The Cordova Daily Times
VOLUME II. NUMBER 510. CORDOVA, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 1916. PRICE TEN CENTS.
British Pursue Retreating Enemy in German ! East Africa
EMPLOYEES
NEW YORK, Aug. 7. — A basis for
a settlement of the street carmen’s
strike has been reached, and is only
awaiting ratification. The demand for
an increase in the wage scale from
30 to 35 cents an hour has been guar
anteed. Also the virtual, if not offi
cial recognition of the union, and an
agreement entered into that the men’s
demands in future difficulties between
them and the company be submitted
to arbitration by a committee repre
senting the disputants. The main con
tention has been for the right to or
ganization without intimidation.
NEW YORK, Aug 7. — The striking
street car employees have ratified the
agreement made by the union, and are
ready to return to work. The action
of the street railway directors is now
awaited, but it is believed that the
differences are about adjusted.
NEW YORK, Aug 7. — The direc
tors of the street railway have de
clined to ratify the tentative agree
ment proposed by Mayor Mitchell and
Public Service Commissioner Straus
as a basis for a settlement of the
strike.
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CONSIDINE DIES IN NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, Aug. 7. — George Con
sidene, formerly a manager for pugi
lists, died in this city yesterday,
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General A. B. Cooper returned last
evening from Chitina, where he spent
the month, relieving Postmaster A.
G. Morey, who was on a trip to the
states. The general says his stay
at Chitina was a most pleasant one,
and that he fully appreciates the
many courtesies extended him by the
people of that town during his stay
there.
RED GROSS LOOKING AFTER
SOLDIERS ON RORDER
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 7. — The
American Red Cross has undertaken
to supply comforts and necessaries to
the National Guardsmen on the Mexi
can border and to this end has estab
lished receiving stations in nearly all
the large Pacific coast cities, where
supplies and contributions are re
ceived. These supplies are to be
shipped to the border, where they will
be distributed through the Red Cross
agents.
Under a recent proclamation of
President Wilson, all supplies and
comforts for the guardsmen must pass
through the Red Cross. For this rea
son the society has established receiv
ing stations in all the chief cities of
the country. Appeal is being made
for reading matter, games, comfort
bags, pajamas, cotton socks, towels,
pipes, tobacco, cigarettes, electric
fans for base hospitals, chewing gum,
chocolate in tins, hard candies, cof
fee, evaporated cream, canned fruits
and a thousand other articles.
Pamphlets havp been senf out, in
which the articles desired are de
scribed, and the method of making the
hospital supplies needed.
RAILROADERS 10
ARBITRATE ALL
NEW YORK, Aug. 7. — The count
of the votes of 400,000 railroad men
has been completed, and is overwhelm
ingly in favor of a general strike. The
Switchmen's Union and railroad com
panies. however, have agreed to set
tle their differences by arbitration.
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Job Printing at the Times.
COLORADO’S MINERAL OUTPUT
$100,000,000 THIS YEAR
DENVER. Colo., Aug. 7. — Colorado
has come back to her mineral wealth
this summer in a manner significant
of permanency under the spur of in
creased prices for silver, lead, zinc,
copper and tungsten. The hills, peaks,
gulches and canyons are filled with
prospectors, drawn from the limits of
the north and southwest and the echo
of shots and crashing rock makes
startling music to drowsing range
cattle, browsing about mine workings
deserted these thirty years or so.
Until this spring it was a firm be
lief among old miners that the Colo
rado peaks have been merely
“scratched” for their mineral wealth.
Today the peaks are being “rawhid
ed.” The result of the rush to the
hills, Is a dearth of men on the farms
, and ranges and ranches that is grow
ing into a grave problem as the sea
son advances.
Even the big mining corporations
In Cripple Creek and Leadville have
been compelled to bid with higher
wages to operate full shifts while re
viving mining in "the San Juan” dis
‘ trlct of Southern Colorado was un
able to stay this rush that slid on
snowshoes over the peaks in the early
summer staking tungsten land.
Properties abandoned because of
low prices and necessity for Improved
machinery now boast re-equipment
and dividends have replaced assess
ment8.
Record deposits in banks in all parts
of the state indicate the treasure that
has been found since last fall. The
little town of Boulder alone shows
an increase of $1,000,000. A bank
started In the spring at Nederland,
Boulder county, holds over $100,000
of "tungsten" money.
Prospectors from the hills report the
discovery of little towns, lost to mem
ory of the present generation, that one
time housed hundreds of inhabitants
about the shafts of mines. Such a
discovery was that at Holy Cross, in
central Colorado. From the train in
the national forest it was discovered
a silent, grass grown, deserted village,
clustered about a huge mill filled with
rusty machinery. In the houses w'ere
furniture. Everywhere was the evi
dence of hasty departure.
“The production of gold and silver
this year should range around $30,
000,000,” said Frederick Carroll, state
commissioner of mines, who is com
piling the biennial report. “It should
ecxeed that of last year, which itself
'made a record. I look for a total pro
duction of gold, silver, lead, zinc and
tungsten of about $100,000,000. al
though, lead and zinc ores are still
a by-product in Colorado; only half a
dozen mines shipping silver alone.
“Our reports show many properties
closed because of the presence of zinc
and lead and tungsten in precious me
tal ores, are now operating at a profit,
due to the higher values, where before
they worked at a loss.
“We have noted the presence of
agents of eastern syndicates in the
state making investigations of old
abandoned properties, indicating the
belief is strong in the east that prices
will be maintained.
“A report has reached us that the
Morgan interests are negotiating for
properties in the rich Aspen district,
which, if true, is significant for the
future of silver.
“Every mine in Colorado is short
handed, else the year’s production
would be greater from the established
producing plants.
“The boom in tungsten that started
last fall is over, but the development
work that followed the boom has been
done at a profit and now' the mines
can meet any price at a profit.
“We can guage the number of pros
pectors in the mountains only by the
number that come for identification of
ores to our free assay bureau. These
average twenty-five per day, while the
Colorado School of Mines have made
more than 6,000 tests for prospectors."
LONDON, Aug. 7.—The Turks have suffered a disastrous
defeat at Romani, in the Suez district. The British cavalry
drew the Turks into a trap by retreating, and a whole Turkish
brigade was compelled to surrender. Thirty one hundred in
jured Turks and thirty-six German officers were captured, also
a complete battery of German guns. The Turks were pursued
eighteen miles and sixteen hundred prisoners have already ar-1
rived at Cairo. . _ .. : „ . . :
RUSSIANS CAPTURE FORTIFIED POSITIONS.
PETROGRAD, Aug. 7.—It is officially stated that the Rus
sians have achieved further successes along the Hereth and
Graberkt rivers in northern Galicia, and south of Brody. The
Russians also captured strongly fortified positions in the re
gion of the villages of Zoyjin, Kostiniec and Reniuv.
DRIVING TH EGERMANS OUT EAST AFRICA
LONDON, Aug. 7.—It is officially announced that the
British troops are progressing rapidly in German East Africa
and the enemy is being driven from the line of the Central rail
way. At several points the Germans are retreating with the
British in hot pursuit. General Botha arrived in time to wit
ness the last phase of the operations. Only the southeastern
corner of the colony is left to the Germans, and the Portuguese
are awaiting them there.
SUEZ CANAL IS WELL DEFENDED.
LONDON, Aug. 7.—The Germans, encouraged by their lat
est attempt on the Suez canal in the effort to prevent the Brit
ish from sending any more forces to the western front .have
only met with disaster, as results show that the canal is
thoroughly defended, and the British captured many Turks,
who are a very fine body of men.
FOREIGN SUBMARINE OFF MAINE COAST.
"^^MACKASPORT, Aug. 7 —A submarine has been sighted
off Cross island, Maine, and is possibly the Deutschland or Bre
men, as it is not an American boat.
RUSSIANS ARE NEARING LEMBERG.
LONDON, Aug. 7.—The forward push of the Russians in
the section south of Brody is bringing them nearer Lemberg,
on a direct line. The advance is also endangering the position
of the enemy the entire distance along Stripa to the south.
GERMAN ATTACKS ARE REPULSED.
PARIS, Aug. 7.—The German attacks at Thiaumont and in
Vaux and Campitre woods, near Verdun have been repulsed by
the allied forces.
POPE PROTESTS AGAINST DEPORTATION.
ROME, Aug. 7.—The Pope, after a careful study of the in
tended deportation of the inhabitants of northern France by
Germany, has decided to protest to the kaiser against this ac
tion. The pope will ask that at least the young girls and men
be returned to their homes.
ANOTHER TEACHER FOR THE
CORDOVA SCHOOLS
At a meeting of the school board,
held Saturday evening, it was decided
to add another teacher to the corps
of instructors, as the recent census
taken shows that the number of school
children here has about doubled on
account of the Increased number of
families who have located in Cordova
during the past few months.
Miss Ethel Burroughs, of Chico,
California, was selected as the extra
teacher. She comes highly recom
mended, and will be assigned to the
primary department, which will be
divided into two rooms. There are
now fifty-four pupils enrolled for the
first six grades, and twenty-one for
the four grades above. The indications
are that the number ftf children here
when school opens will be still fur
ther increased, and the board is mak
ing the necessary arrangements to
care for their instruction.
SEEKING SUBSTITUTE FDR
MAPLE SHOE LUSTS
MADISON, Wis„ Aug. 7. — Owing
to the European war and the general
scarcity of properly seasoned maple
in the United States the shoe last
manufacturers are seeking a substi
tute and also a cheaper method of sea
soning maple wood. Experiments are
in progress here at the forestry pro
ducts laboratory of the University of
Wisconsin, which are being aided by
one of the large factories to both
cheapen and expedite the seasoning
processes now in use.
As lasts play an Important part in
the manufacture of shoes and boots,
their cost is an important item in the
ultimate cost of these articles of wear
to the consumer.
Approximately 20,000,000 wooden
lasts are used each year, frequent use
and rapidly changing styles quickly
making them useless.
At present shoe ljsts are air dried
for six months and then kiln dried.
To obviate the costly all1 dried pro
Ipess the laboratory is trying to find
a drying process of the green block
direct from the mill.
ROOM IS NEEDED
FOR FflCTORY
EMPLOYEES
LONDON, Aug 7. — School rooms
or moving picture palaces may be
taken by the government as temporary
living quarters for women and girls
employed either in the munition fac
tories or in the ordinary business of
London and other large cities. It
will be one way of solving one of the
questions forced into prominence by
the war, namely, the housing of thou
sands of women workers. To this end
women of the upper and middle
class whose age prevents them from
entering munition factories or taking
service on the farm are urged to as
sist the government in improvising a
comprehensive scheme.
Scarcity of labor has stopped build
Ing and the small cottages in or near
the big centers of population are in
unusual demand. The sudden increase
In the number of munition workers
has involved great migrations of labor,
if there is a scarcity, amounting al
most to a famine, of small houses, in
a good many cases, though not in all,
large houses can be obtained. The
cost of living has led upper and mid
die class families to migrate from the
large house to the small one or a flat.
Many large houses are empty, but the
women have yet to get together on a
plan to occupy them economically or
in keeping with their incomes. An ap
peal was recently made to landlords
to allow the temporary occupation of
such dwellings, to be conducted as
hotels or shared out among women.
At a few women's hotels these wo
men obtain comfort and excellent
meals at an exceedingly modest price.
Such a result is possible only by eom
| bination and co-operation, because
felone in a rooming house women could
not live so cheaply. Where there is
an absence of houses the government
is considering using movMig picture
houses or school rooms.
Nat Moore, engineer for the Pacific
Coast Steamship Company, has been
in Juneau preparing plans and getting
bide for a doc’, to cost $100,000 to be
built opposite the Dispatch office.
MANY CHANGES IN LONDON
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LONDON, Aug. 7. — Changed in |
many ways is London since the Svar
began, but nowhere is the transfor
mation more marked than in the cos
mopolitan district called Soho, in the
West Knd, within a stone’s throw of
Piccadilly Circus. Soho is not the
hustling, merry place of pre-war days.
The great conflict has made it quiet,
almost lifeless, for Frenchmen, Bel
gians, Italians, Germans and Austrians
who had their home in Soho have
gone.
The change is even more pro
nounced in Charlotte street. The Ger
man chemists, German laundries, Ger
man resturants, German clubs and
German paper shops have gone. There
was even a Christllches Kellerheim
(a home for Christian waiters). It is
closed now; there are no German
waiters. German books have been
moved from the booksellers' windows;
German signs have disappeared and
certain shopkeepers are at pains to
announce that they are French or Bel
gian firms.
The Belgians have lost their coun
try for the moment, but they have
taken their revenge in Charlotte
street. There is no gainsaying their
victory there. Instead of the cafes
and restaurants with German signs
j there are establishments named after
' Belgian towns. And in them may be
•teen Belgian soldiers on leave drink
ing coffee.
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The longshoremen on the dock at
Whitehorse, who were receiving from
10 to 50 cents per hour, according
to the work they were doing, struck
for 75 cents per hour. Their places
were immediately filled by Indians.
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A suitcase found on the beach In
the vicinity of Auk bay, and evidently
the property of a Jap, has been turned
over to the Dispatch in Juneau, and
the question is raised as to what has
become of the owner.
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Joe Stitt, a bartender and a well
known gambler in the early days In
the north, especially at Dawson, Fair
banks and Nome, dropped dead re
cently In Seattle, while dealing the
cards in a friendly game of poker.
Dr. W. H. Chase, president of the
Cordova Park Association, today put
some men to work on the ball grounds
repairing the grand stand and fixing
up the field.
DETROIT. Aug 7. — In a speech
here today Charles E. Hughes, Repub
lican candidate for the presidency,
congratulated forty manufacturers of
Detroit who employ 100,000 men, on
their efforts to improve the welfare
of the working class. He declared
that American laborers should be re
garded as fellow workers. Later he
met a delegation of women and reiter
ated his views in favor of suffrage
for that sex.
DREAD DISEASE
NEW YORK, Aug 7. — The infan
tile paralysis malady continues un
abated, and all efforts thus far to
check its course have proven futile.
Yesterday there were forty-four more
deaths and 145 new cases. This
brings the total mortuary list to 1,100,
and the number of cases to 5,200.
Representatives of San Francisco
capitalists are at Nome to investigate
the graphite deposits there, and if
suitable arrangements are made in
tend to develop the several mines in
that vicinity.
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The Cache Creek Dredging Com
pany is the first mining company in
that section to take advantage of the
law governing the ten-acre coal leases
and are now taking out enough coal
to supply all their fuel needs.
DRIVING TUBE UNDER TWiN
PEAKS TO OPEN UP LAND
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 7. — San
Francisco is driving a 12,000- foot con
crete traffic tube under Twin Peaks
to open up to settlement 10,000 acres
of desirable but unimproved penlnsul
lar residential lands southwest of the
city, but facing the Pacific ocean.
High speed municipal cars will be
shooting through the tunnel by June,
1917, it is expected. They will cover
the distance in six minutes, thus mak
ing it possible to get to the district
beyond the hills from the heart of the
city in approximately fifteen minutes.
It now takes about an hour to go
around.
Several hundred workmen are dig
ging away night and day from both
ends and progress is at the rate of
twelve to fifteen feet a day. They
started early in 1915. One gang has
gone 3,300 feet and the other 4,000
feet. The concrete men follow the
diggers, and erect the sides and top
and bottom as fast as the tunneling
proceeds.
For a time motor trucks were used
to carry away the dirt, but it was
soon found that the gas fumes drove
the men out. so the reliable mule pow
er “muck carts” were brought into
use. Elevators are used in places to
carry the refuse up and out.
Twin Peaks, under which the tun
nel is going, lie just beyond the head
of Market street, and always greet
the traveler's eye first as he steps
from the Ferry building, at the foot
of that thoroughfare. The tunnel vlr
tually Is the continuation of Market
street and will make a continuous
thoroughfare from the ferry to the
district beyond the hills
Some day the tunnel may be con
tinued as a rapid transit subway un
der Market street to the Ferry build
ing. With this idea in view the city
end of the tube was built below the
surface of the street, in order that it
may be continued One of the sta
tions near the city outlet, also pro
vides for a possible future tunnel from
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the district near the Golden Gate Park.
For years San Francisco has
dreamed of piercing the big range of
hills that lies to the southwest, and
cuts it off from the rest of the penin
sula, but not until M. M. O'Skaugh
nessy, the present city engineer, pre
pared the plans for the tunnel, were
any actual steps taken. The tunnel
also will prove a factor, it is expected,
in the scheme now being advocated to
consolidate several peninsula cities
with °»i: FrahUsco.
The contract for the work was let
to a local firm for $3,372,000. Other
expenses will run the cost up to about
$4,000,000. The lands lying in the vi
cinity are being assessed for the im
provement.
Inside the tunnel is seventeen feet
high and fourteen feet wide. Double
tracks will be built. Two air shaft*
have been sent down from the top of
the mountain. At one place the tube
goes 570 feet beneath the surface.
Large flows of water from under
ground springs were met by the dig
gers, and pumps were installed, which
are now bringing 3,000 gallons of wa
ter daily out of the hole. Eventually
the water will be carried off in porou*
tile drains.
At one place the men ran across the
I line of a brick water tunnel of the
; Spring Valley water company, built
in 1865. As It was eight feet above
the tunnel, it was necessary to sink
a shaft around and under the water
' tunnel before the earth could be taken
: from below the water pipe. As soon
as the concrete tube was driven be
yond the supply line, the water was
turned back into its original course
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WEALTHY ESTATES ARE NOW
TO BE HEAVILY TAXED.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 7. — The plac
ing of heavy inheritance taxes on es
tates worth over a million dollars w'as
today agreed upou by the Democrats
of the senate finance committee.
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