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 account.
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
You admire it eveiy
time you visit them—the
harmonious lighting, the
clean and orderly ap
pearance of everything,
the always-ready per
sonal conveniences, the 4
atmosphere of comfort
and luxury.
I “Hill is a lucky dog,”
you say; but did you ever
stop to think how easily
you could beas 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,
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.
I Alaska Water, Light
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To William Hogan.
You are hereby notified that 1
have expended during the year
1912, one hundred and thirty
fhree dollars and thirty-three
1 cents, lawful money of the Unit
jt ed 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 thp recording precinct of
Valdez, Alaska, which are known
as and called the “Shamrock"
claim; the “Tramp" claim; the
1
“Star No. 2” claim; the “Mother
Hill” claim; the “Beach” claim,
anti 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
Statute.', of the United States,
concerning annual labor on min
ing claims, being the amount re
?[Hired to hold said lode claims
or 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 Gth day oi
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 interest in
the claims will become the prop
erly 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 0, 1913
Date of last pub. July 6, 19^3.
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 I, 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 claim is situated and lies in
the Valdez 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 oi
said claim. Said expenditure was
made for the purpose of holding
possessory 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
tip 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), yoUf
interest in said claim will become
the property of the subscriber,
who is vour co-owner,. apd who
has made the expenditure and
improvements as gbove mention
ed pursuant to the provisions of
the said statute.
Dated Valdez, Alaska, April 23,
1913. ■ •
T..E. DOUGERTY.
Date'first pub. April 24' 1913.
. Date lift pub. July 20, 1913.
STEFANSSON NOW
III VICTORIA A A
Will Soon Leave for Arctic, Call
ing at Nome—Five Year
Trip.
Victoria. June Villjaimur
Stefansson, tile discoverer of the
socalled blonde Eskimos, reached
this city today and will soon de
part for the north on the Karluk,
with which he is to make the most
elaborately equipped arctic expe
dition that has yet put north for
scientific research and the quest
of a vast possible arctic continent
of 1,000,000 square miles, in the
existence of which arctic explor
ers have time and again declared
their belief, and which Admiral
Peary thought he had at one time
seen.
The vessel will call at Nolne oil
her way to the arctic, and Stef
ansson explained that while he
would make every possible effort
to find the vast hypothetic arctic
continent which he believes to lie
north of western Canada, north of
Alaska, and northeast of Siberia,
his chief object would be to gath
er comprehensive scientific data
about the vast unexplored area
’ thereabout, whether he finds land
or nof. He expects to be gone
until lilt lull til 117 1U.
1 hiring his slay in the Arctic lie
nr his expedition will he for a long
time in touch by wireless tele
graph with the two most valuable
meteorological stations in the
■northern hemisphere, at- Iceland
and on the Aleut ian Islands, to
which he hopes to furnish daily
■messages, thus providing, among
other things, a means of predict
ing storms from the north, a mat
ter of the utmost importance to
navigation in the northern oceans
and in the great lakes.
According to the final plans
outlined by Stefansson yesterday,
it is not unlikely that his expedi
tion and that of Capt. Ronald
Amundsen, discoverer of the
south pole, who will set out a year
later with a ,sin|ilar object in
View, may meet in the midst of the
arclurnight. Stefansson plans to
sail north from the mouth of the
Mackenzie as far ns possible and
establish a base on any land that
may he discovered. Failing to
discover such land, the vessel will
head east toward known islands—
Hanks island, or Prince Patrick
island—and establish a winter
base as Jar as possible to I lie
north along their western roasts.
In the following winter he plans
to explore the ice-covered ocean
In toy west and northwest Tor i
sliiily of ocean depths, ocean eur
rents and the like, in the spring
ihereafter he plans to carry on
geological and zoological and ar
chaeological work in the interior
of those islands. A second base
is to be established, if possible,
on the southwest of Victoria is
land
“If this expedition is success
ful,” said Stefansson yesterday,
"it will close forever the geo
graphical chapter of discoveries
on this earth, which was begun
by olumbus. I am, going to try
to wipe a vast area of 1,000,000
square miles off the face of the
unexplored map.
“We shall sail north along the
111st meridian to lind the' hypo
thetical land. If. we do not find
it, we shall turn back. It may
well be, however, (hat on return
ing, if we miscalculate at all, we
shall be caught in the ice, frozen
in for the winter, and drift invol
uiuuruy wnerever mai ueuse area
of ice packed tightly about our
ship happens to take us. Prob
ably we shall drift northwest in
a circle between Asia and the
north pole, thus doing involun
tarily what Amundsen intends to
do purposely a year after we start.
It may well bo that in that draft
ing in the northern ice, the men
of his and our expedition will
meet.
“If the world does not hear
from us in all that time, it will
mean that we have miscalculat
ed in (he manner I have mention
ed and are caught in the pac ice
on our way back.
“I do not anticipate any great
danger in, such a case. It was in
view of such a contingency I hat 1
was anxious to get a man like
Capt. Bartleti to take command of
•our ship. He is a man who is
not afraid of hurting his ship, and
not eager to save it .at the expense
of the expedition. He goes cheer
fully into such a hazard, risking
the' crushing of his stout vessel
I
in the gigantic tightening grasp
of the ice that will freeze for
miles and miles around it. If the
worst came to the worst and the
ship were crushed to hits, we
could still walk or sledge across
the ice to safety.
“Nor do I fear the danger of
shortage of supplies in such a
case, for there is plenty of game I
in tin; arctic on which we can j
live.” j
When Language Falls.
The English tongue, as taught
in schools, and governed by
grammatir rules, is good enough,
most times; ’twas good enough
for Scott and Pope when they pro
duced their brilliant dope, their
stories and their rhymes. 'Twas
good enough for Shakespeare,
too, who wrote “The Taming of
the Shrew,” and all of Bacon’s
plays; and Coleridge found it
good hot stuff, and Wordsworth
thought it rich enough in which
to frame his lays. It’s good
enough for those who teach, and j
for the gifted men who preach,
for jurists of renown; but when
the sporting writers fall to work
to write up games of ball, the ton
gue* is out and down. They bor
row something from flic Creek,
and from the tongue the Choctaws
speak and from the Eskimos;
they draw some symbols from the
Slavs and ancient tombs are split
in halves for adverbs no one
knows. I read the daily baseball
yarn and then go out behind the
barn where 1 can swear in peace;
I cannot tell, when all is done,
which team’s ahead arul which
has won a string of eggs of geese.
1 wish Sam Johnson could be
here, that Edward Cibbon could
appear, a pencil in his hand. Such
men as these, with stalely phrase
would write about the divers
plays so men could understand.
WALT MASON.
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Many Young Fox.
Whitehorse.--Carl Faulk, who
has the distinction of being the
pioneer fox farmer of Yukon, he
having started in business at
Conrad and Careross as far back
as live years ago, later moving his
interests to Careross, where his
fox farm is now located, has late
ly added qujjto (targ|Pjy to his
stock, having left here on Monday
morning's train with no less than
sixteen young foxes-which he se
cured lately in the neighborhood
of Canyon on the Kluane trail
about one hundred miles west of
Whitehorse. When he left Can
yon for this place lie had nine
teen young foxes, three dying on
the way in.
Of the sixteen puppies taken by
j Mr. Faulk to bis ranch, fifteen
are of silver grey and cross va
rieties, the other one being a per
fect black and costing Faulk §900
j A young Indian known as Canyon
'johnny, -secured nearly all the
I nineteen young foxes pureliitsed
j by Mr. Faulk, including lhr' black.
.
Alaska Railway Secret.
The real object of the current
(Alaska railway investigation is
not so well known as it ought to
be. My slow degrees It is leading
til> to the disclosure of Ibe real
mystery of the panic of 1907. The
real reason for the construct ion
of tin* Copper River railway was
not railroading. It was intended
to-bring the glaciers within reach
of the New York market and so
break Morse’s ice trust in order
that, the United Stales Steel Cor
porauon migni acquire ine ien
n'essee Coal & Iron company.
, In Hie rear subcellar there is
another even more damaging
mystery awaiting disclosure of
wnat is well known to be an ev
en smaller number of malefac
tors. After the Alaskan glaciers
had smashed the ice trust the in
dention was to stop the Alaskan
supply and raise the price so that
the steel trust could run its blast
furnaces with the ill-gotten pro
fits and put the American Feder
ation of Labor out of business by
raising wages above any dream
of Gompers. These disclosures
may come any day, and the Alas
kan investigation which is now
running under single-line heads
■on the inside pages will then fill
the first pages under double-col
umn scare heads. There has been
nothing like it since (he escape
of (he animals at Central park or
the moon hoax.—New York Times.
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