SURF BEATS HIGH
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People Remain Awake All Night to
Watch Stores and Stocks—
Wind Veers.
NOME, Nov. 11.—A fifty-mile gale!
blew from the ocean last night, send- j
ing the surf high on the beach and j
forcing the people in the buildings j
along the ocean to remain awake all ;
n'ight for fear of a repetition of the !
storm of October 6th, when a million ■
dollars worth of damage was done, j
The surf was thrown high up on ■
the buildings but the bulkheads,
which have been greatly reinforced
since the recent storm, were able to
resist the high winds and the heat- ;
ing waves. Marly this morning the !
wind veered to the east and the waves :
were driven off shore to the great ,
relief of tlie people, who had remain- !
ed mi nil night watching for the first
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sign of the buildings being under
mined.
CURRENCY BILL
SPLITS PARTY
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Senator Hitchcock is Determined That
the Administration Currency
Bill Shall Not Pass.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.—Senator
Crilbert M. Hitchcock has defiantly
announced his continued opposition
to the Wilson currency measure and
declares that he will light it as long
as he is a member of the upper
house, and that he will vote with the
Republican minority to amend or de
, feat the bill. The announcement has
caused much worry among the Dem
ocratic leaders of the upper house,
and also the administration, as it is
known that Senator O’Gormun, of
.New York, is also opposed to the .
(■lass bill, and while he has as yet
refused to make a public stalent nt
of his Intention to tight the measure,
yet the leaders were notified by the
New York senators that if they call-,
ed a caucus and tried to bind him to
the majority rule ne would leave the
caucus and Uie senator also intimat
'd that several other senators would
go with hint.
It is believed now that congress
will adjourn in a week if it becomes
* v idem that tile bid cannot be passed
at this session. The administration,
however, will use every endeavor to !
bring in line the dissatisfied Dento
cratic senators, as it will he a great ,
ioss of prestige if the bill is not pass
ed at this session
President Wilson has just held a
Jong conference with Senator Hitch
cock, but tile Nebraskan has announ
ced that even for Wilson he will not
change his mind.
Mill IT FORTY
GOOD AS EVER
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 11—Charges ;
that a man Is past his prime at forty :
Vfars were denied with indignation !
today by Dr. Cressv L. Wilbur, chief '
statistician o!' the Census Bureau. It ;
isn’t so, says Dr. Wilbur. And he :
ought to know, foi he himself is '
forty-eight years old.
"Some alarmist figutes and state
ments,” he said, “have recently been
published on the alleged authority
of the Census Bureau’s mortality,
statistics, which are, in fact, entire
ly unwarranted by the data contain
ed in the government report.” The
government scientist insists that a
man's commercial and industrial val-'
t’e is no’ impaired al forty. He cites
mortality figures in support of his
< r-ntrntions.
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TERRIFIC RLIZZARD IS SWEEPING OVER
THE NORTHERN AND EASTERN STATES
Railroads and Trolley Lines Are Stalled and Communication By Wire Has Been
Interrupted—Vessels Wrecked On Great Lakes and Many Lives
Lost—Upturned Steel Vessel Floats Ashore.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.—The
eastern and southern states are snow
bound; all the wiies are down and
the railroads are unable to open their
tracks. The storm Is general in the
east—Virginia, Pennsylvania, Mary
land, New York, New Jersey and all
the eastern-central states reporting
much damage. i
The wind has been blowing at the
rate of seventy miles an hour and
the telegraph wires are almost all
down. All the crack trains of the
east are stalled. Snow plows have
been sent out to clear the tracks, but
the intense cold and the heavy snow,
along with the high wind, makes pro
gress very slow.
The damage will run into millions
of dollars.
CHICAGO. Nov. 11. The storm
which hit this town Sunday night
and raged until this morning has done
more than a half million dollars
worth of damage. The telephone and.
telegraph companies are the heaviest
losers. Cleveland and Canton are
isolated, as every telegraph, and tele
phone line leading into those towns
are down. The Salvation Army is
supplying the poor of this city with
coal and have saved many lives. The
poor are suffering greatly because of
the intense cold. The police report
a number of deaths from freezing.
PITTSBURG, I’a., Nov. 11. A foot
of snow fell here yesterday and last
night and traffic in the city is at a
standstill. The traction companies
have a number of crews clearing the
streets and the street cleaning de
partment is making ev ry effort to
clear the main thoroughfares. All
trains on roads leading out of this
city have been stalled and nothing
but work trains will be sent from
here until the lines are cleared of the
snow drifts. The high wind, which
accompanied the snow, drifted it in
high banks along the railroad tracks.
BUFFALO, N. Y., Nov. 11.—A sev
enty-mile gale accompanied the storm
t>f yesterday, blowing in icy blasts
from across t' e lake and blocking all
railroad traffic for miles. Trains
have been stalled along the different
lines and relief trains with snow
plows and provisions are endeavoring
to free them from the snow drifts.
Hundreds of the poor of the town
gathered in the police stations, where
they were allowed to sleep on the
floors.
The postoffice and other public
buildings were kept open all night
and afforded a refuge to many of the
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city’s poor, who were without funds
to provide fuel. A number of deaths
have been reported and the police
have picked up five bodies of men
frozen to death cuddled up on the
doorways of residence houses.
FORT HURON, Mich.. Nov. 11.—An
overturned steel liner has. floated
ashore near here with not a living
soul aboard and the wind is still so
high that no one can reach the ves
sel, which is pounding to pieces on
the rocks ten miles from this city.
It is believed lhat all the crew were
lost when the ship turned turtle in
the recent gale
Thousands of dollars#vorth of dam
age was done to shipping at this port
in the last two days, many of the
vessels being torn from their moor
ings and thrown on the beach. Five
drowned have been reported by the
police as a result of the storm.
PORFIRIO DIAZ ADVISES PRES. HUERTA TO QUIT
PARIS, Nov. 11.—Former President
Porfirio Diaz today made public a
telegram he had sent to Provisional
President Huerta advising him for
the good of the ^republic to resign
and allot some other Mexican not
affiliated v ith the present party or
with the termer Msdero party to take
the reins of power and unite all fai ■
tions in Mexico to the end that peace
might be established and order
brought out of ch.'.es.
It is believed here by diplomais
that the telegram to the dictator was
sent at the suggestion of the French
foreign office, which has been asked
to mediate in the present difficulty
BELIEVVED THAT FRANCE IS URGING DICTATOR TO STEP DOWN,
AS PRESIDENT WILSON WILL REFUSE TO RECOGNIZE HIM
OR ANY ONE OF HIS FOLLOWERS.
between the two .'ituerican republics
ami that France is trying tc prever.
the break between the United State*
and England from growing worse.
It is expected here that France will
advise Huerta to resign, if the ad
vice has not already been given, as
the American administration has in
formed the French ambassador that
President Wilson would remain firm
anti refuse to recognize Huerta or any
tool of the present dictator and in
sisted upon a fair election at ;m early
date.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.—-The ad
ministration lias notiiied Nelson
O’Shtiugnessy, charge d’affaires at
Mexico City, to inform the Huerta
government that President Wilson
would refuse to recognize the acts
of the present Mexican congress,
which has been elected or appointed
by Huerta, since he dismissed and im
prisoned the one hundred and ten
congressmen who refused to obey his
orders.
The notification of the charge
d’affaires is expected to bring the
Huerta administration to a realiza
tion of the determined position which
resident Wilson lias taken regarding
the recognition of the dictator and
that, in spite of the influence of Great
Britain, the Ameiican government
will continue the policy heretofore
mapped out and will not recognize
him.
ROBBERS DRUG
FORT! VICTIMS
Enter Six Homes In Farrell, Pa., and
Drug All the Inhabitants and
Fourteen Are Dying.
FARRELL, Pa., Nov. 11.—Burglars
entered six residences in this city
last night, stole everything of val
ue and left tne inhabitants of the
homes in such shape that fourteen
are dying from the effect of a drug
administered to keen them quiet. A
total of forty people are in the lo
cal hospitals under treatment from
the effects of the same drug.
Physicians are at a loss to tell just
what drug was used by the crooks
and several experts have been tele
graphed for from Philadelphia, but
the tieup on the tailroads by reason
of the recent storm will delay their
arrival for several days.
A public mass meeting has been
called for tonight and the state and
city.authorities have been request
ed to offer a large reward for the
capture of the thieves.
Public indignation is high and if
the crooks are apprehended they will
surely bo lynched, as the people of
the city are in an ugly mood.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred B. lies spent
the day in town.
Charles Kfnoche returned to Valdez
from Sawmill bay today.
FALCON JOSLIN
ASKS FOR AID
In an Endeavor to Secure the Pass
age of the Railroad Bill Now
Before Congress,
SEATTLE, Nov. 11.—Falcon Joslin,
the Fairbanks railroad operator and
representative of a number of large
corporations doing business in Alas
ka, was the principal speaker at the
convention of the realty dealers of
1 the Pacific Northwest today.
Mr. Joslin urged the support of the
I delegates for the measure now be
1 fore congress to purchase the Cor
i dcva railroad and extend it to Fair
banks and asked them to bring pres
sure to bear on the senators and con
! gressmen of the Puciflc coast to aid
I the bill in its passage.
Mr. Joslin in his address stated that
he would spend the winter in Wash
ington urging the passage of the
measure.
RECEIVER’S ARE
FREE FROM TAX
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.—The
Supreme Court handed down a decis
ion today of great importance to
-bankrupt concerns because the court
has held that the receivers of cor
porations need not pay a corporation
tax.
Fresh fish at the Valdez Cafe. If
GIG DAMAGE SUIT
IS COMPROMISED
Mrs. Blake Withdraws the Papers in
a Million Dollar Suit and Re
ceives Big Payment.
NEW YORK, Nov. II.-The dam
age suit started by Mrs. Joseph A.
Blake against Mrs. Clarence H.
Mackay for one million dollars for
alleged alienation of the affections
of Dr. Blake, was dropped today by
the withdrawal of the papers in the
suit.
George Gordon Battle, the attor
ney for' Mrs. Blake, refused to state
what settlement, if any, was made
by his client, hut it is belteved that
Mrs. Blake received several hundred
thousand dollars as a compromise and
withdrew the suit Henry W. Taft,
a brother of 'he former president, was
the attorney for Mrs. Mackay.
All the parties involved in the suit
are prominent in New York social
circles and all are wealthy. Dr. Blake
is reputed to be worth several mil
lions. while the Mackays are million
aires many times over.
Eagle Dance on New Year’* Eve.
The Eagles have arranged to give
a dance on New Year’s eve at their
hall and James Doggett is in charge
of the arrangements and is having
the floor cleaned, scraped and polish
ed and made in readiness for a good
dance.
B
Demands Protection for the Chil
dren of the Poor and Wo
men Laborers.
SEATTLE, Nov 11.—In Il'is ad
dress last night to the convention of
delegates from the locals comprising
the Federation of Labor, Samuel
Gompers, president of the federation,
denounced the predatory wealthy, who
secured their great wealth by plun
dering the poor, forcing children into
sweat shops and factories before they
I were able to learn a trade or secure
an education, refusing to give to la
bor a fair return for the work done.
Gompers also titged legislation to
protect the children of the world
from the grasping capitalist and the
women of the laborers from lives of
shame forced upon them by thgjgre-^
vailing low rate cf wages.
He denounced the usurpation of the
judicial powers of the* people by a
few appointed Judges, and he favored
their recall. The large crowd cheer "
ed the speaker for many minutes.
The Hippodrome, the largest public
hall in Seattle, was crowded to the
doors with the delegates and the pub
lic.
Fred Mills and Jack Smith left to
day for Port Wells on the Brighton
and will spend the winter in that
cantp.
FUTILE EFFORTS
TO SAVE LIVES
Big Liner on Rocks Near Calumet,
Michigan, and Only Thirty Lives
Have Been Saved.
CALUMET, Mich., Nov. 11—A large
Lteamer is on the rocks on Manitou
island and is slowly pounding to
pieces. The life-savers made one trip
to the boat during a lull in the storm,
but in spite of all their efforts they
cannot reach the ship again, the wind
and waves carrying them back at
each attempt. Thir'y members of
the crew and passengers have been
saved, but it is feared that the re
mainder will perish unless the storm
abates in the next few hours, as the
watchers on shore report the ship
as fast breaking up. The life-savers
are making futile efforts to reach the
ship.
Life-saving crews further up the
beach have been notified and will
bring their bo .*s to this place and
try to assist the local crew.
WAGES GO UP ON
Board of Arbitration Decides in Fa
vor of the Men, Who Get Sev
en Per Cent Raise.
NEW YORK, Nov. 11. —The board
of arbitration, which has been hear
ing the testimony in the efforts of
firemen and conductors to force the
fifty-four eastern railroads to pay
more wages, today decided thitt the
men were entitled to a seven per
cent average increase. The additional
cost to tlie companies is estimated
at six million dollars annually. On
four other counts ilie employers were
worsted and the men gained many
changes in the regulations now en
forced by tlie management of the
railroads.
The decision is binding upon the
railroads, the arbitrators being ap
pointed under tlie Erdman act, pass
ed by congress, in order that the
trouble net ween the roads and tlie
trainmen might be settled without a
strike, which would have been a long
and bitter tight aud would have re
sulted in great loss to the compan
ies and to the men, and also to the
traveling public.
The trainmen’s unions are jubilant
at tlie victory.
Fred Kraomer and Tony Ross had
their dog teams out today and were
giving tlie dogs a run in order to
harden them for the trip the two
men are to make into the Nelchiua
country soon
A. B. GRAND CAMP
MEETS FRIDAY
SEATTLE, Nov. 11.—The Arctic
Brotherhood Grand camp will meet
hefre on Friday in a three days’ ses
sion. Many of the subordinate camps
have refused to take part in the
meetings because of the fact that the
constitution have leen brushed aside
and meetings held outside of Alaska
or British Yukon.
Brighton Loaves for Port Wells.
The launch Brighton, in command
of Captain Stamey, left the Valdez
dock this morning for Port Wells and
way ports, l'he launch had a ca
pacity load of passengers and freight.
A number of mining operators left
for I5ort Wells properties and they
took along ten tons of freight.
Fine pictures at the Orpheum to
night.