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I We Carry ibc LARGEST and
MOST COMPLETE STOCK of
Oeneral
Merchandise
On the Coast of Alaska, being equipped
to handle both Retail and Wholesale
Orders.
SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO
MAIL ORDERS fROM OUTLYING
POINTS
We are particularly strong in Groceries, Hardware,
Furnishings, Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps, Clothing,
and carry many other lines. We have Built Up Our
Business On Merit. Try Us.
Vai^Doz, COLD STORAGE CO.,
and CITY MEAT MARKET.
OI'l\ A. !.. jj:vy <& ( o.
FRESH
VEGETABLES
Wholesale and
Retail Dealers
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Live and Dressed Meats, Poultry, j
Fish, Oysters, Butter and Eggs.
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Medicine Outfits For The Trail
( Largest Assortment of Snow Glassts.)
STATIONERY MINING LOCATION NOTICES
Agente Drag Co. Ph4°0ne
Call For Warrants
Valdez, Alaska, May 10—Notice
is hereby given that l will pay
Fire Apparatus Fund warrant No.
1, upon presentation.
F. B. Wheat,
Toni. Treasurer.
Notice.
The City will pay for coal sin-ks
in good condition and dry., if de
livered at the Fire Hall in bundles
of 25. Sacks must b* delivered
Saturday. See H. Suessdorf. chair
man,
Jos. A. Bourke is expected to ar
rive on the Santa Clara.
Have You Seen
The new Edison “Horne” Phono
| graph, with repeating attachment,
j just received at llie Bowling Ailey?
They are just the thing. We also
j have, the lnrge-t stock of Flower
I Horns ever carried in Valdez, and
i Gold Moulded Records galore .
Before you huv that Phonograph
see us. It will pav vou.
—Scrip For Sale.
4.14 acres of recertitieel scri}> for
sale. Apply at this e>flice.
T. G. Quinn is reported as a pus
jsenger on the Santa Clara.
ft. L LEVY & C.0
Bankers
Valdez, Alaska
We Do A General Banking Business
Buy and Sell Exchange, Buyand Ship (lohl Dust, Accept Deposits,
Make Collections and Eouu Money on approved security at I.ow Kate
pf Inter Vet,
On 'a he Sound Run
The fleet of ,-mall boats traveling
around Prince William Sound hn
ineroased considerably within the
past year, and at the present timej
they are all kept busy. The steamer
Annie i.- now operating mostly be
tween heteand Landlork Pay, call
ing at till of the mining camps
along the route. The gasoline
launches Hammond, Flirt. Agnes
and Sylph are all running out of
this port, the Hammond making
: tri-weekly trips to Cordova, and
tlie other varying their runs ac
cording as business demands. The
1 launch Put-Put, and a number of!
I other small launches, which have
■ been recently built are about ready j
to go into commission, and will he
used for prospecting and on local
j business. *
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Fairbanks Newsp'aper.
Seattle,—Proprietor Ward of the
Fairbanks Times has arrived here,
to purchase type-setting machines!
and presses and savs he will start
; another daily paper at Fairbanks,
lie has the harking of the anti-;
Wickersham forces.
The new chemical fire engines
for the city arrived on the Oregon
and will be ready for use in a few
| 'toy*
.11'ST RECEIVED
Repealing Attachment
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FOR TIIE EDISON
Standard Phonograph
C;iii la: uttacla 1 in five minutes.
No I Milling.
Absolutely Guaranteed
PRICE $5.00
CALL AND SEE IT WORK
For Sale At
•Wikiuel’s Phonograph Parlor
| Mail Supplies Ready
.1 R. Crittenden who has the |
| mail contract for the next four!
I years from here to Eagle returned,
i Saturday from the interior where
lie has been distributing supplies |
i along the mail route from Camp
Comfort to Mentasta. The freight
ing outfit wbi h consisted of fifteen
: teams left town Feb. 1 and since
; that time has distributed enough
! food and -supplies to handle the
mail route until next spring, in ad
dition toplacing a stock at Chisna.
A two-storv store building has
been erected at Chistuchina where |
the main supply will he kept. In
t addition to this there are caches !
i at Mentasta, Gulkana, Copper
Center, Willow Creek. Tonsinn,
Ernestine, Teikhell, Beaver Dam.
Ptarmigan Drop, Wortman’s and
• Camp Comfort. At Chistuchina
'supplies will he sf-M to travelers
and prospectors at reasonable
prices. A homestead has been
taken up near Chistuchina which
: will he cleared for raising hay.
Although this is the largest out
fit ever landed at Chistuchina in
one season by any party there was
nothing damaged in moving, the
i only loss being 2700 pounds of oats,
which was stolen hv parties going
to Fairbanks.
As ,-oon as the trail i-1 in condi
tion for packing Mr. Crittenden will
i take some supplies to Slate Creek
i and distribute tbe horses along the
i rout*- in readiness to start moving
I the mail in July. The horses are
all in firs! clas- condition and
-how very little effect of the hard
winter- work.
Charges Against Olassford.
John K. Jhiliaine, of Seward, has
preferred charges against Lieut.'
Col. \V. A. Olassford, of the signal
corps, and is on the way to Wash
ing to endeavor to have Olassford
court-martialed, H<- claim- that
the army officer is guilty of false
hood and malicious actions origi
nating out of the controversy over
liica'ion of a cable office at Seward.
He also claim.' that there is un
necessary delay it: the Seattle of
fice of important business over the
cable.
I,ocal Incorporation
The Knight’s Island Copper1
Mining Co. i- the name of a now ]
company which will he incorpora
ted here this week to work the
Hollow group of copper claims,
located at the head of Karnes Cove
and Drier Bay,on Knight’s island.
The company will lie incorpora
ted for $ 1,01)0,000. and 14 per cent,
of the stock will la- placed on the
market to provide finals for the
necessary development work and
machinery.
S. A Hemple is president and
treasurer of the new company, Joe
Dine, • ice-president and secretary,
and (leorge Wollentine, superin
tendent.
K-anitz-Cantwell
Otto Kanitz and Mi s Katie
Cantwell were married Thursday,
May 3, the ceremony being per
formed bv the liev. Burnett in the
parlors of the Brooklyn Hotel.
Mr. Kanitz, who owns the Kan
itz. block at the corner of Broad
wav and McKinley, is one of the
pioneers of this 'section, having
been in Valdez since lH'JS. Tlie
brale is a sister of William Cant
well, post baker at Fort Liscum.
Alaskan Suicides.
Harry A. Smith, formerly a mer
chant at Sunri.-c and well known
to many Valdez p onlc, c -inmiUed
suicide a' Seallie, April li7, by
bring a Imilet inhi.- brain. Pro
ceedings for divorce had been insti
tuted bv his wife and in a tit of
despondency occasioned by this
suit he kitieiThimsclf.
Dam e at Moose Hall Saturday,
Wintered On Middleton Island.
Ti e gasoline launch Agnes re
turned this week from a trip to
Middleton island where she went
to take off Toni Smith, a fox
rancher who lias hern eight months
on the island alone. His partner
a man named (jermaneson. left the
island last, summer and came to
Valdez, where he made arrange
ments with a squaw mail of Xtichek
to take supplies to the island. He
was taken sick and died in Juneau
during the fall. Before his death
it developed that the man who
was to have carried supplies to
Middleton island had spent the
money and did not make the trim
so derm a tieson made arrangements
with Grant Chase to sec that re
lief was sent to Smith.
Middleton island is in the Pacific
about sixty miles out of Prince
William Sound and the trip is so
dangerous that until the arrival of
the.Agties no boat could he secured
to go there, and it was feared that
Smith was suffering from lack of
supplies, but the Agnes found him
in good''health although he had
been living for some tune on fish
and vegetables raised on the island.
The boat brought several tons of
potatoes and otiier vegetables to
Valdez,all of which was raised by
Smith last suninu-r.
Geodetic Survey.
1 lie coast iiiul geodetic survey
fleet, consisting of tin: vessels < <ed
ney. McArthur, Patterson and Ttt
ku, will soon start on their sum
mers work along the coast, of Alas
ka.
The Taku fias been in winter
quarters at Eyak, but will he fit
ted up soon. (.'apt. H It. Deriek
son will have charge of this boat
which will he stationed in the
waters of Southeastern Alaska.
The Patterson will go as far west
as the Aleutian islands, and the
McArthur will work along the
western coast.
A number of the parlies who
were moving supplies to road
houses on the interior have been
caught by the breaking up of tin
trail. and will he obliged to pack
their freight. lloyt A* Smith
are using a wagon to move
their outfit from Tazlina to (lul
kana. \V. IT Soule was caught at
Tonsina, and will pack from there
to the Center.
The steamer Saratoga, which
was purchased by the Northwest
ern Steamship Co. to go on.the rim
between Seattle and here, bft New
York last Saturday for the trip
around the Horn.
Reports from the Chistuchina.
state that although there is a great!
depth of snow in that valley, mak
ing travel very slow, all of the
Slate creek outfits will reach the
claims in good time. Everyone
is confident of a good season, as on
account of the heavy snow there
will be an abundance of water.
Kalamazoo papers of April Kith
-peak of a series of lectures on
Alaska being given there by a man
named Wickers hum, hut do not
give the name in full. The lec
tures were given in the Presbyte
rian church.
Miss Curry Alehin, of Cincinnati,
a half sister of M.F.Dennison was;
at Naples during the recent erup
tion of Vesuvius, since which time i
nothing has been heard from her.
After this week the gasoline
launch Hammond will iihike three
round trips a week between here,
and Cordova, leaving Valdez on
Tuesday Thursday and Saturday,1
and returning the following days.
Rob Robinson and George Treat
go to Reaver Dam this week. They
will erect several new buildings |
and make a number of improve
ments in the roadhouse at that
place. •
Al. Grigsby has left the post-j
office and is now in the employ of J
L. Archibald.
Mrs. C. G. Debney and Mrs.
Capt. Moore go to Seward on the
Oregon and will return in a few
days. x
Of Local Interest
Archibald <fc Lathrop have
leased the Brown lot. at the corner
of McKinley and Reservation Ave.
and will move the building on
McKinley used as an office for the
Dock company to the new location.
They have some elaborate plan*
for improvements at the new -site,
an 1 may later erect a larsre office
and store building there. The
store of L. Archibald and (tieoffices
of the Valdez Dock Do. and tl>e
Valdez Coal Co. will be in tin: new
building.
New Boat.
The Agnes, a small gasoline
launch in command of Capt. Carl
C. (iunter, arrived here last week
from Seattle, making the trip un
der her own power. Although
some very severe weather was ex
perienced off Copper river, the
boat made the trip without injury.
She will remair. on the runaround
the Sound.
Tazlina Bridge.
The bridge across the Tazlina
river will be completed about the
loth of this month. Two piera
have been set in the stream, which
are tied down with piling and then
cribbed up with rock. The main
span is 120 feet long. tVork was
started on the bridge before the ice
left the river, to take advantage of
the low water in the spring, and
the work has been so well done
that it is believed the worst flood
which can come down the valley
will not injure the structure. The
cost of the bridge will be in the
neighborhood of $20,000.
Additions to Federal Jail.
if the appropriation for repairs
Alaska jails passes Congress, the
federal jail here will have a num
ber of important additions made.
At present there i- no provision
for separating had' men from the
rest of the orisoners, and the first
addition contemplated is asteel lat
tice cage containing four cells and a
corridor, which will he in tlie center
of the present jail room. This will
he >o arranged that the prisoners
can he confined in separate cells
hut still he in plain view of th#
jailer.
Other improvements contempla
ted are the installation of a hot
water system in the building, a
high fence around the building and
a separate ward for confining fe
male prisoners.
Bound Over.
While the Kdith was in port last
week Charles Windherg, who had
been working on the boat, con
ceived the idea that he had a seri
ous grievance against the captain,
mate and several other ojllicers,
and dei'ided to give them a practi
cal demonstration of the fact that
he wa.-> a had man. He came up
own and secured a gun, anil then
rambled hack to the wharf where
he twirled the gun around in the
approved had man style, and an
nounced that it was a lucky thing
for the patties who had fallen un
der his displeasure that the gun
was not loaded. He was arrested,
and at the preliminary hearing
Tuesday was bound over for trial
in $2,500 hail.
Another Marriage.
Tonight at nine o’clock Grover
C. Anderson and Miss Margery
Graham will he united in the bonds
of matrimony at the parlors of the
Imperial. Kev. Burnett will per
form the ceremony. They will
leave on the Oregon for a bridal
tour of the States and may return
later to make this their home.
The young couple are universal
favorites hen . having made many
friends during the short time they
have lived in Valdez, all of whom
wish them happiness and success.
Mayor If. W. Miller has received
a letter from the Alaska
Relief Committee thanking the cit
izens of Valdez for their prompt
reply to the plea for aid at tlw
time of the Frisco disaster.