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The Cordova daily times., 1916-02-15
ARMED VESSELS BE ATTACKED
 BY GERMANY

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. -, Much
 interest is being felt as to what at titude the government will take to- ward the Teuton announcement that after March 1 all of the allied armed merchantmen will be subject to sub marine attack without warning. The well defined rule of international law has been heretofore that merchantmen did not lose their character as such through bearing arms, but the pecu- liar rules necessary for the operation of submarines in warfare make it almost essential that the rule be modi- fled somewhat to meet the new con ditions which have arisen with the development of under sea fighting. It is probable that the United States will not clearly define it's attitude at this time, but will await future devel- opments and study of the operations of the submersibles before definitely announcing it's policy. Whether any action will be taken by this govern ment in protest of the German an- nounced policy will not be decided until some vessel has been attacked,
The Cordova daily times., 1916-02-15
BRITISH CRUISER STRUCK MINE;
 1O KILLED

LONDON, Feb. 14. - The admiralty announced officially today that the British cruiser Arethusia had struck a floating mine off the east coast of England It is feared that the vessel will be a total wreck. Details are lacking, but it has been learned that the ship was beached after the acci- dent. and that she is terribly torn apart from the shock of the explosion. Of the crew of marines but ten lost their lives. these being killed when the ship struck the mine. The Arethusia is the ship which torpedoed and sank the German cruiser Butcher in the battle of Heligoland in August, 1914. The ship is one of the newest of the battle cruisers of the English navy, having been built in 1913.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-02-15
SECRETAR WAR LIKELY TO BE
 CIVILIAN

WASHINGTON, Feb. IA -- Presi- dent Wilson held several conferences today with leading members of both Houses of Congress as in regard to the successor of Garrison as secretary of war. It is more than likely that Wilson will not select an army man for the place, but that the portfolios of war will be rendered to a civilian. If this report is true it means that Colonel Goethals. of Panama canal fame, has been eliminated for Consid- eration. Several strong friends of the President have been urging him to give the appointment to the builder of the canal. and it is openly rumored that Wilson had strong tendencies in that direction.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-02-15
BOSTON AUTHOR BOYS STORIES
 PASSES AWAY

BOSTON, Feb. II. - John Town send Trowbridge, the noted author of boys stories, died in this city today. Mir. Trowbridge was one of the last survivors of the group of authors who made Boston famous in the first three decades of the last half of the nine teenth century. Although his chief success came from the writing of books for boys. he also published sev- eral novels and volumes of poetry. The deceased was born in Ogden, New York in 1927
 Perhaps the best known of Trow- bridges verse is the humorous poem, Darius Green and His Flying Ma chine" written in 1870. When forty years later he first saw an aeroplane in action, he remarked: "I never dreamed when wrote that poem that such a thing as a flying machine was even a possibility in my lifetime" Among his books for boys the most popular were "Cudjo's Cave" and The Three Scouts"
The Cordova daily times., 1916-02-15
WEALTHY DOCTOR IF SEATTLE
 E DEAD

SEATTLE. F-., '''. IuIts Ii. Smith, millionaire land owner of this city. died suddenly today. Smith was sixty-nine years old and was pos sessed of some of the most valuable real estate In the city. owning several buildings in the down town section. besides considerable suburban prop erty. His death comes as a complete surprise to his many friends, as he had been actively looking after his affairs to the last
The Cordova daily times., 1916-02-15
FASTENER DIES ADVANCED ACE
 IN SEATTLE

SEATTLE, Feb. 14. - c. Henry Whitcomb, a millionaire manufacturer of Worcester, Massachusetts. died in this city today at the age of seventy three. Of late years Whitcomb had made his home in Seattle, although his fortune had been accumulated in the east. He had invested largely in Seattle real estate and was a heavy tax payer on realty.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-02-15

WASHINGTON, Feb. A. - The be- lief is growing among the knowing ones in this city that President Will son will select his secretary of war outside of the present cabinet Sec retaries Lane and Houston have been but now they have been practically eliminated, as the President is said to feel that both of these men should be left to finish the large projects al ready commenced by them in their several departments.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-02-15
AUSTRIAN FLEET OF AEROPLANES
 DOES DAMAGE

MILAN, Feb. IA. - This city was visited by flotilla of Austrian aero planes last night, which flew at a great height and dropped bombs at several places throughout the city. Six persons were killed and several others injured as a result of the bombs. The airships got away undamaged. all though the anti-aircraft guns tried to get their range, and powerful search lights played in the heavens in vain effort to locate the enemy
The Cordova daily times., 1916-02-15
FRENCH CRUISER AND CREW ARE
 LOST

PARIS, Feb. IA. - The French ad. miralty announced officially today that the French cruiser Admiral Char ner had been torpedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine off the coast of Syria A raft bearing fourteen dead French sailors and one live man was picked up by another French warship close to the Syrian coast, and the story of the sinking learned. It is feared that the entire crew of the cruiser have been lost
The Cordova daily times., 1916-02-15
BENEFIT DANCE AT EAGLE HALL
 THURSDAY EVENING.

On Thursday evening there will be a dance given at Eagle Hall, as a benefit for our former townsman, Chas. II. Turner. who is still quite ill but has hopes of again regaining his former health. The affair is in charge of a number of local friends, and there will undoubtedly be large attendance at the dance.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-02-15
ENGLAND CALLS SINGLE MEN
 TO ARMS

LONDON. Feb. IA. - A royal pro clamation was posted today, calling to the colors all the single men in Eng land and Scotland, who had enrolled themselves under the enlistment plan so successfully carried out by Lord Derby, and all unmarried men who were subject to call under the Mill tary Service Act, passed by parlia- ment. This practically brings into the army all the unmarried men in the country who are of military age.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-02-15

Art Holt and wife came down from Chitina on yesterdays train. and will make Cordova their future home. Art will be in charge of the switch engine in the railroad yards.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-02-15
NO WORD RECEIVED FROM THE
 STEAMERS ON WAY.

The steamers Admiral Farragut and Alameda, which left Seattle last We'd nesday and Thursday nights, respec- lively, have not as yet been reported out of Juneau. although both vessels are due here sometime tomorrow.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-02-15
LOSES A VALUABLE DIAMOND.

Yesterday afternoon, while Ed Ketera was playing with a dog in front of the Alaska Transfer Com pany's office, he lost diamond setting from a ring. He soon discovered that the stone was missing. and a diligent search instituted, but to no avail.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-02-15
INCREASE CoRDoVA'S
 POPULATION.

Charles Cochran, who is employed at the Cordoya Power COmpany's plant, was the recipient of congratu- lations yesterday, upon the arrival of an eleven pound boy at his home. Dr. Chase reports that mother and son are doing nicely.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-02-15

Fuller's barber shop is located at Alaskan Hotel. Drop in.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-02-15

Everybody has the Empress habit.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-09
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Ex-Governor John X. Tener has
been spending a few days in western
Pennsylvania.
Andrew Carnegie telegraphed
from New York to Pittsburgh friends
his regrets upon the death of 10. M.
Bigelow, who was one of his Oldest
friends.
Col. Thomas S. Crago, who Sc
cured the highest vote for Congress
at large, lives in Waynesburg and
used to be in the Tenth regiment.
&C. L. Steel, Jr., elected president
of the intercollegiate Oratorical
Union, is a student at Muhlenberg coll
1ege and q Phi1adelphian.
Judge Moser. of Northumberland,
has received a letter from General
Clement thanking the people of
Northumberland county for their gifts
to the Guardsmen on the border.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-09
SATURDAY EVENING, DEC. 0.
Be strong and toork, for I am toith
you, saith the Lord of hosts.
-IIAGeAI ga.
THE CHRISTMAS CANDLE

HoW strongly the Christmas candle
idea, first advocated for Harris
burg by the Telegraph year
ago, has taken hold is illustrated in
the announcement on another page
to-day by the pastor of Messiah Auth-
eran Church of the extensive and
charming use he means to make of
candles in his service on Christmas
eve. On the altar will burn two very
large candles and all through the
church candles will be burned in
stead of electric lights during the
reading of the Christmas story and
singing of old-time Christmas hymns
and carols.
There is no artificial light more
beautiful than the soft, wavering glow
of the candle. 1t lends itself most
charmingly to the festivities of yule-
tide, whether in the home or In church,
and it is pleasing to note how extern
sively it is coming into it's own again
in connection with Christmas cele-
brations. after having been lost so
many years.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-09
OLD RED, ROARING DAYS IN
ALASKA ARE GONE FOREVER
By BRIGGS

But some thoughtful observers who
have paid a little attention to Alaska
saw the change coming years ago.
Even before they held q worlds
fair at Seattle, in 1909, to celebrate
the discovery of gold on the Klondike
ten years before, the frontier days
of Alaska were coming to an end. Big
Business had discovered Alaska. Rail-
roads were being built, and more have
followed. Huge gold dredges began
to work the Nome sands. Vast for
tunes in copper were discovered, but
copper is not mined with sluice box
that a man can knock together on
the spot, and the development of these
new riches brought armies of laboring
men and costly machinery. Powerful
companies took over the great fisher
les.
Towns and cities grew up and or
ganiZed chambers of commerce, and
the Tanana Valley got into friendly
rivalry with the southeastern section
over the size of the rutabagas and
cabbages that could be produced
from the fields. Why, federal school
teachers say, even out on the lonely
Domedes and on the snowy deserts
above the Arctic Circle the traveller
will find the simple Eskimos and In
dians cranking up their Victrolas on
q winters night.
Fairbanks, Circle or Nome they are
reading the same world news today
that we read in Kansas City.
Yep, some years ago Alaska shed
his mackinaw and mukluks for bus
mess sack coat and the latest model
shoes. In place of. the chamois poke
out of which he used to shake gold
dust, he bought a dime savings bank,
He will no longer greet you in that
quaint dialect beloved of the Rex
Beach-Jack London school, but he's
very apt to bore you to death with
statistics on temperatures and rain
fall and the possibilities of four crops
of alfalfa off Tananae Valley land. HIS
pockets are filled with booster 1itera-
ture instead of nuggets.
But still we couldn't quite believe
the old days-the real days. the roar
ing days-were gone until we saw
that white ribbon pinned to his lapel
And just q few years ago we be-
lieved with the poet:
There's never law of God or man
h Runs north of So.
Funny, isn't it?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-09
Continued From Yesterday

Alaska voted dry! Alaska, the
place where, according to popular be-
lief, ably seconded by the movies
all men had hair on their chest and
gulped their "hootch" neat, paying for
it with fistfuls, of gold dust; Alaska,
where business consisted of finding
new Klondikes and pleasure meant
squandering their wealth in q night;
of all places Alaska turned against
the Demon Rum, sicking the male
mutes onto John Barleycorn and
chasing him off the lot! Shades of
Soapy Smith and saltwater Bill!
Why, don't you remember this? If
you don't, you have read something
like it:
"It was quiet night at the Tivoli.
At the bar, which ranged along one
side of the large chinked log room.
leaned half a dozen men, two of
whom were discussing the relative
merits of spruce tea and lime juice,
as remedies for scurvy.
Come up, you all, and drink. Come
up. you unburied dead, an name your
poison. Come up, everybody. This is
my night and I'm going to ride it.
Tomorrow I'm 80 and then I'll be an
old man. Surge along, you
all, surge along and name it. This
is my night, and it amt night that
comes frequent. Surge up, you ST.
washes and salmon eateers.
I'm the NANCY old he-wolf. Listen to
me howl"
There Was Money in It.
Fortunes have been made selling
that line of talk to magazine editors
All of us who love action stories, and
most all of us do, have believed fol
years that such as that was Alaska.
And after we had all been carefully
educated to believe in that, Alaska
pins on white ribbon, takes the
pledge and restocks all the Tivolis and
Nuggets and Klondike bars with grape
juice and chocolate ice cream sodas!
We know this will be a shock to
many believers in the Wild West. II
must have been q shock to them
when the famous Barbary Coast oil
San Francisco reformed and when
Seattle converted the points on Wash
ington and King streets, where Skoo-
kun Jim and saltwater and many
other new made millionaire gloried
and drank deep, into pool parlors and
soft drink saloons.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-09
Peace Hymn of the Republic

[From "The Grand Canyon" b,
Henry van Dyke. Charles Scribner'.
Sons.
o Lord, our God. thy mighty hand
Hath made our Country free,
In all her broad and happy land
May worship rise to thee
Fulfill the promise of her youth,
Her liberty defend.
By law and order, love and truth
America befriend.
oh, suffer not her feet to stray,
But guide her untaught might,
That she may walk in peaceful day
And lead the world in light.
Bring down the proud, lift up thu
poor
Unequal ways amend.
BY justice, nation wide and sure,
America befriend.
To all the waiting land proclaim
Thy gospel of goodwill.
May friendliness and helpfulness
In every bosom thrill.
Ger hill and vale from sea 10 sea
Thy holy reign extend,
BY faith and hope and charity
America befriend.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-09
HOME RULE

TINE annual convention of city
managers at Springfield, Mass.
developed some interesting in
formation concerning the government
of cities along small council manager
ial lines.
For example, it was pointed out
that, restricted by State law to a low
rate of city taxation, Dayton, o., under
the manager plan, is meeting all cur
rent expenses from it's current reve-
nue., while all the other large cities
of the State have been forced to antici-
pate their revenues to get money to
pay their bills.
AS compared with Daytons record
under the council-manager plan. il
was shown, Cleveland has had to an
tictpate its revenues to the extent OF
$1,250,000; Cincinnati, 500, 900. and
Toledo, $50O,000.
Those figures represent the actual
present Indebtedness which those
cities have had to incur to meet regu.
lar operating expenses. The contrast
with Dayton is heightened by the fact
that undisputed figures show that
the city manager gave Dayton citizens
a total extra service of $4,000 the
first year without recourse to bonds
Springfield, and Sandusy, the
two next largest Ohio cities now
under the commissioner rule
both are operating within their In.
comes.
Tho municipal officials and ranra.
sentatives of civic organizations at the
convention. discussed at length and ir
detail the actual results of the variou.
methods OF city government, with th,
virtually unanimous conclusion tha
the ninety-two cities in the United
States now under the commission
manager plan are administered NOR,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-09
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
MIR. MCFARLAND QUOTES LAW
70 the Editor of the Telegraph:

To the Editor of the Telegraph;
Your correspondent who hides
under the title of "One of the Laugh
ers" is certainly supplying me with
some amusement. It would not be
out of point to ask him to re-read
my quotation from the act of March
10, 1903, and particularly note the
words printed In capitals. 1 will
quote the whole of the section so
that your humorous friend may have
no room for failing to see the point
of the act:
Be it enacted. ETC., That no per-
son shall paste, paint, brand or
stamp. or in any manner whatso-
ever place upon or attach to any
building, fence, bridge, gate. out
grounds of any charitable. educa-
| tional or penal institutions of the
| State of Pennsylvania. or upon
any property belonging to the
State Of PennsylyanIa, or TO ANY
OR CRY TaEREiN, any % Written,
printed. painted or other adver-
tisement, BILL notice, sign or pos
| ter.
1t is quite true that in the act there
is no reference to overhanging signs.
1t is just as true, and distinctly more
important, that the act does specific
ally prohibit the placing of any sort
of sign upon property belonging to
the State, "or to any county. town
ship. borough or city therein" The
streets of Harrisburg are the property
Fof the city, though eonstructively for
the benefit of The citizens of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The
highways of the State are not private
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-09

property. am only anxious to pro-
tect against intrusion the property of
all. If Mr.. "Laugher" can find any
way to put an overhanging street
sign, such as have been criticised in
Harrisburg recently, without interfer-
ing with property which falls within
the prohibition of this act, then 1
will agree with him that lit is to
laugh"
There is q proviso in the act of
March 10, 1908, which specifically
removes any difficulty in respect to
'the posting of any notice required
by law or order of court to be post
ed" and otherwise takes care of the
legal directions for the benefit of all
which of course it is proper to put
upon the streets Your laughing
friend, however, is endeavoring to
make the impression, for what pur-
pose | know not, that it is legal to
use the streets for private benefit.
Indeed, some of his friends. as 1 pre-
sumo they must be, have intruded in
the streets of Harrisburg with per-
manent structures or interferences,
and it only requires q clear test, not
only of the act of March 10, 1903,
but of the common law with respect
to the ownership of the street, to
show that in this city, as elsewhere,
no private citizen or corporation has
any right whatever to use for private
benefit the street surface between one
| lot line and the other lot line, save
only when such use is in the nature
of public service, and in that case
under public supervision.
| There are literally thousands of
illegal distractions upon the public
streets in Harrisburg to-day. Some
time all of them will be removed be-
cause the people will need the streets.
In Chicago, for instance, all the pro-
| jecting overhead signs on State street
have been moved back against the
premises to which they appertaiIi, to
the vast benefit of the street. and
providing at the same time a fair
and square chance to all of those con-
cerned.
L am not In any doubt as to the
intent of the act of March 10, 1908.
The man who wrote 1t and put 1t
through the Legislature as q repre-
sentative from Philadelphia, has
himself informed me repeatedly of
what he had In mind.
If your friend will come out from
behind his alias. shall be delighted
to send him any number of citations
or authorities to prove the accuracy
of my position.
| Yours truly,
| ]. HORACE M'FARLAND.
| December s, 1916.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-09
LLOYD GEORGE
DOLITICS. we are told, makes
! strange bedfellows, and the

nOLITICS, We are told. makes
strange bedfellows, and the
same may be said of war. Who,
for example. five years ago could have
imagined David Lloyd George kissing
the Kings hand as premier of Eng
land, while a host of lords and lord
1ings stood about with smiles of self
congratulation over his selection as
head of the government. There is
just one answer to this change of face.
If not of heart, on the part of English
aristocracy toward the former labor
agitator and trouble-maker chief. 1t
is-efficiency. England has discovered
that she cannot afford to "muddle
along;" she must have action backed
by brains and we'll directed energy.
Drowning men grasp at buoys and
care not who throws them. England
is in sore distress and Lloyd George
is suspected of having life preserver
concealed about him. So dukes and
earls, landed gentry and capitalists
have swallowed the dose, if not grace
fully at least thankfully. and Lloyd
George has accepted the trust-if in
deed he was not the author of his
own advancement. And it will go ill
with the new premier if he does not
Immediately make good in the con-
duct of the war. His enemies have
not been converted. They are merely
silenced and, like hungry wolves, are
lurking just outside the radius of the
limelight of popularity in the center
of which Lloyd George at the moment
finds himself.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-09
EDITORIAL COMMENT

Let us hope that in Congress the fe-
male of the species will be more effec-
tive than the male.-Atlanta Journal
o. 1t is believed that a good many Re-
publicans could be arrested for what
they think about Ohio, Kansas and Cali
fornia.-Kansas City Star.
The Deutschland may be able to run
the British blockade with a $4,000 600
cargo, but think how 800 pounds of
United States mail will stimulate the
curiosity of the British patrols!-In-
dianapolis News.
I suggest that somebody send the
story of "Evangeline' to those Britons
who are protesting so Indignantly over
the deportation of Belgians.-New York
Morning Telegraph.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-09

Smith. of Philadelphia, back in the
eighties. The Mayor would just as
soon not be discovered in the present
situation over the speakership.
Two hundred members of the Cen
trail Democratic Club will go to Wash
ington again. The members of the
club have been making big prepar-
ations and they have to q certain ex-
tent detracted from the three-cor-
nered fight over the presidency of the
club.
When the Democratic expense ac-
counts are glanced over it must be
painfully apparent to some federal
ofticeholders and postmasters that
holding office under Democrats Is not
as easy as it was thought. In years
gone by it was the favorite amusement
of Democratic editors and speakers
to yell about the way Republican
officeholders were assessed" What
was done to the Democratic postmas-
tiers and others in the federal service
was worse, if what is on file at the
Capitol is anything to go by. The i'm.
| portance attached to the State con-
vention of postmasters last summer
by the Democratic State bosses is now
plainly seen. Between the nationa
and State committees it was q lucky
| postmaster who got away.
Judge Joseph Rogers and Assist.
ant District Attorney William Findlay
Brown, of Philadelphia, have gone or
their annual hunt to North Carolina.
E. J. Eattell, the Philadelphia city
statistician, who celebrated his six,
tieth birthday few days ago, has
spoken at 5000 banquets in twelve
| years.
President E. e. Sparks, of State
! College, speaker at the Sons of Della
ware dinner, declared that the country
needed to speed up it's Americanisn
and to educate the foreigner.
General w. G. Price, who may bt
the next commander of the Pennsyl
vania Guardsmen, thinks that the reg
ular army is having as much troubl,
as the militia in getting men.