1 The Cordova Daily Times FIfH
VOLUME ONE. NUMBER FIFTY-FIVE. CORDOVA, ALASKA, ^TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 191ft. PRICE TEN CENTS.
ATTACKS RAIDS UNFORTIFIED TOWNS
Among the arrivals on (he train
from Chitina this afternoon was De
puty U. S. Marshal Hoffman, of the
Sushanna precinct, who brought out
with him James Kingston, charged
with the murder of Louis Schornbom,
a storekeeper in the Sushanna about
December 26. Kingston was arrested
by Marshal Hoffman in the Sushanna,
and at a hearing before Commissioner
Finnegan was bound over to the grand
jury.
Marshal Hoffman with his prisoner
and George Goshaw left Sushanna
Sunday morning last at 4 a. n with
a dog team and reached McCarthy at
7 o'clock Sunday evening, having
made the trip in fifteen h ur*
On arrival here Kingston was lodged
in the federal jail, and unless he re
ceives orders to the contrary Mar
shal Hoffman will accompany him to
Valdez on the next boat.
SHIP* ARE
SWIPED WITH
ORDERS
NEW YORK, Feb. 9—The ship
yards In this section, and in fact
throughout the country, are witness
ing the greatest revival in shipbuilding
in many years. Every yard is receiv
nig more orders for new vessels then
they can fill, and are compelled
to turn a portion of them away. All
of the new vessels will be under
American registry. The revival in
this industry is ascribed to the tying
up of so many ships of foreign regis
try due to the war, leaving a shortage
of ocean carriers that has brought
about a big increase in freight rates.
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DENVER, Feb. 9—The senate this
afternon passed the bill providing for
state-wide prohibition. The bill pro
vides stringent provisions for the en
forcement of the prohibition law un
der the amendment to the constitution
adopted last November.
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WASHINGTON. Feb. 9—President
Wilson today denied that Colonel
House, a close personal friend, had
gone to Europe for the purpose of
arranging peace between the belliger
ent nations. The president also de
nies the report that communication
relating to a peaceful settlement of
the war had been exchanged between
Russia, Austro-IIungary and the Unit
ed States.
LONDON, Feb. 9—Lord Charles Bo reford, in an
address today, demanded' that (treat Britain treat
German raiders on undefended places as pirates.
He declared that the murder of women and cliildn n
by means of bombs dropping from airships or the
shells from the big guns of warships, fired into un
fortified towns which are without means of defense,
is as much piracy as are attacks upon defenseless
merchant ships and tin* slaughter of the crews and
passengers. When caught, such raiders, he do
flares, should he tried hy court martial and publicly
hanged.
LONDON, Feb. 9—British observers with the
Russian army attach great importance to the whole
sale surrendering of the racial contingenats which
compose the Austro Hungarian army to the Rus
sians, and may be the deciding factor in the invasion
of Hungary by the Russian troops. Those divisions
of the Austro-Hungarian army composts! largely of
Bosnians, Poles, Bohemians, Moravians, Roumanians
ami Italians, yield' readily to the Czechs, and hail
the Russians as brothers.
These people, subjects of the Austro-Hungarian
empire through conquest, have no love for the Aus
train government, nor are they in favor of the war.
Their surrender at critical moments has led to the
defeat of the Austrians on several occasions, and
tlder disaffection may lead to the utter defeat ami
disruption of the empire.
ARE HIU BY CRUISERS
PETROGRAD, Feb. 9—The Turkish cruiser Miharali,
formerly the German cruiser Breslau, bombarded the town of
Yaha in Crimea yesterday, doing very little damage. So far
as reported four stores suffered some damage by the shells, but
across the Black Sea bombarded the Turkish port of Trebizond
there were no casualities. In retaliation the Turkish cruisers
in Aremenia.
TERRIFIC FIGHTING IN PROGRESS
AT ROTH EXTREMITIES OF THE
EASTERN BATTLE LINE
PETROGRAD, Feb. 9—Engagements of rapidly increasing
intensity are in progress at the two extremities of the battle
front in the eastern zone, from East Prussia to the Carpathians.
On the front west of Warsaw the lighting is subsiding, the Ger
mans having ceased their ferocious charges- From Flock,
north of the Vistula, in Poland, to Tilsit in the extreme north
of East Prussia, the fighting in continuous, the Germans ap
parently having assumed'the offensive from Gumbinnen and the
Mazurian lakes as far south as Lipno, in Russian Poland.
Among the prisoners taken by the Russians in the fighting
along the Bzura river were a number of German women, some
of them with rifles in their hands and in the first line of
trenches.
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LONDON, Fob. 9—Tho steamer Wilhelmina, with food
stuffs from Now York to Hamburg, passed tho Lizard this
morning onrouto through tho English Channel.
GREECE ENTERS STRNE PROTEST j
ZONE
/V THE NS, Fob. 9—Replying to tho Gorman notification of
the extension of the war zone to embrace the coasts of France
and England, the Grecian government insists that tho right of
Greece be respected, and declares that Grecian ships must con
tinue to enjoy the full rights guranteed by international law.
JIIPIIII ORDERSME STRICT
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TOKIO, Feb. 9—The .Japanese cabinet has ordered stricter
discipline of the German and' Austrian prisoners of war in the
.Japanese prison camps. German residents in Japan will also
undergo strict supervision by the government officials.
MILLIONAIRE REAM
GOES TO HIS REWARD
NEW YORK, Feb. 9—Norman
Ream, a millionaire director of rail
road camps and industrial corpora
tions, died here today.
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You will be pleased If you eat at
the Windsor grill.
ANOTHER BORDER FOR
UNCLE SAM’S HOSTERY
Alfonso Jarber, a Mexican, who this
afternoon sentenced by Commissioner
A. J. Adams to n jail term of two
months for attempting to sell a mac
kinaw coat which had been loaned
him by Harry Barker, a Philtppino.
The Mexican plead not guilty and
testified that he was so drunk at the
time that he didn’t remember any
thing about the negotiations.
PIONEER EXPRESSMAN
DIES IN NEW YORK
NEW YORK, Feb. 9—James C. Far
go, founder of the Wells-Fago Express,
died at his home in this city today at
the age of eighty-tlve years.
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FIRST BATCH OF UNDE
SIRABLES IS BROUGHT
BEFORE COURT ON A
CHARGE OF THEFT
As a result of the crusade to clean
up the town of undesirable charc
ters, three men, charged with petty
larceny, were tried in the commis
sioner's court this afternoon, two of
whom were sentenced to terms of im
prisonment, while the third escaped
from lack of evidence.
Numerous cases of petty thievery
have aroused the officials to the fact
that it was about time to round up
the criminal element. About a week
ago a case of eggs, a boiled ham and
three bricks of butter were stolen
from the warehouse of the O’Neill &
Slater Co. Deputy Marshal Bright
well got busy and as a result of his
efforts William Kinsell, George Hyan
and Thomas Sullivan were taken into
custody charged with the theft. At
the trial this afternoon Kinsell was
adjudged guilty and sentenced to im
prisonment in the federal jail for sev
en months; Ryan was also found guil
ty and sentenced to four months im
prisonment, while Sullivan escaped on
account of evidence sufficient to con
nect with him with the crime. Dejy
uty Marshal Brightwell and City Mar
shal Wain found the goods today in a
cabin on the 13-acre tract, where part
of them had been sold, and the remain
der in a cabin on the hill occupied by
the three men. The trio recently ar
rived from Juneau.
Kinsell and Ryan claimed that the
goods had been brought to the cabin
by a man named Evans, who went
south on the last boat. The butter
and eggs were both identified by Mr.
O'Neill by special marks thereon.
The officers had been on the watch
for the goods for more than a week,
following the discovery by Marshal
Wain that the warehouse door was
open on the evening of Jan. 30, but
were unable to locate them until to
day, when they learned that Kinsell
and Ryan were trying to sell them.
Rater Sullivan, who waB released
on the charge of theft, was re-arrest
ed on a charge of vagrancy.
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A train from Chitina arrived short
ly after 3 o'click this afternoon with
a number of passengers and consid
erable mail from Interior points.
LONDON, Fob. 1)—Advices received here today state that
the three columns of the Turkish army, which started south
through Syria to invade Egypt, is in full retreat. The march
through the desert resulted in the* complete disorganization of
the army.
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OF FLAG er LUSITANIA
^ ASHING ion, L eb. I)—Fears that the use* of the Ameri'
can flag hv the British steamer Luistania, of tin* t’unard Line,
might lead to complications, is set at rest this morning by an
announcement made by the administration. After a careful
consideration of the subject it was decided that the use of other
flags by nations at war is such a customary practice that no
formal protest can be lodged with the British government in
the case of the Lusitania. However, the government will un
doubtedly send a note to Great Britain, pointing out tin* dan
gers to which neutral shipping will be subjected' if the practice
is continued.
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NKW \()RK, Feb- !)—All ships, regardless of nationality,
arriving or leaving British ports, are only advised bv the Ad
miralty to proceed with caution tml to watch closely for German
mines and submarines while in British waters. From this it is
apparent that the Amiralty does not apprehend any danger
1 rom other vessels of the German fleet other than the sub
marines, despite the blockade proclamation of the German gov
ernment.
HIBUHG BUVS FOODSTUFFS
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HAM Bl RG, Feb. il The city council has appropriated'
the sum of three million dollars for the purchase of foodstuffs,
todder and other supplies, to be delivered at once, that the city
may be prepared tor any emergency that may arise as a result
of the war.
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I’KTKOGHAl), Feb. 9- The Duma reassembled today, and 1
immediately took up the discussion of the demand for greater 1
popular rights, and the abolition of political and religious dis '
abilities. i
HOW SEWARD BOOSTS
CORDOVA'S RAILROAD
In Popular Mechanics for this month
appears a story about the Copper River
railroad which will probably tickle
the chamber of commerce of Cordo
va to death. The story says that'
w hen Copper river overflows it leaves j
solid ice on the track and that nothing «
but dynamite can clear the right of t
way. It alBO says that forty feet of t
snow cover the tracks at times and t
that fuel must he carried to the rotary
with dog teams. Just imagine a t
story like that at the very time Cor- r
dova Is paying for a special repre- 1
tative at Washington to prove that ;
railroads in all outer parts of the
world are failures and frosts. Seward
Gateway. (
WASHINGTON. Feb. 9—'The Ameri
can embassy at Mexico City will not
go to Vera Cruz, having refused the
invitation of General Carranza, who
lias nuked all foreign diplomats to
make that city, where he has set up
ills capital, their headquarters. The
state department has received advices
from Mexico that the Villa forces
have been victorious at Monterey, cap
turing the city.
EMBASSY STAYS
CITY
VICTORIA, B. C„ Feb. 9—Reports
received here this afternon state that
twenty-one miners in the Wellington
mine, at Nanaimo are missing, and it
is believed have met their death by
drowning. The miners, while work
ing In the drift, broke linto some
abandoned workings which were filled
with water. The waters flooded the
new workings, and while a number of
the men working in that portion of
I he mine made their escape, twenty
one men are still In the drift, and all
hope of recovering them alive has
been abandoned.
PUBIS LIKELY
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1>ES MOINES, Feb. 9—The prohibi
ion forces won the first victory to
lay in the Iowa state senate, when a
cst vote was taken on the prohibi
ion bill. The vote stood thirty in
avor- of -the measure to eighteen
i gainst
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SPECIAL SESSION
HELD OP
WASHINGTON, Keb. 9 The admin
strntion ship purchase bill ia still
ossing about in the Senate, with the
tepublicun filibustering tactics to pre
ent any action thereon, in full swing.
It a conference at the White House
rith the Democratic leaders. President
Vilson stated that he had no intention
>f dropping the measure, despite the
litter fight that the Republicans were
raging against it, and intimated that
e would call a special session of con
fess immediately following the pres
nt session. The Republican mem
ters, who are opposing the measure,
eclare that they are ready to talk
util March 4.
Senotar Reed, of Missouri, an ad
ministration Democrat, has proposed
n order for the arrest of all absen
ces from the senate, and the sen
te is engaged in debating the motion.
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