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~~ -VALDEZ, ALA3KA, FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1915. NO. 71.
VOL. 13. _ _
SEATTLE SIM SAYS
IT'S SEWARD SURE
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Prints Unofficial Story To That Ef
fect and Editor Claims To _
Have Real Dope.
SEATTLE, March 26—The Seattle
Star’s pink edition, issued late yes
terday afternoon, carried a story to
the effect that Seward had been chos
en by President Wilson and Secretary
Lane as the terminal of the Alaska
railroad. The story is unofficial and
unconfirmed but the editor of the
Star claims to have inside informa
tion from Washinigton that Seward
has been selected.
The Associated Press dispatches
from Washington fail to make any
new announcements concerning the
Alaska railroad. The Star is fur
nished news from the capital by the
T7ni*ed Press Association and keen
rivalry exists between the news gath
ering agencies as to which will be
the first to secure the official an
nouncement.
flOH 100 BIO
10 BE ROCKED
President Wilson Urges Americans
To Support His Position of
Strict Neutrality.
NEW YORK, March 26.—President
Wilson yesterday afternoon address
ed the conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church in session here.
During his address he touched upon
the Mexican and European situations
and urged his audience to stand by
him in his efforts to keek America
from being drawn into war.
He said that the Ship of State had
been able to avoid the rocks bo far
and was riding safely despite the ef
forts of certain elements to rock the
boat. He believed the boat was too
big for those who were attempting
to get her into difficulties and that
American common sense would pre
vail and outweigh the vicious senti
ments.
• President Wilson asked that Amer
icans be united In their efforts to
maintain strict neutrality and uphold
his official actions in dealing with the
warring powers. With the united
support of the nation behind him as
the nation’s chief executive he would
be strong but failing that support he
would be weak and unable to avoid
the pitfalls being laid to involve
America in the struggle.
SENATE FAVORS
ATTORNEUENERAL
JUNEAU, March 26—The territor
ial senate yesterday afternoon voted
favorably on the resolution authoriz
ing the governor to appoint an attor
ney to act as attorney general and
providing that the office be made
elective, the appointee to serve until
his successor is elected at the next
general election.
SWEEPSTAKE
BE RUN APRIL 11
NOME, March 26—The All-Alaska
sweepstakes dog race, the main sport
ing event of the season in this por
tion of Alaska, will be run ofT on
April 11. There are several entries
and all indications point to good
races owing to the keen rivalry re
sulting from the Derby races. Scotty
Allen is the favorite.
BERLIN ADMITS POLAND CAMPAIGN IS CRUCIAL
BERLIN, March 26.—The result of
the struggle in orth Poland is ad
mitted to be uncertain but the report
that the German forces have been
driven back from Osowiec to the
Prussian border has been character
ized as false. The Russians are re
ported to have started a tremendous
offensive south of Osowiec which
may endanger the German center at
tacking Osowiec fortress. Reinforce
ments are being rushed northward.
Spring Campaign Soon Begin.
Advices from the German-Polish
headquarters state that the Russians
have renewed an offensive campaign
along the Pilica river, southwest of
Warsaw but have been unable to force
the Germans from their fortified field
positions. It is announced that Gen
eral Hindenburg has asked for rein
forcements from the new German
army now under training as he is
about to inaugurate his spring cam
paign along the entire eastern border.
Austrians To Defend Cracow,
VIENNA, March 26.—The entire
Austrian force in western Galicia is
being massed on the west bank of the
Danajek river, forty miles from Cra
cow, to oppose the Russian army
which is marching westward to at
tack the city. The Austrians have
been joined by several German corps
and the banks of the river are be
ing fortified. The railroad bridge
crossing the river at Bochina has
been destroyed by the Austrians to
prevent it being used by the Rus
sians. i
Submarine Sinks Another Steamer.
LONDON, March 26.—A German
submarine torpedoed another British
steamer last night off the coast of
France, in the Strait of Dover, near
Boulogne. Thes teamer was return
ing from France and carried only her
SUBMARINE LOSI
Dived In Honolulu Harbor Yesterday
Afternoon and Has Failed To
Come To Surface.
HONOLULU, March 26.—It is fear
ed that the crew of the American
submarine F-4, which dived in the
harbor here yesterday afternoon and
failed to come to the surface, has met
with an accident and that the crew
of twenty-five men have perisheij.
The submarine was built in Seattle
in 1911, and was considered one of
the finest undersea crafts in the
American navy.
All efTorts to locate the submarine
have failed and divers are searching
the harbor In the vicinity of the
place where she dived. It is feared
that her machinery went out of or
der while under the water and that
the engineers were unable to pump
sufficient water from her hold to
bring her to the surface. Navy offi
cers believe that if the accident was
due to the F-4 striking a rock that
her oil would indicate on the sur
face where the accident occurred.
HONOLULU, March 26—Search
has failed to locate the submarine
F-4 and all hope of saving her crew
has been abandoned. Warships in the
harbor have been dragging the bot
tom for her and submarines have al
so been engaged in searching for her
without success. Oil Is reported to
be coming to the surface, indicating
that the submarine has been wreck
ed.
ABE ATTELL AND
KILBANE TO MEET
SEATTLE, Mlarch 26.—Abe Attell,
the boxer, who Is appearing here in
vaudeville, says that he is matched to
fight Johnny Kilbane during the last
week In June. He will soon retire
from the stage to begin training.
The Prospector office for job work.
RUSSIANS REPORTED TO HAVE STARTED STRONG OFFENSIVE
MOVEMENTS NEAR OSOWIEC AND ALONG THE PILICA RIVER
—AUSTRIANS PREPARING TO DEFEND CRACOW—THE RUSSIANS
CLAIM A TREMENDOUS VICTORY IN EASTERN GALICIA OVER
AUSTRIANS AND ASSERT GERMAN-AUSTRIAN ARMY DRIVEN
BACK—MASSACRE OF CHRISTIANS CONTINUES IN PERSIA—
DUTCH AND BRITISH STEAMERS ARE TORPEDOED BY SUBMA
RINES.
crew, all of whom were saved as the
vessel continued to float for some
time after being hit.
Believes U-20 Sunk.
LONDON, March 26.—The British
admiralty expresses the opinion that
the German submarine U-20, which
raided British commerce north of
Scotland, has been sunk as she has
not been reported as having attacked
any vessel since being engaged by a
torpedo destroyer several days ago.
Little Activity In Dardanelles.
LONDON, March 26—Little activ
ity is reported from the Allied fleet
of warships attacking the Darda
nelles forts. Cruisers are prevent
ing the Turks from re-building the
MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS
SCORES MT. TAROR ASYLOM
CHARGED THAT UNFORTUNATES ARE BEING EXPLOITED FOR PRO
FIT AND THAT ALASKA’S INSA NE CAN BE CARED FOR IN THE
NORTH FOR LESS MONEY—GRAFTING CHARGED.
JUNEAU, March 26.—A joint mem
orial to congress was passed by the
territorial legislature last night
scorching the Mt. Tabor sanitarium,
in Oregon, where the unfortunate in
sane of Alaska are supposed to be
cared for. The institution is declared
to be unsanitary ana me management
inefficient in every particular. The
charge is made that the management
of the asylum is profiting from the
distress of the unfortunates and that
the cost to the government is exces
sive. The memorial asserts that the
rates paid by the government for the
care of patients at Mt. Tabor asylum
are double the amounts charged in
several other western sanitariums for
insane patients in contracts with the
state governments. The assertion is
made that Alaska’s insane can be bet
ter cared for at a reduced cost in
Alaska than at Mornlngslde.
The memorial demands that con
gress investigate conditions at the
sanitarium and the manner in which
the contract for the care of Alaska’s
Insane there was awarded to that in
stitution. It is charged that politics
are responsible for awarding the con
tract to Mt. Tabor and that the in
sane are being exploited for profit.
The patients are made to do practi
cally all the work at the sanitarium
and they do not receive the proper
care and attention to enable them to
recover from their unfortunate men
tal condition.
It is also charged that many per
sons who were not insane have been
sent to Mt. Tabor because there was
no other way to care for them in
Alaska. These unfortunates have
been compelled to associate with in
sane patients and work with them in
the fields and on roads, which has
retarded their recovery.
The memorial is regarded as hav
ing been prepared at the request of
Governor Strong. He visited the san
itarium last summer and bitterly as
sailed the management for its man
ner of treating patients. Governor
Strong also visited severeal asylums
in the western states to be in a posi
tion to compare the Morningslde in
stitution with other sanitariums and
characterized Mt. Tabor as inferior
in every way to care for patients,
while the charges to the government
were from 25 to 100 per cent, higher
than the others.
STRIKE CAUSES
RIOT IN TACOMA
Longshormen and Logger* Who Were
Filling Their Places Engaged
In Fierce Fight.
TACOMA, March 26.—Police re
serves were called out last night to
quell a riot resulting from the efforts
of three hundred striking longshore
men to prevent non-union men from
unloading a vessel which had made
Vancouver, B. C., a port of call. The
.police were compelled to use their
sticks freely and several of the men
were taken to hospitals for treatment
‘after the mob had been dispersed.
The settlement of the longshore
men’s strike, as arranged in Seattle,
did not remove the boycott against
vesesls touching at Vancouver. When
an attempt was made to discharge the
cargo by employing non-union men the
strikers charged the dock in over
whelming numbers and a fierce fight
took place between the ship's crew
and non-union workers against the
striking longshoremen. Most of the
strike-breakers are loggers and read
ily gave battle to the strikers.
JEWS FORGED INTO
TRE TURKISH ARMY
Missionaries Returned From Jerusa
lem Report Jewish Residents
In Desperate Straits
NEW YORK, March 26.—A party of
American missionaries who recently
arrived here on the Cunard liner Car
pathia, having come from Jerusalem,
express the fear that nearly every
Christian in Persia will be murdered
if the Allies force the Dardanelles.
The Turks are reported to have de
clared that they would be avenged by
claiming ten lives for every Turk kill
ed in defending Constantinople.
The missionaries state that the
Turks have been cruel to the Jews
and have forced hundreds of them in
to the army and sent them to Damas
cus to be drilled. Jews who were phy
sically disqualified from serving in
the army have been compelled by
Turkish officers to work on roads
which will assist the transportation
of army supplies. The Turks recog
nize no rights of the Jews which they
must respect and for minor offenses
order them to be lashed.
forts put out of commission. The
British and French warships sent to
reinforce the fleet are reported as in
the Mediterranean and approaching
the Dardanelles.
Carpathian Victories Reported.
PETROGRAD, March 26— Great
victories are reported from the Rus
sian headquarters in both eastern
and western. Galicia, along the Car
pathian mountains. The German
Austrian army has been driven from
Uzsok pass. The Austrian right wing
operating in Bukowina is reported to
have been decisively defeated and its
offensive movement checked. An im
portant Austrian position at Lupkow
pass has been captured by the Rus
sians. A large number of prisoners
are reported to have been captured
by the Russians who entered the pass
by another route and cut off the re
treat of the defenders of the pass.
Massacre of Christians Continue.
TIFLIS, March 26.—Reports from
interior Persia and Tiflis province,
state that the massacre of Christians
by the Turkish troops and Kurds con
tinues. The American mission at Uru
miah, which was attempting to afford
shelter to fifteen thousand refugees is
reported to have beenl nvaded by the
Turks and hundreds oft he men mur
dered.
Russians Holding the Fort.
PETROGRAD, March 26.—The Oso
wiec fortress, In north Poland, con
tinues to be the key to the situation.
The Germans have been bombarding
the forts for several days but with
out results. The German forces are
wedge-shaped, the line on the north
extending to the east Prussian bor
der south of Augustowo, and the
southern line from near Lohmza, on
the Newar river. The Germans have
developed lively offensive movements
(Continued on page 2.)
Engaged Chicago Gunmen To Keep
His Board From Being Arrest
ed Before Election.
INDIANAPOLIS, March 26.—The
Terre Haute election fraud cases are
still occupying the attention of the
federal court here with new evidence
showing that Mayor Roberts and his
accomplices were desperate in their
efforts to secure re-election.
Witnesses were placed on the stand
yesterday for the prosecution and tes
tified that they had been brought
from Chicago to act as gunmen in
Terre Haute to prevent the arrest of
the election board during last elec
tion. They stated that Mayor Rob
erts' had engaged them and had paid
their fares to Terre Haute.
It is believed that the trial is
I
drawing to a close although witness
es continue to be called before the
grand jury. Hundreds of persons
have admitted that they sold their
votes and others have admitted regis
tering thousands of repeaters on the
voting machines. Nearly every official
connected with the municipal govern
ment of Terre Haute, including the
mayor, several councilmen, sheriff,
chief of police, street inspector, mem
bers of election board and two hun
dred citizens, have been indicted for
connection with the election frauds
or intimidating witnesses.
Another Pioneer Has Passed On.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 26.—Dan
iel Hinckley, founder of the Fulton
Iron Works and owner of the first
steamboat to operate on the Pacific
ocean,, is dead at his home here.
Weather Report.
Valdez, March 25, 1915.
Barometric pressure .30,235
Temperature at 7 p. m. 34
Maximum temperature. 43
Minimum temperature . 28
Mean temperature . 35 1-2
Cloudy air, wind northeast 6 miles.
FRENCH OFFICIAL
GIVEN LONG TERM
Sentenced To Seven Years Imprison
ment for Stealing Military Sup
plies for Friend.
PAKIS, March 26.—Colonel Francis
Des Claux, former paymaster general
of the French army, was today sen
tenced to serve seven years in prison
for stealing military supplies for his
lady friend, Mme. Bechoff, the beau
tiful German dressmaker.
The disclosures of the trial created
a tremendous sensation as Des Claux
is a family man and has occupied a
prominent position in military and
social circles in Paris for years. The
fact that Mme. Bechoff is a German
refugee, and had been dividing the
French military supplies furnished
her by Des Claux among other Ger
man friends has added to the intense
prejudice against German residents in
the city.
SMUGGLING GANG
LEADER ARRESTED
Russian Was Engaged In Taking Chi
nese From British Columbia To
the United States.
VANCOUVER, B. C., March 26.—
The police believe that in making the
arrest of a Russian here yesterday
they have secured the leader of the
gang which has been engaged in
smuglging aliens into the United
States from British Columbia. The
United States authorities asesrt that
hundreds of Chinese and East Indians
have been enabled to reach America
through the operations of the gang.
The s i ugglers are said to have
employed several fleet launches in
their trade and landed their passen
gers at many points along the coast.
The Russian, who is believed to be
the leader of the conspiracy to evade
the immigration laws, was captured
after being chased by a revenue cut
ter. The cutter would have been out
listanced in the race but was enabled
to overhaul the smuggler when his
engine failed him.
The Russian will be charged with
smuggling, but it is also understood
that the charge of murder may be
entered against him, as he is accused
of having thrown Chinese passengers
overboard to escape detection when
threatened with capture.
WASHINGTON, March 26.—Count
von Bernstorff, German ambassador
to the United States, is conferring
with President Wilson this afternoon
regarding the fate of the German
steamer Odenwald, which attempted
to escape from San Juan, Porto Rico,
without clearance papers. It is re
ported that the steamer will be or
dered sold but that her captain will
be allowed to go free.
GENERAL STORY
RISK CEL
PASADENA, March 26—Major Gen
‘eral John Patten Story, retired chief
of artillery of the United States army.
Is dead at his home here, aged 74
years. He was retired in June, 1906,
at his own request after forty years
of active service.