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The Cordova Daily Times
V<>UMH II. X I’M HER 567. CORDOVA, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1916. pRIrE Tpx CEjjTS
GREECE PROTESTS ACTION OF ALLIES
BIS SHIPMENT II
I’OllTbAXI), Ore.. Oct. 18. — Om
hundred thousand bushels of wheat
valued at $125,0011, will he transportei
to South America from Portland this
month, this being the largest consign
merit, it is said, ever going from th<
Northwest to the west coast of Soutl
America.
I he wheat was purchased recently
by a firm in l'bile, when it was soiling
on the Portland exchange at $1.25 pet
bushel. For years practically to
wheat has been shipped from th<
Northwest to the west coast of Soutl
America, and the shipment is consul
ered doubly interesting in view of tin
recent sale of Argentine wheat to im
porters in the eastern part of th<
United States. .*
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POLITIES HERE
AND IN TOE
STATES
l.ONC BRANCH, Oct. IS. I'resi
dent Wilson deparind this morning foi
Chicago, where he speaks three times
tomorrow, lie will also speak fron
his private car in many cities ant
towns through New York. Ohio, llli
nois and Indiana.
CHICAGO. Oct. is. — Charles 10
Hughes spent the .hole day traveling
from Simix City to points in Michigan
lie speaks at Grand Itapids tonight.
Jl’NIOAi', Oct. Is. — George It
Grigsby spoke at Ketchikan las
night, ami had a well attended meet
ing, presided over by 10. c, Austin. At
Skagwaj a large meeting was als<
held, with ('has. A. Sulzer as the prin
cipal speaker.
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LIABILITY Li IS
OPPOSED Id
PANAMA, Oct. lx. — The employ
ers' liability law, which passed tIn
national a volubly and is in the hand:
of tho president for signature, is be
ing vigorously opposed by local busi
ness interests and foreign corpora
thins doing business in the republic
The latter feel that in event of th<
act becoming law it will lie appliec
unequally and made a means of hold
ing up the outside corporations. Tin
opposition of local interests Is basei
partly on the application of the lav
to themselves and partly on their gen
eral desire to have nothing done t<
discourage the investment of capital
The corporations contend that tin
law, while excellent in many respects
is too fur ahead of the economic am
sanitary developments of Panama
They claim it has been adopted fron
laws recently enacted in highly de
veloped countries and is not applicable
to Panama.
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ALAMEDA BRINGS
CORDOVA PASSENGERS
The steamer Alameda arrived fror
Seattle late yesterday afternoon an
sailed for Valdez at .3 o'clock thi
morning. Her Cordova passenger
were Will Clayson, W. Urquharl
(!, W Delashmutt and wife, S. ’I
Bright well. Angus McDougall, A
Perry and wife, H. W. Hawse an
wife, P. J. Bonner, Caspar Kossutl
Oscar Ohmaun, 1. O. Winston, Mn
Lena Morrow Lewis.
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♦ MASS MEETING BE HELD
♦ EMPRESS TONIGHT.
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♦ All arrangements have been
♦ perfected for a big rally at Em
♦ press Theatre tonight, which
♦ will be addressed by Hon. Jas.
♦ Wickershatn, delegate to con
♦ gress from Alaska, who will dis
♦ cuss the politrcal issues of the
♦ present campaign. Mr. Wicker
♦ sham haR represented this ter
♦ ritory at Washington for the
♦ past eight years, and is again
♦ seeking re-election. He is a
♦ most interesting talker, who
♦ has attracted large crowds
♦ wherever he has spoken, and
♦ Cordova will give him a royal
♦ reception tonight. A cordial In
♦ citation is extended to all to
♦ attend, including the ladles,
♦ who are showing much interest
♦ in the coming election.
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LOCAL JOTTINGS
ABOUT PEOPLE
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Angus McDougall was an arrival in
Cordova on yesterday’s steamer.
Will Clayson returned yesterday
from a business trip to Skagway.
A. Perry and wife have returned
fro a an extended trip to the states.
Win. ITrquhart was a returning pas
senger for Cordova on the steamer
Alameda.
The steamer Valdez left Nome last
Saturday and is due In Cordova on
October 21.
The steamer Northwestern is due
here on tier southbound voyage early
tomorrow morning.
On Friday afternoon at 2:15 o'clock
the W. C T. IT. will meet at the home
of Mrs. D. C Czerwenka.
Deputy Marshal Hritghtwell, who
took a patient to Portland sanitarium,
returned home yesterday.
drover C. Frame, who conducts
the Chitina-Fairbanks auto stage, ar
rived in town on yesterday’s train.
The Ron Ton orchestra will hold its
fifth dance of the series at Eagle hall
tonight, and you are Invited to attend
■ Mrs. E. F. Medley will return tc
i Eos Angeles on the Northwestern to
morrow, after having spent the past
■ j month here.
Commissioner Wm. O'Connor and
■ Deputy Marshal Jos. Feaster, of Chi
i tina, l<*ft on the steamer Aiameaa roi
Valdez to attend court.
I j H. \V. Hawse has returned from s
trip to Seattle, accompanied by 8
bride. The Times extends congratu
' latlons for the feat performed.
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> Delegate Wickersham will address
, the voters at Km press Theatre to
I night at 8 o'clock. Of course you will
be there, as his talk is sure to prov<
i I entertaining.
■ 1*. J. Bonner, a mining man fron
Spokane, who was here earlier thii
season looking over some property
has returned to Cordova, and wll
.[leave for McCarthy on tomorrow
I morning's train.
I Mrs I.ena Morrow Lewis, of Juneau
- Socialist candidate for delegate t<
* congress, arrived here yesterday am
. will address a local meeting nex
week, after returning from a trip t<
Chitina and McCarthy.
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, Mayor Meyers, of Seward, has soli
. out his bakery business at that plac
to J. W. Heed, of Bellingham. ^
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TERMI1AL SITE AT
FAIRBANKS IS
SELECTED
Thomas Riggs, Jr., member of the
Alaska engineering commission, has
announced that the commission has
leased twenty acres of ground from
the Tanana Valley railroad for termi
nal purposes at Fairbanks. The
ground Is located almost directly
acress the river from St. Matthew's
hospital. After the Ice goes out in
the spring work on a dock and ware
house on the property will be com
menced. Mr. Riggs is authority for
the statement, however, that the ter
minal which has been determined up
on is not permanent; that it may be
moved to some other location.
The only particularly active section
along the railroad this winter will be
at Nenana, according to Commission
er RiggH. The activity will consist
chiefly of rock work on the north side
of the Tanana river, the steamshovel
which will be used having already
been set up. It is likewise expected
that the narrow gauge railroad mater
lal which will be used in construction
.will reach Neuana before the close
of navigation.
Owing to the fact, according to the
general belief at Washington, that the
administration leaders consider the
publicity of the Alaska achievements
of the administration undesirable, It
is practically Impossible to get sight
of a copy of the first report printed
regarding the Alaska government rail
road. It Is a well known fact that
the first report has been printed, that
Is, some 1,500 copies of it are off the
press, but it takes a strong pull with
some one of the high-up government 1
I officials to see one. Inquiry at the
government printing offices, the li
braries at the capital or any of the
various distributing bureaus always
elicits the Information that a copy of
] the report is “not available "
HNHIE ;ets
SEATTLE, Oct. 17. — The basis for
a varied and more Intimate study of
the insect life of the state of Wash
ington than has been possible at the
university heretofore was laid recent
ly when Orson Dennett Johnson, pro
fessor emeritus of toology, gave the
university his entire entomological
collection. It is the most complete
and most valuable set of Washington
insect specimens In existence, accord
Ing to Professor Kincaid, head of the
department of asoology, and may be
used to Identify at once some destruc
tive insect which with independent re
search might require considerably
more time.
Korty years were spent by Profes
sor Johnson In collecting, arranging
and cataloguing his specimens. Part
of the collection, acquired by ex
change, displays butterflies from al
most every country on the globe.
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HERO OF “SEA WOLF”
A CORDOVA VISITOR
Captain John Worth, in command
of the tug Roscoe, which is towing a
barge of freight to Anchorage for the
Alaska engineering commission, left
Cordova this afternoon, where he put
in for repairs. Captain Worth in the
1 hero in Jack London's novel, "The Sea
Wolf,” which was recently shown on
the screen at the Empress theatre.
> and is one of the oldest and best
known navigators plying In Alaska
waters.
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» Wanted — To rent or buy piano.
Inquire at Tlinea office.
ATHENS, Oct. IK.—After a demonstration last nigh
against the allies, during which procession several thous.un
Royalists marched' to the American legation and prot'-tei
against the landing of French marines, the delegation called a
the legation and presented resolutions asking for the -vmpathx
and protection of the I'nited States against the action of tin
allies.
('HR1NTIANIA, Oct. IK. — Norw ay ha- informed the al
lies that it refuses to recognize as its duty to prohibit the pas
sage through or sojourn in Norwegian waters of belligerent
submarines. Norway has prohibited belligerent submarine
from entering Norwegian waters, and claims it ha- the right b
prohibit, but refuses to admit that it i- her duty to do -o.
LONDON, Oct. IK.—The appro noli o| the cold season wit
nesses no diminution of activity in the European battle, as mo-1
if the nations are continuously fighting. On the < astern front
>f Volhynia to Roumanin the forces are deadlocked in the at
tempt of the Teutons to drive a wedge between the Rus-inm
ind Roumanians. Dorna Vatra, in the southern Carpathians
is in an uncertain stage. Berlin concede- the stiffening of tin
Roumanian resistance on the Transylvania front, where tin
Russian troops are in force and are reported as helping tin
Roumanians defend the passes from Transylvania.
Bl’CHAR ENT, Oct. IK. The Roumanian troops in tin
Predeal region, southwest of Kronstadt, have as-iimed the of
Pensive and are driving back the Teutons on the Tran-ylvnn'u
ode of the bonier.
PARIS, Oct. IK. — The Hermans attacked'the Kivucli po-i
lions at Snilly and Saillisel thrice last night and were n pul-ei
*ach time, losing heavily in men.
LONDON, Oct. IK.-—An official announcement -ay
‘Notwithstanding the heavy downpour of rain we pn^re.
it various points between the Albert Bapaume mail and l.<
tours, and took some prisoners.”
PARIS, Oct. IK.— It is reported that Captain P.oelke, tin
Herman aviator who dropped thirty allied mat-hines, was -e
merely wounded by a shell from an anti-aircraft gun.
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NEW HAVEN, Oct. IK. William Thaw, a French aviatm
vho was a former Yale student, was killed in action.
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Xb\\ 'H)RK, Oct. 18.—The shipments of British gold
ti-mi Canada have been resumed. The receipts of foreign gold
»"i- year, which have been mostly from the British, amounted
I to $400,000,0(H).
Id ».M b, Oct. 18.— rl lie Italians on Mount Pasubio broke the
I. i't Austrian line ot resistance between Cosmaquon and Hoite,
and stormed the Austrian lines north of the summit passage.
bbliLIX, (let. is. 11),, heavy engagements are continuing
II, 1 P"1 Galician battle front, the Teutonic counter being re
puIsed, notably in the vicinity of Korvtniza and Dolshovtse.
I’bPblX, Oct. 18.— 1 he Serbian troops have stormed the
Austrian point of support on the western bank of the Naroyaka
ii\i i, southwest ol llerbutov, in Galicia, and took three hun
dred prisoners.
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I Bub’1.1X, Oct. 18.—The French attacks in the region of
Mor\ al ami 1'aucourt have been repulsed after hard fighting.
I lie British and French attacks near Thiespval, Courcelette and
I lone ha \ i-lies have tailed on both sides of Faucourt and Lab
haye. The German destructive fire reduced the British attack
l" a failure from the start.
Bbh’bIX. (let. 18.—Carl Clewing, of the Royal Theatre,
>i"\v at the front, has .just received his fiftieth decoration in the
Iron Cross, and is in consequence one of the most decorated ac
tor- in Germany. Only two others, Ludwig Barnav and Sig
inund Lautenburg, are said to have more than fifteen orders.
I’ho majority are not war medals, but decorations for histrionic
art.
LONDON. Oct. 18.—Several hundred munition workers in
i London shop went on strike recently because a new foreman
was not formally introduced to them. They were out for nearly
wo day-, and twenty-five of them were summoned before the
military tribunal for leaving work.
< hie of the defendants, a man named Burgess, told the court
that in thirty years’ experience he had never heard of a fore
man being appointed w ithout his being introduced, w ith the re
mark: “Mr. Blank, this will be vour foreman in future.”
I lie court agreed that it would have been much better if
'In- men had been properly informed of the new appointment,
and to the accompaniment of loud cheers, dismissed the pro
ceedings.
if ALASKA IS
TODAY
Forty-nine years ago today Prince
Vlaksutoff, the last Russian governor
if Alaska, hauled down the Russian
Hag at Sitka General Rousseau, com
nanding the United States troops,
lust landed there, raised the stars and
itripes over Uaranoff castle and Alas
ka became United States territory.
IVe paid $7,200,000 in gold for it, and
the usual pessimistic howl against
the purchase went up from both press
»nd politicians. Senators and repre
sentatives in congress protested
against the appropriation to pay Rus
Bla, and referred to the territory as
"Walrussia" and “Seward's Folly." It
was declared to be without value and
likely to be a source of nutional ex
pense and danger.
But now, after nearly half a century
of American occupancy, we can view
these early criticisms of Seward's
policy with exact figures of trade and
development and judge of the future
of Alaska and her people by compari
son with exact statistics.
The trade value of Alaska for the
forty-nine years I* a surprise even to
the most pronounced Alaskan optimist
Since that October day in 1867, when
the American flag was first hoisted
to the top of the flag staff on the
Sitka commons, Alaska has yielded
more than three hundred and thirty
million dollars In gold and copper,
piore than three hundred and twenty
five million doltars In fish and furs,
and Its people have paid into the trea
Bury and Into the channels of mer
cantile trade more than three hundred
and fifty million dollars, in addition
to Its productions of natural wealth.
In short, the total trade value of
Alaska in this period has exceeded a
billion dollars, all of which has gone
Into the channels of trade in the
United States and made for general
prosperity in our common country.
The trade of Alaska with the United
Suites Is greater than that with China'
or any other nation in \sia, excepting;
only India and Japan When our
railroads are constructed to the Ka
talla, Matanuska and N'euana coal
fields our real development will only
have begun. In a hundred years of
Russian rule Alaska had made but
little progress. The Russian and
Aleut hunted the fur seal and sea ot
ter from bidarka, camping the while
on the golden sands of Nome and
Treadwell, on the copper ledges of I.a
touche and Kllamar. while they passed
by the greatest fisheries in the world
as worthless. In hall .1 century the
American has laid broad and ih > ;■ tie
foundations of the empire state of
Alaska, and we may justlv celebrate
the 18th day of October as Alaska
real birthday.
BICGER ilQTE IN
CHICAGO THAN
CHICAGO, Oct 18. The registra j
tion of this city is nearly Son,non vnt
ers, including men and women, and
exceeds the registration of New York
city, where only men vote, by Tn.nOfl.
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One of the Signal Corps bovs on
the Valdez Fairbanks trail has a
young mountain sheep for a pet.
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Rev. J. J. Patton, formerly of Fair
banks, has arrived at Seward, where j
he will occupy the pulpit of the Me !
thodist church.
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The schooner Sea Wolf, with a cargo
of coal from Cape Lisburn for Nome,
was blown ashore a short distance
above Nome river.
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Dan Majors was an arrival In An
chorage from the upper Talkeetna re '
cently with a handsome lsike of gold
Anchorage is to have a new school
building, 60x100 feet, two stories In
height, and wdth a concrete base
ment.
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ITEM) HEADQUARTERS, Amerl
( an Punitive Expedition in Mexico,
Oil. lx. "Fire control" drills, which
in a month's time have increased the
ettia liveness of cavalry regiments'
tin inn per cent, are important fae
tors in ihe field manoeuvres being
held Iix the \meriean punitive expe
dition.
Far from being a period of stagna
tion for tty- expeditionary troops, the
hiatus during the last few months
in tile pursuit of Villa has been of
almost inestimable benefit to them,
particular!) to the mounted arm. it
lias given commanding officers oppor
tunittes lo handle larger bodies of
men under conditions more nearly
akin to those of war than have ob
tained at any time since the past fifty
years.
The manoeuvres, which are varied,
progressive and in accordance with
well defined plans. Include such simple
exercises as horse truintng and as
rend to solving of warfare problems
that involve the handling of brigades.
Fire control, although classed among
the elementary exercises. Is virtually
new lo the cavalry, although the In
fantry has been working on it for
several years.
Pamphlets Issued by the School of
Musketry Fire at Fort SHI. Oklahoma,
have been furnished commanding of
ficers and problems they contain In
skeleton form are amplified and work
ed out. Exercises suggested In these
pamphlets also are being tried out and
suggestions for improvement, result
ing from actual practice, are being
noted. Recommendations bv regimen
tal officers are being studied by Gen
eral J. J. Pershing and his chief of
staff. Colonel f)e R. C. Cabell, and
those considered worth while are be
ing Incorporated in tentative manuals.
Studying developments of the Eu i
ropean war, and realizing that, under
modern conditions of warfare, caval
ry does most of Its righting on foot,
commanders of that arm of the ser
vice are giving their troops a great
deal of dismounted work, paying par
ticular attention to attack In this
connection it is noticeable that the
ringing bugle no longer sounds the
charge, for every manoeuvre is made
by sigual. Save for the ramp of
hoofs and the leather softened rattle
of equipment, troop movements are
made silently, not a voice being raised
in command
When a problem, prepared by the
commanding general of his staff, is
given out, an observer accompanies
each of the opposing leaders and an
umpire watches the operations After
each mimic combat, a critique is held
Tactical errors observed are pointed
out and suggestions made relative
to better manoeuvres that might have
been employed.
Full advantage is being taken of the
fact that there are four regiments of
cavalry at headquarters camp, a cir
cumstance without parallel in army
annals for years. All ihe regiments
being used, it also la observed, are be
iug manoeuvred at full war strength
as provided under the new army re
organization bill. This affords the
first opportunity American command
ers have had of handling troops of
this size in manoeuvres.
The war game will reach a climax
when the manoeuvres progress to the
point where every fighting man avail
able will be marched against an 1m
aglnurv enemy under conditions that
almost approximate real war.
Drilled from six to eight hours a
day and performing dutleB which. If
not carried out, might turn a healthy
camp Into a dangerous one, the ex
pedition thus far has not stagnated.
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Under the 14 mill tax rate estab
lished by the city council of Seward
the income from the city taxes will
aggregate about $26,000.
The Farent-Teacher Association of
Treadwell has decided to give a Hal
lowe'en party to raise funds to carry
on the manual training department in
the public echool.