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VALDEZ, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1916 NUMBER 3»
VULUNK XIV*
IfUUmCGMST
- IS STORM BOUND
gtorai Belt Extends from Maine to
Virginia and Zero Weather Pre
vails—Mach Suffering.
NEW YORK. Feb. 15.—The At
lantic coast states from Maine to Vir
ginia are snow bound with zero or
colder weather prevailing over most
ef the states. Traffic is almost whol
ly demoralized as the streets are cov
ered with ice to a depth of several
Inches. The railroads have been com
pelled to cancel their schedules and
trains are stalled in all directions.
The intensely cold weather has
-caused much suffering In the cities
and charitable Organizations are busy
providing for the homeless and desti
tute. T»e city has given employ
ment'^''thousands of men to clear
the streets of the snow and ice and
everything possible is being done to
relieve the sufferings of the poor.
The streets in this city are covered
with smooth ice and the police have
reported that a numbers of persons
having suffered broken bones by fall
ing on the icy sidewalks. The weath
er bureau promises milder weather
coming to relieve the Arctic condi
tions which prevail along the coast.
WILSON WOULD
DENY PASSENGERS
KeeNtarj Lansing Believes Lives of
Americans Should be Protected
Against Attack by Subs.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—The an
nouncement of the German and Aus
trian governments that in future they
will treat all armed merchantmen of
the enemy nations as warships, has
presented a difficult problem to Pres
ident Wilson and Secretary Lansing
which mustxbe solved Immediately.
• i it is reported that President Wil
son is considering the advisability of
ref using (passports to American citi
zens seeking to take passage from
Ameridkn ports to Europe on any
armed merchantman irrespective of
the flag may be flying.
Secretary banking has declared
that White !he Aknerlcsm government
may not ha e &e to prevent
armed merchantmen! of 'foreign na
tions frchh eafarfcig American ports
that President WfMcfa Certainly has
the right to guard the lives of Ameri
can sobjeef* by denying them the
privilege of sailing oh veeseteWhich
would be made objects of 'Attack by
the submarines, tie believes that
there will be sufficient American
stripe to carry an 'Americans Whom
business compels making the trip to
Europe.
secretary uanamg nas receivea na
efflelal protest from the Allies as re
ported In newspaper dispatches from
London regarding America’s treating
annrjd merchantmen as warships.
BRYAN 18 CHALLENGED
DEBATE PREPAREDNESS
OMAHA, Feb. IS.—R. L. Metcalfe,
a former law partner of V'ia. 3,
Bryan and an ardent advocate for na
tional preparedness, has challenged
the former Secretary of State to de
bate preparedness at six places to be
ArraMgSd in large cities. Tht- ehal
lengrwa* issued last Saturday but as
yet Mi not been accepted by Mr.
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AUSTRIAN AVIATORS
RAID ITALIAN CITk
WLAN, Italy. Feb. IS.—Adstrtim
•viators raided' this city on Sunday
httfflt and dropped'a number of bOmbi
Into the business section of the city.
, Officials have admitted that six per
sons were killed by the exploding
bombs. The aviators are believed tc
'have passed over Switzerland In theii
course to attack the city.
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, Pasteurized Whipping Creniu and
pure Buttermilk at Love-Wbitley’s
PRESIDENT WILSON
ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb.
16.—President Wilson has for
mally announced his candidacy
for the presidential nomination
by the Democratic National Con
vention, which meets at 8t. Ik>u
is on June i3, 1016. The an
nouncement that he would seek
re-election was made yesterday
after his return from the yacht
trip on the Potomac. It is re
ported President Wilson will
made preparedness the princi
pal plank in his platform and
his promise to the American
people tp keep the country out
of war.
TWENTY INJURED
III LABOR RIOTS
Strikers Clash with Kmployes of Silk
Mill Who Refused to Quit Work
When Ordered by Union.
PAWNTUCKET, R. I., Feb. 15.—
Twenty persons were more or less
seriously injured as the result Of:
striking employes of the silk fac-1
tory here clashing with the men and j
women who refused to quit work j
when a strike was declared by the
union. Knives, clubs and bricks were
used as missiles by the mob and
many of the injured are not expect
ed to recover front tilelr wounds.
The entire reservit force of the
city police were called to quell the
riots and received orders to-utter their
battons if attacked by the strikers.
The officers of the company say that
more than fifty per dent of their em
ployes have remained faithful and
that no trouble will be experienced
in filling the places of the Striker*.
The strikers are demanding shor
ter hours and an increase in the wage
scale!
MANY SUSPECTS
WERE ARRESTER
Country Wide Search Being Prose
cuted for Waiter Who Poisoned
Soupat Chicago Banquet.
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CHICAGO. Mb. 1*.—Tub police of
tbe edtlre oounwy are now • swords
log for Jeane Crooks, former assist
ant at tbe Chicago University club,
who is suspected of having attempted
to pdfson the guests at the Univer
sity banquet last week.
The police have learned that
Crones was formerly connected with
the publication of an anarchistic
paper here and believe that he is
allied with a group df Anarchists
whose activities have spread over
the world.
The offer of a reward for the
waiter has resulted in scores of in
nocent perosns having been arrested
by tbe police but all of the suspects
have established1 their indemnities.
Empress Notice.
There will be a complete change of
program at the Empress this evening.
Owing to the fhct that many patiius
missed the fine picture, “More Than
Queen,” because of the Eagle Danes
last night, a request baa been made
to have it shown again. So it wil* be
shown tonight extra, and after tbe
first show, thus giving two b<* shoes
tor the price of one. Those wtcblsu
to see it again may keep their seals.
Admission for this big program 26c.
Furnished room* at In. Os land’s.
Prices reasonable, •
Pure Fresh Drugs at We Valdes
Drug Store. •
Anything in the Jewelry line at the
Valdez Drug Co. tf
See the Mutual Weekly News at
The Liberty. •
CONGRESSMAN
FEARS JAPAN
Resolution Introduced in House to
Start Negotiations for Purchase
of Lower California.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Feb. 15.—
Congressman Ransdal of 'Louisiana
believes that Japan is endeavoring to
Secure a naval base on the coast of
Mexico from which she could attack
the American Pacific coast cities in
the event of war between Japan and
the United States.
With the object of Keeping Japan
out of Lower California Congressman
Ransdal has introduced a hill in thfe
House, which, if passed, wi I author
ire President Wilson to negotiate
with the Mexican government for the
purchase of the entire peninsula.
In introducing his resolution he;
declared that recent devc opments J
had shown tl at had General Villa j
been successful in attaining the pros- |
idency of the Mexican republic that i
that he had planned to grant conces-1
sions on the coast of Lower Califor- i
nia to Japan which would have made
her a menace to the United States for
all time to come.
He believed that Japan, despite1
her protestations of friendship for
the United States, was preparing to 1
engage this courftry in warfare and 1
was seeking to establish a naval base
within strlkiup distance of fit Pacific
Coast cities. j
TO HUE
TOE SHORTAGES
House Naval Committee will Endeav
or to Find Solntionftfor Short
age of flubs apd Munitions.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 16.—
The House Committee on Naval Af
fairs of which Representative Pad
gett of Tennessee is chairman, yes
terday afternoon started an investi
gation of the alleged shortage of mu
nitions and submarines which the ad
vocates ot preparedness assert would
bea menace to the nation in the event
the United States should become in
volved in war with any of the great
naval pourers.
Charges wsre recently made on the
floor of the house that the supply of
munitions at. the naval bases and
forts guarding the coast cities was in
sufficient tj fast during the briefest
engagement in the event of hostili
ties.
During President Taft’s .adminis
tration and investigation of conditions
had been madeandthereportshow
ed that many of the forts were sup
plied with only a few rounds of shells
for tike gui.s. bdt no app oprlation
was made in order that the deficit* icy
in munitiouR could be remedied.
Many of tl>e submarines, according
to high navy officials are Obsolete
and a menace to the lives of their
crews. The officials df the vannur
departments have prepared statistics
regarding 'te stores df Munitions
And the submarines and these Usurer,
will be prestnted to the committee to
aid them In their investigations. It is
also annoumcd that high »»’flrers P
ths navy have been requested to ap
pear before the committee and tes
tify.
JAPANESE TO BUILD
| SEVEN BIO VESSELS
SAN FRANCISCO: Plans for the
construction of a shipyard in Japan
and the building Of seven new ves
sels were reported in shipping circles
today to have been made by the
directors of the Toyo ' Risen Kashi
at a meeting held at Toklo December
25. It was said two passenger ves
sels of 25,000 tons displacement and
five of 10,000 tons would be built at
a total cost, including the shipyard,
of about $18,600,000. Plans were to
be approved in detail at a meetirg
January 25. The yard, It was su'd,
would Jbft.bu(lt u.t Yokohama or 8UI
monoscki. j
LAUNCH COUNTRY
WIDE ADVERTISING
Deary Ford Preparing to Spend Mil*
lions in Campaign Against the
Preparedness Program.
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DETROIT. Feb. 15.—Henry Ford
has announced that he is preparing
to launch a country wide advertising
campaign .in the newspapers and
magazines of the United States in or
der to counteract the grow'ng senti
ment in favor of the administration’s
preparedness policy.
Mr. Ford asserts that the principal
news agencies of the countrv are con
trolled by the munition manufactur
ers and others who expect to reap
harvests of U e people’s monty in or
ders from the government if congress
favors Presiuent Wilson’s national
defense pro?:, am.
The manufacturer Staten that he is
prepared to send several million dol
lars in advertising his peace propa
ganda and will carry the campaign
to every part of the Union He de
clares that some of the most brilliant
writers in America are writing stor
ies for magazines and newspapers
urging preparedness and *hat they |
are in the employ directlj or indi-1
rectly, of the munition manufactur-1
ers or those v.-ho will profit f''om war
orders. He is also engaging a staff,
or writers ai d will secure rpace in
the newspapers in order that the ac- i
tual facts may be placed before the |
American people. ;
MORE GOLD COMING
FROM PETROGDIO
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Ten Million Dollars Have Reached
Toklo and will be Placed to
Credit of Great Britain.
TOKIO, Feb, 15.—Another ship
ment of ten m'illion dollars in gold
bullion which is being sent by the
Russian government to the United
States where It will be placed to the
credit of the British government,
has arrived here from Vladivostok.
The gold is being Sent to America
to maintain the credit of the Russian
government for the purchase of war
munitions and to liquidate accounts:
for former iMWfchappB. .The, trpssufe
will be sent across the Pacific to
Vancouver, B. C., in Japanese cruis
ers aad will be delivered to agents
of the British government for tranp-;
fer to .KeW York. ■«
The ‘treasure is accompanied by
officials of the Russian government
and was closely guarded in Us long
tourney across Siberia from ‘Petro
•grad and down the coast to Toklo.
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CORNELL UNIVERSITY
SUFFERS $100,000 LOSS
ITHACA, N. Y„ Fsi>. 16 —The
chemical laboratory of Cornell uni
versity was damaged to the extent
if one bnndreu thousand dollars by
Ire last night- Th* Are to believed
to have been caused by spontaneous
-om bastion ns the flamy spread rap
j Idly over the room requiring a hard
light on the part of His Are depart
ment in confining the flames to the
building.
BRITISH CRUISER HITS
MINE AND GOES DOWN
LONDON, Feb. 16 —The British
admiralty Has officially admitted that
the British cruiser Arethusla wgs
Sunk by hitting a mine and that ten
men were killed. The ether members
of the crew are reported to have been
resumed fifeni the am$il beats. The
location -of the eruteer .when she re
ceived her death bfow has not been
made known.
Hotpeint Electric Heaters, Oookers.
Bakers, Percolators and Vacuum
Cleaners arrived on the last boat for
the Emporium. tf
Portraits made by appointment at
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BRITAIN WILL ASK
FOR HUGH LOAN.
LONDON. Feb. 15.—It is re
ported that the British parlia
ment will soon be asked by Pre
mier Asquith to appropriate the
huge sum of five billion dollars
in order that the government
might continue the war to a suc
cessful Issue. It 1b admitted
that the war is costing Great
Britain an enormous sum each
day, as she is compelled to as
sist In financing Russian and is
also contributing to the Italian
government’s war expense.
TRADE WITH ENEMY
UW IS EKED
British Merchants are Heavily Fined
for Dealing with Germans
Through Swedish Houses.
LONDON. Feb. 15.—Three En
glishmen who had been convicted
of trading with Germans in violation
of the recent executive order forbid
ding British subjects to have busi
ness dealings with citizens of the en
emy nations have been subjected to
heavy flues.
The British press in commenting on
the conviction of the English mer
chants and the heavy punishment in
flicted says that stringent measures
are necessary in order that the com
mercial industries of the German em
pire may be brought to a standstill.
The Englishmen convicted were
found to have purchased goods which
had been manufactured in Germany.
The 'transactions were carried on
through Swedish dealers whom the
defendants must have known were
representatives of German manufac
turers, and Were brought to light by
reettit seizure of mails.
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GENERAL ELECTRIC
CO. LOOSES PLANT
Mystery Surrounds Origin of Fire and
Officials Refuse to Give Out
Auy Information.
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SCHENECTADY, N. Y., Feb. 1«.—j
the munitions plane of -the General
Electric company here was destroyed!
hydro yesterday afternoon causing a
load of more than a million dollars.
The officials of the company have
refused to give dot any information,
as to (hs ortgis of tho flre or tie ex-1
tent of the damage done hut it Is
Known that a largo shipment which
had' been prepared for consignment
to Europe on one of the .first liners
was destroyed.
Mystery surrounds tbe origin of
the flre and It is being Investigated
by the federal authorities. It Is alsoj
reported that several employes of the
company have disappeared and it is
believed they have been quietly plac
ed under arrest,
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AMERICAN IS HBU>
PRISONER OF WAR
CINCINNATI, Feb. 15.—That the
Department of State It making ef
forts to secure the release of Dr. K.
Stoll, an American citizen, who is
being bald in Scotland as a prisoner
of war, Is reported-in., a lettor receiv
ed in the last mail from Europe, by
his wife. The physician bad been in
Germany studying when hostilities
broke out and made Ms way tn Scot
land from Danmark bat waa imme
diately, arrested attar bis arrival.
■> ' '.w ■ m ~
kludge J. L. Band is baring the
south half of his office building mads
ready for ocoupancy. The room af
fords an excellent view and will be
one of the most comfortable Offices
In town.
Spring Samples in heavy weights,
for Alaska wear. Guy F. Cameron,
Tailor. I*
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OFFENSIVE NEAR
COAST EXPECTED
British Believe that German Troops
are Soon to Make Attempt to
Break Through to Coast.
LONDON, Feb. 15.—Night dis
patches from Paris are to the effect
that the German troops have made
several violent assaults against the
French positions in the Champagne
district. The advices state that the
attacks were preceeded by heavy ar
tillery Are which continued several
hours and almost obliterated the
drat line of French trenches, tor
several hundred : yards but the
French held their positions.
Reinforcements have been sent to
strengthen the threatened position*
and it is believed that the offensive
movements will be of short duration.
It is admitted that the French cas
ualties were heavy as long lines of
trenches were shelled.
Military experts here believe that
the German offensive movement la
the Champagne district is, being
made to cloak a general offensive
which is believed to have been plan
ned against the British and Belgian
troops nearer the coast.
PARIS DENIES
BERLIN REPORT
Contradictory Reports Sent Out Re
garding Result of Engagement
In Champagne District,
BERLIN. Feb 15 —Official ad
vices from France confirm t'-e reports
that the German troops have made
important g.dns in the Chnmpagn*
district where several hundred yard*
of the first fine of French trenches
were captured. This is t‘ e second
important ga'n in territory .vliich the
German troops have made duilnc tha
week and it Is believed that a general
offensive movement is soon to be
made along the entire western front
through northern France. The dis
patches report that the trenches ware
captured after a bayonet charge and
that the casualties on both siifas were
henry.
Paris Denies Report.
Feb. 15.—The F-^nch war
office has’ posted a bulletin which say*
Otft although the German troop*
made twelve determined as attfts on
thh French trenches In tho Cham
pagne district that they were repuha
ed with heavy losses. The German
troops, according to dispat*aes from
the front, repeatedly charged ttm
French trenches and were mofred '
down by the machine guns. '~S
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NEW COAST GUARDS ,
FOR THE PACtrtfr
WASHINGTON, D. C. Feb. 15.— -
A bill has been Introduced into thn
Senate which provides for the con
struction of two coast guard cutter*
for service In the waters of thn
Pacific coast and Alaska. The vessel*,
are to cost seven hundred and fifty
thousand dollars each and it la im
ported that If the necessary appro
priation is made that- they will R
built on tho^Pacifie coast
The third cutter is now under con
struction in Michigan and according
to the contract will be ready for ser
vice in Alaskan waters befom thn
dose af 1919.
LIEUT. MEHAFFEY HAS
REACHED IDITAROjD
Lieut. Mehaffey, engineer offlcer fN
the Alaska Road commission, who
to making a trip of inspection thfR .
interior . Alaska in company with
Supt. B$es,.of the Seward division*
has reached Iditarod according to in
formation receive^ from there last
week. He wil speg&a few days in
Iditarod before «W!inuing his joq9
ney to Kaltag where he will be
| by Supt. It. 3. Summers of the Fain^
banks tilvisfOn. 1