VOLUME II. 525. PRICE TEN CENTS.
» ORE BEING
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T. R Tansey has returned from the
Mt. Blackburn district, where he has
teen prospecting, for more supplies,
and will shortly go to the interior,
w hifli he says promises to prove a
■ 'rent mining section, with the real
development under way as soon as the
coal is available.
Mr Tansey reports that Billy Wood
and \ >el Herman have run onto a
quantity of high grade copper ore in
a slide under the glacier on Fourth of
July par., in the Mt. Blackburn dis
tri. t This they are now sacking
and will ship out over the winter trail,
after which some real development
work will ire done in the hope of lo
cating the ledge.
Tjnsevig brothers have also taken
out several tons of ore from their
property near McCarthy and this will
lie sledded out over the snow.
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SETTLEMENT
^ WASIIIXUTOX. Aug. 25. A com
mit I ' of three railroad executives
conferred with President Wilson yes
lerdiiy over the strike situation, and
there was consideralde optimism ex
lire.sod in official eireles after the
meeting. The railroad presidents also
j- admitted that the outlook for a set
tlement of the differences were more
hopeful, if anything.
W \ SI 11 X< ;T< >X. Aug, ^5. — The out
look this afternoon for a settlement of
the railway strike is not so encourag
iiiy, and both sides are less optimistic.
Sortie of tiie railway executives even
•n* r i far as to predict that the eight
hour day would never be conceded.
lent Wilson kept the cabinet
uniting an hour today, while confer
ring with the officers of four of the
brotherhoods.
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POLICIES
WASHINGTON. Aug. 25. — Thi
Democratic loaders say the flnanct
committee is yielding to the protest:
from all parts of the country in favoi
of the elimination of the proposet
stamp tax on insurance policies fron
the emergency revenue bill.
Tomorrow morning the steame
Mariposa will be here on her wa;
south.
— ' The steamer Watson left Seward a
8 o’clock yesterday morning and is du
here at any time.
NEW ALASKA GRILL TO BPEI
ON SUNDAY
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On Sunday morning M. E. Holbe
will open his new grill at the Alaska
Hotel, having transformed the readin
I room into a very neat and attraetiv
place to cat. The entire place ha
been renovated and besides the lunc
counter and tables in front, he ha
fitted up six or seven private boxt
in a most inviting way. A cold sto
age box has been built to take eai
of the meats anti fresh vegetable
while every convenience has been a
ded for a quick service in the kitchei
A well known chef from Seattle, wl
earned his reputation at (lerald's Oaf
has been engaged and upon his coo
ing and by following the motto t
“what you want, the way you want
and when you want it,” Mr. Holh*
believes that hts erlll will merit I
SHERIFFS RAID
Sheriffs Raid.
SKATTI.K, Aug. 25. — A number
of deputy sheriffs last night raided
three road houses outside of the cRy
limits. They are charged with an al
leged violation of the prohibition law.
Forty men and forty women were
placed under arrest.
VAKUTAT SOCKEYE PACK
SHOWS MARKED DECLINE.
The sockeye season closed at Yaku
tat August 5, continuing for a wees
longer than it did last year, when the
end came July 28. The sockeye was
30 per cent less this year than last.
The cohoes will start to run about
the last of the present month. There
is nothing to indicate what the pro
portions of the run will be.
F. 10. Nye, of Boston, is spending a
few days in Cordova.
British Capture Submarine Bremen
BERLIN, Aug. 25.—The independent committee for Ger
man peace have considered the claims of the extreme war advo
cates and issued a proclamation containing the terms Germany
should impose in the event of peace negotiations being consid
ered. It contends that the Russian territory from the Baltic to
Volhynia, Belgium and part of France must be included in the
German sphere.
NEW YORK, Aug. 25.—The City News Association is au
thority for the statement that the British captured the submar
ine Bremen on August 2 in a steel net in Dover Strait, and
quotes an unnamed British marine officer. Thirty-three of the
crew were taken prisoners and two others drowned
BERLIN, Aug. 25.—It is officially stated that the French
troops have captured Maurepas.
LONDON, Aug. 25.—After hard fighting the British have
advanced several hundred yards near Deliville wood
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LONDON, Aug. 25.—As a result of the Zeppelin raid last
night eight people were killed and thirty-six injured. Over a
hundred bombs were dropped. One Zeppelin reached the out
skirts of London and six other machines made the raid.
BERLIN, Aug. 25.—German airships were attacking Lon
don Wednesday night.
PETROGRAD, Aug. 25.—The Russians have resumed the
advance along the entire Asiatic front, and the Turks have been
forced to evacuate Bitlis.
PARIS, Aug. 24.—The war department announces that the
German attacks on the Somme front have been repulsed.
PARIS, Aug. 25.—The complete occupation of Maurepas
brings the Anglo French advance within two miles of Combles.
LONDON. Aug. 25. — Another Zeppelin raid. took, place
early today. Nine people were injured, some of them probably
fatally. The other damage was slight.
LONDON, Aug. 25.—A Serbian official statement reports
successes against the Balkans along the entire front, and that
the Bulgarian center is yielding to the attacks made upon it.. .
NEW LONDON, Conn., Aug. 25. — The German steamer
Wildehad has arrived from Bosion and will remain here indefi
nitely.
WHAT ENGLAND HAS DONE IN THE GREAT WAR
LONDON, Aug. 25. - The Right
I Hon. Sir Hilbert Darker, Hart., M. D.,
whose services lo the British cause
; have been notable in the field of pub
licity in the United States, has made
the following statement to the Asso
1 ciated Dress on the European war:
."You ask me to make a statement
upon the two years of war in which
; England, with her allies, France, Rus
, siu, Italy, Belgium, Portugal, Serbia
] and Montenegro has been engaged.
"Three months ago the task would
j have been far more difficult than it
i is today. Since then Great Britain
and France have moved forward on
their fronts and with tremendous ef
fect — but of that later. Also, dur
ing that time Russia has moved heav
ily upon the troops of the central em
pire. and in the southeastern corner
of the Russian front, has driven in,
league upon league, the Austrian
troops, has captured sector niton sec
tor, city upon city, in the regions
where Austria was dominant, and has
j made prisoners of 300,000 men.
"Over in Asia Minor, the field of
j conquest has been enlarged and de
\ veloped. Krzerum and Erzingan have
been captured and other centers of
Turkish authority have been taken.
The renowned Von llindenburg, up in
the Riga district, has been driven bad
mile after mile, and Russian prowess
has proved itself beyond question.
Russian generals like Hrusiloff and
the Grand Duke Nicholas have estab
! lished Russian positions weakened at
! the beginning of the war through lack
i of munitions.
“Looking back, one is forced to
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wonder how Germany was stayed in ;
her march of conquest. According to
every rule she should have been in
I’alls at the time she herself appoint
ed early in the autumn of 1314. She'
came very near it. What stopped
her?
“She had left out of her calculations
the strategical skill which belongs by
nature to tbe French army, the French
army from behind Paris and 'the con
temptible little British army.’
“It is a remarkable thing that on
the western front the only gains of
Germany were achieved in the first
few weeks of the war. These gains
were of immediate strategical value to
her. They included the mining and
Industrial districts of France and near-1
ly the whole of Belgium, from which 1
she has steadily drawn practical sup-1
port and again and again supplies.
The wonder is not that the allies have
done so well, but that, with all her
preparations and her perfect arma
ment, Germany and her obedient col
leagues, Austria, Turkey- and Bulgaria,
have done so badly.
"Apparently, at the beginning of the:
war every thing was in their hands, |
everything except one — the British
navy. If Germany could have mas
tered her as she mastered Belgium
and a goodly portion of France, the
war long since would have been over;
France would have been a third rate
power under practical German con
trol; Itussia would have been driven
back into her steppes and plains, once
more the slave of German influence
and control, and the British empire
as we know it, would have become a
thing of the past. What the British
navy did was to sweep German tner
chant commerce from the seas, pre
vent Germany from trading with the
rest of the world except by crooked
methods, bottle up her fleet to use
lessness, drive her south Atlantic fleet
to the bottom of the sea and throttle
and choke German export to an ex
tent that great cities like Hamburg
have lost the hum of their activity,
and outside the Baltic sea, there is no
stir of Germany commerce, save in a
freakish enterprise like that of the
Deutschland.. Those, however, who
count the work of the Deutschland as
extraordinary should remember that
it is not original since a considerable
number of British submarines have
crossed the Atlantic during the last
year safely and surely. It Is not
strange that the Deutschland accom
plished Its feat. It will he very
strange, however, if that feat Is re
peated by many sister submarines.
“German foreign commerce cannot
be rehabilitated by the activities of
submarines. Sim-e the battle of Jut
land it eatt be safely and surely said
that the seas are still controlled over
whelmingly by the British fleet. The
German fleet came out and then fled
to cover again after a stiff fight.
“But now let us take the field of
battle on the western front. For a
while year or more, critics in the
United Slates whose only idea of war
fare was that of constant action, have
continuously asked why was it Great
Britain had recruited between 3,000,
000 and 4.000,000 men and should he
duing nothing on the western front.
They complained that France was left
alone at Verdun and elsewhere. Thev
did not realize that France knew she
had at her disposal at any moment
the British troops which were hold
ing their own line of front and steadily
extending it. They did not remembet
that at the beginning of the war flreat
Britain was armed on a basis of a
mere handful of men; that all the mu
i hinery of equipment was upon a hash
of the handful, and that having men.
men, men a million or two millions
she could not equip them because she
had not factories or munitions except
on tin' scale of a handful. Men had
to be recruited, fed, uniformed, an i
equipped. Artillery had to he devel
oped and extended beyond all experi
cnee of the past. Itifles had to b
supplied. And the one reason wh
there was such delay in making ; j
move on the western front by the]
British was lack of equipment. Tin j
push forward at I.oos was not final
and effective because there were not
sufficient munitions.
"But what is the condition of affairs ■
today? There are enough munitions I
because big men have given their
bruins and skill to the task of organi
zation. Because the manual workers
of Knghmd have roused themselves
to a complete sense of duty; because
they have given up trades union regu !
lations for the period of the war; he !
cause without murmuring, they have
thrown up their holidays; because
hundreds and thousands of women
have joined the munitions works and
have entered into fields of'occupation
formerly occupied by men, such as the
oiuliic t of cars on tram lines, driving
vans, working upon farms, clerking in
■ I'fi • . doing men's work In scores of
small ti ldes, because all England, in
every corner o| it is alive to tile ter
rible significance of the world light,
and lias given its best blood, mind,
strength and craft to the nation's
cause.
In spite of criticism and complaint,
England would not, and did not, move
on the western front until she was
ree iv, though she was willing to belli
at Verdun if needed, anil said so And
site was not ready until she could do
minate. as she has done, the German
artillery by a greater weight of metal:
until making a move forward over the
whole ot Iter line with France moving
on the whole of her line, they both
c n i l make their successes, mile by
tulle, and steadily and surely diminish
the i ipaclty of resistance upon the
part of Germany. TIE they have done.
"What is the pm a ion today? Every
one ot the allies ha.' moved forward
and i»t the same time and every ont
has succeeded, us she has moved
It ii\. like Itussia, France and England
everywhere has succeeded in her^fieli!
against Austria. Austria is harrasseti
h> Italy anil by Russia. Germany b
harrassed and hammered by England
Russia, France and Belgium.
“There is no rest t o Germany any
where. She cannot shift her troops
front front l • out, as she did in tin
early days of the war, smashing ont
enemy here and then whisking het
troops over to smash another enemy
there.
(Continued on I’age Four.)
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MOTHER LODE MINE HAS $7,000,000
__ WORTH OF COPPER ORE IN SIGHT
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i SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 25.- Henry
< Fortinann, minority stockholder of tin
b Alaska Packing Association. ha»
s ! threatened to start an Injunction suii
ii ^ to block fhe proposed $20,000,000 mer
» ger between the Alaska Packer's As
« sociatton. the California Fruit Can
r- ners. J. K. Arniaby and others. Fort
e mans charges that the proposed prict
*. of $154.50 per share for the Alaskt
I stock Is too low.
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0 C. O. Craycroft and L. C. Coope
"' came down from McCarthy on today’i
train.
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It --
n I Fish Commissioner l.yman returnee
h this afternoon from a trio out the rail
The recent important new discover)
of high grade ore at the Mother Lodi
copper mine, near McCarthy, is h
the east crosscut on the 200 foot level
which is now being developed as rap
idly as possible by the driving of twi
drifts running north and south am
•’.n upraise following the ore vertical
ly. This work so far has proved thi
ore to the extent of 100 feet horizon
I tally utul 50 feet vertically, and thi
ore is improving both In quality am
width with each foot driven. Th
fact of this discovery being found a
the extreme end of the deepest lev*
at a depth of over 450 feet below th
surface gives it all the earmarks o
a large body of high grade ore, am
j Superintendent W. B. Hancock antic
I pates its continuance In depth for
. considerable distance below the 20
, foot level. As soon as circumstance
will permit a dipping incline will b
started to follow it In that dlrectioi
This discovery has infused new lif
! and energy Into all employee* at th
mina nml th** minwrit AmnlitVMil fin 1
I who can produce the most ore in each
shift.
| With the limited amount of ground
! as yet opened up the mine Is now pro
' : during about 10 tons of this ore per
shift, which Is immediately sacked and
' sent down to the lower terminal of
1 the tramway ready for transportation
. j to the railway immediately snow falls
, i and they are able to use the sleighs.
The 100 foot level has also opened
up a good body of ore between It and
1 the 50 foot level, which ground they
1 will commence to stope in the winter
) and from which it is expected to get
t some 15 cars of good shipping ore.
1 ’ The sinking of the vertical two com
* partment shaft will be carried on as
f fast as circumstances will permit, as
I when this reaches the lower ore bear
- ing zone at a depth of 600 feet the
t value of the mine should be enhanced
) to at least three times what It stands
*, at today.
’ From present appearances the com
. ing winter promises to be the banner
s year for the largest shipments of Mo
s ther I/tde ore and should the price
t nf niniiHr Bfftiin tfo un or Avon main
the runners of the sleds hot In get
ting out the ore they now have In
sight.
The development work In both the
Marvellous and Pittsburg tunnels,
which arc now joined together by up
raises, amounts to more than 6,000
; feet of open cuts, raises, crosscuts,
drifts, &c. The results of this work
j are shown In Superintendent Han
cock's estimate of 100,000 tons of ore
In sight, extracted but not shipped,
! which runs from 15 to 60 per cent cop
| per. At the present market price of
copper this ore would have a value
j tion of alsmt $7,000,000. Superinten
! dent Hancock says:
"The foregoing figures may be re
lied upon as a very conservative esti
mate of the Mother l.ode ore reserves,
! and 1 was the other day complimented
j by Mr. Stephen Birch upon the esti
' mate 1 made last year, which he said
j comes very near to the tonnage and
values worked out by Mr. Henry
j Krurnb, who is well known as the most
conservative mining engineer In the
United States when it comes to esti
matin* the value of a mining property
PROPOSAL SELL
REJECTED ’
COPENHAGEN, Aug. 25. Th«
Danish Landstlng has finally rejecter
the proposal to sell the Danish Wes
Indies to the United States. The prior
offered was $25,000,000, and at thr
same time America would relinouist
lo Denmark any claims that countrj
may have on Greenland, based on thr
work of American explorers In thr
northern Island.
J. K. Cunningham has about com
pleted his new twenty foot boat. Wit
Adelaide, which he w ill launch on Sun
day. It is a trim little craft, eguippet
with a Kohan engine, and reflect!
I much credit on the builder.
The Admiral Erans should read
Yesterday a rather romantic mar
riage took place on the high seas, the
I contracting parties being Owen South
i worth, late engineer on the steamer
| W. H. Bancroft, and Miss Alice Mc
| i'herson, only daughter of Captain and
Mrs. James McPherson. of Peake is
land. prince "William Sound.
The young couple, with a party of
friends, left the ... -l<- < home at 7 JO
o'clock in the moi. 'tig on tu_- |»at
tier and v.htrn beyond the ree mile
limit they wore made man ml wife
bv Captain \Y. K. Pulton. Charles A1
herts, owner and muster oi the Bat
tler. acted as best man, v bile Miss
Amanda Ulyegreti attended the bride.
Vfter the ceremony had been per
formed Mr. and Mrs Seuthworth with
their friends, returned to their home
on Peak island, while Captain McPher
son ami wife came to Cordova on the
Battler and will leave on the first
steamer for the states on an extended
visit.
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SEATTLE. Aug 2f.. It lias l.een
learned Unit the Woman's party oh
feiterl in Mrs. ITun es \\tell running
for eongri -s on the ground that she
was supporting Wilson for re election,
while her part' is opp ed io him
This inis resulted in an open rupture
and while Mrs Axtell resigned the
state chairmanship of the Woman.?
party, she still insists that she is for
Wilson and will continue in the field
as a candidate for congress.
JI NK \r. \.i: :c The members
of the Women's Christian Temperance
t’nion met in territorial convention
at the Presbyterian church yesterday
and will remain in session three days.
Delegates are represented by proxy
from all parts of the territory, the
actual attendance in person being
about twenty-five, mostly from south
eastern Alaska.
In attendance is a temperance work
er of National fame. Mrs Lila Boole,
of New York, president of the New
York state organization and vice-pre
sident of the national organization.
Mrs. l.iilu B. Thompson, active in
the local work, says that -many details
j remain to he worked out. but that the
convention will be thoroughly repre
1 sentative of the territory, and will
adi,>pt a platform with the view of
aiding the prohibition movement in
, the territory.
It Is not believed that the conven
tion will place a prohibition ti elect in
the Held, but it may de. id. to ipp nt
certain candidates favorable to its
( cause, und Intends to at le ist outline
work for carrying an a the campaign
in Alaska in the cause of temperance
m bill ms
HOUSE
WASHINGTON. Aug ?5. The
army appropriation bill, which was
vetoed by the president, was repassed
by the house today with the articles
i of war conforming to the president's
wishes. It now goes to Wilson for his
signature.