/J\ UT of town visitors are cordially
7 invited to make this store your
Headquarters. You’ll find the
best of everything in Groceries, Hard
ware, Men’s Clothing, Furnishings and
Dry Goods.
Valdez Mercantile Co.
MERCHANT’S CAFE
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone 63 Chas. Fischer, Propr.
UPPER T0NS1NA ROAD HOUSE
Best of Meals—Prices Reasonable
GENERAL STORE. - TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chitina.
General Freighting. KNUTE NAFSTED. Mgr.
When in Chitina Stop at the
/GHITINA HOTEL
> Finest Hotel in tie Interior—Well Heated, Clean Rooms.
Bar in Connection. _Rates Reasonable
DISTRICT COURT -
OPENS FALL TERM
Grand Jury Sworn In and Ed Wood
Made Foreman—Jury Filled
By Special Venire.
The Fall term of the district court
was opened this morning by Judge
Brown. The full number of grand
jurors having failed to appear be
cause many had left the country and
others w re not served as the mar
shal’s office could not locate them.
The judt'o issued an order to fill the
Jury and 15 jurors were called. The
ptit jury will report tomorrow.
The court heard several arguments
this morning and at the afternoon
session and also charged the jury
upon their duty.
The following citizens were sub
poenaed: Bert Skinner, Ed Wood,
Williatfe I^nical, W. W. Goodwin, W.
W. CudJjf C. Golden, Geo. Robbins,
A. W. Swallow, Russel Herman, Dr.
Cockeri''e, Charles Wilcox, Joe
Kahr, Harry Allen.
Those irawn and reporting were
Owen M. als, Walter Elliott, Mike
Barrett, N. J. Date, J. P. Emmet, W.
Elliott, Otto Lebed, L. Martin, Ed
Welsh.
SALMON PASTE.
A new departure for the Alaska
Packers Association is the packing of
a specialty under the name of Arctic
Salmon Paste, which has of late
been gaining the attention of the
trade, and, through the demonstra
tion conducted in the Food Prducts
building at the^ Panama Pacific In
ternational Exposition, has rapidly
gained in popularity among consum
ers. This article, which is intended
for use in sandwiches, for picnics,
luncheons, and the like, is a result
of a long series of experiments by
the association, which was unwilling
to place an article of this kind on
the market until assured that the
product was right in every way.—Ex.
A term of the district court will be
held in Seward late in October.
BEST PLAGE TO EAT
MRS. ST. MARIE’S
Moved to Shephard Building,
next Bfnohoe .& Dimond office.
!7 a m to B a m
Lunch II n to I p n
6 to 7 p m
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OPEN unto. b:p. m.
We Grew Onr Own Vegetable*
Pifrrwnp twblee
J*ck CMn "»£ ' ‘ P^^totor
TUETONS TURNING
AGAINST FRENCH
Heavy Artillery and Many Field Bat
teries Transferred From Po
land to France.
PARIS. Sept. 14 —The Germans
are transferring a large number of
siege guns and scores of field batter
ies from Poland to France. More
than one 'thousand guns are reported
to have been brought back for the
attacks upon the Allies. The reports
reaching here from many sources in
dicate that, the attention of the Kai
ser’s general staff will be turned to
wards the French and’ English at
once.
The army is ready. The trench
lines have been strongly built and
are prepared for the attacks. The
Germans can make no gains except
at a loss of life that would put the
Teuton forces out of the running. So
heavy is (he cost of life in attacking
the fortified line of trenches that the
Allies are loath to start the offensive
campaign and would much prefer the
enemy to take the offensive and suf
fer the bulk of the losses.
Musical Note.
He—Why do you think I’m such an
honest man?
She—Oh, George, you like the same
music at home you say you like when
we’re giving a musical evening!—Cin
cinnati Commercial Tribune.
Good Prospoets.
Mr. Gottlt—Why don't you give that
young Noscads the gate? He hasn’t
got a dollar to his name.
His Daughter—But, father, he’s am
bitious and bound to have twice as
much before long.—Boston Globe.
Headless safety matches are a
Danish nove: ty, one end of each stick
being soaked in a chemical solution
».d.
TURKISH SPY SYSTEM.
It Not Only Keeps Tab Upon Strangers,
but Spies Upon Itself.
Turkey boasts of more spies to the
square mile than any other country,
as any one who has been to Turkey
will agree.
The peculiar thing about these spies
Is that they themselves cannot be
trusted, so that a regular cbnln of
spies Is the result. There are spies to
spy upon the spies.
The government officials have their
own spies to wutch other people, but
even the great authorities themselves
are already being spied upon.
What Is more, the method of spying
Is quite open, for the spies will stand
by wherever two or three foreigners
are gathered together and listen to the
conversation. Visitors to Turkey natu
rally get worried over such attentions,
especially when it might be their bad
luck to be followed about for weeks or
months.
It is the “uninitiated” visitor who
usually reoelves the most attention,
since he or she will carry on conver
sation In a quiet undertone. The per
son who knows Turkey converses In a
loud tone for all and sundry—the spies
especially—to hear that he Is only en
gaged In pleasure or legitimate busi
ness, and the wise man leaves the topic
of politics severely alone. — London
Answers.
CAPTURING A MODEL.
A Complexion That Delacroix Could
Not Let Escape.
Delacroix, the painter, was walking
out one day In Paris with a friend of
his when he fell Into a brown study.
“What is up with you now?” said the
friend.
“I can’t get a certain shade of yel
low,” replied the artist
“What sort of yellow?”
Just then a cab drove past
“The very thing!” the painter gasped
out. “Stop, stop!”
“I am engaged,” the cabby replied
without stopping.
Delacroix started In pursuit and at a
steep place in the Rue des Martyrs
overtook the cab. Opening the door,
he said In tones of entreaty to the pas
senger Inside:
“Do please tell your driver to stop.
I want your complexion for a painting
on which I am at work. There is a
color merchant close at hand. I shall
not detain you nbove five minutes, and
in acknowledgment of the service you
render me I will present you with a
sketch of my picture.”
The bargain was struck. Delacroix
got his yellow, and a few months later
the “fare” received a sketch of his
“Assassination of the Archbishop of
Liege."
The People of China.
There are about sixty different peo
ples, or tribes, which go to make up
the population of China. Practically
nine-tenths of the population is to be
found in China proper, the great ma
jority being of the Chinese race. With
the exception of a few Iranians and a
few people of the hill tribes, all of the
Chinese population belongs, physically,
to various branches of the great Mon
gol-Tartar family. The government of
the republic recognized five principal
races when designing the new flag,
which replaces the yellow dragon of
the old national ensign with five stripes
—crimson, yellow, white, blue and
black—symbolical of the five races com
prised in the Chinese people, Mongol,
Chinese. Manchu. Mohammedan and
Tibetan.
History.
History is a voice forever sounding
across the centuries the laws of right
and wrong. Opinions alter, manners
change, creeds rise and fall, but the
moral law is written on the tablets of
eternity. For every false word or un
righteous deed, for cruelty and oppres
sion, for lust or vanity, the price has
to be paid at last—not always by the
chief offenders, but paid by some one.
Justice and truth alone endure and
live. Injustice and falsehood may be
long lived, but doomsday comes at last
to them in French revolutions and
other terrible ways.—James Anthony
Froude.
Soldiers and Mustaches.
The suggestion that soldiers should
be clgan shaven would not have com
mended itself to Victor Emmanuel n..
who held it incumbent on a soldier to
look ferocious. One of his first acts
In assuming the royal dignity after the
battle of Novara was to change what
he called his “milksop’s appearance"
by applying black dye to his hair and
mustdche. which were naturally fair.
This he continued to use until his
death, always applying the dye him
self, for he hated barbers or valets to
come near him.—London Chronicle.
Selecting a Vest.
“Haven’t you any larger checks?’
“No," said the tailor. “These are the
largest I have."
“T fear you have not a very extensive
line of cloth.”
“These are about as large as checks
come In cloth. I might possibly make
you up a vest out of linoleum.”—Louis
ville Courier-Journal.
A Perfect Clnoh.
“What a very fortunate woman Mrs.
Tipper is I Her husband never spares
expense In gratifying her every wish.”
“Is he so very rich?”
“No, but Mrs. Tipper is one of those
enviable people who can have hysterics
at will.”—Pittsburgh Press.
Whiohf
When a man insists on classifying
all women, as fools the evidence is
weighty that either he or his wife
married one.—Washington Post.
FARM BOYS IN BASEBALL
Manager* Think They Outcla** the
City Bred Youngsters,
"The other clay I inquired of a major
league manager whnt class of young
men he wanted for hls team,’- writes
Hugh S. Fullerton In Farm and Fire
side.
“ ‘Give me the farmer,’ he replied in
stantly. ‘The c hances for hls falling
victim to the temptations of baseball
are fewer. He may not be as well
posted as to city ways, but In one sen
son you cannot tell the difference.
They come larger, stronger, live clean
er and think more clearly than city
boys do. Besides, the majority of them
have the right Idea In view. They
want to get money to buy a farm.
“ ‘Twenty, yes, ten years ago the ma
jor league baseball teams were recruit
ed almost entirely from the larger
cities. Cincinnati ied in production for
years, then Boston, then St. Louis.
A dozen years ago 50 per cent of the
major league players hailed from New
England and from the Atlantic states.
Now more than CO per cent of all
major league players come from farms
or from small villages, and the farms
produce a greater number of good
players than come from any other
place.
“ ‘Rube Waddell, Rube Marquard,
Rube Ellis, Rube Benton—a score of
rubes have shows In major league
baseball, and their nickname once was
one of ridicule. Not now. Managers
of major league baseball teams are
looking for rubes, and when they say
Rube they mean, not the uncouth or
the awkward recruit, bnt the clean
cut, clean living boy from the farm.’"
WHERE THE MAIDS WOO.
Capturing a Husband In India la an
Ordeal at Times.
It would be a great mistake to
lmngine that there are no countries
where the bashful bachelor does not
have to wait and be wooed.
Is the Torres Straits islands, for in
stance, it is the height of bad form for
a young mau to make the first ad
vances in wooing. Even after the pre
liminary steps, which consist of the
exchange of bracelets, everything is
not plain sailing. A girl sends a mes
sage to a young man to meet her, and
If all goes well she urges him to name
the day. When matters have gone as
far as this it is no longer necessary
for him to play the part of the modest
violet, and he replies, “Tomorrow, if
you wish." Then they go home and
tell their relatives, who promptly cele
brate the occasion by a general melee.
Among some of the rude tribes of
India the woman’s courtship is a less
agreeable experience. If the man of
her choice does not respond she takes a
jar of rice beer and sits down in his
house. The women of the family know
what the rice begr means, and if they
do not want the marriage to "come
off” they are allowed to use any means
short of personal violence to eject the
fair wooer from their doors. They may
put pepper in the tire, drench her with
water, or load her with opprobious
epithets, but to gnin the man of her
choice the lady has only to hold out
for some tWo or three hours and the
bridegroom is hers. — Detroit Free
Press.
Power of Lyddite.
Lyddite is a very stable compound.
It can be hammered or burned in the
open without danger, and it requires a
fulminate or more powerful explosive
to set it off. Lead picrate is the usual
agent employed. But here is an odd
point about lyddite—it must not be left
in contact with iron or steel. If this is
done the picric acid combines with iron
rust to form a very dangerous com
pound. Consequently all shells used to
contain lyddite are first carefully tin
ned on the inside. Lyddite is six times
more powerful in its action than nitro
glycerin, and nitroglycerin in its turn is
eight times more powerful than the
same weight of the old fashioned black
gunpowder.—London Answers.
In Future*.
The Studio Club of New York Is a
home for young women—naturally slh
gle young women chiefly. Not long
ago the girls were assembled In the
hall to hear a lecture. A young ma
tron, a member of the board, rose to
make some announcements.
“Next Tuesday,” she said, “Mrs.
Blank will talk to you here on the sub
ject of ‘Marriage.’ Those of you who
heard her last year will remember how
helpful her talk was.”—New York Post
Genius a* They See It.
“I have known several poets who re
alized that genius really means hard
work,” says the hard times philoso
pher, “but you can’t get the big ma
jority to test it by plowing their way
over a twenty acre field. They would
sooner see an umpire knocked out
with a baseball bat than bruise the in
nocent breast of a field flower with a
cold, unfeeling plowshare.*— Atlanta
Constitution.
Th# Witoh’* Track.
At Peel, In the Isle of Man, it Is re
lated that a witch said once the her
ring fleet would not return. Every ship
was lost, and she was rolled down the
hill In a barrel set with spikes. The
grass has never grown since In the bar
rel’s track.
Th* Hint Qantl*.
She—I wonder what makes the baby
so wakeful? He-Heredity. That’s
what comes of you sitting up at night
waiting for me to get home.—Phila
delphia Ledger.
Kindness has converted more sinners
than zeal, eloquence or learning.—F.
W. Faber.
To-Night To-Night
LIBERTY THEATRE
“ONE IN A MILLION”
Greatest War Lesson Ever Produced.
Pictures Taken in 1915
Admission, 25c Children, 10c.
CITY EXPRESS
MEETS AIX BOATS AND NEVER MISSES \ TRAIN
Auto for Hire l»ay or Night.
Buy and Sell Anything.
Phone 82 •>. A. SPENARI), Prop.
Mead’s Sheet Metal|Works
' PLIMBING, STEAM AND HOT WATER HEATING,
Slieet Metal Work, Metallic Roofing, Mine Air Pipe, Pipe ami Fit
tings, Valves, Etc. Motor Boat Supplies.
Located on Broadway VALDEZ, ALASKA
Independent Laundry Co.
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Telephone 66
Foot Keystone Ave
Kouffh Dry lCc lb
VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Doing Business As Usual
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
S. S. Mariposa, S. S. Alameda and S. S. Northwestern
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 La
touche. Explosives, S. S. Seward, on the 5th; Latouche, on the 16th; S. S.
Cordova, 26th of each month—right reserved to change this schedule
without notice.
p, B. TRACY, Gen’l Agent VALDEZ DOCK CO., Local Agent.
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
PUGET SOUND
California
Admiral
Line
PUGET SOUND
Alaska
ALASKA
Steamers sail from Seattle at 9 P. M. on
5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH
Steamer Sailing 15th calls lllamna and Kodiak—All Sailing call at Kalk
aad Anchorage.
CALIFORNIA
■ft *■ ■ y
Seattle to Saa Francisco every Wednesday aad Saaday, connecting with
Steamers Yale and Harvard lor Southern California.
Right reserved to change schedule without notice
RICHARD J. R1NUWOOD, Mgr., Seattle I VAUJK* DOCK CO, Local Agt.