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ToLCMK XIV VALDEZ, ALASKA. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 15, ISIS NUMBER 35
WAR RESUMED WITH RUSSIA
GERMANS SINK EIGHT BRITISH SHIPS IN ENGAGEMENT
MIL DRIVE ON
TOPETROGRAD
Angered at Delay in Pear** Negotia
tions Kaiser and Conferees
Will Resume Fighting
LONDON. Feb. 15.—In a confer
ence today at Berlin between the kais
er, Chancellor Von Hertllng, General
von Hindenhurg and Minister Kuehl
mann, it was decided to renew the
war against Northern Russia, the in
vasion to be prosecuted at least un
til Petrograd is reached, according to
a holland dispatch.
The Bolshevik! has refused to agree
to the German terms, and has de
clined to sign the peace agreement,
while demobilizing their army.
First Class Private Audie G. John
son, stationed at the Summit. First
Class Private Harry Murray, station
ed at Wortman. and Private Louie
Stankovich, stationed at Beaver t)atu.
mushed into town yesterday over the
government trail, and are spending
a few days in town. Private Johnson
reports numerous ptarmigan at the
Summit. He also says the winter at
the station has teen a severe one.
FOURTY-FOUR BABIES
DIE INMONTREAL
lUu-ly Morning Fire in Nunnery is the
Cause of I^arge Death Toll of
Orphan Children
MONTREAL. Feb. 15.—Twenty
babies are known to have died during
the destruction by fire early this
mornign of the Earl Grey Nunnery,
used as a home for destitute orphan
children.
Forty-four Kodiew Recovered
MONTREAL. Feb. 15 —Forty-four
bodies have been recovered from the
ruins of the Earl Gray Nunnery, des
troyed by fire this morning. A list of
the dead has not yet been compiled,
but it will be much larger than at
first supposed.
Fire Starts From X-Ray
MONTREAL. Feb. 15.—Investiga
tion shows that the fire was caused
by a connecting wire on an X-ray ma
chine short-circuiting.
IK PUN
HUOINNEL
BUl Approved for Connecting Europe
With Asia by Means of Huge
Bore Under Bosphorus
AMSTERDAM, Feb. IB.—The par
liament of Turkey has approved the
bill providing for the construction of
a bridge and tunnel across the Bos
phorus, connecting Europe with Asia.
N. W. Rashovlch, of Latouche, was
operated upon at the Valdes Hospital
recently tor a severe Injury to the
lower Jnw, sustained In a blast at La
touche, while the patient was engag
ed in worfcihg ih a mine at that
place.
The steamship. Northwestern left
Seattle with 68 first clnss passengers
end 8 steerage, the majority of theta
being for Cordova and 8eward.
! MESSAGE IN BOTTLE
goe:h some distance
RED LODGE, Mont.: Correspond
once that originated in 1916 when n
rancher in this vicinity attached a
small bottle, enclosing his name and
address to the neck of a hawk, which
inter was shot near Pagota Colombia
is responsible for a journey to this
town by Louis Filipe, a wealthy tex
tile mill operator of Pagota.
Filipe wrote to the local man, and
later to other persons in this vicinity
and friendship developed which th«
South American is now en route hort
to further in person.
NEW CORDOVA CANDIDATE
Robert E. Ray, of Cordova, tiled hit
declaration of candidacy today for a
member of the Territorial legislature
on the democratic ticket.
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' DECREE OK EXECUTION
re: carried out earia
1 PARIS, Feb. 15.— It was announc
ed today that the decree of execution
against Bolo Pasha, the convicted
German spy. will lie carried out al
an early date. He was found guilt)
yesterday by a French tribunal.
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I MEN WANT TO HEAR
FROM HOME FOLKS
j NEW YORK. Feb. 15. American
prisoners in German camps are fac
ing their hardships with unbroken
spirits, but worry over their failure
to hear from relatives in this coun
try. according to letters in the posses
sion of prisoners of war. and report
ed to the War Aid Department of the
Y. M. C. A.
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NORTHWESTERN TOMi >RRO W
The steamship Northwestern is ex
pected to arrive in port from the
westward about noon tomorrow.
J. Barruch and M. Poltrie were
passengers for Latouche on the North
western.
A. W. McIntosh and H. Winkei
were passengers on the Northwestern
for llnalaska. connecting with the
Dora at Seward.
Will Make Statement to Delegation*
of Joint Kingdom and Will Also
Answer President Wilson
AMSTERDAM. Feb. 15.—Count
Czernin, according to a Vienna dis
patch, has announced his intention oi
delivering a long statement to dele
gations of the two central kingdoms
tomorrow concerinng the Brest-Lito
vsk negotiations and will also rtoply
to President Wilson’s last speech.
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NEW RESIDENT FOR 8EATTIJS
The Prospector received a hand
some card on the Northwestern from
Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Schmidt, for
merly of this city, announcing the ar
rival of a baby daughter, born Feb
ruary second. Mother and daughter
are both doing well.
Isaac Hamburger, court stenogra
pher for this division, was an arrival
last night from California on the
steamship Northwestern. Mr. Ham
burger states that he left Mrs. Ham
burger and the children well and en
joying the fine climate of the Qolden
State. They will return to Valdes In
the spring.
J. O. Watts and wife, mayor of An
chorage. were through, passengers foi
Seward on the steamship Northwest
ern last, night.
Angus liiebougall, the weliknown
miner was a returning passenger It
CoNovs bn $1 stetinship Northwest
ern last even tig.
CITIZENS HEAVEN
ARRESTEOJNEMIES
hmr Members of tlit* (IiuitIi of I<iv
ing God Arrested for Failure to
Register as Aliens
BEKKELY. Cal.. Keb. 15. Four
members of the Church of the Liv
ing (iod, failing to register as alien
enemies, declaring they were mem
bers of the church ,of the Living God
and enemies of no land. They declar
ed they would not register as enemy
aliens, altho they are all natives of
Germany.
YOUNG PAIR ASPHYXIATED
SEATTLE. Feb 15. -Mr. and Mrs.
Edwin Knight were found dead from
gas fumes in their apartment today.
They were married only last August.
Neighbors, recalling that they had
not seen any sign of them since Sun
day, broke into the rooms and found
that they had been overcome by
fumes from a leak, as they slept.
Deputy A. C. Dowling and Bert
Florence left on the Northwestern
for Seward last night to bring over a
number of prisoners from the west
ward.
MIN. HURLEY
MSTRK
Asks Them to Return to Work anil
not Paralyze l.ife of Hie 1’. S. by
i Itefusal to Help Will War
WASHINGTON, I). Feb. 15.
Chairman Hurley of'the United States
shipbuilding board today telegraph
ed the striking carpenters and joiners
in New York and other Atlantic coast
shipyards to return to work and not
“paralyze the life-line between the
United Stales and the western front."
He reminded them of the Tuscania
sinking and warned them not to in
vite the destruction of heroic lives
and disaster to the great world cause.
The men have been out several days
after a refusal of more wages and
shorter hours.
Want Pacific Coast Wage
WASHINGTON. D. C.. Feb. 15.—
Atlantic shipyard workers have
struck, at all points on the Atlantic
coast today, demanding the same
wage as paid on the Pacific Coast.
WILL AGITATE FOR
.STEEL MANUFACTURE
VANCOUVER: With the object of
securing a steel plant for this Pro
vince and of quickening the industrial
life generally, mass meetings are to
be held in this city, Victoria and New
Westminister within the next few
days.
At these meetings some of the most
influential citizens of the respective
cities will speak, and the federal and
Provincial members of Parliament
will also be asked to take the plat
form.
A definite plan of action has been
mapped out by the leaders in the In
dustrial life of the Province, and this
will be submitted at the meetings.
Dr. W. W. Council and £. L. Har
wood, of Cordova, will construct and
operate a salmon cannery daring the
coming season at Cape Whltshed. Mr.
Harwood has left tor the States to
purchase the necessary machinery
for the plant
8. T. Vaughh dad H. Tucker dNtyre
thru gUMUgert op the steamdhip
Northwestern for Uunga.
ALL EXPORTS
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President Issues Proclamation Defin
ing Regulations for Shipment
of All Goods
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j WASHINGTON. D. Keb 15.
By a new proclamation today Presi
dent Wilson placed all exports to all
countries under a licensing system
after tomorrow under the food ra
tioning agreement. Norway has offer
* ed to guarantee that uo American
; product shall go thru Norway to Oer
: many, hut declines to agree that she
j shall not sell her own imports to the
central powers.
It is believed here that the slight
hitch int he negotiations will be ad
justed within a few hours, and that
Norway will agree to cease trading
with the central powers iu order to
’ receive supplies from America.
.IAP STABS K1SSIAN
SEATTLE. Keli. 15.— Alex Tibof. a
Russian, was stabbed to the heart to
day and instantly killed by the Jap
anese proprietor of the Indiana
House, in a quarrel over room rent
which the former owed. It is alleged
the Russian assaulted the Japanese
and was killed.
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ItfJ» CKOSN THANKS
WOMEN OF VALDEZ
i
Dr. Jos. A. Silverman, chairman of
the local lied Cross, received a let
ter today from Mrs. John H. Powell,
of Seattle, Wash., superintendent of
the miscellaneous department, thank
ing the local chapter for knitted ar
ticles forwarded recently. The letter
] follows:
! "The Chairman American lied Cross
Chapter. Valdez, Alaska.
“Dear Sir: We are in receipt of re
j port from the knitting inspector at
! ihe lied Cross Itureau of Supplies in
I regard to the knitting sent in by your
I Chapter, and it gives ns much pleas
! ure to advise you that the work was
lull very good.
"Thanking you. and asking that
you extend to your members our ap- j
preciation of their good work, we re-j
main
"Very truly,
"MKS. JOHN H. POWELL.
"Superintendent Miscellaneous De
partment."
WOMAN TELLS i
OF Al PUT
Young Woman Arrested for Attempt
ed Liberation of Aliens Says is
Deeply In Love
SALT LAKE, Utah, Feb. 15.—
Mias Augustine Minnie Dechmann,
aged 25, a young German woman,
who waa arreBted yeaterday in con
nection with an alleged plot to releaae
several interned enemy aliens said to
day:
“I met Leybolt In Seattle the first
time, and fell deeply In love with
him. He loved me and we were hap
py. He was then interned for being
a German and an alien. I followed
him to Salt Lake. Ask any gift in love
for the first time If she would not fol
low her sweetheart to the end of the
world, and even to prison.”
BERLIN, Peb. 15.—The newspap
ers today Intimate that peace negtlfc
tlona with Rumania are about to be
gin. While Rumania ignored .Uie Ger
man ultimatum giving her 14 hours
to start peace negotiations, It is
known that she desires pence, and will
agfee to drop out of the world war.
DEALER8 MUST PURCHASE
WHEAT SUBSTITUTES
Food Administrator Arthur Lang
received a cablegram from Adminis
trator Koyal A. Gunison today as fol
lows:
Juneau. Feb. 14.: Effective imme
diately and until further notice no
dealer will be permitted to purchase
from millers, wholesalers, jobbers in
excess of 70 per centum of total
wheat flour purchased by him dur
ing period of February first nineteen
seventeen to April thirtieth nineteen
seventeen, unless he purchases at the
same time one pound of substitutes
with every three of wheat. A dealer
must purchase substitutes with wheat
regardless ot' amount of substitutes
which he had on hand when he put
in the order to obtain wheat flour.
Dealers must lake and forward with
the order a written certificate speci
fying amount wheat purchased dur
ing above period and how much lie
has already bought this correspond
ing period this year. He may order his
substitutes wherever he please, but
must satisfy the seller of wheat that
he is buying the necessary amount of
substitutes. Wank certificates will be
printed and distributed to trade.
Wholesalers, jubbers and millers have
been instructed that until they receive
proper certificate they must sell only
seventy per cent of the order and sup
ply substitutes whether ordered or
not. in proper proportion. After re
ceipt of this notification by dealer no
order for wheat flour will be filled
unless certificate accompanies order.
-■ KIO SHOW Sl'XIIA V
Florence Rockwell will appear at
the Empress Theatre Sunday night in
"He Fell in Rove With His Wife."
While we warn our readers in ad
vance that this is undoubtedly a
choice bit of fiction, it also has a re-1
putation of being the best bit of com
edy yet seen in the city. The produc
tion opens with a scene that grips
your interest and holds it to the ond.
The book is one of the standard
works of English fiction, and has en
joyed a tremendous sale.
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Testimony liefore House Shows Am
erica Will Hglit Germans With
Their Own Weapons
WASHINGTON. D. C„ Feb. 15.—
A great poison gas campaign is be
ing planned as part of the American
campaign against the Germans, ac
cording to testimony today before the
House Appropriations Committee,
and made public.
NEW YORK, Feb. 15.—Lieuten
ant Commander Bagley, commander
of the ill-fated destroyer Jacob Jones,
and a brother of Mrs. Josephus
Daniels, wife of the Secretary of the
navy, secured a license today to wed
Miss Marie Louise Harrington, of
Colusa, California.
The steamship Northwestern arriv
ed In port last night about ten o’clock
with 64 tons of freight for local mer
chants, and Isaac Hamburger as the
only Valdes passenger. Wm. Austin,
Bert Florence and United States De
puty Marshal A. C. Dowling were pas
sengers for westward points.
Mr. and Mrs. John Enlund, well
known in Valdes, word passengers on
the Northwestern froth Seattle to
Seward. iir. Enlund was in oharge of
the Port Wells Mill £ Lumber Co.,
last season.
Wm. Austin, who has been vtsltlUg
relatives in Values tor some ^die. was
a passenger lor the Westward on lafct
night's boat. _ ■_ •
CRAFT HUNTING
FOR SI*
Germans SurpriMt British in Straits of
Dover and Sink Destroyers—
British Ship Wrecked
LONDON, Feb. 15.- The German
fleet sprung a surprise upon the Brit
ish navy last night, when a flotilla of
submarine destroyers were overhaul
ed by German destroyers, and eight
British vessels sent to the bottom, af
ter a short hut futile engagement. The
British vessels had been steaming
slowly toward the North Sea when
the German vessels appeared direct
ly out of the heavy fog which shroud
ed the waters like a curtain.
The German destroyers opened fire
upon tho British vessels at short
range, sending many of them to the
bottom before they had time to flee.
A number of men were drowned
hut the admiralty has given out no
list of casualties as yet.
British Ship Fnuniters
NEW YORK. Fell. 15.—Ten men,
tlu* officer and crew of the British
ship Miguel de la Rinaga. perished
in mid-ocean February 6. when tho
vessel foundered while taking a cargo
of grain to France. The men went
down with the ship
FAMOUS DANCER
KILLED IN TEXAS
Vernon Castle, Originator of Many
Well known Ban res. Killed
While Practicing Flying
FORT WORTH. Texas. Feb. 15.—
Capt. Vernon Castle, a member of tho
English Royal Flying Corps, was kill
ed here toduy while engaged in a
practice flight. He and his wife were
the originators of many of the spe
cial dances so popular at the present
time, and gave exhibitions at Castle
Garden and many cafes in New York,
before the war started.
He had made 150 flights over the
German lines and was the hero of
many thrilling exploits in the war
zone.
WILL UNITE TO
Several New Republic* in Southwest
ern Ruslu Form Joint Army to
Fight Bolshevik!
LONDON. Feb. 16—Berne dis
patches report that several new re
publics have consolidated their forces
in southwestern Russia, and will
raise a joint army to fight the Bolshe
viki, and expel them from Little Rus
sia.
KILLED ON WAV TO FUNERAL
SEATTLE, Feb. 16.—Mra. Napol
eon Vlnu, while on her way to attend
a funeral today, was killed when her^
auto upeet.
FORD CARS ARRIVE
Two now Ford trucks arrived oa
the Ndfahfrefetra talk night for new
by the Signal C&pe on the trail. Two
.*»U ■fcortfri Agent Owen
Haik reports the sale of a number of
earn this year.