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VOlTy. NO. 55 CORDOVA,M^SKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1920__PRICE TEN CENTS
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VISCOUNT GREY THROWS BOMBSHELL INTO DEMOCRATIC CAMP
INFLUENZA IS
INTERFERING
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MONTESANO, Wash., Feb. 4 (by
Associated Press).—Eleven jurymen
"were in the box in the trial of the
alleged I. W. W. for the Centralia
murders when court adjourned last
evening. The state had exercised two
and the defense three peremptory
challenges, and but seven are left for
both sides.
Counsel clashed several times dur
ing^the day’s session, especially Van
derveer and Abel, for the defense and
prosecution respectively.
The January venire has been ex
hausted, and the special venire has
been called. Influenza is interfering
with the examination of the talesmen,
as many are ill.
Five permanent and six temporary
jurors had been secured up to noon
today, and both sides were using
their peremptory challenges.
It is expected that the jury will be
completed tomorrow, and that the
opening statement for the prosecution
will be delivered some time Friday.
LIFE OF JUDGE
IS THREATENED
BY UOBBLIES”
SPOKANE, Feb. 4 (by Associated
Press).—A squad' of detectives is
guarding Superior Judge O. M. Web
have been made against his life by
Industrial Workers of thq. World.
\ Judge Webster incurred the enmity
of the Industrial Workers because of
ihe issuance by him of a permanent
injunction on January 5 forbidding
further activities of the “wobblies”
here.
^The threats are said to have been
made at a recent meeting of “wob
blies” in Montana.
NEGRO COOK
IS SUSPECTED
OF ROBBERY
SEATTLE, Feb. 4 (by Associated
Press).—H. Spencer, a negro cook,
was arrested here yesterday, and has
been identified by the negro porter of
a Northern Pacific passenger train as
the man who left the train after the
passengers had been robbed of more
than two thousand dollars. He is be
ii^ held pending investigation.
WILSON HAS NARROW
ESCAPE FROM INFLUENZA
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (by Associ
ated Press).—President Wilson, hav
ing contracted a cold, has had a nar
row escape from influenza.
Dr. Grayson announces that every
precaution is being taken, and that
persons with colds are allowed to
enter his room. He said the Presi
dent was improving steadily though
slowly.
Despite a hail and sleet storm, Presi
dent Wilson spent some time today on
the south portico, apparently having
recovered from his recent slight cold.
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| PUBLISHED STATEMENT OF EMINENT BRITISH DIPLOMATIST
| REFUTES CONTENTION OF ADMINISTRATION LEADERS ON
ATTITUDE OF GREAT BRITAIN ON LODGE RESERVATIONS!
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. NEW YORK, Feb. 4 (by Associated Press).—Considerable surprise has been manifested in if
|'f the ranks of the members of the Democratic party, especially those who have been opposing the |
| ratification of the peace treaty with the Lodge reservations attached, by the publication in London I
| of a letter from Viscount Grey, formerly British foreign secretary, and lately British ambassador |
| at Washington, in which he states that Great Britain might accept the Lodge reservations.
The contention of the Democratic leaders in the senate heretofore has been that Great Britain |
fj would not accept the Lodge reservations.
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INDUSTRIAL
COMMISSION
LACKS FU1S
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (by Associ
ated Press).—An appropriation of
$13,000 to defray the expenses of the
second industrial conference, now in
session in this city, was stricken from
the general deficiency bill in the house
of representatives yesterday on a
point of order raised by Blanton of
Texas.
Representative Walsh (Republican)
of Massachusetts declared that the
time had come to stop spending
money to end the industrial unrest
when a lot of cranks by their talk
start more.
Representative Blanton told the
house that six thousand strikes dur
ing the war were settled in favor of
the strikers, and declared that the
department of labor always sent
prejudiced mediators.
REFUSES TO
SEND LIST OF
MISCREANTS
PARIS, Feb. 4 (by Associated
Press).—Kurt Von Lersner, head of
the German peace delegation, has re
signed rather than send to Berlin the
list of Germans which the allies gave
him with the demand that they be ex
tradited for trial.
Von Lersner told Premier Millerand
that no German official would be in
strumental in helping the allies to
realize their demands for the extra
dition of the personages included in
the list.
BREMERTON SCHOOLS
CLOSE BECAUSE OF FLU
BREMERTON, Wash., Feb. 4 (by
Associated Press).—There are two
hundred cases of influenza in the tem
porary hospital of the Methodist
church here. The public schools have
been closed. The epidemic is of a
mild form of the disease.
The Scourge in California
SACRAMENTO, Cal., Feb. 4 (by As
sociatedJ Press).— Sixty-five deaths in
California from influenza have been
reportred during the last two days.
Fourteen hundred cases have been re
ported this winter.
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BRIGANDS KILL
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (by Associ
ated Press).—The state department
reports that brigands murdered three
Americans on February 1, in Syria,
north of Aleppo.
The Americans were members of a
convoy with American relief supplies,
and were working under the American
committee for relief in the Near East.
PATRIOTISM IS
01 BIG ISSUE
IN CAMPAIGN
SEATTLE, Feb. 4 (by Associated
Press).—Major Malcolm Douglas, a
war veteran, speaking last night for
Mayor Fitzgerald, declared that Fitz
gerald was the only mayoralty candi
date who had placed the stamp of dis
approval upon Duncan.
He asked if Caldwell had to be com
pelled to declare himself on the issue
of Americanism, and suggested that
Caldwell expected to receive the sup
port of Duncan in the final election if
Duncan should lose at the primaries.
“Fitzgerald is fighting for the things
the veterans fought for in France," de
clared Major Douglas.
PETROGRAD SUFFERS
FROM LACK OF FUEL
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LONDON, Feb. 4 (by Associated
Press).—The president of the Russian
Red Cross reports that Petrograd is
suffering from famine, cold, disease
and robbery. He says the city is be
coming a desert on account of the lack
of fuel.
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COPENHAGEN, Feb. 4 (by Associ
ated Press).—The foreign ministers
and premiers of the Scandinavian
countries have decided to accept the
invitation to join the League of Na
tions.
It is learned that no enthusiasm
was shown, as it was considered that
without the United States the league
did not guarantee much.
COHON PRICES
INCREASED BY
LOW EXCHANGE
LIVERPOOL., Feb. 4 (by Associated
Press).—The depreciation of exchange
has virtually stopped the importation
of cotton, and the present high prices
are handicapping the financing of the
manufacturers.
The trade is urging that the ex
change situation be relieved.
Discount on Canadian Money
SEATTLE, Feb. 4 (by Associated
Press).—The English pound is quoted
at $3.19 in New York today. Canadian
checks are being discounted 17 per
cent in Seattle.
NINE JURORS DRAWN
IN KIDNAPING TRIAL
TOMBSTONE, Ariz., Feb. 4 (by As
sociated Press).—Nine jurors had
been temporarily selected in the trial
of Henry Wooten, the first of the 210
men charged with kidnaping striking
miners here in 1917, when court ad
journed yesterday.
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POLITICS IS BIG
ISSUE IN STATE
OF WASHINGTON
SPOKANE, Feb. 4 (by Associated
Press).—The Young Men’s Republican]
Club of this city is planning a banquet i
for Senator Poindexter when he ar
rives here in March or April to start
his campaign for the presidency.
Governorship Campaign
SEATTLE, Feb. 4 (by Associated
Press).—Colonel Hartly of Everett, in
his first speech in his campaign for
the governorship last night, declared
that radicalism should be handled
without gloves. He asserted that
most men in high office were not ac
cessible to the common people.
Colonel Lamping of this city, in his
first speech opening his campaign for
the governorship, declared that the
present legislature does not represent
the people.
PHYSICIANS OF
PORTLAND TO
FORM A UNION
PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 4 (by Asso
ciated Press).—A union of physicians
and surgeons under the American Fed
eration of Labor may be chartered
here. Otto Hartwig, president of the
State Federation of Labor, said he
had been approached by surgeons on
the subject.
The dentists also are contemplating
the formation of a union.
Construction Stopped
BUTTE, Mont., Feb. 4 (by Associ
ated Press).—Practically all construc
tion work has stopped here, following
the refusal of the building contractors
to accede to the demands of the
unions for increased wages.
SEATTLE BANKER IS
NAMED ON COMMITTEE
OF BIG IMPORTANCE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (by Associ
ated Press).—Chairman Payne of the
United States Shipping Board has in
vited leading bankers of the country
to serve on a committee to interest
the investing public in the value of
shipping securities.
N. H. Latimer, a leading banker of
Seattle, has been named on the com
mittee.
WHAT GOVERNOR IS ADVOCTATING
BEFORE OFFICIALS AT WASHINGTON
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. WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (by Associated Press).—Governor Thos.
Riggs, Jr., of Alaska, who is here in the interest of Alaska legisla
tion, announces that he intends to ask congress to provide a con
stabulary force for Alaska, to c'urb the activities of radicals who
threaten to demoralize industry there.
Governor Riggs said that Alaska was becoming the headquarters
for the radical elements. (
Among the other proposals that he will submit will be a new
fisheries law, which will limit the catch and prohibit river fishing
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SAYS SOCIALIST,
ASSEMBLYMAN
SPAT ON FLAG
ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 4 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Miss Ellen Chivers, a
New York stenographer, testified at
the trial of the suspended Socialist
assemblymen yesterday that Charles
Solomon, one of the defendants, spat
on the American flag at a recruiting
meeting in Brooklyn in 1917.
An article by Eugene V. Debs on
the McNamara dynamiting case was
read into the record.
Refuse to Repudiate Story
A sensation was produced at the
trial this morning when Assemblyman
Maurice Bloch, a member of the judi
ciary committee of the assembly,
which is sitting as a tribunal at the
hearings, moved to strike from the
records, as obviously impossible, the
testimony given yesterday by Ellen
Chiver, a stenographer, that she saw
Assemblyman Charles Soloman, one
of the defendants, spit on the Ameri
can flag in the presence of a crowd.
The motion was denied.
GRAND JURY TO
REPORT TODAY
ON SHIP GRAFT
SEATTLE, Feb. 4 (by Associated
Press).—Bert Schlessinger, special
assistant attorney general, detailed by
the department of justice to conduct
the alleged shipyard frauds on the
Pacific coast, appeared before the
grand jury yesterday, presumably ia
regard to the shipyard cases.
The report of the grand jury is ex
pected to be filed tonight.
Special Agent Foster of the depart
ment of justice and four others with
him appeared before the jury.
PALMERSAYS
RADICALS ARE
ON THE MOVE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (by Associ
ated Press).—Addressing the judiciary
committee of the house of representa
tives today, Attorney General Palmer
said that the deportation of radicals
and the widespread arrests, with vig
orous enforcement of the existing
laws, have given notice that the Unit
ed States government intends to keep
order. He declared that the moves
already had improved conditions.
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HONORARY MEMBERS ,
NOT SANCTIONED BY "
AMERICAN LEGION
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Feb. 4 (by
Associated Press).—Honorary mem
bership in the American Legion is foi'
bidden by its constitution, it was an
nounced from the headquarters of that
order here yesterday.
This statement was evoked by the
recent granting of honorary member
ship to Jack Dempsey, the prizefighter,
by the Milwaukee post.
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