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VALDEZ. ALASKA
Published Patty Except Sunday
Entered as Second-Class Mall Matter.
July 23, 1912, at the postofflce of valdea,
Alaska, under act of March 3, 1879.
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MONDAY, JULY, 23, 1917
JOHN BARLEYCORN, GOOD-BYE!
Come all you sots and sodden
soaks and live among the sober folks
and give your song another tone; the
state’s as dry as any bone, as any
bone the state is dry and I’m con
fessing, So Am I. When prohi’s w^nt
to talking first I never did think
that the worst would come to you
and I, but it's sure enough good
bye and I am feeling all forlorn and
miss my old John Barleycorn. I miss
the Schooner and the Schnitt and
miss my Schnops, yes quite a bit. I
miss the good old Rock & Rye, good
bye old Barleycorn, good-bye. Good
bye to moonshine in the hills to cop
per worms and all distills, no more
we’ll quaff the tempting horn; good
bye Old John Barleycorn.
Good-bye to Schlitz and Bud and
Ann; you’ve been the ruin of many
a man, and robbed the cradle like a
knave, robbed everything except the
grave. You sung our boys a song of
praise and pointed out the flowery
ways which only death can travel in:
—the garland path of secret sin. So
long Old John for quite awhile, you
’ve caused us tears and many a smile;
you’ve led our feet along the way
where youth and beauty love to stray
and whispered falsely in our ears
about the beaded wine that cheers.
From out amongst the ranks of men
we marched to bawdy house and den.
Each flower of yours contained a
thorn; good-bye to you, John Bar
leycorn.
John Barleycorn, you’ve left a
pain for every spear of golden grain
which you’ve consumed since you
were born; and left every grain of
corn a broken heart, a broken life,
an orphan child, a weeping wife, a
daughter fair gone astray, in fact
you’ve strewn along the way of life
the wrecks of human hearts, you’ve
pierced the breast with poisoned
darts and let the mother and the
bride to mingle with the surging tide
their tears of grief for them that fall,
ah, what 'salesman sent from hell
you’ve been and still will ever be, for
even Jesus could not free a sinful
world for the Divine. He turned ^he
water into wine, and good, old, Noah
soaked his hat and clothes for booze
on Ararat. I loved you once, I love
you still and John, I guess I always
will, till Gabriel blows his mighty
horn—good-bye to you John Barley
corn.
Good-bye to booze and beer and
wine—hello! there’B Wilson on the
line who thinks the blow is far too
hard to suit the high up menu card.
He argues still (or wine and beer, but
John my good old, dear old dear, he's
switched you on the sewer line—
the moon—if must no longer shine
above the hills of Tennessee where
booze like water once was free. No
barley, corn, or rye or wheat or any
thing that’s good to eat, shall be
made into mountain dew. Nor rice
shall enter brew. No apples, be they
Fall’s or June’s, no peaches, apricots
or prunes, no berries shall give up
their juice for any kind of liquor use.
John Barleycorn you’ve run your
string, though, I admit, you’ve left
a sting in many hearts which might
have been the bravest, truest, hearts
of men—so then until the judgment
morn, I'll say good-bye Old John
Barleycorn.—C. L. Gant, In Beach
comber, Anacortes. Wn„
BOYS OX THE FARM
The experiment of placing city
schoolboys on farms to assist in fruit
picking and grain harvesting is work
ing out satisfactorily in the East and
South. The New York military train
ing commission has already placed
more than 10,000 boys on farms in
that state, and farmers are reporting
that they learn what is required of
them very quickly and are not afraid
of hard work.
In the South labor is scarce on ac
count of the negro exodus to the
North. More than 1,000 boys from
Washington, Baltimore and nearby
cities are gathering the big potato
crop on the Eastern shore, which is
a rich agricultural district of Mary
land. There are 2,000 New York City
boys at work in New Jersey and
Pennsylvania farms.
The moral welfare of the young
workers is looked after by philan
thropic men and women who have es
tablished camps under proper sup
ervision. The boys are thus comfort
ably cared for, protected from bad
influences, are enjoying healthful
outdoor work and at the same time
receiving liberal wages. They are
probably much better ofT than they
would have been at home, with lib
erty to spend their time upon the
city streets.
Boys are thus accomplishing im
portant work for the nation and at
the same time benefiting themselves.
In our own state boys have already
given good service in berry picking,
and the advance guard of‘ the army
of the young is about to start for the
farms. It is probable that Washing
ton boys will'acquit themselves at
least as creditably as those of the
East and South.—Seattle P. I.
AMERICANS are not likely to
shed any tears over the downfall of
Herr Alfred von Zimmermann, the
imperial foreign minister of Ger
many. It was this arch plotter who
conspired, when the United States
was at peace to array Mexico and
Japan against this country in event
we went to war with the kaiser.
CONGRESS will have to be cir
cumspect in the future lest its nu
merous foibles be shown up. The rea
son for this is that a cartoonist—J.
H. Baer, of Fargo, North Dakota,
has been elected to the house of rep
resentatives. Baer is further disting
uished by the fact that he is barely
over the required "minimum age” of
25 and is a nephew of the late James
Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosier poet.
AND the Chinese had barely got
ten their pigtails started to growing
again when along comes a republi
can victory and dashes all reaction
ary dreams of the return of an age
old hirsiute adornment.— Tacoma
News.
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NICK ROMANOFF, the only ex
czar in captivity, evidently has faith
in the new Russian government inas
much as he desires to invest some
of his royal savings in government
bonds.
Germany’s faith in the U.boat is
somewhat shaken but the military
caste is doing its utmost to bolster up
confidence. The menace is serious
enough but it contains no hope of
victory for the Prussians.
SIAM DECLARES WAR ON
THE CENTRAL POWERS
LONDON, July 23.—Siam has de
clared that a state of war exists be
tween that country and Germany and
Austria and has seized nine steam
ers belonging to those powers in
her ports.
Siam is a small country compris
ing the Indo-Chinese and Malay pen
insula. It has 41 provinces, over
each of which is a governor.
STEAM HEAT NEWLY FURNISHED
SEATTLE HOTEL
MRS. E. MILL, Propr.
VALDEZ ALASKA
Dan Janck left on the Admiral
Watson for Latouche.
K. C. Hamilton left on the Admir
al Watson for Seward.
Ell Radovlch was a passenger on
the Admiral Watson for Latouche.
Attorney J. L. Reed left on the
Admiral Watson for Latouche yes
terday.
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C. Knutsen was a thru passenger
on the Victoria this morning for Se
attle.
The tug Kingfisher arrived in port
this morning and took on a cargo of
coal.
Attorney General Grigshy was a
thru passenger on the Victoria from
Nome to Juneau.
One hundred and fifty men were
aboard the Victoria from the Bristol
Bay canneries, out bound for Seattle.
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Dr. W'inans and wife made the
trip to the Glacier yesterday, Mr. and
Mrs. Brenneman accompanying them.
Mr. and Mrs. V. O. Strickler left
for Fairbanks this morning. They
will go as far as Willow Creek with
Mrs. Wesley J. Billings.
Mrs. Maynard and children, from
Nome, was an arrival on the steamer
Victoria this morning. Mrs. Maynard
was formerly Miss Mary Schaeffer.
Corporal Wesley J. Billings, Mrs.
Billings, Sergt. Schwechten and wife
and Miss May BilUngs, formed an
auto party to the Summit yesterday.
George Love, John Lyons, Isaac
Hamburger and son Louis, E. B.
WTheat and M. J. Callahan made a
trip yesterday to the Alaska Gold
Hill mine.
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George Fawcett and "Husky” King
took a trip down the bay yesterday
on a trout fishing excursion and re
turned with a handsome string of
the speckled beauties.
Mr. and Mrs. Meyer Blum picnick
ed at the glacier yesterday. Their
guests were Mr. and Mrs. Randall
Ashby, Mrs. H. C. DeLine, E. E.
Ritchie, Miss Essie Johnson.
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Hatten are re
joicing over the arrival of a nine and
one half pound baby boy, born yes
terday. Dr. Merrit was the attending
physician and mother and son are
getting along nicely. Mr. Hatten is
connected with the Patten Mining Co.
Wm. Fursman, U. S. Deputy Mar
shal from Naknek, in the Bristol Bay
district arrived in Valdez on the
steamer Victoria this morning. Mrs.
Fursman remained over at Seward
for a visit with friends and acquain
tances and will be over on one of
the next boats.
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Mrs. W. J. Billings left for Willow
Creek and interior points this morn
ing driving her new Ford car. Mrs.
Billings took as her guests Mr. and
Mrs. V. O. Strickler, Mrs. J. C. Mar
tin. Mrs. Martin and Mrs. Billings
will return after a short visit at in
terior points, while Mr. and Mrs.
Strickler will go on to Fairbanks.
QUARREL. OVER FLAG;
ONE MAN MURDERED
OGDEN, Utah, July 23.—"I kill
ed him with his own knife when be
attacked me after we had quarreled
about my right to wear an American
flag. He said because I was a Mex
ican I had no right to wear the flag.”
This was the confession made to
the police here yesterday by Mike
Baca, charged with murdering Ben
Rogers, of Logan, Utah, whose hor
ribly mutilated body was found in a
river bed near here Wednesday. Af
ter grabbing Rogers’ knife, Baca, ac
cording to the police, confessed that
he cut Rogers’ throat from ear to ear,
stuck the knife in Rogers’ breast and
back and jumped into the nearby
river to wash the blood from his
clothes.
Toilet Soaps Standard makes, Pears, Colegates, 4711 Gly
cerine, Savon Rose, Cutieura, Palmolive, tooth pastes and powder,
shaving soaps.
Special values in yard goods
This store offers you exceptional advantages in the way of staple
wash goods—a clean new line of everyday staples have recently
been placed in stock.
Piedmont Zephyrs and Ging
hams, plain colors, pink and
blue stripes and checks 4 C||
27 inches wide, yard.| j(j
Toweling, guaranteed all lin
en huck and damask, glass
cloths, 15 and 18 in. M.m
wide, yard..ZU UUM
Silkolene, neat patterns
light grounds, 36 in., Q(Ia
wide, a yard.. ZUlf
Curtain material — Scrims,
Etamines, Voiles, fancy bor
f, , , jn w|jite and ec.
wide, yai
Outing Flannels—pink, plain
white and light blue, fancy
stripes on white ground 1 cl
27 inches wide, yard_ * wv
Towels—Turkish, huck and
damask in differ OKntnKfin
ent sizes, each - ZuCIOOUC
f House linings, sheets, be d spreads, mosquito bar.
S. BLUM & CO., Inc.
Good Goods
IT’S ALL NEWS;
THEREFORE PHONE IT
If Anyone Has
Died,
Eloped
Married,
Been ill,
Left town,
Had a fire,
Embezzled,
Had a baby,
Got divorced.
Sold property,
Come to town,
Bought a home.
Had an operation,
Has been arrested,
Committed murder,
Had an auto smash,
Made a visit to the States,
Sued for breach of promise,
Been caught kissing the hired girl.
Run off with another man’s wife.
Phone it in to the Prospector. It
is all news and makes your borne
paper better. If it is gossip and had
better be unsaid, keep it to yourself.
ADM. WATSON ARRIVES
AND SAILS WEST
The steamship Admiral Watson ar
rived yesterday morning about four
o’clock and sailed to the westward
12 hours later. She brot 80 tons of
freight for local merchants and 200
tons for the Valdez Cannery. The
following passengers arrived for Val
dez: M. Blum from Cordova, B. O. j
Billinger, E. C. Biggs, J. H. Caskey,
B. G. Eaton, C. Frichett, A.. A. Cott,
Mrs. John Miller, Mrs J. E. Roberts,
M. L. Schaeffer, F Vanrees, James
Galen and three steerage Latoucbe
follows: R. Graeff, Nic Kelo, Miss M.
White and two steerage.
A large truck came in over the
trail from Chitina yesterday. At Mile
20 it went over the steep bank, and
was pulled out later and came into
town under its own power little in
jured by the mishap. One of the pas
sengers was slightly injured by jump
ing from the vehicle when it left the
road, but the driver was uninjured.
In coming down the long grade from
the Summit the driver temporarily
lost control of the car, and meeting
a team and wagon coming up the
hill, voluntarily drove off the trail
to escape colliding with them.
Going To Fairbanks?
Ask For the Sheldon Service
SHELDON AUTO STAGE LINE
Through Service from Valdez to
Fairbanks and all Interior Points.
For further information call on or
address
THE AGENT, at the Prospector Office
Complete line of Bulk Chocolates.
Candy Kitchen. tf
VALDEZ LODGE
NO 108
Frrf aid Afttflfd Haaaai
Regular communications nret wea
ueeday In each month In McKinley
Hall. Visitor* always welcome.
F. M. BROWN. W. M.
ED WOOD. Secretary.
WE PAY
Cast Iron $25 per ton.
Wrought Iron $18 per ton.
Copper $20 per ton.
Brass $18 per ton.
Lead 8%c per pound.
Rubber 7He per pound.
Qt. Beer Bottles 27 M c per doz.
Pint Beer Bottles 17% per doz.
Rags $2.50 per 100 pounds.
Paper $1.00 per 100 pounds.
Manila Rope 4%c per pound.
P. O. B. SEATTLE.
ATLAS JUNK CO.
1043 Railroad Avenue, So.
SEATTLE, WASH.
Launch Patsy
for Charter Anwyhere on
VALDEZ BAY
At any Time Day or Night
J. D. Jefferson
VALDEZ, ALASKA
LAUNCH
PATHFINDER j
CAPT. BYRON SMITH
Sailing weekly out of Valdez •
will deliver passengers, mail, ex
press and fast freight at any i
point on Prince William Sound.
RATES REASONABLE ,
Periodical service by agree- ■
ment to outlying camps a spe- j
cialty. i
CAPT. BYRON SMITH
VALDEZ, ALASKA
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company
Office on Alaska Avenue, in
George C. Treat Building
Telephone No. 60
Genet ad Trucking and Freighting
to all Interior Points.
AUTOS FOR HIRE
DAY OR NIGHT
Positively No Coal Delivered Un
less Paid for in Advance
PROFESSIONAL CARI>^
DR. S. WICKES MERRITT
Offices in Fish Building, adjoining
Tilllkum Club.
Phoue ’15 SIcKtaley Street
Contract Surgeon, 0. S. Army
A. > Surgeon, U S. Public Health Sort.
(Marine Hospital)
DR. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate Matloaal University,
Waaklagtaa, D. C.
DENTIST
In Valdez Since 1898
PHONE 110
Office Rooms In Whaling Building
DONOHOE & DIMGND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
<)■« Opposite Coart Hoaae
Pboae U VALDEZ. ALASKA
JOHN LYONS C B RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORNS YS-AT-LAW
OEeee la a kalian Batldlan
Pboae 101 VALDEZ. ALASKA
ROBERT SIMPSON Opt. D.
JUNEAU, ALASKA
Glasaeo Fitted Lenses Ground
VALDEZHOSPUAL
Private Rooms
Terms Reasonable
jos. a. samnAM.rwa.il. s. rr*».
Jos. A. Silverman PL G.M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Office keer»--l te 4 p. ■ —7 te 8 p.
Sunday by Appointment
Res. Tel. 176 Offlce Tel. 19
Boyle Block Valdez
Candy Kitchen
E. W. HUNT—la Owl Drag Start.
FOUNTAIN DRINKS
hot-COLD
J. E. WILSON
Freighting to all points
in the third division.
Horses bought and sold.
Phone 166.
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation el Miners
W. M. CONLEY President
VaMss Alaska.
GEORGE M. RARRY Secretary.
Valdai Alaska._