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Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-29
ITALIANS LOSE
BIG BATTLESH|P
Explosion in Magazine Destroys the
Warship and Admiral and Most
of Crew of 811 Perish.

PARIS, Sept. 29.-The Italian bat
tleship Benedetto Brin, which was
on service guarding the Adriatic
coast Of Italy, was destroyed yester-
day by fire which caused her mag
azine to explode. Admiral Rubin
derverin and hundred of her crew
were killed by the explosion or were
drowned when the battleship sank.
The warship carried a crew of 81
men and it is reported that few were
saved. The survivors, who were
picked up by small boats, are unable
to account for the origin of the fire
in the hold of the battleship.
The Benedetto Brin was one of the
older type of warships of the Italian
navy, having entered service in 1898.
She carried a complement of 811 men
and was built at cost of IS, 1000.
Her armament consisted of four 12-
inch, four S-inch, twelve 6-inch, six
teen 3-inch and eight smaller guns,
and was rated at having speed OF
19 knots per hour.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-29

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.-Thirty
thousand of the two hundred thou
sand veterans who marched in review
before President Andrew johnson
fifty years ago today paraded on
Pennsylvania avenue today and were
reviewed by President Wilson. The
aged veterans, many of whom were
unable to walk, rode in autos. Their
numbers are fast becoming fewer as
the years roll past.
President Wilson has accepted the
invitation of the Grand Army of the
Republic to lay the corner stone of
the new amphitreatres in the Airing
ton National Cemetery across the Po-
tomac river from Washington, during
the encampment ceremonies tomor-
row.
Ten of the twenty-nine survivors
of the Union Light Brigade. of Ohio,
which acted as President Lincoln's
mounted escort from December, 1868,
until his assassination, took part in
the parade today Many of them are
crippled and unable to walk and rode
in automobiles.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-29
FAIRBANKS ANTIMONY
BE FREIGHTED TO COAST.

Fairbanks exchanges state that an
timony ore from 81 Scrafford's mine
on Treasure creek, Fairbanks district,
will be shipped over the road to Chit
ina during the winter months, owing
to the strong demand for the metal
due to the European war. The N. G.
Co., which carries the interior mail,
will operate auto trucks and has Of
fered Scrafford a low rate to bring
the ore to the end Of the Copper Riv-
er railroad, at Chitina. The trucks
would otherwise make the trip to the
coast practically empty. Scranord
mine Is turning out about % tons
per day with force of thirty-two
men working. Thestrucks to be used
by the N. c. Co. are of the Jehrey
Quad type.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-29
SWAN|1z AND WEST
COMING TO vALDt
Railroad Builder Declares Balla
Is Seeking Notoriety In His
Suit for Damages.

SEATTLE, Sept. 29.-Col. Swan
the Alaskan railroad builder, and
torney West, of San Francisco,
in Seattle en- route to Valdez to
tend the case of the Alaska North
Railroad VS.. John E. Ballaine, set
trial at Valdez early in October.
Col. Swanitz was connected "
the Alaskan Northern railroad d
ing the early days of it's construct
out from Seward and will be an
portant witness in the case in WI
the railroad company is suing 1
laine for an interest in the Sew
townsite, claiming that the town
was purchased with money belong
to the railroad company.
Swanitz declares that Balla
who has filed a damage suit for :
100000 for defamation of chara,
against the Alaska Northern offici'
is merely seeking notoriety, and
deavoring to scare the railroad \
cials from prosecuting their {.
against him for the recovery of
townsite.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-29
DEPUTIES SHOOT
ESCAPED CONVICT
Refused to Surrender When DiscOv-
cred Under Floor of House Near
Scene of His Crimes.

ALBANY, Ore, Sept. 29.-The
convict who escaped from the Salem
penitentiary yesterday after having
killed Superintendent Harry Mimic
and one of the prison guards in his
break for liberty, has been killed by
deputies. He refused to surrender
when discovered under farm house
near the penitentiary.
When the convict was discovered
the deputies ordered him from his re-
treat but he refused and being still
armed with the gun taken from the
dead guard. the deputies were ordered
to fire their rifles under the floor.
The convict was serving lifetime
sentence before he made his break
for liberty.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-29
DISPLAYS HEAD
As A TR0PH
Place Head of United Stal
Private Killed on Border on
Pole as Insult to U. s.

BROWNSVILLE, Sept. 29.-T
entire state is afame with indigl
tion over the latest atrocity of 1
raiding bands of Mexicans who he
been invading the border towns a
engaging the U. S. troops in bat
across the Rio Grande. During
Mexican raid upon the border to
of Progreso, Private Richard J. Jol
son, a United States soldier, v
killed and his head severed from
body by the Mexicans.
The cavalry under command of c
Blocksom routed the Mexicans, "
fled across the border and placi
Johnson's head upon a pole, displ
ed it as a trophy of their raid. {
Blocksom refused to permit
troops to cross the border to pun
the murderers of their companion
General Funston has wired Pre-
dent Wilson that the officers will
unable to restrain the United Sta
troops from invading Mexico in p
suit of the Mexicans and has EXPIRE
ed the belief that Intervention is
necessary as the Mexican raids are
daily occurrence.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-29
EUGENE SCHM|Tz
IS TURNED down
Mayor Rolph of San Francisco Re-
nominated at Primaries Yester-
day-Bribery is Charged.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 29.-At
the primaries yesterday in this city
Mayor James Rolph was overwhelm-
ingly renominated over Eugene
Schmitz, the former labor leader who
was convicted of having grated from
the city. The primaries were keenly
contested from the opening to the
close of the polls and a heavy vote
was cast.
Charges of bribery and illegal vot-
ing has been made by both sides. Rev.
Fysh, who has taken an active part
in securing the defeat Of Schmitz has
been arrested in connection with the
reported. The labor element, which
formerly kept schmitz in power. fall
ed to give him their support and 1t is
believed that the poor showing made
by him will effectively convince him
that he has lost his control over the
city's affairs
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-29
GREGORY SAYS THE
SEAMAN ACT FAILS
Holds that Regulations Governing
American Ships Will Not Apply
to Foreign Ships.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept. 90
Charges that the seaman's act has
imposed further burdens on Ameri-
can shipping, putting them at still
greater disadvantages In competing;
with foreign vessels under lighter
regulations, have been sustained by
Attorney General Gregory in an opin-
ion recently made public.
The attorney generals opinion
deals only with the section which re-
quires additional life-saving appli-
ances on foreign and domestic ships
leaving American ports, upholds
the ruling of Solicitor Thurman of
the Department of Commerce that the
only foreign ships affected by the sec
tion are private passenger ships reg
istered in countries not having regu-
lations analogous to those of the
United States and not extending a
similar courtesy to American inspec-
tiOns.
This ruling will come as a heavy
blow to Senator La Toilette and his
friends, who argued that the require
ments as to lifeboats, which have
been attacked as burdensome by all
American shipping interests. would
fall just as fully on foreign ships. In
that way, they said, the act would
.oou,, +ond <o oouoli1o c0m nafitjvo
conditions. AS Mr.. Gregory leaves
the meaning of the word approx
mate" as used in comparing foreign
with American regulations, vague, 1t
is supposed that the old custom will
be followed of holding nearly all reg
ulations intended for the same pur-
pose approximate" to those Of the
United States.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-29

PETROGRAD, Sept. 29.-By food
ing the marshes near Pinsk the Rus
SLAMS have succeeded in trapping and
drowning forty thousand of the first
line German troops on the eastern
frontier. The strategy of the Rus
sian generals in leading the Germans
into the trap has only been equalled
during the present war when General
Hindenburg trapped the Russian
army in the Mazurian lakes district
last winter. 1t is reported that forty
thousand German troops, with their
entire equipments, were swallowed
up in the marshes when the water
was turned on the low land, causing
the ground to become a quagmire.
The news of the annihilation of the
German troops in the marshes has
been authenticity announced by the
war office, and offers an explanation
for the reported checking Of the Ger
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-29
THE
SUBMARINE GRAFT
CHARGES Have Been Made that Pre-
mier Mcbride Permitted Graft
In Submarine Purchase.

SEATTLE, Sept. 29.-The men,
bers of the Canadian commission ap-
pointed by Premier Borden to inves-
tigate the scandal which has develop
ed in connection with the purchase of
two submarines by Premier Mcbride,
of British Columbia, from the Seattle
Drydock and Construction company
here, have arrived in Seattle and will
Immediately begin taking testimony.
Charges have been preferred
against Premier Mcbride that he au-
thorized the purchase of two subma-
rines built in Seattle for the Chilian
government, when he knew that the
agents of the British Columbia gov
ernment were grating to the extent
of 100000 in making the deal.
The submarines, which were built
for Chilli, were to cost the South
American nation $1,000,000 each,
and when settlement for the vessels
was made by the British Columbia
government, the price had been rails
ed to $1,25O,0O0 each. The officials
of the Seattle Construction & Dry
dock company state that they are pre-
pared to disclose their books to the
commission covering the transaction.
Premier Mcbride has admitted that
there may possibly have been graft
practiced in connection with the pur-
chase of the submarines, but if so he
was not cognizant Of it when the pur-
chase was effected.
The submarines we're bought after
the war had started, and at time
when it was feared that German
cruisers were to attack British Column
bia coast cities, and was an alleged
violation of international law, which
provides that no nation may sell war
vessels to another nation in time OF
war. The transaction was rushed
through without the usual delibera-
ton.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-29
TEXAS RAIDERS ARE
ROWING BANDITS.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.-It Is re-
ported that General Funston, COM
manding the army patrol along the
Mexican border, has reported to the
war department that the Mexicans
who invaded Texas and sacked the
town of Progreso, are not allied with
either the armies of General Carran-
"a or General Villa. They are rowing
bands of outlaws, owning allegiance
to no recognized army and living off
the country.
Carranza officials have been stren-
uous in their denials that Carrana
troops have participated in or encour-
aged raids ON the border. Despite
the denial of Carranza's agents the
war department has received infor-
nation that the Mexicans bands
which were chased by u. s. cavalry
patrols near Brownsville were a part
of his army.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-29
Us, TROOPS MAY
INVADE MEXICO
Mexican Raiders Escape Punishment
BY Crossing Border and Then
Battle With Troops.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. %
Col Blocksom, commanding the u
S. cavalry along the Texas border,
near Progreso, where Mexican ban
dts have made numerous raids over
the border, has wired the war de-
partment that he may have to follow
the bandits across the line into Mex
ico in order to punish them and pre-
vent a repetition of the raids.
The Mexican bandits have been
able to evade the vigilance OF the
\ border patrol by crossing into Texas
individually and then forming raid
ing parties along lonely ranches.
When attacked they decamp for the
border and from Mexico engage the
United States troops in long range
warfare.
The officials of the department, 1t
In believed, will order Col. Blocksom
ao prevent any invasion of Mexico at
the present time owing to the Pan
American cpnferees being in session
deyising plans for the restoration OF
peace for the war-torn Mexican re-
public. 1t is feared that should the
cavalry patrol invade Mexico to pun
1sh the bandits that fighting will be-
come general on both sides of the line
and that Intervention will be forced
unOn Presidential Wilson.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-29
SUBMARINE BIDS
OPEN THURSDAY
Tvo of Coast Guards will be Con-
structed on the Pacific to Re-
main in These Waters.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept %
1t has been announced by the navy
department that the bids for the con-
strnction of sixteen submarines au-
th0rized by the last session OF con-
xress will be opened Thursday next.
Scores of bids have been received py
the department from the big steel
manufacturers who are anxious to Sc
cure the government contracts for
building the undersea fighters OF the
United States navy. Two of the sub
marines will be built on the Paclnc
enast. as authorized in the appropri-
alton.
The submarines will be construct
cd along different lines than the old
vessels and will be modern in every
particular, giving them wider range
s0f action.
: Some of the undersea additions to
the navy will be sufficiently large to
permit of their cruising across the
Atlantic as conveys for battleships'
The submarines to be constructed on
the Pacific will remain on the Paclhc
coast.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-29
TEU7ONs READY
INVADE SERB
Army Of $4,000 Men Reported Re
to Advance Upon Serbia from
Direction of OrsOva. [

LONDON, Sept. 29.-The Lon
Times publishes a dispatch from
correspondent at Belgrade stat
that Teutonic army of 100000 !
has been assembled in Southern 4
tria to begin the invasion of Sci
as soon as Bulgaria Is prepared
entrance into the struggle as an
of the Teutons.
The declaration Of King Ferdin
of Bulgaria, that the mobilizatiol
his army is not intended as an of
sive movement against the. other
kan states, is regarded as q NOV
gain time by causing the mobilizal
of the Greek army.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-29
POPE WILL ASK FOR
TRUCE ON ALL SAINTS

ROME, Sept. 29.-It is reported
that Pope Benedict is endeavoring to
prevail upon the warning nations OF
Europe to declare truce on All
Saints day, November 1. 1t Is re-
ported that the Austrian emperor has
agreed to suspend hostilities If the
other nations are agreed to the truce.
1T is the hope Of the Pope that the
Balkan states can yet be prevented
from entering the struggle and he Is
using every endeavor to prevent open
hostilities and urging delay.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-29
FAIRBANKS PRISONER
HAS BEEN CAPTURED

FAIRBANKS, Sept. 29.-Amos
Springer, who escaped from the jail
guard a few days ago while working
in the garden of the Detention hos
uitaI, and for whom deputies and
uosses of citizens have been securing
the district, has been captured 80
niles down the Tanan river. The
prisoner was captured by an Indian,
and the native will receive the re-
ward Of $50 offered by Marshal Err
win Tor Sprunger's capture.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-29

A British transport, carrying rein
forcements to the Allies at the Dar-
danelles was sunk by German sub
marine and it is reported that not a
man of the thousands on the trans
port escaped The sinking Of the
transport has been officially reported
to Berlin by the officer commanding
the submarines.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-29
British Capture German Line.

British Capture German Line.
LONDON, Sept. 29.-Dispatches
from the front state that during the
night British troops succeeded in
capturing the second line Of German
trenches at Hullock Loos, after des-
perate fighting.
French Claim Advance.
PARIS, Sept. 29.-The war Office
has announced that the French troops
have made substantial gains over the
Germans in the Champagne district
and east of Souchez.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-29

10000 men, not including the num-
Der of prisoners captured. Desper-
ate engagements are reported to be
raging along the Flanders and Bel
gian frontiers, where the British
troops have captured a number of
German positions.
British Transport Sunk.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. %
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-29

C. G. Wulff, wife and family, left
ON the Admiral Evans this morning
for their new home in Brooklyn. Be-
fore going east they will visit the
San Francisco exposition and other
southern cities en- route to the east.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-29

German Casualties Heavy.
PARIS, Sept. 29.-The war office
has estimated that the German cas-
ualties on the western battle front
since the Allies drive was inaugu-
rated three days ago have reached
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-29

Lieut.. HNagherty, who is making
a trip Of iRgpection Of the telegraph
stations in his division between VAL
dez and Fairbanks, was at Mccall
lum's roadhouse, on the delta, last
night.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-29

James Millsap, deputy United
States Marshal at Mccarthy return
ed to his home on the Evans this
morning.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-29
PETR0CRAD REPORTS FORTY THOUSAND
GERMAN TROOPS DROWNED NEAR PINSK

INTO IN THE RUSSIAN MARSHES AND
DROWNED WHEN LANDS WE'RE sUBMERGED.-LOsT MEN
WERE PICK OF GERMAN EASTERN BATTLE FRONT.
PARIS REPORTS GERMAN CASUALTIES WESTERN FRONT
REACHED 10000 THREE FIGHTING.-BRITIsH
TROOPS ADVANCE Loos AND CAPTURE GERMAN
TRENCHES CHAMPAGNE COUNTRY-BRITIsH TRANSPORT
SUNK WITH ALI.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-29

Mrs. P. d. Blodgett, wife of the
we'll known Kodiak canneryman. was
a through passenger on the Evans to
Seattle.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-29

Thomas Noyes and wife of the
Shushanna district were passengers
on the Evans to Juneau this morn
ing.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-29

J. Frank Warner, the we'll kni
government surveyor was thro
passenger on the Evans.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-29

mans in their advance into Russia
south of Pinsk.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-10-20

Section 13, it was provided "that
the General Assem- bly, shall en-
act laws to prevent all trusts,
combinations. abuses, unjust dis
elimination and extortion," etc.
Now I want to call your atten-
ton to the statement made by a
member of the Federal Reserve
Board in Washington, from the
records of the Comptroller of the
Currency, showing that there
were banks in South Carolina
charging as high as twenty per
cent interest last year, and that
the average rate of interest in
South Carolina is around fifteen
per cent. In this section of the
Constitution a part of the '.law
and order" propaganda, or is
''law and order" only to be ap-
piled to few blind tigers in the
City of Charleston, and not to
millions of Robertson, inherited
from negro rule in South Caro-.
lima and increased by the pur-
chase of the Columbia canal?
What IS the difference in the
sight of God between the burg
lar who blows open a safe and
steals money, and the smooth,
sat-iowled banker who catches
me hard-up and violates the law
by charging me usurious inter
est? If society condones this
criminal who sits in the . 'samen
corner" of the church, why
should not I, as Governor of the
State, have been mercifal to-
wards the ignorant criminal who
commi tied a crime oftimes to
feed his hungry wife and chill
dren? There ought to be a law
which would punish the rich
criminal as well as the poor
criminal. I said there ought to
be law. And there is a law.
1t ought to be enforced, and then
maybe We would have some real
claw and order" instead of all
this smirking, hypocritical pre-
tense. I am curious to watch
and see what is going to be done
in the way of claw and order,"
when applied to a set of men
who propose to monopolize the
storage of cotton and the lending
of money. The State Warehouse
system has broken into their
plans, and when McLaurin went
to Atlanta and tackled them
there, forcing the extra. session
of the legislature of Georgia in
this regard, they concluded that
the best way to do was to take
their millions of money and come
over to South Carolina and
smother this baby where it was
born.
my fight for years has been |
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-10-20
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
II. APPELT,.
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR:
eeYEREoR BLEASE's SPEECH AT GREEN
WOOD ocTeBER 9.

After thanking the people for
their attendance. Gov. Blease
said that he desired to correct
an IMPRESSION (which certain news
papers had made in reference
80 bis Greenviile speech. He
did not charge the reporters
with doing it Intentionally, but
said the way mis- remards were
reported, it made him appear to
say what he really had not said,
that he did not :'iump upon the
ministers. who he said would get
along much better if they stayed
in their pulpits and cease mixing
in politics. as he was quoted,
but that, in discussing the whis-
key question he stated that he
did not believe, nor did any sen.
sible man believe, that morality
could be legislated into people,
and he contended that prohibi-
ton would never be brought
about by ministers of the gospel
preaching political sermons or
meddling N politlcalafairs, that
If they would stay in their pull
pits and preach the religion of
the Lord Jesus Christ and Him
cruiclfed, and keep Christ and
his life prominently before the
people-for without the life of
Christ in the Bible, the Bible it.
self would amount to very little,
and the Christian religion would
be failure-that if they would
preach that religion, and by pre-
cept and example CT cate within
the hearts of men a love for
Christ and for his religion, then
and not until then would their
Z hopes be fulfilled. and that they
could not see these hopes real
lied by running around dabbling
in politics and abusing others
for their political opinions. He
said he had tried to be very con-
servative in his Greenville
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-10-20

very call made for this great
merger meeting in Columbia, in
which the South Carolina State
Warehouse system is directly
mentioned as the reason-or, at
least. the foremost reason--for
the call. Common sense shows
to you, my fellow-citizens. that
the entire effort is to force the
farmers to store their cotton in
central warehouses in Columbia,
Charleston, Augusta, Atlanta,
and other Southern cities in
stead of storing it, as now, on
their own farms and in nearby
towns, thereby forcing the farm
ers to pay freight on their cot.
ton to these great centralized
merger-owned warehouses, to
pay high storage rates, high in
surance to the insurance trust
which McLaurin has broken into
and compelling them to place
their cotton in the hands of the
banks from which they borrow
money. For, just as certain as
you allow this merger to succeed
and permit the State Warehouse
system to fail, certain banks
Robertson's, in Columbia. in par
ticular-will be the head distrib-
uting centres, just as hobertsons
now is for the Standard ware
house, and you will be forced to
place your cotton in their hands,
and it would not surprise. me
when this is done if, when a
rise in the price of cotton takes
place, they would unload your
cotton which they are holding
in their warehouses to the mills,
and when the price goes back
down, replace it with priced cot
ton. which will be forced upon
you when you call for it with
your receipt. Any man can see
this who studies the situation
and knows it, and who under
stands the system of the fnan-
ciers of New York and of the
South in the handling of the cot
ton crop. There are others wis.
er than I, but I am willing to
stake whatever reputation I
have in reference to matters of
policy in the handling of the
State Government upon the pre-.
diction which I make to you to-
day. I can, without boasting,
but merely in passing, call your
attention to the fact that not a
political prediction have ever I
made upon the rostrum in South
Carolina, or as Governor of this
State, but what has been full.
filed.
''The power of corporations
had become so great that in the
Constitution Of 1895, Article 9,