The Cordova Daily Times
VOLUME II. NUMBER 513. CORDOVA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1916. PRICE TEN CENTS.
MEDIATORS ABE
BUSV STRIAE
NEW YORK, Aug. 10. — The fed
eral board of mediators conferred with
the railroad reypresentatives yester
day In reference to the strike situa
tion, and it will confer with the bro
therhood committee today. The out
come of the difficulties is awaited with
considerable concern by the shippers
and public generally.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 10. — The bro
therhoods show no disposition to mo
dify their demands upon the railroad
companies, and the representatives
of the men informed the railroads
that they saw little chance of reach
ing a satisfactory adjustment of their j
differences.
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FIFTY MILLIONS
TO IRRIGATE
SIAM LAND
HONGKONG. Aug. 10. — The Sia
mese government has appropriated
$550,000 for the preliminary expenses
in connection with the Prasak irriga
tion project, which will ultimately cost
$4,250,000. This scheme provides for
a great canal for Prasak and fuller
development of the existing canal sys
tem of Klong Itangsit. The project
is designed to reclaim much waste
land in lower Siam for rice cultivation.
Only the first unit of the scheme will
he developed at present. It is esti
mated by the British experts who have
been employed to make a survey of
the situation that a total expenditure
of $50,000,000 within twenty-five years
will make it possible to reclaim 2,
400,000 acres of land in lower Siam. |
CHARLESTON, W. Va., Aug. 10.
A flood is sweeping the Cabin creek
valley and many mining villages have
been washed away. Thus far twenty
three bodies have been recovered
from the debris. It is estimated by
some that one hundred and fifty peo
ple have met death from the high
water.
MEXICANS KILL
EACH OTHER
IN BATTLE
LAREDO, Aug. 10. — Nine Villista
bandits were killed in a battle with
the constitutionalist soldiers in a skir
mish near Cardenas, Mexico. It is
also reported that four of the latter
met death on the battlefield.
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PORTAGE BAY LUMBER CO.
SUED FOR MONEY DUE.
Suit has been filed by \V. L. Steven
son against Theodore Johnson and
John Eulund, doing business at Port
age Bay as the Talkitna Lumber Co.,
to recover money alleged advanced by
the plaintiff.
The plaintiff in the complaint al
leges that during the summer of 1915
he advanced the sum of $746.19 t\
the Seattle Hardware Co. to purchase
supplies and machinery for the mill at
the request of the two partners; that
on another occasion he advanced $400 |
to the Alaska S. S. Co. for freight
charges, and that on another time he
advanced $160.75 to the same com
pany for the same thing.
Job Printing at the Times.
NEW YORK, Aug. 10. — Col. Theo
dore Roosevelt will make his first
campaign speech for Hughes at Lewis
ton, Maine, August 31. He will deal
with national issues only, but it is
believed that his support of the Re
publican candidate will make Hughes
many votes.
Maine is to be stumped from end to
end. Among the prominent speakers
who will talk in the principal cities
are Governor Willis of Ohio, Senator
Borah of Idaho, Senator Lodge of Mas
sachusetts and Senator Sherman of
Illinois.
GRAND FORKS, N. !»., — Aug. 10.—
Charles E. Hughes has arrived here
and spoke to a large crowd, leaving
for Fargo, where he addresses a meet
ing tomorrow. Early in the morning
a start will be made for Helena, Mon
tana.
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Nome reports state that the win
ter dumps on Candle and immachuk
have been cleaned up and the summer
mining is now briskly under way. All
)f the operators are said to have done
’airly well.
WOMEN TRYING
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. — Mrs.
Abide Scott Baker, representing the
.'ongresslonul Union for Woman Suf
frage, called at the White House to
day and told Secretary Tumulty that
If I’resident Wilson continued to op
pose a suffrage constitutional amend
ment it would have a serious effect on
his candidacy.
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LONDON, Aug. 10. — Residents of
the metropolis are coming to think
more and more of the Canadians.
Their popularity is immense, all
classes being ready to cheer them
on any occasion, their pleasant posi
tion being due to their prowess in
the trenches and in the raiding lines
at the front.
The most recent opportunity of the
Londoner to pay homage to those of
the Dominion has just occurred in the
parade of 300 selected bandsmen of
the Canadian expeditionary force. The
musicians, who were the soloists
picked from 15,000 bandsmen with the
force, gave a promenade concert at
the Royal Opera House, in aid of the
Women’s Tribute Week.
Then, divided into three complete
hands, they paraded the Strand, Pic
cadilly, Pall Mall and Into Trafalgar
Square, receiving enthusiastic cheers
from all sides.
ANOTHER DAY’S RECORD OF
DEATHS AND NEW CASES.
NEW YORK. Aug. 10. — There
were thirty-eight deaths from paraly
sis yesterday and 183 new cases of
the disease.
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FAREWELL DANCE IS GIVEN
TO DEPARTING YOUNG LADIES.
Last evening a very delightful dance
was given at the Windsor hotel in
honor of Misses Madeline and Har
riet Andeson, who will shortly leave
for the states to attend school. There
was a large attendance of the society
young folk, who thoroughly enjoyed
themselves. When the hour for de
parture came there were many expres
sions of regret that Cordova is to
lose these two popular young ladies,
and the hope expressed that they
would return again in the spring.
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Russians and French Make Gains
ROME, Aug. 10. — The Italian army has captured Gorizia,
without any damage to the city, the inhabitants previously hav
ing left. The Italians have passed the left bank of the Isonzo
river, and continue the pursuit of the Austrians, taking many
prisoners.
ROME, Aug. 10.—The Italians have pierced the strong
Austrian entrenchments northeast of Monee and San Micheale,
cn the Isonzo front, near the village of San Martino
Through their offensive the Italians now occupy Boschini and
captured over 12,000 Austrians. The great seaport of Trieste
is now endangered.
BREST, Aug. 10. — More Russian troops have arrived and
they were given a mo3t emphatic welcome. I
PARIS, Aug. 10.—It is officially announced that the
French troops have progressed north of the Hemwood and
Somme sector.
LONDON, Aug. 10.—The Russian occupation of Kryplin
brings them southwest of Stanislau, whose speedy evacuation
by the Austrians is probable.
PETROGRAD, Aug. 10.—The railway station at Kryplin,
on the Stanislau and Nadvorna railroad, has been captured by
the Russians.
BERLIN, Aug. 10.—The war office says that the heavy at-1
tacks by the Russians at the various points along the Stockhod
line, in Volhynia, east of Kovel, have been repulsed with heavy,
losses.
REPOBLICANS FIRST DIVISION
FLIRTING WITH SCHOFIELD
JUNEAU, Aug. 10.—The Republican divisional convention
met here yesterday and was dominated by Shackleford and his
followers. The matter of endorsing candidates for delegate to
congress and attorney general was discussed on the floor of the
convention, but as the Juneau boss saw breakers ahead he had
the delegates do a little side-stepping, by divorcing territorial
politics from divisional politics. While he would have pre
ferred to place the stamp of approval on Schofield’s candidacy
for attorney general, this could not be done without endorsing
Wickersham, as there were a number of the latter’s friends in
the convention and, of course, any such action would not be
considered. Thus they were both thrown into the discard.
A complete legislative ticket was nominated, without any
opposition, as the slate had been previously arranged. It in
eluded J. R Hickman, of Ketchikan, for senator; John G. Heid,
of Juneau, P. C. McCormack of Wrangell, William Freeman of
Chichagoff and Monte Benson of Treadwell for the legisltaure;
Edward Hurlbutt of Thane for road supervisor.
This makes a straight out and out party fight for the legis
lature, the Democrats having named a full ticket, headed by
Si Tanner of Skagway, for the Senate.
ANOTHER VERSION OF THE CONVENTION.
JUNEAU, Aug. 10.—The Republican first divisional con
vention met yesterday with every precinct represented by
thirty-six delegates in person and the remainder by proxies. A
full legislative ticket was nominated. No candidate for dele
gate to congress was endorsed, practically repudiating Wicker
sham for his insults to the party. There was only one delegate
present favoring Wickersham, and all he asked was the pas
ing of a resolution approving the delegate’s past performances,
but the request was turned down. The delegates voted solidiy
in favor of a party organization, but overlooked the fact that
Schofield was running for attorney general.
VERDUN BATTLE
TYPE SOLDIER
PARIS, Aug. 10. — The unexampled
conditions of fighting before Verdun
have developed a new type of soldier
called “the courier of Verdun." They
are the men who maintain communi
cation between the troops In the midst
of the melees and officers command
ing from the rear. The battlefield
into which they dart with orders or
after Information is a desolated zone
where nothing but thick smoke, some
times black, sometimes white, gives
appearance of life; excepting during
the brief time of an infantry attack, it
is to all appearances deserted; the
sharpest eye discovers no movement
of humanity. The earth is everywhere
furrowed by freshly stirred earth, but
no one sees the hand that stirred it.
Occosionally a form is seen going
over this desert land something after
the manner of a rabbit, bounding into
sight out of the herbs and above un
even ground to disappear again;
leaping from obstacle to obstacle, from
ditch to ditch, from shell hole to shell
hole as it approaches the front line,
at times vaulting, at others crawling,
and sometimes kept motionless for
considerable periods by showers of
projectiles sent over from the other
side of the ime for his personal bene
fit. This is the messenger of modern
battle; he was never more needed
nor more useful than at Verdun and
the type will probably bear the name
for years to come of “the courier of
Verdun.”
Not a telephone line can resist the
incessant bombardment that digs up
the soil and levels all field work along
the whole line in front of this fort
ress; consequently to assure commu
nications between the front and the
rear is a difficult problem. Commu
nications by carler pigeonB are very
uncertain and optical signals are in
sufficient for various reasons. Noth
ing is certain excepting the man him
self, and to transmit information and
orders across that beaten field re
quires something extraordinary In the
way of men. He must be an athlete
with good lungs and, above all, he
must have a stout heart.
The courier of Verdun is unable tc
use the cominunicatoing trenches
where he would be out of sight of the
enemy, because that line is crowded ,
j always with soldiers going to and i
I from the front line, with wounded be
ing carried back, with men of the com-1
missary department carrying provis
ions to the men on guard. That is
too slow a route for the courier of
Verdun; he must take his chances of
being sighted—and hit—above ground.
The first formidable obstacle to pass
is the zone that is beaten by “drum
fire,” where 8-inch, G-inch and 4-inch
shells are bursting with formidable
explosions, sending showers of shrap
nel over the whole zone. It going j
through this ordeal, the courier sees
everywhere the spectacle of death, i
stumbles over corpses, sometimes runs ,
into a cloud of poison vapor before he ,
has crossed it; once through, he is
within range of the smaller German j
guns and the quick firers.
During the whole distance of a mile j
or two miles, according to the position,
his nerves are at the highest tension,
with his mind on the end of his mis
sion and at the same time on the ob
stacles that are multiplied each in
stant in his path.
Some of these couriers get through
untouched, others crawl back to the
starting point bruised or maimed.
Some of them never come back to tell
the story of their heroic effort.
The couriers of Verdun maintained
communication from the rear with the
heroic troops under the orders of
Commandant Kaynal — a company of
142nd infantry, and a machine gun
section of the 53rd — who held the
Fort of Vaux for several days against
overwhelming numbers of assailants.
They were all volunteers selected from
a considerable number of men who
offered themselves for the dangerous
mission. One of them was a boy of
the contingent of 1916, of childish as
pect. who every time volunteers were
asked for was the first man to the
front. "He had scarcely returned from
one of these perilous missions,” said
his captain, “when he pleaded to be
sent out again.” Another, literally
riddled by fragments of shell that had
burst in his path, had dragged himself
back, though unable to rise to his
feet, saluted his colonel and said:
.“Colonel, I am done for, but I have
of my mission." He made his report
got enough left in me to give account
and that was the end of his service for
his country.
The risks are so great for these
messengers that they are generally
sent in couples; if one is hit, the other
may get through. Two Qf these men
from thp commanding pout of a bri
gade crossed the Fumin woods; they
were almost at their goal when the
shell of a German 3-incher struck one!
of them full in the chest. His com-1
rade stopped and searched the body
for the met sage, but found nothing:
the shell had carried away the pocket
and the paper that was in it. He made j
his way back to the post, seemed al-;
most ashamed not to have executed'
his mission, and asked: "Colonel, I
give me a duplicate of the message.”
He received a pint of water, which
was in those days the courier's great
est recompense, and started off again.
One of these couriers presented him
self at the commanding post of a colo
nel, panting, covered with mud, and
bleeding freely. He had passed
through the zone of a “drum fire” that
ploughs up the ground yard by yard
methodically. He held out the en
velope containing the message. “How
ever did you get through?” asked the
colonel.
“Colonel,” was the reply, “I don’t
know; 1 only noticed that the envo
lope was marked ‘urgent.’ ”
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CHIEF CLERK APPOINTED
FOR NEW MINE STATION.
Hoy A. Pye. clerk In the office of
Federal Mine Inspector Sumner S.
Smith, has been officially appointed
chief clerk for the Alaska mine experi
mental station and will leave Juneau
for its location as soon as word comes
from the department that the station
is to be established. Advices have
been received that Fairbanks has
been designated as one place.
"The material for the station will
be purchased through competitive
bids, and these bids positively must
be advertised for some time,” said
Pye. “The site for the Northwest
station has not been designated yet
by the secretary. If the material is
not purchased in time to be sent to
Fairbanks before the close of naviga
tion, the station cannot be established
until next year, as it could not be
taken over the trail.”
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Judge Jennings has called a term
of the district court for the First di
vision at Juneau, September 11, with
grand and petit juries, when the trial
of the Krause cases will be continued.
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\ University of Washington Alumni
Club has been formed by residents of
Skagway. ^
ILLS IN BIG
LONDON, Aug. 10. — The greatest
coal combine known to the United ,
Kingdom has just been effected by
!»rd Ithondda, better known to Am
ericans as D. A. Thomas, the Welsh
coal magnate. He has brought into
the Cambrian Combine, of which he (
is managing director, between 3,500
and 4,000 acres of the richest portion
Of the South Wales coal fields belong
ing to D. Davis & Sons, Ltd. The deal
involves the transfer of the collieries
of the Welsh Navigation Steam Coal
Company, Ltd., acquired three years
ago by Davis & Sons for $1,574,250.
The combine places Lord Rhondda
at the head of an organization with
a capital of $17,765,170.
Public interest has been so much i
concentrated in the war that, outside
business and financial circles, practi
cally no interest has been taken in
the gigantic effect of the deal. It is ,
that the Consolidated Cambrian Com
bine controls now all of the fields pro
ducing the renowned steam coal which
has contributed so much to the su
premacy of the British mercantile ma- i
rine, and which has been said to con- !
stitute the life of the British ndvy. It
is said that there is no coal in the
world with a higher reputation for
bunkering purposes, and that more
record runs by ocean craft between
New York and Liverpool have been
made with this coal than with any ^
other.
Details of the deal are not available,
but it Is understood that the market
value of the shares of D. Davis & Sons,
Ltd., have appreciated In value recent
ly from $7,67?-,125 to *10,040,625.
The great combine will have an an
nual output of 6,000,000 tons.
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ENGLISH WAITERS CANNOT
GET ACCUSTOMED TIPS.
LONDON, Aug 10. — The “no tips"
movement is gaining favor in London
hotels. In one week six of them an
nounced that they had decided to
abolish the tip nuisance by adding a
small percentage to customers' ac
counts.
NEWS PRINT IS
LIKELY TO GO
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. — The
crisis in the news print paper situa
tion, which has already reduced news
paper profits enormously, will be
reached in October, when contracts
must be renewed Thus far no substi
tute for wood pulp has been discov
ered.
REFUSE SUPPORT
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. — The
Republican senators, in conference to
lay, declined to accept the legislative
Urogram submitted by the Democratic
Peering committee, and unless the
tatter changes its plans the date of
the adjournment of congress is inde
'inite.
WHEAT CRIP IS
NORMAL-FLOUR
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. — Govern
ment officials say that this year’s
wheat crop is sufficient for home con
sumption. and the normal export re
tirements.
CHICAGO, Aug. 10 . — Flour has
risen $2 a barrel during the past two
months.
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;arranza making bid for
VOTES OF THE MEXICANS.
MEXICO CITY. Aug. 10. — Presi
lent Carranza says that after the pre
sidential election a law would be en
icted giving amnesty to Mexican fugi
tives in foreign countries.
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'ROCUSES AND TULIP BULBS
CANNOT BE EXPORTED.
HAARLEM. Netherlands, Aug. 10.—
Large consignments of bulbs, princi
pally crocuses and certain sorts of
tulips, are being sold for cattle food
in the bulb growing districts of Hol
and, in consequence of the recently
innounced British prohibition of im
)ort.
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STILL ANOTHER CLAM PLANT
LIKELY BE STARTED HERE.
B O. Shuck, of Warrenton, Oregon.
>enior member of the firm of Shuck
Kelley Packing Company, was an ar
rival in Cordova yesterday on the
steamer Alaska. His concern is en
gaged in the clam business, and he
-ame here for the purpose of looking
pver the local clam beds with a view
to establishing a plant at Cordova.
Mr. Shuck is the second representa
tive from the outside who has visited
this section within the past week, hav
ing been attracted here by the fame
:>f our claims, and there is every indi
cation that one or two more of these
Industries w'ill soon be added to those
now in operation.
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ARRAIGNED FOR
MURDER
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 10. — War
ren K. Billings, Thomas J. Mooney
and his wife, Mena Mooney, Edward
D. Nolan and Israel Weinberg were
arraigned in court this morning on the
charge of murder, in connection with
the bomb explosion during the recent
preparedness program.