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ING’S GROCERY
Phone 18S _
Schmidts bakery;
FOR GOOD THINGS TO EAT I
Doughnuts what am—Cakes and Cookies. ]
Wiegels High Grade Candies. +|
J Delicatessen and Lunch Goods—Bread 3 for 25c. Call 156 ;
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PETROGRAD SHOPS MUST
CLOSE AT 7 O'CLOCK.
PETROGRAD, Nov. 6.—In order
to save light and fuel the Russian
government has ordered the shop
keepers of Petrograd to close at 7
o'clock each evening with the excep
tion of Saturday, when the shops
are permitted to remain open until
9 o’clock.
STEAMER GROUNDS OFF
COAST OF MEXICO.
SAN DIEGO, Calif., Nov. 6.—Wire
less messages were received last
night from the steamer Fort Bragg,
stating that the vessel had grounded
off the coast of Lower California,
witfrAfTty persons on board, most of
whom had safely been taken off the
steamer with breeches buoys. The
United States cruiser San Diego was
immediati^ dispatched to the scene
of the wreck and is rushing south
ward to the rescue of the stranded
vessel. The Fort Bragg is a small
steamer in the coastwise trade and is
owned by Chas. H. Higgins, of San
Francisco.
GERMANS AND ITALIANS
LIVE TOGETHER IN PEACE.
BERLIN, Nov. 6.—Thousauds of
Italian citizens are living in Germany
unmolested and many Germans re
mained in Italy when the war was
4’eolared and are reported to be re
04-ving every protection from the
Italian government.
The same animosity is not f -It in
Germany against Italians as has
been manifested against the English
-.nil French.
OFFICIAL MESSAGES
BY WIRELESS PHONES.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Nov. 6.—
For the first time in history official
messages were sent by wireless
phones when Secretary Daniels, of
the navy department, yesterday sent
orders to Admiral Usher, in New
York, concerning the fleet by using
a wireless phone.
CITY OF PUEBLA IS
COMING NORTHWARD.
SEATTLE, Nov. 6.—The steamer
City of Puebla,’which was chartered
by the Ala^f. Steamship company to
make anli^W trip to Southwestern
Alaska in place of the Northwestern,
now in drydock, sailed for the north
last night with a light passenger list
for Southwestern Alaska points.
There were no names on the list for
Valdez.
NORTHERN LIGHTS ARE
UNUSUAL BRILLIANCY.
A display of northern lights of un
usual brilliancy was visible in the
northern sky last evening about 10
o’clock. The lights were of the
“shooting” variety and the display
greatly resembled beams of an im
mense number of searchlights shoot
ing across the sky.
Alaska Packers Suffers Loss.
Early in the morning of October
11 fire broke out in one of the ware
houses of the Alaska Packers’ exten
sive establishment in Alameda, Cal.,
and the warehouse with its contents,
composed of ships stores valued at
$15,000, was destroyed.
Civic League Card Party.
On Saturday afternoon, November
13, the Civic League will give a card
party in Everyman’s clubhouse. It
is hoped all members of the league
and all their friends will attend
Those who do not care to play cards
will be welcomed if they come at 4
o’clock for refreshments.—Admis
sion 25 cents. kl2
Christmas Is Coming.
And would it not be well to con
sider something in the line of photo
sundries tor your friends. A trim
ming board for 40c or 60e; Brownie
Enlarger for $2.00 and up; Negative
Albums, Print Roller, Flash Sheet
Holder, Tripod or some of the many
other desirable things. I might have
jnst the thing you want. Those rela
tives and friends in the states appre
ciate pictures more than anything
else, especially if they are of Alaska.
Call at my place in the Cliff House,
tf P. S. HUNT.
No Comparison.
“Did you ever read about how the
Undent Greek harp playing used to
move stones to tears?"
“Huh! That ain't nothin'. My
daughter’s piano playing caused five
families to move.”—Pittsburgh Press.
Easy Job.
A
"If you could choose your employ
ment, my man. what would it be?”
“Well, to be frauk with you, lady,
I'd like to be a traffic cop in Venice."—
St Louis Tost-DLspatch.
More Consistent.
Pete—Yes, sir: Miss Julmson cut me
at the fireman's ball and de barten
der’s picnic, but de worm will turn!
Mose—Waal, Peter, after a worm’s
been cut in two places he’d orter crawl
into his hole.—New York Globe.
Big Battle,
Mrs. Fan—I see there’s been a big
battle.
Mr. Fan—You bet there has. But we
got one run lu the ninth, and that lands
us In first place.—Wisconsin State Jour
nal.
Taxes Due.
Taxes for the Town of Valdez for
the year 1916 are now due and pay *
able at my office at the corner of Key
stone avenue and McKinley street.
'Taxes will be delinquent on Monday,
! December 6th, 1916, at 6 o’clock p.
;m., and unless paid prior thereto,
a penalty of 10 per cent will be added
to the amount and interest at the rate
of 12 per cent per annum.
Warrants issued by the present
Council will be accepted in payment
•f taxes.
Office Hours: 10 a. m. to 12 m.
and 2 p. m. to 4 p. m., except Sun
days.
Dated this 3d day of November,
1916.
E. O. AMES,
Town Treasurer.
Kill 11-18
Far good home-cooked meals try
Mrs. M. Olson, on Hobart Street. *
GREAT FOUNTAIN GEYSER.
On* of th* Many Wonder* In th* Yel
lowstone National Park.
The Great Fountain geyser. In th*
Yellowstone National park, lies a mile
and a half southeast of the Fountain
geyser. It Is the chief wonder of the
lower basin and In some respects the
most remarkable geyser in the park.
Its formation is quite unlike that of
any other.
At first sight the visitor Is tempted
to believe that some one has here
placed a vast pedestal upon which to
erect a monument It Is a broad, cir
cular table about two feet high com
posed of hard, siliceous deposit In
Its surface are numerous pools, molded
and ornamented in a manner quite un
approachable. at least on so large a
scale, In any other part of the park.
In the center of the pedestal, where
the monument ought to stand, Is a
large irregular pool of great depth, full
of hot water, forming to all appear
ances a lovely, quiescent spring.
At times of eruption the contents of
this spring are hurled bodily upward
to a height sometimes reaching tOO
feet The torrent of water which fol
lows the prodlgous downpouring upon
the face of the pedestal flows away In
all directions over the white geyserite
plain. No visitor to the Yellowstone
can afford to miss the Great Fountain
geyser. — “The Yellowstone National
Park.” by Hiram Martin Chittenden,
Brigadier General United States Army,
Retired. _
EARTHQUAKES.
How the Process Known to Geologists
as “Faulting” Generates.
It is a well known fact that the ma
jority of the severest earthquakes are
produced by movements and readjust
ments of the outer shell of the earth.
The process, known to geologists as
faulting, is ns follows:
Owing to various subterranean causes
the solid crust of the earth is put un
der stress. The stresses keep growing
greater until finally they reach the
breaking point of the rocks. These
yield suddenly and move over another
along the line of fracture until the
strain is relieved. This breaking of
the rocks sometimes nlong lines hun
dreds of miles in length and the move
ment of the broken parts over one an
other set up jars or vibrations which
traveling outward in all directions
through the rocks constitute an earth
quake.
The severity of the shock depends
upon the character and extent of the
break, the amount of movement and
the distance of the point from the
place of origin of the disturbance.
Earthquakes also occur frequently in
connection with volcanic eruptions, bnt
these are likely to be more local In
character and, on the whole, less severe
than those due to faulting.—Review of
Reviews. '_
Vegetable Ink.
There is in Colombia a curious
vegetable product known as the ink
plant. Its Juice, called chanchi, can
be used, it is said, without any previ
ous preparation. The letters traced
are of a reddish brown color at first,
but turn a deep black in a few hours.
This curious juice is less injurious to
steel pens tbuu tue commercial urns.
These qualities of the plant seeui to
have been discovered under the Span
ish administration. Some writings in
tended for the mother country were
wet through by sea water on the voy
age. While the papers written with
common ink were almost illegible,
those written with the vegetable ink
were quite uninjured. Orders were giv
en in consequence that this plant Juice
be used for the Inscribing of all public
documents.—New York American.
On the Sea.
From all antiquity and in all ages
men have gone down to the sea in
ships and plowed the main. There is a
fascination about the ocean that never
grows old, and the terrors that encom
pass the waste of waters seem but to
add to its attractions. Ferhaps this
arises from the fact that the ocean
covers the only free laud on the globe.
The sailor on his humble bark has an
equal right of way with the mighty
steamship; he pays no rent and calls
no man master. Once he touches land
he must bow to the law of King This
or Queen That, but on the high seas he
can roam without let or hindrance and
owes allegiance to no ruler but nature.
The sailor leads a hnrd and perilous
life and has the single boon of free
dom to compensate for risk and priva
tion.—St Louis Globe-Democrat
Note Ring*.
Hindu married women wear a nose
ring of the value suitable to their posi
tion. Sometimes it is simply a wire of
gold; sometimes it is set with valuable
and brilliant diamonds. Of whatever
description, the nose ring is a most
hallowed thing. If yon are not careful
how you speak with the lady about
it or If you say, “There is no necessity
for wearing such a useless thing.” she
will understand by this that you wish
her husband’s death.
A Regular Excuse.
“Does your husband carry much life
insurance?”
“1 don’t know the exact amount but
it’s Just enough so that whenever it
want a new gown or bat he always
manages to have a premium to meet”
—Detroit Free Press.
When the Price Goes Up.
"We never learn to value things un
til after they are gone.”
"That's very true. A silver plated
butter dish that cost ua $4 becomes
family plate worth $100 if burglars
break in end steal It"—Detroit Free
Press
MISSING LINKS.
Pagss of Geological History That Na
ture Haa Deetroyed.
New details are continually being
added by geologists to the known his
tory of the earth, lncludlrig the devel
opment of plants and animals. How
ever, that history, which Is recorded In
the rocks, is still fragmentary, like a
badly mutilated book. One of the great
defects In the record In the Atlantic
and gulf coastal plain regions of this
country Is the absence of the later part
of the cretaceous and the early part
of the eocene chapters—perhaps eight
to ten millions years ago. A report
by the geological survey discusses this
missing part of the record and shows
that the break must cover a very long
period of time.
It is known that at that time the
continents were at least as large as
and probably larger than they are now,
and the oceans were accordingly small
er. Any rocks that were then formed
In the sea seem to have been weather
ed and washed away. Hundreds of
kinds of plants and animals that lived
before and hundreds that lived after
this great period are known, but not
one which lived during the period.
Strange to say, few If any of the spe
cies which existed before the unknown
period lived through It.
It is like a play In which the places
of one act remain the same as In the
preceding but the characters are all
new, and yet many of the new play
ers resemble the old ones so much that
one is compelled to admit that they are
close relatives. In each of the states
bordering the Atlantic ocean are lay
ers of rock which wore formed be
fore and after the period whose record
is missing. In these layers are entomb
ed sea shells of many kinds, but ap
parently not one species lived through
from cretaceous to eocene time.
BECKONING THE DEAD.
The Call of the Indians to Which the
Sea Responded.
Ou the rugged coast of Washington
by the Copalls sands there Is a tower
from which the Indians watch for sea
otter. They are very eager after that
game, for the hide of one of those crea
tures is worth all the way from $500
to $2,000. Two young Indians were
watching one day whpn they saw a
sea otter off in the surf. Two shots
from their rifles killed the otter, aud
then they rushed down to their surf
boat. The sea was heavy, aud when
they were out some distance from the
shore their boat broke in two over a
comber, and the men were thrown into
the sea.
One of the Indians drifted ashore on
a piece of wreckage. The other, al
though a splendid swimmer, was
drowned. The news soon spread to
the reservation, and the Indians from
far and near came to the beach and
stood on the sands, silently beckoning
to the sea to give up its dead.
It was a solemn, impressive sight—
the stalwart, rugged, copper colored
men and women standing at the verge
of the sea foam asking the sea by the
motion of their hands to send the body
ashore. For three days they waited
aud beckoned, and then a dark object
was seen drifting into shallow water.
Sometimes it was buried completely
from view by the heavy surf; then it
was seen again a little nearer, aud so
the body of the dead Indian came
ashore at the call of his tribesmen.—
Youth’s Companion.
' The First Great Bank,
The first great bank in the world
was the bank of Venice, established in
1157 when the queen city of the Adri
atic was the head of the commerce of
the western world. At that time the
great current of the trade between Eu
rope and Asia passed through the Per
sian gulf and the Red sea to Alexan
dria, Egypt, and Was carried in ships
across the Mediterranean sen and
through the Adriatic to Venice, where
it was distributed to various parts of
Europe. Venice was a sort of auto
cratic republic, founded and support
ed by its merchants, who were famed
throughout the world for their wealth
and reliability. They founded their
bank, which was guaranteed by the
government and was held in high cred
it in all the great cities on the routes
of trade.
Happiness.
Money will not procure happiness,
but happiness will help procure money.
Happiness makes every task a pleasure
and every worker optimistic, and an
optimistic worker at a pleasant task
can perform it in no way but well.
Happiness is not only its own re
ward, but it Is an irresistible magnet
which is forever drawing unexpected
rewards. And happiness can know no
evil; evil happiness is a contradiction
of terms. Happiness is a religion in
itself.
He who has happiness has jumped
lust over the very goal of life.—Judge.
The Language of Cash.
“Say, pop."
“Go on. SpHI it"
“What does money say when it
talks?”
“Whatever is necessary to make the
mare go. Run on out now and play
with the other boys." — Richmond
Times-Dispatch.
An Ungraeioua Remark.
“Here’s a magazine offers prizes to
ladies for telling bow they helped their
husbands make money."
“If they were telling bow they help
ed spend money,” snorted her ungal
lant husband, “you’d take first prise.”
-Louisville Courier-Journal.
« —
While self confidence Is Important,
the confidence of other people will also
help some.—Atchison Globe.
CITY EXPRESS
MEETS ALL BOATS AND NEVER MISSES A TRAIN
Auto for Hir e Day or Night.
Buy and Sell Anything.
Phone 82 J. A. SPENARD, Prop.
Jas.JE. 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
Finest Hotel ra tbe Interior—Well Heated, Clean Rooms.
Bar in Connection. Rates Reasonable
MERCHANT’S CAFE
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone 03 Clias. Fischer, Propr.
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Best of Meals—Prices Reasonable
GENERAL STORE. - TRADING POST.
Telephone connect* with Chitina.
General Freighting. KNUTE nafsted. Mgr.
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VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Doing Business As Usual
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Independent Laundry Co.
Satisfaction Guaranteed | I Foot Keystone Avc
Telephone 66 I I Rousrh Dry lCc lb
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Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
PLLMBING, STEAM AND HOT WATER HEATING,
Sheet Metal Work, Metallic Roofing, Mine Air Pipe, Pipe anti Fit
tings, Valves, Etc. Motor Boat Supplies.
Located on Broadway VALDEZ, ALASKA
I 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 calls Illamna and Kodiak—All Sailing call at Knlk
and Anchorage.
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to San Francisco every Wednesday and Sunday, connecting with
Steamers Yale and Harvard for Southern California.
Right reserved to change schedule without notice
RICHARD J. RINC.WOOD, Mgr., Seattle) VALDEZ DOCK CO„ Local Agt.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
I *
• S. S. Mariposa, S. S. Alameda and S. S. Northwestern
sail from Seattle the 6th, 12th, 18th, 24th and 30th
EVERY MONTH
From Valdez «outh—7th, 13th, 19th, 26th and Slth for Cor
! dova, Skagway, Juneau. Wrangall, Ketchikan and Seattle.
<' Regular freight service for Ketchikan. Wrangell, Juneau. Sheep
■ ' Creek. Treadwell, Douglas. Skagway, Cordova, BUamar, Valdes and La
«• toiTcha Bsploslvea S.l siwarj, on the 5th; Latouohe, on the 15th; S. S.
. • Cordova, 25th of each month—right reserved to change this schedule
* ' without notloe.
p, n. TRACY, Gea’l Agent VALDEZ DOCK CO„ Local Agent.
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