VOLUME 4> WO. 16 _ VALDEZ, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1905. OFFICIAL CITY PAPER.
We are showing a
nice assortment of
Spring: ats
In Light and Dark Colors
and ranging in price from
$1.5® to 5.00
AsK For A “Stetson”
You can’t beat them for Style and Wear.
One of the next steamers is bringing us a large con
signment of SPRING SHIRTS of all kinds-Negligee,
Golf and Percales. Don’t buy till you see them.
European Plan Ratr Reasonable
HOTEL ST. ELMS
^ (Only First Class Hotel in Valdez.)
Headquarters for Mining Men
and Commercial Travelers
DEB/M Eg a POOT, Proprietors.
Keystone Ave. Vakie*, Alaska.
OWL DRUG COMPANY
Pare Fresh Drags
MEDICINE OUTFITS FOR THE TRAIL
Stationery Phone 40 • Newspapers, Magazines
City Market
NEXT tO THE 'NIZ1XA.
PRICES ARE
RIGftl'
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Wholesale and
Retail Dealers
tJIVE US A
CALL
Beef, Mutton, Pork
Poultry and Game, j
Among the arrivals on the Cot
tage City was Corporal H. K. I.rtve,
of Co. D, Hough Kiders, U. S. V.,
jTecently transferred from Utah to
this section as special agent of the
Interior department, accompanied
%>y h» wife and child. The gen
tleman is one of tin- war veterans
that fought and messed with “Pres
ident Hoosevelt, and, as he says it,
the “President has been a comrade
and brother” both during and after
the war. Tl »• gentleman is an
•easterner and made application for
the Alaskan position because he
likes western life. He will make
his headquarters in this city..—Ju
neau Dispatch.
H. K. Love is a brother of Geo.
Love of this place.
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The postal department has 'is-'
sued an order that the mail to and
from Alaska liners shall be trans
ferred direct to the mail trains
This sa- ec hours of time on eastern
mail and in the future it will not
have to U- distributed in the Seat
tle.post-»dhce.
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Quick Tune.
A message was last night sent
from Washington, D, C., to Nome,
Alaska, a distance of about 6.000
miles, and replies received at the
national capital from Nome in less
than five minutes. From St. Mich
ael, Fort Uihhon, Fort Egbert,
and North Fork replies were re
ceived in fifteen minutes, although;
the message bad to be repeated or,
relayed six times before it returned ;
to Washington. It t»<>k one-half a
second to get a message from
Washington to Seattle, one and
seven-tenths seconds to get it front
here to Sitka, and two seconds to
forward it to Nome. The original
message would have reached Nome
from Washington, had it not been
three times relayed, in four and
two-tenths seconds. The wires
were working poorly all along the
line.—P.-I.
Cuts New Channel.
Major \V. A. Glassford, of the
'United States signal corps, has re
ceived an official dispatch fro*n
I Lieutenant Fitzpatrick of the sig
'office at Fort Gibbon, Alaska, to
the effect that the Tatiana river
|cut a new channel eight miles
above 'Chena, making a detour
around the town and leaving ves
sels high and dry. The change in
the channel also renders Fairbanks
practically an inland town, as the
mouth of Chena slough, on which
Fairbanks is situated, is just above
the town of Chena and no Vessel
Wm now reach Fairbanks. Ice
jams are sup) Osed to have caused
I the new channel.—P.-*.
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B. F. McClellan, of St. Paul, wh6
owns large copper pro]>erties near
Valdez, and who is now on his way '
north, is at the Diller liotel.—P.-I.)
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Surveyors Come in June
Forty Engineers Now on Way to Valdez. Eastern Cap
ital is Putting Up Money. D. A. McKenzie
and L. Hunt In the Deal.
Si•nttle. May 25— Another pro
j'C for a railroad from the gulf of
I Alaska to the \ ukon has now come
t> light here. 1>. A. McKenzie, of
this eiiy, formerly a prominent op
erator in the Kovitkuk, announces
that he is associated with New
\ ork capitalists who arc planning
! the building of such a railroad. In
j nil probability the road will run
from Valdez to Eagle, with a spur
■connecting with the copper licit and
another to Fairbanks.
Aiparty of ‘forty engineers has
Keen engaged to make the survey*
They left New York today and will
reach Valdez and he ready to start
work early in June.
L. t^.J. Hunt, former owner of
the PtRt-Intelligt-ncer and a multi
millionaire, is one of the ptincipal
tinancial hackers of the project.
Railroad Is Working
St. Petersburg. May 24—The re
port that \ ladivostock was cut off
l*v tli«* Japanese was untrue. The
railro.nl is still working along its
whole length. At Yladit 0**tlK*k
tlie rate of taxes has Iteen greatly
'inenase.l. Meat is verv scarce.
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Preparing For Battle
(> unshu Pass. May *24—The two
armies are now preparing for a l«ig
battle. The main bodies under
Linevitch and Oyama are now fae
j'ing each other A Russian recon
j naisunce vester iay -resulted iti a
defeat, in which they sustained
heavy losses.
Judge Works on Road
Fairbanks, May 21—Judge Wic
kersham adjourned «i»urt today
and headed a crowd of citizens who
; turned out to build a road to Esther
creek, a new camp now coming to
the front. Berry Bros, are heavily
interested and have found gold in
paying •{uantities.
Bailroad on'Ch ary Creek
Fairbanks. May 24—Chas. \Y.
Joy lit has secured 40 acres of term
inals and rig lit ol" way for a'rmrrow
guagv railroad th< length of Cleary
creek and down to the heavy tiiri
ls-r. i be object of the road will
1h- to supply the operators with
fuel. At present three thousand
cords of wood are used eaeli month
ou this creek.
Powe For Miners
'Fairbanks, >Uy 21—Aim Spring
•Mid J. A. Haney will leave for the
outside on the first I mat to buy a
power plant, which they will in
stall at some suitable place and
use to furnish light and power for
the miners on Cleary and Fair
banks creeks.
A new wharf is lming erected di
rectly in front oi the post at I,is
cuin.
Another Investigator Coming
President Will Send Agent to Look Into Brady
Matter. Reynold Calls on Hitchcock
Washington, May 2")—President
Reynolds, of the Reynolds-AIaska
I Development Co., with which Gov.
Brady has been connected as resi
dent director, called on secretary
Hitchcock to inform him regarding
| actions of the hoard of directors.
Roosevelt has de ideii to go into the
matter thoroughly befo e taking
final a. tion in the Brady case and
an agent may !>e sent to Alaska to
personally question ihe governor.
School Bo*rA far Reservation.
A petition signed by the* resi
dents of the Reservation asking ior
the establishment of a school dis
trict was received by the Clerk of
the Court, and acted upon this
week. He has named June 3rd as
the date upon which to elect a
board of school directors, whose
duty it shall be to look after the
education of the children residing
within the limits specified in the
petition.
Appeal Dismiwed
The usury case of Raymond vs. I
Hemple, which was decided here
last term of court in favor of Ray
mond and was later appealed, has
been thrown out cf the court of aji
peals on a motion of Donohoe &
Ostrander, attorneys for Raymond, j
According to the course of proced
ure and practice in the appellate
court the case could only be re*
viewed on a writ of error, but the
counsel for the 'appellants over-;
looked this simple but important j
fact and the case was thrown out. i
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B all—Manslaughter.
The trial of Robert Ball for the
killing of Wm. Deppe, which oc
curred at Ketchikan last week, at
tracted widespread attention
throughblit 'Southeastern Alaska.
It was a hard fOught legal battle,
able codrtsdl 'appearing on both
sides. It took three days fdr the
jury to decide ujidn a verdict,
was reached Saturday evening, and j
was manslaughter. Under this
verdict the cbnvicted man is liable
to 1 to 20 years imprisonment.
Ball had not received sentence at
■last-accounts.
Move to Fairbanks
Mrs. t red M. Brown and child
ren, Harry and Helen will leave on
| the Portland or Santa Ana ior Fair
banks, to join .Mr. Brown. He has
i a lucrative law oraclice started at
that piace and will reside there for
a while. The Brown residence has
been leased hv S. A. Hemnle.
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8. A. Hetnple Returns.
S. A. Hempie and wife, who were
married in Seattle March H, and
spent their htmevmoou touring
through California. After a very
pleasant trip returned on the Port
land and are now stopping at the
St. El ias annex. Mrs. Hetnple i
was formerly Miss Isabella Lang,
of Seattle.
Wedding at Evak
At Eyak last week there was «
brilliant wedding ceremony per
formed by the Russian priest, at
which Mike Duval und Sophia
Lauipson were united in the holy
bonds of matrimony. After the j
ceremony the bride entertained a
number of her lady friends. The \
priest was assisted by Walter
Storey aud'Chariie Swanson.
Duval is a prosperous business
man of Kayak, to-which place the
happy couple have gone to live.
Fair Ready For Opening
President Goode has officially
announced that the Lewis and
Clark centennial exposition will be
opened completely in every de-1
pertinent June Tst, the day fixed I
by law for the formal opening. Thei
fair will last four and one-half!
months, the time of the year when ;
the Pacific Northwest enjoys its
-most gorgeous weather.
Caine -* rom Norway To Wee.
Mins '1 lioni Ilullnes, accompanied
bv her brother Einr, arrived here
on the Portland, completing the
long journey from their home, at
Nuinsos, Norway, to Valdez in
thirty days. The young lady will
become the wife o{ Captain Erie
son, of the steamer Lit ut. Michie.
At present the new arrivals are
awaiting their baggage, wliieh was
side-tracked a, Seattle, but which
will lie sent up on next boat. As
suming that the v eddiug took place
on 1 uesday the band gave them a
serenade.
Located a Townsite.
J. Cioodell, rccouipanied by sur
veyor Attains, left liere lust week
on the Excelsior an i went to a
point between Eyuk and Urea,
known as Copper liiver City, where
they took up und surveyed a tract
of one hundred and sixty acres to
be ustd as a terminal for a project
ed railroad to run from tiie Kayak
coal and oil fields to deep water on
Prince William bound. A wharf
site is included in tin* survey, and
all is covered by script.
Railroad 8old.
An important! transfer was made
last week when J. L. Steele pur
chased the remainder of the V., C.
H. T. Railway' This is the road
started two years a£ by A. B. lies.
Mr. Steele bought what was left of
the trestle at the terminus of the
road for $3, and has converted it
into firewood.
Gold Output.
A. Wing, United States a'ssayer,
states from information he has re
ceived from Alaska and the North
west territory the output of gold
for the northern country this year
will total $22,000,000, If not more.
So far this winter he has not !teard
any unfavarable ‘rej>orts from any
section in which mining is being
eslrried On. From the Klondike
albile Mr. Wing predicts an output
of from $10,000,000 to $12,000;000,
tlie Ira hi nee coming from the camps
ou the American side.
Fruffessor U. S. Grant and Sid
ney Faige* of the Geological Sur
vey, will arrive here about Juue
19th to s|>end some time in an ex
amination of the minerals of Frmee
William sound.