U.S.WILL STAND PAT ON SUBMARINES
CABINET MEETS AND DISCUSSES NEW NOTE TO BERLIN
EIGHT HOUR DAT
EUR PLACER
Much criticism was directed on the
first territorial legislature for failing
to pass an eight-hour law to apply to
placer miners. The last session
passed an act giving them an eight
hour day under certain conditions, and
as the Times has received many re
quests for the law, t! is herewith
printed. The new law is Chapter 6
of the Session Laws of 1915, and leav
ing out title and preamble is as fol
lows:
Section 1.—Employment in under
ground workings, open cut, open pit
workings, smelters, reduction works,
stamp mills, roller mills, concentrating
mills, chlorination processes, cyanide
processes, gypsum mines and other
quarries, coal mines and In and around
coke ovens, is hereby declared to be
injurious to health and dangerous to
life and limb.
Sec. 2. That the period of employ
ment of working men in underground
workings, underground mines, stamp
mills, roller mills, open cut and open
pit workings as applied to metallifer
ous mining, underground placer min
ing, smelters, reduction works, con
centrating mills, gypsum mines and
quarries, chlorination processes, cya
nide processes, coal mines and in and
around coke ovens shall not exceed
eight (8) hours within any twenty
four (24) hours, except on such days
as change of shift is made, excluding,
however, any intermission of time for
lunch or meals, and excluding also
the time required in descending to
and ascending from, or otherwise
going to or from the place where the
work is actually carried on, whether
going to or coming from the place of
work be in going on or off shift, or in
going to or returning from meals or
lunch; it being the intention of this
act to limit the hours of employment
in any twenty-four (24) hours to
eight (8) hours of actual labor at the
face or other place or places where
the work or labor to be done Is actu
ally performed; except in case of
emergency where life or property is
in imminent danger, or in case of
urgent necessity, the period may be
extended during the continuance of
such emergency or urgent necessity
providing this act shall also apply to
and include rock quarries, gypsum
quarries or workings, coal mines,
metalliferous lode mining, under
ground workings in placer mining
claims, and all other kinds of under
ground workings of any kind or char
acter whatsoever.
ANOTHER FIRE
IN VALDEZ
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VALDEZ, July 20.—Another lire
was started in Valdez today that
threatened for a time to be serious
but was successfully extinguished by
the fire department. The fire caught
in the roof of a building that has been
dried out by the recent warm weather,
and it luckily occurred in the day
time when it could be discovered be
fore gaining headway.
ON II VISIT TO
SEATTLE, July 20?—Ex-Governor
Slaton, the ex-governor of Georgia
who reprieved the death sentence of
Leo Frank to life imprisonment, is in
Seattle, accompanied by his wife, and
will sail north on the City of Seattle,
accompanied by his wife, and will sail
north on the City of Seattle, tonight
for a visit to southeastern Alaska.
The governor declined to discuss the
Frank case, and the mob violence
threatened in Atlanta when his com
mutation of Frank’s sentence was
announced.
The train from Chitina got in at
12:30 today having left at fi this
morning.
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Abercrombie on the train today.
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WASHINGTON, I). C., .July 20.—Wilson and
Lansing have agreed on the phrasing of the Lusi
tania note, and the preliminary draft of it will be
submitted' to the cabinet members tomorrow for
their revision and additional suggestions. That some
changes will be made by the cabinet seems reason
able, and if so, the cabinet will meet again on
Friday, and consider the revised note. It is believed
that the note will be in its final form by that time,
and’ that it will be sent to the Berlin foreign office
before Saturday night. Little information can be
secured at the White House about the definite con
tents of the note, the president’s secretary stating
that this could not be made public until, at least,
after the cabinet had' whipped it into shape. It is
learned on good authority that Wilson is convinced
! flint tho next communication to Germany must point
out in emphatic terms that the United States does
not intend to and will not surrender any rights
secured to this country by the accepted rules of
. international law. If Germany does not agree, the
right of Americans to sail in unarmed vessels with
out being subjected to unwarned attack, will be the
rock on which the diplomatic relations between the
two countries will founder.
\\ ASI1INGTON, 1). ('., .Tulv 20—At the cabinet
meeting today President Wilson laid before the
members the reply which he had prepared to the last
German note. This is tin* first cabinet meeting that
has been held for months, tho members returning
from scattered portions of the country, each cogni
zant of the public opinion on tin* German situation,
as manifested’ in that section where he had been.
Tire different ministers are unanimous in saying
that the people everywhere desire the administra
tion to take a firm stand on the submarine question,
and refuse to recede from the position that the
United States has already taken.
The last submarine attack on an unarmed,
unresisting vessel was made on the Orduna, after
BemstorfT had practically assured Lansing that no
more torpedoes would be fired without warning. The
Orduna case was considered by the cabinet, but
after the meeting Secretary Lansing received from
William Thompson, counsel for the Industrial
Relations Committee a report of the occurrence.
Thompson was a passenger on the Orduna at the
time of the submarine attack. The secretary of state
immediately took Thompson’s report <o the White
House and conferred with the president.
ROBERT P. SKINNER.
War Keeps American Con
sul General In London Busy.
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The Northwestern Is due from
Skagway about 8 o’clock tomorrow
morning with 150 tons of freight for
the town, and 80 tons for rail points,
including a carload of cans for tho
Abercrombie cannery.
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MANY VISITORS
CALL ON CROWN
PRINCE
PARIS, July 20.—The Crown Prince
of Germany, who was at Varennes dur
ing the battle of the Marne and was
obliged to retire on the approach of
the French, established his headquar
ters at Stenay, a town of 2,000 In
habitants on the Meuse, and, accord
ing to news brought from behind the
German lines by expelled inhabitants
returning to France by way of Switzer
land, he is still there.
Many illustrious visitors have been
received at his headquarters. His
father, the emperor, it is said, has
been there ten times. The Kings of
Saxony, Bavaria and Wurtemburg
have ench been there to pay their
respects, and the Crown Prince's
mother has visited him once. A
great many other people attached to
the court, have been among the visit
ors. The Crown Prince, it is said,
takes a seback ride every morning,
going always in the same direction
and returning by motor. He strolls
round the town frequently unattended,
conversing with the inhabitants, pat
ting children benevolently on the
head and distributing compliments
profusely.
PKKIN, Juiy 20.—The official fig
ures of the drowned In the recent
heavy floods in the Chinese province
of Kwangtung and neighboring prov
inces resulted in tremendous and al
most. unbelievable losses of life. In
the city of Canton alone, and its sub
urbs about 90,000 Chinese were
drowned.
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PARIS. July 20.—Paris Is reading
more than it did a year ago. and that
notwithstanding the fact that the pop
ulation is less numerous by several
hundred thousands. The statistics
furnished by the municipal lending
libraries show that the number of
books taken out in the first four
months of the present year was over
13,000 more than the figure for the
corresponding months of 1914.
Not only the quantity, but also the
quality, of the books read has gone
up. There has been a slump in fic
tion of all kinds, and a great Increase
in the demand for works on science
and history. Rooks dealing with
Russia, England. Serbia, Belgium and
Italy enjoy long waiting lists.
The next train will leave for Chit
ina on Thursday morning at 8
o’clock.
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