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VOL 13 VALDEZ, ALASKA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1915. NO. 43
MUST RUSH THE “
APPROPRIATIONS
Senate Will Have To Vote Nearly
Hundred Millions Daily for Re
mainder of Session.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—As the
end of the present session of con
gress draws nearer there is increased
anxiety on the part of the adminis
tration leaders to secure hasty ac
tion on the appropriation measures.
.The fight on the Ship Purchasing
bill has served to retard the pro
gress of the appropriation bills in
both houses and may yet result in
President Wilson being forced to call
an extra session of the new congress
soon after March 4 when the present
congress will pass into history.
Appropriation bills have been pass
ed by the House and are now be
fore the Appropriation committee of
the Senate show that the Senate will
have to> vote appropriations of $90,
000,000 each day for the remaining
eleven days of the present session.
Many of the appropriations as pass
ed by the lower House have been in
creased by senatorial amendments
and it is estimated that the Senate
will average close to one hundred mil
lion dollars per day in order to com
plete the work before March 4.
STRIKERS BATTLE
WITH THE POLICE
Mob Refused To Give Way Before
New York Police and Pitched
Battle Follows.
NEW YORK, Feb. 20.—The entire
reserve force of the city police were
called out last night to quell a riot
ous mob pt five hundred striking
tailors and their sympathizers. The
trouble originated over a parade
which the striking tailors attempted
to organize in the business heart of
the city.
Fearing that the parade would be
taken advantage of by agitators to
excite the mob to violence the police
ordered the strikers to disperse.
Thousands of unemployed men had
become attached to the parade and
when the strikers gave battle they
took part against the police. Sever
al of the officers were severely beat
en before the arrival of the reserves
and the leaders of the mob arrested.
RUSSIANS CHECK GERMAN INVASION OF POLAND
PETROGRAD, Feb. 20.—The Ger
man invasion of Poland has been
checked by the Russian army which
retired from East Prussia aided by
reinforcements which were sent from
interior Russia. The arrival of the
fresh troops has enabled the Russians
not only to check the Invasion but
to begin offensive movements against
■the Germans at many points along
the border of the Polish province of
Suwalki.
Vistula Situation Unchanged
The situation along the Vistula
river northwest of Warsaw remains
unchanged, as both sides have with
drawn their troops from that dis
trict, being content to hold their
trenches while the battle is being
fought along the eastern East Prus
sian border.
Russians Bombarding Przemysl.
PETROGRAD, Feb. 20.—The Rus
sians are again bombarding the forts
of Przemysi and believe that the forts
will soon fall. Many of the outlying
forts have been destroyed and the
Russians now command positions
where shell can be thrown into the
main fort.
Russians Claim Victory At Dukla
Pass.
Latest advices from the Russian
army operating in the Carpathians
NEW RUSSIAN ARMY SENT TO REINFORCE THE RUSSIANS DRIV
EN FROM EAST PRUSSIA HAS BEGAN OFFENSIVE MOVEMENT
ALONG THE BORDER—GERMANS BUILDING FORTS AT WIL
HELMSHAVEN—RUSSIANS REPORT AUSTRIANS DEFEATED IN
DUKLA PASS BATTLE—RUSSIANS RENEW BOMBARDMENT OF
PRZEMYSL FORTS—CONSTANTINOPLE REPORTS THAT ALLIES
FLEETS ARE FORCING DARDANELLES.
state that the Austrians defending
Dukla pass have been driven from
their positions after a battle lasting
more than a week. The Russians are
also reported to have defeated the
Austrians and driven them back at
Gorlice.
Germans Take Aggressive.
! BERLIN, Feb. 20.—The German
war office has posted a bulletin stat
ing that the German troops have
again started an aggressive movement
along the western battle line. The
German trenches lost to the French
troops near Reims and Arrqs have
1 een recaptured with heavy loss to
the French.
Recapture Vosges Heights.
The Vosges Heights, a command
ing position which has been used by
the French army operating in Al
sace, has been recaptured by the Ger
man troops after a desperate en
counter. A number of prisoners are
reported to have been captured in
the French trenches before the
Heights.
Norwegian Steamer Sunk.
NAKSOK, Denmark, Feb. 20.—A
Norwegian steamer has been sunk in
the North Sea by striking a floating
mine. A portion of the crew of the
steamer are reported to have been
saved. i
Dardanelles Forts Wrecked
CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 20—The
forts guarding the Dardanelles have
suffered severely by the bombardment
to which they have been subjected by
the fleets of the Allies. Many of
the forts are reported to have been
reduced to heaps of stone and wreck
age of the guns. It is feared that
the straits will be forced, giving the
fleets of the hostile nations an op
portunity to destroy the Turkish cit
ies on the Black Sea, including Con
stantinople.
Russian Black Sea Fleet Active.
The Russian Black Sea fleet has
again become active and has made
a number of attacks upon Turkish
ports which were, bombarded.
Germans Building Forts On Coast.
ROTTERDAM, Feb. 20—The Ger
mans are reported to be building twen
ty forts in the vicinity of Wilhelm
shaven to protect the entrance of the
canal connecting that place with Em
den bay. Heavy guns are being
mounted in the forts as rapidly as
the foundations can be prepared for
them. The activities in the construc
tion of the forts were recently per
sonally Inspected and approved by
Kaiser Wilhelm.
Wilhelmina’s Cargo Be Sold.
LONDON, Feb. 20.—The cargo of
the American steamer Wilhelmina,
seized by the British government be
cause it consisted of foodstuffs con
signed to German merchants, will go
to the prize court.
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Wealthy Citizens of Chicago Sell Pa
pers and Realize $7,000 In
Few Hours.
CHICAGO, Feb. 20.—Seven thou
sand dollars was raised yesterday af
ternoon in a few hours selling papers
for the benefit of charity by business
men of the city who had formerly
been newsboys. Scores of well-known
business men who had risen from
the ranks of the newsboys appeared
on the streets with bundles of pa
pers and occupied corners which they
had claimed before acquiring wealth
or fame.
Many of the former newsboys who
are at the head of great mercantile
and financial concerns boldly invaded
the stock market with papers and
quickly unloaded their stock of “wux
tras.”
BRITISH ADMIRALTY DEFENDS SEIZURE
OF STEAMER WILHELMINA’S CARGO
DECLARES GERMANY WAS RAIDING UNFORTIFIED CITIES ON THE
COAST OF ENGLAND AND THAT ENGLAND IS JUSTIFIED IN
RETALIATION BY STARVING GERMAN CITIZENS
LONDON, Feb. 20.—In answer to
Secretary Bryan’s note inquiring why
the British government had seized
the cargo of the American steamer
Wilhelmina the British government
has dispatched a full report as to
the situa*ion and why the blockade
against the importation of foodstuffs
to Germany was established. The
text of the British reply has also
been given publicity in response to
a demand for information concerning
the controversy between the United
States and England.
The British note to Secretary Bry
an declared that the German admir
alty had raided English coast towns
which were not fortified bases for
war operations and that England had
regarded the action as calling for
measures which would bring the war
to the speediest close possible. The
German admiralty was endeavoring to
work destruction of British lives of
non-combatants by shelling unforti
fied coast towns and that England
, felt at liberty to take any measure in
retaliation against Germany by pro
hibiting the importation of food
stuffs to any German city.
In regard to the sinking of neu
tral ships by German submarines
Britain must consider herself in no
way responsible, it being a matter
for the nation to which the vessel
belonged to settle with Germany for
the loss of the lives and property of
that nation.
The British government declares
that England has violated no inter
national law and has committed no
act for which there is not precedents
by other nations when engaged in
war. It is declared that Britain will
not recede from her blockade of the
importation of foodstuffs to Germany
but will take all necessary measures
to continue the blockade.
CALIFORNIANS ARRESTED FOR ALLEGED
CONSPIRACY OF AMERICAN NEUTRALITY
INDICTED BY FEDERAL GRAND JURY ON CHARGE OF ORGANIZING
ARMED FORCE TO WREST LOWER CALIFORNIA FROM MEXICO
—GEN OTIS’ SON-IN-LAW WAS LEADER OF MOVEMENT
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 20.—Intense
excitement prevailed here last night
when federal officers arrested Harry
Chandler, millionaire stockman, and
six other prominent men of the city
for conspiring to violate the neutral
ity of the United States by planning
an invasion of Lower California.
Chandler is a son-in-law of General
Otis, proprietor of the Los Angeles
Times, who also has extensive inter
ests in Lower California. All the
ptherb arrested with Chandler are
equally prominent in business and
social circles In California.
The arrests followed secret indict
ments by the federal grand jury be
fore which many United States sec
ret service agents appeared to give
testimony. During the session of the
grand jury, which was believed to
have been called for the purpose of
investigating recently disclosed evi
dence concerning the dynamite out
rage which destroyed the Los An
geles Times, General Otis was call
ed before the jury.
It is asesrted that Chandler and
his associates have been planning the
Invasion of Lower California for some
time and that they have already en
gaged several hundred men to enlist
in their army. The California mil
lionaires are also reported to have se
cured plenty of guns with which to
outfit their army for the invasion of
the Mexican province.
The Californians interested in the
movement for the Invasion of Mex
ico are all extensive stock raisers
and were planning to work the over
throw of the government in order
that their stock might be brought in
to America free of duty.
BY WIRELESS MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENI
SECRETARY LANE PRESSED BUTTON WHICH STARTED MACHIN
ERY OF AMERICA'S GREATEST FAIR AND OPENED GATES TO
THE PUBLIC—MANY BUILDINGS NOT YET COMPLETED
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 20.—Presi
dent Wilson, seated in the White
House, in Washington, at noon sent
the official message by wireless
across the continent opening the
Panama-Pacific exposition.
Secretary Franklin K. Lane, spec
ial representative of President Wil
son, performed *he opening ceremony
by pressing the button which start
ed the electrical machinery of the
-great fair grounds and opening the
gates to the hundreds of thousands
•of people who have come from all
■parts of the world to attend the cere
mony and visit the fair.
The handling of the vast crowd
which is in attendance at the fair to
day gives testimony of the provisions
made for the transportation of the
guests to the grounds. From early
morning electrical and steam trains,
as well as hundreds of steamers, were
busy carrying the crowd to the
grounds. v
An Inspection of the grounds just
opened to the public reveals the fact
that many of the buildings have not
as yet been, completed nor the
grounds beautified as they will be be
fore the fair Is far advanced. The
crowd which attended today’s cere
monies are largely citizens of Cali
fornia and representatives of other
states and foreign nations making
exhibits at the fair and It Is as
serted by th# board of managers that
the work of completing the bulld1
ings and grounds will be accomplish
ed before May 1.
Shipment Will Be Made To Petrograd
Across the Siberian Line
From Pacific.
HARRISBURG, Pa, Feb. 20.—Ag
| ents of the Russian government to
day placed an order with a local steel
plant for $500,000 worth of armored
motor trucks. The trucks are to be
similar in design to those supplied
to the British and French armies in
France soon after the begining of the
war, and which have proved equal
to the German armored truck.
The contract calls for speedy de
livery and the shipment will be sent
across the Pacific to Vladivostok, the
terminus of the Russian trans-Siber
ian railroad to Petrograd. The con
tract was signed by a British agent
acting for the Russian government
through the Morgan & Co. bank in
New York.
CANAL EARNINGS
TOTAL {2,000,000
Statement Is Considered Satisfactory
By Colonel Goethals Under
the Conditions.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20—The
earnings of the Panama Canal for the
six months ending February 2 total
led $2,000,000. The showing, accord
ing to Colonel Goethals, governor of
the canal zone, is very satisfactory
when conditions are considered.
The canal was closed to traffic for
several weeks during the busiest part
of the season by a slide in Culebra
cut, which undoubtedly lessened the
revenue by several hundred thou
sand dollars. The European war has
also reduced the legitimate earnings
of the canal as European trade
through the canal has been almost
exclusively confined to carriers of
grain and perishables.
Many shipping companies are still
operating their vessels over the
routes which they traveled before the
completion of *he canal, but it is
believed they will soon rearrange
their schedules and route their ves
sels through the great national water
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WON’TJETO BILL
Declares That If Senate and House
Pass Racing Measure He Will
Attach His Name.
CARSON CITY, Nev., Feb. 20.—
Governor Boyle has announced that
he will sign the measure now before
the sta‘e Senate to establish a rac
ing commission to supervise horse
racing in the state If the bill is ap
proved by the upper house.
The measure passed the state leg
islature without opposition but its op
ponents immediately began a determ
ined fight in the senate, claiming that
the bill had been slipped through the
ouse without attracting attention.
Protests have been received by
Governor' Boyle from all sections of
the s‘ate urging him to exercise his
right of vetoing the measure if pass
ed by the senate. The fight on the
measure has the support of strong
organizations led by the churches in
the c'tles.
CABINET IW coins WAR ZONE
ADMITTED THE SITUATION IS SERIOUS BUT MEMBERS OF CABI
NET REFUSE TO STATE WHAT ACTION UNITED STATES WOULD
TAKE IF AMERICAN SHIPS AND LIVES WERE LOST
WASHINGTON. Feb. 20.—President
Wilson and the members of his cabi
net again considered the war zone sit
uation last night. Members of the
cabinet admitt d after the confer
ence that the situation was serious
but refused to state what action the
United States were prepared to take
to safeguard American ships and the
lives of their crews and passengers.
It is believed that shipping to Eng
land will be discouraged by the gov
ernment as a temporary measure to
avoid the consequences which are re
garded as sure to follow the sink
ing of an American ship. The sit
uation has been greatly complicat
ed through-the violation of the in
ternational law by British captains
using the American flag while in the
military zone.
The German admiralty claims to
have irrefutable proof that the cap
tains of the British vessels were act
ing under instructions from the Brit
ish admiralty in using the Stars and
Stripes and tha‘ the responsibility for
the destruction of American ships by
German submarines rests with Eng
land. ,
The captain of the Lusitania, which
was the first ship to use the Ameri
can flag for protection, denied that
he had been instructed to do so by the
British admiralty, but asserted that
he had used it as a precaution to
■prevent loss of American passengers
and mail on his ship.
Dr. German will speak tonight on
the subject “What Is the Matter In
Mexico?" at the Socialist hall on Mc
Kinley street. The meeting is at 8
o’clock and is open to all, both men
and women.
ir yon want all tne news all tho
time read the Daily Prospector.