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MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1914.
DECIDING AN ELECTION.
A curious situation is found in the
case of Moore vs. Bacon, in Phila
delphia. Dr. Moore ran against Dr.
Bacon for city council a year ago.
The latter was declared elected. Dr.
Moore contested the election. At the
end of six months he obtained a re
count. At the end of seven months
the examiner reported that Dr. Moore
had been elected. At the end of
eight months the court of common
pleas affirmed the report. Then Dr.
Bacon appealed to the state supreme
court, and now, thirteen months af
ter the election Dr. Moore is still
barred from office.
Dr. Bacon has been holding the dis
puted office for nearly a year. The
fact that two judicial authorities have
decided against him makes no differ
ence. He continues to exercise all
the functions of a councilman just
the same.
If the supreme court proceeds with
the same tolerant leisure that has
characterized the case thus far, it
may declare Dr. Moore elected—after
he has been deprived of his office for
the whole term, and after Dr. Bacon
has usurped the office for the term
without a shadow of legal right.
It’s “only a councilman,” to he
sure. But suppose it were a con
gressman or a governor!—Ex.
ALL-AMERICAN CO-OPERATION.
The proposal that the twenty-one
republics of the Western hemisphere
should work together in solving their
own problems and present a united
front to Europe in all questions of in
ternational policy growing out of the
war is finding almost universal favor.
The machinery for such a system
exists in the Pan-American Union,
whose governing board consists of
diplomatic representatives of all the
republics of North and South Amer
ica. The magnificent building erect
ed at Washington for the use of this
organization makes an admirable cen
ter for the transaction of such busi
ness, and may ultimately become for
America what the Peace Palace at
The Hague seems destined to become
for the world.
The United States and the Latin
American countries have been draw
ing closer together in recent years,
ihe strongest link of mutual under
standing and friendship was forced
in the peace conference at Niagara
Falls, when the "A, B, C” mediators
met to compose the differences be
tween the United States and Mexico.
Our frankness and forbearance on
that occasion had an effect out of all
proportion to the immediate interests
involved, and did much to disarm the
traditional Latin suspicion of Yankee
purposes.
The present war, by isolating the
New World, and creating political and
trade problems common to all the re
publics, has thrown them still more
closely together. The South Ameri
can powers have lately been urging
closer trade relations with us, and
are now eager for an “entente” to
handle all neutral burdens of the war
on the same basis.
It does not seem too much to hope
for an understanding that will enable
these twenty-one nations soon to
speak to Europe with one voice on
all vital matters affecting the rela
tions of the Old and New Worlds.
Such an arrangement would super
sede the Monroe Doctrine wiith a
larger and nobler principle, more gen
uinely effective and more conducive
to the self-respect ' of our weaker
neighbors. And it would give us in
estimable advantages of national
friendship, increased trade and wid
ened influence as the chief spokes
man of an All-American federation.
BABY HOWITZER IS A DEADLY
GUN.
Krupp’s baby howitzer—“minen
wurfer” it is called by the Germans
—is the latest terror the allied arm
ies are called upon to face in the
trenches; and the novelty, its com
parative simplicity and its destruct
iveness attest to the completeness of
the German fighting equipment. The
huge howitzers with which the Ger
mans battered down the strongest
Belgian forts were for a time the
most talked of feature of the German
artillery; but now that Col. E. D.
Swinton, the British “eye witness”
with the expeditionary force, has
drawn attention to this trench how
itzer, the British press is describing
it.
The uniqueness of the little how
itzer lies in the fact that though its
caliber Is less than three inches, it
throws a Shell whose diameter is
more than a foot, weighing, with its
charge of high explosive, nearly 200
pounds. This is done by the simple
expedient of attaching a small “adapt
er” to the shell, while the shell itself
rests on the mouth of the gun in a
sort of a cup.
The "adapter” is a metal bar, which
fits perfectly into the bore of the
gun. Being expelled it takes with it
the shell, which promptly separates
itself and continues its flight alone
to a fall in a trench where its explo
sion demolishes earthworks so ardu
ously prepared by the allies. To vis
ualize how it leaves the howitzer one
has but to imagine a small boy plac
ing a cherry with a pin thrust in it
over the mouth of a blow gun. The
“minenwurfer’s” shell is the cherry;
the “adapter” the pin.
The velocity of the shell is slow
only 230 feet per second. The lowest
elevation from which it is fired is 45
degrees, an angle at which the shell
travels 530 yards. Eighty degrees is
the highest angle at which it may
be fired—an elevation used when
trenches are only 190 yards apart.
Traveling slowly toward a trench
with the annoying leisure of a lobbed
tennis ball, the course of the shell
may be plainly followed. Men car.
dodge it, but its explosive interim
works havoc with the trench. This is
all that is expected of it. Though ac
counts from the allied front have giv
en no circumstantial accounts of what
it has done as a destructive agent,
the effect can be surmised when one
is reminded that four pounds of • ■
namite is considered sufficient to de
molish breastworks from two to
three feet in thickness.
The weight of the gun itself is on
ly 130 pounds and its mounting
weighs thirty pounds less It is at
tached, however, to a heavy bed, or
platform, weighing nearly 1,000
pounds. Yet the whole, properly
wheeled, two men can readily trans
port it short distances under normal
conditions.—Ex.
"I shall live to see France and Ger
many united by ties of sincere friend
ship,” announces Kaiser Wilhelm,
who evidently expects to rival Me
thuselah, too.
TEMPT ITALY
JOINJEUTONS
HOME, Dec. 21.—The German gov
ernment has apparently not yet des
paired of seeing Italy rise to a well
baited hook, but the Italian papers
say it will take more to draw Italy
back into the German net than the
latest snare spread for her.
These remarks refer to an article
in The Teutsche Tageszeitung invit
ing Italy to step in and take over
Tunis now that she has the chance.
The paper points out that, reinforc
ed by the Turkish fleet and the Aus
trian navy, the Italian fleet would
easily be a match for the Angelo
French squadrons in the Mediterran
ean, and that energetic action in
common would inevitably result in
the quasi-automatical acquisition of
Tunis by Italy—an acquisition which
would be as legitimate in law as by
reason of the predominance of the
Italian element in Tunis.
A little reflection, concludes the
tempter, should suffice ,#o convince
Italy that all she needs is a decision
to do and dare. The result would be
as easy to obtain as it would be pro
fitable and far-reaching.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Cooking apples {2 per box at the
Yakima Fruit Co. tf
Just arrived largest assortment of
Christmas ties at Ben Silverman’s, tf
Beautiful hand-painted vases just
received at Valdez Drug Co. tf
Chinese noodles and chop suey at
Valdez Cafe after 7 p. m. tf
G. O. Reinke, tne watchmaker and
jeweler, is at the Valdez Drug Co.
All work guaranteed.
The most exquisite hand-painted
china ever seen in Valdez at Valdez
Drug Co. tf
Suits pressed for {1.00 at Silver
man’s the tailor. Tel- phone 198.
Latest popular copyrights and clas
sics at Valdes Drug Go. If
UNEMPLOYED TO
SHOVEL SNOW
CHICAGO, Dec. 21.—The unem
ployed of this city have been put to
work shoveling snow. The street
cleaning department have 20,000 ad
ditional men at work clearing the
streets of the recent heavy fall of the
beautiful.
BRITISH WARSHIP
LOST LAST MONTH
(Continued from page 1.)
ping. Many ship owners are holding
their ships to be ponvoyed to sea by
the warships. From Malin Head to
Cape Breton, in America, the British
warships are stationed all across the
ocean to protect the shipping from
German raiders. To date not a ship
has been lost between New York and
the British Isles.
MOST GERMANS
FIGHTING ALLIES
(Continued from page 1.)
one-half are engaged in battle with
Russia. Figuring a corps at 40,000
in round numbers, this would put 2,
080,000 German soldiers in the west
ern theatre of war and only 860,000
in the eastern. These totals do not
include men of the Landstrum, many
of whom are reported to have been
sent to the front.
Before purchasing Christmas pres
ents drop in and see the stock on dis
play at Valdez Drug Co. tf
Universal percolators and chafing
dishes at Valdez Drug Co. tf
tf
Sweat Baths.
First-class sweat baths and mas
sage parlors at room 5, Montana, tf
Notice of Sale of Personal Property.
Delinquent list of assessments
against personal property for the year
1914, Town of Valdez, Territory of
Alaska:
\V. W. Harvey Sc Co., lot 12, block 7,
stock of ladies’ furnishings, value
$1,500; tax, $22.50; penalty, $2.25;
cost advertising, $2.00; total, $26.75.
The above taxes were unpaid and
HURRY! HURRY!
Xmas Is Coming
Only 4 More Shopping Days Left.
WE ARE HEADQUARTERS FOR
TOYS
Make Your Selections While Our
Stock Is Complete.
We Will Hold Your Purchases Until You Are Ready for Them.
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became delinquent on the 7th day of
December, 1914. The owners of the
above described personal property are
hereby notified that unless said de
linquent taxes, together with penalty,
interest and costs are paid on or be
fore January 21, 1915, the property on
which such taxes are a lien will be
seized by the Town Marshal and sold
at public auction on said January 21,
1915, between the hours of 10 o’clock
a. m. and 4 o’clock p. m., at the Town
Hall of the Town of Valdez, Alaska.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 14th
day of December, 1914.
E. G. AMES,
Town Treasurer of the Town of Val
dez.
First publication Dec. 14, 1914.
Last publication Dec. 21, 1914.
WEATHER BULLETIN.
Valdez, Alaska, Dec. 21, 1914.
STATION Above Iielow Snow, In. WEATHER CONDITIONS
Donnelly . 22 in patches Cloudy, high wind, trail drifted.
McCallum . 10 12 Clear, calm, trail drifted.
Paxson’s . 21 13 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Hogan . 21 5 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Gulkana . 8 8 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Copper Center .... 12 3 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Tonsina . 10 15 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Telkhell . 12 24 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Beaver Dam . 17 20 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Summit . 30 35 Cloudy, calm, trail drifted.
Wortman’s . 15 Cloudy, calm, trail open.
VALDEZ ELECTRIC COMPANY
THE CONSUMERS’ COMPANY_
Office in Copper Block, on Broadway
Festival Hall, Panama-Pacific Exposi
tion, Where the Conventions of the
World Will Be Held In 1915
FESTIVAL hall, where the convention! of the world will meet In 1911
during the Panama-Pacific International exposition, will be MO feet by
zoo feet, with greatest breadth of MO foot the latter being taken up
by the wings Bach of the three main north and south courts will open
out at the north upon the esplanade on San Francisco bay and UP00 * Freat
tropical garden, a veritable paradise of transplanting, upon the aouth Through
tee tropical garden a boulevard will lead east and west The Bret vision of
those who enter the exposition gates from the city will bo gained from the
boulevard In the boulevard will be eet Festival Hall
Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
ALL KINDS OF
Native and f f TMOCD and Budding
Puget Sound I^wIVIDHiJLX Material
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Prices Right W. M. FINICAL, Mgr. Phone 18
Patronize a Home Industry
Pacific Alaska!
Navigation Company
Alaska Pacific S. S. Co. Alaska Coast Co. \
PUGET SOUND-ALASKA ROUTE
Steamers sail from Seattle <
Nov. 15tH, Dec. 5th and 25th s
via the Inside Passage for Ketchikan. Juneau, Yakutat, Ka-1
talla, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Cook Inlet points and Kodiak, f
PUGET SOUND-CALIFORNIA ROUTE t
Seattle-San Francisco, connecting with steamers Yale and |
Harvard for southern California ports. }
itieht reserved to change dates and steamers without notice f
VALDEZ DOCK CO. I
Local Agent t
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
S. S. Mariposa and S. S. Alameda sail from Seattle
the 1st, 8th, 16th and 24th
EVERY MONTH
From Valdez south—7th, 15th, 23rd and 30th for Cordova,
Juneau, Ketchikan and Seattle.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Juneau, Sheep creek Treadwell. Douglas
Cordova, Ellamar. Valdez and Latouohe. Explosives. S S Seward. S S Seward. 5th'
S S Latouohe, 15th; S S Cordova. 25th of each month—Right reserved to change this
schedule without notice.
F B. Tracy, Gen’l Agt- Valde* Dock Co., Local Agt.
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