v--" VALDEZ, ALASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1914. NO. 383.
VOL. 10. _ _
RUSSIANS DEFEAT AUSTRIANS
FRENCH CAPTURE 12 MILES OF TRENCHES AT ARRAS
GERMANS DEFEAT FRENCH ATTACKING MULHAUSEN
BRITISH NAVY PREPARING TO ATTACK GERMAN COAST
MANY ARRESTS IR
ELECTION CASES
Election Officials and Politicians Are
In Trouble—Ninety-three Ar
rests Have Been Made.
.INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 29.—Ninety
three arrests and 125 Indictments
have been made following the ex
posure of frauds in the last election.
Election boards, city officials, state
officials and politicians are involv
ed. Many have turned state’s evi
dence and will aid the attorney gen
eral at the trial.
Don Roberts, the mayor of Terre
Haute and the Democratic candidate
for governor, has been released on
bail as have most of the others ar
rested. A few have skipped the state
but will be brought back as soon as
their whereabouts is discovered.
The frauds took place in Terre
Haute. Many repeaters were import
ed, many ballot boxes were changed,
others were stuffed by the election
officials and all by direction of the
Roberts campaign managers.
Miner Dies At McCarthy.
Marshal Brenneman received jyord
last evening from McCarthy that Tim
MacMullen had died at the junction
city following an operation. Mac
Mullen was without means and the
government will bury the body.
U. S. TROOPS TO
LEAVE COLORADO
Coal Strike That Lasted Five Years
Has Been Settled—Miners Re
turning To Work.
DENVER, Dec. 29—The federal
troops are to leave the strike zone
this week The state militia will take
the place of the regular troops al
though the strike has been settled.
The miners have returned to work
and the coal properties are now in
full operation.
The strike has been In force for
five years. The strikers and state
troops often clashed and at the battle
of Ludlow between the state guards
and the miners the tent city of the
strikers was set on fire and many
women and children burned to death
in the little bomb-proof cellars they
had built under the floors of the
tents.
Weather Report.
Valdez, Dec. 27, 1914.
Barometric pressure .29,906
Temperature at 7 p. m. 26
Maximum temperature .32
Minimum temperature .24
Mean temperature . 26
Precipitation .29
Cloudy, air, wind northeast 4 miles.
Snowed at night and from 6 am. tri
7 p. m.
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Berlin Reports That Austrians Have Not Been Defeated; Also Claim Allies At
tacks Upon German Trenches At Nieuport Have Been Repulsed—Heavy
Rains Stop Fighting In Flanders—Bayonet Attacks Carried Trenches for
Allies—Germans Claim Poland Attacks Progressing While Russians Say
Germans Are On Defensive.
LONDON, Dec. 29—The Austrians
have been severely defeated in West
ern Galicia. The Russian troops re
treating from Cracow led the Austri
an forces into a trap and then turn
ed upon them and inflicted heavy
loss. The reports from Petrograd
state that the Austrians have retired
towards the Carpathians.
Allies Gain At Arras.
The French troops at Arras have
pushed forward, capturing 12 miles
•f trenches held by the Germans.
They are still advancing and hope to
break through the German line and
cut off the divisions holding the west
ern end of the line. The Germans
left many dead ana wounded in the
trenches.
Artillery Aids Infantry.
Before the French advanced they
shelled the German trenches for
hours, throwing thousands of shrap
nel shells into the German line to
prepare the way for the infantry at
tacks.
Berlin Denies Defeat.
. BERLIN, Dec. 29.—The war office
has issued an official denial of the
British and Russian reports that the
Austrian troops have been defeated
in Western Galicia. The statement
declares that the German positions in
Poland and the Austrians in Galicia
are still held and that no ground has
been lost, while at many points con
siderable gain has resulted from the
infantry attacks and the superior
work of the German artillery over the
Russians. Reports from the front in
Flanders show gains at Nieuport and
Ypres.
British Destroyer Wrecked.
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland, Dec. 29.
—A British destroyer was wrecked
here last night. The crew were all
saved. The warship went on the
rocks during a storm. All the coast
lights have been extinguished since
the raid of the German boats at Scar
borough and the British warships
have trouble keeping off of the rocks.
Allies Defeated At Nieuport.
BERLIN, Dec. 29.—The combined
a.uiek upon the German lines at
Nieuport by the British fleet and the
land forces resulted in a repulse to
the enemy, who lost heavily. The
British monitors feared to come close
to the shore because of the big coast
guns which have been erected by the
Germans and which have as great a
range as the naval guns The land
attacks were defeated by the men in
the trenches and the field artillery.
Mud and Rains Hinder Operations.
BERLIN, Dec. 29.—The recent very
heavy rains which have made the
battlefields In Flanders all mud have
made it impossible to continue the
fighting and both sides are waiting
for a cold snap to dry up the ground.
British May Raid German Ports.
LONDON, Dec. 29.—The continued
activity at all naval bases in the
British Isles is taken as indicating
the Intention of the British admiral
ty to attack the German coast cities.
The result of the raid on Christmas
has created confidence in the navy
and in the admiralty and the people
are no longer demanding that Lord
Churchill be dismissed and a new
Lord of the Admiralty appointed who
will be more aggressive.
No Danger Zeppelin Raid.
The defeat of the German air
scouts at the mouth of the Thames
has convinced military men in charge
of the defense of London that an air
attack cannot be successfully made,
as the aviators cannot select places
upon which to drop the bombs when
another aviator is popping at them
with an automatic gun.
Allies Finally Take Offensive.
LONDON, Dec. 29.—The Allies have
CHAS. E. BUNNELL
PRESIDENT NAMES BUNNELL
JUDGE OF FOURTH DIVISION
VALDEZ ATTORNEY’S NAME SENT TO SENATE UPON RECONVEN
ING OF CONGRESS THIS MORNING—IS A GRADUATE OF BUCK
NELL UNIVERSITY—TAUGHT SCHOOL IN VALDEZ
WASHINGTON. Dec. 29—President
Woodrow Wilson today sent to the
Senate the name of Charles E. Bun
nell, of Valdez, to be judge of the
federal court of the Fourth judicial
division of Alaska. The name wak
referred to the Judicial Committee,
which meets Monday, when the ap
pointment will be considered.
Charles E. Bunnell, who has been
appointed judge of the Fourth divis
ion to succeed Judge Fuller, who re
signed, came to Alaska in 1900 after
graduation from the Bucknall Uni
versity of Pennsylvania. He taught
school at Wood Island, near Kodiak,
until 1903 when he came to Valdez
to take charge of the local schools.
The present efficient school system
is largely the result of his untiring
work as a professor and later as a
member of the school board. He re
signed ‘he professorship and entered
the practice of law, building up a
large practice. He also interested
himself in the Copper River Lumber
Company and the Valdez Sheet Metal
Works and owns a large block of
stock in both companies, besides hav
ing large property interests in Val
dez.
Mr. Bunnell was the regular Dem
ocratic candidate for delegate to con
gress at the last election but was de
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■taken the offensive all along the bat
tle line in Flanders and France. The
object is to attack at all points sim
ultaneously, thus preventing the Ger
mans shifting troops from place to
place as attacks are made. It is ex
pected that the weak points in the
enemy’s line can be thus located and
troops massed for the purpose of
breaking through the lines.
Would Cut Off German Right Flank.
The military experts predict that
the Allies will attempt to pierce the
line in France near Lille and thus
cut off the German right wing from
that point to the coast.
Waited for Reinforcements.
The Allies waited until they could
bring up large forces of new troops
because the loss in assaulting the
German positions will be heavy and
the commanders do not intend to al
low the kaiser’s soldiers any chance
to reform if they once break but will
push forward rapidly.
Germans On Defensive On Pilica.
PETROGRAD, Dec. 29.—The Ger
man offensive along the Pilica and Ni
da rivers has been checked and the
Russians in turn have taken the of
fensive. The kaiser’s troops have
evacuated positions held by them
along the upper Vistula. In Galicia
the Austro-German troops have been
driven back towards the passes in the
Carpathian mountains from Dukla to
the Biala river.
Desperate Fighting In Central Po
land.
The fighting along the Pilica and
Nida rivers yesterday was one of the
most desperate battles of the entire
Poland campaign. The Germans com
manded by Gen. Hetzendorf, strong
ly reinforced by troops from the Aus
trian wing, started on a terrific drive
to reach Warsaw from the south
west. The enemy were checked af
ter a battle lasting all day and until
this morring, when the tide turned,
the Russians receiving heavy rein
forcements and took the offensive.
They are now driving the Teutonic
hosts back towards Czenstochowa.
Fighting In Alsace.
LONDON, Dec. 29.—The fighting in
Alsace continues and the French have
made repeated attacks upon the Ger
man force holding Mulhausen, bu’
have been beaten back each time
with loss.
Austrians Repulsed In Galicia.
PETROGRAD, Dec. 29—The Austri
ans have been repulsed in western
Galicia. The Russians continue to
drive the enemy back towards the
Carpathian mountains. The line of
retreat has been from Tarnow south
west, striking the Carpathian moun
tains between Dukla Pass and the
Biala river. This means the with
drawal of the Austrian right wing
from Galicia and leaves the Russians
free to crush the left, which has join
ed with the German right.
Strips Georgia of Mules.
SAVANNAH, Ga., Dec. 29.—A check
for $3,50(VOOO, virtually backed by the
British government, was cleared last
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WILSON DEMANDS
SHIPS BE SAFE
President Asks Great Britain To
Make Definite Her Attitude
On Contraband.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29—President
Wilson has made a formal complaint
to Great Britain over the treatmen*
accorded American shipping by the
British warships, which have detain
ed every steamer and searched it for
contraband of war. The British gov
ernment is requested to define its
position and state its attitude towards
neural shipping.
The president has informed Great
Britain that the seizure of merchant
vessels of the United States engaged
in business between neutral countries
has seriously hampered shipping.
. It is hoped to have the British gov
ernment give a definite expression of
its attitude towards neutral ship
ping. To date the list of contraband
has been changed a dozen times
since the war started and rules laid
down by the Allies have also been
altered. It is to avoid this condition
that the American government insists
that the Allies take a stand and al
low neutral ships to abide by th°
rules and in return that the Allies do
not molest them.
NEW TRIAL FOR •
LEO FRANK
Georgia Merchant Convicted of Mur
dering Factory Girl Will Get
Another Chance.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.—Justice
Lamar of the United States Supreme
Court today granted the request of
the attorneys for Leo M. Frank for a
writ of error and he will review the
case In which Frank was convicted
of murdering Mary Phagan, a 1G
year-old factory girl. Frank’s attor
neys insist that he was deprived of
his rights guaranteed under the con
stitution in that his conviction did
not follow due process of law be
cause the mob spirit was so strong
at the Ume of the trial that the trial
judge feared to allow the defendant in
the court room when the verdict was
rendered, fearing that, should it be
an acquittal Frank would be lynch
ed. His attorneys were also exclud
ed from the court room at that time.
The supreme court has already re
fused to review the case upon the
above plea, but the attorneys chang
ed it so that the hostile demonstra
tions in the court room and about the
building are made the basis for the
appeal as these conditions were ob
jected to by the attorneys at the time
while the failure to have Frank in
the court room was agreed to by his
attorneys, although without his con
sent.
The motion to set aside the ve.*
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