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PUBLISHED BT
EWART * SELBY, Proprtaton
VALDHE, ALASKA
>ubllshed Dally Except Sunday
itered as Second-Class Mall Matter,
23, 1912. at the postofflce of Valdes,
iha, under act of March 3, 1879.
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i Daily Prospector and Weekly
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mall, per annum ..* 8.®®
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y Miner, by carrier, to one ad
ress, per month .-.• l-K
TEL. 152
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1S»17
TROUBLE THAT NEVER CAME.
OH, I worry over this thing and I
worry over that,
But 1 notice when the atmos
phere has cleared
That tha bad luck 1 had looked
for didn’t come and knock me
flat.
And I didn’t have the trouble that I
feared.
>h, I like to start the morning with an
apprehensive sigh.
For I find a bit of worry to my taste,
lut I cannot help a-thlnklng as the years
go speeding by
That an awful lot of worry goes to
waste.
—Pittsburgh Post.
AMERICAN REGIMENTS ABROAD
The sending abroad of an American
!irmy is a matter about which the de
cision cannot be made offband, says
the New Republic. If we place an
army in France it may mean that we
are to take part in the territorial ad
justments of Europe. It is doubtful
whether Europe wishes us to take any
part. The guiding principle here was
down to the President's address to
the Senate. We are not anxious to
■share in the settlement of Europ'.
but we are deeply concerned in th>
.kind of settlement which is made. If
it contains the seeds of another wai
we want no part in it; but we want
our influence ty count against sowing
the seeds of another war. Therefore
if the allies wish us to put an army
>n the field we can do so only wliei
they have defined their terms so spe
cifically that we are assured of a just
settlement.
This does not mean that we would
! not allow Americans to fight with the
allied armies. It would probably be
feasible if the war is prolonged to
send volunteers to France, have them
! trained there as American units and
allow them to be embodied in the
French or British army. We should
want no independent American com
manders. These would merely be
American regiments to testify to our
friendship without involving us as a
□ ation in the detailed diplomacy of
Europe.
WHY NOT IN VALDEZ.
The health authorities at Seward
have adopted stringent regulations to
prevent the outbreak and spread of
the measles in that community, or
elsewhere from cases originating
there. Measles are prevalent in al
most every town in Alaska, and the
action of the authorities at Seward
are highly commendable, and their
example should be immediately fol
lowed in Valdez. The regulations
acfc>pted at Seward are embraced in
the following notice published in the
Gateway and posted about the city:
MEASLES.
Head and observe regulations.
This disease is infectious and con
tagious.
Develops twelve days after expo
sure.
The first symptoms are watering of
the eyes and running of nose.
Measles are often followed by im
paired sight—discharge from the ears
and impaired hearing—the lungs are
weakened for six months and pneu
monia is common, also consumption
is easily caught after measles have
weakened the lungs.
The quarantine period is four
weeks from the onset. After the first
two weeks, on the advice of the phy
sician, a child may be allowed on the
streets; but only In the care ot the
parent or guardian. Children with
out a health certificate must not be
on the streets.
The school is closed until the quar
antine is raised. No children will be
allowed in the picture show without a
health certificate. No Sunday School
is permitted until the quarantine is
raised.
Parents and nurses will not be pre
vented from attending to their usual
business vocations, but should not
come directly in contact with those
who have not had the measles.
Remember your carelessness may
cause someone to be dangerously ill.
If everyone will aid in stamping
out this affection a few weeks will
find the disease removed from the
city.
Before leaving town a health cer
tificate must be had from the Acting
Assistant Surgeon Dr. J. M. Sloan—
This to apply to all children.
Keep your children from assem
blages and from playing with those
exposed or recovering.
A mildly infectious skin disease
now found among a few children must
be cured before such child will be ad
mitted to school when school reopens.
Attend to this now.
A TERRITORIAL GUARD.
The appropriation of $10,000 by
the Territorial Senate yesterday for
the purpose of establishing a National
Guard in the Territory, will meet with
the approbation of most of the elec
tors. A National Guard is not purely
ornamental or to look military in
Fourth of July parades and public
functions. Its purpose primarily is
to safeguard the Territory and do
work otherwise performed by the U.
S. army.* Next to the regular army
and the marines it is the greatest ex
ponent for law and Americanism. It
would be an honor to any man, young
or old to serve in the Territorial
Guard, as it will be an organization
on a par With the Northwest Mounted
Police, the Texas Rangers, and other
kindred frontier organizations. Nec
essarily it will be composed of physi
cally perfect men; and we believ- an
Alaskan who quaiines ior military
service to be one of the most perfect
of perfect men. The life they lead
tends to this perfection. The air, the
water, the environment, all bring out
a higher type of manhood than does
the effete East.
To enlist in the Territorial Guard
would be an honor for these reasons,
aside from the personal pride th'*
conies to the wearer of Uncle Sa".
uniform. A Territorial Guard would
rank alongside the New Zealanders,
the Canadians’and the Australians,—
and they are the highest types of mil
itary efficiency yet developed in the
great European war.
There are many men in Valdez who
have worn the country's uniform and
who are thoroughly familiar with mil
itary regulations and the manual of
arms. Many of them have been under
fire in the Philippines and in Cuba,
whilst others have served in armies
beyond the sea. All are fine men,
physically fit to undergo the most rig
id examination for efficiency; and in
case they were any weaklings among
them they could teach others to use
arms.
Plans will be perfected within a
few days for the organization of a
company of the Territorial Guard in
Valdez, and it is to be hoped that the
call to the colors will find no slackers.
It is the privilege of every man to
work for peace so long as there are
any hopes of securing it; but it is
also his duty to stand by his Country,
his Flag and his President when his
help is needed.
Many people think they are patriot
ic; others talk like patriots, but the
real patriot is the man who responds
cheerfully to his country’s call.
i __
IT IS the duty of every man to
keep his mouth shut, his head cool
and wait until he is called upon; then
step forward cheerfully.
IT SEEMS unlikely that Roosevelt
i is organizing a large army to take to
I Europe to fight Germany. If he is,
Bryan would have found it out early
in the game and been on the platform
trying to talk the plan to death.
SEWARD lias a Charles Crawford
for councilman and Juneau has an E.
Erickson; but we’ll gamble they are
neither one as good as our home prod
uct.
Guild Notice
The Woman’s Guild will postpone
their meeting on Thursday afternoo i
because Of the funeral of L. Graham.
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| STEAM HEAT NEWLY FURNISHED
SEATTLE HOTEL
MRS. E. MILL, Propr.
VALDEZ ALASKA
TURKISH GUNNERS HURL
SHELLS AT FRIGHTENED MEN
LONDON, April 4.—The British
•‘official eyewitness” with the British
forces in Mespotamia writes:
"Turkish gunners turned their
weapons upon their own infantry in
an effort to prevent surrender en
masse during the British offensive in
the middle of February, which re
sulted in clearing the Turks from the
Dahra loop of the Tigris. More than
2,000 Turks surrendered in a drive
which began early in the morning. ;
“After a bombardment our infan
try swept across the open in irresist
able waves and with few casualties.
"As we approached the enemy's
trench a group of Turks issued from
the center of the position and gave
themselves up. The first surrender
was infectious and was repeated all
along the line.
"Prisoners came forward in a
stream, waving white rags. For nearly
an hour the procession was continu
ous. The Turks turned their guns on
them, but with little effect.
“In the afternoon we drove in
another atack on the right flank of
the position we had taken. The enemy
garrison here had witnessed the morn
ing surrender and the issue was the
same.
"As our infantry advanced the
Turks threw down their rifles and
broke out of the trenches, an unarm
ed horde. The stream of prisoners who
came out to meet the regiment at
tacking them almost outnumbered
them.
“Our troops walked through them
as they doubled past, running the
guantlet of their own guns. As they
passed our trenches they were a most
pacific looking crew and kept up their
white flags flapping until they were
out of sight.”
NKW SCALE OK WAGES
ON GOVERNMENT RAILWAY
To meet the increased cost of liv
ing the Alaskan Engineering Commis
sion has established the highest wage
scale ever paid in the history of rail
roading.
To enable the commission mess to
operate without loss, the price of
board has been increased to $1.25
per day.
Hour basis to be eight hours a day.
All common labor under the new
schedule will be paid fifty cents an
hour.
Spikers, strappers and other track
men lifty-three and one-eighth cents.
Derrick and piledriver men. fire
men. blacksmiths, carpenters and ma
chinists hc’-rrs. and similar work
sixty cents.
Powder men and macnine uriuers
sixty-five cents; linemen, longshore
men and pipe-fitters seventy cents;
electricians, blacksmiths and carpen
ters seventy-five cents. Same class,
“special” (high- class workmen),
eighty-five cents; plumbers, ship car
penters and steam fitters eighty cents.
Rates for men on a monthly basis,
eight-hour day. Brakemen, $150, fire
men $125 and $150, conductors $192,
engineers $204, steam-shovel men
$210. Section men $100.
SPANISH OFFICIALS LOCATE
GERMAN SUB STATIONS
MADRID, April 4.—An elabora* ?
organization to which by cordon of
German submaiines around the Span
ish and Portugese coasts, has been
furnished supplies, has been un
earthed. A rigid censorship has been
established, but it is known that at
least four men have been a rested,
one of whom was supposed to have
been an American, but later proved
to be a German.
Lines of automobiles were run
from Madrid to certain coast points
by the plotters to avoid using the
regular train service. Floating depots
were established beyond the limits ot
Spanish waters. These consisted of
wooden floats about the size of a fish
erman's dory. A coast guard patrol
boat discovered one of these depots
as a number of men were busy re
rtocking it and after a battle captur
ed several prisoners.
According to information gathered
| by the Spanish secret police on a
number of submarines employed in
! the German patrol, the peninsula cor
don is a link in a great chain stretch
ing from the Baltic to the Mediter
ranean, one submarine being allotted
to every ten miles. Each of the under
sea boats is supposed to be able to
sail ten miles in an hour and thus
I beep in close touch with its neighbors
in the line.
GOMPKR8 OONGRATULATKS
RUSSIAN LABOR LKADKU8
WASHINGTON, D. O.. April 4.—
The congratulations of organized la
bor on the outcome of the Russian
political upheaval were cabled to N.
S. Chekheiji, leader of the labor ele
ment in the Duma, by President Sam
uel Gonpers, of the American Fed
eration of Labor.
The Merchant’s.Cafe is being hand
somely repapered and painted and
otherwise decorated, and is taking on
a very attractive appearange.
SPRUCE UP
for
EASTER
19
Men
A suit of
Hart Schaffner
&
Marx Clothes
will put you in the
Easter Parade
with the feeling that
you’re dressed just
a little better than
the other fellow.
Crosset Shoes for men.
Women I
Shoes for you have
I
arrived just in time
for the
Easter Show
very clever styles and
priced right
as they were bought
before the
last big advance
in leather.
Selby shoes for women
STYLE-PLUS CLOTHES $17
phone 13 S Blum &. Co. Fonner ,ngr""
i^iuiii OL & Bu,h gij.
GOOD GOODS
J. E. WILSON
Freighting to all point*
in the third division.
Horses bought and sold.
Phone 166.
OWL DRUG CO.
The only Rexall Store in
Valdez.
Prescriptions a Specialty.
Satisfaction Guaranteed
PUT BMJ MONEY ON
1017 WHEAT PROPS
SPOKANE, April 4.—Some of the
biggest wheat gamblers in the coun
try are 2,000 miles from the Chicago
pit and the Minneapolis wheat ex
change and they have no private wire
connecting them with any ticker ser
vice. They are the wheat ranchers
of eastern Washington who produced
about 50,000,000 bushels in 1916 and
75,000.000 bushels in 1915.
Checks for $150,000 and $250,000
received by a number of ranchers for
their 1916 crop have turned the heads
of hundreds of growers and they are
staking everything on the 1917 crop.
It will be a one-crop year for thou
sands of the growers and every cent
they can command will go into addi
tional acreage, machinery and labor.
Gold Discovered
Helena, Mont., April 4.—A gold
nugget valued at $7 was found in
the street in the heart of the busi
ness district here today. It is believed
to have been washed from the hills
by the spring floods.
Seward elects but three councilman
annually for a term of two vears,
three holding over from the previous
council and the mayor is elected an
nually by direct vote.
The Cake Won’t fall
When you make it
with
Crescent Baking Powder
Btrt it will cone
out “light as a
faathtr’’|miui
dor adverse coi
dltiois
HOLD BY GROCERS
25c lb. Can.
CRESCENT MFG. CO.,
Seattle, Wa»h.
LOUIE’S CAFE
<>|ien Day and Night McKinley Street, Below ('able Office
Fresh Bread, Pies, Cakes,
All Kinds of Pastry for Sale.
EVERYTHING THE BEST ANDY MAROVICH. Propr.
Candy Kitchen
E. W. HUNT— b Owl Drag Store.
FOUNTAIN DRINKS
HOT COLD
WK PAY
28 tents per pound for Copper
IS tents per pound for Brass
Sc lb. for Rubber Shoes.
7c lb. for lead.
$20.00 per ton for cast iron.
$15 per ton Wrought Iron.
5c per lb. for Rope.
:l c per |M>und for Rags.
$20.00 per ton for Paper.
27c per dost. Beer Bottles, qts.
17c do*. Beer Bottles, pints.
F. O. B. SEATTLE.
i ATLAS JUNK CO.
1043 Railroad Avenue, So.
SEATTLE, WASH.
VALDEZ CAFE & BAKERY
Cakes, Caakie> & Boas, 15c par dose*.
French, Rye and White Bread 12 1-2
cents par Uni.* Orders taken far special
occasions.
BERGSTROM * ROGSTAD. Prop*.
P HON El 17 - Thr**do*r* talaw Owl Drac
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
| GEORGE SEXTON. PRO*
STRICTLY FIRST CLASS
Fourth Av6, Seward. Alagka_
Arctic Hotel
Watch This j
Space i
PHONE 133 MRS. SYRING. Pr.p
Webster's New International l)ic-|
tionarv, strictly up to date; come in j
and look it over. Valdez Drug Co. if
Fresh canay at the Emporium, tf
A full and complete line of Cigars.
Cigarettes, Smoking Tobacco and
Pipes. Valdez Drug Co. _ tf
) Anything in nugget and ivory Jew
| elry at Valdez Drug Co.
| A fresh lot of Haas' Candies receiv
I ed on last boat, from 50 cents to ^2
!a box. Valdez Drug Co. tf
PRO CESSION AD CARDS.
VALDEZ HOSPITAL
Private Rooms
Terms Reasonable
JOS. A. SILVERMAN, Pk.C.M. D. Pro,.
Jo*. A. Lilvennan Ph. G. M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND Ht'KGKON
Office koars-1 to 4 p. n .-7 to g p. a.
Sunday by Appointment
Res. Tel. 176 Office Tel. ly
Boyle Block Valdez
DR. S. WICKES MERRITT
OlifM over Valdes Drag Co.
Phone'IS McKinley Street
Contract Surgeon, U. S. Army
A. A. Surgeon, U S, Public Health Rerv
(Marine Hospital)
DR. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate National University
Washington. D. C.
DENTIST
Fourteen Years In Valdez.
PHONE 110
Office Rooms In Whaling Building
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTOHNKYS-AT-LAW
once Oaaoalte Court House
Phone 34 VAI.DKZ. ALASKA
John LfONfc e ip hitch:a
LYONS & RITCHIE
4T'l'dRN(CVS- 41-LA W
Oflll'fK Id " SdIId* Hullillns
PkMt l«l \ 4l.HK/.. ALASKA
ROBERT SIMPSON Opt. D.
JINKAI, ALASKA
(•lasses Kilted Lenses (.round
VALDK2E LODGK
NO 108
Free and Accepted Maaoa*
Regular Communications first Wed
nesday in each month In McKinley
Hall. Visitors always welcome.
F. M. BROWN, W. M.
ED WOOD. Secretary.
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Valdez Miners Union No. 18q|
Western Federation of Minor*
W. H. GARNER. President.
Granite Mine
GUST KRING. Secretary.
Veldes Alaska.