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phone 7 for men only
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WILSON'S ROMANCE
SET TO Ml'SIC
NEW YORK: Despite a protest
from the White "House, the printing
presses are busy running off copies
of a song dedicated to President
Woodrow Wilson and his bride-to-be,
under the title of "Pretty Little In
dian Maid.”
The words are supposed to tell
the story of the President’s wooing of
Mrs. Norman Galt, an alleged descen
dant of Pocohontas. J. M. Fitzpat
rick, who wrote the ditty, says the
song is being published, but that he
may consent to keep it from the mu
sic shops.
Fitzpatrick sent a copy to the
White House. The return mail
brought a letter from Secretary Tu
multy saying: "The President asks
me to say that .lie would be very much
obliged if the song to which you re
fer were not published. He would
be very mufch distressed if it were.”
The first stanza and chorus of the
song follows:
“A paleface chief of a mighty tribe
On the trail of an Indian squaw,
In his light canoe that was built for
two
Came drifting to the shore.
A lover’s dart hit the white man’s
heart,
From the girl of copper shade,
For he was chief of the paleface tribe
And she was an Indian maid.
CHORUS.
You are red and I am whUe—
That makes our love true blue.
For I know that you love me
And you know I love you.
Let’s stroll together ’neath the sil
very moon
When the twilight shadows fade,
And I’ll crown you lady of th6 pace
face tribe.
My pretty little Indian maid.”
CANNERY TAX MONEY
WILL ENRICH TERRITORY.
Figures compiled from data in the
office of Territorial Treasurer Smith
And by J. H. Cobb as attorney for
the territory, shows that thirty-five
of the canning companies that have
entered into the agreement to abide
by the decision in the test tax case
which is now in the courts, have
made their returns, showing the
amounts of taxes paid by them to
aggregate $115,905.58. These figures
do not include figures from the seven
teen canneries of Alaska Packers'
Association, which have not yet been
fully compiled except for the year
1914. The tax due from the Alaska
packers for that year totals $41,
072.04. The remainder of taxes due
will undoubtedly bring the total to
at least $200,000, according to a
statement made by Mr. Cobb.
"There are eighteen canneries op
erating in Alaskan waters who have
not entered the agreement to abide
by the test suit,” said Mr. Cobb,
“and of these only one has paid the
tax. Proceedings will be started at
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an early date against the remaining
delinquent for the purpose of com
pelling them to pay the tax due.”
Details of the mining taxes are not
all in, but it is believed that when
the legislature is again in session
there will be a surplus revenue on
hand that will total $200,000 above
all the appropriations made.
Alameda Due Thursday.
The Alameda passed Juneau at 3
o'clock yesterday afternoon and will
be due in Valdez Thursday night or
Friday morning.
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LOCAL BREVITIES.
George Reinke's jewelry has been
moved to the Valdez Drug store,
where a full line of jewelry is on dis
play. tf
I Kodak Supplier at me Valdez
I Drug Comnxny. tf
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Valdez Drug Company nave a fine
line of School Stationery. tf
Pure Fresh Drugs at the Valdez
Drug Store. •
New Show Tonight.
Complete change of program at
The Liberty Theatre tonight. A pro
gram of good films worth seeing.
i Pictures developed at (he Valdez
i Drug Company. tf.
Select your Xmas presents at E.
[winter’s. tf
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| Fancy Stationery at the Valdez
I Drug Store. •
Ft>r good home-cooked meals try
Mrs. M. Olson, on Hobart Street. •
Big dolls and little dolls for the
kiddies at E. Winter’s. tf
Why not select one of those pretty
silk or wool dresses for your wife
for a Christmas present at E. Win
ter’s. tf
See Reinke’s fine line of nugget
jewelry at the Valdez Drug store, tf
Hats Cleaned and Blocked.
Hats cleaned and blocked; suits
cleaned and pressed.
tf ' GUY F. CAMERON.
George Reinke, the jeweler, has
moved his store to the Valdez Drug
store where he is prepared to serve
all his old customers and meet new
ones. He has a big stock coming on
the steamer Northwestern for the hol
iday trade and will continue to make
a specialty of fine nugget jewelry.
If you need repairs on machinery,
consult us and if it fa to your advan
tage financially to send outside for
the repairs we are not afraid to tell
you so. We want your good will
as well as your money. Us means
Valdez Iron Works. w-tf
GOVERNMENT GATHERS IN
FIVE MORE BOOTLEGGERS
The United States marshal’s office
is in receipt of news from Anchorage
9tatlng that five more bootleggers
have been arrested there for selling
liquor without licenses. The names
of the defendants are Wm. Bateman, ;
Begdatte, Morris, Dunlay and Brock. j
Two of the accused have entered
pleas of guilty to the charges and
the others wm receive trial tomor
row. Bateman was one of the first
batch convicted and has evidently
failed to profit from his experience.
It is not known if the Dunlap men
tioned in the advices is Mrs. Dun
lap, who was convicted and fined sev
eral weeks ago on a similar charge.
STILL ANOTHER CRIME
IB CHARGED TO KRAUSE.
Juneau:—That Edward Krause ki
lled Paddy Burke, a farmer whc
mysteriously disappeared from his
lonely ranch at Marmion Point, nine
miles south of Douglas, several yean
t go. is the belief of the federal auth
orities. It was said at the courthouse
too ay that the engine's of Burke's ga^
boat have been positively identified
as those which ire in the Krause
boat. Burke was supposed to have
left his ranch in his launch but was
never heard from and his launch
never was found.
SIXTEEN INCHES OF
SNOW AT GRANITE MINE
Recent reports from the Granite
mine are to the effect that the mine
is looking better than ever and that
everything is running smoothly and
turning out approximately $1000 per
day.
Cold weather is reported to have
prevailed in the Port Wells district
for several days and the small
streams are all closing over. Six
teen inches of snow have fallen at
the Granite mine during the past
month but has not interfered with
the work.
NEW ENGLAND STATES
ARE ENJOYING PROSPERITY.
Boston :—War orders and general
business improvements have ban
ished unemployment from Provid
ence, R. I. Machine shops, screw and
tool factories have 11,375 more men
at work than at this time last year,
and 1,000 are working night and day.
In the Blackstone valley 7095 hands
are employed in the cotton mills and
the bleacheries and dye works are
running fully 100 per cent, better
than a year ago.
HOW A WOMAN SAVBD
THE KOYUKUK NAT1VKS.
Fairbanks News—Miner: Aw<ay
off in the wilderness, as a matter of
fact the place is known to all Alas
kans as "St. John’s in the wilderness”
there is a women who is devoting
her life to the natives of Alaska,
and is doing for them that which she
believes will be for the best interest,
no one after reading this story can
deny that Deaconess Mills perform
an act that entitles her to much
thanks from everyone in that part
of Alaska. v
Last summer, according to advices
which have just been received here,
a native wandered into the mission
at St. Johns in the wilderness, in
an awful condition. He was suffering
from smallpox. The frightful toll of
this disease is too well known to need
comment. An epidemic of smallpox
would have pratically wiped out the
Indian settlements along the Koy
ukuk river.
Deaconess Mills isolated the pa
tient. Then she sent to Fort Yukon,
the nearest mission hospital, for vac
cine. Traveling up and down the
river with a lot of bichloride and
vaccine she made the natives wash
all their clothes in boiling water
in which had been dropped a bichlor
ide tablet, and then she vaccinated
every indian on the Koyukuk river.
So excellent was the work of this
lone woman that the one case that
wandered into the mission was the
only case that was heard of. An
epidemic was avoided. The patient
got well.
Deaconess Mills did wonderful
work. Had she not acted as she
did it is possible that the disease
would have spread. An epidemic
would have' resulted and many
might have perished.
It is acts of this kind that make
those who doubt the sincerity of
those good women who are devoting
their lives to the education of the
Alaskan natives think, and it is acts
of this that bring to the missions in
this northern country assistance
from the great Outside.
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Germans Taken from IT. S. Whip
San Juan, Porto Rico: Several
Germans, members of the American
steamship Hoamo were taken off
by the Lieutenant commanding the
French cruiser Descartes today. The
commander of the warship announ
ced that hereafter that not only Teu-i
tonic crews but German passengers j
would be removed from any vessel,,
wherever found.
CRUSHED THE CRITIC.
An Anecdot* of Verdi and a Bother
aome Parisian Journalist.
'The flrst production of Verdi’s opera
“Othello" took place at Milan, and all
the prominent musical critics of Eu
rope foregathered In the Cathedral
City in honor of the occasion. Among
them was n Parisian journalist of wide
reputation anti admitted authority In
the musical world. His flrst care on
bis arrival in Milan was to seek out
Verdi and ask to be allowed to be
present at one of the final rehearsals.
The composer received the critic with
extreme politeness, but replied that he
could not possibly grant his request,
as be had decided that the rehearsals
were to be absolutely private, and he
could not make an exception in the
favor of any one journalist, however
distinguished.
The Paris critic, far from pleased at
this answer, protested that in these
circumstances his account of the opera
might not be ull he should like it to
be. "You see." he explained to the
composer, who affected not quite to
understand. "I shall have to telegraph
my article the same evening. It will
necessarily be hastily written, and the
impression in Paris the next day may
suffer In consequence.”
Hut Verdi was more than equal to
the occasion. "My dear sir." he made
answer. “1 do not write for "the next
day.’ ” The critic bowed himself out.
USE A LOOSE REIN.
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Do Not Be “Bossy” and Domineering
In the Home Circle.
I Hud that I can write all day with
out pain in my fingers if I hold the pen
loosely. If I should grasp it tightly if
would be only a few hours before the
strain made writing almost impossible.
Do we not often hold too tight a rein
on ourselves and our families for com
fort? Habit lias made us bossy and
domineering. When a member of the
family goes we want to know where
he is going and how long he intends
to be gone: we keep a string on him
and are ready to drag him home that
we may feel that all are sheltered and
under our watchful eyes.
This is selfish care. It fences the in
dividual in. It hampers him and makes
his Held of pleasure and activity cramp
ed and rasping.
When one knows that another is
trustworthy, why hold so tight a rein?
Some of us have got into the habit of
repressing and suppressing ourselves
for the sake of peace and the nbsence
of anxiety. Freedom is necessury for
the development of individuality and
the best that is in each one of us. The
caged bird never sings so joyously as
the bird in the field or forest.—Shirley
in Farm Life.
Salt Water Cataract*.
There are a good many salt water
cataracts In existence. They may be
found In Norway, southern Chile and
British Columbia, where narrow llords.
or arms of the sea. are obstructed by
barriers of roclc. The rising tide flows
over and filters through such reefs into
the great natural reservoirs beyond,
but the water is held back at the ebb
until it breaks over the obstruction in
an irresistible torrent. Most curious
of ail is the waterfall at Canoe l'as
sage. where the island of Vancouver
approaches the British Columbia main
land. Here the Hood tide from the
gulf of Georgia to the southward is
held back at a narrow cleft between
two islands until it pours over in a
boiling cascade eighteen feet high, with
perhaps double the volume of the
Rhine. At the turn of the tide, how
ever. the waters from the north rush
back into the gulf, producing a cascade
of equal height and volume. The wa
terfall actually flows both ways.
His Criticism.
One of the wittiest of clergymen, ad
vocating the habit of preaching extem
t>ore sermons instead of reading writ
ten ones, said he had heard of a Scot
tish minister who always relied upon
his manuscript. At last his sorrowful
congregation sent a deputation to com
plain that he did not speak, but always
rend, bis sermons.
“Ah. my good friends." said he. "I
have a bad memory. I should forget
what I had to say."
"YVeel. minister," was the scathing
answer, “if ye canua remember your
ain discourses ye canua blame us if we
forget them.”—Loudon Answers.
Fascination of Golf.
“I've 'eard of Nero a-playing ou 'is
fiddle, sir. when 'is 'ome was a-buru
Ing." said the landlady, putting down
the local paper, “but this 'ere game
of golf must be the most faskiuatlug
'obby in the world. I've been reading
about tlie fire up at the golf ground last
Friday, and it says. 'The fire brigades
promptly responded to the call, and
when darkness closed in they were still
playing upon the ruins of the club
house.' ”
La Mascotta.
The mascot came to us from the
French. The word Is French slang and
was popularized by Audran’s comic
_ opera. “La Mascotte.” in 1880. though
’ before that its use had long been com
mon atnong French gamblers. And, as
in England, the mascot could be any
thing from a dog to a doughnut—Lon
don Standard.
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Badly Expressed.
A Ixmdon restaurant bus this notice
displayed in various parts of Its din
ing room: “Any Incivility or Inatten
tion on the part of any of the employ
ees of this establishment will he con-,
sidered a favor if reported promptly
to the proprietor.”
four unused learning is an unlit ta
per: a book, tight shut, fa but a block
of paper.—Youth's Companion.
CITY EXPRESS
MEETS ALIi BOATS AND NEVER MISSES \ TRAIN
Auto for Hir e Day or Niglit.
Buy and Sell Anything.
Phone 82 i. A. BPENARI), Prop.
If You Want Mfc he,h Eeg*’ .Bu“er’ F.,util
”w * and Grocenes, and appreciate
prompt deliveries, try
KING’S GROCERY
Phone 188
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Best of Meals—Prices Reasonable
GENERAL STORE. - TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chitina.
General Freighting. KNUTE nafsted. M*r.
MERCHANT’S CAFE
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone 6» Elias. Fischer, Propr.
VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Real Estate, Insurance, General Brokerage
Absentees Business Properly Handled
Treat Building, Alaska Ave. Telephone No. 60
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
PLUMBING, STEAM AND HOT WATER HEATING,
Sheet Metal Work, Mine Air Pipe, Pipe and Fittings, Valves, Etc.
Motor Boat Supplies, Paints and Oils,
located on Valdez Dock, Opposite Prospector Office. Phone
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
PUGET SOUND
California
Admiral
Line
PUGET SOUND
• Alaska
ALASKA
Steamers sail from Seattle at 9 P. M. on
5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH
Steamer Selling 1.1th culls Illarana and Kodlnk—All Sailing eall at Kalk
and Anchorage.
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to San Francisco every Wednesday and Sunday* connecting with
‘ Steamers Yale and Harvard for Southern California.
j Right reserved to change schedule without notice
; RICHARD J. RING WOOD, Mgr., Seattle t VALDEZ DOCK CO., I.ocal Agt.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
8. 8. ALAMEDA AND 8. S. NORTHWESTERN SAIL FROM SE
ATTLE THE 10TH, 20TH AND 80TH,
EVERY MONTH
FROM VALDEZ SOUTH—8TH, 18TH, 28TH, FOR CORDOVA,
JUNEAU, WRANGEL, KETCHIKAN AND SEATTLE.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan. Wrangell, Juneau, Sheep
Creek, Treadwell, Douglas, Skagway, Cordova, Ellamar. Valdez and La
touche. Explosives, S. S. Seward, on the 6th; Latouche. on the 15th; S. S.
Cordova, 25th of each month—right reserved to change this schedule
without notice.
P. B. TRACY, Gen’l Agent VALDES DOCK CO.. Local Agent.
When You Leave
For the Outside
take the
“MILWAUKEE”
One*road—one management-one service all the way
through to Chicago. I|t*s the Short Line to the East
over
THE NEW STEEL TRAIL
For information and literature write or ask
J. C. MARTIN, Agent, Valdez, Alaska.
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST, PAUL RY.
A. E. HARRIS, Freight and Passenger Agt,
Juneau, Alaska.