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TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1017
THOMAS RIGGS FOR GOVERNOR
Endorsement of Thomas Riggs, Jr.,
member of the Alaska Engineering
Commission by a majority of the
Democratic central committee and na
tional committeeman of the territory
should assure his appointment as gov
ernor, providing Secretary Lane is
willing to. part with his services on
Ihe government railroad.
Commissioner Riggs is a represent
ative Alaskan in every sense of the
word and is eminently fitted for the
office of governor. Being well inform
ed on Alaskan conditions he has been
of great service to the engineering!
commission in determining its con-;
struction policies.
Loyal to a degree. Riggs at the
outbreak of the war volunteered to
resign from his present place and
accept any appointment with the
army, to which he might be assigned,
and further offered to take with him
a hundred and fifty frontiersmen who
had also volunteered their services.
The position of governor does not car
ry with it anything like the financial
recompense of Riggs' present office,
but that will not deter him for an
instant from taking the place should
his fellow citizens call upon him to
serve and he be convinced that it is
his "duty.—Seward Gateway.
C AN THE PESSIMIST
Take a reef in yourself. Don’t quit
and say the town is going to hell if
you chance to see a bohunk heading
toward the dock with a suitcase in
his hand. Several families have left
here In the recent past and more are
going in the near future, but they
are not all, or half or quartet going.
Besides, people are going and coming
all the time, and Douglas will con
tinue to be a good town. Just bide a
wee until the fish trade heads this
way. Douglas will get a big portion of
ft, and the trade of one fish boat a
month is worth more to a town than
that of four dozen of the class that
invests all they earn in postoffice
money orders, which they sew up in
the lining of their vests. Cut out the
grouching and wear a smile even if
I you have to fasten it on with face
enamel.—Douglas News.
STRONG'S DKMOCRATS
In a recent issue of the Empire.
Governor Strong denies that he has
appointed republicans to office, as
serting that Shorthill, his secretary,
and Territorial Treasurer Smith, and
Cobb, whom he named as special
counsel for the territory are all demo
crats. No comment is necessary in the
case of Cobb. Everybody in the Ter
ritory. including Governor Strong,
knows how much of a Democrat Cobb
now is or even has been. Of course,
Shorthill and Smith are Democrats.
No one will deny it. But what were
they when they were appointed? Was
Shorthill a Democrat. Not so that
anyone could notice it. He was a
staunch Republican when Clark was
governor, but his political faith is
very elastic and stretches to any dis
tance to cover a good job.
Was Walstein Smith a Democrat
when appointed to the position of Ter
ritorial Treasurer. He was not. The
writer met Mr. Smith in the lobby
of the Windsor Hotel at Cordova
shortly after he received the appoint
ment and at that time Mr. Smith i
stated that the appointment was a,
great surprise to him. that while he ;
had never been particularly active in ,
politics he was a Republican and had |
always voted the Republican ticket; j
that he had not been an applicant for i
the position, and the appointment
was such a surprise that he would
not take his family to Juneau until!
after he had consulted with Govern- j
or Strong and had been assured it was !
no temporary appointment. That’s)
how strong a Democrat Mr. Smith j
was.
Mr. Shoup. whom Governor Strong !
appointed superintendent of the Pio-,
neer’s Home is admittedly a Repub-1
lican.
No one, probably can find the least j
fault personally with these gentle- j
men. or question their ability to fill i
the positions they occupy, but Gov
ernor Strong received his appoint
ment as governor of the Territory '
solely because he was presumed to be j
a Democrat, and the appointments ■
at his disposal should have gone to |
Democrats. Instead of this thqy have j
been conferred, almost without ex-j
ception, upon Republicans or Wick
ites. Such support as the governor
has for re-appointment comes from
those newspapers which supported '
Wickersham in the last delegate elec-1
tion. Under these circumstances we |
THE EMPRESS
TUESDAY EAGLE HALL 8 SHARP
Introductory Ford News
THE EMPRESS CIRCUIT PRESENTS
Kathlyn Williams, Guy Oliver, Harry Lonsdale
In the thrilling drama of jungle life
“Into the Primitive”
A FIVE PART BLUE RIBBON FEATURE
“Thursday-Charlotte Walker in KINDLING”
Regular Admission .... 25c
STEAM HEAT NEWLY FURNISHED
SEATTLE HOTEL
MRS. E. MILL, Propp.
VALDEZ ALASKA
fail to see where Mr. Strong has the
slightest claim upon the Democratic
party or the office which he holds
under a Democratic administration.
THE GERMAN MENACE
,-ln 1898, at Manila, the German
rear admiral, von Goetzen, a close
friend of the kaiser, said to the Amer
ican Admiral Dewey: "In about fif
teen years my country will begin a
great war, during which Germany
will ‘Absorb Holland.’ 'Annex Bel
gium,’ Destroy France,' Cripple Rus
sia,' ’Humble England,' and Subju
gate the United States.’
"Some months after we have done
our business in Europe we shall take
New York and probably Washington,
and we shall keep them for a time.
We do not intend to take any terri
tory from you, but only to put your
country in its proper place with ref
erence to Germany. We shall extract
one or two billions of dollars from
New York and other towns.”
"About fifteen years” proved to be
a close prophesy, because the kaiser
started his long-planned war on civil
ization and democracy within fifteen
years and fifteen months after the
German rear admiral uttered his pre
diction to one of America's greatest
naval heroes.
The Tradesman has tong had in its
possession a series of books written
by the different members of the Ger
man general staff, describing how
each one would proceed to "subju
gate America.” All of the books arc
addressed to the kaiser and state ex
plicitly that they were written at the
kaiser’s request.
In the light of these-positive print
ed proofs—furnished by German of
ficers of the kaiser at the request of
their ruler—no American citizen who
has ordinary intelligence can fail to
see that for more than nineteen years
the kaiser has been planning to “sub
jugate the United States” in his de
termination to destroy democracy and
substitute it with the cruel and tyran
nical rule of Prussian imperialism.—
Michigan Tradesman.
DELEGATE Sulzer’s efforts to have
the coal aud oil lands, copper and
agriculture of Alaska developed, as
a war measure, should meet with the
hearty approval of the officials at
Washington. If this is done the terri
tory will advance in leaps and bounds
and prove one of Uncle Sam's most
valuable assets.—Cordova Times.
IF the Hookworm is responsible for
all the laziness in this country, we’ll
give him credit for being the busiest
animal in creation.
ANOTHER cinch bet is that it
isn't the belief that two can live as
cheaply as one that makes men get
married.
A BANK Statement is all Greek to
the average man. But it is different
with a Box Score.
AFTER a girl gets married and
tries to raise a baby of her own, she
often wonders how her Mother ever
had patience enough to raise a half
dozen of them without choking a few
of them.
WANTED
T01ENIIST IN THE
U. S. ARMY
Fin putncuuiis sa
Maj. DAVISON
Road Commission Office
In New Quarters
E are now located in the Seattle
Hotel Building---Grocery, Hardware
and Mens Wear Departments all under
the one roof. This is a decided improve
mem as compared to conditions under which
we have been forced to operate for the past
few months. It will enable this store to
maintain a service ^neater our old schedule;
and display our stock t° a better advantage
to ourselves and our customers.
S. Blum & Co., Inc.
Good Goods.
J. E. WILSON
Freighting to all points
in the third division.
Horses bought and sold.
Phone 166.
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company
Office on Alaska Avenue, in
George C. Treat Building
Telephone No. 60
General Trucking and Freighting
to all Interior Points.
LIVERY and FEED STABLE,
STORAGE,
Teaming of All Kinds
Positively No Coal Delivered Un
less Paid for in Advance
Why look old and care-worn? The
famous Parisian method for rejuven
ating the complexion and hands will
erase from 10 "to 20 years. Remem
ber a woman is as old as she looks.
Method fully explained at the Yanitie
Shop. tf
AMERICAN KILLS HIMSELF
ON THE FIELD OF RATTLE
PHILADELPHIA, May 29.—Allen
Seega^, the young American poet,
killed himself with a bullet from
his own pistol after he was wound
ed in a charge of the foreign legion
in France, according to a letter re
ceived here from Charles Kerwood
of Bryn Mawr, a member of the La
fayette corps of the legion. Reports
SAVE BAKING
EXPENSES
Why not make a saving when
you bake these days?
I'ou ran by using
CRESCENT
BAKING
POWDER
Costs half the price of the
old fashioned cream of tartar
kind and raises the dough bet
ter.
\SK YOUR GROCER
One Pound 25c.
Crescent Mfg. Co., Seattle Wash.
LOUIE’S CAFE
Open Day and Nigbt McKinley Street, Below Cable Office
Fresh Bread, Pies, Cakes,
All Kinds of Pastry for Sale:
EVERYTHING THE BES1 ANDY MAROVICH, Propr.
Candy Kitchen
E. W. HUNT—Id Owl Dm* Store.
FOUNTAIN DRINKS
HOT - COLD
VALDEZ CAFE & BAKERY
Cakes, Cookies & Bods, 15c per dozen.
French, R»e and White Bread 12 1*2
cents per loaf. Orders taken for special
occasions
C HRIST ROCJSTAl), Projir.
PHONE 17 — Three doors below Owl Drtf
Arctic Hotel i
AM Warm, Outside Rooms
Transient Trade Solicited
Kates 75c and l'|i
Special Kates by the Week or Month
Kaths in Connection
PHONE 133 MRS. SYRING Prop
of Seegar’s deatli on April 4 or 5
were received in this country recent
ly.
“Wounded in the breast, abdomen
and knees by a German shell as he
reached the village of Belloy-en
Senterre,” wrote Kerwood. "Seegar
realized that his death was only a
matter of hours. To rid himself of
his agony and shot himself through
the temple.”
Parcel Post Order
Postmaster General Burleson has is
sued the following order:
"Owing to the lack of the requisite
ocean transportation facilities, the
parcel-post service with Norway can
not be conducted as provided by the
parcel-post convention in force be
tween that country and the United
States. The parcel-post service be
tween the United States and Norway
has been suspended, therefore, until
further notice.
“Until otherwise instructed, post
post packages for mailing to Norway.
Such parcel-post packages for Norway
as have been mailed or which may be
masters must refuse to accept parcel
mailed inadvertently hereafter will be
returned to the senders and the post
age prepaid on said packages refund
ed to the senders if application is
made in accordance with section 4 61,
Postal Laws and Regulations."
(Signed) A. S. BURLESON
Bring back the bloom of youth to
:hat sallow mottled skin, by having
the Parisian method for rejuvenating
complexion applied at the Yanitie
shop.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
DR. S. WICKES MERRITT
Offices over \ n I dm Orng Co.
Plionr *15 V|cl\lnA«\ Street
Contract Surgeon, V. S. Arniy^^
A. A. Surgeon, V S Public Health Serv
(Marine Hospital)
DR. H. COCKERILLE
Gradaat* National Inlycr.lty,
Washington. D. C.
DENTIST
In Valdez Since ISilS
PHONE 110
Office Hoorn* in Whaling Pudding
DONOHOE & D1MOND
ATTOHNEYS-AT-L.AW
Ofll<*e Opposite Court House
Phone 3S VALDEZ. ALASKA
JOtiS LVON6 e B KITCHIH
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORNEYS-AT-LA W
0»ees la »* Saline Unlldln*
Phone 1«I VALDEZ. ALASKA
ROBERT SIMPSON Opt. D.
JlNEAl, ALASKA
Glasses Fitted Lenses (Ground
_ i
VALDEZHOSPITAL
Private Rooms
Terms Reasonable
JOS. A. SILVERMAN. Pfc. C.. M. D. Prep.
Jos. A. Silverman Ph. G. M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Office keurs-'l to 4 p. n —7 to 8 p. ■.
Sunday by Appointment
Res. Tel. 176 Office Tel. 19
Boyle Block Valdez
VALDEZ LODGE J
NO ICS V
free aad Accepted Maaoaa
Regular Communications first Wed
nesday In each month in McKinley
Rail. Visitors always welcome.
P. M. BROWN. W. M.
ED WOOD. Secretary.
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Wait era Federation of Miner* '
W. M, CONLEY President.
Valdez Alaska.
GEORGE M. BARRY Secretary.
Valdez Alaska.