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we solicit your account
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
Headquarters tor Traveling Men.
* Copper Block
VALDEZ
“The House of Comfort,”
For Men Only
Steam Heat. Hot Baths
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
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ALASKA
Steamers sail from Seattle atj lOJ A. M. on
5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH
Steamer sailing 15th calls Iliamna andJKodiak--All sailings call at Knik Anchorage
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to San Francisco every Wednesday and Sunday connecting with
Steamers Yale and Harvard for Southern California.
RiFht reserved to change schedu.e without notice
■ -RICHARD J. RINGWOOD, Mgr., Seattle. VALDEZ DOCK CO. Local Agt.
Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
ALL KINDS OP
Native and ¥ ¥ TlVflDCD and Building
Puget Sound JLi V/lVll3l_ji\ Material
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Prices Right W. M. FINICAL, Mgr. Phone 18
Patronize a Home Industry
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
* Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
pw..,, dentist
in both companies Fourteen Nears in
Office Rooms in VALDEZ
Whaiing Building.
DR. GERMAN
! hone ,9 THE DENTIST
Office roon sover Owl Drug store. Office hours
d a. in., to ti1>. m., 7 p. m., to 9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed _
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 34 Valdez, Alaska
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
Attorney* at Law
Office* in Whaling Building
Phone lOl Valdez. Alaska
Valdez Hospital
Largest and Best Equipped Hospital
in Southwestern Alaska.
GridgitfUinti—Private'Rooms for Patients
For Terms and Particulars Apply to
E. C. DALTON, M, D., Physician in Charge.
HUfiMBB
_ Chas. Perpv
SEfinitiT
w4 Complete Services:
j # IN THE HEART OF WE CWYv,
I 155 BcKxns with bafti-&0 Sample Rooms
\
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING.
McKinley Street, Valdez
Ed. Wood, - - - Proprietor.
Notice of Special Election.
Notice is hereby given that a spec
ial election for the purpose of elect
ing a clerk of the Valdez school board
to fill the vacancy caused by the re
moval of C. E. Bunnell from the city
of Valdez, Alaska. Election will be
held at the Fire Hall Valdez, Alaska.
April 6th, 1915. The polls will be
open from 9 a. m. to 7 p. m. The
following persons shall be qualified
to vote: All adults who are citizens
of the United States, or who have
declared their intention to become
such and who are residents of the
Valdez school district. The judges
of said election will be Chas. Sealey,
John Heckey, and Sam McNiece. The
clerks shall be John Krum and C. P.
Topliff.
Dated this 23rd day of March, 1915.
A. VON GUNTHER,
MRS. ALBERT WHITE,
Members of Valdez School Board.
Al. Blair arrived in town yesterday
from Camp Comfort with fresh eggs
and cream.
BULGARIA STOPS
TIMEMPPLITS
(Continued from page 1.)
disappeared and floating oil began
coming to the surface. The encount
er took place at night and the cruis
er was unable to find any wreckage
of (lie submarine.
Heavy Fighting In Vosges.
rARIS, March 31.—The French
troops in the Champagne country, in
•the Vosges and Argonne districts yes
terday experienced heavy lighting and
succeeded in making substantial gains
along the line. The German often
sive on the western frontier did not
extend to the Flanders and coast sec
tions held by the British and Belgian
troops. The fighting in the Vosges
is reported to have been very seven
with heavy losses to both sides. Tin
Germans attempted to recover theii
lost positions in the Champagne conn
try hut were repulsed.
She puts a rubber band about his
middle finger. “Now you won’t for
get it,” she said. "Eh! Forget
what?” “Forget the letter I’m goint
to write.”
Successful Girl.
He—1 understand your sister took
a job before she was very proficient
in stenography. How did she get
along?
She—Fine. She married the boss.—
Wisconsin State Journal.
You Know How It Is.
He said she was charming and lovely and
sweet,
But he felt he must bid her good by;
She picked bits of fluff off his coat in
the street
And was always arranging his tie.
—Kansas City Star.
The Butler’s Business.
New Maid (suggestively)—In my last
place I always took things fairly easy.
Wise Mistress (complacently) — The
butler’ll see to that. He locks things
up.—Boston Traveler.
WEATHER BULLETIN.
Valdez, Alaska, March 31, 1915.
STATION \liovo Below, Snow In. WEATHER CONDITIONS
Donnelly . 0 Light northwest wind.
M.eCallum . 4 16 North wind, clear, trail good.
Paxson’s . 7 18 Clear, calpi, trail soft.
Hogan . 1 7 Clear, windy, trail fair.
Gulkana . 5 Clear, calm, trail bare.
Copper Center. 10 Clear, calm, trail bare.
Tonsina . 5 20 Clear, calm, trail fair.
Teikhell . 10 24 Clear, aim, trail fair.
Beaver Dam . 8 37 Cloudy, calm, trail fair.
Summit . 0 80 Clear, windy, trail bad.
Wortman’s . 10 27 Clear, calm, trail bad.
GIGANTIC SEA WAVES.
Force of Those Raised by Earthquakes
or Violent Storms.
The term tidnl wave is erroneously
applied to almost an.v unexpected wave .
that Inundates the seacoast or the
shore of a great lake. These waves
are rarely if ever due to the tides
since the real tidal wave is a phenome
non admitting of exact, calculation and
prediction, but they may he traced usu
ally to some distant earthquake or vio
lent storm.
When an earthquake occurs beneath
the sea the vertical movements of the
sea bed generate a great wave, which
is propagated outward from the center
of the shock and reaches the land after
the arrival of the earth wave. In the
open sea this wave is so broad that it
cannot be perceived, but when it reach
es shallow water near the shore it
rushes forward as an immense break
er, sometimes sixty feet or more high
and overwhelming everything is its
course.
The sandy beach deposits and loose
bowlders are swept away, while inland
the surface is strewn with debris. The
velocity of these great sea waves is
greater than the ordinary waves raised
by the wind. A submarine earthquake
near the const of Japan in 1854 gave
rise to sea waves which traversed the
whole breadth of the Pacific at a rate
of about 370 miles an hour. At Sinoda,
Japan, the waves were thirty feet
high, while at San Diego, Cal., they
measured only six inches. Such 1111
earthquake wave near the const of
Peru once lifted a gunboat of the Unit
ed States navy and landed it u mile
inland.- Kansas City Star.
STAGE GHOSTS.
Kean's Contrivance to Make the Shade
of Banquo Realistic.
1 think it was Charles Kean who
lirst resorted to illusion to make a
stage ghost a little transparent, says
a writer in London Tit-Hits. When
he produced ••Macbeth" at the old
Princess' theater he manufactured a
contrivance which allowed Banquo s
ghost to appear through a transparent
column.
Litter on, when Mrs. Ann Itadcliffe s
‘•Romance of the Forest” was staged
at Covent Garden theater, those re
sponsible for its production arranged
thiit the spook in the piece should be
seen by the audience through it gauze
of bluish gray color, so that the too
corporeal effect of a live actor might
lie removed.
When the old playhouse in Drury
lane opened, in 1794, with a perform
ance of “Macbeth,” Banqno's ghost
was omitted. Although Mr. Kemble’s
acting was line enough to make the
audience almost believe that they real
ly did see the ghost, .vet the people
were not satisfied until the system
they had been used to was readopted
and Banqno's shade allowed to trot
bodily across the boards.
Reflecting mirrors and the cinemato
graph tire coining in general use at
the theaters, and with them it has
been found possible to manufacture
ghosts capable of striking terror into
the hearts of all followers of the oc
cult.
Rudeness About Doors.
Never mind if yen do not happen to
know the person who is coining lie
hind you. ITold tlie door or gate open
for him .lust, the same. Of course the
next in order may lie several steps be
hind, or von may tie obliged to save
two seconds to catch your train. \oo
margin eases like these leel compelled
to slam a door or gate in the face of
an innocent fellow being. l»ut in
scores of insinuees recently observed
doors and gates have been slammed in
tile faces of those following b.^ boorish
men and women, apparently out of
sheer clownishness. Sometimes tile
person thus insulted may happen *o lie
one whom you may wish to pioase. II
pays to lie a lady or a gentleman, even
when you think you are among stran
gers.—Kate T'pson Clark in Leslies.
Clinching the Argument.
At a clul) ims>ting held in a public
house in a small village a discussion
took place as to whether a hard or soft
substance would last the longer. The
debate continued for some time, until
one man spoke up nnd said:
“Now, men, yon are all mistaken, as
I can easily prove. When me and my
wife married she had as good a set; of
teeth as any woman could have; now
she hasn't got one. and her tongue is
as good as ever.”—London Tit-Bits.
Contrasts.
"I wonder why the Imron and Javo
mlr. the poet, always go about, togeth
er! They are so utterly different!”
“Well, the baron thinks himself in
tellectual when he is with the poet,
and the poet thinks lie looks smart
when he is with the baron."— Fliegen
de Blatter.
Good Judgment.
“Your partner," remarked the privi
leged friend, "seems to be a man of
unusually good judgment."
"You bet he is," replied the self ac
knowledged brains of the tirm. “Why.
he never makes a move without asking
my advice!"—Chicago News. *
Man and Jobs.
Apropos of an inefficient manager's
resignation, George Gould said to a
New York railroad reporter:
,“lt’s every man's desire to wabble
round in a big job rather than to li.l
a small one, and that's why so many
resignations are liy request."
Quick Wltted.
Blobbs—He’s a quick wltted fellow.
Slobbs—In what way? Blobbs—He
knows wben to say nothing.—Philadel
phia Record.
MONUMENTS TO THE POTATO.
There Are Several Handsome Ones In
England and Germany.
Although America is the original
home of the potato, it is only in Eu
rope that monuments have been erect
ed to honor the familiar vegetable.
There are several such monuments in
Germany and England costing large
sums of money and presenting the
work of famous sculptors. The most
elaborate is that at OlTenburg, which
honors Sir Francis Drake as the first
man to introduce potatoes into Europe, j
The monument consists of an excel- j
lent statue of Drake, rising from an j
elaborate base decorated with gar- j
lands of the potato plant, with full
grown tubers. Several tablets are
placed about the base stating that
Drake first brought the potato to Eu
rope, with various laudatory inscrip
tions as to the value of the potato to !
civilization. A similar monument to I
Drake and the potato has been erected j
at Murz.
As a matter of historic fact, Drake
laid nothing whatever to do with in
troducing tlie potato to Europe. It is
generally supposed that Sir Walter Ra
leigh was the discoverer of the potato,
and stories are told of ids appearing
on the streets of London wearing a
buttonhole bouquet of potato blossoms
in order to attract attention to the now
vegetable.
According to one version, the potatoes
were first planted by Drake in Ireland.
The fact is that the potato was first
taken from America by the Spanish
long before the exploration of either
Drake or Raleigh.—Pittsburgh Dis
patch.
THE GOLDEN MANIA.
Bathe In Gleaming Coins That Seemed
to Soothe the Victims.
Some years ago a London journalist
who had speculated in railroad stocks
netted £5,000 as the result of a lucky
venture. Drawing it in gold, the fortu
nate man repaired to a hotel, emptied
i the bags of gold in the bed and went
I to sleep literally in the sands of Pae
! tolus. The man was so crazed by his
! good fortune that he found indeserib
able pleasure in reveling in .a golden
; bath.
Paganini, the violinist, when he re
! ceived the proceeds of his concerts—he
j insisted upon being paid in gold—used
I to wash his hands in sovereigns.
A French novelist, Soulie, wrote a
! book entitled “The Memoirs of the
' Devil.” It took. The publishers paid
i him for the first volume .$10,(MX) in
; gold. The author carried the gold to
i his bedroom, poured it into a footbath
| and enjoyed for half an hour the ex
! eitement of moving his feet to and fro
in a bath of gold coins, smoking mean
i while the biggest of Havanas.
! A P.oston merchant of great wealth.
I believing certain symptoms indicated
j that he would become insane, consult
1 ed a specialist and, under his advice,
! became an inmate of a private asylum.
For twelve years there his recreation
was piling up gold coins and then
| knocking them over. At times lie
washed his hands in gold eagles and
half eagles. At the end of the long so
: elusion he returned to his counting
room and in twelve months confirmed
the thoroughness of his recovery by
amassing $5i«i.d(Kl.—St. Louis Republic.
An Exchange of Compliments.
This correspondence. ending in true
Irish 1'nshinn. actually passed between
two men in England some years ago.
"Mr. Thompson presenW liis coitipli
: menls to Mr. Simpson, and begs to re
quest that lie will keep his doggs from
trespassing on his grounds."
"Mr. Simpson presents his enmpli
melds to Mr. Thompson, and Pegs to
suggest that in future he should mil
spell ‘dogs' with two gees."
"Mr. Thompson's respects to Mr.
! Simpson, and will feel obliged if he
! will add the letter e to the last word
' in the note just received so as to rep
; resent Mr. Simpson and lady."
“Mr. Simpson returns Mr. Tliornp
son's note unopened, the infpertineuce
| it contains being only equaled by its
j vulgarity.”—Toronto Mail and Empire.
Toothpicks In England.
j Toothpicks are not so generally used
In England as in the United States, be
ing in no real sense considered a house
hold necessity. At the hotels and res
taurants, especially those frequented
by Americans, they are often supplied,
though lu*a large percentage of eating
houses they are given only upon re
quest. and there are thousands of res
taurants and other eating places where
they are not obtainable even on re
quest. Silver and gold toothpicks suit
able for carrying in the pockets are
sold to some extent among the well to
do classes.—New York Post.
Clever Scheme.
•‘Blink’s wife seems to be quite a
.nusician.”
"Yes. She is a flue pianist.”
"How does she keep in practice
•’hen she is away from home?”
"She carries a large muff.”
"What for?”
".Just to keep her hand in.”
The Retort Caustic.
Miss Hinkles—Everything costs so
much nowadays! 1 suppose I'll have
to live plainer. Miss Shurptung— Why.
my dear, you couldn't be any plainer
and live.—London Telegraph.
Well Helped.
Ethel—So Kate is finally married.
Jow did she come to take the plunge?
Marie—She didn't. She was shoved
jff by three younger sisters.—Boston
Transcript.
Man’s great fault Is that he baa so
wavy small ones.—Richter.
Dougherty & Ferguson
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on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
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and on the job—day or night—buy
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CITY EXPRESS
Phone 82. J. A. Spenard, Prop
Notice of Election.
Notice Is hereby given that a Gen
eral Municipal election will be held
in the Town of Valdez, Alaska, on
the sixth day of April, 1915, for the
purpose of electing seven members of
the Common Council, wno shall hold
office for the term of one year, and
until their successors are elected and
qualified; also one member of the
Valdez School Board who shall serve
as a director for a term of three
years and until his successor is elect
ed and qualified.
The Town Hall lias been designat
ed as the polling place lor said elec
tion.
Said election shall commence at 9
o’clock a. m. and shall continue un
til 7 o'clock p. m. of the same day,
without closing the polls.
It. K. ASHBY,
Town Clerk.
Publications March 8. 15, 22, 29.
Summons By Publication
In the District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division.
J. 1j. Heed, plaintiff, vs. Eri Thomp
son and M. A. Ellis, defendants.-—
! No. S-4!l. Summons by Publication.
The President of the United States
! of America, greeting: To Eri Thomp
1 son, the above named defendant: You
are hereby summoned to appear in
the District Court for the Territory
of Alaska, in the Third Division, at
Valdez, within thirty days after the
completion of the publication of this
j summons against you, to-wit: within
; thirty days after the 19th day of Ap
ril, 1915, and answer the complaint
j of the above named plaintiff, filed in
I the clerk’s office of the above entitled
court: and unless you so appearand
| answer or otherwise plead, the plain
■ tiff will apply to the court for the
relief demanded in said complain*,
to-wit: a decree subjecting to the
j lien of certain judgments duly dockot
! ed in the above entitled court, in fa
vor of the plaintiff and the said de
fendant Eri Thompson, on the Battle
| Ax placer mining claim, in Cook Inlet
! Precinct. Territory of Alaska, and or
dering that the same be sold to satis
fy said judgments.
; This summons is served on you by
publication thereof, pursuant to an
order duly made and entered by the
above entitled court, on the 8th day
of March, 1915, which publication was
directed to he made once a week for
i six consecutive weeks.
Witness the Honorable Fred. M.
Brown, judge of said Court, this St 1?
day of March. 1915.
(Seal) AHTIH H I.ANG.
Clerk of till' District Court.
By (’HAS A. HAND, Deputy.
Date of first publication March 8.
1915.
Date of Iasi publication April 19.
1915.
Notice To Creditors.
In the matter of the estate of th'orge
Hansen, deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the un
dersigned. administrator of the es
tate of (ieorge Hansen, deceased, to
the creditors thereof, and to all per
sons having claims against said es
tate, to exhibit the same with the
necessary vouchers, within six months
after the first publication of this no
tice, to-wit, within six months after
the 24th day of February, 1915, to
! said administrator, at the office of
; Donohoe & Dimond, his attorneys in
i said matter, at Valdez, Alaska, the
I same being the place for the trans
i action of the business of said es
! tate.
The date of the first publication
I of this notice is the 24th day of Feb
ruary, 1915.
A. S. JENSEN. Administrator.
Somebody
With Money
always has been fouml to
“baclc” a good plan, a
good idea, a good busi
ness venture or a good
mining prospect-other
wise a good many of to
day’s successful business
enterprises would still be
mere dreams.
Advertising has brought
about a majority of the
introductions of the man
\yith the idea, the man
with a prospect or busi
ness to the man with the
dollar.
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