y0i 1Q VALDEZ, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1914. NO. 113.
WIFE SAVES
SEC'V. BRYAN
Secretary of State William J. Bryan
Almost Drank a Glass of Cham
pagne, But Wife Warns Him.
NEW YORK, Feb. 16.— Secretary of
State William J. Bryan, inventor of
the grapejuice punch for diplomats,
was saved Saturday night at the ban
quet of the Authors’ League, where
he was the principal speaker, from
violating his pledge not to drink in
toxicating liquors, by his wife.
Secretary Bryan, while delivering
his address, wished to moisten his
lips and accidently grasped a glass
of sparkling . champagne, but the
warning cry of Mrs Bryan, who was
seated near the secretary, caused him
to pause and when he noticed that
he held in his hand the glass of
champagne he placed it on the
table untouched. The crowd cheer
ed the act of the secretary and also
gave three cheers for Mrs. Bryan.
The placing of champagne on the
small stand at the disposal of the
secretary was an accident, the at
tendant not knowing that the speaker
of the evening was the great grape
juice advocate.
REBELS FIGHT IN
GIH OF MEXICO1
Zapatista Followers Enter Suburbs,
But Are Defeated by Huerta’s
Troops—Guns on Palace.
MEXICO City, Feb. 16.—The Za
patista rebels entered the suburbs of
the city last night and made an effort
to capture the capital, but the federal
troops after an engagement lasting
several hours drove them hack with
heavy losses.
It is feared that the Zapatista have
more than 1,000 rebels inside the city
who hate come here a few tit a time
and are ready to start an outbreak at
a moment’s notice. President Huer
ta has again ordered the machine
guns mounted upon the government
buildings and is pr paring to give the
rebels a warm reception.
The capital is facing a financial
pan’c. The American dollar is quot
ed at three pasos and is expect d to
go higher. Mexican paper money is
sued by the government or by the
rebels is valueless and can not be
cashed at the banks at all.
HIRED GUNMEN
ARE CONVICTED
Three New York Detectives and One
Deputy Sheriff Found Guilty of
k Murder at Houghton
HOUGHTON, Mich., Feb. 16—Three
New lork detectives hired by the
operators of the copper mines and
one deputy sheriff were found guilty
here today of killing a striker. The
prosecuting attorney claimed that the
killing was unjustifiable.
The trial lasted several weeks and
every effort was made to save the
lives of the hired gunmen from the
east, but the jury were out only a
few hours when they returned" a ver
dict of murder in the first degree.
Northwestern Leaves Skagway.
The steamer Northwestern left
Skagway at 8:30 last night for Val
dez and is due here early tomorrow
evening.
IT. POLITICIAN
CUTS OWN THROAT
John Kennedy Returns From Mass
and Takes Life Because Did Not
Want to Testify in Graft Case
BUFFALO, N._ Y., Feb. 16.—About
to testify in the John Doe proceed
ings investigating the graft in the ca
nal contracts and the holding up of
contractors on state works, John
Kennedy, • ia prominent Democratic
politician, and at present state treas
urer, returned from church yester
day morning and cut his throat from
ear to ear with a sharp razor. He
died within an hour, bleeding to
death in spite of every effort of the’
several physicians in attendance.
It is stated that Kennedy took to
his grave the evidence which would
have enabled District Attorney Whit
man to have connected Boss Mur
phy with the grafting gang.
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CROSS ATLANTIC
Lieut. Porte Expects to Make Trip in
24 Hours—Has Specially Built
Hydroaeroplane.
LIVERPOOL, Eng., Feb. 16.—Lieut.
Porte left here today for the United
States to prepare for crossing the At
lantic ocean in a hydroaeroplane.
Lieut. Porte will fly from the Unit -
ed States to England, taking the nor
thern route followed by the steam
ships, and it is believed that so many
liners erg scattered from shore to
shore as to make i; possible for the
aviator to land near a steamer at any
time he finds it necessary. It is also
proposed that ail steamers shall wire -
less the condition of the weather and
the aviator will not start unless all
tlie way from Cape Race to England
the reports tell him the weather con
ditions are proper.
Porte expects to win the $50,000
prize offered by the London Daily
Mail to the aviator making the trip
across the Atlantic. He says that he
will cross the ocean in 24 hours and
will average over 100 miles an hour.
He has an especially prepared flying
machine capable of carrying the re
quired amount of fuel. It is of the
hydroaeroplane type.
Deny Japanese "Graft.”
TOKIO, Japan, Feb. 16.—A heated
discussion took place in the Diet to
day on the allegalions that Vice Ad
miral Fujii, formerly Naval Attache
at Berlin, received illicit commissions
on contracts obtained by a- German
electrical concern from the Japanese
government.
Premier Yamameto and Minister of
Marine Saito were kept busy for four
hours responding to questions from
members of the opposition.
The ministers denied that any offi
cers of the Japanese navy had ac
cepted commissions, and announced
the appointment of a naval commis
sion headed by Admiral Baron Dewa
to Investigate the allegations.
Lion Kills Cinema Man.
NAIROBI. British East Africa, Feb.
16.- Mauling by a lion' caused the
death here today of Fritz Schindler,
a member of an American moving
picture expedition engaged in taking
pictures of wild animals in their na
tural surroundings. Schindler, with
others belonging to the expedition,
was attempting to photograph a lion
ir. the jungle on Saturday, when the
animal sprang on him and lacerated
him so badly that he never rallied.
Sampson Sails South. „
Tlie steamer Sampson reached Val
dez it 10 o’clock Saturday nishi and
sailed for Seattle at 12.
AT ITLIATLA
Father Duncan Refuses to Give Up
Water Right at Governor
Strong's Request.
METLAKATLA, Alaska, Feb. 16.—
—Ignoring the request of Governor
Strong, Father Duncan, of this place,
refuses to give up to the natives the
use of the water power and the use
of the water supply which he controls
here, having built it many years- ago.
The water is piped a long distance
into the town from the mountains.
Father Duncan says that the In
dians are only children, needing dis
cipline, care and control, and are not
fitted for the measure of self gov
ernment the Department of Educa
tion is preparing to give them. He
opposes the control of towns entire
ly by the natives without the super
vision of whites.
The natives, however, have rallied
around the government teachers and
are demanding full civic and cotn
meycial freedom. They point with
pride to the establishment and op
eration of the native city of Hyda
burg on Prince of Wales island, where
the younger generation of the Hyda
tribe have established an ideal mu
nicipality and are operating a saw
mill and a store on the co-operative
basis. They also run fish salteries
and many other industries.
The international reputation of
Father Duncan, who has spent his life
among the Indians of the western
coast and who has done much for
them, is likely to cause trouble if
the authorities attempt to take from
him any of the rights he has acquir
ed or interfere with him in his wrork.
He has appealed to the authorities at
Washington to protect him from the
aggression of the government De
partment of Education and the feder
al authorises.
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Colorado Coal Mine Owners Will On
ly Deal With Men in Colorado,
Or Will Arbitrate.
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DEN VER, Feb. lb.—The coal op-j
orators of this state testified before
the congressional investigating com
mittee now in session that they were
willing to grant any and all demands
of the miners, and would yield 10 ev
ery request except that of recogni
tion of the Western Federation of
Miners.
The operators claimed that the
heads of the Western Federation
were from other districts and that
they made money by promoting
strikes. The charge was also made
that no matter w’hat concessions the
operators would make to the unions
the labor trouble would continue if
men outside of tue state and district
could call a strike at any time. They
asserted that the operators would at
any time meet the men employed in
Colorado and adjust all diffeiences
with them, would agree to arbitration
by a board consisting of three mem
bers for the men, three for the op
erators and three for the public
The committee has completed Its
invest igat ions in this city and will
leave for Tr'nidad today.
Fine Program Tonight.
The Price of Paradise, an excellent
drama.
Seminary Complications, melo
drama that is a good one.
The Wax Lady. Thanhauser com
edy, full'of laughter.
Change of program tomorrow' even
ing.
A concert and dance will be given
next Saturday night at Eagle hall for
'he benefit of the Ursuline convent.
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STARTS SUIT
FOR (1220,849
Government Says Haviland & Com
pany Owe That Amount as
Duty on China.
NEW YORK, Feb. 16—Tbe gov
ernment began suit last Saturday in
the federal district court, through
District Attorney Marshall, against
Theodore Haviland & Co., importers
of china, of 200 Fifth avenue, for
$1,220,849, which, it is alleged, the im
porters owe in duty on Limoges chi
na. It is charged that between Dec.
1, 1910, and Oct. 1, 1912, the defend
ants made about 200 shipments of
china to this country and entered
them by means of false and fraudu
lent declarations and invoices.
This is another of the cases brought
by the government in connection with
the dispute about the proper valua
tion of Limoges chinaware. One of
the content ions of the importers and
French manufacturers is that as a
special grade of Limoges china Is
manufactured for sale in this coun -
try, it is unfair lot the government
to take for purposes of compari
son the prices charged in Europe for
the goods manufactured for conti
nental use. The American Totters’
Association, on the other hand, main
tains that there is no essential dif
ference between the two grades of
ware.
The question is furl her complicated
by the fact that many of the import
ers also have factories in France of
their own, and, consequently, make
the china they import, and a number
of personal questions have arisen
which have added bitterness to the
controversy. The importers assert
that there is jto question whatever
of fraud in the matter.
AMERICAN HEADS
ENGLISH RAILROAD
London Papers Are Indignant at Ap
pointment of Foreigner—Say
Plenty of Good Britishers.
LONDON, Feb. 16.—Henry Thorn
ton, an American, has been named
as general manager of the Great
Eastern railroad, the largest railroad
corporation in England and his ap
pointment has caused the papers of
England to unmercifully (oast the
directors for naming an American
when, they claim, that hundreds of
Englishmen would have been glad to
take the job, and that surely some
of them ought to possess eual abil
ity to the man from across the sea.
The directors, however, are un
moved and claim that Thornton has
exceptional ability and is the best
man they know of for the position.
Mother of 22 Children
PATHS.—Mme. Theodore Amet, the
mother of twenty-two children, all of
whom are living, has been proposed
to President Poincare by Capt. Maire
of the League of Large Families for
the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
Capt. Maire haR been informed by
M. Poincare’s secretary that the mat
ter has been intrusted to the ministry
of the interior for consideration.
Capt. Maire points out that at pres
ent 113 Frenchwomen have the right
•o wear the coveted red ribbon for
various reasons, and that it would be
but fitting to award one of the noblest
of woman’s duties—motherhood.
The Igloo dance on Saturday night
was one of .the largest ever held In
Kagle hall, and the dance floor was
crowded, while many watched the
dancers. From a financial standpoint
if Was also a success.
THE GUGGS WILL
SPEND MILLIONS
In Alaska as Soon as the Railroad is
Built, Says President Baxter, f
of Cordova Road.
SEATTLE, Feb. 16—President
Baxter, of the Alaska Steamship Co.,
and the Copper River and Northwest
ern railroad, in an interview today
stated that the Alaska syndicate
would spend a million dollars in Alas
ka as soon as the government built
the proposed railroad as outlined by
the Chamberlain bill.
The syndicate contemplates open
ing up a number of low grade cop
per properties in the interior and
along the coast, will construct and op
erate a large smelter in Alaska at a
central point, and will prepare for the
large business expected with the op
ening of fthe north by the construc
tion of the railroad.
WILSON FIGHTING
Demands That Party Keep Pledge of
Economy—Trouble Expected
If Road Bill Vetoed.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—The pork
barrel may split the Democratic party
anil the well oiled machine, which
has so successfully withstood the as -
saults on the bills advocated by the
administration may be broken. The
trouble will come when the bill to
give to the states aid in building
roads by appropriating $20,u00,i>00,
goes to the president for his signa
ture. The bill is sure of passage in
the Senate in a few d*ys.
President Wilson is reported to
have insisted upon keeping the party
pledge of economy and is lighting to
keep the expenditures down, while
the members of congress are urging
many large appropriations in the in
terest of the pork barrel.
If the president vetoes the bill, as
it is expected he will do, trouble in
pi nty is ahead for the administra
tion and many measures desired by
the president will be defeated in re
taliation.
STRANGE PHENOMENON
NEAR QUEEN CHARLOTTE
VICTORIA, B. C„ Feb. 16—A
strange phenomenon is reported from
the southern extremity of Queen
Charlotte sound, near Cape St. James,
where, at a distance of 24 miles from
the cape and out in the Pacific shafts
of light were noticed on Saturday
night. No explanation can be made
for the appearance at that place of
the light.
POINDEXTER AGAINST
CHANGING CANAL TOLLS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16—Senator
Poindexter, voicing the sentiments of
the western senators today objected
to the repeat.ng of the Panama canal
tolls as desired by President Wilson,
it is expected that the administra
tion will not be able to have the ca
nal bill repealed^ in spite of the
necessity because of foreign friction.
Two Woman Executed
BERLIN, Feb. 16— Rutibor, Sile
sia, was this morning the scene^ of
an unusual event—a double execu
tion, at Which both the executed per
sons were women. One murdered her
stepmother and the other her hus
band. The women, as is the custom
in Prussia, were decapitated with an
axe.
The Ladies Aid will hold their
monthly tea in the lecture room or
the Congregational church Thursday
afternoon, Feb. 19, between the hours
off 2 and 5 o'clock. All ladies of
Valdez are welcome.
“HOLY ROLLER”
BEATS CRIPPLE
Because He Claimed the Devil Was in
Him—Leaves Man Blind and
is Arrested.
MURPHYVILLE, 111., Feb. 16.—
Claiming that a devil possessed an
epileptic who was among the num
ber gathered at the services of Rev.
Ellis, a leader of the Holy Roller
sect, Ellis beat him so severely that
he will be blind and crippled for life.
The terrible beating given the epi -
leptic- was witnessed by hundreds of
women, who attended the meeting,
and cheered and prayed for the lead
er as he lashed the devil out of the
afflicted man.
Some of the women became hys
terical and began to babble into
herently and claimed to have the gift
j of tongues. The police, however, tie
j eided tfiat many of them were guilty
of aiding and abeting the assault up
on the afflicted man and arrested
j many of the women, and also the
i leader and have them in jail charg
j ed with assault. The physicians ex
• pect to save the life of the epilep
I tic, but he will be blind and crip
; pled for life.
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I Plan to Attack Mexico City From the
Sky and Drop Bombs on Heads
of Huerta’s Troops.
XKW OiJLi: \NS, Feb. 1«. -Avis.or
j Pollock announced here today tbit 1 ■
: liar! been appointed by General ( .u
ranza, the leader of the rebels o:
I northern Mexico, as admiral of tl. •
j aviation Heel of the constitutional
i ists and that he would command the
fleet in the attack upon Mexico City,
which is soon to be made.
Pollock stttted that the present plan
of the rebels was to push on to Mex
ieo City, besiege the city and then,
while the armies of Villa and Carran
za were entrenched about the city,
he and his air fleet would sail over
the doomed capital and drop high
power explosives on the heads of the
federal troops. He promised to make
it warm for the Huerta forces and
believed the aerial fleet would have
much to do towards the success of
the rebel forces.
Says That the Government Can Op
erate Railroads, Telegraph and
Telephone Lines.
NEW YORK. Feb. 16.—Daniel Gug
genheim, the head of the smelter
trust, and a large owner of stock in
the Copper River and Northwestern
railroad, declared today that the gov
ernment could successfully operate
the railroads, telegraph and telephone
llhes in the country and that he would
like to see the government com
mence the work.
The action of the head of the Gu -
genheim family in advocating the So -
cialistic doctrine of government ov. ”
ership is In'comprehensible to the
financiers of Wall street and they.v.o
unahle to account for the sudden
change of front of the capitalist.
Watch crystals 25c, Plant & Co. tf