VALDEZ, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER *5, 1915. NUMBER 158
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SAYS EXECUTION
WHS NECESSARY
Mfth Cavill was Executed as Warn
ing to Others Not to Resist Ger
man Law in Belgium.
BERLIN, Oct. 25.—German mili
tary officers and editors of the news
papers are upholding the action of
the German governor of Brussels,
who ordered the execution of Miss
Mitt. Cavill, the English woman.
They declare that the execution, while
deplorable, was a military necessity,
wn a means of frightening others
from attempting to violate the mili
tary rules governing the portion of
Welgium under German control.
The German war office has also
pasted a special bulletin covering the
wwnspiracy in which the English wo
-j— was involved with several other
WiTuen to aid prisoners to escape
Atm Belgium. It is declared that
Miss Cavill had originated and at
tempted to carry out a gigantic plot,
which, had it not been detected in
time, might have cost the lives of
hundreds of German soldiers who
would have fallen victims to the re
teased prisoners.
I
mgm
lil—tli African Laborites are Opposed
to Continuance of European
War—Defeated at Election.
JOHANNESBURG, S. A., Oct. 26.—
The parliamentary elections held last
Sstniday in the Union of South Afri
ca, resulted in the triumph of the
Botha party and the overwhelming
defeat of the laborites. The Botha
party stands for continuing the war
ta support of the Empire and marks
si complete reversal of the situation
In the districts during the past twen
ty years, when the laborites were
clamoring for war in order to extend:
1ihttJp.il uence of the British in Africa.
ffeneral Both, who was one of the
fending Boer generals, and who has
been in command of British troops
fa Africa against the German colonies
has offered his services to the empire
hs France against the Germans. He
will leave shortly for England to con
fer with the British cabinet regard
in* the control of the captured Ger
man provinces in Africa.
UM
Oat Serbian Line of Communication
With Salonika and Completely
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Isolating Serbians.
1J0NDQN, Oct. 25.—Advices from
Kish state that the Bulgarian invad
ers have reached the Serbian city of
Uskup anu have cut the railroad line
between Nish and Salonika, isolating
the Serbian army from its source of
■applies
The Allies are reported to be rush
ing n targe army northward from Sa
lonika and it is believed that ope of
too greatest battles of the present war
hydeveloping south of Uskup along
toe Vardar river.
The capture of the railroad center
y ag Cslrnp Is of tremendous advantage
to the Bulgarians as it gives them
direct railroad communication with ;
Sofia and enables them to centralize ,
their troops against the Allies in i
aouthern Bulgaria or in Serbia.
•Jmst received, a lot of samples, no 1
two alike, of hair ornaments, stamp- i
«d articles for embroidery, wool i
hoods sad scarfs, at The Emporium. I
SAYS ALLIES'DRIVE
TERRIBLE FAILURE
—
German War Office Reports that Octo
ber Casualties of Nations In
volved are One Million.
BERLIN, Oct. 25.—The German
war office reports that the month of
October has been the bloodiest one
in the history of the world, the casu
alties of the nations involved having
reached the enormous total of one
million men.
The drive of the Allies to break
the German line through northern
France and Belgium is described as
a failure, and is reported to have cost
the British and French troops hun
dreds of thousands of men who were
the mainstay of their armies. The
British commanders sent company
after company against the German po
sitions, whefie they were literally
mowed down.
It is claimed by the war office that
all the positions from which the Ger
man troops were withdrawn along
the western battlefront during the
terrific artillery bombardment of the
Allies, have been recovered and new
ground gained by the Crown Prince’s
army in the Argonne district.
The Russian resistance is reported
as weakened by the continued ad
vances of General Hindenburg’s com
mand and the fall of Riga is antici
pated in the near future. The Ger
man troops are reported as victorious
in the south and Emperor William is
reported as satisfied with the manner
in which the many campaigns in
which Germany is involved are pro
gressing.
WANT LIQUOR CASES
TRIED AT ANCHORAGE.
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Petitions are being circulated at
Anchorage tor signatures of citizens
which will be, presented to Judge Fred
ML Brown of the district court, re
questing that the Anchorage liquor
cases be tried at Anohorage instead of
Seward. The reason given is that
many of the accused bootleggers and
witnesses will be forced to leave their
business and may result in their hav
ing to return home over the trail after
the close of navigation.
BALLAINE Will
KOI COMPROMISE
Court Intimates to Litigants that Suit
is not Matter which Court
Should Have to Decide.
I
SEWARD, Oct. 25.—Attorney Tom
West, representing the stockholders
if the Alaska Northern railroad com
pany, suing John E. Ballaine for ti
tle to the Seward townsite, has offer
sd to arrange with the Ballaines for
the appointment of a trustee through
which the lots could be sold and a
clear title given purchasers pending
i decision of the suit.
Judge Fred M. Brown, it is under
stood, has suggested that the case is
pot a matter which the court should
Pe called upon to decide but the Bal
laines have declined to even enter
tain the claims of the other side and
issert that they will win the suit de
jisively.
James A. Haight, L. V. Ray and S.
}. Morford are attorneys for John
E. Ballaine and Frank L. Ballaine.
HEPORTS OF SHORTAGES
IS ALLIES FABRICATION
BERLIN, Oct. 26.—The German
government has Informed the neu
tral nations of the world that the re
ported shortages of food in Germany
ire fabrications of the Allies. The
itatement is made that the German
srop was the largest in the history of
he empire and was harvested buc
sessfully. The supply of live stock is
peing kept normal by the govern
nent in order to insure against the
lupply of meat for the army becom- i
ng exhausted. i
TEUTON AND BULOAR ARMIES
ARE NEARING CENTRAL POINT
GENERAL MACKENSEN HAMMERING PASSAGE THROUGH CENTRAL
SERBIA IS ONLY FORTY MILES FROM USKUP, WHICH HAS BEEN
CAPTURED BY BUIiGARIANS—ALLIES RUSHING TROOPS NORTH
WARD TO CHECK BULGARS BEFORE JUNCTION OR ARMIES
CAN BE EFFECTED—SERBIANS OFFERING STUBBORN RESIST
ANCE—VENICE BOMBARDED FROM THE CLOUDS—WESTERN
CENSORSHIP COMPLETE.
LONDON, Oct. 25.—Advices from
Nish, received today, state that the
Bulgarian forces which have gained
control of the railroad at Uskup,
which connects Salonika with Nish,
are still forty miles from the nearest
point reached by the Teutons, who
are hammering a passage through
Central Serbia from Bosnia. The
Teutons are nearing the railroad
north of Uskup but the road had been
rendered useless to the invaders for
the transportation of troops as the
Serbians have destroyed the bridges
spanning the mountain streams It is
reported that the Allies are rushing
troops northward to engage and
check the Bulgarian army before it
can form a juncture with the Teutons
north of Uskup. The Teutons are
marching southward down the valley
of the Vardar river and are meeting
with strong resistance from the Ser
bian force in the mountains.
Aeroplanes Bombard Venice.
ROME, Oct. 25.—A fleet of Aus
trian aeroplanes yesterday morning
visited Venice and rained bombs into
the center of the city. It is reported
that hundreds of civilians were killed
by the explosions.
No News From Western Front.
LONDON, Oct. 25.—The censor
ship on news coming from France is
complete and the British public is
being kept in ignorance of the trend
of affairs although it is believed that
a general battle is being waged along
the entire western front. Thousands
of British wounded arte being broughi
across the channel daily but reporters
are excluded from the hospitals or
interviewing the wounded soldiers.
BEING
Believed Government Bale of Town
Lota at interior Terminal Will
Be Held Next Bummer.
FAIRBANKS, Oct. 25.—Word has
been received here by the office of the
Alaskan Engineering commission,
from the department at Washington,
instructing the surveyors in charge
of the land survey in the Nenana dis
trict to lay out the townsite at the
mouth of the Nenana river.
The surveyors state that owing to
the advanced season that they will be
unable to complete the work this fall
and that it will probably be the mid
dle of next summer before the work
can be completed. '
W. H. Thorne, in charge of the
land survey in the Nenana district,
states that the outer boundaries of
the town will be laid out this fall and
the streets and blocks will be staked
next spring before the surveyors re
turn to the Nenana coal fields to com
plete their work there. It is believ
ed the government plans to hold the
Nena'na sale of lots next summer.
Under ttie proposed plans of the
government for the townsite the town
will be divided by the Nenana river,
the tracks and administration build
ings being on the Tanana side and
the townsite proper on the west bank
of the Nenana river.
JOS LIN WILL LOOK
OVER ANCHORAGE ROAD
Falcon Joslln, president of the Ta
nana Valley railroad, and one of the
most public spirited men of the ter
ritory, was a passenger on the Ala
meda for Anchorage. He will look
aver the government road and Inves
tigate the business possibilities of the
new railroad town.
Mr. Joslln established a wireless
station in the new placer mining camp
\t Tolovana and is now considering
the extension of his operations to the
Koyukuk as that camp, although one
af the oldest In interior Alaska, has
failed to Induce the government to
sstabllsh a wireless station there. The
station at Tolovana has been able
to talk with his station at Mare Isl
and, near San Francisco. •
Cornell Defeats Harvard.
tAMBRIDGE, Oct. 25.—Despite
weather here Saturday thou
sands of spectators witnessed the
football match between the Harvard
ind Cornell college teams. The game
vas hard fought and keenly contest
sd to the last minute. The score
itood Harvard, 0; Cornell, 10>
OPERATORS UT
Arizona Mine Operators Refuse to Sit
In Conference with Western
Federation Delegates.
CLINTON. Ariz.. Oct. 25.—All ef
forts to reach a settlement of the min
er’s strike here through arbitration
have failed as the operators have un
compromisingly refused to take part
in the conference arranged by a com
mittee of citizens, who are anxious
that the strike be ended and business
resumed.
The mine operators claim that the
delegates to the conference represent
ing the miners were named by the of
ficers of the Western Federation of
Miners, and that the men were not
given an opportunity of naming their
delegates.
The operators are contending that
the strikers should be permitted to
decide by vote as to their delegates if
they wish to arbitrate and say that
under no consideration will they rec
ognize the Western Federation. The
district is under marial law and the
serious rioting which marked the be
ginning of the strike has been sup
pressed but trouble is expected should
the operators attempt to fill the
places of the striking miners.
BOMBARDMENT KILLED
THOUSAND BULGARIANS
LONDON, Oct. 25.—An official bul
letin reports that one thousand Bul
garians were killed when the city
of Dedeagatch was bombarded by the
Allies fleet of warships. It is report
ed that the rairoad terminal in the
city was destroyed and that vast
stores of supplies, gathered by the
Bulgarian government in anticipation
of the war, were destroyed. The pop
ulace are being taken from the coast
cities to the interior as it is believed
that the Allies will attempt the de
vastation of the Bulgarian coast in
revenge for Bulgaria's joining the
Teutons.
Admiral Farragut Due Tomorrow.
The steamer Admiral Farragut
passed Juneau yesterday afternoon at
3 o’clock and is expected to reach
Valdez sometime tomorrow evening.
The Farragut will call at Yakutat and
Katalla if weather conditions are fav
orable on the north bound trip.
D. Duffleld, the well known printer,
will be a passenger on the Admiral
Farragut tomorrow night for Sew
ird, having been drawn on the petit :
lury for the term of district court to <
oegin November 1. i
LANE WILL AGAIN
URGE FOR BOARD
Will Ask Congress at Coming Session
to Create Alaska Development
Board of Seven Members.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Oct. 25.—
Secretary Lane has announced that
he will again urge congress at the
coming session to create an Alaskan
Development board to administer the
affairs of the territory and it is be
lieved that President Wilson will in
clude the measure in the administra
tion's Alaskan policy.
Secretary Lane asserts that the de
velopment of Alaska is impossible
under the present red tape system
at Washington and is urging the cre
ation of a board of seven members to
have charge of the territory, which
are now scattered through the vari
ous departments at Washington.
Should the measure be passed by
congress the board would have its
headquarters at Juneau and would
have control over the land, furs,
game, fisheries, liquor licenses, coal,
waterpower, timber and all federal af
fairs of the territory.
Secretary Lane’s measure is expect
ed to meet with considerable opposi
tion from the heads of the depart
ments from which the affairs of Alas
ka are now being administered. It is
reported in political circles that Chief
Forester Graves, who visited Alaska
during the past summer, will oppose
any measure which would remove the
timber lands of Alaska from under
the jurisdiction of his department.
FORMER VAlJDEZ MAN
SUFFERED BY FLOODS.
The many Valdez friends of Mickey
Coyle, who was connected with the
local olR'ce of the Signal Corps for
several years, frill regret to learn he
suffered the loss of all his earthly
possessions in the great hurricans and
flood which devasted the Galveston,
Texas, district last month. Coyle’s
lot In Valdez was destroyed by the
glacier stream the last time It forced
Its way through town and he writes
that he hopes his hard luck period
has been broken.
UNMARRIED MEN
IN FIRST DRAFT
Conscription Sure to be Forced upon
Young Men Who Have Failed
to Enlist Voluntarily.
LONDON, Oct. 26.—The execution
of Edith Cavill, the English nurse,
has weakened the opposition to con
scription in the House of Lords and
the plan advanced by Lord Derbys
is growing in favor daily.
Lord Derbys conscription measure
calls for forced enlistment of all un
married men of military age first, ex
cept those engaged in munition fac
tories and other industries under gov
ernment control, and is aimed partic
ularly at the young men of the cities
who have failed to enlist even when
discharged from employment and
their places filled by the wives of the
men at the front.
Even the strongest opponents to
conscription realize that if the Empire
is to survive the present crisis a large1
army must be trained during the com
ing winter to take the field in the !
spring campaign and fill the ranks of
the British forces now at the front.
COMMISSION IS COUNTING
ALASKANS ON THE JOB.
A dispatch from Anchorage states
that the Alaskan Engineering com
mission is taking a census of its em
ployee to ascertain the number of
Alaskans who are at work 'for the
commission. It is believed that this
s a move to refute the charges that
he commission has been discriminat
ng against Alaskans in favor of for
eigners because of the Alaskans being
oo independent.
CONFESS PLOTTING
WRECK FACTORIES
Two American Sympathizers of tier
many Destroyed Munition Fac
tories to Check Output.
NEW YORK. Oct. 25.—Robert Fa)
land Walter Schulz, German sympa
! thizers, have been arrested by the se
;cret service officials for attempting
i to wreck munition factories in the
! United States which were supplying
ithe Allies with shells.
; The men are reported to have con
fessed that they were instrumental in
'causing explosions in a number ol
factories, but deny that they are
.agents of the German government or
in any way connected with the organ
ization of conscriptors which led to
the withdrawal of Ambassador Dura
ba.
Both are American born and de
claring that the United States should
! have placed an embargo on munitions
to Europe and President Wilson hav
ing failed to do so, they determined
to curtail the output of the munition
'factories as far as possible. They
'deny that they are members of an
I organization.
STRONG ACCUSED
POLITICAL ERROR
>
Former Clerk In Governor's Office
Files Charges with President—
Secretary is Republican.
William I Wade, whp says he waa
formerly employed in the office of
Governor Strong but resigned, has
preferred charges against the govern
or accusing him of retaining a Repub
lican private secretary in the face of
Democratic protests on account of the
secretary’s radical and offensive ac
tions in politics. The charges have
been filed with President Wilson.
W. Shorthill, who was connect
ed for several years with the Copper
River & Northwestern Railroad com
pany at Cordova, has been Governor
Strong's secretary since the governor
todk office and has always been re
garded as a capable and efficient offi
cial.
The charges have been laid before
Secretary Lane, of the department of
the interior, to determine what action
should be taken. Wade is said to be
unknown in Washington.
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EDISON CONQUERS
* GREAT DEFECT
Was Kept Fully Informed on Con
versations During Meeting or
Naval Board by Telegraphy.
ORANGE. N. J.. Oct. 25.—How
Thos. A. Edison, the noted inventor,
overcome the disadvantage of his
deafness as chairman of Secretary
Daniels’ navy board, when it met at
Washington recently, has been told
by Dr. Miller Reese Hutchinson. The
doctor is the chief engineer of the
Edison industries and when Edison
was named chairman of the naval
board Dr. Hutchinson was made as
sistant to the chairman.
The great Inventor has been ex
ceedingly deaf stnoe a boy. Both
Edison and Hutchinson were tele
graph operators In their younger days
and well acquainted with the Morse
code. During the meeting of the
board Dr. Hutchinson sat beside Edi
son and kept him informed of the con
versation by gently tapping out the
code on his wriet. When Edison
wished to tell his assistant anything
»f a private nature the process was
reversed and he did the tapping on.
Dr. Hutchinson’s wrist.