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The Cordova daily times., 1915-03-10
CALIFORNIA M A ' BUY WESTERN
 PACIFIC

SACRAMENTO, March 1O-Govern- or Johnson has instituted a movement for the purchase of the Western Paci- fic railway by the State of California. The road, which Is now in the hands of a receiver, is $50 miles in length and runs from San Francisco to Salt Lake City, and is a part of the Denever & Rio Grande system.
 The project was preached to the governor by Rudolph Spreckles, one of the heavy bondholders of the road, and the governor has also conferred with Charles Wheeler, the attorney for the Western Pacific in special cases.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-03-10

D. C. Sargent, who is one of the best known mine operators in this section of Alaska, having extensive holdings in the Nabesna, White River and Chisana camps, has just returned from his home in Washington, D. C., where he has spent the winter. He reports that he had several interviews with Secretary of the Interior Lane and Thomas Riggs, member of the Alaska Engineering Commission, in reference to the government railroad, and at their request furnished them with an estimate of the tonnoge the sections in which he is interested is likely to furnish a railroad that will tap the interior camps.
 In MT. Sargents opinion the trunk line should be built from Chitina to Batzulneta, thence down Dennison Fork to Fortymile and from there to Eagle This would be an all-Ameri- can route, with a water grade, and runs through a rich mineral section, and would open up the agricultural resources of the Panama valley.
 Since my return to Cordova," said MT. Sargent, "I have been sorry to learn that some of your people are not appreciating the good work done at Washington for the Copper River valley by George c. Hazelet. During
The Cordova daily times., 1915-03-10

Hazelet has personally prepared most of the data that sets forth your ad- yantages, and you can take it from me that this information has had its ef- feet upon Secretary Lane and the members of the Commission. From 2 tonnage or business standpoint Cordova must be considered accord
 ing to the showing made by your townsman, and if the rad is built from any other place than here it will simply be a matter of politics"
The Cordova daily times., 1915-03-10
WHEAT TUMbLES ON NRUMOR OF
 PEACE:

CHICAGO, March 1O-Wheat de clined violently today on reports that the German chancellor was ready to make an announcement of the terms on which Germany is ready to make peace.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-03-10
GERMANY ORDERS APPROPRIATION
 STOCKS BARLEY OVER ONE TON

BERLIN, March 10-Thc rapidly growing shortage of foodstu in Germany has caused the government take dras lie the supply until another harvest is made Today order issued eXpropratng all stocks of barley exceeding metric ton.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-03-10

AGAIN-By request. The Socia- lists will give another dance In Eagle Hall, Wednesday night, March 10. Music by Clayson's orchestra.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-03-10
FRENCH ACCUSE GERMANS OF ALL KINDS OF CRUELTY TO THE
 CIVILIAN PRISONERS

PARIS March lOThc foreign office today is,ucd state mcn declaring that the French civilian prisoners taken by the had been subjected to all kinds of III treatment abuse Men, women and children it claimed, were oaiod into cattle by the Germans and hurled into Germany with food Old men, unable walk, taken out and shot
The Cordova daily times., 1915-03-10

By subscribing for The Daily Times you are supporting a Cordova enter prise.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-03-10

The best meals In town served at the Windsor grill.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-03-10

A fresh supply of Augustine & Key CTS Candies received on the last steamer. S. BLUM & co.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-03-10

You will be pleased if you eat at the Windsor grill.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-03-10

Real news in the Daily Times, all the time.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-03-10

Today's news in today Daily Times
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-09

position OF its target is found not by
guess but by trianpulation. Far away
on either side of land batteries are
observers. The straight line from one
to the other Is the base line. AS soon
as they sight a ship each turns his
instruments on it and gets the angle
from his end Of the base line. The
ship to be fired at Is at the apex OF
the triangle thus obtained.
The men at the guns get this posi-
ton by telephone instantly. They
know to a foot what their weapons
elevation must he with a given charge
of powder and given weight OF pro-
jectile 10 reach that distant spot. They
set their mammoth piece. elevate 1t
above the parapet on its lift. fire it
and bring It back into concealment
again.
To lombard these base stations from
the sea was nearly futile. The shells
that could sweep n fore shore and
make ii untenable for an army might
never find these few scattered. con-
cealed men or these scattered, hidden,
tiny stations. A whole fleet might
rave at them for hours and in vain.
There was only one sure. quick way
To cripple them.7
Far northward. miles outside Of Bos-
ton harbor, beyond the system of the
harbor defences. two ships stood into
Nahan; Bay until they were within a
line drawn from Fishing Point, south
Of Swampscott. to Spouting Horn. on
Nahant. Here in seven fathoms OF
Z. Estimated number Of shots required
at night from ships dfodt at 5000
yards! To destroy position finding torcr
rhich is risibls. % ~ inch sh,Hs. $50
4 inch shells or $500 3 inch shells: TO
destroy inrisibie station icithom to,cer,
400 IL inch shells. 5000 4 inch shells:
10 destroy sedrchhght. "a IL inch shells,
900 inch shells or 5000 inch shells.
This fact makes II feasible to protect
outlying and secondary range stations
perfectly II sufficient troops can guard
each station to tight Of landing parties.
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light shafts fell on veering. speeding
vessels and made them hurry to get
away before the fire control Of the
defences could cover them
Still they returned. Each time they
approached at new point in the hope
Of developing a defect in the light
system. Each time they fired all the
metal that they could throw in the
one instant before the beams fell on
them.
There were few hits made by these
running ships. but they could afford to
waste ammunition. since their con-
tinual attack forced the defenders to
use their own insufficient supply.
While half naked men in ships tur-
rets and half naked men at coast guns
and in mortar pits We're toiling to
wreak brute destruction game of
wits was being played just as busily.
This game was played not on the huge
armored ships, not in the formidable
engine batteries of the forts, but at
places miles away from either
They were insignificant little PAGES
from the point OF view Of war-sum-
mer settlements on friendly beaches,
harmless little coves, pleasant shores
beset with the fantastic hotels and
fantastic towers OF American pleasure
places. In the summer days of peace
probably not one in any thousand of
the happy crowds that played and
laughed there ever imagined that
these serene. careless PAGES could
have any importance some day in
battle.
That night they were playing a part
that was full of danger to the VEN
turesome ships The American engi-
neers had established portable search
lights there and made base stations
and range finding points of them.
Every one OF these insignificant out
lying points was endowing the guns
in the distant defeuces with an added
deadliness Of accuracy.
The modern rified gun is fired not
by sight but by mathematics. The
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-09

They had prepared for their game Of
blind mans bun by long consultations
over charts. Every ships officer was
provided with minute instructions for
every contingency that human wit
could forecast in the headlong game
Of chess that is played with cannon.
The defenders were ready. too. In
the human chain that begins with the
battle commander and reached from
him through links Of district COM
manders to fire commanders and bat
terry commanders. each man had his
orders for any one Of a hundred things
that might occur, however quickly it
might come.
They knew what batteries to fire
and when, at the extreme fire zone. at
the intermediate zone. and at the third
fire zone, which commanded the mine
fields. They had before them, worked
out to the ultimate detail, the order OF
fire If the enemy ships should come in
column, in double column. or in scat
tered formation. Far down the
beaches, north and south. they had
every range plotted, that the great
guns might be turned on landing par
ties II the secondary shore defences
should fail to hold them.6
The ships struck simultane ously all
along the line of detences. They fired
close in north and south, and from
battleships out at sea. a plunging fire
went over Nahant and across into
Winthrop. The speeding ships missed
the defences and Their bursting shells
wrecked the town instead. AS it's
flames REDEEMED the sky. the flames OF
Hull. at Point Allerton on the end of
the southern peninsula, made a red
reply.
The quick searchlghts caught the
ships. Again and again the white
6. Usually the firing sones are: First,
5000 yards to the ertremc range of
biggest guns; second or intermediate,
1900 yards to 5000 yards; third, (nine
field some), 5000 yards
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With City at Enemy's Mercy and
Bombardment Imminent Stars and
Stripes Are Hauled Down
liter they stopped and lowered their

water they stopped and lowered their
boats.
Manned by crack bluejackets whose
they should not make a sound in the
rowlocks. the cutters moved toward
the beach at Little Nahant.
Far away the harbor searchlights
played like summer lightning. The
sailors moved on in utter darkness,
toward the invisible beach. They
iowed in. in irregular formation, till
they could hear the surf. Then the
foremost boats lay still, tossing on the
swell. waiting for the others 10 draw
abreast. Formless, vaguely gray in
the night, the line made a dash.
They were on the first lifting swell
Of the long waves that tumble toward
the land when a fierce white light
tore terribly through the night, and
blazed on them, and around them.
1t held them, intangibly, tightly like
the hand of a ghost.
Orange flashes ripped through it.
Little Nahant Beach quaked with eX-
plosion. In the white light. as If the
tossing boats We're spectral pictures in
Il dissolvng view, they melted amid
the roar of the shore guns. Black
fragments whirled through the steady
glare. and shells chopped the sea
where there We're bobbing heads and
clutching hands
The light stabbed the night. in and
out. II veered TO sea with enormous
speed. \ long. black silhouette with
three tunnels appeared full in the
circle OF its artificial day. \ funnel
vanished and another. \ spout Of
water lifted alongside, fry a shell
that had fallen short. Another, the
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n OSTON harbor should have been
* impregnable to attack from
l. the sea. Had Nature been a
modern army engineer she
could not have constructed an oceanic
gate more perfectly designed for
modern defence against modern ships.
one might picture Boston as being
protected by two great claws that
curve seward and wait there on
guard, pointing toward each other.
The northern claw would be Winthrop
peninsula, with it's beach and sum-
mer cottages. The southern one would
be the long. narrow arm Of land that
has famous Nantasket Beach on it
and ends northward at Point Allerton.
Between these two claws a prodigal
hand has scattered islands. From
Deer Island, lying in the north close
under Winthrop, to Georges Island in
the south, they form a stone wall with
gaps that are the channels. Far out,
grouped around the portal, the sea il
sown with lodges and rocks whose
kelp boards stream in an ever heav-
ing sea. Here are the Brewsters. the
Devils Back, the Graves, the Roaring
Bulls
Within there is q glorious harbor
great enough for a worlds armada.
But the entrance is a Pass OF
Thermopyla.
Commanding that pass and all APP
proaches far out to sea with zones OF
hre whose intersecting circles marked
rings II sure destruction were de-
fences honestly built. They were ready
TO receive and withstand that climax
Of destructiveness which mans science
has embodied in the conical steel pro-
jecte fired from the rified gun.l
The navy that invested the harbor
entertained no Illusions on that score.
II had not dared the attempt to force
the passages Of Narragansett. 1t
would not dare TO force the passages
Of Boston. AS at Narragansett, its
business was to occupy the defenders
and wear them out, while the army
fell on them and on Boston from the
land
Tn" ships entered a shrouded, black
sea, where there was not light to
warn Of reef or shoal. Lightless them
selves, they CROPPED with deep sea leads
and sounding machines till they as
surrd themselves OF safe positions
whore they might have sea room to
swing around in great closed circles
at high speed.
These circles would cut deeply into
the circles OF the fire zones OF the de-
fences, At close range the vessels,
invisible to the forts. could send a
furious volley into them and rush past
before the guns could find them. to
return IN their circle and fire from
son ether point. 1t was the penalty
that darkness lays on land defences.
But 4 penalized the ships alsos
They would have to fire without
! mat the American hdrbor defence
'u''.w and construction are Of the very
h'oh'Ni type has been acknowledged
'1'p times by the technical experts Of
no rorM.
4 generous system Of reliels Is i'm
I"H'iuc IN hdrbOr doJences during Udr.
F'"'r time mdnGurres have developed
h' 'Ict that the mere strain Of incess-
"'' IrHtchiulnHss While eating for dn
"''I who may appear at unexpected
r"f.. suddenly is so great that unless
M "cn hare frequent rCIieJ they cam
nor .'f me! concentrated energy ;chtch
" '|'d"d instantly IN the CRISIS.
ms system OF night attack has
De-" dcreloped and tested by actual
u" anu is such as Is no,o laid do.on
I'' hIitlo practice IN the tactics Of most
HHmos.
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While Coast Defences Bravely Hold
OFF Ships Heavy Artillery From
Rear Destroys Carrisons

sighting their mark. They dared not
betray themselves to the waiting guns
on land by their searchlights.
II the searchlights were effective.
the ships should have to flee to the
furthest limit Of the coast guns
range. At that distance they, in turn,
could not deliver an effective lombard
ment OF the land so long as 1t was
dark. So, then. all the ferocious game
of war centred for the time on the
searchlights. The death laden ships,
the death laden guns on land. had to
wait till it was learned what the lights
would do.a
The enemy knew that the American
defences had only about one-half the
searchlight installation that was
needed The hostile sailors had not
been forced to depend on spies for this
information. 1t was in American re-
ports that had been made to Congress
session after sessions
I. The sedrchH9ht system, recognised
as a vital part Of hdrbor defence By the
Endicou board on hdrbor defence zap
pointed in 1850 has grOtCn steadily IN
importance uith the steady increase in
ship armament and ship speed.
8. The inddeQudcy Of the Installation
has been made the subject Of continuous
reports. II Is a fact that a Jetc years
ago, chen a mock attack on one OF the
most important Atlantic dejences tcds
ordered by the War Department. the
commander had TO requisftion the
sedrchH9hts from other coast detences
and that during the mdnaurres the
sedrchh0ht defence because Of its tndde-
Qudcy and temporary character failed
at several critical points, permitting at
lacking ships to come ,cithin less than
1000 yards Of one important battery.
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Part Seven of the startling
narrative fact story. based on
the inexorable mathematics of
war. What would happen il
America were invaded as was
Belgium.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-08
DIETING TO KEEP WELL

Some people are born with tend
ency to certain diseases. What they
eat either aggravates this condition or
tends to correct 1t
Anybody can see the importance of
a proper diet, but human beings, un-
like the lower animals, lack the in
stinct that tells them what to eat and
what to avoid.
1t is a fact that proper diet and
good tonic will keep people well under
most conditions and restore them to
health except in acute diseases where
the need of a physician is imperative.
Start to-day by writing to the DR..
williams Medicine Co, Schenectady,
n. Y, for a copy of the diet book,
'What to Eat and How to Eat" 1t is
full of useful information and describes
the tonic treatment with DIR. Williams
Pink Pills for indigestion, nervous dys-
pepsia. for those conditions of fiatu-
lency or gas on the stomach, discom-
fort after eating. caused by lack of
tone in the digestive organs. DR.. Will
liams' Pink Pills supply the stomach
with we'll l-oXygenated blood without
which good digestion is impossible. Dr.
williams Pink Pills are a nonalcoholic
tonic and are free from poisons.
A short course of treatment with
these pills will show in an improved
appetite. better digestion, refreshing
sleep and quiet nerves. Your own
druggist sells DR. Williams Pink Pills.
Advertisement,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-08
REMARKABLE CURES
Thankful People Tell What San Cura
Ointment Did for Them

George A. Gorgas sells San Cura
Ointment on the money back plan
no relief-no pay. Guaranteed to re-
lieve eczema, letter salt rheum, itch
ing. bleed6g or protruding piles.
burns, cuts, bruises, old sores, pim-
pies, boils, carbuncles, chapped hands,
chilblains, testers, insect bites and
poison from ivy.
MY face and neck were one mass
of sores; doctor said L had eczema
and erysipelas. / had not slept for
weeks with burning. itching pain. The
first time ! used San Cura Ointment
slept all night and in short time
was completely cured."-Chas. Fay,
ToWnville, Pa.
My wife stepped on a rusty nail
/ and ran it into her foot San Cura
Ointment drew out poisonous brown
pus and cured her promptly" y"-Eu-
gene Mckenzie. Plum. Pa.
81 had been afflicted over thirty
years with piles and spent over $500
for pile medicine Two Jars of San
Cura Ointment cured me. james
Lynch, Enterprise, pa.
San Cura Ointment costs IS and so
cents n jar at George A. Gorgas' and
is splendid remedy for burns. 3ealds,
cuts and es.--Advertisemenr.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-08
NEW CAMP ORGANIZED
Special to Tie TeIcgrdkh

Dilsburg, Pa, March S.-A camp
of Patriotic Order of Americans which
is a ladies' auxiliary of the Patriotic
Order of Sons of America, was or
ganized in Dillsburg and the fol-
lowing officers elected on Friday night:
Past president, Mrs. Lizzie Bentz;
president, Mrs. William Flicker; vice.
president, Miss Clara Arntsberger; as
sistant vice president, Mrs. ]. E. Tay-
lor; conductor, Mrs. Peter Spath; as
sistant conductor, Miss Susan Beatty;
recording secretary, Mrs. J.. l.. BentZ;
assistant recording secretary, Miss
Jennie Harlan; financial secretary,
Mrs. j. s. Kapp; treasurer, Mrs o. NJ.
Bushman; chaplain, Mrs. Adam Mil
ler; guard, Miss Trean Beatty; senti-
mel, Miss Lizzie Harlan; trustees, MRS.
Adam Miller, Mrs. William Flicker
and Miss Rennie Stouffer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-08
PERRY LICENSE HEARINGS
Court Considering Cases Where Re-
monstrances and Changes Are
Made
9ffeldI 10 Tic TclegraPh


Marysville. Pa, March S-Perry
County License Court convened to-day
to hear charges and remonstrances
presented last Tuesday against appli-
cants for liquor licenses in Perry coun-
ty.
To-day's session was taken up with
charges against d. c. Nary. of Elliotts-
burg. Tuesday the remonstrances and
specific charges against Mcclellan Cox,
of Blain. and NJ. III. Atkinson, of New
Bloomfield will be heard.
Wednesday mornings sessions will
be devoted to hearing the cases against
II. B. Rhinesmith. New Bloomfield; !;
Milton w. Derrick and Charles O.
Mayne. Duncannon; Charles O. Mitch
ell and Blanton f. Blattenberger, Liv-
erpool Albert Zaepfel and George w.
Rhoads, Marysville; Robert w. Hopple
and p. X. Shenk Millerstown. and
James Strauss and Robert b. Nixon,
Newport. Thursday afternoons ses-
sion will be devoted TO the case of
Theopolius II. Butturf, of Oliver town
ship, near Newport, Perry County's
only bother.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-08
WEST SHORE NEWS |
LOAN Of $4,000 FOR
BOROUGH BUILDING
Marysville Council Passes Resolu-
ton Authorizing Erection of
Municipal Home

Marysville, Pa, March S.-At the
regular meeting of the town council,
a resolution was passed authorizing n
loan of $5,S00 for the erection of a
borough building. The committee ap-
pointed to secure plans and estimate
the cost of the building reported that
bonds to the amount of $3,SOO at the
rate of 4 "a per cent. would be neces-
sary. The resolution passed on five
Ayes" against one Nay
The application of w. II. Sponsler,
OF New Bloomfield. for permission, for
the Perry County Telegraph and Tele-
phone Company to place poles and
string wires in the borough for the
extension of their lines, was defeated
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-08
HIS EXCESS WEIGHT GONE
Prominent 1dahG Physician SayG lie
Reduced % Pounds in 3 Months

Salmon, Idaho, Feb. 2Sth.-Dr. w.
c. Whitwell of this city, former can
didate for Governor of this State, has
let II become known that his remark
able experience in reducing % pounds
IN three months was due neither TO
dieting, medicine nor exercise. He SAYS
that simple, invisible device, weigh
ing less than an ounce, did it. This,
when worn as directed, acts as an eff
fective flesh Feducer and many promi-
nent men and women have adopted
this easy meansf of reducing superflu-
Gus ilesh, and IL is stated the inventor,
\. .. Burns, of No. IA West Thirty
seventh ST., New York, is sending
these outfits on free trial to all who
write him.-AdYertiseme
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-08
For Agonizing Corns
You Can't Beat It

Certainly not. "Putnam's" has 'em
all beat q mile. It's a marvel on corns
and foot Jumps, acts like magic. Why
for nearly fifty years Putnam's Ex-
tractor has been the standard remedy.
the dependable one, the sure kind that
never disappoints.
It's painless too. Think of it.! Paint
1t on tonight, in the morning the
pain is all gone.
Small wonder the sale Of Putnam's
Corn Extractor is so large, 25c at
dealers everywhere and at G. M. For
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-08
Special to The Telegraph

Lewistown, Pa, March 6.-At the in
stance of the Snyder County Historical
Society, Representative Sampsel and
State Senator w. c. Connell are maxi
ing efforts to procure an appropriation
from the State for the purpose of re-
storing historic Fort Hendricks to its
former condition. The ancient fort is
a stoutly-built log structure, located in
the center of a wide meadow and was
one of the outposts in colonial days.
A bloody massacre of whites took place
about this fort in the days when the
redskins were on the warpath. An
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-08
ENTERTAINED AT TEA
Special to The Telegraph

Halifax, Pa, March S.-Mrs. Claude
G. Ryan and Miss Miriam Ryan serE-
ed tea on Saturday afternoon from
230 to 8. These guests were present:
Mrs. Isaac Gilbert, Mrs. l.. w. Ryan
Mrs. j. S. Gemberling, Mrs. G. r.
Shope, Mrs. c. NJ. Richter, Mrs. {. g..
Baker, Misses Esther Brubaker. Yer
lie High, Charlotte Heisler, Carrie and
Virginia Shoop, Marie Smith, Mile
Onenbach, Anna PrenZel, Florenct
and Helen Matter, Helen and Marial,
Loudermilk, Mae Clemson, Pear
Kline, Esther Zimmerman, Anna Bel
Gemberling and Miss Adelaide Wood
side, of Millersburg.