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STEWART & SELBY, Proprietors
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FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1916
THE MAIL BIDS.
So far as can be learned the
bids for carrying the mail between
the coast and Fairbanks by auto,
during the summer months, have not
been opened as yet, Chief Clerk
Karnes having been in Seattle on May
1, the date set for opening the bids,
and it is not known whether or not
he has returned.
Several bids were sent in from Val
dez, and it is probable that the Val
dez bidders will have an excellent
chance of landing the contract, inas
much as the expense of running be
tween Valdez and Fairbanks is not
so great, taking everything into con
sideration, as between Cnitina and
Fairbanks. It is said that to prevent
the mail for the interior leaving Cor
dova, the railroad would transport
it to Chitina free of charge, thus
eliminating this cost from the bid of
any party desiring to run from Chit
ina. Even with this expense removed
Valdez still maintains an advantage
in the lower cost of fuel. The freight
charges on a case of gasoline from
Cordova to Chitina is $1, or ten cents
a gallon, which alone gives Valdez a
decided advantage. Another advan
tage is that a successful bidder here
would probau.y have no interference
from other stage lines in the matter
of freight and express, whereas there
are two or three lines running to
Chitina, and the business is naturally
divided between them. Valdez bid
ders, therefore, have two advantages
which should enable them to make a
bid considerably lower than the own
ers of lines running out of Chitina.
Still a third advantage is that a pas
senger can be landed in Valdez from
Fairbanks practically as cheaply as
at Chitina. The passenger is relieved
of the necessity of paying $13 addi
tional railroad fare to reach the coast
and this saving should bring a large
majority of the passengers this way.
Thus assured of a considerable
freight, passenger and express busi
ness which would profit, the mail
might be carried at a figure that
would merely meet the cost of oper
ation.
TRADITIONS ARE TOTTERING.
Some time ago a medical expert
denounced the use of whiskey as a
remdy for snake bite; and now comes
another who says that raw meat is
not a cure for a black eye. Must all
our fond traditions and time honored
beliefs go by the board just because
of objections from the men of science.
Their next declaration may be that it
is healthful to walk under a ladder
on Friday, the 13th day of the month.
—Pittsburg Chronicle.
The situation at Pittsburg shows
the dangers of the present immigra
tion law. The manufacturers pound
ed Congress over the head until it
got cheap foreign labor; and now they
are yelling for the militia to help con
trol their Frankenstein.
As a last resort if the Mexicans
cannot organize a government for
Mexico, they might deed the country
back to the North American Indian
Association before somebody fore
closes on it.
China is not so slow. Instead of
carelessly referring to young women
as "chickens,” as is sometimes done
in America, citizens of the newest re
public term them "pheasants.”
Sam Blum’s big new business
block will add materially to the looks
of the city, and incidentally give
quite a few men work in its construc
tion. A few thousand dollars in
wages turned loose in the community
right at this time will help our city
wonderfully.
A judge in Tacoma sentenced a
man to pay a one thousand dollar fine
and serve a year in jail because he
said George Washington drank and
was a slaveowner. A decision so rank
as this will make more rabid anar
chists in a day than the government
can handle in a‘year.
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After all this fuss and pother, it
now turns out that Carranza is will
ing to allow Uncle Samuel to do al
most anything he wishes in the Land
of Manana. It would have saved a
lot of hard feelings and misunder
standing had the Mexican President
gracefully come off of his perch at the
start.
The steamships leaving Seattle in
the morning instead of at night, has
already made a difference of several
hundred dollars to our merchants. A
boat at our dock several hours in the
daytime means a great many dollars
spent in town, and it is to be hoped
that from now on the steamship com
panies will give Valdez a better deal
in the matter of daylight landings.
URGES HIGHWAY WORK
EOR ALASKA COPPER
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! One hundred thousand dollars ex
pended by the Alaska Road Commis
sion in constructing a bridge across
-the Nizina river and a wagon road
from the Nizina to McCarthy would
add considerably to Alaska's high
grade copper ore tonnage in the opin- j
ion of L. C. Dillman of the Alaska
Westover Mining Company, who has
been developing property in that re
gion for the last eleven years, says
the Seattle Times of April 20.
“There are several large deposits
of high-grade copper ore, but owing
to the transportation difficulties they
cannot be profitably shipped,” said
Dillman in Seattle today. “There is
any quantity of 30 per cent., copper.
A road of about seventeen or eight
een miles and a bridge would make
this ore valuable.
“If the government would put in
a toll road it would pay for itself
in ten years. There are eight or nine
camps, all of which would ship some
copper ore, and the road would also
be a great convenience for the placer
gold miners on Dan Creek and the
tributaries of the Chititu River.”
THOUSANDS IN IOWA
PARADE OPPOSE WAR
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DUBUQUE, la., May 5.—Several
thousand men, women and children,
marching under many flags to the
tune of “Yankee Doodle” and other
patriotic airs, paraded the downtown
district last night as a demonstration
against a war with Germany or any
other country.
Marching four abreast the proces
sion was almost two miles long. Fol
lowing the marchers, hundreds of au
tomobiles, decorated with American
flags, filled the streets. Many ban
ners were carried by the marchers
with various inscriptions. On one
banner the inscription read: “This is
a democracy, not a one-man govern
ment.”
The launch Shamrock, Capt. Tim
Marcum, returned from Fidalgo and
Ellamar this afternoon, bringing as
passengers Chas. McCallum and E.
D. Reiter. The Shamrock also brot
up a B-ton shipment of ore from Ross
Paden’s property which will he ship
ped to smelter.
Pictures developed at the Valdez
Drug Company.__**
THE EMPRESS
To-Night - and •- Saturday
WILUAM FARNUM
America’s most popular young actor in
THE NIGGER
Or THE NEW GOVERNOR
A $100,000. Photoplay, 1,000 People, 500 Scenes.*
140,000 people in one week witnessed this great pro
duction at the New York Hippodrome.
One Show at 8:10 p. m. Sharp
Admission 25c Children 10c
Uniting the Family.
How many households have a fam
ily hour—a definite time in the week
when all the members of the family
gather in perfect serenity for an inter
val of genuine communion? Although
civilization brings many advantages in
its train, it bas the great fault of tend
ing to disrupt family intercourse. Each
member bas too many individual activ
ities. Fathers have their business:
sons, their business or education: moth
ers. their domestic duties or socinl oc
cupations: daughters, their business,
their education or their social life.
All these things are right and worthy
in themselves, but they do not tend to
weld the family. If members of a fam
ily will make it a rule to devote them
selves for one hour in the week wholly
to one another the spirit of family life
will be quickened and strengthened.
Often the members of a family pursue
parallel courses that do not intersect.
It is mere platitude to point out that
great events—travel, marriage, death
and the like—must inevitably cause
disintegration. 11 ut so long as the fam
ily is together under one roof the spirit
of union and common interests should
be fostered.—Youth’s Companion.
A Bird’s Barbed Wire Fences.
There is in Central America a brown
wren about the size of a canary which
builds a curious nest. It selects a
small tree with horizontal branches
growing close together. Across two of
the branches it lays sticks fastened to
gether with tough fiber until a plat
form about six feet long by two feet
wide has been constructed. On the
end of this platform nearest the tret
trunk it then builds a huge dome
shaped nest a foot or so high with
thick sides of interwoven thorns. A
covered passageway is then made from
the nest to the end of the platform in
as crooked a manner as possible.
Across the outer end as well as at
short intervals along the inside of this
tunnel are placed cunning little fences
of thorns with just space enough for
the owners to pass through. On going
out this opening is closed by tbe own
er by placing thorns across the gate
way. and thus the safety of the eggs
or young is assured.
How Chalk la Formed.
Deposits of chalk are found on some
shores of the sea. A piece of chalk,
such as the teacher uses to illustrate
something on the blackboard at school,
consists of the remains of thousands of
tiny creatures that at one time lived in
the sea. All of their bodies, excepting
tbe chalk—called carbonate of lime in
scientific language—has disappeared
■and the chalk that was left was piled
up where it fell at the bottom of the
ocean, each particle pressing over it all
until it became almost solid. It took j
thousands of years to make these chalk
deposits of the thickness in which
they are found. Later on, through
changes in tbe earth's surface, the
mountain of chalk was raised until it
stood out of the water and thus be- ;
came accessible to man and school- |
teachers.
Not Afraid of Cold Stool.
In her younger days Eugenie, when
empress of tbe French nation, was <
noted for her great courage, as the fol- 1
lowing incident proves. ' t
At a brilliant dinner party a some- j
what tactless general told her majesty ;
that women should not meddle in poll- '•
tics.
“You know, madnme,” he said, “that |
politics lead to war. and if the worse
came to the worst you would not have
the nerve to face cold steel.”
“Wouldn’t I ?” cried the empress. “I'll j
show you!" ” And, snatching a large |
knife from the table, she inflicted a !
deep stab on her arm.
After that the general never broach
ed the subject of woman’s lack of
nerves again.
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Sharpening a Pocketknife.
Cutlers have certain rules for sharp- ;
ening razors, pocketknives, etc. “A 1
razor.” said one of the craft quoted
by the Scientific American, “must be
laid flat on the bone, because it is hol
low ground and requires a fine edge.
But a pocketknife requires a stiff edge,
and the moment you lay it flat on a
stone, so as to touch the polished side,
you Injure the edge. It must be held
at an angle of twenty to twenty-five
degrees and have an edge similar to a
chisel.”
Up* and Downs.
Lady (who was on a visit to her na
tive town)—How is Mrs. Gabble? 1
haven’t seen her for a long time?
Hostess—She is having her usual ups
and downs. Lady Visitor—And what
may that be. I pray? Hostess—Oh.
nmning up bills and running down her
neighbors.—Buffalo News.
A Risa.
“The automatic force of Inanimate
objects is sometimes a wonderful
thing,” said the professor.
“Yes," agreed the/impecunious man;
“even the humble cake of yeast can al
ways raise the dough.”—New York
Mail. _
His Wisdom.
Judge—How- long have you owned a
car? Motorist (charged with speeding)
—One week, your honor. Judge—Urn;
then you can still afford to pay a fine.
Twenty dollars!—Puck.
Not What He Meant.
Diner (in swell cafe)—I suppose peo
ple who dine here carry off quite a lot
of silver. Waiter—Yes, sir; we can’t
get all their loose change.*-Boston
Transcript.
The very best way to get ability is
to do thoroughly whatever you do.
Master every detail of work that falls
to your lot—Selected.
Alligator IBrauii
Saittroata
3m Mm mb lap
Arc guaranty not to Irak,
stick or crack.
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DISTRIBUTORS
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
Merchandise
The best groceries received
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits, and
nuts.
A report comes from Seattle that
the Booth Fisheries Company, who
operates a cold storage plant at Sit
ka, recently shipped 300 tons of fro
zen herring on the Border Line
freighter Northland in blocks two
cubic feet in size, thus making the
boxing unnecessary.
James Bowie, a miner at the Heady
Bullion mine at Treadwell, narrowly
escaped death recently when he fell
down a shaft a distance of 60 feet.
He was removed to the hospital
where it was discovered he was bad
ly bruised and had a cut on his head
which took five stitches to close.
A fine display or nugget jewelry at
Valdez Drug Co. tf*
Try our Malted Milk. Hot or Cold.
Candy Kitchen. tf
Several pieces of desirable proper
ty for sale. Oscar Fish. tf
Carbureters, magnetos, batteries,
spark plugs and coils at Mead’s. tf
FOR SALE—Lot on Front street
near dock. New sidewalk. Big snap.
Price $100. Alaska Inv. Co. 2t
GEN. ROBERT K. EVANS.
Commanding 8ocond Bri
gada at Larodo, Tax.
Photo by American Free* Association.
Candy Kitchen
E. W. HUNT—In Owl Drug Store.
FOUNTAIN DRINKS
HOT- -COLD
LOUIE’S CAFE
Everything First class
Open Day and Night
ANPY MAROVICH, Prop.
Arcade Cafe
OPEN AIX NIGHT
Private Dining Room with Electric
Heater!
Jack Caliia • _Proprietor
Alaska Jewelry Go.
With Owl Drug Co.
All Kinds of Nugget and
Ivory Jewelry.
Developing and Printing
Photo Supplies Phone 40
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interim.
GENERAL TRUCKING
McKinley Street, Valdez
ED. WOOD. Proprietor
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company
Office on Alaska Avenue, in
George C. Treat Building
Telephone No. 60
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General Trucking and Freighting
to all Interior Points.
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LIVERY and FEED STABLE
STORAGE,
Teaming of All Kinds
Positively No Coal Delivered Un,
less Paid for in Advance
DR. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate Natloaal UalveralOo
WaihlngtoB, D. C.
DENTIST
Fourteen Ysars in VaMcx
PHONE 110
Office Rooms in Whaling Bafidi^
E. C. DALTON, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Phone 42
Alaska Avenue Valdes, Alaska
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
On« Oppwltt Coart llini
Phone 34 VALDEZ. ALASKA
JOHN LYONS E K KITCrnn
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
O Hirer In Whaling Ho tiding
Phone 101 VALDEZ. ALASKA
The Beat Place in Valdez to
Stop at la the
ArcticHotel
Warn, Liflt Room-Tie Hoaae of Cnfcit
RATES. REASONABLE
BATH ROOM Special Ralea Ij^tle Baa*
PHONE 133 MRS. STRING,
ASA C. BALDWIN
CIVIL ENGINEER
U. S. Miacral Surveyor
McKinley Street oppoaato V. M. Store.
Valdes, Alaska
VALDEZ LODGE
NO 168
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ED WOOD, Secretary.
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
“back” a good plan, a good
idea, a good business ven
ture or a good mining pros
pect; otherwise a good irtemk
of today’s successful b^HF
ness enterprises would soil
be-mere dreams.
Advertising has brought
about a majority of the in
troductions of the man with
the idea, the man with a
prospect, or business to the
man with the dollar.
ADVERTISE IN THE
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SULTS.