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MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1914.
JUDGE JOHN Y. OSTRANDER.
The citizens of (his city will read
with regret of the death of Judge John
Y. Ostrander, of Cordova, who died
last night of cancer of the stomach
at Olympia, Washington, where he had
gone knowing that the end was near
and that no medical relief could he
given him. In his long life Judge
Ostrander has made many political
enemies but throughout it all retain -
ed the friendship of hundreds of
friends and the respect and regard of
those opposed to him politically. An
outspoken man, he said what he
thought and what he meant, let the
consequences be what they would.
The death of Judg- Ostrander takes
from Alaska one of the pioneers of
the country and one who has done
much to develop the resources of the
northland.
Mr. Ostrander was register of the
land office in Washington during the
presidency of Grover Cleveland and
came to Juneau after his term expir
ed, serving as United States commis
sioner, later coming to Valdez, where
he entered the practice of law in this
city. He was largely interested in
and one of the first owners of the
Copper River Lumber company of
this city.
When the Cordova townsite was
started Judge Ostrander left for that
place, where he held large interests
and has been a resident of the rail
road town since.
Judge Ostrander’s death will be a
shock to his many friends in this city
and Cordova.
OPENING UP ALASKA.
The passage of the. Alaska railroad
bill by the House, by overwhelming
vote, emphasizes again the value of
the campaign of education .systemati
cally carried on by the Seattle Cham
ber of Commerce for three years past.
Now this bill only needs detailed ad
justment in conference to receive the
signature of the president and become
a law. Then will follow constructive
development that will bring the ter
ritory into its own. To the men whose
united action at Washington has
made this splendid outcome possible
Alaska and the whole of the Pacific
coast will be eternally grateful.
Additional legislation is also assur
ed. Authorization of the building of
a railroad from the coast to the in
terior is but the first step in opening
up the rich country. The adminis
tration and congress are committed
to a policy of real development—
which means that Alaska’s dreams are
speedily to come true.
The shipping interests of the Pacific
will be gratified to learn from the
recent address of Secretary Redfield,
before the Chamber of Commerce of
the United Slates, that he is fully
awake, to the necessity of providing
additional aids to navigation in Alas
ka waters. No part of the coast line
of the United States, nor indeed of
any Uiuer riviii/irru cuumi.v, BU
fully lacking in such aids as is the
coast line of Alaska.
There are upwards of 400 steam
ships a year plying between Seattle
and the ports of Alaska. The toll
taken of life and property through the
absence of proper charting of the
waters and proper aids to navigation
is an appalling one. No year passes
without the recording of the loss oi
some vessel through striking an un
charted rock or through the absence
of proper lights and beacons.
But all this is to be belatedly rem
edied.—Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
President’s Daughter to Act
NEW YORK, March 2.--Miss Elea
nor Wilson, the president’s daughter
. tonight will be the star attraction as
a member of the cast of “Sanctuary,’
a bird masque by Percy Mackaye, ir
which she scored such a success Iasi
summer at Cornish, N. H. The per
formance will be at the Hotel Asto'i
and .the proceeds will be for the ben
efit of the Bird Sanctuary in Meri
den, N. H.
Watch crystals 36c, Plint & Co. tl
CONGRESS DECLINE
10 FAVOR SEWARD
Amendment to Railroad Bill to Name
Terminus is Defeated in
the House.
While the railroad bill was under
consideration in the House ol' Rep
resentatives on Feb. 11 Congressman
Towner,- of Iowa, introduced an
'amendment taking from the president
I the power to designate the route over
j which the road should be built, and
| naming Seward or Portage bay or both
as the southern termini, the road to
follow up the Susitna to Fairbanks,
with a side line to the Matanuska coal
fields.
In objecting to this amendment,
Mr. Watson, of Virginia, said it would
surprise him very much if in the ex
ecution of the president's authority he
should undertake to build a railroad
into the interior of Alaska without a
very much more elaborate and exten
sive report upon the subject than j
any available record In this case fur
nishes. He believed that the first
step the president would take in this
matter would be to select men with
scientific experience to make a toor
ough investigation of thee situation,
and to locate a route tfhieli would not
only be practicable from an engineer
ing standpoint, but which in his
judgement also would fairly develop
the resources of the country in such
a way as would be of most benefit to
the population of the territory pres
ent and future.
He stated that there was not suffi
cient information at present by which
to determine what port on the sea
board ought to be the starting point
on the south; and he would have
great hesitancy in selecting Portage
Bay or Resurrection Bay as the only
terminus on the southern seaboard.
Furthermore, he could not see that
the Senate had taken such a view of
the matter, for the bill provides for
a line or lines of railroad from a
point or points on the seaboard to the
. navigable waters of the interior.
At the conclusion of Mr. Watson’s
: remarks, a vote was taken and the
'amendment was rejected, leaving the
main r of selection of route to be tle
te"inired by the president.
VALDEZ ELECTRIC COMPANY
LIGHTS GO OUT LAST NIGHT
The transmission line of the Valdez
Electric company was out of eommis
: sion for some time last night and the
! business houses were short on lights.
| The phase supplying the- juice for
the street lights was interrupted for
| only a short time but the balance of
I the lights were out until noon today,
; when linemen of the plant and Super
I intendent Ericksen found the fault
| near the lies’ power house and it was
i soon repaired.
Treasurer Wm. A. Wilson, of the
Valdez Electric company, states that
the line was tampered with, causing
the trouble, and the company have
j bffered a reward of $300 for informa
I tion leading to the arrest and con
j fiction of the guilty parties.
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I Chamber Commerce Hold Meeting.
; The old Chamber of Commerce held
. a meeting last Saturday night and
I prepared to reorgan'ze. A meeting
I will be held next Saturday evening
j to elect officers for the coming year.
Sampson Passes Juneau.
The steamer Admiral Sampson
passed Juneau at 5:30 this morning
for Valdez.
| TIDE TABLES
Monday, March 2.
High tide, 2:48 a. nt. and 3:24 p. m.
Low tide, 9:25 a. m. and 9:04 p. ra.
Tuesday, March 3.
High tide, 3:17 a. m. and 4:10 p. m.
Low tide, 10:10 a. m. and 9:35 p. m.
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.
Sunrise and 8unset.
March 2, sun rises 6:59 a. in., sun
sets 5:28 p. m.
March 7, sun rises 6:43 p. m„ sun
sets 5:41 p. m.
March 12, sun rises 6:28 a. m., sun
sets 5:58 p. m.
March 17, sun rises 6:13 a. u„ sun
sets 6:05 p. m.
March 22, sun rises 6:57 a. m., sun
sets 6:18 p. as.
March 27, sun rises 5:41 p. m., sun
sets 6:32 p. u.
SIEGES OF PERONNE.
They Won For the Town the Croes of
the Legion of Honor.
The town of Peronne, not far from
Amiens, has had the distinction of be
ing decorated with the Legion of Hon
or and can place the cross so much
sought after by every Frenchman in
its coat of arms and on its seal.
Peronne has two memorable sieges
to its credit, the first in 1536 and the
other during the Franco-Prussian war.
During the siege of 1536 Estournel,
governor of the town, held out for
more than a month against the Comte
de Nassau, lieutenant of the Emperor
Charles V. At the end of that time
Nassau, who had failed in three as
saults, gave up the siege.
The siege of Peronne during the war
of “soiXante dix” was one of the blood
iest in history. The Prussians sur
rounded it on Nov. 30, 1870. and the
town held out until .lan. 0, when with
half the town in flames, no means of
fighting the tire, not to mention the
lack of food and drinking water, it
capitulated.
The fire was so intense that the bells
in the church towers were melted and
the stacked silver pieces in the bank
were turned into ingots. Six hundred
and seventy houses were destroyed by
fire and shells, while 3.000 soldiers and
citizens were taken prisoners.—New
York Sun.
FIRST IROQUOIS TREATY.
It Was Made Between the Indians
and English In 1664.
The first treaty between the English
and the Iroquois was made on Sept.
24, 1664. and ushered in a friendship
that continued for more than a cen
tury. Tlte Iroquois had been alternate
ly at war and peace for sixty years,
and the English found their dusky al
lies valuable in the war with the
French for Nortth American suprem
acy.
The treaty with the Iroquois was one
of the first official acts of the English
governor, who earlier in the same
month had taken over the Dutch pos
sessions and changed the name of New
Amsterdam to New York and that of
Fort Orange to Albany. In 1693 and
again three years later the French in
vaded the Iroquois country, and the
redskins lost half of their warriors.
In 1713 the French gave up all claim
to the Iroquois, and peace reigned for
a time, but in 1755 the warriors joined
the English in the war for the conquest
of Canada.
When the American Ilevolution broke
out the Iroquois adhered to the crown.
At tlie conclusion of the war most of
the Iroquois took refuge in Canada.—
Philadelphia Ledger.
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Open to Conviction.
No rock was ever more firmly fixed
than were Mrs. Manser's opinions, but
she considered herself of an extremely
pliable disposition, with a mind open
fo conviction on all sides.
"It's the strangest tiling to me the
way the rest of the family talk as if
i were set in my views.” she said one
day to her nephew William's bride,
with whom she had been laboring on
the subject of calling cards for more
than an hour. "It seems to me you're
sort, of taking the same tone." she con
tinued. looking sharply at the young
woman, “and 1 don't want you to.
There isn't anybody in this world
that’s readier to be convinced she's in
the wrong than 1 am by people who
know more than I. All they've got be
fore ’em ever is to prove to me that
they do know more than I. and 1 tell
you, my dear, there hasn't one of 'em
ever been able to in this family!"—
Youth's Companion.
Catching a Bride.
Among certain Siberians tlie bride
groom is not permitted to have a wife
until he can catch her. But they do
not give him a fair race In the open.
The bride, surrounded by her female
friends, awaits him in a big tent. As
soon as she sees him she runs off.
He follows like Hippomenes after Ata
lanta. But instead of obstacles being
thrown 1n the way of the bride they
nre thrown across the path of the
bridegroom. The pursuing groom falls
over old women, chairs, tables, stones
and fishing rods or is tripped up by
ropes. Only when it is feared he
might give up and sulk and go away
without the fleeting lady is he permit
ted to overtake her. Then as she falls
into his outstretched arms it may be
Imagined she utters some equivalent
of “Tills is so sudden!"
One Reason.
Frederick Townsend Martin, writer
and social leader, was asked at a din
ner in New York if lie could account
for the enormous number of bachelors
Mr. Martin stroked his mustache and
smiled.
“Well.” he said thoughtfully, “a
bachelor, you know, is a man who nev
er lias to answer questions that he
doesn’t want to answer.”—Washington
Star.
Embarrassing.
“Mamma,” said Mnr.v. eight years
old. “I’m glad I’m not a boy.”
“What makes you feel that way?”
said mamma.
“Well. I think If I were a boy it
would be so embarrassing to propose,”
she replied.—Indianapolis News.
Pessimistic.
“1 suppose your baby sister cries
some, don’t she?"
“Cries! Why, she just seems to look
oa the dark side of things all the
time.”—Philadelphia Record.
Many a great effort In life owes its
final success to the sound of a faint
cheer.
I Spring
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Fine Clothes.
1914
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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 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,
48 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 beginning.
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 V'aldez 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 flooi
room of the Fish building on McKin
ley street, adjoining the Tillikum
Plvb. 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. C’avana, Dan Wil
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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 $6.00 wo 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 Injnry or sickness.
Bee W. H. Ziegler.
CAMP VALDEZ No. 10
Meet every Tuesday evening at £ o'clock II
Eagle Hull. All members are ret j jested to
attend. T. (J. QUINN, Arctic Chief
S. MCjNIKCE. Secretary '
Local Valdez
SOCIALIST PARTY
Meets Thursdays at
8 o’clock at
the local quarters back of
Ingrain & Bush’s Cigar Store
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Summons for Publication.
Theo. Einel, plaintiff, vs. \\\ 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 28, 1914..
Notice to Creditors.
j 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 tbe
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.
Defied at Valdez, Alaska, this 10th
day of February, W14.
W. A. RYSTROM.
Administrator of the estate of Peter
Steinmetz, deceased.
First publication Feb. 11, 1914.
Last publication March 16, 1914,
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