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FRIDAY. FEJiRl'ARY <>, 1914.
A BANKER “COMES BACK.”
When Paul Stensland, president of
a Chicago ban, absconded in 190f>
with $500,009 belonging to his depos
itors, James Keeley, editor of the
Chicago Tribune, who lias never got
over being a first-class reporter, lo -
cated his trail, followed him to Mor
occo and brought him home. .Stens
land confessed and placed the blame
upon an absconding cashier. He took
his medicine, however, and served
four years in the penitentiary. The
cashier also served a term. The
bank’s depositors were paid 85 cents
on the dollar. Addressing a meet
ing of Chicago business men the
other day, Mr. Keeley said:
“The banker whom they say I
brought back has ‘come back.’ He
went to the penitentiary and stayed
there four years. He came out. Two
days before Christmas last year he
called upon me and w'as the hap
piest man I have seen in ten years.”
Stensland is on his feet again,. Is
making money and has placed more
than 50 per cent of his earnings in
Mr. Keeley’s hands against the time
when the depositor, can be paid in
full the balance that was not paid by
the receiver. The fact that he has
placed the funds in the hands of
the man who brought him back from
Africa to face a term in prison is
proof of his complete repentance and
his determination to place himself in
position where he can again look the
world in tin face. He proposes to
prove that a man may err grievously
and still be a man. "He is going to be
a citizen again,” said Mr. Keeley,
“and there is no man for whom I
have more affection.”
The old world is not cruel, after j
all. It is ready to meet more than i
half way the man who has gone J
wrong and who is making an honest, i
effort to get back into the right way !
of living, thinking and doing. i
BETWEEN PRODUCER AND CON
SUMER.
However desirable increased pro
duction on farms may appear to be
from the consumer’s standpoint, it
does not follow that such increased
production would result in any in
crease in the cash income per farm
or per capita of farm population, or
that prices paid by consumers would
be any lower, because retail prices
are promptly raised on a prospect of
under-production, and are very slow
to decline if fthere is over-produc
tion.—Department of Agriculture Re
port.
In other words, the law of supply
and demand works to keep prices up
when the supply is short but does not
operate to reduce prices when the
crop supplies are big. That leads
one to ask, what is to be done about
it? Can anything bo done that will
be effective and substantial? Can
anything be done to allow prices to
have some independent swing be>
tween the farmer and consumer?
Good crops and good prices are' go
ing to interest a. new contingent, of’
young men to try their hands in ag
rieultural pursuits. They will in
crease the output. They are very apt
to "let- down” the price, although, of
course, not for the current year. The
supply and demand is bound to have
something to do with the trade. It
has done so in other lines of business
activity. Why not in the case of
farmers? Despite the rather pessi
mistic opinion of the Department of
Agriculture, we imagine that a series
of record crops will have the effect
of “letting down” the prices to the
consumer. The statute of limitations
does not run against the law of sup
ply and demand.
As man was originally made out of
dust, is it any wonder that he is still
out for all the dust he can get?
There are only two classes of peo
ple in the world—automobillsts and
wheelbarrowisti Many of the form
er wish they were in the latter class.
If you want all the news all the
time, read the Prospector.
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Renunciations
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I have eschewed the fat cigars
At fifty cents per each.
The brier pipe more comfy is
And alwnys In my reach.
I have renounced the fondling of
The twenty dollar bills.
The hundred dollar William is
The sort that cures my chills.
No more I pay attention to
The charming widows fair.
They’s popping up too thick about
Your uncle everywhere.
All curiosity about
The banking laws I’ve curbed
Because my currency, you see.
Has always been disturbed.
-Horace Seymour Keller in New Fork
Sun.
STARVING BULGARS LOOK
TO AMERICA FOR SUCCOR.
American Woman Teacher Here to
Raise Funds For Needy Thousands.
Thousands of women and children In
Bulgaria are facing starvation this
winter, according to Miss Inez L. Ab
bott, missionary of the woman’s board
of the interior of the Congregational
church and principal of the American
girls’ boarding school in Samokov,
Bulgaria. Miss Abbott, who is a na
tive of Lansing. Mich., bus come to
the United States to raise funds for
the relief of 7.000 destitute families in
tlie Samokov district.
With additional funds the relief com
mittee of Samokov hopes to develop a
general truck garden for the poor.
The suffering and want in Bulgaria,
Miss Abbott says, were much greater
in 1013 than in 1012. She explained
that the crops were gathered last year
before the mobilization of the armies.
With all the oxen, carts and men at
the front with the armies, practically
no crops were planted, and such as
were cultivated could not be properly
harvested because of lack of labor and
facilities.
“For months many Bulgarians have
not known what it is to satisfy their
hunger,” said Miss Abbott. “In the
cities and valleys around Samokov
families are in direst need.
“The queen of Bulgaria is devoting
all of her time and thought to relief
work among her suffering people. Re
cently she said to me. 'If relief funds
not only for suffering, but for the or
phans, should come from the United
States I would feel very grateful.’ The
Bulgarians do not fear any political
entanglement such as they think may
result when any European country ad
vances assistance for them.”
Miss Abbott, through an appeal last
winter, raised funds in this country,
with which she greutly assisted in the
relief of the poverty stricken people
of Samokov. Much of the money was
used to buy raw materials, with which
the women made garments. Some of
it was also used to prepare small
farms around Samokov for cultivation
and to buy tile seeds for planting.
SALES TO HOMESTEADERS.
Almost Two Million Acres of Indian
and Public Lands Disposed Of
Secretary Lane of the interior 'fie
partmeut has received through Com
missioner Tollman of the general laud
oflice a report of the work of James
W. Witten, chief law clerk of that of
lice, concerning sales of undeveloped
Innds under his personal direction. Mr.
Witten was absent four mouths in the
west superintending the registration
and drawings for three bodies of land
aggregating 1,800,000 acres located io
Montana and Nebraska. At these reg
istrations 110.985 persons presented ap
plications for farm homes.
In addition, he sold at public auc
tion lots in the government town site
of Camas, in Montana, and the rem
nant lands in the former Rosebud and
Lower Brule Indian reservations, in
South Dakota, and in the Kiowa, Co
manche. Apache aitfl Wichita reserva
tions. in Oklahoma, at prices ranging
•front $1.25 to $111 per acre, or at an
average of $8 per acre per bid. The
larger part of these remnant lands re
mained untaken by homeseekors after
having been subject to homestead en
try at $1.25 per acre for twelve years
NAVY CUTS COST OF LIVING.
Reduction From $1.50 to 44 Cents s
Day on Travel by Rail.
The navy’department bus found nn
other way to bout the "tilgli cost of
living" and the "trusts.” on both of
which Secretary Daniels is waging war.
so far us his department is affected.
By adopting the system of feeding
bluejackets in transit by rail out of the
navy commissary instead of by con
tract with the Pullman company as
heretofore the department has discov
ered that it can reduce the cost per
day per man from $1.50 to 44 cents.
When 150 recruits were transferred
from the north Chicago training sta
tion to Seattle recently the new plan
was tried Pood from the commissary
at the Chicago station was put aboard
and served in kitchen tourist cars fur
nished by the Pullman company. Navy
mess boys acted as waiters. The plan
worked splendidly and effected a sav
ing of several hundred dollars on the
trip.
Worked Ten Months For a Dollar.
J. H. Karnes, humane ollicial of Ke
nosha. Wls., has worked ten months
for tlie state society in Kenosha coun -
ty, and bis total pay lias been $1.
This dollar Is framed an I Hanging up
In Ids horae. Thtf'work Is supposed to
he supported by private snliseriptlons,
and just one subscription was received.
DIAMETER OF THE EARTH.
Points at Which It la the Greatest and
the Least,
What Is the greatest diumeter of the
earth? The form of the earth is that
of a flattened spheroid, greater in di
ameter at the equator than at the
poles, but this is modified by the ac
cidents of its surface, so that the
diameter varies according to the point
at which it is measured.
It might be expected that the diam
eter would be greatest if measured
from tlie top of the highest mountain,
which is Mount Everest, in the Hima
layas, but unfortunately the point at
which the diameter would emerge on
the other side of (lie world is in the
Pacific ocean, where this is more than
7.000 feet deep.
Professor I>. Ilenkel of Schulpferda
says the greatest diameter of the earth
is that taken from the summit of
Mount Chimborazo, in Ecuador, 20,130
feet above the sea level. This, lie says,
emerges at tlie antipodes on a high
point on the north const of Sumatra.
This diameter is 7,929.3 miles.
As Chimborazo is almost on the equa
tor, its summit is that point on the
earth’s surface which is most distant
from the center. There weight is
feeblest, and centrifugal force greatest
The earth's smallest radius is that
from tlie center to the north pole, but
it is not certain that the line through
tlie poles is the smallest diameter, be
cause tlie south pole is on a high pla
teau. It might be found that a line a
little distant from the poles, which
would emerge at sea level at each end.
would be even shorter than the polar
diameter. Such a line would be found
from a point in the Arctic ocean be
tween Spitzbergen and Greenland to a
point just off the const of the Antarctic
continent in the big bay overlooked by
Mount Erebus, in about 173 to 180 de
grees east and 73 to 80 degrees south.
•—New York World.
A BOY’S MOMENT OF FAME.
When Young Walter Scott Was Praised
by Robert Burns.
From the time he was six Waltei
Scott read ravenously, and it was
through his wide reading that when
only fifteen he became for a few mo
ments the center of a group of learned
men. It was when the poet Burns vis
ited Edinburgh and had shown great
interest in a picture of a soldier lying
dead in the snow with a dog keeping
patient watch beside him.
Beneath the picture were some beau
tiful lines, but neither Burns nor any
of those learned men knew their au
thor until young Walter Scott, who
happened to lie present, whispered
that they were by Langhoruc.
Then Burns turned to him. with
glowing eyes, and said, "It is no coin
mull course of reading that has taught
you this," adding (o his friends, "This
lad will be heard of yet."
How proud the lad felt! How wist
fully joyful in the warmth of the great
poet's praise and then how suddenly
forgotten when only a few days later
Robert Burns passed him in the street
without a glance! Scott's moment ol
fame had vanished.—Ariadne Gilbert
in St. Nicholas.
Boys and Bonfires.
The most fun a boy can have is at a
burn lire.
The freckled boy says you call them
barn iires because you build them ne ar
barns. Boys usually build them after
elections in the full, but any time
when you feel bully is a good time.
* * * Sticks of wood do not seem so
heavy when you are carrying them to
a bonfire as when you are bringing
them in for the hired girl. Splinters
don’t hurt so much either. The frec
kled boy says the reason is because
you are having fun. Why, lie ran a
long sliver under his nail one night at
a bonfire and he never noticed it until
school time the next morning. Then it
hurt him terribly. He had to stay out
of school all day, and lie could not do
his chores. I’art of tlie day he carried
ids arm in a etihgi-^Wnburn and.lt'teifk ,
les.” /;?•■!;■■ ‘ l :> f. I • t
Well Posted.
Tljoi viinMis.dtetidK iji tlft^ ITuij^irijni
re.<tiHiraiit wei-p jihhibered for the eon
vehtNice’oflt.lje WMitivssesi.a mi tlie ben
el it. of the patrons. A young couple en
tered. Tlie orchestra struck up the
••William Tell” overture. Turning to
her escort, the young woman said:
•‘That's familiar. What Is" it V” Tlie
man glanced up at the orchestra and
saw the number 3 displayed. Then,
with the air of one who is accustomed
to cafe life, lie looked up number 3 on
the bill of fare. •‘That,” he replied
when lie lmd located it. “is ‘Filet Mi
giion." by Champignons.”—Argonaut.
The Easiest Way.
An eminent German professor hail
the misfortune to die while lie was
away on Ills holidays, When the time
came to put tip a tablet to his memory
in the little university town where his
life's work had lain this was the line
which the mortuary artist carved upon
it: “He died during his absence."—New
York Post.
Flowers.
Flowers are tile terrestrial stars that
bring down heaven to earth and carry
up our thoughts from earth to heaven,
the poetry of the Creator written In
beauty and fragrance.
Got Him.
Briggs—Some mighty cheap' men ride
In high priced ears. Griggs—Yes, mine
Is. a low priced one • toa—Cleveland,
Plain Dealer.
These bands of mine’are empty, iMt
clean— Doeis Keasutb.
We have put up a good many Nelchina
outfits the past week. We are
ready to put up more.
The Best Goods
The Best Packing
is our motto.
When ready for your outfit come
and see us.
In the District Court tor the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division.
In the Matter ot' the Annexation of
Certain Territory to the Incorpor
ated Town of Valdez.—Order Set
ting Time for Hearing Petition and
Hiving Notice.
A petition having been this day
presented to the court for the pur
pose of instituting the proceedings
required by law for the annexation
of territory to an incorporated town,
said petition praying for the annex
ation of certain described territory to
the incorporated town of Valdez, in
(he Territory of Alaska, Third divis
ion; and it appearing to the court
that said petition is signed by forty
eight qualified electors of said incor
porated town, the same being more
than one-fifth of the number of votes
cast at the last municipal election in
said town, and by five actual resi
dents and owners of substantial prop
erty interests in land in the territory
proposed to be annexed and verified
by two of the signers of said peti
tion; said petition setting forth the
boundaries of the territory so pro
posed to be annexed to said town, an
having attached thereto a plat based
upon an actual survey by a compe
tent surveyor, setting forth the lim
its and boundaries thereof by metes
and bounds, and stating the number
of inhabitants therein:
Therefore, it appearing to the court
that said petition is in the form re
quired by law; it is ordered that said
petition be heard and considered by
the court on the 18th day of Febru
ary, 1914, at 10 o'clock a. m. of said
day, at the court room of this court
in Valdez, Alaska, if said day be a day
of jurisdiction in said court, or if the
same be not a day of jurisdiction,
then said hearing shall be held on the
first day of jurisdiction thereafter. It
is further ordered that notice of such
hearing be ftyen oy posting prime v
or type\v«U*iv iopfesj of- this order,
in three/consjieuoous' places‘within
the ‘limits' of said incorporated town
of Valdez, and by. posting such cop
ies in three-conspicuous places with
in ifie limits of “thf! territory so pro
nosed to be annexed to-'and included
within the limits of said incorporated
town, and by publishing a copy of
this order once a week in the Valdez
Prospector, a newspaper of general
circulation published nearest to said
incorporated town.
Done in open court at Valdez,
Alaska, this 7tli day of January, 1914.
FRED. M. BROWN, Judge.
First publication January 10, 1914.
Last publication February 14, 191;.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
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 Rob
ert Martin, deceased. Notice to cred
itors.
Notice is hereby given by the un
dersigned, administrator of the estate
of Robert Martin, 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 the
said administrator at the office of C.
E. Bunnell, at Valdez. Alaska, the
same being the place for the trans
tion of the business of said estate.
Dated at Valdez,- Alaska, this 13th
day of January, 1914.
W. H. CASWELL,
Administrator of the estate of Robert
Martin, deceased.
Date of first publication. Jan. 14.
Date of last publication Feb. 17.
Ninety-Second Half Yearly Report of
The German Savings
and Loan Society
SAVINGS ITI1E tiERMAX DANK) COMMERCIAL
526 California Street.
SAX FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.
December 3 1, 1913,
ASSETS:
United States,"State, Municipal and other bonds
(market value §13,437,7001, standing on books at. §12,Sit!*,050.00
Loans on Real Estate, secured by lirst Mortgages. 33,501,517.20
Loans on Bonds and Stocks . 900,330.90
Bank Buildings and Lots, Main and Branch Ottices lvalue
§900,000), standing on books at... 1.00
Other Real Estate (value §230,000.00('standing on books at 1.00
Employees' Pension Fund,”(100,570.121 standing on books at 1.00
CASH. 4,450.192.41
Total. $50,323,000.50
LIABILITIES
Due Depositors. $54,010,190.33
Capital Stock actually paid in. 1,000,000,00
Reserve and Contingent Fuud. 1,307,404.13
Total. §50,323,(100.50
N. OHLANDT, GEORGE TOURNEY,
President. Manager.
Subscribed and sworn to before me|this 31st day of December, 1913,
[SEAL] CHAS. F. DUISENBERG, Notary Public.
For the 0 months ending December 31st, 1913. a dividend to deposi
tors ot[.4 per cent per annum was declared. Adv.
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