Of Building Battleships Among
the Ship Yards—Favors the
Lowest Bidder.
Washington, I>. C., May 2-.—
Secretary of the Navy Daniels to
day made the statement that the
policy of the Navy department
of dividing the work of building
battleships among the different
builders had precluded any com
petition between the companies,
as each was sure of a certain
amount of government work.
This policy, he said, would not
be followed during his adminis
tration, bill the work would he
soul lo I lie lowest bidder and no
differential of five per cent wiU
he given lo ship yards on the Pa
cific coast as heretofore to allow
for the cost of transportation of
the armor [date from the east to
the west.
The fear that small ship yards
would he run old of business by
I he new method, lie declared, was
groundless.
So States Secretary Navy Dan
iels, Who Wants a Gov
ernment Plant.
^ Washington, D. C., .'lay - -.—
Sec-ret ary of the Xavy Daniels has
come out in favor of a govern
ment owned and operated armor
plate factor.' lo compclc with the
l rust.
He claims that the prices ask
ed are exorbilanl and that the
combine operates lo prevent Ihe
government receiving a fair hid
for battleships.
Millions could he saved to the
people, says I lie new secretary, if
Ihe government made its own ar
mor plate.
Lieut.. Prosser, in charge of
I lie signal oll'iee, has been grant
ed a two months leave of absence
arid will leave Valdez about the j
middle of next month and will I
spend his vacation at his old
home in Indiana.
DHIELSfUESll
MIME
Annapolis, May ;! ‘.—Secretary
of the Navy Daniels today made a
trip of eight miles in a war hy
droplane, sailing down (these
peake hay and returning to the
academy. The secretary express
ed himself as greatly pleased with
his travels in the air ship, and
hoped, he said, to see the Ameri
can navy equipped with many of
the flying machines.
We Are Coming.
We're coining, Father Wood
row, a hundred thousand strong;
they've kept us out of office for
sixteen years too long; we’re
hungry and we’re thirsty, hut
inanna you'll supply; from mes
senger to cabinet the heads will
surely fly; we’ve waited and we’ve
waited trMioar the big horn blow:
and now we’ll feast on plenty
while others eat crow; and now,
from Maine to Texas, you’ll hear
our battle cry—we’re coining,
Father Woodrow, we’re corning
for our pie.—Cincinnati Enquir
er.
"Come on, let's go and buy
some bargains at Adler’s.”
KAISER’S GIRL
10 WED PRIRGE
The King and Queen of Eng
land Roach Berlin to Attend
Services.
Berlin, May 22.--King (ienrge
and Queen Mary of England, ar
rived here today to take part in
the wedding festivities of the
marriage between the Princess
Victoria Louise, the daughter of
the Kaiser, and Prince Ernest
August.
The marriage will be attended
by many of the crowned heads of
Europe and the wedding gifts will
be worth several million dollars.
The nuptials will lake place
next Saturday.
WAR MIRE SIS
fASSENGER BOA!
All on Board French Steamer
Senegal Are Drowned—Passen
gers and Crew Number 120.
-Marseilles, France, May J-\—\
.wireless message was received
here' today telling of the loss i
the French steamer Senegal, of
the Compani'e des Mesagies, which
struck a war mine near Sinyrue
ami was blown up with loss-other
crew and passengers numbering
I->u.
The mine hud drifted from its
moorings aud the vessel struck it
when far out in tlnj Mediterranean
Sea.
During the Japanese and Itus
sian war many vessels were lost,
striking Moating mines which had
heart placed before the harbor at
Port Arthur by the Japanese and
allowed to drift away.
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CHILD GETS DAMAGES
FOR CRUEL TREATMENT
Kansas City, Mo., May —
Foster parents may administer
corporal punishment (o children, ,
but if that punishment is exces-]
sively brutal the child may claim j
damages. That was the decision!
of the Kansas City court of ap- i
peals today. Lucille I»ix, II, was
suing Elizabeth Martin, a farm- ■
er’s wife of Cooper county. Mo. J
The case came to the court here ;
on appeal. Lucille lived with her
grandparents. She went to the I
Marlins to spend (he. summer.!
Mrs. Martin, the witnesses show
ed, beat her so severely that the
child’s back did not heal for sev
eral weeks. Mrs. Marlin raised
the defense that she was a foster
parent for tile child. Judge John
'son, who wrote the.opinion in the
case, held that even granting that
she was a “foster parent” the
child was entitled to the $1,000
verdict on a case of excessive
brutality.
English Novelist Drowns.
London, May —Alice Maud
Meadows, a novelist, is dead here
today. She was drowned while
attempting to rescue a dog which
had fallen into the water.
•fudge Peter I). Oversold and
Angus McBride left yesterday
morning to kill a (lock of In-Ur
which have been located near
Camp Comfort. They are ex
pected to return today.
Live Chickens.
Rhode Island Reds at Frye
Bruhn’s. Best ever brought to
town.
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address,
illustrated, at the Saturday mat
inee at the Orpheum.
Reinke, expert repairer, at the
Valdez Drug company.
HUE KILLED HI
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Insane Austrian Murders Hi#
Five Sleeping Companions, |
Using Table for a Club.
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Black fool, Ida., May 22.—Ail in—(
sane Austrian here killed live of
his companions, who were sleep-;
ing in the same dormitory with
him at the local asylum. The
murderer used a lalde. with which
he haltered out the brains of the/
sleeping men.
The authorities will make an’
investigation of the killing and.
the reason for the guards failure,
to protect the men in their charge’;
from the attack of lljeir compan
ion. r
II is believed I ha| the guards’!
refused lo go into the ward,*
fearing that I he attack would bej
turned upon themselves and lliatj
I hey wailed for help while the!
poor unfortunates were murder-J
ed.
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Girls in Department Stores d**
ceive $3 a Week and Nut
Pickers $8.
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SI. Louis. May 2“.—TR? Mis
souri Senate lias started a rum
niittee to work to investigate the
eondition of Ihe girls in the de
partment stores of I lie. stale, who,
it is alleged, receive only s?;j a
week for their work, while I he
girls wlm pick nuts receive sK a
week.
The charge is being made that
Ihe low ivages Ihe girls are re
ceiving leads many into lives of
shame and that if the depart
ment store owners are rompellec
by law to pay a minimum of sg
that fewer girls would “go
wrong.”
I*i»rl Liscum buildings are all
In be painted in a few days.
dick7rW¥t
WITHTHE BOGGS
Washington, D. C.. May —
Dick llyan, the Alaska promoter,
who owns part of the water front
at Controller bay, appeared before
the Senate committee today and
detiied that -lie was associated
with the Alaska Syndicate, lie
claimed*that lie would call upon
a New York banker to prove his
assertion; that the money advan
ced and the people interested with
him were not allied with the Mor
gan or Guggenheim people.
Paying Teller Short.
SI. Louis, May 22,— H. Base
ler, paying teller of the •Third
National Bank of SI. Louis, is
short $15,00(1 in his accounts, ac
cording to a statement giyen out
last Monday afternoon by Thom
as Wright, vice-president of the
bank. Baseler is the teller whose
refusal to cash two $10,000 hills
until they had been investigated
resulted in the unearthing of the
details of the theft of $200,000
in currency which was being sent
from Havana to New York. Vice
president Wright said that Base
ler had confessed and now is in
the custody of a national hank ex
aminer.
Received on the Mariposa a
new line of pretty dres es at Har
vey’s Toggery.
The Prospector for job work.
Plant of Dynamite Was Ordered
by His Co-defendant Atteux,
Says Breen.
Boston, May _,L,.--John Breen,
who was recently convicted for
having placed dynamite aboiil the
town of Lawrcnc« during the re
cent. strike of the wool weavers,
today testified in the trial of
President Wood of the wool trust
and Atteux, his co-defendant, and
he asserted that Wood had noth
ing to do with the plant, but that
he received *7<Mt from Atteux.
When Breen was sued hv the
victims of the explosion, Atteux
told him to make a settlement of
•<i7,(l00 and that he would furnish
I lie money.
The testimony, i| is believed,
will result in the acquittal of
President Wood and the convic
tion of Atteux.
MI'S REPLY
PLEASES JAPS
He Explains the Right of Appeal
to the Federal Courts to Pro
tect Treaties.
Washington. I). C., May 22.—
The Japanese government has ex
pressed itself as greatly pleased
at flie reply made to the ambas
sador by I lie Slate department re
garding the Webb alien land bill.
The reply dealt with the right
of the slate In pass laws and the
right of the individual to appeal
to the federal courts if stale laws
violate the const itutional rights
of the citizen or conlliel with
federal treaties.
As soon as possible the right
of California to exclude tile Ja
panese from land ownership in
Hie slate will lie taken to the
higher courts, according to the
reply.
mifmrt'Ir
FOR IIILDFZ TOWN
A movement has been started
among the, business men of the
town to revive (lie old baud which
entertained tile people of the town
four years ago. It has.'been
pointed out that many Jilayers
have instruments and that many
of the brass pieces of the former
hand are still available.
The plan is to have George
Heinke, who is considered one of
the best hand leaders in Alaska,
to take charge in the hopes of
making a small hand for use on
public occasions, more especially
on the Fourth of July.
Equal Rights Dance. '
On Saturday night the Mouse
will give an Kriuai Rights dance,
wherein the ladies can get even,
every other dance being, a ladies'
choice, lint the hoys will pay the
tiddler.
J. A. Northway will leave in a
few days for his copper property
in (lie Nebesna country, where he
will spebid the summer opening
up the property.
Special meeting of the Eastern
Stpr tomorrow evening.
Bert Lander arrived in town
last night-from down lhe/Sound.
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J. P. Hansen, who N suffering
with a sore hand, is improving.
LOHIMER WANTS
TO COME BACK
V
Will be Candidate for Senator at
Next Election Under New
Amendment.
Chicago, May 22.--Ex-Senator
Corimer, of this city, will be a
candidate for the! Senate under
the new law providing for the
election of senators by the vote
of the people and not by the mem
bers of the legislature.
Corimer was expelled from the
last Senate because of the al
leged bribing of members of the
slate legislature to vote for him
and Senator Sherman is now serv
ing out the unexpired portion of
bis term.
schwabYestires
FOR STEEL TRUST
Says That in 1901 THey Owned
Three-fourths of the Supply,
But Not Now.
\i'\v York, May ^’.--President
Schwab of the Steel Trust, testi
fied thal in 1901 the trust owned
three-fourths of the known ore
reserves and that at that time il
would have been impossible to
have organized a similar corpora
linn for the lark of ore. This
condition, he now asserts, has
changed by the discovery of large
ore deposits in South America and
in Cuba and also in Chinn.
’! he Steel Trust now have to
compete with I lie mines selling
iron o- e in | h ■ open market and
also with I lie n inufurl urers, wh
are i'ldepemleio of the trust and
c impele against il on all work
lie denied Ilia) the trust had
been guilty of establishing an
arbitrary price, but that il was
lived by the law of supply and de
mand.
AUTOS ARE PERMITTED
IN YOSEMITE PARK
Washington, l>. Ch, May —
Secretary Lane has rescinded an
order barring automobiles from
Ihe Yosemite National park.
“This form of transportation
has come to slay." the secretary
said in a statement explaining his
action, “and to close the park
against automobiles will be as
absurd as tin* light, for many years
made by old naval men against
(tie adoption of steam in Ihe navy. j
Before we know it. they will he
dropping into the Yosemite by
airship. Some say Ihe automo
bile is less picturesque than Ihe I
stage coach. I think that depends !
entirely upon imagination and as- \
social ion of the stage coach ro_ i
malice. Alter a time we will come .
to associate the automobile with j
it. t want to make our parks as i
accessible as possible to Ihe great
mass of people.”
‘An entrance Ice to be charged
nulomobilisls will be added to the
fund for maintenance of the park
roads.
New Movies Tonight at the Or- j
pheum.
Patlie Weekly, events in New |
York. England. France. Herman.'. I
Itussia and Australia.
A Story of Montana, powerful
western drama full of action.
A Day Oil', the comical episode
of two truant husbands.
* Another tine change on Satur
day., with matinee at p. in.
Judge K. M. Brown returned
today from a vist with his daugh
ter, Mrs. Middlecamp, at Ellamar.
The dance in Moose hall last
evening was enjoyed by all who
attended.
OF DIRTY CHARGE
Senate Committee Reports the
Lieutenant Governor Never,
Never Did It.
Springfield, III.. May 22.--The
special committee to investigate
the charges made against Lieut.
Oov. O'Hara of immoral conduct,
in that he had taken a beautiful
woman to a Chicago hotel and
remained willi her all night, reg
istering as man and wife, have
reported to the Senate that the
charges were unproved and that
the vice crusader was pure and
clean.
O'Hara claimed when Ihc
charges were made. and was
supported by affidavit.', that it
was a frame up by the owners
of houses nf illfaine !o discredit
him in his work of cleaning u5>
I ln> stale and preventing the traf
IIe in girls, which would destroy
the protilalde business ,,f (lie pro
curers and owners of house.s of
prost it 11I ion.
Urges Government Purchase and
Against Government Guaran
teeing the oBnds.
\\ ashing|ihi. 11. ( Mill
I >i• i«>g:-;111■ W iekcisiia m appeared
before the Small1 emu in il I ih> lo
ilay invest igal ing I In1 Alaska rail
ruail sifiialTiin ami claimed that
Senator Chamberlain bad intro
duced a ioll to gi\e,lo llie <lug
genlieims all (lie land on the
Cordova liarlmr and llial lie bad
bad it killed.
The eommiilee is now giving
imblie bearings mi I lie Chamber
laiii-W'iekersham railroad liill (o
buy I lie Cordova road and the at
tack on I tie senator caused a sen
sation.
Wickersham also opposed the
guaranteeing of bonds for a pri
vately built railroad from the
roast lo the interior, as tie as
serted il would perpetuate a
transportation monopoly and he
strongly urged the purchase of
the Cordova road and the build
ing by the government of the
spurs to llie coal fields and to the
interior.
TIMBER IN ONE COUNTY
WORTH $41,500,000
There i< enough green timber
in Chehalis bounty. Wash., to
pave a street mo rug than 30 feet
wide,, with 5-iueh-thiek timber,
around the earth. Counting, dead,
down and burned timber, there
would be enough more to put
stringers under this road, put up
occasional sign posts and run a
hand rail where the street crossed
the ocean. The county cruise on
tile shows 2(^,732,39 5,305 feel, of
green timber now merchantable,
and 795,299,7 SO feet of dead down
timber that is merchantable. The
grant total of merchantable tim
bojj is 22,200,0 58.31 I feet. The to
tarivalud of this timber conserva
tively estimated, is 8 51.500.000.
J. P. Olsen left for the moun
tain king properly yesterday on
Mineral gulch.
I.ouis Yana arrived last even
ing from the Copper river flats
with 51 lint* king salmon, which
In* sold to Fryo-Bruhu & Co.
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address,
illustrated, at Saturday's matinee.
Price of Copper.
Copper is <|uolcd at 15 1-2 cts.
a pound.