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WEDNESDAY, MAY .20, 1914.
ETNA THE SCOURGE
Mount Etna, now in eruption, has
been a plague since the (lawn of
history. Of all the world’s volcanoes
it is probably the most active and
consistent of the destroyers of human
life. It ha§ literally wiped out hu
man beings by the hundred thousand.
Its slopes have been one great char
nel house and in all likelihood they
will continue to be.
There are over eighty recorded
eruptions of this murderous volcano
and in every instance the loss of life
has been great. The present eruption
is trifling in its death list compared
with some in the past. The one in
1693 took 60,000 lives and estimates
for others run all the way up to
20,000. The first recorded eruption is
700 years before the Christian era.
In the days of Greece and Rome Etna
was well known and dreaded. Myth
ology early endowed Etna with in
telligent malice. It was the prison of
the fire breathing Enceladus or it was
the forge of Hephaestus. Classical
reference to its destructive tenden
cies are innumerable. Etna was known
and feared as far back as history
runs.
That man would choose to live on
the sides of a mountain so dangerous
must always be one of the puzzles
of humanity. The world is large and
the areas where life is reasonably
certain are so vast that it would ap
pear to be only the exercise of com
mon sense to shut Etna. But no, man,
with a stange tenacity, clings to the
villages that have time after time
been wiped out of existence. The
molten lava may flow down .turning
everything to ashes; poisonous gases
may strike sudden death; in a day
the habitations of a generation may
be less than ruins; the olive, orange,
fig and date orchards may be reduced
to cinders, but only for a little time.
One by one, like ants to a disrupt
ed ant hill, the human beings re
turn and begin their work all over
again. Little by little new homes
take the places of old ones, new or
chards are laid out and in a few
years the inhabitants have again set
tled down to a normal existence, pre
sumably as happy and care free as
any community in the world.
The battle between Etna and man
has been a lone one and Etna has not
yet won a decisive victory over its
frail antagonist.—Ex.
KEEPING WITNESSES IN JAIL.
The holding of a witness in- jail,
while another witness or the man
against whom the witness is to tes
tify is allowed his liberty on bail, is
one of those unescapable injustices at
which it is very easy to rail, but for
which it is very difficult to suggest
an alternative. Newspapers and or
ganizations which capitalize discon
tent find in the practice an ever
ready incitement to resentment. It
is a notable fact, however, that they
never give any remedy for the wrong.
The cause of general justice de
mands that witnesses be made cer
tain . when the life or liberty of a
man is at stake. The word of the
witnesses cannot be taken. Exper
ience and common sense tell us that
there are too many inducements for
witnesses to depart into obscurity. A
rich man might be able to pay a
witness sufficient to make him pre
sent himself, but the poor man lacks
this advantage.
Every witness for and against a
defendant in a criminal case, no mat
ter how remote his connection with
the crime; might be held in jail un
til the Case came to. trial. That, how
ever, we venture to believe would
not be a satisfactory settlement of the
difficulty. It would not only make the
injustice to the one which is now for
tunately infrequent a general injustice
and no one would take his imprison
ment more cheerfully because others
were in the same predicament.
The law is forced to demand some
sort of hostage from witnesses and
principals. They must either give
their person or some token of a val
ue greater than the possible loss that
will come to them at'the trial. A man
who is unfortunate enough to be a
witness and has the additional mls
, ,• |
fortune not to possess sufficientmon
ey for bail is to be pitied, but if he
were the defendant instead of the
witness he could see the necessity for
his being held It is a hardship, but
unavoidable.—Ex.
referenceIoks
Professor Davis, of the Valdez High
School, Requests Aid of Citizens
—Need Reference Books.
Prof. Davis, of the Valdez High
School, has found it difficult to se
cure reference books in order that the
pupils of the school, who are working
for the public debate soon to be giv
en, may secure reliable data regard
ing the Monroe doctrine, which is
to be the subject of the debate. He
has requested the Prospector to ask
all who have any of the following
books on the subject to telephone No.
135 and he will call for the books
and return same at an early date.
The list desired is as follows:
Hart, A. B., Foundation of Ameri
can Foreign Policy, Chap. VII.
Henderson, J. B„ American Diplo
matic Questions, Part IV.
Woolsey, T. S., America’s Foreign
Policy, pp. 223-38.
Phelps, E. J., Monroe Doctrine in
America and Europe, Chap. II.
Forum, Vol. 7, p. 192; Vol. 20, pp.
456, 705.
No. Amer. Rev., Vol. 173, p. 832;
Vol. 176, pp. 321, 518.
Pol. Sci. Q„ Vol. 11, pp. 30, 44:
Vol. 14, p. 355.
Fortnightly, Rev., Vol. 7, p. 1013;
Vol. 78, p. 837.
Westm. Rev., Vol. 145, p. 271; Vol.
149, p. 237; Vol. 150, p. 171; Vol. 159,
p. 125.
Nation, Vol. 34, p. 9; Vol. 60, p.
356; Vol. 61, p. 304; Vol. 62, pp. 4,
30, 90; Vol. 66, p. 368.
Foster, J. W., A Century of Amer
ican Diplomacy.
Kasson, J. A.. The Evolution of the
United States Constitution, pp. 223
73.
Roosevelt, Theodore, American Id
eals, Chap. II.
MeMasters, J. 11., \Vith the Fath
ers, pp. 1-54.
Baldwin, S. E., Modern Political In -
stitutions, Chap. XIII.
Chetwood, John, Manilla, or Mon
roe Doctrine.
Senate Documents, 54th Congress,
1st session, No. 31.
Forum, Vol. 20, p. 713; Vol. 30, p.
722.
No. Amer. Rev., Vol. 133, p. 523;
Vol. 160, p. 651; Vol. 169, p. 448;
Vol. 176, -pp. 185, 728, 881.
Arena, Vol. 23, p. 247.
National Rev., Vol. 26, p. 595; Vol.
27, p. 156; Vol. 40, p. 871.
Spectator, Vol. 75, p. 478; Vol. 89,
p. 280.
United States and Mexico and the
Monroe Doctrine. Outlook 97; 620,
Mar. 25, 1911.
An American Slap at the Monroe
Doctrine. Lit. Dig. Dec. 20, 1913.
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Call for Bid*.
At the regular meeting of the city
council of May 18. 1914, the Street
committee was instructed to call for
bids for a concrete sidewalk to be
constructed from a point known on
McKinley street and occupied "by the
Pinzon Cigar Company, and from
there down McKinley street to a
point known and occupied by the Val
dez Bank and Trust Company. Spec
ifications can be seen at the office
of the chairman of the Street com
mittee. The city reserves the right
to reject any and all bids. Bids will
be closed at 3 p. m. June 1, 1914, and
same can be delivered to the chair
man or any member of the commit
tee.
Street and Lighting Committee.
AL. WHITE, Chairman.
WM. THOMAS.
JOHN LYONS.
Health Notice.
In view of the fact that several peo
ple persist in throwing ashes, garb
age, etc., in the public alleys, streets
and on private premises, I herewith
publish extracts from city ordinance
covering same and will see that they
are enforced.
All. receptacles containing ashes,
garbage, etc., must be covered and
rendered fly proof.
The scavenger has offered to re
move garbage, ashes and toilets week
ly from private residences for $1.00
per month. The extracts from Or
dinance No. 27 are as follows:
“Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the
Common Council of the Town of
Valdez, that any person who shall
throw or deposit, or cause to be
thrown or cause to be deposited in
to or upon any public street, highway,
alley or grounds, or in any gutter,
ditch, stream' or creek, or upon any
private premises within the corporate
limits of the Town of Valdez, Alaska,
any glass, broken ware, dirt, rubbish,
garbage, ashes, soot, cinders, or filth
of any kind, or any person who shall,
either as owner, agent, lessee, or ten
ant, allow to remain upon any prem
ises in his or her possession, occu
pation or control any glass, broken
ware, rubbish, garbage, ashes, soot,
cinders, or filth of any kind, shall be
deemed guilly of a misdemeanor and
upon conviction thereof, before the
police magistrate, shall be punished
by a fine of not less than five nor
more than twenty-five dollars.
“Sec. 2. Any person who shall,
either as owner, agent, lessee or ten
ant of any building^ lot or ground,
within the corporate limits of the
Town of Valdez, Alaska, throw, emp
ty out, or deposit, or cause, permit'
or allow the same to be done by any
servant or employee, or other person,
in any gutter or ditch, stream or
creek, or near any inhabited place,
the suds of filthy water resulting from
the washing of clothing, or dishes,
slops from the kitchen, or other filthy
matter, or to allow suds or filthy wa
ter to stand upon such premises, or
to run or seep into the public streets
or alleys, or the premises adjoining,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and
Upon conviction thereof before the
Police Magistrate, shall be punished
by a fine of not less than five nor
more than twenty-five dollars.”
E. C. DALTON, M. D„
k 21 Health Officer.
NOTICE OF SPECIAL TERMS OF
th# District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division, at
Dillingham, Unalaska, Unga and
Kodiak, Alaska.
The President of the United States of
America:
To the Residents of the Third Di
vision of the Territory of Alaska,
and to All Whom It May Concern:
GREETING:
You, and each and all of you, will
please take notice that by an order
of the court, duly made and entered,
a special term of the District Court
for the Territory of Alaska, Third
Division, has been called and will be
held at Dillingham, Alaska, begin
ning on the 10th day of August,
1914, at the hour of ten o'clock a. am.;
In the Town of Unalaska, Alaska,
beginning on the 22nd day of Aug
ust, 1914,'at_ the hour of ten o’clock
a. m.;
In the Town of Unalaska, Alaska,
I beginning on the 25th day of August,
1914, at the hour of ten o’clock a. m;
In the Town of Unga, Alaska, be
ginning on the 26th day of August,
1914, at the hour of ten o’clock a.
m.;
In the Town of Unga, Alaska, be
ginning on the 1st day of September,
1914, at the hour of ten o’clock a.
m;
In the Town of Kodiak, Alaska, be
ginning on the 29th day of August,
1914, at the hour of ten o’clock a. m;
In the Town of Kodiak, Alaska, be
ginning on the 5th day of September,
1914, at the hour of ten o’clock a. m;
Said Special Terms of Court will
continue as long thereafter as the
public welfare may require.
Dated at Cordova, Alaska this 13th
day of April A. D. 1914.
FRED M. BROWN,
District Judge.
JAMES C. McREYNOLDS,
Attorney General.
Attest: ARTHUR LANG, Clerk.
Date of first publication April 20,
1914.
Date of last publication May 25,
1914.
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