V0L VALDEZ, ALA8KA, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1913. NO. 148.
Small Boats Unable to Handle the
People and Many Still
Awaiting Rescue.
Shawnee town, 111., April 3.—
More than a hundred people are
still perched on the roofs and the
small buildings waiting to be res
cued by. the small boats, which
are working night and day to lake
the endangered people to places
of safety.
Most of I hose still in danger
on the main street of the city,
which is nearest the water front,
and I hey had no opportunity lo
escape when the levee was dyna
mited. N'o clue has as yet been
found lo the perpetrator of the
dastardly deed.
PLENTY BOOZE
IN THE BIB
Flood Carries Away Underpinning
of the Whiskey Warehouse
at Louisville.
'Louisville, K>\, April :i.— The
high water of yesterday carried
a why the underpinning of a large
whiskey warehouse here and S.ftOO
barrels of whiskey, valued at
about $250,000, was released and
is now Heating down the river.
Many negroes tried to recover
a barrel apiece for home con
sumption. hut. were prevented by
lhe whites, who feared the result
if the black men secured the
booze while the many white wo
men and children were in iso
lated places and unprotected.
Peter Johnson, who was declar
ed insane by a jury at Illiama,
was brought to Valdez on the Yu
kon and was taken to the hosT
pital of the Good Samaritan, as
he is in a' very weak condition.
He will he taken lo Portland as
soon as he is able lo travel.
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WISHER SUIT
Chicago, April It.—The appel
ate court has upheld the right of
Mrs. Catherine Elliot to the estate
of her divorced husband, Harry
Curtis Elliot. Harry was one of
the large stockholders in the
Hubbard-Elliol Mining company
and was killed in a snow slide
in the interior of Alaska about
three years ago. AL one time the
stock in the mining company had
a good market value, and Mrs.
Elliott asserts that her interest
is worth two million dollars.
World Not 80 Bad After AM.
Who says honest men are all
dead? A man who lived in Wil
son county thirty-five years ago,
but who has long been a resident
of Arizona, recently visited the
home of one of Wilson county’s
oldest citizdns and paid for a calf
which had been taken from the
ranch of the old settler thirty
years ago. The taking of the calf
had long been forgotten by the
owner, but (he conscience of the
man who was responsible for the
act had never been satisfied, and
he felt easy only when the value
of I he animal taken had been paid
to the owner. Men are not so
had as they are sometimes cred
ited with being, and the world
is not so bad, after pit.
Don’l forget the Kaglo dance
.Sat urday. ' “ .
OTHERS INVOLVED
COAL SCANDALS
Former Senator Turner Has Been
Subpoenaed—Register Mullen
Also in Trouble.
Chicago, April 3.—Former
Senator Turner may he involved
in the F'rost case, as a letter
written by Attorney Osier, of
Toronto, to Frost, was introduced
by the government in which Osier
says that Senator Turner advised
that F. H. Stewart remain in Can
ada so that he could not be forced
to testify in Seattle! in Hil l.
yfudge Landis immediately is
sued a subpoena for Turner and
lie will he placed upon the wit
ness slam! and examined.
Patrick Mullen, formerly I he
register of the land office in
Alaska, was also subpoenaed. He
has been accused of actually aid
ing Frosl while in the employ of
I he government.
A. C. Frosl is still on the stand
and yesterday stated, in answer to
a question of the government’s
attorney, that Attorney Oeneral
Wickersham had assured him of
a fair trial and that the govern
ment would give him fair play.
He asserts that he is nol receiv
ing a square deal.
IN6Ri’SMi
MUG BILL
Valdez Representative Has Meas
ure for Workingmen in the
Mines—Bill in Full.
II lias linen derided llial when
l.he committee reports any of the
eight-hour labor bills back for
consideration that all will he re
ported at the same time. Much
j publicity has been given the Hod
eii-(5alfney bill and the Ingersoll
hill has also been published in
full. The text of the Ingram bill
on Ibis subject, known as House
Hill No. 3, is herewith presented.
Section I. Employment in all
underground mines, underground
workings, open cut workings, op
en fiil workings, smelters, reduc
tion works, stamp mills, concen
trating mills, chlorination pro
cesses. cyanide processes, and at
coke ovens and blast furnaces, is
hereby declared to be injurious
to health and dangerous to life
and limb.
See. Thai the period of em
ployment of workingmen in all
underground mines, underground
workings, open cut workings, op
en pit workings, chlorination pro
cesses, cyanide processes, and at
coke ovens and blast furnaces
shall not exceed eight .hours per
day: except m eases of emerg
ency, where life or property are
in immediate danger, the period
may lie extended during such
'emergency.
See. 3. Thai eight hours per
day shall be construed to mean
eight hours actual labor and does
not include the time employed or
consumed in going to or return
ing from the point or place of
! work.
Sec. i. Any person, persons,
body corporate, general manager,
or employer who shall violate, or
cause to be violated, .any of the
provisions of this act, shall he
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor
and upon conviction thereof shall
be punished by a fine of not less
than two hundred and fifty dol
lars or more Ilian five hundred
dollars, or by imprisonment in
the fedeual jail not less Ilian
ninety days, nor more than six
months, or by both fine and im
prisonment. Every day's viola
tion of the provisions of this act
(ronlintied on page 3).
Baby Republic Will Take Its
Place Among the Nations
of the World.
Washington, l>. C., April :i.—
President Wilson has decided to
recognize fhe new Chinese repub
lic and will receive the ambas
sador now here in a few days. •
Tint present government of Chi
na has never been recognized by
the powers hut it is expected that
(many of tile other nations will
follow the lead of America and
formally recognize the ambassa
dors now in their capitals ask
ing to he heard.
FORT TAKEN BY
MONTENEGRINS
Send 200 Bomb Hurlers to Certain
Death But Capture Fort With
Infantry Charge.
Celt inje, April d.-—Tilt' great
'J’arabosch fort, guarding the city
of Scutari, was yesterday captur
ed by the Montenegrins, who
‘sacrificed 20ft men, who rushed
-up to. the works ami'threw'high'
power bombs into the works, kill
ing many of the tie ft-,inters, hut
also sacrificing their own lives,
then following the first attack by
n direct charge against I lie fort
by I lie infantry, fighting a hand
lo hand ligtil for several hours,
| finally driving the Turks out of
| the fori and turning the guns up
| on the oilier forts of the Turks
I around the city.
Tile capture of Tarabosrh is
considered as sounding ttie death
I knell of the Turks defending the
city, as tiie besiegers can now
throw shot and shell into the city
and can also silence the other
t'orls about the town.
II is believed that tin* city will
surrender within hours.
No Tight Lacing in Heaven.
"Another reason a woman thinks
heaven will be a place of bliss
is because she thinks she won’t
have to last tight,” says an ex
change. tl should seem a para
dise to woman to be independent
of fashion and free of care. It is
easy to dress in corsets and the
other implements of torture com
mon In feminine style, hut il is
quite an improvement to have
the privilege of taking oil' these
implements and dressing in com
mon sense apparel. Most any
man who has gone Ihorugh a day
I when a pair of overt ighl shoes
i made life uncomfortable for him,
should he able to distinguish be
tween plain comlorts and those
we know not of. hill dread lest we
finally realize them.
i . __
Frank l.ipp, of Seward, who
was hound over to the grand jury
by Judge Roinag for assaulting
Tom Finnigan and cutting him
with a knife, was brought to the
Valdez jail. Ite was held under
$2,500 bond and could not raise
the bond, so now must await the
next grand^ jury.
The Eagles have arranged io
hold their semi-monthly dance
Saturday night and the commit
tee are working for the usual suc
cess of the Eagle dances. A lunch
will be served the guests and the
committee assure the guests of
a good time. Fine music, as usu
al.
Just received the latest, up-to
the-hdur Eastern millinery at
drs. S. E. Gleason’s, Keystone ave.
l>ncs vour watch need repair
ing? See fleinke. the watch doc
tor.
OFFICER'S WIFE
HIKES HER LIFE
j --
Jumps Off the Bridge at Omaha
When Her Husband is Or
dered to Philippines.
Omaha, April 3.—Mrs. Hull, the
wife of Colonel Hull, committed
suicide here yesterday when her
husband received orders trans
ferring him to the Philippine is
lands, h y,jumping from the Doug
las bridge into the river, which
was 100 feet below.
Mrs. Hull was adverse to re
lorniiif, lo the islands and be
came very despondent and final
ly took her own life by jumping
from I lie bridge.
10 START SOON
Supervising Architect Calls for
information From Postmas
ter Steel.
The following article appeared
in the Cordova Alaskan of the
27th ult. and tells of the plans
of the new federal building for
the railroad towu:
“^'dstniufser jJloei .has received
from the office of the supervising
architect, at Washington, a re
quest for certain information
concerning the site for Cordova’s
projected public building. The
architect desires a map of the
town showing the pres.ml post
office. the approximate business
center, the approximate center of
population. I lie railroad station,
streets that are paved and the
blocks devoted to business bouses.
In addition the postmaster lots
received an advertisement Idr
federal building site, to be pub
lished in the Daily Alaskan dur
ing April. This provides that
proposals are solicited, and will
be opened in the office of the Ar
chitect at Washington, on May
17. for the sale or donation to
the United Stales of a corner lot
suitable for a federal building site
at Cordova. It is to be approx
imately 28,000 square feet in area
and if rectangular its minimum
dimension must be not less than
130 square feel.
flight Kind of Prosperity.
What this country wants is
general prosperity. Prosperity in
the workshop, in the bank, in
i the store, on the farm, and in
Wall street, loo, says Leslie’s
Weekly. When all nUns prosper
jin one can complain, hut if any
suffer all inusl endure ■mure or
less of hardship. Let us he
broadminded, fair and just, eon
ceding (o some more ability Ilian
lo others, and recognizing that
the Creator in His infinite wisdom
did not make all men alike in
brain any more than in body, that
some will have greater genius for
groat affairs than others, just as
some will turn* greater physical
strength and powers of endur
ance for the race of life.
■Mrs. A. C. Meagher, of Katalla.
is a guest of the Orchards and
will remain here for some time.
Mrs. Meagher arrived yesterday
on the Sampson.
Tonight's Program at Orpheum.
Pathe Weekly with events all
over the world. 4
The Lure of the Fool lights, an
excellent drama.
The Miss Sent Letter, a rip
roaring comedy.
Matinee Saturday at p. m. and
change of program.
Just received at Harvey's Tog
gery. a nice line of spring and
summer coats.
I » , • 1 \ ;
Agree to the President’s “Ian of
Free Wool and a Lower Tar
iff on Sugar.
Washington, I*. C., April 3.—
President Wilson has won the
tight to have the Democratic party
reduce the tariff on sugar and
to wipe out the tariff on wool,
which will, if the Wilson plan
carries, be admitted into this
country, free.
Many Democratic members of
congress were opposed to the cut.
claiming that the government
must have revenue to carry oil
the work of Ihe administration,
and others are opposed to Ihe cut
because i| will effect imltislties in
i heir dist riels.
II is estimated by the Ways and
i Means committee, of which Con
gressman Oscar Underwood is
chairman, that the loss to the
|government by the free wool will
he *20.000,000, while the reduc
tion in the tariff, as now plan
ned on sugar, will cost the treas
ury departnrenl the neat sum of
*53,000.000.
GILMORE IS
VICTORIOUS
r 1 ’
Bitter Fight at Nome to Oust the
Present Mayor From Council
• .
Was Unsuccessful.
.Nome. April _. - (I iclaycd in
transit . Mayor Gilmore was re
I elected to tin* council here on
|Tuesday in spile of the hitler
hostility towards him of the em
ploying operators. The labor ele
ment rallied to tin- aid of Gil
more and succeeded in carrying
him to victory.
George Jones, a member of the
Western Federation of Miners
leads lln> winning ticket, he re
ceiving 58(5 out of a total of 1001
votes cast; 69 registered voters
failed to vote in spile of the fact
that men hunted the town from
one end to (he other for the miss
ing voters.
Five members of the present
council were beaten and Gilmore
and one other re-elected.
The successful ticket was call
ed the Citizen’s ticket and was
strongly bucked by the working
men of tin1 city, while the cor
porations who-operate in and
about the city worked for the old
council with the exception of Gil
more. against whom all their ef
forts were directed.
The lowest councilman elected
received 590 votes, while the next
highest candidate received 081
votes. Gilmore was the sixth man
in the running.
Thousands of dollars were bet
on the result, the. Gilmore men
winning big money.
Considerable scratching was
done by the voters and the
counting was delayed, the result
uo| being known until near morn
ing.
Judge Muranc has done as much
as possible in his official position
to defeat Gilmore. He it was who
started the campaign againsl the
prbsent mayor by accusing the
council of allowing gamblign
within the city. It is also alleg
ed that considerable had blood
exists .between the two men be
cause of (tie failure of the Pio
neer Mining company’s men to
vote at the delegate election, Mu
rane, it is understood, opposing
Gilmore, and preventing the'com
pany from coming to the support
f lh“ Republican iiomii.ee.
Jion’t' ■ forget the Fugle dance
Saturday.
I
MORGAN’S BODY
EN ROUTE HOME
France Waives All Formalities
in Connection With Ship
ping of Body.
Horne, April 3.—The body of J.
Pierpont Morgan left here for
Havre, France, from whence it
will be shipped on one of the
American liners direct to New
York.
The French government lias
waived all formalities governing
(lie shipping of bodies through
French ports and i| is expected
that no delay will be experienced
in getting the body to New York,
where services will be held in the
Cathedral of SI. John and later
the body will he interred at .Yew
Haven, Conn.
BIG FUNERAL FOR
KING OF GREEGE
; King George Laid Away Amidst
I the Most Impressive Services
| Ever Held in Athens.
I )
\ Aljht'i.s. Greece. Apidt M. -The
funeral of King George, who was
shot and killed li\ a degenerate
whi|«> walking in the streets of
the captured city of Salmiiea, was
buried yeslerdav amid I lie greal
esl pomp. The funeral proces
jsion was sioeral miles long and
II he services of llu' Greek church
jwcre read at the cathedral.
j (ieorge I., king of I lie Hellenes,
I was horn December I i. 18 i.r>,
I elerleil king in I HGG. lie was the
• brother of the late king of Den
I mark, I'rederiek VIII.. and hndh
jer nf I lie dowager ipieen of Great
| Mritsiin and I lie dowager empress
inI' Itussia. lie married in 1807
(lie grand diudiess Olga, eldest
jdaughter of (tie. Grand Duke
i C.onstantine of Russia, grand un
lele to the present emperor. They
have had six children, live sons
| and one daughter.
START TRIAL OF
ASSAYED ADAMS
Seal tie. April 11. Assayer Ad
janis. wlm was eaughl, after liis
j release pn parole from MeNeils
J island, where he was serving a
sentence for stealing gold from
Alaskan pokes, working with an
ex-counlerfeiter to Hunt some
j had money, is now on trial in the
federal court here for the latter
i offense. He was taken hack to
| McNeils to serve his old sentence,
and will now lake his medicine
for again falling by the wayside.
.Hrjveunn. Hammond and Kip
pel. the diamond drill men. who
are lo work the drill now installed
across the hay by the (iuggen
heim Exploration company in
their endeavor lo locate the val
ue and extent of I lie ore on the
Midas property, which they bond
ed last summer from Messrs,
finical. (Irigsby. Wilson and as
sociates, left this morning for
the claims and the work will be
prosecuted immediately.
Sale of Silk Dresses.
The finest and most up-to-date
line of ladies evening gowns, af
ternoon dresses, a complete as
sortment of silk waists and all
'kinds of silk petticoats cheap.
The chance of a life time. 1 leave
on the next boat for the interior.
Rooms ‘.’(i and 21 at the Seattle
Hotel. ANNIE GIBRALTAR.
■ Subscribe for the Prospector.