Utz & Dun Shoes
P OR women who desire style yet not at
r the cost of comfort will surely appre
ciate the Utz and Dunn—we have a good
range to show, priced from $5.00 to $8.00
Buster Brown Shoes
117 ITHOUT question the greatest line
** of children’s shoes in the world.
Splendidly made on the famous foot
shaping lasts. Full lines are now to be
had at this store.
Packard Shoes
117 E have sold too many pair to Valdez
™ men to make any special note of
their merit. A good assortment to be
had, priced $5.00 to $7.00.
Chippewa Shoes
CEVERAL new numbers in men’s
^ heavy shoes are now on display. The
Chippewa which is the quality line will
give you every satisfaction.
Valdez Mercantile Co.
The Place Where Good Shoe* are Sold
THE
PINZON BAR
W. I. Levy, Prop.
Fine Wines, Liquors, Cigars,
Cigarettes, Tobaccos and
Smokers’ Sundries.
PHONE 69 Me Kinley St., Valdez
PHONE 44 Fresh Fruits—Fresh Vegetables
AMOCAT CANNED GOODS
Washington Creamery Butter, Fresh Ranch Eggs, Cheese
HEINZ 57 VARIETIES
KEYSTONE PRODUCE CO., * WHtSu*
Real Estate, Insurance, Mining .Stocks
AgU. for EQUITABLE Life Ins.
Public
BHf- M*>»* 196
THE VAN1TIE SHOP
Mrs. Tina E. VVickidei, Propr.
HAIR GOODS, MANICURING, FACIAL MASSAGE AND SCALP
TREATMENT. THE PERMANENT NESTLE WAVE
Keystone Ave Phone 50
BERLIN DENIES NEW
PEACE OFFER READY
AMSTERDAM, April 20.—A Ber
lin dispatch to the Koelnische Zeit
ung says that the rumors of a new
peace offer by the Central powers
which, have arisen from the meeting
of Emperor William and Emperor
Charles and Count Czernin’s state
ment, are incorrect. The dispatch says,
however, that the principle, repeat
edly officially stated, of the readiness
of the Central towers to enter aego
iations for “ap, honorable peace” is
unchanged. ...
“Regarding the]
J
puinaries fo-|
these negotiations,” says the pape^,
“nobody need be in doubt that they
cannot be altered by events in Ameri
ca. We await calmly developments
in the enemy camp. We shall not al
low this calm, which is founded up
on success on land and sea to be
snatched from us.”
Ralph Wintler and Alex Singletary
left today in the former’s launch for
the Port Wells country.
Denny Bastham of the Signal Corps
stationed at Gulkana, recently shot 01T
one of hiB big toes with a 45-calthrc.
Colt’s automatic revolver.
I "Pl’RITY" WILL BK SHOWN
AT EMPRESS TUESDAY
The great American Cinema Clas
!sic "Purity,” will he produced one
time only at the Empress theatre on
next Tuesday night. This picturlza
tion of the allegorical characturlza
tlon of Virtue walking unharmed in
the midst of evil is creating a great
sensation in the States wherever
shown. It depicts the earth as it ex
isted before Pandora opened her fa
jmous box and allowed the different
; pests to escape into the world, the
i dissolving views showing the lid of
I the box opening and a shadowy vapor
escaping which slowly shapes itself
Into the form of Evil. Evil quickly
makes himself felt. He whispers his
poisonous thoughts into the ear of
Friendship and estranges Love from
Purity and Virtue. He plants in men’s
hearts the seeds of lust and passion
and greed and deceit, and the once
carefree and artless figure of Virtue
is beset with dangers until she is
obliged to drape her beautiful body
with useless clothing in order to pre
serve herself from the influence of
Evil.
The scenes throughout are the most
I beautiful conceivable, and should be
seen to be appreciated.
At the Empress Tuesday night.
SOCIALISTS VIEW DEFENSE
AS A NECESSITY
NEW YORK. Lack of unity among
Socialists in the United States in re
lation to the question of war is re
flected in a statement declaring for
defense as a necessity and signed by
Upton Sinclair, J. G. Phelps Stokes,
William English Walling, Charles Ed
j ward Russell, Mrs. Jack London, W.
|J. Ghent. Mary Craig Sinclair and
'George Sterling.
"We consider it the business of So-,
'cialists to adjust themselves to events
To stand immovably by one’s opinions
may be a sign of heroism but it may |
i also be a sign ol' slothfulness and it is I
necessary to discriminate between the;
, two.”
STUDENTS IN WAR
GET SCHOOL UR EDIT
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, April
20.—Stanford students leaving the
university to enlist for services of the
government will get full credit for
their work, according to a ruling
passed by the academic council this
afternoon. Several students iiave left
i the university already.
IMPRESSIVE PEACE SERVICE
HELD AUSTRIAN CAPITAL
i
AMSTERDAM. April 20.—Advices
received here from Vienna state that
last Sunday impressive peace services
were held in St. Stephen's Cathredral
in Vienna, which were attended bv
the Emperor and his wife and the:
-state dignitaries. Cardinal Pirn of
ficiated at the services.
A 1ST 111A N >11NI ST KR
LEAVES FOR HOME
WASHINGTON. D. C.. April 20.—
: Official announcement was made by
the State department today that Am
bassador Penfleld. accompanied by
Mrs. Penfleld, will leave Vienna for
Washington tomorrow.
GREAT COAST DEFENSE
ROAD, BORREE’S PLAN
SAN FRANCISCO, April 20.—As a
member of the State Council of De
fense. Adjutant General J. J. Borree
stated today that the stupendous task
of protecting California and conserv
ing its resources would be given the
fullest attention by his department.
The Adjutant General has been a
persistent advocate of a great military
highway along the State’s 1,000 mile
coast line from Mexico to Canada. He
has pointed out that over these arte
ies of travel troops could be trans
ported with great rapidity by autos
.tud auto trucks from mobilization
points to places threatened with at
tack. The Adjutant General also sug
gests that while fortifications should
be of sufficient strength to prevent a
foreign enemy entering our harbors,
yet the strength of fortifications de
pends entirely upon the ability of the
mobile troops to defend them from
land attacks.
POPULAR VALDEZAN GOES
ON HONEYMOON TRIP
SEATTLE, April 20.—Robert D.
Kelsey of Valdez, who was married
here last Monday evening to Miss
Myrtle Thomas of this city, has left
with his bride on a honeymoon trip
to Portland. The young couple will
return in a short time and take boat
for Valdez, their future home.
French Need Relief.
NEW YORK, April 20.—An urgent
appeal for money and food to relieve
the suffering of the inhabitants of
Noyon. France, recently evacuated by
the Germans was received by the war
relief clearing house for France and
her allies from its representative in
Paris. “Literally everything that can
he useful is gone or destroyed," the
^able message stated.
Daily Weather Report.
April 19, 1917, April 20. 1917,
7:00 P. M. . 7:00 A. M.
29.754 Barometer 29.874
£4 Temperature 32
40 Maximum 34
3T Minimum 28
36.5 Mean 33
.14 Precipitation Trace
15 in. Snow on Ground 15 in.
Partly cloudy, calm, snowed and
rained during day.
—Myrtle F. Billings, Obs.
Tills Day in History
Feast day of St. Serf, or Servanua,
of Scotland; St. Agnes, of Monte Pul
clano, St. James of Sclavonla.
Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor,
born in 121.
University of Freiburg, in Baden,
chartered in 1455.
The Diet of Worms condemned
Luther and put him under the ban
of empire in 1521.
Cromwell disolved the “Rump” or
long Parliament in 1663.
Virginia forbade the importation of
convicted felons in 1670.
Bacon's rebellion in Virginia began
in 1676.
Boston beselged In 20,000 Contin
entals in 1776.
France declared war against Aus
tria in 1792.
British and Indians appeared at
Fort Meigs. Iowa, in 1813.
A Republican insurrection broke
out In Germauy in 1848.
President Pierce vetoed a land bill
distributing 10,000,000 acres of pub
lic lands among the insane poor in
1854.
Missouri States troops seized the
United States arsenal at Liberty in
1861.
Petroleum reached highest price of
419.25 a barrel in 1861.
Big Dynamite Cache Found
PORTLAND, Ore.. April 20.—Po
lice today are investigating the dis
covery of a secret cache of dynamite
containing 40 pounds in the basement
of a vacant house in' the outskirts of
the city. Whether the explosive had
been hidden by bomb plotters or had
been stolen and hidden for safe keep
ing is the question troubling tlie de
tectives. Children played in the hous->
.uul in the basement unconscious of
t lie lurking danger.
Woman In Auto Drowned.
SEYMOUR, Conn. Mrs. Herman
Plalz was drowned and four other oc
cupants of an automobile driven by
iicr son William narrowly escaped a
similar fate this afternoon when the
machine standing in a steep hill,
backed through a fence and plunged
into the Nagatank river twenty feet
below.
The car, its passengers pinned down
settled in about seven feet of water.
CITY EXPRESS, Phone S2; ready
to transfe. t—it. oa^»..J.v tor you. tf
Complete line <t Bulls Cliscolates.
j Candy Kitchen. tf
I "
i Location notices, noth quartz and
j placer, for sale at the Prospector of
fice.
TI1IK TABLKS KOK APRIL.
Friday, April 20 - '
j First high tid el 1:35 a. in., 8.5.
Second high tide 11:29 p. m., 10.2.
First low tide 5:23 a. in., —1.0.
Second low tide 5:19 p. m., 0.8.
Saturday, April 21—
First high tide 12:21 p. m., 8.4.
First low tide 6:06 a. m., —1.6.
Second low tide 5:58 p. m., 1.1.
Sunday, April 22—
First high tide 0.06 a. m., 10.4.
Second high tide 1:05 p. m. 8.2.
First low tide 6:47 a. m., —1.8.
Second low tide 6:35 p. in., 1.4.
Monday, April 23—
First high tide 0:43 a. in., 10.3.
Second high tide 1:49 p. m., 7.8.
First low tide 7:27 a. m., —1.7.
Second low tide 7:12 p. m... 1.8.
Tuesday, April 24—
First high tide 1:20 a. m., 10.0.
Second high tide 2:33 p. m.. 7.3.
First low tide 8:08 a. m., —1.3.
Second low tide 7:50 p. m., 2.3.
Wednesday, April 26—
First high tide 1:58 a. ra.. 9.4.
Second high tide 3:18 p. in., 6.8.
First low tide 8:49 a. m., -—.06.
Second low tide 8:30 p. m., 2.9.
Thursday. April 26—
First high tide, 2:38 a. m. 8.7.
Second high tide 4:10 p. m., 6.4.
First low tide 9:34 a. m„ 0.1.
Second low tide 9:16 p. m., 3.3.
Friday, April 27—
First high tide 3:22 a. m., 8.0.
Second high tide 5:09 p. m., 6.1.
First low tide 10:23 a. m., 0.8.
Second low tide 10:10 p. m., 3.8.
Saturday, April 28—
First high tide 4:16 a. m., 7.2.
Second high tide 6:20 p. m., 6.0.
First low tide 11:20 a. m., 1.4.
Second low tide 11:26 p. m., 4.0.
Sunday, April 29
First high tide 5:26 a. in., 6.6. ,
Second high tide 7:28 p. m., 6.2.
F!r.-t low tide 12:28 p. m„ 1.8.
Monday, April 30—
First high tide 6:55 a. m., 6.3.
Second high tide 8:20 p. m., 6.7.
virst low tide 1:07 a. m. 3.8.
ecoud low tide 12:28 p. m.. 1.8.
Travel on Wells Fargo Traveller's Cheques
They will make money matters simple
and easy for you in any part of the
world. They will relieve you of worry
over the safety of your travel funds.
They are as convenient as an “In
ternational Currency” would be, and as
safe to carry as your personal check
book. We issue them. Call or write for
booklet.
The First Bank of Valdez
Valdez Dock Co . PHONE NO. 1
JOBBER IN
GOAL, HAY
GRAIN and
LUMBER
Office, foot of Wall street.
Electrical Supplies
Only the best manufacturers are repre
sented in our stock. All electrical
supplies we sell are guaranteed
products.
Make your electrical purchases here
and have the assurance of absolute
satisfaction and quality.
Prince William Sound Water,
Power, Light & Tele. Co.
NOTICE
Owing to tlu* increased cost of all commodities
used in our business and particularly leather goods
and horse teed, it has become necessary to increase
our rates for drayage and express.
Fertile information of our patrons the following
Tariff Sheet is published, effective May 1,1917:
GENERAL MERCHANDISE (not otherwise
specified) from or to docks, per ton, weight
or measurement per ship’s manifest .$1.50
LUM BER, per M. feet, B. M.2.00
SHINGLES, per M.25
LATH, per M.25
BRICK, per M. 2.00
GASOLINE, Powder, and other explosives, per
ton weight or measurement. 2.50
PIANOS, minimum price of $5.00.Per Contract
SAFES, minimum price of $5.00.Per Contract
TRUNKS, each ..50
HAND BAGGAGE, each piece.25
TEAM WORK, two horses and man, 10 hrs or
under, per hour.. 2.1*0
Over 10 hours, per hour... 1*75
SINGLE HORSE and driver, 5 hrs and under.
per hour ....-.. 1.50
Over 5 hours, per hour.-.. 1.25
SINGLE HORSE, without driver, jx*r day... 5.00
MINIMUM CHARGE..-..* *50
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, April 19,1917. |
COPPER RIVER DRAYING CO.,
Per Ed Woods.
VALDEZ TRANSFER COMPANY,
Per A. M. Die ringer,
SONNIE’S EXPRESS,
Per M. J. Schmidt,
CITY EXPRESS,
Per K. E. Rudolph.