y0L 10 1 VALDEZ, ALA8KA, TUESDAY, JULY 14, M14. NO. 240.
CAUSED WRECK;
Canadian Government Finds Cannot
Punish Storstadt’s Officer, Who
Is Blamed for Disaster.
OTTAWA, Can., July 14 —The Ca
nadian authorities will be unable to
punish third officer Tuftenes, of the
collier Storstadt, for his part in
causing the wrecking of the Empress
of Ireland in the Gulf of St. Law
rence on May 29. The Imperial com
mission which investigated the wreck
reported that Tuftenes was respon
sible because he shifted his helm
without the authority of his master
and thus brought the two boats to
gether.
It was found today that because
Tuftenes is a subject of Norway he
cannot be punished in Canada, as he
was on a Danish vessel at the time.
it is 'now proposed that hereafter
all vessels calling at Canadian ports
must first receive licenses for the
master and mates on the boat or they
will be denied the privilege of call
ing.
POINDEXTER AFTER
POTS 111
Paul Warburg’s Connection With
Railroad Reorganization May Be
Probed By the Senate.
WASHINGTON, July 14 — Senator
Poindexter, of Washington, today in
troduced a bill calling for the investi
gation of the charges against Paul
Warburg, who was recently nomi
nated by President Wilson for mem
bership on the federal reserve board,
it is charged that Warburg, as one
of the insiders, made millions of dol
lars when he reorganized the Rock
Island and Chicago and Alton rail
roads.
The Senate committee on Banking
and Currency, to which had been re
ferred the name of Warburg, refused
absolutely to approve or recommend
liim for confirmation in spite of the
personal efforts of President Wilson
and high administration leaders.
Senator Poindexter would now have
a public investigation in order that
the charges against Warburg may be
made known to all.
ALASKA COW. TO
MAKE SEATTLE
□r. Brooks Bays Steel Mills Will Bs
Bsilt On Ellistt Bay Whan
Alaska Coal la Minad.
SEATTLE. July 14.—Dr. Brooks, in
charge of the geological survey in
Alaska, reached here'yesterday and
will leave tonight on the steamer
Northwestern for Alaska to Investi
gate the mineral resources of the
’ territory.
Dr. Brooks stated today that no
matter what the result of the coal
tests of the KototWk* by the
navy resulted in, the development ci
the coal mines would continue as the
coal was certainly of great use com
mercially, even if it was not the high
grade required by the warships*
. “The-ofaalBg ot tpe Alaska euul."
said Dr. Brooks, “mans tm building
ot largo stale! mills fn this' city sad
tbe bringing to Seattle of tbs omd
and also Urn iraa ore from Alaska,
where it will be made into steel.”
CONGRESSMEN
KEEP ILL 6MF1
Refuse to Give Up Twenty Cents a
Mite Allowed Them for Travel
ing Expenses.
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WASHINGTON, July H.—The Sen
ate voted today to continue to pay
members of congress twenty cents a
mile, traveling expenses, to the cap
ital and back In spite of the tre
mendous opposition from certaia
quarters to the graft. Only seven
senators opposed the bill and wanted
to give the members of congress the
actual expense of themselves and
immediate families to the capital.
The delegate from Alaska, Philip
pines and Hawaii receive the largest
compensation for mileage. Delegate
Wickersham receives nearly $1,000 as
expense money each way when trav
eling to or from Washington,
GAVE HUSBAND
10 HER Ml
Now Demands Alimony—Remarkable
Tale of Domeslic Trouuble Re
vealed in Divorce Complaint.
BLOOMINGTON, 111., July 14.—An
extraordinary nuptial agreement was
made public in the filing of an an
swer this week by Charles Cox in
the Du Page county court to the
charges in a bill of divorce.
The reply told the story of the
“dying love” of his wife which led
to a contract which gave him per
mission to live as the husband of a
handsome ^Indian girl to whom be
became attracted while making his
home in Mexico. It recites the de
tails of an alleged agreement where
by Mrs. Cox relinquishes her hus
band to Maria Reyes Castillejos, a
highly educated Mexican halfbreed,
for a monetary consideration.
The married life of the defendant
and his wife, is dwelt upon at length
in the answer, which asserts that the
couple made their home in a hotel
for many years, the wife declining
to keep house. As a result of the
hotel life Cot became ill, principally
due to the fact that the food was
unfit to eat. „
In 1908 he prevailed upon his wife
to agree to a separation. He pro
cured a housekeeper to cook his
meals and lie thereafter lived in
comfort and regained his health.
ions nusouuu reuiea luai iw u«
been engaged la railroading for the
past twenty-five years, but that dur
ing the greater portion of this per
iod his wife resided in the United
States while he was in Mexico. When
she left him, Cox asserts, he gave
her $7,000 In cash and mining stock.
Regarding this statement the answer
reads: “And ia consideration there
of the complainant then and there
agreed to separate from the defend
ant and forever live separate and
apart, and further, did agree with
the defendant that he should from
thenceforth live with the said Maria
Reyes Castillejos, and in every sense
of the word, enjoy all of the privil
eges of n real heme with her. And
in pursuance of oueh consent the
complainant did then execute, sigh
and deliver to the said Maria Reyes
Castillejos her written consent that
the said Marla Reyes Castillejos
should live with this defendant for
ever afterward and do his cooking
atp4 furnish him with ail of the com
forts or a home.*'
Cox has held an executive position
with the Mexican National railroad.
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We Itve and learn, hat flume who
live the fastest don't always learn
the most.
Jehu John*®* arrived today (Mg
Ellamar.
ADMIRAL LINE TO
tun smn
Retaliate tor Entrance of Alaska
Steamship Line Into the Cook’s
Inlet Trade.
SEATTLE, July 14.—The Admiral
Line has secured a traffic agreement
with the White Pass and Yukan rail
road out of Skagway and will here
after call at the Lynn Canal town
with freight for Dawson and Fair
banks. The change in the itinerary
of the Admiral Line and the adding
of the new port of call was made in
retaliation for the entrance of the
Alaska Steamship Company into the
Cook’s Inet service, heretofore sup
plied solely by the Admiral Line.
The new Skagway service will com
mence on July 25 with the steamer
Admiral Evans and thereafter both
the Evans and Sampson will call at
Skagway on each trip north and
south.
Steamship men here' do not expect
a fight between the two lines as the
readiness of other lines to enter the
Southwestern Alaska trade will de
fer an open rupture.
NOBODY BLAMED
DIRIGO WRECK
Steamship Inspectors Are Unable
to Decide If Flynn Was Intoxi
cated or Not
SEATTLE, July 14.—The govern
ment steamship inspectors who have
been endeavoring to fix the blame for
the grounding of the steamer Dirlgo
when on the tr'p to Seward some
months ago. have been unable to
come to any conclusion in the mat
ter, as some testimony indicated that
Captain Flynn was drunk, while oth
er that he was as sober as a judge
and had not drank prior to leaving
Seattle, nor on the boat after leav
ing. '
The inspectors will now refer the
matter to the Department of Com
merce for se*‘lement, as the cannot
decide. It is possible that a further
i investigation may he ordered.
Mayor John J. Barrett, of Kenne
cott, u visiting in Valdez and will
leave on the next boat for the inter
ior, going via Cordova.
MORE mm OF
GH LOGATIOHS
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Christensen Will Leave Seattle To
%
night to Hunt for Fraudulent
Locators.
SEATTLE, July 14.—Chief Chris
tensen. of the Land department, will
leave .here tonight for Juneau, then
he will go to Fairbanks. Chitina, Val
dez and Seward to ' Investigate the
location of all coal claims In Alaska
and to take testimony regarding
them to be placed before the com
missioner of .the general land office
this fall.
Christensen will spend the summer
probing the loogUops amt expects to
succeed In having many of ' them
thrown oi)t .end the lands returned
to the government,
Many a man la a failure because
his whole philosophy o< life 1» to the
pfeet, that a bad beginning maketb
a good ending. '
CROCKEl FI!
10 OUST 1RPRI
Former Boot of Tammany Will Load
the Fight On Present Boon of
Tammany Hafi.
NEW YORK, July 14.—Former
Tammany Boss Dick Crocker will re
turn to this city this fall to lead the
fight inside of the Democratic or
ganization to oust Charley Murphy,
the present boss. The announcement
was made today by a close personal
and political friend of the former
boss, who is now in Ireland on his
estate, but who is anxious to de
throne Murphy for personal and po
litical reasons.
Several Tammany district leaders
are believed to have pledged Crocker
their support when he arrives and
more are expected to join them when
the fight opens. While Murphy now
has control, it is believed that at the
fall primaries he can be dethroned
through the capture of many dis
tricts by his opponents. Dis'rict
'Leader Cooley, of Brooklyn, remains
loyal to Murphy and a fight has been
started by his opponent to wrest his
district from him.
CORDOVA OEMS. -
WANT JOSLIN
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Favor Fairbanks Railroad Magnate as
the Candidate This Fall On the
Democratic Ticket
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CORDOVA, July 14—The Cordova
Democratic Club unanimously en
dorse Falcon Joslin, of Fairbanks, as
the choice of the club to be the can
didate this fall of the Democratic
party as delegate to congress from
Alaska. Not a vote was raised in
opposition to the interior railroad
man, who has spent much time and
money in an effort to secure the
linking up of Cordova and Fairbanks
by the government railroad.
At the caucus last night the dele
gates to the Skagway convention
from Cordova were instructed to vote
for Joslin to the end and were pledg
ed to remain loyal to the Fairbanks
railroad magnate.
Friends here of Joslin, who claim
to know his desires, say that he will
make an active campaign for elec
tion if the convention places him in
nomination.
M1MUETTES
MECflMft
Custom Officers Rsceive Tip and
Make Big Haul—*90 Taken,
Worth ggjMd.
SAN. FRANCISCO. July H—As the
reault of a tip received by the cus
toaas officials 890 aigrettes, worth
19,000, were seised here' today from
the steamer which arrived from Mex
ico. Th* beautiful feathers will be
destroyed at once, as it to against
the law to import them into the edit
ed States and several states prohibit
the wearing of the feathers.
The tip Was given by a girl work
ing for a large importing house and
it to expected that Indictments will
foObW for attempting to evade Bid
customs laws. -The aigrettes #ere
concealed in boxes with false bot
toms.
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L. L. Middtocstap came «p this
morning from Bllamar.
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Immigrant Official* Arc In Trouble
for Violating Laws Against
Undesirables.
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SEATTLE, July 14.—The federal
grand jury in session here is inves
tigating the charge that immigration
officials have been grafting and
smugiging Chinese into the United
States.
It is charged that hundreds of Chi
nese have been aided into the coun
try the past year throuugh the aid
of the immigration inspectors, who
were sworn to keep them out and
that the Chinese have paid thousands
of dollars to the grafters.
Secret service agents have been
working on the cases for two months
and several arrests have already
been made, while- more are expected.
CARRANZA STILL
VERY OBSTINATE
Will Not Agree With Huerta Upon a
Man to Be Provisional President,
Demands Surrender to Him.
WASHINGTON, July 14—General
Carranza has formally no titled Sec
retary of State W. J. Bryan that he
will no' nego'iate with Huerta for
the establishment of a provisional
government In Mexico, as provided in
the treaty of peace signed a few days
ago at Niagara Falls, Ont., between
the American and Mexican peace, en
voys and the A. B. C. envoys.
The American government insist-,
ed upon the appointment of an out
and out rebel, while the Huerta en
voys demanded that a neutral pro
visional president be named and the
disagreement nearly broke up the
conference, when finally it was pro
posed and settled that Huerta and
-Carranza should agree upon some
Mexican to be provisional president
until an election could be held, but
this provision is not satisfactory to
Carranza, who insists that Huerta
absolutely surrender the reins of
power into the bands of himself.
'Foreign diplomats have again urged
Secretary Bryan to agree to recog
nise Foreign Secretary Carbajal as
provisional president and thus force
the hand of Gen. Carranza and the
northern rebels and to allow the new
foreign secretary to purchase arms
and ammunition in the United States
as soon as Huerta resigns and turns
over to him the command of the
troops.
The English, Spanish and German
ambassadors are again insisting up
on the protection ot their respective
subjects in Mexico end have notified
the State department that they do
not consider them safe should the
rebels reach Mexico City, as the four
rebel generals aite alt opposed to
each other and areas likely to cause
looting as to preserve order.
Gen. Obregon. Gen. G on sales. Gen.
Villa and Gen. Carransa are all anx
ious to reach the city first and are
moving towards the capita) in differ
ent directions. Military experts here
predict that tt Huerta leaps the fed
eral troops the division of the rebels
and their refusal to work with and
Support each other wW enable hhu
to destroy them in sections.
NEW YORK, July 14.—At the of
fice of the American Smelting and
Refining Company It was again de
nied that the Guggenheim interests
hid backed Villa In the present re
bellion and utauld Continue to finance
the revolution in Mexico. So Air as
the Guggenheim* were nswelmed. it
|s stated, no concessions had been
aajie# frees Vitae and mm granted
by him.
SULZER SMS
HIS ORGANIZATION
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First Step Taken to Organize Anti
Tammany Democratic League—
Plan Statewido Organization.
ROCHESTER, N. Y„ July 14 —
Sulzer Democrats representing six
teen counties of western New York
met here today to organize an “Anti
Tammany Democratic League of New
York State," to take the first steps
In naming a provisional state com
mittee, and to discuss an entire state
ticket for the Democratic primaries.
Sulzer’s supporters plan to hold a
similar meeting somewhere in the
northern part of the state within the
next few weeks, and to hold a final
meeting, embracing the entire state,
in Syracuse on August 17, when the
whole committee, including those to
be chosen today and those to he se
lected at the last meeting, will be
named. This provisional state com -
mittee, which must be made up of
one representative of each election
district, will be placed upon the Sul
zer Democratic primary ticket, to be
voted for in the coming primaries.
It Hurt Her Dignity and She Got
Mad But the Suffragette Goes
Unarrested.
LONDON, July 14. Because the
queen of England refused to lower
her dignity by ordering her arrest, a
militant suffragette, who threw a rub
ber ball at the queen with such good
aim as to hit her in the breast, went
scott free here today for ug offence
which years ago would have result
ed in a life sentence.
Queen Mary was very indignant
and her a'nger was aroused by the
insult, but nevertheless she refused
to prosecute the woman.
The accident happened ps the
queen was driving through Hyde
Park and the ball was labeled,
“Stop the forced feeding of suffra
gettes."
The mob which gathered in a few
minutes was prevented from assault
ing the militant by the police and
special guards attending the queen.
IM NILS
Mil PEOPLE
Doctor/ Priest, Girl and Three
Others All Shot Because of
An Old Grudge.
BERGAMO. Italy, July 14 — Simon
Pianetta, in order to satisfy an old
grudge, today entered the house of
a former friend and shot a doctor, a
priest, ons of the local officials of
the district and his daughter, who
were in the hutiding, and later kill
ed throe men what wore on the high
way and were in his way as he fled
from,the house of death.
The police have bean unable to lo
cate Pianetta, who is believed to be
ljB hiding and id y are searching the
country for the wholesale murderer.
T*i to Wo Glacier.
The Ford automobile, holding four
people, Witt make trips to the Valdes
Glacier for $4.00 a trip. An excellent
road has been built. Vie# the sights.
See Owen Meals. ,