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FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 15)16
HAS IT COME TO THIS?
Already word comes from Washin
ton that many Democrats foresee
trouble from that part of the Presi
dent’s Message dealing with the in
ternal enemies of the country. It is
spoken of as raising an issue with
the foreign born which may plague
congressmen in their districts and not
he without effect on the coming pres
idential election.
The President raises no issue with
foreign-born citizens as a class any
more than his concurrent criticism
of certain native-born citizens touches
the whole body in that part of our
citizenship. The issue he raises is
with the treasonable plotters and the
sedition sowers in our midst who
have given evidence to betray this
country’s interests to serve the in
terests of a foreign country. He ex
plicity declares that their number is
not large, but that their malignancy
is infinitely great. Against these he
demands the government be given ad
equate protection.
No doubt political opponents, if the
move seems advisable, will in some
eases, attempt to pervert from its
true meaning one of the most patri
ctic, conservative and justifiable dec
larations ever made by an American
President to an American Congress.
No doubt there are today representa
tives at Washington who, under the
influence of political timidity and self
aerving expediency, regret that the
President struck straight out in be
half of the nation without consulting
them as to its possible political effect.
'It is even possible that some ele
ments of our foreign-born population,
misled by passion and prejudice or
by men who have long practiced the
art of profiting from the natural sen
timents of various classes of our pop
ulation, may take to themselves the
censure leveled at only those who
richly deserve it; may illogically as
sociate themselves with a course of
which they are in no wise guilty and
with a small section of the population
of whose acts they cannot in the least
approve.
But what nas an tms 10 uo wuu
the matter? HaB it come to this, that
a President of the United States must
falter in the performance of his
highest duty that is laid upon him be
cause of such considerations? Presi
dent Wilson’s ringing words, based
on facts as indubitable as the sun it
self, are the answer to such weak
kneed consuls of doubt and such a
trilling with the highest interests of
the nation. The truth—the truth
alone—tyill make and keep us free.—
Juneau Empire.
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MAKING ALASKA WATERS SAFE.
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The work of wire-drag party No.
3 of the United States Coast and Ge
odetic Survey in Alaskan waters in
dicates the need for a further exten
sion of this important work.
Operating in Revillagigedo Chan
nel ana Clarence Strait a total of 388
square miles was covered and several
important dangers to navigation dis
covered. These places were all duly
marked by buoys by the bureau >f
lighthouses.
The work of the wire drag in the
North should be immensely extended
No more importsul duty confronts the
coast survey than the completion of.
this undertaking, despite the fact
that the cost is certain to run into a
considerable sum.
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As has been aptly indicated the
government has a direct interest in
this undertaking because of its new
railroad enterprise. If for* no other
reason it must protect land foster
water transportation to Alaska to
make its own system profitable.—Se
attle Times.
MIGHT THY THIS.
“How can I keep my husband home
nights?” writes a lady reader of our
great family journal. Knowing the
writer as we uo, we offer the follow
ing: Get acquainted with the curl
ing iron again; try the power of the
trinity known as paint, powder and
puffs; cultivate the smile he used to
see on your face when he went court
ing; open a joint in your home and
invite in some of his cronies to play
solo every evening; ii.^e the rolling
pin in the woodshed instead of un
der your apron when he comes home
from work; cook a deceit meal for
him occasionally. Try these things
on him and the chances are that you
can not only win, but hold your hus
band.—Juneau Empire.
WORLD'S PEACE COURT.
The first definite move has been
made for the establishment of an in
ternational court to which all nations
will be asked to join and agree to
submit difference to the tribunal be
fore going to war. There is now a
world-wide demand for such a world’s
court. Its formation will be the nat
ural outgrowth of the present war.
'Ihe time must come, furthermore,
when the submitting of differences to
an international tribunal will be com
pulsory rather than voluntary. The
time must come when the court will
be backed with police powers to en
force its demands against any nation
which refuses to abide by its decision.
The Hague paved the way for the
court it is purposed to establish, and
while a court formed by the leading
powers will be a big step in advance
of the Hague plan, it will never be
effective as an absolute preventive
against war until given police pow- i
ers, the same as any common court j
of the land.—Chicago Herald.
GOVERNMENT IS
AFTER DIRECTORS
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Jan. 14.—
The Attorney General's department
has announced that the government
will again seek to secure a conviction
of Wm. Rockefeller and other direc
tors of the New York, New Haven &
Hartford railrtad company for viola
tions of the Sherman anti-trust law.
The case has been before the courts
on two former occasions but the gov
ernment failed in securing any con
victions.
SWITZERLAND DEFERS
OFFER TO INTERVENE
PARIS: The Swiss Federal Coun
cil believes that this 1b not the proper
time to offer its good offices to bel
ligerents for the negotiation of an
armistice or preparations for peace
negotiations, according to a decla
ration made in the Swiss parliament
by M. Hoffmann, head of the politi
cal department of the Federal coun
cil, as quoted in a Havras dispatch
from Berne.
M. Hoffmann’s declaration was
made in reply to an interpellation by
M. Greullch, representing the Social
ist group, who said he was satisfied
with the answer of the Federal coun
cil adds the dispatch and there was
no debate. Mr. Hoffmann, according
to the correspondent, said:
“We shall be glad if, moved by
sympathy for the belligerents and
faithful to its tradition of neutrality,
our little country can, if only in a
small measure, contribute with com
plete disinterestedness to the re-es
tablishment of a durable peace so
much desired. As long, however, as
the belligerents themselves have not
expressed a desire for peace all in
tervention on the part of strangers
will pot only be sterile, but inoppor
tune and considered unfriendly in
terference. A peace proposal could
thus prejudice the cause of peace.”
HUERTA’S CASE WAS
N COSTUX «0 GOVERNMENT
Mb PASO, Jan. 14.—The govern
ment prosecutor who was in charge
of the prosecution against termer
President Huerta, of Mexico, far eon
spiring to violate the neutrality .law
of the United states by planning an
invasion from American soil into
Mexico, says that the case has coat
the United States 126,090. Eleven
others were Indicted at the same time
sis the former president and were f!o
have stood trim after the close of hls
case, and it is .now believed that the
cases WlVl be dismissed.
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BRITISH SEIZE “
Copies Have Been Sent to American
Embassy at London Showing
Money Paid Plotters.
LONDON, Jan. 14.—The British
authorities caused the papers of Cap
tain Von Papen, former German
military attache to the embassy at
Washington, to be seized while he was
en route from the United States to
Sweden after having been withdrawn
by the German government owing to
his having become involved in a num
ber of conspiracies.
A search of the German officer’s pa
pers reveals the fact that he acted
as disbursing agent for the expendi
tures of moneys in organizing the
conspiracies in the United States to
destroy munition factories and crip
ple shipments to the European na
tions with whicn uermany is at war.
Copies of the papers found in the
possession of Captain von Papen have
been sent by the British government
to the American embassy in London.
They show that frequent payments
were made to munition plotters and
in many cases reveals the identity of
the agents of the conspirators.
The German consul at Seattle is
believed to have 'been involved in the
destruction of the barge containing
dynamite in the Seattle harbor last
year as one item shows $500 had
been sent the consul from Washing
ton just previous to the explosion.
REPORTED FOR
PRICES RISING
Six Thousand Pelts Sold in St. Louis
at Government Sale Brought
$300,00—Silvers Lower
ST. Louis, Jan. 14.—Another sale
of Alaskan furs was held here yest
erday when six thousand fox skins
were sold for three hundred thous
and dollars. The pelts were purchas
ed by »a syndicate of American fur
dealers and will be preapared for the
market in this country.
The sales are conducted by the
government and it is reported that
the prices realized at yesterday’s
sale indicates an upward tendency in
the price of furs as better prices were
realized than at the sale of pelts
which were in little demand and sold
from ten to twenty percent lower
than last season.
MAYOR BOYLE WILL
WORK FOR STATEHOOD
SEATTLE, Jan. 14— Mayor F. M.
Boyle, who arrived from Alaska on
the Alameda, left Seattle this morn
ing for California. He will visit
along the Pacific coast before going
to Washington where he expects to
do good work in aiding Delegate
Wickersham get statehood for Alas
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Patriotic Teachers Suffer.
Many German school teachers who
have voluntarily laid down their
books and taken up arms for the
Fatherland have been disciplined by
the school authorities of Prussia and
Saxony for having dared to offer
their services to their country with
out having obtained the permission
of their superiors. This has aroused
the Indignation of the Berliner Tag
eblatt and that paper is carrying on
a campaign in their behalf.
Id some cases the school authori
ties have decided that the teachers
are not entitled to their salaries
while working in the army or serving
at hospital work, and have requested
that the volunteers pay back what
money they have already received
from the school funds, which in most
instances they are unable to do. Coir-,
menting on this attitude of the au
thorities the Tageblatt remarks:
“ThU shows that the red tape of
petrified officialdom cannot be broken
even by the world war."
End of Historic Whaler.
the destruction of the Bowhead
which Captain Bodflsb commanded
for many seasons. The end of the
Bowhead, the. staunchest of all the
Arctic whalers, was somewhat inglo
rious, being literally dynamited to
make an American holiday. A mo
tion picture firm secured' the Bow
head in Oakland harbor 'and part of
Hum $c (Ho.. Jfnr. *
The Home of Rice Hutchins Shoes. J
LADIES’ SHOES
$4.00
$4.50
$5.00
Rice ana -
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BEING
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FOR
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Educator,
Mayfair
Fair Sex
LADIES’ SHOES
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at Now
The House of Courtesy _
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING
McKinley Street, Valdez
ED. WOOD. Proprietor
in? and destruction of the whaler
the boat being dynamited and fired
while the camera men took in the fex
citing scene.
Will Extend Tunnel 60 Feet.
The New Fra Mining Co. intends
to extend its tunnel about fifty or
sixty feet by way of assessment work
The tunnel was driven in for some
three hundred and fifteen feet when
the best ledge of all was encountered
Just when this rich ledge was met,
the ground being very soft and brok
en, caved in rendering further oper
ations impossible at that time. The
work of clearing the tunnel will be
at once begun and development
work as outlined immediately carried
on.
Pictures developed at the Valdez
Drug Company. tf.
Kodak Supplies at the Valdes
Drug Company. tf
Weather Report.
Valdez, Jan. 13. 19U'
Barometric pressure .30.460
Temperature 7 p. m. .12
Maximum temperature .23
Minimum temperature . 8
Mean temperature .15.6
Clear, wind northeast six miles.
Interior Weather.
Valdez, January 14, 1916.
Fairbanks, —6; 11 Inches of snow,
clear and calm.
Salcha, —10; 18 inches of snow
clear, calm, trail good.
Richardson, —18; 10 inches snow;
cloudy, calm, trail heavy.
McCarthy, —14; 24 inches snow;
cloudy, light wind, trail fair.
Donnelly, —16; 26 inches snow;
cloudy, calm, trail good.
McCallum, —19; 42 Inches snow;
clear, calm,'trail good.
Paxson, —17; 30 inches of snow;
cloudy, calm, trail good.
Hogan, —6; 20 inches snow;
clear, calm, trail good.
Qulkana, —21; 20 inches snow;
clear, oalm, trail good.
Tonslna, —19; 18 inches or snow;
cloudy, calm, trail fair.
Teikhell, —10; 36 inches snow;
cloudy, calm, trail fair.
Beaver Dam, —13; 46 inches of
snow; cloudy, calm, trail good.
Summit, —2; 9 feet of snow;
cloudy, calm, trail fair.
Wortman’s, 6 above; 46 Inches of
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OPEN UNTIL 9 P. M.
We Serve Corona Coffee
Strictly Fresh Eggs.
Jack Callin • • Proprietor
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DR. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate National Uulvemio
WaRhlnrtoa, D. C.
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Fourteen Years in Valdez.
PHONY! 110
Office Rooms in Whaling Building
DR. GERMAN
phone is THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Drug Store. Of
fice hoars 9 a. m. to 6 p. m., 7 to 9
p. m. Sunday by appointment.
All Work Guaranteed.
E. C. DALTON, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Phone'42
Alaska Avenue Valdez, Alaska
DONOHOE & DIMGND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
OScf Oppoalte Coart Houar
Phoae 34 VALDEZ. ALASKA
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LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Oflier* la Whaling Building
Phoae 101 VALDEZ. ALASKA
VALDEZ LODGE
NO 168
Free ud Accepted Hhou
Regular Communications first Wed
nesday In each month In McKinley
Hall. Visitors always welcome
A. a GRIGSBY. W. M.
BD. WOOD. Secretary.
Somebody
With Money
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 ma%^ with a
prospect, or business to the
man with the dollar.
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Merchandise
The best groceries received
on every boat.
Fresh vegetables, fruits, and
nuts.
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miners
ROBERT SHAFFER. Pr.ud.at,
Granite Mia.
CHAS. McCALLUM. Secretary.
Vaides, Alaska.
The Best Place in Valdez to
Stop at is the
Arctic Hotel
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When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
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STRICTLY FIR8T CLA8S
Fourth Ats, Seward, Alaska
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company
Office on Alaska Avenue, im
George C. Treat Building
Telephone No. 60- ‘
General Trucking and Freighting
to all Interior Points.
LIVERY and FEED STABLEL
STORAGE,
Teaming of All Kinds
Positively No Coal DelivajLd
less Paid for in Advance
. j _ '' ' ' $
, i OAPT. TIM MARCUM
;; Sails tor Port Wells, Portage ’
!i :
aes Dock Company'* Doek. 1*
' > Fop Lanaioek Bay. •
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I day, 9:00 a. m., from Val- ►
des Dock Company's Dock. 1 ■
Far Hales, Apply Birat.
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