SERVIANS HOLDING BELGRADE
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Steamer Will Paw From the Wa
ters of the Atlantic to the Pa
cific In a Few Hours.
PANAMA, July 31.—Col. Goethals
has announced that the steamer Cris
tobal would traverse the Panama ca
nal on Monday next and that after
Aug. 15 the canal would be open for
traffic unless 9ome unexpected hap
pening occurs. The ste.amer Is now
at Colon In Atlantic waters and will
pass through to Balboa, the Pacific
entrance of the canal.
Col. Goethals message also states
that the work on the canal was near
ing completion and that during the
past year 15,000 laborers who had
been steadily employed on the build
ing of the canal since the beginning
of operations had been discharged
and had left Panama for their homes
in other counirles.
mm coiist
IS COMING SACK
Efforts Being Made to Have San
Francisco Resorts Wide Open
During the Exposition.
SAN -FRANCISCO) July 11—Ef
forts are being made to have San
Francisco a wide open city during the
Panama-Pacific exposition. The police
commissioners lajst night voted to
remove the ban from dancing in up
town cafes, but deadlocked on the
question of permitting the Barbery
Coast to reopen in all its former
glory.
The Barbery Coast was announced
to have been closed several months
ago, but although activities wete re
stricted the district was never really
closed. The proprietors of the dis
trict who had been forced out of
business by the order objected to
dancing being permitted in the up
town cafes and organized a light to
-close all places where public danc
ing was indulged. For a short time
dancing was stopped and the tango
lovers were compelled to forego the
latest steps during intervals in the
service at the tables.
Business conditions in San Fran
cisco are not very brisk and the out
look for a period of prosperity dur
ing the exposition is not bright. The
business men have been interested
in the plan to secure a suspension of
the orders closing the resorts in the
hopes that their reopening will “start
something.”
Weather Report
Valdez, July 31, 1914.
BarometHc pressure .29,742
Temperature a* 7 p. m__54
Maximum temperature .58
Minimum temperature .45
Mban temperature -- 511-2
Precipitation . .. .04
Partly cloudy, calm, wind south
west three miles. Rained at night
and from 11 to 11:30 a. m.
Jake Hepfinger, the barber, who
has been coining’ money since he
moved his barber shop near the Pros
pector office on Wall street, today
purchased from the Valdez Regl Es
tate Agency the Perry lot and house
just beyond the Masonic hall. The
consideration was fgoo. Jake says if
the play keeps up he will buy a
bank.
Fine line eg amts 13.50 up, at Har
vey’s Toggery. tf
Efforts of Austrian Troops To Capture City Defeated—Bosnia Now in Revolt
Against Austria—Japan Will Follow Lead of England—Canada To Send
Troops—Frantic Wireless Calk to German Merchant Vessels to Seek Cover
—England Controls the Sea—English Fleet in Baltic—More American Gold
Leaves New York—Stock Markets Closed.
BELGRADE, Servia, July 31.—In
spite of every effort of the Austrian
army to capture this city it still re
mains in the hands of the Servians.
An attack was made last night from
several different points upon the city
but the Austrian army was repulsed
with heavy losses. The artillery work
of the Servians haye been remark
able, the experience of the last two
years having made them proficient
shots and the loss to the invaders
is believed to have been large.
Artillery Duel le On.
ST. PETERSBURG, July 31.—The
Austrians and Servians have engag
ed in an artillery duel at Kiezinicy.
The Servians are doing by far the
greater damage, as the men who had
fought in the two recent Balkan wars
seemed to handle the big field guns
with exact precision and did fright
ful execution.
Germany Sends Ultimatum.
LONDON, July 31.—A news agency
in this city reports that yesterday
noon Germany sent to the foreign
office of the Russians at St. Peters
burg an order to explain within
twenty-four hours the reason for the
mobilization of Russian troops upon
the Russian frontier ready to strike
at Germany.
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More Germans Mobilize.
BERLIN, July 31.—All officers of
the German reserve army, even to
the five divisions, have been ordered
to mobilize. Every man* in the em
pire has been called to arms who
can possibly be used In the army.
Old men are being placed in the home
reserve and able-bodied men are be
lng rushed to the frontiers. The mob
ilization will take ten days at least
before the men and equipment can
be placed on the frontier.
Chicago Exchange Excited.
CHICAGO, July 31.—The wildest
scenes in the history of the wheat
exchange occurred here yesterday
and were repeated today. Never
since the opening of the Franco
Prussian war. in 1870 has the ex
change been so excited. Wheat for
immediate delivery Is now $1.00 a
•bushel and with the enormous crop
in sight the American farmer who
raised wheat will be rich.
A dozen failures are reported of
brokers who were carrying wheat
short when the first war scares were
received and who were unable to
cover, expecting that the usual result
of a backdown by one or the other
powers would relieve the market if
they could but hold on.
Austrians Defeated at Semendria.
LONDON, July 31.—The attempt
of the Austrian army to enter Ser
via via the Morava river, was defeat
ed by the Servian army at Semen
dria, which repulsed the Austrians
with great loss.
Austria to Fight Russia.
LONDON, July 31.—It is believed
here that Austria will declare war
on Husisa today and that the gen
eral European conflict will then start.
Both sides have only been waiting
for the general mobilization of
troops to start the war and were
playing for any advantage in the
tardiness of the opponents. The Aus
trian mobilization started prior to
that of Russia by at least ten hours,
but the difference has been more
than made up by *he Russians, who
concentrated on the northeast fron
tier of Austria, forcing the Austrian
government to send troops both
northward and also towards the Ser
vian border.
Germany to Declare War Today. '
Germany is expected to declare war
at the same instant as Austria, both
countries starting with Russia, but
France and England will follow suit
as fast as possible, in fact, it is
believed here that the English fleet
have already made many captures of
German merchantmen, but have held
them at sea pending the formal dec
laration. England’s fleet is prepared
and Is expected to rule the sea, cap
turing all German and Austrian ves
sels in every part of the world.
Holland Proclaims Neutrality.
Holland has proclaimed her neu
trality and notified all the powers
that she will make every effort to
remain neutral and for that purpose
and to prevent the violation of her
'< neutrality by any of the fighting na
1 tions she has called to the colors
all the reserves and they will be
maintained on the frontier to fight
against any occupation of Holland by
the belligerents.
England’s Fleet In Baltic.
An English fleet has been sent in
to the Baltic Sea for the purpose of
bottling up the German fleet and al
so to aid the Russian army, which
will force its way down the Baltic
to capture Danzig, which will be
made the base of supplies and be
stocked by vessels from the north,
thus relieving the railroads of the
tremendous loads now being sent to
the army at the front.
English Parties Drop Differences.
All party differences have been
forgotten for the time being in Eng
land. All factional fights have been
stopped and every man in England
and the British Isles Is working to
prepare for the greatest conflict in
the history of the world. The army
is being recruited to its full strength.
Austria Invades Servia.
The London Times this morning
prints a dispatch from the front
claiming that the Austrians are in
vading Servia at four different points
and that fighting Is in progress all
along the line. The entire frontier
is one line of battle. Detachments
of Montenegrins are working north
entering the fight as they reach the
Austrian lines and bringing with them
the trained troops of the recent Bal
kan wars driving the Austrians back
in many places in spite of the larger
forces of Austria.
Revolt In Bosnia.
A revolt is on in Bosnia led by
the Slavs of the province, once a
part of Servia, and the Austrian
army is reported as cut off from its
supplies as several bridges have been
destroyed by the Slavs.
Bank Withdrawals Limited.
PARIS, July 31.—The French gov
ernment has issued orders to all
banks in the country to refuse de
positors more than $10.00 each. The
efforts of the people to secure gold
will be stopedi at cnce. No serious
panic has so far been reported, ex
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SEATTLE DOCK OF ADMIRAL LINE DESTROYED
SEATTLE, July 31.—The Grand
Trunk Pacific dock leased by the Ad
miral Line and operated by them
was destroyed by fire yesterday af
ternoon, one man being cremated and
three others are still missing. Thir
teen people were hurt, mostly by
jumping from upper floor office
rooms. Two firemen were hurt. The
damage is estimated at $400,000.'
So rapidly did the fire spread and
so intense was the blaze that the
firemen lost a fire hose cart worth
FIRE DOES $400,000 DAMAGE WHEN GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC DOCK
IS BURNED—ONE MAN DEAD, THREE MIS8ING—MANY JUMP
INTO BAY TO SAFETY—FIRE MEN LOSE $6,000 HOSE CART.
$6,000, one of the newest in the city,
which had been run into the build
ing when they arrived on the scene,
and the men were forced to abandon
it a few minutes afterward.
A crowd of 30,000 people witness
ed the conflagration, which kept the
firemen busy for hours. The entire
dock was destroyed.
The Colman dock, on the next
pier, was damaged to the extent of
$10,000 and was only saved because
of the lack of wind. The terrible
heat made fire fighting hard, the.
streams having to work from long
distances. The fireboats did excellent
work and prevented the spread of the
fire.
Several small launches were de
stroyed but no large steamers were at
the dock at the time.
The office of the Admiral Line was
destroyed and the records of the
company lost.
Considerable freight for Alaska,
which had been brought to the dock
for shipment north on the Admir
al SaTnpson, was lost.
HAS SEEN HAND
' MIND ON WALL
Wisconsin Senator Who Purchased
His Seat in U. S. Senate Will Not
Be Candidate Again.
. MARINETTE, Wis., July 31.—Un
ited States Senator Stephenson ^has
announced' that he will not again.be
a candidate for re-election.He has
been senator since May 17, 1907,
when he was elected to fill the un
expired term of Senator Spooner, who
resigned.
Following Senator Stephenson's re
electlon in 1909 chargee were made
that he had spent 9200,ODO to secure
his election. An investigation was
ordered and testimony was produced
proving that while the senator had
spent the enormous amount of mon
ey to retain his seat h* had not
boom guilty Of ffattd. Hws tOfm ex
pires March 3, 1915.
WAR CLOUD BRINGS
PEACE TO IRELAND
Leader* of Faction* Jn Home Rule
Controversy Will Not Embarrass
the Empire Just Now.
LONDON, July 31.—It Is reported
here that the Irish home rule con
troversy has been settled in- a man
ner which will leave Great Britain
free to deal with the critical Euro
pean situation unhampered by str'fe
within her own borders.
The details of the settlement have
not been announced, but it is /be
lieved that through a sense of pa
triotism to the empire the leaders of
both the Ulster Unionists and the
Nationalists have agreed not to press
their contentions at the present time.
Plngree! Plngree! Plngree!
See the way Plngree shoes are
Anlrfbed.
STAGES HELD UP
NEAR GARDINER
Tourist* In Yellowstone Park Are Re
lievod of Valuable*—Troop*
Pursue Bandits.
GARDINER, Mont. July 31.—Two
masked men held up four stages With
130 tourist* . near the OW Faithful
geyser tout aecured W.0U0 in cash
and many valuables. The men dad
into the woods and although several
details of troops ale in pursuit the
bsndits pave - not been ceptured.
None at the tourists or driven of
the stages were an|ed. ss ThS guards
in the National Park require all gun*
to be left at the entrance to, the
pgrk or elae sealed The Eobher*
lined up the passengers and forced
them all to give up their belonging*.
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Change ot pictures tonight at the
Orpheum.
DEATH TAKES TOLL
OF JOYOUS CROWD
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Premature Explosion of Fireworks at
Spanish Festival Kills Thirty
and Hurts Fifty.
TOLEDO, Spain, July 31.—Thirty
persons were killed and more than
fifty others seriously injured here
yesterday during a festival when a
large Quantity of fireworks explod
ed. Many of those killed were de
capitated and their bodies terribly
mangled.
Thousands of spectators were gath
ered to witness the fireworks, which
was to be the dosing scene of the
festival. In seme manner which will
never be explained' the explosives
were prematurely Ignited and turn
ed the joyous celebration into one of
mourning.
Subscribe four the Prospector.
cun SAILS
UNDER OWN STEAM
Wat Found to Have Suffered Little
Damage From Being Submerg
ed for Over One Year.
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SEATTLE, July 31.—Wjreless mes
sages have been received here from
Southeastern Alaska stating that the
steamship Curacao, which sank in
Warmchcuck bay more than one year
ago, had been successfully raised and
would sail south under her own
steam.
,The Curacao was valued at $225,
000 and was not seriously damaged
when she went to the bottom as she
rested on a mud bottom. She was
loaded with marble and her cargo
was salvaged last fall but no at
tempt was made to raise the steam
er owing lo the uncertain weather at
that season. The steamer will be re
paired at Seattle and will again en
ter the Alaskan shipping trade.
FULL TICKET BY
FRAME CONVENTION
Robert Gray, of Katalla, Named for
Senator—Wickersham Followers
Wanted Ritchie.
The Frame-Wikidel-Dieringer con
vention held yesterday in the Orph
eum theater, placed a full territorial
ticket in the field for this division.
'Robert Gray was nominated by the
convention after Mayor E. E. Ritchie
and Representative F. M. Boyle had
refused to run on the ticket. Charles
Day, of Valdez; S. L. Colwell, of
Seward; T. B. Tansy, of Kennecott,
and N. E. Oldham, of Sunrise, were
named as representatives on the
Frame ticket.
■ Every effort was made by the
friends of the delegate to have E. E.
Ritchie head the divisional ticket as
senator. The men who fought him
the hardest at the city election were
crowding into his office urging him
to accept the nomination and aid
them in electing the delegate. The
mayor could not see it that way and
refused to itflpw his name to be used.
Representative F. M. Boyle also de
clIned because of a contemplated trip
to the states early next year, which
would prevent his attending the ses
| sions if elected.
Representative Robert Gray of
Katalla who was nominated as sen
ator after the. refusal of the other
two men to accept the nomination,
is not In Valdes and it is not known
here If he will take the nomination
of the convention, especlaly as his
friends claim he has no aspirations
to run as senator, but may consent
to run for re-election to the House.
T. B. Tansy, of Kennecott, was the
candidate last year for senator, but
was defeated by Senator B. F.. Mil
4»rd and L. V. Ray.
* Charles Day, who heads the list of
candidates for representative, is the
proprietor of the Seattle hotel and
a former member of the city council.
It. S. Cowell, of Seward, is a merch
ant in the westward town. N. E.
Oldham, is a prospector in the Cook's
inlet country and'ran for represen
tative two years ago, but was bur
led under the avalanche.
The Valdes Electric company’s
phone given you all the service you
need. Why pay for two? tf
Pingies! Pmgree i Ping real
S. Blum * Co. sole agents for the
Pingree shoe.