NEW COWMEN
. ON MAIDEN TRIP
Takes 5,000 Passengers—Well Equip
ped In Case of Disaster—The
* Best of Accommodations.
LIVERPOOL, June 2.—The big
liner Aquatania, of the Cunard line,
the latest and largest steamship in
the world, sailed from this port last
night with 5,000 passengers. The ship
is making her maiden voyage. The
disaster to the Empress of Ireland ia
the St. Lawrence river had greatly
dampened the ardor of the passen
gers. ... ,
The Aquatania has been fitted .out
with every modern safety, appliance.
The ship carries two powerful life
saving boats. equipped with gasoline
motors and w'ith wireless equipment.
These boats are located one on each
side of the ship in special davits so
that they may be launched no matter
at what angle the ship lies.
The accommodations on the vessel
are the best yet provided and sur
pass even those in the most modern
hosteleries ashore. Suits of rooms
rent for as high as $5,000 for the trip
of five days.
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Federal Courts Say That Withdraw
al of 3,000,000 Acres Oil Land
Was Without Right.
LOS ANGELES, June 2.—The fed
eral court here today handed down
a, decision in the contest over oil
lands and the right of the government
to withdraw the oil lands was denied.
The proposed withdrawal consists of
3,000,000 acres of oil lands, which are
considered very valuable and which
entries had been made upon prior
to the withdrawal ant} capital wap
willing to sink wells ahd develop'the
lands. , ,
The court held that the lands were
not subject to‘ withdrawal by execu
tive order.
The. Supreme Court o fthe United
States will have to (decide, upon
whether the lands shall be return
ed to the public domain or to the
locators.- The case will be parried to'
the highest court for a decision on
the question of the proper disposal’
of the lands. f
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Mount Lassen ffirows Rocks and La
va NijH Into the Air—No
.. . ‘V* +.'S 1
Lives Are Lost.
REDDING,..Cgl'., JjMH} .^.TTrMottWt
Lassen, n mountain peak 16,000 feat
in height and which has..m>tjbeen
active for centuries, has broken in
td an eruption and is throwing rbeks
and lava into the air at a great rate.
The eruption started several dayaaic
and was preceded by violent (makes
and deep rtymhlljjgffi.... J£u|p ‘hCttiders
are being shot Jnto^tta Jiaav|na..and
aie falling dk the nlouiitaik aides..
The news was brought here by
ige as no trains are opitfEtfed jib;
section of the state in. which the
r volcano Is located, which,
sp sparsely settled. No lives wefe
lost.
joining the Meyer Blum residence to
Mr. Blum. The lot is 40 x 160 feet.
ok will Use
KATALLA OIL
Surveyors Expect to Need 2,000 Gal
Ions, Also Need Name for
'r±- > f? * '*
Stern WheeUy^
SEATTLE, Jppe 2—Commissioner
kiggs^of the .Ajas^i engineering com
mission announced today that the
commission would purchase 2,OpOgal
lons of katalia gasoline for the use
of the launches of the survey parties.
The commission has also ordered a
40-foot stern wheeler for the use of
the men, who will work up the $u
sitna river and the boat will be sent
north as soon as possible. The com
mission is unable to decide upon a
name for the new boat., ,
The work of assembling the sup
plies for the survey parties has pro
gressed rapidly apd all will be sent
north pn the negt two or three s.team
ers. Headquarters will be maintain
ed in the Alaska building all sum
mer, as many matters will be trans
acted for the commission from Se
attle and the maps and draftings
from the field notes will be prepared
in this city.
couu coins
ANOTHER MEETING
Raise Salaries of Clerk and Treasurer
to $50.00 a Month—Cement Side
/
walk Bids Received.
The city council at its meeting last
night raised the salaries of Town
Clerk Randall Ashby and Treasurer
Gene Ames from $35.00 a month to
$50.00 a month. The committee to
which had (been referred the request
for higher'wages brought in a ma
jority report by Councilmen Martin
atid Patterson against the increase of
fcvages, while -Al. White favored the
vrgise and, the council, adopted the mi
nority report. Then Councilman Pat
terson moved that all the wages of
the city employees, health officer and
magistrate be rajsed to $50,.00 a
month, so .that‘the town of. Valdez
lleed not be known as a cheap city,
podncilman Patterson says that $35.00
per month is enough for work done
by any( of these employees and
that taxpayers’ money should be con
served; bjjt .on the other hand if one
gets a raise for services performed
I all should be entitled to the same
I increase. ... •
‘fe ?lty 1,Kht
Ing. wgs gl^o ^Iscua^pp and both pom'
psaies furbishing bW .Vere repre
sehted, btit the council wis evenly di
vided-three to three—and the light
ing contract, was ymdecidedJ
The matter of the contract for the
cemqk{ sidewalk oq .tfip,i\orth Bide of
McKinley street was postponed until
Wednesday, -wien the council will de
cide Upon who shall get the work..
Bwaiuidh his tjbe lowest bid at $5.75
a front foot, while Blake was sec
ond with a bid ot $|.90 a front foot.
The; council passed, an ordinance
authorising, thet straightening o«t..«f
the sidewalk along McKinley street
-from the Tliiikmn Club to the dike,
and from the postoffice to the dike
•oh the sduth side of the street.
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Methodist University Opens,
j. ^ A^ASIJIfJG'^ON, June 2.—President
Wilson was expected to attend today
the opening of . the American Meth
^. piv^sSy. %ri*4 dedicatory:
Exercises; wth, a flag rilsifig, were?
on the program.
The Soul of ■ Thief. j
. the flout of a Thief, or the Benton;
ie»t«3 MyiWyi;J& excellent two-reel
drama at the Orpheum change tonight J
The Orpheum will now change every
MOfidSJ^Wsdnesdax'amLShddBy.with.
twowwi'tOTTBUII T98;anrSI'
a special one night change on Sun
day evening.
mud says
Empress of Ireland Going at Full
V ■«* v
Speed in Fog, 8ays Danish Cap
r? V
tain—Tried to Plug Hole.
^ MONTREAL, June 2.—Captain An
| derson, in command of the Danish
boat Storstadt, which rammed the
Empress of Ireland, causing the loss
of almost one thousand lives, denied
today that he had been at fault and
stated that the Empress of Ireland
was running at full speed in a heavy
fog;, .that he had sighted the other
steamer two n)iles distant and had
she slowed down as ordered by the
marine regulations the. two boats
should not have met for ten min
utes. The captain also denied that
he had steered wrongly but insist
ed that he was upon his proper course
and that at., the time of the accident
his vessel was almost dead and that
the Empress of Ireland came forward
at full speed, striking his bow and
continued on her way until almpgt
the entire stern had been cut in two.
Anderson also stated that he had
tried to keep his boat in the hole
but that the speed of the Empress
wrenched his ship away and that he
could do nothing more than he did
for the passengers on the doomed
liner.
When asked why he had not launch
ed but four life boats the Storstadt’s
master said that he had dropped ev
ery lifeboat on his ship and that his
crew had picked up 350 people from
the water, which is' proof, he said,
that he had done aH that was possi
ble in the twenty-five minutes in
which it was possible to pick up sur
vivors.
The afeents of the Canadian Pacific
Steamship Line today announced that
of those who were drowned 108 were
women and 11 children.
Port Wells Flyer Reaches Valdez.
The Port W 11s flyer, the launch
Brighton, reached Valdez' last night
with a number of passengers and
with 100 sacks of,ore from the De
rouche property on Long bay. The
ore will be shipped south on one of
the next steamers for a mill test.
The Brighton will sail for Port Wells
on Saturday.
i »• ,n v.. t-» ** a<t
LEFT $750000
Lost.Money While in Offieo—Was at
One Time Worth three Millions
—Money Goes to Family.
NEW YORK, June 2.—'The estate
of ex-ftayor Gaynor has been ap
praised and a value of $750,000 placed
on the property, ](rbich is considerable
less than was expected, as the former
mayor was at opq time worth several
millions of dollars,., which . he had
made in real estate speculations while
on the bench of the supreme court
of thin. atMpv....., ,-fl
During Mb term of Office the mayor
lost hundreds of ,tho|Ufnnda (of dol
lars, and his campMgh cost consider
able. The, estate: is divided among
the children and .Ms widow. .
• - t. .' . Ms, \ •
• 1 ' *J'SSl,Vrt{y"-iV«Vi- 'i.—••
sltion with the ifldet j^an£ ft trust
company jnfi apslataht cashier during
;he absence of Xl. Grigsby, who left
.-*>**• < t«v r »
the states on the Mariposa Sun
icyi^
. ^ to hdadimce the . fdfct.
fleiifedMt .&•' vnade^mhfay un
OSSfM ,««rth4& ikt.that hide.
-j, I* jg
All the latest popular muale at the
Valdes Drug Store.
ROOSEVELT RAPS
>i' y l^a • ♦ % ^ i: *!•■' ;• - V
Say* Wilton Hat Failed to Solve the
Trutt Quettion—Tariff doe*
Not Work Well.
NEW YORK, June 2.—Ex-president
Theodore Roosevelt left here yester
day for Madrid, Spain, to witness the
marriage of his son Kermit to Miss
Wallard and just beforg sailing he
issued a. statement attacking the ad
ministration of President Wilson for
its failure to solve the trust problem,
and also for its other failures.
“The Wilson administration has
failed in its attempt to solve the
tariff question,” said the colonel.
“We are paying as much for our goods
today as formerly and the people of
the United States are being taxed to
make up the difference between the
income under the old tariff and the
Wilson measure. Our manufacturers
have been hit hard by the competition
of cheap foreign made goods and
our American laborers are out of
work while the foreign countries en
joy prosperity.
“The cost of living is also just as
high now as it ever was and the pres
ent administration has done nothing
to lower that cost.
"Had the American .people elected
a Progressive administration we
would have solved the problems now
confronting the nation..”
The Bull Mooser will campaign the
states of New York and Pennsylvania
for the Progressive candidates, and
especially for Gifford Pinchot, who
is an aspirant as a senator from
Pennsylvania.
MADRID, Spain, June 2—The Span
iards will give Theodore Roosevelt
a cordial but insincere welcome, not
because he fought against Spain dur
ing the Spanish American war, but
because of his book x>n Cuba, in which
he recites his experiences during the
campaign and deals rather harshly
with the Spaniards, whom he termed
as murderers and cut-throats.
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MADRID. June 2.—King Alfdnso
today received Kermit Roosevelt and
hts fiance, the daughter .of Ambas
sador Willard o fthe United States.
The king expressed his delight that
“Teddy” would attend the wedding,
as he said he wished to meet him.
MILITANTS BURN
MfflGMM
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St. Mary’s Church at Hanley, England,
. tel* At »•>? : •'
Qeea Up In Smoke Aa Protest
By Suffragettes.
HANLpY, Eng., June 2.—The arson
squad of the militant suffragettes
succeeded last night tn destroying the
historic St. Mary’s church with its
Pficeless relics that can never, be re
placjfd., The womep succeeded in,en
ding the cpurcjh, anp sqttiiig, it .abre
without being discovered. Huqdreps
of..bills, demanding votes for women
were found about the church grounds,
left by the'miiitanto to show the peo
ple, who bad destroyed the house of
"9#$ m <or the m
i *W 9“ ,»*4,
buildings grp uppMe to. prpggot .lthe
many outrages and, the government is
being urged to start a .campaign of
Mtlve arapprfesalqd against the mili
tants add to deport Ail who Are caught
in the act of ...
•wwm# m»*» ffWbM.w * »•
npw, planned tg «01e dll wbo,ar« In
future convicted of arson or the ,de
strdcUon df property. It Id believed
that by pUclng the offenders id a
prilpfi Where they cahnot receivb.
will soon die opt . . <
-fsnrarwi
Subscribe f#r Cl« rPMpftotor.
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LANE IS PUSHING
COMMISSION BILL
Wants Commission of Three to Han
dle Alaskan Affairs and Says
Present 8yetem Is Patchwork
WASHINGTON, June 2.—In a very
lengthy report made today to the
Territorials committee of the House
and the Senate Secretary Lane urged
strongly the creation of what he
terms an “Alaska Development Board"
or commission, to be appointed by the
president and to have full charge of
all Alaskan affairs without interfer
ence from Washington excepting by
the heads of the departments to which
the board is to be attached.
The commission as planned is to
consist of three members. Secretary
Lane stated that the red tape now
a necessary part of the system of
control by the federal government in
Alaska affairs was a disgrace and
should he changed by congress at
once. He characterized the present
methods as mere patchwork with au
thority overlapping and the system
hindered the development of the re-‘
sources of Alaska. J
THREE FRIZES FOR
THE GLEMfS
Sam Blum Adds Two Additional Prizes
for the Boys—Committee Will
Decide on Winners.
Mrs. Sam Blum, in charge of lilt*
cleanup contest under the auspice*
of the Valdez Civic League, nas an
nounced that instead of one prize for
the "gang” or crew of boys who ntuke
the best showing in cleaning up the
vacant lots about town three prizes
will be given. One of $10.00, donat
ed by the Sunday Miner, one of $7.50
given by Sam Blum, and another of
$5 for the third prize, also donated
by Mr. Blum.
The contest will be started imme
diately, after the closing of school
next Tuesday and will last for a
week. The boys are to gather up
all the old cans and trash op vacant
lots and place it in a place where the
teams can reach it, and the boys with
the largest pile of dirt, cans and dirt
which now lies on vacant lots, will
njpeiye, tb? first prj?e, the boys with
t^e n^Xt largest .the second, and a
third prize for the third largest pile
of debris. .
A committee will he appointed to
pass in judgment on the work of the
boys, and girls also if they join with
the boys ip3 the cleanup campaign.
fhe .details of the contest will be
published in a few days. .
TT.^’" .It j ~A
PHOTOS USED IN CAMPAIGN
TO “CLEAN UP” BIG CITIES
NEW YORK, June 2 —A deeply in
teresting exhibit of photographs, car
toons and Jatest devices employed in
keeping .slfleR (sjuiitfry, ,wiu»( jut., on
display here today by the .department
of social .survey of,the Russell Sage
foundation. Many of the pictures por
trayed far more graphically"than could
be done in writing specific instances
of unsanitary conditions in various
lafge ptifes of, the United gtates, -the
ibtostratJpns, wenp reajly . pictures of
conditions that have been, presented
in written reports, on conditions. In
these cities. The exhibit will be open
to tjjfe public for the coining two
weeks.
PARl§-TO-LONDON AIR ,
RACE PLANE COMPLETE
Xttl. , ——t»r . «••*, ill
BAJtlll.r June 3.-rI^ris, ,today pq|p
pleted the. details of the first London
to-Parla and back aeroplane races,
fb take place the last of this
rale or the Aero Clubs of Fiance
and Great Britain.
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NELGHINA STRIKE
IS AUTHENTIC
T. E. Dougherty Receive* Message
From Tonsina Confirming Yester
day’s Dispatch.
I
T. E. Dougherty, the Valdez mer
chant, has received a telegram from
his son-in-law, Herbert Jaynes, at.
Tonsina, that three prospectors had
just reached that place with the news
of the strike in the Nelchina. The
prospectors, Pendegast, Spenard and
Atkins, are en route to Valdez for
supplies as the stock, of eatables in
the Nelchina is low. The men re
port that pay has been found on five
claims and that eight outfits are no»tv
sluicing, all of them having struck
play dirt.
But few of the prospectors are wil
ling to leave the creek. All who can
purchase supplies to tide them over
until the pack trains can come in
this summer.
The news in the telegram from Mr.
Jaynes corroborates that sent to the
Prospector by former U. S. Commis
sioner Blix and indicates that the
camp will become one of the big pro
ducers of the Third Division.
MI HE UP
. WESTERN
Engineers and “Firemen Will Vote On
the Strike Question—Men De
mand 50 Per Cent Raise.
CHICAGO, June 2. Fitly thousand
engineers and tiremen on ninety
eight railroads west of this city have
decided to take a vote on the strike
question as their demands for a raise
in wages of 50 per cent over those
now paid has not been granted by
the railroad officials.
The men claim that with the tre
mendous raise in the cost of living
that they axe unable to secure enough
to properly provide for themselves
and their families and Insist that the
50 per cent rai^e Is not exorbitant.
The. company officials say tha,t with,
the ,Interstate Coratmyrce Commission
reducing freight rates, the states
and counties raising the tax levy on
railroad property and the falling off
of receipts that the roads cannot pay
more tha^ the present senile of wages
and that they will fight tbe strike.
The vote on the strike will betak
en next week by the many locals.
W08IHTIO
■cnar
Overpower Guards at Vancouver, But
Police Prevent Escape—Angered
I*'.' i-f •
Because Chinese Landed.
ct, June 2.-An
ed, .^ecai^ie 600 Chinese had f>een
lj> 2W Hin
dus confined on a Japanese steamer
in the bay,, ,APqn tjiey had
»■«*#*«* tWpjWrt,,. y,WtVfll«ff,| AT®r~
P(?f WA ‘kAk«(W™«|to‘rp,thpm frpm
tip dec* and v iRtO iiauAffeea and yrpfe
preparing to.ruft.Ihe_ship ashore and
escape tv the land when the, timely
arrival of the splice soon quelled the
riot and .prevented the Hindus from
leaving tha ship.
c In quelling the riot the police used
.their night sticks unmercifully and
as a result many of the Hthdus had to
he taken to the hospital for treat
ment.