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1894 CHAS. R. CRAWFORD 191/ j
PIONEER CONTRACTOR and BUILDER
OF ALASKA
CAN HANDLE ANY CLASS OF BUILDING ;
Building material of all kinds, and several grades of
wall board kept in stock at all times
OFFICE AND FACTORY, VALDEZ ALASKA
Phone 18
REFERENCES I s. BLUM A CO., Valdez, and Corders,
BANKERS ( B. M. BEH RENDS, Juneau, Alaska.
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Merchant’s Cafe
Phone «3 OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Ch**. Ftache*, Propr.
TREAT YOURSELF J
TO A NEW SUIT «
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or overcoat lor Xmas. Come In j
today and select the cloth from •}
our assortment of elegant and ;
exclusive fabrics from the very J
best mills. The cost will not be 4
unreasonable. And our reputa- 4
tion is a guarantee that the J
style and tailoring will be irre- «
proachable. <
BEN SILVERMAN *
THE TAILOR 4
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
PLUMBING STOVES and RANGES HEATING
MOTOR BOAT SUPPLIES, PAINTS and OILS
Mine Air Pipe, Valve*, Ho*e, Pipe and Fitting*
Vti«u^ Pock. Opposite
YOUR ('OL1/ARB W ILL
FUEL FINE
around your neck If we launder
them. No rough edges or. torn
button holes to aggravate you
and chafe your skin. Your shirts
too, will be Just stiff enough
and faultlessly Ironed. In short,
you'll receive the greatest sat
isfaction for the least money.
Shall we call today?
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STEAM LAUNDRY ;
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THE SENATE^
ANGUS CHISHOLM—('RANK GUSTAFSON
• CIGARS AND BILLIARDS
Nicely Furnished Rooms. Phone 35 :
Hill H« 111
THE P1NZ0N
TOBACCO AND CIGARS
POOL AND BILLIARDS
PHONE 69 Me Kinley St, Valdez
Xbm Goods
»nd useful articles are now coming
on oTery boat, tor tbo Emporium, tt
Valdes fbb Moss
Halibut
Dock; halibut .06 cents pound on
fishing grounds; black cod .01 1-1
cents.
; 0. W. LONG.
Valdes Iron Works. If you burnt
knytbtng slue to do go ftsblac. t!
DRAFT NUMBERING TO BE
DONE ALL OVER FROM START
Alaska draft registrants who have
faithfully watched the papers for
their serial numbers, and who have
carefully committed same to memory]
against the day when the selections
will be made, might just as well set |
do work forgetting their carefully!
learned Dumber.
For the Alaska draft men are go
ing to be renumbered, all over again.!
The Governor's office received a ]
telegram recently from Provost Mar- (
shai General Enoch Crowder announ-]
ting this" step and giving other in-j
struc.tion to the force handling the]
Alaska draft work.
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No time has yet been set for the
new drawing lo determine the num
bers of the men. so that for tjie pres
ent, all those who registered under,
the selective service act are back at
the place whence they started.
Another, important direction given
in the telegram was that all men who
registered in Alaska giving address
es Outside, shall immediately be
transferred to their own local boards
as Indicated by these addresses. This
will mean that from fifty to seventy
five per cent of the men who register
ed In Alaska will be called through
their own local boards in the States,
and will reduce the number of men
from whom the Alaska contingent
will be picked to about one-fourth
what it is now.
There were in the neighborhood
of 10,000 men registered In Alaska
and a large portion of these were
summer cannery workers, so that It
is quite possible Alaska's quota for
the National Army will be chosen
from ahout 2,500 men remaining
when the transfer of cards to the Out
side is made.
I,;I60,(I00 MEN IN THE
UNITED STATES ARMY
WASHINGTON. D. C.. Jan. 10.—
The latest official figures put the num
ber of enlisted men in the armies of
the United States at 1,360,000. This is
the force that has grown in eight
months out of an army that on April
1 numbered only 110,000 men.
Most of them are still in the train
ing camps. Many of them are not yet
disciplined troops, fully equipped and
armed for battle.
But there they are 1,360,000 of
them, already one of the biggest fac
tors Hindenburg is reokoning with
for the campaign of 1918.
To lead them there are over 80,
000 officers. When the graduates of
the second training- camp get their
first orders the number will be over
100,000—as many officers as there
were privates nine months ago.
The whole military establishment.
• with the marines and auxiliary forces
1 thrown in, numbers a million and a
half. The expansion that has taken
place is as if Grand Rapids had
grown in eight months to be virtu
ally as big as Philadelphia.
Since Xerxes led his million and a
half of assorted Asiatics across the
Hellespont, Europe has seen many a
campaign conducted on the grand
Beale. American battles have been
fought as stubbornly, but with smal
ler forces engaged. There were 2,700,
000 enlistments in the Federal army
in the Civil War. But many of this
number were reenlistments. The high
est toal engaged at any one time was
reached in the last year of the war.
On March 31, 1865, the Union army
, comprised 980,000 men.
For the Spanish war an army of
275,000 was raised. Only 60,000 men
saw service.
The present American army is the
largest armed force the Western
Hemisphere has ever seen—unless the
Mound Builders were more numerous
and pugnacious than we have any
reasou to believe they were. If the
whole army could be gathered togetb
I er today and lined up in a solid in
fantry column, four abreast, it would
reach across Ohio from Cincinnati to
Toledo and on to the Michigan line.
.11X1KS HAVE GREATER
NUMBER MEN IN FRANCE
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Jan. 10.—
Germany’s strength on the Franco-:
British front is placed in official dis
patches received here today at 154
divisions, or within one division of
the great force massed there last July
when the German military effort
against France was at its maximum.
Withdrawals from the Russian front
and drafts upon the younger classes
of reservists have enabled the kaiser
not only to make up the enormous
tosses suffered In bloody battles with
the allies, but to replace the men sent
to aid the Austrians in their inva
sion of Italy. Winter, therefore, finds
the Germans with armies facing the
allies in France virtually equal to the
largest ever before mustered, with
advertisement of a great offensive,
which may presage another peace pro
posal. The allies, however, are underT
stood to maintain a considerable su
periority In numbers on the French
front. ~ •
Uss Rsaall Bair Tsais and yua will
sag as attar. YaHas Brig Mara. «
SHELLS CUT THROUGH WIRE
New Projectile Hat Scleeore Attach
ment—Another Releasee Short
Chains When It Explodes.
There snems no limit to whnt the
new shells enn do. One of the Intest
shells hns h sort of scissors attach
ment which, when released h.v the ex
plosion. will enf through the strongest
wire entanglements. Another re
leases a number of short chains when
It explodes. These chains are sure to
wreck anything they touch, says Popu
lar Science .Monthly.
The scissors shell hns an opening In
the easing through which the rutting
arms project. They are slightly re
cessed in order to avoid wind resis
tance. The arms nre nttached near
the nose of the projectile. They are
mounted on steel studs n such a man
ner that they can rock and expand In
order to throw the free ends outward
at the base of the shell.
The fuse Is made In the ordinary
way. and behind It Is a ehnmber for
the explosive charge. The projectile Is
fired Just as any shell Is fired. The
explosion releases the cutting arms
and they cut through any object with
devastating force.
The chain shell Is considered stini
arly. except that the short chains arc
wonnd around the gnine and sepa
rated hy disks which keep them In
place until the projectile Is emptied.
Sometimes the chains are weighed
heavily at the ends. When the ex
plosion takes place the chains Hy ont
with fearful force, and in addition to
their high-speed forward movement
they rotate rapidly. Needless to say.
where they hit something, there Is
nothing left.
RELICS FROM FLINT RIDGE
Collection cf Arrowpoint* and Spear
heads Donated by Ohio Man to
Oonaaga University.
More than 70 arrow-points and spear
heads. gathered at Flint Itldge, O..
Imve been donated to (lonzaga univer
sity museum of Spokane by Water A
Mikesell of Newark. O., says the Spo
kone Chronicle. They come from the
most famous flint quarries worked by
prehistoric men In the United States.
It was at Flint Ridge that the war
riors of the stone age bought their am
munition for the hunt and for war
fare.
"The great quantities of flint Imple
ments dug up there even In our own
days permit us to form an estimate of
the extensive workshops that must
have heen In operation there during
the stone age. in order to supply the
actual demand from near and far and
to store away sm-h a vast surplus,
said A. M. Jung, curator of the nm
| setmi sit (lonzaga.
The specimens In the (louzaga col
lection show: well the various colors
which made Flint Itldge Implements so
much sought after In prehistoric
; times. The characteristic colors are
1 white, gray, yellow, brown, blue
J green and black.
Saw Soldier Cousin in Movies.
At a moving picture performance.
' says the Boston Post, there was show n
“The Battle of Arras" and the retreat
, of the Bermans. One view showed
| some Knglish soldiers inarching
■ through a street In France. In the
tllm the soldiers stopped in front of
the camera a few seconds, when sud
denly an American soldier Jnmped >o
Ids feet and yelled at the top of his
voice, “(live 'em thunder. Johnnie, old
top! (live ’em thunder!” The audi
ence almost went wild in its applause;
tint the soldier, realizing wlmt he had
done, blushed and started for Hn exit,
when a young woman usher told him
not to tnlnd. hut stay and see the show.
He later explained that the man In the
picture was Johnnie Clark, his cousin.
She Wiehed Good Service.
Telephone girls have many ques
tions put to them daily, according to n
young woman who Is employed at the
Central Union exchange in this el*v
notes the Indlnnupolls News.
Bnt the funniest request made by
any of our subscribers in all my ex
perience,” she continued, “came from
an old woman .lust the other day.
•“Is this the Bell Telephone com
pany?’ she asked.
“ ‘Yes, liia’ain,' I replied.
“‘Well, 1 want to speak to Mr. Bell
at ouce. There’s something the mat
ter with my telephone, an’ I want him
to come down here an' tlx It.’”
Effect of Learning.
President CSenrge Klsfner of Cam
pion college said the other day:
“Learning, profound learning. Is the
light of the world, hut we continually
get new proof of the harm a little
leurnlng does.
“A lady employed a schoolgirl ol
twelve to scrub her front steps. The
schoolgirl worked well, but suddenly
she stopped coming. The lady met hei
on the street and sold:
“ ‘What's the matter, Minnie? Why
have you stopped working for me?*
“The urchin tossed her head.
“Tm takin’ Latin now,' she snlft
ed, 'and I don’t scrub steps no more.'"
Wrist Watch Again.
Old Convert—I can’t understand
why the wrist watch Is such an object
of levity. I'm s«r* 11 ,a a great con :
venleuce.
New Convert—Yes. With the old
kind, In order to find out the time I
had to unbutton my coat and ffsb
around In my waistcoat pocket for my
watch. Mow all I have to do Is un
button my coat tab around la my
wgisteoat pocket, discover that my
watch Mat there, and thus pull ap my
■leave and took at my watdh
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WHEN Kl.AMEN FTLlz I
THK FACTORY j
despair tills the owner who has j
neglected to look after his In
surance. We handle the insur
ance of some very large con
cerns. We place it in the best
companies, pay the premiums
promptly and attend to renew
als. Let us do that for you.
It will not cost you anything
for our service.
Valdez, Real Kstate Agency
of;
I’lmne No. I. VALDEZ DOCK CO.. Agent, Valdez Alaska.
Our Large Fleet of Magnificent Steamships Offer Frequent.
PERFECT SERVICE
Between All Points in
ALASKA and CALIFORNIA
Leave Seattle 10 a. m.— From Valdez to Seattle
Jan. 8—S. S. Adm. Evans.
jan 20_S. S.-— Jan. 20—s- s- Adm. Evans.
Jan! 28—S. S. Adm. Evans. Eeb. 1- S. S. -
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CALIFORNIA ROUTE
Leave Seattle Monday, Friday and Saturday for
SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES
San Francisco to Los Angeles, Daily Except Sunday
San Francisco to San Diego, Monday. Thursday and Saturday.
IF YOUR TICKET READS “PACIFIC STEAMSH1P*.C0MPANY”
YOU ARE ASSURED THE VERY BEST.
ALASKA
' STEAMSHIP CO.
From Seattle 9 a. m —
Jun. 10—S. S. Victoria
Jan. 1 6—8. 8. Northwestern.
Jan. 24—8. 8. Alaska.
Valdez to Seattle—
Jan. 5—S. S. Alameda.
Jan. 11—S. S. Alaska.
Jan. 17— S. S Victoria.
Call at Ketchikan, Juneau, Cordova. EUaniar, Fort Liscum, Valdex,
I,atouche and Seward, except S. S. Victoria which Hails via "outside”
route between Seattle and Cordova.
S. S. Victoria, sailin* from Seattle January 10th connects with
S. S. Dora at Seward for Alaska Peninsula Ports.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan. Wrangell. Juneau. Sheep
Creek. Treadwell, beuglaa, Hkagway. Cordova. Ellaniar. Valdes and La
touche. Explosives. Right reserved to change schedule without notice
VALDEZ DOCK CO„ Local Agent
. . . ..s»»l*«it.«_I_LJ_» » » » *
Valdez Transfer Co.
A. M. DIERINGER, Proprietor
Office on Valdez Dock, Next to Prospector
Building.
General Trucking and Freighting to all
Interior Points
AUTOS FOR HIRE,
DAY OR NIGHT
No Coal Delivered Unless Paid in Advance
STEAMER 18 DISABLED
ASTORIA, Ore., Jan. 10.—The
steamer S\ A. Kllburn is disabled off
the lightship at the mouth of the Col
umbia River, according to a wireless
message received today by the Astoria
agents of the steamer. The Kilburn
asked to be towed into Astoria and a
tug was sent to her relief. It is tbot
the steamer’s engines will need re
pairs here.
For flrst-clasa meals and good serv
ice at reasonable prices try the Mer
chants* Cafe. tf
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Anything you want in the line of
photography—Jenner can do it for
you. tf
Hot-Point Electric Heaters and
Cooking-Appliances at the Emporium.
Christmas goods coming on the next
boat. tf
A complete line of fountain pens,
perfumes, stationery, etc., at the
Valdez Drug Store. Buy your Xmas
gifts there. tf
YOU can’t sharpen a knife agin a
piece o’ cheese. You gotta get
friction. An’ rubbin’ up agin th*
world's opposition is what
puts an edge onto a man's
character. If he needs a lit
tle lubrication fer his feel
in's now an' agin, let him
try a pipeload of VELVET.
VELVET, the Smoothest Smolensk Tobacco.