The Cordova Daily Times
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VOLUME TWO. X l M BEH 351. CORDOVA, ALASKA, TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 1, 1916. PRICE TEN CENTS.
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SEATTLE, Jan. 31. — The steam
ship Northwestern sailed from here
\ for southwestern Alaska ports last
* night with a large passenger list.
There were thirty-six passengers on
the vessel for Cordova, and several
for Valdez and Seward. The Cordova
passengers were E. Henderson, M. M.
Glover. J. O’Neil, L. Kathenberg, F. F.
Henderson, P. Larson, G. Koyne, R.
Morrison, J. Smith, A. Larson. A. F.
Larson, James Gustine, F. Mathewson,
J. Giblund, Mrs. E. Weldt. f. Hurt, H.
Edner Swenzel, W. Dallas, It. Yonge,
J. Preble, C. McDonald, M. Wilson,
W. Telet, Levy S. Pratt and
wife. E. Hussey, W. Jones, H. High,
W. Magnus, Mrs. Day, Mrs. Anderson,
J. Darling and wife, and Mrs. Little.
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RELIEF PARTIES
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ANCHORAGE, Jan. 31, — After be- }
ing forced to remain two days on Fire f
island on account of fog, the rescue
party of four returned to the main j
land last night and are now en route
here with other members of the relief.
, party.
/ They searched the island and found
no trace of the men from the Onward,
who were supposed to be marooned
there last week.
The parties who built the signal
fires last week and were heard to fire!
shots either left down the inlet in
their own boat or were rescued by a
boat from Point Possession, on Kenai
peninsula.
Local people doubt whether the boat
seen to go down in the ice was the
^ Onward. They state that it was more
likely the boat belonged to some hun
ter from Kenai, and expect to hear
that the Onward party is safe in some
comfortable spot down the inlet ;
waiting for a break in the weather. i
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PETIT JURY TO
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A jury drawing will be held at the
court house at 10 o'clock this morn
$ ing, when the names of thirty citizens 1
of this division will be drawn from -
the box to serve as a petit jury for the
coming term of court. The term of
court begins February 15, but the jury
will not be required to report until
March 15. The drawing will be held
under the supervision of Jufy Com
missioner Ed Wood and Clerk of the
Court Arthur Bang, and will "be open i
Y to the public who wish to attend. i
There are reported to be a number <
of cases on the docket for the coming I
term, and the court is expected to be '
in session for several weeks. i
According to latest reports there is I
a possibility that Judge Brown, who
is now on his vacation in the States,
may be delayed a few days In reach- t
ing Valdez, as Mrs. Brown is very ill I
in San Francisco. t
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All the Real News In the Times. s
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CASHIER FOR SIGNAL CORPS
OFFICE.
Sergeant H. W. Kirby, of the U. S
Signal Corps, accompanied by Mrs
Kirby, arrived on the Admiral Karra
gut, and will make their home im Val
dez. Sergeant Kirby was formerly
stationed at Cordova, and they have
just returned from a trip to the States.
He will relieve Sergeant Pittman as
cashier In the local office of the Sig
nal Corps. Mr. and Mrs. Kirby were
both popular in musical and social
circles in Cordova, and will be equally
so among the people of Valdez. —
Prospector.
WILSON PEEVED
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CHICAGO. Jan. 31. — President
Wilson arrived here today and is
scheduled to speak tonight on tht
subject of increased national defence.
Die President was shown the news
paper reports charging him with hav
ing reversed his stand regarding the
rights of American citizens to travel
in the merchant ships of the belliger
ent nations. Wilson repudiated the
statements, and insisted that the call
net was just as firmly holding out at
his time on this pyint us they had
it any time since the submarine ques
ion with Germany commenced to be
imitated. He said that lie firmly be
ieved that all tlie'principles of inter
national law wefe on the side of the
United States in the matter, and that
he administration had never changed
ts views and did not intend to.
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SEATT.LE. Jan. 31. — The steam
chip Admiral Evans, of the P. A. N.
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ine, left here for Alaska yesterday,
netting away before the Northwest
■rn. Her passengers for Cordova
vere Mrs. Russell, Mrs. Sharpe, J.
danson, J. Hunter, Mrs. Walt, A. J.
Ulams and wife.
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5ANTA ANA TO REPLACE DORA
ON APRIL TRIP.
The steamer Santa Ana will not be
eady to resume her place on the run
o western Alaska before April, ac
ording to advices received from Se
ttle yesterday.
Boiler repairs are being made on
be Santa Ana at present, the vessel
>eing tied up the east waterway. She
Pill be ready to leave for the north
ibout April 1. and will probably re
place the Dora on that month’s trip
vest.
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NOMEN AT ANCHORAGE ARE
CONVICTED.
Twenty-eight of the women who
vere arrested at Anchorage on charges
>f selling liquor without licenses were
■onvicted and plead guilty. They were
iach fined $100 and costs, which will
>ring the amount up to about $116.
Pwo of the women were acquitted as
10 evidence was offered showing that
hey had violated the law.
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Recent arrivals in Fairbanks from
he Tolovana state that the freighters
lave been experiencing considerable
rouble in getting their horses over
he Tolovana divide owing to the deep
now.
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JUNEAU. Jan. 30. — The Daily Dis
patch has started a campaign to Iinve
| the Alaska engineering commission
j employ residents of the territory on
the construction work of the govern
I ment railroad. The announcement
has been made by Chairman Edes, of
the commission, that should Congress
provide the necessary appropriation a
force of between fifteen hundred and
three thousand men would be given
employment during the coming sum
mer and the Dispatch believes that
the unemployed of Alaska should be
given the preference.
Commercial organizations in the
different Alaskan communities are
urged to take a canvas of the tinem
ployel men to learn if they desire
employment with the commission next
summer. It is pointed out that if
Hie commission is assured that the
men for the work will be available ill
Alaska next spring that they will
favor Alaskans,
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ATHENS, Jan. 31, — Advices re
| ceived here today tell of fresh vic
i lories for the Russian troops in their
| battles with the Turks in the Cau
casus. The armies of the Czar have]
been heavily reinforced and have been i
I pressing ahead for two weeks in the!
direction of Erzerum. The Turks have
j fought desperately to stem the ad
vancing horde of Cossacks, hut with-!
'out avail. The battle yesterday was
one of the most decisive fought in
tlie campaign, the Turks losing heav
ily before the concentrated artillery
1 fire of tile Russians. Erzerum is now
surrounded, and the outer defences
of the city are being bombarded. The
Turkish authorities made their escape
in the nick of time, most of the peo
ple of the city having fled before the
Russians, leaving nothing but the
military to oppose the invaders. The
bankers left the city hurriedly last
night, taking with them all of the
bank funds, and though hotly pursued j
by a detachment of Cossacks, man-1
aged to make good their escape
through the bravery of a Turkish
regiment, which held back the Rus
sians until the escape was effected.!
The Turkish regiment which made the
stand to allow the bankers and the
money to flee was practically annihil
ated. The Turks fear that they will
not be able to hold Erzerum, and they
are hastily fortifying the cities of
Alangers and Svas as a second line of
defence against the Russians.
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WILL WRITE HI8TORY OF THE
PIONEERS.
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George W. Pennington, of Fair
banks, is writing a history of the Pio
neers of Alaska, in which he will give
a general description of everything
in connection with life in the early
days of the Northland, and the hard
ships endured by the pioneers. The
work will require considerable re- i
search and it will therefore be some
time before the history is completed.
He is historian of the Fairbanks Igloo.
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Harry Reilly’s dog team won the 1
race held at Nome on New Year's
day. This is the third successive
time he has won this race with the
same team. 1
ZEPPELINS BUS!
PARIS, Jan. 1. — The Zeppelins
have turned their attention to this
city, and raids were made by the huge
aircraft both Saturday night and last
night.* Saturday night there were
several of the airships in the attack
ing fleet, and numerous bombs were
dropped throughout the city. Very
little property damage was done, and
nothing of military importance was
injured. Saturday night's raid killed
twenty-four persons, most of whom
were women and children. Besides
the killcd'27 peopde were injured. All
of the killed and wounded were civil
inns. The French aeroplanes, always
kept in readiness for such an attack,
rose in the air as soon as the first
bomb exploded, and flew in the direc
tion of the enemy, but all of the Zep
pelins escaped in safety. Last night
but one Zeppelin flew over the city
and dropped bombs. None of the mis
siles landed in the city proper, bit'
some slight damage was done to pro
perty in the outskirts.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 30. — It is re
ported that Commissioner Tom Higgs
of thp Alaskan engineering commis
sion, has convinced the other mem
bers that a portion of tlie deficiency
appropriation should be spent in In
terior Alaska, and that grading will
begin from Nenana southward next
spring.
Riggs has declared that the in
creased expense of carrying on con
struction work from both ends of the
railroad at the same time will be
more than offset by the rapid devel
opment of the interior through whicli
the road will pass. He was in charge
of the commission’s operations in In
terior Alaska during last summer,
and asserts that the Nenana section
of the road can be cheaply construct
ed. as no difficult engineering prob
lems have been encountered.
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FIDALGO WHARF BLOWN DOWN
DURING STORM.
Manager E. D. Reiter, of the Alaska
Mines Corporation, reports that the
high wind which prevailed last week
destroyed the wharf and several hun
dred feet of the approach of the new
structure which his company was
building to enable it to ship its ores.
The loss will be heavy, as the wharf
was nearing completion and would
have been used to load one thousand
tons of ore on the Admiral Farragut
when she returned from the westward.
Mr. Reiter says that the work of con
structing a new wharf will begin im
mediately, and that his mine will be
;ln shipping ore before the middle of
lext month.
When the wharf went down it car
ded with it the piledriver outfit into
hlrty-tw'o feet of water. The ma
ihinery will, however, be recovered,
is workmen had succeeded in getting
ines on it and expected to bring it
nto shallow water at low tide to
tight. They believed that the rna
ihlnery escaped serious injury, and
(xpected to begin work on the new
vharf before the end of the week.
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The Dally Times Is the only office
n town equipped to do job printing.
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ALL NIGHT SERVICE IS BEING
ARRANGED.
It is reported that a new order is
soon to go into effect whereby the
Signal Corps offices in the coast di
vision of Alaska will remain open all
night for the transaction of business
The order, it is understood, does not
provide for any increase in the num
ber of men and will go into effect at
an early date. Details of the new ser
vice have not as yet been worked out
and will he announced later.
RAILROAD BILL
PASSES THE
SENATE
WASHINGTON. Jan. 1. — The de
ficiency appropriation bill, which car
ries two million dollars to be used for
railroad construction in Alaska, was
considered in the Senate today, and
after some minor amendments were
adopted, was passed without opposi
tion. The Alaska appropriation was
not debated, and received no opposi
) tion. The hill must now go back to
[ the house for concurrence, with the
j amendments introduced in the upper
j chamber. The minor matter changed
I by the senators will no doubt be ap
| proved hv the House, and the proba
hilities are that the bill will be ready
for the President's signature before
he returns from his speechmaking
tour in the middle western cities.
Alaskans in Washington to a man are
gratified with the successful enter
gency appropriation for immediate use
on the government railroad.
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ATHENS. Jan. 31. French troops
continue to land at the island of Mity
lene, and they now have a large eon-|
tingent of soldiers there. A large
( quota of aeroplanes has also been sent
to the island, and the aviators make
daily flights over the coast of Asia
Minor, reconnoitering and seeking the!
positions of the enemy.
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LIEUT. DOUGHERTY WILL GO TO!
EL PASO, TEXAS.
('apt. Robert M. Nolan, who has
been assigned by the war department
to come to Valdez, where he will re
lieve Lieut. C. A. Dougherty, who has I
been in charge of this section of the
U. S. military and cable system for
more than two years, is expected on
one of the first steamers sailing from
Seattle after February 1. t'apt. No
lan comes from San Antonio. Texas,
and will be accompanied by his wife.
Lieut. Dougherty will leave on the
first steamer sailing southward after
the arrival of Capt. Nolan, as his con- 1
nection with the Signal Corps will au- '
tomatically cease on February 7. 11a 1
has been detailed to the Eighth cav- 1
airy at El Paso, where he was sta- !
tioned a number of years ago. '
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SOCIETY OF CHURCH WORKERS !
TO MEET WEDNESDAY.
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Wednesday, at 2:30 o'clock, the So- *
clety of Church Workers will meet at
the home of Mrs. Vance. Important
business, and a full attendance is de- r
sired. ,1
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Native hunters at Nome are getting i
seals away out on the ice. and replen- 1
Ishlng their larders with this welcome t
kow kow. a
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SEWARD. Jan. 31.—John Johnson,
a twent> year old fireman on the
Alaska Steamship Company's boat
Dora, had his leg torn off in a pecul
iar accident today. The Dora was
throwing out her anchor and Johnson
was assisting, when in some manner
his foot became entangled in the an
chor rope and when the big hook went
over it tore the man's foot off. He
was kept from being carried away
himself by bracing his tody against
the rail. The foot was torn off clean
from above the ankle and dropped
into the bay. The injured man was
Immediately rushed to the hospital,
where he is resting comfortably.
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Alaska Steamship Company offi
cials announce that the steamer Alas
ka, which was formerly known as the
Kansas City, will sail for southwest
ern Alaska ports on February 29. tak
ing the place of the steamer Alameda,
which will he temporarily withdrawn.
All of the steamers on the Alaska
run, it is stated, will be overhauled
and put into shape during the next
few weeks in order to be ready for
the big passenger and freight trade
which it is believed will result from
the operations of the Alaskan engi
neering commission's activities during
the coming summer.
The Alaska Steamship Company's
new freighters, the Bennington and
Burlington are due to reach Puget
Sound about March 15. and will be
ready for immediate service if re
quired, as they have been overhauled
on the Atlantic coast.
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VIENNA, Jan. 31. — Several huge
Italian transports arrived off the Al
banian city of Avlona today, bearing
reinforcements to the Italian soldiers
iiready in that section. A full divi
sion of Italian infantry was landed,
is well as several batteries of heavy
irtillery. The Italians now have a
ormidable force here, and are vigor
>usly preparing (o resist the Austrian
idvance. which is gradually approach
ng Durazzo. That more troops will
>e sent to Avlona from Brindisi is
irobable. as while the Italian general
taff has not so far taken the public
nto its confidence, it is believed that
taly will piny a prominent part in the
pring campaign in the Balkans. Italy
rill fight hard to retain Avlona. as
he has always desired to control the
ntranee to the Adriatic sea.
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The other day a. man named Hend
Ickson left his room at the hotel in
uneau without the formality of put
ing his clothes on. He was wander
lg about town when apprehended,
le must have been engaged in a lit—
e game of “strip" poker with a Se
ttle friend.