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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1016
ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY.
With the addition of Tennessee, tei
states of the Union, with a tc.al pree
ent population of more than sixteei
million, have abolished the Jeath pen
alty for murder. The nine previousl;
listed were Kansas, Maine, Michigan
Minnesota, North Dakota, Oregon
Rhode Island, South Dakota am
Wisconsin.
The situti ion in Tennessee is pecu
Har. The Cowers act, passed by th>
Legislature at the last session wai
vetoed by tlov. Rye. He hell the bil
longer than five days wit.i n whicl
a veto mu-,, become effective, bu
claimed that as the Legislature wai
In recess at the time he was entitle!
to five days’ delay after it was agair
in session. He was sustained in thi
lower courts, but the State Supremi
Court holds that the legislaive recess
did not extend the five days’ limit
Thus the '.try important action bj
the first Southern or border State in
the list rests with a technical legal
decision.
A most significant omission in the
Bowers’ law Is that it does not abol
ish capital punishment for criminal
assault. For that, a man can still be
executed. He cannot be for murder.
It may he doubtful if any State
South of Tennessee would pa-s an act
similar to the Bowers law without
making a similar exception —New
York World
ALICE IN RUMORLAND.
“This way, this way,” snouted the
Wad Hatter, "hurry up, or you can’t
an® them make it. They are ready
right this minute. Hurry up, hurry,”
“What is it they are making?”
gasped Alice, running as hard as she
could.
“Sho doesn’t know where she is,”
aald the White Rabbit.
"She doesn’t know where she is,”
•aid the Cheshire Cat.
“But why do you not tell me
where I am?” indignantly cried Alice.
“You are in Rumorland,” volun
teered the White Rabbit. “This is
the place the rumors come from.”
“Come quick,” shouted the Mad
Hatter, waving his arms and point
ing excitedly, “here is where the Jap
rumors are made.”
Rushing over to the spot pointed
out by the Mad Hatter, Alice stood in
amazement as eager workmen, all
working desperately rushed around
Iter.
“Look out there,” shouted the Che
shire Cat. “Stand back from the
ropes and look out for the blast.”
"My, they are making something
terribly .big,” gasped Alice; “what is
It?”
“Oh, this is a most important
work,” declared the Gryphon; “they
have been weeks working 6n thW
and it’s a mosretaytdo ogabhfayyiqq
and it's almost ready to • send out
from the works."
“This is one of the ne'w model,
high powered war scares,” said the
White Rabbit. “You see it has five or
nix thousand. Japanese in it and_a
lot of ships and things like that \o
make it real interesting. They are
going to capture San Francisco and
paint all the Democrats in the town
a bright purple.”
“Oh’ that’s a perfect outrage,”
' said Alice. “Why don’t they paint
all the Republicans, too?”
“I don’t know,” replied the White
Rabbit, shaking his head, “but it
wouldn’t be as good. You see, the
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.dea of paintiLg all the Democrats
• purple makes the story wierd and
more exciting. If everybody was
painted the thing would lack nov
elty. You see, that is what the mas
- ter workman does. Anybody around
here can fix up a story, but it takes
an artist to put in a little touch
that will make the whole world gasp
n when the thing is done.”
9 “How very exciting!” declared
Alice. “Let me see more of the things
9 they are doing.”
u “Well, over here.” said the Gry
s phon, “they are making tick-tacks
to hang on Congressman Hobson's
n window at night. Each tick-tack
looks just like a Jap.”
"And right here,” observed the
White Rabbit, “you see they are as
- sembling a large force of carpenters
with hand saws.”
: “What are they for?” asked Alice.
“They are going to land near San
Diego some fine night and saw the
peninsula of lojver >^,ifornia off
1 from the mainland and then tow it
out into the middle of the Pacific
1 and bore a hole in it and sink it.”
“Pooh!” said Alice, “who cares?”
7 “But after they get through with
’ that job,” saiu the Gryphon, “they
[ are going baca and saw the whole
state of California loose. And over
here, you see, they have the Japan
ese emperor. They are disgui ng
! him as a Belgian apple woman, and
| very soon you will hear him selling
apples to the workingmen in the
1 canal. In each apple is a pound of
; dynamite. What do you know
about that?”
“That is a cunning thing the
workmen are making over there,”
said Alice. “What is that?”
“That is a tunnel under the Pa
cific ocean,” explained the Cheshire
Cat. “It starts in Tokio, and comes
up in the center of Chicago, south of
the Art Institute.”
“Oh, goody!” exclaimed Alice,
clapping her hands. “Then we won't
have to build a subway in Chicago;
the Japanese are building it for us.”
“You will not laugh when the
Japanese army swarms out of that
tunnel like so many million ants,”
said the Cheshire Cat.
U, bum Alice, UCl DttUUCll
ing. “I know wli~- iliat will mean.
Somebody will get up a benefit for
them and everybody will have to sell
tickets, and I’ll have to buy a Jatfc
nese dress and dance.”
“That’s none of our affair,” said
the Cheshire Cat, crossly. “We're
just telling you what we’ve got
here. We don’t care what you do
when it happens or when it don’t
happen.”
“Well, what are they doing there?”
asked Alice.
“They are teaching the Japanese
army to ride on whales,” replied the
Gryphon. “Of course, some of the
things they turn out from Rumor
land don’t meet with a ready sale.
Lots of the goods are never called
for and consequently never get out
of the warehouse. So they have to
have something good and snappy, a
'sure-fire proposition, you see, to take
its place. Now over here, they are
teaching the Japanese army to ride
on whales. The idea is that if the
Japs don’t cross over in the tunnel
they will ride on the backs of the
whales.”
“I should think you would send
them over in ships,” observed Alice.
"There is nothing artistio, nothing
that grips the imagination, in pend
ing the Japs over on ships,” said the
White Rabbit. “We’ve sent out that
story several times, and nobody pays
any attention to it. But you wait
until we get this story all made.
Think of 50,000 whales, each one
with 200 Japs armed to the teeth on
his back, -swimming . boldly across
tbe Pacific. Now there’s something
that will grip the interest of every
one. There’s a story with a punch.”
“It’s all very interesting,” said
Alice, “I thank you veiry much.”
“Not at all,” said the Mad Hatter,
“this way out!"—Chicago Herald.
It is getting cold indeed when old
Mother qerjth takes tp shivering
Now that the Star upholds the ap
pointment of the agitator R'sndeis
to the Supreme Bench, the question
may be considered to be settled.
The Star says that the Senator
owns no land hear Valdez. We were
under the impression that, thr pros
pectus states that the land lias near
Valdez, is not subject to assessments,
and has numerous improvements—
^phich do not exist.
After looking around a little* and
comparing results it might be a g*-od
hing for the people to turn the town
over to someone— who would do
something to keep it from bacon-i.pg
i “has been.” If anyone cvr point
out anything that has result**, from
he regime of the present four meui
-trs of the council save a bad odor.'
they are entitled to our thanks. We
would much prefer to go banllfppt
ioing something than to stagnate—
and still pay the price.
The decision of President Wilson
to withhold passports from Ameri
cans desiring to embark upon Allied
ihips, will meet with the genera’, ap
proval of the nation. Had this been
I done at the first many of our e.n. eus,
would have escaped a water' grave'
and the country would not have been :
brought to the verge of war. A n an i
would be considered foolish who]
would step between two desperate
men, blinded with fury, fighting with
knives, and yet our citizens will em
bark upon a long voyage on an Allied
ship without a qualm of fear.
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Advices from Egypt State that One
Survivor and Fourteen Dead
Found by Passing Ship.
PARIS, Feb. 15.—Official advices
have been received by the French
war office from Port Said, Egypt, I
which tell of the destruction of a |
French cruiser by a submarine off
the coast of Syria, in the eastern Med
iterranean.
Only meagre details of the loss of
the cruiser have been learned but
it is believed by the admiralty offi
cials that she is.one of the smaller
cruisers sent to guard the eastern
Mediterranean sea near the entrance
of the Suez canal to prevent the de- I
struction of the waterway to the east, j
New program at the Liberty Thea- I
tre Tonight. * j
ARE YOU ALIVE
to the fact that
ANCHORAGE,
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CORDOVA,
ELLAMAR and
LATOUCHE
Will Have Baseball
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A Sure Way To Keep Warm in the Meanwhile
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SEATTLE WOMAN LOSES
VALUABLE JEWELRY
SEATTLE, Feb. 16.—Mrs. John
Panton, the wife of a Seattle mer
chant who recentlv failed in bush
ness had her hand bag snatch
ed from her as she was leaving a jit
ney car In the center of the business
district, last night.* The robber es
caped and all efforts of the police'to
effect his captOre have failed.
Weather Report.
Valdez, Feb. 14, 1916.
Barometric pressure . 29.261
Temperature 7 p. m.16
Maximum temperature.16
Minimum temperature .27
Mean temperature. i9
Partly cloudy, fresh wind, north
est, 26 miles.
Interior Weather.
Valdez, Feb. 15, 1916.
Fairbanks, —37; clear, calm.
Salcha, —36; clear, calm.
Richardson, —38; cloudy, calm.
McCarthy, —27; cloudy, calm.
Donnelly, —30; cloudy, calm, trail
good.
McCallum, —21; 45 inches snow;
cloudy, calm, trail good.
Paxson, —-10; 34 inches snow;
cloudy, windy, trail good.
Hogan, —6; 21 inches snow;
cloudy, snowing, trail good.
Guikana, —17; 21 inches snow;
cloudy, snowing, trail good.
Copper Center, —6; 17 inches of
snow; cloudy, snowing, trail fair.
Tonslna, —8; 18 inches snow;
cloudy, snowing, trail fair.
Telkhell, —8; 32 inches of snow;
cloudy, snowing, trail drifted.
Beaver Dahl, 0; 42 inches snow;
knowing, windy, trail drifted
Summit, ’66 inches snow; cloudy,
windy, trail drifted.
Whitman's, 8; 40 IncheB of snow;
cloudy, calm, snowing, trail closed to
north,; drifted south.
See the Mutual Weekly News at
The Liberty.
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Drug Store. *
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showing current events; also The
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Fresh vegetables, fruits, and
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Western Federation of Miners
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| Granite Mine.
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