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VALDEZ, ALASKA
“The House of Comfort”
pH0NE 7 H)R MEN ONLY
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
OBOHaS SEXTON, •'BOP;
S'lRICTLY FIRST CLASS ;
Fourth A-ye, Seward, Alaska J
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miner*
ROBERT SHAFFER. President.
Granite Mine.
CBAS. McCALLUM, Secretary,
Valdez Alaska.
TIDE TABLES MiR APRIL.
T.be following table is compiled for
ibigh and low tides in Valdez Bay.
Friday, April t.
Hich 2:24 am, 9.0; 3:87 pm, 6.5.
Low,9:17 am, >0.4; 8:05 pm, 3.3.
Saturday, April 8.
3 01 am, 8.5; 4:28 pm, 5.9.
K’/o oUm, 10, 9.31.pm, 3.8.
Sunday, April 9.
Hich 3:4.3 am, 7.8; 5': 41 pm, 5.5.
w 10:59 am, 1.6; 10:24 pm, 4.2.
f Monday, April 10.
High, 4:89 am, 7.12; 7:21 pm, 5.5.
Low/ 12:13 pm, 2.3
Tuesday, April 11.
High, 5:59 am, 6.8; 8:34 pm, o.6.
Low, 12:42 am, 4.3; 1:40 pm, 2.2.
Wednesday, April 12.
High, 7:35 am, 6.8; 9:18 pm, ^8.
Low, 1:46 am, 4.3; 2:43 •pm, -.0,
Thursday, April 13.
High, 7:48 am, 7.0; 9:50 pm, 7.3.
Low, 3:04 am. 3.5; 3:26 pm, 1.8.
Friday. April 14.
High, 9:46 am, 7.4; 10:20 pm, 8.0.
Low, 3:54 am, 2.6; 4:02 pm, 1.6.
Saturday, April 15.
High, 10:35 am, 7.8; 10:47 pm, 8.7.
Low. 4:34 am, 1.5; 4:33 pm, 1.5.
Sunday, a pm l
High, 11:17 am. 8.1: 11:1« P»- ®-4
Low, 5:09 am, 0.5; 5:05 pm, 1.5.
Monday, April 17.
High, 11:59 am, 8.2
Low, 5:46 am, 0.4; 5:3u pm, 1.6.
Tuesday, April 18.
High, 11:45 am, 10.0; 12:42 pm, 8.3.
Low, 6:25 am, 1.1; 6:14 pm, 1.7.
Wednesday, April 19.
High, 12:22 am, 10.4; 3:24 pm, 8.1.
Low, 7:05 am, 1.5; 6;,49 pm, -.0.
Thursday, April 20.
High, 12:58 am, 10.5; 2:19 pm, 7.7.
Low, 7:49 am, 1.3; 7:30 pm, 2.3.
Friday, April 21.
High, 1:36 am, 10.4; 3:00 pm, 7.3.
Low, 8:36 am, 1.3; 8:10 pm, 2.7.
Saturday, April 22.
High, 2:25 am, 10.1; 3:57 pm, 6.8.
Low, 9:29 am, 0.8; 9:13 pm, 3.2.
Sunday, April 23.
High, 3:17 am, 9.4; 5:06 pm, 6.5.
Low, 10:29 am, 0.2; 10:07 pm, 3.6.
Monday, April 24.
High. 4:23 am, 8.7; 6:26 pm, 6.6.
Low, 11:39 am, 0.4.
Tuesday, April 25.
High, 5:44 am, 8.0; 7:40 pm, 7.1.
Low, 11:35 am, 3.8; 12:55 pm, 0.8.
. Wednesday, April 26,
Hirli*!: 17 am, 7.6; 8:38 pm, 7.7.
Ldw,*:22 am, 3.4; 2:05 pm, 1.0.
Thursday, April 27.
High, 8:40 am, 7.6; 9:25 pm. 8.4.
Low, 2:47 am, 2.5; 3:00 pm, 1.2.
Friday, April 28.
High, 9:47 am, 7.7; 10:05 pm, 9.1.
Low, 3:46 am, 1.4; 3:47 pm, 1.3.
Saturday, April 29.
High, 10:42 am, 7.9; 10:40 pm, 9.6.
Low, 4:36 am, 0.5; 4:28 pm, 1.5.
Sunday, April SO.
High, 11:29 am. 8.0; 11:13 pm, 9.9.
Low, 5:18 am, 0.3; 5:04 pm, 1.7.
Weather Report.
Valdez, April 6, 1916.
Barometric pressure .29.480
Temperature 7 p. m.33
Maximum temperature .39
Minimum temperature .31
Mean temperature .35
■ Precipitation .26
Cloudy, wind northeast, 2 miles,
rained night and frequent light show
ers all day. 'f jf
Interior Weather. }
Valdez, Alaska, Apr. 7, 1916.
Fairbanks, 40; clear, calm.
Salcha, 47; partly cloudy, calm,
trail soft. '
Richardson, 40; part cloudy, win
• dy, trail bad.
McCarthy, 40; clear, windy.
Donnelly, 36; clear, windy, trail
soft.
Paxson, 30; calm, clear, trail soft.
Hogan, 40; calm, trail soft.
Gulkana, 35; clear, light southerly
Wind, trail bare.
Copper Center, 38; clear, calm,
il bare.
Tonsina, 35; cloudy, calm trail
bare. *■
Beaver Dam, 36; snowing, windy,
trail very soft. ,
The Queen Bee.
My wife is like the honey bee—
But while it gathers honey,
She cajoles me with honeyed words
And stings me for my money.
—Judge.
Tony Dahlstrom of the Gold King
mine, left this morning with two men
for Shoup. bay.
MEW STEAMER
BATES NORTH
ADVANCE IN FREIGHT SMALL
Passenijer Rates to Valdez Increased
Five Dollars on First-Class and
Two and <One-Ha!f tie liars on Sec
ond Class Fares—Freight $1 Ton.
_
In regard to the recently announc
ed raise in freight and passenger
rates by the companies operating
steamships between Seattle and Alas
kan ports, the Seattle Po'st-Intelligen
eer says:
Officials of the Alaska Steamship
Company, Pacific Alaska Navigation
Company and Border Line Transpor
tation Company Friday announced
that they would advance all freight
and passenger rates from Seattle to
ports in Southeastern Alaska follow
ing the lead of the Pacific Coast
Steamship Company, effective April 1.
Officials of the Alaska Steamship
Company and Pacific Alaska Naviga
tion Company also announced that
rates from Seattle ports in South
western Alaska and to Anchorage,
Cook inlet, will be advanced.
The freight rate from Seattle to
Prince William Sound and to Seward
will be advanced from $11 to $12 a
ton and from Seattle to Anchorage j
from $13 to $14 a ton.
With the wharfage rate of 50 cents
per ton in Seatue... the new freight
rates will be $12.50 Seattle to Cor
dova, Yaidez and Seward, and $14.50
from Seward to Anchorage, Cook in
let.
First cabin passenger fares from
Seattle to Cordova, Valdez and Sew
ard will be advanced from $45 to $50
and from Seattle to Anchorage from
*55 to $60. The steerage rate will be
advanced $2.50, Seattle to Cordova,
Valdez and Seward, and the Anchor
age steerage rate proportionately.
The new tariffs show an advance of
$2 a ton on general merchandise
from Seattle to all ports in South
eastern Alaska. The rate from Seat
tle to Ketchikan will be raised from
$3 to $5 a ton, Seattle to Juneau
from $4 to $6 a ton and Seattle to
Skagway from $5 to $7 a ton.
There are other rates lower and
higher than the general merchandise
rates, and they will be proportionate
ly increased. Some items in the tar
iffs, however, will not be raised at all.
It has been decided to hereafter in
clude in the rate the Seattle wharfage
charge for Alaska freight, which is
50 cents a ton. That is, to quote a
lump sum for wharfage and freight
on all Alaska shipments.
Cabin passenger fares wijl be ad
vanced $2 from Seattle to Ketchikan
and $3 from Seattle to Juneau and
Skagway.
Storage rates will be advanced $1
from Seattle to Ketchikan and $2
from Seattle to Ketchikan and Skag
way.
The cabin passenger fares from
Seattle to Ketchikan will be raised
from $22 to $24; Seattle to Juneau,
from $25 to $28, and Seattle to
Skagway, from $30 to $33.
Stop that Infernal Racket
Show your wife how much you
love her and send that noisy old
Ipump to the Valdez Iron Works and
let them remove the peace disturber,
your neighbors will appreciate it. tf
Grant Remington will leave tomor
row morning for Fidalgo bay, where
he will erect buildings for the Alaska
Mines Corporation.
THREE BITTERS
Rifum
mTLLOCH TAKES THE COURT
Umilga will be Stationed in Early
Rummer in Unimak Pass, and the
Manning will do Patrol Ruty in
Bering Sea
Bat three revenue cutters, or coast
guard ship^, will he stationed i in
Alaska waters during the coming
summer. These three are the Unalga,
the newest vessel of the fleet and
the Manning and McCulloch, veterans
in the service.
The cutter McCulloch is now at
San Francisco, and will sail from
that place about May 15, for Valdez,
and will take the Unliefi States (dis
trict court for the third division on
the long trip to the westward, as
for the past several years, and which
constitutes tvhat is known as the
floating court, as the vessel carries
a judge, d.— attorney, clerk, mar
shal and other officials necessary for
the holding of court at the various
stops from Valdez to Bristol bay, in
Bering £ea. The trip usually begins
early in July.
The Unalga will sail from Seattle
about April 20 for Unimak Pass,
where she will be ready to render any
necessary aid to the huge cannery
fleet bound for Bristol Bay and ad
jacent waters, which appears about
that time.
The Manning has been assigned
to patrol work in the Bering Sea. in
the vicinity of the seal islands, and
will sail from Astoria. Oregon, where
she is now. about May 1, for her
station.
Three new cutters have been au
thorized and the money appropriated
to build them, but they will not be
ready for service during the coming
summer.
ANCHORAGE TRAIL LIKE
VALDEZ TRAIL IN ’»8
The trails between Anchorage and
Seward are littered now with old
clothes, handbags and a thousand
and one odds and ends which are
vivid reminders of the fact that hun
dreds of men, who never before saw
Alaska and who had no idea of what
they were to meet in packing over
trail, have followed the railroad ex
citement. Benjamin L. Campbell, the
well known engineer of the Somnys
sion suggested this morning that
some second hand dealer might go
out and get a fine stock of goods.
The men from foreign countries who
come to work on the railroad carry
the most extraordinary loads out of
Seward and are forced to shed their
"valuables” as they go along in the
deep snow country.—Gateway.
FISH ASSOCIATION 18
ORGANIZED AT SEWARD
The Seward Fish Association is the
name of the organization which has
been formed in Seward and for jvhich
officers have been elected. Those
officers are John Noon, chairman, O.
G. van Pelt, vice-chairman, and Ward
James, secretary and treasurer.
Judge van Pelt will go back to Wash
ington soon and make an effort to
secure a lease and make the other
steps necessary. Afterwards the as
sociation will be incorporated and
those who have subscribed to the
fund before will receive promoters’
etoclj. It is hoped that success will be
attained to the extent of gettipg a
cold storage plant in this city.
,m ■
NEW CH1SANA GROUND
WORTH TWO DOLLARS
The strike made by Carl Whitman
on Gold Run, Chisana, has developed
into $2 ground, according to Lee
Green and Jack Sturgess who have
just arrived from that district. The
pay is found at a depth of twenty
feet and has a thickness of eighteen
inches. With the exception of this
strike conditions over there are not
very promising.—Gateway.
A Timely Rule.
Wife—Just look at that clock! You
got borne this morning after 3! and
n6w it Is again after midbigbit
Husband—Well, yoj know it is
igalbst my rule to come' borne twice
in the same day.—Philadelphia Record.
HIS LOST PRACTICE.
---- /
Trials of « Congressman id Taking Up
Hia Old Profession.
Ia the American Magazine Is an In
terview witb a member of tbe United
States bouse of representatives, who
tells of tbe almost impossible barriers
between bim and bis old profession,
tbe law.
“After I bad been in congress a cou
ple of terms I decided tbat I would be
happier and tbat my family would be
vastly better off if l were back borne
practicing my profession,” he said.
“So after tbe adjournment of congress
I set out to rebuild my neglected law
business, ►
•‘I was astounded at what a Job it
was. My practice was not merely
run down or temporarily absent It
was gone! Now. I bad not yet be
come a topnotcber In my profession
before going to congress. In order to
make a comfortable income I had not
been able to depend alone on the bet
ter grade of legal business, but was
obliged to do some of the more trivial
work, such as every young lawyer is
glad to get This class of business bad
gone from me in my absence, along
witb tbe rest And it did not come
back because of a reason tbat I bad
not thought of. During my terms in
congress I bad come to be looked upon
as an important figure in tbe commu
nity. and everybody regarded me as
above such things as performing legal
services of a trivial or minor charac
ter. Thus I did not get tbe small busi
ness, and the big business was being
taken care of by other lawyers who
had been constantly on the job.”
ANTIQUITY OF THE HARP.
The Instrument Was In Use In Egypt
3,000 Years Ago.
Tbe very first authentic record of
tbe barp, predating even tbe Greek
myth of Orpheus, altbougb it is very
bard indeed to assign dates to myths,
is obtained from tbe discovery of
Egyptian barps, not unlike tbe modern
in general design, bearing dates of
3,000 years ago, or 500 years before
Oraftine made bis harp of willow.
Old Irish chronicles are full of Inter
esting references to tbe harp and its
functions. Let us select tbe compara
tively modern date of 718 A. D.—mod
ern indeed when we consider Oraftine,
who was a contemporary of Sappho—
which contains these lines from a
poem describing the tragic death of
Curio MacDaire, king of West Munster
at tbe period of tbe Incarnation. They
are addressed to Ferceirtne, tbe king’s
chief minstrel:
Make amusement for us, O’Donnbo,
Because thou art the beat minstrel in
Erinn
At pipes or tubes, and at harps, and at
poems.
And at traditions, and at tbe royal stories
of Erinn.
This extract will serve to show tbe
versatility of the harper of the Mac
Daire. Be seems to have taken tbe
place which a whole opera company
fills at the present day, Including the
orcbestra and tbe composer *of the mu
sic and the writer of the libretto.—New
York Post.
The Spinning Mule.
Sambel Crompton, a boy of sixteen,
copied tbe best features of the spin
ning machine invented by Hargreaves
and Arkwright, added to them some of
his own and, after three months of
anxious and secret experimenting, pro
duced the first spinning mule, so called
because it was a kind of hybrid be
tween Hargreaves’ Jenny and Ark
wright’s water frame. The raw ap
prentice lad was, however, no match
in cunning for the cotton lords, who
soon found out tbe secret of his new
machine and shamelessly robbed him
of the fruits of his ingenuity. Many
years afterward, it is true, they used
their influence to secure for him a par
liament grant of £5.000, but he was
then a broken hearted and disappoint
ed man, to whom the money came too
late to be of any veal service.
Alprio the Goth.
Alaric, the first of the barbarian
kings who entered and sacked the
Eternal City and the first enemy who
had appeared before its wails since the
time of Hannibal, is said to have re
ceived as the price of his departure
from tbe city (during tbe first siege, in
A. D. 408) 5,000 pounds weight of gold.
3.000 pounds weight of silver, 3.000
silken robes, 3,000 pieces of scarlet
cloth and 4.000 pounds of pepper, in
order to furnish a portion of the raif
som demanded by the invader it be
came necessary to melt down some of
the statues of tbe ancient gods.
The Swish of the Rod.
A college president in an-address on
pedagogy said:
“And one of tbe ^aost remarkable
changes In the last thirty years of
teaching IB the abolition of corporal
punishment A boy of this generation
is never whipped. But boys of the
last generation must have believed
that their Instructors all bad for motto:
“ The swlsb is father to the
taught"* __
Caution.
He— Now tbit we are In this great
field alone wltb each other and nature,
let me tell yon a sweet secret Sbe
Let’s go out of this field Into the po
tato patch. You must remember that
though potatoes hare eyes, com has
ears.—Baltimore American.
Appropriate.
“Bo your manicurist has sued your
dentist for breach of promise?”
“Yes. and the case Is to be fought
tooth and nall.”-Boeton Transcript
Boatman, ask not what to do: pull
tbe oaf that’s nearest you.
CITY EXPRESS
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reach the boat on time—Let us do the < j
worrying. 1
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FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone 63 Chas. Fischer, Propr.
VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY j
Real Estate, Insurance, General Brokerage j
Absentees Business Properly Handled c
Treat Building, Alaska Ave. Telephone No. 60 jj
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
PLIMBING, STEAM AND HOT WATER HEATING,
Sheet Metal Work, Mine Air Pipe, Pipe and Fittings, Valves, Etc.
Motor Boat Supplies, Paints and Oils.
Located on Valdez Dock, Opposite Prospector Office. Phone 24
When You Leave
For the Outside
take the
“MILWAUKEE”
One'road—one management—one service all the*way
through to Chicago. It’s the Short Line to the East
over
THE NEW STEEL TRAIL
For information and literature write or ask
J. C. MARTIN, Agent, Valdez, Alaska.
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST, PAUL RY.
A. E. HARRIS, Freight and Passenger Agt,
Juneau, Alaska.
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
PUGET SOUND Mirai] PUGET SOUND
California une. Alaska
SAILINGS FROM SEATTLE, 11:00 A. M.—
Monday, Mar. 5, Admiral Farragut for Seldovla and Way Ports.
Wednesday, Mar. 15, Admiral Watson for Seward and Way Ports.
Sunday, March 19, Admiral Evans, for Kodiak and Way Ports.
Sunday, March 26, Admiral Farragut, for Seldovla and Way Ports.
Sunday, April 2, Admiral Watson, for Seldovla and Way Ports.
Sunday, April 9, Admiral Evans, for Kodiak and Way Ports.
Sunday, April 16, Admiral Farragut for Anchorage and Way Ports.
Sunday, April 23, Admiral Watson, for Anchorage and Way Ports.
Sunday, April SO, Admiral Evans, for Anchorage and Way Ports.
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to San Francisco every Wednesday and Sunday, conaeetlng with
Steamers Yale and Harvard tor Seathen California.
Right reserved to change schedule wlthoutnotlce
RICHARD J. RHGWOODi Mgr* Seattle) VALDEZ DOCK CO* Local Agt.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
8. 8. ALAMEDA AND 8. 8. NORTHWESTERN SAIL FROM SE
ATTLE THE lOTH, 30TH AND 80TH.
EVERY MONTH
FROM VALDEZ SOUTH—8TH, 18TH, SWTH, FOB CORDOVA,
JUNEAU, WRANGEL, KETCHIKAN AND SEATTLE.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, mancell. Juneau, Sheep
Creek. Treadwell Dougina Skagway. Cordova. Bllamar, Valdes and La
touche. Explosives, AS. Bewart on the 6th; Latoucha on the 15th; A A
Cordova, 26th jof each month—right reserved to change tbla schedule
without notice
W. B. TRACT, Oea’l Agent VALDB* DOCK CO, l eeel Agent.