POLICE ARREST
Vera Scott Caught In Los Angeles
For Working Badger Game—
Murdered Marshal Field.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 24.—The po
lice today arrested Mrs. Vera Scott,
charged with complicity in defraud
ing wealthy residents of this city by
the “badger” game.
The police raided the rooms of the
woman and her male friend, who im
personated the husband, and lodged
the two in jail.
Mrs. Scott would tneeet. the wealthy
men at the cafes when they were out
for a good time, would lead them on
and finally consent to receive them
at her apartments, when the visitor
was in a. compromising position she
would press a button concealed in her
bed and the supposed husband would
come into the room and find the man
and his wife. Threatening to kill
him for having entered his home the
intruder was generally allowed to go
upon payment of a large sum of
money.
Mrs. Scott in 1J10 murdered her
divorced husband, Reese Prosser, on
a Seattle train and escaped punish
ment when brought to trial.
Murdered- Marshall Field, Jr.
■ Mrs. Scott also claims to have
murdered Marshall Field, Jr., in the
Ebery Club, a noted resort of ill
fame in Chicago, following a drunk
en quarrel between herself and Field.
She claims that the relatives of Field
gave her $26,000 to leave the city,
which she did, and the family then
announced that the lad had met his
death by accident while on a hunt
ing • rip.
Mrs. Scott is a striking woman and
well formed in spite of her thirty
years’ of life in the underworld.
CHICAGO, Nov. 24.—Lieut. Enright,
ol' the Chicago police force, who made
a personal investigation of the death
of the son of the former Chicago
merchant, stated today that the story
of Vera Scott, who claimed to have
murdered the Chicago lad was a lie:
that Field had died while preparing
for a hunting trip and that the Scott
woman had blackmailed the relatives
of the dead man out of considerable
money by claiming that Field had died
in her room in a low' dive. He stated
that she had only recently again tried
to work the relatives of Field for
more money and if acquitted of the
present charge of working the “badg
er” game she w'ould be brought back
to Chicago and tried for blackmail.
railroadIhll
BE POSTPONED
Senate Will Not Touch It Until Af
ter the Currency Measure is
Disposed of.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—The
Alaska railroad bill is scheduled for
debate on December 8th, being the
regular call for business at the next
session of the Senate, but it is now
thought that the bill will be side
tracked until after the currency
measure has been passed, which
. means some time in February.
Much opposition has developed here
against the government ownership of
an Alaska railroad and it is doubt
ful if the measure will have as easy
going as at first believed. The many
friends of the bill and the Alaskans
now in Washington will endeavor to
keep the bill in the public eye and
are hopeful that the opposition to it
will disappear as the facts regard
ing Alaska are made public.
M. V. Kdwards and Robert Scott re
turned to Valdez last night from a
prospecting trip down the sound.
SPONGERS STRIKE
IS SETTLED
Spongers and Shrinkers Win a Closed
Shop and Nine Hour Day—Strike
breakers Spoil Goods.
NW YORK. Nov. 24.—The four
thousand striking cloth shrinkers and
spongers won their strike for a nine
hour day and a closed shop, the man
Ufact ruing tailors being forced to
give in to the demands of the strik
ers, as they were unable to secure
strikebreakers enough to replace the
strikers, besides which those secured
spoiled thousands of dollars worth
of the best imported cloth by poor
sponging, as they left the fine fab
rics spotted.
The settlement of the strike will
give employment to fifty thousand of
the garment workers who were forc
ed out of work because of the lack
of sponged cloth to make up into
clothing.
BEILIS REFUSES
| LECTURE MONEY
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ODESSA, Russia, Nov. 24— Mendel
Beilis, the Jew who was recently ac
quitted of the charge of murdering a
Russian lad in order that his blood
might be used fo. an alleged ritual
of the Jewish church, today refused
i an offer of $5,000 to lecture in Amer
| ica. The money offered is more than
i Beilis ever dreamede of, but his co
1
i patriots are anxious that the mat
! ter be dropped and upon their ad
vice he has refused to lecture. Beilis
i was turned out of prison without a
| cent after having been held for two
i years to await trial. Two of his chil
dren have d'ed from want and lack
; of food during his imprisonment.
3KAGWAY FLOWERS FOR
RICHARDSON BANQUET
i The Juneau people have had in
mind for some lime a banquet to be
| tendered to Maj. Richardson of the
i Alaska road commission when he ar
j rived in that city on his way to VVasli
j ington. It was understood he would
>e a passenger on the last trip of the
i Alameda south from the westward
i and the event was scheduled tottake
| place on the boat’s arrival in Junfeku.
! Herman Grimm, being an old time
| friend of the Major's and wishing to
I Jo him honor, prepared and sent to
the banquet committee a large box
of beautiful, home grown flowers for
(he decoration of the tables. Unfor
tunately,. however, Major Richardson,
! for some reason, was not on board
! the Alameda, and the date of the ban
! quet had, in consequence, to be post
! poned.—Skagway Alaskan.
Rehearsal at White House.
! WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—A full
dress rehearsal of the Wilson wed
ding was held today at the White
House, so that all of the principals
shall know their places and what is
expected of them when the real thing
is pulled off next Wednesday. A
great many house guests of the pres
ident and Mrs. Wilson have arrived
and are now at the executive man
sion.
Start Bull Fighting School.
Cordova, Spain, Nov. 24.—The first
bull fighting school ever organized
was started nere today to teach the
fine points of how to kill the bulls
in the most approved manner of the
Spanish matadors. Hundreds of
youngsters from all parts of Spain
are in attendance.
Thanksgiving Dinner.
For Thanksgiving dinner come and
buy . a fresh killed turkey, goose or
duck, shell oysters Hy the dozen,
Olympia and Eagle brand oysters by
the can; lettuce, tomatoes, celery,
cucumbers and nice things for your
Thanksgiving dinner.
LOVE-WHITLEY COMPANY.
Gold King Charley- returned today j
/v.) ilie Alameda. j
TRAIL STAKED
OVER SUMMIT
Summit Signal Station Always Open
—Trail Is In Fine Condition—
Many Traveling.
The government road over the sum
mit has been staked from Wortman’s
to Ptarmigan Drop to prevent many
travelers from being lost, who may
travel during the storms which some
times prevail at that high altitude.
Stakes, twelve feet long, have been
placed every 100 feet apart on each
side of the trail, thus a stake will be
found on alternate sides of the trail
every 50 feet. The stakes were cut
from spruce lumber and hauled front
Valdez and distributed.
The tra vel across l' e summit has
become very great and the signal
officer in charge of this division has
reopened the government telegraph
and relief station which was the
means of saving many people from
spending a night on the summit last
year and will be of the same use this
year.
The cabin is used by the linemen
so that they can always keep the line
across the summit open but they are
always ready to receive any traveler
caught in the storms.
The cabin was built by the s'gnal
service with the aid of the road com
mission. Colonel Richardson hauling
the lumber to the summit to aid the
building of the cabin. When no op
erators are located in the building
supplies and fuel is stored there in
case of an emergency.
The travel this year over the gov
ernment road is greater than for
many years and when the prospectors
send out reports of the lindings of
gold in the Nelchina, the stampede
I will run into the thousands.
Investigation Made by English Gov
ernment Shows Shameful
Conditions Exist.
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LONDON, Nov. 24.—The commis
sion named by the British government
lo investigate the charges made some
: time ago that the British rubber com
panies were abusing the natives em
ployed in the rubber forests, today
reported, staling that in all South
j American countries in which the
! British companies operated the na
j tives were horribly abused, being
j worked to death, paid little or noth
ing and kept in bondage as slaves,
j The natives employed in the Puta
: mayo rubber country in Peru, and
j those in the Bolivian rubber fields,
are said to be treated worse than
I where British rule governs, but the
I same British companies operate in
' both places.
| A parliamentary inquiry will follow
j the report and it is expected that
| laws will be passed to protect the
| natives from the atrocities they are
now subjected to.
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I Eagle Dance New Year’s Eve.
I A grand masquerade ball will be
given by the Eagles at their hall pn
New Year’s eve. The floor of the hall
will he in splendid condition, as Jas.
Daggett has undertaken to have it as
slippery us glass. Harry E. F. King,
| Herbert Davis, J. M. Doggett, C. M.
| Day, F. M. Doyle and R. M. McIntosh
have the arrangements in charge and
promise that the evening will be most
enjoyable. Music by the celebrated
five-piece orchestra.
8moker Tonight.
A smoker will' be given tonight at
the Tillikum Club in hpnor o{ Col..
W. P. Richardson, Who leaves on the
next steamer for Washington, D. C.
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CURRENCY BILL
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Hitchcock to Start the Fight Againet
the Measure Tomorrow—Cannot
Pass For Several Months.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—The ad
ministration currency bill will be re
ported by Chairman Owen some time
today and it is expected that the Dem
ocratic senators who are dissatisfied
with the bill will start the battle
against the measure on Tuesday. It
has been announced that Senator
Hitchcock, of Nebraska, will start the
ball rolling on Tuesday when he will
try to convince the members of his
party that the bill will not accom |
plisli the desired object of an expan
sive currency for uses in time of
great stress.
Following Hitchcock’s attack the
members of the upper house will of
fer amendment after amendment to
the bill, delaying its passage until
the present special session will have
passed away and the regular session
will have convened, then through
December and January. If the bill is
passed it is believed it will not do so
until along in the last of February. It
Is said the measure will not be re
cognizable by its friends when the
senators get through with it.
Six Democratic senators have an
nounced their intention to oppose the
bill as at present reported., and as
the Republicans are committed to a
government central bank the oppo
sition will be able to delay the meas
ure in spite of all the efforts of the
steering committee of the majority.
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| A number of the Wilson teams re
turned to Valdez at noon today from
the summit. They will leave in the
morning for Wort man’s.
i STRIKERS READY
! FOR THE WINTER
i
I Miners Open Stores and Get Ready
I to Carry On Fight For Union
i
Recognition.
j CALL1MKT, Micb., Nov. 24.—With
; no hope of a settlement of the copper
! strike in sight, the strikers began
1 preparations to carry their fight for
i recognition .of the union throught the
: winter.
Stores have been opened at Han
| cock and Red Jacket by the Western
' Federation of Miners and others will
: be started at Laurlum. Ahmeek and
I South Range. These stores will be
j stocked with necessities of life con
j tributed by strike sympathizers and
I labor unions and will be the distrib
uting centers in their respective dis
tricts. Large quantities of clothing
I are expected from Butte and other
i metal mining regions. Three car
loads of coal have arrived in the
South Range district and strikers are
putting their winter’s supply of wood
on property, of strike sympathizers
near Calumet. Leaders declare there
is no suffering among the strikers.
Donations of money are being receiv
ed from organizations affiliated with
the American Federation of Labor, j
The Calumet & Hecla is the onlji
mining company that has brought'its
output almost to normal through the
employment of imported men, but
other companies ere adopting a simi
lar course to break the strike. Pres
ent production is one-fU'lh c-f normal
for the district.
SCHOOL EXERCISES
NEXT WEDNESDAY
All of the rooms of the Valdez and
Reservation public schools Will hold
Thanksgiving exercises on Wednes
day afternoon p.t 2 o’clock. The e*
erclses will be held in the‘several
roomsi.,of .tb.e schools. Thursday and
Friday will be holidays for the school
children.
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Labor Leaders Will Meet in the
Quaker City Next Year—Radi
cals Are Defeated.
SEATTLE, Nov. 24.—The conven
tion of the American Federation of
Labor which closed here Saturday
was the greatest in the history of
labor organization. The conserva
tives have won everything, beating
the radicals and hot-heads, who wish
ed to accomplish the'r objects in a
few months, when it must necessarily
take years to change the industrial
conditions of the country.
The principles of automony and ,
prudence were reaffirmed by the ma
jority of the delegates.
The next convention will meet next
year in Philadelphia, as that city of
fered many inducements to the dele
gates to bring the convention to th*
sleepy city.
WILSON IS SHORT
ON WEDDING CUKE
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—Mrs.
Wilson, the wife of the president, has
announced that the wedding cake is
not large enough to allow of sending
a piece of it to the many people who
have written to the White House beg
ging for "a small piece of the cake.”
.Mrs. Wilson announced that the cake
is only nine inches high and two feet
in circumference and that even with
the best of managing it cannot be
made to go one-tenth of the way down
the list of applicants for just a small
piece of the wedding cake.
NEW COAL FIELDS
ARE ACCESSIBLE
.Mountains of coil have been dis
covered sixty miles front the mouth
of the Kuskokwint river, near the rit
er Eek and eighty miles from Good
news bay, according to Captain
Louis Knaflich, master of the power
schooner Bender Brothers. Pros
pectors in the search of gold on the
Eek river found the coal in the hilly
country bordering the river. Capt.
Knaflich says the new fields are
more extensive than those of Katalla.
The specimen brought on the Bender
Brothers is hard and of a fine quality.
Discouraged by government restric
tions and lured on by tales of richer
gold discoveries up the river Eek,
no claims have been staked in the
new coal area according to Knaflich.
The fields are easily reached by wa
ter or land and a rail line could be
constructed to Goodnews bay at lit
tle cost and coal furnished to Nome.
St. Michael, the interior, Dutch Har
bor, Unalaska and other points with
little time and expense where now
fuel is obtained from foreign lands.
Nome Nugget.
STEAMER MARIPOSA
REACHES SPIRIT CITY
SEATTLE, Nov.24.—The steamer
Mariposa arrived here yesterday from
Valdez and will be placed on the
drydock for a c. omplete overhauling.
Carpenters will rebuild the entire up
per works, making many new state
rooms upon the deck.
MORE TEAMS'LEAVE
FOR THE NELCHINA
Robert McIntosh, the freighter,
sent four more teams out this morn
ing with freight for miners and pros
pectors who intend spending the bal
ance of the winter in the Nelchlna
country. Two outfit* left trom 'the
Alameda house »wllh horses ahd one
dog team of six dogs all loaded with
camp outfit and equipment.
Jeff Dowling will leave next Friday
for the ‘ Chisana with a large outfit
>f -supplies' and toots. He goes to op
m claims secured last summer when
ne made a quick trip into the camp
after‘‘the discovery of gold was an*
nounced.
HENRY L. WILSON
DEFENDS HUERTA
Says He is Strongest Man in Mexico
and Will Establish Order—Rebels
Are Bandits, He Says.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24—Former
United States Ambassador to Mexico
Henry Lane Wilson delivered a lec
ture here last night and stated that
to all effects and purposes the Unit
ed States had already intervened In
Mexico and that the administration
had been humiliated by the Mexican
provisional government.
The former ambassador again stat
ed that Huerta was the strongest
man in Mexico today, that he is the
only one able to bring order out of
chaos, that he has a life-long train
ing in the military branch of the
army and therefore knows that branch
thoroughly and that the work of pac
ification must come through the army.
“No ruler of Mexico can rule the
cut throats and bandits, who call
themselves rebels, unless he rules
with an iron hand and fears not to
use the gallows and use them often,”
said Wilson.
The speaker also paid his respects
to the rebels and stated that they
had outraged women and children,
had taken girls twelve and fifteen
years of age and forced them to go
with the rebel bands and submit to
the embraces of the drunken soldiers;
not only had Mexican girls and wo
men been subjected to this treatment,
but white women and in some instan
ces husbands were forced to witness
their wives being outraged and were
helpless to stop it.
“We have encouraged Americans to
invest in Mexican properties and it
is our duty to protect them,” he stat
ed.
The address caused quite a sen
sation and it is tuought that Secre
tary of State Bryan will reply to the
criticisms made by the former ambas
sador.
NO DATE SET FOR
CANAL OPENING
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—The an
nual report of Colonel Goethals, of
the canal commission, was made pub
lic today. Col. Goethals, in his re
port, stales that the final opening of
the canal will depend upon the num
ber and size of the slides which are
sure 10 come in the Culebra cut. These
slides will have to be removed with
water dredges and the mud and muck
towed away. The report states that
vessels of the canal commission have
been taken from ocean to ocean.
Few People Knew of Development
Work Done On Her Claims Near
Glacier—Has Erected Mill.
Mrs. Rose Johnson, the pioneer
mining woman of Valdez, left this
morning with more supplies for her
property near the Valdez Glacier.
Mrs. Johnson has spent five thousand
dollars installing a mill which is now
completed and with the water power
notr- the property harnessed, will in
a lew weeks be at work grinding the
high* grade ore taken out during the
summer.' — - ■ - • -
: Mrs.1 Johnson has worked without
attracting" milch attention and few
people knew- of the property being op
ened* and Of the erection of the mill,
fthe-hao taken Up the greatest part of
the machinery herself-with' the aid of
a team of* big trail dogs1 and toae had
a crew* of from two’to; eight men on
the claims for the past mithy months.
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Miss Una Korth returned oft the Al
ameda this afternoon after attending
school In Sgattle.