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VOLUME n. NUMBER 442. COKDOVA, ALASKA, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 16, 1916. PRICE TEN CENTS.
EXPECT A GERMAN
PETROGRAD May 13. — (Delayed
In Transmission.) — Heavy artillery
action along a large, portion of the
German front, taken in connection
\;yh a desperate two-day attack in the
Vicinity of Jacobstade is thought to
1 be the forerunner -of an attempt on
the part of the Germans for a general
advance in the Dvinsk-Riga region.
It is not thought the Germans will
make an attempt at a general offen
sive until after troops have been
transferred from the eastern front,
but the preparations point to a serious
movement against the Dvinsk-Riga
front soon.
GERMAN ATTACK FAILS.
LONDON, May 15. — The Germans
have failed in their latest attacks in
tty Verdun region, and French attacks
on Deadman's Hill and near Cailette
wood also proved unavailing.
BOMBARD HILL 304.
PARIS, May 15. — Heavy bombard
ment by German artillery near Avon
court wood and Hill 304 continues. It
Is expected that the enemy will at
tempt another advance tonight.
BRITISH MAKE ATTACK.
f :KRL1N. May 15. British attacks
/ fori tub German lines near Hulluch, in
/ an effort to recapture trenches taken
by the Germans, failed.
PARIS, May 15. — The Belgian ex
pedition to German Fast Africa today
reports the capture of important Ger
man positions.
■PARIS. May 15. — A French diri
gjSDi' balloon today caught fire" and
fell into the sea near the Sardinian
coast. The crew of six perished.
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CASEMENT TIEN
BEFORE COURT
• FOR TRIAL
LONDON. May 15. — Sir Roger
Casement and Daniel Bailey, an Eng
lish soldier, today were arraigned in
the police court, charged with high
treason. The trial of the two prison
ers will take place before the high
court of justice.
In a statement to the court. Bailey
said the Irish prisoners captured by
the Germans were gathered from all
the various prison camps in Germany
and confined in a camp near Limberg.
Here they were visited daily by Case
ment, who made violent addresses to
the prisoners, and sought to inflame
them against England, trying to per
suade them to break their oaths of
allegiance, and support the proposed
iditlon to Ireland.
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SENATORS TALKING AGAINST
TIME ON RIVER-HARBOR BILL.
WASHINGTON, May 1L- (Delayed
In Transmission.) — Senators Ken
yon. of Iowa, and Sherman, of Illi
nois, today started to talk against time
to kill the river and harbor bill.
AFTER THE DRUG STORES.
BATTLE, May 13. — (Delayed in
Transmission.) — The finance com
mittee of the city council today pro
vided funds for the continuance of
the crusade against whiskey drug
stores.
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Otis Osgood, Olaf Hansen and
James Cascadden yesterday returned
on the steamship Marisopa from An
* ^Bcnorage. Cascadden is an old-timer
bare, and has been at the Cook Inlet
town for the past year.
DUBLIN PEOPLE
GIVEN MORE
DUBLIN, May 13. — (Delayed in
Transmission.) — Since the arrival
of Premier Asquith, the regulations
of the military authorities have been
greatly relaxed. Where formerly peo
ple were allowed on the streets only
during the hours of daylight, they now
are permitted to go about the city
from 4 o'clock in the morning until
midnight
WANTS WAR GOVERNMENT.
LONDON, May 15. It is rt ported
here that Asquith is trying to.arrange
a coalition between tho two Irish fac
tdons for a temporary war government
for Ireland.
GOES TO BELFAST.
DUBLIN. May 15. — Premier As
quith today went to Belfast, where he.
will confer with tlie prominent men.
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DREDGE WILL BE INSTALLED
ON GRANITE NEAR SUNRISE.
Arthur Jett, formerly of Nome, ar
rived last night on the Mariposa and
proceeded on the same vessel to the
westward to make preparations to in
stall a dredge at East Fork and Gran
ite creek near Sunrise. Mr. Jett went
to Honolulu last winter and succeeded
in interesting some of the most pro
minent people of the islands in mining
in tilts district. On the Mariposa he
brought in a thorough prospecting
outfit, including a drill, and the dredge
is on the way. The company’s name
is the Hawaii Dredge. Company of
Honolulu.—Seward Gateway.
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WIRELESS PUNT TO BE
BUILT IT ANCHORAGE
The Alaskan engineering commis
sion has ordered material and equip
ment for a wireless station, which
will bo erected at Anchorage this
summer. It will he equipped with a
10 kilowatt machine, and have 200
foot lowers.
The 'new station will work directly
with Kodiak. Jim Upchurch, an ex
pert wireless construction engineer, is
a passenger on the steamship, bound
for Anchorage, where he will super
intend the erection of the plant.
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WAR CREATES SHORTAGE
OF ERRAND AND OFFICE BOYS
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WINNIPEG, Canada. May 11. --
There Is a big shortage of err,and and
office boys in this province and in
several Canadian provinces as a re
sult of the war, and so pressing has
become the situation that many big
business houses are substituting girls
for the whistling lads who so many
years held sway.
One reason for the shortage lies in
the fact that boys more than sixteen
years old are eligible for army ser
vice. and a large part of them have
eulisted. Another cause is due to the
school laws, which in this province
and in other districts compel the at
tendance at school of boys 14 years
old and younger.
The problem lias been solved here
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by file telegraph companies, who are
employing crippled soldiers for mes
senger boy work.
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C. J. George, James Swallery, Ted
Julian and William Peterson yester
day arrived frotp the outside on the
steamship Admiral Parra gut,
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DIVORCE ACTION FILED.
An action for divorce has been filed
| in the district court at Valdez by
S'ella M. Gelser against Oils Geiser,
desertion being the cause of the ac
tion. The plaintiff is a resident of
Cordova.
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WASHINGTON. May 11. — <Oe-|
layed In Transmission.) — Secretary'
of War i.’akcr, Secretary of the Navy
Daniels, and the Panama canal an
thorities today joined in a resolution
asking congress to appropriate $3,000. ;
000 for snbmaiiuc bases at both endsj
of the canal.
The re- olution recited the fact that
the Panama canal now is not ade
quately defended, and further asked
that the money be made Immediately J
available.
MAN TO BLAME FOR FOOD
RIOTS RESIGNS
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BERLIN, May 13. — (Delayed in j
Transmission.) — Clemens Colbruck,,
vice-chancellor and minister of the in-1
terior, resigned today. Ill health is
given as the reason.
The real cause of the resignation
of Colbruck, it is said, is the wide ,
spread dissatisfaction over the manner
in which he handled the food situa
tion, which resulted in the riots May 1..
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NOTED SINGER DIES.
NEW HARTFORD. Conn.. May 13
(Delayed in Transmission.) — Clara
Louise Kellogg, once famous in Am
erica as a singer, died today at the
age of 73.
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ONLY FOUR PASSENGERS
FOR CORDOVA ON WATSON.
SEATTLE. May l.r>. A. Bookman,
J. Dolan and two steerage were the
only passengers booked for Cordova
on the steamship Admiral Watson,
which sailed for the north today.
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VERDUN'S DEFENDER HONORED.,
PARIS. May 13. — General Retain, i
commander in chief at Verdun, and
Generals Balforeier and Claret do la
Touche have been placed on the spe
cial roll of the Legion of Honor for
grand officers for conspicuous ser
vices at Verdun.
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ZEPPELIN RAIDS CAUSE A
LOWERING OF VITALITY.
LONDON, May 13. — At an inquest
on a woman who died from illness
brought on by the news of a Zeppelin
raid, a physician declared that when
the raids were in progress the vitality
of people was lowered and they caught
severe colds. ‘‘They have a sense of
impending disaster,” lie said, "know
ing that other people are suffering
and not knowing what will happen to
themselves.”
Mrs. .1. W. Ward and daughter,
Dorothy, were arrivals on the steam
ship Admiral Farragut yesterday. Mrs.
Ward is accompanied by her mother,
Mrs. Mary Charlton.
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IT. S. Customs Officer E. F. Stivers.!
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of Juneau, is a passenger on the i
steamship Admiral Farragut bound
for Anchorage, where he will inspect
the gasoline bouts running on Cook
Inlet.
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Captain Richard Hofstad. of Wran
gell. who lias been on a trip to Sand
Point, where he inspected several gold
prospects is returning home on the
Marisopa.
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Jack Shepherd, in charge of a pile
driver. with which he will drive n|
fish trap for Jack Dalton, today len
to go out on the flats. Ed Walters ■
Is with him.
John E. Mattson and Griff Ellis, are
in town from Tiekell.
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MURDERER OF
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FL FASO. May 13. — (Delayed In
Tmnsnifeiden.) — It was reported to
day that Villa had been seen near
Corrizo, in western Chihuahua. The
American and Carranza authorities
r< investigating the report.
Lopaz. one of Villa's lieutenants,
who last February murdered eighteen
\mericans near Santa Ysabel, has
licen ra t lit near that place.
I.opaz offered resistance when sur
rounded and was severely wounded.
He will be allowed to recover before
being executed.
NEMO BURNED TO DEATH
BY TEXAS MOB
WACO, Texas, May 15. — Jesse
Waco, a negro boy, who confessed to
the criminal assault and murder of
Mrs. Lucy Fryman, today was taken
from the court room Idv a mob and
burned to death on the public square, j
Fifteen thousand men. including many
women and children, witnessed the
lynching.
COMPANY FORMED TO
RAISE SUNKEN SHIPS.
NEW YORK, May 13. — The Inter
ocean Submarine Engineering Com
pany lias been incorporated with a
paid up capital of $125,000. to raise
^liips from the ocean bed or salvage
their contents. The company will be
gin work on ships sunk along the At
lantic seaboard. If successful in its
first undertaking it will endeavor, it
was said, to float or salvage the con
tents of some of the $300,000,000 worth
of merchantmen! sunk by German
submarines.
The president of the company is
Rear Admiral Colby Mitchell Chester.
17. S. N., retired. The vice-president
Is Chief Gunner George David Still
son. U. S. N'.. retired, who devised the
lilan for raising the submarine F-4
front the waters off Honolulu and
supervised the work.
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HEATHER USED TO DISPEL
POISONOUS GAS IN TRENCHES.
PARIS, May 13. — The largely in
creased exportation of heather from t
Denmark to Germany was supposed I
to have been due to the need of the j
Hermans as a substitute for forage.1
It was also said that tea was made1
from the heather blossoms. A Ger
man soldier, native of Schleswig, now
explains that the heather is placed
it front of particularly exposed
renches and set afire on the ap
proach of gas clouds. The burning
leather heats the air which, it) ex- j
pauding, disperses the poisonous va-1
tors, be says.
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2,000 PURSUE ROBBERS.
DENVER. May 6. — A crowd esti-j
mated at 2,000, a squad of mounted
jolice and mounted cowboys joined in
i chase last night which resulted In the
capture of Ralph Bertram, 21, of
Pueblo, Colo., and Fred Jones. 21. of
5t. Louis, who held up and robbed the
crew of a freight train in the stock
yards here.
After William H. fabler, t!5, n
watchman, had been been shot from
It is horse, “Goldie” Davis, a cowboy
seized the animal and took up the j
chase. Police and pedestrians Joined. I
The bandits took refuge in a vacant j
louse a mile from the scene and were j
caught. C’ubler’s wounds proved!
fatal.
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Mrs. J. F. Carlson, of Seward, was i
t passenger on the steamship Mari-1
posu. bound for Skagway for a short
visit.
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AMERICA READ!
TO PROTECT
WASHINGTON. May 15. — The
American government is prosecutim
very vigorously its protest ng^iins
the intereference with mail to am
from the United States by Great Bri
tain. A note to be sent in the neai
future will say that American canno
countenance the seizure or detentioi
of its mails, particularly those com
ing from or going to neutral countries
Since the German government ha:
conceded alt that was asked by th'
\merican government relative to th>
submarine campaign, officials lien
expect the mail controversy wltl
Great Britain will be given more at
tention by the administration.
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SENATE COMMITTEE FAVORS
mt. mckinley national park
WASHINGTON. May 15. The bil
introduced by Delegate Wickershain
creating a national park in the Mourn
McKinley district, today was reportei
favorably by the senate committee.
NATIONAL COMMITTEE MEETS.
CHICAGO, May 15. The Itepubli
can national committee today openei
headquarters in the Coliseum. Then
are \ery few and Unimportant ton
tests.
ALASKA AND FAiHGUl
ARRIVE HI CQRDOVH
The steamship Alaska, of (he Alas
ka Steamship Company, with a larg<
consignment of freight, arrived ai
Cordova early this morning. The fob
lowing passengers were listed for this
city: .Mrs. J. Oyer. Frank Wright and
wife. A. F. Lelser, Mrs. J. W. Filth)
ger. A. I.auer, Miss I,. Nelson. T. Vast
loff. .1. Nickoloff, and thirtv two
steerage.
The Alaska will sail lor the west
(oniorrow morning.
The steamship Admiral Farragut, ol
the Admiral line, arrived here yes
terday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, and
sailed an hour later for the west. The
following passengers were for Cor
dova: Mrs. N. Johnson. Edward
Casher, W. A. Hesse. Mrs. J. W. Ward
and Mrs. M. Charlton.
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EXPRESS REGRET TO SWISS.
BERNE. May 13. — The German
minister by special instruction ot
Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg. has
called at the Swiss state department
and expressed deepest regret for the
violation of Swiss territory by a Ger
man aeroplane on Wednesday.
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TRANSPORTATION PROBLEM
BOTHERS THE AUSTRALIANS.
LONDON. A!ay 13. — The problem
of transporting the Australian wheat
.•top is just now occupying the atten
tion of the government and the ship
owners.
The exportable wheat surplus of
Australia is about 3,500,000 tons, of
which only about 500,000 tons have
so far been brought to Europe. To
bring the remainder this year would
require about 700 voyages and it is
Jifficult for the owners to find suffi
cient ships owing (o the general
scarcity of tonnage. The distance
front Austrlia is alout 12,000 miles,
ns compared with the 3.000 miles
which separate Canada front this
country.
The difficulty in transporting the
wheat crop is particularly db appoint
Ing to the Australian growers, who
Increased their wheat area over that
nf the previous season by about 50
per cent, in spite of the fact that
Ihey had to pay much higher rates
for seed, fodder and labor.
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PONIES
j EL PASO, May. 11.—(Delayed In
| Transmission.) — General Funston
today made known his plan to
strengthen the border patrol by
mounting 2.000 infantrymen on Texas
■ ponies. All the available forces of
the regular cavalry are exhausted, and
In order to make his force more mo
bile he is forced to supply his in
fantry with mounts.
i Texas ponies have been chosen be
> cause of their ability to subsist on
■ scanty herbage where other horses
• would starve. ^
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ROUMANIA PREPARING FOR
BIG NATIONAL IMPORTATIONS.
BUCHAREST, Koumania. May 13.—
Tile Roumanian central committee of
importation lias sent special commis
sions to Russia. Switzerland and Hol
land to make purchases of raw mater
ials for industry and merchandise
for commerce. Arrangement has al
j ready been made with Germany for
j the importation of $30,000,000 worth
of German goods, and the establish
ment in Berlin of a special bureau to
receive and execute Roumanian
i orders.
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j SCORES SENTENCED
FOR TREASON.
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AMSTERDAM. May 13. — A great
j high treason trial. In which 10 persons
! were sentenced to death, has just end
j ei] at Sarajevo, Bosnia, according to
| the Frankfurter Zeitung. Among
; those condemned to death were Casiji
I Grgji. a former deputy, and Muffin,
j Poppvic, a priest. Sixty-eight persons
j wer sentenced to prison for from one
I to twenty years. Fifty five others
j were acquitted. Sarajevo was the
j scene of the assassination of Arcb
i duke Francis Ferdinand, heir appar
ent to the Austro Hungarian throne,
j and his wife.
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WASHINGTON. May 15. — Pend
ing the ratification of the agreement
with Carranza, his troops are being
moved into the bandit infested re
gions of .Mexico.
Pershing's force i# being withdrawn
into strong groups along the line of
communication to await the outcome
of Obregon's efforts to clean out the
bandit territory in the south.
General Funston today, is complet
ing arrangements tor a border patrol
which will consist of 35.000 men. ex
clusive of th* force with Pershing,
which consists of 14,000.
mm service ins
SMCTfMTOIlC.
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WASHINGTON. May 13 (Delayed
in Transmission.) — Commissioner
Harlan, of the Interstate Commerce
j Commission, today told the senate ]u
| dioiary committee that he voiced the
sentiment of the commission in say
ing that the services of Braudeis in
the five per cent rate advance case
were eminently satisfactory. Bran- .
deis. he said, was employed to repre
sent the public and not the shippers
or railroads.
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F. A. Turner, owner of the clam
cannery at Radio Point, is in Cordova
on business.