VOLUME 18 VALDEZ, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1915. NUMBER 2'
BIT MCE OF
MINORITT LEADER
-Vpresentativi Mann Believe 1 Re
puolican* Must Work if they
Win the Next Election.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—James
ii. Mann, minority leader in the na
tional house, believes that the Re
publicans will win in the next nation
al election hut says that it will be no
walkaway as believed by many re
publicans. Mann states that before
election comes prosperity will have
fttruck the United States and that
Wilson will be so strong that the Re
publicans must be careful of the man
they select as their leader.
The minority leader believes that
<0*1, Roosevelt would make a good
p^sMent, but thinks that he might
not be acceptable to the old line party
men. He believes the Republicans
must bury all personal animosity’ if
they hope to win.
Regarding his own personal choice
Mr. Mann says; “If I could do it by
my own power, which I cannot, I
would select for president and elect
Tor president the man who today
knows more and has greater confi
dence both at home and abroad than
anyone else, the most brilliant man
of our time, Elihu Root. They say
be is too old. I don’t know. What
«*e need the next few years is wis
dom; God knows we have not too
much of it in our present officials.”
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ILL IKE COIL
Hand Office hiyt Allowed one of Lippy
Davis Bering River Claims
to Go to Patent.
8KATTL&, Nov. 24.—The Alaska
Petroleum and Coal company has re
newed notice from the Juneau Land
nffice that one of their coal claims in
art- Bering River coal fields has been
permitted to go to patent. The
<nlaim Bhas one of a group of sixteen
claims owned by the Lippy-Davis Co.
It is estimated that the claim for
which patent has been granted con
lains five million tons of coal and it
is announced that operations will be
gin immediately to open the mine on
an extensive scale. Miners will be
employed all winter and supplies will
he sent north to Katalla on one of the
first steamers of the Admiral line.
The Lippy-Davis property is loca
ted approximately twenty-five miles
from tidewater, but adjacent to the
railroad survey of the Copper River
railroad branch line to the coal fields
and it is believe^ that the railroad
company is also planning to construct
the Katalla branch next summer.
The Lippy-Davis coal claims have
been held up for many years through
the activities of the conservationists
and a decision adverse to the claim
ants was rendered by the land office
on the grounds that sufficient devel
opment work had not been perform
ed to determine the value of the coal
deposits. The case was appealed and
has resulted in the coal claim own
ers being given title to one claim.
MVS ALASKA WILL
BURNISH TIN BOR U. 8.
SEATTLE: G. L. Bluven. general
manager of the Empire Tin Mining
company of New York, declared yes
terday that the only extensive tin de
posits in all the United States is lo
cated between the Cape Prince of
Wales and Lost River. He expresses
Ike belief that all the tin used in the
United States will be eventually min
ed in the place mentioned. He ex
pects the output there next year will
he about two hundred tons but that
later it will increase to two or three
’thousand tons.
Prank Ltpps, who is wen known In
Valdez, having worked here as a bar
ker, is reported to have been arrested
in Seward and hts sanity will be in
vestigated.
KENNECOTT CORPORATION WILL EXTEND ITS
OPERATIONS RY BUYING COPPER RIVER R. R.
SEATTLE, Nov. 24.—It is report- I
ed that the Alaska Steamship com-!
pany is planning the extension of its
transportation lines to South Ameri
can ports and that the service will
later be extended to the Atlantic.
It is believed that the Kennecott
Copper Corporation, which was re
cently organized to take over the
holdings of the Guggenheim Explo
ration company in Alaska, and which
has already absorbed the Beetson
Copper company, at Latouche. will
also absorb the famous Braden Cop
per company of Chili, a Guggenheim
corporation.
Advices from New York announce
that the Kennecott company is plan
ning to purchase the Copper river
railroad, now controlled by the J. P.
Morgan interests, and that branch
HAS TAKEN OVER HOLDINGS OF GUGGENHEIM , EXPLORATION
COMPANY, INCLUDING THE BEETSON MINE, AT LA TOUCHE,
AND WILL ACQUIRE THE BRADEN COPPER MINE IN CHILI AS
WELL AS THE FAMOUS UTAH COPPER CORPORATION HOLD
INGS—BUYS THIRTEEN THOUSAND SHARES OF THE ALASKA
STEAMSHIP COMPANY’S STOCK AND WILL EXTEND SERVICE
TO SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRIES AS WELL AS THE ATLANTIC
OCEAN—WILL BUILD BRANCH LINE TO BERING COAL FIELDS
lines will be extended to other inte
rior copper properties as they reach
the stage of development ensuring
sufficient tonnage for the construc
tion of the branch lines.
The Kennecott corporation, in the
deal whereby it secures control of the
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mining interests of the Guggenheim
Exploration company, also acquires
thirteen thousand shares of the Alas
ka Steamship company. The exten-1
sion of the company’s ocean trans- j
portation will follow in order to en- |
able its delivery of the products of j
its mines in all parts of the world.
The absorption of the Utah Copper
Corporation by the Kennecott com
pany has also been arranged. It is
announced that at the close of the
present year the shareholders of the
Utah Copper company will have the
privilege of exchanging their stock
in the Utah company for shares in
the Kennecott corporation or dispos
ing of them at the rate of $75 a
share, a considerable increase over
the present market quotations.
The Kennecott corporation, it is
said, will immediately begin the con
struction of the branch railroad from
the Copper River & Northwestern
railroad line to the Bering River coal
fields in order to secure coal for the
vast system of smelters which will be
required on the Pacific coast to re
duce the ores from its mines.
FIGHT HOUR PLAN
AGAIN TURNED DOWN.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 24.—The
last important legislative matter to
be tackled by the American Federa
tion of Labor convention here before
its adjournment was the adoption or
rejection of the eight-hour measure.
The proposed measure was the sub
ject of debate for two days but was
again defeated.
■TIERS GIVE
BATTLE TO POSSE
Five are Wounded and nine Captured
when Bloodhounds had Tracked
them to their Rendezvous.
CLARKTON, Mo., Nov. 24.—With
the assistance of bloodhounds a posse
of citizens, under the sheriff, last
night captured a party of nine night
riders who have been terrifying the
district, and who are believed to have
beet, responsible for several murders
which have not been cleared up.
The nightriders consisted of farm
laborers and tennants who had been
demanding higher wages from their
employers and lower food prices. The
party were well armed when over
taken by the posse and engagecMhem
in a battle which resulted in five of
the gang being wounded.
The riders were intercepted by the
timely warning given the sheriff by
telephone that the outlaws had
threatened the destruction of a far
mer’s buildings unless he surrendered
his lease and left the county. It is
believed the capture of the gang will
close the operations of the nightrid
ers who have been terrifying the
neighborhood during the past two
years.
REPORTS A GOLD STRIKE
ON COOK INLET COAST
Arthur Ruppel, who has returned
to Seward from a prospecting trip
around Anchor Point, on Cook In
let, brings word to Seward that he
has made a strike between that place
and Homer that is one of the best
looking in that part of the country.
Flour gold has been known for a long
time to be present on the shore line
I between Anchor Point and Homer,
and colors can be struck at any place
from the beach on the streams. Rup
pel reports having found coarse gold
on one of the creeks some distance
from the water, which is very prom
ising.
M. McIntosh, the copper mining
man, left on the launch Shamrock
this morning for Fidalgo bay.
Chas. McCallum was a passenger
on the Shamrock this morning for
Fidalgo bay.
If you need repairs on machinery,
consult us and If It is to your advan
tage financially to send outside for
the repairs we are not afraid to tell
you so. We want your good will
as well as your money. Us means
Valdez Iron Works. w-tf
GERMAN MONEY CONTROLLED
WOMAN’S PEACE CONVENTION
GOVERNMENT PROSECUTOR TELLS JURY THAT EVIDENCE WILL
BE SUBMITTED DURING TRIAL OF THE HAMBURG-AMERICAN
STEAMSHIP COMPANY’S OFFICIALS THAT GERMAN NAVAL AT
TACHES DI8TRIBUTF:D MONEY TO CAUSE VIOLATIONS OF OUR
NEUTRALITY LAWS—COMPANY’S STEAMERS AIDED GERMAN j
BATTLESHIPS IN RAIDING COMMERCE.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 24.—During the
trial of the officials of the Hmburg
American Steamship company on the
charge of having secured clearance
papers for their vessels by making
false affidavits, the federal prosecu
tor told the jury yesterday that he
would furnish conclusive proof that
Captain Boy-Ed, naval attache of the
German embassy at Washington, had
acted as agent for the distribution of
the German funds to influence senti
ment in the United States and to
cause violations of neutrality.
Captain Boy-Ed, it is asserted, dis
tributed three-quarters of a million
dollars among the officials of the
Hamburg-American Steamship com
pany, four of whom are now on trial,
for the assistance their steamers had
be.en able to lend the German battle
tlesliips while the latter were engag
ed in raiding commerce of the na
tions with which Germany is at war.
It is also asserted that $600,000 of
German money was sent to San
Francisco to control the Woman’s
j
Peace party convention recently held
in the Pacific Coast city and which
resulted in thousands of telegrams
being sent by delegates comprising
the convention to members of con
gress urging President Wilson to re
quest a conference of the neutral na
tions and proposing an embargo on
munitions from the United States to
Europe.
The government prosecutor de
clares that the German propaganda
extended to exery portion of the Un
ion and that money was spent lav
ishly in influencing former German
and Austrian citizens in the United
States to violate the neutrality of the
country in which they elected to live.
The statements of the prosecutor
has created a sensation and it is be
lieved .that the department of jus
tice, through the secret service de
partment, has secured evidence which
would warrant President Wilson in
demanding the recall of Captain Boy
Ed and other German officials if pol
icy dictated his doing so.
POLICE HNO TRUNK
HILL OF DYNAMITE
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Officers were Called to House Where
Tarty of Germans Were En
gaged in a Free Fight.
BERA, O., Nov. 24.—Police offi
cers who were called to a house last
night to quell a disturbance where
a number of Uermans were quarrel
ing, discovered a trunk full of dyna
mite and arrested the men in the
party.
It is believed the Germans were en
gaged in some plot and form a part
of the conspiracy to destroy muni
tion factories. None of the men pres
ent would lay claim to the trunk and
the proprietor of the house asserts
that it is the property of a guest
who mysteriously _ disappeared sev
eral days ago.
The police are holding the men on
charges of disturbing the peace un
til their records can be investigated,
and it is believed that some of them
violated the law by shipping the ex
plosivdi without a permit.
The^aunch Shamrock left this
mornigSg for Fidalgo and Landlock
days.^larrying a number of miners
who will work in the mines there.
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FEDERAL GOURI!
Arguments on Demurrer Being Made
hs to Ijegality of Ordinances
Passed by City Council.
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The case of the Valdez Dock Co.
vs. Town of Valdez is being argued
before the district court this after
noon. This is the case in which the
Dock Company appeals from the de
cision of the city magistrate in lin
ing J. C. Martin, local agent of the
company, for collecting wharfage in
violation of Ordinance No. 90.
The attention of the court was oc- j
cupied this morning in hearing ar- i
guments to demurrer by plaintiff on j
the grounds that the ordinance is il-!
legal. Donohoe & Dlmond and Ly
ons & Ritchie are attorneys for the
plaintiff, and Senator O. P. Hub
bard and former Territorial Senator
L. V. Ray of Seward, representing
the city. The demurrer was over
ruled and the case was set for trial
Friday. *
Arguments in the tax appeal cases
have all been completed and the
cases taken under advisement by
Judge Fred M. Brown.
Subscribe for the Prospector.
ADMIRAL EVANS WILL
SAIL NORTH FRIDAY.
SEATTLE, Nov. 24.—The steamer
Admiral Evans, of the Alaska-Pa
cific Steamship company's fleet, ar
rived in Seattle last night from
Southwestern Alaskan ports. The of
ficers report a stormy trip. The
steamer will sail again for the north
on Friday evening and will go to Ko
diak.
WILSON WILL SUE
LIND FOR DAMAGES
President Wilson's Special Represen
tative to Mexico Said He Con
sented to Murder of Madero.
WASHINGTON. D. C., Nov. 24.—
Attorneys representing former Am
bassador Wilson, who was represen
tative of the United States govern
ment in Mexico City when President
Madero of Mexico was murdered,
have announced that they are prepar
ing to file a damage suit against John
Lind, special representative of Pres
ident Wilson to Mexico City.
Counsel for Wilson has written
Lind to deny the newspaper reports
credited to him to the effect that
Ambassador Wilson approved of the
assassination of President Madero by
General Huerta's orders, and that he
was consulted while the execution
was being planned.
John Lind has ignored the de
mands of Wilson to set him right be
fore the American public and he has
determined to force the matter into
court to clear himself of the charge
of conniving to have President Ma
dero murdered.
JUNK.tr PAPER SPEAKS
OK RAY AS CANDIDATE
The Juneau Dispatch of recent date
prints the pictures of four men who,
it says, are being mentioned as likely
candidates for the nomination of the
Republicans for election to congress.
The four men are W. A. Gilmore of
Nome; L. V. Ray of Seward, Col. B.
P. Millard of Valdez, and Represen
tative E. B. Collins of Fairbanks.
John Rustgard, formerly district at
torney of the First division, is now
being boosted down there as a good
man to carry the Republican banner.
Rustgard formerly lived in Nome and
would probably get a strong vote in
that division.
PARIS RON MARCHE
DESTROYER BY FIRE.
PARIS, Nov. 24.—Fire, which is
believed to have been of incendiary
origin, damaged the Paris Bon Mar
che department store last night to
the extent of six million dollars.
Program Tonight.
The Cheechaco Literary Society
will give a public program tonight at
Everyman’s Clubhouse at 8 p. m.
Among the features will be a short
dialogue and a debate on "Woman’s
Suffrage.” feveryone is cordially in
vited.
AGENT GILLIES
Discharged Kmploye of Insurant
Commission Says He Is Tired of
Being Goat for Commission.
OLYMPIA, Wn„ Nov. 24.—Clain
Agent Gillies, of the Washingtc
State Industrial Insurance comini
sion, who was discharged for allege
complicity with the looting of the i:
surance fund to the extent of $20
000 through the issuance of fraud'
lent warrants, has issued a publ
statement in which he declares thi
he is tired of being the goat for tl
commission.
imiies asserts that he is prepare
to reveal facts in connection with tl
workings of the commission whic
will cause a tremendous sensatio
and which will result in some of tl
officers responsible for his discharf
being summarily removed
It is inferred in the statement thi
tlir? insurance fund has been used f<
the benefit of the commissioners an
that Gillies had been told that if 1
failed to compiy with their schemt
that he would be removed from o
fice. He has denied any connectio
with the issuance of the fraudulei
warrants but believes he can furnis
proof of the identity of the guilt
parties.
ARCTIC GLUR TO
Wickershani and Chairman Kdes ar
Agreed that Emergency Appro
priation is Desirable.
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SEATTLE. Nov. 24.—Delegat
Wickershani, Alaska's representativ
in congress, and Chairman Edes, o
the Alaskan Engineering commissior
will be the guests of the Arctic clu
at a banquet to be given tonight.
Delegate Wickersham has declar
ed that he will work during the com
ing session of congress for an emer
gency appropriation so that the rail
way construction work may be car
ried on throughout the winter. H
believes that Secretary Lane wil
meet with no opposition in securini
appropriations until the work ha
been completed. He has also an
nounced that he will introduce ;
statehood bill and will work for Sec
retary Lane's development boart
measure.
Chairman Edes reports tnat con
struction work has progressed ver;
satisfactorily during the past sum
mer and asserts that if an emergenc;
appropriation could be secured whicl
will enable the commission to con
tinue operations during the wintei
that coal .from the Matanuska coa
fields will be available for the Paciiit
coast naval stations next fall. He it
very desirous of continuing opera
tions ail winter as much work can bt
performed to advantage during tht,
winter by supplies being sent up th«
river on the winter trails. He be
lieves a temporary suspension of op
erations will disrupt the organization
of the working forces in the field
which required care and time to de
velop to their present state of effi-j
ciency.
REPORTS ALL FOREIGNERS
FIRED AT ANCHORAGE1
That all foreigners have been dis
missed from railroad work at An
chorage is the news brought to Sew
ard. Lots of the men who have been
employed on the road are still in
camp but it is reported that they
have been given to understand by the
commission that they need not to ex
pect to secure work. It is also stated
that the wages of the longshoremen
have been raised.
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Information has been received)
from Anchorage stating that Capt.
A. E. Lathrop is installing his own
electric plant in Anchorage and will
open his Empress theatre there on
Christmas eve.