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VOL. 8. VALDEZ, ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1912.
CAMPAIGN PROBE !
HAS RESUMED
Correspondence Shows Harrlman 4
Raised $2*0,000 at Roose
velt's Request
Washington, Oct. 1 — -Senator
La Toilette's campaign probe
committee have resumed their
hearings and have introduced the
correspondence of leh late Edward
II. Harriinan to prove that Col.
Roosevelt asked him to raise mnn- ,
ey for the campaign of 1908. The
correspondence proves little oth
er than that the railway magnate
raised I h •• money. Harriman's
retary, TegelhofT, and Attor
ney Peabody testified that Harri
inan had said to I hem that the
fund was raised at Roosevelt's
request.
Letters were read from Roose
velt to Mliss urging him to ac
eep| the treasurership of the na
tional committee.
THE BUM)
STILL BLOCKED
No Train Has Yet Made Its Way
Over the Copper River Line
Owing to Slides
Flc|'"ils received from passen
gers f«*l iii'ii i u^r from Cordova,
siiow ilii* Copper llivcr road to
have I>«>•• 11 pr»*ll> badly hil by tin*
rai11>. ImiI one through
train having made tin* round tpi|>
• luring Hie past thirty-eight days.
The la*»t rain storm ran up the
proi-ipilalion for the month of
September t<• io.98 inches of
moisture, which in turn meant the
putting of the road out of busi
ness during that time. A train
was sent out on Friday for Chit
ina, containing many passengers,
including women and children.
Provisions were also forwarded
to the camps up the line. In the
neighborhood of mile 90 the train
ran into an immense land and
rock slide and before the train
could b backed out a second slide
eanie down in tin* rear, complete
ly blocking llie l r.'in. where she
remains lo Hie pr cut lime. On
Saturday nun niiiy. according to
I he C.ordo\a Alaskan, "the em
bankment al mile 15 had been
pilrtially washed out and it had
uol been discovered miliI an en
gine was going over it. The en
gine was moving slowly and was
• •n the bad piece of road before
il was discovered. The track and
engine went down a couple of feet
but no one was injured and very
little damage was done. Jack
Courtney was on the engine. The
engine can easily be raised and
it toill not take long to repair the
' break." *
' A person who walked in from
CjJ»itin% says that it will be fully
two week* yet before the road is
open to traffic, provided no more
.slides occur. Harry Warner, who
shipped 12 head of stock for the
Fairbanks trail, intended shipping
his stook to Ghitina, but the rail
road company refused to guar
antee him a through train to
• Chitina inside of three weeks, so
he shipped his stock to Valdez and
£££&•Bo- over the trail from this
r^oMt. In the meantime the Val
"boulevard" is open lo traf
fic, over 200 foot passengers bav
in* passed over the trail within
'• Ihe past three weeks without ser
ious inconvenience to themselves
and without delays,. ; <.
Closing oiu suits, coats and ev
ening gownR al half pMce at Har
vey's Toggory.
1REG0N MOOSE
DOWN BOURNE
'Original Roosevelt" Man is Not
Considered at Bull Moose
Convention
Portland, Oct. 1.—The Pro
gressives of Oregon, at their re
lent convention, made nomina
tions for presidential electors and
United States senator after a
stormy session, and adopted reso
lutions to place a complete tick
et in the Hole. A platform also
was adopted.
A. E. Clark, of Portland, was
civen the nomination for I'nited
States senator, defeating former
United t.Sates Senator Frederick
\V. Mulkey, who was an active
randidate for the nomination, ami
United Stales Senator Jonathan
Bourne, who was not a candidate.
The vole stood: Clark. 51; Borune,
39; Mulkey, 3D.
The feature of the senatorial
nomination was the bitter attack
on Bourne by old political ene
mies, who questioned his pro
gre.ssiveness*.
PACKERS COMBINE
DID'NT SUCCEED
Price of Pinks Normal Notwith
standing Efforts of Combine
to B.'eak Market
Seattle, (VI. .'..-As yet the ina-l
lipulaloi- mT I lie canned salmon
•in'ket have i-ot succeeded ii
tearing the market in pinks. Fish
•i-ivh n arc sclui.*; their catches on
he streets of Seattle and Alaska
lackers arc refusing to sell at Iho
U'ices offered.
This dors not apply to red sal
lion, however, fur Hip price of the
alter has remained undisturbed.
Tho bulk of (he pack has been
told and the price of the fall catch
'or the next few days ha<* been
lxed by the seiners.
During the summer th«» operat
es of the canneries on the Co
uinbia river did but little, as the
ishermen who ordinarily sell to
he cannerie refused to accept
he prices ofTered by the cannery
nen and peddled their catches on
fie streets of the cities, where
hey obtained better prices.
Brokers of the independent cau
teries are optimistic over the
irospect *»f better prices for the
>inks and are determined to hold
intil the packer* in the combine
rive up the plnn of producing n
>anic. The retail price and the
lemand of consumer., for pink
lalinon has remained unaltered.
New Judge to Try Darrow.
Sacramento, Oct. 1.--Acting
Jovernor Wallace designated
Fudge Conley a« the judge before
vhom Clarence Darrow will be
ried on the second trial for brib
ery, and Madero county as the
dace. This was done under tho
lew California law providing for
changes of venue.
Mr. and Mrs. E. \V. Dickenson
vere passengers to Latouche.
lei Your Piano Tuned and Ad
4 u tied.
Ernest Uymanova, export piano ,
nd organ tuner and repairer, late
f Johnson's, and now foreman 6f
faines Whialc House, Seattle, jdll
e fn Voider. in a few days on h(a
Blum from Howard Please leave (
rders with A. H. Plnkus, Seattle "
olM. All work guaranteed flrit
lass. <
MORE PAY FOR
POSE CLERKS
Railway Workers Will Get In
creased Pay by Reorgan
ization
Washington, Oct. 1.-Promotion
for i 3,000 railway postal clerks
becomes effective today. A re
organization of the railway mail
service and increased pay for pos
tal clerks were in the recently en
acted postal appropriation bill
More than a million dollars a
year will bo involved in the in
creases; it will cost the govern
ment no more. Postmaster Hitch
rock hay perfect o,d a plan to save
Dial amount by re-arrangement of
railway mail car space anil the
amount the government pays an
nually t<» I tie. railroads.
The new law provides for I hree
classes of railway postal lines,
with their transfer and terminal !<
offices. J i
Beginning with 9900 a year, all
clerks who give efficient service
will receive annual promotions of
$100 until they reach the maxi
mum of the successive annual
grades, after which they may bo
promoted for specially meritor
ious service until their pay reach
es $1,800 a year. Chief clerks in
the railway mail service will re
ceive $2,000.
FALLS OFF WHARF ;
SUDDEN DEATH i
Falls Off Wharf and Crushes His
Skull, Causing Instantan
eous Death
Finest I,. Hrann, aged about i
year*5, was found drad under t li«»
wharf early last Saturday morn
ing in Juneau, says I he Dispatch.
He had fallen oft' the dock, strik
ing his forehead, causing almost
instantaneous death. He had fall
en oft" some time Friday evening,
and workmen, going that way in .
the morning, saw his hat on the
dock and instituted a search, find
ing the body a short distance from
where it had fallen.
Hraun worked for several sea
sons with I ho Forbes cannery at
Fxcursion Inlet, but has been em
ployed with the Ferry company
this fall, having recently come ov
er from Oypsum. He js well known
in Alaska, where he enjoyed con
siderable popularity. It is be
lieved that he had been drinking
heavily of late and that Ills death I
was suicidal. i
r
During the month of Septem- r
her the total precipitation, nccord- a
inR to the weather observer, was j
18,74 inches. In Cordova, accord- P
iug to the Northwestern, they have t
had 40.98 inches up to the 28th i
r»f the month. Surely Cordova is f
a "wet" town. t
R. J. Tloryer, of Cordova, is in d
the city on legal business. |i
a
Raymond Maiers is in from r
Slate creeK.
The Brighton left today for ^
Port Wells, Alex. Singletary be
in* one of her passengers.
Household furniture for sale, o
Inquire of Miss 8tudler. jb
Many a black theep masquer- '
ides at Sprint lamb.
ll require* a oertain amount fif
tklll to *cratfc o jokft without
(imagine VU
Household furnishings for sale
heap. Inquire at cable office.
;apt. gustavson
IS DROWNED
aptain of Cannery Tender ia I
Thrown From 8mall Boat
and Drowned
Captain Gustavson of the ga^
learner Oakland was drowned at
he mouth of Ankow creek, Yaku
at creek, Yakutat bay, on the
uorning of September 18.
Gustavson and his crew had
ust brought, in a load of flsli
rom Dry bay and he and a niem
>er of his crew left in a dory to
hoot ducks. The weather was
ough, and when they reached the
nouth «»f the creek a heavy sea
vas running. The lillle boat was
swept in on a swell, which drove
hem against a bar al the mouth
>f the creek. Oustavson was
brown from the boat. The next
swell carried the dory and its oc
•upant over the bar. All that day
iien searched for his body and a
•eward of $50 was offered, but. the
;earch was unavailing. Indians
<ay that. Gustavson was the fifth
nan to be drowned there and that
lone of the bodies have been re
covered.
On September 13 an Indian boy
vas drowned in the Anklain river
iear Yakutat. The river had ov
erflowed its banks and an Indian
joy, playing near the edge of the
valer. fell in. Inside of 15 min
ites the Indians had rescued him
villi a seine and when taken out
lis heart was beating, but. as they
lid no| know how In re«nsitato
ifm he died.
JUAL CLAIMS
ARE CANCELLED
Commissioner Orders the Cancel
lation of the Lippy-Davis Coal
Claims at Katalla
instructions have been receiv
d by the Juneau land office from
:red Dennet, commissioner of the
and office at Washington, 1). C.,
o cancel the Lippy-Davis coal
lairns. This group of claims is
ocated in the Bering river field
nd hap heen the bone of conton
ion for several years past. From
he manner in which many of tin*
(aims were acquired and put in
o a corporation the government
ins taken the attitude that not
inly should the clninis be cancel
d. but an investigation should
e made into the methods used by.
he company, with the id«*n that
idictments might follow. The
len at the head of this company
re well known in Alaska and Se
ttle. T. S. IJppy made a fortune
n I he Klondike, going there from
eattle, where he was an inslruc
r>r at the Young Men's Christian
association. Clark Davis was
urmerly a preacher, hut gave up
hat vocation in the early boom
ays of Alaska and went to mln
ig. He spent considerable time
t Katalla, where he is interesf
d in b th coal and oil.
JVBUOKLK ESTATE
THIRTY MILLIONS
New York, Oct. I.--The estate
f John Arbuokle, ^he coffee king,
mounting to $30,000,000, has
pen divided equally between his
vo sisters.
Ptaee Talk In BUxloo.
Paso, Oct, I.—Peace negr
at'qfjF; hf^ween th* govprnmeol
rut the Insurrectionists are pro
wling.
First ptarmigan of the senson
I the Valdez Cafe.
NAVIGATION AIDS
ON OUR COAST
Much Work Has Been Done and
Much More Needed—A New
Tender Wanted
Commissioner of Lighthouses
K. R. Putnam has returned from
a short trip to Alaska. He says:
"In view of the fact that the
needs of additional aids in Alas
kan waters has been so generally
exploited, it probably is not gen
erally known I hat in tlie last two
years the number of lights in
Alaska has been more than doub
led.
The tender Columbine is m»w|
.stationed in the Alaskan district,!
replacing the wrecked Armeria.
C.itmiiiissioner Putnam stated that,
at llic coining session of congress
renewed efforts will be made In I
obtain au ample appropriation for
a large light at ('.ape St. Klias, one
of I he most dangerous points
ahmg the entire coast. Such an
appropriation was asked of the.
late congress, but it was not act
ed upon. The Armeria was en
route to Cape St. Elias to install
a temporary light buoy when she
was lost. When at Ketchikan, the
commissioner discussed with the
o/Ticer in charge of the Alaska
district the needs of his territory.
It is known that a tender IT» re
place the Armeria, and one built
expressly for Alaska service, is
urgently needed.
Coinmisioner Putnam was
formerly in the Coast and (ieo
dejic Survey Service and he hasi
spent much time in Alaskan wa-!
lers. Consequently he is thor
oughly conversant with the dan
gers of navigation along tin' nor
thern coast.
WILL STRIKE
AS II PROTEST
Fifteen Thousand Textile Opera
tives Will Qo on Protest
8trike
Huston, Oct. I.— Fifteen thou
sand t«.»xtil«» operatives will goon
m 2i hours' trike as a protest
against I lie imprisonment of Et
tor and Giavonetti, the leaders of
the Industrial Workers of the
World, who are to face trial on
the charge of murder as the re
sult of the Lawrence strikes and
under a statute of the stale of
Mas«achusetIs leaders of a strike
are deemed guilty <>f having caus
ed any deaths which may result
from rioting. The trials of Kit or
and fliovanctli are to begin at
Salem. There are demonstrations
and clashes everywhere and the
workers say they will strike again
in case the two Industrial Work
ers are found guilty and threaten
that they will rescue the prison
ers from the jail if they are im
prisoned under conviction. The
state guard is being held in read
iness in case of trouble.
At Lawrence the parader* were
armed with knives and clubs, two
policemen being severely stabbed.
OIQAR MAKERS
ARK ON STRIKE
Manila, Oct. 1.—Fifteen thou
sand cigar makers arc on a strike,
objecting to the government reg
istration of cigar makers lately
introduced.
More Monty for China.
.London, Oot. I.^-A Belgian *vn
licate has made another loan of
>50,000,000 to the Chinese gov
ernment.
Subscribe for the Prospector.
EDWARD S. ORB
AS A WITNESS
restifles in the Magnuasen Case
—Admits Having Owed
$7,000
Ed. S. Orr, a former mayor of
facoma, and two years ago a can
didate for congress from Alaska,
who had a sub-contract for some
years to carry (he United States
mails over the Fairbanks trail,
testified in the superior court f«»r
the defense in the $40,000 dam
age suit brought by Mrs. Lizzie
Magnussi'ii against Rev. (\. C. Van
Cnclhem. Ihe sisters of the Visi
tation academy and liishop O'Dea
for (lie alleged alienation of tho
affections of her daughter, Mar
jorie Iliemai: ll<* snfd In? had seen
Mrs. MaKiiussen. says the Taco_
ma Ledger, a number «»f linw-,
which, when pressed by counsel,
lie estimated at r>n, in a period ..f
four years, serve drinks b> guesis
ill I lie Wortnian roadhouse and
had also seen A'arjorie ser\«
drinks and throw dice with tint
men. Fie testified he had remon
strated with Mrs. Magnussen
about, personally serving in the
bar or allowing her little daugh
ler to be there, adding that -In;
was liable In prel into I rouble wit h
the United States marshal.
"Can yon fix the marshal?" was
Mrs. Maguussen's reply, accord
ing to the testimony of the wit
ness. who added that his answer
on that occasion was thai il eonld
llo| be done.
Cross-examined by |he plain
lifl's attorney. Orr admitted lie
had bn>inesj. dealings with tin*
Maginissens ai various limes aud
that in the spring of limp. when
lie was running for delegate in.
e«»ii!fress from the lerriti»r\ of
Alaska, lie owed tile Mau'lliw-en-i
abonl AT.000. He s^id that there
had been considerable difference
with I lie plain! ill' over this ac
ci mil.
ASSAYER ADAMS
COUNTERFEITER
Assay Office Thief Arrested for
Conspiring to Engage in
Counterfeiting
Seattle, Of 1. 1.—Cieorge K. A • i —
mis, Ih«* ex-chief clerk of t!»•» S«>
ittle assay office, who served a
lerm in Ih•• federal penitentiary
r«• i* i-nbhiiiu miners of I hoir g<»ld
lust. was arretted yesterday Willi
m ex-ronviet named Weber, an
• l«l man •»f 7n years, charged willt
'(inspiring t• • engage in counter
reit ing.
Adams was in Weber's rabirt
il I he time of the arrest. When
irrested Adams said he wa; a fool
for having anything to do wilh
iV'eber, but says he was extendi
ng charily to the old man and
vas trying to dissuade him from
roing back to his old business
vhen the officers rame in and
nadc the arrests. Weber was re
iponsible for sending six men to
he penitentiary on counterfeiting
•harges.
rntiKia copper on
■XOUfttlON INLET
Juneau, Oct. I.-Robert Forbes
vas in Saturday from the Excur
ion Inlet cannery wlf.li samples of
opper ore from claims which ho
las.located pear the cannery. The
laims have been named the Co
me, the Soekeye, the limnp.v and
he King, and his friends accuse
lim of an intention of canning
opper instead of fish.