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VOI- V. NO. 127 CORDOVA, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1920
C01 DNIST PARTY HELD TOMORROW
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RADICAL DEMONSTRATIONS
PLANNED FOR MAY DAY ARE
TO E DRASTICALLY HANDLED
WASHINGTON, April 30 (by Asso
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dated Press).—Department of justice
officials declared yesterday that the
Communist and Communist Labor par
ties are urging radical demonstrations
throughout the country for May day.
Attorney General Palmer announced
also that the department had discov
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ered plots against the lives of a score
^federal and state officials during the
May day demonstrations.
Radical leaders, said the attorney
general, have been working directly
with the leaders of the disturbances
in the far East. Demonstrations had
been planned, he said, on behalf of
peace with soviet Russia. Tons of in
flammatory literature had been dis
tributed by secret agents.
Mr. Palmer said the federal agents
were taking all precautions to check
violence, and he believed they would
be able to meet any situation. The
plans have not been made public.
Federal agents have been instructed
to go as far as the law allows in
breaking up radical demonstrations
on May day, and the department of
justice rte concentrating on efforts to
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protect the lives M federal and state
officials alleged to have been marked
for destruction by the reds.
RAID AT PORTLAND
PORTLAND, April 30 (by Associ
ated Press).—Officers last night raided
the hall of the Shipyard Laborers’
Union and arrested four men, all of
whom were later released. The raid
followed the revelations from Wash
ington of May day plots.
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FOMENTING TROUBLE
SPOKANE, April 30 (by Associated
Press).—Communist literature advo
cating a May day demonstration here
are being freely circulated, the police
report.
The Building Trades Council has de
cided against a general strike ,on May
day, which was proposed as a protest
against the open shop.
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FEW TO BE DEPORTED
NEW YORK, April 30 (by Associ
ated Press).—Only twenty-three of the
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more than six hundred alleged extrem
ists arrested in the federal raids last
January have been finally held for de
portation.
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GENERAL STRIKE IN FRANCE
PARIS, April 30 (by Associated
Press).—The miners throughout this
country will ebhtfnue their May day
demonstration into a general strike,
the head of the Miners’ Federation an
nounces.
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IN HOUSE ON
SALES TAX
WASHINGTON, April 30 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Opposition to the sales
tax plan for raising money for soldier
relief has caused a bolt of two Repub
lican members of the ways and means
committee of the house of representa
tives, and they have joined the insur
gents. •
The Republicans now have a major
ity of only one in the full committee.
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FORTIFICATIONS BILL
The senate today passed the forti
fications bill without a record vote,
and it now goes to conference. The
bill carries $19,385,000, and provides
for the return of $800,000,000 of the
unexpended war appropriations for
fortifications.
PEACE RESOLUTION
The senate committee on foreign re
latipns has reported a resolution to
end the war with Germany and Aus
tria as a substitute for the house reso
lution, which omitted Austria.
The Democratic members of the
committee opposed the resolution.
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ROOF BLOWN FROM
IRISH POLICE BARRACKS
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DUBLIN, April 30 (by Associated
Press).—An armed band yesterday at
tacked the police barracks at Rush.
One sergeant of police was killed and
several policemen were wounded. The
roof of the barracks was blown off.
GEN. PERSHING AT PANAMA
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PANAMA, April 30 (by Associated
Press).—General J. J. Pershing has ar
rived here to Inspect the military.
CLASH BETWEEN
SONORANS AND
CARRANZISTAS
AGUA PRIETA, April 30 (by Asso
! ciated Press).—Sonora troops and Car
I ranzistas met in the first clash yester
day near Pulpita pass, between Chi
I huahua and Sonora. Eleven Carran
! zistas were captured and one man
was killed on each*side.
SCONORA RECOGNIZED?
DOUGLAS, Ariz., April 30 (by Asso
I ciated Press).—Secretary of State
! Colby has notified a bank here that
j the government will allow the pay
! meat of customs duties by Americans
i to the de facto authorities of Sonora,
i This is taken as a recognition by the
! state department of the belligerency
! of Sonora.
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EXPECT TO CRUSH REVOLT SOON
EL PASO, Texas, April 30 (by Asso
ciated Press).—General Quieroga, at
the head of three thousand Carranza
i troops, is reported close to Chihuahua
City. The rebels are rapidly with
j drawing from the northern outskirts
of Juarez, and officers predict that the
revolt will be quickly crushed.
MAZATLAN REFUGEES
LOS ANGELES, April 30 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The steamship Sen
ator, bringing eighty-six refugees from
Mazatlan, docked here last night. Half
of the refugees are Americans.
There had been no fighting up to
the time they left Mazatlan, they said.
The Sonora troops were within thirty
miles of the city and the Carranza
garrison was preparing to resist.
RECORD PRICE FOR
SUGAR IN CHICAGO
CHICAGO, April 30 (by Associated
Press).—Sugar reached the record
price of 31 cents per pound here yes
terday.
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AGENCIES AT WORK FOR ALASKA
EXPRESS OPTIMISTIC OPINIONS ON
POSSIBILITIES OF DEVELOPMENT
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SEATTLE, April 30 (by Associated Press).—A Times special from
Washington says that Secretary Payne and other officials of the in
terior department are hopeful tthat the oil land leasing law recently
passed by congress will be the means of bringing a new population
to Alaska.
Alfred Brooks of the Alaska geological survey, who is chairman
of the conference called to devise plans to remedy conditions in
Alaska, in an interview yesterday said that the population of Alaska
was little more than half that of twenty years ago. Probably# there
would be another rush to the North this summer, he said, but not as
big as in former years. “But there are oil . possibilities there,” he
said, “and if somebody strikes a gusher there will be another grand
stampede.”
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STEFANSSON IS TRYING
TO FORM EXPEDITION
TO TAP FOOD SUPPLIES
NEW YORK, April '3$ (by Associat
ed Press).—Stefansson, the Arctic ex
; plorer, has arrived here from Eng
land, where he has been endeavoring
to organize an expedition to tap the
food resources of the far North.
OPERATOR IS BLAMED
FOR RAILROAD WRECK
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WINONA, Minh.'. ^tprfr’W (Wy%!s6
ciated Press).—Martin Boyle, super
intendent of the Minnesota division bf
1 the Northwestern railway, piaees the
responsibility for the Lamberton
wreck upon Joseph Tauer, operator1
at Sanborn. i
COURT ORDER RESTRAINS
MINE WORKERS FROM
CALLING COAL STRIKE
PITTSBURGH, *Kan„ April 30 (by
Associated Pi-ess).—District Judge'
Curran hhs held that the new court
of industrial relations law is constitu
tional, and has issued a temporary in
junction restraining President Howat
of the Kansas Mine Workers and oth:
ers from calling a strike of coal miners!!
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BIG TOURIST TRAVEL
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SEATTLE, April 30 (by Associated
Prgss).—Early bookings for excursion
parties indicate a record-breakii|g
► Alaska tourist season this year. The
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reservations are coming from widely
divergent points.
MM’S LEAD INCREASING—
HAZELET AND REED ELECTED
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A Corrected compilation of the elec
l tion returns shows that J. C. McBride
has defeated Charles E. Herron by a
plurality of 846, having polled 469
votes more than were cast for both
Herron and Chovin. There are still
a few outlying-precincts to hear from,
but they will not alter the vote very
materially.
George C. Hazelet now leads the
other two candidates for delegate to
the Republican national convention.
He received 2,139 votes, to 2,112 for
Reed and 1,746 for Valentine. The
election of both Hazelet and Reed is
now a certainty, and they will have
awvoice in the selection of the Repub
lican nominee for President.
John Rustgard is the Republican
nominee for attorney general, winning
over Finnegan and Hubbard by an
overwhelming plurality.
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PRECINCT , ® i ; i g g a a
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Katalla . 34 . I 2 | 37 I 15 5 28 1 2
Cordova . 376 18 15 406 I 73 49 85 37 169
Cordova No. 2. 129 15 8 I 137 j 57 37 32 24 89
Chitina. 21 2 2 || 18 j 16 3 8 6 8
McCarthy . 23 7 5 || 32 | 19 6 8 7 19
Strelna . 4 2 j| 5 2 ..
Bonanza . 55 5 9 || 51 54 20 23 20 14
Seward ..j 61 14 56 |j 75 74 35 54 22 45
Valdez . 29 1 53 34 52 37 16 36 20
Skagway . 17 62 12 Si 17 30 10 42 23 31
! Fairbanks . 224 3 11 || 210 j 45 33 .
Kodiak. 18 7 7 || 25 I 30 6 23 2 11
Anchorage .....'. 88 169 877 j| 154 | 362 250 152 95 244
Juneau and Gast. Chan... 430 61 509 || 332 695 705 209 283 736
i Petersburg . 31 5 25 j| 33 | 15 32 19 3 42
I Sitka . 47 18 45 ! 58 I 71 48 9 9 79
i Ketchikan . 218 12 68 | 191 106 J 119 158 20 106
! Charcoal Point .. 12 7 j 11 10 12 8 11
Wrangell . 77 10 26 j 28 79 66 57 13 91
i Nome . 31 10 127 | 26 160 113 9 12 146
1 Nenana . 40 | 5 3 | 40 17 15 4 5 43
j Long and Ruby. 7 j 5 j 11 j 9 16 18 10 * 10 7
Hyder .. 49 J 1 11 j .
Tolovana and Creeks. 90 6 19 | 106 31 53 16 13 146
Latouche . 51 1 7 | 47 26 8 29 15 18
Totals . 2223 377 1377 f 2139 2112 1746 886 590 1766
. VOTE BY DIVISIONS
First division .:..... 942 107 665 727 1063 1048 420 323 961
Second division . 31 10 127 26 160 113 9 12 146
I Third division . 889 241 541 1021 780 456 457 255 659
! Fourth division . S61 19 44 I 365 109 129 ..
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I Totals .>.42223 377 1377 2139 2112 1746 886 590 1766
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APPROPRIATIONS FOR ALASKA j.
HAVE BEEN GREATLY REDUCED
BY COMMITTEE OF LOWER HOUSE
SEATTLE, April 30 (by Associated
Press).—A special to the Post-Intelli
gencer from Washington says that the
house committee on appropriations
has reported the sundry civil bill, con
taining reductions in all Pacific coast
and Alaska items.
The appropriation for the Alaskan
engineering commission has been re
duced from $8,000,000 to $7,000,000,
which includes a coal-cleaning plant at
Matanuska costing a quarter of a mil
lion dollars.
No appropriation is made for the
Cape Spencer lighthouse or other spe
cified aids to navigation, but such may
be established in the discretion of the
lighthouse board, the cost to be paid
out of a lump appropriation.
No particular appropriation is made
for the coast service in Alaska. For
j general surveys an appropriation o^
j $280,000 is made, a reduction in the
estimates of $47,000.
For medical relief in Alaska, $90,000
is appropriated, instead of $125,000.
For education, $275,000 is appropri
ated; for the reindeer service, $6,400;
for buildings on the fur seal islands,
$100,0000; for the fisheries service on
the islands, $38,000; for the protection
of the seal fisheries, $140,000; for
game preservation, $25,000; for the
suppression of thj3 liquor traffic, $15,
000; for the care of insane, $115,000.
HUIRT ADMITS
KILLING FOUR
OF HIS WIVES
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LOS ANGELES, April 30 (by Asso
ciated Press).—James R. Huirt, who is
credited with mqrrying thirty wives,
has confessed to the murder of foutf
of them. Bertha Goodnich. Jie says, he
drowned, in Lake Washington, at Se
attle; Alice Ludvigson was drowned
in the Idaho river; Lee Deloney was
killed with a hammer at Long Beach,
and Betty Pryor was kifled with a
hammer near Olympia, Wash.
Huirt said he might have murdered
more. He admitted marrying fifteen
or twenty women, but was too weak,
from the effects of his attempt at sui*:
cide, to give details.
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Iff MEMBERS
OF COMMERCE
COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, April 30 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Henry Jones Ford, pro
fessor of politics at Princeton Univer
sity, and James Duncan of Quincy,
Mass., a former vice president of the
American Federation of Labor, have
been nominated by President Wilson to
be members of the interstate com
merce commission.
Ford succeeds Harlan, whose term
expired a yejar ago, and Duncan fills
one of two new positions created by
the railroad act.
TRAIN WRECK KILLS
150 NATIVES IN INDIA
BOMBAY, India, April 30 (by Asso
ciated Press).—One hundred and fifty
natives were either killed outright or
roasted to death in a train wreck
near Delhi.
SHIPPINGBILLOIL BOAT
IS DAMAGED BY EIRE
SAN FRANCISCO, April 30 (by As
sociated Press).—The Shipping Board
vessel West Cape of Seattle, laden,
with oil and gasoline, has been dam-'
aged by fire to the extent of $50,000.
COASTGUARD
CUTTER SENT
TO RYDER
WASHINGTON. April' 30 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The activity of alien
agitators in the vicinity of Hyde.r.
Alaska resulted in the dispatch today
of the coast guard cutter* Algonquin
from Port Townsend to that place.
Radical agitators have long been
active in Alaska, according to com
plaints made before a congressional
committee recently by Governor Riggs,
who announced that he would ask con
gress to create an Alaska constabu
lary.
The Algonquin carries seventy-one
men, four three-inch rifles and two
machine guns.
COMMERCE OF
ALASKA FOR
LAST YEAR
SEATTLE, April 30 (by Associated
Press).—Alaska’s commerce in 1910
showed exports of $42,476,000, and im
ports of $29,396, according to figures .
compiled by the Alaska bureau of the
Seattle Chamber of Commerce.
The products included: Gold, $9,000,
000; copper, $8,500,000; silver, $650,
000; coal, $350,000; salmon, $47,180,
000; oil, $1,072,000; halibut, ^1,600.
000; cod, $850,000; furs and skins,
$4,000,000. The grand total, fncluding
fish, minerals, etc., is $12S,000,000.
WOOD WINS PRIMARY
. ELECTION IN JERSEY
NEWARK, N. J., April 30 (by Asso
ciated Press’).—Complete figures from
Vist Tuesday’s primary election give
general Wood 1,200 plurality over Sen
ator Johnson.
POINDEXTER ABANDONS
CAMPAIGN IN OREGON
SEATTLE, April 30 (by Associated
Press).—Senator Poindexter has can
celed his Oregon ^speaking trip and is
returning directly to Washington
shortly.
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