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July 23. 1912, at the postofflce of Valdez,
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< LOSl'RK PRECIPTITATE CRISIS. |
JUST how much authoriiy should i
Congress grant to President W'lson
in response to his request ?oi “armed
neutrality” is a question about which
thoughtful persons may disagree.
?hall the President be given earte
blanche or restricted in the possible
employment of the American army
and navy “to protect” our ships in
foreign waters and our pcjple in their i
“legitimate and peaceful pursuits on
the seas?”
The President says that "no doubt"
he possesses the power he seeks from
Congress “without warrant of war”
by the “plain implication of hi" con
stitutional duties,” but he wants Con
gress to sanction it by a formal vote.
During the past few weeks there has
been growing in Congress a situation
which the President has probably j
viewed with concern. It is bi-partisan
in its nature. The Republicans did j
not want to adjourn and graic him j
blanket powers to deal with the Ger- ]
man menace, and their opposition was|
shared by a large element oi the Dee
ocratic majority, which is 'raiiUlj
pacificist in character. It is hard to
say how far this dual opposition ad
vanced, but it seriously handicapped
administrative legislation. By lilibas
tering upon the floor of the Senate
LaFollette, Stone and a fnv oilier
prominent party leaders forced Con
gress to adjourn sine die. March 4.
without having passed any of the leg
islative bills giving the President the
unbridled power he so strongly de
:ired. To check this filibuster the
President lobbied with members of|
the Senate and succeeded in having aj
closure bill passed to prevent unlimit
ed debate upon the floor of the Sen
ate. This closure is a British meas
ure, introduced in the House oi' Com
mons in 1882 by Mr. Gladstone to
prevent dilatory or obstructive tactics
on the part of the minority, the Speak-'
er being empowered under it to close
the debate. The rules of the debate
are further modified by the r peal of
the standing order of 1882, the rule
now being that if, on a division, iOO
ufHrmative votes be declared from the
chair the debate shall end.
Under the constitution me presi
dent is commander-in-chief of the
army and navy and possesses broad
implied power, but no formal decla
ration of war can be made except by
vote of Congress. This is the only
check the Nation has upon a Presi
dent, who can bring the cou itry to
the verge of war at any time by un
wise actions. There is a kind of un
defined twilight zone of authority
which is, in fact, in the President's
favor. For instance when i>e handed
ihe German ambassador his passports
he took a step which while not actu
ally being a declaration of war might
easily lead to war.
There has been little disposition in
the Sixtj-Fourth Congress to handi
cap President Wilson in dealing with
the submarine menace, and the vote
of the Senate yesterday gives bin: all
the authority he should desire; pro
vided he can get the necessary votes
from the Republicans, which is highly
probable. An extra session of Con
gress will undoubtedly be called with
in the next day or two, and this will
take the possibility of the President’s
declaring war on his own initiative
out of his hands.
But a show down is at hand. Con
gress has signed away one after an
other of its vested rights We are
nearer today than ever to til*' time
when there must be an accounting.
The future of the Nation is now un
reservedly in the hands of Ihe Presi
dent.
THAT was quite a joke the British
government played upon the salmon I
packers of the Pacific coast last week.
f'or m mills the packers have feared
that President Wilson and Congress
would place an embargo upo1' fond
stuffs and have begged pleaded, and
threatened the administration with
what would happen to him if lie cut
then out of the juicy English mar
ket. Then the English parliament
got bu-ty and placed an embargo upon
many articles of importation deemed
unnecessary, and among them was
canned salmon. This leaves the big
packing companies in a peculiar situ
ation us the American peoolu have
nearly quit eating salmon on account
of the high price and now the Allied
market is denied them.
THF German retirement Lie past
| few days of two miles on an eleven
; mile front—according to London dis
' patches—has been the greatest since
: the historic battle ot the Marm» For
I the most part it has been voluntary,
and for that reason is a surprise in
tactics, for it is the first lime the Ger
mans have retired without stubbornly
contesting every inch of ground. Just
what the move means is a mystery,
but it seems to be a con fission that
the present German position is weak.
NEWS dispatches state that the
new crop of potatoes, as yec implant
ed, has been purchased by Allied
agents at a great advance o^er the
prices at the beginning of the season
last year. Whether this portends that
the Allies expect the war to last an
other year or anticipate a shortage of
potatoes is unknown, but it woul I
a good time to announce that an em
bargo would bo placed upon the ex
portation of future crops.
Woman Suffrage Defeated.
NASHVILLE, Tenn., March ft.—
Legislation granting limited suffrage
was killed yesterday so far as the
present session of the legislature is
concerned when the state senate vot
ed 18 to 10 to table a motion to re
consider a bill for that purpose.
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POTATOES KEDl'CEl) TO
TWO PIETY. C\K LOAIIK
SEATTLE, March 9. !i is csf
mated that there are between 125 anu
150 carloads of potatoes in storage
here, and less than 100 cars in the
entire Yakima valley. California and
Chicago speculators who were never
before on this market, are holding
approximately 100 carloads of Puget
Sound potatoes.
It is not believed that there are
more than twenty cars of Yakima
Gems on this side of the mountains.
Bid prices for Gems run from $70 to
<75 with soiling prices at $S0 to $S5,
and a majority of the regular jobbing
houses are buying short, content to
have enough to fill current orders
without attempting to anticipate the
future. Puget Sound potatoes are sell
ing at $75 with quotations to jobbers
of $60 to $7 5. Brokers who endeav
ored today to buy some of these pota
toes in storage met with flat refusal
by holders to quote. Predictions of
$100 to $125 per ton for Yakima
Gems are heard.
Kills Children; Ends Life.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 9.—
Prank Siader, 38, a laborer, shot and
•Instantly killed his three children
early today and later shot himself in
the heal. He died in a local hospital
later. Brooding over failure to find
work is said to have been the cause
of his act.
BONDING COMPANIES
HELD LIABLE DAMAGES
OLYMPIA, Wash., March 9.—That'
a bonding company is liable to every
passenger injured in a nickel-fare
automobile for the full amount of the
accident policy issued on the vehicle
was decided here yesterday by the
state supreme court.
The Pacific Coast Casualty company
had bonded a nickel-fare automobile
for $2,500 having charged a premium
on only that amount. In an accident
to the vehicle five passengers were
injured and four of them recovered
damage judgments aggregating $5.
500. The Casualty company sought
to limit its total liability to $2,500,
but the supreme court upheld the tul
ing of the King county superior court
that the company’s liability is for
$2,500 for every passenger.
STEAM HEAT NEWLY FURNISHED
SEATTLE HOTEL
MRS. E. MILL, Propr.
VALDEZ ALASKA
WEATHER AND APPETITE.
Psopl* Eat Mora on Stormy Days Than
Thoy Do on Pino Days.
Watch what you eat the next time it
rains or snows. Perhaps you think
the weather takes away your ap|>etite.
It doesn’t. It makes you eat more.
The American Magazine explains what
weather does to the restaurant bus!
ness. The writer says:
“A study of weather und business
has its surprises. For instance, res
taurant men know that ap|ietites are
uut lhe same on a dark, gloomy day as
on a day that is bright and cheerful.
Natural enough! The surprising fact
is that people cat most on the day that
is dark and dismal.
“ ’On a cloudy day,* an old restau
rant man tells me. ‘people just sit and
eat. There is nothing else to do. On
a nice day they eat less and hasten
out iuto the open. But the less they
eat tile more particular they are about
the quulity.'
“Xot so long ugo a young woman
opened a good little restaurant near
the department of agriculture in
Washington. Most of her customers
are employees of that department. She
does a big business every day. but the
rush is greatest when the day is the
stormiest. On a line duy the men from
nearby buildings walk to restaurants
farther away, just for the exercise.
Those who do not go to other restau
rants cut down their eating in order to
spend all the time possible in the open
air."
CALIBER OF A GUN.
What tha Term Means aa Applied.to
Artillery and Small Arms.
Confusion as to the meaning of the
term < i liber arises chiefly from Its use
as an adjective to Indicate length, as
when we say “a 50 caliber six inch
gun.*' The word caliber as applied to
artillery signifies the diameter of the
bore of a gun measured diametrically
from face to face of the bore, of course
somewhat larger.
A gun, then, of six inch caliber is a
gun whose bore is just six inches. For
convenience uud because the power of
a gun when once its bore has been de
cided upon depends so greatly upon its
length artillerists are in the habit of
defining the length of the gun in terms
of the caliber.
Thus the twelve inch United States
naval gun, which is forty feet in
length, is spoken of as a 40 caliber
twelve inch, the length being just for
ty times the bore. The six inch rapid
lire gun Is a trifle under twenty-five
feet in length and is therefore known
as a 50 caliber gun.
In the case of small arms the caliber
is expressed in hundredths of an inch,
as when we suy a 22 caliber revolver
we uieau»oue with a bore that has a
diameter of tw enty-two one-hundredths
of an inch.—1’hiladelpbia Ledger.
Needed a Sea Turn.
Captain Lane had retired from active
pursuit of his beloved calling and had
turned his attention to town affairs.
Having succeeded hi rousing the citi
zens to the need of a drinking fountain
aim also to the need of two coats of
paint oil the town hall. Captain Lane
felt himself a valued and Important
person.
One day he was asked by a sojourn
er in tlie town to give his opinion of
the present administration.
"it's pretty fair," said the captain
slowly. "Of course there's things that
could be different and would be better
so, but on the whole 'tis pretty fair.
Hut now ^111 tell ye—I'm speaking
from experience, you understand—
things at the seat o' gover'ment won't
be run as they could be run till the
people o' this country make up tlieir
minds to stop confining their votes to
landlubbers!"—Youth's Companion.
The Great Privilege of lllnese.
Illness is the great privilege of life.
Love only is comparable to it. They
are twin privileges. Both deny tbe
common value of things; both assert
that mail's destiny is bound up with
transcendental powers. Of this theirs
is the ouly testimony we have, for the
body's evidence is a denial—a nega
tive assertion that the sparkle of con
sciousness is a random striking of sub
stance on substance, like steel on flint,
illness pares and lops off the outer
purts of life and leaves us with the
essence of It.—Henry Dwight Sedg
wick in Atlantic.
Lar- • ' -vstal of Beryl,
It remn' a Turk, wandering
far from .-e land, to find the
largest cry si. : beryl (aquamarinei
ever discovered, a long distance inland
in Brazil. It was dug out at a shallow
depth, transported by canoe to the
coast and Anally sold at Bahia, bring
ing the Ander. it is said. $25,000. Ac
cording to estimates, this crystal would
furnish fully 2.000.000 carats of aqua
marines of various sizes.
These Careless Men.
‘ mutinies I wish I had married a
M<»nal Jail keeper."
. mother, what makes you sa\
'
•j suppose I could trust him to lock
up the house.’’—St Louis Post-Dis
patch.
Located the Time.
’’Do you know what time your sis
ter's young man left last night?"
"1 think it was about 1, dad. because
when be was going 1 heard him say
•Just one. only one. dear!’ "—Pearson’s
Weekly
Costly Pleasure.
“Some folks." said Uncle Eben
“tries so hard to have a good time
dnt tie effort worries 'em most tc
death."- Washington Star.
Good
Goods
Phone 12
Moderate
Prices
A Satisfied Customer
is the best advertisement any concern can have
When you leave our Grocery Dept, you carry
satisfaction with you. You are satisfied with
our service, satisfied with our prices and when
you have put the groceries you have purchased
to the test you will be satisfied more than
*
ever. Good Goods at Moderate Prices is our
Motto.
In Fresh and Staple Fruits & Vegetables, we offer
LKTTICE
RHUBARB
CRANBERRIES
CAULIF1/OWER
CELERY
FLORIDA TOMATOES
RUTABAGAS
PARSNIPS
CARROTS
IIKKTH
Kl,<>RII).V GKAI'K KKI'IT
ORANGEH
DEMONS
Jone s Dairy Farm Sausage, on hand.
For Poaching, Boiling, Frying and for any use in which a strictly fresh egg is
required, use “HOLLYHURST’ the “money back” egg.
Our Bakery Department offers the iargest and best line of Fancy and
Staple Pastry in town. Try our Graham Bread. .
S. BLUM & CO., Inc.
GOOD GOODS
Meyer Blum is a returning pas
senger on the Alaska from a business
trip to the States.
George Reinke returned on the Ad
miral Watson from a business trip to
Latouche.
Frank Short, formerly of this city,
but for several months past at Ba
touthe, has left there and if now in
Seward on his way to Marshall City
where lie intends to spend the sum
mer.
J. Byron Wilson, superintendent of
the Alaska Mines Corporation mine
at Fidalgo bay, is a passenger on the
Alaska after a visit to the States. Dur
ing his absence Mr. Wilson has taker
unto himself.a bride.
DILLON OUTFIGHTS
M'COY FOK 7 KOI NIM
XEW YORK, March 9. —Jack Dil
lon, the Indianapolis light heavy
weight. outfought A1 McCoy of Brook
lyn, middle-weight champion, in sev
en rounds of a ten-round bout here
last night. McCoy had the better of
the fourth fifth and sixth rounds. Dil
lon weighed 173^6 pounds and McCoy
1611£. Dillon was puzzled by McCoy's
style, the latter being left handed,
but was able to get the better of the
exchanges, causing McCoy to hold
frequently.
indemnity wanted
BY STANDARD OIL
NEW YORK, March 9.—The Stan
dard Oil Company will seek Indem
nity for the destruction of Its oil
properties in Rumania at the time of
the German invasion of that country.
T - _
Charles Nordland of the Clift trine
is a visitor in town.
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CERTAINLY!
CRESCENT
BAKING
POWDER
RAISES
THE DOUGH
Hence its Popularity
25c lb. Can.
SOW) BY GROCHRS
ORESCENT MFG. CO.,
Seattle, Wash.
LOUIE S CAFE
Open Day and Night McKinley Street, Below Cable Office
Fresh Bread, Pies, Cakes,
All Kinds of Pastry for Sale.
EVERYTHING THE BEST ANDY MAROVICH, Propr.
Candy Kitchen
E. W. HUNT--I. Owl Dr* Sure.
FOUNTAIN DRINKS
HOT—- COLD
ATLAS JUNK CO.
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
ALL KINDS OF JUNK
Buyers of Metal, Rubber, Ma
nila Rope, Sacks, Machinery,
Ripe, Hides, Furs and Bottles.
1043 Railroad Avenue, So.
SEATTLE, WASH.
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The Best Place m Valdez to
Stop at Is the
Arctic Hotel
Warn, ligfct Raaau-TW Hasee af Caarfert
RATES REASONABLE
BATH ROOM Special Rata* By the Moat!
PHONE 133 MRS. SYRINC, Pray
VALDEZ CAFE & BAKERY
Cakes, Cookies k Boas, ISc per dates.
French, Rye and White Bread 12 1-2
cents per leal. Orders takes far special
accatisas.
BERGSTROM & ROGSTAD. Praps.
PHONE 17 - Tin* dssrs Ms* 0«< Drac
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
OEORGC SEXTON. Prop
SlRIGTLV FI R ST CLASS
Fourth kve, Seward. Alaska
HOG PRICES BEYOND
CIVIL WAR RECORD
CHICAGO, March 9.—The high
price of live hogs, which passed the
Civil war level several days ago, con- j
tinued to mount today. Early sales 1
included choice heavy hogs at $13.55,
an advance of 20 cents over ytster-,
day.
J. L. Galen was a passenger on the ^
Watson for a business trip to Cordova.
PROFESSIONAL CARM.
DR. S. WICKES MERRITT ,
<*■»«• ever Valder Drug Co.
Phone *15 McKinley Street
Contract Surgeon, U. S. Army
A. A. Surgeon, U S. Public Health Serv
(Marine Hospital)
JOS. A. SILVERMAN, PH. 6. M. B.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Over Owl Drug Co.
—OFFICE HOURS: *
1 to 4 P. M. 7 to 8 P. M
Sunday by Appointment.
Refc. Phone 176 Office Phone Z<»
ROBERT SIMPSON Opt. D.
JUNEAU, ALASKA 1
Glasses Fitted Leases Ground
DR. H. COCKERILLE
Gwrtute Sittoiil CilTfnlt;.
WaaklactM. D. C.
DENTIST
IV)irteen Taan In Taldez.
PHOMB 110 • (
OSce Rooms tn Whaling Building
DONOHOE & DIMOND
AITOIIWHYS-AT-LAW
Opmwllt Co art Hour
X
Phaaa M «A1,DBZ. ALASKA
JOHN L-fON6 S pr HITCH M
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORN I? Y S- A'I -LA H
/
Oflftvea In '• BulHln*
Phone ltl VALDEZ. ALASKA
VALDEZ LODGE
NO 108 *
Free aad Accepted Maaoaa
Regular tomnunirauons oral yveu
uesday In each month In McKinley
Hall. Visitors always welcome.
F. M. BROWN. W. M.
BD WOOD, Secretary.
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miners
W. H. GARNER, President.
Granite Mine
GUST KRINC, Secretary.
Valdes Alaska.