The Cordova Daily Times
VOLUME iill^NUMBER 105 ^CORDOVA, ALASKA7TUES DAY~, NOVEMBER^fi7l!M7 ~ "t>~ut(M7Tj77rKNTS
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♦ WASHINGTON, Nov. 6—Secre- ♦
♦ tary Lansing has announced that ♦
♦ Japan and the United States &
♦ reached an agreement recogniz ♦
♦ ing that Japan has a special int- ♦
♦ erest in China, but pledging Chi- ♦
♦ na's territorial integrity and re- ♦
♦ affirming the open door doctrine ♦
♦ for the commerce and industry of </
♦ the two Nations. They also ar- ♦
♦ rived tjt a clear understanding ♦
♦ regarding the military, naval and ♦
♦ economic co-operation in the war ♦
♦ agreements reached in notes be- ♦
♦ tween Secretary Lansing and the ♦
♦ Viscount Ishii, the special Japan- ♦
♦ ese ambassador who is now on- ♦
♦ route home. fs
♦ Lansing has announced that &
♦ Ishii performed a service of the ♦
♦ highest value to the United ♦
♦ States and also to Japan by clear- ♦
♦ ing away a misunderstanding ♦
♦ which promised to develop into ♦
♦ a serious situation in the far ♦
♦ East. It is said Germany oonduc- O
♦ ted a campaign of falsehood O
if which fostered doubt and an at- 4
♦ titude of constraint. Lansing ♦
♦ stated that Ishii proclaimed that ♦
♦ Japan's policy was not one of ag- *
♦ gression and said as a result of ♦
♦ the visit both nation's escaped a ♦
♦ trap laid for them, as Germany ♦
♦ desired especially 10 alienate ♦
♦ America and Japan. «
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PHI DESTROY
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(By the Associated Press)
CHRISTIANA, Nov. 6—The German
plans for destroying the world's com
merce have failed, says the Norwegian
Shipping Magazine, which adds that
..there is no great danger of the dis
appearance of merchant ships from
the seas by reason of torpedoing for at
least ten years.”
The article is accompanied by a
chart showing the curve of the Eng
lish and French losses for four months
from March to June. “The Allies
have every reason to be of good cour
age when they look back on these re
sults." says the writer, “and they may
await the future U-boat war with con
fidence. The chart curves show fav
orable results for England, and this
may be ascribed partly to the arming
of merchants ships.” He believes
that the story of 1915-16 will be re
peated, that "the U-boats will be crip
pled unless or until the Central Pow
ers can find new inventions which will
make them powerful enough to gain
the upper hand again.”
Another reason for this favorable
result, says the writer, is the fact that
when the U-boat war started in March
Germany sent out every U-boat she
could muster, good bad. and indiffer
ent, and the English defense, which
was ready, “reaped a golden harvest
and crippled the dangerous enemy for
the ensuing months.”
Failure of the sub-marine war is
attributed to the faulty construction of
the latest German U-boat.
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BRITISH MAKING PROGRESS
LONDON. Nov. 6—The British at
tacked the Flanders front. In the
neighborhood of Passchendaele and
are making satisfactory progress.
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EVANS ON WAY SOUTH
ANCHORAGE, Alaska. Nov. 6—The
Admiral Evans sailed from here Sun
day night for Seattle, with a large
list of outgoing passengers including
C. E. Herron and E. L. Bedell.
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The freighter Valdez is here from
the Westward and will take out a full
cargo of copper ore, 2700 tons to the
Toeoma Smelter.
The women's guild will meet at the
Red Dragon Wednesday afternoon at
two o'clock.
MRS. SINGLETON. Secretary
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| ♦ JUAREZ, Nov. 6—Villlstas <ly- ♦
[ ♦ namited tlie northbound Mexi- 4
♦ can Central passenger train at ♦
♦ Armendariz station, fifty miles ♦
♦ south of Chihuahua on Sunday, ♦
♦ Sixty federal guards and a num- ♦
' ♦ ber of passengers were killed and 4
♦ wounded. A hundred and ten ♦
, ♦ bars of silver bullion, belonging ♦
j 4 to to the American Mining Com 4
4 pany, were taken . Passengers 4
4 were robbed and several killed 4
4 according to Americans arriving 4
4 here from Chihuahua. It is be 4
4 lieved Villa was near the scene 4
4 of the robbery. 4
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All producing copper mines are be
ing operated to capacity and develop
ment. pushed on the more promising
properties to bring them to a ship
ping stage. This industry has been
somewhat hampered through lack of
j sufficient transportation,
j The fishing industry, of Alaska this
[ year has exeeode all former years
in records of both catch and prices,
j resulting in most prosperous condi
tions in this industry. All of the
coast towns of Alaska arp upw using
every.effort to ■fevelop their fishing
resources.
Gold quartz and placer mining In
Alaska has been curtailed, due to the
shortage of labor and High cost of
supplies an materials. No improve
ment in these industries can be expect
ed until conditions become normal.
J. L. McPherson, manager of the
Alaska Bureau of the Seattle Chamber
of Commerce recently made a trip
through the territory and upon his
return to the state gave out the fol
lowing information as to the condi
tions of the country.
Alask’s copper mines are all being
worked to their maximum capacity
and development work pushed on all
the large properties now producing to
bring them to the shipping stage.
The mines of Prince of Wales Island
and Prince William Sound are all ap
erating to capacity, the Beatson Bo
nanza mine on Latouche Island em
ploying about 450 men. In the Copper
| river region the Kennecott Company is
employing about 450 men, while the
Mother Lode, Alaska Copper Company
land other mines are employing about
I 550 men.
Both the Mother Lode and the Alas
ka Copper Company have built wagon
roads connecting their properties with
the Copper River and Northwestern
Railroad and are preparing to deliver
ore to the railroad with 4-ton trucks.
At the Kennecott-Bonanza mine a
large body of ore has been recently
found interbedded in the lime and ly
ing to one side and at right angles
to the other deposits. This new body
of ore has been sufficiently developed
to prove an extensive body of the
same high grade of copper glance ore
as is found in the other known world
famous deposits, the mining of which
in 1916 placed the Kennecott Company
in fourth rank among the world’s cop
per mines and in first rank in low cost
production.
At Juneau the mammoth mill of the
Alaska Gold Mining Company has
been completed as have also the large
wharf and storage buildings of the
Pacific Coast Co., which has greatly
enlarged the shipping facilities of
Juneau.
The Alaskan towns relying on the
gold industry are feeling the effect of
the shortage of labor ajid the great in
i Ration in cost of supplies, the ad
vance of which has automatically de
preciated the value of gold, with the
result that many of the smaller gold
mines both quartz and placer are
shutting down until more normal con
ditions prevail, while the larger ones
ate operating short-handed and at a
big disadvantage.
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A BIG STRIKE OF
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♦ CHICAGO, Nov. 6—The demand ♦
♦ for a sixteen per cent, increase ♦
♦ in pay affecting two hundred ♦
♦ thousand railroad employes, is ♦
♦ expected to be passed by the rail- ♦
♦ managers within three weeks. ♦
♦ The demand was prepared by of- ♦
♦ finals of the Brotherhood of Rail- ♦
♦ way Trainmen and the Order of ♦
♦ Railway Conductors who closed ♦
♦ a four day’s deliberation early ♦
♦yesterday. ♦
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BERLIN, Nov. C—The Teutons won
the Italian line along the Tuglianien
to river, and the Italians evacuated
the entire line to the Adriatic.
Conflagrations indicate that the
Italians are retiring through the upper
Italian plains between the mountains
and the sea. The Italians are also
I retreating from Eella valley to Col
bricon, north of Sigana valley.
BERLIN, Nov. 6—While the Teu
tons forced their way across the Tag
liamento river, Germany at home
.quietly crossed the political rubicon
in five days and changed from autoc
racy to democracy, declared Mathias
Er/.berger, Centrist party leader, in
an interview with the Associated
i Press.
HERIUHN* GIVEN
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NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 6- Pete Hor
man, the world's bantamweight cham
pion. was awarded a deeision yester
day over Frankie Burns at the end of
twenty rounds. The fight was a good
one. Ten thousand people attended.
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HAVANA. Nov. 6—The Cuban Red
Cross Society, of which Mine. Mari
ana Menocal. wife of the President of
,Cuba, is chairman, has begun the work
of equipping a IrtO-bed hospital unit,
tmanned by a staff of Cuban physicians
and,nurses, for active service on the
western front in France. This enter
prise, which will reach completion at
an early date, is to be financed by a
fund of $1,000,000, which Cuban wom
en prominent in slclety here, have set
themselves to raise.
Announcement of the plans of the
Cuban Red Cross followed a special
meeting in the presidential palace
here, presided over by the wife of the
president and attended by all the Cu
ban Red Cross directors, and represen
tatives of various departments and
the Cuban press.
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FORTUNE IN COPPER AND LEAD
LIES UNDER NEW YORK STREET
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NEW YORK. Nov. 6—Experts esti
mate that copper wires and lead pro
tecting cables used In trasmltting the
electrical current under the streets
of New York City at thirty million
pounds of copper worth approximately
seven million fi,ve hundred thousand
dollars and four million pounds of lead
worth about four million eight hun
dred thousand dollars.
y. S. COAST LINE
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♦ NEW YORK, Nov. 6—Officials ♦
♦ expect the government will de- ♦
♦ Clare as a barred zone all of the ♦
♦ territory within a hundred miles ♦
♦ of the coast line of the United *
♦ States 8 the result of many fires ♦
♦ along the water fronts of Brook ♦
♦ lyn and other cities. It is estimn- ♦
♦ ted that over six hundred thou- ♦
♦ sand enemy aliens will be affect- ♦
♦ ed by the order. +
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(By the Associated Press)
PETHOGRAD, Nov. ii--Ru<nb is
doing its utmost to conduct the war
and wiJJ continue to do ;*s duty, it
believes in Kerensk, whose secretary
in Kerensky's name urotested against
I he wrong interpretations being placed
upon his interview with the Associated
Press. 4
PHONE STRIKERS
DECIDE TO
STAY DOT
(By the Associated Press)
TACOMA, Nov. 6—A conference of
the electrical workers and teltyihone
operators last night voted, despite the
Pacific Coast district line at Califor
nia, that unless the strike votes now
being taken in California means an
immediate walkout the northwest
telephone strike continues.
The northwest unions have recalled
their delegates from the conference
at San Francisco.
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ITALIANS WILL
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(By the Associated Press)
ROME, Nov. 6—The Italian troops
were compelled to evacuate territory
in the mountains and the area north
of the Northern Italian Plains in or
der to establish a new front.
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MORE FIRE APPARATUS
RECOMMENDED BY CHIEF
At a regular meeting of the City
Council, held last night, considerable
routine business was transacted. It
was decided to appropriate $850 for
the maintenance of schools during the
month of October. Upon recommen
dation of Fire Chief Dooley the street
committee was instructed to take up
the matter of the steps and sidewalk
on B. Street and make the necessary
repairs and alterations.
He also recommended the purchase
of two new hose carts and 500 feet
of hose for the railway additior. which
was referred to the Fire and Eight
and Water Committee. City Engi
neer Dunlap presented plats of the
grades on First and Second Streets.
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A. R. Hoerle, the Time's operator,
who was taken ill Sunday, is slowly
recovering and if he continues to im
prove will be about again the laater
part of the week.
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There will be a special meeting of
the Cordova fire department on Thurs
day night to make the final arrange
ments for the Thanksgiving night
dance.
STATUS OF LI
There is a conflict of opinion as to
the status of legislation governing j
assessment work on mining claims in
Alaskh.
James VVickersham. former delegate !
in congress from this territory, who j
is now contesting the seat in the house
of representatives of Charles A. Sul-I
zer, in a letter to the Aichorage;
Times, declares that ihe law recently i
passed by congress purporting to do
away with assesment work during the t
years 1917 and 1918 merely suspended
the federal requirements and that it
does not stop the operation of the
Alaska legislature's law compelling
assessment work on all mining claims.
Mr. Wickersham’s contention is
that while the federal assessment law
i has been suspended for this year and
! next year, the territorial assessment
law'ls still in force.
Georg It. Grigsby, attorney general
I for’Alaska, when informed of Mr.
Wickersham’s opinion, declared that
! he differed from it. The attorney-gen
J eral said that the congressional act1
doing away with assessment work had
j the effect of suspending the territor
: ial law requiring it.
The text of the law passed by con
1 gress and the opinions of Mr. Wiek
j ershani and Mr. Grigsby are as fol
| lows:
“Resolved by the Senate and the
| House of Representatives of the Uni
! ted States of America in Congress
! assembled; That in order that iabor
| may be most effectively used In rais
ing and producing those things needed
in the prosecution of the present war
with Germany, that the provision of
the section twenty th-ee hundrea and
twenty-four of the Revised Statutes
of the United Sates which requires
on ojeh mining claim located, ard un
til a patent has been issued therefore,
not less than $100 worth of labor to he
performed or improvements to be
made during each year, be, and the
same is hereby, suspended during the
years ninteeu hundred and seventeen
and nineteen hundred and eighteen:
“Provided; That every claimant of
any such mining claim in order to ob
tain the benefits of this absolution
shall file or caused to be filed in the
office where the location notice or the
certificate is recorded on or before
December thirty-first, of each t>f the
years nineteen hundred and seventeen
and nineteen hundred and eighteen,
a notice of his desire to hold said min
ing claim under this resolution: Pro
vided further. That this hesolution
shall not apply to oil placer locations
or claims.
"This resolution shall not be deemed
to amend or repeal the public resol
ution entitled joint resolution to re
lieve the owners of mining claims who
have been mustered into military ser
vice of the United States as officers
or enlisted men from performing as
sessment work during the term of ]
! such service, approved July seven
teenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen.
“Approved, October 5. 1917.”
Mr. Wickersham's opinion is as fob
lows:
i ne roregoing Act or c ongress sus
i pends( or repeals) Section 2324 of the
I United States Revenue Statute 1878.
i requiring assessment work on mining j
!claims for the years 1917 and 1918.
hut it does not suspend or repeal Sec
tion 3 of the Act of the Legislature of
I Alaska,of 1915, which requires such
assessment work to be done in
Alaska.”
The statement of Mr. Grigsby is as
follows:
"The resolution of Congress sus
pends the annual labor law in Alaska
as well as elsewhere. All thut is neces
sary to hold a claim is to file notiec of
application before January 1. 1918.”
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James Drummond, day chef at Slat
er’s restaurant, had a slight storke of
apoplexy early this morning. He was
removed to the hospital where he is
now resting comfortably.
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Carl Fosberg, of Anchorage, will
leave soon for the headwaters of the
Kuskokwim river where he will trap.
during the coming winter. He expects
to operate a trap line about 100
miles in length He is an experienced j
trapper and one of the first white
men to explore the headwaters of the j
Kuskokwim.
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♦ WASHINGTON, Nov. fi—Gov- ♦
♦ eminent officials are convinced ♦
♦ that pro-German agencies are at ♦
♦ work to hinder aircraft produc- ♦
♦ tlon and believe that a drastic ♦
♦ campaign is necessary. Numerous ♦
♦ cases of sabotage are reported ♦ •
♦ from mills in the northwest. In ♦
♦ spruce forests, where wood is he- ♦
♦ ing cut for aeroplanes, labor dls- ♦
♦ turbanr.es are being fomented l» ♦ *
♦ Industrial Workers of the World ♦
♦ and are hampering the govern- ♦
♦ The mdnace takes the form o; ♦
♦ rhe menace thakes the form of ♦
♦ accidents which occur rcga'arh ♦
♦ to mill machine!y, fit in yard •»
♦ and boiler explosions. 0
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Yesterday afternoon at the Rectory
Mrs. Ziegler entertained the Wom
an's guild in honor of the president.
Mrs. S. R. Hedges. The afternoon
was devoted to knitting and learning
to knit, after which refreshments
were served. Later a presentation
was made of a handsome leather bag
with gold enclosure, also the fellow
ing tribute of esteem signed by the
members:
“We, the unUendgned. the member
of the Woman's guild of St. George's
Episcopal Mission at Cordova, Alaska,
do express our most heartfelt appre
ciation of the valuable leadership and
assistance tgiven and taken by Mrs.
S. R.. Hedges in every capacity of our
churche's work,and further, do we ex
press our sorrow at the departure for
a time, from the seat of our labors
We further hope that ere long sKe’
will again return with a continued
conviction of our sincere loyalty and
sympathy to a valued friend and able
executive:"
Mrs. ('has. E. Rogers, Mrs. L. H.
Smith, Mrs. P. H. Singleton. Mary
ITeville Ziagler. Mrs. W. H. Chase.
Mrs. V. Hendrickson. Mrs. Mabel E.
Sprague, Mrs. Thos. 0. White. Mrs.
Julius Struck. Emma Shepard, Anita
Ames. Mrs. Alfred S. Poster, Mrs.
John Gamble.
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TOKIO. Nov. 6—How to invest Jap
anese capital in the United States is
believed to be one of the objects of
the official Financial commission that
will soon visit America. The busi
ness circles of the Umpire attach very
great importance to this mission be
cause it represents an intention on the
part of Japan to adapt herself in a
financial and an economic way to the
new conditions created by the war and
the entrance of the United States in
to the hostilities.
Baron Tanetaro Megata, one of Jap
an's leading financiers, who has been
designated by the cabinet as chief
commissioner, will be accompanied to
America by a staff of experts from the
various ministries and by four pro
minent men representing the leading
business interests. In a general way
he says he wishes to develop a prac
tical working co-operation of the bus
iness interests whether they be in tho
United States, Japan or China.
The commission will visit all the
leading centers of the United States.
Including San Francisco, Chicago, New
York and Washington and will con
sult with representatives of the big
American business interests, both pri
vate and official.
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