Fine Lines Children's Shoes
THE snow is going pretty lively and
new shoes will soon be needed. You’ll
find here good, generous assortments and
in the styles you’ll like.
Pla Mates, shape of
the foot, best make of
children’s shoes, sizes
from 2 to 12. Prices
$2 to $3.50.
Billy Buster and Hard
pan, good stout shoes
for boys—seamed and
nailed, high and low
cuts, Blucher; comes
brown and black; sizes
from 9 to 5 1-2-Prices
$3 to $4.
Child’s Gun Metal But
ton, a well made good
wearing shoe for the
boy or girl, in sizes
from 5 to 12—Prices
$1.75 to $2.
Dorothy Junior; a shoe
for the growing girl,
with a medium heel,
made gun metal but
ton; sizes 2 to 5. Prices
$3.00 to $3.50.
Boy’s button gun met
al, made on dressy
lines, is a shoe that
looks well and wears
well. Sizes from 9 1-2
to 5—Prices $2.50 to
$3.50.
| Community Silverware Always Pleases j
Valdez Mercantile Co.
“ TONY’S PLACE ™
EVERYTHING ANTON CARLSON,
FIRS’! CLASS Manager.
CHAS. R. CRAWFORD
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER
Dealer in Agent for
Building Material. Machinery, Gas Engines
STEAMSHIP MEH
GRANTEDINCREASE
SAN FRANCISCO OWNERS SUBMIT
New Wage Scale Goes Into Effect at
Once—Fifteen Thousand Employes
Are Affected by the Increase in
i
Wages.
SAN FRANCISCO, April ' 26.—
Steamship men in this city have
"v .granted the demands of the Union for
an'advance of wages, and the new
scale will go into effect At dnCe. The
raise effecfs 15,000 steamship em
ployes on vessels running out of this
port.
SIMPLE TESTS FOR
DETERMINING TUNGSTEN
With the quest for tungsten ores
holding a foremost place with pros
pectors and the growing belief that
this much valued ore exists in this
section, the following tests for tung
sten will be of material aid to the
Alaska Investment Co.
Real Estate, Insurance, Mining Stocks
"HESS' R"dBij'- ^i9*
Imported and Domestic
Wines, Liquors and Cigars
Phone 69
prospector in determining on the
spot whether or r.ot he has found the
desired mineral.
Place some of the finely ground ore
in a porcelain dish or test tube with
a mixture of four parts hydrochloric
acid and one part nitric acid, and boil
20 minutes. If there is tungsten
present, the yellow powder of tung
sten trioxide will appear, and by ad
ding a piece of tin or zinc, and heat
ing the solution will turn blue.
Or, mix some of the finely-ground
ore with ten times its volume of so
dium carbonate (common cooking
soda) and heat strongly in an iron
spoon or crucible until thoroughly
fused. Crush the fused mass, boil
strongly in a small quantity of water
until well dissolved and filter. Divide
the solution into two equal parts,
adding concentrated hydrochloric
acid in excess to both. Boil the first
portion a few minutes and add zinc
or tin, a blue color indicating tung
sten and which, with continued boil
ing, turns to brown. Boil the second
part for several minutes. If a yellow
powder appears, filter and wash the
residue with witter. ' Add strong am
monia to it and if the yellow powder
be dissolved, it is tungsten trioxide.
Tom Holland of Chitina, came in
over the trail yesterday from Beaver
Dam. He has been with the Wilson
outfit, freighting into the Slate Creek
country.
WOULD START
CANNERY HERE
CLAMS FOUND IN ABUNDANCE
J. D. Clark Returns from Prospecting
Trip Down the Sound with ail I
Kinds and Sizes of the Succulent j
Bivalve.
J. D. Clark returned yesterday aft
ernoon from a week’s prospecting
trip at numerous points on the sound
for clams. He had every known va
riety of the bivalve and they rang
ed in size from the tiny butter clam j
to some monsters of the clam tribe.
The object of Mr. Clark’s clam
prospecting trip was to ascertain j
whether or not these could be ob- j
tained in sufficient quantities nearby!
to warrant the establishment of a
clam canning factory here, and as aj
result of the trip he is satisfied that j
they are sufficiently abundant to:
make such a cannery a success.
While the plans are not fully for
mulated as yet. the general plan is
to interest capital, local if possible,
to establish a cannery here, and Mr.
Clark is confident of his ability to
demonstrate that such a project will
be a success so far as the quantity of
raw material is concerned.
The canning of clams is becoming
a large and lucrative industry, par
ticularly on the north Pacific Coast.
Cordova has three plants engaged in
this business, these, however, con
fining themselves exclusively to the
canning of razor clams which are;
plentiful on Hinchinbrook island j
beaches. 1
In Washington, which has been i
ithe principal canning point on the
coast, the supply of clams is becom
ing rapidly exhausted, and the state:
has now provided a closed season for
j the bivalve. As consequence the
canners ar° seeking new fields.
AUTO SMS
TOJTERIOR
A NEW LINE 18 PROJECTED
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Eugene ChUberg, of Lo^ Angeles,
Sends Inquiry to H. P. King Re
garding the Feasibility of Estab
lishing Line Here,
j ..
H. P. King this morning received
a dispatch from Eugene Chilberg. of
Los Angeles, California, stating that
he contemplated establishing an auto
mobile stage line from Valdez to
Fairbanks, using Ford car3, and ask
ed for immediate response by wire
as to the feasibility of the project.
Mr. Chilberg desired information
regarding the proposed summer mail
contract, the amount of passenger,
freight and express business that
might be expected, and such other
information regarding the project
as could be obtained.
Mr. King Is bysily engaged in se
curing the required information and
will wire a reply this evening.
Eugene Chilberg, who makes the
inquiry, was formerly a resident of
Nome, where he was president of the
Merchants & Miners Bank, but tor
several years has been a resident of
Los Angeles. He is a son of Edward
Chilberg, of the Scandinavian-Amer
ican bank of Seattle. He has ample
finances to carry out the project on a
large scale should he decide on car
rying out his plans.
SAY MEXICANS STARVING
IN SOUTHERN CHIHUAHUA
DOUGLAS, April 26.—Arrivals
here from Mexico report food condi
tions in southern Chihuahua, particu
larly around Torreon, to be grave.
There has been no planting and the
poorer classes are near starvation in
many localities.
One incident described by an Amer
ican was that several emaciated wo
men and children followed wagons
loaded with corn, covertly reaching
Into the sacks whenever possible and
extracting a few grains.
This was their only food the Amer
icans said they told them. Arrivals
from the interior of Sonora say that
except for rice and sugar, that state
and Sinalo is without food, except
where it Is Imported. If the food sup
ply was absolutly shut off for thirty
days starvation would be the fate of
hundreds, they say.
'E. P. Cashman came in from Wort
man’s yesterday. He reports the trail
in excellent condition, the snow hav
ing practically disappeared. ;
CITY COUNCIL
BATE OF ANNEXATION ELECTION
Polling Place for Town to Be at City
Hall, and for Tldelands at Office of
Charles Crawford—Judges and
Clerks are Named.
The City Council met last night,
with Mayor Patterson, Councilmen
Carlson, Crawford, Day McCallum
and Erickson present.
The regular order of business was
taken up and carried through, and
some discussion was had regarding
the needs of the city. The question
of clean-up week was brought up,
and it was decided that early in May.
after the snow had disappeared from
the streets would be a proper time for
a general cleaning up of the town.
The mayor announced the commit
tees of the council for the ensuing
year as follows:
Mayor Patterson has appointed the
following committees of the common
council for the ensuing year:
Public Health and Police Protec
tion—Wood, Erickson, McCallum.
Finance and Claims—Crawford,
Day, Carlson.
Law and Ordinances'—Day, Wood,
Crawford.
Purchasing Committee— McCal
lum, Erickson, Wood.
Sewerage and Wharfage—Erick
son, Carlson, Day.
Fire Protection and Water Supply
—Carlson. Crawford, McCallum.
Streets and Street Lights—Day,
Erickson, Crawford.
Assessment and Taxes—Crawford,
Wood. Day.
Election and Printing—McCallum,
Erickson, Carlson.
Permanent Improvements—Wood,
Carlson, McCallum.
In a short address to the members
of the council Mayor Patterson stated
that in making his selections for the
various committees he had been :
guided, as far as possible, by the in
terest he believed the persons chosen
had in the work of the particular
committees to which they had been
appointed. He urged that the various
committees work in harmony with
each other and with the council as a
whole.
Fire Chief Finical submitted to the
council a draft of a proposed ordi
nance covering the construction of
buildings within the fire limits of the
town, and fixing the limits. He spoke
at some length on the provisions of
the measure and the necessity for
some action to prevent the erection
of fire-traps within the business sec
tion of the town.
Bids for the city printing for the
ensuing year were submitted by the
Prospector and the Forty-Ninth Star.
Both bids were the same, and Coun
cilman Crawford made a motion that
the printing of legal notices be award
ed to the Prospector and job printing
to the Star. Patterson, Crawford and
Carlson voted for the motion; and
Erickson, Day and McCallum against
it. A motion was then made that
the committee on printing call on the
proprietors of the papers and see If
an arrangement could be made for di
viding the work. The motion car
ried.
The question of the annexation
election was taken up and Tuesday,
June 6, was the date fixed for' the
election. The places designated as
polling places were the: city hall for
residents of the town and the Office of
Charles Crawford, on the dock for the
residents residing on the tract pro
posed to be annexed.
The judges and clerks for the elec
tion were also named, the judges at
the city hall polling place being J.
Heckey, George Merrlfield and Geo.
Robbins, and the clerks C. J. Todd
and T. H. Hunt.
At the dock G. W. Long and S.
Bard were named as judges and M.
J. Callaghan as clerk.
A proposal to furnish a landing
place for the post Launch Donaldson
at $15 per month was ordered sub
mitted to the commanding officer of
the post, in response to a request for
bids.
The by-laws of the former council
were adopted for the guidance of the
present council. The meeting then
adjourned.
Red Tusan came up from Fldalgo
bay last night for a short stay ih
town.
Jack O’Brien, who has been.at the
Alaska Mines Corporation property
at Fldalgo bay came up to town last
night.
A Swede Highlander.
Scotty Allan, writing to a friend
in Nome from France, said that he
expressed a desire to see a Scottish
regiment. Hoot nion, but the stcht
o’ a braw Heiland regiment wi' the
We have the Facilities
For Properly Handling
Your Business.
We issue Drafts on all parts of the world
Safe Deposit Boxes for Rent
THE FIRST BANK OF VALDEZ
RESOURCES #250,000.
THE PINZON
Cigars, Fruits, Candies
OPTIMOS MARCA RICAS
REPRESENTAS EE SIDEEOS
BARRETTS EOVERAS
JUAN de PUCAS VAN DYCKS
MONOPOEES CARABANAS WEBSTERS
Haas & Sons Celebrated Candies—
Always Fresh.
Valdez Dock Co. PHONE NO. 1
JOBBER IN
COAL, HAY
GRAIN and
LUMBER
Office, foot of Wall street.
We Are Agents For The
Dayton Electric House Pumps
Which have fewer parts, run more
easily and quietly, require less
attention and cost less per year of
service than any other pump on
the market.
And the
“Thor 5” Vacuum Glaanor
This is one of the finest household
cleapers ever made for the low
price at which it sells.
We stand back of both the above machines.
Alaska Water Light & Tel. Co.
DONALDSON SCHEDULE
Lvb. Fort Llscum Lra. Vatdea
8:15 a.m. 9:45 a.m.
1:15 p.m. 4:00 p.m.
TUESDAYS
8:16 a.m. 9:46 a.m.
1:15 p.m. 8:00 p.m.
4:80 p.m. 5:00 p.m.
SATURDAYS >,
1:15 p.m. 4:00 p.of’
7:00 p.m. 10:80 pAg.
There wHl be no trip of the launch
on the aetond ana fourth Friday* of
each montlu theee day* helnf hand to
clean boiler*.
kilties ’ud be & gran, slcht to take
baok to Nome. The officers were
nothing loath to gratify the taste of
me world’s most famous dog mush
er, and they brought him to a spot
Where one of the well known Scot
tish regiments would pbbs going for
ward toward the front. First came
Ihe lilt of the pipes then the tramp
of the kilted soldiers, and just as
Scotty was wpndering if he'd know
any of them he heard a voice holler
fronf'the ranks, “Hello there, Scotty."
The owner of the voice was a' big
Swede who used to work for the tel
tephone company in Nome. He look
ed fine in kilts as he walked along
with his brother kilts.—Nugget.
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