CHAS. R. CRAWFORD
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER .
Dealer in Agent for
Building Material. Machinery, Gas Engines
rE TONY'S PLACE™
EVERYTHING j
F1RS1 CLASS '
ANTON CARLSON,
Manager.
STRIKE MADE BY
TWO MEN AT INGLESIDE
A strike of very great importance
is that which was made by Chris Nei
buhr and partner off the north end of
the Ingleside. This is a beach line on
the north rim at Nome, where no
beach line was supposed to have ex
isted at all. As all old timers are
aware the sloughover in values was
always greater on the southern rim
and little was expected on the north
rim. However, this pay struck by
Neibuhr is different, as it exists be
yond the regular third beach line and
is not as far as has been ascertained
connected with the regular third
beach line and is not as far as has
been ascertained connected with the
regular third beacl) line in any way
and seems a distinct beach formation
carrying concentrates. About three
feet goes over three cents and some
of it runs a good five cents to the
pan.
SEWARD MAN HAS NEW
AIRSHIP INVENTION
J. B. Ellinger, resident of Seward,
is the inventor of a most remarkable
contrivance for automatically right
ing aeroplanes and has a most inter
esting model of an airship with the
contrivance attached in his house be
tween Fifth and Sixth Ave. Mr. El
linger is the first colonel under the
United States Aeronauticl Reserves
and was appointed colonel under
Commodore Thomas F. Ryan in 1911.
The plan which he has invented for
righting machines may be perhaps
described as an arrangement of sails
or something similar. When aero
planes are traveling fast sudden gusts
of wind from the side are dangerous
and threaten to capsize the plane. By
the invention of Mr. Ellinger the
plane when struck by such a wind au
tomatically heads into the wind. The
wind strikes the sails in such a man
ner that those in front, sides and rear
turn like a rudder. Mr. Ellinger is
pleased to have anyone visit his mod
el and view it. He came here for
mining purposes and was engaged in
a large way in mining outside. He
has perfect confidence in the aero
mail service proposed for this coun
try.
S. S. Cramer, owner of the gas
boat Traveler, which was wrecked re
cently in C.oose bay, Cook Inlet, i3 a
passenger on the Watson for Seattle,
v/here he will purchase a launch suit
able for the Cook Inlet waters, and
expects to have it on the run within
a few weeks. The Traveler was the
first boat to make the trip from
Seward to Anchorage this spring.
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Prodigal. .
Old Lady—My poor man: Here is]
a penny for you.
Polite Beggar.—Can't you make it
two, madam?
Old Lady—What would you do
with two cents?
Polite Beggar—I'd buy a stamp
and mail you an acknowledgment,
madam. Etiquette forbids me using
a post card.
C. E. Plye, General Passenger
Agent of the Pacific Alaska Company,
with his wife and daughter, were
passengers on the Watson, having
made the trip to Anchorage and re
turn on that steamer.
Christian Science Society
Pioneer Hail.
Sunday Service, 11 a. m.
Subject, Ancient and Modern Net
romancy alias Mesmerism and Hyp
notism, Denounced.
Sunday School. 12:15.
Testimonial Meetiugs, Wednesday
8 p. m. ■'
Reading room open to the public
Wednesday from 2 to 5, and 7 toS
p. Kl.
Congregational Church.
Rev. J. F. Dunstau, pastor.
Sunday services.
11:00, Devotional services. Ser
mon, “A Good Soldier.” For the chil
dren, “An Experiment in Chemistry.”
12:00, Sunday school.
7:30, Special Young People's Ser
vice. Moving Picture Scenario. “A
Modern Prodigal.”
Daily Weather Report.
Valdez, May 26, 1916.
Barometric pressure .30.345
Temperature 7 p. m.47
Maximum temperature .50
Minimum temperature .38
Mean temperature .44
Precipitation .01
Partly cloudy, wind southwest four
miles, rained at night.
E. D. Reiter left this afternoon for
the property of the Alaska Mines Co.
at Fidalgo Bay.
C. W. Cook, government school
teacher at Tatitlek, left for his home
this afternoon.
Thomas Holland was an arrival in
town from Chitina on the steamer
Evau3.
H. J. Rutherford of the Ratnsay
Rutherford mine, arrived on the Ev
ans after spending several months in
the States.
Do you want to feel as if every man
were your friend? Read “Cy Whitta
ker's Place.” Get it between three and
five in the afternoon at the Library.
The Watson loaded 20,000 feet of
lumber here for the Kennecott Mine
Co. This is the third shipment sent
from here, the three aggregating
00,000 feet.
J. R. ■ Gelineau returned on the
Watson from a visit to Latouche.
Reading maketh a full man. Get
that satisfying fullness at the Public
Library. " It
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Ben Silverman returned from a vis
it to Latouche on the Watson.
Oak Olson, the well-known travel
ing man, is a visitor in town, having
come over from the Westward on the
Watson.
C. W. Cook, the government teach
er at Tatitlek and Dr. Schlaben. the
government physician, came up from
Tatitlek last night.
Don’t you feel well, Honey? Get
a good book to read and forget your
ailments. Where? At the Public
Library. - It
D. McKeller, a well-known travel
ing man came in .from the westward
on the Watson and is calling upon
our local merchants.
Alaska Investment Co.
Real Estate, Insurance, Mining Stocks
Public
Stenography
Accounting
Reed Bldg.
Phone. 196
THE
AUSTRIANS ACCUSE
ALLIED SUBMARINES
SAYS DID NOT GIVE WARNING
Three Instances Are Cited Where At
tempts Have Been Made to Destroy
Austrian Ships by Torpedoes—
Attention Called to Violations.
VIENNA, May 27.—The Foreign
Ministry has delivered the following
note to the representatives of all the
nil? and neutral states at the Aus
tria. ourt:
‘T ie‘ hospital ship Electra was tor
pedoed without warning by an allied
submarine, and sunk, also no arms
were aboard and no one but wound
ed soldiers.
“A submarine fired a torpedo near
Punta Pianka, without advance warn
ing at the steamer Daniel Erno. The
3worn statement of the captain is sub
stantiated by numerous witness who
saw the periscope and the torpedo at
the time it left the submarine.
“On February 28 a submarine fired
a torpedo at the steamer Zagres of
the same company. The ship dodged
the torpedo by a quick turn.
“A second submarine fired another
torpedo at the Daniel Erno April 5.
This was also without warning. The
torpedo missed the ship and exploded
on the rocky coast.
The Austro-Hungarian government
says that while it has had numerous
ships sunk without warning it has ac
cepted the loss as the fortunes of war
and said nothing, but if the United
States is going to hold Germany and
Austria to an accounting she must
also take recognizance of the Allied
war craft, which are committing as
flagrant violations as those of the
Central Powers.
Ted Xuhn and Oscar Brink left on
the steamship Northwestern for La
touche. where they are going to bring
back a motor boat which they have
purchased at that place.
BASEBALL SUITS HAVE
FINALLY REACHED HERE
The baseball suits, both for the
regular club and for the Juniors ar
rived on the Evans this morning, and
those who have seen them pronounce
them to be the handsomest ever
brought to town. It is expected that
the new suits will be. worn at the
game tomorrow between Valdez and
Fort Liscum teams. The junior teams
are requested to meet at the Owl
Drug Store tomorrow evening at IP
o'clock, at which time the suits for
these teams will be distributed.
Catholic Church Services.
First mass at 8:80 a. m.
Second mass at 10:30 a. m. Ser
mon on the day's gospel.
Sunday school at 2 p. m.
Evening devotions, instruction and
benediction at 7:30.
Next Thursday feast of the Ascen
sion of Our Lord, holyday of obliga
tion.
Friday next is a day of special ob
servance.
The Eastern season closes June 11.
JOHN T. CORBETT. S. J.,
Pastor.
Will Be Given Away.
Three-room house furnished, near
Court house. Price $600. Alaska In
vestment Co. 2t
Andy Dleringer is going into the
chicken business on a large scale. He
received six crates of chickens on the
Northwestern.
Capt. D. E. Morris came up from
Cordova on the Northwestern this
afternoon.
Chris Tjosevig and family were ar
rivalsc in town on the Northwestern.
Valdez Drug Company has a fine
line of School Stationery. tf
MRS. CARLSON ON
VISIT TO SKAGWAY
'
Mrs. A. J. Carlson is visiting In
Skagway until the next westward trip
of the Mariposa, which will carry
her to Seward. She is renewing her
old acquaintances and making new
friends in this, her first home town
of Alaska.
Mrs. Carlson came to Skagway in
1897, when It was a small camq. Her
husband, who la now located in Sew
ard In business was formerly a busi
ness man of this city.
Mrs. Carlson la the mother of the
first white girl born *in Skagway
The daughter, Evelyn, Is In Seward.
Her other children Qrant and Aldren,
are also making their home In Seward
but look forward to the day when
they will be able to return to Skag
way. Mrs. Carlson owns property on
Sixth and Broadway In Skagway.—
Skagway Alaskan.
WOODCARVING FOR SHIPS.
Sams Historic Memories of a Once
Famous Industry.
An almost forgotten profession is
that of ship carving. For many
centuries, down to the beginning of
the nineteenth, the ornamentation
of .vessels, especially men-of-war,
was profuse, intricate and florid.
The carving on the United States
line of battleship America, launch
ed in 1782 and presented to France,
will give some idea of the extent to
which this was carried.
The figurehead was a female fig
ure crowned with laurel, represent
ing America. The right arm was
raised, pointing upward. On the
left arm was a buckler with a blue
ground carrying thirteen stars. On
the stern of the ship, under the
cabin windows, appeared two large
figures in bas-relief representing
“Tyranny” and “Oppression,” bound
and bleeding on the ground. On
the back of the starboard quarter
was a large figure of “Mars.” On
the highest part of the stem ap
peared “Wisdom,” and above her
head an owl.
Philadelphia furnished not only
the greatest ship designed in the
United States, but also the best
ship carver in the world, William
Rush. In this field he was without
a rival, and to a wonderful techni
cal skill he added an artistic sense
of beauty and genius for composi
tion.
Rush was the first carver to give
an idea of life and motion to a
ship’s figurehead. Each of his fig
ureheads was either the lifelike rep
resentation of a person or some
symbolic conception expressed in
exquisite carving. His most noted
productions were “Nature” for the
Constellation, “The Genius of the
United States” for the frigate of
that name and “The River God” for
the East Ifidia ship Ganges. These
figureheads were nine .feet high
and could be removed for repair or
in action.—Washington Star.
Barring Out the Wolva*.
Every Siberian village is sur
rounded bv a big stockade some ten
or fifteen feet in height. This erec
tion is to prevent the sheep and
cattle from wandering into the for
ests and so falling a prey to the
wild animals which swarm therein.
In addition to this, each village
makes common property of an enor
mous number of dogs of the wolf
hound breed, which are kept for
protection from the packs of wolves
which in winter, desperate with
hunger, descend upon the villages.
Such dogs are rightly prized and,
though they belong to nobody in
particular, are kept well fed and
cared for. They are huge beasts,
almost as savage as wolves them
selves. •
Idle Gossip.
In my opinion the want, of occu
pation is no less the plague of so
ciety than of solitude. Nothing is
so apt to narrow the mind; nothing
produces more trifling, silly stories,
mischief making lies than being
eternally shut up in a room with
one another, reduced, as the only,
alternative, to be constantly twad
dling. When everybody is occupied
we only speak when we have some
thing to say, but when we are doing
nothing we are compelled to be al
ways talking, and of all torments
that is the moat annoying and the
most dangerous.—Rousseau.
Nuggets of Wisdom.
We make mountains of our trou
bles when there are hills enough to
i climb without them.
It’s the way o’ the world to ask
the fiddler to knock off a dollar
from the dance bill after you’ve had
the time of your life.
To folks who can’t see the light
there’s always one more river to
cross, the ferryman gone and the
hurricane coming.
Praying for a change in the
weather is all right—unless the
wind is in the wrong direction.—
Atlanta Constitution.
Chinese Ear Tickling.
The Chinese are a great nation
to think of the handy little things
—things that no other people in
the world could possibly think of.
You can run out into the street al
most any time and buy an ear
tickler. Men make a living going
round selling them. An ear tickler
is a little puff of cotton on the end
of a stick and is meant to combine
both business and pleasure—the
business of cleaning the ear and
the pleasure of the tickling sensa
tion.—Homer Croy in Leslie’s.
Natural Curiosity.
They visited the museum and
were looking alt the statue of a Bo
man gladiator. One of his arms was
broken off, his left leg ended at the
knee,-his helmet was battered, and
there were several patches, on his
face. He represented “Victory."
“I say,” said one of the visitors
to his companion, “if that fellow
won I would like to -see the Moke
who lost”
REPORT OP THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF
The First Bank of Valdez
LOCATED AT VALDEZ, TERRITORY OP ALASKA, AT THE CLOSE
OF BUSINESS ON THE 15TH DAY OP MAY, 1916 I
RESOURCES: ^
Loans and Discounts. $119,736,78
Overdrafts .-.;. 786,77
Bonds and Warrants.. 41,478.62
Furniture and Fixtures. 3,535.80
Checks on Other Banks and Other Cash Items 482.42
CASH ON HAND AND SIGHT
EXCHANGE ...
TOTAL".-.-.-.$271,390.87
LIABILITIES:
Capital Stock Paid in..*.$ 25,000.00
Surplus Fund . 500.00
Undivided Profits . 3,517.41
Due to Banks—Deposits . L550.26
Deposits . 239.345.26
Certified Checks . 1,477.94
TOTAL . $271,390.37
United States of America, Territory of Alaska. Third Judicial Divi
sion, ss.
I. J. W. GILSON. Cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly
swear that the foregoing statement is true to the best of my knowl
edge and belief. J. w. GILSON.
Cashier.
Correst Attest:
M. BLUM,ssBg
S. BLUM.
JOHN LYONS. Directors.
J. C. MARTIN,
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 23rd day of May. 1916.
(Notarial Seal) ANTHONY J. DIMOND.
Notary Public in and for the Territory of Alaska.
My Commission Expires March 13. 1917.
THE PINZQN
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Cigars, Fruits, Candies
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Always Fresh.
Valdez Dock Co. phone no. i
JOBBER IN
COAL, HAY H
GRAIN and
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Office, foot of Wall street
We Are Agents For The
Dayton Electric House Pomps
Which have fewer parts, ruh more
easily and quietly, require less *
attention and cost less per year of
service than any other pump on
the market.
And’the
“Thor 5” Vacuum Gtoanor >
This is one of the finest household
cleaners ever made for the .low
price at which it sells.
We stand beck of both the shore wmMms