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VOL. 10. . .. .. .. . .
iOY MUST RUN
FOR GWERNUll
Friend* of “Bull Moose” Leader In
sist Upon His Leading ttie
Ticket.
NEW YORK, July 10—Ex-Presi
dent Theodore Roosevelt will be
forced to run for governor of New
York at the coming primaries ac
cording to the report Issued today
by the Progressive leaders, who have
been trying to induce the colonel to
head the “Moose” ticket, fearing that
unless he does the party in this state
and in the nation will be down and
out.
The inroads being made in the
ranks of the party by District Attor
ney Whitman, who will head the
ticket for the Republican party at
the coming primaries, will discour
^ age the voters this fall at the elec- i
* tion and that all or them will return
to the Republican party in order to
defeat Tammany.
It is almost certain that if the
Progressive party does not secure the
consent of Col. Roosevelt to make'
the run that Ex-governor Sulzer will
be placed on the ticket and will al
so run on the Democratic -ticket
against Governor Glynn.
WOMEN TO HI
THE BEEF TRUST
Claim That Retailers Are Owned Body
and Soul By the Packers, Who
^ Raise Prices.
NEW YORK, July 10.—Mrs. Heath,
president of the Housewives League,
of this city, will start a campaign
to force the reduction of beef by the;
big packers and the retailers,, most
of whom are owned or controlled by
the packing houses.
It is planned to secure beef from
Argentine and sell it in this, city
through retailers not controlled by
the big Chicago packing houses. A
light will also be made to secure the'
sale of garden produce to the house
wives of New York, without first pay
ing tribute to the packers, who now]
control the sale of garden truck and
have been steadily raising the rates.
The control of the freight cars and1
cold storage plants by the packers;
gives them the advantage over thei
small rancher, whose goods must be:
sold at once or spoil. ■
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New York Banking House Wants to
Bet Back Its Loan of $69,000,000
. to Frisco Railroad.
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ST LOUIS. July 10.—The Guaranty
i Trust Company of New -York today
^ foreclosed a mortgage of $68,000,000
on the St. Louis and Frisco Railroad,
the interest of Which has been dde
for several weeks and the manage
ment unable to raise the. money.
Proceedings were started at once
to have the property sold by the
United States marshal. c
Baseball Players, Attention!
There will be a meeting of • ball
players in Ingram & Bush’s this
P; evening at 8 o’clock at which busi
ness pf importance will be transacted.
All players are requested to be pres
ent.
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WON’T corn
mum fuel
T. D. Jones Not to Go On^ Federal
Reserve "Board—Senate Com
mittee Opposing.
•WASHINGTON, July 10.—The Sen
ate committee, to which was refer
red the nomination of T. D. Jones,
of Chicago, for membership on the
federal reserve banking board, have
refused to endorse the nomination
made by President Wilson because
of charges made against the Windy
City banker. -In spite of the alleged
charges President Wilson insists upon
the confirmation, claiming that hd
has known Jones for many years and
that he .was a classmate in Princeton
University and was an honorable
man.
The committee, however, is ob
stinate and refuse sto recommend the
confirmation. i
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DEMISE DRIVED
MAKES EIST TRIP
OLYMPIA, Wash., 'July 10.—Be
cause he was driving a hearse
through the streets at a rate that
exceeded the speed limit fixed by
law, Jack Williams was arrested to
day by the police and was later fined
$10.00 by the police magistrate.
Williams said that he had thebody
of “an old stiff without friends and,
wanted to get through the job as
fast as possible” and that he was
hurrying to the cemetery because he
had several other trips to make. The
magistrate, however, said that Wil
liams must pay a fine because the
rushing throuugh the streets of a
hearse with ‘he body of a dead per
son was not a seemly sight. Wil
liams paid his fine and proceeded
on his way to the graveyard.
$5,000 Car a* Auto Race Prize.
DENVER, July 10—Nearly fitfy
automobiles started from the Denver
Motor Club this morning in the 240
mile road race to Pueblo and return
arranged by the club. Motor chibs
of Pueblo and Colorado Springs are
co-operating. Only elapsed time will
be counted. The machines will be
Started back to Denver from Pbeblo
tomorrow, arriving here tomorrow af
ternoon. A handsome $5,000 car has
been Offered as first prize.
TRENT, Pa., July 10.—Mrs. Martha
Crise„,died here today of old age,
having lived tor a Cehtuty. She was
tor many years an invalid, never leav
ing her room unless carried on a
stretcher. In spite of her ililtess Mrs.
Oise married and lived to be one of
the1 oldest Inhabitants In'the state,
dying at the age of 109 years.
WILL MOVE DI8TRICT
ON TO THE FLATS
The restricted district will bemov-^
ed to a new location out on the flahl
beyond Keystone avenue as soon as
the necessary buildings can be erect-s
ed. District Attorney ppence has
refused to allow the district to rer
main in its present location. No sa
loons are to be granted a license
near the new district
Prohibitionists In Session.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., July
10.—Plans for state-Tide prohibition
in Colorado are expected to he laid
during the state convention of the
Prohibition party which began here
today. While all delegates are unit
ed In their belief that the time is
ripe tor a determined campaign, they
are Bald to differ as to the proper
methods which should be pursued.
LOSE ONE SPAN
OFKIMI ;
High Water'Caused By Recent Warm.,
Spell TaBces Out One Span—
Edgerton Leaves for Scene.
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Word was received late yesterday
afternoon from R. S. Giddings, the
engineer of the Alaska road commis
sion who is in the Nizina country to;
locate and construct a trail to the
new bridge across the Nizina river,
that the recent high water had wash
ed out the big center pier and that
two lBO-foot spans of the government
bridge had been carried away.
The bridge was the best and most
substantial ever built in Alaska by
the road commission and was ex
pected to hold, but the Nizina, which
Is said to be the most treacherous
river in Alaska and is fed from a
dozen large glaciers at the head of
the Nizina, Chittistone, Dan Creek,
Chittitu, Young Creek and many oth
er streams and at times is excep
tionally high, carried it away. A
terrific rush of water bringing down
driftwood and trees from the upper
river swept the pier out and the two
spans were lost last week.
The report says that the water is
still high and that several other piers
may go.
Lieut. Edgerton left this morning
for the Nizina and will take charge
of the work of saving the remainder
of the bridge and also plan for the
rebuilding of the span next winter,
as no work can be done during the
summer on account of the high wa
ter.
Sister M. Amadeus, of the con
vent, left this morning for Seattle on
the steamer Mariposa.
HELD FOR MURDER
WOIN GDLLAFSES
Mrs. Carman, Wife of the Doctor In
Whose Office Woman Was Stain,
Is Charged With Crime.
FREEPORT, N. Y., July 10.—Mrs!
Carman, who was arrested yesterday
for the murder of Mrs. Bailey* has
collapsed and is in a very serious
condition. The testimony given yes
terday by william Bardes that he
had broken a window for a strange
woman, 'who fifed the shot and then
disappeared, has been exploded, aS
the prosecutor has evidence to prove
that Bardes was three-quarters of
a mile away ten minutes after thd
killing and was calling upon a young
woman, who says he was not excited
nor out of breath.
Mrs. Carman’s mother is dying as
a result of the trouble in the family.
MINIMUM «MG(S
FOB HELLO «LS
OLYMPIA, Wash., July 10.—The
Skaffe Industrial Commission .today
fixed the wages for telephone oper
ators at not less than ♦9.00 and here^
after all hello girls will receive that
sum or the companies wil Ibe Inroad
■ to pay heavy fines and the managers
to serve jail sentences. The com
mission decided that the girls could
not live on less than $9.60 a Week
and be good.
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Orpheum Tonight.
Another good lot id movies at the
Orpheum tonight:
Woman’s Honor, a story of strong
1 heart appeal.
The Sheriff, an exciting drama.
Legally Right, a majestic comedy
fuull of honor.
iNERAL CHEEK
MM BE BUT
Buitneis Men and Mining Operator*.
Subscribe Over One Thou
tand Dollars.
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The business men and mining op
erators of Valdez and Mineral Creek;
have agreed to contribute $1,020 for
the work of 'building a wagon road:
from the beach 'it the mouth of Min
eral creek to the upper end of the'
creek. The collection was made by
Robert McIntosh, the freighter, and
the work will be started at once.
Col. Richardson, chairman of the
Alaska road commission, will give
the project such aid as Is possible, but
because of the shortage of, funds can
not undertake to do the work.
The subscription list is as follows:
Robert McIntosh .$300.00
Town of Valdez, by E. E.
Ritchie . 150.00
W. L. Smith, Mountain King 100.00
Big Pour Mine . 100.00
J. M. Lathrop . 50.00
J. P. Simons, Mineral creek
operator . 50.00
S. Blum & Co. 50.00
Woods and Olson. 40.00
Valdez Mercantile Co. 25.00,
Al. White .. 20.00
H. E. P. King . 10.00
Jack McLean . 10.00
Senate Saloon . 10.00
Smith & Chisholm . 10.00
C. M. Day . 10.00
Buffet Saloon . 10.00
Copper River Luumber Co.... 10.00
C. -C. Rudolph . 10.00
Chas. Bunnell . 10.00
E. E. Ritchie . 10.00
W. H. Blackwell . 10.00
Ingram & Bush . 10.00
James Patterson . 10.00
A. J. Wendler . 5.00
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Makes An Attack Upon the Policies
of the President and Says He
Is a Theorist
WASHINGTON, July 10 —Senator!
Charles E. Townsend, Republican, of,
Michigan, in a long speech delivered
today in the Senate denounced Pres-'
ident Wilson as a theorist and pre
dicted that the business prosperity
of the country would be destroyed,
and our foreig nrelations become the
byword of Europe unless me mended
his ways. <
Democratic senators ridiculed the1
Michigan senator and praised the1
president and his work and compared
it to that of the administration of.
President Taft.
TiAKtlW !
MKlSWiBOW
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The Valdez Civic League will meet
tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock at:
tbie city hall. All members are re
quested to be present.
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Ssciety On Cnmeia.
CHICAGO, July 10.—Oriental beau
ties, picked from South Side families
of wealth, will ride gaily caparisoned
camels tn tonight’s psgesAt At the
Soutti Shore Country OWVmsrktng
the opening of the chib’Banmial two
day hone show: * The equestrian
! pageant will move along the shore
of Lake Michigan to a Mecca StoAt
on the Sttnds, where the evening’s
entertaisment Will be. provided. A
saddle • Marathon for women rldem
and a grand ball are to he features;
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Louisville fttfad Issued 11,000 Last
Year—'Puublic Officials Demand
ed Free tHbfo.
WASHINGTON, July 10.—The In
terstate Cdinmerce Commission re
ported today that the 'Louisville rail
road officials had distributed 11,000
passes last year in Spite Of the fed
eral statute which mtikes it a crime
to give passes. The report shows
that 140 federal and state officials
had accepted passes from the com
pany and In several instances had
demanded them because they were
in a position to force the company to
give up.
It is expected that Indictments will
be asked in the federal courts against
the officials of the road for granting
the passes and the officeholders for
demanding and accepting them.
EVANS FARMER
RECALLSMASSACRE
EVANS, End., July 10.—Thirty
eight years ago General George A.
Custer and 600 of his heroic com
mand were slaughtered by ten times
their number of Sioux Indians un
der the terrible Sitting Bull. The
event was recalled here recently by
George H. Welch, 69, formerly an In
dian fighter, now a farmer living two
miles west of Evans.
“Under Captain T. B. Weir, we
were ordered to the rear by Custer,”
said Welch. "There were three com
mands out to round up Sitting Bull,
who had led his braves off their res
ervation and was causing trouuble.
Custer miscalculated and was tricked
into an ambuscade that left him sur
rounded by 6,000 bloodthirsty Indians.
The terrible thing was that we could
see Hhe plight of Custer and his
band, but could not even help him.
After the massacre we held Sitting
Bull on the banks of the Little Big
Horn until reinforcements came from
Fort Lincoln. Because the Indians
held Custer in such reverence they
called him Big White Chief—Custer
was the only member of the band
who was slain that day who was not
scalped or otherwise mutilated.”
One man .who participated in the
battle with Ouster alone survives.
'He Is Curley the Crow, one of Cas
ter’s scouts.
C. E. Bunnell, one of the two mem
bers of the Territorial Democratic
committee from this division, today
issued a call for a primary to be
held in Valdes next Tuesday to eleet
nine delegates to the Democratic
convention to be held at Skagway
August 3.
BIG SUFFRAGE RALLY AT
MR8. BELMONT'S HOME
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NEWPORT, R. I., July 10.—Suf
fragists today invaded the heretofore
invincibleramparts of New port, the
sumteer play-place of America's thul
tl-and mere-millionaires. At the in
vitation of ttrs.’O. H. P. Belmont,
woman suffice leaders from every
state in the union gathered today at
“MarMe House," the palace home of
the New York traction magnate's
wife, to discuss battle plans far con
centrating Ml their efforts in sup
porting a suffrage measure in con-'
great. Suffrage leaders have, been
widely divided over the respective
merits of the Senator Shaffroth and
Senator Bristow measures new- be
fore congress. It was to effect a
compromise on these two measures
that the meeting was called today.
Charles Slmonated, the mining ex
pert, left for Juneau on the Mariposa.
PROVIDE H
Senate Pastes Civil Sundry Bill Pro
viding for Work of Many De
partments In Alaska.
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WASHINGTON, July 10.—The Sen
ate today passed the civil sundry bill
with many appropriations for Alaska
work. The bill carries an appro
priation of $50,000 for the Alaska ex
hibit at the Panama exposition, which
was requested by Senator Jones of
Washington state. The bill will now
go to conference, where the differ
ences between the bill as passed by
the Senate and the House will be
adjusted.
The Geodetic Survey in Alaska re
ceives an appropriation of $225,000,
besides several new vessels. The na
tives are well cared for, money being
provided for their education and al -
so for medical attention. The Fish
eries department received the larg
est appropriation yet given them for
work in Alaska, $110,000 being pro
vided for the general expense of the
department in Alaska and two new
vessels are also to be built.
The bill also provides for the ap
propriation of $15,000 for the pur
chase of additional land at Fairbanks
to be used by the federal authori
ties in connection with the court
house, jail and detention hospital.
TELL PRESIDENT
D. S. PROSPEROUS
Ford, the Automobile Manufacturer,
Says That Only Pessimists
Stand In the Way.
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WASHINGTON, July 10.—Henry
Ford, the manufacturer of the Ford
automobile, today called upon Presi
dent Wilson and told the president
tha* the outlook for the business
prosperity of the United States was
exceptionally good, and that the on
ly drawback was the fact that fhe t
people are all pessimistic and are
standing in the way of their own
prosperity. .
Ford stated that with the large
crops and the passage of the trust
laws the business of the country
would soon establish itself upon a
firm basis and that the United States
would enter an epoch of prosperity
the like of which it had never known
before.
IMRIPOSIUOMES
FROM THE WEST
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Arrives From Ship reek—Takes Out
a Few Paeiiengers for
Seattle.
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The steamer Mariposa arrived this
morning at 4 o’clock from the west
and sailed south at 5, taking a few
passengers for Cordova. Juneau and
Seattle.
FOr Seattle: Sister M. Amadeus,
Mrs. J. Marshall, C. H. Johnson, T.
J. Conde, A. W. Geiger, Mrs. D. F.
Estab, Mr. and Mrs. Harry M. Car
ter. C, G. Itebney.
For Juneau: Chas. Slmonstad,
May Hoffman. W. A. Muter.
For Cordova: Walter West, Car
oline Kelsey. Mrs. F. Sheldon.
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W. L. Morgan and son, C, L. Mor
gan. returned from a prospecting trip
to Mount Drutn and will re-ouMt ihd
return to, their claims this fall.