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Washington, Dec. 5—The reigu of
grav in ludian affairs must end.
That is the edict of Cato Sells, U. >
S Conmissioner of ludiau Affairs,
b isine^s man, lawyer, banker, pub
lic office holder, and above all a
red-blcoded, two fisted fighting man
Ruli.ig over the affairs of a fast1
dying people, who own $900,000,000
worth of the richest grazing, oil and I
mineral land of the West, Sells has
d«"termined that the ludians shall .
no longer be the prey of a vast
group in whom the spirit of graft
is ra.npant—••carrion", he calls1
them.
The heartless grasping of "attor- i
ueys" and •'guardians" administer
KATAJ.LA RAILWAY IX
THE H VM)S OF RECEIVER
Katalla, Dec. 5—The Alaska-Pa- |
cii'ic Railway & Terminal Co., of
Katalla, has been placed in the
hands of a receiver by order of the
District Court for the Third Judi-j
cial Division. The receiver is Rob- |
ert D. Gray of Katalla. The lia- ]
bilities are said to be about $300,- j
000. This railroad company was or- j
ganized in 1906 by Dr. M. \V. Brun
er of Seattle, and a number of.
Pennsylvania capitalists for the pur
pose of building a railroad from
Martin Point near Katalla, to the j
Bering river coal fields. About I
three miles of road bed were com- I
pleted, and a mile or so of track j
laid, a sawmill was erected as j
well as a dock aud other improve- i
ments.
The Alaska Oil & Refining Co. I
has recently completed a new refin- |
ing plant at Krtr.lla. and kerosene
as w«'!! as gasolinj, is being refined.
ABANDON'S ALL HOPE
OF SETTLING STRIKE
Denver, Dec. 5—Secretary of La
bor Wilson has abandoned all hope
of set ling the coal miners- strike
ia this state.
A heavy snowfall which set in
here yesterday has tied up all traf
fic iu Colorado.
Later— Denver, Dec. 5—The stori
is increasing and It has been found
necessary to close the public schools
lug the estates of Indian children
called most strikingly to Sells' at
tention the need of reform, aud a
quick one. While white children's
estates are ordinarily settled at a
t ost of only three per cent, the av
erage price on Indian children's es
ties has been 20 per cent. Th.-se
c'u'ldren are the richest average
children In the country; their prop
erties often are $50,000; and fre
quently this entire amount has been
grafted by the unscrupulous.
"I am going to put a few of these
rneu in the penitentiary as an ob
ject lesson," Sells declares, "and I'll
see that some more go if there Is
a continuance of this ruthless raid
ing of Indians."
JUNEAU POLITICIANS WILLING
TO SERVE THEIR COUNTRY
Juneau, Dec. 5—John Howe Cobb
prominent local Democratic war
horse, secretary of the Juneau Dem
ocratic club, and cne of the ablest
lawyers in Alaska, yesterday declar
ed to personal friends his candidacy
for United States attorney to suc
ceed John Rustgard, Republican,
who was said by Washington Dis
patches Monday to be slated for the
political axe of Attorney General
McReynolds.
Mr. Cobb will immediately file hio
name at Washington, along with
those of Newark L. Burtou and
United States Commissioner J. B.
Marshall of this city, both of whom
are in the race. Charles H. Cos
grove, Ketchikan politician aud law
yer, has also been mentioned for the
place, bt as Mr. Cosgrove has goue
outside for the winter, it is believ
ed he has decide*! not to make a
campaign for the office.
CALIFORNIA IS VISITED
BY HEAVY STORMS
San Francisco, Dec. 5—Reports of
heavy storms in all directions are
coming in. Communication with the
*"nst is practically shut off.
The announcement is made here
today of the engagement of Sadie
Uompers to George Geran, an attor
ney.
OUR NEW FALL LINE OF
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Leading Ladies' Furnisher and Haber
dasher of Skagway
ALASKA LODGE OF PER
FECTION CONFERS DEGREES
Juneau, Dec. 5—Fourteen novi
tiates In Blue Lodge Masonry climb
ed to the 11th degree Tuesday, dur
ing the impressive session held by
Alaska Lodge of Perfection No. 1.
Scottish Rite Masons, with Ernest
Bertram Hussey of Seattle presid
ing.
Hussey arrived from the Sound in
time to assist Venerable Master
R. A. Gunnison and his chair offi
cers in conferring the degrees.
Wedesnday was consumed in el
evating the fourteen candidates fron
the 11th to the 14th degree. Two
days should witness the close of the
work. An elaborate banquet will
then be held.
Officers of the Scottish Rite
branch of Masonry In Juneau are
as follows:
Venerable Master—Royal A. Gun
nison.
Senior warden—James Crlstoe.
Orator—L. S. Ferris.
Almoner—Charles Goldstein.
Secretary—Jay W. Bell.
Treasurer—D. A. Epsteyn.
Master of ceremonies—James N.
Stooily.
Expert—W. W. Casey.
Assistant expert—Edward Need
ham.
Captain of the Host—John G.
Held.
Tyler—Lloyd V. Winter.
Master of properties—S. H. Ew
ing.
death roll increasing
IN THE TEXAS FLOODS
Dallas, Doc. 5—The death roll
from the floods in the central part
ot' the state has now reached twenty
four. Waco and San Antonio are
tlie greatest sufferers.
I'TAH FARMERS ARRESTED
ON VERY SERIOUS CHARGE
Ogden, Utah, Dec. 5—Three farm
ers were arrested here today charg
ed with being members of a gang of
blackmailers and train robbers.
MEMORIAL SERVICE OX
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7tli
Skagway Lodge No. 431, B. P. O.
Elks will hold their annual memor
ial service in Elks hall Sunday af
ternoon, Dec. 7th, 1913, the pro
gram of which will appear in to
morrow's issue of the Daily Alas
kan.
TWO NEGRO STRIKEBREAKERS
SHOT BY UNKNOWN MEN
Indianapoli.s Dec. 5—Unknown
men in an automobile today shot
and instantly killed two negro
strikebreakers and made their es
cape.
CATHOLIC CHURCH.
Very Rev. R. J. Crimont, Prefect
Apostolic of Alaska, is expected to
arrive this afternoon from Juneau.
He intends to address the Catholic
Congregation tomorrow evening at
7:30 as well as on Sunday. All are
invited to attend.
OHIO PROBATE JUDGE
EXPRESSES PLAIN OPINION
Dayton, Ohio, Dec. 5—Ohio's
Mothers' Pension law Is working,
but it's only working in Dayton and
Montgomery county. Mothers of thi
city and all of Montgomery county
are thanking Judge Roland \V. Bag
gett, for he's the man that made it
possible for needy mothers to profit
now, instead of waiting until Febru
ary, 1915, at which time Attorney
General Hogan says that the newly
enacted Ohio Mothers' pension lev
ies can be paid.
Here is what Judge Baggett has
ruled that property owners of Day
ton and Montgomery county must
do for the mothers: Every man
who owns one thousand dollars
worth of property, must contribute
teu cents a year. Every corpora
tion that has $100,000 worth of
property must contribute $10.00 a
year. Dayton is Gov. Cox's home
county.
" Uov. uox can uuk a iui <iuuu>.
the humanitarian features or the
workman's compensation law, and
everything he says is true" de
clares Judge Baggett, "but the
mothers' pension law is just as
good in its sphere and Montgomery
county will be the first to give it a
trial." The project was bitterly
fought by many whom Judge Bag
gett called "tightwads and knock
ers." But he said to them:
"Yes, you've got $50,000 worth of
property or more bringing you in a
good income and you're whining be
cause you have to pay ?5 a year
to a fund that will enable us to
keep more than four score mothers
and children together. You oW,
whelps, you ought to be ashamed of
yourselves." That's the way Judge
Baggett talked to them and they
come through. And now Montgom
ery is the only county in Ohio that's
helping its mother^. Judge Bag
gett says Dayton will continue to do
so indefinitely regardless of the At
torney General or whatever the
other counties in the state may do.
Now he's going a little further.
He's going to ask the legislature
this winter to pass a measure allow
ing every county in the state to is
sue short time bonds for money to
pay mothers' pensions.
MEXICAN ADMINISTRATION
TRYING TO RAISE FUNDS
Mexico City, Dec. 5—President
Huerta today sent minister of fi
nance Laloma to Europe for the
purpose of raising funds.
Juarez, Dec. 5—It is believed
here that General Villa, in com
mand of the rebel forces, entered
Chihuahua last night, where elab
orate preparations had been made b
the federals for his reception.
SUFFRAGETTE INCENDIARIES
CAUSE LOSS OF $12o,000
Skelmorley, Dec. 5—Suffragettes
today set fire to the Kelly mansion
which was totally destroyed at a
loss of $125„000.
NEW FRENCH PREMIER
WAS APPOINTED TODAY
Paris, Dec. 5—Jean Dupuy was
today appointed premier in the
place of Bartheau, resigned.
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Malaga Grapes Oranges
Celery ' Ban»as
Cranberries Head Lettuce
Cauliflower Tomatoes
Pineapples Popcorn
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P. H. GANTY, GROCER
SKAGM'AY, ALASKA.
Rock Island, 111., Dec. 5—The
final desperate battle between the
hc-ad camp officers and the ranking
members of the Modern Woodmen o
America over the question of an in
crease in the rates of insurance in
the order, which during the pAst
two years has been marked as the
bitterest struggle in the history of
fraternal orders in America, will be
fought out in the seventeenth trien
nial meeting of the order at Toledo,
0., June 10,1914. According to an
nouncement of the executive coun
cil fom the head camp officers here.
The council, haviug set the date, is
making preparations for the biggest
meeting in the history of the order.
Fully 170,000 members will attend,
drawn by the struggle which they
claim involves the very life of the
organization.
The rate question was first rais
ed in its present form at the trien
nial meeting at Buffalo In 1911. Ac
tion was postponed until the winter,
when a special meeting of the
head camp was held in Chicago,
and a readjustment of rates voted.
All the rates are higher than those
hitherto prevailing, and those for
the older members of the order are
three to nine times higher. Through
out the country, and eseclally in
the states of Illinois, Iowa, Kansas
and Missouri the rates were strong
ly resisted. Several test cases were
brought in circuit courts, resulting
in ^junctions against enforcement
af the new rates on the ground
that they were not imperative to the
financial safety of the order, that
since the benefits of the organiza
tion are mutual and reciprocal, the
rates cannot be enforced without the
consent of the majority of the mem
bership.
The head camp in the summer of
1913 proposed a referendum, sub
mitting seven different rate plans
tor the selection of the membership.
But the Impression gained currency
that the referendum was a ruse, and
the result was a vote of less than
one per cent of the members. The
executive council had been expected
to take some action on the quest
Ion at its meeting here, but deferred
I* to the triennial convention. Op
ponents of the plan declare the
whole proposal wae a move to trans
form the insurance plan of the order
from fraternal to "old line". They
contend that the question will never
he settled until this movement has
been downed, and that this can be
ion© only by removing the present
head camp officers and "electing
others who represent the views of
the membership." This they will
attempt to do at the Toledo meet
ing.
Though the city of Toledo will be
filled with the Woodmen, the vot
ing delegation will not be large.
Five hundred and fifty members of
the head camps, 500 members of the
loca: camp clerks association, and
delegates from the Forresters make
up the conveution proper. Second
in importance to the executive ses
sions of the delegates will be the
Forresters drills, which head camp
officials here estimate will include
five thousand uniformed men. These,
comiios'id of drill squads of sixteen
to twenty men from each camp, will
live in a tented city and maintain
military discipline Before Toledo
was awarded the meeting she was
required to euter obligations to
furnish parking place for the camp.
Six thousand do'iars are to be
given as prizes to the winning
teams in the drill. United States
Army officers are •<> judge the
competition. The executive coun
cil, which with the Toledo authorit
ies will have charge" ol the immense
assembly, consists of R. W. Par
sons of Ashland, Wise., John C.
Nagle of Detroit, Martin Cogwin of
Minneaolis and A. L. Armstrong of
Clinton, Mo.
A NEW SKIPPER ON
STEAMSHIP SPOKANE
Capt. T. H. Cann will be in com
mand of the Spokane when she again
appears in Alaskan waters. Capt.
C. H. White, of the big excursion
ship which is making .her regular
run during the winter, will take a
vacation upon the arrival of the Spo
kane at Seattle on the completion
of the present trip for a few trips,
and Capt. Cann will have charge of
the ship during his absence.
Capt .Cann has been pilot on the
Spokane for the last two trips. Louis
Coughlin, who was purser on the
State of California, is servign as
freight clerk on the Spokane.
THE BOATS.
The Georgia reached here at
4:30 p. m. yesterday and sailed
again at 2 a. m. today.
The Northwestern is due in Skag
way at 8 o'clock tonight.
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