The Cordova Daily Times
Member of The Associated Press
VOL. IV. NO. 59 ' CORDOVA, ALASKA, TUESDAY^; FEBRUARY 11,-1919 PRICE TEN CENTS
QUIET REIGNS
AT SCENES OF
RECENT STRIFE
SEATTLE, Feb. 11 (by Associated
Press).—The Post-Intelligencer, in a
front page editorial discussing the
strike, which officially ended at noon
today, says “the revolution is over and
the city is virtually normal, except
that the shipyard men still are out."
Machine Gun Men Leave
TACOMA, Feb. 11 (by Associated
Press).—Four machine gun sergeants,
eight privates and one officer left
Camp Lewis today for Butte to join
the regulars on duty there.
Military in Control
BUTTE, Feb. 11 (by Associated
Press).—The authorities have the
strike situation well in hand here.
There have been only minor disturb
ances so far. Armed guards accom
pany the newspaper carriers on their
rounds.
The Metal Trades Union has been
asked to vote a sympathetic strike,
but is withholding action.
Major Jones, commanding the regu
lars here, has ordered that discharged
soldiers immediately discard their uni
forms. The order is due to the fact
that many of the-union pickets were
in army uniforms.
Scotch Strikers Return
LONDON, Feb. 11 (by Associated
Press).—The strikers in the Clyde
shipbuilding district have been or
dered to return to work tomorrow by
their leaders.
Belfast Is Normal
BELFAST, Feb. 11 (by Associated
Press).—The strikers here have
agreed to take a ballot on the ques
tion of the settlement of the strike.
The city has resumed its normal ac
tivities.
CAMPAIGN FOR
BETTERMENT OF
EXPRESS WORK
NEW YORK, Feb. 11 (by Associat
ed Press.)—A nation wide campaign
to Improve the nation’s express serv
ice was inaugurated today by the Am
erican Railway Express Company
through the 135,000 men and women
employed in the express business, it
was announced here last night. The
purpose is to interest the shippers
and the people generally in this gov
ernment organization’s plan to raise
the standards of packing, wrapping
and marking express shipments with
a view to minimizing the waste of
time, effort and money that result
from packages being lost or damaged
through lax methods of preparing
them for sending forward.
While shippers and the public are
being educated to pack, wrap and
mark shipments properly, the Ameri
can Railway Express Company will
campaign among Its own employes,
Instructing them to avoid rough hand
ling, mls-routing and other deviations
from correct express methods In of
fice* and terminals, and this closer
supervision Is expected to improve In
ternal operating conditions. Today
every agent at all important points
will address employes, and these ad
dresses will be made on each Tues
day of the campaign. “Better service
campaign committees” will be organ
ised and "four-minute speeches” will
be made to drivers, platform men, of
fice and claim bureau clerks, car mes
sengers and other employes. "Start
Express Shipments Right” texts will
be placed on posters to be placed on
express wagons and on window plac
ards.
Between July 1 and November 30,
1918, "no mark” bureaus of the com
pany received 127,859 shipments
which the company had been unable
to deliver because all means of identi
fication of either shippers or con
signees had been lost, and part of the
campaign will be to eradicate this
no mark” evil and induce shoppers
to place identification marks on
shipments in addition to the address
tags. Use of inferior quality of twine
and paper will be discouraged. The
co-operation especially of business
executives and managers of large, con
cerns will be invited.
COMPANY MAN
IS WITNESS IN
SOPHIAPROBE
VICTORIA, B. C., Feb. 11 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Captain Troup, man
ager of the Canadian Pacific coastal
service, testifyin&^>day in the inquiry
in the Princess Sopl^a disaster, gave
the wirelesB telegraphic messages be
tween his office and the officials at
Juneau.
Captain Troup said his company had
spent $78,000 to date in the search for
bodies and other items. He said that
everything was done that could be
done in the matter.
MAINTENANCE
OF ROYALTY
EXPENSIVE
VIENNA, Feb. 11 (by Associated
Press).—-The latest of the “disclo
sures,” so popular nowadays, show
that Austrian archduchesses, Including
the former Empress Zita before she
was married, drew from the govern
ment large retainers for monthly sup
port and quarterly rent money. The
Austrian state bureau for army affairs
makes the revelations in an official
statement.
It shows that Empress Zita, while
still an archduchess, drew as monthly
support and for rent the equivalent
of $3,100 at the peace-time rate of
exchange. Her address was put down
as either the Hofburg or Schoenbrunn,
both Imperial palaces, which were
placed free at the disposal of the arch
duchess. She had, however, in case
of ennui, the choice of living in the
palaces at Reichenau, Laxenburg, Got
zendorf or the Belvedere, in Vienna.
Archduchess Auguste, wife of Arch
duke Joseph, received the equivalent
of $14,788; Archduchess Isabelle, wife
of Archduke Friedrich, $6,167; Arch
duchess Blanka, wife of Archduke Leo
pold Salvatof, $747; Archduchess Ma
ria Christine, wife of Archduke Peter
Ferdinand, $4,538, and Archduchess
Marie Anna, "wife of Prince Elias of
Parma, $3,416, and additional support
for six children in 1918.
Other disclosures reveal that
clothes, linen, food and other things
were drawn from military depots In
huge amounts by the archducal fami
lies. The case of the Archduchess
Isabella is particularly interesting,
since she had three estates, the Al
brecht palace, in Vienna, another cas
tle in Baden, and a great seat in Tes
schen, and her husband is considered
one of hte most wealthy men in Eu
rope. '
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The government cable is out of com
mission between Sitka and Seattle,
and during the interruption our press
dispatches are coming by wireless.
PROBLEMS OF SERWUSIOMENT
CONFRONT PEACE CONFERENCE
Proposal to Reimburse France and Belgium in Cash
Rather Than Cripple German Industry—Atti
tude of Japan Toward Chiua Cause of
r"' Apprehension Among Allied Powers
PARIS, Feb. 11 (by Associated Press).—President Wilson
plans to'return from Washington by March 15, when he expects
to give his personal attention to the work t>f the supreme exec
utive council of the peace conference, which promises to be the
most important feature of the conference after the Society of
Nations has concluded its work. ' i
The supreme economic council is afeut to be organized,
and it is expected that it will consider thff^Yench and Belgian
proposals that Essen and other German industrial towns be
occupied in order to prevent the manufacture of munitions
and arms.
The American and British delegates believe that the Bel
gian and French losses should be recouped by cash indemnities
rather than by the stoppage of German industries.
The war council has appointed a c&nmittee of eight to
study the problems which have arisen oulof the armistice.
Surprising Attitude of fetpan
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (by Assooi^fd Press).—Official
diplomatic advices say that Japa#’s
the peace conference is causing
allied delegates. Japan virtually has threatened war if China
makes public the secret treaties with Japan and fails to carry
out the agreement to make Japan the successor of Germany
in the rights, property and concessions which Germany held at
the outbreak of the war. %
Baggage of Chinese Delegates Rifled in Japan
The Chinese delegates to the peace conference, on their
arrival in Paris, disclosed the fact that copies of secret treaties
had been stolen from their baggage while passing through
Japan, so that they were unable to make their contents public.
The American position, unofficially, is one of opposition to
Japan’s desire to annex the Pacific islands which Japan wants,
.these comprise the Marshall and Caroline groups, lying di
rectly east of the Philippines.
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PHYSICAL WELL-BEING OF BRITISH PEOPLE IS
SUBJECT OF KING’S ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT
LONDON, Feb. ll (by Associated Press).—In his speech
from the throne to both houses of parliament today King
George urged the passage of resolute legislation which should
be capable of stamping out poverty, lessening unemployment
and improving the health of the nation.
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BOLSHEVIK! REPELLED IN NORTHERN RUSSIA
. AND ALLIED FORCES IMPROVE THEIR POSITIONS
LONDON, Feb. 11 (by Associated Press).—An infantry at
tack by Bolslieviki infantry near Sredmakreng, southeast of
Archangel, on Saturday last, was repulsed by the allied forces.
On Friday the Bolslieviki suffered heavy losses south of Ra
dish. The allies are improving their positions.
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VESSEL IN DISTRESS
ON DANGEROUS COAST
HALIFAX, N. S., Feb. 11 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The American oil
tanker J. M. Guffey has wirelessed a
distress message from off Cape Race.
She said Bhe was taking water In her
forehold.
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LENINE HA8 PLAN8 FOR
BIG MILITARY ENTERPRISE
VLADIVOSTOK, Feb. 11 (by Asso
ciated Press).—It Is stated here that
Nikolai Lenlne, premier of the Bol
shevist government, has mobilised
the whole male population of Moscow,
including men of 50 and over.
GERMAN CONSTITUTION
IS IN PREPARATION
WEIMAR, Feb. 11 (by Associated
Ptobs).—The German national assem
bly has adopted a provisional consti
tution.
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SHIPBUILDING IN JAPAN
ON AN IMMENSE SCALE
TOKIO, Feb. 11 (by Associated
Press).—Japan’s shipyards are ex
pected to bulUd during the present
year 181 steamships, with an aggre
gate capacity of 1,189,285 deadweight
tons.
BRUTAL CRIME
COMMITTED IN
CAPITAL CITY
JUNEAU, Feb. 11 (Special to the
Daily Timea).—An underworld woman
named Mollie Brown, who was in Cor
dova last July, was found murdered in
a cabin on Front street yesterday aft
ernoon, evidently having been stran
gled with a towel.
There was a striking similarity be
tween the murder of this woman and
that of recent murders of underworld
denizens in other Alaska towns in re
cent years.
BUILDING BILL
PROVIDES FOR
OUR CAPITOL
While Delegate James Wickersham
has introduced a new bill making an
additional appropriation for the con
struction of the Juneau public bulld
, an appropriation for that purpose
inserted more than two years ago at
the request of Secretary of the Treas
ury William G. McAdoo, who acted
upon the request of the Alaska terri
torial legislature, expressed in a me
morial. It will be passed whenever
it shall be decided to pass a public
buildings appropriation bill, according
to assurances from Chairman Prank
Clark of the house public buildings
committee.
Chairman Clark has frequently as
sured former Delegate Charles A. Sul
zer, Governor Thomas Riggs, Jr., and
others that the committee considers
the Alaska capitol building one of the
most important of the planned build
ings, and that it will be included in
the first public buildings bill to go
through congress. No buildings bill
has passed congress since the begin
ning of the war.
The house committee on public
buildings is divided as to whether or
not to recommend the passage of a
buildings bill at this session. Mr.
Clark told Governor Riggs and former
Delegate Sulzer last month that if a
bill passes at this session it will in
clude the additional appropriation for
the Juneau building. He thought it
might be possible to make the $177,
000 that is unexpended of the appro
priation, the passage of which was se
cured by former Governor Walter E.
Clark, available for use in the con
struction of a wing of the capitol
building, whether «a public buildings
bill passed at this session or not.
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SYSTEMATIC DISMISSAL
OF WOMEN WORKERS
MUNICH, Feb. 11.—Concrete plans
for the systematic dismissal of the
women workers who have taken
men’s places during the war have
been agreed upon by the general com
mission of the trades unions of- Ger
many and the Central Association of
Consumers’ League. Women will be
released in the followin gorder;
First, women whose husbands have
work; second, girls and women who
have no one dependent on them; third,
girls and women who have from one
to two dependents; fourth, all other
girls and women.
In case male workers have to be
discharged, it will take place in the
following order;
First, unmarried men with no de
pendents; second, married men with
out children and unmarried men with
relatives to support; third, all other
men employed during the war.
SULZER’S LEAD
MAINTAINED IN
OFFICIAL VOTE
The Territorial Canvassing Board,
consisting of Governor Riggs, Sur
veyor General Davidson and Acting
Customs Collector Garfield, is in ses
sion at Juneau and the official can
vass has not changed Sulzer’s plur
ality over Wickersham, as it had been
tabulated from unofficial returns,
thus far. Wickersham and Sulzer
have both gained and lost votes, but
in no instance more than one each in
a precinct—except in Juneau No. 2,
where each gained ten votes.
Wickersham lost one vote at Ten
akee in the official canvass from the
unofficial report that has been ac
cepted by the newspapers, and he
gained one at Anchorage. The vote
at Tenakee had been carried in the
newspaper tabulated reports as Sul
zer 19, Wickersham 10, whereas the
official canvass disclosed that it was
Sulzer 19, Wickersham 9. The vote
that was counted at Anchorage for
Wickersham, instead of being marked
with a cross, was marked with a
square; it has been rejected by the
election officers. This will add one
to SuUer’n plurality in the First Dl
The returns from Warm Springs
Bay were laid over until evidence
can be secured from Sitka as to the
establishment of the precinct.
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PLATINUM FROM
KASAAN ORES
IS EXPORTED
Products of Alaska, excluding gold
and silver, exported to the States last
month, were valued at $2,818,505, and
the gold and silver exported from
Alaska was valued at $230,019, accord
ing to the January report of the cus
toms house. The report follows:
Bones .$ — 250
Curios . 38
Fresh fish . 24,042
Dried, smoked or cured fish 46,273
Kippered .herring . 20
Canned salmon .— 684,696:
All other salmon . 237,144
Shrimps . 175
Furs .— 6,478
Jewelry . 40
Oils, animals, fish, others.... 56,145
Copper . 1,539,767
Lead . 2,261
All other articles . 63,575
Total . $2,818,505
Articles of produce, growth
or manufacture of United
States returned .$ 139,121
Foreign articles. 36,440
Total exports .$ 2,994,066
Included in the item “all other ar
ticles,” among other articles are 130,
000 pounds of whale meat valued at
$6,500; chrome ore valued at $16,000.
and 13 ounces of platinum, valued at
$1,313. The platinum was found in
copper ore from Kasaan.
Gold bullion valued at $25,000 was
shipped from Fairbanks last month.
The gold ore shipped from the terri
tory was valued at $127,492, and the
silver ore at $57,027.
By divisions, the gold and silver
ore exported last month is given as
follows;
First division .$162,287
Third division . 62,542
Fourth division . 25,120
Total . $230,012