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, VALDEZ, ALA8KA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1913. NO. 57.
VOL. 10. ___
soon DEBATE
HUM BILL
Railroad Measure Will be Talked
About Next Wednesday in Hall
of Congress.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—The real
debate on the Alaska railroad bill
will come up next Wednesday in the
tower House according to the present
plans of the administration leaders.
It is expected that a hot debate will
commence between the administra
tion leaders and the anti-government
ownership congressmen. Several
congressmen have expressed them
selves as desirous of having the coal
lands open and assert that the open
ing and development of the fuel fields
would result in private construction
and operation of the means of trans
portation.
James Wickersham, the delegate
from Alaska, will confine himself
largely to telling the solons why
means of transportation are needed
in Alaska and urge the extension of
the present lines as is provided in
his measure.
Nobel Prize for Elihu Root.
CHRISTIANA, Norway, Dec. 13.—
The trustees of the Nobel prize mon
ey have awarded Elihu ’Root, the
former American secretary of state,
the 1912 Nobel peace prize. The
prize is a cash grant of $20,000.
NATION WIDE
PROHIBITION
Is Demand of the Blue Ribbon Con
gress Now in Session in
Washington.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—Senator
Borah yesterday made the principal
address to the congress of delegates
from all parts of the states who are
heree to encourage and fight for na
tion-wide prohibition.
In his address the senator stated
that he believed that nation-wide pro
hibition was bound to come, but just
When he could not tell.
The congress passed a resolution
favoring the passing of an amend
ment to the constitution prohibiting
lhe manufacture and sale of alcoholic
liquors.
PUG WOULD GO
TO LEGISLATURE
CHICAGO, Dec. 13.—Packy McFar
land, the prize fighter, has announced
that he will be a candidate for the
legislature and will run for the lower
house. He claims he will be given
• he nomination and that thousands of
men who have cheered him in the
ring will vote for him to go to the
assembly and fight their battles in
... the state law-making body.
McFarland fought Harry Brewer at
Ontario, Canada, last Thanksgiving
day and licked him and claims he
will have no difficulty doing the same
to his Republican and Bull Moose
opposition.
Notice.
Stock certificates of the Valdez
Electric company are now ready and
subscribers for stock can secure their
certificates at the office _pr the com
pany in the rear of the Copper block.
‘The Delmonico restaurant open for
business at' 6 o’clock this eveiflhg. The
best place in Valdez to eat. Prices
reasonable. Everything open for in
spection at all times. Give us a trial.
Joe McCoy, proprietor.
HUERTA TOUCHES
ILLS FARGO EX.
Forces the Company to Make Him a
Loan of $800,000 With Which
to Pay His Soldiers.
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 13.—Provision
al President Huerta yesterday forced
the Wells-Fargo Express company of
ficials of this city to make the Mexi
can government a. loan of $800,000
with which the dictator will pay off
the soldiers in order that they remain
loyal to the present provisional ad
ministration.
The company has millions of dollars
worth of gold and silver bullion stor
ed in this city ready to ship to the
coast, the ingots being brought here
from many different mines and it is
stated that the dictator refused to
grant a safe conduct of the treasure
train from the capital to Vera Cruz
if the loan was not made, i
SOON VOTE ON
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I Administration Leaders Think Vote
j Will be Taken Next Wednesday
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—Bankers Still Kicking.
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j WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—Congres
I sional leaders today predicted that the
! Senate would vote on the currency
! bill on Dec. 17th. The opposition to
! the bill from the Republican and Dem
i ocratic members who oppose the
I Glass-Owen House bill, is slowly be
! ing overcome and the vote is expect
| ed next Wednesday.
Bankers all over the states still
| continue to oppose (he bill, claiming
1 that it will result in many national
| banks taking out state charters and
j surrendering their national charters.
Evasions and Anxieties.
*A controversy is apparently to rage
over the boy who the other day ran
away from home, promptly found em
ployment, and started in to earn the
independent living for which, he had
decided, the time had come in his
case. The father traced the wander
er,,brought him back to his distracted
mother, and, without punishing or ev
en criticising him severely, sent him
back to school.
j Some observers of this adventure
j see in it only the pain the boy caused
j to his parents, his inappreciation of
j educational advantages as the basis
| of a career; others commend his en
i terprise, his self-confidence—his "spir
! it.”
| Accurate determination of whether
I this boy should be praised or blamed
j would demand a fuller knowledge of
the facts than can be obtained from
the published accounts, but that boy,
it is fairly safe enough to say, has
some high qualities of character, and
what seems to be his chief fault, in
consideration, is probably of his age
rather than essential. He cannqt be
■ numbered of course, among the boys
i of whom. it is sai '• that "they never
! gave their mother a moment’s anx
! iety,” but that can be said of few boys,
Tperhaps of none, who in later life have
| proved that they Were worth rawing.
| Presumably there are no mothers
j who would riot,, If they could, protect
' their boys from all perils and tempta-'
j tions. Their Invariable failure to do
j so for boys mentally and physically
j active and competent is the inevitable
| and apparently necessary cause of
i ^atet^apiety. rift tiuj^tor is
i not Without Its adequate compensa
; tions when the perils are escaped and
ii the temptations overcome.
i The justification of the boy who
runs away from home lies in the use
he makes of his liberty and independ
ence;, Off-hand condemnation of him
is almost certain to be undeserved.
The Valdez Electric Co. sells Muzda
. l-.tmps. Telephone 57.
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BIG PULP MILL
FOR ILIIStt
Norwegians Plan Construction of $3,
000,000 Plant in Southeastern
Alaska.
Captain Otto Svredrup, J. Davidson
and H. I.andseth, recently left Juneau
for Norway, says the Smpire, where
they will confer with their financial
associates and await the action of the
federal government, to which appli
cation has been made for certain con
cessions looking toward the establish
ing in Southeastern Alaska, not far
from Juneau, of immense mills for the
manufacture of pulp, paper and lum
ber. The gentlemen accompanying
Captain Svredrup are expert foresters
and also authorities on the manufac
ture of paper and pulp. Capt. Svred
rup represents a syndicate composed
df capitalists of Norway that are will
ing to establish large paper pulp
and saw mills here providing the fed
eral government will permit the nat
ural resources of the country to be
used. The mills alone will cost be
tween two and three million dollars
at the start and will employ continu
ally over 1,000 men.
The establishing of this great in
dustry is predicated upon the possi
bility of receiving a concession either
patent, or untrammelled lease for a
long period, of sites on which to build
the mills, of sufficient water power
(estimated at 5,000 horse power) to
operate them; and of a tract of forest
that will supply the raw material.
One feature of the industry will be the
cultivation of the forest land over
which it has control in event the con
cessions are granted. The promoters
claim that they must have absolute
control of the forest tract to the end
that they can husband the forest that
may now exist and re-forest with
the kind of trees most suitable for
the product to be obtained.
Capt. Svredrup and associates made
a very careful study of the section
reaching from Ketchikan to Juneau
and beyond, and are satisfied that
the natural resources are here, the
climatic conditions are right and all
that stands in the way is the feder
al regulations as to use of these re
sources.
It will require something like one
hundred millions of feet of board
measure annually to supply the mills
that it is proposed to erect. This
does not mean that the tract must be
of great dimensions as no part of a
tree is lost in their system of work.
That part of a tree not suitable for
pulp is cut into lumber. All the sap
and slabs usually wasted by lumber
mills is made into pulp and a great
deal of the younger growth is used
in like manner. Most of the larger tim
ber here, the report says, is too old
to be used in pulp except the sap.
Part of it is .even too old to make
good lumber.
It is their plan, if given the tract
of forest ltmd desired, to commence
forest culture immediately, on the re
moval of the present growth and in
this way, as they proceed through the
tract, it will be growing up in new
timber ail the tune. For pulp and
paper trees not above forty years in
age are regarded as the best.
Under the present system of hand
ling the forest reserves the lumber
men usually go in and cut that which
can be most economically handled and
leave the land to take care of itself
and in this way, it is argued, the for
ests are gradually being depleted and
no practical efforts expended toward
renewal.
Whorf Contracts Soli .His Coal.
Eighteen thousand tons of coal to
| be. used annually by the Alaska Gas
! tineau Mining company from the Port
I Graham ^onal mines, has been con
tracted for by the company, accord
! lng to President Whorf, of the corn-!
Ipany, who,Is now In. Seattle. Whorf
! declares, coal vessels of large tonnage
| will be operated from Port Graham
: to Juneau'and that the- contract is
only preliminary to others until every
| port in Southeastern Alaska will 14*
| consumers of Alaska coal. He says
! shipments will start next February.—
j Juneau Dispatch.
FATHER DUNCAN
NOW'A HAS-BEEN
His Children, Whom He Educated,
Have Decreed That He Must Go
—Is Behind the Times.
Old Father Duncan, the “Apostle
of Alaska,” who for half a century
has ruled supreme among the Teimp
lean or Metlakahtla Indians, convert
ing them from heathens to Christians,
raised them from barbarians to a civ
ilized people; built them the largest
church in Alaska; taught them trades
and gave them a sawmill and a can
nery that they might successfully com
pete with the white man, is no long
er wanted by h s “children” says the
editor of the Petersburg Progressive.
Oblivious of the grow’th of the
Tsimpseans since 1887, wiien he mi
grated from Br'tish Columbia with
them to Annette !sland granted to him
for the purpose of founding the colony
of Metlakahtla, Father-Duncan, now’
eighty-three years old, still treats his
charges, some of them fifty and sixty
years old, as what he terms "hoddle
hoys, neither men nor boys,” and is
jealous of his power and suspicious of
any outside interference. Such is the
charge against him—that he is be
hind the times.
HERD OF REINDEER FOR
SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA
KETCHIKAN—W. T. Lopp, who
has had charge of the work of in
stalling the Indian school at Metla
kahtla, and whose duties are to look
after the education of Alaska natives,
is seriously contemplating the placing
of a herd of reindeer on Annette is
land. He spent the greater part of
last week in Metlakahtla, informing
himself as to the situation there, to
enable him to make intelligent report
for the considerat'on of the authori
ties st the national capital. While
there Prof. Lopp states that he in
vestigated the forage growth on the
island and found, what he calls, rein
deer moss in sufficient quantity to
justify the introduction of a herd to
Annette island: He states that the is
land will support a herd of 500, which
would permit the slaughter of about
20) head each > tar.
Congregational Church.
Services will be preached in the
Congregational church tomorrow at 11
a. m. and 7:30 p. m. by Rev. Chas. S.
Price.
At the evening service the solo "O,
Rest in the Lord,” will be rendered.
The young people’s service will be
held in the lecture room of the
church at 6:30 p. m. You are cordi
ally invited to attend these services.
Catholic Church.
Sunday services:
Confession and holy communion,
8:30 a. m.
Mass and sermon, 10:30 a. m.
Sunday school, 2:00 p. ill.
Rosary, instruction and benediction,
7:30 p. in.
FATHER VAN der POL.
Episcopal Church.
Services at the Church of the
Epiphany are:
Holy communion 8:30 a. m.
Morning prayer 11:00 a. m.
Sunday school 12:00 m.
Evening prayer and sermon 7:30 p.
m,
Pentecostal mission.
Regujar meetings: Sunday. 3
l». tu. and 7 :30 ,j». in., also Mon
day. Tuesday. Thursday and Fri
day at 7:30.
IiiOle study each Monday even
ing.
Y. M. C. A.
There wilt be a most Important
meeting of the members and . contrib
utors of the Y.. M. C. A. on Wednes
day evening, Dec. 17, at 7:30 o'clock
st the new Everyman's Clubhouse.
Notice.
r* No TndidS'1n*gto^»wflt be given at
Wtfftiikwin t?ld»W’ iatfe^lay'. ’ "*
fori. ;)' ■: 'ii1"1 1
Blum’s are showing a large line o.
cut glass for Xmas.
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Of Government Ownership and Oper
ation of Telephone and Tele
graph Lines.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13—President
Wilson has given his consent to the
plan of Postmaster General Burleson
that the administration urge con
gress to provide for government own
ership and operation of the telephone
and telegraph lines of the country.
The Postmaster General will discuss
the matter at length in his annual
report.
The president was at first loath to
grant his permission but has finally
consented. Some little friction exists
in the cabinet over the advisability at
this time urging government own
ership but it has been overcome by
the privilege of the president to the
head of the mail department to go
ahead.
Had Been Locked in Cabin by Par
ents, Who Were Attending
Church Services.
Two Indian children who had been
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locked in the house while their par
ents attended church services, were
burned to death recently at the In
! dian village of Hagwidget. near
| Prince Rupert. The house was coni
! pletely destroyed.
The church was just a few yards
off, and the parents felt secure. The
fire had made great headway when
discovered by an Indian from New
Hazelton. As soon as the alarm was
i given there was a general exodus
| from the church. As the Indians drew
| near the burning building they could
: hear the cries of the perishing chil
| dren. Two boys broke in the front
door, but as )t gave way the fire and
smoke burst forth, and an entrance
i to the building was impossible. Very
soon the roof collapsed and all hope
was abandoned. The village is not
provided with fire protection, and ev
en water is very scarce.
Notice of Special Election.
| Notice is hereby given that a special
; election for the purpose of electing
I a Treasurer of the Valdez School
; Board, to fill the vacancy caused by
; the removal of C. H. Wilcox from the
I City of Valdez, Alaska, will be held
! December 24, 1913, at the Fire Hall
in the Town of Valdez, Alaska. The
poles will be open at 9:00 o’clock a.
| m. and will close at 5:00 o'clock p
m. of said day.
: The following persons shall be qual
| ilied electors: All adults who are cit
! izens of the United States, or who
I have declared their intention to be
; come such, and who are residents of
' the Valdez school district.
Dated this 12th day of December,
i 1913.
A. VON GUNTHER,
C. E. BUNNELL,
| Members of Valdez School Board.
Weaher Report.
Dec. 12, 1913.
j Barometric Pressure ..29.485
I Temperature at'7 p. m.26
! Maximum Temperature .28
I Minimum Temperature .17
Mean Temperature .. ..22.5
Precipitation .... 7;- .33
Cloudy, calm, wind S. W. two miles.
Snowed from: 10:45 u. m. to 7 p. m.
• L. JONES.
Removal Sale
Removal . gale—City Express store
M removing to Adler’s old stand. Will
•W*Wlbt'Jibur ownfprlcbs tin. order to
| move quickly. Come at once and pick
1 out the bargains. Lynch & Spenurd
ISEATTLE PLANS
BIG CELEBRATION
No P'.tlatch in 1915, But Great Aquat
ic Celebration in Honor Comple
tion Washington Canal.
SEATTLE. Dec. 13.—The Seattle
merchants have decided to eliminate
the Potlatch in 1915 and in its place
to have an aquatic celebration that
year in honor of the completion of
the government canal from Elliott bay
to Lake Washington. It is planned
to have the largest celebration ever
given in this city and to have the en
tire Panama fleet of warships come
to this city. More than one hundred
battleships of the highest type are ex
pected to pass through the canal dur
j ing the Panama celebration and if
! they can be induced to come to his
city a great time is in store for them.
Committees have been appointed to
; secure promises and pledges for funds
| with which to carry on the arrange
i ments for the celebration.
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A Bad Nose Prevents Fight.
SAN FRANCISCO, .Dec. 13—The
tight scheduled between Ritchie and
Harlem Tommy Murphy for the cham
pionship of the world has been can
celled because of the operation upon
Ritchie’s nose, which will keep him
out of the ring for many yeeks, if
not months.
I STATE RIGHTS
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| Padgett Law Passes House Allowing
Navy Department to Impress
State Sailors.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—The low
er House yesterday passed the Pad
gett bill, which provides that the
government may call upon all mem
| bers of state naval organizations to
j serve in the navy during time of war
; or threatened war.
The Padgett law is similar to the
law governing state militia organiza
tions and the government aids to a
great extent in equipping and outfit
ting the state militia and naval re
serves and may call upon them in
time of need. Na<at officers are on
assignments with state organizations
to teach them how to manouver and
operate ships.
PRESS COMING
ALOI1G_SLOWLY
The Prospector received a small
amount of press today via Skagway,
Whitehorse and Dawson, but we have
not received as yet any news of the
sailing of the steamer Alameda from
Seattle or the list of the northbound
passengers. The boat was scheduled
to leave the Spirit City Dec. 10th and
will be the last boat to reach here
before Christmas, excepting he Jean
ie, which, however, will not have
mall if she lea ves on schedule, which
is Dec. 10th also, the same day as
the Alameda was billed to depart.
WEATHER RECORD.
Friday, December 12, 1913.
Taken at 8:00 a. m. Snow Is given
as depth on level, in inches.
Locations— Temp. Snow
Wortmans, calm :. 25 36
"summit, light wind .,-zero 72
j Beaver Dam, cloudy, calm 20 26
; Teikhell, closed temporarily
Tonsina, cloudy, calm. 10 17
Copper Center, clear, calm 8
Uulkana, clear, calm. 5 8
Hogans, dear, calm. 14
Paxsons, cloudy, calm. 18 29