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STEWART A SELBY, Proprietors
VALDES, ALASKA
Published Dally Except Sunday
Entered as Second-Class Mall Matter,
Jnly 21, 1912. at the postofflce of Valdes,
Alaska, under act of March S, 1879.
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1«, 1910
A NEW ALASKA.
Hidden away in the more intensely
interesting news dispatches telling of
the results of the election there was
on Wednesday a brief story from
Alaska that is strikingly significant
of what may be expected in that
country.
Briefly, the story was to the effect
that several hundred homesteaders
have arrived and settled in the sec
tion of country through which the
United States government is building
its railroad; that these settlers are
prospering, and that indications fav
or a rapid increase of this class of
newcomers.
Think of that! Homesteaders go
ing to Alaska instead of gold hunters.
It opens an entirely new conception
of that country. It means that in
stead of stripping an unwilling land
of its sole wealth and then abandon
ing it, men are finding that there is
a continuous wealth in the agricultu
ral possibilities of the country, and
are going there to cultivate it and
make it a continuously richer and
more prosperous. It gives a notion
of a new Alaska of vastly different
style from that of former days.
Perhaps, too, there is another sig
nificance in this movement. Perhaps
it is an indication that men are not
today as insanely anxious for sudden
wealth as they were in the '49 and
Yukon days, but are better satisfied
lo be industrious and prosperous with
certainty, without taking the risks
and undergoing the hardships of the
usually disappointed gold hunter.;
Perhaps.
Alaska has yielded up many mu- \
lions in gold; now it may begin to
yield even more millions in even
more valuable products.—Duluth
Herald.
IS WAR KILLING WAR?
The tyranny that all Europe under
the passion and pressure of war, is
r.ow voluntarily adopting would have
caused revolution five years ago. Lib
erties dearly won are today dearly
sacrificed and despositsm is cheer
fully embraced on the plea of neces
sity.
Prophecy is one of the most futile
of all imaginings, but there are judg
ments as to the future, based upon
the records of the past, which do not
necessarily come under this heading.
For the first time in the history of
Europe, the causes, methods and re
■tilts of a devastating general war
Will ultimately be passed upon by an
enfranchising people
In the most backward of the na
tions involved the Inhabitants are no
longer in complete darkness. They
read and write. They have a voice
ia their government. Those who sur
vive this struggle will not always be
deceived as to its needlessness, its
awful cost in life and treasure, or os
to the fearful hardships inflicted
upon civilian populations. Compar
ing their own miseries with those of
i ations which they have been taught
to hate, and viewing keenly every
phase of the situation to see what has
been gained and what lost in a strug
gle that can probably have no climax
but exhaustion there can hardly fail
to be agreement in every country that
| such a war is useless as well as bar
barous.
Every battlefield, every trench, ev
jery desolated town and province, ev
ery hospital, every prison camp, ev
ery woman and child forced into the
work of men and every phase of hun
ger and deprivation is profoundly
prophetic of a better day when the
true lesson of this carnage will be un
i'er stood ana when al> the hideoue
falsehoods by which strife is engen
dered and glorified will be nakedly
revealed.
There will come a time, and soon,
in all Christendom, when a man who
even suggests war for any considera
tion save self-defense, and then only
when all other measures fail, will be
regarded not as a hero but as a scoun
drel and a criminal. If Europe’s
years of agony lead to that great
end, the sacrifice, even though pro
digious, will not have been altogeth
er in vain.—New York World.
Making It Plain.
“Aren’t you going to answer my
question?” asked the lawyer severely.
“Yis, sah! Yis, sah! I don’t wants
no fuss.”
“What was my question?”
"You wanted to know which way
de mule went when you says ‘Gee
Haw.’ ”
“What way does it go when you
say ‘Gee-Haw?’ ”
“Bof ways.”
“Up and down, or east and west?”
satirically observed the examiner.
“Yis, sah; when you says ‘Gee,’
hit goes over to dat side, and when
you says ‘Haw’ hit goes to t’other
side. Dat’s all hit knows. You con
verse wid a mule in the pit same as
you does outside, plowin’ corn.”
“How long you known that mule,
Jimps?”
“Ever since hit was a baby.”
“What’s its name?”
“ ‘Mouse.’ ”
"Hoy’d you happen to call it that? ’
“ ’Cause hit ain’t big enough to
call hit ‘Rat.’ ”
“All right, Jimps, you can ‘Gee
Haw.’ ”
“Thank you sah,” said the negro,
leaving the stand. “If you wants any
more hallucination on pints about
minin’ I’ll come back.”
Just received our Christmas stock
of Turkeys, Ducks, Geese and Chick
ens, fresh killed, unfrozen stock, as
well as fresh Booth Oysters, Green
Vegetables and Fruits at Frye-Bruhn
Company’s. tfj
A full line of pyralin ivory at Owl I
Drug Go.t*
THE EMPRESS
Tonight at 8 p. m. Sharp.
Another Fine Triangle Program.
BESSIE BARRISCALE
With Clara Williams and Robert McKim, in five acts
“The Last Act”
ALSO THE ALL-STAR KEYSTONE COMEDY
“The Hunt”
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Ford Sterling and his fun makers
Sunday - ALIAS JIMMY VALENTINE
REGULAR ADMISSION REGULAR ADMISSION
FREAK GOLD FIELD
FOUND IN.ALASKA
SEATTLE, Dec. 16.—Marshal City,
new gold strike on the Yukon, eleven
miles from Andreasky, is a freak field
according to a number of Northern
mining men, who have just reached
Seattle from Alaska. Willow Creek,
the stream on which all of the pay
has been found—and >250,000 was
taken out during the past summer—
is a geological curiosity. The pay
streak suddenly breaks off when the
timber line is reached from the high
ter altitudes. All the gold is above
the timber line. Willow Creek is the
only stream of this character that has
ever been discovered in the North,
and so far as known, in the world.
A similar condition is found on a
tributary of Willow Creek.
Frank Waskey, Alaska's first dele
gate to Congress, who spent a fortune
trying to induce Congress to pass a
territorial government law for Alas
ka, and subsequently went broke at
Nome, is said to have been one of the
biggest winners at Marshal City, his
clean-up for the past summer being
about $40,000 net. Eight paying
claims had been discovered when the
snow began to fall and the rivers to
freeze.
Fine Triangle program at the Em
press tonight. A 5 reel drama and a
Ford Sterling 2 reel comedy. Tomor
row evening "Alias Jimmy Valentine"
in 5 acts with Pathe News, a fine
show.
G. A. Brooks, the well known min
ing man, will leave on the Alameda
for the States.
A Good Buy.
Party leaving city is forced to sell
small block of Sweepstake stock at
a sacrifice. Your opportunity—but
quick action is required. Alaska In
\estment Co. 2t
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
DR. S. WICKES MERRITT
Offices over Valdes Drag Co.
I'hone ’15 McKinley Street
Contract Surgeon, U. S. Army
A. A. Surgeon, U S. Public Health Serv.
(Marine Hospital)
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNBYS-AT-IjAW
Office Opposite Conrt House
Phone 34 VALDBX. ALASKA
JOHN Lf ON* « K KITCHIS
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORNBTS.AT.LAW
Ofllcea la whaling Building
Phone ui Valdez. Alaska
DR. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate National U a Ire ratty
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
Foarteen Tears in Valdez.
PHONE 110
Office Booms In 'Whaling Building
ASA C. BALDWIN
CIVIL ENGINEER
V. S. Mineral Sumy*
McKinley Strnnt aypealte V. M. Store.
VaUez, Alaska
ALBERT GLEAVES.
Rear Admiral In Charga U. 8. Da
atroyara Looking For U Boat Baaa
Photo bp American Preaa AasoctahUoe. ,
Stye S>tnr£ nf (Hljristmas
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Only A Few More Shopping Days Before Xmas
Notwithstanding the fact that this store has
been the busy Xmas shopping center in Valdez
the past two weeks, we still have a large as
sortment of presents for Father, Mother, Bro
ther or Sister.
For Men
Gloves, Neckties, Socks, Shirts, Handkerchiefs, Razors,
Smoking Sets, House Coats, Bath Robes, Stetson Hats,
Style Plus and Hart Schaffner and Marx Suits.
For Ladies
Kayser Silk Hose, Holeproof Hose, Traveling Bags, Silk
Waists and Dresses, Winter Coats, Furs, Traveling Clocks,
Fancy Box Writing Paper, Slippers, Etc.
For Children
Toys of all kinds, Sleds and Wagons, Sweater Sets,
Mackinaw Sets, Stockings, Handkerchiefs and Comfy Slippers.
For the House
Cut Glass, Electric Vacuum Cleaners, Casseroles, Electric
Percolators, Electric Irons, Pawn Comforters, Blankets, Art
Squares, Majestic Ranges, Edison Phonographs.
We have hundreds of articles too numerous to men
tion,l so if you^dont see what you want ask the man
behind the counter.
S Blum & Co.
(INCORPORATED)
GOOD GOODS.
ATLAS JUNK CO.
Wholesale and Retail Dealer* in
ALL KINDS OF JUNK
Buyers of Metal, Rubber, Ma
nila Rope, Sacks, Machinery.
Pipe, Hides, Furs and Bottles.
1043 Railroad Avenue, So.
SEATTLE, WASH.
Try the Cottage Dining Room for
good home-cooked meals. Mrs. M.
Rneker, Phone 131. tf
Pictures and Panoramic Yiews
make fine presents. Yaldec Drug
Co. tf
FURNISHED ROOMS FOR
MEN
RATES REASONABLE
Nice clean rooms, good beds,
rooms rented by day, week, or
month. At the Hopkins House
MRS. P. REED
When b Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
OBORUS tBXTON, P«OP.
strictly first class
Fourth Art, Bswstd. Alaska
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miner*
ROBERT GARNER. Prerident.
Granite Mia*.
CBAS. McCALLUM, Secretary,
V alder Alaaka.
The Best Piece in Veldes to
Stop at is the
Arctic Hotel
Wee, Light Baaea Th Hnn al Caefart
BATES? SEASONABLE
BATHPOOII Syadal Bataa By tba Maath
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