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LOCAL HENS ;
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Charles Newbill is at Port
Wells mining.
Judge Robbins, of Ellamar, is
in town taking in the sights.
Finest comedy yet seen in Val
dez at the show house tonight.
Bill Walker went over the
trail this morning for the hew
strike.
Dr. and Mrs. Cockerille made
a trip down the bay yesterday in
the Fay.
The /Orpheum has been reno
vated and is now very pleasing to
the eye.
Teaching him how to spit, the
«reatesl comedy ever shown in
Valdez. Don’t miss it.
Charles Bush and Mark Glea
son and a. parly of friends left
for Shoup bay this morning.
John Savoy leaves in the morn
ing for Shushana going via the
Gulkana and upper Copper route.
,R. S. Becky returned from the
Port Wells section this morning.
He has been doing some develop
ment work on his claims.
I Pete Huganir left this morning
with a team for the new strike
on the Shushana. He will go in
Via the upper Copper river.
The Brighton will leave tomor
row morning for Port Wells and
way ports with a large 'number of
passengers and her capacity of
freight.
The steamer Cordova is ex
pected to reach Valdez tomorrow
morning at 4 o’clock bringing
coal and gasoline for local mer
chants.
.. Cnrp. Longley returned to Val
dez yesterday and will leave on
one of the first boats for Seattle
'Where he can enjoy the plesh pots
of the stales.
The town was depleted of peo
ple yesterday, as many made the
trip down the bay or out the gov
ernment road picking salmon and
blueberries, which are now to be
had in plenty.
Joe Spenard, jvilli his city ex
press, made a trip to the can
yon yesterday with his three
seated rig, taking Sam Blum and
a parLy of guests to view the
canyon.
Pfiester Hays and John Craw
ford made a trip to Slump bay
yesterday and talked over the tel
ephone line with superintend
ent Charles Crawford of the Gold
King.
E. G. Ames made a trip yester
day with the Nifty to Helena bay,
taking Fred Camerop, Charles
Walker and Mining Engineer
|Hyder, who represents Boston
capital.
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PRAISES ALASKA
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untouched and if the policy of
the government changes and a
more liberal attitude taken on
Alaska questions aiding and en
couraging the pioneers of this
Jerri lory, Alaska will go forward
with leaps and bounds.”
Need Roads.
“This country needs \Vagou
roads and trails more'than any
thing else, trails into the more
•remote sections so that the pi
oneer can prospect and roads in
to the mining sections where the
development work demonstrates
the value and the justification
therefor, but the greatest need
of the country as far as I can
see it after my short visit is an
automobile road from the coast,
to the interior connecting dhe
Pacific Ocean with the interior
waterways, and I belive that with
the remarkable run made ’ by
Robert Sheldon, the pathfinder
in the Ford automobile, who
reached this town Saturday, the
federal authorities jvill wake up
and appropriate enough money to
,alIo\y the road commission to
4>uild a permanent automobile
road from Valdez to Fairbanks
connectingi the Pacific and the
Tanana.”
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Pioneers Meet Tonight.
The order of Alaska Pioneers
will meet tonight at Moose Hall
at 8 o’clock. All members re
quested to be present. Business
of importance.
~ E. G. AMES.
( Secretary.
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DISCUSSING THE MINISTERT
Th« Quaint Coiti#dy That Waa Enaot
ad by "Ian Maolaran.”
Bet. John Watson, better known
to the world as Igp Maclaren, the
author of “Beside the Bonnie Briar
Bush,” was a fascinating talker, says
Mr. William H. Rideing in “Many
Celebrities and a Few Others.” In
the quietest way he dramatized any
trifling incident that amused him.
Once I was lunching with him at
his house in Liverpool. He was
about to resign from the Sefton
Park church, and he speculated as to
how he might be estimated after his
departure. In an instant, as he
talked, the table and those round it
vanished, and we were listening to
two elders with whispering voices i
discussing a retiring minister.
“A good man, a verra good man,”
one of them was saying.
“Aye, he was that. There’ll be
nobody to deny it. But Aw’m think
ing—weel, no, I’ll no say it.”
“Aw’m thinking the same masel’%
Was he no a bit off in his sermons
lately, did ye say ?”
“Weel, perhaps.”
“And no so keen as he used to
be.”
“Puir man!”
“Aye, he did his best, nae doot.”
“Ye minded him in the Sabbath
school ? Strange, verra strange,
hoo the attendance dropped. I can
na account for it. What’ll you be
thinking?”
“I’ve heard creeticism, aye, severe
creeticism, no that I agree with it
or disagree with it. Mackenzie was
telling me we’ll be lucky to be rid
of him, and Campbell opines that
he was ruining the kirk.”
“Aye, and Ferguson was saying—
but I’ll no speak ill of him.”
“Puir man!”
“Aw’m thinking it’s for the best
he will be going.”
“Maybe. The new man’s fine—
another John Knox, Mackenzie was
saying.”
One could hear their undertones
as they damned with faint praise
and condemned by innuendo. One
saw them in their decent blacks,
askance, timorous, insinuating. Wat
son’s features hardly moved, nor
had he recourse to gestures. He
did not act the little scene, but
seemed to visualize it to .us almost
by hypnotic suggestion.
The Seven Stars.
The Seven Stars or the Pleiades
are spoken of in the earliest litera
ture that we have, and with reason,
since they constitute one of the
most conspicuous of the heavenly
objects. The author of the Book of
Job refers to the Pleiades, and fre
quent references to the constella
tion are to be found- in the Greek
and Roman classics. As to the dis
tance of the seven stars, it may be
said that careful calculations have
shown that Alcyone, the member of
the group around which the sun
and the whole solar system were
once thought to revolve, is some
954,000,000,000,000 miles from us
—a distance that it would require
light about 100 years to travel.
Knew Where She Was Going.
A little girl and her mother were
waiting for a car. Mother, a col
lege graduate, was greeted by a
member of the college faculty.
“Why, how do you do ? And this
is the baby! My, what a great big
girl she is! 1 knew you, young
lady,” and here the professor lean
ed forward and adopted a confiden
tial tone, “when you were just so
big. Let me see. You must be five,
going on six.”
“I am five going on the car!”
said the young lady, and the profess
or straightened up and pretended
not see the blush that spread itself
on mother’s face:
She needn’t have blushed. We all
do it.—San Francisco Call.
Depth of Hie Love.
“How long would you be willing
to wait for me ?” she asked in tones
so low he could scarcely catch the
words. And then she went on:
“You know, George, my father has
recently invested in a silver mine,
and he is going there at once, and I
cannot leave mother alone. So I
ask you again, George, how long
would you be willing to wait for
me ?”
“Wait for you, my darling?” re
peated George, for this was no fleet
ing lofre, “I will wait for you until
we learn bow the silver mine turns
out.”—Newark Star.
' Grant’s Sente of Humor.
General Grant had a keen sense
of humor and often expressed it
effectively. He once said of his
standing at West Point that his only
chance of getting anywhere near
the head of his class was to turn the
class wrong end foremost.
Another remark that iB credited
to him concerned his lack of musical
talent'. He said that he never could
whistle more than two tunes, that
one was "Yankee Doodle" and the
other was not, and' that he was
never sure which tune he was white*
tling.—Youth’s Companion.
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Meet every Tuesday evenintt at 8 o'clook In
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VALDEZ LODGE NO. 6,1.0. 0. F.
ETT Meets every Monday at 8 p. m. in
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Visiting Brothers especially invited
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PIONEERS OF ALASKA
IGLOO NO. 7.
Meets every first and third Mon
day of each month. All visit
ing Brothers welcome.
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