CUTTER BEIR TO
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Christmas Presents For Point Barrow
Mission Will Be Forwarded Next
Month.
PORT TOWNSEND, April 13.—
Hevenend Eccles today mailed from
here the belated Christmas presents
for the Presbyterian Mission main
tained at Point Barrow, Alaska. The
mission is in charge of Reverend Wil
liam Cram. The presents will be
sent north on the Revenue Cutter
Bear which will take the mail for
.Nome and Arctic points. The cutter
will make the trip to Point Barrow
and will take supplies to the mission.
The Treasury Department will send
ihe Cutter Bear from Seattle, leav
ing early in May and the boat will
lake 25,000 pounds of mail for Nome.
It was at first expected that the
3«iail would be sent north on the
/-(earner Corwin which is usually he
first to reach the Arctic port but fol
lowing the custom set last year the
posal deparment will send it north
ch a revenue cutter even if it is a
(ay or two later in reaching Nome.
ROOSEVELT KILLS
STRANGE ANIMAL
Newspapermen and Scientists of New
York Cannot Place Animal—Wash
ington Expects Give It Name.
NEW YORK, April 13.- A telegram
president Roosevelt, now in Brazil
was received here today that ex
president Roosevelt, now in Brazil,
sad succeeded in killing a Curuei in
the interior of that country and was
bringing out the specimen for the
Smithsonian Institute of Washington.
The receipt of the message caused
much comment among the scientific
men of this city as they were at a
loss at first to understand what it
was that Roosevelt had really killed.
The newspaper correspondents
were searching the libraries and
hunting for information regarding the
• curuei hut without success.
WASHINGTON, April 13.—The
scientists of the Smithsonian Insti
tute have settled the dispute raging
among the New York newspaper men
regarding what it was that Koosevel't
shot and which he calls a curuci.
They state that it is a spalacopus
peopiggi alias curuci, a burrowing ro
dent smaller than a guineau pig. They
assert that Roosevelt mush have used
an air gun and not a rifle.
SEATTLE, April 13.—Professor
Kincaid, of the University of Wash
ington, stated today that the curucui,
which former President Roosevelt
claimed to have shot in the interior
■of Brazil is a rare bird and not a
rat, as was stated by the Smithsonian
Institute scientists.
flEACHEDSEAITLE
. SEATTLE, April 13.—The steamer
Mariposa, of tho Alaska Steamship
tine, reached here this morning from
the north and will sail north again
on the 18th.
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YOUNG WAGNER FIGHT#
WITH EDDIE WALLACE
NEW York! April 13—Young
Wagner, local lightweight, tonight
meets Eddie Wallace at the Postman
A. C. of Brooklyn in a scheduled ten
round bout.
Russian John returned to Valdez on
the Alameda.
NEW YORK GUNMEN PAY PENALTY OF CRIME;
MURDERERS OF HERMAN ROSENTHAL EXECUTED
OSSINING, N. Y., April 13—The
four gunmen who were convicted Dec.
26, 1912, of the murder of Herman
Rosenthal, the gambler, electrocuted
here shortly after daybreak. The
men were lead out one at a time
and placed in the electric chair and
a heavy current of electricity sent
through their bodies, which caused
instant death. The current was allow
ed to shock them continuously for 10
minutes before being disconnected,
after which the body was taken away
and another gunman was lead out to
pay the penalty for his crime.
Only a few of the prison officials
were present at the time of the elec
trocution.
The men spent yesterday receiving
visits from their close relatives and
in praying. A Jewish rabbi spent all
of yesterday with the three gunmen,
who ^ere of the Jewish faith, and
when he left he stated that the men
had sent a message to youths of the
East Side to beware of bad company.
“Dago Frank” Criotici was the least
unconcerned of all the men, but Dr.
SPENT YESTERDAY ON BENDED KNEE PRAYING— WIVES VISIT
THEM IN DEATH HOUSE ON EASTER SUNDAY—LEAVE BUILD
ING IN TEARS—EXECUTED AT SUNRISE THIS MORNING.
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Lee Charapain of the prison prayed
with and for him yesterday and stated
that “Criofici had accepted Christ and
had died in peace.
The wives of "Dago Frank,” “Lefty
Louis” and Gyp the Blood” spent sev
eral hours with their husbands yes
terday bidding them good-bye. When
they left the death house they were
in tears and had to be supported to
the carriages waiting for them out
side the prison walls.
NEW YORK, April 13.—District
Attorney Whitman refused to make
any comment upon the final carrying
out of the sentence of death of the
four gunmen anc} when asked why the
men were not reprieved as expected
so that their testimony could be used
against Becker in his coming trial,
stated that the men were not eligible
to testify against an accomplice and
that they could have rendered no aid
to the government in its effort to pun
ish the man directly responsible for
the crime. Whitman promised that
every effort of his office would be
made to punish Lieut. Becker, who
planned the crime, and who was con
victed but escaped upon a technical
NEW YORK. April 13—Lieut. Beck
er, ,who spent 13 months in the
death bouse before the Supreme Court
granted him a new trial, spent a ter
rible night in the Tombs, where he is
awaiting another trial for the same
crime that the gunmen were convicted
of. When seen today he was drawn
and haggard and seemed unnerved.
Becker is bonfident that he will be
acquitted when next he is tried for
the murder of Rosenthal.
ALBANY, N. Y.. April 13.—Attor
neys Charles G. F. Wahle and H.
Lionel Kringle, the attorneys for the
condemned gunmen, spent two hours
yesterday with Governor Glynn try
ing to induce the executive to grant
a reprieve to the four men until after
the Becker trial. The attorneys as
serted that the men were innocent
and that Lieut. Becker would be freed
at the coming trial and that the evi
dence would show that Vallon and
Webber had tired the shots which kill
ed Rosenthal and that the four gun
men had had nothing to do with the
m urder.
The governor, however, was obsti
nate and refused to grant a reprieve,
stating that the men had been given
a fair trial and that the supreme court
had unanimously upheld the verdict
of guilty.
MAINE REPUBLICANS MEET
IN ANNUAL CONVENTION
AUGUSTA, April 13.—Expressing'
that “the tide has turned” and that !
Maine soon again will be "rock rib- i
bed and Republican,” Maine G. O. P. i
members gathered here today in
their annual state convention. There
was promise of noticeable splits be
tween the Old Guard and the younger,
' more progressive Republicans who
believe the only hope of the Repub.
lican party in Maine is to out-pro
gress the Progressives.”
VALDEZ SURE TO i
GET IRE ROAD!
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Says Tony Wendler, the Valdez Brew
er, Who Spent Considerable Time
Among Portland Business Men.
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Tony Wendler, the Valdez brewer,
who returned from Portland on the
last boat, states that the general
opinion among the politicians and
business men of the Rose City is
that the government railroad in Alas
ka will be built from Valdez.
The information is secured from
Senator Chamberlain, -the father of
the Alaska railroad bill, and others
who have followed the matter and
who have investigated the condition
prior to making investments north.
“The general opinion is that the
administration will not touch the
Cordova road nor the Seward road,"
says Mr. Wendler, “because of the
certain criticism that would follow the
purchase of either of these white
elephants, held by Wall street bank
! ers, besides which it seems that the
administration is anxious to add to
the total mileage in Alaska and not
buy up existing roads."
Mr. Wendler states that every
where he went they seem to have
| heard of the wonderful mines about
Valdez and of the best available
route to the interior from the head
of Prince William Sound.
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SEATTLE, April 13.—Six hundred
tons of Chinese fireworks reached this
city today from China and will be
sent to many Chinese quarters in ci
ties all over the states. The fire
works are for the' many Chinese cele
brations of the coming year.
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SOON START WORK ON MIDAS;
BARGE AMERICA DOE TODAY
George K. Smith, superintendent of
construction of the Granby Console
dated Mining, Smelting and Power
Company, reached Valdez yesterday
and will start the work of opening
the Midas mine, now owned the com
pany. Mr. Smith will commence the
work as soon as the barge America
reaches here with 2,600 tons of sup
plies and machinery. The America
is expected some time this evening,
as she was reported off Cape St. Klias
yesterday morning in tow of the
tug Tatoosh.
In speaking of the plans of the
company Mr. Smith stated to a rep
resentative of the Prospeector that
the company w'ould build a tram from
the loading station at the beach to
the mine as soon as it was possible
to do so, and that a wharf, ore bins
and loading station would be built
at the mouth of Solomon gulch and
such temporary mess and bunk build
ings as were needed. At the mine
large substantial buildings for the
use of the miners and their families
will be erected as soon as the ma
terial can be taken to the mine.
The wharf will be built as soon
as the piling, now contracted for,
reaches the wharf site, after which
the big tram five and a half miles
long will be pushed to completion.
Big ore bunkers will be erected on
the beach and arrangements made for
the rapid loading of the ore carry -
ing vessels. The copper ore will be
taken to the Granby smelter, owned
and operated by the company at
Granby, British Columbia.
A force of 75 men will be used as
soon as the America reaches port
and this force will be added to as
the need for more men becomes ap
parent.
ABE RUEF MAY
BE PAROLED
Highest Court In California Hold That
Former Frlaco Boss It Eligible
to Parole.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 13.—The
supreme court of California today
handed down a decision in the case
of pardon board asking for a ruling
on the right or Abe Ruef, the former
San Francisco boss now serving a
prison sentence for bribery, to be
paroled.
The board was in doubt because of
the fact that Ruef has not served
one third of the maximum time for
which he was sentenced but has pul
in one third of the loyer sentence
which was from five twenty years.
Ruef applied for a pardon and it was
held up pending a decision by the
highest courts.
It la expected that the former San
Francisco boss will soon be at liberty
during good behavior. He had mad*
a model prisoner and was made li
brarian of the prison shortly after
he entered the penetentiaty and has
been a trusty, enjoying many privi
leges.
Dan Ross, the lelkhell mining op
erator. returned to Valdes yesterday
after spending considerable tlmee in
the Chisana diggings.
BLACK PREACHERS
CAUSE THE
Injunction Asked For By Members of
Zion Colored Church of Los An
geles—Curt Names Preacher.
LOS ANGELES. April 13.—The
trustees of the Zion Colored Baptist
Church here applied last Saturday
night to the state supreme court for
injunctions to prevent an interloping
colored preacher from delivering the
Easter sermon.
The judge refused to grant any in
junction but insisted that the trust
ees and the two preachers who were
supported by different factions agree
to a- third preacher to be satisfactory
to all who should, deliver the,Easter
sermon and, that all factions should
show the Easter spirit and worship
God by forgiving each other.
The Colored brethren did not take
kindly to the advice of the court but
were finally quietted when a third
colored preacher was selected by the
Judge.
DOMESTIC SCIENCE HAS
OPEN AIR CAFATERIA
SAN FRANG1SCO. April 13.—The
first open-air cafeteria in the United
States eras opened for business here
today. It is operated by the Domes
tic Science department of the San
Jose High School.
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JOHN D. WILL HAVE
"COMMONPLACE" NEIGHBORS ]
CLEVELAND, (>., April 111.-Work
men were busy today marking off the
building lots on a forty acre tract ad
joining the Forest Hill estate of John
D. Rockefeller. Before long a small
city of little homes will spring up
and the richest man in the world—if
he returns to Ohio despite tax com -
missioners—will have a horde of just
common folk for neighbors. The tract
was sold to a land company several
weeks ago for $2r>0,000. Modest
homes are to be erected at once.
ALAMEDA COMES
FROM IRE SOUTH
Brings Seventy-five Tons of Freight
and Fair Passenger List—Sailed
West Last Night.
The steamer Alameda, of the Alas -
ka Steamship line in command of
Captain Warner, reached Valdez at
five o’clock last night from Seattle.
The. boat brought seventy-five tons
of freight for t*his port and also had
a fair-sized passenger list. The boat
remained until 3 o’clock this morning
and then sailed for the westward.
Owing to the thick snow storm, rag
ing at the time the Alameda attempt
ed to reach Ellamar, Captain War
ner, after running up to Ellamar,
turned and ran out of the bay again.
The following passengers arrived
on the boat:
For Valdez—Lieut. Glenn Edgerton,
J. H. Kahler, Mrs. G. F. White. S. E.
Arthur, Emma Ruttan, J. Greenwold.
Tom Donohue and wife, Jpe Morris,
W. Devine, Guy Whitehead, Dan Ross,
E. E. Ritchie. Guy Brubaker, F. W.
Powers and wife and W. Brabazon.
For Seward—C. E. Cedarholm, C.
F. Dean, J. R. Nichols. J. W. Hume,
Miss Alta Moesli, Miss Florine John
son, A. Preston and Paul Wobbing.
For Latouche—Mrs. W. R. John
son and infant.
FIGHTER GOES
TOAUSTRALIA
SAN KRANCISCO, Cal.. April 13 -
“Young" Sbugrue, the Jersey City
lightweight, left today on the. steam
er Ventura for Australia where he
will take part in five fights for which
he is guaranteed $6,000 with the
privilege of twenty-five per cent of
the receipts.- His manager. Tommy
Lee. accompanied Sbugrue.
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HAVE NEW PLAN
FOR TRUST LAWS
May Name Interstate Trade Commis
sion to Study Trust Legislation
and Report to Congress.
WASHINGTON, April 13.—Fearing
that the administration trust, bills
cannot be passed at this session of
congress the friends of the president
have proposed that congress create an
interstate trade commission which
shall probe into the methods of the
trusts and shall make a report con
taining recommendations for trust
legislation to the next session of con
gress.
It is believed that such an invest i
gatin would be beneticial and that
the commission would recommend
such charges as are needed to prevent,
monopoly while at the same time
would allow for the fullest expansion
of business.
The opposition to the trust bills
now advocated by the president has
become strenuous as many congress -
gressmen assert they are so strin
gent that business would be brought
to a standstill and the commercial
life of the nation paralyzed.
easterTparade
IN NEW YORK
Thousands Walk Up and Down Fash
ionable Avenue—Some Skirts Are
Slit Rather High.
MOW YOUK. April 13. The Fas
ter parade Iteld here yesterday on
Fifth avenue was the largest ever
seen in the city and both sides of the
fashionable avenue lined with man
sions of the rich was crowded from
the rail to the gutter with fashion
ably dressed men and women, show
ing all the newer styles of clothes.
The avenue was one wild riot of
color, resembling a rainbow in its
many hues. Hats of every color and
some of many colors were in evi
dence. Wigs were worn, dyed to
mutch the hats worn by the women.
Dresses were slit well up to the knees
and some of them were even more
daring and did not seem to care where
the tear stopped. Stockings of every
possible hue were to be seen if one
cared to watch, and all the men seem
ed Interested in the sights. Mustard
color predominated throughout the
dresses and hats, and will be the
leading color for this season.
It is estimated by leading modistes
that the drerse and hats worn yes -
terday for the first time were worth
$16,000,000 and have kept the dress
makers and department stores busy
for the past month.
The weather w s cloudy and threat
ening in the morning, but cleared off
in the afternoon, allowing the people
to show off their glad togs.
BIG 1. B. BILL
FflRJBHIGNT
The big annual Easter ball of the
Arctic Brotherhood will be held to
night at Eagle hall and the commit
tee in charge of the affair promise a
moat enjoyable time to all who at
tend.
The Reinlte orchestra will furnish
the music for the occasion and have
% number of new dance select'ons for
tonight.
The committee in charge of the
lance consists of Sam McNeice, Wil
liam Morton, James Doggett. Adam
Swan and Hugo Fels.
Special at the Big Place.
A special for this week, four quart
bottles of Old Heidelburg beer for $1.