I
Ding-dong Ding-dong
The merry chime of the new l>c11 will be heard newt Monday morning bidding the little
ones to enter in the new school house. Have you made tl»e necessary preparation as
regards wearing apparel for your children?
WEBSTER SGI09L SHOES
A WEBSTER DICTIONARY
WITH EVERY PAIB FROM SIZE HUP
SHOES
The strenuous games of school children are in vigorating nnd
healthful, hut they are also hard on shoes. We have school
shoes that are built for wear. Prices $2 to $2.BO ja r j
pair, for boys and girls.
HOSIERY
Seamless ribbed stockings, fast Mack,
made extra strong, with spliced ankle
and knee, 2 Be ja r pair.
BOYS SUITS
We have a large assortment of these
to select from. They are all well
made and will stand ruff usage. Very t
nent and serviceable sailor suits like I
the picture, "
57-50
Other all-wool suits, eoat, vest and
trousers, from
$7.50 to $12.00
Extra Pants, 7Be. Strong Caps and Hats, 7Bc and $i .OO.
Everything To Wear.
JAMES EISH & C®
Cure That Cold at
P. O. DRUG STORE.
P. E. KERN,
GOLD and SILVERSMITH.
We Carry a Large Lot of
Watches, Diamonds,
Cut Glass, SUverware,
j Musical Instruments.
Fine Watch Repairing
City Market
NEXT TO MERCHANT’S CAFE.
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Beef, Mutton, Pork and Poultry
Our Prices are RIGHT. Give us a call.
SIGNS
OF
= FAILING
r VISION
When your eves tire in reading. When you frown or partly' close
your eyes when looking at an object. When things “swim” or become
dim after being looked at for a while. When the eyes ache, smart, or
water, or when you liave pain in the eyeball, orbit, temples or fore
head.
All these conditions can be alleviated by
Properly Fitted Glasses.
W. C. STULL,
Optician, Jeweler and Expert Watclimaker, Diamond Setter.
Bowling Alley.
The fowling alleys ami shooting
gallery of Valdez, are now coni-1
l'leted, and in running order, and |
will be known as the Olympic Club, J
owned and managed by Wilson &
Stoel.
Tbe building is lot) feet long and
38 feet wide, located on the corner
of McKinley st. and Broadway. It
is well lighted from both streets by
a continuous row of windows. And
viewed from tbe street it presents
quite a striking appearance, with
its elegant white front and over
hanging eaves, extending as they
do over tbe walk. On tbe inside
the appearance is grand. The en
tire building is one room without
a supjiorting beam anywhere. All
the woodwork has a bard oil tinish.
To the left of the entrance is a pri
vate card room, done up in a neat
and comfortable manner, where
players may enjoy themselves with
out the disturbance of onlookers.
Next along the same side of the
room is an entrance connecting the
building with the Gold Dust Ex
change. Beyond this is tbe shoot
ing gallery, with a range of 60 feet,
and of a style known as the Win.
Wurfflein automatic gallery. There
are stationery targets, also moving
ones run by a gasoline engine.
Running parallel with the gal
lery and occupying the greater part
of the building is a set of four
standard bowling alleys, put in by
the Brunswick, Balke Co„ under
the direction of Mr. J. Brown, who
was sent here for that purpose.
They arc elegant alleys, well equip
ped and well attended, and arc as
a means of pleasure u credit to the
town.
To the front of the alleys on the
right of the entrance is the desk,
and a set of cigar eases, where none
but the best known brands of cigars
are dealt out.
There is around the alleys seat
ing capacity for aloiit 200 sj»eeta
tors, and in one corner is a tele
phone box, where the patrons will
not be overheard.
Various attractions will con
stantly he added to make Olympic
Club rooms an attractive resort.
19,000 Cases ol fish
Were Lost. Nothing Saved Bnt A
Few Residence Build
ings.
Kknai, July 20th—Last night at
11 o’clock an alarn of fire was
sounded at the cannery of the I*.
1*. tfc N. Co. at this place. In less
time than it takes to tell the whole
upper portion was in flames. The
men worked faithfully, throwing
wate- on the adjacent buildings
for alsmt an hour, but the cannery
could not be saved. Fortunately
no one was injured.
Everything was a total loss,
buildings, stores, provisions and
18,000 cases of salmon, in fact ev
erything at the plant excepting the
house ami furniture of the Suj>cr
iritendent, bunk house for some of
the men and the Chinese house.
oOjOOO fish on hand for canning
I had to be thrown away.
Chas. \V. (iompertz, the nupciin
, tendent, leaves this evening for
j Valdez, accompanied by his family,
on his fast steamer Salmo.
_O. S. M.
An Old Timer.
Among those to go out on the
Bertha was Benj. Woche, of Ko
diak. Benjamin may well lie con
sidered an Alaska pioneer. He ar
rived here with Battery G, Second
U. S. Artillery, and on Juneb, lH<»s,
at Kenai, he assisted in displacing
the Russian (lag and raising for the
first time the stars and stripes in
its stead.
He received an honorable dis
charge, and settled down at Kodiak
as agent for the A. C. Co., where
he lias remained ever since.
He now goes to San Francisco to
attend the encampment of the
Grand Army of tlie Republic.
Another old timer from the west
going for a trip to the states was
J. B. Nelson, of Afognak. He is on
his way to ’Frisco on business, and
will return on the September boat.
Clevenger Reaches Center.
Copper Center, July 22.—Rev,
and Mrs. Clevenger arrived here
safely last Thursday and are well
pleased with their new home at
at Copper Center. Prof. Georgeson
and Mr. Holman leave for Valdez
to-day. Fine weather; gardens
doing well. C. R. M., T. & D. Co’s
pack train left for Valdez yester
day.
The small Government steamer,
horetofor known as The Lily, has
been lately rechristened and will
hereafter be known as the Colonel
Liscum.
Mr. Gompertz, Supt. of the
Kcnai cannery, came down to
Valdez with his family on board
the steamer Salmo, and returned
today.
The Ladies Guild will give a
dime tea at the Hopkins-Hrown
residence, next Wednesday after
noon from 2 to 5 o’clock. A cordial
invitation extended to all.
J. F. Falsted, of Afognuk, will
soon begin o|>crations on his Mo
lina bay quartz property.
LOST—Ladies breast pin. De
sign, gold pan, pick aud shovel.
Please return to this office.
There arc about 50 men in the
Shushina country from Tyoonick,
this summer prospecting.
Hammond and 81 m>1 ley’s pack
train for Slate passed Ton.-ina on
the ltilh.
Passed Dog Ordinance.
The ordinance providing for a
dog tax and public j>ound was
passed by the council Monday,
without amendment. Some dis
cussion was had regarling the sec
tion prohibiting stock from run
ning at large, but no change was
made. Tin- ordinance ns passed
w ill Ik? found on fifth page of this
i-suc.
The dog pound will be located
on bhK'k 3X, which was reserved
for the use of the town, when the
plat was made. This block is on
the gravel Hat east of town. There
arc several applications for the
|>osition of pound master but no
appointment has yet l>een made.
t*. (i. Matthews appeared before
the council and offered to relin
quish his franchise for a water sys
tem. He stated that he had made
a canvas of the town ami found
that he could not get sullieient
support from the citizens to just
ify him in muking the necessary
expenditure.
Crow Creek Booming.
Fred Scott, one of the Crow creek
claim owners, went out on the
Bertha. He says that one claim
on the creek is working -10 men,
with two lines of boxes, and has
produced an ounce a day to the
man all season. There is a hy
draulic outfit on the beach for this
ground.
Girdwood has in two miles of
pipe and a hydraulic, and is doing
well.
Mr. Scott’s pro|>erty is adjoining
that of Girdwood. He has spent
the season ojicning it up.. The
gold from this creek is very coarse.
Nizlna Items.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, Mr. and
Mrs. McAlpin, Proffessor Young
Dutchy, Hoy liartell, Ethel Gra
ham, O’Malley, Statko, McCloud
ami three Japs left Xizina for Val
dez July 9th.
Harry Grcnnig, Dolph Smith
and Eddie Stroekei were to leave
for White river July 12th, with six
horses and a large outfit.
McClure and Wilson were out
j twenty days in an attempt to
! reach the left fork of the Wtiite
river, hut were unable to make it.
Archie Park will spend the win
ter at Sour Dough City, watching
caches.
Van Iderstine, I’oot and Stew
ard are still on Xo. 4 below, Dan
creek.
Several Wats are being built at
Sour Dough by parties who are go
ing down the river.
The attachment served on the
sawmill by Tommy Heims, has
closed it down. Dan Grennig has
the position as watchman of the
mill.
The experts, Winchell ami Capt.
Stiver, aiul party, F. M. Brown,
lies and Baldwin, Pat Keys and
Jackson, crossed the Xiziua July
9tli.
Robert Blei and party were at
McCarthy creek on the 10th.
B. F. Millard reached the Kus
kalina on the 11th.
The steers and a portion of the
outfit taken in by the Blei party
were left at Kotsina.
Andy Hose left for Tatiana with
three horses the first of the month.
Harry Thompson and “Farmer”
Brown are oi>erating the roadhouse
at Kotsina crossing. They hare a
cable bridge across the river..
Beans are plain food. When
conked by Mels Jepeon uu Slate
creek they will make a X'u. 2 go.
Chase and Sanborn’s Geleltrated
Coffee is* to be had at llemple ifc
Dougherty’s.
OPERATOR AT [NO. a SHOOTS
HIMSELF
Ofetata jasJ.Daditll
Became Despondent From Being
Stationed Alone at No.
Two.
At alauit (1.30 Monday evening
last C. C. Kolx-rts, who happened
to 1m- at the telegraph station No. 2,
casually looked in, and was horri
fied to find the operator, .las. J.
Haekett, lying dead on the M.mv,
with hlood Mowing from a wound
in the laxly, which was still warm.
Word was immediately sent to the
Post, and early next morning a
guard was sent to bring in the
laxly. They arrived in Valdez in
the aftemiMiji, when Judge Lyons
impanticled a jury and held an in
quest
It was shown that Haekett was a
lone occupant of the place for sev
eral months, not wit standing the
orders issued last April by ('apt.
Burnell, which specified that not
less than two men should la- kept
at a station.
The jury found a verdict of sui
cide, deceased having shot himself
through the heart.
Jas. J. Haekett was 2b years old,
and formerly lived at 3b W illiam
stret-i, Bellows Falls, Vermont.
He joined the army alaiut b years
ago.
The Cable.
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The ruble ship Burnside after
doing service in the Phillippincs
will arrive in Alaska about the
middle of this month at once to
go in tot he work of laying the cable,
The work will begin at l«>th
points and the cable will he joined
when they meet and dropped into
place. It is expected that the lay
ing of the cable will be completed
in November which will terminate
work for this year, and the laying
of -a cable from Juneau to Valdez
will very likely begin next season,
as the present cable still leaves
toe country dependent on the
British telegraph system for com- '
mnnication through Alaska.
Captain liu.-sell, of the Signal
Corps of the Army, arrived in
Seattle in the early part of this
month, to take charge of the laying
of the American made cable be
tween Seattle and Juneau.
The Bertha arrived here from the
weston Wednesday morning with
a number of passengers for tiie
states, and three for Valdez—those
being J. F. Hielscher, who went
west to look at the country, Mr.
Stevens who lias been up in the In
let looking after his mining prop
erty, and Mr. E. C. Bunnell, of Ko
diak,who comes here to take charge
01 our school.
McCloud, Ethel (iraham, Hugh
Arnold and J. H. Little arrived
yesterday from the Chittyna count
ry. Mr. Little has made some fine
copper locations on the Kuskalina,
near the head of the stream. The
ledge is a solid body of liomite .'JO
feet in width, and can lie traced for
over a mile.
The present consumption of oil
from Xlalifwrnia mines is said to lie
at the rate of 18.000,000 barrels a
year, which is double what it was
iu 1900. It is estimated that the
consumption of California oil for
1904 will he in the *i'cighburhood of
30,000,000 barrel*.
I’laeer mining requires sinew
and muscle. Neis Jepsoirs cook
ing will develop them.
The best cigars at thcCandir
Kitchen.