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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1015
A STRANGE APPOINTMENT.
The country will be amazed at
President Wilson’s appointment of
Louis D. Brandeis to be a Justice of
the Supreme Court of the United
States. Here is a position calling for
a ripe experience and sound judg
ment and a well-balanced and well
stored mind. It is no place for agi
tators, or partisans, or warped prose
cutors, or partisans, or special plead
ers. It ought not to be given as the
reward of political service, nor as a
sop to particular interests.
It may be conceded that Mr. Bran
deis is a remarkable man, who has
an instinct to serve the under dog
and the courage to oppose the most
powerful beneficiaries of privilege.
Let us concede that, and let us for
get that he took a questionable part
in the campaign upon Secretary Bal
tinger, which was notable chiefly for
its maximum of denunciation and for
its minimum of facts. It still re
mains that Brandeis is an agitator
and not a judge; a reformer and not
an upbuilder. How can he weigh
dispassionately the case of any con
cern or aggregation which he has
fought, and how can he look without
sympathy upon any cause which he
lias supported? Can a man whose
method is contentious and whose
spirit is intolerant become in a day,
or at all. a new being? We think
not.
What explanation can the Presi
dent make to the American bar for
ignoring the merits of many eminent
lawyers and judges? What explana
tion to the American people for ac
tion that violates the best traditions
of the Supreme Court?—Portland
Oregonian.
ALASKA IS MENTIONED
WITH CHILD LABOR LAW
WASHINGTON: There has just
been made available to any one who
in interested enough to ask for it a
compilation of the exact terms of all
the laws enacted up to January 1,
1916, relating to any form of child
labor in the United States. Alaska,
Hawaii, the Philippines and Porto
Rico. This new publication has been
issued by the Children’s Bureau of
the U. S. Department of Labor under
the title ‘‘Child Labor Legislation in
the United States."
Even the more important develop
ments in the relation of workmen’s
compensation laws to the employ
ment of children are summarized with
the following comment: “A decid
ed tendency is to be noted in work
men’s compensation legislation to pe
nalize the employer of an illegally
employed child. An employer, when
ever he employs a child illegally,
runs a risk far. greater than that of
a fine, under the cbild labor law.”
Decisions of Federal courts and
of the higher State Courts are includ
ed in connection with the laws to
which they refer. “The constitution-,
ality of child labor laws appears to
have been finally and definitely estab
lished by the recent decisipn of the
United States Supreme Court up
holding the Illinois law prohibiting
employment under 16 years of age
in trades and occupations classified
by the legislature as dangerous and
injurious."
Frank Barber, who has been de
veloping a .copper claim at Knight’s
Island, is spending a few days in
town.
--THE
EMPRESS
TO-NIGHT
Only One Show at 8:00 Sharp
PROGRAM
PATHK NEWS.
Return of Richard Neal,
Three Acts Featuring Francis
Bushman.
Lassoing a Lion, Sensational.
♦ "■
Change Pictures Sunday.
| Admission 25c and 10c.
TAKE ADVANTAGE
OF THE HOLIDAY
Fine Weather Permits of Valdez. Peo
ple Celebrating Washington’s
Birthday in Open Air.
The anniversary of Washington’s
Birthday is being celebrated in Val
dez today by the all the government
offices, First Bank of Valdez and the
principal places of business being
closed.
Scores of young people took advan
tage of the fine weather to make long
trips on snowshoes and every dog
team in town was brought into com
mission to make trips out over the
trail. Many hunters went to the hills
after ptarmigan or along the tide
flats in search of the wary mallard.
The Jitney Dance to ge given at
Eagle Hall tonight for the benefit of
the Valdez baseball club will be a fit
ting close of the day’s celebration,
and is sure to bring the crowd to
gether, no matter whether they spent
the day in the hills, tramping over
the flats or at their daily tasks which
could not be ignored even on the
birthday of the Father of the Nation.
HO SHORTAGES
tT'ANCHOUGE’
Real Estate Market. Reported to be j
.Votive at New ToAn with Ev
erybody Hopeful of Future.
Jim Hagen, one of the best known
miners in this section of Alaska re
turned to town this morning on the
Admiral Farragut after having come
over the winter trail from Anchorage
to Seward. He reports that the dis
tance between Seward and Anchorage
is one hundred and thirty miles and
that he made the trip in four days.
Mr. Hagen reports that Anchorage
is a busy place notwithstanding the
fact that there is little doing in the
way of railroad building. The real
estate market in the new town is ac
tive and property is said to be chang
ing ownership at figures which indi
cate that the residents of the town
believe that Anchorage is on the map
of Alaska to stay.
The reported shortage of certain
lines of staple goods has failed to ma
terialize and the market seemed plen
tifully supplied with prices reason
able.
Mr. Hagen spent last summer min
ing and prospecting to the westward
and has returned to Valdez to look
after after mining property in which
he is interested.
IjOOAt/ BREVITIES.
Don’t forget the Food Sale to be
given by the. Woman’s Guild at Love
Whitley’s store next Saturday after
noon between 2 and 5 o’clock.
Pasteurized Whipping 9ream and
pure Buttermilk at Love-Whttley’s
Thursday night at the Liberty, a
Mutual Masterpiece from Richard
Harding Davis’ story, "The Lost
House.”
WANTED: Experienced woman de
sires work as cook or maid. Refer
ences given. Address Prospector.
Now, friends, ye know the Ladies Aid
Made bachelors all long for a maid.
Last Friday night full many a sigh
Filled Valdez air as men passed by.
’Round lonely stoves while fires burn
ed low.
Sweet visions reigned and dreams
did flow.
Alas! all lire require a poke
And then all dreams went up in
smoke
And wouldn't come back!
In February, the last day of all
Come all ye men into Moose Hall.
Surprises wait and lots of joy
For each who once was dubbed a boy.
This night comes once in four long
years!
If you miss this chance beware of
tears.
You’ll hate yourself when you re
member
(So look your best and keep you
limber!)
That just this once Opportunity
knocks.
Now heed ye all! Come out in flocks!
The announcement will come below.
Read it well. Then don’t be slow!
The Ladles of the Civic League
will give an unusual dance and party
on the twenty-ninth of February at
Moose Hall. tf
KENNECOTT UNDERWRITING
WAS PROFITABLE BUSINESS
BOSTON: Members of .the Kenne
30tt-Braden-Utah underwriting Syn
dicate have received checks totaling
approximately $3,400,000, represent
ing their participation in the profits
of the syndicate.
The managers of the syndicate,
which was the most successful in the
experience of the financial district,
were A. B. Hepburn and William B.
Thompson.
The underwriters, about five hun
dred in number, were not called on
for a cent of cash, all of the stock
having been sold, Hayden, Stone and
Company taking the last 26,000
shares.
The dividend received by the un
derwriters on the $66,000,000 involv
ed in the transaction was 6.223 per
cent.
FAMOUS TUNNEL BUILDER
ELLAMAR MINE FOREMAN
Paddy O’Neil, who acquired the
reputation of being one of the best
rockbreakers on the American con
tinent while driving the big tunnel
for the Alaska-Gastineau company
through the mountain back of Ju
neau, has accepted the foremanship
of the Ellamar copper mine. During
the entire time that the tunnel was
being driven at Juneau not a fatal
accident happened at the face of the
tunnel where Mr. O’Neil was . in
charge.
NEW ALASKA CANNERY
PLANNED FOR UNALASKA.
Work on the construction of a $75
000 one-line fish cannery near Una
laska, the sixth of a string operated
by the- Pacific American Fisheries Co.
in the north, will begin about March
1, according to information given out
by the officials of the company. Tho
barge Big Bonanza has been charter
ed to carry the equipment north and
it is expected that the new cannery
will be completed in time to begin
operations with the opening of the
season in, June. The cannery will be
one of the smallest operated by the
company as its capacity will be only
25,000 cases, and is the nature of an
experiment as the company has no
assurance that there is sufficient fish
in the district to operate a cannery.
CORDOVA CANNERY CO.
HAS FILED ARTICLES.
Articles of incorporation have
been filed with the territorial secre
tary by the Carlisle Packing Com
pany has established a cannery. The
pany, of Bellingham, Washington.
The principal place of business in
Alaska is at Cordova where the corn
company is incorporated for $80,000
and Nels Hawkinson is named as the
Alaska agent of the company. The
incorporators are: Frank Wright, and
W. H. Abbott of Bellingham, and
Chas. Wright of Seattle.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
Merchandise
The best groceries received
on every boat.
Fresh vegetables, fruits, and
nuts.
When In Seward Stop* at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE SEXTON, PROP.
SlRICTLV FIRST CLASS
Fourth Aye, Seward, Alaska
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miners
ROBERT SHAFFER, President.
Granite Minn.
CHAS. McCALLUM, Secretary.
Valdes, Alasto.
VALDEZ LODGE
NO 108
Free amd Accepted Mama
Regular Communications first Wed
nesday In each month In McKInlej
HalL Visitors alwayB welcome.
A. E. QR1QSBV, W. M.
ED. WOOD. Secretary.
lm Shamrock
CAPT. TIM MARCUM
Sails for Port Wells, Portage
Bay, Granite Mine, Saturday
at 9:00 a. m., from the Val
dez Dock Company's Dock.
For Ellamar, Landlock Bay,
and Fidalgo, every Wednes
day, 9:00 a. m., from Val
des Dock Company’s Dock.
For Rates, Apply o» Boat.
Weather Report.
Valdez, Feb. 21. 1916.
'Jarcmetric pressure .29.818
Temperature 7pm.28
Maximum temperature .
Minimum temperature .25
Mean temperature .28.5
Precipitation . .28
Cloudy, wind northeast 4 miles,
mixed snow and rain at night and
all ’ay.
Interior Weather.
Fairbanks, 2; cloudy, light wind.
Sulcha, 7; cloudy, calm.
Richardson, 0; part cloudy, calm.
McCarthy, 35; cloudy, calm.
Connelly, 30; cloudy, wind, trail
drifted.
McCallum, 26; cloudy, calm, trail
heavy.
Paxson, 22; snowing, windy, trail
soft.
Hogan, 20; partly cloudy, calm,
trail heavy.
Gulkana, 6; partly cloudy, calm,
trail heavy.
Copper Center. 27; clear, light
wind, trail good.
Tonsina. 30: clear, light wind,
trail heavy.
Teikhell. 22: cloudy, calm, trail
closed.
Beaver Dam. 29: cloudy, windy,
trail closed.
Summit, *105 in. snow, cloudy,
calm, trail drifted.
Wortman’s, 32; cloudy, calm, trail
closed north, drifted south.
Prospector Ads bring results.
ARE YOU ALIVE
to the fact that
ANCHORAGE,
SEWARD,
CORDOVA,
ELLAMAR and
LATOUCHE
Will Have Baseball
Teams this
^ M&immer ?
VALDEZ
Going to Sit Back ?
WHY NOT TAKE
THE LEAD?
It you want to Place
Valdez on the Baseball
Map, patronize the
JITNEY
DANCE
Washington’s
Birthday
FEBRUARY 22 1916
ADMISSION
Including Five Jitneys
SOc
INdestwjcTQ
‘■^baggage_
The_*
Indestructo
Wardrobe
. ... i
Trunk
Takes the Place of
Two Pieces of Fur
niture—A Clothes
Closet and Chiffo
nier.
Besides You Are
Always Ready For
That Trip. . . .
We Are Showing a Complete
Line.
S.BLUM&CO.IS
GOOD GOODS
DR. H. C0CKER1LLE
Graduate National Vatrrrsitr,
Washington. D. C.
DENTIST
Fourteen Years in Valdez.
PHONE 110
Office Rooms In Winding Building
DR. GERMAN
THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Drug Store. Of
fice hours 9 a. m. to 6 p. m., 7 to 9
p. m. Sunday by appointment.
All Work Guaranteed.
E. C. DALTON, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Phone 42
Alaska Avenue Valdez, Alaska
DONOHOE & D1MOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office OppMitr Court Houw
Phone 34 VALDEZ. ALASKA
JOHN LYONS B. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office* in Wballnp Bulldln*
Phone 1«1 VALDEZ. ALASKA
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Mar
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
Arcade Cafe
OPEN ALL NIGHT
Private Dining Room with Electric
Heater.
BKEAI) FOR SALE
J*ck C*li»ra- _pN^TMclor
Copper River
Draying Co
\
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING
McKinley Street, Valdez
ED. WOOD. Proprietor
The Beat Place in Valdez tu
Stop at ia the
Arctic Hotel
Warn, Light Rosai—The Hoik af taJ«n
RATES REASONABLE
RATH ROOM Special Rato By the Moth
PHONE 133 MRS. SYRINC, ha»
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 M>usi
ness enterprises woul$ still
be mere dreams.
Advertising has brought
about a majority of the in
troductions of the man with
the idea, the man with a
prospect, or business to the
man with the dollar.
ADVERTISE IN THE
PROSPECTOR FOR RE
SULTS.