The Cordova Daily Times
V< >U\ME IITL NUMBER 82. ~CORDOVA, ALASKA, MONDAY,OCTOBER 8, UMT.' ,Jgjj7,. ~ = ^7,7^
White Sox Capture
Second Game 7 to 2
(By Associated Press)
CHICAGO, Oct. 8. — The Chicago
White Sox made it two straight in the
world championship baseball series bv
defeating the New York Giants here
yesterday by a score of 7 to 2.
The Chicago idols have thus cov
ered half of the distance to the cham
pionship, having won two out of four
games necessary to give them the
winner’s end of the gate receipts.
The two teams left last night for
New York, where the third gamj of
the world series will be played tornor
row. The White Sox departed with a
vast throng crowding the streets lead
ing to the depot to wish the team the
best of luck. The Sox leave with tht
utmost confidence that they will wir
the series, and even figure on takin?
four straight.
McGraw’s men are undismayed
They say they had two bad starts ii:
Chicago, but that they will get intc
their winning stride again when tliej
get back on their hobie grounds.
EARLY HEARING
TO BE GIVEN
DRAFT LAW
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. Oct. 8. — To per
mit an early decision the United
States supreme court today advanced
the date of hearing the appeals involv
ing the constitutionality of the draft
law and fixed December 10 as the time
for arguments. Seven suits in all are
included in the appeal to tes$ the con
stitutionality of the conscription law.
Included as appellants are Emma
Goldman and Alexander Berkman,
each sentenced to two years’ impris
onment for urging men of conscrip
tion age not to register.
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(By Associated Press)
LONDON, October 8. — That the
British are paving the way for an
other might smash against the weak
ening German line in Flanders is in
dicated in the summary of the Asso
ciated Press issued by the London
office this afternoon.
Through squalls of rain and sleet
and with rain clouds hanging over
the shell torn battle field, General
Haig’s artillery is pouring a steady
stream of death and destruction upon
the German trenches preparatory to
another mighty smash against the
Teuton trenches in Flanders. The
enemy’s artillery is making but a
feeble effort to reply.
LONDON, Oct. 8. — The Germans
made a nunsuccessful attack in force
against the new British positions east
of Ypres today, according to a state
ment by the British war office. The
counter attack was easily browen
down by the British.
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(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8.—Secretary
of the Navy Daniels officially an
nounced today that an American pa
trol vessel foundered last Thursday,
October 4, while on duty somewhere
in European waters. The navy de
partment reports that there were no
casualties resulting from the accident,
the details of which have not yet been
received by the navy department.
Such information is expected in an
official report from Vice-Admiral W.
S. Sims, commanding the American
flotilla in European waters.
It is believed likely that the Ameri
can patrol vessel was lost in the re
cent storms in the north Atlantic. The
majority of the patrols are destroyer
vessels on the navy auxiliary list.
RAILROAD IN GO
ON STRIAE IN
RUSSIA
(By Associated Press)
PETROGRAD, Oct. 8. — A gen
eral railroad strike which promises
to tie lip all traffic excepting sani
tary and military trains, became ef
fective at midnight last night, when
all passenger trains scheduled to leave
Petrograd, except for the front, were
abandoned.
M. Nikitin, minister of posts and
telegrams, warned the strikers that
they will have to answer to the charge
of treason and ordered the telegraph
ers to refuse to transmit the strike
order over the telegraph lines.
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STJT AT THE
CAPITOL
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8. — President
Wilson is planning no vacation or
speaking tours between now and
Christmas, while congress is ad
journed, according to an announce
ment from the White House this af
ternoon. He will spend his time in
Washington directing and coordinat
ing the war work and keeping in touch
with the activities of the various de
partments of the government engaged
in the conduct of the war. The presi
dent has declined many invitations to
speak at various events in many parts
of the country.
SAFE IN THEATRE
TAPPED FOR
4131.15
During the night sneak thieves en
tered the office of the Empress the
atre, by prying open the front door,
and rifled the safe, getting awav with
$131.15. The combination was not
thrown on the safe and the inner door
was unlocked with a key taken from
the cash drawer, showing that the
party who committed the robbery was
familiar with the surroundings.
An investigation this morning re
vealed the fact that the money box
taken was rifled in the rear of the
building, where papers and other con
tents of the box were found scattered
on the floor and the stage. The job
was evidently done by an amateur,
who was only after the money belong
ing to the theatre, as over $50 belong
ing to the Red Cross w-as left in the
safe. In the adjoining office, occupied
by the Pacific Steamship Company,
there was also considerable money,
but apparently no effort was made to
get it.
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The steamer Admiral Evans is due
tomorrow morning at 7 o’clock.
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Delicious Pumpkin and Lemon Ties
at City Bakery.
MARSHAL HULL!
IS SLUT
SEWARD
While discharging his duty at an of
ficer of the law, Deputy U. S. Marshal
Wiley, of Seward, well known to many
,Cordovans, was mortally wounded in
a pistol battle with T. D. Dority, a pas
senger on the steamer Admiral Wat
son last Wednesday. Dority was slain
almost instantly, while the officer
passed away on the following day. t
The story of the tragedy was
brought to Cordova by officers of the
Admiral Watson last Saturday even
ing.
While the Watson was In port at
Seward, Dority went up town. Going
into the restricted district, he cre
ated a disturbance, threatening to kill
two of the inmates if they refused
to accompany him onto the boat
However, he was pacified for the time
being, and he immediately went up
town, going directly to the Overland
hotel, where he engaged a room and
retired.
The marshal's office being notified
in the meantime of llority's disorderly
conduct below the line. Marshal
Evans went to investigate. Not wish
ing to take a chance with a man as
desperate as Dority was reported to
be, he decided to wait until the man
came down stairs. In the lobby of the
hotel he met Marshal Wiley, and told
him of the facts as far as he knew
them, and suggested that they wait
until the man appeared on the street.
This being the arrangement. Evans
started for home.
Wiley, however, decided not to wait
for his man. but went up to his room
and knocked. Getting no answer, he
took out his pass key and unlocked
I he door, when, without a word <\t
(warning, Dority began shooting poiti?
blank at the officer. Wiley returned
the fire and grappled with his man.
Dority received three bullets in the
body, the one in the right breast prov
ing fatal. Wiley was shot twice, once
in the abdomen and once in the hip.
He walked down stairs unassisted and
was rushed to the Seward hospital,
(where he succumbed to his wounds
next day.
1 hat Dority intended to kill some
body is certain, for he was well sup
plied with ammunition and his pockets
contained several loaded cartridges
for instant use, while a full box was
In his coat pocket. The weapon used
was of 45-calibre and a powerful gun.
The man had not been drinking and
the only reason assigned for the ter
rible deed is that he either went in
sane or thought some one was after
him.
Dority was a man about 28 years
Of age, well dressed, neat appearing
and was evidently a foreigner. Up un
til noon he was around the streets of
the city and there was nothing in his
manner or his appearance to excite
the least suspicion of anyone.
Dority is remembered by a number
of Cordova people as having been em
ployed at Kennecott until a few
months ago.
He registered at a local hotel on
August 2S, while waiting to catch a
boat for the westward, and left here
on the steamer Admiral Watson.
BULL MAGNATES
(By Associated Press)
PITTSBURG, Oct. 8. — Members of
the National baseball commission cn
route from Chicago to New York, had
a narrow escape today when the Penn
sylvania limited, in which they were
traveling, collided with a freight train
near Beaver Palls, Pennsylvania. None
of the passengers were hurt, but four
engine men on the limited were seri
ously injured in the smash-up, and
the tracks were piled high with the
wreckage of the freight train, holding
up traffic for several hours.
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Advertise in the Times—It pays
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CONGRESS [SOS
TODAY
W ASHINGTON, Oct. 8. — President
W Ilson Is this afternoon attending the
final adjournment of the extraordinary
session of congress. By evening the
most Important legislative session in
the history of the nation will have
been brought to a close.
Congress was summoned into extr
i ordinary session the first of last April
by President W'ilson after Germany
had commltteed several overt acts.
On the passage of the war resolution,
congress at once took up and enacted
many important war measures, the
most urgent of which were all dis
I posed of a few days ago.
j Congress will adjourn today until
I the beginning of the next regular ses
sion early in December of this year.
GERMAN DIVER
ESCAPES TO HE
(By Associated Press)
MADRID, Oct. 8. — A German sub
marine, which has been interned at
dhe Spanish port of Cadiz, has es
caped. according to a statement issued
by the admiralty this afternoon. The
vessel was recently forced to intern
for the duration of the war when she
entered Spanish waters. Her com
mander, however, waited his chance
and escaped to sea.
RIGGS RERE OR
TRIP TO THE
WESTWARD
Thomas Riggs, Jr„ member of the
.Alaska railroad commission and in
charge of construction work on the
Fairbanks end, arrived in Cordova
Saturday night from the interior on
his way to Anchorage to confer with
■William C. Edes, chairman of the com
mission. Mr. Riggs will probably get
pway on the steamer Alaska tonight.
"In spite of the war and the in
creased cost of material and labor,
there has been no let-up in construc
tion work in the interior this summer
and fall,” says Mr. Riggs. “All things
considered, good progress has been
made. From Nenana south. 43 miles
of right-of-way have been under con
struction and 80 per cent of this dis
tance is now graded and seventy
pound rails have been laid over 18
tniles of this. Before the end of
miles from Nenana. During the winter
months a bridge will be constructed
across the Nenana.
“Last winter there was a serious
shortage of fuel in Fairbanks and on
the creeks. In order to prevent a
similar condition this winter, the com
mission has graded five miles of track
from Happy station to connect with
the Tanona Valley railway. Three
miles of standard guage railway has
been laid and the other two miles will
be completed before the beginning of
winter.
“Construction work was put back
about a month this summer because
of high water in the Tanana river. T he
stream overflowed the new tracks in
two places and for a while threatened
to wash out about thirteen miles of
the road. In order to prevent similar
trouble in the future, it was necessary
for us to change the course of the
Tanana river at that point."
Mr. Riggs left Fairbanks last Wed
nesday on receiving u telegram from
Mr. Edes, asking him to come to An
chorage at once, and he is in the dark
as to the purpose of the mission. The
railroad builder made exceptionally
fast time over the trail, making the
auto run In two and a half days, al
most duplicating the time made by
Marshal L. T. Erwin and party.
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(By Associated Press)
LONDON. Oct. 8. — A dispatch re
ceived here from Melbourne, Aus
tralia. today says that it. has been re
ported that a whale boat carrying a
German crew from the famous Ger
man sea raider See Adler, has been
captured near the Fiji islands. The
whaleboat was armed with a light na
val rifle and machine guns, while the
crew was well supplied with small
arms. The captured Germans are said
to have admitted that they were de
tailed from the See Adler to raid com
merce in the south Pacific.
RAILROAD MAN IS
KILLED IN
SLIDE
Passengers on Saturday night's
steamer from the westward brought
word of the death of Jess. .1. Grimes
In a slide in a gravel pit at Seward.
Grimes was working for the Alaska
Northern railway at mile 5 1-2, known
as the gravel pit. where the steam
shovel had been working. Three men
were caught in the slide in which
Grimes lost his life. Grimes smoth
ered to death before help could reach
him. while the other two, a man by
the name of McPherson and the
other, whose name was not learned,
escaped. McPherson is slightly
bruised and s in the .Sewaru hospital,
lis injuries are of a minor nature.
„e slide was not a large one. but
came so suddenly and unexpectedly
that Grimes and McPherson were lit
erally covered with the gravel, while
McPherson was able to crawl out
with the help of others. The third
man being the farthest away, ran
when he saw the slide coming and es
caped unhurt.
Medical aid was summoned and a
train rushed to the scene of the acci
dent within a few minutes, but it was
found that Grimes was dead upon be
ing taken out from under the dirt.
This is the first time in the history
of the road that a man has lost his
life, and when it is considered that
over a thousand men are employed on
the road, many in dangerous posi
tions. it is considered a remarkable
record.
mm joins
ENTENTE
(By Associated Press)
MONTEVIDEO, Oct. 8. — Follow
ing the example of her sister repub
lics of Argentine and Peru, Uruguay
has severed diplomatic relations with
Germany. A decree announcing the
rupture with the kaiser's kingdom
having been issued following a vote
of 74 to 23 in favor of the break in the
chamber of deputies. The German
minister was at once handed his pass
ports, and will leave at once for home.
President Viers, in a message to par
liament, declared that Uruguay had
not received any direct offense from
Germany, but tTiat it was necessary
for her to espouse the cause of the
defenders of justice and democracy
for small nationalities.
british'ship is
(By Associated Press)
MONTEVIDEO, Oct. 8. — A Brit
ish cruiser stopped an outward bound
Spanish steamer seven miles off the
Uruguayan coast yesterday, according
to advices received here today. It is
believed that the steamer was held
up in the belief that Count Von Lux
burg, former German minister to the
Argentine, was aboard.
Von Luxlturg, was recently given his
passports by the Argentine gow.ru
ment following the disclosure of the
fact that he intrigued with the Swed
ish minister at Buenos Aires to convey
information regarding Argentine ship
ping to German submarine com
manders.
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ARCTIC CLUB WILL
OBSERVE ALASKA DAY.
(By Associated Pressy
SEATTLE, Oct. 8. — A golden jubi
lee in honor of the fifteenth anniver
sary of the transfer of Alaska from
Russia to the United States, will be
held by the Arctic Club on Alaska Day.
October 18. The Arctic Club will hold
open house all that day in honor of the
event, with a banquet in the evening.
A cordial invitation has been extend
ed to all Alaskans to attend.
WANDERING POET IS
ENTHUSED BY CONTEST
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♦ Say, ain’t this auto contest great? Folks talk of it from morn ♦
♦ till late, and all the girls are out to win. and how the votes come ♦
♦ Pouring in. The contest makes the old town hum, the candidates are ♦
♦ going some, and friends are working hard and fast to win that buzz ♦
♦ machine at last. +
♦ Miss Itosswog leads the voting rare, and sets the field a merry ♦
♦ pace. And Mrs. Butler is not slow twfact you and I her vote will ♦
♦ grow , for she has boosters by the score, she’ll reach the million ♦
♦ mark or more. ^
♦ Mrs. Helen Ballard wears a smile, she says “I’ll beat them by a ♦
♦ mile. That limousine will sure he mine to have and hold, won’t that ♦
♦ be fine?” ^
♦ Miss Lottie Larson has some friends, who say that ere the eon- ♦
♦ test ends, their candidate will lead the bunch, they say they have ♦
♦ the proper hunch, and that she’ll win it in a walk. They say this ♦
♦ is no idle talk. +
♦ And Strelna has a candidate who's chance, they say, is simply ♦
♦ great, and they are out to see her win by putting up their scads ♦
♦ of tin. f
♦ The people out at Kennecott, they say Miss Dennis really ought ♦
♦ to have that car. and that they’ll see her win the doggoned race, ♦
♦ by gee. _ *
♦ And so we say, go in to win; get out and work like very sin, the ♦
♦ race is young and no one knows, who’ll win before the whistle ♦
♦ blows. ^
♦ Girls, here’s a chance to make a whizz, get in and win that dog- ♦
♦ goned Uzz; that chariot is yours, by Jing, if you will get into the ♦
♦ swing and boost your vote for all you’re worth. You’ll make the ♦
♦ bunch get off the earth, when you drive by with your new Ford. ♦
♦ "Toot, toot, ding, ding and all aboard.” +