The Cordova Daily Times
* VQLUME TIL NUMBER 6. CORDOVA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7 1916 ~ ~
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'HIGH COST 01
WASHINGTON, Deo. 7. — lYesi
dent Wilson has begun a study of th<
cost of living and has had report;
submitted by the government depart
ments to decide what steps to recom
mend to congress. The plan of Uniter
States District Attorney Anderson, o
Boston, In charge of a nation-wide in
quiry, summoning a grand jury in New
York or Boston, or both cities, to in
vestigate the question thoroughly, i;
believed to be generally favored ii
administration circles.
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WOiN GUILT)
FIRST DEGREE
THOMPSON FALLS, Mont., Dec. 7
-—Miss Edith Colby, a newspaper re
porter, aged 44, has been convicted ol
second degree murder. She shot and
killed A. C. Thomas, a policeman, in
September.
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HIS WIFE. IS
VERDICT
ST. .JOSEPH, Mo., Dec. 7. — Oscar
Daniel, prosecuting attorney of Bu
chanan county, has been acquitted of
the murder of his wife.
HENEY MAY BE
SECRETARY UF
t
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. Francis .1
lleney, of San Francisco, was in con
ference today with President Wilson
upon the latter’s request to meet Na
tlonal Chairman Vance McCormick
All sorts of rumors are rife as to the
object of the meeting, but knowing
ones say lleney is to be offered the
portfolio of secretary of interior, and
Franklin K. Lane will go on the su
preme bench of the United States,
filling the position left vacant by the
resignation of Charles E. HugheB.
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MARKET PRICES
REGULATED BE
TWELVE MEN
NEW YOKE, Dec. 7. — Joseph
Hartman, commissioner of weights
and measures, Bays that twelve men
_ of New York manipulate the food mar
get and establish the prices for the
entire country. He is in favor of hav
lng these men indicted.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Dec. 7. —
Sweden, the only one of the Seaudina
vian countries In which women do noi
enjoy the same right to vote as th(
men, must at best wait some ftv<
years before complete enfranchise
ment of its women, but that the goa
will ultimately be reached not onlj
here, but in other "backward" coun
tries Is the firm conviction of the Na
tional Swedish Woman's Suffrage As
Bociation, which has Just concludet
its annual convention.
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Today’s news In the Time* today.
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BERLIN, Dec. 7.—Field Marshal von Mackensen’s army
: has captured Bucharest the capital of Roumania. The drive on
the city was directed from three directions. For the past few
• weeks the semi circle about Bucharest and the Roumanian
armies was gradually but steadily being drawn closer, and the
enemy seemed holpless to check the advance.
LON DON, Doc. 7.—\\ lien Lloyd Georg** declined to form a
j cabinet, King George then began negotiations in the hope of
| compromising the differences among the members of the As
quith administration. Asquith and all other members wore
summoned to Buckingham palace. Lloyd George was already
there. Balfour and Bonar Law soon arrived. They and other
i members had been in conference with the king some time be
fore Asquith, on receiving intimation that his presence was re
quired, hurriedly joined them. The Earl of Derby said he be
lieved it possible to reach an agreement which would bring coa
lition back to power. He thought it might be reached in regard
to membership and proposed' a small war council.
LONDON, Dec. 7.—Political correspondents predict that
Premier Asquith will be back at the head of tin* government he
fore many days. Asquith took a majority of the Liberal minis
! ters with him in retirement, and it is not believed that Lloyd
George will be able to obtain the support of the Labor party.
LISBON, Dec. 7.—The German troops defeated the Portu
guese in German East Africa, and captured Newala redoubt,
the Portuguese garrison escaping.
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PETHOGRAI), Deo. 7.—The Roumanians have retired fur
tiler in the Tergovistea and Ploechti sector, northwest of Bu I
el in rest and along the railway from Tit u to Bucharest.
BERLIN, Deo. 7. It is officially announced that Macken
sen is advancing victoriously and has approached the railroad
line running north to Ploechti, causing the Roumanians to ova
cuate their position north of Sinaia and south of Bucharest.
I lie teutons have occupied other towns along the river Alt and
aic advancing toward Bucharest. Over (j,(XMJ Roumanians were
•aptured yesterday.
RlO JANFIKO, Dec. 7.—There is extraordinary activity
noted aboard the interned German merchant ships and appar
ently those interned intend to leave secretly to avoid requisi
tion. ' 1
Nl( F, Bee. 7. Field Marshal Radomir Putnik, who led
1 lie at my u hieh drove t In* Austrian invaders from Serbia before
the successful German drive some months later, is seriously ill.
He recently arrived here in a special car from Italy and was so
weak that he had to be carried to his hotel apartment. Asthma
and other complications have made a physical wreck of the fa
mous Serbian general.
BRl'SSFiFN, Belgium, Dec. 7. — The Germans have been ad
ministering things in Belgium so long now that most of them
ha\i acquiied a workable knowledge of the various languages
that prevail there. Accordingly the chief authorities in Bins
'els have issued new and drastic language regulations for all
their subordinates.
In towns or districts in which the Flemish language pre
ponderates, it is in future to be used solely both in spoken com
munieations and in official acts, letters and notifications. The
"il.v exceptions to this rule permit French to be used when a
'•‘ply has been specifically requested in that language, or when
I he original letter of inquiry was in French.
In Greater Brussels the authorities may make use of either
French of Flemish, yet from the first of January, 1!H7, all com
munieations from authorities of the various sections of Brussels
to the outlying Flemish district must be in Flemish. All noti
nations and public notices are to be issued in Flemish, with
Fr< nch translations accompany ing them w hen desirable.
German is to be allowed only in sections of Belgium where
Inevails as the “language of the countrv.”
BOILER MAKERS
ADDRESSED BY
WILSON
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. — The Am
erican Uniform Boiler I.aw Society
finished a three days’ conference here
this afternoon, to draft legislation for
uniform construction and regulation
of steam boilers. President Wilson,
delegates from thirty-four states, and
expert mechanical engineers delivered
addresses.
The convention had been called by
the industrial commission of Ohio
j with a view to drafting a boiler code
j for nation-wide use, so that a free in
terchangeability of boilers can be es
i tablished.
There is very little legislation to
govern the construction of boilers in
this country. Massachusetts, Califor
nia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin,
j Indiana, Minnesota and Montana are
j declared to be the only states which
have adequate laws on the subject.
J. C. Callery, chief deputy of the
division of boiler inspection of the in
I dustrial commission, presided, and the
opening address was by T. J. Duffy,
of the industrial commission of Ohio.
Edward N. Hurley, of the federal
trades commission, spoke on "Stand
ardization of Effecting Industrial Ef
ficiency;” Prof. R. F. Hutton, Colunv '
bta University, on "Safety in Boiler
Construction;” John C. McCabe, chief
boiler inspector of the city of Detroit,
on "Steam Bailor Inspection;” Henry
Hess, of the American Society of Me
chanical Engineers, on the "A. S. M
E. Boiler Code;” and Thomas E. Dur
ban, of Erie, chairman of the Ameri
can Uniform Boiler Society, on a
"Plea for Uniform Boiler Specifica
tions." Former President W. H. Taft
delivered the closing address of the
convention.
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F. J. Date, foreman for the Alaska
road commission in charge of the
work on the Ruby-Long road has pur
chased the big llelmburger residence
at Ruby, said to be the finest resi
dence in town.
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Numerous cases of chicken pox and
measles are reported at Fairbanks,
and the health officials are calling
upon the people to co-operate in the
efforts to prevent the further spread
of these diseases.
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H. F. Smith and Ernest Dupree
plead guilty at Ketchikan of selling
liquor to uatlves and were sentenced
by Judge Jennings to five months each
In the federal jail at Juneau.
COPPER EXPORTS
LAST MONTH
While the exports from Alaska for
November were $4,500,000 less than
they were for October, they still con
tinue to be above the average, the to
tal exports for November amounting
to a value of $9,320,276. The value
of the Alaskan products shipped from
the territory during the month exclu
sive of the gold bullion, gold ore and j
silver ore amounted to $5,987,347, i
while the gold bullion, gold ore and
silver ore amounted to $3,332,929.
The following statement was issued
by the Juneau customs house today:
Animals.$ 1,300
Antimony ore. 14,350
Bones, hoofs, horns . 194
Copper ore. 4,000,567
Curios . 1,618
Kippered herring. 24,388
Fresh fish, exclusive of
salmon. 50,896
Dried and smoked fish . . . , 22,565
Pickled fish. 22,513 j
Canned salmon. 1,399,781 j
All other salmon. 79,526
Shell fish. 8,649
Other fish and fish products 5,695
Purs. 24,785 !
Ivory. 787 I
Dead ore. 4,950
Oils, fish and animal. 55,205
Tin. 33,850
All other articles. 5,313
Total.$5,766,830
United States merchandise
returned. 230,517
Total .$6,987,317
Gold bullion. 2,672,347
Gold ore. 576,240
Silver ore. .. 84,185
Total Alaska exports . . $9,320,276
Included in the above items, but
not segregated are reindeer skins,
whale skinB. Alaskan vegetables, tung
sten ore and graphite ore.
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Three 4 1-2 ton combination stor
age battery and trolley locomotives
arrived at Treadwell recently, two to
be used in the Mexican mine and one
In the Heady Bullion.
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A report from Hope on Cook Inlet
states that the camp has had a most
successful season, all the miners hav
ing taken out good money.
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Eleven thousand miles is the rec
ord made during the last sixteen
months by Tom McCall’s Dodge car
at Juneau.
LOCAL JOTTINGS
SHOOT PEOPLE
Captain Charles Auer has returned
from a busines strip to Seattle.
The Loyola Social Club will hold one
of its delightful card parties tonight.
The Admiral Evans is due from
Seward early tomorrow morning on
her return south
Robert Simpson, a Juneau optician,
is spending a few days here on pro
fessional business.
The steamer Mariposa is due from
the westward tomorrow morning, and
will be in port all day loading copper
ore.
Over $4,000,000 worth of copper ore
was shipped from Alaska last month,
and practically all of it was sent from
Cordova.
The office fixtures for Dr. ('has.
Daggett, the Seward dentist, who will
open offices in the Northern hotel,
arrived on the last boat.
William Maloney, territorial mine
inspector, arrived on yesterday's
steamer, and left this morning to in
spect the mines at Kennecott and
other interior points.
The steamer Admiral Watson ar
rived at 4 o'clock this morning from
Seattle with the following passengers
for Cordova: Olaf Abraham and wife,
Billie George, V. M Piper, Charles
Auer, Louis Nichols and E. Maxielson.
The Bank of Alaska, w hich is oper
ating at Skagway, Anchorage and
Wrangell, will open a branch at Cor
dova in the Borden building shortly
after January 1. The safe and some
other paraphernalia arrived here on
yesterday's steamer.
Mayor Slater had a narrow escape
last night from meeting with a seri
ous accident, in corning down the
stairway at his home he slipped and
fell, sustaining bruises and cuts At
the time he was carrying his nephew,
Richard Davis, but the little fellow
escaped unhurt.
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The contract for carrying the mail
between Fairbanks and Nenana thin
winter has been awarded to Calhoun,
the well known mall carrier of Chena
The price la not stated.
PROMOTION LAND
SETTLEMENT IS
CHICAGO. Dec. 7.—Need of a new
policy of land settlement was ex
pressed by Hector McPherson, of the
Oregon Agricultural College, Corval
lis. Ore., who told the National Con
I'erenee of Marketing and Farm Cre
dits that it is only in the far north
west that considerable bodies of un
settled lands remain in this country,
and that the entire northwest is be
coming aroused to the necessity of a
complete change.
lTp to the present, said Mr. McPher
son, both state and federal plans for
promotion of land settlement in the
northwest have fallen short of ex
pectations, and very few projects have
been successfully settled under the
Carey and reclamation acts. In many
cases individuals and companies, he
said, have exploited land to the detri
ment of settlers, and, despite state and
federal regulation, considerable com
munities of settlers have sometimes
; been left stranded in desert districts
The crowd at the opening of the
I moving picture show recently at the
I town of Candle, in the Nome country,
! was so great that a second show had
to be given to accommodate all the
patrons. This is the farthest north
moving picture house on the American
continent.
Magnus Nelson, a homesteader on
the Fox trail, about five miles from
Fairbanks, has made final proof in
the land office, and it is expected a
patent to the tract will soon issue.
Mr. Nelson has imported a flour mill
and will grind flour from the wheat
he raises.
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A report reached Nome recently that
the big storm of September did a large
amount of damage in the Kougarok
country, washing away dams and
strings of sluice boxes. One Shaugh
nessy is said to have lost all the gold
in his boxes.
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A recent order issued by the en
gineering commission has doubled the
freight rates on cord wood from sta
tions adjacent to Anchorage to the
town From David’s switch, seven
miles out, the rate is now $36 per car
load.
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l.ast week the mercury at Fair
banks was about 20 above. This week
it reached 35 below.
FRUIT GROK
OBJECT RUSE
IN RITES
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 7. — Trans
continental freight rates, to and from
the Pacific coast ports, which are to
be Increased under a new tariff effec
tive December 30, and to form the
j subject of a hearing before Attorney
Examiner Thurtel, of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, which began
hero yesterday. Local shippers, as
well as those from the other Callfor
nia seaports, were represented
but the main argument in support ol
the California shippers' viewpoint wilt
be made by the traffic bureau of the
Chamber of Commerce.
California shippers, while they have
been asked to give their views on
transcontinental rates, both to and
from the Pacific roast, are more in
terested in the eastbound freight rates
because of the marketing of fruit and
other California crops which have al
ready been sold on the basis of the
| present rates. It is contended that
j the proposed increase of In cents a
J hundred pounds on car load lots, ef
| fective December 30. will work a
hardship on these shippers.
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WANT RIGHT TO
SELECT OWN
THK HACHIK, Netherlands, Dec. 7
Only two lives, those of the reign
i ing queen and of her seven year old
daughter, Princess Juliana, bar the
way in the natural order or things to
the accession to the throne of the
Netherlands of a German prince. II
is true that so far as health and age
are concerned, those lives may be de
scribed as "first class," hut the poten
tial slenderness of the thread was il
lustrated not long ago in The Hngm
woods, where the royal automobile
carrying Queen Wilhelmina and tin
little princess was the victim of a col
lislon that might under less fortunab
circumstances have cost the lives ol
both.
This question of the succession gav*
Dutchmen some concern before tin
war and much more now. Several wol
known public men have drawn public
attention to the matter in the last few
days, and what looks like a strong agi
tation, enjoying widespread sympathy
has been started for a revision of thi
constitution, declaring null and void
all potential rights of succession ot
foreign princes, leaving the choice of
a new sovereign, in such an uphoped
for and unexpected circumstance ns
the failure of all direct heirs to the
throne, entirely to the states general
of parliament of the country. For
every Dutchman, practically without
exception, whatever be his sympathies
in the present war, would regard the
accession of a German prince as a ca
lumitv, threatening the so dearly
cherished independence of the nation
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COMPLETE RETURNS RECEIVED
FROM INTERIOR PRECINCTS.
According to the official returns re
ceived by the clerk of the court at
Valdez from Chisana and Nlzina. thi
complete vote was as follows:
Chisana — Lewis 0, Sulzer 4, Wick
ersham 8. Cobb 2, Grigsby 6, Schorield
4, Dooley (i, Frame 0, German 0, Ron
an 6. Cannon 3. Day 4. Hegner 1, W
J Henry 1. W. P. Henry 0, Holland
8, Hunter 1. McCallum 5, Murray 0,
Noon 2, Price 5. Dieringer 1, Jeter 1.
Wilson 6, Wood 3; dry 5, wet 5; for
eight hour day 10, against 0
Nlzina — Lewis 1, Sulzer 2, Wicker
sham 7, Cobb 2, Grigsby 0, Schofield
8. Dooley 4, Frame 6, German 0, Ron
an 0, Cannon 0, Day 7, Hegner 1. \V
J, Henry 0. W. P. Henry 0, Holland 7.
Hunter 0, McCallum 6, Murray in.
Noon 6, Price 1, Dieringer 1. Jeter 0,
Wilson 0, Wood 8; dry 7, wet 3; eight
hour day 7. against 3.
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IMPERIAL DIET WILL
BE CONVENED DEC.
TOKIO, Dec. 7. — Emperor Yoshi
hito has convened the imperial diet for
December 26.
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Juneau is endeavoring to get a bill
through congress separating the first
division from the balance of the ter
ritory and granting It statehood under
the name of Seward.
CANNIBAL CURE
CURSES EEPERS
TO MURDER
SEOUL. Korea. Dec. 7. — Justifying
his act by the Korean superstition t> it
the eating of human flesh Is a cure
for leprosy, a Korean leper named Sin
Vungsyun has confessed to the mur
der of a five-year-old boy whose mu
tilated body was discovered In a fiell
in South ('holla province. Accord!: ;
to the police, the accused also ad:: it’
led that with another leper he killed
a girl In the mountains on September
IS, and that both had eaten of her
flesh.
Lepers in Korea hitherto led a mis
erahle life. With (he exception of those
cared for by missionaries in a small
hospital near Eusan. they have been
left to roam at will and eke out their
own living. The superstition as to
cannibal cure is very general. Not in
frequently cannibalism has been re
imrted from (he remote districts.
Count Terauchi. until recently gov
ernor general, took up the leper pro
blem vigorously last year, and as a re
suit an island called Sorok, off the
southern coast of Korea, has been se
lected as the seat of a leper asylum
It is proposed to take in at first
some hundreds of lepers selected from
the thirteen provinces in proportion
to the number in each During their
stay on the island the lepers will he
taught modern farming
LAND MONQPOLlf
( HTCAflO, Her. 7 Private mo
nopoly of the laud and the railroads
and transportation, marketing, ware
house, slaughtering and cold storage
facilities, is responsible for the high
cost of living, said Frederick ('. Howe,
commissioner of immigration of the
port of New York, in an address this
forenoon to ih* National ('(inference
on Marketing and Farm Credits Mr.
Howe's subject was "The People and
the Land the Problem 'hat ( onfrunts
Cs." Declaring that the high cost of
living has be otne a problem to the
people of Anierii a as well as to the
warring nations ot Europe, and that
the solution hinges on the relation of
the people to the land, he said, in part.
"The immigration problem is con
nected with the land, and is the big
gest thing to Pc solved before the peo
ple, because all wealth conn s from the
land. As long as there was land in
abundance, under the homestead act.
there was no serious immigration p. >
blent, but now that the land is all
owned the immigration situation has
returned and now there is an indus
trial problem also. The government
must turn to the land question, to ag
rictilture, to insuring just treatment
for farmer and consumer alike."
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THE SEAL HERD ON
THE PRIBILOFF ISLANDS.
The census of the fur seals on the
Pribiloft islands has been completed
by the counting of the pups, and the
following figures showing the results
of the enumeration have been made
public by the 1'. S. bureau or fisheries
St. Paul Island — Harems, 2,848;
breeding females. 88.855; dead pups,
2.170.
St. George Island - Harems, 55fi;
breeding females, 18,122; idle bulls,
154; live pups, 17,810; dead pups, 312.
The number of pups born, which is
equivalent to the number of breeding
females, was 13,450 more than In the
previous season
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CORDOVA WORKMEN GET
BONUS OF *50.000
Cordova's workingmen hate re
ceived over *50,000 In bonuses from
the Copper River A- Northwestern rail
road during the past year because of
the high price of copper, according to
Captain Charles Alberts, of Cordova,
who is stopping at tuC Northern
Captain Alberts said that the labor
ers in the railroad shops, In the rail
road yards and on the docks were the
chief beneficiaries of the wage bonus.
—Seattle Post Intelligencer.
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The Catholic fair recently given by
the ladies of the church at Douglas
was a huge success and netted a hand
some sum.