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Valdez daily prospector., 1915-10-12

Notice is hereby given that the an- nual meeting of the stockholders of the Granite Gold Mining Company will be held at the office of the com pany in the Copper Block at Valdez, Alaska, on the 21st day of October. 1915, at the hour of o'clock p. m. A Board of Directors will be elect ed for the ensuing year and such oth- CT business transacted as may prop erly come before said meeting.
 The books of the Secretary will be closed from October 1st, 1915, until the first day after said annual meet ing, and no stock will be transferred during this period.
 B. F. WILLARD, 9-21-2Ot President.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-10-12


 No. 751 In the District Court for the Terri tory of Alaska, Third Division. George Ker, Plaintiff, vs. Cameron Johnson Gold Mining Company, a Corporation, Defendant.
 Notice is hereby given that by or der of the above-named court in the above-entitled cause all creditors of the above-named defendant, Gamer on-Johnson Gild Mining Company, a corporation, and all persons having claims of any kind against said de- fendant are required to exhibit the same, duly proved and verified to the undersigned receiver of said corpora tion on or before the 10th day of November, 1915, at the office of said receiver in the City of Valdez, in the Territory of Alaska. All claims not so presented and exhibited to said re- ceiver on or before said date will be barred
 Dated this 4th day of October, 1915.
 w. M. GOODWIN, Receiver of Cameron-Johnson Gold Mining Company, corporation, the above-named defendant. First publication Oct. 4, 1915. Last publication Nov. l, 1915.
 Mo St
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-10-12
CANAL BE CLOSED
 FOR MANY MONTHS.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.-Advices from Panama canal state that slides still continue at Culebra cut and that the canal will be closed to shipping for the balance of the year. Col Goelthals is reported as conferring with engineers as to the nations which will be adopted for fighting the flow of mud at the cut, which has been declared by several prominent engineers to be nothing less than mud volcano which is coming to life after being long dormant.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-10-12
CONDEMNED FOR
 CONTRASTING FATHERS WILL.

SAN DIEGO, Calif., Oct. 12.-The members of the Theosophists colony here, at Point Loma, have gone on record as condemning James Spauld- ing, son of the millionaire sporting goods manufacturer who died here last month, for contesting the will o' his father. The aged millionaire lett the greater portion of his wealth to his widow, step-mother of the yo'ng man who is contesting the vii: oh the charge that his father was inA'l- enced by Theosophists, of which be- lief his wife is a member.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-10-12
GERMANS REGARD LONDON
 AS FORTIFIED CITY

LONDON, Oct 11.-Count von Reventlow, the naval writer, replies in the Tageszeitung to British criti- cism of German airship raids over London. He says that London is a fortress, and that Sir Percy Scott, the newly appointed defender of the city from aerial attacks, should order the civil population to depart.
 The Count asserts that Germany is not responsible for the fact that the fortress of London, attacked many times, has not been evacuated, and says that the failure of the British government to order the people to abandon it shows disdainful disre- gard of the principles of humanity, civilization and international law.
 The airship attacks, Count von Reventlow insists, are legal and of a purely military character, aimed at the destruction of vessels, wharves, magazines, and other property serv- ing war purposes directly or indirect ly. Asserting that such operation cannot have one syllable spoken against them, he concludes:
 "We hope confidently that the say ing,. Throwing bombs on London will soon be as trite as the phrase, Carrying coals to Newcastle with the notable difference however, that in Newcastle there are coals enough while in London far too few German bombs have thus far exploded"
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-10-12

Mrs. Horace Define, of Seward, who has been visiting with Valdez friends during the past two weeks, left for home on the Northwestern this morning. Mrs. Define lived in Alaska for a number of years, during which time her husband was connect ed with the U. s. marshal's office at this place. MT. Define was chief clerk of the Alaska Northern rail- way company at Seward, prior to the road being taken over by the govern ment and is still connected with the staff in an executive position,
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-10-12

A big shipment of furniture and fixtures for the new Empress theatre arrived on the Northwestern this morning. The shipment included three hundred folding opera chairs, which Manager Pinkus, of the Valdez En- press house, says is the most c>m- fortable theatre chair on the market.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-10-12

The launch Shamrock, Capt. Tim Marcum, returned from Port Wells yesterday afternoon, bringing (. num- Der of passengers from points down the sound. He reports disagreeable weather for a portion of the trip.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-10-12

HELP WANTED-Woman, all round laundry worker, must be goo' body ironer, to begin work abou Oct. 12. Independent Laundry. If
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-10-12
UEsDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1915
LOW THE EAST LOVES US.

rom the Atlantic to the eastern
 of the Rocky mountains the set
 helped themselves as, they ad-
 ed, to everything they could find
 he then wilderness. The very
 they ever paid for the richest
 was $2.50 an acre-just enough
 ay for the surveys and the making
 of the deeds.
 ome three score years or more
 some crank started the idea that
 much as the government owned
 public domain, it in reality be-
 ed to all the people, and if it any,
 re contained special treasures,
 l as lead or zinc or coal or iron
 ,sits, the whole people should own
 deposits. The idea seemed a good
 to the men in the far east, who
 " nothing of the frontier or the
 lships incident upon its settle
 t and redemption, and they caus-
 ] law to be passed to secure to
 nselves their pro rata of the un-
 overed or undeveloped wealth.
 ; was tried for five years and it's
 roductiveness and its manifest in-
 ice caused congress to repeal the
 without one dissenting vote.
 ut a few years ago the thought revived, again in the east, and lgh in the interval between the .,al of the old law and the resur- ion of the old thought, the west, {. mostly the deserts of the west, supplied the means to the east to fble it to make available it's many Durces and grow rich this revived slght took strong hold on eastern idity, aud ,he then president, one aodore Roosevelt, selected per al friend. one Clifford Pinchot, to west, srv cut the land. and see It he could md and appropriate the way it is understood that MT. ,chot draws princely revenues from l lands in Pennsylvania, which |. his ancestors just $2.50 per ].
 n the mean time, because of the tial subduing of electricity to n's use, water power had become uable. So had timber lands and lands and iron and coal lands. Thus when MT. Pinchot came west at he did was in effect to deliver ultimatum to the men of the des- which set to words was about IS:
 Our great and beneficent govern at loves the men of Alaska almost much as 1t does the lovable Mexi- s; it wants you all to prosper and open the whole of our vast do- in to you; only, keep in mind. it l discover any forests, any streams t will make waterpower, any coal oil lands, you must not disturb m for they are on the public do- in; they may become valuable CT a while by the time the supply the east is exhausted, and as the pie of the east desire an even ak with the western pioneer, and ,e a common interest in them, V are entitled to a pro rata of any fits that may come from them. Then he sent out a small army of friends on government salaries to that the greedy men of the wet
 north should not appropriate any, ng the east might want. In this v about one-third of the state of .ho was placed under a reserve, luding all the streams, so that wa
 power might not be created and tories spring Up in competition h the east. In the same way Utah and coal and timber lands were cred. In Alaska some nervy meE begun to open up coal lands and their product to the people, but , cry went up that they were ron- ,lists, and the government inme- .tely sat down upon them, and for
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-10-12

Hotpoint Irons, Heaters, Cookers, and Electric appliances; mems and women's suits, overalls and aprons, at Emporium.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-10-12

Don't forget the, Eagles old-time '98 Halloween dance, Saturday, Oct. 30th.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-10-12

Parties coming over the trail say it is in fair shape, and but little snow this side of the pass.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-10-12

Mrs. Merchant, Milliner. Hats remodeled and made to or der. At Emporium. If
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-10-12

How does ride to Camp Comfort with a dance and dinner before re- turning strike you? Fresh killed chickens and Alaska vegetables at your command. For particulars see
 CITY EXPRESS.
 If Phone S2.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-10-12

Mrs. A. J. Hill, who went outside two months ago to visit her parents in Seattle, returned to Valdez on the Northwestern this morning.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-10-12

Suits pressed for $1.00 at Silver mans, the tailor. Telephone 198. t
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-10-12

Suits pressed for $1.00 at Silver mans, the tailol. Telephone 198. tf
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-10-12

William Harrington, the we'll known mining engineer, is spending a few days with his family in town, after an absence of nearly three months.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-10-12

WANTED-Kodak, postcard size, must be in good condition. Answer by letter. e." Prospector office. If
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-10-12
LOCAL BREVITIEs.

Get can of iMelba Peaches FREE at S.. Blum &> Co's. If
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-10-12
Tonight.

"Olana of the South Seas" in two acts and other program to balance at the Liberty Theatre tonight.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-10-12

Furnished rooms at Mrs. Osland's. Prices reasonable.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-10-12

Pure Fresh Drugs at the Valde Drug Store.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-10-12

U. s. Deputy Marshal Clarence W. Mossman returned to Valdez on the Northwestern after taking prisoner to the McNeil Island penitentiary.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-10-12

Fancy Stationery at the Valdez Drug Store.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-10-12

Get can of Melba Peaches FREE at s. Blum & Co.'s. If.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-10-12

Don't forget the Eagles oldtime '9S Halloween dance, Saturday, October 30th. If
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-10-12

Valdez Drug Company nave fine line of School Stationery. If
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-10-12

line of School Stationery. If
 Don't forget the Eagles oldtime '9S Halloween dance, Saturday, October 30th. If l., LOST-At Moose Hall, Saturday evening, silk umbrella. Party who took same by mistake please return to Mrs. A. E. Grigsby.
 Fresh cream and buttermilk al- ways on hand at Love Whitley's. If
 The regular monthly meeting of the Valdez Democratic club will be held in Commissioner Loves court room Tuesday night, at 8 o'clock.
 If you are going east travel via Great Northern By. For rates see D. F. Willard, Agent, Copper Block. If
 Pictures developed at the Valdez Drug Company. If.
 For good home-cooked meals try Mrs. M Olson, on Hobart Street.
 Wells-Fargo Money Orders and Travellers cheeks are payable any where in the United States or Cana da. D. F. Willard, Copper Blk. If
 Kodak Supplie. at the Valdez Drug Company. If
 Fresh cream and buttermilk always on hand at Love-Whitley's. If Do you know that this Is the hot test place in town? We keep $500 degrees of heat on tap night and day. That is the reason we weld anything. Valdez Iron Works. Tu
 It is reported that, w. A. Dickey, the eLantllock copper mine operator, has twelve hundred tons Of ore await ing shipment to the Tacoma sr'elter. He is extending his dock to deep water which will enable the largest steamers plying southwestern %aters l fO iock at any stage of the tide,
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-10-12

;. LOST-At Moose Hall, Saturday
 evening, silk umbrella. Party who took same by mistake please return to Mrs. A. E. Grigsby.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-10-12

Do you know that this Is the hot test place in town? We keep $500 degrees of heat on tap night and day. That is the reason we weld anything. Valdez Iron Works. Tu
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-10-12

Fresh cream and buttermilk always on hand at Love-Whitley's. If
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-10-12

Fresh cream and buttermilk al ways on hand at Love Whitley's. t
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-10-12

Kodak Supplies at the Valdez Drug Company. If
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-10-12

Wells-Fargo Money Orders and Travellers checks are payable any where in the United States or Cana da. D. F. Willard, Copper Blk. If
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-10-12

For good home-cooked meals try Mrs. M. Olson, on Hobart Street.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-10-12
Receivers Notice to Creditors.

9-21-2Ot
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-10-12

The regular monthly meeting o1 the Valdez Democratic club will be held in Commissioner Loves court room Tuesday night, at 8 o'clock.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-07-29

mond of South Carolina cried In
March, 1858, in one of the stirring
antebellum speeches which marked
the high tide of oratory in the United
States Senate, Cotton is king!" this
country produced less than 5,000,U0U
bales. Its normal production now
is about five times as much. Notwith
standing the efforts to encourage di-
versification of crops in the South,
and the great increase of grain pro-
ductiOn in that section, Cotton is still
king. His kingdom is not any pent-
up Utica, either His regal suprem-
ecy is not localized. He dominates
world commerce, without rival. The
Department of Agriculture has recent
ly been collecting statistics on farm
products, computing the value of all
products in International trade, the
total exports from all countries and
imports into all countries. Like
Abou Ben Adhem, King Cotton's
name leads all the rest. 1t is eSti-
mated that the total value of all farm
products in international commerce
is 81, 900, 600, 900 a year. Cotton fur
nishes nearly one-fourth of this, or
$I,l27 100000. The value of wheat
and -four, in international trade, is
next, amounting to STA 900, 600. Corn
and meal amount to but 1910. 900.
Rice amounts to $278,0O0O 900. Hence
cotton is almost as important in in
ternational trade as wheat and flour,
corn and meal and rice combined. Its
value is approximately the same as
that of raw wool, hides and skins and
coffee combined 1t is almost as
much as the value of sugar, barley
and malt, manufactured tobacco, but
ter, tea, rye and -four and oats COM
bined.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-07-29
MANY LIBRARIES.

There are over $4,000 regularly es
tablished libraries in the United
States, containing more than 10000,
900 volumes, according to statistics
just complied by the United States
Bureau of Education. The number
of volumes is an increase of 10000
900 since 1908.
OF the 2,849 Libraries containing o.
900 volumes or over, 1914 are CLASH
fled as public and society libraries, "
and 1,005 are school and college libra
ries. Public and society Libraries
have an aggregate of over fifty mil
lion volumes, with seven million Dor
rowers' cards in force; LAG of these
libraries were entirely free to the
public.
Libraries reporting from 1000 to
5000 volumes numbered 5,453, of
which 2,1SS were public and society
Libraries, and 1896 school libraries.
These libraries contained 1859 ,942
volumes. Another group of still
smaller libraries, comprising those
that reported from 300 to 1000 vol
umes, increased the total by 1851
COZ volumes.
The distribution of library facilities
is still uneven. OF the 1874 public
and society Libraries reported for the
entire United States, more than half
were in the North Atlantic States,
and they contained 24,627,9 1921 vol
umes out of the total of fifty millions;
and of the three million volumes add
ed to library collections for the year
1913, almost one-half were for the
same section. New YORK State had
7,S42,621 volumes in her PA librar-
les; Massachusetts, 7,380,024 in 288
libraries; Pennsylvania, 3,72S,07O;
and Illinois, 3,16S,765 volumes. Four
ffths of the borrowers cards in use
were in the North Atlantic and North
central States.
Library activity for the past year
was marked, according to the Bureau
of Education report, by considerable
extension of the branch system, par
ticularly in the granting of library
privileges on the part of cities to
suburban communities;
by further development of the Coun-
try library plan in many states; and
in general by visible growth in the
spirit of service that is characteristic
of many of the formal educational in
stitutions of today. The period OF
the library as q mere stOrehouse of
books seems to be safely past; il has
yielded to a period of direct commIn,
ity service"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-07-29
MupplEsr OF RIVERS.

The Missouri is the muddiest river
in the Mississippi Valley; it carries
more silt than any other large river
in the United States except possibly
the Rio Grande and the Colorado.
For every square mile of country
drained it carries downstream 3Sl
tons of dissolved and suspended mat
| ter each year. In other words, the
river gathers annually from the coun-
I'try that it drains more than l23, 600,
900 tons OF silt and soluble matter,
some OF which il distributes over the
food plains below to form productive
agricultural lands but most of which
finds its way at last to the Gulf Of
Mexico.
1t is by means of data of this kind
that biologists compute the rate at
which the lands are being eroded
away. 1t has been shown that Mis-
souri, River is lowering the surface of
the land drained by it at the rate of
l foot in 6,036 years. The surface of
the United States as a whole is nov
being worn down at the rate of l foot
in 9,l20 years. 1t has been estimated
streams of the United States could
have been concentrated on the 18TH
mus of Panama il would have dug in
73 DAYS the canal which has just been
completed, after 10 years work, with
the most powerful appliances yet de-
vised by man. Overland Guidebook,
Bulletin 6l2, U. S. Geological Sur
Vpy
The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-07-29

into which supplies may be sent in
an endless stream" Certain il is
that the Indian field is eminently
worth cultivating, and that to work it
effectively much information is need
ed. of specific and not always read
lily available kind. Those engaged i.
the furtherance of American foreign
trade have been devoting to it the
most thorough and painstaking at
tention, and to these investigations a
special timeliness has been impaired
by the European war. India, in 1919
IA, imported from Germany and Aus
tria- Hungary, respectively, $41,O92,000
and 13,92O,O0O worth of goods.
India has a population of $4,000,
900, and an area of 1,S02,l92 square
miles. Its imports in 1914 amount
ed TO the enormous total of 1884, 517,-
600, of which the United States fur
nished only $15,542,O00. The value OF
products consumed annual
Iy in India is less than 5000 per cap
tia. Persons qualified to form an
opinion believe that this
should be very materially increased.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-07-29
HUNT FOR CHILD CONTINUED
Idea Grows that the Boy Was Killed
by Auto and Body Picked up
and Carried Away.

Mason City, July 27.-Officials con-
tinue to hunt for Cecil, the missing
baby of Mrs. Oscar A. Goldthorpe,
missing for three days, and doctors
are caring for the half crazed moth
er who expects to give birth to an
other child soon.
Militiamen, Greeks, Austrians, and
thousands OF citizens have hunted for
the child and the idea that he was
murdered and the body buried contin-
ues to grow. The stream back of the
'Goldthorpe home has been dragged
and nothing found.
The father Oscar Goldthorpe, says
he saw an automobile stop in front
of the house while he was working
in the rear.
Some think that the automobile
killed the child and the driver picked
up the body and carried it away to
prevent prosecution.
Citizens from Plymouth, the old
home of the Goldthorpes, are assist
ing in the search and a reward for
the recovery of the child or the con-
viction of the abductors will be of.
fered.
Highways for distance of ~ miles
from the scene of the kidnapping of
the Goldthorpe child are being search
ed by auto parties today. The parents
have issued the following statement
to the public:
I'VE must tenderly plead for con-
tinued assistance in the search for
our baby boy. If the child was stolen
from us, if he was injured or killed
by some automobile driver and taken
away, We plead for the return of our
little boy dead or alive or of some
knowledge of where he may be found
We greatly appreciate the efforts
thus far put forth for the recovery of
our child" Signed, Oscar V. Gold
thorpe, Mrs. Marcia Goldthorpe
The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-07-29
AVOID THE EASY CHAIR.

The easy chair has put many man
in las grave before his time. At
least that is what the United States
Public Health Department says. 1t
has just issued a bulletin against the
rocking chair, the odd arm chair"
about which poets have woven some
of their prettiest verse, the office
chair, and any sort of a chair so COM
Portable in form that it invites re-
pose.
Not because germs of a deadly sort
Turk in the easy chair, upholstered
or plain. Not for that reason does
the health service of our government
condmn ii; but because a man with
an easy chair at hand is likely to
form the habit of sitting in it when
he ought to be up and around, taking
exercise that he must have If he is to
keep well.
The easy chair is to blame for
much of the heart and kidney dis
ease, appendicitis and indigestion,
which affiict the business men of our
day and carry so many of them off
when they ought to be in the prime
of life. Those diseases were almost
unknown a generation ago when men
worked more in the open air. Walk
ing was the thing that kept them well
and strong up to 80 and 80 years of
age.
But now men sit as they ride to
and from work in motor or street
cars: they sit at their work in Office
or factory; about the only so called
exercise" many of them get is rid
ing in a motor car. 1t is u sitting
down" age, and the government
warns OF its dangers.
When the victim of the sitting hab-
it begins to feel the bad effects of it
and goes o. for rest and change he
sits out a vacation on the veranda of
a summer hotel, sits in a rolling chair
on a board walk at the beach, or
sits in a steamer chair, or somewhere
else.
Il need a change" says the tired
man of business. Walk more" say
the experts of the health service.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-07-29
WHICH IS RIGHT?

The short ballot propaganda was
invented 10 hide the fact that the di,
rect primary is a farce" says the OF
tumwa Courier
The claim made for the direct pri.
mary method OF nomination was that
il would give every man a voice in
the nominating or every candidate for
every once. II was supposed to put
the administration OF government in
the hands OF the people.
Now along comes the short ballot
advocate and says that the people
should not be trusted to select more
than two or three OF the head officials
and all others should be appointed by
those who are elected. That takes
the government away from the peo-
pie"