Get a Skate On
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\ and enjoy yourself. The ice is
fine and we hdye j
a consignment of V
Union and Winsloy Ice-Skates
for both men an^ tfomen—All
sizes, and priced a pair at $1.50
and $1.75.
Valdez Mercantile Co.
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THE ILES ELECTRIC POWER PLANT
Has been incorporated under the laws of the
State of Washington as the_
INTERMOUNTAIN TRACTION & POWERlol
and will soon be ready to extend its |ines to any mine
on the mainland within 40 miles of Valdez.
If you are interested in cheaper lights and power see us.
LOUIS E. JOHNSON, Snpt. ALFRED B. ILES, V. Pres. & Tress.
T TONY’S PLACES
EVERYTHING ANTON CARLSON,
FIRST CLASS Manager.
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FATAL FIGHT IH
Factional Division heft to Kncounter
In Which One Was Killed and
Several Severely Injured.
DuPONT. Pa., Jan. 18.—The Sa
ered Heart of Jesus church here was
the scene of a fatal factional fight
Sunday evening which resulted in one
man being killed and more than a
dozen suffering severe wounds.
The fight was started by the faction
which had attempted to have the
priest to whom they objected remov
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retained despite the charges which
they had preferred against him.
Knives, revolvers, clubs and other
forms of missiles were used by the
participants and many of the wound
ed are suffering from severe knife
wounds.
The entire police force of the town
was summoned to the church but
were powerless as more than one
hundred men took part in the battle.
The interior of the church was wreck
ed and the priest’s robes were torn
from him. Several of the leaders of
the faction who created the disturb
ance have been arrested. They were
released on bail.
Win. Hermanns, the Seward cigar
manufacturer, went to the westward
on the Northwestern last night. He
is planning a trip over the winter
road to Anchorage.
NORTHWESTERN RETURNS
TOMORROW MORNING
It is reported by the local office of
of the Alaska Steamship company
that the steamer Northwestern which
passed to the westward late yesterday
afternoon, will sail southward from
Valdez at 7 o’clock tomorrow morn
ing.
EUROPEAN WAR BROUGHT
RELIEF TO THE POOR
LONDON: Probably no part of
Great Britain has been made radi
cally affected by the war than East
London. A social reformer, desiring
in days gone by to see poverty and
squalor, in their acutest forms, natu
rally turned to the East End knowing
that there he would find both in full
measure.
Today the East End has been trans
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tirely eliminated owing to the war, it
has been at least ameliorated to an
extent where the East End people are
now living more comfortably than
at any time in their existence. The
men are working seven days a week
and drunkenness has nearly disap
peared, the money being spent for
clothing and the comfort of life.
James Fish will leave on the
Northwestern tomorrow morning for
Cordova, en route* to Kennecott,
where he will work among the miners
in the interests of the New York Life
Insurance company.
Oscar Wilson, known along the
Alaskan coast towns as “Rastus,”
who was sentenced to one hundred
days in jail by the U. S. commission
er at Cordova, was brought to Valdez
on the Northwestern last night.
Subscribe for the Prospector.
FRYE-BRUHN CO. jj
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in > j
Beef, Mutton, Pork, Veal, Poultry jj
and Produce.
Sole Agents for MAYFLOWER BUTTER and EGGS. phonc 29 ; j
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Wines,
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NEW HOTEL CECIL
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Twenty-Five Hundred Bottle of Beer !
are Seized by Officers and
Taken to Headquarters.
SEATTLE, Jan. 18.—A squad of
police descended on the new Cecil
Hotel here late last night and raided
the premises. Twenty-five hundred
bottles of beer were found stored in
one of the rooms of which the pro
prietor held the key and he will be (
prosecuted for violation of the prohi
bition law. The beer was seized and
taken to police headquarters.
Chief of Police Lang has announced
that there are several other blind pigs
which will receive attention from his
men in the near future as complaints
have been lodged by wives that their
husbands were spending their wages
in their former hfcunts as before the
dry law went into effect.
The police say that the proprietor
of the Cecil has been reaping a har
vest by charging double the price for
beer since the prohibition law went
Into effect.
SCHOONER LOST
NEAR ONMENAY
American Schooner Volante Wrecked
Between Petersburg and Sitka—
Crew Landed at Sitka.
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The schooner Volante, in tow of
the gas boat Pindar, bound from Pe
tersburg to Sitka, was wrecked near
Cape Ommenay last Thursday and the
crew have arrived at Sitka, and will
go to Juneau on the next steamer.
The Volante, a vessel of 125 tons
had gone to sea loaded with salt, nets,
barrels and other equipment for a
herring fishing cruise and the catch
was to have been cured here.
The Volante was 87 feet long and
25.6 beam. She usually carried a
crew of five men. She was built in
1891 at North Bend, Ore., and was
registered at Seattle. She was a fa
miliar figure in the fiBbing Industry
in the North Pacific.
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Weather Report.
Valdez, Jan. 17, 1916
Barometric pressure .30.117
Temperature 7. p. m.11
Maximum temperature .16
Minimum temperature . 4
Mean temperature.10
Partly cloudy, wind northeast 6
miles.
Interior Weather.
Valdez, Jan. 18, 1916.
Fairbanks, 4 above; 11 inches of
snow; cloudy, calm.
Salcha, 2 below; 19 inches snow;
cloudy, calm, trail heavy.
Richardson, 3 below; 20 inches of
snow; cloudy, light wind, trail fair.
McCarthy, 10 above; 19 inches of
snow; clohdy, windy, trail fair.
Donnelly, 24 above; 23 inches of
snow; snowing, calm, trail fair.
McCallum, 8 above; 44 inches 'of
snow; cloudy, calm, trail good.
Paxson, 12 above; 40 inches of
snow; cloudy, calm, trail fair.
Hogan, 10 above; 21 inches snow;
cloudy, calm, trail fair.
Gulkana, 1 below; 19 inches of
snow; snowing, calm, trail fair.
Copper Center, 10 above; 23 inches
snow; cloudy, calm, trail drifted.
Tonsina, 10 below, 29 inches of
snow; snowing, calm, trail good.
Teikhell, 4 below; 36 inches of
snow; cloudy, calm, trail good.
Beaver Dam, 4 above; 46 inches of
snow; cloudy, calm, trail fair.
Summit, 6 above; 9 feet of snow:
cloudy, windy, trail drifted.
Wortman’s, 12 above; 40 inches of
snow; cloudy, calm, trail fair, north
heavy, south good.
W. B. Bennett, assistant U. S.
prosecuting attorney, returned from
Cordova on the Northwestern ltfst
night.
Hats Cleaned and Blocked.
Hats cleaned and blocked; suits
cleaned and pressed
tf GUY P. CAMERON.
Mrs. Boyd and her two sons, John
and George, who spent the holidays
with relatives In the states, returned
home yesterday on the Northwestern.
FOR RENT: Nice three-room cot
tage down town, completely furnish
ed. Rent $16.00. Apply to James
Pish. tf
PROGRAM TONIGHT
AT THE LIBERTY
The following program la on at the
liberty Theatre tonight:
Old Enough to Be Grandpa—The
flying A and American Film Com
>any presents William Grawood and
/lvlan Rich In Old Enough to Be
Jrandpa, a gorgeous farce from a
Mutual Movie, some Aim
Nipped—A Domino film in two
>arts entitled Nipped, a plot in which
in American secret service man hears
he Japanese plotting and a Japanese
;irl falls in love with an American
irtist and there the trouble begins.*
raken in Mexico.
Fatty’s Jonah Day—A Keystone
Comedy in which Fatty is taken away
is a murderer and Fatty’s reading of
‘Three Weeks” and saying “Gee,”
jets him into trouble. Roscoe Ar
>uckle in the title roll; a laugh from
itart to finish.
J. Johnson is in from Camp Com
'ort.
Mrs. Dolores Laurance, daughter
>f Mrs. Rucker, returned on the
Northwestern last night from the
Hates to visit her mother for a time.
companies"blame
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fad Received Assurances that Es
cort for Murdered Miners
Was Not Necessary.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 18.—
rhe officials of the American mining
:ompany, which sent the miners into
?he Santa Ysabel district in Mexico,
where they were executed by bandits
mder the leadership of Gen. Roderi
;uez, the former Villa general, de
dare that officials of the Carranza
;overnment were responsible for mis
leading them as to conditions in the
listrlct.
The officials of the mining com
pany have submitted . their corres
pondence with the Carranzaistas to
Secretary Lansing, showing that they
Pad been assured that no escort was
lecessary for the miners as the
Mexican federal troops were in con
trol of the district and would afford
protection to the lives and property
if foreigners.
Secretary Lansing said today that
;he State department had received
jdvlces from Jaurez that the Mexi
:an troops were in pursuit of the ban
lits and were planning energetic
Measures to prevent further depreda
:ions. The message to the State de
partment said that so far as could be
learned, no other Americans except
;he miners had been killed in the dis
trict.
FROM SOUTHWARD
0
Brings Number of Passengers from
Seattle for Valdez—Encoun
tered Heavy Snowstorms.
The steamer Northwestern of the
Alaska Steamship company fleet, ar
rived from the southward late yes
terday afternoon and sailed again for
the westward after a two-hour stop.
She brought a number of passengers
for Valdez from Seattle and way
points, as well as several shipments
of freight for local business houses.
The steamer brought eleven days
mail from Seattle.
The officers report that the vessel
was delayed several times, through
fog and heavy weather. At Seymour
Narrows, she lost ten hours when she
anchored In a blinding snowstorm,
and again off Hinchinbrook she was
delayed three hours in a fog. After
leaving Cordova for Valdez fog again
delayed her for eight hours.
The passengers on the steamer for
Valdez were: Hank Stroter, Mrs
Boyd and her two sons, John and
George, Sister Amadeus, Sister An
geles, and Mrs. ;D. Johnson. From
Cordova: W. |T. 8pence, W. B.
Bennett, and JoripfPeaster.
CORDOVA TAX LEVY
LOWEST IN NORTH
In the year 1916, from reports re
ceived from cities along the coast, It
appears that the assessment will be
at least a million dollars larger this
year, while the average levy will be
almost 1.76 per cent. Fairbanks, as
usual, kept Its levy at 1.60 per cent,
but all other large towns in the ter
Protect Yourself
Against Theft and Fire )
By Placing Your Valuables In a
Safe Place.
We have Safety Deposit Boxes to
rent as low as five dollars a year
The First Bank of Valdez
Resources $240,000. ,
THE PINZON
Making a Specialty of Haas & Sons’ Candy
<^.We Have^-^>
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Varied Sweets Nut Chocolates j
Glace Fruit French Mixed
Old Fashioned Chocolate Supreme
Home Made Specials
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The Largest Stock of Candies in the North
Valdez Dock Co . PHONE NO. 1
JOBBER IN
COAL, HAY
GRAIN and
LUMBER
Office, foot of Wall street.
HERE'S the wonderful little Sewing Machine Attachment
which runs the machine for you. At last you can sew with
out foot pedaling; absolutely without the slightest effort.
This simple little wonder-worker changes your Sewing Machine
(old or new) into an electric self-operating labor saver.
Find out what the Setv-E-Z means in health and comfort.
Remember—you never touch the wheel; Sew-E-Z makes it run
automatically right. No broken threads; - no jerks—just a silent
steady motioni which stop6 the instant you remove your foot
from the pedal.
Alaska Water, Light and Tele. Co.
Chas.PerhV
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A Complete Services
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DONALDSON SCHEDULE
Lvs. Fort Liscum Lvs. Valdes
8:16 a.m. 9:45 a,m.
1:15 p.m. 4:00 p.m.
TUESDAYS
8:16 a.m. 9:46 a.m.
1:16 p.m. 2:00 p.m.
4:30 p.m. 5:00 p.m.
SATURDAYS
1:15 p.m. 4:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m. lftii p.m.
There will be no trip ot the launch
on the second ana fourth Fridays at
each month, these days being used to
clean boilers.
ritory, including Juneau, Nome, Val
des, Cordova, Seward and othero
raised to two per cent.
A few of the smaller towns, such
as Tanana, Idltarod and Eagle did not
make any assessment or levy. While
3ome people in Fairbanks tumk the
levy is too high, the councilmen
think they have done well to keep it;
at 1.60 per cent while other towns’
have made raises.—Fairbanks Times.
You are in error, neighbor, so ter
as the tax levy at Corodva Is con
cerned. Last year It was six mills,
and thlB year It is only five mills,
which is a record that few towns In
Alaska can boast of. It might be
also mentioned that for two yeara
there was no assessment or levy made
here.—Cordova Times