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VALDEZ DKUS COMPANY
Wholesale and Retail Druggists
AND DEALERS IN
Periodicals and Photo Supplies
Save Your Coufccns. t
V. E. Kern,
Gold and Silver Smith.
Diamonds, Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Optical
Goods, Sterling Silverware, Fine Watch Re
pairing and Nugget Jewelry a Specialty. Cut
Glass and Lamps.
SKAGWAY and VALDF.Z ALASKA
City Market
. NEXT TO THE NIZ1NA.
PRICES ARE
RIGHT
Wholesale ami
Retail Dealers
GIVE US A
CALL
Beef, Mutton, Pork
Poultry and Game.
Coal Entry Bill Passed.
The bill permitting entries ujon
unsurveyed coal lands in Alaska,
which became so im|>ortant w hen
the recent valuuble discoveries
were made in tlie southern part of
the territory, was passed by the
senate and was signed by the pres
ident before congress adjoi rued.
Postmaster At Catella.
Information lias lieen received
from Washington that T. D. Cur
lew has been appointed postmaster
at Catella. Mr. Curlew is the pro
prietor of a general store at that
place.
Try to Aid Grigsby.
The proposition in the case of
Col. Grigsby, district attorney at
Nome, whose dismissal has been
twice recommended by the attorn
ey-general, is that he lie allowed to
resign. GrigspvV friends have
abandoned lwi|>e of inducing the
president to allow him to return to
his post, and now propose tliat he
lie l‘let down easy.” Senator Hans
j borough talked with the president
Jon belialf of Grigsby.
For a good liatb try the -Dock
11ain li< csj_
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Council Proceedings
Walk On Broadway. Annex The
Reservation District.
A petition was presented to the
council Monday l>v a majority of
the property owners on the north
erly side of Broadway lietween Mc
Kinley and Fifth streets, asking
that a sidewalk he put along that
street. An ordinance was intro
duced ordering the construction of
such walk,and making the expense
a lien on the abutting property.
A resolution was adopted extend
ing the town limits as follows:
That wiikkkas. that certain tract
of land formerly field by the mili
tary authorities as a reservation,
adjoining Reservation avenue of
the town ot Valdez, Alaska; and
\\ HKKKAS, said tract has been
thrown open for settlement, ami is
now, and, for a long time, has been
settled by town-lot claimants who
are now occupying the same; and
Wiikkkas, the town of Valdez,
at an election regularly called, did,
by a majority vote, elect to annex
the said reservation, and to extend
the corporate limits of the town of
Valdez so as to include said former
reservation; and
\\ IIEHKAS the people living upon
said adjoining tract, by a majority
vote at an election duly called,
voted for annexation to the said
town of Valdez; therfor
He it Resolved hy the town
council of Valdez, Alaska, that the
corporate limits of said town be ex
tended one-half mile northwesterly
annexing to the said town of Val
dez, a tract one-half mile wide and
one mile along said Reseivation
avenue, over said entire tract above
described, and that said tract so
annexed la* surveyed into town
lots, blocks, streets and alleys in
conformity of the plan and survey
of said town of Valdez; and that
the projierly in the said tract so
annexed, lie assessed hy the asses
sor of said town, ami spread upon
the lax list the same as other prop
erty of.said town.
(The resolution goes on to de
scribe the hounds of the land in
i eluded in this strip which is owned
by the war department and depart
ment of justice, which, of course,
; are not annexed hy the town.)
| (Jhix at tJie \uldcz Market, 25c.
Wagon Road Bill
Nelson’s Hill Passed Both Houses
I*cans $70,000 Yearly
For Roads.
-
NdsonV hill, setting aside per
1 cent of licenses for construction of
roods in Alaska, passed both houses
, and is now a law.
1 he hill provides that this monev
shall lie expended under the direc
j tion of a military road commission.
which has authority to build roads
I wherever deemed most advisable.
Seventy per rent of the Alaska
'licenses outside of incorporated
I towns, w ill amount to at least 1(70.
(100 a year. Five per cent of the
! remainder jrill lie applied to care
of the insane and the balance goes
for maintenance of schools.
Wreckage of Discovery
Found On Middleton Island By
The Small Steamer
Pacific.
A lnrgc amount of wreckage of
the steamer Discovery was found
recently by the cannery steamer
Pacific. While out along the coast
to meet the cannery hark Peters,
to tow her into Orca, the Pacific
turned in hack of Middleton island
to wait, and there found the house
ami deck works of the Discovery.
She was evidently wpekedoff Yak*
htat, and the floating wreckage
was driven to where discovered.
No bodies could Itc found.
To Examine Timber hands.
An examination of two large
areas of timber lands in Alaska
will be made during the coming
summer to determine how much of
the land should he placed in a for
est reserve. W. A. Langille, an ex
pert of tho forestry bureau has
started for Alaska to make this in
vestigation, and will probably I*.
absent until December.
About two years ago most of the
islands of Alexander archipelago
were included in a forest reserve,
and the action caused much ad
verse criticism. Subsequently
about 6,000 square miles in the
in the Norton hay region was with
drawn from entry, pending the de
termination of the question of in
eluding these lands in a forest re
serve. Mr Langille will travel
over the Alexander archipelago
and the Norton hay region for the
purpose of making thorough exam
ination. It is proposed todnelude
other islands of the archipelago in
psesent reserve.
Alaska Agency Raided.
The offices of the Alaska Gold
Mining and Transportation Co., in
Seattle, were recently raided, and
M. C. Anderson and \V. S. Ander
son, the "eo panv,” were arreste
charged with obtaining money un
der false pretenses.
Tlicy had been hiring men to
work at Golovnin l>uy for $.’> per
day, and required mi advance de
l>osit of #50 as an evidence of good
faith. _ ___
Will Run To Uiiga.
The schooner Alex T. Brown re
cently launched from the Ballard
shipyard has secured a charter and
; is loading. She has been secured
for one voyage by the Alaska Com
mercial company to carry coal and
general merchandise to tlie Apollo
mine at Unga.
The James Dollar had to go on
dry dock in Seattle this trip to rc
Iceive a new proja-llor. The old
one was broken on tin1 down trip.
The a pi-ointment of James M.
Slump a- United States Marshal of
jdivision No. 1, was continued by
the scmi.c April 27.
ma i] ini mi
NOW HAVE SURVEYORS IN THE
FIELD
As Soon As The Survey Is Comple
ted. Eastern and Oregon
Capital.
._
The actual survey for a railroad
from Valdez to the interior has
now begun. K. Rose and f). li.
Brown, in company with Alfred 14.
lies, arrived hereon the Excelsior,!
and immediately liogan operations, j
1 he two former are engineers of]
national repute. Mr. Rose being
closely identified with the Union
Pacific railroad for some years.
Mr. lies ir a resident of Wash
ington, 1). C., and while here last
season conceited the idea of form
ing a company to construct a road.1
After studying the situation over]
carefully lie left for the cast, and
has put in all winter working faith-1
fully toward the nccompli.-hment I
of Ids purpose. The feasibility of
the plan being self evident Mr. lies
was not slow in securing the back
ing necessary.
A very prominent railroad man,
well known throughout the coun
try, has joined with capitalists
Capt. Kealy Extradited
Is Charged With Appropria.ing
Soooo Company Iilon
ey
Springfield, Id, Apr. 20-Tiov.j
Yates today honored the requisi
tion of the governor of N. \v Yuri;
fur the extradition of John J. Hraiy
wlu» is wanted in New York City
on the charge of grand larceny in
the first degree and who is under
arrest in Chicago.
It is charged that Ilealv, while
president of the Central Alaska
Exploration Company, was on Sej>
temlier 20, 1W02, given a cheek for i
$8.2Htf, which was drawn to the
credit of the company in the Seven
th National laiuk, of New York. to
the or«(er of the cor^ioration in tlx-j
First National hank, of Seattle,!
Wash., and made jiayahle to the.
order of Heaiv as president. It is
alleged that he was to take the
same to Seattle, hut instead, that
lie cashed it at the.* Commercial
National hank, of Chicago, and ap
propriated the money to his own
use. _
Democratic Convention.
A call was issued last week fora
democratic gathering for the pur
pose of electing five delegates to the
district convention at Juneau, May
Sfo. The meeting was called to or
der at Donohue & Ostrander’s of
fice on May 5, hy ex-governor
Leedy, and the following delegates
were appointed: R. H. Parker. J.
\V. Leedy, J. Y. Ostrander, Ed-1
mund Smith and J. A. Bourke.
A permanent organization was
effected and a nuiulier of names
enrolled. The Itooks will he kept
open hy Mr. Ostrander for all dem
ocrats who wish to join.
If you would enjoy good health 1
! ha tin frtqllclltpv at the Dock Jkulfc-.
of Portland and organized what in
future will 1m- known as the Valdez
«V Northern Railroad Co., and liava
sent theaUive mentioned engineers
here to make a survey.
Immediately upon their arrival
Frank Kinghorn. of this place, was
commissioned to select some good
men as assistants, to rc|M>rt for
duty tomorrow, in the meantime
the outlines of tin- town of Valdez
will Im-looked over and-a starting
point established, from which the
work of survey will continue to
oinpletion. dhc present instroc*
tions to tls- engineers ar<- to go into
the interior for a distance of aintut
2(H) miles.
'l iie engineers will etudv uj> the
grades and the few diflictiities to
Im- overcome, and ujon rendering
their final report, machinery and
material will Im suit to Valdez and
tin- work of actual construction
w ill commence and Im* pushed to
completion as rapidly as ]>ossilih\
Rein leer For Copper River
A Herd Will Re Sent To Copper
Center ICext V/inter On
Trial.
l)r. J. II. Ruling of the Moravian
mission at Bethel, arrived lie re on
the Excelsior ami will remain un
til the departure of ihe Dora for tlie
West.
At the mission the doctor has in
charge a ln-rd of reindeer from
which lie has been instructed to
send 300 to Copjwr Center They
will he moved as soon a* the riv«rs
freeze Up this fall.
Tlie deer will 1m- pit in charge of
Rev. Clevenger, the missionary, or
Mr. Neil, the agricultural station
man, at Copper Center.
Big Tarty Arrives.
A party of thirteen musliers ar
rived from Valdez shortly after
noon to-day. Tim party left Val
dez atxmt March 20th and Copper
Center Marc.li 24. The party re
pirt a pleasant trip over good trails
having collie hv the new mail rout*
over tlie Culkaua river. They
passed E. M. JJarsten at Copjier
Center on Ids way to Fairbanks;
tlmv repirt having seen several
horse sleds eu route, all Imaded for
FairUmks.
The following gentlemen com
|iose the pirtv: \V. Casey, Jack
O’Melia. Mike Rosengrave, Ed.
Dozier, Steve Raymond, Roy Rut li
erford, R. H. Jackson, Harry War
nock, M. Burkv., Tom Donohue,
Tom Walsh, 1’ Mogen, K. Houser.
—Fairbanks New*.
The Xcwpwt is on the ways tl
Ballard, Udiig overhauled and re
paired.
Power of attorney blank* ai tbia
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