The Cordova Daily Times
VOLUME IIII. NUMBER 32. _CORDOVA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1917. ~ PRICE TEN CENTS?
F/IVOR PEACE
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(By Associated Press)
AMSTERDAM. Aug. 9. — Eight
thousand miners at Essen, Germany,
met and discussed the coal production,
scarcity of food and wages. They
became demonstrative in favor of
peace by agreement and democratic
reforms. The miners declared their
approval of the reichstag peace ievo
lution. f.
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(By Associated Press)
CHICAGO. Aug. 9. — An unusual
display of Aurora Borealis has inter
rupted wire communication over the
northern half of the United States
and all of Canada, from the Rockies
to the Atlantic coast, and even the
southern latitudes last night and this
morning.
B SPOKANE, Aug. 9. — The north
, ern light continued this morning and
[interrupted the Spokane and Chicago
telegraph service.
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(By Associated Press)
r WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. — The re
comfn^ndation for a reduction in the
American army divisions to the Euro
pean standard of 19,000 came from
General Pershing after a careful study
teral Pershing after a careful study
; of conditions at the front. It means
big war department jobs and much
finished administration work will be
thrown aside.
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(By Associated Press)
GLOBE, Ariz., Aug. 9. — The strik
ing Indians are reported to have been
reinforced by braves from Tribeque
county, the wildest section of the re
servation.
TUSCON, Ariz., Aug. 9. — With the
arrest of two ringleaders of the
Apache Indian strikers at the Sierra
Anchas asbestos mines, fears of the
spread of an uprising have been al
layed, according to a message from
the San Carlos reservation.
ILL LINDS DF
WIRE
i (By Associated Press)
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Aug. 8
—The Germans are requisitioning
wire, and particularly barbed-wire, all
'over Belgium, according to the latest
news from the frontier. The reten
tion of only ono wire is allowod, to
.mark off the division of fields. They
;are likewise breaking up more and
more car tracks and light railroads,
.carrying off the rails and sleepers, as
swell as cars and locomotives.
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Rev. E. P. Ziezler left on this morn
ing's train for Chitlna to meet Bishop
Rowe, who Is due there from Fair
banks in a couple of days.
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The First Bank of Cordova yester
day reached the high water mark in
its deposits, which amounted to $l>30,
000, with its resources nearly $700,000.
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Robert H. Scott, field representative
of the American Red Cross, is expect
ed in Cordova on the Admiral Watson
Monday. He is in Alaska to arrange
for an organization and membership
campaign, coming here from Juneau.
RUSSIANS HERE
HIE
(By Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9. — Keren
sky himself has directed, or Is forbid
ding Russians from the ifnited States
to return to Russia, is the word re
ceived by the Russian general consul
here, as they are believed to be re-,
sponsible for much of the agitation
and the disorders since the revolution.
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(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Aug. 9. — A special Pet
rograd dispatch, in reviewing the con
struction of the new Russian ministry,
agrees that although probably not
ideal, is as strong as circumstances
permit. All emphasize the tremendous
ness of the task before it to restore
the army organization and to over
come the internal disorganization.
(By United Press)
HONOLULU. Aug. 9. — A citizens'
training camp, similar to the one at
the Presidio, San Francisco, and others .
on_ the mainland, is to be established
on the island of Oaho. Orders to this
effect were received here by Brigadier
General C. G. Treat, commanding the
department Of Hawaii, from the war
department.
The order said: “You will establish
and conduct a training camp for re- 1
serve officers in the Hawaiian de
partment similar to those now con
ducted and planned in the continental
United States. Not to exceed one
hundred candidates will be selected
under the rules prescribed by you
from residents of the Hawaiian islands
who are United States citizens. Sup
plies in Hawaiian islands will be util
ized; no others can be spared.”
The site for the training camp has
not yet been announced, but it is ex
pected to be at or adjacent to Scho
field barracks, on the great Leilehua
plain on this island.
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(ITy United Press)
WlTll THE FRENCH ARMIES,
Aug. 9. — German prisoners, belong
ing to the Socialist party, and who
have been recently captured in the
fighting on the French front, declare
the Socialists of Germany are merely
continuing the war for the purpose
of making certain a revolution in Ger
many afterwards.
One of these Socialists, who was
taken prisoner in the capture of the
famous “Dragon's Cave” underlying
"Lady’s Road," near Hurtebise, on
June 25, had just come to the front
from the aeroplane factories at Ber
lin, where he had been for some time
previously employed. He stated he
was a member of the Socialist Demo
cratic party. When asked to state his
objects of the war, he gave the noves
reply:
“Each belligerent should pay its
own costs involved by the war. Bel
gium included. Alsace and Lorraine
should be returned to France."
“But why are you then making
war?” was the next surprised ques
tion.
"Merely to make revolution certain
afterwards,” was the prompt reply.
The prisoner said he was a subscrib
er to the "Vorwarts,” the German So
cialists’ newspaper, but that he had
! not received it for some time past,
| us the military authorities no longer
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allowed it to be delivered to the sol
diers, especially at the front
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WHEAT AND CORN PRODUCTION.
(By Associated Press)
I, WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. — The
I wheat forecast for the year is 653,
j 000,000 bushels and 3,191,000,000 bush
jels of corn.
NEBRASKA Bf
(By Associated Press)
LINCOLN. Aug, 9. — A severe hail
storm from four to ten miles wide
and a hundred miles long, damaged
hundreds of thousands of dollars'
worth of crops and property in nine
counties of Central Nebraska < n Wed
nesday. The storm broke practically
every window in several towns.
FRENCH MAKE
CIS AISNE
(By Associated Press)
PARIS, Aug. 9.—In the ridge De
ChWvrlgny and Pantheon region there
was artillery activity last night. North
3f Vaux Dedalimeix, on the Aisne
front, the French detachments cleared
:he German trench, inflicting heavy
losses and escaping unhurt.
LONDON, Aug. 9.—The French
roops gained further ground north
west of Dixschoote.
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PARIS. Aug. 9. — In the recent Ital
ian air raid on Pola, two airplanes,
with bombs, destroyed two subnet rines
inder repair there.
(By United I’ress)
WITH THE AMERICAN DESTROY
5R FLOTILLA IN BRITISH WAT
CHS, July 25.—(By Mail)—“We can
nake most anything a destroyer want*
—from an anchor to a needle." An
Vmerican sailor, doing his bit aboard
he big parent ship that looks aftei
he brood of destroyers, delivered him
lelf of this tribute to the great war
/essel as he filed away at a big piece
>f brass. The metal had been cast
•ight there on ship to make a propel
er for a small boat, and he was now
aklng off some of the rough edges.
The destroyer that wanted that pro
filer didn’t have to ge ashore to get
he work done. Instead, the order
was sent to the floating workshop
which was turning out the screw in
luick time, and with the very best
julcq time, and with the very best
;uarantee of superior workmanship.
On another deck William Cline, ex
;hef at some of the most expensive
rotels in America, was standing at
lis table ladling food for lusty young
American sailors. Stewards were fil
ng to hiS'table with empty trays, hav
ng them refilled, and then scurrying
jack to the mess-room, where hungry
youngsters moved in a cafeteria line
Lo get their lunch.
“T nooVoH in hoiolu in Atlnnti/* Pitv
where they charged fancy high
prices,” said Cline, "but the food was
no better than what we are serving
this minute to the boys on this ship.’
Rations are unknown. The lunch
eon bili was: Vegetable soup, cold
ham and beef, plenty of bread and
butter, tapioca pudding and coffee
The sailor Oliver Twist may keep on
coming back for more till he has had
enough. This luncheon bill included
an item that King George and Lloyd
George do not have today — pure
white bread. The big flour magazines
are stuffed with sacks of unadulter
ated flour, and when the white clad
bakers have cleaned up the last of it
there will be more coming from the
United States.
The parent ship supplies the^
destroyers with bread. It also con
tains the department store, where sail
ors replenish their lockers. There is
a barbershop fitted out with white
enamelled equipment. And there is a
hospital, where human repairs go on
while the workshops are fixing up
damaged vessels.
There is a laundry, a bank, a post
office, a miniature ice crea,m factory,
an electrical shop, a carpenter shop—
there is even a Jail for offending citi
zens of the floating community. The
submarine hunters may see aboard
ship the best American movies — of
ten better than those shown at night
in the single movie show which this
base town supports.
The English would call her a depot
ship. To the American navy she is
a parent ship, and the submarine fight
over here has proved the foresight of
her builders.
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EDITOR CIISKEY
SUED FDR
LIBEL
(By Associated Press)
FAIRBANKS, August 9. — V. F.
Thompson, editor of the News-Miner,
Ib the complainant In a criminal libel
suit Instituted against J. It. Co key,
proprietor of the Citizen. The litter
has been consistently fighting the. fed
eral ring here and he feels that the
present action is an attack against
him. fostered by those whom ho has
boon opposing.
(Ry Associated Press)
MUSKOGEE, Aug. 9.- Six alleged
Industrial Workers are under arrest
it Miami. Ottawa county, and several
others were driven from the mining
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districts as a result of attempts to
dynamite freight cars. The county 11
torney said the troubles wore ended.
BISBEE, Aug. 9.—Governor Camp
bell has started for lilsbee, to under
take personally to Investigate condi
tions. He declared that the attorney
general was unable to cope with the
situation arising from the tuiniag
back of six federal investigators.
MUSKOGEE. Aug. 9. — The district
xttorney of Ottawa county, in the
northeastern part of Oklahoma, de
■lares that the Industrial Workers of!
he World dynamited several railroad j
ars and are causing trouble other
wise. He has asked aid from the
United States marshal's office to quell
the disturbers. - * i
TRIBUTE IS Pi
B! SERBIA II
(By United Press)
SALONIKI, Aug. 9.—An imp ossive
choral requiem over the grave of Mrs.
Harley, sister to Field Marsh 1 Vis
count French, who was killed by a
shell at Monastir in March, was fol
lowed by the unveiling of a monument
erected by the officers on duty at the
3erbian base. The memorial is of
grey granite blocks, surmounted by a
white marble cross bearing the fol
lowing inscription In the Serbian and
English languages:
"To the victim of barbarians, a gen
erous English lady, a great benefact
ress of the Serbian people, and a great
lady. On your tomb, instead of flow
era the gratitude,of the Serbs shall
blossom. For your wonderful deeds
your name shall bo known fro n gen
eration to generation. From ihe of
fleers at the Serbian base."
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ALL BRITISH
(By United Bretts)
LONDON, Aug. 8. — The latest
films, and good ones at that, instead
of the flickery, eyestraining kind,
will be shown to the British sailors
in their long, ardouous wait for the
German fleet to come out and fight.
Liverpool citizens established a fund
which they placed at the disposal of
Admiral Beatty for any purpose in
might name, and the admiral wrote
renew their work."
"I can serve this intention in no bet
ter way than by indicating the work
of the newly formed fleet cinema com
mittee, organizing moving picture en
tertainments on each ship. The bene
fit to the men will be real and last
ing, and I know of no better means
by which their minds can be temper
arlly withdrawn from the monotony of
their surroundings and thereby be
come refreshed and relnvigorated to
renew their work.
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The Bank of Alaska installed Its
safe in the Borden building today.
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A boom of 190,000 feet of logs has
been recoived by the Cordova Mill and
Lumber Company,
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TEUTONS SUIT
IN NEED GRAIN
(By Associated Press)
UNDATED, Aug. 9. Advices from
southwestern Russia indicate the Teu
ton offensive In Galicia and Btiko
wlna is aimed at Odessa, with the
Bessarabian grain crops the immedi
ate objective. The stiffening of the
Russian line is slowly advancing, al
though ‘t was checked in some sec
tors.
SP? SrSTENI IN
(By United Press)
BASE AMERICAN FLOTILLAS IN
BRITISH WATERS. Aug. 9. — The
village on which the American flotil
las are based is suffering from an
acute attack of spy scare. Tt has had
attacks before, but has never passed
through any so severe as the present
one.
It is hard to locate the origin of this
new spj- scare, but its presence is a
secret known to everyone here, until
it is regarded as small wonder that
there are but few people who enter
tain the slightest doubt that the spy
is watching everything, both ashore
and afloat.
Keep your eyes and ears open but
your mouth shut, is therefore the rule
of the port, especially among blue
jackets. who are generally suspicious
of anything unfamiliar.
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: BUYING
LONDON, Aug. 8. — Coal dealers
are sincere about it this time In ad
vising householders and owners of big
buildings to stock up with coal for
the winter. On July 31 the coal con
troller will take command of the sup
ply and no more deliveries will be
made, except under special permits,
until a certain reserve tor the London
district has been accumulate.!. As
the price of coal is controlled by the
government, there is 'no reason why
the dealers should hold.their stores
for a higher price.
Last winter's coal supply problem
caused hardship to thousands, both
rich and poor. As the trouble was
simply a matter of transportation, the
same situation can be avoided this
year by summer deliveries.
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SOUTH AMERICA
LONDON, Aug. 9. — In view of the
fact that shipments of quebracho from
Argentine have been restricted and
the French chestnut bark supplies are
not available, tanners are glad to hoar
that the shipping controller has au
thorized the importation of three thou
sand tons of wattle bark from South
Africa monthly.
Works are said to have been estab
lished in Natal for the extraction of
tannin from the bark, and In view of
the fact that wattle wood is being
usod in the manufacture of explosives,
acetone being extracted from it, the
wattlowood industry promises large
developments.
Prior to the war most of the wattlo
wood bark Imported into England was
•re-exported to Germany.
Marguorlto Snow and Pr.ul Gilmore,
In ^Kocemary,” at tho Empress the
atre last evening, was a most enjoy
able drama. The Hearst-Prthe Nows
was also interesting. Same show this
evening for the last time. "The Mil
lionaire Bf.by" tomorrow evening.
Postmaster C. J. Todd received a
telegram from Assistant Postmaster
John C. Koons. announcing the accept
ance by the department of the bid of
J. M. Lathrop to supply quarters for
the postoffice at Valdez, and to notify
the suecessfql bidder of the fact.
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Largest assortment of fancy Hib
bons at Mrs. Kate Kolfe's.
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. Aug, 9. — Presi
dent Wilson took cognizance of the
Industrial Workers of the World and
their labor troubles In the west by the
selection of Chief Justice Covington,
of the District of Columbia, supreme
court, to make a personal Investiga
tion of the grievances. ^
TRAINING ARMY
/ 1t.u..i n_
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. — Expert
Interpreters by the hundreds will soon
be needed to carry on the business of
Uncle Sam's new national army
abroad. Complete courses in military
Interpretation of foreign languages,
approved by Secretary Baker and the
war college, are being offered for the
summer at Columbia university, where
linguists of every variety will be
turned out for home and field service
during the waf. They will enter the
army with the rank of sergeant. First
class interpreters, the war department
has found, are a hard class to muster
into the service in large numbers. An
ipplicant for the preliminary training
course must be able to fluently speak
and be able to read either French or
Germany. His business will be not
merely to translate military docu
ments and letters. He must converse
intelligently and aid officers with only
a knowledge of English in cairyingon
that part of their business which must |
be done in foreign countries.
Before receiving appointment to to*
service the applicant must pass the
regular army physical examination—
ilinost as big a job as learning a
•ouple of languages. He must also
prove American birth and citizenship
Hid loyalty to the cause of the nited
States. His family tree is thoroughly
probed In search of flaws. The thor
mghly trained interpreter is immedi
ately assigned to duty, for the gov
ernment at present is shy of lin
?uists. If he completes his course be
rore the national army needs him. he
may be assigned to-duty in the camp
where thousands of aliens are tempor
irily interned, or to the department
if justice investigation service.
EDITORIALS IN
(By Associated Press)
THE HAGUE, Aug. 9. — It is not
quite clear why the German censor j
banned, beginning June 25, political
articles in the Frankfurter Zeitung.
The embargo, which is understood to
have been arleady raised, was im
posed, as the Iteichstager VonPayer
explained, on account of a series of
articles by Professor Max \Vel>er of
Heidelberg.
The Frankfurter's articles are un
signed, but the following arc some re
cent extracts to which the censor con
ceivably took exception. In one an
editorial writer said:
“Russia wants peace without an
nexations or indemnities. Germany is
willing to conclude peace on that
basis with Russia. Such a peace au
tomatically would result in a general
peace. Thus the idea of a separate ;
peace, if examined more closely, van i
iBhes more and more under pressure I
of necessity which must make It a
part of, or an introductory to a gen
eral peace.”
Another article was devoted to the
German Socialists' peace memorial,
including these assertions:
“Desire for peace — stronger here,
less strong elsewhere — is unmistak
able. It can only be satisfied by peace
becoming an accomplished fact, not
by non-binding statements of repre
sentatives of a single strata, however
deep they may be. of the community.
Rut who has the courage after three
wears of undecided warfare, to say
that any step is not welcome which
is calculated to destroy prejudices. ■
smooth over difficulties and
strengthen a readiness towards peace
In all war camps? During this trying
war time, we have become inwardly
conscious of the fart that it cannot
he by power nor sword alone on whose
might we may base our future."
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ANTIMONY BEING
PUSS
William A. Havner, a miner from
the Broad I’ass country, figures on
.-.hipping antimony ore from his claims
during the coming winter. Mr. Hav
ner has l^on mining antimony, which
he deseovrtred in 1914, but the lack
of trails and water transportation has
prevented shipping any of it to the
smelter. He hopes to make arrange
ments with the government railway
to handle his product between his
claims and Indian river this winter,
provided work Is carried on in that
vicinity by the Alaskan engineering
commission.
At present Mr. Havner has 25 tons
of ore ready to be shipped and If
transportation arrangements can be
made he hopes to get out 100 tons or
more during the fall and winter. The
ore from his ’mine, according to gov
ernment^ assay, runs 68 per cent, and
would bring between $275 and $300 a
ton f. o. b. Anchorage.
When discovered, the antimony lay
in a thin blanket, but since the vein
has been followed, it has been found
to have a dip and tunneling haB been
necessary to bring the ore out. The
vein has become broader as the tunnel
was extended and now about three
tons are yielded to each foot mined,
according to Mr. Havner. The ore lies
in a pyramid formation with the apex
near the surface and the hase in the
earth. The tunnel has been pushed
about 25 feet already, and the farther*
it goes the wider the vein becomes,
Mr. Havner says.
Antimony is one of the metals of the
group and Is used in type metal, bab
bit and in steal hardening. It has a
very low melting point and is at the
same time hard. The closely related
tin, rumored to have been found in
the Broad Pass country, has not yet
been discovered, according to Mr. Hav
ner. Stephen it. Capps, of the geo
logical survey, now in the Broad Pass
region, where he went to ascertain
whether tin had been found, exam
ined the antimony on Mr. Havner’s
workings and pronounced it of excel
lent quality.
There is a ledge of copper ore in
Ihc saddle between two mountains on
one of Mr. Havner’s holdings, which
is exposed for 600 feet. This ore is
now being assayed to determine the
value of the copper in it and whether
[here is gold present. If the ore is of
sufficient valufr It can be mined with
a steam shovel and shipped with little
trouble, Mr. Havner declares. He has
also found froe milling gold, running
$6.20 to the ton, according to two dif
ferent assavs. hut his present plans
are to handle the antimony and work
the gold and copper when it is pos
sible to get in facilities for working
them. ***»
Mr. Havner's claims lie between the
Big Honolulu and the east fork of the
Chulitna and are 35 miles from Indian
river, the head of navigation on the
Susttna. The railroad surveys come .
within one and a quarter and three
miles, respectively, from his antimony
mine, and he is certain to have sxcel
lent transportatiofi facilities when the
railroad is finished to the Pass. Mr.
Havner has yet to market any of his
mineral, although he has had his claim
nearly three years, and he is exert
ing his efforts at this time towards
getting arrangements made for the
winter.
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HIED AFTER
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(By Associated Press)
PARIS, Aug. 9. — The “Emilienne
Moreau." one of the new roses that
won a prize in the annual competition
at the Bagatelle rose gardens, was
named after the heroine of Loos, the
girl who helped save British wounded
under fire and even shouldered a rifle
to help the soldiers drive the Ger
mans from the town in the great bat
tle which resulted in its capture. It
is a magnificent rose, with very large
petals and with a foliage of a very
deep green.
The Edith Oavell. one of last year’s
productions at the Gagatelle gardens,
was shown alongside It.
The judges of the rose show adopted
resolutions, asking legislators of all
tho allied countries to give to new
flowers the same protection that is
given to artistic productions, litera
ture, inventions, trade marks. A new
flower, they asserted, represents uutte
as much patient effort as the produc
tion or a work of art or literature.
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The steamer Northwestern Is due
troni Seattle late Friday night.