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The Cordova Times
VOLUME U, NUMBER 598. CORDOVA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, ~ PRICE TEN CENTS
GERMANY’S VIEW OF SUBMARINE WARFARE
NEW EMPERO. 1 i JSTR1A SAj
HKHMX, Nov. 2d.—Germany’s conduct of submarine war
i-ii<* has In-ought an abundant crop of American inquiries, five
new on- Inn ing been filed today. Six of the pending inquiries
slid remain unanswered', including the sinking of the Marina,
on which a number of Americans were killed, and the liner
Arabia, whose sinking America considers inconsistent with
Gi-i man promises. The I nitcd States assumes that the Arabia
was un.mu d and torpedoed unwarned, and regards the forc
i ! ■ .ss, ne is into boats as unjustifiable. Washington ap
par< ntiy In in vi's that the submarine commander, seeing women
and children on the decks, lie should have refrained from the
at t nek.
"* \ i KXXA Nov. 2d. Kmperor Charles has issued a procla
im don to li e nation, declaring inflexible his decision to main
tain v. in until p.*aee, assuring the existence and maintenance of
the nnmarehv has been secured.
Id dll. IX, Nov. 2d. 'I'lie Hussians have landed large bodies ;
o: f' ii;for.- iii ii'si.n t he Transylvanian front.
ATHENS, Nov. 23.—The (ire ek government lias refused
the demands ot the allies for part of Greece's supplies, arm:
and ammunition.
AMSTERDAM, Nov. 23.— The German levy on Belgium t<
pay tin* cost of maintenance of the Gorman army and German
administration has been increase! from forty-five to fifty mil
lion francs monthly.
COPENHAGEN, Nov. 2.3. Denmark, Sweden and Norway
will issue iron money, instead of copper. This becomes neces
sary, as England' has stopped the importation of copper.
EONDON, Nov. 2.3.— It is officially stated that there wer-■
no wounded soldiers on the hospital -hip Britannic when sunk
off the Greek const. The only ones aboard were a hospital staff
and the crew.
BUCHAREST, Nov. 23.- Tin* Roumanian troops in the
.Jiul valley, western ‘Wallaehin, have been withdrawn and now
occupy their old positions.
' W x- ' *1 • . Nov. The doe*
of a : * -id..nr has been definitely
• ' I a.::-! ■•■Will street and other bet
t *! < •lit1'! ; pi\ini: ovrr all elec
: ni ! ■•!!i In - having sent his con
r:u >1- in ti it) Wilson.
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W.VS‘ 'INi.TON. Nov. j:t. — The In*
ei. t.ite < '..i .1iYninnission finds
Hi • New Orleans. Texas and Mexico
railroad*, capitalized for nearly $41,
>*»;*.mu', is 11 ; nalticable for $h,<K)0,000.
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While Alaska has produced some of
h« h; ' • f paid fiction writers, then*
has been eo 1 aoial h advancement
in other line >j endeavor, though not
so widely aci r• r t i*- ■ d peihaps.
One June;, in* invented an electri*
al ill a. and n*»ther a war bomb
with destructive features. An inter
im- man invented a knife with so finely
tempered steel that it would shave a
nail without dulling the edge. This
h*s la an ,n ch-l for hy several old*
t fun*. n.
< ’ plain i • •! iaiy. the well known
. i •*. n \ ...tor and mining man, in*
vented a device for the safe handling |
of dynamite, for which he received a:
eomfoi table sum.
The evolution of mining from the
crude wood file method to steam thaw
points and huge machinery plants is
du** to ti * inventive genius of Alaska
| miners.
They have improved upon hoisting
i and bucket apparatus and worked out
| many detailed a::d important improve
, mer.in for which they never obtained
I patents.
i In fact, it is not untruthful to state
that, per population, Alaska lias pro
bably accomplished more concrete re
sults in professional lines, in literature
and s< * Mice and industry than is true
of ;.u\ part of the world.
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NEW EXTENSION COURSE
AT UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON.
SKATTI.K. Nov. The extension
diviiou ol the University of Washing
ton has intdtvi io its already long li»l
of t-our: ■ a study of credits and col
lodions, L.i d on the advice and sug
gestions of thirty-two credit men of
Seattle.
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The Wild (loose Mining Company
1 has just completed the installation of
i a steam heating plant at Nome, for
■ the purpose of supplying the resi
dences and business houses with hut.
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INFAMOUS YARN
DOES GREAT
INJUSTICE
A story published In the Fairbanks
Citizen and copied by most of the pa
pers in Alaska, does a former resident
of lhe territory, who is now a famous
writer, a gross injustice, as there is
no foundation in fact for the halluci
nations of the degenerate woman who
claims to be Hex Beach’s former wife.
Beach mined near Nome in the early
days of that camp, and later became
famous by writing "The Spoilers" and
other Alaskan stories. He was never
married until he wedded his present
w ife, and they are living together hap
pily back east. The following Is the
infamous lie sprung by a debauched
native, now serving a term in Jail for
vagrancy, and which haH been given
considerable publicity:
She is the victim of the ways of the
white people, she says, when talking
about her troubles. She is a drunkard
and knows it; is guilty of the crime
for which she is being punished, ac
cording to her statement, but ahe lays
it all at the white man's door, saying
that white man s "hootch" has been
her downfall. She is an Indian woman
named Annie-Lyons, and is serving a
term for vagrancy in the federal Jail
here, having been committed front
Tunana. But the most interesting part
of her story is that she claims to have
once been the wife of Rex Beach, the
now world famous novelist.
And that is this Indian woman's
claim to notoriety. For she has
learned that the man with whom she
lived as a wife in the early days of
Rampart has now become famous, and
she has also learned that on account
of his fame she. too, Is a famous char
acter to the tourists who now visit
Alaska annually. It ha» therefore been
her custom during the past two years
to pose for snapshots taken by curi
osity seeking summer visitors to In
terior Alaska at four bits each. That
is, she charges each tourist 50 cents
for the privilege of “snapping" her.
In this manner the woman has eked
out a living at Tanana during the
summer months for the past two
years. She depends altogether on
somebody else to take care of her
during the winter, caring not for the
coming of the cold days, as she spends
her summer's earnings to gratify her
appetite for liquor, undoubtedly fur
nished by some unscrupulous white
man.
Last winter she was convicted of
vagrancy at Tanana and sent here to
serve out her term. In this manner
she was kept throughout the winter,
and was also prevented from getting
liquor. This year the sentence Im
posed was 125 days. The former wife
of Hex Beach is therefore practically
certain that she will not want this
winter, although she hales the thought
of languishing in jail, and in her more
pensive moments blames the white
man and association with him for all
her troubles.
There is but little doubt but that
the woman’s story that she formerly
lived with Rex Beach is true. For it
is corroborated by residents of vari
ous lower river points who have
known her tor years.
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l'aul V. Woodhouae, United States
deputy marshal at Yakutat, has been
stationed'at Tenakee for the winter,
Yakutat being practically desert e<
since the oMUMrfen closed Sown.
LOCAL JOTTINGS
ABOUT PEOPLE
UNO DOINGS
V. J. Dwver haw completed :i la:;
hotel and store building at Strelini.
Coasting on the hillsides is v. \
good and the youngsters ore daily on
joying this healthful pastime.
The Cordova band is prneth ing
gularly and will furnish the dunce
music for Its benefit hall on Thank:
giving night.
The freighter Valdez has left i -r
Datouche to load mfljry ore and " i'1
likely sail fro mthere direct to in
Tacoma smelter.
Janies Hiley returned on lliis nan.
Ing’s train to Alganik. where he i de
veloping smile promising gold quail
properties on McKinley lake.
amer Alameda will he ..
tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock Sin
has a number of passengers and
tons of freight for Cordova.
In response to an inquiry as to the
vote for delegate at Skagway 111
same Is herewith given: l.ewis, II
Sulzer, 154; Wlckershani,-122.
Assessor Exuni is busy making the
annual tax assessment. The hoard of
equalization will meet December 4.
from 8 to 9 o’clock p. in., and con
tinue Itl session for an hour each even
ing until December 11.
Election returns are slow In coming
iu from some of the outlying precinct
and until they are nil received (lie
election of the delegate to congress
and possibly two members of the lee
isiature cannot be determined.
The prospects for the opening up of
several promising copper properties in
the Copper river valley were never
better, and if the present plans of
some claim owners materialise the
export of this metal from Cordova will
be greatly Increased during the < in
Ing year.
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LEGISLATURE HAS BEEN
busy enacting laws.
The territorial legislature has
passed so many law's in the first two
sessions that it would require the
mind of a statesman to discover any
new measures. If there are no real
new laws to puss we're in a terrible
fix. There Is nothing more dangerous
than a bunch of legislators who have
no apparent raison d'etre. They just
must show some—Kx.
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Hunters all over the territory re
port a scarcity of ptarmignn this year
while lynx are reported to be unusu
ally abundant, which may account f >r
the absence of the birds.
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An automobile with four occupants
Gu pleasure bent, turned turtle off u
trestle near Ketchikan recently and
the occupants had a narrow escupe
from serious injury.
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The members of the Ketchikan Arc
tic Brotherhood will give a big min
strel show Thanksgiving evening. Ket
chtkan has some excellent local talent
and it is believed the show will be a
hug* success. v
rtl-:\TTI.K. Nov. 2.V The efficiency
'»i '.'iil.manm* cables for transmitting
ii:r: n,:tinR and direct current and
or •? m milting impulses in suhtna
.r.o telegraphy will he tested by K. H.
' e!P and l\ C. Young, of the elec
tr?-•’! 1 » :M«»crin ; department of the
l*ni\ ersity of Washington in prepar
ing lie ir senior theses. Cables from
\li.i Point in Puget Sound to Victoria, i
P C. will lie available for the t»‘sis
STRONG PROTEST
Gf TOE FISHING
J
\merlean rishing industries o< the
No: th' « ‘t. operating principally in
\ 1:i ;ka it. conjunction with th*» .Seat
tie Chamber of Commerce and espec
ially with the Alaska bureau of that
body, have prepared a strong state
in« tit w hit h is directed to the presi
d * * ’ft of tie Cnited States, and which
roes into detail in defining; the hard
ships resulting to the Americans en
g.t *etl in the fishing industry owing to
ieta rit h gislation enacted at Washing
ton. After summing up the situation
:.s it exists at present, the memorial
to the president closes as follows:
Whet are the issues involved? What
would be the inevitable result of fur
ther permitting present conditions?
1st. V purely American industry
would lo permanently diverted from
I.I.I IIV. ll iai I. CIUUUIUU
Hud. The $'.,000,0ufl capital invest
ueiit. uf Amerieau citizens would be
come valueless and he absorbed by
< 'anada.
;'rd. The fishing fleet, numbering
| hundreds of vessels would pass from
| \im.iv in to Canadian registry.
4Hi. Thousands of American fisher
| men would eventually be displaced bv
Canadian subjects.
Etb. American transportation com
f ;v • nies — water and rail — would be
■i lied of the transportation of fish
I aught on our own coasts destined to
I American markets.
Cth American commerce would
m-e the trade benefits incidental to
pel at i..11 of tliis $.r,.000,000 Industry—
vet in its infancy.
Tth. The control of a valuable Am
erican food supply and of Its cost to
Vmerlcan consumers would pass from
the United States to Canada.
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c. I.. c.elsinger, of Eagle river, Is
n custody at Juneau, charged with
, having wantonly killed a horse be
longing to another.
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According to a late report the In
dians living at Klockshu lake, near
Dalton Post, are afflicted with meas
les. No deaths have occurred.
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John Conners, of Fairbanks. Samuel
N. Stevenson, of Mendenhall, and
Polly Panainaroff. of Sitka, have been
recently admitted to the Pioneers'
4omo at Sitka.
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Wasted -v Pastry cook. Apply tc
Welts' restsar*nt
- itf ■ g it., (irf * I -. ... ■
hihi into cut
1 ATTACKED BY
VILLISTAS
EL PASO, Nov. 23. — Villa and his
bandits began an attac k on Chihuahua
City at 11 o’clock this morning. Me
sages to Carranza officials at Juarez
say Villa is attacking from the south.
General Murguia, twelve miles south
of Chihuahua City, expected to move
on the Villa forces in the rear with
7,000 men. Trevino, defending Chf
huahua City, has 5,000, with artilleiy.
The town is strongly fortified and
ammunition is being rushed from Jua
rez. The telegraph lines are still
working, which indic ates there are n :
Villistas north of Chihuahua City.
WANTS CABIKET
TO
IN OFFICE
WASHINGTON'. Nov. 22. In re
plying to the congratulations of the
cabinet on bis victory. President Wi!
son said: “One of the best things
about the result is that it mean - four
more years of active association i:t
public service, and in that we ar>
genuinely rejoiced." This mess: ,:o i
taken by some to forecast an in\it t
tlon from the president to member;
of the cabinet to remain in office
Wilson will spend Thanksgiving 1). >
at the White 1 louse with members oi
his family. Hundreds ol turkeys have
already been received as gifts, one o:
which will be selected and the other
given to the poor.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 22,. — Secre
tary of State Lansing says that his dt
partment has no views on the sul>
Ject of the proposed food embargo, a;
It is purely a domestic question. The
state department neither urged, pro
posed nor discussed the embargo, a;
it does not concern international re
lations, such action not being obje.
tionable to anv foreign government ,
LASTSTORY IS
WRITTEN BY
SANTA ROSA, Nov. 23. —- Jack 1. n
don, the Alaska novelist and former
resident of the Klondike, ilied at his
home In this city last night.
' HUGHES** ONI ITS
DEFEAT IN A
MESSAGE
WASHINGTON. Nov. 23. — I’resi
dent Wilson has sent a telegram t
Charles E. Hughes, acknowledging h!
message of qpngratulatlons w is f
celved laBt night, and wishing Justice
Hughes well In years to come.
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KANSAS GOES 37.000.
TOPEKA. Nov. 23. — The offlciu
count in Kansas gives Wilson a plur
ality of 37,000 votes.
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The National Cash Register Com
p»ny of Dayton. Ohio, will open office:
aalea rooms in Juneau on Januarj
1, and the territorial trade will l*
handled from the capital city. Sidne:
8. Jacobs will act as their local agent
SPENT LIFE IN
TRIPS MOUND
Among the Cordova arrivals on the
last train was Miss Celeste J. Mil
ler, the most travelled person in the
world, having conn* out from Fair
banks after a tour nf the interior
country.
During her life she has travelled
.mihs, of a distance equal to
thirty trips around the world. She
lias visited Lapland. South America
to its southernmost r ape. South Africa
Siberia. Siam. Australia, and. in fact
almost (-very corner ot the globe. She
has been entertained by royalty. In
eluding the King of Siam, the late
\rchdr 1; - Ferdinand of Austiin, whose
death precipit -ted the present war;
nembers of fk • Ku dan royal family
and others.
Miss Miller w »*• the first woman tc
cross the line < • the Sib. ’ian tra-ns
continental railroad, having covered
fhe line before the completion of the*
road Aft r this trip he wrote a bool
entitled “The Newest Way Around the
World." She lias also contributed! v
number of attic!- to magazines and
delivered many lectures to school
tensions and others, and never for
her writing, for her pictures or for
her P-dures has she received onr i
cent Y.d h» has been given as much ■
newspaper .-pace and as many “write
ups' as any person living in private
life.
Miss Mill- * iu her • .rl> days, trav
died with tmirhsts. Now. she ‘back
tracks" the lotni.t routes, not wish
big to l»e annoyed hy tin* people win
make luit one trip in a lifetime and
then feel that they are reniarkabh
♦ rivellcrsi..
10\ cry country in Kumpe has beet
vl ited twice by Mis Miller, and slu
w !1 probably j bath again to loot
)' -r the field of the t^jmat w ir as son
is th*t i niggle conies to an end
T' > e-1raci*. after > oeing tin
great m ilitary preparations of foreign
eonntides, she warned some of the
\me-dean statesmen that they would
lo d! i . t u t preparing for a world
vi le m . -!- ami -he v is laughed at
“Had they s • n the great prepara
Hons that 1 saw. and had they real
/.ed the sentiment against America
Hi t ! saw they Would not have
U»ip-h*. 1,” she continued.
Tl-fore California had any trains.
Miss Miller traveled through it. When
’Trigham Young was In the top ol
his glory, at the head of the Mormon
• hmch. he introduc’d Miss Miller to
his deacons, n signal honor conferred
•pen but few people.
Whenever she et in the wilderness
where there is danger she engages
enough men to see her safely through
Regarding Alaska, she was surprised
to see sc h development under ad
verse cor lions, and she believes that
the country will ultimately be a won
derful land when its resources are
fully developed.
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After enjoying a successful and
prosperous season the Ketchikan
sawmill has closed down for the win
ter.
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'VUt* fishim* steamer Comet Cantntn
lansen, arrived in Wrangell recently
vith a catch of 114,000 pounds of
mlibut.
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James Dempsey, an old timer of
Gus Holtuberg, manager foij the
('. Company at Sannak. reports that
his company has taken upwards of 1,
200.000 codfish this season.
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Juneau, held his first conversation
over a telephone recently in that city.
A 12 pound cabbage, raised by a
rancher named Dahl at Spulm island,
is on display In a Juneau grocery.
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The Arctic lTrolherliood- of Juneau
will give a big dance and turkey sup
per at their hall in that city Novem
ber 29.
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l.ee Souiner. a carpenter on the U.
8. harbor boat General Jucobs, which
is laid up for the winter at White
horse, was touched lu that burg re
cently for his poke containing $400.
Jack Keller, of the Skagway Alas
kan. was recently wedded In Juneau
to Miss Myrtle I.ludsny of that city.
The freighter Tynnic reached. An
chorage recently with a cargo of 100
tons of coal front The Ulubb Point coal
mines on Cook Inlet. j
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JERSEYS RIGHT
TESTED
W ASHINGTON, Nov. 23. — State
authorities and motorists generally
V.ere affected in the suit challenging
tin- constitutionality of New Jersey
motor vehicle license laws of 1908.
It presented for the first questions
-f whether a state has authority to
raise revenues tor maintaining state
roads by imposing automobile license
taxes ,and whether automobile pleas
ure touring is interstate "commerce.”
Although the supreme court In
January. 191.). by unanimous opinion
; Pheld Maryland's motor license laws
is not burdensome upon interstate
otninerce, the new questions were
-aised in an appeal by frank J. Kane,
i New 1 ork citizen, from a conviction
ii violating similar New Jersey laws.
Both Maryland and New Jersey
(states impose a graduated automo
bile license tax, upon both residents
ml non-residents, based upon horse
power.
In the New Jersey case, however,
lie state authorities admitted that the
■date legislature proposed to raise re
.i-nues lor maintaining state roads by
beans of the licenses and that such
axes were not solely for adininistra
ion costs of regulation and registra
i.m of motor traffic, as was the case
n Maryland.
N. w Jersey's courts held that the
■ ilsing of money by such licenses —
' • <1 on the use of sutoinobiles on
New Jersey's roads and not upon the
chicles themselves, as a direct pro
'orly lax was clearly within the
date's police powers to compensate
it for improvement of and wear and
'ear upon the highways. Wane, how
ver. contended that the court's opin
111 in the Maryland case merely up
i 'M a law not designed for revenue
>.upases and that the New Jersey
■evetiuc raising law was void as ais
liniinatory and a state burden upon
nterstate commerce.
lTpon the question of whether motor
pleasure touring is "commerce," in
defending Kane's suit the New Jersey
■ uthorities contended that "commerce
:s more than mere pleasure” and that
Kme could not successfully attack the
New Jersey laws as he was convieted
it ti'elr violation while merely tour
ing through Paterson to Delaware
Water Gap, Pa.
The New Jersey state attorneys
contended that a license tax is not
i property tax and that the New Jer
sey laws impose license taxation, with
registration of resident and non-resi
dent motor vehicles, not as a tax upon
the vehicles themselves, hut merely
upon their use and operation on New
fersey highways as a toll.
Kxemption of horse drawn vehicles
from taxation In New Jersey was at
tacked by Kane as unreasonable dis
crimination against motor users. The
state's attorneys contended that ab
normal wear and tear caused upon
roads by automobiles makes the ex
emption reasonable; also it was con
| tended that non-residents have no le
j gal right to free use of other states’
loads. Another feature of the New
Jersey laws attacked by Kane was a
requirement upon non-resident motor
ists. in registering, to designate the
New Jersey secretary of state a* their
agent for service of process in legal
. proceedings caused by operation of
i heir vehicles.
The New Jersey law imposes licen
ses of $3 for automobiles with ten
I horse-power or less; $5 for ten to
| twenty-nine horse power, and $10 for
more than thirty horse-power. Non
residents are, like natives, required
to register and pay the licenses, which
are lower than the Maryland fees up
held by the supreme court, and may
also secure a limited license good for
driving only (not applying to the ve
hicle itself) for twenty-four hours
within the state. The annual automo
bile license revenue in New Jersey
was said to exceed $250,000.
In the Maryland case, the supreme
court upheld the graduated horse
power license tax was valid and not
burdensome upon Interstate commerce
in the case of non residents, the court
stating that, in the absence of legis
lation by congress, the states may
exact compensation, if reasonable and
uniform, for the use of their roads.
The American Automobile Associa
tion and National Automobile Cham
ber of Commerce were represented in
the arguments before the supreme
oourt in October. 1*1*.
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