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VALDEZ. ALASKA
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WE ARE READY
TO TALK TURKEY
to men who think of ordering
a new suit or overcoat for
Thanksgiving. Our extra fine
line of fabrics is open for in
spection. And our prices are
so 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
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THE
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.
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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 aa high r.s
their extra fine quality would
seem to indicate.
Schmidt’s Bakery
Delicatessen
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Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING
McKinley Street, Valdez
ED. WOOD. Proprietor
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Prospector ads bring results.
NO MORE COMPULSORY
CANADIAN MUSTACHES
OTTAWA, Nov. 16.—For many
months Canadian soldiers have been
protesting at the British army regu
lation compelling the wealing of a
mustache. Today they are rejoicing
In a new order from militia head
quarters, graciously permitting them
to shave the upper lip in American
fashion.
City Appoints Inspector.
Gus Dgarf has been appointed ar. |
inspector by the city to go around
and examine the condition of the
stovepipes and flues before the high
winds of the winter season begin to
blow. Mr. Dgarf has already started
on his round and has found many
pipes in bad condition.
George Hobart returned on the
Mariposa from a trip to Seattle. He
reports Mrs. Hobart and their young
son as doing nicely.
A new line of heaters priced right,
•t Mead’s. tf
A new line of band painted china.
Owl Drug Co. tf
See Blake for Cement Blocks. tf j
A Big Shipment.
Just received, a fresh line of Haas
Candies, the kind you like, at Levy &
Rosa/ tf
Kodak Supplies at the Valdez Drug
Company. tf
Fresh Augustine & Kyer Butter
Krisp and Queen Victorias at Hunt’s.
All kinds of cocktails. At the
Candy Kitchen. tf
Location notices, noth 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 Backet
Show your wife how much you
love her and send that noisy old
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 j
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ALASKA WINS HONORS
LAND PRODUCTS SHOW
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The Alaska exhibit at the North
west Land Products Exposition held
in Seattle from October 4th to 14th,
attracted a great deal of Interest and
comment. The wonderful display of
grain from the Tanana and Yukon
Valleys was later placed on display
in a Second Avenue window of the
Bon Marche, where it was the center
of attraction for a crowd that block
ed the window for the entire week.
To C. H. Anway, of Haines, Alas
ka, was awarded the first prize, a
silver cup donated by the Arctic
Club, for the best individual display
of agricultural products exhibited in
the Alaska section of the Northwest
Land Products Exposition. Mr. Ai
way’s display consisted of three vari
eties of apples, ‘‘Duchess of Olden
burg,Seedlings” and ‘‘Crabs ”
Strawberries of greater size than any
of our local berries. White clover,
nine feet long. Oats; spring wheat
and winter wheat; celery; three
varieties of rutabagas and cabbage.
To H. Vermeire, of Haines, Alaska,
was awarded the second prize do
nated by the Western Dry Goods Co.
His exhibit consisted of beets, tur
nips, kohlrabi, carrots, cabbage, cel
ery and potatoes.
To Benjamin & Gillsinger, of
Eagle River, Alaska, was awarded
the third prize donated by the F. S.
Lang Stove Company. Their exhibit
consisted of turnips, potatoes, ruta
bagas, carrots, parsnips and beets.
OthQr Alaska Individual exhibitors
having most creditable displays were
W. Wills, of Skagway; F. F. Win
chester and McCain Gardens, Anchor
age. Eakin & Whittaker, Matanuska
and Ed Adams of Skagway.
School Work of Alaska Natives
The exhibit of school work by the
Alaska natives attracted much atten
tion and praise. It consisted of pre
served fish, clams and berries from
Yakutat by the Yakutat school chil
dren. Preserved vegetables from
Klukwan and industrial work of the
native boys from Metlakahtla and
other districts embracing miniature
houses, picture frames, iron heaters
and tin work and a most creditable
display of needle work by the native
girls consisting of doilies, pillow
oases, guest towels, table runners,
mocassins, etc.
Exhibits of Commercial Bodies
From the Fairbanks Commercial
Club came the greatest grain exhibit
ever sent out of Alaska, which proved
a revelation to those not familiar
with the agricultural possibilities of
the north. This exhibit consisted in
great part of grain grown at the Ag
ricultural Experiment Stations at
Fairbanks and Rampart, and com
prised some eighty bundles of grain
in the sheaf and some six bushels of
threshed grain. The exhibit embraced
winter rye, Rampart Hybrid Beard
less Barley, Canadian, Finnish-Black
and South Dakota oats. Romanow
Spring and Kharkow Winter wheat.
Of particular interest at this time is
a news item to the effect that the
Tanana Valley now boasts of a flour
mill. Mr. Magnus Nelson, one of the
progressive ranchers of the Tanana
recently received a flour mill and is
now prepared to make his own flour
from wheat grown on his farm. This
mill is but the beginning, marking
the commencement of an epoch in
the history of agricultural interior
Alaska.
Fro mthe Ketchikan Commercial
Club came an exhibit of ores from
the Elliot & King mine at Helm Bay
The Apex Mine, McClean’s Arm. The
Cymru, Dean and It. Gold Standard,
Wakefield, Goodrow & Chilberg
Heckman & Thompson, Copper
Mountain, Ready Bullion, Poor Man,
Niblock, Crackerjack, C. Reynolds
Wright, Tom Stevens and other mines
of the Ketchikan district.
The Cordova Chamber of Com
merce sent an exhibit consisting of
coal from the Bering Field; Copper
ore from the famous Kennecott
Mother Lode, Tjosevig mines and
from the Chitina, Nizina, Taral, El
liot Creek, Spirit Mountain, Fidalgo
and other districts. Gold quartz from
the Port Wells District and a mam
moth clam measuring eight inches
in length.
The Anchorage Chamber of Com
merce sent an exhibit of vegetables
from the Anchorage and Matanuska
regions. Coal from the Matanuska
Field and ores from the Center Star
and Bluff mines in the Willow Creek
District.
The Nome Chamber of Commerce
sent an exhibit of coal from the Cape
Lisbourne coal fields; Gold Quartz
from the Clan-Chattan Lode and ex
hibits of Uranium and Antimony
3res from the Nome region, a dis
ulay of vegetables raised by Mr. Fred
Sickler, Government Native School
readier at Shungnak on the Kobuk
River, ninety miles north of the Art
ie Circle, and samples of tungsten
ire from the Rock Creek mine of
:he Pioneer Mining Company.
The U. S. Bureau of Forestry sent
from Ketchikan planks of Alaska
;edar. Yellow Cedar and Alaska
pruce; the latter measured 8x4 feet.
Bureau Will Display Exhibits
These exhibits will be added to
he permanent exhibit of the Alaska
Bureau, Seattle Chamber of Com
merce and kept on display in Its
rooms. The interest displayed by the
Alaska people through1 their com
mercial organizations and newpapers
in the Northwest Land Products Ex
position assures a display for the
show of next year many times the
size of the display of this year.
ROAD COMMISSION THANKED
BY ARCTIC BROTHERHOOD
The Alaska Aoad Commission is
popular In Sitka as the following res
olution adopted by Camp Sitka No. 6,
Arctic Brotherhood, will show. The
copy of the resolutions was received
by J. C. Hayes, superintendent for
the road commission from Sitka yes
terday and it was accompanied by a
four-pronged buck. A copy of the
resolution was also mailed to Col.
W. P. Richardson, president of the
Road Commission.
“Whereas, the extension to the
Sltka-Jamestown Bay road by the
Alaska Road Commission during the
summer of 1916 is of great benefit
to this community and has opened
valuable lands to use and settlement,
and the road built is of a permanent
character that is a credit to the offi
cers who constructed it as well as
the community benefited by it; It Is
Therefore
Resolved, By Camp Sitka of the
Arctic Brotherhood that, as a mark
of our appreciation of the consider
ation shown to Sitka by the president
and other members of the Alaska
Road Commission and also by Super
intendent J. C. Hayes, in behalf of
the people of Sitka, we do hereby ex
tend our most sincere thanks to the
Alaska Road Commission and to Su
perintendent Hayes for the road work
done at Sitka in 1916.
Resolved, That these resolutions
be spread upon the minutes of the
Camp and a copy thereof sent to the
Alaska Road Commission and Supei
intendent J. C. Hayes.
Unanimously adopted by Cam)
Sitka, No. 6, Arctic Brotherhood, in
regular session this 16th day of Oct
ober, 1916.
JAMES W. JOHNSTON.
(Attest) Arctic Chief.
A. G. Shoup, Arctic Recorder.
TWO RADIO MEN ARE
MISSING SINCE SATURDAY!
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George Parker and Mr. Crowell of [
the naval wireless station at Whit-;
shed, left Cordova on Saturday after-1
noon at 2 o’clock in the radio power
boat to return to the plant, and fail
ing to show up there considerable
uneasiness was felt for their safety.
Capt. George Scott and A1 Hamilton
started out today in a launch to hunt
for the missing men. Late this aft
ernoon it was reported that a boat
had been located anchored out in the
bay and the friends of Messrs. Par
ker and Crowell are hoping that it
is the radio boat and its occupants
are safe.—Cordova Times.
SNAKE STORY TOLD
BY TOTAL ABSTAINED
DANVILLE, Ky.: D. T. Green,
who resides southwest of Parksville,
bearing his dog baying in the midst
of an oat field, found a crevice be
tween two stones.
He got his shotgun and discharged
two shots into this opening. Ther.
with a forked pole he drew from the
hole a living rattlesnake four feet
long and ten inches in circumfer
ence, with fifteen rattles.
He then drew out a large copper
head and a huge blaqfksnake which
he had killed when he shot into the
opening and then dragged out a live
blue racer five feet long.
Those who are acquainted with Mr.
Green state that he is a total ab
stainer.
BRITISH SUFFRAGETTES
AGAIN HURLING STONES
LONDON, Nov. 16.—Two suffra
gettes were arrested at midnight on
Tuesday while hurling stones through
five of the windows of the home of
fice and colonial office. The stones
bore such inscriptions as “Down
with Grey,” "Down with Haldane,”
and “Roumania Must not be Sacri
ficed.”
The public prosecutor asserted
that the raiders acted in violation
of the truce between the government
and the leaders of the suffrage move
ment for the duration of the war. The
court postponed their cases to a lat
er date.
District Attorney W. N. Spence re
turned on the Mariposa from a busi
ness trip to Cordova.
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George Reinke left on the Mari-;
posa on a business trip to Latouche.!
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Keystone Hand Laundry. Remem
ber work guaranteed. Phone 216. tf
The best dinner at the Arcade
Cafe. tf
Your picture will please the folks
at home better than anything you can
send them. Jenner the photographer
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TIME MAY GO BY
when you will be able to ob
tain insurance. The time to
secure this perfect protection
is right now. Tomorrow may
be too late. To neglect insur
ing is to neglect a duty both
to your family and to yourself.
You cannot afford not to be in
sured any longer. Let us in
sure you today.
TALK WITH SMITH
Valdez Real Estate Agency
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Sailings from Seattle—
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Nov. 24.—S. S. Mariposa.
Dec. 1.—S. S. Alameda.
Dec. 8.—S. S. Mariposa.
Dec. 16.—S. S. Alameda.
Sailings Valdez to Seattle—
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Nov. 25.—S. S. Alameda.
Dec. 1.—S. S. Mariposa.
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On Your Next Trip to the East.
Electrification of its main line over the backbone of 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, Valdai, Pboaa 1 A. E. Harm, T. P. A. Jnnaaa, Alaika.
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
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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
Mra. M. Olson, on Hobart street. •
Fresh candy at the Emporium, tf
The Golden North, the House of
Comfort. it
Special order, Cham Chowder 15c,
at the Arcade. tf
The N. & S. leaves the Valdez dock
on regular sailing days. See adv.
Carbureters, magnetos, Datteries,
spark plugs and colls at Mead's. tf
Pure Fresh Drugs at tne Valdez
Drug Store. tl
For all kinds of cement work see
Blake. tf
Best Sourdough hotcakes and best
coffee at the Arcade. tf
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