The First Bank of Valdez
CAPITAL $25,000.
45S PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS
OUR STOCKHOLDERS ARE
S. BLUM
M. BLUM
E. B. WHEAT
JOHN LYONS
J. M. LATHROP
W. M. WILSON
JAFET LINDEBERG
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 TT 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
Valdes Lodge
No 168,
Free and Aooepted Masons
Regular Communications first Wednesday la
oaoh month in McKinley Hall Visitors always
weloome.
A. E. GRIGSBY, W. M.
C. C. Reynolds. Sec
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 Norses—Prirate Roods for Patients
For Tsrms'and Particulars Applr to
E. C. DALTON, M, D., Physician in Charge.
If you want all the news all the
time, read the Prospector.
LOCAL VALDEZ
Socialist Party ot Alaska
Meet* every Saturday at 8 p. m.
Next door to Senate Saloon.
Everybody Welcome.
ARCADE CAFE
“We Never Cloee.”
Private Dining Room.
The Beet of Everything. We Bake Oor Own
Bread and Pastry. Bread forlSale.
Jack Callin--Proprietor
Weather Report.
Valdez, Jan. 14, 1915.
Barometric pressure .29,729
Temperature at 7 p. m:. 18
Maximum temperature . 20
Minimum temperature .-03
Mean ‘emperature . 81-2
Cloudy, light wind northeast ten
miles. Snowed from 8:30 a. m. to
7:00 p. m.
8weat Bath*.
First-class sweat baths and mas
sage parlors at room 6, Montana. U
WILL OPEN UP
COPPER CLAIMS
lies Leaves On Mariposa for $175,000
Outfit for Development of Nug
get Creek Claims.
Alfred B. lies, the mining engineer
in charge of the development of the
Alaska Copper Corporation properties
on Nugget creek, near the headwaters
of the Kuskalina river, leaves on the
Mariposa for Seattle to prepare for
the development of the company
claims this spring.
Mr. lies will meet Paul Dubois, the
consulting engineer of the company,
in Seattle and they will plan the
work for the coming season. It is
proposed to drive a 1,700 foot tun
nel from the creek bed to tap the
lead at a great depth. The company
already have four levels opened and
have several thousand tons of high
grade copper ore on the dump which
will be shipped out at a later date.
The company propose the building
of a spur from the Copper River and
Northwestern railroad to the mine and
also a tram to connect the workings
with the road. This, however, will
not be undertaken until next year and
in the meantime $175,000 will be spent
in development work.
The outfit for the work this season
will be shipped from Seattle early in
February and taken to the mine. The
men now on the property have started
the work of breaking the road from
the head of Nugget creek to Strelna
so that the outfit can be taken to the
mine.
ANOTHER STATE
JOINS THE DRYS
Alabama Legislature By Big Vote De
cides To End Booze Peddling
In the State.
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Jan. 15.—
State-wide prohibition passed the two
houses of the state legislature here
today by a large vote. So large is
the vote for a dry state that if the
governor should veto the bill the an
ti-saloon men have enough votes to
pass it immediately.
The law as passed will stop the sale
and manufacture of liquor in the state
■excepting ui|ler the most stringent
rules and then only to be used for
medicinal purposes. Saloons are not
to be allowed at all.
Ed. Wood, the freighter, returned
last night with his outfit, having de
livered sixty tons of freight to the
different telegraph stations between
Valdez and Tonsina. About fifteen
tons of freight was left at each sta
tion. The contract was completed in
a short time because of the fine trail.
Air. Wood used eleven head of stock
and pushed through as fast as possi
ble.
IMMIGRATION
TAKES BIG DROP
NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—Arrivals at
the port of New York were 733,504
persons in 1914 against 1,334,914 in
1913, according to the figures made
public yesterday by the Immigration
Commissioner. Among the arrivals in
1914 were 573,675 aliens against 1,
163,993 aliens in 1913. The aliens who
departed from this port in 1914 num
bered 418,886, against 381,068 in 1913.
The falling-off in immigration was
marked before the war started. June
shows the greatest drop of any month
of the year. In June of 1914 only 57,
139 aliens arrived against 136,690 dur
ing June of 1913. The causes of the
decrease, aside from the war are said
to be the curtailing of work in this
country and an effort on the part of
foreign governments, to restrict immi
gration by providing work at home
and bettering the condition of the
working classes.
OCEAN RATES
Costs $3.25 To Get 100 Pounds of Cot
ton From Galveston To Bremen
—May Go Higher.
GALVESTON, Jan. 15.—Increases tn
ocean freight rates for cotton from
Galveston to European ports since the
outbreak of the war range from 55
cents to $2.85 per hundred pounds.
Before the war rates to Liverpool,
Havfe and Bremen were approximate
ly 45 cents per hundred: to Barcelon
ia and Genoa 65 cents, and to Goth
enburg and other Scandinavian ports
50 to 65 cents. Present quotations to
these ports are: Liverpool, $1 per
hundred pounds; Havre, $1.20 to $1.«
25; Bremen, $3 to $3.25; Gothenburg,
$2.50; Barcelonia and Genoa, $1.25.
Scarcity of neutral tonnage is giv
en as the reason for the present high
rates to Bremen. The tariffs to Liv
erpool, Havre, Barcelonia and Genoa
are much lower than those to Brem
en is due to the ability of shippers
to obtain British ships.
CANUCKS ARREST
CARL MtCKENSER
VANCOUVER, B. C., Jan. 15.—
The authorities today arrested Carl
Mackensen, a nephew of Gen. Mack
ensen, the commander of one division
of German troops operating in Po
land, and will hold him a prisoner of
war until the end of hostilities.
MARIPOSA DUE
IT EARLY HOUR
•
The steamer Mariposa reached
Seward at 2:30 this afternoon and un
der the mail contract must remain in
the westward city for four hours,
leaving Seward at 6:30 and reaching
Valdez tomorrow morning at 4.
INCIEHT CRACOW
HEIRTOE POUND
Cracow, which the Russians are
trying so hard to take, is the ancient
capital of Poland, the city round
which cluster most of the glorious
memories of that lost but not for
gotten kingdom There for more than
four hundred years the kings of Po
land were crowned and buried, and
for more than three hundred years
it was their seat of government.
There lie buried Jan Sobieski, who
delivered Vienna—and thereby all
Europe—from the Turks: Poniatow
ski, the famous general who became
one of Napoleon’s marshals: Mickie
wicz, the poet of Poland, and Kosciu
sko, the patriot hero of the Poles.
The tombs of all four are in the
Stanislas Cathedral, a beautiful Goth
ic church built in 1359, that crowns
the Wavel, a rocky hill that rises on
the edge of the town. There are oth
er fine churches in the city, the Aug
ustinian and Dominician among them;
and there is also the great Royal
Castle, which was long the residence
of the kings of Poland, which fell to
the uses of a barracks after the king
dom was divided, and which has w’th
in the last 50 years been restored.
The city also contains a very fa
mous old university, which dates from
1364, and in age is second only to
Prague among the universities of Eu
rope. The intellectual and artistic
achievements of the Poles and the
Bohemians, attained six centuries and
more ago, show that the Slav is cap
able of the highest things. He is
weakest perhaps in the organization
of government, for Poland, long the
Bulwark of civilization against the
Tartar and the Turk, fell at last be
cause of the endless dissensions
among its brave and brilliant nobility.
Cracow itself was founded about
700 A. D. More than once it was
destroyed by the Tatars, rebuilt and.
recolonized by Polish, German, and
Bohemian settlers. From 1305 to
1610 it was the capital of Poland;
later it was part of the grand duchy
of Warsaw, and from 1815 to 1816
it was, with its immediate neighbor
hood, a free and neutral state, a dis
tinction it lost when internal disord
ers gave Austria an excuse to step
tP&Ca&foa,
PRODUCERS and CONSUMERS EXCHANGE—Valdez
• • . • 1 —~—:r."——ADAM SWAN, Manager.- -
Inventor*, Importer*, Manufacturer* and producers:—We handle gipds on
consignment and Cut-Out Go-Between Profits as direct Convey a 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
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 Chitina.
General Freighting. KNUTE! NAFSTED. Mar.
Chas. R. Crawford *•* s™* Pl»“ »
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, fairba&Ik "morse a co
in and take possession or the town.
One of the most interesting things
in Cracow is Kosciusko Hill, a mound
of earth on the top of the Borislava
hill. It is made up 'of handfuls of
earth brought by Poles from eve.'y
corner of the kingdom, and thrown to
gether to form, a memorial to the Po
lish patriot, composed of the soil of
the country he loved so well. Across
the River Vistula on Krakus Hill
there is a similar mound, which is
said to be almost twelve hundred
years old: it was, so tradition says,
raised in the same way to the mem
ory of Krakus, the Slavic prince who
founded the city.
If the war results in an autonom
ous or semi-autonomous kingdom of
Poland, Warsaw instead of Cracow
may be its capital, since it is more
centrally situated and much larger.
But to the patriotic Pole, Cracow is
always the spiritual centre of his
fatherland—the ‘‘heart of Poland.”
The Orpheum Tonight.
Orpheum program for tonight:
‘‘For Old Love’s Sake,” a beautiful
drama.
“A Tale of the West,” rollicking
western story.
“Chivalry Day3,” all children act
this 'melodrama.
Moose Dance.
The regular Saturday night dance
given by the Moose will be given at
Moose hall. Fine music and excel
lent lunch served at midnight.
Masonic Meeting.
A special meeting of the Masonic
Lodge will be held on Saturday night
at 8 o’clock. Work in the first degree.
■Visiting brothers welcome.
A. E. GRIGSBY, W. M.
Notice of Dissolution of Partnership.
The co-partnership heretofore ex
isting between Joe Plant and John
Fienbloom, known as Plant & Co.,
doing business In Valdez, Alaska, is
hereby dissolved. As all outstanding
obligations have been paid the firm
of Plant & Co. will assume no in
debtedness of any kind hereafter. All
unpaid accounts due the firm of
Plant & Co. are to be paid to John
Fienbloom, of Valdez, Alaska.
FElNBLObM & PLANT.
Valdez, Alaska, Jan. 11, 1915. klS
Only The Best
Smoker* Can Now Enjoy
the Beat
Juan De Faca Cigars
U. S. Government Impeded.
Made In Bond
Ingram & Bush
SOLE AGENTS '
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
OEORQ'E SEXTON. PROF.
S1RICTLY first class
Fourth Ave Seward, Alaska
A. M. Dierinfter
Valdez Transfer
Company
General Trucking and Freight
ing to all interior points
LIVERY and FEED STABLE
STORAGF
Teaming of all kindr
Positively no coal dcllveied
unless paid tor In advance
DONALDSON SCHEDULE.
- *
Leaves Fort Llsuum. Leaves Valdez
8:16 a. m. 9:45 * m.
1:15 p. m. 4:00 p. m.
TUESDAYS
8:14 a. m. 9:45 a. m.
1:15 p. m. 2:00 p. m.
4:30 p. m. 5:4)0 p. m.
SATURDAYS
1:15 p. m. 4:00 p. m.
7:00 p. m. 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.