VOLUME XIV. VALDEZ, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOJER IS, 1217 NUMBER 247
THEATRE TICKETS
AREAL9) TAXED
War Measure Provides for One Cent
I'lton Kacli Ten Cents or FYae
tlon for Admission Charge
TACOMA, Wash., Oct. 18.—The
new war revenue act imposes a tax
effective November 1, 1917, of one
cent for each ten cents or fraction
thereof of the amount paid for admis
sion to any place, including admis
sion by season ticket or subscription.
This tax is to be paid by the person
paying for such admission.
The tax on admission of children
under twelve years old, where such
admission Is charged for, shall in ev
ery case be one cent. Persons admitt
ed free pay the tax on the basis of the
charge made to other persons of the
same class, except bonaflde employes,
municipal officers on official business,
and children under twelve.
In the case of persons having the
permanent use of boxes or seats or a
lease thereon, the tax is equivalent
to ten per cent of the amount for
which a similar box is sold for the per
formance at which the box or seat Is
used or reserved by or for the lessee
or holder.
There is also a tax of one cent for
each ten cents or fraction thereof,
paid for admission to any public per
formance for profit at any caberet or
similar entertainment, to which the
charge for admission is wholly or
partly included in the price paid for
refreshment, service or merchandise.
The terra “admission" includes seats
and tables reserved or otherwise, and
other similar accomodations and the
charges made therefore. Those col
lecting admission fees, nre required
to collect the tax and make month
ly returns and remittances to the col
lector of internal revenue.
Blanks will be sent to all theatres
and shows licensed by the govern
ment. Others should apply for blanks
to the collector.
These taxes are not imposed in the
the case of places where the maxi
mum admission charge is five cents,
or where the proceeds inure exclusive
ly to the benefit of religious, educa
tional or charitable societies or or
ganizations, or agricultural fairs;
provided none of the proceeds are dis
tributed to stockholders or members
of the association.
(OKFEE |»OT, THROWN AWAY,
KOt.Nl> IN) CONTAIN $000
TUCKERTOWN, N. Y„ Oct. 18.—
An old coffee pot thrown away a few
days after the death of Mrs. Han
nah Gale of this place, was found
to contain $600 in bank notes. This
discovery led neighbors to Bearch the
house and in the attic was found
$3,000, representing a life savings,
which included part of the salvage
Mrs. Gale received for work done In
saving part of her cargo of a boat
which ran ashore at Tuckertown,
twenty years ago.
The money she got then was put
in a separate envelope and its source
marked. The seal was unbroken and
the money had probably not been
touched all of that time.
GENERAL STRIKE NOW
CONSIDERED IN ’FRISCO
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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 18.-~The
San Francisco labor council, at a
meeting last night, Instructed its exe
cutive committee to take a canvass
of its 150 subsidiary unions on the
proposition of calling a general strike
in sympathy with the street car strike,
labor leaders announced here today.
The council also voted to boycott
the cars of the United Railroads sys
tem, whose employes are on strike for
an eight-hour day and a wage of
$3.50. No penalty for union men rid
ing on the cars was named.
The labor council controls all of
the unions in the city which are not
engaged in actual building construc
tion. These latter are controlled by
the Building Trades Council of Cal
ifornia. The executive committee of
the council it to meet Monday night,
these leaders, to outline the manner
in whi<?h the canvass of these unions
is to be secured. The reported action
of the . labor council followed a vote
by the striking car m®n to continue
the strike. It is stated thatt he vote
on this proposition was 770 to 22.
NORTHERN SOLDIERS BUILD ROADS IN SOUTH
Photo t>y American Press Association.
Troops ironi New York and the New Kuglund states • uuiped at Spartanburg. 8. C.. are building roads leading to
thalr camp. In tills work they are assisted by convict labor.
SALOONS OPPOSED
IN LOS^ ANGLES
Anti-Liquor Force* Ex|iert to Bring
Issue to Vote Early in Novem
ber Tills Year
LOS ANGELES. Cal.. Oct. 18.—
Final draft of a proposed initiative
ordinance for the elimination of sal
oons from Los Angeles has been com
pleted, according to D. M. Gaudier,
state superintendent of the Anti-Sa
loon league, who is directing the pre
liminary work for the campaign.
The election date has not been set,
acct lo Dr. Gandier, but prob
ably .. ..I be early in November. The
date for closing saloons, of the ordi
nance is adopted, is fixed for Juauary
1, 1918.
The plans originally announced for
the ordinance provided that hotels,
cafes, clubs, and wholesale houses
might continue to deal in spiritous
liquors. The draft finally prepared
for submission to the voters legislates
against the sale of spiritous liquors
in any establishment.
Sale of wines and beer would lie
permitted in hotels, cafes, clubs, and
wholesale houses, if the ordinance be
comes effective.
Pete ('ashman brought in a fine
goat, killed on the mountain hack
of Wortman, yesterday.
George Brown is in town after
spending the summer on the trail for
the Road Commission.
Sixteen inches of snow is report
ed at the Summit today.
WANTS SHARKS FOR FOOD
Ruaaall J. Colaa la Soak
ing to Pqpplarlsa Thom.
Mr. Coin, who is a fisherman .of
DanrtUe, Va., 1$ at work on a project
to popularize shark meat as food, fie
says the shark family, with one excep
tion. is a cleanly feeder, the bad boy
eaUf tho .white shark, which, prefers
humans.
HAND CONCERT
THIS AFTERNOON
The Moose Band will give a con
cert this afternoon about 3 o'clock.
The concert will be given in several
of the business places and at some
central points on the streets.
(’. I,. Hoyt and Don Ross left this
morning for Olson island, taking with
them their household furniture and
supplies and the foxes with which
they will stock the island for breed
ing purposes.
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Seattle Fisli Prices
SEATTLE, Oct. 18.—Price at noon
October seventeenth; halibut sixteen
and three-fourths cents; sable fish six
and one-fourth cents.
Aged Couple Elope
UNION CITY, Tenn.. (jet. 18.—
Age did not cool the ardent love Dr.
J. T. Lasley, 73, had for Mrs. Alice
Prlent, 71, so he went to her home
at Troy Tenn., placed a ladder to
her upstairs window, climbed it and
helped her through the window to
the ground. They eloped to Hick
man, Ky., and were married. They
will spend their honeymoon on Dr.
Lasley's stock farm near here.
MKXH'O Ol'I'OKKS DK.AITING
or ITS CTTIZKNS IN ARMY
WASHINGTON, D. t\, Oct. 18.—
The Mexican ambassador, Ignacio
lionillas, has made formal represen
tations to the state department
against the drafting of Mexicans into
the national army, particularly from
the border states. In some cases,
where it is shown that Mexicans have
been taken through irregular prac
tice of the exemption hoards, the state
department has had the men releas
ed. In other cases, however, the cases
are complicated because of the differ
ence in the constitutions of the two
countries. Mexico holds that a man
born there is a Mexican unless he
forfeits his citizenship. The United
States bolds that, a person born here
is an American citizen.
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GOVERNMENT OPENS
CHICKALOON MINE
Charles Davis who has been award
ed the contract for the getting out
of piling, lagging and timber to be
used for the opening of the Alaskan
Engineering Commission’s coal mine
at Chickaloon and for further im
provement at the Eska creek mine,
left this morning on the Sourdough
Limited for Chickaloon where he will
begin active work on his contract. His
crew will number thirty men. This
contract work will occupy about ten
months. ■ *
HORSE CHESTNUTS ARE
GATHERED FOR MUNITION
LONDON, Oct. 18.—School chil
dren all over England will spend their
leisure during the next six weeks in
gathering horse chestnuts, which the
government is able to use in unlim
ited quantities in the manufacture of
munitions. Researches last year by the
Royal Society led to the discovery that
horse chestnuts provide a satisfactory
substitute for the grain used in cer
t .in processes of munition making.
Every ton of horse chestnuts harvest
ed will save half a ton of grain for
human consumption. Plans made by
the school authorities Indicate that
more than 300,000 tons of the chest
nuts, will, be turned over.to the gov
ernment by school children this fall.
•
I'XCLK ham may fix
PRICK OF GAHOIJXKI
WASHINGTON. D. C., Oct. 18.—|
Government supervision of oil and
gasoline prices appeared as an early1
possibility today after the federal j
trade commission had received cost'
of production figures from the larg-.
er producing and distributing con-'
cern. The trade commission already
has made a preliminary estimate ofj
costs, but desired to give the oil men j
an opportunity to present their own!
statistics.
The government can pursue two
courses, either of which, officials be
lieve, will result in reduced prices,
not only to the government, but to the
public. It can enter into a voluntary
agreement with the industry fixing
prices, or under the food bill it can'
place the trade under control of the
fuel administration, instituting a II-,
censing system.
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LUMBERJACKS KEEP
OCT OF WET STATE
MISSOULA, Mont.. Oct. 18.—Hair
a hundred lumberjacks who had been
lighting the Clear Lake forest fire in
Idaho, refused to come to Montana re
cently to fight a forest fire because
they feared the effects of emigration
to a "wet" state alter having spent
many months in a “dry” state. The
men said they were sure to get intoxi
cated after they were paid off if they
received their money in a wet state.
MILITARY HELP FROM
I'MTEI) STATES "IMAGINARY"
COPENHAGEN, Oct. 18.—Major
Moraiit. the usually well informed
military critic of the Deutsche Tages
Zeitung. predicts further offensive
movements with limited objectives
against the Russians on the lines of
the recent advance in the Riga and
Jacobstadt sectors. Apparently he be
lieves that defensive warfare had not
been abandoned in the west. He sid«s
with General Von Freytag-Lorlng
haven, chief of the supplementary
general staff, that the general inlat*
ive must remain with the entente.
Major Moraht dismisses the report of
American military help for the en
tente as "imaginary-”
Mehaffey Promoted
Washington, d. c.. oct. is.—
Captain J. C. Mehaffey, chief engi
neer and disbursing agent for the Al
aska Road Commission, has been pro
moted to a majorshlp.
PRUSSIA, SASK., ALTERS
ITS NAME TO LEADER
REGINA, SASK., Oct. 18.—The
village of Prussia, Sask, is to have
the name changed to Leader, accord
ing to the decision of the citizens.
JUST MISSED BEING
AN ALASKAN BORN
Mr. and Mrs. Karr of Ketchikan,
Alaska, staying at the Hotey Frye on
their way to Los Angeles for the win
ter, are receiving the congratulations
of many friends on the safe arrtval'.of
the Btork with a healthy, vigorous
son, at their apartments, Friday
morning. Mother and child are doing
well.
The Alaskan baby smiled after his
first glimpse ef his mother and the
lOns^tne which flooded the apart
meats, according to friends of the
happy parents. They have two other
children—8-year old “Bunnle," the
eldest son, Md Ms «s4tthy-sl«ter. who
is 1'4 months old.—Seattle I4. I. '
DIMMED
Men Wlio are Making Knormous Pro
fits OIT Misery of the Country
Cheat ini' the Government
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Oct. 18.—
The treasury department has discov
ered that the munition manufactur
ers of the country are defrauding the
government of an enormous sum of
money, the amount said to have
reached seventeen million dollars
war tax. The manufacturers have
evaded the tax by charging off profits
as depreciation, the amounts in many
instances exceeding the cost of the
plants.
Ten million dollars have been re
covered by the federal agents and it
is probable that suits will be started
against the guilty persons. This eva
sion of taxes is one of the greatest
and most hare-faced swindles yet dis
covered by the government.
Formal notice has been issued by
the Itailway Commission at Anchor
age to the commercial steamship
lines that it plans to have all light
ers, tugs, aud other harbor equipment
in winter quarters by November X,
and that in consequence after that
date it will not be able to handle the
cargoes of incoming ships at Anchor
age. Passengers, however, the com
mission states, can probably be hand
led until Nov. 16.
SIGNAL CORPS DEFEATS
<'ONGREGATIOXAL FIVE
In a well played and warmly con
tested game last night the Signal
Corps basketball team defeated the
Congregational team by a score of
34 to 29. in Moose Hall last night.
The lineup of the teams and the
scores were as follows:
Signal Corps—Van Wyck, Keesler,
forwards: Shutts, center; Botway, H.
Clifton guards.
Congregational—Nelson, G. Cuddy
forwards; K. L. Clifton, center; W.
Cuddy, W. Elliot, guards.
Field goals made—Signal Corps;
Van Wyck, 2; Keesler 4; Shutts, 1;
Botway. 2.
Congregational—Nelson. 3: Geo.
Cuddy. 4; It. Clifton, 3; W. Cuddy,
1.
Goals from foul line—Signal Corps,
Van Wyck, 1; Keesler, 16.
Congregational: Nelson, 3; G. Cud
dy.3; Clifton, 1.
The girls' teams also played a most
interesting game, resulting in a vic
tory for the Whites by a score of 17
to 15.
HURT JN WRECK.
Hindanburg’a Right Hand
Man Injurad In Balgium.
General Ludendorff, who as flret
quartermaster general Is nest to Hin
doo burg as a factor In Germany’s mili
tary -Jiw Injured In a train
wreck Aus. 19 near Brussels owing to
4 misplaced strtfch.
School Board Will Hold Appropriate
Kxcerclae* in Moose Hall to Cele
brate Seward l*urchaMe
Valdez will fittingly celebrate the
purchase of Alaska by Secretary Sew
ard March 30, 1867, for $7,200,000
the Board of Education haveing pre
pared a program for the occasion,
which will be presented at Moose
Hall this evening at eight o'clock.
The Moose Band will be present and
will render some stirring tunes, and
prominent speakers will talk on is
sues of the day. Following is the pro
gram :
Overture .Moose Band
1. Education etc.
.Judge O. P. Hubbard
2. “Alaska" .School
3. What the American Mission in
the World Is and What Part
Each One Must Take .
Mr. Warren Cuddy
4. Selection .Moose Band
5. Why Democracy is Superior to
Other Forms of Government .
. Judge Anthony Dimond
6. “Alaska, My Alaska" .School
7. What the Transfer of Alaska
Means to the People .
. Judge F. It. Brown
8. Violin and solo.
9. What it Means to he a Part of
the United States .
Judge John Lyons
10. “America.”
Frank Kernan. the well-known
mining man of Kizina, is a visitor in
town.
A number of men front the cable
ship Burnside took down the cables,
which had been strung'on telephone
poles from the cable office to the
beach, and put them under ground.
Dan Ross and Julius Komig left
today for Oleson Island, where they
will build a house for Mr. Rontig.
The launch Reliance, ('apt. Jack
Stanley, left yesterday for down-sound
points.
Notice to Band
All members of the Moose Band
will meet at Moose Mall promptly at
three o'clock this afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Middelkamp
came up last evening from Ellamar
on the launch Tokeh Lou
Wilson’s freight team left Wort
man south this morning.
United States Deputy Sheriff Clar
ence Mossman will be a passenger on
the steamship Admiral Farragut for
Valdez with a number of prisoners
arrested for bootlegging in the gov
ernment city.
“KOOI/8 GOI.I)” MAY UK
TURNED INTO REAL THING
CHICAGO. 6ct. 18.—The yellow,
glistening metal so common in lumps
of coal, known as "fool's gold” may
be turned nto real gold, according to
a statement made public today by Jo
seph E. Pogue, state geologist. He
asserts that the fool’s gold or pyrite,
is rich in sulphur, a substance used
in large quantities for explosives and
other war purposes.
He urges the mine owners of the
state tog turn this supposedly waste
product into a handsome profit. In
doing so, he says, the coal industry
will riot only gain, but will render
a distinct service to the country at
large, which is badly in need of do
mestic supplies of pyrite.
SOLDIER MAY KEEP COW;
V. 8. WILL PAY EXPENSES
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 18.—
Soldiers in the American army not
only may keep a cow but they can
teed it at government expense, provid
ed they consume the milk, says a
ruling of the judge advocate gener
al. The decision was rendered on the
Question of whether feed tor a cow
kept by *b detachment mesa could be
legally purchased from the ration sav
ings,* In view of the regulation that
"such savings shall be used solely
tor the purchase of articles of food.1*
Band concert this afternoon. j