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THURSDAY, DECEMBER SO, 1015
PROSPECTOR VINDICATED.
The City Council, at its meeting
Tuesday night, paid the Prospector a
compliment by rescinding the order
to appropriate $1000 to continue
persecution of the Dock cases, and
also passed a motion dropping the
cases, as the majority of the council
considered that the expense was too
great to carry the cases up.
This is on all-fours with the Pros
pector’s argument from the begin
ning, and shows that our fight for the
taxpayers interests is bearing fruit.
We assure the gentlemen of the
council that we appreciate their de
cision to drop the matter, and hope
that they will consider our stand in
the matter as taken from a purely
economic one, as we believed that no
good and lasting harm would result
from their efforts.
Already these cases have cost the
city nearly $700, and the greater part
of this sum was attorneys’ fees, paid
to non-residents, whose sole interest
in agitating the appeal of the cases
was for the fees involved.
The decision of the Council to pe
tition Delegate Wickersham to have
a law passed by Congress giving to
cities the right to control their water
fronts, is also a vindication of the
i*rospector’s stand in the matter. We
contended that the Council had no
jurisdiction in the matter; that any
ordinances they might pass would be
illegal and retroactive, and that any
legal action taken would not stand
the fire of an appellate court decision.
The Senator contended otherwise. He
insisted that the City Council had
greater powers than the Territory of
Alaska, in that it could pass an ordi
nance confiscatory in its character,
giving cities the right to set the fees
for wharfage, and control of the wat
erfront and waters lying adjacent and
in front of the town. And to clinch
his argument with the people he had
the fee per ton for wharfage set so
low that a primary high school schol
ar could see how the city would lose
money on the limited tonnage com
ing into our city.
We believe that our Council will
profit by the experiences of the past
month, and be chary of accepting ad
vice inspired by passion and a desire
to get even. Even with a just cause
lawsuits are expensive, and we con
sider the city lucky to have escaped
with a loss of only $700, as had the
cases been appealed and carried thru
two or three courts, it would have
cost us all we had in the treasury.
We again sincerely congratulate
the council upon their decision to
drop things. We have no desire to
exult over our vindication, but we be
lieve we have saved our schools $1000
which would otherwise have gone
into the Senator’s pockets.
SIGNIFICANT.
Under a Washington date the fol
lowing items were wired to the Times
yesterday:
“Many bills introduced, including
Wickersham’s statehood bill.”
“Garrison asks fl50,000 for roads
and trails in Alaska.”
Asked which of the objects sought
were of most importance to Alaska
there is not one man out of twenty
WHO HAS A STAKE IN THE COUN
TRY but would answer “ROADS and
TRAILS.” If you would ask him why
he can advance a dozen incontrovert
ible arguments to prove that the de
velopment of the territory is ABSO
--THE
EMPRESS
TO-NIGHT
2 Show*—at 8 and 9:2Q,*harp
PROGRAM
“THE MOONSTONE”
KIVE ACTS,
Full of Intrigue and Mystery
L.UTELY DEPENDENT on better
means of transportation.
And yet, because the delegate re
fuses to go before congress with such
representations as he has been called
on a hundred times from all parts of
the territory to make, we find practi
cally the same old appropriation be
ing asked for. An appropriation that
is entirely inadequate, and which can
served only to partly maintain exist
ing roads in a questionable state of
repair.
None better than Mr. Wickersham
knows that the territory’s greatest
requirement is better roads. He is
paid $7,500 a year to voice the coun
try’s needs at Washington. He is
fully aware that an appropriation of
$150,000 is not adequate and if he
makes no effort to get it increased
he must rest under the imputation of
neglecting the work he is paid to do.
If his charges against the road
commission of wastefulness or in
competence are susceptible of proof
let them be brought openly before the
department whose place it is to take
cognizance of them. If they are true
they should be proved, if not they
should be disposed of once for all.
The welfare of the territory is of too
much importance to be dependent on
whims arising from personal quar
rels. .
The time has come when the Dele
gate can no longer be credited with
honestly fulfilling his obligations un
less he asks for larger road appropri
ations, the most insistent need of the
Territory. The different districts do
not ask that the appropriations shall
or shall not be administered by the
road commission. The point they are
interested in is that the roads be
built.—Fairbanks Times.
PUBLISH THE ORDINANCES.
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Again we affirm that all franchises
and ordinances should be published a
required time before being passed by
the city council. Not only that but it
would be better were franchises voted
upon by the people. Publicity is a
city’s only safeguard; in no assem
blage can as many things be done sub
rosa as in a municipal body. The
people are entitled to know before
hand matters concerning their inter
ests. Many times a matter is pre
sented to an organization and acted'
upon which is regretted afterward by
the people, who have to foot the bills.
The cost of publication is so small
compared with the cost to the tax
payers after a mistake has been made
that all cities give the utmost public
ity to their actions so that the voters
can act intelligently in approving or
protesting the council’s actions.
The' Cook Inlet Pioneer takes us to
task for quoting Delegate Wicker
sham’s article in the PoBt. The Post
intimated that Wickersham had made
a speech at Seward, and quoted
him as taking a fail out of our trail,
claiming it was a mudhole in sum
mer and a disgrace in the winter. We
commented on it, as any paper natu
rally would if the industries of its
home town were attacked, and hand
ed out a few hot ones in reply. Since
then we have found out that the Del
egate made no speech at oeward, and
the whole article may have been a
figment of fancy, printed by the Post
in lieu of news. We confess our
faith since copying the article in ques
tion has been sadly shaken by the
Post’s mendacious handling of pur
ported news, but we’ll let it go at that
and trust that our explanation satis
fies the Pioneer.
If that petition to congress is
drawn by the same legal talent that
has framed our ordinances in the tax
prosecutions, we would advise our.cit
izens not to worry. There’ll be a flaw
in it somewhere.
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Now that we have saved the city
$1000 let the heathen rage and imag
ine vain things.
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Whitehorse Man Died in France.
News came here Wednesday of
the death on the Belgian frontier of
Hugh Hilton Travers Stewart, known
here as Ginger Stewart, and second
son of General Sir Norman Stewart.
The news was wired from Skagway,
to which place it was brought by the
steamer Princess Sophia. Until con
firmed, there are hopes that the re
port may not be true. ‘‘Ginger’’
Stewart went out with the Boyle con
tingent last year and has been on the
front since sometime last August.
Several cards have been received at
this place lately from him, all of
them from the Belgian front.—News
(Whitehorse.)
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Junketing Trip Is Planned.
In his annual report Secretary of
Commerce William J. Redfleld re
commends that the department of
commerce be relieved of. the supervi
sion of fur bearing animals in Alas
ka, and asks that a joint committee
of congress visit the Pribilof Islands
next summer. The report estimates
the seal herd is now 360,000, of
which about 103,00Q are females. The
sealskin market's closure, the report
Doints out. is due to the war, and the
EMPRESS THEATRE
PRESENTS “MOONSTONE.”
Empress Circuit presents the five
part photoplay, “The Moonstone,”
based upon Wilkie Collins’ famous
novel and play of the same name.
Frank Crane who has consistently
produced strikingly dramatic offer
ings, is the derector of this picture.
There are splendid chances for act
ing in the theme. Collins is re
nowned for the wealth of exciting de
tail, movement, plot and counterplot
with which he crammed his novels.
Collins was the precoursor of Arthur
Conan Doyle and many other writers
of mystery and detective story writ
ers.
“The Moonstone” is a tremen
dously valuable diamond which has
long adorned the eye of an Indian
idol. An adventurous Englishman,
traveling in the Orient for pleasure,
steals the diamond and gets away
with it. He returns to England with
his .booty.
But he was tracked by three In
dian priests who had discovered the
theft of the diamond and who had
vowed their lives to recover that pre
cious jewel.
Then the excitement started. The
diamond passed from hand to hand.
The stealthy Indians were always in
the background, always scheming,
plotting, intriguing for the recovery
of the jewel; but never succeeding.
Disaster dogged the diamond's
progress—everybody who handled it
met with unhappiness. Baffling
mysteries permeate the photoplay,
which has many beautiful settings
and is well acted.
The story win hold and enthrall i
lovers of an exciung mysterm in Him
form. “The Moonstone" will be
shown torn*,,.. and tomorrow night
’at the Empress theatre.
A Model Obituary Found.
To the Texas County Trimmer we
are indebted for a model solution of
one of the confusing problems of
journalism, which is even more acute
in the country than in the less inti
mate relations of city life, we sup
pose. It is the embarrassment of the
obituary to which we allude, the diffi
culty of approximating the facts while
at the same time expressing a flatter
ing estimate of a deceased subscriber
paid up or otherwise over whose mor
tal frailties we should prefer to draw
the veil. To few of us is given the
grace of Marc Antony in disposing of
a delicate subject who has friends in
their neighborhood, but the Texas
County Trimmer well earns its name
in trimming around the memory of
the late. Bud Snason, with this post
mortem poetry:
“Old Bud Snason was a game old
man,
Showed some speed in the race he
ran.
Never blushed for no disgrace
But lived and died with his hair on
his face.
Peace to his bones his race is run.
And we aim to forget all the things
he done.”
The worst of us can ask no better
treatment. Poetic license is a beauti
ful sister of the charity which covers
a multitude of sins, and virtues em
balmed in verse will survive alone in
memory.—St. Louis Post-Ditspatch.
Mead Receives Machinery.
George Mead, manager of Mead’s
Sheet Metal Works, located on the
approach to the Valdez Dock, who
lost his shop and much valuable ma
chinery in the big fire last July is
rapidly getting his new shop equip
ped with heavy machinery to meet
the demands of his trade. On the
Northwestern he received a machine
for crimping heavy iron, such as is
used in the manufacture of Smoke
stacks and air pipes for mines, and
will add other machinery from time
to time until his shop is fully equip
ped.
\f/.ina Output Be Inscreased.
0. C. Clasen, who was recently in
Juneau en route to the Sitka Hot
Springs, reports that the Nizina sec
tion is showing up well under de
velopment work and that some good
cleanups may be expected in that dis
trict next summer. He goes to the
springs to seek relief from strains
and bruises received several weeks
ago when he fell from a bridge a. dis
tance of 36 feet. The accident hap
pened while Clasen was on his way
from Nizina to Valdez and he says he
never expected to come out of it alive.
Geo. F. McFall was an outgoing
passenger on the Northwestern for
Cordova.
It is reported that H. E. Ellis of
the Cliff mine, and his entire force
will come to Valdez tomorrow even
ing to enjoy the big masquerade
dance which will be given by the Pio
neers of Alaska at Eagle Hall.
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Brazil produced sugar commer
cially as early as the Sixteenth cen
tury.
To demonstrate the large peroent
ageof alcohol in pieflicimw n
MONEY STONES OF YAP.
Natives of the Island Oo Not Carry
Change In Their Pockets.
Propped up against the house of the
native chief of Yap, which is one of
the Caroline islands lying southeast of
the Philippines, may he seen a row of
“money stones." Ilic current coin of
the island. In shape these stones are
like millstones, but they do no grind
ing. They serve simply us a parade of
the wealth of the village. Their value
lies solely in the difficulty with which
they are obtained.
The yellowish granite of which they
are made is found only in the Island
of Palao. 200 miles away, and when
the monsoon favors forty or fifty na
tives voyage there in their canoes.
After pacifying the king of Palao with
presents the work of hewing the wala
ka. or money stones. , begins, lasting for
months until the monsoon changes,
when the toilers start homeward with
their “coin."
The smallest of these stones is about
a foot in diameter and three inches
thick, with a round hole through Its !
center. It will buy food for a family
for a month. The large stones, about
three feet in diameter and eight inches
thick, have relatively much greater
value, since it is more difficult to trans
port them in cranky canoes over such
a long stretch of sea. indemnities can
be paid with such a stone or the aid
of neutrals purchased in time of war.
-William L. Cathcart in St. Nicholas.
THE NUMBER NINE.
Easy to Multiply by It if You Will Rs- j
member This Rule.
Examine any one of tbe. statements
of equality in tbe multiplication table
of nine, up to anti including nine times
ten. Select, for example. 9x7=113; or
9X2=18.
Observe that in each case the first
digit In the product is one less thun
the number by which nine is multi
plied, and the second digit in the prod
uct is such that when added to the
first digit, the sum of the two Is nine.
You may make practical use of this
peculiarity of nine and its multiples by
applying it in the following way:
If nine is to be multiplied by eight,
for example, think at once of seven
(which is one less thun eight, the inul
tiplier); then think of two. which must
be added to seven to make nine, and
you have seventy two, the product of
nine and eight.
Or, if nine is to be multiplied by five
think of four, which is one less than
five; then think of five, which must
be added to four to make nine, and
you have forty-five, the product of nine
and. five.
By using this method tbe nines,
usually among the hardest of the ta
bles to fix In the memory, may. In a
short time, be fairly classed with the
fives and tens and elevens, which are
said to “^member themselves.”—
Youth’s Companion.
A High Priced Fricassee.
Lord Alvanley. a noted wit and high
liver in England a hundred years or so
ago. insisted on having an apple tart on
bis dinner table every day throughout
the year. On one occasion he paid a
caterer $1,000 for a luncheon put up In
a basket that sufficed a small boating
party going up the Thames. Being one
of a dozen men dining together at a
London club where each was required
to produce his own dish. Alvanley’s, as
the most expensive, won him the ad
vantage of being entertained free of
cost. This benefit was gained at an
expense of $040. that being the price
of a simple fricassee composed entirely
of the “noix,” or small pieces at each
side of the back, taken from thirteen
kinds of birds, among them being 100
snipe. 40 woodcocks and 20 pheasants—
In all about 300 birds.
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Cold Baths. - ,
A few years ago the remarks bio dis
covery was. made by Profesor Winter
nits of Vienna that general cold baths
have the effect of increasing the num
ber of active cells In the blood to a
very remarkable extent, the Increase
sometimes amounting to one-fifth or
even more. This Is one of the ways in
which the cold bath increases the re
sisting power of the body, and rallies
the, blood cells, so to speak, calling
them out frqm their biding places and
preparing them to fight with vigor the
battles which must be waged every
moment in defense of the body.—Good
Health. _
Barrister's Fees.
The barrister’s fees are Irrecoverable
in law. but be can pick and choose his
customers and can also Insist on cash
In advance. Until recently every bar
rister had on his table a gentle re
minder in the way of a fee bowl. In
earlier times the client used to drop
surreptitiously the money In a little
bag at the back of counsel’s gown. A
trace of this receptacle still figures In
legal costume.—LondoD Chronicle.
Eliminating Risk.
“I bope the motto of this railroad is
safety first.’'
“It is,” replied the man who thinks
only of i pecuniary precaution. “1 no
tice it never lets anybody travel u mile
without paying in advance.”—Washing
ton Star.
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Still In Advancs.
Boarder—You made me pay In ad
vance at first because I was a stranger.
That was all right But I am not a
stranger now. Landlady—No: 1 know
you now.—Boston Journal.
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During the latter years of George
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Graduate National University,
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
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p. m.. Sunday hy appointment.
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Kejrstone^and Hobart Sts.
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PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Phone 42
Alaska Avenue Valdes, Alaska
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GENERAL TRUCKING
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Fresh vegetables, fruits, and
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Somebody
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pect ; otherwise a good many
of today’s successful busi
ness enterprises would still
be mere dreams.
Advertising has brought
about a majority of the In
troductions of the man with
the idea, the man with a
prospect, or business to the
man with the dollar.
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Valdez Transfer
Office on Alaska Avenue, in
Ceorge C. Treat Building
Telephone No. 60
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LIVERY and FEED -STABLE.,
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