VOL 3 VALDEZ, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, ’13 NO. 105.
STREET FIGHTING
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Machine Guns Are Placed on the
Business Buildings and Sweep
Main Thoroughfares.
.Mexico City, Feb. 12.--Parti
sans of President Madero storm
Gen. Felix Diaz and bis adherents,
who are barricaded in the arsen
al. After seven hours of steady
lighting they failed (o budge the
provisional president and his
forces. Fighting is going on in
Ihe streets of the city.
Diaz’ followers have planted
machine guns in office buildings
and on the roofs of sky scrapers
by which they dominate Ihe lead
ing I borough fares.
Washington, D. C., Feb. 12.—
The government has ordered
three more battleships to Mex
ico, and has transports ready to
carry troops to the southern re
public in case of necessity.
SfflFsM
StLLTHEIR VOTES
Charleston, W. V., Feb. 12.—
Five legislators have been arrest
ed for accepting §20,000 in mark
ed bills, lo break the senatorial
deadlock. The affair has caused a
great sensation and will greatly
complicate an already badly mix
ed up situation.
HAMILTliEWIS
TIB^ SHERMAN
Springfield, Feb. 12.—Tin; lirsl
ballot for senator taken by the
legislature resulted in a tie be
tween Sherman. Republican, and
James Hamilton Lewis. Demo
crat.
VINCENT ASTOR
WANTS TRIMMINS
Albany, N. Y., Feb. 12—The ap
pearance of Vincent Aslor at Sul
zer's reception recently was re
sponsible for the report that the
governor intended to appoint the
young millionaire to an honorable
position nl some sort.
“Mr. Aslor’s call was merely a
friendly one." explained (iovernor
Sul/.er. I have known the young
man for some lime, 'll is lather
and 1 were warm friends. For
that reason I sent him an invita
tion to be present at ‘The Peo
ple's House’ reception.”
“Hut, isn’t Mr. Aslor a candi
date for a position that you can
till?" the governor was asked.
“Oh," responded Mr. Sul/.er,
“the young man is very much in
terested in the National (luard.
We talked about National (luard
affairs; that was about all. May
be Vincent will come to see me
again. The latchstring at ‘The
People's House’ hangs out for
him as for aH other people, high
or low, at all times."
Tlio senators and representa
tives of the Nome district were
entertained at Ruby on their way
to the coast from the northern
metropolis. The entertainment
also was in the nature of a fare
well lo Senator-elect Sutherland.
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lieu. Reinke, the watch repairer
and jeweler, is at the Valdez Drug
company. .
February 14 nslhe date of the
big masquerade, Thess than one
week lo get your collume ready.
“The Cliff’’ is the place, not a
bunkhouse; not cheap, but rea
sonable and moderate in price,
and you gel what you pay for—
comfort.
M RULE SAYS
SENATOR MANN
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Charges House Legislation is in
Hands of Disorganized Mob,
and Wasting Money.'
Washington, I>. C., Felt, 12.—
After an exceedingly hot debate,
the House voted an appropriation
nf $00,000 for a coniiniiation of
the probes begun.
Minority Leader Mann charged
that the1 control of legislation was
in the hands of a disorganized
mob and that the appropriations
were the largest ever made by
congress.
THE TREAT CASE
IS BEING HEARD
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Suit Against Hubbard-Elliot Cop
per Company Still Before the
District Court.
The ease of George Treat et al.
against the Hubbard-Elliot Cop
per company to set aside the sale
of the entire holdings of the old
Hubbard-Elliot Development com
pany to the defendent corpora
tion. is still being heard before
Judge Lyons in the (listriel court.
T. J. Evans, an allorney of Chi
cago, was on Hie stand all day
and told of the Irauster ol the
old Ifi the new company and the
reasons therefor.
Mr. Treat,‘who owns 9,000.
shares of the old company, asks
lo have the sale In the new com
pany sel aside, claiming Hint Mo
saic of the properl.' lo the llub
hard-Elliol Copper coni|iauy was
illegal. The llubbard-Elliol Cop
per company was organized with
a capital slock of 3,500.000, a
million and a half of which was
turned hack to Ho- stockholders of
the old company and the balance
used as treasury stock.
It developed in this morning's
testimony that the linn of Os
trander it Donohue had received
$25,000 in attorneys fees from the
company, for which they were at
one time attorneys.
J. T. Evans, one of the leading
attorneys of Chicago,and J. P.Fay,
a prominent Seattle attorney, both
of whom are directors in the com
pany, are associated with Brown
iV Lyons in {he defense of the
company.
FARMERS OPPOSE
POWERFUL NAVIES
Calgary, Alberta, 1-j,* 1 >. I,’.—The
United Farmers of Alberta are op
posed lo war and much against
Canadian naval policies. They
would have Canada lead I he world
in the international disarmament
movement, and so declared in an
anti-naval resolution adopted re
cently. in all the dissenting del
egates there were only I-’ dis
senting votes.
“This convent ion, representing
14,000 farmers of Alberta," the
resolution says, ‘ places itself on
record as firmly opposed to any
expenditure whatever of public
moneys for the consolidation of
naval armam'enl, but is decidedly
in favor of Canada encouraging
to the utmost the movement to
ward international peace and dis
armament and. the settlement of
international difficulties by arbi
tration, such as is proposed by
the United, States.”
Senator-elect Freeding and
Repi'esentative-elect Gaffney, of
Koine, who will arrive in Valdez in
a few days, are both very promi
nent Democrats in the northern
camp. Mr. Freeding is territorial
committeeman and Mr. Gaffney is
divisional committeeman.
Five Years to Serve for Larceny
of Oregon Educational
Funds.
Washington, 1>. C., Feb. 12.
The Supreme Court declined to
day to interfere with the five-year
penitentiary sentence imposed
upon J. Thorlniru Hoss, former
president of the Title Guarantee
A Trusl company, of Portland,
Ore., convicted of larceny of state
educational funds in his hank
during the panic of 1007.
The trial court, in addition to*
I tic five-year sentence, imposed
a tine of •857ti.878.7t, or an al
ternate confinement in the county
jail amounting to 700 years. The'
supreme court of Oregon had set*
aside the fine and alternate rnu
linement as excessive.
Two attempts have been made
to have a pardon granted to Hoss.
When Jay Bowerman was acting
governor, after the death of Gov.
Benson, a delegation of business
men engaged a special train and
we'll I to Salem to lay the matter
before him. Bowerman refused to
act. When Sam Selling, on being
elected president of the senate,
succeeded Bowerman for 2 i hours,
as governor of I lie stale, another
delegation went to Salem to so
licit a pardon for Ross. Selling
took I tie ground that as he was
governor only temporarily, he did
not feel justified in exercising I he
full powers of governor, at least
not to I lie extent of granting a
pardon.
Judge Fuller. reviewing' the
ease id' I lie City id' Fairbanks
againsl Angus MeDnugall. wlm
lias been senlcnecd by Hie cilv
magistrate In pay a nno nf *50 for
ilisunb'i'ly conduct. and a fine oft
slibi I'nr resisting an officer, de
cided Dial Hie lines must stand.
MANY TURKS
ARE KILLED
Sulla, Feb. I2.--II is officially
given out that tlie Turks lost in
killed while defending Gallipoli
was 0,000 and 12,000 in wound
ed. Th“ Bulgurs are entrenching
before Bulair.
James J. Crossley. ilislricl al
litrney for llnf Fourth division,
lias appointed* Cecil II. Clegg ail
assistant district attorney, vice
Henry Roden, who resigned to
take up his duties as senator for
the Fourth division of Alaska.
Mr. Clegg resigned last spring
at the lime of the political light
in the Republican party in the
Fourth division, when Clegg and
Marquian fought for control of
the organization in Fairbanks.
Marquian won.
COMMERCIAL CLUB
ENTERTAIN8 LEGISLATORS
The commercial club of Fair
banks entertained the members
of the -territorial legislature, to
gether with life members of the
Fourth division, prior to (heir
leaving the Tanana town. The
members of both the Second and
Fourth divisions arc now on the
trail and should arrive in Valdez
in a few days.
No one without wearing some
semblance of a masquerade cos
tume, will be permitted to dance
at the Eagles’ masquerade until
after the unmasking.
CHINKS MAY BUY
NOME JADE MINE
A Shipment Made Last Fall to
China Causes Jade Cutters
to Investigate.
Tin; following article, taken
from the Nome Nugget, which ar
rived here yesterday, tells of the
possibility of the purchase by
Chinese jade cutters of the jade
deposits found near Nome;
A Chinaman, who represents
the jade manufacturers of Can
ton, China, will arrive on one of
the first boats in the spring to
examine the jade mines of the
Kohuk according to Walter Koen,
who has just returned to Nome
from the outside. Mr. Koen, who
is the owner of the mine, return
ed to SI. Michael on the last trip
north of the Senator this fall and
has remained at that port since,
wailing to hear from China.
lie shipped oul a ton of the jade
last summer to San Francisco and
from there it was shipped to Can
ton. Although the freight, to San
Francisco cost about $15 per ton
the charges from San F’rancisco
to China were only $8.50 a ton.
Canton is the chief jade cutting
center of the world, having no
less than six great firms engaged
in the work. They have purchased
the ton of rock from Mr. Koen
and have become deeply interest
ed in his discovery. His property
carries a large amount of the
jade.
In his necktie Mr. Koen wears
a pin made from jade out of his
own mine, lie Hilda that the stone
which the cullers like best is the
while with blue through it. and
not the stone which is all blue.
Of the former kind he has large
(fnanlilies and expects that lie
holds one of the most valuable
properties in Alaska. The Chi
nese people decided at once, on
receiving' information about the
Kolnik jade, to send a man spec
ially here lo investigate.
NEW CABINET
TAME SEAT
Tokio, l-'eli. 12.—Count Yauiu
uiota succeeds Katsura as pre
mier ami will form a cabinet. The
people are somewhat quieted, Imt
a general feeling of unreal seems
to pervade the country.
PIONEER EDITOR
COMINGJO VALDEZ
George M.‘Hill, owner and pub
lisher of ihe Yukon Valley. News,
which has suspended, is on the
trail between Valdez and Fair
banks, coming this way. Mr. Hill
has abandoned the interior field
and will locate on the coast.
Mr. Hill is the pioneer news
paper man of the Tanana valley,
he having started the Fairbanks
Weekly News' soon after the town
was started.
WOMAN HIDE8 IN THUNK,
dies or surrooATioN
Amesbury, Mass., Feb. 12.—To
tease her husband Mrs. Alphonse
Victorine concealed herself in a
trunk as she heard him enter the
house yesterday. As the cover
dropped over her the bolt of the
old-fashioned Iock slipped into its
place and in a few hours the wom
an was dead from suffocation.
This is the theory of- Medical
Examiner C. F. Herd, who per
formed an autopsy today after a !
thfee weeks’ search by I lie police
had revealed the hilling place of
the unfortunate wife.
FOR RENT—Three furnished
houses. Apply to C. E. Bunnell.
SAYS WILL DRIFT
FOR FIVE YEARS
Amundsen to Drift in ice Floes for
Five Years Towards Pole in
Search of Continent.
Chicago, l’’eb. 12—By building
an ice wall around the Fram,
Amundsen intends to drift for five
years towards the North Pole,
keeping in communication with
the outside world by wireless tide
graph, communicating with the
Alaska stations. He proposes to
starl from San Francisco in Iwo
y »ars.
AFOGNAKJUDGES
FOUND GUILTY
Jury Returns Verdict After 45
Hours of Debating—Recom
mend Extreme Mercy.
The jury returned a verdict of
guilty against John J. Folstadt
and Alex. Fredolin, who were
charged with fraud in the August
election, at 3:.'fo this afternoon.
This is I lie second trial of the
case, and tile Jirsl resulted in a
hung jury. The convicting jury
recommended t liut the court ex
tend extreme mercy within its
power to both the defendants.
Charles Pajoman. who was al
so indicted with Falsladl and
Fredolin, plead guilt' and con
fessed that In* had, at (lie in
stance of Folstadt. entered names
on tin* register, and that Folstadt
had placed ballots in the ballot
(mix, although the men so voted
wen* not present in tin* \oting
place at the lime.
The lime of sentence was not
Isel and tile men are still out on
| a continuing bond.
PREPARING TO WAGE RATE
WAR IN OCEAN TRAFFIC
Vienna, Feb. I 2.-Reports cur
re ill today in Austrian shipping
circles indicate that the Gorman
Atlantic steamship pool is pre
paring to wage a fierce rate war
against the new Trieste-Mon
treal service about to be started
J>y the Canadian Pacific company.
There js little prospect, steamship
men say, that the shipping-con
ference to be held in Berlin next
week will result in any agreement.
F.migranls probably will be the
chief beneficiaries of the rale war,
as the steerage rales are likely
to be reduced to -S10 before the
conflict ends.
The Canadian company is ar
ranging to begin a monthly ser
vice in March, increasing the sail
ing dates of its vessels as the
traffic requires. The company is
opening 32 emigration offices in
various centres of Austria, es
pecially at the chief fronts along
the Russian frontier, hoping
thereby to get a share of the large
emigration traffic hitherto mo
nopolized by the German lines.
Lightning never strikes twice in
the same* place; in which respect
Hard Luck can give Lightning
cards ami spades.
Steamer Movements.
Mariposa, south bound.
Northwestern, north bound.
Yukon, to the westward.
Latouche, on dry dock.
Cordova, north bound.
Dirigo, sails tomorrow from
Seattle place of Dora.
House and Lot for Sale.
Six-room house and lot on Ho
bart street below court house.
This property can be had for 81,
500 on easy terms. For further
information apply at S. Blum &
Co., or the Valdez Dock company.
CAPT. SCOTT
LEAVES NOTE
Telling Causes Party's Failure to
Return—Loss of Ponies, Short
Rations and Storms.
London. Fob. I-_\ note Cap
tain Scott wrote in the tent dur
ing the blizzard which cost him
and his companions their lives,
says that his failure to return is
due to thu loss of his pony trans
port, too closely limiting his food
supplies, and a heavy fall of soft
snow, followed by persistent
storms.
Till! parly died within II miles
of a relief station, where there
was ample fuel and provisions.
The parly had but one warm meal
in two days. It, is a wonderful
tale of hardship and appeals to
all Englishman. Scott's note is
regarded as an epic. Steps are
being taken to care for the wid
ows of those lost during their
journey to the earth's southern
axis.
WOULDN’T PAY
SO HE WAS FIHED
Washington. 1). <!.. Eel). l-\
The Senate committee probing
the expenditures of the last elec
tion. look the testimony of the
postmaster at (lamp Behee arsen
al. who says he was dismissed be
cause he refused to contribute #30
to I lie secretary of the stall* Re
publican comm it 1 ec.
THE cilASES
AREJEING TRIED
lielroil, Eidi. 1..—Tbe trial has
begun for llie cancellation of the
Mr Alpine and other coal claims
in the Alaska Held, which are val
ued at #10.(100,00(1.
ANOTHER PASTOR
GOES WRONG
Davenport, la. l-'eti. 12.--Re
fusing to discuss his present situ
ation,. Rev. D. J. Lewis. Lutheran
minister from Alexis. 111., is in a
cell in the Scott county jail to
day bad!> worried over the
charge of violating the main
while slave law placed against
him.
Miss Kli/.abelh Kohl. 17. tear
fully repentant, is sorry for her
elopement with the minister and
has been taken lu her home, hut
is likely In lie recalled as a wit
ness when l.ewis appears here to
plead.
Several other charges are [lend
ing against the minister. Ilis wife,
who is broken-hearted and in
want, notified the county attor
neys of half a dozen counties
near Alexis that he had robbed
her of 9500, all she had, and al
so took *15 from the savings
bank of their daughter before he
field with the fascinating school
girl. She has tiled larceny and
embezzlement charges against,
him.
l.ewis purchased an automo
bile with part of the money an<t
he and the girl drove across coun
try to Nicholas, Iowa, where they
registered at a hotel as “Mr. and
Mrs. ,f. Johnson."
Today is the 103rd anniversary
of the birth of Ahraham Lincoln,
our martyred president, firadual
!y the observance of the day is
becoming more general. Since
his death 47 years ago most of
the ideals for which he strove,
are fast coming to fruition.
Just received at Harvey’s Tog
gery, a opw line of dry goods in
staples and novelties, also first
class dressmaking; masquerade
suits designed and made to order.