—the sensible shoe
—for your child is the one that fits
* the foot best—the 'one that gives
the best satisfaction and wear.
Pla-Mate Shoes
—are the ideal shoes for your grow
i ing boy or girl; plenty of room for
the toes—the shoe made the Shape
of the Foot.
-Pla-Mates are built of the best lea
ther obtainable by expert workmen
—the wear is there.
_Pla-Mates come in both lace and
button styles. Sizes from 2 to 2.
—Prices are $2.00, $2.25, $2.50 and $3
—try the Baby Pla-Mate on
the 'little tot just learning
to walk.
—Sizes two to six; Price $2
Valdez Mercantile Co.
VY 117 1 strictly fresh Eggs, Butter, Fruit
IOU TT ftHI an<j Groceries, and appreciate
M prompt deliveries, try
KING’S GROCERY
Phone 18S
2i Keystone Produce Co.
E~ G. AMES, Manager
Fresh Eggs, Butter, Fruit, Vegetables
Cor. Keystone Aye. end McKinley St. PHONE 44.
Receiver’s Notice to Creditors.
No. 751
In the District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division.
George Ker, Plaintiff, v6. • Camgron
Johnson Gold Mining Company, a
CorporajAwri, Defendant.
Noticrf^g hereof given that by or
der of the aDove-named court in the
above-entitled cause all creditors of
the above-named defendant, Camer
on-Johnson Gild Mining Company, a
corporation, and all persons having
claims of any kind against said de
fendant are required to exhibit the
same, duly proved and verified to the
undersigned receiver of said corpora
tion on or before the 10 th day of
November, 1915, at the office of said
receiver in the City of Valdez, in the
Territory of Alaska. All claims not
so presented and exhibited to said re
ceiver /0^,f>r before said date will be
barrel. ,
Dated this 4th day of October,
1915.
W. M. GOODWIN,
Receiver of Cameron-Johnson Gold
Mining Company, a corporation,
the above-named defendant.
First publication Oct. 4, 1915.
Last publication Nov. 1, 1916.
Mo. 5t
Call and Notice of Special Meeting of
the Stockholders of Alaska Water,
Light and Telephone Company.
Notice is hereby given that a spe
cial meeting of the stockholders of
Alaska Water, Light and Telephone
Company will be held at the office of
the Company, Valdez, Alaska, on the
16th day of November, A. D. 1916, at
two o’clock in the afternoon for the
purpose of considering:
The proposal of Sydney Marshall of
Seattle, Washington, to purchase the
entire plant, properties, franchises
and assets of this Company for the
sum of Two Hundred Twenty-five
Thousand ($225,000.00) Dollars,
and the assumption by said Marshall
of the present outstanding debts of
this Company, said purchase price to
be paid as follows:
Two Hundred Twelve Thousand
Five Hundred ($212,500.00) Dollars
to be paid by the issuance to the or
der of this Company of Two Hundred
Twelve Thousand Five Hundred
($212,600.00) Dollars, at par, of;
the fully paid and non-assessable |
stock of Prince William Sound Water- j
Power, Light and Telephone Company
a corporation of the State of Wash- I
ington, and Twelve Thousand Five j
Hundred ($12,600) Dollars in the!
•seven per cent first mortgage bonds of
said Ccfcnpany, such bonds to be is
sued toAthis Company or to its order,
and to be payable on or before Janu
ary 1st, A. D. 1917.,'
And make counter proposal to the ,
said Sydney Marshall including
changes in the amount of purchase
price and the manner of payment of
the same and to transact any and till
business in any manner connected
with said proposal, and in case said
proposal or counter proposal is ac
cepted at said meeting/to Instruct the
Company’s Board of Directors, thru
its proper officers, to make, execute
and deliver any and all documents of
whatsoever kind and nature as may
be necessary to fully and completely.
carry into effect the sale, transfer
and delivery of the possession of all
of this Company’s property as herein
proposed.
ANTHONY J. DIMOND,
Secretary.
First pub. Monday, Oct. 18, 1916.
Last pub. Monday, Nov. 15, 1915 2It
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Fresh cream and buttermilk al
ways on hand at Love-Whitley’s. tf
For good home-cooked meals try
Mrs. M. Olson, on Hobart Street. *
WANTED: Position as steno
grapher, secretary or general office
assistant on newspaper, by American
woman of twenty-five. Have had
three years’ experience. References.
MISS RUTH M. HEATH,
3002 4th Ave. West, Seattle, Wash.
Fresh Oysters received on every
boat.—Frye-Bruhn Co. tf
Suits pressed for $1.00 at Silver
man's, the tailoi. Telephone 198. tf
“Pure, fresh Milk, Cream, Butter
and Cheese. Phone 32.” tf
Fancy Stationery at the Valdez
Drug Store. •
FOR SALE—Couch, high chair, 2
chairs, 30-30 Savage rifle, 1 cup
board, kitchen queen, sled and robe,
go-cart, hot water tank, double-bitted
axe. Mrs. Riffle, next door Valdez
hospital. tf
How does a ride to Camp Comfort
with a dance and a dinner before re
turning strike you? Fresh killed
chickens and Alaska vegetables at
your command. For particulars see
CITY EXPRESS.
tf Phone 82.
We have increased our stock, tools
and machinery every year, and our
next increase will be in floor sp».':.
Now don’t get jealous and take your
work some place else, but show your
pride in home industry and help us
to make VALDEZ the manufacturing
center of ALASKA by giving us all
the work you can, and pay ;.p
promptly. We will do the rest. Val
dez Iron Works. Mon.
“Pure, fresh Milk, Cream, Butter
and Cheese. Phone 32." tf
Mato Zahn Laid to Rest.
The funeral of Mato Zahij, a native
of Austria, who was injured in the
Ellamar mine, was held yesterday
forenoon from the parlors of the Val
dez Undertaking company. The body
was interred in the local cemetery,
near the mouth of' the Iowe River,
and the funeral was attended by a
number of his friends and fellow
countrymen who had come up from
the mine to pay their last respects
to their countryman.
ALLIES WILL SOON
ASK ANOTHER LOAN
Anglo-French Governments are Re
ported Planning Another Raid
on American Banks .
NEW YORK, Oct. 18.—Advices
from London indicate that the Brit
ish and French governments will
soon ask the United States bankers
to negotiate another loan of $500,
000,000 to finance the purchases of
the Anglo-French government in the
United States.
It is predicted that the loan will
be asked before sixty days, as most
of the loan just made has been ex
pended in payment of accounts past
due for goods shipped prior to the
opening of negotiations for the bil
lion dollar loan which was reduced
one-half. It is believed that the Uni
ted States government may be com
pelled to take official notice of the
loan, as it is feared the European gov
ernments will be unable to meet their
obligations after the war and this
new loan which is now being planned,
would serve to create a financial
stringency in the United States.
I
Tonight Five Reels.
The Liberty theatre announces its
program tonight featuring Love Vic
torious, with other well balanced pro
gram. The Liberty Theatre is now
steam-heated.
CITY OF PUEBLA HERE
EARLY THIS EVENING
The local Signal Corps office has
bulletined the new Alaska Steamship
company’s liner City of Puebla as
leaving Cordova at 3 o’clock this
afternoon for Valdez. The steamer
should reach Valdez early this eve
ning and will carry a number of pas
sengers to the westward in addition
to the court officials and others in
terested in the Seward townsite case.
Farragut Reaches Seattle.
SEATTLE, Oct. 18.—The steamer
Admiral Farragut reached Seattle
early Saturday night with a large
passenger list. Her officers report
that she was unable to accommodate
many persons who wanted to come
south on her. The steamer brought
large shipments of canned salmon
from Yakutat and other points.
Mrs. Galt Dolling Up.
BALTIMORE. Oct. 18.—Mrs. Nor
man Galt, fiancee of President Wil
son, spent the day in Baltimore
shopping and ordering her trousseau
for the wedding to take place early
in December. Mrs. Galt was accom
panied by Miss Margaret Wilson, a
daughter of the president.
Revolt Expected in Guatemala.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 18.—
Latest advices received by the State
department are to the effect that
Guatemala is on the verge of another
revolution and a warship has been
dispatched south with marines to
quash the threatened outbreak and
to protect foreigners.
ARE DRILLING A
1300 FOOT TUNNEL.
Sometime late in December there
will be a terrific blast when several
tons of dynamite will be exploded to
knock down the last obstacle that
keeps the water of the Upper Annex
Lake from being used to help give
the power to work the big mill of
the Alaska Gastineau Mining com
pany at Thane. Work was started re
cently on the drilling of the 1300 foot
tunnel through solid rock.
The tunnel will tap the lake 150
feet below the surwace. In the event
that the last explosion of dynamite
fails to remove the last barrier be
tween the tunnels and the lake, div
ing will be resorted to the break the
wall of rock from the lake side.
According to the company’s plans
the tunnel’s mouth will be encased
in cement and flood gates built. At
the mouth of the tunnel the w&er
will he turned into a pipe 8000 feet
long, which will carry it to a power
plant. Ten miles of steel towers to
carry the power from the plant to
the Thane mill across the Sheep creek
divide, will be constructed. In this
way 4,000 additional horsepower will
be furnished by January 1.
FIVE JURORS SECURED
IN CONSPIRACY CASE.
LON ANGELES, Oct. 13.—Great
difficulty is .being experienced in se
curing a jury to try the case of M. A.
Schmidt, charged with conspiracy
with the McNamara brothers to de
stroy the Los Angeles Times build
ing here five years ago. Several spe
cial venires have been issued and to
date only five jurors have been select
ed.
ELECTRIC LIGHT BULBS.
Why the Delioate Filament Becomes
Heated to Incandescence,
lu tile bulb 'of the ordinary electric
lump used chiefly for house light there
Is a thlu filament of metal wouud ou
what is called uu arbor.
Tuts filament is so prepared that It
offers high resistance to the passage of
the current of electricity, and because i
of this It Is heated to Incandescence
when a current pusses through it All
the air having been extracted from the 1
bulb in its making, this prevents the
metal from burning up. as it would do
if oxygen were present
Vegetable fiber was used for the fila
ment of the first incandescent lamps.
The next development was the cellu
lose process, which is still used in car
bon and metallzed lamps, although a
number of processes are used now to
improve the filament The discovery
that tungsten metal could be used for
this filament in incandescent lamps
was made as recently as 1906, and the
first tungsten lamp was made in this
country in 1907.
At first the tungsten filaments were
composed of what was called tungBten
paste that made an extremely fragile
wire. The new process now used pro
duces a strong wire under pressure,
finer than the finest human hair. They
run up to 6.000 candle power.—Boston
Herald.
A SKELETON IN THE CLOSET
The Legend From Which the Well
Known Saying Was Taken.
The origin of that singular and wide
ly quoted saying, "A skeleton in the
closet," which is found in almost every
language in Europe, is found in one of
those curious collections of stories that
have come down from the middle ages.
In one of these collections, compiled
by an unknown hand about the middle
of the tenth century, there is a story
of a wealthy lady who. having a secret
grief, confided it to a friend who was
apparently a perfectly happy woman.
She was the wife of a nobleman who
lived in his castle in the south of
Trance. She and her husband were
outwardly on the most loving terms.
Not a care cloud seemed to cast a
shadow on her path.
After hearing the story of her afflict
ed friend the noble lady took her by
the hand and led her to a secret cham
ber adjoining her bedroom, there open
ed the door of a closet and exposed a
skeleton. ‘‘Know, my friend," she said,
“no one is happy. Every day I am
.forced by my husband to kiss this
grinning death head, which is that of
a gentleman who was my husband's
rival and whom I would have married
had not my parents willed otherwise."
On the Moon.
The question “Could a man live on
the moon?" has been put to an emi
nent astronomer, who replied: “I am
afraid not. A man transplanted to the
moon would find himself the lone In
habitant of a perfectly lifeless orb in
which eternal silence reigns. He
would have to manage without air.
water or fire. He would not need to
put windows in his house, for there is
no wind, no rain, no dust, upon the
moon. It has been truly and practical
ly observed that the moon is apparent
ly abandoned to deaths nourishing no
inhabitants, producing nothing resem
bling trees, flowers or beautiful things
of any kind—useless. In short, except
as a mass of extiuct volcanic rubbish,
which drags the sea into tides and re
flects the sunbeams in moonlight."
Baked Men.
Workers in porcelain factories are
rtternlly baked, but by some miracle
they remain sufficiently undone to live.
At least if they are not quite baked
they endure a stronger heat than that
which browns the Sunday sirloin. The
furnaces wherein proeelain is finished
are kept at the fiercest heat used in
any industry. A chuin of workmeu.
their bends and bodies swathed in fire
proof garments, take the finished pieces
from the fire one at a time and pass
them to the cooling room. The man at
the head of this chain—he who stands
nearest the furnace—can only work in
five minute shifts. In his Interims of
rest he lies on a mattress, drinking
glass after glass of ice water from the
bands of a small boy.
Dean Swift’s Complaint.
It Is no new thing, this complaint
which one hears of the high cost of
living. Writing to Stella from Lou
don in the year 1710, Dean Swift re
marks: “1 lodge In Bury street. St.
James, where I removed a week ago.
I have the first floor, the dining room
and bedchamber at. 8 shillings a week:
plaguy deep, but I spend nothing for
eating, never go to a tavern and very
seldom in a coach, yet,.after all. it will
be expensive.”
Making Him Pay.
Lawyer (to kicking client) — Well,
have you at last decided to take my
advice and pay this bill of mine?
Client—Yes. Lawyer—Very well. (To
clerk) “William, add $5 to Mr. Smith's
bill for further advice.’’—Boston Tran
script
Opportunity Calls.
“Opportunity is at your door."
“What Is Jtr' Inquired the pessimis
dc citizen. “Opportunity to subscribe
to some worthy cause, or a chance to
Invest?”—Louisville Courier-Journal.
How They Do It.
Steve—They say that waiters can al
ways size a man up. Lillian—I sup
pose they measure him from dp to dp.
—Judge.
Wealth is not his that baa it, but bin
fiat enjoys It
CITY EXPRESS
MEETS ALL BOATS AND NEVER MISSES A TRAIN
Auto fop Hire Day op Niglit.
Buy and Sell Anything.
Phone 82 J. A. SPENARD, Ppop.
Jas.jE. Wilson, Freighter
_Large ork Small Deliveries Made
To| Any |Part of the Country.
PROMPT SERVICE GUARANTEED VALDEZ, ALASKA
-----*--*
When in Chitina Stop at the
CHITINA HOTEL
Finest Hotel in the Interior—-Well Heated, Clean Rooms.
Bar in Connection. Rates Reasonable
MERCHANT’S CAFE
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone 03 Clms. Fischer, Propr.
UPPER T0NS1NA ROAD HOUSE
Best of Meals—Prices Reasonable
GENERAL STORE. - TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chitina.
General Freighting. KNUTE NAFSTED. Mar.
VA1DEZ REAL ESTATEACEKCY
Doing Business As Usual
Independent Laundry Co.
Satisfaction Guaranteed I I Foot Keystone Ave
Telephone 66 l I Rouirh Dry 10c lb
Mead’s' Sheet Metal Works
PLLMBING, STEAM AND HOT WATER HEATING,
Sheet Metal Work, Metallic Roofing, Mine Air Pipe, Pipe and Fit
tings, Valves, Etc. Motor Boat Supplies.
Located on Broadway , VALDEZ, ALASKA
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
* '
I PUGET SOUND PUGET SOUND
I California Alaska
ALASKA
Steamers sail from Seattle at 9 P. M. on
5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH
Steamer Sailing 15th call* Illamna and Kodiak—All Sailing call at Knik
and Anchorage.
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to Sah Franet.ro every Wednetday and Sunday, connecting with
Steamers Yale and Harvard for Southern California,
Right reserved to change schedule without notice
RICHARD J. RINUWOOD, Mgr., Seattlei VALDEZ DOCK CO.. Coral Agt.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
S.[S. Mariposa, S. S. Alameda and S. S. Northwestern
sail from Seattle the 6th, 12th, 18th, 24th and 30th
EVERY MONTH
From Valdez south-7th, 13th, 19th, 25th and |Ifh for Car
dova, Skagway, Juneau, Wrangall, Ketchikan and Seattle.
f rj .
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell Juneau, Sheep
Creek/Tread well, Douglas, Skagway, Cordova, Bllamar, Valdes and Da
touche. Explosives, S.S. Seward, on the 5th; Datouche, on the 15th; 8. S.
Cordova, 25th of each month—right reserved to change this schedule
without notion
p, B, TRACY, Gea’l Agent VALDEZ DOCK CO., Local Agent,