VOLUME 13 VALDEZ, ALASKA, MONDAV, SEPTEMBER 27, 1915. NO. 134
ALLIES BEGIN DRIVE IN THE WEST
REPORTS 900,000
ARMENIANS KILLED
Ambassador Morgentliau, at Constan
tinople, Instructed to Ascertain
if Any Americans Killed.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Sept. 27.—
Ambassador Morgenthau, United
States representative at Constantino
ple has been instructed by the State
Department to ascertain if any of the
victims of the Turkish and Kurd sol
diers in the Armenian massacres
were Americans. It is feared that a
Bomber of American missionaries
wh(> have failed to report, have fall
en' victims in the outrages. It is as
serted on the authority of mission
aries who escaped from the Turks,
that 500,000 Armenians were put to
death by Turkish soldiers.
Ambassador Bernstorff, German
representative at Washington, ex
presses the belief that the reports of
outrages against Armenians in the
Ottoman Empire are pure inventions
and inspired with a view of embar
rassing the Turkish government by
involving it in a controversy with the
United States.
BATMAN LINES
ARE PENETRATED
Belgians Capture German Positions
at Yser and French Penetrate
Cine in Champagne.
LONDON, Sept. 27.—There is great
joy being manifested throughout En
gland over the success of the Allies
in forcing the Germans from their
positions along the western battle
frorit^nd breaking the deadlock that
has existed for twelves months and
cost the lives of hundreds of thou
sands of men. t
It is reported from France that
since the Allies drive began two days
ago that the British and French
troops have gained more ground and
shown better results than during the
past twelve months. The Belgians
have captured the German field forti
fications on the right bank of the
Yser river and have compelled the
evacuation of miles of German
trenches.
Military experts say that with the
Germans meeting reverses in both the
east and west that they must soon
hreak. The Russians have checked
Hlndenburg and the Germans with
two million men on the western bat
tlefront have been unable to hold
the Allies in the drive.
French troops have penetrated the
German lines in the Champagne dis
trict and the entire battle line has
been swung northward to conform to
the new positions forced upon the
Germans.
MANY QUARTZ CLAIMS
LOCATED NEAR SEWARD.
Filings were made at the United
States commissioner’s office recently
by Z. N. Bergman and associate? on
SI quartz claims on Iron mountain,
covering the deposit of low grade ore
which is shortly to be given a thor
ough best.'
Iron, mountain is the second peak
worth of Seward and the claims are
located on its north slope, much
closer to town than first stated. The
men named on the location blanks as
associated with Bergman are John
Madson, Julian Reed, O. H. Poehl
man, L. E. Larder, Bryce Howard,
Fred L. Gadda and Olover.—Alaskan
Post.
Tonight.
The Crystal Ball in three acts, at
The Liberty Theatre tonight. •
LONDON, Sept. 27.—Attention is
centered on the western battle line
reaching through northern France
and Belgium, where desperate fight
ing has taken place during the past
two days. That the long-promised
campaign of the Allies to force the
Germans from their positions and
break the deadlock has started is the
opinion of military experts, although
no announcement to that effect has
been made by the war office. Advices
from the front Btate that the Allied
forces have captured 20,000 Germans
during the two days fighting and
have made substantial gains all along
the western line.
North of Arras the German posi
tions were captured after desperate
hand to hand fighting which resulted
in heavy losses to both sides. The
Germans had been subjected to heavy
bombardment before the final charge
of the troops, which resulted in the
Gormans being taken prisoners.
In the Champagne district the
French troops have advanced two
miles along a fourteen-mile front,
and have driven the Germans from a
number of advantageous points. The
Allies are reported as keeping up an
incessant bombardment of the Ger
man positions and are forcing them
back to new lines of trenches.
The French and British troops in
the Argonne forests are also reported
to have forced the Crown Prince’s
army back from its first line of
trenches and have captured a num
VIRGINIA MOONSHINERS
FIGHT WITH OFFICERS.
HUNTINGTON, W. Va„ Sept. 27.—
Moonshiners, who have been operat
ing in the Blue Ridge mountains near
this city, battled last night with se
cret service officers who had discov
ered the stills where moonshine whis
key was being manufactured, and the
members of the gang have been plac
ed in jail here. The officers destroy
ed the stills and believe they have
succeeded in breaking up the gang of
moonshiners.
PETROGRAD FACES
A BREAD SRORTAGE
Women and Children Being Sent
From City to Districts Where
Food is Plentiful.
BERLIN, Sept. 27.—Famine is re
ported to be threatening the populace
of Petrograd, and it is reported here
that mobs are parading the city clam
oring for peace. The bakeries are
reported to have exhausted their
stocks of flour and are closing down.
The foodstuffs consumed by Petro
grad and other northern Russian cit
ies formerly came from Poland and
southern Russia, which is now under
the control of the Germans, and the
Siberian railroad has been occupied
in carrying munitions from the Paci
fic. It is reported that thousands of
women and children are being sent
to districts where food is plentiful
but which cannot be conveyed to the
cities.
The Russian peasantry is reported
as being opposed to enlisting in the
new army which Russia is creating
ing, and peasants who refuse to
serve in the army are being arrested
ed and forced into the ranks of the
army.
BULGARIAN GOVERNMENT
HAS CHANGED FRONT.
LONDON, Sept. 27.—The reverses
suffered by the German armies on
both the eastern and western fronts
has caused the Bulgarian govern
ment to hesitate in declaring war in
favor of the Teutons, and diplomats
express the belief that the Balkan
states will remain neutral. That Ru
mania will refuse to permit of Ger
man munitions passing through that
country to Turkey is indicated by
the cool reception given the Kaiser’s
representative who visited Rumania'
to secure her consent to the trans
porting of munitions across Rumania.
GERMAN TROOPS HAVE BEEN FORCED BACK AT MANY POINTS
ALONG THE WESTERN FRONT AND HAVE LOST A HUNDRED
THOUSAND KILLED AND TWENTY THOUSAND CAPTURED—THE
BRITISH ADVANCE A DISTANCE OF FIVE MILES AND FRENCH
PENETRATE GERMAN LINES IN CHAMPAGNE AND MENACE EN
TIRE GERMAN WESTERN POSITION — HINDENBURG THREAT
EN REAR OF HIS ARMY—CROWN PRINCE’S ARMY IN ARGONNE
FORESTS FORCED BACK FROM FIRST LINE OF TRENCHES—
CONCERTED MOVEMENTS OF ALLIES HAS KEPT GERMANY
FROM REINFORCING WEAK POINTS.
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ber of prisoners.
Many Germans Wounded.
PARIS, Sept. 27.—Aviators who
have made flights over German posi
tions behind the trenches report that
long trains bearing the wounded from
the front to hospitals far in the rear
ot the army have been observed and
it is believed that the bombardment
of the Allies has killed thousands of
the German troops behind the
trenches.
Berlin Is Not Afraid.
BERLIN, Sept. 27.—The German
war office has issued a bulletin stat
ing that the Allies have began a tre
mendous offensive movement along
the battle front through Flanders. It
is admitted that the German troops
have suffered heavily in the fighting
and that they have been forced from
their first lines of trenches at a num
ber of places, but it is announced
that reinforcements are being sent to
the localities where the pressure
against the German lines is most se
vere. The war office expresses the
belief that the drive of the Allies will
soon become exhausted and that the
Germans will then recover the ground
lost during the past two days.
British Advance Five Miles.
LONDON, Sept. 27.—British troops
have captured the German trenches
east of Vermailes and have driven
the Teutons back a distance of five
miles since the drive began along
the western battle front two days ago.
The news of the success attending the
Allies in their great drive against the
Germans has caused this city to go
war-mad and mobs are marching
BULGARIA OOES
NOT WANT WAR
King Ferdinand Declares that Mobil*
ization of Troops Not Of*
fenslveiy Intended,
LONDON, Sept. 27.—King Ferdi
nand of Bulgaria, has protested
against the assumption of the Allies
that lie is preparing to enter the war
on the side of the Teutons, because
the Bulgarian army is being mobil
ized. He asserts that the treaty re
cently made between Bulgaria and
Turkey requires that Bulgaria main
tain armed neutrality in return for
raiiroad and territorial concessions.
Bulgaria maintains that the mobil
ization is not offensively intended
and protests against the mobilization
of the armies of Rumania and Greece
on her borders. The report that Ger
man guns are being mounted on the
Bulgarian Black Sea coast Is denied,
as Bulgaria will continue to main
tain neutrality.
MEANINGS OF INDIAN
NAMES IN ALASKA.
Juneau—Now that there is talk of
holding an election to decide the
name of the town at Anchorage, an
explanation of some of the names in
that section may be of interest.
The following definitions and ex
planations were given by a man who
has spent many years of his life in
that section, and who speaks the na
tive language fluently:
Matnauska is a pick-up word, hav
ing no meaning in the Indian lan
guage, and no one seems to know
from whence it originated. The na
tive name for the Matanuska is Cha
tonkna, meaning swift running river.
The syllable “na" in the native lan
guage means river and the rest of the
word designates the special one as
Chitina, which is the name for Cop
per river, Chitl meaning where cop
per is found, and na meaning river.
The native name for the Knik is
the Skidina, or the Tent river, deriv
ing its name from the fact that the
natives , maintained a temporary
camp at the mouth of the river.
Tanana means the River of Travel.
In other words, it was a summer road
or trail for the natives with their ca
noes, and in winter was their trail
over the ice.
THE PINZON has a new shipment
ef the large 12in.x5 foot pictures of
Valdez. Make your selections early.
16-tf. THE PINZON.
IN HAITIAN FIGHT
Rebels arc Retreating to Interior and
Refuse to Recognize New Pres
ident of Black Republic.
CAPE HAITIEN, Sept. 27.—Se
vere fighting occurred between the
American marines which have been
pursuing the rebel troops headed for
Hautducap, and ten of the marines
were wounded and fourteen Haitiens
fighting side by side with the United
States troops were killed.
The rebels have refused to recog
nize the new president as head of the
republic as well as the treaty which
places the control of the republic’s
finances in the hands of the Ameri
can government. The rebels number
several hundred and are apparently
well supplied with munitions and sup
plies for carrying on their warfare.
Furnished rooms at Mrs. Osland’s.
Prices reasonable. •
WILLOW CREEK MINE
18 A BIG PRODUCER.
Two hundred ounces of gold In five
days with only ten men and a mis
erably small plant is the splendid rec
ord of the Independence mine of Wil
low creek last week. L. S. Robe, the
well known engineer who is in charge
of the mine, telephoned T. W. Haw
kins yesterday to tell him of the re
sult of the few days’ work and to in
form him that the mine is now richer
by far than it ever was before. Two
hundred ounces will be shipped on
the next boat to the Bank of Seward.
Robe declares the property is looking
better all the time. A new lead has
been struck which beats anything for
merly discovered there and from all
accounts the Independence, like other
mines in the neighborhood, is sure of
being a splendid producer from this
time forward.—Seward Gateway.
IOWA CLOUDBURST
HAS INTERRUPTED TRAFFIC
DUBUQUE, Iowa., Sept. 27.—A
cloudburst, which occurred near this
city, last night, has nearly Isolated
the city by interrupting railroad traf
fic in all directions. The rushing ■
waters covered the tracks for a depth
of several feet in the valleys, and
washed away miles of track.
Mrs. Merchant, Milliner.
Hats remodeled and made to or
der. At Emporium. tf
through the streets cheering for suc
cess of the soldiers at the front and
for Lord Kitchener.
Germans Lose Heavily.
LONDON, Sept. 2 7.—Advices from
Gen. French and Gen. Joffre state
that German losses along the west
ern front since the drive began two
days ago have exceeded one hundred
thousand, twenty thousand of whom
were taken prisoners. When the
British captured the German posi
tions north of Vermiles they found
the German trenches filled with dead
and dying Teutons as a result of the
terrific bombardment to which their
trenches had been subjected.
Hindenburg Is Halted.
PETROGRAD, Sept. 27.—The war
office has announced that the inva
sion of Gen. Hindenburg has been
halted and that he is now on the de
fensive. The victories of the Rus
sians east and north of Vilna has per
mitted reinforcements to be thrown
against Hindenburg’s command, and
threatens the rear of his army. The
Russians occupy a distinctly better
position along the entire line, even
in the Dvinsk region, where Henden
burg is centering his sterngth. It is
burg is centering his strength. It is
many changes have been made among
the commanders of the German army
along the Russian line by the kaiser,
and it is believed that the emperor
is soon to adopt new tactics.
BRITISH CAPTURE
BIG GERMAN GUNS
LONDON, Sept. 27.—It is an
nounced by the war office that the
British troops have captured thirty
of the big German field guns and
have caused a breach in the German
lines which will cause the entire Ger
man line to swing back. The an
nouncement Js causing great Joy in
this city, as it is believed that the
Germans will be driven back from
the coast and raids by Zeppelins made
impossible.
WILL OVERSEE THE
WAR PREPARATIONS
Great Britain Determined that Her
Troops Shall Not Lack in
Efficiency in War.
LONDON, Sept. 27.—Premier As
quith has appointed a committee com
posed of members of the British
House of Lords to oversee the opera
tions of the government in connection
with the war and to advise with Lord
Kitchener, secretary of war, as to
methods of increasing the efficiency
of the British forces at the front and
in supplying munitions of war to oth
er nations allied with Great Britain.
The members of the committees have
been chosen fropi all parties, and in
clude Lord Kitchener, David-Lloyd
George, Sir Edward Gray, Lord Lons
downe, Arthur J. Balfour, Bonner
Law and Lord Churchill.
The scope of the committee’s activ
ities will extend to every department
of the government covering prosecu
tion of the war at home and abroad.
Great Britain is determined to carry
the war to a successful issue and is
strengthening every department of
the war machine which she has built
up since hostilities began.
The committee will authorize the
purchasing of war munitions, arrange
the finances and determine the man
ner of overcoming obstacles which
have retarded Lord Kitchener in the
past.
ADMIRAL EVANS IS
EXPECTED TOMORROW.
The steamer Admiral Evans, which
Is now to the westward, is expected
to reach Valdes early tomorrow fore
noon, although no definite news had
been received from the boat by the
local steamship office up to a late
hour this afternoon. The steamer
will carry a number of Valdez pas
sengers to the south.
RIFLES FOR THE
MEXICANS STOPPED
I
Believed that President Wilson Is
Moon to Issue Order Placing Em
bargo on Munitions.
LAREDO, Texas, Sept. 27.—A big
shipment of rifles and one million
rounds of cartridges which was en
route to Mexico and destined for the
the use of Gen. Carranza’s army, has
been detained here on orders from
the war department. It is believed
that the stoppage of the shipment
will be followed by an order placing
an embargo on all shipments of mu
nitions of war from the United
States into Mexico.
It is reported that General Funs
ton, commanding the United States
troops on the Mexican border, has
urged President Wilson to place an
embargo on munitions as the Mexi
cans are believed to be planning to
secure a supply to oppose interven
tion should the Pan-American con
ferees decide upon forcing the repub
lic to abandon the guerrilla warfare
and create a stable government.
ALASKA S. S. CO
BPS TOO SHIPS
The Bennington and the Burlington
Will Come from Atlantic for
Southwestern Alaska Trade.
SEATTLE, Sept. 27.—The officials
of the Alaska Steamship company
have announced that, negotiations
which have been under way for some
time have been closed for the pur
chase of two big steel freighters to
be used in the Southwestern Alaska
trade. The steamers are the Ben
nington and the Burlington and they
have been operating on the Atlantic
coast.
The company has sent officers east
to bring the steamers around the
cape, cargoes having been secured for
the vessels for delivery at San Fran
cisco and Puget Sound ports. Th*
ships are reported to be specially
equipped for handling shipments of
heavy railroad material as they have
been used in the Atlantic in carrying
material south for the Panama canal.
The loss of the freighter Edith has
proved a serious handicap to the com
pany in handling its rapidly develop
ing trade in the north, especially to
the westward and in bringing the
ores of Alaska coast mines to the
smelter at Tacoma. It is announced
that the freighters will be given a
thorough overhauling after their ar
rival at Puget Sound and will then
he placed in commission.
KIDNAPPED RANCH
MANAGER RELEASED.
EL PASO, Sept. 27.—Manager Ful
ler, of the Cudahy Packing company's
ranch near this city, has been releas
ed by the kidnapers who have held
him a prisoner for several days. Ful
ler has refused to make public the
identity of his assailants but has im
parted the information to the sheriff,
who is attempting to round up the
men.
BOV. STRONG’S ANNUAL
REPORT IS OFF THE PRESS
The annual report of Oov. J. F. A.
Strong has been issued and a copy
Forwarded to President Wilson. The
report has been in process of com
pilation for several weeks, and con
:ains 60 pages in print. Last year's
■eport covered 48 pages.
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