The Cordova Daily Times
VOLUME TWO. NUMBER 382. CORDOVA, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 8, 1 916. PRICE TEN CENTS.
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Special by Associated Press.
PARIS, March 7. — The Germans
have further progressed in the Ver
ciVn region by violent bombarding.
They have pushed along the railroad
in the neighborhood of Regneville, and
captured hill 265.
LONDON, March 7. — Balfour, first
lord of the admiralty, told the Com
mons that the tonnage of the British
navy had increased by a million since
the outbreak of the war. and the war
strength of the air divisions of the
navy had grown tenfold.
BERLIN. March 7. — It Is officially
announced that the village of Fren
sues. in Wofyre, southeast of Verdun,
has been captured by the Germans.
PARIS, March 7. — Major Fitzger
aid. who is presumably the Duke of
! Leinster, was killed while experi
menting with a bomb.
LONDON, March 7. — The Austrian
siege guns being used by the Ger
mans near Verdun are doing some
great execution.
LONDON, March 7. — A message
from Vreland, north of Holland, brings
the information that a fleet of twenty
five German warships were observed
on Monday cruising in the North sea.
SALON1KI, March 7. — It is re
ported that almost all of the Teuton
troops concerned in the Balkan front
[have left for the western front. Some
of the Turkish regiments have been
sent from the Balkans to the Cau
casus.
BE GIVEN BE
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WASHINGTON, March 7. — The
President has signed the appropria
tion bill, which carries $2,000,000 as
an emergency fund for construction of
the government railroad in Alaska. Tt
is now believed by Alaskans here that
^he full appropriation asked for the
Alaska railroad will certainly he
granted by Congress, as no serious op
position has as yet manifested itself
to the work of construction of the
trunk line lo interior Alaska being
continued. It was feared that an at
tempt might be made to confine the
government's railroad building activi
ties to the construction of the rail
road to the Matantiska coat fields, but
Secretary Lane has assured Alaskans
the city that the $8,700,000 asked
~ for the work this year will he pro
vided.
It is also believed probable that the
war department will approve the re
quest of Colonel Richardson, chair
man of the hoard of Alaska road com
missioners. for $500,000 for Alaska
wagon and automobile roads and trails
to be expended during the coming
summer.
The hills to provide for the de
velopment hoard or the proposed
fisheries legislation, are receiving lit
tie attention and it is believed that
they will not be pressed, as there is
too much division of sentiment among
the official regarding the bills.
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MAIL CARRIER IS MISSING ON
RAINY PASS.
A A rescue party lias been sent oui
^S^nii Anchorage to find Alexon. mail
carrier, with the outbound Iditarod
mail, w ho lias been missing five days
on Rainy Pass.
Alexon is the carrier between tilt
Robn and Happy river stations, and
as there was a heavy snowstorm or
the day he was scheduled to cross tlif
pass it is feared that he may have
jbipI with serious injury.
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W. F. Thompson, of the Fairbanks
News-Miner, is a passenger on thi
steamer Alaska. He will make a tri|
Co the westward and return to Cor
dova, proceeding from here to his In
terior home.
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The Northern Drug Company is fit
ting up an attractive music room ii
'% the rear of the store, which will hi
A equipped with all kinds of victrolai
and the latest records.
PROMINENT MINING MEN ON WAY
TO INTERIOR.
1’. Bonery. mining expert, former
ly connected with the La Grange mine
in California, arrived in town last
night, accompanied by his wife. G.
Poutet and wife, John Brands and Os
I wald Kuhn, also of La Grange. They
will go to Valdez creek, where Mr.
Bonery will he in charge of Geo. W.
Bias' extensive operations.
Frank E. Nye, a director of the Val
dez Creek Mines Company, and C. H.
Hamii, both of Boston, will also go to
the interior to inspect this property.
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Mining Engineer George Evans, who
has just returned from the national
capital, says that the government is
anxious that the coal lands in the
Alaska coal fields be opened at the
earliest possible date. Secretary Lancj,
of the interior department, believes
that the lease forms for tracts in the
Bering river. Matanuska and Nenana
coal fields will be ready before the
middle of April.
The survey parties which were in
the field last summer are preparing
to return to the north to complete
the survey of the principal coal fields,
but it is announced that the tracts
blocked out last summer will be
opened before the surveys have been
completed.
Hundreds of applications for leases
have been received by the general
land office at Washington and at the
land office at Juneau, Alaska, for
tracts in the Bering river and Mata
nuska coal fields. The applications
come from all parts of the United
States and Alaska, indicating that
there will be no lack of private capi
tal with which the coal fields may be
, developed.
Fred Tracey and wife returned to
Cordova on the flagship Alaska last
, night, having spent the past couple of
months at Pacific coast cities and in
New York.
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I,. Schooling and wife, Mrs. Louis
Golden and Mrs. Frank Clark were
! among the Fairbanksans to arrive on
Inst night’s steamer and will leave for
the Interior oil Thursday's train.
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i The steamer Admiral Watson ar
1 rived from the westward about fi
i o'clock last evening and sailed an
hour later for Seattle.
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NEW PRESIDENT TACDMfl
SMELTER
TACOMA, March 7. — F. H. Brow
nell has been elected president of the
Tacoma Smelting Company, which po
sition carries general supervision of
the Guggenheim interests in north
western Alaska.
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RETURN WORK
8EWAHD. March 7. — The strike
the government railroad was ended by
the Federal Gabor Union of Anchor
age, on advice of the American Fed
eration of Gabor, who ordered the men
to return to work tomorrow, pending
a settlement of the wage scale by a
committee representing the union and
engineering commission. Four hun
dred men have begun work, and
others will do soon.
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Jerry Galvin, one of the early oper
ators in the Nome district, who has
mining interests in southeastern
Alaska, is in town on his way tn
Valdez.
BAKER'S NOMINATION SENT
TO SENATE
WASHINGTON, March 7. — The
nomination of Newton Raker as sec
retary of war was sent to the Senate
today, and it is not anticipated that
there will be any opposition to his
confirmation.
PRISONERS ARE
DEATH
EL PASO, March 7. — Eighteen
prisoners in the city jail were killed
i by an explosion of disinfecting fluid,
I In w hich mostly Mexicans were being
j bathed to prevent the spread of dis
ease. One of the prisoners lighted a
match and the whole wing of the jail
w as soon enveloped in flames. The J
naked men were burned horribly, and
died in great agony. Many of the
others are fatally burned, and ex
pected to die.
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A meeting of the Cordova Fire De
partment will be held Thursday even
ing. and a full attendance of the
| members is requested.
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WASHINGTON, March 7. Presi-,
dent Wilson won a great victory in tlie|
House late today, when that body de
eided by the decisive vote or 27*1 to
141! to table the McLemore resolution
warning Americans off of armed mer
chantmen. The President is much
gratified over the action, and feels
particularly grateful to the Ttepub
Means, who refused to make the reso
lution a partisan issue, and upheld the
plans of the administration. Wilson
is now free to proceed with his nego
tiations with the German and Austrian
governments in the controversy re
garding the submarine warfare.
WASHINGTON, March 7. — The
House today adopted, by a vote of 20(1
to 71. rule 1138, providing for a four
hours' debate on the motion to table
MeLemore's resolution regarding the
warning of Americans not to travel on
armed ships. The resolution then
came before tlie House for debate and
vote without amendment.
WASHINGTON, March 7. — At «
o'clock tonight the administration
force* will vote to table the Mcl.etnore
resolution- On the heavy votes they
polled on two preliminary tests, which
were instantly killed, tlie opponents
of the resolution feel confident it will
be put to sleep by a substantial ma
jorlty. Once tabled the resolution
will have gone the way of the Gore
resolution, and the majority of con
gressmen, regardless of political af
filiations, feel that the vote against
the measure will be heralded to the
world as demonstrating that the law
makers do not endorse the dissension
against the President's foreign policy.
With the agitation finally disposed of
President Wilson and Secretary Lan
sing will resume their submarine ne
gotiations with Germany.
WASHINGTON. March 7. — Repre
sentative Robert Page, of North Caro
lina. has announced that he will not be
a candidate for re-election, because
he disagrees with the President's
views in the letter's submarine con
troversy. Page's brother is the am
bassador from the United States to
England.
LOCATOR JUNEAU
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OAKLAND, March 7. — James T.
Treadwell, locator of the famous
Hiiartz mine at Juneau bearing his
name, died suddenly today of heart
failure, while returning from San
Francisco on the ferry.
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Howell I. Lewis and wife were re
turning passengers on the steamer
Alaska, after an extended visit among
Seattle friends.
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' Frank Kernan. a Nlzina placer op
crator, Is in town.
HIGH GOST OF LUG IN
STATES
WASHINGTON, March 7. — 111 the
: statistics prepared and just made
\ public the startling information is
j given out that the cost of living in the
| United States has increased one hun
dred and eighty-five per cent since the
! outbreak of the war.
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Alfred S. Carpenter, C. A. Leonard
and W. Jean arrived on last night's
boat. They are connected with the
Copper River Packing Company.
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Peter Monahan, the Slate creek
placer operator, was among the arri-1
vals here on last night's steamer.
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Show at Empress tonight. Same
program as last night.
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SEATTLE, March 7. — Since the
announcement was made that passen-j
ger accommodations have been so
greatly decreased on Alaska boats,
there has been a decided rush to se
cure reservations, particularly for the
opening of the Nome season in June.
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Heretofore steamships leaving Puget
Sound for Nome during the first days
of June have carried an average of
800, including the crew. On many of
the ships the reduced passenger ac
commodations fall largely upon the
steerage, consequently 300 or more
steerage passengers who have here
tofore regularly left for Nome on one
of the early boats, will have to remain
over for the second sailing. This is
due to the new government regula
tions, and while such regulations have,
with more or less degree, been applied
to various steamships, in no case does
it fail with such severity upon the
traveling public as in the Nome run.
This is due to the fact that Nome is
only open to ocean navigation from
June 1 to October 31 inclusive, and
therefore its tremendous passenger
traffic must be handled during that
short season.
It has ever been the desire of the
miner to get the first boat in and the
last boat out. Therefore the great
reduction in number of steerage pas
sengers allowed to be carried by eacjj
boat, as set forth by government re
gulations, not only seriously interferes
with the miners traveling between Pu
get Sound and Nome, but it cuts off
a tremendous revenue in passenger
fares, which loss must be borne by
the steamships.
SEWARD ADOPTS NEW ELECTION
SYSTEM.
The people of Seward have voted
in favor of electing the city govern
ments and city officials in future in
the manner provided for by the ter
ritorial legislature. The people voted
separately on two propositions. One
was for the election of a mayor sep
arately and the election of tnfee mem
bers of the council annually; the
other was for the election of a city
attorney, city treasurer, city magis
trate, and city clerk. The first sec
tion was carried by a vote of three to
one, thus showing that the people pre
fer to elect the mayor separately.
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SEATTLE. March 7. — Nine thou
sand tons of supplies and five hun
dred men will be carried to Alaska
canneries on regular steamers sail
ing during the next two weeks. Many
of the cannery ships have been char
tered in the general carrying trade.
CAPT. SMITH IN COMMAND TAKU
THIS SUMER.
Geo. Hazelet is in receipt of a let
ter from ('apt. Gilbert H. Rude, for
merlv in command of the 'Taku.” but
win now has the ‘Isis," the crack ship
of the Goeodetic Coast and Survey
fleet, w ith headquarters at Charleston.
South Carolina. It contains the infer
nintion that the “Taku" will he placed
in commission this summer in these
wate’-s. with Capt. E. K. Smith, who
was wilh Capt. Rude on the “McAr
thur.'' in 1910 and 1911. in command.
Miss Kathryn Monahan, who is con
nected with the clerk's office of the
district court, arrived front Yaidez
last evening on the steamer Watson,
and will remain here for several days
to receive the filing of naturalization
papers.
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John A. Hazelet. who has placer in
terests on Slate creek, was an arrival
on the Alaska.
Jack Palton has returned from a
busines strip to the Pacific Coast
states.
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IT. S. Commissioner Win. O’Connor,
came down from Chitlna on jester j
day's train.
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Last Wight's show at the Empress
Theatre will be reputed tonight.
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The flagship Alaska arrived in Cor
dova at 8 o'clock last night with over
a hundred passengers and a big cargo
of freight for here. She was six days
out from Seattle, being delayed in
southeastern Alaska on account of
blinding snowstorms. The run from
Juneau to Cordova was made in ex
ceptionally fast time.
Arrangements have been made
whereby the people of the town will
have an opportunity of inspecting this
palatial steamer today, and a general
imitation is extended to the public to
visit the ship.
She was formerly the Kansas City,
on tlie Great Lakes run. and the Alas
ka Steamship Company has just spent
more than $100,000 fixing her up for
the Alaska service.
A shelter deck has been built the
entire length of ttie vessel and accom
modations provided for additional
rooms to accommodate one hundred
and sixty passengers in two-berth
staterooms. A cold storage plant, cap
able of earing for fifty tons of freight,
lias been constructed. A smoking and
observation room, similar to that of
the Alameda and other vessels of the
company, has been built aft on the up
per deck.
IDITAROD OPERATOR SUED FOR
$50,000.
Robert Spencer McMillan, a well
known mine operator of the Iditarod
district, was sued for $50,000, heart
balm, by Olivia l). I.arson. The pa
pers. filed in Seattle, state that Miss
Larson met McMillan while he was
working on Engineer creek, near Fair
banks. He is claimed to wooed and
won. The "pretended" marriage, ac
cording to Miss Larson, was per
formed at Iditarod. Later Miss Lar
son learned that McMillan had a wife
in Canada.
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NOTARY PUBLIC APPOINTED.
A commission as notary public has
been issued to L. S. Wiekersham of
Gulkana. The commission was filed
in the office of the secretary of
Alaska.
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J. XI. Elmer, a well known mining
expert, was an arrival on the steamer
Alaska.
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Xtrs. J. Frank Clarkin. of Nizina, ar
rived in town on yesterday after
noon’s train.