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THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1914.
FACTS AND FIGURES.
Since the middle of March six hun
dred and forty-four men passed the
summit of White Pass headed this
way on foot, which means that, at
the present charge from bkagway io
Whitehorse, of twenty dollars per
passenger, the railroad lost twelve
thousand, eight hundred and eighty
dollars. Had the fare been twelve
dollars and fifty cents, which would
still be in excess of 11 cents per
mile, the road would hav’e been sev
en thousand, eight hundred and fifty
dollars to the good. No wonder we
hear hard luck stories concerning the
financial struggles of the railroad.
No wonder the country is on the
‘•bum” and that those who come find
it hard to get work—so hard that,
during the first twenty days of June
sixty-three men passed the summit
on foot, getting out of the country.
This paper has always contended
that the transportation companies
operating in Yukon and interior Alas
ka have stood in their own light in
the matter of adjuusting their
charges. Instead of making some
effort to build up the country by
fostering business enterprises, they
have always operated on the basis
of grab everything in sight this year
and leave the future years to take
care of themselves. The result of
this policy has been that the "grab
bing” has grown less with each suc
ceeding year until it is now but a
memory of what it once was.
We may be mistaken and, aside
from our general interest in the
country, it is none of our business,
but we dislike standing by while sui
cide is being committed without even
making am effort to stay the mis
guided htind. j
More than one mining project in j
southern Yukon has been shut down
and is now idle pending reductions
in transportation charges. The same
conditions exist all over Yukon and
interior Alaska. Yet some people
wonder why a country so rich in nat
ural resources should be at a stand -
still so far as the developing of these
resources are concerned. There is
nothing wonderful about it. No legi
timate industry can thrive under the
transportation pressure which
weights it down.—Whitehorse Star.
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If Delegate Wickersham would
spend as much time and energy in
securing the passage of a federal
statute to force the Guggenheim
owned canneries to pay their fair pro
portion of the taxes in cash instead
of paying them in cheap affidavits,
as he did in securing the repeal of
the tax on railroads in Alaska, which
none but the Guggenheints ever paid,
the people of the territory would have
more respect for his anti-corporation
howls.
10,000-YEAR-OLD SKULL
FOUND IN CALIFORNIA
BERKELEY, Cal.—That there liv
ed in California as much as 10,000
years ago men of a very tolerable
degree of intellectual development is
the conclusion drawn by Prof. J. C.
Merriam of the State University here
from a careful study of the skull of
a prehistoric human being found re
cently in the asphalt sink at La Brea.
The professor said that there could
be no doubt, from surrounding geo
logical indications, of the approxi
mate age in which the owner of the
skull lived. In the same pit were
the bones of lower animals recogniz
ed as belonging to the same period.
The skull, as Merriam pointed out,
is but slightly smaller than that
of the present day man. The fore
head is high and from the size of
the brain cavity and other general
indications he felf confident that the
head’s owner belonged to a type of
far from unintelligent beings.
Trips to the Glacier.
The Ford automobile, holding four
people, will make trips to the Valdez
Glacier for $4.00 a trip. An excellent
road has been built. View the sights.
See Owen Meals.
Nubone Coreete.
Try Mre. St. Marie’s for one of
those Nubone corsets. tf
ANOTHER GAME
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Valdez 1, Cordova 17.
The Valdez ball team may be able
to beat that Cordova bunch playing
marbles but they have no chance
with them in a base ball game. Again
let us remind you that them figures
al the head of the column is correct.
That Cordova bunch of sluggers hit
everything that came along, high and
ilow balls, incurves and out shoots, it
made 'no difference. Hus-ay King,
once the mainstay of the famous Val
dez team, played first and Jack Bi
shop, for whom McGraw once offered
$100,000, played second but in spite
of their strenuous efforts the game
was lost and lost plenty.
At the end of the seventh inning
the score was seventeen to one so
the Valdez boys asked if they might
please go home and Umpire Roche
said Yes. The spectators were glad
to see them go.
Faubion, the former first baseman
for the Valdez team, did the slab
work for Cordova and McClaire toss
ed for Valdez.
BASE BALL SCORES
Games played July 8, 1914.
National League.
Chicago 4, Boston 7. Pitchers ■ -
Cheney, Zabel, Lavender; Tyler.
St. Louis 4, New York 3. PPchers
—Doak; Mathewson.
Pittsburg 7, Philadelphia 10. Pitch
ers—O’Toole, Counzelman, Mameau:
Marshall, Oeschager.
Cincinnati 6, Brooklyn 4. Pitchers
—Schneider, Benton, Douglas; Ruck
er, Ragan.
American League.
New York 7, Cleveland 1. Pitch
ers—'Warhop; Mitchell, Collamore.
Boston, 2, Chicago 4. Pitchers—
Leonard, Bedient; Russell, Faber.
Boston 4, Chicago 5. Pitchers—
Coumber, Cooper; Benz, Faber.
Philadelphia 3, Detroit 0. Pitchers
—Plank; Dauss, Reynolds.
Washington 5. St. Louis 3. Pitch
ers- Boehling. Engle, Harper; James.
Federal League.
Brooklyn 6, Baltimore 4. Pitchers
--Seaton; Smith. Conley.
Brooklyn 4, Baltimore 3. Pitchers
—LaFitte; Quinn.
Buffalo 5, Pittsburg 1. Pitchers—
Moore; Berger.
Chicago 8, Kansas City 1. Pitch
ers—Fiske; Stone, Allison.
Indianapolis 3, St. Louis 6. Pitch
ers—McConnaughty; Groom.
Northwestern League.
Seattle 7, Victoria 0. Pitchers—
Kelly; McHenry, Narveson.
Spokane 2, Tacoma 3. Pitchers—
Arlett; Kaufman.
Vancouver 6, Portland 4. Pitchers
-Hall; Leonard.
TEAM STANDING.
National League.
Per
Games— Won Lost Cent
New York . 41 27 603
Chicago . 40 33 548
St. Louis . 38 36 514
Cincinnati .35 36 493
Philadelphia . 32 35 478
Pittsburg . 32 36 471
Brooklyn . 31 35 470
Boston .. •■ 29 40 420
American League.
' Per
Games— Won Lost Cent
Philadelphia . 43 30 589
Detroit . 43 32 573
Chicago . 39 33 542
Washington . 40 36 526
Boston . 39 37 513
St. Louis . 39 37 513
New York . 25 42 373
Ceveand . 24 45 348
Federal League.
Per
Games— Won Lost Cent
Chicago .. 41 26 594
Brooklyn . 33 29 532
Indianapolis . 34 30 531
Buffalo . 34 31 523
Baltimore . 35 34 507
St. Louis . 31 36 463
Kansas City . 32 41 438
Pittsburg . 29 40 420
Northwestern League.
Per
Games— Won Lost Cent
Seattle .56 31 644
Vancouver . 53 32 624
Spokane . 52 32 619
Victoria . 33 51 393
Portland . 30 52 366
Tacoma . 31 57 352
ALASKA MONEY, ORDERS
NOT INTERCHANGEABLE
Postmaster Jefferson has called the
attention of the Prospector to an
error In yesterday’s dispatch from
Washington, which stated that money
orders were good at any postoffice in
the United States for thirty days af
ter the date of issue. The regula
tions provide that the new order is
good fonly in continental | United
States, excepting Alaska, which will
not secure,the benefit of the order
because of the wide distances - be
tween the postoffices and the scarcity
of money in many of the smaller
postoffices.
REVENUE CUTTERS
SAVE MANY LIVES
Good Samaritans of the Seas
Brava Hardships and Danprs.
REVIEW OF YEAR’S WORK.
Responded to One Hundred and Three
Calls, Mostly Wireless Signals For
Aid—Hundreds of Lives and Vast
Amount of Property Rescued From
Waters—Report of Winter’s Toil.
Washington.—The winter just closed
has been the busiest for the revenue
cutter service In its history. During
the winter cruising season beginning
Dec. I and ending Marcii 31 its little
fleet has rendered assistance to nearly
1.000 persons and to several million
dollars’ worth of cargo and vessels.
The cruising fleet was distributed ns
follows: At Eastport. Me., the Wood
bury: at Portland. Me., the Andro
scoggin; at Boston, the Gresham; at
Wood's Hole, Mass., the Acushnet; at
New York, the Itasca; at Baltimore
and in the Chesapeake bay. the Apa
che; at Norfolk, the Onondaga; at Wil
mington. N. C.. the Yamacrnw.
The Seneca was sent out from New
York the middle of February to resume
the north Atlantic ice patrol, which
ELLSWORTH P. BERTHOLF, CHIEF OF REV
ENUE CUTTER SERVICE.
she undertook last year. She was
joined recently by the Miami. Their
season will not end until about the
1st of .lime. These boats by an inter
national agreement are making the
patrol for the benefit of European na
tions as well as the United States.
The first report to reach the treasury
department is from the Onondaga.
Captain B. M. Chiswell commanding.
The Onondaga got the heaviest of the
work, stood out to sea almost' con
stantly. running into Norfolk only for
coal. She patrolled over 200 miles of
coast, from Cape Hatteras to the Dela
ware breakwater, where she met the
Itasca, cruising out from New York.
Frequently the trim little cutter was
sent out hard under forced draft, near
ly always in a raging storm and some
times in a blinding blizzard or fog. in
answer to wireless S. O. S. calls. Un
der forced draft she made from eight
een to nineteen knots. The Onondaga
has a displacement of 930 tons. 205
feet length and 32 feet beam and a
draft of 13 feet C inches. She carries
four six-pounder rapid fire guns and
has a complement of nine officers and
sixty-three men.
Captain Chiswell describes bis work,
day by day, of assisting eleven ves
sels. having on board 283 passengers.
The vessels were valued at $1,094,900.
and the cargoes $744,000. Three dere
licts and the wreck of the Monroe were
destroyed.
j ue most vuiuuuie vessel assist™ uy
tbe Onondaga was the American
steamer Freida of New York, bound
from Sabine Pass. Tex., for Baltimore,
with a cargo of sulphur. Tbe Freida
grounded three miles off False Cape.
Va., In a heavy fog. Dec. 24. The On
ondaga happened to be nearby and
quickly reached the Freida and ran out
a hawser and hauled her off.
The schooner Augusta W. Snow was
thrice reported in distress by as many
passing steamers. The cutter, after
thirty-two hours’ search, found her
helpless in a rough sea, with her rud
der about to drop off, and towed her
into Hampton Roads Jan. 7.
On Jan. 16 tbe Onondaga was sum
moned to quell a mutiny on the barge
Scully, ofT Bewail Point. An armed
boat’s'crew boarded the barge, beard
testimony on both sides and arrested
tbe ringleader.
i On Jan. 26 she rescued tbe schooner
Adam Wilson. wblcb bad sunk off
Buekroe Beacb, Va. Tbe captain with
bis crew got away in a boat, bnt he
was compelled to leave 92,600 in casb
behind. Tbe cutter righted tbe schoo
ner and towed her into Hampton
Roads, and the skipper recovered the
money.
On Jan. 26. while cruising off Cep#
Batterss, the Onondaga waa ram- {
atoned by wireless to eld tbe schooner
Warren Adame. In danger of being
dashed ashore in a heavy gale. With
in twenty mlnntea the cotter was
alongside and towed her 120 miles to
Hampton ’ Roads.
Many other Stories of valuable am
ice are told.
Nothing Succeeds Like
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Success.
So Was Our Sale of
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Fine Clothes.
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKER1LLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
Phone no '“'Sll’rSr i
Oftice Rooms over V AL.LJII0Z.
Valdez Drug Co. j
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DR. GERMAN
Phone 19 THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Drug More Office hours
9ii.m.. to 61). m.. 7 p. m.. to 9 o. m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
DR. M. O. ADAMS
DENTIST
Office on Wall St. next Prospector office
Valdez, Alaska.
New Company’alPhone No. BO
HOURS—9 to 12 a.'*.; 1 to 6 aid 7 to9p. m.
DR. C. H. VANCE
the OSTEOPATH
Graduate American School of
Osteopathy. KIkrsvIlle. Mo.
OFFICE HOURS-* le 12 a.. IteSe. a., er kl
■ MSektawt.
TREATMENT 22.50
Office and Reeidence^Court St. PHONE 2*3
E. E. RITCHIE
LAWYER
PHONKI1H6 Valdez, Alaska
F. BUTTERWORTH
'Civil Engineer and
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
Blue Printing Valdes, Alaska.
A. C. BALDWIN
Civil Engineer and
Deputy Mineral
Surveyor.
Formerly Surveyor Alaska Boundary Survey
Valdes, Alaska. P- 0. BOX 274.
EO. F. WHITE
The Aasayer
Assaying and Ore Testing
CORRECT RESULTS
No More, No Lose
VALDEZ, ALASKA
If.you want all the newe all the
tine, 'read the Prospector.
Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
ALL KINDS OF
Native and I I Tli/IDFI? ant* Building
Puget Sound i U IVlDlLlv Material
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Prices Right W. M. FINICAL, Mgr. Phone 18
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"MILWAUKEE”
The Newest and Shortest Line to the East
Crossing the Cascade Mountains, the Kittitas' Valley, the Colum
bia River, the Bitter Root Mountains and Montana Canyon, trav
ersing a country of surpassing scenic grandeur, historical interest
and wonderful development.
, TWO FAST THROUGH TRAINS DAILY
"The Olympian” and "The Columbian”
The NEW ALL-STEEL TRAINS to
BUTTE, MILES CITY, SIOUX CITY,'
MINNEAPOLIS. ST. PAUL, MILWAUKEE and CHICAGO
For further information regarding fares, train service, reservations, etc.,
cal on or address
C. H. Kraemer, General Agent,
Alaska Steamship Co. and Alaska Coast S. S. Co., Valde-, Alaska
City Ticket Offices, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
443 Hastings St. West, Vancouver, R. C.
Second Ave. and Cherry St., Seattle
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C. E. BUNNELL
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Offices Wall Street
Phones. VALDEZ
Notice.
Notice is hereby given that the an
nual meeting of the stockholders of
The First Bank of Valdez will be
held at the office of said bank in the
Town of Valdez, Alaska, on Tuesday.
July the 14th, 1914, at the hour of
four o'clock p. m. at which meeting
the directors of said bank shall be
selected for the ensuing year, and
such other business .transacted as
may regularly come before said meet
ing.
kl4 M. BLUM, Secretary.
If you want all the news all
time, read the Prospector.
Notice of Forfeiture.
To Henry Seymour and Thomas
Lynch, their heirs, administrators,
and to all who it may concern:
You are hereby notified that I have
expended 1300.00 on the Association
claim No. 1, Association claim No. 2
and Association claim No. 3, located
on the Cbistochina river at the mouth
of Slate creek, in the Copper Center
recording precinct. Territory of Alas -
ka, the location certificates of said
claims being of record in the U. S.
commissioner’s 'Office at Copper Cen
ter, Alaska. Said expenditure was
made in order to hold said claims un
der the provisions of the laws of the
United States and of this territory,
and was made in the year 1913.
And if you fail or refuse to pay
your proportion (8100.00 each) with
in 90 days after the completion of
the publication of this notice your
interest in said claims will become
the property of the undersigned, your
cc^owner, under Section 2324, Re
vised Stautes of the United States.
W. R. MORTON.
First publication June 18, 1814.
last publication September II, 1914.