O. N. 'fikcrochet cotton in black,
white and^glors—Q^ates mercerized
crochet cottonrlfelthwWa^iM n{ambers.
Very complete |bckl n%^*now be
hack in chttdren’s fhoes. Pricings,
qualirW cdlsidered, are exception
ally rea^jpole.
j *
z Mercantile Co.
The Daylight Store.
■ST TONY’S PLACES!1
EVERYTHING
FIRS'! CLASS
ANTON CARLSON,
Manager.
PLACER STRIKE
AT LIYA RAY
Coarse Cold and Nuggets Have Been
Found on Bench Where Pros
pects were in Creek Beds.
Tho Juneau Empire of recent date
says that it is reliably stated that a
strike of much significance has been
made on the benches at Lituya bay.
The find is reported to have been
made recently and a large quantity
of nuggets were taken out by the lo
cators from the first hole to bedrock.
Heretofore much work has been
done along the benches and the strike
the value of which has not been fully
determined, is sufficient to cause a
stampede.
Several miners have already left
Juneau and Douglas for the scene of
the strike and some of them are pre
paring to take in their families.
FLAMES BURN THROUGH
IMMENSE CONCRETE WALL
LANSFORD: The famous mine
lire, which has been raging npw for
60 years and which started on Sumr
mit Hill, near the spot where Philip
Ginter discovered anthracite coal iB
1791, has burned through the im
mense concrete wall which the Le
high Valley coal and Navigation Co.
sank in front of it, deep down in the
earth, several years ago at a cost of
more than a million dollars. It is
now threatening the mammoth vein
in the Panther Creek Valley, tlie lar
gest and richest vein of anthracite
coal in the world.
The wall, which was sunk in the
ground at a depth of 100 feet, was 15
feet thick of solid cocnrete, and ex
perts believed that the subterranean
fire would never eat through it, but
that it would prevei,. from spread
ing any further and eventually ex
tinguish it. The fact that the flames
have eaten through this huge Carrier
has caused grave fears among the
Lehigh Coal and Navigation officials,
who are now putting forth every pos
sible effort to prevent the fire from
getting into the vast bodies of an
tracite in the vicinity.
Already this fire has destroyed mil
lions of dollars while the 60-year bat
tle to extinguish it has cost enormous
sums. *
LADIES—Sanderson’s Cotton Root
Pills, safe and sure cure for all fe
male troubles and irregularities, price
$2.00; every box guaranteed. Dr. T.
Pierce, Seattle, Wash. 6t
iXOW CREW CLEARS
TRACK TO MILE 34
Advices from Seward say that the
Ylaskan Engineering commission has
ucceeded in clearing the track from
Seward to Mile 34 of the snow and
ce which blocked the trains for sev
jral days. A force of forty men was
3inployed and good progress was
uade after the summit at Mile 12
»as passed.
Cali for Warrants.
I will pay all warrants outstanding
beginning at No. 4906 up to and in
cluding No. 5355.
E. G. AMES,
2t Town Treasurer.
MANY CHANGES IN
THE SIGNAL CORPS
War Department will Transfer all
Operators Who Have Served Si*
Years In North to States.
Sergt. Jos. Little, day cashier of
the Signal Corps office here, has re
ceived instructions to report at Seat
tle and will leave for the states some
time before the end of the presen I.
month. He has been connoted with
the local office since last September,
and has made piany friends among
those having business relations with
his wife and little son.
It is also understood that the War
department is planning many changes
In the personnel of the Signal Corps
office forces and that all members of
the force who have served six years
or more in Alaska will be transferred
to the outside not later than Septem
ber 1. Among others who will be
affected by the change Mil be Sergt.
H. W. Kirby and Sergt. Wm. L.
Mooney of Valdez, Sergt. R. L. Pat
ton of Cordova, and Sergt. Murphy
of Seward.
Sergt. S. L. Jones, storekeeper of
the Signal Corps here, will be an
other who will cease to be connected
with the local staff after September,
as he will have completed his 21
years of service that month and will
retire. Sergt. Jones first came to
Alaska twenty-four years ago, before
he entered' the army and when he
believed that he wanted to be a pros
pector. After joining the army hr
was sent north with the reindeer ex
pedition in the winter of 1898 and
was also a member of the expedition
under Captain Edmund F. Glenn'to
the Cook Inlet country to locate tbe
All-American mail route from the
coast to interior Alaska.
* PINZON BAR
Imported and Domestic
Wines, Liquors and Cigars
Phone 69
MULT TRAIL
OVtR 1HE FLATS
Party Which left Valdez Yesterday
Were Seven and Half Hours
Reaching Camp Comfort.
Dr. E. C. Dalton and P. W. Sheelor
who left Valdez yesterday forenoon
with a dog team en route to Gulkana
spent the night at Camp Comfort
roadhouse, having required seven
and a half hours to cover the dis
tance of ten miles.
Communicating over the Signal
Corps long distance telephone Dr.
Dalton said that the trip had been
a hard one. The road is drifted deep
with loose snow and the men were
forced to break trail for the dogp ev
ery step of the way, in addjtiqn to
fighting their way across the .flhts in
the face of a seventy mile gale. They
expected to leave for Wortman’s at
an early hour this morning but ex
pressed doubt that they would be
able to make the trip through Key
stone canyon. • !
Dr. Dalton Is making the i.i«-mile
trip to Gulkana in answer to an emer
gency call for medical assistance for
Sergt. tiaVid Maxwv... who is reported
as being seriously ill there.
driver Rowupttom with the gov
ernment dog team is coming in over
the road from Gtflkana and is making
fast time as the road on the other
side of the summit is reported to be
in good condition.
COMMISSION WILL
SETTLE TROUBLE
Federal Commission Will Be Sent
from Washington to Anchorage
to Investigate Strike.
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 2.—
It is reported In official circles that
a federal commission will soon be
sent to Anchorage, Alaska, to inves
tigate the labor trouble among the
employes of the Alaskan Engineering
commission constructing the govern
ment railroad.
Commissioner Edes, chairman of
the commission, has declared that the,
reports concerning the strike at An
chorage have been exaggerated and
that no serious trouble has occurred.
The men quit work when the com
mission declined to increase the scale
of wages twenty-flye per cent but no
violence has been reported on the
part of the strikers.
Reports from Anchorage are to the
effect that every branch of the com
mission’s activities in Alaska have
been tied up by the strike and that
the men have organized a union with
a view of preventing the positions
being filled until the new wage scale
has been granted.
The Department of the Interior, it
is Baid, has received full details of
the labor trouble on the government
railroad from Commissioner MSara,
who is now in charge of operations at
Anchorage. According to the An
chorage advices received by the de
partment the trouble has been caused
by men who have been refused or
discharged from work by the com
mission and they are seeking re
venge.
The officials of the new labor fed
eration at Anchorage have sent de
tail reports of the strike to all la
bor unions throughout the country
and warnings have been issued
against laborers seeking work with
the commission until the trouble has
been settled. The action of the la
borers in quitting when denied the
increased wage scale is said to have
been endorsed by the business men
of Anchorage and the chamber of
commerce of that city.
ALASKA FREIGHTERS ARE
IN ATLANTIC SUGAR TRADE
According to the Seattle Times of
of recent date the two big freighters,
the Rutland and the Ogdensburg,
which were purchased by the Paclflc
Alaska Navigation company for the
Admiral Lines, are now being operat
ed in the New York-Cuba sugar trade
and will come to the Pacific on the
lopening of the Panama canal. The
vessels have been christened the Ad
miral Clark and Admiral Sebree and
were formerly In the Great Lakes
service.
Ferro Engines run successfully on
gasoline, kerosene or distillate and
their price Is consistent with good
workmanship. Valdoz Iron Works, th
STORM TAKES TOLL
IN PLATE GLASS
Big Windows of the Pinzon Cigar
Store and Pinzon Bar Smashed.
Liberty Theatre Unroofed.
If there Is any truth in the old
adage that when March "comes in
like a iion it will go out like a lamb"
Valdez is due to have conslde^ble
change in weather conditions between
the present time and four weeks.
The gale which began blowing
from the glacier yesterday, or may
be It was from Lowe river as it ap
parently came from every direction,
gained force until late In the even
ing when it reached its climax in a
few heavy gusts which began tear
ing things loose.
The three big plate glass windows
which formed the entire front of the
Pinzon Cigar store and the Pinzon
bar were sucked from their frames
and smashed on the sidewalk. The
house was filled w..„ patrons when
the windows ~egan going and it was
feared that the building would col
lapse and there would be a stampede
for the street. The plate glass was
valued at $90 each and the loss will
fall on Sandy Levy. The entire front
of the building is now covered with
canvas to keep the snow out.
A section of the ropf of the Lib
erty theatre was lifted from the
building and carried across McKin
ley street where it was thrown
against the A'rcade Cafe building.
The piece of roof is about sixteen
feet long by four feet wide and would
have smashed any pedestrian had it
encountered any in its flight.
Two windows were blown in at the
St. Elias Hotel on Keystone avenue
and the sheet iron roofing of the City
Dock was torn loose and a part of it
carried away. Stove pipes were blown
down in all parts of town and many
householders feared to keep fires go
ing during the night.
The transmission lines of the Alas
ka Water Light & Telephone com
pany were torn from the poles on up
per Alaska avenue but no damage re
sulted. During the hours when the
storm was at its highest pitch the
electric lights kept blinking and it
was feared that the transmission
lines would go down and leave the
city in darkness but they remained
on the job and are giving good ser
vice.
UAL SERE
TO HUDSON BAY
Falcon Josiin Says Service Has Been
Success There and Will Be a
Success When Tried Here.
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 2.—
Falcon Joslin, president of the Ta
nana Valley Railroad company, is dis
satisfied that be postal department
in calling for aerial mail services in
Alaska did not include service from
Fairbanks to Brooks in the new Tolo
vana camp. He is trying to interest
the department in a plan he has for
operating a mail service by aeroplane
60 miles from Fairbanks to Brooks
dally throughout the year.
Mr. Joslin is convinced that the
aeroplane service is feasible and can
be depended upon and that economy
and efficiency in handling the mails
in Alaska can be best secured by this
system. He has pointed out that the
Canadian government is handling the
mails regularly and successfully tc
the Hudson Bay district by aeroplane
and believes that they will be equally
as successful in Alaska.
AliA.-iti.AN TOWNS
MAY INCUR DEBTS
At the last session of the city coun
cil a letter was read from Delegate
James v. ...rfersham, in answer to a
request heretofore made to him by
Mayor Reck, regarding the bonding
of the city of Juneau for the purpose'
of raising adequate funds for proper
ly equipping and maintaining the
oubiic schools. In this letter Judge
Wickersham stated that he had in
troduced a bill, which, when passed
would provide a general and compre
hensive law for all the towns in Alas
ka covering this subject. Upon the
passage of such a law the difficulty
will be avoided of enacting special
legislation, and on one act will sup
ply the deficiency uniformity in all
the cities and towns alike, giving
each town in Alaska tha right to
bond itself for any purpose.
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REPORT OF THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF
The First Bank of Valdez
LOCATED AT VALDEZ, TERRITORY OF ALASKA, AT THE CLOSE
OF BUSINESS ON THK 17TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1016
RESOURCES:
Loans and Discounts .... * 94 ait 2?.
Overdrafts---HJZZZT L25SJ2
Bonds and Warrants- 35,883.12
Furniture and Fixtures- 3,549.80
Checks on other banks and other cash items_ 2.063JO
CASH ON HAND AND SIGHT EX- «-,« „„
CHANGE__117,973.83
TOTAL- $255,556.79
LIABILITIES:
Capital Stock paid in-$ 25,000.00
Surplus Fund_ SOODB
VijKMrtMt.-- 2U2S
Due to Banks—Deposits_ 552.05
DEPOSITS -- 226438.94
Certified Checks- • 453.70
TOTAL -$255,556.79
United States of America, Territory of Alaska, Third Judicial Divi- .
slon, as.
I, J. W. GILSON, Assistant Cashier of the above-named bank do
solemnly swear that the foregoing statement is true to the beet of
my knowledge and belief.
J. W. GILSON,
Correst Attest: Assistant Cashier
M. BLUM, 1
J. C. MARTIN. f Directors.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 25th day of Feb., 1918.
(Notarial Seal) ANTHONY J. BIMOND,
Notary Public in and for the Territory of Alaska.
My Commission expiree March 13, 1917.
THE PINZON
Making a Specialty of Haas & Sons’ Candy
Have-—
Varied Sweets Nut Chocolates
Glace Fruit French Mixed
014 Fashioned Chocolate Supreme
Home Made Specials
The Largest Stock of Candies in the North
Valdez Dock Co. PHONE NO. 1
JOBBER IN ’
GOAL, HAY
GRAIN and
LUMBER
Office, foot of Wall street.
Alaska Water, light &
Telephone Go.
Everything Electrical