VOL 1Q VALDEZ, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1914. NO. 93.
JAPS THROW SCARE
INTO CONGRESS
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Committee Decides to Postpone Hear
ing on Exclusion Act Indefinite
ly so as Not to Offend Them.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. The sud
■ken opposition of the Japanese for
eign office to the alien land bills and
the exclusion of Japanese citizens
front western states, the direct charge
of the foreign minister, Maiino. that
Secretary of State Bryan had refused
to answer the note of the Japanese
government, in which they protested
against the action of the California
alien act and the proposed exclusion
act included n the present immigra
tion biil before congress, has caused
much alarm here and the House to
day, for fear of offending Japan, de
cided to postpone indefinitely the
hearing on the Asiatic exclusion bill.
The Japanese have shown a dis
position to resent the refusal of
Secretary Bryan to answer the note j
mil they show much bitterness be j
a use of t' e proposed exclusion act. j
The Secretary of State refused to'
make any statement regarding the j
.negotiations between the two coun- ;
tries.
SEATTLE-ALASKA
Sir Richard McBride, of British Co
lumbia, Would Annex Yukon
Territory as First Step.
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VANCOl'VKU, Jan. 28. Sir Itirli- \
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,»i d McBride, of British Columbia, to- i
day wrote to Premier Borden urging
Ihe annexation of the Yukon terri
tory to British Columbia in order that
'lie province would be in condition
io construct a railroad from this city
jo Dawson and connect with a road j
proposed front Seattle to Alaska, j
which he claimed was destined to op- |
••n up the largest unexploited min
eral belt in the world, containing gold
and copper in quantities large enough
(o supply the demand of the world
for many years.
Sir Richard urges the annexation
as the first step of the plan and lat
er on by government aid and private
construction he proposes to build the
line from this city to the Alaska
boundary and also into the White
river section.
NAVAL EXPANSION
VERY EXPENSIVE
England Has a Deficit of $25,000,000
as Result of Last Year’s War
ship Building.
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LONDON, Jan. 23.—The policy of
Joseph Chamberlain for a larger
• navy, which will at all times be as
large as the navies cf any two Eu
ropean powers which may combine
against England, has resulted iu a
deficit the past year of $25,000,000
and threatens next year to he, c.ue j
even larger.
All efforts to stay the naval craze ,
in England and Germany have been !
unavailing. Germany refust's to con - ;
»Her a naval compact, claiming that i
hor naval policy la arranged by law
and that therefore the foreign sec- I
rotary cannot negotiate any treaty
binding upon parliament,
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Great horse racing pictures at the ;
Orpheum tonight. Full of excitement, j
Don’t is m them. Change tomorrow, j
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OPPONENTS OF ALASKA BILL FIGHTING;
ARE SURE THEY WILL DEFEAT MEASURE
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Friends of Railroad Bill Are Fearful and Will Not Bring It to Vote—Senator
Williams Says It Is Undemocratic and Would Aid Socialists—Outcome
of Bill Is In Doubt—Delay Is Dangerous.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—After a
long debate the Senate is unable io
come to any agreement on whether
the government constructed railroad
proposed for Alaska shall be oper
ated by the government or leased to
some transportation company under
the supervision ‘of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, which is to
be authorized to fix rates and exercise
the same control over the Alaska
ra'lroad as it now exercises over the
railroads of ihe states.
President May Decide,
tt :s probable that if no agreement
is reached soon that the matter will
he left entirely to the discretion of
President Wilson.
Opposition Formidable.
As the Senate was about to vote
yesterday on the railroad measure the
opposition to the bill became so for
midable that it was determined to
postpone the vote until today. Sev
oral senators insisted that they had
not had time enough to speak on the
measure and that the government
construction of a railroad was so far
reaching in ‘ts influence on future
actions of the government, and in
volved the expenditure of so large a
sum of money that !t might better
not be pushed through without full
consideration.
Pittman Still Fighting
Senator Pittman, in his address yes
terday afternoon, stated that the Un
ited States needed more gold, and that
for the gold output, which would be
increased by the building of this
railroad, if for no other reason, the
expenditure of ihe $40,000,000 was
justified.
FOXY PROMOTERS
GULLED TO TIME
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Receivers of 'Frisco Road Start Suit
Against Former Officers, Who
Gutted the Company.
ST. LOl’IS, Jan. 23.—-The receiv
ers of the St. Louis and San Fran
cisco railroad today commenced suits
against the former officials of the
railroad to recover the moneys al
leged to have been stolen from the
road by the sale to the '‘Frisco’’ of
many branch lines at prices much in
excess of the cost and the differences
being the profits of the “insiders.”
Benjamin F. Yoakum, chairman of
the board of directors prior to the
receivership, is defendant in a suit
to recover $2,000,000. Ten of the
directors are being sued for an ag
gregate of $14,000,000 in proportion
to the profits they made out of the
sales to the railroad of aide lines of
road.
•The old, old system of building
feeders of the road under contracts
which netted big profits and the pur
chase of other lines and the resale
to the “sucker corporation" were fol
lowed.
The road was “milked" of every
cent in the treasury and at the time
of the appointment of the receiver
$2,OOP,000 in unpaid general expense
accounts were on the books, although
the company had just1 sold $10,000,
000 worth of bond's and had received
tiro money for them.
Hemorrhage Kills An Aviator.
NEW YORK, Jan. 23. -Aviator
Hamilton, at one time a parachute
jumper, who h»d gained such fatite
for his daring leaps into space and
later turned aviator, died here to
day as result of hemorrhage.
Will Pay the People.
The Nevada senator spoke for some
time and assured the members of the
upper House that the people of the
fnited States would be repaid many
times for the investment of the money
necessary to build the road by the in
creased output from the north, be
sides the tremendous amount of sup
plies which would be purchased in
the United States by the thousands
and thousands of people who would
(lock into Alaska when transporta
tion is assured.
Williams Denounces Bill.
Senator Williams, of Mississippi,
denounced the bill as undemocratic
and said the proposal to sell bonds
I was but an indirect method of rob
bing the treasury and cloaked the real
purpose of the authors of the bill,
who desired to obtain the govern
inent purse.
1 Turn Government Into Socialism.
Senator Williams stated that he
would oppose the turning over of the
country to Socialism, which was sure
j to follow the passage Of a govern
| merit constructed, owned or operat
j ed railroad, for it meant but the be
| ginning of a long campaign for gov
| ernnient ownership of everything.
;' The function of government," de
i dared, the southern senator, "was to
| govern, and private industry can bet
i ter be trusted to enter the fields of
1 commerce and build railroads, which
| they are perfectly willing to do
; whenever justification can be shown
and a profit is likely to follow such
i an investment.
"The Democrats won the lust elec
tion and secured the endorsement of
the people of the country on a prom
ise of economy, and now they pro
GRANBY WILL SPEND $100,000
| ON MIDAS GROUP OF CLAIMS
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! ANNOUNCEMENT MADE AT COMPANY OFFICE IN BOSTON—WILL
BUILD TRAMWAY, BUNKERS, MINE BUILDINGS AND PLACE THE
PROPERTY ON SHIPPING BAS IS—Dl RECTO RS TAKE ACTION.
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| BOSTON, Jan. 23. At the office
j here of tile Granby Consolidated
| Mining and Smelting Company it was
| announced today that the directors
of the corporation had set aside $100,
oOO for development work on the
copper claims of the corpora'ion lo
cated in Solomon Basin, near Val
dez, Alaska, and that the work on
the property would commence imme
diately.
The officials of the company claim
that the report of the engineers who
examined the cla’ms is such as to
justify the expenditure of large sums
of money in development work al
ready done on the claims indicates
that this will become one of the larg
est copper properties in Alaska, and
the close . proximity of the group to
the beach insures cheap transporta
tion after the mines are once on a
shipping basis.
The money will be spent in erect
ing a wharf on the beach and ore bins
on the shore, large mine buildings,
mess house, and needed buildings for
I the operation of the mine and the
proper housing of the men to be etn
ployed.
A tramway will also be built from
the ore bins in the basin to the load
ing bins on the beach, where the ore
; will be loaded on company steamers
and sent to the company smelter in
British Columbia.
Besides the necessary mine build
inss and the tramway and wharf, the
engineers of the company plan the
driving of a number of tunnels to
tap the ore and the necessary cross -
cuts and stories so that as soon as
tram and wharf are completed the
mine will be shipping.
Kngineers who have examined the
group of claims for the company
claim that the proper'y has .sufficient
development work done on it to dem
onstrate that it will be a large pro
ducer of copper and to assure the
making of a mine. The ore also car
ries some gold and silver.
Judge John Lyons, the local attor
liey for the company, when shown the
above dispatch stated that he had
received no new advices from the
company, but felt sure that the work
planned last fall by the engineers who
visited the claims would be carried
out at an early date, as *s evidenced
by the calling of bids for the piling
needed to build the wharf at the fool
of Solomon gulch and the const ruc
tion of bine on the beach. Judge
Lyons stated, however, that he was
not authorized to make any public
statement of the intentions of the
company.
Ship Human Skin for Use.
BALTIMORE], Jan. 23.—Twenty
square inches of human skin which
the physicians of St. Luke’s hospital j
will graft on the hotly of Harry Stab- 1
ler, who was burned In an explosion !
several months ago, will arrive to- j
• morrow from the Rockefeller Institute
of New York, having been procured
from volunteers by Dr. Simon Flex
ner. The skin was shipped at the
I request of Dr. Barrett C. Gatlin, of j
St. Luke’s, who after having already j
grafted n. great quantity of sk;n on i
i the patient, was unable to lind any j
; one who would make further saeri- j
j liees. Tlte specialists of the Rocke- ;
'< feller Institute are deeply interested,;
i for it will be the first - time in the j
: history of modern surgery, accord- j
ing to Dr. Gatlin, wile nskin shipped j
j from another city will be used in an j
| operation.
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Big Lines Begin Rate War.
LONDON, Jan. 23.—The first move
in an Atlant'c rate war that will, it
is expected, be more disastrous to the
steamship companies than those of
1904 and 1907 8 is reported by the
Vienna correspondent of the Liver
pool Journal of Commerce. He 'ays:
"The Hamburg-Aiuerican Line has
failed to set'fe its differences with
the North German Lloyd and has de
cided to reduce rates before the im
portant meeting of the North Atlan
tic Conference on Jttn. 25. The agents
at continental por's have been notl
tled by the British and Continental
steamship lines that they are reluct
antly compelled to folio wthis decis
ion. and there is reason to believe
that the existing agreements will be
terminated after’Jan. 25.”
H. K. Ellis .s stopping at tho But
ler in Seattle.
pose by this railroad bill to devote
four-fifths of the income tax to one
poor outlying territory. If the Dem
ocratic senators pass this bill they
will be untrue to the promises made
to the people in the party platform
drafted at the convention in Balti
more."
House Opponents Active.
The congressmen who are opposed
to the bill are exceptionally active
and knowing the hopelessness of at
tacking the bill in the lower chain - j
her they are lobbying among the
members of the Senate to defeat the
bill. The cry of Socialism has been
raised and many doubtful senators
i and representatives are wavering.
The friends of the measure, the
' Alaskans here, who are urging its
passage, and the administration lead
ers who are pushing the bill, are
j alarmed but are hopeful that it can
| be forced through the Senate today
! before any more recruits are secured
j against the measure by the cuy of
I the government aiding Socialism.
'Should this opposition continue much
I longer the friends of the bill fear
i that the administration may Withdraw
] its powerful influence, fearing that the
| passage of the measure may disrupt
j the party organization, which lias so
1 far been successful in passing legis
; lation desired by the administration
i The complacency of the opponents
, of the bill has greatly alarmed the
• friends of the bill, who fear that they
have polled the opposition and art
sure of the result. The friends of the
I hill are now more anxious to prevent
i <i vote until they are more sure of
j their follow ing.
SI LOUIS WANTS
REGIONAL BANK
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Does Not Desire to be Tied to Chi
oflgo Bankers—Kansas City
Also an Applicant.
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ST. LOUIS. Jan. 23. -Secretary of
the Treasury McAdoo and Secretary
of Agriculture Houston, -the special
committee on organization of the
regional hanks to be established un
der the recently enacted currency
law. reached this city today to hold
a hearing regarding the advisability
of establishing a regional bank here. ]
The bankers of this city insist that
St. Louis should have such a bank
and should not be forced to clear'
through the Chicago banks, as is pro
posed by the Windy City bankers. As j
only eight banks are to be estab '
lisheri the committee are hard press j
ed to select the cities in which they ,
are to be located.
announced that the banks of New j
York are to lose the financial power
heretofore held by them. The bank -
ers of New York are insistent that
a regional bank be established in
that city, which will he large enough
to command the respect Of the largo
government banks of Euronean conn
tries, with which it will have to do
business.
From here tho committee will go i
io Kansas City, which is also clang
oring for the establishment of a
hank In that city and later the com- I
uMttee will go to San Francisco, Port j
land, Seattle and Spokane.
• The McIntosh teams returned to
Valdes a< noon today frvm the inter -
ior and they report th*> road as in
excellent condition.
SULZER CHARGES
BE INVESTIGATED
Boss Murphy Offered to Stop Im--,
peachment of Sulzer Graft
Probe at Albany.
NKW VOIIK, Jan. L'll The grand
jury today commenced the probe in
to the charges made by Assemblyman
Sulzer, former governor of this state,
that Boss Murphy, of Tammany Hall,
had offered to stop the impeachment
of Sulzer provided the governor would
stop the probe into the graft of pub
lic funds by Tamma^/politicians.
District Attorney Whitman is in
personal charge of the investigations
and has promised that if the former
governor can in any way substantiate
the charge that Boss Murphy will
he prosecuted to the full extent of the
law.
Assemblyman Sulzer made the
charge a few days ago and the dis
trict attorney immediately started the
investigation, as he has been very act
ive for many months in trying to
place some of the responsibility of
the many grafts on state funds at the
door of the Tammany chief, but to
date has been unsuccessful.
GUNMEN CAUSE
POLICE TROUBLE
[tattle With New York Cops, Four
Captured—Murder a Squealer—
Gangs Frequently Clash.
MOW Yi'KK, ,lan. 23. More than a
score of people have neon shot the
past few weeks in this city by the
gunmen of the Hast Side in l he bat
ties they have had among themselves.
For several hours yesterday the po
lice battled with a gang of gunmen
and after a long tight succeeded in
capturing four of them, while the bal
ance escaped over the roofs of the
tenements and disappeared in the
haunts of the crooks, where they are
safe from attack by the police.
The police are unable to control
the Fast Side gangs and frequent
clashes are reported between the
gangs, and in most cases the by
standees have been shot. Yester
day’s battle followed the killing by
the members of the Gas House gang
of Squealer Murphy, who had inform
ed the police against members of the
gang.
MIINBAY SHIELS
wi uw ran
Must be Charged With Misdemeanor
and Not With Felony—Prosecu
tion is Limited.
SKATTLK. Jan. 22. Attorneys who
are defending Archie Shills and
Charles Monday scored a victory this
morning over the government attor
neys, when they secured from Judge
Neterer a ruling limiting the prose
cutiun of the defendants to a charge
of misdemeancr and forcing the gov
eminent attorneys to drop the felony
prosecution.
The defendants are jubilant at the
result of the first fontiict with the
representatives of the government
ukI arc confident that they will be
acquitted of the charge of attempt
ins to defraud the government out
of valuable coal lands in the Tiering
river section of Alaska.