V0L 10 VALDEZ, ALA8KA, FRIDAY, JANIMRV 2, 1914. NO. 75.
HEM HELP
USED LIKE PEONS
Held in Bondage by Cannery Operat
ors and by the Boss
Contractor.
SEATTLE, Jan. 2.--Attorney Calli
glian, of Juneau, has issued a state
ment today charging that the laborers
employed by the salmon packing can
neries are treated Ine same as peons,
are unable to protect themselves from
the extortion o the boss contractor
and the cannery operators.
Callighan declares that if the can
nery employes protest at the condi
tions under which they arc forced to
work or at the wages paid to them,
then tltc operators withhold the en
tire season's wage, which becomes
lot felted.
( tulighan urges a federal probe in
ic the conditions at the fish packing
I Units and promises to produce testi
tneny to substantiate the charge he is
making, ile also advocates the pass
age o'' a law to compel the canneries
to pay tile men every month and fur
tlier urges that the law make it a
crime to withhold the wages of the
men until the return of the crews to
San Francisco and other coast cities.
The canneries are milking the coun
try and are protected from taxation
by the enabling bill, which provided
lor Hie organization of the territor
ial legislature.
The canneries, declares Callighan.
iiOiild he made to pay a just share
it the n*xes of the territory, but are
i verted from so doing by the friends
of th<* trust in Washington.
STRING TALKERS
SETTLE STRIKE
Telegraphers of Frisco Railroad Come
to an Agreement With Manage
ment and Return to Work.
ST LOl'IS, Jiin. 2.--The striking
telegraph operators and the officers
of llie St. Louis <k S' n Francisco rail
road today came to an agreement,
thus settling the strike.
Both sides made concessions, the
railroads granting a slight advance in
pay and a cut in the hours of work,
while the men do wot get as much
■ s was demanded by them.
The recent action of the manager
!n glaring telephones in all the sta
lions of ilie line, using 24 special
trains, caused the men to realize that
ihe company intended to put up a tight
and they at once offered to compro
mise and reduced the demands made
for pay an-.l shorter hours.
LOTS OF MONEY
FOR TOE CHURCH
Christian Scientist Will Give .Million
Dollars to Church If They Will
Raise Five Million More.
KANSAS CITY. Mo., Ian 2 r-R.
Long, u rich lumberman of thia city,
.has given to the Church of the Dis
ciples ol' Christ, of tuis city. tV- qim
of $1,000,000 provided *tie member;
of ihe chureli will raise $5,000,00!]
more.
Some of the members are afraid
that, 'he terms of the gift are mi(:i
as to prevent tne churcn receiving the
gift, -s the members of the congro
t.ailcn arid theft- friends outside of the
Church cv.mtot carry out the conditio
r.d raise the additional five millions
SEND TROOPS TO
PROJECT REGROES
Maryland State Guards Reach Ches
tertown and Camp About the Jail
_No More Trouble Expected.
BALTIMORE, Md„ Jan. 2—The
governor has ordered two companies
of the national guard on duty at the
local jail to prevent the lynching or
four negroes held by (he sheriff for
murder, and who are in constant dan
ger of being lynched, as the mobs of
angry citizens have stormed the jail
mineral times and are still determin
ed to capture the prisoners and hang
them to the nearest lamp posts avail
able.
The troops, which had been in read
iness to start for Chestertown ever
since Tuesday, arrived on a special
train and are quartered about the
jail, but.it is thought that the sher
iff will take his prisoners under mili
tary guard to the state penitentiary
lor safe keeping until the anger of
the people has uad time to cool off.
McPherson, Alaska Sourdough, is in
Charge of the Exhibit—Will In
fluence Congress.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 2. The Seal
lie Alaska exhibit gathered by tile
Alaska lilireau of ihe Seattle Cham
her of Commerce 'to demonstrate the
: mineral and agricultural wealth of
ihe nonhland, reached this city to
day and will soon he placed on ox
dilution to demonstrate to the con
gressmen and senators the great pos
sihilitios of Alaska if the present pol
icy of locking up the storeroom is re
versed and a more liberal attitude
towards the territory assumed by the
bureaucrats of the departments at
Washington.
The exhibit was gathered tit great
expense by Secretary J. L. Mel’her
i son, of the bureau, who has spent the
last four years gathering photographs
and exhibits, maps and (lata to use
, for the purpose of aiding Alaska,
i .Rl’iierson. who is an old-time Alas
| van. lias made Ihe matter a hobby
and is serving without pay. He is
here in charge of the exhibit.
r 11trims ui .'Miir'Kii w mi iiitvt*
1 the exhibit before it was shipped from
j Seattle are confident that when the
i members of congress are made to re
j aline the great wealth in agricultural
! products, mineral wealth, timber, furs
j and tisb that is annually produced in
: Alaska and which has been developed
i in spite of the icy hand of fool con
| servationists, then they will surely
! pass the Alaska railroad bill to give
j means of transportation to the pro
' ducts of the northland from the in
i terior to the coast.
! The pamphlet, “Alaska. Our Fron
tier Wonderland,” is being distribut
led to til members of congress, ofli
jeers of departments and to such other
j persons as care to receive it. The
I book contains 100 pages of informa -
! tion regarding the territory and many
j maps and charts.
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j Lioness Pursues* Boys.
KOESLIN. Pomerenia, Jan. 2.—A
young lioness, while on exhibition be
fore the boys of a local classical
school here today escaped, seriously
injured si seven-year-old school boy
and caused a. panic among the other
. pupils. The lamer was leading the
‘.lioness through the tanks of the boys,
I !>!.•■> of whom look fright and ran.
The l’onosp ’>roke from Its keeper’s
bold : nd pursued 'he boys, felling
one o1' them with a blow on the head.
fo’.ii"* workmen in the grounds drove
(he animal away from the lad. and it
dashed into.the school, where i: was
! captured after an exciting chase.
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DAYTON HASA
Henry Waite Takes the Job From
the Commissioners at a Salary
of $12,500 a Year.
DAYTON, O., Jan. 2.—Henry Waite
was inaugural ed here yesterday as
manager of the town at a salary of
$12,500 a year. He w'll have charge
of all the departments of the city—
police, fire, public works and every
branch of the city work. He is to
manage it as business manager of the
city, under the dire tion of the com
missioners, who will resemble the
board of directors of a large corpor
ation.
The commissioners are elected by
the people but rece've no salary for
their work. The active management
is placed in the hands of (lie city
manager at a large salary.
The commissioners first tried to se
cure the services of Col. Goethals, of
Panama Canal fame, and offered him
$25,000 a year, as Pis executive train
ing received while building the canal
was considered very valuable, but he
turned down the offer. Then a strong
agitation was started to secure the
services of Col. Roosevelt, but much
opposition to this movement develop
ed and further consideration of the
! Hull Monger was dropped.
| British Ambassador at Washington
Asks Us for an Invitation for
t
Lord to Take Trip on Bear.
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W ASHINGTON, .Ian. -. The ISrii
ish ambassador has requested the
president to allow the Duki of North
umberland, one o*' the greatest hunt
i t> and naturalists of England, to
make the trip on the revenue cut
ter Bear next spring that he may kil.
rare species of darks and water fowl
of the Arctic.
The duke is very anxious to make
j the trip as the guest of the United
| States, and has asked the ambassador
J of Englan l to ask the United States
government to ask him to become the
Kites' of the nation while hunting for
unknown species of wild fowl. It is
expected that the duke will give a few
specimens of the birds to the Smith
sonian Institute if he should be sue
cessful on his expedition,
j Secretary of State Bryan has not.
las yet, made tiny reply to the request
I of the ambassador for an invitation.
: but it is believed lie will comply with
i the request of the British amhassa
I dor.
MITCHEL IS
NEW YQRKMAYOR
NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—Mayor Miteli
el was inaugurated as mayor of New
York at midnight Wednesday night,
I taking the oath of office. Only a few
close friends and the officers of the
outgoing .and.incoming administration
were present. The ierm of office to
which Mayor Mitcnel has been eleet
i ed expires December 31, 1917.
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j Former Laborer Buys Estate.
i LONDON, Jan. 2.—Pryce Goodwin
| Boa von. of Eagle Pass, Texas, form
I orl.v of Beaconshire, who inherited a
liortune of $1,000,000 two yeurs <ggo,
1 <1. y purchased thr >ugh his solicitor
beautiful ilrocouahire estate, Plas
■ t.igi} a'. 200 acres in extent, 'wo email
farms and homesteads. Bowen was
[ originally a farm laborer. .
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CALUMET JURY
FINDS VERDICT
Moyer’s Charges Against Citizens Al
liance Not Sustained by the
Verdict.
CALUMET. Mich.. Jan. 2.—The cor
oner’s jury which has been investigat
ing the death of the 80 children
Christmas eve, when they were killed
in the panic following the cry of fire,
today tendered a verdict that some
one insite the building and among
the spectators was guilty of yelling
"Fire!” thus causing the panic.
The charge that enemies of labor
had caused the panic has been refuted
and the jury exonerates the Citizens’
Alliance. Of all the members of the
unions who were in attendance ai the
Christmas celebration only two tes
tified that the person who caused the
panic wore a Citizens' Alliance button
and tiial he opened the door and made
the cry which set in motion the death
dealing panic. Of the fifty other wit
nesses all testified *hat the cry had
come from the room and that as far
as anyone of the miners knew not a
member of the Citizens’ Alliance was
in the room, only strikers and their
families being !n attendance at the
yuletide festivities.
President Moyer, of the Western
Federation of Miners, had charged
that the Citizens Alliance had delib
erately caused the panic.
iii stun
Doctors Take Them Out and Bathe
Them for Her—Is Reported as
Greatly Improved.
ST. LOI IS, Jan; Doctors yes
lerday rut out the kidneys of. Mrs.
Viola Sullivan, of this city, washer^,
them well, drained all the liquid mat
ter out and replaced them again in
her body and expect that they will
continue to perform the functions for
which they are intended. It was be
cause of a refusal of the kidneys to
work that the doctors determined up
on the operation. They expect to
have settled the strike of the organs
tint! look for a speedy, recovery of the
patient.
If the kidney continues on strike it
[ is expected that a kidney will be
transplanted in the body of the soei
, ety lady from the body of some person
who has recently died. This opera
! lion lms been successfully perform
ed. and as a hist retort the surgeons
l in charge of tile case will attempt
i> on Mrs. Sullivan. Specialists from
Chicago and New York are in at
tendance.
THE SULTAN MAY
j LEAVE HIS HAIM
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CONSTANTINOPLE. .Jan. 2.- The
] Sultan of Turkey is reported as dan
! gerously sick, having suffered a stroke
of paralysis. He is 70 years old and
in the event of his death an upris
ing is expected with the object of
seating the former Sultan, now art ex
ile and n brother of the one now
! reigning. Great crowds of people sur
! round the palace of <he Sultan await -
j ing news of his condition:
Katalla Queen Leaves Valdez.
The Katalla Queen, in comnrtnd of
I Captain Marquain, left the Valdez
j dock this morning with a capacity
| load of. freight and a large number of
I passengers for. Ellamur. Landiock and
| Fidalgo.
j Subscribe tor tli° Prospect01.
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POPE'S SERVANTS
GO Oil STRIKE
Too Many Holidays Without Pay—
Like the Rest Days But De
mand That They be .Paid.
HOME, Jan. 2.—The Vatican gar
deners, museum keepers and other
servants employed by the papal au
thorities have gone on strike, de
manding that they be paid the regu -
lar wages for all church holdiays, of
which they claim there are 80 every
years. The gardeners and museum
keepers demand the regular 70 cents
a day. which is their pay. if they
must stop work according to church
regulations.
The men claim that with the ex
tra church holidays, numbering 80,
and 52 Sundays on which they are
prohibited from earning a living that
they cannot live on tiie wages paid
them at present by tin* papal auth
orities.
It is expected that the strike will
be settled in a few days.
Advance Sheets of His Annual Report
Attribute Shrinkage of Produc
tion to Conservation.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 1>. \ partial
i report of tile mineral resources of
Alaska, made by Dr. Alfred Brooks,
of the Geological Survey, which li:u
.1 tie; t been published, attributes the
shrinkage of mineral production in
I Alaska to the government inleiiVr
cnee in the matter of mining > o il.
, «liicli is found in abundance in the
■ territory, but in sp:fe of which coni
is imported in large quantities front
Japan. Australia, Washington and
! British Columbia.
More than lOO.dnn 'oils of coal was
shipped into the territory the past
year, according to tl. ? report, and the
! added expense to ‘be mine operators
} lias retarded the development of
| many mines ami prevented the open
: ing pf others.
j The attitude of the government to
wards Alaska railroads is also to
blame, says the report, as the tax of
$100 a mile imposed on the railroads
by the, government is a burden which
the roads 4‘annot carry and provide
cheap transportation.
The advance copies of the report
have been distributed among the
: members of congress in the hope that
j it will influence them to vote for tin
' railroad bill now before them provid
j ing for the construction of railroads
| and the purchase of such roads as are
i now in operation, which may be add
| ed to tlie government system.
A Mysterious Disease.
PARIS, Jan. 2.—The government
has sent Prof. Chantentisse, head of
the Pasteur Institute, to Cholet, a
town in the Department Main et
Loire, to investigate a mysterious dis
ease which has started there and has
caused a number of tdeaths. Recently
fifty of the guests at a wedding party
were taken ill, and eight of them died.
It was suspected that poison had been
placed in one of the dessert' dishes
but later other deaths from a mys
terious cause occurred in various
parts of the town, and the oa'rron
is held that some infection is the re
sponsible agent.
| DAVID WILLIAMS TOOK
OFFICE YESTERDAY
t TACOMA. Washington, Jan. 2
| David J. Williams »oo!t his oiliii
as internal revenue ct.tteelor yester
day, when he succeeded Millard T
i Harston. His position as secretary
i of the Elks' club war. made vacant
j and the Elks held " meeting on New
Year’s eve, when a new secretary
| was elected.
TENEMENT BURNS; c
Eight People Cremated and Scores
Jump Into Life Nets—Believe Fire
of Incendiary Origin.
NEW YORK. Jan. 2.—Fire in a
Monroe street tenement last night
resulted in the death of eight people,
who were cremated in the flames.
Scores of persons were taken front
the burning building by the firemen
while many more had been rescued by
the police before the arrival of the
firemen.
The suddenness with which the
building was enveloped in flames have
forced the police to the conclusion
that the fire was of incendiary origin.
Two hundred people li\e in the
building and as many as seven to a
family living in one or two small
rooms. The lire started in the hall
way. gaining headway rapidly and
scon cut off the lower ends of the
lire escapes. The police and firemen
| took many out of the building from
adjoining buildings, but fifty were
; compelled to jump into the life nets
! held by the firemen.
Firemen worked their way through
the building, protected by a dozen
streams of water from the big high
tower system at (. from the many en
g'nes called ts the scene by the three
alarms sent in by the deputy fire
chief
Tht> police reserves from three sta
tions were needed to calm the crowds
of foreigners who inhabit that tiuar
ter of the city.
ALASKA LIGHTS
j Asks Speakc- Clarl^ to Aid in Se
curing tne Money Needed to
Light Coast.
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| WASHINGTON, Jan. 1‘. Secretary
| liedlield lias urged Speaker Clark to
assist his department to secure from
congress a large appropriation for the
purpose of building light houses and
establishing aids to navigation in
Alaska waters.
Tlie secretary made a personal ap
peal to the speaker of the House be
cause of the great number of steam
ers which have been lost in Alaskan
waters and the many lights and aids
| which are so badly needed.
Speaker Clark has offered to do all
| in his power to secure the passage
| of the appropriation desired and will
] himself take the matter up with the
I members of the Appropriations com
i tnittee.
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] Records Show That $65,000,000 Worth
of Cattle Received During the
Past Year.
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('HI(\A(iO, Jan. 2.—The records of
i the past year kept at the stock yards
! in this city show that $65,000,000
| worth of live slock was received here
during the past yeat and thal a new
record has been established in the
packinghouses.
in spile of the extra number of
cattle, sheep and hogs received, the
price has steadily clunbed until many
people have boycotted the meat com
panies and are using vegetables en
tirely instead of meats. v
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