The First Bank of Valdez
CAPITAL *25,000.
4% PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS
OUR STOCKHOLDERS ARE
S. BLUM
M. BLUM
E. B. WHEAT
JOHN LYONS
J. M. LATHROP
W. M. WILSON
JAFET LINDEBERG
TERRITORIAL DEPOSITORY.
Valdez Dock Co. PHONE NO. 1
JOBBER IN
COAL, HAY
and GRAIN
Office, foot of Wall street.
VALDEZ SHEET METAL WORKS
Plumbing. Steam and Hot Water Heating.
MOTOR BOAT SUPPLIES
Pumps. Well-Points. Valves T Water. Steam and Suction
and Packing. rS Hose.
PIPE AND FITTINGS
TO-NIGHT!
EVERYONE WELCOME
FREE DINNER
Will be served at 9:30 p.m.
Every Evening at
The Big Place
MENU
Meat, Potatoes, Beans, Bread,
and Coffee.
Do Not Hesitate. Welcome Means Welcome.
Al. White & Co
PROPRIETORS
Valdez Lodge
No 168,
Free and Accepted Masons
Regular Communications first Wednesday s
each month in McKinley Hall Visitors always
welcome.
A. E. GRIGSBY. W. M.
C. C. Reynolds. Seo
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RED GROSS HOSPITAL
PRIVATE ROOMS.
Open to All Physicians
MISS JONES,
Hobart Street. Matron.
Valdez Hospital
Largest and Best Equipped Hospital
in Southwestern Alaska.
Graduate Narsss—Private Rooms (or Patienti
For Tormaand Particulars Apply to
E. C. DALTON, M, D., Physicianis Charge.
If you want all the news all the
'jfme, read the Prospector.
LOCAL VALDEZ
Socialist Party ot Alaska
Meet* every Saturday at 8 p. m.
Next door to Senate Saloon.
Everybody Welcome.
ARCADE CAFE
"We Never Clone."
Private Dining Room.
The Beat of Everythin!. We Bake Onr Own
Bread and Pantry. Bread forlSnle.
Jack Callin■ - Proprietor
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Go to the Valdez Cafe for Luteflak.
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See Tod Winter for your watch and
jewelry repairing at E. Winter’s store.
All work guaranteed. tf
A nice line of art pictures Just re
ceived from New Tork at Valdez
Drug Co. tf
Sweat Bathe.
First-class sweat baths and mas
sage parlors at room 6, Montana, tf
FROM THE SOUTH
Brings Twelve Passengers and Fifty
Tons of Freight—South To
morrow Evening.
The steamer Mariposa of the Alas
ka Steamship Company line reached
Valdez this morning at 3:30, bringing
twelve passengers for this port and
50 tons of freight. The Mariposa also
called at Fort Liscum to discharge
freight and passengers for the mili
tary post.
Captain O’Brien expected to reach
Valdez tomorrow evening on the re
turn trip.
The following passengerss arrived
for Valdez: Bruce Rider, Mrs. H.
L. Rider, Edwin Eckern, L. Schafer,
Sidney Laurence, Carl Stathel, R. .1.
Monohan, Roy Meyer, Mrs. M. J.
Hughes and three second-class.
N. Y. BANKERS
TO RELP RUSSIA
Make a Loan of $12,000,000 To Czar’s
Government—Morgan One of
the Group.
NEW YORK, Jan. 14.—A group of
New York bankers today agreed to
loan $12,000,000 to Russia. The loan
is to be made in gold. J. P. Morgan,
the banker, is one of the group of
capitalists who have agreed to under
write the loan and it is understood
that the bankers have pledged them
selves to raise $50,000,000 for Rus
sia.
Not a Jewish banker in the city
Will touch a dollar of the loan, as the
Jews are opposed to aiding Russia so
long as that country persecutes the
Jews residing in the czar’s empire.
RECEPTION FOR
JURGEBUNNELL
The members of the Tillikum Club
will tender Judge C. E. Bunnell a re
ception this evening at the club
rooms.
LADY PIONEERS
MEET TONIGHT
The members of the Auxiliary of
the Pioneers of Alaska will hold a
meeting tonight at Pioneer hall. All
women who arrived in Alaska prior
to 1901 are eligible to membership.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Pete Cashman left today for his
roadhouse at Wortman’s.
Prescriptions carerully compound
ed at Valdez Drug Co. tf
Ed. Pauley leaves in the morning
for the Ramsay-Rutherford mine. *
Beautiful band-painted vases just
received at Valdez Drug Co. tf
Mrs. H. L. Rider and son, Bruce,
arrived dn the Mariposa this morn
ing.
Before sending to the mall order
houses for your wants examine the
goods on the bargain counters at the
Emporium. Men’s SOc wool hose 25c.
Fresh candy 25c pound. tf
Change of pictures tonight at the
Orpheum.
Large stock of cut glass and Paris
ian ivory at Valdez Drug Co. tf
The big free dinner at the Big
Place tonight at 9:30. All are wel
come.
Imported Japanese baskets at Val
dez Drug Co. tf
Suits pressed for 51.00 at Silver
man’s the tailor. Telephone 198.
■W. Schroder and son, Robert, re
turned from the Sitka hot springs on
the steamer Mariposa.
NEW STRIKE NEAR
HEAD OF WHITE
Report Reaches Dawson of Pay Dilt
Found On the Creeks—In Ca
nadian Territory.
a new placer strike is reported by
the Dawson News on Central creek,
a tributary of Lake, in the upper
White river district. Lake creek is
in Canadian territory, on the right
limit of the White river, and joins
the White about 16 miles below Can
yon City and about 45 above Donjek.
Scott Holbrook, who arrived over
the ice from Central creek, brought
three applications from stakers on
Central creek, and a letter from Andy
Taylor, agent for the district for tne
mining recorder. The letter was re
ceived by George Mackenzie, the gold
commissioner, and states that about
fifteen men are on the creek work
ing in shifts to ascertain the merits
of the stream.
It is understood unofficially that
as high as 21 claims had been staked,
and that the creek was found a year
or more ago by Billy James, who was
one. of the discoverers of the Chis
ana. James and party are said to
have gone to the creek quietly last
winter. From all that can be learned
the creek had not developed pay at
last reports but simply showed en
couraging prospects.
It Is understood that some are pre
paring to go to the strike, and that
one or two already have gotten away.
SENATORS FIGRT
U. S. SRIP BILL
\ _
Public Ownership Measure Is Unfin
■ ished Business of Senate and
Mu6t Be Disposed Of.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—Govern
ment purchase of ships as proposed
in the administration bill to create a
shipping board, finance a $10,000,000
shipping corporation and expend not
to exceed $30,000,000 for the pur
chase or chartering of ocean carriers
became today the foremost issue be
fore congress.
Minority members of the Commerce
committee filed a report, written hy
Senator Burton and Indorsed by Sen
ators Nelson, Perkins, Smith of
Michigan and Oliver, asserting the
plan proposed would not relieve con
ditions because it would be impossi
ble for the government to get ships
enough to supply the need or reduce
ocean rates.
It pointed also to dangers of inter
national complications arising, declar
ing that every craft set afloat by the
government “would add one more risk,
of our being drawn into the present
war.
“One of the provisions contained in
the bill for securing ships aggravates
the dangers of international compli
cations,” the report continued. “Un
doubtedly it was one of the inspiring
motives, for those who framed this
bill, to release boats which have been
Interned as a result of the war.
“The president has gone to the al
most unprecedented limit of using his
utmost endeavor to discourage private
loans to belligerents. Is it consistent
with so strict an application of the
neutrality policy to make, at least in
directly, available to one of the bel
ligerents many millions of - dollars
which had been made unavailable by
the incidents of the war?”
Senator Fletcher, who has charge
of the bill and recently, conferred with
President Wilson concerning it, urged
the measure in a long speech after
Republican senators had Issued their
pronunciamento of opposition. He de
clared the war had produced “a ship
famine” and that the interests of nil
people in the United States demand
ed that the government take immedi
ate actioi\ to supply ships to carry
American products demanded in the
markets of Europe and South Amer
ica.
Senator Fletcher said when cotton
was selling for 7 cents in America,
Germany was paying 19, and would
consume 500,000,000 pounds if she
could get the cotton.
When the war began. Senator
Fletcher declared, England had 5,000
and Germany 2,000 vessels in the over
seas trade, while the United States
had only six. He said American mer
chants gave annually to foreign own
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t&Ltcu&fca,
PRODUCERS and CONSUMERS EXCHANGE—Valdez
- --r ..=ADAM SWAN, Manager.--- —_
Inventor*, Importer*, Manufacturer* and producer*:—We handle good* on
consignment and Cut-Out Go-Between Profits as direct Conve&rs and
Distributors to the Users, Wearers and Cunsumers of Home FuAi*Kings,
Household Utensils. Electric Appliances, Wearing apparel, Notions, Sta
tionery, Jewelry, Cutlery, Novelties. Toilet Articles, Dainties, etc., etc.
VALDEZ ELECTRIC COMPANY
THE CONSUMERS^ COMPANY
Office in Copper Block, on Broadway
From Kiver to Kiver
When you buy a Box of Apples from us we Guarantee
every apple from cover to cover.
We repack every box before delivery.
Remember: By Their Fruits You Shall Know Them.
Delivery. Phones 55.
The Yakima Fruit Company
When in Chitina Stop at the
CHITINA HOTEL
Finest Hotel in the Interior—Well Heated, Clean Rooms.
Bar. in Connection. Rates Reasonable
List Your Houses with the
VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Houses for Rent or Sale. Collections Made.
C. B. SMITH, Proprietor. Office on Wall Street.
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Best of Meals—Prices Reasonable
GENERAL STORE. - TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chitina.
General Freighting. KNUTE! NAFSTED. Mar.
Chas. R. Crawford w*“ street. Pbine 159
Plate Glass, Window Glass, Roofing and Building Papers, Roofing
Pitch, Lime, Cement, Plaster Lath, Shingles, Builders’ Hard*
ware, Shop and Job Work of all kinds.
Windows, Doors, Moulding, Finishing Lumber. fairba^ks?morse a co
ers $300,000,000 in ocean freights.
Charter rates had increased, in some
cases, 400 per cent, since the war be
gan, he added, and ships under the
American flag were not obtainable at
any price.
The emergency bill opening Ameri
can registry to foreign-built cratt,
Senator Fletcher said, had not met
the needs of American manufacture!s.
“We must see to it,” he added,
“that a war between other countries
shall never again cripple our indus
tries for lack of ships.”
An amendment to the bill submit
ted by Senator Stone, designed to
prevent under heavy penalties secret
shipment of contraband to foreign
ports, would authorize the president
to designate from time to time ports
where customs collectors would be
required to inspect all cargoes before
loading.
The Orpheum Tonight.
Orpheum program for tonight:
“For Old Love’s Sake," a beautiful
drama.
“A Tale of the West,” rollicking
western story.
“Chivalry Day3,” all children act
this 'melodrama.
Edwin Eckern, cashier of the Val
dez Bank & Trust Co., came as far
as Juneau on the Mariposa but left
her at the capital city to attend to
the transfer of mining property in
the interior to the Gastineau Mining
Company.
Masonic Meeting.
A special meeting of the Masonic
Lodge will be held on Saturday night
at 8 o’clock. Work in the first degree.
Visiting brothers welcome.
A. E. GRIGSBY. W. M.
Notice of Dissolution of Partnership.
The co-partnership heretofore ex
isting between Joe Plant and John
Flenbloom, known as Plant & Co.,
doing business in Valdez, Alaska, is
hereby dissolved. As all outstanding
obligations have been paid the firm
of Plant & Co. will assume no in
debtedness of any kind hereafter. All
unpaid accounts due the firm of
Plant & Co. are to be paid to John
Flenbloom, of Valdez, Alaska.
FEINBLOOM ft PLANT.
Valdez, Alaska, Jan. 11, 1916. kl6
Only The Best
Smoker* Can Now Enjoy
the Best
Juan De Fuca Cigars
U.S. Government Inspected.
Made In Bond
Ingram & Bush
SOLE AGENTS (
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE' SEXTON, Prop.
STRICTLY FIRST CLASS
Fourth Ave Seward, Alaska
A. M. Diet-inner
Valdez Transfer
Company
General Trucking anal Freight
ing to all interior points
LIVERY and FEED STABLE
STORAGF
Teaming of all kind?
Positively no coal deliveied
nnlnss paid lor In adwnw
DONALDSON 8CHEDULE.
Leaves Fort Liscum. Leaves Valdes
8:16 a. m. 9:,*!ka. m.
1:16 p. n>. 4:00 p. m.
TUESDAYS
8:16 a. m. 9:46 a. m.
1:15 p. m. 2:00 p. m.
4:30 p. m. 6:00 p. m.
SATURDAYS
1:16 p. m. 4:00 p. m.
7:00 p. m. 10:80 p. m.
There will be no trips at the launch
on the secoLd and fourth Fridays of
each month, these days being used
to clean boilers.