A very choice selection of
Easter Bulbs received on
the Alaska. Make your se
lections early.
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New Butterick Fashion
Books and Patterns now
on display.
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Making a specialty of fine
wool sox for men. Priced
a pair from 40c to 75c.
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Valdez Mercantile Co.
STORE HOURS, 8-30 a.m. to 5-30 p.m.
DONALDSON SCHEDULE
The following schedule for the har
bor boat "Lt. C. V. Donaldson" will
take effect today. All orders to the
contrary are revoked.
Monday, Wednesdays, Thursdays,
and Fridays:
Lve. Fort Llscum Leave Valdez
8:16 a. m. 9:46 a. m.
1:16 p. m. 4:00 p. m.
TUESDAY
1:16 p. m. 2:00 p. m.
4:30 p. m. 6:00 p. m.
SATURDAY
1:16 p. m. 4:00 p. m.
7:16 p. m. 10:30 p. m.
11:16 p. m. 12:00 m. m.
There will be no trips of the boat
on the 2nd and 4th Fridays of each
month, these days being used to clean
boilers.
Special trips or cancelling of the
above will be made without notice
only to meet exigencies of the ser
vice.
All official kasiness between Val
dez and the Poet should be arranged
for transaction, where nosslble, so
that advantage will be taken of the
scheduled trips and extra trips will
be made at a minimum and made only
when urgently needed.
a. R. KOEHLER,
Capt. 14th Infantry, A. Q. M.
New Goods
Coffin’s Codfish Chunks, Swedish
Sweet Toast, White and Rye Knocker
brod, Grant’s Hygienic Crackers,
Pata-a-Cake and Teco Buckwheat, at
Love-Whitley co. tf
NOTICK
Owing to the increased expense of
operation, occasioned by application
of the Territorial eight hour law, it is
necessary to increase the price on de
livery of coal, therefore the price of
coal delivered will be as follows:
Bulk .$14.50 per ton
Sacked (ton lots) . 18.00 per ton
Sacked, (half ton) .... 9.50 per ton
Sacked, less than % ton 1.35 a sack
If VALDEZ TRANSFER CO.
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Buy your groceries direct. Save
fifteen to twenty-five per cent. The
house that selie direct to consumers.
Randall Grocery & Brokerage Co.,
Jnc., 82 Marion St., Seattle Wn. tf
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+ 1+
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Steamship Alameda—Sailed south
from Valdez, Saturday, Jan. 5.
Steamship Admiral Evans—Sailed
south from Valdez, December 31.
Steamship Alaska—Sailed south for
Seattle Jan. 11.
Steamship Victoria — Sailed north
from Seattle Thursday, Jan. 10.
Toys: Toys! Toys!
Of all descriptions at the Valdez
Drug Store. tf
Cannery Sites
We have customers for select can
nery sites located in the Prince Wil
liam Sound District. If you have any
thing to offer send full particulars,
location, description, etc., to
BOND & BABSON,
Field Dept.
32 Broadway,
New York City.
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Furnished rooms at J&rs Osland’s.
Prices reasonable. *
A complete line of nugget and ivory
jewelry, watches, diamonds, etc., at
the Valdez Drug Store.
Just received a new line of Pyra
ln Ivory statable for Christmas gifts
at the Valdez Drug Store. tf
Salesmen Wanted
Does your trade use salesboards?
We invite correspondence from sales
men who are making their trade reg
ularly. The most remunerative side
line—no samples—no collections—
Commissions due as soon as order is
shipped. We want only first-class men.
Enquiries to receive attention must
state line carried and how long, class
of trade called on, territory and how
often covered. The K & S Sales Com
pany. 154-56 Whiting Street, Chicago.
Illinois. tf
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Just received ail the latest popu
lar tvufi at U. o. Kennte*. ti |
LOST—Meershaum pipe, three dif
ferent pieces, meerschaum, amber and
bakelite stem. Return to Prospector
and receive one dollar reward. kl2 i
They were discussing at a dinner
the voting frauds at a recent election
and one of the guests told this story
of a repeater:
He was an ignorant fellow, this re
peater, wearing a stolid, sullen look.
Upon being arrested, he asked what
crime lay at his door.
“You are charged,” said the police
man, “with having voted twice.”
“Charged, am I?” muttered the
prisoner. "That’s strange. I expected
to be paid for it.”
“It is true,” the lawyer asked a,
witness, “that you were the only sob-1
er man at the banquet?”
“No, of course not,” the witness
answered, indignantly.
“Who was, then?” said the lawyer.
One hundred and thirty passengers
from Seward were on the steamer Al
aska last evening en route to the
States.
LOUIE’S CAFE I
Open Day and Night McKinley Street, Below Cable Office
All Kinds dM^astry^r*Sale
rfPEBYTOQNG THE BBM ANDt MABOVIOB. Prop*.
SOLDIER'S LOT NOT SO BAD
American Fighters at tha Front Net
In the Trenches Continuously—
Plenty ef Amusement.
The trouble with the American pub
lic la that they have heard and reud
so much of the great war and its hor
rors that they think their hoya are go
ing to be continually In tbe midst of
bloodshed and constantly In discom
fort, and they concentrate on the ter
rible side of It and ask, “How long
will It be before he is killed?*’ They
don’t see that that Is not all there Is
to It,** declares a war correspondent.
It la natural enough of course. A
man writes a book about the war.
takes one Incident, and another, end
another, makes chapters of them, with
(he result that the man and woman
who read hie book reed a succession
of horrors, and they think It Is all like
that They don't realise, or they for
get. the weeks between these “hor
rors'* and discomforts.
A raun Is in the front trench under
fire, say, two days, and sent hack four,
or perhaps four days and sent hack
eight. Usually a brigade Is In tbe
“fire sector" 32 days. Then It Is sent
back to the rest billets for an equal
time. Here the men are In practical
ly no danger—perhaps an occasional
shell. They are together in Jolly com
radeship. having lots of amusements—
football, baseball—plenty to do. They
are well fed. well equipped, well
Hinuned.
Of course, the grouchy soldier Is go
ing to have a grouchy time, but file
life of the Atn‘*rlean soldier on the
western front Is going to be just about
what he makes It. If he goes into it
in the right spirit be will find that It
isn't so bad as It is cracked up to lie.
And then he will be In a great state of
inUigmition because the reports of it
have made It seem so awful.
When he realises that It Isn’t so
hud. he mustn’t forget to sit down aud
tell the folks at home! He knows it’s
it lot better rliitn he thought it was go
ing to be. But they don't.
KORNILOFF IS A BRAINY MAN
‘Noted Russian General Has at His
Finger-Ends the Literature of
Fully Fifteen Countries.
Whatever may be said or though;
of KornllotT. there ran he no doubt
that he Is brilliantly clever says a
correspondent. He might be termed a
“self-made man.” At the age of thir
teen lie was tending sheep on the
Steppes: today, at forty-seven, he tms
at Ids finger-ends the literature of 15
countries and all manner of military
lore.
At one period of Ills meteoric career
he combined the two lll-ran(died pur
suits of science and spying.
Though he can converse In 15 lan
guages. Koruiloff Is a great believer
In the maxim that “silence Is golden.”
On one occasion he snld: “I niu a
fighting general, accustomed to net
and not to talk. In IVtrogrnd most of
the time Is spenl In talking.”
An Heirloom.
A prerevolutionary mansion Is to tie
preserved in Albany as a historic
shrine, says the Brooklyn Standard
(Ttilon. This was the home of Oen.
Philip Schuyler, who was In command
of the fontinentut troops In the victor;
of Saratoga in 1777. The house hud
been erected 15 years before and stood
In the open country within whnt nre
now the city limits. The estate, with
Its ample grounds and negro slave
quarters, was known as "The Pasture.*
After thetr surrender at Saratoga Gen
eral Burgoyne nnd other British offi
cers were held as war prisoners at his
home by General Schuyler. Washing
ton. Franklin and Lafayette were en
terrnined there, and In the main par
lor General Schuyler's daughter. Eliza
beth. was married to Alexander Ham
ilton. whom she long survived after
'he fatal bullet fired by Auron Burr at
Weehawken ended the life of Washing
ton's secretary of the treasury.
Jutt Pieces of Paper.
Apropos of a recent financial mag
nate’s downfall, a depositor remarked
to a hank, official that he thought that
the man In a subordinate position who
handles large amounts of cash Is sub
jected to a greater temptation than the
“high financier.” “Not so.” was the
answer; “I was a paying toller for ten
years, and 1 can assure you that han
dling cash In large amounts Is abso
lutely like handling simple pieces of
paper with numbers on them. It Is
the mathematics of accounting that In
terests a cashier—the keeping of those
hits of paper In perfect order. The
question of what be might do with the
bills never enters a busy paying teller’s
mind.”—The Outlook.
Couldn’t Treat Him.
"You’ll have to get another doctor,”
said the one to the patient who had
Just called on him.
“Am I so 111 as thatT” gasped the suf
ferer.
“I don’t kuow Just how 111 you are,”
replied the man of medicine, "but 1
know you’re the lawyer who cross
examined me when I appeared as an
expert witness. My conscience won’t
let me kill you, and I’ll be hanged If
I want to cure you. Good day.”
The Janitors Won't Kick.
"I am afraid of this daylight sav
ing plan.” >
“Whyr
"Because they won’t stop with set
ting the clocks ahead; they will be
monkeying with toe thermometers
next. What will we do If they pat 70
decrees down to 66 degrees la /the
winter timer’—The I.stub.
WONOER WORDS OF RUSSIANS
Favorite Phraa* That Moons Happl
nooo and Peace for Which They
Have So Long Struggled.
“I am going to try to tench my read
ers alx Russian words " v rites William
O. Shepherd In Everybody's. “Tlie first
I* ‘tavarlsh.' It means ‘comrade.’ There
oaed to be a law In Russia against
using It! The French In their revolu
tion. meant about rhe same thing when
they said ‘cltoyen.’ It Is a word you
hear a thousand times a day. every
where.
“‘Mir hex annex! e mntrtbutxl.'
These are the other five words. You
hear them as we In the TTnfted States
hear our latest slang phrnsea. The
Russians use them as we once used
the phrase, ‘sixteen to one.’ or 'safety
first.' They mean 'no annexations and
no contributions.’ Every Russian lost
la his happy wonderland, full of the
new Joy of life, means, when he uses
these words, to say. ‘This world I* a
more beautiful place than I had ever
thought. I.et us nil be brothers and
help each oilier to enjoy It. iustead
of fighting to mii'-c slaves of each
other and to dHvo tlie beauty and hap
piness oul of life.'
"There Is something infinitely pa
i thetlc in their faces when you sa.v to
u Russian. 'Yes. Your idea is line
But what of the Hermans?’
| “In vain the Russians have stood
their front and cried to the Hermans.
All the rest of the world is listening,
except ihc Hermans, to that Russian
call to happiness and peace:
"Tavarlsh! Mir hex uiiticxl e con
tribute! !’ "
BEAR GOT ALL CAMP’S HAMS
Bruin, Later Captured in Trap, Pro
vided Juicy Steak and Pelt
Brought Good Price.
With bums at present prices even a
rich eiir|K>ratlnn like the Orent North
iern I'h|mt company cannot afford to
feed hears on that sort of fodder, anil
so It was a distinct relief to the boss
of the company’s camp on Klin stream,
nine miles from Sechoomonk Falls,
when the camp timekeeper. Raymond
Dyer of Rancor, acted, a Rancor cor
respondent of the Nctv York World
writes.
In the enmp on Kim stream was a
barrel,of smoked bams, one morn
Ing the barrel was full. A week later
the barrel was hatnless. the cook found.
Tracks of a young bear were around
{the building.
i Dyer set a trap. One morning at
three o’elock the crew were aroused by
a tremendous grunting and thrashing
The ham thief whs In the trap, fait.
furry and furious, securely pinched by
his right forepaw. A logger smashed
the bear's skull with kn ax. The men
ate some of the hear meat and Dyyc
got the akin, which he sold for a good
price In Bangor, and also collected the
state bounty. $ft.
Nerve of a “Rookie.”
During some recent maneuvers, says
the Kehobnth Sunday Herald, a raw
recruit had been told off as orderly.
On reaching the marquee where tile
officer was .ie |a>ked his head In Hnd
bluntly Inquired:
“Have y anything for me to do.
mister'?’’
Disgustedly laying down his cigar,
the officer exclaimed:
“Why the deuce don't you introduce
yourself In n proper manner? Sit
down." lie added, “and I will show you
how to report yourself."
The “rookie” seated himself und the
officer, proceeding to the entrance,
walked briskly Into the tent, saluted,
and said:
“Orderly for the day. sir. Have you
any orders for ine?”
The recruit calmly picked up the dis
carded cigar from the table and, be
tween puffs laconically replied:
“No. there’s very little doing today.
Tou can hoof It!"
Horse* Loyal to Cavalry.
Displaying almost human Instinct,
one hundred horses turned over to the
remount station by the First New
York cavalry when that organisation
was transferred Into inachlne-gun
companies, demonstrated their disap
proval of the reorganization by stam
peding, relates the Brooklyn Eagle. The
horses paid no attention to the mili
tary discipline, bnt broke down the
barricade of the remount station and
galloped over to the picket line of the
First cavalry. thetr old rendezvous.
Many of the horses took |M>sirions In
front of the tents of officers and sol
diers who have ridden them for years.
An alarm was spread and the cavalry
men were compelled to corral their
former dumb associates and drive
them back to the remount station.
Burros Carry Copper Ore.
The wood-carrying hnrro, passing
through the plaza, to the delight of
tourists and artists alike, for decades
and centuries, now has a rival. It Is
the burro laden with copper ore. A
caruvun of these burros, carrying huge
sacks filled with 150 pounds of 15 per
cent copper ore, arrived in the city a
few days ago, says the Santa Fe New
Mexican, traveling all the way from
the iAhoma Copper company’s mine
12 miles east of the Dalton canyon.
They came down the 8anta Fe canyon
In good time, aud carried the ore to
the depot where It was shipped.
Makeshift.
“Those oldttmera used to Inscribe
their historic records on rocks with a
chisel.’* fc
“Yea." replied®#* young own noted
for sudden outbursts of wisdom; "I
suppose the ancients had .their trou
bles about whits paper shortage the
same aa we have."
THE GOVERNMENT
NEEDS YOUR HELP!
This bank has been appointed by Secretary
McAdoo agent for the sale of War Savings
Stamps and Thrift Stamps.
A small supply of each is now on hand for
distribution.
at $4.12 each
The Saving Stamps sell duringthis month
and will be redeemed Jan. 1st 1923, for $5jOO
being interest at 4 per cent compounded
quarterly.
The Thrift Stamps are for children and sell
at 25 cents each
Further particulars cheerfully furnished on
request.
OUR SER VICES ARE FREE
THE FIRST BANK OF VALDEZ i
Valdez Dock Co . PHONE NO. 1
JOBBER IN
COAL, HAY
GRAIN and
LUMBER
Office Foot of Wall Street
Headquarters For j
Electrical Supplies
Only the best manufac- 4
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tures are represented in 4
our stock. 4
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All electrical Supplies we , <
sell are guaranteed pro- <
ducts.
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Make your electrical pur- «j
chases here and have the <j
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assurance of absolute satis- 4
faction and quality. j
Prince William Sound Water, \
light, Power, Tel. Company *
Alvah Aemes, chief clerk of the
railway and mail service for thta part
of Alaska, was a passenger on the
steamship Alaska last evening.
Capt. Jack Stanley returned yester
day from a trip to the Port Wells dis
trict. He stopped oyer with J. D.Jef
ferson on the trip and reports him
as well and living on -the fa* of the
sea.
GERMAN VICTORY
WOULD INJURE HER
AMSTERDAM, Jan. 11.—German
victory in the war would mean that
the Germans “as the dominant race,
would have to keep In subjection by
force of arms the crushed and dis
possessed peoples,” asserts George
Oothein, a.leadlnf liberal member of
■the- Owns rslchstag In an editorial'
article la the official organ of the in
fluentl&l German association for com
mercial treaties.
“Should we actually succeed in
gaining a decisive victory, which only a
a few persons believe possible,“ he
writes, “we should have to bear a
weight of armaments for that pur
pose which would make it impossible
for our national strength.
Second Call
We will accept Liberty Bonds for
stock in the Valdes Iron Works.
Make your money earn 26 per cent
instead of 4 per cent. tf
Anew FOass Will
fit any standard make o f camera.
They are the standard. Guy B. Oam
eron. tf
* CITY BXPRB8* Phone «»; ready
to tranafa. that baggage for yon. tf