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The Cordova Daily Times
v< >LUME IT. NUMBER MO. CORDOVA, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1,1916. PRICE TEX CEXTS~
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BUILDING ASSN.
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A well attended meeting of business
nem was held at the Chamber of Ceni
meree rooms last night for the pur
pose of discussing ways and means
of furnishing Cordova with more
homes,, for which there is a constant
demand. C.eorge C. Hazelet was elect
ed chairman, and Edward F. Medley
secretary of the meeting.
Mr. Hazelet explained at some
length the object of the call and the
further fact that he had talked with
a number of people and practically all
of them expressed a desire to have
started some movement that would
provide the needed houses in Cordova,
on account of its constantly growing
population. Those in attendance at
the meeting favored the organization
of a building association.
It was decided to appoint a com
mittee of five to formulate a definite
plan of operation, and after this is
adopted subscriptions will be solicited.
The committee named consists of H.
A. Slater. Malcolm Brock, Fred Glas
brenner, Edward F. Medley and Bart
ley Howard, who will submit their re
port at a meeting to be held Monday
night.
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PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS
GOES TO MONTANA.
SEATTLE, Sept. 1. I)r. Harry
Edwin Smith, assistant professor of
economies at the University of Wash
ington. has tendered his resignation,
to t ike effect at once. Prof. Smith,
who lias been two years at the state
university as instructor in the school
of commerce, will go to the University
, of Montana at Missoula as head of the
pdeartment of Commerce.
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SAUNA. Kansas, Sept, 1. — Charles
H. Hughes spoke at Ellsworth, and
during Ills remarks he excoriated the
Wilson administration and charged
that it was the most extravagant in
the history of the United States.
II is reported that the ground on
No. 11 helow Cleary creek, owned by
liingdahl A- Co, has the richest pay
ever known to exist on Cleary, even in
her palmiest days. It is said no trou
ble is experienced in obtaining pans
running from $5 to $25, and that the
operators expect to take out $100,OOP
this season. II. liingdahl, A1 Raymond,
John Carlson and John Carey, the
owners, purchased the ground from
Henry Riley for $5,000.
Turkey Declares War On Roumania
LONDON, Sept. 1.—A Reuter dispatch from Saloniki say;
that Zaimis retains the premiership of Greece, supported b)
Venizelos. A general mobilization of the Greek army negotia
tion has been ordered, and it is only a question of a short time
before that country declares- war against the central powers.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 1.—Turkey has issued a for
mal declaration of war against Roumania.
BERLIN, Sept. 1.—Prince Leopold, of Eavaria, is direct
ing the Teuton armies at the Russian front, formerly command
ed by General Hindenburg.
SALONIKI, Sept. 1.—Volunteers attacked the Greek gar
rison here. Sarrail, an allied commander, intervened and stop
ped bloodshed. The garrison surrendered to Sarrail, and were
disarmed and interned outside of the city. Three men were
killed during the conflict. The Greek troops at Macodania are
surrendering to the revolutionists.
PETROGRAD, Sept. 1.—The war department announces
; | that in yesterday’s battles along the western Russian front the
' Russians captured 300 officers and 16,000 men, including 2,400
! Germans and six guns.
BUCHAREST, Sept. 1.—Roumania made another import
| ant capture when it occupied Petroseny, the center of a rich
I coal field near the southern frontier of Transylvania.
PARIS, Sept. 1.—Competent authorities estimate that 500,
, 000 Germans were disabled in the Verdun region alone since
February 21. The French troops captured 43,000 wounded Ger
mans at Verdun and Somme.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 1.—On the Caucasus front
the Turkish left wing was ro'uted for two and a half miles. The
enemy divisions took over 5,000 prisoners and several cannon.
LONDON, Sept. 1.—The German forces in German East
Africa are in full retreat in a southerly direction. The Afri
cans have occupied Mrogoro, the seat of the German provision
al government, which has retired into the mountains._
ALASKA S. S. BOATS ON
SIX DAY SCHEDULE.
The new schedule of sailings for
the Alaska Steamship Company’s !
boats went Into effect when'the Ala-11
tneda left Seattle last Sunday, and is i
due here tomorrow. For the next two !
months the steamers will make the i
run on a six day schedule Instead of 1
a five day schedule, as at present. The
change has been made necessary on
account of sending the steamer North
western to Nome for one trip. Dur- 1
ing November and December the boats <
will sail on an eight day schedule, as
the Alaska will be withdrawn from
the northern service to enter the Se
attic Philadelphia service, leaving Se
attic on November 22 for her firHt vov
age.
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KING OF GREECE ABDICATES THE THRONE
WILSON LEAVES
WASHINGTON, Sept, 1. — Presi
dent and Mrs. Wilson left for their
summer home at Long Branch, where
lie will tie formally notified tomorrow
night of his nomination by the Pemo
cratic convention.
The eight hour bill will he rushed
to Shadow Lawn by special messen
gers as soon as it is passed. Wilson
will leave Shadow Lawn tomorrow
night and arrive in Washington Sun
day morning, remaining here three
hours, when he will go to Hodgenville,
Kentucky, to accept the birthplace of
Abraham Lincoln for the nation.
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The Canadian Pacific railway is
planning an exlensive advertising
campaign in the states this winter by
mennp. of moving }.»iotur^s showing tlu*
scenery of the Yukon country and
Alaska. Representatives of the Es
satiny Company are now in the country
taking the pictures.
The Northwestern Fisheries Com
pany has laid the foundation for three
new buildings at Kenai to replace the
cannery burned last spring. Each of
the buildings is to be 50 by 200 feet.
Commissioner John K. Brown, of
Fairbanks, lias tendered his resigna
tion to Judge Bunnell. Reed W. lielig,
assistant district attorney, lias been
named to succeed him.
SALONTKI, Sept. 1. — King Con
stantine has abdicated the throne, and
the probabilities are that Greece will
now enter the v,ar upon the side of the
allies.
The reign of Constantine I as king |
of the Hellenes was brief, dating only I
from March 18, 1913, when his father, j
George I, was assassinated in Saloniki. |
Brief as the reign was, Constantine
had enjoyed a period of remarkable
popularity and increased the territory ;
of the Greek monarchy over fifty per
cent.
Born on August 3, 1868, he was edu
fated largely by private tutors from
I.eipsic, which was said to have
stamped upon him a permanent Gor
man influence. His military education
was furthered by attendance at ma
noeuvres in Germany. He became a
brother-in-law of the German emperor
by marrying the latter's sister. Prin
cess Sophia, in 1889.
His alleged pro-German leanings,
thus indicated, were not always popo-11
lar with his people and (luring the!
Kuropean war a strong party antag- |
onistio to liis desire to have Greece '
preserve neutrality and in favor of '
joining the allies, precipitated a cabi
net erisiH which was weathered with '
difficulty.
When (Vistantlne came to the
throne it was said he aimed to restore 1
the former grandeur of the ancient j 1
Hellenic empire, and that tie was i \ '
believer in the old national prophec- 1
that under the reign of a Constantin - 1
and a Sophia the eastern empire wool I ;
he called into life again and the cross :
restored on St. Sophia at Constant!- |
nople in place of the crescent. ' <
By the peace treaties signed afte- <
Ihe Balkan wars, Greece added a con- , I
siderable stretch of Turkish territory ! i
to her domain and in ihsember, l!'l i
Ihe long desired annexation of Hie is 1
lands of Crete was carried out, Kin t
Constantine himself hoisting the lie! Jt
nnic flag over the fort. |
With the entrance of Turkey into
he Kuropean war the question of the
ntervention of r.reece soon became to
ie seriously considered, hut King C'on
tantine insisted upon strict neutral ,
ty. The cabinet, headed by Premier
,'enizelos, which was for war on the
ide of the. allies, finally tendered its,
esignatlon. The t’.reek attitude, at
east so far as the war party was con
erned. was largely to the effect that
f t'.reece had no hand in the war her
ntcrests might suffer w hen peace was
irrungod.
I.OXPOX. Sept. 1 A revolution is
.regressing in tlreece. but a strict
ensorship is being maintained and the
letails are being withheld. It is be
ieved that the crown prince will l.e
ome king, and cast his lot with the
illies, under the direction of Venizc
as. It is reported that in the mean
imo revolutionary committees have I
:iken charge of affairs.
The Alaska will make her last trip
north sailing from Seattle October
18, and on her return to Seattle will
be made ready for her first eastern
trip.
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Development on the Staman-IIowson
copper property on Moose creek, in
the Mntanuska valley, reveals the pre
j senco of a wide ledge of sulphide ore
' of commercial importance.
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Two miners named Olson and
i Brown met death Sunday by aspbyxl-j
atlon at the Ruby Silver and Silver,
j Queen mine, located near Pavey, on I
I Bake Bennett. The fatality occurred
| at an early hour in the morning and
I was the result of the men entering a
I tunnel too soon after the discharge of
| a blast. —
CONGRESS PASSES 8 HOUR BILL
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^ WASHINGTON, Sept. 1,
congress passed the Adamson
immediately be sent to the sena
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1. — Presi
dent Wilson’s program of legislation
to prevent the railroad strike is mov
ing along favorably. The president
went to the capitol at five o'clock this
morning to expedite matters. It has
been arranged for the house to pass
the Adamson eight hour bill this af
ternoon and the senate tomorrow. The
heads of the railways have entered a
vigorous protest against this measure
and declare that they will resist the
eight hour law.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1. — The sen
ate Interstate Commerce Commission
committee has favorably reported an
enght hour hill, with a provision au
thorizing the Interstate Commerce
Commission to fix a schedule of wages
on the railroads. The senate Immedi
ately began to debate the measure and
the session will continue until the hill
has passed. The house committee
favorably reported the Adamson eight
hour hill, which has been amended to
—At 5 o’clock this afternoon
eight hour day bill ,and it will
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become effective January 1, ami ex
empting electric railways. It is ex
pected that the house will pass the bill
at 5 o'clock this afternoon.
WASHINGTON, Aug. Sept. 1. — The
indications are that the labor leaders
will fight the proposal to empower the
Interstate Commerce Commission to
govern wages, as the senate bill pro
IMises. but will probably accept this
clause if it sees that congress is de
termined to include It in the bill.
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The Seward Light & Power Com
pany received a 6-ton generator as an
addition to its plant.
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Northwest Mounted Police have
been patrolling the White Pass docks
at Whitehorse to prevent Interference
by the striking longshoremen with the
Russians and Indians who have taken
their places. A detachment of the
Northwest Mounted should be sent to
Seattle.
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Fred Laubner and William Bart
holf have bought Fern, Goodell and
Tolnian'a property on Archangel creek.
They have cleared out the old open
ings and are starting development.
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J. E. Dougherty, who recently at
tempted suicide at Juneau, by cutting
his throat with a razor, has recovered
from his injuries, and has been ad
judged Insane by a jury in the com
missioner’s court at that place. He
will be sent to the Morningside asy
lum.
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Louis Goyette, who was out on a
$!>,000 bond on the charge of shooting
his partner near Fairbanks, has again
been taken into custody on another
charge of shooting with attempt to
kill, the charge being preferred by
Martin Smith, at whom Goyette shot
twice, but missed.
The schooner t’omet arrived in Ket
chikan recently with a catch of B5,
000 pounds of halibut.
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The Alaska Packers’ cannery at
Kusiloff is reported to have put up a
pack of 70,000 cases.
TO UNITED
STATES
HOME, Sept. 1. -— Before leaving fo •
the United States. Baron Yosliiro Sa
kalani, president of the imperial Jap
anese commission to the economic
conferences of the entente powers,
held at Baris recently, explained to a
correspondent of the Associated Press
the general objects of the Japanese
commission, and discussed from a fin
ancial point of view the relations of
Japan and the United States as de
veloped since the war, and as affect
ed by the new Russo-Japanese treaty
Baron Sakatani is well known to
many Americans as the financier who
straightened out the ebbing finances
of Japan after the Huso-Japanese war.
He for a time held the position that
corresponds in the United States to
that of secretary of the treasury. He
also was mayor of Tokio. The other
members of the commission are S.
Tenruml and K. Yage, with S. Idzour
ka acting as secretary. The commis
sion reached Europe by way of the
Siberian railway, crossing from Bet
rograd to London, thence to Baris, andJ
finally to Rome.
Baron Kakatani, who speaks Eng
lish fluently, said: “The imperial
commission was appointed for the1
purpose of attending the Paris con
ference and also of visiting those
countries now our allies and of ascer
taining in a definite way how the
commerce of Japan can be increased
with them, what they can sell us and
what we can sell them, especial!/ as
relates to products they formerly ob-,
tallied from Germany and Ausaria
Hungury. There is also the question
of delivering goods. Japan has three
large steamship lines at present aud
they are building as rapidly as pos
sible more ships, as rales in the Ear
East have risen out of all reasonable
proportions since the removal of Ger
Anchorage Kilts recently held a pic
nic at hake Spenard, which drew an
attendance of about 30 Opeople. The
dancing pavtllion and Tony Wendler
selling hot dogs" were among the
numerous attractions.
The mercantile establishment of
Johnson & Jepson, at Ruby, was re
cently damaged to the extent of five
thousand dollars by lire, which start
ed in the basement of the store, anti !
was of mysterious origin.
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Robert K. Burns, formerly an em
ployee of the Samson Hardware Ho.
of Fairbanks, has been appointed I .
S. commissioner at Nenana by Judge
Bunnell, in addition to his other du
ties. Mr. Burns will lie connected
with the Alaskan engineering com
mission. i
HUGHES STANDS
No alarm is expressed among lie |
publican leaders over the position of j
Justice Hughes on the Alaska rail
road question. Ml express themselves :
as believing Justice Hughes will stand
squarely back of the Republican lerri
torial platform, which contains a plank
favoring appropriations to continue the
railroad
It is evident that John K Ballalne,
who is a candidate for congress at
Seattle, attempted to use the railroad
matter as nil opening wedge to get
a left handed endorsement from Jus
ice ttugnes ro ms congressional as
ilrations, and failing to reach the ear
)f Mr Hughes attempted to stir up
nine excitement, as well as for puh
ii itv tiy wiring the Seward and Val
icz papers intimating because he had
lecn I m eed down Justice- Hughes
night he against the railroad.
Men knowing Justice Hughes de | ■
dare him to be a sticker for parly)
ilatforms and party regularity. This !
icing true there can he no question
if his stand on the railroad, as we find
the following in the territorial Repub
lican platform:
"That one of the most vital needs
if Alaska is the construction of the
ailroads, trails and bridges through- !
nit the territory to permit the devel
ipment of regions of rich resources
tow inaccessible, except at enormous
sxpense, and in order to promote the
?onstruction of these great arteries of,
STEFANS SON TO
ARCTIC
NOME, Aug. 24. Yilhjalmour Ste
ansson, the Canadian Arctic explorer,
vho went Into the Polar regions in
he summer of 1 1 r.. prohahlv will not
etnrn to civilization during the pres
■nt season hut will eontlnue iiis work
>f exploring newly discovered land
mrth of Prince Patrick hand. This
lews was brought here by members
if the Stefansson party, who return
'd here today on the power schooner
Uaska.
The party aboard the Alaska were
he southern party, under Hr Rudolph
\nderson. Stefansson's chief subordl
tate, who had been exploring and
harting the const line bordering Un
on and Dolphine straits and .the Coro
nation gulf region, far east of the Mac
kenzie river mouth.
Ail of the party which left here on
'lie Alaska in .July, 11»1:;, returned with
he exception of Daniel Mine, engineer,
who died of disease at Dailey island
during May. 1915. The members of
Ihe bronzed crew which reached here
today were l)r. Anderson: ,T. .1. O'.Veil,
geologist; John 11. Cox surveyor, D.
icnness, anthropologist .1 Johansen,
iceanographer and entomologist, and
leorge Wilkins, photographer. The
uhooner was under the command of
'aplain Sweenty. who joined the ex
sedition while it was in \retie waters.
Harry, commonly* known as Scotty
Watson, has been sentenced to four
months in jail at Anchorage for sell
tig Intoxicating liquor at Matanuska
Handing. He was arrested there by
Deputy Marshal Hplfman.
\ Fairbanks mine operator is au
horify for the statement that the
Hit-put of the district w ill fall several
fund red thousand dollars short of the
estimate this year on account of the
ihortage of men. One big plant is re
torted to hair shut down rather than
un short handed.
At the regular meeting of the Kenai
■’ishing Trading Company, j. Noon,
3. J. Keating. L C. Booker. K Jacob
ion and Ward James were chosen as
lirectors. The board elected John
Moon president. Dr. Keating vice-pre
tideni suni \\ aru Jaiu^ ^t-rr^iary
reasurer.
•ommerce, we favor financial aid by
lie federal government of all legiti
mate railroad enterprises organized to
build trunk lines in Alaska whenever
inch companies shall with their own
capital make substantial progress with
their projects, and we urge that all
railroads so aided lie governed and
•otitrolled in the fixing of a freight
and passenger tariff. We urge the
speedy completion of the government
il railway now being constructed, and
favor liberal and prompt appropria
tions therefor"
NOTEDTEMPERANCEMANDEAD
man ships from this trade. We are
willing to trade heavily with Europe,
since in my opinion Europe will not
lie so long making up its present war
losses as might be thought. Of course
the amount of these losses will depend
on the length of the war. and that de
pends on the success of the Russian
and other powers' offensives. But
should the war end in a reasonable
time, the people of Europe will have
been quickened by the w ar spirit, they
will work harder to make up their
losses.
"As regards the relations between
the United States and Japan, it must
be remembered always that we look
with gratitude upon the United States
as the country which sixty years ago
put us in communication with the
outside world, after a period of twen
ty-five hundred years of almost non
communication with any other people
than those of our own Islands exeept
a few rare instances.
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It is reported from Talkeetna that
Charley David and A1 Beet have struck
rich deposits of bornite and copper.
They expect to remain and develop
their property until the snow falls.
OLATHE, Kansas, Sept. 1. — John
Pierce St. John, one of the most wide I
ly known temperance advocates in the ;
United States, died at his home in this
‘it\ last night. He was a candidate
for president on the Prohibition tickel i
In 1884. and served two terms as gov
ernor or Kansas — 1879 1883 — dur
ittg which Kansas became a prohibtion
state.
Born at Brookville, Ind., February
26, 1833, St. John served as a captain
and lieutenant colonel in the Civil war,
and settled in Kansas, where he be
j came a member of the state senate. He
i became a political factor when he wain
a fight to displace United States Sen
ator Samuel E. Pomeroy. Pomeroy
and St. John had been personal friends
hut the latter became displeased with
j the way Pomeroy conducted himself as
J a senator, and thereupon championed
John J. Ingalls, Pomeroy's opponent,
who won. This made St. John a lead
' er and resulted In his selection as gov
ernor.
He was called a traitor when he de-j
sorted the Republican party and be
came a candidate for president on the^<
Prohibition ticket in 1884 During his
campaign he was burned or hung in
pffigy more than 500 times. He was
twice shot at. hut unhurt. Many Re
publicans attributed the defeat of
James 0. Blaine for president to SI
John's entrance into the race
in 1012. notwithstanding his ad
vanced age, he stumped Kansas for
woman suffrage, declaring that when
women had the vote they would have
prohibition In 1814 he campaigned in
the east for prohibition, estimating
that up to that time he had. altogether,
travelled 350,1100 miles and delivered
1.500 speeches in behalf of the prohi
aition cause.
When he was In the Kansas caf.i
tol he inaugurated the first "water
banquet," with the result that liquor
ras been under taboo in the Kansas
‘late house ever since.
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H C. Shough. a Willow creek min
ng man. reports hts claims cover a
vein of gold quartz from 60 to 100 feet
n width and which has been uncov
ered for a distance of 3,600 feet. He
a running a tunnel with the intention
>f cutting the lead at depth.