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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-09-07
DAVIS WINS IDAHO.

Boise, Idaho, Sept. 8. ID. W. Davis
appeared certain for the republican
nomination for governor early today
as the result of yesterdays primary
election.
Heavy majorities also were return.
ed for Burton L. French and Addison
T. Smith, republican candidates for
congress. The democratic nominees
ran without opposition.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-07-14

John B. Kelly. of the vesper Club, Philadelphia, yesterday when he brought the number of victories in which he had participated this season up to 22 Edward Hedley, also of the vesper, held the former record for winning races in one season, with 20,
 Kelly yesterday won the single sculls and was member of the crews winning the senior double sculls and the senior eight-oared events in the peoples regatta. He had previously sat in 19 winning crews in sanctioned regattas this season.
 DO MOVIES HURT 5AsE6ALL7
 Dick Kinsella, the Giants scout. claims that the moving picture the atres are taking the fans out of the bleachers. This former owner of the Springfield club in the Three-I league and now scout Of the Giants, travelled east recently with a former sporting editor, who is now in the movie busi- ness.
 Do you know, I believe the bleach CT business has been more than cut in half by the film houses." said Kip sella. "It's got so bad that I gave 2 quarter to boy friend of mine last summer to take in ball game. l kept my eyes peeled for him that after noon, but couldn't locate him.
 That night asked him how he liked the game. He seemed to act se- cretive, and finally admitted he had spent the two bits for five moving picture shows"
The Cordova daily times., 1916-07-14
SPORTS Importance and the Persons Who Are in the Head
 Liner Glasses.

SPOKANE. July 5. - By defeating Kenneth Beach, of Lewiston, Idaho, yesterday, A. c. Pringle, of Tacoma, won the Inland Empire tennis cham pionship. The Tacoma player showed a lot of tennis skill and was easily the better player, although the Idaho lad gave him a strong contest for supre. macy.
 It was the excellent placing of his shots than won for Pringle. Beach forced him to play his best, and he did. It was one of the best matches of the tournament. The score was 1-6 6-2, GA. 2-6, 9-7.
 Miss Mayme Mcdonald, of Seattle won the championship in the women's singles by defeating Miss Bernice Stunt, a local high school champion 60, 6-1:
 The mems doubles went to Gray and White, of Lewiston, when they de feated Byrd and Ware, of Spokane 4-6, 6-1, 6-3. 6-1.
 The mixed doubles championship was won by Gray and Tillisch. They defeated shannon and Williams.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-07-14

In few months Seward will be the gateway for an mense amount of travel whatever progress the railroad will will not make First of all there several thousands of ad dtona people in the districts north of this year. Those the people brought in by the railroad Many others from Alaska who would take other route to the outside will be tempted to this way the deve opmens But it IS quite possible that the greatest Seward travel of all will be created by the strike in the Tosto If that strike is anything like good it reported be there ought to be hundreds and hundreds of stampeders this Seward easily the best and shortest route to from outside and from points along the Alaska coast There is in deed, other route to compete at all with itGaeway
 The has made real open door for American prise China judging from reports that American capital and American contractors to build railroads there.
 The allies comment the failure of their offensive to stop the Germans pounding Verdun It $ hard to break habit
 
 The Mexican crisis reported passed but will the Ameri patience recoverf
 The Russian pendulum seems to have intention off stopping.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-07-14

Rmors Wall Street that a ''bilon dollar copper mergers obe organized for the purpose of conso dating combining in not described, all the big copper in the and Alaska We believe this to be untrue for sound economic basis exists for such aggo eration The copper units big enough Some of thenke the Kennecott affarare already conducive to stock manipulation than cheapness of operation Any idea of controlling the price of the metal by restriction of out put domination of the market is preposterous having in mind two previous efforts do If the Secrean syndicate failed in 1899 when the worlds copper production only 46O0 metric tOns what chance of there with output of 100000 per We assume that the talk is made in order to excite speeulaon-nng and Scientific Press.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-07-14
MIR. HUGHES DEFINES AMER1cAN1sM.

Amercansm expressed in the terms of men; not in the broad sweep of fertile lands the rush for wealth. desire for sonal comforts deightsthat is the Amercansm which Charles Evans Hughes told of in his mprompu speech East Hampton yesterday.
 He paid touching tribute to the who fought that nation should be born
 It is because had men who willing to suffer- to de to venture and to sacrifice that have the counry he sad and it is only by that spirit that will be able to keep country love to think of those hardy Quiet men, not noisy sensible not foolish men, straight honest men, dependable men, real mehat is what mean by Americansm. .''-TacOma News
The Cordova daily times., 1916-07-14

The from the Seward Post would respect fully ask Alaskan contemporaries what they think of it. It is to laugh
The Cordova daily times., 1916-07-14
WHISTLE FIVE HOURS.

OMAHA, July 5. - Joe Stetcher and "Strangler" Lewis battled on the mat for five hours yesterday, at the end of which time the referee called it a draw. Stetcher had Lewis on the defensive most of the time the men occupied the mat. It was a great con test and thrilled the big crowd.
 Once Stetcher laid down on the mat and offered Lewis any hold he wanted but the "Strangler" passed up the in vitation.
 This Is the second time these two wrestlers have met in long draws. One year ago at Evansville they grappled two hours and ten minutes.
 Ed w. Smith, the Chicago sporting writer, acted as referee. The match started at o'clock and at o'clock Smith decided that it could not be finished and called it a draw.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-07-14
IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA, THIRD DIVISION.

IN THE DIS RlC COOHl FOh TIE TERRITORY OF ALASKA, THIRD DIVISION. Notice of Term of Court at cordova, Alaska.
 The President of the United States of America, to the Residents of the Third Division of the Territory of Alaska, and to All Whom It May Concern, Greeting:
 You, and each and all of you. will please take notice that by an order of the court, duly made and entered, a term of the District Court for the Ter ritory of Alaska, Third Division, has been called and will be held in Cor dova, Alaska, beginning on the 17th day of July, 1916, and will continue as long thereafter as the public welfare may require.
 Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 18th day of June, 1916.
 FRED NJ. BROWN,
 District Judge. (District Court Seal) Attest Arthur Lang, Clerk.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-07-14

The Mexican crisis is reported passed, but will u an patience recoverf
The Cordova daily times., 1916-07-14
$40 100000 BRIDGE ACROSS SAN
 FRANCISCO BAY MAY BE BUILT

WASHINGTON, July 13. - At the request of civic organizations of San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda, California. the war depart ment has ordered an investigation of the feasibility of constructing $4O,- 100000 bridge across San Francisco bay to connect the four cities.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-07-14
IS YOUR SUBSCRIPTION PAID?

On June 15 the Times a circular letter its mail sub scrber in which it announced that all who July l5 will be dropped from the list.
 The increased of paper makes it impossible for the Times the large number of accounts it has in the past We large circulation, but it must be paid cir culation.
 If you miss your paper of July 16 you will know it be-
The Cordova daily times., 1916-07-14
TAPPING.

Papers other parts of Alaska be quite interested in the scrap between Seward and Anchorage at least they enough mention it about three times every that it is mentioned in either of the towns which scrappng the Seward Post concerned the of Anchorage has we'll wishes and the it prospers the better long it does not prosper through false representations at Stewards expense.
 The Post has taken to state that there vested interests in Alaska which would rather have had the coal fields of the territory and the interior remain tied without rail road for the next ten generations than have the road built from Seward under conditions which they could not control.
 Representatives of these interests started in early after the Seward Fairbanks route named to force possible bit of business within their away from Seward
 But they not making much permanent headway, and that's why there lot of yappng from their representatives and hengs both at Anchorage and at other points through out Alaska. xsA aes
 The above from the Seward Post and would respect asl Alaskan uhat te think if
The Cordova daily times., 1916-07-14
McLoUoHLIN AND DAWSON WIN

LONG BEACH, Cal, July 3. - Mau- rice E. Mclaughlin "came back" yes terday when he and his new doubles partner, Ward Dawson of Los Angeles, won the Pacific coast sectional mems doubles tennis championship by de feating Thomas c. Bundy, McLough- lin's teammate in many champion ships, and Clifton Herd of Pasadena. The score was 9-7, 5-7, 6-3. 6-S, 6-2.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-07-14

CREATES NEW ROWING RECORD.
 PHILADELPHIA, July 5. -- What is declared to be a new record for row ing in this country was established by
The Cordova daily times., 1916-07-14
TO OUR MAIL SUBSCRIBERS.

The Times doing all in its power the prompt delivery of the paper along the line of the Copper River & Northwestern Railway Many complaints reached that the paper not being received regularly Our subscribers will confer favor the Times they will write us specifying dates which missed in the future and will take steps find out where the trouble lies
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-14
TO APPROPRIATE $4,000.
Being the Surplus Fund of the Vermont
School Budget.

Burlington, Oct. IA meeting of the
Vermont state board of education was
held at the Hotel Vermont yesterday
morning, James Hartness, the chairman
of Springfield, Frank II. Brooks OF st.
Johnsbury, l. B. johnson OF Randolph
and Arthur w. Hewitt of Plainield meet
ing with DR.. Milo B. Hllegas of Mont
pelier, state commissioner of education.
Business of routine nature was trans
acted, after which the budget for the next
biennium, which has to be reported. ac-
cording to law, was taken up. The bud.
get was not completed and was left in
the hands of committee made up of
the commissioner and l.. B. Johnson.
F.. The matter of appropriating the sur
plus funds of the budget, which amount
to $4,000, was taken up but was not
completed and was left in the hands of
the same commission. This surplus viii
be apportioned throughout the state for
the purpose of assisting rural schools
and equalizing educational opportunities.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-14
Prohibition for Quebec.

| Three hundred leading citizens, lay
and clerical, of the Province of Quebec,
recently waited on Sir Lomer Gouin the
premier. and the members of the provin-
cial cabinet, and urged the responsible
ministry to use its influence in favor of
at least test of the attitude of the leg
islature as to prohibition of the liquor
traffic. In the deputation were Judges,
officials of temperance organizations,
clergymen, and laymen of all callings.
They held steadfastly to their straight
demand. and refused to be diverted by
intimations that light drinks should be
excepted. They impressed the govern;
ment officials strongly by their unity and
zeal. Sir Lomer Gouin pledged serious
attention to the arguments presented. in
timating that it was now more ques-
tion as to whether the public opinion of
the province had been educated to insist
on enforcement OF such a law, and less a
question of the righteousness of prohibi-
tion itself.
The character of this deputation. as
well as its size, the respect with which it
was treated, and the answer it received,
all combine to make friends of temper
ance, throughout Canada, more hopeful.
It has been assumed by many that Que
bee must be left out of any general pro-
hibition scheme, however remote its com
plete accomplishment. The supposition
for long time, has been that eeclesias-
teal and political forces too strong to
be overcome stood in the way of even
converting cities like Montreal and Que
bee and peasantry such as inhabits the
villages to any favor for prohibition,
much less getting a statute on the law
books. And no doubt the past history of
reform movements in the province has
given much cause for the supposition.
The fact is. however, that example
teaches louder than precept, and the eco
nomic and moral gains that have come !
with prohibition in Ontario. and in the /
provinces of the west. are not being over
looked in Quebec The facts cannot be /
hidden, and they are having an educa- /
tional effect. The burdens of taxpayers /
will be heavy, and il jails can be emptied, !
prisons relieved of many inmates, and 4
bank deposits increased. the Freneh-Cs- 1
madam town or country dweller viii not /
miss noting the relation between cause 4
and effect, between temperance and 4
thrift. He is as shrewd a citizen as anv I
country boasts, albeit thrifty TO an ex-
traordinary degree. He viii not care to
compete with ssloon-free provinces. with /
Quebec handicapped by saloons, and On
iario, Manitoba and Victoria without
.hem.-Christian Science Monitor.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-14
PREDICTS RUMANIA'S FALL.
King Constantine of Greece Gives Little
Nation Is Days.

London, Oct. l4--"When high diplo-
matte parsonage besought King Constan-
tine to change his policy" says the Daily
Telegraph's Athens correspondent, "the
king replied:
az prefer to lose my throne rather
than endanger Greece. | am convinced
that in Is days Rumania will exist no
more. If Greece went into the war then,
after the conquest of Rumania, the ire
sistible German forces would be directed
against Greece and she would share the
fate of Serbia and Rumania.'"
London, Oct. l4.-According to Athens
dispatches the entente allies sent their
ultimatum to Greece because they had
unearthed royalist plot to fight the
<entente. 1t was planned, the dispatches
add, that if the allies should seek to
coerce Greece into joining the war and
try to force Eliptherios Venizelos on
King Constantine. the king should retire
northward along the railway, taking the
troops with him, and concentrate at Tr-
kala, in Thessaly, and lie entrenched
there until the arrival of the German
army, when he would strike in unison
with them at the allies.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-14
BODY WAS EXHUMED.
In Order to Identify 1t to Get Insurance
Money.

Brattleboro, Oct l4-The body of Pat
/ rick Mccarthy, who was drowned July
/ 23 in the Connecticut river, was eXhumed
Thursday at the instigation of Mrs. Mary
Hayes of Ticonderoga, \. Y, who wished
to identify the remains as she had been
paying premiums on McCarthy's life in
surance for a number OF years. She had
heard ACCIDENTAL of his death through
friend and later confirmed the report
through reading a Vermont newspaper.
She desired to make certain that the
body was that OF the man on whose life
she had been carrying nm insurance pol
icy, in order to be in a position to make
claim for the insurance. She said that
she was no relativesuf his, but had known
him many years.
Seectman w. +. Stellman talked with
her and she promised to make restitution
to the town for the expense of the burial
when she collected the policy.
Mccarthy was drowned Just north of
the gas. house at $3.50 o'clock at night.
He was in the company of two other men
and all had been drinking. Mccarthy. his
companions claimed, stood up to put on
his coat and lost his balance and fell into
the water. The body was recovered the
next morning by Police Chief George
Wilson and Arthur F.. Knight, who
dragged the river with graphing irons.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-14
A Sign of the Military Situation.

The allied campaign against the Cen
tral empires has moved by series o
surges or onsets, interspersed with peri
DDS of quiescenee, ever since it took or
its new development after the great en-
lcouragement of Verdun. On the western
front we are now in one of these periods
of measurable pause. There is fighting
there is ground gained; but it is not a
moment of such grinding and furiou:
pressure as that which resulted in the
capture of Combles and Theipval: The
reason is plain enough. As the main de.
pendence of the party of the offensive is
| its guns, both heavy and light, it is
necessary after each expenditure of max.
imum energy, resulting i ma considerable
advance, to establish a new footing for
the artillery. The movements of a great
army under present conditions of war
fare may be compared with those of a
big measuring worm," which humps it.
self along from one foothold to another,
and which must place its hinder feet be-
fore it can measure its forward length
again The most instructive fact about
the situation, both in France and in
Galicia and Volhynia, is that the only
means of successful resistance on the
part of the Germans to such a process,
the effective counter offensive, is now
evidently beyond their power. Their
counter -offensives are weak and do not
even check the minor advances which are
made by the allies in their periods of
recovery.
1t was undoubtedly to bring about this
state of things on both fronts, and to
synchronize the offensive of the Rus
slams with that of the British and French
that Kitchener started on his trip to
Russia--that voyage on which he lost
his life. 1t is sign of the thorough
ness of the allies organization that the
synchronization has gone on just the
same. The allies have gained enormous
ly, and the Germans have lost, in the
quality which may be called military
phlegm-that marble inexcita bility which
heretofore has seen great and COM
manding possession of the German armies,
from the highest command to the COM
mon soldier. The German bulletins, in
their frequent and desperate attempts
to misrepresent the actual state of the
fighting, betray a new malaise. new ex-
The renewal of the subms-
rine warfare on our side OF the Atlantic
is an indication of this condition of
alarm. General Joffre, General Brusiloff,
cannot be turned back by the destruc-
tion of merchant ships on the transat-
lantic lanes. Such devices of ruthless
ness" are merely for their effect on the
German home psychology-to hold up
the sinking spirits of a despairing ma
ton. The steady, grinding, crushing new
offensive of the allies goes on-relstive-
ly vastly slow, as compared with Sher-
mans march to the sea and his swift
swing upward TO Virginia, but bound TO
be Just as decisive in the end.-Boston |
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-14
DESPITE wIFE'S EFFORTS
Farmer Succeeded in Swallowing Poison
and Died Very Soon.

Brattleboro, Oct. l4-Although his wife
dashed the poison cup from his hands
William f.. Wheeler of Grove reached
into his pocket and pulled out more pois-
on, which he succeeded in swallowing de-
spite the franctic efforts of his wife yes
terday, death ensuing in a short time.
Dr. A. j. Thomas of Jacksonville was
called but before he arrived the man was
dead. For some time Mr.. Wheeler had
been subject to spells of nervousness,
which probably affected his mind.
He was one of the prominent residents
of Grove, so years of age and leaves
a family consisting of his wife and II
children. eight of whom live at home.
His wife was Marion Ward of Guilford.
Last fall Mr.. Wheeler's barn was burned
together with all the crops, but the stock
was saved. The funeral is to be held
Sunday.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-14
DIDN'T BELIEVE WARNING.
Says Malone Replying to Hughes State
ment on Lusitania Case

Rochester, N. Y, Oct. l4.-Dudley Field
Malone, collector of the port of New
York, in a formal statement given out
here last night took issue with state
ments made by Charles E. Hughes, Re-
publican candidate for president, at Lou
isville on Thursday in connection with
the sinking of the Lusitania.
"When the notice was published Mr..
Malone said, threatening the sinking of
the Lusitania, Mr.. Hughes said he would
have threatened Germany with severance
OF diplomatic relations. The notice was
published anonymously in certain New
York papers and merely signed with the
words German embassy 1t was pub
lished on the Friday morning before the
Saturday the Lusitania sailed. No pas
sengers booked for the Lusitania-not
even personal friends of the German en-
bassador-placed any credence in this
anonymous communication"
He declared that Mr.. Hughes as pres
ident could npt have protested against an
Unforeseen event merely on the basis of
an anonymous advertisement in the
newspapers.
Mr. Malone also said that in a per-
sonal conversation with Justice Hughes
toward the end of the first four months
of the present administration he had been
told by Mr. Hughes in discussing the ad-
mnistration's difficulties that: "The
president is doing gniicently."
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-14
BOY THROWN
UNDER AUTO
Driver, DR.. j. M. Allen, Said
He Jumped in Front
of Machine
STATE WILL HOLD
INQUEST ON CASE
Simon Vermette, Is, the Vic.
tim Near Lyndonville
Yesterday

st. Johnsbury, Oct l4.-Simon Yer.
mette, the l5-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Vermette, was struck and in
stantly killed by an automobile owned
and operated by DR.. J. NJ. Allen near the
Morrill, farm on the Lyndonville road yes
terday afternoon. Vermette, who was
employed on the farm, and Leroy Brooks,
another farm hand, were on their way
to pasture when Brooks heard the car
behind them.
There was ample time TO get out of the
way and he warned the boy, but for
some unknown reason the latter waited
until the car was almost upon them and
then jumped directly in front of it. One
of the lamps struck him and the car
passed completely over him.
DR.. c. A. Champion was called but
found life extinct. The state will con-
duct an inquest to-day and an autopsy
will be performed on the body by DR..
B. H. Stone of Burlington.