The Cordova Daily Times
VOLUME ONE. NUMBER 261. CORDOVA, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1i>15. PRICE'I EN PENIS.
BOSTON TEAM GETS THE BACON
•PLANS FOR BIG
INCREASE IN
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 13—The navy
board has laid out a plan for increas
ing the navy that will include besides
the construction of two superdread
naughts, three battle cruisers, thirty
submarines, a number of torpedo boat
destroyers, and other war vessels in
proportion, all to be completed and
ready for service within five years.
The plan as outlined contemplates
0j greatly enlarging the Pacific fleet, and
bringing its standard of efficiency up
to that of the Atlantic fleet. The
cost of this huge increase in the navy
will be tremendous, and it is expected
that the coming session of Congress
will be asked to approprrate 248 mil
lion dollars for this purpose. It is
said that the plan has the approval or
President Wilson, and that the ad
ministration will support the meas
ures to be drawn up under the sup
ervision of the navy planning board.
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OBJECTS IKS. CO.
TO ALLIES
CHICAGO, Oct. 13—Olga Walsh, a
policy holder of the Mutual Life In
surance Co. of New York, has filed
suit in the federal court here asking
for an injunction to restrain the com
pany from investing ten million dol
lars of its funds in the recent loan
floated by a banking syndicate in New
York to Great Britian and France,
the lady says she is opposed to the
continuation of the war and objects
to the people of this country doing
anything to prolong the contest, and
that her motives in bringing the suit
are not founded upon pro-German
sympathy but on ethical objections to
making money out of the blood now
being shed in Europe.
TWO VAGS ARE PICKED UP
AND GIVEN JAIL SENTENCES
Yesterday George Caird and Thomas
Cathcart, who were arrested by Chief
of Police Dooley, on the charge of vag
rancy, were given a hearing before
Commissioner Medley and sentenced
to srve thirty each in the federal jail.
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S. O. Breedman returned from Mc
Carthy yesterday.
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Special to The Times By Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 13—Boston won the world’s
championship by capturing the fourth straight game from the
Philadelphia Nationals this afternoon. The score was 5 to 4.
As a result of the five games played each player on the Boston
team will receive $3,800 and each player on the Phillies will get
$2,500.
BOSTON, Oct. 13—The fourth game of the world’s series
was captured by Boston yesterday in the hardest fought game
of the contest so far by a score of 2 to 1. Ernest Shore pitch
ed’ fine ball for the winning team and the backstop work of
Forrest Cady was all that could be desired.
The Philadelphia battery was Chalmers and Burns, and
while Boston got eight hits off the Phillies mound artist, they
were well scattered, and lie pitched a creditable game. Burns
now played and lived up to the fine record' he has established
and performed behind the plate in excellent style,
performed behind the plate in excellent style.
The Phillies scored seven hits off Shore’s delivery and play
ed errorless ball in the field. Boston made one error. The
game on the1 whole was not as replete with fine plays as the one
Monday lmt the mammoth crowd which attended cheered at
every opportunity and the interest was sustained throughout.
Boston made one run in the third and one in the sixth. Yes
terday was Columbus Day, the anniversary of tin* day Chris
topher placed American on the map, and therefore made it
possible for the sport of baseball to reach its present popularity,
and the day is a state holiday in Massachussets. A tremendous
holiday crowd turned out which filled every nook and cranny of
the ground's, the official attendance being placed at forty-five
thousand. The gate receipts were $S2,000, thus breaking the
record for both attendance and gate receipts at a single base
ball game.
It is now estimated that the players on the winning team
will each receive four thousand dollars for their share of the
world’s series, while the losing team will divide at the rate of
$2,500 per man, this for about one week’s work.
Arrangements are being made for a tour of the c'ountry by
both teams after the completion of the series, and the plans
contemplate a trip westward playing games enroute, and end
ing up at San Francisco and San Diego, where the players will
have an opportunity to visit the two coast fairs Both teams
left here yesterday afternoon immediately after the game tak
ing the train to Philadelphia, where a game will be played
today. _
AMERICA FIRST, LAST, ALWAYS
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Special to The Times By Associated Press.
WASHINGTON”, Oct. 13—The twenty-fifth anniversary of
the founding of tin* Daughters of the America.1 G.-volution was
celebrated here today by a meeting of the officers of the order
in convention. The principal exercises included an address bv
President Wilson, who spoke to the large assemblage and dwelt
jon tin; need and virtues of patriotism. In the course of his
speech the president was frequently interrupted by applause,
! and when he said that the peff^WrJr-fhis country should stand
'for America, first, last, and always, the auditorium rang with
j cheers and handclapping. Wilson referred to the situation of
| foreign bom citizens of the l nited States, and in regard to
! where their loyalty should In* applied. He said that he was
anxious for any line-up of events that would force the enemies
lot' this country.into the open, and show .just where these foreign
■ horn citizens stood, as la* was confident that their loyalty to
'America would stand any test. Wilson spoke of the interna
tional negotiations now going on between this country and
(treat Britian and Germany involving important questions con
cerning tin* freedom of the seas, and tin* rights of neutrals fo
deal with other neutrals in legimate trade, and asserted! that
the I’nited States would insist upon the recognition;and Pn
forcemeat of the ancient accepted principles of international
law.
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TEUTONS ADVANCING SERBIA
GREECE TO I
LONDON, Oct. 13—The Teuton forces are advancing
southward through Serbia trying to cut the Serbian lint* of
communication north and south. It is admitted on all sides
that the situation is serious for both the Serbians and the al
lied troops who have been hurrying into country from Saloniki.
The capital of Serbia has again been transferred, this timt
from Islip to Monastir in the extreme southwest portion of the
country. Apparently Greece has determined to ignore the
' obligations of her treaty with Serbia, which calls for her armed
aid in case of attack by Bulgaria, and the Athens government
will do no more than to preserve an armed neutrality.
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Japan May Send Troops Into the Field.
TOKIO, Oct. 13—The impression is growing here that
Japan will send troops to aid the allies in Europe. 1 his action
will be the result of Bulgaria’s participation in the war, as the
Japanese government feels that its own safety will ultimately
I depend upon the defeat of the Teutonic allies. The matter has
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been under consideration by the government and various con
ferences have been field between leading Japanese statesmen
and the representatives of the allied powers here.
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Roumania Gives Allies Assurance of Support.
PARIS, Oct. 13—Premier Bratano, the head of the Ron
maina government has given Italy to understand that Rou
manian operations on the side of the entente powers is-con
sidered certain, but that the government will wait uPtjjJ it
thinks the time is suitable for taking the field against the
Teutons.
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England t oRelieve Distress in Belgium.
LONDON, Oct. 13—Great Britian has pledged itself to
! raise five million dollars each month to be given to the Ameri
can Commission for Relief in Belgium. As winter approaches
the needs of the commission are increasing as Germany is doing
nothing to help the Commission relieve the distressful^condi
tions that still exist through Belgium. The commission i>
still feeding thousands and tens of thousands of Belgians, and
while considerable progress has been made toward finding pro
dirctivuu-mploynnmt for the people, tin* conditions are still such
that unless the commission remains on the job, famine condi
tions will result.
Hi OUTPUT
George Max Esterley, one of the
biggest placer mining operators in
the interior, arrived in Cordova yes
terday afternoon, accompanied by hts
; wife, having Completed his season’s
work, which was one of the best dur
ing fourteen year's operations.
Mr. Esterley and H. F. Andrus
have considerable ground in the Nizina
district, but their principal work was
done this year on claims Nos. 6 and 7
Chittitu creek, and No. 5 Rex creek.
The weather was ideal for mining and
there being plenty of water a big clean
up resulted.
, The conditions in the Nizina are
exceptional and required new mining
methods. Although generally known
ns a placer gold diggings t'>r>“ dif
ferent kinds of metal 'ver- handled in
* large quantities in the clean tips.
Besides the gold, there is placer s lver
and native copper dust ard nuggets.
Several well-knawn mining experts
anti geologists visited the property
this summer and marvelled at the
yield of the ground. There was three
| tons of placer copper in one c’ean
np. ranging from the size of buck
shot up to thp large nuggets. Romo
of thp native copper weighed as much
as 150 pounds, and Mr. Esfrrly
broncht some fine specimens out with
hint. There were also mnnv copper
arrow heads found and these had un
doubtedly beeti used by the Indians
many many years ago. and nrp val
uable curios. All of this metal assays
runs .903 fine, the same as the placer
silver, of which there is considerable,
runs .903 fine, the same at the placer
gold, the latter being worth $19 per
ounce. All of the metals are high
grade.
While a large quantity of gold dust
was extracted from the claims operat
ed, considerable work was also done
on other ground, which will be worked
extensively next season, and should
result in a record clean-up.
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First Interior Mall Arrives
The first mail of the winter season
arrived in Cordova yesterday after
noon from Fairbanks, having been
brought over the trail to Chitina in
auto trucks. On account of the poor
condition of the roads it required seven
days to make the trip, but when the
freeze-up comes it is believed the dis
tance will be covered in three days.
Tomorrow morning’s train for Cliiti'
na and Kennecott will leave at 6
o'clock instead of 8. the usual hour of
departure.
All the Heal Xews in the Times.
ALLIES MAY WITORAW TROOPS
FROM GALLIPOLI PENINSOLA
LONDON, Oct. 13—A new turn lias been taken in the war
situation in the far east. The allied commanders are seriously
considering abandoning the operations on the Gallipoli penin
sula and sending the army now in the Dardnelles into Serbia,
to assist the Serbians in repelling the Teutonic invasion. So
far this is only hinted at, but semi-official opinion is inclining to
the point of view that such a step will be taken. It is admitted
that the Teutons have taken Belgrade, but the Serbians offered
a stubborn resistance, it requiring a two day battle and terri
fic bayonet charges, before the Serbians retired. On the west
ern front the Teutons have also taken the offensive, along the
whole line, but it is believed that the supreme effort of the
Austro-Gennan forces are being concentrated in the Balkans.
Kipling’s Son Held as Prisoner by the Germans.
LONDON, Oct. 13—Budyard Kipling, who feared that his
{son John had been killed in battle in northern France, has had'
| his allayed, as he has received assurance that the boy, although
I wounded, was taken prisoner, and is safe behind the German
lines. |
BUT FIVE JURORS ARE
SECURED SCHMITZ CASE
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 13—Five jur
ors have been secured as a result of
the first days’ work over the panel in
the Schmitz case. All the witnesses
in the matter have been excused by
the court until Monday, as it is not
expected that the jury box will be fill
ed before that time.
G^o. R. Goshaw, who has been con
ducting Breedman’s store in the C'his
ana was an arrival on yesterday's
train.
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“Dutch" Blanchfleld and W. E.
Terril, Fairbanks freighters, arrived in
Cordova yesterday afternoon.
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Ears Holland, of the Alaska Road
Commission, is in town, having come
from the interior yesterday.
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Nifty job printing at the Times.
FRENCH AIRSHIPS SUPERIOR
ID TUOSE OF THE GERMANS
LONDON, Oct. 13—M. Marnlmll, an official of the French
aviation corps stated recently that in the last eleven battles
between the airships of the Germans and the French, the French
had come off victors in all but two. Marnhall insists that the
allied aeroplanes are daily showing thier superiority over the
enemy, and that tin* new form of attack in force which has been
inaugurated by the allies, has not yet been solved by the Ger
mans. Fleets of twenty to sixty aeroplanes are sent out to
bombard one point in the enmey’s camp, and' always great
damage has been done.
BERLIN, Oct. 13—Four allied aeroplanes attacked the
German positions on the western front yesterday, and the
German aero-gnns destroyed one of the machines
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