The Cordova Daily Times
VOLUME Two" NUMBER .‘570. CORDOVA, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 23, 1916. PRICE TEN CENTS.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. — Con
fidential advices received here from
Berlin, and communicated to the state
department officials, indicate that
Germany will soon officially inform
the United States that her previous
assurances that merchant vessels,
which do not resist, will not be at
tacked by Teuton submarines in the
future, without due warning being giv
en. so that the passengers and crew
can escape in lifeboats, holds good for
the future, and will not be modified
in any particular as a general pro
oosition. Thev have added a proviso,
however, that if the merchantmen are
armed, even if only a defensive arma
ment, they are removed from the spirit
of the rule, and would be subject to
unwarned attark. The Berlin foreign
office contends that what is ordinar
ily called defensive armament for a
merchantman, becomes in fact offen
sive armament when the fragile na
ture and vulnerability of the submar
ines are considered. Germany will
propose to the Washington govern
l ment that this phase of the matter be
» considered and discussed by the two
countries in an effort to secure an
amicable understanding on the matter,
alleging that new conditions of war
fare radically change old and accept
ed rules of international law. Ger
many wants a clear understanding of
what defensive armanent may proper
ly consist of so as to entitle a mer
chantman to the same privileges re
*' garding warning before attack as an
unarmed vessel. The government
feels in a way that as none of the
British and French liners calling and
leaving American ports carry arms
of any kind, that these new assur
ances of Germany guarantee the
safety of Americans traveling on these
ships. It is understood that the ships
entering and leaving the great Atlan
tic seaport points will be amply pro
A tected even under Germany’s an
nounced new submarine policy, which
will go into effect next Tuesday.
GILL WIRS 001
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SEATTLE, Feb. 22. — The prim
ary election held in this city yester
• day resulted in a triumphant victory
for .Mayor Hi Gill, who was renomin-1
ated for that office. He received a
large majority of all votes east for
his competitors. Austin Griffith was
second in the race, and Oliver Erick
son third.
For corporation counsel, Hugh Cald
well and James Bradford were nomi-j
nated. Harry Carroll had no opposi-j
tion in his fight for comptroller. Fori
treasurer, Ed. Terry, a former Alas
kan, was nominated by an enormous .
majority. The successful council
* manic candidates were: Former May
or Ott. former City Engineer Thomp- j
$on, Councilman Fitzgerald, Otto I
.Ase, Dr. Edwin Brown, Socialist, and
Councilman Marble.
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Fred Haef is confined to his room
with a slight attack of appendicitis.
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— A train leaves this morning for
* Chitina and Kennecott.
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The steamer Alameda is due from
the westward today, and will be here
seven or eight hours loading ore.
THOMAS H. BARRY.
Major General Who Leads United
States Troops In Philippines.
Photo by American Press Association.
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ALL TRAVELLERS
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SEATTLE, Eeb. 22. — Another re
cord breaking crowd took passage or
the steamer Northwestern Sunday
night for Cordova, to which port is
most of the travel for Alaska. The
list included over ninety, as follows:
E. C. Heacock, J. Paulson, J. Carlin
Ed. Beruin, E. Robinson G. Steele, M
Lattin, H. Laurie, Henry Wagner, Dr
Hall, Jake Peterson, l^rs Johnson, A
Boen, Hohn Christiansen, (’has. John
son, A. Johnson, S. Svierson, H. I<joe
Chriss Hobenoch, Leonels Larson
Saiu Carlson, Adolanh Nelson, Frank
Johnson, John Holland, Ed. Juerek
Lee Dickinson, E. Bassot, Mrs. (’hull
Mrs. E. Mayer. H. Sovik, Nels Hawk
inson, H. Ferguson H. Hutchinson
Dutch Blanchfield and wife, W. Ting
ley and wife, Mrs. Edith Waite, Mrs
Fendklewis, Mrs. J. Baltuff, Severl
Anderson, J. H. Jalmar, H. Venson
Oscar Olson, Hew Hatra. Peter Wick,
Hans Havron, Olaf Sein, Martin
Holmes, Mary Kelly, Elizabeth Chur
chill, Laura Mangmus, Mrs. J. Forres
ter and two babies, I. Bergwood. Con
rod Olson, R. Vernon, C. Camp, Mar
jorie Bailey, Pearl Gatei, and twenty
nine steerage.
SEATTLE, Feb. 22. — The steamer
Admiral Evans sailed Sunday for
southwestern Alaska. Passengers
booked for Cordova were Charles Nel
son, Y. K. Itsueta, Pete Olsen ami
Lawrence Cooper. For Katalla there
was Jule Rudolph and two steerage.
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CANNOT TAX
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 22. — The
circuit court of appeals has reversed
the decision of Judge Brown by de
ciding the municipality of Seward has
no right to tax railroads or their pro
perty. Judge Brown ordered the sale
of the Alaska Northern road to satis
fy delinquent taxes levied by the Sew
ard council. The court here held that
the act of 1912 reserved to Congress
the exclusive right to tax Alaska for
the ensuing five years.
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The longshoremen of Cordova met
on Monday night and formed a tem
porary organization.
CM0 FLEET
SKATTI.K, Feb. 22. — The North
western Fisheries Company has shift
ed the first of its Alaska cannery
fleet from winter quarters, when the
ship Benjamin F. Packard was towed
from Port Blakeley to Winslow for
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BAD COLLISION
NEW HAVEN
NEW HAVEN. Conn., Feb. 22. —
There was a disastrous wreck on the
New Haven railroad today, which It
is believed will result in the loss of
many lives. It was a rear-end col
lision of passenger trains, and the
first reports are that ten persons were
killed, and sixteen Injured.
NEW HAVEN. Feb. 22. — Late to
day it was learned that but six peo
ple were killed in the w’reek, four of
whom are trainmen and two passen
gers. The injured totals over twenty,
some of whom are in a serious condi
tion.
WRECK ZEPPELIN
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PARIS. Feb. 2J. — Details of the
attack on the German Zeppelin, which
was brought to the ground in this city
yesterday are beginning to be learned.
The Zeppelin was first detected by
the sound of her motors, and was soon
picked up by the searchlights, which
began to flash across the heavens
I from the various stations situated
j throughout the city. As soon as the
| searchlights found the airship, the
anti-aircraft guns commenced their
cannonade, and the little puffs of
smoke appearing on all sides of the
lliuge craft testified that the gunners
were getting the range of the ship.
Two shells burst directly in the rear
I of the huge bag, and undoubtedly shat
|tered the big bag, but whether these
j would have brought the ship down'
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|same time an incendiary shell was!
[seen to tear across the Zeppelin from ■
right to ieft, igniting the bag. The j
ship immediately began to descend, i
the fire in the meantime burning
steadily without an explosion. On j
touching the ground the Zeppelin’s
body exploded with a great roar, tear-1
ing up tlie ground for a considerable
distance, and sending the machinery
flying into small bits. An enormous ,
crowd gathered around the wrecked;
airship and watched with curiosity the >
soldiers separating the debris, and !
bringing forth the dead bodies of the j
'Zeppelin's crew. None of the crew'
[survived the fall, and twenty-five dead
bodies in all were found underneath
the wreck of the machine.
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Chairman Smith, of the street com
mittee, has had a force of men at
work shoveling the snow from the!
sidewalk to the dock and at other
places throughout the town.
LONDON, Keb. 22. — It is reportet
that American Ambassador Gerard, tt
Germany, broke his collar bone ant
was otherwise injured while skiilnt
near Munich.
TEUTONS STILL
TAKING FRENCH
RERUN. Feb. 22. — The war ot'fiot
issued an official bulletin this after
noon. stating that the Teuton forcei
had made another advance, capturing
eight hundred meters of Frencl
trenches in the district east of Sou
chez. The French trenches were sub
jected to a heavy artillery fire, fol
lowed by a hand grenade bombard
ment, after which the infantrj
charged, driving the enemy before
them, and capturing many machlnt
guns, which were abandoned by tin
French in their retreat. The Frencl
have made several counter attacks tt
retake the lost positions, but thej
have all been repulsed, and the Ger
mans have consolidated the new
trenches.
YBUKGEfi CLERGY
LONDON, Feb. 22. — Although tin
bishop of London has not seen hi?
way clear to set aside the rule of his
church against combatant service foi
the younger clergy, lie has told a dele
gation of militant curates who called
on him that he would do all he could
toward enabling them to become chap
lains and stretcher bearers.
Over a thousand curates, who in lay
life would be eligible for military ser
vice, signed a petition to the bishop,
asking that they be allowed to put
on khaki and fight. They claimed
that the defence of a cause that they
righteous against one they thought
evil was in accord with the teachings
of Christianity and the Anglican
church.
All of the Anglican bishops, includ
tKn A wnLiKtoYiAn nf fantorhnrv
have been opposed from the start to
the enlistment of the young clergy
in the fighting ranks. But the feeling
of the mass of the young clergymen
is strongly inclined toward military
service. Many clergymen of the non
conformist sects, such as Presbyter
ians, Congregationalists and Metho
dists, have gone into the ranks and
accepted commissions.
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BIG SHIPMENT OF LUMBER FOR
NEW CANNERY.
A telegram was received yesterday
announcing the fact that the Clark,
Graham Company w'ould soon begin
the active work of completing their
new cannery at Mountain Slough. A
vessel will leave Puget Sound on
March 8 with 80.000 feet of lumber for
the company, and in the meantime ar
rangements will be made for scows,
&e„ to handle the material from this
port to the site of the new cannery.
JAMES M. SULLIVAN.
Minister to Santo Domingo, Who
Was Investigated, Comes Home.
YELLOW STB
PETROGRAD, Feb. 22. — The wai
, office announced today that the Turk
ish losses suffered on the last day
, when the city of Erzerum was taken
were four thousand killed, besides
i many prisoners. The Russians can
| not estimate the losses suffered by
j the enemy in the days previous to the
evacuation of the city, for the Turks
lost heavily day after day from the
time the first of the outlying forts
fell. The Russian artillery was used
1 with great skill, and far exceeded the
Turkish guns in the accuracy of its
fire, and the general results. In the
[first fighting heaps of Turkish dead
I were found in the demolished outet
| forts surrounding the city. The last
j of the battle found the Turks toe
| anxious to escape to put up serious
i resistance, or to take time to destroy
| the inner fortifications, so that thf
j Russians will not find it difficult to
[rebuild the inner forts, and the work
is already progressing, while the van
! guard of Grand Duke Nicholas' army
is preparing to driye the Turks from
; their new positions eleven miles dis
! tant from the city.
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NETHERLANDS IS
I ILL STOCKED
AMSTERDAM. Netherlands. Feb.
22. — Not the least curious of the
many strange incidental effects pro
duced by the war is the fact that the
small country of the Netherlands pro
bably contains more gold today than
ever before in its history. In the past
year, fdr instance, a continual steady
inflow of gold from the European
continent and overseas has doubled
the stocks of the Netherlands Bank,
and with Holland's foreign exchanges t
continuing their ever downward
course there is no saying what figure
they may reach if the war lasts much
longer and is still kept out of her bor
ders.
With long queues standing daily at
the banks doors, the government at
the outbreak of the war had to re
duce the compulsory gold covering
the bank's callable liabilities from 40
to 20 per cent; those liabilities of
620.000. 000 florins, or $258,333,000, are
now covered to the extent of 69 per
cent, the gold stocks amounting to
430.000. 000 florins, or $179,166,000. On
the other hands a review of the year
just closed shows that the bank note
circulation has been a record one,
reaching the figure of 576,700,000 flor
ins on November 2 last, or $249,291.
000.
Other evidence of the favorable fac
tors which the war has brought with
it for Holland is found in the new
year's speech of the chairman of the
Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce, in
which he shows that a number of
businesses and industries have been
able to make considerably increased
profits, although the risks were ab
normal. The Dutch shipping compan
ies have been making enormous pro
fits, while the Dutch shipbuilding
yards are so crowded with work that
orders can only be placed for very
distant deliveries.
It may be noted incidentally that
the considerable rise in the prices
of American industrial securities was
one of the principal factors that aided
in a rapid liquidation of the mass of
stock loan transactions that had to be
compulsoriy suspended when the war
crisis broke out. as the Dutch public
took advantage of this rise to realize
a large quantity of their American
holdings and obtain the ready money
they needed.
There is, however, another side to
the medal, for the feverish activity
in some economic departments is more
than offset for the nation as a whole
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by the big rise in the cost of living
and the burden of the mobilization
costs. The war loan of some $115,
000,009 has long since been eaten up.
and at the end of the year the float- •
ing debt of the treasury had again
grown to $54,000,000, so that another
big loan seems inevitable in the com
ing spring, while large taxation in
creases are already before parliament.
The export of cut and rough dia
monds to the United States amounted
in the first three-quarters of the year
to 13,780,000 florins, or $5,745,800, as
against 12,781,000 florins, or $5,325,
400. The demand for rough diamonds,
which was small in the beginning of
the year increased considerably, es
pecially in the third quarter of the
year, while prices remained firm. Am
sterdam merchants have been estab
lishing more representatives in Am
erica than formerly, so that the in
creased stocks in their possession
should be taken into account in con
nection with the foregoing figures.
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There was quite a blizzard raging
during the night.
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Two boats are now on the way from
Seattle with over a hundred pasaeu
gcrs for Cordova.
FRANCIS BEING
WASHINGTON. Feb. 22. — David
it. Francis, of Missouri, held a long
' conference with President Wilson and
1 Secretary Lansing today. It is un
! derstood Francis will accept an am
I bassadorship.
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PARIS, Feb. 22. — The entire crew
of twenty-two men and a Zeppelin
were brought to earth by an automo-j
bile mounted cannon near Brabant.!
All of the men met instant death from
the first shot fired at the Zeppelin. '