Kitchen Helps That Appeal
To The Housewife.
OUR Hardware Department is showing many useful
utensils and labor saving devices—little helps that
make life easier and the work through quicker. It is
the intention to make this section one of the most pop
ular in the store—the place you will want to buy your
kitchen equipment.
Bread Mixer ,
Universal bread mixer, does the
mixing in three minutes with- (
out dough touching the hands;
size No. 4, two to six loaves,
price .$3.00
Sink Strainer
Mrs. Vrooman’s sink strainer does
away with a dirty sink; strain
er catching all the residue,
price .40c
Miscellaneous
Tea or coffee strainers.10c
Egg whip, small size.10c
King can-opener.15c
Self-pulling cork screw.40c
Dish mops .10c
Tin measures, '/2 pt. to 1 qt . .20c
Tin Gem pans, 12 cup.35c
Tin Gem pans, 8 cup.25c
Wilson Butcher Knives
Six-inch .$ -50
Eight-inch . 1-00
Ten-inch . 1-25
Twelve-inch . 1-50
French Knives
Eight-inch .$ -75
Ten-inch . 1-00
Lightning cake and bread
knife .50
Hand forged parring knife.. .25
Coffee Percolator
Universal coffee percolator, made
of satin finish aluminum, four
and six cups, price $3.50, $4.50
Miscellaneous
Tin funnels from 10c to .20c
Flesh forks .25c
Chain pot-cleaners .20c
Cake spoons .20c
Basting spoons .15c
Hardwood rolling pins .35c
Cake and doughnut cutter 10c
Graters, from 10c to.40c
Cake turners .20c
12-inch toasters.40c
Juice extractors, glass 15c
Soap holders, wire.20c
Granite dippers, pint.25
Skimmers and ladles from 15c
to . 50c
Dover & Ladd egg beaters, fam
ily and hotel sizes, 25 and..40c
Valdez Mercantile Co., Inc.
TRUE VALUES
Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
ALL KINDS OP
Native and I I TMD37D and Buildin*
Puget Sound JLi U IVIIjJCjIV Material
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Prices Right W. M. FINICAL, Mgr. Phone 18
Patronize a Home Industry
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
5. 5. Mariposa, 5. o. Alameda and a. a. ixortnwesiern
sail from Seattle the 6th, 12th, 18th, 24th and 30th
EVERY MONTH
From Valdez south—7th, 13th, 19th, 25th and 31th for Cor
dova, Skagway, Juneau, Wrangall, Ketchikan and Seattle.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Sheep creek Treadwell,
Douglas Skagway, Cordova, Ellamar. Valdez and Eatouche. Explosives. S S Seward.
S S Seward. 5th- S S Latouche. 15th: S S Cordova. 25th of each month—Right re
served to change this sohedule without notice.
F B. Tracy, Gen’IJAgt- Valdes Dock’Co., Local Agt
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List Your Houses with the
VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Houses for Rent or Sale. Collections Made.'
C. B. SMITH, Proprietor. Office on Wall Street.
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Best of Meals—Prices Reasonable
GENERAL STORE. - TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chltina.
General Freighting. KNUTE NAFSTED. Mar.
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
rhMMiio DENTIST.
in both companies Fourteen veurs in
Office Rooms in VALDEZ
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
-hone 19 THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Drug store. Office hours
i a. m., to 0 p. in., 7 p. m..to9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
Attorneys at Law
Offices in Whaling Building
Phone lOl Valdez. Alaska
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court Hous**
Phone 34 Valdez, Alazka
Mr. Sydney Laurence
Tbe Studio—Keystone Ave.
Photographic Portraiture
Sittings by appointment
Developing. Printing, Enlarging
A. W., L. & T. Co. Phone 217.
Library Hours.
Library books can be secured at the
Everyman’s Club rooms between 3
and 5 o’clock each week day, and
from 7:30 to 9 on Wednesday and
Friday evenings.
On the basis ot Security and Service
we solicit your account.
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO;
DENIES THAT M
WAS FAULTY
Secretary Garrison Insists That As
Far As Department Knew the
Boat Was In Good Shape.
WASHINGTON, April :10.--Secre
tary of War Garrison issued a public
denial today of the charge made by
Congressman Gardiner to the effect
that the United States submarine F
4 was faulty and that the naval au
thorities had been warned of the fact
by Commander Kde, in charge of the
vessel.
It is now almost certain that con
gress will order an investigation of
the charges that tlie naval authori
ties were at fault in allowing the boat,
to be used, knowing it to be unfit for
service.
Lieut. Smith, commander of the
submarine flotilla at Honolulu, has
wired the Department that if any
thing was wrong with the submarine
F-4 no one except her officers knew
of it and that no report had been
made by Lieut. Kde to his superior
regarding needed repairs. The recent
explosion on the boat was caused by
a short circuit setting fire to hydro
gen gas and was unavoidable.
ALASKA PRIEST
SERIOUSLY ILL
SEATTLE, April 30.—Father Ser
gius, a Greek Catholic priest in
charge of the Russian church at Sit
ka, is seriously ill at the hospital
here and is not expected to live but
a few days.
McDonald Gets Some Coal Land.
JUNEAU, April 30.—The local land
office has been notified that the first
patent for coal lands in the Bering
river district has been issued to T.
P. McDonald. The owners of the
claims have expended $70,000 on the
property.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
M. L. Tatom, who has been spend
ing the winter in Portland, Ore., was
an arrival in Valdez on the Alameda,
having been driven north by the heat.
F. Cockerille, a cousin of Dr. Henry
Cockerille, of this city, arrived this
morning on the Alameda to spend a
short time with his relatives.
Olaf Olson came up from Sboup
bay this morning.
I John Johnson came over from the
Midas mine today.
Jack Stanley arrived this morning
from Ellamar.
Ed. McDonald arrived from the
Cameron-Johnson mine this morning.
Frank Fraze arrived on the Ala
meda from Seattle.
TIDE TABLES PORT OF VALDEZ.
Compiled from the official tide ta
bles issued by the Coast and Geodet
ic Survey. The time for high and
low water is for the Port of Valdez
and Is Valdez time. Immediately'fol
lowing the t'me of high and low wa
ter Is given the height of the tide
in feet and tenths:
Saturday, May 1.
High tide 12:38 a. m„ 14.1; 1:57
p. m., 10.8.
Low tide 7:31 a. m., -2.4; 7:12 p.
m., 2.0.
Notice of Forfeiture.
To Mrs. M. F. Roberts, her heirs
and administrators and to all it may
concern: You are hereby notified that
I have expended during the past year,
1914, the sum of $66.66 (sixty-six dol
lars and sixty-six cents) lawful money
of the United States in labor and im
provements upon your one-third inter
est in those mining claims lying and
being on Avery river, in the recording
precinct of Valdez. Alaska, which are
known as the Beauty Bird and Beauty
Bird No. 1, the location notices of
said claims being of record in the
ofTice of the commissioner, and rec
orded at Valdez, Alaska, pages num
bered 95, 96, in Book 10, Mining Rec
ords. in order to hold said claims
under the provisions of section 2324
of the Revis d Statutes of the Unit
ed States, concerning annual labor
on mining claims, being the amount
required to bo*d said lode claims for
the period ending December, 1914.
And unless within ninety days after
the completion of the publication of
this notice to-wlt: within ninety days
after the 7th day of June, 1916, you
contribute your proportion of such ex
penditure Incurred In performing said
annual labor and improvements,
which Is the sum of $66.66, your In
terest in said claims will become the
property of your co-partners, who have
made the required expenditure by the
terms of said section.
Dated at Valdes, Alaska, this 8th
day of March, 1916.
JULIUS RONNING.
Last publication June 7. 1916.
WALKING TO ASIA.
This I* Not Difficult When Bering
Strait Is Frozen.
On Aug. 15 we sailed through Be
ring strnit and were at Inst In the
arctic. The straits are thirty-six miles
wide, with East cape, a rounded, dome
shaped mass of black basalt, on the
Asiatic side and on the American side
Cape Prince of Wales, a headline of
sharper outline, but neither so lofty
nor so sheer. In between the two
capes and In line with them lie the
two islauds of Big and Little Diomede.
Through the three narrow channels be
tween the capes and the islands the
tide runs with the swiftness of a riv
er’s current.
The Eskimos constantly cross from
continent to continent in small boats. I
In still weather the passage can be
made in a light kyack with perfect
safety. The widest of the three chan
nels is that between Big Diomede and
East cape, and is, I should suy. not
more than fifteen miles across. While
we were passing through the straits
we saw a party of Eskimos in a skin
boat paddling leisurely across from
America to Asia. They no doubt had
been on a visit to relatives or friends
on the neighboring continent. We were
told that in winter, when the strait
is frozen solidly, the Eskimos frequent
ly walk from one continent to the oth
er.—From "A Year With a Whaler,” by
Walter Noble Burns.
TRUE TO THE END.
i And After Many Years Came Her
Tragic and Pathetic Reward.
A number of years ago some miners
in Wales, in exploring an old disused
pit. found the body of a young man
dressed in a fashion long out of date.
The peculiar action of the air of the
mine was such as preserved the body
so perfectly that it appeared asleep
rather than dead.
The miners were puzzled at the cir
cumstances. No one in the district had
been missed within their remembrance,
and at last it was resolved to bring in
the oldest inhabitant, au old lady over
eighty years old, who had lived single
in the village all her life.
When she was taken into the room
where the dead man lay a strange
thing occurred. The old lady fell on
the corpse and kissed it and addressed
it by every term of endearment spoken
in a bygone generation, lie was tier
only love, and she had waited for him
her long life. She knew he had not
forsaken her.
The old lady and young man had
been betrothed sixty years before. Her
lover had disappeared mysteriously,
and she had kept her faith during the
long interval.
The miners removed the old lady to
her house, and that night her faithful
spirit rejoined that of her long lost
lover.—I.ondon Telegraph.
Wise Eskimos.
Everything in the Eskimo dress has
a reason for its existence, writes Cap
tain Itoald Amundsen in “The North
west Passage.” The members of Cap
tain Amundsen’s expeditions had be
come accustomed to the Eskimo dress
and had adopted it, but many of them
thought it ridiculous for grownup
men to go about wearing fringe to
1 their clothes, so they cut it off. 1 had
my scruples about this, says the au
thor. as I had already learned that
most things in the Eskimo’s clothing
and other arrangements had their dis
tinct meaning and purpose, so I kept
' my fringe and put up with the ridicule.
He laughs best who laughs last. One
fine day tile anovaks, a sort of tunic
reaching below the knee, made of deer
skin, from which the fringes had beeu
cut off. commenced to curl up. and if
the fringe had not been put on again
quickly they would soon have looked
like neckties.
Astronomy.
If there were any money to be made
in astronomy everybody would be
studying it. About all we can see is
'figures, and these are so big that they
stagger the understanding. Every
child in the United States knows how
to find the north star from the point
ers of the dipper, but no child can
appreciate the statement that this star
is distant from the earth 210.000,000,
000,000 miles—two hundred and ten
trillions! A railroad train traveling
at one mile a minute would have to
run without stopping for 479.000,000
years in order to traverse this dis
tance. If light really travels 187.500
miles a second a ray from the north
star would be thirty-six years in
reaching the earth.
Right In His Face.
A group of grieving depositors stood
on the sidewalk before the closed
doors of a recently defunct bank. It
wasn’t a merry scene. One man who
had lost his all was trying to brace up
a colored grandpa whose white wool
bobbed up and down into the folds of
a bandanna.
“Don’t cry. uncle.” he said. “Banks
burst every day. you know.”
“Yes. sir: I know it, but—huh huh,
huh—dis bank—huh, huh—done bus’
right in inah face.”—Harper's Weekly.
The Wrong Heart.
"Mr. Bubkins,” said the proud
father, shaking the young man warmly
by the hand, “let me tell you that you
are a man after my own heart”
“Oh, no. sir.” protested the blushing
suitor; “I’m after your daughter’s!’*—
London Answers.
A Popular Role.
Girl (to prominent actor)—I suppose
there Is some role you take special In
terest In. Actor—Yes, my dear young
lady, the p lyroll.—Boston Transcript.
We never have leisure enough to
•tone for the things we do In haete.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
The best groceries recen ed
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
Chas. Perry
m ■ MANApER—
, ^«5eattce
Complete, Services
• IN THE HEART OF THE CITY *
| l55Roomswitti bath-50 Sample Rooms
BEST PLAGE TO EAT
MRS. ST. MARIE’S
Moved to Reed Building, on Wall
Street, next to Road Commission
< 7 a in to 9 a in
MEALS' Lunch 12 in to 1 i> in
t fi to 7 1» III
BOARD & ROOM $50 per Mo.
Valdez Hospital
Largest and Best Equipped Hospital
in Southwestern Alaska.
Graduate Nurses—Private Rooms for Patients
For Terms'and Particulars Apply to
E. C. DALTON, M, D., Physician in Charge.
Notice of Forfeiture.
To G. A. Brown, Ills heirs and ad
ministrators and to all it may con
cern :
You are hereby notified that we
have expended during the years 1912,
1913, and 1914, the sum of three hun
dred dollars ($300.00), lawful money
of the United States, in labor and
improvements, upon your one-sixth
interest in those mining claims lying
and being on Mineral creek, in the
recording precinct of Valdez, Alaska,
which are known as the Monte Carlo
group consisting of the Monte Carlo,
Monti Carlo No. 2, Monte Carlo No.
3, Monte Carlo No. 4, Monte Carlo
No. 5, Monte Carlo No. 6, the
location notices of said claims
being of record in the office of
the commissioner and recorder, at
Valdez, Alaska, pages numbered 332.
323, 325, 326, and 327, of Book 2 Min
ing Records, in order to hold said
claims under the provisions of Sec
tion 2324 of the Revised Statutes of
the United States, concerning annual
labor on mining claims, being the
amount required to hold said lode
claims for ttie period ending Decern
ber, 1914.
And unless within ninety days af
ter the completion of the publication
of this notice, to-wit: within ninety
days after the 6th day of May, 1915,
you contribute your proportion of
such expenditure incurred in perform
ing said annual labor and improve
ments, which is the sum of three
hundred dollars ($300.00), your inter
est in said claims will become the
property of your co-owners, who have
made the required expenditure, by the
terms of said secMon.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 4th
lay of February, 1915.
MIKE BARRETT.
JULIUS JUNGHOLM.
Last publication May 6. 1915.
DONALDSON SCHEDULE.
Leaves Fort Liscum. Leaves Valdez
8:15 a. m. 9:45 a. m.
1:15 p. m. 4:00 p. m.
TUESDAYS
8:15 a. m. 9:45 a. m.
1:10 p. in. 2:00 p. m.
4:30 p. m. 5:00 p. m.
SATURDAYS
1:15 p. m. 4:00 p. m.
7:00 p. m. 10:30 p. m.
There wHl be no trips of the launch
on the secoLd and fourth Fridays of
each month, these days being used
to clean bolDra.
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
“bad?’ 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
vqiih the idea, the man
with a prospect or busi
ness to the man with the
dollar.
ADVERTISE IN THE
MMMREOTOR FOR RE
SULTS.