ROF1T SHARING makes yon a partner to the Bakery
^when yoa pay 25c tor 3 Homemade Breads made
from the famous Occident Flour. Why pay more?
' The Whole Wheat 1 ft 1
| *ndTpI»i«Lto*Y«Mt } 03c a loaf
w 15.! SCHMIDT’S BAKERY I*—*"*
'STEAM HEATED HOT AND COLD BATHS
j Copper Block Hotel
VALDEZ, ALASKA
;jf:
\ “The House of Comfort”
i
PHONE 7 FOR MEN ONLY
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE SEXTON, PROP.
| STRICTLY FIRST CLASS
r Fourth Ave, Seward, Alaska
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
We»tem Federation of Miner*
ROBERT SHAFFER, President,
Granite Mine.
CHAS. McCALLUM, Secretary,
Valdes Alaska.
THE SENATE
t ANGUS CHISHOLM—FRANK Gl STAFSON
CIGARS, BILLIARDS
| Nicely Furnished Rooms. Phone 35
fe^Lf>BoraD
mgr^A Complete Services
H » IN THE HEART OF THE CITY*
|MI55Rooms witfi baih-50Samp!eRocms
||1 MAY TIDE TABLES.
|%The following tides are given for
Ejjjkldez bay. Parties outside should
mfld to or subtract from the times of
Mpigb~airt low water for other locali
5m. Monday, May 29.
{High, 11:21 am, 7.1; 10:39 pm, 9.7
How, 5:02 am, —0.4; 4:30 pm, 2.9
fa* Tuesday, May 30.
High, 12:03 am, 7.2; 11:14 pm, 9.7
How, 6:40 am, —0.7; 5:08 pm, 3.0
■K Wednesday, May 31.
aHigh. 12:42 am, 7.2.
How, 6:16 am, —0.9; 5:44 pm, 3.1
rE KATALLA COAL
FIELDS TO OPEN?
_ilany Alaskans in Juneau are very
igjnuch interested in the news that
|fhere is again a possibility of run
jKing a railroad from the coast to the
■Bering, coal fields.
B^ One ne|fs item stated that Clark
B)avis Ufaim a road 23 miles from
Bbontrcjer bay to the fields and an
B>ther says that the government is ser
■ously considering building from Cor
Bdova to the coal fields, about 60 miles.
K The Katalla district is probably the
■greatest boneyard in Alaska, of brok
Ejen hopes. There is many an Alaskan
Bwho was a prospective millionaire
■when the Guggenhiems and the Brun
Ber outfit and the Clark Davis people
Band the English syndicate picked Kat
■alla for the terminus for the Bering
■river coal fields and for the oil fields.
U Property changed hands at large
■ advances and everyone was anxious
Jto get in on the ground floor. When
lithe light of national politics changed
the industrial map, many remained,
knowing the value of the resources
In that section, but year after year
they have been dropping off until
hut a few now remain. And some
how the announcement that the Ber
rlver coal fields may be tapped from
two directions does not create much
'enthusiasm. The old timers have
heard the same cry of "wolf” so often
they will not believe it until a
actually constructed and be
ling coal. There is no imme
ospect of any rush to Katalla
inlty Just yet, from Juneau or
ther part of Alaska.—Empire.
__
DONALDSON SCHEDULE
Lvs. Fort Liscum Lvs. Vaide:
S:15 a.m. 9:46 a.m.
1:15 p.m. 4:00 p.m.
TUESDAYS
8:15 a.m. 9:46 a.m.
1:16 p.m. 2:00 p.m.
4:30 p.m. 6:00 p.m.
SATURDA vs
1:16 p.m. 4:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m 10:30 p.m.
There will be no trip of the launch
on the second ana fourth Fridays of
i each month, these days being used to
clean boilers.
Parties not receiving their papers
before 6:00 o’clock should telephone
the office and a special messenger will
be sent with one. Turn your com
plaints in to the office. tf
.
Try a Rainey Sundae at Hunt’s
Candy Kitchen. tf
These People
Are
Happy and
Contented
fj They have been dealing
in home stores.
Q They (eel sure of hon
est, square dealing.
Q By trading in town they
have saved time, car
fare and shoe leather.
9 When you deal in the
home stores you help the
town.
Q When you help the
town you help your
self.
SAYS CONVENTION.
WAS HARMONIUS
Only Difference of Opinion was on Na
tional Committeeman, but on Vote
Donohoe was Elected Unanimously
—Synopsis of Platform.
C. J. Todd returned this morning
from the Democratic territorial con
vention at Juneau. In speaking of
the convention he says that it was a
most harmonious gathering, practi
cally without dissension throughout
its entire session. In fact there was
| no contest, all the delegates being of
[one mind on the various candidates
j nominated. There was a slight differ
ence of opinion among some of the
I r irst division delegates as to the
i choice for National Committeeman,
{.Mr. Cheney, the old committeeman
] having several proxies and some
friends who desired to see him re
elected, but before the matter came up
kn the convention it was seen that Mr.
I Donohoe had more than three-quar
! ters of the votes of the convention,
and when the time came to make the
selection Mr. Donohoe was made the
unanimous choice of the delegates.
i Mr. Todd'states that the division of
'•ho various offices to be filled by the
;convention among the several divi
sions. as proposed by the Third Divi
sion delegates, was considered to be
'most fair, and met with the approval
of the convention as a whole. This
division was to give the delegate to
ongress to the First Division, the
territorial Attorney-General to the
■ Second Division, the National Com
mitteeman to the Third and the chair
man of the territorial committee, and
the next convention to the Fourth,
; nd this program was carried out to
lie letter.
Following is the substance of the
platform adopted by the convention:
1! strongly endorses the adminis
tration of President Wilson, Secretary
I of the Interior Lane and Governor
I Strong; it specifically endorses the re
jserve banking law; the preparedness
I plans of the President, and urges the
; extension of the harbor defense sys
tem to Alaska.
! It declares that the Democratic par
ty has always stood for self-govern
ment from the time of the organiza
tion of the party and has favored it
for Alaska ever since Gov. Swineford
declared for it in his first report as
!Governor; it declares that the Demo
jcrats of Alaska still stand for State
Ihood but realize that to secure it
| means a long fight and it favors a full
j Territorial form of government pend
ing Statehood. It strongly urges Alas
ka for Alaskans.
The platform demands that Pin
ehotism be banished from the Terri
tory. The paramount issue between
the Democratic party on the one side
and Delegate Wickersham and the
Republican party on the other, re
lates to the question of whether Alas
l ka shall be conserved and Pinchot
i :zed or thrown open to settlement and
I development.
! The people of the Territory are call
ed upon to vote for the Democratic
nominee for Delegate to Congress in
order that a man can be chosen who
will have the confidence of the Con
gress and the government. This will
end all bickerings, factional strife and
dissension will cease in the territory.
The platform opposes taxes on bus
iness and trade by the national gov
ernment within the Territory. This
function should properly belong to the
local legislature. Control of the school
system of Alaska is demanded; con
trol over the insane, opposition to the
present contract system of caring for
the insane; favored the legislation
proposed by Secretary Lane for the
establishment of a development board
to be composed of Alaskans, and un
qualifiedly condemned the so-called
administration commission bill of
Delegate Wlckersham’s.
"The freight and passenger rates
to and from have been increased to
such an extent as to be intolerable,
and we condemn our delegate in Con
gress for having done nothing to re
lieve the condition” is one of the
planks.
An adequate primary law is asked
along the lines of the Sulzer bill in
troduced at thel ast session of the
legislature A revision of the min
ing laws is favored. The work of
the coast and geodetic survey in wire
dragging is praised and the exten
sion of the parcel post zone system
is urged. The Democratic party is
urged to continue the present build
ing of trails, railroads and wagon
roads.
The passage of the Tanner bill,
community rights is favored. A boun
ty on wolves is recommended. Exten
sion and improvement of telegraphic
facilities,greetings to the pioneers of
Alaska and the pledging of utmost
consideration of them are subjects
treated upon.
The platform ends with an eloquent
and logical appeal to the people of
Alaska to enroll under the banner of
Democracy, which 1b alert to all op
portunities to serve Alaska and sup
port the best interests of Alaska.
OLD TIME PUNISHMENT.
Agony of a Day In tho Stock* Far a
Fit of Bad T*mp*r.
A record on file in the library of
congress contains an account of the
adventures of a certain Hubbard,
who in the good old days of the
long ago was sentenced in Boston to
the stocks for having indulged in an
unwarrantable fit of ill temper.
When he had taken his seat for
the day there came along a drove of
swine, which seemed to cast upon
him those leering looks that only a
fat pig can bestow. A dog follow
ed, sniffing at the prisoner’s feet
and making feints — unpleasantly
approaching reality—of biting him.
Then a cock, mounting to the very
top of the stocks, crowed his de
rision upon the victim below, and
presently a rough fellow, after in
dulging in ugly taunts, threw at
him fetid toadstools and a dead
snake.
Then an Indian appeared, who in
a drunken rage, stimulated by some
fancied injury, rushed at Hubbard
with a tomahawk, probably intend
ing nothing worse, however, than
to give him a severe fright, which
he certainly succeeded in doing.
Help came from an unexpected
quarter, for at that moment an old
bull came tearing down the road.
His attention was attracted by the
stocks, and with a roar he prepared
for a charge.
Alarmed in his turn, the savage
dashed off. The bull made a dash
at the stocks and carried away the
corner post, but without even graz
ing the object of his apparent
wrath. Whether he was disgusted
by the little he had accomplished or
his animosity was thus satisfied, he
started off, bellowing and shaking
his head, much to the relief of the
said Hubbard.
And then the unfortunate man
was left in comparative peace to his
own meditations and the cutting
sleet of a November day.
Music.
Music as defined by the authori
ties is the art which employs sound
as a medium of artistic expression
for what is not in the province of
literature, of sculpture, of painting,
of acting or of architecture. It has
been said, again, that music is the
embodiment of the inward feelings
of which all other arts can but ex
hibit the effect. In other words,
music is an attempt at the expres
sion of the highest aspirations and
the deepest fears of the human soul.
After we have 6poken and written
all that is possible and chiseled bur
finest forms and painted our most
beautiful pictures there remains a
feeling that is not satisfied, and
music is the effort to satisfy that
feeling.—New York American.
It Looked Suepicioue.
*As I was coming out of a store
this evening I saw an amusing
sight,” said a shopper. “A light
rain was falling, and as the woman
in front of me stepped out she
opened her umbrella. Out of it fell
a jeweled hatpin, a pair of gloves
and two men’s handkerchiefs. On
its face it seemed like a case of
shoplifting, but as she gathered up
the articles the woman said:
“ ‘Well, if here isn’t Mary’s emer
ald hatpin and the gloves I was
looking for last week and two of
George’s best handkerchiefs. I nev
er thought of looking in the um
brellas for them.’” — New York
Sun.
The True Education.
A boy or girl who loves a beauti
ful picture, a sunset, a rosebush, a
robin, a sky full of stars, a fine old
melody, a courtesy, a generous deed
and a good book is better educated
than a boy or girl could be without
them even if he could work all the
sums in algebra and parse every
thing in Vergil. Parents and edu
cators should give more heed to this
view of education, for it i6 the phase
of it that makes life true.—Ohio
State Journal.
Why Shs Wspt.
The wedding ceremony had come
to a close. The mother sniffed con
vulsively, and the bride dabbed her
pretty eyes with a handkerchief,
while one of the bridesmaids was
also affected to tears.
“Why do you weep?" asked a
groomsman of the bridesmaid. “It’s
not your wedding."
The girl looked at him sorrow
fully.
“That’s the reason, you stupid.”
And she sighed.—Exchange.
Crushed.
The late Sir Charles Hammond
was addressing a meeting during a
general election, at which he won a
seat in Newcastle, when a man in
terrupted him. “Get yer ’air cut,
Charlie!” he shouted.
Sir Charles, who was a magis
trate, calmly adjusted his glasses
and silenced the interrupter by say
ing, “My friend, if I am not mistak
en, I have been the means of having
your hair cut before today.”—Lon
don Tatler.
VALDEZ . and - ANCHORAGE
CITY EXPRESS
Meets all boats! On the job, day or night
We never sleep.
J. A. SPENARD, Proprietor Phone 82
.VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Real Estate, Insurance, General Brokerage
Absentees Business Properly Handled
Tre^t Building, Alaska Ave. Telephone No. 60
Buy Alaska Made Cigars
ASK FOR W. R. King, Terminus, or Lavauna,
Made in Seward by union workmen.
We maintain our standard. Sold everywhere
MERCHANT’S CAFE
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone G3 Chas. Fischer, Propr.
Independent Steam Laundry
Satisfaction Guaranteed I
Telephone 66 !
I Foot Keystone Ave
I Rouifh Dry lCc lb
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
PLUMBING STOVES and RANGES HEATING
MOTOR BOAT SUPPLIES, PAINTS and OILS
Mine Air Pipe, Valves, Hose, Pipe and Fittings
Valdez Dock. Opposite Prospector Office. Telephone 24
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co:
PUGET SOUND
California
Admiral
Line.
PUGET SOUND
Alaska
SAILINGS PROM SEATTLE, lltOO A. M.—
April 30—S. S. Admiral Evana—Kodiak and vray porta.
May 7—S. S. Admiral Farragut—Knlk Anchorage and way porta.
May 14—S. S. Admiral Wataon—Knlk Anchorage and way porta.
May SI—S. S. Admiral Evana—Kodiak and way porta.
May 28—S. S. Admiral Farragut—Knlk Anchorage and way porta.
SAILINGS SOUTH PROM VALDEZ—
April 28—S. S. Admiral Farragut.
May S. S. Admiral Wataon.
May 12—S, S. Admiral Evana.
May 10— S. S. Admiral Farragut.
May 26— S. S. Admiral Wataon.
June 2— S. S. Admiral Evana.
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to San Franctaco every Wedneaday and Sunday* connecting with
Steamer* Yale and Harvard for Southern California.
Rigrht reserved to change schedule without notice.
RICHARD J. RI\'(i\YOOD* Mgr., Seattle; VALDEZ DOCK CO., Local Agt.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
Sailings from Seattle—
April 30—S. 9. Northwestern*
May 5—S. S. Mariposa. ^
May 10—S. 9. Alaska.
May 15—Alameda.
May 20—S. S. Northwestern.
May 25—S. S. Mariposa.
May 30—S. S. Alaska.
Sailings South from Valdes—
April 30—S. S. Alaska.
May 3—S. S. Alameda.
May IS—S. 9. Northwestern.
May 15—S. S. Mariposa.
May 30— S. S. Alaska.
May 35—S. S. Alameda.
June 1—S. 9. Northwestern.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Sheep
Creek, Treadwell, Douglas, Skagway, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez and La
touche. Explosives. Right reserved to change schedule without notice.
P. B. TRACY, Gen’I Agent VALDEZ DOCK CO., Local Agent
When You Leave
For the Outside
take the t
“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 unite or ask
J. C. MARTIN, Agent, Valdez, Alaska.
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST, PAUL RY.
A. E. HARRIS, Freight and Passenger Agt,
Juneau, Alaska.