The Cordova Daily Times
\ ni.I ME IL NUMBER 483. CORDOVA, ALASKA, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 3, 1916. PRICE TEN CENTS.
/BRITISH OFFENSIVE STILL GAINS
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GERMAN FORCES
, YIELD GROUND;
‘LONDON JUBILANT
PARIS, July 3.—The French offensive in the battle of
Somme continues a complete success, and in the first two days
of fighting the French captured more than 6,000 unwounded
Germans. The French forces now have occupied two lines of
trenches in the second German position on a three mile front
and the village of Herbenscount.
On the Verdun front the Germans have captured the Dam
lou redoubt.
The French have taken the village of Corfu and are now
pressing toward Peronne, and the British are advancing to
ward Dapaume. The important highway intersecting the sec
ond German positions has been captured. It extends from
Maricourt Wood to the edge of Assevillers, and Herbecourt
lies between.
The French have captured many prisoners and much
heavy artillery.
FRICOURT TAKEN BY STORM.
LONDON, July 3.—According to the latest news from the
front, Fricourt and Maricourt Wood, which now are in the
hands of the British, were taken by storm by the English troops.
The charge which resulted in the capitulation of the two
strongholds is said to have been one of the most desperate of
the war, and London is rejoicing over the spirit shown by the
troops. The Germans, it is said, are fighting desperately, but
seem unable to check the onward rush of the allies. In the first
two days fighting the British captured thirty-five hundred un
wounded prisoners.
> The British wounded from the front are beginning to ar
rive here, and are telling tales of the great offensive now under
way.
! BRITISH GAIN HIGH GROUND.
LONDON, July 3.—British troops have advanced east of
the Ancre river, north of Fricourt, and have gained the higher
ground, which has been held by the Germans for more than a
year. The German garrison at Laboiselle surrendered to the
British after it was surrounded.
% ^The newspapers here, while claiming that the war now is
in its final stages, warn the people to be prepared for heavy
losses, as the Germans, now on the defensive, will fight harder
than ever to stave off what appears to be an overwhelming de
feat is long as possible.
GERMAN PRISONERS ARE YOUNG.
PARIS, July 3.—Most of the prisoners captured by the
French are very young, and lend color to the story that every
available boy in Germany has been called to the front.
BOMBARDMENT CONTINUES.
LONDON, July 3.—The entire German western front is
being subjected to a continuous bombardment by big new Brit
ish guns, which thus far has prevented the Germans from
sending reinforcements to the Somme sector. The British now
have more than 4,000 unwounded prisoners.
AUSTRIANS HARD PRESSED.
PETROGRAD, July 3.—The Russian forces now have
progressed fifteen miles southeast of Kolomea, and the Aus
trians are hard pressed to cover their retreat to the Car
pathians. . , ...
It is asserted here that the Russian forces will have no dif
ficulty in following the Austrian army through the passes in
the Carpathians, Provided the latter succeed in reaching there
before the Russians overtake them.
BELGIANS ON OFFENSIVE.
HAVRE, July 3.—Belgian troops in German East Africa
are pursuing the defeated Germans along the whole front.
TO CAST ASHES OF ALASKAN
ON NORTHERN SEAS.
tTTLE, June "8. — Complying
dying request of H. K. Nixon.
thJNilondike pioneer and former Se
attle hotel owner who died several
months ago, that his ashes he east
upon the sea, Harney McGee, left for
Skagway last night on the steamer
AlsJfteda to perforin the mission. Mr.
who is himself one of the
■Known men in Southeastern Alas
jjpina also the Yukon Territory, will
cast the ashes from the deck of the
Alameda as the steamer enters the
harbor of Skagway.
AUSTRALIANS ORGANIZE TO
HELP RETURNING SOLDIERS.
MELBOURNE, Australia, June 26.—
The federal and state governments of
Australia have authorized the foun
dation of a fund to be called “The Aus
tralian Soldiers’ Repatriation Fund.”
It will enable those who have not been
fighting for their country to fulfill
their obligations by assisting soldiers
to gain a permanent livelihood after
the war. The fund is to be vested in
a board of trustees, representative of
all the states, and its administration
is to be conducted on lines to be deter
mined by an act oi the Commonwealth
parliament.
ALLIES BLOCKADE
GREEK PORTS
TODAY
ATHENS, July 3. — The allied
T eets today officially announced the1
lockade of tlreece on account of the
i iflure of the government to comply
\ ith the demands made upon It by the
[allies a week ago.
It is claimed by the allies that
i reece, while appearing friendly to
t ie allies, is playing into the hands j
( the Teutonic allies.
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ALASKAN WOMAN DROWNED.
SEATTLE, July 3. — Mrs. Scott
King, v.idow of the discoverer of the
Crooked creek placers, was drowned
a* Preemption, 111., June 25.
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FOR SEATTLE
he steamship Cordova, with the
at'* mer Dora in tow, arrived in port
tii morning, en route to Seattle,
wli re tlie Dora will he placed in dry
do' * for repairs.
h appears that the Dora struck an
un harted rock near Cyak island on
her last trip to the westward. The
ateauilwat inspectors were aboard at
the ime, and after the Dora had been
beai hed to examine the damage, re
fused to allow the vessel to con
tinue on her voyage under her own,
steam.
The vessel is said to be damaged
but little, but It is supposed that the
Inspectors were acting with prudence
when they refused to allow the Dora
to continue her voyage.
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RUSSIAN TORPEDO BOATS
BUSY 01 BUCK SEA
PETROGRAD, July 3.-—Up to and i
Including June 29, Russian torpedo
boats have destroyed fifty-four enemy
sailing vessels on the Black sea, ac
cording to an official report issued
today. I
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SPECIAL AGENT CHECKING
ALASKAN CUSTOMS HOUSE.
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JUNEAU, June 28. — A. B. Hamer, j
connected with the office of the spe
cial agent at Tacoma, is in the city j
and will be here for several days J
checking the accounts of the local
customs house. Mr. Hamer is making
a tour of all offices In the territory.;
He ha ; '.ready worked the lvitchekan j
and Wrangell offices, and will leave I
about July 1 l’or the interior, with J.
F. Pugh, collector of customs for j
Alaska.
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SEATTLE SAILINGS DELAYED.
The sailing of the steamship North-]
western, from Seattle, has been post ]
poned until 5 o'clock tonight, accord |
ing to a wire received by Tom Tal I
lent, lot 11 agent. The steamship \ia-j
nieda, u cording to the same author-1
ity, will not sail until July 6.
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Five acre tracts will be sold at An
chorage in a new auction which will
begin in i few days. These tracts
are located at the south and east sides
of the town. Close into the town are
one acre tracts and just beyond are
the five acre tracts. The idea is said
to he to give the people little farms
if they went them. They are ideal
for raising children.*
Tomorrow Is the big day in Cordova.
Everything appears favorable for a
celebration which will be memorial
The weather man sems to have known
what he was talking about when he
promised a clear day for the Fourth,
as the sun never shone brighter in
Cordova than today.
Or. Council announced that plans
are all completed for the ball game,
and that the Valdez team will leave
its home tonight, arriving here early
tomorrow morning.
Dr. Chase says the program has
been perfected and will be put through
on schedule time. All the small boys
In town are ready and anxious for the
contests, and some of the events are
attracting the attention of men who
think they arc still in the running.
George Dooley is busy making pre
parations to the end that all athletic
events will proceed without confusion.
Will Clayson, who has charge of j
the boat races, has his chief troubles
in arranging suitable handicaps for!
the different boats. There are no two|
boats in Cordova of the same dimen
sions and engine power, and handi
caps have to be worked out for then)
all.
Word from up the line Is to the ef
fect that a large crowd will arrive
tomorrow’, and t he w hole town will j
be ready to greet them. Hunting is
now in C'i(l4**ce in all the store win
dows, and W. H. Graves premises to
have his big flag out early in the
morning.
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SENATE INCREASES ARMY
APPROPRIATION
WASHINGTON, July 3. — The
army appropriation bill as prepared
by the < senate committee, carries
$328,000,000, an increase of $140,000,
000 over the bill as passed by the
house.
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ASBESTOS VEIN DISCOVERED
BY TWO J’JNEAU MEN.
An asbestos mine will be among the
active industries of the Juneau sec
tion. A deposit of pure asbestos has
been discovered accidentally, and will
be developed if the present plans do
not miscarry. The deposit was dis
covered a couple of weeks ago by two
residents of Juneau while they were
out hunting. It Is on the mountain
within walking distance of Juneau.
The deposit, as first found, consist
ed of a stringer two inches wide,
whic hseemed to widen out after en
tering the mountain. After the first
deposit was found the two men started
looking around for other stringers,
and a vein carrying the asbestos was
found, which measured about eight
feet in width.
The two men will not talk about
their find, but it is understood that
they will develop the property and
place it on the market. They were
without tools and the deposit was cov
ered with moss and dirt So they
could not examine it extensively, b it
intend to make a full examination of
the find within the next few days. -
Juneau Empire.
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DROWNED AT LONG BEACH.
LONG BEACH, Cal., July 3—Julian
Liebes, a heavy stockholder in the
Alaska Commercial Co., was drowned
here today while bathing in the surf.
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The Juneau city council has refused
to extend the saloon limits of the
town after being petitioned so to do
by 23 property holders.
HETTf GREEN IS
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NEW YORK, July 3. — Mrs. Hetty
Green, the richest woman In the
world, died here today.
Hetty Green was the world's most
remarkable mistress of finance. The
fortune she has left is close to $100,
000,000. The richest woman in Am
erica, she lived almost as frugally as
a shop girl. Her home was wherever
she chose for a time to hang her lit
tle cape and bonnet, often In the
hail bedroom of some cheap boarding
house or in some remote and modest
flat around New York.
Her eccentric extremes of economy
led to a popular misconception of her
as a "self made woman." As a mat
ter of fact she was born rich. In 1805
she inherited some $10,000,000, which
accumulated upon Itself until in fifty
years it had multiplied nearly ten
times. She also inherited family tra
ditions which had been a pride for
three centuries, and which she was
anxious to perpetuate in her children.
She was born at New Bedford,
Mass., "in November, 1834, about the]
L'oth," according to her testimony at
one time in court. She was a de
scendant on her mother's side of
Henry Howland, brother of i’ilgrim
John Howland, of the Mayflower.
In succeeding generations the llow-i
land family became famous in the
whaling industry and shipping trade
with China, and had an irreproaeh ;
able social standing. Kdward Tlott
Robinson, who had also amassed a
fortune in a similar way in New Bed
ford, married Abby Howland, of whom
Hetty Robinson, the future mistress
of finance, was born. She was sent I
to a Quaker school on (’ape Cod, and
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first lessons in finance when her age
ing father entrusted her with some]
of his books.
She was just thirty years old when I
her father died suddenly, leaving her
his nine millions, one million outright
and the Income from the other eightj
the principal to be held in trust for
her children, it is forgotten thatj
Hetty (Jreen, then Robinson, was aj
belle in New York society. According!
to her own stories she ‘‘often danced
the whole night through." Kven then, |
however, she lived in a hoarding
house, and was so saving that rather
thun pay carfare she would pull a
pair of heavy woolen stockings over
her shoes and walk through the snow ;
to parties.
Almost at. the same time that her!
lather died her aunt, Sylvia Ann How
land, passed away, leaving several
million dollars. It is said Hetty Rob-;
inson had been brought up from child
hood to count this money as hers, and!
that the aunt experssed the hope that j
Hetty would some day become, as she
did, the richest woman in the country.
The division of the aunt's estate,
however, was not as expected. Three j
years after the aunt's death Hetty
Green appeared in the United States I
circuit court in Massachusetts with
a will which she wanted substituted
for the one already probated. This
will was in Mrs. Green's own hand
writing, and some of the most famous
experts of the day declared under
oath their belief that the two signa
tures it contained were not made by
the aunt, but were traced by Hetty
Green herself over an original signa
ture of Sylvia Ann Howland.
The litigation is one of the most
famous In court annals. After an ex
pense of. $172,000, the case was dis
missed on a technicality. An appeal
w as made to the supreme court of the
United States, but while this was pend
ing a private settlement was reached.
From those days to the time of her
death Hetty Green was involved in
some law suit of other, asserting that
lawyers were forever trying to ro!>
her of her property. Her antipathy
toward them was so violent that she
said: "I would rather have my daugh
ter burned at the stake than to go
through what 1 have with lawyers.”
She married in 1867. Her husband
was Edward H. Green, who was
United' Suites consul general in Ma
nila, where he hail made a fortune in
the silk trade. It is said Green, at
a public dinner, heard some one speak
of Hetty Kobinson as "the greatest
American heiress,” aud straightaway
announced his determination to marry
her. Before the wedding day an
agreement was signed to the effect
that the wife's fortune should never
be drawn on to meet the husband's
debts or any of their joint expenses.
He died in 1802, after having lost most
of his money in Wall Street.
A. W. Gardner and Captain H. (K
Thomas will establish a shrimp pack
ing plant at Wrangell.
MEXICO CITY, July 3. — The pub
lic generally now Is taking a more
optimistic view of the Amerkan-Mexl
can situation, and It is now hoped that
war will be averted.
BIG ARMY ON BORDER.
WASHINGTON, July 3. — More
than 150,000 American troops are as
sembling on the Mexican border, and
it is expected that that number will
be passed within the next twenty-four
hourtv
The troops have been divided into
three departments, all under General
Funston, and the subdivisions under
Pershing, Franklin and Bell. It is
expected that General Wood will soon
arrive on the border, in which event
Funston would automatically be re
lieved of the supreme command.
The steamship Alameda, of the
Alaska Steamship Company, with a
large passenger list, arrived in Cor
dova from the south at noon yester
day. Site carried a large number of
round-trippers, and a special train was
made up and an excursion was run to
Miles Glacier. The following passen
gers were for Cordova: Dr. J. A.
Logging and wife, E. F. Gray, M. A.
Heckey, Miss M. Curtis, G. W. Kup
pler, ('. Kuppler, il. Ileiser, L. How
den, F. K. Brown, it. A. Brown, Jr.,
Allan Lund, Miss C. Hutsinpiller, C.
B. Bradford, Miss M. Russell, H. Sel
lers, Imogen and Lillian Cook, J.
Dalton.
The Alameda sailed at 4 o'clock this
morning. The following passengers
sailed from Cordova: G. W. Root, L.
G. Tripp, James Hunt, Thomas Hunt,
Jr., W. 11. Seagrav'es, \V. J. Seagraves,
B. F. Millard.
The steamship Admiral Farragut,
of the Pacific-Alaska Navigation Co.,
arrived from the westward at 12
o'clock last night. She loaded 700
tons of ore here and sailed for the
south at noon.
The passengers arriving on the
steamship Farragut were Mrs. J. H.
Ware, Mrs. W. Walker, James Fish,
G. Mosserman, E. T. Stannard and
Alvah Fames
The steamship Admiral Watson, of
the Pacific-Alaska Navigation Com
pany, is due to arrive from the south
tonight at 9 o'clock.