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SWISS IN FEAR OF GERMAN INVASION
PRESIDENT says country
ILL NOT ALLOWFOREI9N
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PARIS, May 20. — The President of Switzerland today
said that his government was prepared to resist with all force
♦ at its command any effort of the German army to cross the
Porentray salient, which he had been informed they are pre
paring to attempt.
By crossing the Porentray salient, the Germans could
strike at the line of communication between the whole French
front from Verdun to Alsace.
All of Switzerland, it is asserted, is up in arms over the re
port of the Kaiser’s army plans to violate the neutrality of the
Swiss republic. The army, which has been, fully, mobilized
since the outbreak of hostilities, is awaiting an attack, fully
confident that if one is made, the Germans can be thrown back.
BRITISH RESIST ATTACK.
PARIS, May 20. — German troops today took the offen
sive along the Yser canal, attempting to cross in the face of a
deadly fire from the British troops, which are holding the line
there. The attack failed, the Germans leaving many dead in
front of their trenches.
AIRSHIPS DROP GAS BOMBS.
PARIS, May 20. — An attack by the Germans in the
Champagne district, where for the first time in the war asphyx
iating gas bombs were dropped from airships, was successfully
resisted by the French.
SEAPLANES RAID ENGLAND.
LONDON, May 20. — Three German seaplanes last night
raided the English coast, dropping 37 bombs. One soldier was
killed and two civilians wounded. One of the planes was
brought down by British warships off the coast of Belgium,
and the crew captured.
FRENCH ATTACK UNSUCCESSFULLY
BERLIN, May 20. — Attacks are reported by the French
along the road between Esnes and Haucourt, all of which are
f said to have failed. In patrol operations in the vicinity of Ar
gonne, the French lost heavily.
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WASHINGTON, May 20. — The al
lies today informed the state depart
ment that the German submarine
U-18, commanded by Lieut. Otto Setin
bank, destroyed the steamship Sus
sex. The information was obtained
from the crew of the captured sub
marine.
JAPAN GRABBING COTTON
CLOTH INDUSTRY
TOKIO, May 20. — The demand for
Japanese cotton of various kinds is
steadily increasing in Chinft, India
and Russia, where stocks of European
goods are beginning to run short on
A account of the continuation of the war.
Before the war Japan received from
England a supply of cotton cloth of
superior quality, but she is now sup
plying England with large quantities
of this material. Pessimistic views
are, however, expressed in some quar
ters In Japan as to the future of the
cotton cloth trade because the manu
facturers are experiencing consider
‘ able difficulty in obtaining the neces
sary supply of dyes, stocks of w-hich
are fast diminishing. Japan is now
trying to manufacture her own dyes.
CHAMBErIf lOMMERCE
MEETING TONIGHT
A special meeting of the Cordova
Chamber of Commerce will be held
tonight for the election officers. The
matter of a Fourth of July celebration
for tiie town will also be takeu up.
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•e-"'' SHIPPING BILL PASSES.
WASHINGTON, May 20. — The ad
luindatration shipping bill, designed to
~~s-wdia»t m grille and
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MEXICAN SHOT;
DOUGLAS, Arlz., May 20. — A num
ber of well known Mexicans from
Montezuma, Nateon and Sonora today
brought news of the death of Agua
Prieta, who was convicted and shot
for plotting with the clerical, and Fe
lix Diaz parties for the overthrow of
the. Carranza government.
Villista Surrenders.
CHIHUAHUA, May 20. — Cauto
Reye.s one of Villa's most able and
best known leaders, today surrendered
unconditionally.
Americans Coming Back.
EL PASO, May 20. — Reports ar
riving here tell of large bodies of Am
erican troops passing Casas Grandes
bound northward. It is thought the
soldiers are being withdrawn from
Mexico.
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J. ALLISON BRUNER VISITOF
IN CORDOVA
J. Allison Bruner, of Seward, presi
dent of the Third division Republicar
Club, Is a passenger on the steamship
Alaska, en route to San Elandro, Cali
fornia. He will be gone about si)
weeks, expecting to return to Sew
ard early this fall.
Bruner was a delegate to the Repub
lican convention at Seward, and if
one of the prominent men of thai
party In this division. He reports his
home town as being exceedingly busy
and expects an era of prosperity tc
strike the city before the summer Is
over. He is much impressed with the
activity apparent in Cordova, and
thinks this city lias a great future.
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P. S. Hunt, of Valdez, who is dis
trict deputy grand master of the Odd
Fellows, is a passenger on the steam
i ship Alaska, bound for Everett, ?where
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INSURANCE RATE
NEW YORK, May 20. — Transatlan
tic insurance rates are rapidly falling,
due, it is said, to the latest German
note on the submarine controversy,
in which the vessels are assured
safety under certain conditions.
The British campaign against the
submarine, however, is proceeding
with unabated vigor, and eight of the
under water craft were recently en
tangled and captured.
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SUBMARINE CONTROVERSY
IS THING OF THE PAST. |
WASHINGTON, May 20. — The
administration lias been informed j
that Germany considers the subma
rine controversy closed, and will not
answer the lates< American note.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands, May 20. ^
—A recent census of tlie belligerent
troops that have crossed the Dutch
frontiers to date and are now interned
in this counfry accounts for 27,886
Belgians, including 360 officers; 1,589
Britishers, Including 54 officers; 144!
Germans, including eight officers;
three Frenchmen, all officers. Sev
eral thousand of the men at present
are working and living as ordinary
civilians in varicyts parts of Holland,
while the others are accommodated at
internment camps. All the 54 British
officers are out on parole, in accord
ance with \he permission given by the
British government, and they enjoy
full freedom within the boundaries of
the country. Most of them live at
The Hague or at the seaside resorts
close by.
The men of the British naval re
serve interned at Gronningen have
turned actors. No less than lour dis
tinct theatrical companies from the
camp have toured the country, amus
ing big audiences of Dutch people with
their droll English humor, the pro
ceeds going to flood relief and other
I charitable funds.
The actual cost to Holland of main
tenance of the internment camps to
(\ate has been nearly $7,000,000, but
this money will be repaid by the vari
ous governments concerned when the
getieral settling up comes at the end
of the war.
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MALIAN biriLMbHIINb VUAH
OF HER OWN
GENEVA, Switzerland, May 20. —j
Prom Brescia the Swiss Alpine troops
in the Stelvio Bass have noticed a slim
Italian girl, aged about 18, armed with
a rifle, climbing the snow covered
paths almost daily up to the Austrian
frontier and spending most of the day
there. One of the Swiss soldiers in
quired what she was doing. The Ital
ian girl replied fiercely: "They have
killed my two brothers and my fiancee
and I am taking my revenge. I think
I have killed four Austrians, but that
is nut enough. 1 shall continue shoot
ing until I am killed myself." The
Swiss patrol saw the girl with her
rifle strapped to the shoulder disap
pear down the snow covered path to
wards the valley.
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STEPHEN BIRCH WILL BE
MARRIED NEXT MONTH.
Word was received on the last malt
that Stephen Birch, president of the
Kenaecott Copper Corporation, will be
married the latter part of June to
Miss Mary Hand, of Minneapolis.
About July 1, Birch, accompanied by
his bride, will sail for Aliuika.
Birch probably is the best known
man in this section of Alaska, and to
him usually is given the credit for
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WASHINGTON, May 20. — An nd
ministration till! introduced in the
house today requires the shipment in
bond of all salmon, halibut and other
food fishes reaching the United
States through, foreign territory.
The bill is intended to prevent the ■
destruction of the fish business at
Ketchikan by the natural advantages
possessed by Prince Rupert.
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CHINESE LABDR
PARIS. May 20. — The experiment
made in France with Chinese labor
to replace men withdrawn from fac
tory nnd farm work by the war has
been so helpful from an economic
point of view as to incite an extension
of the experiment. The senate army
committee has reported favorably
upon a proposition to employ labor
from France's Chinese colonies of
Annam, Cochin-China and Tonkin, in
all Industries working for the gov
ernment. and in the fields wherever
farm help is needed. Fifty thousand
Annatnites altogether are either at
work in France or waiting in French
ports to he sent to destination, or on
the way.
The senate committee proposes to
bring 100,000 more Chinese. The
North African colony of Aligeria, and
the protectorates of Tunis and" Mo
rocco, as it is pointed out by Henry
Berenger, a leading member of the
army committee, are able to furnish
100.000 Iferberes nnd Kabylie work
men,' while 30,000 at least could be
drawn from Madagascar. With the
280.000 colonial* soldiers Incorporated
in the French army since August,
19H, these 280,000 workmen would
bring up to 560,000 the number of Chi
nese, Arabs, Berberes and Kabylies
brought to France by the war.
Tlie social consequences of this
heavy importation of Chinese labor
have not apparently preoceupiet
either the members of the committee
of the army that has been studying
the question or the general public.
The 50,000 Chinese, whose utilization
is already provided for, come to
France under a contract for three
years, which stipulates that after the
war is over these Oriental workmen
may be employed in any other' coloniel
possession outside of France. This
is the only features ot the experiment
suggesting apprehension that, after
the war is over, anil the necessity for
the substitution of imported labor has
passed, a social question may arise
requiring the deportation of the co
loniar labor.
In order to facilitate the execution
of their work by the Annamite labor,
a special Frauco-C’hinese school is be
ing founded under the direction of
Monsieur Aualard, professor in the
faculty of letters at the Sorbonne, on
plans furnished by Messrs. T’asi Yun
Pel, former minister of public instruc
tion in Annam, and Li Yu Ying, an
engineer from Annam, who have
chosen a score of Annamites from the
contingent already arrived to serve
as interpreters and instructors.
The school has been established in
the Rue Bonaparte in Paris, and since
the beginning of the month of April
the Chinese have been working hard |
at the learning of French, particular
ly sufficient mathematics to keep the
simplest accounts. Their progress is
said to be prodigious, and it is thought
that two months will suffice for the
quickest pupils to acquire a sufficient
knowledge of elementary French to
teach their compatriots all they need
to know.
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Disbursing Agent Do Line, of the
Alaskan engineering commission, with
headquarters ut Seward, Is bound for
the outside with his family, for a
short visit to Everett, Wash.
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ISON HITS AT
REPUBLICAN
PARTY
SALISBURY, May 20. — Presiden
Wilson In addressing a largo crowd ni
:he railway station today, attacked tin
eaders of the Republican party as
men “looking backward.” He said
‘The men in control of the Republl
•an party don't-know the problems
if today. Whenever I try to show mj
sympathy for forward looking met
if their own party by nominatint
iuch men for office, they try to blocl
nogress by defeating those* men.”
laical members of the Republicar
tarty say he referred to the fight le<
ly Senator Ballinger, which resultec
n defeating George Itublee as fed era
rade commissioner.
GOOD TILS ARE
[ SATS
BLUM
Sam Blum, banker and merchant, o
'ordovn and Valdez, was a passengei
>n the st-amship Alameda, en routt
rom Seattle to Valdez, where he ex
>ects to start the work on the rebuild
ng of his stores burned last year
He will return to Cordova next week
Blum comes north enthusiast!)
jver the outlook of this section o
he country for the coming year. H>
asserts that C'ordoYa has passet
through its period of depression, ant
hat the future holds nothing but tin
brightest prospects for this city.
In the states, Blum says, the eas
ind middle west are enjoying unex
impled prosperity. This wave of goot
times, he says, is rapidly coming t<
[he west, where the only obstacle ti
a boom at the present time is the
lack of ships to carry the lumbe
from the mills of the Pacific- North
west to foreign markets.
For the past several years, he says
the mills have had but very litth
business, and hard times resulted
Now that orders are in for unlimitei
supplies-of lumber, vessels cannot b
had to carry the products. Enougl
tonnage is found, however, to cans
a marked revival in business, which
he says, will increase rapidly.
ITALIAN MEDICINES WERI
BADLY FALSIFIED
NISH, Serbia. May 20. — Huge sup
plies of medicines furnished the Serb
long ago by the Italians, and foum
here by the Bulgarians recently, hav
on examination, been declared to b
badly falsified—so badly as to be al
solutely worthless as medicines. Fiv
hundred quinine tablets, for instance
proved to contain no trace of quinine
other "medicines" supposed to coi
tain various ingredients were found t
possess little more than magnesia an
chalk; disinfectant tablets, la belle
as containing specific quantities c
certain chemicals, proved to hnveonl
a small percentage of the labelled dis
infectants.
Bulgarian doctors, ir. condemnin
the entire lot of medicine as bavin
little If any value, have forbidde
their use by the Bulgurs.
BENSON PLANS TO ERECT
SAWMILL ON LYNN CANAl
H. Benson is planning on openln
up a saw mill on the west shore s
the south end of the canal. He ha
contracted for the cutting of timbei
which has scaled over two million fee
by government scale. M. W. Merril
Is on the ground sizing the territor
up, and will in all probability do th
logging for the mill.
The mill, as reported, will be moc
ern and up to date in every respec
giving employment to at least twent
men. Mr. Benson has a water sit)
which will generate 300 liorsepowe!
Planers, carriages and edgers hav
been purchased by the mill owner.
jROOSEVELT HAMMERS AT
WANTS BETTER DEFENSE
DETROIT, May 20. — Theodore Roosevelt, in an address
here today, reiterated his unswerving opposition to all kinds
of hyphenated Americanism. He said that henceforth there
must be but one kind of a citizen of this country, and that he
must be wholly American.
He advicated universal military service, based on universal
training, declaring that we must abandon the pork barrel me
thods in national defense and recognize that only by efficient
organization can this country obtain the protection necessary
to preserve peace.
He said he came to Detroit because the Ford delegates won
in the Republican primaries, and the effect wa* immediately
noticeable on politicians, both in and out of coiyress.
PROSPECTING IS
MYSTERY ID
DOUGLAS, May 18. — Drill, i- un
tier contract continue their operations
in the city limits of Dougl . <>n min
ing property under bond, and people
are still speculating as to the com
pany behind them.
The guesses range all tin way from
the Guggenheims to other large min
• ing combinations.
' One fact Is apparent, and that is
i that some company is mighty artiv.
I on properties along both aides of Gas
I tineau channel, and men are at work
i in a number of places, employed by
local agents who are not advertising
their business from the house tops.
- Kxcellent progress is being made by
I the drillers on this side ol the chan
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PEDDLER IS FINED 525 IN
CITY COURT
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J. Lafer, charged with peddling
| without a license in Cordova. was
> tried before City Magistrate N (!
i C.reeu Saturday and fined
> The offense with which La for was
, charged was alleged to have been
committed May 12. The warrant was
not sworn out until May 20. In the
meantime, Lafer averred, he had been
, informed of the existence of the li
• cense law, and had refrained from
further peddling. In consideration oi
the defense. Magistrate Green fined
him only $25.
The ordinance in force in Cordova
provides that any persui, before they
s shall peddle merchandise in this city
must first obtain a license tTie "i*
I cense fee is $50 per day.
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NORTHWESTERN GETS AWAY
FROM SEATTLE FOR NORTH
SEATTLE, May 20. — The steam
ship Northwestern, of the Alaska
’ Steamship Company, sailed today foi
the north. She lias the following pas
sengers for Cordova: Pete l’eterson
Emil Christensen, Mr». J- Chrlstesen
■ H. W. McRacken, H. (lad. and thre«
steerage.
The Admiral Evans will sail for tin
? north Sunday.
‘ INDIAN BOY KILLED BY
LUMBER CAR NEAR DOUGLAS
Paul Williams, a sir year old natlvi
■ boy, was run over by a lumber car oi
the track between Douglas and Tread
g well Monday morning, when he wa
t so seriously injured that be died at
s hour after being taken to the hospital
■, Commissioner John Henson empanel
t1 led a coroner’s Jury in the afternoon
tja verdict being returned to the effec
y that the child had met death accident
b ally as above described. The jur
recommended that danger sigus b
- placed ..t coaaptcnou^mmits along th
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,, KRUPPS INCREASE STOCK.
.. VIENNA, May 20. — The Skod
e Works, the K nip ns of Austria I tui
- gary, have dec; J to Increase thel
ENGLAND FACED
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LONDON, May 20. — Hostile sub
marines have been sinking each week
| aliout 60,000 tons of shipping with ttia
i regularity of clockwork, and the con
1 sequent scarcity of tonnage is caus
ing the Englishmen to look forward
to a food crisis in this country, whl*-h
is believed by many to he not far olff.
About $1,500,000,000 worth of fol>d
lias to be brought to these shorles
every year. In normal times, wish
tlie help of neutral shipping, the Br*<
ish mercantile marine can just abot
manage it. But not so now. Tut
| underwriters’ view is that the odte
i against', making a safe passage ais
i more than ten times as great as hr*
fore the war; and, with the increae
1 of enemy submarines, so the odds he
! crease, neutral shipping becomes mon
and more shy of entering Brltire
waters, and food becomes scarcer ash
dearer. id
Estimates of the 1910 crop in foreij
countries are not encouraging, and t$n
question is raised as to whether the
foreigner is in a position to supply the
demands here even if conditions wsi*
j normal. The following shows the (fre
crease in wheat land estimated by the
International Agricultural instttutie
for 1910: Canada 14.9 pet een(e,
United States 11.9 per cent, aijt,
Prance 8.0 per cent. In other cottfd
tries the decrease is said to be in tth
same proportion.
Although every effort has been
made to remedy the situation by giv
ing up all available land to crop rant
ing, the British board of agriculture
has been hampered by lack of labolr.
True, thousands of women have re
placed men called to the colors, hilt
the board finds that they are jKtir Suf*~ — -
licipnt in utilize the tatwi to the full
THIS SOUNDS FAMILIAR TO
CORDOVA PEOPLE
C. A. Itlann, of Seattle, was a pas
senger on the Watson on his way to
Katalla, where he will do some survey
, I work on the new railway that will be
1 in course of construction in a short
I time. The road, Mr. Blann said, will
| be approximately twenty miles long
| and will reach the coal fields of that
region. He believes that the Guggen
heims are behind the enterprise. G.
Nelsrtn will be in charge of the con
struction wort'- Ketchikan Miner.
1 ADMIRAL LINE OFFICIAL V
PASSES THROUGH CORDOVA.
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i! C. K. Flye. general freight and paa
senger agent for the Paelfic-Alaaka
- Steamship Co., is a round trip pas
senger on the steamship Admiral Wat
t son, and was in Cordova during that
- vessel's stay in port.
r He Is on a tour of inspection of the
a various Alaska offices of that com
» panv, aud expests to spend some tl®*
here ou his return from the west
ward.
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4 YOUNG PASTOR ARRIVES.
I Rev. Shrlver today is elated over
r the arrival at his home of a bright W
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