The Cordova Daily Times
_|__(Member of Associated Press I _ _
VOL. IV. NO. 160._CORDOVA, ALASKA,^THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1919! PRICE TEN CENTS
INVASION OF
JUAREZ SOON
TAKE PUCE
JUAREZ, June 12 (by Associated
Press).—About a thousand Villistas,
under the command of General An
geles, were within two miles of this
city at noon. Everybody here is flee
ing to a place of safety as it is be
lieved Angeles will attack tonight un
less Federals move out before.
EL PASO, June 12 (by Associated
Press).—The twenty-fourth infantry
is hurrying on a special train for El
Paso.
TRANSPORT IS
BEACHED AFTER
BEING RAMMED
NEW YORK, June 12 (by Associated
Press).—The transport Graf Walder
hee, formerly the crack Hamburg-Am
erlcan passenger liner, was beached
at Long Beach, after having being
rammed yesterday by the steamer
Redondo.
PACIFIC COAST ADMEN
TO MEET AT STOCKTON
PORTLAND, June 12 (by Associated
Press).—The Pacific Coast Admen
have elected David S. Matthews, of
Stockton, Cal., president of the as
sociation. Stockton was selected for
the. next convention.
DETENTION HOSPITAL
INMATES CAUSE RIOT
TACOMA, June 12 (by Associated
Press).—Inmates of the city deten
tion hospital staged an uprising and
attacked the nurses, stating that they
were not preperly fed. The ring lead
ers have been arrested.
BRADY MAKES RECORD
AT GOLF TOURNAMENT
NEWTON, Mass., June 12 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Mike Brady, a profes
sional of Oakland, scored seventy
three in eighteen holes in yesterday’s
round in the national open golf cham
pionship, making a total of fifty-four
holes. Unless Brady suffers some un
expected form reversal he stands an
excellent chance of winning the tour
nament.
BATTLE IS IMMINENT
AT MEXICAN GARRISON
JUAREZ, June 12 (by Asso elated
Press).—Villistas advance guard is
sixteen miles east of Juarez. The
Juarez federal garrison is prepared for
an attack and the American customs
officials heard shots after midnight.
PACIFIC FLEET PLANS
A PLEASURE CRUISE
WASHINGTON, June 12 (by Asso
ciated Press).—A cruise of the com
bined Pacific fleet is planned for the
fall or winter. It will visit several
South American ports. The cruise Is
planned as a reward for the men for
arduous war service.
WANTS HALF MILLION
TO HUNT ANARCHISTS
WASHINGTON, June 12 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Attorney General Pal
mer has asked congress for an appro
priation of $500,000 to track anarchists
and bomb throwers.
LATE SENATOR
SPOONER DIES
AT HIS HONE
NEW YORK, June 12 (by Associated
Press).—Former United States Sena
tor John C. Spooner died at his home
In Wisconsin yesterday.
Sixteen years a United States sena
tor from Wisconsin, each one of which,
in the words of President Roosevelt,
was “a direct financial loss which he
could ill afford,” John Coit Spoonei
relinguished the position with which
the legislators of his state had thrice
honored him and retired in 1907, twc
years before his completed term, tc
reenter the private practice of law
and acquire a competence for his fam
ily and himself in his declining years
Regarded as one of the ablest con
stitutional lawyers, a brilliant debater
and one of the greatest authorities or
international law in the upper house
of congress, Senator Spooner like a
few of his famous colleagues—notably
Roscoe Conkling, John G. Carlisle
Thomas Brackett Reed and George F
Hoar—lett public otlice a poor man
During the twelve years of his final
law practice in New York he was
counsel in much important legislation
including the federal government suits
against the Trans-Atlantic shipping
pool, the Naval Stores and Oregon
California land grant cases.
Born in Lawrenceburg, Ind., January
6, 1843, the son of Judge Philip Spoon
er, who removed to Madison, Wis.
when John was sixteen years old, the
future senator received his A. B. de
gree from the University of Wisconsin
in 1864 after having served with dis
tinction in the Union army in the
Civil War. Young Spooner enlisted
as a private in Company A., 40th Wis
consin infantry and for gallantry in
action was proomted to captain and
brevet major in the 50th Wisconsin
infantry shortly after reaching the
age of 21.
After the war he became private
secretary to Governor Luicius Fair
child of Wisconsin (1866-67.) Upon
admission to the bar he was appointed
an assistant attorney general and en
gaged in the practice of law at the
capital, Madison, where he remained
until 1870 when he removed to Hud
son, Wis., with his family He was a
member of the Wisconsin assembly in
1872 and later a regent of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin.
First elected a United States sena
tor in 1885 he served with marked dis
tinction in that body until 1891 when
he was succeeded by William F. Vilas,
Democrat, receiving, however, the full
vote of the Republican members of the
legislature for re-election. The follow
ing year he was unanimously nomin
ated as Republican candidate for gov
ernor of Wisconsin hut was defeated.
In 1897 he was returned to the
United States senate and before the
completion of his term announced his
purpose not to be a candidate for re
flection but. notwithstanding this, the
republican legislators of Wisconsin In
1903 unanimously voted to send him
back to Washington where for more
than a decade he had won renown as
a debater and conciliator of party
factions.
During these years of service Sena
tor Spooner’s name had become in
separably attached to many measures
of importance, such, for instance, as
the amendment creating the civil gov
ernment of the Philippines, an amend
ment to the Sherman anti-trust act
which made possible the prosecution
by the federal government of the
Standard Oil Company, and the law
under which the Panama canal was
constructed. He was a consistent op
ponent of the so-called Nicaragua
route.
As chairman of the senate commit
tee on claims in his first term he
saved the United States, it was said,
hundreds of millions of dollars sought
by unjust litigants against the gov
ernment and later was largely respon
sible, as the moving spirit of the sen
ate committee on foreign relations,
for the ratification of the Cuban, the
Dominican and the Algeciras and
many other treaties. Of the Algeciras
international settlement, it has been
said, it averted more than ten years
ago the threatened outbreak of a
general European war.
Upon his retirement In 1907 the
New York Tribune said of him: “He
goes now, at the age of sixty-four, hav
ing devoted sixteen years of his life
to the service of his country, to re
sume the practice of his profession,
without a contract or a client and with
no reliance for the future save his well
earned reputation, while all who have
enjoyed the privilege of associating
with him in his public career witness
his departure with sorrow.”
SENATE MAY ACCEPT LEAGUE
OF NATIONS AS A PART OF
THE GERMAN PEACE TREATY
WASHINGTON, June .12 (by Associated Press).—The
senate foreign relations committee has amended Knox’s reso
lution to put the senate on record against accepting the league
of nations in the terms of the peace treaty. It struck out the
section declaring it the policy of the American government to
co-operate to remove any menace that may threaten European
peace. The committee reported on the resolution favorably
EIGHTY THOUSAND TELEGRAPH
OPERATORS WILL BE CALLED
OUT BY UNION TOMORROW
ST. LOUIS, June 12 (by Associated Press).—The railroad
telegraphers’ union has ordered its members to discontinue
handling Postal and Westren Union business after June 13. The
order affects eighty thousand operators and thirty thousand
offices.
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CHICAGO, June 12 (by Associated Press).—The Western
Union and Postal companies lia-tfe declared that the strike is
practically ended. The telegraphers union said about twenty
thousand operators are striking. The Postal is suffering more
than the Western Union, as the latter admit that but few of
thir men have quit.
RAILWAY MEN OF CANADA TO
JOIN IN_ 1 STRIKE
VANCOUVER, June 12 (by Associated Press).—The
strikers and shipping men of the Canadian railway brother
hoods will take a vote on joining a general strike. It is be
lieved the strikers consider the railway strike a trump card
with which the strike will be won. The railway men’s union
permits its members to go out only on a nation wide strike.
PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT
IS ESTABLISHED IN KOREA
SEOUL, Korea, June 12 (by Associated Press).—The leaders
of the Korean independence movement claim to have secretly
established a provisional government for Korea with Yi Seung
Man president. The other cabinet members are Koreans who
received education in the United States. The covenants say the
government is a republic.
PEACE CONFERENtURAMES
REPLY TO GENERAL KOLCHAK
PARIS, June 12 (by Associated Press).—The council of
four has framed a reply to General Kolchak’s note, the con
tents of which has not beem disclosed. It is believed the com
munication does not involve recognition of the Kolchak gov
ernment.
BRITISH TROOPS ARENOW
APPROACHING PETROGRAD
STOCKHOLM, June 12 (by Associated Press).—British
troops, recently arrived from Murmansk and operating against
Petrograd are now near Petrogavodsk.
HAGEN WINNER
AT NATIONAL
GOLF MEET
NEWTON, Mass., June 12 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Walterr Hagen, of
Oakland Hills, won the national open
golf championship, playing off a tie
with J. Brady. Hagen led by one
stroke In eighteen holes and went
around in seventy-seven, Brady mak
ing it in seventy-eight.
MOONEY STILL
AGITATES THE
LABOR UNIONS
ATLANTIC CITY, June 12 (by As
sociated Press).—The American Fed
eration of Labor is considering a
resolution for the appointment of a
committee to work for a new trial
for Mooney and should the committee
fail the federation may consider the
calling of a twenty-four hour strike in
protest.
BRITISH DIRIGIBLE
TO REMAIN AMERICA
ONLY SEVEN HOURS
WASHINGTON, June 12 (by Asso
ciated Press).—As the British lack
suitable housing accomodations on the
Atlantic coast the big British dirigible
R-34 is to remain in America only
seven hours after it arrives from
England which will be soon. It is
to return immediately to London.
FORMER CONGRESSMAN
DIES IN MINNESOTA
WINONA, Minn., June 12 (by Asso
ciated Press).—James A. Tawney, a
congressman from Minnesota for
eighteen years, died at his home here
last night.
ROCAP DECLINES TO
REFEREE BIG FIGHT
PHILADELPHIA, June 12 (by As
sociated Press).—William Rocap wrote
to Drexell Biddle stating that his
duties as sporting editor with the
Public Ledger would prevent him
serving as referee at the Toledo fight.
FIRST BOAT HAS LEFT
ON WAY TO DAWSON
VANCOUVER, June 12 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The White Pass road
started its first boat from Whitehorse
to Dawson on Tuesday, when the
water in the Yukon river was the
lowest in years.
CON ESS IS AGAIN
GRAPPLING WITH TIME
WASHINGTON, June 12 (by Asso
ciated Press).—A rider repealing
daylight saving, effective when clocks
were turned back in October, was at
tached to the agriculture appropria
tion bill and passed unanimously by
the committee.
MACHINIST UNION
OPPOSED TO STRIKE
SAN FRANCISCO, June 12 (by As
sociated Press).—The machinists
union defeated a proposal to call a
general Mooney strike. Edward I.
Nolan, who was Indicted In connection
with the Mooney case, Is president
of the union.
INFLUENZA TO
WESTWARD IS
NOW ABATING
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if of Navy Daniels said that the if
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>f isolated places in Alaska was if
if well in hand. There have been if
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Utah strikers
MODIFY THEIR
OLD DEMANDS
SALT LAKE, June 12 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The miners of Park
City who have been striking for sev
eral weeks have modified their de
mands and have decided to ask for
an increase of seventy-five cents a
day, instead of one dollar. An eight
hour shift, instead of six hours as de
manded, will be acceptable.
FEDERATION SUPPORTS
A GENERAL STRIKE
ATLANTIC CITY, June 12 (by As
sociated Press).-—The American Fed
eration of Labor voted its moral sup
port to the strike called for June lfi
by the International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers, which includes the
bulk of the union telephone operators
throughout the country.
MYSTIC SHRINE WILL
MEET IN PORTLAND
INDIANAPOLIS, June 12 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The Ancient Arabic
Order Nobles of Mystic Shrine conven
tion has selected Portland as next
year’s place of meeting. New Orleans
was also a competitor for the honor.
AMERICANS CAN BUILD
SHIPS FOR FOREIGNERS
WASHINGTON, June 12 (by Asso
ciated Press).—After a brief debate
the senate passed the Jones bill per
mititng American shipyards to build
ships for foreign countries, without
first obtaining government permits.
SPANISH WAR VETERANS
ARE HOLDING POW WOW
BELLINGHAM, June 12 (by Asso
elated Press).—The sixteenth annual
encampment of Spanish war veterans
from Washington and Alaska opened
here today. Thirty-two camps are
represented.
THREATENS DEMPSEY
WITH $10,000 SUIT
TOLEDO, June 12 (by Associated
Press).—John J. Relsler, known, to
boxers as "John, the Barber,” former
ly Dempsey’s manager, has threatened
to file suit to restrain Dempsey from
entering the ring. He claims Dempsey
owes him $10,000.
GEN. PERSHING WILL
LEAVE PARIS JULY 15
PARIS, June 12 by Associated
Press).—General Pershing is to re
main here until the middle of July.