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Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-13
LUMBER STRIKE
STILL CONTINUES
STATE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE
SAYS EFFORTS HAVE FAILED
West Coast Lumbermen's Association
Wires Secretary of War Will he
Able to Supply All Spruce Needed
for Airplanes.

SEATTLE, Aug. 13.--After four
days effort on the part of the State
Council of Defense to bring about a
settlement of the differences between
the striking workingmen and the
lumber mill operators. the members
of the Council this afternoon an
nounced that their efforts had re-
suited in failure, and that they had
been unable to get the parties to ef-
feet a settlement. Members of the
West Coast Lumbermen's Associa-
ton also announced today and have
wired the Secretary of War to the ef-
feet that despite the strike of the
men the Association would be able
to furnish the government with all
the spruce lumber needed for the
manufacture of aeroplanes, but said
also that it might be compelled to
call upon the government for protec-
tion in operating the mills with non
union labor.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-13
REMOVED
FROM PACIFIC SHIPS

SEATTLE, Aug. 13.-Arrivals. de-
partures and movements of transpa-
cific vessels. hitherto withheld from
publication at the instance of the
committee on public information.
can, subject to cancellation at the re-
quest of the navy department, be
published in the future. according to
an announcement received in Seattle
today.
For some months past the move
ments of Seattle's foreign-borne
commerce, as far as the individual
carrying units were concerned, have
not been heralded by the newspap-
ers, by agreement with the authori-
ties at Washington. The absence of
enemy raiders in the Pacific waters,
together with the request that the
Ean on Oriental shipping be raised.
brought about the alleviation of the
order. All vessels bound from this
coast to the United Kingdom. or wat
ers in the war zone. are, however,
still excluded from publicity.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-13
THREE
KILLED IN RAID
AIRPLANES AGAIN HIT
COAST OF ENGLAND
Bombs Which We're Dropped from
Raiding German Airplanes Reap
Usual Harvest of Women and Chill
dren.

LONDON, Aug. 13.-Another raid
was made on the English coast by
German airplanes yesterday, and
twenty-three persons fell victims to
the bombs dropped from the enemy
aircraft. In Essex. near the mouth of
the Thames over a score of persons.
including nine women and six chill
dren were killed by the deadly mis-
siles, and fifty persons were injur-
ed, an official statement said tonight.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-13
DIRECTORS Will
Be IMPRISONED
ALL FIGHTING CONSUMPTION
SENT TO CANTONNIENTS
Officials Say That
conscientious Directors Will be
Taken to Army Camps and Put to
Work.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. Ia
Members of all religious sects op-
posed to war, conscientious objectors
and all others fighting conscription
will be sent to national army canton
ments, regardless of their creeds, It
was announced at the Office of Pro-
vost General Crowder today.
Once they arrive at the camps they
will be put to work at tasks other
than drilling and preparing for fight
ing. it was announced today. Presi-
dent Wilson will determine the exact
status of the objectors.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-13
PIPE WORKERS .
co ON STRIKE
REFUSE TO WORK WITH
NON-UNION LUMBER
Employees Of the Pacific Coast Pipe
Co., strike Because Unfair Lumber
used-Sympathetic Strikes in Ore
gOn and Washington.

SEATTLE, Aug. 13.-The employ
es Of the Pacific Coast Pipe Co..
manufacturers of wooden stave pip
ing, walked out this afternoon, re-
fusing to work with lumber turned
out by mills employing non-union lab
or. This is the first Of the sympathet-
ic strikes which have been called in
the allied industries of the lumber
men in Washington and Oregon, and
a number of others are expected to
follow.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-13
STANDARD OIL
VESSEL SUNK
AND FOUR
MEMBERS OF CREW CAPTURED
German Submarine Sinks Steamer
Campra. n Standard Oil Tanker,
Yesterday. and Captain and 4 Of
Crew Taken Prisoners.

WASHINGTON, d. c.. Aug. 13.-
1t was announced today by the Navy
Department that the American steam
er Camppa, a Standard Oil tanker,
had been torpedoed and sunk by a
German submarine The captain and
ed to have been captured by the Ger
mans.
The list of American steamers
gives no vessel by this name. and it
is believed to have been the Caloria,
q Standard Oil steamer.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-13
KANSAS CITY
DEPORTS SCABS
SYMPATHIZERS WILL NOT
ALLOW THEM TO run CARS
Under Supervision Of Police, Citizens
and Strikers Force Strikebreakers
to Leave City-AccOmplished In
Orderly Fashion.

KANSAS CITY, Aug. 13.-Yester-
day a large crowd of strikers and
their sympathizers gathered up four
hundred strikebreakers, brought in to
run the cars of the Kansas City
streetcar company, and taking them
to the railway station placed them
aboard cars and ordered them to
move on.
The affair was under the supervi-
sion of the police and was conducted
in a most orderly manner, with no
blOodShed
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-13
WANTS PEACE
TERMS DEFINED
SENATOR LAFOLLETTE ASKS
ALLIES TO SPEAK OUT
Wisconsin Pacifist Begins Fight to
Force Worldwide Peace Discus
siOn-Asks Allies to Make Terms
Known.

WASHINGTON, D. c.. Aug. 10
Senator LaFollette today began a
fight in the Senateto force a world
wide discussion for peace. He intro
duced a resolution in the Senate call
ing for the Allied nations to make
public their peace terms biased on a
disavowal of any advantages in the
way of indemnities or territorial ac-
quisitions." The senator stated that
the people had right to know upon
what terms peace could be establish
ed, and that this resolution was for
the purpose of starting worldwide
to this end.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-13
SKIPPER is FINED
ON LIQUOR CHARGE

PORT TOWNSEND, Aug. 1S.-
Capt A. A. Langkeid, of the steam
schooner Shasta, was fined $50 and
costs today in the Justices court as
the result of the sheriff finding twen-
ty-two quarts Of liquor on the Shasta
when she arrived at Port Ludlow.
In imposing the fine, the justice
stated that, while be was satisfied
Capt. Langkeid had no interest in the
contraband, and also that he was not
aware It was aboard his vessel. yet
under the law the master Of q yes
sell is responsible for the acts of his
men in such violations of the law.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-13
LIBERTY BONDS ARE
REFUSED AS BAH.

NEW YORK, Aug. 13.-Proffer OF
$4,000 in liberty bonds was refused
today as bail for Emma Goldman, the
convicted of conspiracy to
obstruct the selective draft law, who
Is being returned here for hearing
on an appeal granted by United
States Supreme Court Justice Brand
els. Miss Goldmsn's attorney was
told in the United States district at
torney's ONCE the bail must be either
cash Or real estate. He said he would
procure bail of this character.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-13
EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA
EXPOSED TO SHELLS

AMSTERDAM, Aug. 13.-Emper-
or Charles Of Austria had a narrow
escape last week while visiting the
battlefront in Galicia, says the Wien
er Allgemeine Zeitung. While the en-
peror was taking luncheon at a castle
near the battle line, Russian artillery
shelled the dwelling. The emperor
first refused to take cover and went
ON the balcony, but finally was induc-
ed to leave.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-13
SLAYER Of GIRL:
CONFESSES CRIME
REVEALS MINUTE DETAILS
KILLING RUTH CRUGER
Italian Murderer Of New York Girl
Tells How Customer Came Into
Shop to Have Skates sharpened'
and Made Brave Fight for Life.

BOLOGNA, Aug. 13.-The text OF
the statements made by Cocchi dur
ing the various interrogation of the
prisoner by Judge Zucconi was re-
ceived by Cocchi's counsel, Attorney
Venturini, today. There were eiGht Of
these interrogationss betwees nhe
Is and July 20, and the recofy OF
them cover nine typewfltten pages.
On the first day, the record shows,
,Cocchi denied the crime, claiming
that the reason he left New York was
because of his wife's jealousy and the
uuarrels to which that led, although
he admitted that he had sharpened a
pair of skates for Ruth Cruger. On
the second day Cocchi began by de-
claring that the girl came to his shop
in company with two Italians who
were not known to him and who or
dered him to leave, he doing so and
they remaining in the room. Under
cross-questioning by Judge Zucconi,
however, Cocchi began to weep, and,
holding his head in his hands. de-
clared:
"It is true, l killed her. For
week l had been constantly quarrel
ing with my wife. This day, the 18th,
when ate my midday meal at home.
/ drank five glasses of wine to make
me forget my family troubles. In a
nervous condition I went to my shop
about 1920 O'Clock, when there imme-
diately entered the girl who before
noon had left her skates for sharpen
ing. She was very beautiful and 1 lost
my head. "When we went to the rear
of the shop to get her skates without
seeing me, I barred the street door
with a block of wood so that no one
would be ableto enter 1t from the out
side. Then I started to embrace the
girl, but she was very strong and
threw me backwards. l tried again
and succeeded despite her resistance.
II picked her up and dropped her
into the repair room below thru
square door, feet first, holding her by
the head and shoulders. All the while
she was screaming Police! Police!
She fell about twelve feet below,
striking a motorcycle side car on her
side, but was not hurt.
Z" l jumped after her, she being
again on her feet, fighting and re-
sisting with all her power. I remem-
ber that before dropping her below,
said to her, Please say nothing, as
I have two boys but she continued
shrieking for the police, although I
do not believe any one heard her.
when I joined her in the lower
room my head was gone. tried
again to embrace and kiss her, but
again did not succeed, she was so
strong. 1 remember she was of dark
complexion and stout of body also
that her hat fell off when first at
tempted to embrace her.
FINALLY, exasperated by her re-
sistance, I grabbed In my left hand a
stick of heavy wood yard long and
struck her twice or three times
across the back of the neck, holding
her with my right hand. She groan-
ed and sank down. her head bathed
in blood.
Observation-Disclosures and sorry, I
would have killed myself had I had
a revolver. Expecting to be discovered
at any moment I took the warm body
and dragged it into a box in the left
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-13
STEAMER NORTHWESTERN
ARRIVES IN PORT

The steamship Northwestern arriv-
ed in port Saturday night with a
large consignment of freight and tn
following passengers: H. Van Wyck.
T. Mann, Mrs. H. B. Nelson, AL w.
Pflamm, P. E. Nettleton, H. Newman,
A. H. Miller, and Mrs. ]. L. Reed
and babies. Her passengers for the
west were Jack Elstrom for Sew
ard, E. s. Hewitt for Seward and An
.chorage, J. L. Dixon and w. E. Pat
ton for Latouche.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-13
FISHERMEN DIE
IN STORMY SEA
STORM ON MASSACHUSETTS
COAST TAKES TOLL
Cape Cod Fishermen Drown When
Gale Sweeps in From the Sea
Wrecking Boats and Doing Untold
Damage.

BOSTON, Aug 13.-Nineteen Por-
tugese fishermen were drowned yes
terday by fierce gale which swept
in from the sea. wrecking their dories
and doing considerable damage to
shipping along the coast.
The dories were fishing off Cape
Cod when they were struck by tho
gale.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-13
Osborne Made Prison Expert

WASHINGTON, d. c., Aug. 10
Thomas Mott Osborne, former Sing
Sing warden, who recently undertook
an investigation of navy prisons at
the request of Secretary Daniels, has
been retained as an attache of the de-
partment to advise officials in charge,
his status has not yet been definitely
determined, but he may have gener-
al supervision over prison reorganiza-
tion.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-13
HURLEY APPROVES CONTRACTS
DRAWN BY GOETHALS

WASHINGTON, d. c.. Aug. Ia
Chairman Hurley of the Shipping
Board approved the contracts origin
ally drawn by Major General Goeth-
ais. who recently resigned. calling for
the construction of IS wooden and
sixty steel vessels.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-13

The launch Pathfinder. Capt. By
ron Smith, returned from down-sound
points this morning. Fred Coleclough
was a round-trip passenger on her.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-13
Russian Repulse Attacks

PETROGRAD. Aug. 13.-An Of
fetal statement by the war Office to-
day says the Russian and Rumanian
forces repulsed the German attacks
along the Fokshani and Marsechets
railroad, and captured 1900 Germans
but were forced to retire later in the
evening.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-13
GERMANS CAPTURE
MANY PRISONERS
EIGHTEEN CANNON AND
SlXTY-ONE MACHINE GUNS
General Mackensen's Forces Win De-
cisive Battle in Central Rumania
Observation-Disclosures Repulse Ger
man Attacks Until Evening.

BERLIN. Aug. 13.--General Mack
ensens forces, fighting in Central Ru-
mania yesterday took six thousand
seven hundred Russian prisoners and
captured Is cannon and 65 machine
guns.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-13

Attacked by the youngest lad ever
sentenced In Colorado for highway rob
bery, Judge Lindsey was also pounced
upon by the prisoners mother after hs
had imposed penalty. Both mother
and son Srasped the Judge around the
neck. slight wounds were inflicted by
'tsSE boySs dSul9 ii oncSfs fsmovea
the pair. TAs boy had held up anoeA.
sr Lad and taken money from him.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-13

A. v. Pfiamm, the well-known min
ing operator, arrived in Valdez Sat-
urday on the steamer Northwestern.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-13
Frisco Carmen Strike

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13.-
Many carmen of the United Railways
Company went on strike in this city
today.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-13

Fred Anderson is in town from FL
lamar.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-13

Jack Elstrom left for Seward on
the steamer Northwestern.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-13

Tile entire recent change in the
French command may be traced to the
minister Of war. Paul Painleve. 1t is
said that he is mainly responsible for
the elevation OF General Petain to
commander in chief and the restors.
tion Of General Foch., iM.' Paipleve. II
n held, was the guiding force which
saved both Paris and Verdun.
Gilpin observer., 1917-08-30
HOME OF EMPRESS JOSEPHINE
Fort dc France on Island Of Marti.
nique Interesting as Birthplace Of
Napoieon's First Wife.

The little town of Fort de France on
the island Of Martinique In the French
West Indies is Of the greatest inter.
est to travellers, because it was the
early home of Empress Josephine, the
first wife Of Napoleon. She was the
daughter of a French army officer who
lived on large estate about five miles
from the town. Here Josephine was
born in 1893 and here she lived until
she was married to her first husband,
Beauharnaise, when she was sixteen
years old.
The future empress seems to have
had much education and to have lived
the simple life on a West Indian plan
tation. The site Of her birthplace is
still known and 1t is delightfully."- stu.
ated in grove Of trees near the banks
Of a small river. A certain pool In
this stream Is still known as the bath
Of the empress, and here the creole
beauty, according to local tradition, al
ways took her morning plunge.
After her separation from Beauhar-
naise Josephine returned to Marti-
nique and to the quiet life Of the little
island. Passages from her diary at
that time show that she was very fond
of her rambles in the woods and Of the
quaint, easy social life of the pluce.
She passed three years there with her
little daughter before returning to
France to become the wife Of a world
conqueror and one Of the most famous
beauties Of Europe.
A statue of the empress has been
erected in the square at Fort de
France. 1t conveys a charming i'm
preston of the woman who for a time
ruled the man Of destiny and Of whom
he said that she was a mistress Of the
art Of pleasing.
Gilpin observer., 1917-08-30
WHEN POISONING WAS ART
None Gained Greater Proficiency Than
Marehioness Of erlnvIllIsrs In
Seventeenth Century,

The sixteenth and seventeenth CEN
turtles developed large number Of
persons who brought the crime of poi
soning to an art. None attained great
er perfection in this than the march
ioness Of Brinvilliers. She was the
daughter Of Dreux D'Aubray. a high
official In the reign Of Louis XIV. In
1851 she was married to the marquis
Of Brinvilliers, heir to an enormous
fortune. She herself brought consid-
erable dOwry.
She was a woman of prepossessing
appearance and great charm. She lived
happily with her husband until one
Sieur Godin, commonly known as st.
Croix, was introduced into the family.
The marquis took great liking to
him, and st. CrOix made his home with
the aristOcratic couple. The march
l0ness soon fell in love with the ad-
venturer. De BBinvilliers had st. Croix
imprisoned in the Bastille. Here the
latter met an italian who was an adept
In poisons, and he taught st. Croix his
arts. When the latter was released,
after a years confinement, he resumed
his acquaintance with the marchioness,
but more cautiously. The italian came
out of prison and entered the services
Of the pair. They at once entered into
schemes to poison the woman's father,
her two brothers and her sister, so as
to get possession Of the family fortune.
They succeeded in al! Gpsss except
that Of the sister. Yet they escaped
suspicion and would have gone free
had 1t not been for an accident. While
mixing poisons the mask worn by st.
Croix fell from his face and he was
suffocated by the poisOns he was pre-
pairing for others. Then the whole
dark tale was unfolded and all were
condemned to death.
Gilpin observer., 1917-08-30
PRESIDENT REJECTS
PoPE's PEACE PROPOSAL

President Wilson's rejection of
Pope Benedict's peace proposal is a
caear-cut and sensible document, and
will meet the full appreciation of ev-
cry loyal citizen Of the United States.
Although cou6hed in terms of re-
spect towards his holiness, he makes
1t plain that he and his people have
lost an faith in any promise that
may hereafter he made by the Ger
man Imperial government. He also
Germany must be the constituted
power that is to cooperate with 9TH
er nations about the peace table.
He makes it plain that there can
be no peace terms offered or accept
ed by this country. that will benefit
some nations, to the crippling and
embarra ssment Of o her nations, eth
er an a spirit of revenge or ether
wise. He also makes 1t plain to Ger
many, as well as other countri es,
that the rights Of the people should
be based uron self government, and
not upon autocratic power, and that
AN honorable and lasting peace must
be based upon fairness, as we'll as
justice. and the common rights of all
mankind.
The presidents rerly to the pope
Will not only be a masterful state
paper, but will be a guide to other
nations addressed, as the sentiment
emanating from free America, one
of the greatest and most powerful ma,
tons of the earth.
Gilpin observer., 1917-08-30
PINES FOR oLDTIME oRAToRY
Writer Declares That Modern Speak
ers Fail to Satisfy Our Long. A
Ing for Language. ~

What has become of the old-fashi0n.
ed orator, the old boy who made the
well known welkin ring? Modern
speakers don't satisfy our longing for
language. We remember at least three
orators Of the old school. One of
them, at funeral Grafton, spoke of
youth and age. Said he: f"Sprtngtime's
brightest green must fade and pass
away to be replaced by drear Decem-
ber's somber hues."
Another, telling of q visit he had
made to the place of his birth and boy
hood, told Of looking into a spring
around which he had played as child.
He said: "When last looked into its
mlrrored beauty l beheld the smiling
face Of happy boy crowned with a
mass Of golden hair. Now l behold a
broken old man, halting down the
western hill of time. and on his brow
there Is the snow which no summers
sun can ever melt"
The third Of our favorite orators
said: II have seen fragrant flowers In
the hands Of blushing beauty. have
gazed upon the loveliness of dew-kiss-
ed violets rivaling with their mOdesty
the majesty Of lilies Of the valley. l
have seen gorgeous roses lending bril-.
lance to sparkling eyes. But, gentle
men, the most beautiful bouquet that
ever burst into bloom before my en-
raptured eyes was-a royal flush."-
Dallas Pitchfork.
Gilpin observer., 1917-08-30
RULE OF THUMB NAVIGATION
New England eaiIors Stick to sextant:
and Care Little for New. Tangled
Nautical Instruments.

Edward Hungerford, who made an
Investigation for Everybody's to find
out where the men IRE coming from
for our new merchant marine, relates
some interesting Incidents showing the
New England sailors independence If
new-fangled nautical Instruments. ASK
them about navigation" he writes
"and they will bring out, with loving
care. the sextant that was fathers
or Uncle Jim's or. more likely. grand
fathers or one Of the great-uncle's.
They will point out the vernier scnle
upon its bright face and say to you
landlubber that you are:
"'She shoots the sun. With 1t we
get the latitude. A chart and the lati-
tude-a lead line and jedgement--jedg-
ment cOunts-and we can get anywhere
between the Bermudas and Green
landr
"'How about the longituder you
venture.
"'You certainly are a landlubber.
The salt lets you know that, with
single glance Then he shows COM
passion and relates an anecdote:
"There was fellow sailing out Of
Gloucester and someone gave him Il
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the instrument the
scientific fellows get the longitude
with. They explained 1t to him, an
for three days he sailed by it-God
knows where to. Then the dinged
thing busts an he comes back tD the
sextant an gets to the banks only
littlq behind the rest Of the feet. But
IL that chronometer hadn't busted, by
Judas Priest. stranger, he might have
hit OVER i9 Portugal somewhere I
Gilpin observer., 1917-08-30
A COMING INDUSTRY

Perhaps the greatest coming indus
try in the monmtain states. next to
that of mining for the different met
aas, is that of producing Gil and gas
oline from the Oil shale rock of west
ern Colorado, eastern Utah and a por-
ton Of Wyoming.
The territory embraced. is said to
be millions of acres and the estimat-
ed number of gallons Of ell and gas
oiine contained therein by govern
ment experts. runs into the billi ems
of gallons. as the shale by tests
yields from ten to seventy gallons of
oil per ton.
Experienced oil men frcm old de-
veloped oil fields are already upon
the ground and plants for it's extrac-
tion are already being constructed.
The pulp. CIR refuse, after the Gil is
extracted, is said to be of great val
ue as fertilizer This infant indus
try will not only be CT vast import
amce in building up this section of
the far west, but will be of vast
help in these times pf war. by FUR
Mshing Uncle Sam with oil fer the
navy, nrd will fill long want by
supplying gasoline for the automobile g
trade. Much Of dhese lands belcng
to the government and by recent
ruling have been withdrawn from en-
try, and will either be leased or work.
ed on government account.
When the Almighty fal h,tmed these
granite and barren hills. that Ere In
capable Of producing upon it's sur
race. He implanted In their bowels
all kinds Of metals and ellis. that man
might uncover fer the benefit of the
world at large, thus fulfilling the
profhesy that adj things were ,reate ed
for the best.
Gilpin observer., 1917-08-30

The inheritance tax department, un-
der Leslie Hubbard, attorney general,
and Riohad F. Ryan. inheritance tax
appraiser, has collected S2S5,000 in
nire months, as against an estimate
of 100000 for the entire present
biennial period. In addition care
full check Of county records is being
made fer estates that have not paid
in or been reported to the depart
ment. Hubbard has written letter
to all state trust ccmparies, banks
and safe deposit concerns asking
their cooperation in enforcing tee,
pro, Visions Of the irhefitance tax law.