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The NEW ALL-STEEL TRAINS to
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For further information regarding fares, train sendee, reservations, etc.,
cal on or address
C. H. Kraeiner, General Agent,
Alaska St-amship Co. and Alaska Coast S. S. Co., Valdez, Alaska
City Ticket Offices, Chicago, Milwaukee Sc St. Paul Railway
443 Hastings St. West, Vancouver, B. C.
Second Ave. and Cherry St., Seattle
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WEATHER RECORD.
Taken at 8:00 a. m. Snow is Riven
as depth on level, in inches.
Locations— Temp. Snow
Tuesday, January 13, 1914
wortman s . r>6
Thompson’s Pass . 76
Beaver Dam . 0 12
Teikhell 60
Tonsina .-11 16
Copper Center . 10
Gulkana .-11 12
Paxson’s .-10 24
Wortman’s—cloudy, calm, trail closT
ed.
Thompson’s Pass—cloudy, calm, trail
fair north, closed south.
Beaver Dam—cloudy, calm, trail open.
Teikhell—clear, calm, trail good.
Tonsina—clear, calm, trail good.
Copper Center—clear, calm, trail
good.
Paxson’s—cloudy, calm, trail good.
Monday, January 12, 1914.
XV'ormtan’s . 56
Thompson’s Pass . 76
Beaver Dam . -2 42
Teikhell . 60
Tonsina .-15 16
Copper Center . 10
Gulkana .-12 12
Hogan’s ....(closed temporarily).
Paxson’s . -4 24
Valdez, Jan. 12, 1914.
Barometric Pressure .29.214
Temperature at 7 p. m.21
Maximum Tempedature.24
Minimum Temperature .10
Mean Temperature . 3
Mean'Temperature .17
Precipitation . 3
Partly cloudy, calm, wind N. E.
two miles. Snowed at night.
Boss Heckey, who brought Axel.
Sederburg from his camp at Wort
mans to the Good Samaritan Hospital
for treatment for stomach trouble,
left to rejoin the outfit this morning.
Sederburg is much Improved and will
be able to be out aga'n in a few
days.
Judge Shaw, who went to the Nel
china to assume the duties of his of
fice, arrived at the camp en the last
day of the year. He left Valdez with
about a thousand pounds of supplies
on Dec. 23.
Woman will do washing, work by
day or hour. Enquire ’phone 131
Crawford building.
HAVE BIG LOBBY
_
Is Report From East and Will Spend
Thousands to Prevent Full Ter
ritorial Government.
The fishing companies of Alaska are
reported to have organized one of the
largest lobbies ever sent to Wash
ington in the interest of their indus
try. The companies have secured a !
big purse to defray the expense of ;
the lobbyists, who are to remain in !
Washington and prevnt the enact
ment of any law which will allow
the territorial legislature of this ter
ritory to tax the output of salmon and
prevent them from taxing the cannery
buildings and gear of the fishing com
panies.
One single canneryman has been j
reported to have contributed $f.,000 j
to this fund and every effort is be- I
ing made, it is reported, to prevent I
hostile legislation.
The WJckersham enabling act, un- j
der which the present territorial leg- j
islature is organized, expressly pro- j
liibits any tax on the fish output or I
the passage of any law regulating
the fish, fur or game acts of congress.
Under the present act of congress
! the canneries pay their taxes in af
I fidavits that they have liberated sal
i mon fry and do not pay on buildings,
i gear or traps, and against this affi- i
davit every grand jury for many I
years lias protested in vain.
The recommendation of President |
Wilson thiit a full territorial govern
ment be established in Alaska has ■
caused the eannerymen much concern i
as they fear, should the territory be !
given a full territorial form of gov- j
eminent, they will be forced to pay a I
fair share of the burden of the gov
ernment.
JAPS AREKILLEO
By E
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Hundreds Killed at Kogoshima, on i
Kyushu Island—Night of Ter- j
ror for Inhabitants.
!
j
i
I TOKH), Japan, Jan. 13.- Hundreds
! of people were killed last night when
more than 300 separate earthquakes
destroyed the city of Kogoshima, on
Kyushu island. Hardly a building in
the city, which is the capital of state
I in Japan on Kyushu island, but was
' greatly damaged and many of them
| were completely demolished.
The citizens of the town made an
j effort to leave the city but the rock
i slides prevented them from getting
j away, and they spent a night of ter
j ror, unable to move for fear of be
: ing caught in the slides, and yet they
| could not remain in the city as the
j buildings were being shaken to pieces.
The dead number more than 300
persons according to the statements
of the refugees, who are being cared
for on the government war vessels,
which have been sent to the scene
to render such aid as they can. Only
small, vessels can be sent as many
new rocks have appeared because of
the quake and the big ships fear to
enter the harbor.
Kogoshima, the city which, has been J
destroyed, is the capital of a ken. j
or state, in the southern part of Kyu - i
shu island, the second largest island
of the Japanese islands.
Cold In St. Paul.
.ST. PAUL, Jan. 13.— The cold snap
has the entire northwest in its grip
today and here in the city the ther
mometer registers 10 below in the
city.
C. B. Overheiser, who carried mail
in the early days between Cbistachi
na and Mentasta, Is running a chick
en ranch at Baker City, Ore., and says
he is content. But he wants to know
about the Shushana strike and if re
ports are favorable there will be a
big bargain in a chicken ranch.
The road commission is having all
the bridges between Valdez and Ton
sina cleared of snow, fearing that the
weight of snow and ice will damage
the bridges.
The McIntosh teams returned to
Valdez last night from out the gov
ernment road.
Fine change of pictures tonight at
the Orpheum.
SURGERYTOMAKE
US TALLOR SHORT
Scalpel Now Holds out Hops i
to Giants and Midgets. j
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TEST ON BOY SKYSCRAPER.
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Remarkable Achievements Credited to
Experimenters In Efforts to Help the
Undersized—Say Pituitary Gland Is
Responsible For Extremes In Human
Development.
Surgery is being put to the unusual J
test of regulating tile height and phya- |
ieal development of the human body.
An overgrown boy is the subject of the
latest experiment. If it bears out the
conclusion of several eminent anato
mists it soon will lie a common resort
to make an incision at the side of the
head, trim down a gland the size of a
bean at the base of the brain, and any
tendencies to develop into the giant
class will tie arrested. On the other
hand, should the subject, seemingly 1
stationary at four feet six inches, wish
to join tile five foot ten class all that
will be necessary is to inject invigora
tion into tills bean shaped gland, in
crease its size, and forthwith the pyg
my will take on the proportions of a
well developed individual.
The operation just performed was
upon a hoy of fifteen, who had attain
ed a height of six feet seven inches and
had shown physical indications of
growth still longer. The operation was
to put a stop to this abnormal growtli
' and at file same time to give the
rest of tlie Is sly and ids mind a chance
to catch up.
The mind generally lias been consid
j ered the ruling power in physical
I makeup, but if recent discoveries are
; read aright it would appear that there
! is another part of our organism which
! is our vital master. This Is what the
J anatomist calls the pituitary gland.
Gland That Governs Height.
1 Now. we are told, the pituitary gland
: Is not a part of tile brain, although as
! sociated with It. It weighs In a nor
! null person something like half a gram
1 and is shaped after the fashion of a
| small peanut. But its Importance is
not to lie judged by its size, although
its abnormal enlargement in some in
stances really led to the first revela
tions as to Its functions.
The initial inkling of its workings
! was disclosed so recently as the Into
j eighties, and a little of this history Is
! told in the New York I'ress
Iii (lie rat- away (lawn or living ver
tebrates tbe pituitary gland is suppos
; ed to have performed a peculiar duty,
and until of late it was imagined that
! the days of its usefulness long had
[ passed. According to comparative anat
! omy, there was time when the ver
tebrate creatures* had an opening at
i the back alal roof of the mouth cavity
; which provided a direct passage to the
j brain. Standing watch at the inner
j end of tliis vital highway was the
i pituitary gland, which regulated the
manner in which air mid water and
food should tie assimilated and appor
tioned in maintaining the physical
wellbeing and in supplying energy for
the active operations of life.
There came a time when this cleft
closed. The bruin withdrew from, its
I quondam intimacy with the mouth
! Tile pituitary gland, or body, elected
! to share this seclusion. Accordingly,
early anatomists .jumped to the con
clusion that its days of effective serv
ice were over, believing it of no more
use in our physical economy than the
troublesome vermiform appendix. How
ever. they were woefully in error, and
their followers have pretty generally
shared in the mistake until within the
Inst quarter of a century.
The pituitary body is what is called
a ductless gland— that is. there is no
direct outlet for the secretion which it
generates. Just the same, it manages
to send its chemical agents, called hor
mones. by devious channels not only
Into the circulating blood but into the
nervous system as well, inducing dif
ferent effects in each of these direr
( tions.
Hold Out Hope For the Undersized.
The two lobes of this little body
have separate duties. The front lobe
Is tbe one commonly enlarged in eases
j of giantism and acromegaly, and its
[secretion lias to do directly with hone
building and possibly with the growth
of our body substance generally.
Tbe surgeons referred to in the New
York Press are bent upon curbing
j giantism, but say they have done re
markable work of late in helping those j
that have lagged in their physical de- '
velopinent. so that not only may they j
aid tile overgrown but ultimately tbe j
undersized as well , Apparently de .
creasing the power of the gland will j
help In one direction and increasing the j
power in the other
An operation performed on a giant j
revealed that the abnormal size of the |
pituitary gland was directly responsi j
hie for Ills great height.
Annual Trophy For Navy’a Gunner*.
In recognition of tile services of
Major General Henry Knox of Massa
chusetts. chief of artillery to General
Washington, first secretary of war and
of the navy, founder of the Springfield
armory and West Point, the Society
of the Sons of the Revolution of Mas
sachusetts will auuually present n
brouse medallion to tbe American bat
tleship making the best record iu gun
nery. Tbe Idaho will receive tbe drat
trophy.
Valdez
Electric
Company
The Consumers Organization
that has reduced the cost
of electric light and pow
er in Valdez. —Send in
your orders for connec
tions before January 1st.
Office in Copper^Block
Phone 57
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