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Valdez daily prospector., 1916-05-30
NAY DICTATE
 THE NOMINATION
REPORTED COMBINE IS FORMED
Burton, Weeks, Root and Fairbanks, Candidate.

CHICAGO, May 30.-It is reported that Burton, Weeks, Root and Fair banks, controlling seven hundred votes, may pool their strength and dictate the nomination at the Repub- lican convention. Four hundred and ninety votes are necessary to choice. It is alleged that negotiations to this end have been quietly under way for some time, and is likely to be con- summated. In such an event there ap- pears to be little likelihood of Col. Roosevelt getting the nomination.
 It is believed the Progressive lead CTS have practically abandoned hope of reaching an agreement with the standpatters whereby the two factions of the party can unite on candidate that will meet with the approval of the Progressives and strong pressure is being brought to bear upon Col Roosevelt to accept the nomination of the Progressives at their convention regardless of whom the Republican convention may name, and it is be- lieved that this program will be car ried out.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-05-30
MARRIAGE TO BROTHER
 ANNULLED BY COURT

ANDERSON, Ind, May 30.-Circuit Judge Pence this afternoon annulled the marriage of Ethel Shell, 22 years old, of Anderson, to her brother. Charles She'll, 26 years old, in this city four years ago.
 The plaintiff asserted that she and her husband-brother were separated while they were infant orphans but that the defendant returning to An derson, located her. He did not dis close their relation. but courted and welded his sister while assuming the name of Finn.
 Soon after the marriage the sister, wife learned of the deception and left her husband. Shell was sent to prison at Jeffersonville, and when paroled located at Louisville, Ken lucky, where he married again, was convicted of larceny, and is now in Kentucky State prison.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-05-30
WOUNDED TELL 0f AWFUL SLAUGHTER
HILL CARPETED WITH THE DEAD
Soldiers from the Front Relate Tales of the Frightfui Carnage About Inflated

PARIS, May 3O.-W'ounded French soldiers from the front i'll the vicinity of Verdun, declare that the fighting during the past few days has been the most terrific in history. The slaugh- ter has been unprecedented, thou sands upon thousands of both sides having been killed by the hail of pro- jecti!es from the artillery and small arms of the contestants.
 A French officer declares that Dou- amont Hill. the scene of the struggle for the fortitications. is carpeted deep with the bodies of the dead soldiers who battled here for the supremacy. He says he saw three German regi- ments absolutely annihilated by the incessant fire of the French machine guns within half an hour.
 Hand to hand fighting marked the retaking of Douamont by the French It is claimed that twenty-five thou sand Germans were bayoneted by the French soldiers when Cumiers made his successful attack on the Douamont positions?
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-05-30
GERMAN PEOPLE
 WELCOME PEACE SENTIMENT STEADILY GROWS Read with Greatest Interest that Will e son may Start Peace Negotiating
 and Believe He Could Bring End
 of War.
SENTIMENT STEADILY GROWS

BERLIN, May 30.-The press of the city has made much of the speech of President Wilson made a few days ago at Charlotte, North Car olina, in which he sounded the first note of his willingness to act as medi- ator between the warning nations of Europe, and the probability that he would initiate negotiations for the bringing about the end of the war. The people throughout the empire have read the various articles on the subject and are enthusiastic over the possibility that the President will take the matter in hand and the con- viction prevails that through his ef- forts peace may be brought about within few months.
 There is no doubt that among the people the desire for peace is grow ing steadily, and has already become so strong that the government is compelled to recognize it, and will welcome any proposal that will end the war with honor to the country.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-05-30
FAMOUS ] JUS HEALTH
 RESORT BURNED
LOSS ESTIMATED HALF MILLION
Famous Health Resort Near Port Am geles Goes Up in Smoke-Insur. ance on Property Only $6O,OOO- Cause of Fire Mystery.

SEATTLE, May 30.-The famous Sol Due Health Resort, at Sol Due Springs, about 60 miles from Port Angeles, in the heart of the Olympic mountains, was wholly destroyed by fire yesterday The big hotel and sanitarium, together with other build ings were burned to the ground, the loss being estimated at $5O0,000 with insurance aggregating about $6O,OOO. So far as can be learned no lives were lcst The cause of the fire is mys- tery.
 This famous health resort was built by Michael Earles, Bellingham lumber king, and became the fash ionable summer resting place for many wealthy Seattle and Victoria people. It was carved out of the heart of the Olympics, at cost of nearly million dollars, and was rap iGTI TIbecoming famous as rest cure. The past two years had been un- profitable owing to the war, but it was expected that the place would achieve national promince in a few years time and big; cohpany was forming to take it over from the re. ceiver.
 Itwas connected with Port Angeles by a magnificent auto road to Sol Due lake and a fine line of steamers piled from the foot of the lake to the hotel.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-05-30
MURDERER 0F MOR|AR|1Y SHOT
CORNERED SHACK TIDE FLATS
Man Who Killed Police Sergeant Yes- terday Battles with Police and Is Killed-Identity Not knOw-Be- lieved One of Gang Operating

SAN FRANCISCO. May 30.-The police have shot and killed the man who killed Police Sergeant Moriarity yesterday while he was arrested the man on suspicion of being counter feiter.
 The police located the man in shack on the tidefiats. He opened fire on the officers who returned it with fatal effect. The identity of the man is unknown. but he is believed to have been a member of gang of counter feiters working in this vicinity. He had attempted to pass spurious coin on storekeeper when arrested by Sergeant Moriarity.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-05-30
.tL0YD.GE0RGt: FORMULATE PLANS TO SETTLE IRISH QUESTION House of Commons Agrees with Pre-
 mier that the Matter Must be Set.
 tied at Once and for All to Preserve
 Peace in the Country.
o SETTLE IRISH QUESTION

: LONDON. May 30.-The House of Commons is united on the Irish ques- tion and agrees with Premier Asquith that if any lasting peace is to be maintained in the country. the differ ences between the two countries must be settled at once and for all. It is agreed that no halfway or compro- mise measures can be adopted with success, and that only by the passage of laws granting measures of govern- ment that will he acceptable to all fac tions in the country will constant tur- moil be avoided.
 Upon David Lloyd-George. Chan cellor of the ExcheQuer, has been placed the task of formulating a plal. for bringing about the desired results. He will confer with the leading men of the Irish factions i'll an endeavor to find means to bring the whole country together.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-05-30
(. c. P. ACQUIRES r BIG SLUSA FUND
WILL SPEND MONEY BROADCAST
Huge Amount in Hands of Leaders to Insure Election of Presidential Cam dida,e and Get Control of Congress Every Effort Made to Win.

WASHINGTON, D. C.. May 1O.- The republican campaign fund is re- gathered together by the party for presidential election. Money will be spread broadcast to carry the election and large sum is also set aside to gain control of the House and Sem ate. It is admitted by Republican statesmen that no means will be spared to defeat Wilson and insure the success of the Republican nomi- nees.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-05-30
WILSON FAVORS
 INTERVENTION INFORMS FRIENDS HE MAY ACT Neutral Nations Believe United States Is In Position to Mediate in Europe-Germany Would Welcome Efforts to Bring Peace.
INFORMS FRIENDS HE MAY ACT

WASHINGTON, D. C., May 30.-
 President Wilson has intimated to personal friends that he is not only favorably inclined to intervene in Flu rope to bring about peace; but is strongly considering the commence
 ment of negotiations to this end. Representations have been made to
 the President by the neutral nations
 and by Pope Benedict that the United
 States government is the best situat ed of the nations of the world to act
 as mediator, and it is evident from the German note on the submarine
 question that that government would
 not be averse to the Presidents of fees in this matter.
 1 It is anticipated that the Entente
 Allies may make some objection tc
 the interference of the United States but it is doubted if overtures to end
 the war will be flatly rejected by them.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-05-30
MAY INITIATE
 PEACE MOVEMENT STATED WILSON CONSIDERING Believes It Is Within the Rights of Neutral Nations to Take First Steps and Would End the War Sooner than Otherwise.
STATED WILSON CONSIDERING

WASHINGTON, D. C., May 3O.- From authoritative sources it is re- ported that President Wilson is seri- ously considering intervening in Flu rope to bring about peace. He claims it is within the right of the neutral nations to initiate peace negotiations and that by so doing the war will be undoubtedly brought to a close soon- CT than if the peace proposals come from one of the belligerants.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-05-30
WILSON ! 1 v!lE|||iE ] l
 FOR MEDIATOR
NOT ACCEPTABLE TO FRENCH
Influential Newspaper in Paris States
 Presidents Disregard of Violation
 Belgium Makes Him Unht-Vle"s with Disfavor any Attempt at Peace

PARIS, May 30.-The Temps, one of the most influential newspapers in this city, today prints long article on the reported intention of Presi- dent Wilson to initiate peace negotia- tions between the warning nations of Europe.
 The newspaper views with disfavor any attempt of the President to in- terfere in the matter, stating that the attitude of MT. Wilson in disregard ing the violation of the neutrality of Belgium units him to act as media tor in the affairs of the belligerent nations.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-05-30
MAJORITY FOR PREPAREDNESS
POLL OF CHAMBERS COMMERCE
Members of These Organizations in Forty-Fiye States and in Alaska Are in Favor of Increased Army and Navy Strength.

WASHINGTON, D. C., May 3O.- A poll of the Chambers of Commerce of the United States shows that thf members of these bodies in forty-fve of the states and in Alaska are fsTot- able to preparedness legislatio1I
 Throughout the eastern stf ftes fthe sentiment is particularly sFoH in favor of a large increase fin the strength of the army and navy.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-05-30
GERARD BOOSTS
 f0R ' WILSON
TO ACT AS MEDIATOR EUROPE
German Newspaper Publishes Inter- view with AmbassadOr-Pred Visit of Col. House to Open NegO- tiatiOns i'm the Near Future.

BERLIN, May 30.-A Munich pa per today published an interview with United States Ambassador Gerard in which the diplomat expresses the ut most confidence that peace is coming soon, and boosts President Wilson as the man to act as mediator between the belligerent nations. He states that the people in the nations at war are urgently demanding peace, and that it will soonest be gained through the initiation of a peace movement by one of the neutral powers.
 Diplomats here are predicting an early visitSof Coli House. the personal representative of President Wilson, to Europe in the near future.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-05-30
HOUSE DENIES PLANNING VISIT
DENIES REPORT FROM GERMANY
Representative of President Wilson
 Says That He Has No Information / That He Is to be Sent to Europe Again.

NEW YORK, May 3O.-Col. House, the' personal representative of Presi- dent Wilson, stated today in reference to the report from Germany that he would make another visit to the bel ligerent nations, that he was not plan ming any such trip. He said that up to this time he had received no inti- nation from President Wilson that his services would be required for such a mission.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-05-30
.lMOtBt|R|G $ UNDER |::| ARREST l TAKEN AS MAKING GETAWAY Nome Mining Man Is Taken from
 Shasta Limited Train on 8 Bench
 Warrant Charging Him With Con-
 tempt of Court.
TAKEN AS MAKING GETAWAY

SAN FRANCISCO. May 30.-Jafet Lindeberg, the Nome mining mag nate, was arrested here today on the northbound Shasta limited, just be- fore it left for Seattle, to which Lin deberg was bound.
 The arrest was made on bench warrant issued by Judge Desey, on the charge of contempt of court, growing out of the refusal of Lindeberg to tes- tify ill mining case recently tried here.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-05-30
Iomosrow Feast U. Angs1us.

J TOmotF0w FeAst Ht. Angeius.s
 We have been pleased to see you insert in your paper the calendar of the Saints. We want to remind you that the s1st of May win be the feast of St. Angela, founder Of the Ursh- line Order. to which we belong. Many .of the calendars of the first ages of the church gave only St, Petronella Oh May s1st. but since the canonization 3of St. Angela, one shundred years ago, the Church has fixed q feast for St. Angela for May 31st. -
 READER.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-05-30
JUDGE GARY PLEADS -t-
 FOR PREPAREDNESS

NEW YORK, May 30.-In an ad- dress before the annual meeting of the American Institute Judge Albert Gary, head of the United States Steel Corporation, make an eloquent plea for national preparedness.
 The Judge further states that the condition of the American steel and iron industry was never better.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-05-30
ROOSEVELT OUTLINES
 CANDIDACY ADDRESS

OYSTER BAY, May sQ.-Before a number of his admirers yesterday Col. Roosevelt outlined his candidacy ad- dress, stating the conditions upon which he would accept the nomina- tion for the presidency. G,
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-05-30
ROW PROMISED
 7la IN THE CABINET

WASHINGTON, D. C., May s0.-- The request of Secretary of the Navy Daniels for oil land reserves for the navy in the Ca1ffornia lands with drawn by rresideht Taft, may lead to an inter-departmeitai row equalling the Ballinger-P Pinchot controversy. II is alleged that Daniels has made him self particularly obnoxious to secre- .tary Lane in his attitude ili 7 the mat ter, and the breach will be difficult to heal.
 Eastern papers are a, unit in alleg- ing that Daniels has deliberately at- tackled Lane.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-05-30
SECRETARY LANSING
 BEEN ILL PAST WEEK

WASHINGTON, D. C.. May so.- For nearly a week Secretary Lansing has been confined to his home by i'll health. He has 50 far recovered flat he resumed his duties today.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-05-30
ROOSEVELT RETURNS
 TO WITNESS PARADE

CHICAGO, May 30.-Col. Roose- yelt left Saturday to return to Oys- ter Bay to witness the great citizen s parade to be held in New York to- day.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-05-30
ANCHORAGE PAPER
 CHANGES ITS NAME

ANCHORAGE. May 30.-The Cook Inlet Pioneer. recently purchased by Charles Heron is to be hereafter |called the Anchorage Daily Times. H. |G. Steel is editor of the paper.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-05-30

Get one of those delicious caramel sundaes at Hunts Candy Kitchen If
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-05-30
Athletic Club Dance

The Valdez Athletic Club will give one of their popular dances in Moose hall this evening. The public is cord tally invited.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-05-30
TO DIG OUT TasAIL
 s' 5,ss X, Inn OUCH CANYON

X sf 8 ~ ~ 3f.Ss " ~ iis x A party of seysn or eight men |headed by Tony Carlson aad Pete |Cashman left thtst Jaorntng in Brick |sofS's snto tor Keystone canyon. where they VIII shovel : traaI throrsh the
 drifts that accumulated duFins the
 winter. as we'll as several small dirt
 and rock slides ~. M
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-05-30

Just received a new line of Pyralin ivory at the Owl Drug. If
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-05-30
LOCAL nREvITIEs

wilson's pack train left this morn |ing for the Ramsay Rutherford mine, on the glacier
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-05-30

Prospector ads bring results.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-05-30

N Louis Johnson will leave for the
 He's plant at Solomon Gulch to re- main for several days.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-05-30

Tom Haines left this morning for Mineral Creek.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-30
|CELANDERS
 IN AMERICA

The first colony of Icelanders to es- tablish themselves on the American continent arrived at Lake Rosseau forty-four years ago to-day, Aug. 30, 1872, and there began the pioneer Ca nadian settlement of their people. This was the beginning of a considerable immigration of Icelanders to America. The first party consisted of more than 150 men, women and children, but only about a dozen families settled in the Canadian colony. The remainder scattered over Canada and a few went on to Wisconsin. Since then thousands of Ice1anders-.perhap inspired by the old Icelandic sages of Eric the Red. whose son Jeff is said to have voyaged to America five centuries before Co., 1umbus-have emigrated to America, most of them settling in western Can ada and the northwestern states. They have made sturdy, intelligent, patriotic citizens. Vihljalmar Stefansson, the distinguished explorer, comes of Ice landic stock, his parents having emi- grated from Iceland and settled in Manitoba a year or two before Vih1jal- mar was born in 1879.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-30
Rental Price for One-Tenth
 of State Pier at New London
 Is $6,3O0 for 6-MOnth Period

Hartford, Aug. 30-.The commission on rivers, harbors and bridges, at a meeting attended by Governor Marcus H. Holcomb at the Capitol yesterday, formally ratified the contract with the Eastern Forwarding Co. for the right of dockage and the use of part of the new s1.0O0,00O state pier at New Lon don. The lease which was presented to the governor and the commission for approval by the subcommittee provides for the use by the company of one-tenth of the pier space, or 35.- 900 square feet, for six months. The rental is $6,300.
 The Eastern Forwarding Go. has already spent in the neighborhood of $40,000 in the construction of super structures, including warehouses and an administrative building.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-30
PROVING SPEED OF AUTOMOBILES

RECENT in which unusually careful driver
 charged with speeding the officer testified in substance followed the about mile and half trailing him time at distance of 700 feet and finally closing the gap
 The officer testified that the speed of his own ranged B to 37 miles hour and inferred from this fact that the accused must have been making the speed.
 The accused testified that his going at about 30 hour pace that would have been safe under the ditons.
 this both the officer and the driver doubtless telling the truth Assuming the accused travelled the distance minutes,
 The officer at 3 miles hour could make the dis minutes and five seconds To make 700 feet at S7 miles an hour officer had to travel half mile and which would take mnue If travelling but three faster than moving 30 miles hour there would be needed about two and onealf minutes and the oc ers very close to mile and half to abreast of the other
 type many in which the opinion too has,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-30
ABRIT0N WHO HAS
 BECOME A GERMAN

Houston Stewart Chamberlain, the British-born author who was natural ized a German citizen some days ago, is a son-in-law of Frau Cosima Wag- ner, widow of the great composer. AL though reared and educated in Eng land. Chamberlain has spent most of his mature life in Germany, and since the outbreak of the war he has been more violently pro-German than the Germans themselves. In numerous ar ticles contributed to the German and American press, he has upheld the Teuton cause and bitterly denounced the British, at whose door he lays the responsibility for the struggle. He has pictured the Kaiser as something of a demi-god, and for this he was re- warded last year with the Iron Cross.
 He applied for naturalization last April, and his desire to become a Ger man legally as well as in opinions was speedily accomplished. Chamberlain is the son of the late Rear Admiral William Charles Chamberlain, of the British navy, and his mother, also English, was the daughter of Brit ish naval officer. After graduating from Cheltenham College, Chamber- lain applied for a commission in the British army, but was refused as physi- cally unfit for the service. He was greatly disappointed at his failure to obtain an army berth, and went to Germany. There he fell in love with and married Eva Wagner, the younger then has lived with his wife and moth daughter of the composer, and since er-in-law at the Wagner villa in Bay reuth. He is the author of many books and articles in German, English and French. Chamberlain played a prominent role in the suit brought by his wife and her brother, Siegfried, in futile attempt to disinherit their sis ter. It was alleged by Siegfried and MT. and Mrs. Chamberlain that Isolde was not the child of the composer, but that her father was Hans von Buelow, Frau Wagner's first husband.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-30
IF WASHINGTON
 HAD BEEN KING

If George Washington had given his consent to the plans of the post revolutionary roya1ists who wanted to establish and American kingdom, with Washington as monarch. and the peo- pie had permitted the setting up of a monarchial form of government, and the crown had been perpetuated in the House of Washington, who would now be the King-or more likely the Emperor-of the United States?
 Since Washington had no children, it is probable that the crown would have passed to the Lewis family, as Bettie Washington, sister of the Father of His Country" married Col Fielding Lewis, and by this union established a family which today claims the cloest relationship to the first President.
 The genealogy of the Lewis tribe shows that Col. Fielding Lewis, brother-in-law of Washington, had a son, also named Fielding; that the latter had a son Charles, whose son, George Washington Lewis was the father of John Calvin Lewis, the man who might have been the twentieth century monarch of an American em- pire.
 John Calvin Lewis was born 73 years ago today, Aug 30, 1S43, in Lebanon, Tenn, where he spent his boyhood. A Southerner born and bred, his sympathies were with the South when the Civil War broke out, and he enlisted as a private in a Ten nessee regiment. He took part in a number of engagements, including Appomattox, and then went to Louis vile, where he was for some years a railway ticket agent, later becoming a well-to-do merchant
 The project for establishing a new kingdom in America, with the com mander of the revolutionary army on the throne, was launched soon after the war was over, and a number of army officers were involved in the movement. Washington was indig- nant when informed of this scheme, and promptly put his foot down on it. To one of the royalist officers he wrote:
 "Be assured, sir, no occurrence in the course of the war has given me more painful sensations than your in formation of there being such ideas existing in the army as you have ex- pressed and which I must view with abhorrence and reprimand with sever ity. Let me conjure you, then if you have any regard for your country, concern for yourself or pos terity or respect for me, to banish these thoughts from your mind and never communicate, as from yourself or any one else, a sentiment of the like nature.''
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-30

Professor Leo s. Rowe, who has ac- cepted the post of secretary to the American section or the joint Mexican and American commission which is to consider plans for adjusting the exist ing differences between the two coun- tries. The American members of the commission are Franklin K. Lane, secretary of the interior; George Gray, former United States circuit judge. and Dr. John R. Mott of New York. The Mexican members are Luis Ca brera, Alberto Pani and Ygnacio Bo- nillas. Professor Rowe holds the chair of political science in the Uni versity of Pennsylvania and has rep resented the United States several times on commissions dealing with Latin American affairs.