yni.HME 13 VALDEZ, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1915 NUMBER 1«1
ABE ARRESTED FOR
MURDER OF 01
Detectives Believe they Have Cap
tured Fiends Who Assaulted
and Murdered Teacher.
DODGE CITY. Iowa, Oct. 28.—
Jared Hansen, a farmer, his two sons
and a hired farm hand, have been ar
rested on the charge of having mur
dered Nellie Byers, a young school
teacher whose naked body was found
last Saturday near the country school
where she had been teaching. The
girl had been assaulted and then
choked to death.
Detectives employed by the state
believe they have the guilty parties,
and have taken the prisoners into an
other county fearing that an attempt
might be made to lynch the men.
* The scene of the murder showed that
Miss Byers had made a desperate
her life, as her clothing was
over a wide area near
j ie body was found
It is reported that sodie of the
girl’s clothing has been found in the
Hansen home and it is now believed
that the girl was murdered there and
the body left near the school, where
it was later discovered.
BELI IE BANDITS
Wl .FIGHTTO END
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Drain Bobbers Have Been Surround
ed in Hills and as They are
Heavily Armed Battle Is
Expected.
MUSKOGEE, Olka., Oct. 28.—The
outlaws who held up and robbed the
passenger train yesterday on the Mis
souri-Texas railroad, have been sur
rounded in the hills r the scene
of the holdup.
Bioodhounds, used by the sheriff,
have followed the scent from the
scene of the robbery to the hills, and
pomes of citizens have formed a cor
don to prevent their escape.
It is reported that there are eight
the band of outlaws and as
heavily armed it is believed
flfcht to the death before be
ing captured and the sheriff has is
sued warnings against citizens engag
ing in the hunt unless attached to a
posse of sufficient strength to over
power the bandits.
The officials of the Missouri-Texas
railroad have offered a reward of
$5,000 for the capture of the bandits
and have admitted that $40,000 was
taken from the express company in
addition to the registered mail and
loot gathered from the passengers.'
ftKAND JURY INVESTIGATES
JURY TAMPERING CHARGES
ANGELES, Oct. 28.—In com
pliance with a demand made by coun
sel representing M. A. Schmidt, charg
ed with conspiracy in connection with
the dynamiting of the Los \n gales
Times, the grand jury is investigat
ing alleged jury tampering by the
government prosecution through the
agents of Detective Burns. It was
charged in open court that Burns’
agents had visited the homes ..f sev
eral persons who had been drnwn on
special venires and had offered b*. bes
to secure a conviction.
ADMIRAL EVANS WILL
LEAVE SEATTLE TUNIGHT.
SEATTLE. Oct. 2 V —The steamer
Admiral Evans, of the Admiral Line,
•will sail for Valdez and other South
westeJh Alaska ports i -night. . The
steamer will go to Anchorage and
Kodiak this trip and carries a capac
ity cargo of freight. The : fllcials of
Hie company stats that unusually
heavy offerings of freight for the
westward are being r~«» 'ed
Just received, a lot of samples, no
two' alike, of hair ornaments, stamp
ed articles for embroidery, wool
hoods and scarfs, at The Emporium.
BRITISH OFFICER TELLS LONDON AUDIENCE
DARDANELLES CAMPAIGN IS LOST TO ALLIES
LONDON, Oct. 28.—Captain Bart
.ett, who was appointed by the Brit
ish government as the official press
representative to cover the Darda
nelles campaif.n has returned to En
gland and last night delivered a lec
ture on the war before an audience
numbering thousands.
The lecture! declared that the Al
lies campaign at the Dardanelles w as
sure to fail, as it had been impossi
ble to advance despite the terrific at
tacks which had been made upon the
Turkish positions. He asserts that
the Turkish army opposing the Allies
on Galipoli peninsula is constituted
of the pick of the Turkish forces and
that they are constantly improving
under the training of German officers.
Eight hundred thousand Trukish
troops are holding the peninsula and
have prevented the Allies from gain
ing any advances during the past
three months and have been able to
LECTURE WAS PERMITTED BY BRITISH WAR OFFICE AND IS BE
LIEVED TO FORECAST ANNOUNCEMENT THAT DARDANELLES
CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN ABANDONED—BLAMES BRITISH FOR
EIGN OFFICE FOR PERMITTING GERMANY TO ALIENATE BUL
GARIA FROM ALLIES—TEUTONIC AND BULGARIAN ARMIES
ARE MARCHING SOUTHWARD TO MEET BRITISH AND SER
BIAN FORCES IN MORAVA VALLEY NORTH OF NISH.
inflict tremendous losses against the
attacking parties.
Captain Bartlett blames British di- j
plomacy for permitting the Germans
to alienate Bulgaria from the Allies
and makes the assertion that Bulgaria
was ready and willing to join the Al
lies last July in attacking Constanti
nople from the land.
The lecture of Captain Bartlett, it
is believed, was permitted by the
British war office to prepare the Brit
ish people for the announcement that
the Allies have decided to abandon
the Dardanelles campaign and will
leave Serbia to her fate.
Serbian Battle Developing.
LONDON, Oct. 28.—Advices from
the near Bast are to the effect that
the German troops under General
Mackensen have effected a junction
with the Bulgarian army in north
western Serbia and that the united
force is beginning to march south
ward toward Nish. British troops,
which aided the Serbians to defeat
the Bulgarians near Uskup, are now
reinforcing the Serbian northern
army and are entrenching in the val
ley of the Morava river north of Nish
and it is believed that a battle is de
veloping which will determine the
fate of Serbia and the Dardanelles
campaign. The Allies are rushing
troops northward night and day to
intercept the Teutons as the capture
of Nish will clear the way from Ber
lin to Constantinople.
Albanians Are Revolting.
SOFIA, Oct. 28.—Thousands of
Albanians in the Serbian province of
Kosova have revolted a»u are joining
the Bulgarian armies. It is reported
that Serbian officers forced many Al
banians into the Serbian army and
have kept them at the front in the
battles with the Teutons.
6ERIANS REJECJ_
GUUMS OF DUTCH
Refuse to Settle for Sinking of the
Steamer Marie, Which was
Identical with Frye Case.
THE HAGUE, Oct, 27.—Dispatches
received here says that the Supreme
Prize Court in Berlin has refected
all claims in connection with the
sinking of the Dutch Steamer Marie,
in the South Atlantic, last year, bv
the German cruiser Karlsruhe, while
the steamer was on a voyage front
Oregon to Belfast with a cargo of
grain. The decision confirms the
findings of the Hamburg Prize court
which declared that it was almost
impossible to prove what constituted
provisional contraband.
The cargo of the Marie belonged
to a private company in Irleand and
the court considered that the grain
might have been sold to the British
government. The case of the Maria
is similar to that of the American
ship William P. Frye, for which the
German government has promised to
settle.
BELGIAN WOMEN
SENTENCED TO DIE
German Governor of Liege will Send
Five to Execution and Six Oth
ers to Prison for Life.
AMSTERDAM, Oct. 28.—Private
advices have been received here stat
ing that! Anna Benzet, and four other
Belgian women, arrested at Liege by
the German government, have been
sentenced to be executed, and six oth
ers convicted have been given life
sentences.
The women were convicted of hav
ing furnished information to the
French troops which enabled them to
surprise a German position after the
troops had been withdrawn to rein
force another point of attack.
The German governor of Liege has
refused to intercede for the women,
and has ordered that the death se
tence be carried out as a warning t
civilians against acting as spies.
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Tonight at The Liberty.
A complete new program at The
Liberty Theatre tonight. A three
act feature, “Night Shadows of New
York,” and an extra good comedy to
balance. Among the coming events
at the Liberty will be Lillian Rus
sell in ‘‘Wildfire,” and “Across the
Pacific," both five acts. •
SENATOR MILLARD CHOICE
OF THE NOME REPUBUCANS
SEWARD PENINSULA REPUBLICAN CLUB HAS BEEN ORGANIZED
WITH MEMBERSHIP OF MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED AND WU/L
FIGHT FOR VALDEZ MAN TO FINISH—SEWARD FAVORED FOR
CONVENTION—JUDGE SCHOFIELD AND ATTORNEY GILMORE
WILL HOLD PROXIES ON SECOND DIVISION—GILMORE FAVOR
ED FOR NATIONAL CONVENTION DELEGATE.
NOME, Oct. 28.—Although It Is
more than a year before the next ter
ritorial election will be held politics
are beginning to simmer here and a
strong Republican club has been or
ganized. Harmony prevails in the
Republican ranks of Seward peninsu
la for the first time in years and the
Seward Republican club starts off
with a membership of more than one
hundred.
The club has gone on record as fa
voring Senator B. F. Millard, of Val
dez, as the Republican candidate for
delegate to coigress and will instruct
their delegates to the convention to
fight for him first, last and all the
time.
Seward is favored as the place for
holding the convention and Judge
Schofield and former Mayor William
Gilmore will represent the republi
cans of the Second division by prox
ies in the convention.
Gilmore, who is a prominent attor
ney and was the Republican candi
date three years ago, has been en
dorsed by the local republicans to
be one of the delegates to the Na
tional Republican convention from
Alaska.
MUSHED ACROSS
FROM THE ARCTIC
Louis Lane and Two Companions
Have Reached Circle City en
Route to the Outside.
FAIRBANKS, Oct. 28.—Wireless
advices from Circle City state that
Capt. Louis Lane, the Arctic explorer
who sold his schooner Polar Bear to
Explorer Val. Steffansson, had reach
ed Circle yesterday and is coming to
Fairbanks, en route to the outside.
Lane, in company with Burt and
Dair, two men who went into the Arc
tic last summer seeking adventures,
mushed across the bogs from the Arc
tic to the Yukon river, living off the
country while making the trip. They
report that they passed through vast
kstrlps of territory which had never
been visited by white men and report
game as very plentiful in the districts
through which they passed.
The party is due to reach Fairbanks
next Sunday and plans are under way
to meet them at Chatanika with au
tomobiles and bring them to Fair
banks, where' they will be the guests
of the Tanand Commercial club.
Sam McNiece, the contractor, has
completed the board walk on west
Front street and is putting the finish
ing touches to the railings this after
noon. The new walk will prove a
great convenience to the residents of
the western part of the town near
the waterfront, as they have been
minus a sidewalk since the July Are.
VILLA TROOPS MAY
FACE U.S.INFANTRY
United States Troops Ordered to
Douglas to Prevent Villaites
Shooting Across Border.
EL PASO, Oct. 28.—The. Twenty
seventh United States Infantry Ib be
ing rushed to the border near Doug
las, Arizona, where General Villa's
army is reported to be preparing to
attack Auguaprietas, just across the
border.
The order hastening the transfer of
the troops was received last night
from Washington and it is beileved
that the troops have been instructed
to return the fire of the Viilaites
should they take up a position which
would cause bullets to enter Doug
las.
Villa is believed to be making his
last stand as it is reported that he
has been unable to receive shipments
of munitions from tho west coast
which were expected. ITis army at
tacking Aguaprletas greatly outnum
ber the civilians defending the town
and hundreds of Mexican women and
children are crossing the line into
Arizona for protection.
The Young People’s Club of Val
dez will hold a masquerade Hallow
e’en social Friday evening at the Con
gregational church at 8 o’clock.
Senator B. F. Millard, who has
been on a trip of Inspection to the
Granite mine at Hobo Bay returned
this morning on the launch B. F. M.
SUBMARINES SINK
4 GERMAN SHIPS
British Undersea Fighters Reported
to Have Driven German Steamers
to Intern in Sweden Ports.
LONDON, Oct. 28.—The British
admiralty has announced that British
submarines yesterday sunk four more
German ships in the Baltic Sea, and
that a number of the crew were taken
prisoners by the submarines. The
ships were carrying ore from Swedish
ports to Germany.
It is claimed that through the activ
ities of the British submarines in the
Baltic that the German commerce
fleet has been forced from the sea
and that many German cruisers have
taken refuge in Swedish ports to es
cape the British undersea fighters.
The Bteamers carrying ore and me
tals from Sweden to Germany are in
variably convoyed by large squadrons
of warships but it is claimed by the
admiralty that more than forty of the
ships have been interned in German
ports fearing to venture the return
trip to German ports.
OFFICERS CHARGED
: H
Refining Company Charges that Cap
italists Prevented it Securing
Money to Rebuild.
DENVER, Oct. 28.—The answer of
the defendants in the receivership
proceedings of the New York Trust
company against the Un ted States
Reduction and Refining company,
makes charges of collusion wrecking
of property and agreement to form a
monopoly in the ore reduction and
refining business, against a score of
Colorado capitalists interested in the
company.
Spencer Penrose, one of the direc
tors of the Reduction and Refining
company, is openly charged with the
loss of thousands of dollars through
failure to Insure the company’s plant
at Victor, Col., which vas destroyed
by fire.
The answer admits that the two
companies agreed to enter an agree
ment which bad tor its object the
elimination of the United States com
pany so the Oolden Cycle an inter
locking corporation, could maintain
a monopoly of the ore treating busi
ness without competition, and that
the Golden Cycle crowd later pre
vented the United States company
from obtaining capital to rebuild its
plant and forced the company into re
ceivership.
GREW RAD TRIED
TO RAISE VESSEL
Investigation of the Submarine F-4
Shows that Engines Had Failed
and Her Scams Opened.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 28.—
The report of the naval board ap
pointed to investigate the loss of the
United States submarine F-4 in the
Honolulu harbor, has been filed with
Secretary Daniels and shows that the
submarine was unsafe when she took
the final plunge as she had been tem
porarily repaired before submerging.
The work of the board was ham
pered by the fact that the hull had
been raised several times from the
bed of the ocean and had slipped from
the cables, making it difficult to de
termine the original cause of the dis
aster.
The engines had become unman
ageable and when the vessel settled
into deep water her seams had open
ed under the great pressure. It is
stated that the bodies of the crew
showed that they had tried desper
ately to right the vessel and had
rushed to the engine room to assist
the engineers when the hold began
filling with water.
HOW THE DIRECTORS
MILKED NEW HAVEN
Cincinnati River Road was Purchased
with New Haven Money and
Operated for Directors.
NEW YORK, Oct. 28—The g®r
ernment prosecution sprung a sensa
tion today during the trial of the di
rectors of the New York, New Haven
& Hartford railroad for misappropri
ation of the company’s funds, whoa
evidence was submitted showing that
Judge Robertson, one of the direc
tors, had secretly purchased and held
for two years the Connecticut railroad
for the New Haven.
The evidence proved conclusively
that the directors had purchased the
Connecticut River railroad with mon
ey voted from the treasury of the
New Haven road, but that the stock
holders of the New Haven road had
been given no interest in the earnings
of the Connecticut River road.
The prosecution has also proved
that the directors of the New York,
New Haven & Hartford made traffic
arrangements with Judge Robertson,
representing their own private inter
ests, whereby the Connecticut River
railroad was enabled to earn enor
mous profits and absorbed the earn
ings of the New Haven.
CITY OP PUEBLA WILL
SAIL NEXT THURSDAY.
SEATTLE, Oct. 28.—Tremendous
freight offerings for Southwestern
Alaska ports has caused the Mask*
Steamships to renew its charter of
the City of Puebla for another trip
northward, and the vessel will sail for
Alaska on November 4th, going to
Anchorage.
The sailing of the Northwestern
has been indefinitely postponed as
the damages sustained in her encoun
ter with rocks near Ketchikan on her
last trip were greater than was antici
pated. The vessel is 'also receiving a
thorough overhauling with a view of
keeping heL on the Southeastern
Alaska trade during the winter sea
son while the other liners are being
given their annual overhauling.
COLONEL 18 CELEBRATING
HIS 57th BIRTHDAY.
OYSTER BAY, N. Y., Oct. 28.—
Col. Roosevelt is cerebrating his 57th
birthday at his home here. He has
received. many congratulatory mes
sages from all parts of the Union,
many of them expressing the hops
that he' will again be the nation’s
chief executive.
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