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VOLUME ONE. NUMBER TWENTY-FIVE. CORDOVA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANt ARY 2, I'H.', pBI(,K TBN C„;NTS ~
SHOPS RE-OPEN
SAN FRANCISCO, Jnn. 2—After
months of idleness, the Southern Pa
cific railway shops throughout the
west, and which normally employ fifty
five hundred men, resumed operations
today. Owing to the outbreak of the
war, and the depressed business-eon
ditiions following, the shops were shut
down and all betterments along the
line ceased. The gradual resump
tion of business and the outlook for a
large passenger traffic following the
opening of the San Deigo and San
Francisco expositions has lead the
company to re-open the shops and to
plan extensive improvements.
IT IT APPROVE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2—Hy some of
the administration officials it is
thought that President Wilson will
veto the immigration bill as it is pass
ed as it now reads. The President
does not approve of the literacy test,
an amendment to strike out which was
defeated in the senate yesterday. The
president states that he does not be
lieve the literacy test will show the
qualification of an immigrant to enter
. the country.
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Denver, Jan. 2—L. M. Bowers, treas
urer and chirman of the board of
directors of the Colorado Fuel & Iron
Co., and the personel representative
of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has re
signed his position. It is believed that ,
his resignation is due to a disagree
ment with Rockefeller over the hand
„ ling of the situation during the strike
of the miners.
BRITISH BATTLESHIP FORMIDABLE
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LONDON, .Tnn. 2—An official bulletin issued by the war
office today states that the British battleship Formidable was
sunk yesterday in the Faij'lish channel by a mine or submarine.
(>nly seventy-one survivors of the officers and crew wore picked
up. The Formidable was a vessel of la,000 tons displacement,
ind was completed in 1801. She carried a crew of 781. officers
ind men.
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LONDON, ,Jan. 2—The close of the fifth month of the war
inds Germany still occupying virtually the whole of Belgium,
in important tract of French territory, and a considerable slice
'f Russian Poland. Nevertheless, Germany now appears un
ible to make any further progress, and the initiative now seems
:o be in the hands of the allies.
Recent German public utterance to the effect that Germany
is waging a defensive war to save her territory from invasion,
is accepted here as an indirect admission on the part of the
dennan authorities that to battle on two fronts, miles apart,
ms caused an unanticipated strain on the resources of Germany
ivhiclt may prevent* the nation from further aggressive move
nents, and confine her to a strictly defensive warfare.
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BOMBARD CONSTANTINOPLE
CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 2—The Austrian and German
■mbassies in this city are transferring the arehieves of their
Jlice to Asia Minor, fearing that a bombardment of the capital
s imminent by British and French warships.
RUSSIA REFUSES TO PERU
RESUMPTION SALES Of LIQUORS
PETROGRA1), Jan. 2-—The last appeal against the Rus
sian prohihition decree failed Thursday when the councils of
IVtrograd and Moscow rejected a petition to authorize the re
commencement of the sale of light beer and wines. The recent
inal order to discontinue the sale of all alcoholic drinks, was
ssued with the reservation that the city councils should have
eight to appeal for authorization to re-commence the sale of 3
x*r cent beer and light wines.
WASHINGTON. Jnn. 2-Secretary
lift no has Issued regulations under
which settlers may take for two year
periods ten acre tracts of Alaska coal
lands for the mining of fuel for local
and domestic needs.
The sceretary announced thnt on
account of the legal complications
caused hy conflicting claims and
frauds, and because there were no
settlers in the immediate vicinity of
the Bering River and Mntanunka
fields, they probably would not be
opened for the present.
Consideration is new being given
o the leasing regulations to cover the
ieneral mining of coal in Alaska, and
hese regulations will be issued as
won ns possible.
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FRENCH MITRAILLEURS.
Rapid Fire Rifles Are
Transported on Backs.
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Photo by American Press Association.
FIREMEN’S DANCE
WAS HUGE SUCCESS
As has always been tho case, the
lance given by the firemen on New
Year’s Kve, was a huge success, from
jvery point of view. Fully 150 peo
ple attended, and that Ihey thoroughly
snjoyed themselves goes without say
ng. The music was excellent, the
lecorations handsome, and the re
reshments all that could be desired,
l'he affair did not end until 2 a. m.
when the guests, tired but happy,
eft declaring they had had one of the
jest times of their lives.
suits ME PLAYING llilNE ESI
UNTIL ABLE TO DELIVER BLOW
ST STRATEGIC POINT
LONDON, .Inn. 2—Little progress is being made by the
allies in the western zone notwithstanding considerable press
nre is being brought to bear on the German line. A sporadic
levial ot offensive by the Germans has resulted in some slight
gains in the district of Argentic and in Flanders.
Military experts point out that tli ©strength which the
Germans are showing indicates that they have* not materially
weakened their western army-by sending reinforcements to
1 he allies against the Russians, nor has the pressure exerted by
tli (‘allies broken their grip on France* and lielgium. General
doll re, t he French commander, is avoiding a general attack, and
except for the tactics of feeling out the strength of the German
• ine by attacks here and tiler, allies nr cplnying a waiting game,
being satisfied to hold the Germans in their present positions,
pending the time when, with the assistance of heavy reinforce
ments, they will be able to deliver a tellingJblow at some stra
tegic point.
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INCOMPLETE TEXT OF THE AMERICAN
NOTE TO BRITAIN AROUSE A
HOSTILE SENTIENT
LONDON, .Inn. 2—Publication in this city of the full text
<>l the American note to the British government on the question
ol the unwarranted interference with American shipping, has
dispelled the slight irritation among the people occasioned by
incomplete sentences which appeared in the first summary of
the message. There were many prom ion t Englishmen who
thought they saw something like an ultimatum in the note, but
a perusal <>t the actual context ol the phrases has dispelled this
misconception.
ALLIES RECOGNIZE TASK OF TAKING
DIFFICULT UNDERTAKING
LONDON, dan. 2—The allies recognize that the task of
recovering front Germany the territory seized by that country
in the first terrific onrush of her troops, will prove a formida
ble undertaking, hence the postponement of the allied offensive
movement on a grand scale until such time as they are able to
put into the field a larger number of fresh troops. In the mean
lime each side is continually feeling the strength of its opposing
linos, and the French soldiers are now executing the greatest
pressure on the extreme limits of the long front extending from
the English channel to Alsace.
FIELD DIVISION IS
SEATTLE. Jan. 2—The Alaska held
division of the General land office,
which has had Its headquarters In this
city, is now on its way to Juneau,
where the headquarters of the divi
sion will he maintained In the future.
Andrew Chritensen, chief of the divi
sion, with nine men employed in the
office, and all the records of the office,
left last night on the steamer for Al
aska. This is the division which has
had charge of all the Alaska coal claim
nvestigations.
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FI IS FORMALLY
DEDICATED Iff
SAN DIEGO, Jnn. 2—Ttbe C'al
ifornia-Panama Exposition, which
was opened to tlte world last night
at midnight, by the pressure of an elec
tric button in the White House, by
President Wilson, was formally dedi
cated this morning by Secretary of the
Treasury Me A (loo, personal represent
a'ive of the president.
TO RULE SMS
ML H.TflFT
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2—Ex-Presi
dent William H. Taft appeared before
the senate committee which now has
under consideration the bill provid
ing for the ultimate independence of
the Philippine islands. Mr. Taft stat
ed to the committee that, in his opin
ion, it would take more than self gov
ernment. He said that the philippinos
must acquire character before obtain
ing self government.
Daily Times gets Associated Press
dispatches.
PARIS, Jan. 2—An official bulletin issued today states that
four German airships flew over Dunkirk yesterday, dropping
several bombs. The extent of the damage done, or whether or
not any lives were lost, was not included in the bulletin.
HUNGARIAN VILLAGERS FLEE
BEFORE RUSSIAN INVADERS
IA )ND()N, Jan. 2—Advics received here today indicate that
the Germans are still trying to push forward in Poland, but
with little success, the Russians holding them firmly in check.
In the south the Russians have driven the Austrians hack for
sixty miles, and the victors have crossed the Carpathian moun
tains into Hungary. The inhabitants of the Hungarian villages
are fleeing before the invaders, making no resistence.
REPORT EOT® MOST HAVE
OPERATION 015 THROAT
ATHENS, Jan. 2—Various rumors ore afloat here, which,
however, have not been authenticated, concerning the condi
tion of the German emperor. It is said that the condition of
his throat lias reached such a stage that he must soon return
to Berlin to have a surgical operation performed for his relief.
ALLIES IN HE AND BEEGIUi
HAVE BEEN COMPELLED IB
ASSUME DEFENSIVE
LONDON, dan. 2—The German attack along the line in
France and' Belgiiyn in reply to tin* offensive movement of the
allies, has developed to such a point that the allies are now on
the defensive along the greater part of tin* line. The extent of
the German offensive movement is shown by today’s reports
from Paris, which speaks of heavy night attacks against the
allies, although the reports state that the attacks have not been
made in great force, and all have been repulsed with ease.
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LONDON, dan. 2—With a full knowledge of the vast num
ber of men now being trained in England and France to rein
force the allied army, Germany must be preparing to meet their
entries into the war, or she will be crushed by sheer weight of
numbers. The new troops which France and England are pre
paring to send to the front are the cream of the country, while
Germany, having sent her finest forces to the front at the out
set of the war, must now depend for reninforcements on those
less tit.
Mike Sherry and Robert Smith, two
well-known miners and prospectors
of Valdez has a narrow escape from
death Wednesday afternoon at Por
tage bay. by being caught in a snow
slide.
The men were carried down the
mountain side for several hundred
feet, being rolled and tumbled about
by the mass of snow, but fortunately
were not burled. Smith caught in
some alder bushes at the top of a
rdlkfoot bluff, while Sherry went over
the bluff with the snow to the foot of
the mountain. Smith, after the slide
prr.r.ad, made his way to the base of
the cVff, where he had dug himself
out of the snow, and aided him to
Dunk Smith's place, where they were
placed on a launch and taked to Val
lez. Roth men were seriously bruls
ml l y their rough journey.
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Fire damaged the upper story of the
Kran building, on McKinley street,
Valdez, to the extent of $2,000, last
week, and water did some damage to
the Jewelry stock of Plant & Co., who
aeeupled the store on the ground
floor.
FE
ILL FALL AND IS LEAVING
ATHENS, Jan. 2—Dispatches received here state that the
Sultan of Turkey and all his court are preparing to leave the
city, fearing the early fall of the capital before an attack of
the allied fleet, which, it is reported, are preparing to begin a
siege of Constantinople and the forts guarding the city.
The attack op Egypt, which was planned by the Turks, has
been abandoned, and the troops destined for this expedition
have been recalled to reinforce the army of defense.
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FOR POSSESSION SI. GEORGES
MERLIN, Jan. 2“An official bulletin issued this afternoon
states that the idea of retaking the hamlet of St. Georges, from
which tin' Germans wen* driven by a surprise attack of the al
lies, has been abandoned because of the high water there.
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BERLIN, Jan. 2 The eldest son of the Imperial Chancel
lor Bevthmann llellweg was killed in the lighting in Poland re
cently, according to an official bulletin issued by the war office
today.