The Cordova Daily Times
VOLUME ONE. NUMBER L’.'UU_UoRDOVA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER l(j‘ 1015. PRICE TEN CENTS.
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NEW YORK. Sept. 16—The Britist
and French financial commissioners
who are endeavoring to raise a loai
of a billion dollars in this country, pro
fess themselves to be well satisfiet
with the progress of the negotiations
and feel certain that they will get th<
desired loan. Pledges for large sut
scriptions to the loan are rapidl:
coming in. The Standard Oil million
aires, including John D. Rockefeller
Jr., are all considering participate
in the loan, and their taking a larg
slice of it is almost assured. The prc
German bankers are being ignored ii
the matter, and no attempt will b
made to secure a portion of the loa
from them.
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Prothemus Accepts Challenge.
Capt. Billson, of the Prothemu
Calliopian base ball club, accepts th
challenge of the Olympia Sluggers t
a base game of ball on Sunda;
Sept. 17, at 230 p. m.
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Northwestern On The Way.
The steamer Northwestern le:
Skagway at 5 o’clock this morning an
is due in Cordova tomorrow night s
9 o'clock.
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A train arrived from Chitina thi
afternoon and a local will leave for th
interior tomorrow morning.
Special to The Times By Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16—The secretary of the interior
said today that when Congress meets in December, he wlil ask
the legislators for an appropriation of eight or ten million dol- i
lars for use in government construction in Alaska, and which
would be sufficient to carry the Railroad Commision until next
session of Congress in 1917. Mr. Lane said that he felt that
j Congress would grant any reasonable sum asked for the pur
i pose of developing Alaska, and that he personally felt that
Alaska would more than repay the money expended in develop
ing her resources. Lane asserted confidently that time would
show that the government railroad in Alaska would be a good
investment, and would pay reasonable returns on the amount of
capital necessary for construction. He said he was not in favor
of issuing of bonds for $33,000,000 so that construction of the
road could be rushed to completion, but felt that the money
should be appropriated as needed from the general funds in the
treasury.
ROUMANIA MOBOLIZES FOR WAR
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COPENHAGEN, Sept. 16—The German newspapers have
• been permitted by the government to publish sensational tele
grams intimating that Roumania is about to participate in the
war. According to the dispatches appearing, this participa
? tion may be expected at any time, and is predicted for the im
■ mediate future. The Austro-German commanders have massed
- large bodies of troops along the Roumanian border, and this
i has resulted in Roumania ordering the mobilization of a large
5 portion of her army, aijd the calling back of all reservists
abroad. Roumania has persistently refused to allow the Teu
I ton allies to transport supplies of foodstuffs and munitions of
war across her territory to Turkey, and this has caused a con
stantly increasing irritation between Roumania and the central
powers. The animosity of Austria and Germany has been ex
pressed plainly several times in the negotiations over the mat
ter, and the fact that the newspapers in Germany are now print
ing these sensational telegrams lead's to the conclusion that Ber
lin is preparing the public for the entrance of another bellig
erent into the European conflict.
INTERNAL DISSENTION IN RUSSIA
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a PETROGRAD, Sept. 1(>—The internal affairs of the Rus
• sian empire are rapidly approaching a crisis, and to prevent
any untoward disturbances to the nation, when all its forces
forces should be working in harmony to drive tin1 invaders
beyond the frontier, the premier today prolonged the Duma.
| Tin* announcement lias deeply stirred public feeling and dis
t turbances have occurred which have been put down with a ruth
less hand by the police. The liberal factions in the Duma are
aroused at this exercise of monarchial government and ar
s rangements are being made for a meeting of the District Coun
e cils, and Municipal Leagues to be held in Moscow nex.t week.
The majority in the Duma had put forth a program comprising
some striking reforms, and the government, being opposed
prolonged the legislature to prevent their enactment int<
law. Before taking this action Premier Goremykin went t<
the field headquarters and consulted with the Czar, who ai
once returned to Petrograd. The government announces tha
while it is in sympathy with the proposed reforms, it feels tlm
their enactment at this time would In* untimely, and have a do
leterious effect irfton the army. Steps have been taken to fore
stall any popular demonstrations against the government, am
reserves have mobilized in the principal cities with instruction
to supress all public meetings tending to critize he action o
the premier.
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CHICAGO, Sept. 16—The news re
ceived here today of the adverse de
cision rendered by the British prize
court in the cases of meat supplies
shipped from here consigned to firms
in Copenhagen, is a distinct blow to
the hog packers, and means that they
stand to loose about fifteen million
dollars. All the big packing houses
are effected by the decision, and other
large cargoes of canned meats and lard
are still held by the English Admiral
ty, which cases have not yet been ad
judicated, but which the packers feel
will take the same course as that of
the four Norwegian vessels, which
carried the cargoes condemned.
ELDAT BODY TIED
TREE
BROWNSVILLE, Sept. 15—Two
dead Mexicans, who had been killed
by rifle fire, were found near Edinburg
5 today. Another dead Mexican was
seen floating past this city in the
river tied to the trunk of a tree.
LONDON, Sept. 16—The British prize court which has
been considering the cases of Scandinavian ships seized with
cargoes from America, has finally adjudicated the first batch
of the cases, and has decided that the cargoes are forfeited to
the British government, holding that their consignment to a
neutral country was a subtefuge, and that the goods were really
intended for transshipment to Germany. The cases decided
are those of four Norweigian ships, who had cargoes from the
United States composed principally of meats. The value of the
goods thus forfeited to the crown is placed at many millions of
dollars.
LONDON, Sept. It!—The prize court which found against
the four Norwegian ships, which had been seized loaded with
a consignment to Denmark of products from the. Chicago pack
ing houses, found that enormous shipments of meat and lard,
bound for Copenhagen, were not really consigned for Danish
consumption, but were intended for the German army. A large
cargo of rubber, manifested in the bill of lading as gum, was
also among the goods confiscated by the crown. Evidence had
been secured touching in the real distination of the shipments,
by secret agents of the British government, and disclosed a
huge plot to evade the British blockade by shipments to Ger
many and Austria via neutral ports.
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- HOLD F RI1NRSH1P BULGARII
ATHENS, Sept. 16—It is now considered settled that
Turkey and Bulgaria have reached a final agreemeni
and that all differences between the two countries
have been satisfactorily adjusted, by Turkey yielding
territorial concessions to her neighbor. The full tex'
of the agreement has not been made public, but it i:
felt Bulgaria would want the whole of the Deadegatch railway
to be within her border, and this has probably been allowed by
the Ottoman government. The agreement contemplates ;
tracing of the new frontier between the two countries by staf
officers of the German army. Both governments will officially
ratify the new treaty within the near future.
GERMANS CAPTURE CRY IF PINSK
BERLIN, Sept. 1(!—The war office issued an official sate
ment today announcing that the Teuton forces had captured
the Russian city of Pinsk, about a hundred miles east of Brest
Litovsk. Mackensen’s forces have been steadily progressing
in this direction for the past two weeks, And the fall of the city
has been expected'. The Russian defenders had evacuated the
town and destroyed all the fortifications.
PETROGRAD, Sept. 16—It is reported from authoritive
sources that Czar Nicholas has decided to grant full amnesty
to all political prisoners. If true, this means that over a hun
dred thousand persons, men and women, will be set free from
the various prison throughout the empire, and that the deten
tion camps in Siberia will be practically depopulated.
The Czar has issued an imperial ukase calling to the colors
all of the territorial army reserves, which will add about a mill
ion men tp the forces already in the field.
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PARIS, Sept. 15—The Ministry of Marine has announced
that measures have been taken to carry out a new plan which
is expected' to deal satisfactorily with the problem presented by
i tln> activity of Germany’s submarines. The navy has already
put the measures in execution and the government says that the
menace of the submarine will be soon be seriously diminished if
not entirely removed. The precautions already taken against
the submersibles in the English Channel have flroved so eflee
; tive that only isolated aggressions are possible.
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; CHRISTIANIA, Sept. 16—Unusual importance may be at
• tached to the forthcoming elections of members of parliament,
■ for which the different parties have already adoptee! their plat
i forms. The Storthing, as the entire Norwegian legislative
t body is called, is elected every third year, direct by the people
’ with women now entitled to vote under the same conditions a?
men. The election Will take place this fall.
LONDON, Sept. Hi—News received from the eastern front
today shows that the Russian armies are manifesting an in
creasing disposition to assume the offensive at many points
in the battle line. This is especially true at the extreme left
line, where the Slavs are continuing their vigorous offensive
against the Austrians and are gradually regaining the ground
they lost in eastern Galicia.
In the center in Poland, the Russian defensive has stiffened
and succeeded in checking the German advance. Near Svient
sany, the Russians repelled a fierce Teuton attack, and com
j polled' the invaders to fall back, taking many German prisoners,
and some cannon. It was at this point that Hindenberg’s cal
[valry had cut the Petrograd railroad running from Dvinsk to
iVilna. In the previous German attack the Russians had lost
i some prisoners, but in the counter attack they captured more
men than they had lost.
GENEVA, Switzerland, Sept. 16—The Journal TV Geneve
states that Germany has prepared not one but two strong lines
of defense from tin* North Sea to Switzerland. From the same
j source comes the affirmation that after consolidating its posi
tion around Warsaw, the Germans will entrench all along the
; Russian front and wait for peace in most favor aide conditions.
| According to this authority, von Hindenberg’s plan does not in
volve a pursuit of the Russian army beyond the line required
: to rectify the front east of Warsaw’.
. CUN TO REGAIN 1NE01IS
PEKING, Sept. 16—China is about to regain nominal con
trol of Outer Mongolia, which declared its freedom from Chiu
ese suzerainty at the revolution in 1911 and set up an indepen
dent government w ith the Urga Kutuktu as >ovvreign.
In accordance with the recently perfected Ohino-Russo
Mongolian agreement, Outer Mongolia again recognizes China's
suzerainty, but becomes autonmous and retains its right to ad
minister its internal affairs and'engage in international negoti
ations respecting commerce and industry.