The Cordova Daily Times
VOLUME TWO. NUMBER 342. CORDOVA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1916. PRICE TEN CENTS.
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Harbormaster Harry Locke and
Capt. J. E. Peterson, of. Anchorage,
were in Cordova last night. They are
passengers on the steamer Northwest
ern on their way to Seattle to pur
chase two barges and several tugs for
the Alaska engineering commission,
to be used in their railroad work 'hir
ing the coming summer.
Mr. Locke was not very communi
cative as to the amount of equipment
they intended securing for the 50m
mission, as it was against the policy
of Lieut. Mears to give out any ad
vance information for publication.
It was learned, how’ever, that the
plan is to purchase a $90,000 tug,
which will be able to buck the ice at
Anchorage, and also a powerful light
draft tug for use over the mud flats.
The latter will be nearly flat bot
tomed, or equipped with bilge keels
to prevent it from laying over on one
side should it be caught, on the flats
between tides.
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RAID IS MADE
SEATTLE, Jan. 19. — The sheriff
of King county followed up his sen an
tional raid on the Rainier club yester
day l>v an even more sensational de
scent upon the residence of Win. E.
Boeing, a millionaire lumberman. Boe
ing has a magnificent home at High
lands, in North Seattle. A large quan -
tity of expensive liquors which were
found stored in the cellar were seized
and removed to the police station. The
search followed the receipt of confi
dential information by the sheriff, j
who was informed that the large stock
of liquors in the club house of the
Seattle Golf and Country Club had
not been shipped from the state, but j
had been stored in Boeing's cellar. |
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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 19. — Rain
has been falling heavily in southern
California and Arizona since last Sat
urday, and dangerous flood conditions
are beginning to be noticed. The sub
urban trolley lines have been put out
of commission, as in many places the
waters are a foot above the tracks.
Railroad service has been demoral
ized, and trains are being operated in
but few jf»ces, and there with ex
treme caution. The rivers are all
overflowing, and in the towns seri
ous damage is reported. Scores of
towns in southern California are com
pletely isolated as far as transports- i
tion facilities are concerned. The1
transcontinental trains are unable to j
get through Arizona.
Jack Way went on duty last night j
as an extra policeman and will keep j
a sharp lookout for fires.
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Mrs. E. J. Clarke, wife of the C. R.
& N. W. railway station agent 'St
Kennecott, left for the States today.
ITTEMPT TO KILL
PRESIDENT Of
PEKING, Jan. 19. — Explosives
vere today found under the palace,
vhich investigation shows was a plot
o assassinate President Yuan Shi
<ai (emperor-elect). The discovery
caused considerable excitement, and
icores of people have been arrested as
;>eing parties to the conspiracy. Al
hough the president is nearly sixty
rears old, he is very sturdy and en
ioys excellent health.
Chinese papers are loud in their de
tunciation of what, they regard as
Fapan's indifference to the importa
ions of arms, ammunition and explo
livea into China. The recent seizure
it Shanghai of a large quantity of
lynamite found in the baggage of a
Fapanese passenger, who arrived on
he Japanese ship Saknki, from the
rapanese controlled port of Dalny, Is
ittracting much attention. The Chi
tese press is charging that the Jupan
*se are indifferent to the activities of
‘hinese assassins and trouble makers
ocated in the foreign concessions, and
ivould be glad to see internal trouble
in China, which would afford an ex
cuse for intervention. And today's at
empt has aroused a cloud of suspic
ion that some sinister motive may
tave been behind the attempt to kill
he new emperor.
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GRAVESEND. Jan. 19—The Hoi
ami American liner Ryndam, which
irived here with three storkers killed
mil four wounded was beached on the
wholes five miles below this port. The
British authorities have placed a
strong patrol along the shore and no
body is permitted to approach the ves
sel. Even the ship officers are not
permitted ashore except to consult
he officials of the steamship com
pany. At night the ship is in darkness
ind no lights are permitted on the
leek. From a casual examination it
s said that there is no prospect of
•efloating the vessel for several days.
RUSSIA BEGINS
VIENNA, Jan. 19. — The war office
ssued an official bulletin this morn
ng, stating that the Russians had
■ommeneed a new offensive against
he Austrians at a point east of Czer
lowitz, in Bukowina, near the Bessa
rabian frontier. The enemy made
our heavy successive attacks against
he Austrian positions, but were re
mised each time, being forced to
ireak and give way, suffering heavy
osses from the machine gun fire.
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The high price of copper has caus
'd many of the claims in this district,
ivhlch were allowed by their owners
o revert to the government, after
leveral years assessment work had
jeen performed, to be relocated.
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While Cordova feels that the eold
wave has struck it with full force, the
weather here is not a circumstance to
conditions along the railroad. Yes
terday at noon the thermometers in
town registered six above zero, and at
11 o'clock last night the mercury
dropped to nearly zero.
According to a weather report re
ceived at Superintendent Corser's of
fice at 5 o'clock last evening, Strelna
was the coldest point, it being 22 de
grees below zero there, with a 20
mile wind blowing. At McCarthy it
Was 12 below, but here the wind
reached its greatest velocity, traveling
at the rate of 100 miles. The report
in full follows:
Camp 30—14 above; clear; 10 mile
wind.
Camp 34—2 below; clear; 50 mile
wind.
Camp 39—Zero; clear; 10 mile wind.
Camp 52—Zero; cloudy; 40 mile
wind.
Camp 02—1 below; .cloudy; 40 mile
wind.
Camp 07—8 below; clear; 30 mile
U' I T111
Camp 78—Zero; clear; 40 mile wind.
Camp 88—2 above; clear; 30 mile
wind.
Camp 101—12 below; cloudy; 35
mile wind.
Camp 114—6 below; cloudy; 50 mile
wind.
Chitina—15 below; cloudy; 40 mile
wind.
Strelna—22 below: cloudy; 20 mile
wind.
McCarthy —12 below; cloudy; 00
mile wind.
Kennecott 20 below; cloudy; 50
mile wind.
PEKING, Jan. 18. — Twenty Amer
ican engineering experts are busily
engaged at Harbin erecting locomo
tives shipped from the United States
to the Russian government. Both the
Baldwin Company from the the in
Baldwin Company and the American
Locomotive Works have experts here,
assisting the Russians in their efforts
to get adequate locomotive power for
the Trans-Siberian railway.
The locomotives coining from Am
erica are unloaded at Vladivostok.
They are knocked down into as small
pieces as possible, and boxed in Am
erica for shipment. Upon their arri
val at Vladivostok the engines are
rushed on to Harbin, where the fa
cilities for erecting them are better
than at Vladivostok.
All told four hundred and fifty lo
comotives have been sold by Ameri
can manufacturers to the Russian
government. These are now coming
to Vladivostok by way of the Suez,
but will doubtless be routed via Tall
ama as soon as the canal is clear. It
is estimated that the delivery of these
locomotives will extend over one
year.
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Dr. C. L. Hale was an outgoing pas
senger this morning on the North
Western for Seattle, where he will
spend a couple of weeks.
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Deputy Marshal Jos. Feaster re
turned on the steamer yesterday af
ternoon from a business trip to Val
dez, on his way home to Chitina.
[DELES INSTAL
FIR YEAR
Last night the newly elected offi
cers of Cordova Aerie, No. 1826, Fra
ternal Order of Ragles, were installed
at their hall by Past Worthy President
C. P. Mickelson, assisted by Junior
P. W. President N J. Black.* The
ceremony is very impressive, ad$_was
witnessed by a large number m the
members, flefreshnfrnts were sfcVved
by caterer Fred Scjirenger. and a
pleasant evening was spent The of
ficers installed were: ' f»
Worthy President — R. F. MedSy.
Worthy Vice-President — Hev. £. P.
Ziegler. *'
Chaplain—Peter Sherman.
Secretary—Geo. Dooley.
Treasurer—Geo. Hickman.
Physician—Dr. W. H. Chase.
Trustee—N. A. Clasen.
Inner Guard—E. Lindberg.
Outer Guard—Griff Ellis.
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IDAHO IS KEPT
EXPENSE
WASHINGTON, Jari. 19. — The
government is selling electricity for
heating purposes at astonishingly low
rates in the thriving Idaho towns ot
Rupert and Burley, where three out
of every four buildings and homes,
large and small, are being heated by
electricity. Current for $1 to $1.25
per month per kilowatt of capacity
is being supplied as a by product from
the government's water power plant
installed by the reclamation service
on the Minidoka reclamation project.
The primary purpose of ihe plant lo
cated at the diversion dam on the
Snake river near Minidoka is to pump
water for the irrigation of about 50.
000 acres of land too high to be cov
ered by gravity canals. The water
has to be lifted about TO feet, and to
do this 10,000 horse power are re
quired during the summer irrigation
season. In winter, however, the
greater part of this power would be
wasted were it not for the develop
ment of electric heating, and this ac
counts for the jow rates charged by
the government for power. The re
venue front heating would show a loss
if heating were the only purpose of
the plant. Sold as a by-product from
an installation required for other pur
poses electric heat is helping to carry
the cost of operation as well as serv
ing Ihe cause of conservation.
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INTERFERE IN
NEW YORK, Jan. 19. — While the
European war has killed all chance
of international sports competition on
the scale of the Olympic games, and
the America’s cup regatta, this year
will not be without its intersectional
and international contests. In fact
the indications point to a wider range
of sport meetings during 191t; than
ever before it) the history of amateur
competition in this country.
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Dance at Eagle Hall Saturday night.
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When Chairman Kdes appeared be
fore the house committee on appro
priations the other day he gave the
following reasons for asking for an
emergency appropriation of $2,000,000
with which to continue eonstructfon (
of the Alaska railroad.
He stated that the material for the
bridge and trestle work necessary
along the Matanuska branch line to
the coal fields must be taken in over
the snow if the road was to be com
pleted next season.
Owing to lack of money the work
was now at a standstill, he said, and
that 1,500 men employed by the com
mission at Anchorage are now idle
and It was Imperative, in the interests
of economy, that the present organiza
tion be maintained and the necessary
work at Anchorage and along the
Alaska Northern in preparation for
the summer season be carried out.
This could not be done, he stated,
without the money asked for in the
I emergency aporppriation.
j He went into details, showing «he
I utmost familiarity with the project in
all its phases, showing beyond a doubt
that the work w’ould be delayed al
' most a full year If the commission
was unable to go ahead until the re
I gular appropriation asked for became
available.
Chairman Edes stated that lie be
lieved that the road would be built
without developing any difficult en
Igiaeeriug problems and estimated that I
it would be in operation along the en- j
tire system at present planned within
five years.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 1!«. — Sen |
ator Cummings, of Iowa, addressed
the Senate today on the matter of j
preparedness. The senator said that I
while he was in favor of the adminis- ■
tration’s program with minor excep- j
tions, yet he felt that the people j
ought to know- that the manufactur-j
ers of munitions were actively en
gaged In a propaganda for the meas
ures. and that their only reason was
| private profit. The makers of arms
! were practically insisting on the most
j comprehensive naval and military pro
i gram so far conceived, larger even j
than that of the militaristic nations |
; of Europe before the war. He said
that this desire for private profit out
of such a vital matter as national de
i fence was reprehensible, and that he
would favor and advocate in Congress
the elimination of private profit as
an influence on the side of war by
providing for the manufacture by the
government of all war munitions.
STEAMER SAILS SOUTH THIS j
MORNING.
The steamer Northwestern left here
about 6 o'clock this morning for the
! States. Her Cordova passengers were :
! Fred Giasbrenner and wife, Mrs. E. J. i
I Clarke. Mrs. John Baltuff. W. H. (
■ Mendham, W. E. Terrill. T. A. Lam- ,
son. Angus McDougall. G. Coutard. i
|F. A. Turner. Mrs. P. Matheson. Mrs.
A. Cleveland, L. L. Collier and wife,
H. Simonson, G. Donelson, Or. C. L. ,
Hale for Seattle; Hen Simson for ,
Juneau. i
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UNIVERSITY OK WASHINGTON.
Jan. 19. — The diminishing of the
supply of edible crabs native to the
waters of the Pacific has caught the
attention of zoologists at the Univer
sity of Washington, and Dr. Nathan
Fasten is engaged in a study of the
creatures in the hope of finding a
means of increasing the production.
Dr. Fasten is studying in particular
the process of reproduction. As yet
no one has solved how fertilization
takes place, but he hopes to discover
the process in the course of his re
search. If he is entirely successful
in his efforts, a means of artificial
fertilization will be found whereby the
production may be increased a hun
dred fold.
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WASHINGTON. Jan. 19. — After a
heated discussion over the situation in
Mexico the Senate committee on for
eign relations adjourned today with
out taking any action on the matter.
Resolutions had been presented to the
committee providing for the sending
of troops into Mexico to act in con
junction with the Carranza soldiers
in punishing the bandits who had
murdered the \mericans in Chihua
hua. and to aid the Mexican govern
ment generally in restoring peace
and order, and protecting \merican
citizens and \inerlnm property
rights. The opinion prevailed with
i majority of the committee that in
tervention was inadvisable, and such
a resolution will be reported to tlie
Senate. The action of the committee
upholds President Wilson in his ex
pressed determination to give the
Carranza government a chance to
iernonstrate its ability to preserve
order. The action of the committee
is considered a signal victory for the
president and his foreign policy.
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PARIS, Jan. 19. — ljour special
rains of dogs have just been sent to
iifferent parts of tne French battle
front. One train of twenty-five cars
3ad twenty-five dogs in each car —*
ox terriers, rat terriers, police dogs
ind other breeds to he divided be
ween different sectors of the front,
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md most of them employed in chasing
•nts out of the trenches. Attracted by
he remains of the soldiers’ rations,
ats invaded the advanced" works,
ihelters and trenches, even on the
irst line, and multiplied to such an
■xtent that the soldiers are incapable
>f exterminating them. D, ;s are now
o be tried.
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The Cordova String Orchestra has
irranged to give . series of four
lances at Eagle Hall. The first will
ake place Saturday night, and a gen
■ral invitation is extended to the pub
ic to attend.