4n VALDEZ, ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, .1913 NO. 28.
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CONGRESS WONT
v PROBE STRIKE
Western Representatives Try to Have
Conditions in Colorado Mining
Camps Subject of Probe.
Washington, Nov. 8.—An attempt
was made "by several western repre
sentatives to secure a congressional
probe of the conditions which led to
the strike in the mining districts in
Colorado. The effort failed through
the opposition of eastern members,
who are opposed to the House tak
ing up any new business during the
present session.
The mover of the resolution declar
ed that conditions in the mining dis
trict of Colorado were a disgrace to
America. He stated that no strike
bad ever been warranted if conditions
now prevailing in the western state
did not justify the men in their ac
tions. They had armed themselves
in self-defense against the guards,
bul had willingly surrendered their
guns when the troops arrived and
were prepared to maintain order.
The mine operators had attempted
to force the striking miners out of
the country by compelling them to
vacate the houses they occupied while
in their employ. The stores which
were supplying the strikers with nec
essaries were being boycotted by the
citizens of the towns under pressure
brought to bear by the mine own
ers. Thousands of families were
homeless and living in tents. They
were not foreigner* but American cit
izens who were fast growing des
perate under the intolerably condi
tions unedr which they were forced
to labor.
RHODE ISLAND
AT VERA CRUZ
Arrival of Warships at Mexican Port
Causes Excitement and Rumors
Rife That Troops Will Land.
Vera Cruz, Nov. 8.—The battleship
Rhode Island arrived here late last
night and three more are in sight
outside the harboi. The arrival of
the warships has caused great ex
citement and wild rumors are afloat
to the effect that troops are soon to
be landed.
The rebels are approaching the city
and the general in command has
be»n notified that an attack on the
city will be followed by the guns of
the warships shelling his positions.
There are also one German and two
British battleships at anchor in the
bay and the situaiion is believed to
In- critical.
ATTORNEY SAYER
KEEPS_POSITION
_ New York, Nov. 8.—Francis B.
Sayer, the attorney who is soon to
marry Miss .1 ossie Wilson, daughter
of President Wilson, has been reap
pointed assistant district attorney.
He will take a prominent part in the
prosecution of graft charges which
have been preferred against the city
officials through the exposures re
- lilting from the Sulzer trial.
Martin’s Body Laid At Rest.
The body of Robert Martin was
buried this morning by the Valdez
i'ndertaking company, after services
had been held over the remains at
tlic Church of the Epiphany, Rev,
Ziegler, officiating.
• Mr. •■n.d Mrs. Van dampen, of La
tcuchc, arrived in Valdez on the
steamer this afternoon.
VINCENT ASTOR
ENGAGED TO WED
Hi* Engagement to Daughter of Lo
cal Clergyman Set* Society Spec
ulating a* to Outcome.
New York, Nov. 8.—-The engage
ment of Vincent Astor to Miss Helen
Dinsmore, the daughter of an up
state clergyman, has been announced.
The wedding Is to take place at an
early date next spring. The bride
to-be is twenty years old.
It is rumored in society circles that
the engagement does not meet with
the approval of the young million
aire’s mother. It is predicted that
the wedding will never take place. The
young man has, however, shown the
same characteristics which marked
the life of his father and is not in
clined to permit others to interfere'
in his plans.
It is understood that his mother
would have preferred to see hjfm
choose a wife from the society ladies
of their own circle.
INCREASE DATES
NEXT MARCH
Eastern Railroads Are Impatient at
the Delay, as They Claim They
Are Losing Money.
i Washington, Nov. 8.—The Inter
stale Commerce Commission has
granted the executives of the east
; ern railroads the right to increase
their freight rates five per cent. The
' new rates will go into effect next
i March. The executives of the com
panies are unwilling to await several
months, as they want the increase
i to go into effect immediately.
When the companies first applied
: for the right to increase their rates
they asked for an increase of ten per
! cent on the grounds that the cost of
’ operation and maintenance had near
; ly doubled since the present rates
! went into effect. They were denied
i the increase. The case was reopened
| again last spring and has been before
; the commission ever since. After in
vestigation of the earnings of the
i roads and the cost of operation the
Interstate Commerce Commission de
i cided that the railroads were warrant
ed in their demands.
1 It is stated that the increase of the
| rates will cause the stocks of the
roads to be eagerly sought by Wall
street.
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Mountains of coal have been dis
j covered about sixty miles from the
mouth of the Kuskokwim river, near
| the River Eek and eighty miles from
i Good News bay, according to Cap
! tain Louis Knaflich, master of the
| power schooner Bender Brothers,
i which reached Nome lately. The coal
is reported to be a good grade of lig
| nite.
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The new strike known as Andreaf
ski is on Wilson creek, which en
ters the Yukon sixty miles below
j Russian Mission and thirty miles be
low the new town of Marshall City.
Wilson creek empties into a slough,
the m^uth of which is ten miles from
! the new diggings.—Nome Nugget.
M. J. Callaghan, the miner and rock
j driller, left -on this afternoons boat
i for Vancouver, B. C., where he goes
i to secure the machinery to open up
{the claims recently bonded by him
! in the Port Wells section.
j The weekly Moose dance at the
; Moose hall tonight. Good music and
j supper at 12.
j.. Ross Kinney, the foreman of the
I road commission, is an outgoing pas
senger on ,tod#y’s steamer.
J. H. Kruram lett today on the Al
! pmeda for Seattle.
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ARCTIC EXPLORER
MM BE LOST
> - I
Dillon Wallace, Expected to Return
by October 1, Not Heard From
in Labrador Wild*.
New York, Nov. 8.—Dillon Wal
lace, who left New Y'ork In July for
three months of exploration In In
terior Labrador, was expected to
leave Its wilds by October 1, and as
no word has come from him since
early September 1.1s friends here are
deeply concerned. Unless word of
some sort comes soon it is expect
ed that a relief expedition will be
organized
Wallace not only wished to make J
some scientific studies on this his
third trip into Labrador, but had al-1
so the great desire to mark with a
bronze tablet the lock beneath which !
his friend and fellow-explorer, Leon
idas Hubbard, died of exhaustion ten
years ago. His companions, Judge
| William Malone, of Connecticut, and
I George Blake, were to go only part
i way, and they returned to civilization
nearly two months ago.
From them it was learned that
the sixty-pound memorial tablet had
j been lost when the canoes capsized
in swirling rapids that came close
to cutting off the expedition then and
there. But they pushed on to the
rock near Last Camp, and there
carved the inscription with a ham
mer and cold chisel and in the
grooves painted white lead with a
| brush fashioned out of hair cut from
j Blake’s head. Judge Malone had in
| his kit a small American flag to re
\ place the one lost in the rapids, and
: to replace the banner of Hubbard’s
| Alma Mater, Michigan, a bit of white
oilcloth was lettered and draped on
the rock.
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ANCIENT MEAT
ON TOE MARKET
i
i
! Pure Food Inspectors Seize Tons of
j Meat and Fish Which Has Been
Six Years in Storage.
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Portland, Ore., Nov. 8.—Meat in
spectors seized and destroyed six
tons of meat ana tish which had been
kept in cold storage for six years and
was unfit for human food. Several
j complaints have been made to the
I health authorities that meat which
| was rotten was being offered for sale
| by butchers and an investigation was
| made of all the packing houses.
! The packers declare the meat is
! wholesome despite its age, contend
ing that when properly kept in cold
| storage meat does no tsuffer con
tamination. The health authorities
have been informed that the packers
have recently sold out a shipment of
the ancient meat and are investigat
ing the shops to which it is believed
to have been consigned. They claim
that the meat was treated with acid
which rendered it unfit for human
consumption.
OREGON WAGE
LAW^ UPHELD
Portland, Ore., Nov. 8.—The Cir
cuit Court of Appeals has up-eld the
state minimum wage law as. passed
by the local legislature during Its
last term. The law compels all em
ployers of women to pay them not.
i less than $Voo per week. Several
large mercantile houses contended
that the law was unconstitutional and
started a test suit which has ended
by the state being upheld.
As a new departure Blum's are
showing ladies’ and children’s furs.
TERMINALS TO
GOST MILLIONS
Both End* of Entrance to Panama
Canal Will be. Guarded by Break
waters Against Ocean Storms
*
Washington, Nov. 8.—It is estimat
ed by the engineers in charge of con
struction of the terminals of the Pan
ama canal that the cost of the term
inals on the Atlantic and Pacific
coasts will amount approximately to
$37,000,000. The total amount of
money appropriated for the canal,
including that or the terminals, is
$375,000,000.
The work of constructing the term
inals is being pushed with the same
vigor which has caused the comple
tion of the canal before the date set
by the engineers. The terminals will
include the construction of immense
breakwaters which will extend far out j
into the bays, protecting the entran- J
ces from storms sweeping in from
the ocean. Miles of docks and ware
houses with enormous capacities will
also be built as well as customs
houses at both ends of the canal.
An office building, which will be used
exclusively for offices for the execu
tives of the canal will be constructed
and the material is beginning to ar
rive.
The Panama Canal, now almost
completed, has cost the United
States so far $314,370,977, according
to the report just issued by the Isth
mian Canal Commission. The total
c6st of the canal when the work is
completed will be within the original
estimate of $375,000,000.
The greatest cost has been, of
course, in the department of con
struction and engineering, where
$185,316,095 has been spent since
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MARIPOSA IS
COMING NORTH
Sailed From Seattle Last Night With
Few Passengers for Valdez and
Westward Points.
Seattle, Nov. 8.- The steamer Mar
iposa sailed for Alaska last night with
many passengers for Southeastern
Alaska ports and a few for the west
ward. The passengers for Valdez
are: .Mrs. A. G. Smith, F. Thayer, J.
Letterman and wife, James Anderson,
O. H. Tucker and one steerage. Mr.
and Mrs. Middlecamp, of Ellamar, are
also passengers en route home.
Alaskans who ate now in thh city
predict a heavy traffic after the holi
days to the north will result from the
new strikes in the interior. They
believe that the camps will make good
and that a big stampede will result
from the states. Many are already
leaving for the Shushanna, but they
are men who have been in the camp
and have been outside to (inane op
erations and secure machinery with
which to develop their ground.
SULZER WILL
' GO ON STAND
I
New York, Nov. 8.—Ex-Governor
.^.ilzer has announced that he will go
on the witness stand to testify In
I the probe cases concerning the disap
! pe&rance of campaign funds which
j Hennessey declares were appropriat
ed by Boss Murphy, the Tammany
| leader. Sulzer has declared that he
will be able to convict Murphy of
| stealing funds and will also prefer
1 charges of bribing officers of the city
In connection with city contracts.
Bgby sleds for sale at Blum's.
PRISONERS SEE
SUITS BURNED
Only Convicts Sentenced to Solitary
Confinement Will Wear 8triped
Suits in Future.
San Quentin, Cal., Nov. 8.—Two
thousand convicts watched with inter
est yesterday when the prison offi
cials burned the striped suits which
have been their marks of degrada
tion. A huge bonfire was started in
the prison yards and the clothing was
piled on the flames amidst the cheers
of the convicts.
Under new regulations only refrac-!
tory prisoners or those who are sen
tenced to solitary confinement will
wear striped clothing. The prison of
ficials have learned that the con
victs are less difficult to handle and
their self-respect increased when they
are permitted to wear citizens cloth
es. The experiment has been thor
oughly tested and has received the
approval of the government.
ROOSEVELT GETS
ROYAL SALUTE
Greeted Like a King by the President
of Argentina Upon His Arrival
at Buenos Ayres.
Buenos Ayres, Argentina, Nov. 8.
—Ex-President Roosevelt was greeted
by the firing of salutes from all the
forts and war vessels in the harbor
here today upon his arrival from Rio
de Janeiro.
The distinguished American was
met by the president and his stall
and escorted to the palace, where he
will be a guest of the nation during
his stay. The sale of tickets for the
lecture to be given by Mr. Roosevelt
will tax the capacity of the auidtor
lum.
The reporters were unable to se
cure any statement from the leader
of the Bull Moose party in the states
regarding the pool showing made by
his organization in the election of
last Tuesday, but all reports regard
ing the vote and the majority given
each candidate was eagerly sought by
the former president. The news of
the defeat of Judge McCall, the Tam
many candidate for mayor of New
York, brought forth the statement,
“Bully," but nothing more.
The freighter Latouche on her re
cent trip carried 59,731 cases of sal
mon front the canneries in Southeast
ern Alaska. From the Starr-Collison
cannery at Moira sound she took 3,
535 cases, 11,200 cases from the Ta
ku cannery, 25,774 from Kassan, 13,
722 cases front Santa Ana. and 5,500
from Quadra.
Wireless Operator Barrett, of the
Mariposa, who was arrested at Ju
neau on a charge of larceny from
the Marconi system was released af
ter he had made a conf ssion impli
cating others.
Felix Justin, a colored man, acci
dentally shot himself while hunting
near Wrangell lately. The charge of
shot entered his arm and be bled to
death before reaching a doctor.
C. S. Dunlap, who has been attend
ing the sessions of court as a juror,
left this afternoon for his home in
the railroad town.
W. A. Dickey, who acted as fore
man of the grand jury, returned to
his home at Landlock bay this morn
ing.
Rev. M. E. Koonce left on the. boat
today for his home in 4’ordova.
Adler
is closing out business and will leave
ii thirty d.tys.
FRICK GIVES SON
MANY MILLIONS
Said to Have Settled $12,000,000
on Him—Gave Bride
$2,000,000.
Baltimore, Nov. 8.—That gilts to
talling $14,000,000 were presented by
Henry Clay Frick to. his son, Childs
Frick, and the latter’s bride, former
ly Miss Frances Shoemaker Dixon,
of this city, was learned on excel
lent authority today.
Before the marriage ceremony was
performed the father of the bride
groom is said to have settled $l2,
000,000 upon his son. Immediately
after the ceremony the elder Mr.
Frick passed an envelope to the
bride. This, it is learned, contained
a check for $2,000,000.
For several days prior to the cere
mony at Old St. Peter's Church it
had been rumored that the elder Mr.
Frick was to give the bride a hand
some cash present, the figure being
placed at $1,000,000. When approach
ed upon this subject Mrs. Dixon,
mother of the bride, said that if such
a princely gift was to be made she
knew nothing about it.
The many guests invited to the
wedding breakfast, served en buffet
at the Dixon home after the mar
riage ceremony, were not taken by
surprise when it was noticed that
Henry Clay Frick handed the bride
a plain envelope. No statement was
made as to the contents of this en
velope, prior to the bride leaving Bal
timore, and the guests left the house
without their curiosity about the
matter being satisfied.
WHITES LYNCH
COLOHED CHUTE
Infuriated Mob Wrecks Jail to Get
Their Victim From the Sheriff,
Who Resisted Them.
Dyersburg, Tenn., Nov. 8. A negro
who attacked a white woman and was
apprehended by the sheriff and plac
ed in jail here, was lynched by a mob
of infuriated whites last night. The
sheriff attempted id protect his pris
oner, but was overwhelmed by the
mob, which wrecked the building in
order to secure their victim.
There were several other prisoners
in the jail, but they were not molest
ed. The mob dragged the negro front
the jail with a rope around his neck
and hanged him to the nearest tele
graph pole, despite his assertions that
he was not the guilty party. The
brute's victim is under the care of
physicians.
ARCTIC CLUB
• WILLJANOUET
Seattle, Nov. 8.—The Alaska Day
celebration begins in the rooms of the
Arctic Club at noon today. The event
was postponed owing to the -club
rooms not being in shape for the en
tertainment of guests. The festivi
ties will be brougnt to a close this
evening by a banquet, to which ev
ery Alaskan in the city has been in
vited.
George Barrack, of Latouche, was
an outgoing passenger on the Ala
meda to have his eyes attended to.
Mr. Barrack is almost blind and in
spite of several operations his sight
fails to improve.
Father William Shepherd left on
the Alameda tor Cordova to hold
services in the railroad town. He will
return on the Mar'posa.