• VQL 10 VALDEZ, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1914. . _ NO. 200.
SECRETARY LAKE
TO VISIT ALASKA
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Will Leave Seattle July 15 and Spend
30 Days in the North—-Gov. Strong
Returns From Washington.
SEATTLE, May 27.—Gov. Strong,
of Alaska, reached here last night on
his return trip from Washington and
will remain a few days and then sail
north to Juneau. Gov. Strong stated
that Secretary Franklin K. Lane, of
the Interior department, would spend
30 days in Alaska this summer and
•expected to leave Seattle July 15,
spending most of the time in South
western Alaska and at Fairbanks
looking over the situation and es
pecially the line of the proposed rail
road route for the government line.
The governor is also hopeful that
the coal land leasing bill will be
passed at the present session so that
the coal lands may be opened and
ready for shipping when the railroad
reaches the mines.
FEDERAL IROOPS
Guards Are Shot At During Night
Strikers Becoming Restless Again
and Trouble Is Feared.
SEGUNDA, Colo., May 27.—The
striking coal miners last night made
an attack upon the federal troops pro
tecting one of the mine buildings in
this town and made a determined at
tempt to force the guards to leave the
property. None of the soldiers were
hit, although hundreds of shots were
exchanged. The guards were quick
ly reinforced and as they volleyed
towards the flashes of the strikers’
guns the foreigners fled. No bodies
were found this morning, although
pools of blood in several places in
dicated that a number had been hit.
The troops have started a search
lor the men and will arrest all who
are found with arms. A house to
house investigation is now' on and will
be continued until all the' guns are
held by the federal troops.
The strikers have failed to Obey the
order of the federal commander in
the strike zone that they surrender
their guns. They claim that the hired
gunmen of the coal companies have
planted their arms and will recover
them when the federal soldiers are
withdrawn.
The strikers are restless as they
expected that the government would
force the companies to re-employ
them at the higher wages demanded,
especially when it was announced that
no strikebreakers would be allowed
to enter the strike zone, ana as the
days pass and no action is taken they
are becoming ugly and threaten to
drive the federal troops from the
state.
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la New Order Made By District Judge
F. M. Brown—Must Show Fit
neee to Conduct Saloon.
Judge F. M. Brown today made an
order that hereafter when saloon li
censes are asked for one of the part
ners must personally appear in court
to be examined as to his fitness to
conduct the saloon, also that where
a corporation Is to conduct the sa
loon the' manager who is to have
• charge of the business must appear
and show the court that he Is a
. proper person for the business.. The
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WOULD RECALL
JUDGE LINDSEY
Because He Favored the Cause of the
Strikers in the Colorado Coal
Mines.
DENVER, May 27.—Because Judge
Ben Lindsey favors the strikers in the
coal fields of Colorado and made a
special trip to Washington, D. C., to
urge President Wilson and the offi
cials of the administration to force
the coal operators to arbitrate the
differences between the workers and
the capitalists the people of this city
have started a recall against the
juvenile judge and have secured
many signatures. The recall will be
pressed by the opponents of Judge
Lindsey, who see in the present diffi
culty a chance to humiliate him. He
has been fighting the forces of the
underworld for-the past ten years ajid
is hated by all the vicious element.
The sentiment here is strongly
against the strikers and the determ
ination to prevent the 1,500 lawless
foreigners from dictating to the state
authorities and to destroy the prop
erty of the coal operators at will,
forced the last legislature, just ad
journed, to provide 11,000,000 for the
national guard, who are to take full
charge of the strike zone when the
federal troops are withdrawn.
HAITIAN TROUBLE
HAS GROWN WORSE
Fear That European Powers May Seize j
Customs and Force Payment of
Interest On Loans.
WASHINGTON, May 27.—The pos
sibility that Germany and France have
determined to take charge of Haitian
custom houses, with the purpose of
holding them until sufficient revenues
hove been collected to satisfy the
claims of German and French holders
of Haitian bonds, places a serious
problem before the United States
government. In some quarters the
situation is regarded as being almost
as grave as the Mexican crisis and
even more pressing, but in others the
idea that Germany and France would
try to carry out any such undertak
ing is rejected as impossible.
While the United States has not de
termined what it will do to avert pos
sible European control of Haiti’s fiscal
affairs, with all the dangers Involved
In such a situation, the chances are
that the matter will be adjusted by
an arrangement between the govern
ments of the United States and Hai
ti for the collection and distribution
of Haitian revenues by Americans.
(As explained todajy, the latest
phase of the extremely delicate inter
national situation was initiated in an
actual proposal by Germany and
France that a Joint control arrange
ment with respect to Haitian reven
ues should be effected under a stip
ulation that the representation of
each of the three governments in the
personnel of the proposed customs
administration be in proportion to the
amount of the claims hejd by the
national* of each government.
This was entirely unsatisfactory to
the United States for the reason that
only about live per cent of the amount
to be collected was due to citisens
of the United States, and American
participation therefore would be In
flinlteaimal. For this reason, accord
ing to what praft paid ,today, the
suggestion waa rejected.
The present acute phase of the
Haitian trouble goes back several'
months to the time when a French
warship pained toer guns on two
Haitian gunboats and coupled that
action with* a demand for the imme
diate payment of Interest due the
French, holders of Haitian bonds.
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DIRIGO LEAVES
M EVENING
SEATTLE, May 27.—The steamer
Dirigo, of the Alaska Steamship com
pany, will leave here this evening
with a large number of horses for
the Alaska railroad survey parties.
All of the horses will be taken to
Ship creek, on Cook’s inlet and will
be used by the surveyors working
from Portage Bay to the head waters
of the Susitna.
CHICAGO BOY
BEATS RITCHIE
Charlie White, 23-Year-Old Chicago
Boy, Outpoints Champion, But Does
Not Get In a Knockout.
MILWAUKEE, May 27.—Charlie
White, the 23-year-old Chicago kid,
outpointed Willie Ritchie, the light
weight champion of the world, here
last night. The fight was for ten
rounds and White outpointed Ritchie
in six out of the ten rounds, but did
not get in a knockout blow, in con
sequence of which the championship
remains with Ritchie.
Bleeding profusely, with one eye
closed and almost exhausted, Ritchie,
who put it all over Tommy Murphy,
recently, at San San Francisco, was
led from the ring last night at the
end of the mill. His seconds claim
he was not in good condition and
that White can have a return match
if he can get the backing.
The intense heat kept the crowds
down and only a fair-sized bunch of
sports watched the fight. Few antici
pated that White would best the
champion.
CONSUL STILLIMAN
IS AT VERA CRUZ
Health Broken By Imprisonment—
Says Huerta Not to Blame
Accused General Maas.
VERA CRUZ, May 27—John R.
SiUiman, former vice-consul for the
United States at Saltillo, reached this
city today from Mexico City a phy
sical wreck from his long Imprison
ment In the unsanitary prisons at
Saltillo, where he was held at th^
Instance or Gen. Joaquin Maas, the
federal commander in Central Mex
ico.
SiUiman, in a statement issued to
day, said that he did not blame Pres
ident Huerta for his imprisonment, but
that the entire responsibility rested
with Gen. Maas.
He denied the charge made that he
had sent secret information to the
rebels operating against Saltillo and
that the American State department
had issued orders to the consuls to
go as far as they wished to aid the
constitutionalists. s
Silliman will leave here immedi
ately for the states to recuperate his
health. His release was made ' by'
the'Brasilian minister at Mexico City,
who urged President Huerta to or
der him brought to the capital and
turned over,to him for jjsafe keeping.
VICE-PRESIDENT QUEST OF
HONOR IN PITTS6URQ
PITTSBURG, May 27—Vice-presi
dent Thomas R. Marshall and Mrs.
Marshall ^arrived in this city today
to attend the banquet of the Pitts
burg Publicity Association, which will
be held tonight at the rfotel Schen
ley. This is the first ylsit of the
vice-president to the steel city since
his election.
FRANCIS KOSSUTH
DIES IDJIDIPEST
BUDAPEST, Hungary, May 27.—
Francis Kossuth, one of the most in
fluential political leaders in this coun
try and a son of the great patriot,
who fought for the independence of
the nation, died here today after a
short illness. The funeral services
will be held Friday and it is expect
ed that hundreds of thousands of
patriots will line the streets to pay
a last tribute of respect to their lead
er.
ROOSEVELT IS
WILSON’S GUEST
Tell Jokes and Drink Lemonade—
Roosevelt Defies Critics—Says
Eat Monkeys.,
WASHINGTON, May 27.—Ex-presi
dent Roosevelt was the guest of Pres
ident Wilson today at the White
House and the two men held a half
hour conference but politics was ta
booed and the president and former
president told stories and drank lem
onade.
The ex-president told the National
Geographical Society that he had dis
covered- a new river in the jungles
of Brazil and that the British auth
orities who said that he did not find
an unknown river do not know what
they are talking about, and he chal
lenged the cartographers of the world
to disprove that he had.
The colonel told of the terrible suf
fering he had undergone on his trip
and how he had been compelled to
eat >monkj;ys or go hungry. But
monkey meat is not so bad, according
to the former president.
PEOPLE SWELTER
EASTERN COAST
Thermometer Registered 94 In Shade'
—Many Are 8unstruck and Peo
ple Flee to Seashore.
^BALTIMORE, May 27—The ther
mometer here registered 94 in the
shade here today and the people are
sweltering in the intense heat. The
hot wave is general throughout the
East and many deaths have been re
ported from sunstroke. Thousands of
people from this city, from Philadel
phia, and New York have sought ref
uge "along the coast, where the ocean
breezes provide some measure of re
lief.
NEW YORK, May 27—Seven deaths
were recorded here today by the po
lice of people who were sunstruck on
the streets because of the intense
heat, which is the worst of the sea
son.
THEY’VE GOLDEN STREETS
BUT NO MILK AND HONEY
VICTOR, Colo., May 27.—Business
streets of Victor are now literally
paved with gold. They have been
surfaced with more than 700 loads
of ore, crushed to a suitable site,
which runs as high aa 110 a ton in
gold. The ore was used because It
was really cheaper than it would be
to haul non-mineral rock from a
greater distance.
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Mrs. Bennett, who has spent the
winter at the A. W., L, A T. Co. bow
er plant in Solomon basin, left last
night on the Northwestern for Arl
tona for her health.
C. J. Greene left for the interior
over the trail today.
START BAD FIRE
Two Million Dollar Blaze Reaulte
From Careleaa Act of Circus Hands.
—Many Watch Big Fire.
CLEVELAND, O., May 27.—Roust
abouts working for Ringling Bros,
circus, which is showing here today,
caused a fire in the lumber district,
near where the circus has pitched its
tents, and as a result damage amount
ing to $1,250,000 has been done to
that section, besides the loss of three
spans of the two million dollar via
duct collapsed during the fire.
The flames started while the big
tents of the circus were filled with
20,000 people, who immediately rush
ed from the tents to witness the blaze,
which lasted for 12 hours and was
the most spectacular fire ever seen
in this city. The intense heat would
send great sparks of burning lum
ber high into the air and nothing
could stay the conflagration, which
swept from lumber pile to lumber pile
and from structure to structure and
was only stayed by the river.
Every fire apparatus from this city
and the surrounding country was
playing on the flames.
The burned district is an eighth of
a mile long and about as wide.
Railroad Locators Will Leave June
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Sixth—Camp Outfit and Laborers
Sail On SatcTrday.
SEATTLE, May 27.—The camp out
fit, supplies and equipment of the
Alaska railroad commission will be
shipped north on the steamer Ala
meda, which leaves here on Satur
day, May 30, and will be trans-shipped
at Seward to the steamer Dirigo and
proceed to Ship creek. The men to
be employed as packers, cooks and
laborers will also leave on the Ala
meda, while the surveyors will go
north on the Steamer Northwestern,
leaving here May 6, and expect that
camps will be established and ready
for them upon their arrival at Ship
creek.
The outfits will then be started
along the route of the proposed gov
ernment railroad, as outlined by Sec
retary Lane, providing for a survey
from Portage Bay to Fairbanks.
Commissioner Riggs will have
charge of the Fairbanks end of the
work and will leave here on June
3 for Fairbanks to inaugurate the
survey fro mthat end and work to
wards the coast.
All three of the commissioners will
visit all possible coast terminals this
summer and pass upon the possibili
ties of each one, make a selection of
the routes, which will be recommend
ed to President Wilson not later than
April of next year, after which the
work of actual construction will be
started.
To date the commission has receiv
ed applications .from 6,500 men who
desire work with the survey parties
and are also being swamped by appli
cants calling at the office.
Lieut. Mears and Commissioner
Riggs have announced that the com
mission has instructed the head of
each survey party to select his own
men and the commission will on
ly appoint the clerical force and com
missary heads.
By a decision of Judge Fuller, the
former' directors of the defunct
Washington-Aiaska bank at Fair
banks have been held liable for 155,
000, which they diverted from the
proper channels during their conduct
of the affairs at the institution.
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GRANT PATENTS
T. P. McDonald and Libby-Oavia
Groups to Be Given to Locators,
Is Word From Washington.
SEATTLE, May 27.—A dispatch re
ceived here today from Washington
announces the fact that the land office
has decided to grant patents for coal
lands in the Bering river section near
Katalla to T. P. McDonald, who has
located six claims, and also to the
owners of the Libby-Davis group of
twelve claims.
The department, after an investi
gation lasting seven years, have been
unable to find enough evidence to
contest the entries and will be forced
to abandon the contest.
The claimants have spent thou
sands and thousands of dollars in op
ening the ground and as much more
in fighting the contest made by the
land office.
PARSONS SROULD
GET MORE PAY
Is Report of Committee of the Pres
byterian Assembly—Recommend
Minimum of $1,000.
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CHICAGO, May 27.—The committee
of the American Presbyterian assem
bly, now holding its 126lh annual con
vention in' this city, recommended to
the convention yesterday that a min
imum wage be paid preachers of $1,
000, as the salary now paid to those
preaching the gospel is entirely inad
equate to the proper support of the
clergymen, who are receiving the
same compensation today as they did
30 years ago, while the cost of living
has more than doubled and tripled.
A radical reorganization of the
home missionary board of the Pres
byterian general assembly was the
chief discussion among the 800 odd
delegates who are in Chicago.
Insurgents in . the Presbyterian
church are determined to reorganize
the home missionary board so that
it will be of more service, according
to Oliver R\ Williamson, in charge of
the generall arrangements for the
assembly, which is being held at the
Fourth Presbyterian church, the pas
torate of Rev. Dr. John Timothy
Stone, the retiring moderator. The
claim has been made, Williamson
states, that the home missionary
board has become so centralized, and
so- unconstitutionalized that the
churches and home mission field has
had no voice in the policies of the
church. It is to correct this condi
tion that the progressive element in
the assembly wishes to overhaul that
body, he claimed. ■
PRESIDENT WILL
visit mm
Promises Governor 8trong to Take
Trip to Northland During Pres
ent Administration.
SEATTLE. May 27—Gov. Strong,
of Afaska, who returned last night
from Washington. D. C.. in an inter
view today, said that he had receiv
ed the promise of President Wood
row Wilson that he would visit the
territory of Alaska during his pres
ent ndmlnlstration. he date has not
been set, becausa it will be impossi
ble this summer to nuke the trip,
while the Mexican situation is acute,
but if our foreign relations are sat
isfactory next summer it is expected
that the president will be able to
leave Washington and make the jour
ney along the coast of Alaska.