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VALDEZ, ALASKA SATURDAY, JANUARY », 1912. NO. 72.
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PARCELS POST
IN OPERATION
Freak Shipments Go Through the
Mails on1 the Fil*st Day—Is
Working Smoothly..
Washington, 1>. C., Jan. 4.—
Many freak shipments are being
made by the parcels post. A car
ton of eggs arrived safely at
Long Island. The PostofTice De
partment has barred the ship
ment of live shrimps and crabs
through the mails.
San Francisco, Jan. 4.--The
postoffice has limited business
houses to $20 worth of parcels
post stamps, pendinig I he arriv
al of more from Washington.
The first day’s receipts ere 2,000
packages.
Chicago, Jan. i.—Twenty thou
sand parcels passed through the
postoffice the first day. includ
iing 1.000 shoes.
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LOUIS R. GUVIS
MORE TROUBLE
This Time Government Sues Him
for Three Hundred Dollars
Unaccounted Money.
Sail Francisco, Jan. 1.—The
government lias begun a suit
against Louis K. (Ilavis, former
ly special agenl of the Land Of
fice under Secretaries Garfield
and Ballinger, in charge of Alas
ka coal lands, for having retain
ed $300 of government funds
while investigating the Cunning
ham group of claims in the Ber
ing field.
After having been discharged
from the service of the Interior
Department (Ilavis went to the
North Pacific coast, where he
went into business for himself
after going into the employ of
the state of California, where he
became ftiixed in a scandal dur
ing the late campaign, hut was
exhonerated by Gov. Johnson up
on the latter's return from the
cast. Since the government has
begun (he* suit (Ilavis has re
signed from I lie employ of t In*
state.
Many are of the belief that
(ilavis was whitewashed by Cal
ifornia officials 'ii deference to
Col. HooseveH, whose protege he
was. II is said the civil case
against him will place I he form
er land office official in rather
an unenviable light.
RUBBER SLAVES DO
MASTERS’ BIDDING
Lima. Peru, Jan. L—An at
tempt was made yesterday by
the populace of Putumayo to
lynch the two judicial commis
sioners, Senor Valcareel and l)r.
Roniulo Paredes, appointed by the
Peruvian government to investi
gate the atrocities in the rubber
Helds made public by Sir Roger
Casement., British Consul Gen
eral. According lo a wireless
dispatch from the town of Iqui
tos, on the Upper Amazon, the
people in the rubber fields rioted
at the instigation of agents of
the brothers Arana, the principal
proprietors. Tliey assaulted the
two judicial cpfjnmissioriers se
verely in the pi%sfcftce of the Pre
fect of (he district, who made no
move to suppress _ the disturb
ance. The coihpdssioners have
appealed to President Billing
hurst for protection..
If you want all the news ail the
time, read the Prospoctor.
Submarine for th> Prospector.
Pays Compliments to Hearst and
Says Democracy Will Have to
Reckon With Progressives
Washing!on, I>. C., Jan. 4.—
Senator Bailey, of Texas, made
his farewell address yesterday,
during the course of which he
called William Randolph Hearst
a miserable dog. He bitterly at
tacked the referendum and the
recall and said that present day
poliitics was polluted with isms
and nostrums which were dis
tracting the country from the real
issues which it had to confront.
He said that the Democratic
parly had to confront the Pro
gressives in the future, as the
Republican party was dead for all
time. The political future would
depend largely upon what the
Democratic party did for the
country.
COMMITS SUICIDE
OVER HIS DEFEAT
Cqlo», Panama, Jan. 4.--Rep
resentative Wedemeyer, of Mich
igan, visiting the canal zone,
jumped overboard from his ves
sel, riding at anchor here, and
was drowned. Ffe has been
brooding over liis defeat of last
ejection. TJehas only served one
term in congress.
DERRY l LOVE
GETS RENAMED
Washington, I>. C., Jan. 4.—
President Taft has sent in to the
Senate the name of Hentry K.
Love for re-appointment as mar
shal of the Fourth judicial divis
ion of Alaska. Ft is probable the
i Senate will hold np the confirma
tion.
CHANGE COURSE
FARTHER SOUTH
Washington, l>. Ik, Jan. 4.
The Navy Department announces
that all trans-Atlantic steamship
lines have agreed to move their
trail till degrees south of their
present course in order lo avoid
I In* ice Hoes.
SHE KINDLED
A LIVELY FIRE
Fatoiiville. Jan. i.—Some other
means of ridding the house of
stray dynamite raps than putting
them in the kitchen lire will be
tried by Mrs. Andrew FyfTe, of
this place, in the future. While
M'rs. FytTe was doing her sweep
ing yesterday she gathered a cap
of the explosive from the floor
| and chucked it in the cookstove.
j The cap obliterated itself by
| sending stovelids, hot ashes and
coals flying in every direction.
The bottom,* lop and sides of the
I stove were blown out.
Mrs. Fyffe was badly burned by
the flying ashes and coals, and
also was , struck by the flying
stovelids. She will recover. Two
litlld children of Mrs. • FyfTa’s
were in the kitchen but were un
| harmed.
BablM, jBafelf*.
Babies at the Orpheilm tonight.
Come and have » gdod laugh.
Change tomorrow evening,
THE TURKS 1ST 1
AGREE OR FIGHT
Turks Are Given Until Monday to
Accept Terms or War Will
be Resumed.
Paris, Jan. 4.—A report has
reached hero, that Adrianople had
fallen.
London, Jan. 4.—The Turks
appear unwilling to make further
concessions than those already
made. Balkan delegates demand
an affirmative answer to all their
demands by Monday or else ne
gotiations will be broken off and
fighting will be resumed.
The launch Swastika, Captain
Cann, left for Kllaniar this morn
ing.
HEAVY BAIL FOR
THE DYNAMITERS
Court Imposes Bail Bond of Ten
Thousand Dollars for Each
Year’s sentence.
Chicago, Jan. i.--Judge Bake.r
'has fixed the bail of the Structur
al Iron dynamiters, ordered Pe-'
leased on a writ of error, at $10,
000 for each year they have been
sentenced.
Secretary llockin will not re
ceive the benefit of this court or
der.
Four McIntosh stages left for
the interior this morning with
three passengers, including ReT
reiver Noyes and Miss Hyde.
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ON THE FRONTIER
Ottinje, Montenegro, Jan. L
Austro-Hungarian military prep
arations continue without cessa
tion. Large numbers of troops j
arrive daily in Dalmat ia. Numer- j
oils steamships have been con
verted into transports and exten
sive fort ideations are under con
struction. There is apparently
no intention of the Austro-Hun
garian government withdrawing
its troops from the frontier until
at least the Servs evacuate Dur
azze.
! WILL LET GO OF IT8
FEUDAL PREROGATIVES
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Neusl relit/, Mecklenhurg
jstrelitz, Germany, Jan. i.—The
| Grand Duke Adolf Frederich to
I day issued a rescript announcing
I tlie estates would be convoked in
extraordinary session during
1913 to enact a constitution for
the two grand duchies of Meck
lonburg-Schwerin and Mecklen
burg-Strelitz, which are now the
i sole states in Europe not pos
sessing a constitution. Previous
(atlempts have been made for
! many years to modernize the ex
j isting feudal form of government
j huf these have always failed, ow
ing to the attitude of the priv
ileged glasses, .
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Shipping plan is BankrupL
San. Francisco, Jap,, 4.--A.: S.
Cheeseborough, of the California
A Atlantic Steamship Company,
one of the bedt known shipping
men on the goest, is a bankrupt.
Penile borse ana comfortable
cutter for tent by day or hour.
Rate reasonable. Apply Fred
Fish, phone 47.
ARE AFTER THE
, OILY MAGNATE
House Will Issue a Peremptory
Attachment Against Stand
ard Oil Magnate.
Washington, I). C., Jan. i.
The House of Representatives
will issue a peremptory attach
ment for John D. Rockefeller,
unless he appears immediately
before the Money Trust commit
tee, which, it is surmised, he has
been avoiding ever since the com
mittee began its investigations.
Washington, D. C., Jan. i.—.
William Rockefeller is eluding
process just as his brother John
f>. is doing, (lovernment agents
ar* scouring the country for the
two oil magnates.
WONT RESTRICT
HIS CALLERS
Gov. Siilzor Says Any Man Can
Call Upon the Governor Pro
. vided It Is Done Openly.
Albany, N. Y., Jan. 4.—Gover
nor Sulzer declares that the peo
ple elected him Democratic lead
er of the. state of New York, and
that as such hs will receive Col.
Roosevelt, President Taft, Wil
son, Boss Barnes, Boss Murphy
or Capitalist Ryan, but that they
must come to him openly.
Sulzer asserts that any man
in the statj has a right to his
time, provided they do not con
flict with his performance of
duty.
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El Paso, Jan. 4.--Ignoring the
demand made by the United
States government that a speci
fied number of troops be kept at
all important points along tlie
border, the Mexican government
within (lie past week has prac
tically •withdrawn its border
forces info the interior. The Ju
arez garrison winch Washington
requested be maintained at 1,000
men, tins been reduced to 400.
At Agua Prieta, Naco, Nogales,
Ojinaga and other border points
Mexican federal troops are being
rapidly witInlrawn.
OFFER OF RELIEF
TO THE UNWARY
Paris, Jan. i_Austria-Hun
gary is spending $800,000 a day
j to. defray the expenses of the
| mobilization of her army, aecord
i ing to an estimate made by a
correspondent on the Temps, just
returned from Galicia, Austria.
The whole of the commerical and
industrial life of the country has
been organized, he adds. In Ga
licia neither money nor food is to
to had and the wealthier part of
the population has fled from the
country. At the> same time the
fear-stricken peasants are be
coming the prey of dishonest
speculators. Groups of these
men are cornering all the gold
and silver coin, with which they
buy all the paper money they can
■ find at a heavy discount and then
send it to Austria, proper, wh 're
it is gjopd for. its face .value.
Fv.cftb Kqrjpo oysters fried in
|butler and cracker crumbs at 'b*
| VaMez Cafe.
LYONS OVERRULES
THE DEMURRER
Sustains Brown A Lyons’ Answer
in Hubbard-EIHot Suit—Case
to be Tried Next Month.
Judge. Lyons rendered his de
cision in the Hubbard and El
liot case this morning, sustain
ing the answer of Brown & Ly
ons, which had been attacked by
demurrer by Ostrander, Donohoe
and George Treat in an action
to recover damages for the sale
of the Hubbard and Elliot claims
on Elliot creek to a new com
pany.
The judge held that it was a
.perfect defense to plead that the
company had made the deal in
good faith for the protection o
all the stockholders. The com
pany further alleges in its an
swer that the property has been
enhanced in value by I he change.
The case will come up for trial
next month.
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BIG LAND SLIDE
WRECKS BOUSES
Seattle, Jan. i.—A landslide on
the high bluffs, near the grain
j elevator, at West Seattle,
this morning wrecked many small j
shacks occupied by fishermen and !
laboring .men, kiUiing John Lar- 1
son, a blacksmith, and wounding
three others. The spot where the
slide occurred has always been
looked upon as dangerous.
shippIcofIs
BY PARCELS POST
Zanesville, O., Jan. 4.--Local
undertakers, taking advantage of
the parcels post, are shipping
coffins to neighboring cities,
paying 08 cents on the coffin and
ten cents on the lid shipped un
der separate cover.
WONT PROMOTE
COL. GOETHALS
Washington, l). C„ Jan. 1.—
President Taft, after carefully
canvassing congress, has decided
lo abandon his plan of promoting
Col. (ioelhals lo a full general
ship, senliment heing too strong
against such a movemenl.
[railroad head
DIES SUDDENLY
| New York. Jan. i.—Roswell I*.
| Miller, chairman of the hoard of
directors of the Chicago, Milwau
i kee & St. Paul railroad, dropped
j dead from heart failure.
CASTRO WILL BO
BACK TO EUROPE
New York, Jan. i.--Former
President Castro, of Venezuela,
has engaged return passage to
Hamburg. He says he has seen
all of the United States he wish
es to see and denies all inten
tion of trying to regain the pres
idency of the South American re
public “unless the people call me
back.”
TEXTILE WORKERS
WIN THEIR STItIKE
Little Falls, Mass., Jan. t.-The
textile (workers have won their
six .mont-h-s’.. strike and will re
turn to work with a fifteen per
cent, increase in pay.
STAGES LEFT
THIS MORNING
Four Passengers for Fairbanks—
Will Have Eleven on the
Return Trip.
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The McIntosh stage left this
morning with four passengers
for Fairbanks, who will be trans
ferred to the Orr Stage company
at Willow creek, reservations
having been telegraphed for by
the party.
Four double enders were used
by the party, which consisted of
Miss Hyde, a sister of Mrs. Cross
ley, Mr. Proctor, the hank exam
iner, F. («. Noyes, the receiver
fop the defunct Fairbanks bank,
and Sergl. Egan, of hie Signal
Corps, who is returning to his
station at Fairbanks.
Fred Fish and his double end
er has been hired by McIntosh for
this trip. Sam Mandel, Fred
Fish and McIntosh are the driv
ers.
MIRAGE CHECKS
LATEST BUNCO
Hotel Keepers Deceived by Checks
Written in Bleaching
Chemicals.
New York, Jail. i.—Mirage
checks are the latest. Now you
see them ami they fade. The ex
istence of these aid to high finan
ce has been called lo the atten
tion of the National Hotel Keep
ers' Protective Association of this
city, which has sen! onl a warn
ing lo ils clients.
Several western hotel keepers
have been deceived by the mirage
paper, and the trail leads to Ne
vada and to Idaho, although local
bonifaces will lie on the lookout
for them. Checks and drafts are
presented to hotel men which are
pleasing to the view, hut within
a few hours the chemical ink used
in making them fades. There is
apparently nothing left hut blank
paper. Some skillful chemist
might he able lo bring hack the
signatures and the other details.
As the cheeks are for small
amounts, generally 0mm $60 to
$00 each, however, the proprie
tors have been hearing I heir loss
es and not hiring writing experts
j ind scion) is I s.
I The cheeks are presented, ac
j 'ording lo Hie owner of one ho_
lei. by a suave person represent
! ing himself as connected with
leaslern wholesale bouses. 11 is
j believed I hey were all executed by
hand, the body of the check be
] ing in a script made to resemble.
| copper plate by the skillful pen
i man w ho made I hem.
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THIS HUSBAND WAS
A GOOD PROVIDE!!
Los Angeles, Jan. i.—L. \V.
Jordan, who was believed lo have
committed suicide last April b.v
hanging himself under a roller
coaster at Ocean Park, “came
back" today and joined his “wid
ow," who hud collected $2,000
insurance money from a frater
nal order of which Jordan was a
member. The organization has
taken no steps so far as known
lo recover*the money.
Mrs. Jordan had identified the
body as that of her husband,
whom she had seen but once in
three years. Several others join
ed in the identification. Jordan
said he had been wandering about
the country and had not learned
|of his “suicide.”
If you want ail the news all the
time, lead the Prospector.
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