The First Bank of Valdez
CAPITAL *25,000.
4% PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS
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OUR STOCKHOLDERS ARE
S. BLUM JOHN LYONS
M. BLUM J. M. LATHROP
E. B. WHEAT W. M. WILSON
JAFET L1NDEBERG
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 T Water. Steam and Suction
and Packing. _ Hose.
PIPE AND FITTINGS
TO-NIGHT!
EVERYONE WELCOME
FREE DINNER
Will be served at 9:30 p.m.
Every Evening at
The Big Place
MENU
Meat, Potatoes, Beans, Bread,
and Coffee.
Do Not Hesitate. Welcome Means Welcome.
AL White & Co
PROPRIETORS
Valdez I/Odge
No 168,
Free and Accepted Masons
Regular Communications first Wednesday.in
each month in McKinley Hall Visitors always
welcome.
A. E. GRIGSBY. W. M.
C. C- Reynolds. Seo
RED GROSS HOSPITAL
PRIVATE ROOMS.
Open to All Physicians
MISS JONES,
Hobart Street. Matron.
Valdez Hospital
Largest and Best Equipped Hospital
in Southwestern Alaska.
Graduate Nurses—Prirate Rooms for Patients
For Terois'and Particulars Apply to
E. C. DALTON, M. D., Physician in Charge.
If you want all the news all the
time, read the Prospector.
ARCADE CAFE
“We Never Clone."
Private Dining Room.
The Bent of Everything. We Bake Our Own
Bread and Pantry. Bread forlSale.
Jack Callin■ ■ Proprietor
Blooded Dogs for Sale.
Two airedale terrier puppies, breed
ing unsurpassed. Fine head, ear, eye
and coat. Pedigrees furnished. Eight
champions in three generations. En
quire at Prospector. if
Civic League Meets Saturday.
The Valdez Civic League will meet
next Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock
at the city hall. All members are
urged to attend the meeting, as busi
ness of importance will be taken up
for consideration.
A Big Laugh.
If you want a big laugh don’t fall
to attend the Orpheum tonight. The
New York Comedy, in two reels, will
sure get you going. This is something
out of the ordinary in the comedy
line. Tonight.
The Prospector office for Job work.
HAZZARD TAKEN
OVER TO SEWARD
_^_
Westward People Claim He Has De
frauded Them and His Arrest
Follows.
Deputy Marshal Sam Brightwell of
Cordova, passed through Valdez last
night on the steamer Alameda, having
in. charge George Hazzard, of Taco
ma, who has been re-arrested upon
a charge made by a Seward citizen
charging Hazzard with having ob
tained money under false pretenses.
Hazzard was recently brought back
from Juneau upon the complaint of
Dr. Chase of Cordova, who charged
him with having obtained $6.00 by
the rush act. When brought back i.o
the railroad town Hazzard was not
held because of lack of evidence, but
he repaid $300.00 of money he had
secured from different people and re
turned considerable clothes he had
purchased and not paid for.
It 's reported that Hazzard receiv
ed several hundred dollars from dif
ferent people in Seward and that a
like amount was given him by Val
dez people.
CENSUS SHOWS U. S.
WITHJOMOOO
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—The Cen
sus Department of the government es
timates that the population of the
United States will be 100,000,000 by
April, 1915. The falling off in the
number of immigrants has been very
large since the start of the war in
Europe, besides which many thousand
men have returned to Europe to take
their places on the firing line.
WILL PAY FARMERS
FOR STOCK KILLED
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—The Sen
ate today passed the appropriation
for ?2,500,000 with which to repay the
farmers for the loss of cattle killed
by government experts when the foot
and mouth disease broke out several
months ago.
MARIPOSA HIS
REICKED SEITTLE
SEATTLE, Jan. 22.—The steamer
Mariposa of the Alaska Steamship
Company reached this city this morn
ling from Alaska and will sail on
schedule on the return trip leaving
Seattle Sunday night.
1L1MEDI COMES "
FROMTHE SOUTH
The steamer Alameda reached Val
dez shortly after midnight last night
and sailed west a few hours later.
The Alameda is due in Valdez at noon
tomorrow on the trip south. The
steamer made a record trip from Ju
neau to Cordova covering the dis
tance in thirty-one hours. Engineer
Shields kept the engines going some.
Read Fifty Latent Books for $1.50.
Most of us like to read the latest
books but few can afford to gratify
this desire because of the expense.
Here is a chance, however, of read
ing fifty of the latest books at the
small cost of a dollar and fifty cents.
The librarian of Everyman’s Club pro
poses that fifty readers shall each or
der a book, paying with their order
$1.50. The books shall form a sep
arate library until all the subscrib
ers have read them, when they shall
be turned Into the public library of
Everyman’s Club. About twenty have
already joined and others who wish
to come in are requested to notify
Homer Jones at the club house (oil
’phone) or the rectory (new ’phono)
immediately, so that the books may
be sent for at once. Published lists
may be consulted at the. library and
Mr. Jones will be glad to give any
further particulars desired.
Prescriptions carerully compound
ed at Valdez Drug Co. tf
EXPLOSION ON
U. S. CRUISER
San Diego, the Pacific Fleet Flagship,
Is Tom By Boiler Explosion
and Four Are Dead.
SAN DIEGO, Cal., Jan. 22.—Four
firemen on the United States cruiser
San Diego were killed today and nine
Injured as a result of the explosion
of a boiler on the big cruiser. The
cause of the explosion is not known
and an investigation will be immedi
ately made by a court martial.
A number of the crew of the San
Diego will receive medals for the
work they did in rescuing their com
rades from the boiler room, which
was filled with steam following the
explosion. They took their lives in
their hands when they entered the
toiler room to look for their com
rades, who were badly burned. The
dead were almost cooked by the
steam, while those injured -were tak
en to the shore hospital suffering with
horrible burns.
The San Diego is the flagship of the
Pacific fleet.
admi¥wa¥on
DUEJONIGHT
The steamer Admiral Watson, of
the Admiral Line left Seward at 11:30
this morning and is expected to reach
Valdez at midnight.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
The launch B. F. M. came up last
night from the Granite mine.
For home cooked meals go to Mrs.
Matilda Olson’s on Hobart street.
Phone 219. Special Sunday dinner
served at 5 o’clock. Week days din
ner served at 6 p. m. tf
Assistant District Attorney Guy
Brubaker returned from Cordova on
the steamer Alameda.
This is a good time to return that
book you’ve read to the library at
Everyman’s Club. Library hours:
1 to 2 p. m. every day. Monday, Wed
days and Fridays 7:30 to 9:30 p. m.
Chinese noodles and chop suey at
Valdez Cafe after 7 p. m. tf
Judge F. M. Brown, or the district
court, leaves Seattle on the steamer
Mariposa leaving the Puget Sound
city next Sunday evening.
The big free dinner at the Big
Place tonight at 9:30. All are wel
come.
A nice line of art pictures Just re
ceived from New York at Valdez
Drug Co. tf
Jack Ingram, superintendent of the
Alaska Hoad Commission, arrived on
the steamer Alameda this morning
from Seattle. Mrs. Ingram is still in
the states visiting with relatives.
Angelo Velalas, the Greek who
was shot at Cordova some months
ago by his partner, Tony Lithetakis,
who is now in McNeil’s island peni
tentiary serving a sentence of twen
ty years for assault with intent to
kill, died a few days ago at Douglas.
Lithetakis tried to escape from Dep
uty Marshal Carl Armstrong when be
ing taken to the penitentiary and was
shot and recaptured.
Weather Report.
Valdez, Jan. 21, 1915.
Barometric pressure .*.30,182
Temperature at 7 p. m. 31
Max'mum temperature. 34
Minimum ‘emperature . 14
Mean temperature . 24
Precipitation.trace
.Cloudy air, wind northeast 4 miles.
Snowed from 6:45 p. m. to 7. p. m.
Notice To Pioneer Women.
All those desiring to become chart
er members of the Auxiliary of Pio
neers of Alaska must have their ap
plication filed with the secretary be
fore February 4, 1915. Auxiliary
meets every Thursday night at Pio
neer hall at 8 o’clock sharp.
MAE C. HARRINGTON,
Secretary and Treasurer.
Notice To Eagles.
The regular meeting of Valdez
Aerie January 22 will he called to
order at 7 o’clock. At 8 o’clock a
smoker will be given to which all
Eagles are invited.
PRODUCERS and CONSUMERS EXCHANGE—Valdez
—. ■ AT>AM SWAN. Manager.. . .
Inventors, Importers, Manufacturers and producers:—We haiaftfe goods on
consignment and Cut-Out Go-Between Profits as direct ConvnVrs 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.
VALDEZ ELECTRIC COMPANY
THE CONSUMERS* COMPANY
Office in Copper Block, on Broadway
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
When in Chitina Stop at the
CHITINA HOTEL
Finest Hotel in the Interior—Well Heated, Clean Rooms.
Bar in Connection. Rates Reasonable
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Best of Meals—Prices Reasonable
GENERAL STORE. - TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chftina.
General Freighting. knute! nafsted. Mar
List Your Houses with the
VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Houses for Rent or Sale. Collections Made.
C. B. SMITH, Proprietor. Office on Wall Street.
Chas. R. Crawford w*» &««*> »-• w»
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. FAiRBAtfic "morse a co
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Twenty lbs. best Yakima spuds for
50c at King’s new place. k 28
Cooking apples $2 per box at the
Yakima Fruit Co. tf
Beautiful hand-painted vases just
received at Valdez Drug Co. tf
Suits pressed for $1.00 at Silver
man’s the tailor. Telephone 198.
Best Yakima netted gem spuds 20
lbs. for 50c at the Yakima Fruit Co.
See Tod Winter for your watch and
jewelry repairing at E. Winter’s store.
All work guaranteed. tf
Remington and Smith Premier type
writers for sale or rent at Valdez
Drug Co. tf
Corsets at half price. We are clos
ing out all of our corsets at one-half
cost. Hosiery and underwear at less
than cost at Harvey’s Toggery. tf
The most exquisite hand-painted
china ever seen in Valdez at Valdez
Drug Co. tf
Over a dozen varieties of apples to
pick from at the Yakima Fruit Co. tf
Suit3 pressed for $1.00 at Silver
man’s the tailor. Telephone 198.
DOG TEAM for hire. See Joseph
V. Wachter or address P. O. Box 53,
Valdez, Alaska. k25
G. O. Relnke, the watchmaker and
jeweler, is at the Valdez Drug Co.
All work guaranteed.
To demonstrate our electric heateis,
cookers, bakers and percolators, we
will serve coffee and toast, buns, cake
or doughnuts for 15 cents at the Em
porium. tf
Imported Japanese baskets at Val
dez Drug Co. tf
Latest popular copyrights and clas
sics at Valdez Drug Co. tf
Large stock of cut glass and Paris
ian ivory at Valdez Drug Co. tf
HOUSE FOR REinT furnished or
unfurnished. Enquire of Mrs. C. E.
BiAnell. tf
Only The Best
Smokers Can Now Enjoy
the Best
Juan De Fiica Cigars
U. S. Government Inspected.
Mad e In Bond
Ingram & Bush,
SOLE AGENTS
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE SEXTON, PROP.
STRICTLY FIRST CLASS
FOURTH Avt S C WARD, ALASKA
A. M. Dierlnger
Valdez Transfer
Company
General Trucking and Freight
ing to all interior points
LIVERY and FEED STABLE
STORAGF
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Teaming of all kindr
Positively do coal dellveied
ooloss paid lor Io advance
DONALDSON 8CHEDULE.
Leaves Fort Llseum. Leaves V&hles
8:15 a. m. 9:45 a. m. ’
1:16 p. m. 4:00 p. m.
TUESDAYS
8:15 a. m. 9:45 a. m.
1:15 p. m. 2:00 p. m.
4:30 p. m. 6M)0 p. m.
SATURDAYS
1:15 p. m. 4:00 p. m.
7:00 p. ra. 10:30 p. m.
There will be no trips of the launch
on the secoLd and fourth Fridays of
each month, these days being used
to clean boilers.