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VOL. 8.
VALDEZ, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, '12.
NO. 282.
JUDGE HMD
ADMITTED BAR
Former Judge Admitted to Prac
tice at the Bar Over Whloh
He Had Presided
Seattle, Sept. 14.-When court
opened yesterday an application
was made to Judge Cushman for
the admittance of Cornelius H.
Hanford to practice before the
federal court.
Sixteen years before Judge Han
sford, while presiding over Jthe
court, admitted Cushman to prac
tice. The scene in the court room
was intensely dramatic, the prin
cipals appearing to fully realize
the situalion.
CHAMPION JACK'S
PITIFUL TALE
Wife Wrecked Health Caring for
Him When Mania Self-destruc
tion Overcame hum
Chicago, Sept. 1 i .-At the cor
oner's inquest held over the re
inains of Mi's. Johnson, wife of
the champion heavy weight pug
ilist, who suicided yesterday
while suffering depression as a
result of nervou prostration,
tearfully told how his wife had
wrecked her health in caring for
him.
.Johnson testified that he was
the victim of suicidal mania, as
tin*.result <jf injuries and tin* ex
ertions made by him in the Jef
fries fight. Twice she saved him
from committing suicide. The
verdict rendered was in accord
ance with the facts given.
NEW ENGINE
OE DESTRUCTION
American Aeroplat 9 Qun Tested
in Belgium-Fire^ 500 Shots
a Minute
Brussels, Sept. 1 i.-Experiments
with a quick-tiring aeroplane gun
• if American invent ion have just
been made af. I he military aero
drome at Brasschact. The gun
enables airmen to defend them
selves from land attacks and hos
tjle aeroplanes, ft weighs 125,
pounds and flres 500 shots a min
ute.
MANY ASPIRANTS
FOR LEGISLATURE
Several well known Southeast
ern Alaskans arc being mention
ed as possible candidates to the
legislature from that division.
-J. Judge R. A. Gunnison, N. L. Bur
ton, E. Valentine and J. A. Hel
lenthal, of Juneau; H. B. LePrvre
' and J. M. Tanner, of Bktffway,
and George Bland and Totjti1st J.
Hunt, of Ketchikan, tie*' jrfnong
those who may run. terri
torial assemblymen And two ter
. ritorial senators from etich di
* vision will be selected.
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ALASKA NEEDS
COMMON SENSE
Is Held Back by Theorists in Gov
ernment Says Ex-Senator
Kearns of Utah
"What Alaska wants and wants
so urgently, is the wealth and
capital of the big investor; the
brawn and brain of the hardy pio
neer and prospector; the hewers
of wood and tillers of soil. When
they, unhampered and unrestrict
ed by laws heretofore unknown
to an American people, are suc
cessful in the development of the
natural resources of that vast,
undeveloped region, trfhen, and
then only, can these United
States, departing from all prece
dent, talk of assuming owner
ship over the transportation lines
of Alaska, less than iOO miles
of rails, in a region of close to
GOO,000 square miles in area.
"If the samp theories of gov
ernment had been applied to Iho
Pilgrim fathers as are now ap
plied to Alaska and her people,
Plymouth rock could hardly be
pointed to as the foundation
stone of our industrial greatness.
Tf the pioneers of the West had
met with such restrictions, where
would be found all those great
cities, towns, villages and farms
now in existence this side off the
Missouri ?"
WILL ATTACK
BIG COMBINE
But Wlckersham Is Not Ready to
Announce Plans Regarding Tel
ephone-Telegraph Combine
Washington, Sept. 13.-A suit in
equity f«»r the dissolution of the
American Telephone and Tele
graph Company (the Telephone
and Telegraph Trust ) will he tiled
in tho near future by Attorney
General Wickersham, aecording
to reports current in legal circles
here. The report does not indi
cate whether the suit is to be a
perfunctory one, the result of an
agreement to voluntarily dissolv.
or a suit in which there will b<
actual contest.
SUBWAY PLANS
FOR CHICAGO
Chicago, Sept. 14.-Plan* have
been completed for a ninety-six
million dollar subway system and
thirty-flvc million dollar equip
ment. The subway will give easy
acccs8 to all parts of the city in
a fraction of the time it takes on
the surface lines.
No man knows his own strength
unless he realizes his own weak
ness.
BOUNDARY SURVEY
ARE RETURNING
Dawson,Sept. I4*-Dr. Cairnes,
geologist, attached to the inter
national boundary survey which
finished work between the Porcu
pine and Yukon rivers, has ar
rived* here en route to Ottawa.
Others wHo put the boundary
through to the Arctic coaRt will
be here the last of thi.< month.
HUSBAND BOUGHT
A GOLB BRICK
The Old Man Would Nevar Con
fess to Having Been Taken In
by an Adventurer
South Bend, Wash., Sept. 14.
The widow of \V. Marion, a
vvealthy rancher, has just discov
ered that three years ago her hus
band had bought a gold brick for
910,000.
She now recalls the visit* of a
mysterious Mexican who was with
her deceased husband a great deal
about that time. Marion never
told his wife of his transaction.
SON OF HAM
JOINS JUDEAISM
First Negro in History to Embrace
Jewish Faith Which Ham Left
to Found a Race
New York, Sept. 13.-llufus L.
Perry, a negro lawyer of Brook-j
lyn, became a Jew -1 his afternoon j
when went through various cere-l
monies al the hands of Rabbi i
Scheincr, of 70 East Seventh SI.
It was said that Perry is I he first
negro lo have accepted this rite
since I he Bibiiical instance of
ilain, son of Noah, the supposed
original progenilor of the African
race.
Perry is 3H years of age and
single, is a graduate of I he New
York university law school. As a
criminal lawyer he has attained
some fame. Perry made the fol-,
lowing declaration:
"I Rufus Lewis Perry, do here
by decide to accepl the Jewish re
ligious faith, and do hereby con
sent to and request the perform
ance of the ceremony." -
Perry was informed I hat "in
stead of Rufutt. you are named
Raphael."
NEW MACHINERY
IN HOES-HALL
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Rhoads-Hall Mill on Bedrock
Creek Resumes Operations
on Good Ore
Fairbanks, Sept. 14.-After an
18-day shutdown to install the
electric hoist and other machin
ery in the mine, the Rhoads-Hall
mill, on bedrock creek, is again
grinding out 12 and 15 long of
the 9100 rock per day.
Louis Rhoads says It ha8 been
raiding nearly every day an'd,
there Is plenty of water for the
placer operators of Upper Cleary
creek, while the Newsboy mill, up
onl tho hill, also has plenty of
water without resorting to pump
ing.
ALAMEDA LIFT OOROOVA
FOUR THIS AFTERNOON
The Alameda was reported as
leaving Cordova at four thi? after
hoon and is expected to arrive
hbout ten tonight. Heavy fog de
layed her from Juneau to Cor
dova.
Would you say that the girl
who buytf cheap perfumery has
jommon sconta?
WON'T STAY
IN HARNESS
Son of Onfo \ of Washington's
Former United States Senators
Suing for Divorce
Albany, Ore., Sept. 13.-R. M.
Ankeny, son of former Senator
Ankeny, of Washington, today is
suing his wife, Helen Brentz An
keny, here for divorce, alleging
she has an ungovernable temper
which led her to strike him on a
number of occasions with bric
a-brac, or "any instrument of
torture available."
MINING TIN
UNDER WATER
Two Divers Bring to the Surface
$17,000 Worth of Tin From
Hulk of Vessel
Two years ago during a severe
storm, three cannery vessels were
blown ashore at Chignik, one old
er and less staunch than the oth
ers, and besides being heavily
loaded with cargo, worth $75,000,
broke when she struck the r^ef.
sliding bark into about 05 feel
of water. A diver was brought
up from below to salve as much
'of the cargo as would not be dam
aged by wafer. No succeeded in
bringing to the surface a portion
of the carg«> but there remained
in the neighborhood of $17,000
worth of tin aboard, covered by
1ons of coal and other cargo.
This season, two young men,
well equipped with diving appar
atus, look the contract of salving
the tin, which was in pig form
for soldering purposes in the fish
'cannery of the Columbia River
Fishing and Packing company.
Tn four weeks work they
brought the submerged tin to the'
surface, earning for their share,'
about $G,000.
STRANGLES WOMAN |
10 GET BEQUEST
An Attorney Strangles Woman '
Who Had Willed Him Ono
Hundred Thousand
New York, Sept. I i.-An nltor
ney by (he name of Gibson has
been arrested charged wilh mur
der in having strangled to death
Mrs.. Sabo, while they were out
boat riding.
It was reported that the woman
had drowned. When the police
learned that the woman had left
Gibson $100,000 in her will, they
became suspicious and an exami
nation of the" body showed that
the woman had been strangled
before having been thrown Into
the water. Gibson i* in the Tombs
without bail.
HKAVIirr RAINFALL
IN HltTOWY
The rainfall from 8 o'clock
Thursday morning to 8 o'clock
Friday morning ig roporled by the
local oh«erver to have been the
heaviest in the history of Valdez.
The total preoipitatlon was 3 3-1
incho* of rain.
SENATOR BORAH
WONT CAMPAIGN
Idaho Senator, Disavowing Third
Party, Says Ho Will Not
Stump for Taft
Spokane, Sept. 13,-Senator Wil
liam E. Borah, of Idaho, denied
emphatically today the statement
that he would campaign actively
in support of President Taft. He
declared any speeches he propos
ed to make probably would not
be acceptable to »he Republican
national committee.
David W. Mulvane, director of
the Tafi campaign, in the West,
had announced that the senator
would take the slump for Presi
dent Taft in Idaho and probably|
in other slates. Senator Borah!
said:
"Any such statement was en-,
tircly unauthorized.
"I stated before jthe bolt, in
'Chicago, and after the bolt, and I
state now that. I am not going
to follow the third party move
ment. But I assert with equal
positiveness that I am going to
advocate progressive principles a?
I have been advocating them for
years. I shall not permit myself|
o feel any restraint in continu
ing to tight for th.)se things, be
cause I am not leaving the Re
publican party."
MIKADO BURIED j
MUCH POMPi
I
I
Imperial Remains Laid to Rest
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Mmid Comingling of Ancient
and Modern Customs
Tokii», ••Spl. I i.-The remains of
the Emperor were consigned 1<»
their Ui-il resting place in I In*
presence <»f rejiivsenlal ives of all
nation* and the nobility of the
empire. The eeremonies were a
strange comingling of ancient and
modern customs.
Never wns a monarch buried in
which the body of the people
mourned more sincerely than the
people of Japan over their late
err per; r.
e Indie* of the Tillikum club
will give a card party tonight.
Mrs. H. Whitley and Mrs. Win.
Finical will be the hotsesses.
AUTO TRUST j
IS BANKRUPT!
New York. Sept. I i—The Auto
mobile Trust. capitalized at forty
Iavc and a half million dollars, is
bankrupt, vsilh liabilities of
twelve millions.
F. M. Quinn, of Portland, Ore.,
made the round I rip on the Three
M. to the (Hcmplo properly at
,andlack, which he is examining
with a view of purchasing.
RUGS RAYMOND
BEATEN TO DEATH
Chicago, Sept. 1 i.-It now trans
pire? that "Bugs" Raymond did
not die of alcoholism, nn report
ed, but was beaten to death by
Fred. Cigmnz, who has been plac
ed under arrest charged with mur
der.
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LLOYDS ODDS
ON ELECTION
Require 60 Per Cent, on Wil
son, 30 on Taft, 20 on
Roosevelt
London, Sept. 13.-The Times
says a number of orders from the
United States were received yes
Lerday by Lloyds brokers in con
nection with tho forthcoming
presidential election. A premium
of 60 per cent, was quoted to pay
a Uotal toss should Wilson be
fleeted, the lerins boinj? equiva
lent to 0 to i \ on. To pay a to
tal loss should Taft he re-elected
30 per cent, was paid, and apainsf.
the return of Roosevelt 20 per
cent.
KIDNAP CHILD
FROM MOTHER
Child of Fairbanks Woman Kid
napped on Eve of Her Depart
ure for the North
Port land. Sept. I i..()n tin* e\o
of returuing In Fairbanks. i»or
present home, Ili«a little son of
Mr". William Jensrn was kidnap
ped, il is believed af I In* instance,
of her '.first husband, who was
supposed lo be dead. It i* believ
ed the kidnapping was done by
Mrs. Jensen's tnollu'r. who cannot
be found. Tim molher.in-law lias
hr»«»n arretted and placed in jail
charged with complicity in tlm af
fair.
CLARENCE DHOW
ATTACKS WEALTHY
Says the Rich Possess That Which
Should Belong to the Poor
Who Suffer for Necessities
Seat IIc, Sept. I l—dlarencr 1 >ar
r<»w, who defended (ln» MrXamaras
ami was receiilly acquitted of the
charge »»f having bribed jurors,
is hero making speeches for the
Socialist parly. In a speech last
night be bitterly attacked the rich,
saying that their surplus wealth
belonged to the pnnr, who were
starving.
TRUSTEE SOON
ISSUE PATENTS
To (Into a few over 200 of the
500 lot owners in Valdez and Res
ervation have filed their claims
with the townsite trustee, W. II.
Crary, and as soon a* acknowl
edgment of filing of plat is re
ceived from the land office the
issuing of deeds will commence.
It) is imperative that all fllo
their claim* as soon as posible, as
the delay add greatly to the ex
pense, the law providing a salary
if $10 per day to the trustoe
for every day he works and the
sooner the work is cleaned up the
smaller the expense. 8o far only
r>ne content has been filed.
The Valde* Cafe Is one good
Place lo eat. tf