■ Palfrez Batty Prospector
VALDEZ, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY. JULY 11, 1917 NUMBER 101
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REWARD OFFERQ)
CHANG'S HEAD
Droops bksikgf.d in
TKMPLK OF HK.WKN
9100,000 Offered for Head of Famous
Mancliu General Who Started Re
ff'bellion to Restore Monarchy—Re
volution ('rushed Completely.
WASHINGTON, D. C.. July 11.—
United States Minister to China,
Relnsch reported today that General
Chang's troops were besieged in the
imperial palace and Temple of Heaven
and that President Li Yuang Hung
had offered a reward of one hundred
thousand dollars for General Chang s
head. The revolution started to re
store the Manchu dynasty to power
has completely collapsed, and Presi
dent Hung is more firmly seated than
ever.
.MINERS FAVOR GOVERNMENT
CONTWDL. OF KENNECOTT
decretal') George \V. Barry of Local
No. 188, Says Men Intensely
Patriotic
In a letter received here today by
Win. Conley, president of Local No.
188, VV. F. M., George IV. Barry, sec
retary of the local organization has
the following to say in regard to the
alleged pro-German sympathies of the
miners:
' “Cordova Daily Times publishes ac
count, of “so called” result of Ken
necott strike that is false in every
particular. It states the strike is a
pro-German movement and claims on
ly half of the men from Bonanza and
Jumbo mines are out. when the actu
al fact is everf man ts cut and are a
unit in their demand for a scale of
$4.50 and $400 pet; day and board.
Anyone visiting the camp and hearing
their sentiments expressed openly
would soon be satisfied it was any
thing but a pro-German movement.
I stood by a crowd of about two
hundred and twenty-five men discus
sing the situation with Lieutenant
Koehler and when mention was made
that there was a possibility of gov
ernment taking the copper mines ov
Ot, they shouted as one voice that they
would work for the government for
nothing if necessary.
“Please publish denial of those mis
statements of the Times and any oth
er of the dailies that think so lightly
of truth and veracity as to publish ab
solute falsehoods.”
Notice to Guild
m The members of the Women’s
"Guild will meet with Mrs. Harry T.
Whitley at twp-thirty tomorrow af
ternoon.
HUM BOY
KILLS SWEETHEART
4.
CRUSHES HER SKULL.
AND CUTS HEAD OFF
Young Woman From Fort Worth Tex
as I'ouml in Woods Near Portland,
With Head Gone—Sweetheart Ar
k
rested and Confesses to Crime.
PORTLAND, Ore., July 11.—The
beheaded body of Miss Zella Faulk,
aged 18, of Fo.rt Worth, Texas, who
has been visiting relatives here for
somv time, was found in the woods
near this city today. Rufus Coates,
aged 18, who has been going with the
girl, and who was last seen with her,
was arrested on suspicion of having
knowledge of the murder, and after
a severe grilling by the sheriff, con
Jessed that he bad crushel the girl’s
skull with a club because she refused
his advances, and had later returned
,to the scene of the crime and cut off
her head with his pocketkntfe, to pre
vent identification of the body.
GERMANY STANDS
FOR ANNEXATION
BKTHM A N N-HOLLWEG
REFUSES PEACE WITHOUT
Unless Peace Is Acceptable to Ger
many She Will Refuse It. Cannot
Agree to Cessation of War W ithout
Annexation and Indemnities.
I
BERNE, July It.—A dispatch
from Berlin states that otihiuann
Holwegg in a speech before the Reich
stag said: "I consider It my duty to
remain chancellor of Germany for
protection of the Fatherland. Peace
without annexation is not an accept
able peace in Germany. I cannot yet
declare our terms, but they will in
clude annexation and indemnities.”
REPORT DEMANDED ON
P$INT PAPER PROBE
WASHINGTON. D. C.. July 11.-^
The resolution of Senator Reed, of
AHssouri. calling up the federal trade
commission to inform the senate why
it 1ms rot ordered news print paper
ma"ufacturers to desist from “illegal
rcactices and exhorbitaut charges”
was adooted today hv the senate with
out obiection.
Further action by the department,
of iustic“ for the formal trade com
mission. it was unofficially stated to
day. will be deferred, pending the
outcome of the prosecution of manu
facturers in New York, indicted under
the Pherman anti-trust law. These
cases will be pushed vigorously, it is
understood.
The trade commission today made
public its answer to Senator Reed’s
resolution. It is explained that while
it has power to issue an order to de
sist. it has no power of prosecution
or punishment and members stated
that it was now up to the department
of justice.
NKJHT LETTER SERVICE
WILL BE WITHDRAWN
—
On account of a shortage of oper
jators on the Cable and Telegraph
I System, caused by the withdrawal of
la large number of the present force
; the night letter service to and from
all points in Alaska is suspended until
further notice. The night message
rate, however will remain in force.
The suspension of night letters will
only be temporary, and will be resum
ed as quickly as new men now en
route can be trained to handle the
business.
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CUBA'S PREMIER HERE.
Pftbl* Oaavaroina, Sac rotary of
Stata, Confer* With Lansing.
With several of the other official* of
the existing government of Cuba.
Pablo Deavernine. the secretary of
state, recently came to America to con
fer with Secretary Lansing on the sit
uation in Cuba, where the rebels have
been a serious menace for some time.
A dispatch recently stated that the reb
els contemplated killiug Americans so
as to cause Intervention by this guv
eminent.
TWO DAYS OFFENSIVE
BRING GOOD RESULTS
General Korrifoff Penetrates Enemy
Position West of Stanislau Two
• l<euvues. Taking Many Prisoners
And latrge (Quantity Monitions.
PETROGRAD. July 11.—The Rus
sian troops under General Korriloff
during the past two day's offensive,
penetrated the Austrian and German
lines to a depth of six miles, taking
a large quantity of munitions and
many prisoners. The gains in the
vicinity of West Stanislau exceed the
most sanguine expectations of the
war department.
SECRET SESSIONS ARK
BEING HEI.I) IN ITALY
-• • -
WASHINGTON. D. C.. July 11.—
Dispatches from Rome note the Ital
ion press as generally approving the
inauguration of secret sessions by the
deputies. The papers declare that ev
en the socialists are well satisfied
with the results, since secret sessions,
instead of keeping back important de
tails of government policy, have the
effect of promoting free discussion
and thus keeping the opposition well
informer. The dispatches also say the
Grimm-Hoffman affair has aroused a
widespread demand In Italy for allied
diplomacy, representations to secure
a more careful surveillance of spies
in Switzerland. Many important pap
ers passing through the intermediary
republic are known, the paper says,
to have fallen into the hands of the
German secret service.
The Giornale d'ltalia quotes Adolph
Smith, the English socialist, as de
claring that the German-dominated
international socialist organization is
dead as fa result of the Stockholm
conference and that a new interna
tional fabric, based on ideals of free
dom, will take its place.
SATURDAY IS DAY
FffiDRAFTING
PROCLAMATION' ISSUED
BY PRESIDENT WILSON
National Guard Will be Drafted Into
Army in August for Service in Eu
rope—Conscripts Will be Chosen
Next Saturday.
——
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 11.—
| President Wilson today issued a pro
clamation tentatively fixing Saturday
July 11, as the date for drafting the
selective army for foreign service. It
is also proclaimed that the entire na
tional guard will be drafted into the
army in August for foreign service. ..
j PIONEER OF GERMAN
AVIATORS IS KILLED
I _
LONDON, July 11.—A dispatch to
the Exchange Telegraph from Am
sterdam says Lieut. Josef Schaum
burg, the first German airman to use
an airplane in battle and also the
first to throw bombs from an airplane,
was shot down in the battle of Mes
sines, falling dead inside the Ger
man lines.
A quarter of a hundred young men
under 31 years have registered al
ready for military service, and the
number is increasing daily. It is be
lieved that Valdez will have a total
registration of about fifty by the time
the books close.
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Health Officer Silverman is having
notices printed to be mailed to prop
erty owners whose premises do not
come up to the requirements of the
board of health. The party receiving
one of these unwelcome documents
will be required to abate the nuisance
immediately under penalty of arrest.
COL RICHARDSON
GOES TOWESTWARD
SAYS OFFICIALS IV
WASH IXOTOV VERY BUSY
War Conditions May Cause Roads in
Alaska to Suffer, But Commission
Will Know It Is Not Fault of Ad
ministration.
Col. W. P. Richardson, chairman of
the Alaska Road Commission, lately
returned from Washington, stated to
a Prospector representative recently
that no one in Washington was tak
ing time to discuss the war, but that
everyone was working at top speed
and minding their own business. The
Colonel stated that the war depart
ment was way behind in handling the
vast amount of business but is rapid
ly completing preparations to dis
patch troops to Europe. He stated
that the newspapers of the country
had loyally supported the administra
tion in its policy of secrecy, and have
not discussed the war in any manner
which could be of value to the ene
my. While much criticism had been
diverted at the war department, it
had nearly ceased as soon as the pap
ers realized that every effort was be
ing made to push to war to a rapid
close.
Col. Richardson stated that the de
partment desired to prosecute the war
to a finish as soon as possible, and
while it might be a long one, every
resource of tiiis vast country would be
brought forward to end it speedily.
- “Delegate Sulzer is a wonderful
man,” said Col. Richardson, “and is
rapidly making friends among his fel
low representatives of both parties.
He is one of the hardest working men
T have ever seen and is doing more
for Alaska than has been done for
years. He commands the respect of his
fellow members, and they are helping
him in every way possible to benefit
Alaska."
Col. Richardson said there was no
occasion for alarm 6ver the attempt
by Anchorage to have work stopped
on the Valdez-Fairbanks trail, and
said that the War Department realiz
ed the value of the road as a thoro
fare to tlie interior, and that ample
provision had been made for its fu
ture maintainance. He said that it
was in a way up to the Valdez people
as after the road was completed this
year it would be necessary for our
citizens to work in connection with
Fairbanks and Cordova in seeing that
the road was kept in good shape, and
that if our people realized the value
of concerted effort w'e would secure
these town's co-operation to this end.
Capt. J. C. Mehaffey will come
North this month to investigate road
conditions in the interior, and will
visit Circle, Rampart. Gibbon and
Ruby, thence to Nome where he will
remain several weeks before return
ing south.
Colonel Richardson stated that an
effort would be made to complete all
roads in the territory this year by
surface graveling, building bridges
and culverts where needed.
WITHDRAWALS FORCE
OLD BANK TO CI/OSE
CHISAGO, July 11.—Doors of the
old private banking firm of Graham
& Sons, which has heavy deposits
were closed this afternoon. A police
guard was requested.
Deposits of the Dank, which was
a. private institution and did not
make public reports, were generally
estimated at from $3,000,000 to $5,
000,000. One of the Grahams issued
this statement:
“The increased cost of living and
general disposition on the part of the
depositors to purchase liberty bonds
and make Red Cross contributions
has resulted in the withdrawal of
large sums of money. All of the as
sets of the bank are in a safe posi
tion. There has been no high financ
ing or fraudlent mortgages taken or
given. We closed the doors of the
bank so that all may be treated
alike.”
Andrew Graham, who founded the
firm died last year. His two sons
have conducted the business since.
FRENCH SHIP
SIM BY SUB
Him PERSONS PERISH
WHEN VESSEL TORPEDOED
The Nan tew Steamer Caledonie Sent
Bottom in Mediterranean Sea W'ith
Great Loaw Life—I'ormerly Steam*
er Vedra.
PARIS, July II.—The French pas
senger steamer Caledonie, plying be
tween Nantes, France, and the Med
iterranean ports, was torpedoed by
a German submarine in the Mediter
ranean Sea this morning and quickly
went to the bottom, carring fifty pas
t
passengers and crew.
The Caledonie was a steel steamer
of 3018 tons, built by Short Brothers,
of Sunderland, England. She was 365
feet long, 40 feet beam, 19 feet
depth of hold. She was owned by th^
Nantes Steamship Company, of Nan
tes, France. Her name formerly was
the Vedra.
SPECULATION IN WHEAT
WILL BE BROUGHT TO END
CHICAGO, July 11.—Government
plans for food control, according to
a statement givenout here today by
President Griffin, of the Board of
Trade, include absolute control of the
wheat trade in all its commercial as
pects. There can be no speculation
in it. Buying and selling of other
grains for present or future delivery
will be unrestricted.
Mr. Griffin said the plan was for
mulated at a meeting this week of
the grain exchanges and government
lepresentatives at Washington. He
said complete details of the agree
ment wiuld not be given out until
the food control bill had been enacted
into law. when the formal announce
ment would come from Herbert C.
Hoover, food administrator.
BRITISH ADVANCE IN
MESSIN ES- W H TSCH A ETE
LONDON. July 11.—The British
have again made substantial gains in
the Messines-Whtschaete section. Gen.
Haig reported today.
Evans Due at Four Today
The steamship Admiral Evans will
arrive from the westward about 4
o'clock this evening, having stopped
at Fidalgo to load ore.
Alfred Noyes, tne kng:lsh i>oet. who
la now lecturing on nineteenth century
English at Princeton university and
who was in the war zone nine qionths
prior to coming to America, is of the
opinion that the United States could
bring peace to the world In a very
short time by convoy ing its merchant
ships traveling to European ports
Speaking further of the war. Mr.
Noyes says that the offensive in the
spring will determine the outcome of
the war on land, but if not the allies
will continue fighting until they obtain
satisfaction.
STEEL RAILS
I, A TOUCHE SAHJi FROM
SEATTLE 1X)R ST. MICHAEL
Ijtrjte Shipment of Railway Supplies
Will Go to Interior Via Yukon Riv
er Route— 750 Tons of Steel Ship
lied to Nenaua.
SEATTLE, July 11.—The steamer
Latouche sailed today for St. Michael
with a large cargo of steel rails and
supplies for the government railroad
on the Fairbanks en<^. Seven hundred
and fifty tons of steel rails were in
the cargo, going to Kenana via St.
Michael and the Yukon, thence up the
Tanana. /
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SECRETARY DANIELS
SAYS AMERICA UNITED
ANNAPOLIS. Md.. July 11—Amer
ica is demonstrating to the world
that a democracy of a hundred mil
lion persons can wage war effectually
and with unity of spirit, Secretary
Daniel declared today in a commence
ment address to nearly 200 members
of the Naval academy third year class,
whose graduation was advanced by a
year to provide officers for fighting
ships.
“Those who prophesied that Amer
ica would not go whole heartedly in
to this war have been discredited,"
said the secretary. “The only divided
councils have been as to the best
method to be employed and when tho
president and congress have spoken
their decision has been accepted
“We are going to war without pas
sion, without hatred, without lust for
land, without a trace of vengeance.
We do not hate the people we are to
fight. We hate only the autocracy
which harnesses them to the jugger
naut. Our victory will not only make
the world safe for democracy, will
not only strengthen self-government
and end the fiction of divine right,
but will also bring to the German
people a new breath of liberty and
hope for the day when they will gov
ern themselves and be no longer tho
pawns of militarism."
FEDERAL OFFICIALS ARE
PROBING EXPLOSION
VALLEJO. July 11.—A federal
probe was begun here today to de
termine if the explosion in the Maro
Island navy yards was the result of
an accident or the work of German
spies.
RUSSIANS CAPTURE FOUR
VILLAGES YESTERDAY
PETROGRAD. July 11.—A thous
and additional prisoners and four vil
lages were captured yesterday by tbo
Russian troops, in the drive on Lem
burg.
HD GET
HEAVY SENTENCE
EMMA GOLDMAN AND
A. BERKMAX CONVICTED
Noted Anarchist Leader and Confed
erate of San Erancisco Bond) Plot
Sent to Pen for Term of Years for
Preaching Against Conscription.
NEW YORK, July 11.—Emma
Goldman, the noted anarchist orator,
who has been under arrest in nearly
every city in the United States, and
who recently was arrested in New
York for preaching against conscrip
tion, together with Alexander Berk
man, who attracted public attention
on account of being implicated in th®
San Francisco bomb plot, were today
sentenced to serve two years each iu
the penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga.