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THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1914.
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THE HUMAN TIDE.
The rise and fall of our immigra
tion is as mysterious as the "tides”
in some landlocked lakes, which seem
to have neither inlet nor outlet, but
yet have high and low water over
a fixed sequence of intervals. Not
long ago we were wondering why so
many immigrants were leaving us.
It seemed later that they had accu
rate foreknowledge of the uietness of
trade which then was hidden from
those learned in economic fundamen
tals. The thousands departing were
so scattered in their places and trades
that they had a totality of informa
tion hidden from individuals and not
yet in the statistics. Now we are
experiencing a reversal of this ex
perience. This year’s immigration is
at a rate surpassing all records.
More than one million have already
reached our shores in ten months of
the fiscal year. Unless the move
ment is checked the arrivals will ex
ceed '1,300,000 for the first year in
history. It is all the more mysterious
because the eastward passenger
movement on the ocean steamers al
so shows an increase, so that the net
of arrivals is subject to some deduc
tion which cannot be accurately stat
ed.
The arrivals are of the classes
which in later years have come to
be considered undesirable citizens.
Italians from both north and south
lead the list, Russian and Polish im
migrants rank second, with Germans,
English and Scandinavians poor lead
ers of the ruck in the field. Our in
telligent lawmakers have legislated
against the immigration of skilled la
bor in deference to the prejudices of
trades unions against an excess of
competition in their line. Therefore
the labor among the immigrants is
mostly unorganized and unskilled, but
necessary nevertheless. It is hard to
see or say how our subways would
be dug, or our railways be built, with
out the coarse labor which Ameri
cans despise, but demand to be done.
—Ex. i
The administration’s Mexican pol
icy has hitherto been so frank in the
sacrifice of nice diplomatic proprie
ties to the main purpose which we
have set ourselves, that it would be
a pity at this late hour to let diplo
matic metaphysics stand in the way
of a settlement of which the essen
tials have been agreed upon. It is
absurd that a deadlock should arise
at Niagara over the question whether
the interim executive to whom Hu
erta surrenders his post shall be
merely a constitutionalist sympathiz
er or one of the prominent consti
tutionalist leaders. To insist that if
Huerta is allowed to resign power In
to the hands of a man who has not
openly sworn his destruction, it would
amount to recognizing Huerta, is a
piece with the fine-spun legalistic
reasoning to which the Mexican mind
is addicted, but which is hardly suit
able to our own plain, blunt way of
going at things. It is metaphysics to
debate over the question of Carran
za directly, or in favor of some con
stitutionalist public man who will
pave the way for Carranza’s regular
induction into the presidency. Where
the other side has yielded again and
again on points of real importance,
it is in place for us to yield on a
matter of punctilio.—New York Post,
Orpheum Tonight.
A fine program at the Orpheum
tonight:
Dream Home, excellent child dra
ma.
Weekly of world events.
Auto Races, etc.
One Round O’Brien, comedy.
Good Business House for Sale.
Good business block for sale gn
Keystone avenue, Valdez, Alaska.
Apply to owner, Mrs. S. E. Gleason, tf
Dance Tonight.
The Reinke orchestra will give a
dance tonight at Eagle hall. Excel
lent music. Admission $1.00.
Nubone Corsets.
Try Mrs. St. Marie’s for one of
those Nubone corsets. tf.
WILSON PARDONS
: FOUR UYNAMTERS
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^ Executive Clemency for Four Out of
Twenty-four Convicted Structur
al Iron Workers.
WASHINGTON, June 25.—Without
making any comment President Wil
son today granted pardons to four
of the members of the Structural
! iron Workers who had been convicted
I of conspiracy to dynamite and who
j were concerned in the wrecking of
j the plant of the I-os Angeles Times,
when 28 men were killed. The re
maining 20 the president refused to
aid and they will have to serve terms
of from one to ten years at Leaven
worth.
The action of the president in free
ing four and refusing executive clem
ency to the others is stated to be
on the advice of the attorney gen
eral, who was in doubt as to the
justice of the conviction of the men
pardoned, as they were not direct
ly connected with the distribution of
the dynamite or the paying out of j
the union funds to the men in charge
of the dynamite plots.
RAILROAD MAN
VISITSJRCHANTS
A. E. Harris,' the traveling freight
and passenger agent of the Chicago
& Milwaukee railroad with head
quarters at Juneau, Is in Valdez
spending a few7 days calling upon the
merchants of the city and renewing
old acquaintances. Mr. Harris’ com
pany has secured a large share of
the business of the north because of
the excellent service they maintain.
Admiral Evans Not Reported.
The steamer Admiral Evans which
is to the westward has not been re
ported at the time of going o press
and, no doubt, is delayed at Ship
creek loading the government coal.
Alaskans waiting for years for a
chance to utilize some of the resour
ces of their great ‘erritory, should
i.ave a fair comprehension of what
it would mean if all of the business
of tlie country should be regulated
by bureau officials at Washington.
ALL IS READY
FOR BIG FIGRI
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Johnson to Get $35,000, Win or Lose
—High Continental Society to
Witness the Scrap.
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PARIS, June 25.—For (he first time
since Jack Johnson, the black giant,
laid stalwart Jim Jeffries on the pug
ilistic shelf at Reno and, unscratched,
took possession of the heavyweight
championship belt, the coveted trophy
will be put into play here Saturday
night, June 27, at the Velodrome
d’Hiver. Frank Moran, of Pittsburgh,
Pa., will be the big dusky’s oppo
nent, and from out on the banks of
the Oise, at Butry on the Beach,
where the white hope is training,
comes word that he is in great shape.
Similar reports are filtering out of
the Johnson camp, in Asnieres, just
on the fringe of Paris. Johnson, who
perhaps not entirely without reason,
remarked that he wouldn’t swap jobs
with John D. Rockefeller, and who,
as this reflection may bfe taken to de
note, is something of a business man,
is training at home and cutting ex
penses. The great out of doors, where
he does his road work, is free and at
Luna Park, the scene of his gym ex
ercise, he gets real money for let
ting the common herd look on.
Between Butry sur Plage—which is
another name for Moran's headquar
ters—and Asnieres, the one on the
north, the other on the south, Paris
is all excite! Never has it seen a
real world’s championship-affair,, the
most celebrated stunts pullpd off here
being the CailUux-Calmette shooting,
the Dreyful affair and the revolution,
the last named being too fqr back
for the younger bloods to remember.
So, in spite of admission prides which
are wrenching from the very roots
the frugal souls of the economical
but sporty Frenchmen, the latter are
determined to answer present at the
roll call Saturday night Unlike
Christmas, they figure, heavy weight
championship fights don’t come once
a year, and by close shaving on oth-.
er expenses, diminishing the daily ra
tion of absinthe, and holding down
on the annual tip to the family con
cierge, the necessary 275 franes or $55
demanded for a ring-side seat can be
torn from the pocket without causing
fatal convulsions.
No, kind reader, the report that
the Johnson-Moran fight is to be a
benefit performance to aid the poor
has no foundation in truth. Consid
erable credit, however, is placed in
the rumor that the fight promoters
have decided to. make the janitor at
the Velodrome buy a general admis
sion before letting him enter to sweep
out on the day of the fight. It is
also bruited about that they debated
for several days the question of auc
tioning off the referee privilege, it
being held by part of the management
that the referee could see the fight
better than anybody in the build
ing. There' has been some difficulty
in persuading the people of Paris that
this is going to be a real champion
ship fight, every fight pulled off here
to date having been advertised along
that line. Only two or three months
ago Jack Johnson'and Jim Johnson
pulled off a draw for the "world’s
championship,” and here comes an
other, so the natives are asking one
another if this is “one American
bloof” more. Still, the Velodrome,
with room for 25,000 people, will
probably be pretty well filled. Many
millionaires are already here from all
parts of the world, drawn by the fa
mous Grand Prix which will be run
at Longchamps the Sunday after the
fight. These gilded gentry, being of
a sporty turn, will help the fight pro
moters a long way towards paying
Johnson his $35,000 guarantee, win,
lose or draw.
When the bell taps for the first
round at 10:30 p. m„ the sight which
will greet the spectator’s eye would
render speechless the thousands of
American lovers of the manly art who
have sat, shirt-sleeved, at Reno, Jack
sonville, New Orleans and elsewhere.
Beautiful women in evening clothes
and diamond tarras, will be sitting
by the score at the sides of the
pompous, monocled gentlemen of the
same stripe, bedecked in garments
seen only at galas at the opera and
official receptions in less ceremonious
lands. Languid and blase, puffed,
powdered, stenciled and rouged, the
women of high Continental society—
sprinkled with Americans—will be on
hand, longing for a new sensation.
Lorgnettes and jeweled opera glasses
will be leveled at the reeking black
and white forms writhing in the ring,
and gentle “Par-bleu's!” or “Mon
Dieu’s!” will have taken the place of
the similar yelps of “Swat him in
the slats.Bo!” and “Now, you boob,
kill ’im!” Not that this fight will be
any different in this respect from
any other half way good exhibition
here which ,have gone before “La
Boxe” is simply the latest fad of
the fast and fashionable rich set.
But there will be a gallery, too,
made up of mostly Frenchmen, form
er devotes of “la savate" or boxing
with the feet and hands, but who
now clamor after another and newer
god—Georges Carpentier, the young
Frenchman who twice deefated Bom
bardier Wells, the British champion
and thereby became champion of Eu
rope, heavyweight class. These gal-r
lery gods wil inot let pass the chance
to bellow the traditional insults to
the men in the ring. And lastly
there will be the celebrities present.
In America these are usually shining
lights of the sporting world. A few
of these will be at the ring side here
Saturday. But the real stars among
the spectators will be Maurice Mae
terlinck, the great Belgium philoso
pher and poet, author of the “Blue
Bird,” “Mary Magdalen,” and “Sister
Beatrice;" Auguste Bodein, the
world’s most noted sculptor; Henry
Bernstein and Henri Bataille, the
playwrights; Jean Rlchepin, the
Academic Francaiso poet; painters,
senators, members of the Chamber
of Deputies, not to mention certain
of Europe’s most dashing dukes,
duchesses, princes and others of no
ble blood. Some shift from pushing
cotton trucks in Galveston, Texas, for
Jack; some change from the blast
furnaces of Pittsburgh for Frank; a
novelty of the first water for the
old sport who has followed the game
from Sullivan and Kilrain in the to
bacco scented hall in New Orleans to
the Velodrome d’Hiver in gay Paree.
.Administrator’s Notice.
In Probate Court for Valdez Precinct,
Territory of Alaska.
In the matter ot the estate of Liz
zie Stropp, deceased.—Notice to Cred
itors.
Notice is hereby given to all per
sons having claims against the estate
of Lizzie Stropp, deceased, to pre
sent the same, with the proper vouch
ers, to the administrator of said es
tate, at his office in the Whaling
Building, Valdeez, Alaska, within six
months from the date of this notice.
Dated May 4, 1914.
E. E. RITCHIE,
Administrator of the Estate of Lizzie
Stropp, deceased.
Valdez Cafe Re-opens.
The Valdez Cafe has moved from
Its former location and is open again
for business at the Sideboard build
ing.
Launch for 8ale.
For sale for cash, the launch Ne
bula; enquire of C. E. Bunnell or A.
j. Wendler, administrator of the es
tate of D. H. Sleem. tf
The Ladies’ Aid of the Congrega
tional church will give a cake sale
Saturday afternoon, June 27, at
Dougherty & Ferguson’s store from
2 to 6 o’clock. k26
EVERYMAN’S CLUBHOUSE
FREE LABOR BUREAU
Employers,, come to us for workers.
Workers, register your name with us.
Phone 111, or call at the Clubhouse.
No Fees; No Charges.
Committee—Bert McDowell, Edward
Hale, Chas. Bush, W. H. Ziegler.
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