'czar takes command
' , of THE RUSSIAN HOSTS
REPORTS FROM PETROGRAD.FAIL TO INDICATE THAT
GRAND DUKE HAS BEEN DISMISSED OR NOT—TO
PLAN MORE DETERMINED RESISTANCE TO THE IN
VADING TEUTONS WHO THREATEN CENTRAL RUS
SIA—REPORT THAT RIGA HAS FALLEN STARTS BIG
PANIC IN PETROGRAD, BUT OFFICIALS DENY RU
MOR AND CLAIM RIGA FORTS ARE STILL INTACT
.AND WILL HOLD AGAINST THE INVADERS.
P12TR0GRAD, Sept. 7.—Grand
Duke Nicholas, who has commanded
the Russian troops from the begin
ning of the present war, has been
superseded by the Czar himself, who
takes over the command of the
Russian hosts. No announcements
regarding the reason for the change
'has been made public. It is believ
ed, however, that the Czar has deter
mined to make a change, and that he
xrill himself command the army un
til soTrw^eneral displays more than
,/ ibility, in which event a
tander will be selected to
' German invading army.
Russian C enter Holds.
LONDON. Sept. 7.—The Russian
'Center resting on the swamps, is now
MEXICAN MASSES
10 INVADE TEXAS
People of Brownsville Fear Trouble
Is Certain and Ask for More
Federal Troops.
4 BROWNSVILLE, Sept. 7.—The
Mexicans are again massing troops
across the line from this city. Sev
eral thousand more troops have
reached the border from interior
Mexican points and are well armed,
having several batteries of field ar
tillery and a large supply of muni
tions.
The American force is not as
strong as the Mexican detachment,
and the residents of this city have
again applied to the war department
for more troops. The large number
of Mexicans living in Texas along the
bdrder makes the position of the
Americans dangerous. The sheriffs
of tltys and other border counties
have been working day and night to
take away the arms and munitions
from the Mexicans and at the same
time every Mexican rancher and those
in the cities have been armed and
are ready should the Mexicans de
Itermine to make a sudden invasion
and the Federal troops be unable to
hold them in check.
®V>r days the rangers, aided by
sheriff's posses have been clearing
the border of raiding Mexican bands.
More than 300 Mexicans found with
arms in their possession have been
shot by the civil and military au
thorities. The police arrest every
Mexican found armed and at the
Srst sign of an attempt to pull a gun
the greasers are dropped in their
tracks.
The military authorities today
have recalled the troops to Fort
Brown, as It was feared that the
border patrols might be overpower
ed and wiped out.
ADMIRAL FARRAGUT
IS COMING NORTH.
SEATTLE, Sept. 7.—The Admiral
liner Admiral Farragut sailed from
this port on Sunday evening, taking
a lull cargo of freight and passen
gers. The liner takes the place of
the Admiral Watson, which was sunk
recently, and the boat will remain on
the Alaska run hereafter, giving the
# com pitay a sailing every Saturday.
' The following passengers sailed for
. . Valdez on the steamer: George Ken
yon. S. Emerson, A. McDonald.
SL 8. NORTHWESTERN
SAILS WEDNESDAY.
SEATTLE, Sept. 7.—The Alaska
Steamship liner Northwestern sails
unrth tomorrow evening. The boat
returned via the outside passage and
has Keen able to overcome some of
the lost time.
holding all the attacks of the Teu
tons, who have striven in vain to
break the new line taken up by the
Slav forces. The Germans have been
beaten back time and again and are
expected to give up the effort to win
by frontal attacks The British offi
cers with the Russian forces report
that the Russian defense is stiffen
ing and that the Russian invading
army has suffered frightful losses
and must soon abandon the attacks
because of the loss of men who can
not be replaced.
Father Vanderpol returned to Val
dez on the Mariposa.
The launch Wolf came up from'El
lamar yesterday.
AEROPLANE DASHES
INTO HIG CROWD
WASHINGTON. Ind., Sept. 7 —
Unable to control his aeroplane, an
aviator giving a demonstration here
before an immense labor day crowd,
drove his machine into the mob and
killed three and injured a score or
more of the spectators. The big ma
chine dashed into the crowd and the
people were unable to escape.
The heavy motor fell upon one
man and two women who were un
able to escape, and they were crush
ed to death, the head of one of the
victims being torn from the body by
the fast revolving wheel on the aer
oplanes.
ENGLISH GOLD
REACHES HALIFAX
British Battle Cruiser Crosses the
Atlantic With 845,000,000 Gold
In Big Strongbox.
HALIFAX, Sept. 7.—One of the
fastest and largest of the new Brit
ish battle cruisers reached here to
day from England bringing $45,000,
00 0 in gold coin for shipment to New
York to pay for the supplies of muni
tions that the allies are purchasing
in the United States.
The governments of England, Rus
sia and France will endeavor to es
tablish a Arm credit for their gov
ernments In New York, and large
shipments of gold are being made to
Canada and thence by rail to New
York in an effort to build up a re
serve in the J. P. Morgan bank, so
that munition purchases may be
quickly paid for and the stream of
cannon and shrapnel kept going east
ward from the new world to the na
tions at war with the Germanii. pow
ers.
POLITICIANS CONTROL
IN THE PHILIPPINES.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 7.—For
mer President William Howard Taft
in an address here last night charged
that the politicians of the Philippines
had control of Governor Harris, who
was dominated by a band of politi
cians whtf would sooner or later be
the cause of much trouble to the
United States.
The charge caused a sensation and
it may be taken up by Republican
congressmen in an effort to break
down the present administration.
Weather Report.
Valdez, Sept. 6, 1915.
Barometer .29.652
Temperature 5 p. m.48
Minimum temperature....63
Mean temperature ..47
Precipitation .17
Cloudy, wind northeast 3 miles;
rained at night and frequent showers
from 7 a. m. to 2:16 p. m.
HUM SOLGHS
PflUSEPBESIDET
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Sept. 7.
The State legislature has adopted a
resolution praising President Wilson
for his stand (or humanity in the
submarine controversy, regarding the
right of submarines to attack and
sink marchant ships. The legisla
ture praises highly the course taken
by President Wilson and asks the
people in all parts of the country to
uphold the chief executive in for
eign affairs.
BIG GLIDE IN
PANAMA CANAL
PANAMA, Sept.' 7.—The canal Is
again blocked because of an immense
slide, which has shut off the water
way. A score of powerful dredges
are at work opening the canal and
the engineers are confident the ships
can pass through in a week. Only
vessels of light draft are now able
to go from ocean to ocean.
Miss Corrigdn arrived from Port
age Passage yesterday.
GERMANS SINK BRITISH LINER
TWENTY SIX PASSENGERS LOST
BIG LINER ENROUTE FROM HALIFAX TO ENGLAND
SENT TO BOTTOM IN THE IRISH SEA BY GERMAN
SUBMARINE—OFFICIALS AT CAPITAL GREATLY
SURPRISED AT ACT, AS IT WAS EXPECTED SUBMA
RINE WARFARE HAD BEEN DROPPED. DIPLOMAT
IC CIRCLES THINK COMMANDER OF UNDERWATER
FIGHTER HAD NOT BEEN ADVISED OF NEW OR
DERS PROTECTING PASSENGER BOATS FROM UN
DERSEA ATTACKS WITHOUT WARNING.
LONDON, Sept 7.—The big At
lantic liner Hesperian, enroute to
Montreal, was submarined and sunk
by a German underwater fighter yes
terday. The boat went down off the
Irish coast. The entire crew and all
the passengers, totaling 600 were
saved. Two of the crews were Amer
icans. The attack was made with
out warning, and but for the fact the
ship remained afloat ten minutes and
the commander had all the boats
ready for instant launching, and the
crews at their stations, as is now the
custom on all liners passing through
the war zone the loss of life would
have been heavy.
The sinking of the liner by the
Germans is considered a breach of i
faith between the United States and
Germany and the Kaiser’s foreign of
fice had agreed not to sink liners
without warning.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 7.—
Great surprise was shoyvn in official
circles yesterday upon the news of
the submarining of the British liner
Hesperian off the Irish coast. The
commander, according to reports,
had no warning, but was prepared
and saved all the passengers and the
crew of his ship. Diplomats here in
sist that the commander of the Ger
man submarine must have left the
base of operations in Germany be
fore the new orders went into effect.
It is feared by many that Admiral
Triplitz has disobeyed the orders of
the kaiser, and that the military par
ty at Berlin will endeavor to over
ride the foreign office, feeling sure of
popular support, which is strongly
against the United States, because of
press attacks on America, and the
frequent stories of Germans being
killed by American shells. Accord
ing to German papers, the United
States is supplying Russia, England
and France with munitions of war
in immense quantities
LONDON, Sept. 7.—The survivors
of the ill fated British liner Hespe
rian, have all reached safety and re
ports show that twenty-six of the
passengers and crew were drowned
or killed by the explosion, which
tore the side from the ship and sent
her to the bottom in a short time.
The survivors praise the members of
the crew who aided in launching the
boats with little confusion and thus
saved the lives of the passengers.
HOT RIOTS IN
TOBASGO STATE
Mexicans Kill Carranza Governor—
Women and Children Murder*
ed—People Starving.
■ ■
VERA CRUZ, Sept. 7.—Men, wom
en and children are being murdered
by the score in the southern state
of Tobasco, Mexico. A revolt against
the Carranza government has start
ed. The Carranza governor has been
murdered by the mobs, his family
suffered the same fate. Thousands
of people are starving to death in the
state of Oaxica, while hundreds are
seeking roots to eat, and are dying
because they have eaten of poison
ous roots, while many others are
dying.
No relief can be sent to the dis
trict from Here as the demands for
aid are heavy as the bandits have
destroyed all crops and prevented re
building and replanting. Conditions
in the republic are desperate.
FORD OPPOSES
WAR PREPAREDNESS.
DETROIT, Sept. 7.—Pres. Ford, of
the Ford Automobile Company, of
this city, has given >1,000,000 for
the educational campaign he wishes
started against war preparedness,
which Ford Insists Is the cause of all
International wars and therefor
should not be tolerated.
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Naval Officials Detailed to Quincy
Shipyards to Prevent Violation
of Neutrality Laws.
QINCY, Mass., Sept. 7.—The navy
department has detailed a number
of officers to remain in the shipyards
in this city and prevent the subma
rines now building, from being sent
to any foreign power as it is consid
ered a breach of neutrality for the
export of submarines in whole or in
part to any power now engaged in
the war. It is reported here that
Greece has ordered twenty subma
rines for instant delivery and that
thus the ships of war can be sent
across the ocean to Greece, which is
not involved in the war and later
turned over by that power to the
Allies.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Harry Cavanaugh, the mail carrier
wlo takes the winter mail from
Cold Bay to Bristol Bay, one of the
longest and hardest star routes in
the United States, arrived on the
Mariposa from the westward, coming
as a guard with Deputy Buckley,
who brought a Mexican charged with
cutting and nearly killing another
Mexican, at the cannery near Nak
nek.
John Qerow, the Cook Inlet min
ing operator, came over on the last
boat to attend court.
RUMANIAN RESERVISTS ARE
RECALLED FROM ARROAD
BERLIN HEARS THAT RUMANIANS ARE PREPARING
TO CONFLICT WITH GERMANY RATHER THAN AL
LOW MUNITIONS OF WAR TO CROSS THROUGH RU
MANIA TO THE TURKS WHO ARE IN DIRE NEED.—
THE KAISER HAS AGAIN WARNED RUMANIA THE
CONSEQUENCES WILL BE HEAVY AND THAT NO
MERCY WILL BE SHOWN.—GERMANY IS READY TO
BEAT HER WAY TO CONSTANTINOPLE.
BERLIN, Sept. 7.—The war office
has been advised of the recall from
Switzerland of the Rumanian reserv
ists who are in that country. It is
expected that in spite of every effort
of the German foreign office that the
Rumanian government will join the
Allies. The Kaiser has warned the
king of Rumania that if munitions
were not allowed to cross Rumania
to the Turks that the Germanic allies
would take such steps to insure mu
nitions reaching Constantinople as
would be found necessary. The Kai
ser is determined to aid the Turks
and hold the Dardanelles, and an
army has been massed in southern
Austria to crush its way through the
Black Sea and Constantinople.
Bulgaria is expected to aid Ger
OGDEN ARMOUR'S HOUSE
HORDED OF JEWELRY
CHICAGO, Sept. 7.—The resi
dence of Ogden Armour was robbed
of jewelry valued at $4,000 by a
number of thieves, who entered the
building, made prisoners of the wife
of the packer and of the servants in
the building, calmly ransacked the
house, and after three hours left the
building, to escape Into the under
world of the city, and have not been
apprehended by the police or private
detectives, who have been called into
the case by the wealthy beef pack
er. Scores of robberies have been
reported in the city and crooks are
becoming very active.
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WAS MASTERLY
Austrian Officers Say Russians Left
a Streak of Fire In Rear—
Fought Desperately.
GENEVA, Sept. 7.—An Austrian
officer of high rank now in this city,
but for the past four months fighting
with the Austrian and German armies
in Poland, Galicia and Russia, states
that the retreat of the Russian army
before the powerful Germanic forces
has been the marvel of military men
with the Teutonic armies.
The Russians have slowly retired,
leaving nothing but waste and deso
lation in their path. Prom the Baltic
to the Rumanian border the country
has been laid waste as the armies of
the Grand Duke slowly fell back.
The retreating forces have left a
wall of fire behind them, and main
tain a rear-guard action the like of
which has never been heard of. With
massed field artillery they have held
in check the flower of the German
and Austrian armies, sweeping back
the advance, delivering counter at
tacks at times which drove back the
victorious armies of the Germanic al
lies.
. "The retreat was a masterpiece of
military ability, systematic devasta
tion with a wall ‘of fire behind the
flying armies." is the expression of
the officer who fought through the
retreat on the staff of the Austrian
commanding general.
GERMANS GIVE MONEY
TO AID GOVERNMENT.
BERLIN, Sept. 7.—The German
loan <s being subscribed for rapidly
by the people of the Empire, who
are sending in to the treasury offi
cials their savings of years. All big
corporations have subscribed to the
national loan and the subscriptions
will total several times the amount of
the authorised loan.
Just received, a large line of Lino
leum, Rugs and Mattresses. S. Blum
* Co. •
many, because of the attitude of
Greece and Serbia in refusing terri
torial compensation for Bulgarian
aid.
SKELETON'S TAKEN’
FROM THE 1-1.
HONOLULU, Sept'. 7.—The bodies
of the crew of the F4 have been tak
en from the hull. Fifteen skeletons
have been recovered. A number of
the men had been beheaded, and tne
naval officials fear that a n imher of
the crew went crazy, attacking other
members of the crew and cutting off
their heads. It is hard to identify
the bodies. Many of the crew will
be buried here with military honors.
FOREIGNERS TRY
TO BLOCK U. S.
Interfere In Haitien Affairs and
Martial Law Is Declared.—
Caperton In Command.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.—-Foreign
interests have been endeavoring to
stir the natives to revolt against
American control of the Republic,
and consequently the United States
government has been forced to de
clare martial law in the islands, and
all civil authority has been suspend
ed.
The marines will police the islands
and unless the rebels come in volun
tarily and surrender their arms the
marines will clean out the rebels
nests in the interior and destroy
them entirely.
More artillery may be sent to the
islands if it becomes necessary. A
force of 5000 marines and sailors
are now lauded on the island, under
command ot Admiral Caperton.
hk> : ;;rian sinking
ANGERS BRITISH.
LONDON, Sept. 7.—The press of
Great Britain Is greatly incensed at
the sinking of the liner Hesperian,
which is denounced because of its
violation of the recent agreement be
tween the United States and Ger
many. The papers charge that the
German government has broken its
faith with America and they are de
manding that an aggressive attitude
be taken by the United States to pre
vent the recurrence of attacks on pas
senger carrying steamers.
HARD TO LOSE GERMAN
• CITIZENSHIP IN U. S.
BERLIN,. Sept. 7.—The govern
ment has announced that a native of
Germany does not lose his citizen
ship unless absent from the Father
land for ten years without a visit to
his home. The acquisition of citizen
ship in. any other country does not
cancel citizenship in Germany with
the exception oi' such Germans as
may take out citizenship papers in
the United States.
The reason for the announcement
regarding citizenship at this time is
not made public.
BIG GLACIER STREAM
IS HITTING THE DIKE.
A big stream of glacier water
strikes the dike at the government
bridge and follows the dike to the
bay. A similar stream in the days
before the government dike was
built would have taxed the resources
of the towh and required the efforts
of all the men in the city to have
protected property from the water.
The high water is caused by recent
rains.