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MAT TIDE TABLES.
The following tides are giwn for
Valdez bav. Parties outside should
add to or subtract from the times of
high and low water for other legali
ties :
Tuesday, May 0.
High. 4:05 am, 7.3; 6:12 pm, 6.2
Low, 11:14 am, 1:6
Wednesday, May 10.
High. 5:13 am, 6.7; 7:12 pm. 6.6
Low, 1.1:24 am, 4.2; 12:12 pm, l.S
Thursday, May 11
High, '8:34 am, 6.4; S:00 pm, <■
Low, 12:27 am, 3/9; 1:08 pm,
Friday, May 12.
High, 7:57 am, 6.4 ; 8:40 pm, , .8
Low, 2:18 am, 3.1; 2:02 pm, 2.3
Saturday, May 13. _
High, 9:07 am, 6.6; '9:17 pm, S.o
Low, 3:14 am. 2.0; 2:50 pm, 2.4
Sunday, May 14.
High, 10:06 am, 6.9; 9:54 pm, 9.3
Low, 3:59 am, 0.9: 3:33 pm, 2.4
Monday, May 15
High. 10:57 am, 7.3; 1-0:33 pm, 9.9
Low, 4:42 am, —0.2; 4:15 pm. 2.4
Tuesday, May 10
High. 11:46 am, 7.5; 11:12 pm. 10.5
Low, 5:24 awi, —11; 5:61 pm, -.5
Wednesday, May S7
High, 12:32 am, 7.7.
Low, 6:07 am, —1.7; 5:44 pm, _.o
Tharsday, May 18
High, 11:55 ana, 10.8; 1:18 pm, 7.7
Low, 6:63 am.—2.1; 6:29 pm 2.6
Friday, May 19.
High. 12:39 am, 10.9; 2:08 pin. 7.6
Low, 7:40 am, —2.1; 7:15 pm. 2.7
Saturday, May 20.
High, 1:25 am, 10.7: 2:59 pm, i.B
Low, 8:30 am, —1.8; 8:09 pm, 2.9
Sunday, May 21.
High, 2:17 am, 10.2; 3:54 pm, 7.4
Low, 9:30 am, —1/3; 9:08 pm, 3.1
Monday, May 22.
High, 3:13 am, 9.4; 4:55 pm, 3.2
3,ow, 10:16 am, —0.6; 10:19 pm, 3.2
Tuesday, May 23.
High, 4:15 am, 8.5; 5:56 pm, 7.6
Low, 11:13 am, 0.1
Wednesday, May 24.
High, 5:34 am, 7.6; 6:57 pm, 8.0
Low, 11:44 am, 3.1; 12:14 pm, 0.8
Thursday, May 25.
High, 6:59 am, 7.0; 7:52 pm, 8.5
Friday, May 26.
High, 8:22 am, 6.7; 8:41 pm, 8.9
Low, 2:31 am, 1.8; 2:10 pm, 2.0
Saturday, May 27
High, 9:33 am, 6.7; 9:23 pm. 9.3
jtfAw, 3:31 am. 9.9; 3:02 pm, 2.4
" Sunday, May 28.
High, 10:31 am. 6.9; 10:02 pm. 9.5
Low, 4:19 am, 0.2; 3:48 pm, 2.7
Monday, May 29.
High, 11:21 am, 7.1; 10:39 pm, 9.7
Low, 5:02 am, —0.4; 4:30 pm, 2.9
Tuesday, May 30.
High, 12:03 am, 7.2; 11:14 pm, 9.7
Low, 5:40 am,—0.7; 5:08 pm, 3.0
Wednesday, May 31.
High, 12:42 am, 7.2.
Low, 6:16 am, —0.9; 5:44 pm, 3.1
10 ALONG FIGH1
YEARS OF BITTER RIVALRY
Early History of the Tanana is Re
called by Sourdough—Erwin Wins
out Eventually Over Formidable
Rival.
v "There is something decidedly
dramatic in the situation wherein
Dan Callahan is accompanied to the
federal penitentiary by L. T. Erwin,
United States marshal of the Fourth
i division, when one is familiar with
< Tan an a history,” said a sourdough
Yesterday in discussing the incident.
“It again proves,” he continued,
“that truth is stranger than fiction.
“Dan Callahan was always to be
reckoned with as friend or foe. He
did not scruple to do almost any
thing to help either a friend or pun
ish or get rid of a political foe. He
was impulsive and generous to those
he liked and vindictive and unfor
giving to those he hated. There is
no compromise in his make-up. He
either had to be the whole show or
nothing.
"In the early days he was prac
ticaaly 'the whole show. He refereed
tights and settled disputes and could
handle half a dozen ordinary men
and earned the title of the Big
Chief.” He, was a member of the City
council at Fairbanks when h. T. Er
win was City clerk for the council,
The latter While no match physically
for Callahan, was at the same time
possessed at dogged determination
and many of the qualities of leader
ship and it was essential that the two
should clash.
"Callahan’s open dislike for Erwin
caused him to go directly after what
he wanted and by persisting he fin
ally succeeded in getting a resolution
through the council to fire Erwin.
The latter refused to be discharged,
on t'he ground that, he had been hired
for a year hy the council and that it
had no right to fire him; at least
•without paying him a salary for the
unexpired term of office.
“Then Callahan brought charges
against Erwin. At that time the city
council made a practice of fining the
women on the row and collecting
monthly fines. Callahan charged that
Erwin had been “knocking down”
and had burned the stubs to the re
ceipts given the girls to cover up his
shortcoming.
“It should he said in justice to Mr.
Erwin that the grand jury investi
gated the charges and carefully
checked up all accounts involved and
failed to find any evidence to sub
stantiate the charges.
“However, as may be imagined,
this did not help matters any. Calla
han openly showed the contempt in
which he held Erwin and tried to
brush him aside from his path as
hardly worth serious consideration,
but Erwin would not be brushed.
"Erwin was always a good party
man. He realized the full advantages
of organized efforts and constantly
worked for Democratic party organ
ization in the Tanana, • whilst Calla
ahan, although a Democratic, had
very litte regard for any party save
one which he might dominate and
serve his purpose. The two men con
tinued to play at cross-purposes and
their hate became deeper. About
every time Erwin would fix up a slate
j Callahan would come along and
smash it.
I “Later on the Democratic party
; swept into power and then it was
f that the persistent efforts of Erwin
i toward party organization bore its
fruit. He was appointed United
States marshal and recognized as the
leader of his party, while Callahan
remained out in the cold, but none
the less active in trying to defeat the
workings of the machine as control
led by Erwin. During the last Dem
ocratic campaign Callahan announced
himself as a candidate for delegate,
but the convention gave the nomina
tion to Charles E. Bunnell, who sen
tenced Callahan to the penitentiary.
X do not pretend to know the in
side facts of the recent charges
against Callahan and have nothing
to say concerning'the justice of the
trial, conviction and- sentence. But
knowing him as I did in the interior,
and knowing some of his kind acts
and his loyalty to his friends and the
fact that he was essentially a product
of the early pioneer days when there
was ‘no law of God or plan north of
53’ I cannot help but feel sorry that
he must pass his remaining days Xn
the penetentiary. One might as well
try and cage and tame a full-grown
wild bear used to its native haunts.
"I am confident Callahan will never
live to serve out his full, sentence.
And I sometimes wonder if some
other way might not have been found
to show him the error of his ways, to
make him understand that the old
pioneer days of Alaska are gone to
never return, and that he must not
continue disregarding the rights of
others. Perhaps it is all for the
best. I don’t know; but I do feel
sorry for him.”
US
GILMORE SAW I!
TALKS TO SEATTLE NEWSPAPER
P
Say* Millard, Finaigan, ioungs and
Caillins are Possible Candidates
from whom Delegate may be Sel
Mt«d by Committee.
in an interview given a reporter
on ;tiie Seattle Post-Intelligencer re
cently, W. A. Miimore of Nome, one
of Shackleford's lieutenants, gave the
following version of the Republican
convention at Seward last month:
Tire convention was in complete
control of the Republican organiza
tion, according to Mr. Gilmore. Louis
P. Shackleford and Ed. Russell, of
Juneau, had 58 votes of the First
division: Mr. Gilmore and George
D. Schofield had 60 proxies from the
Second division, and Tom Lloyd, of
Fairbanks, had 4 5 proxies, Besides
these votes, the Shackleford forces
controlled 20 proxies of the Third div
ision. the seat of former insurgency
in the Territorial Republican party.
"The convention was prepared to
nominate Wickersham if he would be
a good republican and announce him
self as such,” Mr. Gilmore said. "His
nomination was left in the hands of
Ed Russell, of Juneau. We received
word from Wickersham that he would
accept the nomination on a fair plat
form. So we named Russell chairman
of the platform committee. The plat
form, as drawn up. included one
plank which avowed the desire of Al
askans for Alaskan offices and decried
the policy of the Democratic admin
istration in appointing carpet bag
gers to offices in the North. This
plank specified that the federal pat
ronage was to be left to the local
committees in each of the four div
isions and to the national committee
man.
“Wickersham failed to answerthe
many wires we sent him regarding
the nomination. Some members of
the convention wanted to go ahead
and nominate him despite his contin
ued silence. We objected to this
strenuously, especially in view of the
fact that on April 15, a convention
of so-called progressive Pemocrats
held in Valdez, nominated Judge
Wickersham as candidate for dele
gate to congress and John H. Cobb,
of Juneau, as candidate for territor
ial attorney general. Wickersham had
not refused this nomination, to ouri
knowledge, and the convention was
opposed to nominating him until it
had definite and open word from him
that he was a Republican.”
A committee was appointed to
name the Republican candidate for
delegate. The committe Is made up of
H. L. Faulkner, former United States
marshal, of Juneau, Harvey Sullivan
also a former federal office holder,
of Valdez; Tom Lloyd of Fairbanks,
and W. A. uiimore of Nome. The
committee has not yet decided. Mr.
Gilmore said the chances were that
no nomination would be made by the
Republicans until after the Demo
cratic territorial convention at Ju
neau on March 24.
Those mentioned as possible candi
dates for the'delegateship on the Re
publican side, if Wickersham is pas
sed up, are-Senator B. F. Millard, of
Valdez; J. J. Finnigan, of seward;
Frank Youngs, of Seward, and B. B.
Collins, of Fairbanks.
The Alaskan Republicans are for
Hughes, Mr. Gilmore declared He
said Senator L. V. Ray, of Seward,
introduced a resolution into the con
vention asking that the delegates be
instructed for Roosevelt. The resolu
tion was voted down.
LOCAL BREVITIES
Try our Malted Milk. Hot or Cold.
Candy Kitchen. tt
Banquet Steel Ranges, plain and
polished tops, at Mead's. tf
Kodak Supplies at the Valdes Drug
Company. tf
Several pieces of desirable proper
ty for sale. Oscar Fish. tf
Bristles In your teeth? Not it you
buy a guaranteed tooth brush at the
Owl. tf
Spring Samples in heavy weights,
for Alaska wear, day F. Cameron,
Tailor. tf
Anything in the Jewelry line at
the Valdez Drug Co. tf
A fine display or nugget Jewelry at
Valdoz Drug Co. tf
A swell line of crepe dechlne and
wash silk waists just arrived on the
Iasi boat at E. Winters. tf
Pictures developed at the Valdez
■Drug Company. tf
_.^.unwiV-O1
Geography.
Geography to the sum total of all the
places in the map that we don’t know
ab9ut Geography Is made up of
boundary lines, river lines, dots and
dasbes like a telegraph system and
shaded places which represent the
high spots. It is also colored to suit
the taste and in such a manner that it
takes a bacteriologist to make you
know the difference between the sea
and the dry land. Historical geogra
phy is ordinary geography with what
ever you don't know about history
added to it Historical geography con
sists of migrations, cedings and other
flora and fauna to suit. To make a
historical geography get a few races
and distribute them according to' your
fancy over a pink area in various
shades to show how they spread out
As a matter of fact they did nothing
«f the sort. But that makes the his
torical geography all the more inter
esting. In the hands of schoolteach
ers geographies are frequently believed
in for years toy confiding pupils.—Life.
Ballads as Newspapers.
The ballad, or that form of It which
is associated with the broadside, was
one predecessor of the newspaper as a
commentator on events, it was writ
ten for the people and sold to the peo
ple. Printed on poor paper and passed
from hand to band, copies of early bal
lads were seldom preserved. Fortu
nately several men of the seventeenth
century began to make collections of
ballads, and the copies of broadsides
printed before 1700 that are now in ex
istence are supposed to number about
10.000. Soon after 1700 the printed
form of the ballad was changed, the
•‘black letter" disappearing, but the
ballad continued as a chronicler of hap
penings and a commentator, on politi
cal. military and other public events
until the middle of the nineteenth cen
tury and in the United States as well
as England. The ‘‘topical" song of to
day perpetuates the satirical function
of the ballad.—Springfield Republican.
Belgian Kongo.
Belgian Kongo, founded thirty years
ago. is still iu the early stage of devel
opment. So far practically no manu
facturing industries have yet been es
tablished, and, aside from the impor
tant copper mines in the Katanga dis
trict. the only large industrial enter
prises are the railways and river trans
portation services. It may be said that
all business activities in the colony are
devoted to the collection of tropical
products — rubber, ivory, gum copal,
palm oil and kernels, cacao, etc.—and
the railway and river services are in
reality only accessories to these activi
ties, having been established primarily
lo aid in the transportation of these
products to the seaports. The gather
ing of rubber in Kongo has never re
covered its former activity, and in all
probability will never again be so rich
a source of Income to the colony as it
was previous to 1012.
Ship Money.
Charles 1. was badly in need of mon
ey. and his attorney general in the
course of his antiquarian researches
discovered that In the dim ages of the
past the crown had issued writs to the
cities and towns on the coast requiring
them to provide vessels for the royal
needs, and he suggested that this an
cient right might be brought into use
again. Instead of the actual vessels a j
money contribution might be exacted
Instead. Thus the king would be able
to tax a larger part of the realm while
theoretically observing the laws. Writs
for ship money were accordingly Is
sued, but the patrlqt John Hampden
declared that they were illegal and
raised such a protest against them
that they were practically nullified.
—
Weed Peete.
Of the 200 species of ferns native to
this country a few have become more
or less serious weed pests. . The most
troublesome are the hay scented fern
and the brake. According to a bulletin
of the department of agriculture, cut
ting off the tops close to the soil sur
face twice a year for two years will
kill out nearly all ferns. The best
times to do the cutting are Just previ
ous to sporing. or about the middle of
June, and the middle Of August.
Life In Bermuda.
A feature of life in,Bermuda which
always impresses the stranger is the
apparent prosperity of the natives,
white and colored alike. Distressing
poverty is unknown, and even the poor
est families can bOast of a stone bouse
and a garden.—Argonaut.
The Twins.
We have heard of several cases
wherein twins have, borne a remarka
ble likeness... to each other. But the
most curlpus was the case of twin sis
ters who hiad to be told everything to
gether because It was Impossible to
tell them apart.
' Corrected.
"My husband tells me that he was
4ut late last night with your husband.”
"That Isn’t so. 1 want you to under
stand that my hnsband was out with
your husband.”—Detroit Free Press.
Put Out.
“Why do writers always talk of an
gry flames?”
"Because. If you notice, flames are
usually put out.”—St. [.outs (llohe
Democrat.
Calendar Time.
Mr. Bacon—What are you doing with
that old, fnded calendar? Mrs. Bacon
—Ob. 1 Just like to look into the dim
and distant past!—Yonkers Statesman.
A trick is at the be9t but a mean
thing.—l.e Sage.
VALDEZ - and - . ANCHORAGE
CITY EXPRESS
Meets all boats! On the job, day or night
We never sleep.
J. A. SPENARD, Proprietor Phone 82
VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY!
!
Real Estate, Insurance, General Brokerage
Absentees Business Properly Handled j
Treat Building, Alaska Ave. Telephone No. 60 j
Buy Alaska Made Cigars
ASK FOR W. R. King, Terminus, or Lavanna,
Made in Seward by union workmen.
We maintain our standard. Sold everywhere
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
PLUMBING STOVES and RANGES HEATING
MOTOR BOAT SUPPLIES, PAINTS and OILS
Mine'Air Pipe, Valves, Hose, Pipe and Fittings
Valdez Dock. Opposite Prospector Office. Telephone 24
MERCHANT’S CAFE
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone 63 Chas. Fischer, Propr.
Independent Steam Laundry
Satisfaction Guaranteed | I Foot Keystone Ave
Telephone 66 I i Roujjh Dry lCc lb
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
PUGET SOUND PUGET SOUND
California Alaska
SAILINGS FROM SEATTLE, 11:00 A. M.—
April SO—S. S. Admiral Evans—Kodiak and way porta.
Hay 7—S. S. Admiral Farragut—Knlk, Anchorage and way ports.
Hay 14—S, S. Admiral Watson—Knlk, Anchorage and woy ports.
Hay 21—S. S. Admiral Evans—Kodiak and way porta.
Hay 28—S. S. Admiral Farragut—Knlk, Anchorage and way ports.
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SAILINGS SOUTH FROM VALDEZ—
April 28—S. S. Admiral Farragut.
Hay .T—S. S. Admiral Wataon.
Hay 12—S. S. Admiral Evans.
Hay 19—S. S. Admiral Farragut.
„ Hay 20—S. S. Admiral Watson. ,
June 2— S. S. Admiral Evans.
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to San FrnnclMco every Wednesday and Sunday, connecting with
Steamers Yale and Harvard for Southern California.
Right reserved to change schedule without notice.
RICHARD J. RINGWOOD, Mgr.. Seattle; VALDEZ DOCK CO., Local Agt.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
Saltings from Seattle— Sailings South from Valdes—
April 30—S. S. Northwestern. April 30—S. S. Alaska.
May 5—S. S. Mariposa. May 3—S. S. Alameda.
May 10—S. 9. Alaaka. May 12—S. S. Northwestern.
May IB—Alameda. May 15—S. S. Mariposa.
May 20—S. S. Northwestern. May 20—S. S. Alaska.
May 25—S. S. Mariposa. May 23—S. S. Alameda.
May 30—S. S. Alaska. June 1—S. S. Northwestern.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Sheep
Creek, Treadwell, Douglas, Skagway, Cordova, Ellaniar, Valdez and La
touche. Explosives. Right reserved to change schedule without notice.
F. B. TRAC'V, Gen'l Agent _ VALDEZ DOCK CO., Local Agent
When You Leave
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For the Outside
take the
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One road—one management—one service all the" way
through to Chicago. It’s the Short Line to fh® East
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.For information and literature write or ask
J. C. MARTIN, Agent, Valdes, Alaska.
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST, PAUL RY.
A. E. HARRIS, Freight and Passenger Agt,
Juneau, Alaska..