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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-26
BAY STATE ROADS
 WANT HIGHER RATE

Boston, May 26-street railway companies in this state are seeking relief from increased operating ex- penses by various measures looking toward the charging of higher fares. The Bay State Street Railway Co. which was granted permission to ex- act a six cent fare on certain lines last year, has asked the commission to give hearing on proposition to make the six cent rate effective on all its lines. The legislature has au- thorized g commission ito investigate the advisability of amending a con- tract with. the state whereby the Boston Elevated Railway Co. is pro- hibited from charging more than five cents for a ride.
 The Middlesex & Boston Street Railway Co., has asked for authority to raise fares to seven and eight cents on some of it's lines. The pub- lie service commission has authoriz- ed a trial of schedule of two cents a mile with minimum charge of six cents on the lines of the Concord, Maynard es Hudson Street Rail- way
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-26
LION PRINCE WAS
 GRIEF STRICKEN BY LOSS OF MATE.
Refused to Eat and Was Only Brought Back to
 Self by Young Lioness

! ! $ {
 An, the fickleness of men and lions; us males are all alike. List to tale of Prince:
 You should have known Prince in his prime before sorrow entered his life. There were those who would go into the Ringing Brothers men agerie in the old days and stand for hours before his cage, worshipping He came from Nubia, where he used to lord it over the African desert and frighten pith helIneted tourists out of their skins with his roaring. When the circus trappers caught him in a pit and he landed at the big shows winter quarters in Baraboo, Wis, the cage cewed him for a while. Then his natural royalty surged up and he used to shake the building and send his fellow critters into fits with his roarer!
 He had jaws that could almost have bitten a steel rail in two and a sideswipe that would have knocked a champions block off. And as for leonine manesI If he had been stuff ed, you've have said. There ain't no such animal.''
 Then grief came a knocking at his cage door. Nellie was his mate and for years, they had loved and roared together in their suite of barred apartments, but last winter Nellie died Prince was inconso1able. He lay on his side with his great paws hang ing limp through the bars and moan ed.
 Once, when the circus opened it's spring engagement at the Coliseum in Chicago last April, bunch of North e<f, ffrr e,frx %c strolling by singing, "Oh, Nellie Was l a Lady-Last Night She Died.'' eTars streamed down Princes face and l made wet mop of his mane. Prince refused food. He entered upon a hunger strike against fate. Age was creeping on him-he was seventeen and there was no more hope. Week after week he starved and moaned till he could hardly stand for weak ness and his ribs showed pitifully i through his shrunken hide. The Ringing Brothers boss animal man. William Chambers, thought he would die. Lions are like that" he said Grief kills them
 Two weeks ago, while the circus was playing a student of natural his-
 tory who had become interested ir Prince, went out to. the menagerie | jtonishment he found the big fellow standing erect and roaring like a young volcano. His rheumy eye was bright again, his coat was turning
 glossy, his ribs disappearing. He
 gulped hunk of meat, then pranced
 and even ga1loped around his cage
 What's happened to Prince ?'' ask.
 ed the student "I thought I wa.
 coming to attend a funeral but il
 looks more like wedding" f "Right-O" answered Boss Cham
 bers. See that coy young lioness 1T the second cage over wonder? Shs
 ca me few days ago and Prince ha.
 taken to his ten pounds of beefsteal l regular ever since. Look how tn.
 old boy is lamping her!"
 And that's how it was And that how it undoubtedly will be whel Prince and the Ringing circus come
 to Bridgeport next Tuesday.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-26
WESTPORT TO HAVE
 $1OO,OOO SCHOOL

Westport, May 26-The pay for a new graded school which will be built for about $100,000 and to reorganize the towns financial system, retire out standing notes and take up other in debdetness. the electors, in town meet ing last night, voted a bond issue of $325,000.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-26

Farmer want Ada One Cent Word
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-26
GUARD OFFICERS TO TAKE
 COURSE OF INSTRUCTION

Boston, May 26.-Ten Ney England guard officers of the grades of major and lieutenant colonel have been or dered to attend. the school of musket- ry in Fort Sill, Okla. On completing their course of instruction on Sept. they will serve as insrucors in rife, machine gun and grenade practice.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-26
Police and Bremen
 Must Also Register

New Haven, May 26.-Instructions were given by the heads of the police and fire departments here today that their men who are of registration age must turn in their names on June D. This was done to dispel any misunder- standing. Those members of the Sec- ond. company. Governors Foot Guard, who are of the right age, also have been notified to register as their mill tary is no exemption
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-26
HEAVY ENROLMENT

1,O04 recruits for the regular army had been enrolled in this city in May The enlistments for the entire month of April numbered 50S.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-26

The National Association of Retail Grocers, in convention at Toledo, adopted a resolution urging Congress to place a war tax on trading stamps, coupons and prize schemes.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-09
Urges Name for the War.

PARIS, Feb. 9.--Jules Roche, Re- publican Deputy for Ardeche. intro duced a bill in the Chamber ot Depu- ties today requiring Government off cials, officers, judges. newspapers, and every one making any public ref crence to the war to name it "The German invasion,". under penalties provided for those aiding the coun- tries hostile to FraLce, The object of the measure, the Deputy says. is to prevent false conception historically of the origin of the war. M-, Roche and his colleagues who support the bill. point out that history refers to certain previous wars as invasions by Attila. by the TeutOns and by the Cimbrians. s&
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-09
WILL MAKE LONG TRIP
 OVERLAND WITH DOGS

E. w. Smith. representing the Black Manufacturing Company of Se- Iattle. has purchased from the Dan Wilsey Kennels a team of four dogs, and from line inspector Rudides of the signal corps three dogs, and will leave on the next boat for Seward with his outfit. He will be joined lat Seward by Jack Moulton. the we'll known representative of the Seattle Hardware Company, and together they will mush over the trail to the
 Iditarod, and thence up the Yukon and Panama rivers to Fairbanks. vis- Iiting all the camps en route. Mir. Moulton is now at Cordova awaiting |the arrival of his dog team from Fair banks where they were left last year. Mir. Moulton has made his trip every spring for the past 13 years. and is Jan experienced musher. This will be Mir. Smiths first trip overland. and
 he has signed up with the Black Mfg. Company and the Seattle Hardware GO. for a period of ten years to make the trip each year.. this being Mir.
 Moulton's last trip. They will expect
 to complete, the trip some time ia
 April and will come out via the gov
 ernment road to Valdez or Chitina.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-09
WITNESS POLLS
 LEAK PR0BERs
REFUSES TO DIvULGE NAMES
Ruth ViscOnti Appears Before Leak Investigating Committee. But Will Not Tell Names of InfOrmants- Sheds Tears When Questioned.

WASHINGTON, D, C., Feb. B. Ruth Visconti, who is alleged to have informed Lawson as to the names ): persons implicated in the alleged leak of the German peace note, outwitted the probers today. before whom she appeared as a witness. She refused to divulge to the committee the nan;e of the party who informed her of tha alleged connection of the President < .ecretary, Tumulty, with the leak, ard the price he was supposed to have re- ceived for delivering the informs. tion. The witness tearfully declared that the $1,0OO she deposited in the Tank ip December was honestly earn- ed, and was not secured through any connection with the leak.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-09
SPAIN. PROTESTS
 AGAINST POLICY
SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN ILLEGAL
Spanish Government Vigorously De. nounces Submarine Campaign
 man Policy.

MADRID, Feb. 9.-The Spanish government has handed to the Ger man ambassador here. it's reply to the German note announcing its intent to indulge in an unrestricted submarine campaign against all vessels entering or leaving British. French and Mel. iterranean ports. The note is a warm expression of the governments disap- proval of the German policy. deciar- ing that such a campaign as projected by Germany is without the pale of le- gality.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-09
GERARD GRANTED
 HIS PASSPORT
BE ESCORTED TO SWITZERLAND
Special Train Will Be Granted Amer ican Ambassador With d Military Guard to Assure His Safe Arrival at the Border.

BERLIN, Feb. 9.-The govern ment has received official notification of the safe conduct granted by France and Great Britain to Ambassador to the United States. von Bernstorff. Fol lowing this notification the passports demanded by the American Ambassa- dor Gerard have been prepared and he will be given a special train to bear him to the Swiss border, and will be attended by military guard to insure his safe arrival at his destination. Germany has been withholding the passport of the Ambassador until as sured of the safe-conduct on Von Bernstorff.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-09
REV. GERASIN IN CHARGE
 OF WORK AT KODIAK

Among the passengers who sailed
 west on the Admiral Evans was Rev.
 Father Gerasin of the Russian church from Sitka who will be in charge at Afognak and Kodiak. Father Gerasin went westward to assume charge of the parish of Father Petelin who eiod there in 1914. |.
 Father Petelin was the hero of the eruption of Mt. Katmai in 1912. At that time heplaced the natives from the village of Katmai in canoes and with them padded for miles along the coast to Cold Bay, saving all the inhabitants of the village. For time it was thought he was lost in the clouds of ashes from the volcano which settled over and buried t?e country for miles in every direction.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-09
DETENTION GERARD DELIBERATE INSULT ENGLAND Is MUCH EXERCISED Press Declares Sinking of California and Turina Without Warming An Overt Act Which Will Precipitate War With Germany.
ENGLAND IS MUCH EXERCISED

LONDON, Feb. 9.-The press and public here are very much concerned over the detention by Germany of the American Ambassador Gerard until France and Great Britain had granted @ safe conduct to Won Bernstorff. This is considered a deliberate and pre- meditated insult to the United States, and will undoubtedly result in widen ing the breach between the United States and Germany. The newspapers also declare that the sinking of the liner California and the Turino, with American citizens aboard, and with out warning, constitutes an overt act which must result in a declaration of war against Germany by the United States.
 The stories told by the survivors os these ships are such as to enrage the entire country. In the case of the California. two torpedOes were fired by the submarine, both of which took effect. One struck the hull amidships exploding with terrific force and tear ing a gaping hole which sent the ves- sel to the bottom in seventeen min- utes.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-09
ADVISES USE HEAVIER CARS BETTER FOR SUMMER SERVICE H. H. Jones, of Valdez, Now In Seat
 tie COnferring With Postal Author.
 ities-Will Be Bidder on Mail Con-
 tract Valdez to Fairbanks.
BETTER FOR SUMMER SERVICE

SEATTLE, Feb. 9.-H. H. Jones of Valdez is in the city in. connection with the proposed summer mail ser vice between Valdez and Fairbanka. He is consulting with the postof.icc in- spectors here regarding the schedules and declares that using heavier cars than were employed last year with a capacity of several passengers and heavier loads of mails and express, the run between Valdez and Fair banks can be easily accomplished in seven and one-half days. Jones was interested in the contract last year and will be a bidder on this years contract.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-09
BIG BRIDGE SPAN FALLS;
 WITH 20 WORKMEN

SPOKANE, Feb. 9.-Two men were killed and two are dying from injuries and eight were seriously i'm jured when the concrete arch of the city bridge being erected over the Spokane river collapsed this morning.
 The arch was 250 feet in length and was practically completed when the break occurred, dropping 26 men in to the turbulent stream. Eye wit. nesses expected that all would be lost and were greatly surprised to see many of the men who fell swim ashore unhurt.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-09
THINK VALDEZ A FROZEN.IN
 PORT DURING WINTER

Recent mail from the States shows that residents of Washington still are unaware that Valdez is an open port all the year round. The writer CA. presses sympathy with the people of Valdez over the recent fire and hopes "that they will have provisions enuf to run them until the opening of nav igation in the spring."
 little missionary work on the part of some of our people going cut side would not come amiss.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-09
RIGGS ORGANIZES
 ALASKA MILITIA
HOUSING MEETING LAST NIGHT
Member of the Alaska Engineering Commission at Nenana Initiates a Movement for Organizing TerritO- rial Troops.

SEATTLE, Feb 9.-Advices receiI- ed here from Nenana. Alaska. state that in the event of war Alaska will be one of the first to offer troops to the government. Lieut. Thomas Riggs jr., member of the Alaska Engineer ing Commission at Nenana. is forming the first unit of the Alaska militia, and at a rousing meeting held at Ne mana last night, the nucleus of the or ganization was formed
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-09
GERMAN SOCIETY
 APPROVES BREAK PLEDGES SUPPORT TO GERMANY Delegates to Convention of German- American Alliance Approve Policy of Government and Pledge to Take Up Arms for Country.
PLEDGES SUPPORT TO GERMANY

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 9.-Deie- gates from twenty-eight states to the convention of the German-American Alliance in session here, representing a membership of three million people, today passed resolution indorsing the diplomatic break with Germany, and pledging its members to shoulder arms in defense of the country in the event of war, and turn over to the American Red Cross Society the mon- ey already raised for German war relief
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-09
Admiral Evans Sails South.

The steamship Admiral Evans ar rived in port from the westward about 3:3O this morning and sailed south about 6 o'clock. The passengers book attle, Dad" Ingram, E. E. Ritcl,ie J. G. Dorsh, John Burns. Otto Lar son and John Frolich for Cordova; w. M. Macintosh for F'dalgo. The Evans will stop in at Fidalgo bay and take on a cargo of copper ore at the mines of the Fidalgo Mining Company, of which MT. Macintosh is the managing owner.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-09
KNEW NOTHING
 0F NEW DECREE DANISH VESSEL SUNK BY SUB Captain and Crew Landed at London Declare They Knew Nothing of tine New Ruling by Germany, Having Been Out of Communication.
DANISH VESSEL SUNK BY SUB

LONDON, Feb. 9.-The Danisl. ship Kruse, with seventeen Danish sailors aboard, has been sunk by a German submarine. The captain of the Kruse, who has been landed here with the crew, states that he was ig- norant of the new decree. having been out of touch with communica- tion for some time prior to the dec laratiOn by Germany.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-09
pINZON TEAM WILL BE
 SUBSTITUTED FOR ILsCUM

Owing to the Liscum boat being laid up today for the purpose of clean ing the boilers. the Fort Liscum bas- ketball team will be unable to appear tonight for the game scheduled with the Moose team. Because of this the Pinzon team has been substituted for the aggregation and che game will be played in Moose Hall tonight at > o'clock according to schedule. The young ladies, composing the Whites and Blues will also contest for su- premacy. ........
 Albert Strong of Ellamar is a visi- tor in town.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-09
Saloons Kept Closed.

NEWPORT, R. By order uf Mayor Burdick. not a bartender or proprietor of saloon was permitted
 to enter his place to clean up Sunday morning. This action is believed to
 have followed complaint by Con- mander Rufus z. Johnston of the Ma va! Training Station that seaman apprentice and minor returned to the station last Sunday night under the icfuence of liquor.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-09
GERARD LEAVES
 BERLIN SUNDAY REFUSES TO REAFFIRM TREATY German Government Will Not Abide by Terms of Treaty Permitting
 Merchants to Remain Nine Months
 to Close Up Business.
REFUSES TO REAFFIRM TREATY

BERLIN, Feb. 9.-The United States Am.bassador Gerard will leave here on Sunday. for Switzerland. Ger many refuses to reaffirm the treaties between the United States and Ger many of 1799 and 1928 by the terms lof which merchant citizens of either country in the other are permitted to
 remain for nine months for the pur-
 pose of closing up their business.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-09
Gasoline Inquiry Proposed.

|
 DALLAS, Texas.-Several oil cOm- Ianies have recently posted advances ot cent a gallon on gasoline making
 the retail price 20 cents instead of ID cents. The claim is made that this advance was made necessary by the posted advance in the price of crude oil The Attorney-Generars depart ment of Texas, however. takes the position that the recently posted ad-
 vance of 10 cents a barrel in the price of crude oil at the retineries has
 not had time to affect tho retail price of gasoline, and there is talk of an
 to determine the cause
 of the advance. which was posted si-
 multaneously by a number of corpa- nies in Dallas and other Texas cities.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-09
ARE BEING RESTRAINED
GERMANY HOLDS AS HOSTAGES
Gerard and Other Americans Held to Insure Safe Conduct for Won BernstOrff and Interned Crews.

LONDON, Feb. 9.-A dispatch re- ceived here today from Copenhagen states that Germany demands safs- conduct for Won Bernstorff and his suite and the crews of the German steamers interned in United States ports before releasing Gerard and the other American residents in Germany. and the American sailors brought into a German port on the captured steamer Yarrowdale.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-09
MCuhBtR WANTS
 10 KNOW REASON
ASKED FOR CLEAR DEFINITION
Senator From North Dakota Intro- duces Resolution Asking for Clear On Submarine Question.

WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. g. Senator McCumber, of North Dakota, this morning introduced resolution in the Senate asking President Wilson to instruct Attorney-G General Gregory to submit to Congress a statement clearly defining the stand of the ad- ministration on the submarine ques- tion and the legal reasons for such a stand. The resolution was temporar
 fly tabled.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-09
BRITAIN GRANTS
 A SAFE CONDUCT TO THE GERMAN AAlBASSADOR Von BernstOrff and His Suite Wifi Leave for Germany shortly on a Steamer of the Scandinavian Amer- ican Line from New York.
TO THE GERMAN AMBASSADOR

WASHINGTON. D. C.. Feb. g. Advices received by the State Depart ment this morning state that G~Hat Britain has granted safe conduct to Ambassador von Bernstorff and his suite. The Ambassador will leave within a day or two on Scandina- vian American line steamer sail 'g from New York.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-09
ITALIAN BANKS JOIN
 IN LOAN TO RUSSIA

PARIS. Feb. 9.-Several Italian banks acting in concert and headed by the Bank of Italy. have loaned 2s0.- 900 fires to the Russian government, says a Milan dispatch to the Temps. The proceeds of the loan are to be applied to making payments for war supplies purchased in Italy, princi- pally aviation materials and Chemi- calls
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-09
ARGENTINE REPLIES TO
 GERMAN SUBMARINE DEGREE

BUENES AIRES, Feb. 9.-Argen- tine has handed her reply to the Ger man decree of unrestrained warfarc to the German minister. The reply etates that Argentine will observe the international rulings. and will hoi'. Germany responsible for any violatiol of these rules.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-09
SPANISH SHIPS FIRED ON;
 ANOTHER SINKS

PARIS, Feb. 9.-The Spanish steamer Pairra. en route for Vigo, Spain, with a cargo of cement was hombarded by a German submarine today. The vessel was badly dam aged and one sailor wounded.
 The Spanish steam Dos de Noviem- hre is reported sunk in dispatch from Madrid. One sailor was repoit- ed drowned.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-09
Germans Deny Report.

BERLIN, Feb. g. According to an sent out from London recently refused permission to visit Rome is untrue. It 's stated that the German authorities ill Belgium have rct even received all application from him for a passpost for that purpose.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-09
Valdez I'm Port.

The steamer Valdez of the Alaska Steamship Line, arrived in port about 10 o'clock last night, with a cargo of 1000 tons of coal for the Valdez Dock Company. She will probably be here for several days unloading.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-09

Horace c. Define, accompanied by Mrs. Define and daughter Helen, ar rived on the Admiral Evans this morning from Seward, where he has been employed with the Alaska Engi- neering Commission. MT. Define has accepted the appointment as Deputy Marshal here to succeed c. w. Moss man.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-09
Gompers Gets the Habit

WASHINGTON. D. C.. Feb. g. An appeal to organized labor in Ger many to throw its influence against widening the break between the two countries was cabled to Berlin by President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor today.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-09
CUBE MINE MILL HAS
 BEGUN OPERATIONS

The machinery for the mill at the Cube Mine has been completely in stalled and Tuesday was turned over for the first time. Everything was found to work in a satisfactory maE- ner. and yesterday the mill was started up grinding out the yellow metal from the ore.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-09
NO.Peril From Japan.

WASHINGTON, D. C.. Feb. g., It was stated today on high author ity that a perfect understanding has been reached between the United States and Japan in working out q new immigration law and that on neither side is there any apprehen- sion of friction or difficulty.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-09

Dr. J. A. Silverman received on the Admiral Evans photograph of a huge Kodiak bear recently killed on the island. together with the hunter who bagged him. The animal was a monster. The photo is on exhibition in the window of the Owl Drug Go.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-09
RAISE OF BAIL ON EX.CONSUL BOPP

SAN FRANCISCO.--Fearing that he would attempt to get out of the country, Ex-Consul Bopp was called into court today and his bail raised from $1O.OO8 to $25,O0O. Bopp said that he could not put up that aE,ount and would have to stay in jail.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-09
Watson Passes Juneau.

The steamer Admiral Watson pass ed Juneau, northbound. at 1 o'clock on the morning of the Sth and is ex- pected to arrive here tomorrow.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-09
Paraguay Preparing Protest.

MONTEVIDEO, Feb. 9.-The gov ernment of Auruguay is preparing d strong note of protest against the Ger man policy of unrestratneG suDmL- rine warfare, and will forward the rote to Berlin at an early date.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-09

Capt. George Waldron came up last evening on his launch from Fidalgo bay. He was accompanied by "Skook- um" John Erickson.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-09

Jack CarEoll, who is engaged in some plumbing and steamfitting work for the Ellamar Mines Company at Ellamar. was an arrival in town this morning.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-09

Wm. Macintosh, the Fidalgo Bay
 mining man, went down on the Evans
 to that port, where the steamer will take on a cargo of ore from his mine.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-09

Messrs. Merrill and Bone employed in the store at Ellamar came up on the Tokeh Lou today for a short stay.