VOL> 9- VALDEZ, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 30, 1913. * NO. 222.
JOHNSON SIS
FROM CANADA
Bryan Unable to Secure Ar
rest and Deportation of
Big Fighter.
Montreal, Can., June 30.—Jack
Johnson, the pug, accompanied by
his white wife, sailed from here yes
terday in spite of the efforts of Sec
retary of State to have the big coon
pinched and deported into the United
States, where he is under sentence to
serve two years for violating the
Mann white slave act by taking white
girls from one state to another for
immoral pnrposes.
Johnson reached here last Friday
and immediately the American con
sul notified the State department and
an effort was made to secure his ar
rest, but the Canadian authorities say
they were powerless to arrest the
negro, as he had a through ticket to
France, and in as much as he was out
On bail he was not a fugitive from
justice until his bond is forfeited.
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Steamer Dolphin Goes on
Rocks in Alert Bay,
Vancouver Island
Seattle, June JO.—The steamer
Dolphin, one of the passenger boats
of the Pacific Coast Steamship com
pany, running to Southeastern Alas
ka, is reported here as being on the
rocks near Alert bay, Vancouver Is
land.
According to the wireless received
bv the company the passengers are
on the Princess May, of the Canadian
line, and are proceeding to Skagway.
No details of the wreck can be
learned here except that the liner is
on the rocks, but how badly she is
damaged is unknown.
NO RAILROAD BILL THIS SESSION;
50 SENATORS FAVOR PROMPT ACTION
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Washington, D. C., June 30.—A careful poll of the Senate was taken revealing the fact that 58 sen
ators are in favor of the Chamberlain-Wickersham bill to build 733 miles of railroads in Alaska.
Twelve senators refused to answer or dictate their intentions Gr preferences in the matter, while the
balance are opposed to government railroads being built and will fight the measure.
The above poll sounds the death knell of the bill for this session of Congress, as it requires unani
mous consent to place the bill on the calender.
President Wilson, however, is expected to make the railroad bill an administration measure at the
December session of Congress and will try to force the bill through Congress and have the engineers in
the field next spring, surveying the different routes proposed by the railroad commission which visited
the territory last summer.
The president in the present bill will select the routes of the roads to be built but he will be govern
ed, according to those who have discussed the matter with him, notably, Senators Chamberlain and
Pittman, by their recommendations of the commission. The senators also have been influenced by the
report to such an extent that they have provided for the 733 miles recommended by them.
Senator Nelson favors the government guarantee of the bonds of a privately built and operated rail
road, but has been unable to convince many senators that his is the best method of solving the transpor
portation problem of Alaska.
MORE VOLUNTEERS
GIVEUPTHEIRSKIN
Need 300 Volunteers and
Only 70 Have So Far
Volunteered.
Buffalo, June 30.--The hospital phy
sicans have received offers from 70
people to allow skin to be taken from
their bodies and transplanted on the
bodies of the victims of the wheat
mill explosion. Skin from 300 people
will be needed to care for those burn
ed last week.
Sergeant Barr and a number of oth
er members of Company G, who have
spent the past week in Jacks bay
fishing, hunting and camping out, re
turned to the post yesterday bringing
a boat load of fish.
PRESIDENT WILSON’S WIFE
AT HER SUMMER HOME
Takes Flee Autos From Washington and Thirty Servants’
Forty Trunks and an Army ot Oetectives--Moving Pic
ture Men 6et Films of Eventful Scenes.
Cornish, N. H., June 30.- Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, the first lady
of the land, and her daughter Eleanor arrived here today from
Washington to spend a few months at the summer White House,
which the president has leased from Winston Churchill.
The retinue of servants numbers 30; five autos also arrived with
partgr, 40 trunks and a host of detectives.
New York moving picture men were present with their ma.
chines fighting for positions from which to secure films of the ar
rival of the president’s wife at the summer capital.
The women of the town were on hand to welcome the distin
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guished guests and the local constable was greatly excited over
the array and brilliancy exhibited and promised that nothing
would happen to the party while in his charge.
The government secret service men, however, are taking their
own measures to protect the presidential party.
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Spends Sunday in Valdez.
Manager Finical of the local saw
mill and lumber company returned to
Valdez yesterday from the logging
camp on Montague island and left
this morning for the camp on his re
turn trip. The boys have a large
raft of logs for the local mill which
will be brought to Valdez next
month and cut into lumber.
THETIS SAILS
FOR VALDEZ
Revenue Cutter Leaves Spir
it City Enroute to West
ern Alaska.
Seattle, June 30—The revenue cut
ter Thetis lefr. here yesterday for Val
dez, which place the officers expect
to reach in seven days, coming out
side.
The cutter is scheduled to sail west
from Valdez July 12th.
BASE BALL SCORES.
Sunday, June 21), 1913.
National League.
Cincinnati 9, Chicago 6. Pitchers—
Ames, Brown; Piedce, Ritchie.
St. Louis 4, Pittsburg,3. Pitchers—
Harmcn: Hendricas, Camnitz, Adams.
American League.
Detroit 5, St. Louis 2. Pitchers—
Dubuc; Mitchell.
Chicago 2, Cleveland 1. Pitchers—
Russell; Kahler.
Northwestern League.
Seattle 9, Tacoma 7. Pitchers—
Mclvor; MoGinnity, Kurfess.
Portland 2, Vancouver 6. Pitchers
—Hynes; Wilson.
Second game. Portland 3, Vancou
ver 3. PitOhers—Easterly; Dchultz.
Second gajne Saturday, June 28.
Portland 1, Vancouver 0. Pitchers—
Martinoni; Clark.
Spokane 1, Victoria 5. Pitchers—
Oovelaskl; Narveson.
Mariposa at Midnight
The Mariposa reached Cordova at
10 o’clock this morning and was ex
pected to leave tee railroad town for
Valdez at four o,clock this afternoon,
arriving about midnight.
The£Albemarle hotel is having a
large new porch erected in front of
the building and also had a new side
walk built.
Stockholders Meeting
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Valdez Mercantile
Company will be held at their offices
in Valdez, Alaska, on Monday, July
14th, 1913, at » o’clock p. m., for the
purpose of electing a board of direc
tors for the ensuing year and other
important business.
ARTHUR LANG, Secretary.
Date of first publication June 40th
1913.
CONGRESSMEN
UNDER FIRE
Martin Mulhall, Field Agent
of Trust, Spent $200,000
On Solons.
Washington, D. C., June 30.—Mar
tin Mulhall, general field agent of the
National Manufacturers Association,
in a newspaper article today names
congressmen who are subservient to
or who have been punished by the As
sociation for opposition to the plans
of the manufacturers for protective
tariff or other legislation, wanted by
association.
He also states that he has spent for
the manufacturers the sum of $200,000
in the past year and that he has re
ceipts and memorandums of his ex
penditures.
The Senate committee, which met
today, immediately issued a subpoena
for Mulhall and he will be compelled
to prove his statements, as many con
gressmen are involved and they all
assert he is a liar and that no money
was passed to them, nor any effort
made to influence their votes.
President Charles Day of the Alas
ka Pioneers has announced that the
float ol Igloo No. 7 will be at McKin
ley street and Keystone avenue ready
for the children born In Alaska, who
are to be the guests of the order on
that day. They are expected, if pos
sible, to wear white dresses and white
blouses for the boys. All children
born in Alaska are welcome. Valdez
Cameron, the first white child born in
Valdez, will have the place of honor
on the fioat.
Joe Stanton, the interior mail car
rier will leave tomorrow for the Go
kona with the mail.
STILL HOT IN
EASTERN CITIES
Ten Died Yesterday in Chi
cago—No Relief in Sight
Says Weather Man
Chicago, June 30—The weather
here is still unbearably hot and
the people continue to die or are
stricken and taken to the hospitals
for treatment.
The police report ten deaths yes
terday from sunstroke.
All the eastern and middle west
states are sweltering in the heat and
the weather bureau reports no relief
in sight.
Hank Chestermau returned from
the Montague island logging camp
yesterday.
Wins Suburban Handicap^
Mile and (Quarter Event,
in Two Minutes Flat
New York, June 30—Harry Payne
Whitndy’s race horse, “Whiskbroom
Second,” won the suburban handicap
mile and a quarter event in two min—>
uees, breaking all records.
“Whiskbroom Second” carried &.
jockey who weighed 120 pounds.
Racing has been resumed in New
York after three years, when at the
instance of Governor Hughes the
legislature stopped racing In the
state because of the betting at the
tracks, causing the ruin of many men
who stole trust funds and played the
horses only to be sent to the pen or
to take their own lives.
All standard makes of wheels,
al Owen Meals, the Valdez bicy
cle agent for the Columbia, Ram
bler, Pope “Daily Service,” Cleve
land and other standard makes.
TEST GATUN GATES
OF PANAMA CANAL
Allow Water From Atlantic j*
to Test Gates—The Water
Raises Fifty Feet.
Panama, June 30—Tne lower gates,
of the Gauton datn were tested Sat
urday and the engineer officers al
lowed the waters from the Atlantia
ocean to flow into the lock to a
depth of fifty feet, at which depth it
reached sea level. No fault was dis- •
covered and the engineers are jubi
lant at the success of their work.
Charles Minor, who is working in
the Port Wells section nearly lost his
life when the tunnel caved in, but by
quick work he succeeded in making
his getaway without injury.
WOMEN MURDERS DAUGHTER
HIDES HER DODY IN TRUNK
Illegitimate Child of 12 Caused Trouble Between Wife and
Husband and Is Disposed of in Old Fashioned Way
Body Stored in Railroad StafloMi
Salt Lake, June 30.—The police have arrested Mrs. Gus Eck
man, who confessed to having killed her 12-year-old daughter,
placing her body in a trunk and storing it at the local railroad
station, where it was discovered Saturday.
The body of the girl was naked and it was found upon examina- -
tion that she had been choked to death by the mother.
Mrs. Eckman confessed that the daughter was an illegitimate
child, born before she married her present husband and that they
had frequently quarreled about the illegitimate, the husband re-**%
fusing to cioth and feed another’s offspring and finally succeeded
in securing a divorce, but agreed to return and live with her is
the child was disposed of, which she did by choking the child to
death and placing the body in the trunk.
The police have arrested her former husband and both will be
given a preliminary hearing this week.