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1917 FEBRUARY 1917
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1917
DAYLIGHT HAVING.
What a lot of agitation there is
over the “daylight saving" reform.
Imported from across the seas, it has
1 een hailed by superficial thinkers as
a great discovery. There are some
who rest not night or day in their
»0«2 to spread its adoption. They
themselves they are pioneers
of a great advance. They pres ime
too much. They have nothing new.
They are seeking to effect by dint of
ponderous legiBaltion, Which presup
poses a great wave of reform, to set
it in motion, what their fathers brol
about in a very swift and simple way
and that many years ago. Ol course,
they were not slow to observe what
a lot of good time there is before
breakfast in the summer. They also
knew the tendency of people, espe
cially young people and hired men. to
linger in bed and waste this good
time. So they fixed it. They set for
ward the clock 20 minutes, half an
hour, an hour. No agitation, no leg
islation. Just turn the pointers, it
did the trick. By virtue of this sort
of daylight saving they were able to
say to the laggard son or the slow hir
ed man who turned up for work a.:
late as 6 o’clock. "Where’ve you been
all the forenoon?”—New Haven Reg
ister.
THREE State's rights decisions by
the United States Supreme Court
within the same number of weeks
make a remarkable record and would
seem to indicate a tendency to restore
a balance, all but destroyed in recent
years by a steady trend toward feder
alization. The first of these decisions
lecognized State sovereignty in the
matter of prohibition, the second in
the matter of fixing railway pissen
ger rates and the third in the enforce
ment of laws against fraudulent stock
selling within State borders. The
three rulings agree on the point that
the State has the sole right to make
laws affecting exclusively its own at
fairs. And this determination by no
means weakens Federal authoritj,
where that authority has proper juris
diction.—Exchange.
THE jury acquitted Span noil, who
was charged with wife murder in Tex
as. He shot his wife by accident, he
testified, his aim really being directed
at Colonel Butler, whom he also kill
ed, and who was alleged to have been
entirely too friendly to Mrs. Spannell.
He will now be tried for killing But
ler and he will be acquitted almost
surely. Civilization makes little head
way in sex progress. Murder remains
a sociable pastime under some condi
tion. Any man or woman with fair
ly good looks, dramatic sense and ne
gotiable property can kill without
much fear in these days. Between
mollycoddle jurors and the revocation
of capital punishment lav.M bloodshed
has grown pitiably cheap -—Tacoma
Nows.
THE Seattle Dally Times'll! a piti
ful attempt to be funny, throws a
palpable slur at Alaskans in an issue
recently devoted to the causes of a
run on the Seattle banks, in which it
says that at certain seasons Alaskans
all go crazy for a time. While it may
have been the one clause needed to
clinch the Blethenese argument, there
is no necessity for the Times to rub it
in on us. Some of us are crazy, we
will admit, but the craziest guy we
have met in this frigid portion of our
mundane sphere is the man who takes
and reads the Times,— a paper mani
festly hostile to everything Alaskan
CARD PART1E8, like lodges, were
invented so a woman could get away
from home at night.
MAYBE you think yon are over
worked, but what about some of these
f.ood old jokes we publish?
SINGLE men need consciences to
tell them -when they are in wrong
married men have wives to tell thorn.
SOCIETY is a queer thing. It is
divided into as many grades as an in
gersoll watch, and a large part >? it.
like the Ingersoll, goes on tick.
THE reason why a woman imagines
that she is going to select a paragon
as a husband for her daughter is be
cause she selected a pinhead for a
husband for herself.
WHEN a henpecked man can't ex
press his feelings towards his wife
in the way he would like to he goes
down into the cellar and shakes the
stuffing out of the furnace.
A WICHITA man is advertising for
his wife, who recently ran away from
his bed and board, and states that she
can be distinguished from the com
mon herd by the fact that she has a
"G” tattooed on her leg. As there
are no bathing beaches in Alaska we
do not see the necessity of any of us
staying awake nights t9 claim the re
ward.
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W. N. Cuddy of the Valdez Mer
cantile Company returned on the
Alaska from a business trip to the!
ptates.
The launl'h Patsy Made two round
trips to the Cube mine and other Vai
dez bay points, with freight and pas
sengers.
Jack Chamberlain, a well knowi.
traveling man. was a passenger on
the Alaska, en route to Anchorage.
“Schillings' Best” Morris was a;
passenger on the Alaska for Anchor-:
age. |
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C. H. Chadwick of the U. S. Hub- j
ber Company, was in town a few j
hours this morning interviewing our;
merchants. He is en route to An-,
chorage on business connected witn |
the company.
Joe Bourke left for the westwar* •
Ion the steamship Alaska, to make <t j
tour of investigation of affairs con
nected with his official position. Mr.
Bourke will lie gone about two
weeks.
Oak Olson of the Schwabacher!
Grocery Company of Seattle, one of,
the best-known commercial travelers
of the North, was a passenger on the
steamship Alaska for Seward, where
he will take dog team for Anchorage
and way points. Mr. Olson has made
several trips in over the trail and is
an experienced musher.
The launch Patsy, Capt. Jefferson,
will leave today for Valdez bay points
providing the weather permits.
Twenty-nine quarters of beef and
a large lot of mutton were among the
consignments on the steamship Alas
ka to our local merchants. Meat has
advanced five or six cents a pound in
Seattle, according to late reports.
Fifty-four sacks of mail arrived on
the Farragut and ten on the Alaska.
Our postmaster and his assistants
were on the job early, however, and
our citizens received their mail in o
short time.
Passengers arriving on the steam
er Alaska report one of the calmest
trips ever experienced at this season
of the year, hardly a ripple disturbing
the vessel on her way across the gulf.
WOULD DELAY EFFECT
PROHIBITION MEASURE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 23.—
Congressman Moon, chairman of tin.
House committee on Postoffices and
Post Roads, today introduced a reso
lution making the dry amendment to
the Postal Bill effective October 1. In
support of the resolution he said thai
1 to make the measure effective imme
■ diately after passage would be mani
festly unfair to distillers and dealers
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Five more days are allowed in
i which to shoot ptarmigan, after
! which the open season is closed.
i Miner Adds bring results.
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STEAM HEAT NEWLY FURNISHED
SEATTLE HOTEL
MRS. E. MILL, Propr.
VALDEZ ALASKA
MARK TWAIN'S LAST DAYS.
"Sorry, but I Can't Hurry This Dying
Business,” Hs Told a Frisnd.
Mark Twain’s last days. It wiil be re
membered. were si>eiit in Bermuda, at
tbe borne of Vice Consul Alien, where
be bad gone following the shock of his !
daughter Jean's death. Tbe great
humorist, suffering from heart attacks
which began to recur ". ith Increasing I
frequency, knew that was a dying I
man. Tet his whimsical humor never j
failed him. His biographer, Albert
Bigelow I’alne. writing in Ft. Nicholas,
recalls how Mr. Clemens at this time |
referred to the hypodermic injection. ;
which had become necessary to him. oh 1
•‘hypuotic injunctions."
“As long as I remember anything,'* i
writes Mr. Paine in describing the trip
from Bermuda. “I shall remember the ,
forty-eight hours of that homeward
voyage. He was comfortable at first, j
and then we ran Into the humid, op- ,
pressive air of the gulf Btream, and be j
could not breathe. It seemed to me ;
that tbe end might come at any mo j
ment. and this thought was in bis own 1
mind, but be hajl no dread, and his
sense of humor did not fail. Once,
when the ship rolled and his hat fell
from the hook and made tbe circuit of
tbe cabin floor, be said, ‘The ship is
passing the hat.’
”1 had been Instructed in the use of
the hypodermic needle and from time
to time gave him tbe ‘hypnotic injunc
tion.' as be called it. But it did not af
ford him entire relief. He could re
main in any position but a little while.
Yet be never complained and thought
only of tbe trouble be might be mak
ing. Once be said:
“‘I am sorry for you, Paine, but 1
can’t help it—I can't burry tbls dying
business.’
“And a little later:
*’ ’Oh. it’s such a mystery, and it
takes so long!’"
EVOLUTION OF A SENATOR.
—
Hie Career briefly Sketched From Beby
Holding to Congreae.
Prior to election a future United
States senator la meek and lowly. He
is not averse to bolding babies or four
aces, ns tbe environment may demand,
while campaigning for votes. One may
safely slap him on the back without
fear of rebuff Before the last precinct
Is counted he seems to know his suc
cess. for the senatorial candidate stiff j
ens. dons his black clothes and a fresh :
collar and begins to practice a dlgni j
Bed stride for future use on Pennsyl- !
vnniu avenue. Babies and Jackpots j
have lost their alluring possibilities; no
longer does lie tolerate fumiliarity; he j
is us patronizing as a rooster who ,
scratches worms for the hens and then
eats them before ills Invited guests ar j
rive.
Seated in a niche of the hail of con !
gress the new senator feels as though j
he should peer through a microscope
to make sure lie is there, but eoufiden- '
tial letters sent to the editor of the .
Juni|K>ff Breeze tell hew he Is prepar- I
ins a bill advocating the irrigation of |
Sagebrush valley; also how he Is work- j
ed to death by other senators asking i
favors of him. As a school for fiction ;
writers the United States senate bus i
all other correspondence schools lashed j
to the mast.
Many senators fail to receive just re
ward at the conclusion of their maiden
voyage through the troubled congres
siunal waters probably because the law
is so strictly enforced against murder
—Harper’s Weekly.
Grand Canyon Rocks.
In the very bottom of the Grand can
you lie the dark, inconspicuous rocks,
mostly tough crystalline granite gneiss
and schist, the oldest in the canyon
aud among tbe oldest In the world.
They were in part deposited as sands
and muds in a sea. in part accumulated
as lava flows and in part intruded be
neatb tbe surface as molten rock. All
these materials became solidified, and
later they were slowly heaved aud
crumpled Into mountains, which were
in time worn down by rain, rivers and
perhaps tbe waves of the sea to a near
ly level land surface. This surface
finally sank beneath the sea and be
came the floor on which fresh sedi
ments began to accumulate. Twice at
least was this mighty cycle repeated in |
the Grand canyon region.
A Polite Doubt.
A fond parent was telling Oliver Her
ford of the really bright remark of her
three-year-old daughter.
Herford was much impressed.
“How old did you say little Lena Is?'
he asked.
"Only three.” answered the mother
proudly.
"Do you know,” said the humorist
solemuly. “I have a suspicion that some
times these children lie about their i
age."—McClure’s Magazine.
Wood Pulp Silk.
Artificial silk manufactured from
wood pulp for which several kinds of
California timber are suitable Is used
annually in this country to the amount
of 7.000.000,000 pounds. It is utilized
principally In the manufacture of mil
linery. sweaters and hosiery.
Dilatory.
She—Here’s a woman who got mar
ried. deserted her husband and eloped
all In one day. He—What delayed her?
—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Overstayed His Market.
“What, broke? Why, the last time 1
saw you you told me yon were on the
road to fortune.”
“So I was, but 1 went past my sta
tlon."—Boston Transcript.
Kindness in us Is the honey that
blunts the sting of unkindness in an
other.—Landor.
Good Phone 12
Goods
$2.50 per box-APPLES-$2.50 per box
We have received another shipment of those choice
quality apples and will sell them at this
price while they last.
Fruits and Vegetables
To receive the best that the market affords in these lines, purchase here.
We have—
FLORIDA RISSKTT GRAPH FRUIT
ORANGKS
BANANAS
CRANBHRRIKS
RHUBARB
CAULIFLOWER
LETTUCE <;
ARTICHOKES
PARSLEY
I’ELERY
And a fine assortment of staple vegetables.
“Holly-hurst” the money back egg,-50c a dozen.
In Domestic and Imported Cheese, We Offer
WISCONSIN TWIN CAMEMBRET
OREGON CREAM
L1MBURGER PIMENTO
ROQUEFORT GREEN CHILI
S. BLUM & CO., Inc.
GOOD GOODS
GROCERIES AND OFFICE LOCATED IN THE FORMER KING GROCERY BUILDING
Mrs. A. Tramontln returned on the
steamship Alaska front a trip to th
Cincinnati, where she went with the
remains of her late husband for in
terinent at that place.
C. F. Swanson, the well-known
Slate ('reek mining operator, was a
leturning passenger on the Alaska.
Andy Markenson returned on the
Alaska after a short visit to the
States.
ltev. G. J. /inn was a passenger on
the Admiral Farragut for Sewari’.
win re he will remain for several days
I
Why not a VICTROLA? We have
them from $15 up. Valdez Drug
Co. tf
Notice to Creditors.
In the Matter of the Estate of Angus
Chisholm, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the un
uersigned that on the 17th day of!
January, 1917, he was appointed aJ-1
ministrator of the estate of Angus |
Chisholm, deceased, and the adminis-1
trator of the co-partnership estate of
Angus Chisholm, deceased, and Prank
Gustafson; that all creditors of said
estates and all persons having claims!
against said estates are hereby re- j
quired to exhibit the same «!th the
necessary vouchers to said adminis
trator at the office of Donohoe & Di
mond, said administrator’s attorneys
in said matter, at Valdez, Alaska, the
said office being the place for the
transaction of the business of said
estate, within six months after the
first publication of this notice, to-wit,
within six months after the 19?h day
of January. 1917.
FRANK GUSTAFSON.
Administrator.
Donohoe & Dimond, Attorneys for
the Administrator.
Publish Jan. 19, 26, Feb. 2, 9, 16. 5t
Unfailing
Satisfaction
In one of the many reasons
wh.v
CRESCENT
BAKING
POWDER
In increasing in popular favor.
SOLD BY GROCERS
POUND TIN 25c
CRESCENT MhXJ. OO.,
Seattle, Wash.
; LOUIE’S CAFE
• Open Day and Nig tit McKinley Street, Below Cable Office
Fresh Bread, Pies, Cakes,
i All Kinds of Pastry for Sale.
: EVERYTHING THE BEST ANDY MAROVICII. Propi.
• _J___,,
Candy Kitchen
E. V. HURT—In Owl Dr* Stare.
FOUNTAIN DRINKS
HOT-COLD
ATLAS JUNK CO.
WMtah tad Dnkn is
ALL KINDS OF JUNK
Boyers of Metal, Rubber, Ma
nila Rope, Sacks, Machinery,
Pipe, Hides, Furs and Bottles.
1043 Railroad Avenue, So.
SEATTLE, WASH.
When la Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE SEXTON. PROP
STRICTLY FIRST CLASS
Fourth Are, 8eward. Alaska
The Bert Place in Valder to
Stop at Is the
Arctic Hotel
Warn, lifts Raaau—TW How of Caafart
RATES REASONABLE
BATH ROOM SfocU Rates By the Marti
PHONE 133 MRS. STR1NC, Prop
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TvaldezcTfeI
* AND BAKERY !
f FnA Broad and Paatry ohrayo aa kaad ♦
t OPEN DAY AND NIGHT I
$ BERGSTROM * ROGSTAD. Prop*. 2
<• PHONE *7 - TWo. dam td.» Owl Dm +
In every lino or manufactured ar
ticles there is usually one maker who
sets the standard of excellence. The
Rcxall Products set such a standard
for the United States in Drags, Per
fumes, Toilet Articles and in fact, for
every article which they manufacture.
The OWL DRUG CO., exclusive agentj
t'T Yaldez. If
A new stock of A1 Fruit Tablets
Candy Kitchen. tf
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
DR. S. WICKES MERRITT*
i
I <me« ever Vaides Drug Ce.
Phone 'IB HeKtaley Street
Contract Surgeon, U. S. Army
A. A Surgeon. U a Public Health Serv
(Marine Hospita »)
JOS. A. SILVERMAN, PM. 6, M/fi.
PHYSICIAN AND SCBGBON
Over Owl Drag Co.
—OFFICE HOURS:
1 t. 4 P. M. 7 to 8 P M
Sunday by Appointment.
Res. Phone 17« Ofice Phone !<►
ROBERT SIMPSON Opt. 9.
JUNEAU, ALASKA
Glasses Kitted I senses Ground
DR. H. COCKERILLE
(IrMlnte Rtiinil University
WdUactn, D. C.
DENTIST
Fourteen Yearn In Valdez.
PHONE 110
Office Rooms In Whaling Building
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTOKSBYS-AT-LAW
Osanalte Court Hum
Phoae M VALDKK. A I.ASK «
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JOHN LYONS C K UITl'H.K
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTOBNEYk-AI.I.A U
Offil t> la “ tallng Bulldlan
Phone 1W VAJLDKZ. ALASKA
VALDEZ LODGE
WO 108
Vm aad Accepted Vikm
Regular Communications first Wed-"
uesday In each month In McKinley
Hall. Visitors always wslcome.
F. M. BROWN, W. M.
HD WOOD, Secretary. i
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miners
W. H. GARNER, President, 1
Granite Mine
GUST KRJNG, Secretary.
Vaid ex Alesha.
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