y0L 18 VALDEZ, ALA8KA, MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1915. NO. 100.
SIR EDWARD GRAY
GOES TO ROME
Leaves London Secretly—Object of
Mission Causes Speculation
By Diplomats.
LONDON, April 19— It is reported
here that Sir Edward Grey, the sec
retary of state for foreign affairs, left
London yesterday on a secret fis
sion of peace. Diplomats here pre
dict that the Italian government is
ready to enter the war and has so
advised the British government, but
that Sir Edward Grey is anxious that
King Emmanuel remain neutral, as it
is feared trouble will only follow the
division of the spoils if any more
countries enter the conflict and de
mand territory for the aid given in
crushing the Germanic allies.
Another report has it that the dec
laration of war by Italy against Aus
tria will be made as soon as the de
tails of the division of spoils is agreed
upon by the British secretary of for
eign affairs and the government of
Italy. If the last report is true the
announcement will be made within a
week. Sir Edward Is reported to
have left on one of the fastest tor
pedo boats for France and there to
have transferred to a train which
was waiting for him and was imme
diately rushed towards Rome.
BIG LIBEL SUIT
Teddy Roosevelt Will Try To Prove
His Assertions That Barnes
Is a Crook.
SYRACUSE, N. Y„ April 19.—The
$50,000 libel suit started by former
Republican State Chairman W. J.
Barnes against ex-PreBident Theodore
Roosevelt started here today. When
the court house doors were opened
a mob of several thousand endeavor
ed to crcf/d into the room, but as the
admission to the court room was by
ticket a greater portion of the crowd
did not gain admittance.
The legal battle will be watched
with interest. The detectives for
Roosevelt have been at work for some
time endeavoring to secure the evi
dence to prove the statements made
by Roosevelt of graft by Barnes.
FIGHTS POLICE
Attack Bakery Shop Employing Non
union Men—Police Fight for
Hours With Crowd.
CHICAGO, April 19.—A mob of
6,000 union laborers now on strike as
a result of the trouble between the
contractors and carpenters gathered
Saturday night in front of a bakery
shop at which non-union men are em
ployed and started to wreck the shop.
The police reserves of the entire city
wore needed to disperse the mob.
Mounted policemen charged the
crowd time and again, sending the
horses into the crowd in an effort to
drive them back. Patrolmen constant
ly battered the heads of those who
refused to move and as a result
scores of union workers are in the
hospitals or jails, while many others
are at home with sore heads.
The fight between the police and
the mob lasted for several hours and
the non-union workers in the big bak
ery kept the doors, locked to keep the
mob out. Several fire engines were
needed to douse the crowds and drive
them from the street.
GERMANS HAVE RETAKEN LOST POSITIONS
BERLIN, AprjJ 19.—The British
troops have been driven from the po
sitions they captured a few days ago
from the Germans in the Ypres dis
trict. The fighting has been constant,
the kaiser’s troops determined to re
take the ground they lost by the sur
prise attacks and the concentration
of 1,000 British and French field
pieces, which shelled the trenches ffcr
hours until they were battered to
pieces and the troops almost anni
hilated, then the ground was taken
by infantry assaults. The troops have
been waiting for the order to ad
vance since the loss of the trenches
and when it was given they smashed
through the British opposition in
spite of the terrible fire concentrat
ed upon them by machine guns, field
pieces and infantry hidden in the
trenches. The losses on both sides
were heavy.
Artillery Duels Along Meuse.
All along the Meuse river the ar
tillery of both sides have been thun
dering all of last night and continue
the duels today. In a few places the
artillery attacks are followed by in
fantry assaults, but no changes of im
portance have been reported.
Fighting In Moselle District.
A similar condition exists in the
Moselle district, where the German
artillery has been shelling the French
position and the French shelling the
German line.
French Repulsed In Vosges.
The fighting in the Vosges moun
tains coiginues. The French Alpine
troops have attempted to push for
ward but have been driven back with
heavy losses. The soft snow makes
10 JAP BASE
NOW III MEXICO
Investigation By American Cruiser
Shows Report To Have Been
Without Truth.
WASHINGTON, April 19—The Navy
Department has received a wireless
report from the commander of the
American cruiser New Orleans sent
to Turtle bay, in Lower California, to
Investigate the report that the Japan
ese warships were using the Mexican
harbor as a base of operations against
the Germanic allies and were also
constructing a big naval base and
coaling station in the bay, that the
story is manufactured of whole cloth
and has no foundation in fact.
The New Orleans had been ordered
to Turtle bay because of the constant
reports that the Japanese ships used
the harbor for military operations
and were intending to hold it.
BASEBALL FAN
J$ KILLED
FREEHOLD, N. J„ April 19.—John
Beroche, a baseball fan of this city,
was killed yesterday while watching
the game between two local teams.
Beroche was seated in the bleachers
when a hard drive sent the ball di
rectly towards him, and he turned his
head away but the ball hit him just
back of the ear and he dropped dead
in his tracks. The game was immedi
ately stopped. The police made an
investigation but no arrests. As a
result of the accident the ministers
here have started an agitation to stop
Sunday baseball playing.
Richmond Boy Killed By Ball.
RICHMOND, Va„ April 19.—Robert
Hoison, a ten-year-old lad of this city,
was killed, yesterday by being hit
with a batted ball. The boy was
struck In the head and died instantly.
Wm. fiagon will leave for Mineral
creek in the morning.
The launch N. and S. arrived from
Portage bay last evening.
DRIVE BRITISH FROM POSITIONS SOUTH OF YPRES — ARTILLERY
DUELS ARE CONSTANT ALONG WESTERN BATTLE-LINE WITH
HEAVY FIGHTING IN VOSGES DISTRICT—GERMANY’S ATTEMPT
TO MAKE PEACE BETWEEN AUSTRIA AND ITALY FAILS AND
WAR IS EXPECTED SOON—LITTLE CHANGE ALONG CARPATH
IAN BATTLE-LINE—HEAVY FIGHTING HAS TAKEN PLACE NEAR
YPRES, IN WESTERN BELGIUM.
military operations impossible and in
consequence the German commander
has not endeavored to take advan
tage of the French repulse.
Little Change In East.
Along the eastern battle-line the
war office states no material change
has resulted from the fighting which
started last Saturday all along the
line. The Russian offensive in the
Carpathians has been checked com
pletely and the efforts of the czar’s
troops to push through the moun
tain passes upon the plains of Hun
gary have failed. The German rein
forcements sent to the Austrian al
lies have reached the front in the
Carpathian region and have turned
the tide in favor of the Germanic
allies. The present battle-line ex
tends from east Prussia to the Ru
manian border.
London Reports French Victory.
LONDON, April 19.—Reports have
again reached here from Paris to the
effect that the French have captured
several important positions in the
Vosges mountains.
German Peace Efforts Fail.
LONDON, April 19.—It is officially
IRON INDUSTRY
FOR MU
Colonel Swanitz Says Big Leads of
Iron Near Seldovia and Nome
Will Be Opened.
SEATTLE, April • 19.—Colonel W.
A. Swanitz reached this city today
from California and in an interview
says that the big iron leads near
Seldovia and those at Nome will be
investigated by capitalists in the ex
pectation of establishing a big steel
and pig iron industry in Alaska.
The colonel is on his way north
and will devote his energies to the
exploiting of the undeveloped mineral
resources of Alaska.
“If the iron ore is found to be what
is wanted by the steel and iron man
ufacturers,” said Col. Swanitz, "plenty
of capital can be secured to open the
properties which are known to exist
in Alaska, and one of the greatest in
dustries of the north will be devel
oped. Investigations made of the
quality of iron at Seldovia and that
near Nome has led the experts to be
lieve that the ore is what they want
and that the Pacific coast will no
longer be compelled to buy Chinese
iron ore, but big plants for the reduc
tion of the iron and its manufacture
will soon be established on the coast
of Alaska and the cheap coal from
the government mines- will be used.”
ELECTION CROOKS
GO TO THE PEN
Mayor Roberts and Thirteen of His
Fellow Conspirators Start To
Serve Sentences
INDIANAPOLIS, April 19.—Mayor
Roberts, of Terre Haute, and thirteen
of the city officials who were con
victed of ballot frauds, have started
for the Leavenworth (Kansas) feder
al penitentiary to serve their senten
ces, as not one of them are able to
secure the necessary ball to keep
them out of jail pending an appeal.
A large crowd gathered at the sta
tion to see the ex-political bosses on
their way to serve time, but the po
lice drove all away with the excep
tion of the wives and relatives of th*
convicted men.
Ladies, see the new arrivals of
Kayser’s silk hose at Blum’s. tf
CANAL PARADE
OH JULY FOURTH
Big Fleet of Dreadnoughts To Pass
Through New Waterway On In.
dependence Day.
WASHINGTON, April 19.—The in
ternational fleet of warships will
pass through the Panama canal on
July 4th. The announcement was
made today by Secretary Daniels.
While the powers of Europe will not
have any ships in the line of parade,
the South American republics have
notified the Secretary of the Navy
that they would send warships to take
part in the parade and the entire bat
tleship fleet of the American navy
will be sent from the Atlantic to the
Pacific ocean.
At first it was intended to keep
part of the fleet of big warships on
the Pacific coast, but the unsettled
conditions in Europe has caused Mie
administration to change its plans
and the ships will return to the At
lantic coast after a few days in the
Pacific. j
President Wilson, who was expect
ed to make the trip through the ca
nal, has also altered his plans and
will not make the trip.
Our first spring shipment of Stet
son hats in the latest models arrived
on last boat. Your inspection solicit
ed. S. Blum & Co. ^ tf
COL RIOHMOSOH
REACHES SEATTLE
Says Lack of Money Will Curtail
Work of His Department—No
Bridge At Fairbanks.
SEATTLE, April 19.—Col. W. P.
Richardson, chairman of the Alaska
road commission, reached this city
today from, San Francisco and will
leave on the next steamer for Valdez.
Col. Richardson states that the lack
of money will prevent the construc
tion of the bridge wanted by the
people of Fairbanks across Chena
-slough and also the bridge wanted by
the people of Nome across the Snake
river.
"The commission will spdnd the
money appropriated by congress In
building more roads needed in differ
ent parts of the territory and also
in repairing and maintaining the
roads already constructed by the gov
ernment," says the colonel.
announced here that the efforts of
'the German government to effect a
peaceful settlement of the differences
between Italy and Austria have fail
ed and the German ambassador to
Rome has given up all hope of mak
ing a peaceful settlement. That war
will be declared by Italy in hope that
the Adriatic provinces held by Aus
tria may be added to the Italian em
pire within a few days seems certain.
It has been known that Italy had
hoped to secure the provinces as a
reward for her neutrality without
making a fight for them, but the po
sition taken by the Austrian emper
or makes it certain that it will be
only after a fight that the provinces
will be ceded to Italy.
Submarines From Austria.
ATHENS, April 19.-—From a pri
vate but reliable source it is learn
ed that in the Austrian navy yards
all the usual work has been suspend
ed and that the men are working hard
on aboil: twenty up-to-date subma
rines. These are intended for use in
blockading the Mediterranean.
Crown Prince In Berlin.
LONDON, April 19.—It is reported
from Berlin, says the Daily Tele
Telegraph’s Copenhagen correspon
dent, that the German crown prince
Is visiting the crown princess in Ber
lin and that her accouchement is ex
pected soon. The correspondent adds
that this is the first authentic news
for three months of the whereabouts
of Crown Prince Frederick William.
Floods Protect Czernowitz.
BUCHAREST, April 19.—The bat
(Contlnuea on page Z.)
BUILD SMELTER
AT CORDOVA
;As Soon As Bering River Coal Is On
the Market Is the Statement of
of George C. Hazelet.
SEATTLE, April 19.—George C.
Hazelet, president of the Cordova
chamber of commerce, in an inter
view today, says that a smelter will
be built at Cordova as soon as the
Bering River coal is on the market
and can be taken to Cordova, where
the ore from the interior copper prop
erties will be taken over the Copper
River and Northwestern railroad.
Mr. Hazelet says that he conferred
with the men interested in the copper
mines in interior Alaska and that
they ritate the smelter will be con
structed just as soon as the coal
needed for the operation of the smel
ter can be had from the Bering River
district. I ,
TURKS CAPTURE
1 SUBMARINE
LONDON, April 19—A British sub
marine operating in the Dardanelles
went aground and was captured by
the Turks, the crew being made pris
oners of war. It is not known here
if the lieutenant in command of the
submarine was able to damage the
vesesl before being overpowered or if
it fell into the hands of the enemy
undamaged. The submarine, however,
was one of the oldest types In use by
the admiralty.
Captain Peabody returned yester
day- from his property down the
sound.
L. W. Storm, who has been engag
ed in surveying mining property for
Captain Peabody, returned yesterday
from down the sound.
For pure drugs see window of Val
dez Drug Ce. tf
FRANK MUST RANG
SAYS HIGH COURT
Supreme Judges Say No Reversible
Error Found By Them—Par
don Be Asked for.
WASHINGTON, April 19.—The Un
ited States Supreme Court today
handed down its decision in the fa
mous Leo Frank case of Atlanta, Ga.,
who was convicted of the murder of
a 12-year-old factory girl who was
employed by him in his pencil fac
tory, deciding that Frank is not en
titled to a new trial. The case was tak
en to the Supreme Court on ground
that Frank had been deprived of his
rights because he was forced to remain
from the court room by the trial judge,
who feared that a mob would attack
Frank if the verdict was, as expected,
an acquittal. The attorney for Frank
had agreed to the request of the
trial judge that he and his client
remain out of the court room.
The last hope of the defense is
now shattered and but one chance
for the life of Frank remains, and
that is a pardon by the governor of
Georgia. Frank will be re-sentenced
to hang by the state court justice
and his friends will request that he
be pardoned by the governor.
Men’s negligee and dress shirts—
new patterns and styles—at Blum’s.
SALOON MAN LOSES
LEGAL BATTLE
Wanted Damages From Former Ore
gon Governor for Wrecking of
Saloon, But Is Defeated.
BAKER CITY, Ore., April 19.—Th
former saloonkeeper of this city wh
sued for $5,000 damages from forme
Governor West because the latter ha
r
closed up the salonos of this cltyi
the raids of January, 1914, lost hr
suit in the state courts as the jut
held he was violating the laws of tt;
state and has no action against tt
police officials for the wrecking rj
his saloon and the destruction of tt
stock of liquors.
Had the saloonkeeper been succes
ful a dozen suits would have be<
filed against the former governor $
the saloonmen, whose businesses 1
wrecked in the dry campaign of 19i
AMERICAN AUTOS
FOR RUSSIAN;
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Shipment of 175 Leaves Seattle *
1
Russia—More To Go As Soon j
As Possible. A
SEATTLE, April 19.—A shipm|
of 175 war automobile trucks arri
in this city for shipment to Rus
The trucks were made by Detroit m
ufacturers and are the van guard
a shipment of 1,500 from one mt
facturer. Several thousand machi
have already left Vancouver for V
lvostok, going on specially charte
steamers.
Shipments of war supplies, g
ammunition and foods are being n
constantly from Pacific coast town
Siberia. Several hundred field pi
left Vancouver last week, having 1
made by an American manufact ,
The Russians have spent mill
of dollars with American gun :
ufacturers In an effort to secure
equipment for the vast horde of
that the czar has under arms.