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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1914.
THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE.
Since the beginning of the war much
has been said in derogation of the
French military uniform. It is ap
parently the most obsolete and it is
surely the most unhandsome of all
the warrior garbs of today.
The great feature of the French
uniform is the bright red trousers.
Above the waist line the Gaul ap
parels himself in blue, but his nether
limbs are encased in great bags of
flaming scarlet. On his head is an
old-fashioned kepi such as American
soldiers wore in ’61. He is a gro
tesque sight, and the fact that his
uniform never fits him adds to his
general sartorial ugliness.
The German, except for his anach
ronistic helmet, has a practical uni
form. It is of grayish green, and is
so inconspicuous that large bodies
of men may move across the distant
landscape of summer without attract
ing attention. The Englishman wears
the sensible and serviceable khaki.
The Belgian has a blue uniform, not
so practical as that worn by the Ger
man and the Englishman, though
much less offensive than the piebald
outfit of the Frenchman.
But there is a defense for the
French. It is a definite defense, too,
and worthy of consideration.
Red is the color of courage. It is
the fighting color. A vast army of
red trousers is far more stirring than
an army of gray or buff. The French
believe in the psychological value of
redness. Good soldiers are expected
to "see red” in battle, and they might
as well become accustomed to the
color of blood and bravery and rage.
They are, to be sure, glowing marks
for the enemy’s marksmen, but the
psychological benefit is held to offset
this disadvantage.
No nation except the French would
permit such a uniform to be seen in
public. It is, however, so distinctly
French that it wins the liking of
observers even while it shocks their
esthetic and their common sense.—Ex.
Imported Japanese baskets at Val
dez Drug Co. tf
CROSSLEY WINS
IN HIGH COURT
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—The Su
preme Court today decided the Fair
banks appeal relating to the validity
of indictments which are joined to
gether. District Attorney Crossley
held that under the territorial law
Ihe joining of more than one similar
crime in an indictment was valid.
The court, however, guessed other
wise. Crossley was sustained today
by the highest court in the land up
on his appeal. The statute under
which Crossley joined two indict
ments was one passed by the Alaska
legislature at its last session.
Learn To Dance the Modern Dances.
Miss Jean Gravelle has opened a
class for modern dances at the cor
ner of Keystone and McKinley street.
Open from 2 to 5 every week day and
from 8 to 10 at night. New ’phone No.
44. Private lessons by appointment.
Weather Report.
Valdez, Dec. 1, 1914.
Barometric pressure .29,822
Temperature at 7 p. m.13
Maximum temperature.31
Minimum temperature .12
Mean temperature .211-2
Precipitation .•.10
Clear air, wind northeast 6 miles.
Snowed at night and from 6 a. m.
to 11:30 a. m.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Suits pressed for $1.00 at Silver
man’s the tailor. Tel- phone 198.
Home cooked meals at Mrs. Matil
da Olson’s on Hobart street. Phone
219. Dinner served at 6 p. m. tf
A nice line of art pictures just re
ceived from New York at Valdez
Drug Co. tf
FOR RENT four room furnished
house. Enquire at Prospector office.
OR
DEAD ON TRAIL
Sergeant Pierce Found Dead This
Morning Near the Beaver Dam
Telegraph Station.
Dennis Pierce was found dead this
morning on the trail between Teik
hell and Beaver Dam by Ed. Dickey,
who brought the body to Beaver Dam
Telegraph Station and wired the facts
into Valdez.
Sergeant Pierce was en route from
Tiekhell Telegraph Station to Thomp
son’s Pass Station, where he was go
ing to relieve Sergeant Simmons. He
left Tiekhell roadhouse at 2 o’clock
yesterday afternoon and complained
of heart trouble, but refused to lay
over.
His relatives in Illinois have been
notified and Lieut. Dougherty is
awaiting an answer as to the dis
position of the remains, which will
be brought to Valdez. Pierce was
well and favorably known in this
section, where he has been stationed
for many years.
JUNEAU STORE
IS HELD UP
Giovannetti, the Owner, Is Robbed of
$150.00 and Shot At When He
Tries To Pursue Bandits
JUNEAU, Dec. 2.—Two armed men
entered the Giovannetti grocery store
in this city and robbed the owner of
$150.00 and then escaped. When
Giovannetti attempted to pursue the
bandits they opened fire upon him
and then disappeared in a saloon and
mingled with the crowds and have so
far escaped capture.
The marshal’s office is working to
locate the crooks and the city auth
orities have started a roundup of all
undesirables and will ship the lAnch
out of Juneau. Hundreds of idle men
are in this city because of the shut
down of big operations at the mines.
Many men here would not work if
they had an opportunity and it is
this gang the police wish to rid the
city of.
Mariposa* South This Afternoon.
The steamer Mariposa is due in
Valdez at any moment from Seward
and will sail south soon after her ar
rival.
80,000 RUSSIANS
ARE CAPTURED
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can be appeased but all insist that
the war cannot be pushed to suit pop
ular demands, but that the opportun
ities must present themselves and
mistakes of the enemy taken advan
tage of when that opportunity pre
sents itself.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Cyrus W. Harrington left this
morning for Fidalgo.
Miss Rowland is in town from
Knikllk.
Escaped from an Asylum, two-reel
‘drama at the Orpheum tonight.
Senator and Mrs. B. F. Millard leave
on the steamer Mariposa for Seattle.
Escaped From An Asylum, a splen
did two-reel drama at the Orpheum
tonight.
The launch Brighton, Captain Stanl
ey, arrived in port today from Port
Wells.
In the Candy Store.
“What do you want little boyT”
“Nothin*, ma’am. 1 jest come to see
what I might ’a* got If 1 hadn’t ’a’ lost
tiy penny.”—Life.
Dry.
“Why do you associate with an those
university professors V
“My doctor says I must live in a dry
atmosphere!"—London Telegraph.
T—Men’s heavy wool hose 25c pair
at Emporium. tf
CORDOVA ROUTE
MAY BE USED
Matter of Selecting Terminals Will Be
An Important Question To Be De
cided By the President.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—Those in
I Washington who have been following
closely the reports of the operations
of the Alaska engineering commission
during the past summer are pretty
well satisfied in their own minds of
what the results will be.
They expect that, on the recom
mendation of the commission, Secre
tary Lane will decide to loc te the
main line up the Susitna valley, and
to tap the coal fields by branch lines
from the existing Copper Itiver and
Northwestern railway. Deductive rea
soning and guesses form the basis
of this opinion.
In the late summer a survey was
run by the commission from Chit
in:*, on the C. II. & N. W., into the
Matanuska coal field. Earlier, a line
had been carried to the same field
from the Susitna valley. Some engi
neers formerly in the employ of the
C. II. a. N. W. were employed on the
work from Chitina, according to re
ports here.
Taps Bering Coal Field.
Now another line is being run by
the same people, under the general
direction of Lieut. Frederick Mears, of
the commission, from Mile 38 on the
Copper River road into the Bering
coal field.
Significance is attached to the fact
that these surveys from Copper river
were undertaken late in the season
and that the beginning of the survey
on the line to the Bering fields was
closely followed by the appearance
here of J. P. Morgan, of the Alaska
Syndicate, owners of the Copper Riv
er & Northwestern, for consultation
with Secretary Lane.
It was given out that Mr. Morgan’s
purpose in asking the consultation was
to offer to sell his railroad to the
government. No particular secret was
made of the fact later that Secretary
Lane had no intention of buying. But
nothing was given out for publication
about making a traffic agreement be
tween the government coal roads and
the Alaska Syndicate’s road to get
the coal from the two fields to tide
water. There may or may not have
been such talk. That there is a pos
sibility of such an agreement being
made is the belief in Washington.
Only $1,000,000 Appropriated.
Commonly the bill authorizing the
construction of a government railroad
in Alaska is said to have carried an
appropriation of $35,000,000 for the
work. In fact the bill, while auth
orizing the construction of a railroad
to cost that amount, appropriated on
ly $1,000,000 for surveys and prelim
inary work.
Possibly congress will be asked to
appropriate $34,000,000 at the coming
session. The chances are that it will
not. Economy is to be the watchword
at the next session if the president
can have his way. Moreover very fast
work indeed would have to be done
to expend legitimately $34,000,000 in
one year.
The requirements of the Alaska rail
road act are to open up the agricul
tural country, to connect the interior
waterways with the sea and to fur
nish transportation to the coal. The
Susitna route meets the first two re
quirements; the last named presents
a problem of considerable expense.
For Speedy Kesuits.
Arguments, it will thus be seen,
can readily be found for asking only
money enough at the coming session
of congress to construct the short
lines from the Copper River road into
the Matanuska and Bering fields, and
to make a start on the Susltna trunk
line. In other words, for employing
an existing railroad for part of the
coal haul in order to accomplish
speedy results and to leave at liberty
a larger proportion of the money for
the trunk line.
The danger in this, from a govern
mental point of view, is that the cry
will be raised in congress that the
proposal entails the government go
ing into a partnership with the Gug
genhelms, otherwise the Alaska Syn
dicate. This is something which must
be fully considered by Secretary Lane
before he makes his final recommen
dations.
Terminals Are Problem.
Of large importance also Is the
matter of selecting the sea terminals
of the trunk line. Before the com
missioners went to Alaska, Portage
Bay was known tp be held in high fa
vor. Of late inquirers have been hear
ing discouraging reports, based on
what has been learned from the men
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Ask Us for
Christmas
Suggestions
3F you dont see what you
want in this store, ask for it;
we probably have it; if we
haven’t, we’ll get it for you.
We can’t give you a complete
list of Christmas things for men,
in the space we have here; but
we’ll send you one if you care
for it.
Hart Schaffner & Marx clothes
- Suits, Overcoats—head the list
—you couldn’t give a better gift
for $20 or $25 or $30 or $35.
Latest Styles of Neckwear
Bath Robes
Smoking Jackets
Lined and Unlined Gloves
Suit Cases and Bags
Shoes and Slippers
Stetson Hats
Gordon & Ferguson Fur Caps.
Initialed and Plain Handker’fs
Silk Handk’fs and Mufflers
Toys for the Children
in the field. Lack of room for a town
and the great expense of the long tun
nel through the hill are disadvantages
urged against Portage Bay.
Still not the slightest indication has
been given to the Alaska Northern
people that the government would
wan* to use their 72 miles of track
from Seward. Had such an indica
tion been given, this would point to
Seward as the terminus.
A suggestion has been hazarded that
possibly Ship Creek will be chosen,
even if that does entail an entrance
from the sea through Cook Inlet and
the possibility of a closed port part
of the year.
Speculation also is rife as to the
location of the chief interior town to
be built up as the northern terminal.
Activity ahout Nenana and Chenaand
the townsite reservations made at
those places are held to indicate that
one of these two places on the south
bank of the Xanana will be chosen.
Before purchasing Christmas pres
ents drop in and see the stock on dis
play at Valdez Drug Co. tf
LOCAL BREVITIES.
FOR SALE—One double bedstead,
one box spring mattress. Enquire
Prospector office.
Latest popular copyrights and clas
sics at Valdez Drug Co. tf
Prescriptions carefully compound
ed at Valdez Drug Co. tf
Delegate Wickersham leaves for
Washington, D. C., tonight.
Yakima netted Gem spuds 3 cents
per lb. at Yakima Fruit Co. tf
Remington and Smith Premier type
writers for sale or rent at Valdez
Drug Co. tf
Nice cauliflower two heads for 35
cts. at Yakima Fruit Co. tf
Bargains in holiday goods, wearing
apparel and articles of every-day want
at the Emporium. tf
Swell pictures and music at the
Orpheum tonight.
Beautiful hand-painted vases just
received at Valdez Drug Co. tf
See Tod Winter ror your watch and
Jewelry repairing at E. Winter’s store.
All work guaranteed. tf
8weat Baths.
First-class sweat baths and mas
sage parlors at room 5, Montana, tf
Get a Skate On.
Go to the Valdes Rink; five-piece
orchestra every Sunday, Tuesday and
Friday. tf
Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
ALL KINDS OP
Native and I I TR^QCD and Building
Puget Sound JL. U IVIDEJA Material
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Prices Right W. M. FINICAL, Mgr. Phone 18
Patronize a Home Industry
FRESH FROM THE RANCH TO YOU
The Yakima Fruit Co. received on the last boat the following:
One dozen varieties of Apples; Tomatoes (ripe), Pineapples, Grapes,
Pears, Casabas, Vegetable Oysters, Green Peppers,Yakima Spuds, Ruta
bagas, Carrots, Sweet Spuds, Parsnips, Florida Grape Fruit, Cabbage,
Etc. Phone your wants and get the best that money can buy.
Delivery. Phones 55.
The Yakima Fruit Company
^ Pacific Alaska
Navigation Company
Alaska Pacific S. S. Co. Alaska Coast Co.
PUGET SOUND-ALASKA ROUTE
Steamers sail from Seattle
Nov. 15th, Dec. Sth and 25th
via the Inside Passage for Ketchikan, Juneau, Yakutat, Ka
talla, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Cook Inlet points and Kodiak.
PUGET SOUND—CALIFORNIA ROUTE
3eattle-San Francisco, connecting with steamers Yale and
Harvard for southern California ports.
Bieht reserved to ohsnire dates and steamers without notice
VALDEZ DOCK CO.
Local Agent
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
S. S. Mariposa and S. S. Alameda sail from Seattle
the 1st, 8th, 16th and 24th
EVERY MONTH
From Valdez south—7th, 15th, 23rd and 30th for Cordova,
Juneau, Ketchikan and Seattle.
Regular freight service (or Ketchikan. Juneau. Sheep creek Treadwell. Douglas
Cordova. Ellamar. Valdez and Latouohe. Explosives. S S Seward. S S Seward. 5th'
S S Latouohe, 15th; S S Cordova. *5th ol eaoh month-Right reserved to change this
schedule without notice.
F B. Tracy, Gan’l Agt- Valdes Dock Co, Local A«t.