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MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1017
THE AMERICAN FLAG.
WHEN Freedom from bar
mountain height
Unfurled her standard t*
the air
6he tore the azure robe of
Night
And set the stare of glory there;
She mingled with its gorgeous dyes
The milky baldric of the skies
And striped Its pure celestial white
With streakings of the morning light.
Flag of the brave, thy folds shall
fly,
The sign of hope and triumph high.
When speaks the signal trumpet
tone
And the long line comes gleaming
on.
Flag of the seas, on ocean wave
Thy stars shall glitter o’^r the
brave.
When death, careering on the gala
Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail
And frighted waves rush wildly
back
Before the broadside's reeling rack.
Each dying wanderer of the sea
Shall look at once to heaven sad
thee
And smile to eee thy splendors fly
In triumph o’er his closing eye.
Flag of the free heart's hops and
home,
By angel hands to valor given.
Thy stare have lit the welkin dome.
And all thy huea were bora Is
heaven.
Forever float that standard sheet!
Where breathes the foe but falls
before us,
With Freedom's soil beneath our
feet
And Freedom's banner streaming
o’er us?
—Joseph Rodman Drake.
ALLIED ALIENS SHOULD BB RE
QUIRED TO SERVE
There are cases in the United
States where the fact that aliens are
not admitted to the draft is certain to
work a disadvantage upon a commun
ity for the reason that by drawing up
on Americans from those sections no
persons are left in the camp except
ing old men and aliens. This gives
rise to the suggestion that the coun
tries with which we are associated in
the war should see to it that their
subject citizens in the United States
be enlisted for military service the
same as are American citizens who
are expected to go from home to fight
for the same cause in which these
alien residents are interested. For it
is manifestly unfair that the young
American citizen give up his employ
ment and go to war leaving behind
him the alien to benefit from the ser
vices of the young American without
contributing anything himself to that
cause.
Senator Chamberlain, in a speech
recently delivered in Congress, sum
med up the situation very accurately
when he said:
"To allow slackers of our compan
ion aatioAs In arms to find refuge
boro while their fellowmen are giving
their all In the struggle for world
freedom is not doing our utmost for
onr allies. We are all in the great
light and we must stand together if
we are to hope for victory. There
must be no room In this country for
the slacker, and the sooner he is giv
en to understand this the better it
will be for the cause.”
In line with the foregoing, the Ma
com, tGa.) Telegraph thinks the
Chamberlain speech “should make an
instant appeal to Congress, as it un
doubtedly does to the country at
large,” and says:
"The question of international law
being in the way can easily be met.
for surely the governments of Britain,
Canada, France, Italy, Russia, and
every other country, now including
Greece, fighting by our side, will
waive all meticulous point of law with
positive enthusiasm as they will have
as little sympathy with the slackers
from their shores enjoying American
immunity as we have with those of
our people who have fled into Can
ada and Mexico, for instance. * * *
This land of the free and home of
the brave is not and cannot be made
a sanctuary for those whose nation
ality calls for service under the name
of the many flags carrying the en
tente cause to victory. ’
OCCASIONALLY there is an at
tempted censorship of the news
touching the movements of military
bedlee and public men which borders
upon the ridiculous. For instance the
censors forbade western newspapers
to publish the names of the posts to
which certain companies of militia
were assigned for training, nowitb
standing that everyone knew their
destination. And in line with other
suggestions of a ridiculous nature
was the attempt to suppress from
publication the report that Am
bassador Root and his party had ar
rived safely at a United States port
or what possible injury could come
to the returned commissioners from
contact with their own people is hard
to say. The attempted suppression of
unimportant news by censors will
work incalculable harm, as the pap
ers need no censorship. When the
real time arrives to suppress news it
will be much more difficult if the cen
sorship is trifled with by every Tom,
Dick and Harry who imagines an ene
my in every bush. Censorship shoud
be sane and it should be strict but
It should be enforced only at times
when the news imperils our troops
or our nation.
ACCORDING to the Seattle Star
the men who lynched the wretch who
assailed the uniform of an American
soldier are murderers. Yes. So, also
•were the earlier vigilantes of Mon
tana, who, after suffering most
severely from the lawless element
that infested the mining camps, look
ed up the leaders, hastily tried them
ENTERS RED CROSS.
John D. Ryan, Coppar Export,
Appointed to Important Took.
Henry P. Davison, chairman of the
Bed Cross war council, has recruited
another big business man to the cause
He Is John D. Ryan, president of the
Anaconda Copper company, who will
be director general of military relief
for the Red Crons. Mr. Ryan will suc
ceed Colonel Jefferson R. Kean, U. S.
A., who has been recalled from service
In’the Red Cross and Is to be placed
In charge of the 100 United States
army ambulance sections In the thea
ter of war In France. ^
STEAM HEAT NEWLY FURNISHED
SEATTLE HOTEL
MRS. XL MILL, Fropr.
VALDEZ ALASKA
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and swung them from a rope's end.
They were without the law. But they
performed a very wholesome service
for society, nevertheless.
THE name of Walter Elliot has
been put forward as a candidate in
the coming election for school treas
urer. Mr. Elliot is a young man of
great ability and would undoubtedly
make a good school director, he is
an old-time resident, having made his
home here for several years, and Is a
heavy property holder in the city.
Care should be taken to get good men
or women on the school board, men
and women who have the interests of
the city at heart and who are broad
enough to forget personal animus and
work for public good, and we believe
Mr. Elliot to be such a man.
IF Bill Haywood calls out all the
I W. W.’s in the land it won’t make
any visible difference in the quanti
ty of labor performed.
THE mudholes on the Fairbanks
road which Editor Caskey of the Citi
zen says he muddled through ought
to give him an idea of what Fair
banks folks muddle through when
they read his literary junk.
IF Chancellor Michaelis of the Ger
man empire can keep his folks going
on prediction of victories that never
come he is certainly a prize booster.
After the war Mike ought to come to
Alaska as a mining promoter and ex
ercise his talents.
WHAT’S the use of Germany wast
ing efforts to And out .where the
American troops are encamped. They
will send their card in to the kaiser
before he is ready to receive Ameri
can visitors._
For Sale or Rent
Four room house, completely fur
nished, with bath, fine garden, good
locality. Reasonable terms. Robert
Weber. tf
Mrs. Ohas. A. Winans returned
yesterday from Wortman where she
had been for the past few days. She
was accompanied by her daughter
Jane.
Do not trust to luck or amateur
methods. Have your hair dyed by an
expert at the Vanitie Shop. tf
REPORT OF THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF
The First Bank of Valdez
LOCATED AT
VALDEZ. TERRITORY OF ALASKA, AT THE
CLOSE OF BUSINESS ON THE 7TH DAY OF
AUGUST, 1917.
RESOURCES:
Loans and Discounts ....$123,493.60
Overdrafts ........- 3,964.28
Bonds, Warrants —.....—.— 95,238.07
Furniture and Fixtures.—..2,600.00
Other Real Estate owned -..~.-. 1,000.00
Checks on other banks and other cash items. 696.43
CASH ON HAND AND SIGHT *0I» 0 JIQ Ah
TOTAL .-.-.....$313,841.82
LIABILITIES:
Capital Stock Paid in --—.- .—$ 25,000.00
Surplus Fund.. 3,000.00
Undivided Profits ......- 1,242.48
Due to Banks—Deposits .-.. 139.83
Dividends Unpaid - 600.00
Deposits ...-.$283,704.51
Certified Checks ....-.- 155.00
TOTAL.-.$313,841.82
United States of America, Territory of Alaska, Third Judicial
Division, ss.
I, J. W. GILSON, Cashier of the above named bank, do
solemnly swear that the foregoing statement is true to the best
of my knowledge and belief.
J. W. GILSON.
Cashier.
E. B. WHEAT,
Correct Attest: J. C. MARTIN,
JOHN LYONS
Directors.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 16th day of August,
1917.
(Notarial Seal) ANTHONY J. DIMOND,
Notary Public in and for the Territory of Alaska.
My Commission Expires February 13, 1921.
Going To Fairbanks?
Ask For the Sheldon Service
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For further information call on or
address
THE AGENT, at the Prospector Office
Mallory-the weatherproof Hat
MORE RAINY DAYS are coming—rainy, drizzly days. Of
course you have Rubbers, Umbrella, and a Rain Coat. But what
about your Hat? That can get wet, too, and a few drops on some
Hats is a calamity. The Hat will get dry, but it will never look
the same. Not so, however, if you
have one of our
with the “Cravenette Finish.”
They are proofed against mois■
ture, The rain drops never show.
This added protection is to be had
only in MALLOR Y HA TS. Our
new shapes and shades for Fall are
now here.
S. Blum & Company
GOOD GOODS
Roy McDonald, driver for Bob Shel
don, left for Fairbanks this morning
with Mr. and Mrs. Snodgrass and
five children. Mr. Snodgrass had been
employed at the government experi
mental station at Kodiak for sever
al years, and will have charge of the
station at Fairbanks.
Fresh killed veal, chicken, halibut.
Also a nice assortment of Heinzes'
pickles, sweet, sour, dill and sweet
mixed at Frye Bruhn’s. tt
Subscribe for the Prospector.
HOTEL SEXTON
Seward Alaska
Geo. Sexton, Proprietor.
The traveling public’s
home.
European Plan.
HOTEL SEXTON
VALDEZ LODGE
NO 188
Free aid Accepted Mim»
Regular Communications first Wed •
uesday In each month In McKinley
HalL Visitors always welcome.
P. M. BROWN, W. M.
ED WOOD. Secretary
WE PAY
Ijead 8 l-2c a pound.
Rags $2.75 a hundred.
Cast iron $33 a ton.
Rope 5c a pound.
Brass 18c a pound.
Copper 27 l-3c a pound.
Rubber 7 l-2c a pound.
Beer bottles 27c a dozen.
P. O. B. SEATTLE.
ATLAS JUNK CO.
1848 Railroad Avenue, So.
SEATTLE, WASH.
Launch Patsy
(or Charter Aawyrbere oa
VALDEZ BAY
At any Time Day or Night
J. D. Jefferson
VALDEZ, ALASKA
Arctic Hotel
All Warm, Outside Rooms
Transient Trade Solicited
Special Rates by the Week or Month
Raths in Connection
PHONE 133 MRS. STRING. Prof
LAUNCH DELLA
Capt. H. L. Rider
Weekly trips from Valdez to
Kllamar, Landlock, Pi dalgo and
way ports. Passengers landed
at all points.
Carrying freight and passen
gers.
For rates apply on board.
CAPT. H. 1m B1DER
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
DR. S. WICKES MERRITT
Offices Id Fish Building, adjoining
Tillikum Club.
Phone ’IS McKinley Street
Contract Surgeon. C. S. Army
A. A. Surgeon, U S. Public Health Serr.
(Marine Hospital)
DR. H. COCKERILLE
Grslute National I'nlrerstty.
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
In Valdez Since 1808
PHONE 110
Office Rooms in Whaling Building
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
OMee Opposite Court Bouse
Phoae S4 VALDEZ. ALASKA
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JOHN LYONS s E RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
OBeee la whaling Building
Phone 1S1 taldbz. Alaska
ROBERT SIMPSON Opt D.
JUNEAU, ALASKA
Glasses Fitted Lenses Ground
VALDEZ HOSPITAL
Private Rooms
Terms Reasonable
jos. a. sttvmuH.n.c..M.p.fr».
Jos. A. Silverman PL G. M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
OHi«t beri-l te 4 p. m -7 to 8 p. m.
Sunday by Appointment
Res. Tel. 176 Office Tel. 18
Boyle Block Valdes
Candy Kitchen
E. W. HUNT--U Owl Drag Stare.
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
Wtrttra Federation of Miners
W. M. CONLEY IMm
VtUu Alaska.
GEORGE M.