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Irefer white to wickersham
i! Wickersliam’s mouthpiece at An
Ihorage takes us to task for stating
; >r A1 White would make a better
lelegate for Valdez than Wickersham,
fnd accuses us of poking fun at our
Sjellow townsman. But we were not.
IVe were absolutely in earnest when
iie stated that we would much prefer
s-Vhite to Wickersham. A1 White has
filways worked for Valdez, and Wick
has worked tooth and nail against
Valdez.
Wick’s attitude with the Alaskan
Commission at Anchorage is a fair
example of his stand on Alaska ques
tions. He should be working with
the Commission for the betterment of
conditions and for the advancement
iof the railway, but instead he tries
everyway to harrass them by stirring
up dissension in the city with his hire
lings. Wick has tried in every way to
|block Richardson’s appropriation, and
| is trying in every way to block the
S Commission’s work at Anchorage. If
' that shows friendship for either of
! these places, excuse these remarks.
A1 White would be for Valdez, and he
would be for the best interests of the
Territory. Wickersham has never
posed as anything but an obstruction
ist, and hence his small influence in
national affairs.
It may seem like a joke to the An
chorage delegation that this paper
prefers a man that will help us to a
man that openly expresses his antago
nism for Valdez, but we have an idea
that the joke will be on Wick before
the season is over.
1 \ LOT OF FUSS OVER NOTHING.
Wickersham’s papers are making a
horrible noise at Anchorage over the
proposed passage of a bill allowing
the Commission police powers in the
sanitary and other affairs of the city.
Just where the occasion for alarm
comes in we fail to see, as yet, as ft
is identically the same bill that has
been passed on every government
work of any size in the past fifty
years, and is designed to protect the
health and morals of the employes of
the road. With several thousand men
allowed to dump filth and refuse at
any point they pleased, and with dis
solute women and whisky-peddlers
following the army of laborers along
the right-of-way as the track advanc
ed into the interior, it would be hard
for the Commission to accomplish
anything unless it had discretionary
powers.
When the Commission took charge
of Panama they transformed it from
a disease-breeding spot to a healthful
place in a few months under these
same regulations, and it is better to
avoid an epidemic of typhus by being
cleanly now than to sacrifice hundreds
by Wickersham’s desire to make polit
ical capital out of what was intended
as a protection to the workingmen.
If Wickersham and his obstruction
ists at Anchorage succeed in killing
this measure, and an epidemic breaks
out the coming hot weather, will they
shoulder the blame? Not they! They
would loudly yell that the “Govern
ment was butchering poor working
men by not exercising proper sanitary
regulations.”
MANLINESS AND GENEROSITY
Whatever station history may ul
timately accord to Agustine Birrel
and John Redmond it will say of one
that he accepted disaster with simple
manliness and with the other that
he shared with generosity the burden
of responsibility for the human and
other wreckage of the Dublin insur
; rection.
| Those were manly confessions
: which both the recent secretary of
Ireland and the Irish nationalist lead
i er made in the house of commons on
| Wednesday. Mr. Birrel attempted no
'shifting of blame on others; he I'rank
j ly declared he had been too cocksure;
' he had underestimated the desperate
i folly of the leaders of the outbreak
'and their dupes; he had not forseen
these terrible consequences; he had
■not given due warning; he had failed
, in his duty, his hope and his aim to
! maintain unbroken the unity of Ire
j land in face of the common foe.
S Mr. Redmon, to whose “gallant as
| istance” in that duty, hope and aim
!the fallen minister had paid striking
tribute, generously assumed probably
. more than his share of the error. He
| confessed that he had concurred in
! the view that the danger of such an
; outbreak was not real, might have in
j flueneed Mr. Birrel to treat warnings
| lightly, and felt that he had incur
; red some of the blame Mr. Birrel took
; upon himself.
j When Englishmen can thus blame
! themselves rather than Ireland for an
| Irish calamity, and when Irishmen
' can thus confess that not “London’s”
\ alone was the misjudgment of Ire
j land, real progress seems to be mak
jing toward a healing understanding.
! It adds to the faith held by both and
I expressed by Mr. Birrel that “this
j was no Irish rebellion” in the true
| sense, and that the convictions of the
Ireal Ireland are accurately expressed
i by the half million men of Irish blood
^ who are fighting on all the fields of
war.
If some of Wickersham’s corres
pondence to his agitators in Alaska
could be read on the floor of congress,
the members there would have their
suspicions clinched by facts. Just
what a man expects to gain by work
ing for the government at Washing
ton and against the government in
Alaska is hard to see, but Alaska is
bound to be the loser. What the Ter
ritory needs is not a demagog but a
delegate.
The government trail to Fairbanks
is said to be in excellent condition
with the exception of about a mile be
tween Ptarmigan Drop and the Sum
mit, where a few deep drifts are yet
to be encountered. It will not be long,
according to reports until autos will
be enabled to make the trip.
THE EMPRESS
TONIGHT
One Show this evening at 8:10 sharp
A BIG PROGRAM
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JACK’S PALS—A Jungle Zoo Wild Animal Picture With Exciting
Scenes.
THE ONLY WAY OUT—A Three-Act Broadway Star Feature Dra
ma. This is a most interesting Story with fine acting.
THE ROUNDERS—Fat and Charlie in one big scream comedy.
On Sunday—Love, Snow and Ice In
5 Big Reels.
Admission 25c Children 10c
ANOTHER BARGAIN
SWEET PICKLES—Mixed
and Straight.
SOUR PICKLES—Mixed and
Straight.
CHOW CHOW—French Mus
tard—Chill
SAUCE—Mexican Hot Relish.
INDIA RELISH—
IN GLASS PINT FRUIT JARS—AT 25 CENTS PER JAR, ONLY
KING’S GROCERY PHONE 188 I
__GUARANTEED eggs, three dozen for one dollar
Everybody who wants to get things
straight in his mind should solemnly
resolve to quite talking about our
“coast defenses” and speak of them
as they are—“our harbor defenses.”
A health and beauty expert was
among the speakers of the ladies’s
military service camp at Washington.
The members evidently had no inten
tion of abandoning the old method of
making conquests for the new.
In an advertisement for a husband
recently, a Chicago girl asked for a
man "kind, intelligent, well to do,
good-looking, willing to stay home
nights, and ready to furnish wife with
plenty of spending money.” Gosh:
that woman doesn’t want a man; she
is out after an angel.
Secretary Lansing is busily engaged
op his fifty-ninth note to Great Bri
tain regarding the mail seizures, and
the forty-seventh epistle to Germany
regarding the submarine horrors. The
life of a Secretary is not the flowery
bed of ease it has been depicted.
The German dispatches from Berlin
and the French dispatches front Paris
read entirely different from the En
glish dispatches front London in re
gard to the same battles. It must be
more a matter of viewpoint than of
troops.
A Chicago doctor says that South
Sea Island cannibals won’t eat white
men because they are too salty. They
would probably also decline to eai
irritable gentlemen because they are
too “peppery.”
More building is now going on in
this city than at any time since the
big fire last July. With San: Blum's
big store building, and Charley Craw
ford’s large building, all local car
penters are getting all the work they
can handle.
We’ll be willing to swap two1 copies
of “It Takes a Little Rain With the
Sunshine,” for one bar of that glad
old refrain, “Let the Sun Shine In.”
There’s been too much attention paid
to this wet weather fad lately.
Judging by his aversion to cleanli
ness at Anchorage, our council may
expect a protest from our Delegate
at any time over our proposed clean
up day campaign.
After reading the Anchorage edi
tion of the Forty-Ninth Star we have
come to the conclusion that 'we must
sit pretty hard on. "Honest John’s”
stomach, even at this great distance.’
HIGH SCHOOL DOG
RACE CLASSY EVENT
The Nome Nugget of March 4, (by
the way one of the last papers receiv
ed from that northern port), states
that the Nome high school dog race
started promptly on time with a large
crowd on hand to witness the youth
ful contestants tackle the winter trail
behind the swift race dogs borrowed
for the occasion from every kennel in
town. The teams started at two min
ute intervals and the crowd evidenced
a lively interest as each team sped
over the starting line with the youth
or maiden driver holding on to the
rear end like approved dog mushers.
Peter Sather proved the winner of
the event, making the distance to the
bridge at Nome river and back to
town in the fast time of 29:33. Dan
Kelley was second only a few seconds
behind the winner, his time being
29:55. Three seconds behind was the
first of the young lady entries, Alice
Peterson, who negotiated the distance
in 29:58. Fourth place fell to Miss
Kate Bongard, who arrived in 30:65,
with Eric Sather fifth in 31:10.
$1.00 Landing Charge Taken Off.
The transportation companies have
assumed the one dollar landing
charge at Anchorage, and parties can
now go ashore without paying one
dollar for the privilege. The ships
were anchored out in mid-stream and
passengers taken ashore in barges,
for which a charge of $1 was made
by the government officials who run
the barge line.
Civic League Meeting.
The Valdez Civic League will hold
its regular meeting in the City HJtll
Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock. All
members of the organization are re
quested to be present.
LOCAL BREVITIES
Try a Rainey Sundae at Hunt’s
Candy Kitcheh. tf
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Valdez Drug Company has a fine
line of School Stationery. ' tf
Try the Cottage Dining Room for
good home-cooked meals. Mrs. M.
Rucker, Phone 131. tf
Men, women's and children's wear
ing apparel, household utensils and
articles of every day need, at the
Emporium. *
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Bristles in your teeth? Not if you
buy a guaranteed tooth brush at the
Owl. tf
PERMANENT HEAD CONVENTION
Republican Leaders Bay Ohio States
men Probably Be Chosen—De
mands for Seats Enormous—Price
Soaring.
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WASHINGTON, D. C., May 26.—j
Republican leaders here state that
Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio, I
will probably be chosen as permanent!
chairman of the Republican conven- j
tion. ■
The demand for seats at the con- j
vention is enormous, far beyond the [
capacity of the hall. The price of tlie j
best seats has risen to more than.
$200.
That Baseball Dance
The baseball boys, with scraper!
and roller ,are out this afternoon
putting the grounds in shape for the I
forthcoming contest Sunday, and ex-;
pect to have it in excellent shape. On
Saturday evening they expect to have
a dance to raise money for paying off I
their eindebtedness and they are;
working just as hard to make the j
dance a most successful affair. A 7-[
piece orchestra will furnish the music
and everybody is invited to spend a I
dollar, thus helping the boys out and
having a dollar's worth of enjoyment
at the same time.
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* ODD OCCURRENCES 4-1
4* THROUGHOUT COUNTRY. 4-j
4. - 4*;
What is perhaps the smallest pen-1
knife in the world was completed by
M. A. Kaufman of Altoona, Pa. It
measured 5-32nds of an inch in
length with a blade less than 2-16ths
of an inch long and weighed less than
one-third of a gram.
Mrs. James Reeves, 3S years old,
of Meridian, Miss., who has five j
grandchildren, presented her hus-'
baijd with a set of triplets. She had i
previously had nine children, the late,
arrivals making an even dozen.
Mrs. Gather Drewery of Lexington,
Ky., 30 years old, gave birth to nine
children in 18 months; five at the
first birth and fotf^ at the last.
An egg 8 inches One way and 6% :
the other and weighing 3 % ounces, j
was laid by a Leghorn hen owned byj
C. A. Enright of Homestead, Pa.
A horse died in North Yakima.!
Wn., at the ripe age of 42.
Deborah Pelton, of Denver, Colo., |
two years of age, has undergone six-1
teen operations.
* THIS DAY IN HISTORY. * ,
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Feast day of: St. Quadratus of Ath- i
ens; St. Eleuherius, pope and martyr; ;
St. Augustine, apostle to England; St.;
Phillip Nerl.
735—The Venerable Bede, English;
historian, died.
1830—Earthquakes in China kill-1
ed more than 6000 persons.
183G—Congress voted that it had |
neither wish nor power to interfere
with slavery.
1853—Yellow fever appeared in
New Orleans.
1857—Dred Scott and family
emancipated in St. Louis.
1892—Steamship reached Chicago
from Norway.
1909—France accepted one million
dollars from Andrew Carnegie for a
hero fund.
1911—Diaz secretly left Vera Cruz.
1911—Springfield celebrated the
275th anniversary of its founding.
1911—Wireless message sent from
Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, to Dakbar,
West Africa in one hour.
Banquet Steel Ranges, plain and
polished tops, at Mead’s. tf
LOUIE’S CAFE
Everything First class
Open Day and Night
ANDY MAROVICH, Prop.
I Arcade Cafe
OPEN ALL NIGHT
Everything First Class
Lightning Service
J»ck Criltn • ■ Pmrirtw
VALDES LODGE
NO IN
Fre« nd AtcoM Mmmmm
Regular Communication* firat Wed
nesday in each month in McKinley
HUL
ED WOOD, Secretary. '
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The finest stockings
—the neatest socks
And every pair guar
anteed to wear for
six months or new jg
hose free. B
EVERY box of Hole- I
proof contains a defi- l|
nite, printed guaran- 1]
tee with a coupon for I
each pair. 1
Six pairs of cotton Hole
proof for men, women
and children are guaran
teed to wear six months
without a hole.
Three pairs of silk Hole
proof for men and women
are guaranteed to wear
three months without a
hole.
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If any pairs fail, send
them back and the man- »
utacturers will gladly and promptly send you new pairs in
exchange. Even the gauzy, summer weights are guaranteed.
Yet, most people buy Holeproof for their style, perfect fit
and fine appearance.
Think of the darning they save, and th ; expense too, of buying new
hose every week or two. Don't you think you ought to buy
Holeproof? A>k us to show you toe new colors and various
grades, $1.50 to $3.GO a box.
S.BLUM&COj
GOOD GOODS J
THE SENATE
ANGUS C HISHOLM—FRANK GUSTAFSON
CIGARS, BILLIARDS
Nicely Furnished Rooms. Phone 35
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
< Merchandise
The best groceries received
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits, and
nuts.
Candy Kitchen (
f E. W. HUNT—Ib Owl Drag Store. I
j FOUNTAIN DRINKS l
l HOT-COLD f
Alaska Jewelry Co.:
With Owl Drug Co. 1
All Kinds of Nugget and I
Ivory Jewelry.
Developing and Printing J
Photo Supplies Phone 40
The Best Place in Valdex to
Stop at Is the
Arctic Hotel
Wars, Lifkt Rogaa-Tto Honae tf Comfort
rates; reasonable
BATHROOM Special Ratal Byjtka Monti
PHONE 133 MRS. STRING, Prop.
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
/
Company
Office on Alaska Avenue, in
George C. Treat Building
Telephone No. 60
General Trucking and Freighting
to all Interior Points.
LIVERY and FEED STABLE.
STORAGE,
Teaming of All Kinds .
Positively No Coal Delivered Un
less Paid for in Advance
DR. H. COCKERILLE
Grnrinate National University.
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
Fourteen Years in Valdez.
PHONE 110
Office Rooms in Whaling Building
JOHN LYONS E V. RITCHIB
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Offices In Whaling Building
Phone 101 VALDEZ. ALASKA
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Coart ^oase
Phone 34 VALDEZ. ALASKA
ASA C. BALDWIN
CIVIL ENGINEER
U. S. Miaeral Surveyor
McKinley Street opposite V. M. Store.
Valdez, Alaska
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING
McKinley Street, Valdez
ED. WOOD. Proprietor
Somebody - ■
With Money
always has been found to
“back” a good plan, a good
Idea, a good business ven
ture or a good mining pros
pect ; otherwise a good many
of today’s successful busi
ness enterprises would still
be mere dreams.
Advertising has brought
about a majority of the in
troductions of die man with
the idea, the man with a
prospect, or business to the
man 'with the dollar.
ADVERTISE IN THE
PROSPECTOR FOR RE
SULTS.