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VOLUME nirNUMBEEaCQ CORDOVA, ALASKA. MONDAY. VARm n, i.us PRICE TEN CENTS
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PARIS, l.an;h 11.—Secretary 'Of
War Baker has arrived here, and was
greeted by General Pershing and Gen.
Bliss, the American chief of staiFf,-Am
bassador Sharp, and French (Officers
representing Premier Clememoeau.
The voyage of the America® cabinet
officer was without incident.
Visit of Inspection
WASHINGTON. March 11.—-The ob
ject of Secretary Baker's vvdkit - to
France is to inspect the American
troops, headquarters, railways, docks1
and bases. Before he left he said he
did not expect to remain lo«g.
Not a Diplomatic Mission
The war department says that Sec
retary Baker’s visit to France is purely
military in character, and no dip
lomatic purpose. It is takes, for pur
poses of inspection and personal con
ferences with the military offipials.
The secretary .is accompanied by
. Major General William M. Black, chief
of engineers; Lieutenant Colonel M.
L. Brott, and Ralph Hayes,, jliis .pri
vate secretary,
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VAN WERT, Ohio. March 1
‘Two known dead, another reported,
with four injured and ii-inn twenty-ftve
to fifty farm houses .completely *U>
stroyed, resulting in defu age, estimated
at from $500,000 to $1,000(000, was live
toll of a tornado which struck this .sec
tion Saturday evening.
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ROME, March 11.—Teuton aviators
yesterday attacked Naples, dropping
twenty bombs in the residential quar
ter. The victims included seven oc
cupants of hospitals.
Naples Is situated more than three j
hundred miles south of the battle line.!
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AMSTERDAM, March 10.—Admiral
Von Diederichs, who commanded the
German squadron off Manila during
the Spanish-American war, and who
clashed with Admiral Dewey over the
blockade, has just died at Baden
Baden.
SHIFTING OF BUOY RESPONSIBLE FOR
ANOTHER SERIOUS MARINE CATASTROPHE
SEATTLE, Wash., March 11.—The steamship Admiral
Evans of the Pacific Steamship Company was wrecked on Sat
urday last in Hawk inlet, ahoilt fifty miles from Juneau, while
on her way to the westward. One hundred and seventy-six per
sons were «n board. The ^.eamship Princess Sophia of the Ca
nadiam Pacific Steamship Company, immediately started to tin
relief of the stranded vessel. The Evans is Veheveti to be seri
ously damaged, but it is thought she can he salvaged. Then
were many cannery workers on board, and several hundred ton:
of cannery supplies.
PASSENGERS ALL SAFE
JUNEAU, March 11.—The AdmiralEvanB Struck a reef a
Hawk mMt* Saturday evening. The Princess Sophia landed he
passengers safely here 'The wrecked vessel is submerged a
high tide.
LURED BY SHIFTED BUOY
JCXKAC, March 11.—The Admiral Evans was beached
nil* v striking, and the passengers were taken ashore by can
nery ip'wdei's. There were 170 persons on board.
A bnov which bad been shifted by the high winds lured
live Evans onto t&e rocks.
steamer Admiral Evans is a st<*el ship, built in 1901,
p with a gross towiiage of 2*393, and is equipped with Kilbourne
(lark wirelessatpparatns. t^ie is 243.1 feet in length and 38.4
1‘erfl in ’breadth, having passenger accommodations for 138
fii-# (dass an! U‘56 third-riarss. Captain C. K. Glasscock, con
sidered one of the most careful navigators on the Southwestern
l Alaska mm, is'the navigator, and G. H. Badh purser.
The Evans sailed fwnn 'Seattle last Monday with the fol
t. lowing passengers for Cordova: Mrs. A. Ketterman, K. Me
,j3h»irles AlberK. Herman Ketterer and \V. N. CYaigie
AMERICAN PATROLS RAID TRENCHES OF GERMANS
AND DISCOVER THAT ffllfB HAVE FLED PRECIPITATELY
WITH THE AMERICAN A KMT IX FRANCE, March ilL
—A stria'll American pattvol encountered a.11 tt&emy patrol m the
Chermnw des Dames sector. After a sharp) ‘skirmish, in whicV.
*mn accurate firing jrc* ■ done, orasiasp -siwv;!! casualties to
the ctkw, the American* returned to their trenches miliannnl
The troops on the Lorraine fnwrt have suffered an ex
tremely heavy bombardment, during which lmndreds of gas
shells awe fired. The Americans quk-kly aHfjusted their gas
masks, tail none was affected.
American artillery blew up an enemy ammunition dump.
FOUND GERMAN TRENCHES EMPTY
Co-operating with Hn French Hie.Americans made
’’n-e raitkopposite the American swtar in Lorraine. Two of
the in ids mere executed si multaneouslr last aiight.
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'Idle Americans swept past the (jemiaai fSjrst line ami |p**DK
rated the enemy’s second'line, six hrasdred yards hack. The
two raids made after''four hours’ Ifooamib&irdr.fent, in wrnch
the German positions were leveled.
At midiBagdit the Ammteans, with auall French forces on
heir tbanks, moved on the ttrenmans behind a'creeping barrage.
W hen the Americans rvadlttf'd the enemy first Sine the barrage
was lifted, exposing the enemy positions. The(Cfennan hnratdbes
were found to ;be, empty.
DESTROY CONCRETE DUGOUTS
TfeiseAfcinerimns J©mninet3 within the German lines for forty
■ tia- snmti-s. They found mo j.*isoners. All the American:
' anted "Km-.
The-.A money®raiders ’found ^excellent concrete dugouts
which itfccv dynamited. They also found valuable papers.
. TheVronek. found two wnmiib-d Germans in a dngout am
took tlhwi ]>ris«>wiws.
T;he .'Americans made the rai* 1 in two sections, each on ;
b ix in licit# ‘(hyaaoj'fiwnt.
i AMERICAN ARTII&ERY ACTIVE
Tllw AYmorioaii .avtillary bombarded vigorously towns am
hroaSls «oM»niunicating with the trenches in the rear of the Gor
tail Sim**, with ^xieddent results. They slicllod a nuinhor <>
tmiwlinjs* in one town where Germans were billeted.
ENEMY REPELLED BY BRITISH
Willi THE BRITISH AJiYIY, March 10.—After har<
fighting on a front.of three thousand yards southeast of Pool
borhoek, rtiie (jennans succeeded in occupying small advancer
p>sts. lu an advance this morning, after a heavy bonihard
meat, the British iiil'autry, wssigfod by artillery, repelled tlu
em iny ants regained rfctoe jtosifirmft.
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District Ht-oil Administrator \V. R.
Hillcrv yesterday received the follow
ing telegram from Royal M. Qtunnison,
territorial food administrator:
“Juneau. March 10.—Owiing to
transportation shortage, arising largely
from weather conditions and the scar
city of ocean transportation to handle
foreign shipments, a temporary *ur
plns of marketable livestock has arisen
in the United States. To hold this
over until later in the season woutf
cause unnecessary' sacrifice of corn,
much of which lias already been used
in fattening cattle because of inability
to market corn, due to tHe before
mentioned weather conditions.
“Therefore the food administration
authorizes the withdrawal of all re
strictions on the use of moat and
pork, except beefless and porkless
Tuesday, until further notice.
“It is urged that during this tem
porary reduction of meat restrictions
the public will use meat products to
offset the consumption of wheat prod
ucts, a.s there is greater necessity for
conservation oi wheat than ever.
“If 1918 home cards have not yeti
been distributed, we suggest printing
or writing in the left-hand margin the;
following: ‘Temporarily the food ad-'
ministration asks you to observe beef- i
less and porkless Tuesdays only. Omit
meatless meals and porkless Satur-j
days.* I,
“Please give this the widest pub
licity.” I
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Geo. A. Mosser celebrated his birth- 1
day on Saturday night by pleasantly
entertaining a number of friends at
his home, <
NOTED IRISH LEADED
RESTS OR ERIN'S SOIL
KINGSTOWN, Ireland, March 10.—j
E'he body of John Redmond, the late
rh'h Nationalist leuder, arrived here
>v special train today and was con
eyed to Wexford and buried in the
amily vault.
Thirty thousand persons followed
he coffin from the station to the
hi; vch.
M’CARTHY WOMAN FOUND
MURDERED IN HER CABIN
On Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock
United States Deputy Marshal .Mil-sap
found the body of Rose 'bilberg in her
caton in the restricted district at Mc
Carthy. Her throat had Hrren cut from
ear to ear and it is beliwed that the
murder was committed during the
night. The only weapon found in the
house -was a revolver, with one cart
ridge idiissing, but no bullet wound
was fo<cmd on the woman.
The federal authorities at McCarthy
are investigating the case, but no def
inite clue has as yet been unearthed.
Ray Gordon, another inmate of that
district was arrest ted as a suspect, hut
tlie conuner's jur$’ exonerated her of
any connection With the crime
Hose .Bitberg was 37 year* or age
and a 1‘olish-,Jewess. She war in Cor
dova about two wtrks ago on her re
tnra from the Tenakee Hot Springs
where she had been visiting be r hus
band. She is reputed 10 be worth
about $25,000 and owaed considerable
property at McCarthy and I’rlnur Hu
j port, It. (-. As she always carried
: onsderable money on her person rob
bery is supposed to have been tile
cause tor the murder.
WASHINGTON. March 11—The
war department's weekly review of the
war situation discovers that the Ger
man advance in Aussia as a futile at
tempt to shift the center of gravity of
the war. which remains on the west
front, where the Teutons face British,
French, Belgian and Italian armies,
and where the Americans occupy
trenches at four separate points.
The scope of activities is con
stantly being extended. There has
been intense aerial activity, during
which 214 of the enemy aircraft have
been brought down on the western
front alone. The allies have lost 88
an all fronts. The enemy loss on all
fronts has been 273.
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FISH MARKET
SEATTLE, March 11.—Seattle fish
prices at noon, March 11, were: Hall
aut 15 l-2c; sable fish, 6 l-2c; red cod,
ic; pickled sable fish. $12 per bbl.;
tickled herring, $11 per bbl.
j CAMP DODGE, Iowa, March 11—A
| general court-martial has found eight
! National army men from St. Paul,
j Minn., stationed here, guilty of refus
j ing to obey orders. Each has beeu
‘ sentenced to a long term of imprison
! ment at Leavenworth penitentiary.
All eight of the recalcitrants are S»
jciaiists. A. 8. Broms was sentenced to
j twenty years’ imprisonment and the
; other seven to twenty-five years, all
' at hard labor.
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PEKING, March 10.—Government
5/ troops have suffered severe reverses
! at Changtu, capital of the province of
Szechuen, by forces from Yunnan and
’ Kweichow. 1
Americans Captured .
PEKING, March 11.—Bandits neat'
Yehsein, in the province of Huntiafi,
l have captured and robbed two Ameri
can engineers named Pursell and Nyl.
| who were carrying a large sufiti *T’
I money to pay survey parties.
, j The bandits overpowered twenty sol
1 diers who were accompanying the en
■ jfeineers. ^
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LONDON, March II.—It is officially
announced that the Turks have retired
further into the interior of Mesopo
tamia. The Turkish garrison has evac
uated Kit, on the Euphrates, and re
tired seven miles up-stream Saturday
and Sunday, and the retirement still
continues.
The British have occupied Khan,
, north of Bagdad and twentytwo miles
i above Hit.
IP ALAMEDA BRINGS
GOOD PASSENGER LIST
SEATTLE, March 11.—The steam
ship Alameda sailed for Alaskan ports
at 9 o’clock Sunday morning. Her
passengers for Cordova were as fol
lows:
N. It. Hudson, I*. Mills. F. A. Med
'strom, E. Forbes. VV.’ Terrill. E.
Pierce. C. H. Carlson, C. Stone. Mr.
and Mrs. F. A. Fisher, Mr. and .Mrs.
E. A. Fisher, H. T. Currier, Miss J
Oniara, Miss Bess Armstrong. Miss It.
Wilbur, Mrs. Celia Graves, Mr. and
.Mrs. Harry Nelson, Gus Cozakus. Miss
L. Dunham. Edwin B. Kelley. Katie
Girmore, W. J. Barker. Ben Dahl. Mrs
George Ragsdale, Miss Clara Steg
mann, Mrs. H. Mann. Joe Dewilde. Al
exander Allan. G. F. Henkel, George
Nurallis and Steve’ Vasileu.