STEAM HEATED HOT AND COLD BATHS
Copper lock Hotel
VALDEZ, ALASKA
“The House of Comfort”
PHONE 7 FOR MEN ONLY
Independent Steam Laundry
’ Satisfaction Guaranteed |
] Telephone Hfi
| Foot Keystone Ave
| Rough Dry lCc lb
Just an Ordinary Good Fit.
isn’t sufficient for our stan
dard of tailoring. The gar
ments must fit perfectly at ev
ery point or it is no sale with
us. We would like to show
you our skill by making that
new suit for you. Drop in and
select the cloth and leave the
rest to us. Don’t worry about
the cost. We won’t break you
or come anywhere near it.
BEN SILVERMAN
THE TAILOR
THE SENATE
ANGUS CHISHOLM—FRANK GUSTAFSON
CIGARS, BILLIARDS
Nicely Furnished Room*» _Phone_3S—
CHAS. R. CRAWFORD
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER
Dealer in Agent for
Building Material. Machinery, Gas Engines
the PINZGN BAR
Imported and Domestic
Wines, Liquors and Cigars
Phone 69
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
plumbing STOVES and RANGES heating
MOTOR BOAT SUPPLIES, PAINTS and OILS
Mine Air Pipe, Valves, Hon, Pipe and Fittings
Valdes Dock. Opposite Prospector Office. _Telephone B4
MERCHANT’S CAFE
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone AS OPEN ALL NIGHT Cha*. Fischer, Propr.
Quartz and Placer
Location Notices
For Sale at
The Prospector Office
Two Hundred of the latest Colum
bia Phonograph Records just receiv
ed on the Alameda. Owl Drug Co. tf
Fair Warning
All persons owning insurable prop
erty are warned to have it insured.
You cannot afford to take the risk
•f fire. The Alaska Investment. Co ,
will write your policies. 2t
Boys and Girls
Don’t forget the Fish Pond will be
open at Moose Hall next Saturday
night. Good fishing at ten cents per
bite. tf
Why not a V1CTROLA? We have
them from $15 up. Valdez Drug
Co. tf
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A Big Shipment.
Just received, a fre-'. line of Haasj
Candles, the kind you > ke. at Levy & i
Robb.’ tf j
Your picture will please the folks
at home better than anything you can i
send them. Jenaer the photographer
tf
A aew line of heaters priced right,
at Mead's. tf j
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♦ ANNOUNCEMENT. ♦
4 ‘ - 4
4 This la to announce to the 4
4 people of Valdez and vicinity 4
4 that I have sold my bakery and 4
4 delicatessen business to S. 4
4 Blum & Company. 4
4 My successors, S. Blum h Co., 4
4 have erected an additional build- 4
4 ing in the rear of their store, 4
4 which has been fitted up for a 4
4 modern, sanitary bakerj. 4
4 Tne new bakery will continue 4
4 to carry all kinds of bread, "les ,4
4 cakes, cookies, etc., also a full 4
4 delicatessen line. 4
4 All kinds of pies and C'kes 4
4 made to order. 4
4 I wish to thank all of my cub- 4
4 tomers and friends for past pat- 4
4 ronage and wish to bespeak a 4
4 good word for my successors. 4
4 I will look after the baking 4
4 in the new bakery and will be 4
4 pleased to have my friends call 4
4 to see me. 4
4 Respectfully, 4
4 RUDOLPH SCHMIDT. 4
4 4
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WHAT THE PRESS SAYS
OF CIVILIZATION
Nothing so stupendous ever before
created by the brain of man.—New
York Evening Journal.
Stupendous and wonderful.—New
York Tribune.
Abounding in pictures of marvel
ous beauty.—N. Y. Sun.
Outdoes the "Birth of a Nafion.”—
N. Y. Globe.
"Civilization” places Ince on an
artistic footing with David Belasco.
"Civilization” in sort, is a gigan
tic, moving, and above all, moving
picture of war and its consequences.
N. Y. Evening World.
An entertainment on an artistic
level with Ben Hur.—N. Y. Times.
A full line of pyralin ivory at Owl
Drug Co. tf
The Ladies' Guild
will have all manner of dainty and
useful Christmas gifts at their an
nual Bazaar, which will take place at
Moose Mall Saturday night. tf
Try Your Luck.
at the Fish Pond at Moose Hall Sat
urday night at ten cents per fish, tf
Civilization, the great 11-reel pro
duction at the Empress Monday night
only. Admission $1.
TIDE TABLES.
Friday, Dec. 8—
First High Tide 10:55 a. m., 10.0.
First Low Tide 4:51 a. m., 3.0.
Second Low Tide 6:01 p. m., —1.1.
Saturday, Dec. 9—
First High Tide 0:26 a. m„ 7.3.
Second High Tide 11:31 a. m., 10.0.
First Low Tide 5:29 a. m., 3.0.
Second High Tide 6:37 p. m. —1.1.
Sunday, Dec. 10—
First High Tide 1:00 a. m., 7.3.
Second High Tide 12:06 p. m., 9.9.
B’irst Low Tide 6:06 a. m. 3.1.
Second Low Tide 7:11 p. m., —1.0.
For Christmas Gifts.
We have Just received Ivory from
Nome, Indian curios from Aleutian
Islands, Kodaks from New York,
China from Japan, Moccasins from
Y&kutat, and Leather Goods from the
Steers of Texas. We have Marten,
Mink and Fox Skins, and Feathers
from the Wings of Gabriel. Drop in
and see our curios. Valdez Drug Co.
tf.
Come and see our new line of nug
get and ivory ware at Alaska Jewelry
Company. tf
Banquet Steel Manges, plain and
polished tops, at Mead's. g
For fine Candies see our stock.
Valdez Drug Co. tf
Just received, a new line of Toilet
Waters and Perfumes. Owl Drag Co.
—
An up-to-date line of cook staves
And ranges at Mead’s. tf
The Best Piece m Valdez to
Stop at is the
Arctic Hotel
Wee, Liffci Root--The Host* of Comfort
RATES; REASONABLE
BATHROOM Special Rate* By the Month
PHONE 133 MRS. STRING, Ptap
FURNISHED ROOMS FOR
MEN
RATES REASONABLE
Nice clean rooms, good beds,
rooms rented by day, week, or
month. At the Hopkins House
MRS. P. REED
Anything in nagget and ivory jew
ilry at Yaldez Drag Oo.
8TOH¥ OP caPxxjum
OV WAXTKrt 8TOKKR
Waiter Stoker, who shot and killed
one Hendrickson and dangerously
wounded another man by the name of
Irving on the government railroad
about 12 miles out from Seward ou
Thanksgiving day, is now in custody
In Valdez, having been borught over
from Seward today on the steamer
Evans. Mr. Stoker, while not insaie,
is apparently not possessed of all hs
normal mental factulties. One of the
first questions asked by the prisoner
after his first night in jail was
whether his mitts had been found. Lie
loss of the mitts and the fact that he I
had the idea that the union labor
men were against him, being the
cause, as near as can be learned, of
the shooting.
Stoker admits killing Hendricks,
stating that he shot him because he
was a union man. It was gathered
from his remarks that in Fairbanks
or some other place Stoker had once
acted as a strike breaker.
The story of the capture of the
prisoner is given in the Seward
Gateway as follows:
Stoker was arrested at the cabin
of a trapper named Lodge on Satur
day afternoon about 4 o’clock, by a
posse of men headed by Charles Ems
weiler.
On the night after the shooting of
the two men Stoker went to the cabin
of Lodge and stayed the night there.
Believing that the authorities would
find him there he left next day and
went into the mountains where he
stayed by a huge bonfire that night.
He went back once to his camp on
the railroad to get a load of supplies
and it was probable that during that
trip he met Dan Sullivan. He took
out of the camp a bag of provisions,
a large quantity of matches and a
sleeping bag. This sleeping bag was
thrown away by him as his pack was
too heavy and it was the bag seen
by Marshal Evans. The wet ice-cov
ered clothing noticed by Sullivan
were caused by the fact that Stoker
fell through the ice while crossing a
swamp in the woods. Emsweiler and
his aids had followed the tracks of
Stoker through the soft snow in all
directions. They saw the smoke of
the camp fire and also Stoker's tracks
in that direction and they trailed him.
On the way they met fresh tracks
which led in the opposite direction,
showing that Stoker was on his way
back to the railroad again. Emsweil
er followed those tracks to the swamp
and across to the place where Stoker
broke through the ice. On Saturday
the trail ied the pursuers to the
Lodge cabin and on arrival there
[smoke was seen issuing from the
[chimney. They knew they had their
man. With the pursuing party wa3
Jackson, the partner of Stoker in cut
J ting ties, and Jackson called on the
' hunted man to come out and give
I himself up. At the time around the
cabin were Wild Bill DeWitt, Charley
Emsweiler, Bill Weaver, Percy Pul
len, Jackson and three others. All
l took care to keep a tree between the
; house and themselves. Jackson was
behind a tree which is believed to be
some 50 or 60 feet from the cabin.
: Stoker at first refused to answer or
to come to the door but later came
out'for a moment. He did not stay
but went back into the cabin again,
apparently deciding not to oome out
at all. He was warned that further
refusal to surrender would mean that
shots would be fired through the oab
in. During this time, members of
the posse say, he was engaged keep
ing the frost rubbed from part ff the
window glass as though watching for
the next move of the posse. After
the threat to shoot through the cab
in Stoker asked for Ike Evans and
intimated that he would surrender
to him, but was told that no one there
would hurt him. Then he came out
without a gun and Emsweiler asked
him to advance from the cabin sonic
distance into the open. Some mem
bers of the posse called to him to
hold up his hands but Emsweiler
ctdipped this for fear of exciting the
man. When he had moved some dis
tance from the cabin Emeweiler ad
vanced and got between him and the
cabin to prevent his return. Hand
cuffs were then placed on him and lie
was brought to the city.
President of PYee State Dies
BLOEMFONTEIN, Union of South
Africa, Dec. 8.—Martluus T. Steyn,
president of the Orange Free State
from 189b to 1900, died suddenly
today while addressing a women's
congress.
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE SEXTON. Prop
SiRICTLY FIRST CLASS
frourth Ave, Seward. A lank*
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miner*
ROBERT SHAFFER, President.
Greaite Mb*
CRAS,
ST. ELIAS HOTEL
Under New Management
THOROUGHLY RENOVATED; WARM, LIGHT, OUTSIDE ROOMS
SPECIAL RATES TO PERMANENT GUESTS
PHONE 104 MRS. L. HOLT, Prop.
ANNOUNCEMENT
During my absence from Valdez
Mr. C. B. Smith will represent me in
all matters pertaining to Fire Insur
ance Business.
JAMES FISH
'r TONY’S PLACED
E VERYTHING ANTON CARLSON,
FIRS’! CLASS ^ Manager.
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Pacific Steamship Co.
(ADMIRAL LINE)
Our Large Meet of Magniflcen Steamers offers FREQUENT, PER
FECT SERVICE Between all Points in
Alaska and California
Leave Seattle
Nov. 23—S. S. Admiral Evans,
Seldovia and Kodiak.
Nov. 30—Admiral Watson.
Dec. 10—Admiral Evans,
For Seward.
Leave Valdes
Dec. 3.—Admiral Bvans.
Dec. 8.—Admiral Wataon.
Dec. 18.—Admiral Evans.
For Cordova, Katalla, Yakutat,
Juneau, Ketchikan,
SEATTLE, TACOMA
CALIFORNIA ROUTE
Leave Seattle Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays for San Francisco,
Los Angeles and San Diego.
San Francisco to Los Angeles, Daily Except Sunday
San Francisco to San 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 rrom Seattle—
Nov. 26—Northwestern.
Dec. 1—Mariposa.
Dec. 8—Alameda.
Dec. 16—Mariposa.
Dec. 24.—Alameda.
Sailings Valdez to Seattle—
Dec. 4.—Northwestern.
Dec. 7.—Mariposa.
Dec. 15.—Alameda.
Dec. 23.—Mariposa.
Dec. 31.—Alameda.
-CALLING AT
KETCHIKAN, JUNEAU, CORDOVA, ELLAMAR, FT. LISCUM,
VALDEZ, LATOUCHE AND SEWARD.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Sheep
Creek, Treadwell, Douglaa Skagway, Cordova. Ellamar, Valdes aad La
Make it a Smokeless, Dustless,
Gasless, Trip East This Year
In addition to the cleaner conditions due to Elec
trification, you’ll enjoy the comfortable accommo
dations and you’ll like the little courtesies inci
dent to “Milwaukee” service.
J. C. Marlin, Valdai, Pinna 1 A. E. Harris, T. fJK. Juneau, Alaska.
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Foxy Hot Drinks, Candy Kitchen, tf
For first-class meals and good serv
ce at reasonable prices try the Mer
hants’ Cafe. tf
For good home-cooked raeals try
4rn. M. Olson, on Hobart street. *
Fresh candy at the Emporium, tf
Just Received —thf laiest Popular
longs and Music. Valdes Drug Co. tf
Special order, Cham Chewder 15c,
t the Arcade. 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
Pure Fresh Drugs at tne Varies
Drug Store. tf
The best dinner at the Arcade
Cafe. tf
Best Sourdough hetcakes and best
coffee at the Arsade. tf
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