Ualiiez Haily Prospector
VOLUME XIV. VALDEZ, ALASKA WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 89. 1917 NUMBER 192
NEWS STORY
ISDENjEO
• Miss Rankin Arrives in Butte With
out Definite Plans for Settling
. Strike Troubles
BUTTE, Mont., Aug. 29.—Con
gresswoman Jeanette Rankin was
welcomed to Butte by a throng of
several thousand people as she step
ped from a train at 7:40 o’clock. It
is her first visit to her home state
since taking her seat as the country’s
first congresswoman.
In a half-dozen sentences Miss
Rankin expressed pleasure at being
among her constituents again and to
the striking miners present sounded
a note of warning, telling them to
obey the laws and not to attempt to
parade.
A hundred police and sheriff’s offi
cers were present to enforce Acting
Mayor Hanratty’s orders prohibiting
a parade. Since the start of industrial
, discord in Butte parades or demon-,
strations have been forbidden.
In an interview Miss Rankin said
she proposed to be able to settle the
present labor troubles and to this
- end she offered her services as medi
ator.
Miss Rankin had formed no plans
for carrying out her announced in
tention of taking a hand in the local
labor situation this morning. In an
interview, given out by her secretary
upon her arrival in Butte, Miss Ran
kin took occasion to deny as absurd
and ridiculous an alleged interview
in a Washington newspaper of Aug
ust 8, in which she is said to have re
marked that the copper companies
of Montana were fighting her and
that in other days she might have
' been a mark for assassins. The alleg
ed interview she said, ‘was fiction
pure and simple.’
Plans for the appearance of Miss
Rankin as speaker at a mass meet
ing called by the Metal Trades Coun
cil of Butte for Saturday have not
matured. It was expected that Miss
kankin would today meet with rep
resentatives of the Mine Workers’ un
ion, the organization led by alleged
I. W. W. members.
Her reception at Butte-last night
was an enthusiastic one. A large
crowd of miners and others, and
several hundred women, gathered at
the station. Miss Rankin was escorted
to her hotel by a squad of police,
who had been detailed to prevent dis
orders. There was no parade, altho
several men who attempted to organ
ize one were placed under arrest.
Miss Raiikin stated today that her
efforts to compose the labor situation
here are entirely unofficial and that
she has no connection whatever with
the impending visit here of Judge
Covington, of the supreme court of
the District of Columbia, who is com
ing as an investigator for President
Wilson.
Howard—“I passed by your house
last night”
Vera—“I thank you."
PLAN PUBLICITY
FOR LIBERTY LOAN
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.—A de
tailed plan for advertising the next
* issue of liberty loaji bonds in news
papers and other mediums of pub
licity to cost from $1,000,000 to $2,
000,000 and to be paid for by the
government was presented today to
Secretary McAdoo by the National
Advertising Advisory board of the As
sociated Advertising Clubs of the
World with the recommendation that
it be adopted.
PRESIDENT SENDS
ANSWER TO POPE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 29.—
While the text of the letter has not
, been made public, it was stated this
afternoon by the War Department
that President Wilson had forwarded
his answer to Pope Benedict’s peace
proposals. t ^
• China Takes Austrian Vessels
SHANGHAI, China., Aug. 29.—3
Austrian merchantment interned In
the harbor have been taken over by
* Chinese naval forces. The ships were
undamaged and no resistance was of
fered. The German and Austrian
ships now taken over have an aggre
gate tonnage of 18,000.
CONGRESSMAN IN ARMY.
Puguatua P. Garrfnar Paaigna
^ Pmn» Houaa to Baoomo Offioar.
Photo by American Press Association
Representative Augustus P. Gardner
of Massachusetts had to resign from
congress to enter the army. Mr. Gard
ner has been one of the most active
figures in the movement for military
preparedness and was a member of the
house ways and means committee. He
is the first member of either house to
quit congress for military service in
.the present war. He holds the rank
of colonel in the Officers’ Reserve
corps, adjutnnt general’s department,
and reports to Major General Leonard
Wood's headquarters at Charleston
8. C.
Gen. Korniloff Asks That Death Pen
alty for Desertion Should l>e
Restored
MOSCOW, Aug. 29.—Premier Ker
ensky, after a conference with Gen
eral Korniloff, in command of the
Russian armies, said the situation
was very had. General Korniloff de
clared that the death penalty for de
sertion be restored. He stated that the
situation on the Russian front could
not be described. That ®ie Russians
had lost the whole of Galicia and
Bukowina provinces and that the ene
my had crossed the Russian frontier
and was threatening the fertile south
ern provinces, and endeavoring to
destroy the remainder of the Ruman
ian army.
General Korniloff declared that it
was absolutely necessary for Russia
to hold the shores of the Gulf of Riga,
otherwise the city of Petrograd would
be opened wide to the German invad
ers.
More Plotters to be Arrested
SAN FRANCISCO,- Aug. 29.—Ad
ditional arrests in the alleged plot to
spirit Franz Bopp, former German
consul general here, and E. H. von
Schack, former vice consul, from Fort
McDowall, where they are interned,
and smuggle them into Mexico, will
be made soon, it was announced to
day by federal authorities. Lawrence
De Lacy and D. Harnedy were releas
ed on bonds of $10,000 each by Uni
ted States Commissioner Francis
Krull, and ordered to appear for pre
liminary hearing next Wednesday.
Iiondon is Worked Up
LONDON, Aug. 29.—The parade
of American soldiers in London di
vides with the new Lens battle and
the pope’s peace plan, the most pro
minent columns of the mornings’
newspapers. The description of the
march and incidents fill in some pap
ers three columns. The picture pap
ers display many scenes of marching
Americans at various points of the
route. “Yesterday is a day to be
marked with a white stone in En
gland’s and America’s history,” says
the Morning Post.
Notice to Lady
.On Sunday evening you were seen
wearing the Irish crochet collar
which was taken from my house.
This Is your last chance to return It.
Mrs. P. Reed. It
BOOZE BEING
WPS FRISCO
Since British Columbia Went Dry
Dealers are Kximrting Stocks
to the States
VICTORIA, Aug. 29.—The recent
parliamentary bill enacted placing
the province of British Columbia on
the dry list is causing wholesale ex
portations of liquors from the pro
vince to the States. The dealers in
this city are shipping their stocks out
to San Francisco, the only wet spot
on the coast.
NATIVES ARE IN
NEED OF CLOTHING
Word has been received by J. C.
Tolman, from Seldovia, that owing to
the short salmon run in Cook Inlet
and the practical failure of the hump
back salmon run, the natives there
are very short of money and sup
plies.
Clothing is needed and Tolman has
agreed to box and send all clothing
donated here. Anything in the way of
garments or shoes will be welcomed
by the natives, many of whom are
too old to work, even if the salmon
run had been up to its usual mark.
Notify Tolman if you have clothing
to send and he will call and take it
for shipment!—Gateway.
HOLLAND MUST GET
GRAIN OR STARVE
AMSTERDAM, Aug. 29.—“If we
fail to persuade the American gov
ernment to permit a continuance of
the supply of grain, it will mean mis
ery and economic ruin for Holland,”
unanimously declared the members
of the official Dutch mission who are
expected to sail for the United States
this week, and who were interviewed
today in a body by The Associated
Press.
Whether such an eventuality
would ultimately force Holland into
the war, the members of the mission
did not care to prophesy. This, they
contended, would manifestly make
Holland’s position more serious and
would make her more than ever de
pendent on the central powers, to
whom she presumably would be ob
liged to turn to to try to get grain,
as well as the present essential coal,
necessarily in exchange for equival
ent concessions and in which case
the American aim of stopping Dutch
food exports toward Germany would
still be defeated.
BELIEVE SUB AT
nil
Board of Underwriters Reports Many
Vessels Overdue From This
Coast and Oriental
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 29.—The
board of marine underwriters of this
city is ill at ease over the unusual
number of vessels from this coast to
the Orient and from the Orient to
the coast that are considerably over
due. They fear that enemy nation
forces are at work to upset sched
ules or destroy vessels.
Mass Meting Called
BUTTE, Mont., Aug. 29.—Atten
tion in circles of the Metal Mine
Workers’ union and the metal trades
today was centered upon plans for the
mass meeting at Columbia Gardens
tomorrow, where Miss Jeanette Ran
kin, Montana’s congresswoman, will
be the principal speaker. It is expect
ed, according to the leaders of these
organizations, that Miss Rankin will
outline her views of the local situa
tion at that time. MIsb Rankin has
held lengthy conferences with Tom
Campbell, leader of the Metal Mine
Workers, and with representatives
of the Metal Trades council, from
whom she secured information re
garding the situation and their Justi
fication of the demand for an abro
gation of the contracts recently sign
ed by the State Metal Trades council
with the mining companies.
Seattle Built Steamer Victim of Dyn
amite Plots—But Little
Damage Done
SEATTLE, Aug. 29.—A letter was
received here today by the agents of
the Seattle built steamer Nels Niel
son, which recently sailed from Sing
apore to Bombay, India, stating that
while en route to the Orient a bomb
had exploded in the coal bunkers of
the steamer, causing fire to ensue,
hut that it has been extinguished
with little damage to the vessel.
It is believed by federal agents
that a band of German plotters are
at work in Seattle, placing bombs in
the bunkers of vessels sailing from
this port for Russia and Japan, as
several cases have been reported dur
ing the past week.
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GERMAN NEWSPAPER
IS WROUGHT UP
AMSTERDAM, Aug. 29.—Refer
ring to the bill introduced in the Uni
ted States senate on August 13 pro
viding that whenever German and
other publications prinlc-d in foreign
languages publish any comment on
the acts or policies of the United
Slates government they must print
an English translation of it in a par
allel column, the Koelnische Volks
Zeitung says:
Henceforward there shall re citi
zens of the first and se :ond class in
the United States. Anglo-Saxondom
will be the ruling race and the Ger
mans their servants.
“Perhaps the sharpest verdicts on
the Prussian government’s Polish pol
icy have been pronounced in that so
Christian and liberal America. It
must in fairness, be conceded, how
ever, that the Prussian government
of Herr Wilson proposes to go in his
combat against an obnoxious lang
uage.”
AGITATORS CHARGED
WITH INCITING REBELLION
M’ALESTER, Okla., Aug. 29—One
hundred and forty-seven alleged anti
draft agitators from Hughes, Semi
nole and Pontotoc counties held in
the state penitentiary here were
charged today in complaints filed by
W. P. McGinnis, United States dis
trict attorney, with “inciting rebel
lion" and similar offenses, including
conspiracy to evade ^the selective
draft law. They will be held to
await action of a federal grand jury.
Master of Steamer Wires that Re
pairs Have Been Made and
Ship Is O. K.
SEATTLE, Aug. 29.—The master
of the steamer Jefferson, which suf
fered considerable damage yesterday
in a collision with the Princess May
near Millbank Sound, wirelessed to
day that repairs had been made and
that the steamer was on her way
north to Skagway.
Draft Troops Ap|>ort ioned
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Aug. 29.—
Secretary Baker today approved the
disposition of the G87.000 men of
the first draft as recommended by the
provost marshal general. The aver
age number of men alloted to each
of the sixteen cantonments is approxi
mately 43,000. Those going to Amer
ican Lake, Wash., coma from Alaska,
Washington, Oregon, California, Ida
ho, Nevada, Montana, Wyoming ‘and
Utah and total 46,159.
Canada Market Closes Futures
WINNIPEG, Man., Aug. 29.—
Trading In wheat for future delivery
will cease on all grain exchanges In
Canada on August 31. Official notice
to this effect was posted today on tiie
Winnipeg Grain exchange on orders
from the board of grain supervisors
for Canada.
CHECKS ARMY MORALS.
Raymond B. Poodlok Ap
pomtoa ay Moratory Bakor.
Photo by American Press Association
Raymond B. Fosdick Is chairman of
the advisory committee to consult with
Secretary Baker regarding "checkluj;'
of moral hazards frequently associated
with camp life In connection with the :
army mobilization. Mr. Fosdick was j
commissioner of accounts of New York j
city.
NEGROES OBJECT
_ !
Rioting Caused by Attempt to Eject i
Troopers From Seats Provided
i
for White Persons
—— I
HOUSTON, Texas., Aug. 29.1nvesti-i
gation by the municipal authorities:
here today indicates that the rioting
by the negro troopers of the Twenty-j
Fourth Infantry was caused by the1
negro soldiers declining to occupy the|
seats set aside in the street cars for !
negroes by the municipal authorities. \
When an attempt was made to force j
them to occupy the “Jim Crow”:
seats they refused to leave the cars j
and a fight was precipitated, during;
which the conductor was badly beat
en up. Police were called and they j
were forced to use their clubs freely
before they could place under arrest.
The negroes believing that their com
rades had been clubbed unnecessarily
marched on the city in force, and a
riot ensued, during which thirteen
persons including three policemen
were killed.
The taoops have been removed to
northern locations, and those arrest
ed will be tried for murder.
STOCKHOLM MEETING
MAY BE ABANDONED
LONDON, Aug. 29.—According to
an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
Amsterdam the decision of the Brit
ish government to refuse passports
to delegates to the international so
cialist conference at Stockholm has
produced the deepest disappointment
among the German socialists. It is
generally feared, the dispatch says,
that the conference has been definite
ly wrecked.
BRITISH PEER IS
INQUIRED FOR
R. «M. Brown is in receipt of an
inquiry for Francis Clements, who,
by the death of his brother, becomes
Lord Leitrim, a peer of England.
The man has been missing for a num
ber of years, and a country wide
search has been instituted for him,
but so far without results. The in
quiry comes from an old friend of
Mr. Brown, who states that he knows
the man and that he is certain that
he is in Alaska.
The missing Lord Lietrim left
London in 1907. His father would
not furnish him with funds with
which to come to the United States,
so he came across the Atlantic ocean
as a stoker on a steamship. From
that time until the present he has
never reported at home, but he was
seen at Vancouver as late as 1913.
(Alaska papers please copy).
PEACE PUN
President Says Plan Pro|>osed by Pope
Does Not I^ead to Goal
He Desires
WASHINGTON. D. C., Aug. 29 -
President Wilson, in his reply to the
Pope's peace proposals states that the
plan does not lead to the goal he pro
poses. and would ultimately lead to
another war. He says the object of
this war is to deliver the world from
the German military domination
which would govern the world. He
says that any plan to promote peace
must be based on the faith of the
peoples of all nations Involved, but
that he "cannot take the word of the
present rulers of Germany as a guar
antee of anything that is to endure.”
Citizen* are Vigilantes.
NEW YORK, Aug. 29.—More than
100 citizens of New York, it was an
nounced today, had joined the newly
formed vigilantes committee to wage
a vigorous campaign against soap box
orators whose utterances are consid
ered improper.
Mrs. L. Holt, who has been a resi
dent of Valdez for some time engag
ed in the hotel business left on the
steamer Alaska for Petersburg, where
she will make her home in the future.
STEAMER ALASKA SAILS
FOR SEATTLE TODAY
The steamship Alaska arrived in
Valdez about 2 o’clock and sailed an
hour later for Seattle, with the fol
lowing passengers. For Seattle. Miss
May E. Billings. J. A. Hazelett, H.
B. "Dad” Ingram, W. M. Wheeler,
G. Lindstrand. Eric Nyberg, Leo C'a
vallo, Mrs. C. O. Bauer, Mrs. Stevens.
For Juneau, Capt. J. C. Mehaffey and
Mrs. L. Holt.
Miss May Billings, sister of Sergt.
W. J. Billings, of the local Signal
Corps, was a passenger for the States
on the steamer Alaska.
SACRAMENTO. Cal., Aug. 29.—
District exemption boards passed
resolutions yesterday warning local
exemption boards that the granting
of exemption to married men as a
class is violation of the law and mal
feasance in office.
NOTED OHt'ROHMEN
ON STR. ALASKA
The Venerable Hudson Stuck,
Archdeacon of the Yukon District of
(he Episcopal Church, was a passen
ger on the steamer Alaska, ea route
to Cordova on his way to the! Inter
ior. While here he inspected the Epis
copal church, library and' clubhouse.
Archdeacon Stuck was accompan
ied by John W. Wood, secretary of
the Board of Missions of the Epis
copal church, with headquarters at
New York, who has been making a
tour of the Yukon, Dawson and oth
er Alaskan points. Mr. Wood was en
route to his home in New York.
Mrs. Harry Balderstone, wife of
the cashier of the Bank of Seward,
was a pasenger on the steamship Al
aska for Seattle. She was accompan
ied by her two children.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Ennis of
Seward, were passengers on the Al
aska for Seattle, en route to Walla
IValla, Washington, where they will
make their future home. Mr. Ennis
tvas formerly United States Commis
sioner at Seward, and was succeeded
ay Judge Whittelse.v.
Seattle Ktsh Prices
SEATTLE. Aug. 29.—Seattle price
at noon August.2S: halibut 13 1-2.
Capt J. C. Mehaffey left for road
commission headquarters at Juneau
an the steamer Alaska.
Notice to the Public
On account of the high license mes
lenger service from this date will be
Ifty cents.
kl “SONNIE”
Piano Tuaer
George Anderson, piano expert and
lactory representative will be In Val
les In the near future. High grade
pianos for sale or rent. Leave mee
iage care of Prospector. k9-28