VOLT ME II. NUMBER 590. CORDOVA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1916. PRICE TEN CENTS.
ENGLISH SPRING SURPRISE ON THE GERMANS
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 14. — Admin
istration offic ials announce (hat an in
vestigation into the alleged misuse of
money in the presidential campaign
will be made. The preliminary filuns
are being made and a resolution draft
ed providing the imohi'nery for an in
quiry, which will he ready for intro
duct ion when congress meets next c
month.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14. The de
partment of justice announces that its
investigations ol the misuse of cam
paign funds in the presidential elec
tion will continue in the various states
and be followed by the prosecution of I
a large force of special agents who
have been working in Michigan, Min-]
nesota, Ohio, New York, Illinois and
Indiana.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 — Evi
dence of file misuse of money in the
recent campaign is being collected.
Those actually in charge of the cam
paign finances will he called upon and
others questioned concerning the de- i
tails of the expenditures for United
States senator. Reports concerning i
the use of money has been received <
at both the1 Democratic and Republi- i
can headquarters. In the investiga- >
tion it is alleged attempts to colonize
illegal voters in Indiana and West Vir
ginia began several weeks before the
election. In these states the Demo
cratic leaders are planning to contest
(lie election of United States senators,
,_ charging that negroes colonized from
the south in the states where Republi i
cans triumphed by a small majority.
If the contests are brought they must
he in the new senate, where the Demo
crats control by a majority of twelve.
NEW YORK, Nov. 14. Chairman
Wilcox, of the Republican congres
sional committee, said that he wel
comed the fullest investigation of
every cent spent by the Republicans.
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WASHINGTON. Nov. 14 Score
tary of State Lansing is informed that
Villistas are operating around Chihua
hua City, withdrawing more of the
Carranza troops that are being sent
there.
MAKE ANOTHER
WIST
WASHINGTON, Nov it. Presi
dent Wilson is being strongly urged
to make a western trip Itefore con
gress meets, in recognition of the I
western support which re-elected him.
The president's plans are still indefi
nite, hut he is likely to lake another I
w- spin around the circle before settling
^ down to work.
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ICE IS THICK ANCHORAGE;
LAST BOAT HAS LEFT THERE.
The freighter l.atouche is in port,
loading 1,200 tons of Kenneeott ore
for the smelter. Capt Johanson re
ports that when he was at Anchorage
several days ago the ice was very
f thick in Cook Inlet, and he dropped
an anchor, weighing a to nand a half,
which would not go through the lee.
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SULZER RETURNS FROM
TRIP TO WESTWARD,
Charles A. Sulssar, Democratic can
didate for delegate td congress, is In
town this afternoon on his return from
Anchorage to his home in southeast
ern Alaska, lie expressed hitnself as
being very much pleased at the big
vote he received at the recent elec
tion, and believeB he has been select
ed to represent the people of Alaska
at Washington for the ensuing two
years.
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Thomas Hierson will leave for his
home in Oregon on the Admiral Evans.
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MOTHER LOOE BE
BIG SCALE
GEATTI-H, Nov. 13. — The largest
•opper deal since the reorganization
if the Kennecott Copper Corporation
s announced here today. The Mother
aide copper mines, known as one
if the riches in the world and second
inly in the richness and extent of
ts ore bodies to the famous Bonanza |
nine at Kennecott, Alaska, has com j
lined with the Wallace claims adjoin
ng, and the capital stock of the new I
•orporation has been raised to seven
md one-half million dollars. These,
iroperties are near the Bonanza mine
it Kennecott and have been good pm j
lueers, but have been handicapped by
he fact that the ore has to be hauled
i distance of about twelve miles to
■each the railroad at McCarthy. This
s possible only in the winter months j
iver a snow trail.
First mortgage bonds to the extent j
if one million dollars have been un
lerwritten in New York by a promt
lent bank, and the company is suffi
■iently well financed to go ahead with
iroduction on a large scale, and will
irobably build a branch railroad line
rom the mine to the Copper River A
Northwestern railroad at McCarthy.
James J. Godfrey, the first mining
■ecorder of the Copper river district,
s the president of the new corpora
ion.
REPUBS NOT IN
MAJORITY, SAY
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14. — Chair
mm Dorenius, of the Democratic con
,'resHional committee, says the con
rol of the next house is unsettled. He
•laims the Democrats have 212 votes
insured, but refuses to admit there
cvill be 217 Republicans. He says the
Republicans have only 211 sure, with
nine congressional districts missing.
ALASKA SHOULD
HE THREE
DELEGATES
One of the first things that should
be provided for Alaska by congress
is more delegates to congress. Rend
ing the inevitable time when Alaska
must be divided into two or three or
more territories. The territory ought
to be divided into three or four dis
tricts for delegates in the national
House or representatives.
There is precedence for such a
course. The Philippines have two
delegates to congress, and the differ
cut sections of Alaska, and the con
nection between the Philippines and
the government at Washington, par
ticularly In local matters is not near
ly as intimate or important to the
people as the connection between
Alaska and the national capital.
A bill providing for at least three
delegates should be got through con
gross at the earliest possible date.
The First, Second and Fourth divi
sions should be in different delegate
districts. The Third should decide
whether she wants a separate delegate
or whether ijhe would like to be in
the same district as the First or the
Fourth. The Empire believes that the
fate of the First and Third divisions
should be cast together, but that Is a
matter for the Third division to de
cide for herself.
It is possible that it would be neces
sary or advisable — to cut off a
portion of the lower Yukon from the
Fourth and added to the Second, hut
that, too, is a matter for the people
of the sections concerned to decide for
themselves.
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MARIPOSA HERE TONIGHT.
The steamer Mariposa is due to
night from Seattle, and unless the
weather prevents will be here at
o'clocS?
LONDON, Nov. 14.—Tin* British troops have captured
over 4,000 Hermans in tlie Alien* battle. The Hermans were
ipparently completely surprised h\ the attack, as they were in
the trenches at Beaumont and Hamel and w. re preparing for
orenkfast when.the British infantry stormed tie it* positions.
After clearing t he underground galleries and akinr - . n him
dred prisoners the British proceeded to eat the prisoners'
break fast. I In* majority of the prisoners are Si le^iaus and vor v
inferior men. 4'he Hermans apparently de pern led upon the sup
posedly impregnable character of the works rather than tie
stamina of the men, as the Hermans \ it 1 idf- w tlu-ir m a f< r
service on the British front. The British lo.-es were mill: ualh
light owing to the feebleness of the Herman machine gun fin*
BLBLI X, Nov. 14. I n an ol l icial statement it is admitted
that the British captured Beaumont, Hamel and St. I’iern
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Division. 1 7
Bl < IIA WhS I, Xov. It. Redoubled efforts are bping
made by the Tenlons against the Roumanians, as powerful
Daitonie reintoivt nieiit-' are being sent to the Hungarian Rou
manian border.
BKR I.I.X, Xov. It. The < iermans retired from the Gyer
gvo mountains in northern Ti'ansylvania to the Roumanian
frontier, on account of the Teuton attacks.
\\ AS1IIXGTOX, Xov. It. The I nited States has not
mined in any prot< st against the ileportation of Belgians into
Jermanv.
\\ ASl H XGT< >X, Xov. It. Germany is building a great
ransntlnntic merchant -ubmariue to replace the lost Bremen.
WASHINGTON. Nov. H Husi
ness interests of Sacramento, Stock
ton, San Jose and Santa Clara, Cali
fornia.- and ITS other inland, or so
ealle 1 intermountain cities were af
fected by questions raised in the Pa
cific Terminals ease Without equal
transcontinental rate privileges with
San Francisco and other cities dassi
lied by the Interstate Commerce Com
mission as Pacific terminals, curtail
ing means to meet competition, the
supreme court was told much of their
business would be ruined.
The go\ eminent, the commission
and the transcontinental railroads ap
pealed to the supreme court from a
perpetual injunct ton granted March
27. 1 1 ‘I. by the Northern California
federal district court, annulling the
Commission's orders of January 2!'
and April :in. l'.t!.'., which allowed the
railroads to reduce cross continental
freight rates to San Francisco, Oak
land, San Iticvo, I ortland. Seattle and
other deep harbor ocean points in ol
der that the railmads could meet the
water competition caused b\ the open
iiig of the Panama canal. The com
mi sioii refined to classify Sacramen
to, Stockton, Sail Jose and Santa
Clara as Pacific terminals, denying
them the rate reductions given tie
ocean terminals Those cities, there
foie, boro additional rate charges
tile "hack haul" from the terminals.
Jn an injunction suit brought by the
Merchants' and Manufacturers' Pact
lie \ssoeiation ol Sacramento, the
traffic bureau of the San Jose Cham
ber of Commerce, the Stockton traffic
bureau and Hie fit \ of S:mt;i iTu-a
the California district court, with
Judge Bledsoe dissenting, ruled the
commission had exceeded its authority
in adjusting the transcontinental rates
and issued a perpetual injunction
against operation of the orders.
The court held that in the a haem e
of applications by the railroads for'
the specific rate changes ordered, the
commission was without power to di
rect them, tpon appeal, however, the
government contended that such up
Meat ions had been substantially fl’ed
and that, under the ruling in tho in
termountain rate case, and the long
and short haul clause of the Interstate
Commerce act, the commission had
acted within its authority. It was
pointed out that towns not dirosily
situated on the Pacific ocean were,
by their interior geographical posi
tion. not s'llijo i to the steamship
I competition of ( cean terminals and
j not entitled to induced r.i'es given
j such terminals.
That ITS hi tier inland or tntermonn
! tain cities might also insist Hp.’r Pa
cific terminal classification don'cl to
them, was raised by the government
and commission before the supreme
court, it ta ing set forth that the sole
reason for the commission's orders
j was necessity of ocean terminals to
I meet transcontinental transportation
conditions changed through the jpon
j lug of the Panama canal,
j The government and commission
also contended that the commission's
findings of fact and need for the rate
adjustments ordered, were final and
conclusive upon the courts, when
based on substantial evtdehce, and
that the California court's Injunction
in effect substituted the judgment of
that court fur tho commission's as
to the traffic conditions.
The commercial organizations ol
Sacramento. Stockton, San Jose and
Santa Clara, which contended theti
business men directly compete witt
those of San Francisco and Oakland
argued tint t!.i * *iii: ii -inn had in
lari an1,' .. ,,| ii. ii-j,. ,i author
ity only In "i.-.oil,,te rates
'I'll■ * railii,.ids i -111 I i|,.|i ndant.s
in tin in .in i j >, . lit ji,,. \f, hi
son, Topeka & ;'mti tv. Chicago,
Itock Island ,y I'a ific I'enver Itio
Claude, and the : '11.,■ n. Cnion ;m!
Western I’.-ieifh i panics.
I ll" "1" e .11' !"d la.-i month lie
tore the ' prene .ml, having heen
special!;, advanced i.i.i.n an appeal al
lowed liv A -Miei ,te .It - 111 i McKcBil,
win. also granted , stay, suspending
lhe Caliioi iiia i rf i junction pend
itlg the final lie. i aile
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REDUCING HUGHES’ FLURALITY.
ST. PAUL, Nov. 11. Charles L
Hughes' plurality in Mintiesot i is now
reduced to 115 votes.
ST. PAUL. Nov. I I \ re he k of
the Minnesota vot< ha- lifted iiu he
iduralitv to i’.L'l
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The train from Chit inn is due at *>
o'clock this evening
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After leaving Seward the UL iiru!
Kvans was compelled t.» go hack there
on account of the heavy ■■vie blowing
at sea. »
EVANS IS IN PORT.
The steamer Admiral Evans arrived
from Anchorage at I! o'clock thin af
ternoon and will he here about six
hours loading 500 tons of copper The
s the last boat to leave An
' borage this fall.
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! toes Hayden and wife, of Seward,
passengers on the Evans for the
late - and visited with local friends
this afternoon.
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\V \ Kicked and wife, of Kandlock,
■re here today on their way to the
states.
1 re
turns received i day nh"U that Wick
• : • I. iMi hil ■ i ' tv of i 1wiles,
insi, ad oi L's. m (he Second division,
v lit' ii prut l ie.,11. in -,ir« liis , lection
in the Third division the returns from
Hope hiv e W i■ 1 . h ,m 1 and Suf/.er
II votes, thus ire 1 easim; Wickersha's
piurailtv in the Tie d division to flaS,
and iceordin.- to all the figures avail
aide Wi ■' i : 1 re n. -. has a lead in
the ler; i uy e! 1st w . a follow:
Sul/.er Wick.
First Division fikSti 178".
Sei end Division. ft tie 1,180
Third Division lssni isr,:i
Forth Division I4.TI ]4*>d
Total ... T.lim 648I
Wn ketchunV plurality 481
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THIRD DIVISION.
Lewis Sulzor Wick.
Fidalgo. - 7
I.audio k .
(11 unite 17 1 ;
I .a touche ;:t
j i 'opper Center 7 5 1 i
Matanusku . 17 11 4a
i Kllumnr ...... d ; Is
Ouzinka . . ::t5
i i lilt M ino ...... 5 s
I St;ward. I t Is 1 l'.s
Valdez. 17 2 37 707
\nchoruge.71' 437
Cordova . . 74 l r.7 2"1
Bird wood I 1 15
Katalla I 7 1 If,
Bran by . . 11 1
Cmtlaska. 7 7.7
Kodiak. f> 5 tl 7
Bonanza. 4 it
lumbo. i:
Kennecott. 13 71 23
Kyak. 17 3d 4"
Allen. 2 7 4
Teikhel ...... 5 4
Sourdough ... 5
Chilina a 45 32
Tick el 7> 4 11
McCarthy. X 51 si
Strelna. _ a
Moose Creek
Knlk. t; 11 I
Seldovla . 17 53
I Unga. 1 7,1
| Alognak. 15 4 5
i 1 lope. 14 21
1
Total . 421 1.5'.". 1'5.1
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XOM K. Nov. 14 The Industrial
M ■ ,i r reports that the Second divi
sion e 1 st the following vote for dele
e'.ile.
Nome
\Vi< kershum. 579
Si Izer.401
vlutside of Nome (except Marshal
i'its i the vote stands:
M i liersham.801
.5fi4
Thi gi\• M'ickershatn a lead in the
'•■nitory of 135.
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WICK CARRIES HOPE.
SKM'AKl). Nov. 14. — The returns
t ii Hope have just been received,
mil ii as follows for delegate to
congress:
M il I ersham.21
Stilzcr .14
U' Milt of om* Day’s Hunt for Brown Boar in theCoppor Ifivor Valley
WILSON SURE OF
278 ELECTORAL
VOTES
According to advices from the states
President Wilson has 276 electoral
votes assured, and is re-elected with
Minnesota and Oregon in the doubtful
column. The vote follows:
For Hughet.
Connecticut. 7
Delaware. 3
Illinois.29
Indiana.15
Iowa .13
Maine. 6
Massachusetts .18
Michigan.15
New Jersey..14
New York. 45
Pennsylvania.38
Rhode Island. 5
South Dakota. 5
Vermont. 4
Wisconsin. .. , .13
West Virginia. 8
Total. .. 238
For Wilton.
Alabama. 12
Arizona. 3
Arkansas. 9
California.13
Colorado. 6
Florida. 6
Georgia. 14
Idaho ... 4
Kansas.10
Kentucky.13
Louisiana.10
Maryland. 8
Mississippi. . . lo
Missouri. 18
Montana. 4
Nebraska . 8
Nevada. 3
New Hampshire. 4
New Mexico. 3
North Dakota . 5
•North Carolina. .... 12
Ohio.24,
Oklahoma.18
South Carolina . vs "♦
Tennessee. . 12
Texas .. . *-20 .»
Ctah . 4
Virginia. 12
Washington. 7
Wyoming. 3
Total.276
Still In Doubt.
Minnesota.12
Oregon.5
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Total.17 *
Necessary to elect, 266.
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MISSING RADIO MEN ARE
LOCATED ANCHORED IN BAY.
Messrs. Darker and Crowell, of the
radio station, who left here Saturday
in a power boat for the plant and failed
to show up at their destination Mon
day morning, caused their friends con
siderable uneasiness as to their safety.
George Scott, Harry Rolfe and A1
Hamilton Btarted out in their launches
yesterday to hunt for the missing men.
i and late yesterday afternoon Hamilton
found them but a Bhort distance from
here in their boat, which was an
chored. They had run out of gaso
line and spent about forty hours in the
j storm, w ithout fire or food.
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UNIVERSITY STUDENT WILL
INSTRUCT IN REFORMATORY.
SEATTLE, Nov. 14 Russell Peter
son, a former student specializing In
political science of sociology In the
University of Washington, has joined
the faculty of Instruction of the state
reformatory at Monroe. Mr. Peterson
is assistant to the director of educa
tion and principal of the instruction
school.
Peterson was personally invited by
Henry Ford to go on the peace trip
to Europe last winter, but received
his instructions too late to catch the
boat leaving New York
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HENRY GEORGE. JR., IS DEAD
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 — Former
Congressman Henry George, son of
the famous single taxer, died at his
home in this city last night
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DANCE.
Wednesday night. Eagle Hail. Bon
Ton five-piece orchestra. Music 9.30.
The public cordially invited
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Rosa Kinney, of the Alaska road
commission, with headquarters to the
westward, circled among Cordova
friends this afternoon.
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The prospects are that the W'raugell
sawmill will run later this season than
ever before, and also that this season’s
cut will be the largest of any yaar so
f*r. |