JAMES EISH & Co.
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Shaving Sets, Manicure Sets, Toilet Cases, Clove Boxes,
Cuff Boxes, Collar Boxes, Handkerchief Boxes, Jewel
Cases, Work Boxes, Photo Cases, Alliums, Smokers’
Sets, Traveling Cases. Atomizers, Fine Stationery, and
dozens of other neat and appropriate articles for
Holiday Presents
Call in and examine them at
THE VALDEZ PHARMACY
City Market
NEXT TO MERCHANT’S CAKE.
Wholesale and Retail balers in
Beef, Mutton, Pork and Poultry
Our Prices arc RIGHT. Give us a call.
ST. ELIAS RESTAURANT,
ONLY FIRST-CLASS RESTAURANT
IN VALDEZ.
Merchant’s Lunch, 12 to 1, 35 c Sunday Dinner 75c.
Dinnners 5:30 to 8 p.m., 50c.
Merry Christmas
v\\\l//X
and
£ A Happy /New year.
With Many Returns.
W. C. STULL,
Optician, Jeweler and Watchmaker.
Mew Peninsula Precinct.
An order lias just been made by
Judge Wickcrshum creating a new
recording district to lie known as
the Peninsula Precinet anti has
a]»|Nilnted David (i, Barstow as
United States Commissioner.
The residence of the new com
missioner is at Haiden Bay and
will be maintained at Mine Har
bor.
The new commissioner will act
as Commissioner, Probate Judge
and Recorder.
The creation of the new precinct
and ap]N>intment of the commis
sioner is made at the request of the
citizens of the precinct and will
meet with the approval of the resi
dents and mine owners of that por
tion of Alaska.
The description of the boundar
ies of tin- new district is contained
in the Court’s order which makes
them as follows:
“Beginning at Isanotski, or False
pass and including the Sannuk
Islands and then extending easter
ly and including the Shumagin
Islands and thence northerly to
Cape Kuulim, on the north side of
Chignik Bay and thence north to
Cape Kuiulik, so as to include
Kumlik Bay in the Peninsula pre
cinct, thence northwesterly across
the mainland of the Aluskan (ten
insula to the great cape or head
land on the north of Port Haiden
Bay and thence southwesterly along
the uorth coast of the Aluskan
peninsula and including all the
islauds adjacent to the coast, to
Isanotski or False Pass Peninsula
Precinct.”
Unimak island and all of the
Alieutiun islands west of False
pass are to lie included in Unulas
ka precinet.
f3<>o.ooo For Surveys.
Representative Jones has intro
duced u hill in congress appropriat
ing 9300,000 for surveys in Alaska.
The bill should pass and liberal
regulations made for the surveying
of our lands.
HARDWARE
We will close out our hard
ware stock, and will make prices to
suit.
HARDWARE
CITY.
iQiveii a _ Reception
By the Fraternal Order* Clnb on
Behalf of the Citisena
of Town.
Hon. .Inincs Wiekorshnm, Judge
of tin1 I*. S. Disiriet Court for this
district, arrived here on the Nome
City lust Sunday night. His ar
: rival was somewhat of a surprise
; to his friends as he was not ex
pected for several weeks yet.
The J udge is a young man nlmnt
' forty five years of age and is an
aide jurist and comes with a repu
tation of honesty and integrity.
He is in love with Alaska and has
great hopes of its future importance
and development. The Judge and
Mr. \\\ H. Whittle*'* V on lx'lisiIf iif |
tile Fraternal (.'luh welcomed .ludjrc
Wiekersliatn. In his excellent ml
j dress he reviewed the early history
j nf Alaska and presented many fuels
I that were new to many.
Juiljte <imidelI in an eloquent
and witty address weieinneil .lud<;o
i \\ iekersham on lielialf of the citi
zens of Valdez. His speech was
full of hriftlit and witty remarks
I and lie was often interrupted hy
loud applause and laughter.
Juiljse VViekersham res|Hindeil to
all in a masterly address, which!
won tin* hearts of his hearers. I
Many had wondered "what man- !
tier of man” this was that had
liecii sent to administer justice to j
our |ieoplc, hut after his cloqucn !
speech on this iya-asion, thev an i
eonvineed that we have a kino !
friend, a progressive citizen. :. j
hroad minded man and an ahlt
and just jiiri-t in .Inline Wicker
sham. Those who had any douht- 1
as to what the Juiljje thought oil
V alilez as the headquarters of tin
court and as the eominj'metropolis
of Alaska, had these all icluovcd
as he s|mke in very itlnwin*: terms
JI'IMSK JAMKS WU'KKKSIIAM.
other court officials will s|K*ml most
of their time here and tins will U*
the real headquarters of the court.
On February 2nd the first regu
lar term of court will lie lp*ld in
Valdez, when a grand and trial jury
will Ik* impaneled.
In March .Judge Wickersham and
Clerk Heilig will leave for Kaglc
in the Forty Mile country, over the
all American trail and will later
go down the Yukon, holding court
at various points, returning to Val
dez via St. Michael, Uualaska, Ko
diak and Cooks Inlet.
Mrs. Wickersham is now in Ari
zona where she has gone for the
benefit of her health.
The 1*kosi*kctok desires to extend
a hearty welcome to Judge Wick
ersham.
line ot the largest attended and
most enjoyable receptions of tln
season was that tendered Hon.
James Wiekersham, Judge of the
U. S. District, hv the Fraternal
Club association at the Moose Hall
hist Tuesday evening. The club
extended a general invitation to
the public to In* present and meet
Judge Wiekersham and early in
the evening the hall was crowded
with the representative jieoplc of
Valdex and vicinity.
A. K. Heilig, President of the
Fraternal Association acted as
chairman and in his happy man
ner spoke of the organization of the
club, the occasion for the present
meeting and referred to the fact that
Judge Harlan and himself had
l»een comi>clled to lie here on forty
days probation la-fore they were
given a reception. Judge Wicker
sham haul been here hardly that
numlier of hours and should feel
congratulated that he had been re
ceived without proliation.
of Valdez and tributary country as
the richest anil l»cst portion of
Alaska. He said that while Eagle
was the legal headquarters of the
district. Valdez, to all intents and
purjsises would lie the real head
quarters. That a court house would
Ik* built here and that the officials
would spend most of their time at
this place. For the convenience
of the ]ieople there will lie two
headquarters, one here and the
other at Eagle.
Bill For Ocean Cable.
It isprolinhle that a bill will Ik
introduced in the present congress
to run an ocean cable from Seattle
to Juneau and this place. Tin
matter has been recommended
several tidies and is now urged by
Secretary Root for military pur
jkiscs.
Governor Jrk. H. Ross was elec
ted to the Dominion Parliament at
the Dawson election on the 10th
inst. He defeated J. A. C'lark by
ovar 500 votes.
Choice Yakima Burbank imtatoes
at City Market, next to Merchants
Cafe.
D. C. Brownell,
HARDWARE,
Paints, Oils and Glass.
RICK QUADTZ
■ i ■ ■
FOUND IN FORTY-MIUE DIS
TRICT.
Richest Quartz Ever Found In
Alaska is Uncovered In
Interior
A letter received liv Mr. Heilig,
| 'lerk of the l’. S. Court from S. M.
Draff, Commissioner of Forty Mile
District, contains the following'
! statement:
• IVolialilv you will have heard
Indore this of the late <|iiartz strike
on. or rather in. thcChickcn creek
locality. I util a day or two a^o I
"as inclined to he a little skeptical,
'•ut from what I have now seen,
earned and heard,, I am convinced
hat the strike is not only Imnit
:idc hut richer hy far than
] mythinj' that has vet lieen dis
] overeil in Alaska of its kind.
I In* strike was first r<*|M»rtnl here
lUiut three weeks ago and was to
la* effect that i|uart/. had lieen
•Turk on the divide lietween Chick
n and Lost Chicken creeks and
hat the rock was very rich. latter
ievelojniients prove this. Over an
•rea of almut fifteen miles hv four
uiles, as evidenced hv a large
'limiter o! holes. lltt-r, i- i
t ‘‘“I’ of i|tiartz that will go from
vc thousand to one hundred thoii
an»l dollars per ton. These fig
res 1 know are startling hut the
ight of the rock dis|N-ls ail douht.
It, or rather some of it. is more
than half gold. Of course this lo
cality has gone crazy and a I rend v
the vanguard of the stamjiedcra
roni Dawson are arriving. There
• no powder here so we know
••thing as to the depth of the de
i«wit hut if it is hut a few feet deep
i is marvelously rich. 1 will try
and get a sampie or two and send
you them. It looks very much as
it within the next twelve months
■ Imre would he in the ncighl>orhnod
•f Chicken Creek, a town of from
•lie to two thousand people, in
which event that would l»e the
place for this office. It is yet too
arlv to judge of that hut later I
viH write Judge Wiekersham and
all his attention to conditions hero
is they then will lie.”
Lacy Bill Passed.
Washington, Dec. titli.—The
House to-day passed the Lacy hill
which permits settlers in Alaska to
ake up ;{J0 acres instead oi SO as
heretofore. This hill was passed
oil the sixth day of the session and
friends of Alaska lielicve that much
needed legislation for the District
will Ik* passed at this session.
The land laws are to he further
amended so as to meet the needs
of the District. The House Com
mittee has practically agreed ujkmi
ilu* following amendments to the
present laws:
rirst -Authority by which set*
'era may stake off .>21) acres of ag
ricultural land and secure title
after five years without waiting for
government survey.
Second-—Immediate rcjieal of
townsite laws, ami substitution of
such provisions as will enable jier
sons to secure quick title to town
site.
Third— A revision of the min
ing laws esjiecially to prevent lo
ci lions of claims by power of at
torney.
The projiosition to allow settlers
to stake off homesteads stipulates
that the land in question shall lie
marked off in rectangular form
with lammlary lines running us
nearly as jmssihle north and south
and east and west.