The Cordo m Daily Times
Only Afternoon Paper In Alaska With Associated Press News
VOLUME m. NUMBER 84. _.CORDOVA, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARdl 12, 1917._ PRICE TEN CENTS.
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♦ NEWCASTLE, Ind., March 12. ♦
♦ —A tornado swept this section ♦
♦ yesterday and caused the death ♦
♦ of twenty-four persons and the ♦
♦ serious injury of thirty-six others. ♦
♦ Two hundred families are home- ♦
♦ less and the property damage ♦
♦ amounts to $1,000,000. ♦
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♦ NEWCASTLE, March 12.—The ♦
♦ casualties from the tornado to ♦
♦ date are nineteen dead and two ♦
♦ hundred injured. Some of the ♦
♦ missing persons have been found. ♦
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(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 12. — The
state department has sent formal no
tice to the representatives of all for
eign governments that American ships
traveling in the submarine zone will
carry armed guards for the protec
tion of the vessels and the lives of
the passengers aboard.
AMERICANS" SAf
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TREATED
(By Associated Press)
ZURICH, March 12. — The Ameri
can prisoners from the liner Yarrow
dale, who have arrived here, complain
that they got insufficient food and
were beaten by German guards in the
prison camps.
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RUPTURE WITH
(By Associated Press)
PEKING, March 12. — The house
of representatives, at a secret ses
sion, approved the government’s dip
lomatic policy, including a rupture
with Germany.
FIRST* IS
(By Associated Press)
SEATTLE, March 12. — The state
witnesses in the I. W. W. trials today
swore positively that the first shots
came from the steamer while landing
at Everett, and the deputies fired in
reply.
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(By Associated Press)
MEXICO CITY, March 12. — Games
of chance and skill have been pretty
well banished from the cafes of Mexi
co City, which are strictly regulated.
Dominoes, one of the favorite games
among the Latin races, which was
played almost universally in the cafes
here, has been prohibited by order of
the police. Dice also have been con
fiscated.
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The Daily Times is a member rif the
Associated Press, and its telegraphic
service is the best money can bay.
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For Job printing call us up.
PRESIDENT AGAIN HIMSELF.
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 12. — Presi
dent Wilson has completely recovered
from Ms cold and today held confer
ences with his advisers.
Malcolm Brock returned yesterday
from McCarthy, where the Blum,
O'Neill Company purchased the stock
of W. W. Harvey & Co., and will con
duct a branch store.
Mr. Brock is very enthusiastic over
the outlook for the interior country,
and believes that the day is not far
distant when McCarthy will be one of
the large and important towns of Alas
ka, as it is the distributing point for
a highly mineralized belt, which is be
ing extensively opened up.
"Of course the Bonanza and Jumbo
mines hold the world’s record as rich
producers, but there are other proper
ties that are now, or soon will be, on
a shipping basis,” said Mr. Brock. "At
the present time the Mother Lode
mine has 800 tons of copper ore at Mc
Carthy ready for transportation for
Cordova, and its output this season is
likely to be $500,000.
"The copper property recently taken
over by P. J. Bonner, on the Chitti
stone, is a most promising one. There
ts now at McCarthy about sixty-five
tons of ore awaiting shipment to the
smelter, and the work of development
Is being pushed forward as rupidly as
possible. Then there is the Tjosevig
Kennecott Company's mines, where
surveys are being made, trails blazed
and supplies freighted, as preliminary
to development work. These are only
a few of the many properties to be
worked this season.”
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(Special to the Times)
JUNEAU, March 12. — Senator
Hubbard has temporarily withdrawn
his point of order, in which he Con
tended that SehatorvHicJtman was the
legal permanent president of the sen
ate. Another ballot was then taken
to fill this office, and Hubbard and
Aldrich each received four votes. It
is predicted that the deadlock will be
broken within the next twenty-four
hours.
This afternoon Governor Strong
read his message to the house. He
urged fewer but better laws, and also
the establishment of a publicity bu
reau to secure home builders for
Alaska.
C If CLONE KILLS
(By Associated Press)
CINCINNATI, March 12. — Three
persons were killed in a cyclonic wind
storm that levelled numerous houses
in the Hyde park district yesterday.
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10 RUN ON
(By Associated Press^
SACRAMENTO, March 12. — Gov
ernor Hiram Johnson announces that
he will resign as the chief executive
of the state next Thursday, in order
to take his seat in the United States
senate. Lieutenant Governor Steph
ens will succeed him as governor.
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GERARD LEAVES HAVANA.
(By Associated Press)
HAVANA, March 12. — Ambassa
dor Gerard has sailed for Key West.
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U. S. Deputy Marshal A. F. Hoff
man arrived at Anchorage recently;
bringing William Bell, charged with
the burglary of Robert Small's black
smith shop. Some of the stolen tools
were alleged to have been found on
Bell when he was arrested.
ATTACKS SOUTH
RIPONT IRC
(By Associated Press)
PARIS, March 12. — It is officially
stated that the French made further
gains at Maisons de Champagne.
BERLIN, March 12. — The French
troops that attacked the German posi
tions south of Ripont, in the Cham
pagne district, were repulsed. There
was strong artillery firing in the
Aisne sector and in Champagne yes
terday.
BINDMOOT
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♦ JUAREZ, March 12. — Sala- ♦
♦ zar's band of Villa rebels fired ♦
♦ into a Mexican Central passenger ♦
♦ train at Laguna station on Sat- ♦
♦ urday and killed forty-five of the ♦
♦ Carranza escort and wounded ♦
♦ three passengers. According to ♦
♦ employees of the Mexican Cen- ♦
♦ tral road twenty of Salazar’s men ♦
♦ were killed and twenty-two ♦
♦ wounded by the Carranza escort. ♦
♦ The badits stole everything they ♦
♦ could carry, after which the train ♦
♦ proceeded to Chihuahua City. ♦
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(By Associated Prgfo)
HONOLULU*JsiartfrilT"-- Work of
organising"an aviation camp that will
bn Gne of the best equipped aviation
'"bases in the United States is under
way here under the supervision of
Captain John F. Curry, of the Sixth
United States Aero Squadron, who ar
rived here from the mainland recent
ly on the transport Logan.
Lieutenant John B. Brooks and
about fifty army aviation men are to
arrive here this month and others
will come, until Hawaii has her full
complement. Lieutenant Brooks is
now at the San Diego aviation station
concluding his training in flying.
PERSONAL GOSSIP ABOUT
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
The steamer Admiral Watson Is due
from the westward on Wednesday.
The freighters Valdez and Cordova
are on the way from Seattle to south
western Alaska.
Mrs. Gus Lindquist died on Satur
day with consumption, and will be
buried tomorrow afternoon.
W. H. Bogue, the transfer man, has
received a new automobile, which he
will soon put into commission.
M. J. Sullivan has returned from
a trip to McCarthy and Kennecott, in
the interest of the Cordova Mill and
Lumber Company.
George W. Seay returned on yester
day's train from a trip to Strelna and
McCarthy, and he reports consider
able activity at both camps.
J. H. Davidson, the new traveling
passenger and freight agent for the
Alaska Steamship Company, is now at
Juneau and will arrive in Cordova on
the next steamer.
Patrick Lynch, representing the
Diamond Drill Company, with head
quarters at Juneau, was an arrival on
the steamer Evans and left for Ken
necott on this morning’s train.
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The body of W. T. Riordan, a miner
at Treadwell, about 45 years of age,
was found in the Golden North room
ing house at Juneau a few days ago.
He had taken a room there the night
before, and was somewhat intoxicated
when he went to the room. Falling to
appear in the morning a visit to his
room showed that he had axplred dur
ing the night. ^
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♦ LONDON, March 12. — The ♦
♦ British troops have captured Bag ♦
♦ dad. The detail* are unpub ♦
♦ lished, but the Turks apparent- ♦
♦ ly evacuated. ♦
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♦ LONDON, March 12. — Two- ♦
♦ thirds of the Turkish artillery at ♦
♦ Bagdad fell into the hands of ♦
♦ the British or was thrown into ♦
♦ the Tigris river. ♦
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OLD-TIMERS OF INTERIOR
PASS AWAY IN STATES.
Information has been received that
James and Joseph Duke, both former
ly of Nenana, died recently at Hot
Springs, Arkansas. Joseph Duke, the
father, died in January, and James
Duke, the son, died alrout a month af
terward. Both were laid at rest at
Hot Springs.
The Dukes were well known old
timers in the interior, having been in
the Koyukuk country before coming to
the Tanana valley. At Nenana they
made a success as traders among the
Indians and finally disposed of their
interests to the government at a sub
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WAYWARD BOYS
FRISCO TO R[
(By Associated Press)
SACRAMENTO, March 12. — Re
vision of the juvenile court system is
being sought by Senator Benson, of
San Jose. A bill he han .educed in
the state leglslature'^HmvPfe*' rVt'"TTI!
appointment by superior court judges
of a commissioner at $:),000 a year, to
hear all juvenile cases, take evidence
and submit recommendations to the
judge of the juvenile court.
A- “parental committee" in each
county to handle the cases of wayward
boys between the ages of 8 and 18 is
proposed by Assemblyman Ambrose,
of Los Angeles. The committee would
be composed of the superintendents of
schools and two members of the board
of education or two citizens named by
the superintendent if members of the
board did not care to serve. Any per
son could file a petition with the com
mittee, asking an investigation into
the case of a lad whose conduct in
dicated that he was headed the wrong
way. The committee would make re
commendations to the juvenile court
when deemed desirable
HASlilE TO
(By United Press)
CHICAGO, March 12. — The aboli
tion of human misery will be the key
note of the annual national confer
ence of Charities and Correction at
Pittsburg on June 6 to 13, General
Secretary W. T. Cross announced here
today.
Unfair food prices, neglected child
ren, slum districts, criminal classes,
insane, mental defectives and unmoral
conditions In out of the way rural dis
tricts will be dealt with and plans out
lined for the elimination of them from
national life.
President Frederick Almy, of New
York, will talk about the abolition of
poverty. Other speakers will be Thos
Mott Osborne, Wilfred S. Reynolds of1
Chicago, Robert A. Woods of Boston..
Edward T. Devine and Morris Hill
Quit of New York, who will speak on
social insurance; Dr. Owen Copp, of
Philadelphia. Thirty-five hundred so
clal workers are expected to attend
the conference from all parts of the
United States.
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The Ruby Silver and Silver Queen
mine at Pavey, in the Lake Bennett
district, has been closed down tern
porarlly on account of the depletion
of the funds set aside for development
P. H. Ganty, of Skagway, a large stock
holder in the company, says the com
pany will be reorganized with suffi
clent capital to put the mine on a
shipping basis.
(By Associated Press)
SEATTLE, March 12. — Billingsley,
when the cross-examination was con
tinued in the Gill trial, repeated with
out variation the story of bribing Gill
on August 30 last In the chief of po
lice’s office. Billingsley testified that
he gave Dr. Matthews, pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church, $1,000 to
be used In cleaning up the town and
was used to inveattigate vice condi
tions. The police were then pursuing
the Billingsleys fiercely.
FRENCH LINER IS
ALLOWED TO
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♦ WASHINGTON, March 12. — ♦
♦ The state department has grant- ♦
♦ eii permission for the clearance ♦
♦ of the French liner Kochambeau ♦
♦ from New York with guns mount- ♦
♦ ed fore and aft. Secretary Lan- ♦
♦ sing ruled that the Rochambeau ♦
♦ as a passenger carrying vessel, ♦
♦ plying the usual route, was a ♦
♦ peaceable merchantman entitled ♦
♦ to take adequate precautions ♦
♦ against Illegal attack. The navy ♦
♦ department will arm all ships ♦
♦ whose owners apply for this pro- ♦
♦ tection. ♦
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RADIO PLANT AT
(By Associated Press)
HONOLULU, March 12. — The
great Pearl Harbor naval radio sta
tion will be completed and turned over
to the government within three
months, according to R. B. Woolver
ton, who arrived here recently, bring
ing with him all the apparatus that
will go into the big plant.
Mr. Woolverton said the Pearl Har
bor station will in many respects out
rank any other station in existence,
and that it will be completed in rec
ord time, so far as the installation of
the apparatus is concerned. He came
here from the San Diego station of
the navy department, which he re
cently completed and turned over to
the government. The plant, Mr. Wool
verton says, will be the highest pow
ered of any in the world, using 500
kilowatts. It will use a wave of from
10,000 to 15,000 meters. The station
is to communicate regularly with the
Arfllngston station, nearly 5,000 miles
distant.
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CHITINA-FAIRBANKS TRAIL
AUTO BOULEVARD IN SPOTS.
More than one hundred miles in a
little less than six and one-half hours'
traveling. That is the record which
has just been established by Bobby
Sheldon, Fairbanks’ pioneer trail au
tomobilist, by reason of the fact that
he was the first man to drive a ma
chine over the 310 miles of trail
that stretch between Fairbanks and
Chltina. Bobby’s initiatory trip was
made away back in 1913, and since
then he has made better time than he
did on that trip, but never better than
he made yesterday, when he drove
from Fairbanks to Birch lake and back
to town again, a distance of approxi
mately 102 miles, in a little less than
six and one-half hours.
Sheldon says that the trail be
tween Fairbanks and Birch lake is
like a city boulevard. It Is as hard
as stone and as smooth as an asphalt
ed street in most places, making it
possible to drive an automobile over
it at top speed on long stretches. —
Fairbanks News Miner.
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Sam Myran, while working on a rock
contract for the Alaska engineering,
commission on the Turnagain arm
section, was hit on the back of the
head by a falling boulder recently, and
received injuries from which he died
about forty minutes later. Rock slides
are reported to be frequent in that
section on account of the warm spell.
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Whitehorse is rapidly becoming the
j center of a great copper mining ln
j dustry, the mines of that vicinity hav
ing become regular shippers of ore.
BERNSTORFF STILL TRAVELING.
(By Associated Press)
CHRISTIANIA, March 12. — Am
bassador Bernstorff's ship has sailed
from here for Copenhagen.
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(By Associated Press)
EL PASO, March 12. — United
States army officers attached to Bri
gadier General George Bell's staff
have received fatigue uniforms made
of the new service cloth which hns
been adopted by the quartermaster's
department. The uniforms came front
the Philadelphia supply depot and
have attracted much attention among
the army officers in this district.
The new service cloth is darker In
color than the old issue of olive drab.
It has a greenish tinge to it and is
rougher and has more nap. The cloth
Is said to be similar to that now used
in England for the British armies and
marine corps.
Ail officers on the border will be
supplied with the new cloth uniforms
as soon as they can be made.
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III HONEST
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(By United Press)
ST. LOUIS, March 12. — Ten thou
sand advertising men at the national
convention of the Associated Adver
tising Clubs of the world here In June
will outline plans not only to promote,
but to compel absolute honesty in ad
vertising, both among newspapers and
advertisers themselves in the United
States. The groundwork, the adver
tising men feel, has been laid by their
several years’ campaign advocating
honesty in advertising. A number of
M*lTri h*v“ lpa"gllrl>tgl'
advertising campaigns and much pro
gress, the organization feels, has been
made. Now the plan will be to go
out and actively fight dishonest adver
Using on a national basis. The elan's
national vigilance committee has done
a lot of this work already, but this
will be Increased and developed, the
committee forming the basis for Ihe
national campaign for honesty in ad
vertising.
BEVr DF GIRLS
GIVE CIRCUS
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(By United Press)
NEW YORK, March 12. — Seven
hundred and fifty nifty damsels in a
three ringed circus, with animals, red
lemonade, pink popcorn, crackerjack,
sideshows, ballyhoos and all the re
gular trimmings is the sight New York
is preparing itself for this afternoon.
They're regular girls, too, lots of them
society girls and lots of them not.
They're staging the circus in Madison
Square Garden for the benefit of the
Vacation Association, and the show
is backed by such society leaders as
MIbb Anne Morgan, Mrs. August Bel
mnot, Mrs. Robinson Smith and others.
Chief among the attractions will be
the bevy of girl clowns, for which
Sam McCracken searched the country
for months. He declined to sign any
of these girl clowns who did not dem
onstrate that they could look, stand,
walk, talk and just naturally be funny.
The circus will give performances
every day for four days.
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Jacob Meiers, who owns a tungsten
property on the head of Steel creek,
in the Fairbanks district, is arrang
ing for the erection of a mill on the
property as soon as the weather con
ditions permit. The ledge has been
cut for a distance of six feet, and in
some places the ore is nearly pure
scheellte. -
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Henry Burke, an employee of the
i.Martin mine on Willow creek, and
another miner were seriously injured
recently by an explosion. The explo
sion was caused when one of the men
dropped a lighted fuse in a box of
caps.
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The basketball team from the new
railroad town of Nenana has four
times defeated the crack basketball
team of Fairbanks. The Nenana play
ers won the last game at Fairbanks by
a score of 31 to 24.
NAVAL RESERVES
LIKELY T01E
CALLED OUT
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♦ WASHINGTON, limbi 12. ♦
♦ The motrflu tllon of the. complete ♦
0 : ghtlng ntrdngth of the navy is ♦
♦ recommended bj naval official ♦
♦ The approval of the president is ♦
♦ required before orders can he la- ♦
♦ aned ■ ailing out reserves in as- ♦
♦ aembling the naval militia. The ♦
♦ re!' all ai'tive officers ♦
♦ non on shore duty and an active ♦
♦ recruiting campaign la alao ne ♦
♦ cessary. ♦
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(By United Press)
CHICAGO, March 12. — Hr. Maxi
millian Herzog expects to have per
pected a sure cure for infantile para
lysis before the fatal hot summer
months, he announced today.
“Already,” said Ilr. Herzog, who has
made an exhaustive study of the
cause, prevention and cure of the dis
ease which caused so many deaths
and so much distress last summer,
“the microbe which causes infantile
paralysis has been definitely isolated
and experiments are being made to
locate an antitoxin which effectively
stamps out the disease among sheep
and cattle.
“We hope to have perfected an ef
fective antitoxin for human beings by
summer.”
The Chicago health authorities have
enlisted prominent physicians, baterl
oligtsts, nursep, women's clubs and
civil organizations In a concerted ef
fort to check the disease before it
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(By Associated Press)
MEXICO CITY, March 12. — Con
cessions now being given by the gov
ernment in many instances make it
obligatory to employ Mexican labor
and prohibit the use of any language
other than Spanish in the conducting
of the public affairs of the company
granted the concession. The conces
sion recently granted the Compania
Ferrocaliera del Yale, Pampico, Pan
uco Eimitada, to construct a railroad
from El liigo to Tampico, provides
Mexican labor must be employed,
Spanish must be used on all the lines
to the exclusion of any other langu
age and the stations named by the
company shall bear names of pure
Mexican origin.
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CORDOVAN DRIFTS INTO
RESTRICTED WAR ZONE.
In a letter to a Cordovan, our for
mer townsman, Harry Delvig tells of
leaving for France on the steamship
City of Pueblo. He is mate of the
ship, having recently obtaineh his pa
pers as such, and apparently had lit
tle fear as to the trip.
The letter is of interest to his old
friends, also in that he says he re
cently secured his papers as mate.
That he and other steamship men
do not fear the submarine blockade
was evident from the letter, as he
joked about sending postcards from
Havre, France, upoix his arrival there,
unless he was sent to another world
by a submarine.
Many of Mr. Delvig's friends will
remember that during the early part
of the war he had an exciting experi
ence when a yacht on which he was
working was fired upon by a German
boat. At that time he declared he
was through with the sea. but he has
drifted back to it.
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An official of the land office at
Fairbanks states that the mining
claims recently staked within the
towjjsite of Chena, the scene of the
latest reported strike, are void, this
tract of land having been withdrawn
from entry and reserved for towusite
purposes in an order signed June
23, 1916. The finding of godd in the
bottom of a well being dug is respon
sible tor the staking.