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Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-29
PROHIBITION BILL MEETS OPPOSITION Territorial Legislature Is Making Headway In Handling Many
 Important Measures

JUNEAU, March 29.-The bill in- troduced by Representative Snow, of Ruby, providing that the liquor ques- tion be submitted to the voters of Alaska at the next general election, has been referred back to the com mittee after being given its first read ing.
 Representatives Day, Noon and Mo ran voted to indefinitely postpone the bill providing prohibition or sale of liquor in communities where the ma jority of the voters have declared in favor of prohibition. Representative Shoup, while not concurring, raised a point of order which was overruled by Speaker Collins. Shoup then moved to amend the motion "that report be received"
 Senator Sulzer's bill providing for the payment of bounty of 5000 for wolves has passed both houses. The measure provides that the belts must be sent to the territorial treas urer. &
 The senate, in committee of the whole, instructed the judiciary com mittee to bring in bill calling for the election of an attorney-general at the next territorial election and au- thorizing the governor to employ counsel to enforce the territorial laws until the attorney general had been elected. Senators Sutherland, Gaus- tad, Alorich and Hubbard are active in their support of the measure pro- viding for the election of an attor- ney-general.
 The senate has passed the mem- orial to congress condemning Fish cries Commissioner Jones' report. The attention of congress is called to Day. id Star Jordan's condemnation of fish traps such as were recommended by Commissioner Jones. Jordan is pres dent of Stanford University, Califor' mia, and has long been recognized as the foremost American authority on food fish and their conservation.
 Representative Held has introduc- ed a bill providing for the admission of attorneys to practice in Alaska.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-29
JAPAN ID SHARE
 SALT MONOPOLY

PEKING, March 29-It is report ed here that the Japanese govern ment is soon to present demands to China asking to share in the Chinese customs salt monopoly. It is realiz ed by China that Japan will not be content in asking concessions until she has gained complete control over Manchuria and it's industries. China has also granted renewal of the lease of Port Arthur to Japan for one hundred and ninety-nine years.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-29
TWO VICTIMS OF
 ELECTRIC WIRES

LOS ANGELES, March 29.-Two persons were electrocuted near here yesterday afternoon when they came in contact with a wire fence upon which a cable of the Pacific Flee, tric company had fallen. Cornelius Valkhoff, a farmer, was the first vic tim and was instantly killed when he attempted to open gate. A neighbor, Mrs. Harris Skinner, who attempted to rescue Valkhoff, was al- SO electrocuted.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-29
BRUNER MEMORIAL
 SERVICES HELD

JUNEAU, March 29.-Memorial ser. vices for the late Senator Elwood Bruher, of Nome, who died in Cali fornia last November, were held on Saturday afternoon. Senator Milllard. of Valdez, and Representative Moran. of Nome, were the orators for the oc- casion. All flags in the city were at half mast
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-29
NORTHWESTERN IS
 DUE HERE TUESDAY

Tn steamer Northwestern, of the Alaska Steamship company, which left Seattle last Wednesday evening, passed Juneau yesterday afternoon at 2:S0 o'clock en route to Skagway. The steamer is believed to have car. ried heavy shipments of freight for Southeastern Alaska ports and should reach Valdez about Tuesday night.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-29
ARE FITTING UP
 NEW QUARTERS

The general merchandise firm of Dougherty & Ferguson, who will re- move from their present location to the Whaling building, next door to the Signal Corps office before the first of April, have started the work of fitting up their new and commod. ious quarters.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-29

LONDON, March 29-The British steamer Falaba, en route to South Africa, was chased and torpedoed by a German submarine which sank the liner off the coast of Wales. The Falaba carried one hundred and forty passengers and crew of one hun dred and twenty persons. The steam CT sank a few minutes after being struck carrying number of persons with her. In the confusion of load ing the passengers into the boats when it was seen that the steamer was sinking some of the lifeboats were upset All the boats have not been located, but it is known that eight persons were drowned when one of the lifeboats upset. One hundred of the passengers and crew are miss ing. When the steamer was attacked by the submarine she sent out a wireless call for help but the torpedo boat destroyers were all too distant to lend assistance. The Falaba is the first liner to be claimed as victim by the German submarines since the blockade was established on Febru- ary 20th, as all transatlantic liners are conveyed far out to sea by Brit ish torpedo boat destroyers.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-29
Turkey Denies Massacres.

WASHINGTON, March 29.-Official advices from Constantinople deny the reports sent by correspondents that the American mission at Urumiah has been destroyed by Turkish troops and Kurds. The report states that no American lives have been lost and that the uprising against the Chris tians is not serious.
 Alpine Officers Called To Colors.
 ROME, March 29.-General Zupelli, minister of war, has announced that the Alpine troops, reserve officers, and artillery engineer reserves have been called to the colors for sixty days beginning April IS. The mlnis- ter states that many recruits are of fering their services to the nation as volunteers.
 ItaIy's Strict Censorship.
 A decree has been issued by the
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Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-29

Owing to this being Holy week the pupils of the public schools are en- toying a week of holidays. The fine weather will add to the enjoyment of the vacation and enable the young hopefuls to indulge in ball games on the tide flats.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-29
ATTORNEY SM|SER
 GOES ID JUNEAU

SEATTLE, March 29.-Attofney Smiser, who was appointed United States district attorney for the First division, in Alaska, sailed for his new home last Saturday evening. He is accompanied by his wife.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-29

Chas. McCallum, secretary of the Valdez Miners union, will leave for the Broad Pass country in few days. He will outfit at the Gold King mine and will go over the glacier to connect with the Matanuska trail
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-29
BRITISH LINER T0RPED0ED OFF COAST OF WALES

TEAMeR CARRIED TWO HUNDRED AND PERSONS, OF WHICH EIGHT ARE KNOWN TO DROWNED AND ONE HUNDRED MIssINe-FRENcH FIND ELEVEN THOU. SAND DEAD WHEN THEY CAPTURE TRENCHES IN cHAMPAeNE coUNTRY-RUssIAN BLACK FLEET FORWARDING RosPoR. US FoRTs-RUssANs CLAIM VICTORIES cARPATHIANs- voN kLUck WoUNDED-lTALY WAITING OUTCOME OF cARPATHAN CAMPAIGN
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-29
German Trenches Captured.

German Trenches Captured.
 PARIS, March 29-Eleven thousand dead Germans have been taken from the trenches recently captured by the French troops in the Champagne country. Desperate fighting has
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-29

and sank within a few minutes af- ter being hit. Several of her crew were lost
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-29
Won kIuck Slightly Wounded.

Voh MUCK STI9ntIy WouHueu.
 BERLIN, March 29.-Advices from northern France state that General von Kluck, the hero of the German advance through Belgium and north ern France, has bee,, wounded by a shell while visiting the trenches near Soissons. His injuries are not re. ported as serious.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-29

Henry Deyo, Chas. Ramsay, Boyd Leedy and Sam Mandel returned from a trip to the Ramsay-Rutherford mine last evening.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-29

Jack Rettig, the well-known Port Wells miner. is in Valdez for a few days.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-29

Russian Fleet Bombards Bosporus.
 LONDON, March 29.-Advices from the Russian fleet in the Black Sea state that the Turkish fleet has been defeated in a naval battle and that the Russian warships are now bom- barding the Black Sea entrance to the Bosporus straits.
 Aviators Bombard ConstantinopIe.
 British and French aviators, operat- ing from the fleet attacking the Dar- danelles forts are reported to have made a number of successful raids on Constantinople. The populace of the city are reported to be panic stricken and fleeing to interior Asia Minor.
 Steamer AquiIIa Torpedoed.
 The British steamer Aquilla was torpedoed by a German submarine in the English Channel Saturday night
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-29

been waged for twenty days and the Germans have been forced back five miles. The gains of the French have been considerable and include many advantageous positions from which to shell the German positions to the rear of their first line of trenches. It is estimated by the French board O.; statistics that the German casualties in the Champagne country during the past month have been fifty thousand killed, wounded and captured. The French losses have also been heavy but do not approach the figures of the German casualties. German reinforce ments are reported as being rushed to the district from Belgium and cen. tral Germany.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-29
LOCAL BREViTIES.

Bert Gautier arrived last evening from Port Wells.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-29

The United States marshal's office this afternoon awarded the contract for painting the court house to w. H. Brennan, his bid of $2S7.o0 for the work being the lowest.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-29

Heavy Fighting On Both Frontiers.
 LONDON, March 29-Settled weath- CT in Europe during the past few days has been marked by severe fighting on both the eastern and west ern frontiers. Severe engagements are reported from northern France, in north Poland, along the Pilica riv- CT southwest of Warsaw, in the Car pathian mountains, in eastern Cali cia and on the Black Sea. On the western frontier the French captured nine hundred yards of German trench. es, taking a large number of prison. CTS. The situation in north Poland
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-29

remains unchanged Petrograd ad- vices from Galicia claim the destruc- tion of three Austrian battalions in the Carpathians near Dukla pass. The fighting in the mountains is said to have been very severe. It is also reported from Petrograd that the Turkish Black Sea fleet attempted to raid the Russian coast but were de- feated by the Russian fleet which sent several of the Turkish cruisers to the bottom.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-29

Animated Weekly showing the Ger man giant boat ivaterland and the colossal British steamer Britannia. Al. so other fine pictures tonight at the Orpheum.
Newark post., 1915-08-04
Cost OF The War

David Starr Jordan, president OF
the University of California,
writes as follows in the San Fran
cisco Chronicle: Edgar Cram
mond of London, a high authority
estimates the cash cost of a year
of the European war to August l,
1915, at S17,O00,00O,OO0, while
other losses will amount to make a
grand total of S46,000,O0O,OOO. No
one can have any conception OF
what S46,OOO,O00,0Oo may be. 1t
is four times all the coin In the
world. If this sum were measured
out in $40 gold pieces and they
were placed side by side on the
railway track ,on each rail, they
would line with gold every line
from New York to the PACING
Ocean, the two Canadian lines in
cluded. There would be enough
left to cover each rail of the ST,
berian Railway from Vladivostock
to Petrograd. There would stu
remain sufficient to rehabllltate
Relqium and to buy the whole OF
Turkey, at her own valuation
Newark post., 1915-08-04
Drowned On Sunday Outing

Irwin Mccall, aged 21 years, of
Ninth and Poplar streets, and
Ruth Craig, of 854 Poplar street,
Wilmington, were drowned on
Sunday at Fenton's Beach, oppo-
site Wilmington. Mccall, Miss
Craig, John J. Murphy of Wilkes
Barre, Pa, Miss Helen Dougherty,
of Wilmington, and another young
woman were in rowboat which
the swell of two launches capsized.
Mccall, who could not swim, tried
to help Miss Craig and both sank
together. Murphy managed to get
Miss Dougherty and the other
young woman ashore.
Newark post., 1915-08-04
SCHOOL DAYS in NEWARK.
AS RECALLED BY E. N VALLANDICHAM

blage of linguistic dry bones, with
an endless conjugation of Eng
lish verbs that long since ceased
to be corrugated in practice. We
memorized for no purpose those
hateful forms, 81 could, would or
should love, thou couldst, wouldst
or shouldst love, etc" ad nauseam.
Our arithmetics, as it seems now,
were wholly made up Of square
and cube root, and partial pay
ments the latter a thing to justi-
fly and glorify all absconding
debtors. There were three or four
ways of doing these vicious things,
each a little worse than the
other, and all likely to betray
fellow into mistakes discovered
after he had ciphered full both
sides of his slate. Even grammar
Mr.. Smith managed to tighten by
introducing facts of live interest
about language, and if he did not
make partial payments delight
he at least pitied the follow who
had made a mistake in his first
subtraction and blithely carried
to the fifty-first.
More questionable than the af-
ternoon of reading was another
oft-repeated performance. Two of
the girls attending the school
were daughters of man locally
notorious for his abuse of strong
drink. These girls had voices
rivaling in power steam calliope.
AS | am not a critic of music, l
venture no opinion touching the
artistic merit of the performance l
am about to describe, but whatever
it may have lacked in art was
fully made up in vigor. | suspect
the sharper ears at No. 39 could
have heard that loud performance
at No. Al. Maybe those girls sang
many songs, but the one | recall
as the favorite and oft-repeated
was Father, Dear Father, Come
Home With Me Now" The writer
had ingeniously approached his
climax by making each verse be-
gin with an impassioned appeal
to the father to come home from
the rum-shop, as the clock struck
an hour later each time. This
thing, yelled in duet at the high
est power of two young stentorian
voices, filled the school room and
went echoing down the street, SO
that passersby paused to listen.
Indeed, l believe the fame of the
performance spread so wide that
strangers came to hear. The thing
was thought to be the more pa
thetic from the we'll known hab-
it's of the singers father.
Newark post., 1915-08-04
Continued from last week.

Continued from last week.
Almost anybody could be a pub
lie school teacher in those days.
Three l remember, Miss Kennedy,
a capable woman, Mr.. Montgom-
cry, midle aged, red-faced, high
ly amiable farmer, whom l recall
with affection, though his gifts
and graces were hardly of the
kind to get him a place in the
school system now, and William
Smith, another farmer, afterward
postmaster of Newark, who had an
active mind, and a genuine gift for
teaching. He, l think, did more
than the others to give his pupils
a wider intellectual outlook, and
he certainly won their good will,
and even their affection. He had
what the schools, fear now do not
have, an afternoon for reading
aloud favorite literary selections.
He felt these things himself and
made his pupils feel them. Time
and again the school listened IN
spellbound silence to Elihu Bur-
ritt's account of the boy who
climbed the Natural Bridge of Vir-
ginia. 1t was almost too much for
human endurance when the worn
knife slipped from the climbers
nerveless hand, and went ringing
down the face of the precipice, and
how our hearts swelled when the
tall Virginian on top of the bridge
held the rescued boy up to the
view of those below! I have re.
Gently read Burritt's story, and II
is quite as good as l thought it in
the days of No. Al, though the au.
thor did shamefully exaggerate
the height of the bridge. Another
selection that moved us all was g
poem entitled "The Good Time
Coming" with it's prophecy of
nobler social order. We never
tired of it, and l am sure that the
least idealistic pupil could not
fail to feel the fervor of the pro
phecy land to dream dreams of {
future beautifed with all gooc
things.
Mr.. Smith was ingenious il
contriving things of interest tt
lend freshness and charm to the
school, and to liven the deadnes!
of our dull schoolbooks. Our:
were the drum and trumpet his
tories of the United States, will
that smudgy woodcut of old Will
lam Henry Harrison, and Wash
ington wearing his worst fitting
set of false teeth. The text wa
dry and uninforming, with here
and there a stock story inserted
with merciful intent. Gramma
was an utterly unhuman assem-
Newark post., 1915-08-04
Problems In The
Consolidation Fight

The rejection of the consolida-
ton idea at the election held at
Loves Cross Roads, in Sussex sew
ell al weeks ago, has made several
conclusions evident. The facts
are summed up in an editorial in
the Sussex Journal as follows:
First-If consolidation will re-
quire children to go long dis
tances to school, voters will op-
pose consolidation, unless their
children are transported to the
consolidated school.
Second-The cost Of transpor-
tation would be very high If the
distances are great over the very
poor roads.
Third-High cost of transporta-
ton will not be assumed by tax
payers escaping a share of the in
creased cost of the improvement.
Fourth-The change that must
precede other changes for the i'm
provement of the rural school is q
change in the school tax system
Fifth-Consolidation of school,
and good roads go hand in hand as
desirable betterments in rural life
Sixth-The decision of two dis
tricts for consolidation and foul
against consolidation, with ont
district not voting at all, has thus
contributed very material advan
tages to the consolidation cause.
Newark post., 1915-08-04

wiping her finally from the map.
COR, we may figure in some
other fashion. The average work
ingman in America earns S518 per
year. 1t would take ninety million
years work to pay the cost of the
war; or ninety million American
laborers might pay it off in one
year if all their living expenses
were paid.
THE cost of a year of the great
war is little more than the esti-
mated value of all the property of
the United States West of the Mis-
sissippi River. 1t is nearly equal
to the total value of all the proper
ty in Germany (S48,00O,O00,00O),
as estimated in 1916. The whole
Russian Empire (S35,000,O00,0O0)
could have been bought for less
sum before the war began. 1t
could be had, on a cash sale, more
cheaply now. This sum would
have paid for all the property in
Italy ($13,000, 0,000,000), Japan $40,
O0O,O0O,OOO), Holland (S5,0O0,OO0,
OOO), Belgium (S7,000,0OO,OOOD, p,
Spain (S6,000,000,000), and Portu-
gal (S2,500,000,000). 1t is three
times the entire yearly earnings in
wages and salaries of the people
of the United States (S15,5O0,000,
0O0).
"The cost of this war would pay
the national debts of all the ma
tions in the world at the time the
war broke out. If all the farms
farming lands and factories in the
United States were wiped out OF
existence, the cost of this wal
would more than replace them. Il
all the personal and real property
of half our nation were destroyed
or if an earthquake of incredible
dimensions should shake dowr
every house from the Atlantic tt
the Pacific, the waste would b'
less than that involved in this war
And an elemental catastrophe
: leaves behind it no costly legac.
! of hate
Newark post., 1915-08-04
Fatally Hurt By Bicycle

Samuel Yearsley, aged 65 years,
a well-known resident of Port
Penn, while walking to his home
from Augustine Beach on Thurs
day night, was run down by a
negro cyclist and was picked up
unconscious. He was removed to
his home where he died on Satur-
day of conclusion of the brain and
internal injuries. The negro speed
ed away after the accident and
has not been traced.
Newark post., 1915-08-04

an illegal arrest. The officers at
tempted to capture an 18-year-old
colored youth in Smyrna but he es-
capped into Kenton Hundred, into
which they followed him for two
miles and arrested him outside
their jurisdiction.
Newark post., 1915-08-04
Twelve Eggs-Fifteen Chickens

Twelve of fifteen eggs upon
which Mrs. Alice Wilson of Town
send, set a hen, were Matched on
Friday and counting the chicks
Mrs. Wilson was surprised to find
fifteen. Three of the eggs were
double yolked and three of the
chicks have each three legs and
all appear strong and healthy.
Newark post., 1915-08-04
Big Profit From Strawberries

Former Sheriff Robert Short of
Sussex county, after careful COM
parison of all expenditures and all
receipts shows that during the
past season, despite an unfavor-
able market, he made a clear profit
of $354.42 from an acre and half
of Strawberries.
Newark post., 1915-08-04
First Section Of du POnt Highway

T. Coleman du Pont, it is stated,
has the specifications completed
for the Georgetown-Selbyville
stretch of improved road for
which bids will be asked shortly.
1t will be, it is understood, a
straight stretch of concrete 18
miles long, Ia feet wide and 6
inches in depth laid in the center
of 40 foot roadway.
Newark post., 1915-08-04
Smyrna "Cops" Brought To Book

Lee Cochran and William STAN
ley, town officers of Smyrna, were
arrested at Kenton last week, and
Justice Hiram Walford of Clayton
held them in $500 bail each for
Court on the charges of making
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