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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1915.
A BLOW TO BLACKMAIL
Again has the United States Su
preme Court come to the rescue
against the fanatical enforcement of
a bungling law. This time it is the
miscalled “white slave law,” which
as interpreted and enforced has been
a law making the government an
accomplice in the business of the
• blackmailer. The law was passed
at a time of hysteria, when magazine
and other publications had led to the
belief that there existed a huge in
ternational syndicate dealing in wo
men. No such syndicate has ever
been discovered; individual criminals
do conduct this horrid traffic, and are
constantly being detected and pun
ished under state laws.
The Mann law, through some over
sight in wording, was immediately
perverted into an instrument for
blackmail. It punished immorality as
soon as it crossed a state line. What
was a police court offense at most
if committed at the end of a trolley
ride became a federal crime if com
mitted at the end of a railroad jour
ney. The blackmailers immediately
saw their opportunity. All that was
necessary was for the blackmailer to
decoy her victim across a state line
and then threaten him with the ter
rors of the law. She had at her
command, in the pursuit of her ne
farious calling, federal district at
torneys and marshals. Her previous
character, her consent, had nothing
to do with the crime.
The Supreme Court has now ad
ministered a check to this govern
ment-aided blackmail business by a
decision that the woman can be pun
ished as well as the man. Justice
Holmes supposes the case of a black
mailer inducing her victim to accom
pany her to Jersey City from New
York, and declares that within such
a case she would be within the pen
alties of the law. He hints that it
might be as well to “abandon the
illusion that the woman is always
the victim." This decision draws the
teeth of the blackmailers, and this
industry, which the Mann law has fos
tered and developed, will languish
if the blackmailer finds government
aid withdrawn and a prison sentence
awaiting her instead of a sympathet
ic hearing in the grand jury room.
It is not the first time by many
that the Supreme Court has settled
a ridiculous law by simply applying
the rule of common sense.—Ex.
ALLIED ARMIES
GAIN IN THE WEST
(Continued from page 1.)
change between Germany, Britain
and France, are men who have re
ceived injuries which will prevent
their ever again joining their ranks.
Nearly all of the prisoners exchang
ed today were either totally blind or
had lost a leg or an arm. Others
had been rendered incapable of mov
ing, having lost both their legs.
Gerard Is Not Worrying.
BERLIN, Feb. 17.—Ambassador
Gerard, the representative of the
United States government here, ex
presses the belief that America will
not permit herself to be drawn in
to the war but will remain strictly
neutral.
Gerard Is Hooted In Berlin.
BERLIN, Feb. 17.—For the second
time in two weeks Ambassador Ger
ard, of the United States, was jeered
at when he attended a theater with
a party of Americans. The German
audience apparently disapproved of
the Ship Purchasing bill having been
defeated, which they believe resulted
Hi rough fear of giving offense to Eng
land. The Americans left the thea
er when the attentions of the audi
ence became too marked.
Metal shingles which are locked to
ether by a series of ribs and chan
els have been patented by a South
larolina inventor.
FLOOD SUBSIDING
IN TIBER RIVER
High Water Completed Work of De
struction Wrought By Earth
quake In Italy.
ROME, Feb. 17.—The situation in
the flooded districts along the Tiber
river are more hopeful but condi
tions are deplorable. The heavy rains
in the mountains have ceased, caus
ing the river to slightly recede, but
great sections of the country are still
covered by the overflowing river.
It is estimated that the damage to
property by the flood, which com
pleted the work of destruction by
the earthquake, will bring the prop
erty loss of the stricken section to
$100,000,000. Relief parties, chosen
from the ranks of the military, are
scouring the flooded districts in the
hope of being able to rescue many
who are believed to have been iso
lated by the flood and are in danger
of starving.
CHILD LH60H DILL
PASSED THE HOUSE
Will Bar Products of Little Hands
From Being Sent From State
Where Made.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17—The
House yesterday passed the bill bar
ring the products of factories where
child1 labor is employed from being
sent from the state in which they are
manufactured. It will be the duty of
the Interstate Commerce Commission
to see that the measure is enforced.
Considerable opposition to the bill
developed from eastern members
whose constituencies embrace factory
districts in which child labor is al
most exclusively employed. They ad*
vanced the argument that the meas
ure would result in throwing thou
sands of children'out of employment
who were at present supporting their
parents and other members of fami
lies who were unable to secure em
ployment.
The western members were a unit
in favor of the measure.
NO NEWS FROM STEFANSSON
RECEIVED FROM THE ARCTIC
DAWSON. Y. T.—Letters dated as
late as December 11. which were car
ried from MacPherson, at the mouth ot
the Mackenzie river, to Rampart
house, by Sergt. Clay, of the Royal
Northwest mounted police, then by
Indian carrier to Fort Yukon, and
thence by mail to Dawson, have been
received by Bishop Stringer, of the
Church of England, containing infor
mation from the Arctic coast.
Archdeacon Whittaker, who assem
bled most of *he news at MacPherson,
states no word has been received from
Vilhjalmar Stefansson, in charge of
the polar Canadian expedition, which
became detached from the Karluk af
ter she left.
Stefansson visited MacPherson last
winter, then returned to the Arctic
shore and starred over the ice last
March from Herschel island toward
Banksland.
Thirty-five head of horses owned by
the government which are being win
tered in the Katchimak and Ship
creek districts have ranged out ail
winter and are reported to have come
through in fine condition.
Notice To Creditors.
In the Commissioner’s Court for the
Territory of Alaska. Third Divis
ion. At Valdez. In Probate.
In the matteir of the estate of W.
H. Blackwell, deceased.—Notice to
Creditors.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned has been regularly appoint
ed as the executrix of the estate of
W. H. Blackwell, deceased, and cred
itors and ail other persons, having
claims against said estate, are here
by notified to exhibit the same to me,
together with the necessary proof
thereof, at my place of business at
Valdez, Alaska, within six months af
ter the first publication of this no
tice, the same being the place for the
transaction of all business in connec
tion with said estate. Dated at Val
dez. Alaska, this 13th day of Febru
ary, 1915.
MRS, W, H. BLACKWELL,
Executrix of the estate of W. H.
Blackwell, deceased.
Date of first publication Feb. 16, 1915.
Date of last publication March 16,
1915.
It Wasn’t Annia.
Auntie felt called upon to chide An
nie for getting wet so often. One day
mother and auntie were sitting by the
dining table talking of Annie’s still be
ing out when it wus beginning to rain.
Just then they heard the kitchen door
open softly.
“Who has wet feet now?" called
auntie.
An ominous stillness for the space of
three seconds, then a gruff voice re
plied:
“The Iceman.”—Harper's Magazine.
A Maharajah’s Revenge.
A maharanee of Nepaul committed
suicide in horror at the disfigurement
which an attack of smallpox had caus
ed in her features. The mahnrajah,
who was passionately attached to her,
first wreaked his vengeance on the
physicians who had attended her in
her illness. Then he flew at higher
game. Out of the great temple he
brought the idols, placed loaded cannon
before them and bade gunners fire. In
terror at the proposed blasphemy they
refused. Thereupon the maharajah
hanged several of them. The survivors
then submitted, and the guns were
fired and the idols blown to pieces —
London Mail.
Papua Island.
Papua island was so named by the
Malays, and the word means "friz
zled,” in reference to the hair of the
inhabitants. It is generally supposed
that Papua or New Guinea was origi
nally part of the mainland of Austra
lia. It was discovered by the Portu
guese in 1520. though it was probably
sighted by A. Dabreu during his voy
age fifteen years earlier. The Austra
lian government, realizing the danger
that would arise if an enemy seized
land so near their coasts, frequently
urged England to annex the eastern
portion of the island, and after two
or three unauthorized annexations a
British protectorate was established
there in 1884.
Tea Table Etiquette. *
A hundred years or more ago there
was a quaint tea table etiquette. It
was considered a lack of courtesy to
take much cream or sugar in one’s tea.
Etiquette demanded that the tea should
be tasted from the spoon and that the
hostess should then inquire. “Is your
tea agreeable?" Modern women would
be shocked by a fashionable lady of
those days who cooled her tea with her
breath, yet Young wrote of a certain
bewildering Lady Betty:
Her two red lips affected zephyrs blow
To cool the Bohea and Inflame the beau,
While one white finger and a thumb con
spire
To lift the cup and muke the world admire
—London Standard.
India Ink.
In both India and China there are
thousands of people who manufacture
india Ink as a side line to their regu
lar business, working at it in the tvin
ter at night and on days when they
are not otherwise employed, it is
made by burning some kind of oil in
a lamp with a very long chimney, usu
aly made in joints which can lie tak
en apart for greater convenience in
cleaning out the soot which makes the
ink. Almost any kind of vegetable oil
will answer, and in districts where
petroleum is found even eoa! oil is
used in making the cheaper grades.
The best kind is made from sesame
oil—Argonaut.
Tho African Elephant.
Shunning man and, as a rule, fleeing
at his approach, the African elephant
when attacked often shows light and is
dangerous prey. Kongo specimens have
very large ears that even stretch back
beyond the neck and cover part of the
flank. In color the Kongo elephants
are of a grayish blue, almost slatelike
tint. No one has ever reported seeing
specimens of the sacred white ele
phant of India there. In size Kongo
elephants have been killed that were
more than fourteen feet high at the
withers and reckoned at more than
eight tons in weight. Tusks obtained
are sometimes more than 200 pounds
In weight and six feet and a half in
length. _
Early Methods of Curing Skins.
The original process of curing skins
was probably the simple one of clean
ing and drying them. Removal of the
hair by maceration in water seems to
have been common among the very
early tribes, and one writer has sug
gested that the idea was obtained
from the natural process of depilatlon.
They must certainly have been familiar
with it in tbe case of drowned animals,
where maceration can be plainly ob
served. Following this smoke, sour
milk, oil and the brains of the animals
themselves were found efficacious.
Many of these primitive methods are
employed in remote plnces at the pres
ent time. 4
DON’T BE A RECLUSE.
There is nothing so healthy as
plenty of human nature about one,
young, old and middle aged.
When we stay at home too much
or associate entirely with a very
limited circle we lose the proper
sense of perspective. The few
individuals whom we like assume
giant propostions in our thoughts,
and the rest of the world recedes.
Household and Camp
Necessities
Wear-Ever Royal Graniteware
Luminum Cooking Utensils. Cooking Utensils and Table
Light and durable. Guaran- ware. A brand well known
teed to meet everyjtest. to all users of the best.
White Enamelware, fancy and plain Chinaware;
Glasses fandj Glassware; Butcher Knives and
Cutlery;*Tinware and Ironware.
Our assortment is too numerous to'enumerate-If ycu need anything see us first
From Different Viewpoint*.
“He is raving over his wife.”
“She’s enough to drive anybody cra
zy.”—Town Topics.
That Black Spot.
Always there is a black spot in our
sunshine. It is the shadow of our
selves.—Carlyle.
His Interpretation.
"What is your alma mater, Mr. Nu
ricb?” "Well, if you insist I'll take a
cigar.”—Buffalo Express.
His Old Typewriter
“Would you like to get rid of your
old typewriter?" “Not just yet. I
only married her last week.”—Judge.
A Comparison.
A diamond with a flaw is better than
a common stone without any imperfec
tions.—Chinese Proverb.
Fitting.
“Jims is very good on dog stories.”
“Yes. bis tales do suggest a natural
wag.”—Baltimore American.
No Obstacle.
Father—But your fiance lias no busi
ness. Daughter—That is a purely psy
chological lack.-New York Sun.
The Remedy.
“Doctor. I’m troubled with a terri
ble buzzing in my ears.”
“Get a divorce.”—Boston Transcript.
Selling Out.
Every man has good reasons for sell
ing. The trouble is to find out what
they are.—Pittsburgh Post.
An Economical Man.
A man we know is so economical
that he could lead a double life on $t)
a week.—Kansas City Stur.
Nobleness of Life.
The nobleness of life depends on its
consistency, clearness of purpose, quiet
and ceaseless energy.—Buskin.
Confirmed.
“I henrd his bachelor dinner was a
very dry affair.”
“Yes. extra dry.”—Buffalo Express.
English Mosses.
Two hundred and ninety different
kinds of mosses, It is asserted, have
been found in. England.
Duplicate Words.
German has 00 words for “horse,”
the Arabian haB 500 for “lion” and
1,000 for “sword.”
Plain Talk.
“I think she’s double faced.”
“Oh. don’t say that! One face like
hers is bad enough!”
Kiaa and Never Tell.
Hicks—You never can tell about a
woman. Wicks—You shouldn’t any
how.—Boston Transcript.
Milk In Egypt.
Natives of Egypt drink the milk of
the camel as well as that of the cow.
the goat, and the Nile buffalo.
Amateurish.
“Am I the first girl you ever kissed?”
“You are—1 swear it!"
“I accept your apology."
'All Alike.
Belle—Listen. Dolly: can you keep a
secret? Dolly—No more than you can!
Spring it!—New York Globe.
Cramped.
Normandie—Can you dress within
your Income? Bart—Yes. but it’s like
dressing in an upper berth.—Exchange.
Large stock of cut glass and Paris
ian ivory nt Valdes Drug Co. tf
Copper River Lumber Co., Inc. ‘
ALL KINDS OP
Native and T f IMDCD and Building
Puget Sound LUIYIDIIiIY Material
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Prices Right W. M. FINICAL, Mgr. Phone IS
Patronize a Home Industry
Independent Laundry Co.
Satisfaction Guaranteed I I Foot Keystone Ave
Telephone 66 I I Routrh Dry lCc lb.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
S. S. Mariposa and S. S. Alameda sail from Seattle
the 1st, 8th, 16th and 24th
EVERY MONTH
From Valdez *outh-7th, 15th, 23rd and 30th for Cordova,
Juneau, Ketchikan and Seattle.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan. Juneau. Sheep creek Treadwell. Douglas
Cirdova. Sllamar. Valdez and Latouohc. Explosives. S S Seward. S S Seward. 5th
S S I.atouche. 15th: S S Cordova. 25th of each month—Right reserved to change this
sohedule without notloe.
F B. Tracy, Gen’l Agt- Valde* Dock Co., Local Agt.
In Bankruptcy.
■ In the District Court1 for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division.
In the matter of E. W. Blackwood,
bankrupt.—No. 12. In Bankruptcy.
Order to Show Cause.
Whereas, Application has been
made by the above-named bankrupt
for a discharge, as provided by Sec
tion 14-a of the bankruptcy law of
1898; now, on motion of Donohoe &
Dimond, attorneys for such bankrupt,
It is ordered;
That all creditors of E. W. Black
wood, a bankrupt, as well as all
lother parties In interest, show cause,
at a hearing to be had on such ap
plication before the District Court for
the Territory of Alaska, Third Divis
ion, at Valdez, in said Territory and
Division, on the 8th day of March,
A. D., 1915, or as soon thereafter as
such hearing may be had, why such
application should not be granted.
That notice of such hearing be
given by mailing a copy of this or
der at least ten days prior to the
date set for such hearing to each of
the creditors, parties in interest and
attorneys entitled to notice, of pro
ceedings herein, and by publishliL.;; a
Copy hereof in the Valdez Daily Pros
pector, at Valdez, Alaska, not later
than one week prior to such date.
That such notice be so given by or
under the direction of the clerk of
this court.
Done in open court at Valdez, Alas
ka, this 15th day of February, A. D.
1915.
FRED. M. BROWN, Judge.
Weather Report.
Valdez, Feb. 16, 1915.
Barometric pressure .29,351
Temperature at 7 p. m. *
Maximum temperature . IS
Minimum temperature . *
Mean temperature . 15
Cloudy, strong gale 50 miles north
east.
WEATHER BULLETIN.
Valdez. Alaska, Feb. 17, 1915.
STATION Abovelt'Below, Snow In. WEATHEIi CONDITIONS
Donnelly . 34 8 Cloudy, calm, trail fair.
McCallum . 30 26 Clear, calm, trail drifted.
Paxson’s . * 10 19 Clear, calm, trail fair.
Hogan . 15 17 Cloudy, calm, trail fair.
Gulkana . 19 14 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Copper Center. 10 10 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Tonsina . 20 25 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Telkhell . 6 26 Clear, calm, trail good.
Beaver Dam. 3 38 Cloudy, snowing, windy, trail drifted
Wortman’s . 11 36 Cloudy, windy, trail drifted.