S. BLUM & CO.
INCORPORATED
BANKERS
CAPITAL $200,000.00.
We do a general banking business.
We sell exchange on all parts of the world.
We pay 4 per cent interest on Time Certificates of deposit
Prospectors,
Don’t neglect’your health on the trail.
The VALDEZ DRUG CO.
is prepared to fill your medicine kit
with the purest and best of drugs,
medicines, and surgical bandages.
Give Your Freight Contract te
Robert McIntosh
DELIVERY GUARANTEED
Contracts taken for delivery in the NELCHINA,
CHISANA, and SLATE CREEK sectiorts.
No contract too large, none too small.
For prices apply to Rob't McIntosh, Valdez.
J. E. WILSON
FREIGHTER
*
Special price on mills and large outfits—Special atten
tion given to Fairbanks, Nelchina and
Chisana freight
Teams are always ready to go to any point in Third or Fourth Divisions.
Ernestine Road House
On Government Road 65 milet from Valdez.
HARRY MILLER. Prop.
gg.c'“" Everything First Class comodaton for'60 horses.
UPPER T0NS1NA ROAD HOUSE
Best of Meals—Prices ^Reasonable
GENERAL STORE. TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with"ChltiiMt/
General Freighting. KNUTE NAFSTHO.fMsr
TAZLINA HILL ROAD HOUSE
b open for freight and accommodations for the new
strike at Nelchina—Horses on hand at all times.
JAMES L. SIMPSON.
Wortman’s Road House
E. P. CASHMAN, .Proprietor.
20^miles from .Valdez.
The best meals and most comfortabld beds Procurable.
When in Chitina Stop fit the
CHITINA HOTEL
Fiaeit Hotel in the Interior---Well Heated, Clean Roomi.
Bar in Connection. Rates Reasonable
GET THE HABIT
The
Every Evening
BE A BOOSTER
A. H. P1NKUS, Mgr.
FREEZES HANDS
Well Known Valdezian Meets With
Misfortune While Working on
Nizina Bridge.
i
Charles Schlosser. while working
for the Alaska Road Commission
building the bridge across the Ni
zina river, froze both his hands a
few' days ago. He has lost the linger
nails and the ends of his fingers are
in bad shape, but he expects to be
back at work in a few weeks.
This information was brought to
town by Lieut. Kdgerton of the Road
Commission who returned on the last
boat from a trip of inspection of the
bridge. He reports that the weath
er had been very cold for several
days and that when Schlosser got his
hands in the water that it was forty
degrees below' zero.
The lieutenant reports that good
progress is being made on the bridge
and that it will shortly be completed.
It will cost about *22,000 and will be
one of the most substantial bridges j
in the territory.
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BILKED FARMERS
WITH THE TARIFF
Senator McCumber, of North Dakota,
So Tell* the Members of the
" Upper House.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 30.--Senator
McCumber, of North Dakota, today
precipitated a tariff debate in the
Senate by declaring that the agricul
tural extension, bill was a mere sob
to the farmers and that the Under
wood bill has done more harm to the
farmers than any act of legislation of
recent years.
"Upon the prosperity of the farm
ers depends the prosperity of thie na
tion,'' declared Senator .McCumber,
"and the farmers have been hifi hard
by the new bill and must meet the
competition of the nations of the
world where labor is paid almost
nothing.”
Other Republican senators attack !
ed the bill and claimed that almost
2.000,000 more men were out of work
now than were out a year ago and
that many manufacturing plants were
working only half time.
Democratic senators replied and
ridiculed the statements made by the
majority and said that the Republi
can newspapers were endeavoring to
start a panic to discredit the admin
istration, but that financial conditions
were such that all the calamity howl
ers 1n the country could not effect
prosperity.
QUEEN MARY IS
BRITON'S "KILL JOY"
LONDON, Jw». 30.—The Duchess of
Devonshire is downcast at the pros
pect of the visit of the king and
queen to Chataworth. The program,
which promises to be a very dull af
fair, has several times been revised
by Queen Mary, and those who are
in on the secret are greatly amused
st the further exhibition of the
queen's •‘hen-pecking" activities,
j The Duchess had planned to have
Mrs. Hope White, who is a distant
relative of hers and who has gained
considerable fame for her ability as
an entertainer, give an evening ot'
palmistry and legerdemain, but the
queen censored this and several oth
er proposed entertainments because J
she was afraid the king would be
brought in contact with certain wo
men to whom the queen objects.
There will be no amusement except
a series of concerts, and many of
the guests invited have suddenly not -
ified the duchess they will be unable
to attend.
Bida ‘Are Opened.
The bids for the piling and lop.
required for the wharf at Solomp
gulch.'for 1 tfte .'iGranby Mining apd
Sraeftlng 'Co^atfy-v-^*WrtfiiSpliilSfiK.!a*.
noon today. No public announcement
will be made of the successful bid
der until the tenders can be sub
mitted to the home office. Judge Ly
| ,ons, the local agent of the company,
j expects to have a telegraphic answer
and make the award in a few days.
The St. Eiias, the !>• st place to stop
in Valdez. Clean, warm outside
rooms and prices reasonable.
News Films of the
Passing Show
A umn seven feel one inch tall mar
ried a woman of four feet eleven inches
in Texas.
The mother of girl triplets at Wil
mington, Del., 1ms named them Jessie,
Margaret and Eleanor, after the presi
dent’s daughters.
A difference of 1 ccut in the books of
Tarry town, N. i'., caused tbo village
clerk and village treasurer to go over
tax collections amounting to $111,000.
A newly elected justice of tlie pence
of Fayette City, Fa., offered a new
stove, a five dollar bill and the cere
mony free to (be first couple applying
to him for marriage.
Officials of the University of Mich
igan and of the other colleges of the
state urge a circular “dry zone” sur
rounding each college, no saloon being
permitted nearer than five miles.
As the culmination or a courtship of
fifty years ago, William Knox and
Mrs. Elizabeth Tunnel! were married
recently at Chincoteague, Va. The
wedding is the fourth venture of each I
i
Aroused by a (ire alarm at Water- ■
bury, Conn., a retired lire horse kicked j
down the door of Its stall, dashed
out of the barn and raced across the \
city to Ids old lire station, where it j
whinnied for admittance.
WESTON WILL WALK OLD
MEN IN SIX DAY MATCH.
To Pit Team Against Younger Oppo
nent# to Settle Question of Prowess.
Kdward i’a.vson Weston, seventy
five-year-old world famous pedestrian,
is arranging a walking contest wlticb
will Intve a scientific interest for those
who insist that age brings with if a
general inability to perform, even aft
er a fashion, those feats of no athletic
nature which a few years lmck were
easy of accomplishment.
The general proposition is it test be I
tween youth and old age in a "go as
you-plenee" contest on a measured '
track, It is stated that the veteran j
walker's experience has led him to he- !
lieve that a man sit forty years is to a i
man of sixty-five years ns fifteen years !
Is to nine years in walking capacity. !
Weston is about to institute a con- |
test where, on the same track, a team I
of men a>t or beyond the sixty-five j
year age limit will be pilled against a j
similar number of men none of whom ;
is over forty-five years of age. with a ,
handicapping system based on the al
lowance of walking time on the track. ;
The test is to cover a period of six
days, and the younger ntetii will be 1
given nine hours each day in which !
to gain their total mileage, while the j
older group will have an allowance of |
fifteen hours during each twenty-four l
in which to endeavor to eipiul or beat
the effects, of their youthful opponents. '
Five- thousand dollars will be dis
tributed' among the Severn's contestants j
according to the records- made. While I
no date or place has beeu, fixed for the j
proposed eontbst. it 1ms tentatively j
beeu agreed 'upon that May of tills- i
yem would lie a fitting time.
HER CROOKED SPINE MENDEIX
•on* From Shin Wedged Into Verte
brae Makes Deformed Girl Erect.
A marvelous double operation, per
formed in Cleveland. O.. lias made
Pauline Beil, thirteen years old. whose
iwck was deformed from htrtb. an
erect, healthy girl who will he able to
run and play Hke other children
Pauline was placed on aa operating
table at. Mount Sinai hospital and
“ironed out all straight amt smooth."
as she- says, first of all. a slender
splinter of bone three iuehes long win
taken from the shinbone of her right
leg. Then a groove was eut into the
vertebrae on the iuner side of the
spine, just where it was bent.
Into this groove the straight split)
tei of bone then was firmly wedged
immediately afterward the little pa
tient was put into a plaster cast. In
this cast, face downward, Pauline lay
for nearly two weeks without stirring.
Then she was propped up in tied for
tUe Hi's! time in live weeks, and finally
site sat up. her back as straight as the
cast in which she Is still wrapped.
YACHTSMEN’S MAGIC EIGHT.
That Number of Letters Favored For
Name of Vanderbilt Cup Racer.
Sentiment is taking liold in the mat
ter of providing n name for the Van
derbilt syndicate cup yacht, designed
by Nat Herreshoff. and It is a matter
of public discussion about tlie Her re
shdflf boat shops at Bristol, R. I., that
the new ri»cor, yet in the hi it ih I stages
I df! ediisft’uetiontt'Mdll :h*v* «i itu«te'of
J c«ithpi-h*He«;>>o<mlm3iiillK.riiL.-H^ SW*1,,
mental policy of long standing relative
to cup yacht*. A multitude of names
has been suggested Informally,' but
tbe naming of the yacht may uot take
place for weeks to come.
It is pointed out Hint the Reliance,
Vigilant Defender and Columbia, all
successful cup yachts, had each only
eight letters In their namea, while the
Constitution, a cup candidate in 1901.
bad several more letters In her name.
She was not selected
It t* said that having eight letters in
a yacht’s name Is a good omen.
Marca Rica Cigars
VALDEZ MOST POPULAR SMOKE
INTEGRIDAD’S
BELMONT’S
VAN DYKET
SMOKECRAFT’S
EL SIOELLO’S
REPRESENTA’8
OPTIMO’8
LOVERA’S
Direct From The Factory
INGRAM & BUSH
EXCLUSIVE CIGAR DEALERS.
Independent Laundry Co.
Satisfaction Guaranteed I
Telephone 6fi j
I Foot Keybloue Ave
I Kouj'h Dry lCc lb.
Valdez Dock Co. PHONE NO. 1
JOBBER|IN
COAL, HAY and GRAIN
AGENT FOR
Alaska Steamship Company
Alaska Coast Company
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
S. S. Mariposa and S. S. Northwestern
Sail from Seattle 10th, 20th of 30th
EVERY MONTH
Finom Valdez south—8th 18tdb and 28th for Cordova, 9kag
way, Juneau. Wrangell, Ketchikan and Seattle.
Kcgulnr freight >etrvice for Ketchikan; Juneau. Sheep creek TfctruilwfU. Douglas.
< Vm.'toVH, KUsnmtr, Voldttx and Lttiouehe. Kxplosiues. S S Seward: S S Seward. 5th
S Si Latouche. 15th: S S Cordova. :J7»th ol cu-h month Right ie*»ev%>^i to change this
scltmhilc without notice-'
F B. Tracy, Gen'l Agt- Valdez Dock Co., Local Aft.
Pacific Alaska
; Navigation Company
Alaska Pacific S. S. Co. Alaska Coast Co.
PUGET SOUND-ALASKA ROUTE
Steamers sail from Seattle-every ten days of eaeli month on
the 5th, 15th and 25th,
via the itnddfc Passage for Ketchikan, Juneau. Yakutat, Ka
talla. Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Cook Inlet points and Kodiak, i
PUGET SOUND—CALIFORNIA ROUTE
Seattle-San Francisco, connecting with steamers. Yale and
Harvard for southern California ports.
HivM reserved u»ehsnire daws and,aeuaier* nitbwit Mil.
B. F. WATSON VALDEZ DOCK CO.
General Agent Local Agent
Chas. R. Crawford
Well Slreel Phone 159
Plate I late, window (laee, roofing and
ttJX'rtZiUSSt tSd^
hardware. Shop and job work of all kinds
Windows,Doors, Moulding. Finish
ing Lumber
Agents for Fairbanks. Morse & Co.
Valdez Sliest Metal Works
Manufacturer* of
YAKSHAW STOVES
Plumbing. Steam and Hot
Water Heating, Pumps and
Well Points.
Sheet Metal Work of Every
Description, Hose Valves,
Iroi °ipe. Fittings.
• J
A M. l>iei’m£tM
Valdez Transfer
Company
General Trucking and Freight
ini to all interior points i , - .
JV. _
| LIVERY ar i FEED SI ABLE
STORAGE
«
Teaming of all kinds
PosttWelv no coal delheied
unless paid lor in advance
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE SEXTON. Prop.
SiRICTLY FIRST CLASS
Fourth Avt Seward. Alaska
Copper River *
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Draymg Co
t*'iir»*: ami luisaensere to all uaria
nt rtm fritr ■, Oeorm) rrmatioa
McKinley Street, Veldes
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