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WEDNESDAY, ATOIL, 28, 1915.
WORRY WON’T HELP.
No construction work will be done
this year on this end of the line of
the Alaska government railway, says
the Fairbanks News-Miner, and that
is final. The road as routed by the
pres'dent, so far as we can see, ends
on the Tanana river where the "drain
age of the Nenana river” enters the
Tanana. From the way the water is
piling up in the cellar of our resi
dence, it appears to us that the
"drainage of the Nenana river” pass
es through our back yard and ends
in Chena slough just above the
bridge, but we may be wrong in our
geography—the “drainage of the Ne
nana river” may end and fall Into
the Tanana river somewhere in the
vicinity of Nenana, in which case the
terminus of the Alaska government
lailway may be at or near Nenana.
instead of our back yard on Eighth
avenue, Fairbanks. In which event
Nenana sholud grow into a city the
size of Chitina, at least.
Of coruse, if anybody cares to wish
a free railroad upon us, we are will
ing to le* them do it, and we wouldn’t
look any of its locomotiyes in the
mouth to determine their age. All
of us have been all our lives strug
gling and fighting to keep as far
ahead of railw->vs as we could, in
the belief that the railroad makes it
too easy for tightwads in our lines
of business to get in and run us out
of business, but maybe we have had
our worries for nothing. If the rail
road made it easy for Chinese cheap
labor to come in and drive us out.
it would also make it easy for us to
get out when we have to—although
where we could go that would be bet
ter we might r.ot know. The only
reason we wanted their old railroad
anyway was that it might lower
freights so that we could go on draw
ing the old Klondike wages and yet
allow the producer to live on what
was left after paying those wages,
tut maybe it would have brought
cheaper labor with it. Generally a
fellow doesn’t know whether he really
is well off or when, so majibe It is
all for the best—if it is true.
There is one way we can heat the
game for a time and beat it right,
and that is to back and encourage
and assist Falcon Joslin to build the
Tanana Valley railroad into the Tolo
vana. He might be able to build it
as cheaply as we could build a wagon
road, and it would last longer. Noth
ing could beat us out. of the Tolo
vana trade then—it would be ours
forever.
Of course, we are not giving up
hope of having that government rail
road flow into Fairbanks and come
right up and eat out of our hands,
but we might as well be prepared
for anything that comes. The rail
road is a political gift, and anything
can happen in politics, and does. For
instance, there isn’t a chance of any
railroad being built in Alaska this
year unless it is a branch from the
Alaska Northern to the Matanuska
coal fields, which are apparently no
nearer Fairbanks than is the end of
the Alaska Northern. Next year Is
presidential election year, and how
much railway could be built during
a national campaign, anyway? Not
too much. If. in November. 1916.
the Republicans should get together
and are able to convince the voters
that the hard times of 1914, 1915 and
1916 are the fault of the Democrats,
bow could you keep the Republicans
from winning? If they do win, the
Democrats will build no railroads In
Alaska in 1917—maybe the Republi
cans won’t, either, for they are not
fond of government ownership theor
ies. So, take it by and large, we
might never have gotten our govern
ment railway if it had been routed
through to us by the President on
Saturday last. Also, we can’t lose
anything we never had.
So far as we can see, there s no
use of worrying. Worry won’t help.
Only the future will tell what Santa
Claus has in store for us, but there
Isn’t any use in spending money on
the strength of the promised gift un
til you have the gift In your hand.
So far, the government railway has
cost us nothing but the money we
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To The Taxpayers And Citizens
The question of renewing saloon licenses in the town of Valdez
for another year will soon be put to you by officials appointed for
that purpose by order of the District Court, and as the result of this
canvass will greatly affect the entire business interests of this com
munity.
THE VALDEZ COMMERCIAL ASSOCIATION
has passed a resolution favoring the continuance of the liquor busi
ness for another year for the followina reasons:
1st. The question does not involve prohibition for Alaska, and
if the saloons of Valdez are closed it will not prevent liquor still
being consumed in this town.
2nd. If Valdez votes “dry" much business that now comes to
Valdez will be diverted to Cordova, or other points where liquor
may still be sold. i
3rd. To deprive a man of his business, without giving him time
to dispose of his property, and to adjust himself to the new condi
tions is manifestly unfair.
4th. If the city is deprived of the revenue from the saloons
at this time it will seriously interfere with the proper administra
tion of municipal and school affairs, as the city has no means of
providing for a deficit.
5th. If the whole of Alaska goes “dry” the legislature or con
gress will make some provision for making up the deficiency caused
by the loss of liquor licenses, but no change can be made in the
law that would be applicable for the coming year.
ip YOU WISH TO MAINTAIN THE SCHOOLS AT A HIGH
STANDARD,
ip YOU WISH TO AVOID BEING TAXED TO THE LIMIT,
IF YOU WISH TO MAINTAIN THE CREDIT OF THE TOWN
OF VALDEZ,
IF YOU WISH TO PROMOTE THE BUSINESS INTERESTS
OF THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY
THEN IT IS UP TO YOU TO VOTE "YES" WHEN THE TIME
COMES.
A circular giving fuller information on this subject has been
prepared and can be obtained upon request from
THE VALDEZ COMMERtlAL ASSOCIATION
spent celebrating its promised com
ing, and out of that celebration we
got our money’s worth. We might
as well keep on wishing for the rail
road and working for the railroad,
but at the same time we have an
idle thought to the effect that the fel
low' who, prior to the appearance of
the cars in Fairbanks, reduces ex
penses to the quick and hustles for
all he can get will be in better shape
to buy the drawing room of the sleep
er on a train outside from Fairbanks
than will the man who goes on, “re
gardless,” in the belief that our rail
road is as sure as death.
Weather Report.
Valdez, April 27, 1915.
Barometric pressure .29,671
Temperature at 7 p. m. 30
Maximum temperature . 40
Minimum temperature . 29
Mean temperature . 341-2
Precipitation .02
, Cloudy, light wind northeast 12
miles. Snowed at night and from
2:25 p. m. until 7 p. m.
GERMAN RUSH TO
SEA IS CHECKED
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(Continued from page 1.)
of the “experience of Neuve Chap
elle, which has been so incomplete
ly explained.”
The Daily News publishes a dis
patch under the heading, “Strange
Effects of Lyddite.” The correspon
dent begins by describing a young
Scottish officer who looked as if suf
fering with jaundice, of such a saffron
hue wal his skin. He was only one
of hundreds now recovering from
“lydditis.” They were absolutely help
less when brought In, but under treat
ment they soon began to regain their
faculties, reaching out and prattling
like babies.
Most of these cases bear no signs
of wounds When they recover their
nerves are generally gone for a while.
As the cases were described to tlje
writer, the victims of lyddite are as
phyxiated by the fumes and lose con
sciousness. When found their bodies
are a bright yellow.
Allies’ Battle Front Is 1,656 Miles
Long.
PARIS, April 28.—Troops of the Al
lies today occupy battle fronts whose
length totals 1,656 miles, according
to a compilation made by the Matin.
In the western arena, according to
these figures, the French occupy 640
miles of trenches, the British 31
miles, and the Belgians 17 |miles.
In the eastern theatre the Russians
face a front of 851 miles, while the
Serbians and Montenegrins are fight
ing along a line which measures 217
miles.
Latest popular copyrights and clas
sics at Valdes Drug Co. tf
Notice of Forfeiture.
To Mrs. M. F. Roberts, her heirs
and administrators and to all it may
concern: You are hereby notified that
I have expended during the past year,
1914, the sum of $66.66 (sixty-six dol
lars and sixty-six cents) lawful money
of the United States in labor and im
provements upon your one-third inter
est in those mining claims lying and
being on Avery river, in the recording
precinct of Valdez, Alaska, which are
known as the Beauty Bird and Beauty
Bird No. 1, the location notices of
said claims being of record in the
office of the commissioner, and rec
orded at Valdez, Alaska, pages num
bered 95, 96, in Book 10, Mining Rec
ords. in order to hold said claims
under the provisions of section 2324
of the Revis d Statutes of the Unit
ed States, concerning annual labor
on mining claims, being the amount
required to ho'd said lode claims for
the period ending December, 1914.
And unless within ninety days after
the completion of the publication of
this notice to-wit: within ninety days
after the 7th day of June, 1915, you
contribute your proportion of such ex
penditure incurred in performing said
annual labor and improvements,
which is the sum of $66.66, your in
terest in said claims will become the
property of your co-partners, who have
made the required expenditure by the
terms of said section.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this Stb
day of March, 1915.
JULIUS RONNING.
Last publication June 7, 1915.
BUY TOWN LOTS NORTHERN
REAL ESTATE # AGENCY
Valdez is not dead, only sleeping,
and it always wakes up in time to
go to work.
Buy when everyone else wants to
sell. If you buy when everyone wants
to buy you pay the top price.
Valdez has more mineral resources
close to it than any other town in
Alaska outside of Juneau.
Many gold and copper properties
are near Valdez awaiting only a little
labor or capital to develop them.
Valdez has had several “booms.” It
is soon to have another. Buy while
property is cheap.
Valdez will be on the map when
some other places are forgotten.
You can get 25 per cent, income
on property in Valdez at present
prices.
In the states if you get five per
cent, net out of rented property you
are 'ucky. In Valdez you can get
from 20 to 30 per centx. a year.
If you have any property to rent,
colections to be made, give your busi
ness to the Northern Real Estate
Exchange, located on Wall street,
phone 59. Live agents. Adv.
TIDE TABLES PORT OF VALDEZ.
Compiled from the official tide ta
bles issued by the Coast and Geodet
ic Survey. The time for high and
low water is for the Port of Valdes
and Is Valdez time. Immediately fol
lowing the t'me of high and low wa
ter is given the height of the tide
in feet and tenths:
Wednesday, April 28.
High tide 11:29 a. m., 11.3; 11:16
p. m„ 13.5.
Low tide 5:16 a. m, -1.0; 5:06 p.
m., 1.2.
Thursday, April 29.
High tide 12:18 p. m., 11.3; 11:65
p. m., 14.0.
Low tide 6:00 a. m, -19; 6:46 p.
m„ 1.4.
WIRELESS WAVES.
Puzzling Problems With Which Scien
tists Have to Contend.
Whnt we don't know about wireless
telegraphy is still by fnr the larger
part of that science. Practical efforts
to use this means of communication
are constantly hampered by difficulties
that cannot be overcome or only par
tially overcome by clumsy makeshifts
because they are not understood.
For example, the characterization of
the waves used in wireless telegraphy
as artificial is justified because the
ether is in a state of constant pulsa
tion with waves of enormous length
about, whose origin we know nothing
or next to nothing. Some of them are
due undoubtedly to lightning, but they
are continuously rolling in on antennae
properly tuned when there is no thun
derstorm within thousands of miles.
It has been suggested that they are of
extra terrestrial origin, perhaps the
result of electrical disturbances in the
sun. Some ingenious speculators have
even attributed them to the Martians
or some other of our planetary neigh
bors.
But the fact is that we don’t know
where they come from or how they are
generated. They manifest themselves
in the shop' of troublesome noises in
the telephone receivers at wireless tel
egraph stations. Another puzzling
question, perhaps of more practical
importance to the wireless worker, is1
the action of the weather on his trains
of waves. When these signals have
long distances to travel the weather
often plays havoc with them in ways
as yet not well understood. The dif
ferent carrying capacity of the ether
in the daytime and at night is another
practical problem still awaiting defi
nite solution.—New York Post.
FLYING BULLETS.
Going Very Fast, They Leave Air
Waves and Eddies Behind Them.
If a photograph of a speeding bullet
could be taken the print would proba
bly show a space like a body of water
marked by what looked like speeding
water bugs, each leaving a ripple in
its wake. Photographs of projectiles
have been snapped in time of peace,
but it Is doubtful if the camera ever
caught one as it sped on its mission of
death. A bullet speeding at the rate
of 3.000 feet a second, which is more
than 2,000 miles an hour, makes a
great disturbance in the atmosphere
and creates air waves, which, of
course, are invisible to the naked eye.
If you draw * stick through the wa
ter it causes little eddies and waves to
trail behind it. The faster you draw
the stick the more waves and the
wider the angle will it leave. The
slower the stick is drawn the fewer
waves. Just so the bullet. If it is
traveling slowly no waves can be pho
tographed. as apparently there are
none. It is only objects traveling at a
terrific speed that create any appreci
able air waves.
Photographs of a bullet going at a
rate of speed less than 1,200 feet a sec
ond show no air waves at all. This is
an interesting scientific discovery. But
anything cutting through the air at a
greater rate than this disturbs the at
mosphere to such great extent that air
waves are formed and can be photo
graphed.—New York Sun.
A Wonderful Bird.
One day a wonderful bird tapped at
the window of Mrs. Nansen's (wife of
the famous arctic explorer) home at
Christiania. Instantly the window was
opened, anil in another moment she
covered the little messenger with
kisses and caresses. The carrier pigeon
had been away from the cottage thirty
long months, but it had not forgotten
the way home. It brought a note from
Nansen, stating that all was going well
with him and his expedition in the
polar region. Nansen had fastened a
message to the bird and turned it
loose. The frail courier darted out into
the bllzzardly air. It flew like an ar
row-over a thousand miles of frozen
waste and then sped forward over an
other thousand miles of ocean and
plains and forests and one morning
entered the window of the waiting
mistress and delivered the message
which she had been awaiting so anx
iously.
Caught It.
A man with a very red face met a
friend on the street and the following
conversation took place:
"You look warm."
“Yes; been chasing a hat.”
"Did your hat blow off?”
"It wasn’t my hat! It belonged to
someone else—there was a pretty girl
under it”
“Did you catch it?”
“I should say 1 did. My wife saw
me chasing it!”-New York American.
The Poets.
“Poets are born and not made."
“But they ain’t born tagged.” opined
a rural philosopher. “Their fathers
consequently hafter go ahead and ed
dlcate ’em, jest as if they was going
to be good fer something.”—Louisville
Courier-Journal.
Two or Three Hite.
“I suppose your new automobile
made a big hit when you went out in
It?”
"Yes, it did. Most of them are hos
pital cases.”—Chicago Record-Herald.
A Natural Choice.
Gabe—Bragley says be would rather
fight than eat. Steve—1 don’t blame
him. 1 had dinner at his house one
night.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
It is a brief period of life that i*
granted us by nature, but the memory
of a well spent life never dies.—Cicero.
Another Big Sale
IN going through our stock we
found a number of articles on
which we are either overstocked, or
which we intend replacing with
other lines. Whatever the reason,
we are going to make the following
offerings at sacrifice prices:
Judging from our experiences with recent
sales we feel certain that these bargains are
going to be snapped up, so
COME EARLY!
Lace Curtains
Eight pair formerly rp
$1.00; now per pair.DUG
Eight pair formerly $1.50 and
$3.00; now ««
per pair.,UU
Chenille Portiers
A few pairs of heavy Chenille
portieres formerly $4 00; now
pair.$2.00
Curtainet
Silkoline and Curtain-pet form
erly 15 and 20c; j «
now per yard.I Ul»
$1.00 Raincoats$ 1.00
One and one-half dozen of them
for both men and women. They
have been in stock for some
time, but are in fair condition;
were formerly $5.00 az nr*
and $6.00, now.31 iUU
Ladies’ Hose
Five dozen Lisle lace hose, the
"Farwest,” was good value at
75c; now
per pair.
Four dozen black cotton, the
famous “Burson Hose,” 1 cp
regular 35c, now. I d**
75c Pajamas 75c
One and one-half dozen in
Flannelette; form- 7C«
erly $150, now./SC
12 l-2c Men’s Socks 12 l-2c
Eighteen dozen in fancy cotton
and lisle; formerly a n j n
35 and 50c pair, now. I Z I'ZIl
$1.00 Watches $1.00
These are the Panama Canal
watches; are stem wind and
stem set, keep good time. Reg
ular $1.50 val- a 4 pp
ue, now.0 I •UU
75c Rubbers 75c
We have a lot of low storm
Rubbers and Eversticks; just
the thing for this time of year. ^
All sizes, formerly -yr
$1.00 and $1.25, now.I DC
Bedspreads
Six, formerly $1.50; _r
now, each./ 3G
Six, formerly $4.00 and $4.50;
eaTh .$2.50
Toweling
Eight pieces bleached and un
bleached toweling; former price
20c; now
, er yard.
Cretonnes and Draperies
A few pieces of Cretonne and
draperies; regular price 20c
and 25c; now, j n
per yard. I Uu
50c Boys Pants 50c
In peg tops to fit boys from 7
to 16 years of age; formerly
$1.00 to $1.25 pair; Rflf*
now per pair.JUu
Children s Hose
A full line of black heavy-rib
bed hose for boys and girls;
regular 1 Cp
25c, now. I
Infants’ Cashmere hose in pink,
blue, white and black; «n.
regular 35c, now.ZUu
75c Men’s Shirts 75c
One lot of negligee shirts in
wool, satine and madras. A
few of these sold formerly for
$1 50, but most of them for
$2.50 to $5.00. 7Rn
One lot of soft and stiff bosom
dress shirts in standard makes;
formerly $1.50 7Cn
to $2.00, now. I Ju
25c Children’s Underwear 25c
One lot of two-piece garments,
broken sizes, sold formerly
from 50c to nr«
$1.00, now.Z JU
We still have some men’s dress
shirts at 50c; some men’s shoes
at $2.50; broken sizes in Gold
Seal Boots at .$5.00
Our Grocery Sale
still continues and our prices as well as the quality of
our goods will make it expensive and unsatisfactory
for you to trade elsewhere.
S. BLUM & CO.
GOOD GOODS
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
We.tern Federation of Miner*"
H. M. CARTER, Preudent.
Granite Mine
CHAS. McCALLUM, Secretary.
Valde.JAla.ka.
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE SEXTON. PROR.
SiRICTLY FIRST CLASS
Fourth Avi Siwaio. Alaska
A new line of Valdez and Alaska
pennants and pillow tops at the Val
dez Drug Co. *<
Fresh Koenigs, Augustine Kyer,
and Shull’s candies at Valdez Drug
Cb.
WEATHER BULLETIN.
Valdez, Alaska, April 28, 1915.
STATION \bove Below, Snow In. WEATHEBCONDITIONS
Donnelly . 28 2 Snowing, light north winds.
McCallum . 21 5 Cloudy, windy, trail soft.
Paxson’s . 25 3 Clear, windy, trail muddy.
Hogan . 27 Cloudy, calm, trail bare.
Gulkana. 30 Clear, calm, trail bare.
Copper Center _ 38 Clear, calm, trail bare.
Tonsina . 35 Clear, calm, trail muddy.
Telkhell . 30 8 Clear, calm, trail soft and muddy.
Beaver Dam . 26 39 Clear, calm, trail soft
Wortman’s ..;. 47 7 Clear, calm, trail blocked.