VALDEZ, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 81,1818. RP- 297
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HUERTA REFUSES
WILSON'SDEMAHDS
* Will Not Resign Nor Promise Not
to seek Re-election—Army
and Navy Ready.
Mexico Cily, Aug. 21.— Provis
ional President Huerta today sent
a note to Gov. Lind, the special
agent of the President of the Un
ited States, iij reply to the sug
gestion made by Lind, on behalf
of the administration, that he
(Huerta) immediately resign and
that he do not seel: re-election;
that hostilities be suspended lor
the present and until the' election
to lill the vacancy he held, re
jecting the proposals of President
Wilson and intimates that Hie
people of the United States are
not hacking President Wilson in
his Mexican policy.
The reply of the provisional
president to Lind was cheered by
the populace, when the official or
gan of the administration made
public the attitude of President
Huerta.
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Washington, D. C., Aug. 21.—
President Wilson will not talk re
garding the attitude the adminis
tration will take towards Mexico,
now that Hie Huerta government
has refused to grant any of t&e
requests of the president, vyhich
he offered in the hope" of effect
ing a peaceful settjetment.
Secretary Hryap *8 also un
coiiunvmicative bi^'it is noted
that h'®*h the wpF-Tjnd navy de
partments arevTontinuing- prep
arations’ teudmg fo have both
branches of the service ready for
immediafe ac'tion. )
SENATOR THINKS
PIT 100 SMALL
Lane of Oregon, Says It Costs
Him $4,000 for House Rent
and Pink Teas.
Portland, Ore., Aug. 21.—Sen
ator I.ane is home from Wash
ington for a few days and ways
he is not enamored of his jon as
senator at Washington. He says
Hie salary is lo<> small, j His
house rent is $2,000 a year and
lie says he lias to spend $2,000
more on pink teas and when lie
pays for the necessaries of life
lie is in the hole.
NEW GOVERNOR
EOR PHILIPPINES
Franois Burton Harrison, of Now
York tot °#t Executive Job
in Islands.
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Washington, D. C., Aug. 21.—
Congressman Francis Burton
Harrison, of New York, was nom
inated today by the president to
be governor-general of the Phil
ippine's. f
Cali for Warrants. •
Notice is hereby given that I
will pay all city warrants up to
and including No. 3590 series of
1912, if presented within ten (10)
days from date.
C. C .REYNOLDS, j
Town Treasurer.
Dated Valdez, Alaska, Aug. 19,
1913. •
Hearing be Granted Tomorrow
Arrest Court Idler—Charg®d
With Conspiracy.
Shebrooke, Can., Aug. 21.—
Late this afternoon the attorneys
[for Harry Thaw succeeded in se
curing a writ of habeas corpus
and the argument will be heard
tomorrow by the* judge.
■ A man idling in the court room
when the writ was asked for was
arrested today at the request of
the new York authorities, as he
is charged with being an accom
plice in the bribing of the gate
keeper when Thaw made his get
away.
JUDGE SPEER MAY
BE IPEtCHED
House Committee Working Up
Oharges Against Federal Jur
ist (n Georgia District
Washington, 1>, C., 4UB- 21.—
The House judiciary committee
is hearing charges against Judge
Emery Speer of Georgia, judge
of the federal district court. The
charges embrace allegations of
permitting the wasting of bank
ruptcy estates in, heavy costs
anil attorney fees and trustee’s
fees. He is also accused of mal
feasance iu sitting in a trial in
which his son-ii^-law appeared
as 'atlorimy with a contingent
fee at stake.
Judge Speer lias held his posi_
lion since 1885.
May Drive in Cows.
Henry Schaefer, the milkman,
,,iay d”ive in a I inch of cows to
|.h<> Shushi nna country this com
ing spring to operate a dair>.
Iteporls slate that the country
is covered with gross so that
rows and stork iu general should
have no diiiicully in picking up
a living on the way in.—Ketchi
kan Miner.
A LITTLE DAGO
CLIMBS HIGH
Reaches the Top of 22,000-Foot
Mountain—First to Ascend
Mount Numzkum.
Milaiv Aug. 21_Dr. piacnza
Aker lias succeeded in ascending
lo the top of Mount Numzkum,
in the Himalayas, according to
word receiedv here today. This
is the first time the mountain
has been conquered.
Dr. Aker gives the height as
22,000 feel. t
Plenty of Comedy.
At the Orpheum tonight. Fine
comedy program:
Dqputy’s Duty, exciting hold
up story.
f Reconciled in Reno, line,, qom
edy. )
Ponto’s Jokes, scream dog
comedy. »
Spiffkin’s New Job, sidesptitter.
Ray 1,arson today was given a
judgment of $100 against R. A.
Scott for money loaned and for an
assigned account. The case was
heard by Judge Shepard.
Maximum Penalty Is Five Year*
But He Will Appeal by Giv
ing $20,000 Bail.
Sail, Francisco, Aug. 21.--Mau
ry Diggs was found guilty by the
jury on four counts of the in
dictment charging him with vio
lating the white slavery act by
Ipersuading Martha Wjorthington,
to accompany him to Nevada and
live with him there. The jury
took nine ballots before reaching
agreement.
The maximum penalty for the
offence is live years in the pen
itentiary on each count. Diggs
will be sentenced September 2,
but will appeal, his father giving
a bond of $20,000 for his appear
ance.
DIGGING INTO
SEATTLE ITS
Secretary Daniels Hat Board
Making Inquiry and Proposes
to Pqnish Sailors.
\\lashing!on, L). Aug. 21.—
'Secretary Daniels is pushing a
naval inquiry with intent, to have
the sailors guilty of the Seattle
riots punished. The board which
has been investigating the re
ports that many of the people
and a part of the local press aid
ed and abetted the riots. The in
vestigation is still in progress.
STOCmiE
SEATS CHEAPER
Price for Inside Ticket in Big
Gambling Game Goes Down
Many Thousands.
New York, Aug. 21.—A New
York stock exchange seat sold
today for $40,000. A few years
ago a seal sold for $84,000, the
high mark. The lower figure is
due lo the long-continued apathy
of the public toward the opera
tions of the exchange.
DONOVAN CONVICTED
OF SEL.UNQ LIQUOR
James Donovan, charged with
giving to two natives in Douglas
cm (he day following his release
from an gight months sapience
on a similar chap&e, was yester
day found guilty ||y a jiiry ip tpe
district court, ppnovan is ,a
miner and was arrested tt}P dPi*t
time two days aftpr his arrival
from Vaide*.
•His ronyirtion establishes that
the fact t hat a native is a citizen
under the law is p<» defense for
giving liquor fo him- Iii the Don
ovan rasp no attempt was made
In prove that the native was not
a citizen, and was shown to have
completely severed his relations
With his tribe and tp have fully
adopted the ways of 1 he Civilized
life. jKqr several years he had
lived with his white father in
Vancouver—Juneau Dispatch.
Donovan served lime in the
Valdez jail for Sksaull committed
at Cordova.
Lieut. Sleeve letl this morning
for' West Point.
TOTAL DEAD
NUMBERS 31
Body of W- *• Dyer, of Marquette,
Mich., is Recovered—Total
Recovered 11.
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Juneau, Aug. 21.—The body of
W. A. Dyer, who was among the
missii^g passengers of the ill
fated State of California, was re
covered today. He was a medical
student from Marquette, Mich.,
and was making an excursion trip
north. )
The passenger list of the State
of California has been checked
back and forth until the officers
of the company are almost cer
tain that the dead number 31
persons.
Eleven bodies have been recov
ered and eighl of them have
been identified. I
MONEY TO MOVE
SOUTHERN CROPS
Government Funds to be Depos
ited at Financial Centers in
Cotton 8tates.
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Washington, 1). C., Aug. 21.—
.Pursuant to the plan previously
announced by Secretary McAdoo,
jif the Treasury department, a
large amount of government
funds will be deposited in finan
cial centers in I he cotton stales
in a few days to aid iir mov
ing the crops. )
Loss is Estimated at $1,000 and
Police Have No Clue as to
Rpbbers. j
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SeaII le, Aug. 21.—Mure lliau 00
telephone pay stations, equipped
with nickel-in-the.-slot machines
were broken into and the money
taken within the last week.
The robbers have cleaned up
about $1,000 by their operations
and have left the police without
a clue.
CARLSON’S GIRLS ARE
WINNING MUCH FAVOR
Jundau. j— Carlson’s salmon
cannery at Tqku harbor is em
ploying girls ip |he canning de
partment, and those that have
visited the cannery are high ip
their prnjse of the results obtain
ed. Most of those employed are
Fippjsh girls, and they were
brought up from the sopth to dp
the work. They are neat apc|
eleqply, pud perform their work
with dispatch.
“Taku harbor,” said a recent
visitor to the cannery, "presents
an illustration of what Alaska
lishing Jowns will pjpcoipe one
of these days, when the tishing
industry shall have developed to
the Stage that a permanent pop
ulation of fisher folk is scatter
ed up and down '.lie territory’s
coast, /rhe little community is
lively and possesses an atmos
phere that is decidedly enjoy
able.”
Mrs. Frank Weber and .chil
dren left this morning for Seal
I le. i
THAW WILL FIGHT
FOR HIS LIBERTY
detains the Leading Alienist in
Canada to Assist Him at
Trial.
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Sherbrooke, Can., Aug. 21 —
Harry Thavy, the escaped prison
er from Mattewan, New York, to
day retained Dr, Ppitton Evans,
tile best known Canadian auth
ority op brain disease's, who will
testify for Thaw and inform the
government that he is sane.
Thaw has wired to his mother
for a large sum of money and
she and several lawyers will leave
Pittsburg to assist in securing
the release of Thaw from the Ca
nadian police.
SULZER'S FINDS
ARE JHJfRDUBLE
For Refusing to Testify Before
the Investigating Committee
--Contempt Charged.
Albany, Aug. 21.—The legis
lature today ordered the punish
ment of Louis Sereki and Freder
ick Colwell for refusing lo testi
fy before llu> Frawley investigat
ing committee.
Louis Sereki, who was Gov.
Sulzer’s secretary during the
gubernatorial campaign and who
had been in his employ for years,
was called by the committee (to
testify as to the amounts received
by him for the Sul/.er campaign,
lie refused to testify unless he
could he represented by council
and the committed desired to
have him punished for contempt
hut before any action could be
taken it was necessary lo have
the stale legislature approve the
contempt proceedings, which has
now been do/e, and a warrant
will he served on Sereki today.
Frederick Colwell was the
dummy in whose name all Sul/.er
slock deals were made and he al
so refused lo testify, claiming
that it would incriminate him.
ENJOIN MAYOR
STREET ORATING
Judge Humphries Issues Injunc
tion Without Being Request
ed to Pq 8o.
Seattle, Aug. 21.—Judge Hum
phries, a bitter personal and po
litical enemy <>f Mayor Cotterill,
issued an injunction today, al
though none had been asked for,
enjoined the mayor from mak
ing street speeches. ,
Humphries refuses |o give apy
reason for his order.
The methods of prospecting
coal seams and the determination
of structure aryl content are tak
,en up in detail by s.ydents in
mining engineering at the Uni
versity of Washington. The
work includes a study of the
methods of development and
working, timbering and market
ing. A detail study is made of
a coal mine near the university
campus. |
II. 1,. Hiiler, superinlendenl of
the Cameron-Johnson Mining Co.,
IeII Ibis morning for lire claims.
N. Y. GOVERNORS
FIGRT FOR OFFICE
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Board of Public Buildings Recog
nizes Lieut. Governor Glynn
—Provide Quarters.
.mwiwiw » 't i®
Albany, N. Y., Aug. 21.—Late
today the hoard of trustees of
the state officially recognized
•Lieut. Governor Glynn as govern,
i or of tlie state and they have pro
vided new quarters for the ex
ecutive, as the executive cham
bers are in the possession of
Governor ionizer.
Thu clash is expected as soon
as Governor Glynn calls upon the
executive clerical force to surren
der the hooks of 1 lie office and
that they no longer recognize
Governor Sulzcr’s authority and
lake instruction from him and
not Sulzer.
Governor Sulzer claims that he
has been threatened by the Tam
many gangstdrs of New York,
who have flocked to the capital
I he past week and lake orders
from the Tammany ward politi
cians, who in turn are directed
by Boss Murphy.
“1 will not give up the office
until ordered to do so by the
courts after a fair inquiry. Tam- 1
many and Murphy cannot oust
me,” is the statement, issued by
< ioveruor Sulzer.
The coitylilioii of Mrs. Sulzer is
very serious and three doctors,
specialists in nervous diseases,
are in constant attendance. *
Deputy Marshal Ivans, of Sew
ard, passed through on the Ala
meda and will take an insane pa
tient from Cordova to Portland.
freeIooTTo
60 IN TARIFF
Schedule Expected to Pass Soon
Under Crack of the Party
Whip.
Washington, I). C., Aug. 21_
It is expected that the free wool
schedule will pass the Senate
within a few days under the crack
of tin1 party whip, the same as
fret* sugar. The Democratic sen
ators who are opposed to it are
making a light against it with
the Republican minority, hut the
Democratic leaders say they have
voles enough |o carry the sched
ule. |
ALAMEDA LEAVES
FOR THE SOUTH
Taka* * F«W Valdez Passengers
--Was Delayed by the
N«avy Fog.
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The steamer Alameda reached
Valdez this morning, having been
delayed by the heavy fog in the
sound.
The following passengers left
for Seattle and way ports: Mrs.
F. C. Weber and two children,
A. P. Hunt, Isaac Evans, T. B.
Quinley, Peie Martum, Olaf Anne,
William Malland, Bill Totoff, K.
(iusllol.
Juneau—K. Trimble, C. ^E.
Hooker.
Cordova—Charles H. Light hall,
Hazel Tillman and A. Nelson.
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