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TUESDAY, MARCH 21, I01«
A WINTER PICTURE.
OWN swept, the chill wind from
the mountain peak,
From the snow five thousand
summers old.
On open wold and hilltop bleak
It had gathered all the cold
Aad whirled it, like sleet, on the wander
er's cheek.
It carried a shiver evterywheiw
Worn the unleafed houghs
bare.
The little brook heard It and built ai«of
‘Neath which he could house him. winter
PMief.
AO night hat the white stars’ frosty glean**
He groined hie arches and matched Hla
beams
Mender and clear were his crystal spars
As the lashes of light that trim the star*.
He sculptured every summer delight
In his halls and chambers out of sight
Sometimes his tinkling waters allpt
Down through a frost leaved forest crypt,
Dong, sparkling aisles of steel stemmed
trees
Bending to counterfeit a breese.
Sometimes the roof no fretwork knew
But silvery mosses that downward grew.
Sometimes it was carved in sharp relief
With quaint arabesques of ice fern leaf.
Sometimes it was simply smooth and clear
Pur the gladness of heaven to Bilne
through, and here
He had caught the nodding bulrush tops
And hung them thickly with diamond
drops,
Which crystalled the beams of moon and
sun
And mads a star of every one.
No mortal builder’s most rare device
Could match this winter palace of lea
"Twas as if every Image that mirrored lay
la his depths serene through the summer
day.
Bach flitting shadow ot earth and sky.
Inst the happy model should be lost.
Had been mimicked in fairy masonry
By the elfin builders of the frost.
-James Russell Dowell
BE TO!.ERANT
Because a man differs from you
politically is no sign that ho is a ras
cal or thief or "pi-ate.” This is the
greatest trouble with Alaskan poll-'
tics. You live next door to Bill or
Joe for years; your wives and chil
dren grow fond of each other, and
you think Bill and Joe are pretty
good fellows..
But you -jiv-r a 33rd degree dem
ocrat and Bill and Joe are republi
cans. and by the time the campaign
gets a little warm, and Bill or Joe dis
putes the infallibility of your pet
candidate, you go up in the air, and
Straightway are a mortal enemy of
the men w ho have eaten at your table
probably, and chewed off the name
plug of “blackstrap."
A man is elected on the council,
and acts according to his beliefs and
convictions, and you loudly bawl that
he is a “pirate,” and,cut-throat, and
too unclean to associate with the pure
in spirit.
Now, is this right and fair and just
to your feilowman? Has he not the
same right to bis ideas as you bave
to yours? Sure!
Ali men do not think alike. It
would make a tedious old world if
they did. ; ‘
Politics are just- & game—a foften,
putrid, miserable game at best; an(l
everytime you lose your temper over
your 'neighbor’s shortcomings you
lose that mulch of the zest of the real
game,.las it should be played.
Our officials do things that are not
for the best interests of the territory
or the town; but this is not to be
taken that they are graftero or
scoundrels. Personally they-may be
the finest kind of fellows—only their
environment and training causes
them to think differently from you.
All over the Territory politics will
begin to warm up in a few weeks.
When they do don’t take them like
a dose of medicine.
It makes so little difference to the
average man whether Tom, Dick or
Harry' is elected, that it is laughable
to see the hard feelings engendered
--THE
EMPRESS
TO-NIGHT
PROGRAM
Pathe News
“HU Poor IJttle Girl”—IMo
g»'4o'i Iframa.
Rita—Comedy, Margaret Gib
son. t V
rjTr
«»eo Ade I'able Comedy.
The High Rollers and Dl®y
Clondino. ;
Instrumental Music
Tho Gilded Pool, Thursday
Admission 25c and 10c.
among the electors;—that Is it would,
be amusing were it not soo serious.
Go and vote for the man of your
choice. He may not be as good as
my man, but you are entitled to cast
your ballot for him if you so choose.
But, whether your man wins or
loses take the advice of our old
friend, Senator Sorghum, and “don’t
get all het up!”
A DINNER FROM THE SHIES.
A woman over in Clay county
states that while) chopping wood the
other day ,“ja^ big hunk of meat,” as
she puts ; it, “fell from the skies,
landing not five feet in front of me,”
says a Missouri exchange. That it
was really meat is vouched for by
the actions of the family dog, which,
running up, sniffed at the celestial
visitor, and then satisfied that it was
meat for him, seized it in his teeth
and started away. By this time the
woman had recovered from her sur
prise. chased Rover down and
deprived him of bis heaven-sent din
ner. It was part of a leg encased in
a nice pair of “Boss of the Road”
overalls, and was in a state of ex
treme newness.
She looked aloft long and earnest
ly but could see nothing. “The mys
tery is yet unsolved,” says the cor
respondent. But is this a mystery?
Certainly not! That “hunk of meat”
which came hurtling through the air
was all that was left of one of the
workmen who had been employed in
an ammunition plant or powder fac
tory “back East.”
The whole Atlantic coast is lined
with such factories. Every day we
read of another twenty million con
tract for ammunition being let. And
every time one is let, up springs a
fellow suffering from pro-some-oth
er-thing and this fellow merrily flips
a bomb into the recently-enriched
factory—and the stuff is off.
They tell us that down east an ex
plosion shakes the earth every sev
enteen minutes. The people have
gotten so used to blow-ups that they
have stopped saying "There goes an
other one.” The supply of labor is
running short. Even the most will
ing Wop or huskiest Hunk will be
come discouraged after he has been
shredded over seven counties a few
times. Forty-three coroners have
died of overwork and juries are now
serving in throe eight-hour shifts
per day. The Atlantic coast states
are mussed up with remains, and
autos have to have non-skid tires and
Weed chains to keep from slipping
on, the latest victims of our coun
try’s neutrality.
Incoming, steamers report that
long before they come in sight of
shore the greenest passengers know
they are approaching the land of the
free and the home of J. P. Morgan
because the western horizon is dark
ened with rising and falling powder
mill employes and ammunition work
ers. But the explosion which drove
that hunk of Wop out here to fall
at the feet of the Clay county wom
an and nearly provided Rover with
the makings of a Hungarian goulash
must have been some let-go. (
FUNSTON
Gen. Fred Funston has an estab
lished record for capturing bush
whackers. He took one Anguinaldo
and his pal into camp once upon a
time, and that brought order in the
Philippines. He will probably re
peat the' performance' in Mexico.
It was this Anguinaldo escapade that
gave Funston his place in the army,
and while the fame that came to him
then waft probably out of all propor
tion to the task accomplished, he has,
by able services a's a 'general officer
of the. United States army, amply
earned the l-eward that was bestowed
upon him.
The fact is that General Funston
w^s admittedly overpaid for his ser-,
vices in the Philippines, And he
frankly confessed knowledge,of it af
ter he baS been in.the army for a
time. President McKinley hesitat
ed about making him a Brigadier
General at the time the army was re
organized, and he said that he would
not have made tho appointment had it
not been that civilians could only be
appointed to the ranks of second-lieu
lieutenants and brigadier-general,
and the Kansas Colonel had earned
more than the former. However,
General Funston’s career has proved
the wisdom of the appointment. The
sense of security that the American
people feel that their Mexican opera
tions are in safe hands is due to a
consistent record of achievement that
has extended over a period of seven
teen years. General Funston made
good, and he is capable of even big
ger things than the capture of a wily
Mexican bpndit and murderer.
Yes we’ll admit Sam’s gone, and
Dougherty’s gone, and Kunzig’s gone,
and Lathrop and Treat and Boyle
and Heckey and about four-fifths oi
our former population have been
either drisen out or left voluntarily,
—but It no cause for congratulation,
as we see it. They helped make the
town; their money paid many bills
for merchandise, labor and material
—anil a man has very little civic
pride who can gladly “fiddle” to the
accompaniment of the Old dry hones
of a once healthy, sentient burg.
BUT HE WON’T.
Any gentleman can swear, get
drunk, tell stories about his neigh
bors and besmirch the character of
his acquaintances—but he won’t!
Any gentleman can drive a sharp
bargain, he can take advantage of the
other fellow’s necessities, ,he can
drive him into a corner, he can rub
his hands gleefully and say to bim
! self as he sees him writhe, "business
| is business”—but he won’t!
Any gentleman can kick a dog,
|abuse a horse, mis-use a child, laugh
:at another man’s mistakes and dev
! Highly gloat over another man’s .fall
lures—but he won’t! ■ ,
Any gentlemen can grow cynical,
sour and pessimistic; he can feel
that everybody is against, him and he
against the world; he can scoff at all
good things; ridicule your religion or
damn your judgment—but he won’t!
Any gentleman say say harsh, sar
castic and cruel things; he can stab
you with words, he can crush flow
ers and fertilize weeds—but he
won’t!
Any gentleman can make this old
world; this topsy-turvy, this greatly
misunderstood, this too finicky, not
to be understood world, a far bet
ter place because of the fact that he
chanced to pass along the way
' And he will!
TRIAL JURYMEN ARE
SELECTED TODAY
The jury for the coming term of
court was drawn at the court room
of the District Court at 2 o’clock this
afternoon, Jury Commissioner Adam
Swan and the Clerk of the Court
drawing the names out of the box.
The jurors will be required to re
port April 17. The following are the
names of the jurors selected:
From Valdez—J. M. McDonald,
Matt. McGlade, G. H. Remington, A.
E. Moore, W. J. Morton, M. Vaughn,
C. ('. Rudolph, Feliz Steppa, W. J.
Whalen, Oh as Ritter. Louis Roth
krauz.
From Cordova—O. C. Meyer,
Clyde Nettelton,,, C. P. Mickelsou, G.
B. Stewart. Jos>, Stanton, Victor Hen
drickson. N. A. Clasen.
From Seward—Hugh Dougherty,
P. M. Anderson, C. F. Hewitt, C. E.
Martin, Matt Button, W. R. Cantrell,
D. C. Mathison, G. M. Kerns. Johh
Kacerosky, Oscar Larson.
From Eyak—A1 Lowe.
From Granite—Charles Swanson.
NORTHWESTERN IN
. AND SAIDS SOUTH
The steamer iNorthwestern arrived']
in port from the westward about l i®0
this afternoon khd left about an hour
later for the south. En route from ]
Seward she stopped at Eatouche aiid
loaded'ore. and will also load ore at
Ellamar and Cordova.
The following are the passengers
booked from • Valdez: Miss Atronem
and Miss E. Atronem for Ellamar; ]
Mrs. J. F. Cunningham, Mrs. D. 'F. •
Grenning and children; Mr. and Mrs.
E. H. Garvey, M. Dlneen. John‘Bar
rett, Walter Hansen. 3. T. Hubbard
for Cordova, 'E. W. Howes, for Ju
neau; E. Eadurello, J. Fisher, E. W.
Smith, M. Haltness and J. G. Galvin
for Seattle.
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. Notice
Starting Thursday afternoon this
week at 3 p. m.- there will be a num
ber of matinees each week at that
hour. ""
Thursday afternoon and Saturday
afternoon at 3 p. m. “Enoch Ardeij.”
Everyone should see this master
piece. i ,
Starting Sunday afternoon, at 3 ,p.
m. the “Oufclawfs Revenge-or A Birth
of a New* Nation/’ ; • ’• • > > ■
Admission 25 fonts;1 children. 10c.
Don’t forget matinees Thursday, Sat
urday and Sunday; The pictu're shown
at each of these matinees will be h
* . ’ , »
feature. ’
J. D; McKougall of the Valdez Gold
Co., left this morning for ShoUp hay.
lie was accompanied by Mrs. McDou
gall, who will reside fpr the time at
the Cliff mine until Mr. McDougall
has prepared quarters at the Shoup
Bay mine,. ,•*
Fa-fatobad
mmm
“I* can’t sing any more like I used to
1 since 1 work In a bakery.”
i “Why?”
! “Because 1 can’t, get any bigber than
i dough.”—Philadelphia Itecord
George J. Dove returned on the
Northwestern from Seward, where he
wbnt to adjust the losses occ asioned
by the recent Are in that city.
Gus Gillies, the “Optimo Kid,”
representing the National Grocery
Co.,, of Seattle, left on the Northwest
ern for Cordova and Juneau, after
spending several days io town in the
interest of bis concern.
■W. H. Caswell returned home on
the Northwestern from a trip to Ca
toucbe. •
Alvah Barnes, chief railway mail
clerk for this district was a through
passenger for Cordova on the North
western after a business trip to the
westward.
District Attorney Spence is still in
Seward, and will await the steamer
Alaska before proceeding to the west-;
ward.
The Northwestern brought n^rth a
crew of ship carpenters who, while at
Seward, re-decked the steamer Dora.
The Northwestern had a very light
passenger list from the westward.
Thjo steamer Dora left Seward last
night on her regular monthly run to
Unalaska and way ports.
John B. Thwaites, the popular mail
cleark, formerly of the Mariposa, is
making the round trip on the North
western, and on his return to Seattle
will make, a trip on the Alameda.
Who pot the Baby?
once uj)on a lime a crocodile stole a
baby and was about to make a dinner
of it The frantic mother begged so i
piteously for the child that the croco
dile said:
•‘Tell me one truth and yon shall
have your baby again."
The mother replied. "Yon will not
give him back to me."
"Then.” said the crocodile, "by our
agreement 1 shall keep him. for If yon
have told the truth I am not going to
give him back, and if it is a lie 1 have
also ’won.'
lii^t the mother said. "If ! told you
the troth you are bound by your prom
ise. and if it is hot the truth it will not
be a lie until you have given me my
child."
Who got the baby>
So the Calf Kept On.
As a train stopped at a little Ohio
station the passengers heard the plain
tive bawling pf a ,.calf which was be
ing wheeled along the platform in' a
crate
“There’s.,some one complaining, con
ductor," aaid a traveler, looking for a
bit of fan. " . '
' "Not to me," answered the mild old
ticket taker.' “Never heard a passen
ger’s complaint with that much sense.”
—Judge
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We Are Here to Serve
You
FIHNT BOOR ABOVE THE
, BUFFET
TRY US
^ Shamrock
OAPT. TIM MARCUM
Sails tor Port Welle, Portage
Bay, Granite Mine, .Saturday
at 9:00 a. m., from the Val
dez Dock Company’s Dock.
For Bllamar, Deadlock Bay.
and Fidalgo, every Wednes
day, 9:00 a. m., from Val
dez Dock Company's Dock.
For Rates, Apply on Boat.
VAlillKZ LODGE
NO 188
Vim udi Accepted Know
Regular Communication* nrat Wed
nesday In each month in McKinley
Hall Visitor* always welooma.
V. M. BROWN, W. M.
ED WOOD, Secretary
A, M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company
Office on Alaska Avenue, in
George C. Treat Building
Telephone No. 60
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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
ffiet 11b Ijrlp flou.
A large assortment of
Engs
ifusf Sereineii:
SIZES ARE FROM 6 X 9 TO 9fX12
PRICES FROM $6.50 TO $27.50
Wt’Alan (flarnt a Comp to Utttp nf
ICtnnIpuma, HHattinga, Windnrn
i’badpa, fiattrpaapa, Glmn
fnrtpra and SUankpta.
Wilt be pleased to have you call and inspect
our line even if you are not ready to purchase»
&. Slum & (Ho.
GOOD GOODS
Somebody
With Money
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always has been found to
“back” a' good plan, a good
idea, a good business ven
ture or a good mining pros
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.
ADVERTISE IN THE
PROSPECTOR FOR RE
SULTS.
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6n4ut« National ralnnitr.
Waabiacloa. D. C
DENTIST
Fourteen years in Valdes.
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Offloe Koome in Whaling Building
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E. C. DALTON, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGE «
,Phone 42
Alaska'Areaar Valdes, Alaska
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OSte* A Whaling Hollaing
Photo J«» VALaM. ALASKA
ASA C. BALDWIN
CIVIL ENGINEER
U. S. Mineral Surrey or
McKinley Street owporfte V. M* Store.
Valdes, ATttlr*
Copper River
Draying Cot
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Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
' GENERAL TRUCKING
McKinley Street, Valdes
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