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VOLUMES XIV. / VALDEZ, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1016 NUMBER 8*1.
MOB FIGHTING
FOMON
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fp. primary Campaign Haa Re
iv| tr1****1 >■ Two Men Being Shot
V and Three Slander Suite.
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CHICAGO, Mar. 1.—The city pri
mary elections are being held today
and the contest is the bitterest in the
history of the city. Mayor
Thompson is fighting for renomina
tlon in order to vindicate himself of
Charges which have been pre
ferred against him of grafting from
Utty employes to provide payment for
Uihote signed by him to defray the
nil iw ill ~f the last election.
The mayor is also trying to secure
the defeat of nine Republican alder
5 Who have been opposed to the
4 linistratlon and have ham
3 . ‘mayor and city officials in
4 Jy They were responsible
j scent tying up of the city
* until the charges against
j lompson can be investigated.
campaign closed last night
Whfh public meetings in all parts of
t|m Ulty. and parades in which the fol
lowers of both sides frequently clash
ed. As a. result of the campaign' two
men have been shot, one whom will
ditj, and three slander suits have
been filed against prominent property
owners.
DESERTED WIFE
GETS DAMAGES
Seattle Contractor Must Pay Daugh
ter-In-Law $85,000 for Aliena
tion of Husband’s Love.
SEATTLE, Mar. 1.—Carola Jones,
17 years of age, was awarded a ver
dict Of $26,000 against her father-in
law, Tom Jones, whom she charged
with having alienated her husband’s
affections.' Jones is one of the most
contractors in this city,
and bounced that the case will
to the higher courts,
lease has attracted wide
... ,i young conple, both
of whom are under age, eloped from
Seattle and were married in Tacoma,
In ojfoosition to the wisheB of their
^Swrtllg the trial it was shown that
the contractor had offered h}s son in
ducements to give up his young wife,
and had caused an estrangement be
tween the couple, which fianlly led to
his deserting her. The jury reached
its finding in the case after being out
only a few minutes. i
SERMAN ORDER IS
MW EM
•mu People ere Demanding that
Admiralty be Free to Deal with
* British to Break Blockade.
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GERMAN DRIVE AGAINST FRENCH NEAR VERDUN
DEVELOPING INTO BLOODIEST BATTLE OF WAR
LONDON, March 1.—The German
offensive movement which began last
week against Verdun is rapidly de
veloping into the greatest battle of
the present war and may be an im
portant factor in determining the
length of the war as it is believed
that Germany is making her supreme
effort to cruBh the Allies on the west
as was the case with the Russians
during the great drive of last au
tumn. The battlefront extends for
twenty-five miles and it is estimated
that close to two million men are en
gaged in a death struggle.
The fate of Verdun, which has re
sisted all previous attempts at its
capture by the German troops is still
in the balance with both sides concen
trating their forces for a supreme
test of strength.
Germans Suffer Heavily.
BERLIN, March 1.—An official
bulletin posted by the German war
office says that good progress is be
TWO MILLION MEN HAVE BEEN CONCENTRATED ALONG TWENTY
FIVE MILE BATTLE FRONT AND OFFENSIVE MOVEMENT HAS
BEEN EXTENDED TO WESTWARD WHERE GERMANS CAPTURE
FRENCH TRENCHES WEST OF CHAMPAGNE — FORTY THOU
SAND GERMAN WOUNDED HAVE BEEN SENT BACK FROM THE
FRONT SINCE DRIVE BEGAN—FRENCH AND BRITISH TROOPS
BEING RUSHED TO REINFORCE BATTLE LINE.
Ing made in the attacks against Ver
dun where eight hundred thousand
German troops have been massed.
That the fighting has been terrific is
evidenced by the arrival of forty-one
trainloads of wounded from the front
and the complete tying up of all traf
fic on railroads to the French frontier
except for munition trains passing
westward and hospital trains bringing
the wounded from Verdun. Accord
ing to the official bulletin the Ger
man losses have been forty thousand
killed or wounded since the begin
ning of the drive against the French
troops at Verdun.
Offensive Movement Extending.
KONDON, March 1.—Official ad
vices from Paris last night state that
the German offensive movement is
extending along the western front,
and It is believed that the fighting
will soon become general from Ver
dun to the coast. The German troops
are reported to have attempted flank
movements against the French posi
tions in the Champagne district. It
is admitted that following a terrific
assault on the French positions on
the right of Champagne that the first
line of French trenches are now oc
cupied by the Germans. The assaults
on the French positions to the left of
Champagne was repulsed and heavy
losses inflicted.
Reserves Sent to the Front.
LONDON, March 1.—Advices from
the French army headquarters in
northern France are to the effect that
the Germans have started an offensive
movement in the Woever district and
that reinforcements are being rushed
northward from the training camps
near Paris. The dispatches also state
that all British and French troops in
France have been sent to the front
or are being held in readiness for in
stant departure to the front to rein
force positions which may oe threat
ened during the German drive.
GERMAN SUBMARINES ARE
.« AITUNG AULIE8 SHIPS.
LONDON, Mar. 1.—The Loudon
Chronicle’s correspondent at Am
sterdam has cabled his paper that a
spectacular submarine campaign
against the vesseis of the Allies in
the North Sea and English has been
planned by the German admiralty.
Trawlers who have returned from the
north state that numerous submar
ines were sighted off Heligoland and
it is believed that hundreds of vic
tims will be claimed by the under
sea flghtpj^ dyeing the first few days
of the campaign. H
DIAZ ESCAPES
INTO MEXICO
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Has Eluded the Vigilance of the
Department of Justlce—Organ
izing Another Revolution.
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 1.—•
Felix Diaz, the former Mexican gen
eral, whose every movement was be
ing watched by agents of the Depart
ment of Justice, is believed to have
given the detectives the slip and tak
en his departure for Mexico.
When Diaz returned to the United
States last November from Cuba,
where he had sought refuge from
General Huerta following the murder
of President Madero, both General
Carranza and General Villa lodged
complaints with the State depart
ment that Diaz was planning a new
revolution in Mexico from the United
States.
(Secret service omciais are iua
the border towns In an effort to lo
cate him and if found on the Amert*
:an side of the boundary he will be
arrested for conspiring to violate the;
neutrality laws of the United States.
Mexico City dispatches express the
'ielief that General ^ias will begin
his revolutionary movement by gath
sring an army of Indiana^ formerly a
part of General Oroscos Jtorce. It Is
also reported thatjQenehtl Digs
have the sui
leal party 01
of the Catha
President CarraspM
his. jov«B:m<mte^^;%
Forty Persons are In Hospitals Seri
ously 111 and Hundred and Fifty
Others Under Treatment.
SAN FKANCISCO, Mar. X.—Forty
persons are seriously iU and are un
der the care of physicians in hospi
tals, and one hundred and fifty oth
ers are slightly 111 as a result of be
ing poisoned at a supper given Feb
ruary 22 in honor of a Methodist
minister’s wife.
Detectives who have been investi
gating the case state that the poison
ing of the guest3 resembles that of
the Chicago University club when the
chef attempted to kill fifty guest3.
Many of those who are in the hos
pitals are in a precarious condition,
but the physicians are hopeful that
all will recover. Analysis of the foods
show that the soup served at the din
ner had been tampered with and the
guestB who omitted that course es
caped being poisoned.
THOUSAND LOST
ON BATTLESHIP
I'rencii Cruiser Hits Mine in Medi
" terranean Sea and less than
Hundred of Craw Rescued.
PARIS, Mar, 1.—The French ad
miralty has announced the loss of the
Prencft auxiliary cruiser Provence,
which urns'sunk off the coast of Malta
l»ht Saturday wheh she encountered,
a'floating mine. The eruiser carrled
a complement of more then eleven
hundred men and officers, of .which
ptpre than one tbopsage aremjlisipg.
. The dispatches were receiyed from
Malta where the survtvoto werS lanfb
;ed ’ • by a passing vessel which^M^,
picked them up from file wreckage'
hi the cruiser, ' /.
The Phoveace was one ot the lafCSt
cruisers to be added ,to the m&eh
n»vy u* she was «?ffkhleted in l|lk
at a cost of nearly $13,000,000.. She.
had a displacement Of - $3,MO .‘‘jpl
With an Indicated horsepower ol'&Kjr
260, and dutld| her trial tests d#«h
speed it twenty knots. She
ten lflft moh wuBmtwenty
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TWO CARGOES OF
DYESTUFF ALLOWED
British Government Will Authorize
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Passage of Two Vesels Thru
Blockade German Coast.
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WASHINGTON, March. 1.—It lias
been announce. .jy the "State Depart
ment that the British government has
agreed to permit of two cargoes of
dyestuffs being passed through the
blockade from Rotterdam to the Uni
ted States. The shipments will have
a value of five million dollars and
will serve to relieve the shortage of
dyes which has threatened to close
the large cotton factories of America
and throw hundreds of thousands of
men and women out of employment.
It is reported in congressional cir
cles that the British government is
permitting the shipments of the Ger
man products from that country as
a result of a personal appeal of the
American manufacturers to the Brit
ish ambassador, Sir Cecil Spring-Rice.
TWENTY LOST
IN GOAL MINE
Kxplosion of Gas Was So Terrific that
Timbers Were Blown from the
Month of the Shaft.
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KEMPTON, Va., Mar. 1.—A terrific
explosion of gas which occurred in a
ooal mine near here last night is
known to have resulted in the deaths
of twenty miners and it is feared that
many others who are imprisoned in
the workings will be suffocated be
fore *escuffp can reach them.
The explosion was ao terrific that
timbers wove hurled from the month
pt the mine and many honra of dan
gerous work was necessary before
the t-oHone**, ebnjd Tonthre into the
lower .leveUtWhere the "bodies of the
aria W&t&wd..' ■
. The rescue work is being carried
on under, the supervision of federal
government‘mine inspectors .elded by
the ‘'safety crews pt the mine. '
ANOTHER CHEMICAL PLANT
HAS BEEN DESTROYED.
WOEVERN, Maas., March 1.—The
chemical plant of the American
Chemical company, engaged in the
manufacture of. chemicals for the bel
ligerent nations of Europe, was de
stroyed last night by an explosion. It
is said that no lives were lost but that
the plant was damaged to the extent
of $100,000, and will Interfere with
the completion of contracts for chem
icals being supplied the British gov
ernment. The explosion, according
to officials of the due
to spontaneous combustion.'
WERE INSTRUCTED
SINK SUBMARINES
German Government Has Copies of
British Admiralty's Instructions
to Captains of Vessels.
NEW ORLEANS, March 1.—Pri
vate advices have been received from
a reliable German Bource stating that
a copy of the British Admiralty's in
structions to the captains of armed
merchantmen to attack submarines
is now en route to Washington from
Berlin.
It is reported that a copy of the
British order to the captains was but
recently received by the German gov
ernment and was responsible for the
Teutonic order to treat all armed
merchantmen irrespective of their
class or nationality, as warships and
sink them unwarned.
The order, it is said, furnishes
proof that the merchantmen of the
Allies were armed for offensive and
not for defensive purpose^. It is also
stated that rewards have been offer
ed the crews of merchantmen sink
ing submarines.
The German governfeidnt's note is
farther stated to strongly protest
against armed merchantmen being
permitted to enter and depart from
American ports a» Germany' holds
this action to bb in violation of neu
trality laws.
BELIEVED THAT GERMANY
WILL RAISE THE EMBABGO
WASHINGTON,. D. C., Mar. 1.—
ftmhasaader Barautorff has expressed
the belief that -us German govern
ment will lift the.embargo on the ex
portation of dyeetnflh ead will* permit
m •Wpmhote allowed bp the British
admiralty to pern through the block
tda Ths nggseUon baa beenmade
HES^£rE
*m »Mt:«wr lie shipments which will
*m* a vgjjMi.;pt;jlplittttoh-4oBare.
we have* been- handling the Farm
mglne for the part ftgyeartand
have derived less Income through
:hem for repair* than any other maV*
of engine Dn the Bay. Velde* Irpjn]
Works. . igd|||
MAY HAVE NEW
TYPE SUBMARINE
British Press Believes that Torpedoest.
and Not Mines Responsible for
Sinking Many Ships.
LONDON, March 1. The London
Press In commenting on the loss ot
the British liner Malajo and the
tanker Empress yesterday off Dover,
and the numerous other vessels which
have destroyed during the past two
weeks by striking mines, expresses
the belief that the Germans are Be
ing a new type of submarine and that
the vessels did not encounter mine®
but were torpedoed.
During the past two weeks fifty-one*
British vessels have been claimed by
the Germans or lost by hitting mines.
In each case the survivors reported
that no submarine had been in evi
dence but that the ships had struck
mines.
Naval officers discredit the theory
of a submarine being able to locate*
her victim and discharge a torpedo
without coming to the surface where
she would be seen by the officers
whose ships were destroyed. It i®
generally believed that the recent
heavy gales which swept along the
English coast caused the mines to
part from their moorings and drift
into the channel.
HEAVY ORDERS
STEEL BOOKED
United States Steel Trust OmmK.
Supply Orders Which Crowd b
from Europe and America.
NEW YORK. Mar. 1.—It is an
nounced that orders to the amount ot
more than two hundred and forty
million dollars have been booked hy
the American steel manufacturers,
since the beginning of the present
year. The major portions of the or
ders wero secured by the Unite®
States Steel Trust.
While European war munition*
form a large pai. of the orders whidt
have been placed during the past two
months they do not represent fifty
per cent of the total. During the
month of February orders were plan
ed by the Great Northern and other
railroads for twenty thousand cars bn
addition to heavy orders for ralht
and other equipment.
The ofllpials of the United Staten
Steel company say that their orders
booked during the past month exceed
ed the output of their plants by main
than five million tons.