The Alaska Prospcctor;
Published ai Valdez, Alaska, cvory Thursday
by the Pkoshkctok Publishing Co
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THE PROSPECTOR SPECIAL
EDITION
(Cordova Alaskan)
The Valdez Prospcetor is planning
to issue a big special edition in which
pen pictures of the many resources of
the town will be drawn for the pur
pose of advertising the town as a
desirable place to invest and build
homes.
Whatever else may be said of the
people of Valdez they are hustlers
and there is nothing in the world
more admired th^n the spirit of "get
up and get" in either an individual or
town.
Even Cordova with all her natural
advantages over Valdez and other
cities of the Alaskan coast cannot
afford to sit down and dream of a
future ciLy with such people as the
Valdczians for her competitors. Cor
dova should notattemptto "distanco"
Valdez by doing anything to hold her
back, but she should buckle on the
armor of honest emulation and hoe
out her own row.
What Aiaska needs is to be better
understood by the people of the states
and nothing is more valuable for that
purpose than printers ink used to tell
the truth concerning this country.
The Prospector's special edition will
do much to educate the people con
cerning Alaska and while Valdez will
receive particular attention, all Alas
ka will be benefited.
NEWS THAT IS NIvWS
When ltov. 10. I*. Newton of the
EpiHeopal church of Valdez announced
that if Valdez men did not attend
church more numerously lie would
transfer his ministrations to Cordova
he probably (lid not suspect that to
Alaska newspapers he was giving an
item which goes all the way round
with changes at every repetition.
Several papers affirm that the min
ister had just come into Alaska and
was looking for a place a lit tin les*
wicked than So lom, where he eouhl
at least got a block of live right 'ous
men; that Valdoz looked barren to
him and he applied the test to Cor
dova with worse results. The.se
newspapers are now wondering what
tho preacher will do next.
Nearly all those interested papers
say Vuldcz never had a minister be
fore this late arrival appeared on the
scene and they are filled with morn
or less of ghoulish glee to think that
Valdcz and Cordova combined lack
religion enough for one preacher to
nourish. The Prospector takes pleas
ure in stating that lor many years
Valdez has always had at least one
minister and generally two. The
Catholics and Episcopalians have
each an active society with a priest
and minister in respective charge.
The Congregationalists have a Sun
day School. The Episcopalian min
ister goos Cordova once a mouth
because the town has enough Valdez
people to sow the seeds of religion
there.
The accounts published in the Se- i
attic Times and in the Post-1 ntellgenc
er of the scrap with the Japanese j
poachers in Valdoz stated that t he Japs
are imprisoned in t he Congregational
church. Now look for some of the {
friends of Miss Benedict to point with
pride to this sacrilege as evidence of I
heathenish conditions iu Alaska.
Nobody can ever tell them that.tho
building ceased to boused as a church
several years ago.
Somebody sent out from Valdoz
last month tho statement that a bliz
zard was blowing in tho Interior. The
P-I raid the blizzard was in Valdoz
and ti e Btory kept traveling. In re
ality a gentle drizzle prevailed in Val
dez at the time of the alleged blizzard.
PILLORY PLACE FOR
HENEYSAYS HEARST
Han Franclnco, Oct. 12—-William it.
Iloarat, in an addrepa delivered here
Hatnrday night pai<i IiIh compliment*
to Pronoontop Honey, of graft caae ,
fame, Previously Honey had Mont to •
tho editor a challenge to participate
In Joint debate and during tho latter'a ;
addreaa ho oxplatncd why ho had re*
fiuied by doclarlng that no one of rea
peetablllty dealrofi to moot Honey in
debate, or In any other manner, and
that Henoy ahould bo forced to talk
from a pillory, whore, aeoording to
tho editor, ho belonga,
Aaldo from hi* roferonee to Honey
tho apoeeh of Mr. Honrat wan In com-j
pleto accord with tho apcoehon ho ban
boon making throughout tho country.
Tho mooting waa largrly attended
and tho apcaker WU alternately
oboerod and hlaaod,
LAD WITH AN ME
ATTACKS FATHER
Tacoma, Oct. 0—Only tho presence
of u policeman prevented, thin morn
ing, the murder of Patrick Noedham
who was attacked by Ins 13-year «)ld
son, James, armed with an axe. The
elder Needhani is suffering from a
bad cut inflicted on the thigh by his
desperate offspring, and the lad is in
Jail.
Needham's Kon is an incorrigible
lad, and has been in numerous
scrapes. The most recent, prior to
the trouble he is now in, caused his
father to announce his intention to
have the boy ariested. The hoy
urged, pleaded and threatened but to
110 avail and the father sent for a
police ofJlecr.
As tho police oflleer was taking
young Needliam from the hitter's
home, the fat her followed them into
the yard and for ;i moment engaged
the oflleer in conversation. Young
Necdham took advantage of the op
portunity thus presented and, break
ing a Way from the ulileer, seized an
axe and attacked his father.
CAUSES 3 DEATHS
Norfolk, Vn.. Oct. 9—Believing that
Ilia wife's relatives are responsible
for the fact Lli.it she had left him,
John Richardson i t iliis city this
morning shot and kil'c I his • istcr-in
law, Miss Ju;..'plii i • ( ronnvell, her
father, Silati Cmiuw « II. an 1 then blow*
out his own brains. Tin* : hooting
was done in the < 'r unwell home.
Mi'h. Richard.-imi ..ml her husband
had, for a long; time, been unable to
Het along together m d a few months
ago she left him. To friends, Rich
ardson had ataUd (.hat I'.ad it not been
for the advice en" her father and lus
ter his wife would have returned to
him. Richards >;» on .«cveral ocea
>,i< ns had thrcatciud to be revenged
upon his wife's relatives. ,'
GIRL iS FOUND DEAD
AND LOVER IS IN JAIL
Wadsworlh, Ohio, Oct. IO- OraI.ee,
a beautiful yiunifj woman was foully
murdered sometime between II
o'clock last ui};ht and oarly this
morning. At 7 o'clock thin morning
l,he body of the young woman, a bul
let hole the head, was found lying by
the roadside. There, was nothing to
indicate that a Htrngglo had taken
place, and the nature of the wound
indicates* that death was instantan
eous.
Shortly after the discovery of the
bod} , (Ins Raser, who has been con
sidered tlie sweetheart of the girl,
was arrested and is now in jail ac
cused ol having murdered her. The
last floen of .Miss I.ee was last night
when she started to go homo from a
dance which she had attended ac
companied by Itaser. During the
evening the sweethearts quarreled,
and shortly after IWls- l.ee started for
home llaser departed from the hall.
When arrested Itaser was notieably
ill at ease and tin* officers are con II
dent. that he committed the crime.
MRS. CLAYTON ERB
ATTEIV1PT8 SUICIDE
Philadelphia, < >«*t. 1<;—Mrs, (May ton
Rrb, whose husband, C'apt, Clayton
I3fb, was murdered rfcently, nud'vho
in in jail on suspicion that. she had
something to do with the crime, at*
temped to hang herself in hop Oell
thin morning. She wan discovered
by one of tho jailors and cut down in
time to wave her life. Hhe used her
skirl to suspend her»olf from a bar
in her cell, and In u few morn min
utes her purpose would have been
aeoomplishod.
Mrs. Alice Holscl, a sister of Mrn.
Rrb, yesterday confessed to tho mur
der of ('apt. Hrb, but I ho officers are
inclined to doubt tho truth of the
confession and strongly suspect that.
Mrs. Erb In the guilty one. Tho mur
der came an the result of Mrn. Erb
instituting divorce proceeding**.
LAIRD OF SKIBBO AND
MRS. SAGE CONTRIBUTE;
New York, Oct., 12 The treasurer
of tho republican campaign fund was
agreeably surptiscd this morning by
tho arrival of checks from Andrew
Carnegie and from Mrs Russell Sage.
The Carnegie check calls for payment
to the treasurer of $30*000, and that
from Mrs. 8ago Is for $1,000.
Tho chocks were accompanied by
letters from each of tho donors, ox
pros dug good whdics for tho success
of tho republican parly at the polls.
YOUTHS STEAL AND
FLEE INTO CANADA
Grand Rapids, Oct. 9—Filled with
the ideas they obtained from the
earnest perusal of dime novels, Don
ny Mass, aged 10, and Fred Pain,
aged 14, yesterday stole merchandise
valued at $500 and placing it in a
launch set forth ioy Canadian terri
tory. The merchant whose goods
were taken from the warehouse gave
the alarm a tow hours after the lads
had started out in the launch, and
olllcers sot out in pcrmiit.
Early thin morning the oflleers saw
the launch moored to Canadian terri
tory hut they dispensed with the
formality of obtaining requisition
papers and captured the young thieves
and brought them homo. The boys
are of respectable families.
WIDOW DENIES THAT
j HUSBAND DIED SUICIDE
Additional details of the jdeath of
I)r. II. li. Pratt were obtained from
Mrs. Pratt, who is an outgoing pas
senger on the steamer Pert ha. The
doctor died on September 13 at the
A. (\ Company's station on Illiamna
bay from ' he effects of an overdose o
morphine, lie had been an occasion
al user of this opiate, which he took
to alleviate pain, for years past, but
whether the fatal dose was taken vol
untarily or through error as to quan
tity, is not known. His friends can
think of no reason why he should
commit self destruction, and rather
doubt the suicide theory.
Dr. Pratt was well known In the
southwestern part of Alaska. He
practiced medicine at Kodiak, Cnga
and other places, but for the past
season was engaged in working
placer claims on the Chulitna river,
in the interior back of Illiamna bay.
GOVERNMENT DOUBTS •
EXISTENCE OF JAP PLOT
Manila, Oct. 12-—Thai tho United
States government doubts the exist
ence of any plot on the part of the
Japanese to capture the vessels of the
Atlantic lleet in evidenced hy the fact
that the fleet, thin morning departed
from this port,, ostensibly for Japan.
Hoport received here from San Fran
cisco giving the det ails of the alleged
plot caused the greatest excitement
and for a time' it was believed Mfat
the fleet \wj»uld go directly home from
here. -
So far as public knowledge git s,
the commander of (he fleet has re
ceived no ofllcial communication con
cerning the alleged plot, and unless
the fleet sailed under sealed orders
that will direct it elsewhere the war
vessels of the United States navy
will shortly bo anchored in a .Japan
ese port..
ANDREW K. BEATSON !S
NOW A MARRIED MAN
Andrew K. lieataon. owner of the
famous liealson eo]>per nunc, is now
the head of a family, having on Wed
nesday last been united in marriage
fo Mrs. Flora .McDonald, of Seattle.
The wedding ceremony was performed
by Commissioner Crandall in La
touche.
They who are now Mr. and Mrs.
lieatson became acquainted last year
when Mrs. McDonald came 1<> La
toucht* for a visit.. Tlia announce
ment. cornea as a surprise to lho Val
de/. friend# of Mr. He.'itson.
RED HOT SPOON AIDS
PRISONERS TO ESCAPE
Oregon City, Oct. 12—Using a soup
spoon to further their efforts, John
Dowers and Arthur (Murk last night
made their escape from the county
jail and today they are being hunted
i»y sevoral posses. 'Their escape was
not discovered until this morning.
Mowers and Clark secreted a spoon
from the dishes accomptnilng their
supper, and thin rpoon heated to a
white iieat by the flame of a gas jet;
close to their cell, sufficed to melt the
barn sufficiently to permit- of them
being so bent an to make space for
the men to escape.
I'etc Cashnmu IhA Father.
Pete ('ashman, mining magnate,
real estate baron find other things too
numerous to mention lias increased
the scope of his holdings to the extent
that ho is now a father, A cable an
nouncing the arrival of a girl was re
ceived yesterday afternoon from
Orescent Olt.y, California, where Mrs.
Cash man now is. Dy nature Mr.
Cashman Is a boomer and so In his
exuberance he displayed to his friends
what purported to he a cable announc
ing I he arrival of twins, an exagger
ation of one,
Dtirglnr Murder* Patrolman
Hoatlln, Oct. 12- P. K Hand, a
merchant patrolman was murdered
early this morning by a burglar who
was Interrupted as he was engaged
in forcing an entrance into the Fed
eral saloon. The murderer escaped
and there Is no clue as to Ids Identity,
VALDEZ BANK 8 MERCANTILE CO.
(Inc) Bankers and General Merchants (Inc)
HART SCHAFFNER & MARX Clothing, the clothcs
that satisfy*
We have just received our big line of fall clothing*
W e carry Slims, Stouts, Shorts, Mediums; clothes to fit any
form*
Every suit guaranteed, read guarantee in our display window*
. PRICES F"ROM
$75.00 TO $30.00
We are especially strong this season in men's furnishing
goods of all kinds*
Remember your outfit for spring and get your order in early*
We carry the best goods money can buy, let us figure with you*
(Ml FOR HOLLY FLOUR and 5.11 Canned Goods
FATHER A CORPSE
GIRL WEDS SLAYER
Adrian, Mich., Oct. 12—Her father
lying a corpse in the road, dead at
lhe hand of the man she loves, Sallie
Heasley this morning was married to
Jordan Swain; now she is alone in a
room in a hotel and at the portals of
the county jail a mob is clamoring for
the life of her husband. The tragedy
isthe outcome of t he elopement of she
who is now Mrs. Swain and ho who is
now her husband.
Adam Heasley was one of the mo9t
respected farmers in t his part of the
country and he objected to his daugh
ter receiving (he attention of Swain.
Early this morning Swain and the
girl met a short distance from the
latter'A home and started for town
with t he intention of getting married.
In some manner the father learned
j of his daughter's act and started in
persuit.
i
Heasley came upon the eloping
pair about four miles from town and
ordered his daughter to return with
him. This she refused to do and ac
cording to the story told by both the
girl and her husband, the father drew
a revolver and ordered Swain to put
the girl from the carriage in which
the t wo wero riding. Swain, instead,
drew his own revolver and started to
drive on when Bcaley fired. Swain
returned the fire and the old man fell
mortally wounded.
The murderer and gin continued to
town, were married and were in a
room in a hotel, waiting until train
time, when the sheriff, apprised of
the crime by a neighbor who chanced
upon Heasley. made t he arrest, liens-1
ley died while telling the story of the j
affair and his neighbor spread broad
east the news of the shooting, the re
sult being the attempt to take Swain
from the jail and lynch him.
MAN SEEKS DEATH
FOR FAMILY'S SAKE
i
—
St. Louifl, Oct. 12—Suffering from a
! lingering ill new* and believing that
| he would never recover, at the name
; time realizing that liIh family wan be
| ing Impoverished l>y the expense of
bin treatment, AugustFlgi <hl« morn
ing took hl« own lite, lining a hrokon
bottle to acoomolish his purpose. He
I left a letter explaining the motive ae
tuatlng the deed, and asked the for
givfiess of his wlfo and ehildren.
Figl wa» a tradesman hi a Hinall
way and had accumulated a compe
tency when ho was taken ill. Ah
woekrt went by and ho grew, no better
he heeamo des pondent, although bin
wife and three tehildren did all in
their power to /keep him cheerful.
Of lato Home member of the family
has tried to be with him at all times
but thin morning he was alone for a
few momenta and \smn*hlng a medi
cine bottle he gaslied bin throat with
one of the fragments.
J. A. Tlourke of tfto Standard Cop
per Co., operating nf Laudlock bay Is
In Valde/. \
Wortman's Roadhouse
Bar and General Merchandise
Accomodations for Travelers
Pontius Magnuson Prop.
The Teikhell Roadhouse
48 Miles From Valdez
On Government Trail.
Best of accommodations for man and beast. Fresh Meat
always on hand. Horse and Don Feed All the latest
improvements. PRIVATE ROOMS.
Mrs. Ed. Wood, Proprietor.
DRY CREEK ROADHOUSE
E. G, and G. R. RORER. Proprietors.
118 MILES
FROM VALDJCZ
ON FAIRBANKS
AND EAGLE TRAILS
Alaska Coast Co.
S. S. BERTHA, 8th»'each «•#»«'•
S. S. PORTLAND,25|h of eacl1
From Valde/, for
Juneau and all Pugot Bound Ports
Rights Reserved to Change Steamers or Sailing Djitos Without Notice.
A. S. DAUTKICK, (ioneral Agent, Valdez, Alnska.
VALDEZ HOSPITAL
HcBervatioti Ave. near Court House
Private Rooms for Patients Graduate Nurses
Hospital Tickets, $1.50 per Month.
Phone 77
In the United fUntei. ConnnUnlonern court
Vftldoz I'rfclDCti Alnakn.
IN PRODATK
In the jnntter of tho e*tnto \ NOTICK
of i OF
W. If. frlinRlli dcctlMd. ) FINAI< If Ka fUNU
Notice Ik hereby Klveri thnt H. Annlo Mor
K«n, ndinlnlfitrntrlx of the minte of W. If. Krl
niftn. dttMlMQ, hn* rendered nnd preienttd
for settlement, nnd flled Itl the Above nnmed
co.trt, heir final Recount nnd report of hcrnd
mlnlMrntlon of xntd eMnte nnd Mint the 16th
rtiiy of December. IWt, nt tlic hour of ttvoo'
clock p m., At Inopfllce of the United Htnte*
roinmlxsloncr nnd ex officio Probate Judge
for (he Vn'.dcr I'reolnet, nt VAldCX, Alnnkn, hn»
hecn duly appointed l>y «nld coit't n* the time
mid i.lnco for the settlement of »nld flnnl Ac
count nnd report, nt which time nnd plnee.
nny pfcr*oti Interested In *nld eitnte mny no
penr nod two nl* exception* In writing fo trnld
tlnnl Account nnd report nnd content the
Mine.
Untcd thtaOth dny of Oolober, MO*.
H. Annie Mor^im,
Administratrix of *nld cdAtO.
l>nto of find publication, October Ift
r>»te of lA*t publication November 12
Cutter jRufth Atfivpft In Sonttle
HcntMo, Oct. 12- Tho r<ivpntif! out
tor lltmb arrlvotl from the WOttern
oonut of A1n«kn this morning. The
Ruih will probaby spend tbo winter
n round Pti^t Hotintf.
Vandals Attempt to Ruin Mine
Tombstone, Ari/0110, Oot. 12—Bomo
portion or persona having a grudge
againitthe management of theTomb
Mtono (JonHolidated MinerH Company
at to trip ted lant night to blow np tho
big water tank ereOtcd on tho com
pany'ft property, and of vital neoew
«ity to the company'* operations
By a miracle nono of tho employe*
worn injured although a big quantity
of dynatnito wa« uaed. The com
pany'* dateotive* aro today making
effort* to illfcovcr tho identity of the
perpetrator* of the aet.
Bergeant Oulpepper of Fort, Linonm,
who ha* boon on a hunting trio on
the Kenai pcninmda, rotnrned on tho
Berth*. While in Boward Onlpepper
wbh by tho Beward bane ball team,
prcnontcd with a handsome watoh
eharm, for scrvlcon rendered by him
n fho l««t game between Valdez. and
Beward.