WATS with a reputation, priced
according to their worth-that’s our
idea of true value giving in hats.
Knox Hats
/
Stetson Hats
have many distinctive features not found
in others; style, durability and all-around
satisfaction. We are showing some
“good ones” in
Knox at $5.00 and Stetson at $4.00.
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Valdez Mercantile Co., Inc. jj
TRUE VALUES
^ I
On the basis of Security and Service
we solicit pour account.
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
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 *
atmosphere of comfort
and luxury.
I “Hill is a lucky dog,”
[ you say; but did you ever
[ stop to think how easily
youcould 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 heating and cook
ing devices.
You can have^it at
slight cost—let us discuss
wiring with you.
Alaska Water, Light
& Telephone Co.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To William Hogan.
You are hereny notified that I
have expended during the year
1912, 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-ninths in
terest in those certain lode claims
lying and being on Knights Is
land, in the recording precinct of
Valdez, Alaska, which are known
as and called the “Shamrock"
elaim; 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 2324 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
lay of December. 1012.
And unless within ninety days
after the completion of the publi
cation of this notice, to-\vit: with
in ninety days after the Gth 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 expendituVe,
by the terms of said section.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this
5lh day of April, 1913.
S. A. HEMPLE.
Date of first pub. April G, 1913
Date of last pub. July G, 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 I, the sub
scriber, T. E. Dougherty, have
expended during the year A. D.,
1912, one hundred dollars ($100,1
in labor and improvements upon
the “Minnie” lode mining claim.
Said claim is situated and lies in
the Valdez Recording Precinct,
Territory of Alaska, about six
miles from Shoup bay. The no
tice of location tnereor is of rec
ord in Book 8 of Records, at,page
370, in the office of the United
States Commissioner for the Val
dez Recording Precinct at Val
dez, Alaska, to which book and
page reference is hereby made for
a more particular description of
said claim. Said expenditure was
made for the purpose of holding
possessory right and title to said
mining claim under the provis
ions or Section twenty-three hun
dred and twenty-four of the Re
vised Statutes of the United
States and the amendments there
to, providing for the annual la
bor upon mining claims, said
amount being the sum required
to hold said mining claim during
the period ending the thirty-first
day of December, 1912.
If you fail or refuse within
ninety days from the personal
service of this notice, if person
al service be had, or within ninety
days after, the publication of this
notice to contribute your propor
tion of such expenditure as a co
owner, your proportion, being in
the sum of eighteen dollars and
seventy-five cents ($18.75), your
interest in said claim will become
the property of the Subscriber,
who is vour co-owner, and who
has made the expenditure and
improvements as above mention-,
ed pursuant to the provisions of
the said statute.
Dated Valdez, Alaska, April 23,
1913.
T. OS. DOUGERTY.
Date first pub. April 24, 1913.
Dais last pat. July 21,1913.
NEW POWER DAM
NEARLY FINISHED
Crew Have Been Placed on the
Flume tine to Prepare for
the Machinery.
The work oil the dam of I.lie
Power company in Solomon ha
sin has progressed very fast and
the new dam built alongside of
the old one is now 1 1 feet high—
the same height • as , the former
one.
The crew working on dam con
struction have all been ordered
on the work of preparing the
flume line, as the stave pipe is
now on the ground and must be
laid and ready for the machinery,
which is expected on one of the
next boats.
The condition of the trail is
worrying Superintendent Union
and President Hemple, as the new
machinery will consist of heavy
pieces, which may give consider
able trouble in hauling over the
soft trail from the beach to the
basin.
FIRE LADDIES
SPRINKLESTREETS
Chief Finical, assisted by Sues
,dorf and Bush, had the fire hose
out this morning to wet down the
streets, which had become very
dusty after the past week of hot
weather.
The hose was also turned un
der the building occupied by Lou
ie’s Cafe, the sanitary condition
of which has become a menace to
the health of the town.
FIGHT TO FEED
INTERIOR TOWN
(Continued from page 1'.)
light against the Cold Storage
{company, which will be some
thing eise again.
“H. B. Parkin, manager of the
Cold Storage company here, is to
be the manager for Waechter
Bros. If was his management
which put the White Market out
of business, and he will bring to
the new meat concern the knowl
edge of how to ‘pul one over’ on
the old company in the employ
of which he learned the trick.
Sam Taggart, a good ‘mixer’ from
Nome, will have command of the
Cold Storage batteries, and if Sam
loses any trade if will be because
the other fellow can underbid
him, for Sam is old in the game
'and need ask no special consid
eration from any other meat
salesman this far north. The
.Waechter Bros, will be kept busy
driving the meat into Fairbanks
to keep the game going, and the
people will again have the fresh
and good meats they had last
summer, and which they of late
have been fearing they might
never meet up with again.
“Sharpen your teeth, work up
a good appetite and prepare for
the meat war that is to come.
“It will be ‘good.’ ”
CAUNCH NEBULA
GOES TO ELLAMAR
Hev. Ziegler, wife, child and
maid left this morning for Tatit
lek. Rev. Ziegler will distribute
two barrels of clothing to the na
tives, perform a marriage or two
and baptize several children on
his return from the native village
he will call in at Camp Welcome
and perform any needed cerempn
ies.
James Fish left this morning
for the Fish and Carter camp of
pole cutters. Siwash are now at
work in Sawmill bay getting out
the 5,000 poles needed by the
Road Commission for the dike.
The poles will be brought to Val
dez on a lighter.
'_____
According t'o the above, the Rev.
'Ziegler should now be at Ellamar
and James Fish should be eating
hard tack at the Siwash camp,
but the Prospector man figured
without )he tide. The Nebula, m
which Rev. Ziegler was to take
felothes for the naked Siwash, was
high and dry on the* beach and the
trip was postponed, and James
Fish is still trying to secure' a
boat to take1 him to the Siwash.
Don’t blame the Prospector for
misstatements of facts, we get it
banded to us every day.
The Lawn Mower.
I’ve brought forth the mower
from where it’s been stabled, and
oiled up its bearings and lighten
ed its screws, and now 1 shall
push it around till disabled, and
try to imagine it’s good for my
thews. I keep it, a-going, now
faster, now slower, an hour in
the evening, an hour at I lie dawn,
and try to he fond of my red and
green mower, my trusty old mow
er that shingles the lawn. I said
to the sawbones: “Say, Doe,
what’s the matter? I’m getting
so fat that I can’t lace my shoes.'’
He answered: "You'll always get
fatter and fatter, for lark nf hard
labor, that’s what’s hurting
youse. (to forth, hr- a .sprinter,
'or wrestler or rower, mow your
own grass till you harden your
■ brawn.” And that’s why I sweat
with my dingbusted mower, my
fussy old mower lhal shingles the
lawn. I went to the hay scale
this morning and weighed me, I
hoped I had lost seven lirkins of
grease; alack and alas, but the
figures dismayed me—I’d gained
thirteen pounds, and 1 called the
police. My soul is depressed and
my spirits are lower, I hoped to
lie slender and licet, as a fawn,
hut now I am done with the jun
twisted mower, the nloorping
green whiskers may grow on the
lawn. WALT, MASON.
Ponderous Personages—Socrates.
(By George Fitch.)
Socrates was a crank who lived
about 2,500 years ago when the
climate was exceedingly unheal
thy for cranks. The coroner’s
verdict on Socrates was that he
died of too many ideas.
Socrates lived in Greece, which
was about the only country worth
living in in the 5th century B. C.
He received a good Athens edu
cation which consisted at I hat
time of athletics, sculpture and
music, hut instead of plying him
self to business and producing his
share ot marble statues, he nat
tered away his time studying ge
ometry, astronomy, Latin and
other fads. He then married
Xantippe, and soon afterwards
began to spend all his time on the
street corners under the pretense
of discussing important subjects.
But those who knew Xantippe’s
temper and her skill in hurling
the Hal iron laughed coarsely at
this excuse.
Socrales was Hoplite for a while
when a young man, but soon re
covered or was released or failed
of election--depending on what
“Hoplite” was. Then he threw
himself into the teaching of phil
osophy and spent the rest of his
life searching the dark and un
fal homed chasms in the human
undersfanding of those* days. IIis
method of leaching was to loaf
on tin* sired corner until In* got
a crowd and then get his admirers
to ask him questions. Survivors
of the free silver campaign of '90
will remember how easy it is to
do the questioner and the admin
istration into a French twist, by
this method.
Socrates lived to the age of 70,
acquiring a long curly beard and
a reputation for being able to si
lence anyone in Greece on any
subject in a catch-as-calch-can
debate. He disagreed with ev
erything the Athenians believed
in and even attempted to reform
some of the old gods. This
aroused the fire of the republi
cans, who condemned him to'
death. 'However, he could have
escaped on a technicality if he
nau not ueen so urguiueiiunive.
But he took the ground that he
was entitled to a pension instead
of death and argued about it un
til the authorities made him
drink hemlock to shut off the de
bate.
Socrates invented a philosophy
and method of reasoning which
endured for many ages, and was
the wisest man of his time,_but a
notoriously poor provider, living
in rags from choice, which com
pels the belief that Xantippe has
been greatly maligned by history.
Qlving a Guess.
“Under what circumstances did
a famous general order a little
friore grape?" asked the profes
sor in history.
“That was before the canteen
had been abolished,” ventured the
student at the foot of the class.
TIDE TABLES |
Wednesday, June 4.
High tide, 12:06 p. m.
Low tide, 6:35 a. m.. 6:0b p. m.
Boots & Shoes
REPAIRED
Mcm Rum-Ms. WiifcwiMp M tk« ktt
JAMES NAREY
AtWJr.1— . VALDKZ
A. M. Dieringei'
Valdez Transfer
Company
General Trucking and Freight
ing to all interior points
LIVERY ard FEED STABLE
STORAGE
Teaming of all kinds
Positively no coal delivered
unless paid tor in advance
CITY EXPRESS
MEETS ALL BOATS j
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. a COCKER1LLE
Gradiurte of National University
Washiiftton, D. C.
DENTIST
Phone 92 Fourteen years in
Office injWhaling building VALDEZ
Next to cable office
DR. GERMAN
Phone 19 THE DENTIST
Office 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
IE. E. RITCHIE :j
LAWYER li
phone 136 Valdez, Alaska J Jj
I C E. BUNNELL f
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L V. RAY
ATTORNEY’ AT LAW
SEWARD, - ALASKA
MINING ENGINEER
F. BUTTERWORTH
Civil Engineer and
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
Blue Printing Res Phone. 188
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L. W. STORM. E. M.
Valdai. alaoka I
Ranonra on Minna
Ratkht Sumvarm
QmnmmaL Minina Knainnnnina
'Paoss No. ion
CAMP VALDEZ No. 10
Meet every Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock In
Eagle Hall. All members are requested to
ttend- S. McNIECE. Arctlo Chief
Valdez Lodge
No 168.
Free and Aocepted Masons
Regular Communications first Wednesday in
each month In McKinley Hall Visitors always
welcome.
James H. Patterson,.W. M
C. C. Reynolds. Sec
FOE
VALDEZ AJBIUK No. 1971
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