INTERIOR KICKS
AT NAILS DELAY
Mayor of Nome a,nd Chief Mall
Clerk Register Kfck at Delay
of Mails at Cordova.
Nome, Jan. 10.—Mayor Gil
more today telegraphed to the
Postoffice Department' relative to
the delay of mails going by way
of Gordova and Chitina. lie
makes a strong protest against
the continued delay of mails and
says the people are becoming in
censed.
He says it is unreasonable to
bold up the incoming mails at
Gordova and the outgoing at
Chitina for weeks, while the Val
dez trail is open.
Chief Clerk of the Railway Ser
vice McManus has also taken the
matter up with the Postoffice
Department, protesting against
the unreasonable delays in the
delivery of mail.
TIL PEOPLE
DOE DISGUSTED
Non-arriVal of Mall Causes
Thom to ftequfcst Tholr Mail
by Wiy of Valdez.
Hubert* McIntosh resehred2' ‘a
message from C. L. Hoyt at.Giil
kana, saying: “Unless routing
of mail changed call for mail ad
dressed to Mrs. N. Yager, Claud
Stewart, Jas. Doyle, Geo. Ferrell,
C. L. Hoy?, Gulkana, and deliv
er same to stage at Willow creek.
Postmaster Valdez advised to dc
tiver this mail to you. Publish
if you see tit.”
ARRESTED DESERTER
GIVEN
Portland, Ore., Jan. 10—Harry
Kego, deserter from the navy, is
being sought today, following
Bremerton Navy. Yard orders, de
livered after llego had been turn
ed loose from the city jail, where
lie had given himself up as a de
Mvrter and wnere he desired to re
main, despite the order ot Chief
(if police Shiver to turn him
loose.
Rego surrendered himself sev
eral days’ ago will) flic informa
tion that lie had deserted at lo
kohaina, aim Bremerton was not
ified. hut il is claimed the navy
yard dallied so long ahoul claim
ing the man that Chief Shiver,
not desiring to hold him over
Christmas, ordered him released.
SI over is out #50 for Hie man’s
capture as the result.
DUKE OF ABRUZZI
IS AWARDED PRIZE
Paris. Jail. 10.—General satis
faction is expressed here at the
decision of the Academy ot
Sciences lo award its princjpal
geographical prize, Le Prix Tehi
haf chef. to I he puke of Abruzzi
this year in recognition of liis
work in this field of knowledge.
The Duke, who is very popular
here, is thought in scientific cir
cles thoroughly to merit the hon
or thus shown him by t.he; Insti
tute of'Franco through the. bril
liioii results of his expeditions
to the Huwenzori rang*! in Cen
Iral Africa and to • the Western
'!:malavas n Asia. £
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Don’t forget to attend.the lirsl
of the Ragles series of semi
monthly dances next Saturday.
EXPECTED SOON
Beleagured People Are Short of
Supplies And Cannot Hold
Out Much Longer.
London, Jan. 10.—Peace nego
tiations are at a standstill. The
Bulgarian delegates have receiv
ed a cipher disp.ateh telling of the
terrible suffering of the besieged
within Adrianople.
There is but little flour left
within the beleagured city and the
only remaining food rations are
issued but once a day. The com
mandant of the city requested to
be allowed to import enough pro
visions to sustain file people
pending negotiations, but was re
fused.
It is believed llie city’s fall is
very near. The Russian fleet, is
being mobilized in the Black sea
to carry out the Powers plan to
make a demons) ration to force
peace.
I The other Powers are nsM-iob
lling their fleets at the Dardn
| nollos.
I
Business Men of Rose City Rais
ing frujacTof Half Million JEs-., .
tabllshStsamshlp Line.
Portland, Jan. 10.— Portland is
making another effort to start a
steamer line to Alaska. The com
mercial bodies are again work
ing to raise a fund to inaugu
rate a regular steamer service to
the north coast.
John Burgard, secretary of the
Alaska-Pacific Fisheries Com
pany, has subscribed $50,000 to
wards the city’s fund to estab
lish a bi-monthly service and ef
forts are being made to enlist
contributions from other cannery
Companies operating in Alaska
and having their headquarters
here. The committee in charge
estimate that it will take a half
million dollars to launch the en
terprise on a permanent basis.
BHifciii
GOES TO WRONG
Tacoma, .Jan. 10. — Hussell Jen
nings. cashier of the Pacific Na
tional bank, has signed a confes
sion that he appropriated lo his
own use $3,000 belonging to the
bank. He has been placed under
arrest.
$50 A TRIP TO SEE
BERLIN BY AIRSHIP
iterlin, .cm. t0—Airship flights
over Berlin and its picturesque
environs can now be enjoyed by
natives anil tourists in the new
Zeppelin passenger excursion
airship; the Pansa, which is sta
tioned for the winter at Pots
dam, and makes ascents every
day that the weather permits. A
Iwo-hour journey costs $50, in
cluding luncheon. Several Amer
ican visitors have been enjoying
flights during the salubrious win
der conditions now prevailing.
•: , --%V-£- 'V J
See the Movie* T^ptght. '
“Through th^./. DSpts,” and*
chechacos take ‘ffiitiee how to
snow shoe it. over the trail, at the
Orpheurn tonight.
‘Subscribe for the Prospccto;
TRY 10 ASCEND
MOUNT M'KINLEY
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Members of Parkefwilr#wne Ex
pedition Certain Success
Oan be H«d.
Tacoma, Jan. 10.—Another
climb of Mount McKinley, prbb-|
ably will be hiitde, under direc-*
tion of Merl LaVojr, who accom
panied Belmore Browne and
Prof. Herschell Parker on their
last trip. LaVoy was in Tacoma
yesterday seeking to finance the
journey. He said he is confident
the ascent to the summit can be
made by dodging the storms
which sweep the famous peak
daily. Two of these storms drove
back the last expedition.
Interested in the proposed at
tempt with LaVoy, is G. E. Rusk,
of Prosser, Wash., editor of the
Benton, Wash., Independent. The
men plan, if financial arrange
ments are made, to start north
the last of February or the first
of March. The ascent would be
made in May.
I,a\ d,v intends to tottow me
same course taken by the last
Parker and Browne expedition
Until the altitude of 17,100 feet is
reached. He then wrould take to
a glacier between the two main
peaks and follow it to an altitude
of between 18,000 and 18,500
feet. To view tin; weather condi
tions and prepare to dodge the
daily slol'ms. LaVoy plans to
camp at the foot of a high rock,
at 18,900 feet altitude, reached
by the Parker-Browne expedi
tion- Therehe would .watch tins
way (if the’elements until the
ascent could be made to the sum
mit without* interference from
storms.
Eight people from Fairbanks
are expected in over the trail to
morrow. They will reach Ptarm
igan Drop this evening.
Lieut. (>|en E. Kdgerton, >'■ S.
A., of the road commission, is
a northbound passenger on the
Mariposa, according to a cable
gram received by Lieut. Weeks.
^SpfciSltE
Washington, D. C., Jan. 10.
Presidenl Taft has withheld his
special message to congress ad
vising a revision of the law pro
hibiting the killing of seal on the
Pribilolf Islands for a period of
live years, in accord with the sug
gestion of I)r. Jordan, who claims
that the killing of a proportion
of the bulls will help the growth
of the herd.
MMipinls
it THE HOHTH
Seattle, Jan. 10.—The Maripo
sa sailed for the north on Thurs
day evening with Dr. Daggett,
Torn Quinn, Mrs Horace Del.ine
and Mra. Thomas Scott as Valdez
passengers.
GARMENT WORKERS
ARE TO PARADE
New York, Jan. 10.--Sixty
thousand garment, workers iyoT
po«£ -ho ^jparacje through. thi.
street*, oCfifiirtr&y, provided' they
can oBlam.jp’ p^*m it from «Mayn^r
Gaylyor to ao so. .. " • >
«M‘ —i' ——— - ■ - — -».
PrankCfianoe.
Chicago, jau. 10^-The Yan
kees have signed'Frank Chance
for three years for $120,000, in
cluding percentage.
Will SECEDE
'Vlio Order Re*entft '•reach of
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Faith on t*iri of drand En
fckagway,, Jan. 10.—J. M. Kel
ler, Grand Recorder of the Arc
I tic Brotherhood, iipon liis return
irom.Jlhe slates, in an interview
nth the Alaskan, stated that in
l>is cafladity as drarid Recorder
He would refuse to sign a Char
ter for the establishment of sub
ordinate camps without,the juris
diction of the Brotherhood, bas
ing his position on the steam
roller tactics employed by the late
Grand Camp which met in Van
couver, B. C., abrogating the in—
t(|ial i\te jand referendum, 'which
has always been the right of the
subordinate camps. Ilis office is
flooded with protests, showing
lihat delegates voted against their
instructions of the northern
ramps. .
i I ri?*i uruuu :\rrur Minn (fames
ijV. Hill, for thirteen years a life
ilier of the Fairbanks camp,
v.iif astounded to learn while on
a trip through Southeastern
Alaska, of ‘he action of the late
M ran cl Camp in abolishing the
initiative and referendum and so
amending the constiinlem as to
^permit the formaticr of cubordi
fnate canips south of fii. lie feels
that there has been a serious
breech of confidence on the part
of the delegates to the Grand
Gamp, which, if allowed to pass
by unchallenged, will result in
Hie disruption qf the oCder.
Fast Grind Arctic Chief f>r.
Keller, a charter member of the
mother camp, condemns the ac
tion of the Grand Camp and as
serts that the establishment of
subordinate canips below the pre
scribed latitude will result in the
disruption of the brotherhood,
and is heartily in favor of estab
lishing a new Grand Camp in
Alaska, seceding entirely from
the non-Alaskan organization.
Every subordinate camp in the
order will participate in the Ju
neau meeting.
10 Mill
Seattle, Jan. 10_Councilman
Ulaine has offered an ordinance
for (he establishment of a Mu
nicipal commission house as a
solution of the city's light against
the Western avenue Imld-up.
Hnth the stale and the federal
government are preparing to be
gin aeliotis against tile commis
sion houses under III.1 Sherman
act.
IRK RUNNING
SCHEDULE TIME
! Seattle, Jan. lit—The trans
continental roads are gradually
resuming their schedules. The
Northern Pacific snow gangs
have struck for higher wages.
ItrfifNY APPLICANTS
FOR MAR8HALSHIP
Nome, Jan. 10.—The United
Stales niurshalship for the Second
division will he .vacant in JMne
ah'd.thqrfe are a host of appli
cjuftk for the job. , * ,
SfcATTLt HEALTH IS i ... >i
V f^iKST IN W$RLI*
Seattle, Jan. 10.--Government
statistics show tljat Seattle jis the
healthiest city in the World,' hav
ing the lowest death rate, with
Sydney, N. S. \V„ second.
1 NEW ME
AT CORDOVA
k. J. Adams Succeeds Judge
Tucker, and Latter Wants
Customs Job.
Judge Lyons has appointed A.
J. Adams, of Cordova, United
Statesi coinniissibrier for the Cor
dova precinct, succeeding Judge
Tucker, who, it is understood,
is slated to succeed M. S. Whit
tier.
Mr. Whittier, who was cus
toms inspector at Cordova, has
been transferred to Ketchikan,
which is in the nature of a pro
motion, and it is said that Judge
Tucker has passed the civil ser
vice examination and will receive
the appointment.
Judge Chapin, who is associat
ed with J. Y. Ostrander in the law
business, was also an applicant
for the commissionership, but at
the suggestion of Judge Over
bold, Judge Lyons has made the
appointment of A. J. Adams.
FROM LIGHTSHIP
Life Crew and two Survivors of
Wrookod ftoaeorano Finally
— . » i. ..
Safe Ashore.
Astoria, .tun. to.—The ocean
going tug Oento has finally, after
a number of unsuccessful at
tempts, reached the lightship and
taken off two of the rescued sur
vivors of the Rosccrans, who
were brought to that ship by the
brave crew of life savers, who
would have perished in the storm
had they attempted to regain
land. The Oenta also look off the
life crew.
McIntosh stages will leave for
Willow creek in the morning with
a full load of passengers ,and
freight for roadhouses on the
| trail. The last stages over the
hill carried supplies for Nal
sted's roadhouse on the lower
Tonsina.
PROMISE TRAINS
III I FEW OiKS
Cordova. Jan. in.--Tin* Post
office I leparl incut inis ordered I In*
mail service emitinued by way of
Cordova and Chitina upon the
representations of the officials ot
the railroad company, who assert
dial their head rotary will reach
Tekcl. today, where there is fuel.
YOUNG HIGHWAYMEN
GET FULL FENALTY
Chicago. Jan. 10.—Under th ■
new law fixing the penally for
robbery with deadly weapons two
young highwaymen \yere senten
ced to life terms by Judge Burke
today. Joseph Williams and
(ieorge Kohler, confessed bandits,
are just 21 years old, and Judge
Burke said in imposing senlence:
“II is a sail thing, hut society
muiH be pi'olectVd.’ Here we have
twj/. ableVlhitlied young, men who
have cast aside1 every prospect in
life, bint justice can only say that
3he severity of the punishment is
jilted to Ilu* crime.’’
v.enlle m-rse nnu odtft fort able
duller for iciil ny day or hwur.
Rate reasonable. Apply Heed
'SUh. pbotw* A7.
FROM FAR NOME
Four Members Second Division
Start for Juneau With Dog
Teams on Long Journey.
Nome, Jan. 10—Senator-elect
breeding and Representatives
Aldrich and Gaffney left on last
Tuesday for Juneau, driving their
own dog teams in the face of a
howling blizzard.
Gaffney and Aldrich, who are
members of the Miners’ Union,
were banqueted by organized la
bor (he night before their depar
ture.
Representative Kennedy left
Candle for Juneau today, lie will
take the trail via the Koyuk
and Death Valley, one of the
bleakest and stormiest trails in
this section. He will meet his
colleagues at Unakleet, and the
entire party will travel to the
coast together.
LOSE LIVES IN
BIG HOTEL FIRE
■fhree Roomers Lose Their Lives
and Five Firmen Are Ser
iously Injured.
San Francisco, Jan. io..-A ser
ious lire broke out in a water
front lodging house, calling oiu
I be entire department to subdue
I he flames. Three unidentified
persons lost Iheir lives in the fire
and five firemen were seriously
injured bv falling walls.
WILL CONTINUE
CAMPAIGN PROBE
Washington, L>. (!., Jan. 10.—
An effort to extend the Senate
campaign fund investigation to
cover the presidential light of
1912, will he made by Senator
Clapp, chairman of the investi
gating committee, soon after
congress reconvenes. The inves
tigation has been limited by the
Senate resolution to the 190 4 and
1908 presidential campaigns and
1 he 1912 tight prior to I he nom
! inal iug enuvenl ions.
The Scnale probably will In*
asked in pass an additional reso
luliim enlarging the committee's
power, unless it i< found possi
ble In go into the recent fight
under the authorily now possess
ed hy the invest igal ing body. All
of the national campaign com
mittees tiled express statements
this year, hut an investigation of
Ihe recent statement would bring
out many new fads, it is believ
ed.
SUES TWOS. W. LAWSON
FOR ACCOUNTING
liosion. Jan. 10.--Suits with
s 400,000 attachments arising, it
is said, from unsettled stock
transactions, were entered in th<*
federal and stale courts t >day
against Thomas W. Lav son by
George K. Learna'rd. of N’arragan
setl Pier, It. I.
Mr. Learnard was a member of
the stock exchange firm ol' "oo
l<ty, Lcgrnafd '& Co., which dis
solved about a year ago.
John T. Wheelwright, conus.'!
for Mr. Learnard, said his epeiit.
desired an accounting, and that
attachments had been levied upon
several banks and brokerage
firms said to hold funds of Mr.
Lawson.