VOLUME XIV VALDEZ, ALASKA, SATURDAY. MARCH 8, 1917 NUMBER .VJ
ELECTIOH BOARD
IS MJDAMOSED
WEARING BE HAl) ON TUESDAY
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District Court at Juneau Issues Writ
Ordering Board to Show Cause
Why Certificate of Election Should
Not Be Issued to Sulzer.
Hearing Postponed.
JUNEAU, March 3.—At 2 o’clock
this afternoon a motion was made lo
postpone the hearing on the man
damus proceedings until Tuesday aft
ernoon on account of the Canvassing
Board having been unable to secure a
legal representative. District Attor
ney Smiser had been retained by the
Board, but stated that he was not
Qualified to appear in the case. The
court granted a postponement of the
hearing until Tuesday afternoon
next. .
Jennings Issues Writ.
JUNEAU, March 3.— Yesterday aft
ernoon Judge Jennings of the Dis
trict Court, issued an alternative writ
of mandamus, returnable this after
noon, directing the Canvassing Board
to show cause why its members should
no* issue a certificate of election to
Charles A. Silzer. Attacks have
been made on 'he precincts where no
oihcial ballots were used and no cer
tificate of “xpianatiou returned. If
’.he court should hold the same as At
torney-General Grigsby in his opinion
rendered thi:week, Sulzer will be
• lected by a sma.il plurality.
GUFF MINE IS
k OBJECT_OF SUI1
>FKK INTEREST IN PROPERTY
Kdmund Smith, George C. Treat and
Logan Archibald Bring an Action
to Recover a One-Fifth Interest In
Noted Mining Property.
A suit has been filed in the District
Court by Edmund Smith, George C.
Treat and Logan Archibald for a one
fifth interest in the Cliff mine, and it
is expected the case will come up for
trial in the near future in some of its
phases. This suit is the outgrowth
of a similar action brought something
over a year ago, in which judgment
was rendered by the court in favor of
the plaintiffs. Later the appellate
court reversed the judgment of the
lower court on the purely techinal
ground that the complaint did not set
forth a cause of action. Lyons &
Hitchie and Donohoe & Dimond of
Valdez, Smith, Worthing and New
comb of Seattle represent the plain
tiffs and L. V. Ray of Seward, has
been retained to represent Mr. Ellis.
X. Y. MOTHER LODE
RUMORS UNFOUNDED
SEATTLE, Wash.—Refutation of
recent rumors circulated in New York
suggesting that the present control
«,f the Mother Lode Copper Company
i would in the near future pass to the
Kennecott Copper have been n ade by
officials of the former company
It has been learned from persons
closely in touch with the operations
f the Mothe*- Lode Copper Company
whose home ofhca is in the coy. that
:.c such consolidation is even being
contemplated, and it is felt that the
rumors circulated flud their source at
The hands of stock manipulators rath
er than with the principals of either
•u the copper companies.
Hollweg Sure of Victory.
T BERLIN, March 3.—Chancellor
Bethman Hollweg in addressing the
Reichstag said that there must be no
’bought except fight to ultimate vic
tory, which was now assured.
A. A. Schonbeck, one of the prom
inent business men of Anchorage,
was a through passenger on the
Northwestern for the States.
WANTED—Work by the day or
hour. Phone No. 156. It
GERARD WARNED AGAINST
SAILING DIRECT TO U. S.
CORUNNA. Spain. March 3.—Prior
to sailing on the steamer Infanta Isa
bella for Cuba. Ambassador Gerard
stated that the day he left Berlin a
German friend who is in high official
position, warned him not to sail from
Spain for the United States. He said
he regarded the warning as given in
all seriousness and as he knew of no
other way of reaching home sailed fo"
Cuba. The reason for the warning
or what was contemplated was not
known to the ambassador.
EM SESSION
IS UNNECESSARY
I
MAY BE CALLED LATE SPRING
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Senate Leaders .Assured President
Will Take No Artion Which Might
Cause War W'ithout Assembling
Congress—No Session Until Forced
WASHINGTON, I). C„ March 3. —
Democratic leaders in the Senate, it is
asserted, have received assurances
that President Wilson will not pre
cipitate war with Germany without
calling an extra session of Congress
and this will not be done unless an
extraordinary crisis arises. It is con
sidered that an extra session immedi
ately following the present one. will I
be unnecessary, and unless forced to j
do so the President will not call an
extra session u- til in the spring, when
a session will be necessary to pass tat.
appropriation bills.
DOGS HAVE RESCUED
EIGHT THOUSAND MEN
BERLIN, Mar. 3. The Taeglicht j
Rundschau publishes statistics which:
show that since the beginning of the [
present war the trained dogs attached i
to the ambulance corps of the German '
army have saved the lives of more
than 8,000 wounded officers and men.
All of these wounded would have
perished, because they were in ditches
swamps, underbrush and other places
where they never would have been
found. About 2,000 of the men saved
by the dogs were French, English,
and Russian soldiers.
Fine Pictures Tonight.
A line enteresting Rathe Program
at the Empress in Eagle Hall this
evening including Rathe News and
Pearl White in a Gold Rooster dra
ma. ‘The King’s Message,’’ in five
acts. On Sunday evening a Triangle
program with Fatty Arbuckle, in a
roaring comedy.
Buffalo Bill Memorial
DENVER, March 2.—Articles of
incorporation of the William E. Co
dy Memorial Association have been
filed with the secretary of state. The
association was organized for erec
tion of a memorial to Buffalo Bill
on Lookout Mountain, where the b~dy
is to be buried.
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JOSEPH P. TUMULTY.
Prddiddnfa Merdtiry Denied Any
Knowledge of Peace “Leak."
Pnoto by American tJreaa Aeaoctailon.
GERMANY ADMITS PLOT TO
EMBROIL THE UNITED STATES
AMSTERDAM REPORTS GERMAN PRESS ADMITS GERMANY INVIT
ED OTHER NATIONS TO JOIN HER IN THE EVENT WAR DE
CLARED BY THE UNITED STATES—ASSERT TREACHERY CAUSE
OF PUBLKTTY — ZIMMERMAN ADMITS TRUTH OF STORY BUT
SEES NO UNFRIENDLINESS IN GEMRA NY’S ACTION—WAS US
ING UNIVERSALLY APPROVED MEANS TO DEFEND NATION.
LONDON, March 3.—Amsterdam,
quotiug German publications, says
Germany admits inviting other pow
ers to join her in the event the Unit
ed States declared war against her,
and states that instruct.ons were sent
to the German minister at Mexico
City in the middle of January author
ing him to offer an alliance with
Mexico if the United States interv.-n
ed in Mexico, otherwise Germany was
to taki no part in Mexican affairs.
The Gorman news agency expresses
surprise that the plot should have
been known to the United States, and
the charge is freely made that there
has been treachery on the part o
some German official.
Zimmerman Admits Plot.
BERLIN, March 3.—Secretary of
Foreign Affairs Zimmerman admits
the truth of the story Just made pub
lic In the United States that Germany
had planned to embroil the United
States in war with Mexico and Jaf.an.
and justifies this action on the ground
that the United States acted similarly
in South America against Germany,
and he asserts this thoroughly justi
fied Germany's action as a precaution
for the defense of the nation.
He professes to see no unfriendli
ness in this action stating that he
merely used universally approved1
means, and quotes an American cor
respondent as declaring that Ameri
ca only awaited the proper moment to
aid the Entente Allies and comment
ed at length on the pro-Entente ten
dencies of the United States.
PIONEERS AI THE
AMBUREAU
ENTERTAINED LAST EVENING
Seattle Organization Holds Entertain
ment for Pioneers of Northland—
Many Pictures and Curios on Exhi
bition—Large Number Attend.
SEATTLE, Mar. 3.—The Alaska
Buieau of the Chambei of Commerce
entertained last night a number of
Alaska Pioneers now in the city. Pic
tures showing the history of the de
\ elcpn.ent of the Territory, a copy of
the first newspaper published in the
North, and many curios and Eskimo
and Native articles were exhibited.
ELOPER HAD BUTTER AND
CRACKERS AND 3 CENTS
CALDWELL, Idaho, Mar. 3.—A
suspicious taxicab driver, an inquisi
tive hotel clerk and the law combined
to end love’s dream for 17-year old
Oznia Williams and 20-year old Mary
Lane of Caldwell, Idaho, who had de
cided to marry against parental con
sent on a cash capital of 3 cents.
The couple persuaded- a- taxicab
driver to drive them to Twin Falls
promising him $75. Their failure to
pay the cab and hotel bill led to their
arrest on a petty larceny charge.
When searched Mr. Williams pock
ets revealed a box of artificial hair;
two dreses belonging to his compan
ion; half pound of butter; a quantity
of crackers, and 3 cents. Sheriff Fro
man returned here with the couple
today. They declared they intended
to marry but their parents objected.
The Canny Scott.
A tight-fisted old man, being mor
tally ill. called to him his three best
friends, who were an Englishman, an
Irishman and a Scotchman. He re
minded them that they each owed
him $100 and expressed the dying
wish that before he was buried they
would discharge their obligations by
depositing the money they owed him
beside him in his coffin.
They all agreed and when their
friend died the Englishman solemnly
placed $100 in Bank of England notes
in his late friend’s coffin.
The Irishman laid $100 in gold be
side the notes, and the Scotchman,
who had waited until the last, took
out the $200. leaving in Its place his
check for $300.—Exchange.
Nate Coombs, representative from
the Second Division and residing at
Council, was a passenger for Juneau
o.i the Northwestern, having come out
over the Iditarod trail to Seward He
hft Nome fiva days ahead of Scotty
Allen and exp.’o*-d to meet Allen at
Cordova.
VETERAN SLEUTH
CHARGED ACCEPTED A BRIBE
Prosecutor Lund in Causes Arrest of
Detective and Patrolman for Tak
i
ill” .Money to Protert Gamblers in
Seattle.
SEATTLE. Mar. 3.—Prosecutor:
Luudin today caused the arrest ot the
\etcran city Detective Fraser, gener-1
ally known as Chief of Police Beck
ingliant's right bower and Patrolman
Ross, both charged with accepting'
bribes of $100 for protecting gamb
lers.
Enlistment Bar Ianvered
DULUTH, Minn., Feb. 26.—Capt.
W. E. Walker, of the United States
Marine Corps, announced today a
new standard of enlistment. It per
mits acceptance, according to Captain
Walker, of applicants with slight y
defective eyesight, hearing and teetn,
provided each prospective marine has
20 sound teeth. Slightly under
height candidates will be accepted
he said.
FRENCH MAY OFFER A
PRIZE FOR SINKING SI RS
PARIS, Feb. 26.—A prize of 500.
000 francs for the crew of any French
or allied vessel which succeeds in
destroying an attacking submarine
is provided for in a resolution in
troduced in the chamber of deputies
today by Andre Lefevre. The resolu
tion says that the Germans are at
tcaking without distinction ships of
all nationalities, armed or unarmed,
and that this creates a new situation
which must by no means be neglected.
Train Carrying Wounded Wrecked.
AMSTERDAM. March 3.—A train
carrying 233 invalided Russian sol
diers on the way home from Ger
many through Sweden was derailed,
killing 23 insane in the first car and
25 in other cars of the train.
Rev. G. J. Zinn returned on the |
Northwestern from a visit to Sew
ard where he has been on business
connected with the Episcopal church.
Chief Clerk Alvah Eames of the
mail service was a through passen
ger on the Northwestern from Sew
ard to Cordova.
J. J. Campbell, one of the jurors
in the coming court session, was an
arrival from Seward on the North
western.
Dave Bennett left this morning to
return to the Ramsey-Rutherford
mine after spendiug a couple of days
in town
MAN’S EYES ARE FROZEN
WHEN FOUND IN A DRIFT
MANSFIELD. O.. Mar 3.—With
his hands, feet, and eyes frozen,
Charles Smith of Toledo, was brot
to a hospital here this morning and
is- in a serious condition. Smith got
on a train at Toledo, intending to
go to Pittsburg, but was put off the
train at midnight near Vertion, whei
the conductor accused him of raising
a disturbance. He saw a light from
a farm house, but fell in a ditch in
a drift and could not get out. He was
found later and brought here.
NEUTRALITY BILL
BEFORESENATE
STONE AMENDMENT ADOPTED
Prohibits Protection to Ships Carry
ing Munitions of War—Cummins
Would Authorize President to Fur
nish Convoys to Merchantmen.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ March 5.—
Late last evening the Senate took up
the armed neutrality bill for consid
eration after the parliamentarians
headed by Senator Stone had killed
Chamberlain's attempt to secure pre
cedence for the Army appropriation
measure. Stone succeeded in attach
ing an amendment to the measure
prohibiting the protection of munition
carriers, and Senator Cummins of
Iowa offered an amendment authoriz
ing the President to furnish warships
through the war zones.
WILL ITT NETS AT
ENTRANCE TO SOl'NI)
SEATTLE, March 3.—Steel nets
are to be thrown across the entrance
to the Strait of Juan de Fuca as a
protection against German submarine
attacks on Puget Sound. Contract
for the construction of this net has
already been let. It will be similar
to those at Hampton Roads and New
York on the Atlantic Coast.
Evans Sails North.
SEATTLE. March 3. The steamer
Admiral Evans sailed for Valdez and
way ports last night. Her passengers
for Valdez are H. Cowley. Mrs. W.
Levy and one steerage. For Latouche
the only passenger was Roy Sample.
Crescent .Man in City Today.
C. L. Knauss, Alaska representative
of the Crescent Manufacturing Com
pany of Seattle, with headquarters I.i
Juneau, arrived on the Northwestern
from Seward, and is extolling the
wares of that well known house to
the various local merchants.
Emil Davis left on the Northwest
ern en route to the Tenake Hot
Springs where he will remain about
a month.
H. E. Ellsworth came over on the
Northwestern from Seward, having
been drawn as a juror for the com
ing term of court.
WILLIAM J. HARRIS.
Succeed* E. N. Hurley a* Head
of F*d*ral Trad* Commission.
Photo by American Press Association
GERMANS FINANCE
CARRANZA REGIME
SKNI> MILLIONS TO MKXICO
High Official of Administration Claims
to Have I’nsif Germans in United
States Sent Money to the Mexican
President.
WASHINGTON. I). C. March J.- ~
From a high authority in the Admin
istration it is learned that German
in the United States have sent to
President Carranza, of Mexico. se\
eral millions of dollars to finance his
government r>'his amount has been
largely made up of so-called person.nl
loans, and some has passed to the
I resldent for the alleged purchase of
smelters. It is also stated that the
Administration has positive proof
that the German Ambassador Von
Bernstorff issued the instructions to
the officers and crews of the interned
German steamers in United Slates
forts which resulted in the smashing
of the machinery on most of these
ships when the break came between
! the United States and Germanv.
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SENATE PASSES
THE NAVAL BILL
A I* I* K OPRIATKS
.Measure Passes Without Hull-tail.
Party lanes Kvitlcntly Having Been
Set Aside by German Conspiracy
Revelation.
WASHINGTON, I). (’.. March 1.
The Senate last night passed the g'ta't
i.aval appropriation bill carrying sinus
for naval purposes aggregating $535,
000,000. The measure was passe l
without roll call, the Germany con
spiracy revelation having evidently
buried partisanship, as the bill went
through without material opposition.
The threatened filibuster by I.aPoi
lette and other Pacificists failed to
materialize.
KKNXKCOTT COPPKH
SKTS A BIG RKCORB
BOSTON, Mar. 3.—Front all its
mines the Kennecott Copper Corpora
tion turned out 11,878,000 pounds
of copper in January which was a
slight increase over the previous
month. Both the Alaskan mines and
the Braden contributed to the gain,
although the major part of the in
crease was from the former.
Now that the Kennecott owns all
but a very t'ew shares of the Braden
company, the latter to all intents and
purposes is an integral part of tne
Kennecott and places this compai.v
in fifth position among the big pro
ducers. being exceeded by the Ana
conda. the Uhelps-Dodge, the Utah
Copper and the Inspiration.
Kennecott's normal output from
the Bonanza and Beatson mines in
Alaska at the present time may be
rebarded as bout 7,000,000 pounds
monthly lthough for six consecu
tive months last year this output
exceeded 10,000,000 pounds. Of this
total the Beatson properties furnish
about 1,000,000 pounds, but by the
middle of this year, with the com
pletion of the expansion plans, it
should be contributing at least 3,
000,000 pounds a month.
Chehalis Mayor Indicted.
CHEHALIS, March 3 —Dr. J. T.
t Coleman, four years mayor of Che
halis, has been indicted by the grand
jury on the charge of violating the
prohibition law. It is alleged he gave
Fred Nehring a prescription for two
pints of liquor when he was not ill.
Dr. Coleman admits giving the pre
scription, but says Nehring had been
under his care several weeks and was
in need of the liquor.
J. A. Buzard left on the North
western for the States where he in
tends to take a course in mine en
gineering at the University of Wash
ington.