The Cordova Daily Times
_ _ Only Afternoon Paper In Alaska With Associated Press News
VOT£MFMI^NUMBER m CORDOVA, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1!>17. ~ p7uCF: TK\7k\TS
ALLIES ADVANCE NEARLY FOUR MILES
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CAUSE OE
SUICIDE
(Special to the Times)
McCarthy, April 18. — Miss Maj
Vance, a recent arrival from tlu
states, who was living with her mo
ther, Mrs. Kosty, committed suicide
by drinking a quantity of lye. She
was about 24 years of age, and de
spondency is attributed as the cause
for the rash act.
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(Special to the Times)
JUNEAU, April 18. — This was the
last day to present bills in the legis
lature, and six were introduced in
the house and thirteen in the senate,
making a total of one hundred and
thirty measures to be disposed of dur
ing the thirteen remaining working
days, besides appropriation bills, me
morials and resolutions. The bills in
troduced today covered a wide range,
from prohibition to slander and gossip.
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(By Associated Press)
SPOKANE. April 18. — Edward
Mayberry, halt negro and halt Indian,
was convicted in the United States
district court at Spokane of having
murdered Alice Vivian, an Indian wo
man, with whom he had lived on the
Coeur d’Alene and Colville Indian res
ervations. The killing took place near
Colville. He was sentenced to be
hanged.
Because the death penalty has been
abolished in Washington, the war de
partment granted permission to the
United States marshal to hang May
berry on the reservation at Port
George Wright, which adjoins Spo
kane. President Wilson refused to
commute the sentence to life impris
onment.
Mayberry attracted national atten
tion because the federal marshal
asked permission to hang him on the
root of the federal bualding here. This
was refused.
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CHEYENNE
(By Associated Press)
CHEYENNE, April 18. — A plar
for a training school for military train
ing instructors will be launched bj
the Industrial Club of this city. It if
proposed to invite physical training
teachers and military training instruc
tors here this summer to demonstrate
to them the so-called Wyoming plan o:
military training in public schools
which is being adopted in many higl
schools of the country.
The course will extend over a perloc
of a month and include drill and lec
tures.
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THREE NEW POSTMASTERS
NAMED FOR ALASKA
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, April 18. — Th<
following pastmasters have been a[
pointed by President Wilson for Alas
ka: Agnes Skoff, Cleary; Emma Nel
son, Complex; Charles A. Fox, Craig
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NEW YORK SALOONS NOT
ALLOWED RUN ALL NIGHT
(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK, April 18. — The all
night sale of liquor has been stoppei
In this city by the mayor, owing to thi
war.
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Job Printing at Daily Times office
'TEUT1 _ TED
PARIS, April 17.—Thirty thousand Germans were killed, wounde <1 and captured in yesterday’s battle at Champagne The French troops
continued their progress last night east of Koissons, capturing Chavonne and Chivy and reaching the vicinitv of Brnveen, Laannois Tluv •
desperate counter attacks at Champagne last night were repulsed, the Germans losing lieavilv. Since Monday the French took 14 000 un
wounded Germans. In Champagne a large number of machine guns and trench mortars were captured, also twelve cannon. Abnerive fell speed
ilv, with all the surrounding works. The advance was nearly four miles deep at some points.
The double offensive of the British and French has completely upset General Ilindenhurg’s plans. He was preparing an offensive against
Riga and another against Italy; also contemplated an offensive against Calais and another against Paris. The allied offensive changed every
thing, compelling Hindenbrug to withdraw men from the Russian and Italian fronts.
LONDON, April 17.—It is officially announced that the British made progress further north of St. Quentin and captured the village of
Villiers Guislain.
BERLIN, April 17.—The Vorwnerts says the strike demonstration was based not only on the food situation and demand for internal re
forms, but also the peoples’ deep longing for peace.
VOSSISCHE, April 18—The Zeitung declares that the strikers demanded sufficient bread and potatoes, the proper distribution of food
and a guarantee of the promised Prussian electoral reform.
LONDON, April 18.—The British advance is temporarily delayed while bringing forward heavy guns and supplies. Two hundred and
twenty-seven guns and'vast quantities of supplies were taken by the British closing about Lens.
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BERLIN, April 18.—The strikers have all resumed work and quiet has now been restored.
PETROGRAD, April 18.—It is officially announced that the Teutons Violently attacked the Russian positions, northwest of Braila and
_were repulsed.
U. S. PLACES BAN ON ALIEN ENEMIES
WASHINGTON, April 18.—The United States marshals have been instructed that till alien enemies residing within half a mile of a fort,
camp or aircraft station of the government or naval vessels, in the navy yard, factories or workshops for the manufacture of munitions must
leave before June 1, under penalty of summary arrest. Alien enemies found possessing forbidden charts after April 21 will be arrested, and
those who tear down, mutilate, abuse, desecrate or insult the American flag will he regarded as dangerous to public peace and summarily
arrested. **,.4,
NO COMPROMISE ON CONSCRIPTION-PRES. WILSON
WASHINGTON, April 18. — An administrating bill, to raise a big anfnymuinly by selective conscription, will Ik* reported to the senate
today by the military committee. All of the administration’s influence will be used to obtain an early passage of the act. The strongest ob
jection to conscription comes from the house Democrats, who favor a volunteer system.
Late today the anti-conscriptionists won a victory when the house military committee voted twelve to eight to have the army bill earrv
a provision first to try and raise the new force of fighters by volunteers. The senate committee approved the bill, with a conscription feature,
by a vote of ten to seven. President Wilson says that no compromise on conscription is possible.
WASHINGTON, April 18.—The senate passed the $7,000,000,000 bond bill last night, and the president will sit u it after the house accepts
the senate amendments. The treasury department is plannig to float the bonds.
tary Lane in a recent interview,
“Alaska became a part of the United
States.
“We are only beginning to realize
how tremendous the service was that
William H. Seward performed when
he secured for us that great source of
wealth. When Seward was secretary
of state, few men realized the great
potential value of Alaska. Popular
impression held it a snow bound wild
erness, a land of ice and polar bears.
Seward felt that the time would come
when the wealth of Alaska would
astound the world. His judgment to
day is vindicated.
"Opposition to the taking of Alaska
was as blind as it was virulent. But
after fifty years, actual financial state
ments show us, and prove conclusive
ly, that to have neglected that oppor
tunity would have been a collosal
blunder, a blunder future generations
could never forgive.
“A moral obligation was one of the
primary reasons that led to the pur
chase of Alaska. Russia had given us
the passive support of two fleets of
; warships during our Civil war, and
saved us from serious indignities that
threatened from abroad. Russia need
ed money. We, of course, could not
give it to her outright, but we could
. let her have it and take in exchange
her barren North American provinces.
In the face of a storm of protest the
i treaty was signed and tully ratified;
- the Russian ambassadbr collected $7,
- 200,000 from Uncle Sam; and Alaska
- edged her way into a protesting and
• inhospitable democracy.
“Six hundred thousand square mileB
of territory, three hundred and eight
• four million acres of land, were bought
by our government in 1876 for a little
over seven million dollars. That lit
- tie flier in real estate, at two cents an
i acre, has brought something more
i than three-quarters of a billion dol
lars into the channels of American
trade during the past half century.
. And the profits are just beginning to
come in. A scant 65,000 people are
living in that vast country ,one-fifth
as large as the United States. One
hundred million dollars out of that
three-quarters of a billion formed their
contribution for 1916. What it will
be in 2016 no man can predict.
"The people who are going to Alas
ka in these days are men with fami
lies, people who are going to stay and
put their children in Alaskan schools,
warm them with Alaskan coal, feed
them with Alaskan meat and vege
tables, pay their bills with Alaskan
gold. Normal industry is forcing the
frontier. Alaskans have confidence in
the legitimate resources of their great
empire. They are convinced that
Alaska's future will be an imposing
one.
"Inaccuracy and distortion of facts
caused the faulty impressions that ex
isted in the past; but the handful of
farsighted patriots who have poured
their millions into American banks
and business, the men who have lived
the life and who know, are- fast in
forming the world. Few in number,
as were the frontiersmen who opened
up the forestB of New York and Ohio,
but as determined in spirit and reso
lute in purpose as were those early
explorers, the sturdy pioners of Alas
ka have opened up new fields of en
terprise and are today compelling at
tention.
"Complaints are heard throughout
the states that meat in Alaska is very
scarce and high in price. Let those
who so complain take comfort in the
thought that soon Alaska reindeeT
meat will find its way to metropolitan
tables, and when it does our staple
beefs and muttons will find a competi
tor worthy of their steel.
“It is estimated that one hundred
and fifty billion tons of coal lief in the
virgin coal fields of Alaska. This coal
is gradually appearing in the market.
Experts say some of the best coal in
the world streaks the giant mountains
of Alaska. With these mines opened,
with the new government railroad in
active operation, the development of
great and rich tracts, both mineral and
agricultural, will follow inevitably.
"The great gold fields of the in
terior never have been worked ade
quately. Extended the advantages of
railroad transportation, mine operat
ors will soon be able to Increase their
output materially. Gold worth $16,
000,000 is mined each year in Alaska
under present conditions. The value
of the precious metal taken from Alas
kan mines since the early eighties has
amounted to more than two hundred
and eighty-five millions. A paltry
seven million and a few hundred thou
sands was grudged for the entire ter
ritory only fifty years ago.
“Copper mined last year brought be
tween thirty-five and forty million
dollars, and still comparatively little
has been taken out. Broad fields re
main untouched.
"When Russia sold Alaska in 1867,
she threw in the surrounding seas for
good measure. Since then great
masses of fish caught in Alaskan wat
ers have brought our people two hun
dred and thirty million dollars. Each
year sees the establishment of new
centers and larger canneries. Fur
bearing animals, too, have increased
our mighty dividend by sixty-five mil
lion dollars.
“Alaska's period of trial is over.
She has been weighed in the balance
and found magnificently worthy.”
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BARMAIDS OF SCOTLAND
NO LONGER SERVE "SUDS."
(By United Press)
GLASGOW, April 18. — City fath
ers made the gentle barmaid taboo:
barmen were all conscripted; the fa
ther's won't let the barmaids come
back and in consequence the old boy^
who love their foaming brew are hav
ing a hard time of it. The "pub” own
ers are having a tough time getting
anyone to serve the suds.
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GROWING SPUDS IN CELLAR
WITH ASSISTANCE ELECTRICITY
(By United Press)
ST. PAUL, April 18. — While her
neighbors are paying high lor pota
toes, Mrs. W. H. Hall, of Raid Eagle,
is growing them in her cellar. She
planted them about Christmas time.
When the sun doesn’t shine she turns
on the electric light and the tubers
flourish. In fact, she makes them
grow day and night.
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F. S. Anderson has been named by
Commissioner Medley us one of the
enumerators to take the vote on the
wet and dry question, as George Stew
art declined to Berve.
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The Bible study class will meet at
the Presbyterian church this evening
at 7:30 o’clock.
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(By Associated Press)
BERKELEY, Cal., April 18. — T
a way to end the old warfare betw
the smelters and the farmers has b
found is claimed by the Universit'
California. That the solid wastes f
smelters are practically harmless
crops has now been proved by the
versity, and it has been discovt
that the smelter fumes, which are
questionably harmful to crops, car
readily used up in the making of
phuric acid, and this by-product i
profitably to the farmers to be i
for the reclamation of alkali la
Heretofore there has been no adeqt
market for such fume made sulph
acid.
In many farming districts thro
out the west, the farmers have •
tended that the solid wastes of
smelters tend to wash down into
courses of irrigation water for t
tory lying below the smelter pla
The university experimenters r
state that under any eircumstai
only a very small area of agricult
land can be affected and that it
very easy matter for smelter man
ments to impound the water wl
carries tailings or to pass stream
ter through screens which will s
rate out the tailings. In land wl
has already been affected, the
of organic matter will cure all d
culties, or a year or two of fallow
will suffice.
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OPERATION PROVES SERIOUS
(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK. April 18. — Sa
Bernhardt, the famous actress, unc
went an operation for an affection
tho kidneys, and her condition is s
ous.
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Charles C. Howard, of Valdez, ca
down from Chitlna on his way ho
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Jake Nafsted contemplates build
a modern hotel at Cordova in the n
future.
F MOTHER LODE TO INSTAL
GENERATING PLANT MCCARTHY
The Mother Lode Mines Company
has leased a tract of ground at Mc
Carthy from the Copper River rail
way, and will instal a generating plant
there. Crude oil will be used as fuel,
this having been found cheaper than
gasoline. Wires will be strung to the
mine for operating the air drills and
lighting the camp. McCarthy is also
to be furnished with electricity.
The company has a force of carpen
ters at work constructing new ware
houses and office buildings at the low
en
er terminal. Several cars of lumber
have already been hauled to the mine,
and there are still six cars to be sent
from Cordova. The commissary sup
, plies and machinery will be freighted
•ed
from McCarthy before the winter trail
ln breaks up.
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ul
)ld MINES HEAD IS ORDERED
ied TO WASHINGTON.
ds.
lte SEATTLE, April 18. — Dorsey A.
ric Ly°n- superintendent of the federal
mines and metallurgical station on the
^ state university campus, has left for
(m Washington, I). C., in compliance with
[he an order from the United States bu
he reau of mines. Dr. Lyon said before
rrl he loft that his return would probably
be contingent on the activity of this
country in war.
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ral “POOR BOYS’ COLLEGE” IN
, a KANSAS MAKES TROUBLE.
ge
ld, (By United Press)
,va. MANHATTAN, Kan., April 18. —
pa. Asked by the postoffice authorities
Id, at Washington to explain why his of
Jse fice needed so much extra help when
ffp those in o(her towns of the same size
lng got along with less, Postmaster Win
ter informed them thut there were
2,000 students at Kansas State Agri
cultural College most of the year, that
they are mostly poor boys and that
..,lt their mothers help them reduce the
er_ cost of living by sending them cake
0f and pie and baked beanB and things
Jri- by parcel post.
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The officers of the IT. S. S. Saturn
me will entertain a number of Cordova
ne. friends tonight at a dance aboard the
collier.
Ing Tonight the steamer Admiral Evans
ear will sail from Seattle for southwest
ern Alaska.
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(By Associated Press)
MEXICO CITY, April 18. — Rapid
and immediate extension of railroads
In Mexico is projected by the depart
ment of communications and public
works in conjunction with the vari
ous state governments. Arrangements
have already been begun to complete
the line from Santa Lucretia, on the
fsthmus of Tehuantepec line, to Me
rida, Yucatan. This line when com
pleted will form the connecting link
in the north and south route from
( iudad to Juarez, on the American
border, to Merida. It will run through
San Juan Bautista in Tabasco and
Campeche. The state of Yucatan, one
of the most prosperous in the republic,
will finance the new line in conjunc
tion with various prosperous lines con
necting with it. This right of way
formerly waq controlled by a conces
sion to foreign capital, but the con
cession was declared forfeited because
the holders failed to complete the
work according to its terms.
Another projected line will connect
the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Mex
ico, traversing the country from east
to west from Tampico, the main At
lantic oil port, to San Bias, state of
Nayrit formerly the territory of Tepic.
This route will link up Aguas Calien
tes Zacatecas and other important cit
ies with the line of the Southern Pa
cific of Mexico, which now has ex
tended its line from Nogales to Com
postela, a short distance south of the
city of Tepic.
Notice has been given by the de
partment of communications to the
Southern Pacific company that it must
continue its line from Compostela to
Guadalajara, according to its conces
sion, and begin this work of construc
tion at once, or the concession under
which thd company operates in Mexi
co will be declared void. The dis
tance involved is not great, but con
struction involves several complicated
engineering problems, including two
long tunnels through the mountains.
The original concession provides for
a bonus of 12,500 pesos per kilometer
(about three-fifths of a mile) from the
government to the company for con
struction of this line. The department
of communications in its warning to
the Southern Pacific company, de
clares the government will offer every
aid in the building of the line, includ
ing financial assistance and expedit
ing of supplies.
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(By Associated Press)
LONDON, April 18. — When King
George opened a school for the study
of Oriental language here the other
day, he placed official stamp of ap
proval on the revival of a movement
that since the war has been gaining
rapid headway in this country to study
foreign languages. The school opened
by the king is tho first of its kind in
the British empire, which counts 320,
000,000 citizens speaking Oriental
languages.
One of the lessons taught this coun
try by the war has been the need for
a wider knowledge of foreign langu
ages. The British people have learned
through the war that the average Ger
man knew more languages than tho
average Briton.
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WOMEN’S ANTI-AFFINITY
LAW UP TO GOVERNOR.
SACRAMENTO, April 18. — The
"anti-affinity" law urged by the Wo
men’s Legislative League, is now up
to the governor for sltgnature or veto,
the senate having passed the assembly
bill providing for permanent support
and maintenance of a wife who is sep
arated from her husband, has grounds
for a divorce, but is not seeking one.
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Steve Shuman, of the Alaskan road
commission, with headquarters at Ne
nana, made a winter record trip over
the trail from Fairbanks to Cordova,
covering the distance in three days
and slxteeu hours. He traveled as far
as Chitina with the Sheldon auto
stage, and reached the. latter place
i in exactly seventy-five hours from the
time he left Fairbanks.