Halite* Batin Prosjtedar
VOLUME 1* VALDEZ, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1015 NUMBER 165
MILLIONS PAID FOR
HORSES BY ALLIES
American Horses Have Been Killed
ob European Battlefields by
Hundreds of Thousands.
EAST ST. LOUIS, III., Nov. 2.—
The society which is working to have
President Wilson declare an embar
go on American horses being sent
across the Atlantic ocean to die on
the battlefields of Europe, have com
piled statistics showing that $26,
000,000 has been paid by the Allies
for horses in the United States since
the war began.
It is reported that the agents of
the European governments have ab
solutely stripped many of the south
j ern states of horses and that sufll
' dent animals have not been left in
the country to till the soil next year.
Th^Kents of the Allies are now pay
IngjKirly one hundred per cent more
Iot horses than when the war began,
began.
More than twenty thousand horses
have been gathered in the corrals
near this city and are soon to be
shipped to Europe.
ANTI-SUFFRAGE
WOMEN WORK
Are Fighting Progressives and Pro
hibitionists Who Endorsed Wo
man Suffrage in Campaign.
BOSTON, Nov. 2.—The women of
this state are taking an active part
in the election today as only the Pro
gressive and Prohibition candidates
for office endorsed suffrage during
their campaigns and the suffragettes
are working hard for their election.
Governor Walsh, who is seeking re
election, and former Congressman
McCall, the Republican candidate, re
fused to endorse suffrage and are be
ing given the support of the anti
Suffragettes in the election today.
Other cities in the state report that
the Mmen are equally divided in
theiT. support and are reported to
have worked hard for their candi
dates.
ANCHORAGE GASES
BE TRIED AT KNIK
Oie of Defendants in Anchorage Li
quor Oases Plead Guilty and
lined $100 and Costs.
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The United States marshal’s office
today received advices from Seward
stating that one of the defendants in
the Anchorage liquor cases, F. B. Mc
Arthur had plead guilty and been fin
ed $100 and costs, and that all the
other Anchorage liquor cases have
been ordered transferred to Knik for
trial, before the U. S. commissioner
there.
It is believed ,tnat tne government
prosecution is finding great difficulty
in securing juries at Anchorage to try
the cases. The announcement of the
land office agents that conviction on
the charge of violation of the liquor
laws would mean confiscation of the
dedbifflant'g lots in Anchorage has
Made it almost impossible for the
keepers of blind pigs to be convicted,
although the evidence is understood
<to be conclusive against them.
E. D. Reiter, manager of the Alas
ka Mines Corporation, developing
property at Fidalgo bay, was a pas
senger on the Admiral Farragut for
Cordova, where he will look over
some machinery with a view of in
stalling it on his property.
[admiral EVANS LEFT'
SEATTLE YESTERDAY.
SEATTLE, Nov. 2.—The steamer
Admiral Evans, of the Admiral line,
sailed for Valdez and other South
western Alaska ports this morning,
having been delayed in taking on car
go. The passengers for Valdez are:
C. Tonck, John Baeurman, B. How
ard and C. L. Vawter, James Wade
for Fort Liscum, and Judge William
A. Munley, newly appointed assistant
district attorney for Knik. The Ad
miral Evans has every available
space filled with freight for the north,
and the warehouses are still filled
with shipments for Anchorage and
other Cook Inlet points.
SEATTLE SMELTER
IS ASSURED FACT
Enterprise Made Feasible Through
the Development of the Alaska
Coal Fields Next Year.
SEATTLE, Nov. 1.—The Bunker
Hill Mining Company, of Kellogg,
Idaho, is having plans prepared for
a million dollar smelter which will
be established near Seattle as soon
as the material can be assembled. A
site has been secured which will af
ford both rail and water shipping ad
vantages.
A number of Seattle capitalists who
are interested in Alaskan mining
properties have joined forces with
the Bunker Hill people in the enter
prise which has only been made feas
ible by the development of the coal
fields of Alaska.
It is understood that the company
will make application tor lease of a
tract in the Matanuska coal fields and
will begin development of the mine
in order that coal may be available
when the government railroad reaches
the coal fields.
It is announced that the company
plans to operate its own ore carrying
vessels and may possibly compete for
the freight business of the north with
the established lines.
JUDGE TUCKER’S
Circuit Court of Appeals Holds that
Alaska Clubs Selling Liquors
Must Pay a License.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2.—The
Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has
handed down a decision holding that
Alaska clubs, where liquors are sold,
must pay a license as provided by the
federal laws.
It is believed the above dispatch
refers to a case which was carried
to the Circuit Court of Appeals in
San Francisco from Nome last win
ter and which was decided against
the parties taking the appeal from
the decision of Judge Tucker at Nome.
It is evident that the case was re
considered possibly on the ground
that new and important evidence
bearing on the subject had been dis
covered and that the court has con
firmed its previous findings.
TWENTY BURNED IN
TENEMENT HOUSE.
BROOKLYN, Nov. 2.—The destruc
tion of a tenement house here last
night by fire resulted in twenty per
sons being cremated on the upper
floors before firemen could reach
them with ladders. Investigation
has shown that the tenement lacked
fire escapes and the tenants on the
upper stories were caught like rats
in a trap.
Col. Revelle, who has been award
ed the mail contract between Seward
and Anchorage, as well as the Idtta
rod mail contract, left Seward yes
terday afternoon on his first trip of
the season t.o Idltarod. He Is report
ed to have several of the finest dog
teams ever seen in Alaska.
RUSSIAN ARMY LANDED ON
BULGARIAN BLACK SEA COAST
ADVICES FROM PETROGRAD STATE LANDING WAS MADE AFTER
CITY OF VARNA HAD BEEN SUBJECTED TO HEAVY BOMBARD
MENT BY RUSSIAN FLEET—BELIEVED RUSSIANS WILL EN
DEAVOR TO SMASH PASSAGE TO BULGARIAN CAPITAL—TEU
TONS AND BULGARIANS CAPTURE SERBIAN ARSENAL—BERLIN
ARSENAL—BERLIN REPORTS FORTY THOUSAND SERBIANS AND
RUSSIANS CAPTURED DURING OCTOBER.
LONDON, Nov. 2.—Owing to the
lull in the fighting on both the east
ern and western battlefronts atten
tion is centered on the Balkans as the
war censors are permitting some news
to be printed concerning the opera
tions in the near East. Advices from
Petrograd state that the Russian fleet
has succeeded in landing a Russian
army on the Bulgarian Black sea
coast of Bulgaria near the city of Var
na and that the city had been sub
jected to a terrific bombardment by
the Russian fleet. It is believed that
the Russians will endeavor to smash
a passage to the west north of the
Balkan mountains and that the cam
paign has been planned by the allies
with the object of forcing the Teu
tons to withdraw from Serbia to de
fend the Bulgarian state. The Allies
in Southern Bulgaria are reported to
have made substantial gains north of
Strumitza.
Serbia Being Crushed.
LONDON, Nov. 2.—The Bulgarian
and Teutonic armies operating south
of Belgrade are reported to have cap
tured the Serbian forts at Kraguie
vatz, where the Serbian arsenal is lo
cated. During the Austrian cam
paign last year the Austrian troops
had laid siege to the city when King
Peter took personal command of his
troops and drove the Austrians back
with terrific losses. It is reported
that the Serbians moved their stores
of munitions to Montenegro when the
invasion of Serbia began from Bosnia
two months ago and that the Teutons
found the forts deserted, the Serbians
having withdrawn to Nish.
Forty Thousand Captured.
BERLIN, Nov. 2.—The German
war office bulletin covering the oper
ations for the past month states that
forty thousand Serbian and Russian
troops were captured during the
month of October and that the resis
tance of the Serbians have been
broken by the Bulgarian and Teuton
ic armies. It is reported that the
greater portion of Serbia is now un
der Teutonic control and that the ar
mies are nearing the Serbian city of
Nish, the railroad center. The fall of
Nish will clear the passage for troops
by rail from Berlin to Constantinople.
The Bulgarian army is reported to
have began the bombardment of the
outer forts Qf the city,,
FAILED TO PHY
THE GOVERNMENT
Names of Americans who Failed to
Repay for Assistance in Getting
Back Home Advertised.
>
SEATTLE, Nov. 2.—The United
States government, having grown tir
ed of attempting to collect from
Americans who were given financial
assistance in getting back to the Uni
ted States from Europe following the
outbreak of the war, has started suits
to recover the money where the part
ies are known, and are advertising
the names of those who have failed
to repay the loan.
The names of fourteen persons who
are still indebted to the government
as advertised here, includes the name
of Mark Graden, of Valdez, to whom
$50, the price of a steerage ticket,
was advanced to bring him from Liv
erpool to New York. Valdez people
in Seattle say that they do not know
of Graden and believe that some per
son gave a fictitious address in order
to escape the publicity attached ”to his
having been forced to accept aid from
the government.
Dispatches from other cities state
that many of the names advertised
are. fictitious and the persons owing
the government are unknown. Hun
dreds of men Igave their addresses to
the government agents as Chicago,
but they are ynknown and the col
lectors have been unable to locate
them. , j
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REPUBLICANS LOOK FOR
VICTORY TODAY, j
A1 White, territorial Republican i
organizer, looks for a republican vie- j
tory today in the states, where
elections are to be held. Consider
able local interest is attached to the
election in Massachusetts and repub
lican:! believe that ex-Congressman
Samuel McCall, who is a candidate
against the present incumbent, Gov
ernor Walsh, will win by a big ma
jority. Mr. White states that the
“full dinner pail” is the issue with
the Republicans in the New England
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Judge E. D. Reiter has taken of
fices with A1 White in the Boyle
building over the Owl Drug store.
ASKING DIVORCES
Result of Misguided Patriotism is now
Being Manifested in British
Divorce Courts.
LONDON, Nov. 2.—-Hundreds of
the wives of soldiers at the front
have began actions for divorces and
the government has ordered that all
divorce proceedings against soldiers
be suspended until after the return of
the men from the front.
During the early stages of the war
misguided patriots urged the soldiers
to wed before leaving for the war and
thousands of young couples were mar
ried and parted a few hours after
wards, never to meet again. The war
wiuows have tired of their positions
and seek release from their husbands
in name only.
The English club women have been
active in trying to find a solution of
the question and it is believed that
they have been instrumental in hav
ing the British government suspend
the divorce actions until the soldiers
return from the front. Many of the
wives in their complaints assert that
they do not know if their husbands
are alive or dead, as they have not
heard from them since leaving for
the front. Many of the husbands are
prisoners in Germany, and hav% been
unable to communicate with their
relatives.
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KIRK OAUSK8 HRAVY
1,088 AT DAWSON.
The Canadian Klondike Mining
company's big steam geenrating plant
was destroyed by Are last Friday,
causing a loss bf nearly one hundred
thousand dollars. The origin of the
fire is a mystery but it is not doubted
that it was accidental. The loss the
steam generating plant will compel
the company to continue the opera
tion of its dredges by means of wa
ter power which is available In fairly
good quantities from the big ditches.
The big ditches were forced to close
down for a few days while the new
adjustments being made. ,
O. Tucker, well known in Valdez,
was a passenger on the Admiral Far
ragut last night en route to the
states.
ANOTHER EXPIjOSION IN
DUPONT POWDER WORKS.
WILMINGTON, Nov. 2.—-Another
explosion occurred in the Dupont
Powder company’s works near here
this morning resulting in fourteen
employes being severely injured. The
building where the explosion took
place was completely wrecked. The
explosion is believed to be the work
of agents of the German society or
ganized to wreck the munition plants
in the United states to prevent ship
ments of munitions to the Allies. The
works are under double guard and it
is believed that the dynamite was
placed by some person in the employ
of the company.
ANTI-ALIEN LAW
IS HELD INVALID
Supreme Court of United States Holds
that Arizona State legislature
Exceeded Authority.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—The Su
preme Court of the United States has
handed down its decision in the case
of the Arizona anti-alien law, passed
by the Arizona legislature two years
ago.
The anti-alien law created one of
the hardest fights ever waged in the
legislature of Arizona and was passed
by the state legislature after the gov
ernor had vetoed the measure.
The measure had the support of the
labor unions, which are particularly
strong in Arizona, and was intended
to force the mine operators to employ
Americans instead of Mexicans. It
was shown that the Southern Pacific
employed a very small percentage of
white men except in executive posi
tions.
The supreme court has held that
the state legislature exceeded its au
thority in attempting to govern the
class of labor to be employed in the
state by operators.
into net
Government Probing Coastwise Vett
j sels Believed to be engaged in
Smuggling Operations.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2.—Agents
of the federal government are prob
ing a gigantic Chinese smuggling ring
which is believed to have existed for
some time among the employes of the
coastwise vessels. More than a doz
en steamers are under suspicion of
having smuggled Chinese into the
United States in violation of the law
requiring per capita tax.
A number of arrests have been
made following indictments by the
federal grand jury last August, when
more than sixty secret indictments
were returned. The operations of the
smugglers are reported as having ex
tended from British Columbia to
Mexidb, and hundreds of Chinese are
believed to have been landed in San
Francisco and other coast cities in
violation of the law.
FRKIGHTKR CORDOVA IS
DISCHARGING COAL.
The big freighter Cordova, of the
Alaska Steamship company, arrived
in Valdez today, bringing three
hundred tons of coal for the Valdez
Dock company. It is reported that
the coal is the best which has been
brought to Alaska for some time and
will afford the citizens of Valdez an
opportunity of securing their winter’s
fuel while the snow is not deep
enough to prevent delivery. The Cor
dova also carries a large quantity of
freight for Seward and Anchorage.
Miss Alice Coles was an outgo
ing passenger on the Admiral Farra
gut tor Seattle. She will visit the
San Francisco exposition before re
turning to Valdez.
SUBMARINES WILL
BLOCKADE GREECE
Believed In Germany that Allies Have
Forced Kin« Constantine to
Participate in the War.
MUNICH. Nov. 2.—It is believed
here that King Constantine, of Greece,
has been forced by the Allies to join
them and it is expected that Greece
is soon to declare war against Bul
garia on the pretext of keeping her
treaty with Serbia made at Bucharest
after the Balkan war of 1912.
It is reported that German subma
rines have been sent to the Medit
erranean sea to establish a blockade
of the Greek coast to prevent the Al
lies from landing troops to be sent to
the Bulgarian campaign.
King Constantine is reported to
have denied the right of the Allies to
force his country to declare war for
or against them, and promised strict
neutrality which was not acceptable
to the Allies. The new Greek cabi
net is reported as favoring the up
holding of the Bucharest treaty and
developments are looked 'for at an
early date.
HERMAN RIDDER
PASSES AWAY
Kidney Disease Causes Death of Ger
man Patriot who Believed that
Kaiser Could Do no Wrong.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2.—Herman
Ridder, the German patriot who be
lieved that the Kaiser and German
government could do no wrong, died
at his home here last night from kid
ney disease, aged 64 years.
Ridder was owner of the States
Zeitung, the Fatherland and several
other German-Araerican publications,
and was the recognized leader of the
German-American sentiment in the
United States.
He had grown to manhood before
coming to America and believed that
Germany was the most advanced na
tion in the world, and that she was
fighting not only for her very exist
ence, but for the enlightenment of
the world and greater civilization.
His publications have severely
criticised President Wilson and the
administration, charging violation of
neutrality and favoritism for the Al
lies. He organized a protest to En
gland from ’German-Americans over
the blockade of Germany by England
and when affairs were critical be
tween the German and United States
governments last summer over the
German submarine warfare, a circu
lar bearing Herman Rldder’s signa
ture was circulated among German
Americans urging them to defend the
Fatherland in case hostilities should
result from the demands of President
Wilson upon the German government.
Ridder has been instrumental in
raising millions of dollars in the Uni
ted States for the German Red Cross
society to care for the families of
the war sufferers in Germany, and
was steadfast in his opinion that Ger
many would triumph over the balauce
of Europe in the great struggle now
being waged.
WHITEHORSE MURDERER
SENTENCED TO DEATH.
Information from Whitehorse is
that Alexander Gagoff, when brought
to trial entered a plea of guilty to
murder and has been sentenced to
pay the death penalty on March 10.
The condemned man shot and kill
ed Pat Klnslow, George Lane, T. Bos
kovich and Henry Cook, members of
a section gang on the White Pass
railroad, on September 30. The de
fendant upon being asked to plead,
said, “I am guilty, I said two or three
times that I was guilty, and say so
again.'*
The jury in the case was then dis
missed aqgf the court took the evi
dence in the case and adjudged the
accused guilty and imposed the death
sentence.