PREACHER LAYS
FALL TO EVE
Says False Charge by Women of His
Congregation Unfrocked Him
and Kept Him From Puplt.
MOUNT VERNON, N. Y„ Sept. 13.
An alleged quiet “fling” with a wom
an member of his congregation,
brought Rufus T Cooper from a
$3500 position as a pastor of a Meth
odist church in Indiana to a cell in
the Mount Vernon jail today, to an
swer the charge of begging.
He had only $2.50 in his pockets
when arrested.
Three years ago private detectives
followed him to a hotel where he was
said to have been found with a scan
tily clad member of his congrega
tion. He was expelled from the
church.
Women members of his congrega
tion hired the detectives to watch
the pastor
ALASKA COAL BEING
SOLD FROM THE COAST
Captain J. A. Herbert, who was the
first dan to secure a lease of coal
lands from the government in Alas
ka, has already taken out more than
three thousand tons from his leased
property at Bluff Point, twelve miles
from Seldovia. The output has been
sold to Anchorage, steamers, the
canneries, and will soon be on sale
in Seward. The coal is lignite, and
the engineer of the Panama steamer
Silaloa, which tested in and bought
107 tons, said it was about the fin
est coal he ever used for steaming
purposes. The veins crop out from
a bluff right over the beach and a
tunnel has been driven 300 feet into
the solid coal so that in future the
sort of coal taken out will be far
better than the coal from the surface.
The government at Anchorage has
used a large quantity and is so well
pleased that the steamer Tyonic is
continuing to haul it every day to the
new railroad city. The mine has a
capacity of forty tons daily, but this
capacity can easily be increased and
captain Herbert has enough coal In
This Space Reserved
for
FRYE-BRUHN CO.
FREE
AT THE
PINZON BAR
The following are the conditions
governing the gift of the Ford Au
tomobile advertised by the Pinson:
With each One Dollar purchase one
Coupon will be given entitling the
holder to one chance on the car—
absolutely free of charge.
The car to be given during Christ
mas week.
Family trade solicited. All orders
delivered. Remember a Dollar pur
chase entitles you to one Coupon.
PINZON BAR
PHONE 69
sight to last for years and years. The
coal shipped before from the surface
was not so good as the quality now
being mined. The present output is
so clean that handling it does not
even soil the fingers. It is, there
fore, excellent for domestic purposes.
Captain Herbert was a recent pas
senger to the states and stated that
he expected to make a big shipment
of Seldovia coal to Seward on the Ad
miral Farragut.
CALIFORNIA SHERIFF IS
KILLED BY GREASERS.
W. A. Dolan, of the marshal’s of
fice, has received word that his cous
in, James Dolan, sheriff of Monp
county, California, had been killed
while attempting to arrest a number
of Mexicans raiding a ranch house.
The sheriff was shot by two of the
Mexicans, who in turn were later
rounded up by a posse, and in the
fight that followed were riddled
with bullets. Sheriff Dolan attempt
ed to arrest the two Mexicans, sin
gle-handed, but they opened fire on
him, seriously wounding the police
office, who was later taken to a ranch
house and cared for, but died a few
hours after the fight.
INSURANCE RATES ON
PARCEL POST PACKAGES.
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The local postoffice has received
notice from the department that a
new order went into effect Septem
ber 1, regulating the fees on insured
parcel post packages. The order is
as follows:
Fourth-class matter shall not be
registered but may be insured against
to its actual value, but not to exceed
$5 in any one case, on the payment
of a fee of 3 cents; not to exceed $25
on payment of 5 cents; not to ex
ceed $50 on the payment of a fee
of 10 cents, or the payment of a fee
of 25 cents, in addition to the post
age, both to be prepaid by stamps
affixed; but indemnity will not be
allowed in cases of such mail ad
dressed to the Philippine Islands, un
less the loss occurred in the postal
service of the United States.
We are still selling Men’s Shoes,
Suits, Overcoats, Suit Cases, etc., at
Fire Sale Prices until Saturday. S.
Blum & Co. *
New Fall Hats at E. Winter’s.
A fine assortment of silk dress pat
terns just received, including messa
lines, poplins, chiffon cloth, taffetas,
satins and velvet corduroys. Prices
to suit the times.tf.
MAKS AS MAN
THEN AS WOMAN
Eugenia I>e Forest Tells Very Unu
sual Story of Life of Sex Du
plicity In New York.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 13.—Euge
nia De Forest, who for twenty-five
years had posed as a man, was twice
married—once as a woman, and then
as a man—and divorced, and who for
five years conducted a school of dra
matic art as “Professor” De Forrest,
confessed to the police today of her
duplicity.
The woman’s story reads like a
page from the Arabian Nights.
"I have always been sexless,” she
declared. “I have we body of a
woman and the thoughts and char
acteristics of a man.
“Early in my life I met J. H. Hart,
a newspaper man in New York. His
love-making was violent, and after
explaining to him my secret, he con
sented to our marriage. We lived to
gether many years as chums and
were as happy as it is possible for
two mortals to be.
“After my Hart’s death I went to
San Francisco and then came to Los
Angelas and opened my school of
dramatic art. Soon after that I met
Margaret Barton Hawley, housekeep
er for a prominent man here, and she
posed to me. 1 told her there were
obstacles in the road, but she waived
them aside. Then I told her that if
she wished to be my wife she would
have to live in a companionship based
on a higher plane.
“She was willing and the ceremony
was performed. But she soon tired
of the arrangement, and separation
followed.
“I have harmed no one. If the
law insists I will cast off man's cloth
ing and again become Eugenia, the
woman I was when first a wife.”
LAKE OE OIL FOUND
IN FAR NORTH.
That a whole lake of oil, great
flowing natural wolls and immense
streams of the fluid have been dis
covered to the northward of Seward
peninsula is the amazing statement
brought to Nome by the revenue cut
ter Bear, and a statement proven by
photographs taken and brought here
by the discoverer of what apparently
means nothing less than a vastly
greater find than any gold fields with
in the limits of the territory.
Vanvalin is the name of the dis
coverer. He was picked up by the
Bear at Wainwright, just south of
the place of discovery of the extra
ordinary oil lake. The lake is situ
ated between Wainwright and Point
Barrow in the extreme north of Alas
ka. The photographs taken by Van
valin show clearly that the lake of
oil is of large extent, than an extra
ordinary flow of oil is taking place,
and that some of the channels thru
which the oil flows have over two
feet depth of the fluid. The lake
contains oil of a very dark color and
density. The store has created a
sensation at Nome and a stampede
is sure to result.
} Ford's Views of Foreign Orders.
Conditions in his own business and
in his own plant seem to justify Hen
ry Ford in this utterance with refer
ence to war orders from abroad:
‘‘I don’t want any of the war sup
ply money. I will make no war mu
nitions for any country except the
United States. I would defend the
United States the same as I would
build a roof over my own house. But
I don’t think we will have to defend
our country. We are filling an order
for the British government for 15,000
ambulances, but I don’t consider
them as instruments of war. They
certainly are not destructive.”
Mr. Ford will not even seek to ex
tend his ordinary business in Eng
land just now. He thinks that will
be takirtg advantage of English man
ufacturers He is not worrying in
regard to the United States pust now
as he says: “Conditions were never
better. There is not one bad spot
that I know of, and I have heard
from them all.”
It does us all good to get a breath
of such optimism. Ford, of course,
doesn’t need to take war orders. He
would hardly criticize those whose
plants would be largely idle without
such orders. He is not a “little”
American. Our national right to
make and sell munitions of war is not
a question in the mind of this cap
tain of industry.
New Hats Arrive.
A fine line of trimmed and un
trlmmed hats arrived on the Alame
da for Mrs. Norman Merchant and
are now on display at the Emporium.
10-tf
We have wallpaper from ISc up,
at Radolph’a. H
YOU want
not the slight
est shadow of
a doubt when
YOU bring your
prescription to a drug
store — investigate the
Valdez Drug Co’s pre
scription department.
CITIZENS WILL
HELPJHE NAVY
WASHINGTON, D ,C., Sept. 13.—
Secretary Daniels, of the Navy De
partment, has announced that nine
teen inventors have been selected to
compose the citizen advisory board
to plan for the use of all Inventions
and for the discovery of new ways
to bring the American army and
navy to the highest possible standard.
Thomas A. Edison is chairman of
the board, with Hiram Maxim, the
great inventor of guns and explo
sives, one of the members of the
board.
The first meeting will take place
on October 6th in this city.
ZEPPELINS NOW GRAY
AND ALMOST INVISIBLE.
PARIS, Sept. 13.—Germany’s fleet
of Zeppelins has been repainted a
leaden gray, similar to the color of
warships which renders them difficult
to see, even when flying beneath the
clouds.
A telegram from Zurich, publish
ed in the Milan Stampa, says that in
recent fights over Lake Constance,
Zeppelins appeared in their new
dress. The latest models resemble
large fish. Both ends taper, so they
have lost to some extent the familiar
cigar shape.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Nemo Corsets at E. Winter’s, tf.
Price’s Candy and other new goods
at the Emporium. *
Deputy Marshal N. J. Feaster of
Chltina, is in Valdez, attending the
district court sessions.
Suits pressed for $1.00 at Silver
man’s, the tailoi. Telephone 198. tf
For Sale—-Bargain; three-room
house, partly furnished. Enquire of
Mrs. D. T. Greenig. 9-tf
Tom Noyes and wife, of Chisna,
are in Valdez attending as witnesses
in the Chisna murder case.
Broken stove plate welded and
made as good as new. Valdez Iron
Works. m.*
Found—Gold pin at club rooms;
owner can have same by paying for
this ad and Inquiring of Mrs.' Whit
ley. *
The launch Shamrock, Capt. Tim
Marcum, returned from Port Wells
this afternoon, bringing a number
of passengers. The captain reports
an uneventful trip.
New Fall Hats at E. Winter’s.
A fine assortment of silk dress
patterns, just received, including
messalines, poplins, chiffon cloth, taf
fetas, satins and velvet corduroys.
Prices to suit the times. tf.
m Shamrock
CAPT. TIM MARCUM
Sails for Port Wells, Portage
Bay, Granite Mine, Saturday
at 9:00 a. m., from the Val
dez Dock Company’s Dock.
For Ellamar, Landlock Bay,
and Fldalgo, every Wednes
day, 9:00 a. m., from Val
dez Dock Company’s Dock.
For Rates, Apply on Boat.
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING
McKinley Street, Valdez
ED. WOOD, Proprietor
The First Bank of Valdez
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NOTICE
Starting August 1, 1915, the following rates for Electric
Current will be in effect:
Flat Rate on a 40 watt basis
One light.. $1.00 per month Two lights.. $1.50 per month
Each light over two.... 50c per month.
METER RATES :*
25 kilo-watt hours.8 cents per K. W. H.
25 to 100 K. W. H.7 *
100 to 200 “ . .6 “
200 to 300 “ .5*;; ;; ;;
All over 300 K. W. H.5
This means consumption m any one month.
Current for heating only.2 cents per K. W. H.
Motor Power—5 horse power and over.. 4 “
Minimum rate on each meter installed.$1.00 per month
TELEPHONES j
Residence.. $2.00 per month Business.. $4.00 per month
Each additional phone on same line, $1.00
Alaska Water, Light & Telephone Co.
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DONALDSON SCHEDULE
Lvs. Fort Liscum Lvs. Valdez
8:16 a.m. 9:46 a.m.
1:16 p.m. 4:00 p.m.
TUESDAYS
8:16 a.m. 9:46 a.m.
1:16 p.m. 2:00 p.m.
4:30 p.m. 6:00 p.m.
SATURDAYS
1:16 p.m. 4:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m. 10:30 p.m.
There will be no trip of the launch
on the second ana fourth Fridays of
each month, these days being used to
clean boilers.