The Cordova Daily Times
VOLUME IT. NUMBER 538. CORDOVA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1916. PRICK TUN ('ENTS
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SEATTLE, Sept. 14. — Miles Poin
dexter was renominated as the Re
publican candidate for congress, de
feating Will Humphrey by a plurality
of 12,000. McBride also won in the
gubernatorial contest over Roland
Hartley, a wealthy lumberman who
ran on a platform attacking the labor
unions. His plurality was also 12,000.
Both of the successful candidates are
known as progressive Republicans.
The Democrats renominated Governor
Lister, while George Turner was
named for senator.
[[DERATION TO
DALE OUT ALL
NEW YORK, Sept. 14. — The presi
dent of the State Federation of Labor
ays that a sympathetic strike of 70,
oon unionists allied with the striking
■ (root railway employees will be
called on Saturday night unless Mayor
Whitman and the public service com
mission effect a settlement of the dif
ferences previously.
JAPAN INSISTS IT
ITS PDLIGY
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14. — Japan
ha ■ nt a formal note to the depart
men! of state, in which the American
government is assured that the new'
Russo-Japanese treaty does not repeal
former conditions The imperial gov
ernment says it never entertained any
intention to depart from its policy
respecting the integrity of China and
an open door,
WILSON HOPES TO
LONG BRANCH, Sept, 14. — I’re
sident Wilson has taken up his cam
paign personally and says special at
tention will ln> paid to Washington
and other const states, because he be
lieves his prospect of carrying the
west is good.
CANDIDATE HUGHES ENJOYS
DAY AT SUMMER HOME.
Bli I OCKHAM ETON, Sept. 14. — As
the strain of the campaign is being
felt by Charles Evans Hughes, he
rested today at his summer home,
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PRESIDENT’S SISTER IS
NEARING THE END.
NEW LONDON. Conn., Sept. 14. —
The condition of Mrs. Howe, sister of
President Wilson, has not improved
any, and her death is only a ciuestion
of a few days.
GOTHAM’S CAR LINES ARE
OUT OF COMMISSION.
NEW YORK, Sept. 14. — The rail
wav strike continues and as practi
cally all the city lines are tied up is
causing groat inconvenience to the
public.
Sid Anderson, cashier of the Bank
of Anc horage, was in town yesterday
on his way to the states.
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I f. C. Feldman returned on the
steamer Farragut this afternoon front
an extended business trip to Anchor
age.
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FUNSTON FEARS
SAN ANTONIO, Sept. 14. — Gen
eral Funston has informed Chihuahua
City that he fears an attack by Villa,
and troops are being rushed into the
city. According to the last reports
Villa was eighty miles west of Chihua
hua City.
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CHICAGO, Sept. 14. — Governor
Dunn was renominated by the Demo
crats at yesterday's primary. The
principal fight among the Republicans
was over the congressional nomina
tion for the sixth district. Frank O.
Rowden defeated William Rorimer,
against whom a most vicious attcak
was made on account of his past ques
tionable political record.
CHICAGO, Sept. 14. — Medill Mc
Cormick has been nominated by the
Republicans for congressman-at-large.
ATHENS, Greece, Sept. 14. — The
epidemic of infantile paralysis in New
York is rivalled by an epidemic of
smallpox in Athens that Is taking a
heavy toll of both children and adults
In the city proper and in Piraeus, the
port of Athens. Incidentally, Greek
ships arriving from Alexandria report
the spread of the bubonic plague in
Egypt, and cholera has broken out
in the island of Castellorlza, due to
the arrival of refugees from Asia
Minor. A quarantine has been estab
lished between tiw Island and the
ports of Greece.
The epidemic of smallpox in Athens
has resulted in compulsory vaccina
tion or revaccination, but it is diffi
cult to carry out the orders, as the
supply of vaccine is limited, and the
movement of the demobilized troops
into the interior makes it difficult to
combat the spread of the disease.
The remarkable feature of the epi
demic is the reliance that is being
placed upon the efficiency of one of
the sacred ikons, or images of Christ.
The ikon of St. Barbara of Nicomedia,
in Asia Minor, has been brought with
every pomp and circumstance from
the ancient church of the convent of
Daphni, near Athens, and set up in
the church of Chryssospiliotlssa, in
the quarter where the smallpox is tak
ing its heaviest toll.
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BUSINESS COURSES PLANNED
FOR EIGHT TOWNS IN STATE.
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON,
Sept. 14. — Business courses of
fered by the extension division of the
University of Washington will be
given in Spokane, Tacoma, North Ya
kima, Everett, Olympia, Hoquiam and
Aberdeen, as well as Seattle, this com
ing year, according to the announce
ment just made public by E. F. Dahm,
instructor in business administration,
in charge of this work. Class work
will begin this month.
The business men of each city will
be asked to co-operate in arranging
courses, and their support will be en
listed in enrolling students. In Se
attle many prominent men. real es
tate dealers, bankers, advertising men
.and attornewa are serving as advisers
and instructors.
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The bible study class of the Pres
byterian church will meet at 8 o’clock
this evening at the Manse.
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Jack Kessler was an arrival here
from the westward this afternoon.
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SALON1K1, Sept. 14.—Tli«* Greek port of Kavala lias been
pillaged and Kivilips massacred by tbe Turks on the with
drawal of the Greek garrison. The Bulgarians now occupy all
of the forts. A number of Americans are endangered, also Am
erican tobacco property valued at $2,000,000.
PARIS, Kept. 14.—The Serbians have captured the Bul
garian trenches near Vetrenik, and on the height northwest of
lake Ostrovo. The allies are now engaged in a battle south of
the lake, which they are winning.
ATHKNS, Kept. 14.-—The king has offered the premiership
to Dimitracopulos, a friend of Venizelos. He asked for forty
eight hours to consider the tender, and if he accepts it will be
with the understanding that he have a free hand, even the pos
sible entry into war.
PARIS, Kejit. 14. — The speed of the French advance in
Tuesday’s battle on the Somme front took the Germans com
iletely bv surprise. Many of the Germans who suffered were
iiit by the fire of their own artillery, and were mostly from the
Verdun front. The attack on Bouchavesnes began at 4:M0
o’clock in the afternoon. The village was entered half an hour
later, and the capture completed by 8 o’clock.
WASHINGTON, Kept. 14.—The Turkish government, in a
communication to the state department, consents to the ship
meat of relief supplies from the United States. Two urgent
previous requests were refused.
R< >M h, Sept. 14.—It is reported that a general council of
the central powers was held at headquarters, where the kaiser
napped out an offensive campaign in the Balkans. Germany
will at once send two hundred thousand men into Austria to re
nforce the troops there, and another hundred thousand will be
kept in readiness for dispatch to the relief of her ally whenever
i ceded.
PKTROGRAI), Sept. 14. — The Roumanian troops were
repulsed in a series of attacks by the Germans and Bulgarians
in the Dobrudje.
PARIS, Kept. 14.— The French paused in their advance
north of Pcronne, where they have driven for a distance of si\
miles into the German lines since duly 1, and are withstanding
a series of German counter attacks.
PARIS, Sept. 14.—The Duke of Rohan, killed in the bat
le of the Somme, has had'one of the most imposing funerals in
France during the war. It was not only a tribute to the heroic
young nobleman, but a public recognition that the sons of the
dd nobility of France are fighting for the republic with the
same ardor that the old nobility fought for the kings.
SUMP TAX BEENI
BEPEJLEB II
PABT
Certain stamp taxes required by the
internal revenue department of the
United States, which went into effect
December 1, 1914, have been repealed.
This information was received by De
puty Collector of Customs George Ken
nedy in a cablegram from the head
office.
The above instructions however do
not do away with the liquor stamp tax.
The following are the schedules
which have been repealed:
Schedule A.—Documentary.
Bonds, debentures, or certificates
of any association, company or
corporation, on each $100 of
face value or fraction thereof . $o.05
On original issue of certificates
of stock, whether or organi
zation or reorganization, on
each $100 of face value or frac
tion thereof.05
On all sales, agreements to sell,
memoranda of sales, deliveries
or transfers of shares, of cer
tificates of stock of any associ
ation or corporation, on each
$100 of face value or fraction
thereof.05
Upon each sale, agreement to
sell, or agreement of sale of
any products or merchandise
at nnv exchange or board of
trade, or other similar place,
either for present or future
delivery, for each $100 In value
of this sale.01
And for each $100 or fractional
part thereof In excess of $100 .01
Promissory notea, for each re
newal .02
IHlis of lading, manifests, etc.,
issued by express companies or
public carriers.01
(Sonde, except those required In
legal proceedings.50
Certificates of profits or certifi
cates or memoranda showing
Interest in the property or accu
mulations of any association,
company or corporation, and all
transfers thereof, on each $100
, of face value or fraction there
of .02
Certificate of damage or other
wise and all other certificates
or documents Issued by port
warden or marine surveyor ... .26
Certificates of any description re
quired by law, not otherwise
specified ... ..10
Contract: llroker's note, or mem
orandum of sale of goods, or
merchandise, stocks, bonds, ex
change, notes of hand, real es
tate or property of any kind
Issued by brokers, etc.., for each
note or memorandum of sale
not otherwise provided for in
the act .10
i Conveyance: Deed, Instrument
or writing conveying lands, ten
ements or other realty, etc.,
value over $100 and not exceed
ing $500 .25
For each additional $500 or frac
tion thereof.25
Entry of goods, wares or mer
chandise in customs house, not
exceeding $10 in value.25
Exceeding $100 and not exceeding
$500 ... .'..50
Exceeding $500 in value.1.00
Entry for withdrawal of goods or
merchandise from customs in
bonded warehouses.50
Insurance, marine, inland and fire
(except purely co-operative or
mutual), lightning or other
peril., on each policy, or renew
al on amount of premium
charged on each $1 or fraction
al part.00%
Insurance, fidelity and guarantee
on each policy, on each $1 or
fractional part thereof of pre
mium received.00%.
Passage tickets b> any vessel
from the United States to a for
eign port, costing not exceed
ing $30 (tickets costing $10 or
less exempt) .1.00
More than $30 aiid not exceeding
$60.2.00
More than $6o.5.00
Power of attorney or proxy for
voting at an election of officers
of any incorporated company or
association, except charitable,
literary societies, or public
cemeteries.10
Power of attorney to sell or con
vey real estate, or to rent or
lease the same, to collect or re
reive rent, to sell or transfer
stocks, bonds, etc.25
(Papers used in the collection of
pension, back pay or bounty
claims, or for claims lost in mili
tary action or naval service are
exempt.)
Protest: Upon the protest of
every note, bill of exchange, ac
ceptance, check, or draft, or
any marine protest.25
Telegraph and Telephone Mes
sages : Kvery person, firm or
corporation operating any tele
graph or telephone lien or Hues
is required to make a sworn
statement to the collector of
the number of messages or con
versations transmitted over his
lines during the preceding
month for which a charge of 15
cents or more was imposed, and
for each of such messages or
conversations to pay a tax of .01
On seals in palace or parlor cars
and berths in sleeping cars (to
be paid by the company selling
the same).01
Schedule B.—Propriaty.—In Effect
December 1, 1914.
Perfumery and cosmetics and
other similar articles:
For and upon every packet, box
bottle, pot, or phial, etc., where
such packet, box. bottle, pot
phial and contents shall not ex
ceed retail price of 5 cents.00 k$
When retail price exceeds 6 cents
and does not exceed 10 cents.. 00k,
When retail price exceeds It)
cents and does not exceed 15
cents.00% I
When retail price exceeds 15
cents and does not exceed 25
cents.00%
And for each additional 25 cents
of retail price or value or frac
tional part thereof In excess of
25 cents .00% i
Chewing gum or substitutes
therefor:
For and upon each bov, carton,
jar or package containing chew
ing gum, when the retail value
does not exceed $1.U4
If exceeding $1 for each additional
$1 or fractional part thereof. . 04 |
MONTANA FISK
VICTIMS OF
MISSOULA, Mont , Sept. 14. — Al
most every fish in Flathead lake, the ,
largest body of water in the stRte. is
supporting a parasite of some kind,
according to the biological station of
the University of Montana, on Yellow
Bay of the lake. Most of the fish
have leeches in their fins and in their
threats, mouths and on their gills.
Four kinds of parasites have been dis
covered, at least one of them being
new.
Every squaw fish captured and ex- ;
amined had a tapeworm either in the
stomach or else in the intestines.
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afflicted in the same manner. It ap
pears in their case, however, that the
parasite might have been swallowed
with other smaller fish.
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NEW LONDON, Conn., Sept. 14. —
The American Mexican joint commis
sion, now in session here, is consid
! ering the establishment of some sort
I of international police or neutral con
I stalmlary along the border,
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U. EDUCATOR SPECIALIZES
IN SECONDARY EDUCATION.
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON,
Sept. 14. — Dr. Leonard V. Koos, new
ly elected associate professor of edu
cation at the University of Wash
ington, who has Just arrived in Se
attle, according to I)r. Charles H. Judd,
dean of the college of education of
the University of Chicago, is one of
the best posted men on problems re
lated to secondary education in the
west today. Dr. Koos for two years
has been secretary of a committee on
the reorganisation of the secondary
school and the detinition of the unit
CANNERIES 10
PAI TAX ON TRE
According to advices received the
ninth circuit court of appeals has sus
tained the derision of Judge Hobert
\V. Jennings against the fishing com
panies operating in Alaska and these
companies will now be compelled to
pany into the territorial treasury all
moneys due for back taxes.
The amount involved in the decis
ions will be over $250,000. although
the exact sum is not known. Twenty
of the fiBhing companies operating In
Alaska. through their attornews,
signed a stipulation with the terri
torial counsel agreeing to pay the
taxes, with interest at 8 per cent
on all moneys from the time due until
paid providing the decision went
against them. They also provided that
all fines and penalties should be
waived. A test case was made against
certain of the fishing companies and
all are now to abide by the decisions
of the cases.
The cases were brought in the dls
trict court at Juneau against the lioo
nah Packing Company, the Alaska Sal
mon Company and the Pacific -Ameri
can Fisheries Company. Judge Jen
nings decided against the fishing com
patiies, and they appealed the case
confirms the decision of the Juneau
court.
The taxes involved are for a certain
tax on each case of the output of all
canneries for 1914, 1916 and for a
part of 1913. All future taxes against
the canneries levied under the laws
of Alaska are involved in the decision.
Under the law each canning com
pany is required to file a statement of
the amount of the pack for the past
season, on January 1 of the following
year with the territorial treasurer, and
to pay the tax on each case provided
in the act.
A fresh case of measles has broken
out In Douglas after the epidemic was
supposed to have been killed.
W. J. Morgan, of Ketchikan, has ac
cepted the position of assistant keep
er at the Hinchiubrook light.
Juneau Is to have a $15,000 billiard
parlor in the near future, which pro
mises to be the finest in the north
Skagway merchants report the most
prosperous summer for many years,
business exceeding the 1915 season by
fully 60 per cent.
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The steamer Alaska sailed about
noon for Seattle, with the following
passengers from Cordova: M, i Inkel
stein, M U. Sttekney, P. Bouery and
wife, H. 8. McGonigle, K. P. Gray and
wife, L. Wernstadt and George A.
Shepherd.
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Mr and Mra. J. A. Cobra will not be
at home to their friend* until after
September 16.
GRIGS8T STIRS
THINGS IIP ST
SEWARD, Sept. 14 — George B.
Grigsby, Democratic candid ate for at
torney general, addressed a rousing
meeting here last night, and spoke for
two hours. He declared Wir kersharn's
pretended fight on the Guggenheim
and cannery interests to ha* insincere
and for campaign purposes only. He
utterly demolished the charge made
against him by Schofield that he bad
prosecuted Nome longshoremen, re
ferring to men in the audience who
were former members of the Nome
union to verify his statements. Grigs
by also paid his respects to Murane
and Gilmore, whom ho termed hyphen
ated Alaskans, but his speech was
mostly in behalf of Sulzer and in ale
nounring Wickersham.
Further particulars conci rning the
loss of the Admiral Clark and the
drowning of Captain limmie" Dan
iels. the well known \laskan marin
er. have been received Also the in
formation that the old steamer J.eela
naw has been torpedoed by the Ger
mans and sunk.
Ill fate has ended the careers of
both Captain .James T Daniels and his
old command, tile steamship Leela
nau. which was one of the most wide
!y known vessels on this coast and
which weathered many of the great
storms which sweep the Wiskn wat
ers while on voyages between Seattle
and tlie Northland, says Hie Seattle
Times.
Captain Daniels went down with the
Pacific Alaska Navigation Company's
new liner Admiral Clark in the Carri
bean sea August 16. with nineteen of
his officers and crew, and the Lee
lanaw was torpedoed by a German sub
marine while bound iroiti Vrchangel
to Belfast with a cargo of flax The
former Seattle vessel met her fate
off the northwestern coast of Scot
land oil July 25. 1516 Preiious to
her final voyage the vessel was plying
between Galveston. Texas and Arch
angel in the cotton trade
Captain Daniels was born in New
York state and would have been 34
years old today He was one of the
youngest master mariners on this
coast, but a navigator of great skill
and courage Captain Daniels leaves
a widow and two children. Dorothy
Daniels, nine years old and Glenn
j Daniels, sixteen months old, and five
brothers and two sisters in New York.
Three Seattle mariners lost their
lives when the \dmiral Clark fouti
dered. Resides Captain Daniels, John
Jackson, chief engineer on the ves
sel, who leaves a family of five, his
widow, one grown daughter and three
| younger children, and Charles N.
MacLeod, first assistant engineer, who
leaves a wife but no children, went
down with the liner.
Wilfrid Robinson, third assistant
engineer, who was among the rescued,
Is also a Seattle man.
Jackson, MacLeod and Robinson all
belonged to the Seattle local. No. 38,
Marine Engineers' Relieficial Associa
tion. These three men with W. A.
Sturgis were sent from Seattle to
New York to join the Admiral Clark.
Sturgis quit the Clark at Port Arthur
just before the disastrous voyage be
gan. arriving in Seattle about three
weeks ago When he left the ship he
explained that he did not want to
make the long voyage to South Am
erica.
The survivors of the Admiral Clark
include Garland Rotch. chief officer,
Seattle; Wilfred Robinson, third as
sistant engineer. Seattle; Carl John
son. second officer; <’. H. King, stew
ard; Peter Anderson, seaman, and
Ered Cusik. oiler.
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F. W. Williamson and Forrest Gard
ner, examiners of survey for the
United States land office, arrived
from the westward today and will re
main here for a shortime.