“BUFFET”
“The old reliable stand”
A place to meet your friends
for RECREATION.
PHONE 7.
1894 CHAS. R. CRAWFOR01911
PIONEER CONTRACTOR a<N BUHOER
OF ALASKA
CAN HANDLE ANY CLASS OF BUILDING
Building material of all kinds, and several gi ades of
wall board kept in stock at all times
OFFICE AND FACTORY, VALDEZ AL ^SKA
Phone 18
REFERENCES ' S. BLUM A CO, Valdez, and, Cordo.a,
BANKERS ( B. M. BEHRENDS, Juneau, Alaska.
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Merchant’s Cafe
Pbone 63 OPRN DAY AND NIGHT Cluw. Fteeher, Propr.
VVHKN YOU PI T OX
THK TOP (OAT
we have tailored for you. your
first thought will be how com
fortably it fits. A look in the
glass will at once demonstrate
) its smartness, distinction and
individuality. And your satis
' faction will be heightened by
the knowledge that you haven't
had to pay extravagantly for
such high class tailoring.
BEN SILVERMAN
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
PLUMBING STOVES and RANGES HEATING
MOTOR BOAT SUPPLIES, PAINTS and OILS
Mine Air Pipe, Valvee, Hoee, Pipe and Fitting#
Dock. Oppooltc Proopoctor Office._Tolophonc 24
OUR MACHINERY
Is thoroughly up-to-date. It en
ables us to turn out perfect
work in a short time. This ma
chinery does more than wash
! the articles sent to us. It prac
tically serilUes them too. Send
>your things ehre this week as a
test. That will demonstrate the
superiority of our work. We al
so wash and clean carpets.
Phone 166.
INDEPENDENT
STEAM LAUNDRY
..
THE SENATE
ANGUS CHISHOLM—FRANK GUSTAFSON
CIGARS AND BILLIARDS .
Nicely Furnished Rooms. Phone 38
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THE PINZON I
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TOBACCO AND CIGARS |
Gafflcj’SLChocolateJ1
POOL AND BILLIARDS
PHONE 69 Me Kinley St, Valdez
Xmas Goods
an0 ttsetul articles are now oomtns
on erery boat, tor tbs Emporium, tt
Valdes Flab Prices
W>«t ••» °*u * ■P"*-®®
Dock; halibut .05 cent! pound oo
fishing grounds; black cod .01 1*1
cents.
O. W. LONG.
Valdes Iron Woru. If you karat
...*T PERIOD OF LIFE
Generation That Really Knows What
Gladness Is Has Not Been Bom,
Asserts Church Paper.
Soinr- none tins arisen to remark
that human life up to nhont fifty years
ago wns not worth living—that only
the inventions anil Institutions of tin
last half century have tnaile life hear
aide.
Unfortunately. there is no way accu
rately to gauge tlm degree of happi
ness of any period nr even to detini
j exactly what happiness is, says tIn
I Christian Herald.
All we can know for certain Is that
1 the happiness of ntir own times 1s tin
best that is attainable to us. and lucky
i Is he who gets his share of It.
Hnpplnes®. like health. i« known t>
: ns chiefly through Its npjsislte. Health
' Is known through disease and pain,
i ami happiness through disappoint
I ntent and misery.
The masses of mankind, until ibis
eeiimry almost diituli. mm make herr.1
their sufferings and dissatisfaction,
j The woes of centuries are finding Ht
| ferance In the*frer speech of onr day.
j The wall may cause the unthinking j
I to suppose that the sun of human
j happiness Is suddenly obscured. But.
: to the contrary, the remedies follow
! lug the better understanding of wrong
| conditions steadily Improve the eon
| ditions under which happiness may
j heroine more general. The more we
i hear of wrongs, the fewer wrongs we
; have.
Philosophers may wrangle ahont II
! nniII doomsday, and no doubt they
! will; blit the age which knows the
! least earthly misery and woe Is the
i one that has been longest dead, anil
the geiieralion that really knows what J
happiness Is and run realize Its full
'possession Is a long lime yet unborn
i NEITHER PENCIL NOR P£N j
i Writing Implement, Made of Mixture
of Wax and Ground Pumice
Stone, Recent Invention.
A writing Implement enntpnsed of :i i
,mixture of wax nnd finely ground V '
i mice stone rontnlning particles of Ink
i hits been Invented by William C. fleer
|of Akron. O., to take the place of ordl
Inary apd fountain pens. pencils. era>
jons ami all tither writing Implements, j
Isay the Popular Science Monthly. As j
jlhe hotly of the new writing device Is |
com |h used of a mixture of wax and j
J pumice stone, w hich Is easily w orn !
■ away when rtilihed against a paper j
jsurfaee. the Inventor elnlnts that the j
; cells of Ink Intermixed with tile wax j
I nnd pumice stone will also he liber- J
| nted. giving a ttnlfnrui supply of ink.
The device Is made by mixing tin
,wnx. pumice stone anil Ink together.
When It^ls heated to the proper tent
'perature It Is suddenly Immersed in j
I cold water. This eliills and solidifies
Ithe wax mixture. p'rodm-ing a hod\
.having a cellular structure, each cell j
1 being filled with Ink.
,
Cactus Candy.
Louisiana sugar cane planters have j
evolved a plan for manufacturing I
candy from the spineless cactus. In
the process the peel of the plant is
I removed, dipped Into hot molasses
jand coated with granulated or pow- J
tiered sugar. The result Is a confer |
tlon of rich and delicious flavor.
So successful have heen the experi
ments with the new sweet lhat cane
planters are now growing cactus,
which formerly was utilized, when
usetl at all. for entile fodder. Planters
can In Ihts way furnish plenty of raw
material for the new product.
Another important result in tin
making of what some enterprising ad
vertiser may call “kaktus-kundv."
sny« an exchange, is that sugar mills
which have heretofore heen Idle for
nine months in the year can now use
part of their equipment In the enudy
manufacturing industry,
Light and Thought
{ Not all thought Is traveling. Tin*
KiipitoKifion that when one thinks of
the moon one's thought travels to tin*
moon is a mistake, for the thought Is
formed In the mind and remains there.
The time taken to “think of anything,"
declares a writer, "occupies some
small fructiou of a second. Light
“travels" at the rate of about 186,000
miles a second, and If It Is thought
which travels in what Is called tele
pathy It would have to travel at the
same spued because ether, the medium
which transmits light, would also
transmit the brain vibrations that i*c
coinpany thought. The telepathic the
ory of “thought which travels” has
been objected to on the ground that
after traveling considerable distances,
such as are Sometimes claimed for
telepathic communication, the brain
vibrations would be so diffused and
weakened as to make no Impression.
The Kremlin's Famous Cathedral.
For centuries the czar received the
crown "front Clod and the fatherland"
In Uspeuskly cathedral, In Cathedral
square, on the summit of the Kremlin,
and In the Cathedral of Archangel
Michael are the tombs of many of the
emperors down to Peter the Croat. In
the upper story of the treasury repose
the crowns of the early czars, several
thrones, war trophies and miscellan
eous curiosities. In the arsenal Is u
priceless collection of arms taken In
conflict.
Within the Kremlin are grouped
some of the most beautiful building?
of Russia. Within Its walls may he
read the architectural history of Rus
sia, while the most Interesting sight
Is the tower of Ivan, raised to a height
of 323 feet and crowned by a gUt
doiue.
DAWSON FIRE CHIEF .
GETS blG WELCOME
DAWSON, Y. T„ Jan. 30. - An
drew Hart, former Dawson fire chief,
the first of 400 men who have left
here to go to war, returned today. He
was accorded a civic welcome. The
tire city, with home guards, scouts,
and bund turned out and escorted th
veteran down the snow trail to the
Arctic Brotherhood Hall, where Oov.
George Williams and other high of
ficials of the territory and citizens
greeted him.
Inn is a veteran of three wars.
He saw service in the Nile expedi
tion. in the Boer conflict, and in the
present war. He was invalided homo
this time at the age of 57 after se
vere illness contracted in East Af
rica.
$2tMMMK> KENTUCKY DISTILLERY
SOLD FOR $10,000 AS SCRAP
FRANKFORT. Ky.. Jan. 30 —Pro
hibition has crushed the value out of
distilleries in Kentucky. The Frank
fort Distillery, maker «f 20.000 bar
rels of whisky annually, was sold at
public auction recently for $19,000.
Last year it was worth $200,000.
Thomas Hinde of Chicago and R. A.
Baker of Frankfort bought the plant
to dismantle it.
MUCH HOARDING
IN SUGAR TODAY
I’rcwent Shortage Seems Due to This
Habit Among Housewives—Res
taurants Observe Rules
Tht re seems to be a good deal of
hoarding in the country of many
commodities. The present situation
In sugar is more due to this than any
other cause. It is obvious from the
very demand that this trade is also
affected. Salt, matches and other
commodities have also been drained
from many markets. The causes seem
to be a combination of greed, fear
and in some places of propaganda.
It is obvious that movements of
this sort could quite well bring the
whole Administration to disaster. For
instance if every home bought a
barrel of Hour it would represent one
fifth of our entire annual production.
It has proceded far enough in the
flour trade to make control of prices
difficult; for the mills, although run
ning 130 per cent normal capacity,
are unable to keep pace with de
mands. It clouds the whole issue of
conservation, for while the same per
son may eat weekly legs flour, we are
simply at sea to know what our ex
portable resources might be. We do
not believe it is happening in the
larger cities with few exceptions as
all statistics of flour car arrivals and
departures Indicate a considerable re
duction of flour intake in those cen
ters.
Therefore, the United States Food
Administration, through the Federal
Food Administrator for Alaska, res
pectfully asks the Press of Alaska, in
so far as they can consistently do so,
not to accept advertisements for spe
cial sales of sugar and flour, whether
from distributor or manufacturer,
the scarcity of both commodities
making it unnecessary to make ex
tended efforts to promote the sale of
either or both. This request, of course
to cover only the period of the war
and pertains only to “special" adver
tisement for the sale of flour and
sugar.
Conservation by restaurants and
cafes is urged. Twenty-five hotels,
restaurant, cafe and boarding house
proprietors at a joint session with
the Federal Food Administrator yes
terday. all of whom conduct such
places on Gastlneau Channel, agreed
to observe a meatless Tuesday;
wheatless Wednesday and porkless
Saturday; not to put bread, butter or
crackers on the tables until asked for
by the guest, not to serve butter in
any but a reasonably cold condition
—there being a great loss in serving
frozen butter; to request grocers with
whom they deal to buy and sell cube
sugar; to limit the amount of sugar
to each guest; to cut bread in thinner
slices. All of the restaurants in this
section-joined the Food Administra
tion and will cooperate in carrying
out the wishes of the administration.
The Federal Food Administrator
earnestly asks that every restaurant,
cafe, hotel and boarding house in the
Teritory observe conservation days as
set out above. Kindly give the widest
publicity to the action of the restau
rant and cafe men in this section, as
it is the hope of the food administra
tion to have these specific days ob
served throughout the Territory.
Please anonunce to all bakers that
every Wednesday Is to be observed as
a wheat less day by all Alaskan res
taurants and cafes and public dining
rooms and boarding houses to the end
that the former may be enabled ta so
regulate their output for every Wed
ueaday.
From reports received from twenty
principal cities in the Territory it ap
pears taht every effort to conserve is
being made and that a large quantity
of sugar, wheat, fats and meats have
been saved. The addition of a pork
less day to lie observed by the cafes
in the Territory will greatly increase
the conservation of that much need
ed meat.
if restaurants'and hotel dining
rooms have a menu card ask them to
place a slogan in the matter of sav
ng thereon Any of the following:
Food will win the war. Don't waste
it.
Conwrvi1 food, especially beef,
sugar, fats and waste.
Use less wheat and meat. Serve
just enough.
Ife who wastes a crust of bread
prolongs the war.
Save the food and help the lighters
tight
Fat is fuel for lighters. Save it.
Stir well the sugar you put into
your coffee or tea.
Fat wisely anil keep the wolf from
! the iloor of the world.
Do not cat meat more than otn e
a day.
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They do what bo
other cigarette
over did before}
they satisfy—aod
yet they’re MILO.
WHEN FLAMES FILL
THE FACTORY
despair fills the owner who has
neglected to look after his in
' su ranee. We handle the Insur
ance of some very large con
cerns. We place it in the beet
companies, pay the premiums
promptly and attend to renew
als. Let U9 do that for you.
It will not cost you anything
for our service.
Valdez Real Estate Agency
Phone No. t. VALDEZ DOCK CO.. Agent, Valdez Alaska.
Our Large Fleet of Magnificent Steamships Offer Frequent,
PERFECT SERVICE
Between All Points in
ALASKA and CALIFORNIA
Leave Seattle 10 a. m.—
Feb. 5.— S. S. Adm. Evans
i for Kodiak)
Feb. 17.—S. S. Spokane.
From Valdez to Beattie
Feb. IS.— -S. S. Adin. Kvans
Feb. 27.- -S. S. Spokane.
S. S. Curacao sails from Seattle Feb. 1st carrying explosives ana
general freight.
CALIFORNIA ROUTE
Leave Seattle Monday, Friday and Saturday for
SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES
San Francisco to Los Angeles, Daily Except Sunday
San Francisco to San Diego, Monday, Thursday and Saturday.
IF YOUR TICKET READS "PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY”
YOU ARE ASSURED THE VERY BEST.
! ALASKA
i STEAMSHIP CO.
From Seattle 9 a. m.—
Feb. 1.—S. S. Victoria
Feb. 8.—S. S. Northwestern
Feb. 16.—S S. Alaska
Valdez to Seattle—
Jan. 25.—S. S. Northwestern
Feb. 1.—S. S. Alaska
Feb. 7.—S S Victoria
Call at Ketchikan, Juneau, Cordova. Etlamar. Fort Ciscom, Valdes,
Latouche and Seward, except S. S. Victoria which sails via “outside”
route between Seattle and Cordova.
• t .
S S. Northwestern Sailing from Seattle Feb. 8th connects with S. S.
Dora at Seward for Alaska Peninsula points.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell. Juneau, Sheep
Creek, Treadwell. Douglas, dkagway, Cordova Ellamar. Valdes and La
touche. Exploslvea Right reserved to change schedule without notica
VALDEZ DOCK CO„ Local Agent
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Valdez Transfer Co.
A. M. D1ERINGER, Proprietor
Office on Valdez Dock, Next to Prospector
Building.
General Trucking and Freightinf all
Interior Points N
AUTOS FOR HIRE,
DAY OR NIGHT
No Coal Delivered Unless Paid in Advance