HERALD POLL
FAVORS WILSON
MONTANA JOINS WILSON HANKS
Hughes' Lead in the Straw Vote Cut
to 799—Republicans Claim Ntopiied
Landslide of Labor Votes for Presi
dent Wilson.
NEW YORK, Oct. 30.—The final
count in the Herald straw vote shows
Wilson’s gain 1 per cent and Hughes'
gain 1 1-10 per cent. Wilson is gain
ing strongly in New York city while
Hughes Is gaining ground up-stato.
Montana has jointed the Wilso:
ranks, the Butte miners hav'ng en
dorsed the President en masse on ac
count of his peace and labor policies.
The state is conceded to the Demo
crats by a majority of from 6,000 to
10,000. Washington is leaning to
ward Wilson while the trend in Ore
gon is toward Hughes. Idaho is apa
thetic and puzzling to both sides.
Hughes leads in the agricultural
section of the state, while in the min
ing sections Wilson Is a strong favo
ite. Hughes’ lead in the straw vote
has been cut from 3727 a week ago
to 722.
The Republicans express the belief
that they have stopped the landslide
of labor votes for Wilson by t'.ieir slo
gan of “Permanent Prosperity.”
The Democrats are confident the
labor vote means success for Wilson
Wilson gained last week In Califor
nia, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,
Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Minneso
ta, Montana, Nebraska, New Hamp
shire, Ohio, Oregon, Vermont, Wash
ington, Wisconsin, Wyoming. States
conceded 60 per cent Wilson are Ari
zona, Colorado, Connecticut, Tennes
Bee, Washington, West Virginia, Wis
consin, Wyoming. To the 149 elec
toral votes conceded to Wilson add
Virginia, North Carolina, South Caro
link, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi.
Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas, giv
ing Wilson 263 voles. Illinois wom
en ■favor'Wilson to 1» Connection I
is uncertain and her seven electors.'
votes may decide the contest.
TWELVE THOUSAND
VISIT PRESIDENT
TAKE8 RAP AT PROTECTIONISTS
Declarer Hughes Plan for Tariff Re
vision In Favor of Big Interests—
Recounts Accomplishments of the
Administration.
SHADOW LAWN. N. X, Oct. 30
Tweive thousand persons, including n
large Tammany delegation headed In
Grand Sachem John Vorhis, and r.
large number of women, visited Pres
ident -Wilson Saturday. The Presi
dent addressed the visitors from the
porch of his residence. He said his
opponents state they want peace, but
it is peace not such as the administra
tion has maintained, but the peace as
braggarts obtain it.
He also rapped the protectionist
views of Hughes, declaring them to be
in favor of the big interests only. He
advocated a tarifT commission, which,
he said, would substitute facts for the
ories and pretentions. In closing hit,
address the President recounted the
accomplishments of the administra
tion, and urged the people to retain
the Democratic party in power.
Mariposa Sails South.
The steamer Mariposa arrived frtir.
the westward about 3:30 last -.veiling
and sailed about an hour later for
the south. The passengers booked
from here were 8. L. Oliver, A. Par
ker, H. H. Canovan, Aledor Mlnne, E.
J. Baker, O. Jordan Olson, John Emel
and wife. Sister Angelo, J. C. Me
haffey. Mrs. Paul Capris, Peter Row
land for Seattle; J. C. Fitzjames, Os
car Kune for Juneau; Mr. and Mrs.
W. A. C. Baldwin and Mr. and Mrs.
R. R. Kerwood for Cordova; W.
Browne for Ketchikan.
ELECTION BETTING 18
STILL AT EVEN MONEY
NEW YORK, Oct. 30.—Bets
on the result of the Presidential
election are still being placed at
even money. Hughes' friends are
oonAdent their candidate will
carry New York, and are laying
odd* of ten to nine that he will
aarry the State.
BIGHT-HOI K LAW FOR
PLACEK MINERS IS VOID
FAIRBANKS, Oct. 30.—Judge C.
E. Bunnell of the United States Dis
trict Court, has held the eight-hour
law enacted hy the last legislatur.
making eight hours a day’s work in
the placer mines void in that it did
not conform to the Organic Act un
der which the Legislature was cre
ated.
The Court’s decision was in Hie case
of the United Stales vs. Howell and
Cleveland, the Hot Springs operators,
who were indicted hy the Rub; grand
jury recently.
Members of the local liar general!;,
agree that the reasonglng of the
court is sound, and that the decision
will stand.
Judge Bunnell dismirsed the in
dictment, and discharged the lioads
men of the accused.
Sylvestor Howell, one of lie men
freed by the dismissal of Hie indict
ment, was a Wickersham .nmslner
for the House of Representatives,
but was forced off the ticket !>y pub
lic opinion.
SAYS AMERICANS
ASSISTING m
NKWHPAPKK KP'.l’OItTS NOT THI I
Carranza Says Anns ami Munition.-'
Are Shipped to Outlaw P'rom the
States—Cabrera Also I ’barges that
Americans are Aiding Outlaw.
MEXICO CITY, Oct. lit' - resident
Carranza, in a sta! i.tunl to ;h•• pro
today said that Villa h m war .agi..-,
in Chihurtittta because enemies of Un
de facto government in the United
States were aiding the outlaws in tin
hope that their activities would bring:
about intervention by the United
States. He said tire government will
eventually suppress the bandits and
restore order throughout the -tales.
He further declared the situation i .
uot nearly so bad as reported, am'
that many American newspapers are
wilfully distorting facts ami ••epor;
ing fictitious rebel victories.
Kays I'lirnisli Arms to Villa,
WASHINGTON, I). < Opt. lit*.
Mexipan Commissioner Cabrera in a
talk witIi a reporter this morning,
sharply arraigned the governi tent lo,
its alleged neutrality, lie declared
that Americans were furnishing the
V'illistas with arms and ammunition
and stimulating the outlaw leader (o
his present activity. Withoui this a
sistance from tlie United States, Ca
brera said, Villa would have been de
posed of long ago. The Stale de
partment officials express surprise al
the statements of the Commissioner
and promise immediate investigation
into the charges. The statement.
made by the newspapers retarding,
(he alleged Villa victories are largely
discounted by the officials.
Karragut l>ue Tonight.
The steamer Admiral Karragut i
due to arrive here from the westward
about 9 o'clock tonight.
The hospital boat at Fort Ciscum
broke from its moorings yesterday
and drifted ashore. Owing to the
high seas running the boat pounded
on the rocks until it was pretty well
smashed up.
Charles Swanson is an arrival in
town from Slate Creek and will leave
on one of the next boats for the states
WALTER E. EDGE.
Nominated For Governor by
New Jereey Republicans.
"LAND BATTLESHIP" MAY BE SOLD TO U. S. ARMY
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This ••caterpillar” land warship constructed at Peoria, 111., to show how the famous British "tank" car is built
has been offered t > the United States army. It to reported.
SOLZER FAVORITE
IN BETTING
ItKMKVKII IIK WIMi IIK KKKCTKII
l>ls(>atches from Many Towns In Terrl
tory Indicate that Wickersliam Is
I.osIiik Out—KiKlit on Koad Com
mission Costs Him Many Votes.
(Special to the Prospector.)
AW1IOKAGK. Oct. HO.—The con
;e:l for Delegate ill Anchorage has
nanov . d down to Charles Sulzer and
I,one Morrow Lewis, both candidates
r ing here and working hard to carry
(he town. Wickershani factions have
I,eon endeavoring to secure the So
(jalist vote for the Delegate, but with
the arrival of Mrs. Lewis it is uppar
ini that the Anchorage vote will lie
(fe.se between Sulzer and Lewis, with
Wicker: ham a bad third.
Vocboiage has a large Sscialisi
!« (dilution and it will go down the
line for Mrs. Lewis, each vote for tlv
l.'dy diking a vote away from Wickor
sl 111 111.
The Wickershani hunch have ceil
(erfd their strength on Thomas Jeter
for Lead Commissioner, and believe
that his election is assured.
Petting here is 10 to X on Sulzer
carrying the Tenilory by a plurality
of 500.
JFNKAF, Oct. 30. Odds of 8 to
<; arc ;:.g given Hint Sulzer carries
iliis Division by itOO.
j FAIRBANKS. Oct. 30. II is be
lit'zed here that Sulzer will carry this
j Division by a handsome plurality.
Wickershant’s failure to visit Fair
; banks and the interior camps will lose
him many votes. The miners on the
creeks are solid for Sulzer. Little
betting being done, at even money.
NOME, Oct. 30. It is believed
■ Ik*re that Sulzer will carry the Terri
tory by 1,000 votes. Betting even
with Sulzer favorite. Lillie Wicker
sham money in sight.
KETCHIKAN, Oct. 30.—Sulzer is
■assured of a large vote here; betting
being 0 to 4 that ho will carry the
Territory and 2 to 1 that he will carry
the Division.
! SEWARD. Oct. 30.—Wickershani’s
!attack on the ltoad Commission hat:
j cost the Delegate many votes in Sew
|ard. Betting is even that Sulzer will
; carry the town by 150. Wickersham
i money hard to find.
i McCarthy, Oct. 30.— Sulzer will
j carry this district by nearly two to
one. Th(j miners are solid for the
I Juneau man. Odds are being given
[that Sulzer will lie elected with but
j little Wickersham money in sight.
MORGEN THAI' IS ASKING
FOR ADIMTION.AIi I TNRS
NEW YORK. Oct. 30.—Henry Mor
genthau, treasurer of (lie Democratic
campaign fund* has asked for a half
million dollars more for campaign
'purposes. Henry Ford has pledged
i himself for $100,000 of this amount.
Mi l’ll RETTING ON
STATEt»l'’ NEW YORK
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NEW YORK, Oct. 30. Consider
able money is being wagered on the
result of the election In this stale.
The od.ls are now 10 ty If that Hughes
will carry the state amlarpst sums are
being put up. *
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(’apt. Stream Is Demi.
! ABERDEEN, Wash.. Oct. 34.
l’H|>t*rAlbert T. Stream, one of the
Presidential electors on the Demo
cratic ticket, died at lUxiuiuin today.
He had been forty years on the coast
IIAIIDWAKK MKN .IKK AKItKSTKI*
Heads of .Niipilos Concern and A|{iill
of Id’Kalist.a.s Taken Inin Custod>
l>> Ollleers of the l*e|>artnienl of
Justice in Ari/.onu Town.
NOGALES, Oct. 30.—Agents of tin*
Department of Justice today arrested
Louis Loos and Charles Klsselbach.
Americans, heads of the Nogales
Hardware Company, and one Kamire?,
an agent of the Legalistas and others,
for violating the neutrality of the
I’nited States by furnishing arms and
ammunition for an expedition against
a friendly country.
It is alleged that the hardware
company lias sold a large iiuantity of
arms and ammunition to Mexicans,
which have been smm.rf'led across the
border into Mexico for the Villistas
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GERMAN SUB
RUSSIAN PORT
SINKS DKSTUOVElt AND CltlAV
Steamer I.upland Sunk and Crew Ites
ciied—Itrilisli Capline Trenches at
Enam—Allies Lend Money lo Pro
uder Venizelos.
HEREIN, Oct. 30.- The Germans
carried the war into the enemy’s ter
ritory yesterday when a German sub
marine yesterday bombarded the Ru:
sian Arctic port of Sipnavalok and
sunk a Russian destroyer and un arm
id patrol boat.
Steamship laiplaud Sunk.
RE HEIN. Oet. 30.—The German
suhmariue R-30 yesterday sunk the
steamer Lapland and rescued her
trow.
Say I .upland Mined.
COPENHAGEN. Oct. 30.—It is re
ported here that the steamer Lapland
struck a floating mine yesterday and
was sunk.
British Capture Trenches.
LONDON. Oct. 30.-- The British
troops yesterday captured the German
trendies at Enam northeast of Los
Roeufs.
Backing Venizelos.
ATHENS, Oct. 30.—It is reported
here that the Ecntente governments
are lending Venizelos, head of the
Grek provisional government. 400,
(■00 pounds with which to organize
and carry on the government.
The trail is reported from fair to
good all the way inside, witli snow a
nil points except Fairbanks. Wort
man and Valdez. A rock slide is re
ported at Mile Id on the far side of
the canyon.
To Aid Car Striker*.
CHICAGO. Oct. :I0 Ollloials of tin
Chicago Surface and Klevatcd ltail
ways Ksnployes' Union will today senu
•; 1 5.000 to aid the New York striking
street car men in response to instruc
lions ot the unions, which last unani
mously voted to indorse the strike.
,\n assessment or |1 per mpnt!i on the
15,000 organized street railwry en>
ployes of Cook county was voted and
will be paid as long as necessary, it
was announced.
BIG ESTIMATE i
FOR NEXT YEAR
Al'IMtOVKM IIV SW'UKT.IK' W\|!
Colonel Itirharilsun ItlYchcs Not in*
tlisrt Estimates l’ro|inre<l It.v Coin*
mission Have lieen .lr(«|ilfd—Are
lairger This Year.
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JUNKAIT, Oct. JO. Col. Kiehard
rion, chairinan of the Alaska Itoad
Commission, lias received a telegram
from Adjutant General McCain stal
ing that Secretary of War Maker has!
approved the estimates submitted by '
the Commission for road work in the’
Territory, exceeding in amonot Ui->
appropriation for this year, and liar;
also approved of tlit* Gastineau chan-1
nel bridge, connecting Juneau witli
Douglas.
The estimates will now go in the
hook of estimates which the Secretary j
with recommend for appropriations'
from Congress. This action indicates;
the interest being taken by the ad
ministration in road work in Alaska,
and its confidence in the itoad Com
mission. Col. lUchuidson and Ma or
Davison are now in Ibis city godig
over tlie plans for the bridge. Col j
Richardson will leave some time this ;
week for Washington.
S. U. Oliver was an outgoing pas
senger oil the Mariposa for tin* State*'.
John Kntel and wife left on the
Mariposa for Seattle, where Mr. Kind
will organize a cannery company to
operate a cannery here.
That llai-n Dance.
Tomorrow night in Kagle hall will
he a winner for real downright fun.
You can't help hut enjoy yourselT.
Come dressed like you were hunting
for eggs in (lie old harn hack home
forget tin1 glad rags stun and com*
out for a good time.
HI'OK Itl N Of CAltlliOr
ItKPOliTKD ON McCAIlTY
J. Wilbur and J. liaison arrived in
town this morning from Nenana, hav
ing come out over the government
trail. Mr. Wilbur reports Nenana as
lively during the past summer, 'hut
that at present things have slowed up
considerably on account of shutting
down on the railroad work. On tin
way out Mr. Wilbur stales that he
saw the largest run of caribou in the
vicinity of McCarty he ever saw in
Alaska. The hills in that vicinity
were literally alive with the animals
and hunters were busily engaged it*
getting their winter's meat. They
also saw several moose and a nutuhei
of lynxes along the road.
COTTON TAKKH ANOTHKIt
DIG JUMP THIS MORNING
NKW YORK. Oct. SO.—Shortly
after the opening of the Kxehango
this morning cotton jumped to a frac
tion over 20 cents. This is the high
est price since the Civil War.
KMH'K II1GI1KR THAN
ANY TIMK HINCK \VAK
CHICAGO, Oct. 30.-—Tho whole
sale price of high grade family Hour
advanced to the highest price since
the Civil War. It is believed Hour
will hit $16 a barrel before the close
of the present month unless an em
bargo is placed on wheat.
Flour wholesaled today at $ 11 pe"
barrel.
Otto Larson, who spent the sum
mer in the Slate creek diggings, will
leave ou the Farragut for the States
SKATKS for sale and skates sharp
ened at the City Express. tf
WIEK .\NI) SON WERE
KILLED AND lll'KNED
LOS ANGELES. Oct. 24. Benton j
Barrett, a wealthy resident 04 years j
old, was arrested last night charged 1
with the murder of his wife and step
son at Santa Monica last Wednesday.
The district attorney says Barrett
confessed that he knocked his wife
and stepson unconscious during a row
and then burned their bodies while
they were yet alive.
lie asserted Ills wife attacked him
with a butcher knife.
D( T< II EAST INDIES
REBELLION DYING Ol i
THE IIAGl'K. OH. 19. The rebel
lion in the Dutch East Indies i. being
quelled according to otlicial ifTsoateh* ••
received by the government in-re. Tic
rebels in the district near Moc.iratcni
have surrendered. Three brigades ol
infantry in 11 ic-1t-d serious losses on a1
teliel force near Zemahnee on Sept
ember 2G.
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ROBBED OF »
iM>tci:i> to hi;r on tiii: kaci:s
• Iolin Olson Wails in Telejiruph Oilice
for Twenty-Nine Hours for lleturns
from .\lleRiil Itnees—Crooks lie!
His Summer’s WiiRes.
SAN I’UANCISCO, Oel. JO. John
Olson, an Alaska cannery worker, was
fleeced out of $500 by a brace oi
slick crooks, to whom he Rave the
money to liet on tin- races. Olson was
picked up by the bunco men Friday,
and was induced lo hot on alloRed
races. Olson was Riven ''-inn which
lie was supposed to have won, and lie
then turned over lo the confidence
men all the money he hail, $500. to
make further l ets.
He wan tolil to Ko to the teleRrapl)
oliiee at a certain place and await re
turns. After rniuaiuiUR at Iho office
for _'J hours Olson made known the
facts to tile police.
Olson was aide to Rive a Rood d>*
script ion of the men and the police
are now eitRORed in se..ri liiiiR for
them.
(■irl Repudiates Confession.
(T.AUKSHlTili. W. Va.. Oct. 30.
I.tna itenatiglio. the 13-year-old girl
who was arrested last week on tie
charge of murdering her father with
ti liateliet. repudiated her alleged con
tessinn. According to the police the
girl sitiil that a cousin, josepli Ttiere.
aged 30, killed her father aided h>
her mother, and that she had been
told to confess to the crime. No trace
of Tnera has been found.
Northwestern Sails.
SKATTLK, Oct. 30 The steamship
Northwestern sailed from here for
Valdez and way ports yesterday. The
only passenger hooked from here far
Vaide/, was K. 1). Nickols.
(kid fellows Notice.
All Odd Fellows are requested to
turn out tonight. Business of im
portance will come up.
Mr. and .Mrs. It. It. Norw ood of Cor
dova returned on the Mariposa to
their home after spending a month or
more in Valdez.
Boss B. Matkins. the well known
mining man, who is operating claims
in Slate creek, will leave on the Fat
ragtlt for the States.
GENERAL NEIDENOFF.
Bulgarian Minister of War
Planned Attack on Greece.
CARRY ELECTION
OPINION or OKNKKAI, HAKVKV
North Amrriran lirvlfu to lx- ls.«iiio<|
Tomorrow will Stiito that Klrrtlon
of lluulii's i*< t'ertain h> Majority
of :5 ami Probably More.
NEW YORK, net. 30.--The North
\nierican Review, whieh will lie is
sued tomorrow, will give Col. Mar
vel's opinion of the political situa
tion, in which lie prediets the elec
tion of Hughes. According to the
Colonel’s figures Hughes is certain of
receiving 269 electoral votes. Against
this Wilson is sure of 149 electroal
votes and possibly 50 votes from the
doubtful states. Hughes, the Colon) 1
1.1edicts, w ill have a majority of three
votes and the majority will probably
reaeli mi Hughes will carry Califor
ilia, Connecticut, Idaho. Illinois. Iowa.
Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michi
gan. Minnesota. New Hampshire, New
Jersej. Ni w Mexico, New York, North
Dakota. Oregon. I’eansyIvania. Rhode
Island. South Dakota. I’tali, Vermont
and U ashington.
It als)) expected that Hughes
will carry Indiana and Wisconsin, and
he is credited with a possibility of
winning Delaware, Ohio, Maryland.
Tic states which will undoubted
ly give Wilson a majority are Ala
bama. Arkansas. Florida. Georgia,
Virginia. Kentucky, Louisiana, Mis
sissippi. North Carolina. South Caro
lina. Tennessee, and Texas. The
states which may give Wilson, a maj
ority, hut are regarded as uncertain
an \ ri/ouu. Colorado. Missouri.
Montana. Nebraska, Nevada and West
Virginia.
Si. ier \ngelo, of the t'rsulitio con
vent, was a passenger for the States
(ill lie1 ^.iripo-sa.
SIZZLING FINISH
OF THE CAMPAIGN
1 |, \ | ;< i! 1,1.IS 1*1, Ul.lt os \\ II SON
One Wager of Sl.lHM* to Stiiio on Wil
son—lielling t '<iiiiini -sioners l.ook
i jug for liven Money on Odds of lit
It, on Hughes.
—
NKW YOKK, Oct. 20. — The last
week of tins campaign opens up with
'everything sizzling. A llood of bet
ling money lias appeared and thou
sand, of dollars are being waged on
tile resiut of the election. From one
of iln> popular uptown hotels, the
hendt|Uiiners of the sporting frater
iii.y, a wager was reported of If 1000
| to if mu), the odds being in favor of
i Wilson.
This is the tlrst bet recorded with
I the odds on the President and are not
jun indication of the majority of liie
diets. The betting commit,sioi.ers are
looking for even money or odds of 10
• to !» on Hughes to he the popular ba
sis of the bettors.
Wilson speaks at Uuifalo today and
Hughes ill Ohio.
|h‘lun Zero Weather.
\t tour points along the military
ieii gr. ph line below zero weathe r was
ireported this morning. McCarty re
i port' <1 32 below with Salcha report
ing 2o below. Richardson IS. bplow
unil Mu' Summit lo below. AkCalluiu
and t’axson reported zero and Fair
bunks 3 above with tile others sta
ino s teporling from -t to 2*> above.
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T|u. strong wind blowing in Valdez
evid'utij has iis origin in the vicinity
ot Heaver Dam that being the tart heat
point inside from which the storm is
i reported.
| _ _ ,
i in ter Row land left on the Mariposa
'to route to Okeechobee, Florida, tb
jjoin bis father who is engaged in the
lulling business there.
HKTS $1,000 TO $500
_ SII.ZKK IS KliKCTKD.
JI’N'KAC, Oct. SO.—J. K. Pat
terson. a prnmin >nt mining man
of Iditnred lid $1,000 to $500
lu re today that Sulzer would be
elected Delegate to Congress.
\\ bile many small bets have
been laid on the result of the
(lection this is the largest yet
pi iced in this city.