VOL. 9. VALDEZ, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1913. MO. 179.
UNDERWOOD Bill
PUSSES HOUSE
Tariff Measure Receives Support
of Two Republicans and Four
Bull Moosers.
Washington, i>. C., May 9.—By
a vote of 381 to 139 the House
passed the Underwood-VV'ilson
tariff hill with but. few changes
from the bill drafted by the Dem
ocrats of the Way and Means
committee.
Four Progressives voted with
the Democrats for the tariff and
two Republicans broke away from
I hdir party and favored the Dem
ocratic measure.
Many members of congress im
medately left for their homes for
a three days rest, as the House
has adjourned until Monday noon.
The House will continue to take
three-day adjournments until
JuVie lirsl, when it is expected that
the Senate will have passed the
bill. No other legislation is con
templated at present.
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* BEING HUNTED
O’Hara, Chairman of Vice Inves
tigating Committee, Charged
With Immorality.
Spring Held, Hi., May P -Tilt'
Senate has appoinled a commil
lee In investigate I lie charges
made against Chairman O’Hara,
of I tie state vice investigating
committee, which has caused such
comment all over the slates by
its spectacular methods of secur
ing data about the causes of vice,
both from the women the un
derworld and from socie-t*? women,
who were haled into court when
they were having a good lime with
the husbands of other women at
the Chicago cafes.
The charges against O'Hara are
supported hy affidavits and he is
accused of the greatest immoral
ity with other men’s wives and
with young girls.
The lieutenant-governor, how
ever, claims he never, never was
naughty and that he is not guilty,
hut that the enemi&s lie has made
hy his fearless investigations in
to the corruption of Chicago has
caused me Keepers oi houses ot
i 11 fame to frame up-and try to get
liis goat by these' false accusa
tions. But he says he will' not
lie downed and intends to cont inue
the work for clean- morals.
Frank Waskey, formerly dele
gate to congress from Alaska,'
caught the-Yukon at Kodiak, hav
ing come overland to th&'coast
from (food News’ bay. tfi> goes
» nut to purchase supjdies for the
season’s work on hiWclaims in
I he Knskokwim county,
AJ1 arrapgertieols are complet
ed for the, Catholic dance at the
Moose hall tomorrow nightv
Mesilames. Topi iff,. Rudolph, Do
lan, Wendler, Erickson and Paul
son will attend to the collection
and Messrs. Quinn, Cramer, Ru
dolph and Dowling will act as
lloor managers. Messrs: Pinkus
, and Cameron will furnish the mu
sic. All are guaranteed a good
time.
F®r 8B|B- -
Four-room house completely
furnished, corner Reservation and
Fifth streets. Cash or easy terms.
Also a lot in same block with
cabin. Inquire Prospector office.
Scenes in Bergen, Norway, at
the Orpheum tonight.
WANTED—A cook; inquire of
Col. O’Neil at Fort I. iscum.
MEXICAN SOLDIERS
ARE DROWNED
Had Mutinied and Stolen Steamer,
Whioh Turns Turtle and
Drowns 150.
San Diego, May 0.--Drink-craz
ed Mexican soldiers, who had
mutinied and captured a steamer,
lost their lives when the steamer
turned turtle, drowning more than
150 of the men off the province
of Tabasco on the eastern coast
of Mexico on I lie Yucatan Penin
sula.
The federal troops in the south
ern provinces, have become rest
ive and the llureta government is
unable |o maintain order or to
protect foreign citizens.
(inymas is the only port held
by Huerta’s forces in Sonora
province, and it is expected to fall
in a few days, as the state troops
are throwing shot into the town.
The I'niled States cruiser Cali
fornia :s at the port to protect
all Americans and foreigners.
FIRE OEMS
GUFF WINGS
Qrying Room and Carpenter Shop
Complete Loss—Men Save
Mill—Yukon Helps.
A lire wliiCti sHirTed at -' o'clock
this morning destroyed the dry
ing room and the carpenter shop
al the (Hill' mine with a loss of
about. #300, fully covered by in
surance.
The cause of the lire is un
known, bul il originated in the
drying room, where the men leave
their working clothes, and il is
supposed that a match* in the
pocket of some one’s jumper
started the blaze. The lire was
discovered by night shift boss
Stanley, who immediately sounded
the alarm by looting the whistle,
bring'ing the night shift to his aid
and also the day men, who were
sleeping, and the two lines of
two-inch ht>se were strung out
and water played upon th.e build
ing, but the tire had too' much
of a start and (he drying build
ing and the carpenter shop were
soon completely enveloped in the
flaniek. , Superintendent Ray Mil
laid wa&'on the scene soon after
the at&rin was sounded and di
reeled the work of controlling.the
flames and preventing them
spreading to the mill building.
Cap tarn McKay of the Yukon,
also did goo,d work and soon had
a crew, of m$P from l lie boat with
i the ship’s^ftre , hose playing bn
the (ire *wnd the surrounding
buildings.
The mill' was hot. touched and
|the fire will not delay the oper
aflbiis of the i'ditVe"'^ the biggest
Joss vyas to thy men. who lost
t|elr working clothes.- f
After’th'e#iire of two years ago
the drying room, in which the
other Are originated, was placed
in a separate building not con
nected with the mill and it was
this foresight which saved the
mill from a second disastrous lire.
President Alexander, of the
Alaska Coast company, is a pas
senger on the Sampson, due here
Sunday morning.
Geo. Jteinke. the watch'repairer
and jeweler, is at the Valdez Drug
eompany.
Sensational motor boat races at
the Orpheum tonight.
For Solo QltMp.
, Twenty-eight fool Racine mo
tor boat hull. Inquire of E. P.
Cashma i.
SEATTLE JURY IS
AFTER GRAFTERS
Find That County Paid for Bur
ial of Paupers Bodies Sold
to Students.
Sea.lUe, May 9.—Testimony be
fore the special grand jury now:
invest igal ing the graft in coun
ty offices, nave already started
on a trail which bids fair In cause
a sensation.
The bodies of M*>0 paupers bur
ied at. the expense of the coun
ty were exhumed and the coffins
were found to contain nothing but
dirt gathered up on the floor of
the county crematory and the
bodies were- sold to medical stu
dents.
The students pay $50 for each
body which I hey use in I heir
studies.
morgYoffered
HELP GOVERNMENT
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Would Have Secured Money for j
.
Administration If Needed, So
Says Colonel Harvey.
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.Yew York, May t).—Colonel Geo.
Harvey, I lie editor of Harper’s
Weekly, in an add rets s before the
Hankers Association here, said
that J. I*. Moreau before his de
parture for Europe on the trip
prior to his death had said that if
the Wilson administration need
ed money that they should appeal
10 him and that he would see to
11 that plenty was forlticominfi.
Col. 'llarvev said that Morgan
j was the greatest, constructive
Jfienius of modern I imes.
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Three - Seated Combination
Freight and Passenger Wil
ton doming toon.
The three-seated combination
freight and passenger Wijton au
tomobile ordered by E. P. Cash
man, the proprietor of the Wort
mans roadhouse, is. expected to
arrive at ValdezW the return trip
of the Yukon.
The machine, which is being
built especially for use over the
'govbVfiment wagon road, will be
able to handle two tons of merch
andise and, 1 i passengers. It is a
three-seated rig.
gash man will use it taking pas-.
Mongers and freight to and from
his place at the. foot of,.the suip
ijAil, and expects to incroase the
travel from Valdez to the road
house as he will make special ex
cursion trips for sightseers and
berry pickers.
Bisbyp Rowe and the Reverends
Corner and Ziegler left this morn
ing for Ellamar on 'the Lieut.
Donuldson as the guests of Gol.
O'Neil. The party tfxpecl to rtfs i
turn tonight.
Some exciiemtfiit was caused
last night when the horse hitched
to the City Express wagon start
ed to run away. Joe Spenard, the
driver, stayed with the wagon un
til it was brought to a stop' near
the Alaska Securities building,
when the front wheel caught the
sign post, breaking the shafl.
WHITE PASS KICKS
; TO THE SENATE
Government Built and Operated
Road Would Bankrupt Them,
Bays Dickerson.
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Washington, I). G., May ft—
President Uickorson, of the White
Pass & Yukon railroad, appeared
before the Senate Territories
committee and opposed the gov
ernment ownership of a railroad
in Alaska, as it would force his
road into bankruptcy, pickerson
is manager for the Close brothers,
an English syndicate.
Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska,
appeared before the committee
and .strongly urged the govern
aneui bni11 and operated road and
h" favored the leasing for 3ft
scars of some of the mines, the
igovei >ii"eiit to receive one-quar
ter of I he net profits of the mines.
HARRHOORE
KILLED MANY
Now Serving Lifo Sentence—Had
Killed Twenty-five, Using
an Axe.
Leavenworth, Kan.. May *.).—
Government agents announce that
Harry Moore, who is now serv
ing a life sentence, has commit
led more than twenty-live mur
ders in the past few years, kill
ing all of his victims with an axe.
Moore was sentenced for life
and because of certain remarks
he mad an investigation was or
dered and it was soon found that
he had committed murder hy the
wholesale.
SAWMILL START
NEXT HAY
Flirt and 9. F. M. Stung Raft of
Logs From Fort Wells—
9oro doming.
The Flirt and B. F. M. arrived
at midnight last night with 150,
000 feet of logs for the Copper
River Lumber company from Port
Wells. Manager Finical aniinuitr
ces that the mill will start up
next Monday to saw the raft in
to lumber, which is badly heed
ed, ap, the yard, is almost depleted
bf certain sizes. '.
After , the present raft is cut
the Yukon will be secured to tow
400,000 feet of logs belonging to
the company, which they now
have bn the beach at Montague
island.
The demand for lumber has in
creased the past year owing l<>
The large amount used by the
mining companies for buildings
and for lagging.
At the Orpheum Tonight.
Motor Boat Races, showing
high speed craft in exciling con
tests-. '
Bergen, Norway, fine moving
views^
Scientific studies in Fish Life,
educational.
The Back Window, deep drama
with a moral.
The1 Suffragette Sheriff, a side
splitting comedy.
Special change of program and
'matinee at 2 p. in. tomorrow.
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JOHNSON PUNCHED
THE WHITE WOMEN
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So States Prosecuting Attorney in
Opening Address—Gave Them
Slack Eyes.
Chicago, May 9.—The United
Stales district attorney, in his op
ening address to the jury now try
ing Jack Johnson for violating
the Mann white slave law in that
he took white women from state
to slate for immoral purposes,
claimed that he would prove that
the big coon used some of them
for sparring partners and that
he would beat them up unmerci
fully and in many cases the wo
men were taken to hospitals with
black eyes and bruised bodies.
Johnson has several indict
ment s( against him for '"taking
while women with him on bis ex
hibition trips throughout the var
ious slates.
Marry King has one of the new
fangled engines installed in his
boat and it works like a charm.
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OPEN ON I FLUSH
Woolworth Skyscraper Lights Up
on Signal From the White
House.
New York, Mt»r V.— President
Wilson, I'ioih the White House in
Washington, gave the signal for
the formal opening of Ihe new
Woolworth building last night,
the tallest structure in the world,
with the one exception of the fc’.if
fel Tower in Paris. A| 7 :-9,
when Ihe 900 guests, who bad
been invited by Hie owner, Prank
W. Woolworth, to a dinner in
honor of ihe architect, Gass Gil
bert, were seated at the tables on
the- twenty-fourth floor, a teleg
rapher of tho. Western Union, sta
tioned there, notified the operator
in ihe White House that all was
ready for the president to press
the button. One minute later
President Wilson touched the in
strument, closing the circuit,
which caused a bell to ring in
the banquet hall and in the en
gine room, thirty .dories below,
and immediately and for the first
tim,ui lights flashed from every
floor of the fifty-five stories,
from the sub-basement, 37 feet
below the street level, to the top
of the lower, 70-' feel above Hie
street.
Professional and business men, I
Ule arts and science, and litera
ture were represented in the
•gathering to make notable an en
terprise costing fj* 13,50|>,000. and
having its beginning in the in
vestment of a few hundred dol
lars, all the outcome of a “S’ and
10 cent traeje.
A special kitchen and service
had been installed for the- occa
sion. It was probably the high
est skyscraper dinner elver held
in the world. Among the speak
ers who were seated at,the Park
Place and Broadway corner, were
F. Hopkinson Smith, the novel
ist, who presided as toastmaster;
Frank W. Woolworth, the own
er of the building; Cass Gilbert,
the architect; Louis J. Horowitz,
the builder:; William Winter, the
veteran writer and dramatic crit
ic; and Patrick Francis Murphy.
After the president had pressed
the button, a toast was drunk to
him, and an orchestra played I he
“Star-Spangled Banner.”
Mr. Woolworth described Cass
Gilbert’s work as that* of one of
the greatest architects in the
world. Mr. Woolworth introduc
ed his first employers. Moore &
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DOCTORS CLAIM
FRIEDMAN FAKE
His Exploitation of the Poor is
Denounced—Patients Are
No Better.
New York, May 9.—The Amer
ican Medical Journal, in its May
issue, brands Dr. Friedmann as a
fake, declaring his exploitation of
the sick for money as a disgrace
to the profession.
The association has commen
ced a national campaign exposing
the fakir.
Many patients inoculated by
Friedmann at first showed some
sign of improvement, but later it
was discovered Hint all had re
lapses and at the end of 00 days
wore no holler off than at the
start. The tirsl improvement is
attributed In a suggestive inllu
ence from the belief of the pa
tient I hat lie or she will get well,
Imt this soon passes away.
Friedmann is said to have made
considerable money while in
America.
GOLD DETAILS OF
Casacoff Fired Five Shots Into
Boudry’s Body—Shot From
Behind HiH.
1 Mail* of Hie shooting of Bou
dry, of Cold Bay, by a native nam
ed Kanka Casucoir, were received
last night on the Yukon. The na
tive had heen told lo leave the
Boudry house the morning of the
killing and when lie refused to go
Boudry slapped his face and put
him out. Later when the trader
left with I he mail the native se
cured a rille and shot Boudry,
while hiding behind a hill,
through the hips and the wound
ed man fell to liie ground. The
native then ran across I he gully
and tired again, hitting Boudry hi
the body, and followed that, with
another shot which entered Bou
dry’s hi ad.
Nol satisfied, the Siwasli ran to
the struggling man and, picking
up his rille, feed two more shots
inn his head Any one of the live
sleds would have resulted fatally.
Boudry was buried at Cold Bay
and the native was taken into
custody at Nek nek lo await the
action of the floating court.
The shooting happened within
a mile of Boudry's home and was
witnessed by several natives, wh'
are being held as witnesses.
Sampson Passes Juneau.
The Sampson passed Juueau
this morning al t o’clock and is
due in Valdez early Suijday morn
ing. Fifteen passengers are
aboard the boat for Valdez.
A big flock of wild geese set
tled on the bay this morning, so
“Johnny''get your gun and knock
’em crazy.”
The Suffragette Sheriff.
The side splitting comedy, The
Suffragette Sheriff, at the Orph
eum tonight. Special change to
morrow and matinee al 2 p. in.
Saturday.
Received on the Mariposa a
new line of pretty dresses at Har
vey's Toggery. •
“Come on, let’s go and buy
some bargains at Adler’s."
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Seinke, expert repairer, at the
iez Drug company.
Talk about your bargains at!
Adler’s.
Adler is selling out. Bargains
in anything and everything.