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COL. RICHARDSON '
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Wires to Major Davidson that He Is
Confident of Securing a Large Ap
propriation lor Road Work in the
Territory.
In a telegram sent by Col. Richard
son from Washington to Major Dav- j
Idson, of the Alaska Road Cominis- j
sion, the Colonel states that he is I
confident he will be able to secure j
quite a large increase in the appro- J
priation for road work in the terri
tory. So far his request has been
favorably reported upon by the com
mittee. „and the appropriation is in
corporated in the army appropriation
bill.
Col. Richardson states that he ex
pects to leave Washington for Valdez
about June 2nd.
Couldn't Fight.
“It makes me sick to hear ’em al
ways braggin’ how an Irishman kin
fight,” remarked Si Henpole to his
friend. “Yew remember that big
Mick that works over at Clancy’s bar
on the night shift? Well, he come a
lookin’ fer trouble last night and me
and Tom Jinks and his brother Al,
and George Turkis licked the tar out
en’ him in about five minutes.”
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or
If You Wish to Loan Money,
on approved security
See Alaska Investment Company. 2t
Prospector ads. bring RESULTS.
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* THIS DAY IN HISTORY. <•
* - •£•
May Feast Day of St. Angeles Ne- j
rice, founder of the order of Ursulinei
Nuns.
Feast day of St. Petronilla; Sts. j
Cautius and Cantianus and Cantian- j
ilia, their sister, martyrs.
1549—Pallu Inca, a Christian Pe-j
ruvian chief, died.
1790— First copyright act of the
United States passed.
1791— Punishment oy the wheel
abolished in France.
1830—Carthage, Tenn., destroyed!
by a cyclone.
1841—Chinese paid $8,000,000 to!
ransom Canton and first Opium War!
ended.
1854— Livingston having crossed
Africa, reached St. Paul de Leonda on j
the west coast.
1855— Kane A.rctic Relief Expedi
tion sailed from New York.
18G3—Jaurez moved capital of
Mexico to San Luis Potosi.
1S72—Reporters were excluded j
from the House of Commons.
1878—German warships in colli
sion; one sank with over 300 men.
/ 1S89—Johnston. Pa., flood; total
loss of life 1142; aid contributions
amounted to $2,912,000.
1891—Convention concluded be
tween United States and Spain.
1891—International Peace Con
gress met at Milan.
1898—Fire at Peshawur, India, de
stroyed 4000 buildings.
1904— Reported that 39,789 na
tives of Ireland emigrated in 1903.
1905— An overflowing reservoir at
Pinetown, Natal, killed 200.
1912—United States Senate passed
8-hour law applying to all government
contract work.
Men, women’s and children’s wear
ing apparel, household uteqsils and
articles of every day need, at the
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BEGIN OPERATIONS
ON 61MB MINE
RAM8AV-RUTHERFORD STARTS
Closed Down in Early Spring on Ac*
count of Cold Weather Shutting oil
Water Supply—Reported Opera*
tions have been profitable.
Henry Deyo returned to town last
evening, and reports that the Rftm
say-Rutherford mine started up*'yes
terday afternoon for the season’s
work.
The mine suspended operations in
February on account of the intense
cold weather prevailing at that time
cutting off the water supply from the
mill, and an adequate supply has not
been available for milling purposes
until this time.
Supplies for the season’s work
were freighted to the mine some
time ago, and the company is now in
position to continue work until the
lack of water again compels them to
close.
Officials of the company are very
reticent as to the progress of the
work on this property. It is a close
corporation and the reports of the
management are known only to a
few stockholders. From other sources
it is learned that the company ha3
an apparently unlimited quantity of
high grade ore in sight, and that the
operations during the past two years
have been productive of very grati
fying dividends.
YOUNGSTERS PLAY 1
GOOD BALL GAME
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GOOD MATERIAL IN BOTH TEAMS i
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Regular Team Defeats High School
Niue b> a Score of 15 to 6—Lack of
Practice and Team Work Is Notice
able in Both. .
By a score of 15 to 6 the Pinzon
team of Valdez defeated the High
School team at the baseball grounds
yesterday afternoon. The game was
an interesting one despite the score
made by the older team, and during
the early stages of the game the
chances of the younger aggregation
appeared to be equal to those of their j
older and larger opponents, but they '
could not stand the strain the regular j
team gradually pulling away from)
them.
The \ aldez nine put up a much bet- i
ter game than they did the Sunday
previous when they played the Lig
cuni team, but the lack ot team work
is still manifestly one of their great
est faults. The High School team
played its first game yesterday and
was likewise hampered by lack of
practice, but give promise with prac
tice and experience to give the regular
nine a good game. One of the sur
prises of the game was the ability of
the younger players to find the ball,
and while there were no phenome
nally long hits made, they swatted the
ball frequently.
The game demonstrated that there
is excellent material in both teams,
and that before the season is far ad
vanced they will be able to make any^
of the teams from the surrounding
town play their best if they carry
away any games.
LOCAL BREVITIES
Valdez Drug Company has a fine
line of School Stationery. tf
Fresh King Salmon, just received,
at Frye-Bruhn Co. tf
A new line of Miady suits, just re
ceived at E. Winters’. tf
A new line of base ball goods at
the Owl Drug. tf
For good home-cooked jneals try
Mrs. M. Olson, on Hobart street. •
Carbureters, magnetos, batteries,
spark pings and colls at Mead’s, tf
A fine display or nugget Jewelry at
Valdez Drug Co. tf
Panoramic views of Child’s and
Miles graders, Dawson, Valdez and
Wrangel on sale at Valdez Drug Co. *
A. B. lies, from the Solomon Oulch
Power Plant, is a visitor. In town.
The launch N. & S. made the round
trip to the Cliff mine, Shoup bay, to
day. ? *
DO WE STAND UP STRAIGHT? |
W«Mi Apparently We Do Not For Any
Great Length of Time.
Naturalists have distinguished us
from the higher animals by the fact
that we stand upright on two legs.
But do we? Watch a crowd stand
ing about a street orator and see
how many are really standing on
both legs, or try yourself to stand
on two legs and see how soon yoiy
are ready to fall from fatigue.
The truth is we have not" yet ab
solutely acquired the upright posi
tion ascribed to us by the scientists.
Even in the army, where comfort is
always sacrificed to trim appearance,
the command .“Stand at ease,”
which Allows the soldiers to throw
one leg baqk and prop themselves
upon if, shows how impossible a per
fectly upright position is to main
tain for any length of time. And
have you ever noticed that all sea
faring men acquire the habit of
walking back and forth, even when ;
ashore? On board ship the rolling i
of the ship makes, the resting posi-1
tion on one leg difficult, so the sailor :
paces back and forth across his:
deck, even though he may be able j
to take only two and a half steps
each way.
As any anatomist will tell us, we j
are still built very much like the
monkeys. Standing perfectly up* I
right can only be done by a very;
complicated cross strain, one set of 1
muscles pushing forward, another \
holding back. With every move-1
ment we make a new adjustment of i
these muscles takes place. ,
The trouble is all with our hip
bones. If they fitted vertically into
the pelvic girdle and not at an an
gle and if the spine were directly
above it all that would be required
to stand perfectly upright would be
a slight amount of balancing.
Therefore to rest these muscles
we place one of them at rest by
throwing one leg to one side, allow
ing the other to do the work. When i
one leg has rested sufficiently it
takes up the strain, and the other
takes a spell. Nor does it matter
how much we strengthen our leg
muscles by walking or other exer
cises, the perfectly, upright position
is still a hard one to keep.—Pitts
burgh Dispatch.
Retention of Heat.
In human beings the skin is the;
principal moans of heat loss, being
responsible for the loss of 87.5 per
cent of the total heat lost. This is
not so in some animals—the dog, j
for instance, whose hairy coat does
not permit its skin to perspire. The j
dog loses heat largely by its ex
pired air and by the radiation and 1
evaporation of water from its
tongue. Thus it pants and puts out
its tongue on a hot day. Obviously
our clothes prevent the loss of heat, j
and the more effectually as they
arc had conductors of heat, l'or
this reason flannel, wool and furs ,
are so much “warmer” than linen or
cotton, materials from the vegetable
kingdom and therefore not the nat
ural clothing of animals.
World’s Oldest City.
The city with the longest continu-j
ous history is Damascus. It was a 1
place of considerable importance j
away back in the time of Abraham,
1900 before Christ. Its actual foun-j
dation is lost in antiquity. Nobody
knows when Damascus did not ex
ist. It is possible that there were
cities in Babylonia qr Egypt before
the Syrian metropolis arose, but we
know nothing about them. The old
Syrian town today baa a population
of Some 200,000, is the center of a
fine trade and still merits its fame
of being one of the most beautiful
places on earth.
His Pocksts Wara Empty.
Damoreau, an actor, fought a
duel in 1834 with an orator named
Manuel. The orator proved the bet
ter swordsman and would have run
Damoreau through the body had
not his sword struck a five franc
piece which happened to be in the
actor’s pocket. This drew from a
notoriously impecunious journalist
the exclamation, "Alas, if I had
been in Damoreau’s place it would
have been all over with me!”—New
York Post.
V—Boston.
A little Chicago girl was crying.
"What’s the matter, Noreen?” ask
ed her father. "I fell and bumped
my patella,” she replied. Father
was sympathetic. ‘Toor little girl,"
he said, and proceeded with the beat
intentions to examine her elbow.
Noreen broke away. ‘‘Huh!” she
sobbed. “I said my patella! That
isn’t my elbow. My elbow is my
great sesamoid.” Father, wept for
a Latin (fictionary.—Exchange.
No Quorontlno Noopsttry.
“I am delighted to meet you,” said
the father of the college student,
shaking hands warmly with the pro
fessor,
you last
"Pard
“he was
not take iw j
. REPORT OF THE FINANCIAL CONDITION Ol| ' \
The First Bank of Valdt\
LOCATED AT VALDEZ, TERRITORY OF ALASKA, A^ THE CU
OF BUSINESS ON THE 15TH DAY OF MA^uflto
RESOURCES:
Loans and Discounts ._ _ : V. «< 1Q
Overdrafts :.._......v..IIZIZZ ’t*£ f
Bonds and Warrants...1. 41 47,
Furniture and Fixtures .ZUZZ 3*535
Checks on Other Banks and Other Cash Items *482
CASH ON HAND AND SIGHT 1 neo-in a
EXCHANGE .... . |05,370.4
TOTAL .- ,.......$271,390.3 7\
LIABILITIES: .
SuafjSiFu„dPaidi" . "«W
Undivided Profits , ,,“7
Due to Banks—Deposits * • 1 550 2*'
Deposits 239345?
Certified Checks
TOTAL .$271.390.&
United States of America. Territory of Alaska, Third Judicial D-t
sion, ss.
I, J. W. GILSON. Cashier of the above-named bank, do solemn
swear that the foregoing statement is true to the best of my know
edge and belief. j. w CILSON.
Cashier. 4
Correst Attest: ’
M. BLUM, ] |
S. BLUM, l 1
JOHN LYONS, [ Directors. 3
J. C. MARTIN. ’
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 23rd day of May, 1&16
- (Notarial Seal) ANTHONY J. DIMONL. j
Notary Public in and for the Territory of Alaskr |
My Commission Expires March 13, 1917. 1
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