CANNOT SlP
BALKAN WAR
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Greece and Servia Determined to
Push on and Capture City
of Sofia.
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.« London, July 15.—Sir Grey, of
the foreign office, today announc
ed >in the House of Commons
that it was most difficult to com
pel Servia and Greecel to stop
fighting aryl that no peace would
be signed except on the battle
field.
The Servians are determined
to push on and take Sofia, the
capital of Bulgaria, and no
amount of threats seem lo have
any effect or* them.
Paris, July 15.—The heavy
rains of the past few days have
stopped all fighting in the Bal
kans, according to the news re
ceived today by the! foreign of
fice and corroborated by flic
press correspondents.
A definite territorial agree
ment exists between Servia and
Greece, excluding Bulgaria from
all the region west of the Rivers
Yard a r and Brogalnitza. By this
agreement Greefce would obtain
Soloniki, Fiorina, Vedenan, Ka
li uss, Seres, Rjama* and kavala,
Servia getting.-Scrilga, Ochrida,
Monastir and Prilep.
1 FLOODS
Fifteen Villages £r"6 Wiped Out
and One Hundred People are
Drowned.
London, July 15.—Killeen vil
lages have been wiped oul and
100 people drowned in Ihe prov
ince of Transylvani, Hungary,
by tin* Moods of yesterday and the
heavy rains have caused all the
rivers to spread out beyond their
banks.
Aid has bedn sent to Ihe af
flicted people but owing to the
bad roads the troops are unab
le to do much for them except
at places reached by rivers.
GROVES BiffiS
SPIRIT CITY
Chief Forester is Now on Way to
Investigate the Chugach For
est Reserve.
Seattle. July 15.—Chief Forest
er Graves reached here last
night en route to Alaska where
he will make a thorough inveesti
gation into the Clmgach forest
reserve, against which su much
complaint has been made by Al
askans.
The forester will leave in a
few days for the north.
Independent Messenger Service,
Phone 153. Day or Night.
Pile Driver Gus has started
the work of driving piling in the
City . Dock, 'the city Will spend
several hundred dollars in keep
ing the dock in repair.
Cock Wanted.
Cook wanted by Col. O’Neil, call
or ’phone commanding officer,
Fort Liscum.
pun in
SAYS HUERTA
Provisional President Ki/Ss to
Have Been Killed With Bqihj
—Also Diaz.
Mexico City, July 15.—The Hu
erta government has placed many
followers of Zapata in jail char
ged with having entered into a
conspiracy to murder Provision
al President Huerta, General Di
az and General Blanquet.
The Huerta police claim the
men planned to throw bombs in
to the street while the president
and party were passing.
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New York, July 15.—The Heb
ei junta here gave out I he state
ment today that the report from
Mexico of an attempt, to assass
inate the president and his fel
low murderers of Madero was
made out of whole cloth and that
it was an effort to discredit the
opposition to Huerta which has
(developed in the south of Mexi
co.
It is the usual excuse for pla
cing in jail all men opposed
to the government.
Fred Reese left yesterday for
his claims in the Teikhell coun
try and will spend the summer
doing development Work.
MULL 1ELLS
ABOUT LOBBY
Magazines Refused to t*rint Let
ters He Received From Trust
Heads.
Washington, 1>. C., July 15.—
Martin Mulhall, the representa
tive of the manufacturers asso
ciation was a witness before the
Senate lobby committee today
and told how he tried to give to
the magazines of the country,
the letters received by him from
heads of large uianufacturink
plaids while acting in Washing
tin is lobbyist.
X) magazines would accept
•the Sellers and refused to pub
lish them. Through a drunk nam
ed Barry, tie arranged to sell the
letters to the New York World
and the Chicago Tribune, but this
deal fell through because Barry
tried to sell the letters back to
^he manufacturers association
for $150,000, which was higher
than the World and Tribune
would pay.
Mulhall admitted tnat no re
fused to sell the letters to the
association wanting more to ex
pose them than to secure the
money and hoped to sell the let
ters to a newspaper and thus ac
complish both objects.
The association spent $60,000
lit help elect Charles E. Little
field, a congressman from Maine.
Littlefield was a member of
the 57th, 58th, 59th and 60th
Congress.
Fine watch and jewelry re
pairing, prices reasonable, all
work guaranteed; H. V. Herndon,
jewelry department, Owl Drug
Company.
Steamfltter Wanted.
WANTED a steamfltter, inquire
of George Mead at Valdez Sheet
Metal Works.
We dance in Moose Hall, Wed
lesday eve, at 9:30 sharp. Home
waltz at 12.
Just arrived, a line of latest
style waists at Harvey’s Toggery.
For bicycle repair work, call
on Owen Meals.
MTS FIT
WITH THE COPS
Save Nth*. Pankhurst From Being
Arrested—Wild Scene In
Merry London.
London, July 15.-—The London
police made an attempt last night
to reacrest Mrs. Pankhurst, now
enjoyi^tkjfterly under lhe| “cat
and mlfljfe” law, but the mili
tants prevented*the arrest, block
ing the way of the offlccrswho
tried to enter the hall and when
finally the “bobbies” reached the
platform, the militant leader had
made her escape through a back
door and started for home in a
taxicab.
The scenes of disorder in I he
hall and on the streets about the
building which followed the al
lempt at arrest were the wildest
ever witnessed in London.
The police made 110 effort to
arrest Mrs. Pankhurst at her
apartments.
cloutSsT
CAUSES TROUBLE
Twenty Bridges Swept Away at
Zanesville, Ohio, and Rain is
Still Falling.
Zanesville, O., July 15.—A
cloudburst struck this town last
night and as a result 20 bridges
have been destroyed, rrops have
been ruined, houses have bo On
washed away and cattle drowned.
The* creeks are Hooded and the
water i i spreading over the sur
rounding country and it is fear
ed that the Ohio and Mississippi
valleys will witness a 'repetition
of the spring floods which did
millions of dollars worth of dam
age.
The rain is still falling over a
large section.
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FOR CHRIST
New Egyptian Documents Found
Six Years Ago are Complete ,
Text of Testament.
New York, July 15.—The Brit
ish museum trustees have pub
lished today a volume describ
ing the results of the investi
jgation of the manuscripts dis
covered in Egypt six years ago.
The manuscript is one of the'
most valuable ever found and
goes to prove Ihe existing life,
death and resurrection of Jesus
Christ.
The manuscript, dates from
either the fourth or the fifth
century. It provides much im
portant new material, particu
larly on the texts of St. John’s,
St. Luke’s, andSt.Mark’sgospels.
“The order of the books is
Matthew, John, Luke and Mark.
In St. Matthew, except for a few
verses in the eleventh chapter,
it agrees^ regularly with the later
Byzantine form of the text. It
is rarely in agreement With the
Vaticanus or Siniaticus when they
separate themselves from the
general mass, and, in,deed, it is
not too much to say that if this
book had stood alone the discov
ery of the manuscript would have
been of smaJl importance.
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So States Secretary Bryan at His
Chautuqua Speech at Hender
sonville, II. 6.
Hendersonville, N. C., July 15.
—Secretary of State William J.
Bryan spoke here today at the
Chautuqua and in the course of
his address he urged to people
to pay better salaries to public
servants as the present wages
paid men in official positions
are not enough to secure the best
men or if good men do take gov
ernment positions they do it at
a great financial loss to themsel
i'cs. .
The civil service should also
be strongly enforced and the
best men secured by the govern
ment, and retained by them as
(long as they do the work proper
ly, said the secretary.
A reception was tendered the
secretary after the meeting.
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New Version of tilfreck of Trolley
Trains—15 bead and 150
are hurt.
Los Angeles, July 15.—Tin#
deatli toil, of the collision be
tween trolley trains near here,
150 people are badly hurt and
some of them will die.
The accident was caused, so
it is slated today, by the failure
of the conductor on one train
lo wave his lantern as lie should
have done.
(diaries Welzler left today
with supplies for his property on
Hurdle creek in Hie Teikhell
country and will make a large
shipment of high grade ore lo
the Tacoma smelter.
SENAioTisis
NEW TARIFF BILL
Says Farmers Have Been Badly
Handled by the Democrats in
the Matter of Duties.
Washington, D. C., July 15.—
Senator MeCumber of North Da
kota, in a red hot speech in the
Senate denounced the present
Wilson-Underwood tariff and
claimed.that the “democrats had
deliberately thrown the farmers
into the gutter.”
The rates on food stuff and on
farm products, he asserted, would
drive eKpry farmer in the coun
try into bankruptcy.
Senator1 Smoot of Utah, an
nounced that he would move a
new wool schedule as soon as
the ileiB^of the tariff comes up
for debate and that it would be
the lowest schedule ever offered
by the republicans.
The debate otr the tariff was
postponed until Friday when it
will be renewed. The democrat
ic organization is trying to patch
itp its differences over certain of
the scltfedules.
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All standard makes of wheels,
at Owen Meals, the Valdez bicy
cle agent for the Columbia, Ram
bler, Pope “Daily Service,” Cleve
land and other standard ntakes.
INTERIOR TOWN
HNS BIG FIRE
Nletzgar’s Warehouse and Sever
al cabins, at tax, Near Fair
banks, Totally bestroyed.,
Fairbanks, July 15.—A spark
from the locomotive of the Tan
ana railroad set lire to the big
IVfetzgar warehouse at Fox and
the building, with its contents,
was entirely destroyed.
The fire started on the roof
at a very early hour and it was
not discovered for some time and
when noticed, had secured con
siderable headway.
The lire department immed
iately started tin* work of check
ing l.iie llames and every man in
Fox city was soon at work as
Ihe danger to the town was ap
parent.
It was soon seen that nothing
could hi! done to save the ware
house nor any of the buildings
near by, so the department com
menced Ihe work of dynamiting
surrounding buildings to prevent
the spread of the llames and fi
lially after a lire of live hours
the town was saved.
Fox is a small town near
Fairbanks.
M'NEILS ISLAND
IS ALL RIGHT
Tacoma Grand Jury Brings In
Verdict Exonerating Warden
Prison Unsanitary.
Tacoma, July 15.—The federal
grand .jury which has been inves
tigating the charges made re
cently that the federal prison at
McNeil Island was unsanitary
and IliiaI much graft and abuse
had crept info the system of ad
ministration, reported today that
the warden was over economical
and that the prison was without
good sanitation, they also re
ported that diseased cow's milk
was served to the prisoners
and that no precautions were
taken to segregate prisoners
suffering with contagious dis
eases nor were the rules strict
ly enforced.
The charges of mis 'manage
ment, however, were found not
warranted by the facts and have
been greatly exaggerated by po
litical enemies of the warden.
Judge, Jennings who will pre
side over the floating court will
leave in the morning for the west
ward. The judge, accompanied
by Tom Scott and Ike Hamburger
will leave the cutter at lliamna
and will travel overland to Bris
•tot bay where they will be join
ed by the others of the party
Who will domain with the vessel.
The marshals oflice, in receipt
of a telegram via the wireless at
Cordova from Kodiak that mar
shal Armstrong had left Kodiak
for Larsens Bay to arrest an Ital
ian cook who had shot a fisher
man. The fisherman is in the
hospital and mil expected to live.
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Call for Warrants.
Notice is hereby given that I
will pay all city warrants up to
and including No 3592, series
of 1911 and 1912, if presented
within ten (10) days from date.
C. C. Reynolds,
Town Treasurer.
Valdez, Alaska, July 10, 1913.
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Mv house and furniture for
sale." Thos. S. Scott, clerk’s of
fice. _
FOR SALE—A new boy’s bicy
cle. Never been used. Inquire of
Owen E. Meals.
NO SETTLEMENT
RAILROAD SINE
Conference With President PosV
poned—New Law for Striko
$AttlertientS Proposed.
\\ ashingtnn, i). C., July 15.—
The eohference of the labor un
ion leaders representing the 45
eastern railroads and the Presi
dent has been postponed as it is
feared that at this time nothing
can he done to arrange a settle
ment between the railroads and
the conductors and Irainhands.
The members of Congress
have assured the President that
they will pass the Newlands hill
some time today. The hill pro
vides for a board of arbitration
consisting of three members to
he appointed by the president
and they are to serve seven years.
The law also gives to the .su
preme court the power (o enforce
the mandates of tile commission.
New York, July 15.—The griev
ance committee of the conduc
tors and trainmens union consis
ting of men employed on the 45
eastern railroads have met and
rati lied I he strike order recently
passed by the vote of the unions.
SHUT OFF WH1ER
FROM STRIKERS
Patterson Landlords Have Receiv
ed No Rent f< >r 6 Months and
Take Drastic Action.
I’al lerson .July 15.—Tin1 wa
ter in ‘lie liome- of the striking
'ilk weavers was turned oil' to
day because of I he non-payment
of renl. The landlords have ta
ken this method of forcing the
strikers |o pa> renl m" quit the
houses.
The strike has been in force
for more than six months and
1 lie industries of llte (own have
been al a stand si ill. The land
lords have mil received rent for
(lie buildings since the commen
cement of the diflieulties between
capital and labor.
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SHOWS WELL
Al. Sullivan Has Bond Claims—
High Grade Crosscut by
Owners.
Al. Sullivan, who has a bond on
Ihef Lillie Giant properly on
Mineral creek, .is happy today,
having received word that the
men working on the claims had
struck a lead of rich free milling
ore.
The crew of men working on
(he claims will be increased and
development work rushed and it
is hoped by the’ owners that the
property will justify a mill this
fall.
Flesh and Bl^od.
Flesh and 'Blood, an absorbing
detective story in two reels at
the Orpheum tonight, also the
•scream comedy, Capt. Ben’s
Yarn of the Cannibal Islands, at
8 o’clock sharp.
One-half off on trimmed milli
nery and 25 per cent discount on
suits at Harvey s Toggery.