-* ~ VAIiDEZ, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1915 NUMBER 30*
YOliUME XIII. _ •
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FOIE OF EMPIRE
^ Jlioyd George Urges Knrollment of
Kighty Thousand Non-Skilled
Workers in Factories.
LONDON, Dec. 27.—Lloyd George,
minister of munitions in the British
government, has issued an appeal to
4 the union workers of England to per
mit the enrollment of eighty thou
sand non-skilled workers in the gov
ernment munition factories.
The fate of the British empire, the
statesman asserts, rests with the la
bor unions of England as the output
of the munition factories must be in
creased to equip the new armies, oth
erwise the victory for the British is
impossible.
The labor (unions of England have
heretofore refused to permit union
^ workmen toj^icrease their output to
the capacity^ V the machines and
have maintained the eight-hour day
despite all arguments presented by
the government officials.
Lloyd George declares that the en
rollment of the non-skilled workers
is of vital importance in order that
they may receive training which will
enable them to become competent
workers in the new munition factories
10 be established.
* TINES WHITES UP
THE LfOB USES
■Seattle Arctic Club, of Which Taft
Is Member, Declared to Hare
Hume Htandinjc as Tillikum.
SEATTLE, Dec. 27.—The Sunday
morning edition of the Seatte Times
contains a two column article re
viewing the prosecution of the Alaska
.liquor cases by United States District
Attorney Spence of Valdez.
After reviewing the history of the
various clubs in Alaska which aban
doned the custom of selling liquor to
memoers after' the decision in the
test catK^carried to the higher court
from Nome - the writer states that
the Arctic dub of Seattle is liable to
prosecution on the same-1 grounds as
the action against the Tilltkum club
and its members. Former President
Taft, former governor Sulzer of New
York, and hundreds of prominent
Alaskans are members of the Arctic
' club. Scores of Alaskana are enu
merated in the Times who are mem
bers of the Tilllkum Club.
In an interview with Sam Mum,
banker and merchant of Valdez and
Cordova, against whom information
. was filed by District Attorney Spence
in connection with alleged infractions
of the law the Alaskan says that the
offense with which he is chareed is
not extraditable and that he will re
turn to Alaska when he gets good
and ready. .
r; Mr. Blum says that the district at
torney has discriminated against him
and a few others as he could have
arrested other members of the Tllll
kum club who are now in Valdez.
Valdez people in the city declare
that the matter of the Tillikum club
was brought before the grand jury
last Bummer and that the jury had in
vestigated the charges and refused to
. *%ring in indictments as the club had
*' complied with the law after the rul
ing had been handed down by the Cir
cuit Court of Appeals.
Senator O. P. Hubbard of Valdez
is declared to be the Instigator of the
prosecution of the members of the
club, from personal spite, and that
the district attorney is acting upon
Information furnished by Hubbard.
The Seattle Arctic Ciub is taking
steps to endorse the Alaska clubs pe
■*%.., kitlon for the removal of Spence from
office, on the ground that he is using
his office to persecute the business
men of Valdez.
Masquerade Suite.
The Northwestern will bring a fine
line of Suits for the Mask Ball New
Tears Ere. See Mrs. E. G. Ames.
Tome early and get the swell ones, tf
POSTAIj RECEIPTS DOUBIjED
WITHIN TWEIiVE YEARS.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Dec. 27.—
The report of the Postal department
at the close of the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1915, shows that receipts
of the department have doubled with
in twelve years and last year reached
the huge total of two billion dollars.
The increase in postal receipts is
largely due to the inauguration of the
parcels post system. The European
war caused the receipts to fall off
nearly $87,000,000, but by economiz
ing the department has reduced the
deficit to $21,000,000.
N M
State Militia Repulses Mob of Whites
and Negroes Have Armed
to Retaliate.
MUSKOGEE, I. T., Dec. 27.—A
race war is threatened in this city
which may break out at any moment
and result in hundreds of whites and
negroes armed with rifles engaging
in a battle to the death.
A mob of armed whites numbering
hundreds, have twice attempted to
take two negroes from the jail to
lynch them, but have been repulsed
by the state militia. The negroes
were arrested on the charge of having
murdered a policeman Christmas eve.
The whites are gaining in numbers
and are apparently determined to
wreck the jail in order to reach the
murderers. Two hundred armed ne
groes have taken up positions on lots
adjoining the jail and are ready to
retaliate if the colored men are lynch
ed without trial. ■
PUKS IDE PURI
OF sinti OLIOS
Henry Frick will See that the Chil
dren Depositors of the Defunct
Bank Will Not Lose.
PITTSBURG, Dec. 27.—Henry
Frick, the well-known capitalist and
philanthropist, played the part of
Santa Claus to forty-one thousand
school children of Pittsburg and vi
cinity who were depositors with the
Pittsburg Bank for Savings which was
ordered closed by the examiners last
Wednesday.
When Frick learned that the chil
dren had deposits to the extent of one
hundred and seventy-thousand dol
lars in the defunct bank he caused
the children to be notified that he
would stand between them and the
loss of their deposits. •
Frick is in no way connected with
the Pittsburg Bank for Savings and
his payment of the losses sustained
by the depositors is his Christmas
gift to the children. The bank had
seventy-five thousand depositors,
thirty thousand of whom resided out
side of Pittsburg. It had received in
deposits during the past four months
the enormous sum of eleven million
dollars. The failure of the bank was
due to depreciation of bonds in which
the directors had invested the savings
of its depositors. • '
PORTUGAL’S SYMPATHY
IS WITH XjHE. ALLIES.
PARIS, Dec. 27.—The Portuguese
ministry has again expressed sympa
thy with the Allies and declared that
it would abstain from all party poli
tics and adhere strictly to a national
policy. The government will make a
strong effort to execute the laws pass
the lititude of Portugal in the present
war, safeguarding thus the dignity
and interests of the nation, lending
co-operation to right and Justice de
fended by England and her allies
whom the Portuguese people assured
of their full moral sympathy at the
beginning of the war and several
times since then.
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AUSTRIAN SUBMARINE SINKS
FRENCH STEAMER UNWARNED
LINER VILLA OIOTAT TORPEDOED IN MEDITERRANEAN SEA AND
EIGHTY PERSONS LOSE THEIR LIVES—KING CONSTANTINE IS
ILL WITH PLEURISY—GREECE TELLS KAISER ARMED RESIST
ANCE WILL BE OFFERED BULGARIAN OR TURKISH TROOPS IN
INVASION OF MACEDONIA.
ROME, Dec. 27.—Another steam
ship, the French liner Villa Ciotat,
has been sunk without warning in
the Mediterranean sea by an Aus
trian submarine causing the loss of
eighty lives. It is reported that the
submarine torpedoed the liner and
made no effort to rescue the drown
ing passengers and crew.
King Constantine Reported 111.
PARIS, Dec. 27.—Dispatches from
Athens state that King Constantine,
of Greece, is suffering from pleurisy
and is confined to the royal palace.
His physicians state that his case is
incurable but that he may survive
for months and possibly for years.
Greece to Resist Invasion.
PARIS, Dec. 27.—King Constan
tine of Greece is reported to have
wired Emperor William of Germany
that Greece will resist with armed
force any attempt of the Bulgarian
or Turkish troops to invade Macedo
nia to attack the Allies at Saloniki.
The message of the king of Greece
was sent to the German ruler in re
ply to the announcement that the
Teutonic troops would drive the Al
lies from Greece and then- withdraw
from the country.
Dollar Wheat In Australia.
MELBOURNE, Dec. 27.—The Brit
ish and French governments have
closed a contract with Australian
dealers for fifteen million bushels of
wheat at five shillings per bushel. An
embargo has also been placed on the
exportation of grain from Australia
except to nations allied with Great
Britain.
TERRIFIC STORM
HUS NEW YORK
Electrical Storm Accompanied by 90
Mile Gale Results in Ten Deaths
and Much Property IjOss.
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NEW York, Dec. 27.—The worst
storm experienced in years swept over
this city Christmas day, resulting in
ten deaths and thousands of dollars
worth of property being destroyed
along the waterfront.
The City was shrouded in a dense
fog for hours, which retarded traffic
and was followed by rain, hail, snow,
thunder and lightning, with a ninety
mile gale blowing.’
Advices from along the waterfront
are to the effect that many vessels
were damaged from being driven
against the docks in the gale. It is
feared that when communication has
been restored that it will be found
that the death list resulting from the
loss of vessels will be a long one as
the storm swept in from the Atlantic.
Telegraph and telephone commu
nication is interrupted in this city
and the lines in many sections are a
mass of tangled wires owing to the
poles having snapped under the bur
den of sleet on the wires. Signs
were torn from their moorings and
hurled into the crowds or through
the windows of the business houses,
and hundreds of pedestrians had nar
row escapes from being crushed un
der the falling timbers.
INDUSTRIAL FUND LOOTER
ARRESTED IN PORTLAND.
OLYMPIA, Dec. 27.—Frank Stone,
who is charged with being impltcated
in the looting of the Washington In
dustrial Insurance fund to the extent
of $15,000 by means of forged war
rants, has been arrested in Portland
and will be extradited to stand trial
here. Some sensational develop
ments are anticipated when Stone is
brought to trial as he has declared
that high ojcials of the state govern
ment are implicated in the looting of
the fund.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH XMAS
TREE TOMORROW NIGHT
The members of the Episcopal
church congregation will give a
Christmas tree at the Church of the
Epiphany tomorrow evening at 7:30
o’clock. A big Christmas tree has
lwjMtr wt up in the church
announced that Santa Claus wm Spa
some gift for every child present.
Parents are invited to be_ sure that
thBir children attend as those in
charge of the entertainment believe
that the more children present the
merrier the party will be and prom
ise that there will be no shortage of
gifts.- • . \
PRESIDENT Kill’S
COUSIN KILLED
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Assassinated in San Francisco while
Attending a Banquet—In I'.
H. on Secret Mission.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 27.—Wong
Yung, a cousin of President Yuan
Shai Kai, of China, and former edi
tor of the Asiatic News, printed in
Shanghai, was shot and instantly
killed here late Saturday night. He
was shot in the back and his assas
sin escaped despite the fact that the
alarm was instantly given.
Wong Yung had just arrived from
China, having come on a secret mis
sion and was attending a banquet giv
en by a local Chinese society when
he was assassinated. It is believed
that the murderer may have crossed
the ocean to claim his victim as nu
merous attempts have been made to
destroy the Asiatic News office to
gether with its staff.
Immediately after the assassina
tion pandemonium broke loose in
Chinatown and the members of the
tong whose guest was murdered start
ed a retaliatory warfare. Hundreds
of special police were sworn in and
are now patrolling Chinatown to pre
vent open warfare on the streets.
It is believed that Wong Yung had
come to America to secure the sup
port of Chinese societies in the United
States for the abolition of the repub
lican form of government and the
restoration of a monarchy with
President Kai as emperor.
BURTON EXPECTS TO
SEE PEACE SOON.
PITTSBURG. Dec. 27,.—Forftaer
Senator Burton, of Cleveland, who
is regarded as a possible Republican
presidential nomiuee, believes that
the enormous cost of military opera
tions in Europe win soon bring an
end to the war. He believes Ameri
can manufacturers should organize an
active campaign to win the trade of
South American countries and that
the movement should have the active
support of the government.
GENERAL, HUERTA 18 '
REPORTED VERY SICK.
EL PASO, Dec. 27.—General Huer
ta, former president of the Mexican
republic, who has been kept in pris
on here for several months on a
chars* of copipirins to invad* Mexi
co from thb United States, hie been
ordered by the court to be removed
from jail to his home as .he is seri
ously ill. Huerta was on trial when
his illness interrupted the proceed
ings and prevented the conclusion of
the conspiracy trial.
Subscribe for .he Prospector.
CONTEST CONFIRMATION
OF THE COMMISSIONERS.
ALBANY, Dec. 27.—State Senator
Robert R. Lawson will contest the
confirmation of the present Industrial
commissioners uy the senate.. He has
presented a copy of the finding* of the
coroner’s jury of the recent fire at the
Diamond Candy factory in Brooklyn,
in which twelve lives were lost. The
commissioners, who are severely crit
icised in the report, were named by
Gov. Whitman after the adjourn
ment of the 1916 legislature and their
appointments have not been confirm
ed.
MANY ALBANIANS
STARVE TO DEATH
King Peter, Who Fled from Serbia
Before the Invaders, Has
Reached Shelter in Italy.
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HOME. Dec. 27.—Advices from
Durazzo state that more than one
hundred and fifty thousand Alba
nians have succumbed to starvation
during the past year. It is reported
that misery and want extend to ex
ery part of the little kingdom as crops
during the past two years have prov
en failures.i
King Peter, the aged ruler of Ser
bia. who was driven from his coun
try, and took refuge in Albania with
the remnant of his troops, has reach
ed Brindisi, on the Adriatic coast of
Italy. It is reported that the aged
king suffered great hardships in
crossing the mountain ranges in his
flight to the coast. The patriarch is
confident that the invaders will be
driven from his country and that it
will be restored to him. The aged
king is en route to Rome.
FORD EXPEDITION
IS BREAKING UP
New York Suffrage Leader Declares
Austrian Delegate is Trying to
Run the Whole Show.
STOCKHOLM, Dec. 27.—Mrs.
Inez Mulholland Boissevain of New
York, one of the delegates composing
the Henry Ford peace expedition has
quit the party and will return to
America on the first liner leaving
from Christiana. She has verified the
rumors of dissepsions among the del
egates and asserts that the expedi
tion in so far as being able to accom
plish its mission of bringing peace to
Europe is doomed to failure.
Mrs. Boissevain, who is a promi
nent leader in the suffrage movement
in New York, asserts that Madam
Schwimmer, the wife of an Austrian
diplomat, and other members of the
expedition whose sympathies are pro
German, are trying to run affairs to
suit themselves. Many of the dele
gates have left the peace ship to be
come guests at hotels and say they
will return to the United States at an
early date.
Dance at Post Tonight.
The dance to be given at the Post
this evening by the Fort Liscum So
cial club, promises to" be weir attend
ed as a number of the young people
of Valdez have signified their inten
tion of .being guests of the Post to
night. The Post launch lAeut. Don
aldson will leave the. City Doqk at
8:i5 sharp this evening to take the
Valdez guests across the bay and will
bring them home again after the
dance. ,
ATjAMKDA wins in
RACE AGAINST TIME.
SEATTLE, Dec. 27.—The steamer
Alameda, of the Alaska Steamship
company’s fleet, won the race against
time and reached Seattle from Alas
ka in time to permit of the passen
gers and crew spending Christmas day
with relatives and friends in Seattle.
The Alameda is scheduled to sail tor
Southwestern Alaska points on next
Thursday.
SAYS LLOYD GEORGE
Ijondon Weekly Denounces Premier
Asquith for Failure of the Bal
kan Diplomatic Campaign.
LONDON, Dec. 27 —The London
Observer, which has heretofore been
a supporter of Premier Asquith,
prints an editorial denouncing the
premier and demands that he resigns
in order that Lloyd George may be
placed at the head of the British gov
ernment.
Premier Asquith is charged with
the failure of Earl Gray’s diplomatic
campaign in Balkan states through
the failure of the British government
to meet the demands of the Balkan
governments last spring for their ac
tive participation in the war on the
;side of the Allies.
The British premier is also charged
with failure to force the conscription
measure in order that the new army
demanded by Kitchener might be rais
ed for the spring campaign and has
failed to force the labor union lead
ers of England to permit workmen
to increase the output of the muni
tion factories. It is asserted that ev
ery concession gained from the work
ers of England have been granted to
Lloyd George rather than the British
government.
MILLION DOLLAR
STORM AT BOSTON
Blizzard Interrupts Traffic in Eastern
States and Two Men Perish in
City of Philadelphia.
BOSTON, Dec. 27.—A blizzard
which swept in from the Atlantic
ocean Christmas day caused damage
to the extent of more than one million
dollars in this city. Reports from all
coast points indicate that the hurri
cane was general and that a number
of lives were lost in the storm.
Perish In Snow Drifts.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 27.—A ter
rific blizzard is sweeping over this
state and has caused traffic to be de
moralized, all schedules of passenger
trains having been cancelled. The
bodies of two men, who had become
lost in the blizzard, were found by
the police in snow drifts in this city.
The blizzard is the worst to be expe
rienced for nearly thirty years and is
general throughout the state.
CANAL EXPENDITURES
. EXCEED THE INCOME
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 27.—
The annual report of Col. Goethals«
as governor the Panama Canal zone,
says that the expenditures during the
past year in keeping the waterway
clear has exceeded the revenues Hy
four hundred thousand dollars.
Col. Goethals expresses complete
confidence that when the present
slide has been cleared away that the
canal will not again be closed to ship
ping as thousands of square yards
are being removed to provide against
a recurrence of the blocking of the
waterway.
FORD SPENT $50,000
ON WIRELESS MESSAGES
NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Some idea
of the magnitude of the correspon- -
dence in which Henry Ford engaged .
may he gained from the announce
ment of his secretary that Ford spent
$50,000 on wireless messages while
the peace ship Oscar was crossing the
Atlantic from New York to Christi
ana. It is said the manufacturer re-'
peatedly wired the rulers of Europe
urging their oo-operatfon With hte
peace expedition to the Hague.
Chas. Whalen, who has a contract
for driving one hundred feet of tun
nel on the Alaska-Peabody Copper
company’s property on Sulphide
gulch, is in town to spend the Christ
mas holidays.