VOLUME iS VALDEZ, ALASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1915 NUMBER :
HINDENBURG WILL
OPPOSE PEACE
Selieve* Time Is Not Ripe for Ger
many to Announce Terms
Would Be Acceptable.
VIENNA. Dec. 7.—General Von
Hindenburg, u»e commander of the
Teutonic troops on the western fron
tier who has won victory after vic
tory for the German and Austrian
troops and has driven the Russian
forces back from Poland, is reported
to be strenuoi sly opposed to the Ger
man Imperial chancellor acceding to
the demands of the Socialists ti at
Germany’s terms for peace be an
nounced.
General Hindenburg asserts that
the Allies are not ready for peate,
land do not. want it at the present
tinw? as they believe that Germany is
erjjp led and cannot continue the war.
tgf Inerts that Britain is the power
tt.Jich is refusing to listen to terms,
and that -»e other nations are mere
ly sacrificing themselves for England.
CHEMICALS PLACED
IN SHIPS BOILERS
Members of Minnesota’s Crew are
Arrested for Conspiracy to Pre
vent Cargo Being Delivered.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 7.—It is
now definitely known that the boil
ers of the steamship Minnesota was
disabled by members of the crew who
wished to prevent her reaching Mv
erpool with her cargo of grain and
supplies for the British Isles.
Investigation’has disclosed the :act
that the trouble was due to chemicals
having been placed in eighteen of the
Minnesota’s boilers.
Three members of the crew have
been arrested on suspicion of having
conspired to destroy the vessel. De
tectives in the employ of the federal
government have discovered where
the chemicals were purchased and are
trying to connect the attempt to dis
able the steamer with the Teutonic
conspiracy in which Detective Crow
ley is alleged to have participated.
The Minnesota will be repaired In
San Francisco and while the full ex
tent of the damage is unknown it is
believed that she will be delayed sev
eral weeks.
ED WOOD IS NAMED
JURY COMMISSION.
Judge Fred 1M. Brown, of the dis
trict court, has appointed Ed Wood
to be jury commissioner in this di
vision, and he will officiate with
Clerk of the Court Arthur Lang at the
Jury drawing on February 1, for the
term which is called to convene of
February 16. Only a petit jury will
be drawn later.
ENGLAND'S NAVY 18
BECOMING MORE POWERFUL.
NEW YORK: A correspondent
returning from Europe says that the
additions to the British fleet are many
times greater than the vessels which
have been destroyed in the war. One
yard- -Walker’s on the Tyne—has
launched, equipped and sent to the
practice ground for official test a bat
tleship superior in size, armament,
rapidity of operation and resistance
powers to the Queen Elizabeth, the
design for which was decided upon
last January. In addition to this, the
yard has Built a battle cruiser strong
er than any previously afloat also de
cided upon last January, several very
last liftht cruisers of the Arethusa
class, and many destroyers, torpedo
boats and other war craft.
The correspondent says that this
is bat a sample of what has been ac
complished in ship yards throughout
the United Kingdom. He says that
the ships that have been launched
and sent Into the fleet, and those
which will be added to it within the
■ext three months constitute a navy
more powerful than that of any other
■avy in the world.
SECRETARY LANE ASKS FOR $8,247,000
FOR THE RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION WORK
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Dec. 7.—
The friends of Alaska were disap
pointed when the learned yesterday
that the appropriation for the con
struction of the government railroad
in Alaska had been included in the
sundry civil bill instead of being
made a special measure. They be
lieve that Secretary Lane has made
a grave mistake in not putting the
matter of making the appropriation
for the railroad squarely before con
gress as under the sundry civil appro
priations construction work on the
railroad may be delayed for years.
The total appropriations which con
gress will be asked to make for Alas
ka during the present session, includ
ing the appropriation for the con
struction of the railroad, all of which
has been included in the sundry civil
bill, amounts to nearly ten million
dollars.
The appropriations asked by the
HOT WEATHER AIDS
ALASKA PROSPECTORS
The hottest summer known in
Alaska, melting the snow on moun
tain tops for the first time since the
p:.ichase of the Territory from Rus
sia, together with the action of a re
ceding glacier, uncovered and ex
posed near Valdez within 11 miles of
tidewater, what is s/iid to he the
greatest low grade copper ore depos
it in Alaska. The ore zone is 1000
feet wide and three miles long Trav
ersing it are eight stt.ica of schist
and quartzite from 24 to 200 feet in
width, freely impregnated ->i'..i ctaal
copyrite, carrying values of from 2
to 9 per cent copper. Also in the
same belt is found a great quantity
of malachite ore carrying a copper
value of $70 a ton.—Boston News
Bureau.
WITH THE STATE
i ,
Has Home Rule Charter and Believ
ed State-Wide Prohibition
Did Not Apply to City.
DENCER, Dec. 7.—There is keen
disappointment among the liquor
dealers in Denver owing to the Su
preme court of the United States hav
ing ruled that the city cannot remain
wet following prohibition becoming
effective on January 1 next.
The case was carried to the Su
preme court by the Denver Liauor
Dealers association, owing to con
flicting opinions of legal authorities
as the city of Denver has a home
I rule charter, and has heretofore held
that prohibition and kindred laws
did not effect the city government.
| The association has announced that
a syndicate of Denver liquor dealers
lias been formed to take over the re
maining stocks of liquors in the
state after prohibition becomes ef
fective and will ship them to other
states which are not in the dry list.
BRITISH OFFICER WANTS
METI/AKAHTIjA MUSICIANS
Capt. Warden, who is arranging
for the organization of a northern
regiment, went to Metlakatla today
in company with Lt. Christie of the
Irish Fusiliers. They will look into
the question of securing an Indian
Band for the new battalion.
INDEPENDENT LAUNDRY
BUYS ALASKA LAUNDRY
The Independent Laundry has pur
chased the machinery, business and
good will of the Alaska Hand Laun
dry from Mr. J. M. Pauley, who will
leave for the states on one of the
next steamers. My Pauley has valu
able mining Interests here and will
return to Valdez early next spring
APPROPRIATIONS ASKED BY VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS FOR ALAS
KA TOTAL NEARLY TEN MILLION DOLLARS—WAR DEPART
MENT ASKS 9150,000 FOR ROADS AND TRAILS AND 950,000
FOR MAINTENANCE OF CABLE—SECRETARY REDFIELD ASKS
APPROPRIATIONS FOR AIDS TO NAVIGATION, CARE OF NA
TIVES, MINE INSPECTION, COAST SURVEY WORK AND OTHER
BRANCHES UNDER HIS DEPARTMENT.
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different departments for Alaska are j
as follows:
Interior Department.
Secretary Franklin K. Lane asks J
for eight million, two hundred for
ty-seven thousand dollars for the con
struction of the government railroads
in Alaska.
War Department.
Secretary Lindley M. Garrison asks |
$150,000 for roads and trails, and I
$50,000 for the maintenance of the J
government cable between Alaska
and the states.
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Department of Commerce.
Secretary William C. Redfield asks
for two survey boats, estimated to
cost $500,000.
Coast Survey work for the coming
season, chiefly in Alaska, $240,000.
Fishery vessels, to take the place
of the vessels condemned and ordered
sold, launches for inspectors. $25,
000.
Providing buildings for natives on
the Pribiloff islands, $75,000.
Protection of fur seals in Alaskan
waters, $60,000.
Aids to navigation, $50,000.
PREPAREDNESS IS KEYNOTE
OF PRESIDENT’S MESSACE;
ADVOCATES NOT ALONE INCREASE OK MILITARY KORCES Bl'T
MOBILISATION OK INDUSTRIES AND RESOURCES—CLOSER RE
LATIONS WITH SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRIES KAVORED—IS
OPPOSED TO COERCING MEXICO AND FAVORS REFORM IN THE
PHIPPINES—SCORES FOREIGN BORN WHOM HE ASSERTS HAVE
POURED POISON OF DISLOYALTY INTO ARTERIES OF NATION
AL LIFE_SAYS SUCH CREATURES MUST BE CRUSHED.
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Dec. 7—
President Wilson read his message
before congress today. The message
is the longest he has ever prepared
and makes preparedness the keynote
for legislation for which the admin
istration will strive during the pres
ent session.
President Wilson advocates not
alone an increase of the military
forces of the nations but the mobili
jzation of the entire industries and
\ resources of the United States. He
favors Pan-Americanism by advocat
ing closer trade relations and mutual
preparedness with the South and Cen
tral American nations, and believes
that to be the modern conception of
the Monroe doctrine.
President Wilson urges reform of
the system of government in the
Philippines islands, and asserts that
the United States should befriend but
make no attempt to coerce the peo
ple of Mexico. He believes time will
solves the Mexican trouble and jus
tifies his Mexican policy in recogniz
ing President Carranza.
President Wilson declared that the
American people blush to admit that
citizens of foreign birth who have
been welcomed to this country of
which they were glad to become a
part, have poured the poison of dis
loyalty into the very arteries of our
national life and declared that such
creatures with their foreign passionr.
and anarchy must be crushed.
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COMMISSION’S PLANS FOR COMING YEAR INCLUDE COMPLETION
OF MATANU8KA COAL ROAD, EXTENSION OF ALASKA NORTH
ERN TO CONNECT WITH SHIP CREEK JUNCTION, EXTENSION
OF TRUNK UNE FROM MATANUSKA JUNCTION TO TALKEET
NA. DREDGING OF CANAL FROM COOK INLET TO SHIP CREEK
—CONSTRUCTION WORK BE STARTED IN INTERIOR ALASKA.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 7 -Secretary
Lane, of the Interior department, has
confidence that congress will appro
priate the money necessary to con
tinue the construction work on the
government railroad in Alaska. He
says the appropriation is based on es
timates furnished by the members of
the Alaska Engineering commission
who have spent the summer in active
charge of the work and have full
knowledge of their plans for the com
ing season.
Chairman Edes, of the commission,
states that should the appropriation
be made by congress that the rail
road to the Matanuska coal fields
from the coal will be completed next
year, enabling the Alaska coal to be
placed on the market. The construc
tion work on the road to connect the
Alaska Northern, • which has been
taken over by the government, with
the Shijjr,' creek junction, and the ex
tension^! the railroad from Mata
nuska junction to the Talkeetna riv
|er, are a part of the commission's
plans for the coming season.
The commission has also advised
that construction work on the rail
road should be carried on simulta
| neously from both ends of the road
jand should the appropriation be made
(two hundred and twenty-five thou
jsand dollars will be spent in the in
terior next summer.
The estimates, as supplied by the
Alaska Engineering commission, and
the purposes fur which the money
will be expended are as follows:
Completing railroad from Mata
nuska Junction to Chickaloon, in the
coal fields, $1,300,000.
Extension of Alaska Northern to
Ship Creek Junction, and connecting
road from Seward to coal fields. $2,
900,r00.
Extension of the trunk line from
Matanuska junction t > Talkeetna riv
er, a distance of approximately one
hundred miles, $2,300,0.00.
Office expenses, including $10,000
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Lighthouse depot, $60,000.
Cape Spencer lighthouse, $100,000.
Preservation of forests, $20,000.
Mine inspection, $7,000.
Care of Alaska insane, $70,000.
Education of natives, $215,000.
Care of reindeer herds, $5,000.
Medical aid to natives, $50,000.
Purchase of tools to enable natives
to become self-sustaining, $25,000.
Protection of game, $20,000.
Suppression of bootlegging. $15.
000.
Representative Champ Clark of
Missouri, has again been elected as
speaker of the House.
Following a parade to the Capitol
building with the Pacific Coast peti
tion which is eighteen thousand feet
long and bears five hundred thousand
signatures. Representative Mundell
introduced the resurrected Susan B.
Anthony suffrage amendment.
It is understood that an emergency
bill will be introduced to secure funds
to enable the prosecution of the gov
ernment construction work on the
railroad in Alaska.
•salary for each of the three crii'.um.s
;s' err $81,000.
Anchorage office and opera'ing
'expenses, $56,000.
Last payment on the purchase price
■of the Alaska Northern railroad, due
jnext July, $650,000.
I Repairs of the Alaska Northern
| roadbed from Seward to the end of
!the line, $317,000.
Seward improvements, including
the construction of terminal and of
fice buildings. $60,000.
Dredging channel from Cook In
let into mouth of Ship creek to per
mit of vessels docking at wharf,
$250,000.
Grading twenty miles of roadbed
from the Tanana river southward, to
be a part of the trunk line extending
from Broad Pass to Tanana River.
$225,000.
MORE 6010 GOMES
FROM 6RMITE MINE
Bricks Valued at $24,000 Brought
from Hobo Bay Mine as Re
sult of Last Month's Run.
Supt. R. W. Millard, of the Gran
ite mine, Hobo Bay, arrived last
night on the launch B. F. M., bring
ing with him bricks of gold to the
value of $24,000, the result of the
cleanup of the mine since operations
were resumed a few weeks ago.
He reports exceptionally cold wea
ther has been experienced in Port
Wells this season and that small
bays which were never known to
freeze over were covered with ice dur
ing the recent cold spell.
Mining operations at the Granite
were hampered for a few days last
week owing to the drain pipes having
frozen, something which did not oc
cur last winter. The mishap did not
necessitate the mill stopping as suffi
cient ore was in the bins to keep the
stamps busy until the water prob
lem could be solved.
Mr. Millard is planning to leave
for the states at an early date and
will spend several months on the out
side visiting relatives in the east.
FEDERAL PROSECUTION
Rl'INED THE NEW HAVEN
NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—Former
President Mellen. of the New York,
New Haven & Hartford railroad, of
fering testimony 'before the federal
prosecution of the directors of the
road, said that the New Haven had
been ruined by the prosecution of the
officials by the government. He said,
that the road, while udder his man
agement, was being organised with
a view to' bringing up the roadbed
and rolling stock to standard but that
the government Investigations of the
company’s affairs had frightened the
stockholders and the Bhares of the
company had rapidly depreciated.
MUTINOUS CHEW
BE EXECUTE
Atttempt to Surprise Guard at f,
tional Arsenals Failed as Gov
ernment Was Prepared.
SHANGHAI, Dec. 7. The me
bers of the crew which mutinied a
murdered their officers and then ga
battle to two warships sent in purs
of her, have been sented to he e:
cuted. The condemned men say th
had been led to believe that a gem
al uprising of the people of Ghi
was to have taken place to ovi
throw the Yuan Shill Kai administi
tion in order to prevent the restoi
tion of the monarchy.
The rebels who attempted to sie
the government arsenals were de*
sively defeated by the general trooj
many being killed and scores ca
tured. The attempt to surprise t)
guards at the arsenals had becon
known to the government and troo
had been assembled in preparatii
for the attack.
BURLESON WANTS
CREATE MONOPOL
Announces that He In After Contra
of Telegraph and Telephone
liineN In Alaaka.
WASHINGTON, I). C.. Dec. 7.
Postmaster General Burleson has ask
ed congress to appropriate three hun
dred thousand dollars to enable th
postal department to assume charge
of the government cable and lam
lines in Alaska. The secretary ha
also asked permission to use the U
S. Signal corps until such time a:
the transfer can be completed fron
the war department to the postal de
partmeut to the postal departmen
and organized under the new system
Secretary Burleson has announcer
that he is seeking to create a govern
ment monopoly of the telegraph ane.
telephone systems in Alaska. Hawai
and Porto Rico. He aserts that th»
government can give better service
in these lines to the public than und
er the present competitive system
and that the revenues from the pub
lie utilities would wipe out the deficit
each year in the postal department
service. His measure is sure to par
ticipate another fight against the ex
tension of government ownership in
Alaska.
It is believed that Secretary Garri
son of the war department, will not
fight the attempt to remove the con
trol of the Alaska cable and land lines
from his department but will object
to the postal department being per
mitted to retain the services of the
Signal Corps, as efficient operators,
are scarce in the service.
Included in the war department es
timates is an item of $10,000 for the
establishment of a wireless station in
Alaska but the point to be favored
has not been designated.
Alaskans Are Disgusted.
SEATTLE. Dec. 7.—Alaskans here
are dismayed over the renewal of the
efforts of the Postal department to se
cure control of the cable and land
lines in Alaska. It was hoped that
ghost had been laid forever and that
the war department would include in
its estimates an appropriation for a
renewal of the cable to Alaska to re
place tbe present worn out line. An
organized effort will be made to com
bat the absorption of the telegraph
and telephone business of Alaska by
the postal department, and a lively
row la looked for in congress when
the real fight on government owner
ahtp Ib expected to begin.
A Flight for Fortune.
A wonderful two-act film showing
the flight of a Hydroplane on top of
the water, racing against time, also
showing a wonderfully fast speed
launch. See thW picture at the Lib
erty tonight. <11'*