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MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1914.
COLONEL GOETHALS DISAP
PROVES.
Colonel Goethals, whose opinion
should carry weight, declarese that it
would be poor business to attempt
to utilize the Panama canal machin
ery in the Alaskan railway work or
in river and harbor improvements in
the United State^. This spoils Vi
pretty theory that has been advanced
by congressmen and others who have
had an idea that the entire Panama
canal machinery equipment might be
transferred to the States and used
to advantage on public enterprises.
Discussing the matter before a Sen
ate committee, Colonel Goethals de
clared that it would not pay to bring
any of the machinery, except, per
haps, some of the dredges, to the
United States for use in any kind of
work, and that it was more economi
cal always to begin with new equip
ment. Machinery in the canal zone
had not been kept in condition, he
added, parts of many machines no
longer needed having been used to
repair others. Moreover, he advised
that much of the equipment would
be useless in the kind of work pro
posed, even if it were in perfect con
dition, even the dredges being better
fitted for harbor improvement than
river work. Colonel Goethals said
the canal equipment j could be sold
at best prices to South American
railroad contractors.
It should be possible, however, to
transfer the working organization of
the Panama canal forces to Alaska
and get the benefit of its experience.
This would result in a big saving of
time in preliminary organization and
in the end would doubtless show a
gain in efficiency and economy. The
men who directed the building of the
canal should make short work of the
Alaskan railway enterprise and their
selection for the work would satisfy
the country that speed, economy and
efficiency would mark the progress
of the undertaking.—Tacoma Tribune
The Cowboy as He Was.
Fallacies have got into print about
the cowboy as a class, and have be
come popular; specters have been
raised that should be laid. A gun
he owned; a great big six-chambered
.45 Colt’s, which he called a "cutter,”
and could use to good purpose on
objectionable animals from snakes
upward, generally holding it with
both hands when he aimed, and often
dropping on his knee to shoot. He did
not, however, make a regular practice
of carrying it. Commonly it reposed
in his blanket roll in the wagon,
whence it might only be pulled out
when there was a possibility of a
question rising as to the ownership
of a brand. Were a census of t.ht
pocket pistol taken today in sundry
corners of the states, it would be
found that the concealed weapon is
nearly as much affected there now
as it was on the wild praire.
Neither was it a customary thing
for him to get uproarious in the lit
tle towns he visited, shooting them
full of rat-holes and interfering with
Ihe lighting system, perforating hat
crowns, and the heads inside if the
hat was a snug tit, etc. Sometimes
he came, he saw, and he just went
away again. He could, and did, drink
at times freely, but it was often the
lager, that filled without flooring or
frenzying.
Western cattle ranching goes on
today in modified shapes and forms,
in various districts between the Yu
kon and the Rio Grande. It has been
upon the steady. decline, of course,
albeit the cow herself, these days,
has. soared in price—night over the
moon, oldtimers probably think. It
psed to be the saying, "once a punch
er always a puncher,” and indeed it
was a Well known thing that a man
who had followed the long-horn cow
and rambled her ranges was apt to
drift back there. Even city-reared
mein Would do so.—Blackwood's
Magazine.
Of course, the pen is mightier than
the sword. It gets a lot more exer
cise.
Torreon
>—■ — i ■ ■ .i . —«
0 Torreon, poor Torreon! Alas, likewise
alack!
You are a town 1 would not own; I’d
surely hand you back
Should anybody give you me to have with
in my fold.
1 am not brave enough, you see, a redhot
brand to hold.
First Huerta captures Torreon,
Then 'long comes old Carranza.
Afar the federal buzzard’s flown.
The rebel horde then hands a
Complete knockout to Torreon.
When weather’s cold 1 am loath tojingei
where it’s hot,
But I’m averse to being both besnicker
eneed and shot.
I do not fancy—not at all—a climate where
to dwell
In winter, summer, spring and fall a man
must be In Halifax.
Carranza captures Torreon,
Then back comes buzzard Huerta
To pick the murdered city’s bone
As long as he may dare to
Remain in torrid Torreon.
O Torreon, poor Torreon, you have a hot
old time!
You are indeed a torrid zone, a caliente
clime.
When Huerta doesn’t shoot you up Car
ranza shoots you down.
Between the two I pity you, O torreonic
tow’n!
—Robertus Love in New York Sun.
RISE OF $100,000,000 IN
EXPORTS OF UNITED STATES.
Total For 1913 Is Estimated at $2,500,
000,000—$740,000,000 Over Imports.
The steady growth of the country’s
export trade is shown by the depart
ment of commerce in estimating the
figures for 1913 at $2,500,000,000 com
pared with $2,399,217,973 in 1912, or
an increase of over $100,000,000. The
imports are estimated at $1,756,000,000.
The known figures of exports for 1913
are $2,251,000,000 for the eleven months
ended November, and should the De
cember output equal that -Of November
tlie actual total for the year would be
$2,497,000,000. In the case «f imports
they amounted to $1,009,000,000 for the
eleven months ended November, 1913,
and would total $1,750,000,000 for the
year, if tlie December figure equaled
that for November. This result would
make the excess of exports over Im
ports approximately $740,000.000—a
difference exceeding that of any other
year.
In imports the total for 1913 will be
less than 1912, but larger than in any
previous year.
Copper imports show an increase in
quantity over the corresponding pe
riod of last year, both iu ore and in
the pigs, bars and ingots.
Coffee imports are much below those
of 1912, tlie figures for the ten months
ended with October, 1913, being 635,
000,000 pounds, valued at $S0,000,000,
against 752.000.000 pounds, valued at
$104,000,000 in the same period of 1912
Tea shows u fall in imports of $1.
500.000 iu value.
Manufacturers' materials show, as a
group, a decline of about 5 per cent
compared with tlie corresponding pe
riod of 1912.
On the export side, crude foodstuffs
for the ten months ended October, 1913.
show a value of $150,500,000. against
$98,500,000 in the same mouths of the
preceding year, and foodstuffs partly
or wholly manufactured. $260,500,
000, against $204,750,000 in 1912. Man
ufaetures exported for further use In
manufacturing amounted to $339,000.
000 in the ten months ended October
Inst, against $320,750,000 in tlie same
period of 1912. and manufactures ready
for consumption. $659,000,000. against
$607,000,000.
The increase in foodstuffs exported
occurs chiefly In wheat, corn, barley,
oats, flour, bacon and lard.
SHE ENJOYED AERO LOOP, j
*A Grand, Whirling Delight," Says i
Miss Davies, English Aviator.
Miss Trehawke Davies, tlie first wo
man to loop (lie loop in an aeroplane,
describes her experience as “a grand,
whirling delight." Miss Davies went,
up at Ilendon, England, with Gustav
Hamel in an eighty horsepower Morane
monoplane.
After (lying at an altitude of 10,000
feet t hey executed a perfect loop, came
down yoo feet and rose to a height of
1,000 feet and looped the loop a second
time. Then, to the amazement of the
onlookers, the upside down machine ap
peared to stop dead for one thrilling
moment. It hovered uncertainly in the
air and then began to plane down on
its back. The pilot, however, hud his
machine well in hand and righted it on
the downward journey.
Miss Davies is one of the women pio
neers of aviation in England and, al
though she does not steer an aeroplane
herself, has crossed the channel several
times and flown more than 12,000 feet
above the land.
ADVICE TO SUFFRAGETTES.
Mrs. Trout 8eeka to Inspire the Women
of Illinois With Maxims.
Designed.to inspire and help-Illinois
suffragists In their.work of the year,
these maxims have been sent forth by
Mrs. Grace Wilbur Trout, president of
the Illinois Equal Suffrage association:
Let all wonien vote even If they vote
>rong. '
Do not condemn even foolish activity.
Anything Is preferable to inane apathy.
It is more cheerful to be'a votjfr than a
mere woman.
Don't grumble over corrupt politics; Just
vote.
Equal suffrage will not shake the foun
dations of Illinois' politics—not Immedi
ately.
Women are near relatives of men.
Frederick Burl Ingham, who descend
ed the crater of Mount Vesuvius, says
the sulphur fumes cured his bronchitis.
“One dollar a week was my allowance
for eight years,” testilied Mrs. Lydia
Moore of Albion Place, N. ,L, asking di
vorce from John Moore.
A story from Newton, N. J., says
George Schaefer, a farmer, hatched an
egg on the kitchen stove, using baking
powder and cotton arid a tin can.
Debutantes In Washington official
society circles have taken up house
keeping aud running their fathers' es
tablishments as one of the very latest
useful fads.
The Portsmouth (N. H.) police com
mission lias decided that women are
not a success as police officers and has
removed one of the sex who was ap
pointed last July.
While Miss Mary Virginia Saxon was
being married to John D. Hashagen at
the home of her parents in Augusta,
Ga., Dr. William G. Carl, organist of
the old First Presbyterian church on
Fifth avenue, New York, played the
wedding music in New York, 700 miles
away.
CONGRESS ASKED TO ARM
AND TRAIN BOYS FOR WAR
Movement to Supply Them With the
334,000 "Krags” on Hand.
A concerted effort will be made in
congress by friends of rifle practice
to secure the enactment of a law to
permit the secretary of war to issue
old "Krag” rifles, with ammunition,
for use by rifle clubs organized
throughout the country under the rules
of the national board for the promo
tion of rifle practice. The proposed
law also will be designed to permit the
issuance of similar ordnance supplies,
not of the existing service model and
therefore not necessary for the main
tenance of the proper army reserve
supply, to schools having a uniformed
corps of cadets and carrying on mili
tary training.
The ordnance department of the
army has on hand about 300.000 model
1898 30-caliber magazine rifles, popn
larly known as the Krag, and 34,000
carbines available for issue to rifle
: clubs.
Under the proposed statute forty
: rounds of ball cartridges suitable for
the rifles issued would be allotted for
each range at which target practice Is
had, the total not to exceed 120 rounds
; a year for each one participating in
the practice. Supplies would be issued
to regulations prescribed by the secre
j tary of war. insuring the desired use
, of the property as well as its proper
care and its ultimate return to the fed
1 oral government.
; War department officials agree tha*
j the training of the youth of the conn
| try is a fundamental principle of na
j tiorial defense. They declare that, a I
i though this principle is universally rec
j oguized, the United States is doing
i less than any other nation to instruct
I its boys and young men in the use and
j knowledge of firearms.
Lieutenant Colonel John T. Thomp
| son of the army ordnance department
| representing Henry S. Breckinridge.
; assistant secretary of war, on the ex
| ecutive council of the National Rifle
| association, suggests that if boys in
| the public schools ouce became inter
I ested iu rifle practice they would con
j tinue it in the higher schools or in
i civilian rifle clubs. Often, be says.
] they continue rifle shooting in the ua
I tlonal guard, and so the proper promo-%
j tlon of these rifle clubs will Indirectly’
| be a great help to enlistments in na
j tlonal guard organizations.
CHAIN OF POOR MEN’S BANKS.
Sido Lights on Loan Project In Which
Carnegie Is Interested.
A system of industrial loan hanks on
a scale much larger than has ever be
fore been attempted in this country
is about to begin operations in New
York and elsewhere.
The movement has tor its inn-pose
the elimination of the loan shark by
enabling workingmen to get small
loans without security other than good
character.
Andrew Carnegie and Vincent Astor
are said to he interested in the proj
ect, which is under the direction of
Dr. Elgin ft. L. Gould of New York.
Julian Kosenwald of Chicago is an
other leading promoter of the scheme.
The experiments on which the lar
ger movement Is to a certain extent
predicated, according to Dr. Gould,
have taken place In sixteen cities and
towns during the last four years.
While the scheme Is philanthropic in
its na'tiife. Dr. Gould says It is to be
undertaken only after experiments
convince the organizers that it will
pay Its own Way rind be In no Sense a
charity.
Ship Without Under Water Proptellere.
• .„GJiarle$ ftethune, of. Sydney, N. S..
announces that he lias completed a
[mode.!, of a .ship without propellers
or any. kind of uwu-n.inory under the.
water *11 tie. He says i!i,• invention l«
practical for ocean ‘liners and that
one so equipped could make the pas
sage from St. Paul's Island to I-undy
island, England, in fifty hours.
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The best groceries received
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
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VALDEZ MINERS UNION 188
Western Federation of Miners
Meets Every Tuesday Evening at
7:30 p. m. at Miners’ Hall
H. M. CARTER, Pres.,
ANTON DAHLSTROM, Secy.
Would Limit Ships’ Size.
LONDON, March 21—The British
government would be ready to enter
! into any agreement for the limitation
of the dimensions of warships if ii
could be arranged, according to Win
ston Spncer Churchill, First Lord of
the Admiralty.
Replying to a question put up to
him today in the House of Commons
concerning a statement made by Ad
miral von Tirpitz, the German Minis
ter of Marine, to the effect that Ger
many would welcome a general re
duction in the displacement of war
ships, Mr. Churchill made this state
ment. He said the displacements of
the'latest British battleships were
considerably smaller than almost all
of those under construction for for
eign powers the dimensions of' which
had been made public.
' 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 sicku.ess.
8ee W. H. Ziegler.
it takes a man With a keen sense
of humor to joke with his dentist.
CAMP VALDEZ No. 10
Meet every* Tuesday evening at n o’Ciock Id
F.ajrle Hall. All members are requested to
attend. T. (J. QUINN. Arctic Chief
S. MCN1KCK. Secretary
L. W. STORM. E. M.
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Valdez, Alaska
Reports on Mines
Patent Surtees
General Mining Engineering
Phone No 10a
Summons for Publication.
Theo. Entel, plaintiff, vs. \V. Fred
Swanson and F. A. Hancock, defend
ants — No. 653. Summons for Publica
tion.
To the above-named defendant,
YV. 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 nor your co-defendant has
any interest in or title to the same.
Witness 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. GERAGHTY, Deputy Clerk.
First publication Feb. 14, 1914.
Last publication March 28, 1914.
Notice of Election.
Notice is hereby given that a mu
nicipal election will be held Tuesday,
April seventh, 1914, at the Fire Hall
in the Town of Valdez, for the pur
pose of electing seven councilmen to
serve for the period of one year, anti
one member of the local School Board
for the position of clerk for a term
of three years. The polls will he
opened at nine o'clock a. m„ and will
be closed at seven o’clock p. m. of
said day.
The following persons shall be
qualified electors for councilmen:
All citizens of the United States,
or those who have, declared their in
tention to become such, of the age
of twenty-one years, who have been
bona iide residents of Alaska for one
y9ar and of the Town of Valdez for
six months next preceding said elec
tion.
The following persons shall be
qualified electors for officers of School
Board:
All adults who are. citizens of the
United States, or who have declared
their intention to become such, and
who are residents of the Valdez
School District.
Judges of election are (’has. Sea
green, Heber.Smith and J. J. Cavana.
The clerks are C. J. Todd and Joe
Kaher.
RANDALL E. ASHBY,
Town Clerk.
Dated this 12th day of March, 1914.
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