V0L 13 VALDEZ, ALA8KA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1915. NO. 97.
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POLICE WHICH
GENERAL HOERIt
Fear He Will Attempt To Violate U.
S. Neutrality Laws By Starting
Mexican Revolt.
WASHINGTON, April 14.—Special
agents of the Department of Justice
and of the State Department closely
watch every move being made by
Victoriano Huerta, former provision
al president of Mexico, who arrived
here yesterday on the steamer An
tonio Lopez from Spain.
The government agents fear that
the former idictaHor will start an
other revolt in Mexico in order to
make himself president of the re
public.
The Carranza government and the
Villa-Zapata convention government,
through their diplomatic agents in
Washington, made a protest to the
State Department against Huerta be
ing allowed to land In the United
^f^tes, but they were unable to show,
to the satisfaction of the immigra
tion officials, that he planned a re
volt and that he would violate the
neutrality laws of the United States.
Huerta has had many visitors since
he reached the city, most of them
being Mexicans who have been in
the United States for many months.
WOMEN HOLD
PEACE CONFERENCE
Jane Addarns and Forty American
Suffragettes Sail for The Hague
From New York.
NEW YORK, April 14.—Jane Ad
dams, heading a delegation of forty
women, sailed from here today for
The Hague to attend the Interna
tional Peace Conference called by the
suffragettes of the world in an effort
to bring about an end of the present
conflict which is causing the women
of the world great suffering. A large
delegation of women was at the dock
to see the delegates off on the voy
age.
The trip will be made via Liver
pool, where a transfer to a small
steamer will be made for the trip
across the North sea to Holland.
Delegates are expected from France
and Germany but the English suf
fragettes refuse to take part in the
conference, claiming that this is no
time to talk peace.
BILLY SUNDAY TO
GO TO ENGLAND
Think Evangelist Could Aid Cause of
Prohibition By Conducting
Meetings.
NEW YORK, April 14.—Billy Sun
day, the former baseball player and
now turned preacher and evangelist,
has been asked to conduct a cam
paign for temperance in England and
to aid the government and the peo
ple to bring home to the drinking
population of the British Isles the
realization of the benefits of prohi
bition.
It is proposed to aid the govern
ment by securing the cooperation of
the people in the fight to stop the
use of liquor.
Fairbanks Ha* a New Mayor.
'FAIRBANKS, April 14—Andrew
Nerland was elected mayor of Fair
banks by the new council last night.
Nerland is In the wall paper business
in this city.
GERMANS SEND ASSISTANCE TO AUSTRIANS
LONDON, April 14.—Information
has reached here indicating that the
German war office has sent a large
body of the first line of troops to aid
the Austrians in the Carpathians.
Some reports indicate that 160,000
troops have been taken from east
Prussia and from the western bat
tie-line for this purpose, while more
are being gathered from interior
points for reserve purposes, thus al
lowing von Hindenburg to use the
present force of reserves in the fight
ing.
Carpathian Campaign Last Some
t- Time.
Military experts here believe that
the new German move indicates that
CHINA REFUSES
Reported That England, Russia and
France Are Supporting China
Against Japan.
PEKING, China, April 14.—The
government of China today firmly re
fused the demands of Japan for ter
ritorial control of Manchuria and for
other commercial privileges. The re
port here is that Russia, England and
France have backed the Chinese gov
ernment in the protest, claiming that
the diplomatic work of Japan in send
ing to the Chinese government cer
tain demands and then sending a sup
posed duplicate copy to all the pow
ers interested, but which, upon ex
amination, was found to be different
than that presented to China, pre
vented them from working in accord
with Japan.
It is almost certain that without
the backnig of the allies of Japan in
the present war that Japan wouldn’t
care to press its demands and it is
thought that they will be modified.
The Chinese government is making
no preparations for war, believing
that the trouble will be settled with
out recourse to arms.
Home cooked dinner served at Mrs.
M. Olson’s on Hobart street, 6 o’clock
on week days, 5 o’clock on Sundays
Dinner SO cents. tf
ENGLISH WOMEN
WANT TO WORK
Thirty Thousand Register To Replace
Men Who Will Go To the
Front and Fight.
LONDON, April 14.—Thirty thou-,
sand womqn have registered With
the government to take the places of
men now working, but are willing to
go to the front if someone is will
ing to take their places In the in
dustries of the country. The gov
ernment hopes by this means to keep
up the productiveness of the coun
try and at the same time release
many more men for Kitchener’s army.
POLITICIANS ARE
OUTi BAIL
INDIANAPOLIS, April 14.—Mayor
Roberts and eighteen other Terre
Haute city officials who were con
victed two days ago of having vio
lated the federal election laws, have
appealed from the conviction and will
fight the cases through the highest
courts of the country.
Mayor Roberts gave a bond of f 60,
000 and the balance of the men gave
smaller bonds.
LONDON EXPERTS SAY BATTLE IN CARPATHIANS NOT YET WON,
AS GERMAN GENERAL STAFF UNDERSTAND POLITICAL EFFECT
OF A DEFEAT AT THIS TIME—PETROGRAD REPORTS GAIN IN
MOUNTAINS—AUSTRIANS OFFER ADRIATIC PROVINCES TO
ITALY FOR AID AGAINST ALLIES—DARDANELLES BOMBARD
MENT RESUMED.
the battle in the Carpathian moun
tains will not be settled tor some
time and that the German general
staff realizes the political value o£
the invasion of Hungary and the ef
fect it would have upon the Balkan
states.
Dardanelles Bombardment Recom
menced
CONSTANTINOPLE, April 14.—
The bombardment of the Turkish
forts guarding the Dardanelles has
, again been resumed by the
British and French ships. The forts
have been replying to the ships with
the result that one British cruiser and
one destroyer has been placed out of
the action because of severe injury
from shells.
No Troops Landed.
■No effort has been made by the
British and French to land troops to
co-operate with the warships.
Little Fighting In West.
BERLIN, April 14.—But little fight
ing has taken place in the western
fighting zone. A few minor engage
ments have been reported today. The
French have abandoned the effort to
break the wedge that extends into
their line at St. Mihiel. The Bavar
ian troops have held, this line since
September 10th in spite of the terri
fic assaults by the French infantry
supported by massed batteries of ar
tillery, some of which is the new big
guns which the French asserted
would batter down me uerman line.
The assaults have been in vain.
Zeppelins Make Raid.
PARIS, April 14.—The war office
states that the German aerial depart
ment sent several big airships, Zep
pelins, to raid frontier towns near the
battle-line. Three Belgians were kill
ed as a result of the bombs dropped.
Some property damage was also done,
but most of the bombs missed their
mark and fell in vacant places and
did no damage.
German Aeroplanes Brought Down.
Three German aeroplanes were
brought down in the Verdun district
this morning. The Germans were fly
ing low to watch the operations, as
they expected a desperate attack upon
their line. The troops hidden in the
PLAN GOVERNMENT ROAD
TO THE DERING COAL FIELDS
EDES STATES THAT ENGINEERS SOON GO TO CONTROLLER BAY TO
SEEK LINE TO COAL FIELDS, WHILE OTHER PARTY WILL SUR
VEY FROM BERING FIELDS TO MILE 38 ON THE CORDOVA RAIL
ROAD—WILL OPEN BOTH ALASKA COAL FIELDS IF POSSIBLE
—ALASKA SYNDICATE ALSO PLANS LINE TO MINES.
WASHINGTON. April 14.—Chair
man Edes of the Alaska engineering
commission announced today that the
commission would send a crew of
surveyors to the Bering River coal
fields to survey a proposed line from
the coal claims to Controller bay and
one to connect them with the Cop
per River & Northwestern railroad at
<Mile 38 of the line now being oper
ated from Cordova to tne interior.
The commission plan to open all
the resources of the north and will
spend part of the money that re
mains from the original appropria
tion of $35,000,000 which will not be
used for the construction of the Sew
ard-Fairbanks-Matanuska line for the
opening up of the Bering River fields,
and with what is left spurs may be
constructed to open promising fields
for tonnage for the government line.
The announcement made by Chair
man Bides Indicates that the govern
ment will not allow the Alaska Syn
dicate to carry out the plans as an
nounced yesterday by George, W. Per
kins, who. In an interview in the
New York Times, said that the Mor
gan-Guggenheim interests were ready
.to develop the resources along their
line now that the government had
finally decided upon a route for its
road.
The New York Times article said
that “Upon good authority, it was
stated, that the Morgan-Guggenheim
interests would probablly extend their
line into the agricultural districts and
also to the coal fields if the gov
ernment leasing policy was liberal
enough to encourage the opening of
the mines, thereby bringing it to a
certain extent into conflict with the
government railroad.” The article
also quoted Perkins as stating that
the president had made a "good
choice,” but that he was sorry the
Cordova railroad had not been select
ed by the government, but that “we
will develop the resources along our
line for further business.”
S. Blum & Co. have just received
a new line of men’s silk lisle hose.
Prices 35c to 75c; all colors. tf
EDES SAYS WILL CONTINUE
RUCK WORK NEXT WINTER
WASHINGTON, April 14.—The
Alaska engineering commission will
operate the Alaska Northern railroad
as far as Mile 45 this summer, using
the gasoline car owned by the com
pany for the work. No attempt will
be made to connect Kern Creek with
Ship Creek, which will be the head
quarters ot the commission for the
summer and the point from which
■ hey will direct their work toward the
coal fields. The road to be built this
summer will be from Ship Creek to
the Matanuska coal fields so that the
coal can be brought to the coast as
soon as possible. Chairman Edes
states that the coal will not be on the
market for many months, possibly
not before the fall of 1916, when the
line from Ship Creek to the Matanus
ka will have been completed.
Just when the connection between
Kern Creek and Ship Creek will be
made is not stated by the chairman
of the commission.
The supplies needed this year will
be sent to Ship Creek, where big gov
ernment storehouses will be con
structed.
Chairman Edes states that the
heavy rock work to be done between
Ship Creek and the Matanuska will
be continued all next winter.
Men’s negligee and dress shirts—
new patterns and styles—at Blum’s.
woods were able to force the aviat
ors to descend. The new aeroplane
gun is also reported working with
great success, hitting the aeroplanes
when they are but a speck in the sky.
Russians Report Gains.
PETROGRAD, April 14.—The war
office reports that the fighting in the
Beskid mountains has resulted in the
retreat of the Austrians. The battle
lasted for twelve hours and was one
of the hardest fought engagements of
the entire Galician campaign. The
Austrians held their ground for many
hours in spite of the superiority of
numbers and artillery which the Rus
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BRANDIES WILL
DEFEND M’ADOO
Big Legal Fight Is On Between Gov
ernment Officials and Riggs
National Bank.
WASHINGTON, April 14.—Attor
ney General Gregory has retained
Louis Brandeis as special counsel to
defend Secretary of the Treasury Mc
Adoo and Controller of the Currency
Williams against the charges brought
by the officers of the Riggs National
Bank of this city, charging them with
attempting to wreck the bank because
of the opposition the bankers made
to the confirmation of Williams as
controller.
Several of the attorneys of the
Treasury Department and some from
the attorney general’s office, will ap
pear on the government side to aid
Brandeis, w'hile the bankers have re
tained several of the best lawyers in
the city to appear for them and push
the case against the son-in-law of the
president, and his protege.
The fight will be the bitterest leg
al battle that has been fought in this
city for many years and the news
papers have arranged for special cor
respondents to watch the case and re
port it for them.
Our first spring shipment of Stet
son hats in the latest models arrived
on last boat. Your inspection solicit
ed. S. Blum & Co. tt
ALASKA TO VOTE
Governor Strong Signs Bill for Elec
tion This Coming November
On Prohibition.
JUNEAU, April 14.—Governor
Strong today signed the Snow bill,
which provides for a general election
in Alaska to be held next November
to ascertain the wishes of the peo
ple in the matter of the sale of liquor
in the territory.
A general election will be called and
the citizens of the territory will be
givn an opportunity to vote on the
closing of the saloons.
CHINESE PREPARE
FOR REVOLUTION
SAN FRANCISCO. April 14.—The
leaders of the Chinese revolutionary
societies of the United States will
meet in this city the last part of
July in order to raise funds to start
a new revolution in the Flowery
Kingdom. Delegates from all the cit
ies in the states, in which there are
many Chinese residents, are to come
to San Francisco to attend the con
ference.
INDICT LAWYERS
FOR PERJURY
Framed Up Ca*e Against Former New
>ork District Attorney But
Are Caught.
NEW YORK, April 14.—The attor
neys for Miss Rae Tanzer and the
detectives hired by her to secure evi
dence in the $50,000.00 breach 01
promise suit brought by her against
J. W. Osborne, the former district
attorney of this city, have been in
dicted for attempting to defraud and
for perjury.
Rae Tanzer, the woman in the case,
is also under indictment for a similar
offense, the government alleging that
the breach of promise suit was an
attempt to defraud.
Osborne insisted all along that he
was not the party who is charged by
Miss Tanzer with having made love
to her under a promise of marriage,
and that the signature to the hotel
register in Plainfield, Md., of Mr. and
Mrs. Osborne, was not his, but must
have been some one else. He did
not dispute Miss Tanzer’s word that
she had spent many nights at the
hotel in company with a man, but in
sisted he was not the man.
Oliver Osborne, the man who did
court the lady, has been found, but
claims not to have had any part in
the frame-up.
EVELYN OWNERS
ARE REPAID
Government Pays $400,000 for Amer
ican Steamer Sunk By Ger
man Mine.
WASHINGTON, April 14.—The gov
ernment war risk insurance depart
ment operated by the Treasury De
partment today paid the owners of
the American steamer Evelyn $400,
000 for the steamer, which was sunk
by a German mine in the North sea
on February 20th.
The government insurance depart
ment has lost considerable moneyas
the result of losses by submarines
and mines and the department may
be abandoned or else the rates raised.
Congress established the government
war insurance department, claiming
that the marine companies were
charging exorbitant rates.
INSANE PATIENTS
IN A BAD FIRE
Asylum Burns But Firemen and Po
lice Save Lives of All the
Inmates.
CHICAGO, April 14—An Insane asy
lum in this city was burned to the
ground last night, but the 200 pati
ents in the ubilding were saved by
the police, firemen and attendants of
the asylum, who risked their lives in
caring for the unfortunates.
For a few minutes the patients
were wild with fright and had they
been liberated would have run amuck
around the city. As soon as the fire
was discovered the hospital authori
ties sent in a call for police reserves
and the patients were taken into an
other ubilding near the asylum
grounds and were heavily guarded.
Ladies, see the new arrivals of
Kayser’s silk hose at Blum’s. tf
F. J. Lenander left on the Alameda
last night for the Masonic Home at
Puyallup, near Tacoma, Wash.