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THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1916
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AGAINST IMMIGRATION
The Washington Times remarks
that while every one person out of
every six in the state of New York is
an alien, one person out of every four
in New York’s insane asylums is an
alien, and one convict out of every
three in the states prision is an
alien.
These facts show' that there has
keen something seriously wrong in
the past with our immigration laws
and inspection. Both the legislation
and its enforcement has been jacked
a little in past few years, and im
migrants are .probably sifted more
carefully today than ever before, but
there is room for much improve
ment.
With aliens throughout the country
already imposing upon the commun
ity a disproportionate share of ex
pense for the support of incompet
ents, what will be the situation after
Ihe war if the exclusion rules are not
made stricter?
There will be more sick and crip
pled aliens than ever, seeking admit
tance to America when peace comes.
There will be more immigrants
mentally unbalanced. And because of
their great mental abnormalities
caused by war and sufferings, there
will be more of them liable to become
criminals. It will be the unfit and un
desirable, rather than the sound and
efficient that .will constitute the next
immigrant invasion. This is the time
to prepare against them.—Tacoma
News.
WHERE LIFE IS CHEAP.
Life in Alaska is cheap. In any
event it would seem so from the utter
disregard of the government in pro
viding means for guarding against
the loss of life. The territory has al
ready paid the federal government
millions in revenue, and yet when
some miner or laborer saves a few
dollars and starts to mush out over
the trail to visit his folks, be is lik»ly
to be shot in the back. That has hap
pened several times along the Valdez
trail. For the murders committed
there has not been a single arrest
made. Other cold-blooded murders
have been committed in Alaska which
have gone unpunished. No doubt still
others have been committed where
the bodies were never found.
The same condition of affairs have
been finally brought home to Juneau.
One man was found with his throat
out from ear to ear under peculiar
circumstances; the bodies of others
have been found without it being
fully established that they had coir'.
mitted suicide or that death was the
result of accidents and more recently
several men have disappeared for
which an arrest has been made on
suspicion that murders may have
been committed. Yet becanse of lack
of funds, and the fact that the present
federal officials have no power to do
other than serve warrants, the pros
pects are that when the case comes to
trial there will be no evidence other
than what has been volunteered the
department. The process of the law
and the limited initiative powers giv
en officials in Alaska are all in favor
~f the criminal. Murder seems to fol
ow murder without anything being
' done, simply because no emergency
money Is allowed Alaska officials with
which to secure evidence. But for tbe
fact that Christie belonged to a strong
fraternal order which interested it
--THE
EMPRESS
TO-NIGHT
2 Shows—at 8 and 9:20,sharp
PROGRAM
WM. A. HESSE'S
ANIMATED PICTURES OP
‘ALASKA’
Showing new subjects in Alas
ka's wonderland. Including a
good moving picture of Valdes.
Admission 25c and 10c.
self in his disappearance the Inc^ent
would have blown over in a day the
same as former similar incidents and
soon have been forgotten until the
next crime.
'Why the life of an American citi
zen should be worth any more on the
high seas in the war zone where he
has no business to be unless on ur
gent business, than in Alaska where
the law-abiding Americans are trying
to develop a commercial empire, is
one of the puzzles only clear perhaps
to the diplomatic mind. The govern
ment will not allow the people of
Alaska to do anything for themselves
and also refuse to act for their com
mon protection. Therefore, the. Dis
patch repeats, this great government
of ours seems to hold life very cheap
ly up in Alaska.—Juneau Dispatch.
CANAL TOLLS.
Representative Moss of West Vir
ginia, has introduced in congress a
bill exempting American vessels en
gaged in the coastwise trade from the
payment of tolls for the use of the
Panama canal. In the present con
dition of the treasury it may be
doubted whether such a measure car
pass a Democratic congress;/ but its
introduction serves to recall the false
pretenses under which the exemption
was withdrawn from American ship
ping. Likewise the amount of appre
ciation shown by other countries for
our voluntary concessions to them.
When the tolls exemption act was
passed it was in strict accordance
with the demands of the Democratic
national platform. The English gov
ernment in response to requests from
Canada, made a perfunctory protest.
The answer to that protest, made by
Secretary Knox in President Taft’s
cabinet, was so complete, so fully
showed that there was no violation
ot any treaty obligations that the con
troversy was practically ended before
Mr. Wilson took office.
There was natural astonishment
when he, as president ot the United
States, voluntarily revived it; insist
ed that a Democratic congress should
violate a party pledge, and repudiate
legislation passed by a Democratic
house as well as a Republican sen
ate, and impose a burden upon our
shipping for the benefit of its com
petitors. Nevertheless, with the whip
of patronage in his hand, he forced
congress to stultify itself and to im
pose these tolls.
Now we find the nation for whose
especial benefit this law was passed,
and which Mr. Wilson insisted should
be conciliated even by the surrender
of the American right to control a
waterway built by American money
for the advancement of its own const -
wise trade, deliberately preying upon
American commerce and throwing in
ternational law overboard in its as
saults upon our neutral rights. These
facts should weigh with congress —
Post-Intelligencer.
ALASKA'S BUSINESS.
Alaska’s growing Importance and
its large influence upon Seattle’s bus
iness is evidenced by the figures of
the year just closing. For the year
1916 the gross value of Alaska ship
ments in and out of Seattle and in
clusive of the Tacoma smelter ship
ments will reach $77,000,000 and
possibly $80,000,000, compared with
$66,600,000 in 1914.
In machinery, lumber and build
ing material, clothing and food, Alas
ka took $23,000,000 worth during
the year, compared with $21,000,000
worth last year. The copper produc
tion reached $11,000,000 this year
compared with $3,366,000 last year.
The territory produced $16,000,000
in gold during the year; fisheries
produced $21,000,000. In gold, cop
per and fish alone the gross product
was valued at $47,000,000.
Practically all of the trade of Alas
ka is accomplished through Seattle.
The Tacoma smelter cares (or the
copper production and the Selby smel
ter and the San Francisco mint takes
a portion of the gold product. Aside
from these items, Seattle cares for
the whole territorial traffic, and it is
the only American port having regu
lar steamship connections with Alas
ka.
The record of the territory is one
to justify the title of the "nation’s
treasure house,” but the develop
ments now going on will be evidenc
ed next year and succeeding years in
increasing bulk. Only a beginning
has been made and the gross business
of $77,000,000 to $80,000,000 of this
year is but an earnest of what is to
follow.—P.-I.
The U. S. marshal’s office reports
that a nice, new, gold-headed umbrel
la has been left there and awaits a
claimant. The article is the kind that
adds eclat to its user, and if not
claimed within a reasonable time will
be put into general use by the stall
of the office.
Elia Levshakoff, a native of Blla
mar, who committed assault and bat
tery on another Ellamar native, has
been sentenced to serve thirty days
in the local jail, having been convict
ed before the U. 8. commissioner of
the copper mining mine.
SHI DELATED
MAIL SHIPMENT
Fifteen Hundred Pounds of Mail for
Nome and Ixjvrer River Points
Piled Up at Fairbanks.
_
FAIRBANKS, Jan. 13.—The pro
tests registered from Nome regarding
the non-delivery of mail are having
an effect and a shipment of eight hun
dred and seventy pounds of mail has
arrived here from Chitina en route
to the lower river camps and Nome.
All shipments of mail from the
coast have been delayed by the storms
but the management of the Northern
Commercial company states that 3
shipments will arrive this week.
There are> two shipments now on the
Fairbanks side of the Delta divide.
Postmaster Deal reports that when
the .three consignments en route ar
rive that the Nome mail in Fairbanks
will probably amount to fifteen hun
dred pounds and will go forward at
the rate of five hundred and fifty
pounds per week in accordance with
the Nome mail contract.
The Fairbanks mail contract calls
for the delivery of one thousand
pounds per week and the balance as
received here goes to Nome and low
er Yukon river points.
Only three small scanty mails have
arrived in Nome since the close of
navigation. The service is the worst
in years and all Nome is up in arms.
NO GERMANS NEED APPLY
TO BIG YUKON COMPANY
Dawson News: J. W. Boyle, gen
eral manager of the Canadian Klon
dike Mining company has posted the
following self-explanatory notice at
various places on the company’s
property:
Notice .to Employes.
Any employe who is in favor of
Germany and the nations asso
ciated with her, as against En
gland and her Allies in the pres
ent war, is hereby requested to
quit our employ at once.
Any employe found express
ing sentiments in favor of the
enemies of Great Britain and her
allies in the present war will be
discharged immediately.
Any employe, who overhears
another employe express senti
ments in favor of the enemies
of Great Britain and her Allies
in the present war Is requested
to report immediately such em
ploye to the general manage
ment, and any employe, regard
less of his sentiments, who fat's
to conform with this rule will
upon evidence of that failure, be
discharged immediately.
LONDON DECLARES NEW
GERMAN GUNS FAULTY
LONDON: The blockade of Ger
many by the British submarines in
the Baltic has finally put an end to
the export of high class Swedish ore
indispensible to the manufacture of
guns, and it has been reported from
the front that the new German artil
lery is not up to the Krupp standard
of excellence.
That the Germans themselves are
painfully aware.of this fact is shown
by a recent war order issued by the
Dilnister of war forbidding the taking
of photographs of new guns of all cal
ibers and particularly of guns that
have burst while being fired.
Papers found on fallen German ar
tillery officers show that the burst
ing of the new German guns is a fre
quent occurrence and this applies not
only to the ordinary field guns but
even, more to the heavy field guns
and howitzers.
German military authorities have
taken all kinds of precautions to pre
vent these dangerous accidents. In
structions have been issued to the ar
tillerists to keep their guns scrupu
lously clean and to be very careful
not to use faulty shells.
NOME AND SKAGWAY TO
TRY NEW MUNICIPAL LAW
The Nome city council has passed
an ordinance to make the way clear
tor discovering the opinion ot the peo
ple of that town as to the new city
election law as passed by the laJt
session of the territorial legislature.
There is said to be a Wide difference
of opinion among the voters on the
question, but It Is believed that the
new system which provides for the
election of the mayor, magistrate,
and all city officials will be adopted.
The Skagway city council has also
taken steps to permit of the residents
of that town expressing their appro
val or rejection of the regulations
provided by the territorial act.
Alaska, a marvel of animated pho
tography at the Empress tonight.
Hum Sc (Eu., Jnr.
The Home of Rice Hutchins Shoes. ^
LADIES’ SHOES
$3.50
y\ J1 1 , *0 $4.00
\ *1 $4.50
$5.00
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HEADQUARTERS
FOR
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Educator,
Mayfair
Fair Sex
LADIES’SHOES
Rice end
Hutchtne
We Include All the Latest Novelties in Our Stock
I
Get
Them
at
S. BLUM & CO. I
The House of Courtesy
Get
Thcdp
Now
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING
McKinley Street, Valdez
ED. WOOD. Proprietor
NOME CAMP HAS FEW
WAGE WORKERS THIS WINTER
The Industrial Worker says the
Nome camp is this winter facing a pe
culiar situation. Probably not since
gold has been found has there been
such an entire absence of wage work
ing. The man that has to hunt, a job
is up against the hardest kind of a
proposition for there is nothing do
ing this winter. In consequence of
this situation every miner who can
get an outfit together is hunting up
a lay and the number of small outfits
which are delving in the frozen tun
dras of northern camps after the elu
sive paystreak is greater than dur
ing any season for years. A number
of minor strikes have been made but
so far no reports of any big finds
have come in and many miners are
leaving for Marshal City and other
Yukon camps.
SAYS WASHINGTON NOT
ACQUAINTED WITH FACTS
How completely ignorant their
subordinates in Alaska railway mail
service keep the Post Office Depart
ment in Washington D. C., can be
inferred from the following excerpt
from a letter written by the Second
Assistant Postmaster General to the
Fairbanks Commercial Club, in the
course of the latter’s efforts to in
crease the mail service.
.“The evidence of service
given last winter shows that the se
cond class for Fairbanks and other
Interior parts was handled with
reasonable promptness considering
conditions affecting the service. The
service was sufficient to carry second
class matter regularly and in such
amounts that at times during the win
ter all second class matter offered
tor dispatch was carried on February
13, 1916, there was only 289 pounds
cf second class matter accumulated
at Cordova and on February 4o and
27 all second class matter was dis
patched. Also on March 20 all second
class matter had been dispatched."
With regard to ths above it is dif
ficult to explain how several tons of
mail were shipped from Cordova to
be transferred to the Bear for ship
ment to Nome and up-river points
last spring. It is possible that some
of the mail accumulated during the
period between winter and summer
season but not to the extent of sev
eral tons.
Anything in the Jewelry nne nt tne
Valdes Drug Co tf
Arcade Cafe
OPEN UNTIL S P. M.
We Serve Corona- Coffee
Strictly Fresh Eggs.
Jack • Proprietor
DR. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate National f'nlvrralr>
Washington, 1>. C.
DENTIST
Fourteen Years in Vaklea.
PHONE 110
Office Rooms iq Whaling Building
DR. GERMAN
phone, i. THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Drug Store. Of
fice hours I a. m. to ( p. m., 7 to i
p. m. Sunday by appointment.
All Work Guaranteed.
E. C. DALTON, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Phone! 42
Alaska Avenue Valdez, Alaska
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTOHMEVS-AT-UW
Ofller Opposite Court House *
Phoue 34 VALDEZ. ALASKA
JOHN LYONS B. B. RITCHIB
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORNEY 8-AT-LAW
OSlcea la WklUag Building
Phoue 101 VALDEZ. ALASKA
VALDEZ LODGE
NO 168
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Regular Communication* nret Wed
nesday In each month In McKinley
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ED. WOOD, Secretary.
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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.
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GENERAL
Merchandise
The best groceries received
on every boat,
\
Fresh vegetables, fruits, and
nuts.
The Best Place in Valde* to
Stop at is the '
Arctic Hotel
Warn. Light Row-Tie Head ef.CbafertQ
RATES iREASONAlOE
BATH BOOM Special late* Bp da Mead
PHONE 133 MBS. STRING, Pee*
When la Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
QEONGE SEXTON, Prop.
STRICTLY FIR8T CLASS
Fourth Ave, Seward, Alaska :
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company
Office on Alaska Avenue, in
George C. Treat Building
Telephone No. 60
General Tracking and Freighting
to all Interior Points.
LIVBRY and FEED STABLE
STORAGE
Teaming of All Kinds
Positively No Coal Delivered On*
less Paid for in Advan^
as Shamrock
OAPT. TPS MARCUM
Sails for Port Walls, Portae*
Bay, Oranlta Mina, Saturday
at 0:00 a. m., from tho Val
des Dock Company’s Dock.
For Kllamar, Land look Bar,
and Fldaleo, arary Wodnea
day, 1:00 a. m., from Vtk
dea Book Company’s Dock,
For Rales. Aptly oa Baal.