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VOLUME XIV. VALDEZ, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1017 NUMBER 163
. CABINET CRISIS
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'^‘DISORDER GROWING OUT
SCARCITY OF FOOD
Former President of Cabinet Under
taken Formation of Socialist Cabi
net—Food Shortage Precipitating
Riots AI1 Over Country.
HELSINGFORS, Aug. 16.—A cabi
net crisis has been precipitated in
Finland owing to disorders growing
out of the scarcity of food. M. Tok
ow, former president of the Diet, has
undertaken the formation of a so
cialist cabinet. It is stated the food
shortage is growing serious and that
the people are starving.
To Bar I. W. Wr.
DULUTH, Aug. 16.—The County
Commissioners of St. Louis County,
in which the city is located, today
adopted a resolution barring from
employment by the county any per
sons connected with Industrial Work
ers of the World. About two hundred
men are affected.
Tennessee Miners Out
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 16.—
Seventeen thousand bituminous min
ers are on a strike and the mines
will close tonight. Many men failed to
report for work today and every mine
in the field will be affected. A con
ference between the miners and rep
resentatives of the operators is in
progress late today. The miners ask
an eight hour day, more pay and re
cognition of the union. 4
Supt. Ingram and the Road Com
* mission truck passed Beaver Dam
yesterday.
, Dave Bennet arrived in town last
night from down sound points.
Just received all the latest popu
„ lar songs at G. O. Reinke’s. tf
BIG_
$00,000 IF HK IS FIRST
BOMBARD GERMAN CAPITAL
Family of California Flyer Hangs Up
Big Purse for Man If Will Make
Attempt to Drop Bombs on Kais
er’s Residence.
CHICAGO, Aug. 16.—Leslie Mc
Murty, a young Californian, now has
kan incentive besides his patriotism
for entering the aviation corps. His
family, which is quite wealthy, has
offered him a purse of sixty thousand
dollars if he will be the first man to
df-op bombs in Berlin, the capital of
. Germany. The young man is game
and says he will make the attempt.
Anaconda Men Obstinate
* ANACONDA, Mont., Ang. 16.—
Three officers of the International
Union Mine, Mill and Smelter Work
ers vainly attempted to persuade the
local union to rescind the order for
a strike vote Monday. The radicals
urge to make common cause with the
new Butte mine workers’ union, and
face a strike ofall labor in this dis
trict.
WANTED:—Cood liuskey man or
woman to rake up yard and cut wood.
See E. Winter. tf
To Take Strike Vote
• BUTTE, Aug! 16.—Preparations
are being made, as the result of a
meeting of the men employed by the
Ajiaconda smelter, last night, to take
a strike vote, and enforce an advance
<of two dollars a day. The union flat
ly rejected the offer of the Anaocnda
Copper Company to an advance of
seventy-five cents a day with certain
concessions that would increase the
wages of some employees by one dol
lar and fifty cents a day.
LOST—A receipt book. Return to
the Prospector Office. tf
RENTS IN BALIjOON FORCE
ARMY MEN TO DESCEND
TERRE HAUTE. Ind., Aug. 16 —
A United States balloon carrying 8
officers and men from St. Louis lard
ed on a farm five miles south of this]
city early Sunday morning. Reports j
from the farm said the men with the
balloon declared they were compell
ed to land because of rents in the
bag. The bag was set ailre and des
troyed after landing. The remainder
of the equipment was placed in a
farm wagon and started for this icty.
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PACK COAST
DEUTSCHLAND FITTED
WITH TORPEDO TUBES
Big Submarine Been Converted Into
War Vessel by Adding 6 Torpedo
Tubes and Will Come to Pacific to
Prey on Commerce.
COPENHAGEN, Aug. 16—A re
port has been received here that thej
merchaut submarine Deutschland.;
which made a record in eluding the
British blockade before war was de
clared with Germany, has been con-i
verted into a war vessel and now car
ries six torpedo tubes. It is also stat
ed that she will be sent to the Pa
cific Coast, on account of her large
steaming radius, and will be used to;
prey upon Pacific Coast commerce. \
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PATHFINDER SAILS FOR
DOWN-SOUND POINTS
The launch Pathfinder, Capt. Byr
on Smith, sailed today for down
sound ports. T. Lindsley was a pas
senger for the Alaska-Homestake
mine at Harriman Fiord.
Wheat Shipments Heavy
SEATTLE, Aug. 16.—Shipments of
wheat by water from Puget Sound
ports during July were the heaviest
for any July in many years, amount
ing to 600,560 bushels. Total ship
ments of wheat and flour from Puget
Sound dujing the fiscal fear ending
June JO were 17,408,000 bushels.
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A l STRIA N MERCH ANTM EN
SEIZED 1IY CHINESE
SHANGHAI, China, Aug. 16.—
Three Austrian mercliantment intern
ed in the harbor here were taken over
today by the naval forces.
MANY BRITISH VESSELS
TORPEDOED LAST WEEK
LONDON, Aug. 16. — Nineteen
British vessels were torpedoed by
German submarines during the week
ending Wednesday.
“FIGHTING IN FRANCE."
Hew the Marine Corps Hon*
ora tho Homos of Its Men.
MUywH
Members of the United States marine
corps are not forgotten by the nation
after leaving for the front. Their for
mer n eighbors'are constantly remind
ed of him who Is serving Uncle Sam.
\/a the house of each member a poster
Is being tacked which reads, “A man
from this house is fighting in Francs.”
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PLATTSBURGERS EARN THEIR $100 A MONTH
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Photo by Amarlcan Proa* Association.
several varieties or treucbes are dug ana built up by me members or tne riaitsourg nuicers training corps, woo
will have to train the new national army In this work. The Plattsburgers agree that digging trenches Is hard work
even at $100 a month, their pay as officers.
GENERAL STRIKE
JE CALLED
I. W. W.’S THREATEN TO
TIE UP INDUSTRIES
I Unless S|>eciflc Demands Are Granted
I Leaders Say Industries in Washing
I ton, Idaho, Oregon and Montana
Will Cease Operations.
SPOKANE, Aug. 16.—Unless their
specific demands are granted by Aug
ust 20, the Industrial Workers of the
World threaten to call a general
strike in Washington, Oregon, Idaho
and Montana, according to a state
ment made here today by James Ro
wan, district secretary of the organi
zation. The principal demands are
that all interned members of the or
der be released and a ten hour work
day be granted to harvest hands.
It is not believed that the member
jship of the order is large enough to
j cause any material embarrassment to
I industries, but a strict watch will be
; kept upon all known members of the
| order by the Federal and state of
ficials.
MANY OFFICER* NOMINATED
FOR NATIONAL ARMY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 16.—
The nominations for 6200 new major
generals and brigadier generals, who
will hold commands in the new na
tional army was sent to the senate to
day by the President. They include
all National Guard officers.
SAYS GOVERNOR NAMED
EXEMPTION BOARD
JUNEAU. Aug. 16.—The govern
ment has named the division exemp
tion board headquarters for selective
draft in the third division at Valdez,
to be in charge of^Marshal Brenne
man, Clerk of the Court Lang, John
Lyons, B. F. Millard and Dr. Mer
ritt. The local board for Cordova con
sists of Mayor Chase, Commissioner
Medley and Dr. Council.
Defamer is Wounded
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug. 16.
—With a deep bayonet wound in his
back, received when he resisted na
tional guardsmen who arrested him,
Gustaf L. W. Longfars, on Industrial
Worker of the World, is in the Salt
Lake County jail. He arrest was ef
fected at Bingham, after, it is alleg
ed, he had cursed the government
and damned the United States llag.
STATE OF SIEGE IN
GREEK DEPARTMENTS
LONDON, Aug. 16.—A state of
siege has bfcen declared in the whole
Greek department at Attica, includ
ing Athens and Piraeus, according to
a dispatch from Athens to the Ex
change Telegraph company.
The department of Boeotla, adjoin
ing Attica on the north, also was
placed under martial law.
POUND—Child’s bracelet on Key
stone avenue. Owner can have same
by calling at the Prospector office.
GENERAL HAIG SWITCHES
TROOPS TO BELGIUM
LONDON, Aug. 16.—General Haig
today switched the British troops to
the Belgian froni. and is attacking to
north and east of Ypres.
Seattle Flsli Prices
SEATTLE, Aug. 16—Seattle prices
at noon August 15: halibut, l"»cib;
black cod 4c; red rock 2 l-2c.
FOUR TONS OF BOMBS
DROPPED UPON VENICE
VIENNA, Aug. 16.—Austrian air
men dropped four tons of bombs upon
the Mariposa arsenal at Venice to
day, causing great conflagrations,
according to a report received from
the War Office.
SALMON RUN
SUFFERS SLUMP
CANXKllS ON I'lOKT SOUND
GLOOMY AT OUTLOOK
Unlili at Dig Bellingham Canneries
Has Dropped Oft Until lint l eu
Uanneries are iu Operation—Alas
ka Park is Failure.
BELLINGHAM, Wash., Aug. 16.—
That the salmon run this year will b*
a failure is now conceded to be a fact
by cannerymen on Puget Sound, and
it is believed by local packers that the
slump will continue until the season
is ended. The Pacific-American Fish
eries here, the .largest cannery in the
world, operated all of the eighteen
lines of machinery In their plant but
two days during the season. At the
present time but five lines are being
worked. The Bellingham Canning
company catch dropped to 1,000 fish,
while the Astoria and Puget Sound
cannery received 16,000, a small in
crease over the day before. Lummi
Bay reported 12,000 and the Nook
sack 3,200, while the Carlyle reports
an increase of 20,000, which, with
the P. A. F. haul of 30,000 brings
the total up to 81,200.
It has been suggested by many of
the cannerymen that the fish may
come in next week on the big tides
of the full moon, but the almanac
shows that the big run four years ago
which .started on July 24, came in
with the moon half full. Lummi Bay
Packing company reported that a ru
mor had come to the cannery to the
effect that the straits are full of fish,
and Manager Rice has gone to the
"banks” to secure accurate informa
tion.
Pacific American Fisheries officials
stated this morning that the Alaskan
Ashing season had been a failure.
Port Moler and Nelson Lagoon can
neries have closed for the Beason
with a total pack amounting to less
than 25 per cent of that of last year.
The crews are returning to the city
more than Ave weeks earlier than
they came last year. Reports from
the Bristol Bay district Indicate that
the run has been normal there. No
locally owned canneries are operating
there.
1MJDANSWER
PEACE PROPOSALS OK POPE
SAY CABINET MEMBERS
President Will Not Answer Proj»os.
als of the Pope Until he Has Thor
oughly Considered the Matter from
Every Angle.
WASHINGTON. D. C.. Aug. 1C.—
Cabinet members say that Pres
ident Wilson will take his own time
in answering the peace proposals of
the Pope, as many of the provisions
incorporated in the proposals are in
imical to the best interests of the Uni
ted States.
ALLEGED MURDERER SAYS
GOT THE WRONG MAX
SEATTLE, Aug. 16.—Frank Kur
et. who was arrested here yesterday
for the alleged murder of John Smith,
at Willow Creek, on the Fairbanks
trail in 1913, has proved a complete
alibi. He and his brother produced
witnesses to prove that they were
working in the mine at Black Dia
mond, Washington, at the time of
the murder.
BRITISH CASUALTIES HEAVY
FIRST HALF AUGUST
LONDON. Aug. 16.—British casu
alties were heavy the first half of
August, twenty-one thousand, seven
hundred and twenty-two men being
killed and wounded.
COOL TO GAFFNEY.
Swedes and Dutch Give For
mer Consul Icy Reception.
Photo by American Press Association. |
T. St.,John Gaffney, former Ameri
can consul general at Munich, Ger
many, failed to Impose himself on the
■candtnarlan-Dutch committee as the
NptMgtatire of Ireland at the Stock
holm Contention, It was reported.
Gaffney was ousted as consul by Pree
Idsnt Wilson, it will be remembered.
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AMERICANS IN BATTLE
WITH .MANY WOUNDED
R«|»ort From English Capital to Ef
fect that Americans had been In
Battle on French Front Denied by
Administration Officials.
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 16.—
The War Department has issued an
emphatic denial of the report receiv
ed from London that the Americans
had been in their first battle on the
French front and that two hundred
wounded had been taken to the base
hospitals.
PENSIONS ALLOWED TO
SIX ALASKAN PIONEERS
At a meeting of the trustees of the
Pioneers’ Home, attended by Gover
nor J. F. A. Strong, chairman, and
Allen Shattuck. Applications for pen
sions were examined. C. C. Georgeson
the third member of the board, was
absent.
Pensions were allowed to Ole C.
Mengskoll, of Nome; S. S. Thompson,
of Nome: I.. S. Stemple, of nome; P.
Evoy, of Juneau: I.eandor Anderson,
of Douglas; and Andrew S. Lee, of
Seward.
1. W. W. Arrested
DULUTH, Aug. 16.—Reports from
the Minnesota iron ranges where tho
Industrial Workers of the World’s
strikes are in progress, show that the
Belgrade mine at Biwaka remains
closed. Two hundred miners walked
out. sevent,y-five returning after the
arrest yesterday of six strike leaders.
An attempt to induce the men of the
mines near Hlbbing to strike proved a
failure.
The barge Gen. Faircnild dropped
down-sound today in tow of the tug
Arctic.
POPE'S AIM
_P0
SUBSTANTIALLY THE SAME
AS OUTLINED YESTERDAY
Favors Evacuation of Belgium. Her
Complete Independence, tlie Evac
uation of France and Return of
Colonies.
LONDON. Aug. 16.—The Foreign
Ofiice today made public the Pope's
appeal to the belligerent nations for
peace, which is substantially the same
as was outlined yesterday, and em-»
braces the evacuation of Belgium,
her complete independence, evacua
tion of France, return of Germany's
colonies, the arbitration of territorial
questions between Austria, Italy and
the Balkan States.
PICK ALASKANS
FOR OFFICERS’ CAMP
H. S. Worcester, Juneau.
W. C. Colyer, Juneau.
Leo R. Haln, Juneau.
C. R. Horner. Treadwell.
W. I. Nelson, Thane.
F. M, Jardine, Thane.
J. C. Smith. Thane.
H. B. Snead. Thane,
R. A. Wilson. Thane.
Royal R. Pullen. Skagwav.
J. E. Powrie. Anchorage.
Dr. J. T. Westerman, Anchorage.
E. T. Hawley, Seward
J. C. Luttrell, Seward.
A C. Baldwin, Valdez.
P. V. Cooper. Valdez.
J. E. Adamson, Fairbanks.
D. B. Allen, Nenana.
A. C. Beateyne, Nenana.
E. J. Reinking, Nenana.
F. Slezak, Fairbanks.
W. R. Vail, Nenana.
Frank Te Rotch, Jr., Nenana.
R. S. Polluter, Nome.
The alternates are:
B. J. Daly, Ketchikan.
J. R. Buckley, wire drag net, geo
logical surrey. ,
G. H. Berger, Nome. ;