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VOLUME TWO. NUMBER 421. CORDOVA, ALASKA, SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 22, 1916. - PRICE TEN CENTS.
PERSHING'S CAMP, Mexico, April
21. — After the fight at Parral be
v tween the Americans and the Carranza
'f troops, some of the Yankee soldiers
obtained fairly reliable evidence that
Villa had truly been wounded, and
was being carried southwards towards
the state of Durango, escorted by a
band of 150 of his men, and that he
had passed through Elvalle, twenty
three miles west of Parral. At Parral
a hundred Villaistas were reported to
have passed southwards about two
days before the arrival of the Ameri
cans. General Lozana, the Carranza
commander at Parral, reported that he
had fought a battle with this hand
and had killed forty-two of them.
EL PASO. April 21. — Additional
troops are being moved to Columbus
in order to be ready to be rushed into
Mexico should Pershing get into
trouble and need help in a hurry. Gen
eral Pershing has temporarily sus
pended the chase of Villa and bis
outlaws, and is awaiting developments j
at Washington before continuing the
pursuit. Garcia, the Mexican consul
in this city, said today that in his
opinion the work of the American
I expedition had been concluded and
that he hoped for an order to be soon
issued from Washington for the with
drawal of the soldiers.
PERSHING'S 11 BA I >Q CARTERS IN j
MEXICO, April 21. — A number of j
the American officers with the expe
dition who were detailed to invcsti
j gate and make a report of the story
f -claiming that Villa's body had been
recently interred at the village of
St. Francisco Borja, filed their report
with Pershing today. Their findings t
were that they were unable to con •
firm the stories of Villa's death or
the interment of his body.
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PANAMA. April 21. — The building
divisiou of the Panama ('anal has
drawn plans for operations next year
involving the expenditure of $10,000,
000, provided Congress appropriates
the money.
Plans are made for 75 new two and
four family frame houses for em
ployees; hotels at Ancon, Balboa,
and shops at Cristobal; several new
school houses and about 100 small
frame cottages. The largest of the
new school houses is to be built at I
Balboa, which is now the capital of
|wth4..canal zone. It is to be the high
' School and will replace the present
wooden building which does not con
form with (he remainder of (lie build
ings in the town.
The United States army also con
templates the erection of many new j
frame buildings for quarters. The
army already has constructed many |
new' buildings at Miltnry Heights, east
«,c£ Balboa proper, and at Corozal,1
where the cavalry, artillery and en-J
glneer detachments have their bar-1
racks.
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PROTECTION OF STOCKHOLM.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden. April 20.—
A private committee has been formed j
here which intends to provide 700,000
kronen for the protection of Stockholm
* rtgainst air attack. The committee
mt* has prepared a plan of the necessary (
▼ defenses, including batteries of anti |
aircraft guns on the hills around (
Stockholm, and a fleet of twenty de-j
tensive aeroplanes.
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WASHINGTON. April 21. — A cab
inet meeting was held today, ami
Secretary of Siate Lansing conferred
at considerable length with I’resident
Wilson before the meeting convened
To the press representatives Lansing
stated that he did not expect the gov
eminent to take any action regarding
Germany until a reply had been re
ceived from the latest message to the
Berlin foreign office on the subma
rine question. The tension between
the two countries is considered dan
gerous by those on the inside, but not
hopeless. What will Germany do is
the question being discussed oil every
side. Will she follow the demands
of the press and the apparent wishes
of her people and continue her re
lentless. ruthless warfare on the mer
chant ships of her enemies, whether
armed or not. or will she bow to the
demands of the United States and in
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struct her submarine commanders to
observe the rules of humanity under
pain of severe punishment for disobe
dience of orders. Many are of opin
ion here that Germany will refuse to
yield, and that diplomatic relations
w ill he broken off as a certainty. From
Lansing's statement it is accepted thal
America will await the formal reply
of the (ierman diplomats, and that no
thing will be done in the meantime
unless another merchant ship, carry
ing American citizens should be tor
pedoed. In that event thpre can be nc
doubt but that diplomatic relations
would be severed without further ado
if diplomatic relations are ended, II
will mean grave inconveniences foi
the (ierman government, for the Am
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erican represenatives at. the allied
capitals abroad have been looking af
ter the interests of Germans in the
countries with which their fatherland
is at war, and this service would per
force cease.
WASHINGTON. April 21. It was
announced officially today that the
last message to Germany on the sub
marine question was delivered by Am
bassador Gerard to the Berlin foreign
office at 4:30 o'clock Thursday after
noon.
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PARIS, April 21. — The official
communique issued this morning re
cites further offensive operations of
the French troops around Verdun. The
French stormed the German positions
and captured a number of I lie enemy's
trenches, taking four officers and 150
men prisoner. The offensive was in
the region of Deadinan's Hill, which
has been the scene of so much bloody
fighting and the assaults were night
attacks. Fast of the Meuse the Ger
mans made several fierce infantry at
lacks, which were all repulsed, the
Germans charging forward in the face
of a terrible hail of machine gun and
light artillery fire, which swept the
ground between the opposin;; ttenches,
and tore great holes in the gray clad
ranks of the Teutons. The French
also advanced south of the Haudre
inont wood, making sevaral slight
gains in this vicinity.
BERLIN, April 21. — The official
war office bulletin issued today re
ports that stubborn infantry fighting
is the rule along the Verdun front,
without recounting any gains or lesses
for either side.
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STEAMSHIP ALASKA SAILS
FROM SEATTLE
SEATTLE, April 21. — The steam
ship Alaska sailed from here yester
day, bound for southeastern and south
western Alaska ports. The passengers
for Cordova were Fred Graham, C.
Crary, F. Hicks, Mrs. Fred Ahern, F.
McDonald and wife, D. Dolsseau. G.
Birch, T. \V. Roeevete, J. Merryhinl,
E. Robinson, L. Gampandeh J. Lam
son, G. Jones, J. B. Ferrell, Mrs. E. j
Clarke, J. Sullivan, Harry Walton, P,
Williams, Fred Vanroes, and eight
steerage.
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CHINA UP TO DATE.
'PEKING, April 21. — Military at
taches are to be sent to the Chinese
legations at Washington, London, j
Paris, Petrograd, Berlin and Tollio I
The attaches will be military officials i
below the rank of colonel, with a suf-1
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ficient knowledge of foreign langu i
ages to qualify them for the posts.
Some difficulty is being experienced in
finding officers suitable for the places.
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LARGE WAR ORDER.
TOKIO, April 21. — Russia has
placed in Japan another huge war or
der, which is said to reach $22,000,000.
The munitions will he turned out by ;
government arsenals and the first de
liveries "ill begin In 1917.
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POSTAL EMPLOYEES INCREASED.
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LONDON. April 20. — The number j
if women po tmen in Loudon has I
;ust been increased from 500 to 1.000. j
SEIZED PAPERS
CAUSEFLORRY
WASHINGTON, April 21. — The 11
case of Wolfe Vonigle, former score - i
tary lo Von Papen, continues to mono-1
polize the attention of certain of the i
officials in the departments of state
and of justice. The demand made by I
Von Bernstorff on Lansing for the re
turn of t lie documents seized in Von-'
igle's office in New York, raises ihe
interesting question as to whether orj
not the German embassy assumes re
sponsibility for tlte existence of the j
papers, which are alleged to disclose
a German spy system in America of j
large proportions. Today both the
departments of state and of justice
announced their willingness to deliver
the seized documents to Bernstorff if
the ambassador would identify them
ik official papers of his embassy. In
my event, photographs of the seized
mpers which have been made will be
•stained by this government.
WASHINGTON. April 21. — Addi
ionat indictments will be asked of
■ertain American-German sympathiz
•rs. The names have been learned as
i result of the disclosures made by
lorst Von der Goltz, the German spy.
vho lias revealed the ramifications of
lie system to the secret service men.
•'rnm what lias so far been learned
t can be stated conservatively that
he revelations disclose a plot of huge
limensions to injure this country and
hey open a field of inquiry which
eeins practically unlimited.
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LONDON, April 21. — The gover
ment issued an official statement to
day saying that the situation In Meso
potamia was much more favorable to
the British- than would be supposed
from the bulletins being sent out from
Constantinople. The English claim
that the recent big victory claimed
by the Turks was really a loss, as
they attacked the French and British
soldiers along the Tigris, with a force
of about ten thousand, and suffered
casualties amounting to three thou
sand, while the allied troops suffered
negligible losses.
PROMINENT POLITICIANS IN
CITY YESTERDAY
The following is taken from the
register of the Hotel Windsor, and
is a criterion of some of the represen
tative men or different branches of J
business life which we have with us
once in a while: George D. Schofield,
attorney general of Alaska; C. D. i
Murane, Republican national commit-;
teem an; Lewis 1*. Shackleford, dele
gate to Republican national conven- j
tion; William A. Gilmore, delegate to
Republican national convention; Etl.
C. Russell, alternate to Republican na
tional convention; Tom Lloyd, alter
uate to Republican national conven
tion; H. I. Falkner, committeeman for!
First division; George Irving, chair
man territorial committee; Howard
Ewing, manager of Pacific Coast Co.
of Juneau; R. J. Wulzen. mining en,
glneer of the Gastine.au Mining Co.;:
Guy McNaughton, cashier of B. M
Bohrends’ Bank at Juneau; M. J. Sul
It van, mayor and council of Portage.
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BRYAN DEFEATED
OMAHA. April 21. — It is now cer
tain that William Jennings Bryan was
defeated in the Democratic primaries
as a candidate for delegate to the
Democratic national convention in St.
Louis. The result of the vote is a
rude shook to the Bryan supporters,
who have always considered their idol
as invincible, at least in his home
state. The voting is taken as a real
test of President Wilson's strength
with the people, and is considered an
emphatic approval of his preparedness
program, which Bryan has been so
consistently fighting. and which
caused him to resign from the Wilson
cabinet.
JAPANESE WIFE SEEKERS
GETTING WISE
TOKIO, April 21. — Japanese young
men resident in California are return
ing to Japan in increasing numbers to,
seek brides, and the old time habit of
choosing wives by ptaotagraph is rap
idly becoming extinct. The former
system developed many e\ils, and the
Japanese authorities who are working
for the Welfare M Japanese in the
United States have been doing all pos
sible to have it abolished. Fifty
young men returned to the United
States a few days ago with brides se
lected after a brief period of court-,
ship in the fatherland.
Matrimonial agencies have done!
much to hasten the fall of this ays-|
tern. It was found that even the cam
era can be made to tell falsehoods, j
and the agencies are charged with
having taken advantage of this. Ex
pectant bridegrooms are said to have
he; n vastly disillusioned when the ori
;. 'tta’' cf -orao of the jihotographs have '
arrived .a California.
MARSEILLES, April 21. — It was
stilted here today that about 250,000
Russian soldiers would arrive in
France this spring to fight with the
allies in the trenches along the west
ern front. Russia at present has many
hundred thousands of men in training
for her armies, having mobilized
much more than she can possibly use
along the eastern front the coming
year. Russia's pressing problem is
ammunition and not men. Men site
has in abundance, but owing to her
lack of trained factory workers, and
the fact that she is practically ice
hound in the winter, with the excep
tion of Vladivostok, which means a
railroad haul at great expense of
thousands of miles to reach the front
in Europe, Russia has found it ex
tremely difficult to properly equip her
immense armies. The bringing of the
Russian troops to France is an effort
to solve the problem, as they come
without equipment, her allies finding
it much easier to arm the Russians in
France than in their own country.
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CHINA NEEDS RAILROAD FOR
DEFENSIVE PURPOSES
PEKING, April 21. — The ministry
of communications has requested the
government to provide immediate
funds for the construction of a rail
way from Peking to Jehol. tile ancient
capital of Manchuria. This line is es
pecially needed at present for defen
sive purposes, as the bandits in Man
churia and Inner Mongolia are very
active and the government requires
speedy means of communication with
the northern country. The route has
already been surveyed, but because of
the lack of funds no construction work
has been done. The probable cost of
the line is $12,000,000 Mexican. Part
of this sum will be realibed from the
profits of the Peking-Mukden and the
Peking-1 lankow government railways,
and the remainder will be made up by
the flotation of a short term loan.
EASY TO OWN ONE.
LONDON. April 21. — One of the
most cur,ions results of the war Is a
veritable boom in the second hand
piano business. The reason for this is
that the work of making munitions for
ihe men at the front has enabled so
many people 16 think of a piano who
never, thought they would own one.
and their added income is just enough
for them to. afford an old instrument.
"Less than two years ago." ex
plained a dealer, “pianos, if more than
twenty' years old, were a real drug
on the market, and many had to be
sold at firewood prices. Now we deal
ers cannot git enough of them to sell
for very fair prices. I paid a cus
tomer ilia same prl:e for a i iuuo that
lie Laid tin for !t sixteen years ago."
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SEWARD, April 21. — It is under
stood here that Delegate Wlekersharn
will not be given the Republican nomi
nation for delegate to Congress un
less he makes terms with the Shackle
ford element, which is in control of
the party machinery in Alaska. The
committee of four which was selected
to name a candidate for delegate will
do what Shackleford tells them, and
Wickersham will have to be a good
dog if he wants to have the official
label of a Republican tacked on to
tils congressional kite. The platform
is comprehensive, and covers a multi
tude of subjects, including statehood,
construction of additional roads and
trails throughout Alaska, extension of
cable and wireless systems, additional
aids to navigation, and sonorous slams
at President Wilson. The platform
condemns the so-called fish monopoly
which is said to be divesting Alaska
waters of their riches, and demands
that the operations of the trust be
investigated. It declares in favor of
(he establishment of a community
[ property law in Alaska similar to that
I In Washington, which would give a
J husband and wife equal shares in pro
1 perty earned after marriage by tlie
joint efforts of both.
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BRITISH LEATHER INFERIOR.
LONDON, April 20. liritish hoe
leather has this year been found
wanting its traditional good quality.
Dealers declare the reason for this
1 is that owing to the war the supply
; of chestnut extract from France and
| Valonia acorn cups from Turkey has
been cut off and tanners have been
j compelled to use inferior tanning ma
terials.
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BERLIN, April 21. — With subscrip
tions to the fourth German war loan
scarcely under way. appeals to the
school children to repeat their efforts
I during the earlier loans are already
j being sent out. This time especial
j emphasis is being laid on the possi
| billty of pupils in higher schools, who
■ are now, or have been, earning money
of their'own, subscribing even more
than they did last time.
School children subscribed to the
third loan about forty million marks,
it is estimated. In twenty institutions
in Berlin alone the pupils put in 82,
663 marks in sums of from one mark
upward. To encourage a repetition of
this willingness to subscribe, the mag
istrate of Berlin has arranged to sup
ply the schools such clerical necessi
ties as appeals to parents, receipts and
subscription blanks, so that no school
will be under any expense and may
subscribe, clear, as much as possible.
Many boys in higher schools, it is
said, have of late been earning even
more money than many adults in nor
mal times and yet, of course, do pot
have an adult's expenses. 'These
higher schools and continuation
schools must be mobiliaed." says the
first appeal. These sums must, wher
ever -possible, be made liquidable for
ihe fourth war loan.”
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MAKE UP SHORTAGE.
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COPENHAGEN. April 21. IV -si.
all sons of farmers, are iu'. from
! in batches cl 2-'0 o h ‘tp
j ir.uke up ilia saoru.30 of labor on i.. g
bsh lands. .
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