VALDEZ, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1914. NO. 102.
VOL. 10. _
SPECIAL RULE FOR
' ALASKA A A SILL
House Steering Committee Reports
in Favor of the Substitution
^ of Senate Bill.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—The com
mittee on Rules, more generally call
ed the Steering committee, and the
most powerful committee of the
House of Representatives, today re
ported a special rule in order to al
low for the substitution of the Sen
* ate railroad bill for the House biU,
because of the larger appropriation
carried by the measure which recent
ly passed the upper House.
An effort had been made a few
days ago by friends of the bill to
substitute the Senate bill, but as it
required unanimous consent it was
x blocked by the opposition. The ad
ministration leaders then determined
to secure the same result by having
f the rules committee report the
change in the rules especially for the
Alaska bill, which was done today and
which will make the road to victory
for the measure that much surer.
All hope of defeating the bill has
been abandoned by the opposition and
it is expected that the measure will
pass some time this week.
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OUT ON STRIKE
Demand $500 a Year and Union to
Back Them for Five Years—Kids
f Happy at Enforced Holiday.
LONDON, Keb. S. The school
teachers of the county Hereford have
gone on strike, demanding a minimum
wage of $500 a year and all the school
houses are closed. The National
School Teachers Union have guaran
teed the strikers full pay for five
years and urge them to continue the
strike until they are paid a living
wage.
The government may send strike
breakers into the district to replace
i those who have quit if no settlement
is made in the next few days, as they
do not intend tiiat the schools shall
remain closed.
The children of the country are
happy and the enforced holiday seemB
better to them than Christmas, and
they express the hope that no school
can be opened for months, if ever.
- AFTER PRESIDENT
Big Mob of Them Besiege President
f Wilson at White House—Ask H'*
Aid Secure Votes for Women.
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* WASHINGTON, Feb. 3— A num
her of special trafps .brought four
hundred suffragettes to this city yes
terday and they besieged President
Wilson at the White House and de
manded that the chief executive aid
thein to secure the right to vote in
all the states of the country.
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to avoid making any statement of
his position to the women, hut they
became* so insistent tSdf !li« undo a
short address in which be said that
be oopW| not adyocate any‘ legiala
> tion which the National Committee
1 of the Democratic fogitf bad not ap
proved and that therefore he would
refuse to ant congress to psaa «
UV'V'f sal suffrage lW.
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NUMBER OF CATTLE
HAVE DECREASED
Report of the Department of Agri
culture Shows Loss of 12 Per
Cent Since 1910.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—The De
partment of Agriculture today issued
a statement to the effect that the
reports from the agents of the de
partment show that the number of
c ttle in the United States has de
creased 12 per cent since 1910. The
report says that grazing lands of the
west have .b^en taken up by the
small ranchers and that the big
ranges are no more.
The report also shows that con
siderable beef has been imported in
to the country since the passage of
the recent tariff law.
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STEAMSHIP LINES
HEAVILY FINED
Judge Jennings Touches the South
eastern Alaska Transportation
Lines for a Wad.
JUNK ALT, Feb. 3.—The attorneys
for the Pacific Coast Steamship Co.,
the Alaska Steamship Co., the North
ern Pacific Wharves Co., the White
Pass and Yukon Railroad and the
Canadian Steamship line today pled
guilty to the indictments brought
against the several companies be
cause of rebates given to the favored
shippers, and because of the combi
nation in restraint of trade, which is
in violation of the Sherman anti
trust act.
Judge Robert W. Jennings fined the
Pacific Coast company $6,250, the
Alaska Steamship Company $5,000,
the North Pacific Wharves and Trad
ing Company $10,000, the White Pass
and Yukon railroad $2,000, the Ca
nadian Steamship Company $3,500.
The fines were imposed after Judge
Jennings had received instructions
from Attorney General McReynolds
to accept the plea of guilty.
The cases have hung fire for two
years and involved nearly all of the
transportation companies of South
eastern Alaska. The Humboldt steam
boat, operated as an independent boat,
claimed that it was being discrimi
nated against by the different dock
owners and that shippers were giv
en a low rate in order to keep them
from shipping with the Humboldt so
that in a few months the boat could
be driven off the run.
For a Federal University
WASHINGTON.—The movement
for the establishment of - great Fed
eral University in Washington on the
plan indorsed by the National Asso
ciation of State Universities began
to take form today. President Kd
mund J. James, of the Univer ity of
Illinois, began the preparation of a
bill to be introduced in congress af
ter being submitted to President
Wilson for his approval. Dr. James,
W. O. Thompson, president of the
Ohio State University, and Brown
Ayers, president of the University of
Tennessee, form. g cbmmittee ap
pointed by the association to draft
the proposed pleasure.
The bill will carry a preliminary;
appropriation of $600,000 toward the!
establishment of a university to be'
under the control Of a board appoint
ed by the President of the Un'tod
mm wm
board nude up of oft delegate from
each state to frame a ppG^y.
Oen .Lee in Virginia.
A K. B. two-reel exciting feature
5Ini entitled, “With General Lee in
irglnia," af the Orpheum change tn
•ight. Also two doe enmediw.,
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Senator Chamberlain Would Have
Administrative Powers in Alaska
Save Delay.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—Senator
Chamberlain, of Oregon, today intro
duced a bill in the Senate to provide
for an administrative commission of
three to reside in AlasJra and attend
to the department work necessary to
be done in the north, but which is
now referred to Washington to one
or the other bureaus.
The entire Alaska business, all the
resources of the north and all admin
istrative work is to be handled by
the commission if the bill passes.
Secretary Lane, of the Department
of the Interior, is strongly in favor
of the measure and is said by many
to be behind the bill.
The commission is to be named by
the president under the provisions of
the Chamberlain bill and the three
members must be residents of Alas
ka. They are, however, to have no
jurisdiction over the railroads or
steamship lines of the territory.
NEW YORK CITY
TREATER BURNS
Twenty People Caught in Fire But
Are Rescued by Firemen—
Prevented From Jumping.
NEW YORK, Feb 3.—Twenty peo
ple were trapped in the Lyric theater
in Times Square last night when the
building caught tire, and for a short
time it was feared that all of them
were doomed to death. The building,
which is in the heart of the sky scrap
er district, brought out twenty tire
wagons and the firemen soon res
cued the imprisoned people.
The persons trapped in the theater
building were about to jump to the
stone pavements below when the po
lice and crowds in front of the build
ing warned them not to do it and
by giving encouragement to them
succeeded in keeping the frightened
theater goers . cool until the arrival
of the firemen, when, in the presence
of a crowd of 20,000 people, most
spectacular rescues were made.
The high pressure water system
of the city soon drenched the fire
which never had a chance to spread
after the water was turned on.
The fire happened Just before the
ater time and a crowd of more than
30,000 people kept the police busy
maintaining the fire lines.
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SPEND Ml
NEXT FIVE YEARS
SEATTLE, Feb. o. -The bankers of
this city estimate that if the Alaska
railroad bill passes the House and is
sined by the president that more than
twq hundred millions of dollars will
be spent in Alaska'in the next, five
years and that practically all of it
will pass through this city.
The real estate men are prepar
ing for the greatest boom in the his
tory ot the town and are seizing large
advertisements to the eastern papers
♦eMng Of tfce.ftae MBMfaw to be bad
tTOpflfo <**> estdSrW* merchant
ffSettle. In every line, *re expect
ing that their business will go for
ward by leaps'and bounds and that
fhe. n«<t iM'e jpug trlji bd ateipt
wlndene tor them.,
lire. Kelk Jaftgmi dad hear dgMghtfcr,
in«t J*wde. left tfclfjg^frriSe'* fd* fifasit ■
few it wilwr JfMBv
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PARIS BANKER
GOES WRONG
Touches Gullible Investors of France
for Many Millions With His
Promotions.
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PARIS, Feb. 3.—The police today
arrested Banker Leconte and charg
ed him with stealing millions of dol
lars from the people of France through
his promotions of “blue sky compan
ies.” Leconte, the police claim, is
one of the cleveres.t promoters that
they have had 'o deal with in many
years and has succeeded in securing
millions of dollars from the gullible
publ'c, including twenty bishops,
many archdeacons and politicians and
servant girls and day laborers who
paid their money to him.
The books have been so manipu
lated that Leconte himself is the only
one who can unravel the tangle, and
although experts have been working
for several weeks they are unable to
straighten out the tangle of different
companies.
No other banks are effected by the
failure and arrest, is the statement
issued today by the bankers.
SENATE CONFIRMS
HENRY M. PINDELL
Illinois Editor Finally Receives En
dorsement of Upper House for
Russian Ambassadorship.
WASHINGTON', Feb. 3.—Henry M.
I’indell, the Illinois editor, was con
firmed today as United States ambas
sador to Russia and as soon as con
firmed he tendered his resignation to
the president.
Pindell’s name was held up by the
Senate because it was claimed by the
enemies off the editor, that Senator
J. Ham Lewis had traded with Pin
dell and had stipulated with him to
take the position for one year and
then resign. Lewis denied the story
and asserted that the letters shown
the Committee on Foreign Relation
were forgeries.
Pindell was named last September,
but was not confirmed at the last ses
sion of congress and President Wil
son sent the name to the Senate soon
after the present congress convened,
as he stated that an investigation by
agents of the Department of Justice
bad shown the charges were ground
less.
The Illinois editor desired con
firmation as a vindication and upon
receiving it immediately resigned the
appointment.
OFFER BIG PRIZE
ENCIRCLE GLOBE
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 3.—The
management of the San FranciBco
Panama exposition today announced
that they would give a cash prize of
$300,000 to the aviator who would en
circle the globe during the year 1915,
when the fair is to be opened.
The prize is the largest cash prize
ever offered ip aviation anti it is be
lieved ttjat many ptiil try tor it. as it
js pa impendent fortune to the sue-;
cessful airman
Bpceptiy two Fr noh> aviator*
thw distance (ram Paris to CAtro,
ypt. a dlitance 0f *,000 miles. Across i
many ranges of mountains sad among
many strange peA»li»». tuft both sue-'
cwssftlliy 'nejpHtatod the 'trip.
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the offering of the. Arise of (SAMOA ]
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NO BOOZE FOR
JUNEAU DRUNKS
The Grand Jury Objects to Sale
to Men Already Under Influ
ence of Liquor.
Jl'NEAL’, Feb. 3.—The grand jury
in session in this city today render
ed its final report and strongly rec
ommended that the law against the
selling of liquor to intoxicated men
be enforced and that the license of
any saloonkeeper who disobeys this
provision of the law be revoked.
The sale of liquor to prostitutes and
the trade carried on with the stock
ade residents came in for a round of j
denunciation by the grand jury.
The judge instructed the marshal to
investigate the conditions under j
which booze is sold to intoxicated
men.
RATE WAR ON
ATLANTIC OCEAN
North German Lloyd Starts Big Fight
to Secure Steerage Business
Across the Atlantic.
NEW YORK, Feb. 3.—North Ger
man Lloyd Steamship company an
nounced today the first cut in ihe
steerage passage from Europe to
America and a rate war is now on
between the two German lines and
the English companies. The pool
which has heretofore existed between
the steamship companies doing steer
age business has been dissolved be
cause the other companies complain- j
ed that the North German Lloyd
company was securing ihe bulk of the
business to America. The Hamburg
American line endeavored to secure
its share of the business and threat
ened to commence a rate war.
The Kaiser endeavored to prevent
the cutting of rates between the two
German steamship lines, but was un
successful.
Following the announcement of the
cut to $25 made by the German
Lloyd, the Hamburg and the two Eng
lish companies announced a lower
rate, which was followed by a sec
ond cut and now the trip across the
Atlantic can be made for one-third
of the previous rate. The rate ap
plies only to steerage from Europe
to America and has not effected the
first or second-class rate nor the east
bound rate.
JULIUS REIOELSHEIMER
STRICKEN BY PARALYSIS
SEATTLE, Feb. 3.—Julius Reidel
sheiiner, a wealthy business man of
this city, with large interests in
Ala ka, was .-tricken yesterday with
para ytis. Several doctors are in at
tendant e on h n' hut it is feared th.;: j
ho wit! not recover.
$1,950,000 for Educational Uses.
NEW YORK, Feb. 3.—Announce
ment was made last night by the gen -
eral education board, founded by John
D. Rockefeller, and to which he has
given $43,000,000 that a donation of
$1,500,000 has been give n{o the Johns
Hqpkins medical school, Baltimore,
forth* promotion ;of medical science.
Oth^r donations agreed .upon were
(800,000 to Barnard College. New
York; (200,000 to Wellesley College,
Wellesley. Mass., and (60,000 to Rlpon
College. Rlpon, Wis. In l^dnor of Dr.
the William H. Welsh endowment for
clinical education and research.
thi* morning (Of IBUanwr on the hie
launch of the Ribunar Mining eftic
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SitrrwMg f*r the WoUthetl eowwty.
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GIRL IDENTIFIES
Tells Police That Diggs and Gilligan
Are the Two Men Who At
tacked Her.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 3.—Ida
Pearring, the 17-year-old daughter
of Dr. Pearring, of this city, today
identified Maury Diggs and Walter
Gilligan as two of the three men who
had taken her to a cafe on New
Year's evening, had given her chloral
and while drugged bad taken her to
a small hotel, where they had kept
her for the night in a small room
which tlie three men occupied with
her.
Detectives have been working on
the case since the matter was re
ported by Dr. Pearring and have a
strong chain of evidence against the
three men. The cab driver, the lie.
tel clerk, the girl and a number of
others have identified Diggs and 11is
companion as the men who had the
girl on the evening in question.
Dr. Pearring stated today that
w hen his daughter returned home she
was in such a condition that he dis ■
paired of saving her life, as she had
been frightfully abused while under
the influence of the drug.
ALASKA S. S. GO.
WINS VERDICT
Circuit Court of Appeals Reduced
Damages for Sinking Steam*
Telegraph by $20,000.
SAX KAXCISCO, Feb. -TheCir
cuit Court of Appeals today reduced
the amount of damages awarded th i
owners of the steamer Telegraph by
the jury in the district court at Seat
tie because of the sinking of that
boat by the steamer Alameda.
The verdict in the lower court was
for $45,000, while the higher court
decides that $25,000 is plenty for th s
little steamer.
The Telegraph wa« sunk when th-:
steamer Alameda became unmanage
able and crashed through the Cole
man dock and cut the Telegraph in
two, resulting in the death of sever
al people on the boat and the throw
ing of a score or more into the vya
ters of Elliott bay.
The Alameda was commanded by
Captain Johnny O’Brien.
NAVAL EXPERTS
RATHER SLICK
Juggle Figures of Relative Strength
c.f American and German Navi.'i
to Throw a Scare.
WASHINGTON, F«b. 3 -The mem
bers of the House Naval eomni.tteo
today charged that the experts of l h ■»
Na’-y department hod so juggled t-i
flguree of the relative strength of th i
navies of Germany and the United
States, so that Geriaany was placed
ahead of the United States, irhile, t’.*»
committee asserts, ve rank Germany
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