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Valdez daily prospector., 1914-05-29
DEYO APPOINTED
 MAKE SURVEY
Men and Twenty Horses-other Engineers In Seattle.

SEATTLE, May 29.-The Alaska Railroad Commission have wired to Colonel Henry Deyo, of Valdez, to make survey of a proposed railroad from Chitina to Matanuska.
 A majority of the engineers who are to make surveys for the com mission are now in this city, they in clude K. Gray. T. Bacon, K. kuney. w. Milliken and D. Heartburn, all of them will leave on the boat sailing the sixth for the sections in which they are to operate.
 Captain Rotch, well known Alas kan and half brother of Thomas Riggs of the commission. left today for Dawson to take charge of the Mid night Sun, formerly owned by the Boundary Survey and which will be used in the Nenana section by the commission.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-05-29
HEW JERSEY l! | HAS
 NEW: ELECTION LAW

ORANGE. May 29.-The first test of the new preferential minning law passed by the last legislature of New Jersey for commission government elections Is being made here today. Orange recently adopted the commits sion form of government. The Good Government League has maintained absolute neutrality among all can didates. merely printing biographies of all and devoting its efforts toward educating the voters In how to take adyantage of the preferential system of voting.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-05-29
FROZEN htMhD4H
 FOR MUSEUM

PARIS. May 29.-The gift of a Rus sian nobleman, a mammoth 10000 years old today is being prepared here for the French Museum Of Natural History by the taxidermists of the institution. The beast was found frozen solid in ice in Siberia. Too big for transportation, 1t was cut into quarters, each filling the largest sized freight car. Blood, sfroken for 400 centuries. was, discovered In the nam moths veins.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-05-29
BOY KILLED BY
 COLLEGE LAYERS N~ Students Use Gun In Ceremony; Lad Dies-Two Arrested; Three Stu
 dents Missing.

ANNAPOLIS, Ind, May 29.-Wll- liam Bowlus, student Of St. Jonn Military College. die dhere today from a gun wound inflicted by his class mates who were hazing him in the glee room of the academy
 Just how the accident happened and why gun was used is not known. Two students have been arrested while three have disappeared and are being sought by the police.
 The two students arrested are in a state of collapse and cannot give any account of the hazing.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-05-29
MANUFACTURERS
 BIC | CONVENTION Q||n| ]

NEW YORK. May 29.-With prac- tically all. prominent manufacturers of the United States present or rep resented by delegates. the nineteenth
 annual convention of the National As sociation of Aenufacturers convened here yesterday ct the Waldorf-Astoria hotel Tor . two-day session. The pro gram caiisd for speech of welcome to the city by Mayor Mitchell and the attendance of other city officials as guests of honor of the association.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-05-29

Deputy Marshal Albert Sullivan passed through Valdez last night on the Sampson with an insane patient from Kodiak. At this place c. A. Eby .yas also, turned over to, MT. Sul- uyan, who will take the convicted bank cashier to ,McNeil's to serve a sentence of ,lS4 months. By good be- havior Ely may he released on parol at the end of six. months.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-05-29
Miiisrs At Convention.

MANHATTAN, Kas., May 2s.--Mnl-- CTS. bakers. wheat buyers. mill SUI 'perintendsnts aand -four statesmen gathered at tho. Kansas State College here today for a two days weeks' short, course in wheat and -four test ing. Conservation of the states greea wheat crop after 1t -is' harvested ii the reason back of the establishment of the course study,
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-05-29
EARTHQUAKES AT
 FRIENDLY ISLES

SYDNEY. Australia. May 29.-The seismograph Ut this place has record sd a number ,os Quakes. which con- tinued for. three hours. The earth tremors are believed to be in the Friendly Islands.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-05-29
Police Dogs On Mail Vans.

PARIS. May 29.-Police dogs today were introduced here to guard the mail vans while the clerks are at tending to other duties. following ex- periments which proved highly suc- cessful Many private business houses already make use of dogs to pro tect delivery wagons.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-05-29
AonoSnsssssnt

r have opened . lAfst -ciass. ap-to- date, e,arsssmakins eata hlishment@a at the
 Albemarle Hotel. vhere I will be glad
 to serve the ladies of vsldes. Wotk guaranteed. A. L. BAXTER.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-05-29

No Issue Prospeetor Tomorrow.
 There Will be no issue of the Daily Prospector tomorrow. The stores wAli all observe Memorial Day. Govern .ment oflces gre, all to be closed. The cable and post oflces will observe Sunday hours.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-05-29

chsnber cemgsres Meets Tonight
 ,Hhe Vsldes cnamher Of cpHherce wm meet this eyeains at g o'clock. All members are requested to attend as business of importance wili be considered. S'. s,'S'
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-05-29

Twenty From Vancouver.
 VANCOUVER, B. C., May 29.-- Twenty victims of the lost of the Empress of Ireland are from this city, several being prominent business men.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-05-29

W. H. Bremen has commenced the work Of painting the government buildings in Yaldex. 'f''s'' :
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-05-29

Charles Sealey has bought the Al white cigar stand. ..'''ass.'- -'''''a--'
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-05-29

Colonel Richardson returned from the west on the Sampson.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-05-29
DANIELS WOULD
 SELL WARSH|PS
Asks Congress for Permission to Dis pose of the Idaho and Missis-
 sippi to Greece.

WASHINGTON, May 29.-Secretary Daniels, of the Navy department, ere ated a sensation here yesterday when he requested congress to grant him the right to sell the battleships Idaho and Mississippi to Greece for $12,OOO,- 900 and to purchase new dread naught with the money received for the ships.
 The request was referred to the committee on Naval Affairs and bit ter fight is expected before congress will authorize the sale of American ships to Greece.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-05-29

grants from England and Sweden.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-05-29
. TsntGht at 'fhS' .orpheul,,.

A nne Bronco two-reel, drama, !The EWsyfpf. . 1eshsr, also . ;TaanhApser. Her siststss Secfet. at fhe orpherm tonight. " '"' '' '''
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-05-29

COOK WANTED D-lnqeirs It thsl Valdez Cafe.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-05-29

ATHENS, May 29.-The minister of naval affairs of Greece admitted to- day that the government was endeav- bring to purchase two battleships
 from the United States for the navy. which is now inferior to that of Tur- key, which succeeded in purchasing the two big dreadnaughts built in England for Argentina and sold to Turkey. With this addition to the Turkish navy Greece fears the com ing conflict and Is determined to oft- set the advantage secured to her riv-+: als when they outbid them for the ships of the South American country. and are now negotiating for the Idaho and Mississippi of the American navy.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-05-29

The battleship Idaho, of the Ameri- can navy, was built in 1904 at cost of s5,55S,731, while the Mississippi, built in the same year, cost $5,629,- 1S3 Both are in excellent condition, excepting that they lack many i'm provements of the newer war vessels and have only about half the displace- ment. The government will receive more than the original cost of the ships. ..
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-05-29

QUEBEC, May 2g-The steamer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-28

pone their expositions. How could they hope to make success of their great ventures with half the world apparently gone mad, commerce tenn porarily paralyzed and no man able to see how it would all end? It was pointed out that St. Louis, with far less excuse, had postponed it's exposi- tion one year.
 But the American people and those of other countries interested in the California expositions did not count on the indomitable energy of their managers. A commonwealth that had restored it's greatest city like magic after it had suffered one of the worst calamities ever recorded was not to be daunted by any outside influences. It was announced that work on the two fairs would be continued without and the gates would be  opened at the appointed time.
 San Diego's exposition will be opened January 1. Seven weeks later the Panama Pacific exposition at San Francisco, a marvel of architectural beauty and already practically com- pleted, will be revealed to the public in all its splendor. Pluck of high order was needed to carry these pro- jects through in such unsettled times, but Californians have it and they are determined to make huge success of both expositions. It is to be hoped that their fairest dreams will be re- alized. They deserve to succeed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-28
ORIGIN OF MODERN w.nr.pr

Tn the warfare in Europe the leaders.
 schooled in modern methods of making
 war have been taught the importance
 of the decision-c compelling spirit. The
 long drawn out struggles which have
 taken place have perhaps not shown
 that they were able to act up to this
 principle with the success anticipated. 1 The origin of this principle which
 controls in modern warfare is seen bv
 the military authority writings in the Encyclopaedia Britannica in the French
 revolutionary wars. France was then at l war against the allied forces of Eng
 land, Holland, Austria, Prussia. Spain
 and Sardinia. She had reorganized her
 armies, and had introduced the division of armies into army corps.
 This subdivision of forces was inti-
 mately connected says the Britannica. with the general method of making,
 war adopted by the French What as- l tonished the allies most of all was the number and the velocity of the repub- | licans. These improvised armies had in fact nothing to delay them. Tents were unprocurable for want of money un- transportable for want of the enormous number of wagons that would have been required, and also unnecessary, for the discomfort that would have caused wholesale assertion in professional armies was cheerfully borne by the men of 1793-1794. Supplies for armies of then
 unheard of size could not be carried in
 conveys, and the French soon became
 familiar with living Rn the country Thus 1793 saw the birth of the mod
 ern system of war-rapidity of move
 ment, full development of national
 strength. bivouacs and acquisitions. and force, as against cautious manoeuvring
 small professional armies. tents and full rations, and chicane The first repre-
 sented the decision compelling spirit, ], the second the spirit of risking little 1, to gain a little. Above all, the decision compelling spirit was reinforced by the presence of the emissaries of the con,-
 mittee of public safety, the representa- tives of mission who practically cor- j, trolled the guillotine. There were civil officials with the armies of the allies. too, but their chief function was not to I infuse desperate energy into the mili | tary operations, but to see that the troops did not maltreat civilians. Such were the fundamental principles of the i New French method of warfare from which the warfare of today descends | in the direct line"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-28
Demand for Iron and Steel

The interstate commerce commits sion's decision authorizing the east ern carriers to advance freight rates 5 per cent has been, as expected it would be, we'll received by the bus mess public. A few large shippers who had opposed the advance now ad- init that the railroads were justified in asking it. Many of the largest shippers gave their hearty approval to the petition of the carriers from the start. Charles M. Schwab, president of the Bethlehem Steel corporation, said that while it would cost him thousands and thousands of dollars, he was glad that the commission al- lowed the 5 per cent increase. He took broad view of it and said that he was in favor of the advance because it was reasonable and just.
 As a result of the action of the interstate commerce commission there is already an improvement in the iron and steel trade. According to the Associated Press review, "manufactur- CTS in general bought more freely of rolled, cast and forged steel and iron and the prospect for larger contracts of rails, cars, locomotives and bridge work was greatly improved" The As sociated Press, which is always con- servative, as everyone knows, inti- mates that "the purchase of 100000 tons of steel rails is imminent"
 Not since the European war began has there been such an optimistic feel ing in the industrial world as there is today, and President Wilson's friendly attitude to "big business" and the in- terstate commerce commission will re- ceive credit for their share in the im- provement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-28
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Sterling Woods Suggestion

The committee of 100, of which Syd- ney J. Bowie is chairman. organized for the purpose of advising the city commission on the financal problems now confronting the municipal govern ment is thoroughly representative and we have reason to expect good results, said Sterling A. Wood.
 "Subcommittees have been carefully selected to consider details and pro- pose plans, but it would be 4 great thing if Chairman Bowie would call the whole committee together before these subcommittees had started to work and give every member a chance to talk. It was the old Virginia style when a state convention was held to afford every man in it an oppor- tunity to ventilate his yiews-to get off his steam-before any business was seriously considered.
 'In the case of our committee of 100 something of that sort would work like a charm. I venture the prediction that if MT. Bowie would assemble the committee for the purpose I have rug- alk-the rest of the business would come easy.n
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-28
NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS
By BILL vINEs

the room and finally rests upon the num- Der F carpet slippers, which arrived by parcel post from your mother-in-lav. and try as you will, you can't get your mind away from that good resolution standing patiently there at your elbow
 On top of this some one sticks a pack age of letters under the door. You open them slowly, and there you find the gas bill, the coal bill the rent bill, the grocery bill and you vainly attempt to calculate at what time next spring by the strict est economy and by cutting out cigars and highballs you can reasonably expect your bank account to be convalescent. Score, 12 to in favor of the good resolu- ton.
 You try to remember If the good resolu- ton now facing you looking so strong and vigorous has ever been introduced to you before. It looks familiar somehow. Can 1t by any possibility be the same good resolution that you fell for last year, which gave promise of carrying you through the good year 1914 holding you firmly on permanent seat on the water cart and free from the nasty effects of King Nicotine? You recall with what joy you embraced said good resolution a year ago; how you fell upon it's neck and chung to it in your hour of distress and brunette remorse. You reflect that it ought to be good resolution because it is Made in America" but with more or less distrust you remember that some thing got wrong with it during the first inning, and it permitted you to "blow up'' with the bases full and nobody out Away you mutter. you are no good you failed ms once and you will do so again.
 Then you turn your blood-shot eye. both of them being that way, to the dresser and you behold the necktie given you by the wife of your bosom, and with broken sob you snatch the blank from the out stretched hand of good resolution and once more you are "on."
 Listen-if you do it, and you will-shut both eyes and hold onto that good resolu- don till the Fourth of July. Don't look t over, for if you do you'll observe it's mperfections. Simply exercise the tenac- ty of bull pup and hold on. If you ast till the Fourth it will be easier--qt least l am told so.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-28
A GREAT PERSONALITY

From the CleVeanu flaln Deaier.
 Kaiser wilhelm's illness has caused the
 world to pause and take measure of the man He is, undoubtedly, one of the greatest personalities of modern times.
 To give unstinted admiration to the Ger man Emperor one need not necessarily give admiration to the ideals for which he stands. The most conscientious oppo- nent of militarism, imperialism and pa ternalism cannot fail to recognize that Wilhelm II is an immence force in the
 world; probably the greatest single hu-
 man force in all the world.
 Here Is kingly king, an imperial Elm peror; a monarch who rules, command
 CT who commands He believes in his di-
 vine commission. and he exacts respect for his belief. To him his fellow citi-
 zens are literally subjects; his life Is
 devoted to their welfare. Indvidualism
 to him is folly; national growth that sub
 merges and obliterates the individual is to him the greatest good.
 No one can doubt that the wonderful showing of the German armies along their widely separated battle fronts has been largely due to the genius and force fitness of the Emperor. One guiding brain is required for work such as the Germans have been doing, and that brain happens
 to be the brain of the man who was born to rule.
 IT. peace. as in war, the Kaiser has strongly and confidently shaped German destiny. It has been his work to de- velop German industrialism till Made in Germany has become guarantee of ex- cellence, and German commerce has claimed it's own in every quarter of the glcbe Confidence in the Hohenzollern destiny and the destiny of the German people has been the Kaiser's inspiration;
 such confidence has inspired all the great figures of history. It has moved Wilhelm to build steadily and patiently, to de- velop his empire along all the lines of material growth and strength; and now.
 in the time Of trial. it has moved him to
 take personal lead of the greatest and
 finest armies which the world has ever seen, and which are directly due to the tndomitable Hohenxollern will.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-28
Western Pluck

Three years after the earthquake which cost San Francisco $350, ,000, ,000 and the state of California an equal amount, and in spite of the great financial panic of 1907 which swept the country from one end to the other, San Francisco and San Diego an- nounced that they would hold expo sitions to celebrate the opening of the Panama canal.
 These two cities, 600 miles apart, straightway began work on undertak- ings that would cost millions of dol lars. Five months before the time set for the gates to open the greatest war in the history of the world began. It was thought then that the people of California would surely have to post
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-28
GENIUSES AT HOME

, Tasso. Columbus, Calico, Leopardi. Car ducci. Even little Holland allowed Rembrandt, vermeer and Spinoza to die opsourely. Ireland among others can show James Clarence Mangan-now don't say, "its pity he drank r-and John M. Synge. Scotland has Burns as an awful example," while England is first in the field as she is first in the field as the mother of poets: Milton. Blake, Shelley, Keats Byron, Browning, swinburne, Meredith Landor; and Har- vey, Darwin, De Foe, Bunyan could all tell tales of neglect, contumely, even worse
 Spain scorned her greatest writer; Cervantes; Sweden her mystic Swenden- horg, her gifted Strindberg. Ibsen like Dante, lived in exile, solitary, and abused by the world. Lenau of Hun gary died mad.
 Russia was not too gentle in her han- ding of Dostoievsky--who was shipped to Siberia 10 years ago. Tolstoy was hated by the throne. Turgenev was self exiled, but occasionally was imprisoned on his country estate by the authorities. Polands bard, Adam Mickiewicz, fled to Paris; even the spiritual Chopin, psy- chically brave. as his music proves, left Warsaw forever for Paris.
 This list might easily be heightened. l avoid mention of Socrates, Jesus Christ, Mahomet, Moses, Maimonides. Luther, Loyola and Savonarola, because they are victims to the worst passions of mankind-the passion aroused by theo- logical odium. Such serene souls as Shakespeare, Da Vinci, velasquez, Mon taigne, never became embroiled in poli- tics or religious rows If you are ever assailed with any of the great names above, simply reply with the question: How were they treated during their lifetime by their fellow countrymen?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-28

VI ASHINGTON, December 2T-(Spe- W cial)-Next Friday. gentle read CT. is January l, 1915. It is time for you to begin to pause in your wild and woolly career for the nonce and consider wisely and well, the particular style of good resolutions that it is your firm purpose to put into immediate and drastic effect on that date. Do not plunge hastily into the matter. and waste a per- fectly good resolution. From my personal experience I know that it Is a human weakness, in moment of sentimental and saffron-hued regret, to tie oneself up so tight in an ironbound and ill-considered New Years resolution that it takes fre- quently till January 15 to separate oneself from it, and it can be done then only with great mental anguish and a lacer- ated conscience.
 have on hand now a varied and general jcb-lot assortment of shopworn, good resolutions adopted unanimously by the committee on resolutions at its annual meeting sometime between the 18th and 31st of each December None of these resolutions has been used long at a time. They are not frayed on the edges or wobbly in the pushing from excess of use
 They look awfully good at this gladstone time of the year when ones bank ac- count appears delicate and remorseful. This is the time for a good resolution to make it's strongest appeal to you. You survey the field with an anxious and ap- palling eye, and looking for comfort and succor. The good resolution steps bland iy forward with smile; bright and cheerful looking, with an open, honest face like the insidious book agent it slips blank into your ready and nerve less hand and says, ''sign here." You are in no mental or physical condition to refuse. You cant turn anything down. much less/a good resolution. It is likely the night before you could not even turn the bedclothes down. but probably rested your weary head on the pillow and spread your classic form over the hand worked, snow-white counterpane. You put your hand to your solid ivory, but throbbing nut and try to collect your thoughts. You mentally review the past and see nothing in it to cheer you up, not single bright spot. Your gaze wanders round
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-28
Holiday and Stock-Taking

The week between Christmas and New Years is proverbially quiet in the business world, but merchants and manufacturers will put in the time taking stock" and laying out plans for January, February and early spring trade.
 Despite many interruptions to mercantile and industrial activities 1; despite many depressing factors there has been much prosperity in this vast country during the past 12 months. Certain it is that the departing year might have been worse for the masses, to say nothing of large business con- cerns, than it has turned out to be-
 But now the time has come to close the books of 1914 and to look forward with hope to 1915. As for business the outlook was never bright CT. The improvement within the last few weeks furnishes reasonable assur- ance of steady, healthy business movement in January. And the best of it is that conservative men at the head of industrial operations predict with marked degree of confidence that 1915 has great things in store for us. It will not only be buster year than 1914 but it will probably be record breaker in the history of prosperity.