i yt
The Cordova Daily Times
VOLE ME IT. XEMBER 575. * CORDOVA, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27,1916. PRICE TEN CENTS
&s ft -
o
LONDON, Oct. 27.—The war office officially announces |
♦hat ten German torpedo boat destroyers attempted to raid the;
British cross channel, with a transport service, last night. The
attack, however, was unsuccessful. Two German destroyers
were sunk and the others driven off. The British destroyer
Flirt is missing, but nine members of the crew were saved. The
British destroyer Nubian was disabled by a torpedo and run
aground. The British transport Queen was sunk, but the crew
were saved. v
■* * \
PETROGRAD, Oct. 27.—The Russians and Roumanians I
are retiring to the north of the line between Hirsova and Oasap
keni, fifty miles north of the Tchernavoda-Constanza railroad.
The Teutons, Turks and Bulgarians continue their attack along
the whole Dubrudja front. The Roumanians on the western
border of Moldavia captured the Transylvania village of Balan
and the Piatrarotkul heights.
PARIS, Oct. 27.— It is officially stated that the French
have progressed further in the Verdun region, advancing west
-ml south of Fort Vaux, taking more prisoners. The total num
ber of prisoners captured here is over 5,000, exclusive of the
wounded'.
ATHENS, Oct. 27.—An understanding between the allies
and tin* king has been reached. Gr<*ece promises a compliance
to the demands of Admiral Fournet for a maintenance of order
in Athens. Piraeus constitutional liberty is guaranteed to
Greeks, and there will be no opposition to recruiting for the
Venizelist movement.
Bl CHAREST, Oct. 27.—The Russo Roumanian troops are
fighting successfully along the Transylvania front, while the
Roumanian advance in Usual valley continues.
PETROGRAD, Oct. 27.—The Germans attacked the Rus
sian positions on the western bank of the river Sltara, in the re
gion of Gold'ovirichi, and forced tin* retirement of the Germans
to the eastern bank.
♦ _ ♦
BERLIN, Oct. 27.—The reichstng committee has rejected'
the Socialist petition for a suspension of the proceedings
against Leibknecht, who is accused of inciting soldiers to rebel
lion.
BERLIN, Oct. 27.—General Mackensen is pursuing tin* re
treating Russians and Roumanians, and lias reached the dis
trict of Hirsova, fortv miles north of Tehernvoda.
» .
AMSTERDAM, Oct. 27.—The Germans have forbidden
Dutch firms the ipse of German iron and they are repairing
Norwegian vessels under the penalty of deprivation of further
supplies from Germany.
HAY RE, France, Oct. 27.— \\ ith the Belgian forces in East
Africa fighting to complete the conquest of the last colony in
the world when' the German flag still floats, the Belgian min
ister of colonies, M. Renkin, granted today to a representative
of the Associated Press an interview on the whole scope of the
war in Africa.
Mr. Renkin is one of the first authorities in Europe on co
lonial affairs. The independence of the Congo was brought
about largely through him, and since then he has been, as min
ister of colonies, the directing spirit of the vast Congo estab
lishmeiit, with territory seventy times the size of Belgium, and ,
an army of 1,200 Belgian officers leading Congo native soldiers
almost as great in number as the army of the Fnited States, i
This is the black army, with only a breach clout for uniform
that has swept across German East Africa until all the iieh
northwest section — twelve times the size of the territory held
by Germany in Belgium — is now held by the Belgians in the
former German colony.
M. Renkin was seen in his colonial office, established for
the duration of the war in a villa at Sic. Addresso, a suburb of,
Havre, overlooking the sea.
Speaking first of the way Belgium had been “dragged into
a war in Africa by German attacks on the Congo,” lie said:
“One camiot^insist too much upon the point because it
characterizes the constant policy of our nation, respectful of in
ternational treaties and profoundly pacific, but indomitable
when its rights are violated. Belgium, u ho affirms so brilliant
ly her force in Africa, did all in her power to avoid the war; tin*
documents published in the gray book relate this history.
“The general act of Berlin of 1NKf> was entirely inspired by
the desire to preserve Central Africa from violent conflicts. The
thought of its authors was that this part of the world ought t <
be reserved territory, where all nations contributed peacefully!
in the spreading of civilization by tin* propagation of tin- ('In i
tial! faith and by honest commerce.”
BORDER ATTACK
* PLOTTED BY
EL l'ASO, Oct. 27. — Andres Gar
cia, inspector general of the Mexican
consulates, says that a junta exists
pt I i Paso for the purpose of direct
ing V illa's messages. The junta is
composed of former revolutionists
Close to Villa, and in the past it was
reported that some Americans were
implicated.
General Garcia lias heard that a
border raid tty Villa is contemplated.
General 'Trevino, at Chihuahua, re
ports that Villa loft Kan Isabel, south
west of chihuahua City, and is now
moving southwest in the general di
rection of Satevo. Early engage
ments between Villa and Carranza
forces are expeetpd.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27. —- Kecre
tnry of War Baker has issued a state
ment. charging that the bandit attack
on American troops in Mexico or the
American border towns was planned
to discredit tin* administration's Mexi
can policy. The war department re
fuses to disclose the source of its in
formation. Secretary Lansing says
that no Americans arc implicated.
SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 27. — All of
the border forces have been instruct
r ed to keep a most careful watch as
the result of Secretary Baker's warn
ing of a plot for a Mexiean raid just
before the election. Over $1,000,000
has been provided for winter quarters
for the troops on the border.
NEW YOUK, Oct. 27. Carranza
sends a denial of the reported Villa.
Diaz and Zapata successes. Diaz was
utterly defeated and till of ills opera
(ions were successful, says Carranza.
♦
15 OUT FOR
WASHINGTON. Oct. 27. In a
statement today by its chairman, Rep
resentative Krank I’. Woods, of Iowa,
the national Republican congressional
committee urged the re-election of
Judge James Wic kersham as a dele
gate to congress from Alaska.
“Alaskans could not seleet a better
man to represent the territory in con
gress than Judge Wic kersham,'' said
Chairman Woods.
"His long service in congress for
more than seven years has equipped
him, from experience in congressional
affairs, to represent the people of
Alaska In Washington better than any
one else in ihe territory. Always vigi
lant for the interests of Alaska and
the nation. Judge Wickersham is one
of the most valuable public- servants
in congress.
"A study of hi. work as a member
of the territories, mines and mining,
public lands, military affairs and In
dian affairs committees, shows that
he has done more in congress for the
Htncliinimnil of \l:igli!i th-tn iiliv
other member.
"The national Republican congres
sional committee believes that the
people of Alaska will recognize the
eminent services ami high character
of lodge Wickersham by re-electing
him as a delegate to congiess by a
large majority."
—«
WILSON RETURNS HOME.
GRAFTON. W. Va., Oct. 27. — Pre
sident Wilson arrived at Shadow Lawn
late tonight. On his way home he
shook hands with people who had
gathered at the stations where the
train stopped.
♦
News from Fort Yukon states that
the river is encroaching u|>on the
banks of the stream on which the
town now stands at the rate of four
feet per day. and already a number
of residents have been compelled to
move their cabins.
1
v.
HOW SOLDIERS
PASS TIME IN
iEXICB i
FIELD HEADQUARTERS OF THE
AMERICAN PUNITIVE EXPEDITION
IN MEXICO. Oct. 27. — The army
chaplains who accompany the Ameri
can punitive expedition in Mexico
have not only marched abreast of their
toughest charges clear through to
the Sierra Madres, but here they have
distinguished themselves in a new
way. They have established the first
electric light plant within a 125-mile
radius of this spot in Chihuahua, for
the lighting of a reading room and
a movie show.
However commonplace the electric
light has become in the states, it Is
still rather an innovation in this part
of Mexico, especially in an army camp
in the Cases Grandes valley. But.
thanks to the chaplains who devoted
much time to pestering the authorities
for permission to bring the necessary
machinery In on motor trucks, the gas
engine, generator and other equipment
arrived about two months ago and
now the meanest private can read the
'ulest periodicals and write his let
ters under electric lights. Even the
general hasn’t that privilege.
As for the movie showB, it is hara
Jo understate their influence for good
or the interest they have aroused and
sustained. At home, ‘‘the movies”
mean nothing more than a nickel, a
I short walk and an hour or so killed.
■ But In camp, the evening show is
i something to look forward to all day
j and talk about the next day. Making
adobe brick and other officially pre
scribed ways of passing the time soon
pail, even cards and dice have their
i limitations, but the motion picture
\ shows are always popular as ennui
breakers.
The busy little engire that illumi
nates the reading room runs the pro
jecting machine for the picture shows,
lights the prise fight arena and make
shift vaudeville stage, belongs to the
equipment of Chaplain J. M. Moose,
of the Seventh cavalry. He also man
ages the shows, censors most of the
soldier mail for several regiments and
acts as agent for the money order de
partment of an express company.
From his stipend for issuing these
orders came originally the funds for
bringing down the films from El
Paso. He, by the way, has mude out
money orders about $66,000 in three
months. But the money he thus ex
pended from his chaplain fund will
be paid back from the athletic fund
that has grown to almost $5,000 from
the proceeds of half a dozen boxing
exhibitions. Chaplain J. A. Randolph,
of the Second engineers, performs the
same offices at El Valle.
The reading room, which is well
lighted and supplied with benches and
tables, is in charge of Chaplain O. J.
N. Scott, of the Tenth cavalry. The
Young Men's Christian Association has
furnished 61,000 envelopes and 160,000
letterheads, which are given out
gratis. With the Red Cross and the
Young Men’s Hebrew Association, it
also sends reading matter. The tent
will accommodate several score and
generally is well filled.
More than five months ago the chap
lains fil6d their application for a cine
matograph outfit, but it was not until
the last day of August that the first
show was given. During September
there were twenty-six and all were
well attended. Estimates of the
nightly crowds run as high as 3,000,
und not even regimental minstrels cut
down the number of patrons. The
section reserved for officers, which
holds about 150, is always packed.
The crowd comes early and stays
until the last flicker. Right after
retreat, bearing gasoline cans, soap
boxes, even cumbersome arm chairs,
they secure the coveted positions sur
rounding the projecting machine, pre
pared for an hour and a half wait.
The show doesn't start until V: 30 and
it lasts an hour and a half. Here is
where the chaplain shows his guile.
He intends that the performance will
both amuse his charges and keep them
out of mischief. So he holds them
until 9 o'clock. Then there is not
enough time before taps to do much
of anything but return ty their tenta.
NEIGHBORING
TOWNS
It Is reported that Morrison &
Johnson, drifting on No. ti below on
Cleary, the claim from which “Swift
water Bill” Bates took a fortune, have
struck pay dirt running $5 to the
square foot of bedrock.
In the trial of a native at Juneau
for soliciting a white man to sell him
liquor, the attorney for the defense
demurred to the charge on the ground
that the man who sold the liquor had
not been held. The court took the
matter under advisement.
Jim Blaine, a native of Yakutat, is
in the federal jail at Juneau, and Em
jrtu and John Mack are hi the hospi
tal badly cut and wounded, the re
sult of an attack made upon them by
Blaine. Mack is badly hurt and his
recovery is doubtful.
Blind Andrew, a well known Indian
of the lower Yukon country, was
taken by the members of hii* tribe to
Ruby and there deserted for the gov
ernment to feed and care for.
The Juneau city council has remit
ted the taxes on the A. B. hall at that
place. It was held that the building
provided a splendid playground for
the children of the town as well as
facilities for swimming and gymna
sium classes, which privileges had
been extended to the children.
The Juneau Dispatch is authority
for the statement that the Copper
River railway paid Jack Dalton one
million dollars for his extensive
realty holdings on the Cordova water
front.
A school pageant, depicting the
seven stages of Alaskan history, from
the day of Russian supremacy to the
day of the United States government
owned railroad will be presented by
the Douglas public school children
under the auspices of the Island Wo
man's Club In the Lyric theatre, No
vember 24 and 26.
LOCAL JOTTINGS.
The steamer Mariposa is not due
from the westward until Monday.
The steamer Admiral Watson is due
from Seattle at 10 o'clock tonight.
This afternoon's interior train
brought twenty-seven passengers to
Cordova from Fairbanks.
Captain George Green and Captain
J. Oliver, who are in charge of the
N. C. Company river boats, arrived
from Fairbanks and are on their way
to the states.
The big dance to take place at
Kagle hall Saturday night promises
to be a humdinger, and if you want
to enjoy a couple of hours in the
merry waltz you cannot afford to
miss it.
♦
FLOUR STILL GOING UP.
MINNEAPOLIS. Oct. 27. The best
family flour is now selling for $B>.2t)
a barrel.
—♦ -
The rock with which the piers of
the new road commission bridge is
being constructed, is ore from the
Peter Steil quartz mine at Birch hill,
and runs about $2.50 per ton in gold.
♦
A Juneau insurance* agent, A. T.
Spatz, is agitating the offering of a
bounty on all wharf rats in that city,
and offers to stand two thirds of the
costs himself. The rats are rapidly
killing the city pigeons.
—♦—
The Juneau city council recently
passed a resolution requesting the war
department to grant permission for
the Alaska Gastlneau Gold Mining Co.
to dump tailings into the Gustineau
channel.
—-_ «
C. H. Alvey, of Haines, Alaska, was
awarded a silver cup for the best in
dividual exhibit of agricultural pro
ducts in the Alaska section of the
Northwest I .and Products Kxi'osition.
-♦
The Dally Times is a member of the
Associated Press. Get the news.
TITLES ARE
THE BEST
■
El. PASO. Oct. 27. — Oregon has'
the best water law In the United!
States, asserted Percy A. Cupper, as- !
sistant t ate engineer of Oregon, In
an address here before the Interna j
tional Irrigation Congress on the “In
terpretation of the Oregon Water!
Code by the Supreme Court of the.
United States and its Effect Upon the
Water Codes of Other States."
* “The highest tribunal in the land
has placed the stamp of approval on
the Oregon system of water titles,
and said in unmistakable terms that
it deprives no man of his property
without just compensation, denies to
no man the equal protection of the j
law and violates in no way the Four- j
teenth Amendment to the federal con- (
stitution guaranteeing such protec-1
tion," Mr. Cupper declared.
“Several important points were de- !
cided," continued Mr. Cupper, "when!
the entire Oregon system was taken
to the supreme court of the United i
States In the case of the Pacific Live
Stock Company vs. Lewis et al.
"The supreme court upheld the dis j
trlct court In declining to take Juris '
diction over the water board's pro
ceedings on the application of a citi
zen of California; it also followed the '
state court’s interpretation of the
stale board relative to the proceed
ings declaring them administrative
and not judicial and it also held that
data collected by the state engineer
could be considered as evidence.
"All the water code states are In
terested in the judicial point in that
a water right determination is not
transferable to the federal court on
ihe ground of adverse citizenship. In
virtually all states having special tri
bunals for the determination of water |
C tos the state courts have held the
tribunals to be administrative in
character exercising quasi Judicial
functions.
"The Colorado system of adjudicat
ing water rights by the courts, though
involving the somewhat cumbersome j
prescribed court procedure; neverthe-j
less always possessed the redeeming
virtue of betpg free from any ques
tion of constitutional infringement.
While the supreme court decision did
not altect the Colorado system, it
placed the Oregon code on a par with
it in this particular without saddling
on it the objectionable features of the
Colorado system.
"The California code reminds one
of the ferocious lion upon which a sur
gical operation has been performed to
remove its teeth and claws, but the
water code just the same, it ts the
foundation upon which will be built i
..... I
it »u [>>1.11111111 ni Binu ui ”aici iiuco .
for California. '
It is understood that in California,
an amendment to the water code is j
contemplated, likewise in Idaho, while ■
in Washington efforts are being made |
to obtain legislation along this line." |
-«
NORTHLAND CLUB ENTERTAINS
AT ENJOYABLE SMOKER.
\ very delightful smoker was given
by the Northland Club last night,
which was attended by the members
and a few invited guests. The pro
gram consisted of vocal and instru |
menial music, stories and card games
*
One of the features was Judge Wick
ersham's reminiscent talk of the early j
days in Alaska, as he Is well Informed
on the history of the territory. I)ur- j
Ing the evening "smokes" were passed
and liquid and solid refreshments
served. The affair was a most enjoy |
able one throughout, and the enter-1
tainment was presided over by Or. W. j
W Council, who was ably assisted by
the house committee, consisting of Or.
W H. Chase, George Dooley and Thos
S. Scott.
The funeral of James Kahler, who
committed suicide In Juneau last |
» eek. was held Sunday, the Fraternal j
Order of Elks, of w hich the deceased
was a member, conducting the ser
vices.
-*—
Do a Dally Times reader.
ALASKANS if
VOTE III AIIV
Under the election law passed at the
last session of the legislature the
qualifications of voters are as fol
lows:
The clerk of the court shall provide
each polling place with a book to be
known as th^ "Kegistration Book,"
on the first page of which shall be
printed the qualifications of voters as
follows: "Any person of the age o!
twenty-one (21) years or more who
is a citizen of the United States, who
has lived in the territory of Alaska
one year and in the judicial division
in which he or she offers to cast his
or her vote thirty <30) days itnraedi
atelp preceding such election, shall
be entitled to vote at all elections
held therein: Provided, that all Idiots,
insane persons, and persons who have
been convicted of an infamous crime
are excluded from such right and
privilege, and provided further that
no person shall be deemed to have lost
his residence by reason of his ab
sence while In the civil or military ser
vice of the territory, or the United
States, nor while a student at any in
stitution of learniug, nor while kept
a public charge at any poor house or
any other asylum, nor while confined
jn any public prison, nor while en
gaged in navigation of the waters of
this territory, of the United States or
the high seas; absence from the ter
ritory or said Judicial division or city
or town wherein election is held, on
business shall not affect the question
of residence, provided he or she has
not claimed such right elsewhere One
of the said judges shall keep said re
gistration book, and before any voter
shall receive his or her official ballot,
he or she shall sign his or her name
in said book, which signature shall
be a statement of said voter to the
effect that he or she is qualified to
vote under this act.
Any person who can qualify as a
|egal voter in the division in which
he or she attempts or offers to vote,
may qualify and vote In any election
precinct in such division by subscrib
ing to the qualifications required for
registration in this section Any per
son who makes a false statement of
his or her qualifications to vote shall
be punished, upon conviction by a fine
of not less than twenty five $(25.00)
dollars nor more than two hundred
($200.00) dollars, or by imprisonment
in the federal jail for not less than ten
(10) days nor more than sixty ttiO)
days, or by both fine and imprison
ment In the discretion of the court.
-♦
BEEN BEIUCEO
EL PASO, Oct. 26 — Irrigation
ideas of thousands of years ago were
compared with present day methods
by Niel Nielson, Australian trade com
missioner to the United States, ad
dressing today members of the Inter
national irrigation Congress Mr.
Nielson makes his l ee.dauarters in
San Francisco
The science of irrigation is as old
as the agricultural man, Mr. Nielson
asserted, and investigations have
shown that the great historical peo
ples of civilizations of the past had
developed the arts of irrigation to an
extent In some instances unsurpassed
by the gigantic efforts of today.
-«
HUGHES STUMPING NEW YORK.
BOSTON. Oct. 27. — Charles E
Hughes departed this morning on a
two days’ campa^cn tour tn New York
state.
A1 Burnbaum, one of the most wtae
Iv known and most popular business
men of the lower Yukon, arrived tn
Juneau recently on bis way to the
states It was bis first trip to the
outside tn nineteen year*
- , _ J