Valdez Daily Prospector
PUBLISHED By THE
Prospector Publishing Co.
TKRYb
ne Dollar per Month: Twelve Dollars per Year
SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1912.
Democratic Ticket
For President—
WOODROW WIL80N.
for Vice-President—
THOS. R. MARSHALL.
For Delegate to Congress—
ROBERT W. JENNINGS.
THE ALASKA ROAD COMMIS
SION'S WORK.
The interview published with
(Jul. Wills P. Richardson, U. S. A.,
chairman of lhi> Alaska mad com
mission, in yesterday's Prospect
or, should he good reading to ev
ery man, woman and child living
anywhere within reach of the gov
ernment wagon road between this
place and Fairbanks, and espec
ially should it be cheering news
to the people of Valdez, who will
be the greatest beneficiaries of
the completed work, for it will re_
store to us the prestige of being
the cut report of the great inland
empire l>ing to our hinterland.
Tin* road I" be completed will
mean even more to u< than the
primitive trail «»f III* past, which!
did so much b» sustain Valdez. for1
if will be traveled in summer as
well as winter. Whenever the!
road can be placed in such posi
tion as to be traveled by automo
bile, the mail, as well as pas
sengers will select Ibis route in
stead of |h<' slow and uncertain
travel by way of the river.
II. will prove equally as bene
ficial lo those living in the Tan
ana valley, who arc now, by rea
son of the slow ami uncertain
means of travel, days further
from llie great outside than they
would otherwise be. It is a well
known fact to those residing in
Fairbanks that the only reliable
mail service is that in winter, not
withstanding Hi.? primitive meth
ods of travel at present prevail
ing. Willi a jronrt road ami au
tomobile service there will be dai
ly coimnunicat ion with Ihf inter
ior, which will bring lo us a clos
er relationship with I he enter
prising people In our north. Aj
good wagon road is the next lliingi
fo a railroad and probably, under!
the eircuni-tlanees, a well built
wagon road will eonie nearer
meeting our wants than a rail
road, which by reason of the high
cost of construcl ion, heavy oper
ating and maintenance charges,
will always prove its use lo be J
prohibitive, save in exceptional:
ease«.
We of this section of Alaska!
are under many obligations to
the Alaska road commission and]
to Colonel Hichardson. in* par-1
lieular. for lie has proven himself
to have been, under all circum
stances. a good friend to Vablez,
never omilling an opportunity lo
advance the interests of the com
munity while working in his line
of duly. Col. Richardson's spirit
towards Yahlez has been by far
kindlier lhan thai of Vablez, at;
limes, towards him. i
THE HOUSE AND HOME RULE.
The educational campaign cnn
fluclo*] by Valdez' cl#*l»»frnl•» Jo;
Washington, Judge (). P. Hubbard,
is hearing fniil. Secretary Fisher,
with the power of flu* administra
lion behind him. supplemented by
Iti«* lohhy maintained by Iho Ca
nadian bondholders of I bo Alaska
Northern railroad, have attempted
in many ways In got through Iho
House a bill authorizing (lie pur
chase of the rust streaks to the
westward and finally as a lasf re
sort had passed a ri<lor on the
enabling net, giving Alaska a leg
islative assembly, providing for
the appointment by the president
of a commission to report upon
Iho most feasible route for a rail
road from tide water to Iho Tan
ana valley and one of Iho eoal
Holds.
If Iho president wore to appoint,
a disinterested commission, un
prejudiced as to nny particular
route, nothing could be said
against, its appointment. But in
asmuch as Secretary Fisher baa
committed himself to Iho pur
chase of the Alaska Northern, un
sight and unseen, and has bitter
ly opposed the appointment of a
commission to examine all routes
and to report to congress itself
It leads us to the belief that the
only commission satisfactory tc
the Secretary of the Interior is
one which will report favorablj
upon the purchase of the Alaska
Northern at a sum three timee
in excess of its cost to its pres
ent owners.
The work done by Mr. llubbard
during the past several months
has educated the "House commit
tee on territories as to the real
conditions prevailing. The ar
guments advanced by Judge Hub
bard to the committee, and the
facts presented to them, backed as
they were by numberless govern
ment reports, as well as private
surveys, were so convincing as to
raise in their minds a serious
doubt as to the sincerity, to use
a genteel term of certain high of
ficials in their advocacy of the
adoption of a single route to the
exclusion of all others, or even of
aii examination being made of
them by a disinterested and com
petent board of engineers.
All these tilings, as we have
said, have caused the House
committee to ask themselves the
whyfore and wherefore of the sec
retary's anxiety to purchase the
Alaska Northern. When the Sen
ate placed the rider on the com
mittee's home rule bill appoint
ing such a commission, as the
Secretary of the Interior so ear
nestly desired, in the belief that
tin; House would accept the Seo
ul"' amendments, in their hope to
give Alaska a local legislative as
sembly. the Alaska Northern lobby
as well as the Senate, made the
mistake of undervaluing the
House committee'* actual knowl
edge of the physical, geographi
cal and political condition* exist
ing in Southwestern Alaska, as
they overvalued the House's anx
iety to pas* a home rule bill for
Alaska.
The House is anxious fo give us
local government. hut democrat
ic as i| is, jt will jurist upon giv
ing lis a government under which
we ran govern ourselves untram
nieled by congress. They find it
easy to sacrifice the present husk
of home rule until they come in
power in both branches of the
national legislature, as well as in
the While House. Judge Hub
bard's excellent work in Wash
ington has been larpely respon
sible for this desirable condition
of affairs.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Tin*. Wilson girls have crowded
Kermil o(T the front page.
Congress is poinp to prinl the
speeches of acceptance of Taft,
Wilson and Roosevelt. What's I he
use; everybody knows I hey will
I ake I lie job.
Canada is anxious for reciproc
ity when i| come.s <" 'he Panama
canal.
Hoo<evell will keep on run
ning-lie is a regular babbling
brook.
There are a number of presi
dential candidates looking for a
grub stake.
According to Wickershani. he
is neither fish or fowl, lie i* jusl a
privileged character.
There must be a Ihirsty bunch
in New York with I lie saloons
closed from I lo 0 a. m.
So long as Tafl sits in Hit* pres
idential chair we will pay (lie
same old price for our woolen
s'icks.
If Roosevelt wore lo lake his
convention along the circuit he
wonhl find no difficulty in tinan
cinK his campaign.
Mow would I he people of Alaska
like lo hear it called, John Frame,
national Democratic committee
man. Whew, what a smell!
The accidental death of the
president of the fTaytian repub
lic will probably postpone the next
revolution for a few days.
The aeroplane of the future, we
are (old, will carry 1,000 pnsscn
igcrs. This will be good news, in
jdecd, lo the undertaker'* trust.
I Wiekersham reached Washing
ton just in time to hear the fu
neral oration preached over the
Alaska legislative assembly bill.
Although a delegate to the Tin 1
Moose gathering, Wickershair
says he is not a member of Ilia1
parly. Me just butted in, we sup.
pose.
It will be news to the Chinese
republic to learn that the late
> Mikado and the Czar had agreed
on parcelling out the trade of the
Orient.
Those people who .so bitterly
opposed the appointment of Dis
triet Attorney Crossley will now
have four years in which lo"re
consider the matter.
The old axiom that the way of
the transgressor is hard must oc
casionally come to the mind of
the New York police lieutenant ac
cused of the murder of the
wealthy gambler.
A supreme court, somewhere,
has decided that a woman who
gets ofT a car backward has no
claim for damages. That court
may know the law, hut it does not
know woman.
Iloosevelt says I he convention j
was splendid and that he was de
light-ed because it went just the
way he wanted. That gives us an
understanding why he bolted the
Republican convention.
No one need be astonished t«>
),*ead in an irresponsible sheet on
the very eve of election (hat
Wickersham is not a law partner
of Henry Roden and a lot of oth
er stuff which they hope will come
otiI (<><» lale to deny. Any charges
made al 11n* ninety-ninth hour
will prjiivc bul a boomerang.
Valdez Real Estate.
If >ou have a house to rent,
list it willi (lie Yaldez Real Es. j
| (ale Agency, Wall street. j
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SHAMPOOING and MANICURING
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Private bath room for ladies.
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MINING ENGINEER
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VALDEZ, ALASKA
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Mineral Surveyor
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Regular Communications first Wednesday In
each montb in McKtnley Hull. Visitors always
welcome.
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C. C. Reynolds. Sec
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O.F.
Vifiltlntr and local Odd Fellows are re
quested to register their name with the
Valdez Odd Fellows* Club. Hogular
mrctlnus. Hrat and third Monday.
Gallon P. H. HITNT. Secretary.
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Meet every Friday, 8 p. m. Kntflc Hall
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Made of the choicest calf leather and solid
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Freighting and passengers to all parts
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Undertaker, Embalmers
Funeral Directors
l4S GEO. BOBBINS, Mgr.
Steam Heat Electric Lights
THE COPPER BLOCK
Finely Furnished Rooms All Modern Conveniences
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ALL KINDS OF
Native and ¥ ¥ T1\/|OII,D ant^ Building
Puget Sound L vJ lVlljl-aMV. Material
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Prices Right W. M. FINICAL, Mgr. Phone 18
Patronize a Home Industry
VALDEZ DRUG CO.
Drugs and Druggist Sundries
PRESCRIPTION SPECIALISTS
Telephone Orders Solicited {Free Delivery
Ingram & Bush Dealers °
Just Arrived Direct from the
Factories a Large Shipment of
INTECRIDAD, Rex, Regal. EL SIDELO, Senator., Millionaire.
SMOKECRAFT, Rein* Victoria, Delmonico BELMONT, Monarch
, REPRESENTA, Medio, Full Value, Madrid
Box Trade Solicited at Seattle Prices
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