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VOLUME ONE. NUMBER SEVENTY-FOUR. CORDOVA, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1915. PRICE TEN CENTS.
RENEWED ATTACKS DARDANELLES FORTS
DR. PAYZANT RETURNS
ACCOMPANIED BY BRIDE
Dr. J. J. Payzant, surgeon for the
Bonanzn mine at Kennecott, who went
outside several months ago, is return
ing to Cordova on the Mariposa which
sailed from Seattle last night. The
Doctor is accompanied by a bride, but
as to whom he married and when the
event was consumated no particulars
have been received here.
MARIPOSA HAS
SEATTLE, March 3—The steamer
Alameda sailed for the north last
night with a large passenger list for
Alaskan points. Among those for
Cordova were: J. W. Woods, Mrs. H.
Bartel, H. I). Foster, D. C. Sargent, C.
C. Kin, James Protopapas, Erick
Danielson, C. A. Leonard, Dr. J. J.
Payzant and bride, J. P. Andrews, J.
E. Holmgren, C. Decuypr, E. L. Tou
nell, E. Johnson, S. H. McIntosh, II.
Burgman, H. Flore, ('has Edwards,
John Campbell and two steerage.
The Alameda will touch at Skagway
on this trip, as she has aboard three
Boston capitalists, It. W. L. Steven
son, K. B. Hunan and W. B. Oargrave,
who plan extensive mining operations
in the Whitehorse district.
ANARCHISTS ARE
NEW YORK, March 3—Frank Ab
arno and CharleB Carbone, the anar
chists who were arrested yesterday in
St. Patrick’s cathedral after attempt
ing to destroy the structure with dyna
mite, were indicted by the grand jury
today. They are charged with placing
a lighted bomb in a public place.
FORTE KILLED ON
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WASHINGTON, March 3—Advices
received by the state department to
day state that forty of the crew of
the Mexican Gunboat Progresso were
killed when the vessel was blown up
in the harbor of Progresso a few days
ago. The general belief is that the
vessel, which was held by the Carran
za faction, was destroyed by a bomb.
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' COALMINE
HINTON, March 3—The rescue par
ties were able this morning to enter
the Layland mine at Thurmond, in
• which an explosion occurred yester
day. Of the one hundred and eighty
two men entombed by the explosion,
the rescurers have been able so far
to find but twenty-three. Of these
thirteen were dead and ten were taken
out alive. The work of rescue is pro
ceeding slowly owing to the poisonous
gases with which the workings are
filled.
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PORT WELLS MINE
SHOWING UP WELL
Dr. W. H. Chase returned this morn
ing from Port Wells, where he has
been Inspecting the property of the
Cordova Mining & Developing Com
pany, of which he is the president.
Me expresses himself as well pleased
with the showing made, and has in
creased the force of men at work in
the mine.
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Some cooking at the Windsor grill.
WASIFINUTON, March 3—A provision of the
general deficiency appropriation hill authorizes the
Alaska Engineering Commission to maintain a com
missary, and to sell supplies in Alaska. This provi
sion is generally believed to indicate that the com
mission will have direct charge of the construction
work on the new government railroad.
Humors at various times have placed llu* con
struction of the Alaska Railroad in the hands of Col.
(ioethals, and other officials connected with the con
si ruction of the Panama canal, but in view of the pro
vision of the deficiency bill, it is believed that the
matter has been definitely settled and that the com
mission is to have full charge of the construction
work.
KING AND OLLtN OF KOUMANiA.
' AL IS IB
ON DARDANELLES
ATHENS, March 3—The bombardment of tlie interior
fortifications along the Dardanelles, which was interrupted yes
terday by heavy fog and wind, was resumed thits morning.
Fifty-two warships are engaged in the action against tlu* forts.
Five of the warships are engaged in the action against the forts.
Five of the warships entered the straits today, and while this
movement was proceeding four battleships began the bombard
ment of the Turkish positions fronting on the Gulf of Saror,
which is separated from the Dardanelles by the Gallipoli penin
sula.
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ITALIAN METAL DEALERS *
SMUGGLED COPPER TO GERMANY
MILAN March 3—The government officials have discover
ed that large quantities of copper have been shipped from Italy
to Berlin in trucks, over which a layer of cabbage had been
placed to hide the metal. This ruse was adopted to deceive
the government, which had placed' a ban on shipments of cop
per to German. In the future a close watch will be kept on
shipments of all kinds from Italy to Germany to prevent tin1
smuggling of copper and other contraband across the border.
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TIFILIS, March 3—The Russian army of the Cuseasus
still continues to hammer away at the Turkish invading army
with remarkable success, and is now driving tin* Turks before
it. The Russians have now reached the River Khopachas, in
Armenia, cutting the route of the Turkish reinforcements and
supplies from Constantinople to the Caucasus frontier, and
isolating a large section of Turkish territory.
FATHER VAN DER POL
IMPROVED IN HEALTH
A. R. Cooper received a letter in the
last mail from Kev. Father Van der
Pol, from Pendleton, Ore., in which
he states that he Is "on his feet agan,"
and expects to return shortly to Cor
dova and Valdez. ,
SLOT MACHINES
United States Marshal Brenneman
today issued a sweeping order for the
discontinuance of all slot machines in
the Third judicial division, and De
puty Brightwell received instructions
to notify all parties who are conduct
ing these machines to at once remove
them, and upon failure to do so cause
the arrest of the offender and con
fiscate and demolish the machines.
The above order is the outgrowth
of complaint filed with Judge Brown,
by the editor of the Cordova Alaskan,
that these gambling devices were be
ing conducted here, In violation of
section 2023 of the Compiled Laws of
Alaska. The court referred the mat
ter to the District Attorney with in
structions to investigate into the mat
ter and take what action he deemed
necessary.
As soon as it became known that the
court’s attention had been called to
the operation of slot machines, their
doom was expected, and no longer will
the residents of this division be al
lowed the diversion of dropping a
nickle In the slot and taking their
chance of winning a smoke or a box
of candy.
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WASHINGTON, March 3—President
Wilson today sent to the seuate the
name of Houston B. Teehee, a Chero
kee Indian, of Oklahoma, as registrar
of the treasury.
U. S. PROTESTS
WASHINGTON, March 3—The state
department has protested to General
Carranza against the incendiary state
ments made by General Obregon In
Mexico City regarding the food situ
ation there. Although Obregon pub
licly announced that ho would with
draw his troops from the city at the
first signs of hunger riots, he has
failed to do so, and has declined the
aid of the International Relief Com
mittee. ♦
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ENGLISH MILITARY EXPERTS SAY
LONDON, March .'{—-British military observers claim that
Germany and Austria are playing a losing game along the en
tire front in the Eastern fighting zone. The situation of the
Austrians in the Carpathians is extremely unsatisfactory, the
Russians holding all the points of vantage, while in Eastern
Galicia the Austro German advance has been checked and the
Russians have again taken the offensive successfully. In the
north, I Vt rograd still claims success for the Russian forces
operating against the army of General Hindcnherg, in North
Poland.
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( EI I IN.IE, March .‘> An official report states that five
Austrian warships entered the port of Antivari, in Montenegro,
and bombarded the town and port. Valuable stores were
destroyed and the royal yacht was sunk as it lay at anchor in
the harbor. ( hie civilian was killed as a result of the bombard
merit.
HENRY FORD, RICH MANUFACTURER
Photo by American Press Association.
Millionaire believes that hard work at good pay will reform criminals. '*•
PETKOGKAD, March 3—An official announcement by the
war office today stales that forty nine thousand Turkish prison
ers of war, including five hundred officers, have been taken by
the Russian army in the south, and have been sent to the in- .
terior detention camps up to February 13.
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LONDON, March 3 An official bulletin issued today says
that the Ottoman bank and the German bank of Constantinople
are transferring their effects to Konieh, in the southern part of
Asia Minor. The government archives have already been
moved there. The Turkish government, it is believed, does not
•xpect to successfully combat the allied fleet forcing the Dard
anelles.
MORE ORE AWAITING
8HIPMENT 80UTH
Yesterday’* train brought In three
cars of ore from the Bonanza mine at
Kennecott. This, with ten care of
this org already at the dock makes
13 cars that are now here awaiting
shipment. it is not known wkjether
the Mariposa will take any of this ore
that vessel already ' having aboard
three ears of Mother I,ode ore. taken
on when she was here on the westward
trip.
SESSION ENDS
NOON
WASHINGTON, March 3—Congress
will remain in continuous session un
til tomorrow noon, when it will ad
journ. No legislation is possible out
side of the passage of the approprl
at ion bills.
PROCEEDINGS OF
WASHINGTON, March 3 - The
House committte on the Judiciary has
voted to drop the impeachment pro
ceedings against Federal Judge Day
ton, of West Virginia.
PIERRE. S. D., March 3—The state
legislature today passed a resolution
to submit to the voters of the state at
the general election in November 1916,
an amendment to the state constitu
tion providing for state-wide prohibi
tion.
NEW YORK, March 3— Notwith
standing the blockade proclamation of
the Germans of the English coast, the
White Star liner Baltic sailed from
llliB port for Liverpool today with
sighteen thousand tons of war supplies
For Great Britain. _
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THE CENSUS
WASHINGTON, March 3 -Samuel
Rodgers, of North Carolina, was to
iay appointed by President Wilson to
he position of Director of the census.
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