WATS with a reputation, priced
according to their worth-that’s our
idea of true value giving in hats.
Knox Hats
Stetson Hats ■
have many distinctive features not found
in others; style, durability and all-around
satisfaction. We are showing some
“good ones” in
Knox at $5.00 and Stetson at $4.00.
»
Valdez Mercantile Co., Inc.
TRUE VALUES
..
On the basis of Security and Service j
we solicit your account. j
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
FOR SALE BY
LOGAN ARCHIBALD
150 Folding Chairs at 50 cents each.
3 Roll Top Desks at Seattle prices.
1 Burglar Proof Safe.
Dining Room Chairs and Rockers. r
Will sell dr lease the Panama Hotel; it sold, fur
nished to suit.
Will sell furniture and lease building but will
not lease furnished.
You admire it every
time you visit them—the
harmonious lighting, the
clean and orderly ap
pearance of everything,
the always-ready per- «
sonal conveniences, the
atmosphere of comfort!
and luxury.
I “Hill is a lucky dog,”
I you say; but did you ever
f stop to think how easily
you could be as fortunate?
The electricity that
does so much for his com
fort is obtained from the '
same wires that pass by
your own home. It oper
ates his lamps, flatirons, r
sewing machines motors, ^
fans and other useful
electric heatingand cook
ing devices.
You can have it at
slight cost—let us discuss
wiring with you.
Alaska Water, Light
& Telephone Co.
“BIKES” REPAIRED
ORDERS TAKEN FOR
Columbia, Rambler, Pope “Daily
Service”, Cleveland, and any other
standard bicycles.
OWEN E. MEALS
Broadway. Phone 32
LAUNCH BRIGHTON
CAPT. STAMEY
Leaves once a week from
VALDEZ DOCK for
PORT WELLS and
Way Porta.
FOR SPECIAL TRIPS SEE CAPT. STAMEY
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To William Hogan.
You are hereby notified that 1
have expended during the *year'
1912, one hundred and thirty
three dollars and thirty-three
Bents, lawful money of the Unit
3d States, in labor and improve
ments, upon»your two-ninths in
terest in those certain lode claims
lying and being on Knights Is
land, in the recording precinct of
Valdez, Alaska, which are known
as and called the “Shamrock"
claim; the “Tramp" claim; the
“Star No. 2” claim: the “Mother
Hill” claim; the “Beuch" claim,
and the “Last Chance” claim,’ the
location notices of said claims, be
ing of record in the office of the
Commissioner and Recorder, at
Valdez, Alaska, in order to hold
said claims under the provisions'
of Section 2324 of the Revised
Statutes of the United , States,
concerning annual labor on min
ing claims, being the amount re
quired to hold said lode claims
for the period ending on the 31st
day of December, 1912.
And unless within ninety days
after the completion of the publi
cation of this notice, to-wit: with
in ninety days after the 6th day of
July, 1913, you contribute your
proportion of such expenditure
incurred n performing said an
nual labor and improvements,
which is the sum of one hundred
and thirty-three dollars and thir
ty-three cents, your interest1 in
the claims will become the prop
erty of the subscriber'of this no
tice, your co-owner, who has
made the required expenditure,
by the terms of said section. -
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this
5th day of April, 1913.
, S. A. HEMPLE.
Bate of first pub. April 6, 1913.
Date of last pub. July 6, 1913.
Talk abdut your bargains at
Adler’s.
m
IS s
f
Plea for Efficient Control of This
Most Serious and Fatal
Disease.
By John l.ovetl Morse, A.M., .VI.D.
According to the mortality sta
tistics compiled by the United
Stales Census Bureau in 1900,
from a registration area com
prising slightly less Ilian one
half of Hie population of the
United States, there were 0,32 4
deaths from whooping-cough in
•that area in .children utuier fi
years of age. The United States
Public Health Reports shitw that
in 191(1 the death rate per hun
dred was as follows: Whooping
cough, 11.4 per cent; scarlet fev
er, I NO per cent; measles, 12.3
per cent, and diphtheria, 21.4 per
cent.
In order to get some more re
cent statistics I wrote to all the
state boards of health, asking for
tin* number of deaths from
whooping-cough, scarlet fever
and diphtheria during the year
1911, and also for those from
bronchitis and bronchopneumon
ia in children under 5 years of
age. I also asked for informa
tion as to the state regulations
regarding notification, quaran
tine, disinfection and school at
tendance in relation to whoop
ing-cough. The reports from 30
stales show that 0,251 died of
whooping-cough, 4,232 from
scarlet fever and 9,579 from diph
theria in these states during the
year 1911. Three thousand eight
hundred and sixty children under
5 years of age died of bronchitis
and broncho-pneumonia during
the same period in eleven states
in which/1,21(4 died of whooping
cough. II'is, of course, impos
sible to know in how many of
these cases the bronchitis and
bronchopneumonia were second
ary to whooping-cough. They
were undoubtedly due to it, how
ever, in a considerable propor
null III Ml t 11 ■. 1 Ilt'M* IHJUMIS
should be added to those from
Whooping-cough. The relative
mortality from whooping-cough,
scarlet fever and diphtheria is
essentially the same throughout
the country, whooping-cough bc-»
'ing almost, everywhere more fa
tal than scarlet fever and less
fatal than diphtheria. Whoop
ing-cough is an especially ser
ious disease in the Southern
states, as is shown by the fact
that in North Carolina 730 chil
dren died of whooping-cough in
Hill against, a total of 4 47 from
scarlet fever, measles and diph
theria combined. The death rale
from whooping-cough in North
Caroliifa in mil was 32.2 per
cent against I 1.4 per cent for the
whole United Stales.
I also wrote to I lie hoards of
health of a considerable number
of cities scattered all over the
United Stales, asking the same
(piestions, and roceivetl replies
from sixty-one, ranging in size
from Livingston, .Mont., with a
population of 5,(iuu, to New York
(Manhattan and Bronx , with a
population of 2.7(10.0(11). If Chi
cago and New York are excluded,
the relative mortality from the
three diseases under considera
tion is the same as that in the
United States as a whole. When
they are included, the figures arc
as. follows: Whooping-cough.
1,327; scarlet fever, 2,(Hi; diph
theria, 3.539.
There were 0,908 deaths from
bronchitis and bronchopneumon
ia in children under 5 years of
age in 40 (“die's in which there
were 1,022 deaths from whoop
ing-cough. Although there were
many exceptions, the death rate
from whooping-cough was, on the
whole, as would be expected,
greater in the large cities than
in the small.
ii naiuiv seems necessary i.u
give any more statistics to prove
what a serious ami fatal disease
whooping-cough is and to show
that, instead of being a trilling
affair as it is usually considered
to be by the laity, it is a condi
tion of the utmost gravity. “Any
disease which kills ten thousand
children per annum is,” as Ruck
er says, “a serious one. If bu
bonic plague were to kill that
many children in the United
Slates in one year, the whole
world would quarantine against
our country. A child dead of
whooping-cough is just as dead
as a child dead of plague.” Cer
tain other points in relation to
the mortality are, however, of
great importance.
German statistics, covering a
period of "leven years, show that
the mortality among those at
tacked with the disease is: Un
der one year of age, 20.8 per
cent; between 1 and 2 years, 13.8
per cent: between 2 and 5 years,
3 per cent, and between 5 and 15
years, 1.8 per cent.
Ninety-six per cent of the 6,324
deaths from Whooping-cough in
the United States in 1906 were in
children under 5 years of age.
Fifty-seven per cent of the fatal
ities were in the first year, 23 per
cent in the second, 8 per cent in
the third, 4 per cent in the fourth
and 2.5 per cent in the fifth year.
It is a comparatively mild affec
tion in healthy children over 5
years old, and after puberty it
rarely fatal. V
The first step to be tak<
to eonvine physicians and
public in
ness of n _
fanta and young cl
the importance or
I®*® from
no matter how well planned, will
be useless until those interested
in enforcement are so convinced.
They can be convinced only by a
campaign of education. This
campaign will have to he led by
the pediatrists and the United
Stales public health authorities,
since they are the only ones who
lat present seem to appreciate the
importance of the subject. When
! the public and physicians are!
i properly educated, regulation j
I will lie relatively simple.
| Whooping-cough must tie j
made everywhere a reportable |
disease and I lie same penalties j
I imposed for failure to report if
las in the ease of small-pox, scar
let fever and dipiillieria. The
house should he placarded and
the inmates instructed by the
health authorities as to the ser
iousness of the disease in in
fancy and file methods to tie em
ployed to prevent contagion. The
Vputiim and voniiliis should be
treated in the same way as in
tuberculosis.
Tile patients should be separ
ated from lhe oilier children in
ftlie family, if they are under 5
years of age. If such separation
is impossible, the patient,n should
be removed by the health auth
orities to special hospitals pro
vided for the purpose. The.fce
hospitals should be constructed
on the “shack” plan in order to
give tin- children the maximum
amount of fresh air and thus to
prevent the development of com
plications and cross-infection,
and so situated lha.1, the children
can be up and out of doors in
suitable weather. There is no
reason why children should be
isolated in one room and not al
lowed to go out of doors, pro
vided they are kept away from
other children. They ought not
to be allowed on the street, but,
in order to protect other children
in case they do get on the street,
they should be required to wear
an arm band of some prescribed
color and labeled ‘■whooping
cough” in large letters. They
should not be allowed under any
circumstances to visit places of
public congregation or to travel
in public conveyances. Children
who fail to observe quarantine
regulations should at once be
sent to the hospital by the public
authorities, no matter what their
circumstances or social position.
They should not be released from
quarantine until after the cessa
tion of the paroxysmal cough or
until at least, six weeks have elap
sed since the onset, even if the
paroxysmal cough has ceased. It
is to be hoped that in the future,
quarantine will be maintained
until after ttie cessation of the
'paroxysmal cough and the dis
appearance of the Bordet-Cengou
bacillus from the soutum.
The vitality of the Hordel
jtleiigou bacillus outside of the
'body being slight, formal disin
jfection is no| necessary. Thor
ough cleaning and airing of the
premises is all that is reipiired.
The other children in the fam
ily should not he allowed lo at
tend school unless they have al
ready had the* disease or mil 11
two weeks have elapsed since the
!as| exposure, provided they are
free from catarrhal symptoms. If
I is possible that this period of two
weeks may tie Ion short, tile evi
dence as lii I lie length of tin- in
I(‘libation period of whonpiug
| cough being unsatisfactory,
j Present observations seem to
show, however, that if varies lie
tween two and Ii-ri days. Two
| weeks should, I InTefnre, lie am
; ply sufficient.
j 'Children with catarrhal symp
toms, in whom there is any rea
son in suspect the po.-^ihilily of
! whooping-cough, should he ex
| eluded from school. If is proli
ialile that in the future the ex
; animal mn of the sputum will lie
fused as a test in the same way
that, the haeleriidogic examina
tion of the throat is now used
when diphtheria is suspected.
The community should he re
ipiired to establish hospitals not
only tu take care of those chil
dren thal cannot he or are not
properly isolated at home, hut al
so to taki“ care of those babies
and children ill with the disease
that cannot; Jie properly treat
ed in their homes.
It can he confidently predicted
that when the physicians and the
public understand what whoop
ing-cough really means, when
proper regulations for its con
trol are established and enforced
and when sufficient hospital ac
commodations for its care are
provided, whooping-cough will
cease to be the scourge which it
now is*
One-half off on trimmed milli
nery and 25 per cent discount on
suits at Harvey's Toggery.
W. A. Dickey wall return to
Landlock bay tomorrow.
Chas. Wulff had a nice “slick”
shave by the lady barbers this
morning.
Fritz Voges is going to work
at the sawmill. He will be em
ployed assorting sawdust. % ,
A. M. Dieringer
Valdez Transfer
Company
General Trucking and Freight
ing to all interior points
LIVERY ar A FEED STABLE
STORAGE
Teaming of all kinds
Positively no coal delivered
unless paid for in advance
CITY EXPRESS
MEETS ALL BOATS
When in a hurry call on me.
"QUICK ACTION”
it my motto.
Phone 82. J. A. SPENARD, Prop.
Fagerberg Bros.
NIZINA, ALASKA
General Merchandise
Miners & Prospectors Supplies
Fresh Goods-.Reasonable Prices
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
I Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
Phone 92 Fourteen years in
Office inVWhaling building VALDEZ
Next to cable office
DR. GERMAN
Phone 18 THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Drug store. Office hours
9 a. m., to 6 b. m., 7 p. m.. to 9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
E. E. RITCHIE
LA U’YER
phone 136 Valdez, Alaska
C. E. BUNNELL
ATTORN EY-AT- L A W
Offices Wall Street
Phone 31 VALDEZ
L V. RAY
ATTORNEY AT LAW
SEWARD, - ALASKA
F. BUTTERWORTH
Civil Engineer and
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
Blue Printing Res. phone. 180
MINING ENGINEER
L. W. STORM. E. M.
Valdai, Alaska 1
Rkrokts ok Minks
Patkht Survkts
Qknksal Mining Bnoihknaiho
'Pnohk No. 109
Valdez Lodge
No 168.
Free and Accepted Masons
Regular Communication* first Wednesday in
each month in McKinley Hall Visitors always
welcome.
James H. Patterson,. W. If
c, c Reynolds. See