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The Cordova Daily Times
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XPLUME HI- NUMBER 71. _ _CORDOVA, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1917. Pmr'F tfv C’F\'Ts"
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♦ LONDON, Pel). 23, — Pro- ♦
♦ mier Lloyd George told (he ♦
♦ house of commons that the ♦
♦ stocks of food in Great Britain ♦
♦ were lower than ever before, ♦
♦ and it was essential for the life ♦
♦ of the nation that every pos- ♦
♦ sible effort be made to in- ♦
♦ crease the home production. ♦
♦ He said: “If we take drastic ♦
♦ measures we ran cope with the ♦
♦ submarine menace, but if the ♦
♦ nation is unprepared to accept ♦
♦ drastic measures for dealing ♦
♦ with this menace disaster is ♦
♦ before us. The government is ♦
♦ hopeful of finding some means ♦
♦ of dealing with the submarine, ♦
♦ but we are guilty of folly if we ♦
♦ rested tranquilly upon the ex- ♦
♦ pectation of the realization of ♦
♦ that hope. We must deal ruth- ♦
♦ lessly and promptly with the ♦
♦ tonnage problem by measures ♦
♦ which impose great sacrifices ♦
♦ upon the country. There are ♦
♦ three measures: First, the ♦
♦ navy; second, the building of ♦
♦ merchant ships; third, dispen- ♦
♦ sing with unnecessary comi ♦
■ modifies from abroad and the ♦
Wr production of all food possible ♦
♦ at home and the importation of ♦
♦ apples, tomatoes and fruits be ♦
♦ prohibited entirely. ♦
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ENFORCEMENT OF
NOT LIKELY
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. — The
lenate judiciary committee has failed
o agree to the bill proposed l>y the
lepartment of justice to authorize the
(resident to use armed forces to en
orce neutrality obligations. Several
if the senators said the bill would pro
bably not be reported.
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(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. — Legis
lation absolutely barring the importa
tion of liquor into prohibition states
has been approved by the house, con
curring in the bone dry amendment to
the post office appropriation bill. Ad
vocates of prohibition say the way
las been paved for a nation-wide pro
hibition amendment. Forty Demo
crats and thirty-one Republicans voted
Igainst the liquor shipping amend
nent. Nearly all of the prominent
Democrats supported the amendment,
hmong the Republicans voting against
it were Representatives Gardner, of
Massachusetts, Kahn, Longworth,
Mondell and Rodenberg.
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PROBE FEDERAL
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. — Chair
nan Fitzgerald, of the home appro
priations committee, haB announced
pis opposition to President Wilson's
■equest for a $400,000 appropriation
'or the federal trade commission, with
»hich to start an investigation of the
ligh cost of living. Five Democrats
ind five Republicans joined in a let
er to all other members of the house
irglng them to support the appropri
ation.
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GERARD REACHES SPAIN.
(By Associated Press)
MADRID, Feb. 23. — Ambassador
ierard and party have reached here
in their return to America.
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The local Elks desire to extend their
leartfelt thanks to those who so ably
issisted them in the giving of their
Irst ball.
NOME MARATHON
DOC RACE WON
BUYERS
(Special to The Times)
NOME, Eeb. 23. — The full distance
Marathon dog race for the Borden cup
took place yesterday and practically
the entire population turned out to
witness the contest, while thousands
of dollars changed hands on the re
sult. It was the fastest and most ex
citing race ever held on Seward pen
insula. Ayers' team won in an hour
and fifty-four minutes. Riley, Webb
and Downing followed in order with
their dogs and ail of them were less
than three minutes behind the victor.
Seppalas' Siberian team, which has
figured in other coursing events and
won many prizes, did not start in the
race with his short, long and rangy
speeders. The best of all records for
distances was established between
Fort Davis and Hastings, and it is
doubtful if it will ever be broken.
(By Associated Press)
NOME, Feb. 23. — Fred Ayers is
today the possessor of the Borden cup
and a purse of $1,000, which he won
yesterday with his dog team in the
twenty-six mile race, covering tha
distance in 1 hour, 54 minutes, 46 sec
onds. Riley w'as second, Webb third,
Downing fourth and Dalzene fifth.
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RUSSIAN'S FIRE
HALTS THE
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(By Associated Press)
PETROGRAD, Feb. 23. — It is of
ficially announced that the Teutons
in massed formation attacked the Rus
sian position near Dorna Watrae, on
the northern end or the Roumanian
front, but the Russians' heavy fire
halted the enemy.
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(By Associated Press)
HALIFAX, Feb. 23. — The mem
bers of Ambassador Bernstorff’s party
has two hundred pair of pyjamas, and
others aboard the Frederick VIII have
an abundance of cotton, goods. The
examiners will detain the excesses of
contraband. Most of the Germans are
also well supplied with gold, which is
a contraband, and must be exchanged
for other currency.
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LARGEST DIO
(By Associated Press)
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 23. — The naval
radio station at (’hollas Heights, near
here, recently completed at a cost of
$300,000, and now in full operation,
has exceeded in many respects the
hopes of its constructors. The largest
and most powerful on the western
hemisphere, It will be able, it is be
lieved undeir favorable atmospheric
conditions, to communicate with sta
tions 12,000 miles dlstanct.
Shortly after the plant was placed
in commission and before the sending
and receiving instruments had become
what the operators termed "broken
in,” aerial conversations were held
with the Melbourne, Australia, sta
tion, and the ease with which com
munication was established over this
distance gave rise to hopes that the
Chollas Heights station soon will be
in touch with points halflway around
the world.
The radio apparatus installed Is
technically what is known as the
Poulsen arc transmission. This sys
tem was invented by Vlademar Poul
sen, of Denmark, eleven years ago.
The patent rights wore acquired In
the United States five years later. At
that time the largest arc transmitter
built by Poulsen was one rated at only
five kilowatts. The development of
the Poulsen arc from the five kilo
watt set of 1905 to the giant 200 kilo
watt set, weighing 25 tons, installed
at the Chollas Heights station, hats
since been achieved.
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♦ BERLIN, Feb. 23. — The ♦
♦ American sailors on the steam- ♦
♦ er Yarrowdale have received ♦
♦ a memorandum of the note ♦
♦ which was sent from Washing- ♦
♦ ton to Vienna, and leaves no ♦
♦ doubt in official quarters here ♦
♦ that the relations between ♦
♦ Austria and the United States ♦
♦ will he broken soon. ♦
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(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Feb. 23. — The house
wives have continued their demonstra
tions against the high cost of living
and the police reserves responded to
the outbreaks in various parts of the
city, which they quickly quelled, but
not until after dozens of pushcarts
were overturned and the contents de
stroyed. The owners were attacked
by hundreds of women, some of them
with babies in their arms. Later they
picketed provision stores in an effort
to establish a boycott, and disorders
occurred when purchasers defied the
pickets.
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(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. — It is of
ficially announced that President Wil
son will take the new oath of office
privately in the White House on Sun
day, March 4. Whether he will take
the oath again at the public ceremony
on March 5 or merely make that the
occasion for delivering his Inaugural
address has been undecided.
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♦ BERLIN, Feb. 22. — Two ♦
♦ German submarines have just ♦
♦ returned to their base and re- ♦
♦ port that they sank twenty-four ♦
♦ steamers, three sailing vessels ♦
♦ and nine trawlers. +
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SUPPlSlEINE
RUSHED TO
THEM
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. — The
threatened fuel and food shortages In
many localities caused by freight con
gestion .and car shortage has apnar
ently been averted by the drastic or
ders of the railroads co-operating with
the Interstate Commerce Commission
to rush special shipments to needy
towns or cities.
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STOLE CHARTS OF ALASKA
WATERS TO GIVE GERMANY.
Herbert Sauer, aged 21, was sen
tenced in New York last week to eight
years at Sing Sing for the murder of
an aged woman, and searching
through his belongings officers found
charts of anchorages, harbors and
channels of Alaska, which had been
stolen from a revenue cutter from
which he deserted. An inquiry has
been started.
Sauer confessed to stealing the
charts and said that he had Intended
to return to Germany, give the charts
to the government, thus making a
name for himself.
CHARLES E. ROGERS.
Mr. Rogers has just arrived in Cor
dova to take charge of the grocery
department of Kinkelsteln & Bnpim's
new store. He was secretary and
treasurer of the Capital City band at
Juneau, and before coming north was
a member of the Musicians' Union at
Tacoma. He will associate himself
with the newly organized Cordova
band.
ELKDOM HT
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One of the most successful social
events of the winter season w*as the
ball given at Ragle hall last night by
of the resident members of the Be
nevolent Protective Order of Elks.
They had for their guests nearly
three hundred people, and the hos
pitable manner In which all were en
tertained is characteristic of all func
tions given by this organization.
The hall never looked prettier, due
to the artistic taste of experienced de
corators. Purple and white, the col
ors of the order, prevailed, and the
bunting and streamers were festooned
so as to produce the best effect. One
of the features was the large canvass
painting of an elk head and clock, the
work of Walter WcVV* lints1' sea
which elicited much favorable com
ment. In fact the hall was trans
formed into an Elkdom scene, and
never appeared to better advantage.
It was the greatest outpouring of
our people that has ever attended a
social affair, and special tribute should
be paid to the ladies, who were beau
tifully gowned, and together with
their vivaciousness lent an additional
charm to the scene.
tinder the leadership of Wm. Clay
son, an orchestra of five pieces fur
nished the music tc which the terpsi
chorean devotees entered into the af
fair with a joyous spliit and pleasure
reigned supreme until the last note
of the "Home. Sweet Hime" waltz was
played.
As the clock struck eleven the hall
was darkened and the Elks assembled,
while J. V. Lydlck delivered the fol
lowing toast to "Our Absent Bro
thers:”
Turn back the clock of Elkdom.
To the hour of eleven,
So that w-e may think of those on
earth,
And those in Haven.
And bow in reverence
to wives, sisters and mothers.
And drink in silence
To our absent brothers.
A dainty and appetizing buffet
luncheon was served in the Northland
Club rooms, and throughout the even- j
Ing two kinds of beverages were dis
pensed—a delicious claret punch for
1917 and Alaska's 1918 lemonade.
To those who were in charge of the
arrangements, and all members of the
Elks, is due great credit for the do
cided success they made of their first
ball, and also for the pleasure they
accorded those who were in at
ance.
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SIM USE
OUT FOR
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HONOLULU. Feb. 23. — World
champions. United States champions
and champions of Hawaii — who are
included In both the two classes first
named — are competing in the two
day swimming meet during carnival
week, today and Saturday.
The announcement that the Ama
teur Athletic Union hus awarded the
100 yard and the GO yard dashes to
Hawaii, to bo competed for at Hono
lulu, caused Increased interest in the
swimming meet, and this was further
heightened by tho arrival of several
of the most noted swimmers of the
United States.
EXTRA SESSION
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♦ WASHINGTON, Feb • ♦
♦ President Wilson has decided ♦]
♦ to call an extra session of cot- ♦
♦ gross on March 5, t<> consider ♦
♦ many important matters that ♦
♦ will remain unfinished when ♦
♦ the present body adjourns at ♦
♦ midnight on March 3. ♦
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u CITY IS
RIOTS
(By Associated Press)
PHILADELPHIA, Feh. 23. — Disor
derly scenes occurred in the southeast
ern part of the city, which is largely
populated by foreigners, when hands
of women made demonstrations
against dealers raising the price of
foodstuffs. During the attacks on the
stores one woman was knocked down
and tramped on, being taken to the
hospital with a broken leg. Women
with bottles of kerosene poured oil
on meats, fish and vegetables dis
played by dealers and attacked curb
merchants. Those who purchased
goods at the stores where the prices
were raised were attacked and the
articles taken away.
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SENATOR FAVORS
GOVT. SEIZURE
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. — Senator
J. Hamilton Lewis, of Illinois, has in
troduced an amendment to the rove
nue bill, with provision for author!/
■ ng the president to seize foodstuffs
deemed monopolized in violation ol
the law; foodstuffs so seized to be
sold to the public under government
supervision.
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♦ DRESDEN, Feb. 23. — By «
$ the wrecking of ammunition ♦
♦ factories by explosions during ♦
♦ the Christmas holiday, over ♦
O 10,000 people were killed of the ♦
♦ 30,000 employed in those ♦
♦ plants. +
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FOOD RIOTS III
GREECE GEOSE
(By Associated Press)
ATHENS, Feb. 2.3. — The food riots
among the workmen of Piraeus have
.become so serinns that they, caused
the closing of all shops and the cus
toms house, as the mob looted grocery
and butcher shops.
PARISIANS OBJECT TO
SELECTED SPUD PATCH.
(By Associated Press)
PARIS, Feb. 23. — The proposal to
grow potatoes in the Bols de Bou
logne is not received with favor by
Parisians. Why, they exclaim, are not
tile Luxembourg, plots in the Champs
Elysees, or Park Monceau used in
stead. Early in the war, when the
retrenched camp of Paris was men
aced, parts of the Bols were used for
herds of cattle and sheep as an em
ergency measure, but now no need is
felt for precautionary steps which I
might damage this most favorite of
places frequented by Parisians.
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Job Printing at Dally Times office.
THIS DIVISION
[TADS ALASKA
The report of Customs Collector J.
!•’ i“ugh. for the year 1916, just re
leased for publication, has many items
of interest incorporated. The report,
in part, says:
A marked advance In the industrial
and commercial progress of the ter
ritory is shown in this report of com
merce and customs for the calendar
.tear 1916, the total commerce having
reached the unprecedented value of
nearly one hundred and twenty mil
lions of dollars. Greater production
from natural resources is the ch'ef
element of the increase, although pre
vailing higher prices of the principal
product commodities and receipts of
merchandise from the United States,
likewise affected, enter largely into
the cause.
The importance of the different sec
tions of the territory covered by the
judicial divisions has changed this
vear. The southern soetlon, or 1 Jilrd
division, owing to the greatly in
creased production of its copper mines
and fisheries as well as larger re
ceipts of merchandise from the United
Mates incident to railroad construc
tion and resulting settlement and de
elopment of the adjacent country,
lakes first place. An increase in pro
luction and trade occurred in euch
>f the other divisions, the most Im
portant being the First.
The gain in imports of merchandise
Tom foreign ports is due to resump
ion of copper ore shipments from the
Vukon territory through -tkagunv to
British Columbia, the increased ex
lorts, by the exportation of ere from
he copper mines in the First division
o the same destination.
During the year several large sliip
nentH of supplies, construction mater
ils and operating appliances were re
eived by the government railroad, re
tardlng which no definite information
was received and the value of the
same Is not obtainable. Could it have
been added to the imports the total
•ommerce would have bean materially
ncreased.
Within the past year the balance of
fade In favor of the territory has In
■reased from twenty-seven to fifty
millions of dollars and the value of
ts products from fifty to seventy
millions of dollars.
\ compilation of estimates covering
he shipments of Alaska products from
he year 1868 to 1903 and authentic
eports or the office from the latter
o the present year inclusive present
he following results:
lea and fur products .. ..$323,042,290
Mines and minerals.345,752,111
Important gains in the value of all
iroducts shipped from Alaska were
nade during the year with the excep
'ion or antimony ore, gypsum and
narhlc. Tungsten ore appears in the
table for the first time and It is ex
lected that its value will be raaterial
> increased from year to year. The
fur products from the Pribiloff is
surfs and the shipments of other furs
by mail are responsible for a material
ncrease in the value of that item, as
hese shipments have never before
been included in the tables.
The table in the report shows that
lie value of goods received from the
United States and Canada for the
-irst division reached a valuation of
$13,589,867, and of this amount the
• ities of Douglas, Treadwell, Thane
md Juneau received goods to the
value of $6,175,168, or nearly half the
‘iitire amount of merchandise used in
'he entire First division. Of this am
ount Juneau and Thane, which are
included together in the report, im
ported goods to the value of $4,277,
684; Douglas, $565,181; and Treadwell,
$1,332,303, the balance being split be
tween the other towns of the divi
sion.
In the Third divihion the goods im
ported amounted to $9,283,730. Of this
amount Anchorage led with $2,609,
703, with Cordova second, with $1,
923,001.
The Second division Imported goods
from the states to a value of $4,106,
999, and of that amount the town of
Nome received $1,049,245. The Yu
kon district, or the Fourth division,
imported $3,855,197 worth of merchan
dise, and of this amount $1,544,133
worth was consigned to Fairbanks.
In the domestic trade a total of
1,051 vessels entered at Alaskan ports
during the year and 1,290 cleared,
while 866 foreign vessels entered and
539 cleared, while the total tonnage
both foreign and domestic which en
tered and cleared during the year was
1,883,904, an increase of 395,296 tons
over the year 1914.
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Captain Frederick Mears, of the
Alaskan railroad commission, and Wil
liam C.erig, a bridge builder, made a
trip over the Copper River railway
yesterday as far as the Miles' glacier
bridge to inspect the Icebreaker there.
TWO LUES LOST
IN eie EIRE AT
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• (By Associated PresB) ♦
• DAWSON, Feb. 23. — This ♦
• city was visited by a disastrous ♦
• fire on Wednesday night, which ♦
• for a time threatened the de- ♦
► struction of the entire business +
► section, and resulted in the «
► loss of two lives. +
► Charles W. C. Tabor, dean of ♦
► the Dawson bar, and William ♦
• McPadam, a veteran stage ♦
► driver, perished In the flames. +
► The Yukonia, Pioneer and Cro- ♦
• nin hotels ar.d several other •
• buildings were burned to the ♦
• ground. The property loss is ♦
• estimated at $200,000. »
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STEAMER NOTES
OF LOCAL
INTEREST
(By Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Keb. 23. — The steamer
Northwestern sailed for Alaska at 9
o’clock yesterday morning. Her Cor
dova passengers are Frank Sellers, H.
E. Capers, L. Rose, E. Tillman, C. Hil
on, Herb Conway, William McCarthy,
Holgerson, Victor Olsen, Louis
[)ates, G. Taggart, Thomas Lee, Mike
dtepovich, Mr. McGirney, Miss Ethel
Truckey, S. Taggart, Wm. Bogue, P.
flageraar, F. Hageraar, O. Williams
ind four steerage.
The Stanley Dollar is on the way to
Cordova from Seattle, having left the
latter place on Wednesday.
Frank Rotch, formerly purser on the
Admiral Goodrich, has been appointed
to a port position at Seattle.
The freighter Juneau is due at any
time with a cargo of coal, oil and
some cars for the Copper River &
Northwestern railway.
C. A. Burkhart, with outside and
Vlaska associates, Is endeavoring to
establish a direct line of steamers
between Portland and Alaska, espec
ially fo the southeastern and south
western localities.
Shortly after midnight the steamer
Alaska sailed for the westward with
the following passengers from here:
E. A. Hegg, W. J. Hulbach, A. H. Mil
ler, for Seward; W. J. Shedwick for
Latouche; A. Herring, I. I,. Olson, for
Valdez.
J. F. Davidson, formerly connected
with the Union Pacific railway in the
traffic department, has been appointed
traveling passenger agent for the
Vlaska Steamship Company, for Alas
ka. This announcement was made
recently by President R. W. Baxter,
ter.
C. E. Flye, general freight agent
of the Paelfie Steamship Company,
has announced in Seattle the appoint
ment of R. S. James as general agent
of the freight department of the com
pany to succeed A. N. Floyd, resigned,
to enter another business. James has
been chief clerk to Flye since the
merger of the Pacific Coast Steamship
Company and the Pacific Alaska
Navigation Company, and the forma
tlon of the Pacific Steamship Com
pany. Earl Townsend, who has been
commercial agent of the Pacific
Steamship Company, has been ap
pointed chief clerk to General Freight
agent Flye. succeeding Mr. James. The
appointments are effective March 1.
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LAUNDRIES COMPELLED CLOSE
ACCOUNT SHORTAGE COAL.
(By Associated Press)
PARIS, Feb. 23. — Laundries in the
capital and throughout the depart
ment of the Seine are facing a crisis.
Not only has the material they use
Increased 60 to 100 per cent, but the
<hortage of coal is causing a number
Jf them to close their establishments.
Vesterday one of the largest laundries
at Boulogne-sur-Sein, in the suburbs
ar Paris, ceased to operate. The same
thing happened at Issy-les-Molineaux.
some of the restaurant keepers fear
they will be unable to supply table
cloths and napkins and in some places
the latter article Is being replaced by
ane made of tissue paper.
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If the party who got a hat at Eagle
ball which does not fit him will call
it the Windsor hotel an exchange can
be made of top pieces that will be sat
isfactory to both owners.