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VALDRZ, ALASKA
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July 23. 1912. at the postoflice of Valdez,
Alaska, under act of March 3, 1879.
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MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 191V
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LITTLE COUNTRY SCHOOLHOUSE.
rpHE little country schoolhouse is
No palace architectural,
No principal with classic phiz
And brow so intellectual
Presides, the young idea to teach,
In manner grand and mystical.
There are no higher arts to reach.
No problems deep statistical.
"VTO, the little country schoolhouse sits
Where two roads come together;
Its walls have lots of holes and slits
That let in wintry weather.
. . The master is a homely man.
His hands are large and warty.
But he can spell like Webster can
And figure like all forty.
mHE little country schoolhouse stands
-*■ A thing illuminating:
Its scholars spread o'er many lands
And help in elevating.
It taught no Latin, taught no Greek,
But Its three It's proved a storehouse
When later for so much a week
You worked to dodge the poorhouse.
—Jacksonville Times-Cnlon.
TOO MUCH CIVILIZATION.
Following a big celebration of In
dians near Douglas which resulted in
several court cases, the following ap
peared in the Douglas Island News,
and includes comment on the Indian's
opinion of the white man as gathered
in by the Stroller.
"Ein gic turn lu icfu tre bif da ;ee
kuk hell up li ge bum oi dac yi klu gi
jum nut dre woe ipsu.” (One rene
gade white man can raise more hell
among my people in two hours than
a dozen missionaries cun stamp out
in a year.)
The foregoing is what the Stroller
heard one morning last week just as
he emerged from the police court j
where half a dozen or more Indians,;
both sexes represented, had been;
tried and convicted on the charge of j
drunkenness. The speaker, an In- i
dian who wears a full beard, is a fa- *
miliar figure on the streets of Doug- j
las. He is not given to much speech;
but on the occasion mentioned hc|
appeared to be so full of resentment i
and disgust with what he had just
witnessed in the court room that he
could not conceal his feelings. The
Stroller, seeing that the old man was
disposed to talk encouraged him and
the result was what follows. Luckily
the Stroller understands and trans
lates all Indian languages spoken
from Mary Island to Point Barrow,
either by way of the coast or the Yu
kon river. Of course, the old man,
who is now 114 years of age, spoke j
his tribal tongue which the Stroller!
recorded in short hand, a literal]
translation being as follows:
“Three score and ten snows have j
fell upon me since first mine eyes be-;
held a white man. I was then 14
years of age and wholly free from;
guile, although always possessed o!'
an observing nature. Since that tirm
1 have developed much time to the
study of the white man and his ways,
and I must say that he i« a curious
comoination. He mixes me, yea, he
perplexes me.
“One white man come along. He
.‘ay unless Indian forsake Ir.dian
ways and become like white man. In
dian bump up against eternal confla
gration. whatever that is. Another
white man come along and give In
dian bottle. Indian drink from be
lle, whoopee, ^0 to wigwam to lick
squaw and find white man there
ahead of him. Squaw go whoop-ee
too. Next morning heap big head,
mouth like dead dog salmon. Tnen
Indian taken to skookum house. Tyee
judge send him back ten days, *wo
weeks maybe longer. Then first man
come to see Indian in skookum house,
sing ‘Pull for Shore, Brother,’ when
no shore and no boat in sight In
dian goes home and is good till sec
ond white man come with more fire
water. Same thing happens. Indian
goes whoop-ee some more and goes
to skookum house.
"First white man come again and
tell Indian to sing ‘Happy Day.’ In
dian sing but he ain't happy. Before
white man come Indian all right at
four score snows. Now his stomach
is all shot to pieces and mothe-»ten
at thirty. White man smile at squaw
and squaw grin for a week and give
buck glassy stare. One white man
repairs Indian's soul, another gives
him dope that eats all the copper lin
ing off his stomach.
| “One tells him to raise his voice
| in prayer, the other gives him some
thing that makes him raise hell. One
Igjvcs him spiritual consolation the
other sells him liquid damnation
iCne teaches him to sing, ‘I Want to
;L5e an Angel and With the Angels
Stand.’ Other teaches him to sing
'Here's to the Good Old Stuff; Drink
er Down.’ White man too much for
me. Sorry I ever see him.”— Doug
las Island News.
I
HK WHAT YOt’ ARK.
| “I jes nacherly hate a man or a
{Woman who tries to be what they are
Jr.ot. I am not in favor of kowtowing
i to the man who rolls his eyes in hor
'ror wnen he hears an ejaculation
■which possesses a tincture of a bit of
; brimstone—yet always forgets hmi
iself when the hammer l)its his thumb.
|For the man who’ll stop and pat a dog
because some woman is looking at
| him but from whom his only family
j shrinks when he enters the yard I
have about as much respect as a flee
'has for a flag of freedom! Somehow
or other I ain’t particularly stuck on
a man who is too good too be true;
‘an’ I’ve always had a hunch that a
i woman who sDoke of a ‘table-lmib
would bear watching—if you wau
l'd to And out anything. I believe the
! Almighty is jes plum disgusted when
he sees some folks putting on so much
!dog that even a common mortal can
!see the fleas as they keep hikin’ righi
:er long! Yassum!”—Exchange.
i The combination of Seward’i two
I
ilive dailies is the logical conclusion of
ia bitter fight for existence which has
jbeen under way for the past eighteen
i months. For many years the Gate
way was Seward’s sole paper, and it
:covered the field fully and gave the
lesidents of that city a much better
'paper than they were entitled to.
With the coming of the railway boom
icame competition, and the Post en
tered the field. After a long struggle
to run each other out the managers
^of these papers have wisely come to
the conclusion that they are entitled
'to a remuneration for their invest
iment, and have combined. Seward
;ntay now look for a better paper and
more harmony.
WITH all this talk about peace be
lt ween the warring nations it is queer
[that none of them have realized that
!the quickest way to get it is to stop
fighting.
RECORD BEAR CAME
OVER ON S. S. DORA
j What is probably the skull of the
largest bear ever killed was brought
j down on the Dora this trip and H.
jW. McCracken, who killed the brute,
j is about to investigate with a view to
discovering if he is not the slayer of
the biggest bear in all records. He
shot the bear, one of the Kodiak
j brown species, at King Cove. It was
; though that the head measured twen
|ty-inches across but Bill De Witt
I stated that after more or less scien
Itiflc methods the skull is found to be
jc-nly something slightly over ninete n
[inches.
The largest skin ever Known to
have been secured was that which is
now exhibited by L. L. Bales at tlie
San Diego fair, but the skin secured
j by Mr. McCracken is larger. With
out being stretched in any manner
whatever the skin is over tweb'e feet
Charley Emsweiler says that for such
a head or skin as this there there is
la standing offer of a thousand dollars
| by something or other.
; Mr. McCracken had quite an expe
irience in the killing of the gigantic
j beast which charged after having re
ceived a few shots. The hunter was
I accompanied by a couple of natives
[and lie had Captain Madsen as guide.
I'.Vlun they* came upon the bear Mc
Cracken asked the natives and glide
not to shoot as he wanted to pot the
janimal himself unless it charged iml
j lie was in danger. After the first shot
ihe bear tried to make his getaway,
| but another bullet brough him back
up on a high bluff from which he
! looked down upon his pursuers. Mac
I then sent a bullet right into his
! breast and could hear the ball crash
ling through. That was enough. For
j ward dashed the bear toward the
shooters and other shots failed to
bring him down until he had covered
two thirds of the distance and was
only a few paces away. Then did
McCracken shout for his companions
to shoot, and the guns brought the
giant down pust in time.
“When I saw that bear fall,” says
Mr. McCracken, “I just sat down all
in a heap.”—Seward Gateway.
We sell marshmallows la hulk at
the Candy Kitchen. tf
Fresh Box candy at Hunt’s ©and*
Kitchen. A new line epeaet. tf
A TREE AND^A DISEASE*
Malaria and the Effect Produobd by
Planting a Blue Gum.
During tbe latter decades of tbe nine
teenth century it was a common prac
tice to plant blue gum or eucalyptus
trees in districts Infected by malarial
fever. It was held that tbe essential
oil produced by the leaves combated
the harmful vapors rising from the
swamps laden with the poison of the
disease. The discovery thnt the ma
larial germ is introduced into the blood
by a mosquito has settled once and for
all the origin of the disease.
The theory that the eucalyptus tree
neutralized the poison vapors is non
sense, yet tbe fact remains that where
I blue gums were freely planted there
! was always a notable decline In tbe
i amount or maiana.
What Is the explanation of this cur
curastanec? It has been demonstrated
| that, of nearly all trees, the eucalyptus
absorbs the greatest amount of water.
Two seedlings—a blue gum and a plum
— were placed with their roots in wa
ter. and the height of the wnter was
carefully marked. The plants were
kept in a warm atmosphere nnd ex
amined at the end of twenty-four
hours. The little eucalyptus bad dls
iwsed of four times the wnter that the
plum bad been able to take up.
Seeing that blue gums increase in
height with grent rapidity, often grow
ing many inches a day in a hot posi
tion, the amount of moisture taken up
increases on a greatly progressive
scale. And this is just what brings
about the downfall of the malarial
mosquito. To complete Its life cycle it
is necessary that this insect should
pass its larval stage in pools of water
With the coming of the eucalypti these
pools and indeed all marshy places dis
appear, the breeding spots of the mos
quitoes are gone, and in time the in
sects vanish altogether.
I
THE MIDDLE WEST.
Can Any One Really Tell Juet Where It
Is Located?
The east retains a somewhat eon
descending attitude toward the middle
west, and in its friendliest moments
speaks of the pluinsinen as “first rate
raw material,” as If the middle west
existed and had somehow a local habi- 1
tation and a name.
The middle west itself is by no means ;
so sure about that. Although the prai
ries begin at Batavia, N. Y., Buffalo
nians resent l>eing termed middle west
erners. Omaha 1 should describe as !
unquestionably middle western, yet \
there are middle westerners who repu
diate Nebraska and only tepidly ae
cept Kansas, while St. Louis and Knn
sus City belong to the middle west ae- >
cording to some authorities, to the 1
south according to others as vociferous, j
By general consent Minnesota belongs
to the northwest. However, if you go i
halfway from Portland, Me., to Port
land, Ore., all of Minnesota lies behind j
you. In Chicago they say: "Why. man, |
alive, there’s nothing western nbout us! i
This is the interior.” A dear soul in
Montana remarked to me: “How jolly I
to hear that you came from the east! |
I’m an easterner myself. I lived in i
Iowa.”
Where, then, is the middle west? In j
the words of the immortal Artemus, 1
answer, "Nowhere—nor anywheres I
else.”—Rollin Lynde Hartt in Century i
Magazine.
The Height of Trees.
When one is out for a walk it is a
very common thing to wish to know
the height of a particular tree which
happens to catch the eye. When the
sun Is shining it is possible accurately
to measure the height of the tree from
the shadow it casts on the ground. In
order to do so a stick must be set up
right in the ground so that its shadow
falls beside the shadow of the tree.
Then, as the length of the stick's shad
ow to the stick’s height, so is the
length of the tree’s shadow to the
tree's height. For example, suppose a
two and a half foot stick shows a
shadow three feet long and the tree’s
shadow is eighteen feet long. There
fore the tree is six times as high as
the stick, which shows that the height
of the tree will be fifteen feet.
He Was Short.
Early one evening a frail little girl
entered a candy store and asked for
a cake of chocolate. After she had
the candy she put four pennies on the
counter and started out.
The storekeeper, though averse tc
frightening the little thing, called aft
er her in a gentle voice:
“You’re a penny short.”
"No; you're a penny short.” she call
ed back as she disappeared.
Well Named.
“A wonderful man is my uncle," suid
little Itinks. “so very original and
witty."
He says he culled his dog “Sausage'
because it was half bread, bis goat
“Nearly" because it was “all butt” and
his prize cockerel “Robinson" because
It “Crusoe.”—Exchange.
A Sure Winner.
“I’ve been stuck at different times on
cotton, tobacco, oranges and corn.’
“Well?"
“Now I think I’ll invest in a coal
mine. That crop is never a failure, and
there’s always a demand for the out
put”—Kansas City Journal.
Bitter.
“Who is that foolish man that is in
love with you?"
“How do you know he is foolish?”
“He is in love with you.”—Houston
Post
Vessels large may venture more, but
tittle boats should keep near shore.
Kranklln.
Good
Goods
I
Phone 12
Moderate
Prices
Another Apple Sale
Special price $2.50 per box.
These are choice quality apples and our stock comprises the fol
lowing varieties:—STAYMAN, WINESAP, ROME BEAUTY,
DELICIOUS, SPITZENBERG and NEWTON PIPPIN.
In Fresh and Staple Vegetables and
Fruits We Offer:
HUBBARD SQUASH
< KLKRY
LKTTUCK
BKUSSK1, SPROUTS
(TCTMBKKS
< 'AULIFIjOWKR
PARSIiKY
PARSNIPS
BEETS
IllTABAGAS
CARROTS
CABBAGE
SWEET SPUDS
RHUBARB
ORANGES
RUSSET GRAPE KRUIV
We have some fine red Salmon Bellies.
S. BLUM & CO., Inc.
GOOD GOODS
LOCATED IN THE FORMER KING GROCERY BUILDING
VALDEZ CAFE
AND BAKERY
Fresh Broad and Pastry always on hand
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
BERGSTROM * ROGSTAD, Props.
PHONE 17 - Three doors helew Owl Dr«(
PRESIDENT SENDS GIFTS
TO TWO BRAVE MEN
■
' WASHINGTON, D. C.t Jan. 29.—
|As a reward for their rescue of the
[crew of the wrecked American
I schooner, Fairfield, President Wilson
^recognized the bravery of two Bar
jinuda citizens when he sent to each
ja pair of binoculars suitably iuscrib
jed.
The men, Henry Harris and Fred
erick Jeffrey, took from the Fair
i field Capt. M. G. Dow and his crew of
!seven when the vessels went on the
rocks off the island of Bermuda, Brit
ish West Indies, Nov. 17, 1916. The
[two men swam to the wreck with a
|line after every boat had given up the
attempt to rescue the crew.
I _ _
THE Ml'HHEK WHO BROUGHT
IN A GOIJJEN TREASURE
If the story of Bob Griffith, the
man who brought the half million of
gold from Iditarod, could be told as
it really is it would make a tale of
thrilling interest.
Bob came to Forty Mile, Alaska,
first in 1889. Before that he had
been driving stage in the Black Hills
and in other wild places. While en
gaged in that work he was held up
several times. Twenty-eight yeais
ago he hit out for the Alaska wilder
ness and got to Forty Mile. At that
time only fifty men were in that part
of the country and they were engag
ed rocking on the bars, making good
money. Only one steamboat plied on
the Yukon river and one season that
boat got on a bar down near the
mouth. Jack McQuesten who was
aboard sent Indian runners out across
country to inform the Forty Mile
miners and this Indian kept going till
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Do You Complain
of High Prices?
CRESCENT
BAKING
POWDER
It is a constant reminder to
the discerning housewife of a
staple food sold at a minimum
price. Crescent gives full ef
ficacy at lialf the cost of oth
ers. Countless families recog
nize this.
AT ALL GROCER8
25c lb.
CRESCENT MFG. CO.,
Seattle, Wash.
Candy Kitchen
f E. W. HUNT—la Owl Dn>f Store. i
(FOUNTAIN DRINKS \
hot--cold i
LOUIE’S CAFE j
f Everything First class |
| Open Day and Night |
t ANDY MAROV1CH, Prop. 4
ATLAS JUNK CO.
Wholesale and Retail Dealer* in
ALL KINDS OF JUNK
Buyers of Metal, Rubber, Ma
nila Rope, Sacks, Machinery,
Pipe, Hides, Furs and Bottles.
1043 Railroad Avenue, So.
SEATTLE, WASH.
he found another who took up the
running. The course of these run
ners was by the head of the Tanana
river but the news got to the white
men and they started down streai ’ to
'get provisions. This was called Star
vation year on the Forty Mile. In
1892 Mr. Griffith was sent for to
drive a tally-ho at the World’s Fair
in ('hicago and he left Morty Mile in
a polling boat for the great journey,
i He polled all the way up to Lake
• Linderman and went out over the
'Chilkoot Pass. At Five Finger Kap
! ids the boat was portaged over the
ibig bluff on the eft hand side of the
jiapids, going down. At Whitehorse
I rapids the boat was lined up cn the
;same side and portaged over the
famous canon. After the Fair Hon
again hit out for the Forty Mile and
Uvas there when the Klondike was
{struck. Today he has a store in the
■Tolstoi. A summer mail contract
l which he tills with his own boat for
!the Iditarod, and at the same time
I packs millions in dog teams over tin
trails. The number of miles traveled
\ by him over the Alaska trails would
' make a journey far greater than that
'around the world. When questioned
about the possibility of a holdup of
gold trains on the Alaska trails, like
those in the Black Hills rays, Bob
said: ‘‘They’d be crazy to try it."
i Have you tried our poker chip
candy and also our new line of chew
ing gum, Candy Kitchen tf
Rexall! Rexall! Investigate Rex
all products at the Owl Drug Store, tf
Why not a VICTRODA? We have
them from $15 up. Valdez Drug
Go. tf
PROFESSIONAL, CARDS.
DR. S. WICKES MERRITT
Offices over Valdes Drug Co.
Phone ’15 McKinley Street
Contract Surgeon. U. S. Army
A. A. Surgeon, U S. Public Health Serv
(Marine Hospital)
JOS. A. SILVERMAN, PH. 6. M. 0.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Over Owl Drug Co.
— OFFICE HOURS:
1 to 4 P. M. 7 to ,S I1. X
Sunday by Appointment.
Res. Phone 170 Office Phone It*
j DR. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate National University
Washington. D. C.
I DENTIST
Fourteen Years in Valdes.
PHONE 110
Office Rooms in Whaling Building
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Ollier Opposite Court House
Phone -14 VALDEZ. ALASKA
JOHN LYONS C. X KlTCHIM
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORNEY S-AT-LA W
Otters Is u tallif Bnlldlna
Phone 101 VALDEZ. ALASKA
ASA C. BALDWIN
CIVIL ENGINEER
U. S. Mineral Surveyor
McKinley Street opposite V. M. Store.
VaJdez, Alaska
VALDEZ LODGE
NO 168
Free and Accepted Maaoan
I
Regular Communications Orst Wed
nesday In each month In , McKinley
Hall. Visitors always welcome.
P. M. BROWN.. W. M.
ED WOOD, Secretary.
Valdez Miners Union No. 188'
Western Federation of Miner*
W. H. GARNER. President. ?
Granite Mina
CHAS. McCALLUM, Secretary.
Valdes Alaska. |
The Best Place m Valdez to
Stop at is the
Arctic Hotel
Want, Light Rooa»-The Haste of Comfort
RATES REASONABLE
BATH ROOM Special Ratet By the Monti
PHONE 133 MRS. STRING, Prop
NOTICE—Electrical beaters, cook
ers, percolators, vacuum-cleaners,
will be advanced in prices after New
years, by the manufacturers. Stock
on band will be sold at prevailing;
prices, at the Emporium.