V0L> 10_ VALDEZ, ALA8KA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1914. NO. 327.
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MORE GERMAN TROOPS SENT TO FRONT
BOTH RIGHT AND LEFT WINGS OF KAISER’S ARMY RE-ENFORCED
RUSSIANS BELIEVE GERMANS MUST WITHDRAW FROM POLAND
GERMAN CRUISER KARLSRUHE HAS SUNK 13 MERCHANT SHIPS
BRITISH RELEASE
AMERICAN TANKER
Protest of the Administration Forces
Prompt Action—Several Other
Boats Still Held.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23—The State
department has been advised by the
British foreign office that the Ameri
can tank ship owned by the Stand
ard Oil Co., and which was taken in
to Halifax as a prize of war by the
British warships, has been released.
Several other ships held upon the
same charge of carrying contraband
of war are still held.
Secretary of State W. J. Bryan is
determined that the right of American
ships to carry goods between neutral
ports shall not be stopped by the
British government and insists that
the Amflfc-ican government will go to
any extreme to protect the rights of
neutrals.
THOUGHT HUSBAND
WAS HIGHFLYER
Doctor Friendly To Young Girls, So
Wife Put Dictograph In His Of
cfie—Her Fears Are Verified
MINEOLA, N. Y„ Oct. 23.—The
state has rested its case against Mrs.
Carmen and the defense has started
to introduce evidence to aid the ac
cused woman.
Mrs. Carmen has been upon the
stand for the past day. She has tes
tified that she placed a dictograph
in the doctors consulting room, be
cause she had been told by friends
that the doctor had many girls, most
ly young girls, whom he made love
to in his office under the pretense of
treating them; that he was a “chas
er” and a "highflyer," and that while
she was not jealous she 'desired to
know the truth and so had the dic
tograph installed and listened to his
talks with the girls and soon con
vinced herself that the stories were
all true and that the doctor was not
true to her.
The defense claims that some mys
terious woman committed the crime.
Lieutenant Edgerton today receiv
ed his appointment as captain of en
gineers.
PRESIDENT SIGHS
WNRJItt BILL
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—President
Wilson today signed the war tax bill
to raise funds for the government
during the European war.
Steamer Alameda Reaches Seattle.
SEATTLE, Oct. 23.—The steamer
Alameda, of the Alaska Steamship
Comipany, reached here last night
from the north, bringing a large num
ber of passengers. The boat will
leave on the 24th for Valdez .
Forest Fires In Bornso.
BATAVIA, Java, Oct. 23.—Tremen
dous forest fires are raging In west
ern Borneo and the loss will be very
heavy. Valuable hard wood forests
are being destroyed and whole vil
lages have been wiped out.
John and James Kelly, of 14 below
on Chatanika, arrived over the trail
today on their way to the states.
Germans Again Take Lille—City Has Been Destroyed During the Many Bombardments To Which
It Has Been Subjected—Kaiser’s Troops Marching On Nieuport, a Belgian Coast Town Between
Ostend and Dunkirk—British Battleships Cannot Reach German Trenches With Shells and Ger
mans Are Mounting Big Howitzers To Drive Warships From Coast—French Have New Army
Ready To Go To the Front—Italy Reported To Have Landed Big Army In Albania.
LONDON, Oct. 23.—The German
forces are being -trongly reinforced
on both the left and right wings and
it is estimated that from 500,000 to
750,000 new German troops reached
the firing line today. The kaiser’s
soldiers have taken the offensive at
every point except along the Meuse,
where the Crown Prince is still re
ported as in a desperate position.
90,000 German Prisoners.
PARIS, Oct. 23.—The government
is assembling exact information re
garding the identity of 90,000 German
prisoners now in French hands, with
the object of exchanging these data
for similar facts regarding French
prisoners with the German authori
ties. The French Minister of War
has issued regulations under which
money may be sent from France to
French prisoners in Germany and also
from Germany to German prisoners
in France through the Swiss postal
administration.
5,000,000 Eager To Fight.
ROME, Oct. 23.—Communications
from Russia, which since the begin
ning of hostilities have become most
abundant and detailed, describe the
Muscovite empire as being in such a
ferment that those knowing the Slav
spirit think the war now headed by
the czar will assume the character
of a holy crusade. They think that
the Russian hosts will be like an im
mense flood, which, breaking down
all dikes, will inundate everything.
A dispatch from Tetrograd says
that the volunteers who have offered
to go to the front already amount to
6,000,000. Half of these are already
drilled. Gen. Soukhomlinoff, the Min
ister of Wnr, declares that if the arms
factories havent time to provide ri
fles for all the soldiers they will
take them from the Germans and
Austrians, and that there will be glory
for everybody.
British Guiana Wants Coal.
PITTSBURG, Oct. 23.—The Pitts
burg Foreign Trade Commission to
day received a request from the gov
ernment of British Guiana asking that
some coal concern in a position to
ship 50,000 tons of bituminous coal a
month for the next year, communi
cate with it. Accompanying the re
quest was the price that the British
Guiana government official are will
ing to pay for coal, with a bonus
offered for prompt delivery. The order
probably will be distributed between
two or three coal concerns.
The Dunn Woolen Company, of
Martlnsburg, W. Va., yesterday clos
ed a contract with the British govern
ment for 2,000,000 army blankets. The
first shipment went forward today.
Similar contracts with other Euro
pean governments are being negotiat
ed. Russia and Austria within the
past two days have placed orders
here for 75,000 reels of barbed wire.
These orders were placed with the
Pittsburg Steel Company, at Mones
sen and the American Steel and Wire
Company. Within the past ten days
orders for 600,000 reels of barbed wire
have been received by local plants
from warring countries.
German Spies In England.
LONDON, Oct. 23.—The author!
ties are making every effort to gath
er in all the Qerman spies in this
country and wholesale arrests are
being made of German citizens. All
who have failed to register when or
dered to do so at the outbreak ol
hostilities are to be shot as spies
The German residents in England
have all been warned not to go neai
the coast without a permit under pen
alty of instant death.
Belgians 8aved Dunkirk.
The successful attack upon th<
German positions by the Belgians
who drove the German forces back for
live miles and inflicted heavy losses
upon them, saved the city of Dunkirk
from rapture yesterday. The success
of the Belgians prevented the Ger
mans from reaching the ^oast at a
point where they could have made a
raid into England with Zeppelins.
Germans Retake Lille.
The Germans have retaken Lille,
driving the French from the city.
The town has been ruined by the lire
f the two armies and hardly a house
but has been struck by shells or
caught in the flames.
Russians Think Germans Must Leave
Poland.
PETROGRAD, Oct. 23.—The Rus
sian successes during the past few
days in Poland are believed here to
mark the end of the German invasion
of Poland. The battle of the Vis
tula is believed by military men to
be the turning point in the campaign
and the Germans will be forced to
leave Poland within a short time, as
they cannot hold the line of commun
ication, which is threatened by two
Russian armies
German Losses Heavy.
The general staff estimates the
losses to the Germans during the
three-day battle at fully 200,000 and
they have been forced to abandon
many cannon, which became mired In
the mud of the poor roads in Poland.
Abandoned All Wounded.
Because of the lack of transpor
tat Ion the German army abandoned
all of its wounded who were taken
prisoners by the Russians.
Germans Forced Leave Vistula At
Many Points.
The Germans have left the strong
ly entrenched positions along the Vis
tula and are falling back rapidly. The
Cossacks continue the pursuit as fast
as possible to prevent the reforming
of the German lines on any of the
other positions between the Vistula
and the frontier.
Karlsruhe Sinks More Ships.
TENERIFFE, Canary Islands, Oct.
23.—The German cruiser Karlsruhe
has sunk thirteen British ships in the
Atlantic ocean valued at several
times the cost of the German vessel
and has driven the British shipping
from the travel lanes between North
and South America.
British Admiralty Orders Sinking of
Karlsruhe.
LONDON, Oct. 23.—The British ad
miralty has ordered the commanders
of the British warships off the At
lantic to run down and sink the Ger
man cruiser Karlsruhe and also to
get the Dresden. These orders were
sent to a dozen cruisers on the coast
and are to be carried out immediate
ly. The German cruiser is being coal
ed continually by merchantmen sent
from American ports and when Brit
ish ships are sunk .the coal is first
taken from the ship and placed in
the German cruisers bunkers.
French Say German Positions Unten
able.
PARIS, Oct. 23.—The German po
sitions in West Flanders are unten
able, according to experts and must
be evacuated unless the German ad
vance can be pushed to the coast.
Germans Out of Reach of Battleship
Guns.
LONDON, Oct. 23.—The war office
admits today that the German posi
tions along the coast are out of reach
of the battleship guns and that the
Germans are now mounting the big
Krupp howitzers, which have become
very effective at long ranges. The
German howitzers are directed
against the big warships.
Germans Have Plenty of Men.
BERLIN, Oct. 23.—It is officially
stated by the press bureau of the
general staff that the war department
does not consider it necessary to call
out the members of the Landstrum,
nor for volunteers. The Landstrum Is
the last line of defense and volun
teers come from among men who have
never served in the armies nor receiv
ed military training for one reason
or another.
French Warships Aid British.
PARIS, Oct. 23.—The French ad
miralty have announced that French
warships and monitors are aiding the
AMERICANS WILL
HELP BELGIANS
Large Amount of Supplies To Be
Handled By the American Minis
ter—Belgians Starving.
LONDON, Oct. 23.—The govern
ments of the powers now at war have
all agreed to allow the American min
ister to Belgium, who iB at Brussels,
to distribute the food supplies, valued
at $1,250,000, which has been gath
ered for the starving Belgians.
. The food has been secured in Lon
don and was ready for shipment sev
eral weeks ago, but the British gov
ernment refused to allow it to be
sent across the channel unless the
foods were sent to the American min
ister and by him distributed to the
Belgians, who are in need, and not
allowed to be secured for the Ger
man troops who occupy the city.
All governments have agreed to the
conditions Imposed and the Ameri
can minister to Belgium will have
charge of the work of aiding the Bel
gians. More funds are to be secured
and the food is to be distributed in
small portions to prevent speculators
from securing any of it.
POHIO Dili
DIES ID MADRID
MEXICO CITY, Oct. 23.—The re
port has reached here that former
President Porflrlo Dlax, who ruled
Mexico tor many years, had died at
Madrid yesterday. The announcement
created no stir In the city.
Jack Curley arrived this morning
from the Pinochle property, near
Valdes glacier.
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GERMAN REICHSTAG
MEETS IN NOVEMBER
BERLIN, Oct. 23.—The German
Reichstag, the legislative body for
the German • empire, will meet early
in December to discuss the war and
provide measures for the protection of
the empire. Many members of the
reichstag have gone to the front and
a number have been killed.
R. R. ENGINEERS
REACHSEATTLE
SEATTLE, Oct 23.—Chairman Edes
and Tom Higgs, members of the Alas
ka Engineering Commission, which
has spent the summer investigating
the different routes of the proposed
government system of railroads for
Alaska, reached here last night on
the steamer Alameda and will be the
guests at a banquet given by the
members of the Seattle Commercial
Club tonight.
A large number of the business and
professional men of the city are mem
bers of the club and will attend the
banquet.
MEL'S non
IS SHORT LIVED
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LISBON, Oct 28.—The revolution
started by the Boyalista in an effort
to seat King Manuel upon the throne
of Portugal, was ehort-llved. The
government troops have arrested most
of the leaders of the revolution and
the balance have fled the country.
Chamber of Commerce Meets Tonight
The Valdes Chamber of Commerce
Will meet tonight at the city hall. All
members are requested to be present.
HUCS ASK
GOVERNMENT HID
Insist That the American Government
Save Mexican Catholics From
Persecution By Carranzaites.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.—The Cath
olics of Mexico, aided by the Catholic
clergy of the United States, have
made a protest to the United States
government against the Mexican out
rages upon the Catholic clergy and
nuns of Mexico and also upon those
who believe in the faith of the Church
of Rome and are being persecuted
for their faith by the Carranza and
Villa governments. Many are being
executed.
Hundreds of men and women -have
been expelled from Mexico by the au
thorities and many have been impris
oned or murdered.
Hundreds of priests have been ex
pelled from the country under the or
ders of both Mexican leaders.
MCIL MEETS
TO EQUALIZE
The city council met last night as
the board of equalisation and adjust
ed many of the complaints made by
taxpayers. The complaint of the ag
ents of H. E. Ellis against the val
uation of 16,000 placed on the Ellis
corner at McKinley and Keystone ave
nues was not sustained, nos that by
Henry Suessdorf against a valuation
Of 15,000 upon the saloon building
known as the Copper Block. Many
of the complaints from property own
ers far from the business section ol
the city were sustained and the
amounts out down. Forty taxpayers
objected to the assessment.
Ilritish warships protecting the coast
from the German attacks by land and
that the monitors are working up
the rivers shelling the German posi
tions.
Italians Reported In Albania.
VENICE, Oct. 23.—It is reported
here that a detachment of Italian
troops have landed In Albania to take
that state for Italy and add it to the
Italian empire. The report cannot be
verified.
Many Germana At Front.
PETROGRAD, Oct. 23.—The Ger
mans have 1,000,000 additional troops
at the front since the first mobiliza
tion. The war department has been
equipping them and placing the new
men at the front with great rapidity.
German General and Staff Killed.
LONDON, Oct. 23.—General Tripp
and most of his staff were killed this
morning when the French artillery
officers placed a shell in the head
quarters camp of the German army.
The position of the general and his
officers had been ascertained by a
daring French spy, who hoisted a flag
during the night on the building oc
cupied by General Tripp and the
French artillery sent hundreds of
shells into it at the first break of
day.
Germans Lay Mines Near England.
The Germans have laid mines with
in fifty miles of the coast of Eng
land. The mines were laid during the
night by boats disguising themselves
as fishing boats.
Open More Dikes.
LONDON, Oct. 3.—The allies have
opened the dikes along the Yzer river
and have flooded the country, thus
retarding the German advance. The
French have sent monitors up the
canals to aid the held forces In block
ing the German march into northern
France. The monitors have done ter
rible execution upon the Germans and
have forced them to drop back from
all the canals.
Germans Advancing On Nleuport
The Germans are advancing upon
Nleuport, which is a Belgian coast
town between Ostend and Dunkirk.
Thee Belgians hold positions between
the town and the Germans, but the
kaiser’s forces number fully 260,000
and the Belgians will be helpless.
More German Reinforcements.
The Germans are continually re
ceiving more reinforcements from
Liege and Cologne.
British Merchantman Sunk.
The German gunboat Gler has sunk
the British merchantman Indura near
the Marshall Islands. Japanese war
ships are hunting for the Gler.
German Reinforcements Near Ver
dun.
PARIS, Oct. 23.—The air scouts on
the allies' left wing report that the
enemy have received reinforcements
and that several new army corps
have reached the German lines oppo
site Verdun. It is believed that the
new force will try to aid the Crown
Prince from his difficult positions on
the Meuse.
New French Army Ready.
A new French army of 600,000 men
is ready and will be sent to the
front within the week. The men have
been drilled since the first order for
mobilization And are now In excel
lent condition for war.
German Baltic Fleet Off Falsterbo.
It Is reported here that the Ger
man Baltic fleet la off the city of
Falstebo, Sweden. (The telegraph
editor spent two and a half hours
looking for Falsterbo on the map of
Sweden and could not find It.) /
,'Fat Hamilton will leave for a trip
to the states on the Northwestern.
LONG SESSION OF
CONGRESS CLOSES
Administration Leaders Say Work Has
Been Constructive and Want Dem
ocrats Returned Congress.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—The Coil
gress of the United States adjourned
today after the two houses had pass
ed the war tax bill to raise revenues
for the government.
Congress has been in continuous
session since April 7th, 1913.
Administration leaders insist that
more constructive legislation has
been passed by the president and the
Democratic congress than has been
passed in a decade and that the peo
ple should aid the administration and
approve its policies by sending back
to congress the Democratic members
of the House up for re-election and
also to Increase the number of Dea
ocrats.
BANDITSILED
Sheriff and Posse Kill One and Wound
Another of Remaining Four
Crooks Two Escape.
BLAINE, Wash., Oct. 23.—The ban
dits who held up the First National
Bank at Sedro-Woolly last week were
encountered by the posse near the
boundary line and one more of the
men killed, another wounded and
committed suicide following his
wound, preferring to end it ail to be
ing captured and placed in jail for the
balance of his life.
The remaining two of the five men
escaped. One was killed near here
yesterday when the sheriff and his
posse first came in contact with the
bank robbers.
All of the men are Austrians. The
man killed yesterday had $5,000 of
the $20,000 stolen from ttie bank on
his person. The suicide had nothing,
indicating that his pals who escaped
were given the money before he took
his own life, or else that be hid it
along the route.
The Canadian authorities are
watching for the men and hope to
take them prisoners.
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VflRELESnTlTlOH
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—At a cost
of a quarter of a million dollars the
Navy department has Just completed
at Darien, on the Isthmus of Pana
ma, the second station of a chain
of wireless towters, expected to main
tain communication between the great
Arlington station. Central America,
California. Hawaii, Samoa, Guam, and
the Philippines. This new tower Is
composed of three 600-foot structures
forming a triangle on a 900-foot base.
The other links of the chain will be
rapidly completed as soon as the nec
essary fortification can be construct
ed to defend them against attack.
Weather Report.
Valdez. Oct. 23. 1914.
Barometric pressure .30,020
Temperature at 7 p. m. 39
Maximum temperature. 47
Minimum temperature . 27
Mean temperature . 37
Clear, gentle wind northeast fifteen
miles.