Yol.I MI'. II. XI MRbR .>09. CORIM)YrA, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20,1916. PRTCE TEN CENTS
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mTxm'KC. OH. *JI). A
workman yiviny the name of
Richard ('ullou, jumped on t he
runniny hoard of I’resident
W ilson's automobile and when
arrested' by (lie police lie said
that he was dissatisfied with
Wilson’s conduct of the Karo
penn war. That lie intended
bodily harm is evidenced from
the fact that in a bay he car
rieiI a knife with a five inch
blade and a bottle of Ii<111id.
ile chased the automobile a
block before beiny arrested.
t u I Ion is I’d years ol aye and
a machinist by trade. He is
beiny held pendiu.y an investi
yation.
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CHICAGO, Oet. 20. Hecomber
wheat is now selling at -1.71 a bushel.
Local bakers say that inis means .1
seven cent leal' of bread.
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PITtsRCHG, Oct. 20 President
Wilson is returning to Long Branch
and met William .lenniiu Pryan, wh 1
is on a campaign tour here. They
shook hands arid shatt 1 eordiallv.
Bryan later accompanied Wilson in
an automobile tour of tie city.
Panama, Oct. 20. Protests to Wil
liam Jennings Price. American minis
ter to Panama, against the appoint
ment of Judge Demosthenes as attor
ney general of the republic, have
caused considerable comment here.
Mr Price’s objections to Judge Aro
semena are based <,>n the latter's al
leged anti American nets, elating back
to the time when, a superior judge of
the criminal court hi- dealt with the
cases of Panama policemen who shot
unarmed American soldiers on the
streets of Panama on July I, 1912, and
on two occasions in the pring of 1915.
In these cases there was no doubt,
to the foreign element at least, that
the policemen had shot with malice
or in a degree of excitement which
bordered on criminal unfitness.
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STR. NORTHWESTERN SAILS
SOUTH WITH GOOD LIST
The steamer Northwestern sailed
for Seattle •at 6 o'clock last evening
Among the outgoing passengers from
Cordova were Caleb Corser and wife
\V. E. Terrill. W. Stanford Mrs. E. F
Medley, Miss \nna Gnstavson, ('apt
E. E. Smith, P. F. Benedict, L. D Knet
tie, G. C. Jones, E. S. Walker, A. G
Jones, Fred Itapp. N. Patton. F Me
Bride. George Nickels, Carl Withani
J. 1). Herring, F. Denison, J. J. Priest
F. 1„ Graham. W. Melllsh. P. Scbult:
and wife, C. T. Hales and wife, I. N
Bteualend.
LONDON, Oct. l!U.' The war office told correspondents
j today that the allied offensive at Somme prevents the Germans
* from sendiny men to aid the Teuton offensive ayainst lion
mania. 'I’lie entente commanders feel that the Itoumanian situ
ation is serious, and the best assistance the western armies can
j .yive is to prevent reinforcements from yoiny east.
The allies plan to drive such a wed ye into the German lines
in I'1 ranee that attacks can be made in three directions ayainst
j 1 lie expanded'German front so that ultimately the allies hope
I to carry the advances far eiiouyh to retake the German line.
The Germans, however, may shorten their line before the break
i comes.
ATHENS, Oct. 20.—Extremely turbulent conditions are
prevailiny in this city. On Wednesday niylit tho Greek reserv
! ists took the law into their own hands, despite the presence of
1 -trony detachments of entente marines, who received no assist
a nee from the Creek authorities in maintaining law and order.
The chief of the French police notified the anti-Wnizelos press
that newspapers printing anti-entente articles were running the
risk of suspension.
BRFMKX, Oct. 20.—-The merchant submarine Bremen is
, regarded as lost bv the families of the crew w ho reside Imre. The
| sailing of the I teutschland has been cancelled.
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NFW 't ORk, Oct. 20.—There was no loss of life on the
i Canard liner Alaunia, w hich was sunk by striking a mine, ex
eept that of two members of the crew. It has also been learned
that there were no passengers aboard the steamer.
BFCHARFiST, Oct. 20.— Tin- Bulgarian and (ienunn
j forces at Dobrudja took the offensive along the whole front and
I forced back the Roumanian forces.
FIREMEN ENTERTAIN AT
ENJOYABLE SMOKER.
The local firemen and a large num
ber of their friends assembled at the
City Hall last night and enjoyed a
smoker. The program xvas varied
enough to furnish entertainment for
all. It included vocal and instrumen
t tl music, story telling, club swinging
and other athletic events. The Cordova
band and an orchestra were in attend
ance, and refreshments, both liquid
and solid were served. Taking it as
it whole it was one of the best smokers
the department has ever given.
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NEW TRANSFER COMPANY.
Joe Stanton, of Valdez, arrived In
Cordova yesterday, bringing over his
auto truck, and will start a transfer
business. Horses and wagons will be
here on the next boat. Mr. Stanton has
opened an office in the store room on
the ground floor of the Northern ho
tel, anti hi- is having a barn built this
side of the Copper river lodging house.
In an opinion handed down yester
day by Judge Fred M. Brown at Val
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dez, the Workmen’s Compensation
Act passed by the last legislature is'
held constitutional and valid. The ’
decision was upon demurrers filed bv j
the defendant in the case of J. W. j
Johnson vs. Kenneeott Copper Corpor-,
ation. This is the first ease decided
in Alaska determining whether the
act is constitutional, and the opinion
is therefore of much importance.
Johnson sued the Kenneeott Copper
Corporation for damages because of
personal injuries sustained in Decent-j
her last. The complaint was drawn
at common law, and in disregard of!
the legislative act. The defendant de-1
niurred, briefs were filed some months i
ago, and oral argument was had in I
Valdez during September. A Valdez J
attorney presented a brief as amicus
curae in opposition to the law.
Among other things, Judge Brown
says in bis opinion:
“The chief point relied upon by
plaintiff is that the selection of the
mining industry is an arbitrary selec
tion and constitutes class legislation
in violation of the fourteenth amend j
meat to the Constitution. * * * No- I
thing is better known concerning
Alaska than that it is essentially a
mining country and the legislature in !
selecting the mining industry toward |
employer and employee, must be J
deemed to have acted from the highest !
considerations of public policy and j
the fullest knowledge of the existing
conditions. The act leaves it within ^
the power of both employer and em- j
ployee to reject the provisions of this !
act Were its terms unjust, oppres- |
Hive or harsh it is to be presumed j
that the plaintiff, as well as other
employees, would have elected to re
ject its terms.
"Instead of the old system of un
certainty, confusion and speculation,
involving much cost and vexatious '
and oftentimes intolerable delay, it!
provides a reasonable compensation !
to be paid bv the employer and a sure '
and certain indemnity to the employee j
within a reasonable time and with lit
tie cost or expense.”
MARRIED MEN FOR
ALASKA STATIONS.
Fast Assistant Surgeon Steadman,
attached to the Saturn, the tender for
the radio stations in Alaska, has made ^
a report to the surgeon general re-1
garding the conditions at Kodiak, St
I’aul, St. George, Cordova and Sitka
He says that owing to the more or
less isolated lite that the men have to
lead at the Alaskan stations and the
limited amusements, it is thought that
married men should he selected for
this duty. These men must lie of good
character and in a perfect condition
of health.
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Superintendent Caleb Corser, of the
Copper River railway, accompanied by
his wife, was an outgoing passenger on
the steamer Northwestern last night
on a visit to the states.
Mrs. K. F. Medley returned to San
Francisco on the steamer Northwest
ern last evening.
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He a Daily Times reader.
INTERESTING EVENTS ARE
HAPPENING AT VERDUNj
VERDUN. France, Oct. 20. — While
the shelling of Verdun has done a tre
mendous amount of damage, yet there
is one remarkable incident in which
a German bombshell has actually per
formed a very useful piece of military
engineering.
General Dubois, commanding the
citadel, pointed out to the Associated
Press this freak wrought by a German
shell.
‘ I calculate,” said the general, “that
j that one shell has done for me the
! hard work of fifty men working stead
ily for eight days.”
The net result of the shell's work
was io tear a hole through the reur
tortifirations, and thus opening the
way for a tunnel which was much
' needed. Besides that, the same sin II
knocked down two large trees at the
1 end of the tunnel, which fell across
the river in such a way that they
formed the foundation of a bridge.
After the smoke had cleared away
and the wreckage had been inspected’
General Dubois concluded that the
"path of the shell would he turned to
useful account. The jagged hole
through the fortifications was proper
ly cleared up and cemented, and now
it represents the appearance of rather
a good looking archway. The trees,
lying across the river, were properly
anchored at either end, and a sol'd
| upper structure with ornamental side
I railings was constructed. Then a nar
row gauge railway was run from the
citadel through this shell hole, and
over this bridge lying on the blown-up
trees, so that a direct railway connec
tion was established between the c-lta
del and the rear. This railway per
forms a very useful service, and the
whole thing is the outgrowth of the
big German shell which fell just back
of the citadel.
Going along the streets of Verdun,
one sees at every hand signs of the
terror which spread over the poor vil
lagers when the bombardment drove
{hem away. The Rue St. 1’ierre and
the Hue Helle Vierge showed long lines
of small shops and middle class
houses which had been so hastily de
, sorted that many of the belongings
had been left behind. A barber shop
had been left with a lot of perfumery
bottles still standing in front of the
empty chairs. A carpenter shop
showed the usual litter of shavings
and long benches, as though the men
had just gone off work. Mattresses
| and pieces of blanket w ere lying round
1 in a house which had its front torn
| out by a shell, and nearby were pails
tubs and a demolished baby carriage
An upper story, where a shell had torn
off the front, showed an artist's atel
ier. with an easel standing against the
I well and the place daubed with paint
| Hardly a house or shop was without
some such evidence of the domestic
' tragedy that had been caused.
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A rather well known series of paint
ings of the dancing girls, which have
hung for a long time in the mllitarv
club at Verdun, has escaped the rue
ages of the bombardment, althougl
everything alongside these painting:
is a mass of ruins. The cittb has hac
, one of its wings torn off by a shel
1 and the entire interior is in a state o
ruin. Most of the rooms are fallec
! with wreckage. Hut the dancing girl;
| continue to look down on all thli
I debris, and there is hardly a mark 01
any one of the pictures. They shov
the characteristic dances of the vari
ous nations. One of them shows t
Spanish dancer w-ith castanets it
hand, doing a comaseta; anothe
show-B a Russian peasant dancer; an
other a French ballet dancer, and an
other a lascivious Egyptian dancer.
The pictures are 7 by 8 feet square,
in heavy mahogany frames, which
have also escaped the ravages of the
bombardment.
At the entrance to the citadel of
Verdun there are two old-fashioned
cannon captured by the French in one
of the struggles of former days. One
of the staff officers accompanying the
\sso iated Press correspondent on the
rounds of the city, pointed out these
cannon and said:
"Those remind me of two curious
cannon shown me at the United
States military Academy at West
Point, when I was making an official
visit there. The cannon bore marks
showing they had been cast in
France, but as France and the United
States had never had a war 1 was
curious to know how they had come
into the possession of the United
States, it seems that when France
was at war with Spain, the cannon
were taken by the Spaniards. Then
when the United States had a war
witli Mexico your American army cap
tured the French cannon. So they
have made the rounds of four govern
ments and are now In the hands of
the United States.”
This officer was one of the Franco
American exchange lecturers some
years ago, and delivered conferences
. at Vale and Harvard, and in Boston,
! New York, Chicago and many other
1 cities out to the Pacific coast.
From a military standpoint Verdun
i has come through the ordeal much
i better than was expected. While the
1 poor inhabitants have suffered great
ly in the loss of homes and belongings,
yet the military people point out that
everything eontr’buG'i g to :he unlit irv
defense of the town is about os good
as ever. The Citadel in the te ller «•!
ihe town ,i • 11 la-t : t i'.d w;.«
to be mil’, is until .••’.oil evr.'p for
shell Hi * in the lu.nv iisot'iirv
walls. . e v are b'e e.i • g- t, smr.-.h
an ord i • -v dwellir., : • p.tcvs hut
on these massive walls, t v< ntv feet
thick, they are onlv pin marks \liith
can he repaired.
The bridges also have all escaped
damage, and bridges *Tjui me Mili
tary standpoint are very •important
Tor the ready transfer of troop*, taip
: plies and refugees from one . l ie of
the Meuse to the other. The main
bridge, linking the principal biminoss
| street, is flanked along the river by
stores and houses torn to piece* by
I shells and tumbling into the river. But
I the bridge itself does not show a
scratch. And so it is with all the other ,
^ bridges ^
It is the same with the •routes,",
I as the military men called them a
1 general term covering highways lead
l ing into the town, railway terminals,
j tunnels, etc. In the town itself and !
the nearbv suburbs, these "routes" are
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as good as ever, though further back
in the part overrun by the Germans
they have doubtless suffered a good
deal.
"But on the whole." said one of the
officers, "we feel that after six months
bombardment Verdun has really suf
fered very little in a military sense,
bo that the tremendous effort made
i by Germany has been to them a com- j
! plete military failure ”
The Bronae statue of Ghevert, mar
shal of France, has come through the
bombardment untouched, while all
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SCHOFIELD WILL
SPEAK HERE
George I). Schofield, of Nome, Re
publican candidate for attorney gen
eral, was an arrival in Cordova on this
afternoon's train, having come over
the trail from Fairbanks, where he
has been conducting an aggressive
campaign. Mr, Schofield will address
the voters at the Empress theatre
tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. He is a
fluent talker and will inject a little
ginger into the campaign.
Mr. Schofield comes from a family
of lawyers, his grandfather was a law
yer in the state of New York, and
his father was district attorney in Ne
braska. He came to Alaska in 1900
and resided at Nome. In 1904 he was
appointed city attorney of that town,
and was attorney for the union men I
of Nome during the 1905 strike.
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RONAN IS DELEGATE
TO MINING CONGRESS.'
John Honan has been named by
miwujr tin UCICfiOlC 11UU1 IU1N
division of Alaska to the nineteenth
American Mining Congress, which will
be held at the La Salle Hotel in Chi
cago. November 15 and lt>.
Honan fears that he may not be able
to attend owing to the fact that cam
paign affairs will keep him busy until
November 7, after which he will have
to make up for lost time in hts busi
ness affairs.
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CHAMBER TO MEET.
A special meeting of the Chamber
of Commerce will be held at the
Northland Club rooms Saturday even
ing at 7 o'clock, and a full attendance
of members is requested.
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Captain E. E. Smith, P. F. Benedict,
L. I) Knettle, C,. C. Jones, E. S. Walk
er and A. 0. Jones, of the coast and
geodetic survey boat Taku, left for
Seattle on the Northwestern, having
finished their work in these waters for
ihis season.
C.eorge H. Birch and J. J. Sullivan,
of New York, who are largely inter
ested in placer mining on Dan creek,
have returned from there and will
leave for the states on the next
steamer.
Bill Hughes and Sam McMillan have
bought the Laubner road house in
the Willo wereek section, which they
will keep open all winter. They will
also engage in freighting between
Knik and the mines.
around is a wilderness of ruin. The
old general, in seventeenth century
costume, still brandishes his sword
as he shouts “en evant" in the attack
on Prague. Verdun has always been
very proud of its marshal, who was
born here In 1695 and became a mar
shal under Louis XV.
A visit to one of the fortresses in
the Inner circle of Verdun defenses
showed practically a duplicate of
Ports Douamont and Vaux, now com
plete wrecks after being captured by
the Germans. It has the same massive
outer walls, twenty feet thick and the
heighth of a three-story row of
houses. Within this wall is a wide
moat, and then a second circle of
heavy walls, with small loophole win
dows half way up. Pointing to those
loophole windows, an officer said:
"We had un exciting experience with
those w indows at Port Vaux when the
German assault was made. The Ger
mans got to the top wall, but our men
were at the windows below. Then the
Germans, in order to reach our men,
lowered explosive bombs In baskets
attached to ropes. As the bombs hung
outside our windows, they exploded
by a time fuse.
"This was becoming very deadly,
when one of our crack riflemen came
on the scene, and taking his rifle he
shot to pieces the rones, one after the
other, letting the baskets and bombs
crash to the foot of the wall.
“For six days this work went on,
but never ugain did a bomb explode
near our windows, as our sharpshooter
unfailingly cut the ropes as fast as
the baskets were lowered."
VILLA ESCAPES
AFTER' BEING
FIELD HEADQUARTERS, Ameri
can Punitive Expedition in Mexico,
Oct. 20. — Regimental narratives of
the five cavalry regiments that par
ticipated in the hunt for Villa, which
have just been brought up to date
and submitted to headquarters, show
in detail how near the American
troopers came to accomplishing the
full purpose of their expedition.
They show that after the Parral
fight, on April 12, less than a month
after the expedition had entered Mex
Ico, and immediately prior to the or
der to withdraw northward from the
Parral district, the Americans had
run Villa, sorely wounded, to earth,
and had cut off every avenue of his
escape to the south into Durango.
When Major Frank Tompkins' hun
dred men were attacked at Parral,
Villa, disabled, had hidden at Santa
Cruz. Major R L. Howie, with his
hard riding squadron of the 11th cav
alry, close on the bandit's trail, had
run by his quarry. General Pershing
was ai saievo, directing operations.
Colonel \V. C Brown, with five troops
of the 10th cavalry. Colonel H. T Al
len, with two picked troops of the 11th
cavalry. Major Tompkins and Major
Howze, four cavalry columns In all,
were between Villa and the haven of
safety he was seeking in the Sierra
Madres, ready to beat the brush for
him. Wounded, virtually alone, he
apparently had little chance to evade
capture or death. Orders for with
drawal came, however, after Parral,
and the high water mark of the ex
pedition passed.
From the beginning of the border
trouble It was to the cavalry that fell
the responsibility of dispersing the
Columbus raiders. That this task was
accomplished Is evidenced by figures
showing that of the 485 men who
raided Columbus, 400 have been killed,
wounded or captured. Full credit is
given In the narratives for the co
operation of other branches of the ser
vice, notably in establishing advanced
bases and maintaining the line of
communication, but the fact remains
that It was the cavalry that drove
Villa in headlong, panic stricken flight
into Durango, 500 miles from the Air.
erican border, scattered his band to
the four winds and set new records
for marches under terrific handicaps.
It also fought the four engagements
that had an important bearing on the
campaign: Dodd at Ouerrero, March
28: Tompkins at Parral, April 12;
Dodd at Tomoche, April 21; and
Howze at OJo Azules, May 4 It was
the victim, too, in the tragedy of April
21 at Carrizal.
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LOCAL JOTTINGS.
Kred Rapp was a passenger for Se
attle on the Northwestern
('has. H. Garwood, of Chltlna, is
spending a few days in town
C. N. Anderson and wife came down
from Strelna on this afternoon's train.
Peter 8. Erickson, of McCarthy,
.was a Cordova arrival on today's
train.
Mine Inspector Sumner 8. Smith re
turned this afternoon from a trip to
Kennecott.
Carl Wltham, who recently came out
from Chtsana. left for the states on
the Northwestern.
The Admiral Evans arrived from the
westward at 3 o’clock this afternoon,
and will be fu port some time loading
800 tons of copper ore.
H. W. DuBots, who is interested In
Alaska Consolidated Copper Company
mines, near McCarthy, returned this
afternoon from the Interior, where he
spent the summer.
H. N. Wilson and wife came down
from Chltina on this afternoon’s train
and will leave on the Alameda for the
states, where they will spend the
winter.
Yesterday a native was brought
here from McCarky Point, where he
shot himself In the hand by the acci
dental discharge of a gun. He Is
from KUamar. aid Hr. W. H Chose
found ft necessary to amputate several
of his fingers