The Cordova Daily Times
K ^ynl/TMK T\V<). Nl’MBE Rm7>. C<7 HI )7>YA, ALASkXtTESDA Y MORNING, FEBRUARY 22, EMC. FRICK TEN CENTS.
SEATTLE, Feb. 21. — An explosion
occurred today in the bunkers of the
steamship Victoria, which was load
ing for Unalaska, being caused by a
% lighted lantern carried by Henry
Sorensen, one of the crew, who was
severely burned. First Mate Joseph
Jacksonsen and Boatswain T. Dona
hue were overcome by the smoke, but
were soon resuscitated. The fire was
extinguished before it gained any
headway, and with little loss.
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BUNt UNIS
IN ALASKA
WASHINGTON. Feb. 21. — Secre
tary of Commerce Kedfield says that
the largest deposits of bone in the
world are on the Pribilof islands in
Alaska, which come from the seals,
i One deposit is a mile long, half a
r mile wide and six feet deep. Raw
ground bone is worth $35 a ton, and
the Pribiloff deposits are valued at
millions of dollars.
NEW ARMY BILL
’ CULLS FOR BIG
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. The
new army reorganization bill for a
federal national guard, increasing the
|K regular army to 134,Out) men and
double the field artillery has been
agreed upon tentatively by the House
military committee.
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NO EFFORT BEING MADE TO RE
PAIR CABLE.
The cable is still out of commission,
and so far as We have been able to
learn the Burnside has not as yet
left Seattle to repair the break, which
is between Sitka and Valdez. The
line is also down between Valdez and
Seward, and the latter town is entire
ly cut off from communication with
the States, and is apt to be for some
time to come. Fortunately, Cordova
has a radio station, which is handling
the commercial and press dispatches
during the interruption in the cable
service.
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TRAIN ARRIVES FROM CHITINA:
ONE OUT TODAY.
After some delay on account ol
snowslides a passenger train reached
Ohitina yesterday morning, and close
connections were made with the stage
for Fairbanks. A local with passen
gers and mail arrived from the in
terior last night, and as the track is
now clear a train leaves this morning
for Ohitina.
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W. c. Gould, of Fairbanks, was ar
arrival in Cordova on last night's
train.
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This is Washington’s birthday, and
being a legal holiday, there will be n
f general suspension of business, es
pecially at the federal offices.
CLOSED HALIBUT SEASON 01
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. — Senato
Johnson, of Maine, chairman of th
fisheries committee, has introduced i
bill In the Senate to make Decembe
and January of each year a dose<
season for halibut fishing on the Pa
ctflc coast.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. — Th
German embassy has filed objection
with the state department against th
presence of United States deput
marshals on the captured Hritis
liner Appnm, which is now in Hami
ton Roads. It is feared that som
[friction might result from the mat
shals being placed aboard the vess<
'when the British owners of the bo:
| sued for its return.
ENGLAND PROVIDES FOR Bl!
WAR LOAN
LONDON. Feb. 21. — Premier As
quith has introduced a Id 11 for a wt
credit aggregating co.oon.nno.m
pounds.
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PROTEST
DUBLIN, Feb. 21. — Ireland In
just passed through a vigorous at
successful agaitatiou^against goveri
ment methods of retrenchment. It
| a tradition of Irish government th
j some of its services* are extreme
j costly in proportion, to the needs
j the people, while others are starve
The treasury, in determining to effe
war economies, proceeded to attai
one after the other the “starved se
vices," leaving mostly untouched tl
larger and less useful items. Tin
thus irritated the largest possib
^ number of people and interests tor tl
smallest return in cash
i One of the starved services is edt
cation. The national library in' Du
\1 in. the Royal Irish Academy of Musi
| the teaching of science in seconds
| schools and agracultural education s
suffered, or were threatened. \moi
the grants to be discontinued was tl
‘small sum for the Colleges of Iris
This brought the Gaelic League in
the fray, and throughout every pa
of Ireland, resolutions of public bo
; ies, and public meetings, culminatii
in a meeting in the Dublin Mansh
House, conveyed to the governme
the popular indignation. The Irit
Catholic bishops also passed a serf
of resolutions of protest.
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TAX MINING COMPANIES I
UPHELD
t WASHINGTON. Keb. 21. — T1
supreme court of the United Stati
has upheld (he corporation tax in
posed upon mining companies.
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I Everybody has the Empress habit
'POSTAL SAVINGS
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. — Tht
postolt'ice depart ment lias extended
| tlie postal savings banks to Alaska
I and ordered them established at Jit
neau, Treadwell, Skagway, Wrangell
Ketchikan, Petersburg and Fairbankt
on April 1.
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SEIM MAILS
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e WASHINtlTOX, Feb. 21. — Secre
tary I.ansing has cabled the Londot
' foreign office, asking for positive re
* plies lo the American notes protest
ing against the seizures of mails ant
against the application of trading wit!
1 enemy act against American rights
1 and interests.
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LONDON. Feb. lit. — Itombardmen
by German long range guns lias ;
greater moral than material effect 01
|the towns bombarded, writes a cor
I respondent from France This is du
to the great amount of waste space i
towns, for a shell lias just as mucl
of a chance of hitting a vacant lot a
a building. The Germans themselves
in the opinion of the writer, know hot
little material damage their shells dc
ls for after shelling these towns, the
t generally follow up with an air rah!
y But they know its moral results.
|f in the extreme range firing the tier
I mans fire only when the wind is fav
. orable to them. The noise of th
k great shell is distinctly trying on th
| nerves of the people. As open town
^ lie a good distance back of the Frencl
lines tlte Germans get their naval gun
well forward, with the result tha
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they are usually sought out by th
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French guns.
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>tj BERLIN. Feb. 21. — An increase ii
^ the maximum wholesale price of suga
>s beets from 35 pfennings per humtrei
i weight to 1.35. or even 1.50, is lieli
Jto be necessary if production is to b
S encouraged sufficiently to insure
normal crop in 1916. Representative
of the sugar industry, and of agricul
lure in general, gathered recently ii
the ministry of the interior Ho discus
the sugar beet problem. Accordini
ie to the best obtainable estimates, th<
>s 1916 sugar production from the bee
i- crop will total only thirty milliot
I hundred weight, as against a norma
production of from fifty to fifty-flv
. | million hundred weight.
RECAPTURE SP!
NEW YORK, Feb. 21. — Ignatiui
Lincoln, a self-styled international
spy, has been recaptured after nearly
a month of freedom. He escaped while
awaiting extradition to England on the
charge of forgery.
ATTACK MED
PETROLITE BE
EXPLAINED
WASHINGTON. Feb. 21. — Austrit
has promised a prompt reply to th<
American notes asking for an lnves
. tigation anil explanation for the at
tack on the American tanker I’etrolite
I near Alexander, several weeks ago.
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BERLIN, Feb. 21. — According ti
the records of the sick insurance of
fice of Berlin it appears that the with
t j drawals of workmen from employ
i nient in shops and factories for wa
, i duty Inst year were far less numerou
- than had been generally believed. F.s
'ipecially was the reduction slight 1
i [ the youngest and the oldest classes o
i men subject to military duty. Thu
* workmen between 17 and 20 years ol
, represented on January 1, 1915, 15.
; per cent of all the names on the list?
but by October 1 they had been re
, duced only to 14.6 per cent. The re
duction for the class between 41 am
45 years was from 8.8 to 7.5 per cenl
Even for all the classes subject t
military duty the average roductio
. for the nine months was only abon
,: 3 per cent. It is a remarkable fac
II that even now the class of young met
i | between 21 and 25 is larger than an:
other one in the shops and factorie
t of Berlin, constituting 15.5 per cen
> of all the names listed.
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BKUI.IN, Keb. 21. — The big subur
ban city of Lichtenberg, a few mile
i from Berlin, whose population is al
r most exclusively drawn from tin
i working classes, has, during the pas
i few months, been perfecting a systen
s of municipal ownership of foodstuffi
i which is perhaps the most eomprehen
i sive in Germany.
It has not only taken charge of am
1 control over certain kinds of foods, a
i J other municipalities have done, bn
; it lias become salesman as well, hai
»| opened municipal stores and marketi
t all over the city, has done much t<
i keep prices down within reach of iti
I j inhabitants and yet has made enougt
>! profit to enable It to keep its stocki
j replenished.
WILSON WANTS TO NAME
TARIFF BOARD
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WASHINGTON, Keb. 21. — I’resi-1
dent Wilson desires to have the pro
posed tariff t'otp mission appointed by
himself, and says it will be entirely
non partisan.
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CAUSE COURTS
BERLIN. Feb. 21. — Questions of
the validity of soldiers' wills, general
ly made in the field und often in the
form of letters home, have given the
civil courts some hard nuts to crack.
In more than one case the perfectly
patent intention of the devisor has
had to be ignored because lie did not
know how to draw up a binding docu
ment.
BRITISH REPULSED NORTH
OF IfPRES
BERLIN, Feb. 21. — The Germans
j have repulsed the British hand gren
j ade attack against the new German
positions as Yser canal, north of
Ypres.
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I SALONIKL Feb. 21. — The arrest
11 of the members of the consulates ami
,iUie agents of the central powers,
whatever the point of view of inter
national ethics, has put an end to an
absurd state of affairs here. Before
I ttie agents of the hostile powers were
driven out, the allies were in much
( the same position as if their enemies
! tiad free access to such bases as Oa
! lais, Boulogne or Havre.
(i Salonikl now occupies the same po
! J sition in reference to the Anglo
,! French troops as Lisbon did to Wei
lington over a century ago in the
I! Peninsula campaign. Yet before the
recent orders were carried out enemy
i
agents did not even take the pains
to conceal their activities. Germans,
I Austrians. Turks and Bulgars had as
I much right to the streets as the Brit
ish or French soldiers. They watched
.and made note of the landing of troops,
guns and supplies, sat in cafes and
Hived in hotels frequented by British
and French army men. They freely
wrote, telegraphed or took the train
into Turkey or Bulgaria, where their
information could he safely and
promptly sent on to Vienna or Berlin.
- They used to stand along the ancient
i quays and openly comment on the
* peculiarities of the British and
> French warships, the equipment of the
; j men, and the quality of the supplies.
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GERMAN ATTACK UGANDA
! BORDER REPULSED
LONDON, Feb. 21. — It is officially
announced that the German attack on
Kaehujnbe, on the Uganda border, has
been repulsed. !
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i Mrs. J. P. Rockefeller arrived from
' Uhitina on last night's train.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. — Tbe
state department officials consider
the submarine issue with Germany
still grave, because of the Lusitania
agreement, ami in tlte light of the
newly announced submarine policy of
the Germans, which contains no as
surances that their former declara
tion would be adhered to in the fu
ture, so far as not attacking defensive
armed merchantmen is considered.
Secretary Lansing today told Ambas
sador Bernstorff that the United
States would consider highly desir
able that Germany's assurances and
previous declarations he not aban
doned in the new substitute campaign.
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LONDON. Feb. 21. — The Royal
Police have announced the calling to
the colors of the youngest class of re
cruits. They are bachelors who had
attained eighteen years before August
15 last. According to present rumors
there will be a complete calling out
of all single men.
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RUSSIANS ARE
PETROC.KAI), Feb. '.’I — Tlte Rus
sians are occupying (he entire. Lake
Van district, the Turks retiring south
ward, even evacuating Ditlis. The
Russian advance guards have also ar
rived within a short distance of Tre
bizond, on the Black sea coast.
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MAY SEND~CLERK OF COURT TO
CORDOVA.
When Judge Brown was in Cordova
the other day he was informed of the
fact that a number of our residents
desired to file their first papers, while
others are awaiting the opportunity
to become citizens of the United
States. The court said he would take
up the matter and try and arrange to
send his clerk to Cordova in order to
accommodate those who want to be
come naturalized.
DAINTY LUNCHEON BE SERVED
BY THE LADIES.
There will be a luncheon served at
the Windsor Hotel dining room today
by the ladies of the Presbyterian
church. It will begin at noon and con
tinue throughout the evening, when
the Cordova String Orchestra will
furnish music.
The menu will consist of salad,
sandwiches, pickles, cake, ice cream
and coffee, and all for fifty cents.
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The steamer Admiral Farragut will
leave Valdez at 7 o'clock this morning
for Cordova, and will sail south from
here about 2 o'clock iti the afternoon.
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The steamer Alameda is not expect
ed from the westward until Wednes
day morning.