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ly Miner, by carrier, .o one ad
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1016
WAGES.
Building trades and other skilled
mechanics of Anchorage are taking
the preliminary steps toward forming
organisations. The recent bids sub
mitted to the Alaskan Engineering
commission for the construction of
the new commissary building, which
ranged from $1200 to $4000, would
seem to suggest that it is about time
some such action was taken so that
responsible artisans and mechanics
would not be in direct competition
with less capable, less experienced
workers, in lines that require skill
and experience. The Pioneer believes
that good workmen are entitled to
good wages. It not only believes this,
hut practices what it preaches.—An
chorage Pioneer.
THK VALUE OF FRESH AIR.
The Department or Health of this
city in his latest weekly bulletin cites
cases that strikingly illustrate the
value of clean, fresh air, as a remedy
for patients for whom many forms
of treatment had failed and the only
resort seemed to be a surgical opera
tion. The lesson is too good to be
missed.
The patients were children who as
the result of constrittion of the larynx
and consequent difficulty of breath
ing following laryngeal dlptheria, had
been compelled to wear a tube in
their throats for from two to eight
years. Altogether 22 of these pttia
ble cases were in July of this year
sent to a farmhouse near Otisville,
N. Y. The hope wag not for their
cure or even relief but that on their
return they all would be so much
improved in general health that a sur
gical operation to relieve them per
manently might b j performed with
out risk.
To the surprise of everyone, at the
end of their first month’s stay in the
country, all but four of the chronic
“tube cases’’ could breathe freely
without their tubes, and more than
half of them had no trouble in respi
ration. That improvement has been
maintained and most of them wii not
have to be operated on. Fresh air
did it, “clean fresh air," with the
chance for the children to run arp. nd
and live close to Nature, the real re
storer, for the vis medicatrix na urea,
in spite of all progress, is still the
great healer.—New York Herald
KOHRBACH RECOVERING
FROM FROST BITES
E. Rohrbnch, the fisherman who
was brought to Valdez from Jack’s
Bay during the early part of the week
suffering from badly frosted hands,
is reported to be rapidly improving
and will suffer no permanent injur
ies from his terrible experience.
Rohrbach was engaged in fishing
in Sawmill bay when his boat was
frozen in during the cold weather
and he was compelled to live for sev
eral days on porcupines which he
managed to kill. After cutting his
boat free of the ice he attempted to
reach Valdez, but his engine refused
to work and he drifted across the
narrows near the mouth of Jack’s
bay, where his boat was smashed on
the rocks.
He was rescued by the launch
Why and was later brought to Val
dez on the Post launch Donaldson,
which had been sent down to inves
tigate the report that some one might
be in trouble as a boat had been seen
on the rocks.
Don’t Miss It
Don’t miss the fine arranged pro
gram at the Liberty theatre for Sun
day night. Five reeis of solid amuse
ment. Also a four piece Orchestra at
the Liberty Sunday night. No raise
in prices , only on 3 price 26 cents.
Prices never change at the Liberty.
THE EMPRESS
THE EMPRESS CIRCUIT PRESENTS
“Tilly’s Punctured Romance"
. Six-Reel Side-Splitting Comedy Feature
CHAS. CHAPLIN
MARIE DRESSLER
MABLE NORMAND
IN TWO HOURS of Laughs, Howls, Screams, Yells,
Guffaws, Chuckles and Roars.
A FINE PATHE NEWS WILL BE SHOWN FIRST
Only One Show—At 8:00 Each Evening
TO-NIGHT LAST TIME
NOTE—Owing to the extra expense to Produce this
big Comedy in Alaska we* are obliged to charge
ADULTS 50c. CHILDREN 25c
NEXT FEATURE--“MORE THAN QUEEN”-Mag
nificent production in natural colors.
Fin SEWARD'
IR RUSSIAN PORI
Will Be Converted Into Coal Burner
Before Leaving Japan with
Cargo for Puget Bound.
The freighter Seward, which was
chartered by the Alaska Steamship
company to Waterhouse & Co., of San
Francisco, to make a number of trips
between Seattle and Vladivostok car
rying munitions of war for the Rus
sian government, is reported to have
reached her destination. While Com
ing up the coast en route to Vladi
vostok the steamer encountered a
storm and was forced to put into La
touche for repairs.
After discharging her cargo the
Seward will visit a number of Japa
nese ports to secure a return cargo
for Puget Sound. When the steamer
left Seattle she was an oil burner, but
as she would be unable to secure fuel
oil in the Orient she carried her
steam-fitting equipment and will be
converted back to a coal burner be
fore leaving the. Orient.
ANCHORAGE MAN IS
TAKEN TO ASYLUM
Frank Schultz, of Anchorage, was
adjudged insane and has been taken
to the Morningside asylum. Altho
a strong, healthy man physically,
Schultz is laboring under the delu
sion that someone is trying to take
his life and at times becomes very vio
lent. It is believed that with proper
treatment the man may recover his
mental equilibrium.
SAYS GRAND JURY
MAY MEET AT SEWARD
The Seward Post states that Dis
trict Attorney Spence who visited
that town on the Admiral Evans will
urge Judge Fred M. Brown to call,
a grand jury to meet in Seward dur
ing the coming term of the district
court. The district attorney will con
fer with Judge Brown as soon as the
latter returns to Valdez as he thinks
Seward is a more suitable place for
the body to convene owing to the na
ture of the cases to come, before the
court.
TOM AITKEN MAKES
I A NEW DISCOVERY
DAWSON: Word has been receiv
ed from Mayo by mail and through
mushers who have just arrived rhat
Tom Aitken has struck a richer chute
of ore on the Silver King property
than any he had there heretofore,
and is making splendid progress get
ting out the ore.
Edward Weston Burne’l, who
mushed in this week from Mayo, and
got away yesterday for Ireland, to
enlist, said:
"The Aitken silver ore looks be*ter
than ever. Aitker. has fifteen men
working and they are taking out half
a load more a day than they had ex
pected to do. Twelve tons of the ore
are betgg shipped daily.
Aitken is one of the hardest work
ers in his camp. He gets right down
in the shaft with the boys and sets
the pace with a pick and goes like
a whirlwind.
"The ore is being hauled thirty
miles, to Mayo Lan <ing, for shipment
to the smelter by steamer when the
river open.”
WASHINGTON OBTAINS
THE RELEASE OF CONSULS
WASHINGTON: Through th • of
fices of the United States, the Ger
man, Austrian, Turkish and Bulga
rian Consuls at Saloniki, who nave
been held under arrest by the Allies,
are to be released.
The condition of release will be
that the Consuls shall not reruns?
their function in Saloniki, but must
return to their own countries. Ar
rangements already have been made
for the return of the Turkish Consul
via Switzerland, from which coi."try
he can find his '. ay home through
Germany and Austria.
As regards the British Vice Consul,
at .Sofia, who took refuge in the
'ooms of Charge Einstein, head of
'.he Legation, Mr. Einstein wai in
itructed several days ago by cable
to surrender the fugitive if Bulgaria
Insisted upon it.
Young Folks Matinee..
Manager Pinkus of the Empress
Theatre reports that the young peo
ple of Valdez have been Invited to be
the guests of . Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Di
mond at a matinee at the Empress
at 3 o’clock Sunday afternoon.
Settles In California.
Lucian Rhodes, who made a big
fortune in Fairbanks from his quartz
mine, has purchased a ranch near
Napa, Calif- and has settled down to
spend the balance of bis Ufe there.
“It’s a Long Way to Tipperary” I
rm bit -lrnrrrr i r • i—i-r~n—i n h i ———i___j ——i——
It’s Also a Long Time Until the Breakup.
A Sure Way To Keep Warm in the Meanwhile
Is To Call on Us.
We Can Supply You With
Comforters Filled With Wool or
Eiderdown.
Blankets All Sizes and Prices
Cole's Hoi Blast Heater Has no Equal |
S. BLUM & CO., I—
GOOD GOODS
MOOSE ARK PLENTIFUL,
ON KENAI PENINSDIjA
Dr. Baughman, the game warden
for the Seward district reports that
moose are more plentiful than ever
on the Kenai peninsula. He recently
returned to Seward from a trip over
his district and reported that all the
way from Cooper Creek to Kenai he
found hundreds of moose.
He reports that for some reason
many of the young moose are dying
and believes that fully twenty per
cent of the calves will be lost this
winter although the old moose are in
fair condition notwithstanding the
severe weather. In traveling one
mile the game warden found no Iosb
than seven carcasses of the young an
imals. The extreme cold weather is
believed to be the cause, or it might
be something poisonous which the
animals found to eat.
Weather Report.
Valdez, Feb. 11, 1916.
Barometric pressure .29.468
Temperature 7 p. m. 6
Maximum temperature .16
Minimum temperature . 4
Mean temperature . »■
Partly cloudy, light wind, north
east 10 miles.
Interior Weather.
Valdez, Alaska, Feb. 12, 1916.
Fairbanks, —2S; clear, calm
Salcha,—24, clear, calm.
Richardson, —28; clear, calm, j
McCarthy, —27; cloudy, calm.
Donnelly, —33; clear, calm, trail
good.
McCallum, —12; 46 inches snow;
cloudy, calm, trail good. ,
Paxson, —20; 34 inches of snow;
clear, calm, trail good.
Hogan, —20; 21 incheB of snow;
clear, calm, trail good.
Gulkana, —33; 21 Inches snow;
cloudy. Calm, trail good.
Copper Center, —37; 17 inches of
mow; clear, calm, trail good.
Ton8lna, —30; 18 inches snow;
clear, calm, trail drifted.
Teikhell, —20: 30 inches snow;
clear, calm, trail good.
Beaver Dam, —14; 42 inches of
mow; cloudy, windy, trafl fair.
Summit, —12; 60 inches snow;
cloudy, windy, trail fair.
Wortman’s, —2; 40 inches snow;
clear, calm, trail drifted.
BREMERTON GUNS GO
INTO PUGET SOUND
SEATTLE: Four eight-inch puns
were washed overboard while they
were on the way from Bremerton to
this city. They were to be sett to
Washington and had been loaded on
a barge which a tug was towing. It
is thought that they were loaded on
without having been properly bal
anced on the barge and that when a
heavy sea came they tipped the barge
10 much that they slipped off. The
3uns were valued at ninety-five thou
sand dollars, but It is believed that
hey will be recovered. One of them
weighed forty ton*.
Don’t Mi* It
t miss the fine arranged pro
gram at the Lioerty theatre for Sun
day night. Five r vjls of solid amuse
ment. Also a four piece orchestra at
the Liberty Sunday night. No raise
in prices only one price SB cents.
Prices never change at the Liberty.
JAPANESE PERISHED
FROM COED IN CABIN
Dispatches have been received by
the officials in Fairbanks, stating that
George Kaga, a Japanese, was found
in a cabin about thirty miles below
Fort Gibbon on the Yukon river,
frozen to death. The man had evi
dently been traveling and when
caught by the extreme cold weather
had sought shelter in the vacant cab
in, but being without an axe, had
been unable to keep himself from
freezing.
ON WAY TO STRIKE IN
COLD BAY DISTRICT
i -
E. H. Mitchell, mining man, who
has been on Montague island, n*id
Captain Charles Hanson of the launch
Success, arrived to,-ay at noon in the
launch. They will remain here this
week and will leave for Cold Bay,
where they will investigate the new
strike made there.-—Seward Po°'
SPECIAL ELECTION IN
FAIRBANKS ON MARCH 10
A petition has been presented to
the Fairbanks city council asking for
a special election to ratify the legis
lature’s act providing for the election
of municipal officials. The election
will be held on March 10.
Arcade Cafe
OPEN ALL NIGHT
Private Dining Room with Eh ctric
Heater.
BREAD KOR SALE
Jock Collin_» _Proprietor
DR. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate National Unirate*.
WaablDitoif D. C.
DENTIST
Fourteen Vwn in Valdez.
PHONE 110
Office Rooms in Whaling Building
DR. GERMAN
phonb is the dentist
Office rooms over Owl Drug Store. Of
fice hours 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
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DONOHOE & DIMGND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court House
Phone M _ VALORS. ALASKA
JOHN LYONS B. B. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORNEY S-AT-LAW
Offices In Whalluu Belldte*
Phone Ml VALORS. ALASKA
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miners
ROBERT SHAFFER. President,
Granite Mine.
CBAS. McCALLUM. Secretary.
Valdes. Alaska.
The Best Place in Valdes to
Stop at is the
ArcticHotel
Want. Ligkt Raaau—Tke Hsom if Caohn
RATES REASONABLE
BATH ROOM Special Ratal Bp tke Bast!
PHONE 133 MRS. SYRINC. Pup,
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING
McKinley Street. Valde* ^
ED. WOOD. Propn^o*
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company
Office on Alaska Avenue, m
George C. Treat Building
Telephone No. 60
General Trucking and Freighting:
to all Interior Points.
LIVERY and FEED STABJLHL
STORAGE,
Teaming of All Kinds
Positively No Coal Delivered Un
less Paid for in Advance
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 bus»> j
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.