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VALDEZ, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27,1915 NUMBER 160
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DIRECTORS RESIGN
FROM THE BOARD
Reported that President Howard El
liott Demanded their Resigna
tions Owing to Trial.
NEW YORK, Oct. 27—Harry Mc
Harg and Frederick Brewster, two of
the twenty-one directors of the New
York, New Haven & Hartford rail
road, on trial for misappropriation of
the funds of the company, have re
signed from the hoard of directors in
order to save the present management
from embarrassing situations in offer
ing testimony during the present
trial.
McHarg and Brewsters were direc
tors under the former management
when the treasury of the New Haven
wbb looted by the directors to finance
- private business enterprises in which
the stockholders of the New Haven
had no interest.
understood that President
gosVd Elliott, who succeeded Presi
dent Mellen after the federal inves
tagatton of the road’s affairs and
which resulted in the present prose
cution, threatened to resign unless
McClurg and BTewster were elimi
nated from the board of directors as
their trial was attaching odium to
the present management.
HR 1FE
WANTS NONET
Wife of Wealthy Manufacturer Says
That Husband Had Another
Wife Living When Wed.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 27.—Viriginius
Kayo, the wealthy New Haven manu
facturer whose complicated domestic
affairs have been attracting wide at
tention owing to his numerous ap
pearances in the courts during the
past year, is now being sued by his
Scranton wife for $250,000, who says
that he had a wife living and undi
vorced when he married her.
The Scranton Mrs. Mayo was given
a divorce last June, after her hus
bandfVX. settled the suit of Susanna
WanJeH*. of New Haven, who claimed
that «i,Se manufacturer had married
her several years before and had fail
ed to secure a divorce. Mayo testi
fied on his own behalf that the Wah
lers woman had written him that she
had secured a divorce but a search
of the court records failed to show
the fact that while the divorce de
cree had been granted that the signa
ture of the court had not been attach
ed as the costs of the case remained
unpaid.
The Scranton woman defended
Kayo during the sensational trial for
bigamy which followed the disclo
sures of Susanna Wahlers, and im
mediately filed suit for divorce after
the bigamy charges had been drop
ped by the Wahlers woman.
INSISTS OFFICERS MUST
MAINTAIN THEIR HONOR.
PARIS, Oct. 27.—The French gov
ernment has ordered three French of
ficers of the aviation corps who broke
their parole and escaped from Switz
erland where they were interned, to
return to Switzerland and surrender
themselves to the military authori
ties. Many protests have been made
to the war office against the return
of the men to Switzerland but it is de
clared absolutely necessary that the
French officers maintain their word
of‘honr, the infraction of which
might cause the interned citizens of
other countries in Switzerland to be
deprived of their liberties. The gov
ernment will also prosecute French
citizens who assisted the officers to
escape from Switzerland by providing
disguises. _
Three barber chairs and other fit
tings for the Crystal Baths arrived on
the Admiral Farragut last night, and
Jake Hepfinger, the proud proprietor,
announces that he will be ready for
old customers and new ones tomor
row morning.
MEMBERS OF BRITISH CABINET ADMIT THAT
SERBIA IS DOOMED AND DARDANELLES LOST
LONDON, Oct. 27.—The opposition
to the conscription measure in the
House of Commons forced the Brit
ish cabinet members to admit to the
House of Lords that the Allies had
been unable to send assistance to Ser
bia and that K'.ig Peter’s country
■.vrs doomed to be conquered by the
Teutons and Bulgarians and that the
Dardanelles campaign had proved a
disappointment.
Serbia is reported to have sent ap
peals to the Allies for assistance when
first threatened by the Teutonic cen
tralization of troops in Southern Aus
tria and near the border of Montene
gro, but that the Allies were unable
to spare the required troops from the
other campaigns.
It is admitted that Serbia’s army
has been defeated at a number of
points by both the Teutons and Bul
garian armies and that with the ex
ception of the southern portion of the
TEUTONS AND BULGARIANS ARE IN CONTROL OF SERBIA WITH
THE EXCEPTION OF SOUTHERN PORTION WHERE FRENCH
TROOPS HAVE REINFORCED SERBIAN ARMY ON VARDAR RIV
ER—GERMANS REPORTED TO HAVE REACHED CONSTANTI
NOPLE WITH SUPPLIES AND MAY SEND ARMY TO HELP TURKS—
FRANCE IS OPTIMI8TIC OF CAMPAIGN BEING PLANNED FOR
NEXT SPRING.
empire where the French troops are
entrenched, Serbia is practically un
der Teutonic control.
The admission of the cabinet mem
bers that the Dardanelles campaign
had proved a failure has cast a gloom
over Great Britain as it has been one
of tlje most expensive campaigns in
both men and money ever waged by
Great Britain. It is also believed
that the Germans have been able to
reach Constantinople through Bulga
ria and that Teutonic troops may be
sent to the Dardanelles to assist the
Truks In recovering lost territory.
Planning for Spring Campaign.
PARIS, Oct. 27.—The war office
has complied statistics showing that
at the present rate of enlistments in
the countries engaged In war, and
the number of casualties reported,
that next summer the Allies will
have seven million men to face three
and one-half million Teutonic Allies.
Both Russia and Great Britain are
raising new armies for the spring
campaign, when it is believed that
Germany and Austria will have ex
hausted themselves, as their last re
serves are now under arms.
Greece Undecided.
LONDON, Oct. 27.—The London
press is demanding that the Greek re
servists now on transports crossing
the Atlantic from North and South
America to answer the call of their
country to the colors, be detained at
Gibraltar until King Constantine has
decided as to which side he favors.
The neutrality of Greece is not ex
pected to endure the test to which it
is being subjected and it is regarded
as doubtful if the king will be able
to fill his cabinet owing to the de
mands of the populace that Greece en
ter the war against Bulgaria.
BANDITS HOLD CP
PASSENGER TRAIN.
MUSKOGEE, Okla., Oct. 27.—Two
masked bandits held up and robbed
a “Katy” passenger train near here
last night and are believed to have
secured thousands of dollars of loot
from the passengers in addition to
the registered mail. Immediately
after the robbery was reported the
sheriff took the trail of the bandits
with bloodhounds and it is believed
they will be captured.
RUSSIA PLAGES BIG
OlfflER FOR GARS
Busy Buying Rolling Stock in the
C. 8. to Equip Her Double
Track Road to Arctic Port.
PETROGRAD, Oct. 26.—The Rus
sian government has placed an order
for eight thousand more steel cars for
the equipment of her new railroad
line running from Petrograd to Eka
terina Bay. The orders have been
placed with manufacturers and the
contracts call for delivery at the ear
liest possible date.
Skilled mechanics and railroad men
are also being brought from the Unit
ted States to push at the greatest
possible speed the construction of the
great railroad system which is to give
Russia an all-the-year-round open
port in the Arctic.
At an early period after the begin
ning of the war the Russian govern
ment determined that she must have
an outlet to the sea in order to se
cure munitions as the narrow-gauge
railroad crossing Siberia was unable
to transport the shipments owing to
the cold during the winter. The clos
ing of the Baltic to Russian shipping
left Russia with Archangel as her
only open port for supplies from Eu
rope. Last winter, despite the fact
that great ice breakers, which had
been used successfully in Canada on
the Great Lakes, were used at Arch
angel to keep the channel open. Arch
angel was closed for three months by
a barrier of ice.
The new Russian port of Ekater
ina, although well within the Arctic
circe is ice-free throughout the year
owing to the effects of the Gulf
stream.
SECRETARY McADOO IS
REPAIRING THE FENCES.
SEATTLE, Oct. 27.—Secretary
McAddo, of the treasury department,
reached Seattle last night after re
viewing the San Francisco exposi
tion, and will confer today with the
Democratic leaders of the state. He
expresses the belief that the Demo
cratic administration will undoubted
ly be returned to power next election
but refused to discuss the possibili
ties of President Wilson again being
the Democratic nominee.
Fancy Stationery at the Valdes
Drug Store. •
VALDEZ DOCK CASE OE
FOUGHT OUT IN COURT
LOCAL AGENT OF VALDEZ DOCK COMPANY FINED BEFORE MAG
ISTRATE FOR VIOLATION OF ORDINANCE NO. 00—WHICH PRO
VIDES FOR APPOINTMENT OF HARBORMASTER AND COLLEC
TION OF WHARFAGE—CASE WILL BE APPEALED TO HIGHER
COURTS.
The opening move of the Valdez
City Council against the Valdez Dock
company was made this afternoon,
when J. C. Martin, local agent of the
company, was cited to appear before
the court to answer to the charge ol
violating Ordinance No. 90, and which
will ultimately mean that the dock
question win ue thrashed out before
the district court.
It was reported on the streets yes
terday that Mr. Martin was to be ar
rested, but the council evidently re
considered the matter and decided to
avoid a possible damage suit for ar
rest by notifying him to appear be
fore the magistrate in answer to the
complaint, which read as follows:
“The undersigned, Willard Scott,
Harbormaster of the town of Valdez,
Alaska, complains to the court and
charges the fact that on the 25 th day
of October, 1915, at the town of Val
dez, and within the corporate limits
thereof, the Valdez Dock company, a
corporation, did in violation of Sec
tion Pour (4) of an ordinance of said
Town of Valdez, to-wit Ordinance No.
90, passed and approved the 19th
day of August, 1916, and entitled
‘An ordinance to define the harbor
limits of the Municipality of the Town
of Valdez, Alaska; to provide regula
tions to govern the use of landings,
docks and wharves within the harbor
limits of said town; to provide for a
harbormaster and his duties and to
provide penalties for violations,”
then and there unlawfully and in vio
lation of said section four (4),
charge and collect wharfage on
freight and merchandise landed or
discharged from a steamer, to-wit,
the steamer Alameda, within the Har
bor limits of the town of Valdez, and
within the Jurisdiction of this court,
contrary to the provisions of said or
dinance in such case made and pro
vided, and against the peace and dig
nity of the Town of Valdez.
Wherefore, complainant prays the
court to declare and assess against
the defendant herein the penalties
prescribed by said ordinance for the
punishment of such offense, and that
it render judgment therefor, togeth
er with the costs in this behalf ex
pended.
“WILLARD SCOTT.
"Harbormaster.”
Attorneys for the defense entered
motion to set aside the complaint on
the grounds that the Common Coun
cil of the Town of Valdez was with
out authority to pass Ordinance No.
90, and that the council is without
its authority to extend its jurisdic
tion beyond the exterior boundaries
of the town, and that Ordinance No.
90 is illegal and void because the en
forcement of the same is an attempt
to confiscate vested private property
without due compensation to the
owners. The motion was overruled.
City Magistrate Frame also over
ruled the demurrer by defense that
the facts in the complaint did not
constitute a crime for the reason that
the ordinance which the defendant
was accused of violating was illegal
and void.
The defense then rest.^ its case
and Magistrate Frame imposed a fine
of $50, which was not paid and from
present prospects the case will be
fought through the higher courts be
fore settlement is made.
NON-PARTIZANSHIP NOT
FOR PROGRESSIVES.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 27—The
proposition advanced by the stand
pat Republican and Democratic state
leaders to make the state offices non
partisan and to be named by direct
primary vote, has been defeated by a
majority of nineteen thousand votes,
by the opposition, fathered by the
Progressives.
BAPTIST MINISTERS
GET SMALL SALARIES.
BOSTON, Oct. 27.—During the
Baptist conference, which is now in
session here, the fact was revealed
that the average salaries of the min
isters of the church was $1.87 per
day, and that the brightest men of
the church were being forced into
business in order to provide for their
families.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
The launch Shamrock left for
Land lock and Fidalgo bays this morn
ing with a number of passengers and
a quantity of freight for the mines
at different Sound points.
Attorney E. E. Ritchie went to Sew
ard on the Admiral Farragut last
night totransact business In connec
tion with the district court.
Miss Blanche Fogg, who has been
visiting Mrs. L. L. Middlecamp, at El
lamar, returned home this forenoon
on the launch Elvira.
W. B. Bennett, of the district at
torney’s office, went to Seward last
night on the steamer Admiral Farra
gut. to attend the term of district
court.
Subscribe for .he Prospector.
HUNDREDS KILLED BY
PHILIPPINE TYPHOON.
MANILA, Oct. 27.—Advices have
been received here stating that a ty
phoon which swept through the Mar
queda channel yesterday had destroy
ed the city of Tabaco, killing hun
dreds of people, and laying waste
the coast of the Gulf of Lagonoy.
Particulars of the disaster have not
been received but government boats
have been dispatched to the scene to
afford relief to the stricken populace.
President Wilson Will Ask Congress
to Pass Stringent Neutrality
Laws at Coming Session.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—Presi
dent Wilson yesterday afternoon
granted an audience to Samuel Gom
pers, president of the American Fed
eration of Labor, when they discuss
ed the conspiracy of the German
agents to wreck the munition facto
ries in the United States which have
been supplying munitions of war to
the Allies.
The last time President Gompers
called at the White House was early
last spring when he charged that
German agents had attempted to
bribe officials of the International
Longshoremen’s Union to engage in
a general strike which would result
in tying up shipping on both the At
lantic and Pacific coasts. Gompers
asserted that German agents had of
fered to distribute $1,000,000 among
the union men if the strike was pro
longed two months in order to keep
the Allies from securing munitions
from the United States.
President Gompers is believed to
have laid conclusive proof before
President Wilson that a huge conspir
acy exists to wreck the munition fac
tories, as well as destroy ships at sea,
as immediately after the labor leader
left the White House, President Wil
son called several of the cabinet mem
bers into conference and later an
nounced that the administration
would ask congress at the coming
session to pass strict neutrality laws.
ARE URGING KING
TO TAKE THE FIELD.
LONDON, Oct. 27.—Many London
newspapers are urging King George
to take the field personally as a means
of encouraging enlistments without
the necessity of resorting to conscrip
tion, which it is feared will cause
the entire British campaign to col
lapse. It is feared that should con
scription be enforced that rioting and
Insurrections will result which will
force the withdrawal of troops in
France to maintain order in England.
Just received, a lot of samples, no
two alike, of hair ornaments, stamp
ed articles for embroidery, wool
hoods and scarfs, at The Emporium.
TWO KILLED III .
Garment Workers Clash with Chicago
Police and Des|>erate Battle
Rages in Streets of City.
CHICAGO, Oct. 27.—Five hundred
police battled with striking Garment
Workers in the streets of this cltjr
last night for more than two hours,
killing two of the strikers and wound
ing hundreds who are in hospitals.
The strikers, who are mostly wom
en, made repeated attacks upon the
police in their efforts to reach and de
stroy the factories where they had.
been employed, and were unmerci
fully clubbed by the police.
The rioting began early in the eve
ning when the police arrested a strike
leader who was haranguing the wom
en on a street corner. The women
attacked the police and releasing their
leader staricu in the direction of the
factories. >
Public sympathy is with the strik
ers owing to the investigation by the
council having revealed that the girls
were forced tr work for seven cents
an hour, and were charged for drink
ing water by the operators of tli'e fac
tories. and the press is demanding
that a compromise be effected.
WILL SEND ARMS
OUT NOT MEN
Government Arsenals Being Increas
ed to Keep Russians Supplied
With Munitions of War.
TOKIO, Oct. 27.—The Japanese
government has issued a denial of the
report sent out from Vienna, stating
that a number of Japanese soldiers
had been captured with Russian pris
oners in Galicia, and creating the im
pression that Japan had sent troops
to Russia to fight against the Rus
sians, but if so they were not Japa
nese soldiers but Japanese who had
enlisted for adventure or other mo
tives as the government had discour
aged its citizens from serving with
other nationalities.
The munition factories of Japan,
are operating at fullest capacity in or
der to keep the Russian armies sup
plied and the government arsenals
are being enlarged to Increase the
output.
Referring to the impracticability of
Japan sending troops to Russia to
check the Teutons in their trium
phant march against Riga, the Japan
Times, voicing the sentiment of the
Japanese government, said:
“We know full well that our Allies,
our friends, will not ask or expect
this country to take the bread from
the mouths of our children, to leave
the home unprotected, or make future
recovery impossible. These are the
only limits we set to the share we are
prepared to take in this great strug
gle in which our friends are involv
ed.”
WANTS PRESIDENT WILSON
TO STOP MASSACRES*
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—Miata
Ali Kulifi charge d’affaires at the Per
sian embassy in Washington, yester
day called at the State department
and urged Secretary Lansing to have
President Wilson make demands on
Turkey that the Armenian massacres
be stopped. He stated that his offi
cial advices placed the number of vic
tims of the Turkish atrocities at more
than one million men, and that the
families were broken up by the wom
en and girls being seized by the
Turks and held as slaves.
Manager Plnkus, of the Empress
movie picture theatre, states that the
theatre will be opened next Friday
evening. Some of the fittings for the
boxes which were on the wrecked,
steamer Mariposa, have not been du
plicated but otherwise the theatre
Is complete. A specially fine program
is promised for the opening night.