VOL. V. NO. 137____CORDOVA, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1920
NUMBER OF DEATHS REPORTED FROM FAIRBANKS AND NENANA
SWEEPING INSTRUCTIONS TO NAVY
BY PRESIDENT ON ENTERING WAR
ARE MADE PUBLIC BY DANIELS
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WASHINGTON, May 12 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The instructions of
President Wilson to the officers of the
Atlantic fleet, delivered in person on
board the flagship Pennsylvania on
August 11, 1917, and hitherto unpub
lished, were made public yesterday by
secretary Daniels in his testimony be
fo& the senate committee which is in
vestigating awards of naval honors.
Mr. Daniels said these instructions
showed that a bold, vigorous policy
was outlined for the navy. To throw
tradition to the winds, to strike the
word “prudent” from the navy’s vo
cabulary, and to do the things that
were audacious to the utmost point of
risk and daring, were among the high
lights of the President’s instructions.
President Wilson expressed dissat
isfaction with the progress that had
•been made toward crushing the sub
marine menace. “Never mind prece
dents,” he said. “You must do new
and successful things not heretofore
attempted by the British.” The Ameri
can, he said, was the prize amateur,
while Germany was the prize profes
sional, and he backed the amateur.
SIMS DELAYED PROGRESS
Secretary Daniels charged that the
North sea mine barrage was delayed
for six months by Admiral Sims, who
sided with the British in opposition to
the plan.
The charges of Admiral Sims that
the navy was unprepared for war he
declared to be unfounded, and he said
a close comradeship existed between
the British and American navies.
Secretary Daniels asserted that
President Wilson’s vision established
the fact that he was in advance of
“some of the officers who are vocal
now but were silent then.”
ROAD BUILDERS
TO BE GUESTS OF
■ BUSINESS MEN
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. The Chamber of Commerce meets
| tonight in the Northland club rooms,
I in honor of Colonel John W. Gotwals,
1 late of the American Expeditionary
Forces iin France, and now head of
the Alaska Road Commission, the
place formerly held by General W.
P. Richardson. Colonel Gotwals brings
to his new position a peculiar fitness
for the work, an unremitting interest
in promoting it, and a newborn fond
ness for Alaska, which makes him de
sire nothing but the good of the
whole Territory.
Colonel Gotwals was one of the first
of the Americans to reach France in
1917, spending over two years at the
f^font, in positions of danger, and
making a proud record. His asso
ciates speak of him as a man who
does things, and one who brings an
alert intelligence to all problems
which confront him. The work before
him in Alaska is one of the greatest
usefulness, and one which gives him
an opportunity to imprint his name
on the Territory as the well-beloved
General Richardson has done tnrougn
the naming of the Fairbanks Read as
the Richardson trail.
Colonel Gotwals has impressed all
who have met him as a fine type of
American and a competent and effi
cient engineer. In order that all the
people of Cordova may have a
chance to meet him and discuss the
road needs of the Territory the meet
ing of the Chamber of Commerce this
evening is a public one. and all the
people of Cordova are invited to come
and meet the Colonel. J. M. Myers,
who is a representative of the Bureau
of Agriculture and associated with
Colonel Gotwals in the road work
will also be present. If the North
western brings Major Waugh the ex
head of the Road Commission, it is
hoped that Major Waugh will be pres
ent and attend the conference.
The meeting will be at 8:30 o’clock
and will be informal.
FISH QUOTATIONS
KETCHIKAN, May 12.—Prices for
fish on May 11 were: Halibut, firsts,
seconds, 6%c.
fc.
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MARLBORO, Mass., May 12 (by As
sociated Press).—Smoking and chat
ting periods have been introduced at
a local shoe factory in an effort to in
crease efficiency. Several ideas elimi
nating unnecessary processes have
been adopted and other suggestions
aimed at time-saving are being tried
out.
Some of the operatives, it is said,
did not take kindly to the experiments
and were wondering dubiously what
the next attempt of the management
to obtain a short-cut to production
would be. It came in unexpected form
and the employes are now discussing
the latest idea over their pipes and
their knitting “on the company’s
time.”
Their speculation over the next ef
ficiency plan was answered by the fol
lowing announcement:
“Production must be increased.
Quality must be improved. Begin
ning tomorrow, operations will be sus
pended twice daily, to allow opera
tives to rest.”
During these periods, which begin
at 10 in the morning and 3 in the
afternoon, the power of the plant is
shut off and the wheels are stopped
while the men smoke and the women
chat or knit. Then the whirr of the
machinery begins again and the work
ers return to their task of making
shoes. *
MAY SEND WARSHIP
AND MARINES TO BATUM
TO PROTECT AMERICANS
WASHINGTON, May 12 (by Asso
ciated Press).—A resolution requesting
the President to send a warship and
marines to Batum, on the Black sea,
to protect American lives and prop
erty, was reported unanimously yes
terday by the seante committee on
foreign relations.
Big game is plentiful in the Ram
part country this year, and several
of the miners have been out procuring
meat.
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INTERIOR TOWNS ARE IN GRIP OF
EPIDEMIC OF INFLUENZA, WHICH
IS RESPONSIBLE FOR MANY DEATHS
SEATTLE, May 12 (by Associated Press).—The Northwestern di
vision headquarters of the Red Cross in this city is in receipt of
advices from Fairbanks and Nenana stating that 80 per cent of the
population is down with influ-enza, there being more than eight
hundred cases.
There have been twelve deaths at Fairbanks and three at Nenana
from the disease. Fairbanks has three physicians and Nenana two,
and there is no shortage of medicine.
EL PASO, Texas, May 12 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The Leader says that
he new regime in Mexico will welcome
foreign capital, and has promised pro
tection to life and property, the insti
tution of reforms, the prohibition of
gambling, and the abolition of saloons
WANTS RECOGNITION
WASHINGTON, May 12 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The revolutionary gov
ernment in Mexico will ask immediate
recognition by the United States gov
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eminent.
MAKING IT TOUGHER
FOR ATHLETIC STUDENTS
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cal.,
May 12 (by Associated Press).—Stan
ford has abolished those “pipe
courses,” largely taken by students so
busy with athletic or social affairs
they had no time for study. Require
ments in fine arts and other classes,
wherein it used to be easy to “get
by” have been tightened.
BIG CACHE IS
UNEARTHED BY
LOCAL SCOUTS
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Last evening Scoutmaster D. C.
Czerwenka, with Scouts Eugene Tibbs
and Lawrence Graham of the local
Boy Scouts organization, discovered
two five-gallon kegs of what is com
monly known as “white mule” under
a crossing near the Scout headquar
ters. The illicit booze was done up in
gunny sacks, and had evidently been
recently cached by its owners. Deputy
Marshal Fursman was notified and
took charge of the two kegs of liquor,
which he will hold pending an order
for its destruction.
Mr. Fursman states that he would be
glad to have the owner call and prove
the property.
A sample of the liquor was tested by
“Doc” Caswell, who found it to con
tain methyl alcohol, or wood alcohol,
fusel oil and numerous other poisons,
which sooner or later would cause
blindness and other ills.
“Doc” says that the man who makes
and sells this class of stuff deserves
to be arrested and tried for attempted
murder. He claims that it is impos
sible for the local manufacturer, with
his wash-boiler still, to eliminate in
twenty-four hours the poisons which
the distiller can not get rid of in less
than three years. *
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ADMIRAL BOAT
WILL TAKE MEN
TO ANCHORAGE
SEATTLE, May 12 (by Associated
Press).—The steamship Admiral Good
rich has been engaged by the Alaskan
engineering commission for ? trip to
Anchorage with supplies and labor
ers. She will sail on Friday with a
cargo of steel rails, bridge timbers,
1 ties and miscellaneous merchandise.
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She will take about one hundred men
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for construction work.
ALL PRAISE BE GIVEN
THIS PROLIFIC HEN
UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO, Moscow,
May 12 (by Associated Press).—Prof
iteers in eggs would have their diffi
culties* if all hens were as industri
ously prolific as Ida U., a white Orping
ton pullet owned by the poultry de
partment of the University of Idaho.
Two eggs a day on six different days
and 52 eggs in 49 days is this extraor
dinary hen’s carefully-authenticated
record, the university announces.
MANY BRANCH
ESTABLISHED
SHANGHAI, May 12 (by Associated
Press).—A system of Chinese-Ameri
can banks with proposed branches in
the United States is now being put
into operation in a number of Chinese
cities. The new institution, the Chi
nese-American Commercial and In
dustrial Bank of China, has grown
out of a recent interchange of visits to
America and China of leading Ameri
can and Chinese financiers. Follow
ing the opening in February of the
main bank of the system in China at
Peking, steps were taken in March to
open a branch bank at Shanghai and
others, it is said, will be started with
out delay in Canton, Hankow, Tien
tsin and Chengtu.
J. A. Thomas, formerly managing
director of the British-American To
bacco Company in Shanghai, and Hsu
En-yuan, a Chinese financier, are vice
presidents of the institution. Mr.
Thomas said the new system would be
in complete operation this week.
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P. C. Lynch, a well-known old-timer,
is busily engaged these days in plan
ning the establishment of a roadhouse
at Roosevelt, gateway to the Kan
tishna district, in anticipation of a
large volume of travel during the com
ing summer, by way of the river
route.
FEDERAL COMMITTEE LEARNS
MUCH ABOUT ALASKA, WHICH
SHOULD RESULT BENEFICIALLY
SEATTLE, May 12 (by Associated
Press).—Colonel Alfred H. Brooks,
chairman of Secretary pf the Interior
Payne’s inter-departmental committee
which is investigating Alaska trans
portation and development problems,
declares that the appointment of. the
committee has been justified already
by the acquisition of new information
and the rounding out and completing
of data already obtained.
Much of the time of the committee
has been given to the question of de
veloping business for the new govern
ment railroad and fostering the growth
of the communities that will furnish
the markets for the farmers. The
great need, he said, was for more ade
quate transportation facilities.
F. E. Shippley, owner of a fox ranch
near Seward, testified before the com
mittee yesterday, and was followed
by Mr. Georgeson, who is in charge
of the government’s agricultural ex
perimental stations in Alaska.
Nathan Eckstein of Schwabacher
Bros, of this city, wholesale grocers,
discussed trade and shipping facili
ties.
G. R. Vause, a mining man, yester
day morning told of conditions in the
Susitna country.
John N. Cobb, head of the depart
ment of fisheries, University of Wash
ington, and representatives of the
chambers of commerce of Juneaa,
Seward, Nome and Fairbanks, were
heard yesterday afternoon.
The hearings are executive, and
nothing will be given out until the
committee has submitted its report t®
Washington.
MISSIONARY IS
MURDERED BY
ALASKAYOUTH
SEATTLE, May 12 (by Associated
Press).—A radio report from Nome
says that A. R. Hoare, an Episcopal
missionary, was shot and killed by
James Maguire, aged 18 years, at Port
Hope, while traveling to Point Barrow.
The father of the boy arrested his
son, who is supposed to be insane,
and brought him to Candle.
PLANTING TROUTFRY
IN MANY STREAMS OF
WASHINGTON STATE
SEATTLE, May 12 (by Associated
Press).—An unusual number of trout
fry will be planted in King county
streams this year, according to the
county game commission. Five thou
sand Beardsley trout, a species which
reaches a weight of sixty pounds, and
which is never caught at a depth less
than thirty or forty feet, were secured
from Crescent lake. The county was
given 100,000 rainbow trout, part of
a shipment of half a million, obtained
in Wisconsin, in exchange for silver
trout eggs. Approximately half a mil
lion steelhead eggs and a million cut
throat trout eggs have been applied
for.
TO BUY LIVESTOCK
FOR ALASKA IN OHIO
Superintendent Snodgrass of thej
Fairbanks government experiment
station, who left Cordova for the out
side on the last boat, is going to ar
range for the establishment of a flour
mill a Fairbanks for the treatment of
home-grown grain. He will endeavor
to secure federal aid for the mill, but
! if that is found to be impossible, the
! mill will be purchased with local cap
i ital, of which there is already $11,000
; available.
Snodgrass will also purchase live
i stock for the farmers of the Fair
banks district, it being his intention
to visit the state of Ohio for that pur
pose. The purchases will include a
number of blooded cows to take the
places of those killed last year. They
will be landed on the coast and driven
in over the trail.
An effort also will be made to secure
a number of goats.
W. D. HOWELLS
DIES AT HOME
I METROPOLIS
NEW YORK, May 12 (by Associated
Press).—William Dean Howells, the
noted American noevlist, critic and
poet, died at his home in this city yes
terday, after a short illness. He was
83 years old.
Mr. Howells was born in 1837 in
Ohio, and in his youth was engaged in
newspaper work in that state. He was
United States consul at Venice from
1861 to 1865, and on his return was
connected with several New York
newspapers, and with the Boston At
lantic Monthly, becoming editor of
that magazine about 1871. He was
the recognized leader of the realistic
school, and his works describing fa
miliar incidents and details of ordi
nary every-day life in America have
been both popular and influential. He
published a campaign “Life of Lin
coln” in 1860 and Poems by Two
Friends (Howells and Piatt). Others
of his works are:
“Venetian Life,” “Their Wedding
Journey,” “The Lady of the Aroos
took,” “A Modern Instance,” “A Wom
an’s Reason,” “The Rise cf Silas Lap
ham,” “The Minister’s Charge,” “A
Hazard of New Fortunes,” "The Land
lord of Lion’s Head.” “Certain Delight
ful English Towns,” the farces “Out
of the Question” and “The Mouse
trap;” ’’Poems,” “Literary Friends
and Acquaintances.” “Heroines in
Fiction,” ‘“Literature and Life,” “Lon
don Films,” “Between the Dark and
the Daylight,” “Fennel and Rue,” and
“Imaginary Interviews.”
For many years' Mr. Howells has
been the editor of Harper’s Magazine.
SUGAR PLANTATIONS
OF HAWAII VALUABLE
HONOLULU, May 12 (by Associ
ated Press).—Sugar plantations in the
Hawaiian islands are valued at $132,
315,000, according to the 1920 assess
ment figures just made public.
Assessments for 1920 show an in
crease in valuation approximately esti
mated by Tax Assessor Charles T.
Wilder to be $17,575,000 over those of
1919.