MUCH RIOTING
INJMYONNE
ATTEMPT TO BURN OIL PLANT
Striking Oil Men Try to Fire the
Plant of the Tidewater Oil Com
pany—Seventeen of the Men Are
Arrested.
BAYONNE, N. J., Oct. 18.—Riot
ing by the striking oilmen lias broken
out afresh and numerous clashes be
tween the strikers and the police have
occurred. The strikers last night at
tempted to burn the plant of the Tide
water Oil Company, but were prevent
ed by the police, who arrested seven
teen of the men engaged in the at
tempt. The strikers threaten repri
sals if the companies continue to em
ploy strike breakers.
CAPTAIN LOST WHEN
VESSEL IS WRECKED
SAN DIEGO, Sal., Oct. 17.—Wreck
ed on the rocks of Santo Tomas point,
thirty-six miles east of Ensenada,
and their captain drowned, Ralph |
Rossi and Steve Zollezl, comprising
the crew of the Ashing schooner Sav
arlna, reached here yesterday on the
Ashing launch Two Sisters.
According to the tale of the surviv
ors, the Savarlna ran on the rocks
during a dense fog last Friday night.
Captain John Rossi, asleep on deck,
was thrown into the sea by the 1m
pact and was drowned. The vessel
pounded to pieces on the rocks in
less than Afteen minutes, and the
survivors were badly buffeted before |
they found refuge on the beach. The |
next day they were picked up by the
Two Sisters.
The Savarlna was thirty-eight feet
long, equipped with a twenty horse
power engine and was valued at $4,
ooo. She was owned by Rossi.
Alameda Goes West.
The steamer Alameda arrived in
port from the south shortly after 9
o’clock this morning, and sailed for
the westward shortly after 1:30 this
afternoon. - Her-passengers for Val
des were Axel Naeman, Mrs. T. E. i
Wikidel, C. M. Frazier, G. A. Vinger,'
Rev. Fletcher, M. R. Ellington,
Frank Kernan, S. Monson, J. Feaster,
Ed Sellers, Wm. O’Connor, Harvey
Sellers, James Fish.
Northwestern Due Midnight.
The steamer Northwestern sailed
from Seward for Valdez at 11 o’clock
last night, via I.atouche, and is ex
pected to arrive here about midnight.
Ed. Sellers was an arrival on the
Alameda from McCarthy.
A woman 22 years of age is suing
a man aged 71 in Poughkeepsie, N.
Y., for breach of promise.
WOMAN’S SKELETON FOUND
ON BEACH NEAR HOQU1AM
ABERDEEN, Oct. 17.—The skele
ton of a woman, apparently a victim
of drowning, was found on the tide
lands between Aberdeen and Hoqulam
yesterday afternoon. Efforts to estab
lish her identity have proved futile.
The bones still were covered with
some flesh but It is probable that she
has been dead more than a year.
Japanese Ambassador Arrives.
SEATTLE, Oct. 18.—Aimaro Sato,
recently appointed Japanese ambassa
dor to the United States to succeed
Baron Chlnda, arrived from Japan
last night on the liner Yokohama
Maru. Mr. Sato will remain here a
day or two before proceeding to the
capital.
LARGE AUDIENCE
SCHOOL EXERCISES
Exercises were held yesterday In
the different departments of the pub
lic school. In honor of Alaska Day,
the pieces rendered were confined al
most exclusively to the history of the
territory and stories of the early days
in the North.
The excercises of the lower grades
were held yesterday afternoon in
their respective rooms, and a large
number of friends and relatives of
the pupils attended. The little ones
did extremely well and were gener
ously applauded by the visitors.
The High School excercises were
held at the school house last evening.
Several original articles on Alaska
and songs and stories of the North
made up the program. The attend
ance was large and the efforts of the
speakers were well received. Follow
ing the program H. D. Reynolds, A.
C. Baldwin, H. R. Miller, Edward
Rucker, Prof. Davis and Mrs. Sallng
made short talks. The Cheechaco Lit
erary society, composed of the stu
dents of the school provided an elabo
rate luncheon for the members and
guests.
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WILSON'S APPEAL
WITHOUTOESULT
f'ONIMTIONS VERY STRINGENT
Ueiilles from Belligerent Nations Re
garding Relief for Starving Non
Combatants Are Unfavorable to
tlie Project.
I.ONG BUANCtl, Oet IS.—The re
plies from France and England to the
President's communications regard
,'ng relief for the suffering Polanders
■lave been generally unfavorable. En
gland and France both agree to the
Lending of supplies from the Uuited
Stales to Poland under certain condi
tions, as has also the Austrian gov
ernment, but these conditions are
such that it will be almost Impossible
to comply with them. In his letter
to the Powers the President pleaded
consideration for the millions of non
combatants in Poland who were slow
ly starving, but without result so far
as securing permission to forward
supplies to them.
TRYING TO MAKE UP
50 MINUTES IN A FOG
ALTOONA, Pa.. Oct. 17.—One man
was killed, another is missing and 22
persons including eight mail clerks,
were injured when the Mercantile
Express on the Pennsylvania railroad
crashed into the rear of a stock train.
The express was attempting to make
up 50 minutes lost time between Pit
tsburg and New York, it is reported,
and the engineer failed to see a red
signal, owing to a fog. Traffic was
blocked more than four hours. The
man killed was Scott Eichelberger,
Altoona, Pa., conductor of the stock
train.
“Scarecrow” was Dead Man
FOND DU I,AC, Wis., Oct. 17.—
Neighbors of Albert Engel comment
ed on the realistic scarecrow he had
erected in his cornfield but when they
called to ask him about it he was not
at home. His family said he had not
been there for a couple of days.
Wednesday morning Peter Haul
stopped to inspect the scarecrow and
found it was the body of the farmer
himself. He must have been hanging
In a tree at least a day and a night,
and a score of neighbors and auto
mobiles had passed without realizing
the fart. Engel had hanged himself,
without taking off his hat and the
wide brim concealed his features.
Cold Inside..
Cold weather has struck the into
rior. At Richardson this morning the
thermometer was down to 14 above
zero, and the road was frozen hard.
At McCallum, Paxson, Hogan, Gulka
na and Tonsina, snow was falling.
Nick Meckein came in this morn
ing from his mining property at Teia
hellr
Pete Cashman is in from Wort
man's today.
Sears, Roebuck Sales
CHICAGO, 111.,—Sears, Roebuck &
Co.’s sales in September were $9,716,
339, an increase of $156,627, of 19.
22 per cent. For the nine months end
ed Sept. 30 the sales were $94,706,
203, a gain of $19,228,903, or 24.48
per cent.
EXTRACT SERUM TO AID PARALYSIS VICTIMS
Photo by American Press Association.
While the Infantile paralysis scourge which attacked New York suddenly began to wane, physicians continued
searching for past victims of the disease who would give some of their blood for use as a serum. The Illustration
on left shows a child giving some of hla blood, while on the right la a paralysis putleut being treated for possi
ble curvature of the spine.
HUGHES STILL
AFTER WILSON
VAST EXPORTS, .Vo REVENUES
Republican Candidate Declares for a
Hlxli Protective Tariff as a Cure for
All Evils of Present Adminlstra^
•Ion—Country Hus No Income.
MITCHELL, S. D„ Oct. 18.
Hughes spoke here luvt night to a
''onshlerable crowd. His discourse
•vas confined largely to the tariff, and
in declared nothing could save the
country but a restoration of lhe for
mer high import duties. He pointed
‘o the eaonnous exports at present
going to the European nations and
the compar ttively small 1 icoine re
ceived from duties on imports.
grigsbyIkes
- DECIDED HIT
HAS ENTHUSIASTIC AUDIENCE
Democratic Candidate for Attorney
General Draws Biggest Audience of
Campaign at Ketchikan—Town Sol
id for Hulzeu.
JUNEAU, Oct. 18.—E. C. Austin,
the only delegate from Southeastern
Alaska to the Progressive Democratic
Wickersham convention at Valdez in
1914, presided at the Grigsby meet
ing at Ketchikan last night. A dis
patch from the Progressive-Miner at
that place, says Sulzer and Grigsby
will carry Ketchikan almost unani
mously. Grigsby made an excellent
talk, holding the close attention of
his audience for more than two hours.
He devoted his remarks largely to
Delegate Wickersham, analyzing his
record, and proviug his charges by
documentary evidence. The meeting
was the largest and most enthusiastic
ever held in Ketchikan.
DEAD MAN AT WHEEL
AUTOMOBILE RUNS WILD
OMAHA, Neb., Oct. 17.—P. S.
Trullinger, a real estate dealer, died
of apoplexy tonight at the wheel of
his automobile while the machine was
speeding down a steep hill. Mrs. Trul
linger, the only other occupant of the
car,was unable to remove the dead
man’s hands from the steering wheel
nor his feet from the controls. The
car collided with another automobile
at the bottom of the hill without in
jury to the occupants of either ma
chine.
Judge Takes Newsboy as Aid
PASSAIC, N. J. Oct. 17.—Isador
Schletter, a newsboy, has been ap
pointed by Judge Thomas P. Costello
of the city court as his associate in the
adjustment of juvenile cases. His
work will be to tell wayward boys
what it means to do right and how he
has made good money for himself by
selling papers and investing it wisely.
You can train a boy up In the way
he should go and it Is ten to one that
when the crucial test comes he’ll
balk.
WIRES LIKE SCISSORS
AMPUTATE HIS ARM
ABERDEEN, Oct. 17.—Gus Stunis,
a sailor aboard the steamship G. C.
Llndauer at the Wilson mill, lost his
arm just below the elbow last even
ing when it was caught in the wire
rigging of a sling. He was attempt
ing to clear one of the wires when
they swung together with such force
as to act as a pair of scissors and
cut off his forearm, which fell to th«\
deck.
To Accept Small Sums.
OTTAWA, Oct. 18.—It has been
decided by the finance department to
make use of 3,000 branch offices oi
the Canadian bank in the ne?t domes
tic war credit. The plan is to allow
an individual to open a savings ac
count with the understanding tlial
when it reaches $10 the account will
be turned into a war saving certitl
cate, paying possibly G per cent.
MRS. AXTELL WILL
RUN AS DEMOCRAT
OLYMPIA, Oct. 17.—Mrs. France:
C. Axtell, of Bellingham, has decided
to run for congress in the Second dis
trict as a democrat. She served notlci
to that effect on Secretary of State
Howell today.
Mrs. Axtell filed as a Progressive,
but later was urged to run us a
Democrat. The Democrats of that j
district put no other candidate in thej
field and she was nominated as a
Democrat as well as a Progressive, re
ceiving more Democratic than Pro
gressive votes. So she has decided to
be a Democrat in this campaign.
She was elected to the 1913 legis
lature as a Republican, but con
sistently voted with the Democratic
and Bull Moose factions in that ses
sion.
MIDDLE WEST
CAUSING ALARM
PLAN A VIGOROUS CAMPAIGN
Republican leaders Much Alarmed
Over Situation—Laborer* Desert
ing the Party for President Wil
son.
NEW YORK, Oct. 18.—Republican
political lenders hero are extremely
worried over the slump in Republican
strength throughout the middle west.
Particularly in Ohio and Indiana
there is a marked falling off in the
Republican ranks, the laborers thru
out that section ttoing over almost
in a body to the Democrat®. The
leaders admit these siates are ex
tremely doubtful, from a Republican
standpoint, and ure planning on a
vigorous campaign to round up the
deserters.
ALASKA DAY DANCE
A big Alaska Day dance will be
given in Moose hall this evening
Splendid music has beei* provided for
the occasion and an enjoyable time Is
assured all who attend. Everybody
invited.
Mrs. Wm. Crawford was brought
up from the Granite mine last even
ing and was taken to the Red Cross
hospital. She is suffering rrorn the
effects of a fall on the boat while en
route to the mine TaaT week.
GILMAN DENIES
HA VS NO DEAL WITH BAXTER
President of the Great Northern Pa*
rifle Steamship Company Iterlares
Report Sent Out from Seattle to Be
Without Foundation.
• PORTLAND. Ore.. Oct. 18.—Presi
dent Gilman of the Great Northern
Steamship Company in an Interview
toduy denies the report sent out front
Seattle to the effect that the Alaska1
Steamship Company has acquired the
steamers Great Northern and North
ern Pacific. Mr. Gilman did state that
he has had no negotiations with Pres
ide nt Baxter of the Alaska Steamship
Company for the sale or lease of these!
steamers to that company.
EMEL LEASES
THE GITY DOCK
WILL START SALMON CANNERY
Leaves on Steamer Alameda for the
States to Finance the Pro|tositioii—
Plenty of Fisli Here to Keep Can
nery Itusy Knt ire Season.
At a meeting of the city council
last night that hotly gave a lease to
the city dock to Joint Kmel, for a per
iod of three years, for cannery pur
poses, on very favorable terms.
Mr. Kmel will leave for the States
t>n the Alameda for the purpose of
financing the project, and expects to
have no trouble in raising the money
to instill the machinery for a one llm
cannery with a capacity of about forty
thousand cases of salmon.
The project has much to commend
it. There are a number of salmon
striams in this vicinity that have
never been fished, and which would
furnish an ample supply for even a
Ifger cannery than is projected by
Mr. Kmel. Ho lias spent several
months in prospecting these streams
.mil is confident that even in a season
of u sub-normal run of iish, there
would still he all fish the cannery
could conveniently handle.
The lease on the wharf permits
the installation of the necessary ma
chinery with a minimum of expense,
and insures the economical handling
of the fish before and after packing.
Mr. Kmel is a home boy with a fine
reputation for honesty and square
dealing. His proposition means much
to the town and should be enoouraged
by every citizen who has its welfare
at heart.
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POPUliATION OF Kl'HHIA
IS ON THE INCREASE
PETROGRAD. Oct. 17,—According
to the statistics for the year 1915.
which now are available the popu
lation of Russia increased, more than
53.000. 000. or 42 per cent, since
1897. It is increased more than 3,
800.000, or more than two per cent,
since 1914. The total population is
set down as "182.182.800.
HEAVY FIGHTING IN PROGRESS
EAST AND WEST FRONTS
AFTER HARD FIGHTING BRITISH ENTER TRENCHES WEST OF
SERRE ON SOMME FRONT—TKI'TONS ATTACK RI'SSIAN POSI
TIONS NEAR KIRLIHABA, HIT ARE RKPl’LKKD AT POINT OF
BAYONET—VIENNA REPORTS HESSIANS REPI LSEII WITH VERY
HEAVY MISSES AND 'HIE CAPTI RE OF 2,000 PRISONERS—AT
TACKS EAST OF BEI.LOY KEPI LSEII BY FRENCH — RECOGNIZE
THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT.
LONDON. Oct. 18.—After heavy
fighting the British on the Somuie
front have advanced and occupied
German trenches west of Serre and
have repulsed several counter at
tacks. The fighting has been partic
ularly sanguinary, both sides losing
heavily.
KussUns Repulse Germans.
LONDON, Oct. 18. —After a heavy
artillery bombardment, which made
a breach through the Russian barbed
wire entanglements, the Germans
made a heavy attack upon the Rus
sian positions near Kirlihaha, advanc
ing until they hail nearly reached the
Russian trenches when they were re
pulsed at the point of the bayonet.
Kog llani|>ers Movements.
PETROGRAD, Oct. 18.—Heavy
rains and fogs are seriously hamper
ing the movement of troops along the
northern and southwestern Russian
frontier. After heavy fighting yes
terday the Russians succeeded in tak
ing the German first line of trenches
along a wide front in the vicinity
of Sviniusky, which were held despite
five sharp German counter attacks,
which were repulsed at the point of
the bayonet.
Chain pious Republic.
LONDON. Oct. 18.—The Daily Mail
this morning championed the Greek
republic in a strong editorial.
CHAMBER OE COMMERCE
MEETS AT CITY HALL TONIGHT
A cordial invitation is extended to
all to he present at the meeting ol
the Chamber of Commerce at 8 o'clock
this evening. The Chamber hus a
membership of more than 80 and it is
to be hoped that all will be present
lo vote on the officers to be elected
this evening, for the ensuing term.
Mr. A. C. Baldwin will be one of the
speakers of the evening and he is too
well known to all Valdezans to need
any introduction.
IDAHO CAPTAIN SHOT
AND lll'RT AT BORDER
NOGALES. Ariz.. Oct. 17.—Cap
tain II. W. Wilson of the Second In
fantry, Idaho national guard medical
corps, was shot in the left thigh yes
terday afternoon while standing in
front of the Southern Pacific station
checking his baggage to return to his
home in Idaho. The bullet is believed
to have come from the Mexican side
of the line and a Carranza soldier is
said to have been seen running fol
lowing the shooting. Captain Wilson's
condition is not serious. He is in the
hospital here.
Attorney E. K. Medley will leave
on the Northwestern tonight to return
to his home in Cordova.
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PRINCE EITEL FREDERICK.
Kaiser's Sacond Son, Who
Commands Army Corps.
Russians Repulsed.
VIENNA, Oct. 18.—Heavy massed
attacks of the Russians south of Llp
nicaldolna were successfully repulsed
and the Germans captured 2000 Rus
sian prisoners including 35 officers
The Russians lost enormously in the
fighting north of Zaturge.
Merlin Confirms.
RERUN, Oct. 18.—A war office
bulletin issued this morning states
that the Russians lost heavily in the
recent fighting north of Zaturge.
German Attacks Repulsed.
PARIS, Oct. 18,—On the Somme
front several heavy attacks by the
Germans east of Belloy have been re
pulsed with heavy losses to the at
tackers.
Germans Attack.
PETROGRAD, Oct. 18—Under
cover of a heavy artillery fire the
Teutons made several attacks against
the Russian positions southeast of
llaticz, north of Stanislaus in Galicia.
They have been repulsed several times
hut to continue to drive forward.
Airmen Active.
PARIS, Oct. 18.—A w'ar office bul
letin states that 65 French and Brit
ish aeroplanes took an active part in
the fighting • on the Somme front
Monday.
SEVEN MEN EIGHT OVER
WOMAN; ONE DEAD.
('HIC’AUO. Oct. IS.—Seven tneu
fought a revolver battle over the sale
of a young woman for $200 early
today with the result that one of the
men was shot to death and another
so seriously wounded that physicians
say he will die. Fifty or sixty shots
were exchanged in the battle which
was fought in a roadhouse. The
girl had been sold to one of the mon
for $200, and another one wanted
her.
LAST NOME SAILING IS
SET FOR FRIDAY NEXT
SEATTLE, Oct. 18—The last Nome
sailing of the year will be the Victo
ria. sailing from Seattle October 20.
This will he the latest sailing of that
vessel since the beginning of the traf
fic to Nome but one. Last year she
sailed October 12. and made a suc
cessful trip.
BRITISH SEIZE MOVIE CRAFT
FOR A GERMAN SUBMARINE
NEW YORK, Oct. 18.—A wireless
message from H. H. Van Loan, a pas
senger bound here from Nassau on
the steamer Monterey, declares that
British war ships patrolling the vi
cinity of the Bahama Islauds have
seized a “submarine" owned by a
moving picture company while on its
way from New- York to Florida, un
der belief that it was a German craft.
Those in command of the subma
rine, the messags says, were compell
ed to return to Nassau where the
British officials warned Mr. Van Loan
who was in charge of the expedition
not to move her without permission.
The American consul identified Van
Loan, and he was permitted to leave
for New York. The consul has taken
up the matter with the State depart
ment at Washington to obtain the
release of the property submarine.
The craft was to be used to stage
Judes Verne's “20,000 Leagues Un
der the Sea." for a New York movie
syndicate.
GERMANS DROl* NOTE IN
CAPITAL OP RUMANIA
“j-mONDON, Oct. 18.—In a late raid
^>*1 Bucharest, the German aeroplane
^-lipped a note declaring that the city
■ -luld be laid in ruins in the Ruma
* mns kept on in their mad fight on
'll central powers. The note stated
v;kt it was dropped for the purpose
, J showing how defenseless the city
m and how easy it would be for
UTieet of aeroplanes to destroy It. In
view of the threatened raids the gov
ernment authorities are reported as
planning to bring numbers of foreign
ers who are now detained in concen
tration camps in the country adja
cent to Bucharest where they will be
lodged in places most exposed to at
tack