STEAM HEATED HOT AND’COLD BATHS
Copper Block Hotel
VALDEZ, ALASKA
“The House of Comfort”
pH0NE 7 FOR MEN ONLY
Do Your Christmas
Shopping Early
An Excellent Line of
Nugget and Ivory Chains; Rings, Scarf Pins, Brooches,
Fobs and Cuff Buttons from which to choose.
A Brand New Selection of
Hand Painted China in Writing sets; Ash Trays, Placques.
A I.arge Assortment of Toys.
OWL DRUG CO.
Same Location New Management
\Fy XU f strictly fresh Eggs, Butter, Fruit
ir toil want and Groceries, and appreciate
prompt deliveries, try
KING’S GROCERY
Phone 188
Independent Laundry Co.
Satisfaction Guaranteed | I Poor Keystone Ave
Telephone «H '■ ' R»uffh Dry ICe Jh
When in Chitina Stop at the
CHITINA HOTEL
Finest Hotel in the Interior—Well Heated, Clean Rooms.
Bar in Connection. Rates Reasonable
THINK KRAUSE KILLED
BIESOLD FOR $15««
That Ernst Bie3old, 35. a baker,
was murdered and robbed of $1500
less than a month ago by Edward
Krause, alias Edward Miller, alias
Ole Moe, alias-SiunTke, is the
suspicion that is growing in the
mindq^ of the members of the local
German colony.
Biesold came to Juneau from Can
ada, where he owns a homestead,
shortly after war broke out in Eu
rope owing to anti-German senti
ment in the Dominion. He stayed
here a few weeks before he secured
work with the Alaska Gastineau Min
ing Company at Thane.
Biesold quit his job at. Sheep creek
■late last month and came to Juneau
with between $1200 and $1500. He
told Gus Meerschmidt that he was
going away. Meerschmidt advised
him to sail on a boat which did not
touch at a Canadian port, in order
that he would have no trouble in
reaching the United States. Accord
ingly Biesold made arrangements to
leave on the Admiral Evans, although
he did not buy his ticket.
Mr. Meerschmidt said to the Em
pire today:
“Biesold, three other men and
myself went down to the New York
Exchange saloon to have a drink.
While we were talking, Krause was
sitting at a table in the barroom. He
came up to us and spoke to me and
knew one of the others in the party.
In German he asked Biesold if he
was going away. Biesold replied he
, was going that night. Biesold had
told us in Krause’s preseiice that he
had a large sum ol' money with him
and we had told him to be careful.
“This was about noon, or 1 o clock
Biesold and 1 had some business
which we wanted to transact before
he left for Seattle, and as I started
to leave the saloon I bade him good
bye and reminded him that he was
to see me before be left. Krause
then invited Biesold to come down
to the waterfront to his (Krause’s)
boat. They left together. That was
the last any one has seen of Biesold,
as far as I have been able to learn.
1 have learned that he did not sail
on the boat he intended.”
It was said that afternoon that
Biesold had planned to leave on the
Al-Ki and that he had bought a tick
et, but no ticket stub had been found
at any of the steamship offices show
ing him to have left and no one is re
norted to have-seen. Wm-..A-.ias.n~h*.
has been confused with Biesold’s.
‘‘I am sure Biesold would have re
turned to keep his business appoint
ment. unless something happened to
him,” says Meersehmidt.—Juneau
Empire.
ANCHORAGE ON RESERVE,
RESIDENTS MAY NOT VOTE|
A special act of congress may be
necessary before the people residing
in Anchorage for vote for delegate
or on other territorial affairs.
The legal status of people living in
the C'ook Inlet town seems to be
somewhat involved, according to in
vestigations made by local attorneys.
The federal law provides that the
national government shall have com
plete jurisdiction over all reserva
tions set aside by congress.
Under the government railroad act
the President reserved certain town
sites along the line of the government
railway of which the land at the
mouth of ship creek, including An
chorage as platted, and considerable
other ground is one.
" m T
I MOOSEHIDE CHIEF
KNOWS ABOUT BUM/.
Dawson News: Chief Isaac of the
Moosehide Indians dropped in today
to report.
“Injun all return today,” said
Isaac, "from Glacier trail where we
shoot em caribou. All my Injun
shootem seventy caribou and bring
ein to‘Moosehide and putera in cache
for winter. That ‘nough last all win
ter.
"Jess you tellum white men killem
3000 caribou, but Injun he kill only
seventy. Me no llkeum white man
shootum caribou.
“Jess you tellum in newspaper that
it all right white man come dig deep
—catchum my gold on my creeks—
that all right. Detum white man
have gold. Injun no eatum gold. But
Injun wantum caribou—wantum
hunting ground. . In —-~.»a white
man no huntum game; in Canada
side white man he go shootum cari
bou which belong Injun. Caribou
my meat. I no shootum horse; I no
shootum white man cattle. You tell
uic newspaper—good—you throw em
bull, eh?” i
in an experimental plant a German
city is extracting from Bewage grease
WOMEN WITHE
' VOTE MATED
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Will Organize Campaign to Havej
Prohibition Become Effective in
Alaska If it Is Passed.
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SITKA: The local Woman’s |
Christian Temperance Union organi- j
zation has adopted resolutions urg-1
ing congress affirmatively to approve
the act of the last legislature which '
provides for an election on the liquor
question of the prohibition of the li
quor traffic in Alaska to be held and
to make effective the vote that may I
be recorded on the question at that j
time.
The Sitka organization will ask the
local organizations in other Alaska
towns to aid in the campaign to in
duce congress to pass the act invali
dating the prohibition election and to |
make it effective and binding. The |
resolutions are as follows:
To the Senate and House of Repre- j
sentatives of the United States: i
Your petitioners, the Women’s
Christian Temperance Union of Sit
ka, citizens of the United States and j
residents of Sitka, Alaska, respect- j
fully represent that *
Chapter seven of the Session Iaiws
of Alaska, for the year 1915, ap
proved by the Governor of Alaska,
April, 1916,’ provide for an ex
pression by the people of the Terri
tory of Alaska as to whether or not
intoxicating liquors shall be manu
factured or sold in the Territory of
Alaska after the first day of Janu
ary, 1918:
The question will be submitted to
the people of Alaska at the general
election in November, 1916:
The people of Alaska should of
right tie able to prohibit the manu
facture or sale of spirituous or in
toxicating liquors in the Territory of
Alaska, or any sub-division thereof,
if they so elect.
Wherefore, we do most earnestly
and respectfully petition that the
First session of the Sixty-fourth Con
gress affirmatively ratify said Chap
ter seven of the session laws of Alas
ka for 1915, and further provide
that if the returns of said election
in November, 1916, show that a ma
lority of the electors in any judicial
Division of the Territory of Alaska
are opposed to the manufacture or
sale of spirituous or intoxicating li
quors after the first day of January,
1918, no license shall be issued for
the manufacture or sale of spirituous
or intoxicating liquors in such Divi
sion after January first, 191S.
ROCKEFELLER’S PLAN
FOR HANDLING LABOR.
The plan devised by John D. Rock
efeller. Jr., and the representatives
of the employes of the Colorado Fuel
& Iron company became almost to
tally effective November 1st, when
notices ■ of the scale of wages, the
working conditions and the list of of
fenses for which the men may be
suspended or discharged without no
tice were posted at each of the mines
of the company in Colorado and Wyo
ming.
The principal offenses punishable
by instant discharge or suspension
are: Violation of law, changing the
checks on mine cars or loading out
another’s coal, theft of supplies,
changing working place without or
ders; wilfully loading out slate, etc.,
with coal, for abuse and negligence
of animals, for intoxication or boot
legging, for riding on trips other than
man trips, for carrying detonating
caps at mines where shot fires are
employed, for indecent and immoral
conduct, for fighting, carrying con
cealed weapons, for three days’ ab
sence without permission except in
caseB of illness, for sleeping on duty.
Particular attention is drawn in the
notice to the Colorado coal mining
statutes which prohibit many of these
offenses.
In the coke ovens similar offenses
and some specific changes due to the
difference in operations are punish
able by instant dismissal.
Under the agreement between the
company its employes, all other of
fenses must be reported to the field
agent of the social betterment di
vision, David Griffiths, and the of
fender warned, before he can be pun
ished with the extreme penalty. It
is also a part of the agreement that
the list of unpardonable offenses
must be published at each of the com
pany’s properties before punishment
is inflicted.—The Mining American.
An imitation horn is made of a
mixture of wheat flour and sodium
silicate that can be molded under
pressure when new and be turned
like brass when it has set.
A turntable for automobiles which !
' ifTW faqyWMHirftf 11HV "HM Ml It 'jW** iJlfTirTl IlFift*1 *°^
WHISTLER’S BREAKFASTS, j
They Were Famous Functions When
the Artist Was In Funds.
An invltatiou to one of Mr Whistler’*
"breakfasts" was prized by many per
sons almost as much as a royal com
mand. more by some. Mr Whistler
brought together about Ills dainty, long,
narrow breakfast table in ils long,
narrow room with pale yellow washed .
walls a symposium of those persons in I
London most noted for wit or endowed I
with rare original talent of some kind j
Sprinkled here and there for the sake. ,
no doubt, of half tones were others
whose chief qualification was the pow j
er of chastened and judicious nppreeia- |
tiou.
These symposiums were held by
Whistler In bis splendid studio. 33 Tite
street, tit present the studio of Sargent.
Whistler did not steadily occupy that
place, which a depleted treasury some
times caused him to forsake tempera
rily. According to the widely known
story, when the bailiffs came in to dis
possess him for debt be pressed them
Into service as extra men to help serve
one of his famous breakfasts, after
which he would retire to a low, ram
bling workshop up an nlleywtfy off the
Pulliam road. There In solitary quiet
he would bring forth another master
piece to startle the world and furnish
him with the means of re-entering
beautiful Tite street and taking up the
thread of his more princely existence
-Princess Lazarovich-Hrebeliunovlch
(Kleanor Oalboum In Century Maga
I zinc.
CREMATION IN INDIA.
| Th« Brahman's Funeral Pyre and tha
Ceremony of Burning.
After the body of a Brahman bus
: been anointed witb sesumum oil the
big toes are bound together and the
two thumbs. It Is then lashed to a lit
ter made of two long parallel poles, to
which are fastened seven transverse
pieces of wood. The shroud is very
simple, a large piece of cloth wrapped
round the body and hound with ropes
of straw. If the dead Brahman leaves
a will his face is not covered: other
wise the shroud is brought up over the
head.
The burning ground, or ghat, is usu
ally near a river that those who have
taken part in the ceremonies may puri
fy themselves as quickly and as easily
as possible. Before erecting the fu
neral pyre a shallow pit is dug and
partially filled with dry wood: the body
i is covered with splinters of dry wood
! and sprinkled witb panehagaria. an in
flammable liquid, and plaeed on the
pyre and covered with branches and
roots, like a but.
The nearest relative or heir then
takes a lighted taper and sets fire to
the four corners of the pile and leaves
at onee to perform the ceremony of
purification. The carriers, being of the
lowest caste, remain until the body is
entirely consumed.—Westminster Ua
zeite.
A Paradoxical River.
On the African shore, near the gulf
of Aden and connecting the lake of
Assal with the tnnin ocean, may be
found one of the moat wouderful riv
ers in the world, 'ripis curiosity does
uot How to but from the ocean toward
i inland. The surface of Lake Assal
itself is nearly 70(» feet below the
mean tide, and it Is fed by this para
doxicnl river, which is about twenty
two miles In length. It is highly prob
able that the whole basin which the
lagoon partly tills was once an arm
of the sea. which became separated
therefrom by the diming of loose sand.
The inflowing river has a limited vol
ume. being fullest, of course, at high
tide, and has tilled the basin to such
an extent that evaporation and supply
exactly balance each other
Throe True Steele.
j Iron and carbon steel, vanadium
; steel and tungsten steel are pointed
out by Professor J. O. Arnold. British
metallurgist, as the three true steels
The second kind is iron and carbon
steel with 5 per cent of vanadium
the iron carbide having ceased to ex
ist. and vauudlmp carbide being pres
ent. and the third kind is iron and
carbon steel having 11.5 per cent of
tungsten, the iron carbide having been
expelled by the tungsten. Iron and
carbon steel hardens at 730 degrees C-.
vanadium steel Just below 1,450 de
green, its melting point, and tungsten
steel at 850 degrees to 1.200 degrees —
San Francisco Chronicle.
Waather Effects.
The weather affects man In more
ways. It appears, than tunny suspect.
For example, it is believed that pres
sure variation due to fluctuating winds
have peculiar pntbologienl effects, thal
certain electrical conditions of the air
induced by low atmospheric pressure
have a pathological effect on nervous
subjects and that solar radiation has
peculiar effects which vary according
to the season.
I
His Strong Point.
Employer—Whut special qualiflca
tiona have you for business? Ap'pllcant
—Every place where I ever worked I
reduced the Arm's expenses before I
left. Employer—Ah. an efficiency ex
pert: Applicant—No: I usually started
in at $8 a week and when 1 quit I was
getting $5.—Judge
Babies' White Clothes.
According to a London oculist. If
white clothing for babies could he
abolished. In a generation there would
I be a 20 per cent decrease in the num
ber of persons with defective vision.
The Haavieet Meal.
•When do you take the heaviest meal
of the day?" asked a bachelor of a mar
lalail '
CITY EXPRESS
MEETS ALL, BOATS AND NEVEIt MISSES \ TRAIN
Auto for Hire Day or Niglit.
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
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Best of Meals—Prices Reasonable
GENERAL STORE. - TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chitina.
General Freighting. KNUTE NAFSTED Mur.
MERCHANT’S CAFE
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone 03 Uhas. Fincher, Propr.
VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Real Estate, Insurance, General Brokerage
Absentees Business Properly Handled
Treat Building, Alaska Ave. Telephone No. 60
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Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
PLLMBING, STEAM AND HOT WATER HEATING.
Sheet Metal Work, Mine Air Pipe, Pi( e and Fittings, Valves, Etc.
Motor Boat Supplies, Paints and Oils.
Located on Valdez. Dock, Opposite Prospector Office. Phone
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
PUGET SOUND Admiral [ PUGET SOUND
California Line Alaska
ALASKA
Steamers sail from Seattle at 9 P. M. on
5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH
Steamer Sailing 15th call* Ilia main and Kodiak—All Sailing call at Kulk
and Anchorage.
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to San Franelaeo every Wednesday and Sunday, connecting »hh
Steamer* Yale and Harvard Cor Southern California.
Right reserved to change schedule without notice
RICHARD J. RIIVla WOOD, Mgr., Seattle; \ALDEZ DOCK CO., Local Agt.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
S. 8. ALAMEDA AND 8. 8. NORTHWESTERN SAIL FROM SE
ATTLE: THE 10TH, 20TH AND 80TH,
EVERY MONTH
FROM VALDEZ SOUTH—8TH, 18TH, 28TH, FOR CORDOVA,
JUNEAU, WRANGLE, KETCHIKAN AND SEATTLE.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Sheep
Creek, Treadwell. Douglas, Skagway, Cerdova, Ellamar, Valdez 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.
p. B. TRACY, Gen'l Agent VALDEZ DOCK CO.. Local Agent.
When You Leave
For the Outside
take the
“MILWAUKEE”
One road—one management—(me service all the way
through to Chicago. It’s the Short Line to the East
over
THE NEW STEEL TRAIL
For information and literature write or ask|
J. C. MARTIN, Agent, Valdez, Alaska.
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST, PAUL RY.
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