The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1915-07-13

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| SEWARD, July 6.-The Cordova
Baseball team played two games of
ball with the Seward aggregation and
lost both games. The first game was
played on the evening of the Fourth
and resulted in a score of 10 to in
favor of the home team. The Cor
dova outfit showed up well in the field
but the Seward nine outplayed them
in the other departments of the game.
The second game was played yes
terday and the Cordova team showed
big improvement over their previous
days play. Cordova lost to the tune
of to 4. The game was well played
by both teams, but the Seward aggre-
CATION showed a better organiza-
ton and superior team work. The
individual work of some of the Cor
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dova players was high class.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 7.-William
Jennings Bryan, who came here to
make a Fourth of July address on the
subject of Peace, has declined to ad-
dress mass meeting Of the American
Independent Union. The Union is an
association composed of American
citizens of Irish and German descent
and birth, whose announced object is
to influence the government to place
an embargo on the expectation of
munitions of war to Great Britain.
The secretary pleaded other engage
ments for his inability to address the
i meeting.
| PITTSBURG, July Mammoth
orders for war material and equip
ment for Russia will be placed here.
Included will be 1000 box cars and
33 locomotives. Much of these ship
ments will be handled via Seattle for
direct movement to Vladivostok, that
route having been used almost ex-
clusively for the alst three months
with complete success.
NEW YORK, July 6.-Jack Coombs,
the famous pitcher of the Philadelphia
American League baseball team, when
that club was in its prime, and who is
now playing with the Brooklyn
Nationals, tainted in the box today,
while warming up preparatory to
pitching a game against the Braves
His team mates rushed to his side
and carried him off the field. 1t is
felt that the fainting is an after
math of the accident that Coombs re-
ceived when struck in the head dur
| ing a world series game between the
Athletics and the New York Giants
two years ago.
NEW YORK, July 6.-Charles A..
Conant, a noted New York banker,
who has been in Havana for some
time as financial expert for the Cuban
government died in Havana today
Conant had almost completed the re-
organization of the fiscal system of
the Cuban government, and his loss
will be regretted sincerely by the Off
Gals of that government who had
great respect and admiration for him.
WASHINGTON, D. c., July THE
salaries of several postmasters in
Alaska have been raised 800 per
annum commencing July 1. The for
tunate offices are those at Cordova,
Douglas, Juneau, Nome, Ketchikan
and Seward. The reason for the raise
of salary is due to the large increase
of business done by the offices af-
LCStCu. rdll Ddhho anu lulldIOu nave
been decreased 800 owing to the fact
that the postal receipts in these two
interior cities have shown a heavy
falling off.
Ell PASO, July 7.-Huerta is still
confined in the county Jail here and
is making no effort OF secure his re-
lease on BAIL The Mexican is recon-
ciled to his lot, and he said today that
lit would avail him nothing to get
bondsmen, as he was certain the
United States would prefer other
charges against him in the event of
his release, and re-arrest him. The
determination of the authorities to
prevent his adding to the disorder in