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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1016
RAM) REFORM IN MEXICO.
From El Paso, comes the news
that efforts are now being made by
the Carranza government of Mexico
to establish the land reforms prom
ised by the Constitutionalists. The
scheme contemplates the return' to
government control of municipal
lands taken by private parties during
and after Diaz’ regime. When this
is accomplished the Carranza gov
ernment ... proceed to divide the
various areas of uncultivated lands,
comprising some of the largest es
tates in Mexico. Soldiers who have
fought for Carranza will sharo first
in this distribution.
Li. the Carranza government will
restore the land of Mexico to the
people of Mexico it will take the one
great step to bring about peace in
that country. But there are millions
of dollars of American money ready
to be invested in revolutions, or any
^ thing else necessary to keep the land
of Mexico out of the hands of the
Mexican people. The American
“plunilerbunders” are not going to
' let go in Mexico so long as there is
the least chance of their holding on
to the land that belongs to the Mexi
can people.—Exchange.
In case the aerial mail contracts
go. through and the city is made
headquarters for the aviators and
their hangars, we may look foria re
vival of the o.v.-nme prosperity, and
a resumption of travel from the inte
rior. When a person can step into
an aero in the morning and eat din
ner in Fairbanks it will bring the in
terior close enough to be a suburb
to Valdez. Many tourists will also
take the trip as a novelty, and others
will take it for the purpose of get
ting a panoramic view of the vast in
terior. With the army of mechani
cians. hangar keepers and flying-men
a good many dollars of Uncle Sam’s
money will be turne.. .ose in our city.
Valdez already has a splendid ma
chine shop, and in case the aeroplane
tuaii contract is pulled through we
peak plenty of work for it, as
Mr. Long can repair anything made
of metal.
With live or six auto stage lines
and three aeroplane lines running
out of the city this summer, It be
gins to look as- if old Madame Pros
perity was just hankering to get a
foothold again in our city.
The snow is piling up at^the Sum
mit faster than the Signal Station
boys there can shovel it off. It has
gained an inch sir ce the last report—
3 07 inches now.
A man near Juneau claims to have
an invention which will destroy a
whole fleet of battleships and stop
warfare in a few days. If Joe Spe
nard would stop and pick him up as
he went by it might save the terri
tory the expense of an extra trip to
Morningside.
If Congress succeeds in forcing
President Wilson to act against his
convictions they will be entitled to a
medal. While Wilson wobbles quite
a bit in his orbit, he sticks like h
poor relation, when his mind is once
made up.
CUMMINS FAVORS PROHIBITION.
"Thirty years ago,” says Senator
Cummins, of Iowa. "I should have
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said prohibition was impractical. Un
der the conditions that existed then,
it would have meant putting in the
field two unregulated saloons to the
one regulated saloon. But the world
has marched along In these thirty
years until now there is scutimeiU
enough in the United States to abol
ish the saloon. The United States
ought to abolish it, and will.” The
Washington correspondent of a Chi
cago daily calls attention to the fact
that “Albert Bairu ^ummins, a man
feared and respected on the floor of
the United States Senate, is dead
against booze, and is the first presi
dential possibility of a major party
that ever came out flat-footed in fav
or of prohibition on a national
scope.”
APPOINTMENT OF BRANDEIS
Says our neighbor the Times in
discussing the appointment of Bran
deis to be Associate Justice of the
United States Supreme Court;
There would be less anxiety
and confirmation would be more
certain if he had already been
tested by judicial service. It has
often been told that this should
be an essential qualification for
the Supreme Bench. When the
people know just how the nom
inee has behaved as a judge,
when the decisions he has ren
dered and the opinions he has
written are before them, they
are in a position to measure his
quality and fitness. They know
if they are taking risks and they
can say whether they are will
ing to take them.
Such a rule would have deprived
the United States Supreme Court of
all its Chief Justices except one, in
cluding John Marshall, and it would
have also deprived that Court of
many of its commanding figures.
Neither John Jay, Oliver Ellsworth
John Marshall, Boger B. Taney, Sal
mon P. Chase, Morrisson R. Waite,
or Melville W. Puller had even been
a Judge at the time of his appoint
ment to be Chief Justice. The pres
ent Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court, who will always rank among
the commanding figures of that court
the most competent Chief Justice
since Marshall, went from the United
States to the Suprem Bench, and al
though he had been at one time a
State Judge in Louisiana, his judic
ial experience had nothing more to
do with his appointment to the Su
preme Court.
If Mr. Brandeis could be consider
ed disqualified because he has had no
no Judicial experience Justice Hughs
would be equally disqualified, and if
Mr. Hughs is not a great Judge then
we do not know what a great Judge
is.
As a matter of fact, there would
be no question about Mr. Brandeis’s
qualifications for the Supreme Bench
if his public services had not won him
the hearty dete»i,..-»on of certain
powerful corporations and financial
interests. They hate him not merely
because he is radical, but because fie
is enormously able and efficient. To
them it is incident that a lawyer
with such an extraordinary ability
should wantonly and deliberately
use of his talents to promote social
welfare of the American people when
he might command princely fees in
services of privilege. They regard
that sort of thing as against nature,
and the man who does it is not to
be trusted.
All the old shellbacks in the United
States Senate are in a state of nerves
over the Brandeis appointment, Wall
Street is on the verge of hysterics
and reactionary elements everywhere
are dumb with rage; but our own be
lief is that the appointment will be
confirmed and that Mr. Brandeis
will prove to be a just and upright
Judge, whose service on the bench
will still further strengthen popular
confidence in the greatest judicial
tribunal that the world has ever
known.—New York World.
ALASKA COPPER
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The fact that Alaska produced
nearly fifteen million dollars worth
of copper last year has occasioned
little comment. In fact, so much Is
expected of Alaska that an increase
in metal production Is taken as a
matter of course. The same is true
of Alaska’s fisheries; they are so pro
lific and extensive that an Increase
in the output of a few million dol
lars receives only passing attention.
However, this goes to show the de
finite belief that Is entertained by
the public that Alaska’s resources
are merely in the beginning of their
development. The great Bonanza
mine of the Kennecott Mines Corpor
ation, in the Copper River valley, Is
more than filling all predictions that
ever were made concerning the mar
velous rlohness of the ores. It bids
fair to become one of the greatest
copper mines In the world, lit It hjas
not already attained that etalnence.
And enough Is known. about other
nopper mines In the Territory to war
-ant the statement that Alaska, In
copper production, as Well as In gold
iid other metals, will ultimately
lead the world.—Juneau Empire.
prospector Ads bring results
PETIT JURY HIS
BETH DISMISSED
Another Jury Will be Drawn to Re
port for Duty in Attendance on
Court on April 10th.
Judge Fred M. Brown, of the dis
trict court .this afternoon signed an
order dismissing the petit jury which
had been called to be in attendance
on the court on March 16, and pro
viding for the drawing of another
jury to report on April 10.
The jury term has been set back
owingto there being very few cases
on the calendar which are ready to
come to trial and as there are a num
ber of fishery law violation and other
cases to come up later the court de
termined to arrange the calling of
the petit! jury accordingly.
The citizens who were drawn on
the jury which was to have reported
on March 15, will be notified by depu
ties or by registered letter that the
jury has been dismissed and that
they will not be required to report.
The steamer Admiral Evans, which
is now to the westward, had not re
ported at Seward up to a late hour
this afternoon and is not expected to
reach Valdez on her southbound trip
until some time tomorrow.
WITH TWO SKIPPERS
AND ONE PASSENGER
When the little steamer Dora sail
ed for the westward from Seward last
week she carried two skippers and
only one passenger. Capt. Gus
Swanson who recently arrived from
Seattle to take command of the
steamer, will make the trip with
Capt. Westerlund and when the
steamer returns from the westward
Westerlund will go to Seattle.
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Interior Weatner.
Valdez, Feb. 29, 1916.
Barometric pressure .30.091
Temperature 7 p. m.15
Maximum temperature .26
Minimum temperature .15
Mean temperature.20
Clear, moderate gale, 35 miles.
Interior Weather
Fairbanks, —28; clear calm.
Richardson, —39; clear calm.
Donnelly —32; clear calm, trail
heavy.
McCallum, —25; 46 inches snow,
clear windy, trail drifted.
Paxson, —25; 46 inches of snow,
storming, trail drifted.
Hogan, 2; 26 inches of snow,
clear calm, trail good.
Gulkana, —2; 29 inches of snow,
clear calm, trail good.
Copper Center, —12; 15 inches of
snow, clear calm, trail good.
Tonsina, —8; 20 inches of snow,
clear windy, trail good.
Teikhell, —20; 48 inches of snow,
clear windy, trail good.
Beaver Dam, 5; 65 inches of snow,
cloudy windy, tra.. drifted.
Wortman’s, 18; 56 inches snow,
clear windy, trail closed iorth heavy
south.
Call for Warrants.
1 will pay all warrants outstanding
beginning* at No. 4906 up to and in
cluding No. 6355.
E. G. AMES,
2t Town Treasurer.
Spring Samples in heavy weights,
for Alaska wear Guy P. Cameron,
Tailor tf
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Pasteurized Whipping Cream and
pure Buttermilk at Love-Whitley's
BAD CHECK GETS SEWARD
MAN IN SERIOUS TROUBLE.
W. Cputts, of Anchorage, a former
employe of the Alaskan Engineering
commission, is under arrest at Sew
ard for passing worthless checks.
While on a spree he passed a check
for $20 on the Terminal Bar which
was drawn on the Bank of Seward.
When the check was returned mark
ed "no funds” his arrest fouowed. He
is said to have a good reputation and
has never been in trouble before and
his friends have interested them
selves in his case.
COMMISSION WILL KEEP
ROAD OPEN TO MILE 34
The Alaskan Engineering commis
sion has a crew of men employed on
the work of clearing the track out
from Seward of the snow and ice
which blocked the road for several
days. Milder weather has set in and
it was expected that the road would
again be opened to Mile 34 by Sun
day. The travel over the road to An
chorage and other interior districts
is reported as very heavy and increas
ing in ‘volume as many Iditarod wen
are now returning to the interior af
ter spending the winter in tbe'atates.
PREPAREDNESS
Seems To Be the Slogan of This Country at Present.
The Slogan of the Housewife at All Times Should Be,
The Best Quality of Groceries
' We Carry Such Goods as
Hill’s Coffee, Del Monte Fruits and Vegetables,
Centehnial Flour, Cresca Fancy Canned Goods
Fisher’s Blend Flour, Beech Nut Grape Jelly
And everything that’s good in Groceries and Provisions.
Every Boat Brings Us Seasonable Fresh Fruits and
Vegetables.
Our Prices on Groceries Make It Expensive for You to Trade Elsewhere.
S. BLUM & CO.,
GOOD GOODS 4
DONALDSON SCHEDULE
Lvs. Pori Liscurn Lvs. Valde?
3:15 a.m. 9:45 a.m.
1:15 p.m. 4:00 p.m.
TUESDAYS
8:15 a.m. 9:45 a.m.
1:15 p.m. 2:00 p.m.
4:30 p.m. 5:00 p.m.
SATURDAYS
1:15 p.m. 4:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m 10:30 p.m.
There will be no trip of the launch
on the second ana fourth Fridays of
each month, these days toeing used to
clean hollers
TTDK TABLK8 FOB MARCH.
The table given below is for high
and low water in Valdez Bay, for
the month of March, 1916.
Wednesday, March 1.
High, 10:09 am, 9.6; 11:17 pm, 7.8.
Low. 3:52 am, 3.0; 4:57 pm,—0.7.
Thursday, March 2.
High. 10:57 am, 10.0.
Low, 4:51 am, 2.0; 6:37 pm, —1.0.
Friday, March S.
High, 11:53 pm, 8.6; 11:44 am, 10.1.
Low, 6:41 am, 1.1; 6:15 pm, —1.0.
Saturday, March 4.
High, 12:27 am, 9.3; 12:31 pm, 10.0.
Low. 5:26 am, 0.3; 6:49 pm, —0.7.
Sunday, March 5.
High, 12:59 am, 9.7; 1:13 pm, 9.6.
Low, 7:08 am, —0.1; 7:21 pm, —0.2
Monday, March 6.
High, 1:28 am, 9.9; 1:54 pm, 9.0.
Low. 7:48 am, —0.3;'7:51 pm, —0.5
Tuesday, March 7.
High, 2:04 am, 9.9; 2:34 pm. 8.2.
Low, 8:27 am, —0.2; 8:21 pm, 1.3.
Wednesday, March 8.
High, 2:34 am, 9.5; 3:14 pm, 7.3
Low, 9:06 am, 0.2; 8:62 pm, 2.0.
Thursday, March 9.
High, 3:06 am, 9.1; 3:59 pm, 6.6.
Low, 9:49 am, 0.8; 9:24 pm. 2.8.
Friday, March 10.
High, 3:42 am, 8.6; 4:63 pm, 5.7.
Low, 10:39 am, 1.4; 10:00 pm, 3.5.
Saturday, March 11.
High, 4:26 am, 7.9; 6:23 pm, 5.1.
Low, 11:46 am, 2.0; 10:48 pm, 4.1.
Sunday, March 12.
High, 5:27 am, 7.4; 8:26 pm, 5.2.
Low, 1:32 pm, 2.9.
Monday, March 18.
High, 6:15 am, 7.2; 9:43 pm, 5.6.
Low, 0:08 am, 4.6; 2:59 pm. 2.0.
Tuesday, March 14.
High, 8:23 am, 7.3; 10:20 pm. 6.2.
Low, 2:18 am, 4.6; 3:64 pm, 1.6.
Wednesday, March 15.
High, 9:28 am, 7.7; 10:52 pm, 6.8.
Low, 3:65 am, 3.9; 4:31 pm, 1.2.
Thursday, March 18.
High, 10:18 am, 8.2; 11:16 pm, 7.5.
Low. 4:31 am, 3.1; 6:01 pm. 0.8.
Friday, March 17.
High, 11:01 am, 8.5.
Low, 4:69 am, 2.3; 6:27 pm. 0.6.
Saturday, March 18.
High, 11:40 pm, 8.1; 11:37 am 8.8.:
Low, 6:34 am, 1.4; 6:62 pm, —0.6.
Sunday, March 19,
High, 0:04 am, 8.7; 12:16 pm, 8.9.
Low, 6:09 am, —0.7; 6:19 pm, —0.6
Monday, March 20.
High, 12:30 am, 9.3; 12:52 pm, 8.8.
Low, 6:44 am, 0.0; 8:47 pm, —0.8.
Tuesday, March 21.
High, 12:67 am, 9.7; 1:31 pm, 8.6.
Low, 7:81 am, —0.6; 7:19 pm. 1.2.'
Wednesday, March 22, ’
High, 1:28 am, 10.0; 2:12 pm, 8.0.
Low, 8:01 am, —0.7; 7:61 pm, 1.6.
Thursday, March 28.
High, 2:02 am, 10.0; 2:68 pm, 7.3.
Low, 8:46.am, —0.0; 8:28 pm, 2.1.
Friday, March 24.
High, 2;41 am, 9.8; 3:52 pm, 6.6.
Low, 9:36 am, —0.3; 9:07 pm. 2.8.
Saturday, March 25.
High, 3:28 am, 9.4; 4:59 ptn, 6.0.
Low. 10:37 am, —0.3; 10:01 pm, 3.4
Sunday, March 26.
High, 4:37 am, 8.-8; 6:84 pm, 6.7.
Low, 11:64 am, —0-7; 11:14 pm, 3.9;
Monday, March 27.
High, 5:46 am, 8.4; 8:02 pm. 6.1.
Low, 1:26 pm, —0.8.
Tuesday, March 28.
High, 7:22 am, 8.2; 9:18 pm, 6.8.
Low, 1:02 am, 8.8; 2:46 pm, —O.6.,
Wednesday, March 29.
High, 8:50 am, 8.4; 10:04 pm, 7.7.
Low, 2.48 ani, 3.3; 3:42 pm, 0.4.
Thursday, March 80.
High, 9:57 am, 8.7; 10:44 pm, 8.5.
Low, 3:56 am, 2.2; 4:27 pm, —0.2.
Friday, March 81,
High, 10:61 am, 9.0; 11:18 pm, 9.3.
Low. 4 48 am, 1.1; 6:06 pm, —0.2.
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Valdez Transfer
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Office on Alaska Avenue, in
George C. Treat Building
Telephone No. 60
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to all Interior Points.
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Arcade Cafe
OPEN ALL NIGHT
Private Dining Room with Electric
Heater.
BREAD FOR SALE
Jack Callin Prapria—r
The Best Place in Valdez to
Stop at is the
Arctic Hotel
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Want, Light Rooai—The Hour of Coafort
RATES REASONABLE
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nesday In each month in McKinley
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