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dress, per month .—3 1*35
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only, per year ..-.
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1916.
TKX.AH COTTON AND BRITISH
BIjOCKADK.
Toward the end of the past week
the Treasury refused to insure cot
ton sold for delivery to Germany by
way of Holland. The application was
made by the President of the Par
mer's Union of Texas, which has a
contract for the delivery of mil
lion bales at 27 cents to a belliger
ent country which will accept the
cotton at a neutral port. The expen
ses of the operation are put at only
enough to reduce the net of the in
genous farmers to. 20 centB, a price
which looks very good to them. Their
proposal is to ship the American
cotton in American ships owned by
Americans. In the words of Presi
dent Pope:
We are going to lest this thing.
1 say we ought to be able to sell
our cotton in every part of the
world. I have determined to find
out whether the farmer of the
South has a market for his crop
except through the speculators of
this country, we are bearing the
market every day. We want to
know whether we are to continue
to be preyed upon by the bear
element of this country, buying
our cotton at 11 cents when it is
worth 20 cents to 30 cents in the
markets of the world. We are go
ing to try to reach the markets of
the world.
In support of these ideas there
have been Introduced bills laying an
embargo on all trade with any coun
try which intereferes with trade con
trary to the Declaration of London.
It is curious what ideas drift to
Washington. The Declaration of Lon
don never was international law.
Even our own Government, in its
protest against the British Orders in
Gouncil, relied upon“existing rules
of international law and the treaties
of the United States, irrespective of
the Declaration of London. That de
claration is as dead as any corpse
which floats within the Niagara
Whirlpool, which gathers driftwood
as naturally as Washington gathers
curiosities of law and national po
licy. Cotton is absolute contraband,
as truly and certainly contraband as
the munitions of which it is propos
ed to forbid the sale, if the sale of
cotton is interfered with.
No nation protects trade in contra
band, and the munitions trade is
worth more than the cotton trade.
The ingenious farmers who think
they have a right to escape from the
hears by embarrassing their coun
try’s foreign policy thing that they
have something like a natural right
to the highest price quoted anywhere
in the world for cotton. They are
just as much outraged now as when
they were suffering the general dis
turbance of prices at the outbreak of
the war, but made a plea for peculiar
assistance. Now it is different. Prices
•of cotton have doubled, and the cot
ton farmers are rolling in unaccus
tomed wealth. According to a lead
ing article in The Economic World:
"The present price of cotton af
fords the least efficient, or “mar
ginal,” producers of it as profit,
over and above the cost of pro
duction, of nearly 25 per cent.;
it affords the ‘average’ producer
a profit of over DO per cent; and
the most efficient producers are
makiug a prbfit of full 100 per
cent. These are rates of profit
probably not even approached in
any other departments of produc
--THE
EMPRESS
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PATH*] WEEKLY NEWS
FLOWER OF FAITH,
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Change Pictures Sunday.
Admission 25c and 10c.
tive industry in the country today.
These are the farmers for whose
benefit application was made to the
Treasury for insurance of contra
band, and who are ready for any na
trouble to protect them from
the wicked bears.—New York Times.
A DIREFUL YftAR.
It should not require much perspi
cacity on the part of the taxpayer to
see the difference between business
affairs in the city today and at the
time the present council took its seat.
At that time there were several hun
dred more people here, several more
business houses, more jobs, and bet
ter times. The new council took its
seat under the most auspicious cir
cumstances. Business was picking
up, times were fairly good, and a
large immigration was headed to
ward Alaska. The new organization
promptly elected one of their num
her mayor, and started m to uran
deis” the town. And they have suc
ceeded beyond their wildest anticipa
tions. So well, in fact, that the chief
agitator has been forced to sell his
business and leave the nest he has
rendered useless to others. Our mer
chants have been penalized, our banks
persecuted, and business torn up so
badly it will take months to get
things back to a sound business ba
sis when the rats abandon the ship.
Had the four members of the city
council responsible for the present
chaos joined hands with the conserv
ative members of the board, the situ
ation might have been ameliorated
even then.
But with the present attitude of
this quartet of trust-busters in the
saddle the result has been that both
capital and home-seeker has passed
us up. Neither will locate where they
are liable to be scourged out of busi
ness by the councilmanic rod, and
chastened by the assessor.
Our money is gone, our credit is
ruined, and our city has become a
byword for incompetency and mis
management. Our population has
dwindled, our buildings are empty,
but the council chamber is still re
sounding with threats of these mal
contents to “get” some one.
What the future will bring forth is
hard to forecast; but if the coming
year is as pregnant with dire disas
ter to our business interests as the
past year, we can look for a still
further exodus.
“MAKE MARVELOUS RECORD."
The city treasury is now empty.
Out of $16,000 tax money anti
$4000 license money not a dollar re
mains.
And what has the city got out of
this immense sum, besides a few sala
ries?
Nothing! Absolutely nothing.
Not oven a new plank in an old
sidewalk.
“Honest John” drew his salary
regularly, and the Senator and Law
yer Ray of Seward got theirs; but
what have the taxpayers received out
of it?
Nothing! Absolutely nothing!
Prom now on the city will run
a credit business; with the dead mor
al certainty of anyone who accepts
the warrants of the present council
being stung good and proper; be
cause the present council’s policy of
repudiating the warrants of previous
councils has given the city’s credit a
black eye with the banks and busi
ness men.
$20,000 thrown to, the dogs; made
ducks and drakes out of by the most
profligate council the city has ever
had saddled upon them.
A little soft soap, a few moss
grown articles about the “dear peo
ple,” and the rest was easy.
But the people are reaping the har
vest; they sowed incompetency and
mismanagement, and the crop is a
bountiful one.
After reading of the masterly man
ner in which our competitor licked
the Unionism out of that 178 pound
phenomenon in Juneau, we humbly
beg permission to retract all we have
hitherto said. We are willing to
cross blades with a newspaper man,
but to tangle up with a swashbuck
ling rough and ready half-hoss, half
alligator—wow! Not for us!
The Star says that the four busi
ness buds of councilmanlc fame
desire to turn the town back to the
taxpayers free of debt. From all re
ports the taxpayers are fervidly anx
ious to have it turned back in any
old condition—before the salvage
charges mount up to a prohibitive
figure. „
Ten years ago, says the Star, Wick
was the close associate of ex-convlcts
and other men ^of that class. Today
he Is claimed as a confrere by “Hon
est John” and “others of that clasB.”
We much prefer the Wick of ten
years ago.
We are willing to admit John—
to help save your face—that Wick is
a very different man from what he
was ten years ago. A
Over 600,000 tons of lead were
mined in this country last year.
With Wick furnishing the build
ing, Friend Hickey the money, and
“Honest John” the experience—how
are you willing to gamble on the out
come?
PLANNING GREAT
DR ON WEST
Believed that Germans will Attem|>t
to Break Deadlock and Again
J
Threaten French Coast.
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 19. — Dis
patches from the western frontier
state that the Germans are prepar
ing for the greatest of all drives
against the Allies on the west with
the object of breaking through the
deadlock and reaching the coast of
France. It is also believed that Paris
is again to be threatened as troops in
great numbers are being concentrated
at a point within one hundred miles
of the city.
Recent arrivals from Belgium re
port that troop trains have been ar
riving in Belgium from Central Ger
many during the past week and it is
believed that the supreme effort to
crush the Allies on the western front
is soon to begin.
It is also reported that the British
and French reserve troops have b«^n
sent to the front where they would
be instantly available to strengthen
threatened positions.
JUDGE AND MRS. BROWN
RETURN FROM STATES
Judge Fred M. Brown of the dis
trict. court, accompanied by Mrs.
Brown, returned to Valdez this morn
ing on the Admiral Farragut from
their trip to the States. They visited
San Francisco, Los Angeles and San
Diego, and made the trip from Los
Angeles down the coast to San Diego
in their auto, in company with Mr.
and Mrs. Middlecamp, and while in
lower California cities they were ma
rooned by the floods and were forced
to take passage on a steamer back
to Los Angeles.
FRANCIS WILL BE U. S.
AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA
WASHINGTON, D. C., Fob. 10.—
It is announced that President Wil
son has tendered the American am
bassadorship to the Russian court to
David R. Francis of St. Louis, and
that he has accepted it.
Notice.
Sunday school at the Episcopal
church every Sunday at 12 m. Every
one invited to attend these services.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
Merchandise
The best groceries received
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits, and
nuts.
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
OEOR6I SEXTON. PROP.
SlRICTLY FIRST' CLA8S
Fourth Ave, Seward, Alaska
Valdez Miners Union Ko. 188
Western Federation of Miner*
>
ROBERT SHAFFER. President,
Granite Mine.
CHAS. McCALLUM, Secretary.
Veldes. Alaska.
a Shamrock
CAFT. TIM MAROUWP
Sails for Port Wells, Portage
Bay, Granite Mine, Saturday
at 9:00 a. m., from the Val
des Dock Company’s Dock.
For Ellamar, Land lock Bay,
and Fidalgo, every Wednes
day, 9:00 a. m., from Val
dez Dock Company’s Dock.
For Rates, Apply on Boat:
VALDEZ LODGE . .
NO 168
Pirn aad Arerptrd Maaaaa
Regular Communication# flrat Wed
nesday in each month in McKinley
Ha... V.a.tora a,wayR-i(w^com^ ^
SD. WOOD. Secretary.
Weather Report.
Valdez, Feb. 18, 1916.
Barometric pressure .29."3TB
Temperature 7 p. m.31
Maximum temperature.81
Minimum temperature .14
Mean temperature.22.5
Precipitation . 1.51
Cloudy, wind northeast six miles:
snowed at night and all day.
Interior Weather.
Valdez, Alaska, Feb. 19, 1916.
Fairbanks, 0; clear, calm.
Salcha, —-8; cloudy, calm.
Richardson,- —8; cloudy, calm.
McCarthy, 15 above; cloudy, calm.
Donnelly, 42 above; cloudy, light
wind, trail heavy.
McCallum, 35 above; 45 inches of
snow; cloudy, calm, trail heavy.
Paxson, 32 above; 38 inches of
snow; cloudy, light wind, trail soft.
Hogan, 25 above; 30 inches of
snow; cloudy, calm, trail heavy.
Gulkana, 21 above; 30 inches of
snow; snowing, calm, trail heavy.
Gulkana, 21 above; 30 inches of]
snow; snowing, calm, trail heavy, i
Copper Center, 25 above; snowing,
calm, trail heavy.
Tonsina, 30 above;'25 inches of
snow; cloudy, calm, trail heavy.
Teikhell, 26 above; 60 inches of
snow; snowing, calm, trail closed.
Beaver Dam, 30 above, 48 inches
of snow; cloudy, calm, trail closed.
Summit, 100 inches of snow;
snowing, windy, trail drifted.
Wortman’s, 36 above. 50 inches of
snow; snowing, trail closed north;
drifted south.
• i
WANTED: Experienced woman de
sires work as cook or maid. Refer
ences given. Address Prospector.
ARE YOU ALIVE
to the fact that
ANCHORAGE,
SEWARD,
CORDOVA,
ELLAMAR and
LATOUCHE
Will Have Baseball
Teams this
Summer ?
IS
VALDEZ
Going 'to Sit Back ?
WHY NOT TAKE
THE LEAD?
It you want to Place
Valdez on the Baseball
Map, patronize the
ADMISSION
Including Five Jitneys
SOc
EVERY HOME
SHOULD HAVE
A
FRANZ PREMIER
VACUUM
CARPET CLEANER
NO MORE WORRY
NO MORE DUST
Can Be Attached
To Any Light
Socket.
Sole Distributors.
DR. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate National Unlweralty.
Waahington, D. C.
DENTIST
Fourteen T.'Jars in Valdez.
PHONE 110
Office Rooms in Whaling Building
DR. GERMAN
phone „ THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Drug Store. Of
fice hours 9 a. m. to 6 p. m.t 7 to 9
p. m. Sunday by appointment.
All Work Guaranteed.
E. C. DALTON, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Phone 42
Alaska Avenne Valdez, Alaska
DONOHOE & DIMCJND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW '
Office Opposite Coart Hoase
Phone 34 VALDEZ. ALASKA
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Offices in Whaling Building
Phone 101 VALDEZ. ALASKA
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company
Office on Alaska Avenue, in
George C. Treat Building
Telephone No. 60
General Trucking and Freighting
to all Interior Points.
LIVERY and FEED STABLE.
STORAGE.
Teaming of All Kinds
Positively No Coal Delivered Un
less Paid for in Advance
Arcade Cafe
OPEN ALL NIGHT
Private Dining Room with Electric
Heater.
ItREAI) FOR SALE
Jack Callin - . PmnioMt
I Copper Rivt^r
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING
McKinley Street, Valdez
ED. WOOD. Proprietor
The Best Place in Valdez to
Stop at is the
Arctic Hotel
Wun, Ligtt Reoat--Tie House of Caafart
RATES REASONABLE
BATH ROOM Special Rates Bp lit Mead
PHONE 133 MRS. SYRMG, Pn*.
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
“back” a good plan, a good
idea, a good business ven
ture or a good mining prost
pect; otherwise a good mahy
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.
ADVERTISE IN( THE
PROSPECTOR FOR RE
SULTS.