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VOLUME xm VALDEZ, ALASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1915 NUMBER 296
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GEN. FRENCH
BEEN RETIRED
General Haig, who Won Fame in
Egypt and South Africa, will
Command British in France.
EONDON. Dec. 16.—Gen. French,
who has been in active command of
the British troops in France since
the beginning of the war, has been re
lieved at his own request owing to
failing health and will be succeeded
by General Haig. The new comman
der of the British troops is fifty-five^
years of age and has had a distin
guished military career, having serv
ed in Egypt and South Africa. Gen
eral French will be retired from ac
tive service.
King George, in recognition for the
distinguished services which General
Frcndli has rendered the empire, has
i the title of Viscount
It is ruusirfed that the retirement
of General French has resulted from
criticisms offered in the British
House of Commons relative to the
manner in which the campaign was
being conducted and it is believed
that retirements of other officers will
follow.
NATIONAL DEFENSE
Illinois Representative Wants Gov
ernment Ownership of Plants
and AU War Material.
WASHINGTON, D, C., Dec. 16.—
Representative Clyde H. Travenner,
of Illinois, introduced the question of
national defense in the lower house
yesterday afternoon when he deliv
ered a speech on preparedness and
endorsing the administration’s na
tional defense program. He said he
would work for government owner
ship and operation of the munition
factories and all war material. He
believes private capital should not be
permitted to engage in the manufac
ture irf munitions as it would natu
rally seek to create a demand for its
products Gy involving this or some
other country in war.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, vis
ited the White House yesterday and
conferred with President Wilson. The
labor leader told the president that
union labor favored preparedness
and that he personally was in favor
of the government owning it own
munition factories and ordinance
plants. ,
VALDEZ CREEK COMPANY
GETS CALIFORNIA MINER.
BOSTON: The trustees of the Val
dez Creek Placer Mines have secured
as manager of their mining proper
ties, for a term of five years, Pierre
Bouery, who for fifteen years has
been manager of the La Grange mine
at Weaverville, California. Mining
men have long considered the La
Grange mine one of the most success
ful hydraulic mining properties in
the world, and the owners ascribe this
success of Mr. Bouery.
At La Grange Mr. Bouery brought
his water for hydraulicing 49 miles,
and worked 4 per cent gravel at a
profit. At Valdez Creek the source
of the water supply is within two
miles of the pit, and the gravel, ac
cording to expert engineers, should
yield 94 cents per yard.
Mi/ Bouery had the offer of the
Valdes Creek Placer Mines under his
consideration for a month and con
sidered the matter thoroughly. His
third five-year contract with the La
Grange Mining Company expired in
October. Before renewing for another
period of five years, he received the;
offer of the Valdez Placer Mines and
this week signed the five-year con
tract with the Valdez Company.—
Boston News Bureau.
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THIRD OF ALLIES
BONDS REMAIN UNSOLD
IJEW YORK, Dec. 16.—The con
tract with the Morgan & Co. syndi
cate to dispose of the Anglo-French
government bonds expired last night
and.one hundred and eight million
dollars of the bonds remain unplac
ed. The bonds have dropped to 96
although they bear 5 per cent inter
est. It is reported that another syn
dicate has been formed among bank
ers and munition manufacturers to
take the bonds in lieu of cash pay
ments for shipments being made to
Europe.
GOLD BULLION IS
, PILED LIKE WOOD
Huge Shipments of Precious Metal
Coming to America from War
ring Nations of Europe.
NEW YORK. Dec. 15.—Gold is
pouring into the United States from
all parts of the world and it is pre
dicted that December will be the ban
ner month of the year notwithstand
ing the fact that more than fifty mil
lion dollars in gold was received in
November. The bullion is stacked in
the assay office here and is equal to
two cords of wood. It is said to be
the greatest store of bullion of mod-1
ern times.
Leading bankers of the United
States are opposed to the European
gold being brought to the United
States in such quantities and assert
that if the influx is continued for six,
months that there will be few orders
for munitions placed in the United
States as the drain upon the Euro
pean countries would be too strong
and that they will manufacture their
own munftions.
The gold is being sent to the United
States by the European countries to
liquidate their debts and to maintain
their credits for future shipments. It
is said that the governments of Great
Britain and France have determined
that if*they cannot secure credits on
the strength of their government
bonds that they will- depend upon
their own munition factories after six
months. It is realized that the gold
is being spared by the European coun
tries in order that their credits might
not be impaired in America, but it is
not believed that it will continue.
BRITAIN RAISING
ARMY FOR SPRING
Will Bring Fighting Force up to Four
Million Men Before Starting
Campaign in April.
LONDON, Dec. 15.—Lord Derby’s
plan to secure voluntary enlistments
in the British army among the men
of England has succeeded beyond all
expectations and it is estimated that
the campaign has resulted in two mil
lion, five hundred thousand men en
listing for the huge army which Bri
tain will put in the field next spring.
Britain is equipping an army for
service in the field that will num
ber four million men and expects to
have the troops ready for the cam
paign which will begin in April.
Munition factories are being estab
lished in every city and town and it
is asserted that the English factories
are now turning out sufficient muni
tions to supply the army under train
ing. Britain is also aiding Russia to
equip her new armies of six million
men which will be ready for service
in the spring.
Lord Derby’s plan consisted of a
house to house canvass for enlist
ments when the men of the British
Isles were told that if they did not
voluntarily enlist that conscription
would be resorted to as the army
must be raised in defense of the na
tion.
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GEKNL JOFFRE IS CONHDENT
OF ALUES ULTIMATE SUCCESS
BELIEVES THAT WEARING OUT METHOD OF CAMPAIGN ADOPTED
BY ALLIES WILL EVENTUALLY EXHAUST THE RESOURCES OF
TEUTONIC NATIONS—CLAIMS TEUTONS LOSING TEN THOU
SAND DAILY WHILE FORCES WITH WHICH THEY ARE CON
TENDING ARE GAINING STRENGTH—RETREATING ALLIES AT
SALONIKI AND BELIEVED BULGAKS NOT INVADE GREECE.
LONDON, Dec. 16.—Official dis
patches from the near East state
that the Allies forces which invaded
Bulgaria and went to the assistance
of Serbia, but who were driven from
those countries by the Teutonic and
Bulgarian troops have extricated
themselves from their dangerous po
sition and have reached the protec
tion of the Allies at Saloniki. It is
admitted that the Balkan campaign
has been a failure and that* Serbia
lias been sacrificed by the failure of
the Allies to send sufficient troops to
defend the country. It is believed
that the Bulgarian troops will not
cross the border of Greece in pur
suit of the retreating French and
British troops, and that the Teutons
lack men to begin another campaign
which might result in Greece joining
Lhe Allies.
Jufifre Is Confident.
PARIS, Dec. 16.—General Joffre,
supreme commander of all the French
troops engaged in the various thea
tres of war, is confident that the
method adopted by the Allies in the
present war must ultimately result
in the Teutonic resistance being
crushed. He figures that Germany
is losing ten thousand men daily and
the Allies intend to see that the loss
does not become less, and that before
spring Germany will have lost one
million more men. In the meantime
the Allies, he figures, will gain in
numbers faster than the Teutons are
losing. Great Britain, Joffre asserts,
will have three million fresh troops
for service next spring and Russia
will have a force numbering six mil
lion men. General Joffre is confi
dent that the Russians will be able
to force the Teutons from Russian
soil before the end of the present
winter. He does not believe that
the Allies should press the cam
paign against the Germans in north
ern France and Belgium before the
summer of 1917 when the “wearing
out” process will have accomplished
its purpose by thinning the German
ranks.
MANN TO OPPOSE
SHIP PURCHASE
iays President Wilson’s Protests
Against Seizure of American
Ships Were Formal.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Dec. 16.—
Representative Mann of Illinois, lead
sr of the Republican forces in the
House, announced today that he will
light the Ship purchase bill favored
tty the administration. He believes
that under present conditions the
United States would only be provid
ing more ships for the Allies to seize.
Mann asserts that he is not inter
asted in the ultimate victors in the
European war and does not believe
congress should take action on for
aign affairs as their matters should
be left entirely in the hands of the
President. He argued it would be ut
terly useless to secure more ships if
the British cruisers were allowed to
stop American vessels at will.
He is opposed to the government
building ships or purchasing them,
Linlees President Wilson has a defi
nite understanding with the British
government that American vessels
bound for neutral ports were not to
be stopped.
He severely criitcised President
Wilson’s notes to the British govern
ment, which he said were purely for
mal protests and had been ignored.
STEAMER ALAMEDA DUE
IN VALDEZ TONIGHT
Information was received Ifrom
Cordova today stating that the steam
ship Alameda had reached that place
jnd would sail for Valdez at 6 o’clock
this afternoon. Following is the list
uf passengers on the steamer for Val
lez as cabled from Seattle: Clinton
Coffman, H. Bloom, Mrs. Howard,
(Just Brummell, Mrs. J. Cunningham
»nd T. Samuelson. The steamer
should arrive before midnight.
The steamer Adnjlral Farragut left
Seward yesterday afternoon for Val
lez and is expected to arrive at any
time. It is believed the steamer
loaded ore at Latouche while en
route from the westward.
Evans in Seattle.
SEATTLE, Dec. 16.—The steamer
Admiral Evans reached Seattle from
Alaska at 2 o'clock this morning. She
Is scheduled to sail again next Sat
lay evening.
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MEDICAL SOCIETY
FIRES HAISELDEN
lbiiHlsbed Articles ■ is Newspajiers
which Conflicted witli Ethics
of the Medical Profession.
CHICAGO, Dec. 16.—The Chicago
Medical Society has expelled Dr. Hai
selden from its membership as a re
sult of his having published unethi
cal articles in newspapers during the
controversy over the deformed and
defective infant which was allowed
to die.
• Following his hearing before the
coroner’s jury, which acquitted him
of the charge of having allowed the
child to die. Dr. Haiselden publish
ed an article over his own name, chid
ing the people of Chicago for becom
ing hysterical because a defective in
fant 3 days old was allowed to die,
when thousands of criminal opera
tions were performed every week. He
also made the charge that every prac
ticing physician in the city was en
gaged in malpractice.
Dr. Haiselden has stated that he
will carry the case into court to com
pel the society to reinstate him to
membership. He defends his action
in publishing articles on Eugenics
and declares that it is time the gen
eral public were awakened to the
facts in order that conditions may be
improved.
VALDEZ COMMERCIAL CLUB
WILL MEET TOMORROW'
A meeting of the Valdez Commer
cial club has been called for tomor
row afternoon at 5 o’clock when the
report of Harvey Sullivan will be re
ceived concerning his trip over the
Portage Passage divide and the pos
sibility of that route being used by
travelers to and from Anchorage dur
ing the winter.
The freighter Latouche, of the
Alaska Steamship Company’s fleet,
reached Valdez this forenoon from
Cordova. She brought two hundred
tons of coal for the Valdez Dock Co.
as well as a shipment of 44,000 feet
of lumber. The shipment is all lump
coal, which fact Is appreciated by the
drivers for the Valdez Transfer Co.,
with whom the kicks are registered
is the coal does not come up to the
consumer’s ideas of what coal should
be.
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MOOSE PREPARING EOR
17TH ANNUAL DINNER
Following a custom which was es
tablished away back in the winter of
'98, when the membership of the
club was limited and composed al
most entirely of bachelors or men
who had left their families behind
in the states, the Moose are prepar
ing to celebrate their Seventeenth
Annual Dinner on Christmas day.
LOST—A liberal reward will be
paid for the return of canvas bag
containing money, lost on Saturday
afternoon, December 11, by returning
same to Prospector office. tf
MARIPOSA DAMAGE
VERY EXTENSIVE
Esquiinault Company Gets Contract
to Repair Hull for $70,000—
Repairs to Cost $100,000
SEATTLE, Lee. 16. The steam
ship Mariposa, the Alaska Steamship
company’s liner which was wrecked
on the rocks in Llama Passage, near
Bella Bella, last October, while en
route to Alaska, will bo repaired at
the Esquimault drydock. The '’a;ia
dian company’s bid of $70,000 for the
work being the lowest.
A survey of the damaged vessel
after she was raised and brought to
Seattle showed that sixty-five steel
plates were crushed in or otherwise
broken, where she came ir; contact
with the rocks. It is estimated that
fifty of the platei: will have to be re
moved and new ones substituted.
The damaged plates will be* removed
from the hull and faire 1 and then re
placed.
The stern post will hive to be re
newed and a new rudder installed. A
uumber of frames on each side were
so badly damaged that they will have
to be renewed, ns the survey showed
that the rocks had penetrated the
hull where she st 'uck and had crush
ed the plates at other places when
she settled by the receding of the tide.
It is not expected that the Mariposa
will be ready to resume her run on
the Southwestern Alaska route before
spring as she wiP be brought back to
Seattle after the repairs are made to
her hull to be refurnished and refit
ted. It is estimated that the total ex
penditures on the liner will be close
to $100,000.
KOQLBERGER IS
IN CALGARY JAIL
British Columbia Officials Ha) That
Alleged Teutonic Agent Tried
to Double-Cross Them.
VANCOUVER, B. C„ Dec. 16.—
The British Columbia government of
ficials states that Johannes Koolber
ger, the Californian, who was men
tioned in yesterday’s dispatches as
having furnished affidavits to the
Providence Journal relative to the
alleged Teutonic conspiracy to de
stroy the Canadian Pacific railroad
bridges and tunnel, is a prisoner at
Calgary, where he is serving two
years for forgery.
The officials states that Koolber
ger tried to double-cross the Cana
dian. government after revealing the
German plot to destroy the tunnels.
The officials assert that after making
his confession he was allowed bis lib
erty and that the attempt to destroy
the Great Northern bridge near New
Westminster has been charged to
him.
It is claimed that Koolberger re
ceived several money orders from
San Francisco after the false an
nouncements had been sent out that
the bridges had been destroyed and
that Koolberger feared to return to
California when the reports concern
ing the destruction of the bridges
were contradicted.
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G. B. BUILDING
AEBOPLANES
Curtis Company Given Contract for
Construction of Fifteen Million
Dollars Worth of Machines.
NEW YORK, Dec. 16.—'The Cur
tis Aeroplane Company of Canada,
has been awarded a contract from the
British government for the manufac
ture of fifteen million dollars wortu
aeroplanes.
The machines are to be of the type
of the huge aeroplane which was first
constructed in Canada last year for
service in Fiance. The wings of the
aeroplane have a spread of more than
one hundred feet and are so con
structed as to provide greater safety
for the operator. They are equipped
with powerful motors enabling them
to carry several passengers or greater
quantities of explosives as occasion
requires. It has also been demon
strated that aeroplanes can at
tain altitude at a greater speed than
other makes, making them specially
adapted for repelling attacks from
Zeppelins.
The contract calls for early deliv
ery of the machines, the entire con
tract to be completed in one year.
DIGGS DEFEATS
THE PHOSEGUTION
Marries the Girl Whom He Was Con
victed of Having Taken to Reno
Several Years Ago.
OAKLAND, Dec. 16—Maury Diggs,
who was sentenced to two years in
the penitentiary following his con
viction on the charge of violating the
Mann white slave law, was married
last night to Martha Warrington of
Sacramento, the woman in the case
Maury Diggs and a companion.
Charles Caminetti. were convicted
two years ago on the charge of tak
ing two young girls from Sacramento
to Reno, where Diggs had applied for
a divorce from his first wife. Diggs
is wealthy, and has fought his case
through the court and recently se
cured a rehearing of his case.
It' is believed that the marriage
of the couple will cause the case to
be dropped as the prosecution de
pended upon the girl’s testimony to
secure a conviction. Under the law
the prosecution cannot compel Mrs.
Diggs to testify against her husband.
Caminetti, the other man involved
in the case, is serving his sentence,
and will regain his liberty in a few
months.
WILL SERVE LIBELANT
PAPERS ON ALAMEDA
It is understood that when the
steamer Alameda reaches Valdez to
night she will be met by a represen
tative of the United States marshal’s
office who will serve papers on the
captain starting the suit in admiralty
of the U. S. Government vs. Alaska
Steamship company for damages al
leged to have been caused by the Ala
meda’s anchor breaking the govern
ment cables here on December 17,
1913.
The service of the papers will be a
mere formality which is necessary to
bring the case into court. The gov
ernment claims $8,000 damages for
the break in the cable and additional
$4,000 for the loss of six days busi
ness. Bonds^wlll be furnished guar
anteeing the appearance of the defen
dant company when the case camea
up In court.
WILL TAKE SUPPLIES
IN TO SLATE CREEK
It is understood that Jack Miller,
the Slate Creek placer mining opera
tor, is arranging for the delivery of a
large shipment of supplies of Slate
Creek for next season’s operatiohs.
The freight will be taken in via Chit
ina but the horses will go from Val
des over the winter road to the inte
rior to take the freight to the mines.