V0L 10 VALDEZ, ALASKA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1914. NO. 112.
USE VIOLET RMS
, EXPLODE TORPEDO
Invention Using Ultra Violet Rays
Explodes Torpedo at a Distance
of Two Miles.
FLORENCE, Italy, Feb. 14.—Using
ultra violet rays Guilio Ulivio has
repeatedly exploded torpedoes at a
distance of two miles without the
use of wires of any kind. The in
ventor has given his secret to the
government and it is said that by
means of this invention the powder
of any hostile ship can be exploded
from the deck of Italian ships or
from land stations and without firing
a shot.
The experiments made by the gov
ernment experts have demonstrated
the worth of the invention and the
inventor is receiving congratulations
from high naval and military auth
orities.
It is expected that he will be given
a decoration for his great work or
possibly made a senator by the king,
as was done for Marconi, who in
vented the wireless apparatus.
HELD WADIS
SAFE NAVIGATION
For Travelers Who Come to Alaska—
Says Country Needs System
of Transportation.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11—At the
session last night of the Association
of Chambers of Commerce held here
from all sections of the United States,
Secretary Redfield spoke of the re
sources of Alaska and stated that the
great value of the northland and the
minerals of the territory could not be
realized upon until a proper system
of transportation had been provided
for Alaska.
“Navigation must be made safe in
the north.” said the secretary of com
merce, “and the Witters of the long
Alaskan coast line should be prop
erly lighted and marked and sur
veyed in order to protect the travel
ing public.”
Secretary Redlield said that he
hoped to make a trip to Alaska this
coming summer and would, if pos
sible, visit the seal islands in the
Pacific.
MURPHY TO SUE
PRES. JOHNSON
Trouble Has Been Brewing Between
‘ President of American League and
Owner of Chicago Nationals.
y CHICAGO, Feb. 14.—The crisis in
the fight among the baseball mag
nates has been reached and it was
announced today that President Mur
phy, of the Chicago National team,
would commence a suit against Pres
ident Johnson of the American Lea
gue, charging him with slander and j
demanding $100,000 as damages. Mur- j
phy also charges that Johnson has :
entered a conspiracy to destroy the
value of his team as a money maker.!
Johnson has repeatedly charged that '
Murphy is to blame for the organ- !
ization of the Federal League, but j
when Interviewed today he refused j
to make any statement for publica - i
tion.
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Jim Fielder, the EUamar merchant,.
is In town for a few days, having ar- j
jived this afternoon. i
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TWELVE FROZEN TO DEATH IN NEW YORK;
CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS SWAMPED
NEW YORK, Feb. 14.—The police
of th s city found twelve people froz
en to death yesterday between noon
and six o’clock. It is expected that
the total death roll of the present
severe blizzard to date has been more
than fifty people frozen to death, while
many have died as the direct result
of colds resulting in pneumonia.
Scores of people have been over
come on the streets but have been
found by the police and sent to the
hospitals for care and treatment.
MUCH UNREST IN
COT OF TOKIO
President of House of Parliament
Resigns—Hostile Newspapers
FIFTY FROZEN IN THE CITY AS RSULT OF EFFORTS TO KEEP
WARM—FIREMEN HAVE HARD pATTLE—NOZZLES FREEZE
BIG LINERS REACH PORT ENCRUSTED WITH ICE.
For the first time in years the
breadline at Flishmann’s was desert
ed because of the intense cold and
fierce winds, which swept around
Broadway and Fourteenth street. The
charitable institutions of the city were
swamped and were unable to accom
modate all of those who applied for
relief.
During the nine hours from noon
yesterday to 9 o'eloe klast night fifty
fires called the members of the de
partment out, and they had several
of the worst tires of the winter to
combat, the water freezing as it was
thrown against the buildings, also
hose nozzles were frozen and made
useless and the work of rescue wras
made extra hazardous.
Every steamer arriving in port is
encrusted with ice and the big liners
are all low down in the water at the
bow because of the heavy weight of
ice clinging to them. They report
heavy storms all along the Atlantic
coast.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 14.—The blizzard
raging throughout this country has
tied up all traffic into and from this
city, and not a train Is running today
except work trains. The intense cold
is causing much suffering and hard
ship to the poor and illclad people of
this community. All charitable or
ganizations are taxed to the limit to
provide shelter for the homeless.
CHICAGO, Feb. 14—Terrible cold
weather still prevails in this vicinity
and is general throughout the region
of the Great Lakes and in the mid
dle west. The shortage of fuel is
becoming acute in this city because
of the tieup of the railroads and
unless it it soon relieved a large toll
of lives will be taken by King Frost.
The railroads have hired thousands of
men to work on the shovel crews in
an endeavor to clear the lines, but
so far only a few passenger trains
are limping into the city.
GUNMEN HOLD UP
NEW * CAFE
Seven Gangsters Make Cleanup of
$4,000 and Stab One Man—Po
I !/>• I sAar ArraeA Threa
me guppiciaou.
TOKIO, Japan, Feb. 14.—Speaker
of the House Oaku today resigned
his position because of the forcing
through that body of an appropria
tion of $62,000,000 for naval expan
sion in the face of the recent scan
dal and in spite of the protests of
the people in every city of the empire,
who have been denouncing the gov
ernment and demanding the resigna
tion of the cabinet.
The situation in this city is serious
and if the troops should waver or if
mutiny breaks out in the ranks, or
some of them should decide to take
sides with the populace, a civil war
will be in progress. As it is the
police are unahle to keep order and
the troops are aiding.
Two hundred more arrests were
made today. All newspapers which
are hostile to the government have
been suppressed and details of sol
diers are quartered in the plants to
prevent any issue being placed on
the streets.
Excitement continues to grow in
stead of abating and the crisis of the
present unrest has not yet been
reachey, say many government offi
cials, but they are continent that the
army will be ablp to control the peo
ple.
SITKA NATIVES BUILD
HALL FOR THEMSELVES
The Sitka branch of the Alaska
Native Brotherhood has a splendid
hall rapidly nearing completion. The
manner in which this building is be
ing constructed pretty well demon
strates the ability of the Alaska na
tive to do things for himself. The
members of the organization went
out in the woods and cut a raft of
logs which they towed in themselves.
The W. P. Mill Co. donated the use
of its sawtuill, and the natives cut
the logs into lumber, from which the
building is being constructed. The
labor is all being performed by the
members and the plans were drawn
by Peter Simpson, president of the
order. The only thing they had to
call on white men for was to hire a
teamster to haul the lumber from
the mill. The building will be 65x36
feet, besides a stage 22x18, and will
be a beautiful monument to the na
tives’ self-reliance.
Mariposa Reaches Seattle.
SEATTLE, Keb. 14.—The steamer
Mariposa, ot the Alaska steamship
line, reached here this morning after
an uneventful trip south. She will
leave on schedule time for the north
and many reservations have been
taken on the boat.
Valdez received shipments of
freight valued ,gt $716,944 last year
according to the report of the cus
toms collector for Alaska. Cordova
received for the railroad town and
the interior shipments vulued at
$832,067, while Seward purchased
supplies worth $231,704.
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WILL DISOBEY
SUNDAY CLOSING
Log Cabin Club of Nome Will En
deavor to Keep Open Tomorrow in
. Spite of Federal Authorities.
NOME, Feb. 14. -The Log Cabin
Club, of this city, of which many of
the leading attorneys and business
men are members, will contest the
Sunday closing law, which is being
enforced by the t . S. marshal. They
propose to keep the oar of the club
open all day tomorrow and will defy
the officers of the law to close up
the place. A number of attorneys
have agreed to aid in making the legal
tight.
Saloon owners here will watch the
light with keen interest and hope it
will be successful to the club, but as
the Log Cabin has no license, but is
operated under the national revenue
law as a club, the federal authorities
have less hold on the club than they
have on the saloons from the owners
of whicn the district judge may with
draw their licenses at will.
All the other saloons will remain
closed tomorrow.
SOCIETY PEOPLE
HUNT OIO GAME
Captain Lane, of Polar Bear, Will
Outfit Steamer for Cruiae in
Arctic Next Summer.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—Captain
Lane, commander of the Arctic
steamer, Polar Bear, who is now in
this city, announced tpdaj that he
would charter |p. steamer in a few
weeks and fit it out for au Arctic
cruise along the coast of Alaska. lie
said that a number of Boston society
people would make the trip and that
he had been commissioned by them
to prepare the boat and take them
north in quest for big game.
The captain expects to buy a whaler
on the eastern coast and have it re
outflted and altered and brought
through the canal and ready for the
party, which will leave the Pacific
some time In June. They will re
main in the north until just before
the freezeup.
PLEASURE RIDE
ENDS IN DEAIR
Engine Htts .Sleighing .Party . and
Three Are Dead and Forty In
jured at Railroad Crossing.
KINGSTON, N. Y„ Feb. 14.—The
Wall-Kill valley freight train last
night struck a large sleighing party
on a hay ride, and as a result three
of the- country joyriders are dead
and forty are severely injured. The
driver, who was among those injur
ed, says that the train approached
the crossing without giving the warn
ing as required by law, and that he
was proceeding across the track at a
last gate. It was on a down grade
and the six horses had crossed the
track when the engine struck the
sled. He says he tried in every way
to whip the horses up to avoid the
collision after he saw the headlight,
as it was then too late to stop, but
was unsuccessful.
A special train was made up with
doctors and nurses and sent to the
scene as soon after the accident as
it was possible and 'he injured were
brought here. The party consisted
almost entirely of young, girls and
boys in their ’teens.
MED MONTH,
STILL OWED BOSS
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Miner* Testify at Handcock That They
Received Nothing After Thirty
Day* of Long, Hard Labor.
HANDCOCK, Mich., Feb. 14.—A
number of miners who appeared at
the congressional hearing today testi
fied that they had worked for the
copper companies for a full month,
putting in every shift possible, work
ing from twelve to sixteen hours, and
yet when the end of the month came
and with it the regular pRy day. the
paymaster would announce that they
were indebted to the company and
that nothing was coming.
The investigation will continue for
another week at least and it is ex
pected that the operator* will pro
duce many witnesses to ctniradict
the charges made by the miners ant*
also those nvade recently by Inves
tigators for the Department of La
bor, and later still in, the report of
the Industrial Relations Commission.
NEW YORK. Feb. 14.—Seven gun
men entered an East Side restaurant
last night at midnight, when the
place was crowded, and held up the
place, securing $4,000 from the till and
from a number of guests of the
place, stabbing one of the men in the
restaurant when he refused to obey
the commands of the holdups. The
entire band escaped.
The restaurant was in an uproar
in a moment after the last gangman
had backed out of the building and the
police were immediately called. They
secured a good description of the
men and in less than an hour three
men were attested charged with the
crime. All three deny that they had
anything to do with the holdup, but
a number of witnesses assert that
they were among the seven. The oth
er four men are still at liberty but
the police expect that they will be in
custody in another day.
All the haunts of the gangmen are
being watched and orders have been
issued by Chief of Police McKay to
secure the robbers at any cost.
Fire Frees 400 Pigs.
NORTH ARLINGTON, N. J.—Mov
ed to pity by the squealing of 400
big and little pigs immured in a
burning storage plant here, persons
attracted by the flames liberated
them. ' Immediately trouble ensued
for the police and not a few citizens
found a way to substitute pork roast
for turkey for dinner.
Exhilarated by their freedom, the
pigs invaded the borough, uprooted
lawns, visited a school and sought
shelter from the pursuing police in i
church yards and stores. Few of the
pigs, not retrieved by their owners
in the general roundup in the square
were returned. Several fell victims
to hunters' bullets on the meadows
and reports are persistent that many
householders are entertaining fugi
tive pigs until Sunday, with a view :
of still further reducing the high cost
of living.
..Admiral Evans Sail* on Tuesday, j
SEATTLE. Feb. 14.—The steamer |
Admiral Evans will leave here next j
Tuesday for Valdez and way ports, i
The steamer will be crowded with !
passengers and freight. This will be !
the first trip north of the new Alaska j
liner and she has bei n placed in ex- I
cejlent condition after a complete ov
erhauling.
French Inventor Paeee* Away. j
PARIS, Feb. 14.—Alfonso Bertil
(ion, the famous head of the Paris
police, and the inventor of the sys
tem of police identification now in
vogue all over the world, died here
today after a short Illness.
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Special Saturday Chang*.
A special. Saturday change of pic- j
lures at the C.pheum tonight with j
another fine change tomorrow with ]
special music. j
POWDER EXPLODES
FOUR ARE KILLED
Building is Entirely Destroyed—The
Shock is Felt for Seven Miles
—Windows Shattered.
KENVIL, N. J., Feb. 14.—Four men
were killed today when the packing
plant of the local powder company
•exploded. The building in which the
powder is packed for shipment to re
lailers was entirely destroyed, but
because of the protection of bulk
heads loaded with sand between the
different buildings, by which the
shock of an explosion of any one of
them is sheered away from the oth
ers, and in spite of the fact that the
explosion could be felt for a distance
of seven miles, no other buildings
were destroyed.
No one will ever know the reason
for tlie explosion, as the four men
in the building at the time were
blown to atoms. Windows were shat
tered for miles around. Several hun
dred men and women were in other
structures of the company at the time
of the accident.
WOULD ADMIT
ALL HINDUS
United States Could Naturalize Them
Without III Effects, Says Iowa
Professor.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14—Professor
Uo.se. of Iowa, who was a witness
today before the Immigration com
niiitee, strongly urged permitting the
naturalization of Hindus in America
During his address before the com
mil tee the professor predicted tha’ it
the people of England allowed . he
colonies and provinces of the Fug
lisli empire to bar out the Hindu:
the consequent result would be a
terrible revolution.
The Hindus would certainly revolt,
and they would throw off the yoke
of the mother country and in this
revolution thousands would be slaugb
tered. The Hindu, as an English cit
izen, must be permitted to travel in
any part of the British empire or its
possessions, he said
The naturalization of Hindus by tba
United tSates would have no ill ef
fects on the body politic, was th*t
opinion of the professor.
ANOTHER RAGE
UP AT NOME
Twenty Teams Make Run to Solo:*: 1
and Back and Berg and Hall
Win First Money.
NOME. Feb. 14.—The big dog race
arranged by the local Order of Loyal
Moose, of this city, was run yester
day and resulted in Peter Berg and
Frank Hall walking away with tU
big money.
The race was from Nome to Solo
mon and back, a distance of 62 rail-*
Twenty entries were made by tne
racers. Some had two dogs and out
ers as high as seven. In all seventy
dogs were in the contest and they
made fast time.
The race was a success front a
financial point of view.
H. Suessdorf received by parrel
post v>. cocoanut from Oeo. Treat at
Palm Beach. Fla., where Mr. and M1.:.
Treat are spending a holiday.