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Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-29
HOLLAND MUST GET
 GRAIN OR STARVE

AMSTERDAM, Aug. 29.-"If we fail to persuade the American gov ernment to permit continuance of the supply of grain, it will mean mis- cry and economic ruin for Holland" unanimously declared the members of the official Dutch mission who are expected to sail for the United States this week, and who were interviewed today in a body by The Associated Press.
 Whether such an eventuality would ultimately force Holland into the war, the members of the mission did not care to prophecy. This, they contended, would manifestly make Hollands position more serious and would make her more than ever de- pendent on the central powers, to whom she presumably would be ob- liged to turn to to try to get grain, as we'll as the present essential coal, necessarily in exchange for equival- ent concessions and in which case the American aim of stopping Dutch food exports toward Germany would still be defeated.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-29
GERMAN NEWSPAPER
 IS WROUGHT UP

AMSTERDAM, Aug. 29.-Refer ring to the bill introduced in the Uni ted States senate on August 13 pro viding that whenever German ait other publications printed in foreigr languages publish any comment or the acts or policies of the United States government they must print an English translation of it in a par allel column. the Koeln;sche Volks Zeitung says:
 Henceforward there shall ce citi zens of the first and se:oDd c,ass in the United States. Anglo-Saxondom will be the ruling race and the Ger. mans their servants.
 Perhaps the sharpest verdicts or the Prussian governments Polish pol icy have been pronounced in that SC Christian and liberal America Il must in fairness, be conceded, how. ever, that the Prussian government of Herr Wilson proposes to go in his combat against an obnoxious lang. uage"
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-29
BOMB EXPLODED
 COAL BUNKERS 
Seattle Built Steamer Victim of Dyn- amite Plots-But Little
 Damage Done

SEATTLE. Aug. 29.-A letter was received here today by the agents of the Seattle built steamer Nels Niel- son, which recently sailed from Sing apore to Bombay, India, stating that while en route to the Orient a bomb had exploded in the coal bunkers of the steamer. causing fire to ensue. but that 1t has been extinguished with little damage to the vessel.
 It is believed by federal agents that a band of German plotters are at work in Seattle. placing bombs in the bunkers of vessels sailing from this port for Russia and Japan. as several cases have been reported dur ing the past week.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-29
KEREuSKY SAYS
 SITUATION BAD
Gen, KOrnilOff Asks That Death Pen- alty for DesertiOn Should be
 Restored

MOSCOW, Aug. 29.-Premier Ker' ensky, after a conference with Gen. eral Korniloff, in command of the Russian armies, said the situation was very bad. General Korniloff de clared that the death penalty for de sertion be restored. He stated that the situation on the Russian front could not be described. That he Russians had lost the whole of Galicia and Bukowina provinces and that the ene- my had crossed the Russian frontier and was threatening the fertile south ern provinces, and endeavoring tc destroy the remainder of the Ruman- ian army.
 General Korniloff declared that il was absolutely necessary for Russia to hold the shores of the Gulf of Riga otherwise the city of Petrograd would be opened wide to the German invad- CTS.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-29
Mass Netting Called

BUTTE, Mont, Aug. 29.-Atten- tion in circles of the Metal Mine Workers union and the metal trades today was centered upon plans for the mass meeting at Columbia Gardens tomorrow, where Miss Jeanette Ran- kin, Montana's congresswoman, will be the principal speaker. It is expect ed, according to the leaders of these organizations, that Miss Rankin will outline her views of the local situa- tion at that time. Miss Rankin has held lengthy conferences with Tom Campbell, leader of the Metal Mine Workers, and with representatives of the Metal Trades council, from whom she secured information re- garding the situation and their justi- fication of the demand for an abro- gation of the contracts recently sign ed by the State Metal Trades council with the mining companies.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-29
BRITISH PEER IS
 INQUIRED FOR

R. tM Brown is in receipt of an inquiry for Francis Clements. who, by the death of his brother, becomes Lord Leitrim, a peer of England. The man has been missing for num- Der of years, and country wide search has been instituted for him. but so far without results. The in- quiry comes from an old friend of MT. Brown, who states that he knows the man and that he is certain that he is in Alaska.
 The missing Lord Lietrim left London in 1907. His father would not furnish him with funds with which to come to the United States. so he came across the Atlantic ocean as a stoker on a steamship. From that time until the present he has never reported at home. but he was seen at Vancouver as late as 1913. (Alaska papers please copy).
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-29
NEWS STORY
 IS DENIED
Miss Rankin Arrives in Butte With. out Definite Plans for Settling
 Strike Troubles

BUTTE, Mont, Aug. 29.-Con- welcomed to Butte by throng of several thousand people as she step ped from a train at 7:40 o'clock. It is her first visit to her home state since taking her seat as the country s first congresswoman.
 In a half-dozen sentences Miss Rankin expressed pleasure at being among her constituents again and to the striking miners present sounded a note of warning, telling them to obey the laws and not to attempt to parade.
 A hundred police and sheriff's off, cers were present to enforce Acting Mayor Hanrattys orders prohibiting a parade Since the start of industrial discord in Butte parades or demon strations have been forbidden.
 In an interview Miss Rankin said she proposed to be able to settle the present labor troubles and to this end she offered her services as medi- ator.
 Miss Rankin had formed no plans for carrying out her announced in tention of taking hand in the local labor situation this morning. In an interview, given out by her secretary upon her arrival in Butte, Miss Ran kin took occasion to deny as absurd and ridiculous an alleged interview in a Washington newspaper of Aug ust 8, in which she is said to have re- marked that the copper companies of Montana were fighting her and that in other days she might have been a mark for assassins. The alleg- ed interview she said, was fiction pure and simple
 Plans for the appearance of Miss Rankin as speaker at a mass meet ing called by the Metal Trades Coun- cil of Butte for Saturday have not matured. It was expected that Miss Rankin would today meet with rep resentatives of the Mine Workers un- ion, the organization led by alleged I. w. w. members.
 Her reception at Butte last night was an enthusiastic one. A large crowd of miners and others, and several hundred women, gathered at the station. Miss Rankin was escorted to her hotel by squad of police, who had been detailed to prevent dis orders. There was no parade, altho several men who attempted to organ ize one were placed under arrest.
 Miss Rankin stated today that her efforts to compose the labor situation here are entirely unofficial and that she has no connection whatever with the impending visit here of Judge Covington, of the supreme court Of the District of Columbia, who is com ing as an investigator for President Wilson.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-29
NATIVES ARE IN
 NEED OF CLOTHING

Word has been received by J. c. Holman, from Seldovia, that owing to the short salmon run in Cook Inlet and the practical failure of the hump back salmon run, the natives there are very short of money and SUD- plies.
 Clothing is needed and Tolman has agreed to box and send all clothing donated here. Anything in the way of garments or shoes will be welcomed by the natives, many of whom arc too old to work, even if the salmon run had been up to it's usual mark.
 Notify Holman if you have clothing to send and he will call and take it for shipments-Gateway.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-29
London Is Worked Up

LONDON, Aug. 29.-The parade of American soldiers in London di- vides with the new Lens battle and the pope's peace plan, the most pro- minent columns of the mornings newspapers. The description of the march and incidents fill in some pap CTS three columns. The picture pap CTS display many scenes of marching Americans at various points of the route. Yesterday is day to be marked with a white stone in En. glands and Americas history" says the Morning Post.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-29
AGITATORS CHARGED
 WITH INCITING REBELLION

M'ALESTER, Okla, Aug. 29-One hundred and forty-seven alleged anti draft agitators from Hughes, Semi nole and Pontotoc counties held in the state penitentiary here were charged today in complaints filed by w. P McGinnis, United States dis trict attorney, with "inciting rebel lion" and similar offenses, including conspiracy to evade /the selective draft law. They will be held to await action of a federal grand jury.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-29
STOCKHOLM MEETING
 MAY BE ABANDONED

LONDON, Aug. 29.-According to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Amsterdam the decision of the Brit ish government to refuse passports to delegates to the international so- cialist conference at Stockholm has produced the deepest disappointment among the German socialists. It is generally feared, the dispatch says, that the conference has been definite ly wrecked.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-29
PEACE PLAN
 TURNED DOWN
President Says Plan Proposed by Pope Does Not Lead to Goal
 He Desires

WASHINGTON. D. C., Aug. 29.- President Wilson. in his reply to the Pope's peace proposals states that the plan does not lead to the goal he pro- poses. and would ultimately lead to another war. He says the object of this war is to deliver the world from the German military domination which would govern the world. He says that any plan to promote peace must be based on the faith of the peoples of all nations involved, but that he cannot take the word of the present rulers of Germany as a guar antee of anything that is to endure"
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-29
Draft Troops AppOrtioned

WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 29.- Secretary Baker today approved the disposition of the 6S7,O00 men of the first draft as recommended by the provost marshal general. The aver age number of men allotted to each of the sixteen cantonments is approxi- mately 43,OOO. Those going to Amer ican Lake, Wash, come from Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, Ida ho, Nevada, Montana, Wyoming and Utah and total 46,159.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-29
More Plotters to be Arrested

SAN FRANCESCA Aug. 29.-Ad- ditional arrests in the alleged plot to spirit Franz Bopp. former German consul general here, and B. H. von Schack, former vice consul, from Fort McDowall, where they are interned, and smuggle them into Mexico, will be made soon, it was announced to- day by federal authorities. Lawrence De Lacy and D. Harnedy were releas- ed on bonds of $10,0OO each by Uni ted States Commissioner Francis Krull, and ordered to appear for pre- liminary hearing next Wednesday.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-29
PLAN PUBLICITY
 FOR LIBERTY LOAN

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.-A de- tailed plan for advertising the next issue of liberty loap bonds in news papers and other mediums of pub licity to cost from s1,O0O,000 to s2.- 100000 and to be paid for by the government was presented today to Secretary McAdoo by the National Advertising Advisory board of the As sociated Advertising Clubs of the World with the recommendation that it be adopted.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-29
BOOZE BEING
 SHIPPED II T. FRISCO
Since British Columbia Went Dry Dealers are Exporting Stocks
 to the States

VICTORIA. Aug. 29.-The recent parliamentary bill enacted placing the province of British Columbia on the dry list is causing wholesale ex- portations of liquors from the pro- vince to the States. The dealers in this city are shipping their stocks out to San Francisco. the only wet spot on the coast.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-29

Photo by American Press Association.
 Representative Augustus r. Gardner of Massachusetts had to resign from congress to enter the army. MT. Gard ner has been one of the most active figures in the movement for military preparedness and was a member of the house ways and means committee. He is the first member of either house to quit congress for military service in the present war. He holds the rank of colonel in the Officers Reserve corps. adjutant generals department. and reports to Major General Leonard Woods headquarters at Charleston s. c.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-29
STEAMER ALASKA SAILS
 FOR SEATTLE TO-DAY

The steamship Alaska arrived in Valdez about o'clock and sailed an hour later for Seattle, with the fol- lowing passengers. For Seattle. Miss May E. Billings, J. A. Hazelett, H. B. Dad" Ingram, w. M Wheeler, c. Lindstrand. Eric Nyberg. Leo Ca- vallo. Mrs. C. O. Bauer, Mrs. Stevens. For Juneau. Capt. J. C. Mehaffey and Mrs. L. Holt.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-29

SACRAMENTO. Cal, Aug. 29.- District exemption boards passed resolutions yesterday warning local exemption boards that the granting of exemption to married men as a class is violation of the law and mal- feasance in office.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-29
JEFFERSON ON
 WAY NORTH
Master of Steamer Wires that Re- pairs Have Been Made and
 Ship is O. K.

SEATTLE. Aug. 29.-The master of the steamer Jefferson, which suf- fered considerable damage yesterday in a collision with the Princess May near Millbank Sound, wirelessed to- day that repairs had been made and that the steamer was on her way north to Skagway.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-29
PRESIDENT SENDS
 ANSWER TO POPE

WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 29.- While the text of the letter has not . been made public, it was stated this afternoon by the War Department that President Wilson had forwarded his answer to Pope Benedict's peace proposals.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-29
BELIEVE SUB AT
 WORK 0N COAST
Board of Underwriters Reports Many Vessels Overdue From This
 Coast and Oriental

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 29.-The board of marine underwriters of this city is i'll at ease over the unusual number of vessels from this coast to the Orient and from the Orient to the coast that are considerably over- due. They fear that enemy nation forces are at work to upset sched- ules or destroy vessels.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-29

Mrs. Harry Balderstone, wife of the cashier of the Bank of Seward, was passenger on the steamship AL aska for Seattle. She was accompan- jed by her two children.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-29
Canada Market Closes Futures

WINNIPEG, Man, Aug. 29.- Trading in wheat for future delivery will cease on all grain exchanges in Canada on August 31. Oflcial notice to this effect was posted today on the Winnipeg Grain exchange on orders from the board of grain supervisors for Canada.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-29

Mir. and Mrs. Frank G. Ennis of Seward. were passengers on the Al: aska for Seattle. en route to Walla Walla. Washington, where they will make their future home. MT. Ennis was formerly United States Commits sioner at Seward. and was succeeded by Judge Whittelsey.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-29
Notice to Lady

On Sunday evening you were seen wearing the Irish crochet collar which was taken from my house This is your last chance to return it. Mrs. P. Reed. II
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-29
Citizens are Vigilantes.

NEW YORK. Aug. 29.-More than 100 citizens of New York, 1t was an- nounced today, had joined the newly formed vigilantes committee to wage a vigorous campaign against soap box orators whose utterances are consid- cred improper.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-29
Piano Tuner

George Anderson, piano expert and factory representative will be in Val deg in the near future. High grade pianos for sale or rent. Leave mes sage care of Prospector. k9-28
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-29
China Takes Austrian Vessels

SHANGHAI, China, Aug. 29.-3 Austrian merchantmen interned in the harbor have been taken over by Chinese naval forces. The ships were undamaged and no resistance was of fered. The German and Austrian ;ships now taken over have an aggre- gate tonnage of 18.000.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-29

Mrs. l.. Holt. who has been a resi- dent of Valdez for some time engag- ed in the hotel business left on the steamer Alaska for Petersburg. where she will make her home in the future
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-29

Miss May Billings. sister of Sergt. w. J. Billings. of the local Signal Corps. was a passenger for the States on the steamer Alaska.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-29

Howard-"I passed by your house last night"
 Vera-"I thank you"
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-29

Capt J. C. Mehaffey left for road commission headquarters at Juneau on the steamer Alaska.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-29
Notice tO the Public

Notice to the Public On account of the high license mes- senger service from this date will be fifty cents.
 k1 "SONNIE"
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-29
Seattle Fish Prices

SEATTLE. Aug. 29.-Seattle price at noon August .2S: halibut IS 1-2.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-29

Photo by American Press Association.
 Raymond E. Fosdick Is chairman Of the advisory committee to consult witt, Secretary Baker regarding checking of moral hazards frequently associated with camp life in connection with the army mobilization. MT. Fosdlck was commissioner of accounts of New YOrk city.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-05-02
'OPP0SES CARAIVAlS ANGLERS WIN FIGHT
RECENTLY ENACTED ORDINANCE
REPEALED lAST NIGHT.
Fishing at City Lake Now viii Be
Permitted 5etNeen Sunrise and Sur
set-Former Law Made Hours 7 a.
m. 10 p. m.

ArdmOre fishermen bearded the may.
or and city commissioners in their dea
last night, and emerged victorious. \
petition signed by about POO persons,
asked that section three, of ordinance
25S, prohibiting fishing on the city
lake property except between I a. N.
and p. m. be amended to allow fish
ing between sunrise and sunset
After reading the petition, Mayor
Roberts discussed it TO some extent
and handed it to the commissioners.
all OF whom showed keen interest in
the signatures.
Water Commissioner Fraley. a.
whose request the ordinance in ques-
tion was drafted, stated that he be
lieyed a number OF the signatures were
written in the same hand. After A
little discussion, Commissioner Garter
moved that che section regulating the
hours Of recreation be modified to al.
low fishing between sunrise and sun.
set The motion was properly sec.
onded and both Commissioners Fraley
and Wilson voted for its passage. Com.
missioner Carter was not present to
vote on the question.
1T was not our idea in drafting the
ordinance to prevent anyone ENJOYING
the fishing at the city lake" Commits.
sioner Fraley said, discussing the
measure, I'VE did it simply as a
matter OF precaution, to safeguard the
citys water supply. At sundown. it
Is dark on the watershed, and impos.
SiDle for the guards there to tell whj
Is on the property We made the
hours from Z a. NJ to p m. in order
to clear the property OF people befor.
dark"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-05-02
PAVING DISCUSSED
STREET IMPROVEMENTS RECEIVE
ATTENTION AT SESSION.
Property Owners on Caddo Street, n.
E., Protes. Against 1s Per Cent Per.
alty-Thlrd Avenue, s. w., Dele9a.
ton Asks Widening Of Street.


Street payfue received considerable
aftaufiou last ulght At tine regular
meeting of the Board of CITY Camuis.
si0ucrs A large delegation of citizen
owning property on Caddo street.
northeast. appeared before the com.
mission To- protest the pavment of an
eighteen per cent penalty which has
been charged against their propert.
for failure 10 pay paving assessments.
Several of them made short talk.
asking that IN, penalty be remitted.
and promising 20 pay seven per cent
penalty. which they say will meal
about six per cent interest on the NOR.
ey held up. and penalty of about one
per cent
Mayor Roberts announced that hc
did not know If the commission had
authority under the law to remit the
penalty. and instructed city Attorney
Bass to investigate the proposition,
and to report it back at the next meet.
ing Of the commission
Another delegation Of owners OF
property on Third avenue, southwest.
asked that steps be taken to widen the
street to be paved. and to make AR.
rangements for parkway In the cen.
ter OF the street doing away with
q wide parkway on each property line
w. G Dayisson former city attor
ncy who owns half block on the
street In question, protested such pro
cedure saying that he would refuse ia
grant to the city the property nrces.
sary TO make such improvements. rs
It would mean virtually for him 10
give property owners on the opposite
side Of the thoroughiare thirty-fye feet
ON his frontage
The petitioners were instructed IN
settle the matter among themselves
and TO appear before the commission
at its next meeting.
Resolutions we're passed approvin.
the issuance of bonds for street inn
proycments in districts !, -. % and
2G, aggrcgating S2S.26429. and follow
Broadway. southwest. between We.t
Main and l. streets, S12,793.92.
BiXby avenue between the O.. y
VI a =. railway and r street S1g
O3993
Third avenue. southwest. between
+ and e streets, $1,73Ol4
X street southwest, between Bixb,
avenue and Stanley Boulevard. 81 zoo
Resolutions also were passed an
proving the plans and specification,
and estimates for paving improve
ments in several sections. as follows
d street. southwest. between Yves
Main street and Fourth avenue.
o street, southwest, between Nc
/ Lish and Ledbetter avenues '''
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-05-02


TWprtyclrht cases OF contagious dis
cl.e exist In Ardmore at present. ac
.3riiug 90 the regular monthly report
of Dr. Robert S willard. city physi
clan. submitted last night al the reg
uur meeting of the board of city
commissioners Five cases OF small
pox. eight cases of measles. twelve
cases of mumps. two Of chicken DON
ana one Of dihptheria are listed with
the city health department
i hardly believe as strict obsery
auce Of the quarantine law has been
prlarCcd as should have been" DR.
WiIlards report reads in part "or
account of the disposition OF the pa
tenr and the physician in charge Ia
withhold facts from ueighboriug pc0
pie. in fact { believe in an open pub
Ucity of 400 contagious diseases, and a
strict observance Of the quarantine
law and when persons have been ex
posed 10 contagious diseases. 10 hold
them In detention over the danger
period and In cases Of smallpox. "a
yacciuatr every exposed person who
does not possess a good scar"
DR. Willard also told OF the details
of the sanitary campaign which he
started Immediately after being named
city physician. and reported that his
appeals for greater cleanliness in Ard
more, especially In cafes ana restau
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-05-02
TENNIS COURT FOR
SOUTH ARDMORE YOUTH

Members Of the Young Peoples Tn,
ion Of the South Ardmore Baptist
church will begin in the near future
construction Of tennis court and Gro.
Quet ground on Fifth avenue south
east, near the church, on property
owned by the church
Arch Wynn Oscar Pate and Will
Blaylock have been named as a com.
mittee to have charge of the work.
and members OF the organization are
campaigning now for funds with
which to buy materials