Do You Need a Pipe?
We Have Them in All Styles
and Sizes at
The Buffet
1894 CHAS.R. CRAWFORD 191/
. PIONEER CONTRACTOR and BUILDER
OF ALASKA
CAN HANDLE ANY CLASS OF BUILDING.
Will take contract* on wharves, bridge*, fish traps in any
part of Prince William sound.
Building material of all kinds, and several grades of wall
board kept in stock at all times.
OFFICE AND FACTORY, VALDEZ, ALASKA-PHONE 18
REFERENCES I S. BLUM St CO., Valdes, and Cordoea,
BANKERS | B. M. BEH RENDS, Juneau, Alaska.
Merchant’s Cafe
Phone 63 OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Chen. Fischer, Propr.
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
plumbing STOVES and RANGES heating
MOTOR BOAT SUPPLIES, PAINTS and OILS
Mine Air Pipe, Valves, Hose, Pipe and Fittings
Valdez Dock. Opposite Prospector Office. Telephone 2d
OUR SUITINGS PORTRAY
A GALAXY OF DESIGN
That carry exclusiveness so
much in demand. The tailoring
is faultless, the fit perfect, the
goods superb, the cost low. It
is needless to wear ill-fitting
? garments when we will make
v you a suit to your measure for
' the same money. See oUr sam
t pies.
BEN SILVERMAN
THE TAILOR
Independent Steam laundry
Satisfaction Guaranteed I
Telephone 66
I Foot Keybione Av*
Rouifh Dry He lb
THE SENATE
ANGUS CHISHOLM—FRANK GUSTAFSON
CIGARS, BILLIARDS
Nicely Furnished Rooms. Phone 35_
PORT WELLS MILL J
* AND ;
LUMBER COMPANY
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» Orders taken for sized and 1
dressed lumber.
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, THE P1NZON VALDEZ, ALASKA <
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Going To Fairbanks?
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Ask For the Sheldon Service
SHELDON AUTO STAGE LINE
Through Service from Valdez to
Fairbanks and all Interior Points.
For further information call on or
address
THE AGENT, at the Prospector Off ice
GENERAL SCOTT SAYS
RUSSIAN NEED READY HELP
WASHINGTON. D. C., Sept. 1.—
Major Genera] Scott, chief of stafT and
head of the military contingent of
the special mission Just returned from
Russia, was in communication with
the Russian mission to this country
regarding the equipment needs of the
Russian and Rumanian armies. The
Red Cross has been asked by the gen
eral to do what it can.
Fifteen Rumanian and Russian di
visions facing an overwhelming Aus
tro-German force were found by Gen
eral Scott on his visit to the east
ern front to be badly in need of mu
nitions, food, clothing and other
equipment. Otie reason they cannot
be properly supplied is found in the
1 leek of transportation facilities and
General Scott believes that no fewer
than 1,000 locomotives should he
shipped immediately to Archangel be
fore that port is closed by ice.
It is understood that when Klihu
Root returns to Washington from
New York next week he will suggest
in the name of the mission that if
necessary locomotives and oars he
commandeered in the United States
where they can best be spared,
quickly changed to the broad Russian
guage by rush work In the machine
shops and shipped to Russia at the
earliest possible moment.
CHINA URGED TO SEND
30,000 MEN TO EUROPE
PEKING, Sept. 1.—General Chang
Chu Yam, commanding troops sent
to Suppress General Chang Hsun’s
forces in Anh-Wei province, tele
graphed President Feng Kwo Chang,
urging the immediate sending of his
30,000 men to Europe to fight the
Germans. Dr. Paul S. Reinsch, Amer
ican minister to China, and other
ministers of the entente have agreed
upon a note congratulating China on
its declaration of war. The Japanese
minister visited the foreign office and
assured it that the declaration
strengthened the friendship between
Japan and China. China has institut
ed a cable and mail censorship.
Notice of Sale
Special sale on jewelry at the Val
dez Drug. Everything half price. tf
Red Cross Meeting
The petition which the local Red
Cross Society sent to the National or
ganization asking for authority to
form a chapter; has been favorably
acted upon complete instructions
jof how to proceed with the organiza
tion have been received.
A meeting will be held in Eagle
Hall at 2 o'clock on Monday after
noon September third for the pur
pose of electing an executive board.
All members are urged to be present
as well as non members interested in
the American Red Cross Society.
Photo by American Preea Association.
Joeephue Daniels, Secretary of the
Navy.
DONALDSON SCHEDULE
The following schedule for the har
bor boat “Lt. C. V. Donaldson” will
take effect today. All orders to the
contrary are revoked.
Monday, Wednesdays, Thursdays,
and Fridays:
Lve. Fort Liscum Leave Valdez
8:16 a. m. 9:45 a. m.
1:15 p. m. 4:80 p. m.
TUESDAY
1:16 p. m. 2:00 p. m.
4:30 p. m. 5:00 p. m.
SATURDAY
1:15 p. m. 4:30 p. m.
7:16 p. m. 10:80 p. m.
There will b#»no trips of the boat
on the 2nd and 4th Fridays of each
month, these days being used to clean
boilers.
Special trips or cancelling of the
above will be made without notice
only to meet eyigencles of the ser
vice.
All official business between Val
dez and the Post should be arranged
for transaction, where possible, so
that advantage will be taken of the
scheduled trips and extra trips will
be made at a minimum and made only
when urgently needed.
G. R. KOEHLER,
1st. Lt. 14th Infantry. A. Q. M.
By GEORGE NBWLOVE, M. R. C.
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MAKE YGUR MONEY WORK.
Get It Out Earning For You, but Be I
Careful Investor.
Money is a workman. It works for
its owner while the owner sleeps, and
it will work for anyliody who hus It if
he will only put It to work, for there
Is ulways somebody ready to hire mon
ey and pay for its use.
Let every reader who has a few hun
dred dollurs to spure put it In a good
$500 or $1,000 bond on the partial pay
ment plan and let It earn something.
Five hundred dollars Invested In a •!
per cent bond (with tbe Income deiios
lied in a savings bank ut 4 per cenlt
will double itself In twelve years—that
Is. the $500 will liuve become $1,00*1 In
Unit time. This $1,000 ut •! per cent
will earn $<K1 a year, or over $1 a week,
for Its |Kissessor. Even ut 5 per cent
It will double in fifteen years and at '
per cent In eighteen years.
The lesson the smull Investor wants
to learn Is that Ids money is just as
good as that of the larger Investor.
The former has greater need of being
careful because he bus iess to spare.
Learn to lie a careful Investor. Tbe
first thing tbe careful buyer does if be
wants to buy a horse, a cow, a bouse
or a farm, a bond or a share of stock
Is to make u careful investigation.
Schoolboys may swap tbe Jackknives
tbey bold In tbeir closed bands, but
grown up men ought to know better.
Tbe humblest Investor can buy with
as great safety as tbe proudest, for
both can deal with tbe same bankers
or brokers In tbese days when small
lots are popular with firms of estab
lished character.—Jasper In Leslie's.
SOLDIERS ON THE MARCH.
Distances That Trained, Hardened Men
Can Cover In a Day.
The Army Drill Book tells that train
ed and hardened Infantry can cover
from twenty to twenty-five miles s day
when In small bodies. As the size of
the command increases the distance
covered becomes less, as the rate Is
lowered and time is needed to get all
the units Into and out of camp.
With a regiment or less of average
troops—regulars—marching over aver
age roads, the rate should be from two
and three-quarters to three miles an
hour, while a division cannot be ex
pected to accomplish more than twelve
and a half miles a day.
Of course, all these figures will vary
with different conditions of roads and
weather. Untrained troops could not
approach them until hardened. Though
they might do better for a day or two,
they could not keep up the steady pace
of the seasoned regulars for a long dis
tance.
Mnrehlng with full equipment is hard
physical work, and, like every other
form of labor, requires a proper period
of training. The seasoned force will
keep up a steady jiace, with ten minute
hHlts every hour, a fifteen minute stop
being made at the end of the first half
or three-quarters of an hour. Green
troops are apt to straggle badly.—Out
ing Magazine.
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Holland and Flowers.
It was only after the fall of Con
stantlnople in 1453 that Holland be
came such a gay land of flowers us It
now Is. Many Dutchmen went to the
east during the years of the great cru
sades, and those of them who loved
beautiful tilings brought many home
again with them. Not only did they
carry away with them silks and em
broideries, Jewels, spices and fruits,
but in the bottoms of their ships they
brought seeds. When these seeds were
planted In the rich soil of Holland such
wondrous flowers appeared as bud
uever before been seeu In that north
ern country. The people became wild
ly enthusiastic over the new colors and
scents and foliage brought «to them
from the east, and In Holland there
sprang up a great love for gardening.
Origin of tho Jury 8yotom.
A Jury la a body of laymen sum
moned and sworn to ascertain the truth
as to facts raised in legal proceedings.
The Jury system of the United States
developed from that of England. This
in turn had Its origin in Frankish In
quest, which was translated Into Eng
land by Norman kings. In these In
quests a body of neighbors was sum
moned by a public officer to give an
swer upon oath on some question of
fact or law or of mixed fact and law.
In the beginning the object of the In
quiry was usually to obtain informa
tion for the king to ascertain facts
needed for assessing taxes.
Couldn’t Stand Defeat.
Dr. Grenfell tells an amusing story
of the Introduction of football In Lab
rador, when defeat was considered so
unendurable a mortification that it bad
to be mutually agreed beforehand that
neither side should win. "We saw,”
be says, “the unusual spectacle of the
side that had been scored against sol
emnly allowed to walk across the field
and kick a goal to save them the feel
ing of being beaten.”
Good 8oh*me.
Husband — Why do you scold the
butcher? It isn’t his fault that the
meat comes to the table all dried up.
Scold the cook. Wife—I don’t dare to,
but I’m in hopes that if I keep on
scolding the butcher he’ll get mad and
come around and scold the cook.
Tho Tambourine.
The timbrel of the Bible was the In
strument known today as the tambou
rine. It was used In early times by the
Syrians of Padan-aram at their merry
makings (Geneeis xxxi, 27).
Catty Comment.
"Girls, I did have the hardest kind of
work to keep Mr. Jims from proposing.”
"I suppose you mean to some other
girl?”—Baltimore American.
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WHEN FLAMES FILL
THE FACTORY !
despair Alls the owner who has |
neglected to look after his In- ]
surance. We handle the insur- !
ance of some very large con
cerns. We place it in the best
companies, pay the premiums
promptly and attend to renew
als. Let us ,00 that for you.
It will not cost you anything
for our service.
Valdez Heal Estate Agency
Kc?i Tony’s Place TT
Orders to ANTON CARLSON, Manager.
ALASKA
j STEAMSHIP CO.
From Seattle 9 a. m.—
Aug. 27.—S. S. Northwestern
Sept. 2.—S. S. Alameda
Sept. 7.—8. S. Alaska
Sept. 13.—8. 8. Mariposa
I Sept. 19.—8. S. Northwestern
Valdez to Seattle—
Aug. 27.—S. S Alaska
Sept. 1.—S. S. Mariposa
Sept. 8.—S. S. Northwestern
Sept. 12.—S. S Alameda
Sept. 19.—S. S. Alaska
Call at Ketchikan, Juneau, Ska way, Cordova, Ellamar, Fort LIs
cum, Valdez, Latouche, Seward aid Anchorage,
Except—S. S. Northwestern and S. S. Alaska do not call at
Skagway Southbound.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Sheep
Creek. Treadwell, Douglas, Skagway, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdes and La
touche. Explosives. Right reserved to change schedule without notice,
■r. B. TRACY. Gea'I Agent VALDEZ DOCK CO„ Local Agent
i Pacific Steamship Co.
j! (ADMIRAL LINE)
jj Our targe Fleet of Magnificent Steamships offer Frequent, PER
> FECT SERVICE Between all Points in
I Alaska and California
From Seattle 10 a. m.—
Sept. 8.—S. S. Adm. Evans,
(for Kodiak.)
Sept. 16.—S. S. Adm. Farragut
[ Sept. 24.—S. S. Adm. Watson,
i (for Kodiak)
1 Oct. 2.—8. S. Admiral Evans.
Valdez to Seattle—
Aug. 27.—S. S. Adm. Evans.
Sept. 4.—S. S. Adm Farragut
Sept. 20.—S. S. Adm. Evans.
Sept. 28.—S. S. Adm. Farragut
; CALIFORNIA ROUTE
' Leave Seattle Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays for San Francisco.
) I/Os Angeles
' San Francisco to Los Angeles, Dally Except Sunday
! San Francisco to San Diego, Mondays, Thursday and Saturdays.
; IF YOUR TICKET READS PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY
; YOU ARE ASSURED THE VERY BEST
| For Full Particulars Address
' Phone 1 VALDEZ DOCK COMPANY Valdez, Alaska
LOUIE’S CAFE
0|>eii Day and Night McKinley Street, Below Cable Office
Fresh Bread, Pies, Cakes,
All Kind8[of JPastry for Sale.
EVERYTHING THE BEST ANDY MAROVICH, Propr.
Patten mining stock lor sale, $5
per share. Inquire Prospector Office.
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Take a look at our new line ol
postcards and pictures of the Canyon
etc. Valdez Drug Store. tf
Shampooing makes your hair more
beautiful when curled by the perman
ent wave. Demonstration at the Van
itie Shop. tr
A special on stationery at the Val
dez Drug Store. Box paper, worth
from 60c to $1.00 now 26c. tf
Ansco Films Will
fit any standard make o* f camera.
They are the standard. Guy E. Cam
eron. tf
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company
Office on Alaska Avenue, in
George C Treat Building
Telephone No. 60
General Trucking and Freighting
to all Interior Points.
autos for hire
DAT OR NIGHT
Positively No Coal Delivered Un
less Paid for in Advance
Capt. Otto Elfstrom
Weekly trips to Port Wells
and all Sound Points.
FOR CHARTER FOR PAR.
TIES OR TOWING
'or rates and sailing dates see
CAPT. OTTO ELFSTROM,
On Boat, Valdes Dock
LAUNCH
PATHFINDER
CAPT. BYRON SMITH
Sailing weekly out of Valdes
will deliver passengers, mall, ex
press and fast freight at any
point on Prince William Sound.
RATES REASONABLE
Periodical service by agree
ment to outlying camps a spe
cialty.
CAPT. BYRON SMITH
' VALDEZ, ALASKA