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VOLUME 18 VALDEZ, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 80, 1915 NUMBER 28
' REPORT AUSTRIA
SEEKING PEACE
■Ullao Newspapers Assert that Aus
tria lias Exhausted Her Re
sources aud Ready to Quit.
ROME, Nov. 30.—A persistent ru
mor to the effect that Austria is try
ing to conclude a separate peace with
Italy has been circulating in official
circles for several days. Italian
newspapers are printing messages
purporting to have come from au
thentic sources that Austria has ex
hausted her resources and is unable
to continue the struggles.
A prominent Austrian church dig
nitary is known to have been in Rome
Hot several days aud to have been in
daily conference with Pope Benedict,
andpit is believed that Austria will
*<JR5|make a formal demand for a
vaspension of hostilities with Italy.
Bread riots are reported of daily
occurrences in the Austrian cities and
the disturbances have assumed such
proportions that troops are required
' to maintain order, and prevent the
looting of the stores and markets.
The cities are crowded with hundreds
of thousands of women and children
who are starving while their hus
bands and fathers are fighting in the
trenches or are prisoners in Russia
mod in Italian camps. The women
are clamoring for peace and growing
bolder in their resistance to troops.
SEIZED H10
PREVENT CORNER
International Syndicate Had Been
Formed to Boost Price of
Wheat—Russians Bottled.
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NEW YORK. Nov. 30.—Ottawa
« advices regarding the seizure of the
l wheat in elevators between Prince
William and the Atlantic coast by the
Dominion government, state that the
wheat was seized to prevent a cor
netvan grain. It is reported that an
international' syndicate had been
formed to send the price of wheat
to a point never attained in America,
and which woul^ have been made
possible only by the European war.
European reports indicating that
the Allies campaign at the Darda
nelles has proved a failure and that
Russian wheat would be prevented
from reaching the European market,
has caused the • quotations of all
grains to be advanced sharply.
It is reported from Ottawa that
there is no shortage of wheat in Can
ada as much of the western crop has
not been moved from the prairie
provinces, and official statistics show
there is a surplus of one hundred and
fifty million bushels of wheat in Can
ada. The syndicate owning the wheat
which was seized by the government
will receive settlement at the present
market quotations.
HUSBAND FALLS DEAD
' WHEN WIPE CONVICTED.
ANCHORAGE: Following the con
viction of his wife for bootlegging,
Allafar Dunlap died of heart failure
here this morning.
Mrs. Allafar Dunlap was formerly
Mrs. Alfred Lowell of Seward, daugh
ter-in-law of Mrs. Mary Lowell, first
owner of the homestead which is
now the Seward towasite. Mrs. Dun
lap was fined $500 and costs for Bell
ying liquor unlawfully and the nerv
(t>us strain under which her husband
was placed by the affair is supposed
to have caused bis death.
Many Will’Come Over Trail.
FAIRBANKS, Nov. 30.—Many
Fairbanks business men who were
detained through business and were
prevented from taking the last boat
for the outside, have announced their
intention of going over the winter
trail to spend the holidays in the
States. Many reservations have been
made in the stages leaving during the
next two weeks.
CHANGE IN OFFICIALS
OF COFPEK RIVER R. R.
Harry J. Brandt has gone to Chiti
na, where he will be the station agent
for the Copper River & Northwest
ern railway. His former position of
cashier for the company will be filled
by F. M. Ford, who recently arrived
from Seattle. D. H. Czerwenska,
also of Seattle, has been added to the
clerical force in the auditor’s office.
G. A. Stratman, who has been tem
porarily filling the position as sta
tion agent at Chitlna, has been trans
ferred to McCarthy, where he will
succeed V. M. Lattin, who has re
signed as agent there. Mr. Strat
man will return to Cordova before
locating at McCarthy permanently.—
Cordova Times.
NEARLY MILLION
WERE MASSACRED
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Only Fifty Thousand Armenians Es
caped from Fury of Turkish and
Kuril Soldiers into Russia.
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ROME, Nov. 30.—An Armenian
prelate who has arrived in Rome
from Asia states that the Turkish and
Kurd soldiers massacred nine hun
dred and fifty thousand Armenians in
the six Turkish provinces in Asia
Minor. He reports that only fifty
thousand of the Armenians escaped
by flight to Russia.
He states that all the Armenians
who were sent from Constantinople
and other Turkish European cities to
Asia Minor following the beginning
of hostilities, are dead. The men#gre
massacred by the Turkish soldiers
and the women and girls sold into
slavery or sent to the soldiers’ har
ems. The Armenians, as a race, he
asserted, are a thing of the past and
believes thosdl^io escaped into Rus
sia will never return to Turkey.
FAIRBANKS III
Will Perfect Organization to Support
Koad Commission in Getting
Special Appropriation.
FAIRBANKS, Nov. 30.—The mer
chants of Fairbanks, through the in
strumentality of a local commercial
organization, held a "Get-Together”
banquet last night which was attend
ed by nearly every business man in
Fairbanks and surrounding district.
Many of the speakers urged an or
ganized effort to assist Col. W. P.
Richardson in securing the special
appropriation of $1000 per mile to
complete the auto road between
Fairbanks and Valdez.
An organized .effort will also be
made in support of Commissioner
Tom Riggs’ plan to have construction
work on the government railroad car
ried on from both ends at the same
time. The people of Fairbanks real
ize the importance of an early com
pletion of the railroad as a means of
developing the resources of this sec
tion. ,
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AIjASKA REPRESENTED
IN SUFFRAGE PARADE
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Alaska was represented in the great j
woman suffrage parade in New York i
city just before the recent election
by Miss Margaret Vale, niece of
President Wilson. She was among
those who represented States in
which the women have been enfran- j
chised. She carried a baton in which :
was mounted an imitation gold nug
get, and an American flag. Her
dress of white was decorated down
the front with the letters from top
to bottom, A-L-A-S-K-A. Miss Vale
is described as a beautiful girl and
an ardent suffragist.
Thus is Alaska connected in an
entirely new way with the president
who has done so much for the de
velopment of the territory.—Juneau
Empire.
SECRETARY GARRISON AND MR.
TAFT ENGAGE IN CONTROVERSY
GARRISON ARRAIGNS FORMER PRESIDENT FOR LENDING HIS
NAME TO PAMPHLET DESIGNED TO DISCREDIT DEMOCRATIC
ADMINISTRATION IN PHILIPPINES—TAFT REPLIES DECLAR
ING STATEMENTS IN PAMPHLETS ARE CORRECT—GOVERNOR
HARRISON OUSTED FOUR HUNDRED SEVENTY-SIX REPUBLI
CANS FROM OFFICE IN TEN MONTHS.
WASHINGTON, Nov. SO. Secre
tary Garrison, of the war department,
in a signed statement given to the
press, bitterly arraigns former Secre
tary characterizes as mendacious,
mischievous statements relative to
the Philippines.
The criticism of Taft is due to his
having written a commendatory in
troduction to a pamphlet written by
Garfield Jones, a former educator in
the Philippines.
Secretary Garrison asserts that
Prof. Jones, who had been appointed
to his position by President Taft, lat
er offered obstacles to the adminis
tration in defending Democratic rule
in the islands.
Taft Makes Reply.
NEW HAVEN, Nov. SO. —former
President Taft, in an interview print
ed this morning, states that Secre
tary Garrison’s attack upon him is
unjustified, vehement and unmeasur
ed.
He asserts that the pamphlet
written by Professor Jones, to which
he had given his approval, was cor
rect in saying that the elimination of
the American civil service in the Phil
ippines had demoralized the govern
ment adminto.i..-.on in the islands.
Taft asserts that within ten months
after the elimination of the civil ser
vice in the islands that Governor Har
rison had ousted four hundred and
seventy-six Republicans from office,
causing the service to become demor
alized by installing officials who were
unfitted for office and possessed of no
ability except political pull.
THOUSANDS ARE REPORTED
STARVING IN WARSAW CITY
WERE DRIVEN FROM THEIR HOMES BY RETREATING RUSSIANS
WHO DESTROYED GRAIN TO PREVENT ITS FAGGING INTO GER
MAN HANDS—EIGHT THOUSAND SERBIANS ARK TRYING TO
DEFEND MONASTIR AGAINST BULGARIANS—GERMANY WIGG
RAISE A FOURTH WAR GOAN.
WARSAW, Nov. 30.—Thousands
of the citizens of Warsaw aud sur
rounding country, who were driven
from their homes by the retreating
Russian forces are starving and
homeless. The Russian troops, be
fore evacuating (the city, transported
into interior Russia or destroyed the
crops to prevent their failing into
German hands. Hundreds of facto
ries, which gave employment to War
ttWfiftizens before the German occu
jjition, were dismantled and convey
ed to Moscow and to other Russian
cities far in the rear of the army, the
employes being left behind to be cap
tured by the Germans. Appeals for
assistance have been sent to neutral
countries and Poles throughout' the
world are being urged to save their
countrymen from annihilation thru
starvation. It is asserted that thou
sands must die if aid is not imme
diately forthcoming.
Kourtli German Loan Launched.
BERLIN, Nov. 30.—It is announc
ed that the German government will
launch its fourth war loan in Janu
ary when bonds to the value of one
billion, two hundred million dollars
will be offered to the people of the
empire to continue the war.
Serbians Defending Moiiastir.
LONDON, Nov. 30.—Advices from
Athens state that Serbian troops have
again occupied Monastir after the
withdrawal of Bulgarian troops and
that the city has again been attack
ed by the Bulgars. It is reported
that eight thousand Serbians are at
tempting to defend the city against
the Bulgarian hosts.
Belgian Coast Bombarded.
LONDON, Nov. 30.—The British
fleet has again subjected the German
positions along the Belgian coast
from Zeebrugge to Ostend to a heavy
bombardment in order to prevent
military and naval bases from being
created from which to operate against
the British fleet. It is believed that
considerable damage resulted from
the bombardment at Zeebruggee,
where the Germans are believed to
have established a submarine base.
Teutons Control Serbia.
LONDON, Nov. 30.—It was ad
mitted in the British House of Com
mons yesterday In debate that the
Teutonic allies now occupy thirty
thousand of the thirty-four thousand
square miles of Serbia. The Balkan
portion of the state which remains
unoonquered is confined to a small
strip along the eastern border of
Greece, including Monastir.
REV. MOIiONY WILL
STAY IN SEWARD.
The Seward Gateway states that
the Rev. E. H. Molony, who left for
Anchorage with his family, but was
unable to land, and was forced to re
turn to Seward, will locate in Sew
ard permanently, and will open St.
Peter’s Episcopal church in the near
future. He has rented the Thody res
idence near the church.
CATALINA IHIiANI)
CITY DESTROYED.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 30.—A Are,
which originated in an apartment
house in the center of the city of Av
alon, on Catalina island, yesterday
afternoon destroyed most of the bus
iness heart of the famous health re
sort. It is estimated by underwriter
that the loss will amount to $1,100,
000. No lives were lost but several
Bremen were hiiured while fighting
the flames.
FATHKR SHKPPARI) WAS
BROUGHT TO SKWAR1).
Passengers on the Alameda last
night state that Father Sheppard, of
Anchorage, was among the Anchor
age people who were brought to Sew
ard, owing to their being unable to
reach shore. Father Sheppard had
gone out on the first barge to visit a
brother priest on the Admiral Farra
gut. He will probably go over the
winter trail to Anchorage.
Get-Together Picnic Dinner.
An enjoyable time is promised to
all who attend the Get-Together Pic
nic Dinner in the Congregational
church at 6:30 this evening. All fam
ilies are cordially invited. Those at
tending are expected to bring some
thing for the spread. Instead of con
tributing food bachelors may pay 60
cgnts. A surprise program will fol
low the dinner.
Subscribe for the Prospector.
PREDICTS PRESIDENT
WILSON'S NOMINATION.
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 30.—F. P.
MacLennan, editor and proprietor of
the Topeka State Journal, who is vis
iting the exposition, in an interview
predicts that President Wilson will
be the unanimous choice of the Dem
ocratic national convention and that
he will be re-elected. He has visited
several of the western states while
en route to the Pacific coast and
bases his prediction of Wilson’s re
election on the Mexican and Euro
pean policies. He believes that pros
perity will be general throughout the
country before the election and that
the discontent over the tariff will
have vanished.
USE IS BEING
HEN TO JUNEAU
Asserts that He Turned Christie over
to Stranger in Juneau and Says
that He Is Innocent.
SEATTLE, Nov. 30--Edw. Krause,
suspected of having been responsible
for the disappearance of Win. Chris
tie, of Treadwell, and several other
Alaskans, made a losing fight against
extradition to Alaska. He was taken
north on the steamer Humboldt this
morning by the U. S. Marshal of Ju
neau.
Krause has asserted his innocence
of wrongdoing. While admitting that
he took Christie from his work at
Treadwell he asserts that he turned
him over to another man In Juneau.
He professes to believe that Christie
has gone to the old country.
It has been discovered that Krause
has money on deposit tn several Se
attle banluMtnder different names. He
has engaged Seattle counsel to defend
him during his trial in Alaska.
SERBIAN VICTORIES
PLEASE EMPEROR
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German Ruler Is Visiting Austrian
Capital while eu Route to
Berlin from Turkey.
VIENNA, Nov. 30.—Emperor Wil
liam of Germany, has returned from
Constantinople and is visiting the
emperor of Austria. The city is dec
orated as for a national holiday and
huge crowds cheer the emperor when
ever he appears in public.
Emperor William is highly pleased
with the success which has attended
the Teutonic campaign in Serbia. He
is reported to have expressed regret
that the turbulent Balkan state was
not obliterated in the recent Balkan
was before the crown prince of Aus
tria had been murdered and causing
the present European war.
The German ruler visited King
Ferdinand of Bulgaria while en route
to Vienna from Constantinople, and
it is reported from Sofifa that a cam
paign was prepared to save Bulgaria
from being overrun by Russians oper
ating from the north and the Allies
from Salonlki on the south.
LAST WEEK Ol* THE
'FRISCO EXPOSITION
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 30.—The
San Francisco exposition will close
next Sunday evening with a blaze of
glory and • it is evident that the
week’s attendance will be a record
breaker. The attendance last Sun
day was one hundred and fifty-five
thousand.
GOVERNMENT FIXES
PRICE OF WHEAT.
OTTAWA, Nov. 30.—The Domin
ion cabinet has fixed the price of
wheat commandered by the govern
ment and will settle with the dealers
for No. 1 hard wheat at the rate of
$1.04 % per bushel. The price of No.
2 Northern was fixed at $1.01% per
bushel.
FORD PLANS PEACE
BY CAUSING STRIKE
Believes that Men in Trenches tvi!
t’ease Struggle If Way Is
Paved for Them.
DETROIT. Nov. 30. -Henry For
has returned from Washington wher
he conferred with President Wilso
regarding his plan to bring peace t
Europe. He says he will not permi
the president's refusal to participat
in the plan to prevent it being ful
filled.
Mr. Ford states that his peace shi
will leave New Vork for Europe at a
early* date and will carry represents
tive Americans from every state i
the Union as delegates to the confei
once at the Hague. The co-operatio
of prominent government official:
both Teutonic and Allies, has bee
promised.
It is reported that Ford will a:
tempt to cause a strike among th
troops of the European nations in th
trenches and is reported to have d<
dared that the war would be over hi
fore Christmas. He is quoted in
Detroit paper as having stated i
conversation that: "The Teuton
troops as well as the Allies are tire
of the war. They realize it is a wa
iof the rulers and 1 believe they wi
[gladly lay down their arms and ri
[fuse to continue the struggle whe
the way has been paved for them.”
corns USED
CIS IN LODI
Canadians and Australians Break l:
Meeting to Oppose Conscription
and Tell Some Truths.
LONDON, Nov. 30.—A Loudo
audience in Memorial Hall last nig!
were given a taste of the gases wit
which the British troops have to coi
tend at the front. The big hall wt
packed to hear the speakers prote:
against the British government pas:
ing conscription laws when Canad
ans and Australian soldiers, by usin
the asphyxiating gases, seized th
hall and ousted the speakers.
The failure of the young Englifl
men to voluntarily enlist has aAtygfe
intense bitterness among the^l|M
nials. When the colonials had s<.
cured possession of the hall tht
covered the walls with pictures <
great crowds of young Englishmt
cheering British victories and d>
nouncing the Germans. Under ear
picture, which had been taken fro:
illustrated English papers, the wort
were printed, "They look to the
neighbors, allies, colonials and reli
tlves to reap victory on the blood
battlefields of Europe to' save th
mother country."
WANT RIGHT OK WAY
KOR TOLOVANA TRAMWAY
Jules Marion and John Wigg*
have made application to the Fai
banks laud office for the right t
build two tramways in the Tolovan
country. Their applications hay
been sent to Washington and in du
time word will be received as t.
whether they will be granted by tb
Commissioner of the general land o
flee.
The first tram will be located t;
the log jam and will be 2100 feet i'
length, according to the applicatioi’
which calls for a strip of land 16,
feet in width. The second also calj
for a strip of land 160 feet in widt
starting at a point on the Tolovan;
river known as Trapper’s Cabin, an*
running up the Tolovana river foj
lowing the banks of the stream i
nearly as It is possible, to the tow;
of Brooks, a distance of 14 miles. ,
Northwestern In Beattie.
SEATTLE, Nov. SO.—The steam*
Northwestern, of the Alaska Stean
ship company’s fleet, arrived fro
Alaska yesterday afternoon. She |
scheduled to sail again for the nortj
on December S'.