VALDEZ, ALA8KA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1913. NO. 212.
VOL. 9. *
PRESIDENT m
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Sends for Senator Pittman and
Confers Regarding Plans for
Bill’s Passage.
Washington, D. C., June 18—
President Wilson today sent lor
Senator Pittman, chairman of the
Senate territories committee and
had a long conference with lire
Nevada senator over the Alaska
railroad bill. The president is
strongly in favor of the passage
by this congress of the measure
and has expressed the hope to
both Senator Pittman and sever
al other prominent Democrats
that the bill which had been fa
vorably reported by the Senate
committee would be passed at
this session of congress.
Alaskans here are greatly en
couraged at the prospect, of quick
action in the matter of Alaska
railroads.
It is generally conceded that
the bill as now reported to the
Senate will have no trouble in
passing the upper house, even
without a special melBsage from
the president, but it is feared that
the lower House might block the
bill and therefore it is expected
that the president will make it a
party measure and send a special
message to congress regarding
the railroad situation in Alaska.
The Senate committee reported
favorably oq the plan to build 733
mile's of railroad in Alaska, as
outlined by the railroad commis
sion, building from Chitina to
Fairbanks and from mile 32 on
the C. It. & N. W. railroad In the
Bering coal fields, also from mile
72 on the Seward road to the
Iditarod with a branch line to the
Malanuska coal Helds.
Delegate Wickersham is also
working for railroads for Alaska
and has worked for the passage
of the bill drawn by himself and
introduced by Senator Chamber
lain, of Oregon, to carry out Mu;
plans of, the railroad commis
sion.
All bills so far drawn coniine
themselves to the 733 miles of
railroad recommended by the
commission.
TERRIFIC STORMS
FOLLOW HEAT
Cleveland, June I8.--A terrific
thunder and lightning storm, ac
companied by high winds, struck
this town last night after a day
of almost unbearable heat. Twen
ty people were taken to the hos
pitals during the day from being
overheated and several of them
died, while at nignt the hospitals
were crowded by those injured
during the wind storm which
blew everything loose about the
streets, injuring many pedestri
' ans.' "
Odd Fellows Picnic Sunday.
Sunday, June 22, at H a. in.
sharp, from the City wharf, Val
dez Lodge No. 6 of the Independ
ent Order of Odd Fellows will
give a picnic to Eight-mile beach
down the bay. All Odd Fallows
and Rebekas are requested to in
vite their friends and bring lunch
baskets for themselves and
friends. The lodge will provide
a floating “palace” for transpor
tation purposes and will also pro
vide coffeg and its accessories.
In order to prepare the neces
sary seats, etc., all those that in
tend to go are requested to leave
word or tfnlist at P. S. Hunt’s
store before Friday night with
out fail. Good time guaranteed.
By the Committee.
I>. H. SLEEM. '
B. SILVERMAN.
J. H. GANN.
Adler is selling out. Bargains
in anything and everything.-.
BROWN CONFIRMED
LATE LAST NIGHT
Valdez Man is Now Judge of the
Third Division—May Go to
Juneau Soon.
Washington, 1>. C., June 18.—
The Senate late last night, at its
executive session, confirmed
Judge F. M. Brown, of Valdez, to
he judge of the Third division.
It is tmmght that Judge Brown
will he requested to go to Ju
neau and hold court at the cap
ital, especially lo hear (he Mc
Donald ease, from which Judge
Jennings is barred because of a
former connection with the de
fendant, and any other eases now
pending, hut which Judge Jen
nings cannot hear because of
having been retained by the liti
gants.
Late this afternoon Judge
Brown received a wire from At
torney Genera! McReynolds re
questing that he lake the oath of
office immediately and proceed
to Juneau and hold court at the
capital when the McDonald case
is tried. The Judge will leave
’ll ere on the first boat leaving af
ter the first of the month, as, ac
cording to present plans, the Mc
Donald case is set for trial July
8th.
FRIEDMAN LEAVES
LAND OF COLO
Takes Big Wad of American
Dollars Back to the “Fath
erland.”
New York, June 18.—Frederick
Friedmann, the tinman doctor
who came lo America to make
his fortune selling' a fake tuber
culosis cure, left here today for
Germany with a draft for $5<>,
000, given him by the promoter
who purchased his American
rights and he also has, accord
ing to reliable information, re
ceived $200,000 more from gul
lible people1 in the eastern cities.
The city health board have pro
hibited the use of the serum in
New York until il is demonstrated
that it is good, for something.
Friedmann has, the past four
weeks, been operating in Provi
dence, R. 1., charging from $25
lo $250 per injection.
ILLINOIS GENTRUL
TRAIN HELD UP
Robbers Make Good Their Escape
With Loot—Dynamite the
Express Car.
Springfield, 111., June 18.—Two
masked robbers held up the Illi
nois Central train near this place
and looted the express car, mak
ing for the “tall and uncut” be
fore a posse could be mustered.
They used dynamite to blow open
the messenger’s safe.
The robbers are believed to
have had an automobile in wait
ing and to have made good their
escape.
A posse is now on their trail
hoping to overtake them. The
amount of loot secured will not
be known until the company can
check up.
• Subscrilie for nna Prospector.
LOBBY WORKING FOR ALASKA
RAILROADS, SAYS McMURCHY
The following article appeared
recently in the St. Paul Pioneer
Press and shows how the pres
ent legislation regarding the
passage of a railroad hill for the
territory is viewed hy the Wash
ington correspondent. -He states
that a big lobby is being main
tained in the capital for the pur
pose of plundering Alaska. It
reads as follows:
Washington, May 30.--Presi
dent Wilson tlid not specify the
lobbyists who are working to
gether in Washington in behalf
of special interests, and the list
would have been a long one.
Sugar and wool would not be
the only interests represented.
Nor would the Underwood bill
account for them all.
When I he Underwood bill has
been passed—or slain—a power
ful lobby will remain here for the
real big light of the present con
gress, the light for the final
plundering of Alaska.
Already three bills have been
introduced looking either to I he
“conservation” or the “develop
ment" of Alaskan coat and other
mineral deposits.
The 'bill which sounds ^nost
like a measure for the saving of
Alaska’s treasures to the people
of the nation, of which it is a
part, is the bill fathered in the
Senate by Senator George E.
Chamberlain, Democrat, Oregon,
and in the House by Delegate
James Wickersham of Alaska.
Republican.
This bill proposes that Uncle
Sam shall raise $35,000,000 to
build a railroad into the bound
less coal fields of that empire- for
which he paid Russia less Ilian
one-lifth of what the railroad
will cost. Uncle will make money
oil' his railroad, even at $50,000
a mile. If he does not make the
money pn Hie freight rales, which
some railroad experts question,
he will make il on lower prices
of -coal, for he will bring Alas
kan coal info competition with the
I rust-dicta Led prices of the Unit
ed Slates proper, and that will
make his railroad pay.
Sounds i-ike a woodchuck.
Another hill, introduced by Sen
ator Wesley Jones, representative
of Washington, provides for a
commission of live, to be appoint
ed by the president, to carry mil
the projected Alaskan railroad
development for the government,
but including therein a provision
for the condemnation of exist
ing railroads in Alaska. Some
folks think that sounds like a
woodchuck.
The third bill is by Senator Key
Pittman, the new senator from
Nevada, and tiie chairman of the
Senate committee on territories,
to which these various bills have
been referred. As this fact and
the complexion of the other mem
bers of the committee renders it
probable that the Pittman bill will
be reported favorably by the Sen
ate committee, it may be well to
take more Ilian a squint at the
Pittman bill.
'' Pittman was one of the argo
nauts who chased the golden
fleece in Alaska in the days that
Rex Beach so vividly depicted in
his novel, ‘‘The Spoilers.” In
those days the Alaskan argonaut
.
was occupied with the affairs of
the present generation rathur
Ilian the claims of posterity. And
the Pittman bill makes no false
pretenses as to the rights of ul
timate consumers.
Pittman, in his own words,
proposes to allow the develop
ment of the natural resources of
Alaska by individual capital and
energy. He agrees with Dirk Ry
an that private capital knows
more about railroading than the
government of the United Stalest
Unique Survey is Pittman's Idea.
Mr. Pittman proposes a unique
survey of Alaska. Uncle Sam,
you know, has surveyed the rest
of his empire like a checkerboard.
Pittman has (o admit that the
checkerboard survey is line and
dandy on the prairies of South
Dakota or Kansas, bill he opines
that it is unsuited to the char
acteristic. topography of Alaska.
The way he would survey Alaska
would be this way. From a place
on the seacoast where big ves
sels could land, he would sur
vey a line along which a practi
cal railroad could be built. So far
as he is concerned, the railroad
need not start from Controller
bay, although Dick Ryan, who
owns five-sixths of the cream of
the shore line there, declares on
oath that it would be silly to
waste time on any other lines.
Then, having located this im
aginary line of railroad. Mr. Pitt
man would run back on either
side strips like those long coun
ties you see on the vacation maps
of the Quebec country, running
off into the wilderness.
Mr. Pittman would number
these strips “I. ”, 3,” etc., and the
odd numbered strips he would cut
up into squares of half a mile,
or ICO acres, just as if they were
flat and on the level as in Kansas.
These squares he would throw
open to entry under the laws of
the United ISates,- and he would
r quire such claims to lie locat
ed in person, to prevent, as he
says, vast corporations putting
“dummies” on these squares and
looting Alaska.
lueumime i iii'ia* .siim imiiim'ii
could, if lie chose, mine or lease
the coal on the even numbered
strips. This would at once throw
open enough of the mineral‘re
sources of Alaska so that t lie tim
id money of Wall street, which
has been unwilling to consider
Alaska as a Held for railroad
building would at once dash
madly up the coast and bark
loudly for admission to the icy
barriers of the White pass, or
any other old mountain pass.
“This,” says Mr. Pittman,
would insure an influx into Alaska
probably equal to the rush to
Nome in 1900.”
The Chamberlain-Wickersham
bill, it might well be mentioned,
proposes to use in building this
Alaskan railroad such of the
Panama canal equipment as is
suitable. A fourth Alaskan bill,
which has not been introduced as
yet,, but is now being considered
by Senator George W. Norris of
Nebraska, would provide in addi
tion a fleet of 25 freight vessels
to afford the coal of Alaska
transportation facilities to the
markets of America.
8TATE8 MUST MOT
CONFISCATE RA1LOAD8
Washington, D. C., June 18—
Under the decision iof the Su
preme court rendered a few days
ago the railroads are allowed to
commence a suit whenever the
rate allowed by the states be
comefe conflscjatoffi.. .
Page to b» font to Home.
Washington, D. G., June 18—
The president sent the name .of
Thomas Nelson Page to the Sen
ate today. He is to have the post
as ambassador to Italy.
Meek Contract to Let
Contract to let for sinking
.shaft. Inquire of B. F. iyiillard
at lift Copper Blobk. ' ’ ’
LARGE CLASS ENTERS
MILITARY ACADEMY
West Point, N. Y„ June 18.—
A class of 1C5 new cadets were
sworn into the service here yes
terday and is one of the largest
classes ever admitted to the-mil
itary academy. The Iglass in
cludes one Chinaman and a Fil
ipino.
The transmission line from the
beach to the Solomon basin power
plant has been completed, as has
all the work and trusses for the
pipe line, which will soon be
.completed. The power house is
completed, but the machinery has
not reached Valdez, but is ex
pected on the Sampson.
OPERATOR DENIES
GUARD’S STORY
Coal Baron Attacks Witness Who
Said He Wjanted to Murder
Women and Children.
Charleston, W. Va., June 18.—
The owner of the Morton mine,
who was accused hy a former
guard with having requested the
sheriff to run the armored train
back to the strikers camp and to
again lire on their tents, was a
witness today and In* denied the
arcustalions of Hie guard and in
his angei; made a rush for the
guard and would have closed
with him but for the interfer
ence of the officers of the com
mittee.
The committee was in an up
roar at the angry words and at
the threatened fight.
Calvin, I he former guard, was
then asked many questions by
Morton. I In* mine operator, re
garding the effort made hy Mor
ton to hqve tin* sheriff run the
train back and lire on the women
and children. He stuck to his
story throughout the examination
but was unable to secure corobo
ralive evidence he said.
NAUGHTY GIRLS
GO TO THE PEN
Bovi Street Justice Sends Mili
tants to Pen to Serve From
Six to Eighteen Months.
l.ou,imi. June IS.—Six female
ami one male sull'ragelles were
sentem-ed in I he How si reel court
In serve If*‘in six lo eighteen
months at herd labor after the
had been convicted of malicious
,mischief.
Thy militants who attended Hu
trial attempted to make a dem
onstration but the court ordered
them from the room and threat
ened to send any who made a
demonstration in the building lo
the work house.
The temper of the- London
public is becoming very hostile
to the militants because of the
great amount of unnecessary
damage they are doing to the in
nocent public by destroying the
mail, breaking windows, burning
the Jarge public buildings ;and
many actions of a similar nature.
WILL SEIZE MEAT
IF ADULTERATED
Cabinet Officers Determined to
Stop Practice of Misbranding
and Adulteration.
Washington, D. C., June 18—
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo
and Secretary of Commerce and
Labor Hedfleld announced today
that hereafter all interstate ship
ments of meat or meat products
will be seized if they are mis
branded or adulterated.
The decision on the part of the
cabinet officers to seize all ship
ments in violation of the pure
food laws will have a far-reach
ing effect and it is believed it
Will stop all efforts of the man
ufacturers to misbrand or adul
terate the various foods.
Emil Davis and; F. J. Wagper
reburned - from their mining
claims last night.
/
SURVEY R001E
TO MATANUSKA
C. E. Griffin, of Geological Sur
vey, ■Mow in Valdez for That
Purpose.
G. E. Griffin, a member of the
Geological Survey, is in Valdez
for the purpose of securing stock
and supplies for the use of the
■survey in its work this summer,
which will he largely confined to
surveys in the Gook Inlet country.
Mr. Griffin has spent the past
few weeks making a survey from
Valdez to the summit for the pur
pose of securing information re
garding the elevations and grades
'from Valdez to the interior, which
informal ion w ill lie used by the
railroad commission and Ihc
president in the event of the
passage of a hill providing for
railroad construction in Alaska.
Owing to the amount of snow
on the summit the work was
stopped on this side and no sur
veys were made on the Saina side
III., j 1 i v- i 111,
Thre-5 Parties in Field.
The geological work in the In
let will be done by three differ
ent parties, one in charge of 0.
E. Griffin, who will make a re
connaisanee in the Willow Creek
section, accompanied by S. B.
Capps, a geologist. Another will
be in charge of G. C. Martin and
H. li. Sargent, who will work near
the headwaters of the1 Mat a mi ska
river and a third under F. H.
Moffitt and J. II. Bagley, work
ing in the Broad pass section in
tin' Susitna valley.
Mr. Griffin and his parly will,
if possible, leave on the Samp
son for Knik and will spend the
summer in Hie Willow Creek
seel ion, Iml will return to Valdez
in the fall, coming down I he Tas
lina and over the government
trail to Valdez for the purpose of
gelling in formal ion regarding
the feasibility of the railroad
from tin1 Matamiska coal Helds to
Valdez and will survey the grades
and secure other necessary in
formal ion.
No Appropriation.
'I'lie civ il sundry hill which was
vetoed leu days, ago by President
Wilson carried I he annual ap
propriation for the Geological
Survey and until the money is
appropriated the work will be at
a standstill.
Under instructions from Wasn
inglon Mr. Griffin lias secured
options on 12 head of stock from
Valdez owners and expects to se
cure .1 1 more for use of the three
parlies, all of which will be ship
ped to I lie Inlet, but not until
money is available for the use of
the survey.
In Ibe event of I he money not
being available for some time
Mr. Griffin will spend his time,
while waiting for congressional
action, surveying from Valdez in
to the Tiekhell country.
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EVENJIUNDRED
Sofia, Bulgaria. June 18.—The
official returns of the number of
lives lost in the recent earth
quakes show that an even hun
dred were killed and more than
200 wounded.
The ignorant people thought
that the end of the world had
come and were praying to God
to ave them all through the
earth Vibrations. They also
feared that, the Lord was wrath
with them because of the war
with their allies over the spoils
of war.
The revival meeting held last
night at the Congregational
church by Miss Wright was very
.largely attended. Another meet
ing will be held tonight. Every
body welcome.