VQL 10 VALDEZ, ALA3KA, MONDAY; MAY 4, 1914. NO. 180.
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FROM FMRBANKS
Thome Riggs May Join Commission
—Jack Oalton for Chief of
Transportation.
WASHINGTON, May 4.—Commis
sioner William Edes, of the Alaska
railroad commission announced here
today that the first headquarters of
the commission would be at Seward,
and not at Valdez as at first contem
plated, and that the reason for the
selection of the westward town was
that it is the only place where the
commission could secure board and
lodging for the men to be employed
this summer.
Wickersham Pleased.
Delegate Wickersham held a long
conference with the railroad engi
neers last Saturday and> has an
nounced himself as well pleased with
the selection made by President Wil
.son and with the work outlined by
the commission for the coming sum
mer.
Riggs May Join Commission.
Thomas Riggs, formerly interna
tional boundary commissioner, in
charge of the survey of the boundary
between Alaska and Canada has al
so been in conference with the com
mission engineers and it is expected
that he will join the organization
soon to start north.
Jack Dalton Chief Packer.
Jack Dalton, the Alaskan now here
on business connected with the re
cent transportation of the Matanuska
coal from Chickaloon to Ship Creek,
near Knik, has been consulting with
Commissioner Edes and it is believ
ed that he will secure the position
as head of the department of trans
potation.
talkIdTweeks
ON CANAL TOLLS
Senate Committee Reports Sims Bill
—Administration is Hopeful
of Victory.
WASHINGTON, May 4—The Sen
ate Committee on Interoceanlc Ca
nals today reported the Sims Canal
bill to the upper house and the dee
bate, which Is expected to last for
six weeks, has started. The friends
of the administration are confident
that the repeal will be forced through
the upper house in spite of the op
position of its opponents.
Senator Gorman will lead the op
position to the repeal, while Sen
ator Root will aid the administra
tion. Senator O’Gorman Is the Dem
ocratic senator from New York, while
Root is a Republican from the same
state. Party lines have been wiped
out to some extent, but the majority
of Democrats are expected to aid the
administration and the larger part of
the Republicans to fight the repeal.
SENATOR MILLARD
WS REAL ESTATE
Senator B. F. Millard today pur
chased lot seven, in the Hemple parte,
and will soon move his fine resi
dence from Port VHdtz to the new
location, which is considered one of
the best residence sections in the
town. Lot seven is a corner lot on
Nizina avenue.
William Edes, the head of the rail
road commission, is afraid that he
cannot secure enough to eat in Val
des. Perhaps he nerer heard of the
free lunch at the Big Place.
Supt. W. R. Millard is up from the
Granite gold mine in Port Welle.
ANOTHER BUZZARD
INJALIFORNIA
SAN BERNARDINO, Cal., May 4.—
A blizzard in the San Bernardino
mountains has stalled a large num
ber of automobile parties which were
crossing the mountain when the
storm started. Relief has been sent
to them, as it is feared that some
of the women and children may suf
fer from the cold and possibly from
hunger.
GERMAN GUNS TO
BE RETURNED
Hamburg Liner Will Return to Ger
many With Huerta Arms and
Ammunition.
HAVANA, Cuba, May 4 —The Ham
burg American liner Critic, which has
been waiting in this harbor for a
settlement of the present trouble be
tween the United States and Mex
ico in order that she might proceed
to Vera Cruz and unload a cargo
of guns, ammunition, field guns and
munitions of war purchased by Pro
visional President Huerta from the
Krupp factory in Germany, has been
ordered to return to Germany, where
the guns will be held in storage un
til the trouble is settled.
U. S. May Protest.
It is understood here that the Un
ited States has made a protest to the
German government and to the gov
ernment of Cuba against allowing the
shipment to be placed in storage in
Havana until a later date and insists
that the guns should be returned to
Germany.
Germans Friendly.
Diplomats here believe that the
German government has ordered the
return of the shipment so as not to
embarrass the United States govern
ment in the event of the steamer
proceeding to Vera Cruz and the
seizure by Admiral Fletcher.
Foreigners Honor Dead Marines.
VERA CRUZ, May 4.—The battle
ship Montana sailed from here yes
terday with the bodies of 17 American
marines killed during the fighting
here when the city was taken from
the Mexicans by Admiral Fletcher.
The sailors and marines were at sa
lute as the big battleship started on
the return to New York and the flags
of the ships were all at half mast.
Every battleship in the harbor, in
cluding the English, German, French,
Spanish and Italian ships had flags
at half mast and had the crews at
attention as the American death ship
swung about for the trip down the
bay.
New York Preparing.
NEW YORK, May 4.—The funeral
parade In this city when the bodies
of the dead marines reach here will
be one of- the largest ever held here.
Ten regiments of the state national
guard have been ordered to parade,
regiments from New Jersey and
Massachusetts, some from Connecti
cut and the naval reserves from a
number of states will be in line, be
sides the sailors and marines from
the war vessels at the navy yard.
Two thousand tpolice will also par
ade in honor of the dead marines.
Re cht New York Saturday.
The Montana will reach here on
Saturday and the battleship will re
main out of the harbor until 10
o'clock, when the war vessels from
the Tompkinsville station and the
revenue cutters will meet the battle
ship at Sandy Hook and escort her
up the bay. ’
Manager Finical is cutting 22,000
feat of lumber every day. The big
raf(s of logs are expected the latter
part of the month from down the
sound.
Bert Rutherford and Henry Dejro
left Saturday night for the' Ramsay
Rutherford property with a crew of
men to begin operations.
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MIES COMING
ON NEXT SIMPSON
Louii Hill, President Great Northern
—Gov. Litter and Earling of Mil
waukee Among the List.
(SEATTLE, May 4.—A hundred
capitalists, representing many mil
lions of dollars, will leave here on
the Admiral Sampson on May 15th
as the guests of President- Alexander,
of the Alaska-Pacific Navigation
company, to visit Alaska. The list
includes President Louis Hill, of the
Great Northern; President Hanna
ford, of the Northern Pacific, Presi
dent Earling, of the Chicago, Milwau
kee and Puget Sound railroad; Gov
ernor Lister of Washington, a num
ber of prominent bankers and men
of affairs of the Pacific coast.
The Sampson will leave on the 15th
and will make a number of extra calls
so that the capitalists may see as
much as possible of conditions in
Alaska, especially along the coast.
The railroad presidents are anxious
to learn at first hand the conditions
in the territory and will study con
ditions and may extend their opera
tions to the north and secure a part
of the heavy traffic expected alter
the railroad is bull!.
CHINKS MURDER
AMERICAN OFFICER
Sc. Louis Chinatown Is In an Uproar
—White Wives of Chinks Are
Arrested.
ST. LOUIS, May 4.—Lin Chuch,
an American immigration official, was
murdered here Saturday night and the
police have arrested Mayor Bing, of
Hop Alley, Chinatown; Helen Davis,
the queen of the Alley, and a score
of other whites and Chinese from
Little Pekin.
Mayor Bing predicts that his ar
rest and that of his white queen,
along with the arrest of the other
Chinese and their white wives will
precipitate a tong war that the au
thorities will not be able to handle
and that unless he is released at
once and allowed to control the
members of both tongs nothing can
prevent many murders.
Extra police have been detailed to
watch results and have been ordered
to prevent any demonstrations in Hop
Alley.
ISSUED CHECKS,
NO BANK ACCOUNT
J. O Stevens Arraigned Before Judge
Love and Held for Grand Jury
—Checks Were Worthless.
J. O. Stevens was given a prelim
inary hearing before Judge Love this
afternoon, having been arrested by
Deputy Marshal Al. Sullivan charged
with securing money under false pre
tenses in that he had passed worth
less checks. ,
Joe McCoy, proprietor of the Del
monico Cafe, made the complaint af
ter he had cashed a $10 check on the
bank of S. Blum & Co., and which
was returned by the bank marked
“no funds.”
It is also charged that a number
of other worthless checks were pass
ed by Stevens upon other business
men. 8tevens was held under $600
ball to await the actibh if the grind
Jury.
PASSES AWAY
General Sickles, the Last Command
er of the Civil War, Dies
in New York.
NEW YORK, May 4.—Major Gen
eral Daniel Edgar Sickles, the hero
of Gettysburg, where he dost his
right leg and received from con
gress a medal for distinguished gal
lantry on the field of battle, died
here today at the age of 89 years.
Mrs. Sickles, his wife, was at the bed
side of her husband when he breath
ed his last, a death bed reconcilia
tion having been effected by the son
after thirty years’ of separation.
General Sickles is the last of the
generals of the civil war and will
be given a military funeral with all
the national guard of the state, num
bering 16,000, in line of march and
with detachments of cadets from
West Point and middies from Annap
olis, besides all the regular, troops
from the posts near New York.
It is expected that President Wil
son, ex-president Taft, Governor
Glynn and Mayor Mitchel will attend
the funeral services besides a num
ber of distinguished foreign diplo
mats.
TRUST SILLS
ARE READY
House Judiciary Committee Makes Re
port—Bill Very Stringent and to
Hold Directors Responsible.
WASHINGTON, May 4.—The Ju
diciary committee of the House today
reported the administration trust bills
which will now be debated in the
House. The bill as finally drafted
by the committee prohibits inter
locking directorates, prevents price
discrimination by large or small cor
porationss, holds all .directors and
officers of the company individual
ly liable for any violation of the law
and in many ways places restHctions
on large combinations of capital.
Labor organizations are to be al
lowed to organize without hindrance
from the government according to the
law as at present drafted.
Administration leaders are confi
dent that the bill will pass as rec
ommended by the cdmmittee and that
it will stop the big syndicates from
raising prices and robbing the poor.
WANTS SOLDIERS
KEPT AT LISCUM
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James Lathrop Wires Mayor Ritchie
Suggesting That the People
Here Get Busy.
J. M. Latbrop, owner of the Val
dez Dock company and a large prop
erty holder in Valdez, has wired to
Mayor E. E. Ritchie suggesting that
the people of this city get busy and
request the War department to retain
the troops at Fort Ltscum because
of the great amount of government
property In this division, the con
templated construction of a railroad,
the certainty that many undesirable
characters will be drawn to the ter
ritory expecting easy money and that
the troops will certainly, be needed
more the nett year or so than they
have ever been hertoifore.
Mayor Ritchie has requested Sec
retary Fish, of the Valdes Commer
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PLENTY OF COAL
BONNJFIELD DIST.
WASHINGTON, May 4.—The geo
logical report on the Bonnifleld coal
fields in Alaska Just issued by the
Geological Survey, places an estimate
of 10,000,000 tons of coal in the dis
trict. The previous reports of the
commission showed only 7,000,000
tons of coal in the district and the
later investigations have determin
ed that at least three million more
tons are lying in the undeveloped coal
beds in the Bonnifleld region.
MILITIA BLAMED;
MURDERED WOMEN
Military Commission Would Court
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Martial Those Participating in
Recent Outrage.
DENVER, May 4—The military
commission recently appointed by
Governor Ammons to investigate the
causes which led to the responsibil
ity for the battle between the miners
and military authorities at Ludlow,
when the tent city of the strikers was
captured and 11 women and two
children cremated in the tents which
were destroyed by lire, reported to- j
day recommending the court mar
tial of the officers and men concern- |
ed in the attack.
The commission reports that the
trouble was largely due to the oper
ators, who had imported ignorant and
savage Europeans to take the place
of the miners and that they have
been guilty of many excesses tend
ing to bring on trouble between the
miners and the strikebreakers, until
many people are inclined to believe
that the operators were trying to pro
voke the miners to destroy property
so that they could secure federal
troops in the district.
The mine operators have refused to
arbitrate and claim that they will
run the mines with non-union miners
or will shut them down.
LUDLOW. Colo., May 4 —The cor
oner’s jury which has just investi
gated the death of 11 women and four
children at the Ludlow tent camp of
the striking mine workers have re
ported that the women and children
came to their death through the work
of the state guards. .
DENVER, Colo., May 4.—The min
ers on strike in this state have made
a demand upon the commander of
the regular troops that they disarm
all the militia and force them to sur
render their arms. The miners claim
(hat if they are disarmed the militia
will take revenge for the recent trou
bles between the two organizations
and that it is only fair to force both
sides to surrender their guns.
City Council Meet* Tonight.
The city council will meet tonight
at 8 o’clock at the city ball and will
prepare for a large amount of street
improvements. The Street committee
will outline the proposed work for
sidewalk and street improvement.
Orpheum Tonight.
A fine program at the Orpheum
tonight as follows:
Animated Weekly, world events.
• Judge’s Vindication, reel one.
splendid drama.
Judge’s Vindication, reel two,
sensational finish.
On Her Wedding Day, Keystone
comedy.
Change of program tomorrow evap
IP*.
Mr. Ernest Spiers received a tele
gram yesterday telling him of the
death of S. H. Todd, his father-in
law, who died Saturday at noon at
his home in Wakeman. Ohio. Mrs.
Spiers, his daughter, is now en route
to Valdes on the Northwestern, and
will not know of the death of her
father until her arrival here. Mr.
Todd was St yearn old at the time of
his death.
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STILL PROBING
Former President Mtllen Will be Put
on 8tand by the Commerce
Commission.
WASHINGTON, May 4.—Charles S.
Mellen, former president of the New
York and New Haven railroad, will
be a witness this week before the
United States Commerce Commis
sion and will be asked to tell of the
many financial deals by which the
railroad was looted of millions of
dollars and its stock made almost
worthless.
The attorneys for the commission
are confident that they will be able
to trace the many deals by which
the money of the company was turn
ed into the hands of the Wall street
financiers.
The attorneys representing Mellen,
however, are expected to advise their
client not to answer any questions
that will incriminate him, and it is
expected that the commission will
have to seek elsewhere for the de
sijred information, and 'still (others
expect that Mellen’s memory will be
exceptionally bad and that he will fail
to recall the details of the deals in •
quired into.
Tidal Wave or Earthquake
When Capt. Callaghan was nearing
Valdez yesterday with the launch N.
and S. he met a tidal wave six feet
high and not knowing whether it
was a tidal wave or earthquake, he
hove to. When he reached town and
investigated the cause he found that
it was the result of Andy Dieringer
falling in the bay at Swanitzville. Tho
whole mosquito fleet had quite a
shake up.
BALODNISI WAS
BELIEVED SPY
German Party Caught in Storm Which
Carried Them Over the Frontier
in Russian Prison.
BERLIN, May 4—Hans Berliner, the
German balloonist, with two passen
gers, who landed in Russia have been
sentenced to six months in Jail, The
Russian government officials believ
ed they were spying along the fron -
tier and refused to credit their story
that the balloon had been carried
hundreds of mileB out of its way by
a storm in which it had been caught.
Berliner appealed to the German
government and claimed that he and
his companions were not aware that,
they had been carried into Russian
territory. They were nearly exhaust
ed and thankful that they were alive
when the runaway balloon came to
earth. The German government at
tempted to secure their release by
diplomacy, but failed in the attempt,
as the Russians believed they had
purposely permitted the balloon to
drift over several fortifications.
NO DRINKS FOR
TANGOJANCERS
ST. LOUIS, May 2.—Drikna on the
dance floors at summer gardens or on
other dancing pavilions this summer
have been tabooed according to Ex
cise Commissioner Anderson today,
who said that his ruling would ef
fect Forest Park Highlands, Suburban
Garden and other mailer places.
Tango “Benda” will now have to miss
a dance to quench their thirst for the
beer dispensory, always heretofore at
their elbows, will have moved to
parts more distant.
Guy Baata is up from Galena bay.