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VOLUME 5. NO. 25 VALDEZ, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1906. OFFICIAL CITY PAPER
We Carry tbe LARGEST and
MOST COMPLETE STOCK of
General
MerchaiK&se
.On the Coast of Alaska, being equipped
to handle both Retail and Wholesale
Orders.
SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO
MAIL ORDERS FROM OUTLYING
POINTS
We are particularly strong in Groceries, Hardware,
I Furnishings, Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps, Clothing,
and carry many other lines. We have Built Up Our
Business On Merit. Try Us.
Valdez Cold Storage Co.
Ol#J\ A. X. LEVY £ (*L
Wholesale Dealers Jr
■p
Live and Dressed Meats, Poultry,
Fish, Oysters, Butter and Eggs
Produce.
Phone 33 Valdez, Alaska.
Medicine Outfits For The Trail
(Largest Assortment of Snow Glasses.)
STATIONERY MINING LOCATION NOTICES
Agents i>ruq Co. Ph4°0ne
Special Term Of Court.
In the District Court, Third Division t«it
ril*nj of Alaska.
The President of tie- Cirited Stabs, t<. the
People * f the Third Judicial Division, Terribny
of Alaska erecting.
You and ea* h of you v ill i#Jen>e take noth •
•that by an older of the above named court
•made and entered •»t: the duv of June
llMNi, a SPECIAL TEL’M ot tie* Distinct <’»?urt in
'ami fortune Til I )*D 1*1\ISD)N’ has la-on (-idled
and will be heid at the O.urt House in the
Town of Valdez, commencing on Monday the
Sixth day of August A D. loot:, at 10 o’clock.
A. M. and co tinning thereafter as long as
•public business nwy lAajuire.
Witness tIk Honorable liOYAL A Cl'N
JflSON, Judge of the above named enurt, and
the heal thereoi afti»ci the :50th day <»J June.
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KDW ADD J. STJKK
Clerk of the District t’ourt for the Ter
*tSEAb] ldtory of Alaska, Third Division.
K. A. t'l<Ab'l>AIX. Deputy
Amusements Are Scarce.
An Edison Phonograph will en
tertain you anil your friends, an
•Edison Gold Meulde Record is a
work of art. We carry a complete
line id both. Phonographs, from
$12. up. New Records on every
boat. See■fsuessdorf jfe Wilson at
the Rowling Alley.
Mrs. L. M. 'Carvey gave an at
home Tuesday at her residence on
Fourth street in honor of Mrs. W.
H.-Or ary.
, A. L LEVY & CO
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„ Bankers
Valdez, Alaska
We Do A General Banking Business
Huy and Sell Exchange, Ruyand Ship Gold Dust, Accept Deposits,
Make Collections and Louie Money on approved security at Low Rates
.of interest,.
IN THE PROBATE COt'RT, VALDEZ PRE
CINCT. THIRD JCDICIAL DIVISION,
TKRKITOJO OF ALASKA.
Jn the Matter of the Estate i Notice of applica
<*f > r f Tetters of Ad
MJ. Yakshuw, Deceased. ) ministration.
NOTICE IS HEREBY tJIVKN that E. 1\
Cushman has tiled with the above court a
petition praying for letters of administration
of the estate of ,1. .1. Yak-haw, deceased, and
that Saturday the -2;frd dnv oi June, 1906, at
twfso’eloek P. M., of said ilav, at the office of
the above court nt the eourt house, Valdez,
Alaska, has been set for hearing said petition
when ami where any person interested may
uppesr and ‘■how cause why said petition
should not Ik; granted.
Dated this twelth day of'.June, 1906.
By the Court,
John Lyons,
Judge.
Notice Of Election.
Notiee is hereby given that an election will
be held «u the I ttli. day of August, 1906, for
the elc-tion of one dtPogafc'ioT the short term
nnd one iVdegate for the long term »from the
Territory of Alaska in the House of Represen
tatives of the Cnitetl States, as provided by
the Act of Congirss Approved May 7th. 1900,
entitled, “An Act Providing for the Elect ion of
a Delegate to the House «*f Representatives
from tne Territory of Alaska."
Tin said election will be held for the ‘.pre
cinct comprising t he corporate limits of the
Town of Valdez, at Council Chambers in Fire
Hull, in said Town of Valdez, which is hereby
designated us tiie polling place in said pre
cipe1. The said polling place for said election
will be oji*n between the hours of eight o’clock
antemeridian ami sevei»*o’eloek postmeridian,
of sai-l day.
Chas. H. Kraemer. Cha-. A. Hand and
Charlie Crawford have been and art. hereby
appointed judges of said election, and K B.
V»heat and Chas. II. Wilcox have been and
th‘*y are hereby appointed clerk..- of said clcc
ition.
ilVtted Morally July 9th. 1906
IIenky W. Miller,
Mayor of the Town of’Yaldez.
W. H. Chart,
[Seal] Clerk of the Town of Valdez.
Bv c. H. WIlcox, Deputy.
Money Turned i/oose.
The clerk of tlie court received
.instructions by >wire yesterday
from Fairbanks to turn over the
funds in his posession belonging to
the city. Tins money which
amounts to JtoSOO has been tied up
for some time owing to the .absence
of a judge from the district.
Joe Dieringer and D. T. Davis,
who have been examining some
properties on Knight’s island, re
turned this week.
Jack \\ Inden, Hillv Hogan, Geo.
Tiffany and A. F. Kraemer are
now engaged in running a 100-foot
'tunnel on the property of tlie
iKnighf's Island Copper Mining
Co. It is the intention of the
owners to rush the development
work on these claims as rapidly as
^uossiLle-.
Telegraphic Items.
Pocatello, Aug. 2—Idaho repub
licans have reached an agreement,
and the Governor Gooding ticket
will be nominated to-dav. Borah’s
fight to succeed Dubois as United
States senator lias failed. Judge
Smith, before whom Moyer and
Haywood will be tried, is on the
slate.
Detroit, August 2—At the repub
lican convention the harmony tick
et, made up at the June primaries,
headed by*F. H. Warner for gover
| nor, was nominated.
Des Moines, Aug. 2—The repub
lican central •committee completed
its work at midnight. Enough
delegates were seated to insure the
nomination of Cummings to-day.
Perkins will probably withdraw
from the race.
'Oyster Bay; Aug. 2—Senator Dick
called upon the president to-day,
remaining about two hours. He
j announced complete harmony in
the party in vOliio. Dick drafted
I the party platform, endorsing the
j president, which -sets at rest the
i rumor that Dick and Foraker aic
! not in sympathy with the admiuis
j tration.
j lamuon, Aug. z— it ts announced
J that the government is planning
| iO give a constitution to the Trans
i vaal, granting equal rights to
j Boers and Briton, and thc-use of
: both languages in the schools.
j Mayfield, 'lyy., Aug. 2— Allan
| Matthias, who assaulted Ethel
j MeLane, a white girl, was arrested
land escorted to the jail bv malitia,
: wheie was tried, sentenced and le
gally executed all within fifty min
utes. A mob of fully ten thous
and people waited outside the jail,
land the news of the execution was
j greeted with cheers.
St. Petersburg. Aug. A—The^gov
crnment is panic stricken at tire
Sveaborg revolt, having had not
j-the slightest suspicion that there
j was disloyalty among the troops
: at that place.
St._ Petersburg. Aug. 1—This
morning the workingmen,socialists
and revolutionists declared a gen
eral strike. It is reported that the
.population is rapidly responding
i to the call to arms. Outbreaks are
expected from other fortresses.
Chicago, Aug. 1—Judge Thomp
son, of Jacksonville, has made
public -Bryan’s demand for the
resignation of National-Committee
man Roger Sullivan. He has pub
lished Bryan’s letter, which says
that it is impossible for honest
democrats to associate with Sul
livan, who was illegally elected to
the committee by the Illinois con
vention, and is a representative of
corporations. Bryan says that the
committee must repudiate Sulli
van or the peqple -will have no
-faith in democratic.prnmkes. Sul
livan has published a letter reply
ing to Bryan’s charges, and refus
ing to resign. He says he is as
pure a democrat as -Bryan, and
j will resist-every attack.
Excelsior Sails.
•Seattle, Aug. 2—The Excelsior
; has sailed for Valdez with a full
! load of freight and a light passen
j ger list. She has 45 daborers for
! Orca.
Bad Season.
Reports from Slate creek are that
it is a very backward season, cold
and wet and with a scarcity of
water in the creeks. There will be
two months to work yet, and the
latter part of the summer.may be
better.
Back From Mabesna.
Pontius Magnusson arrivtd yes
terday from the Nabesnn. win re he
has been on a prospecting trip He
came out by way of Mentasta and
j Slate creek. Mr. Magnusson says
| Fjeld and Paulson are working on
their quartz claims. The Levensa
j'ler party is still prospecting in the
! neighborhood and so is Oeo. 'Wil
•son. Jas, Casey and Shay have
'gone to Fairbanks, moving their
j-supplies down the river in scows.
' Clkins has started for Chitistone
|
I via Scolai pass.
Alaska’s Gold.
The receipts of precious lnctaknt
! the Seattle assay office during ilic
l fiscal year ending June f;0tb, are
larger than foT any previous year
except .1901. The total amount for
the year isfl'Sjl“.0,058.41. Of this
amount about $18,000,000 was gold
end the balance silver. The larg
est increase in Alaska is from the
iTannna valley. That district sent
! in $5,770,000 gold and $55,400
silver. Valdez is credited with
$237,905.3d gold and $1,514.47
silver, and Copper River with $14.
592.13 gold and $182.02 silver.
New Commissioner.
Col. Howletts, of North Yakima,
■Wash., was a passenger on the
Oregon, bound for Seward, where
he expects to assume the duties of
U. S. Commissioner in place o!
Judge Hildreth, who it is said will
resign. It is believed that Hildreth
will tender his resignation soon
j and that Col. Howletts v ill re
ceive his commission from Judge
Wiokbisham by wire.
The new commissioner is a man
about Go, horn in Massachusetts,
and-has been holding positions in
| the government service conlin
i uously since his appointment bv
Grant to the revenue service in
i Kentucky. He was receiver of the
-
; land-offic«f at Yakima and later
! commissioner, which position lie
lias held until the present time.
I.Jn 1890 the Colonel uunc within
i six votes of receiving the republ
ican nomination for governor of
| Washington.
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Thu.Federal Reporter containing
the decision of the circuit court in
the appeal of the case of Alaska
Commercial Co. vs. Debnev has
•been received. The suit was to
collect on a judgment issued in
Canada and Judge Wiokershum
! held tlurt the judgment was void
for the reason that no service had
been made on the defendant and
dismissed the case on its merits.
The higher court reviewing the
■ case decided that the lower court
was wrong in its findings of
fact, saying “the evidence shows
clearly without any substantial
■ conflict that valid service was had,
and accordingly the judgment was
valid. It results that the judg
ment of the court below must be
reversed.”
Report* from the canneries are
to the effect that the salmon .pack
i his year will he the heaviest
known to Alaska packers.
Twenty-one miles of the railroad
from Nome to Kougarook have
been built and the remainder wiil
be completed by October 15.
Glacier Island.
Bert Carvev lias located a group of
claims on Glacier island, on which
there is a good showing of copper.
Samples of the ore sent to Seattle]
for assay run 12 per cent, copper |
and also carry some gold and sil
ver He will devote the balance!
of the summer to opening up the
property.
J. L. Steele, of the Standard
Copper Mining Co., came up from
l.andlock Wednesday.
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The Republican Nominee.
C. I). Mu nine, who was nomina
ted !>y the republican -convention
for delegate, from Alaska wn* horn
in Freeborn Colintv, Minnesota,
in 1 *67. In 189‘2 he -graduated
from a law school in .Indiana and
came west settling at Yakima,
\\ ashington. where he . reim:ined
till .1S98 when'be went to 'Aluslar.
and engaged in mining. Mr. Mur
ane praetieed law in partnership
•with John.1,. MeCinn at Nome for
sometime and has served tl rce
lemis as city judge.at that place.
He is the father of three sons, two
of whom-were born in Alaska.
Motor Boat Regulation?
The amendment to See. 14‘2G of
l .S. Statute#, relating to vessels
propelled by power, will affect the
owners of the fleet of motor
boats in this vicinity. That part
: of the-statute-relating to most of
the boats reads as follows:
‘‘All vessels of fifteen gross tone
or less propelled in whole or part
by gas, gasoline, petroleum, nap
tha, fluid, or electricity, and carry
ing jmssengers for hire shall carry
| one life preserver, of the sort pres
cribed by the regulations of the
| board of supervising inspectors,
for every passenger carries.!, and no
i snub boat while so carrying rpae
sengersjdial! be operated -or uavi
! gated except in charge of a person
duly licensed for such service by
the-local beard of inspectors. .Xo
j examination shall be required.as a
: condition of the obtaining of such
la license, and any -such license
shall be revoked or suspended by
the local board of inspectors for
misconduct, gross negligence, reck
lessness in navigation, inteinper
ence, or violation of the law on the
]>art of the holder, and if revoked,
tlie .person holding such license
shall be n:vti pubic of obtaining an
other such license for one year
from date of the revocation.”
Application for licenses must he
made to the inspector in writing,
the licenses being issued for a
neriod of five years, and-every per
son st> licenced shall be a citizen
of the i'liiti d State?.
Pilot rules prescribed by tire
board of supervising inspectors ap
jply to all vessel) propelled by
machinery. These rules, two
copies of which are required to be
carried on each vessel prseeribe
the lights to Ire carried, .the signals,
to Ire given and the means - of giv
ing signals.
Severe penalties accrue for tire
infraction of these regulations.
Court Next Week.
Judge Gunnison has wired that
he will he here on the Bertha with
out fail, and as the-boat is dye.Fri
day, the long deferred session of
court will start Monday. There is
not a large calendar, hut then* are
some important eases in which
there wd! he considerable prelimi
nary skirmishing so the term will
probably last for a mouth or six.
•weeks.
•Bob Coles returned to town
Tuesday from the upper Copper
river coin,try.
Blarney Stevens and wife came
up from Boulder bay Monday.
G. T. Homan, of Amityville, h
V.. who has been at Landloek ba>v
for some time, is in town trying to
negotiate a-deal for the purchase
of some Sound copper .properties.
Alaska Kitchen will open for
business Saturday afternoon. Open
all night. JJ.-B. Ackley, Proprietor.
J. A. Carson arrived this week
from, the States to attend court.
W. A. Rystrom and George
Treat made a trip to handiock
this week to inspei t their cooper
properties.
W'rs. Winters and Mrs. Lock
hart will entertain a number of
friends Saturday at Moose hall.
The Bertha is due Friday even
ing from the South. Judge Gun
nison is a passenger from Juneau.