VQL 1Q VALDEZ, ALASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1914. NO. 122.
EXPECT CONFEREES
REPORT TOMORROW
Will Take Money Out of Treasury
Standard Guage Not Required—
Amount Still Unsettled.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—The Con
ference committee held its first meet
ing yesterday, at which a full attend
ance was present and they have come
to an agreement on many of the
points of difference. The House
amendment stipulating that the gov
ernment road must be of standard
guage has been dropped, as the mat
ter is to be left to the president and
the engineers, the s nators pointing
out that narrow guage roads might be
more advisable in sections of the
country and could be more cheaply
built because of the large amount of
material belonging to the government
now in use in the canal zone and soon
to be abandoned.
Most of the track in the canal zone
is five foot wide, while the standard
guage used by American railroads is
four foot eight and a half inches.
The conferees have determined that
the direct appropriation of the money
from the treasury as provided by the
Fitzgerald amendment shall stand and
in consequence no bonds will be sold.
The amount of money to be appro
priated has not been determined, sev
eral House members seem determined
that $35,000,000 is enough, while Sen
ator Chamberlain insists upon the
larger sum provided in his original
bill.
SEATTLE BALLOTS
NEXT TUESDAY
Much Mud Slinging by the Different
Candidates—To be Close Fight
for Mayor. v
SEATTLE, Feb. 26.—The municipal
election of the city of Seattle will be
held next Tuesday and as the date for
the contest draws near the mud
slinging increases and all the candi
dates are involved. Candidates for
mayor, for councilmen and for other
city positions have resorted to any
method to defeat their respective op
ponents.
The fight between Hiram Gill and
J. D. Trenholme is exceptionally bit
ter and both men are confident of
victory. Gill promises, if elected, that
he will keep the city clean and will
give the people an honest adminis
tration, and his friends claim that his
long experience in city affairs make
him an ideal man for the job, while
the supporters of Trenholme are also
pointing to his record as a member of
tl.e park commission and urge his
election because he has a clean slate,
while Gill has not, they assert
It is expected that the two can
didates for mayor will have a close
fight and their friends are making ev
ery effort to increase the interest in
the election and get out the vote.
WICKHAM BACK
IN - WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—Delegate
Wickersham, of Alaska, reached this
city today after an extensive lecture
tour in the middle west. The delegate
lectured in several Michigan towns
and has an engagement tonight in
Baltimore.
Mariposa Here at 9 Tonight.
The steamer Mariposa is expected
to reach Valdez tonight at 9 o’clock,
having arrived at Cordova at noon
and was billed to leave there at 4 this
afternoon.
WHITE SLAVERS
STILL ME
In Three Months 397 Women and Girls
Disappeared in New York City—
Several Taken From Resorts.
NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—Facing the
startling fact that no less than 961
New Yorkers have disappeared from
the face of the earth in three months,
397 of them being girls and women
and that only 194 of them have been
found by the police, the head of the
police department has ordered the
guardians of the greater city to divert
their attention for a time from the
gangsters and gunmen to the cadets
and white slavers.
With eight young girls of good fam
ily on the missing list at one time, the
police awoke to the undeniable fact
that white slavery with all its almost
unbelievable horrors is a real institu
tion in New York. Discoveries made
recently in the finding of several lost
girls have shown that a state of af
fairs exists in the heart of New York
whereby young girls can be snatched
bodily from their homes, almost un
der the eyes of their families and sold
into bondage that is worse than death.
The police, therefore, have under
taken a campaign of vigorous rough
handling against the white slavers,
similar to the war they recently wag
ed against the gangsters of the East
Side. The gunman crusade was in a
measure successful. It is believed
mat a siimicti uiuvc- afsciiiini
mies of women will have equal suc
cess. Instead of arresting gunmen in
a dignified manner and giving them
the benefit of long drawn out arraign
ments and trials, allowing them to
swagger in court and receive the hom
age of their satellites while in the
Tombs, the police were ordered to use
their clubs on gangsters wherever
found. The uniformed men and de
tectives were authorized to beat the
gunmen on the slightest provocation.
!n short time several of the worst
of the East Side rowdies were sent
to hospitals instead of police stations
and one policeman was highly com
mended for killing a thug who tried
to escape. The fellow had struck down
an old junk dealer, who refused to
give him money for whiskey, and when
he attempted to escape in the maze
of East Side tenement area-ways, as
was always permissable in “the good
old days,” the policeman shot him
dead. That sort of thing had a whole
sale effect on the gangsters. Police
Commissioner McKay hopes it will
work out in similar fashion in the
case of the white slavers. The no
torious gunmen of New York’s East
Side are not bad men at all in the
true sense of the word. They are
physical cowards. They cannot stand
pain and punishment. They are anae
mic, shallow-chested, drug-exhausted
youths who can ride around in high
powered automobiles and shoot their
rivals in the back with automatic pis
tols. But they cannot fight. Physical
violence makes them cry like babies.
The cadets are of the same calibre.
That is why the police heads think
that a mailed-fist crusade will elim
inate them from New York.
Ivri/CIHIJ r. u j U*I uuv
apparently respectable streets on the
upper West Side saw a piece of fold
ed paper flutter down at his feet. It
was a note from a 16-year-old girl
who wrote that she was being held
as a white slave. The man called a
policeman and they invaded the flat
from which the note was thrown. They
found there two men and a woman.
In a rear room, locked up without
clothing was the girl. She said she
had been seized on the street near
her home, thrust into an automobile
and brought to the flat, where she
was held prisoner, without clothing
and compelled by beatings to receive
men visitors. Police investigation ver
ified the story. Many similar stories
have been told to the police in the
last three months and the authorities
may know that the white slave traffic,
with all its insidious ramifications, is,
no myth in New York.
Ed. Spearstead came up last night
from the Three in One claim.
YEGGMEN FAIL
TO OPEN VAULT
Two Watchmen Bound and Gagged—
One Sleeps Peacefully While
Explosives Are Used.
DES MOINES, la., Feb. 26.—Thugs
and yeggmen worked for five hours
last night to enter the vault of the
state treasurer and were finally driv
en away by daylight. The thugs
bound and gagged two of the three
watchmen employed by the state to
guard the building and the other
calmly slept throughout the entire
period, although the yeggmen set off
two unsuccessful explosions of nitro
glycerine in the vain effort to crack
the vault.
Over $7,000 in cash was in the vault
ready for the robbers had they been
able to open the door. The police
have a good description of the men
obtained from the two watchmen who
were bound and gagged shortly after
midnight and were liberated at 7 this
morning, when the first of the clean
ers came to the building.
DECKER GO FREE
IS PREDICTED
Cannot Secure Evidence to Convict
Police Lieutenant—Court Refuses
Allow Accomplices Testify.
NHW YORK, Feb 26.—The decis
ion handed down yesterday by the
Court of Appeals directing that Char
les Becker, the murderer of Gambler
Rosenthal be given u new trial be
cause of error in the trial of the case
and l lie admission of evidence by Jus
tice Goff which the court says should
not have been permitted, will in all
probability cause the authorities to
free Becker.
Tile Court of Appeals holds that
the chief evidence against Becker was
given by accomplices and was not ad
missible.
District Attorney Whitman has re
fused to make any statement regard
ing the future intentions of his de
partment in the case, but it is ex
pected that if it is possible to secure
the necessary evidence that he will
force Becker to again stand trial for
murder.
NOW ON TRIAL
BUFFALO, N. Y„ Feb. 26.—Charged
with the murder of her husband, and
accused by the police of attempting
to feed arsenic to her children, one of
whom, n little girl, d'ed of a peculiar
illness since the mother’s arrest, Mrs.
William Buffum today went to trial
here. Her alleged lover, Ernest
Frahm, is accused of complicity in
connection with Buffum’s death. Two
sons of the accused woman, who are
said to have received arsenic, pre
sumably in their food, were in court
today beside their mother. Both of
the boys declared today they were cer
tain their mo her would be acquitted
speedily.
MURPHY WILL SUE
LEAGUE PRESIDENT
CHICAGO, Feb. 26.—Charles Mur
phy, former owner of the Chicago
Cubs, is going to start a lawsuit
against Ban Johnson, president of
the American League, for libel and
slander. Mr. Murphy says he stands
ready to spend $200,000 in the suit.
Joe Olson Is expected in a few' days.
He has about completed the buildings
being erected by the Prince William
Sound Fishing Company at Knikilik.
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DO NOT VOTE
Only One in Every Ten Who Regis
tered for Primary Care Enough
to Cast Ballot.
I
CHICAGO, Feb. 26.—The returns
from the primary elections held in
this city Wednesday are all in and
the most remarkable incident in the
entire election is the enormous num
ber of wom^n who registered for the
primaries and failed to vote, and only
one woman voter in every ten who
registered took enough interest in the
primaries to go to the polls to vote.
Seven women were nominated for
positions on the board of aldermen
and they will have their names on
the official ballot. A large number
of male votes were cast for the wo
men, as many received more votes
than the total of the entire woman
vote.
An active campaign will be inaug
urated by the suffragettes to see that
a larger vote is polled when the elec
tion takes place in April.
SAMPSON LEAVES
THE SPIRIT CITY
Has Number of Passengers for Val
dez, Fort Liscum and Ellamar,
Also Plenty of Freight.
SEATTLE, Feb. 26.—The steamer
Admiral Sampson, of the Admiral line,
left here on schedule last night with
a large number of passengers and a
capacity freight cargo. The boat will
call at Yakutat and Katalla, which
are regular ports of call for the Ad
miral line boats.
The following passengers are on
board for Valdez: G. Meals, A. Tutt,
G. Williams, William Hamilton, W.
Green. W. Deezul, C. Dutch.
For Fort Liscum: Burr Snyder.
For Ellamar: Mrs. A. Burnerel.
Light Fall Snow in New Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS. La., Feb. 26.—
A light fall of snow fell here yes
terday, the first in many years, and
the children caught the feathery
flakes in their hands and examined
them. The snow’ did no damage to
glowing crops.
TEMPLE OF LIKR
PUMSJPPROVEB
LONDON, Feb. 26.—Final plans
were approved today by the London
Trades Council for the proposed
"Palace of Labor,” to be erected in
the Drury Lane district at the cost of
approximately $275,000. Besides pro
viding a large assembly hall for la
bor conventions and suitable meet
ing places for the various individual
trades unions, the building will con
tain restaurants, club rooms and a
moving picture theater. A unique fea
ture will be a general provision store
on the ground floor for the purpose
of supplying food and clothing to
members during times of industrial
troubles, in lieu of strike pay. It is
figured that by buying supplies at
wholesale and furnishing them at cost
price the unions will be saved at least
33 per cent in the handling of ftheir
striek funds. In the moving pictur*
theater arrangements are being made
to show especially films “telling dis
tinctively labor stories,” which will be
accompanied by a large orchestra and
a pipe organ with much music pe
culiarly adapted to the pictures. There
are 1,200 unions in the Trades Coun
cil, representing a membership of
more than 200,000.
Watch crystals 25c, Plant A Co. tf
ISSUED ORDERS ~
Admiral Dietrich Admits That He
Would Have Shot Americans—Re
fused Follow Dewey’s Orders.
BADEN BADEN, Germany, Feeb. 26
—Admiral Dietrich, who commanded
the German warships at Manila in
1898 when the port was captured by
the American fleet under Admiral
George Dewey, in an interview given
out today states that he did order
that the first American who attempt
ed to board the German warship for
the purpose of identifying the ship
was to be shot.
The admiral refuses to make any
further comment upon the incident.
Admiral Dewey, in his autobiog
raphy published a few days ago, made
the statement that he was forced to
fire a shot across the bow of the Ger
man ship to prevent her from taking
a position between the American
ships of war and the Spanish forti
fications. The German vessels refused
to obey the signals to take certain
positions in the harbor, where they
could not interfere with American
operations. As the harbor was in con
trol of the American ships of war
Dewey insisted that all foreign ships
should recognize any harbor regula
tions he might be disposed to make,
but the Germans thought that they
could do as they liked. The right to
board any vessel for the purpose of
identity is recognized by international
law.
The German fleet came to the har
bor after the sinking of the Spanish
fleet and attempted to pass into the
inner harbor, refusing to recognize
ord rs from Admiral Dewey, it was
then that he ordered a shot fired
across the bow of the Kaiser's ship
and prepared his vessels for instant
action, ordering guns trained upon the
German ships, but they backed down.
JOHNNY EVERS WILL
MANAGE BOSTON
BOSTON, Feb. 26.—Johnny Kvers,
manager of last year’s Chicago Cubs,
is to manage the Boston Nationals
this year. He has entered into a
three-year contract with the Boston
team at $10,000 a year. This is the
last member of the famous Chicago
infield of four or five years ago, and
his departure from the Windy City is
a great disappointment to Chicago
fans.
Who Wants to be a Mayor?
FARGO, N. D., Feb. 26.—Advertise
ments appeared in many papers
throughout the state today, announc
ing that any person who cared to be
come a mayor of a town could do so if
he cared to buy the town of Sauders,
N. D. W. W. Cook, the present own
er and mayor of the town, has tired
of the job and wants to sell out to
some other desirous of political hon
ors. Sauders sprung up almost in a
night when the St. Paul railroad cross
ed Cook’s farm. A station was es
tablished there and shortly afterward
two grain elevators arose and later
followed a couple of stores. As cook
retained title to the land, he be
came the duly recognized mayor and
his title will fall ui on his successor.
Impeachment Verdict Soon.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26— Decision
on charges against Judge Speer, of
Georgia, will be decided shortly by the j
House Judiciary committee. The time
for filing a reply brief expired today,
and the committee expected to get
down to work immediately, now that
it has all the evidence in hand. In
dications point to clean slating the
judge on the count charging use of
drugs, but the disposal of the other
counts now stands in a more or less
speculative position
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Cannery Boat 8tarts North.
BBELLINGHAM, Feb. 26—The
cannery tender Windber left here to
day for the north and is the first can
nery boat to leave this season. The
balance of the tenders and ships are
being prepared for the trip north and
will soon start.
THE SEAL EXPERTS
DON’T TALK NICE
Prof. Hornaday, of New York Zoolog
ical Garden, Says Prof. Clark is
a Liar and a Pinhead.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—Sealing
experts disagree as to the best policy
to follow in handling the herd of fur
seal on the Pribilof islands, which are
under government protection. Yester
day Prof. Clark testified that the kill
ing of the bull seal helped the herd,
prevented fighting among them and
the destruction of the young. Today
Prof. Hornaday, of the New York
Zoological Garden, called Clark a liar
and said that what he knew about
seals and their habits could be put
in a pinhead full of brains, and claim
ed that the bulls protected the pups
and helped the mothers.
More experts on the subject v ill
be called in the hope of securing
some data upon which the committee
can have confidence and from which
they can pass the laws necessary fo
the protection of the herd.
Nome Editor is Arrested.
NOME, Feb 26.—Hugh Gill, the edi
tor of the Nome Democrat, a small
party sheet, was arrested here today
charged with criminal libel. The com
plainant is former Mayor O. Cork
rane, who says he has been libeled in
an article printed recently. Cock
rane, who is an attorney, is one o.
the most active Democrats in the city.
^ Police Order Photograph Taken of
! Theresa Holland's Eye—May Have
Image of Her Slayer.
Al'liOKA, Hi., Feb, 2U. The polite
today directed that the eye of Theresa
Holland, the 20-year-old girl, who was
killed early this month, be taken out
and photographed in the hopes that
upon the retina may be found a pho
tograph of the slayer of the girl.
Anthony Petras, the girl’s lover, is
still held by the police, who claim
that he committed the crime and they
hope to close their chain of evidence
against him if the present efforis to
obtain a photograph of the slayer from
the eye of the girl is successful.
The method has frequently been
resorted to by the police and in many
eases has been successful.
Look to Women in ’’Dry” Fight.
CHICAGO, Feb. 2ti.—A canvass
shows that more than 200 of the 22j
voting units of Illinois outside of Cook
county will vole on the saloon qu*
tion April 7. Reports indicate that the
greatest campaign between prolii! ■
tion and saloon forces will be w ig< ■!
next spring. The fact that w-onien c n
vote has encouraged the Illinois An i
Saloon League to force the liquor is
sue in many saloon strongholds.
PROSPECTOR
ISJROWNED
Gus Ness, of Kenai, was drowned in
Tustomena lake on Jan. 18, according
to word brought to Seward by Game
Warden Ericson. Mr. Ness was skat
ing and broke through the ice. There
was no witness to the accident, but
when Mr. Ness did not return to camp
a search was made and his skite
tracks were followed up, which led to
a hole In the ice, where Mr. Ness had
undoubtedly broken throukh.
Change of program at the
pheurn tonight. (