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Valdez daily prospector., 1915-05-03
R. R. ENGINEERS
 ARE DISSATISFIED
Settlement of Trouble With Western Roads and Engineers Is Only
 Temporary.

CHICAGO, May 3-The settlement of the trouble between the western railroads and the engineers is only temporary, as the men insist that they has not been fairly dealt with and are already threatening to go on strike at the end of the year. The railroad officials are also dissatisfied with the result, claiming that the men are al- ready over paid and that the increase given was as "sop" to the engineers and trainmen and was not earned.
 It is also claimed by the railroad managers that the Interstate Com merce Commission fixes the prices the roads can charge for handling freight and carrying passengers, but wages continue to go upward, taxes are in- creased operating costs boosted, equipment charges doubled, but the commission continues to slash rates and prices, bringing all the roads in the shadow of bankruptcy and torc- ing the increasing of bond issues year after year with the additional burden on the roads of earning more overhead charges.
 Some of the railroad officials insist that the government fix the charges allowed at such figure that the stockholders can see some return on the investment or else take over the railroads and operate them in the in- terest of the travelling public.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-05-03
SOON ID TRY
 FISH BAR0NS Booth Companies Are Under Indict- ment and Trials Start Tomorrow -ControlIed Fish Business.

SEATTLE, May 3.-The trial Of the officers and directors of the Booth Fisheries Companies, who are now under indictmente for violating tn sherman antitrust laws of the coun- try, will start tomorrow. The gov ernment is confident that the men who directed the affairs of the con- pany will be punished for violating the law. It is charged that the price of fish was run up and down so that the fishermen received almost noth' ing for their catch and were forced to take the price offered them or dump the fish into the sea.
 Independent operators trying to reach the eastern markets were forced out of business by unfair competition, the trust sending large quantities of fish into the market selected by the independent operators and selling for little or nothing, flooding all markets not controlled by them, is the charge that the governments attorneys will try to prove.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-05-03
What Was Wickersham In 1914

Editor Prospector:
 Kindly explain to puzzled com munity why the Sunday Miner de clared that Delegate Wickersham ran as Progressive Republican in 1914
 Wickersham was supported by the anarchist Democrats, the half baked Socialists, the bull moose, and every body who is agin the government, but he didn't claim himself to be any thing but a candidate, attaching no label.
 Maybe you dubbed him Progress sive Republican because a gentleman claiming that designation is generally persistent candidate for office any where in the land you may find him.
 PRO BONO REPUBLICO.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-05-03
MONDAY, MAY 3, 1915.
MORMON PROSPERITY.

If delivering the goods" is evi- dence of religious efficacy and virtue, then Billy Sunday has no great edge over the followers of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young The financial statement just issued by the Mormon hierarchy at Salt Lake City reveals one enterprise not yet affected by hard times. The Mormon church is doing splendidly in point of numbers and of wealth.
 The Utah church has about 300,O00 members. The report shows that the church collected last year in tithes S1,SS7,920. Is there another church in the United States that can make such financial showing as this? But this is not nearly all. It was not necessary to draw upon this sum for the support of the head offices of the church. The church has investments and business enterprises from which it draws large profits. It owns stores and illSm and 1t raises sheep ana man. ufactures beet sugar.
 The report shows, moreover, that the number of Mormons has increas- ed 129,493 in the last thirteen years, nearly 40 per cent. This is in part from proselyting With these ample funds the church keeps 1,431 mission aries out drumming up recruits. These evangelists are not Billy Sun days, btu they get results as the fig ures show. Where the missionaries fail, a high marriage and birth rate, with or without polygamy, succeed. Nearly 15,OOO children were born Nor mons last year-Nebraska Journal.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-05-03
BAN 0N RACES
 IN CALIFORNIA

SACRAMENTO, Cal, May 3.-The California senate today defeated the bill to allow horseracing in Califor- mia under the supervision of state racing association. The breeders of fine horses insisted that horse racing tended to elevate the class of stock bred in the state and should be en- couraged but with such restrictions as the commission might make to prevent the abuses of betting that have grown up with the business of racing horses. The majority of the members of the upper house, how ever, insisted that horse racing had nothing to do with the breeding of good stock and that the value of horse depended more upon its use for commercial purposes and not on how fast 1t could run.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-05-03
J|TNEY BUS
 KILLS A BOY

SEATTLE, May Civilian Lank- ome, an 11-year-old lad of this city. was killed by jitney bus yesterday
 His body was crushed by the heavily loaded car which passed over him. The driver was arrested and bystand- CTS insist that the car was travelling at the rate of forty miles an hour when the accident occurred. The po- lice have started the work of regu- lating the jitney drivers and have stationed motorcycle policemen at different points to prevent speeding.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-05-03
DELEGATE AGREES WITH EMPIRE

The statement of Delegate Wick. ersham to the Cordova Alaskan that it might take several years to secure statehood for Alaska is exactly in ac- cord with the position that The En- pire has taken from the beginning of the controversy that was inauagurat- ed when it was attempted to substi- ute a demand for statehood for one for full territorial form of govern ment' suggested by President Will son. On the other hand, full terri torial form of government" could be secured by Delegate Wickersham quickly.
 There are a score and half of precedents covering nearly century of time for the creation of a full territorial form of government" for Alaska. It would be created imme- diately upon the authoritative request of the people. There are century and quarter of precedents, unbroken by single instance, against the prob ability of secruing immediate state- hood. The territories that had pop ulation, at the time of the rights of a full territorial form of government" were extended to them, as numerous or dense as that of inhabited Alaska at the present time could be counted on the fingers of one hand. On the other hand there never yet has been state created whose population was not more dense and none except Me- vada which did not have a greater white population than Alaska now has.
 That is why Alaska could get a full territorial form of government" immediately, and why she could not get statehood The logical and prac- tical manner of proceeding to get a wider and fuller measure of self-gov. ernment for the people of Alaska is to ask for full territorial form of government" now, and after that is granted, to ask for statehood. To ask for statehood first would be to delay action and continue our present form of government, except for the tinker ing that Delegate Wickersham pro. poses when he suggests that laws passed by the legislature can be vali- dated by congress after their enact ment.-Juneau Empire.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-05-03

Pro Bono Republico is correct, the Miner was in error to call Wicker sham il Republican-progressive or otherwise. Wick has spent his life hunting for the pork barrel of the party in power and cared little for principle. It must be admitted, how ever. that he has used excellent judg- ment in his efforts to keep at the government pie counter, for he has been on the pay roll fourteen out of fifteen years that he has been in Alaska. Some of Wick's followers get iOok-in as census takers or are offered $6O0O a month positions as bull cooks, but James gets away with the big money and is now said to be worth a quarter of a million.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-05-03
BLUE RIBBoNITES
 FIND PUNCH SPIKED

TACOMA, May 3.-A lively fight has started in this city among the members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union because of the charge that the punch served at a recent charity ball by some of the members of the union was so heav- fly "spiked" that some of the ladies went home in a condition that would have shamed a street walker. The charges may split the union, as an investigation is to be made at once.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-05-03
WARSH|P
 IS LAUNCHED

BORDEAUX, France, May 3.-The new French warship launched here Saturday evening hit lighter which was in the way of the boat when it struck the water and in the mixup three workmen lost their lives. The new battleship will be rushed to com. pletion and will be one of the most powerful warships in the world, car rying larger guns than any other French vessel.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-05-03
BALLA|NE EXPLAINS TERMINAL QUESTION Sixty-Acre Tract Adjoining Seward Is Owned By the Federal
 Government.

John E. Ballaine, says the Seattle Post-Intelligencer of recent date, in a statement issued yesterday, says that Col. A. w. Swanitz is in error in saying that the sixty-acres of term inal ground adjoining Seward, occu- pied lately by many squatters, had been reserved by the Alaska North ern and not sold to the government with the other railroad property. Mir. Ballaine says:
 "The sixty-acre terminal tract in question does not belong to the Alas ka Northern, never has belonged to it, and therefore could not be reserv- ed. It is government property today, as it has been since Alaska became American territory. The Alaska Nor thern has had only the use of the tract for railroad purposes alone, un- der the provisions of the Carter act of 1898, providing for railroad rights of-way in Alaska.
 This sixty-acre tract was original ly selected for terminal purposes by the Alaska Central railway in 1902, under my personal supervision and direction, and the papers were filed by me in the Interior Department at Washington. The Alaska Northern, successor to the Alaska Central, sim ply took over the Alaska Central's right of use.
 "All government lands for five miles back of Resurrection bay and for twelve miles north from the head Of the bay was set off as reserve by President Taft in 1911. on the re- quest of the then Secretary of the Interior, MT. Fisher, for the specific purpose, as stated in the order of withdrawal, of holding 1t for possi- ble future use as terminal grounds for a government railroad system, and for government needs incident to making of Resurrection bay a cen. ter of governmental activities in Alaska.
 "No government land, therefore, in all that area, the sixty-acre terminal tract as we'll as the rest, can be entered by anybody. It is government land legally withdrawn from entry.
 "Col. Swanitz is quoted also as say ing that he laid out the original route of the Alaska Central, later the Alas ka Northern. He must have been misquoted. The Alaska Central was surveyed from Resurrection bay to the Panama river in 1902 by the group of Seattle men who were the promoters of the enterprise, including c. w.. Dickinson, ex-Gov. McGraw and my self, a year before Col. Swanitz ever heard of 1t. Col. Swanitz never had
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-05-03
Weather Report.
TIDE TABLES PORT OF VALDEZ.

TIDE TABLES PORT OF VALDEZ Compiled from the official tide ta bles issued by the Coast and Geodet. ic Survey. The time for high and low water is for the Port of Valdez and Is Valdez time. Immediately fol lowing the time of high and low wa. ter Is given the height of the tide in feet and tenths:
 Monday, May 3. High tide 2:11 a. m., 13.3; 3:49 p. m, 100.
 Low tide 9:15 a. m.. IA: S:51 D. m., 2.9.
 Tuesday, May 4. High tide 3:O5 a. m., 12.5; 4:55 D. m., 9.7.
 Low tide 1O:16 a. m.. -0.7; 9:57 D. m., 3.3.
 Wednesday, May 5. High tide 4:09 a. m., 11.6; 6:09 p. m., 9.7.
 Low tide 11:22 a. m.. O.1: 11:25 p. m., 3.5.
 Thursday, May 6. High tide 5:26 a. m.. 10:7; 7:1S p. m., 10.1.
 Low tide 12:32 p. m.O.6.
 Friday, May 2. High tide 6:53 a. m.. 10.2: 8:14 p. m.. 1O.5.
 Low tide 1:O9 a. m.. s.2: 1:ss p. m., II.
 Saturday, May .. High tide 8:15 a. m., 100: 800 p. m, Ill.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-05-03
SEATTLE MERCHANT
 TAKES OWN LIFE

SEATTLE, May 3,-Alexander Gresham, of this city, big manufac- turing jeweler and prominent in busi, ness and social circles, shielded last Saturday evening by jumping from q trestle. Death was instantaneous. The body was recovered. Gresham was suffering from the effects of a nervous break down.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-05-03
RUSSIAN PRIEST
 DIES IN SEATTLE

SEATTLE, May 3.-Father Sergius, bishop of the Russian Catholic church, with headquarters at Sitka, died here Saturday night after a short illness. Father Sergius was brought to Seat tie for medical attention but it was found that nothing could be done to save him.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-05-03
Monster Cigars.

Monster Cigars. The Igorrotes in the Philippine Is- lands make cigars fifteen inches long and three to five inches thick.
 Chinese Coffin Shops. In most of the Chinese cities the finest shops are those devoted to the sale of collins.
 A SnaiI's Pace. A snail, crawling without a pause, would occupy fourteen days and i've hours in travelling mile.
 Proved She Was Wrong. Wifey-Do you recollect that once when we had quarrel said you were just as mean as you could be? Hubby Yes. my dear. Wifey-Oh, Tom. how little did 1 know you thenl - Boston Transcript.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-05-03
Good News For Papa.

"Paww
 "Well?
 When I promise to marry him do you want him to come and ask your cOnsent?"
 No, not my consent. but l would like to have him trot in and tell me the good news. sort of feel like I needed cheering up."-Houston Post.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-05-03

Johnny Mccarthy, formerly resi- dent of Valdez, was killed on the Grand Trunk Pacific dock recently when hit by a line thrown from the Admiral Evans. Mccarthy was knocked overheard according to the report and was rescued, but suffered injuries which resulted in his death.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-05-03
UssIess Efforts.

He's never made any effort to sup port himself"
 "Oh, yes, he has. To my certain knowledge. he's proposed to every girl with money he knows."-Baltimore American,
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-05-03
lncreduIous.

lncreduIous.
 Sandy (newly arrived in Canadian forest land)-Whatna beasts yonf Ma dve-A young moose. Sandy-Och, haud yer tongue! If that's young moose I'd like to see ane O yer auld rats!-LondOn Punch.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-05-03

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Valdez daily prospector., 1915-05-03
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connection of any kind with the Alas ka Central"
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-06-12
OFFICIALS WAITING To
HEAR FROM GERMANY
THEN ARE ANXIOUS TO LEARN
HOW THE GOVERNMENT Will.
REt EVE NOTE.
Tone ot the German Press indicates
That the Government Is Aux
iou> for and Desires
Peace,

WASHINGTON, June 12.-Ger-
many's manner of receiving the
American note will probably be re-
ported tonight or tomorrow by Am
bassador Gerard Up to this alter
noon, however, no official word had
come to the state department.
though the administration had an
intimation that German feeling is
more friendly. The tone OF the
German press is taken to indicate
that the German government is anN-
ious and desires peaceful measures.
President Wilson rested today. In
the early morning he played a game
of golf and this AFTERNOON went for
IA long auto ride. After the ride he
retired to his room to rest.
He let it be known that he hot
ed to go to Cornish, n H., for a
rest before July 4th. which was TAX
en- 10 emphasize his belief that the
immediate crisis in American affairs
had passed
Secretary Lansing declined to
make a prediction as to the situs-
ton, though he plainly manifested
a feeling that he considers the stu
alton distinctly optimistic He cor
reeted a mistaken impression made
in Bryan's note when he said some
changes were made in the German
note after the secretary read il. He
said no changes were made after
Bryan read the note for the last
time.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-06-12
VILLA FORCES WITHDRAW
FROM THE LEON SECTION
CONSUL CAROTHERS REPORTS
THAT OBREGON WAS TOO
WEAK TO FOLLOW.

WASHINGTON. June l2.-In his
report to the state department to-
day on the battle at Leon Consul ca
rothers said Villas forces We're fore
ed to eFaeuate Leon and had with
drawn To lbera, but Oregon was
TOO weak to follow, Villistas in re-
pulsing a Carranzista Thanking move
ment burned Carranza munition
train.
Consul Edwards at Juarez re-
ported that the Villista authorities
there, complying with the state de
partment demand. had POSTPONED the
execution OF two Americans who had
been sentenced 20 be shot for passing
counterfeit money.
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ABILENE GETS EHOEAVOR
CONVENTION ttT|EC
Continued from Page j..

could not help but inspire. The sub
ject was Facing the Facts" The
Indianapolis President Henry in
introducing the speaker said it was
no need to introduce her because
she had already endeared herself to
TIE convention delegates. Mrs.
Payne started out in her talk by
saying Facing the facts is always
the best way to success. This will
hold good in business relations as
well as in religion Continuing
she said it was known that intlue-
ence comes into the heart at ten
der age that often-times guides the
person through life. The work of
missions, she said is handicapped
because Of the lack of training. We
have clamored for having the Bible
taught in our public schools, yet we
have not prepared out teacher for
that work. The Christian Endeavor
movement is doing a great work in
training young men and young Wom-
en-. Give the boys and girls the Wis
ion While they are young, train their
eyes to know things when they see
big things. She said those who
have had the opportunity should
pass il on To some not quite so for
tnuate. She said there was a need
in the world for workers, the great
trouble being that people Won take
the leadership. 1t is a duty We all
owe to say God | give my life to
you, use me as you will" IF you
do this do you think God is going to
pick out some hard task just to try
your mettle? No, he will not He
will lead you gently and tenderly
along. How can we come before our
father unless we bring the children
with us?'
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string the 1916 convention. Dele
gates from three leading contest
ants, Bay City, Houston and Abb
lene, We're heard. and each delega-
ton tried to show why their towns
were best adapted to entertaining
the EndeaVor workers
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-06-12
AMERICA WARNED TO
KEEP her HANDS
OFF Or MEXICO
CONTINUED from Page u,

peoD!e both inside and outside Ct
his own country, especially among
f;he middle classes and poorer people
IN Mexico.
After thanking the American peo-
pie in general for their sympathy
and moral help during the MadcTo
and Huerta revolutions Villa said he
was pleased to know that President
Wilson recognizes that the Ameri-
can people have no right to take any
part in the settlement of MeXico's
internal affairs.
Villas supplementary note 70 Car
rama proposing an armistice and
peace was mentioned in the note 10
President Wilson,
We are disposed to invite anew
4 union Of all MeXicans and th0s
united TO bring them together TO
insure triumph for the constitution
Qlist principles, especially the agrar-
ian problem, and the extension Of III
struction among the poorer classes, -
said the note.
At another point Villa said.
There are now no substantial diff
ferenccs between the factions, but
We refuse to assume the responsible
ity for the blood that has been shed
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given by the department superintenG,

given by the department superintene-
ents.
That Christian Endeavor is still
active in the supreme work of thu,
church, leading the unsaved to the
Savior, is shown in the fact that
1914 decisions have been recorded
The junior societies have credit fer
|ninety-eight of these. the inferno
diate fourteen and the young pco-
pies eighty-two
Eighteen mission study classes
have been conducted in which we
note an enrolment of 1886.
The efficiency campaign is prov
on even more popular than last year
and, while no other society has
reached the 100 per cent, seventy
societies are striving for greater eff
ficiency in their work for Christ and
the church,
In spite of the fact that many OF
our reports were received prior to
the first of the year, showing only
a half years work, and 1874 societies
gave no financial report, the total
contributions are indeed encouras
ing.
For missions at home and abroad
$1,035.45 was given, the portion for
foreign missions being slightly more
than for home missions. To the sup
port of the state and district Chris
tian Endeavor work the society sub
scription amounted to $5S925. For
various special causes and special
works $1,33320 was contributed
and for the support of local societies
$1,242.91, the contributions and ey-
penses totaling S4,200.97
While these amounts are by 40
means small we believe it is but I
small part of the amount raised
and expensed by our Christian En-
deavorers in Texas for the advance
ment Of Christ's kingdom and We
urge corresponding secretaries in the
future to strive to give more thor
ough reports of the work of their
society. We have had to in many
instances accept for a report only
the number OF members and the
officers names, and in few cases
the number of members was omit
ted.
May our Heavenly Fathers bless
ings be ever upon the work of the
Texas Christian Endeavor union.
A. a. HYDE,
Secretary.