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No. 11? SIXTEENTH YEAR
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SKAGWAY ALASKA. TUESDAY, JUNE 17 1913
PRICE 10 CENTS
TRIED TO BRIBE
U. S. SENM
IS
SANTA UARBARA, June 17 ? Cha
rles Krcanbrach, an old time resident
of this city win arres'.ed yesterday
under a federal Indtctmnet, charg
ing him with an attempt at bribery.
The complaining witness Is Uni
ted States Senator Works of Cali
fornia. wIk says that Ercanbrach I
offered hlrn a bribe of one thou- '
?.md dollars to secure him the,
postmastcrship of Santa llarbara.
mcuiit c comment owing to the pro
minence o* the parties involved
W 1 1. MIX ? IKKKVn MKSSAUK
ICKADV M>K HEADING
W ASHINGTON. June l" ? President
.Yll on ye :erday finished his nie*
i-urreucy question. The message
consists of twelve hundred words.
longress some day this week It is
believed that the president will ap
x'ar personally before the Joiut com
mittee and read his curf-'..cy messaj-t,
opening of the extraordinary session
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XORT H WESTERN LEAG IE
At Tacoma -Seattle, *5; Tacoma. 2.
It Victoria ? Vancouver, 7; Vlctor
NATIONAI. LEAGl'E
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It Pittsburg ? Beaton. 6; Pltuburg.
AMERICAN LEAGl'E.
It Boat, hi -Host on, 3; St l.onls, 2.
It New York ? Detroit, 5; New
VISCOUNT CHINDA.
Japan*!* Ambauador to United
Stat** Prot*?t*d on Land BilL
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REPLY THIS AKTKttXOOX
WASHINGTON, June 1" ? The sec
allqn land bill will be given to that
THEY'LL HONEY
CHICAGO, Juue 17? W. D. Hovco
Ihf wealthy Chicago publisher and
trader who attracted pubHc notor
iety two years ago when he had a
fist fight with his son, was today
sei>>atlon of several years. It Is
announced tha' the re-married
If there were
better ones made
we would have
them.
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TO fifl BP FOB DISCUSSION
WASHINGTON, June 17? Th
Senato territories committee arrived
"l an agreement yesterday on a
bill for the construction nnd govern
wont of railroads In Alaska.
AccorJlngto the plans now laid
out. It Is believed that Senator Chat
berlaln will report l>ls railroad bill
to tho house someWmo today. Un
der the Senate agreement It is said
that everything will be l?'ft to the
P'raident, and it Is to him that the
country will look for tho control an
the selrtlon of the routo or routes
In Alaska railway construction. The
Jones plan (or the selection of a
commission of five to take supervis
ion of the railroads of the north,
h?s been rejected according to re
WASHINGTON. Juuo 17? Sena
tor Pitt -ian today wired the Seattle
Chamber ?>f Commerce that he was
coi fldent that the Alaska railroad
bi.l would pass.
STATlS OK ALASKA
ItAILllOAD LKOISI.ATIOX
eminent Itself should 'construct a
railroad system In Alaska and guar
antee the bonds necessary to pay
for It, -*ctc Introduced In the Senate
early In the present session, and re
ferred 'o the territories committor
oue by Senator Chamberlain of Ore
xoi: and the other by Seutaor Joneti
of Washington. After considering
these bills for several weeks, and
holding oxtended hearings, tho com
mittee appointed a subcommittee of
fUe, the senators named being a
part of It, to draft a new bill, in the
light of tl ? testimony taken at the
hearings, and of criticisms and re
commendations coming from other
That sub-committee, after confer
r'ng with President Wilson, has at
last concluded its work nnd report
ed to the full committee the bill
thus UKreed upon was today
ordered report* ' favorably to the
Senate. Tho plan Is to give that
bill right of way by making it unfin
ished business of tho Senate, thus
insuring debate on its provisions
rcntltiuo'isly until disposed of. The
ho^e is that the dobate, which it Is
believed will not be protracted, wlU
ixhaust itself by the time the fl
nauce cwrmtttee is ready to take up
the tariff, and that the bill will pass
the Sena' with almost no opposi
tion. This being the case, Chair
man Uiid<:rwood will be expected to
place the till before the House cau
cus, whrr?. approval will be certain.
It would then be a matter of but a
i fm days to puss it through that
k*dy and send It to the President
for his approval.
Having given this legislation his
a, proval, the President has Intimat
ed that he will be too busy to fol
low It !n detail, but that Secretary
Lane of the interior departmont will
be his representative In seeing to
details. Mr. Lane will confer with
to time as occasion nlay require and
> w.j. make recommendations subject
. to the President's approval Al
? reay the secretary bun given bis full
approval to the scheme of federal
construction of railways In Alaska
a id to the compromise bill which is
to go beforo the territories commlt
? teo ~
Tbnt bill provides for the sale of
i t oil lis abrogating $40,000,000, but
docs not specify any particular
amount of mlloago, this to be loft to
the discretion of tho President, who
Is to haw general and full charge
of the plans, Just as ho bag hud In
:h<* building of tho Panama canal;
indeed tho bill has been patterned
after tho canal act, so far us the
part of the President Is to huvo in
(t Is concerned. It Is planned, how
ever, that with $40,000,000 at his
(Mxposul, tho prosldont will be able
to build at least 1,000 miles of rail
road; at tho rato of $40,000 a mile,
which 'i believed to be most liberal,
even after taking Into consideration
tho topographic difficulties of Alas
The railways through the Rosky
mountains. It Is pointed out, iUd not
cost anywhere near $40,000 a mile,
on the average, and construction In
Alaska will In no case be more diffi
cult tha i It has boen in tho America
and tho Canadian Rockies. Twenty
t'-ousaud a mile Is considered as a
fair averngc price by many experts,
which being true, the Presidont
would havo a big leeway In providing
for 1,000 miles In Alaska, and woul
probably be ablo to build that num
ber of mlloe well within tho bond al
lownnco. This fact Ik tho rnoro Im
portant because Alaskan experts es
ti. ate that, at the most, only 897
m!!ea of railway will bo necessary
to open tho territory In as com
plete a maiiiier as Is now desirable.
The bonds of the proposed rail
way will bo socurod by a fund real
ised from the sale of public lauds in
Alaska. 75 per cent of the gross pro
coeds of all public lands sales there
(Slid. ThJ percentage In the original
76 is to give a greater assurance to
the Investors that the government
ucter will bo called upon to make
good its guarantee.
A co idem nation clause has been
Inserted In tho bill, w thereby the
Presldo'it will be authorized to con
demn any railroad already built In
Alusku. and acquire It for the gov
ernment, provided such railroad is
necessarv to comploto any trunk sys
tem the Presidout may have in mind
T^e railroad to which this clause re
fefa Is the Alaska Northern line, 72
l ilea Ion;;, from Seward North. Thcr
was much opposition to the Insertion
of this exemption.
AMERICANS WIN FROM
HltlTISH AT POLO
NEW YORK, June 17? The big
International championship polo ser
ies clo?< l yesterday with the Amer
icans as winners. They beat the
British by a score of four and a half
t-> four and aquartor.
Edam Cheese
Imported from Holland
This is considered about
the finest cheese irade.
Will make a special price
of $ 1 .00 each for the next
two weeks. :: ::
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PHILADELPHIA, June 17? Tho
burning heat wave still continues nil
o-'t the oiateru states and suffer
Iri;; la r-?,icrted from hundreds of
towns lu Panhsylvanu. Hlx deatliB
nave occurred In this city with Innu
merable > rostral Ions. The thermo
meter s amis at 96 degrees In the
shade this afternoon.
OOLUi'ltUS ? Four are dead in
t ' : s city from the heat, prostrations
are num< roug and tho hoapltalg aro
overflow Inj; Thermometer stands at
il degrees.
CHICA'JO ? Nlnoty-clKht above to
ils; with no Indications of a break
In tho :;itcnse heat which Is caus
Ing. deaths and prostrations hourly.
DETROIT- Yesterday afternoon
the thermometer rose almost to the
boiling point. At various places
throughout the <l'y where the heat
wns reflected back from the scorch
!iik puvohiouta, the thermometer went
i tin to 112 in the shade. Today the
hunt coii.Iiiuch hi merciless torineut,
'.Hibitu'R* being practically suspended.
Many deaths ai.d prostrations are
reported.
CINCINNATI? Three are dead
from the effects of the awful heat.
! The thermometer resistors 95 de
crees and bus not fallen below nine
ty for the past forty-eight hours.
Suffering 13 almost unbearable.
CLEVELAND ? The terrific heat
wave of the past few days Ik being
foilowt'.l by destructive electrical and
wind storms in the middle west.
ON+REAb ? A severe hall storm
' f* pt over nearly the whole pro
vince of tjuoboc this morning, follow
i> the heat wave. Much damage
vns done.
II. s.
GOTTA HIVE
WASHINGTON, June 17? Ed Ex-[
? ?uiii, tne r -ccntly appointed Unitod'
Stales marshal for the Valdez dis- ;
? li t of Alt ska. In In the city and
was gran'i-d an interlew with the
president this morning, llo asked
Presldon*. WUhoii not to withdraw
his name lor the marshalshlp until
'?! could be given a chance to clear
himself of tho adverse reports which
had bcoi filed against him,
Mr. Kxoum admitted to friends
that he did not get much satlsfactlo ,
from the president. It is reported,
that Mr. Wilson will not lot Kxeum1*
name go through.
;;kkmax kmi'ekoh has
UKIG.NKO VKAHS,
BERLIN, Juno 17? Today the!
Kuisor colobrated the twenty-fifth :
unniversnry of his accession to the ;
throne of tho German Empire. Out j
of honor to tho occasion he signed ;
the release from prison or an hun-i
drcd political prisoners. i
DYNAMITEltS (.(>T DOSE
()!?' THEIR OWN MEDICINE
LOS ANGELES, 0'ino 17- -Two
young Italians were badly mangled
!? night liy the explosion of u
dynamite bomb which they had
placed on tho porch of James Tra
paiil, and they will die as a result.
The young men had domanded
money from Trapunl In a black
hand letter, which they wanted left,
i* a ce-tiiln place and threatened
his life in case he refused to comply
with their cmdands. No attention
was given to tho demand so far as
giving t|i the monoy was concerned,
and the men in attempting to carry
out their threat to kill Trapunl
lost their own lives.
The ixplosion wrecked tho porch
and did considerable injury to the
but did not injure the occu
pants. Trapani and his family were
hi the home at the time but were
not injured.
ItOVALTY REVIEWS RACES
IN RBGAIt RAOg
LONDON, Juno 17 ? The King and
Queen of England, garmented In.
royal robes of state, this morning
Attended tho opening of tho Ascot
races.
STOKV WHITER ?ETS
ITALIAN AMBASSADORSHIP
WASHINGTON, Juno 17? Presi
dent Wilson today nominated Thom
as Nelson I'age, the author, as am
bassador to Italy. ? 4H
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