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Valdez daily prospector., 1914-10-08
Allies Check Germans.

LONDON, Oct. 8.-The allies have finally succeeded in checking the German efforts to reach the rear of the allies lines connecting with the coast. The French coast guards were brought up to reinforce the extreme end of the allies lines and succeeded in inflicting a terrible beating on the German Uhlans, who were forced to flee in disorder towards the Bel gian border. The Germans tried to pass behind the allies at Lille, but met reverses just outside of that city.
 Belgian Field Army Is Active.
 The Belgian field army is busy and has attacked the German rear, in- flicting a defeat upon the Germans at Hal, but are not strong enough to follow up the advantage gained. The effort to penetrate eastward con- tinues, however, with the hope of breaking through and severing the railroad connection through Belgium upon which Generals von Kluck and von Boehme depend.
 Canadian Troops Reach England.
 The 3O,OOO Canadian troops from Ottawa have reached England and are now in camp at Harwick, receiving special training and they will soon be sent to the continent.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-10-08

 SWEEP ARMIES Terrifying Effect of Germans Night Reconnaissances Conflicting
 Views of German Fire.

LONDON-In the course of long dispatch the Paris correspondent of The Daily Chronicle recently describ- ed the use of searchlights by the Germans:
 AS soon as darkness falls" he says, "the Germans light their lamps and play them upon our position. Those long. tapering fingers of light creep along the hillsides, touching the batteries of the sleeping battal- ions with a white luminance. They feel their way along the fringe of autumn woods. so that, in moment. where there had been black blocks of darkness one sees the simmer of leaves and silver branches and tree trunks like columns of furnished met al. They are extraordinarily inquis- itive, these feelers of light, and range from earth to heaven, and point sud denly and arrestingly at moving ob- jects, which halt at the first touch of that perilous illumination.
 "A friend of mine who has been driving staff officers about the front tells me that few days ago he was driving rapidly toward wireless sig nal station when his car was pick ed out by one of these travelling rays In a moment he and the officers who were with him. were flooded in the white brilliance of it, so that they were dazzled and startled. It had an extraordinary psychological effect up on my friend. who is man of steady nerve.
 "He felt like man stripped naked and put up against white wall for execution. He seemed to know that at the end of this great white beam was a staring eyeball watching his slightest movement and ready to kill him before he crept beyond the light into the darkness. His thoughts were hardly fantastic, for the moment after his car had been revealed shell came hurtling overhead, and several of the bullets in 1t buried themselves in the chassis.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-10-08

interior of East Prussia. At Przemysl three German army corps and two Austrian corps are bottled up by su- perior force and several of the forts of the city have been captured and the city is expected to be forced to surrender within a few weeks.
 Germans Strong At Cracow.
 The German-Austro lines are strong at Cracow and extend to Tarnow, but the Russians are preparing to cut the railroad at any cost between the two cities and isolate Tarnow, which can then be reduced by siege operations. In Silecia the Germans have made no gain, although they have a large force of the first line of German troops, many of whom have already fought in France, but the new Rus sian forces seem able to hold them back.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-10-08
BRITISH SUBMARINE SINKS A GERMAN BOAT IN EMS RIVER
Considerable the off Is Movement Held By Won kue ToN Towards

that Forts Kessel and Brichem, which guard Antwerp, had fallen and that the Germans were now in pos session of the forts.
 Belaians Hold Strong Entrenchments.
 The Belgian infantrymenn have manned trenches which fill the gaps made by the loss of the forts and are fighting stubbornly to check the Ger man advance, but will be unable to hold out for any length of time and the early fall of Antwerp is predict ed by military authorities.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-10-08
Turkeys Plane Baked?

LONDON, Oct. 8.-The Rome cor respondent of the Daily News tele- graphs: q am informed from Bucha- rest that Rumania. Bulgaria and Greece have concluded a defensive alliance"
 The Daily News adds to this the following note: This interesting news, if confirmed, would paralyze any aspirations which Turkey may have to throw her army into the balance of the European war on the side of Germany and Austria. It also means. probably. that Bulgaria has been promised compensation for her aban- donment of any idea of revenge against Greece and Servia."
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-10-08
Swiss May Ask indemnity.

BERNIE, Oct. 8.-Although the ex- treme measures which were adopted during the first weeks after the war begun have been relaxed, Switzerland Is still under the pressure of mobiliz. ation. This is taxing the financial resources of the government, as 1t is now spending '1.4OO,OOOf. ($2SO. .0O0) daily on the army. It is stated that Switzerland intends to ask for an in- demnity at the end of the war. ow- ing to the stoppage of manufactures and industries.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-10-08
LYONS ID TALK
 ID SEWARD|TES

SEWARD, Oct. 8.-Judge John Ly- ons will speak here tonight to the people of Seward regarding issues of the present territorial campaign. Councilman Albert White. of Valdez. will also address the crowd. Both men have been given hearty recep- tion in Seward. Representative Dad" Ingram is also making good headway with his campaign in Seward and up Cook Inlet, where he now Is on a speech-making tour.
 All the candidates leave here on the Mariposa tomorrow for Valdez.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-10-08
Another Million Germans.

BERLIN, Oct. 8.-In addition to the immense armies already in the deld. Germany still is able to draw on her great mass of reserves to send an army of 240.00O men to reinforce the hard-pressed Austrian army in Galicia and Poland. At the same time she Is sending 100000 men ot reinforce her army in East Prussia. Her entire active army and 6rst reserves were called to the colors in the first mob ilization August l. These troops now sent to the front come from the sec ond and third reserves.
 Every German is subject to military service from his seventeenth to his fory-ffth year. When he is twenty years old every man has to report for active service; only about half of the men are taken into the army. The remainder form the ersatx re- serve and have their names listed ready to be called to flll any vacan-
 
 cies in the army due to disease or to war. The call for the active army included every able-bodied German from twenty to twenty-seven years. both those on the active list and those in the ersatz reserve. It also included the next class of the reserve. or tho first band of the landwehr. which is ty-seven to thirty-two years.
 The first mobilization call on Aug. ust included all the above classes. a total of 100000 trained soldiers. These were not all available for light. ing at the front because detxchments had to be made to run the railroads.
 Continued oa pass |,
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-10-08
American Officer Tells of War.


 WASHINGTON, Oct. 8-Col. Hayes, of the United States army, who has been in France the past two months. returned today from across the ocean and states that the allies feared that they would not be able to penetrate the bat.lefields of the Aisne because of the putrification of dead horses and men, who lie by thousands in every section of the ground held by the Germans. The allies are burying the dead as fast as possible. but when fighting over ground held by the Ger mans have been almost unable to pen citrate any distance until the dead are cared for.
 Few Men Can Be seen In Modern
 Battle.
 Few men and no guns are to be seen in the modern battle." says the colonel. "The men are all hidden in trenches and the hiding of gun has become science in which both sides have become adept"
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-10-08
Two Views of German Fire.

BORDEAUX.-(Rec dispatch to the London Standard Some of the wounded arriving today had come di- rectly from the front and had no- been detained in hospitals en route. In every case they told the same story of shrapnel injuries. The pro- portion of bullet wounds was so very small that those suffering from them were curiosities.
 One gunner described to me the terrible effects of the shells. When the Germans got within range of the men working his battery not one es- caped injury. This was near Sois- sons. An officer near him had his legs and an arm blown of; serg- cant had an eye taken out. and wound ed men were lying all around. See ing SO many injured. my informant said, he began to feel as if he him. self had suffered some injury, par ticularly as one of his feet felt numb. He discovered a big hole in his an kle, but felt no pain until taken to the field hospital. The concussion had dazed him. and for the time be- ing rendered him insensible to pain. A shrapnel bullet struck man near him in the hip and tore his leg open to the knee.
 This mans story and the narrative of others confirm the opinion univer- sally expressed regarding the chi ciency of the German artillery. The British, however. despise the German infantry, whose shooting they say is worse than that of the Chinese when first learning to fire a gun. All ref erences to the German infantry are contemptuous. and any suggestion Of comparison between the German and French foot soldiers Is simply laugh ed ct, for the British have formed very high opinion of the latter's dash and efficiency.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-10-08
DUST OFFICIALS OF BUTTE CITY

{, BUTTE, Oct. 8.-After two weeks trial the courts have busted Mayor Duncan and Sheriff Drisc0ll, who have been found guilty of neglect of duty in that they failed to maintain order in the city during the recent labor troubles. Clarence Smith, the Social ist president of the council. was nam ed to succeed Mayor Duncan, but no sheriff has been named as yet by the governor.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-10-08
SPEND YOUR MONEY
 SAYS SEC. M 'AD00

WASHIGTON, Oct. 8.-Secretary McAdoo, in an interview, asserts that the big corporations are hoarding money, stopping expansion of their works, refusing to enter new fields of endeavor opened by reason of the European war and are retarding the prosperity of the country; that indi- viduals are also hoarding money and that if the practice Is not stopped hard times will be sure to follow, as the government is making money as fast as it can and yet the amount in circulation is decreasing each day.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-10-08
Expect To Check Germans.

LONDON. Oct. 8.-Last night the censorship admitted that the Germans might be able to cut the line of com munication between the allies and the coast, but that strong endorsements were being sent to them from south ern France, and that the Indian climated by few weeks stay in the south, have been sent north and are now with the British and are expect ed to check the German encircling movement.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-10-08
DEAL ID PLAY
 ON BOSTON TEAM

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 8.-Manager Sailing, of the Boston Nationals, an- nounced yesterday that he would put Deal in at third base because of the accident to Third Baseman Smith. Deal was crippled the early part of the season after playing seventy-seven games and he batted an average of 217, while Smith. who relieved him, played in 127 games and batted 257. The Philadelphia team Is still the favorite in the present series.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-10-08
Rvs,I.ne Have Bip Front.

PETROGRAD. Oct. S.-The Russian front extends 800 miles. reaching from the Baltic Sea to the Carpath- ian mountains. In many places the armies are in contact and so far the Russians have won every battle. The province of Suwalki has been clear cd of Germans, who have suffered heavy loss in killed. wounded and prisoners and are now fleeing to the
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-10-08
TICKET SALE
 CAUSES RIOT Thousands of Fans Crowd Into De- uartment Store To Buy Tickets for Championship Games.

was started yesterday in this city when the Philadelphia baseball team of the American League opened the sale of tickets for the games to be played here. The sale was started in a local department store and the place was soon jammed, tables up set, men injured, and the police. fear ing serious trouble, called out the re- serves from several police stations and cleared the building.
 Some of the fans have been wait ing in line for two days and nights in order to secure a good seat. Spec ulators are also securing many tickets and are asking five dollars over the regular prices fixed by the commis- sion.
 Twenty-Five dollar tickets are sell ing for $50 and the city authorities will endeavor to stop spectators sell ing tickets, as it is against the mu- nicipal law to resell theater or base ball tickets or tickets to any amuse- ment house.
 The umpires will be Klem and By ron of the National League and Dineen and Hildebrand of the American Lea que. There will be three official SCOT CTS, J. G. T. Spink of St. Louis. and one man to be picked by the Phila- delphia baseball writers and one by the Boston writers.
 No changes were made in the rules for playing worlds series games. As heretofore, four games must be won by club to claim the champion ship. In the event of a seventh game being necessary the toss of coin will decide whether the seventh shall be played in Boston or Philadelphia. In case of tie game or a postpone. ment the clubs will remain in the city where the game was scheduled to be played until it is decided.
 The official price for seats:
 Boston-Boxes, $5 each seat; grand. stand. $3; pavilions, reserved, $2: general admission, $1; bleacher seats 50 cents.
 Philadelphia-Boxes, $5 each seat; grandstand. $3; pavilion. reserved $2; general admission, $1.
 Tickets will be sold in each city for a series of three games. In the event that game is unplayed the money paid for a ticket for that game will be refunded.
 The players eligible to participate in the series are:
 Boston-Cather, Correham, Connol ly, Cotrell, Crutcher. Davis, Deal, De wore, Dugey, Evers. Gilbert, Gowdy Hess, James. Maranville, Mann, Mar tin. Mitchell, Moran. Rudolph. Smith Schmidt, Strand. Tyler, Whaling Whitted.
 Philadelphia-Baker, Barry, Bend CT. Bressler. Bush, Collins, Coombs Davies, Davis, Kopf. Lapp. McAvoy McInnis. Murphy. Olring, Pennock Plank, Schang, Shawkey, Strunk Thomas. Thompson, Walsh. Wyckoff
 The first game will be played hert tomorrow and the second on the 10th also in this city, while the next two will be played in Boston. The fifth if necessary, will be played at Phil adelphia, and the sixth at Boston ant so alternating until the series is play ed.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-10-08
Fair Warning.

Canada takes Europe's war 50 ser iously that it has suspended the ha- beas corpus act. Americans who con template leaving their country for ur- gent reasons, such as footing bank, will do we'll to take e.-Phila. delphia Record.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-10-08

Another boy arrived last night at the home of MT. and Mrs. William Egan. Both mother and youn0ter are getting along fine. ts4 S
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-10-08

British Submarines Do Damage. LONDON, Oct. 8.-Because of the demand by the British public for some action by the admiralty to
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-10-08

See the war vessels in action in the war pictures at the Orpheum to- night.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-10-08
Austrians Sink Own Boats.

ROME, Oc-. 8.-Four Austrian de- stroyers were sunk yesterday in the Adriatic when they struck mines laid by the Austrians themselves.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-10-08

avenge the loss of the cruisers Abou- kir, Hogue and Greasy, which went down in the North Sea from the ef- feet of torpedoes from the German submarine U g, the admiralty yes- terday sent several underwater boats to the German coast and one of them succeeded in sending German de- stroyer to the bottom. All the British boats made their escape.
 Belgian Capital Moves To ostend.
 OSTEND. Oct. 8.-King Albert and the administrative officials of the Belgium government reached here to- day from Antwerp, the former tenn porary capital of this country, and have established the capital of Bel gium in this city. This is the second move of the capital, the first from Brussels to Antwerp, then to Ostend. All the foreign diplomats came with the court by boat.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-10-08

Germans Need Gasolene.
 BORDEAUX, Oct. 8.-The Troyes correspondent of the Temps has sent
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-10-08

Aerial Duel Watched By Thousands.
 BORDEAUX. Oct. 8.-Thousands of troops on both sides yesterday watch ed an aerial duel between French and German aeroplane crew. Each machine had an aviator and an ob- server aboard and the observers used rifles. The maneuvering to secure positions was watched for ten or if teen minutes, and then suddenly the French aviator. taking desperate chance. sent his machine up until he had position just above the Germans and the end soon followed. As the German operator. was shot his ma chine turned turtle and he and his companion and the machine dashed to earth. falling within the French lines near Reims. The French es. escaped without injury. Their ma. chine, however. had been hit ten times. x,
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-10-08

Antwerp Forts Fall. BERLIN, Oct. 8.-It was officially announced last night by the war office
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-10-08

LONDON, Oct. 8-The German flanking movement which aimed to break the communication to the south was checked this morning at Lille and no danger is expected now from that source. The situation at the front is believed to be exceptionally encouraging. The allies, while un- able to break through the north and south line held by General von Kluck are still continuing the move north ward and are now almost at the Bel gian border.
 Good News From Petrograd.
 From Petrograd the war office has received the news of confirmation of victory in Suwalki province over the Germans and the rumors of ineffi- ciency of the Russians are disproved by the many successes they have had over both the German and Austrian troops. In Poland the Russians are strongly entrenched along the Vistu- la river and are waiting for the Ger man attack. As the Germans have concentrated all available men on the line from Cracow east to Tarnow, the Russians will wait for them to take the offensive, while the other Russian armies in East Prussia and those east of Tarnow continue opera tions which will tend to force the Germans to accept battle under unfa- vorable conditions or else weaken the line at Cracow by sending help to the other points of attack. Russia is depending upon her vast numbers to force the Germans to their knees Russians Fighting We'll.
 The British war office has a large number of officers with the Russians as military observers and they all re, port that the Russian troops are fight ing well and are well drilled, and, contrary to the general belief, are we'll armed. The commisary depart ment is also well organized and is doing wonders feeding the vast horde of Slavs.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-10-08
British Submarine Crew JubiIant.

British Submarlne crew JupiIdnt.
 LONDON, Oct. 8.-The crew of the British submarine B have return ed to England after having sunk a German destroyer off the mouth of the Ems river. The same boat with the same crew also sunk German de- stroyer about a month ago entering the German harbor at Wilheelmshav- en, sinking a destroyer. then drop ping to the bottom of the harbor for twelve hours, while the Germans searched the harbor with wire nets, but failed to find the little boat, which escaped at night. The crew of the underwater fighter are jubilant and expect to again attack the German fleet.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-08-15
EVOLUTION THEORY
REVERSED BY A
BRITISH SAvANT
DECLINE INSTEAD OF AN I'M
PRoVEMENT IN THE HUMAN
ORGANISM
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ny Associated Press)
MELBOURNE, August 15.-Prof,
William Bateson, president of the
British Association for the Advance
ment of Science, declared today in
an intensely interesting address be-
fore that organization at its first
meeting in Australia, that the old
view of variations in forms of life
proceeding from the simple to the
complex might be completely turned
about The true process of evolution
might be from the complex to the
simple.
1t will be remembered that at
last years meeting of this famous or
ganization in Birmingham, Sir Oliver
Lodge startled the scientific world
with the bold introduction of a pro
posal for closer investigation into the
life after death" theory. Today,
Prof Bateson, with perhaps less pro-
nounced opinions, urged his fellow
scientists to open their minds to the
possibility that evolution came large
ly "by loss" rather than by addition.
From a lay standpoint his observa-
lions might be summarized as fol
lows In contradiction of Darwin and
of most scientists who have accepted
the belief that contemporary yaria-
lions in the forms of life have come
about wholly by crossing, and thus
by the addition of new factors of life,
it is probable that the variations are
due to the loss or suppression of fac
tors present in the original species
A pointed sentence was this re
mark: q have confidence that the
artistic gifts of mankind will prove
to be due not to something added to
the makeup of the ordinary man
but to the absence of factors which
in the animal person inhibited the
development of these gifts"
Prof Batesons subject was "Hered
ity." OF this he had made a particu
lar study for many years. He will be
remembered by some in the United
States as Silliman lecturer at Yale
university seven years ago.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-08-15
NO SHUTDOWN OF
ELY COPPER coMPANY's

The smelter at Anaconda and a
large number of the mines of Butte
have been closed down due to the
low price of copper, which is caused
by the European war. II is also like
ly that a number of mines in Arizona
and Michigan, which are producing
at high cost, will be closed down, but
it is now the general understanding
that the Nevada Consolidated, which
is making copper at very low cost,
will continue in operation at half the
capacity Of its plant. The present
plan Is understood to be to keep all
the men ON the payroll, but to have
them work only on alternate days.
Under this plan, four sections Of the
mill would be in operation at one
time and fires would no doubt be
drawn under some of the furnaces.
Most of the men are inclined to
accept the new arrangement cheer
fully, realizing that the management
is exerting every effort to avoid a
shutdown and with confidence that
it will not be very long before opera
lions at normal capacity can be re-
sumed The Ely district is faring
better than many other copper camps
throughout the United States.