New Shipment Waterproof
Clothhig
1,1, the Genuine Dri-Bak make—The
coat comes in Hunting Style, dead
grass brown; full layer in and out
side of genuine waterproof Dri-Bak; drab
corduroy storm, collar and fcuff facing; ad
justable cuff; one large, inside game
pocket, full size of coat; two lower di
vided pockets and three additional acces
sory pockets on left side; two front and
two side vents for entrance to game
pockets; bellows arm pits with air cham
bers. Hunting trousers to match, made
full double front and double seat.
Coats priced at $5. Trousers $2 and $3.
Valdez Mercantile Co.
Wont 8trict,y ^re8^ Egg*, Butter, Fruit
I Oil TrclIIl an(| Groceries, and appreciate
prompt deliveries, try
KING’S GROCERY
Phone 188
Mrs. Merchant, Milliner.
Hats remodeled and made to or
der. At Emporium. tf
Lucille Love.
Series 11 and 12 tonight at The
Liberty Theatre. Tomorrow night
the last six reels of the story will be
run. *
Notice is hereby given that the an
nual meeting of the stockholders of
the Granite Gold Mining Company
will be held at the office of the com
pany in the Chopper Block at Valdez,
Alaska, on the 21st day of October.
1915, at the hour of 2 o’clock p. m.
A Board of Directors will be elect
ed for the ensuing year and such oth
er business transacted as may prop
erly come before said meeting.
The books of the Secretary will be
closed from October 1st, 1916, until
the first day after said annual meet
ing, and no stock will be transferred
during this period.
B. F. MILLARD,
9-21-20t President.
Receiver’s Notice to Creditors.
No. 751
In the District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division.
Gqpaae Ker, Plaintiff, vs. Cameron
Johnson Gold Mining Company, a
Corporation, Defendant.
Notice is hereby given that by or
der of the above-named court in the
above-entitled cause all creditors of
the above-named defendant, Camer
on-Johnson Gild Mining Company, a
corporation, and all persons having
claims of any kind against said de
fendant are required to exhibit the
same, duly proved and verified to the
undersigned receiver of said corpora
tion on or before the 10th day of
November, 1915, at the office of said
receiver in the City of Valdez, in the
Territory of Alaska. All claims not
so presented and exhibited to said re
ceiver on or before said date will be
barred.
Dated this 4th day of October,
1915.
W. M. GOODWIN,
Receiver of Cameron-Johnson Gold
Mining Company, a corporation,
the above-named defendant.
First publication Oct. 4, 1915.
Last publioation Nov. 1, 1915.
Mo. 5t
NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that the
regular annual meeting of the stock
holders of Fidalgo-Alaska Copper
Company will held at the Company’s
office, being the law office of Dono
hoe & Dimond, in the town of Val
dez, Alaska, on Monday, the 4th day
of October, 1915, at the hour of two
o’clock'in the afternoon of said day,
at w^jph meeting the directors of said
Company shall be elected for the en
suing year. There will also be con
sidered at said meeting a proposi
tion to sell and dispose of all of the
Company's property at Fldalgo Bay,
Alaska, consisting of twenty lode or
quartz mining claims, together with
the improvements thereon; there will
also be considered such other bust:
ness as may regularly come before
said1, meeting.
*T. J. DONOHOE, President.
First pub. Sept. 18, 1916.
East pub. Oct. 2, 1915.
COUNCIL OT MEET
MONDAY NIGHT
Will Sit as Roaru of Equalization to
Hear Grievances Against As
sessment of Properties.
The Valdez cit.y council met in ses
sion last night with Mayor Boyle in
the chair and all the other members
of the council present. There was
little business Oiher than of a rou
tine nature to come before the meet
ing.
A number of bills from the school
board were referred to the finance
committee as also were a number of
city accounts.
Wm. Finical, chief of the Valdez
fire department, read a proposed
building and fire ordinance which was
referred to the law and ordinance
committee for consideration.
A petition was received from the
residents of Upper Alaska Avenue,
asking for more street lights for that
part of town.
Mr. A. B. liles was present at the
meeting and again renewed his prop
osition to supply the city with light
if the council would meet certain re
quirements. He offered to supply the
wires, apparatus, and equipment and
accept city warrants for the work if
the city will supply the poles inside
the city limits. He stated that he
has increased the efficiency of his
plant and could guarantee a 24-hour
service.
The council adjourned to meet
Monday evening next, when the coun
cil as a whole will sit as a board of
equalization to consider grievances
against assessments of properties.
The Town of Valdez now owns a
big safe which has been installed on
the ground floor of the fire hall,
which is guaranteed to provide safe
ty for the city hooks and othep pa
pers.
FAIRBANKS GIVES FREELY
FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES.
When it is known that the people
of Fairbanks have donated during
the present year more than $14,000
toward charity and other purposes
which go for the benefit of the town
and district generally it will be hard
to convince outsiders that Fairbanks
is a dead camp. For the Belian re
lief fund \Fairbanks raised $1,420,
the largest sum of any town In
America, population being consider
ed. Among other voluntary sub
scriptions were: The big potlatch,
$250; celebration, June 21; celebra
tion, July 4; library donations,
$1000; children’s excursion, $200;
Tolovana road, $5000; murder re
ward, $3500; Tanana Valley fair,
$760.
Lucille Love.
Series 11 and 12 tonight at the
Liberty Theatre. Tomorrow night the
last six reels of the story will be
run. *
LEUVIdGAMERICA
Pennsylvania Producers Fear that
Manufacturing May be Impaired
From Lack of Fuel.
The Philadelphia Ledger is author
ity for the statement that more than
60,000 miners have gone from the
coal mines in that state to tight for
their mother countries in Europe and
that a serious shortage of soft coal
faces the manufacturers of the east
ern states. The export business of
bituminous coal has Increased enor
mously owing to the war and ex
ports are now in excess of one mil
lion tons per month. Mr. Frank Wig
ton, a member of the Executive Com
mittee of the Bituminous Coal Asso
ciation of Pennsylvania says:
“Ordinarily the coal mines must be
replenished annually by 25,000 fresh
miners. The war has ended Slav mi
gration and 50,000 men have been
lost by our industry.
“Accentuating the labor stringen
cy, exports of soft coal have reached
1,000,000 tons a month for Spain,
Portugal, Italy, Greece, Denmark and
Norway and Sweden. Coal is being
sold along the Mediterranean at $15
a ton, this price including freight and
insurance rates of approximately
$10. With the mines of Belgium in
the hands of the Germans and with
England restricting her exports to al
lied powers to a minimum, soft coal
shippers here have picked up a lu
crative foreign trade.
Little of the Pennsylvania product
has gone abroad most of the ship
ments being from West Virginia.
According to statistics, the English
mines have thus far been depleted 30
per cent of their normal labor thro
enlistment. With constant withdraw,
al of these men into'the army her sup
ply of 270,000,000 tons a year must,
in a large measure, be reserved for
her fleet and for home consumption.
In the last 36 years the coal con
sumption of the United States has in
creased on an average of 10 per cent,
annually. With mining operations
this year declining 4 per cent and 14
per cent behind 1913, boom times will
And the country short of coal.
LUMBER STEAMERS ARRIVE
AT NEW RAILROAD TOWN.
SEWARD, Oct. <$.—The steamers
Wellesley and Northland arrived at
Anchorage yesterday with cargoes of
lumber and heavy timbers for the
Alaskan Engineering commission.
The cargoes of the two steamers ag
gregates one million five hundred
thousand feet. The officers report
some rough weather on the trip.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Sumner Smith, territorial mine in
spector, arrived in Valdez from the
westward on the Alameda and will
go to Kennecott to look over the
workings of the big copper mine.
Rubber iootwear to fit all at S.
Blum & Co. *
For the Nu-Bone Corset see Mrs.
Leavell, phone 200. tf.
Received on last boat a shipment
of Fresh Halibut and Ling Cod. Frye
Bruhn Co., Phone'29. *
Hot-point Irons, Heaters, Cookers,
and Electric appliances; men’s and
women’s suits, overalls and aprons,
at Emporium. *
Geo. C. Baldwin, one of the best
known mining men in Alaska and an
old timer in the Valdea district, was
an outgoing passenger <»n the Alame
da for Seattle. He has spent the sum
mer investigating copper properties
in this district for a syndicate which
desires to enter this section as a field
for its operations.
Valdez Drug Company nave a fine
line of School Stationery. tf.
Will buy a modern 22 special. See
F. J. Johnston. It
Jack Miller, the Slate creek mining
operator, was an outgoing passenger
on the Alameda for Seattle, where he
will join his family, and will then
visit the San Francisco exposition.
Mr. Miller reports a satisfactory sea
son’s work on his claims on Slate
creek, but states that operations were
hampered in the earlier part of the
season from lack of water.
Fancy Stationery at the Valdez
Drug Store.. •
Ladies, buttons made from your
own material, any size. Guy F. Cam
eron. kll
Pictures developed at the Valdea
Drug Company. tf.
Far good home-cooked meals try
Mrs. M. Olson, on Hobart Street. *
ACCIDENTS OF FORTUNE
Incident* That Led to the Rise of Two
Famous Dramatic 8tars.
More than 200 years ago a drama
tist, sitting in the bar of a London
tavern, overheard a girl in the next
room reading aloud from a play book,
and he was so much pleased by the
sound of her voice and the fluency
and sprlghtliness of her delivery that
he sought acquaintance with her, ob
tained her confidence and opened for
her the way to a successful dramatic
career. That girl, a dramatic genius
thus accidentally discovered, was Anne
Oldfield, who adorned the English stage
for twenty-five yearn, whose ashes rest
in the cloister of Westminster abbej
and whose name is one of historic re
nown.
A theatrical manager in Cincinnati in
the seventies, having planned to pro
duce a popular comic opera with a
chorus composed of pupils from the
public schools, selected Sarah Frost,
then a girl about twelve, perceived her
theatrical aptitude and provided the
opportunity for its development The
manager was Robert B. J. Miles, and
under his direction she made her first
appearance on the stage and passed
her juvenile novitiate.
Her stage name at first was Fanny
Brough. Later she adopted that of
Julia Marlowe. — William Winter in
Century Magazine.
BENEFITS FROM BOOKS.
Traveling Along th* Roads That Lead
Ua Into Other Worlds.
The benefit of literature can hardly
be overestimated. Books enlarge a
man’s horizon. They raise a mirage of
water brooks and date palm to travel
ers in the desert They are "the sick
man’s health, the prisoner's release.’’
Shut within a narrow routine of dull
uecesBlty, sad at heart in a world
where wrong triumphs, where beauty
has no assurance of respect, where hu
manity toils terribly merely for its dai
ly bread or the satisfaction of trivial
appetites, the earthly pilgrim need do
no more than pick up a book and, lo, he
steps into another world.
Here he is free from sorrow and care,
free from the burden of his body, from
envy, jealousy, contempt, self satisfac
tion, from vain regrets, from wishes
that can never wear the livery of hope,
from narrowness of soul and hardness
of heart
He may mingle in the society of the
good and great; he may listen to the
wise man and the prophet; he may see
all the conditions of human happiness
and misery; he may watch the human
spirit in its strife with circumstances
nobly conquer or basely succumb; he
may go down through the “gate of a
hundred sorrows” or accompany Dante
and Beatrice through the spheres of
paradise.—Atlantic Monthly.
Tobacco Production.
| India, second only to this country in
the production of tobacco, consumes
most of its own product and imports
very little. Russia is third and raises
practically all her supply, importing
and exporting only a small quantity.
Austria-Hungary Is the fourth produc
ing country, importing more than a
fourth ns much ns it raises and exports
one-eighth of its own crop. Germany
is an extensive grower of tobacco, but
imports two and a half times as much
as it cultivates and does not export
any. Trance raises considerable tobac
co under government supervision and
imports great quantities of the milder
Virginia tobaccos to keep up the quali
ty of the cigarettes and other products
made under the state monopoly. Both
France and Spain keep buyers in this
market
Not For Stranger*.
“What in the world does that mean?"
asked the traveler through a sparsely
settled region on the Cape. “There’s
no such place on my road map."
The hiau whom he addressed first
took a leisurely survey of the traveler
and his horse and then turned his
eyes toward the weatherbeaten sign,
which bore the single word “Tolpom."
“That ain't a name." he said, with
dignity; “it’s Jest an indication. It
means ‘To Long pond one mile.' It’s
plain enough to folks from neurby
that's hunting for the pond, and we
don't reckon on strangers taking much
interest.Yotith’s Cornpanion.
—
A Master of One Art.
“Have you ever loved any other
girls?" breathed the maiden tremu
lously.
“Well. I bnve attempted a few kin
dergarten, prep school and college
courses in affection.” responded the
man in the case, “hut this represents
a real purpose to get rid of my bache
lor’s degree.”
Whereupon he took a tittle firmer
hold.—Richmond Times-Dlspatch.
Professional Reticence.
"Did that man quote you correctly In
that Interview?”
“I can’t tell.” replied Senator Sor
ghum.
“Don’t you know?”
“Yes, 1 know, but 1 can't tell until
I have learned how my . constituents
like the article.”—Washington Star.
Hard Water.
The streams of water used In hy
draulic mining are said to be so swift
that if one tried to hack into them
with a sword the weapon would fly to
pieces. The water is moving so rapidly
that it has no time to yield beneath
the stroke and In consequence is like a
bar of iron.
A small bag cannot be made to con
tain What is large! A short rope can
not be used to draw water from a
deep well.—Chinese Proverb.
CITY EXPRESS
MEETS ALL BOATS AND NEVER MISSES A TRAIN
Auto for Hire Day or Night.
Buy and Sell Anything.
Phone 82 j. A. SPENARD. Prop.
Jas. E. Wilson, Freighter
Large or Small Deliveries Made
To Any Part of the Country.
PROMPT SERVICE GUARANTEED VALDEZ, ALASKA
When in Chitina Stop at the
CHITINA HOTEL
Fiaert Hotel n tke laterier---Well Heated, Clean Reeaee.
Bar in Connection. Rates Reasonable
MERCHANT’S CAFE
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone 6* Chan. Fischer, Propr.
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Best of Meals—Prices Reasonable
GENERAL STORE. - TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chitina.
General Freighting. KNUTE nafsted. Mbt.
VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Doing Business As Usual
Independent Laundry Co.
Satisfaction Guaranteed I I Foot Keystone Ave
Telephone 66 1 I Rough Dry lCc lb
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
PLLMBING, STEAM AND HOT WATER HEATING,
Sheet Metal Work, Metallic Roofing, Mine Air Pipe, Pipe and Fit
tings, Valves, Etc. Motor Boat Supplies.
Located on Broadway VALDEZ, ALASKA
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
PUGET SOUND Admiral PUGET SOUND
California Lina Alaska
ALASKA
Steamers sail from Seattle at 9 P. M. on
5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH
Steamer Sailing 15th call* lllamna and Kodiak—All Sailing call at Kntk
and Anchorage.
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to San Francluco every Wednesday and Sunday, connecting with
Steamers Yale and Harvard for Southern California.
Right reserved to change schedule without notice
RICHARD J. RING WOOD, Mgr., Seattle* VALDEZ DOCK CO„ Local Agt.
ALASKA I
STEAMSHIP CO. j
S. S. Mariposa, S. S. Alameda and S. S. Northwestern
sail from Seattle the 6th, 12th, 18th, 24th and 30th
EVERY MONTH
From Valdez sotith-7th, 13th, 19th, 25th and 31th for Cor
dova, Skagway, Juneau. Wrangell, Ketchikan and Seattle.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan. Wrangell. Juneau. Sheep
Creek Treadwell, Douglas, Skagway, Cordova, Kllamar, Valdes and La -
touche. Explosives, S.S. Seward, on the 6th; Latouche, on the 15th; S. S.
Cordova. 26th of each month—right reserved to change this schedule
without notice.
fi, b, TRACY, Gea’l Ageat VALDES DOCK CO„ Level Agent.