The Cordova Daily Times
YOU ME IT. NUMBER 553. CORDOVA, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1916. PRICE TEN CENTS.
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CLEVELAND, Oct. 4. — The firs
report of the number killed when twi
street cars plunged into the Cuyahog;
ri\er was greatly exaggerated, and bu
two people lost their lives, whil<
sixty of the passengers were injured
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I’lTTSRDRO, Oct. 4. Rresidenl
Wilson passed through this city yes
terday on a special train bound for
Omaha. He positively refused to make
real platform speeches as desired by
the Democratic leaders, saying: “I
will not make a stumping tour."
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NEW YORK, Oct, 4. — A large
dairy restaurant, which conducts nu
merous branches throughout the city
has announced a raise in price of five
cents on all staple dishes.
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[JUNGS ARE
LARGE
NEW YORK. Oct. 4. — The North
ern Pacific railway's not earnings in
creased nearly $3,000.00(1 for the year
just ended.
31GB CASES OF
CHOLERA IN
JAPAN
TOKIO, Oct. 2. — Eighty cases of
cholera have broken out here, from
which thirty deaths have already re
sulted. The epidemic is increasing at
Oaskla and other cities. There are
at present 3,000 cases throughout the
whole country.
MEXICO CITY. Oct. 4. — Orders
have been sent to the ports of entry
_ Qf Mexico to enforce strictly the quar
* antine regulation against the spread
of infantile paralysis. The regulation
prohibits the entry into Mexico ol
children between five and fifteen years
of age from sections of the United
States where the disease is prevalent
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Juneau's Glee Club, composed ol
25 voices, will give a concert in that
city October 6.
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Jack Campbell, who has been or
trial at Juneau for the shooting ol
Jack McLecd at Elttuya bay last year
has been acquitted by the grand jury
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A meeting of the Chamber of Com
rnerce will be held at the Northlam
Club at 8:30 o'clock tonight.
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PETROHRAD, Oct. 4.—Russian troops, under a heavy ar
tillery fire, forced its way across the Zlota Lipa river, south of
Brzizany, driving the Teutons from the heights. The Russian
artillery then advanced and bombarded the camps, military es
tablishments and the suburbs of the town.
SOFIA, Oct. 4.—The Roumanians who crossed the Danube
river and invaded Bulgaria, are considerable units.
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BERLIN, (let. 4. — The campaign for the retirement of
Chancellor Bethmann is increasing. The chancellor’s attempt
to reach an agreement with London and his policy on the sub
marine issue is being attacked. Ernest Haeckel is among the
signers of' a circular against Bethmann's actions.
LONDON, Oct. 4.—It is officially stated that the town of
Eaucourt Labbave is now entirely a British |w>8session.
BEHIND THE SOMME FRONT, Oct 4.—Scattered along
the Herman lines in France, but several miles to the rear are a
succession of “Carrier Pigeon Stations,” which form an effec j
live link in tin* Herman scheme of defense, and in times of ex
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treme stress can become well nigh invaluable. Especially is this
the case when all other means of communication from the front
trenches with the rear are destroyed.
In the trenches are kept cages of trained pigeons. The birds
are kept constantly in practice so that in times of emergency
they will go without fail to some station to give word of (lisas
ter that might have been telephoned had not the telephone con
nection been shot away or otherwise destroyed.
PARTS, Oct. 4.—The French troops captured the strongly
fortified line of German defenses between Morvil and St. Pierre
Y aast, ns well as quantities of food and two hundred prisoners.
LONDON, Oct. 4.—Officials of the treasury have been stir
prised by the steady inflow of gifts from all parts of the empire
tnd from former Britishers in neutral countries in the form of
cash towards meeting the expenses of the war. The donors
ange from men and women to small boys and girls, the former
sending sums mounting up as high as a thousand pounds and
the latter remitting the contents of their savings banks. A to
tal of many thousands of pounds has been sent. Sums ranging
from a shilling to a thousand pounds are acknowledged with
the same promptness and politeness by the treasury.
POWDERED COAL SUBJECT OF ARTICLE
Maurice D. Eeehey, the well known ;
mining attorney of Seattle, who was J
in Cordova the other day, has contrl-1
buted the following able article on the
subject of powdered coal to the An- j
chorage Times, which points out the
possibilities in the way of additional
demand for the coal product of the j
Alaska fields:
Powdered coal has been used with
such splendid results at the Anaconda
smelter that much attention is being
given to its application elsewhere, and
it bids fair to revolutionize fuel con
ditions.
It is not too much to say that pow
dered coal should be given credit for
the wonderful success obtained with
the flotation process In copper smelt
ing during the last few years. Flota
tion of sulphide ores is not new. The
process was known at ieast forty
years ago, hut was not found prac
tical because it is necessary to crush
the ore very fine in order to apply
the flotation process. The values are
thus obtained in a finely powdered ,
concentrate, which cannot be success
' fully smelted in a blast furnace. The
problem of smelting these so-called
| "fines" was solved at the Anaconda
i smelter, where Mr. E. P. Mathewson,
| and his able assistants, developed the
method of treating crushed concen
trates in the reverbertatory furnace,
using powdered coal as the fuel In
i ( oke. This ou!d hEV6 h^n *
worth while just to make flotation pos-j
Bible, even If there were no taring In
fuel cost, but It Is Interesting to note
an Immense saving in the cost of fuel
The Anaconda smeller was using Con
nelsvllle coke In Its blast furnaces,
costing $9.25 a ton delivered at the
smelter. The coke bad a smelting ef
ffclency of 7, which means that one
ton of coke would treat seven tons
of Butte ore. Now the powdered coal
from the company's own mine Is de
llvered at the smelter in Anaconda,
■towered ready for use. at a cost of
$3.50 a ton, and has a smelting effi
< lency of 6.64, or nearly equal to that
of coke. That means a saving of
about 76 cents a ton In the fuel cost
of smelting at Anaconda. The com
pany mined considerably over four
million tons of Butte ore last year,
and will probably exceed that output
this year, so the saving In fuel cost
st that smelter by the use of powdered
coal amounts to over $3,000,000 a year
This saving also made possible the
application of the flotation process to
Butte ores, and also modernized the
leaching system by which the finely
pulverized tailings are treated so that
the loss in recovery is now less than
three pounds of copper per ton of
Butte ore. Under the old system the
smelter lost about 14 pounds of cop
per In the slag. The result Is the sav
ing of about 11 pounds of copper In
each ton of ore treated. I mean an
additional saving st *bcut 1! pounds
per ton formei ly lost In the slag That
saving alone means something like,
$11,000,000 a year on the present out
put of the llutte mines.
Mr. John D. Ryan, president of the
; Anaconda Copper Mining Company,
states that when the new system is
completely Installed, that company
will make 55,000,000 pounds more cop
per each year from itB present out
put "without increasing the tonnage j
of ore mined." Just think of it! That j
increased tonnage of copper is about
equal to the entire annual production '
of Senator Clark's United Verdi mines j
and is almost equal to the normnl an
nual production of the Calumet & Her
la And it Is not too much to say
that this great saving of over $12,- j
000,000 a year should be credited very !
largely to success of powdered coal.
The powdered coal Is blown into the
furnace in the same manner as fuel
oil. Compressed air is used, and oxy
gen thus distributed so as to permit
almost perfect combustion. Then
there is no trouble with ash or clink
ers It is said that the ordinary rail
road locomotive actually utilizes only
about seven per cent of the fuel en
ergy of the coal it burns. The other
9.1 per cent Is wasted. The New York
Central has equipped some of its fast
passenger locomotives to burn pow
dered coal, and is giving it a thorough
test for railway use.
It Is too early to predict what effect i
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upon the Matanuska output, but It
would seem as if powdered coal might
soon lie substituted for fuel oil on our
steamships. The equipment for oil
burning requires very little change, t
am told, in order to permit the use of
powered Coal, as berth fuels are blown
into the furnace in the same manner,
and no provision for handling ash or
clinker is necessary in either case.
The C s. bureau of mines has sent
Oeorgo Watkin Evans, the Seattle coal
mining engineer, into the Nenana eoa'
lields, where he is now engaged in
studying certain problems of utilize
tion, including the proposed use o*
powdered coal In the Nenana field to
generate electric power. Mr. Evans
must be well known In this region, as
it was he who selected and mined the
shipment of Matanuska coal which
was tested on the battleship Maryland
with such splendid result*.as to fully'
satisfy the navy and secure its sup
port for the government railway bill
in congress. A report from Washing
ton states that the bureau of mines
is anxious to demonstrate the wisdom
of generating electricity In the Nenana
fields to operate the railway north of
the Alaska range and also to distribute
electric power for use In the mining
districts about Fairbanks. The state
raent in the Mining Congress Journal,
published at Washington, D, C . Indi
cates quite an ambitious project be
ing considered by the bureau of mines,
and powdered eoai evidently plays an
important part In the study of plans
FOODSTUFFS IN
MhXlCO CITY, Oct. 4. — The pro
duction of foodstuffs in Mexico for
, (he current year has obviated any
chance of shortage, according to the
| department of agriculture. The crops
i are said to be not only sufficient to
prevent famine, but will make Mexico
| practically independent of importa
tion of foodstuffs from other coun
i tries, although a certain amount of
I corn and flour will continue to be im
ported into the northern states from
1 the United States because of superior
facilities for transportation to those
j localities.
The crops, it is admitted, will not
| reach normal production, but will be
sufficient to allow a certain amount
i of exportation. The question of food
| supply is one of distribution rather
than production, and it will be neces
sary to transport to the more barren
states products from those localities
j where normal or nearly normal crops
j prevail. It is pointed out that while
some undoubtedly died of starvation
j in the capital last year, this was due
not to shortage of food, but to the Im
possibility of adequately transporting
what was available.
Within in the last few months, ac
cording to the department officials
means of transportation have in
j creased many fold. Hegular train ser
I vice has been resumed not only witk
the United States border, but be
tween interior points and railroadt
1 which have been idle for an extender
period'have resumed operation.
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CHI SANA MAN 19
WOUNDED AT FRONT.
Writing from Bramehot Camp, Eng
land, William Kenneth Currie, of Daw
son, member of the Boyle detachment,
sends an interesting letter to the
Dawson News, and encloses it In a
splendid recent photograph of the de
tachment. He says:
“Dick Morgan, of Chlsuna, former
partner of Bobby FYirreat and Bobby
Stewart, is in the hospital In Scot
land. and will not be able to return
to the front. Dick got his after see
Ing only three or four days at the
front.
“We are now the Yukon Motor Ma
chine Gun Battery, and all can run
our care.
"Our battery Is full once more with
56 men and four officers. Harry
Strong has his commission with us,
and will make a good officer. He is
well liked by all the boys. Our com
mander, who la Captain Murellng, is
a prince, and knows his business. The
two other officers are Lieutenant
Darkness and Lieutenant Nicholson."
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H. E. Hoggatt, of Indiana, ft brother
of ei-aovernor Hoggatt, la visiting in
Juneau. He is interested in mining
property in that vicinity
LOCAL JOTTINGS.
For table board with a private fam
ily, close in, phone 185.
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George ('. Ilazelet left today for Kn :
talla to look after his oil interests.
The steamer Alaska should be here
tomorrow evening on her southbound
voyage.
Jack Reed, who is employed on the
Chitina branch, is spending a few
days in town.
Ben Osborne and bride returned on
yesterday's train from a trip to Mc
Carthy and Kennecott.
The Northern meat market has pur
chased the auto delivery truck former
ly owned by the Carlisle Packing Co.
The steamer Mariposa left Juneau
for Skagway at 5 o'clock yesterday af
ternoon, and is due in Cordova tomor
row night.
The Bon Ton orchestra will give the
third of a series of dances at Ragle
Hall tonight, and you are cordinlly in
vited to attend.
J. W. Pritchett, formerly employed
on the Dally Times, has purchased
the Wrangell Weekly Sentinel, and
we wish him every success in his new
venture.
J. N. Barnhardt is a recent arrival
from Dan creek, where the mining sea
son has about closed, and he will
leave on the next boat for the states,
where he will spend the winter.
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Thirteen students have enrolled In
the night school recently established
at Juneau.
BELFAST EXPECTS
BELFAST, Ireland, Oct. 4. — Bel
fast (s preparing for a boom In ship
building after the war. iiarland &
Wolff's have just leased from the
harbor board forty-one acress of ad
dltional land at a cost of £2,500 a
year. Workmen & Clark are also in
creasing their shipbuilding shops. The
congestion of building on the Clyde
has also led to applications to the har
bor board for accommodation in Bel
fast.
DOOLEY IN CAMPAIGNING
MEETS HIS OPPONENT.
Oeorge E. Dooley, candidate for the
territorial senate on the Republican
ticket, arrived on the Alameda this
morning, and will come back from An
chorage to make a speech here, in
the lobby of the Overland Hotel this
morning he met his opponent, Jack
Ronan. and to add to the strangeness
of the meeting. Delegate Wickersham,
whom Jack Ronan ran against in 1908
for congress, was also present. All
the meetings were cordial and all of
them will put up a decent fight with- j
^ out getting mad. “Are you making j
money. Jack," was the question put j
, by the delegate. “Lordy, boys, do you j
j remember those old campaigns when
.each looked like cutting the other’s
j jugular?" — Seward Gateway.
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The epidemic of whooping cough
[at Seward is reported to be about over.
DEDICATE THE
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I.AS ( 4. _ The
crowning event of virtually twelve
yeat-s’ construction of what is re
garded as one of the greatest irriga
tion projects in the world will take
place when President Wilson comes
to New Mexico to dedicate the i^reat
Klaphant Butte dam, on the Rio
Urande, north of Rincon, on October
14. The dedication is to be coinci
dent with the holding of the Interna
tional Irrigation Congress on Octo
ber 14 to 19, the International Farm
Congress and the International Soli
Products Exposition, all at El Paso,
Texas.
The Elephant Itutte darn Is the larg
est and most Important of the Irri
gation projects that the United
States has undertaken in efforts to
reclaim the desert lands of several
western states, and make them pro
ductive. The work was begun in 1904,
when the first borings for the foun
dations of the monster dam were
made. Actual construction was com
mer.ced in July, 1910, so that the dedi
cation by President Wilson will be
the final formal event of six years
work on the project.
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SYDNEY, Australia, Oct. 4. — A
tteatner arriving from the New Heb
ides group, about 900 miles off the
lortheastern coast of Australia, has
■ rought news of the murder of six
icrsons by cannibals. The victims
■ ore a British trader named R. J
-.ridges, and at least five children,
hose bodies were found fearfully mu
Hated with axes and knives, and an
■ ther child, who is missing, is believed
o have been carried off by the can '
libals and feasted upon. The murder
srs were thought to have come from
r village on Maiekula Island, where
here are tribes of cannibals who are
sound by native custom to kill and
»at a human being in order to keep
ip their rank.
The failure of the French and Brit
sh punitive expeditions Just before
he outbreak of the European war to
•apture any of the perpetrators of sitn
lar crimes, and their Immunity from
sunlshment for two years past on ac
;ount of the war, is thought recently
o have emboldened the cannibals.
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VESSELS
TOKIO, Oct. * — The strides of
lapan in shipbuilding since the begin
ning of the war are shown by the of
ficial announcement that 28 steam
ships, with a total tonnage of 102.000,
were launched during the first half
of the current year Nine steamers,
with a total tonnage of 28,950, are
expected to be completed during the
second half of the year.
Captain Floyd, who ran the first
steamer up the Tanana river to where
the town of Fairbanks now stands, was
a recent arrival at Seward.
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Under the direction of Father Van
der Pol, the Catholic church at Sew
ard Is being enlarged to double Its
present seating capacity.
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Jake Solomon, who was recently
shot through the abdomen by Wilhelm
Erickson, at Juneau, has so far re
covered as to leave the hospital
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Paul Benson, mill foreman for the
Alaska-Gastineau mine, has accepted
a position with the smelter at Tacoma.
ROAD TO COAL
FIELDS NENANA
FALL 1817
William C. Edes. chairman of the
Alaskan engineering commission, re
cently returned to Seward from Fair
banks and other points in the interior
of Alaska, whero he inspected the
work on the railroad now being prose
cuted under the immediate supervision
of Thomas Kiggs, Jr., one of the mem
bers of the commission Mr. Edes ex
pressed himself as pleased with the
progress being made.
Clearing and grading of the right
of way from Fairbanks south to N’e>
nana is well under way. A construc
tion base has been established at N'e
nana, and contracts have been let for
clearing and grading from this point
northward to Fairbanks, and south
to the Nenana coal fields and to Broad
Pass. Over 600 men are employed
In the erection of living quarters for
employees at Nenana, construction of
warehouses and material yards, and
preparing for greater work next year.
A wagon road is being built along the
right of way so that material and
supplies can be hauled to the station
men.
.-\enana is situated at tne confluence
>f the Nenana with the Tanana river,
ind is in the heart of some of the
best agricultural land in the Tanana
valley. It is located 57 miles south
west from Fairbanks and 50 miles
north from the Nenana coal fields.
A townslte has been surveyed by the
government and 350 lots were recent
y sold at public auction w hich brought
>ver $132,000. Several business houses,
Including general stores, restaurants,
hotels, etc., are doing business there
and have already started the construc
tion of permanent buildings. The
imputation at the present time is ap
proximately 500 people. A draw
bridge will be constructed across the
ranana at this point, which will cost
n the neighborhood of $500,000. Coal
junkers will be erected for the hand
ing of the coal for the use of the
vteamboats operating on the Tanana
md interior rivers and for local con
vumption.
The commission expects to reach
he Nenana coal field with rail some
ime in the late fall of 1917. It is es
imated that there Is now a market in
he interior for 25,000 tons of coai
innually. The opening of this coal
ield will give an impetus to the de
velopment of the low grade placer
properties in the interior of Alaska.
The agricultural lands tributary to
he railroad are also being rapidly lo
-ated and developed. Agricultural de
velopment in the Tanana valley is fur
her advanced than on the coast, and
he farmers are now supplying nearly
ill of the vegetables consumed In the
interior; and very little of the perish
ible food supplies are being imported.
1'he government expects, by encour
aging the development of the agricul
tural lands in Alaska that the terri
tory will some day be self supporting;
thus avoiding the economic loss due
to the importation of foodstuffs.
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PHILIPPINES 10
MANILA, P. 1 , Oct. 4. — A plan to
establish ten government plants for
the manufacture of rinderpest serum,
has been Initiated by Adriano Her
nandez, director of the bureau of ag
riculture. Funds have been secured
and the plants will soon be In full op
eration.
Rinderpest continues to be a serious
problem for Philippine cattle owners,
but the bureau of agriculture by quar
antine and immunization is waging »
vigorous campaign against the scourge
A requesttion for serum has been sent
to French Indot'hina, and this well
enable the bureau to keep up its work
until all ten serum manufacturing
plants are In full swing These plants
are to be located in cattle centers in
different parts of the Islands.