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The Alaska prospector., 1903-04-09
VALDEZ RAILROAD CITIZENS SUBSCRIBE FOR
 STOCK IN Railroad 10 the Summit
44,ooO Shares Taken at the Meet. ing. Proposition of
 A. B. Hes.

Last Monday and Tuesday word was circulated through the town that special meeting of the cham. Der of commerce would be held Tuesday evening to consider a rail. road proposition. This brough, out a large number of people ir spite of the indictment weather, and at an early hour the court room was we'll filed. M. Brown occupied the chair with A. w. Rockford as secretary Mir. Brown opened the meeting without any delay, with a short able address stating the object o the call, and requested Mir. Alfred B. Hes to address the meeting which he did in business-likt manner, setting forth his proposals which, in substance are as follows
 To form and incorporate a com. pany capitalized at $25,OOO,OOO divided into 5,OOO,OOO shares, par value of $5 per share. In order that the people of town may have an interest in the affair and show their good will towards the enter prise, Mir. Hes agrees to let them have 100000 shares at 10 per cent of the par value, or in other words at 50 cents per share.
 Further, his agreement stipulates that not one dollar will be asked for from the people of the town until five miles of the road shall have been laid and a construction car running over the same, and then only 25 per cent of the amount will be due; and when ten miles oi the road is completed as above another 9 per cent will be due and so on until twenty miles of the road is in working order, then it is expected that all the stock sub- scribed for in the town, at the stated price, 50 cents per share will be paid into the company.
 In order that there may be no misunderstanding in the minds oi would-be purchasers, let us state it this way: If you subscribe for 1.OOO shares, the face value of the same is 5000, but being in on the ground floor, you get them for $500; for this you pay nothing down, but just as soon as five miles are completed you pay into the company $125; when ten miles are completed you pay in another $l25, and so on, payment being made as each five miles is finished, until the full twenty miles is in running order.
 It is further agreed that the ter minus of the road will be within the town of Valdez.
 On the completion of Mir. Hes address setting forth the above plans, a number of those present were eager to subscribe, so on mo- tion the chair appointed Messrs. Fish, Debney and Amy as a com- mittee to receive subscriptions, and before the meeting adjourned there were A ,OOO shares taken.
 Following is the agreement en- tered into and Q list of subscribers who signed for stock at the meet ing:
 VALDEZ, ALASKA, Apr. ', 1903.
 This agreement, entered into be- tween the undersigned citizens oi Valdez, Alaska, the parties of the first part, and Alfred B. Hes, the party of the second part, witness eth:
 That if the party of the second
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part shall cause railroad corpor- ation to be organized under the laws of congress applicable to Alaska, approved March ?, A. D. 1903, with Q capital stock of twenty-five mill lion dollars, divided into five mil lion shares of the par value of five dollars each; and shall cause to be constructed 36-inch guage steam railroad having its initial point at the present town of Valdez, Alaska and running thence in an easterly and northerly direction through Keystone canyon, and for dis tance of at least twenty miles from Valdez, and shall commence actual construction on or before July i, A. D. 1903, and prosecute the work on said railroad with all reasonable diligence;
 Then and in consideration of the foregoing acts be,ug done and per formed by said party of the second part or his assigns, the said parties of the first part hereby agree in consideration of the benefits de rived by them from the .construc- tion of said railroad. and the in- creased value of the real estate and property in Valdez owned by them to take the number of shares of the capital stock of the said railroad corporation, non-assessable, herein after set opposite their names, and to pay for the same at the rate of fifty cents per share, to-wit: oa.- fourth of said subscription to be paid upon the actual completion of each five miles of said railroad up to twenty miles; that is to say, one-fourth on the completion oi the first five miles, another fourth on the completion of ten miles of said road, the third on the compile tion of fifteen miles of said road, and the remainder on the compile tion of said twenty miles of said railroad; for the purpose of this agreement, the passage of q con- struction train over any five mile portion shall constitute the comple- tiOn of that portion.
 Upon the first one-fourth of said subscription being paid by any one of the parties of the first part, the said party of the second part or his assigns, shall deposit in the Bank of Valdez, with 5. A. Temple, pres ident, the full amount of the capital stock in said railroad corporation subscribed by such party of the first part, and said stock to be held in escrow by said depository until all four of said payments herein provided for shall have been made, then to be delivered to the party making said payment, and if all four of such payments shall not be made in full, at the rate of fifty cents per share as aforesaid, then said stock shall be forfeited and revert to said party of the sec Ond part or his assigns.
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Seeing the earnestness of the people in the enterprise, Mir. Hes immediately wrote out an order for rails and sent the same off on the Excelsior yesterday morning, and if all goes we'll the returning Ex- celsior will bring to Valdez the first installment of railroad iron. Mir. Hes will leave here on the next boat and go east, where the final arrangements will be made for the Valdez railroad. At the time of going to press SO,0O0 shares of the stock had be en subscribed for.
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sToRIEs OF AUTHORS LOVES.

STORIES OF AUTHORS LOVES.
Stories of Authors Loves. BY Clara
gravure and duograyure reproductions
Of portraits and views. Two volumes.
PIP. 349. $500. Philadelphia: J. B. Lip
pincott Company !.
Interest in the heart affairs of men
and women who wrote is an easily I'M
derstandable curiosity tsd In large part
those men and women; their written
ideals of love have set the standard for
the majority, have sent young blood (and
oft times blood not SO young) coursing
through the veins, in a swift current;
have filled young hearts (and oft times
hearts not so young) with beating desire
to love, to be loved, to bear and forbear,
only natural that these. young hearts
and hearts that once were young should
wish to know in what manner those men
| and women realized their own ideals.
ITO be wife, real. true wife. to any
| man-his eternally foreordained souls
! complement-is mission calling for the
most love inspired and alertly intelligent
/ gifts and graces Xouchsafed to woman:
any man. it is twice true of the wife of
! man of genius; perhaps it is no Won
| der so many women have failed in this
| undertaking; when one comes to think
Of all it entails x
| First is the peaceful love of Tennyson.
| One can but think'it was TO his first love,
Emily sellwood, he wrote the lines in
1.-The Princess:"
| Ito love one maiden only, cleave to her
| And worship her by years Of noble deeds,
| Until they win her; for indeed I know
4 OF no subtle master under heaven
J Than is the maiden passion for a maid
!. Not only to keep down the base in man..
! But teach high thought and amiable words
, And courtlness and the desire of fame,
And love Of truth, and all that makes a
! man.
| Tennyson kept faith with his maiden
| passion and so did Emily Sellwood and on
| June Is, 1850 the month which saw the
| publication of I'm -Memoriam,' there was
a wedding, "of the quietest'' in Shiplake
! church, lone Of the grand old village
. churches" Miss Milford says. (which give
so much of character to English lands
| cape"
| 1T is probably true of most women that
their first ideals of love are of some one
who shall love them supremely, and that
| as they grow older, their cry is first of
| ALL for some one to love supremacy.
Il woman's first ideal is the man
| who can do most for her; her second
; ideal is the man she can do most for
! the second ideal is never supplanted. The
woman heart thrives divinely on service,
| on sacrifice"
One light that failed is the pathetic
! story Of Ruskin. Conscientiously earnest
| ly and to the best of his ability Ruskin
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in preceding years. No more valuable in
to the wonderful art and archi-
lecture of the Queen of the Adriatic could

in preceding years. No more valuable in
PRODUCTION to the wonderful art and archi-
lecture of the Queen of the Adriatic could
be found than this. It will be like its
predecessors by the same author a treas
ure alike to the one who makes his jour-
neys abroad and the one who must per
force make them at his fireside The sun
print pictures, the ornate covers and the
beautiful letter press of 'Venice' are
alike pleasing.
CRUISING ON THE ST. LAWRENCE.
Cruising on the St. Lawrence. BY
Everett T. Tomlinson. $1.20 net. Bos-
ton: Lee & Shepard.
Dr. Tomlinson understood the fascina-
ton attending student companiOnship
when the successful EST. Lawrence Sc
ries'' was produced. The third volume is
Cruising on the St: Lawrence" it's pre-
decessors being Camping on the ST.
lawrence and 1.-The House Boat on the
st. Lawrence The same boys, Bob,
Ben, Jack, and Bert, reappear in the pres
ent book, having, completed their, sophie
more year at college, and after two de-
lightful experiences it is easy to under
stand that they wish nothing different
for a summer vacation than further ac
quaintance with the noble Est. Law
renee" This they obtain by means of a
sloop yacht, in which they visit places of
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tried through six years to win MS VINE $
affection and to reconcile his tastes, to
some degree, with hers, but failed. When
youth, beauty ana vlgor correspGn;ains, ;f -
in the person of her husbands friend the
artist, John Everett Millais, she looked
on him and loved him. and when he looked
on her he loved her straightway' and
when Ruskin saw she understood, and
presently the marriage which had never
really been any marriage at all, was an
nulled. and John Ruskin went back to
live, as in his boyhood, with his parents
again and after time she who had been
called Mrs Ruskin became Mrs Millals'
a radiantly happy wife, whose long years
of perfect welded bliss are known to all
The. book tells Of the great passion OF
Dante, George Eliot. Poe, LongfelloW
Balzac, Shelley, Carlyle. and others, TWEEN
ty-two in all come within the scope OF
Miss Laughlin's stories and the volumes
will prove of great interest to those who
wish to learn how writer's 'reailze tnell
own ideals
THE ADVENTURES OF M. D'HARICOT.
The Adventures of M. DHaricot. By ].
Storer Clouston. $3.50. New York: Har-
per & Brothers. 49,,
This is a volume of ludicrous situations,
described in humorous style. encoun
tered in England by Monsieur D Haricot,
a French political refugee: DHarlcot
League. or the U. D. It's, as they styled
themselves. 1.-The last hope of royalty in
France" In the narration Of his expert
ences he writes, while in England: Il
shall tell you since the affair is now no
secret. and as it hereafter touches my
narrative. I was a Roya1ist. an adherent
of the rightful King of France: am
still: boast it openly. But at that time
a demonstration had been premature. a
government was alarmed, and I had fled.
The truth is that was already
in mourning for myself: The prospect OF
entering history by the martyrs postern
and the excitement of intrigue. Now
desire only my liberty and as little public
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the writer. .The Memoirs Of o. Contem-
polaly'. "a book which one lays down
with regret that she had i not written
more. 49, 1ss"'
The volume is profusely illustrated with
pictures of the great men of the period,
and a Autograph Of the writer taken at
the age of fifty years discloses "a face Of
remarkable strengthened unlike that of
George Eliot, whose virility of express
sion she possesses in a marked degree.
.Pichgru,, the '.Vanquisher of, Holland
meanors cautious in his speech in spite
of the frankness he affected, and much
given to fattery."
Of General Moreau, the masterful STRAIT
egist and fighter that she was not given
to gallantry. The woman he was fondest
of in all the world could not have made
a coxcomb OF him. But. he was a. sure
and devoted friend to those whom he
he rarely saw he was cold and reserved
Following Moreau to Italy, she summa-
rizes his campaign: there as follows: mo
reau gSt the shattered remains of the
army together. At the head of twenty
five thousand men he defied hostile
army Of four times that number and
retreated through Milan and Piedmont,
rrisoned all the fortresses, beat the enemy
several times, and through his skill and
strategy rendered their numerical superb
Ority of no especial avail!'
At the battle of Eyleau in Germany
she rode in a,cavalry charge aud was
wounded. just before this battle she
met Marshal Ney for the first time and
writes a very Interesting sketch of the
Red Lion" which we quote in part.
Had been less we'll acquainted with
Ney's character the strange hostility
that set in from the, first day Of the
Restoration between his sentiments and
his sense of duty would still be an in
explicable riddle to me. But in essay
ing to sketch this great soul, one of the
most generous and loyal natures ever
made, I am forced to acknowledge his
defects. Under manners which were at
times uncouth Ney wore the gentlest and
most docile of hearts,
''Ney has been illuminated by persons
accusing him Of acting upon premediated
design. The idea of a fixed plan requir-
ing facility in lying. was utterly incom-
mind which always distinguished him.
If he went so far as to forget his obliga-
tions toward the King, it was behind the
public opinion that condemned the Bour-
bon rule that he saw the welfare of his
country"
The Great Corsican himself is told OF
by this very remarkable woman and she
describes filtration which he carried on
with her with which is infinitely more
interesting reading than many of the
highly improbable stories told of Napo-
Icons wonderful genius.
The battle of Waterloo to which she
was an eye witness is described with
power and vividness, as are also many
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of the peoples and places which figured
in the rise and fall of the career of the
greatest military and political leader in
the history of the world
THE STORY OF CUPID AND PSYCHE.
The Story Of, Cupid and Psyche. Done
Apuleius by Walter: Pater. illustrated
R. H: Russell. go - -. .>>'..|x
holiday season, Both in point Of contents
as capS and It Is him.
quarto, exquisitely bound in brown and
lisners have taken the beautiful English
translation that Walter Pater made of the
legend told in "The Golden Book of
Apuleius,'' and have put with it the cele-
If which are now preserved in the villa
'arnesina IN Rome. These with the pre-
liminary drawings completely illustrate
the novelette, of Apuleius, thus producing
a lovely book, which every cultured man
and woman will burn to possess: A hap.
pier combination of two arts-the art of
painting and the art of telling story.
of the romance told by Apuleius and
Raphaers pictures.
FRENCH cATHEDRALs AND CHA
French Cathedrals and Chateaux. BY
Clara Crawford Perkins. Illustrated with
photogravure frontispieces and sixty:
two half tone plates: Two volumes IL mo.
$500 net. Boston,: knight & Millet.
The cathedrals, palaces and chateaux
of France around which so much of his
tory and romance has gathered, are OBJ
jects of perennial interest. Nowhere can
be found so many splendid examples of
the art of the architects and builders of
bygone days - ;- ", :. :. ...-. : ~. ~
The subject Of French architecture nat
urally divides itself into two parts; one
devoted to the Gothic and the~other to
the Renaissance style. Under the first
are grouped the great Cathedrals, and
under the second the Palaces and Cha
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PERTAINING book.
BRAVE HEART ELIZABETH.
Brave Heart Elizabeth. BY Adele r:
Thompson. Author Of "Beck's Fortune
and "Betty Seldom, Patriot" 12mo. Cloth:
net. Boston: Lee & Shepard
Any one who has known Miss Thomp-
sons previous books needs not to be told
that in addition to finished style and a
wide range of knowledge, she displays in
her books just those qualities of nobility
of character and common sense, seasoned
with a rich sense of humor, that make an
author both a safe and welcome compan-
ion for our daughters. This is a book for
older girls, and in strength ranks with
the best fiction of the year.. 1t Is a story
of the making of the Ohio frontier. much
of it taken from life, and the heroine one
of the famous Zane family after which,
GAINESVILLE, O., takes it's name. AS an ac-'
curate, pleasing, and yet at times in
tensely thrilling picture of the stirring
period of border settlement, and the hardy
folk whose familiarity with danger taught
a surprising ability to enjoy the brighter
side Withal this book surpaSses all recent
writings of it's kind price, $1.00. metz
"REMINISCENCES.
"reminiscences, Musical and Otherwise,
by Fanny Reed. Illustrated with fourteen
portraits in half-tone. Cloth with at
Boston: knight & Millet.
Looking at the youthful looking frontis-
piece portrait Of Miss Reed a portrait, by
the way of an extremely handsome woman,
it is difficult to believe that her memory
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reaches back with great distinctness" to.
the days before the war, when the rem
iniscences begin, yet the fair author her-
self declares this to be the case, and we
have also her cheerful assurance that life
has lost none OF It's charm for her as the.
years have rolled by; indeed. she finds life
at the present day vastly interesting. re
4 In the first CHAPTER on Early Days,
sspeaks Of how her mind rever1s to her
Childhood when, during our Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln, by stroke Of the pen
TIRE flgeu the fo wear 1851 We were all startled
from our peaceful life by rumours OF IAN.
Impending collision between North hnd
South j remember with great distl4ct-s
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a portion of the globe, but the surviving
Staie is not q reassuring spectacle"
t45!aseforcA one proceeds very far into the
volur'e. one discovers sketches Of English
life. drawn with the master hand of the
artist capable Of seeing the humorous side
of the most pathetic situations, and de-
author easily in the front rank of hum or
Gus writer's. sat7zes s5ssss 81 r. sl7s~ A. ts>y#s
M D'Haricot is not in England very
long before he is drawn into a duel
which is described with all the wit and
visibility of the immortal combat in
which Bob Acres found himself involved.
Some of the scenes and incidents of
the story recall Mark Twain's ''Innocents
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1908.

Last week in Pittsburg, Kan, an
Afro-American was lynched by a mob,
and two days later it was discovered
that he was innocent of the charge
which cost him his life. If the law had
been allowed to take it's proper course
his life would not have been taken
Nov every member of that mob is par
ticeDs criminis in the murder of an
innocent man. 1t matters not what
whites may think or believe about the
matter, Afro-Americars are human be
.ings with souls just as themselves, and
should he treated as they themselves
would be treated. They claim that
God is just God, then how can they
hope to miss the just punishment for
tSeir crimes. In the account in the
daily papers the greatest stress was
laid upon the fact that the Guilty Ne
gro Escaped; not that a lot of So
called superior people had murdered
an innocent man, prompted by their
assinine prejudice against color. We
too believe God is just, and that pun
ishment for such crimes will be melted
out by Him, whose Son said: 1T is
better that ten guilty ones escape.
ratherzthan one innocent be made to
suffer. .
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attention as possible / commend

attention as possible. 4 commend this
PERSONAL experience to all conspirators."
NJ. D'Haricot encounters an English
man travelling in the same railway car-
rage with him, s. self repressed. self-re-5
vain attempts to draw him into a con
versation. which resulted only in replies
of yes orr mo z accompanied by that
stare. " Later on I discovered that this
generally means nothing. and is in fact,
merely an Inherited relic Of the days
when sach Englishman carried his:
Knuckle duste Ca weapon used In
boxing1 and struck the instant his neigh
boris attention was diverted It is,
thanks to this popularity that they now
ind themselves in possession Of 20 large
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again and are forgiven for running away.
for no one could remain angry Win s ,H,I.
a delightful trio as the pictures Snow
Coquo and the children 70 De-
AMERICAN GIRLS. a
American Girls. BY Thomas Mitcheii
PIERCE. Reproduced in photosravure.ss a ac.,
scopy printed pv: hand and mounted on
eray heard. Enclosed IN = handsome
portfolio. Set SIS. Single prints III each
New York: r II. Russell. III,
r,tre cInsrmingly than Mr.. Pierce. In the
present series Of seven bewitching types
sshe II, seen, at her best, whether yaontin8.
playing golf. at home Or u the paN r00lsl.
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