“VOL 1() VALDEZ, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1914. NO. 177.
MINERS KILL STRIKE BREAKERS;
MILITIA AND MINERS BATTLE
MAJOR LESTER, OF HOSPITAL CORPS, 16 KILLED AND 650 MINER6
SURRENDER—ARM8 ARE SURRENDERED TO 8TATE TROOPS— .
REGULARS REACH DENVER—SOON ESTABLISH PEACE.
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TRINIDAD, April 30.—Eight strike
breakers were killed yesterday by the
miners. The strike beakers were
employed at the coal mine near Forbes
and were some distance from the
guards when the former mine work
ers opened fire, killing eight of them
before they were able to reach shel
ter.
The force of guards at the mine was
too small to allow for the pursuit of
the strikers and none of them were
hurt.
Regulars'Reach Denver.
DENVER, April 30.—The federal
troops reached this city last night en
route to the stride zone and are pre
pared for any trouble with the strik
ers. The first work of the govern
ment troops will be the disarming of
the strikers and in the event of op
position more troops will be sent and
stringent measures adopted by the
)Var department.
Rockefeller Wont Compromise.
NEW YORK, April 30—All efforts
to have Rockefeller compromise the
present trouble with the striking coal
miners in Colorado have failed. The
oil king stated that the fight was one
for an open shop—the right of Amer
ican citizens to work where and when
ihey wanted and the company would
7iot discharge the men who have been
loyal to them in the present trouble.
‘Rather than allow the miners to
dictate and unionize the mines we
will close them down and allow them
to remain closed for years,” said the
oil king.
Miners Fight Militia.
WALSENBURG, Colo., April 30.—
For two hours the state militia, num
bering 200 men, vainly stormed 400
striking miners, who were entrenched
in the hills near here. The miners
tired upon the state guard and killed
Major Lester, of the hospital corps,
and wounded three soldiers. None of
the strikers were hit as they were
protected behind barricades and earth
works.
The state troops surrounded the
larger force of miners and made sev
eral attempts to take the trenches
and force the miners to surrender.
The miners still control the en
trenchments and the troops have
withdrawn.
Men Surrender.
TRINIDAD, April 30.—'The striking
miners who have been resisting the
state troops at Walsenburg have sur
rendered their arms and declared a
truce. The commanding officer, how
ever, refused to grant them immun
ity for the killing of Major Lester
and all of the men are subject to
prosecution for the murder of the
militia officer. Six hundred and fifty
miners were in the flarty holding the
entrenchments and all of them were
well armed, but were short of ammu
nition. Six hundred and fifty rifles
were surrendered.
FINDS HELPED
GRIFFITHS ESCAPE
Political Friends at Washington Made
It Possible for Him to Leave
Seattle Hotel.
SAN FRANCISCO, April, 30.—Cap
tain Griffiths, former quartermaster at
Fort Lawton, who is charged with
having stolen $9,090 in government
funds and is now held here under
arrest, having been caught yester
day while visiting his sweetheart at
Oakland, admits that he was aided
to escape from the hotel in Seattle
through the assistance of powerful po
litical friends in Washington.
Griffiths admitted that he would
have sailed for Australia today had
he not been caught and would have
started life anew. Friends had sup
plied enough money to pay his pass
age and give him a start.
No date has been set for the re
convening of the court martial that
is to try the officer, and it is possi
ble the case may be taken up next
week at Seattle.
I REIN CHE
WWIJHED
" LONDON, April 8A.—Chinese gov
ernment officials in Shanghai arrested
today several revolutionaries who had
oome from Japan, according to a dis
patch. They jpere charged. with
spreading sedition amoag the regu
lar soldiers.
At the same time documents were
seigad, alleged to be signed by Di*.
Sun Yat Sen, former provisional
president. They are said to contain
inatmcttons tor a widespread uprta
- mg aid the massacre of official? this
month.
Subscribe lor the Pr (repeater.
ENGLISH MARINES
FOR BELFAST
Eleven Warships Arrive at Belfast and
Will Land Marines in Case
of Trouble.
BELFAST, Ireland, April 30—Elev
en British warships arrived at this
port this morning and the govern
ment has threatened to land marines
and place the city under martial law
in case of any trouble between the
friends of home rule and its oppo
nents.
The marines have, been sent to Ire
land because of the dissatisfaction in
the army against fighting the men of
Ulster and it is expected that the
sailors will remain true to the gov
ernment and aid it in making a set
tlement of the conditions which have
come near to causing a rebellion and
threaten to cause the defeat of the
Asquith ministry.
• No effort has been made by the
authorities to recover the 40,000 stand
of German gun- recently smuggled
into this city, but it is expected that
the troops and police will be asked
to prevent the distribuion of the
arms.
LONDON, April 30—.It is generally
believed here today that the govern
ment has arrived at a compromise of
the Irish home rule bill, which will
be satisfactory to all sides. Both
the Unionists and the Home Rule ad
vocates will be satisfied with the com
promise, as it gives to Neither side
any advantage and both i are fhrced
to concede many points of difference.
The determined nttiUd* of the gov
ernment hoc finally forced Bonar Law
and Sir cirson to a' resHsatkm that
the time for compromise has almost
passed.
Because of the rain the crew of
moo for the Rutbertord-Rapasay mine
were unable to leave and they will
wait for clear weather and a cold
night.
DIKE PROTEST
TO ROCKEFELLER
Upton Sinclcair and Militant Suffra
gette Silently Picket Rocke
feller'* Office.
NEW YORK, April 30.—Upton Sin
clair< the novelist and leader of the
unemployed in this city, and Eliz
abeth Freeman, a militant suffra
gette, were arrested this morning do
ing morning picket duty in front of
the office of J. D. Rockefeller, Jr.
The pickets were dressed in deep
mourning because of the striking
miners killed by the Colorado state
militia and was considered as a pro
test to the oil magnate against the
strike situation in the coal mines
owned by the Rockefellers in the
western state.
' The police magistrate ordered the
release of the two pickets and Sin
clair and Miss Freeman declare they
will return to the office and continue
the picketing.
In defending his right to picket the
office of Rockefeller, Jr., Sinclair said
that the right of free silence was as
essential to American liberty as the
right of free speech and that neither
he nor his companion had uttered a
word of protest to Rockefeller or in
tended to, but wish to impress upon
the oil king that his action in refus
ing work to the miners resulted in
death and mourning to hundreds of
families.
ABANDON HOPE
EMBED MINERS
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Mine Will be Sealed and Fire Ex
tinguished—Women and Chil
dren Watch at Shaft.
ECCLES, W. Va., April 30—All hope
for the entombed miners in the New
River mine near here has been aban
doned and workmen are preparing to
seal up the mine and smother the
Are, which is now raging in the low
er workings, where the explosion oc
curred. *
Since yesterday afternoon, in spite
of the efforts of the big crew of men,
no headway was made in fighting the
fire and it continued to gain, shutting
off all hope for the rescue of the
miners alive.
Women and children, the wives and
families of the miners still in the
burning mine, refuse to be driven
away from the mine and are Watch
ing and waiting, hoping against hope,
that some means may be found to
save the Imprisoned men.
Cup Defender Launched Today.
BRISTOL, ft. I., AHM 29.—Mother
ocean today took to her Bosom one
of the yachts which will battle among
themselves for the honor of repre
senting America in defense of the
America s cup against Sir Thomas
Llpton’e Shamrock IV. next Septem
ber. The ocean racer launched to
day is the Resolute, the Herreshoff’s
entry. It was the first of the Amer
ican defenders to take to the water.
The ceremonies today were elabor
ate.
LITTLE DAUGHTER FOR
, MR. AfiD MRS. WM. MEALS
A daughter wa» boro late yesterday
afternoon to Hi. and Mrs. William
iMealf. Both mother and daughter are
idplng well and papa has been passing
bat the cigars to hto friends.
| Ed. Wood is up from Shoop bay,
whew ho has the contract to deliver
the freight to the Cameron-Johnson
mine.
Arthur Pink us says this is bad
breather in which to exercise a bull
dog and he holies the slush will soon
disappear.
STUDENTS PROFIT
BY DANCE CRAZE
Hire Themselves Out as Escorts for
Women—Brokers Also Get in
the Game and the Money.
NEW YORK, April 30.—-Many male
students in this city have found it
very profitable to hire themselves out
of evenings as dancing partners for
women who have no male escorts.
Many of the better class of cabarets
refuse to allow unescorted women to
enter and some have hired messen
ger boys in order to see the sights
and engage in dancing the new
dances which has set this city crazy.
Stock brokers, who are short of
money, are also entering the escort
business and get as high as $7.00 an
hour. They must be of good ap
pearance and dress faultlessly and be
able to dance the.new dances beauti
fully or they have no chance.
Some women who entertain a great
deal assert that younf men have been
deal assert that young men have been
showered upon them, and have be
come stingy.
"Only the other night 1 invited one
to a dinner dance party," said one
of these women. "I paid for his
ticket, and I paid for his supper and
everything he drank. Yet, do you
know, he actually ordered cigarettes
and let me pay for them!"
BULL liras
NOT NEEDED
Says Controller Prendergast, Who
Nominated Roosevelt at Chicago
Convention in 1912.
SEATTLE, April 30—William Pren
dergast, controller of the City of
New York, who is now visiting in
this city, stated today that he is firm
ly convinced that the Progressive
party has outlived its usefulness and
that the men who helped to make
the party the factor it was at*the
last national election should now join
wlh the Republican party, which has
been almost cleared 0/ the vicious ele
ment and the bosses who controlled
it two years ago.
Prendergast was a member of the
Progressive national convention and
placed Theodore Roosevelt In nomi
nation, making the nominating speech
at the request of the former presi
dent.
Aviation CatiOOa 462 Deaths.
WASHINGTON.—Death levied a
heavy toll oh the aviators of the
world for the first three months of
this year, according to records kept
here. Between January 1 and April
1, thirty-eight men in all parts of
the world lost their lives through the
uncertainty of air currents or the fail
ure of their flying machines. The
United States with five killed stands
fourth on the list, (which Prance
heads with ten dead. Germany lost
eight in the same period, Great Brit
ain seven, Turkey three,, and Chili,
Spain, Argentina, Switzerland and
Italy, one each.
Since Lieut. Thos. H. Selfridge, U.
S. A., was killed at fort Myer,' Sep
tember 17, 1908, the first man whose
death is recorded as due to experi
ments with heavler-than-alr flying
ctaft, 489 aviators in all parts of the
world lost their lives in the cause
of aoiehce. Of the five Americans
killed this year, two were officers, ode
of the navy and one of the army.
One of the oiviltaan was killed la Ar
gentina in an attempted *i*ht across
the Andes. SIX of toe eight German
Victims and two of the french were
krasy officers, as Were four of the!
^rltish.
Mark Tatum will leave on the
Brighton tor Port Wells.
MORE MEXICAN CITIES FALL;
PACIFIC COAST TOWNS TAKEN
DENIED THAT NAVY HAS BOMBARDED MANZANILLO OR SAUNA
CRUZ DURING THE PENDING PEACE SETTLEMENT—PREVENT
ELIMINATION HUERTA—WANT MILITARY OPERATIONS QUIT.
MEXICO CITY, April 30.—General
Blanquet, Mexican minister of war,
announced today that General Mier
had reported that American warships
had bombarded the city of Manaan
illo on the Pacific coast of Mexico
and had landed marines and taken
the city, driving out the Mexican
troops.
Also Take Salina Cruz.
The war minister also announced
that the American marines had land
ed at Salina Cruz and were in pos
session of the city. The small force
of federals being forced to retreat
out the railroad line.
Both Are Important Cities.
Both Manzanillo and Salina Cruz are
important Pacific coast cities of Mex
ico. Manzanillo is the terminus of
the railroad from the Pacific to Mex
ico City and is one of the largest
ports on the west coast, being mid
way between Mazatlan and- Salina
Cruz, which is the terminus of the
railroad from Vera Cruz to the Paci
fic and is a depot for military sup
plies.
Daniels Doubts Capture.
WASHINGTON, April 30.—Secre
tary of the Navy Daniels doubts that
American warships have bombarded
any Pacific coast Mexican cities or
that marines have been landed. While
admitting that battleships and cruis
ers have been dispatched to all im
portant coast towns, yet no orders
were issued to land marines except
ing at Mazatlan and those were coun
termanded when pea e negotiations
were started. No reports have been
reoeived from the commanding offi
cer by the Navy department.
. Powers Asked Help Huerta.
BERLIN. April 30.—The three
South American republics in charge of
the settlement of the trouble be
tween the United States and Mex
ico, have appealed, to all the Euro
pean powers with interests in Mexico
to prevail upon President Wilson not
to insist upon the ellniinatlon of Pro
visional President Huerta from the
presidency of the Mexican republic.
Mexicans Want Huerta.
The mediators are confident that
no settlement of the trouble can be
made if President Wilson insists up
on the elimination of President Huer
ta, as they assert the Mexican peo
ple in the thickly settled communi
ties are all with the defacto govern
ment and would rather fight than be
forced to accept General Villa and
General Carranza as the heads of the
government.
Foreigners Also Active.
The foreign residents in Mexico are
also pleading with their governments
to prevail upon the United States not
to force Huerta out, as they assert
he is the only man in Mexico who
can hold the factions together and
eventually establish peace. They
claim that all foreigners in the sec
! tions controlled by Huerta have been
! safe and have been protected, while
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! GERMAN SPY GETS
| LONG SENTENCE
English Government Fears the Espion
age of the Foreign Naval
Authorities.
LONDON, April 30.—Frederick A
Gould, convicted of spying upon the
British navy, supposedly in the in
terest of the German government, has
been sentenced to six years penal
servitude to be fololwed by deporta
tion. Mrs. Gould, who was also
charged with her husband for espion
age, was discharged. Gould, whose
real name is Schroeder, pleaded guilty
to obtaining certain plans and docu
ments calculated to be useful to a
foreign government.
When his residence was searched
by the police they discovered many
I documents and the attorney general
refused to allow them to be made pub
lip at the trial, claiming it would be
injurious to the English navy.
Gould has received the longest sen
tence ever Inflicted upon a spy in
England excepting during time of war
and the government is In hopes of
breaking up a gang of foreign agents
guilty of espionage. All the shipyard
towns are infested with spys accord
ing to the naval officers.
King Rene’s Daughter.
Maude Fealy as Iolanthe in "King
Rene’s Daughter" tonight at the Or
pbeum. This classic play is taken
from Henrick Henri, and translated
from the Danish especially for Maude
Fealy. The Thanhauser film com
pany have spared no expense to pro
duce this poetic drama in three reels.
The codtedy. “A Mad of Letters;’’
will also be shown. Two nights on
ly. Change on Saturday eyenlng.
Eagiss, No Acs!
All members of the lodge are re
quested to he preient at the meeting
Frfdajr nlgtlt. Hay11. VtelAlntf .broth
<er* welcome. C. J. tobft
Secretary.
GRANT PATENTS
TO COAL CLAIMS
Department of Interior Allows Candle
Locations to Be Perfected—
Second in Alaska.
i
JUNEAU, April 30.—The Depart
ment of the Interior has granted to
the Chicago Creek Coal Company pat
ent to the claims owned by them near
Candle in northern Alaska. The
claims were originally located by
Thomas Roust. The Alaska Fuel and
Power Transportation Company is
now the owners of the land and will
secure the title.
’htis is the second coal patent
granted by the department to Alaska
locators and it is expected that more
patents will be granted in the course
of the next year.
The patent granted by the depart
ment to Captain Whorf for claims
at Port Graham was the first patent
to coal claims granted in Alaska.
TREATY RIGHTS
AMIABILITY
WASHINGTON, April 30.—A decis
ion by the Federal district court of
eastern Pennsylvania, that non-resi
dent aliens may not recover under the
Federal Employers’ Liability law,
may involve treaty relations of the
United States with Great Britain and
Italy.
Heirs of Peter McGovern, who was
killed in the Reading Terminal in
Philadelphia, lost a case for damages
for his depth because they live in
Inland. Their counsel, asking the
8upreme Court for an early hearing
today pleaded %wtraveaUon of treat
ies governing rights of aliens.
Fatty Hamilton will leave for Port
Wells on the Brighton.