VOL 9 VALDEZ, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1913. ,, NO. 21«.
WILSON WILL TALK
« TO THE CONGRESS
Intends to Address the Members
Next Monday About Cur
rency Reform.
Washington, 1). C„ June 20.~
President Wilson has 'notified
congress that he will address
them next Monday on "the ques
tion of currency reform and out
line his desires and urge the
passage at this session of the ad
ministration toll, which provides
a means of rediscounting by the
hanks of all commercial paper
held by them and also provides
machinery for doing a foreign
business through the local banks.
The bill plans 12 federal re
serve banks, through which in
stitutions il is hoped to provide
a more elastic currency.
This will be the set-ond time
that President Wilson will have
addressed the members of con
gress and delivered his message
l.o them in person, while formerly
all messages. were read by the
clerk.
PRESIDENT m
m DUTIES
«
When Foreign Countries Dis
criminate Against the Un
ited States.
Washington, 1>. U.., June 20.—
Tile finance commillee have de
rided lo rifporl favorably on the
seel ion of I he tariff hill which
would allow lo the president the
power lo raise I lie duty on all
imports from foreign countries
which discriminate against the
United States by charging an ex
port or import lax.
The plan is similar to that in
the Republican tariff bill which
provided a higher lax on all im
ports from countries discrimin
ating against us and allowed the
President lo order a higher lar
i|f rale if necessary.
ANOTHER KID FOR
SPANISH QUEEN
t
Sixth Child Born to Royal Couple
, Lasj, Night and Much Re
joicing by Populace.
Madrid, Spain, June 20.—A son
was horn to the queen of Spain
last nighl. This is the sixth
child born to the royal couple.
The city was gaily decorated
by the people wit}) bunting and
the llying of the national banner,
when the news was made public
by the fil ing of a salute of 100
guns for I he royal prince.
Colonel Hichardson, chairman
o <fthe road 'commission, w*il|
leave on the Northwestern Satur
day morning for Skagway and will
make a trip of inspection of the
roads under construction in the
\ Fairbanks section.
Hans Steinfelt left yesterday to
join a road commission crew.
A Three-reel Feature Film.
Martin Chuzzlewit, by Charles
Dickens, the great English nov
elist, a three-reel feature at the
Orpheum tonight. Don’t forget
to patronize, the local theater.
CHURCHMAN CONQUERS MT. McKINLEY
REACHED TOP OF CONTINENT JUNE 7th.
Fairbanks, June 20.—Arch
Deacon Hudson Stuck, Harry P.
Carstens Robert Tatum and Wal
ter 11. Harper reached the sum
mit of Mount McKinley on June
7th. They climbed the highest
peak of the continent, erecting on
it. a six-foot flag staff bearing the
inscription “To Deum.” They al
so flew a flag from the upper ba
sin between the two peaks.
With a field glass the party
Were able to distinctly see the Hag
stall' pole erected by Pete Ander
son and William Taylor in 1010,
which was still standing. This
pole was erected near the lower
north peak of the mountain.
The parly successfully carried
the mercurial barometer to the
summit and took careful read
ings. which, with the readings
taken at Fort Oibbon, for that
period, will, when (he proper cor
rections are made, give the ap
proximate* true altitude, which is
[ARCHDEACON HUDSON STUCK, OF FAIRBANKS, REACHED SUM
MIT—DAY SPENT ON TOP BITTERLY COLD BUT CLEAR—
COULD SEE FOR MILES—ANDERSON FLAG FOUND.
Water boiled at a temperature
of 171 and 9-10 degrees.
The party found that the up
per regions have been badly shat
tered by the earthquakes of last
summer and the last three weeks
•of the trip the men fought their
way amid the dangerous broken
rock and ice to the summit by
cutting their way through the ice
and beris, and in spite id' (lie bad
weather, loo. Three weeks wen
spent making three miles to
reach the ridge of the mountain,
greatly delaying the parly and
adding to the hardships of the
ascent. The summit apparently
was untouched by the earthquake
now estimated by the archdeacon
to be -0,500 feet.
but on all sides f|u> rocks and ice
had been torn to pieces.
The only possible approach to
the summit of the mountain was
by way of the northwest ridge.
Angles were read to all possi
ble points in the vicinity. The
day spent on the summit was
clear and cold. The view from
I lie summit was the grandest ev
er seen by man. says the Arch
deacon, the majestic peak rearing
il.se11 with its twin smaller peak
for miles into the sky and the
view as far as the eye could see
of mountains and valleys, rivers
and .creeks, glaciers and rolling
prairies to I he Yukon and the
coast range, beggaring descrip
tion.
The Archdeacon attributes the
chief credil for the success of
the expedition to the good judg
ment and resourcefulness, cau
tion and ability of “Forty-mile
Kid"’ Karstens.
The party suffered no mishaps
and are all well and hope to be
able to reach Fairbanks in Aug
ust.
The Anderson party was out til
l'd by Fairbanks people, headed
by Hig Kill MePhe.e, and they
claimed to have climbed the peak,
but eastern scientists and writ
ers poo-poohedthe idea, and Pro_
lessor Parker, who made sever
al unsuccessful attempts at scal
ing the big mountain, also ques
tioned the Irulli of the statement
in the eastern press, but the
Stuck party have seen the Hag
pole 'erected by Anderson in 1910
and the party must have made
good and ascended the mountain.
NIK MUST
STAY AWAY
Secretary of Labor Refuses Ma
lays and Hindus Amission If
Become Public Charges.
Washington. I>. .Iii'ne 20 —
Secretary Wilson. of I lie Depart
iiienl of Labor, lias issued orders
that all Hindus and Malays who
try lo enter I lie stales, even
though coining here from some
other insular possession of the
United Stales, are |o be refused
admission by the immigrant of
ficials and deported to Hie is
lands from which they last lake
passage to America, whenever in
I lie opinion of the inspectors I he
men art* likely lo become public
charges. This action is taken
because of the great number of
Hindus and Malays who spend a
short lime in the Philippine is
lands and Hawaii for the sole
purpose of securing entrance in
to tin* stales.
■HOME
TO JT RELIT
Calgary, Alberta, June 20—
The jury which is to decide the
fate of Arthur Pelky. who killed
Luther McCarty in the ring by a
blow over the heart, has been
completed and the work of sub
mitting testimony will start this
afternoon.
PUCE DUTY OK
BKNJKS. DIKE
Washington, D. C., June 2ft.—
The Senate finance committee, by
a strictly party vote, decided to
place a duly of five'cents a bunch
on bananas and on brandy which
is used to fortify wine a duty of
$1.10 a gallon is to be charged.
The majority estimate that the
duty on bananas and brandy will
increase the revenue $4,000,000
a ye^r.
Mrs. Carleton, wife of Captain
Carleton at Fort Liscum, receiv
ed the sad news yesterday in a
telegram, from Evereltj, Wash.,
that her sister had suddenly pass
ed away. . . ...
NEW MAGAZINE
FOR ROOSEVELT
Will Sever His Connection With
The Outlook to Start New
Moose Paper.
New York. June l’U.—Theodore
Housese||. head of the Hull Mouse
parts, svill edit a nesv magazine
which it is planned to publish
here in a less' sveeks. The form
er president is nosv under con
tract ssilli The Outlook company
as a contributing editor and re
mdses s.'tn.unu a year for his
work, lint svill sever his connec
tion ssilli Dr. Abbot's magazine
and start one of his osvn.
The necessary amount of
money to purchase tin* plant has
been raised by “Hull Monsers’" in
lerestcd in the work of tearing
dossil the Republican parly and
building up the Hull Moose parly.
hoteFbur
11110 CREMATED
Barber Hot®l at Chico, Cal., Goes
Up in Smoke—Twenty Hurt
and Two Dead.
I
Chico, Cal., June -0.—The Bar
bee hotel was burned t<> the
ground last night and two guests
of the hotel we ye burned to death
and twenty more injured hy
jumping from the windows into
the blankets held by the firemen.
The firemen worked for m yanorh
The firemen worked for many
hours and,finally succeeded in
saving the Diamond Match com
pany’s plant, which was very
close to the hotel, from burning.
Owen Meals, the local wireless
man, has his plant working and
is now able to hear and talk with
'the station at Cape Whitshed, and
he also can hear the steamers far
but to sea. He intends to perfect
himself in the work and will soon
be able to give the town wireles*
news and to send wireless mes
sages.
Captain Stanley left this morn
ing for Port Vyells with the
Brighton. He had a big load of
passengers and freight.
NEWSPAPER MEN
LEAVE TOMORROW
As Guests of Seattle Chamber of
Commerce Will Tour the
Territory.
Seattle, June i’ll.—The repre
sentatives nt live eastern maga
zines and newspapers, 70 Seat
tleites ami in tourists will de
part from Ihis eily Saturday lo
make a lour of Alaska under the
auspices of I he Seattle Chamber
id' I'.ominerce.
The plans for the excursion
formulated by Abe comn|i|.fe«
provide for a journey of 8,000
miles through Alaska, going from
Seattle lo Skagway, calling at all
imporlanl ports, then going down"
the Yukon river lo Dawson,
Fairbanks and Ruby l<> St. Mich
ael and Nome, and along the coast
to Seward, Valdez and Cordova.
Eleven People Killed and Many
Injured—Use House Moving
Outfit to Clear Track.
Vallejo, Cal., June 20.—A col
'lisipn between Hie Frisco and Na
pa interurban electric cars caus
ed the dealh of, eleven, people ,and
the injuring of as many more.
The cars were telescoped anil
it was necessary to use a house
moving outfit to take the wreck
age off the track and recover the
bodies of the dead and release
the injured, who were pinned
[down.
, *
George Baldwin, the mining en
gineer, came to Valdez on the
Northwestern and will spend a
week here, later returning to the
Mother Lode claims on McCarty
creek, which he is opening up this
summer and which it is expected
will be on a shipping basis by
Tall, as a large tramway has been
built to take the ore from the
mine to the, creek and a wagon
road lias been built to mile 192
on the railroad so that shipments
of the high grade glance may tie
made to Tacoma.
STILL WORKING ON
THE LOBBY PROBE
Information Furnished the Dem
ocrats by the Sugar Re
fining Industry.
Washington, |». ./uin' -ii.—
Sales Agent l.owry. of tile l*'ed
era I Sugar Helming company,
lesl ilieil iiefore I lie lobby roin
■ nil lee I lull lie film isbuil most ot’
I lie free sugar data used by I lie
l>emoeralie lexl books which
were issued lo liilluence I lie
i lemocral if members of congress
and also the general public in fa
vor of free sugar.
I'residenl Slone, of I lie Assn-j
cialed I’ress. was called as a wit
ness and produced the correspon
dence concerning publicity for
the beal sugar industry.
The committee lias adjourned
subject lo the call of the chair
man of ilie committee.
MINIM FREED
ON MOO BAIL
Judge Overtiold, who held court
a short time in Juneau released
Joseph McDonald, who is charg
ed with the murder of N. C. Jones
at Treadwell in 1902, under $50,
000 bail bond. The release was
made June 10th. Samuel Piles,
of Washington, is one of the at
torneys for MacDonald.
M’REYNQLDS CANT
ENFORCE WEBB LAW
Washington, D. C., June 20.
Allorney General McReynolds
holds holds that the government
is powerless to enforce the Webb
liquor law as no criminal clause
was added to the bill. The de
partment will make no effort to
stop interstate traffic in liquors
into a dry state or county and the
state police and state laws will
be depended upon to Estop the
practice of having “booze” sent
by express.
Daly, formerly of the Valdez
Cafe, has joined the ranks of the
benedicts, having married an old
sweetheart in Marshfield, Ore.
HE SUFFRAGETTE
TAKES OWN LIFE
Throws Himself eBfore August
Belmont’s Racing Horse at
Elsop, England.
Ascot, Eng., June 20.—A he
suffragette named llewett jumped
before August Belmont’s racing
horse at the races here today and
was so badly inured that he will
die. The horse was thrown, send
ing the jockey from his seat but
lie landed some distance away un
injured, while the horse, which is
a very valuable one. . is badly
shaken up and may have sprain
ed himself.
llewett .jumped into, the track,
brandishing a revolver, waving a
banner marked “Voles for Wom
en” and threw himself before the.
on-rushing racer.
Because of the magnificent
parade given the suffragette who
threw herself .at King George’s
horse some time ago and was kill
ed, llewett is believed lo have
gone insane and to have brooded
over her death and determined
to die in the same way, expect
ing a similar funeral.
ON THE LUSITANIA
Big English Vessels Are to be
Ready for War at Moment’s
Notice.
ol.mloii. .lime in.--The big
I ransal laid ir liner Lusitania has
been tilled with high power guns
and is the lirst vessel to comply
with I lie new regulations of the
British admiralty hv which it is
expected to build a large auxiliary
navy of fast passenger boats.
All the large British vessels
are equipped with gun decks, but
up to the present no guns have
been carried; now. however, the
vessels are lo be ready at a mo
ment's notice to start on a cruise
as commerce destroyers in the
event of war with a foreign pow
er.
NORTHWESTERN
FROM THE SOUTH
Brings 100 Tons of Freight and
15 Passengers—Sixty Tons
for Fort Liscum.
The S. S. Northwestern, in com
mand of Captain Hunter, reach
ed Valdez last night at l I o'clock
after unloading 00 tons of freight
at Fort Liscum. and left for Sew
ard at i this morning. The Nor
thwestern is expected to sail
south early Saturday morning.
The following passengers ar
rived for Valdez:: A. Gustafsen,
O. Gustafson, Mrs. \V. K. Millard,
Mrs. \VL C. Thompson and boy,
Geo. Baldwin, Mrs. J. C. Martin,
J. Lefevre, F. E. Whelpley, R.
Butler, Mr. rBame and two steer
age.
Notice to Eastern Star.
There will be a special meet
ing of the Eastern Star next
Tuesday evening. All officers are
requested to be present.
MRS. W. H. CRARY,
Secretary.
Read the Dally Prospeotor.