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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1914.
A WOMAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY.
A woman with four children, none
over ten years of age, is detained at
Ellis Island, the immigration auth
orities having refused her entry to
this country because she has no
means and threatens, with her chil
dren, to become a public charge. The
woman was recently deported fiom
Argentina, because she had been de
serted by her husband before he had
established his citizenship and was
refused permission to return to Rus
sia, her native country. Where can
she go?
This woman’s only offense is that
she has four children and is without
financial resources for their support
and education. Would it not be woith
while to use the price of a battleship
in providing means by which women
of this class could be given the aid
necessary to bring up their children
to be good citizens of our country?
PHYSICAL TEST FOR IMMIGRANTS
In view of the pronounced and
growing opposition to the liteiacy
test for immigrants, Secretary of La
bor Wilson has suggested a physical
test. He argues that the require
ments of a certain physical standard
would reject most of the Hindus and
the Asiatic peoples and perhaps form
a better method of exclusion than
the literary test.
Secretary Wilson’s plan would lead
to no end of trouble. A measure
ment test that would bar the Japan
ese and Chinese that we know best
would open the doors for the taller
men of those races. There are giants
among the Chinese and among the Ja
panese. as there are among the Hin
dus. On the oilier hand, the bar
against small-statured men would
keep out many Germans, Englishmen,
Frenchmen and Scandinavians. Neith
er the rule of height or weight will
solve the immigration problem. Sec
retary Wilson will have to try again.
There is nothing rotten in Den
mark now. It has less poverty and
more farms, considering the popula
tion, than any place on the globe.
When extreme wealth and poverty are
unknown in a country, it is approach
ing close to the point of perfection.
There is no surer way To find out
how you stand in a community than
to run for office, but the unfortunate
part is that everybody else finds out
the same thing about you.
Rear Admiral Blue’s opposition to
conferring military rank on chaplains
in the navy is well founded. What
have titles and insignia to do with
preaching the gospel?
A candidate for governor of Okla
homa admits that he was at one time
a train robber, but possibly there are
some others in the race who are not
so frank.
As the problem of supporting the
trusts begins to disappear we are
confronted with le difficulty of sup
porting another baseball league.
Instead of rocking the administra
tion boat, as many conservatives
feared that he would, Mr. Bryan
seems to be qualifying as a stabilizer.
Immigrants who take such valued
names as ‘Abrahim Lincoln” should
suffer a special penalty if they dis
grace the adopted names.
Kansas City is again about to take
up its greatest of indoor sports try
ing Dr. Bennett Clark Hyde.
Whoever expected to see the day
when the United States would'import
meat from England?
Soldiers were posted along 400
miles of railroad track for the czar’s
last holiday excursion. What a holi
day!
If you want all the news all the
time, read the Prospector.
AVIATOR TUES
OVER SIERRAS
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 17—Aviator
Christianson today crossed the coast
range of mountains safely and land
ed fifty miles from here. Thousands
watched him as he made his ascent
and when he passed over the lop ol
the range man and machine were
hardly discernible even with* the aid
of powerful field glasses.
DANIELS WANTS OIL
SUPPLIES FOR NAVY
demand for naval fuel oil, lie said,
its price had doubled.
Secretary Daniels also intimated
that it had been decided to leave the
land defense of the Panama canal
wholly to the army. The project for
the erection of permanent barracks
on the canal zone to quarter maiines,
for which $400,000 had been appro
priated, Mr. Daniels said, had been
abandoned.
Mr. Daniels was asked if the sub
marine boats of the Lake type, which
were unfinished through financial dif
ficulties encountered in their con
struction, were to be completed. Mr.
Daniels said he thought the makers
should have every reasonable oppor
tunity to make good in the hope that
competition might be established with
the Electric Boat Company.
CLAIMS CANAL JUNK
WORTH $2,000,000.00
(Continued from page 1.)
material account or taken up on the
property account of tlie commission.”
It is under this clause that the
wrecking company is making claim
to old French machinery, much of
which is being daily used in the canal
work.
Col. Goethals said today that he
expected the courts would be called
upon to settle the controversy be
cause the contract was loosely word
ed and ambiguous.
DRUG STORE MAN DOES
NOT WANT MAN PARDONED
BUTTE, Mont., Feb. 17.—Bouis
Dreibelbis, president and general man
ager of the Newbro Drug Co., has for
warded a protest to the governor, at
torney general and state board of
pardons against either pardoning or
grant ing a parole to Paddy Rogers or
James Barrett, who were convicted of
holding up Mr. Dreibelbis’ drug store
on North Main street and shooting his
brother, who was in charge of the
store at the time and resisted the at
tempted robbery.
The regular Wednesday night
dances which have been held the past
month wil lbe continued by the Wed
nesday Night Club because of the
success of the dances, which have
been enjoyed by a large number.
Notice.
By order of the board of direct
ors the Granite Gold Mining Co. of
fers for sale at 50 cents a share 10,000
shares of the treasury stock of the
company. This is for the purpose of
clearing up all indebtedness up to
March 1, 1914, at which time, barring
the acts of Providence, the mill will
start. The company has expended
about $32,000, for which we have a
complete power equipment, a com
plete twenty-ton mill, a hoist, an un
derground station, a gallows-frame
for hoisting, 450 feet of tunnel work,
an upraise from the tunnel to the
surface of 147 feet, and a shaft 6 1-2
xlO 1-2 feet and 40 feet in depth,
leading from the tunnel down and
which exposes the ore for 200 feet.
A shaft has also been driven on the
upper vein for 40 feet in depth. The
company has a surface tram across
the gully 200 feet long and will have
an aerial tram 320 feet long to trans
port the ore from the mine to the
mill. Supplies to the value of $3,000
are on hand on the property. Stock
can be secured at Attorney C. E. Bun
nell’s office, secretary of the com
pany. B. F. M1LEARD, President.
Free Literature.
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Give names and ages of your chil
dren old enough to read. Have you
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friends unable to supply their fami
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Texas.
HE ASKED FOR A COT.
And He Got a Cot, or What They Call
a Cot, In Scotland.
A residei* of Terre Haute was trav
eling In Scotland and met a congenial
acquaintance on the train. The new
found friend Insisted that he be per
mitted to show the Indlanian the best
hotel in the small place where they
were both stopping. When they got
to the hotel it was full. As the In
diana man was only going to stay one
night, ho said he was not particular,
but would sleep any place.
It was finally agreed that he should
sleep in the hotel parlor. But the
lounge proved too hnrd. So be called
the porter.
“I can’t sleep on this lounge. Bring
me a cot, will you, my boy?” he asked.
"A cot, sir? Did you say a cot, sir?"
“Yes. a cot I can’t sleep on this.”
"Did you say a cot. sir?”
“Yes. You put a cot in here for me.
I'm going out. but shall return pres
ently."
\\ lion on his return lie opened the
door to what he thought was the par
lor he was amazed to find a cradle
near his suit case. lie summoned the
porter.
“Boy, I asked you to bring me a cot
That is not a cot. That is a baby's
bed.”
“No, sir; that is a cot, sir."
“Well, but I can’t sleep In that
What I want is a cot—a long frame,
you know, with springs on it.” at the
some time measuring with ills hands.
“Oh. I see, sir,” replied the boy.
“You don’t want a cot, sir. What you
want is a stretcher, sir.”—Indianapolis
News.
BEARDS AND BARE FACES.
Shaving Was at One Time Considered
Almost a Crime.
We need not go so far back as the
eighteenth century to find Englishmen
who held that shaving was "agen God
and nature.” In the nineteenth, James
Ward, R. A., in a “Defense of the
Beard,” set forth eighteen reasons for
retaining it, mainly Scriptural, re-en
forced by artistic considerations
“What would a Jupiter be without a
board?” As late as 18G0 Thelogos pub
lished a treatise entitled “Shaving—A
Breach of the Sabbath and a Hindrance
to the Spread of the Gospel.” One of
his points was that “Providence had
manifestly designed the beard as a pro
tection for the throat and chest” But
what about the woman’s throat?
Nowhere was there more prejudice
centuries ago against beards than at
the inns of court The “black books”
of the inns tell us how offenders were
fined for wearing beards, and some
times were even compulsorily shaved
by order of court. And the prejudice
against the bearded bnrrister still
lingers. Vice Chancellor Bacon carried
his dislike to bearded or mustached
barristers so far that he always refus
ed to bear them. Even now there are
very few leading counsel with beards,
and I can remember only one unsliaved
barrister of the greatest eminence, the
late Judah Philip Benjamin. Q. C.—
silver tongued Benjamin, who wore a
mustache and a goatee. — London
Chronicle.
Wit of Beau Brummel.
Beuu Brummel’s popularity depend
ed less upon his dress than upon his
perfect self possession, his grace of
bearing, his wit. his good looks and his
good humor, according to Leon II. Vin
cent's “Dandies and Men of Letters.”
He was a handsome fellow, although
tlie shape of his nose had been "modi
fied" by the kick of a horse.
“His reputation for bright and cans
[ tic sayings was very great The in
dustrious biographer has collected all
be could lay hands on. and there is life
in them yet Take, for example, this:
Byng, one of the dandies, was blessed
• with a remarkable head of hair which
curled naturally. Brummel saw him
one day in a gig with a French poodle
by his side and saluted him with. ‘Ah.
Byng. how do you do?—a family ve
hicle. I see.' And from that time on,
we are told, the well haired dandy was
I known as ‘Poodle Byng.’ ”
A Lesson In Natural History.
An indulgent grandfather was enter
taining his grandchildren by turning
the leaves of a book on animals. Com
ing to the kangaroo, he called their
attention to its peculiarities and espe
cially to its enormous tail. Passing on,
after awhile he thought he would try
them to see how much they remember
ed of this talk about the kangaroo.
Me asked. "What animal has the big
gest tail 5” After a moment’s thought
one little girl spoke up. “I know, a
snake; it's all tail." - Indianapolis
News.
Higher Education.
"Oa» you give me a Job as office
boy?”
"I might. How are you on spelling
and arithmetic?”
“We didn't pay much attention to
those studies at our school. But I can
model clay and do worsted work."—
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Hides His.
“Perkins believes that a man’s char
acter can be determined by his hand
writing.”
“1 don’t remember seeing any of Per
kins’ handwriting.”
“No; Perkins always uses a type
writer.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
She Did.
Cynthia—Did Mrs. Gaywldow ever
succeed in breaking her husband’s
will? Mrs. Enright-Ob. yes: long be
fore be died.—Judge.
It is with Ufe as with men—we make
friends by being a friend. — Leigh
Mitchell Hodges.
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the impossible clothes you have
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Summons for Publication.
Theo. Kmel, plaintiff, vs. W. Fred
Swanson and F. A. Hancock, defend
ants.—No. 653. Summons for Publica
tion.
To the above-named defendant,
W. Fred Swanson:
You are hereby required to appear
in the district court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division, within
thirty days after the completion of
publication of this summons against
you, to-wit, within thirty days after
the 28th of March, 1914; and answer
the complaint of plaintiff tiled here
in, and unless you so appear and an
swer the plaintiff will apply to the
court for the relief demanded in the
complaint, decreeing her to be the
owner of the launch Anita, and that
neither you nor your co-defendant has
any interest in or title to the same.
Witness the Hon. Fred M. Drown,
judge of said court, this 13th day of
February, 1914. ARTHUR LANG,
Clerk of the District Court, for the
Territory of Alaska. Third Division.
By T. P. GERAGllTY, Deputy Clerk.
First publication Feb. 14, 1914.
Last publication March 28, 1914.
Notice to Creditors.
In the United States Commissioner’s
Court, ex officio Judge in Probate,
Valdez Precinct, Third Judicial Di
vision, Territory of Alaska.
In the matter of the estate of Peter
Steinmetz, deceased. W. A. Rystrom,
administrator.—Notice to Creditors.
Notice is hereby given by the un
dersigned, administrator of the estate
of Peter Steinmetz, deceased, to the
creditors of, and all persons having
claims against the said estate, to ex'
hiblt them, with the necessary vouch
ers, within six (6) months after the
first publication of this notice, to the
said administrator at the office of C.
E. Bunnell, at Valdez, Alaska, the
same being the place for_ the trans
action of the business of’said estate.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 10th
day of February, 1914.
W. A. RYSTROM.
Administrator of the estate of Peter
Steinmetz, deceased.
First publication Feb. 11, 1914.
Last publication March 16, 1914.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
In the United States Commissioner’s
Court, ex-officio Judge in Probate,
Valdez precinct, Third Judicial Di
vision, Territory of Alaska.
In the matter of the estate of Rob
ert Martin, deceased. Notice to cred
itors.
Notice is hereby given by the un
dersigned, administrator of the estate
of Robert Martin, deceased, to the
creditors of, and all persons having,
claims against the said estate, to ex
hibit them with the necessary vouch
ers, within six (6) months after the
first publication of this notice, to the
said administrator at the office of C.
E. Bunnell, at Valdez, Alaska, the
same being the place for the trans
tion of the business of said estate.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 13th
day qf January, 1914.
W. H. CASWELL,
Administrator of the estate of Robert
Martin, deceased.
Date of first publication Jan. 14.
Date of last publication Feb. 17.
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Notice of Marshal's Sale.
United States of America. Third Di
vision, Territory of Alaska, ss.
Public notice >s hereby given, that
by virtue of a writ of execution, dated
January 9th, A. D. 1914, issued out
of the District Court, for the Third
division, Territory of Alaska, on a
judgment rendered in said Cour,, on
the 5th day of January, A. D. 1914,
in favor of the United States of
America, and against James Fish, ad
ministrator of the estate of Louis Ca
m'cia, deceased, Angus Chisholm,
Frank Gustafson, Max J. Schm'dt and
Jennie Raymond, I have, on this 9th
day of January, A. D. 1914, levied
upon the following described real es
tate, situated in the town of V ldez,
Territory of Alaska, to-wit:
Lot nine (9) in Block B; lot three
(3) in Block two (2); lot four (4)
in block twenty-four (24), of the
Valdez Townsite, according to the
official plat < f said townsite on file
in the office of the recorder for said
precinct, and that I will, according
ly, offer said real estate for sale, at
public vendue to the h ghest and best
bidder, for cash, on the third day of
March, A. D. 1914, at two o’clock p.
m„ at the front door of the Court
House, Valdez, Alaska.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, January
9, 1914.
F. R. BRENNEMAN,
U. S. Marshal, Third Division, Ter
ritory of Alaska.
First publication January 10, 1914.
Last publication February 21, 1914.
Hospital of the Good Samaritan.
For $6.00 we will give you a ticket
entitling you to hospital service and
care for any eight weeks out of the
year from date of your ticket, when
incapacitated by injury or sickness.
See W. H. Ziegler.
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