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
we solicit your accQunt.
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
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,”
[ you say; but did you ever
stop to think how easily
you could beasfortunate>
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,
sewing machines motors,
fans and other useful
electric heating and cook
ing devices.
You can have it at
slight cost—let us discuss
wiring with you.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To William Hogan.
You are hereby notified that I
have expended during the year
1912, one hundred and thirty
three dollars and thirty-three
cents, lawful money of the Unit
ed States, in labor and improve
ments, upon your two-nintns 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
“Beach" claim,
and the Last Chance, claim,’the
location notices of said claims be
mg 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
Statute: 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 Deeember, 1912.
And unless within ninety days
after the completion of the publi
cation of this notice, to-wit: with
in ninety clays 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 suimof one hundred
and thirty-three dollars and thir
ty-three cents your interest 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.
' Date of first pub. April 6, 1913.
Date of last pub. July 6, 1913.
FORFEITURE NOTICE.
Valdez, Alaska, April 23, 1913.
To H. Muir, your heirs and ad
ministrators, and to all whom
it may concern:
You are hereby notified and
will take notice that 1, the sub
scriber’, T. E. Dougherty, have
expended during the year A. D.,
1912, one hundred dollars ($100)
in labor and improvements upon
the "Minnie” lode mining claim.
Said claini is situated and lies in
the ValdcS Recording Precinct,
Territory of Alaska, about six
miles from Shoup bay. The no
tice of location thereof is of rec
ord in Book 8 of Records, at page
370, in the office of the United
States Commissioner’for the Val
dez Recording Precinct at Val
dez, Alaska, to which book and
page reference is hereby made for
a more particular description of
said claim. Said expenditure was
made for the purpose of holding
possessore right and -title to said
mining claim under the provis
ions of Section twenty-three hun
dred and twenty-four of the Re
vised Statutes of the United
States and the amendments there
to, providing for the annual la
bor upon mining claims, said
amount being the sum required
to hold said mining claim during
the period ending the thirty-first
day of December, 1912.
If you fail or refuse within
ninety days from the personal
service of this notice, if person
al service be had, or within ninety
days after the publication of this
notice to contribute your propor
tion of such expenditure as a co
owner, your proportion, being in
the sum of eighteen dollars and
seventy-five cents ($18.75), your
interest in said claim will become
the’ property of the subscriber,
who is vour co-owner, and who
has made the ’expenditure and
improvements as above mention
ed pursuant to'the provisions of
the said statute.
Dated Valdez, Alaska, April 23,
1913.
T. E. DOUGERTY.
Pate'first pub. April 24. 1913.
Date last pub. July 20, 1913.
PITTMAN’S PLAN
FOR ALASKA GOAL
Outline of Nevada Senator’s Sill
£o Open Half of Area to Pri
vate Development.
A special to the Seattle Post
Intelligencer gives the following
outline of Senator Pittman’s hill
to open half of Alaska’s coal area
to private development:
Washington;, May 22.— In a
bill introduced in the Senate to
day Senator Key Pittman propos
es that the great Alaska coal
fields shall be surveyed immedi
ately into strips of a length and
width to be determined by the sec
retary of the interior and num
bered, and when this is complet
ed |In; even numbered strips still
shall be withheld from the pub
lic and the odd numbered strips
shall be thrown open to settle
men I.
The odd numbered strips are to
bet subdivided into claims of lt>0
acres each and can be settled up
on only in person.
The measure is one of the most
striking attempts yet made toward
bringing Alaska out of the hole,
and apparently meets both the
conservationists and anti-con
versationists half way on the
Alaska problem.
Accomplish Desired Ends.
By retaining in possession of
the government each alternating
strip in the coal fields Senator
Pittman believes that two desir
able ends will be accomplished,
while! in throwing open to settle
ment. the remaining areas on a
basis similar to that obtaining in
all other sections of the coun
try Alaska at last will have an
opportunity to develop.
The alternating strips in pos
session of the government will
prevent the effect of regulating
the prices to be charged for the
coal taken from the privately
owned areas.
“We will be getting back to a
normal condition in Alaska if this
measure is made into law,” said
Senator Pittman today.
Against Leasing System.
“There is no merit in (he leas
ing system as il would apply to
Alaska and if would never he
possible nor desirable to gel leg
islation making (tie whole coal
aiea subject to private entry.
This measure, it seems lo me,
should be .satisfactory to every
body.”
The bill, in part, reads as fol
lows :
“The Secretary of the Interior,
upon I be completion of the sur
vey of any coal Held, as herein
before provided, shall give not
less than thirty days’ notice, by
publication, in some newspapers
of general circulation, published
nearest to such coal fields, and by
posting a notice in the nearest
land office of the time and place
of the opening of such odd num
bered lots for location and ap
propriation.
May Take 160 Acres.
“Upon and after the date set
by such publication for the open
ing of said odd numbered lots
any citizen of the United States
over the age of 21 years may lo
cate and acquire not to exceed
ICO acres of such coal lands, in
accordance with the laws of the
United States and of the District
of Alaska, subject, however, to
the provisions and restrictions
prescribed in this act."
Dead Woman Gets Legacy.
Boston, June 11 —Miss Mabel
E. Allen, of Brooklyn, who prov
ed herself alive after the Suffolk
County Probate Court, the State
Supreme Court, and the United
States Supreme Court had declar
ed her dead, has received $2,600
as her share of the property left
by her grandfather, Jonathan
Merry.
; When the will of Mr. Merry was
filed several years ago, Judge
Grant of the Probatel Court was
informed that Miss Allen had
been missing for 1 i years, and
under the absentee statute he de
clared her dead. It was ordered
that the money willed to the
Brooklyn woman be given to oth
er persons.
Miss Allen, in 191 i, received
the first information that a leg
acy awaited her while reading in
a newspaper that, the United
State's Supreme Court had decid
ed that she was dead.
FOR SALE CHEAP--Foyr-room
house, furnished; part cash and
the balance as rent. Mrs. Guthrie.
PHILANTHROPY.
(By George Fitch.)
Philanthropy is a very high
class method of putting it hack.
When a man gives a dime away,
that’s charity. When he gives
ten dollars that is generosity.
But when he gives a million away,
that is philanthropy.
Philanthropy has filled the
country with orphan asylums, old
people’s homes, hospitals and
missions. And in getting togeth
er the money wilh which to huild
these things, some of Hie phil
anthropists have made enough
orphans to fill I lie asylums,
enough poor old people to crowd
the homes and enough cripples
to congest I he hospitals.
It is not necessary Lo manul'ac
lure these orphans and cripples
in order to make a great fortune,
hut it is the easiest way. And
this country is a great labor sav
er.
Some men can make a million
by inventing useful machinery,
discovering gold mines or selling
goods more skillfully than other
men. But most have to do it by
paying small wages and gelling
together with other men to make
prices look like a monoplane con
test for the altitude record.
Many a man has saved a cistern
full of dollars by not installing
safety appliances on his machin
ery and afterwards has become a
philanthropist by building a hu
man repair shorn to take care of
the men who gofmixed up in said
machinery.
Many a man has employed men
and women for a tritle less than
a living wage and has sent l\is
name thundering down the* ages
by building homes to take care
of them when they can work no
longer.
For this reason many thought
less people are inclined to look
on philanthropy with great scorn.
They are I tie kind of people who,
if robbed by a hold-up man,
would not be gracious enough to
thank him for giving back car
fare.
However, there is nothing
wrong with philanthropy, and the
men who give some of it back
are better than those who endow
a duke or do rescue work for
frayed Bayuns. If we watched
our money carefully, there would
fewer philanthropists. And
there would also be much less
need for philanthropy.
I -.
Secret Dangers.
A juvenile Jap
Was buying a map
Fur use in a school, lie eonfest.
A mail in the shop
Sent, out for a cop
And ordered (he fellow's arrest,
lie cried, "It's a plot
To pick ou| a spot,
For landing an army mil west.”
But somebody showed that., the
dangerous scroll
Was merely a map of the Peary
i/.ed Pole.
A yellowish cone
From sources unknown
To (inventor Johnson had
come.
'Twas heavy and hard,
And every guard
Was sure they’d discovered a
bomb
To blow ’em sky high,
Sent secretly by
Some devilish son of Yuni-Yuni.
But then the cook saw it and said,
"If you please,
Who sent us this beautiful pine
apple cheese?”
A statesman grew pale
To lind in the mail
A hieroglyphical note.
He whispered, "The band
That’s called the Brown Hand
These threatening characters
wrote.
I’m certain they say
They’ll kill me today
By slitting my eloquent throat.”
But he was restored to his usual
ease
When told ’twas a check from a
laundry Chinese.
A Japanese got
A hundred-foot lot
Quitec lose to the City of Wash,
A building he made
And persons afraid
Said “Goodness” and “Gra
cious” and “Gosh.”
This devilish one’s
Constructing big guns
To blow our fair city to
squash.”
But lo, ’twas a shop where he got
the mazuma
By selling much genuine, rare,
old Satsuma.
—John O’Keefe in the New York
World.
All Comedies.
Fine change of program at the
Orpheum tonight.
The Pilgrimage, flue story that
will interest all.
A Guardian’s Luck, a roaring
comedy that reeks with laughter.
Martha’s Rebellion, a scream
comedy with John Bunny, etc.
Change of program tomorrow
evening.
Boots & Shoes
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ftfew Rmmfch. ffubnikif «l the but
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At Sidra lawahr dine- VALDEZ
A. M. Dieringer
Valdez Transfer
Company
General Trucking and Freight
ing to all interior points
LIVERY and 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 ma.
“QUICK ACTION”
ii my motto.
Phone 82. J. A. SPENARD, Prop.
Fagerberg Bros.
NIZINA, ALASKA
General Merchandise
Miners & Prospectors Supplies
Freih Goods—Reasonable Prices
PROFESSIONAL
'v — ■ ■ -
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
Phone 92 Feurteen years in
Office injWhaling building VALDEZ
Next to cable office
DR. GERMAN
'• THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Drug store. Office hours
9 a. m.. to 6 p. m., 7 p. m..to9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
E. E. RITCHIE
LAWYER
phone 136 Valdez, Alaska
C E. BUNNELL
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Offices Wall Street
Phone 3t VALDEZ
L V. RAY
ATTORNEY AT LAW
SEWARD, - ALASKA
MINING ENGINEER
F. BUTTERWORTH
Civil Engineer and
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
Blue Printing Res. Phone. 189
L. W. STORM. E. M.
Valdez, alaeka |
ffiroors o« Mines
Patent Sum.eye
Qenesal Minino Cwaiwaaff/wa
'Phone No. toa
CAMP VALDEZ No. 10
Meet every Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock In
Eagle Ball. All members are requested to
ttend. S. McnIECE. Arctio Chief
Valdez Lodge
No 168.
Free and Accepted Masons
Regular Communications nrst Wednesday in
each month in MoKtnley Hall Visitors always
welcome.
James H. Patterson,,W. M
C. C. Reynolds, Seo
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