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Doughnuts what am—Cakes ana Cookies.
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THANKSGIVING FEATURE
AT EMPRESS THEATRE.
Daniel Frohman presents factors
of excellence In the "Scales of Jus
tice” the live-part adaption by the
Famous Players of the story of John
Reinhart, which will be shown at the
Empress theatre as the Thanksgiving
feature, on Thursday, Friday and
Saturday evenings.
Paul McAllister in the role of Rob
ert Darrow, the district attorney who
resigns rather than prosecute the
woman he loves and believes innocent
is featured. The lawyer he gives us
is something of a dreamer and whose
course is determined by an active
conscience.
Mark Price, who interprets the
part of the stern old grandfather,
gives a strong performance. Other
players in the &ast are Hal Clarendon,
Katherine Lee, the six->year-old ar
tist whagi^ talent has astonished the
world, Daniel Jarrett, and “Jane
Fearnley,” wjjo. has the part of the
unhappy heroine whose unhappy
marriage is quickly shown in the
early part of the story.
With its good cast, good story, 200
superb scenes, and carefully planned
interiors, "The Scales of Justice” will
furnish excellent entertainment for
patrons of the Empress for Thanks
giving.
RUCK 18 PASSED TO
DEMOCRATS OF ALASKA.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Nov. 23.—
It has been brought to the attention
of the administration here more than
once that there are still six presiden
tial positions in Alaska filled by Re
publicans which belong to the demo
crats.
These are at Juneau. Cordova,
Nome, Seward, Skagway and Val
tlez.
President Wilson has consistently
refused to interfere with these, but
owing to continued agitation for the
replacing of Republicans with Demo
crats in Alaska, a statement has been
made that these offices will be filled
with Democrats whenever the Demo
crats can agree among themselves
over the appointments.
It is a well-known fact here that
there has been a fight made upon ev
ery candidate named for positions in
Alaskdl under the present administra
tion. Owing to the lack of harmony
over nominees for public offlcp it has
been difficult for the people here with
the'' best interests of the party at
heart, to decide in favor qt the names
mentioned for fear of still further en
gendering factional feeling.
Call for Warrants.
Valdez, Alaska, Nov. 24, 1916.
Notice is hereby given that I will
pay city warrants, beginning at war
rant No, 4998 up to and including
warrant No. 4988.
E. Q. AMES,
2t _. Town Treasurer.
SPECIAL TONIGHT AT
THE LIBERTY THEATRE.
The following five reels of film
will be shown at the Liberty Theatre
tonight: '
1—The Miner’s Baby—A story
that picture’s the prospector’s life
and hardships he endures.
2 and 3—Harvest of Flames—A
fire scene that cannot be surpassed in
moving pictures. A fine two-reel
drama of merit.
4. —An Actor’s Christmas—Feat
uring that well-known actor, King
Baggott, who in this picture portrays
the part of the actor; in this picture
King Baggot is at his best.
5. The Cure that Failed—A^high
class comedy that will make the
laughs come.
Don’t fail to see the Liberty Thea
tre. The home of good pictures.
Two shows. *
Ed. Baks has gone to Fidalgo bay,
where he will be employed in McIn
tosh’s mine.
A party of miners left Valdez yes
terday morning for Minerai creek to
investigate how W. L. Smith of the
Mountain King Mining company is
faring, as his protracted absence
from town is causing uneasiness
among his friends who fear that he
may be in need of assistance.
Weather Report.
Valdez, Nov. 23, 1916.
Barometric pressure .29.116
Temperature 7 p. m.16
Maximum temperature . 29
Minimum temperature .15
Mean temperature .22
Clear, gentle wind, northeast 15
miles
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Interior Weather.
Valdez, Alaska, Nov. 24, 1916.
Fairbanks, 3 below, 5 inches snow;
clear, calm.
Salcha, 8 below; 12 inches snow;
clear, calm, trail good.
Richardson, 12 below, 10 inches of
snow; clear, calm, trail good.
McCarthy, 14 below, 11 inches of
snow; clear, calm, trail good.
Donnelly, zero, 14 Inches of snow;
cloudy, calm, trail good.
McCallum, 16 below, 36 inches of
snow; cloudy, calm, trail good.
Paxson, zero, 30 inches snow;
cloudy, calm, trbil fair.
Hogan, 5 above, 19 inches snow;
cloudy, calm, trail fair.
Gulkana, 7 below, 13 inches of
snow; snowing, calm, trail good.
Copper Center, 20 below, 21 Inches
of snow; cloudy, calm, trail good
Tongina. 11 below, 13 inches of
snow;, cloudy, calm,, trail fair.
Telkhell, 16 below, 20 inches of
snow; cloudy, calm, trail good.
Beaver Dam, 3 above, 33 Inches of
snow; snowing, calm, trail good.
Summit, 6 above, 60 inches snow;
dpudy, calm, trail closed.
Wortman's, 14 above, 14 inches of
snow; cloudy, calm, trail fair.
Port Gibbon, 12 below
Nulato, 2 2^ below.
BIDDER’S CAREER
VINDICATED AMERICA.
Chicago Herald: The career of the
late Herman Bidder, editor of the
New York Staats Zeitung, is another
striking vindication of America as a
land of opportunity. It shows what
this country has to offer and freely
offers to the poor boy of foreign
birth or parentage who 1* willing to
do his share. It is a typical Ameri
can career instead of being, as it
must perforce be in the older coun
tries, the striking exception.
Fate did not seem to smile on the
boy who went to work at 11 years
of age as an errand boy in a bat
store. But fate was kinder than she
seemed. After working in various
capacities, in a Wall Street broker’s
office, in an insurance office and as a
fire insurance agent, the young man
finally found his real calling in jour
nalism. At the age of 27 he estab
lished the first Roman Catholls news
paper in New York City in German.
Later he became manager and treas
urer of the Staats Zeitung and still
later head of the publishing company.
What Herman Rldder achieved in
his life of sixty-five years as an Amer
ican citizen is in a general way what
thousands and thousands of other
boys of foreign birth or parentage
have achieved and are still achieving
in this land of opportunity. To the
intelligent boy, no matter what na
tionality originally, this country still
offers rich compensation for every ef
fort and for every service. What
ever backward look those who have
achieved or are achieving happen to
cast to other shores, they assuredly
do not cast it with any idea of finding
a parallel to the opportunity which
are spread out in this country.
EXMINATIONB IN JUNEAU
bX)R CIVIL SERVICE.
The United States Civil Service
Commission announces an open com
petitive examination for surveyor for
men only on December 8 and 9, 1916,
at Juneau, Alaska. From the regis
ter of eligibles resulting from this
examination certification will be
made to fill vacancies in positions of
United States surveyor and transit
men in the General Land Office, and
vacancies as they may occur in posi
tions in any branch of the service re
quiring similaV qualifications, unless
it Is found to be in the interest of the
service to fill any vacancy by rein
statement, transfer or promition.
The department states that the en
trance salary for transitmen ranges
from $100 to $110 a month, and sub
sistence while engaged upon field
work, and for United States surveyor
from $125 to $150 a month, and sub
sistence while engaged upon field
work. The appointees are allowed
traveling expenses to and from the
field from their homes, or from head
quarters in each surveying district,
provided the appointees reside a reas
onable distance from the field. Pro
motions are made after satisfactory
service. In the Southern States em
ployment is usually continuous, while
in the Northern States persons are
frequently furloughed when condi
tions require a stoppage of work, and
may be re-employed the next spring
immediately and without further ex
amination.
Library Closed Tomorrow.
Tomorrow being a public holiday,
the Valdez Public Library will be
closed all day, but the Reading room
will be open to the public. Friday
the library will again be open at the
usual hour.
Notice to Masons.
Special Masonic meeting at 8:00
o’clock p. m., November 24, third de
gree.
ED. WOOD, Secy.
Miss Anderson went to Ellamar
this morning on the Shamrock.
What, in all Alaska can you get to
send to your friends in the States bet
ter than a few nice views of Alaska?
There is not a soul living in any
country that is not interested in Alas
ka. Not a soul that does not appre
ciate pictures of Alaska. A view of
the last frontier on earth, that costs
you ten cents now, or as much more
as you like, cannot be bought of your
friends to whom you send it for ten
dollars, years from now. What other
one thing is surer to increase in val
ue with time than views? And you
can make your present just as much
or Just as little as you like. Remem
ber, however, that it takes a little
time to make them. R. S. Hunt. tf
NOTICE.
The Liberty theatre announces
that starting on December first and
ending op the evening of December
23rd, tiokets will be given to every
patron of the theatre entitling them
to a chance on a 36-pound turkey
first prise, and 16-pou,nd second
prize. Both turkeys will be live oneB.
Drawing will take placp Ip the Lib
erty theatre, December 23, 1916. Vis
it the Liberty, the home of good pic
tures, and save your coupons, tf
Language is supposed to be the
vehicle of thought, but too many
times it's an empty vehicle.
DUST CLOUDS OF ALASKA.
Volcano Ache* Make the Hillo Appear
to Bo 8now Clad.
As we approached Kodiak strange
dark clouds were seen obscuring the
horizon at several points, one of which
Kras so heavy and black that It resem
bled smoke from a great forest fire.
Captain Jensen startled us by explain
ing that this was dust blown by the
stiff breezes from the lofty bills all
about us. These bills seemed covered
with snow, but the whitish deposit
proved to be ashes rained down sev
eral feet deep upon all this section dur
ing the eruption of Mount Katmai In
June, 1912. Katmai is still smoking.
The sun looked like a dull silver dol
lar as it shone through the ashy mist
The dust cloud was so thick that it
held our steamer up for four hours
until the way was clear. Passing your
band over the rail of the boat, you
found your fingers streaked with the
Impalpable gray powder. When we
landed at Kadiak we found piles of
soft gray ashes and large and small
pieces of light friable stone, like pum
ice stone, which had been thrown out
by the volcano. The-explosion of the
volcano was beard at Valdez. 490 miles
away from Kadiak, and sjunded like
a cannonading. It was followed by a
deposit of fine ashes in Valdez.
In Kodiak the ashes covered every
thing. They half buried Colonel Blod
gett’s big cannery on the dock and put
him temporarily out of business. They
completely filled up a pond four feet
deep which had been the skating re
sort for many years of the children of
Kodiak.—John A. Sleicber in Leslie’s.
CORE OF THE EARTH.
Its Form ■ Mystery, but the Globe, as a
Whole, Is as Rigid as Steel.
The theory that the crust of the earth
Is only a few miles in thickness and
rests upon an intensely heated molten
interior is no longer tenable. It is now
known tnat the earth, as a wnole. pos
sesses a high degree of effective rigid
ity. as great as if it were composed
throughout of steel, it is no doubt
true that the interior of the earth is in
an intensely heated condition und that
it appears to possess some of the qual
ities of a fluid. At the same time It
behaves in many respects as a solid.
Professor Milne concludes from the
velocities of seismic waves at different
depths that the materials and general
characters of the crust of the earth
that are found at the surface may ex
tend to a depth of about thirty miles,
but beyond that the material seems to
merge into a fairly homogeneous till
clous. This state probably extends to
a depth of six-tenths of the radius, but
the remaining four-tenths form a core
Which differs in its physical and possi
bly its chemical constitution from the
outer portion. What the state of this
nucleus Is must be a matter largely of
conjecture until we have a fuller
knowledge of the state of matter when
subjected to the vast pressure such as
exists within the earth s interior
Additional evidence that the earth, as
a whole, is at least as rigid as steel is
furnished by a study of tidal phenome
na and also by the variation of latitude
-St. Louis Post Dispatch.
Squaring the Circle.
The origin of the problem squaring
the circle is almost lost in the mists of
antiquity, but there is a record or an
attempted quadrature in Egypt 5IHI
years before the exodus of the .lews
There is also a claim, according to
Hone, that the problem was solved by
a discovery of Hippocrates, the geoni
etrician of Chios— not the physician
500 B. C. Now. the efforts of Hippoc
rates were devoted toward converting
a circle into a crescent, because lie had
found that the area of a figure pro
duced by drawing two perpendicular
radiuses in a circle is exactly equal tu
the triangle formed by the line o. June
tion. This is the famous theorem of
the "lunes of Hippocrates" and is. like
glauher salt out of the philosopher's
stone, an example of the useful results
which sometimes follow a search for
the unattainable.
A Bearded Freak.
One of the earliest of the American
bearded freaks was Louis Jasper, wlm
lived iu southern Virginia at about
the time of ttie close of the Revolution
ary war. His heard was nine and a
half feet long and correspondingly
thick and heavy. He could take bis
mustache between his fingers and ex
tend his arms to their full leugtU. ami
still the ends of the mustache were
over u foot beyond bis Unger tips.
Appealed to Him.
"I liked the rotunda of the eapitol at
Washington." said the fat man
“As to why in particular?"
"It was several hundred feet In di
ameter. one of the few apartments I
was ever in where i didn't feel that I
was taking up too much room.”—Louis
ville Courier-Journal.
Barbados.
Agriculture Is the chief pursuit In
Barbados, and without doubt the island
Is the most intensely cultivated spot in
the West ludtes. Sugar is the ehlet
crop and has been from time luimemo
rial: tobacco la grown slightly, fruit
hardly at all.
Severs Critics.
Alice—I like Tom immensely, and
he’s very much the gentleman, but be
dbea like to talk about himself!
Grace—Tea. detar. your knight hath
a thousand I’#.—Boston Journal.
The Result.
“His wife made him ”
“She did, and yben she tried him
on the community »be found b# ««
a misfit"—Baltimore American.
CITY EXPRESS
MEETS ALL BOATS AND NEVER MISSES A TRAIN
Auto for Hlr e Day or Night.
Buy and Sell Anything.
Phone 82 J. A. SPENARD, Prop.
Jas. E. Wilson, Freighter
Large or Small Deliveries Made
To Any Part of the Country.
PROMPT SERVICE GUARANTEED VALDEZ, ALASKA
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
,< « Beat at Meela^-Prlcea Reasonable
GENERAL. STORE. • TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chitina.
General Freighting. KNUTE NAFSTED. Mgr.
MERCHANT’S CAFE
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone 63 Chas. Fischer, Propr.
VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Real Estate, Insurance, General Brokerage
Absentees Business Properly Handled
Treat Building, Alaska Ave. Telephone No. 60
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
PM WRING, STEAM AND HOT WATER HEATING.
Sheet Metal Work, Mine Air Pipe, Pit e and Fittings, Valves, Etc.
Motor Boat Supplies, Paints and Oils.
Located on Valdez Dock, Opposite Prospector Office. Phone
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
| PUGET SCUNH PUGET SOUND
I California Alaska
| ALASKA
| Steamers gall from Seattle at 9 P. M. on
5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH
' Steamer Snillnic IStli <'fi I lx Ill:ininn nml Koillak—All Sulllnt; call at Kntk
| nml Ancliomitc.
CALIFORNIA
5 Seattle to Saw l^ranelaeo every Wednesday anil Sutidiky* i*oni»eetlng with
5 Stenmei'M Tale and Harvard lor Southern California.
5 Kinht reserved to change schedule without notice
J fllCIIAItl) .». ltl\(2\V001), M«r.. Seattle! V AI.IIIJ/. DUCK CO., Loeal A*t.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
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• S. S. lV'arifcse, S. S. Alentda arc S. S. North Vvfcsterti
Z sail ficir> Seattle the €th, 12th, l£th,24th ar.d 3Cth
EVERY MONTH
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! Frcin Valdez *cuih-7th, 13lh, l£th, 2Elh ard 21th ter Cor
dova, Skagway, Juneau, Wrangall, Ketchikan and Seattle.
i Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Sheep
Creek, Treadwell, Douglas, Skauway. Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez and La
touche Explosives, S. S. Seward, on the 5'h; Latouehe, on the 15th; S. S.
1 Cordova. 25th of each month—right reserved to change this schedule
without notice.
i p. n. TltACY, tien’l Agent VALDEZ DOCK CO., Local Agent.
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When You Leave
For the Outside
take the
“MILWAUKEE”
One road*—one manage ment—cne service all the way
through to Chicago. It’s the Short Line to the East
' over
THE NEW STEEL TRAIL
For information and literature write or ask
J. C. MARTIN, Agent, Valdex, Alaska.
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST, PAUL RY.
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A. E. HARRIS, Freight apd Passenger Agt,
t Juneau, Alaska.