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The Cordova Daily Times
YOU MK TWO. Xl'MBKK 4J CORDOVA, ALASKA, FRIDAY MORNINB, APRIL 21, 1916. PRICE TEN CENTS.
STEAM ROLLER WAS AT WORK
MACHINE STOPPED AT NOTHING
j Special to the Daily Times.
SEWARD. April 20. — The Repub
[ Mean territorial convention adjourned
{ sine die at 11 o’clock last night. The
name of James Wickersham. the pre
sent delegate to Congress from Alas
ka, was not presented to the conven
tion as a candidate for the Republican
nomination. The convention decided
io leave the naming of the party’s
candidate for delegate to a committee
of four, consisting of Faulkner, Tom
Lloyd, William A. Gilmore and Harvey
Sullivan.
The platform adopted pledges the
Republicans to work for statehood for
Alaska as far as the same can Vie se
cured. either in whole or in part; it
declares in favor of government en
couragement of both private and gov
ernment built railroads; for the re
j storation of the protective tariff; the
! establishment of a merchant marine;
the extension of both the present
wireless and cable service In Alaska
i to points not at present touched or
i reached: for adequate coast defence;
land for the appointment of Alaskans
! to all federal offices within the ter
ritory.
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The platform attacks the Democrats,
| and the administration of President!
Wilson. It was particularly vicious
in its strictures on Wilson’s foreign
policy, characterizing (he administra
tion's policy towards Mexico as vacil
lating.
The Shackleford element absolutely
controlled the convention by means
of an alliance between the First, Sec
ond and Fourth divisions, which left
the Third division out in the cold.
Gilmore held the solid delegation from
the Nome district and Lloyd had all
of the Fairbanks proxies, including
the other sections of the Fourth divi
sion. Shackleford and his lieutenants
controlled fifty-eight of the sixty dele
gates from the First division. The
opposition to Shackleford, which was
centralized in the Third division, was
snowed under.
The convention selected Shackle
ford and Gilmore as the Republican
delegates to the national convention,
electing Russell of Juneau and Lloyd
of Fairbanks as alternates. Irving, a
Juneau attorney, was elected bj the
body as chairman of the territorial
committee, and Thompson of Fair
banks secretary. Schofield was nom
inated as the party’s candidate for
territorial attorney general.
A resolution, pledging the delegates
to the national convention to vote for
Roosevelt for president, Introduced by
K. K. Ray of Seward, former president
of the Alaska senate, was defeated.
Tlie convention elected a divisional
committee for each of the four divi
sions, composed of seven members. E.
E. Ritchie of Valdez moved to leave
the election of the divisional commit
tees to the respective divisions, but
the motion was defeated after a hot
debate, in which Messrs. Ritchie.
Hazeiet, Ray, Whitteraore, Shackle
ford, Murane, Irving and Gilmore took
part. The warmest fight of the con
vention occurred right here, and
charges against the steam roller meth-|
ods of Shackleford and his "gang"!
were hurled broadcast. Shack held |
the votes, however, and the minority
was ruthlessly crushed.
The convention then proceeded to
elect the divisional committeemen. For
the First division the following were
selected: Howard Ashley (Skagway),
Elmert Smith (Douglas), Messrs.
Faulkner and Kwin (Juneau), P. ('.
McCormack (Wrangell), ,1. R. Heck
man (Ketchikan) and John Goodell
(Sitka); Second division. William
Eddy, A. A. Allen. Fred Daniels, Henry
Burgh. Dr. Chase, H. H. Moller and
Schofield (all residents of Nome);
Third division, J. .1. Finnegan and S.
M. Graff (Seward). John Lyons, Al
White and Dr. Boyle (Valdez), Dr.
Chase (Cordova), and Frank Cotter,
(Anchorage); Fourth division, Tom
Lloyd, T. A. Marquam. Cecil Gregg, [
Joseph Dehn, Leroy Tozier (Fair-j
banks), Charles Hoxie (Ruby) and :
Bercy Charles (lditarod). Former)
Federal Judge Murane. of the Nome
division, and now a resident of Seat
tie, landed the plum of national com
mitteeman. A resolution was adopted
basing future representation at terri
torial conventions on the proportional
rote of each division to the total ter
ritorial vote for delegate and attorney
general.
SEWARD, April 20. — The Republi
ran territorial convention convened In
this city yesterday. The convention
elected Louis P. Shackleford, of Ju
neau, and William A. Gilmore, of
Nome, as delegates to the Republican
national convention at Chicago next
Tune. The delegates will go unin
structed. C. D. Murane, of Seattle,
was recommended for the place of na
lional committeeman. George Scho
field was nominated for attorney-gen
pral of the territory. A motion to in
struct the delegates to the national
‘on vent ion for Theodore Roosevelt
was defeated. After the meeting ad
iourned a cablegram was sent to Dele
gate Janies Wickersham at Washing
ton, asking him if he would agree to
support such a platform as the con
vention would adopt. It is thought
likely that if Wickersham replies in
Hie affirmative he will receive the Re
publican nomination for delegate to
Congress. The convention will reas
temble tonight.
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EL PASO, April 20. — It was re
ported here, today on good authority
that General Villa passed through
Troya, a Mexican town twenty-five
miles east of Parral, only two days
. before the recent engagement between
the Americans and the Carranza
t roops.
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DEMING, N. M„ April 20. — Six of
the Villa bandits who were captured
here after his recent murderous raid
on Columbus, New Mexico, were con
victed today of murder in the first
degree.
WASHINGTON, D. April 20.—
General Obregon. minister of war in
the de facto Carranza government,
said today that he was inclined to
believe, the reports of the search party
who claim to have examined the
/ -grave of the outlaw Villa. Obregon
f hitherto was frankly dubious about the
authenticity of the report, but. says
that lie is not convinced and will re
quire further and stronger evidence
before he accepts as facts the rumors
of Villa's death.
tlRIWIN ARRIVES
WITH EIGHT
Marshal Erwin and Deputy Marshal
Jack McCormack, arrived from Fair
A- hanks on the train yesterday, in
charge of the men convicted at the
recent term of court in that City. Ac
companying the party as guards are
the following gentlemen. T. H. Deal,
postmaster of Fairbanks; Gilbert
Gould, Fred A. Douse and A. G. Bell.
The prisoners, who are being taken
to the penitentiary at McNeil s Island,
are Dan Callahan. J. P. Hose, Charles
Kincaid, A1 Sutton. C. Myers, Julius
Miller, Checaco John and Tony Mara
vieh (the last named being insane).
Maravich will he taken to Mt. Tabor.
Marshal Erwin will leave on the Vic
toria at 7 o’clock this morning for the
south with his prisoners. The trip
from Fairbanks was made in seven
days and fifteen hours, which is con
sidered good time when it is men
tioned that the roads are not in the
best of condition, as the spring break
lip is near at hand and making itself
'felt. The party had a pleasant trip,
which was marred only by one of the
prisoners getting mean. The obstrep
erous one was quickly subdued by the
marshal and his assistants. The men
are all in good health and spirits not
withstanding their road looks gloomy.
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POSITION OF BRITISH ARMY
IN TURKEY CRITICAL
CONSTANTINOPLE. April 20. —
The war office issued an official bul
letin today, stating that the position
of the British army under General
Townshend. in Kut-el-Amara, was
A *<:i'iticnl. as supplies of both food and
j ammunition were getting low. The
* British commander has ordered all of
the citizen population to leave town,
as the food is so scarce that it is all
required for the military.
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Special by Associated Press,
j ANCHORAGE, April 20. — At a [
largely attended meeting of the Fed
eral Labor Union, held in this city
last night, the members by a vote of
1200 to 0 decided to set noon of next
Saturday as the time for calling a
general strike of all the workers for j
the Alaska railroad commission. The
total membership of the union is al |
most two thousand.
The men profess to be irritated over j
the dilatory tactics being pursued by
the officials in settling their demands.
The strike will not be called provided
the government arbitration board.1
consisting of three men, who arrived
some time ago from Seattle, in the
meantime announce the adoption of a
new wage scale as favorable as that
demanded by the workers when the
first strike was called, six weeks ago.
When the first strike was under
way the men agreed to return to work
md defer thu strike under an agree
ment with Lieutenant .Wears, the resi
dent member of the railroad commis
sion, pending the arrival of the arbi
tration board, and their action. The
patience of the men is exhausted and
last night's ultimatum was issued be
cause of alleged double dealing on the
part of the officials of the railroad
commission.
Allegations are made that Mearsl
and his superintendent are cutting the
wages in some cases below those <
which were in force before the first
strike was called. Other charges are
that foremen in the employ of the en
gineering commission are circulating
agreements among the men, asking
them to sign their names to contracts
which provide for a • reduction in
wapes. It is also alleged as one Of the
principal grievances of the workers
that large numbers of foreigners are
coming over the trail from Seward
and are being put to work at once ;
in preference of the members of the
Union, and of American citizens and
residents of Alaska. Former employees
if the com mission are being refused
.cork, while these new comers are be
ng put on the job almost as fast as
hey arrive here. The board of ar
bitration is also being censored se
verely for their apparent inacitvity
aid needless delay, tile suspicion be
ng in tbe minds of the union men that
he delay is a part of a plot to give
ime for the so-called bohunks to ar
-ive in sufficient numbers from the
butside so that strike breakers can be
secured and the higher wages asked
•efused. The demands for immediate
iction have been transmitted to the
luthorities here, who have cabled the
•equests to the officials at Washing
on.
SEIZED PAPERS
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NEW YORK. April f'O. — The docu
ments seized by agents of the depart
ment of justice at the office In this
city of Wolfe Yonigle, former secre
tary to Captain Von I’upen. and whose
return ha been formally demanded
'from the state department by Am
j bassador Kernstorff. are reported to
'contain complete information regard
ing the Teutonic spy system in the
I'Kited States. They include the
names of the directors of the plots
which have been engineered to de
stroy commerce between America and
the allied nations, and also the names
of the secret German agents who ob
tained the information furnished to
the leaders of the spy system. All
the papers have been photographed,
and the German ambassador, in re
spouse to his request for the return
of the documents, will be asked If
they are the property of the German
embassy. #
PLOT TO FORGE
LONDON’, April 2". The govern
ment claims that by the seizure of the 11
German ami Austrian subjects by a s
British warship from the American ^
vessel China near Shanghai, which act
v
lius formed the subject of diplomatic
controversy between Great Britain
and the United Stales, that plot of im
mense ramifications was discovered.:
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whose purpose was to loree a revolu |
tion iu India and overthrow the Brit I
ish government there.
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PARIS THEATER RECEIPTS.
HARIS, April 2rt. The total receipts o
of the theaters in Paris in 1914 were e
41.UOO.000 francs, as compared with o
08,4110,000 francs In 1813. p
Tiie moving pictures withstood the t
trials of war better than all other d
places of amusement. Their receipts *
were 8,282,000 francs as’ against S,- !l
€55 000. |p
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PARIS, April 20. — A strong force
r Russian troops disembarked at Mar
Miles today. The Russians are the
rst troops of that nation to set foot
1 France for the purpose of fighting
Ith their allies on 'lie western front,
hey will be immediately transported
> the front, probably being held in
•serve for the present until the long
spec-led drive of the allie's is launched
txt month.
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POSTOFFICE ON 'fcOYUK.
Dime Creek, the one-year-old camp1
n the Kjnyuk, has finally been grant
1 a postolfice under the official name
r Haycock. Mrs. lairs Gunderson is
ostmaster. Mike Young, writing to,
io Nome Industrial Worker under
ate of February 9, told of several
irikes of pay, and Intimated thut
ie outlook for the camp was im
rovlng.
HARIS, April 20. — The war office
issued an official communique this
morning, stating that in the fighting
around Verdun the French took the
offensive'last night on the right bank
of the Meuse. They stormed the Ten
ton positions, capturing several Her
man trenches, and occupied a fortified
redoubt. Several hundred Herman
prisoner’s wer? 'aken.
FAR(S. April 2 '. The strength of
the French resistance at Verdun has
caused a change in the plans of the
Teuton generals and in order to re
cruit the heavy losses suffered in
their assaults on the French posi -
tions along the Meuse, they have been
compelled to withdraw large numbers
of their soldiers from tlie fronts in
Macedonia, Serbia and Russia, to re
pleais hthe gups in their Minks before
Verdun.
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BERLIN'S REPLY
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WASHINGTON. April 20. — It la
• authoritatively stated that President
! Wilson believes that three or four
days is a reasonable length of time
| for this government to await a reply
I from Merlin to the submarine note,
| which should be delivered to the for
j elgn office today. Such a period is
I sufficient in the eyes of the president
and his advisers for Germany to arrive
at a decision, and if no satisfactory
reply, which must concede the Ameri
can demands, is forthcoming within
that time, diplomatic relations will at
once be broken off. Bernstorff will
i be handed his passports by Lansing
I and a cable recalling Ambassador
| Gerard will be sent.
BERLIN. April 20. — The note
from President Wilson on the subma
rine controversy arrived in this city
lust night, being delivered in code
to Ambassador Gerard. The American
ambassador will present the message
to the Berlin foreign office this after
| noon.
WASHINGTON, I). C\, April 20.—
German diplomats who have been ton
j suited on the question, state that
| a receipt from Berlin of a reply to the
president's latest note on the subma
rine question, within two or three
days, is a physical impossibility. They
assert that the reply cannot be receiv
ed before at least ten days. Be
sides Sunday intervening, Easter Mon
day is a holiday in Germany whicb
is much observed. Necessary consult
ations among the officials will cause
at least a week’s delay, so that a de
cision could not possibly be arrived
at by the German government before
a week from next Monday. It would
then take a day to transmit the
message to Washington.
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WASHINGTON, April 20. — Bern
storff and Lansing held a short con
ference today on the whole situation,
the two being closeted together for
about twenty-five minutes. The sec
retary of state explained to the Ger
man ambassador in detail the exact
| position which the United States has
I now taken ou the controversy, and ex
j pressed to the embassador the sincere
j hope that the attitude of Germany
' would be satisfactory to the United
! States. Bernstorff told Lansing of a
message he had just sent to the Berlin
foreign office, containing recommen
dations which he thought would be
satisfactory to the United States. Af
ter the conference Bernstorff said that
he xvas less hopeful of the situation
today than he was last night, and im
mediately commenced the preparation
: of a new message to his government.
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i NRW YORK, \pril 20. - The con
ditions in the stock market were much
improved today, (lie leading war
-hares recovering somewhat from the?
.-lump of yesterday, and a better feel
ing of confidence pervading the whole
financial district. Rumors were early
circulated to the effect that an im
pression had been gained from high
officials of the government that no
break with Germany would result
from the pending submarine r.e-rotin
lions.
\Y. J. Roaster, of i >itln... at a v.' t
tor to tiie city yesterday.