WAR RESOLUTION WILL BE INTRODUCED
President Will Address Joint Congress Tonight
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♦ WASIlIXPTc » \pril Pit ♦
♦ sident Wilson will address a joint ♦
♦ session of roiigr. al X oTIoc!
♦ tonight >
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♦ W XSUINCTON. April L\ ♦
♦ President Wilson ha decided to f
♦ make hi addn todax inmiedi ♦
♦ ately alter the organization ot ^
♦ the house, o\«n if it is deferr I
♦ until late in the afternoon oi *
♦ earlx in the evening The ad ❖
♦ dress will he immediately sent t > ♦
♦ all the foreign embassies and ie ♦
♦ gallons and telegraphed io ilu ♦
♦ American diplomats abroad. Thf *
♦ foreign governments max inter *
♦ pret it as they think best.
♦ I ’of ore going to emigre h $
♦ president didn't even tell the ❖
♦ members o| his ealdnet the exact P
♦ terms of his address, hut lie ♦ j
♦ ruled to sec David Starr Jordan, e
♦ a pacifist, who anight ail inter* #
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LISE OF THE |
(By Nssocfated Press)
LONDON, April 2. The British I
widened the wedge they had inserted |
in tho Berman line in the region of SI. .
Quentino and c aptured tlie villages of •
At illy and Yilleoholes. 'Pile total easu- j
allies suffered by the Turks in battle ;
at Baza. Palestine, were X.non. The'
British dead are under four hundred
PALIS, April 2. It is offic ially an
nounced that the (•Touch patrols last
night advanced to Berman positions
before St. Quentin and found them
hold in forc e South of the \ilotto the I
French drove the Bormans beyond
Yauxaillon.
LONDON, \pril 2. The British
troops captured Broiselles after a des
perate defense by tin*" Bermans. The
towns of Longatte* and Doignios were
also taken by the British.
YIFNNA, April 2. Ambassador
Ponfield will leave for Washington on
Wednesday or Thursday, and will re
turn in probably litre* emonths. In the
meantime his residence here will be
kept open. There is no significance
to Penfield’s visit to the United States,
as his health has been impaired by
the strain of his labors.
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♦ SHIPMENT OF PAPER ♦
♦ GOES TO WESTWARD ♦
♦ Am the Hleainer A lamed i car ♦
♦ ricd our shipment of news print ♦
♦ through to Anchorage, we are ♦ '
♦ suffering from a severe attack of ♦
♦ shortage of paper, and in order ♦
♦ to publish this issue of the Daily ♦
♦ Times it was ne essary to do so ♦
♦ in its present size We hope, ♦
♦ however, to appear in an enlarged ♦
♦ form tomorrow. +
TODAY '
Tile April term of Ihe district court
convened in Eagle hall at In o’clock
this morning, with Judge Drown pre
siding. The other officials in attend
ance were District Attorney Spence,
clerk Arthur Dang, Deputy Clerks I.
I*- Geraghty and John Miller, Chief
Deputy Marshal J. H. I). Douse and
Court Stenographer Isaac Hamburger.
Charles Cerney was appointed court
ciier. The hall was conveniently ar
lunged for the holding of the sessions
of court, with offices for the marshal
and clerk of the court in the North
land Club.
Tlie attorneys present were I,. V
Ray and Leon Booker, of Seward: O
I’. Iluhliard and E. E. Ritchie, Valdez:
I*’. 11. Foster. McCarthy: It. E. Capers,
10. F. Medley and C. M. Frazier, Cor
dova. Other attorneys and a large
number of witnesses are expected
from the westward on the steamer
Alameda tomorrow.
The following jurors answered to
roll call, and after being examined as
to their qualifications, wore excused
until 2 o'clock: F. I’. Skein, \V. I,. Con
way, I,, c. Dates, Charles Crawford
Charles Ensweiler, Louis Little. YV. S.
Frazier, It. 10. Spiser, Charles Spun
I erger, Fred Sehrenger, AY’. I,. Smith.
G. I- Buchanan, II. Daniels and E. S
Malone.
Liquor licenses were granted to
Gottsehalk K- Cloninger, John Amber
and Davis A- Lewis for their places of
business at McCarthy up to December
21 inclusive.
The following new cases were filed:
\V. YY'. Harvey vs. (). A. Margraf and
Kate Kennedy for $tj>72. alleged to be
due for furnishing building material:
Cauline Allison vs. Nick Allison and
Vera Dolan vs. John Dolan, both of
which are divorce proceedings.
Cases were ordered dismissed as
follows: 10. C. Maddox vs. Asa Mark
ley: A. A. Cloninger vs. Asa Markley;
F. L. Walt vs. A. J. Adams.
The trial of the case of the United
Stales vs. Otto and Caroline Kanitz,
w ho were indicted for arson, was set
for tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock,
abject to the arrival of the Alameda
with witnesses from Y'aldez. Attor t
neys Hubbard, Ray and Booker rep
resent the defendant, while District
Attorney Spence and E. 10. Ritchie
will conduct the prosecution.
There have been twenty-six witnes
ses from Y'aldez subpoenaed in the
Kanitz case, as follows: John Rosen,
Mrs. C. Hill, Frank Cavanagh, A. L.
Florence, Jennie Raymond, Max
Schmidt, William Schmidt, J. D. Jef
ferson, Arthur I'inkus, Frank Hudson,
Joseph Braxton, (1. YY’. Long, YVillard
T. Scott, Joe Bradella, Charles YVetz
ler. Miss llilma Hihnala, Charles ()1
son. Jack Surryhue, YYm. C. Conley,
Charles A. Crawford, Eli S, Larson,
George .1. Love, C. B. Smith, George
Strixner and 10. G. Ames.
The case of the United States vs.
lohn McCrary was set for trial on
April h, and the case of the United
States vs. Carlisle Backing Company
for April 10.
Immediately following the Kanitz
trial will come the cases of M. A. Eld
ridge, H. A. Sprague, N. H. Drown vs.
Lighthouse Backing Company.
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CONVICTED FOR CONSPIRACY.
(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK, April 2. — Six Ger
mans were convicted by the federal
court for conspiracy to destroy pro
perty.
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UNCLE SAWS GOLD HOLDINGS.
(IVy Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, April 2. — The
gold holdings of the United States
treasury exceed $3,000,0110,000, b-eak
ing all records.
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Attorney E. E. Ritchie came over
from Valdez on legal business.
The Northern Drug Company has
'•hanged hands. A Van Veehten hav
ing purchased the entire stock of the
corporation from A .1. Adams, and
Mill hereafter be the sole proprie
tor. Mr. Van Vechten is no stranger
to the people of this section, as he
was employed in the superintendent's
office during the construction days j
of the Copper Uiver A. Northwestern!
railway. During, their residen e hero j
Mr. and Mrs. Van Vechten made a !
host of friends, all of whom are glad
to know that this young couple have |
returned to Cordova to make it their I
future home.
STB. FIBRlGUTi
SKATTI.K. April L’. The steamer 1
Admiral Farragut sailed last night ,
with the following passengers lor Cor- i
dova: Holman Kerman, James l.y
man, Thomas Hut ter. M. Klepaelt. i
Stella Ralston, Rena Dale. Mrs. \V. It i
Artlett and sons, Fred Jai k. J. Fair
brother, Keil F. Itaneli and wife. John ,
Johnson, .1. Fisher and twenty three
steerage.
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REELECTED
WASHINGTON, April 2. — It was
evident errlv in ihe day that Hie lie j
mocrats would speedily organize ihe
house Bil l re-ele. t Champ Clark as
speaker, and when the vote was taken
he received 217 to 20.7 east for Repre
sentative Mann.
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LOCAL JOTTINGS.
The municipal election takes place
tomorrow.
Deputy Marshal J. II. I). House
Chief Deputy Clerk T. 1*. lieraghtyand
court stenographer Isaac Hamburger
arrived yesterday for this Cordova
term of court.
Arthur Mauz.v, a well known old
timer, was brought to the Cordova
general hospital on yesterday's train.
He had both of his feet badly frozen
by an overt low on the government
trail near Copper Center
A purse was lost by a resident of
Cordova the other day, and a small
ad inserted in (he Times for its re
covery. Within ten minutes after the
Daily Times was issued the purse was
restored to its owner. This shows Hie
people read the want ads.
Thomas S. Scott, cashier of ihe
First flank of Cordova, has been pre
vailed upon by his friends to allow
the use of his name as a candidate
for treasurer of the school hoard at
tomorrow's election, and ho will not
likely have any opposition for Ihe
office.
W. A. Nourse arrived yesterday to
accept the agency for the Pacific
Steamship Company. Hast season he
was stationed at Anchorage, and dur
ing the past month he has been reliev
ing the agent at Anchorage, who has
been on a vacation. "Hilly” is a rust
ler in the steamship business, and in
cidentally plays a good game of base
ball, having held down third base fori
Ihe city team at Anchorage.
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♦ W \SHINOTON, \ pnl 2. \ ♦
♦ re nlution dec iaio g that a slate +
♦ "i war exiatc beta n n 1 he United ♦
♦ State and German) ha - been ♦
♦ prepared for submission to Hie 4
♦ ! e b) Representative Flood, ♦
♦ > h ilrman of the foreign affairs 4
♦ committee. 11 authorizes the pro- ♦
sidenl in carry on war against ♦
Germany. 4
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\VA S HI NOTON, \pril 2. — ♦
re met in extraordinary ♦
• sion today and the sentiment ♦
apparently predominates for a ♦
declarati.. war with Germany ♦
or that a declaration 1 hal a state ♦
"i wai 11 The week »ill be ♦
well advanced before any decisive ♦
s' lion i taken. 4
The president's message is a!- ♦
1 • ad) v i Itten and It 1 deliver) ♦
- the notification from both ♦
1 » 1 hat 1 hey arc ready to ♦
1 reive it The en.it.- is already ♦
oiyailized 4
Pacifist and anti-pacifist pH- ♦
have official
Washington in an eleventh hour ♦
''lorl to iniluein e congress to- ♦
ward their respective views on ♦
the 1 . Petit parad- ♦
ing is denied both sides, but the ♦
:i ing ol lenatora aml rep- ♦
resentatives is unre itricted. The ♦
Patrioti I, played ha - ♦
s**lcloin been equalled here, and ♦
fhigs ha\*i* been thrown to the ♦
!"eej• 1 >"m all windowa and ♦
piacticnlly everybody is wearing ♦
the national emblem on th(»ir ♦
coats. ^
Jeanette Rankin received a tre ♦
mendous ovation when she en- ♦
tered tin- house, of which she has ♦
been elected a member *
Speaker (’lark’s election took an ♦
hour and forty minutes. +
I h»* senate recessed until 5 ♦
o clock, to await (he organiza- ♦
ii'"* !'i the house. The Bepub- ♦
llcans demanded separate roll ♦
calls on * k ii «>i 1 ice, greatly de ♦
laying the organization of the#
house. ^
COCAINE HABIT NO CHIP ON
LONDON PEOPLE
(i y Associated Press)
LONDON, April 2. London is not
n tin' grip of the cocaine habit. So
-ays a report of the cocaine commit
ee which has contemplated an inves
tigation into what alarmists said was
i growing curse of the people. “The
habit is practically confined to a small
mction of the dominion troops and to
tn almost negligible number of broken
lown medical men," the report added.
YIINGCHIII COPPER MINES
WORKED BY CHINA
(By Associated Press)
VTNNANFU, Yuan province, China,
April 2. (leneral Tang, the military
governor of Yunnan province, has
been instructed by the ministry of
agriculture and commerce to take over
the copper mines at Tungchau. that
the government may develop them to
meet the urgent needs of the country
in 1 DIG these mines produced more
than seven thousand tons of copper.
Of course you want the war news,
and the Daily Tin-“s furnishes it to
you at $1 per month, or si.< months
for $5.
CHINESE ATHLETES TIKI
PART OLYMPIC GAMES
(By Associated Press)
TIEN TSIN, April 2. — Twenty-five
Chinese athletes will participate in
the Far Eastern Olympic games to he
held in Tokio May 8. The partiri
l‘a»ls are to be selected at a final
meet to be held in Tien Tsin about
April 25. Teams from Tsiang Hua col
lege, the institution at Peking estab
lished with the Boxer indemnity re
funded to China by the United States
government, Peiyang University at
j Tien Tsin, Peking University and St
John's University at Shanghai, will
compete in the final trial.
PERSONAL GOSSIP ABOUT
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
George W. Loekyear, or Nenan t
was an arrival in town yesterday.
The city council had a force of men
at work today chairing the crossings
of ice.
M. I). Summers, who is in charge of
the weather bureau at Juneau, is a
town visitor.
The Admiral Watson arrived from
the westward yesterday about noon
and was in port a couple of hours.
Jake Nafsted, of the Tonsina road
house, arrived in town on yesterday's
train to attend court.
Louis Leroy came over from An
chorage on the Admiral Watson and
left for Fairbanks on this morning s
train.
K. V. Watkins returned on the E\
ails from a trip to the states, and left
for Kennecott this morning to resume
his position at the Bonanza mine
The registration of voters closed on
Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock, and
as there is only one couiicjlmanir
ticket in the field. But 250 persons re
gistered.
Attorney <). P. Hubbard, president
of the territorial senate, arrived from
Juneau yesterday, and will attend
court. He is one of the counsel in th“
Kanitz case.
George C. Hazelet left on yester
day’s steamer for Katalla. where he
expects to remain for about a month
looking after the developments by the
St. Elias Oil Company.
K. O. Sawyer, editor of the Seward
Gateway, into which he has recently
injected considerable “pep." was in
town yesterday, lie is on his way to
Los Angeles to visit his mother, who
has been in poor health for some time
past.
lb C. Graham, of Seattle, arrived on
the Evans yesterday, to be cannery
foreman for the Canoe Pass Packing
Company. He was formerly in the
employ of the. Carlisle Packing Com
pany at one of their plants and was
yesterday the guest of Nels Hnwkin
son.
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The Admiral Evans arrived from
Seattle about 5 o’clock Sunday after
noon, with the following passengers
for Cordova: (). P. Hubbard, Thomas
Hyde, G. Stocks, H. Knapp, Captain
George Green. Captain .1. Oliver, E.
Bemis, M. Adams, W. Hartnett, Paul
Jensen. C. Hitchcock, It. MoCoarkle
and eight steerage.
Word has just been received here
fo the death of W. A. Ladd, a resi
dent of Cordova during the construc
tion days of the Copper River &
Northwestern Railway, at Portland on
January 27. of pleural pneumonia, lie
ceased was the father of Mrs. Minnie
Hood, formerly of here, and was a
member of the Masonic Lodge and
Grand Army of the Republic.
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jMUCH ACTIVITY
MINTS
MCCARTHY. March 31. — The Mo
ther Rode mine, is hauling as high ns
ten Ions of copper ore to the team lull'
McCarthy every day, where it Is
piled ready for shipment to the
smelter.
I,. Ii. Brown and lack Crowe have
just completed their contract of haul
mg eightj tons of high grade ore from
I’eter Kriekson’s mine on Glacier
creek to this place, a distance of .35
miles.
While tin- government is preparing
tor war in the states, it would cer
tainly he a good idea for I'nele Sam
to look a little ahead by building a
wagon road into the White River cop
per belt. It is only eighty miles from
Met at thy. and the large bodies of
high grade ore there would certainly
justily the expense in providing means
of transporting this metal to the rail
road, as copper will he needed in the
event of war.
Tom Olsen will make a long jump
on skis off the Kenneeott glacier on
Sund,i> and Billy Woodworth is here
to lake a moving picture of the feat
for the I niversal Film Company. (11
sen was for thirteen years the chant
pion of Canada on skis. There will
also be "movies” taken of the child
ren of McCarthy, most of whom are
expert long jumpers on skis, ami »ev
oral dog team races.
A big smoker was given at Kenne
toll last night, and another will he
given this evening at A. B. Hall by
Camp McCarthy. No. 33.
The Mother l.otle mine has opened
up another large body of high grade
ore. At the rate it is developing, it
will soon catch up with the Jumbo,
which surpassed the famous Bonanza
mine as a producer.
W in. Body has taken over a crew
of men to Open up the Nikolai Butte
mine on Dan creek.
Fred Myers was in town the other
d;i\. showing some very coarse gold
from his bunch of claims on Dan
reek. He says il runs $3 to the
wheelbarrow.
San Sanderson returned from White
river and brought back a lot of native
copper nuggets from some property
tie recently located there.
Dean Officer returned from Shu
shanna yesterday, after hauling all
the Shushanna mail, which has been
idling up here for the past six months,
and reports the trail in fine shape
across the glacier.
' Too Much" Johnson just arrived
from Shushanna with his big dog
team, and will return today with a
load of freight.
Shorty Givitins will go clear up to
Whisky Hill this trip with his horses.
BETTERING CONDITION OF
JINRIKSHA MEN
(By Associated Press)
PEK1NC. April — Madam Wu
Ting Fang, wife of the minister of
foreign affairs, assisted by a number
of American, English and Chinese wo
men, is raising a fund to better the
condition of jinriksha men in Peking
The jinriksha is practically the only
j means of transportation in Peking,
I which has a population of over 1,000,
000 persons. More than 5,000 jinrik
j sha men ply the streets constantly
| Heretofore no shelters have been pro
! t ided for these men and the death
rate among them has been very high,
especially in cold weather. The relief
society proposes to erect shelters in
which stoves tt ill be placed in winter
and tea will be served throughout the
| year.
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Attorneys l„ V. Ray and I.eon Book
er, of Seward, arrived here yesterday
to attend the April term of court.
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♦ WASHINGTON, \prfl 2. Alex ♦
♦ ander Bannwart, a pacifist from ♦
♦ Dorchester, Mass . today < ailed •
♦ Senator IjOdge to tin* committee ♦
♦ room door and asked him to vote ♦
♦ against a declaration of war ♦
♦ with Germany. This Lodge re ♦
♦ fused to do, and Bannwart called ♦
♦ him a coward and struck him. ♦
♦ I In- senator retaliated and sent ♦
♦ Bannwart sprawling on the floor ♦
e I In- incident caused considerable ♦
♦ commotion and the offender waa ♦
♦ severely criticised for his unwar- ♦
♦ ranted atta k Senator Lodge ♦
♦ was warmly congratulated when ♦
♦ In- appeared in the senate. ♦
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HI MHO'! THE
DEFENSE HE
JUNEAU, April 2. — The houso
passed the emergency appropriation
I hill, placing $10.non at the disposal ot
the governor to s|>end in raising men
to defend the territory and for the
forming of military organizations.
Cannon Introduced a bill providing
for an official ballot in the territory;
Corrigan a bill for an eight hour law
for all wage workers; Price, changing
the date corporations must file their
annual reports. A bill was ordered
drown covering the abolition of capi
tal punishment. The hair bounty seal
bill was laid on the table indefinitely.
JUNEAU, April 2. The senate
passed the bulk sales bill, also the law
pertaining to the publication of ordin
ances two weeks previous to becoming
effective. The eight hour law and
other measures will come up in the
senate for consideration tomorrow. No
new hills were introduced today.
rflbbrUnlb HtLUStU IU
ENGLISH EMIGRANTS
(By Associated Press)
BONBON, April 2. — A new depart
ment set up at the ministry of na
tional service, advises the passport
authorities whether applicants for per
mission to go to America and other
places abroad are suitable for war
work at home. Women as well as
men emigrants as well as business or
pleasure travelers, have to undergo
an examination. Before they are giv
en passports the authorities must be
satisfied that the aplicants are not
able to perform work of national im
portance at home. Hundreds of Brit
ish women have been refused permis
sion to leave for America in the last
month.
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NOTICE.
Owing to the fact that the under
signed will be absent in Katalla for
irregular intervals during the coining
summer, arrangements have been
made with Edward F. Medley to look
after the sale of town lots for the
Townsite Company and other real es
tate matters in my charge. Persons
desiring information in regard to town
lots can confer with Mr. Medley at
Room 1. Adams Building.
GEORGE C. HAZELET.
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Inquiry has been made for the
“Battle Hymn of the Republic," and
any person having a copy of same will
please communicate with the Times.