on, Uoolak PF.lt Month. ' LIT-' W ALASKA^ATUU LA V KVKXIXO. MAY a !■-»! I.T"'.. 1 '112—
V.ssT.'ngton. Ma> IS. -Confirmation of the report has been re
j.i tins city that Dictator Huerta lias notified the Mexican peace
rm,-.to present his resignation as president of Mexico m case such a
ivsiisi’ is deemed wise or necessary.
Mexican Rebels Don’t Take Proposition Seriously
ire/., Mexico, May 18. The Mexican rebels in this vicinity arc
not inclined to take seriously Dictator Huerta’s proposal to place his
resignation m the hands of his peace envoys at Niagara i alls, n b\ so
doing; the negotiations would in any manner be promoted.
Carranza Scuds Representative
j he administration has been advised that General Carranza "ill
, .i i ,i representative to the mediation conference at Niagara Fails.
Mav Not Accept Carranza’s Representative
Niagara Falls, May 22. -the mediators who wili endeavor to
! : in .'.Tout an adjustment of tne trouble between tlie L mod .States
tator H lerta have not yet decided to accept the delegate o! the
coii'iituiionalists, who is reported as coming here.
Able Republican Senator Upholds President
S :us to'.' t'jj.ii B. Root of New York today spoke five hours urging
i'■ e p of the bill to repeal the exemption irom foils clause ol the
Panama canal law.
United States Senate Will Hold Night Sessions
Washington. May 22. - The senate today decided to hold night
s.- - i■ • i-, commencing next week, in order to expedite business.
Judge Lindsey Wants Troops to Stay
Judge Ben Lindsay of Denver has appealed to the I resident to
the federal soldiers in the Colorado strike zone.
American Consul Silliman in Mexico City
Mexico May 22.---American Consul Siliiman. for whose
safety much anxiety has been felt during the past lew days, armed
here today.
Saltillo Evacuated
Juarez. May 22.—Advices received here state that the federal
garrison has evacuated Saltillo.
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Madrid. Mav 22.—Kermit Roosevelt, son of the ex-President, ar
.i here today. Hn wedding with Miss Belle \\ il'.ard. daughter of the
.: . n ambassador to Spain, will take place early next month.
i i;e announcement of the engagement caused considerable mter
< •[. espi ally in tire Soutli, where Miss Willard is considered one of tire
pr* ttiest belles. Her home is in Richmond, Yu. lire couple were
1 rou in together on a motoring tour m the South a year ago. kertmt
Roosevelt is employed by a South American company.
PYPPSIFlflF? man Wftf PB
Nulato, May 18.—At 7:20 this evening the ice is still running,
and the water is ri: ing fast—at the rate of about a foot an hour since
10 o’clock this morning. Many believe that the inhabitants of this set
tlement wili be compelled to take to the hills back of town if the
freshet continues at that rate until morning.
LABOR LEADERS MUST
Chicago, May 18.—The United States circuit court of appeals to
day handed down a decision wherein it is determined that lie con
victed labor leaders who were released on bail from the federal peni
tentiary ai Leavenworth, Kan., pending the appeal oi their cases to the
supreme court oi the United States, must surrender themselves to the
prison authorities by June 6.
Panama, May 18.—Governor George \V. Goethals of the Panama
canal zone made an official announcement today that ai! vessels pass
ing through the canal must be piloted by American pilots.
Chicago, May 22.'—After a search of two years, James Green
baur.i, accused of embezzling $25,000 at Nome, Alaska, while agent
for a St. Louis distillery, was arrested here today.
It has been unofficially estimated that We guarantee satisfaction,
the ice cream consumption of the United j Clemons & Koon.
States is about five quarts per capita an- , -
nually. Assessment Work Blanks at Pioneer.
| MOOSE MEETING
]<iitaxoil Lodge No. 1429, Loyal Order of Moose, will meet at Flat City on
1 Sunday, May 24, 1914, at 8:30 p. in. Business of importance will come up at this |
I meeting, and it is hoped that every member will attend who possibly can. I
f IVAN WALES, Dictator. jj
GRAND JURY PROBING
AFFAIRS OF HALIBUT TRUST
Scat lie. May 22. The Booth Fisheries
Company has been ordered to product its
books and records for the scrutiny of the
grand jury, which is seeking to ascertai 1 il
Booth engineered the I'uget Sound Alaska
halibut trust.
CHICKEN CREEK MINER
MEETS WITH ACCIDENT
Antony Tangen, a miner employed by
Tom Ait ken at his Chicken creek workings,
met with a serious accident Thursday. A
large boulder was dislodged and struck him
t n the Pg below the kr.ee, causing a com
pound fracture. lie was brought to the
emergency hospital at Flat, where he is
being attended by l)r. Moore, who set the
broken bones The doctor states that un
less complicati.ons set in Tangen sh odd
suffer no permanent injury. He is rep* rted
to be getting along as well as could be
ewpec ted.
VETERAN TRADER LEAVES
FOR HiS HOME OUTSIDE
That uncompromising enemy of old ‘Hi
Prim.1. V . Charlton, Iditarod's popular
b lumen i:d free lance, was an outbound
tee'sengcr yesterday afmrnoon on the
•teamer M. I.. Washburn for bis Seattle
home. Mr. Charlton succeeded in di.-:*os
ing of the slock of merchandise he shipped
in la.-t fall a couple of months ago. and has
since ben waiting I r the open season in
order to travel in comfort, instead of hit
Png tin' Seward trail, as he at cite time
•..nteni dated. When he left here Mr
Charlum was undecided whether he v.-uM
again make another business venture into
this valley.
Nula.io. Ms; 2 V 9 in. -Cloudy; Davy
min last night. River has dr >ppe l four
feat ; still running full of ice.
Mari nee Down ! agio, midnight.
Reli s' Gibbons n r 1 airhanks 9 p. m.
19th.
SchWatka Scheduled down Dawson,
24th.
Shu-hanna At (’!;< :ia inr-> drydcwk.
Tatiana SihedaDd Fairbanks for (lib
! : ■ n. 9 ]!. in. t - '.da; .
Tnnana river full of ire. Yukon thin
! iiing at (ill o n; thick a: Xulato and K 1
tag. Lake Lebarge in ‘ ye; open.
The Wa.-hburn arrived, from Dik man
: Mi‘iida\ witii a barge containing fright fir
the Yukon Gold Company. She returned
|'down the river Tuesday night.
Fort Gibb ... May 21 Da\ - h i
Gibbon f. r Ilaglc. June 2.
T i'"1 - S •!-■ billed «n for Mi 'at i.y
about May 1.
May 1. Dov. m Tolova: : . 11:30 p. m.
! 50(l!.
| Marinee Down Magic. 20th.
| K< Lance Scheduled Fairbanks for !■ wer
| Yukon point.- tonight.
Relief At Hot Springs, up-bound.
Srhwatka Scheduled down, Dawson
0,1,
lanana. Down ( licna, midnight las!
night.
White Sr il Down McCarthy, S a ;;;.
Yukon covered witli ico at K >tiik : ice
still solid.
Xulato, 9 a. m.- -Cloudy; rain; r:vcr
lower; ice thinning.
j -
j May 22. May K Brokr down at Hot
! Springs.
Mari nee Down Eagle, 20th.
I Tananu At Tanana.
White Seal Down McCarthy, f» a. m.
Xulato Raining hard; river about clear:
I rising slightly.
! Gibbon, May 23, 9 a. in. Mariner
| Down Eagle, 20th.
Reliance At Gibbon.
Relief Cp Nenana. 8 .45 a. m.
Schwatka Scheduled down Dawson,
j 25th.
Tanana At Gibbon for Dawson, 8 p. m.
1 22d.
W hite Seal Down Delta, 5 p. m. 22d.
Ice . till solid Kotlik.
Mike Powers, a well known resident of
Mat City, and an old-time deep-sea sailor,
has been in the city for the past few days.
With the approach of spring, Michael says
he could hear the sad sea waves a-calling
ever and anon, and he believes that he
will once again "sign on” for another voy
age.
Dr. Moore and Basil Clemons of Mat
, City mushed into the city yesterday after
! noon.
„ -
! A light fall of beautiful snow was no
ticed this morning between 7 and 8 o’clock.
Job Printing at Pioneer office.
JAP QUESTION
Washington, April 2b. Secret mgodu
lions for the settlement of the Japan'1? ‘ ex
elusion and alien land questions are being
carried on by the state department with
Japan, and a definite settlement or a final
disagreement with the Japanese govern
ment is expected within the next few weeks.
The negotiations are being guarded with
the utmost secrecy, partly because of the
delicate political situation in Japan and
partly because of the secretive policy h i
lowed by the state department in all its
international dealing.-.
li is understood that the negotiations
deal in part with an understanding under
which Japan wiil concede the right of the
various states to enact anti-alien land laws,
saving her face by securing a similar con
cession from the L'nited Stales cone riling
lands in Japan.
On tin* immigration question it is un
derstood that Japan is willing to strengthen
the ‘gentlemen’s agreement” mad- with
t! 1 i- government in 1907, in which Japan
volunteered to restrict immigration from
Japan to this country.
The last expression of Japan on this sub
ject was an addenda to the treaty of *,u:n
Lieive and navigation of February 21, 1911,
when Japan agreed to maintain with equal
elPvtivene." the limitation and control ex
ereused for the last three years in regula
lion of the emigration of laborers to the
l nited States.
Tin re have been growing e> lplaixcs
from the Pacific emi t that this agree*.;t ;.r
has not been sufficient!y effective and that
i I’der i: the Japanese population in the
Western date- is increasing: instead if di
minishing.
PartieuLr attention has beer, directed to
tlm large influx of Japanese women into
Hawaii and continent al Timed Mate.- dur
::ig iho last two years. In 1912 4.22S
won.-ii. m.>re than bO per cent of the total
.Japanese immi; radon into Hawaii and th(
VV< states re 'admitted
b. 1S4. or 47 per cent of those admitted,
were female-.
Of these women, several diom-anl were
what art1 known as “proxy' « . “photo
graph" brides, married under a cm mm rec
•’irm ed as legal in .Japan to men living in
tins cn-uxitry. In many in.-.. anees these
brides had never tlieir husbands, the
.marriages living arranged between the heads
of tlie respective families.
Ihe binding efttvi of these marriages
upon the immigration agreement with
•'ep::n has been ma-tiimed by (’ommis
• of Immigi a: on (.'ami.-ieui, and an
e:i. v i- b. :t:g ■ in the present n go
to end tli dmission t»f “ lure"
brides.
I he (>1 p» ctltm Jo fhi.-- t^-rm of immigra
u"ii i> that first the woimTi immediately
.
b. (ome competitors in the lat> r market.
And
mate : O.iiion of a b:-: live nadve-L.-.rn
Japanese to tin population ah-ady on the
Pacific At
' bl- i.ii.-. who have b * n cl wlv f ill.owing
[ the trend of evsn;- .n the <.)rient believe
I ihat the leaders in Japan have ct mluded
! the estaol; hmerit < f a grea: Japanese
| temulation in the Cmttd States is now im
1 i:o:sible, and the Japane-e are turning to
| Mexico and South V.WTir". as the refuge
j bir their surplus population.
!; i-s expected that with the final restora
1:11,1 {-f oruer in Mew. > Japanese money
ami emigration will be directed to the ex
1 dilation of the vast resources of that
country, and that with the opening of
the Panama canal the Japanese will be
fnund settling in large numbers along both
die eastern and western coasts of South
Amei ica.
It is intimated that as part of the present
l’cgotiati. ns the administration will taeitlv
agree to “wink" at Japanese emigration to
die Latin republics, provided that in othpr
respects the Monroe doctrine is observed
by Japan in relation to the securing of
naval bases or other strategic footholds.
FIGHT ON LOBBYISTS
j Boston, Mass., April 11 The state of
I Massachusetts has taken steps to stop the
j -pry work of corporations, and hereafter
I any person who acts as special reporter for
public service corporations will be excluded
from the sessions of the legislature. It is
contended that the news is handled by the
daily press, and the need for special re
porters is absent. But the main purpose
of the law. while not apparent on its face,
is to prevent indirect browbeating, by repre
sentatives of the corporations, and to re
j move the fear from the members of being
minutely reported for their activities in be
half of any bills detrimental to accumula
tions of capital. The corporations have
been in The habit of spying closely on each
mmeber and threatening him with defeat
at the next election if he shows himsell
too active along certain lines. In short,
Massachusetts is attempting to put a stop
To the peculiar form of lobbying which ex
ists in the legislature.
LARGE SUM OFFERED
FOR CHAMPIONSHIP BOUT
Chicago, May 22. l ight promoters m
London have made an offer to Vvilli<*
Hitchie. the lightweight world’s chant; ion,
,.f .*.">0,000 for a twenty round bout with
Freddie Welsh, the English boxer, to take
place next month.
CONFESSED MURDERESS
ACQUITTED BY JURY
Seattle, May 22. Mrs. Werner, who con 1
fessed that she hired an Italian to murder j
her husband for the sum of $100, was ac
quitted by the jury today.
Werner was murdered at his farm near 1
Issaquah some two months ago. At first j
the woman stated ihat her husband had !
been called to the barn late at night by j
some itinerant peddler.*, and there killed
and robbed.
Her accomplice is awaiting trial.
VESUVIUS IN ERUPTION
Naples. May 22. Mount Vesuvius is,
again in eruption, and its activity is daily j
increa.-ing, causing great anxiety.
IMPORTANT A. B. MEETING
By a notice published elsewhere in this
issue of The Pioneer it will be seen that
there will be a meeting of Camp Iditaivd
\o. 27 tomorrow (Sunday i afternoon, at
2 o’cl < k, and all members of the lodge j
are urgently requested to attend. BuMne*.- j
of financial interest to the camp will be I
discussed, and it is ah- lately nec'*s.-:iry that •
the full membership should be on hand at i
that time.
3 1,-^1 l-Ja 'a fed Vv
Mrs. Ke! dewed am! children visited I.Ut
anal Mam lay.
There was a larp ly a.temied meeting of
till- M ose lodge at Flat las. Sunday. and
ihere is t' If another meeiinv at the -aim
; l.af tomorrow.
Jim t mn : n lot w " k purchased th •
| Id at t'Uv water works from Louis Lnck
, son for the sum of S >00.
ILL Lowrh- ha* receive.! a tel. gr im front
1 Mrs I.owrie. at Seattle, saying she would
k a\ e i a laitarod on May 27.
The Summit r. adi use has moved uaek
to .-ui.itaer quarters on the tramway.
Riley & Mar-ton of Discovery are put
ring on men every day at all their big
j ; . Ivy the lir.o of the month they will
la w 100 or more men on the pay roll.
. ‘ . Ellis of Otter creek has a crew of
j men working, and has commenced to
I opt It U] .
j -
Riley & Stctzer have a crew of men
' working pumping out the cut. and will entn
j mence sluicing in a few days.
Mr-. Swan-on of Flat City has closed up
i her restaurant to make repairs.
I
All of the bench claims on Otter are
; ground-sluicing, and are putting on men
every day.
Dave Stranberg has a large crew of men
wound-.'luicing at his lower plant on Flat
creek.
| The- towns are bring deserted by all the
| men who have been waiting to go to work.
! All the plants on Happy. Chicken and Wil
i low creeks have commenced operation, and
; by the middle of next week they will be
1 running full blast.
An accident occurred at the Upgrade last
Wednesday which caused the laying oft of
part of the force of men employed there.
An immense boulder rolled down the hill
and wrecked the gin-pole and scattering de
struction in its path. Fortunately no one
i was hurt.
The Reverse English
The Woman Here's a wonderful thing.
I’ve just been reading of a man who reached
the age of 40 wit hi ut learning how to read
or write. He met a woman, and for her
sake he made a scholar of himself in two
years.
The Man That’s nothing! I know a
man who was a profound scholar at 40.
Then he met a woman, and for her like
he made a fool of himself in two days! —
Exchange.
Announcement was made in New York
city recently that the town of Philpot
Manor, near Tarry town, N. Y., had been
i traded for a twenty-two story skyscraper
! on Fifth avenue. The town consists of 250
I acres, and has on it many houses costing
i from $10,000 to 520.000.
I
Oyster Ray, May 22.—Colonel Theodore Roosevelt arrived home
today from his South American trip.
In an interview with newspaper reporters Colonel Roosevt;;
stated that within the next few days he intended to issue a statement
to the members of the Progressive party, informing them that a crisis
is at hand in the affairs of the nation, and will also urge upon his fol
lowers in the state of Pennsylvania to use every effort in their power
to elect Gifford Pinchot, former chief forester, to the United States
senate, to succeed Boies Penrose, the stand-pat Republican incumbent.
After a long conference with Progressive leaders, he announced
his plans. He will make a coast-to-coast campaign during the coming
summer. He will not be a candidate for governor of New ic. ;-: state.
Tremendous Majority for Penrose
Philadelphia, May 22.—Senator Boies Penrose receivi a v
jority of 160,000 over Charles Dimmick for the RepublicaC .om:na
tion for senator m the primaries held yesterday. Gifford Pn ot was
nominated for the office on the Progressive ticket.
Danviile, II!., May 22.—Hon. Joseph G. Cannon (“Uncle Joe"),
former speaker of the national house of representatives, who when
'con given a vacation without having asked for it, has announced hi
defeated at the election in November, 1912, remarked that he usd
candidacy for his old position at the election next fall, and will shortly
begin a very active campaign.
Mr. Cannon is almost 80 years of age.
ipnii -lAGO^
Seattle, May 22.—-Orange Jacobs, the venerable jurist of this
state, died at his home in this city last evening, at the age of 82 years.
judge Jacobs was for many years one of the most prominent
members of the legal profession in Washington, both in territorial and
statehood days, and during his long residence had held many hit i
political offices. He was formerly chief justice of the territorial su
preme courh and was later a delegate from Washington territory to
congress. For several years he was a judge oi the superior couri of
King county, which was the last public position he held. He retired
from active practice about six years ago. He was a Democrat m
> whiles.
London, May 18.—John L. Griffiths of Indianapolis, Ind., the
American consul general in London since 1909, died in this city tics
morning of heart failure. Mr. Griffiths was a native of New York, ana
was for four years reporter of the supreme court of Indiana. During
the past few years he has been writing a history of the life oi former
President Benjamin Harrison, at the request of Mrs. Harrison.
BUILDING GF BATTLESHIP
RECALLED IN SEATTLE
The death > f the naval constructor under
whose supervision tin1 but tie.-hip .Vbr::-ka
was built recalls one of Seattle s ui-1mcT.v ■
achievements, says the Seattle Post-Inn Ih
gi ncer. Some years F.iore the V !*rusk:i
was built here, a San Francisco yard, built
\\ h . s wen
the Nebraska, a Seattle firm, the Moran
Bros., appeared as bidders. IF men 'Fran
determined to get this contract, aim after
much negotiation closed it at a figure
which required some substantial aid horn
the people of Seattle, aid th:P was noth
coming in the shape of a mum- t 1H-*
builders of $100.(100, paid to by ;ne
city through the Chamber of Commerce on
launching day.
Die contract for the vessel was let : >
the Morans on March 7. 1901. ;ri'| the -u .4
of the big ship was laid on July 1, 19UJ.
On October 1. 1904, she was launched. The
Moran contract called for >3.733.>>00, but
Ihe ship complete cost about >7 r>;>ii.0u«*. '-r
about one-half what each of the two new
vessels will cost asked for by Secretary
| Daniels as the program for battleship an
! propriatinn for this year. There is ap
i |latently an increased cost of living in the
j battleship item of about 100 per cent.
While we are apparently no longer able
to get along with the battleship of a
decade ago, the Nebraska was at her time
! about the last word in a man-of-war.
| But one last word follows another, and
| just now it is the $15,000,000 battleship.
1 What it will be in another decade -but
why speculate?
j It was a regular occasion in Seattle when
j the big steel hull slid down the ways and
! took the water. It was noisy', too; mere
! noise than Seattle ever made before and
1 more than it has ever had time or in
! clination to make since—for the town lay
sprawled till over the map the next morn
ing. as big as on the day after the Klon
dike. Seattle had just launched one of
the world’s biggest battleships, and the
world read all about it at its breakfast
1 i If*. That beanie had a \ar<! iee enough
to build a ba '!• hip in wu-* th« thing hat
made the world .-it up.
M ■
u( f h( nor, and M M rist
the navy’s new lighter •
blew, bombs exploded and 5*'U; ■' thr* s
shouted themselves h .r e wren t;:e great
hull, after a preliminary shiver, slid in
water
as gracefully as a swan. It uv Seat :i* V
greatest gala day. the city's lineal ach'■eve
men t up to that time
The elevated shower bath water tank of
the ('rosby bath hi use. wiiich was last fall
gently \ icked up lx dily by . z j n
the southwest and deposited on the icy
bosom of the Iditarod river, wh re ir rested
nuietiy during all the winter months has
again been placed in position. but not so
higli in the world in this instance.
Steamer Little Delta arrived in part
shortly before 11 o’clock this ne ming v.nh
a barge heavily loaded with four foot wood
from the camp of (.' int u.s- l.r.nont and
Brun, about eighteen miles below this city
REGINA HOTEL REMODELED
The Regina hotel, under the propnet r
ship of Mrs. Nellie P. Gilmore, h 1 mi
entirely remodeled and repapered thr-.mgli
out. The popular hostelry now primus s.
handsome appearance, and is i credo V*
the enterprise and taste of its pro; i tel rests.
NOTICE
Members of ('amp Iditarod No. 27, Arctic
Brotherhood:
All members of the camp are urgently
requested to attend a special meeting at
the hall Sunday afternoon, May 24. ;>t 2
o’clock. Business of vital importance will
be transacted. Come Don't miss it.
CLAUDE BAKER. Arctic Chief.
WM. A NS LEV, Arctic Recorder.