Serious International Situation Dev
elops Over Russian Cltimafuin
—Over Berkman Sentence
WASHINGTON, l». C„ Jan. 30.
A dangerous international situation
has developed today between Hussia
and America, over the threat of the
Russian anarchists to hold United
States Ambasador Francis, now in
1’etrograd, responsible for the life
and freedom of Alexander Berkman,
who was arrested and sentenced to
serve a jail sentence in the Federal
prison at Atlanta for alleged opposi
tion to the draft law.
Berkman started to serve his sen
tence July 12. He is also under in
dictment for alleged complicity in the
San Francisco preparedness parade
On September 26 a hearing was to
have been held on the application
for extradition to California but it
was later postponed and Berkman
sent to the penitentiary.
Ultimatum Delivered
I’ETROGRAD. Jifn. 30.—An ulti
matum was delivered today by the
Russian anarchistic group of sol
diers and workingmen to David K.
Francis, stating that he would he held
personally responsible for the life
and liberty of Alexander Berkman.
WHOLESALERS RESTRICTED
Whole-salers purchasing under li
cense, regulations, not to be more
than 70 per cent wheat flour from
millers, for purchases corresponding
months preceding year, and sales to
retailers must be in proportion to 1
pound of wheat to 1 pound of other
cereals, this to be the P\«V*>rtion in
selling by retailers, making a combi
nation. This combination of flour not
to represent more than normal price
on any article sold.
WAR UNCI
MEEKINM
Representatives of Allied (rovern
Ment-s Discuss Rest Methods to
Successfully I’rosecute War
VERSAILLES, France, Jan. JO.—
.Great Britain, France, Italy and the
United States are represented in the
sessiou of the Supreme Allied War
Council which convened here today,
presided over by the French premier.
The launch Tokeh U>u arrived last
evening from Ellamar with Capt.
John Johnson and wife and son, L. L.
Middelkamp, Jack Nishida, wife and
son, Gus Dgarf, Joe Radovich, and
Mr. McIntosh of Fidalgo. All will re
turn with the exception of Jack Ni
shida and wife.
AIX OFFICERS ABROAD
TO WEAR BROWNE BELTS
WASHINGTON. D. C.. Jan. 30.—
American officers serving in France
will wear the “Liberty” belt, which
is of the type commonly known as
the Sam Browne belt. Gen. Pershtng
has prescribed this and the ordnance
department has made arrangements
to supply the belts at cost, approxi
mately ?7. Officers on duty in this
country will not wear these belts.
' ELLAMAR MAKES A
BIG CONTRIBUTION
L. L. Middelkamp, Superintendent
of the Ellamar Mine, today turn
over to Horace DeLine, treasurer of
the local Red Cross chapter the sum
of 1181.00. The money is the pro
ceeds of a dance recently given at El
lamar for the benefit of the Red
Cross.
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Jack Nisblda and wife arrived in
town today from Ellamar. Mrs.
Nishlda and son will leave for Seat
tle on the Alaska, and later take ship
' for Koto, Japan.
{tasd the Food Regulation articles
appearing from time to time (n the
Prospector.
UK'll MAN STABS WIKK,
AND THKN KIl.l.H SKI-1
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BOISE. Idaho. Jan. 30.— Howard;
Rankin only heir of a prosperous con-'
tractor of this city, who died sever-,
al years ago, inflicted a deep sealp
wound in the back of his wife's head
aud fatally wounded himself, on onej
of the principal business streets of the|
city at 6:15 tonight. Rankin died at
a hospital an hour later.
Rankin and his wife had been sep-|
aruted for some time and he had
been arrebti^d several times for fail
ing to support his two children Re
cently his wife sued for divorce. Ran-J
kin gave no reason for the deed, sim-j
ply accosting his wife as she came
from work at a near-by restaurant)
with the words, "I am going to end
all.”
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RED CROSS MEN
KILLEDJN ITALY
Itombs Dropped by German Raider
KiII Two American Attaches of
Red Cross Id Italy
ROME. Jan. JO. —Two Americans
attached to the Red Cross were kill
ed at Maestre Sunday, by bombs
dropped from German airplanes. The
names of the men killed were Wil
liam Platt and Richard Fairfield.
They are the first Americans killed
on the Italian front.
SAVK THK FOOD
Two wheatless days each
week, Monday and Wednesday,
One evening meal . daily,
wheatless. ’
One meatless. Tuesday,
One meatless meal daily.
Two porkless days for each
week, Tuesday and Saturday.
ALASKA MINER
MUST PM DAMAGES
Must Pay Woman with Whom lie* l.iv
nl $20,000 for Posing as her
Husband When Married
OLYMPIA, Jan. 30.—The Supreme*
Court today reaffirmed the decision
of Judge Mackintosh of Seattle hold
ing that Robert Spencer McMillan, an
Alaskan miner must pay Olivia Lar
son, with whom he lived as her hus
band, 120,000 for damaging her re
putation as the result of his relations
with her, McMillan having a wife al
ready in the States. The case has
been most bitterly fought on both
sides.
ADMIRAL L C. PALMER
Atnoog all the buoy men Jn.Wath
Inflton ffioaa day* Ifcwoa/d bo ./difficult
to luld orto butler (ban Admiral L. C.
frtntr, flhlof of th^ tuna** of navlflf
Alon In the navy dffiXmoat
AMERICANS IN FIRST LINE TRENCH
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i ui'lin's in :i liiM 1m .iu milling
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| Anything Captain Wanted Wlien
Seized Witli One of llis Spells he
hull to have, She Says
! SAUNA, Kan., Jan. HO. Mrs.
; Vadim Whisler, divorced wife of
U’apt. Lewis R. Whisler.. who killed
I himself at Camp Funston. discussed
the tragedy for the first time.
Mrs. Whisler declared that her for
mer husband, in the opinion of his
friends and herself, had been Insane
fiA more than a year. She explained
the tragedy at Camp Funston by de
claring that anything Oapt Whisler
wanted when seized with one of his
“spells" he hal to have. Mrs. Whisler
stated that she knew of lmr former
husband's friendship with a young
woman of Ottawa. Kan., to whom he
^ wrote a note just before lie commit
i ted suicide. Rumors of this friend
iship. she said, came to her before
! she instituted proceedings for divorce
a year ago.
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j lil'SIXKSS MKX TO MARK
IJKMOCUACV 1*1,KA j
i WASHINGTON. 1). <’., Jan. 30. -
; American business men are asked in
a referendum submitted today by the
,Chamber of Commerce of the United
States to pass upon a proposed warn
ing to German industrial leaders that,
they cannot hope to resume friendly!
commercial relations with the United
States after the war unless the Ger
man government has become a res
ponsible instrument for the people.
It Is proposed that the Germans
be told that the United States, in
common with other nations, supplied
raw materials with which Germany
made ready to start the world war,
and that the lesson has been learned.
Newspapers and business men of neu
tral countries will be relied upon to
carry the message.
Thompson’s pass reports two above
today, cloudy, light north wind, 80
inches of snow. A blizzard was raging
all day yesterday at the Summit.
VILLA FORCES
WRECK TRAIN
One Hundred and Ten Persons Kill
ed When Bandit's Troops Derail
Train in Chihuahua
JUAREZ, Jan. 30.—One hundred
and ten soldiers and civilians ware
killed yesterday when a troop of Vil
la’s bandits wrecked a train near San
ta Rosalia, In Chihuahua, on the Mex
ican national railway, between Bos
tatoipjte had If Cfh^. A patched bat
tle ensued between the bandits and
remaining . soldiery after the wreck,
and the robbers WWW driven off. Vil
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tlve In the State of Chihuahua im
PwiMist Camara has sant.a force
of federal troops agtdfcrt thkm.
RUSSIANS SQZE
One Million. Two Hundred .Million
lluhle* (irubli«(l by Molslieviki—
Custodian Arrested
1‘ETROG UA1), Jan. MO. Ten
hours were allowed all officials of the
Rumanian legation to depart from
Russia today. Relations between the
two former allies have been strain
ed to the breaking point, and war is
expected between the two countries.
As an act of reprisal Russia has
seized the Rumanian gold reserve de
posited in Moscow, amounting to $1.
200,000,000 rubles. The custodian of
this fund was arrested by the Hol
shevlki officials.
A ruble is worth 51.5 cents in Am
erican money, and 2s, 2.5d English
money.
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THE FIFTY*! I FT Y FLAX
TO REDUCE COXSI MI'TIOX
Each purchaser of wh»»t flour to
purchase an equal portion of other
cereals, corn meal, corn Hour, corn
grits, hurley Hour, rye Hour rice
Hour, soya bran Hour, oat meal, roll
ed oats, buck-wheat Hour potato
Hour, sweet potato Hour, farina Hour
and meals. Graham and whole wheat
Hour not substitutes.
VICTORY BREAD
Substitute to be used by house
wives and bakers, to be mixed with
wheat flour. Mix 5 per cent other cer
eals with wheat flour in bread and
rolls, and gradually increase this sub
stitute from this date to February
24th, so that the minimum of sub
stitutes with wheat flour shall be 20
per cent. This bread is called Victory
Bread.
WIFE OF ADMIRAL BILLLXUK
FOUND DEAD IN BATHROOM
BALTIMORE, Md., Jan. 30.—Mrs.
Laura Elizabeth Billings, wife of
Rear Admiral Luther D. Billings of
the paymaster’s corps, United States
navy, was found dead last night in
her bathroom. Evidently she had been
stricken with heart trouble. Her hus
band was in Washington.
135 ESSELS BE
BU TJNjBlE
Government Gives Seattle Shipbuild
ing Firms Large Contract to con
struct Needed Ships
SEATTLE, Jan. 30.—I finding
eight more wooden steamer# just
awarded to Seattle shipbuilding SMB#1
Seattle shipbuilders now hra eon*
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>ar*To##$p
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Other one wort In the United States. 1
TKfTKLK.VBKHG DRAWN
FINE OK $1,000.00
Charles Tecklenberg, a well-known
liquor dealer of Seward, was the first
in that burg to draw the maximum
fine for violation of the Alaska "Dry"
law. A telegram from Deputy Mar
shal Isaac Evans of Seward, to the
marshal's office here, states that a
search was made of the cellar of the
old Seattle Bar, owned by Tecklen
berg, and that 600 pint flasks of
whiskey were found there. Tecklen
berg was arrested and brought be
fore Commissioner Wm. H. Whittles
ey. who. after hearing the evidence,
fined Tecklenberg the limit of $1,000.
AIRPLANES AGAIN
RAID ENGLAND
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! Thirteen machine* <’mss < liunnel and
Drop Bomb* on Kent and
I'nast Line*.
LONDON. Jan. JO Thirteen air
planes again raided England last ui
ght crossing the channel under cover
of intense darkness and dropping a
great number of bombs in the count
ies of Essex and Kent, anti in south
1 western and northeastern outskirts
!„t London. Spectacular battles oc
j cured in the air. the raiders being for
red to retire.
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Six Dead; Ten Injured
| LONDON. Jan. 30 Lord French
i announced that the known dead as a
result of the raid last night is six.
with ten injured.
IDAHO MAN FOUND
HANGING TO A THEE
BOISE Idaho. Jan. 30. August
Matt, whose body was found yester
day hanging from a tree near Gads
den, Arizona, left here about three
months ago after having sold a lit
tle shoe factory which he had run
here for many years. He told acqua
intances that he was going to Mex
ico. and nothing has been heard from
In in since. He was unmarried, so far
as was known here, and left no rela
tives except a brother, a prospector
at Mace. Idaho.
ItoNlicviki Party Splits on Promised
Peace Terms, Majority lleing
Against tierman Terms
LONDON, Jan. 30.—An exchange
telegram received here today from
Petrograd says the present govern
ment Is unpble to carry on the war for
matlonunder conditions favorable to
all Socialist factions, It is reported
that the Bolsheviki have split on the
question of peace with Germany, the
majority being against accepting the
German terms.
MRS. CLARA SEARS TAYLOR
GERMAN WORKMEN
CMW
Dissatisfied With Progress of Pence
Negotiations Thousands of Men
Quit Work io Berlin
LONDON, Jan. 30. Dissatislied
with the progress in peace negotia
tions and the Prussian electoral re
forms, German workmen have again
J brought about serious strikes in Ber
1 lin and other parts of the German
! government. The arrest of six social
i 1st leaders is reported to have occur
red at Kiel and a large number of
workmen have been forced to take
their places in the ranks, the lead
' ers remaining obdurate,
j Ninety thousand workmen failed
to report for work this morning, ser
; iously hampering the electric works
and the airplane factories. Strikes are
reported in many of the great manu
facturing district along the lthine in
Westphalia.
So serious lias the situation bc
•■ouie that the government has sta
■ tinned troops with machine guns at
1 many points, w!th orders to tire on
' the mobs in case destruction of prop
I erly is attempted
Socialists all over the empire art*
actively spreading the peace propa
ganda. and the disorders are rapid
ly spreading.
Main Strike in Berlin
AMSTKKDAM. Jan. 3ft Five huti
'dretl thousand strikers in the city of
Berlin alone have refused to resume
employment, according to a dispatch
in the German Socialist newspaper
Vnrwaerts. received today. Official
i Berlin dispatches today declared that
I the workmen at the Krupp works
have struck, and the entire tvar in
dustry is at a standstill.
According to the Vorwaerts the
shipworkers in the great Vulcan
shipyards have quit, and the muni
tions makers at Kiel and the navy
yard workers have been out on strike
since Saturday.
SWEDISH HOPS
CLO WITH SLAVS
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Advance Guard Arrive* hi TorueM,
and Fugage in llallie Willi lied
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Guard of Hol*lieviki
LONDON, Jan. 30. A I’etrograri
dispatch received here today states
that the Swedish troops have arriv
ed at Tornea, a frontier town on the
Gi|lf of Bothnia, and that their ad
vance guard has already clashed with
the Red Guard and the Finnish Red
Guard.
JUDGE JOSEPH L. HEED
ENTERS POIJTICA1, ARENA
Judge J. L. Reed, the well known
Valdez attorney, today announced his
intention of entering the coming pri
maries as a candidate for territorial
representative from the Third Divi
sion. Judge Reed has been a resident
of Alaska for a number of years, is
thoroughly familiar with the require
ments of Alaska lawmaking, and will
represent the division creditably
should he succeed in his race. His
candidacy will be filed within the
next few days. He is the second man
to announce his candidacy so far this
year, James Wilson having announc
ed last week for Road Commissioner.
APPRECIATES PAPER
Wnt. C. Neabit, of Ellamar, in re
newing bin subscription to the Pros
pector, says: “I do not want to miss
any cppies of the paper as It is hard
fo catch up with the news. Your pap
p)T is one of the newleat I have ever -
read wad Is a credit to Valdez, or ev
en a city ten tffnes the size. 1 am.
hbSIm conies to Cane Breton taw
paper w»
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Is reported all
rich hut few ex
sport* I above,
is falling at a
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