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. FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1914.
ANOTHER CERTAINTY DISAP
PEARS.
Among the few things about which
all doctors have hitherto joined ev
erybody else in believing is that the
terrible disease scurvy is caused by
the absence from the diet of certain
substances and that it can be cured
only by a return of food containing
them. This is a "truth” seemingly
confirmed by an enormous amount of
experience and observation, and till
now contradicted by none, and yet
it is asserted and apparently proved
by a competent investigator that the
scurvy theory will have to go the way
of the old malaria theory—which also
was a “truth” of universal acceptance
till it was shown to be ludicrously
false—and that the accepted cause
of the malady have nothing to do
with it.
This iconoclast is Dr. \V. Morton
Hewetson, and an article by him in
The Transvaal Medical Journal, sum -
marized in American Medicine, tells
how he was commissioned to study
a puzzling outbreak of scurvy among
some native Afri< an laborers. He no
ticed that the victims were all negroes
belonging to tribes that filed their
teeth, and consequently suffered from
caries and attendant, mouth infec
tions, those having the neaily pc -
feet dentition peculiar to me black
race being quite immune, in spile of
eating the same food as the others.
With this as a hint, instead of order
ing a change of diet. Dr. Hewetson
took the proper measures- for disin
fecting and keeping disinfected the
mouths of the stricken negroes—and
they all promptly recovered.
This throws a great light. Dr. Hew
etson thinks, on the lamentable ex
periences of sailors on long voyages,
and of explorers, arctic and other.
They were all so circumstanced that
careful attention to toilet details was
difficult or impossible from scarcity of
water, and, as American Medicine in
its comments jioints out. the chief
and most severe sufferers have al
ways been those who were least care
ful in such matters. In Dr. Hewet
son’s opinion, scurvy is a bacterial
toxaemia, due to 'a specific bacterial
invasion of the tooth sockets and pe
ridental tissues,” and its once familiar
symptoms are simply and purely local
inflammations.
The data seem to be a bit scanty
for so large a conclusion, though it
Is true that the new theory not only
fits in with all the known facts, but
it explains the formerly mysterious
cases of immunity that are found on
every scurvy ship.—Kx.
A PRECAUTION AGAINST CON
GESTION.
Dr. Eliot, president emeritus of
Harvard, in a letter to the Immigra
tion League declares lhat there is
and for many years will be a scarcity
of labor in the United Slates, •'be
cause of the sparseness of our pop
ulation and the enormous, unused re
sources of the country which require
for their development both new cap
ital and new labor.”
This is in apparent conflict with
the stories of armies of the unem
ployed in many of the larger cities.
The impression of want of employ
ment is created by the congestion in
the nearest cities of workmen tem
porarily out of employment, even
when men are sorely needed in remote
sections. The Pacific coast has illus
trated this in recent months. Owing
to a temporary* depression in the
lummber industry, thousands of work-,
men have been out of employment,
while in some of the manufacturing
centers in the East and Middle West
there has been a scarcity of labor.
This condition will be emphasized
with the opening of spring work, with
the renewal of activities in Alaska and
with the general revival of construc
tion work on the railroads and in the
building trades of the country.
The remedy is quick and cheap
transportation of labor in masses to
the place of greatest need. Dr. Eliot
points out thaf some relief is com
ing from quick and easy communl
cation and transportation by electric
ity, and the encouragement of public
and private aid to the idle who want
work. That relief, however, is too
scanty for the need. What is wanted
is railroad provision for shifting of
labor in masses, as it is shifted by
steamships across the ocean.
The establishment of clean and
safe low-rate labor excursions, as
cheap in comparison as steerage,
would do for the United States what
ocean passage has done for the world,
to correct the old rule of idleness,
famine and extirpation in one conti
nent, while another was suffering for
labor to develop it.—Ex.
JAPAN IS BUSY AT HOME.
In spite of all efforts of the Japan
ese authorities to minimize the sig
nificance of the popular disturban
ces, the fact remains that conditions
in the mikado’s empire are such as
may well provoke concern. The linan
ces of the nation are in decidedly tin
satisfactory shape, and the people,
upon whom in the last analysis the
pinch must come, are beginning to re
alize the fact and demand that some
thing be done about it.
For years there has been an adverse
balance of trade, with a consequent
outflow of gold. Before the war with
Russia this amounted to about $13,
000,000 a year, which was not serious.
But now it approximates $50,000,000
a year, and that is serious. With
this and with interest on foreign
loans, naval expenses and other
items Japan is paying to foreign
countries nearly $100,000,000 a year
more than she receives from them.
This drain is being provided for by
the expedient of additional foreign
loans. But to even the most rudi
mentary fiscal intelligence it is ob
vious that such a policy follows the
road to ruin.
Not only are the saloons at Nome
closed on Sunday but every kind of
business has had the lid put on it by
the owners of the thirst emporiums,
as a retaliatory act for the move of
the federal officials in causing them
to close their doors one day in the
week. As a result the city council,
Chamber of Commerce and business
men generally have joined in a tele
gram to Governor Strong asking
them to include in the special session
of the legislature the repeal or
amendment of this orthodox law.
Cordova Alaskan.
Of course we should all love our
neighbors, but the trouble is our wives
are apt to object.
Quite naturally it isn't the man with
a level head who does the most but
ting in.
FED COWS TO FLAVOR MILK.
Bran and Corn Produced That of the
Preferred Taste.
The department of agriculture bas
just concluded a series of experiments
to determine the effect on the flavor of
milk of feeding different kinds of ra
tions to cows. The department has
decided in favor of bran and corn as
producing the finest flavored milk.
Some dairymen have a theory that
feeding crushed oats to cows will im
prove the flavor of the milk. Six cows
were used in the experiments, and the
various kinds of rations were fed to
them. Fifty opinions were passed on
the samples of milk. Sixteen prefer
red milk from cows fed on crushed
oats, twenty-five preferred that from
the bran and corn ration, while nine
expressed no choice. Tire department
decided that the ration containing bran
and corn was preferable in producing
a fine flavored milk.
Aero Has Twenty Sleeping Berths.
A giant aeroplane designed by the
Russian air man. Sikorsky, has just
been successfully tested. It weighs
three and a half tons, is propelled by
four 100 horsepower motors and has
cabins with sleeping accommodations
for twenty passengers.
An English Memorial td Franklin.
Subscriptions are being invited in
fxiudon to carry out a proposal to
commemorate Benjamin Franklin in
the church of St. Bartholomew the
Great, in West SmithUeld parish,
wherein be worked as a printer.
MADE PEANUT FAMOUS;
ASKS FOR NOBEL PRIZE.
Or. Thomas .1. Allen of Eureka
springs, Ark., who gained fame
hy living sixty days on an exclu
sive diet of peanuts, has Died ap
plication with the president of
Arkansas university for the No
bel prize to be given in U)14. He
• claims to have made the most
important discovery in physiolo
gy or medicine during 1!)13. The
discovery in question l)r. Allen
•spid.. Is,“that variation in feed
ing, is,.the fundamental cause Of
premature, senility, tiie predis
posing cause of ail disease, the
essential factor In cancer and the
essential cause' of high Infant
mrn-fhlltv.” •4
News Films of the
Passing Show
A on© man trolley “crew” is a new
year Innovation at Rutherford, N. J.
A minister of Derry, Pa., announces
that lie will not conduct funeral serv
ices for any member of a club that lias
a bar.
Jolm E. Bach, a retired clothing
manufacturer of Newark, N. J., who is
ninety-nine years old, has lived in the
United States seventy-three years, but
hasn't learned to speak English yet.
A unique sight seen recently In
Pittsburgh consisted of two teams of
horses drawing two shanties, in which
were stoves with fires lit, around
which tlie drivers were keeping them
selves warm.
Vice President Marshall sent a copy
of “Back Country Folks” to President
Wilson as a gift. On the By leaf lie
wrote: "To the President of the Unit
ed States. From his only vice—Thom
as It Marshall.”
PLANS HAZARDOUS PLUNGE
INTO GUATEMALAN WILDS.
8afer Than Life In a Big City, Says Dr.
Spinden—His Ambitious Program.
“There are more chances of being
killed in a big city than in Central
America," snid Dr. H. J. Spinden of
the department of anthropology of the
American Museum of Natural History,
New York, when asked If It were not
dangerous to go into parts of Central
America and Mexico, which he is to
visit during a live months’ trip of ex
ploration.
Belize, British Honduras, is to be the
base of operations for Dr. Spinden.
who, because the museum authorities
think it safer to be accompanied into
certain regions where he will collect
material, will trnvel with a pack train
under Bussell Hustings Millward, who
is said to have interests there.
Dr. Spinden. among other things, ex
pects to visit ancient ruins of the Maya
Indians which have never heretofore
been seen by explorers. One of the
cities where iie expects to get material,
but which has been the objective point
i of other scientists, is Ixknn, in Guate
i mala, which dates back to the time of
| the Homan empire. Photographs will
be made of all places visited and much
archaeological matter collected. Dr.
Spinden also hopes to get valuable data
' regarding the Carab and Maya In
diuns.
To forestall attacks ny snakes anu
insects Dr. Spinder will sleep in a
hammock. He will carry a small
medical outfit, which will Include a
needle and permanganate of potash, to
use in case of snake bite
“SOLDIERS OF HUMANITY.”
i --
i Miners Brave as the Minutemen of
Lexington, Director Holmes’ Tribute.
The bravery of miners and members
of rescue parties that go into fume
tilled shafts, risking the loss of their
lives that others might live. Is lauded
In a report Issued by the United States
bureau of mines.
"Since the bureau of mines was cre
ated.” says Dr. Joseph A. Holmes, the
director, “our rescue men have trained
5.000 miners In the use of the modern
rescue apparatus and 4.000 of them Iu
the principles of first aid to the In
jured These men are the soldiers of
humanity, as eager and ready to re
spond to the call of distress as were
the minutemen of Lexington.
“The bravery of the miners lias nev
er been questioned. There never has
been a time when more volunteers
than needed did not respond. When
the rescuer goes to his death lie Is not
spurred on by martial music, the roll
' of drums, the crack of rifle tire, like
| the soldier. His Is the grim, silent,
[desperate task iu the darkness of the
! inside of the earth The world thrills
for a day over Ills heroism and then
forgets.
“I cannot refrain from paying my
humble tribute to the bravery of the
rescuers of the burenu of mines. They
and the volunteer rescuers are the rneu
who uphold our traditions of uoble self
sacrifice and the courage that knows
no flinching.”
8,000 ISLANDS FLY OUR FLAG
Have Population Diouble That of United
States a Century Ago.
In a recent address before tbe Nu
tionnl Geographic society lu Washing
ton Secretary O. P. Austin said that
there are now 8.000 islands under the
American flag '
“They now support a population of
10,000.000. or more than that of the
entire United States a century ago,”
said Mr. Austin. “Their commerce ex
ceeds $300,000,000, or more than that
of tbe United Stntes In any year prior
to 1870; the American capital Invested
in '‘them aggregates approximately
$400,000,000; they send ns $100,000,000
•of their products each year and take in
exchange nearly $100,000,000
“When the United States took hold
of Porto Rico-fifteen years ago there
was bnt one building in the entire is
land which bad been .erupted tor school
purposes; today there.aiy 1.200 build
lugs erected for school purposes
There were 26,000 pupils enrolled It*
tbe public school in tbe first year o
the Americas administrationt now tli
Intel Is ITSXMfi."
Copyright Hart Schatfncr U Mara
NOTICE OF ELECTION.
Notice is hereby given that; pur
suant to an order made by the dis
trict court of the Territory of Alaska,
Third division, in the matter of the
annexation of certain territory to the
incorporated Town of Valdez, the
common council of the Town of Val
dez has called ■ n election to be held !
in said town and in the territory pro- |
posed to be ann xed to said town, on
Saturday, March 21, 1914, to determ
ine whether said territory shall be
so annexed as prayed for in the peti- i
tion therefor, filed in said district i
court as provided by law. The de .
scription of said territory as set up i
in said petition, is as follows, to-wit: !
Beginning at Meander Corner No. !
I of the Valdez townsite survey and i
running thence south. 24 degrees, 19 j
minutes, 14 seconds east, 240.638 j
feet; thence south 53 degrees, 32
minutes east, 1228.26 feet; thence j
south, 74 degrees, 52 minutes east, ,
568.26 feet; thence south, 45 degrees.
43 minutes east, 136.62 feet; thence
south, 30 degrees, 27 minutes west,
131.24 feet; thence south, 29 degrees,
12 minutes west, 123.42 feet; thence
south, 14 degrees, 45 minutes west,
51.95 feet; thence north, 61 degrees,
27 minutes east, 5000 feet; thence
north, 28 degrees, 48 minutes west,
2050 feet; thence south 61 degrees,
30 minutes west, 5700 feet, to place
of beginning.
At such election qualified electors
are invited to vote upon said prop- •
osition to annex said described ter
ritory to the Town of Valdez by plac
ing upon their ballots the words "For
annexation to the Town of Valdez,”
or “Against annexation to the Town I
of Valdez,” or words equivalent there- i
f n
The polling place for such election
in the Town of Valdez shall be in
the hall of the common council on
Broadway avenue. The pu’.ling place
in the territory proposed to be an
nexed shall be in the ground fiooi
room of the Fish building on McKin
ley street, adjoining the Tillikum;
itirb. The polls shall be open front
9 a. m. to ti p. m. of March 21, 1914
The election board designated for
the Town of Valdez is composed of the
following persons: Judges—H. I*.
Sullivan, Louis Rosenthal, Thomas
‘Hunt; clerks —J. J. Cavana, Dan Wil-.
cey.
The election board designated for
the territory proposed to be annexed
is composed of the following persons:
Judges—Adam Swan, Oliva Maroise,
J. H. Bell: clerks—Frank Millard.
Robert Weber.
The qualifications of an elector en
titled to vote at such election, .pre
scribed by law, are as follows: lie or
she shall be a male or female per- ;
son of the age of twenty-one years
or more and shall be the owner of
substantial property interests in land,
building or improvements on land or
tide land within the said corporation
or the territory proposed to be an
nexed to or incorporated within such
corporation.
J.UW1N or > m.i'r./,
By E. E. RITCHIE, Mayor.
RANDALL E. ASHBY,
Town Clerk.
First publication Feb. 20, 1914.
Last publication March 20, 1914.
Hospital of the Good Samaritan.
For $6.00 we will give you. a ticket
entitling you to hospital service and
care for any eight, weeks out of. the
/ear from date of your ticket, when
^capacitated by injury or sickness.
See W H. Ziegler
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S. MCNJECE. Secretary
Local Valdez
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Summons for Publication.
Theo. Emel, plaintiff, vs. W. Fred
Swanson and F. A. Hancock, defend
ants.—No. 653. Summons for Publica
tion.
To the above-named defendant,
W. Fred Swanson;
You are hereby required to appear
in the district court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division, within
thirty days after the completion of
publication of this summons against
you, to-wit, within thirty days after
the 28th of March, 1914: and answer
the complaint of plaintiff filed here
in, and unless you so appear and an
swer the plaintiff will apply to the
court for the relief demanded in the
complaint, decreeing her to be the
owner of the launch Anita, and that
neither you nor your co-defendant has
any interest in or title to the same.
Witness the Hon. Fred M. Brown,
judge of said court, this 13th day c.
February, 1914. ARTHUR LANG,
Clerk of'the District Court, for the
Territory of Alaska, Third Division.
By T. 1’. GERAGHTY, Deputy Clerk.
First publication Feb. 14, 1914.
Last publication March 28, 1914. |
Notice to Creditors.
In the United States Commissioner's
Court, ex officio Judge in Probate,
Valdez Precinct, Third Judicial Di
vision, Territory of Alaska.
In the matter of the estate of Peter
Steinmetz, deceased. W. A. Rystrom,
administrator.—Notice to Creditors.
Notice is hereby given by the un
dersigned, administrator of the estate
of Peter Steinmetz, deceased, to the
creditors of, and all persons having
claims against the said estate, to ex
hibit them, with the necessary vouch
ers, within six (6) months after the
first publication of this notice, to the
said administrator at the office of C.
E. Bunnell, at Valdez, Alaska, the
same being the place for the trans
action of the business of said estate.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 10th
day of February, 1914.
W. A. RYSTROM,
Administrator of the estate of Peter
Steinmetz, deceased.
First publication Feb. 11, 1914.
Last publication March 16, 1914.
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