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The Cordova daily times., 1916-12-20
IcICLES IN TUNNEL
 HOLD UP SEWARD TRAIN

A train on the government railroad at Mile 52 out from Seward, stopped while the crew went ahead to chop some huge icicles out of one of the tunnels. When the ice was cleared away 1t was found the locomotive had frozen to the tracks and could not be moved. 4 man was sent back to the nearest section crew for reinforce ments and after an hour or two of hard work the engine was freed
The Cordova daily times., 1916-12-20
DIRECT FROM THE TRENCHES,

Captain F. F. kleinschmidt, son-in- law of Rev. s. Hall Young, former pas tor of the Cordova Presbyterian church, has broken into the film busi ness, where his pictures are making decided hit, as we'll as netting him a big sum of money. Kleinschmidt was an Arctic explorer, big game hunt CT and head of the Carnegie museum expeditions in Alaska and Siberia and has just passed two years with the Austro-German forces on three fronts. IS an American war correspondent During this time he made more than 10000 feet of moving pictures, DOT traying every phase Of the European conflict, and this film is now being shown in the states.
 kleinsChmidt was at the vanguard of the armies that made the terrific drive against Russia last summer from the Carpathian mountains across Poland into Russia from Tarnow over Przemsyl, Lemberg, Warsaw. to Brest-Litoysk, up the line where the lrmies are standing now. Then he participated in the campaign in the Balkans against Serbia, and finally went to the Italian front to witness there the great fourth Tsonzo battle and sea fights in the Mediterranean. He carries a collection of more than 100000 feet of motion pictures of the war, portraying every phase of mill tary activity.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-12-20
HAWAII WANTS ID ELECT |TS OWN
 GOVERNOR

HONOLULU. Dec. 19. - A bill seek, ing to give the voters of Hawaii the right to elect the governor of the ter ritory will be introduced in congress at the coming short session by Dele gate Kalanianaole, according to a statement issued by him.
 Under the present laws, the goyer- 2or is appointed by the president, and the people of the territory have no thing to say as to who their chief ex- eeutive may be.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-12-20

examination the latter was found to have suffered no injuries and was i'm mediately discharged. Johnson had one of his ribs crushed and his head cut, but his wounds are not serious. It is said that both men had been drinking and paid no attention to the approaching engine
The Cordova daily times., 1916-12-20
EXPORTS THROUGH ALASKA.

The value Of :he trade with siber. ian and northern Arctic ports. beyond the boundary line Is impressively dis played in the records of the customs house. showing that whalebone, furs and ivory valued at approximately S240,oo0 will have passed through Nome to the outside by the close of the season.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-12-20
MANY V|LL|STAS ARE KILLED
 IN BATTLE

JUAREZ, Dec. 2O.-A member of the home guards reports that Ban. delio Uribe, follower of Villa and the originator of the custom of cut ting off the ears of Carranza prison. CTS, was captured and executed, with seventeen followers by the home guards, after a battle southwest of Chihuahua City, during which many Nillistas were killed.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-12-20
STOOD SIDE BY EACH"

E. w. Griffin, the Cinema merchant, who is one of the leading Democrats in the interior. and is being mentioned as candidate to succeed Governor Strong, evidently has friend in the White House, judging from the fol. lowing letter he received recently from President Wilson:
 Your kind message of congratula, ton gave me peculiar pleasure because 1t came from one who has served at my side in the effort to keep the government in the hands of the people"
The Cordova daily times., 1916-12-20
ALASKANS WHO ARE IN THE
 L|MEL|GHT

Captain Gilbert T. Rude, formerly in command of the geodetic survey steamer Taku, with headquarters at COrdova, but who is now captain of the steamer Isis. of the same ser vice in Virginia. has been granted a license as master of steam vessels. unlimited tonnage, for oceans, by the United States inspectors, Norfolk, Va.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-12-20
LUTHER BURBANK WILL
 WE'D HIS SECRETARY

SANTA ROSA, Cal, Dec. 20. - Lu- ther Burbank. the famous plant breed. CT, has had visit from Cupid, and although 67 years old. he will lead q bride to the altar tomorrow. when he marries Miss Elizabeth Waters, his secretary.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-12-20
NATIONAL GUARD NUT PROPERLY
 TRAINED

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. - Major General Scott, chief of the general staff of the army, told the senate milf tary committee that the national guard force mobiIized on the Mexican border would have required nearly a year of intensive training to prepare it to meet trained troops. He further stated that fortunately the Mexicans are untrained soldiers.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-12-20
NOME MINER INJURED,

Monte Blair, we'll known Nome mining man, was a victim Of a seri- ous accident recently when he fell from the roof of the boiler house on the Three Star claim. breaking an arm and dislocating a shoulder. He was taken to Nome for treatment.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-12-20
DEATH OF AL SULLIVAN
 AT SEATTLE CONFIRMED.

SEATTLE, Dec. 19. - Albert F. Sullivan, deputy United States mar shal at Valdez. died at the hospital here. He was operated on by pr. Whiting for appendicitis on Decem- Der il. Deceased was 36 years Of age. and an old-time resident of Alaska.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-12-20
WITHOUT PREPARATION PEACE IS SAYS ENCL AND

people are heard to say that it seems to take longer than ever before. Such is not the case, but in former years the elections were so one-sided that no one ever cared whether the smaller precincts would get in"
The Cordova daily times., 1916-12-20
NAVIGATING OFFICER OF
 FLAGSHIP OLYMPIA DEAD

BERKELEY. Cal, Dec. 20. - Cap tain Carlos c. Calkins. navigating of ficer Of the Dewey flagship. Olympia, at the battle in Manila bay, died here today He was 66 years of age.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-12-20
kNtH HOTEL IS soLp.

Mrs, McMayhill has purchased the Pioneel hotel at knik from Frazer & Davis. This hostelry was formerly owned and operated by Frank Cannon. who was recently elected to the Alas ka legislature.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-12-20
HIGH RATES GOVT. RAILROAD.

A new tariff schedule recently Is. sued by the Alaska engineering com. mission at Seward. show that freight rates from Seward to Kern creek cary from IS to ss cents per 100 pounds {; from Seward to Mile 25, 10 cents to 50 cents per 100 pounds These are rates on carload lots.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-12-20
MARIPOSA IN MORNING.

The steamer Mariposa is due from Seattle tomorrow morn ing at 10 o'clock, with a num- Der of passengers for Cordoya.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-12-20
WILL START WORK IN APRIL.

Thomas Riggs, Jr.. of the Alaska engineering commission at Fairbanks, asserts that fully 2.OO0 men will be employed by the commission on the Fairbanks end of the government road next season. He expects the work to commence early in April.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-12-20
TEXAS SOLID FOR WILSON.

AUSTIN. Dec. 20. - According to the official count Wilson carried Texas by a plurality of 221, ,O00.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-12-20

Cordova Aeriei Fraternal Order of Eagles, will hold its annual election of officers tonight.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-12-20

LONDON, Dec 20.-Loyd Georges reply to the German peace offer meets with chorus from British press The general comment is to the effect that if Germany really wishes peace she will state the terms which form basis discus son when the joint reply of the allies has been
 The task has been allotted Arthur Chamberlain as director general of the national service of scheduling certain industries indispensable and supplying them with the necessary labor and at the same time putting the dspensabe industries final allowances of labor material This one man power is stupendous but Chambeans great experience in business will probably him through He will have military direc tor to conduct the recruiting for the army and civil director Tn charge of the recruiting for the industrial work
 Of group of German prisoners taken the British Sun day. only of them had heard anything German peace proposal from his country The lack of from any part of the German causes speculation as to whether the peace ovetues permitted reach the actually engaged on the fighting line.
 ROTTERDAM Dee, 2o.-Deputy Sclapero, of the Dutch parliament says that movement being considered by Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Swzerland The co-opera tOn of Holland is also desired.
 BERLIN, Dec 2o-The Germans make no effort to belit tie the French gains the Werd front declare that the results attained have effect Gennnanys situation The continued German advance Romana has strengthened the
 line and released larger number of troops for service where.
 LONDON, Dec 19-Loyd George has stated that the al lies have decided to recognize agents Venzeos regarding the mobilization of labor The premier said man would be taken into the if capable of rendering useful vice outside Arthur Chamberlain appointed director of the general national Asquith offered to place at the disposal Of the government whatever experience he possessed
 PETROGRAD, Dec 20.-The passage across the Russian frontier of thousands of Roumanans who abandoned their houses and property before the invasion of the Germans and Bugarans casts shadow of the refuge problem on Rus sia Refugees pouring into Odessa Keve other south ern Russian cities They destitute and helpless present a difficult problem.
 PETROGRAD, Dec 20.-It is officially announced that the Russians operating in the region of Bissa, Galcia broke through the barbd wire enangements before the ton advance posts and penetrated B0horod Czan and Stare southwest of Stnislau The Teutons fled in disorder nd man f +alya
The Cordova daily times., 1916-12-20

6osToNIANs WANT THEIR TEA"
 BOSTON. Dec. 20 - This city went wet by a vote of 53.OOO to 8O.OOO. Billy Sunday led the dry campaign.
The midland journal., 1916-05-05
ANTHRACITE MINERS
RAT|FY AGREEMENT
Tridistrict Board lndorses the
Settlement
COAL STRIKE IS AvERTED
After Conference Which Has Lasted
Several Weeks An Agreement Is
Reached Between Opera
tors and Miners.

New York.-The Tridistrict Board
OF Anthracite Miners at a meeting
here indorsed the agreement between
the miners and operators. The agree
ment was first opposed by the sub
committee, which have been in session,
and will in all probability avert a
strike. Details Of the settlement of the
anthracite coal controversy as a re-
suit of the negotiations which have
been going on for weeks between the
operators and the miners were made
public here by the operators.
The agreement will be retroactive to
April l, and will avert threatened
strike, which would throw some 176,OOO
employees into idleness,
The agreement contains no mention
OF the closed shop or of the check-off
system, which have been points Of dis
pute during the negotiations. Regard
ing the former, however, it was pointed
out the agreement win, when approved
by the convention, be signed by John
P. White, president of the United
Mineworkers of America and by other
officials of the union, and that this is
in effect recognition of the union, Civ
ing the miners the right to organize in
order to better their conditions. AS
for the check-off system, the operators
have contended all along that it would
be un-American and detrimental to
their interests to constitute themselves
as collecting agents for the union, and
this point the miners waived.
Settled Until 1920.
The agreement contains provision
that neither side shall initiate or en-
courage legislation which would in any
way affect the obligations of the new
contract or impair any of its provi-
sions which are to be continued until
May 20, 1920. u
Before leaving the city John p.
workers OF America, issued a state
ment in which he said the agreement
marks the greatest single advance
won by organized labor in this year Of
victories.
"The miners have given the country
striking demonstration" he said,
shat the just demands of wage-earn-
ers for improved wages and conditions
can be won without strife when the
men act together through strong and
responsible organization. Such an or
ganization the United Mineworkers' OF
America is now recognized as being by
this group of financial interests, which
only a few years ago treated it with
scant respect"
The midland journal., 1916-05-05
whose eyes hold the shadows Of unfor
sr0+fav, sine, ta

whose eyes hold the shadows Of unfor-
gotten SINS"
"Well?" said Glen.
Alan sighed. Between the lines OF
my words you must read for yourself
My smile is dead-I killed it long ago
Yours is alive-alive. You have kept
it pure, guarded its flame and you
shall hold it high like a beacon. You
are ready to give all and you have all
to give. ! have nothing but the empty
shell. I have kept nothing. / have
gained the whole world-and lost it.
The little strength left to the pinlons
of my soul could carry me up to clutch
your beacon and drag it down, but
Clem-dearest of all women--I love
you too much for that. You've got to
trust me. The things know that you
do not know shove the duty Of denial
on to my shoulders / could give you
an empty shell, but won't"
Alan had not looked at Glenn. He
had talked like one rehearsing a les
son. with his eyes far away in the gray
world. He dropped the bit Of bush,
and his hands, locked about his knees,
gripped each other till the knuckles
and fingers showed white against the
tan Of his thin wrists. When he
stopped speaking Glen turned curious
eyes upon him. ''Is that allT' she
asked.
Alan sprang up and faced her. "All?
ALP" he cried. isn't it enoughf''
Glen rose to her feet. In her uplift-
ed right hand she held her agate
headed riding whip. AIan's eyes fas-
tened on 1t as she meant them to do.
Then, with full, free swing, she flung
it from her. The whip. weighted by
the agate head, described long curve
through the air and plunged into the
brush far down the mountain side.
That" Clem cried, her eyes flashing
into his, 'for the beacon. kept 1t for
you. 1t was too good for you; you
would not take it. so there It goes" :"
Her lips trembled and she snapped her
fingers. SIT is not worth that to me-"
"Clem?' cried Alan. protesting.
Don't speak" said Glen; you have
said what you had to say. Now listen
to me. You are blind. Alan, or worse
than that, asleep. I'm not a thin
legged elf with skirts bobbing above
my knees any more. You can't make
me swallow my protests today with,
Glen. you mustn't this and you
mustn't that There's one thing you've
closed your eyes on long enough. I'm
a woman. Alan. bone, spirit and a
great deal Of fiesh. love you. and
you say you love me-"
Alan started forward, but Clem held
him OF with q gesture what 90 you
The midland journal., 1916-05-05
IS: 4;:@Ad!lSG
yND1HH1

When Glen and Alan reached home
long after the lunch hour they found
the Hill athrill with news. Alix had
for town. She had gone alone. That
could mean but one thing Gerry was
at last coming back.
1t was from Barbados that Gerry
had cabled. Ever since he had written
his short note to Alix. through long
doubling weeks at Piranhas and longer
days of questioning and hesitation on
board the slow freighter that was
bearing him home, Gerry had been
fighting himself. Only Lieber's sudden
death and his burial, to which Gerry
had ridden post-haste, had come in be-
tween as a solemn truce.
On the freighter he had had time
enough and to spare to think. he had
spent hours going over the same
ground time and time again. For days
he sat in his chair on the short bridge
deck, staring out to sea, making over
and over the circle of his life from the
time he had left home. He remem-
bered sitting thus on the way out. He
remembered the turmoil his mind had
been in and the apathy that had fol-
lowed, the long rest at Pernambuco.
the trip down the coast and up the
river, the glorious. misty morning at
Piranhas. Margarita. catastrophe,
awakening. What did that awakening
stand for? Again he thought, If he
could chooSe-Would he wish to he
back as he was before-as he was on
the way out? A voice within him said
mo"
The midland journal., 1916-05-05

The curb rein, that last refuge of a
poor horseman, hung loose and forgot
ten. Alan himself was dressed in
well-worn whipcord breeches. short
coat, soft hat. and close-fitting boots
adorned with rowelless spurs. Tor.
his health Red Hill had done wonders.
His body was trim, supple and as vi
brant as the young horse under It
But Alan's thoughts were far from
saddles and saddle gear as he walked
the restive animal down the dipping
slope of Long lane and with his riding
crop steadily discouraged the early
morning flies, intent on settling down
to the business of life on his mounts
arched neck and quivering quarters.
He was thinking of Glenn. Where could
he go to get away from Glen? Not
tomorrow, not sometime, but today.
Where could he go today? Once the
world had seemed to him fencelesS
pasture where it was good to wander.
where every undiscovered glade prom
ised fresh morsels to an unwearied
palate, but now in his mind the whole
world had shrunk to the proportions
of Red Hill. Where Glen was, there
was the whole world. Already he felt
the yearning with which his heart
must henceforth turn to its sole desire.
He crossed the valley, and, as his
horse breasted the opposing hill. he
thought he heard an echoing hoofbeat
behind him. He turned and with one
hand resting on the horses quarter
gazed back through the gray light, but
Long lane was yelled from view by
overhanging trees. AS he lifted his
hand, its impress, clearly defined as
an image, caught his eye. How strange!
He had ridden thousand times and
he had never noted such thing be-
fore. 1t was simple when reduced to
physical terms. The horse was warm
and moist, the hair cool and dry. His
hand pressed the hair down into the
moisture. But when he had reasoned
out the why and wherefore and tick
eted the phenomenon, the impress still
stared back at him. To his mood it
seemed an emblem of isolation, a thing
cut off, discarded, useless. With a
smile Of rebuke at his fancies he
touched the horse with his crop and
gave him his head. The horse sprang
forward, cleared the top OF the hill.
and the rhythmic clatter of his hoofs
as he dashed along the pebble-strewn
road seemed to cleave the still morning
In two.
The midland journal., 1916-05-05

clean and straight, married to a faith
less woman and laughs. Men see a
pure girl give her all to a cad, and
they say, It's always the rotters that
get the pick and they laugh too. But
down in the bottom of our hearts we
know that these things are things for
tears"
Yes, Alan" said Clem as he paused.
She was no longer imperious, only at
tentive, with chin in hands and elbows
on knees.
"You know me-" went on Alan, 'but
there are things about me that you do
not know things below you that you
have no understanding for, thank God.
l don't even know how to picture them
to you"
"Yes. Alan." said Glenn softly.
Alan picked bit Of huckleberry
bush and twisted it nervously in his
hands. "First Of all I've got to tell
you what / thought you knew, that
what there is Of me Is yours over and
over again, and then I've got to tell
you why you can't have it." A light
came into Clem's eyes, trembled, flick
cred, and then settled to steady
| fame.
you've seen people smile everyone
has smile Of Sorts" went on Alan.
.sDid you ever think that smile had
body and soul? To me 1t has. II
starts out in life like a virgin with a
body to keep pure and soul to guard
unstained. There are smiles that illu-
mine face, that shine with essential
purity, that glorify. Nobody has to
| tell you that they have never pandered
| to ribald jest or added cruelty to de
NAL. They are live smiles and they
are rare among women and rarel
among men. For one such you'll find
a thousand living faces with dead
smiles smiles that have scattered
their essence like rain on the just and
the unjust, tnat have rolled in filth and
wasted their substance on the second
best. You'll find them fiickering out
in the faces of young men and at the
last gasp in the faces of lost womer
The midland journal., 1916-05-05

But Clem only laughed. Her slim
body swayed to the bends of the road /;
her shoulders were braced; she leaned
slightly back, steadying her horse with
a taut rein. Alan tried to draw even,
but every time he urged his horse into
a squirt Clem's spurted too. Alan grew
angry. He watched Clem's whip. but
It never moved. He settled into the
saddle and rode blindiy. His horse
must catch up or he would kill him.
He was gaining. A moment more at
the same pace and he could reach
Clem's reins below her horses neck.
Then Glen swerved again into half
hidden wood-road and Alan's horse
plunged through the brush, broke out.
and followed, poor second.
Alan's face and hands were badly
scratched, but he rode on doggedly. 1t
never occurred to him to give up the
chase. In the end he would catch up:
he knew that, but what puzzled him
was what he should do to Glen when
he caught her. Anyone else, man or
woman, he would give taste Of their
own riding whip for their own good,
but not Glenn. Alan suddenly knew
that there was something in Glen
that man could not break.
The wood-road made gradual
ascent that the willing horses took at
steady. hard galIop. They left the
The midland journal., 1916-05-05
ALLEGED conspl sAToR FREE.
Even Charge OF Stealing She'll Could
Not Be Sustained.

New York-Harry L. Newton, for
merly employed in munitions plant
at st. Catherine, Ontario, who was
recently arrested by the local police
and then by the Federal authorities on
the accusation by the British consul
here of having stolen a shell from the
munitions works, was discharged from
custody by Commissioner Houghton
after representative for the consul
admitted the charge was baseless.
Newton had been previously exoner-
ated in police court on charges pre-
ferred by detectives that he conspired
to blow up an American factory and to
commit other crimes.
The midland journal., 1916-05-05
G,;1ApIeR
| XXtl

Alan did not draw rein until he
reached the top of the bluff dividing
the valley from West lake. Then for
moment he sat and stared down the
long slope. There was smell Of mois-
ture in the air. The valley, the whole
world, was expecting, waiting for rain.
and even as he stared the rain came in
fine, veillike mist that steadied the
tones Of earth and sky to one even
shade of endless gray. Out of the gray
came the click of iron on pebble. Alan
recognized the quick, springy tread
of a climbing horse He turned and
faced Glen. He felt the slow color
rising in his cheeks and his hands
trembled.
They. did not smile at each other;
they even forgot TO say good morning.
Alan licked his thin lips. They were
as dry as ever they had been with
fever. Where's your hat?'' he asked.
A flicker of amusement showed in
Clem's eyes. She was quite calm and
she could see'that Alan was not, that
he was biting his tongue at the feeble
words he had saddled on heavy mo-
ment. "Hats are for sunny days." she
said. II like rain on my head. Have
you anything special to do? Don't let
me bother you"
"No," stammered Alan, nothing
that can't be put off,"
"Do you remember" Glen went on,
years ago asked you to take me
for ride. and you said not then but
sometime? I've never had my ride
with you. / want it now"
Her eyes were fixed on his and held
him. 81 am ready" he said through
dry lips.
She turned her horse and he fol-
lowed. They rode In silence at walk
and then at trot Glen turned into
wood-road. Her horse broke into a
gallop. She fiicked him with her whip
and his gathered limbs suddenly
stretched out for free run. The go-
ing was soft. Alan had fallen behind.
Clots Of messy loan struck him in the
face. Swaying branches showered
drops of water on him. He lost his
hat Then his lips tightened. his eyes
flashed and he began to ride. He was
himself again.
He urged his horse forward. but he
could not get on even terms; Glenn held
the middle Of the narrow track. Sud
denly they burst into the broad Low
road. With terrific clatter OF dying
stones and slipping, scrambling hoofs.
they made the turn Alan rode at last
on Clem's quarter. "Clem," he cried.
stop. II isn't fair to the horses"