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ANTON CARLSON,
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More Than Two Million Dollars
Worth Being Sent to Europe
Dally from United States.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—The an
nual report of the department of
Commerce‘says that the manufactu
rers of the United States are shipping
two million dollars worth of muni
tions of war to Europe daily and
that the value of the goods purchased
In the United States during the year
just closed reached the enormous to
tal of one and one-tenth billion dol
lars.
The report also states that never
before have the producers of Ameri
ca enjoyed greater prosperity. This is'
especially true of agriculturalists in
Uie wheat and cotton growing states,
and the - producers of miners which
are employed in the manufacture of
munitions of war.
The department calls attention to
tho heavy export trade of steel and
copper to Europe and the intimation
is made that in the event congress fa
vors building the larger navy and
coast fortifications that it may be ne
cessary to restrict the experts of Steel
for a period.
ELECTRIC FORCE PUMP
INSTALLED AT BUFFET
In order to provide greater safety
from Are an electric force pump has
been installed in the Copper Block,
which is capable of throwing a good
stream of water over the building.
Two hundred feet of hose has been
connected with the pump and should
fire break out in the neighborhood of
The Buffet a stream of water' wcruld
be instantly available. When tested
yesterday the pump threw a stream
from a half inch nozzle over the high
est telephone pole on McKinley street.
MONTENEGRINS GIVE UP
OLD AND ODD WEAPONS
VIENNA: The queerest collection
of antique weapons ever brought to
gether outside a museum has been
Imported and Domestic
Wines, Liquors and Cigars
Phone 69
deposited with Austrian troops at
Cettinje by the Montenegrin popula
tion.
When the terms of the capital's
peace agreement were made known,
Montenegrin civilians flocked to Aus
trian headquarters with all sorts of
weapons They laid down the ancient
muskets and swords and knives with
which their ancestors had defended
themselves many decades ago. Prac
tically every householder in Cettinje,
even widows with no males in the
family, possessed several weapons.
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WIFE MURDERER GETS
LIFE AT HARD LABOR
MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 18.—Fred
erick T. Price, the commercial man,
who was convicted of the murder of
his wife by throwing her over a cliff
at St'. Paul, and was sentenced to life
imprisonment at hard labor, began
serving bis sentence at Stillwater
yesterday. Mrs. Price was the third
wife of the murderer and each time
he realized on life insurance which
they carried in his favor.
MINER IS SATISFIED
WITH HIS PROSPECTS
Jack Whalen, one of the pioneer
miners of this district, came up from
Eidalgo bay yesterday afternoon
brihging a number of fine samples of
Jofe frbm the Copper property which
jhe is developing'there.1' He has/beep,
interested in the property since the
copper boom of 1907 and has devel
oped a good body of ore by running
several hundred feet of tunnel,
ji Mr; Whalen is very conservative in
speaking of his property, but says he
U &tlOfled With Hlahrospects, and be
lieve* that it will develop into a pro
ducer. He reports that the tunnel
10 In four feet of snow and that the
lead can be traced on the surface for
a considerable distance;
The trail is broke ana the Tele
phone No. 85 is working. Did pou
ever stop to think that every time
yon leave a dollar with your local in
dustry that you hath a" fighting
chance to get it back, as they live and
eatin the old home town and it costs
something at' that.' You may not get
it back directly from him; he may
have t& give it to some one else who
has td give it t6 you. Try the Val
des Iron Works. fr-tf
Special
Two first class Keystone comedies
at 'the Liberty theatre tonight.
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OUR LEGISLATURE
l IS THREATENED
If Alexdrander Measure Becomes Law
Territorial Government be
Left Without Funds.
Jack Underwood, whose writings
are familiar to the readers of the Se
attle Times, believes that if the mea
sure introduced Into congress by
Representative Alexander of Mis
souri providing for the removal of
the fisheries of Alaska from the jur
isdiction of the Alaska legislature is
passed by congress that the legislative
body may just as well close up shop.
The bill prohibits the imposition
of taxes on the fishing industry of
Alaska by the legislature and also
provides for congressional disappro
val of the acts of the Alaska legis
lature approved May 1. 1913, in so
far as they impose taxes and li
censes on the fisheries of the terri
tory. In a recent Issue of the Times
Underwood is quoted as follows:
If the bill becomes a law the Alas
ka Legislature virtually will have to
cease business, for the reason that
It will be unable to impose taxes on
any of the Alaskan industries, with
the exception of the newspaper pub
lishing houses ana uarber shops.
In 1913 the Alaskan Legislature
placed a tax on the fisheries of Alas
ka, and the sum now due amounts
to $300,000. Secretary Redfield some
time ago recommended the enact
ment of a law prohibiting the legis
lature from taxing fisheries on the
ground that the industry already
was taxed by the federal govern
ment.
So also is every other industry in
Alaska taxed by the federal govern
ment, and it is reasonably certain
that if the fisheries are freed from
their tax burdens other industries
will ask a similar privilege. This
will leave the Teritorial government
without funds.
The Alaska enabling act provides
that bills passed by the Alaska Leg
islature become laws unless they are
specifically disapproved by Congress,
but no time limit is placed on the
congressional disapproval. Congress
man Alexander’s bill, therefore, aims
to invalidate a territorial law enacted
nearly three years ago.
The bill is certain to be rought
bitterly by the Alaska delegate to
Congress, James Wickersham, and it
is certain that the Western delega
tions will be asked to assist Wicker
sham in the battle.
“I don’t pretend to know anything
about the justice of these taxes,”
Maurice Leehey, owner of consider
able property in Alaska and a mem
ber of the Alaska bureau of the Se
attle Chamber of Commerce, said
this morning, “but I do know that
the territorial Legislature is the pro
per body to impose taxes in Alaska.
If dual taxation is improper, the Leg
islature will have nobody left to tax.
as the federal government has al
ready taxed practically everything.
“If the fishing industry is excused
from its tax, the mining industry
will want to bo excused. These are
the two great resources of the terri
tory.
"Those engaged in the mining in
dustry would rather the territorial'
government be given the exclusive'
privilege of taxing, not alone for the
reason that the money would be ex
pended in the territory, but because
the territorial Legislature'is certain
to have some members who are fa-1
miliar with the industry and who
are,better qualified'to impose taxes
intelligently.
“This is illustrated in the two
forms of taxation on mining now in1
operation. The federal law places a
tax on each stamp installed, but the
territorial law places a tax on the
net income of the mine at the end
of each year. In other words the
federal government forces a man who
is trying to develop a property to
pay his taxes before he begins oper
ations, but the territorial law gives
him a chance to take the money out
of the ground before the tax is due.
The miner who makes big profits
doesn’t mind paying taxes;the one
who is operating at a loss is net re
quired to pay any under the terri
torial law.
* “The bill prohibiting a territorial
tax on fisheries is certain to meet
prith violent opposition from Alas
kans. If It becomes a law the Legis
lature might as weH~be disbanded.”
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LETTER IB DELIVERED
AFTER FIFTY-ONE YEARS
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BANGOR, Feb. 18|—When ‘Louie
Cole, a resident of this town, called
at the postoffice yesterday he was
handed a* letter which had been
mailed to him in 1866. Cole is a
veteran of the civil war and the let
ter had followed him Into nearly
every state in the TTnion.
VICTORIA SAILS
FOR UNALASKA
Carries Capacity Cargo of Coal and
Merchandise for Far West
Coaling Station.
SEATTLE, Feb. 18.—The steamer
Victoria, of the Alaska Steamship
company’s fleet, sailed yesterday aft
ernoon for Unalaska as a freighter
only. The steamer carries a capac
ity cargo of general merchandise and
coal and will follow the coarse she
travels during the summer months
An her regular trips to Seward pe
ninsula.
Tho officials of the steamship com
pany state that the trade of the far
west is developing rapidly and that
as Unalaska is a coaling station and
headquarters for the Bering Sea
whaling fleet large quantities of coal
must necessarily be kept available at
the station.
The Victoria also carries a large
shipment of supplies for the govern
ment station on Pribilof Islands. The
latter gpods will be sent to the isl
ands in small schooners as soon as
the ice breaks and will reach the gov
ernment employes and natives weeks
before the large steamers venture
into Bering Sea.
10 MAKE SHIPMENT
ON THE FARRAGUT
Steamer Will Call at Fidalgo Bay
for Five Hundred Tons of Ore—
Regulur Shipments Follow.
When the steamer Admiral Farra
gut of the Admiral Line, returns
from her trip to the westward she
will call at Fidalgo Bay and will take
on 500 tons of copper ore from the
property of the Alaska Miners cor
poration aud will mark the begin
ning of regular shipments of ore from
that mine to the smelter at Tacoma.
Manager E. D. Reiter of the com
pany, returned from Fidalgo Bay last
night and reports that the wharf is
nearing completion and will be in
shape for the Admiral Farragut to tie
up to when she arrives.
During the time while the wharf
has been under construction the ore
bunkers, terminal buildings, stopes
and every available space has been
filled with ore and it is estimated that
in excess of fifteen hundred tons are
ready for shipment. The manage
ment had planned to send a ship
ment of one thousand tons on the Ad
miral Farragut but received advices
from Seattle that she would be un
able to carry more than five hundred
tons this trip.
The steamer Admiral Watson, it is
reported, has been repaired and is
back in service again and will call at
Fidalgo Bay on her first trip to load
five hundred tons of ore. She will be
followed‘by the Admiral Evans and
the latter is expected to coiitpiete the
shipment of fifteen hundred tons.
' The completion of 'the wharf will
enable the cothfcUny to make tegular
shipments of orb to the smelter and
it is annouubed by the management
that the mine %ill produce' between
five hundred and one thousand tons
of ore each month.
The history of the Fidalgo proper
ty since it passed under the control
of the Alaskan Mines corporation last
September has been a revelation by
way of showing' what can be accom
plished by energy and enterprise when
I properly directed.
Since the company acquired the
property several hundred feet of tun*
nel has been driven and large bodies
of ore developed. Terminal build
ings, ore bunkers, quarters for the
men, a blacksmith shop and a wharf
four hundred feet long have been
completed and the mine placed in the
list of regular shippers. All this has
been accomplished by the expendi
ture of lar&e sums of money Tint the
future of the mine Justifies the ex
pense aB sufficient high grade oib has
been already developed to guarantee
shipments for many years to come.
Ugh Explosives.
A Matter o* High Explosives with
all its ups. and downs is the laugh
able comedy at the Empress; Change
of movies tonight^_
Mr. and Mrs. Ous Hogbloom were
incoming passengers on the launch
Shamrock l«y*„night from Fidalgo
bay, where Mr. ilogbloom is building
a wharf for the Dlckey-Alaska Copper
Mining company at Irish Cove.
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The First Bank of Valdez
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Lvs. Port Liscum Lvs. Valdes
8:15 pm. 9:45
1:15 p.m. 4:00 pol .
TUESDAYS
8:15 pm. 9:45 pm.
1:15 p.m. 2:00 p.m.
4:30 p.m. 5:00 pm.
8ATURDAYS
1:15 p.m. ■ 4:00 p.m.
7:09 pm i 10:10j,pm>
Thera will be no trip of UMgMgMfr
on the second ana fourth FritnpB at
each month, these dess beta# Med ■
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Some show tonight at the Liberty
theatre as follows: ' '
Other People's Business
Fortunes OrWar, t part drama.
Fatty and Hotel's Wash Day, com
edy.
Visit the Liberty theatre tonight,
good show warm and comfortable.
Prospector Ads bring results.
Jack Whalen who has oeen devel
oping copper properties at Vidal#®
Bay and' other points dowh the
Sound, came np to Valdes hut night
on the launch Shamrock. He reports
that his property on Fidalgo Bay,
which aujoing the -iciuiosh rtroup ot
claims, is developing in a very satis
factory manner and gives promise ot
developing into a big proposition.