VOL 9 VALDEZ, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1913. NO. 211.
RAILROAD BILL
MAY BE PASSED
Senator Pittman Wants Alaska
Railroad Bill Made Emer
gency legislation.
Washington, I). C., June 17.—
Senator Pittman, chairman :of
the Senate territorial committee
will .recommend the passage as
an emergency measure of the
committee’s Mill to appropriate
$50,000,000 for the building of
railroads in Alaska recommended
by the railroad commission which
visited the territory last fall.
The bill provides that the pres
ident shall select the route of the
road, but it is believed he will he
guided by the recommendations
of Ihe commission, which spent
much time last summer studying
the conditions in Alaska.
II is believed here that Ihe
Senate will pass the hill provid
ed Ihe tariff bill is not reported
out of the finance committee be
fore the end of the month, in
which event the senators would
spend the time waiting for the
tariff measure discussing the
Alaska railroad bill, but if the
bill is not passed before the tar
iff is up for discussion il has no
chance of passage.
The' appropriation of $50,000,
000 is to be covered by bonds,
which will be sold by the gov
ernment.
POTATOES CUP
III MS CITY
Kansas City, June 17.— t'nta
lues are. selling in this town fur
I 0 cents a Inishel ami I ..arkel
is glutted. I'rinn Chicago conies
word that the same condition ex
ists in the Windy City, and hun
dreds of tons of spuds have spoil
ed owing to the condition of the
market and the inability of the
commission merchants to sell the
surplus stuck.
ERECT SUCK
POP PUNT
Superintendent Turn Quinn
lliis morning erected the big 05
i'oot smokestack on the city plant,
of the power company, which is
to be used as an auxiliary plant
in the event of accidents to the
power plant in Solomon basin.
The generator now used at the
povvdr plant at the beach near
Solomon river will be brought to
Valdez in a couple of weeks and
installed here. The old boiler and
75-horse power engine will be
used in the auxiliary plant.
The big Pelton wheel and gen
erator ordered for the new pow
er plant in the basin is expect
ed to reach Valdez before the first
of July and will be installed im
mediately.
Tom uonohoe is making bets
that John L. Steel, of Landlock.
will be the next marshal of the
Third division.
The Brighton arrived from
Port Wells last night with many
passengers.
When Andy Dieringer gets
through with Swanitzville Hub
bard won’t know the place.
Change of Pictures Tonight at
Orpheum.
The Passing Shadow, splendid
child acted drama.
* The Light That Failed, line
picture on electric lighting.
How Father Works, great com
ic.
Kitty’s Holdup, rollicking com
edy and a good one.
Martin Chuzzlevvil in three
reels on next Thursday.
Decision in Ail But Three Roads
Declared Valid—Railroads
Want Uniform Laws.
Washington, 1). C., June 17.—
The Supreme1 Court yesterday
rendered its decision on the rail
road rate regulation cases ap
pealed by the roads from I he de
cisions of the state courts.
Thu court held that the Arkan
sas and West Virginia two cent
fares were valid. In the Missouri
cases the two cent fares were
held to he confiscatory in the
case of the (treat Western and
two oilier railroads, hid valid as
to the Milwaukee, Hock Island,
Wabash, Burlington and eight
others.
The railroad officials say that
they will appeal to congress for
a rate regulation law that will
he uniform in all stales instead
of the present system now upheld
by the highest court allowing
each state to make regulations
and establish [trices.
FROST TRIALS TO
COMMENCE TODAY
Seal lie, June 17.—The trial of
A. .0. Frost for ■'attempting to
defraud the government out of
coal lands said to he worth ten
million dollars, is set to com
mence today.
It was thought that after the
defeat of the government by the
Chicago jury the cases would he
dropped. Ind it is the intention of
the Interior department to con
I inne I he prosecul ions.
FIND LEAD ON
MOUNTAIN KING
Wopil was received Iasi night
by W. E. Smith, superintendent
nt' the Mountain King mine on
Mineral creek, that the men
working on the properly had
struck a blind lead three feet
wide of high grade quartz ore.
The tunnel taps I lie lead at a
depth of 150 feet.
LAUNCH SMASHED
UP AT ELLAMAR
• Ttie big 52-foot gasoline
launch Valdez, belonging to the
Ellamar Mining Co., was badly
damaged when the sling broke
while the boat was being lifted
from the deck of I he steamer
Latouche at Ellamar. The launch
dropped on the 0 x 0 uprights
used for the stock pen* on the
deck of the boat and they smash
ed the hull as if it were paper,
jabbing their way into the cabin.
The boal then fell into the .wa
ter keel up and every window in
.the little vessel was broken and
her upper works badly smashed.
Superintendent Middlecamp re
fused to receive the boat and it
was towred ashore and left on
the beach. It is not known if the
engine, a new 30-horse power af
‘fair, was hurt or not.
Charles Crawford will leave for
I he Gold King tomorrow morning.
Mrs. Dalton is confined to her
"mini with a severe cold.
Miss Davie Liverman and Chas.
Howard were married last night
at the home of Mrs. J5d. Wood by
the Rev. W. H. Ziegler, of the
Church of the Epiphany.
The revival services last night
at the Congregational church
wore well attended and similar
services will be held this even
ing. Everybody is welcome.
SOI HOTNESS.
IN THE EAST
People Die in Many of the East
' ern Cities From Being
Sunstruck.
Chicago, June 17.—The heat
here yesterday was almost un
bearable, causing the death of
five people, tilled the hospitals
with sunstruck people and^, the
streets with dead horses.
The heal in all the eastern
stales is taking its death toll from
the inhabitants of the cities. Six
people died in Philadelphia; tv\;o
in Terrehaute; one in Detroit;
three in Cincinnati; 12 in New
York, where the temperature was
102 and in Indianapolis the tem
perature was Ift3 and three peo
ple died from the effects of the
hot weather.
Dunk Steward and Quince Fish
left for Port Wells today.
BEET SUGAR MEN
Force Company to Give Up Three
quarters of Stock of the
Corporation.
Washington. I>. G., June 17.—
Henry Oxnard,* the fattier of Ihe
heel sugar industry in America,
was called before Ihe Senate lob
by probing committee and testi
fied that Ihe New York bankers
who had been appealed to for aid
In the formation of his big beet
su^ar corporation operating in
Ihe West had insisted on receiv
ing $15,000,0011 of I he stock of
tile company, which had been in
corporated for $20,000,000.
Throe-quarters of the stock
was watered to satisfy Ihe de
mands .of the bankers, who ad
vanced #5,000,000.
The operation of the present
tariff law, Oxnard asserted, would
mean the establishing of another
legally operated trust.
Fine change of program at the
Orpheum tonight.
TRIAL Bt JURY
FOR JCANAL ZONE
Washington, D. C., June 17.—
The Senate today decided to ex
tend the trial by jury to the ca
nal zone and a bill was accord
ingly introduced with that object
in view.
NORTHWESTERN DUE
THURSDAY NOON
The steamer Northwestern left
Skagway at 11:15 this morning
and is due to reach Valdez about
noon Thursday.
The office building used by the
Valdez and Yukon railroad at
SwanitzvTtle ' was placed on a
lighter last night and (ius l)jarf
expects to bring it to Valdez on
tonight’s tide and place it on the
foundation next to the Road Com
mission building.
Mrs. Guthrie, Miss Cummings,
Arthur Cummings aiid Gus Bel
loli made a trip to the glacier to
day and spent the day in explor
ing its mysteries.
Dan Sheehan intends going to
Port Wells on tomorrow’s trip
of the •Brighton.
“Come on, let’s go and buy
some bargains .at Adler”*
SHOOT HUERTA
IF CAUGHT
Will Invoke the Law of Maxmil
lian and Shoot Provisional
President.
Eagle Pahs, June 17.—Gener
al Carranza, tin* rebel chief of
Chihuahua, has issued a slate
ment that in the event of the
capture of President Huerta, who
murdered President Madero, the
(dd law of Maxmillian, passed
January 25, 1802, will be invok
ed and he will In1 put to death.
II was under this law that Em
peror Maximillian was shot af
ter the collapse of his effort to
establish a kingdom in America.
“The war agains' the govern
fenl established in the blood of
I lie former president will con
tinue' until all the men of the
northern slates of Mexico are
killed or the usurper is dethron
ed,” says Carranza.
DOCK CO. TO GET
WASHINGTON COAL
•
Order Shipments on Alameda and
Mariposa—Strike Still on at 1
Nanaimo.
Tin* Valdez Dork Co. has tele
graphed to Seattle for a ship
ment of 50 tons of Washington
coal to he sent north on the Ala
meda and an additional shipment
of 50 tons on the Mariposa.
The company, has been unable
to secure Hritish Columbia coal
because of | he strike of the coal
miners, who have been out for
I lie past six months and the sit
uation lias become very critical
at Nanaimo with not a pound of
coal being mined.
The steamers leaving Seal lie
are compelled to pay high prices
for coal and many are leaving for
San Francisco to secure bunker
coal, the Washington mines be
ing unable to supply the demand.
The Dock company, in order
to supply the local demand for
domestic fuel has ordered the
best grade oi Washington coal.
KARLUK LEAVES
F0RJ1 ARCTIC
Victoria. B. June 17.—The
steam whaler Karluk bought by
Explorer Sl-efanson left today
for Nome, at which place the ex
plorer will join the expedition
and remain in the north for live
years, taking soundings and ob
servations' and hunting for the
lost continent often reported by
Arctic explorers.
Copper Quotations.
New York, June 17—Copper,
dull, spot June, July, August,
814@814.C2; electrolytic. 815®
815.25: lake. 815®815.87: cast
ing, 814.75 @815.50.
The launch. Onward, a 52
footer, reached Valdez last night
after coming from Seattle under
her own power.
Walter Stuart and Walter El
liot, who own the submarine
launch Pioneer, brought the boat
to the surface last night with the
aid of Captain Morris. They plan
to use the boat part of the time
on the surface of the bay, but
are. noj. sure of their ability.
Joe Baxter, superintendent of
the Cold Creek Mining Co., is in
town.
RODNEY TOUCHES
N. N. COMPANY
They Come Across With Back
Taxes Amounting to Fifty
Thousand Dollars.
Seattle. June 17.—The govern
ment, represented by District At
torney Rodney of Nome, settled
the case against the Northern
Navigation company for failure
to pay license taxes on the
freight taken from tin; steamers
in (hi1 roadstead to tin* beach.
The government insisted that the
barg.es must pay $1 a tori for
each Ion brought ashore.
The1 navigation company yes
terday compromised the suit by
paying $50,000, which will go in
to the lax fund of the territory.
The statute of limitations was
a bar to the collection of $200,
000 owed by the company to the
government, but which the gov
ernment was unable to collect
because the time limit provided
by law to commence suit had
passed.
DELLA FOX
PASSES AWAY
( New York, June 17.—Delia
Fox, al due time the most fa
mous actress in the United States,
died here today.
Della Fox started her, work on
the stage when nine years old
and ten years ago was the most
famous actress in America, play
ing in “The Little Trooper." “The
[Wedding Day" and many other
plays, lint of tale years she had
taken to the vaudeville stage.
placTdotT
ON- BANANAS
i
Washington. D. L.. June 17.—
j The finance committee yesterday
I placed a heavy duly on all im
ports of bananas in spite of tin*
|objeclions of the Republican
members of the committee, who
declared that the banana was
used for food by the poor and
that a duty would work a hard
ship on them. The Democrats. [
however, insisted on having the
duty on the bananas. Under the
present tariff bananas are ad
mitted free.
BRIGHTON LEAVES
EARLY TOMORROW
The launch Brighton will leave
tomorrow morning from the Val
dez Dock for Port Wells and way
ports with a large consignment of
freight and many passengers.
The launch has been repainted
and refitted and a new 30-horse
power engine installed and is in
splendid shape. t
Arctic Brotherhood Meet Ttfnight.
The Arctic Brotherhood will
meet tonight at the lodge rooms
in Eagle hall and as important
business is to be discussed a
•large attendance is requested by
Arctic Chief McNeice. A promi
nent. menlber of the order will
make an address.
Mark Gleason, Ernest Amund
son, Edwards and Wilson, who
are now working down the bay,
expect to be in Valdez on the
Fourth of July.
Mrs. J. C. Crittenden, Mrs. W.
Harrington and Miss Stuart re
turned from Landlock bay last
.flight on the Copper Nugget,
bringing their arms full of vio
lets and other wild flowers.
One-half off on trimmed milli
nerv and 25 per cent discount on
suits at Harvey's Toggery.
SPONGING OUT
VALDEZ HARBOR
Alaska Delegate Can’t See It In
Naming Possible Gateways
to the Interior.
Senator Chamberlain's person
al statement printed in the Con
gressional Record of May 22
contains the following:
"Yesterday the Committee on
Territories was holding hearings
in reference to the construction
hy the government of a railroad
into At aska, and Judge Wicker
sham, the Delegate from Alaska,
was addressing the committee on
the subject. In the course of
what he had to say he spoke of
there being only three gateways
into Alaska, and staled, in sub
stance, that, those three gateways
were practically owned and con
lr lldd hy the Alaska Syndicate,
composed of the (iuggenheim
Soils Co. and the J. 1*. Morgan
interests, tie said in substance
that hut for an accident the same
interests would have obtained a
monopoly of the one gateway
which was not then under the
control of the so-called Alaska
Syndicate. t interrogated him
upon that subject and asked him
how they were prevented from
obtaining a monopoly of that one
gateway and how they would have
obtained the same, and lie stated
(continued on pag“ 3).
BIBS ABE OPENED
STATIONSUPPLIES
Hills for transporting !*(’> tuns
of supplies In I lie 11 i IVe fell 1 tele
graph siaiioiis on Hie military
line lielween Valdez ami I’axsons
were opened yesterday I»y f 1.ieiiI..
Kunzig, <|iiarteriiiasler. dames
Kisli was | lie lowest bidder, he
offering to deliver | lie supplies at
an average rate of slim a ton.
The work will rommenre imme
diately and all the supplies must
be landed b> March .'II. I i> 1 i.
Oilier bidders were Ed. Wood,
A. Iberinger and Janies E. Wil
son.
flyingmachinF
FORJSKAGWAy
The following is taken from
the Skagway Alaskan and would
indicate that Jimmy Daniels,
formerly on the Valdez run, is
now on | lie l.eelanaw:
The l.eelanaw, with Captain
Jim Daniels in 'command and
Captain 'll. C. Jansen as pilot,
docked in Skagway al o’clock
this afternoon, with a large car
go of merchandise for the inter
ior. One of the unusual objects
on the l.eelanaw is a flying ma
chine billed for Skagway. It is
understood that the aviator will
arrive tomorrow and give an ex
hibit ion in this city, going from
here to Whitehorse and thence to
the interior. There were also
two automobiles aboard and the
fast clipper launch for the White
Pass & Yukon for use on the riv
er division.
Among .the stock which a gen
tleman is taking to the lower Yu
kon for dairying purposes are 13
cows and 5,000 chickens. Three
calves were born on board ship
and they will be shipped north
with the other stock.
The Leelanaw will take a car
go of ore south when she sails,
which will be within two or three
days.
■ ■ — m ■'
Eldi'ed McClaire is going to
Port Wells tomorrow for a three
months’ prospecting trip.
Adler is selling out. Bargains
in anything and everything.