Cordova Daily Times
O >M>< >VA, A!, A SKA, M< )NDA Y, AIGUST 28, 1916. PKICK TE X r K XTS ”
■ MORE WAR
Roumania Takes Dp Arms With Forces of the Entente
Italy Has Formally Declared War on the Germans
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BERLIN, Aug. 27.—It is officially announced that Italy
’ has declared war on Germany for August 28.
BERLIN, Aug. 28.—Roumania has declared war on Aus
tria, Hungary and Germany, and the federal council has been
convened.
ROME, Aug. 28.—Italy having formally declared war on
; Germany, its troops are now available for use at all the fronts,
, only half of them being used heretofore against Austria.
LONDON, Aug. 28.—Roumania is the fourteenth nation in
war, and Russia thus obtains a gateway through Roumania to
i attack the Bulgarians from the north, while the allies from Sa
loniki will attack the Bulgarians and Teutons from the south.
1 The Roumanian army has 580,000 men, who are reported to be
1 men of exceptional quality for work in the field.
t HAGUE, Aug. 28.—Germany will probably declare war on
Roumania within twenty-four hours. The same action will be
followed by Turkey and Bulgaria.
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| VIENNA, Aug. 28.— The Roumanian minister has received
I his passports and departed for Bucharest. All newspaper ar
ticles dealing with Roumania are being censored.
BERLIN, Aug. 28.—The Italian and Roumanian declara- j
tions of war have caused a profound impression here. The'
newspapers blame German Foreign Minister Jagow and Under
Secretary Zimmerman for Germany’s diplomatic defeat.
ATHENS, Aug. 28.—The landing of the first contingent of
Italian troops at Chimara, Albania, causes gloom throughout
Greece, as the Greeks behold Macedonia in the hands of the Bul
gars, and northern Epirus occupied by the Italians. After
landing the latter troops relieved the Greek civil officers of all
functions.
BERLIN, Aug. 28.—Germany has declared war on Rouma
i nia and the fighting has already begun between the Roumanian
| and Teutonic troops on the Transylvanian frontier, and in the
I first skirmishes a number of Roumanian prisoners were taken.
ATHENS, Aug. 28.—A big demonstration was held today j
before the residence of Venizelos, over fifty thousand Greeks j
being present and applauding the warlike speech made by Veni
zelos, who urged his hearers to send a committee to the king and ;
demand that Greece take up arms in the present European con
flict.
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PARIS, Aug. 28.—The Germans made several attacks on
the French positions at Fleury, but they were all repulsed.
CHICAGO, Aug. 28.—Roumania’s declaration of war has
.mashed the wheat market. The opening prices showed a fall
o ffive and three-quarters cents a bushel. The railroad strike
situation has also prompted the sales for Demember to fali
eight and a half cents.
CHICAGO, Aug. 28.—December wheat closed at eleven and
a quarter cents lower than the present price in frantic excite
ment.
LONDON, Aug. 26.—It is officially announced that the
British naval auxiliary has been torpedoed in the North sea,
during which engagement twenty-three men were lost.
LONDON, Aug. 28.—The vessel torpedoed was the steamer
Duke of Albany. All aboard were drowned, excepting eleven
officers and seventy-six men.
SOFIA. Aug. 26.—Alter severe fighting on the Bulgarian
light wing, the Bulgarians defeated the Serbians, who retired
with heavy losses. The Serbians made eighteen consecutive
ittacks on the eastern end, but the Bulgarians reached the
Greek Negean coast, and have also occupied several villages.
LONDON, Aug. 26. The British aeroplanes raided Bel
gium and bombarded the airship sheds at Namur.
SALONIKI, Aug. 26.—The Bulgarians have captured the
Greek fort, at Startile, after killing the Greek commander.
PARIS, Aug. 26 — The Germans were repulsed after pene
trating the French position in Champagne* while other German
attacks also failed.
LONDON, Aug. 26.—The Prussian guard attacked the
British troops at Thiepvald, but the attack was repulsed near
Monquet farm. The British gained four hundred yards and
the German trenches along the Courcelcttc Thiepval road were'
captured.
PETROGRAD, Aug. 26.- The Russians made a consider
able advance in the Carpathian foothills in Galicia.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 26.-The British and Turkish
reconnoitering parties clashed within sixteen miles of the Sue'’
canal, and the British detachment were forced to retreat.
UNIONS WANT GOVT. OWNERSHIP
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2G.—A crisis has been reached in
the railway strike negotiations. The executives of the roads
refuse to grant to the men an eight hour day and are offering
a substitute proposition to the brotherhoods. Officials of the
latter declared that only unqualified concessions by the rail
roads of an eight hour day or congressional action, taking over
the railroads for government operation could prevent a strike.
President Wilson went to the capitol suddenly this afternoon in
connection with the strike situation, where he summoned Demo
cratic Leader Kern and Chairman Newlands, of the senate com
, merce commission, in charge of the senate legislation affecting
railways.
After the conference with the senators Wilson was interro
gated as to the object of his visit and he told the newspaper
' correspondents: ‘‘I came to see them on certain legislative
matters. That is all I can say.” Later it was learned the presi
dent told the senators that the railways put it up to him to get
some guarantee from congress that they be permitted to raise
their rates. No agreement was reached at the conference so far
as could be learned.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.- Wilson's plan for breaking the
railroad deadlock provides for an eight hour law for railroads,
effective far enough in the future to give the railroads time to
1 prepared, and also a lew creating a commission of investigation
1 and preventing lockouts or strikes while the industrial dispute
K is being investigated. The railroad managers were called to
the White House this afternoon and will probably reject the
plan the President previously offered. After this conference
H Wilson will visit the capitol and confer with the Democratic
, steering committee concerning legislation.
WASHINGTON, Aug 28.—President Wilson will receive
the eight railroad executives, who will formally present the
railroad’s counter proposals. This afternoon Wilson is holding
further conferences with the leaders of congress in reference to
strike legislation.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 26. —The tension in business circles
here today showed a realization of the acute danger of a nation
al calamity. An aggregate of financial losses running perhaps
into hundreds of millions, labor idleness and food privation
were some of the possibilities which a strike presented.
It was to be remembered, business men said, that there is
scarcely a factory of any importance which does not depend on
a railroad for its products.
More immediate seriousness would be the question of food
supply. The large communities which receive the bulk of their
food from long distances, would be forced to rely on what pro
ducts could be brought in by wagon, automobile, trolley or
vessel.
The suspension of the country’s exports, the congestion of
imports at coast cities, the stranding of hundreds of thousands
of travelers and summer resort visitors far from their homes
these are other possibilities which the strike situation present
ed, to say nothing of its effects on the railroads themselves and
their employees.
The total capitalization of the railroads in the country am
ounts to more than $20,000,000,000, and their gross revenue has
been estimated at more than $4,000,000,000 on the basis of re
cent reports.
The latest estimates available show that the railways oper
ate 251,984 miles oi tracks and transport annually 1,033,379,
680 passengers. The passenger cars have been computed at 51,
800, and other cars at 2,393,808.
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PAULS, Aug. 2t». - It is reported
that Spanish soldiers shot several citi
zens at fierona, Spain, when the popu-;
laee protested to the civil government
against the officers' insults The mil
itarv government removed and arrest
ed tile offenders.
NFNflNfl TOISITE EOTS
BRING G000 PRICES
I’AIRHANKS, Aug. 25. — H. K. St.
tieorge has bought the first lot on the
Xenan townsite at the government
auction for sixteen hundred dollars.
Hen Simson bought the second for,
eleven hundred. The sale will be in
progress there until Saturday.
LONDON. Aug. 26. — In the naval
manoeuvres on the Atlantic coast the
defending squadrons in the war game
were theoretically destroyed and the
invading army is landed on Long
Island.
IRE UTERI
SKATTLK, Aug 2(i. — The K S
transport Crook, which has been loan
ed tn the Alaska engineering commis
sion for the transportation of railroad
supplies, will leave here August 1 ior
Seward and Anchorage with three
thousand tons of materials and sup
plies for the railroad.
WRECKER OF MAIL SERVICE
REPLACES EFFICIFNT HELP
The wrecker of the local postal ser
vice Is again at work, and unless the
depot tmeiit at Washington checks In
spe-tor Neil in his mad parsimonious
career it will he up to the public to
meet and send a protest to the post
master general, demanding that this
individual either he summarily re
moved or sent to some part of the
country where he can do less damage
than he has wrought in Alaska.
Not content with having had the
clerical force in most of the offices
along this coast reduced to such a
minimum that the efficiency of the
service has been greatly curtailed.
,\cii mis Mirri'Bifii in puiiiug anoiner
one over and if his superiors are will
lug to stand fur this rough work we I
iln not iltink the public wfll. and is
the Chamber of Commerce meets to
night some action should be taken lij
that bod), thus placing the stamp of
disapproval upon the fanatical actions
1 of tliis man Neil
■ Although the allowance for clerk]
hire in most of the postoffices lias
been out so that it is almost impos
sitile to secure sufficient competent
help to keep them running, Neil lias
decided, and has evidently convinced
the higher-ups, of the wisdom of his
foolhardy plan that cheaper clerks can
be imported from Seattle These men
are probably glad to earn $75 per
month in the states, and Neil thinks
they should live on the s mu; amount
in Wasku, hut they can't, and every
tlody in the north knows it.
Following out his ideas of economy
" nrd has been sent by Neil to the
postmasters at Cordova and Seward
that when the winter service to the
interior starts on October 1. and an
additional clerk mil, l be adde I to their
force, that he will furnish them with
a man, presumably some sub clerk in
the railway mail service tin means
that V I Cooper, who has been con
nected with the Cordova office for the
past six or seven years, will be re
placed by a cheap outside to n. and is
a tilting reward lor the faithful se
ek e rendered by Mr. Cooper to the
government. He lias worked long
hours, without extra i ompen-iti«m.
and is recognized as one nf the most
capable men in his line of the busi
ness. But hi position is to go to a
clerk who is inexperienced in the work
required at the local office, and no
matter how efficient he may be in his
present job, he cannot render the same
service that has been given by Mr
t ’ooper
Kfl'ieiency and loyalty do not seem
to count for anything in the postal ser
vice, under the present administration,
as conducted hv Neil, who appears to
have a strangle hold on the referee of
the game as it is now being played
In Alaska.
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Colonel B F. Millard, of Valdez, arrived in Cordova Satur
day and informed a Daily Times representative that he had
taken a bond on the gold quartz property of the McKinley Lake
Mining Company at Mile 22, on the Copper River & Northwest
ern railway.
This property is one of the greatest quartz propositions in
this section, surpassing in point of size and richness of ore sev
eral of the properties now being developed in southeastern Alas
ka, on which millions have been spent in development. It con-1
sists of a group of fourteen claims, covering three veins of the
average width of 45 feet, 10 feet and 65 feet respectively. Col.
Millard says reports from experienced mining engineers who
have experted the property, the ore values range from $3 50 to I
$5.10 per ton, and is about three times the values found in the
big veins of southeastern Alaska. There has been about $20,000
spent in development work on these claims, opening up a vast
quantity of ore, but owing to dissension among the parties inter- i
ested, nothing but the assessment work has been done for two
or three years past. By a decision of the court the title to the
property has been cleared up and is now in the hands of C. C
Canavan.
Col. Millard will have the annual assessment work per:
formed on the property this fall, the season being too far ad
vanced to start work at this time, anil during the winter months
he may work a small crew and will make preparations for de
veloping the claims on an extensive scale. The property is ad
mirably situated for economical mining and milling, theie be
ing an abundance of waterpower available for all purposes, and ‘
; with water transportation right to the property through Alaga-,
1 nic slough and McKinley lake. Col. Millard is much pleased
with his deal and confidently predicts that the property will
become one of the largest producers in Alaska.
Today another deal was closed by Colonel Millard and he
secured a bond on the Lucky Strike property at McKinley lake.
There are seven quartz claims, owned by Cordovans, upon
which 200 feet of tunnel has been driven and other work done.
0U1I CATHOLIC
PRELATE-AGED
78 YEARS
PEORIA. 111.. Aug. 2fi. — Arch
bishop John Spalding, Roman Catho
lic prelate, died of heart disease after
an illness of two weeks. He was born
in l.ehannon. Ky.v June 2. 1840.
The Most Reverend John l.ancaster
Sp tiding w as consecrated bishop of
the Roman Catholic diocese of Peoria.
Itliuois, May 1. 1877, and resigned be
cause of ill health. September 11, 1908
In the following May he was created
titular archbishop of 8y< hopolis
He whs one of the most prominent
prelates of the Roman Catholic church
in the middle west states, aud received
nationwide notice when President
Roosevelt uatued him as one of the
arbitrators to settle the anthracite coal
strike in 1 HOL\ He was the author of
several hooks dealing with labor top
ics, and also wrote several works on
religious questions.
For two hundred and fitly years
the ancestors of Bishop Spalding lived
in America, ilie first of Hie name lo
come to flic new world being a fol
lower of land Baltimore During the
reigns of King Henry \ 111 and Queen
Elizabeth of England the Spalding
family was distinguished for its loyalty
to the Catholic church.
WILSON WILL NOT IIISIT
PACIFIC COAST
S\N FRANCISCO. Aug 27. — Pre
sideut Wilson has wired the president
of the Commercial club in this city
in response to an invitation here, that
because of the Mexican and railroad
situations, which require his presence
in Washington, he will be uuable to
visit the Entitle coast in the near fu
ture
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NOM10, Aug. 2t>. A wireless mei
ice received from the coast guar
cutter McCullough in Bering sea rt
putts the wreck of the power school
er Great Bear, owned by John Bordei
a Chicago millionaire, and Captai
I-onis l.ane, of Seattle, on Pinnacl
rock, August 10. The party aboar
was landed on St. Matthew island an
remained there until yesterday, whe
rescued by the Me.Collough, which i
bringing them to Nome. The Grea
Bear is a total loss.
roll CONVICTS
,110 K — Fon
convicts, including a murderer serv
• mg a life sentence, escaped from th<
Minnesota penitentiarv during a tliun
dcrstorm Iasi night. There is no clip
as lo which way they are headed, al
though officials are scouring tin
country in search of them.
THIS WEEK
WASHINGTON, Vug. 23. — The ad
ministration plans to adjourn emigres:
on Friday or Saturday of next week
< Tmii man Simmons, of the finane
committee, says this is possible unles:
- ' i here are some unforeseen develop
tnents. The Dentocratie senate lead
ei iiave annoutieed that it is their in
tention to pass the general deficient1:
bill on Tuesday next, then pass th
revenue bill and adjourn.
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MARIPOSA LEFT SUNDAY
WITH CARGO OF SALMON
The steamer Mariposa arrived her
on Saturday afternoon and left at mid
night for Ores, where she loaded 20
non cases of salmon, sailing for Seattl
on Sunday at noon with the followin
Cordova passengers; Mrs. M. A
Hickey, Geneva Hickey, Mrs. H. 1
Lewis. F. F Nye, Mrs. H. Tucker, Mri
C. R Norman, Melba Norman, J. \\
Pritchett, Jack Dalton, Marie Hattii
A. D Malet and wife, Miss Mary llui
roughs, K p. Harwood, C. L. Demini
Fred Young, for Seattle; Mrs. A. V
Hroughton for Skagway; A. C. Cam
for Juneau.
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HUGHES IS RESTING UP
AT MOUNTAIN CAMf
ESTES PARK, Col., Aug 28. — Cat
didale Hughes is resting up here frot
his campaign tour, by taking a ion
camp in the mountains.
There will tie a meeting of tii
Chamber of Commerce tonight anti n
there are several matters of iinpor
anoe to lie considered a full attem
unee is requested.
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♦ TIMES UP AGAINST IT.
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♦ The "joy" of running a daily
♦ newspaper in a small town
♦ was again demonstrated on
4 Saturday, when there was a
4 break in the electric line which
4 furnishes the power that pro
4 pels the machinery. Shortly
4 after the electricity was shut
4 off our auxiliary power, a
4 water motor, was accidentally
4 put out of commission, and
4 then we were strictly up
4 against it and unable to issue
4 Saturday's paper.
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