VOLUME XIV. VALDEZ, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1016 .M’MBKR B
AUSTRIAN OFFICIALS WERE
INSTIGATORS OF MURDERS
UKADKIt OF HUNGARIAN PROVINCE PUBLISHES STATEMENT THAT
HIGH OFFICIALS OF AUSTRO-HUNGARY GOVERNMENT WERE
REAL MURDERERS OF GRAND DUKE FERDINAND AND WIFE
AT SARAJEVO AND THAT SERBIAN GOVERNMENT AND PRINCE
ALEXANDRIA WERE INNOCENT—ANNOUNCEMENT HAS CHEAT
ED TREMENDOUS SENSATION THROUGHOUT EUROPE.
BUCHAREST. Jan. 6.—That Count
Tiaa and certain other high officials
•f the Austrian-Hungarian govern
ment were the real assassins of the
Grand Duke Ferdinand, heir to the
Anstro-Hungary throne, is the sensa
tional charges made in Vienna papers
by M. Locale, the Transylvania lead
er.
The statement is made by M. Lo
cale in reply to an announcement in
a Hnngartan%ewspaper that proofs of
complicity of the Serbian government
and Prince Alexander, heir to the
Serbian throne, in the plot to assas
sinate Grand Duke Ferdinand had
been found among the prince’s papers
in Nish when the Serbian capital fell
Into the hands of the Bulgarians.
The statement of M. Locale that he
holds absolute proof that the assassi
nation of Prince Ferdinand was plan
ned by Count Tiza and other Austria
Hungarlan officials and not by Ser
bians had created a sensation as the
assassination of the prince was the
direct cause of the war which has
devastated the greater portion of Eu
rope.
The Transylvanian leader has de
manded that what the Serbian papers
claimed to have discovered showing
the complicity of the Serbian govern
ment in the conspiracy be produced
in order that the blame for causing
the war may be rightfully placed. It
is believed that if his statements are
substantiated that the disclosures
will have an important bearing on
the treatment meted out to King Pe
ter’s country following the close of
the war should the central powers
eventually triumph.
PUGET SOUND IS
BEST NAVY THUD
* Thief of Bureau of Docks and Yards
Tells House Committee Situa
tion Serious in New York.
WASHINGTON, Jan 6.—That
there is only one thoroughly depend
able deep water naval station in the
United States was the statement made
by Rear Admiral Homer It. Stanford,
chief of the Bureau of Yards and
■ Docks, before the Naval committee
yesterday.
Admiral Stanford declared that
the Puget Sound navy yard was the
only station in t-he United States
where no difficulty had been found
by battleships entering all stages
of the tide. On the other hand he
regarded the sftuation at New York
us very serious and such that it re
quired the immediate attention of the
government.
i The testimony of Admiral Stan
r ford was offered in support of the
appropriation which Secretary Dan
iels of the navy department, is ask
ing congress to make for the better
oqnipment of the coast defenses.
PRAIRIE STATES TO FIGHT
AUTO POSTAL SERVICE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—Congress
men from the western grain states
are preparing for their fight on the
floor of the House against Postmas
ter General Burleson’s scheme to
combine rural routes and form 60
mil© routes by carriers using auto
mobiles, and the matter will be forc
ed before the attention of congress
during the present session.
Because of the poor condition of
the roads in the western spates much
of the years the Burleson plan is held
to be entirely impractical and a hard
^ght will be waged against it.
, AoOTTY ALLAN WILL
RETURN TO ALASKA
'* SEATTLE, Jan. 6.—^cotty Allan,
the Alaska dog musher ;who went to
France with the animals purchased
by Lieut. Haas for service in Lor
raine, hat)!, returned to America and
has wired Hhat he will go to Alaska
after visiting friends at Berkerley,
Culif.
Chas. Rowbottom, the government
driver, came in last night from Beav
er Dam with Pvt. Cummings, of the
Signal Corps, who will leave on the
Alameda for the south. He has re
d eeived orders to report at Seattle
k where other instructions are awaiting
1 him. _ _
"Captain Racket” at the Liberty
Theatre tonight. Last time.
OLD PILOT HAS
CROSSED THE BAB
SEATTLE, Jan. 6.—Captain H. F\
Fish, a retired pilot who was well
known in all the principal ports of
the world as he followed the seas for
nearly fifty years, died at his home
here yesterday a victim of pneumo
nia. He had visited Puget Sound
when Seattle was a small town and
realizing its possibilities as a com
mercial center had purchased land
which made him wealthy with the de
velopment of the city.
ENGLAND 10 RAISE
ONE MILLION MEN
Premier Asquith Hopeful that Mew
Army Can Be Raised by Vol
untary Enlistments.
LONDON, Jan. 6.—Premier As
quith hals introduced a bill In the
British House of Commons to author
ize the war department to draw upon
the nation for one million men to
form the new army which England
will train for the Spring campaign.
The bill is the result of a compro
mise measure reached by the mem
bers of the British cabinet whereby
the opposition to conscription have
agreed not to fight Premier Asquith’s
conscription plans if the army can
not be raised by voluntary enlist
ments.
The result of the canvass made un
der the Lord Derby plan shows that
there are more than eight million
men of military age in the British
Isles and Premier Asquith is hopeful
that the army can be raised without
resorting to forced service.
PLURAL MARRIAGES BE
CONTINUED IN PHILIPPINES
WASHINGTON. Jan. 6.—If the ad
vice of Brig. Gen. Frank McIntyre,
chief of the Bureau of Insular affairs,
is followed the paragraph prohibiting
plural marriages in the Philippines
will be eliminated from the pending
bill to give the Filipinos a greater de
gree of self-government.
Speaking before the Senate Phil
ippines committee recently he said
polygamy was general among some,
of the Moros, the wealthy classes re
garding many wives as a mark of high
distinction, and the inorb wives a man
possessed the higher honors they re
ceived. He believes that Christian
influence will end the practice of
polygamy eventually.
Pasteurized Whipping Cream and
pure Buttermilk at Love-Whltley’s.
Furnished rooms at Mrs. Osland’s.
Prices reasonable. *
AMERICA COULD
RAISE BIG ARMY
United States Has Sixteen Million
Men of Military Age to Draw
Upon In Case of Need.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 6.—
The annual report of Secretary Gar
rison to the president shows that the
United States has seventeen million
men of soldier age from which to
draw upon in case this country should
become involved in war.
Secretary Garrison pays scant cour
tesy to those who would have no in
crease of the country’s preparedness
and declares that the American peo
ple must view their responsibilities
and measure up to them.
The report takes up in detail the
plan of military preparation endors
ed by President W'ilson and declares
the Swiss and Australian systems are
founded on governmental institutions
and powers differing so radically from
those in the United States that any at
tempt to adapt either of them to
American use would mean a great
delay.
After treating exhaustively upon
the subject of preparedness the sec
retary says the time has come when
America must have a trained force
of sufficient strength, advisedly one
half million men who would instant
ly respond to a call in the event of
war or the influence of war.
MAGNATE SAYS
WAR SOON END
Declares European Nations are Bank
rupt for Men and Money and
Must Soon Stop Fighting.
NEW YORK, Jan. 6.—Chairman
Gary, of the United States Steel cor
poration, in a public statement just
issued, declares that the belligerent
nations of Europe are starving for
men and money and that the war will
end much sooner than is generally
expected.
He declares that all of the Euro
pean nations engaged in the war have
exhausted their resources and that
they will be unable to place new ar
mies in the field for the spring cam
paign. Germany is asserted to have
drawn every available man into ser
vice and is bankrupt so far as raising
a new army is concerned.
The failure of the Anglo-French
bonds to find purchasers among the
American bankers was a bitter disap
pointment to the European govern
ments, and the heavy shipments of
gold- to America necessary to main
tain their credits here, is rapidly
draining the countries.
The statement of the head of the
great steel trust is issued as a warn
ing against speculation in the stocks
of munition companies and industries
whose existence depends upon the
continuance of the war. *
TWO MORE RRITISH SHIPS
SUNK IN MEDITERRANEAN
MIDDLETON AND HELIA CLAIMED AS VICTIMS BY AUSTRIAN SUB
MARINES AND MANY REPORTED DROWNED— RUSSIANS RE
PORT GERMANS ARE BEING DRIVEN BACK ALONG FIFTY MILE
BATTLE FRONT—BATTLE REPORTED RAGING IN THE CARPA
THIANS—BERLIN REPORTS THAT AUSTRIAN LINKS ARE HOLD
ING TRUE IN GALICIA.
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MARSEILLES. Jan 6.—Advices
have been received here stating that
the British steamships Middleton
and Helia have been sunk in the
eastern Mediterranean sea by Aus
trian submarines. It is stated that
the vessels were sunk without warn
ing and that many of the passengers
and members of the crews perished.
LONDON, Jan. 6.—Advices from
Petirograd state that the Russian
army has again assumeg||he offensive
in the north and are IfPmg back the
Teutons along a fifty mile front. It
is reported that the fighting has been
the heaviest since the beginning of
the winter campaign with the advan
tage everywhere resting with the
Russian armies.
Success in South.
Advices from the southern battle
front state that the Russian troops
have penetrated the Austrian lines
near Czernowitz and are pursuing the
troops which were withdrawn from
the city when the Russians captured
the fortifications commanding the
city.
Battle Itaging Near Carpathians.
PETROGRAD, Jan. 6.—Official
advices state that a terrific battle is
raging near Czernowitz where the
Russians are attempting to cut off
the retreat of the Austrians to the
Carpathians and hope to capture the
city before a juncture can be formed
with regiments of Teutons from
Transylvania.
Austrian Lines Holding.
BERLIN, Jan. 6.—The Russian of
fensive movement continues and furi
ous attacks have been launched
against the Austrian lines near
Czernowitz, but the Austrian line
has held true. It is reported that
heavy losses have been sustained by
both sides. It is believed here that
the Russian offensive has been under
taken in order to permit of the Al
lies preparing for an offensive move
ment in the Balkans from Saloniki.
|SCHUMANN-HEINK’S SON
DIES IN CALIFORNIA
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 5.—Hans, a son
of Madam Schumann-Heink, the noted
prima donna, died here today from
pneumonia. Deceased had come to
California to escape the rigorous cli
mate of his eastern home and had
been here only a short time.
NOTED WRITER WINS
KENTUCKY BELLE.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky., Jan. 6.—Wal
lace Irwin, a prominent magazine
writer, was married here yesterday
afternoon to Miss Laotia McDonald,
a Louisville belle who is noted for her
beauty.
Notice to Eagles.
The installation of officers of the
Fraternal Order of Eagles will be
held Friday evening? January 7, at
8 o’clock. All members and visit
ing Eagles are invited to attend.
2t C. J. TODD, Sec.
ASKS APPROPRIATION FOR
AEROPLANE DEVELOPMENT
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—The Na
tional Advisory committee on aero
nautics, In its report to congress,
predicts that the airship has possi
bilities of which we barely dream.
The board asks for an appropriation
of $85,000 to continue its investiga
tions by the establishment of a lab
oratary and a flying field to be locat
ed preferably in Washington.
According to the report the com
mittee iB„of the opinion that with
proper encouragement satisfactory
*es of aeroplane motors can be de
oped which will rival in efficiency
and certainty of operation the auto
mobile motors and .he best aeronaut
ic motors which have been developed
in Europe where the aesoplane has
come into such prominent use during
the war.
Hats Cleaned and Blocked.
Hats cleaned and blocked; suits
cleaned and pressed.
tf GUV F. CAMERON.
PUGET SOUND WILL GET T
NEW SHIPBUILDING PLANT
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COMPANY BEING ORGANIZED AMONG SEATTLE CAPITALISTS JO
PURCHASE HOLDINGS OF ANDERSON STEAMSRIP COMPANY ON,
HARBOR ISLAND WHERE GREAT DRYDOCK AND SHIP BUILD
ING PLANT WILL BE ESTABLISHED — NEW COMPANY HAH
BACKING OF SEATTLE BANKERS AND BUSINESS MEN AND WILly
RIVAL SEATTLE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY. *’ .i
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SEATTLE, Jan. 6.—It is announc
ed that a corporation to be composed
of Puget Sound capitalists, is being
organized here to establish a great
drydock and steel shipbuilding plant
on Harbor Island.
G. N. Skinner, one of the principal
owners of the Port Blakeley lumber
mills, and C. B. Lament, foriAer as
sistant to the president of the Seattle
Construction & Dry Dock company, it
is reported are the organizers of the
new company. They are said to have
the backing of Chas. E. Peabody, J.
T. HefTernan, Joshua Green, and
maty other prominent financiers and
business men of Seattle.
It is announced that the plans of
the promoters f>jt,the enterprise are to
purchase the ’iftant on Harbor Island
on. which the. Anderson Steamship
company recently secured an option.
and to .establish a great drydock a all
steel ship bulldtng plant there whi}#»
will rival that of the Seattle ConBtrnC
tion & Drydock Company.
The management of the Anderson
company has virtually admitted that
the concern has failed in making fin
ancial arrangements necessary to car
ry out the enterprise ih which it en
gaged and it is reported that it wilt
surrender its option to'the new com
pany now being organized.
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The operator at Wortman’s Re
ports that Swanson’s outfit, which "is
jen route from Valdez to Chitina,
spent last night at the cabin abdut a
mile above Cashman’s roadhouse.
The party started over the summit
this morning and expected to have,
to break trail over to Ptarmigan
Drop.
JAPAN WILtf KEEP WATCH
jf)VERTHE KOREANS
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TOKIO. Jan. 6>.—The Japanese
government is much concerned in the
news from Vladivostok that three
thousand Koreans have volunteered
for service in the Russian army. It
is not expected that Japan will offer
hindrance to the Koreans volunteer
ing for service in Russia, but will
keep watch upon the influence that
the Russian treatment of the Ko
reans has upon the inhabitants of
that country.
WOOD ALCOHOL
RILLS THREE
Seattle People Orink Wood Alcohol to
Satisfy (’raving for Whiskey—
Funerals are Tomorrow.
SEATTLE, Jan. 6.—Three deaths
were reported yesterday by the police
as a result of the prohibition law hav
ing come into effect, and depriving
habitual users of liquor from their
daily potions. The dead are Edith
M. Burdette, Jerry Brown and Jack
Miller, all of whom died from drink
ing wood alcohol to satisfy their crav
ing for whisky.
Realising the possibility of mak
ing easy money from the victims of
the drink habit many doctors have
established sanitariums where habitu
al drunkards are being treated. The
police are suspicious ofithe concerns,
believing many of thep are blinds
where wealthy drinkers can secure li
quor under the guise of?medlcine, and
will require the proprietors to make
daily reports of the patiants treated.
ALASKANS ARE HONORED
BY SEATTI^ CHAMBER
SEATTLE, Jan. 6,-^At -the meet
ing of the Seattle Chainbjejr of Com
merce held last night, Hughes
and John Heffernan wjsijjelectpd as 1
members of the executive committee 1
pf;the Alaska bureau of the organ!-j
zation. Governor J. P. A. Strong of |
Alaska, Delegate .* Wickersham aijd^
Will H., Parry have '.heri’JJegJgtffced |
honorary - members of the'bureau.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE
IN FAMED CATHEDRAL
ROME, Jan. 6.—-The Baltlica In
the famous St. Peter’s cathedral here
has been closed to the public owing
to the attempt of Antonio Glovan
nolo, who was mentally unbalanced:
through the loss of relatives In the |
war, attempting suicide there last
week. It will not be reopened until
It has again beeen reconsecrated byj
the Pope. I
EXCLUDE IRELAND
FROM CONSCRIPTION
New Measure Places Age Limit at
__Eighteen to Porty-thue Vfrown--*-—N
Applies (o Single Men.
LONDON. Jau. 6.—-Premier As
quith's conscription measure which
threatened to disrupt the British cab
inet and caused a number of the
members to resign, has been modified
so as to exempt Ireland front its
workings should the measure pass
the British House of Commons.
The fight against the measure is
being organized by Sir John Simon,
former secretary of state, who resign
ed from the cabinet in order that he
wonid be free to oppose Premier As
quith's measure.
The modified measure which is ap
plicable to England, Wales and Scot
land. provides an age limit of from
18 to 41 years and applies to bache
lors, widowers without dependent
children and single men.
It is believed that when the mens
•
ure comes up in the British House of
Commons that it will be defeated «s
the Irish vote is solid against its pas
sage. John Redmond, the Irish -
leader, has declared that the Irish
members of the house will not vole
to compel others to serve in the army
to which they themselves object. *
AMERICANS TO MAKE «
USE OF CHINESE EGGS.
SIOUX CITY: Plans have' been i
completed In Sioux City Iowa, for -■
the construction of a dessieated egg
plant in Hongkong, China, which wjjll
be the largest concern of its kind jt
the world. In addition to the capi
tal going to China for this purpose
this company’will have the backing
of a $50,000,000 English concern.
D. Robinson, superintendent of the
National 'Bakers’ Egg company, and
Carl G. Blomberg, a foyjner foreman
of the egg fgptyry.lxave gone to Chi
na 'to suf>9WiSe'*the construction of
tJwr'factory>i*
. .-Dtte’fo*<the 33 . per cent cut in the'
dutyon dri&d eggs, those men find‘if
will be a paying investment to manu
facture the product in China, where
eggs cin be bought at a rate far be
low the American market price, em
ploy Chinese labor at pauper wages,
and flood the American market with
this cheap product. The American
factory will be dosed and Its labor
thrown out of employment. The
American farmer will have the mar
ket curtailed by the dosing of th!a
factory and will have foreign compe
tition to meet.
Anything In the Jewelry line at the
Valdes Drug Co.