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The Cordova daily times., 1918-10-07
FIVE MEN HAVE
 CLOSE CALL TO
 MEETING DEATH

As result of an accident to the hoisting machinery on l2 below Fair banks creek, three men are in the hospital suffering from sever" shak- ing up and bruises inflicted by fall from the top of the shaft to it's bot tom, q distance of no feet. That they and two others were not killed out right is considered a miracle.
 The crew in the drift, composed Of Wm Anderson, Mike Kcllich. Berger Carlson. Elmer Johnson and Victor Swanbeck, were being lowered to the bottom of the shaft in the bucket. when, without warning, something gave way in the engin" room and the bucket and men rushed downward to exception of Johnson all were ren- dered unconscious by the fall, the cable uncOilng from the drum falling on top of them. As soon as he could collect himself Johnson started to uncoil the cable from around his per son and to eXtriCatc his unfortunate comrades from the positions in which they had fallen Several picks, which were in the bucket and which had been newly pointed were scattered around the bottom of the shaft and that none of the men were severely injured from this source alone is re- markable.
 John Swanbcck, who was at the hoist at the time of the accident, at once gave the alarm and within a short time hand windlass was rigged up and the men brought to the sur face. Medical help was telephoned for and an auto pressed into service to bring the men to town. On an examination 1t was found that none of the men had broken bones. although all of them had received a severe shake-up Johnson was able to be around town yesterday, plainly show. ing the effects of the fall by his badly scratched face and place in the side Orf his jaw where one of the pick r0irts had struck. It will be several days before the men in the hospital will be able to be about again.-Fair- banks Citizen.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-10-07
Wick Denied His Own

The impression gained from hear ing Wickcrsham speech is well il. lustrated by d contributor to the Fair. banks Citizen. who gives the follow ing reasons "Why We Are for Him:
 MT WicHcrsham' able and clo- qucnt lc ture at the Auditorium has earned for him our ardent support
 "We are for him.
 "Why?
 "Because he invented Alaska.
 Every man possessing grain of common sense or decency, after hear ing him lecture. must acknowledge the righteousness of his claim.
 "Only the jealousy and envy of Dem. ocrntic federal officials, their crass stupidity and partisanship, has pre-. vented him from obtaining patent to the whole territory from Barrow to ketchikan. Of this we have been con yinccd by the facts adduced by him in his lecture.
 "Only very small part of what is due him for his unSelhsh devotion to the interests" of Alaska has reached his pockets (via federal treasury).
 "What reward was it for his self sacrifice in withdrawing from the practice of law in Tacoma to admin ister justice in Alaska that he should have had only eighteen years salary oul of the United States treasury?
 Think of it, Only eighteen years sometimes drawing down less than
The Cordova daily times., 1918-10-07

One of the cleanest and most at tractive places to eat is at the Frisco Cafe.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-10-07

$4 .OOo year-sOmetimes $7,500, with l,t small opportunities for quids pro quo aud perks
 By every rule of gratitude and right he ought to have patent to Alaska.
 "He also should have conferred "pon him a titl" of nobility.
 "Surh hcroism, Such devotion, Such Selfshness,
 Great gods. Alaskana. how can you be so obdurate? Can5t you see what he has done for you?
 "I.ot us then be up and doing, un. less we would be done,
 "I.ct IT. secure for him patcnt--a catc" ci uobility-a patent as Lord of St Michael, Duke de Nome and I[oyukuh. Count of Chichagon. Pribi io'r 7Hd the further seal islands.
 Are these honors not his due?
 "Who shall say him nay?
 In order to test the patriotism of our readers we append petition q the commissioner of patents. asking for our fellow patriot the honors due h.m and plain and legal eve had al most written 'regalD rights We ask all tairbanksans to sign-sign at once and return to this office copies of this petition.
 "Petition for Patent ITO the Honorable the L. s. Com
 missioner of Patents:
 Now come your petitioners, many and various. humbly but honorably representing and pctitioning. seeking justice, to wit
 Whereas. One James Wicker sham. humble scrvitor of the people did, on or about December. 1899. in vent. devise. discover and disclose a certain ne" and useful region. where of since and thereafter the name and fame thereof has become universal and widespread to wit. Alaska.
 Now, therefore. We. the aforesaid undersigned. your petitioners. do hum. bly, but fervently beseech. pray. peti ton, eXhort and beg that. under the powers conferred upon you by the con. stitution and bylaws, yon do now
 Convey by letters patent to. upon and in the said James Wickersham his heirs. assigns. devisees ct al, ct cet., ad lib. all our right, title and in. tercst in and to
 'Alaska. including tundra niggcr. head, placer, swamp. quartz, farm and firesidc, cabin. bungalow. tent and trap-everything else
 ITO have and to hold 0ike grim death until death do us part. forever and aye-Amen.
 F. s, (moaning please subscribe) )- And while you are about it why not confer upon him these titles:
 James I. Baron Barrenoff. Duke of Iditarod, Prince of Pribilon. Count of KetChikan. Emperor of Eagle. Sul. tan of Susitna. Gazaho of Gibbon. Tkoond of Kuskokwim and FTBBER- TIE OF FAIRBANKS.'
New-York tribune., 1918-11-06
Would Force Huns to
Restore Machinery
Chemical Society Urges Allies
to Compel Germany to Re-
turn Factory Plunder

The New York section Of the Society
of Chemical Industry made public yes
terday resolution it has adopted. urg-
ing the Allies to compel Germany to
relinquisl. stolen industrial machinery
and make restitution from German
shops ior machinery destroyed by
German soldiers, in pursuance Of Ger
Nany's policy Of wrecking industrially
She lands her troops overran. The
resolution was:
"Be it resolved, That the New
York section Of the Society of Chem
;cal Industry. request that the proper
authorities of the various Allied gov
ernments take special note Of the facts,
and insist that Germany, where pos
sible. be compelled to restore the
stolen machinery and other property, or
replace the stolen property and also
whasever machinery or property has
been destroyed, BY equivalent ma
chinery or piopcrty taken from German
Factories; and that they Furthermore
sec TO it Chat all Allied industries are
fairly and justly safeguarded under
The ultimate terms OF peace, against
the Vaccinations OF an insidous and
conscienceless enemy, whose express
,nleNtion is to reduce other nations
20 industrial subservience and de-
penGeNce."
New-York tribune., 1918-11-06
Court Backs Votes
OF Twin Sisters

For the first time the Supreme Court
yesterday was concerned with the
troubles of women at the polls, several
Of whom for one reason or another were
refused their new right to vote In
fact, most OF the cases that came be-
fore the court in Manhattan were those
of women.
Sarah Pearsly and Sadie Pearsky,
twin sisters, had the distinction of be-
ing the first to take their grievance to
court. They live and vote in the goth
Election District of the 4th Assembly
District, which is a part of the Con-
gressional district where Meyer Lon
don, Socialist, and Henry NJ. Goldfogle.
Democrat epuhlican candidate, fought
it out. The Pearsky sisters are Social
lists, and the members of that party
We're 10th to lose the two votes
The election board refused to take
their votes on the ground OF insult
ticient proof that they we're born in the
United States. They proved thei,
American nativity 70 the satisfaction
OF Justice Finch, who issued a writ
directing the board to accept the votes
OF the twins.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-06
Rose Pastor Stokes
Foregoes Vote ON
Advice of Court
Free on Bail After Registra.
ton Arrest, Decides Not
to Test Law

Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes, Socialist,
was numbered among those who had
registered but did not cast ballot at
yesterdays election. She refrained
from voting on the advice of Magis-
trate McGeehan, of jefferson Market
court, where she appeared to answer
20 the charge Of fraudulent reglstra-
tion preferred by Robert J. William
son, deputy state inspector of cleo
tions.
After Mrs. Stokes had been released
under S1,5O0 bail, furnished by her
husband, J. G. Phelps Stokes, it was
announced at her home, SO Grove
Street, that she would make no effort
to vote Al the office of the State
uperintendent of Elections it was
said that special precautions had been
taken to challenge her at the polls
should the attempt be made.
Mrs. Stokes appeared in court with
her husband and Attorney George H
Gilman. William S. Armstrong, spe-
cial deputy State Attorney General,
asked for a 48-hour adjournment TO
prepare his case. Magistrate McGee-
han denied the appeal, but granted q
recess OF an hour, saying the state
should have been prepared.
81 think it was absolutely wrong to
arrest this woman late last night" the
magistrate added, when the crime she
is alleged 10 have committed took
place OH October 12."
Later adjournment was taken until
Friday when both sides will file
New-York tribune., 1918-11-06
Held for Red Flag Boast
Man Arrested at Polls Be-
cause Of Alleged Remarks

Elias Marks. of 1872 Eldridge Street.
who was arrested as he was about V
vote at Delaney and Ludlow streets
yesterday, was held for examination III
the Essex Market police court on
charge Of disorderly conduct. SeysrA
witnesses testified that they heard nm
say on October ~ (Liberty Day iRs
American flag viii soon come down ol
the Capitol and in its stead the rea
flag viii rise" They said that he ran
away when they tried to seize nim
and they had been watching for Mn
ever since.
Jacob Kirschner, of S96 wyOmainlg
Street. Brooklyn, paid fine OF Wv II
the same court for creating ols'
turbance in the same polling place
where he demanded the arrest OF se'.
eral persons. Several men who tOos
ADVANTAGE of the crowds in the s'fes'
to wheedle silver into homemade fou
lette wheels which they carried ap'''
were fined SO each. -.
Henry Mcmahon, who registered q,
living at the Olive Tree Inn Ess, a.,
Twenty third Street, was arrested "
voting illegally and held for Nsm
nation in the YorkTille police couss
Thomas G. O'Suilivan. clerk al Ias
Olive Tree Inn. testified that MchaTT.s :.
did not live there and never had u u
district in which McMahon voted =
that of Charles f. Murphy.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-06
Roosevelt t axes
Wife to Polls

OYSTER BAY, N. Y, Nov. 5.-Ac-
companied by Mrs. Roosevelt, Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt voted in n black
smith shop early this afternoon. They
were il. !. booth only few seconds'and
as he left the Colonel said he hoped
Tor a Republican victory. Mrs. Ethel
Derby, the Colonels youngest daugh-
ter, motored to New York City to cast
her first vote.
Two women, IN order to vote for the
first time, had court experience. They
were Mrs. Ella Golden and her daugh-
ter, Mrs; Myra Flower. Both had reg
lstered, but when they appeared at the
polls it was discovered that their names
were on only one book and the inspec-
tors refused to allow them to vote.
well get a court order and swear it
in" Mrs. Golden remarked, and she and
her daughter jumped into their auto
mobile and went to Mneola, where Su-
preme Court Justice Scudder, after
hearing their story, gave them an or
der to vote. Armed with this order the
two women returned to the polling
place and cast their ballots.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-06
Democrats Elected
To Supreme. Court
In Local Districts
Bowling, Wagner and Ly
don Victors in Contest
in Manhattan

The three places for the Supreme
haitian and The Bronx, went to Victor
j. Bowling. Robert F. Wagner and
Richard P. Lydon. In the first go dis
tricts tabulated the vote cast for each
was: bowling, 23,145; Wagner, 90
829; Lydon, 99,062.
The result was never in doubt.
Bowling, with nomination from both
the Republican and Democratic parties.
early established a safe lead. Wagner
and Lydon, the straight Democratic
candidates, followed in the order
named in practically every district. III
many sections Ottinger and Nevin, the
Republican nominees, pressed them
close, but at no time were they able to
take the lead.
In Brooklyn, too. the Democrats
elected their candidates to the Su-
preme Court. With the very earliest
returns Robert II. Roy and Maurice
Connolly established strong lead and
were never seriously threatened by
either Leander B. Faber or Norman S.
Dixie, their Republican rivals. The
final figures from the 4S5 districts
counted were: Roy 85,371; Connolly,
77,549; Faber, 57,472! Dixie, 44,591.
With the two county judgeships in
Brooklyn the story was similar, both
the Democratic nominees, J. Grafton
McMahon and Charles j. McDermott,
topping Frederick S. Martyn and
Marcus e. Campbell. at all stages. The
first 200 districts gave Mcmahon 3 lead
OF nearly 10000 over his nearest Re
! publican opponent.
Indications at midnight were that the
Democrats would also elect Edward NJ.
Cox, their candidate for County Clerk
in Queens, and William X. Walsh, can
didate for Sheriff in Richmond.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-06
What Is Going On To-day
WAR SAVINGS STAMP DRIVE.
Tf-tlfTI L.SS WIGHT

WAR SAVINGS STAMP DRIVE
Free admission TO the American Museum q MAJ
yra vls nJisi9fn Ulster, Mefepoli'sn Museum Of Az. New
ssum. American Museum OF Safety and tie
Aquarufu.
Annual mcetns of the Federation for CHILD s.ulc.
West sixty fourth street. 3 o. m. '''''' ''1 10y
hfa1Ss by ,Cy Cs1 MaUde f and 5 Dr. ,rett Kmba
Meeting Of tho Missouri woman's CUB. IIotci
Showing Of British official naval photographs. An
Educational meeting and address OF the New Yorl.
II m.
Shepherd and Major T, II. La Guarda. Waldorf-
Astoria. p.
Lestugg on mOdesr7l drama washinson Heights
Exhibuon q ch5santnemums. Engineering soclety
Ase,iNs sf ne southern Travellers Associations
West Forty -eecond Street. s D. M
Patriotic meeting Of the Church Club. Carnegie
lecture by Professor Earl Barnes, Business Men.
.,da''ni. Appiiee ,,dh:. phsye1ioy Club SIS p NJ
Assembly Ba Washington ~ irving nsH nsp"sSfSe schso
Fifteenth Street and Irving Place. y.
rUBILc LECTURES BOARD or EDUCATION
MANHATTAN
Evolution q Wheel rransportsuon Gilbert SIC
Garrison streets A-'Ds'0' "i''
'qrh, Free Vacation House" MIS- Anzis Leyi,es
Public school l0l. lllth. Street and I.eAiusto
Avenue.
'-Iok songs OF Many Lands Mrs. Bertha .fi,scb
Public school 10 l77th Street and Auluho.
What the American Family Can Do % Win TN
War Mss Elizabeth Ii. Bohn tfeld sccrctxr,
American Home Eeonomics Association. Jewisl
Institute, l25 East Eighty nth Street.
''Ilow to Know. our Song Birds" Theodore Hor
man. Hawthorne School hawthorne. \. Y.
Art N the Use Of Things" John Quincy Adams
rh. d. (ass slant secretary Art Com,nis sior.)
Hunter College Sixty eighth Street I.exi.g
ton Avenue.
'-How 10 Listen 20 Music Miss Grace NJ Iiof
Neimer. Hamilton Grange. sos West l45.h Sine.
''IAfe oi Admiral David Glasgow Farra9i. Unite,
State Navy" Pat H. Chailes H. :, epher,
D. d. s, Seamen's Church institute 25 Soa:
street
''rhe Man Of Egypt (og coursc ga. ''ru. Comm
Menu. by Clayton 5. Cooper elltc-. ,.e 's.a
.ionel Marine" Y. ~. I, A., Harm, . We
.5,h Street.
'Wuinen's pau IN Winning tho Wax" Miss Hele
F'sscr. Cooper Institute. Eighth street and Fcust
&ylnuA
New-York tribune., 1918-11-06
Whitney Says Hylan
Is Responsible for
Brighton IL" Wreck
Public Service Commits
sioner Accuses Mayor Of
Neglect of Duty
allied to Delay Strike
Death Total in City's Worst
Accident Now Raised
to Ninety-two

Public Service Commissioner Travis
Whitney charged yesterday that II
Mayor Hylan had done his duty as
the Mayor of New York Friday nights
Brighton Beach elevated train disaster.
costing ninety-two lives, would not
have happened.
Mr.. Whitney declared the Mayor
failed to ask y. Il. T. union men to
delay the strike, which would have
given the Public Service Commission
a chance to settle the labor differences
before the accident.
Says lIylan Was Advised
"Apparent1y, Mayor Hylun was one
Of the first TO know Of tho threatened
strike after the order for walkout
had been issued to members OF the
unon," said Mr.. Whitney. "Yet, rs
fur rs can be learned, he made no
attempt to induce the men TO delay
the strike, even for one day. to give
the Public Service Commission an op-
portunity to settle the trouble.
apparently, tho union men told
Mayor Hylan what was contempiated d
even before notifying the &. r. !. otti-
cials of the impending strike.
What did Mr.. Hylan do? He tele-
graphed President Williams of the b:
he appeal to the union men to held up
even for few hours? Not as anybody
has heard of!
afraid to Cross Union
eff Mayor Hylan had not been i
member Of that union himself, if he
he'd not been afraid of cross granting
union men. if he had acted AS the
Mayor of most any other American
cit: would have acted-then he would
have asked something of the strikers
as we'll as of the company officials.
He would have asked the union men
to delay the strike.
"The Public Service Commission
settled the strike within twcntyfour
hours after it went into effect. If
Mayor Hylan ahd obtained a twenty
four hour delay from the union-well.
how. could the nincty-two petsons have
lost their lives?"
Mr.. Whitney severely criticised
Mavor Hylan for jumping in as a
city magistrate presiding at the wreck
inquiry. to make political capital. When
there was the slightest chance Of any
of the responsibility being charged to
him.
Investigating Curve
Testimony regarding the construc-
tion Of the curve leading UP to the
Malbonc Street tunnel may be intro
duced when the hearing is resumed
this morning. District Attorney Lewis
has had experts investigating the con-
struction of the curve with the view
of determining, for one thing, whether
the outer rail had the proper elevation.
The death list of the 3. r. T. disaster
was raised to ninetytwo yesterday.
Mrs Rose Calibria, 1885 Ninth Street,
Brooklyn, died in the Kings County
Hospital. Through a mistake of morgue
attaches the body OF Joseph Vancanzo,
S45 Gravesend Avenue, Brooklyn, was
until yesterday separated from other
wreck victims. His brother Louis and
a cousin, Mamie Russo, were also
killed Friday night. making three
wreck victims from one family.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-06
Broadway Lacks
Enthusiasm of
Other Elections
Crowds Cheer Returns, but
Excitement Is Less Than
Was Anticipated

Broadway, darkcned, heard the cleo
ton returns last night with far less
enthusiasm than it has ever been
known to display before. Not even in
side the hotels and cabarcts did the
crowd display anything like The ex-
nights.
Hotel men declared it to be the most
sombrc election night crowd in their
experience The attitude of the throng
was all the more noticeable, as it had
been confidently expected the usual
election night gayety would be multi
piled many times by the cheering war
news of the last few days
On the streets the crowd was np~
parently as large as in previous years,
but much Of the carnival spirit of pre-
ceding years was lacking. At Thirty
fourth Street, at Times Square and at
Columbus Circle, where bulletins were
displayed thousands crowded in front
throng packed itself into Park Row.
Allnight licenses were granted sew
eral hotels and cabarets. the police Civ
ing the humber at seventeen or cigh-
teen. In tho last Liberty Loan drive
three all-night licenses were issued on
one night and these we're said to have
been the first, until last night, in al
most two years
Practically all the hotels made spe-
/ clal arrang gements for entertaining the
election night crowds and bulletins
were read in all hotels and theatres.
At the Claridge one Of the Human
Flies" entertained the crowd on the
street by climbing the side Of the
! building and reading bulletins as ne
mounted toward the roof
Dinner parties were held at many Of
the larger hotels At the St. Regis
Governor Whitman and number of
friends had arranged to receive returns
while Candidate Smith made similar ar
rangements at the Biltmorc.
at the Ritz-Carlton former Ambas
sador James w. Gerard, Mr.. and Mrs.
Perry Belmont and Mortimer SchiF
were hosts at dinner and later ar
! ranged for their guests to receive bull
/ letins on the progress of the election
returns,
New-York tribune., 1918-11-06
Slain at Wife's Side

Mrs. Herman Struble, wife of a
postal clerk, accompanied him to q
polling place yesterday. AS they saun-
tered homeward, opposite 2207 First
Avenue Mrs. Struble left her husband S
side to glance at some articles in a
pushcart
Almost as she turned away she
heard q shot, followed by shouts.
Wheeling. she saw her husband fall
to the sidewalk. Blood trickled from
a bullet hole over his heart. He was
dead
In the confusion his assailant
escaped. According to some in the
crowd. two men had suddenly con-
Fronted StrubIe and after few word
one OF hem had drawn a revolver and
hred. Struble was thirty-four years
Old. He was attached to Station | OF
the Post Office on West 11sth Street.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-06
Tammany Smiles
Fade as Whitr11an's
Chances Brighten
Celebration Turns to Gloom
When 1t Looks as Though
Smith Is Defeated

AS the returns from upstate near
Whitman had polled a huge vote in
the rural districts which might over
come the large Smitl: plurality in New
York City, the 1900 persons in Tam
manv Hall, who had spent the early
part Of the evening cheering Al Smith
became disheartened. Even the faith
full braves gathered around the table
with Chief Murphy IN the sanctum
downstairs lost their confidence.
When the early figures from greater
New York were announced by Joe
Humphreys they were greeted with
wild cheering and applause. A goodiy
showing Of women in tho crowd shout
ed their approval when the spirit OF
victory for Tammany was in the ar
Some left early, and the faithful who
remained to hear the upstate figures
stayed in hope that the tide would
turn in their favor. There was nc
cheering or blowing of horns at the
figures from the northern counties.
Charles F. Murphy refused to issue
any statement, but said that the result
would be close. Judge mcintyre, D1S-
trict Attorney Swami and others Of
tie inner circle were disappointed at
the figures outside greater New York,
They recalled the election in 1902
when early reports indicated that Bird
S. Coler had been elected over Gov
ernor Odell, and the Republican vote
upstate gave Odell the election by s.
900.
At the Downtown Tammany Club
Sheriff Tom Foley announced the elec-
tion of Smith early in the evening. He
personally congratulated Mr.. Smith
whom he hailed as "the next Governor
Of New York"
AT the National Democratic Club
SIT Fifth Avenue, number of mer
prominent III the Democratic party
gathered to receive the returns. For
mer Senator James O'Gorman expressed
himself as intensely gratiied at the
indicated expression Of confidence il
President Wilson. Federal Judge Mar
tin r. Manton was delighted as Smith.
election seemed sure IN the early eve
ming.
although l am out OF politics." he
said, II hope this does not prevent me
from being gratified at the great ex-
preston Of the American people OF
their confidence in President Wilson.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-06
"Market Value" for Lots

". I. McCoun, attorney, Of Oyster
Bay, who was subp9n;ed before Magis-
trate Appleton last week in connection
with three lots which his sister, Miss
Harriet J. McCoun, had obtained
through u tax sale, has notified Samuel
Breslin, counsel to the Mayors Com
mittee on Taxation, that the title holder
will not accept anything less than "the
lair market value Of the lots"
The Mayors committee endeavored d
to get McCoun to advise his sister to
let the former owner. Miss Nellie
Cranz, OF 81 Park Avenue, Yonkers. re-
deem the property for an amount based
on what they had cost Miss McCoun.
The lots are in the ostutes Of Long
Beach. and. according to Bresiin, rep
resented the entire savings OF Miss
Cranz.