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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1914.
SOURDOUGH WORK
Anybody who thinks they make bet
ter men than Alaska sourdoughs has
another think coming. And anybody
who may dispose^ to deny Judge
Brown’s assertion that Valdez is the
biggest town of its size on earth
ought to have his citations ready be
fore he begins argument.
Last week a snowslide buried sev
eral persons in Keystone canyon,
sixteen miles from’ Valdez, taking the
lives of two.V As soon as the news
reached Valdez a troop of volunteers
made ready and started in an hour
for the canyon to aid half a dozen
signal corps men already on the
ground in the work of rescue. The
first body was quickly recovered but
the body of a woman was carried
far, and nearly a week of steady dig
ging in the ice and snow almost as
hard as ice was necessary to find the
victim.
The town of Valdez has paid for the
sustenance of the men, but the men
have worked without pay, at a task
as difficult as can be found in manual
labor—digging a deep trench through
ice and ice-hard snow, most of the
time in a bitter wind. No reward
will go to these men except their own
conscience that they have done the
work of men, and an Alaska sour
dough takes that as a matter of
course and forgets it.
FOR BANDITS
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SEATTE, Feb. 24.—The officials of ,
the Great Northern railroad have of- j
fered a reward of $15,000 for the cap- ;
ture of the three bandits who held j
up the Great Northern train near Eel- j
lingham. The reward will be paid j
for the arrest and conviction of the j
men or one-third of it for the arrest
and conviction of any one of them.
Besides the company has announced
that the reward goes to the man that
kills the bandits, as they are desirous
that they be brought to quick jus
tice and if it is necessary to kill them
the reward will be paid.
The state authorities have also of
fered a reward for the apprehension
of the bandits.
ANOTHER HOLDUP
NEARJEATTLE
SEATTLE, Feb. 24.—At 10 o’clock
last night three masked men, believ
ed to be the same who held up the
Great Northern passenger train near
Bellingham, .held up a train on the
Tacoma interurban railroad and forc
ed a boy to pass around a hat, into
which the passengers dropped all
their belongings. The robbers secur
ed $400 and made good their escape.
The holdup took place at The Mead
ows, a lonely spot on the trip between
the two cities.
MANY ARRESTS OF.
BANOIUOSPECTS
SEATTLE, Feb. 24.—Three men,
suspected of being the bandits who
held up the Great Northern train near
Bellingham, have been arrested at
Kent and are being held by the po
lice until they can give an explana
tion of their whereabouts the p-st
week.
Lenn Hay, formerly with the Val
dez Cafe, has purchased the lunch
counter at the Exchange Bar and will
conduct the business hereafter. Mr.
Hay will be glad to welcome his many
friends at bis new establishment. It
CHARLES MURPHY
LOSES BALL CLUB
Forced to Dispose of His Chicago
Cubs Because of Feeling
Against Him. ^
CINCINNATI, O., Feb. 24.—As a re
sult of the meeting of the National
and American Leagues at this place
today Charles Murphy sold out his
interest in the Chicago Cubs to Chas.
P. Taft, brother of former President
Taft, and formerly a part owner in
the Philadelphia National League
team. Murphy has been the disturb
ing element in major league ball for a
good many years, and is probably the
most disliked man among baseball
fans in the country. Ban Johnson,
president of the American League,
has repeatedly blamed Murphy for
causing most of the friction between
the major leagues and their players,
and it tinally culminated in the Pres
ident of the American League notify
ing the National organization Murphy
would Lave to dispose of his inter
ests, or the American League would
sever its relations with them.
CHICAGO, Feb. 24.—The news that
Charles Murphy had sold out his in
terest in the Chicago Cubs to Chas.
P. Taft was well received here, as
Murphy was anything but popular
with the fans. His treatment of
Chance, Tinker and other popular id
ols of baseball angered the fans
against him and they are glad to see
him deposed.
SULZER TRYING
10 COME BACK
Starts Suit in Federal Courts for Re
instatement to His Former Of
fice as Governor.
ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 24.—Former
Governor Sulzer, who was impeached
and driven from his position at the
head of the government of this state
today started civil suits to regain the
governorship, claiming that his im
peachment was illegal and without
warrant of law.
Sulzer will take the case to the
United States Supreme Court and
confidently expects that he will be
reinstated with back pay.
Governor GGlynn refused to make
any statement regarding the possibil
ity of losing his position should Sul
zer be successful. He said that it
was a matter the courts would settle
and that he was not interested in
the outcome at this time, but would
continue to exercise the duties of the
office in the interest of the people un
til directed by the courts to turn the
office over to another or he was suc
ceeded by a duly elected successor.
It is doubted here if the federal
courts have any authority to seat an
officer of the state. Special attorneys
will be retained by the attorney gen
eral to present the case for the state
in the higher courts.
LIFE SAVERS DIE
IN HEAVY SURF
Crew of English Station Caught by
Big Comber When Trying to Aid
Stranded Schooner.
QUEENSTOWN, Ireland, Feb. 24.—
Fourteen life savers perished here
last night in an effort to reach the
stranded Norwegian schooner on the
reef off the coast several miles from
this city. The rescue boat was caught
by a giant comber, turned complete
ly over and all the men thrown out
and drowned. Several of the bodies
were picked up on the beach by fish
ermen arid an attempt to rescue the
life savers was made, but it was un
successful.
The men on the stranded schooner
could witness the loss of the life sav
ers, but were powerless to aid them.
A tug has beon sent from here to
rescue the men if possible and anoth
er life crew has been ordered to the
scene.
REBUKE BY SARCASM.
About the Poorest Place to Use It Is In
the Classroom.
In a well known Boston school there
was a boy conspicuously dull at his
Latin. He was a straightforward fel
low and a gentleman by birth and
breeding, but he was a bungler at syn
tax.
One morning he had tangled himself
in a simple phrase. The teacher asked
a question that should have cleared
him. But the poor lad did not know
the answer.
Then the teacher leaned back in his
chair, rolled his gray eyes to the ceil
ing and said for all the class to hear,
"I have been told that it is a hard
thing to stuff a wildcat with butter,
particularly if you have to do it with
a hot awl, but that is child’s play
compared with putting Latin in a boy
like this.”
Of course the laugh came, but as the
boys laughed they despised the teach
er.
“Sarcasm,” said .Carlyle, “is the lan
guage of the devil.” Be that as it
may. it has turned many a schoolroom
into a place of torment.
A boy may he too dull to be in school,
but while allowed to he there he can
never be dull enough to justify a knife
thrust from one whose- first duty Is to
help and cheer him.—Boston Herald.
OYSTERS AND DYSPEPTICS.
When the Bivalves May and When
They Should Not Be Eaten,
It is popularly supposed that the
oyster digests himself in the human
stomach owing to the great size of the
liver, which is crushed as mastication
begins and is thought to digest the
tnollusk itself. As the oyster, more
over. contains some 10 per cent of ex
tremely assimilable protein, together
with phosphorized fats and glycogen,
it has always been freely administered
to convalescents, while dyspeptic bons
vivants have never hesitated to eat it
abundantly.
Dr. Pron expresses the opinion that
the oyster may be allowed, therefore,
to those dyspeptics whose gastric func
tions are deficient, in anorexia, gastric
atony, ulcer and incipient cancer, and
to convalescents from acute disease, as
it is likely to improve the appetite and
to excite the stomach to increased
motor and chemical activity.
But to the large number of dyspep
tics whose stomachs are hyperacid oi
hypersensitive Dr. Pron would forbid
the oyster as well as all other stimu
lating foods. In many of these dys
peptics the gastric secretion is already
sufficient, and it is unnecessary and
unwise to increase it. — New York
Press.
Made the Judge Perspire.
Sir John Charles Day, the English
judge who earned the title of the
‘•hooligan's terror.” died at the age of
eighty-two. In the nineteen years Sir
John was a judge of the high court —
front 188“ to 31*01—he was itoted for
his gift of solemn humor and for his
drastic flogging sentences. In fourteen
years he sentenced 137 criminals to
3,700 strokes of the cat. Once he said
to a gang of Liverpool rutlians: "I am
not going to give you men long terms
of imprisonment, hut when you go in
you get twenty lashes of the cat: when
you have heen in nine months you get
twenty lashes of the cat: before you
come out you get twenty lashes of the
cat. And then you can show what you
have got to your friends.” He was per
haps the only English judge who ever
did ‘‘hard labor.” While on a visit to a
prison he tried the treadmill, but when
he asked to be set free the guard pre
tended not to hear his request. The
judge was perspiring freely by the
time lie was fiermitted to abandon his
experiment.
Spread of the English Language.
The English language is the richest,
most virile and most powerful of all
the languages now to be found among
men. The men who conceived and
made good this nation were English
men. and of course they spoke the
only language they knew anything
about, the language of their ancestors,
the English language. The great Dr.
Dollinger said of this language that
“to it is assigned in the coming age
the intellectual supremacy that in an
cient times belonged to the Greeks
and afterward to the Kotnuns.” In 1700
English was the language of 0,000.000
people. Today it is the language of
175,000.000. and by the end of the cen
tury it will be the language of 800.000.
(MX) people.—New York American.
Tactful.
“Miss De Vere," suiil the lady who
was entertaining the popular actress,
“would you mind telling me what your
real name is?”
“My real name? Oh. yes. It Is
Tubbs—Sylvia Tubbs. But I hope you
will not introduce me to your guests
by it."
"Oh. no; you needn’t be afraid. I’m
just os much ashamed of it as you
are.”—Chicago Record-Herald.
Pin Money.
It was the bride's tirst request for
money.
“I must have some pin mouey,” said
she.
“Certainly.” said the bridegroom.
“Here’s a quarter. That ought to buy
five or six papers of pins.”—Washing
ton Herald.
. Slow, but Not 8ure.
“Your daughter is not engaged to
young Johnson yet. then? I suppose It
is a case of slow and sure?”
- “Well, yes—be Is slow, and she is not
at all sure.”
Labor is the fabled magician’s wand,
the philosopher’s stone and the cap a(
Fortanatiw.—Johnson.
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1914
NOTICE OF ELECTION.
Notice*-is hereby given that; pur
suant to an order made by the dis
trict court of the Territory of Alaska,
Third division, in the matter of the
annexation of certain territory to the
incorporated Town of Valdez, the
common council of the Town of Val
dez has called -n election to be held
in said town and in the territory pro
posed to be ann-xed to said town, on
Saturday, March 21, 1914, to determ
ine whether said territory shall be
so annexed as prayed for in the peti
tion therefor, tiled in said district
court as provided by law. The de
scription of said territory as set up
in said petition, is as follows, to wit:
Beginning at Meander Corner No.
1 of the Valdez townsite survey and
running thence south, 24 degrees, 19
minutes, 14 seconds east. 240.638
feet; thence south 53 degrees, 32
minutes east, 1228.26 feet; thence
south, 74 degrees, 52 minutes east,
568.26 feet: thenee south, 45 degrees,
43 minutes east, 136.62 feet; thence
south, 30 degrees, 27 minutes west,
131.24 feel; thence south, 29 degrees,
12 minutes Wf t, 123.42 feet; thence
south, 14 degrees, 45 minutes west,
51.95 feet; thence north, 61 degrees,
27 minutes east, 5000 feet; thence
north, 28 degrees, 48 minutes west,
2050 feet; thence south 61 degrees,
30 minutes west, 5700 feet, to place
of beginning.
At such election qualified electors
are invited to vote upon said prop
osition to annex said described ter
ritory to the Town of Valdez by plac
ing upon their ballots the words “For
annexation to the Town of Valdez,”
or “Against annexation to the Town
of Valdez,” or words equivalent there
to.
The polling place for such election
in the Town of Valdez shall be in
the hall of the common council on
Broadway avenue. The polling place
in the territory proposed to be an
nexed shall be in the ground floor
room of the Fish building on McKin
.ley street, adjoining the Tillikuir.
Club. The polls shall be open from
9 a. in, to 6 p. m. of March 21, 1914
The election board designated for
the Town of Valdez is composed of the
following persons: Judges—H. P.
Sullivan, Louis Rosenthal. Thomas
Hunt; clerks—J. J. Cavana, Dan Wil
cey.
The election board designated for
the territory proposed to be annexed
is composed of the following persons:
Judges—Adam Swan. Oliva Maroise,
J. H. Bell; clerks—Frank Millard,
Robert Weber.
The qualifications of an elector en
titled to vote at such election, pre
scribed by law, are as follows: He or
she shall be a male or female per
son of the age of twenty-one years
or more and shall be the owner of
substantial property interests in land,
building or improvements on land or
tide land within the said corporation
or the territory proposed to be an
nexed to or incorporated within such
corporal ion.
TOWN OF VALDEZ.
By E. E. RITCHIE, Mayor.
RANDALL E. ASHBY.
Town Clerk.
First publication Feb. 20, 1914.
Last publication March 20, 1914.
Hospital of the Good Samaritan.
For $6.0o we will give you a ticket
entitling you to hospital service and
care for any eight weeks out of the
year from date of your ticket, when
I Incapacitated by injury or sickness.
! See W. H. Ziegler.
CAMP VALDEZ No. 10
Meet every Tuesday evening at 8 o’ciotK in
Eagle Hall. All members are req jested to
atteDd. T. G. QUINN. AreticChiel
S. MCNJKCK. .Secretary
Local Valdez
SOCIALIST PARTY
Meets Thursdays at
8 o’clock at
the local quarters back of
Ingram & Bush’s Cigar Store
L. W. STORM. E. M.
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Summons for Publication.
Theo. Emel, plaintiff, vs. W. Fred
Swanson and F. A. Hancock, defend
ants.—No. 653. Summons for Publica
tion.
To the above-named defendant,
W. Fred Swanson;
You are hereby required to appear
in the district court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division, within
thirty days after the completion of
publication of this summons against
you, to-wit, within thirty days after
the 28th of March, 1914; and answer
the complaint of plaintiff filed here
in, and unless you so appear and an
swer the plaintiff will apply to the
court for the relief demanded in the
complaint, decreeing her to be the
owner of the launch Anita, and that
neither you nor your co-defendant has
any interest in or title to the same.
Witness the Hon. Fred M. Brown,
judge of said court, this 13tli day of
February, 1914. ARTHUR LANG,
Clerk of the District Court, for the
Territory of Alaska, Third Division.
By T. P. GERAGHTY, Deputy Clerk.
First publication Feb. 14, 1914.
Last publication March 28, 1914.
Notice to Creditors.
In the United States Commissioner’s
Court, ex officio Judge in Probate,
Valdez Precinct, Third Judicial Di
vision, Territory of Alaska.
In the matter of the estate of Peter
Steinmetz, deceased. W. A. Rystrom,
administrator.—Notice to Creditors.
Notice is hereby given by the un
dersigned, administrator of the estate
of Peter Steinmetz, 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
action of the business of said estate.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 10th
day of February, 191*.
W. A. RYSTROM,
Administrator of the estate of Peter
Steinmetz, deceased.
First publication Feb. 11, 191*.
Last publication March 16, 191*.
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■Washington,'D. C.
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