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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1915
101t CANDIDATE
FOR GOVERNOR
Delegate Wickersham Believes Con
gress will Make Big Appropri
ation for Railroad Work.
Delegate Wickersham was a pas
senger on the Admiral Evans last
night going to Seward and Anchor
age, and will return on the same boat
as his time is limited in reaching
Washington before the opening of
congress on Monday, December 6.
While the steamer was in Valdez
Mr. Wickersham visited with a num
ber of his friends and expressed re
gret that he could not spare the time
to remain between boats.
When asked concerning the report
that he planned to be a candidate for
the governorship of Alaska in the
event the Republicans should win in
the national election next year, Dele
gate Wickersham stated that he as
not a candidate for the position.
Work for Trails and Railroads.
Delegate Wickersham, when asked
regarding the probability of congress
making a large appropriation at the
coming session for the Alaska rail
road construction work said he be
lieved Secretary Lane would have no
difficulty in securing any amount
asked from congress. He said that
he personally favored a large appro
priation for the railroad as its con
struction would hasten to open up
the resources of the territory.
The appropriation for roads and
trails should, in the opinion of Mr.
Wickersham, be handled through the
territorial legislature, the same as
the forestry fund was used by that
body. He believes that by the ap
pointment of the proper persons as
superintendents or over-seer that bet
ter resyilts can be obtained, and in a
way that will be satisfactory to the
residents of the territory.
Statehood for Alaska.
A bill will be introduced in Con
gress by the Delegate granting state
hood for Alaska. Of course a con
stitutional convention would be nec
essary. Congress would have to ap
propriate the money to hold such an
election and the money to take the
duly elected delegates to the scene
of the convention would also have to
be appropriated by the Congress of
the United States.
Local Development Board.
The Commercial bodies of Alaska
have endorsed Secretary of Interior
Lane’s plan of a “Development
Board” for Alaska, and Mr. Wicker
sham will be a supporter of this
measure.
In addition to the governor of
Alaska and the territorial secretary
there would be five members of the
board, three of whom would be bona
fide residents of the territory of Alas
ka. A great deal of waste, a great
deal of time, a great deal of money,
a great deal of unpleasantness would
be avoided, and above all, a greater
■nderstanding and a closer knowl
edge of the needs of the country
would result if this bill were passed.
Although Secretary of the Interior
Lane is heartily in favor of the pas
sage of the bill, there are many who
--THE
EMPRESS
TO-NIGHT
2 Shows—at 8 and 9:20, sharp
PROGRAM
PATHS WEEKLY NEWS
ROBY O’MOORE,
An Irish Drama, Produced in
Ireland.
LILLIAN'S DILEMMA,
Vitagraph impart Comedy,
featuring. Lillian Walker and
Wally Van.
THE SPITFIRE THURSDAY
Admission 25c and 10c.
oppose it, and who will oppose it to
the bitter end. These are the forest
service men, and the men whose de
partments or business would have no
more say about the affairs of Alaska.
Additional Power for lieglslature.
Mr. Wlckersham will work to give
to the Alaska legislature additional
powers, particularly in reference to
the fish and the game. There were a
few limitations In the Home Rule
bill as It passed the Congress of the
United States that were not in the
original bill. They were offered as
amendments and they had to be ac
cepted by the delegate or the bill
would have been defeated entirely.
It is to remove these amendments
that he is going to work to grant to
the Alaska legislature the power to
fully protect the game and the ilsh
of the territory^ He will use his
[every effort to restore to the bill
those original provisions which had
[to be sacrificed.
Land Law Amendment.
According to his statement Dele
gate Wickersham will seek to have a
law enacted that will permit men who
have used their homestead privileges
in the states to have a second right
in Alaska, that is, if a man has stak
ed 160 acres of land in the states,
to allow him to stake another 160 in
Alaska, or at least to make up the
difference between the number of
acres he filed on in the states and
320 acres which, under the law, he
is entitled to homestead, in Alaska.
Harbor at Nome.
The construction of a suitable har
bor at Nome is considered by Dele
gate Wickersham to be one of the
utmost importance, as there is much
loss of life and property there an
nually. At the last session of Con
gress he got the money necessary to
survey the harbor at Nome and the
Wrangell straits. The money came
out of the Rivers and Harbors ap
propriation. A report will be ren
dered by the surveyors and if these
reports are favorable the delegate
will fight to have money necessary
for carrying out these two necessities
appropriated.
Federal Buildings for Alaska.
The bill which Congress passed ap
propriating $100,000 for a federal
building at Cordova was introduced
by the Delegate and he has promised
to make every effort to have all ob
jections removed that early construc
tion will be started. He will also en
deavor to get money appropriated for
public buildings at Fairbanks, Ju
neau and one or two other towns in
Alaska.
LIBEL SUIT AGAINST
FORMER GOVERNOR ENDED
BOSTON, Nov. 8.—The libel suit
filed against former Governor Foss,
of Massachusetts, by Dennis Driscoll,
a labor leader, and which was to
have come to trial this week, has
been dropped on motion of the plain
tiff.
SEATTLE WELCOMES
RETURN OF HEROES.
SEATTLE, Nov. 9.—Hundreds of
students of the University of Wash
ington were on hand to greet the
Washington eleven upon their return
from California, where they had de
feated the University of California
team by a score of 72 to 0. The Cal
ifornia team comes north this week
and will play Washington next Sat
urday on the local gridiron.
Before the gangplank is on the deck,
Joe is there your baggage to check.
He knows just where you want to go,
And his auto bus is not so slow.
When leaving Valdez it is just as well
To wait until you hear Joe’s bell.
He never yet has missed a boat
But connects with all that ever floats.
Joe never sleeps day or night,.
He does his best to treat you right.
The traveling public well can bless
The man who runs the City Express.
All you do—Just Phone Eight Two,
The City Express will see you thru.
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Christmas Is Coming.
And would It not be well to con
sider something in the line of photo
sundries for your friends. A trim
ming board for 40c or 80c; Brownie
Enlarger for $2.00 and up; Negative
Albums, Print Roller, Flash Sheet
Holder, Tripod or some of the many
other desirable things. I might have
just the thing you want. Those rela
tives and friends in the states appre
ciate -pictures more than anything
else, especially if they are of Alaska.
Call at my place in the Cliff House,
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We have increased our stock, tools
and machinery every year, and our
next increase will be in floor sps*.
Now don’t get jealous and take your
work some place else, but show your
pride in home industry and help us
to make VALDEZ the manufacturing
center of ALASKA by giving us all
the work you can, and pay up
promptly. We will do the rest. Val
dez Iron Works. Mon.
Billy Hogan expects to leave short
ly for Port Wells, where he will cop
tin ue development work on mining
property in which he is interested
there.
SEWARD 10 DEI
WIRELESS STATION
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Supt. of Marconi ^Company Will
Come North to Select Site and
Station Built this Winter.
SEATTLE, Nov. 9.—Superinten
dent Irwin, of the Marconi Wireless
company, will leave for Seward on
one of the first boats, to establish a
wireless station there, and has an
nounce^. that his company is consid
ering the advisability of establishing
a chain of wireless stations through
out interior Alaska. The company
now has an agent in Fairbanks in
vestigating the business conditions,
and should his report be favorable it
is probable that a station will be
built at Fairbanks early next sum
mer.
The Marconi company now have
stations at Ketchikan and Juneau and
are desirous of extending their busi
ness to all parts of the territory. It
is understood that Supt. Irwin has
arranged with Falcon Joslin, who
owns the wireless station in Tolo
vana, that the Marconi company is
to handle the outside business of the
Tolovana station.
Supt. Irwin will select the site for
the station and states that the plant
will be installed as soon as a station
can be built.
Special Tonight.
A three-act feature, “In the Claws
of the Vulture,” one of the best three
reel pictures ever shown; in Valdez
the first time, at the Liberty Thea
tre tonight. Don’t miss it. Coming
soon, Charley Chaplin, that great
comedian and Lillian Russell. How
is that for good pictures?
FASHION IN FURS
SET BY WOMAN.
In reply tO' the question, “Who
creates fashions in furs?” Mr. A. B.
Shubert, President of A. B. Shubert,
Inc., Chicago, the largest house in
the world dealing exclusively in
American Raw Furs, says, in part
as follows:
“Woman, lovely woman, she is the
creator of styles. She knows what
she wants. If she fancies Fox, that
settles it—fox will go for sure. It is
fox or nothing. This may seem very
strange to those who don’t under
stand the feminine mind, neverthe
less, it is a cock-sure, one best bet,
one-guess proposition. In one re
spect, women are like sheep, they
follow the leader. Someone in the
world of fashion, and it may be a
member of the nobility, a well known
and popular woman of the stage or
one of high fashionable society,
springs a new stunt, her own idea or
partly that of her furrier. She flashes
it at some publii function. If it
takes, it is more contagious than the
smallpox. In time, every woman in
the civilized world wants the same
thing. They don’t all get it. Those'
who have the price do. Those who
don’t have the price, get the next
best thing, as an imitation. By the
way of illustration, I will cite a case.
I was in Paris, August. 1913, and
was shown, by M. Greenwalt of that
city (the one manufacturer of furs
who has assisted in bringing out
more novelties in ladies furs than
any living man), the first model of
the now extremely fashionable ani
mal scarf, made from choice Silver
Fox for Madame Sarah Bernhard, the
great actress of France. The fash
ionable world grabbed for it, for it
had merit, it is becoming to any
lady. The result was, the big de
mand for all kinds of Fox, Fisher,
Lynx and the soft-furred Northern
Wolf with heads attached. The mar
ket has been cleared of all of the
above skins, higher prices will pre
vail for them this coming season, and
will continue so long as the animal
scarf remains fashionable. After
that it will be something else. No
one knows what, but it will be thing
that woman, lovely woman wants,
and not what we want to sell.”
AMERICAN POETS ARE
VICTIMS OF FRAUD.
NEW YORK, Nov. 9.—The case of
John Newcomher, who victimized
poets in all parts of the country, be
gun in the federal court here yester
day. Sixty-five of the five hundred
poets who were the victims of his
frauds have testlfed that Newcomher
secured $10 from each of them as an
entry fee for a prize contest which
he was conducting. When poems
were submitted to him he wrote the
authors advising them that their
poems were sure to win the $1000
prize but that it was necessary they
send $10 as an entry fee.
Wells-Fargo Money Orders and
Traveler’s cheeks are payable any
where in the United States or Cana
da. D. F. Millard, Copper Blk. tf
Here’s Some Straight Talk
TjTTHEN you call on us for new clothes you'll
f f see that our idea is to show what you want,
not what we want to sell.
First and last, our idea is to satisfy you.
For instance, u)e carry Hart Schaffner & Marx
clothes because they're guaranteed to satisfy you%
besides many other good reasons.
So always remember that the only purchase that
you need to keeP Is the one that satisfies you en
tirely.
You’ll find some very striding fabrics in fall suits
and overcoats here now.
S. BLUM & CO.
GOOD GOODS
Grand Opening
Smoker.
Fort Liscum Athletic
Club.
NOVEMBER 10, 1015
Star Bout, Six Rounds
RED MANN vs. SMOKY JOE,
n't. Liscum Valdez
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PRELIMINARY BOUTS
Four Rounds Each
ROY HOOTS, Signal Corps,
V8.
HARRY OBER, Valdez
PRIVATE GIFFORD
vs.
PRIVATE MORRIS
WRESTLING' BOUT
Fifteen Minutes or Best Two
Out of Three Falls
PRIVATE ODEAR, Liscuin,
vs.
HERB ('ROOKS, Valdez
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RINGSIDE SEATS 75c
Steamer Donaldson Leaves the
Valdez City Dock for Fort
Liscnm, 6:45 and 8:15 P. M.
Returning to Valdez after the
Smoker.
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE SEXTON, PROP.
STRICTLY FIRST CLASS
Fourth Ave, Seward, Alaska
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passenger*
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING
McKinley Street, Valdes
BD. WOOD. Proprietor
DR. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate National Unlveralty,
\Va*hiuKton, D. C.
DENTIST
Fourteen Years in Valdez.
PHONE 110
Office Rooms In Whaling Building
DR. GERMAN
rrto*E to 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 & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Oppowite Court Hoiiho
Phone 34 VALDEZ. ALASKA
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office, in Whaling; Duillllng
Phone 101 VALDEZ. ALASKA
VALDEZ LODGE
NO 168
Free anil Accepted Masons.
Regular Communications first Wed
nesday in each month in McKinley
Hall. Visitors always welcome.
A. E. GRIGSBY, W. M.
ED. WOOD, Secretary.
Red Cross Hospital
Keystone and^Hobart Sts.
OPEN TO ALL PHYSICIANS.
Private Rooms for Patients.
Phone 144 MRS. C. H WILCOX. Matron
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 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.
The Best Place in Valdez to
Stop at is the
Arctic Hotel
Wans, Light Rooms--The House of Comfort
RATES REASONABLE
BATH ROOM Special Rates By the Mostih
PHONE 133 MRS. STRING, Po*
Lau-nch 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
dez Dock Company's Dock.
For Rates, Apply on Boat.
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miner*
ROBERT SHAFFER. President.
Granite Mine
CHAS. McCALLUM, Secretary,
Valdez, Alaska.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
Merchandise
The best groceries received
on every boat.
Fresh vegetables, fruits, and
nuts.
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company
Office In Piiixon Cigar Store
General Trucking and Freighting
to all Interior Points.
LIVERY and FEED STABLE
STORAGE,
Teaming of All Kinds
Positively No Goal Delivered Us*
less Paid for in Advance