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SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1915.
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■II DANGER
(Continued from page 1.)
spies acting in the interest of the
enemy.
The Intransigeant gives the latest
instance of their activity in the shape
of a pamphlet, 'entitled, “We Are
Being Deceived,” which during the
last week has been distributed night
ly under doorways of private houses
and cafes in the districts of Clichy,
Batignolles and the outer boule
vards. The pamphlet contains charges
against the government, Catholics,
England, and Russia, and asserts that
Gen. Joffre has given orders to fire
on his own troops. It urges the peo
ple to demand peace. The police are
without a clue to the authors.
Swiss Will Stay Neutral.
PARIS, Jan. 16—Dr. Arthur Hoff
mann, the retiring Swiss president,
.who remains Minister of foreign af
fairs, says that Switzerland intends
to remain absolutely neutral, accord
ing to the Berne correspondent of the
Petit Parisien. Dr. Hoffmann, contin
ues the correspondent, says that to
favor one belligerent nation to the
detriment of others would be to risk
independence, autonomy and national
honor, which the country has placed
above all friendships and preferen
ces.
Dr. Haffmann says that Switzerland
is filling for France a large order
for shoes and an order for chocolate
for Germany, but denies that his coun
try is favoring Germany in the mat
ter of provisions, particularly wheat,
saying that Switzerland has scarcely
enough for her own needs, being, in
fact, menaced with a serious short
age. Dr. Hoffmann asserts that the
government has no control over ship
ments through Switzerland, and that
the recent supply of wheat sent to
Germany in sealed cars coming from
Italy was not Switzerland’s concern.
—
Send Army Toward Suez.
PARIS, Jan. 16.—A dispatch to the
Havas Agency from Athens says:
“The Turks have sent important
forces, commanded by German offi
cers, with artillery drawn by oxen and
pontoon sections toward Suez, accord
ing to members of the French clergy
and nuns from Syria who have arriv
ed here.
“Subjects of the Triple Entente
powers in Jerusalem, they say, were
subjected only to police surveillance
until the report of the bombardment
of Alexandria was received, when
they were all imprisoned.
“The Turkish authorities desired to
seize the records of the French con
sulate, but desisted before the ener
getic attitude of the Spanish consul,
who threatened to ask for his pass
ports if they did so. The Turks, how
ever, took the records of the French
consulate in Damascus.”
LOSS OF LIFE
10 ITALY APPALLING
(Continued from page 1.)
contributions are welcome.
As the information comes In from
the small towns near Avezzano it
has been found that the loss of life
has been heavier than at first report
ed and the property loss will be
enormous.
Notice of Dissolution of Partnership.
The co-partnership heretofore ex
isting between Joe Plant and John
Flenbloom. known as Plant & Co.,
doing business in Valdez, Alaska, is
hereby dissolved. As all outstanding
obligations have been paid the firm
of Plant & Co. will assume no In
debtedness of any kind hereafter. All
unpaid accounts due the firm of
Plant ft Co. are to be paid to John
'.Flenbloom, of Valdes, Alaska.
FEINBLOOM ft PLANT.
▼aides, Alaska, Jan. 11, ISIS. klS
A MARKET IN SPAIN.
With a Bargain In Cheese Plus the
Price of the Compliments.
At early morning the market place
of Medina Is a rare sight, says C.
Bogue Luffmunn in bis “Quiet Days In
Spain.” It is thronged with hundreds
of tilted carts and pack animals, load
ed with all the materials that the pop
ulation requires. So universal is the
practice of buying In the market square
that there are very few shops, and
those are both small and old fash
ioned.
At a stall In the market place a
bright eyed dapper little woman was
offering tiny cheeses of goat’s milk. A
countryman examined one carefully,
tucked it in his pocket and put down
a real. I thought the cheese a bar
gain and said to the little woman, “I’ll
have one,” and gave her a peseta,
which is four reals. She beamed and
gave back two reals. I remarked,
“The price of the cheese is one real.”
"Ah,” said she, with a winning smile,
“but you are a caballero.” (A noble
man.)
I enjoyed her audacity so much that
1 had to laugh and say, “You are a
little rogue;” and she, seeing that she
had beaten me, curtsied and laughed
as she cried. “Ah, great senor mine,
you are many times a caballero!”
I do not complain. Such incidents
and compliments are cheap at the
price.
ROYAL DOUBLES.
Understudies Who Played the Role of
Monarch In Public.
Id a land of distrust like Russia it Is
only natural that the precautions tak
en should be of the most drastic order;
hence the use of a royal understudy
who has always been a conspicuous
figure at that court. Indeed, It was
the understudy of the late Czar Alex
ander III.—a man named Komaroff—
who was murdered in Moscow some
years ago, when the murderer thought
he had covered himself with glory by
assassinating the czar.
Nicholas, like his father before him.
has an understudy, and the many state
functions he attended at the opening
of his reign, when the relations with
his people were less strained than they
are today, were attended for the most
part by proxy.
No monarch, however, made such
frequent use of his understudy as the
late Emperor William of Germany.
Every day as the clock struck 12 the
emperor came out and bowed on the
palace balcony. It was not until some
time after the emperor’s demise that
the secret was made known that the
man who appeared dally on the bal
cony was the royal understudy. And
the person who gave the secret away
was the great Bismarck. — London
Black and White.
Trinidad’s Asphalt Lake.
The proverb about the folly of build
ing on sand might be written to In
clude the vicinity of the Trinidad as
phalt lake. This remarkable body of
pitch is perhaps the nearest thing to
the "goose which laid the golden egg"
that has ever been found, for it has
the obliging faculty of replacing dur
ing the night the asphalt which has
been dug from Its surface during the
day.
That the replenishment "comes from
somewhere" was graphically illustrat
ed a short time ago when a house lo
cated near the edge of the lake be
gan settling on one side, not to stop
until the digging of pitch iu that vi
cinity ceased.
The pitch is dug laboriously from the
lake by negroes, using pick and shovel,
and is carried* on an overhead tram
way directly to the waiting ships.—
Wide World Magazine.
Ac a Clown Sees Us.
"It Is lots ot tuu to watch the big
crowds that throng the circus or uuy
huge amusement place." says a famous
clown. "Just ns soon ns they get with
in the doors they all grow younger ex
cept the children, and they become Just
a wee bit wider. Highbrows call it
the psychology of the happy crowd,
but we clowns say it’s the ’old uns
getting gay.’
"A great big crowd, no matter how
old or dignified they may be in every
day life, are Just about nine years
when they smell the sawdust in the
ring. My. it's fun to watch them I
Many a time we clowns laugh in real
happiness just because the 'old uns'
make us laugh with their happiness.”—
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Business Instinct.
The business man noticed that the
friend he was talking to continually
examined his watch.
“Don’t let me keep you,” he said, “if
you have an appointment”
“Oh, no,” said the other. "X sent the
wife to London this morning on a visit
and took the precaution of Insuring
her at the booking office for £500. X
am Just thinking that I shall know in
another twenty-five minutes if I have
£500 or a wife.”—Manchester Guardian.
Progress.
“My daughter is having her voice
cultivated ”
“Is it improving?"
“It’s growing stronger. She used to
be beard only two apartments away.
Now we get complaints from the nest
building ”—Washington Star.
Britain's Capital Crimes.
There are Ove capital offenses under
British law—murder, high treason, pi
racy. arson in the port of Ixmdon and
attempts to destroy public arsenals.
Whatever be done, let It be for love
of service end not for praise.
BULL PLOWS OF PERU.
Primitive Methods and Implements
Still Used In Farming.
The tilling of the soil is done in the
crudest way not only in Peru, but
throughout the whole of South Ameri
ca. Outside of the wheat fields of the
Argentine, the methods would not do
credit to the Egyptians in the days of
Rameses. in fuct. the bull plow as it
is used in Peru today dates back to
the kings of the first dynasty of Egypt
The plow, the Peruvian spade and
the grub hoe, which latter is simply
a crooked stick with an iron shoe, are
the three Implements of agriculture in
Peru today. No implement is found
to crush the hard lumps of ground in
the plowed fields. This is done by the
women and children with a short club
like a ball bat. Corn is planted by
using a sharp stick to make a hole in
the ground. Then the kernel is drop
ped in the hole nnd covered by a push
of the bare foot on the softened earth.
Rain is not a necessity in these val
leys. The natives have made admira
ble irrigating ditches that convey an
abundance of water to every portion
of the cultivated fields. The water
moistens the roots of the corn from
day to day. or turned into the ditches
that follow the cane fields it becomes
a potent factor in the luxuriant growth
of the sugar cane. The best sugar
cane in the world is grown in Peru,
but 90 per cent of it is used, I am
told, to make rum.—Nutional Maga
zine.
LUCERNE’S QUAINT BRIDGE.
In Its Center Is an Old Time Prison
and Torture Chamber.
Lucerne, in Switzerland, possesses
what is probably the most curious
bridge in the world as well as one of
the greatest historic interest Tills
bridge, known as thh Kapellbruecke.
or "Chapel bridge,” crosses the River
lteuss at its junction with Lake Lu
cerne. It was constructed so loug ago
as 1333 and for nearly COO years has
formed the chief avenue of traliic
across the broad but sluggish stream
In other days the bridge extended Its
zigzag shape to nearly twice its pres
ent length and reached as far as the
bofkircbe, or cathedral, whence its_
name.
In the center of this covered wooden
bridge stands the famous octagonal
“wasserthurm,” or water tower, where
In olden times the municipal treasure
was stored. For ages it was also used
ns a prison, and among its dungeons
is a torture chamber. But the most
unique feature of all consists of the
series of curious pictures in the roof
of the bridge. There are sixty-nine of
these painted on triangular wooden
panels fitted into the pitched roof of
the bridge. One after another they
tell the salient facts of Swiss history
or portray events in the life of the
saints of the town, St. Leodegar and
St Maurice.—Washington Star.
Footprints In Stone.
From time to time amateur geolo
gists unhampered by "book learning'
make as they suppose wonderful dis
coveries in the primeval rocks. They
find what they hail not as footprints
on the sands of time, but footprints or
men and animals on flat rock surfaces
and slabs of stone. The real origin of
such hollows is now known to be the
former presence of concretions which
have in time been worn out. in ev
ery part of the earth such "footprints"
have been found. The most remarka
hie of these is a print two feet long
on the top of a lofty hill called Adam's
peak, in the island of Ceylon, which is
believed by the natives to be the
stamp of the foot of Buddha us he left
the earth and sprang into heaven, and
it is accordingly an object of worship
—London Globe.
Novelties In Old Fleet Street.
Fleet street was formerly the won
der place of London, where all that
was novel, bizarre and marvelous was
exhibited by enterprising showmen.
Ben Jonson alludes to “a new notion
of the city of Nineveh, with Jonah and
the whale, at Fleet bridge.” and at the
“Eagle and Child” was exhibited a
collection of freaks and monstrosities
that set the whole town agape. In
1710. too, were advertised as on exhibi
tion at Fleet bridge “two strange, won
derful and remarkable monstrous crea
tures, an old she dromedary, seven feet
high and ten reet long, lately arrived
from Tartary. with her young one, be
ing the greatest wonder, rarity and
novelty ever seen in the three ' king
doms.”—London Express.
Worse Off Than Hs Thought.
Shadbolt—Well. I’m $80 worse off
than 1 was yesterday morning. Dingus
—How’s that? Shadbolt—1 was held
up by footpads on my way home last
night and robbed. Dingus—I’m sorry
for you, old man. But they didn’t get
the $5 I borrowed of you before you
started home, anyhow. Shadbolt—
That's so. I forgot that I’m $55
worse off than 1 was yesterday morn
ing.—Chicago Tribune.
A Matter of Feet.
••If one did not know better.” re
marked an observunt man. "he would
be Inclined to believe an aviator Is
akin to a centipede. Not long ago I
was telling a friend that a certain air
man bad dropped forty-flve feet. ’Yes?"
be asked. 'And how many has be
left?’ ’’—New York Tribune.
Women Physicians.
Women physicians are not a modern
Innovation. There - were plenty of
them among the ancient Greeks, some
of them belDg famous.
Let no man tblnk be to loved by any
man when be lovee no man.—Bplctetuk
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This Is the Month When We
Adjust Our Stock
After going through our stock we found that we had
a surplus of the following lines, which we are now
offering at greatly reduced prices:
Men Coat Sweaters, formerty $3.00 - - Now selling for $1,00
Men's V Neck Athletic Sweaters, formerly $4.00, Now selling $1.00
Ladies' White Coat Sweaters, were sold for $3.00, Now selling $1.00
Children's Coat Sweaters, were $1.50 and $1.00, Now 50 cents
A very few Women's Wool Under Vests, formerly $2.50, Now 50c
The above lines are very limited so come and make
, your selections early.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Imported Japanese baskets at Val
dez Drug Co. tf
Remington ana Smith Premier type
writers for sale or rent at Valdez
Drug Co. tf
Chinese noodles and chop suey at
Valdez Cafe after 7 p. m. tf
Suits pressed for $1.00 at Silver
man’s the tailor. Telephone 198.
Cooking apples $2 per box at the
Yakima Fruit Co. tf
Latest popular copyrights and clas
sics at Valdez Drug Co. tf
Universal percolators and chafing
dishes at Valdez Drug Co. tf
Yakima netted Gem spuds, 17 lbs.
for 50c at Yakima Fruit Co. tf
The most exquisite hand-painted
china ever seen in Valdez at Valdez
Drug Co. tf
Prescriptions carerully compound
ed at Valdez Drug «o. tf
Beautiful liand-painted vases just
received at Valdez Drug Co. tf
Deputy United States Marshal S.
O. Casler, of Unga, reached Valdez
on the Mariposa with an insane pa
tient, brought to Seward by Deputy
Brown. Mr. Casler leaves on the
next boat from Seward for his sta
tion. It is expected that the Santa
Anna will take the next run, as the
Dora is laid up for repairs.
Weather Report.
Valdez, Jan. 15, 1915.
Barometric pressure .28,953
Temperature at 7 p. m. 29
Maximum temperature. ?0
Minimum temperature . 16
Mean temperature . 23
Precipitation ..36
Cloudy, light wind southwest ten
miles. Snowed at night and light
snow all day.
Running Ahead.
“I’m to glad yon proposed! That
puts me one up on Della. She's only
had three this month.”—Philadelphia
Record.
Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
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CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Prices Right
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Patronize a Home Industry
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Independent Laundry Co.
Satisfaction Guaranteed I
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Foot Keystone Ave
Roush Dry 10c lb.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
S. S. Mx.ripcsa and S. S. Alameda sail from Seattle
the 1st, 8th, 16th and 24th
EVERY MONTH
From Valdez south -7th, 15th, 23rd and 30th for Cordova,
Juneau, Ketchikan and Seattle.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan. Juneau. Sheep creek Treadwell. Douglas
Cordova. Ellamar. Valdez, and Latouche. Explosives. S S Seward. S S Seward. 5th’
S S Latouohe, 15th: S S Cordova. 25th of each month—Right reserved to change this
schedule without notice.
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WEATHER BULLETIN.
Valdez, Alaska, Jan. 16, 1916.
STATION Above Below Snow, In. WEATHER CONDITIONS
Donnelly . 25 5 Cloudy, high winds, no trail.
Paxson’s .. 20 12 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Hogan .,.... 20 12 Cloudy, windy, trail open.
Gulkana _ 2 12 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Copper Center .... 27 8 Cloudy, windy, trail good.
Tonslna . 25 20 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Teikhell . 25 18 Cloudy, calm* trail fair.
Beaver Dam. 32 33 Cloudy, calm, trail heavy
Summit ...28 40 SnowUjg. Windy, trail drifted.
Wortman’s . 27 29 Cloudy, calm, trail drifted.