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VOLUME 2, NO. 39. VALDEZ, ALASKA. NOVEMBER 5, 1903. OFFICIAL CITY PAPER
Fall and Winter Styles
in
Ladies' Wearing 4|>|>arel.
The Latest Styles
Marquise Silk Waists in all col
ors—Corduroy and Velour.
Our Wool Waists
are neatly made, with large but
tons and full flowing sleeves, in
Cardinal, Tan, Iloval Blue and
Black.
► Belts
Our Belts are the latest in Black
Taffetta. with Long Buckles, Gir
dles. Medallion and Cord Effects.
Silk Skirts
The swellest ever brought to
Valdez—in all colors, New Piaids
and Black.
New Novelties
Neck Ribbons. Hair Ornaments.
Tam O’Shanters. Wool Mitts.
Bureau Scarfs. Fascinators.
Nubias. Knitted Shawls.
Flanelette Night Gowns.
Silk Matinees. .
We are S>k* Ageuts for Celebrate*! JUST RITE Cornets.
Knit Underwear.
Tin* past week lias brought a chilly
dampness which suggests a change of un
derwear. We have a large assortment—
Ladies’ All Wool Vests. Pants and
Tights in White and Natural.
Ladies’ Neatly Trimmed Cotton and
Wool Mixed Vests and Pants in Natural
Color. |
Hosiery.
Wool and Cashmere Hosiery—Plain
and Ribbed.
Stylish
Dress Skirts.
Well Tailored, of
All-Wool Cheviots
and New Material—
in Colors. Blue,Gray,
Mixed and Black—
Straps on hips, slot
seams and buttons.
Styles and colors too
numerous to men
tion. Regular and
short lengths. "
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A L. LEVY & CO
Yes, we sell
Hot Water bottles.
P. 0. DRUG STORE. J
P. E. KERN,
GOLD and SILVERSMITH.
See Our Large Line Of
NUGGET JEWELRY
Watches, Diamonds,
Cut Glass, Silverware,
Fine Watch Repairing
City Market
NEXT TO MERCHANT’S CAFE.
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Beef, Mutton, Pork andPoultry
Our Prices are RIGHT. Give us a call.
Our Line of Rings
i Must he seen to he appreciated.
Our Stock of Nugget Jewelry
all our own make, surpasses any on the coast.
-Eye Trouble & Headaches
ARE THE RESULT OF EYE STRAIN.
Our Easy Spex relieve all and make reading a pleasure.
W. C. STILL,
Optician, Jeweler and Expert Watchmaker, Diamond Setter.
Capt. Filmore is in from Seldovin
to talk it over with the court. Jno.
Yakaloff expects to tell how it did
not lmp|ien.
Mr. O. B. Millett, the discoverer
of Cheehaco hill at Dawson, passed
through on the Bertha from the
westward. Mr. Millett has been
prospecting all summer in the Ili
amna and Lake Clark country. Xo
results.
H. D. Reynolds, president, and
Blarney Stevens, engineer, of the
Reynolds-Alaska Development Co.,
returned to Valdez from the west
ward on the Bertha. They have
finished a season’s active work in
examining and purchasing mining
ami oil properties.
A new .-trike is reported on Afog
nak island near Afognak village.
Quartz stringers were discovered
on the beach, which, upon being
prospected, proved to run into a
well defined lead about three feet
wide. The ore assays 121 gold and
about #3 in silver.
The royal Englishmen have con
tracted the oil fever, and have se
cured some sixteen thousand acres
on the Alaskan peninsula. In this
they have evinced good sense as
well as sound busines judgment.
Oil is to Is? the great factor in the
early development of the southern
Alaska coast.
Dr. E. Maurer, who has been
making a personal investigation of
the oil tiehls of Alaska was a Bertha
passenger. Dr. Maurer was enthu
siastic over the outlook, and has
invested heavily in oil lands, own
ing or controlling upward of .‘>0.000
acres. It is his intention to send
up drills this winter and begin ac
tive operations at the opening of
next season.
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Guy Banta has returned front
La touche, where he has been en
gaged in tracing the peregrinations
of the Bonanza lead. This wonder
, ful vein has been twisted and con
torted by mine owners and experts
until there now remains no avail
able spot on Latouche not covered
by it—and always in a direct line.
mm in
REVIVING, AS A RESULT OF
CAREFUL PROSPECTING.
Expected to Rival dome
Considerable Winter Travel to
Fairbanks is Expected to
Go Through Valdes
We are constantly in receipt of
information from the Tunana dis
trict and from some of those who
have l>cen there that the country
is proving itself to l*e fully up to
the expectation of the men who
went in there and did wiiai pros
pecting that was jMissihle in the
first season, notwithstanding the
black eye that was given to the
place l>y a gang of tenderfeet, who
rush into a country expecting to
find gold lying on the surface.
In a letter just received dated at
Chenoa, on Sep. 4th., the writer
makes the .'o'lowing statement:
‘•This is going to lie one of the
best placer camps in all Alaska.
lucre are six good paving creeks
so far discovered. The pays'.rcak
is wide ami very uniform. It will
take twenty-five years to work out
what is already in sight, with the
moot modern way of operating and
the country is in its infancy.
On discovery on Cherry creek J
have seen twenty-four hundred
dollars washed out of l'J4Q eight-pan
buckets of gravel.
On No. 4 a hove on Chatham creek
I saw a (rank of gravel over three
feet deep average twenty-two cents
to the pan. it is worked by a Val
dez man named Boh Fleming, who
was one of Fish’s mail carriers.
On Fairbank creek there is a pay
streak eight feet deep that runs on
a uniform average of seven,and
one half cents to the pan. This
occurs for a distance of six miles.
The ground on Fairbanks runs
from twenty-eight to thirty-five
feet deep. Alwtut ten feet of the
top is muck and the balance is fine
gravel. Chatham, Clary and Pe
dro creeks are not so deep, run
ning from ten to eighteen inches.
Coldstream is a good pay creek
in iact they are finding gold in
paying quantities on mo*t ol the
tributaries anil on a great many
benches of the above named creeks.
Many of the prospectors were
without money and when pay was
discovered they made rockers and
went to work and secured enough
to lay in a winter’s food supply.
They can all beat wages with a
rocker.
There is plenty of fuel, hut sluice
timber will have to be hauled from
either Chenoa or Fairbanks, where
there are four saw mills.
There was nothing struck here
till the middle of July, but it i.- an
assured fact now that this will be a
camp, second not even to Nome,
within two years. This is not hear
say but personal observation.
I think Valdez will profit from
this camp as there will be quite a
lot of winter travel and Valdez is
the nearest point to or from the
coast in winter.
The population at present is
about G20, but they are continually
coming from Circle, Kampart anil
the river camj>«.”
On Tuesday last a call was is
sued for a mass meeting, which
was held that evening. Judge Uood
ell presiding. Owing to the late
session of court the meeting was
not well attended. The object was
to ask the co-operation of the war
department in keeping the trail
open all winter between here aud
Copper Center. A committee was
ppointed to confer with the officer
in charge at the post.
| The Banta Case Progressing.
On Tuesday morning the court
j opened early as usual and after
some preliminary sparring on the,
| part of the lawyers engaged in the)
Bonanza case, the work of select
ing a jury to sit in the trial of the i
| United States vs Isaac Banta. who
was indicted hy the last tirand
Jury, charged with murder in the
second degree, was entered into and |
after exhausting a special venire,!
consisting of twenty men. fifteen
other names were gone through with
lefore they finally settled on twelve
jurors. The defpiise exorcised
their right to the full extent hy re
jecting ten men on peremptory!
challenge and the prosecution hav
ing the right to reject rive, only re- j
jeeted four. It w:is found rather |
difficult to select a jury owing to
the fact that all parties were well
known un<l tiie case was so thor
oughly spoken of at the time of
happening, most people in town
' had formed a very strong opinion,
j which it was quite evident could
! not readily be shaken, thus niak- j
ing them ineligible for the office.
It took the greater part of the day!
before the following men were tin
I ally selected to sit on the ease:
Jesse ttohhin, W. H. L’rary. K. K.1
Craig, C. L. Jones, F. J. Slack. S. j
: J. Paxson, Harry V. Hohin. S. \Y.'
Dutton. K. K. King. S. I). Means.
Jas. McCain*, J. P. Roberts,
j The jury was then sworn in and
i handed over to the care of two bai
i iiffs who were ordered by the court
i to not lose sight of the jury till
the termination of the trial.
The copper ease occupied all the
time of the court on Wednesday,
and the jurors were kept in a room
in the hotel, being brought util
i only for meals.
This morning the trial projier la
gan with District Attorney X. V.
Harlan for the prosecution and
(ioodcll ifc Kdwards and Leedy it
Kelsey for the defense. Witnesses
.for the prosecution were being
* called and heard as we go to press.
| As the defense will plead insanity,
ia medical commission was appoin
ted to examine into the mental con
dition of the accused.
The Seal Catch.
The department of commerce
antf labor, which ha* had jurisdic
tion of the lur seal industry since
July 1. of the current year, has
received a telegram front special
agent Lembkey, the representative
'of the department on the islands,
1 who has arrived in San Francisco,
announcing that the lessees of the
: Pribilofs have taken 19,292 skin*
! during the current sealing season.
In addition to these, 82 skins taken i
lust year will also he shipped In
the lessees, making a total 19,374. j
a falling off of about 3,000 skins, as j
' compared with the past three years,
during which the catch has been asi
follows: 1902,22.303 skins; 1901,'
' 22,072; 1900,22,470, As will be!
i seen, this year’s catch is the sntall
j est recorded since 1H99, when the
total was 18,812. The reduction j
as compared with lu*t year’s catch, j
! is attributed to the fact that during
. the past two seasons a considerable
numltcr of two-year olds were tak
! cn, which would have the effect of
reducing the numlxr of three-year
I olds available for this year’s catch.
—Fir Trade Review.
I It may not lie generally known
i that the Standard, oil company
ship|ied to the orient last year 108,
000,000 gallons of oil, of a value of
i $38,1.100,000. There is every rea
son why this oil should lie produc
ed and shipped from Alaska. The
cheapness of production and traus
{•ortatiou as well as superior qual
ity of oil, will all favor Alaska
when the oil fields are developed
as they will be shortly.
ARGUMENT FINISHED, FINAI,
BRIEF IN FOUR DAYS.
Dedaon Ikil Week
Voluminous Evidence, Many Great*
ly Interested, Distinguished
Counsel.
All argument in the ease of the
Chittvna Exploration Co. vs The
Alaska Copper Co. et at. was closed
on Wednesday afternoon and the
case submitted to the court, hut no
decision has vet t*cen rendered, the
lawyers having five days to tile
their hriefs.
The ease involves title to certain
copper pro|M>rties in the Chittvna
valley, known as the Bonanza
claims.
I hi* interests of a majority of the
locators were sold to the Alaska
Copper Co. and a suit to establish
a trust was entered by plaintiff.
The ease came up at the last ses
sion of court and was referred to a
com mission to take testimony. The
'•Use resulted in three suits, tiie
original and two adverse, to which
defendant tiled answer.
Piaintiff then moved for judg
ment on pleadings, which was de
nied. Motion was then entered on
the part of the defendants for an
order staying the proceedings in
the two adverse suits until tin-de
termination of tiie original suit,
which was granted. The next
move in the case was an applica
tion on the part of the plaintiff for
an order to open the ease, whi' h
was closed on July 10th last, in
order to introduce additional testi
mony. The application was de
nied and argument was then heard
on the case as submitted on July
10th.
Tiie evidence in the ease is quite
voluminous, taking up over g'>00
tv|ie written pages.
The “A. B.” Doings.
At the meeting of Camp Valdez
Xo. 10. Artie Brotherhood, the fol
lowing gentlemen were assisted
over the trail and presented to Her
Iciness, the Artie Queen:
Henry Deyo, C. X. Jones. Dr.
Bruner. Tod Winters, (ico. Sexton,
Mr. Steven?, 11. W. Key holds.
There will l»e a.-pceial meeting held
some time this week for the pur
poseof initiating Senator Heyhurn,
Congressman Cushman, A. F. Bur
icigh, M. Perrine and F. C. Helm.
They also have in preparation
something good in the way of a
smoker for which invitations will
la* out in few days. Be sure and
get one.
Mr. Stone, naturalist, and col
lector for the Xew York Museum
of Natural lii story, returned Hast
on the Kerth. lie killed aimut forty
large animals, comprising complete
families of War, moose, caribou and
mountain sheep. The bones as
well as skins were brought out to
W mounted in groupcs for the Scar
York Museum. Alaskans visiting
Xew York would do well to visit
this museum, as it contains bv tar
the tinest collection of Alaskan
specimens and curios in the world.
A great heat of attention has Wen
given Alaska, this having Wen
Mr. Stone’s third cx(>cditioii, while
other representatives have scoured
the country ior exhibits.
One oi the neatest liquor estab
lishments in town is the Pullman
Bar, on McKinley street, it might,
in fact W called a bijou, it will
be o|*ened to-night by Irvine <St
Fenton, and if the stock is what
the appearance of the place sug
gests, it may in truth be regarded
a resort for gentlemen.