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FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1914.
WHAT WILL THE MEXICANS DO?
The controlling thought of every
humane American, when Mexico is the
subject, is not concerned with the
details of matters at present in dis
pute, but with the broad question of
how the restoration of peace and
lawful government, which is undoubt
edly the desire of the really influen
tial citizens of the republic, is to be
accomplished. That the initiative
must be taken in Mexico and by Mex
icans, and not, as Mr. Kahn of Cali
fornia said in a speech in the House
of representatives recently, by a com
bination of the United States govern
ment with those of certain South
American republics, is the general
agreement. The Mexican people in
this stage of their history ought to be
able to put their own premises in or
der. The spectacle of three or foul
million intelligent people, who know
how to conciliate their uneducated
kindred and to lead them, supinely
submitting to the ineffective rule of
one old soldier and a few inconsider
able bureaucrats, while a large part
of ftheir territory is dominated and its
inhabitants terrorized by a ferocious
bandit, is both saddening and prepos
terous.
The plan to obtain tne co-opera
tion of Argentina, Brazil anil Chile
in a movement to promote peace, in
Mexico was originally conceived a
year or more ago by Mr. Charles H.
Sherrill, formerly our minister in Ar
gentina, and it 'received some favor
able comment. But it would estab
lish a dangerous precedent, while at
tempted mediation of any sort at this
time would arouse needless suspicions
in Mexico. We still have hopes that
no sort of mediation will be necessary,
that the Mexican citizens will discov
er how to silence the malcontents
in their country and find a way to
peace.
The announcement that Carranza,
who has been so strangely silent in a
serious crisis, has dispatched a mes
senger to Huerta to make overtures
of peace, though it may be as ill
founded as most of the other rumors
of happenings in Mexico, is extreme
ly interesting. Surely Carranza, if he
is the man he has been represented
to be, must do something to rid him
self of responsibility for the lawless
doings of Villa. No hope for peace in
Mexico, or the establishment of any
sort of stable government, can be
placed in Villa. On the other hand,
the plight of the old Dictator at the
capital is such that he might fairly
be expected to seize a good oppor
tunity to gel rid of his heavy burden
with honor. But whatever is to be
done for the common good in Mexico
must be done, not by one or two men,
but by many intelligent citizens, act
ing in harmony. Just at this moment
the important question is what they
are going to do, not what the United
States or any European nation is go
ing to do. For nothing is clearer than
that something must be done.—New
York Times.
BIG DEMAND FOR MORE CATTLE.
The Wall Street Journal has been
making a survey of the meat supply of
the world and finds that the beef
eaters are going to be on short and
high-priced rations in a very few
years unless more attention is paid to
cattle raising. The Journal finds
about 450,000.000 cattle in the world
or about 325,000,000, eliminating buf
falo and animals used only for milk
and draft purposes. Of these 57,000,
000 are in the United States. Belgium
has 160 cattle to the square mile, Den
mark 160, the Netherlands 159, the
United Kingdom 97 and the United
States only 19. Says the Journal:
“If the experience of these coun
tries is worth anything, then there
is no ground for the feeling that as
population increases and the demand
for more food products from the soil
becomes more urgent the live stock
must be crowded out. It is simply a
question of increased production, of
the limits of which we have not yet
reached even the outer fringe. These
countries all produce more to the acre
than we do, and no small share of the
credit is due to the large proportion
of cattle to fertilize the land.”
Moreover, these countries, and es
pecially the United Kingdom, give
greater attention to the type of cat
tle than we do in the United States.
An early maturing animal that is
ready for the market at two years
of age has advantages over one that
requires four years. Consequently an
acre of land is able to produce more
beef.
No; the United States is not over
crowded with cattle. On the contrary,
it is understocked and the beef sup
ply is decreasing yearly. We have
plenty of room for more cattle. What
we need is more expert live stock
farmers and more attention paid to
the production of beef cattle.
Until the individual farmer turns his
hand to the raising of a good type of
! beef cattle there is no chance for
cheaper beef. When every farm raises
! beef and the supply catches up with
the demand—then we shall have
cheaper beef and the high cost of liv
ing will be reduced.—Ex.
THE COST OF WAR.
War is a costly institution.
In a recent paper, Alfred H. Fried
calls attention to what the war in the
Balkans has cost some of the leading
countries of the world. “The bloody
conflict in the Balkans,” he says, "has
recently shown that violence applied
at any point in the world is fraught
with serious consequences for all,”
and he adds;
“The Balkan war lias induced Ger
many to raise the peace footing of
her army to 900,000 men, to impose
upon herself extraordinary expendi
tures to the extent of 1,200,000,000
marks ($300,000,000) and to increase
the regular disbursements of the war
budget by 180 million marks annually.
It has caused France to make the ex
traordinary expenditure of a billion for
the army and navy and to re-estab
lish the three years’ service. The
Austro-Hungarian war ministry is
asking for 1,200,000,000 kronen (about
$240,000,000) for military expendi
tures made necessary by the Balkan
w'ar, of which sum nearly 500 mil
lions are intended for mobilization
purposes; and, in addition to th’s, for
a permanent increase of the budget,
and the increase of the peace footing
of the standing army by 80,000 men.”
By slow degrees we are learning
what it means to maintain the heavy
naval and military equipment we now
maintain, and, finally, we will abandon
the unwise policies which burden us.
What we are learning is that we can
settle our problems in a peaceful way;
that the sword is not the only means
of arbitrament; ; that we ran be
friends without fighting for it, and
that, surely, is a lesson worth while
after all these centuries of turmoil.
FAMOUS BANDIT
SAYS BE GOVERNOR
(Continued from page 1.)
from the street to his office door, on
which in small letters is the sign. “Al.
J. Jennings,” He has quit his law
practice. He says a man can’t be ex
actly on the square and practice law.
Then, it will take all his time to at -
tend to the coming campaign.
. “The old outlaw days,” said Jen
nings, “that I have been trying so
hard for fifteen years to forget were
uncouth, they were sometimes savage
and sometimes even murderous. But
those men were men. They never
lied. There is no comparison between
the outlaws who openly broke the law
and the public official pho perjures
himself by swearing falsely to the
amount of his election expenses.
These men are criminals just the
same as the admitted outlaws who are
in jail now. They are rarely worse for
they parade in sheep’s clothing.”
Jennings is already announcing his
platform, which is said to be the
shortest one on which a candidate ev
er ran for a high office. He promises:
“First, fidelity to the people. Second,
real honesty in office. Third, that
the law shall be no respector of per
sons. When these principles are
truthfully and honestly carried out,
all interests will be subserved and
taxes w'ill be greatly reduced. In all
my life, 1 have never betrayed a con
fidence. If the people confide in me,
God may be judge, I’ll not betray
them.”
Traffic Club Dines.
BOSTON, March 13.—Professor
William Howard Taft, Governor David
I. Walsh, United States Senator John
Weeks, Howard Elliott, chairman of
the New Haven railroad, and Pres^
dent James H. Hustls and Morris Mc
Donald, of the New Haven'and Boston
and Maine, respectively, are to .be
guests' of the New England Traffic
Club at its annual dinner at the. Cop
ley Plaza tonight. Former President
Taft, Senator Weeks and Governor
Walsh will make adrdesses. •
Np man should complain that his
hands are. tied if he has a free foot.
BEER IN ANCIENT ENGLAND.
When the Law Demanded “Drynke”
For the King’s Subjects.
Authorities iu England formerly tools
pains that the I»ndoner should not
miss his full share of ale. In the six
teenth century, for instance, the brew
er who ceased to brew was faced with
the loss of his business. Thus, if the
mayor got wind of “any of the salde
brewers, of their frowarde and per
verse myndcs, shall at any time here
after sodenly forbeare and absteync
from bruylnge. whereby the king’s sub
jects should be destitute or unprovid
ed of drynke,” he knew exactly what
to do. Tlie city council was empower
ed to take over the business as a going
concern and to take measures to see
that it was kept going.
The cry then and for centuries after
was all for beer-. There is record of a
petition of 1673. for instance, praying
that tea. coffee and brandy lie banned.
! Tlie petitioners reasoned that the la
borers needed "good strong beer and
ale.” which “refreshed their bodies and
neither did them prejudice nor hinder
ed their work.”
Besides, it cost little and was the
product of. home grown grain, whereas
the new fangled drink was expensive
and destroyed his majesty’s subjects,
“not agreeing with their constitution.”
—Chicago News.
LIGHT AND HEAT.
How They Reach Us From Out the Icy
Coldness of Space.
Ill answer to the question. “It Is
thought that In space eternal cold and
darkness prevail—what then is the ex
planation of the fact that both light
and heat from the sun. some 90,000,
000 miles away in cold space, reach
the earth?” Edgar Lucieu Larkin In
the New York American says:
“Heat and light as such do not
reach the earth from our own and
100,000,000 more suns. Radiant energy
Is transmitted by undulations or waves
in electrons, which energy is in the
forms of waves of varying lengths and
amplitudes. When some of these en
ergy impulses Impinge on matter able
to receive and appropriate them heat
and light result.
“Many molecules in many thousands
of kinds of matter nre able to trans
late energy waves into heat, while
others are translated as light on the
retina of the eye and in the brain.
But no heat nor light develops until
the waves strike forms of matter fitted
to recelvi;, appropriate and translate.
“Thus energy will pass through a
'burning glass' made of ice, converge
to a focus and set light objects on
fire.”
Shipwrecks and Courts Martial.
The custom of holding courts martial
in the British navy after every case of
shipwreck has a curious origin. In
17-11 the Wager, one of Commodore
Anson's vessels, was wrecked off the
coast of Chile, most 6f the crew being
saved. The men and some of the jun
ior officers held that they were no
longer amenable to discipline because
their pay ceased with the wreck, but
the captain, whose name was Davy
Cheap, differed, treated them as muti
neers and shot one of his midshipmen.
He was then deposed, and most of the
crew made off in three of the boats.
Later when it was proposed to proceed
against the so called mutineers the law
officers of the crown decided that the
men had been correct in their view.
This discovery led to the framing of
section 91 of the articles of war. which
provides that in the case of shipwreck,
destruction or capture by the enemy a
ship is held to remain in commission
pending inquiry by a court martial.
Houseboats of the Thames.
The row of houseboats, each with
its flowers, awning, flotilla of skiffs:
the quantities of well groomed boats
for hire among the willows all along
the Thames’ banks—this impression
comes on the top of that of the half
hour the other day coming into Lon
don in a sickly fog, of the horrible
miles of Bermondsey and Lambeth
along the lines, the ruthless heaps of
rubbish, the hurry and grime of the
two stations at Waterloo. The house
boats. etc., are the elaborate flower
of that ugly plant called civilization.
They stand for the comfort, the lux
ury. the high standard of England,
which even in its lower walks of life
offers similar prizes, similar complica
tions, luxuries unknown abroad. One
says to oneself: “IIow these people
know how to live! IIow they exploit
life!”—Vernon Lee in Scribner's.
Wasted Effort.
“Now, Tommy.” said the Sunday
school teacher, “suppose you had two
apples and you gave another hoy Ills
choice of them. You would tell hint to
take the largest one, wouldn't you?"
“No, ma’am." said Tommy promptly
“Why. Tommy!” exclaimed the teach
er iu shocked surprise. “Why not?”
“Well," said Tommy, "in dis hunch
it wouldn’t he uecessary to tell him
dnt.”—New York Globe.
Thera Must Be Something In It.
“Do you believe there Is really any
such thing as love bt first Bight?"
"Certainly there is. If there was no
such thing how many of the married
men whom you know would ever have
been able to enchant their wives?’’—
Chicago Record-Herald,
Obliging.
“Will you corroborate my assevera
tions?” • : T
“Naw. 1 can't’do that. Bat I’ll stand
by what ye say." — Baltimore Ameri
can. _ i
They cenqaer wbo believe they can.,
-Old Saying.
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NOTICE OF ELECTION.
Notice is hereby given that; pur
suant to an order made by the dis
trict court of the Territory of Alaska,
Third division, in the matter of the
annexation of certain territory to the
incorporated Town of Valdez, the
common council of the Town of Val
dez has called -n election to be held
in said town and in the territory pro
posed to be ann xed to said town, on
Saturday, March 21, 1914, to determ
ine whether said territory shall be
so anrtexed as prayed for in the peti
tion therefor, filed in said district
court as provided by law. The de
scription of said territory as set up
in said petition, is as follows, to wit:
Beginning at Meander Corner No.
1 of the Valdez townsite survey and
running thence south, 24 degrees, 19
minutes, 14 seconds east, 240.638
feet; thence south 53 degrees, 32
minutes east, 1228.26 feet; thence
south, 74 degrees, 52 minutes east,
568.26 feet; thence south, 45 degrees,
43 minutes east, 136.62 feet; thence
south, 30 degrees, 27 minutes west,
131.24 feet; thence south, 29 degrees,
12 minutes west, 123.42 feet; thence
south, 14 degrees, 45 minutes west.
51.95 feet; thence north, 61 degrees.
27 minutes east, 5000 feet; thence
north, 28 degrees, 48 minutes west,
2050 feel; thence south 61 degrees,
30 minutes west, 5700 feet, to place
of beginning.
At sucn election quaimeu electors
are invited to vote upon said prop
osition to annex said described ter
ritory to the Town of Valdez by plac
ing upon their ballots the words “For
annexation to the Town of Valdez,"
or "Against annexation to the Town
of Valdez,” of wdrds equivalent there
to.
The polling place for such election
in the Town of Valdez shall be in
the hall of the common council on
Broadway avenue. The polling place
in the territory proposed to be an
i.cxed shall be in the ground tiooi
room of the Fish building on McKin
ley street, adjoining the Tillikum
,i|cb. The polls shall be open from
9 a. m. to 6 p. m. of March 21. 1914
The election board designated for
the Town of Valdez is composed of the
following persons: Judges—II. 1J.
Sullivan, Louis Rosenthal, Thomas
Hunt: clerks-J. J. Cavana, Dan Wii
cey.
The election board designated for
the territory proposed to be annexed
is composed of the following persons:
Judges—Adam Swan, Oliva Maroise,
J. H. Bell; clerks—Frank Millard,
Robert Weber.
The qualifications of an elector en
titled to vote at such election, pre
scribed by law, are as follows: He or
she shall be a male or female per
son of the age of twenty-one years
or more and shall be the owner of
substantial property interests in land,
building or improvements on land or
tide land within the said corporation
or the territory proposed to be an
nexed to or incorporated within such
corporation.
TOWN OF VALDEZ.
By E. E. RITCHIE, Mayor.
RANDALL E. ASHBY,
Town Clerk.
First publication Feb. 20, 1914.
Last publication March 20, 1914.
Hospital of the Good. Samaritan.
For |6.0« we will give you a ticket
entitling you to hospital serylce and
care for any eight weeks out of the
year from date of your Ucket. when
.qcdugciUted hy ininry or sickness.
See W. H.-Ziegler.: ..,
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Summons for Publication.
Theo. Emel, plaintiff', vs. YV. Fred
Swanson and F. A. Hancock, defend
ants.—No. B53. 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 filed 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 rfor your co-defendant has
any interest in or title to the same.
YVitness the Hon. Fred M. Brown,
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. GERAG11TY, 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
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
action of the business of said estate.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 10th
day of Fehruary, 1914.
W. A. RYSTROM,
Administrator of the estate of Peter
Steinmetz, deceased.
First publication Feb. It, 1914.
Last publication March lfi. 1914.
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