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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1914.;
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MOTHERS AND THEIR DAUGH- i
TERS.
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The "Father and Son” movement j
inaugurated in Cleveland tor the pur- !
pose ol' helping fathers and sons to |
understand each other, to interest
fathers in the new influences that are
met by their sons and to break down
the barriers between the father and
his boy, is meeting with most cor
dial endorsement everywhere, with
the pleasing prospect that the time
may come when the father and son
who are pals and chums will not at
tract attention by the novelty of their
relations, as they do today.
The movement is commendable, in
every respect, but is there not an
equally pressing demand for closer
relations than seem to exist today
between mothers and young daugh
ters, particularly in larger cities?
Men of the world are astounded at
the scores and hundreds of young
girls just in their teens who appear
on the streets uncbaperoned; who
meet young men down town and go
to the picture shows; who attend
public dances in company of which
their mothers are ignorant.
Of all the distressing symptoms of
the time, it seems to us the worst
is the weakening of the ties of inti
mate companionship that formerly
existed between mothers and daugh
ters.
How many mothers know who tlie
associates and companions of the-T
daughters are? When the slip of a
girl leaves home to go down town to
remain all afternoon, does the moth- !
er know where she is and who is '
with her?
Does she now the kind of boy that
may be waiting for her daughter at
the postoffice or at the corner drug
store? And is she willing for her;
daughter to attend a public dance
with a strange young man and to
visit a restaurant or picture show
with him?
The newspapers daily contain stor
ies of girls who disappear from their
homes. The blame is quickly placed [
upon white slavers, professional
mashers and the unwholesome influ-1
ences that attach to certain places
and forms of amusement, but does I
not the blame rest primarily closer
home? There is nothing so certain ]
to undermine a young girl’s charac- j
ter as the influences of the street, j
There is nothing so certain to protect I
her and bring to fruition the nobler!
virtues of womanhood as the influ-1
ences of home and mother. A moth- i
er’s tireless vigilance is the price of j
her daughter’s salvation. The father j
and son movement is to be com- j
mended and it should be supple- ■
mented by a mother and daughter
movement.—Ex. j
OPPOSING PRICE CUTTING.
The two decisions of the United
States Supreme Court that neither j
manufacturers nor dealers have the J
right to lix prices at which their
goods must be sold, have led to the!
organization of the American Fair
Trade league, which is starling a
campaign of education in favor of
price- fixing. The league is arguing
that price cutting demoralizes the
jobbing business and furnishes the
big dealer wild a weapon with which
to drive the small dealer out of bus
iness. It insists that a fixed price
insures equal profits and furnishes
stability to business.
This all sounds very plausible but
. we imagine the American Fair Trade
league will have some difficulty in
converting the country and congress
to Its belief. The consumers form
the biggest share of the public and
somehow the consumers are stubborn
in their inclination toward price cut
ting.
It is a mistake to try to conduct,
a large or small business without
newspaper advertising.
Dance Tonight.
The regular weekly Wednesday
' night dance at Eagle hall will be giv
en tonight. Four-piece orchestra. All
' -are welcome. k 5
FLYNN THERE WITH THE
SOBRIQUETS.
When it comes to originating
sobriquets for his battlers I.eo
I*. Flynn runs even John F.
Dunn, the godfather of "Terri
ble Turk," the “Bavarian Tiger,"
the "Ferocious Finn" and the
"Man Eating Malay," a close sec
ond. Just pipe some of the ti
tles Leo l’. has slipped his mitt
artists.
First, there is tlie “Lewiston
Bear Cat,” the same being Tom
my Bet'gin. who could absorb
more punishment in one round
than any other man in his class.
Then there is Bert Stanley, "the
Oshkosh Assassin” Flynn calls
him. Andy Parker, who scored
thirty-eight knockouts in forty
six tights, was christened the
"Skull Cracker." “Knockout”
Sweeney’s label is "Fighting
Corkcl" and Johnny (Kid; Al
berts “Jack tlie Jawbreaker.”
The latter well deserves his
nickname, lie actually frac
tured the jaws of nine opponents
in fourteen months. The latest
boxer to be taken under Flynn's
management is Jimmy Fasane,
the boy who knocked out Young
Dyson Thanksgiving day. riain
Jimmy Fasane wouldn't do for
Leo. He immediately dubbed
him the “Walloping Wop.”
Baseball Championships.
(I!y George Fitch.)
A baseball championship is a
prize which is won for New York,
Philadelphia and other great cities by
residents of Wahoo, Bishop Hill, Hon -
olulu, Havana, Cuba, and elsewhere.
To win a championship is a great
event. Whenever a Chicago team
ends the season in front, Chicagoans
are as pleased as if Chicago really
had something to do with it. The
loyalty w'ith which a citizen can cheer
natives of Tennessee, Sauk Center,
Kalamazoo, Montreal, Dublin and
elsewhere as they battle fiercely
against patriots from California, Kan
sas, Germany, Texas and miscellan
eous points for the championship of
New Yrork city is affecting in the ex
treme. Baseball is the great destroy
er of local prejudice and when a lo
cal player rams a home run through
the scorebard no one stops to look up
his voting place before rising to give
him feverish acclaim.
A baseball championsip is suppos
ed to settle the relative baseball ex
cellence of New York, Chicago, Bos
ton, Philadelphia and other overgrown
towns, but in reality it does no such
thing. It exhibits the daring of Fres
no, Cal., the long-headedness of
Benld, 111., the true eyes. of Knox
ville, Tenn., and the throwing arm
of Jackson's Corners, Mass. Half a
million fans yell and read devotedly
in the interests of their baseball team
as it wins the championship of the
world, but when the season has clos
ed where are the idols? Do they
cluster about the streets and cafes of
their admiring city, cording up large
bales of friends and glory? No, in
deed. They are back in Wichita,
Burlington, and other remote points,
running barber shops, shoe stores and
chicken ranches among the boys with
whom they went to school in their
extreme youth.
A baseball championship is a fake,
a delusion and a snare. It stands
for nothing except the superior lung
power of the men who man ti>
grandstands in the winning town. So
long as citizens of Chicago can play
against their home town on the New
York team and the champion swat
ter of the league can make home runs
for Chicago against New York, which
educated him at the cost of $12.57
per term in its public schools, we de
cline to perspire wit hanxiety over the
result. Let us have home made
champions and not heroes imported
at great cost for a few seasons on
ly. This would not only increase the
excitement in our metropolis, but it
would give the little towns a chance.
Pioneer Meeting Tonight.
, The regular meeting of the Pioneers
will be held this evening and aJl
members are requested to be present.
Business of importance,
k ,r> E. G. AMES, Secretary.
Mariposa Passed Skagway.
The steamer Mariposa passed,
Skagway this morning at five o’clock
and is expected here Friday morn
ing.
S. A. Hemple, of the Hemple Cop
per Company, returned to Valdez to
day from the company’s property af
ter arranging for the start of the
development work on the claims at
Landlock bay.
TIDE TABLES
Wednesday, February -4,
High tide 5:45 a. m. and 7:52 p. , m.
Low tide 1:35 p. m.
Thursday, February 5. *
High t*de 6:52 a. m. and 9:40 p. m.
Low tide 12:02 a. m. and 3:00 p. m.
THINKS MISSING LINK FOUND.
8tewart Edward White Discovera
“Gorilla Men” In Africa.
London.—Stewart Edward White, the
writer, believes he has discovered the
“missing link.” He sillied for New
York, after having spent a year In Ger
man East Africa, exploring regions
hitherto unknown to civilized man.
White announced that he had discov
ered a race of men who strongly re
semble the gorilla, and these, he be
lieves, will supply tlie missing link in
the Darwinian theory. He said he bnd
photographs and other evidence lo cor
roborate ills belief.
“The gorilla men. as I have named
them,” said White, “subsist entirely
STEWART EDWARD WHITE.
upon fruit ami the flesh of numerous
small animals, which they kill with
clubs, stones and pointed arrows.
They are a little taller hut less robust
than the gorilla and are able to con
verse intelligently witb several of the
adjacent native tribes. The facial pe
culiarities are a prognathous chin and
a broad, flat nose, while' in the fore
head are two great hollows near the
temples.”
CATTLE IMPORTS ARE
LARGELY INCREASED
Lifting of Tariff Causa of file
Big Advance.
Washington.—The effect of the Un
derwood-Simiuons tariff law on the
importation of cattle is indicated by
shipments from Canada and Mexico
to the United States within the last
two months.
“Imported cattle inspected by tlie
bureau of animal industry dining the
mouths of October and November.”
it was said at the office of informa
tion of the department of agriculture,
"numbered 209,327 head as compared
with 72,420 for the corresponding peri
od of 1912. All of these cattle came
from Canada and Mexico except 447
head of pure bred cattle for breeding
purposes imported from Great Britain.
"The bulk of the slaughter cattle
came- from Canada, while Mexico fur
nished over four-fifths of the Stockers
and feeders
“Imported meats and meat food prod
ucts inspected during October and
November amounted to 17.793,311
pounds. The bulk of this consisted of
fresh and refrigerated beef. Of the to
tal Canada furnished 8.098,197 pounds,
Argentina G,209.700. Australia 2,725.
142, Uruguay 559,843 and other coun
tries much smaller quantities."
Cattle are on the free list. The re
port continues:
During the fiscal year of 1913 over 166.
000,000 pounds of beef and its products
were exported, but this quantity included
only somewhat more than 7.000,000 of fresh
bCcf. The quantity of exports of beef and
its products lias rapidly declined from
■ 33,000,000 in 1906. The exports of pork and.
its products in 1913 amounted to 961,000.000
pounds, a quantity that Is exceeded by
the average for the preceding twenty
three years.
10 PER CENT OF EGGS LOST.
$50,000,000 Worth Annually Fail to
Reach the Consumer.
Washington.—At least 10 per cent of
the poultry and eggs produced In this
country never reach the consumer at
all, but go to the dump, crematory or
some other place not meant for food
stuffs. according to a statement issued
by Dr. M. E. Pennington, chief of the
food research laboratory of the depart
ment of agriculture
“If we estimate the value of the
poultry and egg industry at $750,000.
000 to the consumer, which is not be
low the actual value,” snld Dr. Penn
ington, “the loss from waste would
be $75,000,000. About $500,000,000
could be assigned to the value of the
poultry and about $250,000,000 to the
eggs, and we therefore would have a
loss of $50,000,000 on eggs alone."
Dr. Peunington added that besides
the actual loss there was a loss In de
terioration in the remainder of the crop'
of iterhnps $0 per cent, due to had
diandling. He said that his estimate
or the value of the poultry and *egg
production might poeeibly be ft little
too conservative and that tradeepeople
•eld that It reached $l,flh$,000/)00.
We have put up a good many Nelchina
outfits the past week. We are
ready to put up more.
The Best Goods
The Best Packing
is our motto.
When ready for your outfit come
and see us.
In the District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division.
In the Matter of the Annexation of
Certain Territory to the Incorpor
ated Town of Valdez.—Order Set
ting Time for Hearing Petition and
Giving Notice.
A petition having been this day
presented to the court for the pur
pose of instituting the proceedings
required by law for the annexation
of territory to an incorporated town,
said petition praying for the annex
ation of certain described territory to
the incorporated town of Valdez, in
the Territory of Alaska, Third divis
ion : and it appearing to the court
that said petition is signed by forty
eight qualified electors of said incor
porated town, the same being more
than one-fifth of the number of votes j
cast at the last municipal election in
said town, and by five actual real- I
dents and owners of substantial prop
erty interests in land in the territory
proposed to be annexed and verified
by two of the signers of said peti
tion: said petition setting forth the
boundaries of the territory so pro
posed to be annexed to said town, an
having attached thereto a plat based
upon an actual survey by a compe
tent surveyor, setting forth the lim
its and boundaries thereof by metes
and bounds, and stating the number
of inhabitants therein:
Therefore, it appearing to the court
that said petition is in the form re
quired by law; it is ordered that said
petition be heard and considered by
the court on the 18th day of Febru
ary, 1914, at 10 o’clock a. m. of said
day, at the court room of this court
in Valdez, Alaska, if said day be a day
of jurisdiction in said court, or if the
same be not a day of jurisdiction,
then said hearing shall be held on the
first day of jurisdiction thereafter. It
is further ordered that notice of such
hearing be given by posting printed
or typewritten copies of this order
in three eonspieuoous places within
the limits of said incorporated town
of Valdez, and by posting such cop
ies in three conspicuous places with
in the limits of the territory so pro
posed to be annexed to and included
within the limits of said incorporated
town, and by publishing a copy of
this order once a week in the Valdez
Prospector, a newspaper of general
circulation published nearest to said
incorporated town.
Done in open court at Valdez,
Alaska, this 7th day of January, 1914.
FRED. M. BROWN, Judge.
First publication January "10, 1914.
East publication February- 14, 191;.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
In the United States Commissioner's
Court, ex-oflieio Judge in Probate,
Valdez precinct, Third Judicial Di
vision, Territory of Alaska.
In the matter of the estate of Rob
ert Martin, deceased. Notice to cred
itors.
Notice is hereby given by the un
dersigned, administrator of the estate
of Robert Martin, deceased, to the
creditors of, and all persons having
claims against the said estate, to ex
hibit them with the necessary vouch
ers, within six (6) months after the
first publication of this notice, to the
said administrator at the office of C.
E. Bunnell, at Valdez. Alaska, the
same being the place for the trans
ition of the business of said estate. -
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 13th
day of January, 1914.
W. H. CASWELL,
Administrator of the estate of Robert
Martin, deoeased.
Date of first publication Jan. 14.
Date of last publication Feb. 17.
Ninety-Second Half Yearly Report of
The German Savings
and Loan Society
SAVINGS (THE HERMAN HANK) COMMERCIAL •
526 California Street.
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.
December 31, 1913,
ASSETS:
United States,'State, Municipal and other bonds
( market value $13,437,700 I, standing on books at $12,999,050.90
Loans on Real Estate, secured by lirst Mortgages. 59,rail,517.20
Loans on Bonds and Stocks . 9110.930.99
Bank Buildings and Lots, Main and Branch Otiices lvalue
$000,000), standing on books at... 1.00
Other Real Estate (value $230,000.(0) standing oil books at 1.00
Employees’ Pension Fund,"(100,570.12) standing on books; at 1.00
CASH. t.450.192.41
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Total. .. *50,.923,000.50
LIABILITIES
Due Depositors. . . . $54,010,190.39
Capital Stock actually paid in. 1,000,000,00
Reserve and Contingent Fuud. 1,907,404.19
Total.-.-..:. $50,923,600.50
N. OHLANDT, GEORGE TOURNEY,
President. Manager.
Subscribed and sworn to before me|this ,41st day of December, 1913,
[seal] CHAS. F. DUISENBERU, Notary Public,
For tlie 0 months ending December 31st, 1913, a dividend to deposi
tors of 4 per cent per annum was declared. Adv.
Local Valdez
^SOCIALIST PARTY
Meets Thursdays at*
8 o’clock at
the local quarters back of
Ingram & Bush’s Cigar Store
IN THE HIAPT or THECmr
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Valdez. Alaska
Reports on Mines
Patent Surveys
(Senesal Mining Engineering
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Cable Office. Hour*
f Week days 9 a. m. to 9 p. ra.
Sundays and holidays 9 to 10 a. m
and 6 te C p. m.
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GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
The best groceries received
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
CAMP VALDEZ: No. 10 *
Meet every Tuesday eveniiiK at b o'ciout In
liable Hall All members are reorested to
......T tl.ljVINN. A retie Chief
S. MCNIECK. Secretary
Valdez Lodge
No 168
Free and Accepted Masons
Regular Communications tlrst Wednesday iQ
each mont h in McKinley Hall Visitors always
welcome.
A. K. GRIGSBY. W. M.
O. C. Reynolds. Sec- ,
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