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TUAL WEEKLY NEWS IN
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TWO REELS, AND "HOGAN
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EVERYTHING ANTON CARLSON,
FIRS’! CLASS Manager.
SAYS PRESIDENT WILSON
HITTING AT GERMANY
COLOGNE: The Cologne Gazette,
commenting on cabled quotations
from President Wilson’s speeches in
dicating imminence of warlike com
plications, expressed the opinion, that
the President had Germany, rather
than England in mind, for, it says:
“President Wilson dislikes Germany
just as much as he is kindly dispos
ed to England and her Allies.’*
Nevertheless the Gazette concludes
that Mr. Wilson did not intend to
hint at any speciflc nation but only
to clinch his arguments in behalf of
preparedness. Yet it says, fyr all
that, Germany must reckon with the
fact that a man occupies the Ameri
can Presidential chair who is decid
edly pro-English in his views, and
who is doing all in his power to aid
the Allies and. persecute the Qermfjis
within his country. The utmost that
Germany can hope for is a continu
ance of America’s lukewarm neutral
ity. respite occasional utterances In
Congress against England.
Hydaburg Company fays Dividends.
The Hydaburg company has de
clared a dividend of thirty percent
on the past year’s business. The
company is a close corporation form
ed by the natives of the town and
maintains a store and sawmill un
der their own supervision. , The
company has paid bacti $2200 to the
goyerpipent which wq,p. spent in buy
ing machinery for the mill when it
started and this is the second divi
dend declared by the qompany. Hyda
bjturg is located on, the west coast of
Prince of Wales Island.
Don’t forget the Food Sale to be
given by the Woman’s Ouild at Love
Whitley’s store next Saturday after
noon between 2 and 5 o’clock.
STEAM HEATED HOT AND COLD BATHS
Copper Block Hotel
VALDEZ, ALASKA
“ The House of Comfort ”
PHONE 7 FOR MEN ONLY
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Imported ai?4 Oo^ieitte
Wines, Uquors Mil Cigars
Phone 69
GERMAN VETERANS
REEORE VERDUN
Reported from Amsterdam that Ten
Thousand Prisoners were Taken
W
when Villages Captured.
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 26.—German
advices say that Crown Prince Fred
erick of Germany is in command of
the veteran German troops who are
attacking the French positions near
Verdun, and that owing to the pres
ence of the Kaiser at the front that
the German onslaught has been most
terrific.
The German troops are said to
have captured a position which com
mands a portion of the city’s forts,
and that refugees are .caving the city
in thousands.
Dispatches from Berlin state that
ten thousand French prisoners were
captured when the villages of Bau
fort and Chambettes were taken by
the Germans.
MAYOR SAYS POLICE
DEPARTMENT IS ROTTEN
CHICAGO: Roused by a recent
wave of crime including numerous
murders and robberies and hold-ups,
Mayor William Hale Thompson has
charged the Chicago police depart
ment with shielding criminals and
grafters.
“I know the. police department is
absolutely rotten,” said the mayor.
"It is honeycombed with grafters. I
know holdup men, murderers and
pickpockets known to the police are
walking the streets everyday and are
not arrested. I would not be sur
prised to learn that in the department
itself are men who have planned
murder or who are criminals."
| Mayor Thompson said he would
immediately start a wholesale clean
ling up and rid the police department
| of crooks “even though it costs my
j life.”
BIG ORDERS ONLY GET
PROMPT ATTENTION
NEW YORK: A Pittsburg special
to the Times says that the plate mills
are so crowded with orders that they
cannot supply one-half of the re
quirements. Additional orders are be
ing sent in and only a selected few
are given consideration. The con
ditions have become so serious that
a deadlock in manufacturing is im
minent. The Standard Steel Car Co.
will buy 30,000 tons of plates from
the Homestead Mills at the Carnegie
Steel Company in connection with
the order to build 2,000 all-steel
cars for the Bessemer and Lake Erie
costing $2,100,000. The French gov
ernment is inquiring for 100,000
tons of steel bars from three to six
inches in diameter for delivery thru
out the year.
Selferta Mental Wreck.
Believed to be a mental wreck. C.
A. Siefert, a former professor of
pharmacy at the Berkley college
and jnembey of the California State
Board of Pharmacy is held at the
federal jail in Juneau on the charge
of practicing medicine without a
license. The Juneau physicians have
united in urging that Siefert be sent
to Morningside for a few months as
it. is believed that rest and care may
i-estore him to normal mental con
dition. •' His insanity manifests itself
in the imagined promotion of an elec*
trie railroad which will, connect all
the towns on tbs Gastineau channel.
Another little peculiarity is that ot
issuing checks which are always re
turned by the banks marked "no
funds.”
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SNOW STORM RAGING
IN NORTHERN EUROPE
PARIS, Peb. 26.—Advices from all
points from the Russian Baltic front
to the British Isles state that the
Worst snow storm in years, is being
experienced. Great damage is re
ported to have resulted along the
British coast and it is feared that a
number of vessels have been lost.
CAVALRY DRIVING THE ,
VILLA FORCES NORTH
EL PASO, Feb. 27.—Mexico City
advices say that the Mexican cavalry
Is driving the forces of General Villa
from the mining districts toward the
north. Several qpgflguuienta are re
ported to have resulted ih hundrq^a
of the rebels being killed or cap
tured. t
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It is cheaper to eat your Sunday;
dinner at the Lilly Cafe than at
home. Wine dinner with music 75c.
From 5 to 8. 1
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Mrs. Marion Leach’s house f^r rent.
Enquire at The Pinson or Geltneau’s
Barber Shop. it
INTERESTING PROGRAM
AT THE CLUBHOUSE
An interesting evening was spent
at the clubhouse Friday night when
the regular meeting of the Young
People’s society took place. A splen
did program was rendered under the
direction of Harlan Keesler and Miss
Rose Johnson. After the meeting
had been called to order the members
responded 'to the roll call with a quo
tation by an American writer. Rev.
and Mrs. Dunstan then gave several
selections which were greatly enjoy
ed by those present. After several
others had rendered some interesting
and clever musical and literary num
bers a debate was arranged on the
subject: “That Women Should
Adopt the Custom of Wearing Har
em Skirts.” The affirmative was up
held by Verna Fish and Emmet Egan
and the negative by Miss Helen
Kalier and W. B. Bennett. After list
ening to the original arguments of
both sides the judges rendered a de
cision to the affirmative for argu
ment and to the negative for delivery
thus making even honors. After that
the meeting was adjourned and the
remainder of the time spent in mu
sic and games. Previous to the pro
gram a short business meeting was
held. The committee in charge of the
•next meeting which will be a social
one was chosen.
GREEK WOMEN EKING
GOLD TO AMERICA.
NEW YORK: When the usual
question. ‘‘Have you any money?”
was asked of Mrs. Aspasia Diamesis,
a widow, and her daughter, Vassilika,
on their arrival here on the Greek
liner Vasilefs Constantimos, the wom
en answered in the most emphatic
way.
Each plucked at a string around
her neck, pulled up a bag and poured
gold upon a table in the saloon. The
yellow flood amounted to $26,000.
Mrs. Diamesis explained she had
sold property in Athens and she and
her daughter were on their way to
join her son, Lampros Diamesis in
Chicago. The immigration ollicials
feared something would happen to
tl;e women and they were taken in
citarge by Miss Hagopian of the Aid
Society.
NORTHWESTERN SCHEDl'EED
TO ARRIVE IN MORNING
The local office of the Alaska
Steamship company has received ad
vices from Cordova that the steamer
Northmestern which reached there
yesterday afternoon would leave for
Valdez at five tonight. The steamer
brought a big shipment of railroad
material for the Copper and North
western railroad and several ship
ments of perishables which will be
taken over the winter roads to Fair
banks, Tolovana and other interior
camps.
The passengers on the Northwest
ern for Valdez as cabled from Seat
tle are as-follows: John Stolet, U.
Coghill, H. Davis. Joe Schultz, Cap
tain Robert Nolan and wife, Mrs. W.
Dolan, Edward Dolan, H. Sells, Chas.
Bloom, U. V. Good and two steerage
passengers. Evan Fulton is a cabin
passenger for Latouche and there are
four i« the steerage.
EARTHQUAKE OPENS
UP A HOT SPRING
President Sprague, of the Light
house Packing Company, has return
ed from a trip to the Big Mummy isl
ands, where he has a force of men
engaged in erecting living quarters
for his clam diggers. He was on the
island when this section experienced
two slight earthquake shocks on
Tuesday morning last, and reports
that as a result of these disturbances
a hot spring was opened up there.
He brought a quantity of the water to
Cordova to have it analyzed for its
medicinal qualities. Should it prove
beneficial the probabilities are that
some one will establish a sanitarium
qn the island.—Cordova Times.
Nenana Indians May Cut Wood.
Special permission has been given
by A. Christensen, chief of the field
division with . headquarters at Ju
neau, giving the Nenana Indians the
right to cut wood, on the lands with
drawn by the government for town
site purposes at the mouth of the
Nenana river. A petition had been
forwarded to the department that
the withdrawal of the land had de
prived the Indians of a means of
earning their living. The permit is
only temporary and allows them to
cut two hundred cords qf .wood. An
arrangement has been made where
by a trader gives the natiyps provi
sions for the wood.
Special for Tonight Only.
The Liberty Theatre presents for
tonight only the feature, “The Lost
House." The Mutual Weekly News,
“Nipped,” in 2 reels, and for the last
tiipe, "Hogan the Porter.” Bight
reels for 26 cents, only one show at
g p. n>. Visit the Liberty. *
Moose Dance Tonight.
The regular weekly Moose dance
will be held tonight in Moose Hail.
Excellent music.
REPORT OF THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF
The First Bank of Valdez
LOCATED AT VALDEZ, TERRITORY OF ALASKA, AT THE CLOSE
OF BUSINESS ON THE I7TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 19I«
RESOURCES:
Loans and Discounts . $ 94,831.22
Overdrafts ..... \£SsJe2
Bonds and Warrants ._.. 35,883*lz
Furniture and Fixtures... 3 549.80
Checks on other banks and other cash items... 2|o63.60
CASH ON HAND AND SIGHT EX- -« A 7 07o no
TOTAL ...$255,556.79
LIABILITIES:
Capital Stock paid in. . $ 25,000.00
Surplus Fund . 500.00
Undivided Profits . . 2,712.10
Due to Banks—Deposits . 552.05
DEPOSITS . 226,338.94
Certified Checks 453.70
TOTAL $255,556.79
United States of America. Territory of Alaska. Third Judicial Divi
sion. ss.
I. J. W. GILSON. Assistant Cashier of the above-named bank do
solemnly swear that the foregoing statement is true to the best of
my knowledge and belief.
J W. GILSON.
Corrcst Attest: Assistant Cashier.
M. BLUM, )
J. C. MARTIN. ^ Directors.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 25th day of Feb.. 1916.
(Notarial Seal) ANTHONY J. DIMOND.
Notary Public in and for the Territory of Alaska.
My Commission expires March 13, 1917.
THE PINZOl^
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To Our Patrons
WE THANK YOU for the kind and libenfl
way in which you have accepted the shortened
service we have been compelled to give owing"
to troubles over which at this time we have ntfA\
control. '
And with your cpntinued help and indul- f
gence, we will try and keep the ligbStp qp tp ^
voltage during the earliu hours of the evening.
But to do so will mean your getting along
without the day service whpre it is not abso
lutely necessary, for the time being.
THERE WILL BE ENOUGH POWER AT
ALL TIMES FOp PUMPING PUR
POSES IN CASH OF FIRE.
Respectfully Yours,
Alaska Water, light and Tele. Co.
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