deliver coal for commercial use during the develop
ment work of the mine, which is now progressing in a most
satisfactory manner.
An auto-truck road will be built from the mine to Canoe
Landing, on Bering lake, where tunnel boats will be used to
take the fuel over the lake to barges, which can be cither towed
here or to steamers at Controller bay.
Three 2,000-ton barges are being purchased, and a small
washing plant will be installed to clean the coal of all slate and
rock. It is believed that the Bering River Coal Company will
be ready to ship coal to market in July.
Mr. Hazelet also states that the Chilkat Oil Company ex
pects soon to open its oil wells on a more extensive scale.
GROCERS STILL
GOING AFTER
MEAT COMBINE
CHICAGO, March 24 (by Associated
Press).—The National Wholesale Gro
cers’ Association announces that it is
dissatisfied with the government de
cree limiting the activities of the “big
five” packers, and that the association
will reopen the case against the pack
ers and the railroads before the inter
state commerce commission.
WANTCPRESIDENTTO
PREPARE NEW PEACE
TREATY WITH GERMANY
RICHMOND. Va., March 24 (by As
sociated Press).—Representative Flood
of Virginia, in an interview here yes
terday, announced that he would intro
duce in the house a joint resolution
authorizing President Wilson to pre
pare a new treaty of peace with Ger
many.
CHINA WITHDRAWS^
TROOPS FROM SIBERIA
PEKING, March 24 (by Associated
Press).—The government has ordered
the withdrawal of Chinese troops from
Siberia.
HIRAM HAS ENTERED
IN JERSEY PRIMARIES
TRENTON, N. J., March 24 (by As
sociated Press).—The name of Hiram
Johnson has been entered in the New
Jersey primaries as a candidate for
:he Republican nomination for Presi
lent.
WIFE BEATER IS GIVEN
DOSE OF OWN MEDICINE
WARREN, Ohio, March 24 (by Asso
rted Press).—Judge Lionel Pardee
>f the municipal court here yesterday
>rdered George Bailey to be strapped
md lashed with the buckle end of a
>elt. Bailey was found guilty of beat
ng his wife in this manner.
NAVAL BILL IS
| APPROVED BY
! —
WASHINGTON, March 24 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The house of repre
sentatives yesterday passed the naval
appropriation bill without roll call, and
it now goes to the senate.
The measure carries $425,000,000, in
cluding $104,000,000 for new construc
tion, the vessels authorized being lim
ited to sixteen.
The bill provides for 125,000 en
listed men.
NON-PARTISAN FIGHT IN
COMING CAMPAIGN BY
FEDERATION OF LABOR
WASHINGTON, March 24 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The American Federa
tion of Labor announces that the non
partisan political campaign is now un
der way, and that tremendous enthu
siasm resulted at meetings held last,
night by locals throughout the country.
MANY CANCER CURES
BY NEW X-RAY METHOD
NEW YORK, March 24 (by Associ
ated Press).—It is announced that
fifty constructive cases of surface can
cer have been cured at the New York
Post-Graduate School by an X-ray
method developed by Dr. William
Meyer.
THOUSANDS OF SOLDIERS
ARE FROZEN TO DEATH
LONDON, March 24 (by Associated
Press).—A dispatch from Moscow says
that more than sixteen thousand anti
Bolshevik soldiers have been frozen
to death on the southeastern Russian
steppes.
FISH QUOTATIONS
SEATTLE, March 24.—Prices for
fish at noon on March 22 were: Hali
but, 20c; sableflsh, 6c; red and ling
cod, 4c.