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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1914.
GET TOGETHER, BOYS.
The old Chamber of Commerce will
be reorganized Saturday night if
enough members attend the meeting.
There has been some talk about town
that the two commercial organ’za lions
would oppose each other, but this is
not true. Both the old chamber and the
new association have the common
purpose: To aid the merchants and
business men of this section to gain
the material advantages that surround
us and only demand that we put for
ward a determined effort to possess
them.
The recent pass ge by congress of
the Chamberlain railroad bill makes
it necessary for us to work in har
mony to present to the federal au
thorities the many advantages Val
dez has over any other coast city as
the terminus for the trans-Alaskan
railroad. All the business men, all
the professional men, all the citizens
of this section should work with one
or the other of these organizations for
the good of the community. Both start
out with a determination to keep the
organizations clear of all politics and
it is to be hoped that they will ad
here strictly to this determination.
Whenever one or the other fails in
this respect it will then be time to
condemn, but until they do let us all
work together for Valdez, which is
destined to be the railroad terminus
of the government road.
CORDOVANS SHOULD GET BUSY.
Now that the Alaska railroad bill
has passed both, houses and President
Wilson will soon send engineers into
the field to select the best and most
feasible route for a trunk line from
this coast to Fairbanks and other in
terior points it behooves the citizens
of Cordova to get busy and have in
readiness all available data that may
be of assistance to the government
men in determining that route. That
this town possesses many advantages
as a terminal over any other Prince
William Sound port is generally con
ceded by those who have made a study
or investigated the several proposed
routes, but Portage bay, Valdez and
Seward realize the benefits that will
result to the town selected as the
coast terminal and do not propose to
concede anything to Cordova without
a fight. Valdez has organized a com
mercial club, raised $1,500 for pub
licity purposes and held a rousing
meeting last night to boost the Gla
cier City as the base of operations for
Uncle Sam's $35,000,000 to be ex
pended on a government built rail
road. And in the meantime what
does Cordova intend to do?—Cordova
Alaskan.
CREDIT WHERE DUE.
Judge Wiekersham’s support of the
Alaska railroad bill entitles him to
commendation from everybody who
wanted the bill passed, regardless of
the delegate’s record on other ques
tions. His speech in the House was
undoubtedly a potent force in the
fight. It presented all the arguments
in favor of the measure and was on
ly strengthened by the numerous
questions and interruptions which en
abled h'm to show that he was the
only man in the House who really
knew very much about Alaska.
Nobody can afford to be unjust. Op
ponents of Judge Wickersham, who
sincerely believe that his general
course in congress has not been cred
itable to him or useful to Alaska,
should not withhold from him com
mendation for a service of real val
ue.
While the delegate’s fight for the
railroad bill will scarcely win back to
him any of his former friends he has
alienated, he has softened the hostil
ity of most of them.
The 8nare of Fate.
The Snare of Fate is a two-reel
Thanhauser picture that will be shown
at the Orpheum tonight. In Old Town
is a laughable farce comedy with
some good rag dancing in it. Special
change on Saturday.
BAD PROFESSOR
MAY GO TO PEN
(Continued from'page 1.)
meantime the position as head of the
National Educators Association, later
held by Nicholas Murray Butler and
other equally famous educators. He
was also president of a ePoria bank,
and this position enabled him to pad
the payrolls o fthe city schools and
cash the checs without detect ion.
During twenty years accountants es
timated he stole over $700,000.
Shortly after Dougherty entered the
state prison, Eddie Quinn, a convicted
bank robber, escaped. Eddie Ttate,
another convict, was paroled. Then
one morning it was found that the
safe in the offices of the Peoria school
board had been blown, and in the fur
nace in the building was found the
charred remains of papers held as evi
dence against the convicted school
head.
Tate, Quinn and a third robber, Ed
die Fay, were indicted by the Peoria
county grand jury after a nation-wide
hunt. Tate was brought to Peoria
but escaped a policeman at a hospital
where he was recovering from an ill
ness. He was arrested in Chicago
on another charge and sentenced to
Joliet. Fay and Quinn were never
captured. Fay was killed in a run
ning fight following a big stamp rob
bery in Virginia. Quinn was slain by
a village marshal in an Ohio city. Be
fore his parole, Dougherty turned ov
er to the Peoria board extensive land
holdings in Arizona, Missouri and
Wisconsin, and a suit against his
bondsmen yielded $25,000. After his
release Dougherty began suit to re
cover the lands. He lost two suits,
and was indicted for forgery in con
nection with them, on which charge
he was arraigned today.
Neither Dougherty’s genius for
crime nor his courage and confidence
have failed him from the day of his
arrest in 1905 until his arraignment
today.
There will be a special meeting of
the Valdez Chamber of Commerce
Saturday night at the City Hall. Bus
iness of importance and the welfare
of Valdez to be discussed. Everybody
is invited to participate. Complete
reorganization and election of offi
cers. AL. WHITE, President.
Notice, Eagles!
Your attendance at meeting Friday,
Feb. 27, is earnestly requested. Busi
ness of importance. Visiting members
invited. C. J. TODD, Acting Sec'y.
TIDE TABLES
Friday, February 27.
High tide, 1:33 a. m. and 1:39 p. m.
Low tide, 7:38 a. m. and 7:49 p. m.
Saturday, February 28.
High tide,’1:56 a. m. and 2:13 p. m.
Low tide, 8:11 a. m. and 8:12 p. in.
Sunday, March 1.
High tide, 2:22 a. m. and 2:47 p. nt.
Low tide, 8:46 a. in. and 8:36 p. m.
Monday, March 2.
High tide, 2:48 a. m. and 3:24 p. in.
Low tide, 9:25 a. m. and 9:04 p. m.
Tuesday, March 3.
High tide, 3:17 a. m. and 4:10 p. m.
Low tide, 10:10 a. m. and 9:35 p. in.
Wednesday, March 4.
High tide, 3:53 a. m. and 5:15 p. m.
Low tide, 11:08 a. m. and 10:15 p. m.
Thursday, March 5.
High tide, 4:43 a. m. and 7:08 p. m.
Low tide, 12:17 a. m. and 11:30 p. m.
Friday, March 6.
High tide, 6:00 a. m. and 9:10 p. m.
Low tide, 2:14 p. m.
Saturday, March 7.
High tide, 7:30 a. m. and 10:04 p. m.
Low tide, 12:56 a. m. and 8:24 p. m.
Sunday, March 8.
High tide, 8:49 a. m. and 10:40 p. m.
Low tide, 2:41 a. m. and 4:12 p. m.
Monday, March 9.
High tide, 9:52 a. m. and 11:11 p. m.
Low tide, 3:50 a. m. and 4:53 p. m.
Tuesday, March 10.
High tide, 10:44 a. m. and 11:42 p. m.
Low tide, 4:43 a. m. and 5:30 p. m.
Wednesday, March 11.
High tide, 11:34 a. m.
Low tide, 5:32 a. m. and 6:05 p. m.
i hursday, March iz.
High tide, 12:15 a. m. and 12:22 p. m.
Low tide, 6:18 a. m. and 6:40 p. m.
Friday, March 13. •
High tide, 12:46 a. m. and 1:08 p. m.
Low tide, 7:02 a. m. and 6:15 p. m.
Saturday, March 14.
High tide, 1:23 a. m. and 1:56 p. m.
Low tide, 7:48 a. m. and 7:50 p. m.
Sunday, March 15.
High tide, 2:01 a. m. and 2:45 p. m.
Low tide, 8:36 a. m. and. 8:28 p. m.
Monday, March 16.
High tide, 2:41 a. m. and 3:39 p. m.
Low tide, 9:30 a. m. and 9:07 p. m.
Tuesday, March 17.
High tide, 3:25 a. m. and 4:41 p. m.
Low tide, 10:28 a. m. and 9:52 p. m.
Wednesday, March 18.
High tide, 4:18 a. m. and 6:08 p. m.
Low tide, 11:44 -. m. and 10:52 p. m.
Thursday, March 19.
High tide, 6:27 a. m. and 8:01 p. m.
Low tide, 12:18 p. m.
Sunrise and 8unset.
March 2, sun rises 6:59 a. m., sun
sets 5:28 p. m.
March 7, sun rlBes 6:43 p. m„ sun
sets 5:41 p. m.
March 12, sun rises 6:28 a. m., sun
sets 5:53 p. m.
March 17, sun rises 6:13 a. m„ sun
sets 6:05 p. m.
March 22, sun riseB 5:57 a. m., sun
sets 6:18 p. m.
Mai :h 27, sun rises 5:41 p. m„ sun
sets 6:32 p. m.
AWCIENT MEDICINES.
Curious Drugs Were Used by ths Doe
tors of Laodices.
The city of Laodicea was noted for
its doctors and its drugs. An especial
and noted school of medicine flourish
ed in Laodicea. We are told that "this
school of physicians followed the
teachings of Herophilos, who flourish
ed about 300 years before Christ and
who, on the principle that compound
diseases require compound medicines,
began that strange system of hetero
geneous mixtures, some of which have
only lately been expelled from our own
pharmacopoeia.”
The fearful and wonderful combina
tion of drugs given by some modern
doctors would seem to indicate that
they still belong to this school of
Laodicea. Oue of the medicines for
which Laodicea was famous was an
ointment for "strengthening the ears,”
whatever that may mean, while anoth
er medicine of still more interest to
the student of revelation was the Phry
gian powder, made in part from a pe
culiar kind of stone pressed into tab
loids, afterward powdered and mixed
with some unguent to be rubbed on
the eye as a cure for the various dis
eases which atllie.t the optics in east
ern countries. The world famous
Galen «peaks of both of these reme
dies in his pharmacopoeia.—Christian
Herald.
KEEPING UP APPEARANCES.
Don’t Let It Interfere With Your Sav
ings Bank Account.
It is quite possible that the American
family is too optimistic. It is always
going to have a larger income next
year or in five years. It desires to keep
up in social matters with the people
next door or farther up the street. It
buys pianos or motorcars or encyclope
dias on monthly payments, but in most
cases puts no monthly installment in
the savings bank. It has no margin
of security.
How much better it is to have a mar
gin of resources than to be living con
tinually on the rngged edge of nothing,
as many of us do just because we are
such devotees of the god of appear
ances.
While the high cost of living is one
of the live topics of the day, a note of
warning should be sounded—a warning
against extravagance, a suggestion
that every family make a deposit in
the savings bank each month. The
future happiness and prosperity of
the average American family depend
upon the proper adjustment of income
and expenditure. It is not what a man
earns, but what he and his family
save, that counts in determining the
ultimate success or failure of his life
from a material standpoint.—T. D.
MacGregor’s “Talks on Thrift.”
A Horse’s Toenails.
Few persons realize that a horse's
hoof is really the same thing as the
toe nails of human beings or of ani
mals having toes. The horn of a hoof
grows just as a toe nail does. The
hoof grows more rapidly in unshod
horses than In those wearing shoes,
and it grows faster in horses which
are well groomed and well fed. Rut
on an average the horn grows about a
third of an inch a month. Hind hoofs
grow faster than fore hoofs. The toe
of the hoof being the longest part, it
takes longer for the horn to grow
down there than at the heel. For in
stance. the too will grow entirely down
in from eleven to thirteen months,
while the heel will grow down in from
three to five months. As the new horn
grows out any cracks or defects in the
old gradually work down to where
they can be cut off, just as with human
finger uails you can watch the progress
of a bruise from the root to the tip.
Proud of Him.
Sandy McPherson started to build a
small outhouse of bricks. After the
usual fashion of bricklayers, be work
ed from the inside, and, having the ma
terial close beside him, the walls were
rising fast when dinner time arrived
and with it his son Jock, who brought
his father’s dinner.
With honest pride in his eye Sandy
looked at Jock over the wall on which
he was engaged and asked:
“Hoo d’ye think Pm gettin' on. Jock,
man’'”
“Famous, feythur. Hut hoo dae ye
get oot? You’ve forgot the door!”
One glance around him showed Sandy
that his son was right; but, looking
kindly at him, he said:
“Man, Jock, you’ve got a gran’ heid
on ye! Ye’ll be an architect yet. as
share’s yer feythur’s a builder.”
The Fateful F.
They are telling a story of a very
smart business man who recently
bung up on the wall of his waiting
room a notice In black lettering on a
white ground that read:
i Tell Us What You Want.
We Like to Do Something For Somebody.
Occasionally he heard laughter com
ing from the waiting room, but it was
only the other day that he discovered
to his horror that some wicked person
had carefully scratched out the “P* In
"for.”—Pearson's Weekly.
Thought Alike.
“I sometimes wonder If my life Is
worth living.”
"So do I."
"Ah, then you have found your life
a disappointment."
‘‘Not at all: It Is your life we were
speaking of."—Houston Post.
. Same Old 8tory.
"In the old days doctors used to
bleed patients for most of the dis
eases."
"They still do it. my boy. They stHI
do It*’- Detroit Free Press.
Spring
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Fine Clothes.
1914
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 rn 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 annexed 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 feet; thence south 61 degrees,
30 minutes west, 5700 feet, to place
of lieginning.
At such election qualified 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,” or words 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
nexed shall be in the ground floot
room of the Fish building on McKin
ley street, adjoining the Tillikum
(flt'b. 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—H. P.
Sullivan, Louis Rosenthal, Thomas
Hunt: clerks—J. J. Cavana, Dan Wil
cey.
the territory proposed to be annexed
is composed of the following persons:
Judges—Adam Swan, Oliva Maroise.
J. H. Bell; clerks—Prank 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 VALDBZ.
By E. B. RITCHIK, Mayor.
RANDALL B. ASHBY,
Town Clerk.
First publication Feb. 20, 1914.
Last publication March 20, 1914.
Hospital of the Good Samaritan.
For $6.09 we will give you a ticket
entitling yeu to hospital service and
care for any eight weeks out of the
year from date of your ticket, when
Incapacitated by injury or sickness.
Foe W. H. Ziegler.
CAMP VALDEZ No. 10
Meet every Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock In
Eagle Hall. All members are req jested to
attend. T. <J. QUINN, Arctic Chiet
S. Mi'NIECE. Secretary
Local Valdez
SOCIALIST PARTY
Meets Thursdays at
8 o’clock at
the local quarters back of
Ingrain & Bush’s Cigar Store
L. W. STORM. E. M.
Valdez, alaska
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Summons for Publication.
Theo. Emel, 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 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 21, 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 February, M14.
W. A. RYSTROM,
Administrator of the estate of Peter
Steinmetz, deceased.
First publication Feb. 11, 1914
Last publication March It, 1914.
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PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
■Washington,TD. C.
DENTIST,
Phone 92 JlFeurteen yearsTio
Office in Whaling building VALDEZ
Next to cable office
DR. GERMAN
Phone 19 THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Druir store. Office hours
3 u. in., to G p. m.. 7 t>. in., to 9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
DR. C. H. VANCE
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F. BUTTERWORTH .
jCivil Engineer and
0. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
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welcome.
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