VALDEZ
The heart of
the gold belt
The most northerly port
In the world open to nav
igation the year ’round.
The logical entrepot to .
the great interior of
Alaska; the salt water
terminus of the gov
ernment wagon road lead
ing into the Tanana val
ley and the Yukon water
shed.
The seat of government
of the Third Judicial di
vision of Alaska.
The headquarters of the
Alaska Road Commission,
of the Telegraph and Ca
ble systems.
It is 85 miles nearer the
Interior than any other
coast city.
It is the headquarters
of the largest fleet of
small craft in Southwest
ern Alaska.
It has the largest popu
lation of any community
in Southwestern Alaska.
It has the best public
schools and an accredited
high school with a four
year course.
It is the only sea coast
town offering direct com
munication with the in
terior by wagon, summer
or winter.
Valdez offers the near
est and most direct route
to the Matanuska coal
fields.
Its harbor is the most
easily defended on the Pa
cific coast and can ride
the navies of the world.
\jo to the
.ARCADE
for quick, clean service.
RAKFRY ,N CONNECTION
1 EVERYTHING good
JACK CALLIN & CO.
Going out? I .
Coming in? \ Stop at
HOTEL HOLMAN
RINGWALD BLIX, Proprietor,
COPPER CENTER ALASKA.
First class accommodations guaranteed
The best is nothing too good for my guests.
LAUNCH VIKING
Leave* from Valdez dock for
SHOUP BAY
and way point* at 10 a. m. Daily
W. J. CALLAGHAN.
B. PINDER, C. I. M. E.
Assayer, Mining Engineer
Send samples hy Mall
Qualitative Analysis or Express with charges
Checks made on Smelter Pulp
Cold & Silver. $1.50: Cold. Silver&Copper#:i,etc
Second and^Franklyn Sts. JUNEAU, ALASKA
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE SEXTON, PROP.
SiRICTLY FIRST CL^SS, ,'
Fourth Avc Scward, AlaWKA
Launches and Lighters
For Hale, Rent or Charter
' • ■ 1 ; ' *' .
, ■ Weekly service to Ellamar
Landlock and Fidalgo . „
CHpt.’D.jK. MbRRIS. City booU*
.: _
Dues your watch need repair
ing? See Reinke, the watch doc
tor.
It is worth while taking a
chance on the $800 diamond ring
being raffled at Plant ■& Com
pany’s, jewelers.
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For Sale Cheap.
Twenty-eight foot Racine mo
lor boat hull. Inquire of E. P.
Cashman. j
HUERTA HIS
BEEHRECOGKIZED
Mexico iUty, May 19.—The Hu
erta government has been recog
nized by the Russians .and the Ja
panese and the hope is expressed
herd that the United States gov
] eminent will follow suit.
England, franco and (termany
have already recognized the new
government.
STRIKERS WlfT
JJUFFALO
Hull'alo, N. Y., May 19.—The
strike of the department store
workers was settled today when
the stores granted the increase
demanded by the workers. The
minimum wage for women will be
$0 and for men $12, with eight
and a half hours constituting a
working day.
/-INE BETWEEN LIFE AND
DEATH NOT UNDERSTOOD
A dispatch from Paris, printed
not long ago, told of I lie wonder
ful feat of a professional swim
mer who remained under water
no less than live minutes and “(i
seconds, in I he meanwhile swim
ming thirty yards, though totally
immersed all the lime and unable
to lake any. fresh air into his
lungs. If he had remained under
water a few seconds longer, no
doubt be would have been drown
ed. A drowned man, as far as we
can see. and as far as he is per
sonally concerned, is a dead man;
and yet there is little ipieslron
that, if this swimmer had thus
pel-ished, lie could by modern
methods have been revived, and
would thus apparently have been
brought back from death to life.
Many drowned persons have thus
been restored after all conscious
ness had departed from them.
hTe explanation usually given,
says (iarrett I*. Scrviss, is that in
such cases it is not real death,
liuf “suspended animation." with
which we are dealing. The bodily
machine has slopped like an en
gine “stuck on the cetiler" and
by clearing the obstructed pass
age, imparling arfilicial move
ment In the muscles of the chest
and introducing air into the lungs
(lie machinery is sel going again.
The heart resumes its beating and
the man recovers consciousness
as llie ..I begins once more to
How through his arteries.
And yet the fact remains that,
ys far as we can determine, sus
pended animation, for the victim
bimse'lf. is eipiivabml to death,
and if it is allowed to pass into
what we call real death there is
inolhiiig in his experience to in-/
idicale any further change. As a
I personality lie suffered death
iwhen his consciousness departed.
, A kind of separated “life” re
| mains for a lime in the differ
tcnl organs of the body, but it is
juot the thing which we, as con
j scions beings, know as life.
I J IMMV HIT Ml HIT ill w II n il
“apparent ilontli"—tlial is death
as far as I lie1 individual’s consci
ousness is concerned—may lie
produced. II sometimes happens,
for instance, in various forms of
trance. In perfect sleep, unac
companied by dreams, the con
sciousness is completely arrest
ed'. If the sleeper should or could
remain in that state for a thou
| sand or a million years, it would
I lie all the same to him.' Yet in
■sleep the appearance of death is
! not produced for those' who look
upon I tie sleeper. They see that
he continues to breathe and his
heart goes on beating, while the
circulation of the blood, though
it may tie changed hr slowed down
\ is not, arrested. Somelhng occurs
I that cuts oil' the connections of
S the nervous system, or the brain,
jam] consciousness departs.
I When the man is profoundly
asleep or in a stale of suspended
aiihi.intion; as in drowning, are
life parts of his body which still
retain a kind -of life separately
eeonsjoifs of that life/? We have
no rdason'.Xo^ suppose, that they
are, hut, ;on the oth.eiV hand, we
have 110 ' means'of proving t hat
fhey-iire .not. If sucji.'.eonseioiis
ness exisis. it ha,s;,no apparent re
laxation to the eiinseipusjfltj;ss^, «X
the whole individual, which as
sures him that he is living. He
has that, consciousness only when
his entire system is working to
gether, and in such a way as to
stimulate the activity of his brain.
Some very interesting experi
ments have been tried, recently
with suspended animation. At
Moscow, Professor Bakhmetieff
played boldly with the life of
many animals and insects by
freezing them.
Butterflies thus frozen, so that
all their bodily fluids were turn
ed to ice, and all their vital ac
tions ceased could be restored to
life at any time, provided that the
general bodily temperature was
not reduced below ten degrees
Centigrade. This was managed
by varying the temperature of the
air in which they were kept. Hats
thus refrigerated were kept in a
state of apparent death for weeks
together and then completely re
stored In activity,
i il is well known that lower
forms nf life, like bacteria, may
lie subjected to Iemperalures ap
proaching that uf lijuid air and
then, after a long interval, he
brought hack to active life. Some
speculative minds have suggested
that life may originally have been
brought lo the earth by spores
and germs driven ofT from some
dislant planets—perhaps distant
stars—and, after remaining in a
slate of “suspended animation'
for thousands of years, amid 1 no
awful cold of open space, have
been restored to activity upon en
countering our planet. The cel
ebrated Arrhenius has maintain
ed that in this way “a mighty
stream of life is kept circling in
space from world to world.”
Seeds that have been kept froz
en. for months in liipiid air have
been I hawed out and planted,
thereupon they, germinated a lid
grew iiiln plants as if nothing dx
l.ryordinary had happened In
I lieiu.
Let IIS I'd Ill'll lor a llinmclll ||>
11 ho phenomena of sleep. Hiber
nating animals, which pass the
winlc’c innlei' ground, apparently
lack persnnal cimscimisness for
mouths al a lime. Willi some of
then’ I heir “sleep" has been ar
tificially prolonged for two years,
without affecting their activity
when they were brought hack to
conscious!) ess.
The toad is an animal famous
for its tenacity of life, and many
stories have been printed of its
alleged ability to pass hundreds
of years inclosed in tree trunks,
and even in rocks, without food
or air. Naturalists and biologists
are disposed to question these ac
counts, suggesting that some ov
erlooked means of obtaining at
Ida si air must have existed. But
it seems probable that the load
exceeds all other well known ani
mals in its power of dispensing
with I lie ordinary means of sus
taining life.
II is evident, I hill the mystery of
life is still very far from being
cleared up. and many more elab
orate investigations will have to
he made before we really know
much about il.
Notice to Creditors.
(n Commissioner's Court for Val
dez Precinct. Territory of Alas
ka, in Probale. — Xnl ice to
Creditors.
In the mailer of the estate of
Peter Johnson, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that all
persons having claims against
ihrt estate of Peter Johnson, de
ceased. are required to present
them with proper vouchers and
proof, |o the undersigned admin
istrator of said estate, at his of
fice in the Owl Drugstore, iii Val
dez. Alaska, within six months
from the date of this notice.
Dated Mav til. 1013.
W. II. CAS WEI,I,.
Administrator of the estate of
Peter Johnson, deceased.
First pub. May 10, 1013.
Last pub. June 1(5, 1013.
Reinke. expert repairer, at. the
Valdez Drue company.
Wanted.
Hills fur Hie digging iiflrcinch
es through the street's of Valdez
In allow for Hie laying of water
and sewer pipe: Trenhhes to-be
at least si.v feel deep. Hiils-will
he accepted on a basis of per rub
le yard cost. -All bids must-he ii(
before • Ma\- 35, 11)15. Reserve
rigid • hr reject any or all bids.
Address .Joe Rotirkc, Valdez. " •
SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION.
In Hie District Court for the Ter
ritogy of Alaska, Third Divis
ion.
Emily Gould, plaintiff, vs. Al
onzo Gould, defendant.—ao. S-.ll.
Summons for Publication.
The President of the .United
Stales of America, greeting, to
the above-named defendant, Al
onzo Gould: ,
You are hereby required to ap
pear in the District-Court for the
Territory <»f Alaska. Third Divis
ion, with,ill thirty days after .the
complelid^ of the service.of this
suminonsMipon'Aou, •nnd answer
l.he comptl-pinP'ofJbe i.iiovc-tianigd
plaintiff,’.,,.. The original ’of -said
coninl&Int,- is on Ale with I he. Gle'rk
of the above Coitri. qf.. Valdez,
Alaska, and unless you appear (q
answer, the plaintiff will apply to
the Court for the relief demand
ed in said complaint.
This action is brought to se
cure a divorce from the dr fend
ant, upon the grounds of cruel
flffE-Ml CO.
Phone 29
Beef, Pork,
Mutton, Veal
POULTRY.
Oysters, Fresh Fish,
Fresh Vegetables,
Fruits.
BUTTER and EGGS
The bread that makes
good toast. Its a neces
sity for your meal.
Potato yeast]who!e nni*in
wheat,rye and Ger- UULnM
man pumpernickel UllLflU
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Coffee Rolls, Cakes and
Pies.
All Quality Goods at
SCHMIDT'S DELICATESSEN AND
BAKERY.
THE
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ROOMS i
Steam Heat
Always Clean
and Comfortable ■
Central Location
P. S. HUNT, Prop,
Chas. R. Crawford
Wall Street Phone 159
Plate glass, window glass, roofing and
building papers, roofing pitch, lime, ce*
meat, plaster lath, shingles, builders*
hardware. Shop and job work of all kinds
Windows, poors, Moulding, Finish
ing Lumber
Agents for Fairbanks, M<jrse Sc Co.
Place your
FIRE INSURANCE
In the
Stu.v vesant Iris. Co.
Pacific lis. Co.
Spring (»urden Ins. Co
American Fire Ids- Co.
Manufactu rers Lloyns
Merchants Fire Lloyds
C. G. WULFF. Local Agent
Licensed Insurance Broker
Rates on Application
Valdez Sheet Metal Works
Manufacturers of
YAKSHAW STOVES
Plumbing, Steam and Hot
Water Heating, Pump* and
Well Point*.!
Sheet Metal Work of Every
Deacription, Ho*e Valve*,
Iroi °ipe, Fitting*.
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anti inhuman treatment, and tliis
summons is served upon you by
publication thereof pursuant to'
an order of Hie above Court, iiia.de
.1 id tnloyed on tin* i’Vtli day of
March, i 91'3.
W itness, the Honorable Peter
DJ'Overfleltl, Judge of said Court,
this/third'day of April.’"Im'the
year of our Lord one thousand
nine hundred and tlty’rJteP.n. t apd
of. bur-' independence vihe bne.
Hundred-and thirry-sevenllc *
ANGUS; McBMDfc: ••’.>, .
(SeaP ”*
By V. A. PAINF. Deputy Ctorh’.
First pul). Anril 3, DP 3.
Last pub. May 20, 1913.
Marcia Rica Cigars
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1 ALASKA
1 STEAMSHIP CO.
Mariposa Alameda Northwestern
Every
Six
Days
For Skagway, Juneau, Ketchikan and Seattle.
F. B. Tracy, Gen’l Agt- Valdez Dock Co., Local Agt
f^OAST
V/OM P ANY
Steamers via the INSIDE PASSAGE calling at Ketchikan. Ju
neau, Yakutat, Katalla, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez Fort Lis
cum, La touche, Seward, Cook Inlet Points and Kodiak.
From South From Arrrive at
Sailings Seattle Valdez Seattle
Yukon.b’eb. 20.Mar. 4.Mar. 12
Sampson.... Mar. 5 .Mar. 10-Mat. 21
Yukon .Mar. 20.Apr. 4 Apr. 12
Sampson.Mar. 27.Apr. 7 Apr. 12
Sampson_Apr. 13.Apr. 25.Apr. 30
Yukon . Apr. 20.May ts.May 1*
({Sampson.. .May 5 .May Hi.May 21
Yukon .May 20—for Kuskokwim river, call
ing at regular ports en route.
({Sampson... May 27.TuneS.Tune 13
Sampson.Tune 15.June 25...: .July 1
Sublet tn change without notice
S. S. Yukon calls
at KNIK anchor
age monthly from
May 1st to Nov.
1st, inclusivs; also
.calls at Iliamna
leaving Seattle on
20th of April,
June, August and
October.
^SAMPSON call) iit KXIK AM.'HORAG I,.
I_California connections—Alaska-Paeitic S. S. Co- _ _____
B. F. WATSON VALDEZ DOCK CO.
General Agent Local Agent
GET THE HABIT
The
Orpbeum Ttlovks
Every Evening
BE A BOOSTER
A. H. PINKUS, Mgr.
Independent Laundry Co.
►
> Satisfaction Guaranteed |
I Telephone 6fi I
I Foot Keystone Ave
I Rouffh Dry ICe lb.
Valdez Dock Co, phone no. i
* JOBBER IN
COAL, HAY and GRAIN
' , AGENTS FOR .
Alaska Steamship Company
Alaska Coast Company
FOR SALE
2 1-2 H. P. Stationary Gasoline
. t Engine
A BARGAIN
Keystone Dock Valdez Iron Works