STEAM HEATED HOT AND‘COLD BATHS
Cor Ter luck Hotel
VALDEZ, ALASKA•
“The House of Comfort”
PHONE 7 for men only
Independent Steam LaomfTy
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WE ARE READY
TO TALK TURKEY
to men who think of ordering
a new shit or overcoat for
Thanksgiving. Oar extra fine
line of fabrics is open for in*
spection. And our prices are
bo moderate for the classy
tailoring we always do that
every man who wants to be
really well dressed can afford
to be.
BEN SILVERMAN
THE TAILOR
Imported and Domestic
Wines, Liquors and Cigars
Phone 69
Taxes Now Due.
Taxes for the Town of Valdez for
the year 1916 are now due and paya
ble at my office at the corner of Key
stone avenue and McKinley street.
'Taxes will be delinquent on Monday,
December 4, 1916, at 6 o’clock p. m.,
and unless paid prior thereto, a pen
alty 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
of taxes.
Office Hours: 10 a. m. to 12 m.
and 2 p. m. to 4 p. m., except Sun
days.
Dated this 9th day of November,
1916.
E. G. AMES,
Town Treasurer.
Kill 11-23.
YOU CAN GET A LOT
of satisfaction by buying your
bread, cakes and pastries from
us. First, because you will bo
promptly and courteously
waited on. Second, there can
be no possible doubt as to the
quality of our bakery prod
ucts. Third and last because
they are not priced as high as
their extra fine quality would
seem to Indicate.
Schmidt’s Bakery
Delicatessen
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passenger*
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING
McKinley Street, Valdez
ED. WOOD. Proprietor
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Prosper tor ads brtag results.
A new line of neaters priced right,
at Mead’s. tf
A new line of hand painted china.
Owl Drug Co. tf
See Blake for Cement Blocks. tf
These People
Are
Happy and
Contented
CJ They have been dealing
in home stores.
Cjf They (eel sure of hon
est, square dealing.
Q By trading in town they
have saved time, car
fare and shoe leather.
Q When you deal in the
home stores you help the
town.
Q When you help the
town you help your
self.
NATIVES ARE
VERY DANGEROUS
HAVE ACQUIRED WHITE’S VICES
Lone Prospectors and Trappers Who
Take to Trail with Good Outfits,
Are Never Heard of Again—Two
Men Murdered by Shakaluk Indian
A recent arrival from the Yukon
states that the simple and guileless
Indian, in spite of the missionaries
and government schools, has at laot
learned the capital crime of the
white man, namely killing for plun
der, says the Nome Nugget. The
masher who tells the story said:
“The Yukon Indians have learned
many things of the whites, some
good, mostly bad. They have learn
ed to speak English with many cuss
words thrown in; to plant a garden,
but not to car£ for it; to work on
steamboats, and squander their mon
ey for useless gewgaws; to cut wood
industriously and then loaf until
their last bit of flour is gone; to
charge all the traffic will hear for
their fish and curios and to lie glibly
They have learned to drink and gam
ble. It has taken time for them to
learn all these things and now at last
they have learned to murder white
men for their outfltB and money. I
met one man who wanted to go trap
ping on the upper Kuskokwim this
winter, but he isn’t going because he
says he is afraid the Indians would
kill him as they have so many white
men in the past few years. He says
that it is well known in that section
that the Indians have been killing
prospectors and trappers whenever
an opportunity offered, but it is very
hard to prove it on them.
“However, a school teacher on the
lower Yukon told me of a case on
Shagaluk slough where the murder
seems pretty well established. It
happened a year or so ago. Two men
coming down the Innoko in a row
boat with over $3,000 in their pos
session, were known to have passed
in turn, Deminti, Holkachaket and
Shagaluk. They were bound for
Holy Cross to take a steamboat but
they did not reach that place. Their
boat is now at Anvik, or was when
the school teacher related the story
to me, and the Indian possessor of it
says that he found it in the slough.
Now comes the real evidence of the
crime.
“A Shagaluk Indian who was quite
worthless, and who had never had
$20 at one time in his life, return
ed to Shagaluk from a trip and fast
ed three days and nights. His fast
was respected by the other Indians
who knew that it meant that he had
killed somebody. The following fall
this cultus native gave a big pot
latch at a lower village and to pro
vide the stuff for bis feast he paid
the trader at that village the sum of
$1,700.
“Considering the fact that this
particular savage never caught a doz
en furs in one season, never chopped
more than two or three cords of wood
at a time, and never was known' to
have any money, is not this sudden
acquisition of $1,700, along with his
three day fast, conclusive evidence
that he was one of the parties, at
least, to the murder of the two white
men?”
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TURRET CROWN BREAKS
HER STEERING GEAR
The steamer Turret Crown, which
took a cargo of copper ore at the
Granby mine during the past few
days, and which started on her voy
age from Anyox, B. C., returned to
port early this morning, and reported
that her steering gear became dis
arranged yesterday just after she
got outside of Hinchinbrook, and she
was compelled to return here and
make repairs. It is expected the work
will take but a short time and she
will get away within the next twenty
tour hours. The Turret Crown has
on about 3,000 tons of ore from the
Granby, consigned to the company’s
smelter, at Anyox, B. C.
PRESIDENT INVITED TO
EAT TURKEY AT DENVER
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Nov. 15.—
President Wilson has received an in
vitation from the people of Denver
to spend Thanksgiving there, and
a monster banquet will be arranged
in his honor if he is able to accept
the invitation.
Keystone Hand Laundry. Remem
Iber work guaranteed. Phone 216. tf
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The best dinner at the Arcade
I Cafe. tf
Your picture will please the folks
at home better than anything you can
send them. Jenner the photographer
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REDUCE LEAD
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Dime Creek with 75 to 100, and Mar
shall City with 160 votes have not
ret been reported. Indications are j
that these camps will about break I
i.ven.
First Division for Sulzer.
JUNEAU, Nov. 15.—With two pre
cincts missing, both claimed for Sul
zer, the First Division returns to date
the Sulzer 2409, Wickersham 1891,
giving Sulzer the lead by 518. It is
reported here that the marMe work
ers at Tokeen, solidly for Sulzer,
failed to reach the voting precinct
at Shakan, leaving only eight votes
to be cast at that place. YakUtat is
the only unrepolrted precinct, and
that has about 20 votes.
JUNEAU, Nov. 15.—The Dispatch
gives Charles A. Sulzer a lead of 47*'
in the First division.
FAIRBANKS, Nov. 15.—In the
Fourth division three precincts in
the Koyukuk, two in the Kuskokwim
and one in the Kantlshna have not
yet been reported. It is expected that
Sulzer will add slightly to his lead
in these precincts.
MAKE BIG SUCCESS OF
WHALING INDUSTRY
Ben Nygren, who with his partner,
Sam Torkelson, is making a success
of the white whale industry at Cape
Nome, is in town. H esays that the
white whales have been plentiful so
far and that the coming month will
be the biggest of the season. The
white whale is in comparatively poor
condition this season owing to the
fact, he believe, that a great many
killer whales are chasing them. He
saw an ocean tragedy recently. A kill
er rushed into a school of whites and
came up with a big one in his mouth.
At the white whale plant at Cape
Nome no part of the animal is wast
ed. Hides, flesh, oil and bones are all
utilized. The hides bring a big price
and are made into the strongest kind
of leather. After the oil is extracted
the meat is dried and sold for dog
feed. The meat is good to eat, tast
ing much like beef. In Norway it is
eagerly sought after and is sold as
“steer of the sea.”
The oil of the white whale is said
to excel the oil of any fish. Some of
the local product now in Lehmann’s
store is so clear and transparent that
one can look through it and easily
read a paper held on the other side.
It sells in England at a remarkable
price of $500 a barrel. One single
fleet carrying the products of the
Norwegian white whale industry,
has sold Its cargo at Fannouth for
the astounding total of 80,500,000
crowns, which is over $26,000,000.
At Cape Nome long nets are used to
catch the white whale which average
12 to 13 feet in length. When en
tangled In the net they are shot with
a rifle so as to injure the skin as little
as possible. These sea mammals are
apt, at all ferocious. They show fight
occasionally when in the net, but
then they are bo docile that a hand
may be laid on them with safety.
The food of -the white whale, bb dis
closed by the contents of the stom
achs, is tom cod, large codfish, sal
mon and an occasional crab. The
bones are stacked to dry and are
criiBhed to be used as fertilizer. In
Norway the meat Is canned like beef.
A Big Shipment.
Just received, a fresh line of Haas
Candies, the kind you like, at Levy ft
Ross.’ tf
Kodak Supplies at the Taldez Drug
Company. tf
Fresh Augustine ft Kyer Butter
Krisp and Queen Viotorias at Hunt’s.
All kinds of cocktails. At the
Candy Kitchen. tf
Location notices, Doth quartz and
placer, at the Miner office.
Pictures developed at the Valdes
Drug Company. tf
Furnished rooms at Mrs Osland’s.
Prices reasonable. *
See Marcus Missick, ladies’ and
gents’ tailor, up-to-date fur remodel
ing, cleaning, pressing and altera
tions. Guarantee perfect satisfac
tion. Next to Senate saloon. tf
Something new. Loganberry Phos
phate. Candy Kitchen. tf
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Stop that Infernal Racket
Show your wife how much you
love her and send that noisy otd
pump to the Valdez Iron Works and
let them remove the peace disturber,
your neighbors will appreciate it. tf
Hand laundry. Phone 81 McKiule;
St. tf
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TIME MAY GO BY l
when you will be able to ob- J
tain insurance. The time to j
secure this perfect protection j
is right now. Tomorrow may j
be too late. To neglect insur- j
ing Is to neglect a duty both •
to your family and to yourself, J
You cannot afTord not to be in- j
sured any longer. Let us in- J
sure you today. «
TALK WITH SMITH ij
Valdez Real Hstate Agency )
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EVERYTHING ANTON CARLSON, 1
FIR SI CLASS Manager. 1
CHAS. R. CRAWFORD:
i CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER ]
Building Material. Machinery, Gaa Engines !
Pacific Steamship Co.
(ADMIRAL LINE)
Onr Large Fleet of Magnlflcen Steamers offers FREQUENT, PER*
FBCT SERVICE Between all Points in
Alaska and California
Leave Seattle
Nov. 10—S. S. Admiral Watson
Nov. 20—S. S. Admiral Evans.
FOR SEWARD AND
SELDOVIA
Leave Valdez
Nov. 10—S. S. Admiral Evans
Nov. 18—S. S. Admiral Watson
Nov. 28—S. S. Admiral Evans
For Cordova, Katalla, Yakutat,
Juneau, Ketchikan,
SEATTLE, TACOMA
CALIFORNIA ROUTE
Leave Seattle Mondays, Frida) s and Saturdays for San Francisco,
Los Angeles and San Diegu..
San Francisco to Los Angeles, Daily Except Sunday
San Francisco to Sun Diego, Mondays, Thursday and Saturdays.
IF YOUR TICKET READS PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY
YOU ARE ASSURED THE VERY REST
For Full Particulars Address
Phone I VALDEZ DOCK COMPANY Valdez, Alaska
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
Sailings from Seattle—
Not. 18.—S. S. Alameda.
Nov. 24.—S. S. Mariposa.
Dec. 1.—S. S. Alameda.
Dec. 8.—S. S. Mariposa.
Dec. 16.—S. S. Alameda.
Sailings Valdez to Seattle—
Nov. 16.—S. S. Mariposa.
Nov. 25.—S. S. Alameda.
Dec. 1.—S. S. Mariposa.
Dec. 8.—S. S. Alameda.
Dec. 15.—S. .S. Mariposa.
-CALLING AT
KETCH IK AN> JUNEAU, CORDOVA, ELLAMAR, FT. LISCUM,
VALDEZ, LATOUCHE AND SEWARD.
Etgular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Sheep
Treadwell. Douglas, Skagway, Cordova. Ellamar, Valdes and La
touche. Explosives. Right reserved to change schedule without notice.
F. B. TRACT, Gea’I Ageat VALDEZ DOCK CO„ Local Ageat
Take the “MILWAUKEE”
On Your Next Trip to the East
Electrification of its main line over the backbone 6t the
Continent has eliminated all soot, smoke and cinders, per
mitting an unobstructed view of the magnificent panoramas
through the Bitter Roots and Rockies.
J. C. Martin, Valdez, Phone 1 A. E. Harm, T. P. A. Jnnean, Alaska.
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Foxy Hot Drinks, Candy Kitchen, tf
For first-class meals and good serv
ice at reasonable prices try the Mer
chants’ Cafe. tf
For good home-cooked meals try
Mrs. M. Olson, on Hobart street. •
Fresh candy at the Emporium. 1t
The Golden North, the House of
Comfort. **
Special order, Cham Obowder lie,
at the Aroade. tf
The N. & S. leaves the Valdez dock
on regular sailing days. See adv.
Carbureters, magnetos, batteries,
spark plugs and coils at Mead’s. tf
Pnre Freeh Drugs at tne Valdez
Drug Store. tf
For all kinds of cement work see
Blake. tf
Beat Sourdough hotcakes and best
softs# at the Arcade. tf
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