V0L 9 VALDEZ. ALASKA THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1913. NO. 70.
Families W«ep as Prisoners Bid
Them Good-bye—Appeal
Will be Taken.
Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 2—All
Oft the men who were convicted
hpre a few days ago, left on
Tuesday to commence serving the
sentence imposed on them for the
crimes they have committed in
4ynamil ing non-union structur
al iron works.
The scenes were pathetic as
the families of the men who to
serve time in Fort Leavenworth
bid each other farewell. There
was not a dry eye among the by
standers and officers as the
weeping men and women were
oarted.
An effort will be made to have
the judgment reversed, as it is
‘claimed by labor that it had no
repreesntation on the jury which
returned the verdict of guilty, and
that it was composed of farm
ers.
Alaskan Governor of Now York
Promises to CHv* People a
Clean Administration.
Albany, N. Y., Jan. 2.—William
Sulzer was inaugurated governor
of the state on the. first day of
the; year amid impressive cere
monies. The inauguration cere
monies were held indoors and
were witnessed by a large and
distinguished crowd.
After the inauguration Gover
nor Sulzer received *the suffra
gettes and promised them every
help possible that he could render
them.
A review of the National Guard
of the state was made a part of
thp inaugural peremo,nies. In his
speech Governor Sulzer promised
thp people that his administra
tion would be run for the benefit
of all the people and that he
would use his best efforts to win
the respect and good will of all
the people regardless of politics.
PASSENGERS ARE
COMING THIS WAY
On New Year’s evening Robert
McIntosh received a message
from Chitina asking if he could
handle two stage loads of pas
sengers from Willow creek to
Valdez, and today received a tel
egram from Gulkana asking if he
could carry more passengers to
Valdez in time to catch the south
hound steamer of January 8th.
Mr. McIntosh replied that his
stages would leave Willow crock
on the morning of the 51 h and
would reach Valdez in two and a
half days.
To accommodate the increasing
I ravel this way Mr. McIntosh is
sending relays fo the other side
of the summit.
Another wire was received l>y
McIntosh at press time asking for
reservations from Willow creek
for W. F. Lawrence and two
others. A reply stated that res
ervations were noted.
Fresh Morgan oysters fried in
hotter and cracker crumbs at ‘lie
Valdez Cafe.
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STORMS RAGING
ON THE CONST
Trains Are All Delayed on Ac
count of Heavy Snow-Great
Storm at 8ea
Seattle, Jan. 2.--Yesterday’s
storms were the severest in many
years. A 72-mile gale was blow
ing at Tatoosh and sweeping the
entire north coast. All eastern
trains are1 a day late, while the
wires of the Postal Telegraph are
down between here and the east
ern portion of the state.
The snow is 18 feet deep on
the Great Northern road near the
Cascade tunnel. All the roads
have employed every available
man in an attempt to lyeep traf
fic going. The Canadian lines are
delayed as well in the Rocky
mountains, the snow being much
deeper than usual.
SPIN TOEM
Message is Sent From Arlington
to Paris by New Government
Wireless Station.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 2.
The large wireless plant at
Arlington, recently completed by
the government, and said to be
the most powerful in the world,
succeeded in calling up the sta
tion on the Eiffel Tower in Paris
and conveying the greetings of
the new to the old world. To do
this the sound waves had to tra
vere 3,900 miles.
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THEIR MONEY
Ardmore, Okla., Jan. 2.—Steps
have been taken here by which
the Chootaw and Chickasaw In
dians hope eventually to induce
the government to distribute
among members of those tribes
$17,000,000 derived from the sale
of their lands in Western Okla
j homa.
Resolutions were adopted at a j
meeting of 200 leaders of both ,
nations urging the distribution of j
the money and asking congress j
to enact such legislation as will ,
i no longer make the tribes wards
iof the government. The matter
!will be presented to congress as
| soon as practicable.
i HAVE CALLED THE
ENTIRE FIRM TO TESTIFY !
Washington, I). 0., Jan. i
The business partners of J. P. j
Morgan, the New York banker, j
will be called before the house
money trust investigating com
mittee when that* body resumes
jits probe here January C>. They
will be asked to explain, it was
said today, tin: details of various
'.Morgan deals, including the for-;
' malion of the railed Stales Steel
! corporal ion.
i Mr. Aitken, the well known in
i lerior mining man, is at Chitina, i
|en route to Valdes on his way to !
I the outside.
j Two parcels post packages .
'were received by the riostofTice to- I
| day.
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Babies at Orpheum Tonight.
i A fine change of pictures at
jthe Orpheum tonight.
THE VICTORIES
Important Strategic Positions In
Meurthe, Moselle and Normany
Captured by Mine Owners.
Paris, .Jan., 2—France is
growing somehat excited over the
discovery that large tracts of
territory in^Muerthe and Moselle
along the borders of Lorraine, be
long to German proprietors. They
have passed into that possession
through the acquisition of iiines,
one-ninth of the entire industry
in that region being under , Ger
man control. In Normandy the
situation is more amazing still, to
French eyes, one-half of? the
mines there belonging to ^Ger
mans.
Louis Bruneau, writing id the
Grande Revue, says that this
peaceful invasion, which has been
going on for many years, has
I reached incredible proportions.
Strategic positions of great fiiili
tary importance, Bruneau de
clares, have in this way become
occupied by Germans. i
WIDE FLOWED
IDE MERRY
The Mw »wrWWl)hi»
tlon Takes Place in All the
Large Cities.
Seattle, Jan. 2—New Year was
ushered in here in a manner any
thing but “safe and sane.” The
streets were jammed with a crowd
of jolly sightseers and those bent
on having a good time. Horns,
bells and all sorts of noise-mak
ing machines were brought into
requisition, while passing street
cars were canned, adding to the
prevailing din. Seats in the prin
cipal cafes were engaged days
ahead and the popping of cham
pagne corks continued until a late
hour. Seattle wired her greetings
to all the slates, including Alas
ka.
San Francisco, Jan. 2.--Almost
every one appeared to be on the
streets to see the old year out and
the new in. Bands paraded the
streets and every noise-making
device possible was brought in
to requisition to add to the pre
vailing din. The restaurants and
I cafes were crowded to the ut
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AFTER KARO TEST
IS SUCCESSFUL
Milwaukee, Wis., Jan. 2.—Af
| ter a six days’ fight against lock
jaw, (he rigid little body ofJos
! eph Karpis, aged 9. relaxed com
jpletely today for the first time,
i His jaws, which had been clench
led as though bound by steel, op
iened and his physicians gave the
; father and mother the first really
encouraging report.
His recovery will he little less
than a miracle, the doctors say.
Since the attack 30,000 units of
anti-tetanus serum has been in
jected in the little fellow's finger
i tips and at the base of his brain.
| This was the largest amount of
serum ever used in such a ease.
| Hubert McIntosh now has 22
! men and the same number of
j horses on the summit keeping the
j trail in passable shape, for travel.
: Fifteen tons of ore from the
Sealey-Davis property has been
landed at the Valdez dock for
treatment at Ihe.IocaJt stamp mill.
Work on this property has been
progressing all winler.
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Grand Duke Dmitri, Cousin of j
Nicholas II., Picked as Auto
orat of All the Itu88las
St. Petersburg. Jan. 2—High
cepting Grand Duke Dmitri Paul
ovitch, a nephew of the present
Czar, as heir presumptive to the
throne. He has not heretofore
been generally mentioned as pos
sible successor to the crown and
his name comes as a complete
surprise to everyone except those
who by reason of their position
either belong to the court circle
or have close relations with it.
Thus far Dmitri has been
known as a devotee to the ballot.
He is also an ardent skater and is
often seen escorting to the rink
voung women notable for their
attractiveness. He is about 26
years old and has been compared
to ex-King Manuel, of Portugal,
in his partiality for the gayer and
more frolicsome things of life.
SUES SPINE
SILVER ME
Fireman Had Back Woken iin'cl
Lower Limbs Paralyzed When
Engine Overturned.
Philadelphia, Jan. 2—Surgeons
at St. Mary’s hospital today per
formed a daring operation in the
hope of saving the life of George
Wentz, a fire department driver,
whose back was broken when his
engine was ditched last night on
the way to a fire.. He was paralyz
ed from his arms down.
Dr. John A. Boger and his as
sistant, Dr. Samuel S. Kelly, laid
op*n the spinal column, uncov
ered the backbone at the. point of
fracture and then removed sev
eral pieces of vertebrae which
had been crushed to splinters and
which were pressing on the spi
nal cord.
I)r. Boger than ran silver wire
through the adjoining vertebrae
and wired til *m together. Wentz
was then strapped in a plaster
asf, and after he came from the
influence of e'N'i- all of his re
doxes had 1 .-.•n restored, show
ing that tne pr</.- >ro which had
paralyzed him had been success
fully removed.
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THE BUTTER TRUST
TAKES <* HINT
Elgin, 111., Jan. 2.—In the must
exciting annual meeting in its
history the Elgin Hoard of Trade
today abolished the practice of 17
years’ standing of arbitrarily fix
ing the price of butter by its
Quotation Committee and adopted
a plan to have Ihe board itself
determine the price of butter,
based on actual sales.
This action came as the result
of a suit tiled by the federal gov
ernment for dissoultion of the
board. In its lull the government
mentioned the Quotation Com
mittee as ope of the means used
I by the alleged Hotter Trust to
j control prices.
peter Jackson, Christ Kademus,
George Papas. Mike Mitchell and
Gus Anestople arrived last even
ing four days from Ghitina.
Frde. C. Noy*>s. receiver of the
Washiugton-Alaskn Bank at
Fairbanks, will leave for home on
next Saturday’s stage.
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OiPBIANO CASTRO
GAN NOI LAND
Held at Ellis Island to be Deport
ed to Europe, From Whence
He Came Uninvited.
New Yorn, Jan. 2.—Ex-Presi
dent Castro, of Venezuela, arriv
ed here from Europe and is be
ing detained at Ellis Island as an
undesirable fur probable deport
ure to France, from whence he
came. The iiery little Indian was
indignant at his detention and
says he has seen enough of Amer
ica and wants to return to Cer
nany at once.
The latter country has been
■ommunicated with, but appears
to be uncommunicative on the
subject, so probably Castro will
ie permitted to return to France,
lie will not be permitted to land
m American soil.
AFTER JOHN D.
Ill EARNEST
Sergeant-at-arms Ordered Not to
Return Without Bringing the
Oil King With Him.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 2.
The sergeant-at-arms of the Pu
jo*committee has been sent to get
John D. Rockefeller with orders
not to return without him, and
to employ whatever assistance he
may desire to get the financier,
as the work of the committ e
probing the money trust is be
ing held up pending the presence
of the Standard Oil magnate.
HURD VOW
FROM SOUTH
Astoria, Ore., Jan. 2—With the
members of the crew telling har
rowing tales of grazing an ice
berg and narrowly escaping from
the same while off Tasmania, and
encountering a succession of un
usual hardships, (he French ship
Thiers, 175 days from Newcastle,
England, with a general cargo,
is in port today.
Captain Lebeau declares the
crew had to work heroically to
escape destruction by the iceberg,
i While off Tillamook head the
'Thiers was struck by a gale and
clever navigation was necessary
to prevent her from going on the
rocks.
I MINER DARES A
LIGHTED BLA8T
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Redding, Gal., Jan. 2—l)elib
leratoly returning to a blast which
i he and his partner had just light
ed, George A. Hall, a miner, was
instantly killed today at the Iron
Mountain mine near here. Hall
j was on the surface, wholly out of
! danger, when he suddenly went
back. The whole battery of blasts
struck him. Hall, who was 10
[years old and lived in Shasta,
leaves a family.
i Travelers over the summit are
loud in their praise of Lieut.
Prosser for the relief station he
had built there. The building is
a very comfortable one and has
sufficient accommodations for a
half dozen men and twice that
i number of horses. It is especial
ly useful for the men engaged in
keeping the trail open.
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GRUESOME SIGHT
IN OLD MEXICO
Gruesome Spectacle Seen by
Travelers Along Roads In
the State of Mexioo.
Mexico City, Jan. 2—Sixty reb
els, hanging from trees, were
counted by persons traveling by
road yesterday from Las Cruces
to Temascaltepec in the State of
Mexico.
This is one of the results of
the campaign conducted against
the rebels in that district by Col.
RiverolL llis troops yesterday
defeated a detachment of rebels
at Las' Cruces.
Passengers coming from the
north report that the nine bodies
of rebels were seen hanging from
telegraph poles near the town of
Pedrisena.
From the stale of Mexico the
rebels are making their way into
the stale of Morelos. Railway
communication between the cap
ital and Cuernavaca is again in
terrupted.
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OVER PALZER
Wins Fight in Eighteenth Hound!
After Transforming Palzer’s
Face to Raw Meat.
Vernon, Cal., Jan. 2.--McCarty
whipped Palzer in the eighteenth
round. The tight was pretty ev
enly matched and cleverly fought
by both men until the ninth
round, when McCarty waded into
Palzer, viciously landing telling
blows continuously.
From the tenth round McCarty
landed at will, cutting Palzer's
right eyelid so it hung down, im
mediately after bruising the left
so that he had Palzer at his
mercy, though the latter fought
on gamely.
In the eighteenth round Pal
zer was helpless and could not
defend himself. His face was a
piece of raw meat when the ref
eree awarded the tight to Mc
CaVty, who was practically un
marked.
NORTHWESTERN
LEAVES SEATTLE
Seattle, Jan. 2.—The steamship
Northwestern, of file Alaska
Steamship company, left here at
five o'clock on the evening of
December 31st in accordance
with a new schedule by which
steamers of that line will leave
Seattle on the 9th, 19th and 29th
of each month, instead of the
1st, tOth and 20th of each month,
as heretofore.
Passengers for Valdez are A. F.
Hoffman ami T. J. Welcher.
The' blocking of trains on the
Copper River road has stopped
many ^passengers bound for the
interior from sailing. There is
a well defined rumor here that
the mail will hereafter be routed
by way of Valdez, instead of Cor
dova. on account of the uncer
tainty of getting the interior mail
through over the railroad.
Gentle horse ana comfortable
cutter for lent by day or hour.
Rate reasonable. Apply Fred.
Fish, phone 47.
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time, read the Prospector.