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V()LFM]<] TL >™BER 572. CORDOVA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24,1916. PRICE TRX (<EXTS
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TEDTONS HAVE CAPTURED C ONSTANZA
- EMPLOYEES TO
STRIKE
OTTAWA, Oct. lit. — The Canadian
Pacific railway trainmen have voted
to strike on Wednesday afternoon. The
cabinet says the government regards
the situation as a matter of grave con
cern. and declares that the rights of
the public must be considered before
taking any active steps to prevent a
public disaster. The government has
made one more appeal to the company
and employees to get together and
settle their differences.
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The Democrats of Cordova w ill hold
their lirst rally of the campaign at
Empress theatre tonight. The princi
pal speaker w ill he Charles A. Sulzer,
candidate lor delegate to congress,
who will leave immediately after the
meeting on the Karra gut for Valdez,
going from there to Seward and
thence to \nchorage, where he will
remain until after the election. John
Honan, candidate for territorial sen
ator, will also address the meeting,
which will be attended by National
Committeeman T. 1. Donohoe. of Val
dez. The speaking will start at 8
o’clock, and all are invited to attend,
Including the Indies.
Cordova is certainly the camping
ground of the politicians today. Tn
addition to the above prominent Demo
crats we also have with us the Re
publican and Socialist leaders of them
respective tickets. On this after
noon's train Mrs. Lena Morrow Lewis,
Judge James Wickersham and George
Dooley returned from a campaign tour
of the Copper river valley, having held
■meetings at Kennecott, McCarthy and
Chitina.
There has been considerable inquiry
as to the new election law, especially
as to the qualifications of voters, and
in order that all may be fully in
formed, tbe Daily Times will this week
publish the salient features of the new
act.
The following list of candidates will
appear on the official ballot at the
election on Tuesday, November 7
FOR DELEGATE.
Lena Morrow Lewis.
Charles Sulzer.
James Wickersham.
FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL.
John 11. Cobb.
George R Grigsby.
George D. Schofield.
FOR TERRITORIAL SENATOR.
George Dooley.
John W. Framer
E. F. German.
John Ronan.
FOR REPRESENTATIVES.
Frank Cannon.
Charles M. Day.
R. E. Hegner.
William Henry
Thomas Holland.
R. R. Hunter.
Chnrles McCallum.
John Noon.
Thomas Price.
FOR ROAD COMMISSIONER.
J. C. Pleringer.
Thomas Jeter.
James Wilson.
Edward B. Wood.
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WHEAT NOW WORTH
$2 PER BUSHEL.
MINNEAPOLIS. Oct. 24. — Mon
tana and Durum wheat has the record
selling price of f2 per bushel.
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PETR( x: ‘ \ < tot. 24.—The central powers have occupied
Constanza and midie. The Russians and Roumanians are re
tiring under pressure to the heights to the north.
PARIS, Oct. 24.—The capture of Constanza by the Teutons
lias dampened the enthusiasm aroused by the continued pro
gress of the allies. Picardy observers expect General Mack on
sen to transfer his men to Transylvania for a campaign against
Bucharest. It is expected the Roumanians will be able to hold
the Carpathian passes.
Bl (’PARENT, Oct. 24.—The central powers took but lit
tie booty in the Constanza evacuation, this action having been
decided upon previously.
BERLIN, Oct. 24.—It is officially stated that the Teutons
after a violent engagement south of Kronstadt, captured Pre
deal, six hundred Roumanians were also taken at Med’jidie, on
the Tehernavodn-Constanza railway. They also captured 6,700
Roumanians and Russians at Dobrud.ja. The Roumanian town
of Raspova Dobrud.ja, on the Danube, below Tehernavoda, was.
taken.
LONDON, Oct. 24.—The British and German governments
have agreed to exchange all interned prisoners over the age of
45 years.
BLCIIAREST, Oct. 24.- The west wing of the Roumanian
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find Russian forces at Dobrudja was obliged to retire toward
Tzara in u rat, twelve miles north of the Constanza Tehernavoda
railroad lines.
CONSTANT INOPLE, Oct. 24.—The Turkish troops which
with the allies crossed the railway line in Dobrudja fire pursu
ing the retreating Russians find’ Roumanians.
NEW YORK, Oct. 24.—American bankers are loaning the
British government $250,000,000 at five per cent on a two years
issue, at a prjce of ninety-nine. Collateral valued fit $2T>0.noO,
• MM) has been deposited to protect the loan.
LONDON, Oct. 24.—Ground gained by the British in the
neighborhood of Duenbecourt and Lesboeufs yesterday has
been fully secured. A thousand Germans were captured Satur
day between Schwahen redoubt and Lesars.
PARIS, Oct. 24.—The Serbian troops in the Coma region
have been repulsed. The Germans and Bulgarians made conn
ter attacks and then captured several trenches.
BERLIN, Oct. 24.—Tn the fighting in Transylvania the
Roumanians showed lack of military knowledge, while the ar
tillery is badly handled. As there are no barbed wire before
the trenches the Roumanian army shoot badly and' the German
losses are trifling.
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MILA BISHOP
MANILA, Oct. 24. — The Most Rev
erend Jeremiah J. Harty, archbishop
of the Philippines, will leave next
week for the United States to become
bishop of Omaha. He has terminated
thirteen years' service as the first
American archbishop of the islands.
There Is, so far, no intimation as to
his successor, but there is an exten
sive movement among churchmen to
j secure the appointment of a Filipino.
GHiNKS REJECT
PEKING, Oct. 24. — Chinese stu
dents who are attending .Japanese uni
versities have held several conferences
in Japan to discuss Japanese demands
growing out of the Chengchiatung in
cident. The Peking Gaily News prints
the following appeal to Chinese citi
zens framed at such a conference in
Japan: "Fellow citizens—In connec
tion with the Chengchiatung incident,
the Japanese have presented cruel de
mands, and as the fate of our father
land is hanging in the balance, we can
not remain silent. We hereby re
quest that popular conferences be
] called to urge the government not to
! vield to them."
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DUBLIN, Oct. 24. — The Irish Times
reports the arrival of weekly batches
of men and women stated to be com
pulsorily returued from the United
States in consequence o( the strict
requirements of the American immi
gration law. Some of the home
comers, it is said, will try again when
their health gives better prospect of
satisfying the American medicul of
ficers.
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CHINESE TAUGHT AT NIGHT.
SEATTLE. Oct. 24. — Night classes
in the Chinese language will be of
fered at the university this semester
for the benefit of those business and
faculty men who are not able to at
tend the day classes. The Chinese
language Is taught in the United
States only at Columbia university,
the University of California and the
University of Washington.
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The work of installing Juneau's new
fire protection system has com
I menced.
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MANY HS OF
HETTY GREEN
NEW BEDFORD, Maas., Oct. 24. —
Claiming relationship to the late Mrs.
Hetty H. Green, "the richest woman
in the W'orld," hundreds of people all
aver the United States have been
writing to the trustees of the Sylvia
Ann Howland estate demanding a
J share in the Howland fortune. This
estate, amounting to about $1,250,000,
released for distribution by the death
of Mrs. Green, who had a life interest
therein, is to pass to the lineal de
scendant of Gideon Howland, of Dart
mouth, Mass., grandfather of testat
rix. Claimants are springing up daily
from every state in the Union, but
they are doomed to disappointment,
inasmuch as there is no foundation
for their claims.
The trustees have the complete list
of the heirs, who are 426 in number,
embracing every person who can be
included, and have notified all of them
in regard to the coming distribution.
Although hundreds of others who bear
the names of the inheriting families
have written to the trustees, all at
tempts to add to the list are proving
futile, because of the thoroughness
and accuracy with which the geneal
ogy of the Howlands has been com
piled. Entanglements such as fiction
likes to build around the inheritance
of a great estate do not exist in the
tered throughout the country.
Despite a common belief that Gid
eon Howland and Mrs. Hetty Green
were descendants of John Howland,
one of the Mayflower Pilgrims, the
ancestral line clearly shows that they
belong to another branch of the nu
merous Howland family.
BARANOW1T8CH, Russia, Oct. 24
—The same principle of saving the
most useless scraps of waste that is
being practiced all over Germany has
been tnrtdouced at the front now, too.
There is not a company or regiment
all along the huge front that has not
installed, in convenient places in ths
front trenches, receptacles for waste
of all kinds.
There are bags or baskets for pa
per that can be sent back to Germany
I to be made into pulp; for glassware,
I whether broken or Intact, for old
! clothes and miscellany, and, of course
| for scraps of food that may be used
to feed swine that always are an in
I tegral part of every staff headquarters
behind the lines.
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The Arctic Brotherhood at Juneau
will hold a carnival week beginning
November 13.
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VILLA MONEY IS
INGRUSING IN
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EL PASO. Oct. 24. — Francisco
Viila's money is worth more now than
it was when Villa resigned In the
state palace at Chihuahua City and
controlled northern Mexico. The
United States army is oddly respon
sible for this increase.
Sent down to the border wtth the
expectation of taking part in the
Villa chase, the national guardsmen
from all parts of the country have
been purchasing Villa's currency from
local dealers as souvenirs of their
visit to the border and have been
sending this paper money home to re
latives and friends. The result has
been a great demand for the money
which Villa ordered printed on a hand
press in Chihuahua City.
When Villa was in power his money
I reached a high water mark of six
I cents American money, for $1 Villa
I money. But this was exceptional, and
before Villa was forced to evacuate
Chihuahua state it was selling at a
few cents for $1,000 worth of his
money.
Now the market price is $600 worth
of Villa's currency for $1 of United
States currency. Because of the de
mand dealers in the bandit leader’s
money have been having a hard time
getting enough to supply the demand
One of Villa's generals is said to
have rocnnf 1 v until tl (Will ftitO ubiIIi fn
a local broker and that that has been
sold to the soldiers on the border.
Great quantities of the Villa money
also have been shipped to Chicago.
New York and other cities in the
United States, where it is used for
advertising purposes, the name of the
advertiser being printed on the face
of the money. It Is estimated that
$100,000,000 worth of this currency
haR been printed und circulated
throughout the United States and
elsewhere.
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LOCAL JOTTINGS.
Thomas J. Davis left yesterday on a
business trip to Juneau.
Miss Jean K. Russell, of Portland,
Oregon, Is spending a few days in
Cordova.
Clarence Johanson left on the boat
yesterday for Fresno, California,
where he will attend business college
Mrs. E. J. Warner and Miss Me
Vean, of Anchoruge, are among the
passengers on the Farragut and they
j spent the day very pleasantly in Cor
1 dova.
Rev. D. G. Zinn and family spent the
day in town as the guests of Rev. auu
Mrs. E. P. Ziegler. Rev. Zinn is on
his way to Valdez, where he will be
the new rector of the Episcopal church
at that place. He was formerly in
charge of the social service work un
der the Seattle Chamber of Commerce.
JAPS BUILDING
FAST VESSELS
TOKIO, Oct 24. -— The Tovo Kaisen
Kalsha is building two large passen
ger steamships, each about lT.ohu tons
gross register, which will be used in
service to San Francisco. One will
be called the San Francisco Maru. but
the name of the second has not yet
been selected. The liners will have
a length of about 636 feet, or about 36
feet longer than the Empress of Itus
sia or the Empress of Asia, the two
big sister liners of the Canadian Pa
cific Steamship Company. They will
have quadruple expansion engines and
each will afford accommodation for
about 300 saloon passengers, with 100
second class and 8<>0 third class. The
speed is estimated at 23 knots, mak
ing them the fastest on the Pacific.
The company will also build as soon
as possible eleven freight steamers,
five of which will be utilized in the
New York service by way of the Pa
nama canal.
It Is also learned here that Great
Britain has requested Japan to build
100 steamers in an effort to make up
for the depletion caused by the raids
of enemy submarines. It will be im
l>ossible for Japan to turn out such a
large number of ships, but the Japan
ese shipyards are exerting every ef
fort to increase their capacity of con
struction. Steamships are especially
needed in the carrying trade to South
American ports.
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THE LID DU
BUENOS AYKES, Argentina. Oct.
24.—A decree promulgated last spring
further restricting immigration to the
Argentine republic, will take effect on
Thursday.
During the past two years the de
parture of settlers nnd others for Eu
rope has been so marked that some
statesmen have been alarmed over
the fact that a country with such a
large area and a relative sparse pop
ulation could not hold its inhabitants.
The government, however, has not
been impressed, and by decree which
becomes effective next month, many
' stringent conditions will hereafter
surround permission of immigrants to
land in the Argentine.
Any persons found suffering from
organic diseases, making the subject
unfit for work, will be barred, as will
all cripples, the latter provision sup
posedly sfmed at a poaathie invasion
by wounded soldiers after the Euro
pean war. Another clause of the new
restriction bars all those who have
been beggars in the country or origin
and all other persons who may be con
sidered likely to become a public
charge.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 — The In
terstate Commerce Commission has
notified the Canadian Pacific railway.
Grand Trunk and Pacific Coast Steam
ship Companies, the Humboldt Steam
ship Company and Border Transporta
| Gon Company that they have been
! made additional parties to the forth
; coming investigation of railroad rates
1 and practices in Alaska. Examiner
; Wilson will conduct the hearing at
| Cordova on November 11, Juneau on
November 2.1, and Seattle on Decem
; ber 4.
LIEKLY RELEASE
SHIPMENTS OF
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24. — The rep
resentations to Great Britain on behalf
of the American tobacoo shippers who
have a million and a half dollars
worth of leaf consigned to Scandinav
ian countries tied up by British re
strictions at Copenhagen, have result
ed in an action by the British which
it is expected will give some relief.
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SPEAK WITH
DENVER, Oct. 24. — Theodore
Roosevelt arrived today to deliver
three speeches. He will speak tonight
from the same platform with the wo
men campaigners.
MONT CLAIR, Oct. 24. — Charles E.
Hughes goes to New York late this af
ternoon, where he will make three
speeches tonight.
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El. PASO, Oct 24 — If the Ameri
can farmer can co-operate and if the
rural credits law can be fully adapted
to American conditions the farm area
of the United States will support
twice the population, dry farming and
irrigation will open new areas, and
there will be a back to the land stam
pede, said Prof. H. M. Colvin, in an
address before the International Ir
rigation Congress here.
Speaking of the origin and growth
of rural credits, he outlined their pur
pose by saying "The mobilized farm
er gets mobilized money at a very low
rate of interest by mobilized security.'’
I The essential factor is the mobiliza
tion of the farmer.
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CALL NORTHLAND ENTICES
150 UNIVERSITY GRADUATES.
SEATTLE, Oct. 24. — The state of
Washington is well represented In
Alaska by the graduates of Its uni
versity, according to Emtl Hurja, a
student who spent the summer In the
north gathering material for tnaga
zlne and newspaper articles. The uni
versity has extended Its influence In
Alaska through Its alumni organiza
tions. which have a membership of
| about 150 graduates and former stu
1 dents.
The largest groups are at Fairbanks,
| Skugway, Anchorage. Juneau and Val
i dez. Most of the positions in the
! Juneau schools are filled by gradu
' ates of the University of Washington.
The steamer Admiral Farragut ar
rived from Seattle at 8 o'clock this
morning, and will not sail for the west
ward until 1 o'clock tonight. Her
passengers follow;
Cordova — Charles A. Sulzer and
•wife, J Holger.
For Valdez — Mrs. E. Classon, Geo.
J. Zinn, Mrs. George J. Zinn and child,
C. Heendln, R B McCowan. F. Hen
drickson,, Mrs. F. Hendrickson and
child, B. D. Brlsboe, W. N. Cuddy.
For Seward — O. W. Hobbs, Mrs.
O. W. Hobbs, E. Jansen
For Anchorage — C John. Miss Mc
Vean, Mrs. E. J Warner, H. Plan. H.
J. I^whorn. C. Osborne, Frank Berks,
Captain G. F. Tilton, Mrs. J. W
Frame, Amos Krantz and one steer
age
SEATTLE, Oct. 24 — The steamer
Admiral Watson sailed for southwest
ern Alaska on Sunday morning, but
she had no passengers booked for
Cordova.
CHURCH PAGEANT
MAGNIFICENT
AFFAIR
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 24. — The history
of the Protestant Episcopal church and
Its doctrines of continuity from apos
tolic times, were portrayed at the Coli
seum here in a church pageant, given
by the Episcopalian churches of St.
lx>uis, and witnessed by the delegates
and visitors to the General Conven
tlon of the church now in session here
To each parish church In St. Louis
had been assigned a scene in the
pageant, and for months the members
of the various parishes had worked
on their parts, in all, more than 2,
otfl persons took part.
The pageant began with the organi
zation of the church in apostolic times
and then showed the church in the
British Isles, its history during the
pre reformation era and the contests
between the throne and the papacy
for supremacy, the breaking away
from the Homan church in the reign
of Henry VIII, the planting of the
Protestant Episcopal church, as a
part of the Church of England, in the
United States, and the history of the
church in modern America.
STOCK IN TOT
BUENOS AYRES, Argentina. Oct
24 — The Argentine Rural Society
celebrated Its fiftieth anniversary with
the recent annual cattle show at Pa
lermo. which was favored by fine wea
ther and good prices. For the first
time American citizens acted as
judges of the blood stock shown. The
short horn bull, "Camp Hero," bred
in thia country by Senor Pedro T.
Pages, was given the championship,
but the animal was not placed on
sale, the owner choosing to retain It
for stud purposes.
The reserve champion Durham was
disposed of for $50,000 paper, and an
other animal of the same category
brought $55,000. More sensational
sales have been witnessed, but con
sidering present conditions the recent
show gave the decisive proof of the
republic's financial stability and con
fidence In the future of the gracing
industry.
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PHILANTHROPIST IS DEAD,
LONDON. Oct. 24. — Sir Joseph
Deeham. a philanthropist and medi
cine manufacturer. Is dead.