VOLUME II. NUMBER 5r>3. -> CORDOVA, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1916. . - PRICE TEN CENTS
CO (I DDKS SHIPS
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In Alaska a sturdy race is now
growing up. The children that have
cotne to the residents of the northern
territory have the advantage of the
rugged ness acquired by their pat ent s.
The weaklings have been eliminated
by the effects of the climate.
Such were the observations today of
Hr. Henry Waldo Coe. who has just
returned from a trip that took him
along the coast and well into the in
terior.
Hr. Coe was much impressed and
much surprised by what he saw and
heard in the north. For example, he
learned that the exports or Alaska this
year will exceed $75,000,hoi) in value,
ore and fish being, of course, the chief
commodities. Out of Cordova alone
in one month $:!,000,000 worth id’ crude i
copper ore was sent to the states for
refining.
Mining Activity Feature.
Hr. Coe believes that another big
movement is on in the mining regions,
lie saitl that 1,000 prospectors are now
working on Willow creek back of An
chorage, where a tree milling propo
sition is being developed that looks
quite like a producer.
“Merchants of Alaska would like toi
encourage trade with Portland." said
,1 >r. Coe. "They feel that they need j
help to put their commercial enter
prises fairly on foot and believe that
Portland should help them. They feel
that it is not neoessarv for Portland j
to enter Alaska as a competitor of
Seattle at all, because the field is wide
and (lie new regions that are now be-!
Ing built up afford plenty of business. |
They feed that Portland could fairly i
enter, however, as competitor with 1
San Francisco, especially in the north j
l
ern regions."
Portland Urged to Act.
Hr. Coe believes that Portland j
should go after the trade in Bristol!
bay, and take active part in the fish j
erics of that region.
Seattle now lias a bitter fight on
with Prince Rupert, this terminus of j
the lieu Brand Trunk railroad, over
the halibut industri Since the
through rail connection has made Uii
pert a near port for the halibut boats, !
great trainloads of fish that former
ly went east through Seattle now take
the Canadian route, in Coe believes!
.Portland should help Seattle in this
fight to retain for the t'nited States!
the control of the halibut trade.
"The people of Alaska are much
pleased with Senator chanil ' ilain and
the things he has done and is doing
for Alaska," continued the doctor.
“His work in connection with the rail
road development and the fisheries
will long lie remembered."
Hr. Coe on his return expects to
push the construetton of a new wing
to Morningside hospital, where the
Alaskan insane are eared for. The
wing will cost approximately $1(1,000. 1
SURGEONS HUE
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HAIMS, Oct l’ Itritisli surgeons
have treated lo.ooo cases and per
formed 463 operations on civilian pat
ients in (lie zones of their armies in j
France since the beginning of the war.
They had not only to treat all the
current ills of the region, hut were
required to combat the epidemics that j
follow war All the inhabitants of the
Itritisli zone were vaccinated against
typhoid, and spec ial hospitals were
created for children.
A considerable number of civilians ?
wounded by shell fire also require |
their attention.
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Making a trip of more than 3,000
miles to marry the man of her choice,
Miss Holla Klsemore, of Aberdeen, is
on her way to Fairbanks to wed
Herbert Wilson, an engineer on the
staff of the Alaska engineering com
mission.
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PARIS, Oct. 2. Following up the advantage gained over
tlie Bulgarians at Kaimakcalain heights, the Serbians ad
| vaiicod a mile and a (piarter north of the height and occupied
| the village of Kotchovie.*
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CHRISTIANIA, Oct. 2.—A German submarine entered
the Arctic ocean and torpedoed three Norwegian steamships.
LONDON, < tot. 2.—Ten Zeppelins raided England Sunday
night. Twy attempted to attack London. One was driven
a way and the other destroyed. So far as known there was no
damage done anywhere.
\ ILXXA, (tot. 2.—An official statement udmits that the
Russians gained ground in their new drive toward Lemberg.
IT/I ROG RAD, Oct. 2.—The population of Russia has in
ci'eased .>.'1,000,000 since 1897, and the total population last vear
was 182,090,000.
LOXDOX, Oct. 2. Portions of the Bulgarian line on the
Struma front were captured by the English on Saturday, in
cluding the villages of Kara, Zakioibala and' Kara Zokijar.
There was no sign of the enemy for some distance before the
English trenches. *
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PARIS, Oct. 2.—The French troops captured the German
trenches and prisoners east of Bouchavesnes.
PETROGRAD. Oct. 2. The Austrians made heavy coun
ter attacks Sunday in an attempt to regain ground lost in the
new Russian drive at Lemberg. The Austrians were repulsed
tnd 1,(100 prisoners taken.
Dl BI.IX, Ireland, Sept. dO. The charge that the Irish re
gimeiits, and particularly the Dublin Fusiliers, are being filled
up from reserves of Englishmen and Scotsmen, is repudiated bv i
the colonel lately commanding the Dublin Fusiliers battalion I
recruited from the commercial young men. There are, he says, j
not twenty men in the battalion who are not Irish, and these had j
come in because they had Irish friends in it.
FLUSHING, Netherlands, Sept. do. -King Albert of Bel
gium has aged under the heavy cares and sorrows of the present
time, and his hair is beginning to turn gray, according to the
latest nows from the Belgian front. IIU majesty never leaves
the small strip of territory over which the Belgian flag still
flies, refraining from visits to places in France or to Ste. Ad
resse, where his government has it' seal. If the king of Eng
land or President Poincare want to meet the Belgian sovereign
they have t ogo to tins corner by the Yser.
The soldiers deeply appreciate the fact that their sovereign
«nd commander in-chief shares with them the monotony of this
marshy hit of country, waiting like them for the day when Bel
gium shall he free once more. His majesty is frequently seen by
his men—in the trenches, in barracks, on the sands and in the
dunes. It is said, indeed, that no one knows better than lie the
2."> or .30 miles of trenches where the Belgian troops keep vigi
lant guard day and night.
PARIS, Kept. d(). More than seven hundred French sol
diers had, before the war, been convicted of smne offense that
involved the loss of civic rights, have he* n rehabilitated since
April, 1915, on account of some signal action at the front.
Among nine soldiers rehabilitated recently, two had died on
the battlefield, and tliei rrecords cleared on the application of
it father and a widow.
PETROGRA1), Sept. '29. The Patriotic Anti German “So
ciety of 1914” has petitioned the government to prosecute the
Extreme Right leader, M. Bulatzcl, for high trea -on, he having
striven, it is alleged, to sow discord in the ranks of the allies.
M. Bulatzcl edits the Black Hundred Weekly, the Russkv
Gra.jdanin. In the last number lie wrote an article on Mr. As
piith’s declaration concerning bringing to hook those respon
ibie for international crimes, whatever their position. (in the
ground that the declaration was directed against the kaiser,
the article contained a seurrilious diatribe against Great Bri
lain for ” planning a tribunal such as sentenced to death Mary,
jueen of Soots, and .loan of Arc.” In two years of war, con
linued the article, the British army had advanced only a few
hundred yards, and the task of bringing in the prisoner was
therefore presumably,to he imposed on Russia.
WILSON MAKES I
A LITTLE TALK
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I .< >N( J BRANCH. < >ct. 2.—The president in addressing a!
delegation of New York Democrats, asked what the Republi
can- would do if in control of the government. He said that
he had found nothing to interest him in the campaign of the
Republicans, a- he had hoped for a campaign based on real is
sues, but in this he had been disappointed. Wilson declared
that the Democratic party was the only party of the nation
»ased on the rule of the people. The president attacked the
Republican party vigorously, saying that it had outlived its
usefulness and that it was run on the thory that a few people
hall govern. He said the real issue of the present campaign
was whether or not the people shall rule.
VILLA MOVING
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SAN ANT( )NI(), <)ct. Villa, \s it li t wo hundred men, re
|K*iter at Cusihuiriachie, west of Cliilmalma City, and two fmn
dred miles from the nearest American troops, tine theory is
that Villa went to Ctisilmalmi: City hoping to secure supplies
there. Recently it was reported that lie was lacking in cloth
ing and forage.
KL I’ASO, Oct. (ionzales, commander of the Carranza!
forces in the north, left for Cliilmalma City. Chief Trevino,
commander in charge, says that (ionzales would look alter the
campaign against Villa. _
IRON MANUFACTURERS
PROLONG THEIR CONTRACT
AMSTERDAM, Oct. 2. The Lux
emburg iron manufacturers have#pro
longed their contract with the Asso
i it ion of German Smelting Furnaces
in the year R120, according to the cor
respondent of ttie "Tyd." Up to the
year l'.tlo the iron manufacturers in
the Grand Duchy were allied to the j
smelting furnaces in Lorraine, hut in
1*11 a part of them joined the big
German association and the rest short
ly afterwards followed this example.
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SEES FINE FUTURE
AWAITING CORDOVA.
"Cordova is sending more wealth
to the United Stjites than all the rest
of Alaska put together," said Jack
Dalton, Alaska pioneer and discoverer
of the Dalton trail, says the Times.
Dalton first went north in 1883.
"Several new canneries have been
built ibis summer. The amount of
copper ore shipped is enormous and
Kemendous new deposits of copper
ore are being developed in the Cop
per river valley, tributary to Cor
dova.
"Another new and successful Indus
try is the canning of Alaska clams.
\ big plant was put up last your, and
was enlarged this year."
Dalton has been in every part of
Alaska and the liritish Yukon and b«
lieves that Cordova will be one of the
biggest i lties in the north. — Juneau
Empire.
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\V D. Kesselring has resigned from
the Juneau police force.
A camp of the Arctic Brotherhood
has been recently established at Mc
Carthy.
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The water main on Franklin street,
Juneau, burst recently, deluging the
street
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MANILA. I*. I., Oct. 2. — In line
with the insular government's plan
to stimulate the production of better
tobacco in the Philippines, a tobacco
testing station is soon to be estab
lished in the Cagayan valley, the cen
ter of the tobacco growing Industry
of the islands. This Is only one of
the many Bteps following the dispatch
of A. U. Powell, chief clerk of the In
ternal revenue bureuu, to the United
States, to embark on an advertising
campaign to boost the sales of Phil
ippine cigars In the homeland.
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FAIRBANKS, Oct. 1 — Geo D.
Schofield has arrived here, and will
tour the creeks. He will apeak here
this week, and then leave over the
trail for Cordova Democrats here
admit Schofield the strongest candi
date. Wickersham supporters and
Socialists are working for him, and
the betting Is three to one that Scho
field will be elected. TIMES.
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Summer resorts are becoming com
mon in Alaska. Charles Rudy, who
owns a chicken ranch near Juneau, Is
the latest to enter the field, and he
will transform his place into a resort,
with chickens and fresh eggs as the
principal articles on the menu.
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Edward Smith, an old-time prospec
, tor and miner of southeastern Alas
ku. died recently in the hospital at
Juneau. He was one of the Sbushan
na stampeders, and on his return from
there was taken 111 and underwent a
surgical operation at Valdes
ITEMS GENERAL
Samuel ('. Denham, a former new
paper man of Dawson and Fairbanks,
and the author of several Alaskan
poems, the most noted of which is
"The Goldsmith of Nome,' is now edi
tor of the Industrial and Mining Age,
of New York
Krnest Cedarlof has filed suit at
Juneau against the Alaska Treadwell
Gold Mining Company for $5,non dam
ages for loss of hearing and other in
juries alleged to have been sustained
while in the employ of the company
P. I„ Sheldon, a Juneau fisherman,
attempted to light a fire in a stove on
the fish bout William and John lie
used kerosene to hasten the blaze,
with the result that he is in (be St.
Ann hospital at Juneau suffering from
severe burns.
Dave McMillan, chief engineer at
the plant of the Alaska Fish Saltery
& By-products Company at Killisnoo,
got his clothing caught In a rapidly
revolving wheel and was drawn Into
the wheel pit. ills left arm was
broken and his right c.rm dislocated.
Nellie Warren, proprietress of the
Fairbanks Rooming House at Juneau,
has been indicted by the grand jury
at that city for selling liquor without
a license. She is charged with sell
ing liquor to Wilhelm (Crickson, the
youth who recently shot J. Solomon
while In an intoxicated condition
John Davis arrived at Juneau re
cently from Whitehorse Juneau booze
was stronger than he hud been accus
tomed to, and when he woke up in
the city bastlle the next inurning ho
was minus $100 In cash and his watch
and chain. On top of this it cost him
$10 to regain his freedom.
Z. Cushing, an official of the Dupont
Powder Company, was an arrival in
Juneau recently on a hunting trip.
M. Thorndyko, of Anchorage, was
taken off the steamer Alameda at Ju
tieau, suffering from cancer of the
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throat. . 1 t , •
tieorge Frames was recently ail
judged insane at ■ Sitka and sent to
Morningside. He was formerly in
business at Juneau.
11 M. Huckle, of Skagway. and
Kvcrt Wilcox, of Petersburg, have
been admitted to the Pioneers' Home
at Sitka.
The Alaska Peerless mine at Wind
ham lias received a large quantity of
machinery which xxill be installed at
an early date.
Fred Schwartz, a ten year old boy.
arrived at Juneau recently after hav
ing completed a journey of half-wav
across the continent from Topeka.
Kansas, unattended.
James Lindsay, a well known Doug
las teamster, dropped dead in the
street in that city a few days ago.
Heart trouble was the cause of his
death.
A piledriver hammer weighing two
and a half tons was recently received
at Juneau for driving piling for a new
duck on lower Front street In that
city
The A'ermont Marble & Quarry Co.,
operating the marble quarry at To
l.een, on the west side of Prince of
AA'ales island, is meeting with a big
demand for its product from all over
the country.
Collector of Customs J. 11 Pugh,
who recently made a tour of the ter
ritory. is authority for the statement
that every section of the country is
experiencing the most prosperous
year in its history.
James A Nolan, of Juneau, while
eng igetl in development work on some
miuitig claims in Sheep Creep basin,
was fatally injured by the prematurp
explosion of a blast, and died a few
hours later In the hospital at Juneau.
C. C. Hayward, chief accountant,
cashier und treasurer for the Alaska
Oastineau Mining Company, has re
signed his position.
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NEWS PRINT
LOS ANGELES, Sept :{(). — Legis
lation for the relief of newspapers ef
fected by the high cost of news print
paper was to form the chief topuic of
an address to lie delivered before the
fall meeting of the Southern Califor
nia Keditorial Association by Harlan
G. Palmer, president. Mr. Harlan
said he advocated such legislation be
cause the manufacturers “undoubted
lv had taken advantage of the cir
cumstances to make unwarranted pro
fits in the sale of new-s print paper."
Discussion of the news print paper
situation was one of the topics of the
day s program of the association.
PORTLAND HAS
CRAZE
PORTLAND, Ore, Oct. 2. When!
football first became a popular a port
a hong western universities, there were
so few large educational institution*
on this side of the continent that ath
letle clubs were encouraged to turn
out elevens which were regularly
placed on college football schedules.
A few western clubs, such as the'
Olympic club of San Francisco, and
the Multnomah Club of Portland, still
retain the unique privilege of meet
>ng university teams on the gridiron,
he,increased number of j
.U^-xtolleauatAi ..opitmmata. , the big
game" of the season that the Uni
versitv -of Oregon plays is still w ith
the Multnomah club
The team, however, promises to lie
strong Among the candidates for
back field positions are the following:
Martin II Galt, of University of Mich
igan fume; Wallace De Witt, the
Princeton fullback who caused a
c hange to be made in the football
talcs several seasons ago; Jack Day
and Phil Patterson, of Stanford uni
versify, and Os Day, of the University
of Washington. Men of equal ability
are candidates for the line and quar
terback positions.
Multnomah* schedule, as arranged
so far. includes games with the Uni
versity of Oregon, Oregon Aggies,
Washington State College. Whitman
College and Willamette University. It
is expected that a game also will he
played with the Olympic Club.
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MKX1CO CITY, Oct L>. — Stringent
regulation of the manufacture Htuf
sale of pulque, the principal strong
drink in Mexico, is ordered by First
Chief Carranza in a decree which has
just been promulgated The bever
age is made from the juice of the ma
guey cactus. The new regulations
double the tax on the bringing of
pulque Into towns, and require man
faeturers of it to record with proper
authorities all details concerning their
business.
The decree provides that no factor
ies may he established more than forty
kilometers from the town in which the
, product is to he sold This Is to lit
sure that the pulque arrives quickly
and in good condition
Should the product spoil In process
of fermentation, the manufacturer
must notify the authorities and estab
lish that it has been thrown out or
I used to make alcohol.
It is provided that the maguey lands
also must tie used to raise other agri
cultural products as well as maguey.
Infractions of these regulations will
be punished by a fine of ten times the
amount of the taxes or the factory may
be dosed.
GRIGSBY SPEAS
EAGLE ILL
TONIGHT
Tonight at Kagle Hall George B
Grigsby, Democratic nominee for at
torney general for Alaska, will ad
dress the people of Cordova and Old
Town, on the Issues of the campaign
Mr. Grigsby is a forceful and interest
ing talker, one of the leaders of the
Nome bar. and extremely popular with
the rank and file of Alaskans
Like the hero of Klbert Hubbard's
famous story, Mr. Grigsby is carrying
the message to Garcia, lie has come
5,000 miles to address this message
to the people of Cordova and will de
liver it at 8 p m. A good attendance
at the meeting is assured, for the fame
of Mr. Grigsby's oratorical ability has
spread before him. In Anchorage Mr.
Grigsby spoke in the largest hall there,
which proved inadequate to hold the
crowd that tried to hear him. He has
had similar experiences in Seward
and Valdez, and is conceded to be one
of the best campaign speakers that
either side in the present political
struggle is fortunate to possess.
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STATE FAIR OF
NEW MEXICO
NOW OPEN
AI.IH'QUKRQHK, N M . Oct 2. —
In a formal address in which he was
to review the resources of New Mexi
co, Governor W. C. M< Donald opened
the thirty sixth annual New Mexico
State Hair. The governor's announce
ment that the fair "was now opened"
was to be marked by the firing of an
historic cannon by a detachment of
local grand army veterans. This c n
non, whic h is seventy live years < ! A
was to he touched off by a former gov
ernor of the state, E, S. Stover, who
was one of the squad that manned it
for two years during Ihe Civil war
The fair opened with an advance
icket sale estimated at 6,000 admis
sions, the result of a week's cam
paign in which one ballot in a straw
vote on Wilson and Hughes was given
with each ticket sold The number
of exhibits in place is the largest that
ever has marked any state fair ir.
New Mexico. These exhibits include
an agricultural display from twenty
four of the twenty six counties of the
state, a specimen of everc mineral
produced in America, and a gold mill
in lull operation, stamping out the
precious metal from the ore; over
$100,000 worth of pure bred stock, and
many others
The principal feature of the amuse
ment events is the racing, for which
$lo,oon in purses has been offered.
Three thousand dollars' worth of fire
works will he burned at three night
performances this week, and another
interesting item of the program is
the cowboy and Indian sports, which
will he a feature of every program.
The talr this year Is being held for
the first time on ground of its own,
it recently having purchased a 25
acre plot, embracing the grounds It
has used for the lust thirty years
and some additional acreage
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Martin Sorensen, a wild and wooley
sailor, undertook to navigate a horse
through the streets of Njcme at high
speed He collided with a native and
knocked down a native child before
his wild career was checked He for
feited his bail of $25.
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The Alaska I.lghterage and Com
mercial Company, of Nome, Is having
a hard time getting sufficial coal to
supply the demands of the town dur
ing the summer months and are much
worried over the outlook for a supply
for the winter months
The home of Haul Kegel, the Tread
well bandmaster, was recetitly de
stroyed by fire, presumably originat
ing from a stove.
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Guy C. Wing, of Juneau, has been
appointed a member of the police
force of that city.