Send your broken pipe
to the
“BUFFET’
Pipe Hospital
1194 CHAS. R. CRAWFORD 1911
PIONEER CONTRACTOR ml BUILDER
OF ALASKA
CAN HANDLE ANY CLASS OF BUILDING
Building material of all kinds, and several gi ades of
wall board kept in stock at all times
OFFICE AND FACTORY, VALDEZ ALASKA
Phone 18
REFERENCES j S. BLUM & CO, Valdes, and) Cordova,
BANKERS j B. M. BEHRENDS, Juneau, Alaaka.
Merchant’s Cafe
Phone «8 OPEN DAT AND NIGHT ChM. Ftacher, Propr.
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ENJOY A LOOK
At yourself when you array
yourself In the suit we have tail
ored for you. The perfect fit, the
smartly distinctive cut of the
garments will tell you at a
glance that you are at last en
rolled In the really good dress
er class. And at no greater ex
= pense than usual, as our prices
^ will plainly prove.
BEN SILVERMAN
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
plumbing STOVES and RANGES heating
MOTOR BOAT SUPPLIES, PAINTS and OILS
Mine Air Pipe, Valve*, Hose, Pipe and Fitting*
Valdes Dock. Opposite Prospector Office._Telephone 24
THE SENATE
FRANK GUSTAFSON, Proprietor.
CIGARS AND BILLIARDS
Nicely Furnished Rooms. Phone 35
THE PINZON
TOBACCO AND CIGARS
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_OWTuias fcjfes*—7 S^S
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POOL AND BILLIARDS
PHONE 69 Me Kinley St, Valdez
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VaUez Transfer Co.
A. M. DIERINGER, Proprietor
Office on Valdez Dock, Next to Prospector
Building.
General Trucking and Freighting to all
Interior Points
AUTOS FOR HIRE,
DAY OR NIGHT
No Coal Delivered Unless Paid in Advance
WANTED TO KEEP OLD RUSS!A
Desire ef Caucasian Princess Was for
Independence Without Blemishes
sf Industrialism.
I met a Caucasian princess here lu
Petrograd. Ernest Poole writes In the
Saturday Evening Post. She sat next
to me one day In the small press gal
lery of the hall In which the duma
used to meet. Now In Its place was
the council. The woman by my side.
I learned, was here as a correspond
ent for a social revolutionist paper
down In the Caucasus.
I had been In the Caucasus years
before, nnd we spoke of the old town
where she had been born, high up In
the heart of the mountains. The Rus
sians call the women there "the dia
monds of Russia,” and this woman
was one of these. I was curious to
learn what had drawn her to a scene
like this, so many thousand miles
from home. She explained that her
husband had been killed in the first
year of the war and that after that
she had thrown herself Into war activ
ities. N
“We don’t want to desert the Rus
sian cause. We are all In favor of
pushing the war through to the end,”
she told me. "And at the same time
we are doing our part In the work of
the revolution. The president of the
council here, and half the other lead
ers, too, ar* Caucasians. We are do
ing our share. But at the same time
we want to be free from too much
rule by Petrograd.”
“What do you mean by autonomy?
How free do you want to be?” 1 asked.
"Tell me about your United States.
Ton have states, and a nation, too,”
she said.
I tried to explain the relations be
tween our states and the federal gov
ernment
“We wish more than that” she said;
“w* want more Independence."
I replied that in America we were
moving Just the other way—toward
more centralised government—and I
tried to explain how the growth of
railroad*, factories, mills and huge
Interstate corporations was forcing
as to grant more and more control to
the men In Washington.
“But” she rejoined, “we don’t want
an ugly land of mills. We want our
Russia to stay as It Is—I mean with
Its beautiful fields and Its forests, Its
rivers and Its mountains. Ton have
seen the Caucasus and I know yon will
feel what I mean.”
Among the War Sacrifices.
There are many varieties of human
beings In New York city, mostly be
yond the draft age. who. If Uncle Sam
had to depend upon them for assist
ance, would never have to take an
obesity cure. -They all, however, be
lieve themselves patriotic because they
are stinting on their hobbles. For In
stance, there Is the pallid young man
with the chicken breast, who Is doing
his bit by cutting down hts smoking
to ten packs of cigarettes a day. He
can't wear khaki because they can't
make a uniform small enough to fit
him. Then there Is the stanch patriot
who gives everything—his good will
and moral support. He has a padlock
on every pocket and he helps the Red
Cross and other charities by bestow
ing an encouraging smile on the so
licitors. He Is tighter than a clam
with lockjaw. The last, but not the
least. Is the fickle young girl who Just
can’t knit and who can’t bear to look
at Red Cross and recruiting posters
because they remind her of the strug
gle on the other side. “Goodness, a
girl must have some pleasure these
times.” she says. To forget the war
she cdbarets every night with the
chicken-breasted young man who aids
the cause of democracy by conserving
on cigarettes
•par-row Plea.
Jacob Rlls describes in one of his
delightful essays how the good old
housekeeper In his Danish homo used
to climb to the eaves to rob the spar
rows’ nests for a delectable pla. Now
Mr. James Hnnt of Philadelphia, who
Is crusading against the English spar
row, advocates the pie as the true des
tiny of the sparrow. He furnished the
sparrows for such a pie Opened In
Washington recently at a luncheon
served by the Philadelphia Public Led
ger.
The guests declared that the pie was
good, and the flavor of the sparrow
was superior to chicken and equal to
partridge. Washington boys found this
out long ago in their secret sparrow
roasts, where dozens of these tidbits
were spitted on wires before the blaze
and devoured by these food pirates.
Cleaning a sparrow Is a simple mat
ter of cutting the breast away from all
other parts and skinning. Special traps
are used for catching sparrows. These
are set near favorite rookeries and
dozens of sparrows are caught at a
time.
Royal Regalia Now In Museum.
Hawaii’s famous royal standards and
robes of feathers made probably their
last appearance In a public ceremony
at the recent burial of ez-Queen
LUIuokalnnl In Honolulu. The feather
relics, regarded by the natives as sa
cred, are kept In the Bishop museum,
founded In memory of Mrs. Charles R.
Bishop, who was the Princess Bernice
Eauahl, last In direct line of the de
scendants of Kamehameha, a king
whose name his people pronounced
with accent on the second “meh.” The
most valuable of the feather pieces Is,
of course, the royaj robe of Kameha
meha the Great, for which the gath
ering of the feathers alone Is said to
have taken 100 yean and to have cost
$1,000,000. This mantle was last worn
by Kamehameha n and later, on state
occasions, was placed over the throne.
PASTOR DUCKED IN
BAPTISMAL TANK
BERKELEY: Approximately 300
boys, ranging in age from 10 to 20
years, ducked Pastor Joslah Sykes
and two of bis elders in a baptismal
tank, chased several elders through
the residence district and wrecked
the canvas tabernacle of the church
of the Living God here tonight when
the pastor and his elders refused to
sing the national anthem.
Two policemen who endeavored to
interfere were smothered under the
avalanche of souirming boys.
When the reserves arrived in res
ponse to a riot call they found the in
terior of the tabernacle in chaos, the
pastor and the elders grouped around
ja stove and the boys missing.
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REFUSED BONDS,
OUSTED BY JURY
_
TOMBSTONE, Ariz: “You can go
I home," Judge A. C. Lockwood, of the
* superior court of Cochise county, told
W. E. Schwamm, of Douglas, this af
ternoon, following the refusal of cit
izens of Douglas to sit on the same
Jury with Schwamm. The Douglas
citizens explained that Schwamm had
refused to buy bonds of the third lib
erty issue. Schwamm declared he had
a small bond of the second issue.
“Mr. Schwamm,” Judge Lockwood
said, "you came to Douglas a poor
man. You made, to the knowledge of
the court, large sums. In the present
emergency you say you cannot help
the government. 1 do not blame these
citizens of Douglas who say they can
not sit on a jury with you.”
The launch Katalla Queen return
ed this morning from Port Wells and
down sound ports.
JOHNSTON CHOCOLATES
just received at the Valdez Drug
Co. tf
Ray Millard arrived this morning
from the Granite mine in the Port
Wells district.
PIANO FOR SALE
Excellent condition. $250. Enquire
Prospector. tf
Dominick Vietti is a Valdez visitor
today, from his home at Port Wells.
NUGGET AND IVORY
and Alaskan jewelry, Valdez Drug
Co. tf
A large number of court officials
and jurors will arrive on the steam
er from the westward Sunday.
WOODEN CRAFT WAYS
TO BE KEPT BUSY
WASHINGTON: All ways on which
ships are now being built for the gov
ernment will be kept busy probably
for the period of the war. Shipping
board officials explained yesterday
that the statement authorized Mon
day that it would be necessary to cur
tail the wooden program to provide
engines and boilers for steel vessels
did not mean that the work of plants
now turning out ships would be inter
fered with.
The 4.700-ton War Marvel recently
launched at Orange, Tex., has been
chosen by the board as the model for
all wooden ships to be built hereafter.
It has been found that the 1,400
horse power engines used in the^3500
ton wooden ship, which is regarded
as uneconomical of operation, will
drive the larger vessel at a satisfac
tory speed and consequently new de
mands on the boiler and engine manu
facturing capacity of the country will
not have to be made to the detriment
of the steel program.
The 4,700-ton ship can be built of
laminated southern pine timber in
forty-five days less time than is re
quired to build the 3,500-ton Ferris
type vessel in which much heavier
timbers of Pacific coast fir are used.
Ansco Films Will
fit any standard make o f camera.
They are the standard. Guy E. Cam
eron. **
NOT YET
Alumnus of ’78—"Who is that man
over there with all the decorations?
A French war hero?”
Fresh—"Naw, that’s a guy that
subscribed to the two Liberty loans,
the Friendship Fund, the Army ’Y\
the Prison Camp Drive and the Red
Cross Society.”—Ga goyle.
furs made up
Furs remodeled, also new skins
made up in all the latest BtyleB. Prices
very reasonable. Special attention
paid to Alaska trade. All work guar
anteed. Richmond Furs, 306 Cham
ber of Commerce Bldg, Tacoma.
Wash. tf
I FOOD
'wniviN
THE
I VAR
TOKEH LOU IN PORT
The launch Tokeh Loo arrived In
port last night from Ellamar with
Rosa Paden, Otla Little and L. L. Mid
delkamp aboard. Capt. John Johnson
reports a pleasant trip up from the
mining camp.
CASES REVERSED
AUSTIN Tex: The court of crimi
nal appeals today reversed and re
manded the cases of Jose Antonio
Arce and five other Mexicans convict
ed of murder and sentenced to death
in 1916.
The Chesterfield blend
has in it the highest-grade
Turkish tohacco that
grows. They Satisfy
and yet they’re MILD!
A
LOUIE’S CAFE
Open Day and Night McKinley Street, Below Cable Office
Fresh Bread. Pies, Cakes,
All Kinds of Pastry for Sale
rfVKKYTHINO THE BEST ANDY MAROVICH, Propc.
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The Brave Fire Laddies
Will do what they can but they
cannot save you from loss no
matter how quickly they put
out the fire. The only Bure
protection against Are loss is a
policy in a good company such
as we represent. Let us issue
one to you today. You may
have a Are tonight. 'You Never
Can Tell.”
C. B. SMITH
Valdez Real Estate Agency
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Phone No. I. VALDEZ DOCK CO., Agent, Valdez Alaska.
Our Large Fleet of Magnificent Steamships Offer Frequent,
PERFECT SERVICE
Between All Points in
ALASKA and CALIFORNIA
Leave Seattle 10 a. m.—
May 15—S. S. Adm. Farragut
June 8—S. S. Adm. Farragut
June 10—S. S. Adm. Goodrich
From Valdez to Seattle—
May 29—S. S. Adm. Farragut
June 22—S. S. Adm. Farragut
June 24—S. S. Adm. Goodrich
CALIFORNIA ROUTE
Leave Seattle Monday, Friday and Sunday for
San Francisco.
Frequent service between San Francisco, Los Angeles
and San Diego
IF YOUR TICKET READS “PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY”
YOU ARE ASSURED THE VERY BEST.
i ALASKA
j STEAMSHIP CO.
From Seattle 9 a. m.—
May 8—S. S. Northwestern
May 16—S. S. Alameda
May 24—S. S. Alaska
June 1—S. S. Northwestern
Valdez to Seattle—
May 8—S. S. Alameda
May 11—S. S. Alaska
May 18—S. S. Northwestern
May 26—S. S. Alameda
Call at Ketchikan, Juneau, Cordova, uiiamar, r ort uscum, vaiaex,
Latouche and Seward.
S. S. Northwestern sailing from Seattle May 8th connects with S.
S. Dora at Seward for Alaska Peninsula points.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell. Juneau. Sheep
Creek. Treadwell. Douglaa Skagway. Cordova. Ellamar, Valdes and La
touche. Explosives. Right reserved to change schedule without notice
VALDBZ DOCK CO- Local Agent
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WHEN YOU SEE OUR
LAUNDRY WORK
you’ll be surprised to think how
you have been putting up with
Just ordinary laundering. Both
men and women find our serv
ice so far superior that no In
ducement can bring them to try
any other laundry. We Invite a
trial Our work Is our best ar
gument.
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STEAM LAUNDRY