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The Cordova daily times., 1919-09-16

 SESSION HELD
 BY CITY DADS

The regular meeting of the town council held last night, was attended by Councilmen Currier, Haef, Sapiro and Lathrop, and Mayor Adams, COuncilmen Brock and MacConnell being absent.
 The street committee reported that the regrade of First street had been completed and that other work was progressing as fast as weather condi- tions would allow.
 Bills approved by the finance com mittee were ordered paid.
 Under heading of Public Buildings and Improvements, the mayor called the councils attention to several places where private property was on the city's streets. The property dis cussed was the Charles Cerney prop erty and the Dr. w. H. Chase prop erty. The matter was referred to the committee on public buildings and improvements, with power to act.
 The fire chief submitted his report for the first half of September, and was highly complimented by the mayor for the manner in which same was made out. In the fire chiefs re- port he recommended that fire shed be placed on top of the Donohoe and Slater buildings to shelter hose which would be placed there for use with the standpipes, that the system of lighting be changed in fire hall No. 2 and that a light be installed in fire hall No. 1. It was moved. seconded and carried that these recommends tions be adopted, and the fire chief was authorized to see that they were carried out. The fire chief also in his report asked the council to define his duties as to the repairs of side walks, which was given.
 Ordinance No. 65, entitled "An ordi- nance of the town of COrdOva, in the district of Alaska, providing for a dog tax, prohibiting vicious dogs from running at large and providing penal ties," was introduced and read. It was moved and seconded that the rules be suspended and the ordinance put on it's second and third readings. The ordinance was adopted as read.
 Ordinances 66 and 67 were intro duced and read for the first time. Or dinance No. 66 is entitled, "An ordi- nance regulating the construction, operation and maintenance of coal
The Cordova daily times., 1919-09-16

chutes, freight chutes, and other openings in the sidewalks of the town of Cordova." The title of Ordinance No. 67 is An ordinance to create the office of city attorney in the town of Cordova, Territory of Alaska and to provide a salary therefor" Both or dinances were laid on the table until the next regular meeting of the coun- cil
 The claims of A. c. Long of $2,10O for the fire truck, Blum-O'Neill Co., for $5.85 and Finkelstein & Sapiro for $40 were read. The bill of A. G. Long was held over pending the ar rival of Councilman Brock, who pur- chased the fire truck, while the latter two were ordered back to the makers for the o. K. slips.
 Under the head of new business, the mayor stated that the United States marshal had asked the use of the city hall and city clerks office for the latter part of this month for the use of the court. It was moved and seconded that the marshal be allowed the use of these rooms for court at $10 per day. The motion carried.
 The fixing up of room for the fire chief was discussed and referred to the committee on public buildings and improvements, with power to act.
 Councilman Lathrop moved that the city attorney be instructed to inter- vene in the citys behalf in the com ing suit about closing Burkhart alley. City Attorney F. H. Foster stated that he thought it would be advisable for the city to intervene in the action, so that the rights of the public might be adiudicated in the same suit. There was some discussion but as there was no second to Councilman Lathrop's motion the question was dropped. There being no further business, council adjourned.
The Cordova daily times., 1919-09-16
OFFlCIALSBACK FROM JOURNEY
 INTO INTERIOR

John w. Hallowell assistant secre- tary of the interior, accompanied by the Alaska Geological survey, arrived in Cordova yesterday from Kennecott, where they had been for day or two inspecting the great copper proper ties. They made the trip on a speeder
 Mr HallOwell, who with Colonel Brooks and Colonel Mears, chair man of the Alaskan engineering com mission, has been making a tour of the Interior, is on a special mission for the interior department, securing information as to conditions in Alas ka with special reference to the gov ernment railway project. He cov- cred the entire line of that road from Seward to Fairbanks, going over the unfinished portion between Anchor age and Nenana by way of the Broad pass, which the road will traverse To newspaper men in the Interior he said that the country which he had travelled over twas a wonderful one full of surprises to one seeing it for the first time"
 This is the first trip of MT. HallO well to Alaska. q had heard much about the country" he said, "and realized some of it's characteristics. <'But it takes a view of it to grasp it as it really is" He said there was a deplorable lack of information about Alaska in the States, however.
 Colonel Brooks, who accompanies MT. Hallowell, for many years has been in charge of the Geological Sur vey work in Alaska, and probably there is no man better acquainted with the territory and it's possibilities. He was a member of the Taft com mission which mapped the various railroad routes proposed for connect ing tidewater with Interior Alaska and no man did more to inaugurate the movement for the construction of d railroad in Alaska than did he. During the war he served on the staff of General Pershing at the front.
The Cordova daily times., 1919-09-16
CONTRIBUTORS TO FUND
 FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF

The following additional names of contributors to the Armenian relief fund had been turned in by the various committees up to noon today:
 Collections by Mrs. Flames and Mrs. Harmon-Mrs. w. H. Caswell, Mrs. Bogue, Mrs. E. P HarWood, l.. Me Callum, Mrs. c. Mellison, Mrs. c. Hazelet, A. Flames, Delhi Flames, Mrs. A. Flames, Mrs c. w. Harmon, G. A. Harmon, G. c. Hazelet.
 Collections by Kimy Okahira-F. Yashida, T. Shagaki, J. Fujii, Nakah- ashi, Iriye, Fujikawa City Laundry, Mrs. s. Miyake.
 By Mrs. Ziegler and Mrs. Rosswog HI. Brandt, Mrs Sheffler, T. J. DOn- ohue, J. A. Olson, R. E. Elmquist, Florence Sullivan, E. M. Kane, M. Blum, Mrs. Sapiro, Mrs. Finkelstein, Fred Schaupp, Mrs c. M. Rosswog, Mrs. F Long, Mrs. E. P. Ziegler, Dr. w. W. Council
 By Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Ristine and Mrs. Canavan-Mr. NeWlan, J. Sheri- day, H. w. Achison.
The Cordova daily times., 1919-09-16

There will be meeting of the Womans Guild tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the rectory. This opens the fall work, and all the mem- bers are asked to be present. Any others who are interested in the work will be most welcome. Bring needle and thimble.
The Cordova daily times., 1919-09-16

We always have supply of pasteurized sweet milk and cream on hand. Also buttermilk and Bulgarian buttermilk. City Dairy. Phone 137.
The Cordova daily times., 1919-09-16
BILLS ORDERED PAID
 BY CITY COUNCIL LAST NIGH I

No one should be without an e1ec- tric plate, especially the kind with 8 different heats. Northwestern Hard ware Company.
The Cordova daily times., 1919-09-16

The steamship Alaska is scheduled to sail from Seattle for Alaska ports at a. m. September 19.
The Cordova daily times., 1919-09-16

The Alameda is due in Cordova be- tween 9 and 10 o'clock tonight, ac- cording to advices received this after nOon
The Cordova daily times., 1919-09-16

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Republican farmer., 1919-03-07
MANY REPORTS
 UNFAVO ORABLE

Hartford Conn, March 6.--A tax bill reported in provides that a per son making a declaration of real es- tate to the assessors for taxation in the grand list shall also declare the amount of the mortgage on the prop erty. An accompanying bill would also provide that money loared on interest and secured by a mortgage on real estate shall be exempt from taxation to an amount equal to the assessed value of the mortgaged real estate on the ara1Jsmene list of & town or city.
 Among the favorable reports to either branch were those bills such as the following: To give the New Haven s. GOO salary. at Waterbury S3, ,5O0 and in LitchneId county S2,5oo: authorizing the Fort Griswold tract commission to buy more land; to aI- low Waterbury to increase it's water supply but exenrpting Bantam Lake and certain tributaries of the Naug- atuck river; to compel a wife or hSIs- band in cases arising from violence of one party upon the other to testify as to such assault, wherein one is ap- increasing salaries in the Naugatuck court; making many amendments to the Shelton city charter; and one to the Bridgeport charter relating to as- sesSmenIS for betterments-
Republican farmer., 1919-03-07
HID IN GERMANY
 FOR YEARS

Paris, March 6-(Correspondenc of The Associated Press The ad- ventures of two French stragg CTS, Sergeant Lesqueru and Private Le- vesque, who, becoming separated from their units after the battle of Char ieroi. remained in hiding for more than four years in German occupied territory are told in the newspaper La Nictoire. In the early days Of the war, civilians helped the two sol iiers but as the German domination became weighuer, they took to the woods.
 They made their home in the fos- est of Sapogne in the vicinity of Sc dan. Their yelling was dugout so concealed Lat it was never dis covered, although the forest which harbors wild bear and other game was a favorite hunting ground for German officers The French strag- gIcrs lived on wild animals, hare and other game. One German who ven Jured into too close proximity of their dugout is also buried where he fell
 They made one attempt to escape in 1916, but on the Dutch frontier they were shot at by the German sentries and the sergeant was wound ed. so the two of them returned tc their forest The severe winter ot 1916 brought them terrible sufferings They were showed in and almos starved.
 They owe their lives to an old Bel gian poacher and smuggler who throughout all the years of their ad- ventures. helped them with provis- ions. They are now in a French hospital recovering fro the effect: of their nriNnttlrs.
Republican farmer., 1919-03-07
J. s. MARINE ASKS IS THIS
 GODS COUNTRY OR GERMANY?''
Returning Soldiers Protest Against Dry Law''-At tack Sneaks and Traitors Who Denied Them
 the Right of Suffrage.

Joseph Krok. 9th Regiment, [. s. Marines. in a letter to the editor of the N. '. World, writes;
 After eighteen months in France I was one of the lucky boys to come home, and one of the first things that caught my eye was an editorial in your paper.
 I will greatly appreciate if some one will tell me if I am in Gods s country or in Germany. After reading the papers and the replies of some real Americans, I would like to know if the fathers who have boys il France or in some branch Of the service are going to let a bunch of soda-water sneaks run the coun- try.
 I have seen thousands of men die and thousands who will be crippled for life fighting for freedom. but why so to France and fight for freedom while we have a bunch here who try to take our freedom from US?
 The best way to settle this question is to have all the labor unions declare strike, as they have done in Eng land. No beer, no work will bring them to terms.
 Why not let the question go till the real Americans get home? They have right to vote, and any mn that pushes this bill through is a sneak and traitor.
 Let Us hear from few overseas boys. Best of luck to the Evening World
 In this same connection, Frank Lynch, Company D, Seventeenth En- gineers. American Expedidonary Forces, writing from St Nazaire, France, to the editor of the CInctn- nau Enquirer says:
 Dear Sir: I have been reading with interest the several letters that appear daily in your columns in reference to the prohibition amendment that was voted on last November and carried by a scanty majority. In their cam paiEn the drys were fond of repre- sentlng at their meetings that to have
Republican farmer., 1919-03-07
HUN U-BOATS DESTROYED 5000
 ALLIED SHIPS s
SUnken Hulls, at Half Mile Intervals, Would Bridge
 Atlantic.

l The losses to non-Teutonic shipping
 1 during the war amounted to nearly
 eight billion dollars. Five thousand ships were sunk, three-quarters of them in the Atlantic, or enough to
 place a sunken hulk on the sea. bot 1 tom for each half mile of the trans . Atlantic voyage, according to a sum
 mary of International losses published in the Ruddcr for March.
 | The figures are based on reports of the United States Shipping Board. the
 Bureau of Navigation of the Depart
 ment of Commerce, the British Ad-
 mirLlty, Lloyd's Register and other specially prepared data.
 The Rudder estimates that not over | l5 per cent, of the total loss was due to causes other than German subma- rInes. The loss is so terrible, it says, that it has had a large effect on the increased costs of living and col modities the world over. The short age Of ships sent up freight rates. the danger necessitated bonuses for crews and increase5 insurance and other in cidental costs of the vast loss, which must be borne by the ultimate con- sumer, make the figure $S,G50, 900 900 conservative.
 10000 Lives Lost.
 Twenty thousands lives have been | lost in sea attacks or as the result of ! injuries sustained therein, according to the estimates.
 The United States, through it's inn 1 petus to building and because of the ! heavy losses inflicted or Great Brit ain, shows a gain in it's relative po- sitiou as a shipping nation on 1 August 1. 1914, the United States had but lS.G per cent. of the worlds ships | and Great Britain had 45.4 per cent. i When the armistiCe was signed Great ! Britain's percentage had fallen to { 3T.3 and that of the United States had risen to 25.G.
 | The figures given for costs of l ships. cargoes and earning power are | based or careful estimates of the 1 present cost of reproduction of ships. It is shown that this cost has risen in 1 Great Britain and the United States i from $40 and $5O a. ton deadweight to $2O0 and even $500 a ton dead weight today
 Equal Thirty Years Loss. Cargo values are based on the re- ports of the British Admiralty as to 1 amounts and values of entries and | cIearings iu war and pre-war years. Loss of earning power is calculated i on the best available figures as to what the earning power of the ships | now Is or might be.
 ! A further large item is added for i the cost of ships attacked but not i destroyed, this figure being based on | the cost of repairs and the loss in | earning power of the injured vessel 1 during the time she was unable to | proceed to sea. "The Rudder'' points out that the losses were equal to 90 ! years of average peace time loss due 1 to ordinary marine risks.
 1 Every ship sunk, says the writer, | could have been kept busy every mo- ! ment had she been ahoat.
Republican farmer., 1919-03-07
STRIKERS HOLD
 UP DELIVERIES

London, Wednesday. March 5-A German wireless message picked up here alludes to a threat" made by General Nudant, Marshal Foch's rep resentative on the joint arrnistice commission at Spa, because the Ger mans have failed to turn over to the Allies industrial and agricultural ma chfnery The message explains that German firms constructing the re- quired material have been unable to complete deliveries because of strikes and that a shortage of railway cars and the destruction of railways near Erfurt and Halle have also retarded the carrying our of the armistice agreement.
Republican farmer., 1919-03-07

Ohio dry by the time the soldiers of the forces abroad returned home would keep down unnecessary dis turbances that will come when the soldiers return.
 Such assertions as these seem to insinuate that we are men who are unable to control ourselves, and must have certain restrictions to abide by to carry ourselves as gentlemen in civilian life. This means that we must be controlled in civilian. life as we are, necessarily, controlled in mil itary life, for no army could be kept together unless it was under military conditions.
 The men of the American Expedi- tionary Forces that come from Ohio represent a state, and should have a voice in the popular government of the state. as we did before the war. If the prohibition amendment could be passed during our absence why not other ones of equal or greater importance?
 We feel bound to make a collective protest of the passage during our absence of certain amendments of state and national importance, and feel that we should be given the op- portunity of at least voting for or against them. We feel that we have the influence of the better class of people. as we had their backing dur ing the war. This influence we do not intend to lose; our intentions are strictly for the folk at home, as it was during the recent fighting. And we do not intend to return to Ohio and play the role of the professional soldier to retain the friendship of the homefolk in such fashion. We aim to return to our homes without bois- terous manner and take up life where we left off when we went to France.
 The above represents the senti- ment of the majority of the men Of this organization, and there are many Ohioans in it who have a record O. IS months of hard service in France.
Republican farmer., 1919-03-07
GERMANS MUST
 WEAR UNIFORMS

Coblenz, Wednesday, March h. CBy The Associated Press )---AH Ger man officers and men on duty in the zone occupied by American troops must wear uniforms when they ap- pear in the street, according to an order, effective Thursday, issued by General Dtcknan today. The order is q result of a tendency on the part of German senior officers to wear civ tHan clothes because of thetr dislike to being compelled by a general or der issued some time ago to salute all American officers. The Germans claimed that it was very distasteful for German officers of Eigh rank to have to salute American heutenants.
 In framing the order, General Dick man took into consideration reports that the Germans were taking advan- tage of their positions in being able to appear in uniform or in civilian clothes at will The new order calls for g weekly registration Of each German officer and soldier on duty in this area Several hundred of them were attached to various missions here and also acting as disburgng agents and in medical units caring for wounded German soldiers.
 The Duesseldorf NaGhrichten says the grain deficit in Germany for 1919 is 100000 tons, and adds:
 The crop for 1919 would never have been sufficient, but, since Posen, which supplies one-tenth of the grain pro- duced by Germany, has been added to Poland the deficit becomes serious.'
Republican farmer., 1919-03-07
RUSSIAN LEADER
 TALKS OF PEOPLE
Article in American Senti nel Says Russian Culture
 Is Recent.

ArchangeI, Dec. 26. Via London Mar. 6. (Correspondence of The As sociated Press)-An interesting in sight into the views of a Russian Leader on the troubles and failings of his own people is given by Pres1- dent Nicholas B. TchaikovsIzy of tha Northern Region in an article written for The American Sentinel the news paper for American soldiers, pub Hshed at ArchangeI.
 Writing for the members of the American EXpedttionary Force, Presi- dent Tchaikovsky said: It is rue that Russian culture is very recent and lacks the brilliancy and accom- pHshment that are so characteristics of the large American cities. It iS particularly noticeable that what we borrow from abroad does not easily adjust itself to our foundations. But, as if afraid to be left behind by our more progressive neighbors, we have acquired this foreign super-structure without having first properly pre- pared the foundation.
 Thus we had brilliant electric lighting in our capitals long ago, whereas the peasants in the villages have only recently ceased using wood splinters to light their huts. Our uni versailles and scientists are well known throughout the world. while scarcely thirty per cent. of our country folk are able to read and wirte.
 In our social and political life, one observes the same pecunarity For more than fifty years wei ived under a rule of veritable slavery 10 bureaucrats. imperial gendarne and police, being deprived of the most elementary rights of citizenship. But at the same time we used 10 have all shades of political and sociaHstic doctrine, whose opponents sought an immediate answer to the social prob- Iems of ideal methods of distributing the wealth of the country.
 "Tn a -.urd. we have been very auxiou- 10 absorb the latest ideas of W western civilization without being at all sure that there was room for them in our own life. We have all ways been more concerned with the affairs of the wide world than with the crying needs and faults of our own nation. We have actually learn ed to be indifferent to our own na- tional interests and ashamed to be patriotic.
 Unfortunately, some of our splen- did natural gifts, our achievements in art. music and literature have given some of us the conceit that we have been called upon to teach other nations how to solve their most diff icult and complicated problems Thus ir is said that Lentne, accord ing to his own statement. undertook so daringIy his dangerous experiment with our Russian affairs not so much for own sake as to teach a. lesson to all mankind. Leaving aside his other motives. it would be difficult to find 8 better personifcatiOn of vanity and conceit.''
Republican farmer., 1919-03-07
POLITICS KEY TO
 SENATE EPISODE

London, March 6-President Will sons speech at New York occupies a prominent place in the news editor .5a1 columns of the papers here Some editors see in American domestic pol itics the key to the Senate episode. The Telegraph says:
 MT Wilson's opponents in the Senate, had not as a matter of fact bound themselves to any course of action too firmly to adopt another if the President should make good with American public opinion in the end All depends upon the sense in which that opinion may make itself mani fest when the treaty of peace and the League of Nations have been given final form. There, for the present, We must leave this strange and un- certain situation"
 European democracies are watch ing to see whether the impulse which brought America, to their side for the purpose of finishing the war will keep her at their side for the purpose of rearing the fabric of q waT-free world" says the Chronicle. They are not watching without anxiety for they know that American cO-opera- ton is indispensable if the fabric is 10 stand
 The News says;
 MT Wilson's appeal for Americas cooperation in the salvation of the world is as irresistible as his indict- ment of the selfish particularism of
 ne opponents of the lea gue is un- l. .ansyyerabIe Constitution ally. the opposition of this solid bloc ! of Republicans in the Senate looks i formidable. Actually, as President ] Wilson confidentally recognizes, the issue is with the people. for no Senate could refuse to ratify treaties esta'b- i fishing a League Of Nations that com | manded the manifest and eXpressed ' approval of the people of America D i What the Senate seems to want i must appear to practical men the i natural or1er of procedure" says the l Post Peace Is an urgent and i'm mediate question; the league is a vague and still doubtful system. The
 world wants time to think out these 1 things and does not Nike being rush ed
 into the plan by the enthusiasm of its 1 idealiSts.''
Republican farmer., 1919-03-07
FOUR KILLED:
 TWO INJURED

Philadelphia March 6.---Four train- men were Killed and two others badly injured t1 0 rear-end collision today on the Trenton cutoff of the Penn sylvania arilroad near Willow Grove Pa
 The killed:
 William C+ingerich, Harrisburg. Clyde Campbell, S. J. Donohue and C. E. altman. Enola, Pa.
 William J. Flora, E1nola, suffered a racture of a leg and serious burns and D. H. Miller, Enola, was burned.
 A freight train had stopped for wa ter at the Davisville bridge. Another train crashed into it. Fifteen box cars were derailed. The wreclzage caught fire and much freight was de - Istroyed. The bridge also was burned