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VOLUME ZIT. VALDEZ ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 98, 1917 NUMBER 230
DIVES FROM RAFT AND
FRACTVRE8 VERTEBRA*
SEATTLE. Sept. 29.—W. Maurer,
39 years old, a street car conductor
► living at 1239 Forty-second avenue
north, was permanently and perhaps
fatally Injured, when he dived from
a raft In Lake Washington into shal
low water and fractured several ver
tebrae.
It was Maurer’s first time in the
water at that particular spot. He took
a deep dive and struck the water
with such force and in such a posi
tion as to take the brunt of the plunge
on his spinal column. He rose to the
surface and was assisted onto the raft
by others who were swimming. Maur
er was unable to use his lower limbe
and a physician was summoned, who,
after an examination, ordered the m.
jured man taken to the Minor hospi
tal.
BRUSSELS SHOWS ITS
DISLIKE TO KAISER
LONDON, Sept. 29.—It Is related
by the Amsterdam correspondent ol
the Exchange Telegraph Company
that when the kaiser visited Brussels
last week on his way to the Flanders
front the populace refused to com
ply with the requests of the authori
ties to display flags. Instead they re
• mained indoors and drew the win
dow blinds, on which they inscribed:
“Closed for national mourning.”
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SCHOONER LOAD OF
TOBACCO FOR SOLDIERS
AN ATLANTIC PORT, Sept. 29.—
Virginia tobacco for the American
soldiers abroad will fill the holds of a
four-masted schooner that sailed form
here today for another port to take
aboard its cargo. Smoking and chew
ing tobacco will be included in the
shipment, which, it is said, will be
the largest of its kind ever sent from
the United States to France.
EVIDENCE GATHERED
IN SHASTA RAID CASE
SALEM, Or., Sept. 29.—C. A. Rey
* nolds, representing the public service
commission of Washington, and J. C.
Bailey, assistant attorney general of
Oregon, conferred in Portland today
% in regard to obtaining testimony for
the hearing of the so-called Southern
Pacific Shasta arbitrary case. The case
is a controversy over an additional
• fare of $17.50 between San Francisco
and Portland for transcontinental
tourists which it is claimed is dis
criminating against the Northwestern
states.
LIGHT A PIPE FOR
THE BOYS IN THE TRENCHES
The English Tommies have their
pipes filled by their folks at home;
the French Poilus never want for a
smoke, their folks are on the job; the
Anzanc have all the tobacco they can
use sent them by their loved ones;
and now the time has come for the
Americans to send little packages of
happiness to their boys in the trenches
and on the fleet.
26 cents delivered to Dr. J. A. Sil
verman of this city sends a big pack
age of tobacco to a boy in France;
one dollar will keep him in smoking
, for a month. Send your 26 cents
now. Dive into your pocket and
bring out a quarter and mail it at
once. Secretary of War Newton D.
Baker says: “The War Department
< approves of the enterprise of those
who take part in raising the tobacco
fund and thanks them in behalf of
many a homesick soldier and sailor
who will be cheered not merely by
the kindly gifts themselves, but by
the spirit of cordial and homely sym
pathy which inspires them.”
It has been arranged to have the
soldier who receives your gift of to
bacco send you a return postcard tell
ing you what it means to have all he
wants to smoke out there. Let us
show the country that the citizens
never fail to respond to an appeal of
this sort. Send your quarter to Dr.
Silverman.
To Bar Muffler Cutouts
NEW YORK, Sept. 29.—Because
muffler cutouts on automobiles have
no mechanical value and add merely
another unnecessary noise to Ameri
can life, the National Automobile
1 Chamber of Commerce has recom
mended their elimination from all
cars built In this country after Janu
ary 1. 1*18, It was announced here
tonight. Nearly half the 110 automo
bile makers In the chamber do not
fit muffler cutouts on their present
cars.
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DRY MjL'AD ARRE8TH
GEORGETOWN MAX
SEATTLE. Sept. 29.—Pete Paris
is in the city jail awaiting the trail
for making a liquid, which he said
would ultimately be vinegar. He could
not convince the court vinegar was
the logical product of crushed grapes.
His case will come up next week.
When searching his home, on Pearl
treet, Georgetown, the authorities
found a keg of liquid, which Pete said
was to be vinegar for use in making
pickles from vegetables growing in
his back garden.
Pete has played in hard luck for
over two weeks. He was arrested
about twenty days ago for attempt
ing to violate the draft law. Federal
investigators disclosed he had at
tempted to enlist and, upon being re
jected, thought his duty was done and
neglected to register.
UTAH PEOPLE MAY
KEEP THEIR BOOZE
SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 29.—Those
who before August 1 laid in a supply
of intoxicating liquor for their own
personal use and who do not sell it
or give it away are acting within
their rights, according to a jury’s ver
dict today at Ogden.
Prior to prohibition becoming ef
fective, August 1, hundreds of per
sons brought liquors to store in their
homes. The attorney general says that
even if it is decided by the supreme
court that the act is unconstitutional
in this regard, that other provisions
in the act may be enforced and the
whole act not be declared unconsti
tutional, there being a conditional
paragraph.
PICTURE CENSOR IN
VANCOUVER RESIGNS,
VANCOUVER, B. C„ Sept. 29.— |
C. J. Gordon, censor of moving pic- j
tures for British Columbia, has re-1
signed on account of a disagreement]
between himself and the attorney j
general’s department. It arose over |
the film “Damaged Goods,” which has
been shown in some parts of Canada,;
but was rejected by the censors of,
Quebec and Ontario.
The British Columbia censor de
clined to pass the film, but the pro
ducers appealed to the attorney gen
eral, who decided that it could prop- j
erly be put on after some excisions;
were made. Gordon replied to the |
government’s order by sending in his;
resignation.
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PRICKS OF FLOUR
SLUMP AT SPOKANKj
—
SPOKANE, Sept. 29.—Hard win
ter wheat Hour which has been sell
ing at the price it commanded on the
retail market here before the an
nouncement by the government of
the 1917 wheat price dropped today
from 25 to 40 cents per sack. Soft
wheat flour which has been selling
since Tuesday at $3 per sack declin
ed another 5 cents a sack.
ADVENTURER PLEADS
GUILTY OF BIGAMY
ROCHESTER, N, Y„ Sept. 29 —
Lucien D’Hilly, 37, a Frenchman,
who since the outbreak of the war has
been posing as a. member of the fa
mous Lafayette escadrllle and lectur
ing in various cities on his adventures
as an aviator in France pleaded guil
ty in police court here today of big
amy and was held to await action of
the grand Jury. The Aero Club of
America exposed d’Hilly.
VANCOUVER’S oLdEST
PAPER QUITS FIELD
VANCOUVER, B. C., Sept. 29.—
Vancouver’s oldest newspaper, the
News-Advertiser, has suspended. Its
plant and goods will be taken over
by a reorganized company In control
of the Vancouver Sun, which was the
News-Advertiser’s competitor In the
morning field. The News-Advertiser
was founded thirty years ago, by F.
Carter Cotton, a member of a former
British Columbia government. Seven
years ago he sold out to J. S. H. Mat
son, owner of the Victoria Colonist.
DOCTORS PUZZLED BY
MYSTERIOUS MALADY
TIPTON, la., Sept .29.—Two are
dead and several others are seriously
ill from the effects of a mysterious
poison or malady which is baffling
physicians of this and surrounding
towns and specialists from Iowa uni
varsity who have been called on to
diagnose the cases.
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I. W. W. RECORDS AT
SPOKANE ARE SEIZED
SPOKANE. Sept. 29.—The United
States marshal today served search
warrants on the Idaho guardsmen who
have been on duty at the Industrial
Workers of the World headquarters
which were raided last month, and
carted to the federal building two
tons of records and literature of the
organization.
CHINA WILL NOT SELL
INTERNED GERMAN SHIPS
PEKIN, Sept. 29.—The offer of
the allies to purchase or charter all
German ships seized by the Chinese
government on the rupture of rela
tions between Germany and China
has been declined by the government.
The ships are being turned over to a
Chinese syndicate for the ostensible
purpose of augmenting the Chinese
merchant marine.
RAINFALL WELCOMED
BY OREGON GROWERS
SALEM, Ore., Sept. 29.—Rain in
the Williaraette valley is welcomed
by fruit growers and hop raisers, who
express hope that the rain will be of
three or four days' duration. If the
precipitation is general it will have
the effect of eliminating further dan
ger from forest fires.
Prune growers particularly are
benefited by the rain. Owing to dry
weather the fall from trees has been
heavy.
Hop picking began Monday. While
ordinarily rain is not desirable among
hop men after picking starts. It is
stated that there is no danger of
moulding because the lice pest is ab
sent this seaon in all hop yards in
the state. Mould does not form with
out lice. Louis Lachmund, a promin
ent hop dealer, said tonight that hop
growers would welcome a thorough
rain even if It should delay picking
a week.
LIQUOR SELLING MADE
DOUBLY DANGEROUS
SPOKANE, Sept. 29.—Persons con
victed here of selling liquor must ac
count for their possession of it or face
a charge of larceny under a new pol
icy announced today. When Fred
Hutchins refused to tell the prosecu
tor where he obtained the liquor he
was selling he was charged with steal
ing it, and upon his plea of guilty to
both charges was fined $250 and sen
fenced to thirty days in jaib-eti eacli
charge.
Rad Tusan arrived in town from
down sound points yesterday.
i t Nd*. CONTRIBUTION
CAUSES MINE STRIKE
KASLO, B. C., Sept. 29.—The night
shift at the Slocan Star mine, at San
don, went on strike on Friday be
cause of the collection of one day’s
pay per man for the Sandon branch
of the Canadian patriotic fund. The
management of the mine has agreed
not to deduct subscriptions to the
fund in the future. Many of the min
ers are Austrians.
RAW COTTON LICENSE
WAIVED UNTIL OCT 1.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 29.—
To relieve congestion at ports the ex
ports administrative board today
waived until October 1 the require
ment of export licenses for shipment
of raw cotton to Great Britain, France
and Italy.
VANCOUVER MAN VICTIM
IN STABBING AFFRAY
VANCOUVER, B. C., Sept. 29.—
Jack Boyd, of Vancouver, is in the
hospital in a serious condition as the
result of a stabbing affray in an au
tomobile last night. L. Baline was
brought back to Vancouver charged
with doing the stabbing.
Boyd's chances of recovery are
small. He is a son of Walter Boyd,
former chief of police of Brandon,
Man.. and now of Prince Albert. Boyd
was to have been married today to
Madge Allen, who, with Essie Crane,
is held as a witness.
Seven Miners Killed
EL PASO, Tex., Sept. 29.—Seven
Mexicans were killed and seven oth
ers probably fatally Injured when a
boiler exploded at the Escondido coal
mines, ten miles across the line In
Mexico late yesterday. The mines are
government operated and supp^ coal
to North Mexican railroads.
CANADIAN LOSSES AT
LENS GIVEN AS 28,000
OTTAWA. Sept. 29.—Advices re
ceived here today confirm the prev
ious report of Gen. Sir Arthur Cur
rie that successful Canadian opera
tions around Lens were not accom
plished without heavy casualties, al
though the percentage was not so
large as in other battles.
No definite estimate has been sent
here, but the interpretation placed on
Gen. Currie’s statement that the Ger
man casualties were equal to 69 bat
tallions and that the Canadians were
only a third of that, is roughly esti
mated at 69.000 Germans and ap
proximately 23.000 Canadians.
GERMAN IS ARRESTED
BY TACOMA POLICE
TACOMA. Sept. 29.—Max Henry.
German, giving his age as 31, was ar
rested by the police at She free em
ployment bureau charged with cir
culating typewritten warnings to
workmen to stay away from the army
post. The police turned the case over
to the federal authorities.
Henry has also been known by the
names of Berg, Leopold and Harris.
He is said to speak several languages.
FARMERS JAILED FOR
DYNAMITE PLOTTING
CHICKASHA, Okla., Sept. 29.—
twenty farmer, alleged members of
the Working Class Union, were lodg
ed in jail here today, charged with
conspiring to blow up the Rock
Island bridge over Red river, south
of Terral. The men, according to in
formation in possession of federal au
thorities, had formed a pact to do
everything in their power to prevent
enlistments and mobilization of the
army.
EVERETT’S SCHOOL
ENROLLMENT NORMAL
EVERETT, Sept. 6.—The enroll
ment of the Everett public schools on
the opening day reached 825, and the
Indications are the attendance will
equal that of last year, although
many of the boys have joined the
naval militia and coast artillery and
engaged in other duties. There is con
siderable change in the personnel of
the faculty, some of the male teach
ers have been attracted to other cit
ies.
MRS. ROSS TO STAY;
SON GOES TO WAR
HOQUIAM, Sept. 29.—“I want to
fight in the trenches so as to take
mother out of the North river coun
try,” was the reason Frank Ross
gave to the members of the district
draft appeal board at Tacoma.
This is the statement made by Mrs.
Margaret Ross, who returned from
Tacoma on Saturday, discomfited ov
er the refusal of her son to claim ex
emption. which she desired and for
which she went to Tacoma to interest
herself.
“I am alone on the North river
claim.” said Mrs. Ross. ‘‘I have three
sons in the war and I wanted Frank,
not to help me financially, but to help
me guard my place and keep me from
harm. But what do you think that boy
did? He went before the board before
I arrived at Tacoma, and told them
he wanted no exemption, but Would
serve so as to get me out of North
river. I was unable to locate the
youngster, and so I could do nothing.
“But,” she added, “Frank’s serv
ing in the trenches is not going to
take me from North rivey. I am going
back to my claim and I am going to
stay there until the thing Is through.
The claim is worth fighting for and
I am going to fight to the last ditch.”
ENLISTED MEN TO GET
CHANCE TO BE OFFICERS
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Sept. 29.—
Enlisted men in the national army
are to be given special opportunities
to become officers. Secretary Baker
said today that the establishment of
a third series of officers’ training
camps was under consideration and
that men selected under the draft
would be extended such opportunities
to enter that a majority of those en
rolled would probably be from the
tanks. This policy will be adhered to
in all training camps opened during
the war. How many more camps will
be opened is not known, but it is a
part of the general plan to continue
the making of officers by special
training as long as it is necessary
to continue the increasing of the
army.
MOTHER AND BABE
KILLED IN CRASH
HOQUIAM. Sept. 29—Mrs. A. L.
Crabbe and her Infant daughter were
killed and four other members of an
automobile party were injured to
night when a westbound Northern
Pacific train struck the automobile
at a grade crossing,'where it had stal
led unexpectedly.
A. L. Crabbe, who was driving the
car. a 7-year-old daughter and a 15
year-old-son, with Lavina Bartlett, 10
years old. are all in the Aberdeen
General hospital here. Crabbe is at
the point of death. The children will
recover.
The accident occurred at 6 o’clock
at a point near the Hoquiam Coun
try Club grounds. The party was on
its way to copalis beach to dig clams
when the accident occurred.
FARM WORKER AT
YAKIMA HANGS SELF
YAKIMA. Sept. 29.—Hugh Hud
son, aged 25 years, son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. A. Hudson, living in the Par
ker district south of here, committed
suicide today by hanging. His fail
ure to appear for breakfast was fol
lowed by discovery of a note announc
ing his Intention.
He worked as a boxmaker in the
Parker district for several years and
outside of the fruit season was regu
larly employed at farm work. He was
not among those called in the draft
in this country. I
Killed In Auto Wreck
LEWISTON, Idaho, Sept. 29.—VV.
H. Stewart, aged fifty years, was
crushed to death between the steering
wheel and side of his car when it
plunged over a twenty-five foot em
bankment near Lewiston. Mr. Stew
art was an employee of the Lewiston
Tribune and a member of the Typo
graphical union, Knights of Pythias
and Artisans.
Attack British Poster
NEW YORK. Sept. 29.—Thirty
days in the workhouse was the sen
tence imposed here today by a po
lice magistrate on two Irishmen who
tore down a British recruiting poster
showing the Union Jack and the
words “Britishers. Enlist Today."
The men said they destroyed the pos
ter “in the interest of Irish free
dom.” .
REDUCE TEMPERATURE
TO SAVE COAL SUPPLY
WASHINGTON. Sept. 29.—Thru
the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States, Dr. H. A. Garfield, fuel
administrator, has appealed to Amer
ican business to assist in the conser
vation of coal. The appeal follows:
“It is the duty of every American
to save coal this winter. If every
family will save a ton of coal, if ev
ery industrial plant will save ten per
cent of the coal it uses, which 10
per cent Is now wasted, the coal prob
lem will be largely solved. There is
plenty of coal in the ground, but
there is a shortage of cars and of
labor in the mines.
“If every family will reduce the
temperature of Its house at letflst 5
degrees. It will mean that millions of
tons of coal will be saved and the
health of the nation will be improv
ed. This is not a hardship; it is a
health measure, for most Americans
live in super-heated houses.
“The solution of the coal problem
lies largely with the American peo
ple. The government cannot save coal
for them; they must save It for them
selves. They must not rely wholly up
on price fixing nor upon the already
overtaxed transportation systems of
the country, nor upon the effort to In
crease production, nor upon the op
portionment of coal, nor upon the en
forcement of the law. All must co
operate. The consumer of coal in
house and factory can co-operate most
effectively by the economies suggest
ed.”
The cable has been down all day
and will probably be down for several
days yet. We will do the best we can
under the circumstances, but the high
price of cable under the round-about
way received renders It prohibitive.
We have received about 50 words,
which we will give to our readers In
the Miner.
A. McMillan a waiter who has
Jumped his Job on the steamer Dol
phin at Petersburg, kicked in a win
dow In the Wheeler drug store at that
place and Is now In Jail.
Frank Smith arrived in town yes
terday from Landlock.
MEAT PACKING WILL BE
UNDER FEDERAL CONTROL
WASHINGTON. D. C., Sept. 29.—
Government regulations of the meat
packing Industry will be the next
move of thef ood administration. A
voluntary offer of representatives of
the meat packers to put their plants
under a licensing system made to
Herbert Hoover, the food administra
tor, at a conference here yesterday,
was accepted and a plan to control
will be drawn up shortly.
The packers, numbering about a
score came to Washington to take up
with Mr. Hoover the threatened meat
shortage and the subject of rising
prices. They are of the opinion that
prices can be brought down little un
less a determined effort is made to
Increase the production of livestock.
The great export demand, they believe
will maintain prices at high level un
til long after the war has ended.
A licensing system for packing
houses was provided in the food con
trol bill. Putting it into operation,
food administration officials believe
will go far towards eliminating
hoarding and speculation and stabil
izing prices. The packers will confer
soon with cattle growers to discuss
the food administration's plan for re
moving herds from the West to bet
ter feeding districts in the East and
South.
MOOSE DANCE TONIGHT
BE HIGE SCCCESS
The hall tonight to he given by the
members of the Mooe Band for the
purpose of buying instruments and
music will be one of the best given
in their hall for some time. The band
will render several selections, and a
six-piece orchestra will be on hand
to furnish music for the dancers. The
citizens are asked to turn out and
help the hoys.
WILSON PRESI MPTCOI S
ASSERTS CROWN PRINCE
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BERLIN, Sept. 29.—'The Hamburg
Chamber of Commerce has received
tiie following message from Crown
l’rince Frederick Wliliam in acknow
ledge of its resolution in protest
against President Wilson’s note in re
ply to Pope Benedict’s peace proposal:
“I have read with pleasure and ap
proval the text of your resolution of
protest against President Wilson’s
note and beg you to express to the
members of the chamber and the mer
chant body of Hamburg my sincere
appreciation of their manly words and
the refreshing candor with which the
presumption of the American presi
dent was deservedly declined."
DROWNING OF ARMY
SI RGEON IS REPORTED
PHOENIX, Ariz., Sept. 29—Capt.
Charles Bowker, an army surgeon of
Bisbee, Ariz., and formerly of Wash
ington, D. C., was drowned in Roose
velt lake yesterday while trying to
rescue a woman who was struggling
to swim ashore from a boat, accord
ing to a brief telephone message re
ceived here today. The woman, it was
said, was rescued by other members
of a bathing party. Interruption of
communication prevented details of
the mishap from being obtained.
EXPENDITURES OK
I. W. W. DISCLOSED
CHICAGO. Sept. 29.—Search of the
records of the Industrial Workers of
the World, seized here in last week's
federal raids, has revealed that the
Chicago office of the organization dis
bursed $100,000 between January 1
and August 1 of this year, it was an
nounced.
Earl Hinds finished his road con
tract at Mineral creek and returned
to town this week.
Coal Miners Get Increase
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Sept. 29.
—'Coal miners In Utah have been
granted an increase In wages. The In
creases vary according to the classes
of labor, but In the aggregate the
advances represent increase in the
cost of production of 10 cents a ton.
Tin Exporta Increase
WASHINGTON. D. C.. Sept. 25.—
Exports of American tinplate, terne
plate and tagger| tin In the fiscal
•year Just ended totalled 621, 861, 390
pounds, valued at $28,404,433, com
pared with 516.257, 473 pounds, val
ued at $18,703,733 the previous year.
In 1898, 20,827 pounds of tin plata
were exported. ^ ;