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CHITINA LEADER
Opening of Bering Coal
Means Smelters for
Cordova
FIFTH YEAR
CHITINA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1915.
NUMBER 45.
Ore Shipments From Copper River Valley Are Over $2,000,000 Each Month
SELL STOCK FOR
Dr. W. H Chase, president of the
Cordova Mining & Development Com
pany, who is now in Montana, has
wired to local people that he disposed
of a large block of treasury stock for
the work of developing the company's
gold quartz properties in ihe Port
Wells district. While the amount of
money raised is not stated it is be
lieved to be in the neighborhood of
$20,000.
A Nissen six stamp mill will be
immediately purchased and Geo. A.
Harmon was instructed to furnish a
thirty horse power Foos engine for
driving the mill. An order was also
placed with the local maehnery firm
to install an aerial tram on the prop
erty and arrangements are now being
made to ship a Roebling 5,000 foot
aerial tram, with a capacity of ten tons
an hour to Port Wells on September
12.
As this is purely a local company
the stockholders are gratified to know
that Dr. Chase has put through the
deal whereby sufficient fpnds have
deal raised to instal machinery and
develop their holdings.
BISHOP HEFFRON
SHOT BFII
PRIEST
WINOSA, Minn., Aug. 27—Bishop
Patrick Heffron, the leading Catholic
prelate of this section, was shot and
dangerously wounded today by a
Frenchman who had been a former
priest. The shooting affray took
place at St. Mary’s College. The as
sailant gave himself up to the police
after attacking the bishop, and so
far has refused to give any reason for
his act. The man appears to be nor
mal, and it is thought that the shoot
> ing is an aftermath of the French
man's removal from the priesthood.
Bishop Heffron has not yet recovered
consciousness and his condition is
critical, although the attending physi
cians have not given up hope of his
recovery.
WINONA, Aug. 27—Later advices
from the hospital to which Bishop
Heffron was removed, state that the
physicians are now more hopeful that
the prelate will recover. Two shots
were fired by his assailant, one strik
ing him in the chest and the other
lodging in his hip. An X-ray examin
ation has disclosed the position of
both bullets. The prisoner has been
examined by the police, and they be
live him to be demented. His name
is Father Lesches and he appears to
have a grievance against the bishop
because the latter did not give him a
desired appointment
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VANCEBORO, Maine. Aug 28—A
special train passed through here to
day, guarded by heavily armed men,
and containing twenty-five million in
bonds and nineteen million dollars in
gold bound to New York. The train
came from Halifax, the big consign
ment of money and bonds having
been brought from London by steam
er, accompanied by a convoy of war
ships. The money and securities are
intended to pay for the large pur
chase of war materials made by the
entente powers in the United States,
and will materially relieve the foreign
exchange situation in New York.
WELL-KNOWN CORDOVANS
MARRIED IN SEATTLE
The many friends of Miss Annie
Webb, daugh^r of Mr. and Mrs. W.
H. Webb and a popular lady and of
O. L. I^arson, conductor on the Cop
per River & Northwestern railway,
will be surprised to learn that they
were quietly married in Seattle on
August 9, the news of which happy
event has just been received here.
The young couple are well and favora
bly known throughout the Copper
River valley and enter the matrimon
ial life with the best wishes of a
large circle of friends. Mr. and Mrs.
Larson will return shortly to Cordova,
where they will make their future
home.
Col. A. M. Dewey, trustee for the In
vestors in the new Lakina Copper
mines, near Strelna, is very optomis
tic as to the future of this section of
Alaska. His company is getting
ready to ship high grade copper ore
from the Lakinaw mines to the smel
ters at Tacoma. The ore is to be
hauled with motor trucks from the
mines to the Copper River Railway at
Long 1-ake station, whence it will be
shipped by rail and steamship to Taco
ma. It is announced that shipments
will commence in October of this
year.
In an interview published in the
Seattle Times Col. Dewey says:
“Seattle residents do not appear to re
alize the importance to this city of
the great activities of the Guggenheim
Morgan interests in Alaska and at the
smelters in Tacoma. Advices I have
received within the last week from
Cordova contain the information that
at least $2,000,000 worth of copper is
passing through that port every four
weeks, or as much twenty-five or
thirty millions a year from the Ken
necott district alone.
“One thousand tons of copper ore,
valued at not less than $1,500,000, was
received at Tacoma from Alaska dur
ing the past week. The capacity of
the Tacoma smelters are to be doubled
at once. And the increased business
in sight justifies the expenditure.
“Another thing which Seattle people
ought to consider and which appears
to me to have been overlooked. Is
this: With the great mineral re
sources of Alaska as the foundation,
this city should become the center of
the mining industry of the Northwest.
Much of the wealth of this city has
been realized from mines in Alaska.
Government engineers have pronounc
ed the Copper River country to con
tain enormous exposed bodies of the
richest copper ore in the world, and it
is from this district that the two
millions or more each month is new
being shipped.”
WASHINGTON. Aug. 28—Red Cross
advices received here state that the
famine conditions are daily proving
worse in Mexico City. Not only in
the city, where it is most easy to re
lieve the sufferers, but in the sur
rounding country the conditions are
in describably bad, the famished peo
ple subsisting on herbs and grasses.
In the capital itself at least one-fourth
of the entire populations is applying
to the Red Cross officials for relief.
The resources of the organization are
taxed to the utmost and many more
hundreds and thousands of dollars are
needed before the situation can be
adequately relieved. The committee
are considering the issuing of a new
appeal to the generosity of the Ameri
can people.
(From Tuesday's Daily)
Frank G. Carpenter, the world's
mast famous newspaper correspon
dent, is a distinguished visitor in Cor
dova today. He is accompanied by his
daughter. Miss Francis Carpenter,
and they made a trip to the glaciers
and are spending the balance of their
short time here in sight seeing about
town. i' vym
Mr. Carpenter’s peregrinations have
taken him twice around the world, and
into every quarter of the globe, and
is scarcely a land worth mentioning
he has not seen nor written about dur
ing the last thirty years. His travel
stories have become classics. His
powers of vivid description and his
faculty for grasping facts and pre
senting them with gripping interest
are too well known to need comment
among those who read. His Pana
ma canal series was one of the most
splendid of his many efforts.
“I am writing now,” says Mr. Car
penter, “for a syndicate of newspapers
including the Boston Globe, the Phila
delphia Press, the Chicago Tribune,
the Washington Star and other papers,
having an aggregate circulation of 3,
000,000 copies daily, and perhaps 15,
000,000 readers. I solict no adver
tising nor bonus in connection with my
writeups, and depict each country as
I find it and depend upon the sale of
my manuscript for my compensation.
My stories are my bread and butter.
“Although I have been traveling and
writing for years, this is my first
trip to Alaska. I am delighted with
the country. Its vernal conditions,
the equable climate, the scenic gran
deur, the vast resources, the indomi
table will of its people are fascinating.
I hope to place the story of conditions
of the North before my many readers
in a true light, and believe there
should be be a far greater movement
of tourists and others to this region.”
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The firm of Harmon & Deever has
been dissolved, J. H. Deever retiring,
and a new organization effected by G.
A. Harmon. The business will here
after be carried on by the Harmon
Machinery Company, Incorporated,
and there will be associated with Mr.
Harmon two practical machinery men
of Portland, D. C. Koons and P. W.
Brooks, both of whom will shortly ar
rive here to make Cordova their
home.
The new company intends to enlarge
and extend its business and as soon as
a suitable location can be secured
will carry a stock of gas engines,
pump and water wheel equipment,
pipe and fittings. An effort will also
be made to secure its share of Alas
kan business, by having one or more
members of the firm make personal
trips to the various camps.
THREE PASSENGER BOATS
ARE NEARING CORDOVA
The steamer Northwestern is sched
uled to arrive here Sunday morning at
3 o’clock. As she has 475 tons of
freight for Cordova, including 150,000
feet of lumber for the railroad com
pany, she will be in port ten or
eleven hours.
The Admiral Evans should reach
Katalla about 11 o’clock and if she
does will dock at Cordova Sunday
morning about 9 o'clock.
The steamer Mariposa left Juneau
at 9 o'clock this morning, and unless
delayed at Skagway unloading freight,
will be here early Monday morning.
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Send in your subscription now.
SEATTLE MERCHANT
DIES THIS Ml
SEATTLE, Aug. 28—Paul Singer
man, one of the pioneer merchants of
this city and head of the clothing
firm bearing his name, died at his
home this morning.
chisITrail
ITS TOIL
Wallace Williams, who left Chisana
for McCarthy about July 1st, has not
as yet reached the latter place. Will
iams was last seen July 6th, in the
Skolai Basin near the Russel glacier
by E. K. Irving and a fellow named
Barker. Irving and Barker went from
there over the goat trail via the Chitl
stone. Williams preferring to go by
way of Skolai and the Nizina. Will
iams was mushing in a pair of hip
boots and it was thought at first that
he had been lost trying to ford the
Fredericks, which Is swift and deep
at that time of the year, but It has
been learned that Williams knew it
was impossible to cross the Frederic
ks by going around and over the Fred
ericks glacier. As it happen McLeod,
who keeps a road house on the Skolai
Pass near the Nizina glacier, was at
that time on a trip to Chisana and
there is no way of knowing whether
WiHiams really passed there or not,
but it is presumed that he did and
that in trying to cross the West Fork
of the Nizina lost his life.
Williams has been In the lower
country for quite a number of years
and is well known in that region, lie
was one of the first stampeders of
Nome and there made a stake. In
Chisana he was drifting on Johnson
Creek, finally giving it up to leave
for more profitable fieds.
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NOT IRRITATE BELGHJMS
AMESTERDAM, Aug. 28— Gen Von
Krawell, military commander of Brus
sels, has been recalled to Berlin as
the result, it is reported, of disagree
ment with General von Bissing as to
one time Belgian capital. The form
er, it is said, was in favor of conciliat
ing the Belgian population, while von
Bissing believed in a stricter displine.
Matters came to a crisis when the
Government issued an order that no
Belgian should be allowed to wear the
Belgian or allied colors. Von Kra
well protested that such a measure
could be of no possible benefit, and
tvould merely irritate the populace.
He declined to put the order into ef
fect, whereupon von Bissing asked
Berlin to recall the commander.
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WASHINGTON. Aug. 28—Chair
man Edes of the Alaska Railroad Com
mission has cabled Secretary Lane
from Seward asking for permission to
take over the Alaska Northern Rail
road. This Includes all the rolling
stock and operating fixtures as well as
the terminals, and it is asserted that
the necessary authority will be for
warded to him at once.
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COLOGNE, Germany, Aug. 28—In
the raising of the second war loan,
the German postoffices performed a
notable feat in handling no less than
112,000,000 marks which were sub
scribed through the postoffice by 109,
933 persons—unaverage of about 850
marks ($170) each.
TEDDY ALL SAME
STORE
KANSAS CITY, Aug. 27—Ex-Secre
tary of State Bryan commented freely
today on the sensational speech made
by Roosevelt to the citizen soidiers
encamped in Plattsburg. N. Y. 3ryan
caustically referred to the actions of
Roosevelt, as resembling tlia gentle
ramblings of a bull in a china shop,
and emphatically condemned the fire
brand utterances of the Bull Moose
leader. He heartily approved the re
buke administered to General Leonard
Wood by Secretary of War Garrison,
and expressed the hope that the peo
ple of the country would no v appreci
ate the wise admi'iistratio-> of Presi
dent Wilson. He said in regard to the
various state militia encampments and
maneuvers that have been conducted
throughout the country in the past few
weeks, that “of late these training
camps had served more as mediums
for jingoes to orate about than as
fields of instruction in the art of war.”
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27—Theodore
Roosevelt issued a hot statement this
afternoon, violently condemning Sec
retary Garrison for the official repri
mand administered to General Wood,
and contending that he alone was re
sponsible for the speech he made yes
terday at Plattsburg. Garrison took
the matter of Roosevelt's attack good
humoredly and refused to do anything
more than joke about it.
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FOR TRAIL
Ed. Wood, of Valdez, who was ap
pointed road overseer at the last ses
sion of the territorial legislature, is
in Cordova, having come down from
the interior on yesterday's train. The
forestry money for roaa building in
the territory is now available, and
$11,310.80 is the amount that comes
to the Third division.
The espediture of this money is left
to the discretion of the road overseer
and Mr. Wood realized the necessity
of improving the trail over Sour Dough
Hill and has advertised for bids for
this work, the same to be opened on
September 2. There are also some
repairs to be made to the trail leading
from Chitina to the mouth of the Kot
sina. In the neighborhood of $2,800
will be required to do this interior
work.
Mr. Wood spent this morning in in
vestgating the most feasible way of
building a roadway to the old town.
He has about $16000 for this work,
which will be let by contract. There
are two routes under consideration,
the one up A avanue and the other
from Second street, cutting across in
front of the Schaffer cottage. Which
ever trail is selected can later be ex
tended to the cemetery.
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WINONA, Aug. 28—Bishop Heffron
who was shot and seriously injured by
a demented priest yesterday is re
ported this morning to be much im
proved. The Bishop had opiates ad
ministered to him and passed a rest
ful night. He expressed no antagon
ism towards his assailant and said
that he was sorry for the man. The
attending physicians now feel that he
has more than an even chance to re
cover' I '*'%!
TO AT ONCE DEVELOP
POUT WELLS PROPERTY
The Cordova Mining and Develop
ment Company has taken its stock off
the market, as sufficient funds have
been raised to proceed with the work
of opening up their quartz properties.
On Monday Secretary George Dooley
will leave on the lnunch Pansy for
Port Wells, taking four more men
with him to begin getting the ore
ready for the aerial tram which has
been ordered from Geo. A. Harmon’s
local machnery house. Bunkehouses
are to be built and other work done
preparatory to the installation of a
new six stamp mill.
If E i"CANADIAN
VANCOUVER, Aug. 28—The first
trans-continental train over the line
of the Canadian Northern Railroad
arrived here last night and the occa
sion was fittingly celebrated by the
railroad and city officials. Regular
service wity not be installed until
September, when it will be possible to
ride from coast to coast in Canada on
one train without making a change.
The steamer Empress of Japan has
been relieved by the British adtnirali
ty, and the transpacific steamship ser
vice of the company from here to the
■oriental ports will be resumed at once.
The coming of the railroad and the
opening of the steamship service will
materially benefit business conditions
here, which have been good since
England declared war on Germany,
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GOODMAN LEASES ALASKAN
HOTEL AT JUNEAU
W. P. Goodman, who has property
interests at McCarthy, and was one
of the early stampeders to the Shu
shanna placer camp, has leased the
Alaskan Hotel at Juneau, which he
will hereafter conduct. Mr. Goodman
is well-known throughout the terri
tory having for years been the Alaska
representative of the Richmond Paper
Company, of Seattle.
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ROME, Aug. 28—The Roman press
has joined vigorously in the chorus of
protest'which is going up from every
country in active war, against the
difficulties of the censorship. Aside
from the fact that the censors are
military men, and unable to judge
matter from a newspaper viewpoint,
embarrasment is caused because there
are several distinct bodies of censors,
some of whom allow certain news to
pass while others suppress it.
An effect of the censorship on Roman
papers, is that the Milan journals are
finding great favor in the capital. The
reason is, the Milan censor is very
liberal, and the Roman censor severe,
the consequnce being that the Milan
papers are often the first to bring
news to Rome. The latest and most
notable example is that of the Pope’s
interview with the correspondent of
the Paris Liberte. The Corriere Della
Sera published it in full, while no
Roman paper was even allowed to
mention it, but when the Milan paper
arrived in Rome, the censorship on
the interview was finally lifted here.
The Roman papers do not object to
the suppression of military news,
which might even indirectly help
Italy’s enemies, but much Is censored
which is not military news at all.
The newspapers here are also con
fronted with the mystery of the fact
j that some foreign countries are allow
l ed to have Italian news two or three
days earlier than the Italians them
selves get it.
The future prospects of Chisana as
a producer are very discouraging un
ess more discoveries and new pay Is
found than that which Is already be
ing worked. Up to August 12th the
James-N'elson properties had only yield
ed $155,714.85, with only 250 feet of
ground left on No 6, which will proba
bly bring the full production of these
properties up to about $160,000.00.
These figures are still lower than the
estimated production which was
placed at $175,000.00. Taking the pro
duction of the James-Nelson proper
ties as 30r; of the total production of
the camp, Skookum Gulch and No. 2,
Little Kldorada Creek excepted, the
total production for the present year
will be about $135,000.00 Had It been
possible for Range on Skookum and
Whitham on Little Eldorado to put
in a good slucing season, Instead of
being handicapped for want of water,
these figures would have been materi
ally increased bringing the possible
output for the season up to $175,000.00.
The James-Nelson people are going
right ahead with their ditch with an
idea of going over the ground which
Hamshaw worked as well as figuring
very strong on the side pay. They
have stated at different times that It
was possible to get two-bit pans In
Hamshaw's tailing piles, but Ham
shaw’s foreman, with an enviable re
cord as a miner In the lower country
and considered one of the best, if not
the best, in the Chisana District has
never been able to obtain the results
which the James-Nelson |>eople claim.
All of claims No. 4, 5, 6 Fraction and
6 Bonanza Creek as well as No. 1 and
No, 1. Fraction Little Eldorado will be
worked out. This is the ground which
the James-Nelson people figure ou
hydraulicing next season. As virgin
ground, and the best of it at that, it
produced less than $175,000.00. They
will also find as Hamshaw found it
that there is practically no "side pay."
The creeks are so narrow in that dis
trict that in some places, and not a
few at that, the cuts run from rim to
rim, but where the cuts do not run
from rim to rim, the pay cuts off short
and does not gradually peter out as is
most often the case and where there
is anything about the Hamshaw old
workings that will justify the Install
ing of a hydraulic plant is one which
the miners of Chisana feel very skepti
cal.
It will be surprising if there are
more than fifty people who will winter
there this coming winter, the ma
jority of those who are leaving are
buying or building boats and floating
down the Chisana and Tanana Rivera
into Fairbanks, though many plan on
going outsilde coming out by way of
McCarthy. The reason for the river
trip is easily seen as those who go
that way figure the cost per person
does not run over $20, besides their
getting a greater amount of baggage
moved than would be possible were
they to pay 25c a pound to have It
taken to McCarthy.
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TODAY 4
NEW YORK, Aug. 28—The stock
market was active today, the chief
feature of the operations being the
trading in the copper stocks. Gug
genheim Exploration and Tennesae
lead all the other metal stocks in the
number of shares traded in.
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GARY., Aug. 28—The police of this
city, who are working on the Kayser
murder case, tre beginning to believe
that their first suspicion was correct,
and that the minister was murdered
for his pro-German utterances. Every
effort is being made by the authorities
to unravel the mystery of the death,
but complete silence is being maln
| tained as to the result of the police
I investigation.