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What Is Transpiring In and About Cordova
MONDAY
J. H. Sellin left on the Alamtda
today for Juneau, where his wife is
visiting, and together they will go lo
the States.
Mrs. E. S. Norland, who has been
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
S. B. ne, for several weeks, returned
today to her home in Everett.
Attorney R. E. Capers left on this
morning’s train for Chitina.
Assistant District Attorney Harry
Pratt, of Fairbanks, was an arrival
on yesterday’s train. He is on his
way to the States to have his eyes
treated.
The little steamer Dora, which
blew out her cylinder head at Sel
dovia while en route to the west
ward, was towed to Cordova by the
Alameda, arriving early Sunday
night. It will require about three
days to make the necessary repairs
to her engine, when Capt. Westlund
will resume his trip to the westward.
Shortly after midnight a blaze was
discovered in the hallway of the
Mickelson & Currier building, and a
fire alarm turned in. The depart
ment reported promptly and the
flames were extinguished with the
chemical, and little damage done.
The fire is supposed to have started
from an overheated stovepipe.
Information has been received
from Anchorage stating that Captain
A. E. Lathrop is installing his own
electric plant in Anchorage, and will
open his Empress Theatre there on
Christmas Eve.
Jack Nelson, Jas. Whalen and A.
Anderson were among the interior
mining men who came to cordovn
on Sunday’s train, en route to the
States.
The steamer Admiral Farragut ar
rived from the westward at 3 o’clock
this morning and sailed for the
south at 4.30 o’clock. Her outgoing
passengers from Cordova were W.
D. Gillis for Juneau and J. E. Mc
Cabe for Seattle.
The steamer Alameda, arrived in
port about 8 o’clock last night, and
remained until 10 o’clock this morn
ing. taking on 1,200 tons of copper,
ore. The Alameda left for Valdez
and from there will sail direct to
Seattle. The outgoing passengers
from here for Seattle were Mrs. E.
S. Norland, Mrs. Catherine Palmer,
Ethel Moore, Ida Barrow, J. Whalen,
J. Nelson, Judge C. E. Bunnell, H.
E. Pratt, J. H. Sellin, I. Anderson,
A. R. Garner, N. C. Rem.
TUESDAY
The navy wireless station at Whit
shed which was recently damaged by
fire, has again been put in good
working order, and it is understood
that some very satisfactory tests
have been made with Eastern sta
tions, including radio plants at Arl
ington, W. Va., in the canal zone and
Key West.
At a meeting of the Cordova Fire
Department, held last night, Jt was
decided to hold a series of social af
fairs during the month of December.
It will include a smoker, the date for
which event will be determined later,
and a dance to be held at Eagle Hall
on New Year’s eve, arrangements for
which will be in charge of Hub Bol
linger, W. J. McDonald, C. P. Mick
eison, F. M. Fuller and J. E. Way.
Mrs. R. E. Flory was the holder of
ticket No. 77, which drew the lunch
cloth raffled off by Mrs A. R. Barrus.
Juneau will hpld a special election
on December 20, to decide the ques
tion of the proposed enlargement of
the city boundaries.
The Eagles are planning for a big
time at their sourdough dinner, to be
given on December 8.
The date for the firemen’s smoker
has been fixed for December 22, when
some good stunts will be pulled off.
The Empress Theatre has a num
ber of good feature films coming up,
and Hazel Dawn, an especially at
tractive girl, will soon be seen here
for the first time.
Peter Monahan, one of the old
time miners of the interior, who is
operating on Slate Creek, was an ar
rival on yesterday’s train, bound for
the States.
The steamer Kansas City is due
from the westward tonight, and will
remain here until tomorrow loading
ore.
Edw. C. Ross, head machinist for
the N. C. Company, of Fairbanks,
arrived on yesterday’s train. He
brought out the body of his wife, who
recently died, which he is taking to
his old home in Quebec for burial.
The Peak sisters will be presented
next Wednesday night, December 8,
Instead of tonight.
James Brennan, who is employed
at Mile 114, is spending a couple of
days in town.
THURSDAY
Gus Anderson left on this morn
ing’s train for McCarthy, where he
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Juneau yesterday afternoon at 2
o’clock, and is due In Cordova about
noon tomorrow.
Ed. Lee came over from Valdez
and expects to go out the line.
G. A. Stratman left on this morn
ing’s train for McCarthy, where he
will be station agent for the Copper
River and Northwestern railway. He
was accompanied by his family.
The steamer Dora, which has been
in port several days receiving re
pairs, will leave for the westward
tomorrow, to resume her regular run
between Seward and Unalaska.
The freighter Seward is due to ar
rive at Juneau at 6 p. m. on her way
to Cordova with a cargo of coal and
explosives.
Cordova Aerie, 1826, held its an
nual election of officers last night,
and the new officers will take hold,
and confidently expect to see the
Aerie have the best year of its ex
istence, and intend to see that the
Aerie is housed in its own building
before their term of office expires.
Edward F. Medley was the choice of
the Aerie for worthy president, the
Rev. E. P. Ziegler being selected as
worthy vice-president. Peter Shear
man was elected chaplain, Dr. W. W.
Chase, physician; George Dooley sec
retary, and George Hickman, treasur
er. N. A. Clasen was elected as trus
tee, Griff Ellis as inside guard, and
Ed. Lindberg as outside guard.
The Aerie is preparing for the
Sourdough dinner, which will be held
next Wednesday in Eagle Hall, and
a good time is promised to all who
come.
FRIDAY
Considerable interest is being
taken in the smoker that will be
pulled off by the Cordova Fire De
partment at Eagle Hall on Tuesday,
December 14. Some good stunts are
being arranged, and the attendance
promises to be large.
Rev. and Mrs. E. P. Ziegler enter
taiend the Episcopalians at the Rec
tory last night.
This afternoon, in the Commission
er’s court, Fred M. Fuller plead
guilty to the charge of assault and
battery, preferred against him by
Link Wain, and Judge Medley fined
him $15 and costs.
Last evening a very enjoyable
dance was given at the Windsor Ho
tel, in honor of Miss Blanche Fogg,
an attractive young lady from Val
dez, who is visiting Mrs. Parke D.
Griswold. A large number of young
people attended, and all report hav
ing had a most delightful time.
The Eagles and their friends will
gather around the festive board next
Wednesday evening, and participate
in a Sourough dinner. As this lodge
shortly expects to begin work on the
erection of its own home, the idea
is to hold several get-together affairs
in the hope of infusing new life into
the order and increasing the local
membership.
SATURDAY.
The dance given at Eagle hall last
night, by the railroad boys, was well
attended, and everybody had a good
time.
The steamer Kansas City left yes
terday with a cargo of copper ore,
valued at $500,000, for the Tacoma
smelter, and the docks and yards are
still' filled with the metal awaiting
ships to transport it to the States.
The new engines for the Copper
River & Northwestern railway are
now at Seattle, awaiting shipment.
They are being set up and the first
one will leave Seattle on the freighter
Cordova, sailing Monday. The Sew
ard and Latouche will bring the other
two engines on their return trips.
EVANS GOES TO KODIAK.
The steamer Admiral Evans ar
rived here about 6 o’clock tast night
with a few passengers and 136 tons
of freight. She left a few hours
later for the westward, and will go
as far as Kodiak on this trip.
S. N. Laurie, of the firm of Laurie
Bros., of McCarthy, arrived in town
on Friday’s train and will go to the
States on a business trip. When he
returns he will be accompanied by
his family.
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SHIPPING BILL IS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. — That the
Wilson administration IntendB to at
tempt to pass a shipping bill through
the next session of Congress is clear.
A draft of the proposed measure is
jlQg_lfl_&g_handa of the House Mer
was prepared after members of the
committee had held a conference with
Secretaries McAdoo and Redfleld, in
which the whole matter was gone
over, and certain objectionable fea
tures in the measure which failed of
passage at the previous Congress, eli
minated. The new measure has sev
eral radical provisions, differing from
the .previous bill, one of which is an
appropriation of fifty million dollars
to be used for the building of mer
chant ships, which would be available
as naval auxiliaries in time of war.
The bill also creates a federal board,
with jurisdiction over deep water
traffic similar to that exercised by
the Interstate Commerce Commission
over the railroads of the country. The
measure will be made a party one,
and the administration will bring all
its influence to bear to wipe out the
opposition which the measure met
with in the Senate last year. Secre
tary Redfield is confident that the
proposed bill will go a long way in
relieving the extraordinary conditions
that have almost paralyzed the ex
port of American goods, as evidenced
by the tremendous amount of freight
piled up in the Atlantic terminals of
the railroads, where bottoms cannot
be secured to take the stuff to Eu
rope.
MEXICAN POLICE
UNCLE Si IS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. — The ad
ministration’s reply to those who
criticise the recognition of the Car
ranza government in Mexico because
of charges of outrages upon priests
and nuns of the Catholic Church, was
made public in a letter by Secretary
Tumulty to Dr. James J. McGuire,
of Trenton, N. J., who recently wrote
to the White House, asking an ex
planation of what he characterized
as “widespread criticism.”
Secretary Tumulty advised Dr. Mc
Guire that the files of the State De
partment failed to disclose any offi
cial record of a single proven case
of outrages upon nuns and he in
cluded in his letter a statement by
the Catholic vicar-general at Mexico
City, which, while disclosing the
shooting of priests and the expulsion
and imprisonment of others, declared
there had been no violations of nuns
in that district.
“Counsel and sympathy are needful
and would be merciful now, because
they would be of wonderful efficacy
in uniting the people of Mexico in
the work of reconstruction,” wrote
Mr. Tumulty. “Efforts to arouse ran
corous feelings among them will have
the effect of opening anew the
wounds which should be healed, and
of creating an open sore to torture
that poor people as long as their
minds are kept inflamed against
their brethren.”
Emphasis was laid on the recogni
tion of Carranza by the Latin Amer
ican countries, which joined in the
Pan-American peace conferences. All
of these Latin American countries,
Mr. Tumulty pointed out, were Cath
olic' nations.
Finally a statement was repro
duced, which was given the State
Department by Eliseo Arredondo, the
Washington representative of Gen
eral Carranza, last October, pledging
the Carranza government to respect
everybody’s “life property and reli
gious beliefs."
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J. E. McFarland, who Is connected
with the Lakinaw Copper Mines, near
Long Lake, is in town, and will take
the first steamer on a short business
trip to the States.
He reports that recent work on
their copper claims has disclosed, In
two new cuts on one of the groups
of the properties, high grade bornite
and chalcocite copper ore from twc
to five feet in width, not heretofore
exposed. The vein Is of from 600 to
800 feet in known length, with a
“gouge" line of demarkation. Work
has progressed so satisfactorily that
the shipment of ore will begin with
in thirty days, or as soon as a good
winter trail can. be built from the
mine to the Copper River railroad.
This interior property Is being de
veloped on a rather unique plan, ori
ginated by J. Li Harper, a mining
man of Washington state. There Is
no company, no corporation, no stock
and in fact nothin gto sell. The plan:
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“JOHN DOE NO. 104,” GOULD HEIR.
Five-year-old waif picked up on cathedral steps in New York and adopted
by Finley J Shepard and his wife, formerly Helen Gould,
'AMERICAN RELIEF COMMITTEE NEEDS SUPPLIES.
ROME, Dec. 4.—The American relief committee, which lias
its clearing house in Rome, under American management, for
the distribution of supplies to those in distress on account of
the war, reports conditions growing constantly worse, espec
ially as the winter approaches. Lewis Iddings, former secre
tary of the American embassy in Rome, who is acting as
chairman of the executive committee of the American Relief,
says that both food and hospital supplies of every kind are
needed' badly, especially anti-toxin and artificial legs and
arms. At the present time there are over 13,000 persons in
need of these substitutes for lost members.
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GREECE WILL DISARM TEUTON SOLDIERS.
LONDON, Dec. 4.—The progress of the negotiations with
Greece are progressing favorably to the allies despite the
threats of reprisals from the Central Powers. Greece has
granted the allies absolute control of all the railroads in Mace
or under bond to parties who need
for development or improvement pur
poses a sum of money, say ?20,000.
The amount needed may be less or
more. The owner or owners arrange
with some individual of standing or
the trust department of some hank,
for that Individual or bank to act as
trustee for the investors. The in
vestors are the persons who advance
or loan the money needed. The trus
tee is given a fifty-year assignment
for a certain percentage—say 10 per
cent—of the net smelter returns from
all ore mined and shipped. Under
the trust agreement with the trustee
or bank the investors are first paid
back their money and thereafter re
ceive as a permanent income, or for
so long as the mine endures, a cer
tain and fixed percentage of the net
smelter returns prorated monthly or
quarterly to the investors on the
basis of the amount in dollars ad
vanced or loaned by each.
The owners control the mine ab
solutely, and manage it unhampered.
They share the “net profits” of op
eration. It is up to them to see that
there are net profits. If the man
agement is good and the mine meri
torious they profit immediately. The
investors do not have to rely on the
appearance of net profits for their
returns. Prom every ton or ore ship
ped they receive direct from the
smelter through their trustee or bank
a definite and fixed return. If the
mine is rich they reap rich returns
proportionately.
BEST HER FOR
The Seattle Times says. Falcon
Joslin, president of the Tanana Mines
Railroad, and one of Alaska’s best
boosters, Is of the opinion that the
coal In the Bering River fields can
be used for smelting ores without
first converting the fuel into coke.
This coal, he says, burns to a white
heat, and becomes so hot that it will
melt a stove If the draft is left open.
Joslin spent a portion of the past
summer in going over the country
contiguous to Katalla. He describes
it as one of the richest sections of
the North, and yet the people there
are the most discouraged.
“There is no doubt as to the min
eral value ot this country," he said,
“both as to coal and to oil. The coal
makes the hottest fire I ever saw. It
burns white. Some oil drillers left
a twelve-inch steel bit in an open
fire while they went to lunch. When
they returned the piece ot solid steel;
i had melted. Coal that will melt steel
Oils Go to Waste.
“They are pumping three wells *and
making 15,000 gallons of gasoline a
month, while about 30,000 gallons of
kerosene and other illuminating oils
are allowed to go to waste, because
they have no means of conserving it.
The plant is a small two-by-four af
fair that cost about $2,000. The para
fine and lubricating oil around the
plant is a foot thick on the ground.
The little plant manufactures all the
gasoline used in that part of the
country. There is only one man and
a boy drilling. They are without
money to buy proper equipment, but
are getting along as best they can.
“I never saw a sadder sight in my
life than the former camp of the so
called English Coal Company. The
company put up fine, comfortable
buildings, built miles and miles of
trails and roads, but the whole thing
is deserted and going to wreck and
ruin. Ten or twelve miles of railroad
track has become two streaks of
rust.
“All of this waste was wrought by
the withdrawal of the coal lands and
the fight put up by the conservation
ists against the granting of patents.
There are still a few people at Ka
talla—hanging on in the hope that
the dreams of riches which they once
saw in the magnificent resources
around them will come true. But
they are pretty badly discouraged,
and in the meantime officials of the
general land office are going through
the travesty of ‘adjudicating’ the
Alaska coal claims. The conserva
tionists caused the confiscation of
those claims years ago, but the of
ficials are still going through the
mummery of trying the cases.”
Joslin says that despite the handi
caps placed in the way of develop
ment by the government, Alaska is
prospering as a whole, but there are
a few places like Katalla, where the
people have become broken hearted
and discouraged while waiting for
action.
donia, and given them full charge . of several ports in the
Aegean Sea. Greece has also promised that all soldiers of
the Central Powers entering Greece will he disarmed and in
terned.
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MAGNETIC SURVEY TO BE MADE OF EASTERN ASIA.
PEKING, Dec. 4.—Dr. Charles K. Edmunds, president of
the Canton Christian College, is about to complete a magnetic
survey of China, which the Carnegie Foundation of Washing
ton, D. C., authorized him to make several years ago. Dr. Ed
munds expects the preliminary survey to he completed by next
May. This will embrace not only China, hut all of Eastern
Asia. When the work is completed there will be no point in
this section of the world more than one hundred and' fifty
miles from a station where magnetic conditions have not been
investigated.
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ATHENS, Dec. 4.—A mutilated statue of Eros, discovered
by French troops in the course of trench digging exercises on
the island of Lemnos, may prove to he a find of great arcliaeo'
logical importance. The statue was uncovered on the siy» of
the ancient town of Haepliestia, which once boasted 60,000 in
habitants, and the condition of the statue is said to give con
clusive evidence that the city wafe destroyed by a terrible
earthquake, and not by an invader, as had heretofore been
thought likely.
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TOKIO, Dec. 4.—Matsuzo Nagai, formerly consul-general
at San Francisco, has been appointed private secretary to
Baron Ishii, the new minister for foreign affairs. Before serv
ing as consul at San Francisco, Mr. Nagai was one of the sec
retaries at the Japanese embassy at Washington. He is
thoroughly familiar with conditions in the United States, and
is one of the best English scholars in Japan. The post of sec'
retary to the minister is one of the most important at the
foreign office.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 4.—The Norwegian steamer King Os
car, which Henry Ford has chartered to convey the members
of his peace expedition to Europe, will sail from here today,
hound for Europe, where the first stop will he made in Nor'
way. The peace expedition will likely receive a frosty recep
tion by the British, who seem stubbornly determined to fight
until a decisive conflict has been waged, hut Ford refuses to
express any discouragement, and says he will go through with
his plans, and remain on the job until peace is finally secured.
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LONDON, Dec. 4.—The war office has received official
advices from Mesopotamia in regard to the fighting during the
march on Bagdad, and the total British losses are set at 4,600.
The river boats which were used' by the British in their ad
vance were set on fire by Turkish shells and have been
abandoned.
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CAMBRIDGE, Eng., Dec. 4.—The Cambridge University
Library has just acquired from a graduate in China a volume
containing the complete works of the poet-statesman, Li Tsung
Yuan. The work is dated 1107, and is printed from blocks, ft
is the earliest printed hook in the library, being thirtyseven
years earlier than any hook previously preserved there.
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