, The Cordova Daily Times
VOLUME TWO. NUMBER 334. CORDOVA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 11,1916. PRI< i : TEN ( KXTS.
BATTLESHIP KING EDWARD VII IS SUNK BY MINE
Special by Associated Press. boats being picked up by other ships
LONDON, Jan. 11. — The British in the fleet. The King Edward VII
battleship King Edward VII was sunk was built in 1902 at a cost of slightly
by "striking a floating mine yesterday, less than seven and a half million dol
The mine struck the vessel about lars. Her tonnage was 16,350, with
amidships, and while the boat was a displacement of 27 feet and over
fatally wounded its airtight compart- 18,000 horse-power. The ship carried
ments kept it floating long enough for four 12-inch guns, four 9-inch, ten
all of the crew to take to the life- 6-inch, and two smaller batteries of
boats. Not a single casualty resulted fourteen 12-pounders and seventeen
because of the accident, all the life- 3-pounders.
1 Special by Asrociated Press. age of the officials for their action
LONDON, Jan. 11. — The war de- in admitting their error. The offi
partment announced officially today cial bulletin states that the removal
that the Pritish had entirely evacu- of the troops was accomplished with
ated the Gallipoli peninsula, thus out the loss of a single soldier. All
abandoning what has been a tremen- the guns, supplies and ammunition
dously costly enterprise in men and were also removed. The Turks were
money. The leading journals com- forced to desist from attacking dur
ment variantly on the matter, some ing the embarkation because of the
criticising the government for the heavy shelling of their positions by
fiasco, and others praising the cour- the guns of the fleet.
JUNEAU--IY U
VALDEZ, Jan. 11. — The territorial
committee met here today, when the
time and place of holding the conven
tion to nominate a candidate for dele
gate to Congress and candidates for
the territorial Senate and House re
sulted in a spirited, although friendly,
rivalry.
After many ballots had been taken
Juneau was selected as the conven
tion city, and May 24 the date set.
Ketchikan, Fairbanks and Seward
were also in the fight, having strong
adherents, but Juneau finally won out.
The committee consists of J. A.
Baxter, chairman; C. J. Todd, secre
tary; D. Noel, J. F. McDonald, First
division; George B. Grigsby, Con
» Kelley, Second division: T. H. Schef
^ fler, A. E. Todd, Third division; R. F.
Roth, F. A. Martin, Fourth division.
There was a full representation at
the meeting, either in person or by
proxy, excepting in the case of Fred
Martin, of Fairbanks, who is now at
Anchorage.
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EDES ASKS FDR
WASHINGTON. Jan. IX. — Chair
man William C. Edes, of tlie Alaska
engineering commission, appeared be
fore the house committee on appro
priations today and discussed the fin
ancial needs of the government rail
road project in Alaska. Mr. Edes
asked for an immediate additionaTap
propriation of two million dollars for
the purpose of completing the work
already undertaken. He told the con
gressmen that the commission desired
to hasten the completion of the road
to the Matanuska coal fields in order
that the coal may become available
for development and use as soon as
possible. He also said that the com
mission wished to complete railroad
connection between Anchorage and
Seward by building the connecting
link between Kern Creek and Anchor
age Junction, along the shore of
Turnagain Arm.
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OF SEATTLE IS
KILLED
SEATTLE, Jan. 11. — Mrs. Bright
Haines, a pioneer of this city, was to
day run down and killed by a Chicago
& Milwaukee railway train.
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The train arrived from Chitina this
afternoon and the next train for the
interior leaves on Thursday morning.
It is reported that about fifty men
are wintering in the Chisana district,
where drifting is being done on sev
eral claims.
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BRITISH EDITOR
IN LONDON
LONDON, Jan. 11. — Lord Burn
ham, proprietor of the London Daily
| Telegraph, died here today after an
illness of about two months. Lord
Burnham was a leading figure in
English journalism, and his paper was
widely read throughout the British
Isles. It gained a reputation as one
of the great London dailies, and the
character of the editorials, written by
the deceased, were a great factor in
the building up of the large power
it wielded in public affairs.
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LONDON, Jan. 11. — The war office
'issued an official bulletin this morn
ing announcing that the Turkish
forces which have been attacking the
British positions at Kutelamara in
Mesopotamia, had been repulsed with
great slaughter. The English have
I been reinforced since their retreat
' from in front of Bagdad, and following
; up their advantage when the Turks
> turned and fled, are now in hot pur
| suit of the enemy. The Turks left
many dead upon the field, victims to
the deadly machine gun fire of the
British troops. The bulletin also an
nounced that Sir Percy Lake had been
appointed commander of the British
forces in Mesopotamia, succeeding Sir
John Dixon, who was returning home
because of ill health.
PARIS, Jan. 11. — The Austrians
invading Serbia are continuing to ad
vance into the interior and are forc
ing their passage through the moun
tain passes. The Austrians are in an
overwhelming numerical superiority
over the defenders, but despite that
the Montenegrins are fighting bravely
and are making s'esperate stands at
every opportunity. Tue Austrians
seem determined to accomplish with
Montenegro what the Bulgarians and
the Teutons did for Serbia, but they
are suffering heavily in the attempt,
as their losses to date have been tre
mendous. it requiring large sacrifices
of men to drive the Montenegrins
from their mountain strongholds.
THE FIRST CATCH OF CLAMS IS
PACKED TODAY.
The Lighterage Packing Company
has its new plant practically installed
on the city wharf, and the first catch
of claims was packed this afternoon.
President Sprague is very much en
couraged over the outlook for his en
terprise. and ere long expects to
employ a large force of people.
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EXPERIENCES OF
TIE GUTTERS
On Tuesday last the vanguard of
a tie outfit operating at Point Pos
session under two contractors from
Seattle by the name of Sutherland &
Prooks, begun to arrive in town, tak
ing up their quarters at the Seattle
rooming house. But before this ar
ticle is printed the whole crew may
have arrived, if not dead on the trail
through lack of food or clothing to
keep them from freezing to death, and
add more tragedies to the long list
in the northland.
It seems these two contractors
hired the men in Seattle to go to
Point Possession to cut ties, and they
arrived at that place October 12.
They were to receive 15 cents for
firsts and 12 1-2 cents for seconds,
and have received no pay at all yet.
The contractors agreed to furnish
everything, but did not fulfil that
agreement either, so w'hen the men
arrived at Point Possession some of
them had barely footwear enough to
cover their feet, expecting to be sup
plied upon their arrival. They were
also told that a six month’s supply of
provisions had been sent in with
them, when they had a scant two
month’s supply, thus running low
when navigation closed.
They remained, however, until
every hope had fled, some freezing
their feet and hands, and others their
faces in the cold, raw winds, when at
last they were forced through hunger
and cold to leave the camp and at
tempt to reach Anchorage, which
they did after more harrowing experi
ences than the combined forces of
Europe are now undergoing.
After their hard work at Point Pos
session, and with all their hardships,
they succeeded in cutting 10,730 ties,
which they were compelled to leave
on the ground for lack of transporta
tion facilities in getting them out, and
they report four feet of snow in
places, which will keep them hidden
until spring before they can be re
covered.
It is reported that the party con
sisted of 16 men when they left Point
Possession for Anchorage, a distance
said to be about 200 miles over the
trail, and the men claim many of
them had barely enough covering for
their feet to reach here. They were
on the trail fourteen days, and allege
that the contractor, Brooks, gave
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them only $1 each with which to pro
vide them for the fourteen days’
travel, and that while he slept in
roadhouses they were compelled to
sleep outside as best they could. The
following men gave their names for
publication: Fred Lund, H. Hill, Bill
Lund, Walter Markkula, A. Perho,
John Rlnda, John Braff, John Gard,
Emil Pallander Peter Eklund E. Ol
sen, Ed. Gray, Elmer Seaquist and V.
Dlacur.—Anchorage Alaskan.
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In his annual report Governor
Strong thus treats of the mining in
dustry in this section.:
The development made up to mid
summer gave promise that 1915 would
| be the most profitable year In the
! history of Alaska copper mining. The
financial stringency and collapse of
the copper market that followed the
breaking out of the European war not
only closed down some of the produc
I ing mines, but also put a stop to some
very important developments. TTp to
! about the first of August six copper
mines were in operation, but at the
'close of the year only three were
working. Had it not been for the war
at least nine copper mines would have
been ready to ship ore before the end
of the year. Probably the most im
portant events of the year to the cop
! per industry of Alaska were the re
opening of the Mamie mine, in the
Ketchikan district; the installation of
a shipping plant and the opening of
the Midas mine, near Valdez; and the
completion of aerial trams at the
! Jumbo and Mother Lode mines, in the
Chitina district.
The Kennecott Bonanza copper
mine continued operations throughout
the year, and the total length of un
derground workings is now about 4,
000 feet. An aerial tram has been
built to the Jumbo mine, where the
ore body has been opened to a depth
of 400 feet. Some ore shipments were
made from the Mother Tode mine, j
Developments were continued on the
Hubbard & Elliott property by a long
adit tunnel on the Albert Johnson
claim, and work was done on the pro
perties of the Alaska Consolidated
Copper Company and Great Northern
Development Company, and on the
Harus group of claims in the Kusk*
lana river basin.
Four hydraulic plants were oper
ated in the Nizina and one in the
Bremner district, as well as eight or
ten smaller plants.
The placers discovered in the basin
of the Nelchina river, tributary to
Tazltna river, in 1913, have not proved
either rich or extensive. Auriferous
gravels were found on several creeks,
but only those on Albert creek have
proved rich enough to exploit, and the
output of gold so far has been in
significant.
MAKE GAINS IN
PARTS, Jan. 11. — The war office
Issued an official communique today,
stating that many heavy attacks were
made yesterday by the Germans on
the French positions in the Cham
pagne district. The French broke
down the German infantry charges,
inflicting heavy losses. At one time
the Germans gained a temporary
foothold in the advanced French po
sitions, but were later driven there
from by counter attacks of the French
soldiers, who regained all their
trenches with the exception of por
tions of two advanced positions.
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RERUN, Jan. 11. — The war office
announced today that the Germans
had taken the offensive at a point
northwest of Massieges, in northern
vrance, and by heavy shelling of the
French trenches, followed by an in
fantry charge, had managed to take
and hold several hundred yards of the
irst line of French trenches.
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DEACONESS PECK IS RETURNING
TO ENGLAND.
Among the passengers leaving here
for the States on the steamer North
western was Deaconess Peck, of Ta
nana Crossing, who has been an
Episcopal missionary in Alaska for
five years, and is entitled to a fur
lough of one year. Deaconess Peck is
going to her home in England to rest
and see her family.
In the five years that she has spent
in the northland Deaconess Peck has
served in the missions at Ketchikan,
at Tanana and at other places. A
year ago last summer she went to
the headwaters of the Tanana river
to take charge of the work there. Her
five years of continuous service ex
pired last summer, but at that time
there was no one to relieve her, and
Deaconess Peck remained until her
relief arrived by way of Eagle.
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Geo. A. Harmon returned on the
launch Waif from a business trip to
Valdez.
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The Valdez Masons have under
consideration the erection of a temple.
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W. H. Mendham, a Fairbanks jewel
er, was a passenger for Cordova on
today's train.
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CHICAGO, Jan. 11. — An echo of
j the famons Frost trial in Chicago on
a criminal charge for attempting to
unlawfully obtain coal lands in the
Matanuska region of Alaska, was
heard toddy, when it became public
that O. W. Ilurke. former mayor of
Blue Island, Illinois, had been arrest
ed by the federal authorities charged
j with bribery. The specific allegations
in the information charges Burke with
having accepted a bribe of five thou
sand dollars for bringing in a verdict
of not guilty in favor of Albert Frost
and the other defendants. Burke was
] a juror in the famous case in which
j the well known Nome lawyer, Fink,
] represented the defendants, the
j charge being that Frost and his asso
j ciates had conspired to obtain the coal
I lands by using dummy entrymen.
I Burke was unable to obtain the neces
j sary ten thousand dollars bail when
• arrested, and in default thereof was
confined in the county jail.
BULL MOOSE TO
PUT TICKET IN
TIELO
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CHICAGO, Jan. 11. — The national
j committee of the Progressive party
met here today for the purpose of
naming a time and place for the
holding of the Bull Moose convention.
George Perkins, one of Roosevelt's
managers, assured that a presidential
ticket would be placed in the field.
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EL PASO, Jan. 11. — It is an
nounced by the doctors attending Vic
toriana Huerta, the confined ex-presi- **
dent of Mexico, that their patient is
gradually sinking, and that his con
dition today is much worse than at
any time heretofore, it is not now
thought that Huerta will ever recover
from his present illness. The govern
ment is still maintaining a strict
guard around the house where Huerta
is being cared for by his wife.
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The Knights of Pythias lodge wili
instal its newly elected officers this
evening, and has arranged an inter
esting program in connection with the
ceremonies.
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The launch waif returned last eye
ing from Valdez and will I?a.e toi it s
for Katalla.
Assistant ri:-i;ict Atto iey 'd
Helig of Fairbanks, will ihnrtly
marry Mrs. Lilliam Martin, former
wife of Fred Martin, who is now a
resident of Anchorage.