Shoe Sale
SjLL kinds of shoes
=for men
=for women
—for children
at a big discount during March.
From 25 to 60 per cent off.
This does not include the Packard Shoes for Men.
Valdez Mercantile Co. inc.
Successors to
Valdez Bank & Mercantile Co. Inc.
This Space Is Reserved for the •*
Valdez Bank & Trust Company
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Charles R. Crawford and Geo.
B. McMullen, their heirs and
administrators, and to all whom
it may concern: . ... T
You are hereby notified that I
have expended the sum of six
hundred ($600) dollars in labor
and improvements upon the fol
lowing named lode mining claims,
to-wit: The Valdez claim No.
recorded in book No. t, page 97;
Valdez mining claim No. 2, re
corded in book No. 1, page 98;
Valdez claim No. 3, recorded m
book No. 2, page 19; Valdez claim
No. 4, recorded in book No. 2, page
18; North Star claim No. 1, re
corded in book 2, page 20; North
Star claim No. 2, recorded in nook
2, page 21, all records of the Val
dez Mining District, Territory of
Alaska. Said mining claims be
ing near Mineral creek, about one
and one-half miles from Valdez
bav, in the recording district
aforesaid. Proof of said expendi
ture appearing by affidavit, filed
on the 31st day of December,
1912. The sum of six hundred
($600) dollars expended being the
amount required to hold the said
claims for the year 1912, and if,
within 90 davs after this publi
cation you fail or refuse to con
tribute your proportion each of
two hundred ($200) dollars, being
the sum of $33.33 for each of said
claims, your interest in said
claims, for which you fail to con
tribute your said proportion of
expenditure for annual labor, will
become the property of the under
signed co-owner under Section
2324, Revised Statutes of the Un
ited States.
GEORGE H. MERRIFIELD.
First pub. Feb. 4. 1913.
Last pub. May 8, 1913.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To John McPherson, his heirs,
administrators, and to all
whom it may concern:
You are lfereby notified that 1
have expended $100 in labor and
improvements upon the “Lark”
lode mining claim, situated about
two miles N. E. ot Shoup bay and
S. E. of Shoup glacier, in the Val
dez Recording District, Territory
of Alaska, the location certificate
of which said claim is of record
in Book 2 of Records, Rage 392, in
tha office of the recorder of the
recording ditsrict aforesaid,
proof of said expenditure appear
ing by affidavit filed on Decem
bei 28, 1912, in the office of the
recorder aforesaid; that being
$100 per year, the amount re
quired to hold said claim for the
year ending December 31, 1912.
And if, within ninety days after
this notice by publication, you
fail or refuse to contribute your I
proportion ($50) your interests1
in said claim will become the
property of the subscriber under
Section 2324, Revised Statutes of
the United States.
JOHN PAULE.
First pub. January 11, 1913.
Last pub. April 15. 1913.
Reinke can fix anything from a
watch down.
Gentle horse and comfortable
cutter for rent' b'y day or hour.
Rate reasonable. Apply Fred
Fish, ’phone 47.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Alex. Nelson, his heirs, admin
istrators, and to all whom it
may concern:
You are hereby notified that I
have expended four hundred dol
lars ($400) in labor and improve
ments upon the Last Chance No.
1 and Last Chance No. 2 lodes,
situate in Shoup bay near the en
trance thereof, Valdez recording
precinct, Territory of Alaska, the
location certificates of said claims
being of record in the office of the
U. S. commissioner at Valdez,
Alaska. Said expenditure was
made in order to hold said claims
under the provisions of the laws
of the United States and of this
territory, said amount being $200
per year, the amount required to
hold the claims for the years end
ing December 31, 1911, and De
c mber 31, 1912. And if, within
ninety (90) days after this no
tice by publication, you fail or re
fuse to contribute your proportion
($200, being $100 for each of said
ears) your interest in said claims
wil| become the property of the
subscriber, your co-owner, under
Section 2324, Revised Statutes of
the United States.
WM. KOCH.
Date of first pub. Jan. 24, 1913.
Date of last pub. April 24, 1913.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Frank Rease, his heirs, ad
ministrators, and to all whom
it may concern:
You are hereby notified that 1
have1 expended $300 in labor and
improvements upon the follow
ing named lode mining claims,
to-wit: The “Two Friends No.
1, ” “Two Friends No. 2,” and
“Two Friends No. 3,” the loca
tion certificates of which said
lode claims are of record in Book
2. of Records, pages 377, 377 and
316, respectively, in the office of
the Recorder for the Valdez Re
cording District, Territory of
Alaska, said lode claims being
situated on the west side of
Shoup glacier, about six miles
from Shoup bay, in the recording
district aforesaid, proof of said
expenditure appearing by affi
davit filed on December 28, 1912.
in the office of the recorder
aforesaid: that being $300 per
rear, the amount required to hold
said claims for the year ending
December 31, 1912. And if,
within ninety days after this no
tice by publication, you fail or
refuse to contribute your pro
portion ($75, being $25 for each
of said claims), your interests in
said claims will become the prop
erty of the subscriber under Sec
tion 2324, Revised Statutes of the
United States.
JOHN P.4ULE.
First pub. January 11, 1913.
Hast pub. April 15. 1913.
NOTICE OF HEARING OF FINAL
ACCOUNT.
In the Probate Court, Valdez Pre
rinrf, Third Judicial Division,
Territory of Alaska.
In tin1 matter of the estate of
Hardin Smith, deceased.—Notice
of hearing of final account.
Notice is hereby given that An
gus Chisholm, administrator of
the estate of Hardin Smith, de
ceased, has rendered and pre
seated for settlement and filed
his final account and report of his
administration of the said estate,
and that Tuesday, the 6th day of
May, 1913, at the hour of two
o’clock p. m., of said day, at the
office of Thos. R. Shepard, ex of
ficio judge in probate of the Val
dez precinct, at Valdez, Alaska,
has been duly appointed by the
said court as the time and place
of settlement of said final ac
count and report, at which time
and place any person interested
in said estate may appear and
file objections and exceptions to
said final account and report.
Daled at Valdez, Alaska, lhis
1st day of March, 1913.
AXGGUS CHISHOLM,
Administrator of the estate of
Hardin Smith, deceased.
Date of first pub. March 1. ’13.
Date of last pub. May 5, 1913.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
In the Commissioner’s Court for
the Territory of Alaska, Third
Division, at Valdez.-In Probate.
In the matter of the estate of
\V. C. StuM, deceased.—Notice to
Creditors.
Notice is hereby given by the
undersigned, administrator of the
estate of W. C. Stull, deceased, to
the creditors of and all persons
having claims against the sain
deceased, to exhibit them. with
the necessary vouchers, within six
months after the first publica
tion of this notice, to the said ad
ministrator, at his place of busi
ness, namely the office of the
Valdez Mercantile Co., at Valdez,
Alaska, the same being the place
for the transaction of the busi
ness of said estate, in the said
town of Valdez, Alaska.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this
27th day of February, 1913.
ARTHUR LANG,
Administrator of the estate of W.
C. Stull, deceased.
Date of first pub. Feb. 27, 1913.
Date of last pub. March 28, ’13.
To the Public.
We hereby announce that we
have retired from the banking
business and have transftsrred
our banking department to the
Valdez Bank & Trust company,
for whom we bespeak the good
will of the public.
VALDEZ BANK & MERCANTILE
COMPANY.
Valdez, Alaska, Jan. 29, 1913.
LOST—An A. B. button with
diamond setting. Finder please
return to Al. White and receive
reward.
| Chas. R. Crawford
| Wall Street Phone 159
Plate glass, window glass, roofing and
building papers, roofing pitch, lime, cet
ment, plaster lath, shingles, builders*
hardware. Shop and job work of all kinds
Windows, Doors, Moulding, Finish
ing Lumber
Agents for Fairbanks, Morse A Co.
YUKON H
SAILS SOOTH
The S. S. Yukon, in cm.and
of Captain .McKay, arrived from
Kodiak at 0 o'clock last night and j
left within the hour for Seattle, j
stopping at Kllamnr to load 200
tons of ore for Tacoma. The S u
kon loaded 300 tons of ore at l.a
: louche, The captain reports the j
weather to the westward as the;
| best he hail experienced this will- j
j Ter.
Highest and Lowest Points in the
•World.
The maximum difference in ■
ehwation ul' land in I lie United
Stales is 11,777 feel, according
In the United Slates Deulogical
Survey. .Mmml Whitney, I lie high
est point, is I i,5(l| feel above sea
level, and a point in Death Val
ley is 270 foot below sea level.
Tin se two [mints, which are both
in California, are less than tin
i miles apart. This difference is
small, however, as compared with
the ligures for Asia. Mount Ev
erest rises 29, U<I2 feel above sea
level whereas the shores of the
Dead Sea are 1,29b feet below sea
level, a total difference* in land
heights of 30,292 feet. Mount
Everest has never been climbed.
The greatest ocean depth yet.
found is 32,088 feet, at a point
about 10 miles north of the is
land of Mindanao, in the Philip
pine Islands. The ocean bottom
at this point is therefore more
than II 1-2 miles below the sum
mit of Mount Everest.
The difference in the land
heights in Europe is about 15.
808 feet.
Educating the Sight.
The education of the senses in
general and of the sight in par
ticular, has a tendency to become
overlooked by civilized man, who
no longer has to rely chilly upon
his physical alertness for pro
tection or sustenance. Its impor
tance in the training of children
is becoming more, and more wide
ly recognized, however. Psychol
ogists dwell upon the facts that
most people cannot measure ac
curately by the eye even the
length of a straight line, that an
estimate of weight has always to
be corrected by scales, and that
only one accustomed to much op
en air life can give an approxi
mately correct dea of the heghl
at which a bird may be flying. If
is noted that even the birds learn,
with the perfection of firearms,
to fly higher than the range of
the shot. This precise degree of
accurate measurement civilized
man cannot make by any meth
od yet devised. In certain schools
children are being taught to es
timate weight “by sight,” but with
little real success. Pupils in a
western school were taken daily,
a year or two ago, upon walks,
the entire length of which was
spiked with iron rods placed at
varying distances apart, and the
pupil’s task was assigned to reck
on—hy the eye—first one dis
tance between two spikesand then
another. Though prizes were
given to stimulate1 the exercise,
it was, and continued for a long
.time to he, far from satisfactory.
A similar test given in a school
upon an Indian reservation show
ed amazing results in favor of
the Indian boy.
Editor Russell, of the Juneau
Dispatch, is a candidate for the
inarshalship of the First Division.
1 '
NOTICE OF HEARING OF FINAL
ACCOUNT.
n the United States Commission
er's Court, ex Officio Judge in
Probate, Valdez Precinct, Ter
ritory of Alaska, Third Judic
ial Division.
In the matter of the estate of
Louis Camicia, deceased, James
Fish and W. H. Caswell, adminis
trators—Notice of Hearing of Fi
nal Account.
Notice is hereby given that
James Fish and \V. H. Caswell,
administrators of the estate of
Louis Camicia, deceased, have
rendered, filed and presented Tor
settlement their final account and
report of their administration of
the said estate, and that the 21st
day of April, 1913, at the hour of
2 o’clock n. m. of said day, at the
office of Thomas R. Shepard, ex
officio judge in probate of the
Valdez precinct, at Valdez, Alaska,
has been duly appointed by the
said court at the time and place
of settlement of said final account
and report, at which time and
place any person interested in
said estate may appear and file
his objections and exceptions to
said final account and report.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this
19th day of February, 1913.
JAMES FISH.
W. H. CASWELL.
Administrators of the Estate of
Louis Camicia, deceased.
Date of first pub. Feb. 19, 1913.
Date of last pub. April 21, 1913.
Mann Act Is Upheld.
Washington, Ih 0—-()n the
theory that traffic in women in
interstate commerce may be reg
ulated by legislation as well as J
the traffic, in drugs, goods or caf- j
tie, the Supreme Court of the
United Slates has upheld the va- j
lidity of the Federal white slave 1
traffic act of I !>!<>. It had been
contended this ipiesijon of moral- j
itv was reserved for action by j
the stales.
.1 us I ir*#* MrKrmia «l»*l i\«*i-oi| Ihrj
court's opinion.
"Our ilnal form of tr<>\ ■rriiinrnl ;
has its prrplrxil ins.” sail] hi','
“slain ami nalimi havr* ililTnrnnl
sphrrns of .jurisilirtion, hut il
must be kept iii mini) that we are
one people and that the powers
reserved to the slates and those |
conferred on the nation are.
adopted to he exercised, whether
independently or concurrently, to >
promote the general welt are, ma
terial and moral. This is the ef
fect of the decisions and surely,
if the facility of interstate trans
portal ion ran he taken away from
jibe demorali/.al ion of lotteries.,
the debasement of obscene liter- |
filling the contagion of diseased
cattle or persons, the impurity of
food and drugs, the like facility
can lie taken away from lhe»sys
tematie debauchery of women
and, more insistently, of girls.”
The Supreme Court had sever
al cases before it in which the
constitutionality of the act was
attacked, 1ml made its decision on
the case of Effie Hoke, of Beau
mont, Tex., and Basile Econo
niides, a New Orleans saloon
keeper, sentenced to six years for
illegal transportation of women
from New Orleans lo Beaumont.
The conviction was affirmetd.
Other convictions affirmed were
Louis Afhanasaw and Mitchell
I Sampson, operating the Imperial
Theater at Tampa, Fla., and Em
ma Harris, Bella Harris and Bes
sie Oreen, of Cincinnati. All are
under varying sentences for vio
lation of the law.
The Jack Johnson case did not
figure in I ho decision, as it pre
viously had been settled.
Judge Walker has purchased
the house and lot owned by Peter
Erickson on the Reservation.
About 25 people arrived in Val
dez the past week from the in
terior.
Henry Suessdorf is in Petaluma
the guest of W. A. Amy, former
ly of Valdez.
The educated canaries at the
Orpheum last night whistled quite
i melodiously.
An Illinois inventor’s metal
ladder tire escape,, which can be
unreeled from a “Window as n
iperson descends, is provided with
guides to prevent it swaying dan
gerously from side to side.
The clergyman who boasts that
In read the Bible from cover to
cover in fi7 hours probat'lv be
longs to the class of preachers
who go elsewhere for their texts.
FRESH FISH just in from down
the sound—black bass, herring,
red snapper, trout and halibut at
the Valdez Cafe.
TIDE TABLES
Monday, March 10.
High tides, 1:23 a. m., 1:41, p. in.
Low tides, 7:35 a. in., 7:37 p. in.
Tuesday, March 11.
High tides, 1:46 a. m., 2:15 p. in.
Low tides, 8:09 a. m., 8:05 p. in.
Wednesday, March 12.
High tides, 2:12 a. m., 2;53 p. m.
Low tides. 8:46 a. in., 8:31 p. in.
Thursday, March 13.
High tides, 2:42 a. m., 3:39 p. in.
Low tides, 9:31 a. in., 9:04 p. m.
Friday, March 14.
High tides, 3:19 a. in., 4:4 I p. in.
Low tides, 10:27 a. m., 9:4 4 p. m.
Saturday, March 15.
High tides, 4:08 a. in., 6:14 p. m.
Low tides, 11:37 a. in., 10:42 p. m.
EO. F. WHITE
The Assayer
Assaying and Ore Testing
CORRECT RESULTS
No More, No Less
VALDEZ, ALASKA
MILK-MILK-MILK
Fresh Milk and Cream
VALDEZ DAIRY
Telephone orders to Phone 187
New York Life
Insurance Co.
W. H. CHART, Repretcatilite
Valdez, Alaska. Phone 41
A M. Dieringer
Valdez Transfer
Company
General Trucking and Freight
ing to all interior points
LIVERY ar i FEED STABLE
STORAGE
Teaming of all kinds
Positively no coal delivered
unless paid for in advance
CITY EXPRESS
JJ. A. SPENARD, Prop.
Ouick delivery t» all parts of town
at short notice. Will move baggrge,
furniture, etc., at reasonable rates
Office in Alaska Securities
building. Wall St. Phone 82
PROFESSIONAL
E. E. RITCHIE
LAWYER
phone 138 Valdez, Alaska
DR. GERMAN
Phone ,9 THE dentist
Office rooms over Owl Druif store. Office hours
9 a. m.. to 6 p. m., 7 p. m.. to 9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
C. E. BUNNELL
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Offices Wall Street
Phone 3i VALDEZ
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
Phone 92 Fourteen years in
Office in*|Whaling building VALDEZ
Next to cable office
L. V. RAY
ATTORNEY AT LAW
SEWARD, - ALASKA
MINING ENGINEER
L. W. STORM. E. M.
I/ALDEZ. ALASKA
Reports or Mimes
Patent Surveys
Oenesal Mining Engineering
Phone No. ios
F. BUTTERWORTH
Civil Engineer and
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
Blue Printing Re8. Phone. 188
CAMP VALDEZ No. 10
Meet every Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock in
Eagle Hall. All members are requested to
attend. S. McNIECE. Arctic Chief
1.0.
O.F.
Visiting and local Odd Fellows are re
quested to register their name with the
Valdez Odd Fellows' Club. Regular
meetings, first and third Monday.
Call on P. S. HiTNT. Secretary.
F
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VALDEZ AERIE Mo. 1971
Meet every Friday 8 v. m. Eagle Hall
Valdez Lodge
No 168.
Free and Accepted Masons
Regular Communications ttrst Wednesday in
each month in McKinley Hall Visitors always
welcome.
James H Patten *»n„W. M
C. C. Reynolds. Seo