< The Cordova Daily Times
VOLUME II. NUMBER 439. CORDOVA, ALASKA, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 12, 1916. PRICE TEN CENTS.
EL PASO, May 12. — That Major
Langhorne's cavalry has a good
o’ inee of overtaking the bandits who
raided Glenn Springs, is the belief
of General Eunston, who today said
the raiders had loaded wagons with
loot, which they are taking with
them.
The reluctance of the bandits to
leave behind them the spoils which
they captured will, in General Eun
ston's opinion, greatly retard their
progress, making it easy for the swift
moving American squadron to catch
them.
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CLARK-GRAHAM
AV. S. (’lark, president of the Clark
Graham Packing Company, today said
bis company is prepared to commence
"Instant operations the minute the first
Salmon pokes its head into the nets
©1 the company's fishermen.
The last scowload of supplies is now
at the Cordova dock waiting for a
tow, and probably will be taken to the
cannery tomorrow.
All the men necessary for the sea
son’s work have been hired and are
now at the plant of the company, put
ting the final touches on the plant
and machinery. About 50 men will
be employed steadily all season. In
all cases, where possible, the man
agement of the company has employed
local help.
The capacity of the new cannery
is placed by Clark at .'15,000 cases, and
no difficulty is expected in putting up
a maximum pack.
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{HITHER BRIDGE NEEDED
ACROSS RESURRECTION
SEWARD.—Owing to the fact that
the engineering commission is building
the new Resurrection bridge with
large spans, the road commission will
probably have to build a new struc
ture where the wagon road bridge now
stands. Lieutenant Mehaffey believes
that as the wide spans of the railroad
bridge will let logs through some
change must be made in the wagon
road bridge to save it from destruc
tion. Mehaffey cannot yet give any
idea of the amount of work to be done
here this summer, as everything de
pends on whether the new appropria
tion for wagon roads will go through.
He says some repair work will be
f , anyhow.
BISHOP HARRIS OF KOREA
PAID HIGH HONOR
TOKIO, .May 6. — Unusual honors
were paid to Bishop Merriman C.
Hhrris, of Korea, before his depar
ture from Japan for the United States.
It is umlerstood that the bishop, who
Is the head of the American Metho
Episcopal mission in Korea, will
tire, but friends and admirers have
agreed to provide a residence at Kam
akura by the Sea if he will return to
live here permanently.
Among the prominent men present
at a farewell dinner were Baron Ishii,
the minister for foreign affairs; Geo.
W. Guthrie, the American ambassador,
and Viscount Kaneko. Baron Ishii, in
the name of Emperor Yoshililto, con
toTerred upon the bishop the second or
’tier of the Sacred Treasure and at
the same time eulogized the veteran
missionary’s work in Korea. Ambus
sador Guthrie likewise made a speech
of appreciation of the bishop's labors.
TURKS REPORT 1
VICTORY OVER
CONSTANTINOPLE, May 12. — In
an all flay battle between the Turkish
and Russian armies in the Mount Hope
section on the Caucasus front, the
Turks defeated the Russians and drove
them back from positions along a
ten mile front, according to an offi
cial statement by the government to
day.
The battle is described as one of
the fiercest in which the Turkish
army has engaged during the eastern
campaign of the Russians. They re
port having taken forty machine guns
and 400 Russian prisoners.
RUSSIANS REGAIN POSITIONS
CAPTURED BY AUSTRIANS.
BERLIN. May 12. — (Wireless to
Sayville).—The Russians have re
gained by a counter attack positions
north of Mlynov, which they had lost
to the Uistrians, says an Austrian
statement. More than 200 presoners
were taken by the Austrian force in
the engagement on April 28, when the
Russian lines were penetrated.
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NORTHWESTERN DOE FROM
THE WEST TPR»v
The steamship Northwestern, of
the Alaska Steamship Co., is due to
arrive in Cordova this afternoon at
4:30 o'clock. She will load ore for
Tacoma and sail for the south to- i
morrow morning at 3 o'clock. She ,
will go via the outside passage.
The steamship Mariposa, of the:
same line, Is due from the west Mon
day.
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SUSPECTED SPY RELEASED.
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NEW YORK, May 10. — After offi
cers of the United States secret ser
vice yesterday detained for examina
tion William Aufmaaser, a reserve of
ficer of the German army, on his ar
rival here on board the steamship Co
lon from Cristobal, on suspicion that
Aufmaaser had attempted to obtain
information regarding the Panama
canal fortifications, Chief Flynn, of
the secret service, said he believed
the charges were unfounded, and Auf
maaser was released.
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DEATH
NORFOLK, Va„ May 12. — Thirty j
six negroes, all blit one of whom were
women and children, perished today
when a moving picture theatre at Wal
lace, a small town near here burned,
following a gasoline explosion.
The theatre was not equipped with
exits or fire-proofed according to law,
and the owners immediately were ar
rested, charged with manslaughter.
The negroes are in a state of wild
excitement, and unless strong meas
ures are adopted, it is feared trouble |
will result.
FORD DELEGATES
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STOCKHOLM. Sweden. May 12.
The Ford peace party, reduced now to
n working basis, with delegates pres
ent from the six neutral countries of
Norway. Sweden, Denmark, Holland,
Switzerland and the United States,
has recently been very active here,
and has enjoyed the official recogni-:
tion of having been received by thej
foreign ministers of the three Scan
dinavian countries. To each of these
were presented appeals addressed in
diplomatic French to the kings and
the parliaments, asking that the neu
tral governments organize an official
neutral conference to offer Its ser
vices in bringing about peace. ThC|
Ford party Is now known as an "un- j
official peace conference of neutral j
nations.”
The Ford appeal, which is to be
presented also at Berne and The
Hague, says, in part:
“Has not the moment come to act?!
If, by an opportune step, an interven
tion of neutrals, the war could be:
shortened by a day, by a single day.
which destroys thousands of lives,
ought not the step be taken, no mat
ter how difficult, how hopeless It ap
pears?
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At a meeting of the Kastern Star
last night, the annual dance, which
it was to have given this month, was
postponed until later In the season.
SOCIALISTS ARE
SENT TO JAIL
IN BRITAIN
EPENIHTRG, May 12. — Three la
bor leaders today were Riven prisor
sentences after pleading guilty to ad
vising munition workers to go on f
strike. The authorities are adopting
stern measures to suppress labor agi
tators who continually are attempting
to get the men in the munition plants
to walk out.
It is claimed by several laboring
men w'ho have been approached, tha’
some of the men advocating strikes
are in the pay of the German govern
nsent, but these assertions cannot b<
proven by the police.
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II START ON
Unless some unforseen accident in
tervenes, trains on the Copper Rivei
Northwestern Railway will again b<
running on schedule Monday morning
The crossing at Chitina has been com
pleted, and work on the trestle a'
Mile 97 has reached a point where il
is expected it will he finished tomor
row.
The first through train probablj
will leave Cordova Sunday morning
and thereafter the schedule will b<
followed.
There is much ore at Chitina await
ing the opening of the road to Cor
dova. which will be rushed to thii
port as quickly as possible. Th<
Northwestern, which is due here thii
afternoon, will take the last of reservi
ore held In the yards here in antici
pation of the interruption of servici
this spring. By the time other ves
sels arrive it is expected there wil
be sufficient ore in the yards to giv<
them full cargoes.
The ice breaker at Miles fllaciei
has been repaired, and most of th«
men who were engaged on that jol
will arrive in Cordova tomorrow.
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Judge Robert Gray, commissioner a
Katalla. arrived at Cordova thii
morning, coming across the flats ir
a launch. He will remain here onlj
for the day. leaving tonight for Valdez
IRISH EXECUTED
LONDON. May 12. — It was offi
cially announced in the house of com
mons today that fourteen persons had
been executed and seventy six sen
tenced to penal servitude for com
plicity in the recent rebellion in Ire
' land. Several thousands are yet un
der arrest. Thomas Kent today was
executed in the county of Cork.
Irish Nationalists in the house of
commons are protesting vigorously
against what they term the undue se
verity of the authorities in dealing
1 with the rebels. They contend that
since the rebellion was so easily sup
pressed. and all danger of further
trouble is past, it is not necessary to
I deal so harshly with the prisoners.
Premier Asquith today told the
house of commons that he feels it his
duty to visit Dublin at once. He
probably will leave for Ireland today.
The casualties among civilians in
! the rebellion as announced by the
[authorities today, were ISO killed and
I >114 wounded.
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GREAT BRITAIN REFUSES TO
RELAX BLOCKADE ON GOODS.
WASHINGTON. May 12. — The
; British embassy was advised today by
the foreign office that there would be
no further relaxation of blockade or
ders forbidding exportation of German
goods through Holland, unless pur
, chased or contracted for previous to
March 1. 1915. Pressure has been
brought to get recognition of contracts
made as late as March 15. the date
, of publication of the blockade order.
Sir Kdwanl Grey advised the em
bassy in response to an inquiry that
, no extension “can be considered." His
reply was regarded as final. The state
state department had under consider
ation the sending of Dr. Holder, its
trade adviser, to London to seek an
, extension, but probably will not do so
now.
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CORDOVA TEACHERS WILL BE
ELECTED BY BOARD TONIGHT.
Teachers for the Cordova schools
for the coming year will be elected
tonight at the regular session of the
board, which will meet in the Cham
ber of Commerce rooms. The meet
ing is called for 7:30 o'clock.
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WRECK
SAN I,UI8 OBISPO, Cal., May 12 —
Containing one man in the last stage
of exhaustion and the dead body of
another, the second life boat of the
steamship Koanoke today was picked
up off the beach here. It has now
been determined that two life boats
capsized while being launched and
all the men in them were drowned.
The Koanoke carried five life boats.
Two have been picked up and two
were lost, which leaves but one to
be accounted for. Thus far none of
the officers have been saved, and it
is almost impossible to get a coherent
story from the survivors, all of whom
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were near death when rescued.
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Support for a petition asking that
congress appropriate $fiuo.000 for llit*
building of roads and trails in \laska
was asked or the Cordova Chamber of
1 Commerce in a communication from
(the Nome-Seward Peninsula Cham
her. read last night at the meeting
of the local body. The resolution sets
forth at length the necessities for
better transporatlon and the great
benefits that follow the building of
new roads and trails.
A communication of similar nature.
| but also embodying a demand for full
[territorial government, was received
I from the Alaska bureau of the Seat
tle Chamber of Commerce. Both com
munications were endorsed by the lo
cal body.
In order to account for the irregu
lar mail -service, the Nome Chamber
of Commerce has addressed a com
munieation to the local body, request
ing the dates of arrival of steamships
duflrig the past winter. The mails
at Nome were so irregular during the
past season, it is claimed, that tho
people of the Seward peninsula can
account for it in no other way than
that the arrival of steamships at this
port were such that a regular mait
service was impossible. It is desired
to get full tfata, in order that the
blame may be placed where it belongs.
Pending certain proposed changes
in the bylaws, the Chamber of Com
merce last night postponed the semi
annual election of officers until the
next regular meeting.
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MORE THAN THIRD OF ARRESTS
IN SEATTLE FOR DRUNKENNESS
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SEATTLE. May 12. — Figures cora
j piled at police headquarters show that
j more than one third of the arrests dur
ing April were for drunkenness. 357
j out of a total of 892.
The number of arrests and prosecu
j tions of violators of the prohibition
law was more numerous thau in any
other month except January. In
January there were 93 arrests for
| drunkenness., in February 115, and
in March 291. Sixty two persons were
arrested in January for violating the
prohibition law, 23 in February. 38
| in March and 43 in \pril.
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SENTENCE ATTACKERS
OF MUNITIONS TRAIN.
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TACOMA, May 12. — John Ross and
I Sam Busky. arrested on the charge
of tampering with a Northern i’aeific
freight train loaded with munitions
in the Tacoma yards, and who were
suspected of being implicated in a plot
to blew it up. pleaded guilty before
Superior Judge Card and were sen
tenced to a year each in the county
jail.
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MASSACRE PRECEDES FALL OF EZERUM
TIFI.IS. Russian Transcaucasia,
April 20. — Fifteen thousand Armen
ians were killed by Turks at Mamak
hatun prior to the evacuation of Erze
rum, according to a statement pre
pared for the Associated Press by
Richard Hill, a local representative of
thtj. American Committee for Armen
ian and Syrian Relief, of New York.
More than that, many more, expelled
from Erzerum and surrounding vil
lages, have dropped out of sight, and
it is assumed that most of them have
met a like fate. It is estimated that
there •'are 200,000 ‘Armenian refugees
in the Caucasus. They are beginning
to return to their homes in large num
bers. By April first ii is thought 20,
000 will have been repatriated. More
than $120,000 has been expended by
the American committee for their
relief.
Mil Hill describes interestingly the
almost superhuman achievement of
the Russian soldiers in scaling the
(heights around Erzerum. packing
| heavy guns piecemeal over the moun
tain ranges preparatory to attacking
ti’f* fortresses. His information was
gathered from various officials and
army officers who have returned to
Tifiis from Erzerum.
ine work or tne itussian iorces
was nothing short of marvellous,"
writes Mr. Hill. “They hail to fight
their way from their original position
near Sari Kamysh clear up to the
city itself, over roads that beggar de
scription. The men waded in snow
up to their waists, pushed o nthrough
a blinding snowstorm, scaled appar
ently impossible heights all In wea
ther as intense anil bitter as that of
the Arctic circle. Guns were taken
apart and carried on the backs of sol
diers, hauled up by ropes to the top
of cliffs and then dropped down the
icy slopes and put together In the
clouds, from where they brought ter
ror and consternation to the enemy.
Too much praise cannot be given to
the valor and hardihood of the Itussian
soldier. An artillery officer, who was
in the fight from the beginning, told
me that the wonders performed and
the difficulties overcome were every
whit as great as those which made
Napoleon’s march over the Alps a
military classic.
“The city itself is little if any dam
aged, the forts even hardly showing
evidence of severe bombardment.
When the fall of the city was immi
nent the Turkish soldiers in certain
| quarters began to loot and burn, but
uriurc milt ii u<i nm k,'- non uuhv
inhabitants were able to prevent thr
| fire from spreading. The approach of
the Russian soldiers caused the loot
! ers to beat a hasty retreat. A popu
! lation of 25,000 was found In the
place, mostly Turks. Some Persians
and a few Creeks made up the re
! mainder. Possibly a hundred Armen
ians had been able to hide with friend
! ly Turks, anil were found in the city
[upon its capture. Apart from these
there has bee nfound no trace of other
Armenians, numbering 15,000, who
1 were taken from the city and sent
into the interior in June of last year.
That is to say, no word has come from
any of the men, but Mr. Stapleton,
American mossionary in Err.erum,
inis heard indirectly from some of the
women deported at that time. The
. whole of the province has been
cleared of Armenians, with the ex
ception of those few who hid in the
city. At tile same time 15,000 were
sent away from villages nearby. These
i were taken as far as Mainakhatun,
j where they were killed. Other groups
j have been sent off at different times,
many of them too, no doubt, sharing
I l lie same fate as those from Brterum,
although some hope js entertained
that many of tl>“-i. may still he found
In this connection it is interesting
to learn or an Incident occurring just
prior to the fall of the city. Taxim
Bey. the vali. it appears had done
all he could, as far as he was allowed
by Constantinople to do, to ease ths
lot of the Armenians. Realizing that
the fall of the city was near he sent
for Mr. Stapleton and to hi mdelivered
a message from the Russian author!
ties to the effect that if the Moslem
I population were not moisted by the
I Russian troops, he would do all he
could to help the expatriated Armen
ians in Mesopotamia; otherwise he
would riot answer for what bight hap
pen. It is only just to the Russian to
say t^xat the relations between the
troops and the inhabitants are ex
ceedingly friendly. The bazaars and
shops are open and the people are
glad to sell to the Russians.
The fall of Erzeruin had hardly been
announced before groups of Armen
ians in various parts of the Caucasus
began plans for their return. Many
have already gone hack and others
are only waiting for means to enable
them to move. The Van. Bitlis aud
adjacent vilayets have already been
! opened ord permission to go back
seems easy to obtain.