Copper Ore Shipments From Cordova Alone Are Over $2,000,000 Each Month
~T^:r1 The Cordova Daily Times 1 HE
VOLUME ONE. NUMBER !!>!>. CJOBDOVA, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY .'!<>, 1915. ® ll N ' B81R
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WASHINGTON, D. C„ July 30.— (
The Htate department has sent repre
sentations to General Zapata regard
ing the reported assault made by sol- 1
diers under him upon Allen Malloy, 1
an American citizen, near Puebla. The j
administration inquired about the re- ^
sponsibility for the attack, and re
quested Zapata to see that protection
was furnished to American citizens '
living in that section of Mexico under 1
his control. It is said that4Malloy’;
life was in danger from the attack ■
made on him, which was without rea
son or excuse. The officials of the
department have also asked theii
agents in Mexico to report on the
matter. The Mexican situation is ab
sorbing the attention of official Wash
ington, and it is expected that the defi
nite plan of action in regard to our
southern neighbor will soon be out
lined by the Wilson administration.
VEKA CRUZ, July 30.—Carranza
announced from his headquarters here
today, that he would send an expedi
tion to resume possession of Mexici
City at once. The Carranza troops
are assembling, and preparations are
under way indicating further activity
in the direction of the Mexican capi
tal. Gonzales will once more com
mand the attacking force.
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DOIT DESTROYER
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SEATTLE, July 30.—The torpedo
boat destroyer Whipple left here for
Sitka, Alaska today. The Whipple is
the last of the flotilla that is going
to spend the summer cruising in
Alaskan waters, the other boats hav
lng already left here, and arriving in
Sitka s >me days ago. The Whipple
was delayed owing to being tempo
rarily disabled in a heavy storm on the
way north from San Francisco.
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ALASKANS ON CRUISE
* TO SOUTH SEA ISLANDS
A company of sourdough Alaskam
headed by Captain W. J. McDonald
departed from Seldovia yesterday, ei
route to the South Sea islands. The;
embarked on the schooner Kiska
waka, a Japanese sealer seized an
g sold by the U. S. government.
* On arrival at San Pedro, Cal., ai
effort will be made to secure th<
yacht Lurline, owned by A. E. Davis
of San Diego, in which to continue tin
inviting journey.
The party has a contract with th
Santa Fe railroad to deliver at Rt
dondo, Cal., 1,600,000 lignum vitae tie
and will also bring from the Solomo
Islands 200 tons of sandal wood.
V moving picture machine will be take
along to secure films on the adventuri
some trip.
The journey, it is figured, will coi
sumo two years, and the prospecth
participants expect a profitable as we
as pleasurable time.
Composing the party are: Capta
McDonald, Thos. J. Robertson, A. <
Dickerson, William Baldwin, Thomi
Kennedy, Arthur Allison, Harold Hoi
ness, Kirk Gunby and Dr. and Mrs.
M. Spaulding of Knik.
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Conditions out the line remain abo
the same, but it la expected that wl
the change In the weather today t
water will recede.
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FALL OF WARSAW NOW CERTAIN
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Special to The Times By Associated Press.
LONDON, .July 30.—The Austro Germans in
verwhelming numbers are knocking tor admittance
it the gates of Warsaw. The fall of the city is hourly
xpected, and the British public is resigned to
mother great victory for the Teutonic arms. From
his distance, it would seem, according to the best
Military authorities that the chief problem controlli
ng the Russian coinmnaders at present, is the (pies
ion of saving the Russian armies intact, and suc
cessfully retreating from the encircling line of sol
liers that Mackensen and Hindenborg have thrown
iround them.
The Slavs are threatened from the south by tin
idvancing Austro Germans, who have recovered
Tom the temporary check administered by the
Russians, but are in far more serious danger from
die German forces on the north, who are attacking
the Russian poitions along the Bug river, and
endangering the railroad line of communications
between Warsaw and I’etrograd. Hindenborg is
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straining every nerve in an effort to roach the rail
road, for then the retreat of the Russian defenders
of the Polish capital would' be cut off to the north,
and the problem of taking the southern railroad line
leading to Odessa, would be simplified.
The Warsaw postofliee and its equipment has
already been removed from the city and shifted to
the eastward. The populace have been warned by
the military governor of the city to remain calm, and
although no definite news has reached London from
Warsaw for several days, as to the actual conditions
within the city, it is more than likely that tin* Rus
sians have been for the past week stripping the city
of everything which would have a military capital,
Whether the precedent established by the Russians
when they burned Moscow during the Napoleonic
wars, will be followed is a matter of absorbing
interest.
The Germans are within a few short miles ol
their goal and the Tanbes are hovering over tin
doomed city, dropping bombs on the fortifications
It is understood that the Germans have complete*
plans for a triumphal entry into Warsaw. The Ger
man Kmperor ami his Km press are present, expect
ing to be in at the death, and will lead the victors
into the Polish capital, when the Russians have
either surrendered the citadel or abandoned it. It
is predicted that great waves of enthusiasm will
sweep over Germany and Austria when Warsaw
finally capitulates, and that the greatest celebrations
of Hie war will be witnessed in all tin* principal
cities of the Teutonic empires.
Warsaw taken, it is now felt that the Germans
will consider their Russian campaign ended, and
the experts predict that fighting along the eastern
front will degenerate into trench warfare, the Teu
tons being content to retain what advantage they
have earned, and feeling that they can hold their
gains with a comparatively small force, compared
to the immense armies now in Poland. Great bodies
' of troops, and the big guns, will be moved to tin
■ western front, and the Germans renew jtheir efforts
, to reach Calais, or probably the march on Paris wil
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Special to The Times By Associated Press.
SING SING, N. Y., July 30.—Charles Becker
was electrocuted, and paid the penalty tor tin*
murder of Kerman Rosenthal early this morning.
Becker'retained his composure to the last, walked
calmly to the chair, and chatted nonchalantly with
the guards while they strapped him into it. He pro
tested 4ds innocence to the last, saying that in his
case justice had miscarried, lie died with the photo
graph of his wife pinned on his shirt over tin* heart.
Three distinct shocks were given before the physi
cians declared life was extinct. Becker refused to
attempt to sleep last night, and remained up in his
cell talking to the death watch, lie* lead the grim
procession to the room where the execution was
staged, and walked firmly and unhesitatingly. Twc
priests were with him to the last, and comforted hin
during his last hours on earth. During tin* night
he requested the deputy warden on duty to furnisl
him a piece-of paper and a pencil. On receiving tin
same, he penciled a declaration of his innocence, am
a statement of his devotion to his wife, who ha<
stuck by him through thick and thin. As he sat ii
the death chair, waiting for the current to be turnei
on, he held a crucifix in his hand and was mumblim
prayer to the last.
Herman Rosenthal, the garmbler for whos
murder Becker died in the electric chair, was sho
to death by hired gunmen in the early morning o
July 1(>, 1012, in front of the Hotel Metropole o:
Forty-third street, a few steps from Broadway. Th
murder was the swift culmination of sensation*
charges made a few days before by Rosenth*
against Becker in which Rosenthal asserted tlui
Becker, then head of the Strong Arm Squad c
ilotoctiv.es, freely sold police protection and had
accumulated thousands of dollars of graft money.
When thy assassins had’ done their work, they
1 ran across the street, jumped into a grey automo
bile which was waiting at the curb and whirled away
uptown. A bystander caught the license number ol
the car. , ^
District Attorney Whitman, notified by tele J
Iphone of the murder, spread a dragnet over the city |
! for the murder car. It was,found before night. Its
driver, Louis Shapiro, and Louis Libbey, part owner,
were arrested and Mr. Whitman asserted openly in
an emphatic statement that the police had abetted
the murder.
Jack Rose, his graft collector, walked into the
Criminal Courts building the day after the murder
and surrendered to the District Attorney, declaring
| lie had nothing to fear, llarry Vallon and Bridgie
j Webber, gamblers and friends of Rose and Becker,
■ were arrested as witnesses. The grand jury began
I its investigation.
1 Rose lay in prison 12 days without word from
i Becker, and, believing his chief had deserted him,
I confessed. Vallon and Webber corroborated his
c story.
Four East Side gangsters were indicted as the
.» actual murderers. Rose had testified that these men
f were assigned by “Big Jack” Zelig, a gang leader
f who had' booh arrested by Becker’s men on a
i trumped up charge, to do tin* murder. They were
!■ to receive $1,000 and Zelig was to he released. Zelig’t
1 orders had been issued from the Tombs to the gun
1 men.
t These gunmen—known in the streets of the Easi
f Side as “Gyp the Blood” Horowitz, “Lefty Louis’
Kosenborg, “Dago Frank” Cirofici and “Wliitey”
Lewis-—were rounded up one by one.
To give standing to the testimony of Becker’s
three accomplices who had turned inormers—Bose, 1
Webber and Vallon—a corroborating witness who
was not implciated was needed. Sam Schepps, a
dapper little gambler who had fled the city, was tin
man who could do this. He was found at Hot
Springs, Ark., brought back to New York and the
people’s case against Charles Becker was complete,
it went to trial on October 7, 11*12.
A verdict of guilty of tirst degree murder was
returned at midnight October 24, 11*12, after the jury i
had deliberated' seven hours and 57 minutes. Within I
less than a month the four gunmen were placed on
trial as the actual slayers, found guilty and sent to
the death house.
The Court of Appeals decided that Becker
should have a new trial. The gunmen's conviction
was upheld and they paid the penalty with their
lives on April 14, 11*14.
Becker was brought back to the Tombs. IIis
second trial ended with a verdict of guilty. An
appeal was tiled, but the conviction was upheld by
the higher court.
Throughout Becker’s troubles his wife remained
loyal to him and was his constant adviser. She
labored apparently without tiring in his behalf,
assisting his counsel in every way possible. She
appeared to be crushed when the Court of Appeals
upheld his second conviction, but soon turned her
energies toward eleventh-hour work to save him.
It was largely at her urging that he joined in the
plan to ask Governor Whitman, his prosecutor, for
’ clemency.
ATTEMPTING TO SHIELD GUILTY ONES
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CHICAGO, July 30.—Much gossip is going
’ around this city regarding a possible government
whitewash of the federal steamship inspection olfi
? ci.ds who were condemned by the coroners report on
the Eastland disaster. Secretary of Commerce
i Red field, in whose department these men are, lm
\ ordered an investigation independent of what has
a been undertaken by the coroner and' the state’s
' attorney. The persistent rumors of a whitewash
have attained such proportions that Coroner IlolT
1 man has requested the divers and inspectors looking
‘ after the wreck for the citv officials to keep watch on
the government divers, who are reported to be on
their way here from Washington, to report for the
secretary of commerce.
CHICAGO, July 30.- Tin* assistant corporation
I counsel of this city has expressed dissatisfaction
with the progress of the inquiry being conducted hy
Secretary Redfieht into the causes of the Hast land
disaster. Open charges are being made that an
attempt is being made to exonerate the guilty and
negligent federal officials.
Taking' the matter out of the hands of the
federal steamship inspectors, the city council has
ordered an examination of all the vessels plying out
of Chicago harbor._
A movement is under way to span the Chicago
river at Clark Street with a bridge to be known as
the Kastlund Memorial Bridge. The movement b
nreeting with a great deal of favor, and the mattei
will he considered' at the next meeting of the city
council.
CHICAGO, July 30- -The latest revised figures ol
the dead and missing from the blastlund catastrophe
places the total casualties at 1071. This is a decrease
of over 200 from the previously reported figures, but
it is not believed that there will he many further
reductions, if any. Of tins number 831 are identified
dead, 2 are unidentified, and the remainder are
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" CANOE PASS PACK
LARGER THAN EXPECTED
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Tho Canoe Pass Packing Company,
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whose cannery is at the local dock,
has finished its season’s work, with a
pack of 16,000 cases of red and king
Jt salmon and 2,000 humps. This it
' 3 000 more cases than they figured on
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putting up.
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Turnip of Some Size
There is on exhibition at the Cham
ber of Commerce rooms n turnip
weighing six ami a half pounds, which
was grown by itobt Gottechalk at his
garden.
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Thomas Higgs, Jr., of the Alaska
Engineering Commission, leaves to
night for Seward to consult with
Chairman Edes as to government rail
road work.
ERECTING GRAND STAND
AT BASE BALE PARA
This afternoon a force of men art
working at the baseball park, erecting
a grand stand, under the supervision
of O. PI. Lambert. It is believed that
(his improvement will be completed
for Sunday’s game, when tbe Taku
and Cordova teams will again cross
bats.
Cinders are also being hauled on tin
grounds and the infield put in better
condition. When these improvements
are completed Cordova will have a
credltubte park.
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Mrs. Laura K. Tillman will leave to.
morrow for Anchorage with a stock
of ladies’ furnishings to engage in
business at the new railroad terminal.
Watson Comes and Goes
The steamer Admiral Watson ar
rived from the westward at 2 3i
o'clock this morning, and sailed soutl
half an hour later. The only outgoini
passenger was F. F l'areor.s, hooke<
for Ketchikan.
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Attorney ('has. Ganty came ove
from Voider on the steamer Watsoi
last night.
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WASHINGTON, D. July 30.—
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of I,at>or, today
reiterated the previous charges he has
made that foreign agents are trying
to stir up lalior troubles in Uip United
States. Gompers said that he could
not make public at this time the facts
in his possession which would prove
his assertions, but he urgently ex
horted all labor unionists to discon
tinue any attempts to foment labor
disturbances at this time. Gompers
denied that he at any time mentioned
German influence as the cause of the
trouble in the various ammunition
factories, where the workers have
shown their restlessness.
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"Dick" Lewis has returned from
Anchorage, w'hore he says conditions
are quiet. He will remain here for
the present with his brother H. I
Lewis.
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Vice President R. W. Baxter, of the
Alaska Steamship linet will go to
Seward on the Mariposa tonight.
Samuel Blum and Geo C. Itazelet
* will be passengers for Valdez on the
, steamer Mariposa tonight.
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PHOENIX, July 30.—The supreme
court of Arizona today granted an
appeal to the supreme court of the
United States, to the five Mexicans
who are under death sentence for
murder, and who would have been
hanged this week The secretary of
state had asked Governor Hunt to
reprieve the men because of the ten
sion in the relations between this
country and Mexico, but the state at
torney general had strongly protested
against the reprieve, and It probably
would not have been granted. The
office of the state attorney general,
has advised the warden of the state
penitentiary that the granting of the
appeal ot the United States court was
unconstitutional, and told the warden
to ignore the notice sent him from
the court. The warden has decided
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court, and the execution of the mur
derers will bo postponed until the
supreme court hands down a decision.
This means that the men will not be
hanged until Sep'.'tnber at the earliest.
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Manslaughter wr s the verdict of the
Jury at Rnlk In the case of the United
States versus Indian Jim, charged
with the killing of Chief Stepan, an
other aborigine. District Attorney
Spence and Assistant District Attor
ney Munlev appeared for the govern
ment, while E. E. Ritchie, with the
floating court as attorney for the de
fense, represented the defendant
The killing, which .Indian Jim did
not seek to deny, occurred in the
Achetnn country late last fall. Chief
Stepan, hiB wife and daughter and
Indian Jim were together, when the
men engaged in a row which led to
the klUing. The victim was a lay
reader of the Greek church and every
Sunday, while in the Nelehlna and
Ochetna country, held services.
Indian Jim was sentenced to serve
three years in the penitentiary on Mc
Neil's Island, Washington.