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VOLUME ONE NUMBER FIFTY-EIGHT OORDOV \. ALASK A, FRIDAY, FEBR1 ARY 12,1915 i*r[( e TEN CENTS.
NO RAILROAD REPORT UNTIL
SENATE PROVIDES FUNDS
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Special to The Times By Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12—Legislation for Alas
j ka is being delayed by the fight on the ship pur
I chase bill as the president refuses to accept any com
j promise and the party organization will not permit
any other legislation until the bill is disposed of,
with the possible exception of the sundry Civil
bill, which the house is still considering and which
carries railroad and other appropriations for Alas
ka aggregating $2,868,000.
The report of the Alaska Railroad Commission,
which people of that territory are anxiously await
I ing, will not be made until after the appropriation
! is allowed. . Secretary Lane leaves for California
Monday tome present at the opening of the fair, and
to be gone two weeks, and during his absence Alas
ka railway matters must wait.
President Wilson has rejected the compromise
! ship bill evolved by democratic leaders, and has re
! fused to agree to an amendment intended to ter
minate activities of the government in shipping
business two years after the close of the European
war.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12—After a long dis
| cussion, the House this afternoon voted to retain in
the Sundry Civil bill two million dollars for the
Alaska Engineering Commission, for railroad con
struction. Last year’s appropriation of a million
dollars has already been expended.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12—The Unit
ed States will, according to an authen
tic report from the State Department,
send on inquiry to Germany on com
plaint of American Minister Van Dyke,
at The Hague, that German military
commanders were interfering with his
diplomatic correspondence with Lux
emburg, Belgium. It is claimed that
these communications have been in
tercepted and so delayed in transmis
sion as to embarras the minister.
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The steamship Mariposa, which
which sailed from Seattle Tuesday, Is
due to arrive here Sunday. She had
not reported at Juneau at 4 p. m. to
day.
EARTHQUAKE AND TIDAL WAVE
STEAMSHIP WASHINGTONIAN IS SUNK BY RUSSIANS
Special to The Times By Associated FTess.
TUTUILLA, Feb. 12—A hurricane, an earth
quake and a tidal wave today formed a combina
tion which is devastating the Manila islands in the
Samoan group. Three persons are known to have
been killed and 3,000 are destitute, with several of
p*
the islands yet to lx* heard from Entire villages
were destroyed and three-fourths of the cocoanut
trees, the chief support of the population, were lev
eled by the winds, the fury of which was almost un
believable.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12—Henry Morgentlmu
American ambassador at Constantinople, reports
the sinking of the American steamer Washington
inn, flying the Greek Hag, in the harbor of Trebi
zond during the recent bombardment by the Rus
sian fleet. The vessel was partly owned in Amer
ica and was loaded with supplies from New York,
and presumably for ncuUai ports.
DELAY IN HEARING
SEIZURE CASE
ASKED
WASHINGTON. Keb. 12—The Amer
can government has proposed to Great
Britain postponement of the plan to
take the steamship Wilhelmina, seized •
yesterday In the English channel,
with its cargo of foodstuffs for Ham
burg, before the prize court. The
owners of the vessel wish an oppor
tunity to present evidence to the court
that the cargo is not seizable.
The cargo was consigned to Ameri
can citizens residing in Germany and,
as announced at the time of the sail
ing of the vessel from New York, the
seizure is to be made a test case to
settle a question which has never be
fore been before the court.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 12—Senator Jones, of Washington, today offered an amendment
to the military appropriation bill, increasing the Alaska road construction item from $125,
000 to $20,000- The increase, if allowed, will almost permit of all improvements contemplat
ed this year by the Hoad Commission of the territory.__
LONDON, Feb. 12—The Balkan states are evidently still
endeavoring to reach an amicable understanding of their long
standing disagreements before entering into the big conflict.
It is presumed in official circles here that Bulgaria is to re
ceive concessions from Servia and Roumania.
MERCHANT VESSELSWAHNED OFF
MINES IN GERMAN NORTH SEA
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 12—Germany has informed the Scan
dinavian governments that no fishing or coasting vessels will
— fie permitted within certain areas off the coast of Schleswig
Holstein, or off the German North Sea coast westward of the
Elbe and Wesor rivers and' east of the Friesian islands. These
waters have been extensively mined in anticipation of a raid
by the British fleet.
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LONDON, Feb. 13—The Austro-Hungarian garrison at
Przemysl is reported io be exhausting itself in fruitless at
tacks and is maintaining an irregular fire against the Russian
besiegers, whose tactics of watchful waiting are proving ef
fective in reducing the stocks of food and ammunition of the
forces within the beseiged city.
DELAYED IN THE SENATE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12—The senate ruled today that tin
committee failed to act favorably on cloture proposals. i
growing sentiment in the senate favors getting through witl
the waiting appropriations.
AUSTRALIAN MEATFDR ENGLAND
SYDNEY, Feb. 12—The British government has request
ed all of the Australian states to secure for export all men
available for the British forces engaged in the European war.
“OLIVER TWIST” AND
VAUDEVILLE AT EMPRESS
Nat Goodwin's “Oliver Twist," by
Dickens, will be a feature film at the
Empress, possibly next week, in con
nection with a couple of professional
vaudeville stunts, by Ira Robertson,
who is well known in those towns of
Alaska where the May Roberts com
pany appeared last year, and Chas.
Chaplin, a comedian, who has been
creating something of a stir in Seat
tle.
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Sunday school children of the Pres
byterian church will hold a valentine
party at the manse Saturday evening,
commencing at 7:30.
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SEATTLE. Feb. 12—A representa
tive of the Vermont Marble Co. will
leave for Alaska on the Admiral Ev
ans, sailing Monday, to arrange for
doubling the output of the company’s
quarries on Marble island, in South
eastern Alaska. Two hundred ant
fifty men are to be employed, and tht
output is to be increased to 600,00(
cubic feet annually. This Alaskt
mnrble is pronounced the finest in tin
world, with tlie exception of a certait
grade of Italian marble. The produc
of the Marble island quarry is ahead:
in use as far eust as Ohio.
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MINING OPERATOR
HERE FROM INTERIOI
J. J. Price, the mining operator wh
1 holds an option on the ilex Creek pit
1 cer mines, returned on the train frot
the interior this afternoon, after spent
Ing a week examining the propert;
He will be a passenger on the stean
ship Admiral Watson sailing for Sea
tie at 1 o’clock tomorrow mornin
Nothing regarding the transfer of tl
. property will be made public until a
1 ter Mr. Price has had a conferem
with his associates in Seattle.
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BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY
OF GREAT EMANCIPATOR
Today is the anniversary of Abra
ham Ifincolti, "the great emancipator."
No evidence of it was apparent In Cor
dova, so far as known. Twenty-three
of the states have passed laws estali
fishing It as a legal holiday, when all
business 1b suspended.
■Wild
INSTALLED ON
ILL BOOTS
The Alaska Steamship Company was
the first company on the Pacific coast
to organize its own radio department.
The first vessel to be equipped was
the Alameda, the second was the S.
S. Jefferson, the third was the Mari
posa. The Northwestern, Victoria,
Dolphin and Santa Ana have been
similarly equipped and ]ust as soon
as the freighters arrive at Seattle
they will also be equipped, notwith
standing the fact that under the law
freighters are not compelled to be
equipped with wireless installation.
The Alaska Steamship Co. officials
figure that it wifi afford safety to
crews, and will prove of great con
venience in enabling them to keep in
touch with these big cargo carriers.
In equipping all passenger vessels
large storage batteries have been in
cluded. These are of sufficient pow
er to operate the main wireless set
The company has gone further than
the government requirements in
this respect by installing batteries ol
a sufficient size to permit of the aux
iliary power being used not only foi
distress purposes, but for ordinarj
ship business in the case of any breai
down or trouble with the ship's elec
1 trie generator. This is a wide de
1 parture from the auxilary appratm
formerly furnished by the Marconi Co.
' which consisted simply of an auxiliar;
coil and small battery which couli
only lie used for distress purposes.
Since the news went abroad that ai
[, independent installation was beln
made by the Alaska Steamship Co
> others Interested have taken up tli
- question with the result that man
i other companies wifi follow the lea
1 of the Alaska Steamship Compan;
• Owing to the economy in operatic
i- the wireless equipment, small shi;
t- owners, fishermen and others ore lool
;. ing into the matter and the lead take
e by the big Alaska company will r
f- doubt be followed quite generally l
e steamship operators and small ownei
throughout the 1‘acillc.
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SKATTLK, Feb. l‘2f- The government has chartered the auxiliary schooner Bender Broth
ers to carry provisions to the starving natives of the I’ribilof islands, in the Bering Sea. The
work of equipping and loading the vessel is to he started immediately; the vessel will sail in
lwo weeks and is exnectcd to enter the Bering Sea a month before commercial vessels.
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VOTE FOUR PRECINCTS
IS THROWN OUT
In canvassing the vote of the last
territorial election four precincts in
the Second division were ordered not
counted by the board on account of
irregularities.
The Kobuck precinct was only given
40 days notice instead of the 60 days
notice prescribed by law. Bluff, Ban
gor Creek and Hobson Creek precincts
were all in the Cape Nome recording
district and were not legal voting pre
cincts.
There were not enough votes cast
in these four precincts to materially
change the results of the^ election in
the Second division.
DEADLOCK STILL
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WASHINGTON. Feb. 12—The sen
ate deadlock over the admlnlstratioi
ship purchase bill continues unbroken
with .Republican members industri
ously talking against time and mos
of the seats vacant except when i
roll-call is ordered.
COLDEST NIGHT OF SEASON
Hast night the temperature was low
. er than It has been at any time thl
; winter, the thermometers In the Oi
Town registering eight degrees abov
■ zero.
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FIRE DEPARTMENT
> ADDS TO MEMBER:
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; Cordova Volunteer Fire Departmet
y was held last evening, and conside
1 able routine business transacted.
inong the new members admitted wei
a B. J. Davis, Geo. Scott, Floyd Smit
i- Griff Ellis, Gus Boone, Jno. Haws<
t- and Jno. Brabazon, which Increas
n the membership to about seven!
o five. It was decided to fix the a
y mission to the vaudeville show to
s given Feb. 24 at fifty cents for adul
aatii twenty-five cents for children.
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GERMAK MILITARY AERODROME
PARIS, Feb- 12—Five French aviators dropped bombs on
the German military aerodrome at Habsheim, an Alsatian town
on the outskirts of Muhllmusen, today. The extent of the
damages inflicted could not be ascertained by the airmen, who
escaped unhurt.
RUSSIANS RETIRE 10 SHELTER
LONDON, Feb. 12-The Russian incursion into Fast
Prussia, started in January, is to be short lived. An official
report from Petrograd announces that four new German army
corps have appeared in Fast Prussia, which necessitates the
Russians retiring to the shelter of fortresses in Russian teri
tory in order to avoid a conflict which could result only in mi
nor advantages and benefit even if Russia win it.
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WASHINGTON, Fob. 12- Postmaster-General Burleson,
1 representing President Wilson, told party leaders in Congress
ioday that the president would not accept any amendment to
tin* ship purchase bill destroying the permanent character of
the ship project.
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LONDON, Feb. 12-The Carpathian situation looks fa
e vorable at the present time to the Russians, who are pressing
it against tin* Austrian defenses at the three most important
r- mountain pusses, despite difficulties presented by the heavy fall
e of snow and severe winter weather- Berlin now admits
■e that tlu> Russians have entered Hungarian territory at several
u. points, thus securing advantages which will prove of great
n benefit to the invaders when the winter season ends.
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y- PARIS, Feb. 12—An official report issued today states
d- that the failure of the recent attacks by the Germans in Po
>e hind resulted in an unprecedented loss, their total dead num
t» bering in excess of 40,000. The losses of the allies are not giv
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