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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1»I7
COS G RE8SIOX AI, COMMITTEE
That Delegate Sulzer is fully alive
to the necessity of a more compre
hensive grasp of the needs of Alaska
by those in Congress to whom we are
forced to look for aid and legislation
is shown by his introduction of a
joint resolution in the House yester
day providing for the appointment of
a Congressional committee to visit
Alaskan conditions at first hand.
While the primary purpose of the pro
posed visit is to study Alaska with
a view of seeing just what legislation
is needed to enable Alaska to do her
full share in aiding the government
in carrying out its war program, it
can be made a great educational
tour for those coming, and work to
a great advantage to all of Alaska.
The Delegate should be given the
united support of all Alaskans in his
attempt to have the committee ap
pointed. It might help him in his at
tempt if the various towns in the Ter
ritory should wire their endorsement
and add their solicitations to his.
Alaska is today doing everything in
its power to aid the government in
every way possible, and would do
more if certain restrictions were tak
en off. And if the committee makes
the trip it is almost a certainty that
they will be removed.
The development of the entire Ter
ritory has been greatly handicapped
by the lack of knowledge of Alaskan
conditions on the part of the nation
al lawmakers, upon whom we are
greatly dependent for legislation.
Laws made for Alaska are made on
viewpoint entirely foreign to the coun
try, and without bearing on Alaskan
conditions and handicaps. A working
knowledge of these conditions can
not be had with any degree of accur
acy except by being on the ground
and getting it first hand. All the pro
paganda ever written cannot accom
plish what one day's actual sight will
be able to do.
Delegate Sulzer has picked no easy
task when he tries to get this com
mittee appointed. Under the war con
ditions it may be that Congress will
deem it inadvisable to appoint such
a body to make an extended tour. He
may be unsuccessful in his attempt,
but he certainly deserves credit for
having the right idea and being 'em
the job enough to put it up to Con
gress.—Empire.
WEST FURNISHES THE MOST
RECRUITS
The figures published froih day to
•lay show that the Middle West is, in
proportion to its <juota, recruiting
mofe th&n New England and the
Middle Atlantic States.
It was not very long ago that the
East was accusing the Middle West
of being unpatriotic, pro-German and
almost treasonous. They have their
answer, and the question is disposed
of. The Middle West is patriotic.
Nobdy, as far as we know, has ac
cused the East of being less patriotic
than the West. There has been no
sneering here, but it does no harm to
call attention again to the disparity
in the enlistments of the two regions
and to inquire how soon the news
papers which questioned the patriot
ism of the Middle West are going to
accept the evidence now before them
and use the same salted lasli at home
that they applied to the Western
back.
DELEGATE Sulzer is to be heartily
commended for his responsiveness to
the needs of this section of the coun
try. Since his arrival in Washington
he has shown that he is on the job
every minute. He has certainly made
a splendid beginning for a new man
"without influence” as was charged
by his opponents at the late election.
—Fairbanks Citizen.
CANNED GOODS NOW
AT A STANDSTILL
The future canned goods market
is practically at a standstill until it
is decided Just what action the gov
ernment will take in the matter of
securing supplies for thf army. Here
tofore the government secured the
army supplies thru contract on com
petitive bids, but the present plan
seems to be to requisition the goods
directly from the canners, the prices
to be arranged on a basis of cost and
some percentage of profit. It is the
desire of the canners to assist the
government in every way possible,
but at the same time they take the
position that the contracts should be
equally divided, so that too great a
burden will not fall on a few can
ners, and that provisions be made to
take care of contracts already made
with jobbers throughout the coun
try.
The 1916 line or tinea trims nas
been almost completely cleaned up
and packers have practically with
drawn prices, especially on apricots,
figs, peaches and raisins, and what is
left commands an almost prohibitive
figure. Beans are practically the only
item in the daily bill of fare that has
not taken a rise and at present are
in big demand. Rice has taken a
slight advance, but is still within rea
son. Sugar takes a drop this week of
25c per hundred pounds and puts
this commodity on a more staple ba
sis.
The war tax directly affects the
following articles in the grocery line:
sugar, Vfcc per lb; coffee, 2c; tea, 5c;
cocoa and chocolate, 2c; tobacco, 6c;
cigars, $1.00 to $10.00 per thousand:
cigarettes, $1.25 per thousand; chew
ing gum, candy and cakes from l/£c
to 8c per lb.
SEATTLE’S SEW FREAK
SAFE IX Z(H) AT LAST
SEATTLE, June 27.—After a long
battle-royal between Roland Cotter
ill, secretary of the Woodland park
board and the Washington congress
ional delegation, the U. S. department
of agriculture and the Seattle local
representative of the bureau of ani
mal industry, the odd beast defined
as an antelope, with a buffalo’s head,
donkey’s mane and tale of a horse,
but which is really an Australian Gnu
is safe at last in the park zoo, having
been placed there Sunday but as yet
the public has not been allowed either
to view it or see a picture of it.
The park board purchased it from
Ellis S. Joseph who had bought a
menagerie while over in Australia
and brought it to Victoria. The mem
bers of the board had just completed
congratulating themselves upon
the bargain they had made when the
animal was conscripted by Dr. Jens
Madsen of the U. S. bureau of ani
mal industry, who said Uncle Sam
wasn’t taking any chances on rumi
nants of cud-chewing animals from
Australia, as it was presumed that
any cud-chewer from that country
was a potential dissemitator of the
foot and mouth disease which the
government had eradicated at a cost
of $10,000,000. So the freak went in
to quarantine, but at last reports a
permit had been granted the board to
place it in an isolated place, away
from the gaze of the public and un
der guard.
We are now wondering what good
this freak is going to be either to the
STEAM HEAT NEWLY FURNISHED
SEATTLE HOTEL
. MRS. E. ROLL, Propr.
VALDEZ ALASKA
park officials or the public, or, if on
account of the war, the big dailies
are getting slack on news.
“OLD TEX" JONES 18
KILLED BY A SNIPER
LONDON, June 27.—"Old Tex”
Jones, gray-haired, leather-faced,
hailing from Oak Cliff. Dallas, Tex.,
has been killed at last. Shot through
the heart by a German sniper, "Tex"
fell forward at a tunnel entrance near
Vimy Ridge.
"He took too many chances,” said
a major of the American legion.
"One day a sergeant sent "Tex” up
to dump a pail in No Man's Land.
We'd been slinging the bucket over
and yanking it back with a rope.
But Tex didn't. One second after
he stood up_ openly to throw the pail
over, a German sniper’s rifle cracked,
and it was all over.”
Tex had served in border cam
paigns with the American army and
also in the Boxer campaign.
GERMANS TO REWRITE
BIBLE WHEN WAR ENDS
THE HAGUE, June 27.—According
to a copy of the German newspaper
Kreuzzeitung, of Berlin, just received
here, the Germans are going to re
write the Bible. The article says:
"If any further proof were needed
of the immeasurable superiority of
the Germans, intellectually and mor
ally, over the rest of mankind, it is
to be found in the mental attitude of
our people toward the Bible as com
pared with that of other nations.
"The English regard that book as
their most valuable commercial as
set, and use it mainly as a form of
barter with savage tribes for their
good will, their assistance, and the
supply of their natural products, and
in England itself it is exploited sole
ly in the propagation of that spirit
of hypocrisy which has stood the Brit
ish in such good stead for ages to
hoodwink and despoil other races.
“It must be one of our first tasks
on the conclusion of the war, when
Germany shall arise out of it renew
ed in power and vitality like ano
ther Phoenix, to set a board of quali
fied experts to work to produce, not
only for our own benefit, but also
for the moral uplifting of mankind,
a new, a more glorious, a purer Bible,
instinct with the German spirit of kul
tur and morality.
AMERICAN SHIP SENT
TO BOTTOM BY SI B
LONDON, June 27.—The American
ship Galena was shelled and^sent to
the bottom by a German submarine
off the coast of France today. The
crew got away from the vessel safely.
The Galena was a sailing vessel of
1625 tons, plying between New York
and French' ports. She was returning
from a trip to Marseilles, where she
tas taken a cargo of food stuffs.
A new Ford car arrived this morn
ing for Agent Meals, who has an or
I der in for four, which are already
disposed of.
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CORDOVA ALASKA.
Children’s Shoes An entire new stock of Shoes for girls and boys, children
and girls' Slippers and Pumps—the famous TESS-TED line, which combines service with
common sense styles for growing feet.
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They are Here—the latest
Fancies in Women’s Footwear
Owing to lack of store space find facilities for service until recently we
made no attempt to replace our former stock of women's siloes. Now that this
store is in a better position to serve and cater to your foot wants we are pleased
to announce the arrival of a brand new stock of shoes for women, including
several numbers deserving of especial mention.
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Patent Pump, white kill,
trimmed, medium vamp
New York heel.$6.00
Patent Strap Sandal, me
dium vamp. New York
heel: price ..$5.50
Seamless White Cloth
Pump; covered heel;
opera last .$3.50
Mahogany Kid Sandal,
New York heel; the
newest in pumps; $6.00
Cross Strap Kid Slipper,
medium heel; style and
comfort - $5.00
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Sand top, patent botton,
medium vamp and heel;
price--$5.50
S BLUM & CO. Inc.
GOOD GOODS
Phones 12 and 13
Corporal Ernest P. Kinlock and
Private Jos. Zaglaniczny of the local
Signal Corps, arrived at Paxsons at
3 p. m. yesterday.
The Cincinnati Enquirer headlined
it "Hit Scored by Miss Rankin." The
Hon. Jennie may have hit and she
may have scored, but we can never
believe that she had to slide for it.
F. C. Fox left this morning for An
chorage, on the steamer Admiral Wat
son.
Deputy Marshal Dowling left this
morning on the Admiral Watson for
Latouche.
Major B. O. Lenoir, Signal Corps,
has been promoted to Lieutenant
Colonel.
r
A large consignment of mining ma
chinery, including several gas en
gines and a hoist, arrived on the
steamer Admiral Watson.
H. Irving and J. Irving, well-known
miners of this district, arrived on the
Watson, and will leave tomorrow for
the Port Wells district, where they
are interested in a quartz proposi
tion.
Sergeant Charles T. Burk, Q. M.
Corps at Fort Liscum has been pro
moted to Quartermaster Sergeant, and
ordered to report to Valdez for duty
relieving Quartermaster Sergeant L.
B. Douglas. Douglas will be sent to
the States, station as yet not desig
nated.
The Red Cross ball at Eagle Hall
Saturday night will be one of the best
of the season. Every dollar of the
funds received from this function will
be turned into the National Organiza
tion. Help your country and have a
pleasant evening by buying a ticket.
Sergeant First-class James E.
Young, Medical Department, who has
been stationed at Copper Center, Al
aska, left today en route to Fort Rose
crans, Calif., for duty. The emer
gency hospital at Copper Center will
be closed.
BERLIN, June 27.—The Vossiche
Zeitung denies a report that Dr. AI
marez Harris, the Mexican charge d'
affaires, has been recalled. Dr. Harris
is returning to Mexico , the paper
says, on private business and he will
return within three months. During
the absence of the diplomat, Mexican
affairs will he looked after by the
Austrian charge d’affaires.
President Wm. Co: ley will leave
for Ellamar this evening on the T. N.
B.( Capt. Bert Cooper, to visit the
scene of the strike at the Ellamar
Mining Company’s property. Mr. Con
ley states that about 25 union mem
bers of Local No. 188, W. F. M„ are
working at the mine, and that these
men are still at work, with one or two
exceptions. Mr. Conley also stated
that the Union had not authorized
the strike and that the men had act
ed on their initiative in going out.
He believes that a settlement of the
trouble will be easily made and the
men will return to work.
XIXK MORK SUFFRAGETTE
PICKETS ARK ARRESTER
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 27.—
Nine more woman suffrage pickets t
were arrested today for standing be
fore the White House gates in defi
ance of orders recently passed by the
administration guards. The women
have been displaying obnoxious ban
ners and otherwise making a nuis
ance of themselves.
Gompers Upholds Laws
WASHINGTON, D. C„ June 27.—
Efforts to have suspended child la
bor and compulsory education laws
during the war were denounced bv
Samuel Gompers in a letter written
to W. P. Hamrick, General Superin
tendent of the Pacific Mills at Col
umbia S. C.
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Port Ricans Will Enlist
NEW YORK, June 27.—Thirty
young Port Ricans, all between the
ages of 21 and 30 years, arrived here
on a steamship from the West Indies,
with the announced intention of en
listing in the army for prospective
duty abroad.
VALDEZ LODGE
NO 168
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Valdes Alaska.
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