SShg Ualfoz Hatty ^rnspprtor
VOL. 8.
VALDEZ, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 29, 1912.
NO. 141.
FEDERATION BAN
WORKERSWORLD
Western Federation Take an Ad
vanced Step Regarding the
I. W. W.
Cripple Creek, July 29.-Thc
Western Federation of Miners
have placed the ban on the Indus
trial Workers of the World, for
bidding its membership to affili
ate with that organization as be
ing mimical to the best interest.
of organized labor and all pro
gressive movement^ for the ele
vation fif the economic condition?
of I lie laboring masses. Theii
not place of meeting will be al
Hancock, Mich.
SPOKANE ALASKANS
BOOST INTERIOF
Spokane, July 29.-A number o
ex-Alaskans and prominent Spo.
kaneites, including Col. RidpatT
and others, have formed an Alas
ka club willi I lie purpose of boom
ing the great interior section o
that country.
KID McCOY INNOCENT
SAY THE POLICI
London, July 29.-Kid McCo;
has been released from arrest an<
will return to Berlin. He has ex
plained his connection with th
diamond robbery and the polic
are convinced of his innocence.
8teamer Movements.
Seattle, July 29.-The Mariposs
arrived at 1 o'clock this after
noon.
The &aiup4«:i On fc&Clrr
flay with the following passenge
list: R. G. Raymond, R. G. Town
*end, James Noble, Ella Jacobi
and 12 round trip excursionists.
The S. S.Bertha arrived in por
this morning with a good pas
senger list and a heavy freigh
cargo mostly for the westward.
CHAIRMAN RULES SUMS ROOSEVELT
AND PRESIDENT TAFT SAYS "ME TOO
Utah Republicans Are Badly Split Up, Progressives Being Nu
merous-Ohio Nominee For Governor Withdraws From
Ticket, Says No Hope Republican Success
Loeb Denies He Is Backslider
Washington, July 29.—The Pro-|
^ressives in the Senate supported!
the Republicans in the reduction
of the tariff on sugar. The House
remains divided on the one bat
tleship appropriation, Clark on the
one side and Underwood loading
the other.
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Washington, July 21).—Senators
I Root, Lodge, Southerland and
Clark are under consideration for
• fh«» presidency of-the court to pre
flside in I he Archibald impeach
IiimmiI proceedings.
i
Oyster Bay, July 29-Col. Iloose
r volt has completed his conven
tion speech and says the platform
r tr» be adopted will be a corrective
I to Socialism as well as an anti
. dote to anarchism.
Meeker, Colo., July 29.—Collect
or I.oeb, of New York, denies that
he will join the Roosevelt forces.
Columbus, O., July 29.-Judge
Dillon, Republican nominee for
governor, lias withdrawn because
«»f tin? factional fight within the
party. He says there is no hope
for the party, either in slate or
nationally so long as the present
split remains and that he doesn't
rare t<> be made the victim of a
parly feud.
Provo, Utah, July 29.-Thou
sands of Republicans have quit
I heir parlv to form a third party.
Delegates are here from all over
the stale 'ko attend the National
Progressive slate convention call
ed to elect delegates to the Chi
cago convention. Many of the
influential leaders of the state are
here taking part, in the deliber
ations. The showing made by the
Progressives takes all hope of the
Republicans carrying the state in
November.
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New York, July 2t> .-Chairman
Hillii'-i, of the National Commit
ter. tired the first pun of the
campaign on Saturday, when he
roundly denounced Roosevelt's
methods, making the direct
charge that Roosevelt faked his
Chicago contest, and that lie knew
at the time and knows now that
then' is no truth in his repealed
charge that Taft was nominated
hv fraud. He accuses Roosevelt
of being a fakir and says he is
downright dishonest in his polit
ical methods.
Washington. July 29.-Follow
ing 1 f i I lies* statement made in
New York, President Taft has is
sued a statement defending the
methods of his nomination, say
ing that it was regular and hon
est in every respect, denying all
charges of fraud made by Roose
velt. . <
<»\<ler Hay. July 2V.-The state
ments issued by Chairman I Till i«*s
and fi(Unwed by thai «»1' President
Taft. has created a ureal, deal of
interest here, and it is generally
experted that Roosevelt will come
hark with a hot reply, specifically
going into a number of the decis
ion* of the National Commit tee in
slates like Washington, where the
standpat delegations were stolen
bodily and were permitted to vote
on their own rases, thus furnish
ing I lie administration the nere«-j
sary bare majority to control I he
convention. Col. Iloosewlt says
the more Ihu Tafl forces will go
ii:I«i th<> subject of the seating of
i onte>|ed delegates the better it
iwiil suit him, as finally the peo
|p!e will learn enough of the out
rage to become convinced that the
■ Progressive wing of the party
were defrauded of control of the
■ convention. •
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Tokio, July 29.-Einperor M«t
t suhite died today of acute hepb
[ ritis after a short illness. The
dead monarch was born on No
vernber 3, 1852, and ancended the
throne as emperor, or mikado, on
February 13th, 1867, after a civil
war in which the Shoguns were
stripped of their fjpwer.
Mutsuhite wan the father «»f
modern Japan, a learned man of
progressive ideas and high moral
standards. His death has caused
great gloom throughout the em
pire. His son, Yoshohite way im
mediately proclaimed emperor.
The new sovereign, like his fath
er, is a progressive.
THEY MUST BE
REBELS OR LEAVE
Americans Must Leave Mexico or
Join the Revolt Against the
Government
Kl Paso, July 2aJ.-Americaii4
have been warned to leave Mex
ico »»r else joint the rebels. Many
are leaving for the American side.
The revolution is far from being
quelled. The federal troops are
poorly equipped, badly officered
and poorly fed. There is great
discontent among the troops, ow
ing to tbeic nut receiving tTieir
pay.
GAMBLER'S MURDER
STILL A MYSTERY
New York. July 2t>.-Afler bear
ing a mimber of confessions I>is
Irict Attorney Whitman is -till at
>ea concerning the real truth sur
rounding I be murder «»I" H<>seii
thal.
DETROIT BOODLERS
RELEASED ON BAIL
l)etroit. July ii.-Tin* aldermen
and clerk arrested here for s(.n_
ing their votes and conspiracy
have been released on furnishing
bonds in the sum of $5,0ftn each
to appear before the grand jury.
PROMINENT REPUBLICANS
DENY IMPEACHMENT
Cordova. July 20.—Former Ter
ritorial Committeeman Samuei
Blum and local commit Iceman Ed.
Harwood have issued a statement
stamping as a falsehood the state
ment. made that they had desert
ed the Republican nominee and
declare that they are supporting
Iti«* candidacy of William A. ("lil
more.
Bring your Job work to the
Prospector office.
MINING DEAL INVOLVING
GOtO CREEK HYDRAULIC
GOLD CREEK HYDRAULIO AND DREDGING COMPANY LEASE
HOLDINGS TO JOSEPH A. BAXTER, WHO WILL WORK
TH2 GROUND ON A LARGE SCALE
An important mining deal lo
Valdez, and especially the stock
holders of the hydraulic company
controlling the placer ground on
Gold creek, has been consummat
ed and placed on record, by which
Mr. Joseph A. Baxter, a • well
known Alaska mining man, is in
control of the premises under a
fve-year and eight months Tease,
on a 25 per cent, royalty basis.
Mm Baxter immediately took
possession of the property and
•now has a small force of men
cutting a road from theb each lo
the property in order that the
pipe, lumber and machinery, with
whloh to operate the ground, may
be hauled to its destination. The
.order for the piping, giants arid
lumber was placed some lime
past, the prst shipment is coming
on tho Sampson, which left Beat
tie on 8aturday, to be followed by
a second shipment on the Mari
posa,
The present piping on tho
ground will only be used as odds
and ends, not being of sufficient
. dimensions for the plant to bo in
stalled or of heavy enough gauge
lo withstand the water pressure
lo be used. It is the purpose of
Mr. Baxter to lake the water at
the highest point on the ground,
ot considerably over 200 fpol ole
vat ion and to lead it to the ground
to be worked through a 24-inoh
pipe line, branching into smaller
linen to the giants, which will br
four in number, of six-inch diam
eter and one four-inch deflector
for driving purposes. A six-foot
bedn>ck flume will be put in with
riffles of railroad steel. Anoth
er flume will be built to carry of!
the surplus water.
It will take 00,000 fvet of lum
ber to build the flumes and the
quarters for the men. The entire
equipment, it is estimated, will
cost about $50,000. Mr. Baxter
expects to be hydraulicking this
season nnd will employ three
shifts of eight hours each.
Hpeaking to the gentleman on
the question of shortening the
hours of labor he stated that he
has been following mining and
especially hydraulic work for
many pears and that he discov
ered that by giving reasonable
hours of labor, a warm and dry
place to sleep and plenty of good,
wholesome food he could movo
much more dirt in a given time
than he could by working the men
like park horses and turning th^m
into damp sleeping quarters and
nerving thorn Indifferent food.
This being the first hydraulic
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TOURISTS NARROW ESCAPE
FROM WAVE CHiLDS GLACIER
TOURIST WRAPPED IN WONDORMENT AT GRANDEUR OP
QLAOIER PAILS TO HEgD WARNINO AND IS NEARLY
ENQULPED BY HUQE TIDAL WAVE
Id describing Hie (rip of the
tourist# to Child* glacier, when
lh.it mountain of ice was the most
active in several years, the Seat
tle Post-Intelligencer says:
"The movement of this moun
tain of ice of a deep blue resem
bled in sound a regiment of field
artillery in action. Enormous
pieces «»f the glacier were crash
ing down its sides, plunging into
the glacial stream at its base with
such force as to cause swells of
water which carried salmon to the
beach and left them wiggling at
the feet of the tourists.
"While the Mariposa's passen
gers were standing at the edge of
the glacier stream enjoying the
wonderful s'ght, an enormous
piece of ice broke loose from the
very top of the glacier and thun
dered down its precipitous side
Into the swift moving river be
Judge flhepard did not piny with
the slats yesterday, as he declares
it "holts" >iim to catch the hot
ones.
Judge Walker, C. C. Reynolds
and Barney Neibling are smiling
today berause the lumber wngons
got away with the ball game.
Subscribe for the Prospector.
low. The plunge of the berg was
followed by a small sized tidal
wave, and members of the Cop
per River train crew shouted to
the tourists to run for the high
bank opposite the glacier.
"Awed by the spectacle, John (J.
Hellmich, a prominent business
man of St. Louis, a member of the
party of tourfsTs, stood close to
the shore of the glacier river while
a.wall of water Ave feet high bore
down upon him.
"Mrs. Hellmich, their daughter,
MisH Oeraldine, little son, John,
and Mrs. George E. Hellmich had
beat a hasty retreat, but before
Mr. TTtflmich reached the rocky
beach he was caught in the giant
swell and was drenched to the
skin. Members of thn train crew
rushed to hi* assistance and with*
difficulty prevented his being car
ried into the river by the wall of
water."
The launch Three M. will leave
in the morning at ft o'clock" from
the Municipal dock f»»r T.andlock,
Kidalgo and Kllamar. Among the
passengers will be Mr. I.ouis f,'av
ensaller, Thomas Donohoe, Mr.
Middlecamp, superintendent of the
FJIamar mine, and Mr. Thomas
Hlakeny, who represents valuable
copper interests in that section.
ANOTHER RUSH TO ANIAK
CAUSED RY REPORTS STRIKE
ItlOIIVT IDITAROD ARRIVALS REPORT IMMENSELY RICH STRIKE
ON MARVEL OREEK—RUSH T O THE OLD-NEW OAMP HAS
BEGUN FROM THE IDITAROD
Tremendous exietement has
been aroused al Iditarod by reeeipl
of reports from the new Aniak
district, in the Kuskokwiin coun
try, indicating the discovery of an
enormously rich placer gold de
posit.
A stamped** has begun and
hundreds of miners and prospect
ors of this camp are Joining the
rush.
J. M. Pickle, who brought the
news to Iditarod, declares that
Marvel creek has shown a depos
it of pay that more than justifies
its name, and that like indications
are being found on nearby
streams. Picklc says that the op
erator^ on Marvel already have
exposed o total length of t>,000
feet of pay which will range more
than 100 feet In width.
This pay is claimed to run from
$1 to *2.50 a square foot, which
is richer than most of the best
ground in the famously rich Fair
hanks region, when it is taken in
to consideration that the great
est depth to bedrock is seven feet.
First discoveries of placer in
this district were mado last fall
by Harry Buhro and two partners
named I.abree and Fisher. A small
excitement resulted and most of
the promising ground was slaked.
Prospecting proved difficult in the
wet, shallow gravels, nnd on this
account the real worth of I hp
strike could not bo determined
until this summer.
A. A. Zimmerman and Fred La
belle, former Fairbanks miners, ,
arc reported to have struck the
richest pay uncovered so. far.
They are expected to make big
fortunes quickly, as the ground
will be easy to handle. Other
well known old-timers who got in
on the strike early are Fred Weit
ke, Harry Siobe, Crlbbee, Mill)*
and Mille, Revans and Ferguson,
Mccarty and Downey, Axel John
son, Fred Anderson, flank I>ow
ney and Flanigan and Moran.
The Aniak is difficult of access.
At present freight i« being taken
in by the circuitous route via the
mouth of the Kuskokwim, I lie plan
being to carry it up the Aniak in
polling motors or small gasoline
launches.
Mrs. r.harlo* Wilcox and tw«»
children returned on the liertha
from a nine months visit to rela
tives In the Eastern slates. While
absent she presented Mr. Wilcox
with a second heir, Charley being
early to the bpal to get an intro
duction to the new member of the
household. After critically look
ing the yofmgsler over. Mr. Wil
cox decided lie would pass mth
ter and derided to accept the re
sponsibility of his up bringing.