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V£)L 10 VALDEZ, ALASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1914. NO. 328.
GERMAN KAISER HAD NARROW ESCAPE
COSSACKS WITHIN FEW MILES OF HIS HEADQUARTERS IN POLAND
GERMANS CRUSHING ALLIES IN NORTHERN FRANCE AND BELGIUM
BRITISH NAVY ORDERED TO CLEAR SEA OF GERMAN CRUISERS
SAY STEEL TRUST
WAS BENEFACTOR
Attorneys for Big Corporation Insist
That They Saved the Small Man
ufacturer In 1907.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 24.—The at
torneys for the Steel Trust maintain
ed yesterday before the court that
the Trust was a national benefactor
and that during the panic of 1907 the
Trust had prevented ruin to the steel
industry by holding up the prices
and enabling the small operator to
keep his head above water.
This was done at the expense of
many millions of dollars paid in in
terest for loans to carry the large
amount of output of the mills which
could not be sold.
The attorneys for the Steel Trust
also maintained that if it were not
for the organization maintained by
them and the reduction of cost by
eliminating the many small jobbers
that the big British and German steel
trusts would soon control the mark
ets of the United States.
The government attorneys expect
to show that tjhe Trust has been
selling to foreign consumers for 25
per cent, less than to American con
sumers and that the trust has forced
many small steel concerns out of
business.
PHILIPPINE FORTS
BEING EQUIPPED
War Department Does Not Like the
Situation In China and Japan
Is Preparing.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.—A sensa
tion was caused here yesterday when
the War department officials admit
ted that the government was sending
large quantities of war supplies and
heavy siege guns to the forts in the
.Philippines and also sending equip
ment and guns for provisional forts
which are to be built at once.
The statement of the department
is that the conditions in the far east
are unsettled and that the United
States must be prepared. It is ex
pressly denied that an unsatisfactory
answer has been received from the
Tokio government regarding the in
tentions of Japan in connection with
the military operations in the Mar
shall Islands and also in China, it
is believed here, however, that the
department has received information
which leads the officials to believe
that Japan not only intends to retain
Kiao Chau, but also all of the is
lands in the Pacific ocean, which
formerly belonged to Germany, and
which would threaten the control of
the Philippines by the United States,
as they could be used as a base for
- supplies and operations against the
American shipping.
MARIPOSA'HAS
PASSEDJKAGWAY
The steamer Mariposa, of the Alas
ka Steamship company, left Skagway
at 8 p. m. last night and is due here
Sunday night.
J. D. Hamilton left for the states
on the Northwestern. /
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Soule left on
the Northwestern for their home in
Bostpn. v
Prussian Diet Passes Appropriation of $370,000,000 To Aid the Fight—Montenegrins Report Aus
trian Defeats—Germans Have Lost 140 Merchant Vessels Since War Began—British Have Lost
40 Out of 4,000 Says Admiralty—England Stops Imports of Sugar As Germans Are Sending
Large Amounts Through Neutral Ports and Using the Money for More Armament—Prince
Max, of Hesse, a Nephew of the Kaiser, Killed In Battle—King Albert Saved Dunkirk.
RAILROAD REPORT
IN FORTY DAYS
Commissioners Now In Seattle and
Believe They Will Be Ready To
Present Findings In 40 Days.
SEATTLE, Oct. 24.—Chairman
Edes aud Tom Kiggs, of the Alaska
Engineering Commission, stated last
night that the data regarding the
routes to the coal fields and the
route for the trans-Alaskan railroad
would all be in the hands of Presi
dent Wilson within forty days.
The office force of the commission
is now at work preparing the data
for the report and maps and draw
ings will be made to show the grades
find also data regarding the expense
of the construction.
The members of the commission re
fuse to give out the least indication
regarding the proposed route which
the president is likely to accept.
BRITISH STOP
GERMAN EXPORTS
Will Not Allow Sugar To Be Sold In
Markets of the World—Govern
ment Goes In the Business.
LONDON, Oct. 24.—The govern
ment has stopped all importations of
sugar to England and has requested
the French government) to do the
same. This action was made neces
sary because of the fact that German
sugar manufacturers have been ex
porting thousands of tons of sugar
through the Holland and Danish ports
and will use the money so secured
for the purpose of carrying on the
war.
The British government has pur
chased large supplies of raw sugar
and is having it- refined land will
retail It to the people at a low cost.
This sugar will all be brought from
British colonies and from America
in British boats, and thus will afford
the people cheap sugar and the pro
fits cannot be used against the Brit
ish, as would be the case if German
sugar were used.
The government will also sell sug
ar at cost to the neutral countries
now buying German sugar and thus
prevent the sale of that commodity 1®
Norway, Sweden, Denmark or Hol
land.
Weather Report
Valdez, Oct. 23, 1914.
Barometric pressure . 29,040
Temperature at 7 p. m. 30
Maximum temperature.46
Minimum temperature ..26
Mean temperature . 36
Clear, light wind northeast ten miles.
The town of Ruby has again voted
down the proposition to Incorporate
that town. The vote last time stood
57 for and 106 against Incorporation.
Apparently the citizens of Ruby feel
that they cannot afford the luxury of
local self-government.
LONDON, Oct. 24.—The impression
here is that the allies are being hard
; essed in northern France and Bel
gium, and that more men are needed
by the British to stem the tide of
German aggression. It is known that
500,00U new German troops have been
tlirown against the allies’ lines in
that section and that more German
army corps have reinforced the Ger
mans near Metz, but military experts
still believe that the German inva
sion will be stopped on the present
lines and that the slight gains at
Lille and in Belgium will not affect
the general result.
Russian Situation Is Uncertain.
The situation in Russia is uncer
tain, although the Germans have
been forced, back from Warsaw, yet
nothing has been heard regarding the
operations in Galicia nor in East
Prussia and news from the Russian
frontier is being watched for. It is
believed that if the Russian success
es have been as great as reported
that the German general staff must
send troops from France to East
Prussia to stop the Russian invasion,
•which is certain to follow a success
as ^reat as that near Warsaw.
German Kaiser Near Capture.
PETROGRAD, Oct. 24.—The Ger
man kaiser was almost captured dur
ing the retreat of his army from
Warsaw. The Cossacks had made a
rapid march south and passed the
German emperor’s headquarters, but
did not know that he was with the
staff or the fact that the staff was
located at the little Russian town
which they passed within three miles
of and then turned north. Had they
known of the emperor’s presence his
capture would have been certain, as
the big Russian cavalry division was
far superior to the headquarters
guard and could have surrounded the
kaiser without trouble and have forc
ed his surrender.
Capture Might Have Ended War.
Many military experts believe that
the capture of the kaiser would end
the war, as the German-Austrian com
manders are even now fighting among
themselves, while (Considerable fric
tion is known to exist in the German
general staff and without the person
al control of the kaiser the warring
generals would soon fail to co-oper
ate with each other and the Ger
man cause would be lost.
Germans In Poland Are Hungry.
PETROGRAD, Oct. 24.—The condi
tion of the roads in Poland prevented
the German commissary from bring
ing up supplies rapidly and as a re
sult the men were for several days
without food. Many of the German
prisoners captured by the Russians
admit that they were starving and
had had no food for days.
Germans Claim Victory.
BERLIN, Oct. 24—The allies have
been forced to retreat along the
entire line held by them in Belgium
and Prance. The German forces have
made great gains on the left flank
and have forced the French to fall
back for miles, giving up strongly
entrenched positions.
Germans Break Through French Line.
The German force at St. Mihiel, un
der cover of a fog, last evening crept
up to the French lines and drove the
French from the trenches, capturing
hundreds of prisoners and many field
guns. The positions taken from the
allies are now held by the Germans,
wno are pouring a terrific fire Into
the lines held by the enemy.
Refugees Return To Antwerp.
AMSTERDAM, Oct. 24.—Thousands
of Belgian refugees are returning to
Antwerp, from which city they fl^d
before the German bombardment and
capture.
Verdun Must 8oon Fall.
BERLIN, Oct. 24.—The war depart
ment announces that a terrific bom
bardment had been started against
the French forts at Verdun and that
it was expected that they w-ould be
reduced within a fortnight. The big
Krupp guns of the latest type are now
throwing shot into the forts and have
the range of the big French guns,
which cannot reach the well conceal
ed German field forts, while the
French forts are easily located.
British Want To Destroy Commerce
Destroyers.
LONDON, Oct. 24.—The admiralty
announced today that the allies have
seventy fast cruisers hunting the At
lantic and Pacific oceans to locate
and destroy the German ships which
have been preying upon British com
merce. These warships are also pa
troling the lanes of ocean travel be
tween the two continents so as to
protect all shipping. It is expected
that the Dresden, Karlsruhe, Leipzig
and other German ships still at sea
will soon be caught in spite of the
fact that they are all fast boats.
British Losses Have Been Light.
The admiralty also explains that
the Germans have only succeeded in
cupturing and sinking forty out of
4,000 British ships, while the Brit
ish navy have brought in 140 German
merchant vessels, many of them of
great value.
More Money for German War Machine
BERLIN, Oct. 24—The Prussian Diet
had passed an appropriation for $370,
000,000 to be used in fighting the
enemies of the fatherland. This is
an additional appropriation to that
of the Reichstag. Not a vote was
raised in opposition to the appropri
ation.
Kaiser’s Nephew Is Killed.
LONDON, Oct. 24.—Prince Max of
Hesse, a nephew of the German gm
peror, was killed yesterday in file
fighting in northern France. The body
was given a military burial by the
British and the grave marked so that
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BURNSIDE HRS
COMPLETED WORK
Two Bad Place* On Military Cable
Repaired—Cable Insulation
Wa* Faulty.
The cableship Burnside has com
pleted the work of overhauling and
repairing the government military
cable from Valdez to Seattle and has
returned to the Spirit City. Two
faults In the line were cut out and
new pieces of cable spliced into the
old line covering the bad sections,
and tests made by Master Electrician
Faust, of the Valdez cable office, and
by the master electrician on theBurn
Blde, showed that the line was In
excellent condition, as an almost per
fect Insulation test resulted.
One of the bad sections of the line
was off Cape St. Ellas, where the
ocean bottom Is rocky and the swing
of the cable on the peaks along the
bottom of the sea cuts the lnsulstlon,
causing a leakage.
Another bad place has been near
Sitka, and here a new cable for 15
miles was laid to replace the badly
chafed line. The operators believe
that the line will give as good ser
vice now as when It was first laid.
Roy Rutherford, the Fairbanks con
tractor left on the Northwestern for
Seattle, Where he will spend the
winter.
SOCIALISTS STRONG
IN THE INTERIOR
Expect Heavy Vote Aleo At Juneau
and In the Nome Division—
Many New Locals.
FAIRBANKS. Oct. 24.—The Social
ist candidate. Jack Brooks, has been
makihg a most active canvas for
votes in this section and in spite
of the fact that many men have left
this section his friends believe that
Brooks will carry the Fairbanks di
vision with more votes than was re
ceived by K. Krauczunas, who re
ceived a total of 996 votes in Fair
banks and on the creeks.
Many more locals have been organ
ized in the Interior and reports from
Nome are such as to indicate a larg
er vote for the Socialist than ever,
because of the efforts of the capital
ists, who own large association
claims, to save themselves from do
ing the annual assessment work
through the passage of the Wicker
s ha in-Johnson bill to save the non
resident owners.
, Headquarters here has also receiv
ed considerable encouragement from
the First division, where It Is pre
dicted the Socialist candidate will re
ceive between 760 to 900 votes.
Many Socialists are confident that
this year will see a Socialist dele
gate eleoted to congress from Alas
ka. <
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GILMORE AGAIN
HEADS OUTLAWS
Federal League Magnate Will Head
the League for 1915—Intend Se
curing More Big Player*. i
NEW YORK. Oct 24.—At the meet
ing here last night of the magnates
of the Federal League Baseball Clubs
James A. Gilmore, who has held the
presidency the past year, was re-elect
ed and the members of the league are
preparing to raid the National and
American leagues of all the players
whose contracts expire this fall or
next spring.
The league will not respect reser
vation clauses In the contracts, as
these clauses are void under the law
and cannot be enforced in the courts
and can only be effective through
the organization ball clubs refusing
to deal with any player when a res
ervation clause Is held by some oth
er club.
The officials of the Federal League
report that they had a better season
than expected, although 1914 has not
been a good ball year, partly because
of the hard times and also because
of the war.
The Alaska Water, Light and Tel
ephone Co. are having the big stack
of the steam plant repainted to save
It from the weather.
TAX DODGERS
CAUSE SHORTAGE
Treasury Experts Say Department Is
Losing $7,000,000 a Month—Will
Prosecute Offenders.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.—Experts
of the Treasury department stated to
day that 140,000 citizens of the Unit
ed States had evaded the income tax
and that the monthly revenue was
$7,000,000 below the estimated income
because of the tax dodgers.
The department now have 250 in
vestigators at work in an effort to se
cure the necessary evidence against
the men and women who have evad
ed the law and will prosecute them.
Secretary McAdoo insists that all
pay the income tax, as the bruden
should not be placed upon those who
are willing to pay taxes, but must
be paid by all with incomes above
$3,000.
BANK ROBBERS
SHOT TO DEATH
Four of the Five Men Who Robbed
Washington Bank Have Been Killed
—Deputy Got Two Last Night.
BLAINE. Wash.. Oct. 24—Two more
of the bank robbers from Sedro
Wolly were killed last night by one
of the guards watching for the men.
The sheriff’s posse had the men sur
rounded last evening and at midnight
two of the bandits tried to crawl
over the bridge and were shot dead
by a deputy who was watching for
the men.
Three thousand dollars was found
upon the two men, making a total
of $8,000 recovered of the $20,000
taken from the crshier of the bank
at Sedro-Wolly.
It was thought that only five men
were in the gang, but as four have
already been accounted for it is be
lieved that more may have joined the
Austrians after they left the bank.
All of the men so far killed have been
Austrians.
KMN
SIULS SOUTH
The steamer Northwestern arriv
ed In Valdes at <:30 this morning
and left an hour later for the south.
The Northwestern loaded ore at La
touche for the Tacoma refinery.
The following passengers left for
Seattle: R. L. Wever, X. Tatom,
James Kelly. Roy Rutherford, John
Kelly. Leo W. Bogge. John L. Han
son, J. D. Hamilton, Sam Nelson, W.
T. Soule, Mrs. W. T. Soule, W. A.
Schade, H. Markusen, and three sec
ond-class.
If yon want all the news all the
time, read the Prospector.
ENGLAND WILLBUY
AMERICAN GOODS
So 8ay» Treasury Agent Now In New
York—Reserve Board Holds a
Conference With Him.
NEW YORK. Oct. 24.—The mem
bers of the government reserve board
held a conference yesterday with En
voy Paish, the representative of the
British treasury, who is in New York
to arrange for a basis of exchange.
The envoy told the bankers that
his government would purchase cot
ton here of the value of several hun
dred million dollars just as soon as
they were convinced that the price
of cotton had reached its lowest level
and not until that time also that the
British government would place large
orders In the United States for war
supplies needed in France and that
it was thus expected that the $200,
000,000 owing to English citizens by
American corporations would be off
set and the shipment of gold to Eu
rope need not be made.
The balance of trade is now large
ly in favor of the British people and
the United States could be called up
on to pay in gold what it owes to
British subjects.
The conference will be followed to
day by another and an adjustment
will be made in a few days.
SHIPPERS FIGHT
HIGHER RATES
Tell Interatate Commerce Commission
That the Roads Must Take
Chances With Other Business
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.—The ship
pers yesterday entered a strong pro
test to the granting of authority by
the Interstate Commerce Commission
to the railroads to raise rates. The
shippers maintained that it was not
the duty of the government to aid the
roads to recover losses brought about
by the war in Kurope and that every
business in .the country has been
affected by the hostilities and must
stand the burden.
The railroad attorneys insisted that
unless some prompt action was taken
to aid them that all the roads would
be in the hands of receivers or forc
ed to cut down the number of trains
and curtail the transportation facili
ties.
The hearing was concluded last
night and the commission will make
its report in a few weeks.
MOOSE OUNCE
EDO TONIGHT
The committee In charge of the
Moose dance tonight are preparing for
tone of the largest crowds of the sea
son. Several of the sourdoughs have
been decorating the hall and have
made it to represent a big camp with
an open Are place in the center of the
lodge room. The tent and many rugs
and bear skins make the big room
look like a prospector’s camp in the
backwoods. The committee of ladies
will serve plenty of beans and flap
jacks. Plnkus' orchestra will furnish
the music.
E. J. Baker If up from Shoup bay
to spend a few days In town.
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