The First Bank of Valdez
CAPITAL $25,000.
AX PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS
OUR STOCKHOLDERS ARE
S. BLUM JOHN LYONS
M. BLUM J. M. LATHROP
E. B. WHEAT W. M. WILSON
JAFET UNDEBERG
TERRITORIAL DEPOSITORY.
Valdez Dock Co. PHONE NO. 1
JOBBER IN
COAL, HAY
and GRAIN
Office, foot of Wall street.
VALDEZ SHEET METAL WORKS
Plumbing, Steam and Hot Water Heating.
MOTOR BOAT SUPPLIES
Pumps. Well-Points. Valves X Water. Steam and Suction
and Packing. Hose.
PIPE AND FITTINGS
WHY PAY MORE
COMPARE OUR PRICES WITH OTHERS
Rainier Beer, per case, quarts.$5.00
Rainier Beer, per case, pints.$5.50
All Brands of Bottled Goods
In Bond, per quart . . $1.65
BEERS -
Rainier, Four Quarts for .... $1.00
Rainier, Six Pints for .... $1.00
Budweiser, Five Pints for .... $1.00
Budweiser, Three Quarts for . $1.00
WINE S
Port, Sherry, Claret, Riesling, Sauteme,
Angelica, Muscatel.
Highest Standard Brands, 75 cents Per Quart.
Free Delivery to all parts of the City. Why Pay More?
Buy Your Holiday Wines and Liquors at
The Big Place.
Valdez I/Odge
No 168,
Free and Accepted Masons
Regular Communications first Wednesday !n
each month in McKinley Hall. Visitors always
welcome.
A. E. GRIGSBY. W. M.
C. C* Reynolds. Sec
Valdez Hospital
Largest and Best Equipped Hospital
in Southwestern Alaska.
Graduate Nones—Private Rooms for Patients
For Terms'and Particulars Apply to
E. C. DALTON, M, D., Physician in Charge.
RED GROSS HOSPITAL
PRIVATE ROOMS.
Open to All Physicians
MISS JONES,
Hobart Street. Matron.
If you want all the news all the
time, read the Prospector.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Go to the Valdez Cafe ror Lutefisk.
Over a dozen varieties of apples to
pick from at the Yakima Fruit Co. tf
Latest popular copyrights and. clas
sics at Valdez Drug Co. tf
Universal percolators and chafing
dishes at Valdez Drug Co. tf
Suits pressed for $1.00 at Silver
man’s the tailor. Telephone 198.
Twenty-five pair of fine Richard
son’s ladies’ skates at the rink. Come
and try them out. Open tonight.
Yakima netted Gem spuds, 17 lbs.
for 50c at Yakima Fruit Co. tf
For home cooked meals go to Mrs.
Matilda Olson’s on Hobart street.
Phone 219. Special Sunday dinner
served at 6 o’clock. Week days din
ner served at 6 p. m. tf
LOST one arctic at Moose hall on
Christmas night The arctic left is
size 3 1-2. The one taken by mis
take has the name Faust inside the
arctic. Notify Mrs. Faust.
MANILA REVOLT
WAS NOT SERIOUS
Leaders Are All Jailed—No Repres
sive Methods Are Intended By
the Administration.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2—The re
ports now being received from Ma
nila by the War Department indicate
that the revolt on Christmas eve was
not as serious as at first thought.
The ringleaders are all captured.
The few guns hidden by the rebe's
have been captured and all is peace
in the Philippines.
The government will not take any
repressive measures as it is believed
the people as a whole are loyal.
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ONJAMPAGE
DOUGLAS, Ariz., Jan. 2.—The Ya
qui river, in Northwest Mexico, has
flooded its banks as a result of the
recent heavy rains and thousands of
dollars worth of damage has been
done and three lives lost. The Amer
ican companies owning mining prop
erties near the river have suffered
heavy loss.
MORE STEAMERS
FOR ALASKA TRADE
SEATTLE, Jan. 2.—The Northland
Steamship Company and the Border
line Transportation Company, doing
business out of this city and operat
ing steamers to all parts of the
world, have combined. The new com
pany will be under the management
of Supt. Dodwell. It Is planned to
operate a line of freight and passen
ger steamers from Seattle to Alaska.
A big rush of business is predicted
this spring when the railroad to be
built by the government in Alaska is
started and the company will enter
the northlaqd trade soon after the
announcement is made as to the cer
tainty of the construction of the rail
road.
With the Floating Court to the Prib
ilof Islands.
There will be a lecture given in
the Congregational church next Fri
day night by the Rev. Charles S.
Price. The lecture will be illustrat
ed by over 100 lantern slides of pho
tographs taken by Mr. Price. The pic
tures will include scenery, native life,
reindeer, herds of fur seals, and the
story of the killing of a 75-ton whale.
The admission will be 50 cents a
tickets. Only a limited number of
tickets will be sold so as to seat all
the crowd. Program published later.
Proceeds in aid of general church
fund.
The second dance of the Fort Lis
cum Social Club will be given on
Wednesday, Jan. 6 at Fort Liscum.
Ladies will be admitted free; gentle
men 50 cents. All the people of Val
dez are invited excepting such as are
not permitted to attend the Valdez
dances. Fine music. k 7
Catholic Church.
January 3, Sunday after New Year,
Feast ^of, the Holy Name of Jesus.
8:30 a. m., holy communion.
10:30 a. m., parish mass.
2:00 p. m., Sunday school.
7:30 p. m., Rosary, instruction and
benediction of the Blessed Sacra
ment.
Wednesday, Jan. 6, Feast of the
Epiphany of our Lord.
8:00 a. m., mass in the church.
7:30 p. m., benediction in the con
vent chapel.
Church of the Epiphany.
Rev. Edward H. Molony, pastor.
Services 8:30 a. m., 11 a. m., 7:30 p.
m. Sunday school at 12 noon. All
welcome.
Before sending to the mail order
houses for your wants examine the
goods on the bargain counters at the
Emporium. Men’s 60c wool hose 25c.
Fresh candy 25c pound. tf
The Northwestern Fisheries Com
pany has called for bids for the con
struction of a 120-foot stern wheeler
for operation in connection with the
Orca cannery, which will entail the
expenditure of approximately 135,000.
WEALTH AND WELCOME
A Story That llluatratea a Very Com
mon Way of the World.
A young merchant went abroad and
after many years, having made a large
fortune, returned to his native land.
When he reached home he found that
his relatives had gone to a feast at a
country house a few miles away. He
was so eager to see them that he did
not take the trouble to change his
clothes and was wearing the things
he had used on board the ship coming
home.
When he entered the large hall
where the guests were all assembled
his cousins showed very little pleasure
at the sight of him. It was plain to
them that he had come back a poor
man. A young negro who had accom
panied him from abroad was quite up
set by their coolness to his master and
said, “They must all be very bad men
to receive you so cruelly.”
“Walt a minute,” whispered the mer
chant “and you will see a change in
their looks."
He quietly put a fine diamond ring
on his Unger, and, lo, every face began
to smile, and they pressed at once
around him and called him “Cousin
William.”
“Has a simple gold ring the power to
charm people like this?” asked the
black servant In perplexity.
•Tt is not that,” replied his master,
“but the ring is worth a good sum,
and they guess from It that I am rich,
and riches are dearer to them than
anything.”
“What deluded men I” exclaimed the
negro. “They think more of yellow
metal and a piece of glass than all my
master’s virtues and loving kindness."
—Baltimore News.
THE COLOR OF GOLD.
Its Shade of Yellow Depends Upon the
Metal Used In Alloy.
Gold that Is used in Jewelry and
coins is always alloyed with copper or
sometimes, as In the former, with sil
ver. Addition of copper makes the
color the popular "golden yellow,” or
ange or reddish gold. Silver turns gold
pale yellow. We seldom see pure gold,
but it has that Indescribable yellow
that so often fascinates.
The pure metal is so malleable that
it can be beaten between strips of vel
lum into sheets two-hundred-and-flfty
thousandths of an Inch in thickness. In
this form it is transparent and trans
mits green light.
When very finely divided gold is sus
pended in a liquid by precipitation
from a solution It transmits green light
similar to that of the leaf gold. Yet In
ordinary well diffused light it seems
purple, for this is the color it reflects.
In other words. If a light Is placed be
hind a Jar containing a liquid with gold
In fine suspension it looks green, where
as if the light is placed in front or at
the side the color is purple. The vapor
from boiling molten gold Is also purple.
What, then, is the real color of gold?
The color of a substance depends on
Its ability to reflect only light of that
color, which In turn is due to the ar
rangement of the molecules. It seems,
then, even the simple mechanical
changes which we mentioned before as
altering the physical properties are ac
companied by radical changes among
the molecules as far as their mutual re
lationships are concerned.—New York
World. _
Nest Eggs For Jam Pots.
When a large glass Jar of Jam or
preserves Is opened and it Is not the
housekeeper’s desire to use It all at
once she Is often In a quandary to know
bow to dispose of what Is left when
the first few spoonfuls have been re
moved. The best method yet suggest
ed is this:
Let the housekeeper have a small
stock of china nest eggs, which can be
bought for about a cent apiece. When
she removes part of the contents of a
Jar let her drop into it enough of the
china eggs to raise the contents to the
top again; then replace the cover. Of
course the china eggs should be dipped
Into boiling water first in order that
they may not introduce the germs of
decay.—New York World.
Tho Farmer Must Be Trained.
Today the advanced tiller of the soil
must come up to his calling as fully
equipped for service as the lawyer, the
editor, the doctor, the captain of Indus
try, for the curious fact has developed
that the calling in which the unlettered
and untrained man was once supposed
to have as good a chance as the edu
cated one Is now the calling In which
wide and varied knowledge Is as Im
perative as Is almost any other known
among men.—W. S. Harwood.
All Answered.
“Well. Jean, are you content about
your examination?*’
“Yes. grandpa; 1 answered all the
questions.”
“And how did you answer them?”
“1 answered that 1 didn’t know.”—
Paris Rlre.
A Hot One.
He—Girls are queer creatures; they
marry the first fool who asks them, as
a rule. 1 suppose you’d do the same,
wouldn’t you? She—Suppose you ask
me and find out-Boston Transcript
Tommy’s 8hare.
“Well. Tommy, what part of the
chicken will you have?”
“Why, paw, you know 1 always take
the back when there's company.”—St
Louis Republic.
Qot Them All.
Golfer (playing his second round In
the day)—Into this beastly bunker
again, caddiel Cnddle-No. sir. This
is the one you missed this morning.—
London Punch.
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PRODUCERS and CONSUMERS EXCHANGE—Valdez
.- -.. ----- -ADAM SWAN, Manager.
Inventors, Importers, Manufacturers and producers:—We handle goods on
consignment and Cut-Out Go-Between Profits as direct Conveyors and
Distributors to the Users, Wearers and Cunsumers of Home Furnishings,
Household Utensils. Electric Appliances, Wearing apparel, Notions, Sta
tionery, Jewelry, Cutlery, Novelties. Toilet Articles, Dainties, etc., etc.
From Kiver to Kiver
When you buy a Box of Apples from us we Guarantee
every apple from cover to cover.
We repack every box before delivery.
Remember: By Their Fruits You Shall Know Them.
Delivery. Phones 55.
The Yakima Fruit Company
VALDEZ ELECTRIC COMPANY
THE CONSUMERS’ COMPANY
Office in Copper Block, on Broadway
List Your Houses with the
VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Houses for Rent or Sale. Collections Made.
C. B. SMITH, Proprietor. Office on Wall Street.
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Best of Meals—Prices Reasonable
GENERAL STORE. - TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chltina.
General Freighting. KNUTE1NAFSTED. Mgr.
When in Chitina Stop at the ^
CHITINA HOTEL
Finest Hotel in tic Interior--Well Hooted, Clean Rooms.
Bar in Connection. Rates Reasonable
Chas. R. Crawford WiU St"el> ,s»
Plate Glass, Window Glass, Roofing and Building Papers, Roofing
Pitch, Lime, Cement, Plaster Lath, Shingles, Builders’ Hard
ware, Shop and Job Work of all kinds.
Windows, Doors, Moulding, Finishing Lumber. FAUWAtftSTMORslj; a co
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Cooking apples ?2 per box at the
Yakima Fruit Co. tf
See Tod Winter ror your watch and
jewelry repairing at E. Winter’s store.
All work guaranteed. tf
Chinese noodles and chop suey at
Valdez Cafe after 7 p. m. tf
Remington and smith Premier type
writers for sale or rent at Valdez
Drug Co. tf
Large stock of cut glass and Paris
ian ivory at Valdez Drug Co. tt
Prescriptions carerully compound
ed at Valdez Drug Co. tf
A nice line of art pictures just re
ceived from New York at Valdez
Drug Co.
G. O. Reinke, the watchmaker and
jeweler, is at the Valdez Drug Co.
All work guaranteed.
Beautiful hand-painted vases just
received at Valdez Drug Co. tf
The most exquisite hand-painted
ohina ever seen in Valdez at Valdez
Drug Co.
Suits pressed for $1.00 at Silver
man’s the tailor. Telephone 198.
Sterling silver (cut of Valdez) sou
venir hat pins 90c at the Emporium.
Imported Japanese baskets at Val
dez Drug Co. tf
Sweat Baths.
First-class sweat baths and mas
sage parlors at room 5, Montana, tf
Harvey's Toggery Retiring From
Business.
We are closing out our entire stock
below cost. Fixtures for sale. tf
The Golden Eagle Mining Com
pany, a Cordova close corporation, a*
its last meeting of stockholders de
cided to increase the capitalization
from $15,000 to $50,000 to provide for
carrying out a plan for extensive de
velopment of their property at Gold
en, in the Port Wells district. De
velopment work has revealed a bie
body of ore which assays $23 per ton.
Only The Best
Smoker* Can Now Enjoy
the Beit
Juan De Fuca Cigars
U.S. Government Inrpected.
Made In Bond
Ingram & Bdsk
SOLE AGENTS
When In Seward St* at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE SEXTON. PROP.
S'lRICTLV FIRST CLASS
Fourth Avi Skwaro. Alaska
(
A. M. Dieriufcer
Valdez Transfer
Company
General Trucking and Freight*
ing to all interior points
LIVERY and FEED STABLE
STORAGF
Teaming of sdl kindr
Positively no coal delfveied
unless paid lor lo advance
DONALDSON 8CHEDULE.
Leaves Fort Llscum. Letftres Valde*
8:15 a. m. 9:45 a. m.
1':1B p. m. 4:00 p. m.
TUESDAYS
8:15 a. m. . i:46 a. m.
1:15 p. m. ”:00 p. m.
4:30 p. m. 6:-00 p. m.
SATURDAYS
1:15 p. m. 4:0« P- “•
7:00 p. m. 10:80 p. m.
There win be no trips cd the launch
on the second and fourth Fridays of
each month, these days being used
to clean boilers.