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H. B. SKI/BY, Editor and Proprietor.
VALDEZ. ALASKA
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July 23, 1912, at the postoffice of Valdes,
Alaska, under act of March 3. 1879.
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FRIDAY. JULY’, 20, 1917
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FOR MEN AT THE FRONT.
LORD GOD of hosts, whose
mighty hand
Dominion holds on sea and
land,
In peace and war th.v will we see
Shaping the larger liberty.
Nations may rise and nations fall.
Thy changeless purposes rule#
them all.
When death files swift on wave or
field.
Be thou a suie defense and shield!
Console and succor those who fall
And help and hearten each and all!
Oh, hear a people's prayers for
those
Who fearless face their country's
foes!
For those who weak and broken He,
In weariness and agony.
Great Heaier, to their beds of pain
Come, touch and make them whole
again.
Oh, hear a people's prayers and
bless
Thy servants in their hour of stress!
—John Oxenham
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TRADK OUTLOOK BRIGHT
Merchants who are alive to their
interests and who desire to profit
from the industrial activity of this
section can see some interesting
signs in the last statements made by
the local bank. The increase of de
posits amounting to almost $500
daily is the result almost entirely of
the improved condition of the work
ing classes of this section. These con
ditions will continue at least thruout
the year, and may for several years.
The result of this is that thousands
of workingmen who have been paid
but a bare living wage for years be
cause of the depressed condition of
business of this section are going to
be heavy purchasers during the sum
mer and autumn months. They will
have the where-with-^11 to buy the ne
cessities of life and many of those
things that heretofore have been real
luxuries. The wideawake merchant
will foresee these things and shape
his business to take> the best advan
tage of the improved state of affairs.
GUARDS TO TRAIN IN DIXIE
WASHINGTON dispatches indicate
that the war department has deter
mined to train national guard troops
in southern camps, and that as rapidly
as the national guard is called into
the service and the men pass the sev
ere physical examination which is now
being insisted upon they will be re
moved promptly to the South.
There are two reasons given for
moving these troops to the South, one
being the proximity to the Atlantic
seaboard, and the other that trained
every month in the year in this sec
tion of the country, there being no
more really inclement days here that
are found in Tennessee, Georgia, Ala
bama or the Carolines. Besides, a lit
tle rough weather training appears
to be one of the essentials' of the
hardening process of a soldier’s life,
for the reason that there is much sev
ere weather during the fighting per
iods on all the battlefronts.—Belling
ham Herald.
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THE proposed Canadian draft is
stirring up a very hitter feeling in the
Dominion. Some prominent leaders of
parliament have predicted a general
labor strike if the draft is enforced,
and possibly civil war. But these
threats generally draw the keenest
censure from the advocates of con
scription, and it now seems certain
that Canada, too, will follow the
course of the United States and here
after replenish her armies thru the
means of the selective draft.
Those who favor the draft in Can
ada say it would be nothing short
of an outrage, now that the Domin
ion has hundreds of thousands of men
abroad, not to give them every assur
ance that they are to be supported
in their efforts in the war, and that
if the government permits radical
lahorites to intimidate it a depressing
effect upon the men at the front is
certain to follow.
IN THE one small customs district
of the state of Washington during the
month of March, 1917,, there were
imported goods that paid a tariff
duty to the amount of $1,299,940.
But in the same month the goods that
came in free amounted to $21,026,
888. In the same district, during the
first eight months of the current fis
cal year, the imports from Japan
alone amounted to $131,551,000, and
this was an increase of over 100 per
cent for the same period in the years
1912-13 under the Payne protective
tariff. It is quite manifest that under
this democratic system the foreigner
does not help carry the burden of
American taxation hor is the Ameri
can producer protected against for
eign competition.—Steubenville Her
ald-Star.
WHAT somebody describes as meat
with a kick is being eaten in Austria
with gusto. The Weser Zeitung
quotes an advertisement from a North
Bohemian paper praising the nutri
tious qualities of donkey meat, saying
that it is an excellent substitute for
chicken for making soup, and recom
mending donkey blood sausages as a
great delicacy. No wonder the Teutons
fight stubbornly!
IT IS ALL right for congress to
extend government control from the
manufacture of steel, clothing, to
foodstuffs, lumber, oil, coal and a
thousand and one other things, but
when "king cotton” is menaced a pro
test comes from the solons from
Dixie.
GREECE NOW IN
WAR WITHTEUTONS
SAYS AONSIDKKS SELF
A FI LL BELLIGERENT
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Ambassador to Paris States Country
Has Entered into Conflict and Will
Act Accordingly—Teutons Massing
Forces to Invade Northern Greece.
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 20.—
Official information received by the
Secretary of State today is to the ef
fect that Greece is now in an actual
state of war with the Teuton powers.
The Greek ministry in Paris has no
tified that government that Greece
considers herself a full belligerent
and will act accordingly.
Germans Massing Troops
ATHENS, July 20.—It is officially
stated here that the Germans are
massing troops in Macedonia for the
purpose of invading Greece. A large
number of Bulgarian troops have as
sembled at Rustchuk.
SOCIALIST AGITATOR
WAS PAID GERMAN SPY
PETROGRAD, July 20.—A letter
from General Brusiloff states that
Nikoli Lenine, the radical socialist
leader, who led the latest outbreak in
the Russian capital and then fled, is
an agent of the German general staff,
and was a paid German spy.
STEAM HEAT NEWLY FURNISHED
SEATTLE HOTEL
MRS. E. MILL, Propr.
VALDEZ ALASKA
DRAFT NOW -
GOING ON
STARTED NINE-THIRTY
THIS MORNING IN STATES
Secretary Raker Drew First Thousand
Names From Rov—First Drawn in
Seattle Refuses to Serve on Ground
of Having Wife and Rahy.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ July 20.—
The first drawings of the names of
conscripts for military service took
place this morning at 9:30 in the Sen-;
ate Building. Secretary of War Baker(
drew the first thousand names from;
the box, and then turned the boxesj
over to the board appointed to draw
the names. It took one hour and for-;
ty-five minutes to draw the first thou-!
sand names, and at this rate the en-j
tire draft will require eighteen hours.
First Man Claims Exemption
SEATTLE, July 20.—The first man j
drawn here, Arthur O. Hustoe, a nat-:
uralized Norwegian, stated that her
would claim exemption from draft on
account of having a wife and baby
dependent upon him.
SUCCESSOR TO GERMAN
SECRETARY NOT CHOSEN
COPENHAGEN, July 20—A dis
patch from Copenhagen says that a j
successor to Dr. Zimmerman, whose
resignation as Secretary of the Inter
ior in the German cabinet was tender
ed recently, had not yet been appoint
ed.
BRITISH HELP
JN RUSSIA
MOTOR DETACHMENTS
FIGHTING IN GALICIA
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For First Time Since Beginning War
British Troops Appear in Battle
Alongside Russian Allies—Slavs
Heartened by Their Presence.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ July 20 — j
British armored motor detachments
are taking part in the Russian offen-!
sive in Galicia, according to reports)
received today from Petrograd. This)
is the first official mention of the'
presence of British troops in Russia.
Their presence is greatly heartening
the Slav forces.
WANTED
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TO ENLIST IN THE
U. S. NAVY
FOR PARTICULARS SEE
Str SATURN
CORDOVA ALASKA.
Toilet Soap» Standard makes, Pears, Colegates, 4711 Gly
eerine, Savon Rose, Cuticura,.Palmolive, tooth pastes and powder, *
shaving soaps.
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Special values in yard goods
This store offers you exceptional advantages in the way of staph*
wash g^ods—a clean new line of everyday staples have recently
been placed in stock.
Piedmont Zephyrs and < Jing
liams, plain colors, pink and
blue stripes and checks 4 r.
37 inches wide, yard.13u
Toweling, guaranteed all lin
en buck and damask, glass
cloths, 15 and 18 in. OAn Mn
wide, yard.. ZUb UH
Silkolene, neat patt e r n s
light grounds, 36 in., QAa
wide, a yard... ZUU
<hirtain material — Scrims,
Ftamines, Voiles, fancy bor
ders and plain white and ec
.20cto35c
Outing Flannels—pink, plain
white and light blue, fancy
stripes on white ground 1 Cm
27 inches wide, yard .. *
Towels—Turkish, huek and
damask in differ QCptfiKflp
ent sizes, each .. ^wwlUwllu
House linings, sheets, bed spreads, mosquito bar.
S. BLUM & CO., Inc.
. Good Goods
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WORKMEN MIAlT
CITY HAIL TODAY
TEAR DOWN POSTERS
ADVERTISING FOR MEN
Municipal Employment Agency at Se
attle Invaded by Thi-ong of Alleg
ed 1. W. W.’s Who Tear Down Bu
leau Bulletins.
SEATTLE, July 20.—Several score
of I. W. W.’s invaded the city em- j
ployment bureau at the City Hall to
day and tore down from the walls j
of the place the municipal bulletins
calling for men to work, in the log- j
ging camps of the State, where a I
strike is now on. The leaders were ar
rested and placed in jail charged with
disorderly conduct.
ADD STREET CAR STRIKE
Company Ordered to Resume
SEATTLE, July 20. — Superior;
Judge Tallman after hearing the evi- j
dence submitted by the city in its re- J
quest for a writ of mandate compell
ing the street car company to resume j
operations, ordered the traction com-;
pany to resume its customary carl
service by four o’clock today, failing
in which the company must show ,
cause why a receiver should not be j
appointed to operate the system.
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Postovani Gospodine
Primili smo od “Stewart and Sel
by" iz Valdez, Alaska, pismon od 10.
4. 1917. svptu od £.3.1.7. kao doprin
os Vas igg. Andrije Marovic i M.
Drlevic na korist naseg fonda. Dok
smo pomenutoj firmi zasebno potvr
dili primitak, osobito nam je milo da
ponapose Varna i Vasoj gospodni
drugovima potvrdimo primitak i na
jljepse zapvalimo.
IT velike nas je obradovala vijest
da tamosnji Jugosloveni rade za nar
odnu stvaj, a osobito nam je bilo
cuti pohvalne rejeci, koje su ponapose
navedene o Vasem rodoljubnom radu.
Preporucamo Vam zivo nas rad jer
mi trebamo i moralnu { financijalnu
Vasu pomoc.
Uz jugoslovenski pozdrav
s postovanjem
MICU
Predsjednikov zamjenik
JAPAN MAKING CHANGE
IN MANCHURIAN POLICY
TOKYO, Japan, July 20.—Japan is
arranging a radical change of admin
istration in Manchuria, by which the
whole country will come under the
zone of Japanese Influence and be
placed under military authority.
Mrs W. A. Dickey was a passenger
on the steamer Northwestern for La
touche, where Mr. Dickey and her
two daughters are spending the sum
mer.
Seattle Fish Quotations
SEATTLE, July 20.—Seattle prices
on fish at noon July 20th: halibut,
14c; sable fish, 4c; red rock fish 3c.
WANTED—Any quantity of clean
old rags. Valdez Packing Co., tf
Complete line of Bulk Chocolates.
Candy Kitchen. tf
VALDEZ DODGE
NO 188
Free aad Arrrptrd Maaaai
Regular Communications first Wed
uesday in each month in McKinley
Hal) Visitors always welcome.
F. M. BROWN, W. M.
ED WOOD. Secretary.
WE PAY
Cast Iron *25 per ton.
Wrought Iron 918 per ton. —..
Copper *26 per ton.
Brass *18 per ton.
l>ead 8Mtc per |>ound.
Robber 7%c per pound.
Qt. Beer Bottles 27 %c per doz.
Pint Beer Bottles 17Vi per doz.
Rags *2.50 per 100 pounds.
Paper *1.00 per 100 pounds.
Manila Rope 4Mtc per pound.
F. O. B. SEATTLE.
ATLAS JUNK CO.
1043 Railroad Avenue, So.
SEATTLE, WASH.
Launch Patsy
for Charter Anwyhere on
VALDEZ BAY
At any Time Day or Night
J. D. Jefferson
VALDEZ, ALASKA
LAUNCH
PATHFINDER
CAPT. BYRON SMITH
Sailing weekly out of Valdez
will deliver passengers, mail, ex
press and fast freight at any
point on Prinre William Sound.
RATES REASONABLE
Periodical service by agree
ment to outlying camps a spe
cialty.
CAPT. BYRON SMITH
VALDEZ, ALASKA
a a a a a a a a a a. ■_ _* « * -* * L L * 1 * *
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company
. Office on Alaska Avenue, in
George C. Treat Building
Telephone No. 60
General Trucking and Freighting
to all Interior Points.
AUTOS FOR HIRE
DAY OR NIGHT
Positively No Coal Delivered Un
less Paid for in Advance
PROFESSIONAL C/)Jfr>S.
DR. S. WICKES MERRITT f
Offices in Fish Building, adjoining
Tillikum Club.
Phone *15 McKinley Street
Contract Surgeon, 0. S. Army
A. A Furgeoo, U S. Public Health Sere.
(Marine Hospital)
DR. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate National I'afeera'ty.
Waahlogton, D. L. ^
DENTIST
In Valdez Since 1898
PHONE 110
Office Rooms In Whaling Building
DONOHOE & DI^TOND
ATTOKNE V S-AT-L AW
#®te Opposite Court Boone
Phone S4 VALDEZ. 4LASKA
JOHN LIONS a E RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORNEY 1-iT.LAW
Offlcea In » Nallng Building
Phone 1st valdez. Alaska
ROBERT SIMPSON Opt. D.
JUNEAU, ALASKA
Glasses Kilted ileuses Ground
VALDEZHOSPITAL
Private Rooms
Terms Reasonable
JOS. A. SILVERMAN. Pk. C.. M. D. Prop.
Jos. A. Silverman Ph. G. M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Office boars**1 to 4 p. at —7 to 8 p. a.
Sunday by Appointment
Res. Tel. 176 Office Tel. 19
Boyle Block Valdez
J. E. WILSON
Freighting to all points
in the third division.
Horses bought and sold.
Phone 166.
Valdez Miners Union No. 188"
Western Federation of Miners
W. M. CONLEY President.
Valdes Alaska.
GEORGE M. BARRY Secretary.
Valdes Alaska. > *•
Gandy Kitchen1
L W. HUNT—b Owl Dru &•*«• I
FOUNTAIN DRINKS
HOT-COLD