. The Cordova Daily Times
VOLUME TWO. NUMBER 330. CORDOVA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1916. PRICE TEN CENTS.
LONDON. Jan. fi. — The war office
^ officially announced today that the
total British casualties during the
month of September along the firing
line in France were 59,000. Of this
number two thousand were officers.
The percentage of killed, wounded
and missing among this number was
not made public by the authorities. It
was at this time that the British made
their strong attack in the neighbor
hood of Loos, which resulted in many
severe counter attacks from the Ger
mans until the Teutons had practical
ly recaptured all of the lost ground.
The British troops were subjected to
severe and sustained fighting for a
period of two weeks.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. — Admiral
Stanford, the head of the bureau of
yards and docks, appeared before the
house committee on naval affairs yes
terday and explained the situation as
to the navy yards to the members
with particular attention as to their
1. possibilities of being adequately de
fended. He sprung a surprise on the
committee when he told them that in
theory the only dependable naval sta
tion in the whole country was located ;
at Bremerton, on Puget Sound.
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STEEL WORKERS
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NEW YORK, Jan. 6. — The United
States Steel Corporation announced
today that the board of directors had
voted to increase the wages of all its
unskilled laborers. The wage Increase
mean that all the men will receive an
advance of at least 10 per cent. The
increase is evidence of a desire on
the part of the management to share
the prosperity incident to the large
war orders which the company Is en
joying, with its employees.
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LOCAL JOTTINGS.
The linemen of the Cordova Power
Company expect to have all the wires
blown down by the recent storm, fixed
up today so that the electric light car
be turned on during all of the day
time.
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Travel to Cordova and the interior
is unusually heavy for this time of
the year, and as a result all of the
local hotels are crowded with guests.
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The steamer Northwestern and the
freighter Cordova are scheduled to
sail from Seattle on Monday next.
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If you do not receive your paper re
gularly call up the Daily Times office.
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One-fourth off on fancy china at
tlie Iflum, O'Neill Co.
All the music of all the world—
Columbia Records. E. A. Hegg,
Agent.
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, .Ian. 6 — James
Wickersham, delegate to Congress for
Alaska, has Introduced several bills in
the lower house which affect mater
ially the northern territory. The most
important measure provides for ex
tending a full territorial form of gov
ernment to Alaska. This measure
greatly enlarges the powers of the
present territorial legislature, and
giveB the territory control of the
furs, game, mining, and fisheries. An
other bill of local interest asks for
an appropriation of $200,000 for the
purpose of completing a wagon road
j between Ruby and Long Creek. A
third bill deals with the fisheries
, question alone, and gives the terri
torial legislature additional powers
lover this most important industry. It
is understood that the bureau of
fisheries will strongly oppose the lat
ter measure, and it is doubtful if it
has much chance of becoming law.
There is a possibility that a new law'
will be enacted at the coming session
concerning the fish industry tn Alas
ka, as the recommendations of the
previous commissioner of fisheries,
I)r. E. Lester Jones, are still favored
by the department.
NECESSITY
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—Secretary
of War Garrison appeared before the
house committee on military affairs
today and discussed the needs of the
army with the members, and strongly
urged the adoption of the administra
tion’s program for increased national
defence. Garrison said that the mili
tary integrity of the nation, and in
fact its very existence, depended upon
Congress enacting these measures
Into law. He said the additional coast
defences were absolutely essential, or
else a foreign enemy could shell our
larger cities and cause untold damage.
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Our former townsman, C. A. Eby,
is one of three old-timers to organize
the Mercantile Settlement Company
of Juneau. The company will do col
lecting and bookkeeping
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WASHINGTON. Jan. fi. — Plans for
national defence and preparedness
have given great impetus to the im
provement of marksmanship among
civilians and resulted in a much ex-;
tended list of competitors this season
for the Inter-Club Gallery Champion
ship of the United States, held annu- (
ally under the auspices of the Nation-]
al Rifle Association of America, which !
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is fostered by the war department.:
This season 72 clubs have entered!
teams of ten men each. The five high
est scores made by the team will be
totalled as the club's weekly match
score. The clubs have been divided
in six classes, with eleven matches
each, extending to March 4. Each
man will shoot 20 times at 75 feet,
using .22 calibre rifles and ammuni -
tion, in prone position. The club mak
ing the highest score for the season
will receive the championship trophy
and medals will be presented to the
winning team in each class.
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ENGLISH WOMEN IN CHARGE
MILITARY STABLES j
LONDON. Jan. 6. — Women now
form the staff of three horse depots
at Reading, where they are not only
doing ni'litarv stable duty and groom
ing the horses, but are actually In- ,
struetlog sold lent in riding. This is
the most startling kind of war work
yet undertaken by women. All of
then' are used to horses and to riding
after the hounds, and enjoy their new!;
duties.
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Job work of all descriptions turned ■
out in the most workmanlike style at I
the Daily Times office. I
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WASHINGTON. Jan. 6. — Presi
dent Wilson is devoting considerable
of his time to the matter of the suc
cessor of Justice Lamar, whose death
this week leaves a vacancy on the
supreme court bench. While the pre
sident has given no intimation of
whom he is considering for the place,
it is known that ex-President William
Howard Taft is being strongly urged
for the position. That the president
will not be governed by party con
siderations in making the appoint
ment is assured, and the appointment
of Taft would be immensely popular
throughout the country, for even the
bitterest critics of Taft as a presi
dent. admit has admirable judicial
qualities, which make him an ideal
tdioice for a position on the highest
court in the land.
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BOUTS FIJI
SUVA, Fiji Inlands. Jan. 6. —. The
South seas, in the vicinity of the New
Hebrides, was lately filled so densely
with volcanic'pumice as to be a men
xnce to navigation. A small steamer
irrived here after a voyage of 400
niles from the Tonga group, reported
Lhat the volcanic disturbances on Am -
urini island had scattered pumice over
he neighboring seas so densely that
ho steamer was barely able to make
ler way through it. At first the pum
ce choked the pipes of the engine,
md later become so thick that the
dades of the propellers could be
leard smashing against it at every
•evolution. The obstruction extended
lorth and south as far as the eye
;ould see. although east and west it
vas confined to a path of about five
niles wide. On the edges it was more
n the nature of floating dust, but
n the centre there were lumps as
arge as four feet in diameter. In
rnrts the pumice was so closely
lacked that the surface of the water
vas quite dry. and a native was able
o stand on a small plank which was
hrown out on the top of It.
SOUTH AMERICA
FOH SHIPS
PANAMA, Jan. 6. — The entire
j west coast of South America is asking
for ships to move the vast amount of
freight that is piling tip a^ the vari
ous ports awaiting shipment to other
countries, according to Information
in shipping circles here. The clos
ing of the Panama Canal, together
with the new conditions brought
about by the European war are the
principal causes for the present con
gestion. All the ships that tonch at
porta along the South American west
coast from Punta Arenas to Panama
regularly are getting all the freight
they can handle, and so much is be
ing transhipped over the Panama rail
road across the Isthmus that, every
car the company has is in constant
use, and there is need for more roll
ing stock.
The Peruvian ports are said to be
stacked mountain high with sacks of
sugar, while in Ecuador it is reported
; that there are 750,000 btiles of cotton
j waiting to be moved, and the harvest
j of cocoa is so great that it will have
| to be destroyed if not handled soon.
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LONDON. Jan. 6. — A new arm
stump has been grafted upon the body
of a British officer, who lost both
arms in action and came back recent
ly with a group of exchanged pris
oners from Germany. His arms were
amputated so close to the shoulder
as to leave no stumps.
One of the most brilliant of Lon
don's surgeons has now built out a
new stump, to which an artificial arm
may be attached. He did this by tak
ing out a piece of bone from the pat
ient's leg and cutting a flap of skin
from his body. Muscles were attached
to the bone, so that the stump can
be guided.
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ANOTHER CORDOVAN MARRIED
IN SEATTLE.
H. W, Kirby, of the local cable of
fice, was married on New Year's day
in Seattle to Miss Henrietta Heim
rick, of that city. When Mr. Kirby
returns to Alaska he will be stationed
at Valdez, having exchanged places
with Mr. Keale, who is on duty at the
Cordova office during his absence.
British Force Enlistment
(By Associated Press) jl
LONDON, Jan. 6. — The cabinet in- i
troduced a compulsory enlistment bill t
in the House of Commons yesterday. I
The bill was presented to the mem- «
bers by Premier Herbert Asquith, who <
in a strong speech upholding the mea- <
sure criticised those men who were (
unmarried and of military age and 8
had failed to show patriotism by com - 1
Ing to the aid of the nation in its time '
of need. Asquith deeply deplored the
necessity of such a measure, but said
that the brave men who hnd given ip
their lives that the British nation Jt
might live, should not have their of-1 p
forts in vain because of the lack of ji
duty shown by some of their brothers. <
The bill, according to the premier.) f
was for the purpose of making the ti
mrdens of the day fall equally on the
houlders of all those "’ho could bear,
hern, and Asquith solemnly promised
he commoners that the measure if i
nacted into law would be enforced
qually against the high and the low. |
iceording to the figures of the gov-|
rnment the bill will force into the
rmy 650,000 unmarried men. who
ave heretofore fniled to enlist, nnd
rho are of military age.
LONDON. Jan. 6. — The newly or
anired National Labor Congress has
then a vote on tho matter of com
ulsory enlistment, and decided the
miter in the negative. The vote was
lose, the final count being 198,000 in
ivor and 283.000 against. According
i the terms of the vote the congress
will ask the government to withdraw
from parliament the bill introduced
yesterday by Premier Asquith for
conscription of all unmarried men of
military age. That the action of
the congress will not meet with the
approval of some of its most influen
tial members is apparent, for Arthur
Henderson, president of the board of
education and a prominent labor lead -
er in the House of Commons, noticed
the congress that he would refuse to
abide by the action of the body, and
that he Intended to support the irr
smment’s measures. If the cmer'-s*
lid not. rescind Its act i" fh" matt r
Henderson said he would a'oe I to
he membership of ihe labor b-r'Cs
ind ask for a referendum on **»
natter.
Probing Sinking Steamer
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. — President
Wilson and Secretary of State Lan
sing have held numerous conferences
since the chief executive’s return from
his honeymoon at Hot Springs, Va".
The pair have been endeavoring to
come to a decision regarding the Am
erican course of action to pursue rela- j
tlve to the torpedoing of the British
steamer Persia, and the loss of the
American lives thereon. The great
est difficulty has so far been experi-,
enced by the officials in securing a
reliable and detailed story of the cat
astrophe, but the government is ne
glecting no avenues of information in
the strenuous effort it is making to
fully inform itself. W’hile the original
dispatches on the matter have been
supplemented, the cabinet feels that
fuller advices are essential before the
government can commit itself, and
take any definite action. The British
government has been requested to
furnish our state department with all
the information in its possession, and
Baron Von Zwidenik has also been
Rsked to furnish Mr. Lansing with
whatever information Austria has on
the matter. It is presumed that an
Austrian submarine was responsible,
as the remaining central powers have
no submarines opering in the Medi
terranean.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 6. — The gov
ernment reports that so far it has
been unable to obtain any of the de
tails of the sinking of the British
steamer Persia. Outside of the press
dispatches received, stating that the
ship was torpedoed by a submarine, it
is uncertain that the ship was torpe
doed, nothing official having been re
ceived from the survivors or from
either the governments of Great Bri
tain or Austria. The British foreign
office has promised the state depart
ment aJl it can lea'n about the disas
| ter, but nothing has been received so
i far. The Austrian government has
' completely ignored all the requests of
| this country for information, and no
i reply of any kind haB been received
1 from Vienna.
. SWISS PASSPORT
' IS EASY TO
GET
5 LONDON, Jan. 6. — Special restric
tions on the use of Swiss passports
are being enforced by all the entente
countries, owing to the ea«e with
which Swiss citizenship can be ob
tained in some sections of the little
republic. The business of naturaliza
tion in Switzerland is in the hands
of the municipalities, and although
ordinarily two years’ residence is re
r quired. this inny be waived by the lo
cal authorities.
According to advices which have^
reached the British authorities, cer
tain small villages near the German
frontier have recently been granting
naturalization to a considerable num
ber of Germans, stipulating only that
the applicants must pay $170 in lieu
of the customary residence provision.
In view of these recent naturaliza
tions the British authorities will here
after require every person traveling
with a Swiss passport to present also
his naturalization certificate or his
birth certificate. Admission will be
refused to all persons naturalized
since the beginning of the war.
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Major P. W. Pavison recently de
tailed to be a member of the Ala ka
road commission, who was in Cordova
yesterday, on his way to Valdez, is
an old timer in \lcska, having fir?t
arrived at Port William H. Seward
in 1908 with' the Twenty-second In
fantry# He spent two years in Alaska
before being assigned to other duties.
PANAMA CANAL TROOPS
PLAN MIMIC WAR
PANAMA. Taa G. — The United
' States troc.ps stationed in the Canal
j Zone will engage in extensive field
work during the coming dry season,
beginning this month. At first the
various regiments, companies and bat
talions will be employed as separate
units, but later the entire mobile force
of the Canal troops wil ltake the field
for two weeks training. A mimic war
will be waged with the idea that the
canal is being attacked from tbe Pa
cific.
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A teachers certificate has been is
sued by the governor's office to Miss
Rlsle Ware, of Cordova. Miss Ware
has a life certificate from the Stnte
Normal School at Bellingham.