VOLUME Tin. VALDEZ, ALASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1915 NUMBER 80»
FORD ILL SPEND
UNO MILLION MORE
.-t*eace Conference May Be Held at
Stockholm as that County Has
Welcomed Expedition.
STOCKHOLM, Dec. 28—The mem
bers of the Henry Ford peace exped
ition express themselves as pleased
with the reception they have been ac
corded in Sweden and may decide to
hold the conference here instead of
at the Hague. The party has been rec
ugnized by the Swedish peace assoc
iations and announced that delegates
will be named to participate in the
oeaee conference.
Henry Ford the organizer of the
expedition/ which was to have called
the sold^Ws from the trenches before
Christmjrf'- has sent a wireless mess
age frotff a.uid-Atlantic stating that
he is ready to spend two million
dollars if the expedition can accom
plish even a small portion of the task
to which it set itself.
The Norwegian peace societies re
fused to recognize the Ford dele
gation and declined to appoint official
representatives to take part in the
conference. Many of the Norwegian
writers declared that the expedition
had been recognized in the interests
of the Teutonic nations and that a
majority of the delegates were pro
tjernian in their sympathies.
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BELGIUM RELIEF
COMMITTEE ACTIVE
Cargoes to the Value of Hour Mil
lion Dollars Worth Sent from
New York During October.
NEW YORK, Dec. 28.—It is an
nounced by the Belgian Relief com
mittee of New York that thirty ships
carrying supplies from the United
States to Belgium were dispatched
during the month of October and that
all have reached their destinations,
and the provisions are now being
distrihutaii by the commissioners.
The value of the shipments totalled
tour million dollars.
The shipments to Belgium include
clothing, provisions and medical sup
plies, more than one-half of the car
goes consisting of flour. Condensed
milk shipments have also formed a
considerable portion of the cargoes as
thousands of Belgian children have
been deprived of milk owing to the
cows having been slaughtered by the
Derman troops.
The committee has issued a state
ment showing that hundreds of thou
sands of Belgium women and chil
dren as well as aged men, are sub
sisting entirely on the relief obtain
ed from the commission. It is esti
mated that the people of America will
be. required to furnish approximately
33,000,000 per month during the win
ter to keep the Belgians from starv
ing. A considerable portion of the
Belgian relief funds was raised
through t^e Rockefeller Foundation.
Wild, EXERCISE OPTION
* ON COPPER PROPERTIES.
.0 Chas. El wood, the well known min
er, in the mail yesterday received in
formation from his partner that the
parties haying an option on their cop
per properties had signified the in
tention of closing negotiations for
the transfer of the property. Elwood
apd his partner own several claims
onT Long Bay which are said to have
a wonderful showing of high grade
ore, numerous assay tests having re
turned values of twenty-four percent
copper. The lead is reported as be
ing nine feet wide and traceable on
the surface for a distance of several
hundred feet.
The bond on the property is held
by a Mr. Cooper, who spent some time
here last summer looking over the
mining possibilities of the district in
the Interests of Wisconsin capitalists
who are anxious to become identified
with Alaska.
FORT I.ISCUM SOCIAL
CLUB SCORES SUCCESS.
The dance given at the Post last
night by the members of the Fort
Liscum Social club was one of the
pleasantest affairs of the social sea
son and was well attended by the
young people of Valdez. The music
was furnished George Reinke’s or
chestra of piano and drums. A de
lightful luncheon was served at a late
hour and was much enjoyed by the
guests.
BRITISH LOSSES
HAVE BEEN HEAVY
Figures Given Out Concerning Ijosses
Sustained by British Forces
Up to December 1.
LONDON, Dec. 28.—The official
figures of the British losses up to
November 9 were 510,230 in killed,
wounded and missing. The unofficial
estimate of losses up to and includ
ing December 1 was 600,000 divided
as follows:
France—Officers killed, 4620; men
killed. 69,273; officers wounded,
9,745; men wounded. 240,283; offi
cers missing, 1584; men missing, 54,
446.
Dardanelles—Officers killed, 1504;
men killed. 21,530: officers wound
ed, 2860; men wounded, 70,148; offi
cers missing, 356: men missing 10,
211.
Other Theatres—Officers killed,
227; men killed, 2052; officers
wounded, 337; men wounded, 5687;
officers missing. 76; men missing,
6223.
Naval Loaess—Officers killed, 589;
men killed, 9928; officers wounded,
161; men wounded, 1120; officers’
missing, 62; men missing, 300.
WILL PRESS HIS
HOUSE RESOLUTION
Massachusetts Representative Wants
National Defense Advocates
Cleared of Charges.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Dec. 28.—
Representative Augustus P. Gardner,
of Massachusetts, who introduced a
resolution in the house providing
that a select house committee be ap
pointed to investigate the naval de
fense crusade, says he will push his
resolution as he is tired of the in
sinuations that his motive is cor
rupt.
Mr. Gardner said he was taking the
pacifist and propagandist bulls by the
horns. He added:
“I am getting a little tired of in
sinuations, and even allegations, that
my motives are corrupt. If we na
tional defense advocates are a parcel
of crooks the sooner the country
knows of it the better. If we are
honest men the time has come to call
our calumniators to account.
“I believe the House, in addition
to investigating organizations, ought
to investigate the activities of public
men, including myself, on both sides
of this question to see whether di
rectly or indirectly, by dividends, ad
dresses, writings, or otherwise, we are
making money or trying to make
money out of our propaganda, either
for ourselves or others.”
FA I KHANKHAN HAD NARROW
ESCAPE FROM DEATH
Henry T. Ray, townsite trustee and
formerly Grand Arctic Chief of the
Arctic Brotherhood at Fairbanks, had
a miraculous escape from death when
he fell through a trap door at1 the
fire hall. He fell to the bottom of
the cellar and as he fell he hit a chain
which brought the Moor down on top
of him. When the firemen rushed to
his aid in full expectation of finding
him dead, they found that he suffer
ed only from cuts and bruisee, which
will soon heal.
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LLOYD GEORGE MAY RESIGN
FROM THE BRITISH CABINET
18 MAKING FIGHT FOB CONSCRIPTION BUT WILL INSIST UPON
PREMIER ASQUITH KEEPING PROMISE THAT MARRIED MEN
WOULD NOT BE DRAFTED INTO ARMY—BALFOUR DESERTS CON
8CRIPTIONI8TS AND DECLARES THAT BRITAIN HAS ENOUGH
MEN IN THE FIEIJ)— BRITISH PRESS DEMANDS RESIGNATION
OF THE PREMIER.
LONDON, Dec. 28.—A serious
split has occurred in the British cabi
net over the conscription measure
which may result in Lloyd George and
other Nationalist members of the cab
inet resigning.
Lloyd George is leading the fight
for conscription and declares that
Great Britain must keep the ranks of
the British troops filled up and create
the new army demanded by Lord
Kitchener if the empire is to survive
the war.
Gerald William Balfour, who was
also a member of the late Unionist
ministry, has deserted Lloyd George
and is giving his support to the anti
conscriptionists. He has declared that
Premier Asquith has not revealed the
true reason why the huge army must
be raised as Great Britain now has
one million and a quarter men at tne
various fronts.
Premier asquith announces that he
will oppose conscription unless it is
general and extended to every man of
military age who is physically quali
fied to join the army.
Lloyd George bitterly scored Pre
mier Asquith for his failure to keep
faith with his promise that the mar
ried men of England would not be
subjected to conscription except as a
last resort in defense of the empire,
and has threatened to resign unlesB
men with families are exempted.
The press of England is supporting
Lloyd George anu is demanding that
Premier Asquith resign in order that
conscription may be forced through
and the army provided for the spring
campaign.
CANNOT STORM SALONIKI
SAYS FRFNCH COMMANDER
SENDS ASSURANCE TO ATHENS THAT ALLIES WILL DEFEND CITY
FROM ARMIES OF THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN POWERS—AUS
TRIAN AND BULGARIAN TROOPS REPORTED ENTRENCHING
ALONG BORDER OF GREECE—ROME REPORTS HEAVY FIGHT
ING IN ALBANIA WHERE ITALIANS HAVE ENGAGED TEUTONIC
AND BULGARIAN TROOPS.
ATHENS. Dec. 28.—The French
chief of staff, commanding the Allies
troops at Saloniki, has sent assur
ances to the Greek cabinet that the
armies of the central powers of Eu
rope cannot storm Saloniki.
The French and British are cease
lessly disembarking troops at Salon
iki, the troops having been with
drawn from the Gallipoli peninsula,
and have fortified the city with heavy
siege guns.
The Austrian and Bulgarian troops
are reporteo _o be entrenching them
selves in the valley of the Vardar riv
er and along the border of Macedo
nia, but have not crossed into Greek
territory. The Bulgarian army which
will invade Greece is reported to be
in better shape than when the inva
sion of Serbia began as it is now fully
equipped with German machine guns
and cannon.
Heavy Fighting in Albania.
HOME, Dec. 28.—It is reported
here that heavy fighting is being
waged between the Italian troops and
the Teutons and Bulgarians who are
marching westward across Albania to
the Adriatic. Sixty thousand Italian
troops have been landed on the coast
of Albania and are being sent to re
inforce the Italian troops blocking
the march of the central European
powers to the sea.
GREECE SENDS BILL TO
SECRETARY BURLESON
PARIS: A difference has arisen
between the United States and Greece
in regard to settlements on interna
tional postal money orders. The
American Government has been pay
ing balances in favor of Greece ac
cording to the usual procedure, by |
check on Paris. The international
postal convention provides that these
obligations are “payable in gold by
check on Paris."
The Greek government contends
that on account of the decline in ex
change rates it has lost more than
500,000 francs. ($100,000) and has
presented a bill for the amount to
Washington.
It is understood here that the
American government declines , to
make this payment. The Greek gov
ernment now offers to submit .the
question to International arbitration,
but Washington thus far has not ac
cepted the suggestion.
SHAMROCK GOKS TO
FIT*ALGO BAY TOMORROW
The launch Shamrock, Capt. Tim
Marcum will leave for Landlock and
Fidalgo bays tomorrow morning, car
rying a number of miners who have
spent Christmas .In Valdes back to
their work In the copper mines. The
development of the Fidalgo bay mine
by the Alaska Mines corporation has
served to create sufficient business to
enable Captain Marcum to give that
district the advantage of a weekly
service without loss to himself.
BRITISH ATTACHE TAKEN
FROM GREEK STEAMER
LONDON: An Athens dispatch to
the Exchange Telegraph Company
says that according to the Greek pa
pers Col. H. D. Napier, the late Brit
ish Military Attache at Sofia has been
taken off a Greek steamer by a Ger
man submarine near Messina.
A British official report received
last night says that Captain Arthur
Stanley Wilson, member of Parlia
ment for Yorkshire, has been made a
prisoner of war. He was conveying
letters from the eastern Mediterra
nean to London and was traveling by
a Greek steamer which was stopped
by an Austrian submarine.
It has been ascertained, the report
says, that none of the papers taken
from him was of any importance.
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.\I,.\SK.\N ARRESTED IN
EAST FOR ROBBERY
CINCINNATI: Seven men', sus
pected of being members of a band
of postoffice robbers, are held by the
police following the blowing open of
the safe in the postoffice at Erlanger,
Ky., twenty miles south of Cincinnati.
Two of the men who gave the names
of David Foley, of Amherst, Nova
Scot!, and Frank Wilson, of Nome,
Alaska, were arrested by William L.
Nimmo, chief of detectives of Cincin
nati, and Morgan Griswold, a post
office inspector, and several deputies
a minute after, it is alleged, they had
blown open the safe in the Erlanger
postofflce. A third man, who was act
ing as a lookout, escaped, after fir
ing several shots at the officers.
SEAMAN’S ACT AFFECTS
THE ALASKA STEAMERS.
All vessels running to Alaska will
be compelled from this time forward
to cut down the number of passen
gers. The Northwestern, which was
permitted to carry 383 passengers,
can only carry 269 in future, and all
other ships have had to cut accord
ingly on account of the new Seaman’s
Law. The law reduces the number
of passengers in accordance with the
number of life boatB carried.
ONE PERSON RURI
EVERY 20 MINUIES
European Battlefields Not the Only
Places Where People are Kill
ed or Maimed for Life.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 28.—That the
“Safety First” slogan does not apply
in New York is indicated by the an
nual report of the police department
which shows that the number of ac
cidents on the streets during the past
year has maintained an average of
one person hurt every twenty min
utes during the entire year.
A majority of the accidents are due
to automobiles, but street cars have
claimed the greater number in fatal
accidents. The police will recom
mend the city pass more stringent
laws in regard to machines being op
erated in certain portions of the city
except by licensed drivers, as it has
been found that in many cases the
accidents have been caused by inex
perienced drivers becoming confused
during the hours of heavy traffic.
The report of the police depart
ment also shows an alarming increase
in the number of suicides during the
year over that of previous years, es
pecially among foreign born chil
dren.
RIGGS OFFERED
LIFE FOR LIFE
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Saved JUfe of Mrs. Riggs By Giving
I'p His Blood to Be Transfused
to Wife's Dying Body.
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Dec. 28.—
Thos. Riggs, member of the Alaskan
Engineering commission, is in a hos
pital here, suffering from weakness
caused from loss of blood which he
gave to save the life of his wife.
Mrs. Riggs gave birth to Tom
Riggs, Jr., on Christmas day and the
physicians decided that the only way
in which her life could be saved
would be through the transfusion of
blood. Riggs offered his life if nec
essary to save that of the mother of
his children and more than one quart
of his blood was pumped into the
veins of his apparently dying wife.
The physicians state that the trans
fusion of blood has been successful
and that the lives of all will be saved.
Riggs is reported as being very weak
but is rapidly recovering.
BIG SHIPMENTS OF ORE
ON TWO FREIGHTERS.
The freighters Seward and La
touche on the last trip southward
called at Cordova and took on nearly
four thousand tons of copper ore from
the Kennecott mine. The Latouche
took 1850 tons and the Seward 2000
tons, relieving the ore congestion at
the dock and also cleaning up some
of that piled in the railroad yards.
But as every train from Kennecott is
bringing a big shipment from the
mine to Cordova, there wilt be plenty
of ore always on hand to supply all
the southbound vessels with full car
goes.
Superintendent A. G. Stabl, of the
Alaska Mines corporation, Fidalgo
Bay, who spent Christmas with his
family in town, will be a passenger
on the launch Shamrock for Fidalgo
Bay tomorrow.
Furnished rooms at Mrs. Os lead's.
Prices reasonable. •
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BOYS ATTEMPT
BANK ROBBERY
l>id Not I’ossem Sufficient Strength U>
Lock Vault. Doors or Securely
Tie Imprisoned Cashier.
GRANT. Okla., Dec. 28.- Two
youths, who attempted to imitate
holdup men by robbing a bank here
yesterday, are in Jail, one of the boys
suffering from a wound sustained at
the hands of their intended victim.
The boys entered the bank just be
fore the closing hour and when the
cashier, who was alone at the time,
looked up he found two revolvers lev
eled at his head. The youths then
compelled him to submit to having
his hands and feet bound with cords,
after which they dragged him inte
the vault. They did not succeed in
locking the door of the vault but es
caped with four thousand dollars
taken from the cash drawer.
The cashier was enabled to extri
cate himself from the cords with
which the boys had hound him as
they had not possessed sufficient
strength to make them secure. He
secured a revolver and overtaking
the young bandits ordered them to
surrender. One of the boys showed
fight and was shot through the shoul
der when they gave themselves up.
The cash of the bank was recovered
as the boys had not had time to con
ceal it.
SAYS YAK STEAKS
WtILL BE POPULAR
Professor Georgeaon of the Govern
ment Experimental Station
Would Try Experiment.
Y'ak steaks may become an Alaska
delicacy if C. C. Georgeson, chief of
the government agricultural experi
ment stations in Alaska, can secure
an appropriation from congress to im
port the animals from Mongolia. He
wants the government to breed a new
strain of yak cattle by crossing the
Asiatic yak with domestic Galloway
cattle with which, the government
stations are stocked.
He says cattle can be raised in in
terior Alaska, but they have to be
protected in winter by log shelters,
and the problem of feeding is some
what difficult. But the yak needs no
coddling; he can survive the sever
est winter and begin the spring in
good condition.
Mr. Georgeson has been getting in
formation from the Russian govern
ment in Siberia. Experiments in
crossing the yak with common cat
tle in Mongolia have been successful.
Both the yak and his hybrid offspring
are hardy; they obtain their feed
through long, cold winters practioally
without the aid of owners. They are
used for beef and for milk, as well
as work animals.
Mr. Georgeson's suggestion is an
other illustration of the plans that
are being laid to make Alaska self
sustaining. It has been demonstrat
ed that various crops can be raised
here. If Alaskans can be assured of
yak steaks and fried potatoes, both
produced by themselves, they ought
to be reasonably secure against star
vation.
CORDOVA TAX LEVI'
FIXED AT FIVE MILLS.
At the last meeting of the Cordova
city council the members of that body
decided upon the tax levy, which was
fixed at five mills. This is lower than
any previous year, but will providw
ample money to run the municipality
until July 1, when the federal license
moneys are due.
Red Tuson, the well known miner,
will be a passenger on the Shamrock
tomorrow morning for Fidalgo bay,,
where he is employed with the Alas
ka Mines corporation.
Far good home-cooked meals try
Mrs. M. Olson, on Hobart Street. •