' VALDEZ, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1016 - NUMBER 26
VOLUMh A-IV* _
Duran Brothers, Noted Cattle Thieves
Who Murdered American Ranch
er, Will Be Executed.
FL PASO, Jan. 24.—Mexican dis
patches state that the Carranza
tfoops, have captured the Duran
brothers, who killed Bert Akers, an
American last Saturday in a fight
Which resulted from the attempt of
Die -andits to run off the stock from
bis ranch.
•J'ke Duran brothers have been
known along the border for years aa
tattle thieves and have been charged
With stealing thousands of cattle
from American ranchers by driving
Diem across the line where they were
tree from pursuit by the American
tnitleuMn.
The Akers ranch is located a few
Wiles south of the international line
and on Saturday afternoon the ban
dits attempted to drive off his stock.
Akers and bis Mexican cowboys gave
battle to the outlaws and the Ameri
can was shot dead. He had remain
ed in Mexico through the rebellion
gnd believing that President Carran
za, with the help of the American
government, would be able to con
trol the rebels had recently restocked
k>s ranch.
Carranza troops immediately took
pp the pursuit of the bandits and
were Joined by a number of Ameri
can cowboys who had crossed over
the line to avenge the death of their
fellow countryman. The bandits will
be executed.
Akers formerly lived in Arizona
and was known here. His body was
brought to this city yesterday and his
death has Berred to add to the in
tense indignation of the people of this
state over the refusal of President
Wilson to take steps to protect the
lives and property of Americans
across the border.
It is reported that Di^. Daggett, of
Seward, who owns the building which
was occupied by the liitclien Queen
bakery and delicatessen before the
fire, has notified his agent here that,
he does not intend to rebuild this
winter. The lot is said to have been
offered for sale;
ARIZONA CITY FLOODED
BY THE COLORADO RIVER
LEVEE NEAR YUMA IS CARRIED AWAY AND FOUR FEET OF WAT
ER COVERS THE BUSINESS DISTRICT OF THE CITY—SWIFTLY
FLOWING WATERS ARE UNDERMINING BUILDINGS AND CAUS
ING THEM TO COLLAPSE—MAROONED CITIZENS BEING RES
CUED BY USE OF BOATS BUT IT IS FEARED THAT HUNDREDS
WITT, BE FOUND TO HAVE PERISHED—IMPERIAL VALLEY IS
COVERED BY YELLOW SEA OF RAGING WATERS.
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YUMA, Ariz., Jan. 24.—The Colo
rado river, swollen by heavy rains in
the mountains, has broken the levee
and flooded the valley to a depth of
.between three and four feet of wa
ptr. The break near this city is four
miles long and the entire city is un
der water to a depth of four feet.
Thousands of families have been
rendered destitute and homeless by
their homes being carried away by
the flood. Many of the residents
who were marooned on the the house
tops, have found shelter on the upper
floors of the business blocks in the
canter of the city. The property loss
resulting from the flood cannot be es
timated at this time, but2 It is believ
ed that it will run into millions of
^dollars. The water stands three feet
,deep In the stores and merchants have
Buffered the loss of most of their
etocks.
Rescue parties in small boats are
saving the lives of hundreds of people
who were, marooned in their homes
by the sudden rush of water. Refu
' gee quarters have been established in
the buildings which It is believed will
.withstand the flood.
Copdltt<?ns bore aje, beyond,, de
scription as the strong current of the
river flowing through the city is un
dermining the buildings and causing
them to collapse. Many of the small
er buildings have floated from their
foundations and been carried down
stream with their occupants. It is
believed that when the extent of the
disaster is known that the loss of life
L.e found to have been enormous.
The Imperial Valley for many miles
is under water and all business in
this section of the country has been
demoralized as scores of the towns
are flooded. It is estimated that more
than ten miles of the Southern Pa
cific'railroad track has been destroy
ed.
Advices from the upper reaches of
the Colorado river state that the hea
vy rains have ceased and that the
rlyer is falling but no relief can come
to many of the stricken districts un
til the levee has been repaired.
[ During the excitement attending
the break in the levee and the inrush
of the water the mayor of Yuma
dropped dead from heart disease.
| Gov. Huirt has sent the state mi
litia to aid Ine hundreds of men who
are working to repair the break in the
| levee and to prevent looting in the
cities and towns devastated by the
flood.
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CONSTANTINOPLE!, Jan. 2-.—
The Germans are mobilizing three
thousand autos here to begin an ex
pedition into Mesopotamia to crush
the British forces who are threaten
ing Bagdad. Troops have been ar
riving during the past week and it is
believed that the campaign across the
desert is-soon to begin. It is also
stated that teh recent threat of the
Turco-German invasion of Egypt will
be carried into practice. The work of
constructing the railroad from Da
mascus to the Egyptian frontier is be
ing rushed and is said to have reach
ed a point within striking distance of
Sinai. The railway, which is being
constructed under German engineers,
is double tracked and will enable the
concentration of a half million men in
one month at the Egyptian frontier,
when the central European powers
are ready to strike.
THREE THOUSAND Atftr0MOniL.ES AND STRONG ARMY ASSEMBLED
AT CONSTANTINOPLE AND WILL BE SENT TO REINFORCE THE
TURKISH TROOPS WHICH ARE HARD PRESSED BY BRITISH IN
MESOPOTAMIA—BIG FLEET OF FRENCH AEROPLANES BOM
BARD THE SERBIAN CITY OF MONASTIR NOW HEADQUARTERS
FOR GERMAN ARMY—MUNITION DEPOTS DESTROYED.
Allied Bombard Mon astir.
PARIS, Jan. 24.—A feet of forty
five French aeroplanes are reported
to have bombarded the Serbian city
of Monastlr last night and rained
hundreds of bombs upon the Teuton
ic positions. The extent of the dam
age done is not known but it is re
ported that the munition depots werj
destroyed. All of the aviators who
took part in the attack returned id
safety to the Allies’ lines at Salonikl.
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Turk Submarine Sank Persia.
LONDON, Jan. 24.—Advices re
ceived from Constantinople via the
Reuter News Agency says that the
Turkish government has tentatively
admitted that the British liner Per
sia, which was submarined in the
Mediterranean sea causing the loss of
more than one hundred lives, was de
stroyed by a Turkish submarine
which had evaded the vigilance of the
Allies fleet guarding the Dardanelles.
Both the Qerm&n and Austrian ad
miralties have denied responsibility
for the sinking of the liner. Tbe dis
patch from Constantinople states that
the Turkish government has been un
able to get into communication with
the commander of the submarine be
lieved to have sunk the liner.
Austria Executed Many.
LONDON, Jan. 24.—It is reported
from Vienna that more than three
thousand persons who were suspected
of being spies for Russia and her al
lies have been executed since the be
ginning of hostilities. Most of thcso
executed were Slavs who had remain
ed in the districts from which the
Russians were forced back in the
great drive during the early fall, and
were found guilty of furnishing infor
■ mat ion to the enemy regarding tbe
movements of the Austrian forces
WILL WRITE HISTORY
OF THE PIONEERS
George W. Pennington of Fair
banks, is writing a history of the Pio
neers of Alaska in which he will give
a general description of everything in
connection with life in the early days
of the Northland and the hardships
endured by the pioneers. The work
will require considerable research
and it will therefore be some time
before the history is completed. He
is historian of the Fairbanks Igloo.
RAILROAD MAN DYING
AS RESULT OF FALL
QMAHA, Neb., Jan. 24.—President
Mohler, of the Union Pacific railroad
company, is reported to be dying from
concussion of the brain as a result of
injuries sustained by a fall while
skating. A noted surgeon has been
summoned from New York in hopes
of saving the patient’s life but it is
feared that the patient has only a few
hours to live.
Mrs. Stahl and fam-.y, who were
occupying the Valdez Hospital build
ing as a residence, are now living in
the Bert Carvey house owing to the
heating plant at the hospital having
been put out of commission by the
cold weather.
KIDNAPS WIFE
DF HOTEL MAN
Mulatto Chauffeur of San Diego Man,
Avenges Himself for being
Discharged by Employer.
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SAN DIEGO, Cal., Jan. 24.—Be
cause John Hood, proprietor of one
of the largest hotels in this city, dis
harged his chauffer, who was a mu
latto, for neglect of duties, the man
kidnapped Mrs. Hood in their auto
mobile and has alluded all attempts
of the police to effect his capture.
The police have traced the machine
through the maDy towns up the
coast to Los Angeles, but have been
unable to locate the chauffer or his
captive in that city. It is believed
the man must have drugged the wo
man in order to prevent her attempt
ing to escape.
A d.s^i.j.c.on of the machine and
the man ar.d woman has teen tele
graphed to the different towns and
it is believed the capture of the
kidnapper is a matter of only a few
hours as scores of specin.l police have
been sworn in to search every part
of the city.
MUSAS GUV IS
HOW IE ALASKA
r
Will Take Place of the Alameda on
Trip Scheduled for Valdez on
February S3?.
SEATTLE, Jan. 24.—The officials
of the Alaska Steamship company
have announced that the steamer
Alaska, which was formerly known as
the Kansas City, will sail for Valdez
and other Southwestern Alaska ports
on Fobruary 29th, taking the place of
the steamer Alameda, which will be
temporarily withdrawn.
All of the steamers on the Alaska
run, it is stated, will be overhauled1
and put into 'shape during the next
few weeks in order to be ready for
the big passenger and freight trade
which it is believed will result from
the operations of the Alaskan Engi
neering commission’s activities dur
ing the coming summer. ;
The Alaska Steamship company’s
new freighters, the Bennington and
Burlington are due to reach Puget
Sound about March 15 and will be
ready for immediate service is requir
ed as they have been overhauled on
the Atlantic boats.
It fs also stated that the two new
freighters recently purchased on the
Atlantlo by the Pacific Alaska Navi
gation company for service In South
western Alaskan waters, will leave th
the east coast before February 15th,
and will come to the Pacific via the
Panama canal.
WILL BE THREE
CORNERED FIGHT
Colonel Roosevelt will Follow Presi
dent Wilson and Mr. Bryan
Around the Circuit.
CHICAGO, Jan. 24.—That the peo
ple of the United States will have ev
ery opportunity of hearing the ques
tion of national preparedness discuss
ed from every view point by the lead
ers of the nation now seems evident.
It is reported here that Col. Roose
velt, who had planned a trip to Brit
ish India, has decided to cancel his
trip and will trail President Wilson
and Mr. Bryan around the circuit of
the country in their campaigns for or
against preparedness.
Col. Roosevelt, it is said, will ar
range to speak in every city where
Bryan addresses meetings, and as he
is expected to touch on other matters
of national importance it is regarded
as the opening of his campaign to se
cure the nomination at the n.epubli
can convention to be held in Chicago
in June.
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Deft Six Thousand Dollars In Wash
»' • '! ' r.
Ington Bank Thirty Years Ago
But Cannot Get Money.
DOWLING, Wash., Jan. 24.—John
Thadwlck, who recently returned
from Alaska, where he has spent 30
years, Is trying to secure evidence
which will compel a local bank here
to pay him six thousand dollars
which he asserts has been wrongfully
withheld from him all that time.
Thadwlck has deposit slips show
ing that he deposited the money with
the bank but has not been able to
secure an accounting and is trying to
compel the bank's books to be
brought into court. All of the officials
who were connected with the banks at
the time when Thadwick claims to
'cave deposited the money are either
cead or have removed from the dis
trict.
The miner declares that he left the
money in the bank when he went to
the Far North in order to provide
for his old age in case fortune refus
’d to favor him in Alaska. He is re
ported to have accumulated several
thousand dollars and says that he
earned all the money he has while
working for wages as the claims he
located tjrere found to be blanks, al
though others in the same districts
realized fortunes from their ground.
PORTRAITS made bv appointment
in your own home, by F. W. Sheelor.
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FIRST DEGREE MURDER
CHARGE HAS BEEN FILED.
JUNEAU, Jan. 24.—Nick Farlcel
li, who shot and killed Mike Deflno
hero last week has been bound over
to the grand jury on the charge of
rirst degree murder. The murder re
sulted from a quarrel in which the
murdered man worsted his antago
nist.
THIEF GETS $75,000
IN REGISTERED MAIL
NEWTON, la., Jan. 24.—A regis
tered mail sack, which is reported to
have contained seventy-five thousand
dollars in money orders and other
negotiable security, was stolen from
the station here Saturday night while
the mail was being transferred to the
train. The loss of the bag was dis
covered soon after it had been taken
but detectives who were placed on
the case have been unable to secure
trace of the missing stock.
H. M. Saling, who has beep em
ployed at the Ramsay-Rutherford
mine during the past season has come
down from the property and will
spend the balance of the winter with
his family in town.
BELGIUM MAY BE OFFERED
SEPERATE TERMS FOR PEACE
LONDON HEARS THAT GERMAN GOVERNMENT WILL GUARANTEE
TO WITHDRAW TROOPS FROM KING ALBERT’S COUNTRY AFTER
CLOSE OF THE WAR AND WILL PAY FOR DAMAGE RESULTING .
FROM INVASION—RUMOR IS DISCREDITED IN ENGLAND AS IT 18
BELIEVED THAT GERMANY HAS PLANNED PERMANENT OCCU
PATION OF COUNTRY FOR FUTURE SAFETY.
LONDON, Jan. 24.—Amsterdam
advices say that the German govern
ment Is preparing peace terms which
will be offered to the Belgian govern
ment with the object of inducing that
country to make a separate peace
which would not Include the rest of
the nations in the entente allies.
Prominent Belgians who are resi
dents of Brussels, it is said, have been
informed that the German govern
ment will guarantee that the Teuton
ic troops will be withdrawn from that
country after the war and that the
government will pay for the damage
resulting to Belgian cities from the
invasion. According to the dispatch
the peace terms are soon to be pre
sented to King Albert, of Belgium,
whose capital is now located in
France.
The report is not credited by Brit
ish diplomats who assert that Ger
many has shown that she intends to
retain Belgium in order that her com
merce may have free access to the
North Sea. It is pointed out that the
German Imperial Chancellor in the
peace terms announced before the
Reichstag in answer to the demands
of the Socialists, hinted that it would
be necessary that Germany retain the
greater portion of the conquered te:
ritory in order to provide for her fu
ture safety. It is admitted, however,
that should the Kaiser's government
agree to evacuate Belgium after tho
close of the war it might have an im
portant bearing on the war situation,
especially upon the people of En
gland. Ever since the beginning of
hostilities the British government
has maintained that England was
seeking to prevent Belgium from be
ing crushed and that no peace cou’tf
or would be made until that country
had been guaranteed its indepen
dence as before the war. It is be
lieved here that the peace rumor is
a feeler put forth by the German
government to cause dissension
among the Allies as the common peo
ple would undoubtedly demand that
the war end should King Albert ac
cept the German terms of peace.
Advises Belgians to Hung Themselves
LONDON, Jan. 24.—Because a
Belgian resident of Boistfort suicided
by shooting himself the German gov
ernment of the country has imposed
h fine of fifty dollars on the town as
it is in violation of the Germans lawa
governing Belgium that citizens have
arms with which to kill themselves
or the invaders. The Imposition ot
the fine upon the city authorities has
caused the Boistforc burgomaster to
issue an appeal to the people urging
them to please refrain from shooting
themselves if they wish to suicide. He
recommends thut they drown or ha.ig
themselves if t|fy are tired of Ger
man rule. *.>: '!
ANOTHER SLIDE
Relief Train sent to Aid Survivor* of
Saturday's Disaster Narrowly
Escapes Being Wrecked.
SEATTLE, Jon. 24.—The survivor*
of the wreck of the Great Northern
Owl train, which was wrecked in the
Cascade mountains last Saturday by
being earned into Corea canyon by
a snowsllde, have been brought to this
city on a special train, which arrived
late Saturday night.
The members of the train crew whe
escaped being carried to their death*
report that the slide demolished more
than four hundred and fifty feet of
the 8nowshed which had been built
to protect trains from meeting with
similar accidents to that which occur
red five years ago when an entire pas
senger train was destroyed. When
the snowsheds collapsed under tre
mendous pressure of the slide it
caught one coach and the dining car.
and narrowly missed the cars in
which the survivors were traveling.
It is reported that a second slide,
which occurred early Sunday morn
ing, has prevented the rescuers reach
ing the wreck of the Owl train and
all who were in the coach and dining
car are dead. The second slide miss
ed the rescue train by a few feet and
carried away hundreds of feet of the
shed.
The officials of the Great Northern
company here report that every avail
able man has been sent to work in
the effort to recover the bodies of the
victims but that their efforts have
been handicapped - through fear Of
fresh slides. Many of the laborer*
who were sent to the scene on the
first rescue train have refused to en
danger their lives by exposing them
selves and have returned to Seattle.
TJ. S. Commissioner George J. Love,
who is spending un;' vacation in th*
States, will leave for home on the
steamer sailing from Seattle on Jan
uary 29. It is also believed that
Judge Fred M. Brown will be a pas
senger on the same steamer en route
home.