CABINET HI il
KING IMS POWER
fVirmer Premier V'enizelos of Greece,
Will be Called by King to Con
trol Destinies of Nation.
ATHENS, Nov. 5.—The resigna
tion of Premier Zamais and his cab
inet, appointed by King Constantine,
because of their advocacy of peace,
has placed the war party again in
control and it is believed that for
mer Premier Venizelos will be called
to the premiership by King Constan
tine.
Venizelos, it is believed, will re
appoint the members of his cabinet
who resigned with him when the
chamber of deputies refused to en
dorse his having given permission
to the allies landing troops at Sa
lorfika. He is an ardent supporter
of the treaty existing between Greece
and Serbia whereby they agree1 to
unite MKefdnse if either were at
tackCfTHtfBulgaria and it is regard
ed as only a matter of'a few days un
til Greece will enter the war.
Venizelos, in a public statement
issued yesterday, asserted that it was
time King Constantine recognized
the fact that the Greek cabinet and
not the king had the power of de
termining the policy of the nation.
The Greek parliament or lower
house, is in accord with Venizelos,
and blocked all measures inaugu
rated by Premier Zamais, finally re
fusing to endorse a vote of confi
dence in his administration which
had been passed by the chamber of
deputies.
SEATTLE TO GET
Till PLATE FACTORY
JKnglish Capital will Establish Eac
tory on Puget_Sound, Bringing
Ores from Abroad.
SEATTLE, Nov. 5.—Guily Owen,
a wealthy Englishman, who Is now in
Seattle, has announced that he rep
resents a eradicate which plans to es
tablish amillion dollar tin plate
factory ffeat Seattle, which will have
an annual output of 140,000,000.
Owen has been closely connected
with some of the greatest metal
works of Europe, and believes that
Seattle or some other point on the
Pacific coast, offers greater advan
tages to manufacturers of tin plate
than any place on the Atlantic coast
as tin ores are most abundant in
Australia, Bolivia and Alaska.
He believes that the opening of
the Alaska coal fields will enable
manufacturers on Puget Sound to se
cure cheap fuel and predicts that as
a result of the development of the
northern coal fields that the city of
Seattle will become one of the great
est manufacturing cities in the Uni
ted States.
Mr. Owen has visited Australia
and South America to ascertain the
extent of the tin deposits and states
that his company owns some of the
best tin-ore producing mines in the
South American republics, and that
it will operate its own line of steam
ers as ore carriers. Agents of the
company have also been in Alaska
looking over the tin mines of the
Seward peninsula and believe the
j mines will become big producers
when fully developed. He also re
ports that considerable placer tin is
shipped from Alaska to Wales each
year for treatment and believes that
in time Alaska will be a big produc
er of the metal.
beeama* MEN are
RECOVERING from hurts.
*.. w_ w. Barnett, the assayer at the
“*■ Bilamar mine, who was recently se
verely burned by a gas explosion in
( the mine, is reported by Ellamar peo
ple to be recovering nicely and will
soon be able to resume his duties.
Mr. Merrill, who was injured at the
same time, is also reported as on
the road to complete recovery.
VILLA PLANS TO
ATTACK GUAYMAS
Will Attempt Capture of City on
Gulf of California Before At
tacking Mexican Capital.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 6.—It
is reported here that General Villa
is planning the capture of Guaymas,
the principal city on the Gulf of
Mexico where he expects to recuper
ate his supply of ammunition before
attacking Mexico City.
The advices state that Villa is an
gered at the United States troops
for taking up positions paralleling
the Carranza positions and has de
clared that he will show no mercy to
foreigners in Guaymas when he cap
tures that city. He is also reported
to have stated that he would not
again attack a border town where
Carranza troops would receive a plen
tiful supply of ammunition from the
United States troops until he had a
plentiful supply of ammunition, and
then he would treat the Uni* States
troops in the same manner as the
Carranzaites.
Guaymas has a large foreign pop
ulation, including many Americans,
and it is believed that when Villa be
gins his attack upon the city he will
find United States warships ready to
shell his positions if the lives of for
eigners are'threatened.
TWO MORE ANCHORAGE
MEN ARE CONVICTED.
The United States marshal’s office
has received information that two
more of the defendants in the An
chorage liquor cases, Mandic and Oz
ich, have been convicted before the
U. S. commissioner at Anchorage,
making six convictions to the credit
of District Attorney Spence, who is
prosecuting the cases. Two of the
accused men plead guilty and were
fined $100 each, while eight others
elected to fight their cases before the
court. Four of the eight have been
convicted and it is believed that the
other defendants will change their
pleas when their cases come to trail.
Latest advices indicate that tha
report from Seward that the cases
had been transferred to Knik for
trial was an error as the dispatches
today state that the cases were tried
at Anchorage.
BUNKERS FIGHTING
GOULD INTERESTS
Believed that Determined Fight will
Be Made to Secure Control of
the Missouri Pacific.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 5.—Arthur
Coppell, a banker of this city, was
elected president of the Denver &
Rio Grande railroad to succeed Ben
jamin BUsh, who has been president
of the road for years, but who failed
to be re-elected owing to the Gould
interests having withheld their sup
port from him.
* It is believed that the defeat of
Bush, who is also president of the
Missouri Pacific Bystem, presages a
determined fight on the part of New
York bankers interested in the rail
roads against the Gould interests. It
is believed that the bankers will
make a fight to remove the Missouri
Pacific from’ the control of the
Goulds.
DANCE AT F’ORT
IJ8CUM this evening.
The Port Liscum Social club will
give another of their popular dances
at the Post this evening and it is ex
pected that a big crowd of Valdez
people will attend. No invitations
have been issued, but all who have
attended previous affairs of the club
will be welcomed. The Post launch
will leave the City dock at 8:16 sharp
taking guests to the dance and will
bring them back to Valdez again
when the affair is over.
KING CONSTANTINE
WILL JOIN ALLIES
Will Not Engage In War Until Allies
Have Sufficient Force in Greece
to Crush Bulgarian Army
SALONIKA, Nov. 5.—King Con
stantine of Greece, has yielded to the
demands of the war party and has
promised to join the Allies in the
war upon Bulgaria if the Allies prom
ise to send substantial aid to Serbia
which will prevent the Teutons and
Bulgarians from conquering King
Peter’s country. The king is re
ported to have declared that he
would not engage in war until a suf
ficiently large Allied army had been
landed in Greece to insure the crush
ing of Bulgaria.
King Constantine is said to be
lieve that King Ferdinand of Ruma
nia, is merely temporizing with the
Allies and that he intends to join
the Teutons when the Rumanian ar
my will count most in the struggle,
and has declared that in such event
he would immediately declare war
on Rumania as there is an existing
treaty between Greece and Rumania
to prevent the Teuton's extending
their influence over the Balkan
states.
INSANE FATHER
KILLS FAMILY
Had Recently Recovered from Inju
ry and is Believed to Have Be
come Insane—Suicides.
SEATTLE, Nov. 5.—George Rob
erts, a plumber, who Is believed to
have become insane as a result of an
injury which he recently sustained,
killed his wife and a daughter who
was blind, and severely wounded an
other daughter and son with an axe,
last night. He then committed sui
cide by shooting himself through the
head.
Roberts was injured in an automo
bile accident some time ago and has
but recently been discharged from
the care of physicians. He had been
injured in the head and it is believ
lieved that he became insane during
the night.
The son and daughter who escaped
from the insane father tell of the he
roic efforts of their mother to de
fend their blind sister and the at
tacks made upon them by their fath
er with the axe.
JAPANESE WILL SEE
THE EMPEROR CROWNED.
TOKIO, Japan, Nov. 5.—Millions
of Japanese from all parts of the em
pire are congregating at Kioto to
witness the coronation of Emperor
Yoshihito next Wednesday.
GERMANS EXECUTE
MORE CONSPIRATORS
AMSTERDAW, Nov. B.—It is re
ported here from Brussels that nine
more of the conspirators against the
German government in Belgium were
executed in Brussels yesterday. The
men were convicted of having furn
ished information to the Allies.
George C. Wilson, the printer
prospector, who is known in news
paper offices from the Arctic circle to
Mexico, arrived in town last night
from Lowe river, where he has been
prospecting during the summer. He
states that he has suspended opera
tion for the winter, but believes he
has found the place where his for
tune is and will be back in the Lowe
river country at an early date next
spring. Miners who have visited
Lowe river state that Mr. Wilson has
done an enormous amount of work
during the season, and believe that
he has some of the best placer ground
in this district, with a possibility of'
having a good pay streak when the
ground is fully opened.
SCOTTY ALLAN CAN’T
DEPART FOR FRANCE
Will be Delayed Until His Citizenship
Is Established—Cannot Secure
Passports from the U. S.
QUEBEC, Nov. 5.—Scotty Allan,
the noted dog musher of Nome, Alas
ka, who is here with two hundred
Alaskan dogs which w.ere purchased
by Lieut. Haas, a French army offi
cer, for service in the French win
ter campaign in Lorraine, France,
will be indefinitely detained and can
not accompany the dogs when they
are sent to France.
Allan has not as yet secured his
final citizenship papers and cannot
secure passports from the United
States government until his citizen
ship is established. There are sev
eral former Alaskans with Allen
handling the dogs and they will go
to France to assist Lieut. Haas, who
lived at Nome for some time, and is
familiar with dog driving.
Lieut. Haas believes the animals
will be of great service in the win
ter campaign along the border of
Switzerland, where the snow lies
deep in winter, preventing the trans
portation of guns, munitions and
supplies to the troops in the moun
tains by the use of horses.
VILLA OFFICER
HAS SURRENDERED
Says Mexican Rebel Leader Splitting
Forces Into Small Bands to
Engage In Guerrilla War.
DOUGLAS, Ariz., Nov. 5.—Colonel
Martinez, the Mexican rebel officer
who has fought under General Villa
since the beginning of the revolution
which resulted in the overthrow of
the government of President Diaz,
yesterday crossed the border into
Douglas and surrendered himself to
the United States troops.
Col. Martinez reports that General
Villa has exhausted his stores of am
munition in the attacks against Agua
Prieta and has ordered his followers
to split into bands for the purpose of
engaging in guerrilla warfare. He
says Villa has a band of several
thousand followers and believes that
they will ravage the towns of the
Northern Mexican states.
He believes the United States
troops will be required to assist Car
ranza in suppressing the outlaws and
in protecting the lives of foreigners
in Mexico as Gen. Villa is enraged
against all foreigners and especially
Americans since Carranza has been
recognized by President Wilson. Col.
Martinez asserts that the lives of
hundreds of Americans in the Mexi
can mining towns are in greater dan
ger now than at any time since the
beginning of the revolution.
GENERAL VILLA 18
REPORTED WOUNDED
DOUGLAS, Nov. 5.—It is report
ed here by Mexicans who have cross
ed the border and surrendered to
the United States troops that General
Villa was wounded in, the engage
ment yesterday. The Mexican gen
eral Is said to have been hit by a
spent bullet which inflicted a severe
but not fatal wound.
WEALTHY ARCHITECT IN
TOILS OF THE LAW.
CHICAGO, Nov. 5.—Frank W.
Wright, a wealthy architect and one
of the prominent clubmen of Chi
cago, has been caught in the meshes
of the Mann white slave law and has
been arrested for taking a sculptress,
who is equally well known in Chica
go, to a cottage in Wisconsin, where
they are alleged to have lived as a
man and wife. The arrest of Wright
has caused a sensation in social cir
cles in this city in which he and his
affinity were prominent.
Fresh cream and buttermilk al
ways on hand at Love-Whitley’s. tf
DURING BATTLE
Four Meet Death While on Errands
of Mercy to Care for Wounded
Mexican Soldiers
DOUGLAS, Ariz., Nov. 5.—Four
Americans were killed while taking
hospital supplies to the wounded Vil
la soldiers during the engagement
yesterday afternoon when Agua Pri
eta was again attacked by a portion
of Gen. Villa’s army.
The Americans were civilians who
had volunteered to assist in caring
for the hundreds of wounded Villa
soldiers who have remained without
medical attention for several days.
The Villa forces are in a terrible
plight as they are on the verge of
starvation and lack even the simplest
means of providing for their wound
ed.
The bodies of hundreds of soldiers
left on the battlefield when General
Villa withdrew from the attack of
Agua Prieta have been buried by the
Carranza soldiers. Many of the
wounded were left behind and are
being fed and cared for by the citi
zens of Douglas. Neither the Villa
nor Carranza soldiers made any at
tempt to take prisoners and those
who were captured were executed
without trial of any form.
VILLA HAS WISHED
HIMSELF ON NACO.
NACO, Mexico, Nov. 5.—General
Villa, the Mexican rebel leader, ar
rived here last night and has an
nounced that Naco will be the capi
tal of a provisional government he
will establish in the northern states.
The rebel general has a following of
several thousand fighting men and
believes he will be able to capture
Agua Prieta when he has secured a
shipment of ammunition which he is
expecting.
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CHINESE PRESIDENT
HAS LARGE EAMILY.
PEKING, Nov. 5.—Should Presi
dent Yuan Shi-Kai of China, attain
his desire by placing himself on the
Chinese throne an Emperor, he will
not lack for heirs as his sixteenth
son was born yesterday.
HOME IS SHUT III
FOR THE WINTER
Last Steamer of Season Sailed Yes
erday for the South with a Rig
Crowd of Passengers.
NOME, Nov. 5.—The steamer Vic
toria, the last boat of the season,
sailed for the south last night, car
rying hundreds of Alaskans who have
been detained through business to
the last minute. The steamer car
ries one of the largest crowds ever
taken from Nome, and the city seems
deserted since their departure.
It is estimated by persons who
have kept a record of the incoming
and outgoing passengers during the
summer that the population of Nome
will be slightly decreased during the
coming winter over that of a year
ago. The Victoria carried many
Nomeites who hastily arranged their
business affairs for the winter in or
der to take the steamer to the
States and enable them to visit the
San Francisco exposition before the
close.
CITY OF PUEBLA WILL
LEAVE SEATTLE TONIGHT.
SEATTLE, Nov. 5.—The steamer
City of Puebla, which is under char
ter to the Alaska Steamship company
to make another trip to Southwest
ern Alaska, will sail from Seattle to
night with a heavy passenger list and
a capacity cargo of general mer
chandise.
Valdez Drug Company nave a fine
line of School Stationery. tf.
CONSPIRATORS
ARE ARRESTED
Federal Officials Investigating Plot
to Wreck Munition Factories
Arrest More Germans.
NEW YORK, Nov. 5.—Twelve
more persons who are believed to
have been involved in the German
conspiracy to destroy munition fac
tories in the United States, were ar
rested yesterday. The number in
cludes some of the most prominent
German citizens of New York city,
and their arrest as conspirators has
caused a sensation in German
American circles.
Robert Fay, the German army of
ficer, whose arrest disclosed the con
spiracy to cripple munition plants
manufacturing shells for the Allies,
is said to have furnished the infor
mation against the Germans arrest
ed yesterday.
Walter Scholz, the alleged German
agent, who was arrested with Fay,
has engaged counsel to fight his case
before the court and asserts that he
was not implicated in Fay's conspir
acies and believes that the latter
will be found to be a British agent
and not an officer of the German
army as claimed.
Federal agents have learned the
identity of the owners of the Ameri
can yacht which assisted the German
naval officers who broke their parole
and escaped from Newark and it is
reported that they ahd been arrested.
6REATER DEFENSE
CAMPAIGN OPENS
President Wilson Summons all True
Americans to Sup|K>rt of Ad
ministration's Program.
NEW YORK, Nov. 5.—President
Wilson, speaking before the Manhat
tan club last night, opened the cam
paign for a greater national defense
as endorsed by the administration.
President Wilson declared that
greater naval and military forces
were absolutely necessary for the de
fense of the nation and that to neg
lect to prepare for possible attack
by a foreign power would be crimi
nal. He disavowed the assertions
that because a nation is prepared
for war that it must necessarily fol
low that she will seek war for ag
gressive purposes.
The president said he believed the
time had come when the United
States must prepare to assume her
full liberty and self-government. He
predicted that the United States
would never again take a foot of
territory by conquest and declared
thit tlie mission of the United States
in the affairs of the world was one
of peace.
President Wilson summoned all
Americans to the support of the ad
ministration’s greater national de
fense program and declared that it
was high time when real Americans,
no rfiatter what the country of their
birth, should call the hyphenated
citizens to reckoning for their antag
onism to this country in which they
had elected to live. He believed it
the duty of all Americans to rebuke
manifestations of racial feelings as
the United States was composed of
citizens from every country in the
world.
It was announced Dy rtepreseuia
tive Julius Kahn, of California,
chairman of the National Defense
League,' that meetings will be held
in all the big cities as a means of
focusing the eyes of the whole coun
try on the preparedness for national
defense agitation, believing that it
will have an Important effect on the
action of congress at the coming
sion for adequate defensive meas
ures.
Two Screams.
“The Manicurist,” a comedy that ia
a hit and "Sam’s Despondency," an
other scream. At the Liberty Thea
ter tonight, admission always the
same—26 cents. *