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Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miner*
ROBERT SHAFFER, Prnident,
1 Granite Min*. i
CHAS. McCALLUM. Secretary.
VaJdez Alaska.
PUSS
secretary war favorable
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CoiTes|i«in<.lent Seattle J’.-i. Says Mon
ey for Alaska Roads Will Be j
Forthcoming Unless Congress <«ets
Economical Struck.
Ashmun Brown, Washington cor
respondent for the Seattle P. I., writes
the following which appeared in a re
cent issue of that paper, regarding
appropriations for road work in the
territory.
Unless congress experiences an at
tack of drastic economy sufficient
money will be extracted from it this
session to inaugurate a real program
of road, bridge and trail construc
tion in Alaska. Transportation needs
of the territory are pressing. The
beginning of construction work on
the government railway, so far from
reducing the requirements in the way
of wagon roads, instead is enhancing
them.
There is now oeiore tne nouse
committee on Military Affairs the re
commendation of the Secretary of
War that half a million dollars bo ap
propriated this year for new road,
trail and Viridge construction in addi
tion to the item ^f $150,000 for the
maintenance contained in the original
estimates. The adoption of both of
these items means that $850,000 will
be available for expenditure by the
Alasfcm road comr. ission.
ae largest sum ever secured from
congress before this was $350,000 in
1910, out of which the start was
made to make a good road from Val
dez to Fairbanks, a great trunk artery
connecting the coast with the inte
rior. Since then practically nothing
more than enough to maintain 'liis
and other roads and trails previously
undertaken has been forthcoming.
The Valdez-Fairbanks road, while
open ail the way, is far from being a
good road, particularly for the extra
ordinary heavy traffic put upon it for
the hauling of mining machinery and
other heavy loads characteristics of a
mining country. It was not through
good before autos began operating on
it, rough as was.
In the opinion ox ' oi. w . r. kiui
ardBon, U. 3. A., chairman of the
Alaska road commission, at least
,50.000 of the expected $650,000
should be expended on this highway.
One hundred thousand of the expect
ed money "-ill go to a road from
Ruby to‘Long Creek. An extension
toward the coast. The Nome and
Seward peninsula will absorb consid
erable for the needs there are press
ing.
Conditions in Washington are rath
er more favorable 4o legislation of
this kind this winter than for several
years past. While Gen. Wood was
chief of staff, and during the periods
tile Mr. Stimson and Mr. Garrison
re secretaries of war, the war de
•tment attitude was against the
ny, being charged with work of
this sort, it being held that it is not
part of the military’s duty, and that
it should he carried on by a civilian
branch of the government, which
particular branch the department did
not attempt to say.
Another objection was that the ap
propriations for all constructive
- work of this kind was charged by the
pacifists as “the cost of militarism,”
and the “huge expenditures for our
present standing army.” Even In
such authoritative publications as the
treasury statement these public ex
penditures always included in the
gross figures purporting to exhibit
the cost of maintaining the army.
At various times proposals have
been before congress to have the
work of building roads and trails in
Alaska taken over by the depart
ment of agriculture but congress
steadfastly has refused to take it
away from ihe army.
This year, however, congress hav
ing pretty well indicated its attitude,
the war department appears to have
accepted the situation and to he ready
to make the coxnission’s recommen
dations its own. At least the secre
tary himself is urging the increased
expenditures. One moving reason,
no doubt, is that the treasury depart
ment has decided to make a truer
presentation in its statement of gov
ernment costs and to present public
works expenditures under the war de
partment exactly as such and not as
part of the cost of the fighting force.
Both the $150,000 and the $oOU,
000 item will be considered in the
making of the annual army appro
priation bill work on which has been
delayed because the army reorgani
zation bill has taken the committee’s
whole time. In all probability the
house committee on military affairs j
will not reach these items until late I
in the month. Col. Richardson will
be granted a hearing to present the
reasons for the appropriation.
While Col. Richardson, like every
other detached officer, is being held
[in readiness for Mexican service in
| event many more troops are needed,
there is no immediate prospect of hip
being called for that duty. Being de
tached, he is not assigned to any reg
iment and all existing regiments nfrw
have colonels. This means that his
services probably will not be needed
unless volunteer troops are called,
when he probably would be given
higher command.
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TIDE TABLES FOR APRIL.
! The following table is compiled for
j high and low tides in Valdez Bay.
Thursday, April 20.
High, 12:58 am. 10.5; 2:19 pm, 7.7.
Low, 7:49 am. 1.3; 7:30 pm, 2.3.
Friday, April 21.
| High, 1:36 am, 10.4; 3:00 pm, 7.3.
I Low, S:30 am. 1.3;.8:10 pm, 2.7.
Saturday, April 22.
’High. 2:25 am, 10.1; 3:57 pm, 6.8.
I Low, 9:29 am. 0.S; 9:13 pm, 3.2.
Sunday, April 23.
,'Highi 3:17 am. 9.4; 5:06 pm, 6.5.
Low, 10:29 am, 0.2; 10:07 pm, 3.6.
Monday, April 24.
; High, 4:23 am, 8.7; 6:26 pm, 6.6.
; Low, 11:39 am, 0.4.
Tuesday, April 25.
High, 5:44 am. S.O; 7:40 pm, 7.1.
| Low, 11:35 am, 3.S: 12:55 pm, O.S.
Wednesday, April 26.
i High, 7:17 am, 7.6; S:38 pm, 7.7.
Low, 1:22 am, 3.4; 2:05 pm, 1.0.
Thursday, April 27.
High, S:40 am. 7.6; 9:25 pm, S.4.
Low, 2:47 am, 2.5; 3:00 pm, 1.2.
Friday, April 28.
High, 9:47 am, 7.7; 10:05 pm, 9.1.
Low, 3:46 .am, 1.4; 3:47 pm, 1.3.
Saturday, April 20. »
High, 10:42 am, 7.9; 10:40 La, 9.6.
Low, 4:36 am, 0.5; 4:28 pm,14.5.
Sunday, April 30. *
iflgh, 11:29 am. 8.0; 11:13 pm. 9.9.
Low, 5:18 am", 0.3; 5:04 pm, 1.7.
Arthur Doran, formerly with Aug-'
ustine & Kyer, of Seattle, has taken
a position with S. Blum & Co.
Pastuerized Whipping Cream and
pure Buttermilk at Love-Whitley’s. *
Furnished rooms at Mrs. Osland’s.
Prices reasonable. *
Hotpoint Electric Heaters, Cookers,
Bakers, Percolators and Vacuum
Cleaners arrived on the last boat for
the Emporium. tf
A nice assortn]£nt of evening
gowns and miuinery just received at
E. Winters. tf
Spring Samples In heavy weights,
for Alaska wear. Ouy F. Cameron,
Tailor. tf
BIGS ,
In these days of Indigestion,
It is often a question
As to what to eat and what to leave i
alone;
For each microbe and bacillus
Has a different way to kill us.
And in time they always claim us for
their own.
Thera are germs of every kind
In any food that you can find
In the i^arket or upon the bill of fare.
Drinking water's just as risky,
As the so-called deadly whiskey,
And it's often a mistake to breathe
the air.
Some little bug is going to find you
some day.
Some little bug will creep behind you
some day.
Then he’ll send for his hug friends
And all your earthly troubles end;
Some little bug is going to find you
some day.
The inviting green cucumber
Gets most everybody's number,
While the green corn has a system of
its own;
Though a radish seems nutritious,
Its behavior is quite vicious,
And a doctor will be coming to your
home. - v
Eating lobster cooked or plain
Is only -flirting with ptomaine.
While an oyster sometimes has a lot
to say.
But the clams we eat in chowder.
Make the angels chant the louder,
For they know that we'll be with
them rigi.. away.
Some little bug is going to find you
some day.
Some little bug will creep behind you
some day.
With a little nervous quiver
He’ll give cirrhosis of the liver;
Some little bug is going to find you
some day.
All these crazy foods they mix
Will float us across the River Styx;
Or they'll start us climbing up the
milky way.
And the meals we eat in courses
Mean a hearse and two black horses.
So before a meal some people always
pray.
Luscious grapes breed 'pendicitis,
And the juice leads to gastritis,
So there’s only death to greet us
either way;
And fried liver’s nice, but mind you.
Friends will soon ride slow behind
you
And the papers then will have nice
things to say.
Some little bug is going to find you
some day.
Some little bug will creep behind you
some day.
Eat some sauce—they call it chili—
On your breast they'll place a lily;
Some little bug is going to find you
some day.
Weather Reports. ^
Valdez, April 19. 1916.
Barometric pressure .,.29.682
Temperature 7 p. m.32
Maximum temperature .4 4
Minimum temperature .22
Mean temperature .33
Partly cloudy, wind southwest 4
miles.
Interior Weather.
Valdez, Alaska, April 20. 1916.
Fairbanks, 27; clear and calm.
Salcha, 40; clear and calm.
Richardson, 31; partly cloudy,
trail good.
McCarthy 34; 8 inches snow; clear
and calm.
Donnelly, 40; partly cloudy, calm,
trail fair.
McCallum, 20; only drifts left:
clear, high north winds, trail soft.
Paxson, 20; 29 inches snow, clear,
light north winds, trail poor.
Hogan, 3S; 29 inches of snow;
trail poor.
Gulkana, 24; clear, calm, trail
bare.
Copper Center, 40; clear, calm.
Tonsina, 32; no snow, clear, calm,
trail fair.
Teikhell, 30; 10 inches of snow;
clear, calm, trail bad.
Beaver Dam, 26; 30 indies snow;
clear, calm, trail soft.
Wortman’s! 52; 7 inches of snow;
clear, light winds, trail partly bare.
LOCAL BREVITIES
Are you particular about your
health? Then be particular about
your druggist. The Owl for yours.
Best Yakima Gem Potatoes Ruta
bagas. Parsnips and Carrots at Key
stone Produce Co. 2t
FOR RENT—Cabins, well furnish
ed. Rents reasonable. Alaska Inv.
Co. V 2t
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Holy W&k Services.
The public is’cordially invited to a
series of special evangelistic services
which will be held in the Congrega
tional Church at 7:30 each evening
during Holy Week.
Rev, J. F. Dunstan will speak upon
the following subjects:
Thursday, April 20, “The Sign of
the Cross.”
Friday, April 21, “The Blood of the
Cross.”
A fine display of nugget jewelry at
Valdez Drug Co. tf
CARLYLE’S TEMPER.
K Was the Very Reverse of Bad, Said
His Old Maidservant.
Carlyle bad tempered? Not at all. If
we are to place any belief in the testi
mony of the maid behind the broom.
One of Carlyle's servants. Jessie, who
on marrying became Mrs. Broudfoot
has left a very favorable impression
of her old master, says the London
Standard.
“I could have lived with him all my
days.” she says, "and it always makes
me angry when I read, as I sometimes
do, that he was bad tempered. Ho
was the very reverse, hi my opinion.
I never would have left him when 1
did if I had not been going to get
married. I took great pride in attend
ing on him and studying all his wants
and wishes.
“It was one of my duties to rush out
and move on all street organs and
things of that kind. Many a time in
the morning before he rose I used to
fill his pipe, the short clay he used in
his bedroom, for him and strike the
match’ to light it. I always cut up his
tobacco (he bought it in flat cakes)
and kept his tin box regularly supplied.
He was always so grateful for these
little services.”
So much for popular belief and the
dictum of the democratic servant biog
rapher. _
FIRST AIR BALLOONS.
Dr. Johnson’s Description of the Way
They Were Inflated.
"The chemical philosophers have dis
covered a body (which I have forgot
ten. but will inquire) which dissolved
by an acid emits a vapor lighter than
the atmospherical air. This vapor is
caught, among other means, by tying
a bladder compressed upon the bottle
in which the dissolution is performed.
“The vapor, rising, swells the blad
der and fills it. The bladder is then tied
and removed and another applied till
as much of this light air is collected as
Is wanted. Then a large spherical
case is made, and very large it must
be. of the lightest matter that can be
found, secured by some method like
that of oiling silk against all passage
of air.
“Into this are emptied all the blad
ders of light air. and if there is light
air enough it mounts into the clouds
upon the same principle as a bottle fill
ed with water will sink in water, but a
bottle filed with etlier will float. It
rises till it comes to air of equal ten
uity with its own if wind or water
does not spoil it on the way. Such,
madam, is an air balloon.”—From Dr.
Johnson’s Letter. Sept. 22. 1783, to Mrs.
Thrale.
Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata.”
The story runs that Beethoven's
“Moonlight Sonata”—always so called,
though he so rarely gave a descriptive
name to any of his works—was com
posed on tin occasion when he bad
been playing to some stranger folk
by chance. Walking with a friend, he
overheard in a humble house some
one playing with much feeling a bit
of one of his sonatas, lie paused to
listen. In a moment the music ceased,
and a girl spoke longingly of her wish
to hear some really good concert The
voice was so appealing that the com
poser stepped without hesitation to
the door and knocked. Admitted to
the wondering host, he said. “I will
play for you.” and played wonderfully
till the lamp burned out. Then with the
moonlight filling the room he began
to improvise—the mysterious delicate
breathings of the beginning of that
wonderful sonata, then the tricksy elf
like second part, and the glory of the
close.
The Thriftiest Parson.
A supreme example of thrift was the
Ilev. Robert Walker—the "Wonderful
Walker.” For the greater part of tils
life Walker was curate of Leather
waite. Cumberland, commencing there
with a stipend of £5 per annum. His
wife brought him a fortune of £40. and
on the interest of this and his £5 an
nually Walker reared a family of eight.
When after twenty years his stipend
was raised to £17 10s. a year he con
trived to save. And not only did the
family “live well, though plainly,'’ but.
as lie declared with justifiable pride,
his children never lacked any .of the
necessaries of life and were given an
education to fit them for any rank of
society, the boys, indeed, going to one
of the universities.—London Standard
Sand Swept Asia.
In the arid lands of central Asia the
air is reported as often laden with
tine detritus, which drifts like snow
around conspicuous objects and tends
to bury them in a dust drift. Even
when there is no apparent wind the
air is described as thick with fine dust,
and a yellow sediment coVers every
thing. in Khotan this dust sometimes
so obscures the sun that at midday
one cannot see to read fine print with
out a lamp. *
Whet* Scotland Joins England.
- The width of the island of Great
Britain at the point of contact between
England and Scotland is about sixty
miles. The river Tweed divides the
two countries for a few miles at the
east, and the Cheviot hills serve as a
boundary for the greater part of the
rest of the distance.
Quit* So. *
"Here somebody says that electric
currents can be made to take the place
of food in sustaining life.”
"What a shocking theory!”—Balti
more American.
I count life just tbe stuff to try the
soul's strength on.—Browning.
VALDEZ - and . ANCHORAGE
CITY EXPRESS
Meets all boats! On the job, day or night
We never sleep.
J. A. SPENARD, Proprietor Phone 82
Independent Steam Laundry
Satisfaction Guaranteed I
Telephone 66
Foot Keybtoue Ave
Rouifh Dry lCc lb
Buy Alaska Made Cigars
ASK FOR W. R. King, Terminus, or Lavanna,
Made in Seward by union workmen.
We maintain our standard. Sold everywhere
MERCHANT’S CAFE
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone 68 Chas. Fischer, Propr.
VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Real Estate, Insurance, General Brokerage
Absentees Business Properly Handled
Treat Building, Alaska Ave. Telephone No. 60
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
PLUMBING STOVES and RANGES HEATING
MOTOR BOAT SUPPLIES, PAINTS and OILS
Mine Air Pipe, Valves, Hose, Pipe and Fittings
Valdez Dock. Opposite Prospector Office. Telephone 24
When You Leave
For the Outside
take the
"MILWAUKEE”
One road—one management—one service all the"way
through to Chicago. It’s the Short Line to the East
over
THE NEW STEEL TRAIL
For information and literature write or ask
J. C. MARTIN, Agent, Valdez, Alaska.
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST, PAUL RY.
A. E. HARRIS, Freight and Passenger Agt,
Juneau, Alaska.
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
PUGET SOUND iill PUGET SOUND
California Line, j Alaska
SAILINGS FROM SEATTLE, 11:00 A. M.—
Monday, Mar. 5, Admiral F'arragut for Seldovia and Way Ports.
Wednesday, Mar. 15, Admiral Watson for Seward and Way Ports.
Sunday, March 10, Admiral Evans, for Kodiak and Way Ports.
Sunday, March 20, Admiral Farragut, for Seldovia and Way Ports.
Sunday, April 2, Admiral Watson, for Seldovia and Way Ports.
Sunday, April 0, Admiral Evans, for Kodiak and Way Ports.
Sunday, April 10, Admiral F’arragut for Anchorage and Way Ports.
Sunday, April 23, Admiral Watson, for Anchorage and Way Ports.
Sunday, April 30, Admiral Evans, for Anchorage and Way Ports.
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to San Francisco every Wednesday and Sunday, connecting with
Steamers Vale and Harvard for Southern California.
Right reserved to change schedule without notice
RICHARD J. RING WOOD, Mgr., Seattle) VALDEZ DOCK CO., Local Agt.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
8. 8. ALAMEDA AND S. 8. NORTHWESTERN SAIL FROM SE
ATTLE THE 10TH, BOTH AND 80TH,
EVERY MONTH
FROM VALDEZ SOUTH—SMI, 1MJI, B8TH, FOR CORDOVA,
JUNEAU, WRANGEL, KETCHIKAN AND SEATTLE.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan. Wrangell, Juneau. Sheep
Creek.TreadweU, Douglas, Skasrvay, Cordova. Bllamar, Valdes and La
touche. Explosives, RS. Seward, on the Sth; Latouche, on the Uth; a a
Cordova, lath of each month—right reserved to change this schedule
without notion
9. B. TRACT, G*s>l Agent VALDBS DOCK CO, Local Agent.