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Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24
REWARD OFFERED FOR
 ASSAILANT OF GIRL

TACOMA, Sept. 24.-A reward of $250 for the capture of Bonnet Stod- dart, sought in connection with the assault on 1O-year-old Mamie York ko at Carbondale last Wednesday, was offered by Governor Lister yesterday. sheriff Longmire was advised last night. The sheriff obtained a clew to the fugitive's whereabouts from the station agent of the Chicago. Mill waukee & St. Paul railway at Rock dale, in the heart of the Cascades. fifty miles from the scene of the crime. The agent said a man answer ing the description of Stoddart ap- peared Sunday evening, greatly fa- tigued and nervous and asked how far east he could travel for s5. When told he purchased ticket for Othel- To, Washington. The sheriff of Adams county, in which Othello is located has been notified.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24
NEW ENGINE 10
 HELP WIN WAR
New Engine to be Used in American Planes Which Aim to Estab-
 fish Air Supremacy

WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 24.- The Liberty motor, the airplane en- zine upon which the United States is relying to establish definite air sup remecy over the Germans over the battlefields of France, has passed it's final test and is complete and grati- flying success, Secretary Baker an- nounced today.
 In a fifteen hundred word an- nouncement Secretary Baker told how all the best brains and business of American motordom had contributed its secrets and achievements to the government to produce the Liberty motor, which is to carry the thous- ands of American airplanes over Ger many.
 Probably the war has produced no single greater achievement" the statements says, and relates for the first time the story of the design and construction of the new motor which 'has added a thrilling chapter to American engineering records.
 Secretary Baker says the motor is now the main reliance of the United States in the rapid production in large numbers of high power battle planes for service in the war"
 Tn power, speed and serviceability and minimum weight" he continues, "the new engine invites comparison with the best the European war has produced. The engine was brought about through the cooperation of more than a score of engineers who pooled their skill and trade secrets in the war emergency"
 For obvious reasons specifications of the motor details of it's perform ance under test and arrangements made for it's production in quantity are withheld. In conclusion, howev- CT, MT. Baker says:
 Progress has already been made coward organizing the industry for the manufacture of the new machines and deliveries will begin in a com paratively short time."
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24
GERMANY ABUSES
 US. CONFIDENCE
After This Country had taken Over Affairs in Rumania Leave Germ
 Cultures to Kill Stock

WASHINGTON, D. C.. Sept. 24.- How Germany had shamefully abused and exploited the confidence of the United States in Rumania, after this country had taken charge of her af- fairs in the Rumanian capital of Bu- charest at the beginning of the war, by secreting large quantities of ex- plosives for bomb plots and also a Stock of deadly microbes to be used in killing horses and cattle with in- struction for their use, was revealed today by Secretary Lansing.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24
SHIPPING SITUATION
 PROBLEM OF NATIONS

LONDON, Sept. 24.-It is learned here that the entente governments have agreed that the shipping situa- tion is the most serious problem of all those facing the entente at the be- ginning of the fourth winter of the war and every effort will be made during the coming months to impress the people of England and America with the fact that the greatest effort of the whole war will be necessary to solve 1t.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24
DIR. DE VIGHNE IS
 BUSY AND HAPPY

Doctor H. c. De Vighne, writing from a military hospital in Califor- mia to a patient in Juneau says:
 "Am now getting a real touch of military life. First call 5:3O a. m., last call 10 p. m. Read by the light of a gasoline lamp. Bathe under a cold shower and eat like harvest hand, and never felt better in my life. Last week I gave over 1.2O0 injections of typhoid vaccine and did it at the rate of six minute. We will have to do it again in ten days, and again in twenty days.
 "We expect to be sent away next week, either to San Diego or Fort Green, North Caroline. This is sure ly a swell bunch but they are the most democratic men I ever met. One of the privates in Battery B., has a father rated at twenty million dollars. Another's father and broth CT owns the largest fruit cannery in this part of California.
 "I am on duty all the time but can get off any time I like. have been going into the city twice a week for the afternoon and evening. Dis patch.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24
GERMANY ACC'EPTS 2
 POPE'S PROPOSAL
Papal Secretary Says Pope Benedict Regards German Reply as Accep-
 tance of Peace Terms

ROME, Sept. 24.-The papel sec retary to Pope Benedict announced today that his holiness regarded Aus tria's and Germany's reply to his peace terms as definite acceptance of the terms embraced in the ponti- fcal appeal, which embraced the eva cuation of Belgium and French ter ritory, with the payment of damages, and the restoration of Serbia, Ru- mania and Bulgaria to the Balkan states.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24
nESERTER COMES IN
 AND SURRENDERS

James Shorter. private who de- serted from Fort Liscum early last year, came in from the Slate Creek country the latter part of last week and surrendered to the military au- thorities, and Is now on his way in over the trail to Fort Liscum, where he probably will be tried. Private Shorter states that he has been in the Slate Creek district ever since his desertion, and heard of this coun- try's entrance into the war with Ger many only last month, whereupon he made his way to the trail and sur rendered to the soldiers in charge of the nearest telegraph station. He stated that he wished to go to France and was willing to go back and serve his time if his defection was over looked.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24
THE SERPENT AT THE
 EMPRESS TUESDAY NIGHT

The greatemotional actress, Theda Bara. will appear at the Empress theatre tomorrow night in "The Ser pent." depicting young girl who has been ruined by Russian officer and whose hatred for mankind finds many victims Theda Bara is at her best in this portrayal of revenge and her final scene where she allows her husband to fnd her in the arms of his own father. is said to be magni- ficent acting.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24
VIM. MCNLEY
 ARRIVES FROM WESTWARD

Judge Wm. Munley, assistant dis trict attorney, arrived from the west ward on the Mariposa Saturday night and will take over the office of Uni ted States district attorney as soon as his nomination is confirmed by the senate. Judge Munley is an attor- ney of great ability and has a large of warm friends in Alaska. and especially in the Third Division.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24
MAN INJURED WHILE
 WORKING IN CANYON

Tony Hadak, employed by the road commission at work in the canyon yesterday,a blast causing large rock rock to roll upon him from the hill side, badly bruising his leg from the thigh to the ankle. A doctor was tele- phoned for from Camp Comfort, and Dr. Merritt with Andy Dieringer and Thos. Bell left at once for the scene of the accident. Dr. Merritt examined the injured limb. but could find no bones broken. MT. Hadak was brot In to valdes and is resting comfort ably at the Albemarle.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24
WEALTHY WOMAN'S
 BODY EXHUMED
Widow of Railway Magnate Has Body Exhumed and Stomach Removed
 for Traces of Foul Play

LOUISVILLE, Ky, Sept. 24.-At the instance of her relatives, who be- lieved that she had been poisoned, the body of the late Mrs. J. G. Rob- ert Bingham of this city, was exhum- ed secretly recently and some of her vital organs removed and taken to New York for examination. Mrs. Bingham, who was the widow of Henry NJ. Flagler, the Florida East Coast railway multi-millionaire was Married several years ago to j. C.. Robert Bingham, of Louisville, Ky.. and had left her husband five mill lion dollars in her will. She had a fortune of over seventy millions.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24
PEABODY APPOINTED
 SEATTLE COAL DIRECTOR

SEATTLE, Sept. 24.-Private dis patches from Washington today indi- cate that Charles E. Peabody will be appointed coal director for the Paci- fic Coast section, embracing the north western states. MT. Peabody is one of the largest coal operators in the coun- try. and was very large contributor to the democratic campaign fund.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24
UNCLE SAM WILL NOT
 INVADE YOUR PANTRY

WASHINGTON. D. C., Sept. 24.- Denial that the government is con- templating requisitioning any house. hold stores of food Is made by the department of agriculture and the food administration. Rumors had come to Washington that housewives were apprehensive that their stocks of canned goods were about to be seized for the army.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24
s. s. MARIPOsA SAILS
 SOUTH SATURDAY NIGHT

The steamship Mariposa arrived from the westward late Saturday right and sailed an hour later for Seattle. Judge Wm. Munley was a passenger for Valdez. Those depart ing on the steamer were MT. and Mrs. Otto Laine, H. M. Sailing and wife, MT. and Mrs. J. E. Busch, MT. and Mrs. Hope for Seattle. Dune Stewart for Juneau.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24
To Discuss Finances

WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. a. Viscount Reading, lord chief justice of England, come to the United States to discuss financial affairs. He will herec onfer with treasury department oficials. Credits already extended to the allies exceed two billion dollars.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24
ROOSEVELT TALKS
 IN KANSAS CITY
Says What Nation Is Now Interested in Is War and Not Peace at
 Any Price

KANSAS CITY, Sept. 24.-Theo- dore Roosevelt arrived here today. In an interview he said: What America is interested in now is in war not in peace, and President Will son has already settled Americas at- titude toward the Pope's note."
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24
SEATTLE WIFE SHOOTS HUSBAND
Bride of Six Months Fatally Wounds Husband After he had Knock
 ed Her Down

SEATTLE, Sept. 24.-Fred Cosen- berg. freight checker. was shot and killed by his wife today, after he had knocked her down and given her a beating during family quarrel. The woman was a bride of six months, and an American by birth. She was arrested.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24

QuartermaSter Sergeant Thomas r. Griffith, o. M. C., arrived here on the steamer Admiral Farragut yes- terday and will be stationed in the local department in place of Quarter master Sergeant Odle. who was late ly transferred to the Post at Liscum.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24
ULTIMATUM IS
 SENT COAL DEALERS

VANCOUVER, B. C.. Sept. 24.- Vancouver. through its city officials. has handed an ultimatum to coal dealers to cut the price of coal or the city will step in and sell coal on it's own account, far below the price gen. srally cKafged. The city has arrang- sd to bay direct from the minss 1t Nsnaimo.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24
NEW PLAYS COMING
 TO THE EMPRESS

The following new photo plays are coming to the Empress in the near future, according to Manager Owen Meals, the latest and best plays pro- duced:
 Dorothy Phillips, in Hell Nor gan's Girl" Lois Weber in Even as You and l." "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" and several others.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24
HOOVER ASKS
 FOR SUGAR
In Pointing Out that France is Short of Product Asks People to Use
 Less Daily

WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 24.- Commissioner Hoover in pointing out that France is short of sugar. appeals to the people of the United States to use third less sugar the next two months so that hundred thous- and tons may be shipped to the allies.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24
MORE WORKMEN
 COLON STRIKE But Two Shipbuilding Concerns in Oregon at Work-5OOO Walk
 Out in Portland

PORTLAND, Ore. Sept. 24.-Five thousand workmen in the steel ship building yards went on strike today. Only two wood shipbuilding plants in the state are running at present.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24
SAYS BERNSTORFF
 BREED PAPERS
Utah Senator Says Has Positive Evi- dence German Ambassador gave
 Papers Large Sums

WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. a. William H. King, democrat, of Salt Lake City, Utah, a member of the senate stated today that he had posi- tive evidence that Ambassador Bern storff had paid large sums to Ameri- can publications.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24

Supt. John Emel, of the Valdez Packing Company will leave for the States with his family on the return trip of the steamer Mariposa. MT. Emel will return in the spring with another line of machinery for the cannery.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24
LORD CHIEF JUSTICE OF
 ENGLAND NOW IN AMERICA

AN ATLANTIC PORT, Sept. a. Right Hon. Viscount Reading, lord chief justice of England, arrived to- day on an American steamship from Great Britain. He is accompanied by Lady Reading.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24
MANY MEN ARRIVE
 AT CAMP LEWIS Eight Special Trains Bring COnscripts To Washington Camp for Train
 ing-32O0 Arrive

CAMP LEWIS. Sept. 24.-Eight special trains conveying thirty-two hundred soldiers. conscriptionists. ar rived here yesterday. They will be trained immediately for foreign ser vice.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24
George Treat has Accident

While travelling upon a train re- gently in Washington, George Treat, the well-known Valdezan. caught his thumb in a car door, breaking it in three places. Mir. Treat at present is in Seattle.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24

]. D. Hamilton. an old time miner and prospector. arrived in town from down sound points last evening.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24
ADMIRAL FARRAGUT ARRIVES
 FROM SOUTHERN PORTS

The steamship Admiral Farragut arrived last Saturday night with 8 light freight and passenger list. Those arriving on the steamer were Thos. Griflth from Seattle; Jim Will son from Cordova.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24
LA TOILETTE WILL SUE
 NEWSPAPERS FOR LIBEL

TOLEDO, Sept. 24.-Senator La Toilette will bring action for libel against many papers in the United States who have been roughly criti- cising his actions lately It is stated that papers are being prepared
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24
F: WAR CONTINUES
 NOT TEUTONS FAULT
Kaiser Says Continuation of HOstili- ties Cannot be Laid to Ger
 many's Doors

AMSTERDAM Sept. 24.-If war continues it will not be Germany's fault. Kaiser Wilhelm is reported as saying in a speech delivered recently to the veterans in the Rumanian cam paigns on the battlefield of Fohani.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24
GOVERNOR OF TEXAS
 ATTACHED BY SENATE

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 24.-The state senate sitting as an impeach- ment court found Governor Ferguson guilty of ten impeachment counts to- day.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24

MT. and Mrs. J. E. Busch left on the steamer Mariposa for the States where they will spend the winter.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24

Judge Munley recently received no- tice by 8 recent boat that his son, Wm. c. Munley, has been commis- stoned first lieutenant in the medi- cal corps, U. s. A.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24

Dune Stewart left on the steamer Mariposa for Juneau and southern Alaska points.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24

Jim Wilson, road commissioner for the Third Division, returned from Cordoya, on the steamship Admiral Farragut this morning.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24

F. E. Flint, P. Jojes and Mrs. O. c. Hunt were passengers for Seward from Seattle on the steamship Ad' miral Farragut last night.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24

MT. and Mrs. Fl. N. Sailing left on the steamer Mariposa for Seattle. where they will make their home in the future.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24

Six inches of snow are reported on the summit at rhompson Pass. and parties crossing report drifts in sev- eral places.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24

Otto Laine and wife were passen- gers on the steamer Mariposa for se- attle.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24

George c. Hazelett was passenger for Cordova on the Admiral Farragut.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24

Alameda Sailing Postponed
 The steamship Alameda, which was to have sailed for Alaska September 22 has postponed her sailing until September 26, at D. m.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24

MT. and Mrs. Hope were passen- gers on the steamer Mariposa for the States.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24

Andy Marcuson is . valdes visitor from the Granby.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24

The Moose Band will hold their regular practice tonight.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-09-24

Mrs. Cecil Carton and child were passegers on the steamer Farragut for seldovia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-28

h. Y. McAcree in the Toronto (ont.) Mall
 and Empire.
 N CITY drunk with prosperity" is
 N\ very natural thought about De |S = troit to one who sees it today after an interval of 10 years. It boasts that 1t is the most flourishing commit nifty in the world.
 The approaches to this Michigan mecca are much more carefully guarded today than in times past. The train waits an hour or more while hand baggage is ex- amined and there is nothing perfunctory in the scrutiny.
 When people used to say that Toronto was like an American city, being asked what American city, they often said De- troit It is as much like Detroit today IS 1t is like Warsaw or Ezerum. One-third of the people in Detroit are Germans, and perhaps another third are Poles, Italians, Russians, Rumanians and other Uitland- dressed in the height of fashion that has just gone out It is curious thing that person who appears to be 40 years old is rarity on the streets of Detroit. The older they are the more doggedly de- termined they are to look young. The youngest of all are the American Amer icans resident and travelling, who haunt the hotels. The first thought of a Ca nadian who enters the lobby is that convention of chorus men is being held. Many have the unmistakable look of fox
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-28
ss.ooo,ooo FOR BENEvoLENcE

From the New York World.
 Disbursements by the Rockefeller foundation last year in furtherance of it's object "to promote the well being of mankind throughout the world" aggre- gated ss,24s,Oes Of this amount $2,5so, 900
 was devoted to war relief, $1,06S,147 to
 medical education in China, s1.s26,62s to the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re-
 search, $1,0O0oO0 to the New York Pali-
 sades Interstate Park association.
 These are munificent benefactions, but
 no less impressive than the larger indi-
 vidual gifts is the extent and variety of the foundation's smaller appropriations lin aid of charitable. religious and social organizations and societies These range from $500 for New York's Community chorus, $500 for the Public Schools Ath- letic league and 5000 for the Peoples in- stitute to $5000 for a Syrian college, $s5oc for the Boy Scouts, $25.000 for the New York School of Applied Design for Women and larger sums for foreign mis- sions and Young Mems Christian assoc oiations. It's bounties reach literally from the Bowery to Belgium and from an immense amount of valuable aid to struggling institutions and organizations Somewhere in this large use of incor- porated wealth for education and research and uplift there is . menace of some sinister kind. as the public Is periodically informed by critics of the foundation But If this is a corrupt utilization oi
 riches it Is regrettable that there are not
 more examples of it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-28
DETROIT IS BOOMING

trotting experts Some of them have Charlie Chaplin mustaches, but most are clean shaven. There Is no variation as to coiffure The hair is brushed back straight, so hard, indeed. that there must be some relaxation of the tension before they can close their eyes. The prevail ing color of hair appears to be back with 8 patent leather gloss.
 The clothes they wear may be safely attributed to the gorgeous imagination of some oriental designer. Frequently the coats have belts and plaits in back and front. Buttons are lavished in an unbri- dled manner on tn sleeves. The shoes are long and narrow, and generally have cloth tops. Hard felt hats meet the eye not much more frequently than straw hats The prevailing hat may have been suggested to the maker by the death Of Colonel Cody. It has very wide and wavy brim, and serves the double pur- must be pulled down and outward, giving an interested questioning expression to the countenance. With the ears thus Rd- justed the hall room boys don't miss any, think. Jewelry is fashionable witt both sexes. With both sexes the desire is to have a slim figure. The men look as though they averaged about 120 pounds. The shoulders slightly droop, a suggestion of difference that is belied by the pallfd impudent faces.
 These are the backbone of the nation, and of the cabarets. If they can main- tain the one as we'll as the other, bring or your German war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-28
AMERICAN CHEMISTS

of synthetic abrasives, like carborun- dunn and alundum-seriking improve ments over the grinding materials can chemist the production of artificial graphite, one of the very essentials of the electro chemical enterprises in which the United States is pioneer as we'll as a pace-maker; for graphite electrodes" and graphite Headers" are the very entrance doors through which the electric current flows into electric furnaces or electrolyzers whenever the use of metals Is impossible; so that "Acheson artificial graphite" made in Niagara Falls, has come to be a trade term in every country in the world where huge electrochemical works are in opereation.
 And as our chemists developed methods of utilizing our great natural supply of petroleum, and our enormous Niagara water power, so they have built up succession of enterprises which group themselves around the better utilization of corn and cotton
 
 ating with our farmers, and are de- irving corn oil and cotton seed oil, cat tie feed. starch, glucose and many oth- CT things as by-products of agricul- ture They also invented and devel- oped celluloid and the photographic film, the very base of that new prodigy the motion picture industry. They de- veloped processes for the rapid tan ming of leather which revolutionized the slower and more expensive older methods, reducing the process to as many days as 1t formerly took weeks or months; in this way they have built up one of the very largest leath- CT industries in the world, with an [output amounting GO between $200,0O0,- 900 and $500, 100000 year. In the mean time, their activities kept on ram1fy- ing through the endless network or other industries, most of which seem far removed from the field of chem istry They improved and cheapened the manufacture of paints and var nishes, introduced system into our rub- Der industry, and modernized our im- mense cement industry. which under their stimulation has grown like giant. Without entering into too elaborate enuemration of the processes which they have either invented or de- Iveloped, we can say that the most varied groups of American industries owe their origin or modernization to the energy and genius of American chemists
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-28

ard Taft last Saturday night, when the ex-President discussed questions of vital concern to the nation.
 Capitol park is the ideal place for an auditorium, but if it is not avail able, East park, near the Central High school, would be satisfactory to the public.
 If the city will provide the site way to finance a $300,000 building should be found, and that right soon.
 With an auditorium Birmingham would be known far and wide as the convention city par excellence of the south.