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I UBLI8UBD BY
PROSPECTOR PUBLISHING CO.
II b. 8KLBY, Editor and Proprietor.
VALDEZ. ALASKA
Published Dally Except Sunday
Entered as Second-Claaa Mall Matter,
July 23. 1912, at the postofflce of Valdes,
Alaska, under'act or'March 3, 1879.
uus*ness Oflice and Editorial Rootna
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Aitvei tlslnM Hates on Application
Tl’KHllAY, UK!’EMBER II, 1017
THE RED CROSS NURSE.
IIElih. .> 1 is ruin. red mid deso
Into.
Ami deavening tumult of the
building shell:
Where flam.' uiui fume end
fouler fo’tne of hate
Proclaim the perfect counterfeit of hell;
Where once the floc/ere blossomed and
the trees
Their beauty reared above the verdant
plain.
Behold the scare as of some dread disease.
Deep wounds, aa though in planetary
pain
Our mother earth had suffered with the
slain.
Tet still across this sad. Satanic scene.
Bet for a tyrant's tragedy of greed,
Inere flits a vision with a smile serene
And swiftly bearing balm to all who
bleed.
To ail alike, for 'lie not hers to know
The wounded soldier's colors, creed or
race;
Ye all who suffer, whether friend or foe,
Bo that they fall in her allotted space.
They fall within her tenderness and
grace.
And If on earth such angels take the
form
Of humane with the soothing sister
hand.
Of mothers with a motherhood so warm.
Let there be gratefulness through all
the land;
Let ail who may not for their country
flgnt.
Who may not l>ear the battle's stress
and strain.
r»ig trenches In their puree*, bring to
light
The coin for Red t'roee nurses and eue
taln
The gentle hand that soothe* the brow
of pain.
—George Douglas
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HOW BONDS ARK PRKPARKD
It is impossible for one to realize
the immense task involved in the pre
paration, printing, checking and dis
tributing of a large bond issue such
as was subscribed in the first* and
second Liberty bond campaign.
A Washington correspondent has
written entertainingly of the prepar
ing of the recent issue of bonds for
delivery to subscribers. He calls at
tention to the necessity of the most
careful guarding of these valuable
papers lest unscrupulous persons,
having access to the bonds, defraud
the government by wholesale.
According to this correspondent. It
required 144 tons of ink to print the
last issue of bonds; four tons of en
graver's steel for the dyes, rolls and
plates. The paper consumed, if plac
ed in a pile sheet upon sheet, would
measure 16.600 feet, or more than
three miles from bottom to top. If the
paper were spread upon the ground
it would cover 402 acres. If loaded on
the railroad it would fill eight large
freight cars. If the sheets were laid
upon the earth end to end they would
I measure 2. 090 miles. After the bond
I was printed on one side It was taken
to the drying room so that the mois
ure in the ink could he evaporated.
Later it was dampened again and the
other side printed, whereupon it wa>
once more sent to the drying room.
The face of the bond, because of the
different colors, had to be put on the
press five times. In case of the coupon
bonds, such as the first issue, these
coupons, too, would have to ro thru
the press five times. It required more
than 3,000 employes for the govern
ment to handle these valuable papers,
a small army being employed alone
in the checking of the bonds.
After the bonds were ready for de
livery they were taken to express of
fices In a long, black money wagon
with three horses, its driver and its
three armed guards. This wagon con
tained heavy steel chests for which a
receipt had to be given.
During each stage of the process
of which the blank paper was turn
ed into a mortgage on the farms,
railroads, factories, mines, forests,
ships, buildings, banks, stores and
homes in the United States, the bond
in the making was guarded constant
ly. At any moment in the course of
its manufacture it could have been
located by the official and his assist
ants charged with this important
work. No man, woman or child in the
government print shop is bonded, but
none of these were permitted to leave
th building without a pass signed by
the chief of the division giving to the
employe an absolute clearance.
The bonds were handled almost as
precisely as the government requires
the safeguarding of its paper money,
with a result that it is well-nigh im
possible for a fraud to be perpetrated.
A GKNEROU8 JURIST
When Judge Landis told the sol
diers of Camp Grant that when they
go to France and troubles worry them
he will attend to the smallest service
asked of him. those who do not know
the federal jurist will feel he has
merely "slopped over.”
But Kenesaw Mountaiu Landis
meant just what he said when he de
clared :
"Write to me if the smallest per
sonal worry bothers you over there.
If it is too urgent, wire me at my ex
pense and I'll adjourn court, if need
be, personally to attend to the mat
ter.”
He is just that kind of a citizen. He
will do just what he says, and will
pay the expenses, too.
This is the man who fined the Stan
dard Oil trust over $15,000,000 sev
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VALDEZ ALASKA
eral years ago, and through this first
got the attention of the country. He
IS a man who does things, and does
what he says he will do. We take It,
however, that he has undertaken an
Immense task in this recent pledge
to his soldier friends.
THE railroad war board has taken
an almost revolutionary step in It?
decision to operate all the railway
lines east of Chicago as one vast cen
tralized system in order to obtain a
maximum of efficiency in traffic move
ment. Cars and trackage facilities will
be pooled regardless of ownership or
the railroads’ Individual interests. The.
plan has been worked out by the rail
road chiefs themselves and has now
been growing Increasingly acute not
withstanding that the carriers have
been bnndling more business than ev
er before. The decision of the railroad
heads to subordinate individual in
terests to the natonal needs is a tri
bute to ther patriotism, but so many
evidences of patriotism have been
shown in all walks of life that it
hardly receives more than passing at
tention.
_
FIGURES complied by food con
servation commission in New York
City show how little grains of sand
make the mighty mountain, as recited
in McGuffey’s third reader long years
back. Actual figures show that in the
hotels and restaurants on Tuesday,
Nov. 13, the saving in meats amount
ed to 96.75 tons. The saving in flour
was 517 barrels or 50.6 tons. Dur
ing the week the amount of meat sav
ed was 116.12 tons. By the use of
whole wheat the saving in flour for
the week from eschewing pastries
alone was another 60.8 tons or 620
barrels. A loaf of bread is so small
a thing that the average person pays
little attention to it, but of every fam
ily in the nation saved one loaf a
week it is estimated that several hun
dred thousand tons of flour would be
saved. Truly this is a mighty nation,
when grain piled upon grain reaches
such a stupendous total.
OL' HI GILL, the stormy petrel of
Seattle's politics, is again on the rack.
His impeachment is1 demanded by a
large block of Seattle citizens on ac
count of the way in which he has
handled—or mishandled—the vice
situation exposed by the federal mili
tary. And Hi comes back at them by
saying he will be a candidate at the
next election. Now Gill may be a fore
flusher and several other things but
he is a fighter. He has thrown down
the gage of battle and the decent
citizens of Seattle know what they
can do about it: When the test comes
will they snow him under an aval
anche of votes, or, Seattle-like, re
elect him?
TO THE MAN who believes Social
ism a dead issue we respectfully call
the adoption of the initiative, the re
cal the referendum, the eight-hour
day. the child labor law, the taxation
of incomes, and Anally the proposed
government operation of railways. All
Socialist propaganda, and all a step
forward in world progress. It matters
not who brings these reforms about,
they are still Socialistic, and a rose
under one name will smell as sweet
as under another. It is the brain which
conceives these reforms which will
ultimately dominate the world.
THE reichstag leader who says be
cause Russia wants peace "we must
insure the safety of our eastern fron
tier" shows what kind of a peace
Germany wants in spite of its hypo
critical attitude of being desirous on
ly of ending the war.
CONGRESSMAN HEFLIN
Congressman Tom Heflin of Ala
bama almost caused a riot in the house
by charges that a number of members
have acted suspiciously and that Ger
man money was alleged to have been
paid out in the guise of poker winnings
to congressmen In a Washington gam
bling house.
BOMB beating stoves at Mead’s. *
FISH
Freeh black cod, silver salmon
halibut and kippered ood Just ro
oelved on this boat. Love-Whltley Co
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Hart Schaffner
&
Marx Clothes.
The Famous
Styleplus Clothes
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Make It a Sensible Gift
this Xmas and you will find
them at this store in great
profusion. Gifts for any mem
ber of the family will be here.
Come in and look them over.
FLORSHE/M AND CROSSETT
SHOES
LEATHER GOODS
Traveling Bags, Fitted Bags, Suit
Cases, Purses, Strops, Etc.
CHINA—
Hand painted china in very pretty
patterns in Plates, Cups & Saucers,
Salts & Peppers, Sugar and Cream
ers, Chocolate Pots, Painted Bowls,
and other pieces too numerous to
mention.
FURNISHINGS^—
Suspenders, Shirts, Handkerchiefs,
Bath Robes, Gloves, Etc.
STETSON AND MALLORY
HATS
HOSIERY—
For Men, Women and Children in
Silk and Silk Lisle, Cashmere and
Cotton.
ELECTRICAL GOODS—
Chafing dishes, Grills, Percolators,
Warming Pads, Curling Iron Heat
ers, Electric Irons, Etc.
NECKWEAR—
In Xmas boxes. A very fine line to
choose from.
The store where you have a choice
S. BLUM AND COMPANY
GOOD GOODS
:
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
1
, DR. S. W1CK.ES MERRITT
! Offices in Fish Building, adjoining
l Tllllkum Club,
j Phone BO. McKinley Street.
■Contract Surgeon, U. S. Army
A. A Surgeon. U S. Public Health 8et v
(Marine Hospital)
DR. H. COCKER1LLE
*' .'agnate Natleaal Dateerelo
a lahlagten. D. C.
i DENTIST
In Valdez Since 1808
PHONE 110
Office Rooms la Whaling Building
DONOHOE & D1MOND
ATTORHBII.AT.LAW
OMce Opposite Court Hemes
i Phase B4 VALDBL ALASKA
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JOHN (.TONS a B HITCH :•
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTOMIVt-AT-LAW
UStH la atalltf Ball* lac
Phaaa ISA VALDBL ALASKA
ROBERT SIMPSON Opt. D.
JUNEAU, ALASKA
Glasaes Fitted Lenaea Ground
VALDEZHOSPUAL
Private Rooms
Terms Reasonable
JOS. A. SILVEIMAN. ri. C., H. D. Pra*.
Jos. A. t Overman PL G. M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Office keers—1 te 4 p. m —7 te 8 p. m.
Sunday by Appointment
Res. Tel. 176 Offlce TeL 16
Boyle Block Valdes
Announcement
Christmas gifts now on display at
the residence of Mrs. Graham. All
are Invited to call. Give yonr orders
early. Honrs 10 a. m. to I p. m.
Mrs. Graham and Mrs. Depue.
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Freeh bulk chooolates and a new
1 line of box candles at Hunt's. M
A complete line of nugget and Ivory
jewelry, watches, diamonds, etc., at
the Valdez Drug Store.
Just received a new liue of I'yra
ln Ivory suitable for Christmas gifts
at the Valdes Drug Store. tf
Candy Hen
L W. HUNT—la Owl Draf Star*.
FOUNTAIN DRINKS
HOT- COLD
KATALLA QUEEN
Capt Otto Elfstrou
Weekly trip* to Port Well*
aad all Sound Point*.
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KOR CHARTER FOR PAR*
TIES OR TO WHIG
’or rate* and * all lag date* *ee
CAPT. OTTO ELFBTROM,
On Boat, Valdea Dock
LAUNCH DELLA
Capt H. L. Rider
Weekly tripe from Valdes to
Ellamar. Landloek, Fldalgo and
way ports. Passengers landed
at all points.
Carrying freight and passes*
gere.
For rotes apply beard.
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CAPT. ■* la MDBft
Arctic Hotel
All Warm, Outside Rooms
Transient Trade Solicited
Hiieclal Rates by the Week or Month
Baths In Connection
PHONE 133 MRS. STRING, Pr«,
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J. E. WILSON
Freighting to all points
in the third division.
Horses bought and sold.
Phone 166.
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Prompt Service
D. D. STEWART Master
LOVE & MEALS
Insurance
Fire-Surety Bonds* Life
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THE SOUTHERN
MRS. BLACKWELL, Prop.
Nice, Clean Rooms
Baths In Connection
PRICES REASONABLE
Phone 104
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miner*
W. M. CONLEY Mta.
V*M*e tlsde
GEORGE M. BARRY 3»cr*Urr.
VALDEZ LODGE
NOME
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JUXL Visitor* dnn mint
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