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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1016
"OLD FRAME” CORROBORATED.
Since Hon. Janies Wickersham has
loaned his house for a print-shop
and bunkhouse to the former editor
of the Juneau Transcript he gets no
more reflections like those below,
which appeared in the aforesaid
Transcript on the dates given with
them. At that time the gent who com
piles the dope for the local organ of
discontent was bitterly flaying the un
ion labor forces of the Treadwell
mine, and if not in the employ of the
Treadwell people, shon.„ have been !
well paid for his articles against un-!
.on labor.
That he was also a warm, personal
friend of his present benefactor, the
Allowing excerpts show:
(Reprinting a Washington dis
patch which said. Gov. Hoggatt
is here, and is supporting Wick
ersham’s confirmation; Senators
Nelson of Minnesota, McOumber
and Hansborough of North Dakota
are still bitterly opposing it.)
"Wickersham seems to be quite
a necessary man to those who are
trying to get control of railroad
and mining interests in Alaska.
Wonder if the president is trying
to ‘copper’ something?”—Edito
rial comment from issue of Satur
day, December 29, 1906.
"What Alaska needs is an hon
est, able, judiciary. We are called
hard to please in Alaska, because
we will not lie supinely on our
hack and permit such men as
Noyes, Brown and Wickersham to
let their henchmen. Hills, Macken
zie and Barnette, some of whom
are ex-convicts of the penitentiary,
rob us of' our mining claims and
fisheries in Alaska. Stand by your
guns, boyB, and we will give Mr.
Roosevelt to understand, that he
can i palm off his rotten, doted-in
the-butt timber off on us and have
us say we are pleased.”—Editorial
January 19th.
May the lx>rd Have Mercy.
“The appointment of Jim Wick
ersham for another recess term is
the most cowardly thing that Pres
ident Roosevelt has done since his
election to office. The President
was afraid to send Wickersham’s
name to the Senate, knowing that
he was appointing a man that the
Senate of the United States would
not confirm. There is no prece
dent in the history of this country
where the president has practiced
chicanery and treated the Senate
of the United States with such di
rect contempt. The president sent
his own personal representative to
Alaska to investigate Wickersham’s
doings on the bench and the report
of this representative was against
Wickersham, but in the face of all
this, and in the face of the Senate,
he forces this man upon Alaska as
a dispenser of justice. My God,
what has poor old Alaska done
that she must suffer this humilia
Tjon?”—Editorial March 9, 1907.
An explanation of this sudden
change of heart by the editor of the
Star will make mighty interesting
reading.
MORE “CORROBORATION."
The Forty-Ninth Star prints an al
leged letter from Emefy Valentine of
Juneau, in which the ex-mayor of the
capital city is made to say that he
never heard of the Star editor being
mixed up with the Treadwell. May
be Mi-. Valentine didn’t read the Ju
neau Transcript in 1907, or he has
forgotten what he read. Here’s one
of the numerous excerpts bearing on
"Honest John’s” love for the hard
working miner copied verbatim from
the paper he was running at that
time:
Trirj lit VV r. 1 ^ 1. ihuuducj.
“With i he lawyers gnawing on
one end and the labor unions at
the other, the mining industry in
Alaska will be woefully handicap
ped.
“The trouble at Treadwell is a
most peculiar one, and the result
will be watched with great interest.
“In the first place the strikers
are nearly all ignorant foreigners.
Out of the 1200 men in Treadwell,
only 79 vi <es were cast in the last
election. The larger portion of the
money paid to these men was sent
out of the country, and much more
is continually paid as expenses in
sending for other foreigners to
come here and take the place of
American working men.
“Then again, the strikers in
Alaska have to deal directly with
the Federal government, no State
or County authorities interfering,
and if it comes to a show down,
especially in this instance, where
the strikers are nearly all foreign
ers, Uncle Sam will speak in no un
certain tones.
“If these foreigners don’t like to
work at the Treadwell, they
should quietly retire from the isl
and and leave the company to em
ploy whom they please. They are
extremely wise in keeping entirely
within the limits of the law for one
bad break—and Uncle Sam will do
the rest.”
These “foreigners” were union
miners who had struck for higher
wages, a course evidently not sanc
tioned by the editor of the Transcript.
Their actions had the sanction of the
Union officials in their course. The
Treadwell company may not have
had the editor of the Transcript on
their payroll, but It amounted to
the same thing—he was arrayed with
the company against the strikers.
We are willing to give Valentine
and Frame credit for that 60-mile
gale which blew last week, but that’s
as far as our generosity will permit
us to go.
It begins to look as if all the tax
payers will ever see out of that $18,
To-night Last Time
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THE EMPRESS
THE EMPRESS CIRCUIT PRESENTS
GABRILLE ROBINNE
The world renouned actress in the superb drama in
NATURAL COLORS
“MORE THAN A QUEEN”
This magnificent Aim in its succession of scenes wonderfully col
ored, its romantic old world backgrounds, its intensely human
story, its fine settings, and, above all, in its splendid acting, is a
real achievement of the “film d’art."
Ain n J Will Finish
rme Lomedy The show
5 Reels - 5 Reels
Owing to Dance Only One Show, 8 O'clock
ADULTS 25c. " ~ CHILDREN 10c
The Empress Circuit makes it possible to see the
finest pictures in Alaska.
000 tax money Is a second-hand cyl- j
inder press and a corporation paper. (
Next year we suggest that an addi- i
tional two per cent levy be added
so “we” can install a machine.
We may next expect the Star to try
to convince its readers that Febru
ary 14th is celebrated in honor of
Mayor Valentine’s economic, adminis
tration of affairs in Juneau.
Remember, Twinklets, that out of
that $550 worth of printing we done
for the cuy last year, the present
Council repudiated $300 worth of
those warrants* anu we are still hold
ing the Rack.
And coal is still advertised at $10
per ton at Juneau, notwithstanding
the Hon. Emery Valentino forced it
to “$8 and the price has never been
raised, in spite of the efforts of the
big corporations.”
Don’t shout it aloud, John, but we
strongly suspect that the main reas
on that the Prospector has not done
$550 worth of printing for the City
Council this year is due to the fact
that the Council has not done more
than thirty cents w^orth of business.
Any party in Valdez who desires i
to buy a steamship line to handle our
immense amount of freight, should
hurry as the season is slipping away,
and the has aireauy lost eight tenths!
of a ton for the Post and six t-nis for
Valdez during the past week.
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TWO GERMAN BANKS
ARE FORCED TO CIiOSE
LONDON, Feb. 14.-r-Dispatches
from Berne, Switzerland, say that
two of the largest banking bouses
in southern Germany have failed.
The banks have a combined capital
ization of several hundred million
dollars and their failure is belieyed
to be the forerunner of many other
banks being forced to close their
doors. The failure of the German
financial houses is regarded by the
British bankers as significant of in
dustrial conditions in Germany and
the prediction is made that the gov
ernment will be unable to secure
further loans with which to continue
tho war.
A Grand Picture.
The magnificent picture, "More
Than a Queen” in its succession of
scenes wonderfully colored, its ro
mantic old world scenic backgrounds,
its intensely human story, its fine set
tings, dresses, and. above all, its
splendid acting, which a real achiev
ment of the "film d'art.” At the Em
press tonight for the last time at 8:00
sharp. Only one show on account of
the Eagle dance. Declared the fin
est picture yet shown in Valdez.
POLICE ARE COMBING
STATE FOk WAITER
CHICAGO, Feb. 14.—The police
of Chicago and surrounding cities
are making a vigorous search for
the waiter who is believed to have
poisoned the soup while serving at
a banquet given in honor of Arch
bishop Munderlein last week. The
officers believe that the man was a
member of some anarchistic society,
and that he deliberately attempted to
poison the guests at the banquet in
order to kiu Gov. Dunne of Illinois,
who was one of the fifty men present.
Several of those who were poison
ed are still under the care of phyci
cians but it is stated that all will re
cover. A reward has been offered for
the apprehension of the waiter.
TEUTONIC ALLIES HAVE
8,000,0000 PRISON i ns
LONDON: An Amsterdam dis
patch to the Central News Agency
.•ays that the total booty of the Teu
tonic allies during the 17 months of
war is summed up in Vienna as fol
lows: Nearly 3,000,000 prisoners,
10,000 guns and 40,000 machine
guns, while 470,000 square kilome
ters of the enemy territory has been
occupied.
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WILL DISCUSS NOTE <
WHEN PRESIDENT RETURNS
WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 14 -
Secretary Lansing, of the State De
partment, says that the note from the
German and Austrian governments
announcing their intention tc regard
armed merchantment as '•'irsliips
will be discussed by the members of
the cabinet upon the return it Presi
dent Wilson from his yacht c.'Uise on
the Potomac.
CHIEF BENDER WITH
THE NATIONALS.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 14—Chief
Bender, who is negarded by baseball
fans as one of the;grea|est ball pitch
ers In the world, will appear wi?h the
Philadelphia National League curing
the coming summer as he has .signed
a contract for one year. The amount
of the salary he is to,receive has not
been made public.
WANTED: Experienced woman de
sires work as cook or maid. Refer
ences1 given. Address Prospector.
“IPs a Long Way to Tipperary”
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It’s Also a Long Time Until the Breakup.
A Sure Way To Keep Warm in the Meanwhile
Is To Call on Us.
We Can Supply You With
Comforters Filled With Wool or
Eiderdown.
Blankets All Sizes and Prices
] Cole's Hot Blast Heater Has no Equal j
S. BLUM & CO., 1^
GOOD GOODS *
SUPPLIES BEING SENT TO
MINERAL CREEK MINE
Freighters are delivering a big
shipment of blacksmith coal from the
Valdez Dock company’s wharf to a
point near the dike and will later
tdke it around the beach to Mineral (
creek. The coal will be used by min
ers in development work on the Mil
lionaire group of claims which are
owned by Valdez people. The prop
erty Is being developed with a view
of installing a stamp mill on the (
ground early next spring.
INJURED FIREMAN TAKES
UP STUDY OF MEDICINE
John Johnson, the fireman on the
steamer Dora, who lost, his foot at
Seward recently when it became en
tangled in the lines while the anchor
was being dropped, has taken up the
study of medicine and will try to be
come a profissional man. His left
foot was cut clean oft and dropped
into the bay Johnson is reported to
be making good progress in recover
ing from the shock sustained by the
accident.
tiOCAL BREVITIES.
Hotpoint Electric Heaters, Cookers,
Bakers, Percolators and Vacuum
Cleaners arrived on the last boat for
the Emporium. tf
John G. Pass, of Ellamar, came up
from thjB bay Saturday evening and
is stopping at the St. Elias.
Panoramic views of Child’s and
Miles glaciers, Dawson, Valdes and
Wrangel on sale at the Valdez Drug
store. **
Mrs. Mooney, wife of Sergt. Moon
ey, is a passenger on the steamer Ala
meda, returning to Valdez after a few
months visit to the states.
Thos. G. Makney who has charge
of operations at the Dickey-Alaska
Mining company’s property at Irish
Cove, spent Saturday and Sunday in
Valdez purchasing a big outfit of
provisions, steel and other supplies
tor the mine.
WILL BUY OR 8KIA.
Granite Gold Mining Co.
Seacoast Mining Co.
Hubbard & Elliott.
Gold Bullion.
' Send us any stocks you have to
sell.
P. K. EASTER & CO..
Stock and Bond Brokers,
Railway MChan^i Building.
Seattle. Wash.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
Merchandise
The best groceries received
oft every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits, and
nuts.
*
DR. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate Notional tnlirrnity, |
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
Fourteen Ysars In Valdez.
PHONE 110
Office Rooms in Whaling Building
DR. GERMAN
phone is THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owi Drug Store. Of
fice hours 9 a. m. to 6 p. m., 7 to 9
p. m. Sunday by appointment.
All Work Guaranteed.
E. C. DALTON, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Phone 42
Alaska Avenue Valdez, Alaska
DONOHOE & D1MGND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Offlce Opposite Court House
Phone -'ll VALDEZ. ALASKA
JOHN LYONS E E RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office* in W'hallng Building
Phone 101 VALDEZ. ALASKA
Arcade Cafe
OPEN ALL NIGHT
Private Dinmg Reem with Electric
neater.
BREAD FOR SAXE
Jack Callin V . Proprietor
VALDEZ LODGE
NO 108
Free aad Accepted Maaoaa
Regular Communications first Wed
nesday in each month in McKinley
ttalL Visitors always welcome.
A. E. GRIGSBY. W M.
ED. WOOD, Secretary.
yss Shamrock
CAPT. TIM MARCUM
Sails for Port Wells, Portage
Bay, Granite Mine, Saturday
dt 9:00 a. m., from the Val
des Dock Company’s Dock.
For Ellamar, Landlock Bay,
and Fldalgo, every Wednes
day, 9:00 a. m., from Val
dez Dock Company’s Dock.
Far Rates, Apply on Boa*.
When h Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
OGORat SIXTON. Plior
SiRICTLv FIRST CLASS
Fourth Are, Seward. Alaska
A floe display of nugget Jewelry at
Valdes Drug Co. tt
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miner*
ROBERT SHAFFER. President.
Granite Mine.
CHAS. McCALLUM, Secretary,
Valdez. Alaska.
The Beat Place in Valdez to
Stop at is the
Arctic Hotel
Wan. Light Room—The Home af Contort
RATES REASONABLE
BATH ROOM Special Ratea Bp tha Maath
PHONE 133 MRS. STRING, Pm*.
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passehgers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING
McKinley Street,. Valdez
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ED. WOOD. Proprietor
A M DIERINGKR
Valdez Transfer
Company
Office on Avenue, in
George C. Treat Budding
Telephone No. 60
General Trucking and Freighting
to all Interior Points.
LIVERY and FEED STABLE
STORAGE^
Teaming of All Kinds
Positively No Coal Delivered Un
less Paid for in Advance
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
“back" a good plan, a good
idea, a good business ven
ture or a good mining pros
pect ; otherwise a good many
of today’s successful busi
ness enterprises would still
be mere dreams.
Advertising has brought
about a majority of the in
troductions of the man with
the ' idea, the man with a
prospect, or business to the
man with the dollar. .
ADVERTISE IN THE
PROSPECTOR FOR RE
SULTS.