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The Cordova daily times., 1917-09-25
DISAPPEARANCE cHiNsEs
 SEALS CAUSES ALARM.
(By Associated Pressl

PEKING, Sept 25. - Peking has been much agitated over the disap- pearance of the official seals. When President Ii Yuan Hung was forced to give up the presidency. General Ting Kwan. the keeper of the presidential seals, took them to Shanghai. Another prominent official disappeared with the seals of the house of representa-. tives
 When the attempt at monarchical restoration had been defeated, and Premier Yuan Chi Jui declared the re. public had been restored. there was much consternation because of the dis appearance of the seals of the repub- lie. General Ting Kwan was arrest ed in Shanghai, and after hard legal struggles was brought back to Peking. together with the missing presidential seals. and is to have a hearing before a Chinese court.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-09-25
FAMOUS RUSSIAN PAINTING
 TO BE EXHIBITED IN LONDON
lBy Associated Press)

LONDON. Sept. e5. - An exhibition of paintings by the Russian battle ar tist. Vasili Verestchagin, called in Rus sia the Apostle of Peace" is to be one of the features of the winter sea- son in London art circles. verestcha- gin. after fighting with the Russian armies in three short but bitter minor wars. was killed in the explosion that destroyed the Russian flagship Petro- pavlocsk outside Port Arthur in 1904. His paintings are described as "at once a grisly revelation and a yehem- ent protest"
 His most famous canvas is entitled "Apotheosis of War" It depicts a huge pyramid of skulls crowned with flock of carrion crows, and bears the sinister inscription. to all conquer ors, past. present and to come"
 On the occasion of an exhibition of his work In Berlin some years ago the German emperor would not allow the Prussian guard to visit 1t, Test they should come to regard war as not honorable. but disgusting
 Verestchagin once wrote: q want my paintings to be horrible. The peo. pie must know what war really is"
The Cordova daily times., 1917-09-25
FATHER, MOTHER AND SON
 FIGHTING SIDE BY SIDE.
(By Associated Press)

PARIS, Sept. 25. - A land owner of Vergeze has received the following letter from his won, staff captain:
 "I heard a strange story today, that a woman and boy of sixteen had been found among the men of the battalion of unmounted chasseurs. An investigation was made and they were found to be the wife and son of a ehas- seur who had determined not to be separated from him. Both went into the trenches with the other poilus. and the most striking thing about it Is that they had been with the battalion for five months before the authorities found out. Of course. everybody in the battalion knew, but as you see the secret was kept.
 "As an old chasseur yourself, you will be proud to learn that father mother and son have been under fire together in your old battalion
The Cordova daily times., 1917-09-25
EFFICACY ANTl-TETANus
 SERUM IS PROVEN
(By Associated Press)

PARIS, Sept. 25. - During the last meeting of the Surgical Society. Dr. Fredet mentioned fact which seemed to show the value of preventive injec- tions of anti-tetanus serum.
 After the battle of Ourcq. certain number Of wounded French and Ger man soldiers were collected in hos pital. A German doctor had remained with the German wounded and. al though sufficient serum was placed at his disposal. he refused to use it for his men. saying that he considered such injections had no preventive value.
 The French wounded received the normal doses of the serum. Of twelve German wounded, six contracted te- tanus (lockjawl and died. while no French wounded showed any symptom of il. This example of the serum's preventive efficacy has all the more weight because all the men had been wounded under the same conditions and on the same tectanus infected ground.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-09-25
FRENCH TIGER IS STILL
 ABLE TO DO MEDlCO STUNT.
(By Associated Press)

PARIS, Sept. 25. - M. Georges Gle menceau, the "Tiger" of the French political world, has not forgotten that he is, or was, a doctor of medicine. He is, indeed. the son of doctor, and during his three years life in the United States, he married Miss Mary Hummer, the daughter of a physician of Springfield, Mass.
 M. Clemenceau is at present taking the cure at Vichy. He used to go to Carlsbad before the war A few days ago soldier on leave was injured when his bicycle collapsed as he was riding into Vichy. The former prem fer happened to arrive on the scene in a few moments. M. Clemenceau bandaged the mans damages, did everything possible to aid him, and took the injured man in his car to a Vichy hospital.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-09-25
PORTO RICO WILL SEND
 12,854 MEN TO FRONT.
(By Associated Press)

SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Sept. 25. = Porto Rico's quota for the national army will be 12.854 instead of 1000 men, as originally announced, accord ing to Lieutenant Colonel Townsend, in command of the district of Porto Rico. who has just received instruc- tions from Washington to that effect. Whether the total number will be called at one time or whether they will be drawn at different intervals Is not known here. However, plans for the building of cantonment to ac. commodate 1000 men have not yet been changed.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-09-25
DARING FRE N | H
 AVIATOR |S S nm rn KILLED
(By Associated Press)

PARIS. Sept. %. Captain Roec- kel, one of the oldest in service and one of the most remarkable of French military aviators, has justsbeen killed in a flying accident at Villaeoublay, after risking death a thousand times over the enemys lines.
 Captain Roeckel was the creator of the French system of regulating artil- lery fire from airplanes. Among his exploits was the destruction of half of the artillery of the sixteenth Ger man army corps in the vicinity of Fri aucourt, September 8, 1914. This achievement provoked general note by Marshal Joffre regarding the use of ''airplanes of combat"
 Two days after his success near Triaucourt, Captain Roeckel flying at height of 300 yards, discovered the position of a division of Bavarian infantry in the region of Vaux Marie, signalled it to the artillery, then got back to camp with his machine riddled with bullets and shell fragments. When the French infantry advanced and occupied the position, they found 4,800 dead Bavarians on the field, all victims of the French 3-inch field guns.
 Captain Roeckel had won the cross of the legion of honor and the war cross with six palms for as many ci- tations in the orders of the army.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-09-25
F|SH ARE DRIVEN AWAY BY THE
 WHALES
(By Associated Press)


 LOS ANGELES, Cal, Sept. 25. - Orca or black killer. the savage toothed member of the whale family migrating southward in schools of un. precedented size, have been respon sible recently for panic among the game fish of the Catalina channel and reports of poor catches by fishermen in those waters, the home of taa tuna the sword fish and many other favor ites of the devotees of the rod and reel
 More than half a dozen orca in one school is an unusual sight, but Joe Welch. well known sportsman of this city, reported recently having seeu the high dorsal fins of hundreds of these vicious monsters cutting the waters of the channel while fishing off Catalina island.
 Devastation invariably accompanies visitation of the black killer, fisher. men said. It attains a length of .eA feet and weight of 2,000 pounds and fish of all sizes are it's prey. Ever after having eaten it's fill the blacR killer continues to rend and maim anything that crosses it's path. appar. ently for the savage joy of killing. Fishermen declared catches would continue negligible In the channel un til days after the orca were we'll on their way southward. and the terror created by their raids haIi had time to wear off.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-09-25
ELAN NDERS MUD MORE DEADLY
 THAN ENEMY
(By Associated Press)

LONDON, Sept. 25.-Major General Frederick B. Maurice, director of mili- tary operations at the war office, who has just returned from one of his ire aaent trips to the front in France. was asked by the Associated Ass cor respondent what phase of battlefront activity had on this occasion i'm pressed him most
 Always the same thing-the mud, he replied. "It is the most remarkable mud in the world. AS an enemy it is more persistent than the German and more dealy than his artillery.
 'I had a remarkable object lesson of the power of the Flanders mud dur ing my week in the battle area. l visited a hospital where they had two of our men who had been rescued af- ter spending thirty hours in the grip of Flanders mud hole. The men, advancing across No Mans Land in the semi darkness, had stumbled into an old shell hole and found themselves inextricably in the clutches of the thick mud at the bottom. When they were found, they had been there for thirty hours. and had been drawn waist deep into the clay.
 All sorts of expedients were tried to extricate them, and it was finally deemed necessary to fit harness to them and pull them out with team of mules. Both men had their hips and knees disIocated in the process. That is Flanders mudi"
The Cordova daily times., 1917-09-25
PolYGAMlST'S WIDOWS TO
 ALL SHARE IN PENSION.
(By Associated Press)

PARIS. Sept. 25. - The military au- thorities have had to settle knotty question In the case of a military polygamist being killed, how should the widows pension be allotted? The question has arisen through France having brought many native soldiers from Africa who belong to tribes where polygamy is the recognized practice. Every polygamist widow will have share in the pension. the total of which will be the same as that granted to the widow of mo nogamous soldier.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-09-25
ANO I HER RAID. |s MADE ON
 LONDON
CBy Associated proas

LONDON. Sept. 25. - Fifteen per. sons were killed and twenty injured in an air raid over London last night A Kentish town reports anti-aircraft opened fire at 7;30 o'clock end dron- irg ai-plenes heard the bombing. gEieh continued for twenty-four hours
 intervals. Only three bombs were dropped, with no great property dam. age. Zeppelina appeared early this morning off Lincolnshire and York. shire coasts, Cropping bombs with aerial torpedoes The zeppelins were driven off by gun fire. after three wo- men had been injured.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-09-25
AMERICANS HAVE CHANCE FAST
 INDIES

THE HAGUE, Netherlands. Sept 24-'I regard it as most desirable
 that mo. aE.erican capital should i be invested in the Netherlands East
 Indies, and I have done constantly
 what I could do to promote that end.
 declared J. B. Van der Houyen van Oordt, one of three Hollanders who i have been just charged with an off
 cial mission to Washington in con
 nection with the pending export ques, l ton, that so vitally concerns the Ne
 therlands. Mir. Van Oordt is a col onial official and authority He has
 been Under Secretary of State for the Colonies. and has also filled the post of Vice-President of the Council of the Netherlands East Indies.
 To the correspondent of the Asso- ciated Press MT. Van Oordt pointed out that there has been big increase in the commercial intercourse be- tween America and Dutch India since the war. and particularly since the establishment of a direct steamship line between Java and San Francisco. "The five boats now engaged in that service, he said, "are always packed with goods. Rubber and all kinds of tropical products are shipped to the United States, and the boats return laden with railroad rolling-stock ma chinery, automobiles, aeroplanes and the like. If only the ships were a vailable, the service might ea5ily, and to advantage. be extca1el.
 But the amount of American capi- tai operating in the colony is small in comparison with tae E..s.sh, Ger man, French and Belgian capital II is true there has Leen an increase ir recent years. There is one American rubber estate in the Island of Suma tra that is the largest plantation in the world, and special ships run to the United States ports to carry it's pro duce thither But great deal more might profitably be done, especially now money is plentiful in the Union The sugar, ruber. tea and other agri- cultural branches offer enormuos scope for profitable investment, not 70 speak of mining possibilities.
 Although there are at present very few, in the country, Americans are popular in the Netherlands East Indies, and they and their enterpri ses are assured of a most cordial wei come. There is every prospect of big extension of relations between the two countries. to our mutual ad. vantage"
The Cordova daily times., 1917-09-25
DENVER DECIDES TO CLOSE
 MUNICIPAL WOOD YARD.
(By Associated Press)

DENVER, Sept 25. Local off cials see in the closing of the muni- eipal wood yard few days ago an in- crease in the general prosperity. The yard, in which man could earn enough to keep himself and his family from starving. was established hve years ago as test for charity. If an applicant for charity showed himself willing to work for the dollar in cash or dollar and half in groceries that was paid for days labor there, the city would assist him.
 Lately applications for work there have decreased to almost nothing.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-09-25
EPlDEMlCS BEING STAMPED
 OUT ACROSS THE BORDER.

MEXICO CITY, Sept 25. - The de- partment of public health in a recent bulletin issued here. says that the scourge of typhus throughout the re- public has diminished 50 per cent. and that smallpox is being successfully combatted by widespread vaccination. Almost the entire army has been vac vinated as have the school children and occupants of prisons.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-09-25

Dr. c, q. Maule, formerly member of the Territorial Dental Board, is be- ing held at Juneau and will be exam. ined as to his sanity. He recently re turned from a trip to the states, since when he has been acting queerly. He recently became so had that 1t was feared that he would harm some one. ,Dr. Maule suffered from similar trouble some years ago but completely recovered his mental powers.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-09-25
DECIDE ABOLISH.
 LONG TIME
 CREDITS
(By Associated Pressl

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 -- The fed eral reserve board Is to make the pre- iiminary steps to abolish long time credits in the United States during the period of the war, to conserve the financial resources of the country in a more liquid condition. Twelve fed eral reserve banks have been asked to encourage in every way possible the abolition of six months promissory notes and substitute ninety day notes. Hereafter federal reserve banks will not rediscount and collect on paper having a ninety days run.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-09-25
ALASKA BOY TRAVELLED
 SOME TO ANSWER CALL

DENVER, Sept. 20. The draft registration and the succeeding cali of selected men for service produced some unusual tales of distances tray eled to answer tie call. but few, If any, can compare with the record get by A. N. Cullen, of this city local of. ficials say. Cullen. when he got word of his selection for the draft, was In Wrangell. Alaska. He started home at once.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-09-25
BANKER TO HELP M 'ADOO SELL
 WAR BONDS
(By Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, Sept. %. - Frank A. Vanderlip, president of the Ma tional City Bank of New York, the largest national bank in the United States, has severed his connection with that institution and all others for the period of the war to assist Secretary of Treasury McAdoo in his Liherty loan finance
The Cordova daily times., 1917-09-25
MRS. WATSON IS HIGHEST WOMAN OFFICER BRITISH ARMY
(By Associated Pressl

LONDON. Sept 25. - The highest woman officer in the British army is Mrs. A. M, Chalmers Watson. NJ. D., who has Just been appointed chief con. troller of the Women's Auxiliary Corps, which has over 4.000 members on duty behind the lines in France
 Mrs, Watson is a sister of Sir Erie Geddes, first lord Of the admiralty. She was the first woman physician graduated from Edinburgh University,
The Cordova daily times., 1917-09-25
RUSSI 4 DE MES iHIiE ] |S SEEKING
 PEACE
(By Assoclated Preasl

% PETRoGRAD, Sept. 25. It is of fieially announced that rumors pub lished in foreign newspapers regard ing the initiation of peace negotiations by Russia are false The subscrip- tions to the Liberty loan have reached 3 300, O,00O,O ,OOo rutles.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-09-25
ARGENTINE SURE TO BREAK WITH
 GERMANY
(By Associated Press)

BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 25. - Con. seryatives who control the chamber of deputies have agreed to vote to. night on the rupture with Germany, and probably will have a majority of thirty votes virtually forcing the gov ernment to cease relations with Ger many. The government desires to postpone the formulation of it's policy until the translations of telegrams re- ceiyed and sent by the Swedish lega- ton have been received.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-09-25
EIGHT STEAMERS WERE SUNK
 BY SUBS
(By Associated Press)

HALIFAX, Sept. %. - The British steamship Virginian, formerly an All Ian liner, was among the victims of a massed attack by German subma- rines on conveyed fleet of British merchantmen off the Irish coast early in September. The steamship officers say eight steamers, and not five, were destroyed. They are not sure any submarine was sunk but think it more than probable. The Virginian was of 6, 800 tons burden.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-09-25
FIRST MEMBER OF Y. M. c. A.
 IS KILLED BY BOMB.

BEHIND THE BRITISH LINES IN Mems Christian Association has just sustained its first fatal casualty in France. One of the workers in hut few miles behind the lines was killed this week by bomb dropped from German airplane.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-09-25
HARVEST HOME FESTIVAL
 SET FOR SEPTEMBER 30
lBy Associated press)

DENVER, Sept. 25. - The fchancels of some of Denver's churches will be lined with fruit, fresh and canned, vegetables and other articles Sunday. September 30. That day will be cele- brated as harvest home festival and other edibles which appears in the churches will be donations to the poor brought to the churches for distribu- tion.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-09-25

Mrs. A. w. Newhall wife of the doctor at the Jesse Lee home at Un- alaska. died there recently from the effects of ptomaine poisoning. She had Just returned from visit to the east.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-09-25

The mess house at Thane recently contributed $60 to the Juneau tobacco fund. The money raised in this cam. paign goes to buy tobacco and the makings for the boys in France.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-09-25

William Nicholvich, a Serbian min CT. was instantly killed by falling rock in one of the Perseverance mine stopes last week. His interment was made in the Evergreen cemetery.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-09-25
FLIES FROM ITALY TO ENGLAND.

LONDON. Sept 25. - Captain Lau- rier T. Fox, an Italian aviator. made the first Italy to England flight today, accompanied by an observer.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-09-25
SIAM CALLS FOR VOLUNTEERS.

BANGKOK, Sept, 25. - The Siam csc government has called for volun- teers for the western front, where they will be commanded by officers trained in Belgium,
The Cordova daily times., 1917-09-25
coNFEREEs GETTING TOGETHER,

WASHINGTON, Sept 25, - An agreement of the conferees on the war profits section of the war tax bill is expected before the day ends,
The Cordova daily times., 1917-09-25
MANY KILLED AND
 INJURED IN AIR RAID.

LONDON, Sept 25. - It Is officially announced that fifteen were killed and seventy injured in the recent air raid.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-09-25

The Woman's Guild will hold so- -etai meeting at the Red Dragon to- morro wat o'clock, and sew for the hAzsar.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-09-25
CLIENT EXECUTES 30 RESIDENTS.

AMSTERDAM, Sept, 25. - Thirty residents of Ghent were executed dur ing the last three weeks on charges of espionage.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-09-25
WAR CREDITS BILL
 SIGNED BY PRESIDENT
CBy Associated Press)

(By Associated Press)
 WASHINGTON, Sept 25. = Presi- dent Wilson has signed the $11 1,00O,- 100000 war credits bill, authorizing the second Liberty bond issue.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-09-25
ME TAI WORKERS GO
 LIN STRIKE
(By Associated Press)

PORTLAND. Sept 25. -- The Port land metal workers held a meeting last night to consider the presidents message. They ordered their regrets sent him and 4,00O men in the steel yards struck today.
 SEATTLE, Sept. 25. The agents of the metal trades unions met to con slider President Wilson's appeal against the men striking at this time. It is believed that the appeal will be needed. The striking house carpen- ters today resumed work.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-09-25
RAIL ROADS OF ARGENTINE
 TIED UP
(By Associated Press)

 BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 9. A general strike of eleven Argentine railroads began last night and traffic was absolutely paralyzed
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-02-02

bring before the people or our coun-
try the vital importance 10 our com
laerce Of securing in all commercial
treaties made By our government
the inclusion Of these clauses.
Foreign newspapers indicate
that the nations Of Europe. divided
into two great warning factions. are
all planning TO adopt special ar
rangements 70 favor their allies and
20 restrict their enemies trade after
the war. Therefore. IL especially
behoOves US as neutral nation
most carefully TO study how these
many European agreements will az
feet our trade"
The committee proposed that the
chamber submit 10 referendum
y neither il should urge the state de-
raItment 10 conclude naturalization
treaties with all the other nations.
The chamber went on record against
a literacy test in immigration meas
uIes. indOrsing the presidents veto
n the immigration bill.
Committee reports were adopted
at Thursdays sessions Of the cham
bers annual meeting advocating a
great American merchant marine.
approving the daylight savings
movement and urging commercial
arbitration between the United
States and other countries. The
merchant marine committee report
declared for the freedom Of the
seas.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-02-02
Asks Lansing for Ruling on
Sailing Of American Ships

NEW YORK, Feb. "A definite
ruling and instructions from official
sources as to future movements OF
the American line steamships was
asked of Secy Lansing and the state
department Thursday by Z. a. 5.
Franklin, president of the Interna-
tional Mercantile marine. The steam
ship st. Louis, nov in port is TAX
ing on cargo and passengers are be-
ing booked to sail for Liverpool Sat
urday. 1t was said by Mr. Franklin
that unless instructed TO the con-
trary by Washington, the ST. Louis
would sail as usual for Liverpool,
the regular port Of destination,
The telegram sent by Pres't
Franklin TO Sec'y Lansing officially
advised the state department that
the st. Louis is an American snip
owned by American citizens insur-
ed by the United States War Risk
bureau, earring as passengers Amer
lean citizens and as cargo such
merchandise as is in compliance
with the government war risk
bureaus regulations with reference
to contraband.
Other out at Sea.
The telegram also advised that
the liner Philadelphia. operated un-