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MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1914.
LET US THINK OF OUR MERCIES.
War is a nuisance, the greatest of
all. It is an infernal, immeasurable,
unspeakable nuisance to neutral na
tions like ourselves. Our foreign
trade is interrupted, our domest’c in
dustries are disturbed, exchange is
at unheard of figures, trading in se
curities has been suspended, thou
sands of Americans caught in Europe
at the outbreak of the war have been
subjected to no end of annoyance
and actual distress in their efforts to
get away. These things are not eas
ily borne. But in our affliction w«
can find many crumbs of comfort.
First of all and above all we may
be thankful that we are not engag
ed in the fighting. Our aloofness
from the scene of the conflict is a
cause for congratulation. By a sort
of paradox we may find comfort, too,
in the fact that the business depres
sion here for the last two or three
years has put us in a good condi
tion to withstand the shock of a
great foreign war. If we had been
caught in the full tide of industrial
and speculative expansion there would
have been a collapse. Men skilled
in reading the financial signs of the
times say that we are secure against
that danger. The war came at a
time when business was conservative
ly managed, credit was well in hand,
and there was no undue expansion.
Even the great mercantile failure that
occurred in June was well out of the
way before the evil of war befell us.
It is doubtless fortunate that our
new Federal Reserve banking system
is yet to be established and put in
operation. It can be organized now
with foreknowledge. Had it been set
up in the early summer the great
strain of the war might have develop
ed weakness at some undefended
points. One of the chief mercies we
have to think about is due to the ex
ceeding patience of President Wilson
in sticking to his policy of watchful
waiting with Mexico. We should
have been in real trouble had the
business and financial derangements
due to the European wrar come upon
us at a time when we were ourselves
at war with Mexico. Mr. Wilson was
much beset by those who urged stern
er courses. He stood like a rock
against war, and the country knows
that he was wise.
We have generally been a lucky
people. So far as good fortune can
attend any nation at a time when so
many nations are at each others’
throats it is our portion in this troub
led time. It helps us to be patient
with the troubles accruing from the
quarrels of our European friends.—
•Ex.
A JUST PERSPECTIVE.
We note some disposition, even in
quarters where it would not be ex
pected, to look upon the war in which
nearly all Europe Is engaged, and
which may extend to the Orient be
fore it is ended, as an opportunity
for the United States to reap large
advantages that would not in other
conditions have been available. And
with this disposition there is the ten
dency to anticipate these advantages
and to act as if a period of greatly
increased activity and prosperity were
at hand and would soon displace the
present uncertainty and confusibn.
Undoubtedly when we can adjust
our business to the new conditions
there may be considerable profit to
this country in supplying the needs
of countries that have ceased to pro
duce and have begun to destroy. But
it is well for us all to remember that
destruction wrought by war on any
large scale is harmful to wide areas,
must in the long run be made up by
all those affected, and cannot be last
ingly profitable even to the neutrals
who do not take any part in it. War
is economic waste, as much as an
earthquake, and the wider the area
over which it extends, the greater
the number of human beings who are
engaged in it, the longer it continues,
by so much greater and more exhaust
ing is the waste, by so much more is
the expenditure of productive effort
necessary to repair, so far as it may
be repaired, the net losses it in
flicts.
Under the highly developed credit
system of the modern world burdens
of this sort are distributed with mar
velous certainty, directness, and com
pleteness. We shall have ultimately
to bear our part. In the meanwhile,
it is wise for us to go on with our
daily task quietly soberly, cautiously,
with patient courage, without elation,
and avoiding all speculative tendency.
Our situation is more favorable, be
cause we are not engaged in the de
struction itself, and all our natural
and organized resources remain as
sets. There will be great losses in
the depreciation fit securities, in the
suspension or interruption of foreign
trade, in the disturbance of our com
merce and industry, and in the re
duction of the demand for labor. For
tunately these will be strained in con
siderable degree by the fact that we
are in a state of relative prepared
ness for the difficulties that have been
encountered, and an admirable spir
it of moderation and of mutual help
fulness has been very general. If
these favorable conditions continue,
as we are confident that they will,
we can keep the harm we shall suf
fer down lo the lowest practicable
limits.—Ex.
A Mistake Perhaps Intentional
Though no situation could possi
bly be more serious than that which
suddenly confronts Europe, and not
much less directly the whole world,
yet one incident that might be called
humorous, and even amusing, has al
ready been reported on what seems
to be authority.
Von Pourtales, the German ambas
sador to St. Petersburg, fully appre
ciating his heavy responsibilities, is
the hero of the story. He visited the
Russian foreign minister with a last
request, that was in effect a warning,
for information about the mobiliza
tion of the Czar’s armies. He went
prepared with two written replies,
one to a satisfactory explanation and
another to a refusal to explain. It
was the latter he received, and, as
that meant war, Von Pourtales was
so deeply moved that he handed ov
er, not the right message, but both
of them.
Possibly, of course this was not a
mistake, or not an unintended one,
and, again, more than possibly, the
tale as told is not true. News from
the continent is subjected to many
vicissitudes as well as censorship at
present, and while it reveals the truth
as a whole, it must all be read in
telligently and with constant remem
brance that even the "official” in
formation is likely to be colored by
the political and military Interests of
those who give it out. It must not be
forgotten, either, that the circulation
of a rumor In this or that place or
circle is itself a fact, and, when of
fered for what it is worth, a rumor
constitutes news as legitimate as any
other.
The unthinking read a rumor one
day and its contradiction the next,
and then proclaim that “you can’t
believe anything you see in the pa
pers.” Usually what they prove is
their own carelessness, for of the
deliberate manufacture of false news
there is nowadays none at all in the
better part of the press, and at a
time like this it daily overcomes
enormous difficulties in the attain
ment of exactness and veracity. The
measure of its success is also enor
mous, while of errors uncorrected
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Beat of Meals—Prices Reasonable
GENERAL. STORE. - TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chltina.
General Freighting. KNUTE NAFSTED. Mar.
Is Still the Attraction.
Ws wish to announce to the public that we now have in stock
VALDEZ GLACIER GOLD BEER
A product of Valdes and a new brew of superior excellence.
7 pts Valdez Glacier Gold Beer $1.00
5 qts Valdez Glacier Gold Beer $1.00
Patronize home industry and keep the money In Valdes.-—The public will
find this beer on ah equal with any outside hears—being eh entirely naw brew
Phone, 69—Freefdelivery Wall parts of the city.
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TOE BIG PLACE
promptly there are hardly any.—New
York Times.
WALTER JOHNSON
PITCHES A FEW
Walter Johnson must have been
hiyu sonnick when he pitched against
the Mackmen at Philadelphia August
14. Here is the telegraph story of
the game.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 14.—Wash
ington broke Philadelphia’s winning
streak by winning today’s game, 2
to 1. The home team had previously
.won seven games straight, and twen
ty-four out of the previous twenty
six contests. Johnson was invincible
in the pinches. Three times he closed
an inning by fanning a batt\uan, with
a runner on second base, these bats
men being Collins, Baker and Bress
ler. Johnson knocked a home run
in the third inning, and the run which
decided the contest was scored in
tne sixth on Gandil’s double and Mor
gan’s single.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Excellent change of pictures at the
Orpheum tonight.
The road commission truck left
Chitina on Friday morning with Col
onel Richardson, Lieut. Kunzig and
Alfred H. Brooks. The car reached
Paxsons Sunday night on schedule in
spite of the heavy rains.
Large three-room flat for rent at
Crawford Block. Running water,
telephone and lights furnished all for
$20.00 a month.
—
Change of pictures with a good
-Weekly at the Orpheum tonight. Fine
pictures and music.
A party of young folks made the
trip to Ellamar on Saturday *o be
the house guests of Mr. and Mrs. L.
L. Middlecamp. They returned this
morning, having been delayed by the
fog. One of the girls in the party
fell into the icy waters at Ellamar,
but being some swimmer, also cool
and collected, she managed to swim
to a pile and hung on until the men
rescued her with the aid of a dory.
FURNISHED five-room flat with
bath for rent, over Plant & Co.’s jew
elry store. Enquire phone 65. tf
FOR SALE—One new, ready to run
3^ horse power Fulton engine. Com
plete equipment. No wires; no
batteries. Enquire at this office.
Having secured a first-class baker,
we are now prepared to sell bread
and pastry at reasonable prices. Del
monico Grill in Senate building. tf
Fear In Factory Cities.
PATERSON, N. J., Aug. 24.—In a
few weeks Paterson will feel the
effects of the shortage in raw silk,
according to a statement made by
Frank Frost, head of the firm of
Frank Frost Raw Silk Importers. The
supply in this country at the present
time can last not quite two months
more. For the most part the raw silk
comes from China and Japan and
formerly was shipped through the
Suez canal and thence to New York.
Now it comes across the continent.
The silk trade has been exceptionally
good and the manufacturers have a
large number of orders on hand now.
Should the silk trade be affected ft
will work a hardship in this city,
where silk is the principal industry.
Stockholders Meeting.
The annual stockholders meeting of
the Black Diamond Gold Mining Com
pany (as adjourned) is called to meet
at the office of the company in Val
dez, Alaska, on September 15th, 1914,
at 8 o’clock p. m., at which meeting
a board of irectors will be elected
for tne ensuing year and other busi
ness of importance will come before
the meeting.
By order of the president,
k Sept. 1 GEO. J. LOVE, Secretary.
Notice or i-orreiture
To Henry Seymour and Thorny
Lynch, their heirs, administrators,
and to all who it may concern:
You are hereby notified that I have
expended $300.00 on the Association
claim No. 1, Association claim No. 2
and Association claim No. 3, located
on the Chlstochlna river at the mouth
of Slate creek, in the Copper Center
recording precinct, Territory of Alas
ka, the location certificates of said
claims being of record in the U. S.
commissioner’s office at Copper Cen
ter, Alaska. Said expenditure was
made in order to hold said claims un
der the provisions of the laws of the
United States and of this territory,
and was made in the year 1913.
And if you fail or refuse to pay
your proportion ($100.00 each) with
in 90 days after the completion of
the publication of this notice your
interest in said claims will become
the property of the undersigned, your
co-owner, under Section 2324, Re
vised Stautes of the United States.
W. R. MORTON.
First publication June 18, 1914.
Last publication September 18, 1914.
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F. BUTTERWORTH
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Civil Engineer end
U. S. Deputy Lend end
Mineral Surveyor
Blue Printing Veldes, Alaska.
Another Line for
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This Time It’s the
Fox Famous Fox
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None Better In the World.
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National Universitj
Washington, D. C.
«_.« dentist
in both companies Fourteen years in
Office Rooms over VALDEZ
Valdez Drill,' Co.
DR. GERMAN
Phone IQ THE DENTIST
Office rooms over O’vl Druif store. Office hours
9 a. m.. to 6 p. m., 7 p. m..to9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
DR. M. O. ADAMS
dentist
Office on Wall St. next Prospector office
Valdez, Alaska.
New Company’s Phone No. 89
HOURS—9 to 12 a.'m.; 1 to 6 and7 to 9p. m.
DR. C H. VANCE
the OSTEOPATH
Graduate American School of
Osteopathy* KJkrsvtlle. Mo.
OFFICE HOURS-* to 12 a.. 1 toS ». a.. « hi
lyfoi^Mtt.
TREATMENT S2.SO
Office end Reiidence'Court St. PHONE 203
E. E. RITCHIE
LAWYER
PHONEliatJ Valdez, Alaska
C. E. BUNNELL
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Offices Wall Street
Phones. ' •* ■ VALDEZ
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DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court House >.
Phone 34 Valdez, Alaska
A. C. BALDWIN
Civil Engineer and
U. S. D« uty Land1
end Mineral Stirvdjror. 0
Formerly Surveyor Alaaka BouaJary 8«re«r8
Valdes, Alaska. F. 0. BOX 274
Steam Heat Electric ligi *
THE COPPER BLOCK
Finely Furnished Rooms All Modern Conveniences
Good Tijr DlirrCT G °0 d
Goods I ||t DUirtl Goods
Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
ALL KINDS OF
^Native and f f T1I/|D17D and Building
Puget Sound LUlVlDLlX Material
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Prices Right W. M. FINICAL, Mgr. Phone 18
Patronize a Home Industry
STANTON STAGE LINE
Carrying U. S. Mail, Pas
sengers, Freight, Express
from Valdez to Gulkana.
L»«tm V»Mt« lrt md 15th of •»<* month
For rates see Valdez Transfer Co. Phone 60
MILK-MILK-MILK
Fresh Milk and Cream
VALDEZ DAIRY
Telephone order* to Phone 187
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