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Tt'ESU \> , MAY », 1»10
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MY TRINITY
Three things there are that 1 would
praise,
The glow of bright mid-summer
days,
The song of waves that seem to hold
Deep hints of mysteries untold,
And fair and gentle, leal and true.
Dearest and best, though last
named, you.
Three things there are that 1 would
hold,
Memories of summer’s flame and
gold;
A shell that ever unto me
Shall sing the story of the sea.
A::d dowered with ail your witching
charms,
Your own sweet self within my
arms. R. O’DEAR.
KEEP AWAY FROM ANCHORAGE.
Lieut. Mears advises that there are
plenty of laborers at Anchorage to
meet the requirements of the Com
mission, and advises people who are
seeking employment to stay away.
This will have the effect, probably, of
restraining a number of Alaskans
from wasting their money in steam
ship fares to that place, but it will
have little effect upon the foreigners
who are flocking there from the states
many of whom cannot read or speak
the English language. There are al
ready at the new railroad town more
laborers than are required, but the
rush there still continues from the
states, every steamer being loaded
with men who will seek employment
there. Most of these will be disap
pointed, and as has always been the
case in similar circumstances, this
fall some one will have to pay their
fares back to the States.
If ther^ are any in Valdez who con
template going to Anchorage for the
purpose of securing employment, it
would be a very wise proceeding to
secure the employment before start
ing, or else remain here. Any man
in Valdez who wishes to work will
undoubtedly be offered an opportun
ity within a short time, as the demand
for men in the mines this summer
promises to be greater than the sup
ply.
SUCCESS IN “I CAN.”
The boy who says he can’t is prob
ably right. To think failure is to
act it. Success or failure depends on
the spinal column. Those who have
backbones succeed; those who have
wishbones fail. A backbone means
the determination to pound your paw
on the table and say “I will.” A back
bone means jaw set teeth gritted and
fist clenched. It means the strength
to laugh at obstacles.
The word obstacle is found only in
the lexicon of the weak. In the path
of the strong obstacles are stepping
stones. Don’t say you can’t earn
more money; don’t say you can’t do
anything. Columbus didn’t say he
could not do anything; Fulton didn’t
say it; Edison didn’t say it. Do you
know what have said “I can’t.” Do
- ' ' ’ .! Oa_iv -
you know? They are the millions and
millions who have died and their
names are graven on the blank walls
in the unknown Temple of the For
gotten.
Some of the best serial stories of
the year will be depicted on the
screen at the Empress show house
during the coming summer. "The
Birth of a Nation” is one of them.
This great picture was shown for
weens to crowded houses in Tacoma,
Seattle, Bellingham, and Everett, and
the audience called for a repeat. It
will be shown to Valdez audiences
through the Empress circuit.
The fact that a moving picture
show is about to be started at La
touche shows the wonderful growth
of that thriving little mining camp.
A few years ago and it was the abid
ing place of but a few people. Today
over three hundred men are drawing
down good wages from the mines at
this place. It is a coming town, and
will probably grow to several thou
sand in the next few years.
Chairman Henry Rainey of the
House Committee on Ways and
Means, states that new sources of rev
enue will have to be found to raise
a quarter of a billion dollars, provid
ed the administrations plans go thru.
It’s a wonder those congressmen do
not stumble on the protective tariff
idea. That has been the champion
revenue-raiser in the past and would
work equally well in the future.
Parties desiring to escape the ex
tremes of weather in the States should
summer in Valdez. Bright, sunny
days and pure mountain air and good
water, coupled with the quiet rest
fulness of the place, would restore the
shattered nerves of the most jaded
business man in one summer. With
good fishing, mountain climbing and
safe boating, we cannot see why some
one has not started a health resort |
in Valdez long ago.
A lti-year-old boy at Haines wa j
sentenced a few days ago to serve : [
three months sentence in jail fo !
breaking windows in a house there
This ought to serve as a warning tc
some Valdez boys who have been in
dulging in a similar practice.
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The Juneau Dispatch says that Del
egate Wickersham is ’’fighting” to se
cure an appropriation for the public
buildings at that place. We have nev
er yet seen where the Delegate work
ed for anything, urged anything, ask
ed anything. He Is always “fighting"
for something and this is probablj
the main reason why he gets so little, j
The Committee of Four, appointed |
at Seward to name the republican
candidate for delegate to congress,
after spending some time in Juneau
have gone their various ways with
out naming the man who will be stan
dard bearer for the party in Alaska.
It is apparent that Mr. Shackleford
hasn’t made up his mind yet, or per
haps he still has hopes Wick will
come through on that agreement.
The sTar remarks that if it had
not been for the Prospector and its
policies, there would have been no
Star. We might also rise to remark
that if it had not been for the Pros
pector and its pull there would still
be a Star; but that would be rubbing
it in.
Certain of our wobbling statesmen
are rapidly coming to resemble the
small boy in the story who acciden
tally put his pants on hind side be
fore. No one could tell by looking
at him whether he was going or com
ing.
If you do not put back something
of what you take out of your mind,
it will not be long before you will
have nothing to put back or take out
either.
THE EMPRESS
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THE BOOB AND THE MAGICIAN—Biograph Comedy.
FLIRTATIOUS LIZZIE—Kalem Comedy.
THE GIRL AT NOLAN’S—VlUgraph Comedy—Margaret Gigaon.
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Ballet Extravaganza
4 PARTS
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Go to sleep in peace; God is awake.
Do not waste an hour of these fine
days.
Those who ride a nightmarp ride
a dangerous nag.
A mile a minute is pretty good
speed, but a smile a minute gets more
action.
“It ain't no disgrace fur a man to
fail, but to lay there and grunt, iz.”—
Josh Billings.
An exchange says: “Don't waste so
much time cryin' over spilt milk that
you forget to go after the cows at
night.”
Wc believe in preparedness when
it comes to getting out one the big
gest and best papers in Alaska, and
we are preparing for just that very
thing.
INDUSTRIAL WORKERS
ELECT OFFICERS
At a recent meeting of Industrial
Union No. 1 at Seward the following
committee was appointed to confer
with Andrew Christensen head of the
land department of the U. S. railroad
in regard to securing a labor temple
site in the Federal addition to Sew
ard.
The officers named are John Helm,
president; Bdkin, vice president;
Swvers, secretary treasurer; Bork
ness, sergeant at arms, and Paeden,
Swanson and Gammel, trustees and
auditors.
A. J. Wilkie, who acted as tempo
rary secretary and did much toward
organizing the union, is going to La
touche at an early date.
Stop that Infernal Racket
Show your wife how much you
love her and send that noisy old
pump to the Valdez Iron Works and
let them remove the peace disturber,
your neighbors will appreciate it. tf
Men, women’s and children’s wear
ing apparel, household utensils and
articles of every day need, at the
Emporium. *
Panoramic views of Child’s and
Miles graciers, Dawson, Valdez and
Wrangel on sale at Valdez Drug Co. '*
FIRST DELEGATE,.
STRIKES IT RICH AT MARSHALL
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In the Face of Discouragelng Odds
Frank Waskey makes Fight to Re
gain Fortune in the North and
Succeeds.
“Frank Waskey strikes it rich at
Marshall City, near Holy Cross Mis
sion. Ground runs six-dollars to the
square foot. Will take out big for
tune this summer. Already has sev
eral thousand buckets of^pay gravel
on the surface,” says J. J. Underwood
in the Seattle Times of April 26.
Such is the brief news dispatch re
ceived here today from Fairbanks
that epitomize a romance of gold
hunting in the Far North; the story
of a man's determination to retrieve
fron^the wilderness the fortune he
sacrificed in behalf of the territory;
a talk of patient toil and abiding
faith and fortitude manifested in the
face of*almost unbelievable hardships
and suffering.
Frank H. Waskey was Alaska’s
first delegate to Congress. He had
made a fortune at Nome, and expend
ed more than $150,000 in four
month's at the National Capital in an
effort th Induce congress to pass a bill
granting territorial government to
Alaska. He went to Nome In 1900
and by 1906 had acquired a comfort
able fortune. At the time Waskey
left Nome for Washington he had a
number of claims on the celebrated
third beach line—the richest deposit
of placer gold ever found in the entire
north.
Congress, on threat of a movement
to secede to Canada, received from In
dignant citizens of Southwestern
Alaska, had hurredly recognized that
"taxation without representation”
was against the best principles of
Americanism and had passed a law
granting Alaska a»delegate to Con
gress. Alaska then, as now, was a
mining country, and chose two min
ers to represent it—Frank H. Was
key for the short term and Tom Cale,
a Fairbanks prospector, for the long
term. Both were democrats.
Waskey was an ardent believer in
territorial government, and to obtain
the passage of a territorial bill he
spent money freely, but unsuccess
fully. The bill was introduced, but
died in the committee. The delegate
returned to find the beach line claims
♦)ed nn in litigation, some of which
For All
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You may be radical or conserva
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The best groceries received
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits, and
nuts.
has not yet been settled. The law
yers grew rich, but Waskey had to
take a reef in the rubber band around
his bankroll.
With about $200,000 he began a
tunnel on Iron Creek. He had al
ready expended an immense sum in
buying up the claims on the creek.
Just as he began to wash the gravel
through the ground sluice on the bot
tom of the tunnel the roof collapsed
and it was impossible to repair it.
Broken in fortune Waskey disap
peared into the wilderness and was
not heard of until four years later
when he reached Good News Bay,
near the mouth of the Kuskokwim
River, where a gold strike of poor
quality was made. Waskey deter
mined to install a plant to work the
ground on a large scale, and was re
turning from Nome in a schooner
with the equipment when the vessel
capsized in a storm. For three days
and three nights Waskey and some
of his companions clung to the over
turned vessel and finally they were
washed ashore on a big tide-flat.
They began to walk toward the
beach and soon discovered that they
were on an island that would be sub
merged again at high-tide. With
the certainty of being drowned if
they remained, they began to wade a
two-mile strip of water that separated
them from the mainland and fortu
nately found that it was no deeper
than their waists.
Famished and half frozen, and al
most perishing for water, the four
survivors of the wreck struggled
along the beach and at last"'found
an abandoned native hut. All of
the water they had found up to that
time had been salty. Waskey fig
ured that the native must have had a
quantity of fresh water or he would
not have built his home there. In
the woods back of the hut they found
a spring.
For nearly two months they lived
by gathering clams and sea food on
the beach. There was two feet of
snow on the ground when they were
were rescued and all of them were se
verely frostbitten. s They were taken
to St. Michael for treatment and as
soon as he was well, Waskey disap
peared into the wilderness again.
He was next heard of at a creek
near Andreafsky, where he had dis
covered another paystreak. Being
a Democrat, he named the place Mar
shall City in honor of Thomas Mar
shall, vice-president of the United
states, and it is here that he has
found his reward.
Waskey is known from Ketchikan
to Point Barrow and has a host of
friends in the North who will rejoice
to hear that he has again come into
his own.
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Valdez, Alaska
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pect ; otherwise a good nj^ny
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