The Cordova Daily Times
Member of The Associated Press
VOL. IV. NO. 43 ~~ CORDOVA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1919_ PRICE TEN CENTS
STEEL SHIP YARD WORKERS STRIKE TODAY
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SEATTLE IN THRO ES OF BIG
STRIKE AMONG SHIP BUILDERS
NFATTFF, Jan. L'l (by Associated Press). Between
twenty-live and thirty thousand shipyard workers in this city
went out on strike this morning. All the yards, together with j
the contract shops, have been closed.
The strike was called in the steel ship yards only . Five ,
thousand wooden ship yard workers did not join in the strike.
It is expected that the wooden ship yards will be closed also
as soon as the Metal Trades Council orders the electricians and
engineers in the wooden ship yards to strike.
The strikers are demanding a wage scale of $1 an hour tor
niei hanies and ifli to $< per day tor apprentices, laborers and
helpers.
Anacortes Also Affected
A N At 'I 11 Cl' ITS. Wash., Jan. -1 (by Associated Press).
Three hundred metal workers employed by the Anacortes Ship
bui Id i ne Company s track today in co-opt1 rat ion with the Seat t le
unions. The yards probably will be closed.
SOLUTION OF RUSSIAN PROBLEM
STILL BEFORE CONFERENCE
PARIS, .Ian. 1 (liv Associated Press). I lie peace con
ference has the Russian (piestion nailer continued examination.
Tilt1 latest information available is that all the allied govern
meats are prepared to present their memoranda, and the dis
cussion looking to the solving of the problem is expected to
begin soon.
Harold Scavenius, the Danish minister to Russia, today
gave the congress his views concerning Russia. \ esterduy M.
Noulcns, the French ambassador to Russia, spoke before the
congress.
Blockade to Be Used to Coerce Germans
Owing to the pressure of more urgent problems before the
delegates to the peace conference, the various economic delega
ticus are being given an opportunity to study separately the j
blockade and kindred problems.
The Americans favor certain relaxations in the earlier j
vater tight blockade, in order to permit tin* entry ot tood
stuffs, lubricants and other commodities into the Teuton conn
tries, otherwise the blockade to be rigidly enforced in order to
compel tin* enemy to accept tin* peace terms.
The blockade already has been relaxed in the western part
of Austria, food being sent via Vienna to be supplied to tier
many. 1 ,
IRELAND ESTABLISHES REPUBLIC
-DEMANDS BRITISH EVACUATION
DUBLIN, Jan. 21 (by Associated Press).—'The Sinn Fein
assembly met here today, the members all standing while the
declaration of independence was read, announcing the estab
lishment of the Irish republic, and demanding that the British
evacuate Ireland.
Recognition by San Francisco Church
SAN FKANCISCO, Jan. 21 (by Associated Press).—The
tune of ‘‘A Nation Once Again” and other Irish songs chimed
out from the belfry of St. Patrick’s church in this city on re
ceipt of the news from Dublin that the Irish repi^lic had been
proclaimed.
NOMBTE BROUGHT DOWN
TEN GERMAN PLANES
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 21 (by Associated
PreBs).—Major Kenneth Marr of San
Francisco. formerly a well-known resi
dent of Nome, Alaska, who recently
was awarded the American Dlstln
guished Service Cross, arrived here
today.
Major Marr Is credited with having
brought down ten German airplanes
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ALASKA MINING STOCKS
NKW YORK. Jan 21.—Alaska Gold,
3% ; Alaska Juneau. 2.
PACIFIC COAST
TO WELCOME
BOYS HOME
SKATTLK. Jail. '-’1 I by Associated
Press i Seattle. Spokane and Tacoma
are planning elaborate receptions to
the Three Hundred and Forty-sixth
held artillery of the Ninety first divi
sion. bound from France to Camp
Lewis for demobilization
'The troops are expected to arrive
here Friday The hatterey is the first
unit id the devision to return to Camp
Lewis where the division was
t rained.
'file streets of the three cities will
be converted into canyons of flags,
and there will tie parades of the
t mops
Four trains of tlie.-e troops passed
through St Paul >• terday
Ninety-first Has Priority
WASHINGTON. Jan. 'J1 thy Asso
ciated Press i The war department
has announced that the Tweaty-sev
enth. Thirtieth and Thirty-seventh di
visions have been ordered home. The
Ninety-first division has priority over
these, and will leave ns soon as ship
ping is available.
Six Thousand Leave Today
The transports Concona and Sus
quehanna and the cruiser Frederick
sailed today front France with six
thousand troops.
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LISBON JOINS
MONARCHICAL
MOVEMENT
MADRID. Jan. -M l l).v Associated
Press). It is reported that Lisbon
has joined the monarchical movement.
The monarchist movement in Por
tugal is headed by Puiva Conceiro,
and has been successful in northern
Portugal. A government has been
formed at Oporto
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CORDOVA YOUNG MAN
WEDS TRAINED NURSE
Our lormer townsman, Walter
Smith, who is now in the service of j
Uncle Sam. has taken unto himself a
wife, thi‘ wedding being the outcome
of a romance dating from their school
days. The Polk County Post, pub
lished at Independence, Ore., contains
the following account of the wedding:
"Two well-known and popular
young people, formerly of Indepen
dence. were married at Oregon City
during the holidays, when Walter
Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. Layton
Smith of Cordova, Alaska, took for
his bride Miss Aida Oillespie, eldest
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. F. Gil
lespie of Centralia. Wash Their
large number of friends in Indepen
dence certainly wish them all the hap
piness and prosperity possible.
"After a short honeymoon Walter
left for Mare Island, where he is sta
tioned as a member of the United
States navy, and Mrs. Smith resumed
her duties as a nurse In a Portland
hospital. When Mr. Smith receives
his discharge from the navy, some
time soon, the happy young pair will
establish a home after going to Alaska
to visit his parents."
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The launch Rolfo loft this morning
fer Kata'.la with a cargo of supplier
for the Chllkat Oil Company.
ROCKEFELLERS’
DEATH PLANNED
BY ANARCHISTS
WASHINGTON. Jan 21 (by Asso
ciated Press i \ police inspector,
testifying today at the senate investi
gation of German and brewery propa
ganda. said the anarchists had plotted
against the lives of John 1). Rocke
feller and his son shortly after the
beginning of the war. He said the
plotters were killed by the explosion
of a bomb which they had made to
kill the Rockefellers.
Since the armistice had been signed,
said the Witness, evidence had been
found that the anarchists had planned
to organise and disseminate propa
ganda.
NARVA TAKEN
WITH MANY
""PRISONERS
STOCKHOLM. Jan. 21 (bv Asso
ciated Press). A Swedish volunteer
military expedition is expected to
start for Lithuania (his week to stem
the Rolsheviki advance.
The Swedish military authorities are
reported to bo favorable to sending
forces to Lithuania, hut not to Es
thonia. owing to the lack of economic
resources there
Bolsheviki Defeated
LONDON. Jan. 21 (by Associated
Press). I h* Ksthonians operating
northeast of Lake Peipus have won a
notable success against the Rolshe
viki. and have captured tin* town of
Narva, with many prisoners.
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JURY ACQUITS
WIFE CHARGED
WITH MURDER
M INKOLA. N V., Jan. 21 (by Asso
ciated Press l The Nassau county
Brand jury lias failed to indict Mrs.
Marie AuBustine Induiudy. who shot
and killed h* r millionaire husband, the
eccentric Jacques Lebaudy, at their
Westburv home early in January.
Lebaudy styled himself "Emperor of
Sahara," and had led a spectacular
career.
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PASSENGERS INCOMING
AND THOSE WING
The steamer Alaska arrived in port
at 8:30 o'clock last night, with the
following pasengers for Cordova, who
are quarantined at the detention
camp for ten days: James Smith,
Clyde Nettleton, John K. Berry, Miss
Ida Cloud, J. \V. Johnson. O. Swan
son, Tom Kinney and M. Kapusnik.
The following persons have hooked
passage on the steamship Alaska,
which sails for Seattle at 8 o'clock
tomorrow morning: Mr. and Mrs. V.
J. Dwyer, Miss Bacon, Mrs. J. P. Mc
Lellun, Mrs. A. E. Becklet. E. A. Gra
ham, Robert Oottschalk. George
Clause, M. J. Florence, Fred Eckholm,
F. Oatey, A. Wickland, C. A. Edward,
Arthur Johnson and f. W. Suinmerill.
FISHING IN COPPER RIVER
LIMITED AND PROHIBITED
As a result of tin* recent fi.bierie
hearings in Seattle for the purpose
of determining the advisability of
amending the order establishing a ,tl
limn breeding reserve and limiting tish
ing in the Copper river, adja* nt to
Cordova, its delta and if- tributary
waters. Secretary Kedtield of the d«
partment of commerce ha- ordered
that until further notice fi lling fur
salmon!*or other fishing in the pro
cution of which salmon are taken or
injured in the Copper river and its
delta and all tributary water . Alaska,
be and is hereby made subj*< r to the
following limitations a ml p • I: !b *a .
in addition to the general r* 'tit lions
already applicable by virtue <•! exist
ing laws and r» filiations
1. Comm • ( l.tl li. lung i : ; *.iit• 11• d
in waters of the Copper river delta
from t; a. m on January 1 to r. a m
on June in of each year, and in tie
waters of .Mil* s lake and .\ben rnmbi<
canyon from 6 a. m. on January l to
6 a. m. on June la of each year
2. Commercial flshinig in the
waters of the delta shall him Uuiltud
to set nets and drift gill nets. No
such net shall exceed SOO feet in
length. The lateral distance interval
between all set nets ill file waters of
the delta herein referred to shall he
not less than 600 feet.
All fishing is prohibited from
the head of tie* delta to lie :• t of
Miles lake at all times
4 All iishing in Miles lake shall
he limited to set nets No such ie*f
shall exceed s'*u feet in length, and
onl> om* -in h net shall In* extended
out from shore from one location: no
offshore nets will be permitted in the
lake. Throughout tin* fishing season
the shore of the lake shall be consul
ered as it was on June la. Tin* lat
eral distance interval between all nets
in Miles bike shall be not less than
600 feet. No fishing will be permitted
along the west and north shores of
Miles luke from the north end Mile
40 bridge to the north end of Miles
glacier, nor along the islands and
sand bars between the bridge and tin
head of the lake
5. Fishing in Abercrombie canyon
shall be restricted to the use of dip
nets operated by hand, such nets not
to exceed sixteen inches in greatest
diameter No fishing will he permit
ted at any point on tin* east side of
the canyon or river above the ln*a 1 of
the lake
b. No tishtng will lie permitt• • 1 at
any tittle in the waters of the Copper
river above Abercrombie canyon, or
in any of the waters tributary thereto,
except In the case of local residents,
who may take limited numbers of sal
moil for domestic cse: Provided. That
such fishing shall at no time be upon
the spawning grounds of any salmon
7. No net shall be placed In any
other than substantially a straight
line.
8. For the purposes herein eonsld
ered, the delta of the Copper river
shall be regnrded as including all
waters south of an east aml west line
passing through Mile 27 on the Cop
per River & Northwestern railway,
as at present established, and inside
of a line 500 yards off the mouth of
each slough and outlet of the Copper
river beginning with Alganik slough
on the west and ending with Gus Wil
son slough on the east, including Pete
Dahl. Walhalla, Gus Stevenson. Little
King Salmon. Castle. Storey, Rig King
Salmon (or Copper river proper),
Duck, Russian and all unnamed
■loughs between. For the purposes of
this order the mouth of each slough
will be regarded as at the edge of
the grass banka at the line of mean
high tide.
9. The lower end of Miles lake
shall he considered as at the bridgo
of the Copper Kiver North western
railway at Mile r» The head of Miles
lake shall !»• considered as at the point
where the river enters the lake, this
point as indicated by notices posted
by duly authorized representatives of
the bureau of fisheries.
In Abercnenbie canyon shall be
considered as extending from the head
of Miles lake to Tunnel point, on the
Copper Kiv* r a Northwestern rail
i way.
11 For fie- purposes of this order
the following definition are adopted
' Stake lea if j 11 net attached or
al fixed In pi! or stakes . d net."
an anchored gill net, one . ml of which
may if desirable he fastened t,, a
stake or of to !' object oil ‘ hoi"
This order become-, effective jan
I. 1 b 1 !♦ and supersedes the order of
December L'P. IP 17
Supplementary Information
11 M. Smith, commissioner of lisher
| ies. has issued the followinig inform*
1 "on JrwsardUus fo&uiK m Uuj Uopyui
I river
The foregoing special regulations do
not supersede or in any way lessen
the effect of the general !i die lies
laws. Among other matter- in this
connection if seem- appropriate to di
led attention more particularly to the
follow ing
1 d’he laying or setting of nets of
any kind in a sir-am. slough, river,
lagoon or other bodv of watd lor a
distance greatei than one third the
w idtli thereof i - unis w nil
•J. The laying or • tting of linkable
nets of any kind w ithin 100 yards i loo
I feet i of any other fishing appliance
j is unlawful.
:: The law requires an cmiwise ins
tanri' of not less than 100 yard i (300
; feel I and a lateral distance of not less
Ihail 000 yards I 1 .SiHi fed I lidweeii all
fixed fishing apparatus This applies
to traps, pound nets, slake nets, fish
wheels, and all fixed fishing gear.
These distance intervals will tie en
forced in regard to stake nets and
i other fixed fishing appliances operated
in the waters of the Copper river delta
outside the closed .ki'O-yurd area at the
mouth of each slough and out fid
I It is unlawful to fish for. catch
or kill salmon in Alaska in any man
ner except by rod. spear or gaff in
any stream, slough or other water less
than 100 yards 13o0 feet I ill width
lid ween the hours of 0 o'clock in the
,-veiling and 0 o'clock in the morning
of the following day of each and every
day of the week
a A weekly dose season must be
observed from 5 p. in. of Saturday to
tl a. in of the Monday following of
each week, except in the delta of the
Copper river.
tl Under a recent amendment of
the general regulations affecting the
marking of flshllng gear if Is now re
1 qulred that there be displayed In a
! conspicuous place on all stako nets
and set nets, as well as on pound nets
or traps, the name of the person, com
' pany or corporation owning, operat
ing or using the same.
7. As soon as practicable notices
will be posted to indicate the extent
! of the protected waters at the mouth
j of each slough or outlet at the Copper
river delta. The absence of such no
tices. however, will not relievo any
person or persons from full responsi
bllity of fishing within the protected
J waters contrary to the law aand regu
lations.
Cape Spencer Restriction*.
Secretary Redfleld has also issued
an order that until further notice all
fishing for salmon, or other fishing In
the prosecution of which salmon are
taken or Injured, in all hereinafter de
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