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THE ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1913. PRICE TEN CENTS LOBBYIST CHARGE STIRS CONGRESS War Dogs Break Loose in Balkans LONDON, July 1. ? The battle be tween Greeks and Bulgarians at Sal onika terminated this afternoon by the Bulgarians surrendering their gar rison here to the Greeks. SOFIA, July 1. ? A terrific battle is in progress between Greeks and Bul garians at Leftera. The Bulgarians were the aggressors, but the Greeks are holding their positions, apparent ly, everywhere. War Becomes General. BELGRADE, July 1. ? The Bulgar ian army yesterday morning opened a general attack against the Servian army all along the whole line of Mac edonia. | The fighting was renewed this 'morning at the break of day, and is i still in progress. The Servians, ap parently prepared for the attack, have resisted it everywhere with spirit. So , far as is determinable at this time ; the honors of war have been even. War Seems Inevitable. LONDON. July 1. ? A feeling of deep depression exists among those that have watched the Balkan situation with interest and hoped against hope ! for peace. It is now refarded almost as a certainty that the differences be tween Bulgaria on the one side and Servia and Greece on the other must be fought out on the field of battle, un less the powers send an armed force j to intervene in the dispute. Constitutionalists Capture Guaymas, Mexico DOUGLAS. Ariz., July 1. ? Guaymas ; has fallen. The Constitutionalists have been completely successful in the battle that has been waging in the streets of this city for the last two days, and are now in complete con trol acording to information that comes to this city from various sources. Constitutionalists in Control. DOUGLAS. Ariz.. July 1? The junta of the Constitutionalists in this city re ceived a telegram from Guaymas say ing: "Everything is in our hands." DOUGLAS, Ariz., July 1. ? A battle has been raging for two days between the Constitutionalists and Federals in the streets of Guaymas. At times the fighting has been furious and streets are red with the blood of the dead and maimed. GOV. STRONG LEAVES EOR SITKATHURSDAY Gov. J. F. A. Strong and Mrs. Strong will leave for Sitka on the Georgia early on ilte morning of July 3. They will reach Sitka on the morn ing of July 4. Some time ago Gov. Strong was asked by the Sitka com mittee on Fourth of July celebration, to deliver the address of the day and j he accepted the invitation. Another j important function to be attended to ! will be the formal opening of the Pi oneers' Home at Sitka, by Gov. Strong. Gen. \V. L. Distin will probably accom pany the Governor and Mrs. Strong to Sitka. The Pioneers' Home was created by an act of the Territorial Legislature. The site and buildings were loaned by the federal government to the Ter ritory. They were formerly used as ma rine barracks by the government. The Pioneers' Home is governed by a board 1 consisting of the Governor and two j appointive members, George Kostro- 1 metinoff and \Y. P. Mills. While in j Sitka Gov. Strong w ill take up the j matter with the other members of the board, of opening the institution for occupancy. Before the place can be occupied it will be necessary to provide the place with furniture and furnishings. It is planned to return to Juneau July 5th. ROBERT BELL IS SEEKING OFFICE Robert Forbes, a prominent can neryman of Seimo, near Icy straits, and Robert Bell, another prominent cannery man from Excursion Inlet near Icy straits, are in Juneau seek ing to have a postoffiee established near their establishments. Both are Democratic warhorses. Robert Forbes sought the position of postmaster at Selmo, the poetic name chosen for his canning establishment, and was suc cessful. with the proviso that he fur nish transportation for the mails des tined to that point. He still has his commission ? unused and just as good as new ? but he did not furnish the transportation. Robert Bell is now a candidate for postmaster at Excursion inlet, which is the more familiar name chosen for his baliwack ? and he wants that post office established at once. He is here now with a petition a mile long, more or less. Robert Forbes is one of his enthusiastic supporters. There are over three hundred people in that sec tion that require a mail service. Mr. Bell and also Mr. Forbes want to know if they can have it. o ? o ? o The Daily Empire delivered in Ju neau, Douglas and Treadwell for $1.00 a month. WAR DECLARED ON FIVE-CENT BEER James McCloskey et a! yesterday afternoon filed a protest with the dis trict court against the granting of a liquor license to Al. Carlson, of the Louvre saloon. It is alleged in the remonstrance that Carlson reduced the price of biA . to five cents thereby increasing the consumption of beer so greatly that drunkenness has ma terially increaseii.in Juneau; and, that the Louvre saloon has become a pub lic nuisance. There will probably be a hearing on the protest, but no date has as yet been set for it. WILL BUILdThE HOSPITAL NOW ? o-o ? Gov. J. F. A. Strong will leave for the Interior of Alaska shortly. He is planning to leave Juneau about July 15 for Fairbanks via Skagway and the Yukon. The purpose of the journey is to establish the detention hospitals for the insane at Fairbanks and at Nome for which approp-iations have been available for the past two years. Mrs. Strong will accompany him on the journey. The pepole of Fairbanks and of Nome have furnished the government with sites for these hospitals and the buildings are now to be built and put into use. As soon as the building in Fairbanks has been fairly started, the Governor will leave for Nome and ar range for the building in that place. It is expected that the trip will con sume from six to eight weeks. o ? o ? o GARSIDE BUILDING TO BE ERECTED AT ONCE Lloyd Hill has operatios well under way for the new Garside building at the corner of Seward and Third streets. The excavating is practically finished and work will start on the foundations next week. The building will be 47x76 and two stories in heighth. The foundations are to be concrete with frame superstructure. The construction is to be modern in every respect, with steam heating sys tem, electric lighting and telephone system, lavatories,, etc. The lower floors are to be devoted to the mer cantile business and the upper floors will be made into spacious offices eight in number. There will be entrances both on Third and Seward streets. John P. Benson, the Seward street furniture dealer, will have a lease on the entire building and will establish his business there as soon as the structure is finished. The building is to be known as the Garside building and will be built by day labor under the direction of a superintendent. CABLE TOLLS NOTJO BE CUT The War Department has refused to reduce the cost of cable and tele graph tolls on the military cable? and telegraph lines in Alaska. Gen. W. L. Distin, secretary of the Territory of Alaska, has received a letter from Secretary of War Lindley M. Garri son in response to the memorial of the Alaska Legislature, wherein the Legislature asked for a reduction of the cable tolls. The Secretary of War refuses to grant the request and sets forth as a reason therefor that the ca- j ble and telegraph service are now op erating at a loss of approximately $90,- j 000 a year. The Secretary of War 6ays the Alas ka cable and telegraph lines cost the United States $1,362,130 and that since their installation there has been ap propriated and expended for exten- j sions and betterments $869,000. j . The operating expenses of the ca- < ble lines is placed by the Secretary at $260,084.20 per annum, and the cost ! of maintaining the cableehip Burn- 1 ' side at $112,844.63. j ' The average annual receipts have j ! been $198,056.92, and the average 1 ( annual amount of the official business * transacted for the government officials i ! has been $165.0<?f>.:?2. After setting forth these figures, the ' Secretary of War says the average an- * ual <*ost of maintaining and operating ' the system is about $450,000, and the ' average annual receipts are about 5 $361,000, indicating that the system is I operating at a loss of about $90,000 j per year. The Secretary adds: "It is therefore not deemed advis- 1 able to make any reduction in the tolls | on commercial messages at this time." t'l 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 II 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 League Base Ball :: T !? ii 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ii 1 1 1 r-i-t NORTHWESTERN LEAGUE. Standing of Clubs. Won Lost PcL Seattle 45 26 .634 Vancouver 39 29 .574 Portland 34 30 .531 Victoria 33 38 .465 Tacoma 33 41 .446 Spokane 25 45 .357 Yesterday's Scores. At Vancouver? Seattle, 3; Vancouver, 0. At Victoria ? Victoria, 8; Tacoma, 5. At Portland ? Portland Spokane game postponed; rain. PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE. Standing of Clubs. Won Lost PcL Los Angeles 28 35 .578 San Francisco ... 45 41 .523 Oakland 40 42 .488 Portland , 37 41 .474 Sacramento 38 46 .452 Venice 38 49 .437 Yesterday's Scores. No games in the Pacific Coats league Monday. The teams were changing towns. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Standing of the Clubs. Won Lost Pet. Philadelphia 47 15 .758 Cleveland 40 27 .597 Chicago 38 32 .543 Boston 33 28 .541 Washington 35 32 .522 St. Louii* 29 45 .392 Detroit 27 42 .391 New York 18 46 .281 Yesterday's Games. At Detroit ? Chicago, 6; Detroit, 4. At St. Louis? Cleveland. 5; St. Louis, 2. At Boston ? Washington, 3; Boston, 1. Eleven innings. At New York? Philadelphia, 6; New York, 0. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Standing of the Clubs. Won Lost Pet. Philadelphia 39 18 .679 New York 40 23 .630 Brooklyn ....... 33 26 .558 Chicago 32 31 .510 Pittsburgh 29 35 .460 Boston 25 36 . .410 St. Louis 25 38 .397 Cincinnati 24 39 .388 Yesterday's Games. At Brooklyn? Boston, 9; Brooklyn, 1. At Chicago? Chicago, 12; Pittsburgh 2. At Philadelphia? New York, 11; Phil adelphia, 10. Ten innings. At Cincinnati? St. Louis, 7; Cincinna ti, 4. o ? O ? 0 WHITEHORSE GIRLS ARE SEEKING BASEBALL GAME , Whitehorse's girls' baseball team is J seeking a game at Skgway for the ' Fourth of July. The Star says the ! 1 Kapids City girls are in practice and , ' will play an excellent game. o ? p ? o A complete line of tobacco jars and j pipe racks at BURFORD'S. ' 1 House Committee to * Begin Alaska Hearings WASHINGTON, July 1.? The House committee on territories has ordered that hearings be commenced on the Alaska railroad bill beginning July 9th. Representative Scott Ferris, of Oklahoma, chairman of the committee, in announcing that hearings will be gin, said that Secretary of the Inter ior Franklin K. Lane had urged the desirability of the committee's report- 1 ing the bill early in order to seek to j secure its passage at this session if j possible. Mr. Ferris said that the ad ministration desires to get the legis- j lation that will provide for Alaska's development through at an early date, so that the work may begin. It is conceded that the first great need is transportation facilities. DAVIDSON MUST WA,T M?0MM|TTEE A wire has been received from Sen ltor Key Pittman, chairman of the senate committee on territories, which states that it is impossible to get a consideration of the nomination of Charles E. Davidson to be surveyor general of Alaska until after the cau cus is through with the tariff bill. The ?Senate committee on terirtories will lot agree to consider the nomination jxcept at a meeting of the committee. Senator Pittman states that he is ooking after the appointment and that ie will get a meeting of the commit ee on territories at the earliest pos sible date. o ? o ? O HEARING COMPLETED ON BIG INJUNCTION SUIT In the injunction suit brought by the A'orthen Mills against the Alaska-Ju ieau Gold Mining Company to re train the defendant corporation from iluieing debris into the boom space >t the plaintiff; the hearing on the ap >lication for an injunction pendente ite was completed this morning. All >f the evidence was submitted and the irgument of counsel presented and he court took the case under advise nent until tomorrow morning at 10 >'clock. CASE DISMISSED In the case of W. W. Casey adminis rator of the estate of Wm. H. Bunge s John Johnson, on motion of attor lej for plaintiff, the action was dis nissed, the matter having been ad usted out of court. easterner buys big LOT OF LIVE FOXES J. E. Miliigan, of Freeland, Prince %dward island, took 48 young foxes rom Whitehorse last week for an At-! antic fox farm with which he is con lected. The foxes were for the most >art crosses. The foxes had been >urchased by a represetnative of the 'rince Edward island farm from time o time udring the winter and early ipring. Mr. Miliigan and his foxes vent South on the last trip of the Drincess Sophia. o ? o ? o NEW YORKER AFTHR PICTURES C. T. Summerson, of New York, ac ?ompaned by E. D. Beattie, left yes erday for Gambier bay in search of notion pictures of big game. They vill also try to connect with Mr. and Urs. James Morris, who are known to >e in that section of the country. o ? O ? O? ?SUFFRAGETTES BURN CASTLE AND STATION GLASGOW, July 1.? Bill Inkin Rain ast'e. valued at a half million dollars, ind Lenchars railway station were Mirned yesterday by suffragettes. ? O ? 0 ? o YEW CLERK ARRIVES FOR GOVERNOR'S OFFICE George Robblee, the newly-appoint Jd clerk of the Governor's office, ar i\ed form Skagway and has assumed lis duties. Mr. Robblee has been vith the White Pass & Yukon and ived at Skagway. o? o ? o PIONEERS MEET TONIGHT Igloo No. 6, Pioneers of Alaska neets tonight in Odd Fellows' hall.' Ml pioneers are invited to attend. J. T. MARTIN, Pres. LANG COBB, Secy. ? O? O? Q 0 ? 0 ? 0 CARD FROM C. GOLDSTEIN Please take notice that we have no agent or agents in the field in Juneau or elsewhere sell ing clothes for us. We have one place of business, and that is at our store. CHARLES GOLDSTEIN. FOUND ? Short brass door key. Ap ply Empire office. It. DISSOLUTION PLANS AREAPPROVED ST. PAUL, July 1.? United States Circuit Court Judges William H. San born, William C. Hook and Walter I. Smith, sitting as a United States Dis trict Court for Utah, yesterday ap proved the Union Pacific and South ern Pacific dissolution plan that had been agreed upon by the Attorney Gen eral and the railroad attorneys and approved by the President. o ? o ? o COLLAPSING WALK KILLS ELEVEN BOYS LAWRENCE, Mass., July 1? The wooden walk leading to the municipal bath house on the Merrimack river, collapsed this morning drowning elev en boys. o ? 0--0 SHEEP CREEK ROAD WILL BE GRADED NOW Superintendent Jack Hayes of the Alaska Road Commission, will move camp on the Sheep creek road con struction today. The camp will be established within 4,000 feet of the Alaska-Gastineau's Sheep creek re duction works and dock. Lieut. Glen Edgerton, of the Alaska Road Commission, made a careful examina tion of the work yet to be done and reported that the government would furnish sufficient funds to complete the surface grading to the terminus at Sheep creek. Lieut. Edgerton left for Valdez on the Mariposa. Superintendent Hayes said that he would continue working right along the same as usual, pushing the grad ing crews forward all the time. Fif teen- additional men will be employed as soon as the camp is moved which will be immediately. This will bring the number up to forty-five. o ? o ? o BRADLEY AND MACKENZIE VISIT SALMON CREEK F. W. Bradley, president of the Alas ka-Treadwell company, and John H. Mackenzie, who is his principal asso ciate in the ownership of the Alaska Juneau properties, were out to Salmon creek yesterday the guests of Gener al Manager B. L. Thane of the Alas ka-Gastineau Mining company. The day was spent examining the power development now under way. Today the visitors will be shown over the Sheep creek division by Mr. Thane. -o ? 0 ? o "DOC" BURTON MAKES A CAPTURE AT KATALLA J. H. (Doc.) Burton, Commercial agent for the Alaska Coast Company, with headquarters in Seattle, made the round trip voyage to the Westward on the last Sampson. While the ves sel was lying at Katalla "Doc" went out and caught a live porcupine. It is said that the animal was only captured after a fierce struggle and that the hero worked without the aid of a net. The animal is to be presented to the Seattle zoo in Woodland park. o ? o ? o Mrs. Gage Makes Announcement. I wish to thank the ladies of Ju neau for the reception they have given my little store at Second and Front streets, and to announce that next week I will have a fashionable dress maker in the store. MRS. J. L. GAGE, 7-1-tf o ? o ? o HART, SCHAFNER & MARX LEAD We lead and others follow. RE MEMBER, HART, SCHAFNER & MARX set the pace and fix the STYLES IN READY-MADE CLOTH ING. They have no competitors. We have the sole agency for this great house In Juneau and handle their lines exclusively. Inspect our stock before buying. We guarantee a per fect fit. A pair of dress shoes or a hat given with each purchase before the Fourth of July. CHARLES GOLDSTEIN. o ? o LEAVE YOUR orders for green veg etables and fruits at Goldsteins, to be delivered after arrival of steamer Ala meda. 6-21-lt Lobbyist Involves Many Men of Nigh Station WASHINGTON, July 1.? Martin M. Mullhall has published a statement in which he says that as a lobbyist for nine years for the National Asso ciation of Manufacturers he had j "reached and influenced" many Rep resentatives and Senators. He said he had conducted his operations from a room in the Capitol building. The statesmen has thrown Congressional circles into an uproar. President Woodrow Wilson, com menting upon Mulhall's charges told correspondents that he favors their in vestigation. Mulhall Is Subpoenaed. WASHINGTON, July 1.? Martin M. Mulhall was subpoenaed this morn ing to apear before the Senate lobby investigating committee July 9th, and give testimony concerning his state ment of his operations as the special representative of the manufacturers' issociation. In his statement Mulhall says the following former members of Con gress were aided in their candidacies for re-election or otherwise rewarded ;or work done for the interests he rep -esented at different times during tbe ast decade: John Jenkins, of Wisconsin; James W. Watson, of Indiana; James McDer mott, of Illinois; Kittredge Haskins, if Vermont; Charles E. Littlefield, of Maine; Harry Bannock, of Ohio; Hen ry Coudry, of Missouri; J. J. Gard ner, and Ralph Cole, of Ohio. Statesmen That Were Easy. Mulhall gives another list of men ] Ahom he says could be easly 'reached" or "influenced" through bus icss, political or sympathetic reas Dns. This list includes the names of Former President William H. Taft, i who heads the list; Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts; form er Senator J. B. Foraker, of Ohio; Sen ator Knute Nelson, of Minnesota; Sen ator Usaac Stephenson, of Wisconsin; former Senator Nelson A. Aldrich, of Rhode Island; former speaker J. G. Cannon, of Illinois; Senator Jacob H. Gallinger, of New Hampshire; Sena tor Charles E. Townsend, of Michigan; Representatives and former Repre sentatives Hemmenway, of Indiana; Dwight, of New York; Tawney, of Minnesota; Bede, of Minnesota; Fas set, of New York; McKinley, of Il linois, Vreeland and Ryan of New York; Overstreet, of Indiana; Dalzell. of Pennsylvania; Bartholdt, of Mis souri; former Postmaster General Gary and Ambassadors Guild and Her rick. The publication of the statement has caused consternation and wrath among the Republicans in the Senate and House of Representatives. ? o-o? Taft Says It Is Muckraking. NEW HAVEN, Conn., July 1.? For mer President William H. Taft, speak ing through his secretary says he re gards the statement of Mulhail as a "muckraking attack." Contradict Mulhail. SAN FRANCISCO. July 1. ? John Kirby, jr., president, and David M. Parry, former president of the Manu facturers' Asociation, flatly repudiate the charges made by Mulhail in the statement that he ha? issued. They deny that Mulhail acted as a lobbyist for their organization. Kirby and Par ry are in this city on their way to Australia and New Zealand which they intend to tour. ASK FOR RECEIVER EOR BIG COMPANY PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 1? Alexan- ' Ier Dempster, former President of the VIonongahela River Consolidated Coal ind Coke Company, has asked for a ?eceiver of the corporation. The com pany is capitalized for $30,000,000. o ? o ? o ADMITS TRYING TO BRIBE SENATOR WORKS LOS ANGELES, July 1. ? Ercan jrack yesterday plead guilty to the charge of having tried to bribe Sena :or Works. o ? o ? o OREGON CRAZY MAN KILLS MOTHER-IN-LAW; SHERIDAN, Ore., July 1? Lou W. Davis, paroled from the insane asyl am, yesterday shot and killed his iiother-in-law, Mrs. G. M. Steward, and I ratally wounded Ben Agee. o ? o ? o VIISSOURIAN ADMITS HORRIBLE CRIME MEXICO, Mo., July 1. ? John Nichol- ! son plead guilty yesterday to having j nurdered his wife and adopted son jy pouring kerosene over their beds ind setting fire to them while they slept. He was sentenced to the peni- j entiary for life. o ? o ? o VfOTHER CONFESSES MURDERING CHILD OGDEN, Utah, July 1. ? Mrs. Gus Eckman confessed that she had mur lered her 12-year-old daughter when he body was found in a trunk checked :o this place from Salt Lake. C. L. \nderson, claiming to be the form er's husband, accompanied the woman. SALT LAKE, July 1. ? There was an nsurance policy of $150 on the life of :he Eckman child who was killed by ier mother and shipped in a trunk :o Ogden. The mother said today that she had killed her daughter to pre sent Anderson from knowing that she lad an illigitimate child. 0 ? o ? o JUNEAU POLICE FORCE TO BE NUMBERED Chief of Police J. T. Martin ie today distributing numbered stars among the members of his force that now con sists of five men in addition to him self. The police force has been added to as Juneau has grown. It now con sists of Patrolmen Dahl, Cohen, Mc- J Bride, Wheeler and Alderman, and the | chief. 0 ? o ? o Every thing that will please a smok er may be found at BURFORD'S. DR. NOLMES COMES TO TAKE CHARGE WASHINGTON, July 1.? Joseph A Holmes, director 01 the bureau of mines, left here this morning for Se attle in personal charge of an expe dition which will sail from Seattle July 5th to secure 1,000 tons of Mat ansuka coal to be tested by the Unit ed States navy. The party will depart from Seattle on the Admiral Sampson. There will be 30 men and their equipment under the direct charge of George Watkin Evans and John T. Ryan, engineers. They will proceed by pack train from Knik. o ? o ? o FURY OF EASTERN HEAT WAVE UNABATED CHICAGO, July 1.? The fury of the heat wave that prevails throughout the East remains unabated. There were ten deaths reported fftm different Eastern cities yesterday, and this morning is opening up apparently for another blistering day. Monday's Toll Is 81. WASHINGTON, July 1.? The com pleted returns from the heat-suffering cities of the Central West place the dead, directly attributable to the weather, at 81 for Monday. o ? o ? o FAIRBANKS OPENS CITIZENSHIP CONFERENCE PORTLAND. Ore., July 1. ? The World's Christian Citizenship Confer ence opened in this city yesterday with an address by former Vice-President Charles W. Fairbanks. o ? o ? o WHOLE CALIFORNIA FAMILY IS KILLED JOSH. Calif.. July 1? Col. Rob ert Powell, an orchprfj^st of this city, and five members of his flhnily, were killed yesterday when the automobile in which they were riding struck a moving electric car. o ? o ? o NEVADA MAY HAVE ANOTHER LEGISLATURE CARSON CITY. Nev., July 1.? At torney General Thatcher yesterday ad vised Gov. Oddie to convene the leg islature in special session to investi gate the receivership of the Nevada State Bank and Trust Company which failed for $2,000,000. His report at tacks Judge Frank P. Langan, of the district court. He says "if grounds for impeachment exist, l>angan should be impeached. If they do not exist grounds for his removal from office do exist." 0 0 0 SCANDINAVIAN GROCERY? Opp City dock; Just opened; fnMh stock.