The Celebrated Ohio Steel
Ranges Now at This Store
NEW STOVE for our Hardware Section that
Awe know will win many friends in Valdez. The
Ohio, constructed of extra heavy material and
good workmanship, combined with the handsome,
sanitary nickle finish, puts the “OHIO” at the head
of the procession.
Features:
Special Pacific Coast hot blast fire box. Heavily braced oven
bottom; controllable oven ventilator; high legs, easy to clean under;
wood oven door handle always cool; outside body, extra] heavy
blue steel; asbestos lining, one-eighth inch thick; full hand-polished
tops; heavy galvanized ash pan.
Price $65
Buy the Ohio Because It is Better
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EMPRESS
TO-NIGHT
PROGRAM
Pathe News
“Ills Poor little Girl"—Bio
graph Drama.
Rita—Comedy. Margaret Gib
son.
Geo Ade Fable Comedy.
The High Rollers and Diaay
Hlondtne.
Instrumental Music
The Gilded Fool, Thursday
Admission 25c and 10c.
Notice
Starting Thursday afternoon this
week at 3 p. m. there will be a num
ber of matineos each week at that
hour.
Thursday afternoon and Saturday
afternoon at 3 p. m. "Enoch Arden.”
Everyone should see this master
piece.
Starting Sunday afternoon at 3 p.
m. the “Outlaw’s Revenge or A Birth
of a New Nation.”
Admission 25 cents, children, Idfe.
Don’t forget matinees Thursday, Sat
urday and Sunday. The picture shown
at each of these matinees will be a
feature.
Hotpoint Electric Heaters, Cookers,
Bakers, Percolators and Vacuum
Cleaners arrived on the last boat for
the Emporium. t*
Weather Report.
Valdes, March 21. 1916.
Barometric pressure 29.202
Temperature 7 p. m.18
Maximum temperature .56
Minimum .18
Mean temperature.38
Clear, wind northeast 6 miles
Interior Weather.
Y'aldez, Alaska. March 22. 1916.
Fairbanks, —7; clear, calm.
SalcUa, 3: -cloudy, snowing.
Richardson. 0; cloudy, windy.
McCarthy, 5; 34 Inches of snow; j
cloudy, south wind.
Donnelly, 8; 28 inches of snow;
cloudy, light wind, trail good.
McCallum. 15; 45 tnches of snow;
cloudy, calm, trail good.
J'axson, 14; 27 inches snow;
cloudy, light wind, trail good.
Hogan. 25; 25 inches snow; clear,
calm, trail good.
Copper Center, 18:10 inches snow,
cloudy, snowing, trail good.
Teikhell, 10; 36 inches of snow;
cloudy, calm, trail good.
Beaver Dam, 6; 4‘8 Inches snow; j
cloudy, calm, trail fair.
Summit, 116 inches snow; clear,
calm, trail drifted.
Wortman’s, 37; 57 inches snow,!
trail fair.
Ladies' Aid Meeting
There will be an important meet
ing of the Ladies’ Aid in the lecture
room of the Congregational Church
tomorrow, Thursday afternoon from
2 to 5. All members are requested to1
be present.
SECRETARY
The launch Shamrock, Capt. Tim
Marcum, arrived in port this after
noon' from Fidalgo. Landlock and El
lamar.
T TONY’S PLACE "SS*
EVERYTHING
FIRS1 CLASS
ANTON CARLSON,
Manager.
Alaska Investment Co.
Real Estate, Insurance, Mining Stocks
Public Stenography Rued Building Accounting
Imported and Domestic
Winns, Liquors and Cigars
Phone 69
NAME DELEGATES
ID CONVENTION
MUCH INTKRFST IN PIIIM ARY
I
Flection Rruipt Out 120 Voters, of
Whom About Forty are of the Fair
Sex—Candidates Named by Ih'mii
cratlc Club arc Fleeted.
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The Democratic i’rituary election
held in the city hall yesterday after
noon brought out a goodly number of
voters, among them being nearly
forty of the fair sex. One hundred
and twenty ballots were cast, and of j
this number three were thrown oujt j
on account of there being more than j
eleven names voted for on each tick
et. Comparative little scratching was
done, and eleven of the candidates
selected at the meeting of the Demo
cratic club meeting a week ago were
elected as delegates to the Territor- j
ial convention at Juneau.
Following is u list of the delegate*
elected and the vote:
T. J. Donohoe, 93; O. \V. Kolduns, j
102; T. J. Devenney, 104; A. J. I)i-:
inond 100; C. J. Todd, 108; H.
Oockerille, 114; A. J. Meals,. 114;
R. P. Ferguson, 112; Heber Smith,
109; J. McCoy, 102; M. J. Callaghan,
108.
Other candidates and the. votes
they received were:
W. M. Conley, 39; Elliott Stewart,
6; Louis Rothkranz, 7; C, C. Rey
nolds, 1.
ORDERS HEARING
OH EXPANSION
TO TAKR IX THK WATBRKHONT
Saturday, April 23, lias been Net by
Judge lirowu to Hear Arguments
For and Against tiie Proposed Ex
tension of the town limits..
By an order issued out of the Dis
trict Court by Judge F. M. Brown,
yesterday, the first steps toward the
the taking into the towu of the lands
along the waterfront, has beeu taken.
Acting upon a petition, duly sign
ed and presented to the court, for
the annexation of those lands be
tween the Incorporated town and the
water, the court has issued an order
setting Saturday, April 22, at the
courtroom of the court, as the time
and place for a hearing on the peti
tion, at which time and place all
persons interested wilt be heard.
Following the hearing, if in the
judgment of the court, the annexa
tion of the territory is for the inter
ests of the towu, an election will be
ordered, at which the property own
ers may express their opinion as to
the proposed expansion of the town
limits.
MR. AND MRS. KHKKLiOR
l,KAVK FOR M*T. McKINIiEY
Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Sheelor left
on the Admiral Watson last night
for Seward, where they will take their
dog team express fdr the foothills of
Mt. McKinley. Mr. Sheelor is an ar
tist of great ability, and for several
years has made a specialty of pano
ramic views of Alaskan towns and
scenery and panoramic views. These
are made in either 5x1 or 12x2 feet
sixes, and wherever shown in the
Bast have excited the admiration of
all beholders.
Mr. and Mrs. Sheelor will go by
steamer to Seward, thence by trail to
Anchorage. From there they will
strike for Sushitna station, and
thence follow (look's trail in to the
famous mountain which bears Ex
President Wm. McKinley’s name, the
highest on the American continent. It
is a region very little known and
hardly explored, and while the trip
will hi: full of hardships, Mr. and Mrs.
Sheelor regard it somewhat as a lark.
They have a splendid outfit or dogs
raised by Mr, Sheelor, and as both
have mushed all over the territory in
all kinds ol' weathert he past 5 years,
they may be expected to get much
pleasure and profit out of the trip.
Mr. Sheelor uses a camera of his
own make, with a very powerful lens,
and as the machine is nearly four
feet square and requires five trips up
a peak to get the apparatus all up
(sometimes requiring two and three
days for one picture) some idea of
the magnitude of the enterprise may
be entertained.
Some of these films cost nearly
one hundred dollars each, and the
tanks used in developing and fixing
them are used as a bed by the couple*
when not employed in their work.
Mr. and Mrs. Sheelor will return
to Anchorage from the Mt. McKinley
district some time the latter part of
April, and after taking panoramic
views of the new railroad town they:
will take ship and return to Valdes,
his headquarters while in the north.:
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Progressive Whist at Lilly Cafe.
Progressive whist at the Lilly Cafeij
Friday night at 8:30. Beautiful
prizes will be given to the winners.
Fifty cents will be charged each play-1
er supper included. Everybody in
vited. A special invitation is extend
ed to Fort Liscum.
Beautiful prizes are on display in
the windows of the Cafe.
Capt. Marcum reports that the blgi
Dickey wharf at Irish Cove, Fidalgo
Bay, has been completed, and the
mine is now in a position to ship ore.
The piled river and crew working on
the wharf have returned to Ellamar.'
8E11GT. DAVID MAXWELL
IN FROM GULKANA
Sergt.' Davfd Maxwell, chief of the
Signal Corps telegraph station at Gul
kana, whom it will be remembered
was reported seriously ill about a
month ago, when Dr. Dalton and Mr.
Sheelor made a vain attempt to cross
the summit in the face of a 70-mile
gale, is in the city taking a short va
cation. before returning to the sta
tion on the Admiral Watson via Cor
dova.
Sergt. Maxwell reports an unusu
ally severe winter at Gulkaua, and
States that for two days the mercury
stood at —57, Jvitli a strong gale
blowing. Barring^his temporary cold
spell Sergt. Maxwell says that the
winter was line, with plenty of sun
shine and about a 36-inch total snow
fall, 8 Inches being the greatest fall
at one time
We have the Facilities
For Properly Handling
Your Business.
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We issue Drafts on all parts of the world
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Safe Deposit Boxes for Rent
THE FIRST BANK OF VALDEZ
RESOURCES $250,000.
THE P1NZON
Making a Specialty of Haas & Sons* Candy
We Have
Varied Sweets
Glace Fruit
Old Fashioned
Nut Chocolates
French Mixed
Chocolate Sapreme
Home Made Specials
The Largest Stock of Candies in the North
Valdez Dock Co • phone no. i
JOBBER SN
COAL, HAY
GRAIN and
LUMBER
Office, foot of Wall street.
We Are Agents For The
Dayton Electric House Pumf^
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Which have fewer .parts, run more
easily and quietly* , require less
attention and cost less per year of
service than any other pump on
• the market.
And the 'I*
“Thar 5” Vacuum Gtsaner
This is one of the finest household
cleaners ever made for the low
price at which it sells.
We stand back of both the above machines.
Alaska Water Light &.Tel. Co.
CHAs-PaBifr
battle
Ji Comph'te Ssrvlses
* WniEHfeoFUiECnY*
155Ro»svfltb lath-505ftny!&Bp<)m»
He reports the road house propri
etors all fixing up in anticipation over
heavy travel over the trail this Bum
mer, and that two auto stages are
ruunlng as far in on the trail as Our
Home roadhouse, aud have been do
ing a good business all winter.
Mr. Maxwell is on his fifth enlist
ment. and has served in Cuba, the
DONALDSON SGHKDULB
Uva. Fort Ll^cum lift. VaMea
8:16 a.m. 9:46 a.m.
1:16 p.m. 4:00 p.m.
TUESDAYS
8:16 a.m. 9:46 a.m.
1:16 p.m. 2:00 p.m.rhr'
4:30 p.m. 6:00 p.na/
SATURDAYS A
1:16 p.m. 4:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m. 10:80 p.m.
There will be no trip of the launch
on the second ana fourth Fridays of
each month, these days being used to
clean boilers.
Philippines, on the Yukon and at oth
er points in the country. Ho was
also formerly a member of the avi
ation corps while stationed in Dela
ware, and states that aeroplanes will
have no trouble in carrying the mails
to the interior, provided the aviator
and passengers are sheltered from the
severe cold.