VALDEZ, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1914. NO. 1S3.
VOL. 10.
HMD BLOW FOi
KODAK TWIST
Circuit Court URholds the Patent
Right* of Dead Inventor, Stolen
by the Trust.
NEW YORK, March 11.—The fed
eral circuit court today upheld the
decision of the lower courts in the
su*t of the administrator of the estate
of Reverend Hannibal Goodwin, who
sued to enforce the patent rights for
the photographic films placed on the
market by the Eastman company.
The Eastman company stole the
idea from the old clergyman and re
fused to pay him for his invention.
All efforts of Goodwin or his heirs to
secure a settlement from the rich
photo supply company were in vain.
Goodwin died 13 years ago a poor
man and his relations had * it tie
money to fight the trust, but finally
interested some lawyers and secured
a decision against the Eastman com
pany. The case was appealed and
again the trust lost its suit.
If the supreme court upholds the
decision of the two lower courts the
Kodak trust will be forced to pay
many millions of dollars in royalties
to the administrator for the theft of
the patent right and must discontin
ue the manufacture and sale of the
film until the patent rights expire.
HER 1ELLS OF
Denounces the Operators of Michigan
and Colorado—Children Are
Forced to Work.
CHICAGO, March 11. President
Mover, of the Western Federation of
Miners appeared today before die
congressional investigating commit
tee. which is probing the situation in
the strike sections of Michigan and
Colorado.
The president of the strikers told
the committee of his experiences
when he was deported from Calumet
and Handcock and assaulted by a
number of the hired gunmen of the
operators and the Citizens' Alliance.
He denounced the methods of the
operators, who were forcing the men
to yvork for less than living wages.
Large families, he said, were compell
ed to send children into the mines to
earn part of the family living expen
ses.
MT BE SmEO
Will of the Grandfather Provides for
Concentration of Estate When
Children Die.
NHW YORK, March 11.—Under the
will-of his grandfather the estate of
George Vanderbilt, who died a few
days ago at Washington, D. C„ will
till go to Cornelius Vanderbilt. The
estate is worth several millions and
consists of stocks, bonds and more
than a million in cash besides a num
ber of beautiful mansions located in
this city, at Lenox and at Newport.
Under the provisions of his grand
father's will the estate of George
Vanderbilt was to be 1 ft to Cornelius
upon th,e death at George. It Is
thought that the fliret Vanderbilt made
this provision in his frill »9 as to
prevent scattering of the Ifrgjj for
tune he bad massed and desired to
m co;u.";ntrafe it tie the children died.
SIX LAWYERS
ARE INDICTED
Found a Millionaire Angol and They
Touched Him for Hueh Money—
Charged With Nasty Crime.
SEATTLE, March 11.—Six attor
neys of this city were indicted today
by the grand jury for fraud in that
they pxtorted money from Arthur
Brandeis, a millionaire merchant of
this city, forcing him to pay them
large sums of money under the threat
to bring suits Involving his character.
Nellie Paul, a woman of this town,
is also indicted and the prosecuting
officer states that the attorneys fram
ed up with the woman to charge Bran
deis with being the father of her
child and with having mistreated both
her and the boy, The merchant paid
former Judge Baxter $7,500 to drop
the case, after Baxter had threatened
to start the suit, then Baxter turned
the papers over to Attorney Olmstead,
who touched Brandeis for $3,500, and
he was followed by several others.
Finally Brandeis determined to fight
and defeated Thomas Brandy, another
attorney who sued him for $250,000
for the woman and child.
Six lawyers are now' under arrest
charged with extortion.
CMT BE SEIZED
Supreme Court Holds Police Officer
Exceeds Rights When They En
ter Private Residences.
—
Washington. March li.-crim
inal prosecutions may be revolution
ized by a decision of the supreme
court of the United States restricting
conditions upon which prosecuting
officials may seize papers belonging
to persons accused of crime.
The immediate result of the decis
ion was that Fremont Weeks, an ex
press messenger at Kansas City. Mo.,
will be given a new trial on a charge
of using the mails to further a lot -
tery scheme.
After Weeks’ arrest the United
States Marshal entered his house and
procured over COO letters which were
used against the prisoner when he
was placed on trial. No search war
rant had been issued.
Court I* Unanimous.
Justice Day in announcing the
court’s unanimous decision held that
Weeks’ constitutional guarantee
against unreasonable search had been
violated.
j “If letters and private documents
| can thus be seized and held and used
| in evidence against a citizen accused
of tin offense,” Justice Day said,
“the protection of the fourth amend
ment declaring his right to be secure
against such searches and seizures
is of no value and so far as those
thus placed are concerned might as
well be stricken front the constitu
tion.”
I
SCORES OF BABIES
ARE ABANDONED
PHILADELPHIA, March 11.—Eigh
! ty-seven babies were abandoned by
! their parents last year in Phlladel
| phia, according to figures on file to
day at the Children’s Aid Society.
The same list shows that of .310 mo
thers found to be in destitute circum
stancese, only 54 deserted their chil
dren. Onie hundred apd thlrty-sev
■ en of the fathers deserted their fam
I ilies.
I*.
j Dance Torttflht. -
) The regular Wednesday night dance
at Eagle Hall tonight. The Reinke
| orchestra with excellent music. Pine
; lunch,, BverybotJ# welcome. k.,12
^—: .■ 1 --T- .
C. Nicholson left this morning for
a trip out the trail.
ECLIPSE OF THE
MOON TONIGHT
Earth Will Get in the Way of the
Sun’s Rays and Shut Off the
Current—Watch For It.
SEATTLE, March 11.—There will
be an eclipse of the moon tonight.
^Vatch for it.
"fhe above dispatch came to us over
the wire this morning. Our corres
pondent has another guess coming,
and we won’t watch for It because
we do not know at what time it will
appear. The earth coming between
the sun and the moon casts a shadow
upon the face of the man in the moon
and makes a black man of his other
wise bright and smiling countenance,
causing an eclipse. Now, you know
what an eclipse is and how this one
will be caused.
We have searched the World Al
manac to find out a few details about
this business of placing a blot on the
moon, but can get but little informa
tion.
In days gone by Captain Lenoir!
would furnish the Prospector with all
the information needed about the so
lar system, but alas, he is now in
Seattle, where he helped to re-elect
Hi Gill. We have applied to army
officers and professors alike but can
receive no help, so our readers who
wish to see an eclipse will be com
pelled to watch all night.
The World Almanac says that the
eclipse will be vis ble to the people
on the Great White Way of New York
1 at 9:57 tonight, New York time. To
the people on Barbary coast it will
be visible at fi:32 p. m„ Frisco time.
At that rate it would have been vis
ible in Valdez at -4 o’clock this af
ternoon. As Mr. Moon is not above
i the snow peaked mountains that sur
! round Valdez at 4 o’clock, we are
j down and out. Our figures may be
j wrong, so tomorrow we will find out
from City Marshal Larson if the
! eclipse was visible during the wee
j sma' hours of the morning. Bay will
j know.
IS TRAINING
TEAM OF FOX
Jack Taylor Teaching Red Foxes to
Work, According to Report—
Breaks Them to Harness.
FAIRBANKS.—According to infor
mation reaching town from out the
trail, Jack Taylor, who has a fox farm
[near the Overland roadhouse, about
r 50 miles from Fairbanks, will have
! one of the most novel of the many
i Alaska exhibits which will be seen
at the Panama Pacific International
j exposition at San Francisco in 1915.
The report slates that Taylor is now
‘training a number of foxes to work
! like dogs and that by the time he is
ready to go out over the trail in the
spring of next year, the team will be
i in good working shape.
I It is stated that the animals are
proving to be more tractable to the
harness than was expected that they
would. Kight of them are being train
ed, and, until such time as he tlnds
a fox which will gee and haw to his
satisfaction, Taylor is using a dog as
] a leader.
At his place on the trail Mr. Tay
lor now has something tike 40 foxes
of all breeds and varieties. Those
which he is training are red foxes,
the pelt? at which are not very val
uable. The animals ere rather small
to work, but Mr, TaytQr has hopes ot
being abi,e to mold his team into
^something which will Ttttract univer
sal attention when he drives through
•the streets of San francisco.
Dr. German; the Valdez dentist, is
n returning jlsaseng’er on the North
western '
ABOUT TOE BILL
Cummins Was Fearful That the
"Guggs" Would Hava Uncle Sam
At Their Mercy.
WASHINGTON, March 11.—When
the conference committee yesterday
reported the Chamberlain Alaska
railroad bill, known as Senate bill
No. 48, Senator Cummins, of Iowa,
denounced the measure, as It had been
reported with Cummins amendment
left off the bill. Cummins insisted
that the bill as reported by the com
mittee left the government at the
mercy of the railroad owners in Alas
ka because the government line would
have to be built from the inland
terminals of the existing lines, tnus
allowing the roads already in exist
ence to dictate rates.
Pittman Replies
Senator Pittman, however, called
his attention to the fact that
the bill provided specifically that the
government must own the road from
the coast to the interior and thus
no traffic arrangement need be made,
as the president is authorized to buy
the existing lines if in his judgment
such a course is necessary.
“The government must acquire a
continuous line *rom the coast to the
interior by purchase or construction,”
said Pittman, “and are not at the
mercy of the railroads now operat
ing.”
Senator Sutherland, of Utah, and
several other senators insisted that
the bill did not properly provide for
the operation of the road after it was
constructed and that the power left
to the president was too great.
Senator Norris and a number of
senators insisted that the power to
lease should have been stricken from
tlie bill and the operation of the road
should have been by the government
only.
The vote for the bill was then tak •
en and showed 12 for the Chamberlain
bill as amended and 27 against.
Uses Axe to Chop Beautiful Painting
of Venus by Old Master—May
Revive Flogging.
LONDON, March 11.—In revenge
for the arrest of Sylvia i’ankhuisl,
Mary Richardson today entered the
National Gallery here with a meat
axe concealed under her skirt, and
when she found the attendants were
not watching her she cut and slashed
into pieces the beautiful painting of
Ventfs’by Velasquez, which was val
ued at $200,U00 and can never be re
placed.
Attendants succeeded in overpow
ering the Richardson woman and pre
vented her from doing further dam
age. She was roughly handled in the
melee and her face and body badly
bruised. She told the matron at the
station that she was not sorry for
what she had done and would do the
same thing over again until the gov
ernment is forced to grant equal suf
frage to women.
Art collectors are indignant at the
act of the militant suffragette and are
urging a more perfect guard for all
.national art treasures and Insist that
women who commit crimes pf wanton
destruction be flogged as the surest
.method' of dealing with them.
The Sergeant’s Secret is a two
reel K. B. sensational and keenly In
teresting picture. Pull of .Inspiring
scenes When Dreams Come True,
[is another fine melodrama at 'the Or
pheum tonight. / .
Watch crystals 25c. PUnt & Co. tf
COXEY’S ARMY
STARTS STEALING
Blow Open a Postoffice Safe at
Loomis, Cal., and Secure $700—
Steal Horses Also.
LOOMIS, Cal., March 11.—Thirty
of the unemployed band of Coxeyites
entered this town last night at mid
night, entered the postoffice building,
blew the safe, stole $700 kept there by
the postmaster, and then stole
enough horses to make good their es
cape.
A number of citizens, incensed at
the action of the Coxeyites, without
waiting to dress, started to pursue
the robbers to recover the stolen
property, but they were soon out
distanced by the bandits.
The police are making every ef
fort to locate the men, but it is
feared that it will be impossible to
do so, as they have, by this time,
joined the mob of unemployed camp
ing some distance from here.
Governor Johnson has been called
upon to provide protection for the
small villages in the path of the army
of unemployed, who are becoming
desperate and insist that the govern
ment provide them with work.
START SHIPMENTS
Large Amount of Material on Seattle
Docks Ready for the North—
Sailing Vessels Coming.
SEATTLE. March 11. First ship
meats of Alaska cannery supplies for
the coming season in Alaska will he
made to the north this week. Already
on several docks of Alaska steamship
companies supplies have been deliv
ered to go on the next steamships.
i These supplies for the most part are
tin plate for the manufacture of cans
i and lumber for the necessary build
i ings which must be constructed.
The Northwest Fisheries company
is putting its vessels in shape for the
season, and Libby, McNeil & Libby
last week started to prepare their
sailing vessel’s for the season’s work.
Contrary to the usual custom which
has prevailed in the past, all the ves
sels of the different canneries will
leave Seattle at about the same time.
Heretofore it has been the custom for
the different companies to race their
vessels to the north in order to get
desirable sites for their traps. This
season an understanding has been
reached which will allow the vessels
to sail no sooner than is necessary to
prepare for the season’s run of fish.
The steamship Wintber, which will
sail from Bellingham with material
for a new cannery at King Cove, will
be the first cannery vessel to invade
the north this season.
EVANS AT CORDOVA
AT 5 THIS EVENING
I The steamer Evans, of the Admir
al Line, is due at Cordova at 5 this
afternoon and should reach Valdez
during the night.
—
Vaughn Ca«e Goes to Jury.
The case of Vaughn, the roadhouse
keeper at Tiekhell, against Ed. Mad
dox, went to the jury yesterday after
noon at 3 o’clock and the jury remain
ed out all night and were still un
able to agree at 10 o’clock today.
The district court officials now In
Cordova are expected to leave the
railroad citjf fop' Valdez on the steam
er Northwestern, now en route to Val
dez.
Harvey’* Toggery
Have just received a splendid line of
afternoon gowns, dainty waists and:
ofew sportihg coats, so popular .hist
now. if j
LEAVES SEATTLE
Has Big List of Passengers—Twenty
for Valdez, 54 for Seward and
Westward, Many for Juneau.
SEATTLE, March 11.—The North
western, of the 'Alaska Steamship
Co., left at 2 this morning with a
capacity list of passengers for South -
eastern and Southwestern Alaska
ports. The boat has a big cargo of
freight for the interior, pome tvia
Skagway and considerable via Cor
dova, as the nearness to the end of the
season has caused many to start ship
ments north, fearing the period o;
snowslides, when the railroads into
the interior will be blocked.
The Northwestern is taking ttu
place of the steamer Mariposa, which
struck a root near Ellamnr on het
last trip and will have to go on the
dry dock for repairs.
The following passengers are on the
boat for Valdez: M. Sullivan, Janie;
Hamil, John Lyons, Carl Hansen, E.
Jensen, C. Harrington, Thomas Wil
liams, A. Sather, Dr. German, Charle.-.
Nelson, John Bradstorm •’nd six sec
ond-class.
For Fort Liscum: A. Foster and I
Beall, and for Seward and the west
ward 54 first- and second-class pas
sengers.
ROME STRIKERS
Detachments of Cavalry Ride tk r
Mobs Down and Soon Clear tne
Streets—Many Back at Work
I!OMK, March 11 The large de
tachments of cavalry brought into
this city to prevent disorders on the
part of the 100,000 strikers have sue
ceeded so well that the men are
nearly all back at work.
The cavalry troops rode the big
crowds down and prevented large
gatherings and kept the mobs mov
ing. The free use of the saber and
the fear of being trampled upon by
the horses soon drove the strikers
from the streets and many of them
have returned to work, thus breaking
the strike.
The troops will be kept here tin
til all 's quiet, although the auth
orities do not expect any further
rioting.
BHIS HOLD OP
CANADIAN BANK
Only Secure $2,000 to Divide Among
Seven Crooks—Was Large
Amount Cash in the Vault.
ABBOl'TSFORD, B. C., March 11.—
Seven masked men entered the
branch h re of the Royal Bank and
held up the cashier and his assist-'
ants, securing two thousand doliini
for their trouble. The bank em
ployees were ail covered by the ban
dits and were forced to hold up their
hands, The robbers forced the cash
ier to open the cage and they took
all the cash he had in the drawer, hut
were frightened away by the approach
of a number of depositors.
A large amount of cash was In the
vault and it is thought the band knew
of it and hoped to make a big clean
up. A posse of ’ citizens, leid' hjr 'he
mounted police, have started to hunt
the crooks and are hopeful of c.vj
takiug them.