EBaity JtroBprrtor
PUBLISHHD BT
ART & SELBY, Proprietors
VALDEZ, ALASKA
Published Daily Except Sunday
Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter,
ly 23. 1913, at the postofflee at Valdes,
aska, under act or March 3. TS79.
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A MODERN SAMSON.
RICHARD D. BLOUNT, jr. of Saint
Louis. U. S. A., has joined the For
eign Legion. Upon the eve of ,Rich
^ ard’s departure his father announced
(not for publication, of course), that
if Richard killed five Germans he
would be satisfied with his son’s prow
ess. Now that the open season has
opened upon Germans there should be
some law passed limiting the bag. No
good sportsman will violate a game
law. even upon Germans, and Rich
ard’s lather might have placed the
limit of his son’s bag of Teutonic
game at fifty, or a hundred,—or like
Samson, who slew the Philistines the
same way, at thousands. While Mr.
I Blount is showing a blood-liipt beyond
4he ken of the average man, we must
protest that to allow such a sanguin
ary specimen of the genus homo to
enter the war at this time when the
Hon. Theodore is just on the eve of
his departure for the front is unfair.
We believe Congress should limit Mr.
Blount's prowess and give Roosevelt
.1 chance to enjoy the carnagp.
Seriously speaking, there should
he a little decency exhibited even in
killing an enemy, and Mr. Blount's
enthusiasm appears to be a little off
color to the man who goes into the
conflict realizing its serious potential
ities. Brag and bombast at this pe
riod of our national crisis, should be
eliminated, and every man settle
down to the fact that we are up
against a serious proposition, and the 1
sooner we get in and finish it, without ;
useless words, the sooner the coun-1
try will again enjoy the freedom'
which is rightly hers.
WIFF.Y AND THK CIGARKTTK.
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The New York citizen who spanked i
his wife for smoking cigarettes at
home has been sustained in his unu-j
sual course by the court. The judge,
indeed, warmly commended the hus
band's discipline and advised him to
| "do it again if necessary.’’
The wife, however, has no intention
i of allowing the court to set up one
1 standard of personal conduct for the
| man and other for the woman. A re
i porter for a New York newspaper
| called at. her home and found the wife
: determined to assert her right to
i smoke cigarettes when and where she
j felt like it. She stated she smoked
itwo cigarettes a day and enjoyed
' them.
t Smoking per se as the New York
woman handle it. <s not likely to have
more serious effect than family trou
jble. Probably both men and women
! would be bette.- off physically if they
I knew not the flavor of tobacco smoke
jand then again they might not be. The
j prejudice against the use of tobacco
! by women is largely because the prac-,
tice was so long confined to dissolute
i women. The objection of the New
York woman was on this score. Hut)
though it may be exceedingly bad ;
j taste for a woman to get spanked for
two cigarettes a day, the spanked wife
is standing on firm ground when she
claims an equal right with her hus-j
band to inhale the punk sticks.—Ex. j
A SUCCESSFUL business must be I
advertised to keep it up to its higher ■
standard of efficiency. To build up!
a business by judicious advertising j
and then when you have reached the;
point desired to chop off your adver
tising and depend upon the reputa
tion you have established to continue
the sale of your goods is as fatal to j
the continuation of success as for one j
to enter upon a rigorous course of;
athletic training, continue it for years. |
and break short off; taking up a life|
of luxurious ease. To keep your bus-;
iness at a high standard requires con
stant effort. Nothing stands still:
nothing has ever stood still since the
memorable bout of Joshua with Old
Sol. There is a retrogression in bus
iness affairs the instant one relaxes!
bis efforts, if you expect to succeed
in this day and age of commercial!
competition you must get up on your
toes and reach after the high ones.
THE constantly increasing cost of
print stock keeps the Alaska publish
er’s spirits in the bottomless pit of
despair. While the merchant the
grocer and the baker, together with
many other creditors not here enn
merated can raise their rates and a
similate the increased cost, but the
poor printer man loses the difference
in cost because he cannot further in
crease his rates and retain any cus
toniers. And the end is not yet.
PERMISSION has been given the
railroads by the Interstate Commerce
Commission to increase their freight
rates 15 per cent. This will assimi-1
late the ten per cent increase in wages
lately granted the employes and five
per cent over for emergencies. And ;
next the men will ask a ten per cent '
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THE EMPRESS
Saturday EAGLE HALL 8 Sharp
Interesting Program
The Final Verdict-2 part drama
In Dangers Hour - Fine Drama v
The Prodigal Husband-Comedy
The Wrong Birds - Comedy
MARY P1CKF0RD in
“The Dawn of Tomorrow”
SUNDAY
Also Pathe News and Fatty Arbuckle
Regular Admission .... 25c
STEAM HEAT NEWLY El*RNISHEl)
SEATTLE HOTEL
MRS. K. MILL, Propr.
VALDEZ ALASKA
increase on account of the increase in
iates and the rates will have to be
increased again to keep up with the
wages, and so on ad infinitum.
THE Nome Industrial Worker still
vociferously insists that the Terri
tory would have been better off if
•‘Lena Morrow Lewis had been elect-.
od delegate instead of Janies Wicker-)
sham.” If news only traveled like j
> caudal what an enlightened nation j
we would be.
MANAGER EM EL has ten expert J
: anncry machinists at work on the j
ilant and the wives of several of the j
nen are on the way. Already a dc- j
nand for houses has arisen, and ren- j
• a! agents are wearing a broad smile
at the prospects of a good season. I
A BAD MAX sees no good in any- '
body and a good man sees some good
in everybody. Seeing evil in every
thing your neighbor does is an ab
normal condition of the mind. To see j
i he better side of life you must look j
tor it.
WHILE there is a difference of
opinion over the solar system it is
generally conceded that a woman will
live about as long with a corset on
the outside as a man will with corn
whiskey on the inside.
IT IS a subtle species of irony that
the Allies can borrow three billion
dollars front our government when
the average citizen cannot borrow
three cents.
——
SOME of the gentlemen who believe
lhat moral suasion can accomplish
anything should go over with banners
md picket the Kaiser's residence.—
Washington Star.
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THE natives will know to whom
i hey owe their allegiance when the
stars and Stripes and the cost of liv
ing are raised in the Danish West In
lies:—New Orleans States.
EVERY boss will tell you that the
inly way to convince a man who
ihinks the plant could not get along
without hint is to fire him. -Erie
: Mspateh.
THE man Who has a boat and a
■lam bed these days of high prices is
. ich beyond the wildest dreams of av
arice.
AN article in a current magazine >s
entitled “What the pacifists stand
;or." Hut isn’t it their policy to stand
for almost an>thing,?—Lumberman.
AN excl’a :• i in a lengthy edite ial
,sks, “Are We Sane?" Alright Bro.
Bones, we'll be the fall guy: Are we?
IT’S a funny thing to see a man
-o careiul of his stomach after he has
leliberately ruined it.
SOMETIMES the reason a bride
ooks so modest is because she is not
nuch of a prize.
Wyoming is Oil Mad
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 21.—
Wyoming has gone oil mad. Within
the next year big developments are
certain, according to advices received
here by petroleum experts both in
the government service and those
acting for corporations and private
business interests.
The oil stampede started when,
after the midwest concern had turn
ed down a particular dome—the Big
Muddy— some private interests took
it up and got oil. One man who went
practically broke operating an as
bestos plant was a pioneer in this oil
development and now the town of
Parker has been built up and named
in his honor.
The oil fever has been quickened
by a decision given in October by
Judge Riner to the effect that it is
not necessary to make commercial
discoveries of oil to perfect claims, ;
as the federal government has held j
for some years. Judge Riner’s deci-1
.-ion said in essence that if a man :
found actual trace of mineral he was)
seeking and under such conditions
ihat the ordinarily prudent man
would follow up the discovery with
investment of his own money, the
claim should stand. The forest service i
1 had fathered the contention that j
Commercial discovery must be made,;
because it has been discovered that
a number of valuable forest sites
■ were held on placer claims.
The oil prospectors in Wyoming
!are making a speciality of patented
lands and school lands. Petroleum ex
perts sa ythe oil fever in Wyoming
is worse than the rush for gold in
California or the Klondike.
Scared off by Guards
GIRARD, Ala., April 19.—Au au
tomobile party of armed men made
an unsuccessful raid early today on
a warehouse containing $7,000 worth
of liquor seized in the wholesale con
(iscatiou here several months ago
Guards frightened them away.
Furnished rooms at Mrs Osland’s.
Prices reasonable. •
Fresh candy at the Emporium tt
Style Plus Clothes $17.00-—the price remains the same.
Economy
In Clothes
should not mean that you purchase cheap shoddy clothes made only
to sell—but clothes that are far superior in every detail to many that
cost more, clothes that are guaranteed to give service and satisfaction.
STYLEPLUS 017 nn
CLOTHES VlfiUU
are the medium price clothes of the country, sold at a known
price that never changes—without doubt the best clothes values
offered today. Our new stock of spring styles contains models
and sizes for everybody; stouts, long stouts, slims and regulars: in
serges, worsteds and soft finished fabrics—many exclusive pat
terns that are sure to please you. We are the Styleplus Store.
S. BLUM & CO., Inc.
GOOD GOODS
- —INGRAM AND BUSH BUILDING
J. E. WILSON
Freighting to all points
in the third 'division.
Horses bought and sold.
Phone 166.
OWL DRUG CO.
The only Rexall Store in
Valdez.
Prescription* a Specialty.
Satisfaction Guarantee a
A. M. DIERINGEE
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
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For Sale.
Two-room house on City Dock, fur
nished. Built last fall. Cash $300.
Must be taken immediately.
ALASKA INVESTMENT CO.
Fine assortment Koenig's Easter
Box Candies. Keystone Produce Co.
Genuine Sweet Apple Cider at
Hunt’s Candy Kitchen. If
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State and National
Food officials !
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HAVE DECLARED THAT
THE MATERIAL OK WHICH
Cresent Baking Powder
is composer
is aproperma
terial for use
in Baking
Powder
25c lb. Can.
AT AIJ, «R<M'KKS
« liKSCKNT MKfi. (O.,
| Se»Hlf. Wnxli,
LOUIE’S CAFE
<)|»en Day and Night McKinley Street, Kelmv fable Office
Fresh Bread, Pies, Cakes,
All Kinds of Pastry for Sale.
EVERYTHING THE BEST ANDY MAROVICH, Propr.
Candy Kitchen
E. -W. HUNT---l» Owl Droj St»r*. |
FOUNTAIN DRINKS
HOT COLD j
WE PAY
28 cents pound for Copper
18 cents per pound for Brass
8c lb. for Rubber Shoes.
7c lb. for la*ad.
820.00 per ton for cast iron.
815 per ton Wrought Iron.
5c per lb. for Rope.
:t»ic per pound for Raps.
320.00 per ton for Paper.
27c |ter doz. Beer Bottles, qts.
17c doz. Beer Bottles, pints.
, E. O. B. SEATTLE.
ATLAS JUNK CO.
1043 Railroad Avenue, So.
SEATTLE, WASH.
VALDEZj CAFE & BAKERY
Cakes, Cookies ft Bos, 15c per doaea.
French, 'Rye and White Bread 12 1-2
cents per [loaf. J Orders taken for special
occasions.
BERGSTROM & ROGSTAO. Props.
PHONEI17 - IVee Jeers Mow Owl Drag
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When In Seward Stop at tbe
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE SEXTON, PROP
SlRICTLY FIRST CLASS
Fourth Ave, Seward. AlasV.a
Arctic Hotel
Watch This
Space
PHONE 133 MRS. SYRING, top
Anything in nugget and Ivory Jew
elry at Valdez Drug Co.
The articles you ordered have ar
rived at the Emporium. tf
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A new line or heaters priced right, i
at Mead’s. tf
Downey’s Box Candies at Hunt's
i
Candy Kitchen. tfj
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All of the latest Boohs. Aiaea/inesj
and News Papers received on each j
boat. Valdez Drug Co. tf
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PKOKKSSIONAL CARDS.
DR. S. WICKES MERRITT
Ollierx over \ aide/ l>ruR <'o.
Phone '15 Hi'hlniry Street
■'•'•.'111. • t Surt* ••’I. r S. Aritty
A. A. Siinieun, 1/ S Public Healt
(Marin* Hospital)
DR. H. COCKERILLE
Oradaate National lulerralty
ttaahlnston. D. C.
DENTIST
Konrteen Years in Valdez.
PHONE 110
Office Rooms in Whaling Building
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
OBIer OptHWltf Court Monae
Phoar 34 VALDEZ. ALASKA
JOHN LYONS « IT KITCHIR
LYONS & RITCHIE
« TTORNEV S- A T-LA W
Office* la » ba||«( HtUldluc
Phone ioi valdez. Alaska
ROBERT SIMPSON Opt. D.
.Jl NKAl. ALASKA
Glasses Kitted l^enses Ground
VALDEZ HOSPITAL
Private Rooms
Terms Reasonable
•OS. A. SILVERMAN. Pk. G.. M. D. Prep.
Jos. A. Silverman Pb. G. M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Office kour«--l to 4 p. m --7 to 8 p. m.
Sunday by Appointment
Res. Tel. 176 Office Tel. 19
Boyle Block Valdez
VALDEZ LODGE
NO 168
Free »d Accepted Mumi
Regular Communications first wed
uesday in each month in McKIkle'
Hall. Visitors always welcome. 0
P. M. BROWN. W.
ED WOOD. Secretary.
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Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miner*
W. H. GARNER. President.
Granite Mine
GUST KRING. Secretary .
Voider Alaska.