The Cordova Daily
VOLUME IT. NUMBER r,M._«■_CORDOVA, ALASKA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1016. PRICE TEN CENTS
. ALLIES WITHIN FOUR MILES MONASTIR
PROVIDENCE, Nov Hi. — The
wages of thirty thousand cotton oper
atives of Rhole Island have been giv
en an increase of ten per cent.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 1 *». The emi
gration of southern negroes to north
orn labor ((‘liters was brought to the
attention of the American Federation
of Labor oomention, which reported
a resolution dcsi: nod to eliminate the
menace to workers in the northern
states. Ii is declared that an investi
gation of such immigration and im
portation of negroes in Ohio had
demonstrated that they were brought
north to fill the places of union men,
who were demanding hotter conditions.
NEW YOKE, Nov. Id. Henry Sin
Uiewcz. Hie novelist. died at Vevey,
Switzerland.
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WASHINGTON, \. v. id. I’resi
dent. Wilson i; attending to executive
business and refuses to see political
leaders. Only important callers will
be admitted for the remainder of the
week.
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NOME. Nov. I V The corrected
returns from the Second division are
ns follows: Wickershum. X15; Sulzer,
565. .Marshall, Dime and Kobuk pre
cincts unreported, and will probably
increase Wickersham’s plurality.
FAIRBANKS, Nov. 15, - Sulzer is
twenty-eight voter, ahead in the count
of the Fourth div ision. There are still
_ eight precincts to hear from; three
T In the Koyukuk, two in the Kusko
kwim, two in the Innoko and one at
Kantishna, It is c timated that 350
votes will be east.
JUNEAU, Nov. 15 The count for
delegate in the First division now is
Wiekersham, 1,886; Sulzer, 2,363. Sha
kan, Yakutat and During are to be
heard from.
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LIQUOR SEIZED ANCHORAGE
BE AUCTIONED SEWARD.
An immense, quantity of liquor
seized by federal officials in and about
Anchorage during the past two years,
is being brought to Seward and will
probably be sold Imre at public auc
tion under the direction of the United
States marshal, the proceeds going to
the government.
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FREIGHTERS COMING NORTH.
A fleet of freighters, bringing coal
and explosives, will leave Seattle for
southwestern Alaskan ports on the fol
lowing dates: November 22, Eureka;
November 25. Cordova, November 29,
La touche; December 6, Valdez.
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COPPER NOCGETS
PRESENTED TO
SEATTLE, Nov. 16. — A valuable
series of natural copper and silver
nuggets from one of the few mines
in the world where gold, silver and
copper ore are found in the same
sluice boxes has been presented to
the University of Washington college
>f mines by Mr. and Mrs. Max Ester
>'. of the Nizina property on the Cop
ier river, Alaska.
These nuggets will be displayed in
i set of cases now under construc
tion for all of the recent additions to
be ore specimens exhibited. Dean
Milnor Roberts, of the college of
nines has contributed a set of ore
tpecimens from the Kennecott and
laitouche mines of Alaska. The Ken
tecott mine is the highest grade cop
per property in the world, according
0 the dean. The present value of the
>re is about $400 a ton.
Coeur d'Alene ores from the llercu
esc mine, one of the greatest lead
uid silver producing mines of the
country, has been donated by Henry
Boulton, a senior in the university,
vho spent his summer vacation at
'oeur d'Alene, Idaho.
(•old ores from the Alaska-Uastineau
nine at Juneau, which is now milling
come ore which wields as low as $1.50
1 ton, have been added to the collec
ion by Professor Joseph Daniels, of
he college of mines faculty. Six thou
sand tons of this low grade ore must
>e milled each day to obtain a cen
■entrate of four or five tons, aceord
ng to Professor Daniels. Samples of
his poor ore were also presented.
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JAPAN TO SEND
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TOKIO, Nov. 15.— Yagoro Miura,
rapanese minister to Switzerland, has
jeen instructed to proceed to the Vat
can at Rome to return the visit made
o the Japanese court early this year
>y Archbishop I’etrelll, special apos
olic delegate, who conveyed to Em
icror Yoshlhlto the coronation con
gratulations of Pope Benedict. Min
ster Miura will present to the Pope
in autograph letter from Emperor
i'oshihito.
There is no indication here that
Fapan intends to inaugurate permanent
liplomatic relations with the Vatican.
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WILSON CARRIES
MINNESOTA BY 425.
ST. PAUL, Nov. 1<>. — Wilson's plu
rality in Minnesota is 425.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 10. — O. K.
Pushing, Democratic leader, declares
hat the official count of California
will show no material change. All
ml twelve counties have already been
■otnpleted.
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:lam plant to change hands.
Captain Morgan, formerly a pilot
in the steamer Alameda, is in Cor
dova for the purpose of closing a deal
for the purchase of the clam factory
owned by Turner and his associates.
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SOLDIERS FOR ANCHORAGE.
Lieutenant C. A. Ross, three ser
geants and thirty-seven soldiers were
passengers on the steamer Mariposa
lor Anchorage. They came from .the
fort at lluines, and will be stationed at
the new railroad terminal.
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REAL ESTATE IS SOLD.
It is reported that the Ross building
on First street has been sold and the
present occupants, the Boss Bakery,
John ltawson and the Mecca saloon,
given notice to vacate on January 1.
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MARIPOSA MAY GO ANCHORAGE.
The steamer Mariposa will make an
attempt to go to Anchorage while to
the westward, If the Ice conditions
In Cook Inlet will permit . a
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PARIS, Nov. 10—It is officially announced that the French
and Russians are within four miles of Monastic and the pursuit
of the defeated Bulgarians continues on the eastern end. The
British have again assumed the offensive, defeating the Bulgar
ians in the river Struma region, and capturing the village of
Karakaska. The French troops last night recaptured a jKirtion
ot tin1 village of Pressoire, on the Somme front, which the Ger
mans occupied' yesterday.
SAIjONIKI, Nov. 10. — The Serbians have captured the
villages ot Tepavtsi and Guiles, southwest of Monastir. The
Serbians and French captured all of the positions south of Te
pavtsi after fierce fighting. The German defenders sustained
large losses and five hundred prisoners were taken.
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SAIjONIKI, Nov. 10. — The French troops ^captured the
whole enemy system of defense nTrmnd Kenalif, Macedonia,
which also fell into French hands. Today the ■u nemy aban
doned the whole front line, and is retiring upon Bristrica river.
BERLIN, Nov. 10.—The Roumanians are offering stubborn
resistance to the Teuton advance along the pass and roads into
Wallachia. rl he Teutons progressed in the Rothenthurm and
S/.urduk regions, capturing yesterday over 1,200 prisoners.
B1 CIIAREST, Nov. 10. — The Roumanians in southernj
I rausylvania yesterday retired towards Arcful and Radacin
esj i, and in tlie direction of ('apacieasa, in diul valley.
BERLIN, Nov. Hi. 1 lie (lerrnans and Bulgarians in the
Cerna bond, Macedonia, have retired to the newly prepared po
sitions in the eastern section of Saillisel, taken from the French.
The trenches on the northern edge of St. I'ierre and Vaast wood
were captured with three hundred prisoners.
PLTROGRAI), Nov. Pi. Mackeiisi n's army is retreating!
in Nobruza, hunting villages as it retreats.
PARIS, Nov. Pi. - I hiring the night the Bulgarians ahnn
dotted tin •ir principal positions west of the < erna river. The ;
French and Serbians progressed toward .lantssok in (’erna
bend, west of Monastir Snath o) \lmiastii the Fretteh and Bu
sinas are progressing substantially.
SOFIA, Nov. 1(5.—An official statement admits that the
(ioniums and Bulgarians at (’erna head have retreated under *
assaults b\ the Serbians. The Bulgarians fell hack on their j
line from four to six miles and even the Insfiown west of (.’erna j
has been reported captured by 11 to Serbian-.
LONDON, Nov. 1(5.- A motion that the manufacture of in j
toxicating liijuor in (Jroat Britain should be prohibited, will be!
made in commons, according to the notice given \v a group of 1
members. They come to this deei-h n after bearing the speech
last night of Walter Runcimnn, president of the Board of1
Trade, who gravely warned again i the shortage of corn, sugar i
and other foodstuffs. j.
STAMPING OUT
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16. — Hpe<*I~
mens of paper money of every avail
able Issue made by the United States j
government since its foundation, are j
being assembled by experts of the
treasury department and will be
mounted in five great volumes. The
collection promises to be almost a
complete record of paper money is
sues. Its face value will reach ap
proxlmately $100,000, but its value
from a numismatic standpoint will be
practically inestimable. No private
collector could tie up so much actual
money in such a collection, and even
though one had the means and Incli
nation a collection anywhere near as
complete as that already gathered by
the government would be almost Im
possible.
Two volumes have been arranged,
the first containing all issues of Uni
ted States currency. The second Is
devoted to the issues of nutional bunk
notes under congressional authority.
A third, soon to be arranged, will con
tain states currency, which have been
excluded from the first volume, and
a fourth volume probably will be used
to display currency issued and to be
issued under the federal reserve sys
tem.
PRINTING SILK
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16. — Print
ing of silk fabrics by color photo
I graphv, making possible decorative
effects the perfection of which does
not seem to have been hitherto at
tained in present methods, Is reported
to the state department front Prance.
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eight foot cow shark
IS GIVEN TO UNIVERSITY.
SEATTLE, Nov. 16. — An eight-foot
cow shark, weighing 60U pounds, has
been added to the equipment of the
department of zoology of the Uni
versity of Washington. It will be
used in the study of comparative zoo
logy. The parasites on its skin will
also be studied by the zoologists. The
shurk was given to the university by
*R. R. Jones of West Seattle, who
caught it near Alkl Point in Puget
Sound. Two hours were consumed In
landing the fish.
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The remains of the late James Dog
gett were taken to Valdez on the Mari
posa, where they will be interred un
der the auspices of the Eagles and
Odd Fellows.
LOCATION OF VESSELS AT SEA.
The cable office reports the positions of vessels as follows:
November 15, 8 a. m., Victoria 215, Umatilla 213 and < 'utt< r
Hear 150 miles east of Unimak pass, all southbound. Noon,
\\ atson, northbound, in Wrangell Narrows; Kukui, southbound,
at Killisnoo; 8 p. m., Latoucbe, southbound, 10 miles east St.
Elias; Evans, southbound, 10 miles west St. Elias; steamer < W
dova, southbound, 00 miles west Cape Spencer; Northwestern,
Southbound, hove to in southeast gale 10 miles west of Cape
Spencer. November 10, noon, Mariposa, westbound, 30 miles
from Seward; Umatilla, southbound’, 1,175 miles west of Cape I
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HAPPENINGS IN
indications are that Tolovana will
make one of the largest camps in the
interior. The present season has been
a very successful one, and has dem
onstrated that the pay ground is ex
tensive.
The boiler house of the Ketchikan
public school was wholly destroyed by
fire recently. Only the absence of
wind saved the school house adjoin
ing The origin of the fire is un
known. The loss is estimated at $2,
500, covered by insurance.
Julius Oius, one of the prominent
operators on Pedro creek, In the Fair
banks country, has sold out his in
terests and will leave soon for the
states, where he will make his home
in the future.
Options have been taken and a town
site laid out for a deal which will in
volve $1,000,000 In case it goes
through, and will take in the whole of
the ltainy Hollow properties, not far
from Haines.
K, L. '/Ann, of Denver, Colorado, has
arrived in Juneau, where he will be
employed in the field division of the
general land office For the last three
years he has been associated with the
land office at Tucunearo, N. M.
Desertions from the army post at
St. Michael are reported to have been
notoriously large of late. Three tried
to get away on the Victoria recently,
but they were apprehended and
brought back.
Judge Bunnell, of the Fourth divi
sion, has rendered a decision in a re
cent case in which he declared the
eight hour law passed by the last Alas
ka legislature to be void in that It did
not conform to the Organic Act.
John A. McIntosh, chairman of the
health committee of the Common
council at Fairbanks, has reported to
the council the existence of a case of
measles In that town. It is not known
how the disease was brought there.
J. R. Dawscn, one of the pioneers
of Alaska, who was recently stricken
with paralysis while at Tanakee, was
taken to Juneau and placed in St.
Ann's hospital for treatment, but died
a short time later.
A fire which started In the laundry
in the St. Ann hospital at June&u re
cently, threatened that institution with
destruction, as well as the parochial
school. The flames were extinguished
before much damage was done
COLLECTION OF
PAPER MONET
SEOUL, Nov. Hi. — American pity
sicians and missionaries in Korea ur«
energetically co-operating with the
Japanese authorities in stamping out
cholera. An epidemic of the disease i
broke out at Chemulpo, but is abat
ing. There are no fresh cases at
Seoul. The Japanese thankfully ae :
cepted the aid of the Americans.
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EPIDEMIC AMONG CHILDREN
AT WESTWARD POINTS
Word was received from westward
points that an epidemic similar to
typhus fever had broken out among
the children of Unalaska.
Medical officers of the‘coast guard
cutter Bear are in charge there now .
but for a time the work of t aring for
the children fell on Mrs. Haul Buck
ley.
A case of spinal meningitis is re
ported from another point to the west
ward, and precautions are being taken
to prevent a spread of the disease.
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SAILING POSTPONED ONE DAY.
The sailing of the steamer AlameU;
from Seattle has been postponed Iron
Saturday to Sunday.
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NEW ORLEANS FAIR IS
BIG ATTRACTION
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. Hi Tht
National Farm and Live Stock Show
under the auspices of the Busines:
Men’s Racing Association of this city
is now in full blast with
exhibitors from all parts of the coun
try, and will continue through No
vember 19. The sum of $25,000 has
been set aside for premiums in the
livestock and agricultural departments
and prize winning cattle, horses, hogs
and poultry, as well as exhibits of
farm and dairy products and machin
ery, will be brought here front Missis
sippi, Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Wis
consin, Kentucky. Iowa, Georgia.
Louisiana and other state fairs. Many
exhibits from the International Dairy
Congress also are entered.
The Ractug Association bus for one
of ita purposes the development of
the livestock and agricultural Indus
tries of Louisiana, and It has pledged
Itself that all profits accruing from
the show shall be applied to establish
ing a permanent (air here.
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NOME, Nov. 16. Where arc all!
the ptarmigan? This is a question i
now being asked by our local nimrods
and the people w ho like to eat a nice I
hot bird once in a while. Only two
y> r- ago there were plenty of the
whit game bird" all over Seward pen j
insula, last year not so many, and
lb'1 |ai' ril fall finds us with prui ti
rally no ptarmigan at all.
.. have tli v one, il they have |
gun' " Or have tin y been attacked ■,
by some epidemic? Or have they been r
driven in other parts by one or an f
other of the heavy -tortus of the past | j
two years.’ There are reasons for be •
Ueving that each one of these ques j|
lion contains a suggestion which will I .
partially account at least fur their dis L
appearance.
From the captain of the Bear and j
many nthcr- il ha- been learned that I ,
tens of thousands, some say “millions, ' I
of ptarmigan perished on the bleak ice 11
fields of Bering sc;, last winter. Why j
they went there is t> question that can |
not In answered with certainty. Owing |
to the prevailing deep snow they may ,
have I cti unable ti get food and in |
seeking new ti.-l.l they may have he ,
i i.ae ,h i ti u and i tiled on the ice. ,
There lie, ; no food for them on the t
ice, and 1 <• ng too exhausted to fly ,
further I y would naturally freeze to
death. j
As to an epidemic, there is not much
evidence that such hat? occurred. A |
few truv.leis have declared that thev t .
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have s on many si ittered feathers and | |
bones of ptarmigan in some sections. .
However, these traces of tragedies in
the wilds are always to be seen all I ,
over Alaska, as the foxes, hawks and ' x
awls have always helped themselves |
to ptarmigan when they wanted to eat.
As to their being storm driven this
may account for those seen tin the Her
ng ice. and furthermore a strong wind |
ir a series of them may have driven
i great many of the birds beyond the 1 j
lee where they had no place to alight i f
md so fell in the water, only to lie | „
drowned. IVially, however, during!,
a gale a ptarmigan will burrow into!,
the snow, as does also the grouse, and j
sit there contentedly until it is over, u
The migration of ptarmigan is an j a
other theory, but only a theory. For | n
if they have migrated where have they 1 ^
gone to? Reports from all over Alas
ka, along the Yukon, on the Innoku, ^
the Tatiana, the Koyukuk, the Porcu
pine, agree in this, that the ptarml- ,
gan has disappeared. Where, no one r
seems to he able to say.
Any reason for their disappearance f
from all parts of Alaska seems at best (
to be only a theory. That they are v
gone is a fact.
About thirty years ago the present
writer was informed tiv an old-time p
trader, the same condition existed all j
along the Yukon. He had a dozen na i t
tives out for a week to get game foi j ^
his Christmas dinner and they failed;,
to bring in a single ptarmigan, grouse j „
or rabbit. All small game seemed to „
be ex unci j i
SUFFRAGISTS TO
EDUG/ITE THE
NI'-'Y YORK, Nov. 1G. — FJrellmIn
ary to the nation-wide drive for wo
man suffrage which the National Am
erican Woman Suffrage Association
will launch in 1917, it is announced
that suffrage schools will lie opened
in every non suffrage state in the
I'nion for the expert training of suf
frage speakers and campaigners. The
first of these schools will be opened
in Baltimore next Monday for a one
week session ot lectures and demon
stration in public speaking, suffrage
history and argument, organization,
egislative work and publicity. Suf
ragists from all oxer the country are
ilready enrolled for this "short
tourse," which wil equip them with
he most effective weapons known to
suffrage campaigners
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, political
eader of the suffrage ranks, will head
Fie list of Instructors and will ad
Iress the classes on political organi
sation, federal and legislative work;
drs. it. \\ . Wilson of New York wilt
onduct the courses in suffrage his
ory and argument; Mrs. Arthur i.iv
•rtnore of New York will give instruc
ion in public speaking; and Mrs. Rose
lexer of Ioxva will lecture on press
ind publicity work. The suffrage
teachers" will demonstrate model
neetings, which will show all the ac
ompanying features of such gather
ngs, heckling included
In January similar schools will open
u all the other non suffrage states.
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Alaska sourdoughs, waterfront habi
I'es and Seattle business men gener
lly will read with interest news from
he north that the good ship Portland,
>r years lying on the beach at Katalla.
s being dismantled by K K. Miller
or t'ne salvage of her hulk, could not
lave been preserved in some Seattle
lark or museum, for all interests of
he commercial life of the city united
v give to that famous carrier the
mique distinction of placing Seattle
m the map Her arrival nineteen
ears ago in July was the signal for
he news flashed throughout the civil
zed world of the discovery of the
vlondike, from which dates Alaska's
orward movement and Seattle's
.row th It was the Portland that
nought into Seattle harbor that great
argo of gold panned from the Yukon
her. which inaugurated the most ro
uantic and successful gold rush the
vorld has ever known.
The Portland began her long career
u 1885 under the name of the Havtian
ltd was seized for carrying contra
uind to the rebels in llayti. When
he United States government forced
ler release, an attempt was aiade to
ink her as she left the harbor at Port
u Prince and the marks of this brush
Hth the gunboat selected to do the
, ork were still visible when she came
o the Pacific coast in 1889.
Siie failed to make good both as a
annery boat and passenger steamer,
mi was finally chartered by a F’ort
ind concern for service between Pu
et Sound and the Columbia river, it
v said that later she became a car
ier of contraband Chinese and opium,
t which she was successful until she
•as seized and sold by the govern
lent at Portland. Her new owners
enanted her the Portland, and after
nproving Hie vessel she had a varied
nd somewhat respectable career, run
ing to all (mints between Panama and
he Aleutian Islands, until she be
anie one of the fleet of the old Alas
a Const Company, one of the con
erns from which has grown the Ad
liral Line, and in which service she
unbilled for years as a popular freight
nd passenger carrier, until her un
artunate wreck in a heavy snowstorm
n November. IStlO, tn the treacherous
arbor of Katalla.
Probably all that remains of the
old ship Portland In Seattle is the
ardwood wheel taken from the pilot
ouse after the wreck and presented
n l»r. K. B. Whiting, a popular Alas
an, who wus prominently identified
,-ith early activities at both Katalla
nd Cordova, and the wheel now
dorns the entrance to his office in
he Cobb building, Seattle.