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SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1914.
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TROOPS TO STAY
AT FORT LISGUH
Secretary Fish of Commercial Associ
ation, Receives Letter From Ad
jutant General.
In reply to the request made by the
Valdez Commercial Club to the De
partment of ,the Interior that the
troops at For Liscum remain at the
post and that the reported intention
of the War Department to abandon
the post be not carried out because
ol' the vast government interests in
this locality, Secretary Fish received
the following le ter from H. O. Hert
land, adjutant general of the army:
•'I have the honor to acknowledge
receipt, by reference from' the Inter
ior Department, of your letter of May
6, 1914, in regard to the retention
of troops at Fort Liscum, Alaska,
and in response thereto to inform
you that tlie department has no pres
ent intention of abandoning Fort
Liscum, but that in view of the fact
that it hits been decided to reduce
the garrison of the posts in Alaska
by relieving the 30th Infantry by one
•battalion of the 14th Infantry, di
rections were given on the 9th in
slant for the First battalion of that
regiment to sail from Seattle, Wash
ington, not earlier than June 25, 1914.
for that purpose, and Fort Liscum
will be garrisoned by it detachment
from Fort Seward.”
Call for Bids.
At the special meeting of the city
council of June 3, 1914, the Street
committee was instructed to call for
bids for a concrete sidewalk to be
constructed from a point known on
McKinley street and occupied by the
Cinzon Cigar Company, and from
there down McKinley street to a point
known and occupied by the Valdez
Bank & Trust Company. Specifica
tions can be seen at the office of
the chairman of the Street commit
tee. The city reserves the right to
reject and and all bids. Bids will be
closed at 7 p. m., June 6, 1914. Bids
can be delivered to any member of
the committee up to 7 p. m. June 6.
The bidder who is awarded the ..con
tract will be required by the city
council to put up a bond to be ap
proved by said council.
AL. WHITE, Chairman.
WM. THOMAS.
JOHN LYONS.
Notice.
For the information of citizens in
terested in the matter of application
for liquor licenses in Valdez, the un
dersigned wish to state that the dis
tance from the nearest entrance of
the Episcopal church to the nearest
entrance of the. Buffet, saloon is 405
feet as shown by a surveyor’s certi
ficate in the records of the U. S. dis
trict court house.
This license was first granted May
18. 1907, when the Congregational
church had ceased to be a house of
religions worship and the Buffet has
never allowed its license to lapse
at any time since then. Any state
ments made to the contrary are ab
solutely false.
ALASKA and LIQUOR TRADING CO.
Dr. M. O. Adams, a dentist well
known to old sourdoughs of this city,
arrived on the Alameda last evening
arfd ivill open an office in the Wbfce
assay building on Wall street. Dr.
Adams Jsfient considerable time Ip
Valdez in 1904 when the,town was
young and since then, has practiced
in Aberdeen, Wash.
The franchise of the Valdez EJIgc
tric Co. provides that 5 per cent, of
its monthly gross revenues in excess
of $1,000.00 Shall be paid to the , town
of Valdez. Is ft'not entitled to tiie
support Of the peoplb? kl7
NEED SANITARIUMS
FOR WHITE PLAGUE
Imsrlcan InsjitutioRS Compar
ed With Those Id Germany.
NURSES HERE ARE RETTER.
In Many Respects This Country Leads,
While In Others There Is Room For
Great Improvement — Seaside Sani
tariums Beneficial For Bone or
Glandular Tuberculosis Patients.
Wallingford, Conn. — The state of
Connecticut, which has been priding
itself on the excellence of its institu
tions for the fight against tuberculosis,
has much to learn from Germany, ac
cording to the report of Dr. Stephen
J. Maher of New Haven, chairman of
the state tuberculosis commission.
Dr. Maher went to Berlin to attend the
recent conference, and his report to
Governor Baldwin shows in what re
spects Connecticut is remiss.
First of all he pleads for a seaside
sanitarium. Germany, Dr. Maher says,
leads the world in the number and
variety of its sanitariums. This is large
ly due to the fact that half or more of
the population is enrolled in sickness
and disability insurance companies;
hence it is advantageous to the organ
izations to cure their tuberculosis pa
tients us soon as possible.
American sanitarium equipment com
pares favorably with that which Dr.
Maher saw abroad. The German sani
tariums are of brick or stone, while in
tliis state they are entirely of wood.
The grounds about German institutions
GOVERNOR' UAIiDWIN OF CONNECTICUT. '
are carefully groomed, while here the
erection of buildings and systematizing
of management have hitherto engross
ed attention. German sanitariums make
a feature of X ray machines and a
tiled douche room, neither of whicli
Connecticut buildings have. To the
douche room patients n/ust go every
day for a vigorous hose douching.
I)r. Maher thinks American nurses
are better, quicker and more attentive
to details.
The wards for infants are wonders
In Germany. They ure of glass and
tile and are really large Incubators,
with elaborate contrivances for regu
lating temperature and ventilation. All
milk is served pasteurized or steriliz
ed. All babies are carefully tested
from birth with tuberculin for evi
dence of taint of tuberculosis.
America leads Germany in Its open
air treatment of patients, and it does
not place a limitation upon the stay of
a patient. In Germany the patient re
mains no longer than four or sir
months. At the end of that time the
improved cases are supposed to know
how to continue the treatment at home
and the unimproved are sent home as
incapable of receiving further benefit.
The patients then remain in care of
friends until the end. If the incurable
has no home the insurance company
t sends him. as a rule, to the general ■
hospital of the district.
Germany, however, is ahead in for
est schools and seaside sanltavlums for
bone or glandular tuberculosis patients.
DREAM LOCATES WILL.
Document Lost For Many Years Found
by Dead Man’s Sister.
Decatur, 111-Miss Helen Lo'ckliri of
Benftent, 111.', has finally presented at
her lawyer’s office here a long loaf wlli,
drawn by her late brother, Frank Lock
lln. She bad dreamed of Its location
and by finding It saved her home and
truck garden from sale to ^satisfy a
Judgment she bad obtained hOrrfeif..
Frank Locklln died. ln lfelO, leaving,
three sisters. Bfeleh had long helped
him make a" living and expected that
the 'wfll would bequeath her the home.
No will could be found. A week ot$w»
ago a dream gave her a clew wfilch,
led . to her recovery of the document. _
Student Climb* High 'Stack.
Obertln, O.—The' rt-eshthan Class Of
Oberlin college boosts Of ah anbny-1
mous steeplejack who at night climb
ed to thu mp # dbtH/rrt foot smoke
stack being‘eroded fbf the coMgi
beating , System' and decontCrd . the
stafik with'the clpss numeral*
Sthokasuck and won kulert-.
Lui-:il HEIGH OF
MANY CENTURIES
Francis Joseph Celebrates 65th
Anniversary of Ascension.
FEW PARALLELS IN HISTORY
Rameses II., Sasostria of the Greeks,
Believed to Have Ruled For Sixty
seven Years—Other Long Reigns
Shrouded In Doubt and Mystery.
Still Others Were Not Actual Reigns.
Brussels.—The longest actual reign
in thirty centuries and more is what
the world has just observed—the slx
ty-iifth anniversary of the accession of
Francis Joseph, emperor of Austria.
There are, indeed, only four longer
reigns in the history of the world, and
one of them is problematic, while'two
others were, in part, merely nominal.
The primacy must be given to that
Pharaoh who entertained Abraham,
lie is said to have reigned ninety-nine
years, but who knows?
Humeses II.. however, the Sesostns
of the Greeks, is credibly believed to
have reigned sixty-seven years, and
that was, as stated, more than thirty
centuries ago. Since then Louis XIV.
of France. Dieudonue, Le Grande
Monarque, was king for seventy-two
years, but as he was only five years
old at his succession and bad to let
Mazarin rule until he was twenty-one
he actually occupied the throne for
only fifty-six years.
Juba of Numidia, too. was entitled
to the throne for sixty-six years, but
really occupied it only fifty. Victoria’s
long reign counted less than sixty-four
years and James of Aragon’s only
sixty-three. No others surpassed
threescore, and only eight more ex
ceeded a half century—Henry III..
Edward 111. and George III. of Eng
land; James IV. of Scotland. Louis
Photo by American Press Association.
FRANCIS JOSEPH.
XV. of France, Frederick IV. of Ger
many. Pedro IV. of Aragon and John
Palaeoiogus of Byzantium. Francis
Joseph was past eighteen at his suc
cession and has actually reigned for
sixty-tive years—a record unrivaled
since "the days of old Romeses.”
There is a peculiar fitness in this,
seeing that the Austrian empire is in a
sense the successor of the oldest po
litical institution Europe has known.
"Of those who in August. 180G.’\says
Mr. Bryce, "read in the newspapers
that the Emperor Francis 11. bad an
nounced to the diet bis resignation of
the imperial crown there were proba
bly few who reflected that the oldest
political institution* in the world had
, come to nn end. Yet it is so. The em
pire which a note issued by a diplo
matist ou the banks of the Danube ex
tinguished was the same which the
crafty nephew of Juliup had won for
himself against the powers of the
east beneath the cliffs of Actium and
which had preserved almost unaltered
through eighteen centuries of time u
title and pretensions from which all
meaning had long since departed."
Simultaneously with that resigna
tion. however, he who had been Frah
fcis .IJ.s'•emperor of Rome, became
Francis I.. emperor offAustria, “what
ever that- meant.j‘* to quote not Mr.
Bryce, but Mr., Freeman/ *And as the
Roman Crown had long" been in the
pbss&isfoii of tlie Tfapsburgs and as
Austria had been the dominant state
in the empire, it is by no means unlit
ting to regard the present Austrian
empire as the direct successor of the
Roman ejnp>rc and the grandson of
Francis If. of Rome ns the remote suc
cessor of Augustus.
To paraphrase Mr. Bryce, we may
say that fh 1848. when the inept Fer
dinand was compelled to abdicate Ms
throne, there were probably few who
imagined that the timid and untHfcft
lad, who succeeded him. was'beginning
.the longest, and .one of .the-) moat inr
portapt yqisns, In the b)stpry> of ,.the
Hapsbyrgs or of f be castqra empire.
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Kills Albino PpMum. j .
Batesville. AA.-Judge Chari* CoU
fin has obtained frtini"'a farmer’ a
white - possmni,4rlth Hluc <*yefi.v Judge
Coffin, plahs 'Ho have the little talnml
stuffed nnft mounted.. 'nuvfhtmwsHw
/aught the potsud?, w* ,*th* there
both, whirtcbut hi*
dog got only
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