VALDEZ, ALA8KA, WEDNE8DAY, JUNE 3, 1914, NO. 206.
VOL. 10. _ '_^____________________
SINKER FURTH
. DIES IN SEATTLE
Specialists Called From East In Vain
—Was Large Factor In Devel
opment of Northwest.
SEATTLE, June 3.—Jacob Furth,
the banker and traction magnate of
this city, and one of the best known
men of the Northwest, died here this
morning after an illness of several
weeks. The banker was 73 years
old at the time of his death.
Specialists from New York and Chi
cago had been summoned some tipae
ago by the family ot the deceased,
but they were unable to save the
financier.
Mr. Furth had done much for the
development of the Northwest, hav
ing interested capitalists of the East
in the development of this region. He
was a large stockholder in the Se
attle Traction, the Puget Sound Elec
tric Company, the Puget Sound Na
tional Bank and many other banking
establishments.
The banker was convicted a year
ago for violating the banking laws of
the state and fined $10,000, but appeal
ed the case, which is now in the
hands of the Supreme Court and a
verdict was expected within a few
days.
FOLK IBIS ON
MILLIONAIRE TALK
Wants Testimony From William
Rockefeller Regarding the
Looting of New Haven.
WASHINGTON, June 3.—Ex-gov
ernor Folk of the Interstate Com
merce Commission announced today
that he would force 'William Rocke
feller to testify before the commis
sion in spite of the announcement by
the physicians attending the million
aire that his voice is in such condi
tion that he cannot testify. Folk in
sists that he can write his answers
and says he will force the mar
shals to produce him unless he ap
pears voluntarily.
Attorneys for Rockefeller say that
they will appeal to the courts and
expect to secure an injunction against
any interference with their client
until after an examination by a board
of physicians appointed by the court.
Folk desires to secure information
regarding the looting of the New Ha
ven railroad, in which Rockefeller is
believed to have participated.
C fl i
FOBGEB RESIGN
Unable to Control Majority in As
j «ombly—Now Loader Must Bd
Selected.
PARIS. June 3.—The entire cabinet
has resigned, as they are no longer
able to control a majority in the
Chamber of Deputies, which is com
posed of many different parties. The
ministry has lost, its control during
the recent elections, the Socialists
gaining through the lid of the Roy
alist party, which hopes that if the
Socialist party are in control the peo
ple will be driven back to a mon
’archy.
President Poincare is expected to
name a prime minister who can se
en re a working majority In the cham
ber by taking as his asaociatas the
strongest leaders of each party until
he can command the necessary rote.
CONGRESS FEARS
LABOR UNIONS
Boycott I* Legalized—Both Partie*
Seeking Endorsement of Or
ganized Labor.
WASHINGTON, June 3—The House
yesterday by a unanimous vote past
ed the amendment to the adminis
tration trust bill legalizing the boy
cott by labor unions. All labor un
ions are to be exempt from prosecu
tions under the anti-trust laws.
Both parties fear the labor vote and
are making every effort to play to
the powerful organizations of labor
men and hope to secure the labor vote
for their respective parties.
The bill as now amended provides
that labor unions shall not be pro
ceeded against under the Sherman
bill nor under the Clayson measure,
wfhich is now pending before congress.
The bill in fact legalizes the boycott.
That President Wilson will veto the
bill is expected and many of the foes
of organized labor are striving to
make the Clayson act so stringent
that he cannot possibly sign it and
expect re-election, while his veto of
the measure is also expected to in
jure him with organized labor.
HUERTA WILLING
All He Asks Is That Political Peace
Be Established in His Belov
ed Mexico.
' NIAGARA FALLS, Ont„ June 3.—
The mediators have finally replied to
the note of Gen. Carranza and the
envoys have asked him to state if he
is willing to consider the internal af
fairs of Mexico and to abide by the
decision reached at the conference,
no matter if it conincldes with his
own aims and expectations.
The opinion here is that Carranza
will not come into the conference un
der the conditions imposed and that
the United States will be forced to
keep Its promise to establish a strong
government in Mexico and to prevent
the rebels from interfering. -
Senor Emilio Rabasa, the ranking
member of the three Huerta delegates
on behalf of the delegation, announ
ced today that they were empowered
by President Huerta to announce to
the peace conference that Huerta will
retire when Mexico is politically pac
ified and that his desire now is for
peace in Mexico.
EL PASO, June 3.—Gen. Carranza,
provisional president of the constitu
tionalists, is angered at the action of
the mediators for refusing to receive
his agents sent to confer with the
peace envoys. Carranza issued a
statement to the press in whtch he
says: “The mediators think us neg
ligible and that we may be discarded
by them, but the facts are that the
constitutionalists are conquerors and
will dictate the policy that is to be
followed in Mexico.”
An open breach is expected between
the agents of the Washington admin
istration and the rebels because of
the efforts on the part of the ad
ministration to have the rebels ob
serve the ordinary rules of warfare.
The action of the rebels in expelling
the priests from Saltillo and other
Mexican cities and the confiscation of
all property owned by foreigners has
at .last awakened the representatives
here to the fact that the rebels are
merely fighting for loot and not for
the establishment of a stable govern
ment for the people.
* Lieut. Dougherty and Bev. Price
were bear hunting this morning with
the usual result.
SOON DECIDE
TOLLS REPEAL
- —»
Administration Leader* Confident
They Will Soon Pa** Repeal Bill
—Republican* Fighting It.
WASHINGTON, June 3.—The Sen
ate Is expected to reach the vote on
the Panama canal toils repeal bill
some time the latter part of this
week. The administration forces are
confident they will pass the bill and
that American shipping will pay
equal tolls as do the ships of for
eign nations. The Republican lead
ers opposing the bill say that the
administration is committing political
suicide and that the passage of the
repeal bill means the return of the
Republican party to power.
Senator O’Gorman and other Dem
ocratic political leaders have pleaded
with the president to submit the tolls
repeal bill to The Hague as the best
method of settling the dispute, but
the executive is obstinate.
HAS NO CHANGE
Lane’s Pet Measure for Commission to
Handle Alaskan Affairs Cannot
Be Passed.
WASHINGTON, June 3.—The mem
bers of the House Committee on Ter
ritories stated today that the Alas
ka Development Board would not be
created at this session of congress,
as the opposition to the bill was tre
mendous. . At the hearing given yes
terday on the bill, following the letter
from Secretary Lane urging Its pass
age, Secretary Houston of the De
partment of Agriculture made a pro
test against relieving his department
of its supervision over the branches
it maintains in Alaska, stating that
they constitute a part of the great
research work for the benefit of the
American farmer.
Secretary Houston of the Depart
ment of Commerce also appeared and
told the committee that the efforts
of the Interior Department to run
Alaska as a private preserve for that
branch of the government did not
meet with his approval, as the Com
merce Department intended to exer
cise control over its employees in
Alaska and wanted them to be di
rectly responsible to the heads of the
department at Washington. Both sec
retaries said that they now operated
their respective departments with dis
patch as far as Alaska business was
concerned and that the commission to
be named could not do any better.
LARGE CONTRACT
FOR GUGG BOATS
SEATTLE. June 3;—The Alaska
Steamship Company has secured the
contract for hauling the ore from the
Atlas copper mine near Skagway to
Tacoma. The big freighter Latouche
arrived here today with 2,600 tons
of copper ore from the mine.
A special meeting of the city coun
cil will be held ' this evening to de
cide Upon the lotting of the bid for
a cement sidewalk on the north side
of McKinley street. (
Subscribe for the Prospector.
HINDUS DECIDE 10
RETURN 10 W
Will Try to Make It Hot for Author
ities When They Reach Their
Native Land»
VANCOUVER, B. C., June 3.—The
300 Hindus who reached here on a
Japanese boat and have been con
fined on the ship, having been re
fused admittance to Canada by the
authorities, while 500 Chinese were
landed the day the boat reached here,
have decided to return to India and
there start an agitation against the
British government because of the
discrimination and the refusal of the
Canadian authorities to allow British
subjects entrance to Canada.
The Japanese boat will sail tomor
row with all the Hindus aboard. A
strong guard of police are kept on
the steamer aond several launches
patrol the bay to prevent any from
slipping overboard and swimming to
shore.
HAND MADE HERO
IS DISCOVERED
Watchman Placed Dynamite Under
Cabinet Members Office to Earn
Easy Promotion.
WASHINGTON, June 3—Daniel
.Jauch, a watchman in the Depart
ment of Agriculture, was arrested to
day following his discovery under the
office of Secretary Houston of five
sticks of dynamite with the fuses
burned almost to the end. The po
lice upon investigation became sus
picious that Jauch had. himself placed
the explosives where he found them
and when given the third degree the
watchman broke down and confessed
that he had done so with the expec
tation that he could earn promotion
for his supposed heroism.
Jauch, when he reported the find
ing of the dynamite, told .how he
had risked his life to put out the
burning fuses and had just been in
the nick of time. The fuses were
within an inch of the cap. All
thought the watchman a hero until the
detectives sent by the secret service
department began an investigation,
and it then developed that no one but
the watchman could have made the
plant.
The prisoner will be charged with
having dynamite within the city lim
its, which is a felony, and he is sure
to spend several yean in the peni
tentiary for his get-rich-oulck scheme.
HUB SAYRE
AFTERJHE Cl
SEATTLE, June 3.—Francis Sayre,
son-in-law of President Wilson,
reached this city yesterday on a tour
of the country, endeavoring to raise
$2,000,000 for Williams College, the
faculty of wtotich he is a member.
The college is in sore need of money
and are appealing to the alumni in
all parts of the country in an effort
to raise the necessary funds.
N
SEATTLE, June 3.—The staaaer
Northwestern reached here yester
day evening from the north and will
sail north on schedule June 5th.
SELL WARSHIPS
TO THE GEES
Senate Approve* Plan of Secretary
Daniel*—Naval Appropriation rf
$140,000,000,
WASHINGTON, June 3.—The Sen
ate today passed the naval appropria
tion bill providing $140,000,000 for the
navy. The bill also provides for the
building of a third dreadnaught to
replace the battleships Idaho and Mis
sissippi, the sale of which is auth
orized to Greece by the amendment
to the bill passed at yesterday’s ses
sion.
The building of three new dread
naughts this year will help to bring
the American navy up to the standard,
as the Democrats last year allowed
for the building of only one bat
tleship.
Several senators objected to the
sale of the ships to Greece, claiming
it was a hostile act towards Turkey,
as the Greeks are preparing for the
coming conflict with the Turks, and
which, European diplomats assert,
cannot be avoided much longer. The
majority, however, were willing to sell
the two battleships at more than they
cost the United States, especially as
they are now almost obsolete.
n
Edes Says Alaskans Want to Pick the
Route—Riggs Says Railroad Bet
ter Than Klondike.
| SEATTLE Jui^e 3,.—The Seattle
Chamber of Commerce gave a lunch
eon yesterday to the members of the
Alaska engineering commission, all of
whom are now in this city preparing
for the surveys that are to be made
in the territory of Alaska before the
route for the government railroad is
decided upon by President Wilson.
The members of the commission all
spoke. Chairman Edes stated that
the work of the Alaska Bureau of the
Seattle Chamber of Commerce had
much to do with the passage by con
gress of the railroad bill; that many
of the congressmen had never be
lieved nor never would have believ
ed that the northland could produce
the grains and vegetables on exhibit
in the Senate committee room had
they not seen the grains and vege
tables of the north, which were pre
served in alcohol, the grains which
were dried; the samples from the
mines, the exhibit from the fisheries
and the general gathering together in
one exhibit of the resources of the
north. The chairman also humorously
stated that he had been offered much
assistance from the north as to the
best route to select.
Thomas Riggs, also a member of the
commission, stated that he believed
that the Alaska government railroad
would insure greater prosperity to
the territory tha tjdld the Klondike
rush of 1898.
Lieut. Mears stated that the com
mission would gather data regarding
1,100 miles of proposed railroad and
would examine' the country general
ly for the best routes to the interior
from the Gulf of Alaska, having in
mind always the tonnage from the
coal Helds.
8CHOOL TO CLOSE
ON NEXT TUESDAY
The Valdes Public Schools will
close psxt Wednesday, June 10, and
Will remain dosed until August 81,
When school will again convene to
the sorrow of the children! tad the Joy
of the parents.
Miss Marlon Ingram Will return tc
Valdes shortly from the Oregon Uni
versity. ,
LEASING BILL
MAY BE PASSED
8enator Walsh Says Administration Is
Anxious Coal Be Ready for Rail
road When Reaches Mines.
WASHINGTON, June 3.—Senator
Walsh, of the Senate Territories com
mittee, in an interview today stated
that the Alaska development bill
would not pass but that the Alaska
coal lands bill, providing for the
leasing of coal lands, would be passed
i fthe administration leaders could
push the bill through and that every
effort would be made to have the
coal mines ready for shipping by the
time the government railroad reaches
the coal fields.
The Ferris bill, while not included
in the caucus program, will neverthe
less be considered, as President Wil
son has urged upon congressmen the
need of the legislation to round out
the administration’s Alaska policy.
MRS. CAULEY ASKS
COURT FOR DIVORCE
SEATTLE, June 3.—Mrs. J. C. Cau
ley, wife of the Port Wells mining op
erator, has commenced an action for
divorce against her husband. Deser
tion is charged.
ALASKA 10 HAVE
LARGE EXHIBIT
v
Senate Committee Reports Favorably
On $200,000 Appropriation to
Show Our Resources.
WASHINGTON, June 3.—The Sen
ate Exposition committee today fa
vorably reported the $200,000 appro
priation to cover the expense of se
curing an Alaska exhibit for the San
Francisco fair. The bill was report
ed as an amendment to the civil
sundry bill and the friends of Alaska
are sure it will pass both houses,
as the administration leaders are will
ing that the best possible showing
fehall be made for Alaska to offset the
adverse criticism already heard re
garding the advisability of the con
struction of a railroad in Alaska.
Secretary Lane and other admin
istration leaders insist that the exhi
bition of Alaska products and the
possibilities of the country shall be
made as good political capital to dem
onstrate to the visitors at the fair
that the administration is opening up
the great northland and that all of
•the United States will prosper there
by.
IN SPIRIT CITY
Billion Dollar Club Roach Puget Sound
City—Predict Great Future
for Alaska.
SEATTLE, June 3.—-The steamer
Admiral Sampson, with the billion
dollar tourists aboard, reached here
last evening from the north. The
members are all enthusiastic as to
the wonderful resources of Alaska
and predict the greatest
wealth In the union will be
the northland, and thftt’tts
be dotted with,)
mines and coal ftp
ducts sent to Pact
that millions of;
"STSiSStife!
trip have only praises
tality of the people of tfci)