or style, fit and Material
-real tailored goods
i
Ti/eara “Benjamin”
hand-shaped fronts, set up necks and
elegant backs; a piece of work any
tailor would be proud of.
Suits and Overcoats, from $20 up.
P. S.~We are not the Sole Agents for
Hart, Schaffner & Marx
FINE CLOTHES
though, we have some real values in those suits, from
$18.00 to $25.00
Valdez Mercantile Co., Inc.
TRUE VALUES
On the basis ot Security and Service
we solicit your account.
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
Steam Heat Electric Lights
THE COPPER BLOCK
Finely Furnished Rooms All Modern Conveniences
Good tiic Diinrrr ® ° °a
Goods I IlC DUiTlI Goods
Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
ALL KINDS OF
UNative and f f I1i/|D17D and Buildinj?
Puget Sound LjU1V1DLiI\ Material
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Prices Right W. M. FINICAL, Mgr. Phone 18
Patronize a Home Industry
OLYMPIAN”
i
The Train of Luxury
TO
Butte, Miles City, Sioux City, Minneapolis,
and St. Paul, Milwaukee, Chicago
All Points East, via the'
“MILWAUKEE”
Leaves Seattle Daily at 10.15 A*M»
“A TOUR DE LUXE” is an expression supremely fitting in cou
nection with a trip to the East on this palatial all-steel tnmscouti
cental train. It combines the enjoyment of rare scenk;. beauties
with the pleasure of a journey in absolute ease and comfort.'1
Mo Extra Fare on This Train
For further information regarding fares, train service, reservations,
etc., call on or address
C. H. Kraemer. General Agent, Alaska Steamship Co. and Alaska Coast $. S. Co.
VALDEZ. ALASKA
City Ticket Offices. Chicago. Milwaukee <t St Paul Railway. 441 Hastings St. West
VANCOUVER. B. C.
SECOND AVE. AND CHERRY ST*. SEATTLE
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THE PINZON CIGAR STORE
DICK’S PLACE
Fine Line of Cigars lad Tobacco;
Fruits. Nuts. Candies.
Card Room Soft Drinks of All Kiads
Ding, Dong! Hear that gong.
City Express
Is Coming Along
We handle your baggage,
trunks and grips, by day or
night. We meet all ships.
LAUNCH BRIGHTON
-FOR
PORT WELLS and
Way Porta.
FOR SPECIAL TRIPS SEE CAPT. STAMEY
VALDEZ] DOCK
Notice to Creditors.
In the United States Commissioner's
Court, ex officio Judge in Probate,
Valdez Precinct, Third Judicial Di
vision, Territory of Alaska.
In the matter of the estate of Dav
id H. Sleem. deceased; A. J. Wendler,
administrator.—Notice to creditors.
Notice is hereby given by the un
dersigned, administrator of the estate
of David H. Sleem, deceased, to the
creditors of, and all persons having
claims against the said estate, to ex
hibit them, with the necessary
vouchers, within six (6) months af
ter the first publication of this no
tice, to the said administrator, at the
office, of C. E. Bunnell, at Valdez,
Alasica. the same being the place for
the transaction of the business of
an Ifl Afitnto
Dated at'Valdez, Alaska, this 24th
day of November, 1913.
A. J. WENDLER,
Administrator' of the estate of David
H. Sleem.
Date of first pub, November 25, '13,
Date of last pub. December 26, ’13.
Hospital of the Good Samaritan.
For $6.0o we will give you a ticket
entitling you to hospital service and
care for any eight weeks out of the
year from date of your ticket, when
incapacitated by injury or sickness.
See W. H. Ziegler.
If you want all the news all the
time, read the Prospector.
FLIMSY GOLD LEAF.
It Would Taka 150,000 Sheets to Make
a Pile an Inch High.
Gold beating Is one of the oldest
trades In Birmingham. The work is
done entirely l>y hand. The leaf is
hammered out in small home'work
shops from twenty-four curat gold, but
is first sent to the rolling mills, whence
it is returned in long, thin ribbons
one and a quarter inches wide and a
thousaitdtli part*of an inch in thick
ness. Then it Is ready for the beater.
The ribbon is generally cut off into
small 11-4 inch squares, weighing
about six grains.
The thin square is placed in the cen
ter of a vegetable parchment pad, con
sisting of 100 sheets on top and the
same number beneath. This is beaten
with n fourteen pound hammer, and
the gold, when considerably reduced in
thickness, is placed between leaves of
goldbeater's skin—skin prepared from
a thin but tough membrane found in
the large intestine of the ox.
Eight hundred pieces of the ham
mered leaf are arranged over each
other between leaves of the skin, the
whole being placed between parch- |
mcnt bands and beaten for a couple of ;
hours 'with a seven pound hammer.
Then the 800 pieces are cut up into
3,200 pieces.and again beaten. When
the work Is done the leaf is 150,000 j
part of an inch in thickness and nl- :
most as light as air.—London Ideas. j
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A DARING BASE RUNNER. ;
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One of the Desperate and Winning j
Chances Mike Kelly Took.
Hugh S. Fullerton, the baseball writ- |
er for the American Magazine, tells |
a story about Mike Kelly, the fa- !
mous player of Boston anil Chicago, a
generation ago, as follows:
“I believe the most desperate and j
brilliant bit of base running 1 ever !
witnessed and the climax of taking ■
chances was by Kelly. The score was |
a tie late in the game. Runners were I
on second and third bases, one out, !
and the opposing intlelil was drawn j
In to cut off the runner from the plate, j
“Kelly was the man on second. As ;
the ball was pitched Kelly was on a I
run at top speed toward third. The :
bull was hit sharply to the shortstop, j
who scooped it perfectly and threw !
home. The runner going from third i
slid desperately toward the plate, j
where the catcher was waiting. Kelly
had rounded third base at top speed
and was coining up the path behind
the other runner, screeching ‘Look out
for ICel!’ at the top of his voice.
“As the runner from third slid be
hind the plate, trying to get past the
catcher, he was tagged out, but before
the catcher could touch him and dive
hack to protect the plate Kelly slid in
front of the rubber, dodged under the
catcher and scored the winning run.'
Stormy Cape Horn.
The waters of Cape Horn have never
been unvisited by storms for more
titan a week or two tit it stretell within
the memory of man. Standing on the
outposts of the world. Cape Horn is
the meeting place of ocean currents of
very different temperature, from the
icy cold waters of the Antarctic drift
to the warmth of the Hra/.ilian and
Peruvian return currents. The pre
vailing winds are from the northwest
ami west, and these, coming from the
warm regions of the Pacific, condense
into fogs, which the sailors call "Cape
Horn blankets" and which are the
forerunners of storms. The extremely
low level to which the glaciers of
Tlerra del Pliego descend, the per
petual congelation of the subsoil, the
meeting of conflicting winds at very
different temperatures, are all direct
or indirect causes combining to make
this the most constantly stormy re
gion of the world.
She Had Money.
“And why,” she asked, “do you
think tho world is better now that it
was tweuty-flve years ago?”
“Because you were not in it then.”
he replied.
“All, I am afraid you wish to Hatter
me. I am nearly twenty-eight”
"Is it possible? Well, in a way I’m
glad of It.”
“Why?"
“You see. I'ui thirty-seven, and 1
don't believe that any man ought to ,
be mote than eight or nine years older :
than his wife.”
“Ob. Horace! How romantic you
are! 1 wonder if any other man ever
adopted such a lovely way to let a
girl know that he cared for her.”—Chi’ j
engo Kecord-IIeruld.
Stung!
The amateur gardener saw an ad. In
a farm paper. The ad. read as follows:
“How to remov > weeds without la
bor. Ten minutes does the trick. Send
$2 for recipe.”
The amateur gardener seBt the $2.
Two days later he received the recipe.
It read as follows:
“Marry a widow.”—Cincinnati En
quirer.
Ought to Work.
“i;ju afraid these boiled eggs ain’t
very fresh.”
"Write the name •Genevieve’ on one
of them," suggested the bead waiter.
"Mr Wopsey Is romantic, and that
will distract hls attention if the eggs
are' not so good.”—lioulsvllle Courier
Journal. _’
Hereditary.
‘That office Iwy Ik never here when
he Is wanted."
“That’* not altogether hi* fault.”
“What do yon mean?”
••If* hereditary Hla father wm a
policeman." - Houston Peat.
FOOD SUPERSTITIONS.
Dyak Warrior* Won’t Eat Door For
Fear of Becoming Timid.
In rural Germany one still meets
with a superstition thut lie who eats
during a thunderstorm will be struck
by lightning. Abstaining from food
during an eclipse is common among
•savages; also a belief that in eating the
flesh of any uniiual one absorbs that
animal's characteristics. Thus an In
dian tribe highly prizes tigers’ flesh ns
food for men. but forbids women to
eat it lest it make them too aggressive.
In the Kongo women are forbidden
to eat birds of prey on the same princi
ple. but are encouraged to eat frogs,
which the men on no account ever
touch, in tile Caroline islands black
birds are a favorite dish with women,
but men must not eat them, because
if one did and afterward climbed a co
coa tree he would surely fall to the
ground and be killed.
Among the Dyaks warriors must not
eat venison because it would make
them as timid ns the deer. Fowls and
eggs are forbidden to women of a Ban
tu tribe because on eating either a
woman would certainly fly into the
brush and never again be seen. Again,
the flesh of many animals is forbidden
because the animals themselves—for
example, swine—are disagreeable to
the eye or have untidy habits.—Ex
change. |
BAD FOR PRONUNCIATION.
Silent Reading and Neglect of Con
versation Are Harmful.
Perhaps the most potent of influ
ences townrd diverse pronunciation,
especially difference in accent, is the
fact that we seldom or never bear in
conversation a vast number of words
which nevertheless constitute an im
portant and indispensable part of our j
vocabulary.
“By silent reading and neglect of
conversation language itself." declares
Richard Grant White, "is coming into
disuse.” The result of this practice
is not only that we are always men
tally registering pronunciations pecul
iar to ourselves, which we have no
means of ascertaining to be uncommon
or ridiculous, but also that the natural
tendencies of our language, unrestrain
ed by the conservative force which oc
casional use in conversation might ex
ert. rapidly foster new pronunciations
and produce a diversity of pronuncia
tion even among the most careful
speakers.
All these influences obviously sup
plement each other In resisting any
trend toward uniform pronunciation
and facilitate the progress of the tend
encies of speech peculiar to our Eng
lish tongue.—Robert J. Meuuer in At
lantic Monthly.
_•
A Fleet Street Story.
Henry Arthur Broome, in "The Log
of a Bolling Stone.” says that in 1S71
he was engaged in wood engraving for
Punch when one day. at the end of the
week, short of money, he stood gazing
longingly at the cherries on a coster
monger’s barrow which stood abreast
of the offices of the London Telegraph.
IIis gaze arrested the attention of a
gentleman whom lie had often seen
there before, though not at midday.
Then a kindly deed was done. The
gentleman, averting his gaze from me
a moment, purchased two paper bags
of this fruit. Then, placing one of
them in the pocket of his capacious
dust coat, he turned to me with the
sweetest smile imaginable and without
a word offered the other one to me.
which I gratefully accepted. He then
passed on and went upstairs to the of
fices of the newspaper. That was my
first introduction to the prince of jour
nalists. George Augustus Sala.
A Limit to Hi* Power.
A curious historical anecdote is hand
ed down from, the time of James 1.
James, being in want of £20.000, ap
plied to the corporation for a loan.
The corporation refused. The King
insisted. "But. sire, you cauuot com
pel us." said the lord mayor. "No.”
exclaimed James, "but i'll ruin you
and the city forever. I’ll remove my
courts of law, my court itself and my
parliament to Winchester or to Oxford
and make a desert of Westminster,
and then think what will become of
you I" "May it please your majesty.”
replied the lord mayor, "you are at
liberty to remove yourself and your
courts to wherever you please; but.
sire, there will always be oue consola
tion to the merchants of liondon
your majesty cannot take the Thames
along with you ”
True Kindergarten Spirit.
Muster Harold bud returned nfter bis !
first day at a kindergarten school, says
tbe Manchester Uuanllan.
"Well. Harold." said a friend of bis
mother wbo was calling, “bow do you
like school? I suppose you are tbe .
youngest there.”
"Oh. no." said Harold Indignantly,
drawing himself to bis full oelght and
throwing out bis chest— "oh. no! Some
of our chaps come lu perambulators." j
As Far at He Could Go. i j
"I." she said proudly, "can trace my j
ancestry bnck to armor and shirts of ;
mail "
“I started to trace my ancestry back
once." be replied, “but my wife made |
me stop when I got to shirt sleeves
and overalls.”—.lodge.
Good Nemo* and Richoa,
“A good name Is better than great
riches." ipiored tbe sage.
“Hui that's not tbe reason why moat
of us are i»oor.” replied tbe fool.—Cin
cinnati Knrpitree.
Begin your web. ibd Ued wilt sup
ply >•») with thread —Ifatten Proverb.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Fresh eastern oysters at the Val
dez Cafe. tt
Fresh Seal shipped oysters on ev
ery boat for Frye-Bruhn Co.
Suits pressed for $1.00 at Silver
man’s, the tailor. Telephone 198.
Phil Wilson and Paddy Marshall left
al noon for the interior.
The Valdez Drug Co. has an elegant
stock of Hammered Brass Ornaments.
The Valdez Electric Co. sells Mazda
lamps. Telephone 57.
Suits pressed for $1.00 at Silver
man’s, the tailor. Telephone 198.
Fresh Seal shipped oysters on ev
ery boat for Frye-Bruhn Co.
The Valdez Electric Co. sells Mazda
lamps. Telephone 57.
Kiddies Christmas chairs and rock
ers at Kudolph’s.
Blum’s are showing a large line oi
cut glass for Xmas.
Mrs. Winter has purchased the
building in which her store is located
from Mrs. Albert White. The store
is one of the best locations in Val
dez.
Fancy Meerschaum Pipes specially
priced at the Valdez Drug Store.
S. Blum Ai Co. are sole agents for
Hart Schaffner Ai Marx fine suits.
i Chinese Chop Suey and Noodles at
| the Valdez Cafe, after 7 p. m. tf
I __
! S. Blum Ai Co. are showing the
i largest line of Xmax goods in town.
j —
j We have cigars in Christmas pack
j ages. Valdez Drug Store.
See i he exquisite Parisian Ivory
Toilet Articles at the Valdez Drug
I Company's store.
| A very complete line of Xmas Art
! Leather Goods is shown at the Val
! dez Drug Store.
| Sewing Macnine tor Sale—Your
! choice of a White or Singer machine;
; both in first-class condition; drop
.heads; for $2<UHl. Call at Mrs*. St*f
; Marie's. tf
The Wilson teams are freighting
between Beaver Dam and Tonsina,
delivering freight under contract to
i the Telegraph stations along the gov
ernment road.
! The Valdez* Moose Lodge will serve
a "home dinner" on Chr'stmas day at
i 4 p. m. sharp to its members and their
families and to any friends whom they
woukl like to entertain on that day or
evening. Tickets $1.25 each. For sale
' at Hunt’s. Kindly make reservations
by December 23rd. W. K. Lee, chair
man of committee. k21
Dr. German, the dentist, will leave
on the Alameda for the states to
spend the winter at Portland and San
Francisco, where he will take several
post courses in dentistry. The doctor
will also visit his mother who is now
in California and w*ll make a hurried
tril> to Butte.
WEATHER RECORD.
i Tuesday, December lti, 1913.
; Taken at 8:00 a. m. Snow is given
[ us depth on level, in inches.
'. Locations— Temp. Show
1 Wortmans, clear, lignt wind 50
; Summit, elr, storming hard, * 78
I Beaver Dam, clear, windy. 0 38
iTonsina, clear, calm .-10 15
| Copper Center, calm. 8
Gulkana, clear, calm .-18 8
Hogans, clear, calm . 14
Paxsons, cloudy, windy ... -8 20
Monday, December 15, 1913.
; Wortmans, clear, calm.... 50
Summit, cloudy, calm. 78
: Beaver Dam, cloudy, calm -8 38
i Teikhell station closed.
, Tonsina, clear, calm.-11 15
| Copper Center, clear, calm 8
Gulkana, clear, calm.-22 8
| Paxsons, clear, calm. 2 20
Weather Report.
! Dec. 15, 1913.
I Barometric Pressure .29.582
| Temperature at 7 p. m.19
| Maximum Temperature .21
I Minimum Temperature . 0
| Mean Temperature .10.5
j Precipitation .11
j Cloudy, calm, wind N. E. two miles,
i Snowed at night and very light breeze
from 9:50 a. m. to 3:15 p. m.
L. JONES.
1
ALAMEDA DUE tlERE
ABOUT MIDNIGHT
| The steamer Alameda reached Cor
dova at an early hour this morning
and was expected to leave the rail
road town at five o’clock this after
noon which would bring the ship in
Valdes about midnight.