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VALDES. ALASKA
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Inly 28, 1912. at the postofflce of Valdes, ,
Alaska, under act of March S. 1879.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1917
CROWNED HEADS DOOMED.
If clairvoyance coutd be invoked
we probably should discover that sev
eral heads in Europe that wear the
crown are resting uneasily. The re
markable revolution in Russia—-one
of the briefest and yet one of the
most bloodless in history—seems to
show that the masses are of one mind j
regarding royalty, even in a nation so
heterogenous and so uneducated as |
the Slavic empire. It may be imag-!
ined that the people of the more ad
vanced countries are tiring of kings i
who pretend to rule by divine right, J
and who are in reality but excres
ences upon the life of a nation; suck-1
ing its lifeblood; useless drones who!
are noi worth their luxurious keep. 1
Russia has been the most backward |
important state in Europe and its j
people have been the most downtrod
den and oppressed. The victory of j
the liberals after the Russo-Japanese,
war was a decisive gain but even to
day the duma, which is the only voice
the people have in the government, is
not representative (because of the
limited franchise) in the sense that a '
modern parliament, like England's o.
a congress like our own, is represen
tative. Yet the establishment of the
duma through bloodshed iu 1905 and
the overthrow of the rule of Nicholas
II. and his parasites, who are chiefly
blamable for present conditions, show
that the Muscovites are striving with
some success for self-government.
Should the rumblings of dissatis- *
faction spread we may expect to hear j
them next under the German throne,
the Austrian throne, in Greece, Eng
land, Norway and Sweden. Of all
the above royal heads the Kaiser is
the world’s leading exponent of the
divine right of kings—a doctrine of
the ancient and middle ages. He is
a clever politician and has ruled his
people with just enough pressure to
produce the best results. He has pro
duced a representative republic out of
a kingdom, and has honestly and ef
fectively worked for the good of his
people. But his fate as a real mon
arch now depends on the outcome of
the war behind which he has recruit
ed his country’s strength.
That the Kaiser is fully alive to the^
dangers of his imperial state
shown by a speech delivered ^
the Prussian diet this we- . ^
chancellor. It may be si- ^ ^
this address was “ade,^ revo.
,utlon in Russia. , ^ ^b.nce„or-,
worts in pr iHtfftHCfi the people a
greater s ar ffWte government aft
er the " ^QtfYt*%0rth quoting: ^
!fo 'the statesman who doe*
recognize the signs of the time*
*&ind wno after this catastrophe, the
i-Mke'of which the world has never seen
| believes that he can take up his work
I at the same point at which it was in
| terrupted. 1 will devote my last ef
| fort to the carrying out of this idea
!of making the people strong.”
i Evidently the Kaiser fears the leav
ien of revolt. The divinity of king
; ship is at stake. The Czar was loo
; weak, too vacillating, to read those
| signs of the times, or if he did read
-them, he was not equal to the task of
| achieving the reforms needed to ap
1 pease the people. It is the Kaiser’s
strength that he does not underesti
: mate the people's power and for that
reason he may be able, by voluntarily
i stripping himself of certain autocratic
; prerogatives, to keep his throne and
maintain the loyalty of his subjects.
As the German chancellor says,
however, there is certain to be a vast
change in the machinery of European
governments after the war and such
change as is accomplished will be in
the direction of democracy—if not the
democracy of France and America, at
least the practical democracy of Can
ada and Australia.
COME OVER INTO MACEDONIA.
THERE are many firms in town
who are shirking their obligation to
the community. In other words they
are trying to get something for noth
ing by not patronizing the columns
of The Prospector and The Miner,—
your home papers, which are working
indefatigably to build up your town.
Our time, our money and our heart
are with the town of Valdez. We may
be always found in the van for the
betterment of civic conditions.
The past year The Prospector and
The Miner have turned loose among
the merchants and people of this city
$16,20f> dollars. Of this money over
$6,000 has come to the city from out
side. Were a factory with this pay
rool to offer to come to a modern,
live, up-to-date city, it would be given
every consideration.
We ask for nothing but your pat
ronage. We are entitled to that.
When you refuse to support you
home paper and allow others to do it,
you are reaping benefits not accruing
to you. You are creeping under the
fence to see the ball game.
Suppose (it is only problematical,
at present), the Prospector would
cease publication; we would lay oft
the larger part of our hands, and cut
out expenses to the quick, as many
have done on account of the ruinous
prices of paper stock. Do you think
the town would get along as well
without a daily?
You may say “it would be better
off,” for reasons over which you are
too prejudiced to be an unbiased
judge, but deep down in your heart J
you are aware that we are giving you I
the best paper you ever read for its I
size and number of pages.
Our contemporaries in the States
ask us how we do it and make money.
There are many people in town who
do not take the paper who never fail
to read every issue. How? Why,
THE EMPRESS
SPECIAL FEATURE PRODUCTION
THEDA BARA
In her greatest triumph
“CARIV M”
5 ACT PRODUCTION SUPREME
Finished with the comedy
“CROSS SWORDS and LOVE”
Sunday, THE ARAB, Five Acts
Regular Admission .... 25c
STEAM HEAT NEWLY FURNISHED
SEATTLE HOTEL
MRS. E. MILL, Propr.
VALDEZ ALASKA
■— ---—■
thev •
■. h*>m>w\their neighbor’s, or go
, W«dk 'or two to the saloon or drug
(MWr, where it is free.
VheV are peeking at the game thru
h knothole. They are cheating us
as well as themselves. We are enti
tled to their support but a dollar ev
ery thirty days looks larger to them
thau a booming town a few years
hence.
We do not want to be forced to
descend to the weekly, tank-town
stage. We want our paper to be your
favorite bit of reading. We want you
to get into the habit of putting on
your slippers, lighting up the old pipe,
and, with the baby on your lap, reach
for the Prospector the first thing
after supper.
Sixteen thousand dollars is a lot
of money to distribute among the cit
izens of a town of 1000. It means
$16 in good, round iron men to ev
ery inhabitant. Of course, a few of
you have got it all, hut it is entered
into circulation, and that is the main
thing.
Give us all the patronage you can.
We need it. Every dollar over and
above our bare expenses goes into a
iarger and better plant. More tele
graphic news, more special features,
improved service all around.
We are sending out the S. O. S.
call to our friends. We want their
assistance. If our enemies will only
get acquainted with us they also will
! become our friends and well-wishers.
I Give us your patronage and we
| will grow and flourish as the prover
Ibial gourd; refuse it, and we must
eventually wither and die.
TO GIVE OLD-TIMERS A CHANCE.
THE Pioneers of Alaska are enter
taining a proposition to admit to
membership all persons who have
tesided in the Territory fifteen years.
This will apply to future residents as
well as those who have resided here
fifteen years up to the present. This
will keep the membership of the or
der up to its capacity, and will also
give persons who have resided in the
Territory the stated time the privi
lege of joining this splendid order.
The Pioneers are different from the
ordinary organizations in that it re
quires a lon|f and often-times arduous
probation for the prospective member.
It requires his identification with the
building of an empire. It associates
him with the ideals which built up
\merica. And it also represents that
hardy type of old-timers who are rap
idly passing away, but whose names
will forever stand forth in the annals
of the Territory by their deeds. It is
a precious privilege to be allowed to
oin such an order and one which but
or this proposed amendment to their j
constitution would be denied to many i
luture citizens.
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THE landing of the machinery on
the City dock Sunday morning for the
new cannery was a red-letter day for
Valdez. This enterprise is sure to be
a success, if there are any fish at all
this year, and if this cannery makes
a big pack it is certain that other
companies will enter the field here.
There is no reason why Valdez should
not become a canning center. We are
close to immense clam beds, and vast
schools of fish run within sight of the
city. Our harbor and waterfront is
one of the best in the Territory and
the nature of the bottom of the bay
makes driving piling a comparatively
easy task. We believe too much at
tention is paid to mining in this vi
cinity and not enough to numberless
other resources that lie at our door.
To make a good town we must utilize
every industry.
THE town of Valdez is incensed at
Anchorage for wanting the seat of
justice for the Third Division to have
and to hold. As possession Is nine
points (ten to bulldogs only) and as
Anchorage is closed to navigation
several months in the winter, there is
a glaring possibility that Valdez will
retain the court. At least, that is the
way it looks tc what Montague Glass
terms a "neuter.” Anyway, Anchor
age has John W. Frame and she can
not expect to get a corner on every
thing in the line of assets.—Douglas
News.
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A POOR MAN may not know
much but he can generally tell you
what a'rlch man should do with his
money.
EVERY now and then you meet up
with a man who think6 he is making
a concession when he says there are
a few good men in the other political
party.
DON'T WORRY. None of the crabs
who yap about low-neck dresses feel
as badly over them as they pretend
they do.
ONE REASON we have so many di
vorces is because too many men treat
their wives like poor relations.
DO NOT worry about getting jus
tice. If you did maybe you would
be afraid to leave home.
T. J. Devinney left this morning to
return to the Cube mine after spend
ing a couple of days in town.
SPRUCE UP
for
EASTER
Men
A suit of
Hart Schaffner
&
Marx Clothes
will put you in the
Easter Parade
with the feeling that
you’re dressed just
a little better than
the other fellow.
Crosset Shoes for men.
Women
Shoes for you have
arrived just in time
for the
Easter Show
very clever styles and
priced right
as they were bought
before the
last big acfvance
in leather.
Selby shoes for women
STYLE-PLUS CLOTHES $17
phone ,3 S. Blum & Co. iTl'Zr
GOOD GOODS
J. E. WILSON
Freighting to all points
in the third division.
Horses bought and sold.
Phone 166.
OWL DRUG CO.
The only Rexall Store in
Valdez.
Prescriptions a Specialty.
Satisfaction Guaranteed
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.
LIVERY and FEED STABLE.
STORAGE,
Teaming of All Kinds
Positively No Coal Delivered Un
less Paid for in Advance
-' I
Charles Lindgren, a well known
Fairbanks mining man, who arrived
on the last boat from the States, left
this morning for the interior. He is
traveling light and expects to reach
Fairbanks in ten days.
John A. Hazelet, the well known
Slate creek operator, is a passenger
on the Mariposa for Valdez.
_
!
The Cake Won’t Fall
When you make it
with
Crescent Baking Pnwder
But it will cone
out “light as a
feather” even un
der adverse con
ditions
SOLD BY OBOtTORK
25c lb. Can.
ORESCENT ,WE«. tX>.,
SeattJe, Wash.
»>l*en Ray and N'iglit McKinley Street, Below ('able Office
Fresh Bread, Pies, Cakes,
All Kinds of Pastry for Sale.
EVERYTHING THE BEST ANDY MAROVICH, Propr.
Candy Kitchen
E. W. HUNT—la Owl Drat Stare.
FOUNTAIN DRINKS
HOT COLD
WE PA V
28 rents per pound for t 'upper
18 cents per pound for Brass
8c lb. for Rubber Shoes.
7c lb. for I>ead.
$20.00 per ton for cast iron.
$13 per ton Wrought Iron.
5c per lb. for Rope.
:< c l»er pound for Ra^*.
$20.00 per ton for Paper.
27c per do/. Beer Bottles, qts.
17c do/. Beer Bottles, pints.
P. O. B. SEATTLE.
ATLAS JUNK CO.
1043 Railroad Avenue, So.
SEATTLE. W'ASH.
VALDEZ CAFE & BAKERY
Cake*, Caokiei & Boa, 15c par daws.
Frock, Rye ad White Bred 12 1-2
cote per leaf.* Oder* take* (or epecial
occaiion.
BERGSTROM A ROCSTAD. Prop*.
PHONEI17 - Three Am heUw Owl One
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE SEXTON.
STRICTLY FIRST CLASS
Fourth Ave. Seward. Alaska
Arctic Hotel
Watch This
Space
PHONE 133 MRS. SYRINC, Prep
Webster’s New International Dic
tionary, strictly up to date; come in
and look it over. Valdez Drug Co. if
Fresh eanay at the Emporium, tf
A full and complete line of Cigars,
Cigarettes, Smoking Tobacco and
Pipes. Valdez Drug Co. tf
Anything in nugget and ivory jew
elry at Valdea Drug Co.
A fresh lot of Haas’ Candies receiv
ed on last boat, from 50 cents to 52
a box. Valdez Drug Co. if ,
PHOKKHSION'AIi CARDS.
VALDEZ HOSPITAL
Private Rooms
Terms Reasonable
JOS. A. SILVERMAN, Pfc. C.. M. D. Prop.
Jos. A. ^ilvermaa Ph. G. M. D.,
PHYSIOAX AX'D Sl RGKO.\f
Office hours-. 1 to 4 p. m -7 to 8 p. m.
Sunday by Appointment
Rea. Tel. 176 Office Tel. 19
Boyle Block Valdez
DR. S. WICKES MERRITT
OlHeee over A aldei Drug Co.
Phone’IS McKinley street
Contract Surgeon, L:. S. Army
A. A^Surgeon. V S. Public Health Serv
(Marine Hospital)
DR. H. COCKERILLE
Gnlute National University
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
l''onrteen Years In Valdez.
PHOliE lie
Office Rooms In Whaling Rntiding
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTOHNEYS-AT-LAW
Dflm Opposite Court House
Phone 34 VALDEZ. ALASKA
JOHN GTONfc S K KITCHIB
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORN KVS» AT'-A. A W
Offices In » •■niton Bulldtn*
Phone iei valdkz. ai.aska
ROBERT SIMPSON Opt. D.
.Il’NKAl, ALASKA
Glasse* Kitted I senses Ground
VALDEZ LODGE
NO 108
Free end Accepted Muon
Regular Communications But Wed
nesday in each month In McKinley
Hall. Visitors always welcome.
F. M. BROWN. W. M.
ED WOOD, Secretary. £
Valdez Miners Union No. 1 &8 ‘
Western Federation of Miner*
W. H. GARNER. President.
Granite Mine
GUST KRING. Secretary .
Valdez Alaska.