The Cordova Times
v< >U ME II. NUMBER 542. C<)RDOVA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19,1916. " ,r.,v
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CHICAGO, Sept. 19. — It has been
learned that the blackmail gang which
has been operating so successfully
pmnrig the rich people numbers sixty,
twenty of whom are pretty young wo
men. The arrest of a score more of
the members is expected within the
week. Mrs. liegina Clipper, of New
Jersey, one of their victims, will tes
tify against the blackmailers.
CHICAGO, Sept. 19. — The charges
against three of the seven members
of the alleged gang of blackmailers
have been dropped, because of a lack
of evidence. Three have been re-!
leased, including two women.
CHICAGO, Sept. 19. — The federal!
authorities are besieged by wealthy ;
men and women, victims of the black- i
mail gang, pleading that their names j
be kept out of the scandal. It has
been decided that no names will be
revealed unless it is absolutely neces
sary to secure a conviction.
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SEATTLE. Sept. 19. The Long
shoremen's t'nion has taken a stand
which it hopes will result in strength
ening the position of the strikers and
thus force the steamship companies
to accede to their demands. It is try
ing to get the Atlantic longshoremen
to refuse to handle cargo to or from
the Pacific coast.
NEW YORK, Sept. 19. The Henry
Ford peace movement lias established
financial agencies throughout the
country in the hope of raising suffi
cient funds with which to carry on its
plans of ultimate!' bringing about
peace in the European countries.
PEORIA. 111., Sept. 19. <'lias. K.
Hughes today spoke before the Re
publican state convention, lie char
acterlzed the Democratic party os a
party of broken promises, which now
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represents extravagant claims Hughes
will address a meeting at Springfield
this afternoon.
DEAN BOLTON ADDRESSED
TEACHERS’ INSTITUTE.
SEATTLE. Sept. 19. — Doctor
Frederick E. Bolton, dean of the col
lege of education at the University of
Washington, was one of the speakers
at the Teachers' Institute held in Port
land last week. Dean Bolton was on
the program Friday. In the forenoon
he delivered an address on "A Square
Deal in Education." His theme in
k. the afternoon was "The True Mission
of the High School." Others assort
ated with Doctor Bolton on the pro
gram were H. I>. Sheldon, of the
school of education of the University
of Oregon, and Edward L. Hultne, of
the University of Idaho.
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The steamer Watson left Seward
at 6 o’clock this morning and is due
here tomorrow morning
TO SELL WATER
FRONT LOTS AT
SEWARD, Sept, 19.—The first unk
of the United States government com
mercial dock on the waterfront here
has been completed. Work on the
other units is progressing rapidly,
with the view of having the entire
structure finished when the Seward
Fairbanks portion of the new United
States railroad is ready for operation
in the summer of 1919.
Preparations are under way for the
sale, three weeks hence, of govern
ment lots along the waterfront. The
beach now is lined with small cabins
and other small structures. The lot
sale will give the owners of these
an opportunity to obtain homesites at
a nominal figure.
Much of the beach land that is valu
able for warehouse, factory and siding
purposes is to be leased in small
tracts. It is understood that already
several of the locations are to be
used for private warehouse and other
storage purposes as well as factories.
SIX FOOT HEIN IF
JULY CREEK
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MCCARTHY. Sept. Mi. — George |
Rust has returned from a trip to the |
Wood in property, on Fourth of July |
creek. Mr. Rust reports the diseov- ,
cry of a six foot seam of coal w ithin
fourteen miles of McCarthy. The coal ,
is of good quality and is now being ,
used at the Wood in camp for black- 1
smithing and cooking purposes. Mr. j (
Rust has made application to the sec- I
retary of the interior for a permit j |
to mine under (he recent leasing act,
and intends to haul coal down for
domestic use the coming winter.
PULP MILE TO BE
ESTABLISHED
In discussing the policy of the gov- 1
eminent toward the Alaskan forests,
Mr Hingland states that the Seattle
papers had said that Alaskan timber 1
was no good, and that the lumber for
the government railway had been. ’
shipped in from the states. This was 1
i’.oi a lari, no stated, as the govern
ment had used 17,00n,o0o feet of Alas 1
ka timber in its railway construction
and had 73,000,000 feet more blocked
out for local consumption. He said 1
that while Alaskan timber was not as 1
large as that of Washington, it made 1
a good grade of lumber. He also
stated that preparations were being .<
made for a two million dollar pulp mill -(
lo lie located on Prince William sound
and said that Alaskan spruce made a
superior quality of paper. He asked
for the co-operation of our people In
the work of the forestry bureau.
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PROMINENT SEATTLEITE
WANTS CORDOVA CLAMS. 1
The fame of the Cordova clam Is!
far-reaching, and inquiries are daily
being received from people in the
stales as to this product. In the last
mail A. J. Adams received a letter
from Krnest B. Hussey, a prominent 1
i ivil engineer of Seattle, who organ
ized the Scottish Bite in Cordova,
ized the Scottish Bite in Cordova, in
tention was called to the clam canning
industry that was making some note,
in that its product was of a particular
ly fine quality. Mr. Hussey says that
he ate some of the canned claims and
found them to be the best, but com
plains that he is unable to locate the
product In the Seattle market. He
wants to know the name of the beBt
brand and who, if any, are the Seattle
agents in order that he may procure
them for home use.
RUSSIANS DRIVEN ACROSS RIVER
LONDON, Sept. 19.—The bad weather has stopped the al
lied offensive in northern France which, during the past few
days, won many square miles of new ground and carried the
British troops within four miles of Bapaume. This advance
pocketed' (lornhies and seriously weakened the hold of the tier
mans on I’eronne and Ohaulnes, in western Macedonia.
The allies also drove the Bulgarians from Fiorina and the
adjacent districts of Monastic. Southwestern Serbia i- threat
( iied h\ the allied advance, and it is reported the Bulgarians are
evacuating and removing the Bulgarian archives from Fskuh,
mainly through street alleys. The Naloniki campaign may be
directed from Oerna valley, which connects Fiorina and Monas
tir, toward I’rilep. The Serbians are advancing east of Orna,
idministering crushing defeats to the Bulgarians.
AII1LNS, Sept. 1!). A Royalist newspaper has put for
"'aid the demand for the immediate explanation and release of
• reek soldiers made prisoners by the Bulgarians at Kavala.
I he tone of the article plainly indicates the alternative will be
i declaration of war. The premier has demanded the return
>f th(> soldiers and all of their effects.
BFjRLIN, Sept. 19.—1Taking the offensive on St ok hod'
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liver, tile Hermans stormed a strong Russian bridgehead and
drove the enemy across the liver. During the engagement over
2’\,n° Fussians were captured. The new line taken up by the
reinforced Russian and Roumanian troops in eastern Roumania
nul Black sea regions have been penetrated at several points
by the Teutons.
11A (* I I'j, Sept. lit. Borneo Berne has reported that the
Berman great g< neral staff has been moved from the western to
I lie east era trout. I he stat t which has been locate* I in northern
Franc** reported that Oeneral ilindeiiburg desired to leave in
France and Belgium sufficient men to hold the line and devote
Iheir energies to the east, w here victories were obtainable. Hin
leiihurg is now on the eastern front.
PF/I R(XJRAD, Sept. 1!).—In the < Carpathians, in the region ;
>t' Shibani and Pneva mountains, the Russians carried several!
'mights. The snow is now falling, but it has not prevented our
roops from advancing.
FF/l'Rt KIRA I), Sept. 1!). It is officially announced that
tubboru fighting is progressing along the river Xnravuvska,
n Halicia, where all the Teuton attacks have been repelled with
heavy losses.
MAY BDILD BOULEVARD
AROUND EYAK LAKE
At n meeting of the executive com-,
nittee of the Chamber of Commerce,
ield Saturday night, the body was
avored by the presence of A. C. Ring
and. T. M. Hunt and W. .1. McDonald,
if the United States forest service,
dr. Ringland is a forest Inspector for
he forestry department of the govern
nent. While this is his official title,
le is in reality an expert whose duties
•all for the propagation of plans to de
clop the resources of the national
orests.
Mr. Ringland has spent the last
hree months in Alaska, in company
vith Mr. Bennett, a soils expert of
he department, most of the time on
he Kenai Peninsula, where a great
nany tests of the soil have been made
md many homesteaders assisted in
idvice regarding the proper develop
went of their lands and the best kind
>f crops to sow.
At the meeting Saturday night Mr.
iingland addressed the executive cotn
nittee at length in relation to the ap
iropriation which the last congress
nade of $10,000,000 for the building
if roads and trailR In forest reserves.
Phis money is to be made available at
he rate of one million dollars per
ear, and the sum of $46,280 has been
et aside for the building of roads in
he two national forests in Alaska,
lamely, the Tongass and the Chu
;ach.
Part of the money will he spent in
he building of a road on the Kenai
'eninsula, and the suggestion has been
nade that a portion of it be used
n building a road around Eyak lake.
The suggestion appealed strongly to
Mr. Ringland for a number of reasons.
First, it would connect up with the
road built last year from Second street
to the Old Town, and be continued on
to the lake. Such a road wwuld make
immediately available a decent high
way for the people of Old Town, and
would give them adequate fire protec
tion. as well as allow delivery of gro
cerles and coal to their doors.
The road around the lake would
open up to reasonable development
plenty of good timber, and would also
be of great scenic attractiveness. It
would encourage the operation of
small homesteads raising produce for
local use at the head or the lake, and
many of our people could have sum
mer cottages, as points along the head
of the lake could be leased front the
forest service and Ideal camping spots
located.
It is the aim of the forest service
to make more available its domain for
the use of tourists, and no one place
In the country can offer more natural
beauty to a tourist than Eyak lake
in its upper reaches, and indeed in
all its aspects it is a thing of beauty,
which would he the Mecca of thou
sands if situated at any reasonable
place in the states. The executive
committee heartily endorsed the pro
position. and sent the following letter
to the district forester at Portland
Oregon, a copy being also sent to Gov
ernor Strong, asking his endorsement
Cordova Alaska, Sept. IS, ]91ti.
The Dlstriet Forester,
Forest Service,
Portland. Oregon.
Dear Sir:—At a meeting of the ex
ecutive committee of the Cordova
Chamber of Comerce, held on Septom
tier IS. 1 was authorized on behalf of
the Chamber to apply to you under the
terms or Section S of the Federal Aid
Itoad Act of July 11, lolti, for the con
struction of a road front Old Town,
( ordova, to Eyak lake, and eventually
if funds permit to encircle this body
of water. As doubtless you know
there is absolutely no egress from
Cordova except by the railroad or by
steamer. Indeed there is no passable
road to the city cemetery. Under the
2i> per cent fund of moneys derived
from national forest receipts some
' was spent bv the road commissioner
tor the Third distric t under local con
tract, but the result lias not been
tit all satisfactory to the people. Since
the law above quoted provides that
any road constructed under the prnvi
sinus of the act shall be under the
direct supervision of highway engi
neers of tlie department of agricul
ture. we are very hopeful that some
thing can he done. A road through
Did Town to Eyak lake will not onl\
afford a decent access to the city
cemetery, but will meet the business
needs of some 300 people living in
that part of the city, and in addition
afford an unusual source of scenic
attraction for many tourists. Then,
too. with a road chance will be af
forded for a few homesteaders to
raise market produce at a profit. I
might add that with a road around
the lake, undoubtedly many of ourj
citizens will desire to erect summer
cottages under the provision of the
national forest lease law. Another
noint to consider is the fact that at
'he head of Eyak lake is found what
is considered to be the best water
power in this section.
You will appreciate that the Cha
Iter is not in position to give the de
tails of distance, grade, costs and the
like. In general it may be said that
the distance to the head of the lake
will not exceed in miles. Messrs.
Pingland, Hunt and Macdonald, of the
forest service, attended our meeting
and gave this project every encour
agement. It is earnestly urged there
fore that you will pass upon this pro
ject and direct the necessary surveys
it an early date.
As I understand It, the application
should lie presented by some officer
of competent jurisdiction, so 1 am
sending a copy of this application to
iiovernor Strong, with the request
that he give it his endorsement. A
copy, too, will be sent Forest Super
user Weigle at Ketchikan for his In
formation.
Mr. llingland informs me that he
expects to see you at an early date,
so I suggest that you secure further
details from him on the merit of this
proposed Eyak lake project. Very
truly yours.
EDWARD F. MEDLEY.
Secretary,
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The launch Waif arrived this morn
ing from the westward on its return
to Katalla.
SYMPATHY STRIKE NETWORK OF WIRES
IS DUE FRIDAY BY R. R. COMMISSION
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NEW YORK, Sept. 19. — All nego
dations to avert a general strike has
'ailed because President Shonts, of
he Interboro Company, has refused
o consider any plan to reopen nego
iations with his employees.
NEW YORK. Sept. 19. A meeting
>f the buslnes sinterests will be held
omorrow in the hope of evolving new
neans of adjusting the traction strike
lifflculties before Friday.
NEW YORK, Sept. 19. — Mayor
Whitman today called into conference
representatives of the Chafnber of
Commerce and Merchants' Association
u the hope of devising some way to
>vort the threatened strike of 750,000
workers in sympathy with the street
•ailway employees' walkout before
Fhursday night. It is threatened that
be street car strike will be extended
,o Queen's county.
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EMPRESS TONIGHT.
If you want to laugh don't fall to
sec "Shanghaied," a two reel comedy,
featuring Charles Chaplin.
Over 100 persons eligible to admis
sion to the Order of Alaska Pioneers
have signed the roll at Anchorage,
and plans are under way to establish
an Igloo there.
At the University of Collfornia 125
candidates for 'varsity football honors
were out early this week, with Kddie
Mahan, Harvard star, coaching hack
field aspirants. Prospects of Califor
nia and Stanford getting together for
the annual "big game" are still hope
less, the Cardinals refusing to give
up Rugby, while the Bears are out
for the American game. Three hun
dred Rugby hopefuls confronted the
coaches at Palo Alto on the opening
day for football practice.
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SEWARD, Sept 19. Early next
spring the United States government,
in connection with the new United
| States railroad, will have approxi
I mutely non miles of telegraph and
telephone lines in operation out of
Seward. This is to form the nucleus
of a system that ultimately Is to
spread a network of throughout
J the territory of Alaska.
Beginning here the lines parallel the
I railroad to Anchorage, 117 miles. The
i present line, strung partly on new and
I partly on old poles, consists of only
I one copper wire, which Is used both
! for telephone and telegraph, hut this
soon will be Increased to a six-wire
1 line.
North of Anchorage there is a 6l’
' mile line extended to King's river,
the terminal of the branch mad into
(he Matanusku coal fields, and a line
extending along the mute of the main
line towards Fairbanks as far as Wil
low creek.
On the Talkeetna river division
there is at present a separate system
with forty miles of wire extending
north and south along the Susitna
river, where construction work is un
der way. Between the southern end
of this line and the northern end of |
the Anchorage line is a swampy coun
try, across which a connecting line
will be laid this winter after the
swamps freeze up.
Kates over the government tele
graph system range from a cent a
word for press messages to fifty cents
for ten words. There also is a night
letter service.
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The gold output of the Kamimrt
district for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1916, Is reported to have
been $10,000, and the value of the fur j
catch for the district for the winter
of 1916-16 about $20,000.
INTERIOR MINES
Mct'AHTHY, Sept, lb —- Chria TJos
evig reports another find of high
grade ore in the property of the Ken
necott-Tjosevig company. With the
showing now In sight the future of the
mine is assured. A shipment of a num
her of tons of high grade ore is at
the depot awaiting transportation to
the Tacoma smelter for a test run.
It is estimated that there is now in
sight at the property, in the neighbor
hood of half a million dollars worth
of ore and the surface Is hardly yet
sera tched.
The Regal Mines Company has com
pleted assessment work on Regal
Mountain for the current year Be
fore leaving McCarthy. Mr C.rey let
a contract to I’eter Devino for a large
amount of work to be done in con
tinuing the shaft and tunnels on the
property. The company has a fine
showing of high grade ore and expects
to be on the shipping list in a short
time.
CATTLE SCOURGE
PREVALENT IN
MANILA, Sept. 15. — Rinderpest, a
cattle scourge common in the tropics,
has assumed the proportions of a seri
ous epidemic in the Philippines, caus
ing the deaths of hundreds of work
animals carabao and cattle week
lv. Omernor fleneral Harrison has
called upon everv department of the
insular government to co-operate In
checking the disease, which is a dif
ficult matter because there are prac
tically no fences in the Philippine
country. It has been decided to estab
lish a laboratory for the manufac
ture of anti inderpest serum, increase
the force of veterinaries and build
more immunization stations.
The constabulary troops will be
concentrated in one province at a time
and thus seek to control I he epidemic,
in 1SK7 the worst epidemic occurred,
and it was estimated that 90 per cent
of the animals on the island" died In
1901 the disease killed 35 per cent
of the animals. This year the disease
thus far has claimed only about six
tenths of one per cent.
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FIRE CHIEF MAKES TWO
FINE RECOMMENDATIONS.
A regular meeting of the city coun
cil was held last night, but the only
business transacted of any importance
was the consideration of Fire Chief
Dooley's recommendations. He urged
the purchase of additional hose to be
placed on the hill, as an extra precau
tion against fire for the residents of
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the cost of Installing a Gamewell fire
alarm system was also submitted and
both matters were referred by Mayor
Slater to the fire committee
ALUMNAE WILL AID GIRLS
WORKING WAY IN SCHOOL.
SEATTLE, Sept. 19 — To supply
work for the girls who must support
themselves while attending the Uni
versity of Washington, u student aid
committee has been organized by the
Washington Alumnae Association.
This organization is making an appeal
to the housewives of Seattle to em
ploy university girls whenever pos
sible.
It has been estimated that more
than 80 per cent of all the students
who attend the university are obliged
to make either part or all of their ex
penses. The percentage of girls who
work while going to school is not quite
so high There are hundreds, how
ever, here who find it necessary to do
something to help defray college ex
penses.
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Charles H. negated and Oscar
Brehmer, of Anchorage, are registered
at the Alaskan Hotel.