GOOD
DELIVERY
Delivering the goods. Did
you ever buy a pair of shoes
that failed to give satisfaction
-somehow the style did not /
please you-little or no comfort l
in them, and soon the sole? '
Well, they did not deliver the
aoods. that’s all.
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deliver the goods in the
form of absolute shoe
satisfaction. We will
prove it to you. Give us
a chance.
All Styles 6.
Valdez Mercantile Co., Inc. 3
TRUE VALUES !
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On the basis of Security and Service
we solicit your account.
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
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VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
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You admire it every
time you visit them—the
harmonious lighting, the
clean and orderly ap
pearance of everything,
the always-ready per
sonal conveniences, the 43
atmosphere of comfort
and luxury.
| “Hill is a lucky dog,”
you say; but did you ever
stop to think how easily
you could beas fortunate?
The electricity that
does so much for his com
fort is obtained from the
same wires that pass by
your own home. It oper
ates his lamps, flatirons,
sewing machines motors,
fans and other useful
electric heatmgand cook
ing devices.
You can have it at
slight cost-let us discuss
wiring with you.
Alaska Water, Light1
& Telephone Co.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To William Hogan.
You are hereDy notified that I
have expended during the year
1 912, one hundred and thirty
three dollars and thirty-three
cents, lawful money of the Unit
ed States, in labor and improve
ments, upon your two'-'nfntn# in
terest in those certain lode claims
lying and being on Knights Is
land, in the recording precinct of
LUS Sr«J8aP
claim; the “Tramp" claim; the
(“Star No. 2" claim; the “Mother
Hill” claim; the “Beach” claim,
and the “Last Chance” claim,’ the
location notices of said claims be
ing of record in the office of the
Commissioner and Recorder, at
Valdez, Alaska, in order to hold
said claims under the provisions
of Section 23|4 of the Revised
Statutes of the United States,
concerning annual labor on min
ing claims, being the amount re
quired to hold said lode claims
for the period ending on the 31st
day of December. 1912.
And unless within ninety days
after the completion of the publi
cation of this notice,.to-wit: with
in ninety days after the 6th day of
July, 1913, you contribute your
proportion of such expenditure
incurred n performing said an
nual labor and improvements,
which is the sum of one hundred
and thirty-three dollars and thir
ty-three cents, your interest in
the claims will become the prop
erty of the subscriber of this no
tice, your co-owner, who has
made the required expenditure,
by the terms of said section.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this
5th day of April, 1913.
S. A. HEMPLE.
Date of first pub. April 6, 1913
Date of last pub. July 6, 1913.
FORFEITURE NOTICE.
Valdez, Alaska, April 23, 1913.
To H. Muir, your heirs and ad
ministrators, and to all whom
it may concern:
You are hereby notified and
will take notice that 1, the sub
scriber, T. E. Dougherty, have
expended during the year A. D.,
1912, one hpndred dollars ($100)
in labor and improvements upon
the “Minnie” lode mining claim.
Said claim is situated and lies in
TOWN OF VALDEZ
Kill the Flies and Spread Plenty
of Disinfection is Advice of
the Health Officer.
No public service can lie main
tained to a marked degree of effi
ciency without the co-operation
of an intelligent public; no town
could lie made sanitary and clean
unless Hie individual habitant or
habitants under one household
maintain sanitary conditions
about their premises, therefore,
the sanitation of a town, in fact,
commences at the very door of
each individual. In order to re
alize the importance of municipal
sanitation and suggest ways and
means to obtain it, if is essen
tial that we should know in un
mistakable terms the evil results
of our neglect to clean up the
home, the garden, the back yard
and alley and all surroundings,
and to know the dire influences
that such surroundings might
lead us to in case of any cDidc-n
ic of infectious disease breaking
out in our midst.
wan tnat point in view, 1 en
deavor to point out a few facts
and make a few suggestions as
to our present sanitary conditions
for the benefit of those who have
cars to hear. Of recent years
great importance is attached to
the common house lly and its tre
mendous influence upon the pub
lic health. From scientific ob
servations and experiments the
fact was deduced that this insig
nificant little insect is now known
to be one of the most prolific, car
riers of disease in numerous un
suspected ways. The agency of
the house lly in the spreading of
such diseases as typhoid, infant
diarrhoea, tuberculosis, ophthal
mia, infantile paralysis and oth
ers too loathsome to mention,
continually looms up in the more
recent study of the problem of
public sanitation. We are very
fortunate that we have had no
serious epidemics in this town,
but the patent fact can not be too
strongly emphasized namely, one
ounce of prevention is worth a
pound of cure. Destroy the house
fly in a given community and im
mediately you reduce the death
rate. Last year we waged a war
against the little fly; the war was
directed against the enemy bodily
and not less than 20,000 victims
were purposely killed in the
months of May and June of last,
year, which number, with their
progeny, had they been allowed to
live their normal life, would have
readied m me millions, i nope
that this year we are doing bel
ter by attacking the food sup
ply and tile breeding places of
Ibis relentless enemy of Ihe hu
man race. Whatever is said about
Ihe lly. whether it he Ihe house
II y or Ihe stable lly, is also I rue,
to various degrees, of the mos
tpiilo, the spider, corkroarhes,
mire, rats, gnats, cals and dogs,
for all such insects and animals
that live in and about I lie habita
tion of man are carriers of dis
ease germs.
The vast benefits derived by ev
ery community from sanitation
through rational cleanliness, in
clude an increase of efficiency of
the citizens. Leaving elliics aside,
the monetary outlay of such cam
paign of scientific cleanliness, be
what it may, is very trifling and
insignificant compared to the
economic gai/t of the community.
Only during the last few years,
we have been placed in posses
sion of some of the most interest
ing and startling facts on tile
“house fly and fully confirming the
researches by such men as Dr.
fiuwani, uuicj ui uui inuliuiiuj
Bureau of Entomology in Wash
ington; Prof. Nultall, of Cam
bridge, England, and Dr. Jackson,
director of the laboratories of the
Water Board of New York. So for
a certainty the present sanitarian
accuses the house fly, and just
ly ad, of being the main cause of
'the high “Residual Typhoid
Hjatesi” in : American (cities (and
thus explain in large measure the
Ityphoid death rate in cities, where
h perfectly pure supply of drink
ing water has been provided. It
'is proven beyond possible doubt
that infected flies will infect fluids
such as milk and syrup oh which
they feed and in wnicn they fall,
and will do so many days after
they are infected. In the same
manner the infect our fopdstufTs,
and wounds and abrasions of the
skin; they infect eyes, ears and
noses, especially in the case of
weak children. A very brief sum.
mairy of biological facts about the
house fly pertaining to its dan
gers and its control will not be
out of place in this connection.
Indeed, any information of this
kind will be useful to those who
wish to act as sanitarians in
their flght against ignorance and
incompetency.
Flies deposit their eggs upon
garbage, manure, human excreta
and similar materials; the mag
gots hatch in less than 24 hours
under the influence of the requir
ed heat; are full grown in about
live to seven days, and are forth
with transfored to an oval pupa
wherein it undergoes metamorph
osis and develop in from five to
seven days to the perfeot fly. For
the purposes of extermination in
breeding places, it is important to
bear in mind that the whole life
is Usually completed within 10
Lo. 14 days, of course the shorter
period perutlning to the Warmer
uirroundinfca. One fly may ttepoBit
120 eggs and become the progen.
it,or of many millions during one
season.
Flies feed on vegetable nuxtler,
preferably when fermenting or
decaying, garbage, manure, es
pecially human or horse, rotten
(lock beds, rotten straw mallress
es, old cotton garments, socks,
waste paper, bread, fruits, vege
tables, sputum, parasitic worms,
putrid meal, rollon chicken feath
ers, chicken manure, row dung,
and, of course, milk, sweets'. but
ler, lard, every kind of food, ev
erything accessible to our pan
tries, kitchen, dining rooms, our
children's meals and all our food
si utfs.
\\ tii'ii discharges from a typli- !
oid patient are exposed, or dis
charges from a running sore, or
sputa of contagious sore throat
are exposed, any Hies present
pounce upon it, for a meal: they
swallow countless numbers of
deadly bacilli and their hairy legs
are fouled with thousands more.
Anyone who had seen once the leg
of a fly would no| be surprised
how that tiny, slender limb could
he the carrier of millions of
germs. It is asserted on good
authority that more than one mil
lion bacilli was found on one fly.
Eighteen (lies were examined by :
a scientific observer and estimat-!
ed to carry about eighteen and a
half million germs. Another im
portant fact was brought out by
scieititic researches that the fly
is able to retain and hold those
germs in their virulence for long
periods of time, whether being
carried on their bodies or ingest
ed into (heir alimentary canal. In
other words, the fly ingests tub
erculosis, typhoid, dyssentery I
germs and possibly those of small
pox, measles and many other in
fectious diseases and pass them
even weeks after their infection.
Loaded with ophthalmia and ve
nereal diseases, they settle on the
eyes and mouths ol' infants. They
deposit, their excreta bn windows,
plates, table linen, kitchen uten
sils, kitchen tables and dissemi
nate as messengers of pests and
disease the germs of various ail
ments that the human family is
heir to. They feed on the stools
of patients sick with dysentery,
typhoid and diarrhoea; on tuber
culosis sputum, on sores from
any cause, on discharges from the
eyes and nose; feed on human ex
creta, in water closets, on decay
ed vegetables lain in the back
yards, on garbage thrown care
lessly in alleys. They live with
us in our homes and mingle with
Everything that is dear t.u (os,
and yet people can not break with
an (dd habit, cannot begin to pay
attention to a seemingly harmless
title insect, familiar to them since
their childhood days. If we could
see in its true light the house fly
as it stalks about with its hun
dreds of adhering bacteria, breed
ers of the most contagious, the
most loathsome diseases, the
tight would be half won. Hut the
limited imagination of the mind
untrained to scientific observation
'fails to realize the fearful dan
ger' resulting from these bacteria
which arc earned annul. unseen
nn this insignificant and familiar
insecl. The range of lliglil of
liies has lieen studied and found
that Hies mostly move within a
I limited circle uf ahoul tli> ee
■ (|uarlers of a mile radius from
Ihreeding |d.res. although they
jure at I raided In refuse deposits
;across rivers and hills.
j l lif I mu' intervening nei ween
. I lie laying nf eggs ami the emeig
Ijng uf the ;n I u 11 lly fruni file pupa
is eighl nr in days; hence I lie iv
jnmval of fly-breeding media with
in l.haf period should prevent the
adult fly from making its appear
liince. Fortunately, several |dty
jsiologieal traits inhereal to the
l habits and development of the lly
jimme to our aid in the war of ex
termination. As it was slated
I hat flies breed in accumulated
garbage, waste, manure of alt
kind and especially horse manure,
which is in stale of fermentation
and putrifaclion. Hence such
breeding places could be under
control; they could be controlled
far better in a town like ours than
in a city, for here the individual
has control over his own ground
and needs nobody’s consent for
making a start in good sanitation
if he realizes the importance of
decomposition of vegetable mat
ter and filth around his premis
|es; and, considering the short
time of fly-breeding and growth
the present time and early spring
is the time when everyone snoula
begin and do on his or her own
initiative what sooner or later is
bound to be insisted upon by the
health authorities as an essential
sanitary ordinance. One careless
householder may cause flies ema
nating from his place to infect a
neighboring area three-quarters
of a mile ih radius, this area be
ing limited by the life habits of
the fly. It is a disgrace and a
menace to public health to see
putrifying garbage fill the air with
its stench, vegetable matter de
cay, peelings and fruit skins de
compose and sour, grease and
dish water getting rancid and
foul, human excreta oozing out
from their faulty contaiiers in
water closets and swarm with
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TIDE TABLES
Tuesday, June 3.
High tide, 12:20 p. m., 11:19 p. in.
Low tide, 5:52 a. m., 5:15 p. m.
Wednesday, June 4.
High tide, 12:06 p. m.
Low tide, 0:35 a. m.. 6:06 p. in.
Boots & Shoes
REPAIRED
Mm tmiMii VskaaMl d At tat
JAMES NAttY
A. M. Dieringer
Valdez Transfer
Company
General Trucking and Freight
ing to all interior points
j LIVERY ar d FEED STABLE
STORAGE
Teaming of all kinds
i Positively no coal delivered
j unless paid for in advance
CITY EXPRESS
MEETS ALL BOATS
When in a hurry call on me.
“QUICK ACTION”
is my motto.
Phone 82. J. A. SPENARD, Prop.
Fagerberg Bros.
NIZINA, ALASKA
General Merchandise
Miners & Prospectors Supplies
Fresh Goods—Reasonable Prices
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
Phone 92 Fourteen years in
Office ina Whaling building VALDEZ
Next to cable office
DR. GERMAN
Phone ,9 THE DENTIST
Ofl'oe rooms over Owl Drug store. Office hours
9 a. m.. to 6 p. m.. 7 p. m..to9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
E. E. RITCHIE
LA VVYER
phone 136 Valdez, Alaska
C. E. BUNNELL
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Offices Wall Street
Phone 31 VALDEZ
L V. RAY
ATTORNEY AT LAW
SEWARD, • ALASKA
MINING ENGINEER
F. BUTTERWORTH
Civil Engineer end
U. S. Deputy Lend end
Miner el Surveyor
Blue Printing Res. Phone. 189
L. W. STORM. E. M.
VALDBZ. ALABKA |
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CAMP VALDEZ No. 10
Meet every Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock in
Eagle Ball. All members are requested to
ttend. S. McNIECE. Arotio Chlel
Valdez Lodge
No' 168.
Free and Aooepted Masons
Regular Communications first Wednesday In
each month In MoKinley Ball Visitors always
weloome.
James B. Patterson..W. M
C. C. Reynolds. Seo
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