V0L 1Q VALDEZ, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1914. NO 107.
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Seattle Man Sends Letter to
Houston Showing How Great It
Has Really Been.
SEATTLE, Feb. 9.—Alaska has pro
duced more wealth per capita than
any other region in the world, is the
statement today of an Alaskan, who
has wrifltep *to .Chairman Houston
of the House Territories committee,
and who is fathering the Chamberlain
railroad bill in the lower branch of
congress.
A table of the yearly output as giv
en by the government reports, without
considering the amount of gold which
is taken out each year by prospect
ors and miners who are paid off in
dust, is attached to the letter, also the
output of the territory as given by
government reports and the average
per capita, is then secured by taking
the number of people in the terri
tory, as given by the government
census, showing the largest per cap
ita wealth of any country in the
world.
FORESTRY RULES
Munday Testifies Builders Canadian
Line Would Have Built at Katal
la But for Absurd Regulations
SEATTLE, Feb, 9.—Charles Mun
day, the defendant in the Alaska coal
case now on trial, when asked by the
•government's attorneys how his com
pany intended to get the coal to tide
water stated that McKenzie and Mann,
the builders of the Canadian Northern
railroad, had intended to build a road
from his mines to the coast at an
estimated expense of $2,000,000. but
that the absurd regulations of the
forestry department prevented the
building of the line.
The government was endeavoring
to show that Munday located the
claims merely for the purpose of sell
ing them to others at a profit and
not as the law requires to be devel
oped and mined by the owner.
Munday is still being cross-examin -
ed.
CANADIAN PACIFIC
Directors Announce That $100,000;000
Will be Spent in Betterment
of the System.
VANCOUVER, Feb. 9.—The Cana
dian Pacific railroad will spend $100,- J
000,000 this coming year in order to
double track its system from the At
lantic to the Pacific and to purchase
new steamers for the Panama and
Alaska service.
The company will also build a $5,
000,000 tunnel to cut a big grade on
the. coast end of the railroad.
The directors of the Canadian road
expect that the business of the rail
road and steamship system operat
ed by them will be taxed to its ca
pacity after the Panama canal is op
ened and the traffic commences to
ecme north.
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Mrs. Neil Dow and her two chil
dren were outgoing passengers on the
Mariposa for Seattle, where they will
remain for some time, while Mr. Dow
is in the Nelehina country prospect
ing.
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CHILD IS SHED
BE FATHER'S WIFE
Woman 94 and Blind Wants Adopted
Child of Her Common-law Hus
band to Provide for Her.
CHICAGO, Feb. 9.—Julia McKenna,
94 years old and blind, the common
law wife of McKenna, the millionaire,
today started suit against the six
year-old! adopted daughter of her
dead husband to force the child to
support her in her old age.
At the death of McKenna the en
tire estate, under the laws of this
state, became the property of the six
year-old adopted daughter and the
aged woman who ha dlived with Mc
Kenna for many years as his wife,
was unable to secure enough even to
support herself. The suit was started
today to force the guardians of the
child to provide for the common-law
wife of her adopted father.
IN THE U. S. ARMY
Congressman Bowdle Demands Their
Names be Made Public—May Ask
for Their Dismissal.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—Represen
tative Bowdle today demanded that
the names of the officers in the army
and in the United States marine
corps who are dodging the payment
to their wives of alimony shall be
made public and that if the payments
are not regularly made the men be
dismissed from the service.
Congressman Bowdle made a long
denunciatory speech against the ali
mony dodgers. It is expected that
congress will ask the Secretary of
War and the head of the navy to give
to congress the names of all men in
the service who have refused to pay
their wives Lite alimony decreed by
the courts.
FOR SEATTLE
Alaska Fish Research Wrok to be
Carried oh—Ten New Agents
Next Summer.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—The Bu
reau of Fisheries has announced to
day that a branch of the department
will be established in Seattle in or
der to better handle the Alaska work
of the bureau, wh;ch is to be greatly
enlarged and a research department
added to the present activities of the
agents of the government.
Ten additional agents are to be em
ployed this year over the number on
the payroll last year, and it is ex
pected that the work can best be di
rected from headquarters at Seattle
instead of from Washington, as the
agents are scattered all along the
coast as far north as the Arctic and
considerable time is lost if the let
ters are sent to the east.
The fish research bureau will like
ly be established at Seattle and its
object will be to aid the cannerymen
and others to make the best use of
the fish caught and prevent wasteful
methods of catching and canning the
fish.
The work of the department in con
nection with the fur seal rookeries
is also to be handled from Seattle.
Judge John Lyons, the Valdez at
torney, left on the Mariposa for Walla
Walla.
JOBBED WILSON
SAY DEMOCRATS
Someone Slipped in That Section
About Canal Tolls in Platform
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Without His Knowledge.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—Democrat
ic leaders who agree with President
Wilson in the matter of repealing that
section of the canal bill allowing
American ships to pass through the
Panama canal toll free, state today
that President Wilson was jobbed at
Baltimore when the section affirm
ing the rignt of the United States to
exempt American shipping and pledg
ing the Democratic party to keep that
section on the statute books in spite
of the opposition of England, Ger
many and other European nations,
was put in the platform and that it
was placed there without his consent
and knowledge, or the consent or
knowledge of a majority of the mem
bets of the ccnvention.
Democrats who oppose repealing
the law say that it was made part
of the platform with the knowledge
of the president and that he must
stand by the platform and not en
deavor to substitute one-man rule for
party rule.
ESTABLISH PEACE
PORT AH PRINCE
General Zamor Enters City at Head
of Victorious Troops and the
People Cheer, H im.
PORT AC PRINCE, Feb. !). Gen
eral Zamor, who defeated General
Theodore just as tile latter was about
to be recognized by the American
State department, today entered this
city at the head of his victorious army
of rebels and peace has been estab
lished.
General Zamor immediately posted
troops in all parts of the city with
orders to shoot the tirst man caught
looting, resulting in the death of
about one hundred bandits and the
establishment of quiet.
Foreigners have all returned to
t heir homes with the assurance from
the new head of the republic that they
will be protected and details of troops
areiHationed in the foreign residence
quarter, although tbe marines from
all the foreign vessels are quartered
ashore.
When Gen. Zamor entered the city
the residents of the town lined the
main street and cheered the new dic
tator. who is to become president as
soon as he ecan hold an elecetion.
PEOPLE
__ HIJACKS
NEW YORK, Feb. 9.—The New
York health department today issued
a warning to the people against the
many quacks who claim to be able
to cure cancer by the use of radium
and urge the people to think twice
before they allow the get-rich-quick
doctors to operate on them. The ra
dium Cure for cancer has not as yet
been satisfactorily tested to justify
its indiscriminate use, as is being done
by the quacks.
PRESIDENT NAMES
ALASKA POSTMASTER
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—President
Wilson today named John Hanson,
of Douglas, Alaska, to be postmaster
of that city. The name was sent to
the Senate for confirmation.
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Lieut, and Mrs. Manning left on
the Mariposa for the states, where
Mrs. Manning will undergo an oper
ation. She is assompinled by a nurse.
FIFTY CREMATED
MEXICAN WRECK
Bandits Place Burning Freight in Tun
nel—Passenger Train Wrecked
—Bones Found.
JtJAREZ, Mexico, Feb. 9.--A report
has been received from the scene of
the holdup and wreck on the Mexi
can Northern railroad anti the res
cuers report that Castillo and his band
of bandits pushed a burning freight
train into the Cumbre tunnel and then
waited until the passenger train came
along and was wrecked.
Fifty passengers and the train crew
were killed and cremated in the
wreck. Nine Americans were among
the list and their bodies have been
recovered by the wrecking crew sent
from here. Only the bones and the
few indestructible trinkets in the
pockets were left to identify the bod
ies.
The posse which left Saturday night
to force the bandits to release the
Americans and others who are held
captives by the bandits have not re
turned as yet. The only information
received was that brought by the
Hearst cowboy.
KAISER’S SON MAY
GOME TO ALASKA
Says He Would Like to Make Trip to
Hunt Big Game and President
May Extend Invitation.
BKRL1X, Fob. 8. frown Prince
William, of Germany, stated today j
that, he would like lo make a trip lo j
jibe I'nited States lo hunt grizzlys ini
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the Rockies, and then hunt big game |
in Alaska and return via the Cana
jdian Rockies.
It is believed that tlie statement of
the son of the Kaiser will he followed
j by an invitation from the president
! of the United States to him to visit
this country as the guest of -the Un
ited States.
SECRETARY BRYAN AND WIFE
VISIT ALASKA EXHIBIT
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.- -Secretary
of State William J. Bryan and his
\ wife visited the exhibit of Alaskan
products gathered by the Seattle
chamber of commerce and brought
i.ere by secretary McPherson and
placed !n a room at the Senate office
building. '• he secretary and Mrs.
Bryan w 'e tgreatly surprised, es
,.eciall/ at the agricultural exhiaiis
BIG ATTENDANCE
SEATTLE CHURCHES
SEATTLE, Feb. 9.—Yesterday was
“Go to Church Sunday” and all the
churches were crowded, and many
men and women who never go to
worship were numbered among the
attendants. Jt is stated by the
preachers that yesterday's attendance
was a record breaker for this city.
All the ministers had special sermons
prepared and good music in the hopes
that the new attendants would be
come interested enough to return an
other day.
Pays $5,000 for a Flea.
PARIS. Feb. 9—Alfred, Charies
de Rothschild, of London, is said, on
the authority of Edmond Perrier of
the French Institute, to have paid
$5,000 for ?. specimen of a rare vari- j
ety of flea—one of the kind which is I
occasionally found in the skin of the |
sea otter. The flea 1* to be added to J
Mr. de Rothschild’s entomological col- j
lection. j
WONT DESERT IF
TREATED RIGHT
Gen. Wood, Commanding Army, Asks
for Better Treatment of the En
listed Men by Officers.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—Because
of the success of the new treatment
of army prisoners, who are now treat
ed more kindly than ever before, Gen
eral Wood, the head of the army,
has issued an order to the officers
of the army to treat the enlisted men
more kindly, and he predicts that it
will result in the reduction of the
number of enlisted men who desert.
General Wood stated today that the
kindly treatment of deserters had re
sulted in the return of many of them
to the ranks and invariably they had
made good by becoming model sol
diers. He urged "the officers to treat
the men under them more humanly.
swedTcabIt
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Say That King Gustaf Criticised Them
in His Speech of Last Saturday
—Exceeded His Authority.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Feb. 9. -
The cabinet of King Gustaf are ex
petted to hand to the king their res
ignations because they assert that in
the speech delivered to' the peasants
here Saturday, who demanded the in
crease of the army and navy because
of threatened Russian invasion, the
king had criticised them and had ov
erstepped his authority, which is lim
ited by the constitution.
The crisis will come some time to
day, as the ministers were in consul
tution all day yesterday and this
morning had about decided on the
resignation of the entire cabinet.
Sanator Walsh Would Withdraw Kll
Radium Lands and Prevent Ex
port of Radium.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-Senator
Walsh today introduced a bill in the
Senate to give to the United States
government a monopoly of the pro
duction of all the radium found in
America and also to prevent the lo
cation or mining of radium claims.
The object of the bill is to prevent
the private mining of radium and the
shipping of it from the United States
to Kuropean buyers, wrho secure al
most the entiree output from the Col
orado Helds.
Opponents of the bill say that if it
is passed it will result in the imme
diate shut down of all the mines in
Colorado, resulting in a worse con
dition than exists at present
Vigorous opposition to the propos
al to withdraw radium lands from
entry was made before the House
Mines committee today by Thomas R.
Henahen, state mining commission
er of Colorado, who declared such
action would ruin the radium min
ing industry.
Joseph M. Flannery, president of
the Standard Chemical Company, of
Pittsburg, said his company had spent j
in three years $650,000 to produce two j
grams of radium. In April, he said,;
the company would be producing one
gram a month.
Watch crystals 25c. Plant A Co. tf
WILL OPERATE
Chamberlain Bill Provides for Repeal
of $100 a Mile Tax That Has
Prevented Operation.
SEATTLE, Feb. 9.—The announce
ment was made here today by the
owners of the Nome, Seward Penin
sula railroad lhat if the Chamberlain
bill, passed by the Senate and now
before the House, is passed the road
would be operated, because the bill
repeals the $100 a mile tax on all
railroads operated in Alaska.
The road is 104 1-2 miles long and
extends back from Nome to the Solo
mon river section. The road was un
able to operate and pay the govern
ment a tax of $10,425 each year and
preferred to shut the line down. The
district attorney of the Second divis
ion has made several attempts tc
secure the tax, but without avail.
The Copper River railroad, it is
stated, were instrumental in having
the section included in the present
railroad bill, as they are compelled
to pay $100 a mile on the 196 miies
of road operated out of Cordova.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC
Asks Interstate Commerce Commis
sion for Permission to Issue
$45,000,000 Bonds.
SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. !». A [ini:
cation was made today by the offi
rials of the Southern Pacific raiiioa t
to the interslate commerce cominis
sion and the state railroad commie
sion for permission to issue $45.Ou".
fain worth of bonds in order to pit
pare the road for ihe big traffic ex
ported when the San Francisco ex
posit'on. celebrating (he completion c.
the Panama canal, is opened.
The officials say the.t the money wi t
be expended in improvements to th->
roadbed and the purchase of new
equipment and that it is necessary
because of the tremendous business
expected in 1915.
The application will be considere i
in a few weeks.
HUNGRY BOY
TURNS CROOK
Enters Grocery Store to Rob and i .
Shot Dead—Recently Married
and Was Hungry.
SEATTLE, Feb. 9.—The m. -k i
burglar who was killed last ::is' ;
while robbing n grorery stoi • -
identified today by the police at ivi
ward Swapp, a respected pho o
rapher, 24 years old and mairi* :
who has been oui of work and who
family was hungry. The boy wove i
mask when he entered the stor ■ 1'
was a novice at the game and mi.1
too much noise, resulting in ': *•
awaken'ng of th eproprietor, who d
covered the burglar and shot h'm n
the head, causing inntant death.
The young wife of Swapp is pro
trated. as she was greatly weaken
ed by lack of nourishment and »'■<•
shock of the death of her husband o
expected to cause her death.
Robert McIntosh left for Cordo' i
off the Mariposa and has receiver' a
contract to take considerable fr-i ':t
fromChitina to Slate creek for h i
Miller.