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SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 10IC
THE MEN BEHIND THE GUNS.
A CHEER and salute for the admi
ral, and here’s to the captain
bold,
And never forget the commo
dore's debt when the deeds of
might are told!
They stand to the deck through the bat
tle’s wreck, when the great shells
roar and screech,
And never they fear when the foe is near
to practice what they preach,
But off with your hat and three times
three for Columbia's true blue sons—
The men below who battered the foe—
the men behind the guns!
O light and merry of heart are they
when they swing into port once more;
When, with more than enough of the
“green backed stuff,” they start for
their leave o' shore;
And you’d think, perhaps, that the blue
bloused chaps who loll along the
street
Are a tender bit, with salt on it, for some
fierce "mustache” to eat—
Some warrior bold, with straps of gold,
who dazzles and fairly stuns
The modest worth of the sailor boys—the
lads who serve the guns!
But say not a word till a shot is heard,
that tells the fight is on;
Till the long deep roar grows more and
more from the ships of "Yank” and
"Don.”
Till over the deep the tempests sweep o£
fire and bursting shell,
And the very air is a mad despair in the
throes of a living hell;
Then down, deep down, In the mighty
ship, unseen by the midday suns,
You'll find the chaps who are giving the
raps—the men behind the guns!
O well they know how the cyclones blow,
that they loose from their cloud of
death,
And they know Is heard the thunder word
their fierce ten incher salth!
The steel decks rock with the lightning
shock and shake with the great re
coil,
And the sea grows red with the blood of
the dead and reaches for his spoil,
But not till the foe has gone below or
turns his prow and runs
Shall the voice of peace bring sweet re
lease to the men behind the guns!
—John Jerome Rooney.
Law or no law, a New York wo
man has settled the equality of the
sexes to the extent that the court
has enjoined her from assaulting her
husband.
"W. J. B. s unexpected martial spir
it in the matter of the Mexican ex
pedition may perhaps be accounted
for through his ownership of a Mexi
can farm.
Assuming that we shall catch Villa,
perhaps it will be well, if we want
him punished to avoid a trial in an
American court and turn him over to
Mexican justice.
The New Jersey legislature has
appropriated $150,000 for military
training of high school boys and
girls. Two hours a week are to be
devoted by the boys to rifle practice
and camp life, while the girls are to
be taught nursing and kindred sub
jects. That is a good start toward
preparedness.
A consignment of ladies’ silk
stockings , sent by a New York firm
to a dry goods house in Sweden on
the Swedish steamship Hogland, was
seized by the British authorities on
the ground, that they may be for
warded to Germany. It is such cases
as this that warrant the suspicion
that It is the commercial purpose to
further British trade with neutrals
against the United States, more than
any pretended military purpose,
which is at the bottom of much of
the British interference with our
trade to neutrals in Europe.
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BURSTING OF A DAM
BRINGS HIM FORTUNE.
The dam had burst.
Until that time W. L. Cochrane
hadn't been using $800 sealskin coats
for everyday wear, says the Chicago
Herald of recent date.
He had placered out of the sands
and rock on Boulder Creek, fourteen
miles up from Nome, Alaska, some
$30,000 to $40,000, had bought with
it all the water rights and claims for
three miles along the creek, and was
still digging away trying to find a
way to get more than $111 a ton,
gold, out of the dirt.
Then the dam burst.
It was the dam built to store up
water for pressure in the big mains
in placer mining. When the water
swept 175 feet down the valley it
knocked his equipment and his care
fully dug pits to the four winds and
changed the local geography.
He was rather blue about it as he
stood on the ledge of rotten quartz
jthat had been uncovered.
! He kicked at the quartz reflective
I ly with his toe—and kicked off a big
'Chunk of gold. He grabbed a pan.
I One big shovelful of the rotten stone
gave him back from the muddy water
in the pan $6.18 in gold.
He yelled to his associates and
they came running. The ledge was
followed for a mile and the average
assay taken from figures running
from 10 cents to $9,486 a ton, aver
aging something like $375.
Now he is back in the States look
ing up old friends and letting their
children cut teeth on gold nuggets.
He's going back in the spring with a
lot of machinery and “whoop 'er up.”
as he describes it.
i When he. came out he brought a
I dozen uncolored sealskins, worth
; $300 and had them all put into an
.overcoat which is a startling attrac
jtion, adorning his six feet four
j inches and corresponding bulk in
I Peacock Alley at the Congress Hotel,
I where he is staying.
TUNGSTEN ORES ARE
SHOWING UP WEI,I.
According to advices received in
Fairbanks, the Heilig mill on Fair
banks crejsk completed a test run of
55 tons of ore from the Ott Mining
company’s property on Fairbanks
creek on the 22nd of last month.
Since that time the mill has not been
operating, The owner, Charles Heil
ig, will be in Fairbanks within a few
days for the purpose of making some
purchases for the plant.
The ore proved even better than
: anticipated. It is rich in tungsten of
i a very high quality and fully sub
stantiated the assay made of the
j rock. The gold values carried in the
j ore were fair, but Where the tung
! sten values were highest, the gold
lvalues, were .generally speaking, the
j poorest.
! Mr. Ott and his partners are well
pleased with the run and will con
tinue to develop their property just
as rapidly as possible. The quartz
■outlook at Fai.^anks creek was
| never brighter than it is at the
present time, and it is believed that
there will be no other properties be
sides the Ott property that will be
mining tungsten in the very near
future.
Best Yakima Gem Potatoes at Key
stone Produce Co. tf
For Sale—Two Remington No. 10
typewriters. Alaska Inv. Co. Phone
196. 2t
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PICTURES
CHANGED REGULARLY
Always a good show. That is
what we want yon to say about our
program. We strive earnestly for
that distinction, and we feel that we
have achieved our purpose. People
DO say of our (heater, “There is al
ways a good show there.”
EMPRESS PROGRAM
PATHE NEWS—Always Interesting.
LI!BIN COMEDY—Billy Reeves.
WHEN THE MEN LEFT TOWN—Comedy.
EDISON COMEDY—A Scream.
Instrumental Music.
ONE SHOW AT 8:10 SHARP, ADMISSION 25 AND 60 CENT8.
BRING ARRAHTRAS TO
WORK GOLD MINES
John Ronan and Bennett James
brought in two arrastra outfits with
them on the Farragut, one to operate
the ore of their own mine, and the
other to work the mine of Frank
Chase and Frank Whitney at Grant
Lake. The ore on the Moose Pass
property of Messrs. James and Ronan
showed over six hundred dollars a
ton last fall when they used the arras
tra belonging to other parties. Neith
er Mr. James nor Mr. Ronan wishes
to say much about their intentions,
but they admit they will be busy on
Moose Pass this summer. The former
apparently thinks the prospects most
promising as he has decided to post
pone a trip which he had intended to
make to look over his extensive in
terests in the Iditarod.—Gateway.
Weather Reiwirt.
Valdez, Alaska, April 7, 1916.
Barometric pressure .29.421
Temperature 7 p. m.33
Maximum temperature .40
Minimum temperature .28
Mean temperature .34
Precipitatiop .27
Cloudy, wind northeast 2 miles,
mixed rain and snow at night and all
day.
Interior Weather.
Valdez, Alaska, April 8, 1916.
Fairbanks, 35; cloudy, windy.
Salcha, 42; cloudy, windy, trail
soft.
Richardson, ^39; partly cloudy and
windy.
McCarthy, 40; cloudy, windy.
Donnelly, 43; cloudy, calm, trail
bare.
McCallum, 28; cloudy, calm, trail
soft.
Paxson, 32; cloudy, calm, trail soft
Hogan, 40; cloudy, calm, trail soft.
Gulkana, 34; cloudy, calm, trail
bare.
Copper Center, 45; clear calm, trail
bare.
Tonsina, 40; cloudy, calm, trail
soft.
Teikheri, 38; snowing, calm, trail
heavy.
Beaver Dam, 36; snowing, windy,
trail very soft.
Wrortman's, 40; raining, windy,
trail soft.
Congregational Church.
Rev. J. F. Dunstan, pastor.
Sunday services:
-^:00, Devotional Service. Ser
mon, “The Golden Rule,” children's
story, “The Tiff.”
12:00, Sunday School.
7:30. Evangelistic Service, address,
“Life and Death Beyond the Grave."
Monday evening, Bible Study.
Wednesday evening, choir practice.
Thursday afternoon, Ladies’ Aid.
Thursday at 7:30, quarterly church
meeting.
Christian Science society.
Sunday Service, 11 a. m. Subject.
“Are Sins Disease, and Death Real?"
Sunday School, 12:-15.
Wednesday, Testimonial meeting, S
p. m.
Reading room open to the public
Wednesdays, 2 until 5 and 7 until 8
p. m.
Exactly Paralleled.
Military movements have their par
allels in our quieter domestic life
our wife’s relatives are frequently
organizing punitive expeditions upon
us, calling them visits.
A Peculiar Well in Florida
In their investigation of the wells
and underground waters of Florida
the geologists of the United States
Geological Survey have noted many
interesting things. Among these is
a well at Welaka, on St. Johns River,
from which two kinds of water are
obtained.
The well is 309 feet deep. The
length of the casing is 110 feet. The
well was first drilled to 160 feet, and
from this depth ordinary “sulphur”
water was obtained. The drill was
then carried to a depth of 309 feet,
where it encountered a strong mineral
water, having a disagreeable salty
taste. In order to use both kinds of
water an inner tubing was run near
ly to the bottom of the well. Both
this and the outer casings were con
nected with pumps; so that ordinary
water and mineral water can be
pumped at the same time. A favorite
joke played on visitors is to give
them a drink of the weaker water in
the first glass and to replace it with
the brine in the second.
Not more than half a dozen wells
of this kind are known in the coun
try, but there is no reason why sim
ilar wells can not be obtained in re
gions where the water in the upper
strata differ from those lying deeper.
Several of the boys at the Post are
on a bear hunting expedition this
afternoon. Several of the animals
are said to have been located in the
vicinity of Solomon Basin, and the
boys are confident they will be able
to bag one or two of them.
A line display of nugget jewelry at
Valdez Drug Co. tf
Valdez Drug company nave a line
line of School Stationery. tl.
5Blum’s=
The Very Newest
Women’s Shoe
Is Here.
A VISI KID “GIPSY” with a
Diamond toe, Military heel, Welt
sole, for street wear.
The White, Pin Line Seam is a
spring newness—Price $4.50
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One of the prettiest combination shoes is the Matt Kid
Gipsy Button, with the latest patent leather, inlaid seam,
Louis Cuban heel and Welt sole - - $4.00
The most popular boots just now seem to be light weights in the Gipsy
models. Many of the prettiest models in ladies’ boots have turned soles and Louis
Cuban heels, so that you may wear them on the street, and then to the dansant
without changing.
OTHER POPULAR SPRING MODELS
Dull Calf Lace, Diamond Toe,
Military Heel Welt Sole, .$4
A Dull Calf, Plain Toe, Button
Boot, with Military Heel and Cloth
Top . $4
A Nobby Patent Leather Street
Shoe, Cuban Louis Heel, Welt Sole,
Matt Kid Top, .$5
The last word in Patent Leather
shoes for street wear.
PLENTY OF FOX SLIPPERS, $3.00 TO $5.00.
They are new and very pretty.
Patent Leather, Slashed Strap,
laiuis Cuban Heel with Welt Sole,
suitable for street wear .
(tipsy Dancing Pump, Vici Kid,
French Heel, Turned Sole, newest
style, .^
Beaded Velour Pump, (’whan Ix>uis
Heel; hand-turned sole, very com
fortable Dancing Pump $5.00
Bronze Vici, Slashed Strap, French
heel, hand-turned sole .$5.00
The Best Place in Valdez to
Stop at is the
Arctic Hotel
Warm, Light Roomi--The Home of Comfort
RATES REASONABLE
BATH ROOM Special Ratei By the Month
PHONE 133 MRS. SYRING. Prop.
I OWL DRUG CO.
I PRESCRIPTIONS
t OUR SPECIALTY
f TRY US Phone 40
... ..m in*'
Candy Kitchen
f E. W. HUNT—In Owl Drag Store.
j FOUNTAIN DRINKS
f hot—-cold;
LOCAL BREVITIES
Lieut. Mehaffey of the Road Com
mission, who is now in Juneau, is ex
pected to return on the Admiral Wat
son.
Best Sunkist Oranges and fine eat
ing Apples. Keystone Produce Co. tf
Banquet Steel Ranges, plain, and
polished tops at Mead’s Sheet Metal
Works. *
Let us sell you that HOME. Great
bargains now. Alaska Inv. Co. 2t
Furnished rooms at Mrs osland’s.
Prices reasonable. *
For Sale—Flat top desk, can be seen
at Signal Corps storehouse. 3t
Panoramic views ol Child’s and
Miles glaciers, Dawson, Valdez and
Wrangel on sale at the Valdez Drug
store. • tf
A niqe assortment of evening
gowns and millinery just received at
E. Winters. tf
Kodak Supplies at the Owl Drug
Co. tf
A new line of Jewelry at the Owl
Drug Co. tf
Pictures jeveioped at the Valdez
Drug Company. tf.
Pasteurized Whipping Cream and
pure Buttermilk at Love-Whitley’s.
Full line of Stationery at the Owl
Drug Co. tf
Just Received—the latest Popular
Songs and Music. Valdez Drug Co. tf
Anything in the jewelry line at the
Valdez Drug Co. tf
Hotpoint Electric Heaters, Cookers,
Bakers, Percolators and Vacuum
Cleaners arrived on the last boat for
the Emporium. tf
1 LOUIE'S CAFE I
j; Everything First class +
t Open Day and Night +1
£ ANDY MAROVICH, Prop. | j
H+t+H-Wt+WtH+Wt+W |
Arcade Cafe
OPEN ALL NIGHT
Private Dining Room with Electric
Heater
Jack Callin - - Proprietor |
VALDEZ LODGE
NO 168
Free and Accepted Masons. ;
ack umr uiiivouwhd 7
nesday In each month in McKinley
Hall. Visitors always welcome.
F. M. BROWN, W. M.
ED WOOD, Secretary.
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company
Office on Alaska Avenue, in
George C. Treat Building
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
m Shamrock
CAPT. TIM MARCUM
Sails for Port Wells, Portage
Bay, Granite Mine, Saturday
at 9:00 a. m.. from the Val
dez Dock Company’s Dock.
For Ellamar, Landlock Bay,
and Fid algo, every Wednes
day, 9:00 a. m., from Val
dez Dock Company’s Dock.
For Bates, . Apply on Boat.
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING
McKinley Street, Valdes
ED. WOOD, Proprietor
DR. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate National University,
Wanhingrton, D. C.
DENTIST
Fourteen Ysarg in Vaides.
PHONE IJO
Office Rooms in Whaling BmiMiag
E. C. DALTON, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Phone 42
Alaska Avenne Valdez, Alaska
DONOHOE & D1MOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
OOm Opposite Court House
Phone 34 VALDEZ. ALASKA
JOHN LYONS E. E RITCHDB
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Officer In Whaling Balldlng
Phone 101 VALDEZ, ALASKA
ASA C. BALDWIN^
CIVIL ENGINEER
U. S. Mineral Surveyor
McKinley Street opposite V. M. Steve.
Valdez, Alaska
Dougherty & Fergusoa
GENERAL
Merchandise
The best groceries received
on every boat.
Fresh vegetables, fruits, and
nuts.
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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 bufr *
ness enterprises would still ]
be-mere dreams. 1
Advertising has brought 1
about a majority of the in- }
troductions of the man with j
the ide£, the man with * «
prospect, or business to the ’
man with the dollar. J
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