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Douglas Island news., 1914-04-29

splendid opportunity for business men, With it's present importance and future promise, Cordova is truly @ town of opportunity. It's citizens are progress sive and cordial, and they gladly vel come the prospector or the capitalist. They believe in betterment and devel- opment and they believe in doing things now.
 In order that parties intending to come to Cordova may judge for them selves the business opportunities of- fered, the following list of established institutions and places of business is given: One bank, three hotels, three lodging houses, seven saloons, four doctors, one dentist, seven general mercbahdise stores, three churches, city hall, one hospital, one public read ing room, two real estate agents, two bakeries, two barber shops, two cold storage plants for meats, two drug stores, three book and stationery stores, one jewelry shop, one steam and several hand laDndries, one cObbler, one insurance agency, one electric light company, one waterworks plant, one telephone company, two transfer com panies, one moving picture show, two tailors, three billiard halI+, seven law yers, two newspapers daily and weeklyL two hardware stores, one automobile transfer company, one meat market, three clothing stores, three grocery stores, two tin aud metal shops, one woodworking firm, two photographers, one undertaken, one lumber company, one sawmill, one wholesale brewery supply house, one soda works factory, two steamship agencies and a number of small stores
 Cordovas real estate valuation is about sl,5OOOOO. aud the tax rate for last year was one per cent, the second tax levy that has been made since Inc town was incorporated. The cost of living here is approximately the same as in the Pacific Coast states Meals at lesfaurapts range from hirly five to seventy-fve cents, and board eau be secured for S35 per month. Hotel rooms rent from Sl5 o s3O per month, and cottages aud apartments from S20 to S4O per Douth. Watercosts 50 cents per 1000 gallons, meter rate; electric lights 6C cents to Sl per month. Wood is plentiful, but the foreign coal at present burned, costs S15 per ton.
Douglas Island news., 1914-04-29
Cordova

GDlAONa
 The common council of the town of Cordova has issued pamphlet giving the following information concerning the town:
 Cordova is che tidewater terminus of the Copper River 6 Northwestern By, and is a modern, sustantially built and up-to-date city in every respect It is ! 1236 miles northwest of Seattle and a little over 400 miles from Fairbanks. It is the natural gateway for all travel to interior Alaska, including the Chis ana and Nelehina gold camps, and the supply aud outatting point for this constantly increasing trade.
 Cordova was surveyed and platted as town in the summer of 1908, and laid out with a view to accommodating large city, with 7O-foot streets and 14-foot alleys between Her streets are lighted with electricity from clusters in large globes on ornamental postss Che business blocks would be a credit to any city, most ofthem having plate elass fronts, while the residences were built with a view to architectural beau ty, comfort and permanency; electric light, telephone, water and sewage svstems have been installed The water is gravity system with a pressure ot s9 pounds to the square inch, and is absolutely pure, having it's source in perpetual snow.
 Cordova boasts a Sl0,000 school building, with experienced teachers and a we'll graded system, including the first year of high school The Seattle course of study is adopted as far as possible. An exceptionally we'll equip ped voluDteer Ere department affords ample fire protection. Houses of wor- ship include those of the Catholic, Presbyterian and Episcopal faith.
 Besides the local telephone system, there is a long distance system from Cordova to Katalla, and also along the railroad to all stations as far as Kenne colt, a distance of l96 miles. Two we'll equipped newspaper plants publish a daily and Sunday newspaper, contain ing the local and mining news, as we'll as the happenings of the world received by cable. There are three large, mod ern hotels, steam heated, electric light ed and with private baths, several room ing houses and inuumera6le restaur- ants.
 The government maintains @ cable office, the largest wireless station on tho coast, federal jail and commodi ous post office A deputy collector If customs and a deputy surveyor of for estry are located here. and congress has made an appropriation of s1o,O00 for the erection of large public build. ing to house all of these offices.
 With the opening of the coal aelds and better aud cheaper transportation facilities the demand for labor will be stimalated. Laboreyv al le paid thirty. five cents an hopE, 0nRshorenen fifty cents an hour and mechanics fifty cents an boar and up Should the government build the railroad from Chnna to Faii banks here. wil be a
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-04-02
CHICAGO HOGS
FIRMER TODAY
SHADE HIGHER THAN TUESDAY
-SHEEP ARE STEADY AND
TEN CENTS LOWER.

Union Stock Yards, Chicago, III
fEOGS-Estimated receipts today,
10000; number left over from yes
terday 4,0S9; estimated receipts for
tomorrow 10000. Official receipts
yesterday 11,247; official shipments
yesterday 5,163. Official receipts last
month 543,6S9: official shipments
last month 159,7S6. Market steady to
shade higher than Tuesdays aver
age. Bulk of prices $3.50 a sos;
light $3.50 q $40; mixed and but
cheers $685. q S.61h; heavy, $S.25
a S,62h; rough heavy $S.25 a
SIS; workers. $3.50 q $40; pigs
1928 @ $50.
CATTLE-Estimated receipts to-
day 10000; estimated receipts for
tomorrow 5000. Market on best stuff
stronger; others steady. Beeves $6.95
q 9.55; COWS and heifers sS.25 @
$40; Texas steers $500 a $40;
stockers and feeders $3.50 q 100;
western cattle $500 q sos.
SHEEP-Estimated receipts today
$4,000; estimated receipts for to-
morrow 10000. Market steady to 10
cents lower. Native sheep S6.40 q
$50; western sheep $40 @ 600;
yearlings $3.50 @ 7.55; lambs $7.35
q $40; western lambs $7.35 @
$50.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-04-02
NEW TROOPS
FOR FEDERALS!
REPORTED HEAVY REINFORCE
MENTS ARE BEING SENT BY
THE GOVERNMENT To
TORREON.

Eagle Pass, Texas.-Dispatches
from the American consul at Dur
ango announce that the federal COM
mander at Torreon offered to sur
render to Gen. Villa, that truce had
been granted and that the federal
and constituencies commanders
have met and are arranging the
terms of capitulation.
Juarez, MeXico.-EverybodX today
awaited definite news of Gen. Villas
position in his attack on Torreon.
The reports received by General Car
in progress and no idea was obtain
ed Us to when the relative positions
of the rebels and federals would
change. Heavy reinforcements for the
federals are said to be approaching
Torreon and may reach there late
this afternoon, which may result SER
Iiously for Villa as both the armies
are so worn and exhausted by the
long and hard fight, that fresh rein
forcements on either side might turn
the tide.
Juarez, Mexico.-At eight O'Clock
last night, General Carranza stated
positively, that while there was ev-
cry reason to hope for the early cap
ture of Torreon, the town hal not
yet fallen and that the position OF
the troops have not materially chang
ed in the last "a hours. This infor-
nation was given out through Rob-
erto V. Pesquiera, confidential agent
of the constitutionalists, and Alfredo
Brceda, SECRETARY to CarranZa. They
also traced to its origin the report
yesterday afternoon that Torreon
had fallen. The town burst into
flame when a rebel officer exhibited
to two Americans, a telegram sent
by Theodore Hamm, American con-
sui at DURANGO, to Secretary OF State
Bryan. 1t said he had been inform
ed that Torreon had fallen.
The situation in a nutshell" said
Senior Pesquiera, is that the capture
OF Torreon seems certain but no one
can predict when"
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that all big railroad companies con-
troll 81 per c IN of the total anthra-
cite mines and that there is a general
combination between these companies
to fix prices and that the coal sales
companies are owned and controlled
by the railroads and are devised by
the carriers for the purpose OF avoid
ing the commodities clause OF the
Hepburn railroad act.
The report asserts that the COM
panies not only control 81 per cent of
the coal mines, but also a large pro-
ton of the acreage of all the anthra-
cite producing regions. The commit
tee declares that the prepared sizes
of anthracite coal, such as stake. egg
and chestnut, used almost exclusively
by the small consumer, are sold at
the enormous profit of upwards of
800 per cent.
The committee further asserts that
the business of mining and selling
this 81 per cent OF hard coal is con-
trolled by a combination of four men.
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fought out on it's merits, free from
personalities. The President has too
high an idea of the duties of a pub
lie servant to believe those who have
asserted that l I'M seeking to disrupt
the party.
No nj Will.
II never entertained the slightest
ill will toward the President about
the Baltimore convention. l wish
him we'll. l did all I could to elect
MN. have supported him until we
are called Upon to bolt the platform
refuse to do such a thing. ] do
not believe that the fact that l led
on 20 ballots at Baltimore, receiving
a clear majority on nine and hat l
got a majority of more than 800, 900
over the President in the primary
elections, where he and competed,
lprecludes me from d%ischarging my
duty or exercising my rights as a
representative in Congress and as
speaker of the House to stand up for
America against Great Britain.
II have this to say: The fact that
| am making this fight for IL plat
form pledges may end my public car
eer. Theer + many things worse
than being defeated for Congress or
defeated for the speakership or even
worse than being defeated for the
presidency and one of them is to re-
pudiate the platform on which you
are elected.
II can be happy without the presi-
dency. / can be happy without the
speakership. If my constituents who
have stood by me without shaken fid-
elity should retire me to private life,
l can still be happy in the love and
affection of my wife and children.
81 am willing to follow where Presi-
dent Wilson leads so long as he is in
the White House and so long as he
does not ask me to repudiate a plain
platform declaration"
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-04-02
WHAT is AN INDIAN?
SUPREME COURT TO SAY

Washington, ID. C.-What is an
Indian? This question was put up to
the Supreme Court of the United
States today by the department of
justice for solution. The case involv-
es the construction of the term mix
ed BLOOD in the Indian Appropria-
ton bill of 1906, which removed re-
strictions as to sale, encumbrance or
taxation on allotments on the White
Earth reservation, Mimi, held by
adult mixed blood Indians.
The circuit court of appeals held
that every Indian who has an identi-
fable mixture of other than Indian
blood, however small, is a mixed
blood.
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WOMAN TO BLK
GOTHAM OUT OF BIG SUM.
Continued from page /.

fin specialist into a tearing beauty.
Eventually they returned to this
country. At Atlantic City she faxed a
telegram, announcing that her Phila-
delphia husband was dead. Wilson
was genuinely and senilely in love
with her. They were married the next
day and arrested soon after. The
shock killed Wilson. Edith was free,
with a saclSful of jewelry he bought
for her and some thousands in cash.
The Philadelphia divorced her and
she began her campaign against New
York.
She had a $4,000 suite at the Hotel
knickerbocker, and an extravagant
apartment at 131 Riverside Drive,
and another on West End Avenue
later. Because she never paid a bill
until il could not be lodged longer
and because she had a little money
and could pay when she had to she
automatically we'll. 1t was not until
last fall that she was really pressed
for cash. Then she went to New Eng
land and pretended illness.
Dear Mr.. Providence" she wrote
to a New Highlander she knew, 81 am
quite too i'll to go to New York and
visit my safety box, where l have
thousands of dollars in cash. What
can l do?"
He helped her out-$9,O 900 worth.
There were no other dupes in sight.
and for months she had to pretend
illness. Just as long as she could not
be expected to go to the safety box,
just so long she was safe. Another
asset vas her companion. Until al
most the last the girl believed in her.
81 am with Mrs. Wilson almost ev-
cry minute" she would say, convinc-
ingly. 81 know her to be a good wo-
man in every way"
Cost New York $500 O -.
1t was, of course, Mrs. Wilson'S
plan to marry some man with an in
come--perhaps in society-but any
how with an income. She kept away
from ONE All she had to do was to
smile at a man and he began to bask.
But women saw through her. She ac-
counted for her preference for male
society by various pleasant stories.
She was continually playing little
comedies. Now and then she would
telephone Il OF the most conserva-
tive private banks in Wall Street.
Send me some money at once,'
she would say.
Whereupon a special messenger
would soon come rocking up with a
wad of money. Once she sent a Burns
man to Washington to get a ring she
had ordered reset. She talked of en-
dowing a children's theatre. 1t would
only cost $4,000 she said, and she
would give one third of that. She
knew Schwab and Carnegie and
Gould we'll she said, and they would
aid her in the project. She was safe
in saying so. Those she talked to did
Mt know the men she named unless
they were pointed out at the opera.
She had little pleasing, teasing
ways with her men friends. She lik-
ed to hold hands, and love tap callow
youth and even kiss-in a sort of a
little sisterly way-men who had
done favors for her. But the Wilson
episode seems to have been her single
step aside from the path of propriety,
SO long as debts are not counted
against her.
She may have cost New York
$150,O00. But the onlookers think
she was cheap at the price.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-04-02
REPEAL OF TOLLS
PASSES THE HOUSE
Continued from page 1.

will be there cannot be predicted,
but administration senators propose
that a vote shall be taken by the
committee within a reasonable time.
Senator Owens is leading the fight
for the President there.
The committee will have many
proposals before it. Several of them
in the nature of compromise, some
Of them resembling a motion of the
House minority today TO recommit
the repeal bill and to repeal the ex-
emption clause with a declaration
that the United States should have
complete sovereignty over the canal.
This motion in the House was de-
feated by a vote of 232 to 176. 1t
will be the aim of the administration
Senators to have the repeal reach
its final vote within two or three
weeks.
Stirring Speech by Clark.
Speaker Champ Clark's stirring
speech in the House. closing the ar
gument for the opponents of the
canal tolls exemption repeal bill, was
one of the most dramatic features of
this extraordinary contest. The
speaker said:
"Mr. Speaker, there is no personal
issue between the President of the
United States and myself. / trust
there I'VE will be. / have at no
time uttered a word of criticism of
the President. At no time, so far
as l believe, has the President said
one word of criticism of me. A man
who is worthy to hold a high public
post in the service of the country,
must believe that other public SER
wants r actuated by the same high,
courteous and patriotic motives by
which he believes himself to be
moved.
81 have never entertained the opin-
ion that President Wilson is actual
ed by other than the highest patriotic
motives. i do not believe that Presi-
dent Wilson has yer entertained any
other opinion as to the conduct of
those of us who find it necessary to
differ with him on this question.
President Wilson does not desire a
breach in the democratic party. l do
not desire a breach in the democratic
party and there is no breach in the
democratic party. / would scorn to
believe that President Wilson count
enanced for one moment the efforts
of some of the jackal press to rep
resent that we are seeking to dis
rupt the democratic party. The Presi-
dent is too big a man not to desire
that this great question should he
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-04-02
A OF KENTUCKY 800
WOMAN TO Ia BE s Pl9RoBE:D'

Lexington, Ky.-1he death of Mrs.
Laura Wilder Simpson, who expir-
cd on February 20 from the effects
of a bullet wound will be inyestigat-
ed by the regular grand jury which
viii convene here next Monday. Cor
oner Gordon gave a statement saying
that he would personally go before
the grand jury and ask that a full in
vestigation be made. Mrs. Simpson
was the wife of Laurence Simpson, a
wealthy s~tock-breeder and farmer
here and daughter of DR.. w. III. Will
der, of Chicago, prominent in Chicago
society.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-04-02
RECEIVER WILL SELL
CHICAGO I~NTER-OCEAN

Chicago.-The sale of the prop
erty of the Inter-Ocean Newspaper
company, now in the hands of a re-
ceiver, was ordered today by federal
Judge Carptener. Bids will be open
ed Monday and will be made return
able to Judge Carpenter April 10.
r. j. Mooney was appointed core
ceiver with H. H. Kohlsaat. He will
have charge of the finances of the
receivership and Mr. Kohlsaat will
continue to direct the editorial policy
of the paper, the court ordered.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-04-02
BOILS EGG STANDING
ON CAKE OF ICE

Cambridge, Mass.-Can you boil
an egg on a cake Of ice?
Certainly. All you need to know
is how to manipulate ultra rays of
proper angstrom units on the egg.
Be sure and have your violet rays
ultra, though.
DIR. w. l.. Vovie did it today at the
laboratory of the Harvard Canter
Commission. He exposed a regular
egg and a chunk of ice to waves of
a length of about 1850 anstrom
units. After a time the egg vas hard
boiled sure enough and the ice wasn't
melted,
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-04-02
OF NUMBERING
WOMAN FOR ROBBERY

Chicago.-John b. Koetters was
found guilty of numbering Mrs. Emma
Kraft of Cincinnati and his punish
ment fixed at life imprisonment in
the verdict rendered by the jury,
which took the case yesterday after
noon. Koettcrs killed Mrs. Kraft in a
Chicago hotel and then fled to Cali
fornia where he was arrested. The
motive was robbery.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-04-02

PATRIOT DIES
AT THE AGE OF 81

Dublin, Ireland.-Timothy Daniel
Sullivan, an Irish patriot, and author
of God Save Ireland" died today
aged 81. Sullivan was a journalist
and one of the prominent agitators in
favor of home rule at the time Par
nell was in his prime. For twenty
years Sullivan was Nationalist men,
Der of the House of Commons, and
for two years Lord Mayor of Dublin.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-04-02

TODAYS

81 rs @ 80 s-s; No. ? hard Mon
tana arrive IS rs @ 80 rs; No. 3
wheat IS rs q 81 3-S; No. 1 durum
81; arrive ST; No. 2 durum SIS; ar
rive IS; May wheat SO rs; July
wheat 9O1s; September wheat 81
3-S.
CORN-No. 3 yellow GIG q 60;
arrive GIN; No. d, 5S1. @<GOh.
OATC-No. 3 white 35h a ga;
arrive 35 IL; No. 3, 32h q "a
BARLEY-Fancy 81 q So; gooc
AS q 81; poor ~ a As.
RYE-55 q 56h arrive, same.
FLAX-$1.55 @ $1.57; arrive
same.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-04-02
MILWAUKEE GRAIN MARKET.


Milwaukee, Wis.-WHEAT-Da.
Kota No. l northern spot bulk ship
ment "a q 95; Dakota No. Q north
ern, spot bulk shipment SO q y
Dakota No. l northern, bulk shipment
in Is days "a; No. 1 velvet chaff "a;
May wheat 81 Ia q 3-S; July wheat
81 @ is.
CORN-Nos: 3 mixedk64k O. 65M
No. 3 yellow, arrive 10 days, not
quoted; No. 8 yellow sc @ ga; May
corn 67 12 July corn 6S is.
OATS-No. 3 white oats 80 Ia q
80; standard SO @ Ia; May bats 80
SIS.
BARLEY-No. 3 81 q 60; med
ium 60 q IS; rejected so q 81.
RYE-No. 1, IS @ "; No. 2, 60 Y
@ GAY.
FLAN-No. l north western flax.
s1.55 q S1.57.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-04-02
MINNEAPoLIs CASH CLOSE.

Minneapolis. MINI. WHEAT
No. / hard 92 3-S q SIS; No. l nor
thern SO rs q 81 5-8: No. / regular
arrive 80 7-8 a 80 rs; No. i choice
arrive 81 3-S a 5-S; No. 2 northern
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-04-02
MITCHELL GRAIN MARKEr.

,WHEAT-Eo. l northern so; No.
2 northern 10; No. 3 northern 10;
No. 1 velvet chaff 10; No. 2 velvet
chaff II.
OATS-32.
CORN-51.
FLAX-$1.30.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-04-02
800 PER CENT
PROFIT IN COAL
NEW JERSEY LEGISLATIVE COM
MITTEE REPORTS ON MONO
POLY HELD by THE RAIL-
ROADS.

Trenton, N. 1.-THE assembly coal
investigation committee submitted a
report to the House late yesterday
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-04-02
SIOUX CITY STOCK MARKET.

Sioux City, Ia.-Cattle receipts to-
day were 600, market steady. Hog re-
ceipts $500, market 5 cents higher.
Top price $3.50; bulk of prices $3.50
a S.35. Sheep receipts 1900, market
is @ 20 cents higher.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-04-02
Range of Hog Price:

Is @ 20 cents higher.
Range of Hog Prices.
This week. Last week
Monday -. IS.35@ S.4OS.45@8.55
Tuesday -. 1928 $50 $50 @S.6O
Wednesday ........ -. S.35@S.50
Thursday -. .:...... S.25@S.40
Friday S.35
Saturday -. ....... S.27 IL @S.35
Gossip of Tuesdays Market
Sioux City, Ia.-Tuesday's fat cat
tie market ruled weak at the decline
of Monday. On this basis the usual
fairly good sized run of killers for
the second day of the week changed
weeks closing fat cattle prices are
generally a dime lower. Beeves are
quotable at 100 @ SIS; fat and
filling cows and heifers 1918 q 7.75
and thin COWS $3.50 q $50
veal calves $500 q $50 and bulls
and stays $500 q $50.
The stocker and feeder market was
quoted strong and active at the trad
ing basis of Monday. The best of we'll
bred stock is being favored strongly
and in most cases Is selling to an
advantage over the market OF late
last week. The palmer grades are no
more than steaday with some quot
ing this class lower. Quotations.:
Feeders $3.50 @ 7.65; calves and
y%earlings $3.50 q $50 and feeding
COWS and stock heifers $500 q 200.
Under the lower advices from out
side points the tone to Tuesdays hog
market was bearish and prices had
to be discounted a dime from the
market of Monday. The long string
of sales dropped in at $S.25 while
the larger share of Mondays supply
sold at $3.50.
Steady prices at the advance of
10 q 15c on Monday were paid for
a light run of fat sheep and lambs.
Top prices this week $7.75 that aver
aged 80 pounds.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-12-22
Sporadic Crime Wave

DEPREDATIONS by what would appear TO
- be a wen-organized band of safe-crsck-
ers, operating in the heart of the business
section since the holiday season opened, need
not Of necessity be taken as an indication of
laxity or unfaithfulness on the part of the
police and detective departments. AS COM
pared to other large centres of population.
particularly New York, Philadelphia's record
from a police point of view has been excel
lent the past two years. To Judge correctly
such criminal outbreaks time must be rech-
oned a factor and an average struck That
the busy shopping seasons afford best oppor-
tunity for such feats OF nocturnal dexterity
has been demonstrated, and that. too despite
the most vigilant exertions of the guardians
Of public safety