13 VALDEZ, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1915 NO 68.
BELIEVE STRIKE
ILL BE SETTLED
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President .of .International .Long
shoremen’s Union To Handle
Strike In Seattle
SEATTLE, March 23.—T. V. O’Con
nor, president of the International
Longshoremen’s Union, is due to ar
rive in Seattle today. It is believed
that he will make an effort to end
the strike before it is allowed to ex
tend to other Pacific coast points.
The Seattle longshoremen admit
that they have no grievance against
the companies, but are striking in
sympathy with the Vancouver Long
shoremen’s Union, where trouble has
existed for several weeks. No at
tempt has been made in Seattle to
fill the places of the strikers pend
ing the arrival of President O’Con
nor.
Several steamers loading for the
Orient have been delayed in shipping
their cargo and have announced that
if the strike is not speedily terminat
ed that they will bring men from
other ports to load their vessels.
mm sends
TROOPS TO NORTH
Believed Big Battle Is Pending Near
Coast In Northern Mexico.—Vil
la Nearing Tampico.
WASHINGTON, March 23—Advices
from Vera Cruz and Mexico City state
that a big battle is imminent some
where along the northern coast of
Mexico as both President Carranza
and General Villa are sending every
available man toward the north.
It is believed in Vera Cruz that
General Villa is about to make the
long expected attack against the city
of Tampico, as Carranza has been
dispatching troops northward on gun
boats, leaving only sufficient men in
his capital to guard against attack by
the Zapata forces in Mexico City.
General Villa, who was reported
marching southward to attack Mex
ico City before the capital was evac
uated by General Obregon, is stated
to have mobilized a strong force in
the province of Coahuila to attack
the city of Monterey, and has sent an
army to attack Tampico city.
ELECTION SILL
PASSES HOUSE
Senator Millard Would Abolish Office
of Territorial Mine Inspector
—Other Bills.
JUNEAU, March 23.—Representa
tive Driscoll’s election bill passed the
house today and provides for the use
of the Australian system of ballots
at all elections in«Alaska. The meas
ure provides penalties ranging from
$25 to $200 or imprisonment from ten
to sixty days for false swearing as to
qualifications.
Senator Millard’s bill introduced in
% the senate to abolish the office of
territorial mine Inspector lias been
referred to the Committee of Min
ing and Manufacturing.
The marriage license bill met with
opposition in the bouse today when it
came up for discussion. Several
amendments were offered to the bill
which was referred back to the com
mittee.
Subscribe for the Prospector.
HAD FIRED LAST SHOT
PETROGRAD, March 23—That
hunger apd lack of ammunition to
continue resistance against the at
tacking Russians forced the Austrian
garrison at Przemysl to surrender
soon became evident to Russian offi
cers when they entered the city. Con
ditions in the city are reported as
beyond description. The garrison was
in a starving condition, having eaten
the last horse two weeks ago and
fired their last shell before surren
dering. The fall of Przemysl adds
fifty thousand to the number of Aus
trian prisoners of war held by Rus
sia. Nine Austrian generals taken
when the fortress capitulated were
ajlowed by the Russians to keep their
swords in recognition of their bravery
in defending the city.
German Officers In Austrian Army
The fall of Przemysl has disclosed
the fact that many German officers
had accepted commands in the Austri
an army early last fall before the
siege was established.
Gives Impetus To Campaign.
The surrender of the Austrian gar
rison at Przemysl has given a tre
mendous impetus to the Russian cam
paigns in both eastern and western
Galicia. A drive will be started
through eastern Galicia to force the
Austrians from that province as well
as Bukowina. The western portion
of the province is also being clear
ed of Austrians. A big movement
AUSTRIAN DEFENDERS OF PRZEMYSL HAD EATEN LAST HORSE
AND FIRED LAST SHELL BEFORE SURRENDERING CITY—PET
ROGRAD REPORTS THAT FIFTY THOUSAND AUSTRIAN PRI80N.
ERS INCLUDING NI^E GENERALS WERE TAKEN WHEN FORT
CAPITULATED—GERMANS CLAIM RUSSIANS DEFEATED AT
MEMEL—ALLIED AVIATORS BOMBARD OSTEND—SUBMARINES
GET ANOTHER BRITISH SHIP—FRENCH CLAIM GAINS IN CHAM
PAGNE COUNTRY. ,
has been started by the Russian army
which laid siege to Przemysl against
the Austrian forces near Dukla pass,
and it is reported that all non-com
batants are being driven from the
country into Hungary.
Start Invasion of East Prussia.
Advices from the north Poland
headquarters state that the Russians
have began another invasion of East
Prussia north of Tilsit. The Germans
are reported to have been forced back
across the frontier and the Russians
are again on German soil.
Germans Recapture Memel.
BERLIN, March 23.—Latest advic
es from Konigsberg state that the
Russians have been defeated at Mem
el and are fleeing across the border
with the Germans in pursuit. The re
port sent from Petrograd that Memel
had been captured by the Russians
is denied. Memel is fortified to resist
a strong opposing force for months
and cannot be starved.
Allied Aviators Bombard Ostend.
BERLIN, March 23.—A fleet of
Allied aviators novered over Ostend
last night and dropped many bombs
into the city. The bombs failed to
hit buildings where military supplies
were stored. It is reported that sev
en civilians were killed.
French Attacks Repulsed.
BERLIN, March 23.—Advices from
the western war zone state that
French attacks near Arras were re
pulsed without loss to the Germans
occupying the trenches there. It is
also reported that the French ad
vances in the Champagne district
have been checked.
French Claim Gains.
LONDON, March 23.—Military ex
perts say that if the positions of the
French troops in the Champagne dis
trict are correct as indicated today
that the Germans have been forced
back four miles during the past
month. Only minor attacks are re
ported from the western battle front
as bad weather still continues to
hamper operations.
Submarines Get Another Britisher.
LONDON, March 23.—Another Brit
ish steamer was torpedoed yesterday
by a German submarine off the coast
of Scotland. The crew of the steam
er were taken off and the vessel is
reported to be afloat and is being
towed to shore.
British Paying for Cargoes.
LONDON, March 23.—The British
prize board has ordered that $600,000
be paid to the owners of American
shipments of foodstuffs seized by the
British admiralty and taken from Nor
wegian and Swedish steamers. There
are several American shipments
which have not yet been decided by
the board.
Take Wounded To Malta.
VALETTA, Malta. March 23.—The
governor of Malta has appealed to
the residents of the island to take
convalescents from the hospitals here
into their homes in order that room
may be provided in the hospitals for
wounded men expected from the
fleets bombarding the Dardanelles.
JUNEAU TO HAVE
ANOTHER BIG MINE
Bradley and Associates Will Develop
Little Treadwell and Give Em
ployes Interest.
JUNEAU, March 23.—It is announ
ced that the Alaska-Juneau Mining
company is planning to spend $4,
000,000 in the development and equip
ment of the property with up-to-date
mining machinery for recovering the
values from its ores. The develop
ment of this mine means that Juneau
is to have another mammoth pro
ducer which will add hundreds of
miners to the steady payrolls in this
section.
The property is known locally as
the “The Little Treadwell” and is
owned by the Bradley & McKenzie in
terests. It is located on the Juneau
side of the channel. F. W. Bradley,
of the Treadwell mine, and his as
sociates have secured a bond on the
property and have announced that
they have appropriated $4,000,000
from their resources to develop the
property.
The plans include the development
of the mine to a point where it will
have a capacity of twelve thousand
tons of ore daily and the erection of
a reduction plant and other buildings
in addition to thep lant now in op
eration.
Mr. Bradley has announced that
employes of both the Alaska-Juneau
and the Treadwell companies will be
allowed to buy stock In the new com
pany at the same rate as Bradley
and his associates. They will be giv
en the opportunity of getting In on
the ground floor and It Is believed
that a large portion of the stock will
be taken by the employes of the two
MARIPOSA HAS
REACHEDJEATTLE
SEATTLE, March 23.—The steam
er Mariposa reached Seattle last
night from Alaska after an unevent
ful voyage. The Northwestern will
replace the Mariposa and will sail
Wednesday, beginning the summer
schedule of a steamer every six days
and making Skagway a port of call
for all steamers northward bound.
GENERAL FRENCH
Believes Germany Will Soon Exhaust
Her Stores of Ammunition and
Food Supplies.
PARIS, March 23.—Sir John
French, commanding the British
forces in France, is quoted in an in
terview as having expressed the be
lief that the war will soon be brought
to a close by Germany's ammunition
and food supplies becoming exhaust
ed.
He is quoted as saying, “Ammuni
tion is the essential thing in warfare
and every nation engaged in the pres
ent struggle needs ammunition, but
Germany needs it more than any of the
nations with whom sue is lighting.
Economic conditions in interior Ger
many are bad and each week will add
with increased force to the misery of
the idle and starving populace. Ger
many is hampered from every side in
securing a food supply for her citi
zens as well as the army and for that
reason I believe the war will not be
a long one. The spring campaign
promises well for the Allies and I
believe a decisive and definite victory
aw'aits us."
D. A. EPSTEYN GOES
TO »REWARD
David A. Epestyn, a resident of Ju
neau for the past seventen years, and
a member of the firm of Gilmour &
Epsteyn, died in Los Angeles on March
19, a victim of Bright’s disease. He
was one of the best known and most'
popular business men of Alaska and
known all along the coast.
Mr. Epsteyn first came to Alaska in
1(898 and became identified with the
S. Blum & Co. store in Juneau, as a
clerk, and for a time acted as man
ager for A. L. Levy & Co. in Val
dez, predecessors of the mercantile
and banking firm of S. Blum & Co.
Deceased leaves a widow and two
children. His partner in the Juneau
brokerage business, William F. Gil
mour, died last summer.
Chinese noodles and chop suey at
Valdez Cafe after 7 p. m. if
WILSON WONT
DISCUSS CHINA
Refuses To Give Information Regard
ing Attitude Concerning Japan’s
China Activities.
WASHINGTON, March 23.—Presi
dent Wilson has refused to make any
public statement concerning his dip
lomatic parleys with thb Japanese
government concerning that govern
ment’s threatened invasion of China.
The president is known to have pro
tested to Japan that her territorial
demands upon China was regarded as
unfriendly by the United States, this
country being a party to the agree
ment of nations guaranteeing the -in
tegrity of the Chinese empire.
Little news has been received from
the Orient concerning the success of
the Chinese government in reaching
a conclusion regarding the demands
of Japan. It is believed that Japan
will content herself for the present
with her show of strength and by
landing an army at Tsingtao, the re
cently captured German possession in
China.
The denial of the British and Rus
sian embassies that their govern
ments had protested to Japan against
her aggressive policy in China is in
line with their policy in the east of
permitting Japan to secure the con
cessions as a reward for her assist
ance in reducing the German strong
hold on the Pacific.
USING FORCE TO
COLLECT TAXES
WASHINGTON, March 23.—The
foreign hemp growers of Mexico have
protested to the State Department
that General Carranza’s forces are
burning large stores of hemp which
the growers and dealers have been
unable to ship from the country.
The growers assert that they have
been unable to meet the tax Imposed
on hemp by Carranza and that their
stocks have been burned by Mexican
officers acting under the president’s
orders.
If yon «ut all the news all the
ante, read the Prospector.
SLIDE IN MINE
KILLED FIFTY
Bodies Were Crushed Into Unrecog
nizable Mass By Thousands of
Tons of Earth.
VANCOUVER, B. C., March 23.—
The bodies of fifty miners working in
the Britannia Beach coal mine near
this city who were killed in the slide
yesterday, have been recovered and
it is feared that all in the mine have
been crushed to death.
The disaster came without warning
and was caused by a strata of sand,
causing thousands of tons of capping
to slide into the tvorkings. Many of
the bodies recovered were unrecogniz
able except for their clothing. The
work of recovering the bodies and
forcing a new tunnel to the inner
workings, where it is hoped that some
of the miners are still alive, is at
tended w'ith great danger of the res
cuers meeting a like fate. The work
is being done under the supervision
of Dominion mine inspectors.
CONFERENCE OVER
CONSPIRACY CASE
WASHINGTON, March £3.—Ger»
man Ambassador Count von Bern
storff and the counsellor for the State
Department are conferring this after
noon concerning the arrest of Wil
liam Mueller, German consul at Se
attle on the charge of conspiracy.
Consul Mueller has denied that he
started the report that a German
steamer had been unlawfully search
by American customs officers In
Seattle. His report to the German
embassy state that he .had been
unable to learn how the rumor be
gan and believed it was without foun
dation.
A telegram from Lieut. Dougherty
at Copper Center states that Archie
Brown, stableman for the stage com
pany, who suffered an attack of ap
pendicitis a few days ago, is still very
sick and that a surgical operation
will be necessary. Lieut. Dougherty
has arranged for his transportation to
Valdez and upon.his arrival he will
be taken to the Valdez hospital and
operated upon.
DOUBLE TRAGEDY
. IN NEW YOlSl CITY
Prominent Banker Believed To Have
Been Suddenly Seized With In
sanity—Case a Mystery.
NEW YORK, March 23.—Howard
Boocock, prominent in banking and
society circles in this city, murdered
his wife and then took his own life
last night. The tragedy is mystify
ing the police and detectives on the
case as they have been unable to un
earth any cause for the murders and
believe that the banker was suddenly
stricken with insanity.
Boocock was treasurer of the Astor
Trust company and had suffered no
financial reverses. He was independ
ently wealthy and his affairs in busi
ness do not indicate that he had an
ticipated taking his own life and that
of his wife.
Mrs. Boocock, who was an accom
plished musician, was playing the
piano for her husband’s entertain
ment when he suddenly drew a revolv
er and shot her through the head.
He then turned the revolver upon
himself and ended his life.
MUELLER WMI1S
CHARGES DROPPED
German Consul Is Willing To Over,
look Breach of Treaty By Seattle
Police Causing Arrest.
SEATTLE. March 23.—William
Mueller, German consul, who was ar
rested on the charge of conspiracy to
bribe an employe of the Seattle Con
struction & Dry Dock company to se
cure information relative to shipments
of submarine parts to British Colum
bia, has requested the prosecutor to
drop the conspiracy charges.
Consul Mueller claims that his ar
rest by Seattle police, who entered
the German consulate to effect his ap
prehension, is in violation of the
treaty between Germany and the Un
ited States. Mueller’s secretary, who
was arres’ed at the same time as his
chief, asserts that the police attempt
ed to search the private papers of the
consul.
EUGENIC FAD
HITS VERMONT
New Mar-iage Law In Effect There
and Heavy Fine Provided for
Evasion of Rules.
MONTPELIER, Vt„ March 23—The
state senate has passed the eugenic
marriage law and the measure will be
signed by the governor. The law pro
vides a line of $500 for evasions from
the strict letter of the law by either
of the contracting parties or the offi
ciating minister or official.
The vote on the measure in the sen
ate was close as the opposition quoted
statistics from Wisconsin state show
ing that a similar law there had re
sulted In reducing the number of mar
riages In the state by more than fifty
per cent. It was urged that the meas
ure would fall to accomplish its pur
pose as residents would go into ad
joining states where they could be
married without the formality of sub
mitting to medical inspection.
A fine baby girl weighing eight
pounds was born at the Valdez hos
pital last night to Corporal and Mrs.
Jones, of Fort Liscum.