DO IT NOW
Right now— TO-DAY is the time you should see us about your outfit. The business
we did in December surprised us. We are going to do a great deal more this month
and still more in February. GOOD GOODS at RIGHT PRICES is the
demand—-and at OUR store this demand is FULLY met.
Mitts
Moccasins
Par kies
Lined Overalls
Blankets
Sleeping Bags
Underwear
Felt Shoes
HORSE HARNESS
DOG HARNESS
HORSE SLEDS
HAND SLEDS
CAMP STOVES
SNOW SHOES
HAY AND OATS
GOLD SEAL BOOTS
GOLD SEAL SHOES
War Bags
Wool Gloves
Fur Caps
Lined Gloves
Arctic Sox
German Sox
Mackinaw
Shirts and Pants
LEVY & CO.
Good Goods.
Do you want a warm bedfellow?
Get a Hot Water Bottle at
P. O. DRUG STORE.;
P. E. Kern,
Gold and Silver Smith.
Diamonds, Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Optical
Goods, Sterling Silverware, h'ine Watch Re
pairing and Nugget Jewelry a Specialty. Cut
(ilass and Lamps.
SKAGWAY and VALDKZ ALASKA
City Market
KEXT TO MKKCHA.Vr’s fAKK.
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Beef, Mutton, Pork and Poultry
Our Price* arc KIOHT. (Jive u* a call.
Notice to Masons.
Regular meeting of Masonic ('lull
of Valdez will lie held at cltdi room
Wednesday evening. Jail. 27, HHU.
lm|H>rtant business—the erection
of building, formation of lodge. the
ollieers thereof. Kd.m mi Smith.
Pres’t.
Sim kxiuii vai.i’K in those Ladies’
and Children’s WimiIi-ii Hose amt
Mittens at 25c and Hoc ja r pair.
Mrs. Sheffer’s store.
Tki.kuiiasjI North |«de reached;
sticking in it was a knife, hanging
on the knife was a harness—both
from Jtrow noil’s.
Fairbanks Prices.
Faihhaxks, Jan. 17th.—Flour is
now selling at. loo per hundred,
hueon 7b cents per |>ound, hutter
$‘2-r)0 per can. Shirts, undercloth
ing, socks, ruhher shoes and hats
are very scarce. There will Ik;
plenty of money this spring after
the dumps are washed.
K. N. Fl.KMl.Mi.
Jas. Fish, Sk., licensed real es
tate agent, McKinley st.. Valdez.
Telephone 115. Properties for sale
or rent.
, Ptarmigan road house to let.
Everything in good shape. Lease
for a year. Sell Doty, phone 71
Newport Beached.
The stcamar New|mrt, with mail,
left here on Dee. 14, liouml for L:n
alaska ami all intermediate (mints,
when off Coal hay she ran into a
storm, against which no headway
could he made, they could not even
hold up against it. in order to
keep off shore two anchors weie
thrown over, hut without avail.
| The chains parted and both an
chors were lost, and the boat was
[quickly blown ashore. She landed
high up on the lieach. and all at
tempts to get her off were fruitless.
She ran on the lieach Dec. 22, and
laid there for sixteen days, when
an extia high tide and a fierce off
shore gale again put her aflout.
The steamer was then headed for
Valdez, which (mint she reached
without further mishap on Satur
day, the Ifith instant. From Coal
hay and Resurrection a numlier of
passengers were picked up. Some
of them were taking a hurried trip
to Seattle, while a few were for this
place. The Seattle passengers
were fortunate in arriving here in
time to catch the Kxcelsior.
This being the eastern terminal
of the Newport, she will lay here
till the 2tith when she will again
start for the west.
Rich Dirt.
Oeo. Mnchler, formerly of Daw
son, but now of Fairbanks, in a let
ter to a friend in Valdez, states
that be lias several claims on Fair
banks creek, one of which is Kench
claim No. 5 below discovery. On
this be lias dug one bole to liedroek.
wbicb is about ;*>0 feet deep, and it
is turning out about flit to the
bucket. He lielieves that when
thoroughly prospected it will prove
, a very rich camp.
He further states that provisions
are very scarce, and men are out
along the river buying up and
; freighting into camp anything they
lean get in the eating line.
Wellington coal 115 per ton or
i $1.25 per sack, delivered. J.C. Mar
tin, agent, or Copper River Dray
I ing Co.
HIT m HD
RESIDENTS OF FORTY MILE
COUNTRY
Will Do Their M
Toward A Road From Valdez To
The Yukon. Chicken
Items.
Chicken Creek, January 1. I'.tO-l.
—A petition is living circulated
throughout the Forty Mile basin
by Mr. C. B. McDowell, asking the
people of Valdez and the coast
cities to build a good winter road,
suitable for six horse teams from
Valdez to the Tatiana crossing, and
pledging ourselves to continue such
a road from that point through the
interior of this section tothcliound
ary line on the Forty Mile river.
The road to lie completed and
ready for trattic by Nov. 1st. 1!M)4.
We are determined to get the
front door opened, and believe the
only way to do so is to do it our
selves. Waiting for government
aid is like Mr. Micawlier. waiting
fot something that never turns up.
The Valdez chamber of commerce
has liven notified of our action in
the matter and its co-operation re
requested.
The (K-opleof the interior of Alas
ka are only too willing to swing
their trade from Dawson to Valdez,
if they can get access to that town.
And the opening of this winter roail
will not only afford that outlet hut
it will avoid duty; will give no
competition here, will lie the fore
runner of a railway at no very dis
tant dute. and will also make it
practical for the settlement of the
country along the Copper river la
tween here and Valdez. As it is
now, that country, for the want of
roads, might just as well ho in the
heart of the Sahara desert so far as
it is possible to settle its agricul
tural and open up its mineral lands.
This is the first time the people
of this section ha vc cal led on Valdez.
What answer are we going to re
ceive? Let’s build the road, and
build it in 1904.
More work is Wing done in the
Forty Mile country as a whole
this winter than ever before, but
some of the best properties on
Chicken—all the bench claims on
Lost Chicken still are not being
worked this winter as they have
Wm bonded to the company repre
sented by Falcon Joslin, of Dawson.
llus company intend* to bring
water by gravity system a distance
of about 25 miles and to hydraulic
the entire hill. The preliminary
survey for the pipe line has already
been completed, and actual work
by the company will be commenced
in the early spring.
Quartz is licginning to forge to
the front in this section although
quartz development is naturally
much slower than placer. Mr. Abe
Tweeden has a quartz proposition
i at the mouth of Cold creek al>out
25 miles above Chicken creek, upon
which he has been working for sev
eral seasons. At present he has a
number of shafts down on the
properties, and the rock taken from
all of them averages aland $40, and
so far all the ore is free milling.
The projterties are n adily accessi
ble. and plenty of water power
adjoins the claims.
The fiostal department has estab
lished a post office at Chicken.
Mr. Leonard J. Kadcliffe has been
ap|Miintcd postmaster. This makes
three post offices in the Forty Mile
country—Jack Wade, Franklin and
Chicken. It seems though that
there i* an unnecessary delay sntnc
times in receiving our mail; for
instance—the writer has a receipt
for a registered package dated New
York city, Oc(oImt fit h. and as yet ■
the package has not arrived. If an
outside friend desired to semi a ]
Christmas present to Alaska he’d
have to purchase it one Xmas for de
livery the next.
Mr. Roht. Matheson. an old timej
California miner and also an Alas-|
ka sourdough, has recently received
a complete assaying plant, and
will shortly have the same installed
a', his home on Stone House Fork
of Chicken creek. Hob has seen
nearly all the mining camps in;
in America, and states that this
section of Alaska outstrips anything
he has seen yet in one respect—the
amount of mineralized rock; and
says that he can get a little gold in
nearly all the rock ton ml in thisj
basin.
Mr. (ieorge Frank, tin old time
resident of the Forty Mile country,
is a great admirer of President
Roosevelt. He sympathizes so
strongly with Roosevelt’s plea
against the extinction of our race
.hat he went outside and married a
sweet Missouri lady, lie has just
returned with his bride. W. B. A.
Quick Time.
Tin* semi-monthly mail lieween
Fairbanks ami Valdez left the form
er place on Dec. 28th. and arrived
hero on the evening of Jan. isth.
it left Fort (I'ihhiiii at the mouth ot
the Tanana on Die. 20:h. On Jan.
Still it reached the divide lietweeil
the head of the Deita and tlie head
of the (iulkana, when the easier.'
ran into a most severe blizzard that
•* . a . _
seemed to rage ail over Alaska; to
travel in it was an litter impossi
bility and they were forced to put
up until the storm abated. On the
15th they again started and never
allowed the mail to stop for a mo
ment till it reached Valdez. The
distance from Hhe Chisluchinn sta
tion to this place. l(i.r> miles, was
made in the phenomenal time of
three days. From Copper Center
here. 1<)4 miles, was made in 815
hours.
Although (5 days time was los’
by tlie storm it was sufficiently
made up so that the mail arrived
in time to catch the outgoing steam
ship Excelsior, which left here ear
ly on tlie morning of the lDth.
This is tlie second bunch of mail
over the new route; the one prior
to this was carried from Fairbanks
in 1(5 days, and were it not for the
storm this second trip would have
been done in I letter time. These
are facts that should convince any
party, who anticipates a trip to
Fairbanks, that this is much the
shortest route, notwithstanding the
fact that Dawson and other inter
ested points have sent paid agents
in the guise of newspapermen out
to the states to proclaim in their
favor, without any consideration
for the poor devil who has to pay
the cost and do the traveling
For Sale.
The steamer Tonquin, 95 tons
gross or 51 tons net, length til feet,
beam 171 ft. and depth 7 ft. Built
in \S7 and now stationed at Kayak.
Cost $19,000, and will he sold for
$:i,'>00. All in tirstelass order~and
ready for action. Apply or address
this otlice.
Admiral Dead.
London, Jan. lit—Hon. Henrv \
Keppel, admiral of the Brit sh fleet
is dead.
Seven were killed and many in-1
jured by an elevator rope breaking!
in Brown’s shoe factory, St. Louis,
on Jan. lit.
The Burbank and Worthen car-'
1 riage factories at Aniesbury, Mass.,
were destroyed by tire Tuesday.
I Loss, $50,000.
no m nut!
RUSSIA HOUSING BACK. JAPS
EAGER.
War (lay Be General
Hanna Re-Elected. Democratic
Convention. News of
The World.
I.0NIM1N, Jail. IHth—Private dis
patches from St. Petersburg indi
cate that tii*' Japanese no'e im* not
helped to fortify optmistic antici
pations. As long as there was room
fur further negotiations Uussiau di
ploinacy helped Russia to gain
time, luit Japan having given a
final answer to tlie latest Russian
note will not. it is expected, wait
indefinitely for a decision on Rus
sia’s part. There is said to be
much irritation in St. Petersburg
over this failure of Russian diplom
ats. It is recognized that the 1011
ciusions ot the I'hmcsc-Amcrican
treaty lias materially a flee led Rus
sia’s prestige. Another source of
chagrin is the indifferent attitude
of Prance.
Will Be General.
Nkw Yohk. Jan. 18th—Tlie Her
nia's .St. I’et* rsburg correspondent
quotes an unnauo-ii diplomat as
saying: *'Aii those who are add
ing iuel lo liie tin* which means
war, must remember ilial no possi
ble jiouer ean iimil the war luJup
un and Russia; Us cxii-usion to
other countries is sure, wrth results
too terrible to consider.”
Memorial Hospital.
I'lik'Auo, Jan. lf>—ine directors
i>i the t Y y hospital have decided
10 oticr a sue lor the budding of
The proposed memorial iioSj-ihii to
the Iroquois loealer vieliUis.
Democratic Convention.
W ashinotox, Jan. 18—The ofti
cial call was issued to-day tor the
assembling oi the Democratic na
tional convention at &t. Louis. July
inn next.
Republican Convention.
LTik'auo, Jui.."18—It is officially
announced mat the Republican
national convention will assemble
here on June 21st.
Hanna Re-Elected.
CoLt’Miirs, Jan. 18—Marcus A.
Hanna has been re-ceded to the
U: 6. senate fora term oi six years.
He had the largest majority ever
given a senator in this slate.
Mill Reaches Seattle.
Skattuc, Jan. IF—Geo. k. ilill,
formerly a Dawson printer, i- the
tirst arrival from Xanana lie
came out via Valdez in twenty
days. Hill says ti.at there are
-,•<00 men in the camp, and the
outlook is very - encouraging. He
is in Seattle to pnhiisli a special
illustrated edition oi the Fairbanks
News, of winch lie is ihe owner.
He expects to return in March.
Milne Dead.
Victoria, 11. 0., Jan. l‘J—Alex.
Hoiand Milne, C. M. G., collector
oi customs dicil here tins morning.
Getting Ready.
Sax Fraxcisco, Jan. lit—Nearly
a train load oi army supplies have
arrived here under rush orders,
having been expressed by the gov
ernment from Omaha to the super
intendent oi the Transport service,
in lids city. The consignment had
been carried on the fastest trains
through the west.
; In a wreck on Iowa Central,
: Tuesday, four miles from Peoria,
two men were killed and many
, injured.