BRITISH BLOCKADE WILL
DESTROY OUR PROSPERITY
COTTON MILL OWNERS MAKE PROTEST TO BRYAN CLAIMING MUST
HAVE GERMAN DYES OR 260,000 MILL WORKERS WILL BE OUT
OF JOBS—INSIST RIGHTS OF NEUTRALS BE PROTECTED-AL
'■ MOST ALL DYES COME FROM GERMANY—.GERMANS OWN PAT
ENT RIGHTS AND CAN STOP AMERICAN MANUFACTURE.
WASHINGTON, April 7—Represen
tatives of 400 American cotton mills,
employing 260,000 Americans, today
called upon Secretary of State W. J.
Bryan and informed him that if the
British blockade against Germany and
German made supplies continues all
the cotton mills in the United States
zmist close down and a quarter of a
million of American workmen would
thereby be out of work and starve.
The mill owners insisted that the
right of the United States to trade
with neutral countries should be up
held by the government and the Brit
ish forced to abandon the blockade
in so far as it violated international
law.
The inability of the importers to
secure dyestuffs is causing much con
cernj to the manufacturers of the
east, as the Germans supplying the
cotton mills of the United States have
patent lights preventing the manufac
ture in this country or the importa
tion from any other country of dyes
manufactured by tleir processes.
Many dyes are manufactured by sec
ret process known only to the German
dye manufacturers and If the blockade
continues American industry will be
seriously crippled and the British
mills will secure the business and will
also be able to invade the American
markets. The British laws allow the
manufacture of dyes by English dye
manufacturers even when violating
German owned patent rights, as the
war automatically took from Germans
0(11 rights they had under English
law.
Fully four-fifths of the dyes used
in America prior to the war were
manufactured in Germany, and while
pome are now being made in the Un
ited States the infant industry is un
able to supply much of the large sup
ply required.
The secretary will take up with the
British government the violation of
American rights and will endeavor to
force the British to respect American
rights.
EXPLORER GIVES
ALASKA DINNER
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Admiral Perry Celebrates Sixth An
niversary of His Having Reach
ed the North Pole.
WASHINGTON, April 7.—Rear Ad
miral Perry, the discoverer of the
north pole, gave an Alaska dinner last
night to celebrate the sixth /anni
versary of his arrival at the north
pole. Secretary Redfield, of the De
partment of Commerce, was the guest
of honor at the dinner and in an ad
dress stated that the government was
now fully awake to the needs of Alas
ka and also to the. great possibilities
of the northern country with Its. tre
mendous fisheries, undeveloped mines,
large tracts of agricultural lands and
i other resources.
The dinner was made up largely of
Alaska dishes, many of the meats hav
ing been brought to this city in cold
storage. , •• •n .
The explorer also spoke of the greet
possibilities of the north and urged
government action that would turn im
migration into Alaska, where thou
sands of families could find new fields
of work. Admiral Perry stated that
the general idea in the United States,
that all the north was a waste of land
useless and barren, was wrong and
that laj-ge parts of it were good for
agricutural purposes.
sra WOULD
BE GOOD ALISKAO
JUNEAU, April 7.—James A. Smi
ser, the new district attorney of this
division, in an interview appearing in
the Juneau Dispatch, says that he
, wants to above all things be an Alas
kan ; that he came to Alaska not with
any new theories of government, but
to get acquainted with the people,
learn their needs and to become one
of them.
“The little I have seen of the peo
ple of the north I have found them
to be a people of fine ideals and high
l^jps and Independence and have
learned to admire them greatly and
hope to join with the pioneers of the
territory In working for the opening
of the resources and wipe out the
last great frontier of the United
States.”
WANT A FARM
JUNEAU, April 7—Manager P. R.
Bradley, of Treadwell, proposes to es
tablish a farm near Juneau if he can
find a suitable location. It is his pur
pose to use the farm for the benefit
of the miners who .work under ground
and are often ih need of recreation in
the open air and a few weeks on the
farm will be a health-giver to the
miners.
NO NEUTRAL ZONE
OF MEXICO CITY
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Efforts of Administration At Wash
ington To 8ecure 8afe Haven
for Foreigners Fails.
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WASHINGTON, April 7—In spite
of the efforts of the administration to
arrange with Provisional President
Carranza of Mjexlco for the establish*
ment of Mexico City as a neutral city
in which the people would be free
from Interference by any of the fac
tions now striving to gain control of
the government Carranza refuses to
agree to a neutral zone and the danger
to foreigners is becoming more and
more accute.
Just what action the government
will take to protect foreigners is not
known, but the continued sending of
men to concentration camps near the
border, the sending of more warships
to Mexican ports and the purchasing
of supplies for the army and navy
indicates that strong pressure will be
used to force Carranza to protect for
eigners and that the administration
is determined to be ready in case in
tervention is made necessary by the
| stubbornness of the rebel leader.
The residents of foreign govern
ments in Mexico City have appealed
to their government for aid and in
turn the European powers have turn*
ed to this country insisting that we
take such action as will result in
safeguarding the lives of their nation
als.
Charley Howard, of the Alaska road
commission, arrived in town with nine
head of horses which have been
freighting supplies for the coming
season’s work.
DREDGING CO.
WANT LEASE GOAL
Apply To Land Office for Lease On
Lands On Cache Creek—Use
Coal On Dredges.
JUNEAU, April 7—The Cache Creek
Dredging Company of Washington, in
which state the company is incorpor
ated, has applied to the land office for
a lease on coal lands on Cache creek
in the Yentna district. The officials
state that they require 2,000 tons of
coal annually and want to mine it
near the placer mine and use coal for
j fuel in the big dredging operations
which the company will carry on for
many years.
The applications for leases are not
coming in as fast as had been expect
ed.
u. S. EXPORTS
ARE GROWING
Week Ending April 3rd Shows Bal
ance of $21,500,000 In Favor of
the United States.
WASHINGTON, April 7— The trade
balance in favor of the United States
for the week ending April 3 is $21,
500,000. A gain of $6,000,000 over the
week previous and the government ex
perts predict that the balance will
continue to grow as the demand for
supplies continues to hold up and
'contracts already placed in the Unit
ed States by the belligerents will keep
the factories busy for months.
The imports into the United States,
however, have fallen far below that of
past years, while the exports are
slowly going upward, but to date do
not total as much as prior to the be
ginning of the European war.
ITALY AND SERVIA FINALLY
MAKE TREATY OF ALLIANCE
AGREE UPON DIVISION OF SPOILS IN RETURN FOR ITALIAN AID—
RUSSIANS ASSERT HAVE CHECKED AUSTRIANS NEAR CZER
NOWITZ—FIGHTING NEAR VERDUN.
PARIS, April 7.—Italy and Servia
have arranged a treaty settling the
differences between the two nations
and arranging for a division of spolis
in the Balkan region in the event of
a successful war with the Teutonic
allies and it is certain that if the
Italian Chamber of Deputies and the
Servian Council ratify the treaty,
which settles all matters in dispute,
that Italy will be in the war in a few
days and will send troops into Servia
and Montenegro to attack the Austri
ans. The strongly fortified border
line between Italy and Austria would
make an attack upon the Austrians
holding the positions between the
two countries almost foolhardy.
French Fail To Regain Lost Ground.
BERLIN, April 7—The French have
failed to regain the ground recently
lost south of Dixmunde and although
they sent attack after attack and lost
hundreds of men they were unable to
recover the lost trenches.
Russians Hold Own.
LONDON*., April 7.—The Russian
foroee one holding their own in East
Prussia, where . the Germane: have
been on the offensive and have made'
many attacks upon the Russian line.
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Persia Asks Russians To Evacuate.
BERLIN, April 7.—“The. Persian
government has called upon Russia to
evacuate the Province of Azerbijaa,
(Northwest Persia,)” says an item
.given out by the Overseas News Ag
ency here tonight.
Adriatic Blockade Is On.
ROME, April 7.—Commanders of
the Anglo-French fleet in the Adriatic
sea, according to advices from An
cona, have been notified by their gov
ernments that the transportation of
goods of any kind to or from ports
on the Austrian coast is prohibited
under the terms of the Allies’ new
blockade policy, and that steamers
carrying such cargoes are to be seiz
ed.
British Ships Submarined.
LONDON, April 7.—The admiralty
announced yesterday that the British
steamer Northlands had been subma
rined in the English channel and had
gone to the bottom. The crew was
saved. One trwler U3ed for mine
sweeping went down in the North sea,
having hit one of the mines she was
seeking to destroy.
German* Hold Ossowetz.
The Petrograd dispatches admit
that the Germans still hold Ossowetz
but that the fighting about the city
continues. No change is reported in
the positions of the opposing armies
in Poland, but the Russians are ex
pected to start an offensive movement
from Warsaw to break the center of
the Russian line.
Russians Claim Check Austrians.
PETROGRAD, April 7.—The Austri
an advance northwest of Czernowitz
has failed and the Russians have
checked the Austrian offensive. The
effort of the troops of the Austrians
to envelope and flank the advance of
czar’s troops failed. The enemies offen
sive was for some time very threat
ening and large forces of reserves
were sent to the scene. The Rus
sians, strongly reinforced, have not*
taken the offensive and are advancing
unchecked In spite of the desperate
resistance that is being offered them.
French Increaae Offensive.
PARIS, April 7.—The French troops
have increased the offensle movement
started a few days ago and are push
ing forward in the Meuse and Moselle
section and are striving to drive a
wedge into the German line at St.
; Mihiel.
<r'' French Claim Successes.
■- ’ The war office report of today’s
engagements state that the French
troops have been successful northeast
of Verdun in the drive the troops are
making to strike at Metz, where the
kaiser’s men have established a great
military camp.
British Short of Ammunition.
LONDON, April 7.—Lord Kitchener
stated today that the reason for the
delayed general attack by the Allies
upon the German lines was the fact
that the British have been unable to
secure enough ammunition for the
new guns and have been sending into
the German lines a tremendous
amount of shells, which has exhaust
ed the supply and until the factories
can turn out a larger amount than
at present the general . engagement
must wait.
G. W. Salmon, Earl Arnold, W.
Simpson, all arrived from Fairbanks
last evening with a dog team. The
men will leave on the Mariposa for
Seattle.
Ray Millard, superintendent of the
Granite mine, returned to Hobo bay
this morning on the launch B. F. M.
Mrs. Millard accompanied her hus
band.
Capt. L. B. Ericksen of the govern
ment steamer Donaldson has received
word that his wife and two children,
who have been visiting in Norway,
will leave for their home at Fort Lis
cum on April 14.
LANE IS SOON TO MAKE
RAILROAD ANNOUNCEMENT
TELLS REPORTERS PUBLIC SOON BE TAKEN IN HIS CONFIDENCES
—COMMISSION TO CONTINUE WORK AND HAVE CHARGE OF
CONSTRUCTION—ARMY ENGINEERS NOT BE EMPLOYED—ALAS
KANS THINK INDICATIONS POINT TO SHIP CREEK AS TERMINAL
—DREDGES FROM PANAMA CANAL BE USED.
WASHINGTON, April 7.—Secretary
of Interior Franklin K. Lane, who has
charge of the building of the govern
ment railroad in Alaska, announced
today that definite news regarding the
railroad would probably be announced
this week and that the work would
be pushed with dispatch in order to
take advantage of the short summer
season.
Get Dredges From Panama.
In spite of the report yesterday that
little material would be taken from
the Panama canal for use in the work
of building the railroad in Alaska the
secretary today requested from the
War Department a number of big
dredges which are to be taken to
Alaska and used near Ship Creek
in building the line along the coast.
Think Ship Creek Be Terminal.
The request fOF barges and dredges
indicates to the Alaskans In this city
.that the government is determined to
make a terminal at Ship Creek, where
the harbor will be made target by the
use of dredges so that the big war
ships can go to the docks and coal.
Commission To Do Work.
'fhe indications all point to the fact
that the Alaska engineering commis
sion as now constituted will do the
construction work. A hard fight has
been made by members of congress
to have the work done by the army
engineers because of the fine record
made by that corps in building the
Panama canal and in construction of
other public works, but Secretary
Lane’s friends insisted that the In
terior Department should have charge
of the work because to that depart
ment has been given the task of open
ing up the north and providing for
the development of the mineral re
sources of Alaska.
James J. Godfrey, or the Mother
Lode Mining company, was an arriv
al on the Mariposa this morning. He
is accompanied by Mrs. Godfrey and
they will be visitors here until the
return of the steamer tomorrow night.
ROOT READS
n. immm
ALBANY, N. Y., April 7.—The state
convention to revise the constitution
of New York met here today and or
ganized by the election of former
Senator Elihu Root as president of
the convention. * The work of chang
ing the constitution will require many
mpnths. The Republicans control the
convention and Republican desires
will largely govern in making over
the constitution.
Dim FLEET
LEAVES ENGLAND
Arrival* In New York Bring a Tale
of An Old Scheme To Block
ade the Kell Canal.
NEW YORK, April 7—When the
White Star liner Lapland arrived here
yesterday She brought a tale that the
mysterious fleet of dummy warships,
said to have been constructed at Bel
fast under the direction of Capt. H.
J. Haddock, Royal Naval Reserve, had
sailed from that port on a secret mis
sion. The rumor was that the Brit
ish admiralty Intended to use them
for blocking the Kiel Canal.
These vesesls are old steamships
bought from the merchant service and
include ships like the Campania, Oru
ba, and Orotava, which have been
fitted with dummy funnels, wooden
turrets, and guns, and their holds fill
ed with cement to lower them in the
water.
This will make them torpedo proof,
it is explained, because, owing to the
hardness of the cement a torpedo ex
ploding would only rip off a plate or
two in the hull. An outside belting
of cement has been itdded to the hulls
of these dummy warships to protect
the engines and boilers.
The fleet has been manned entirely
by volunteers as it is a hazardous un
dertaking and the captains are mostly
retired rear admirals from the Brit
ish navy who have volunteered for
the war and have received commis
sions as captains in the Royal Naval
Reserve.
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If you want all the news all the
time, read the Prospector.
SEND MEN TO
RAISE SUBMARINE
Cruiser Maryland Leaves San Fran
cisco With Divers and Equip
ment To Raise Boat.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 7.—The U.
S. Cruiser Maryland left here today
for Honolulu with divers and equip
ment for the purpose of raising the
American submarine which went down
on March 26th In the harbor of Hon
olulu and was unable to regain the
surface again. Twenty men are en
tombed in the vessel.
The order to the commander of the
big cruiser is to make fast time in
reaching the scene and the ship will
be sent under forced draft all of the
distance.
Divers from the government navy
yard and equipment needed to raise
the boat have been taken along and
the work of bringing the underwater
fighter to the surface is expected to
be a matter of but a few days after
the arrival of the Maryland at Hono
lulu. •
cordovaIaT
A HOT FIGHT
CORDOVA. April 7.—The Peoples
ticket of this city elected six of the
seven councilmen at the election yes
terday. George C. Hazelef, who has
been absent frdjn -the cfty for sdrne
months and had-spent the winter in
Washington urging* the selection of
Cordova as the terminal of the gov
ernment railroad, was defeated by two
votes. The election was the bitterest
ever held in .this city. The Boyle
ticket was defeated and elected but
one man to the present council.
The result is as follows: H. A.
Slater, 174: Bartley Howard, 168: V.
A. Schmitz, 166: Thos.- C. Price, 165;.
W. L. Smith, 165: E. J. Davis, 164-t* -
all of the Peoples ticket, and Charles
Ross, 164, the seventh man, was from
the Citizens ticket headed- by Mayor
E. V. Boyle. Chase received 158; E,
E. Ray, 156: Price ettleltpnj |*8: E.
V. Boyle, 148, Ed. Curridt. 142; Chas.
Goodall, 136. •«'
For school director D. R. Mosser
was elected by a small .majority.
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