The Cordova Daily Times
VOLUME II. NUMBER 27H. CORDOVA, AI .ASK A, WEDNESDAY, EVENING JUNE 21, 191C. PRICE TEN CENTS
MEXICAN GDNS BEAR ON TROOPS
ARMIES ON VERGE
OF HOSTILITIES
IN OLD WEXICO
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Y COLUMBUS, June 21.—Carranza troops and the soldiers
if Pershing’s command south of Namiquipa are on the verge
of hostilities, according to reports from the field wireless dis
patches from Pershing’s chief of staff.
It is said that the attitude of the Mexicans is such that
American motor truck trains are in constant danger of being
fired upon by the Carranzistas.
The Mexicans have mounted artillery in positions which
menace the American troops. Both commands are in close
proximity and the danger of a clash becomes more imminent
every hour.
Pershing, it is said, has begun the erection of fortifications
for his troops, and already has excavated a series of trenches
which, it is asserted, will make his position almost impregnable
unless the Mexicans bring up many more troops than at present
are reported.
American aeroplane scouts have been steadily keeping
track of the movements of troops by the Mexicans and report
no large reinforcements having been sent north.
CAPTURE AMERICAN SOLDIER.
COLONIA DUBLAN Mexico, June 21.—An American
roldier, captured by Carranza soldiers garrisoned at Casas
Grandes, was held prisoner for several hours and was released
only when General Pershing warned the Mexican commander
that if the soldier was not immediately released the American
Voops would attack the town and wreck it. The officer in
miarge immediately released the soldier on receipt of the
message.
On his return to the American camp the soldier said he had
been thoroughly quizzed as to the strength of the American ex
pedition, the number of guns, the amount of ammunition and as
to whether other troops were in communication with the ad
vance column.
The situation here while quiet, is noticeable tense, and an
od^break is expected at any moment.
REFUGEES RErUKx MEAIUAJNo L-uxvnx'iu.
DOUGLAS, June 21.—Refugees from northern Mexico re
port large movements of Carranza troops northward, and it is
now asserted they are only 22 miles from the border.
The returning Americans can give no definite idea as to
the number of the force said to be advancing north, and mili
tary men are of the opinion that it is only several small detach
ments on scout duty.
€ STRONG NAVAL DEMONSTRATION.
SAN DIEGO, June 21.—With the departure from this
port of the squadron of armored cruisers and flotilla of torpedo
boats, accompanied by the armored cruiser Maryland, the
greatest naval demonstration in the history of the Pacific
fleet, with the best coast of Mexico as the objective, will be
recorded.
The fleet is sailing under secret orders, but it is supposed
it will put in at Mazatlan, where the disturbance was created
the other day.
GREAT TENSION REPORTED.
WASHINGTON, June 21. — Official dispatches report
great tension everywhere in Mexico, but thus far there have
been no disturbances to Americans. Americans are leaving the
country rapidly.
MILITIA ALMOST READY FOR SERVICE.
WASHINGTON, June 21 —The mobilization of the militia
-oftinues and th§ movement southward is expected to begin ir
a%w days. Nearly every railroad in the United States has
been notified to have trains in readiness for the immediate use
of the troops when they are ordered south. It is asserted tha1
the entire strength of the militia from all parts of the country
can be landed on the border four days after the first troof
starts.__
marine engineers
GET WAGE INCREASE
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TACOMA, June 17. — The Marins
Engineers’ Beneficial Association has
been granted an increase of approxi
mately 10 per cent, to take effeci
July 1. The engineers presented theii
demands this week. They wer<
granted without parley. First engi
neers, according to the new schedule
receive from $160 to $106 per month
jjtoond engineers from $105 to $90
^vni steamships operating on the Sounc
are affected.
HEARS HUMAN VOICE
OVER WIRELESS PHONE
IOWA CITY, Iowa, June 20. — Ti
hear the human voice, transmitted b>
the wireless telephone, was the privi
lege of lowu University wireless oper
ators, at work In the station here. A
message was shot from Arlington, W
Va., to Key West, Klu., as a test, ant
the Hawkeye operators caught it it
part. They could not distinguish th»
words, but the voice was beard as ii
it were calling through the air somt
rods away.
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IS
JAILED
TACOMA, June 10. — Asserting
that he had no .'lea of violating United
States laws, and was actuated by a
desire to have a splendid hand for
the American leg'u.i, recruited in Can
ada for service in France with the
British army, (’apt. H. J. Thomson of
the Canadian army, arrested in Seattle
yesterday on a charge of violating the
U. S. neutrality laws, admitted
today in the Fierce county jail, where
he is held as a federal prisoner, that
he influenced a number of Tacoma
musicians to go to Victoria and join
the legion.
"My attorney told me to say noth
ing," lie said, "but I would like to have
it known that I had no idea that I was
violating the law, or I wouldn’t have
acted as 1 have been charged. I ob
tained leave of absence from my re
giment, and without my colonel's per
mission came across the line to find
some of the musicians with whom 1
served in the Spanish-Amerlcan war
| in Cuba, I’orto Rico and the Philip
pines. 1 found two of them in Seat
tie and one in Tacoma, and they were
tickled to death to have a chance tt
get into my band and go to the front
again. I paid no fares, but merely
told them the circumstances and thai
they could enlist in Victoria, thinking
that by doing this I was not violating
the law.”
Fought In U .$. Wars.
Captain Thomson, who is 59 year*
oyld, said he saw service with the
United States infantry in the Indian
war and helped to bring Sitting Bui!
back from Canada after his conference
with the Canadian commissioners. He
speaks the Indian dialect fluently urn:
said he was used as an interpretei
for the United States army in check
ing up the interviews with Sitting Bull
to make sure interpretations by ar
Indian half-breed were correct. He
also fought in the Riel rebellion ir
Canada.
"When the Spanish-American wai
broke out,” he said, ”1 brought 18 men
with ine from Winnipeg, and we en
listed in the 7th U. S. infantry ane
went to Chickamauga first.”
BOMB SENT TO GOV. SPR)
GOER OFF IN GAR
BUTTE, June 17. — A package in
the United States mail, which proved
to contain a bomb, exploded in tht
mail car of the Northern Pacific train
here last night wrecking the car, but
causing no loss of lives.
The package was addressed to Gov
ernor William Spry, and was ad
dressed to Salt Lake City.
Parts of the bomb were found it
the wreckage and according to United
States secret service agents in this
city, the bomb was of a new make.
The stamp showing where the boml
was mailed was lost and the sack con
tainlng the package was destroyed sc
no trace can be made.
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The steamer Hush made an unsuc
cessful attempt to pull the steamei
Pavlof off the beach at Tugidak is
land, where she was wrecked Febru
ary 17. The two watchmen were taken
off the vessel and she was given up
as a total loss. Hea,vy seas have
pounded the steamer until she is bad
ly strained.
PEACE TO BRING
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BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN
I FRANCE, June 10. — (Correspond
fence of the Associated Press.) — The
f idea that enormous quantities of ma
terial will be immediately in demand
to rebuild the destroyed sections of
i France and Belgium once peace comes
f seems mistaken.
j "We shall not be able to buy many
things until we have something to
sell which will bring us money to
buy with," said a citizen of Ypres, the
I most ruined of cities, and where the
wreckage is still pounded by shells.
No civilian inhabitants are allowed ]
to live in the city; but an indication j
'of how reconstruction will begin isj
evident in the shanties which have
been built near the front, often in
the zone of shell fire. Boards, dis-1
carded oil cans beaten flat, salvaged j
tiles or bricks and any other kind .of
material that can be procured at no
expense are used to make a shelter
for a man and his family.
| When the refugee returns to his
ruined village or town in the fighting
zone his first object will be a roof
over his head before he sets out to
reclaim acres which have grown up to
weeds and are pockmarked with shell
holes; or, if he is in business, he will
want any kind of temporary premises
on the site of his old place of busi
ness—which he will occupy because
it is his and because it is there that
his old customers may expect to find
j mm.
The simple wooden houses which |
the army has built for "rest camps”
for the soldiers when out of the
trenches, will become squatter settle
ments. Only less amazing than the
amount of material which the army
will leave behind because It Is not
worth transporting back to England,
will be the use the thrifty French and
Belgians will make of It. For up to
the very moment of peace, whether it
comes this year or five years hence,
the army must have ample material
in reserve for continuing the war.
Lumber, wooden supports for barb
wire, timbering for the trenches and
dugouts will be adnpted to their ne
cessities by impoverished people who
have suffered from the loss of prop
erty and enforced idleness. Any
funds they have saved will be needed
for immediate capital to buy stocks of
goods or farm Implements and -ini
mals. It will probably be years be
fore the permanent buildings will tal o
the place of temporary sheltese.
The restoration of such splendid
public buildings as the Cloth Hall at
ypres and the Hotel de Villa in Arras
will come only when the civic pros
perity will permit, usually an Indem
nity or a government grant is d. itri- ,
buted for the purposes. Even in that
case the first practical use of mum y
and labor will be to restore bas'i e-s
to somethink like its normal ,'.iuc
tions.
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BRITISH MOVE IN PERSIA.
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LONDON, June 20. — A Reuter dis
patch from Teheran says that General
Sykes, with a British column, on '
Monday entered Kerman, the princi
pal town of southeastern Persia.
The purpose of this movement fs to ■
maintain order in the British sphere
of Persia. Minor disturbances there
have been attributed to German and
Turkish emissaries.
GERMANY SENDS
HELP TO STEM
RUSS OFFENSIVE
LONDON, June 21.—Six divisions of German troops, num
bering 120,000 men, have been hurried to the east to check the
Russian offensive in the direction of Lemberg. Two German
divisions also are en route to the Lutsk Kovel fronts, where the
Russians have been steadily advancing in face of the strongest
-pposition which can be offered by the Austrians.
The Russians already have captured more than 150,000
prisoners and many guns, in addition to immense quantities of
war supplies.
The Austrians, supported by German troops, counter at
tacked with great vigor on this northern flank, and General
Brusiloff ’s armies appear to have checked the Russian advance.
NORTHWESTERN TO SAIL'
VIA OOTSIOE PASSAGE I
—
The steamship Northwestern, of the j
\laska Steamship Company, is due t>
irrive from the west tomorrow night
ind will sail for the south Friday |
norning. She will take the outside j
iassage from Cordova direct to Cape
Flattery.
The steamship Mariposa, of the
tame line, sailed for the west last
light at 10:30 o'clock. She had thci'
ollowing passengers from Cordova:;'
Urs. T. I>. Hunt, A. I). McDonald, Miss|
•"lorence Wilson. Mrs. Delia Corraggej
ind Mrs. J. Y. Ostrander.
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GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SAYS
GLACIER RECEDES
WASHINGTON, June 17. — The |
United States geological survey tells]
he following interesting story of how
in Alaskn glacier has "crawfished"
our and a half miles in fifteen years:
"Fifteen years ago a member of the
United States geological survey map
>ed the front of the Barry glacier,
vhich is in the northwest corner of 1
Prince William Sound Alaska. In
1901 it was found that the front of
.he glacier had gone back about three
niles from the position it occupied in 1
899. B. L. Johnson, of the geological
survey, examined the front of Barry '
glacier in the rail of 1914, and deter- '
nined that the total retreat of the
glacier between 1910 and 1914 ap- '
reared to be about 8,200 feet, a retreat 1
jf four and a half miles in fifteen
,-ears. A short account of the retreat]
>f this glacier by Mr. Johnson has]1
lust been published as professional 1
vaper 98-C. It includes a sketch map!1
lowing the position of the glacier
ront in seven different years and 1
several reproductions of photographs 1
>f the glacier.”
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IAPAN AND AMERICA FIGHT
FOR GERMANY’S LOST TRADE '
MEOAN, Sumatra, Dutch East In-11
lies, June 17. — Both Americans and'1
rapanese are endeavoring to obtain
jermany's former Far Eastern mar
tets.
Before the war many Japanese deal
>rs on this coast were at the verge of j I
jankruptcy. They have since ob j i
ained capital from friends at Slnga- j i
tore and have developed wholesale '
md retail trade. They have achieved j 1
nuch success in dealing in such ar |(
ides as cement and beer. t
American articles are now to be t
bund in every European store, in
luding shoes, socks and cotton goods. 1
I'hey are dearer than the European, I
jut their quality is regarded h'gh'y I
md there is a good sale 1
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William Cooley took out n nugget
,s lued at $96.00 recently on Kirkm-.n ,
reek, in the Dawson country.
BRITISH NAVAL
II IIII
GECE
\TMKNS. Greece, .June 17 — (('or
pspondence of the Associated Press.)
It is announced that Rear Admiral
lubert S. Gardale. the acting head
»f (he British naval mission in Greece
ind at present the ranking officer of
he Royal Hellenic navy on active ser
ice, will soon relinquish his post and
eave Greece, lie has been one of
he most prominent figures in Athens
luring the war. for in his dual capa
• ity as a Britisher and an admiral
<f the Greek navy, he has been a fac
er in quieting many of the internal
lissensions in this country, which,
■ver since the war started, has been
he scene of a continual pulling and
milling of warring interests.
One day Admiral Gardale has been
ailed upon to pronounce for the
'King's party" and again on the next
lay to speak for the Venizelists. the
idherents of the popular statesman
vho desired to see Greece take up
irms against the central powers. The
idmiral appears to have been a favor
te of both King Constantine and Veni
:elos. His relations with the royal
amily are of long standing, beginning
vith his service under the personal
■ommand of the then Crown Prince
'’onstantlne in the first Balkan war.
teeently the king acted as godfather
o the admiral's son, naming the in
ant Constantine.
On the outbreak of the European
var in 1914 Admiral Cardale. securing
eave from the Greek government,
ook the squad of British naval gun
lers in Serbia in hand, organized the
triti,sh, French and Russian heavy ar
iilery defenses of Belgrade, success
ullv mined the Danube and Sava,
mnk a few Austrian monitors, wore
he uniform of a Serbian colonel of
sngineers for six months, received the
irder and star of the White Eagle of
ierhia frotp the hands of King Peter
limself. and the Karageorge medal
or personal bra.very.
SAVES H1S BREAD.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., June 18. —
Huong the Interesting mementoes of
he great war the “vets" are bringing
o Birmingham, one of the strangest
s u piece of hardtack in possession of
!\ K. Perkins, of HartsviUe, Tenn. The
lardtack was among the last pieces
if rations served at Gettysburg. Hard
s a brick is the piece of hardtack,
ml Mr. Perkins says it "always was.’’
Mr. Perkins served in Pickett's di
ision. Eleventh Virginia cavalry,
.ongstreet's corps, and is attending
he annual reunion of Confederate
eterans.
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E. K. Buck has been appointed 'ry
ngineer and building inspector et
tinea a.