and Delicatessen
You can’t go wrong
when you eat Schmidt’*
RYE
WHOLE WHEAT
HOMAN MEAL
FRENCH
bread
Fancy Coffee Cafcc— Home-Made Doughnuti
STEAM HEATED HOT AND COLD BATH£
Copper Block Hotel
VALDEZ, ALASKA
“The House of Comfort”
PHONE 7 • F0R MEN ONLY
Valdez Miners Unien Ns, 188
Western Federation «f Miner*
ROBERT SHAFFER, President.
Granite Mine.
CHAS. 'McCALLUM. Secretory,
Voider Alaska.
When In Seward Stop at tfce
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE SEXTON. PROP
SiRICTLY -FIRST CLASS .
Fourth Av-e, Seward. Alaska
TIDE TABLES FOB APRIL.
The following table Is compiled for
bich and low tides in Valdez Bay.
Thuisday, April IS.
High, 7:48 am. 7.0; 9:50 pm, 7.S.
Low 8:04 am, 3.5; 3:26 pm, 1:8.
Friday, April 14.
High, 9:46 am, 7.4; 10:20 pm, S.0.
Low, 3:54 am, 2.6; 4:02 pm, 1.6.
Saturday, April 15.
High, 10:35 am, 7.8; 10:47 pm, 8.7.
Low, 4:14 am, i.5; 4:33 pm, 1.5.
Sunday, April 16.
, High, 11:17 am, 8.1; 11:16 pm. 9.4.
P-Low, 5:09 am, 0:5; 5:05 pin, 1.5.
T Monday, April 17.
High. 11:59 am. 6.2.
Low, 5:46 am. 0.4: 5:35 pm, 1.6.
Tuesday, April 18.
High. 11:45 ,am. 10.0; 12:42 pm, 8.3.
Low, 6:25 am. 1.1; 6:14 pm, 1.7.
Wednesday, April 19.
High, 12:22 am. 10.4: 3:24 pm, 8.1.
Low, 7:05 am, 1.5; «:49 pm, 2.0.
Thursday, April 20.
High, 12:5S am. 10.5; 2:19 pm. 7.7.
Low, 7:49 am, 1.3; 7:30 pm, 2.3.
Friday, April 21.
High, 1:36 am, 10.4; 5:00 pm, 7.3.
Low, S: 36 am, 1.3; 8:10 pm, 2.7.
Saturday, April 422.
High. 2:25 am. 10.1; 3:57 pm. 6.8.
Low, 9:29 am, 0.S; 9:13 pm, 3.2.
Sunday, April 23.
High, 3:17 am, 9.4; 5:06 pm, 6.5.
Low, 10:29 am, 0.2; 10:07 pm, 3.6.
Monday, April 24.
High, 4:23 am, 8.7; 6:26 pm, 6.6.
Low, 11:39 am, 0.4.
Tuesday, April 25.
High, 5:44 am, 8.0: 7:40 pm, 7.1.
Low, 11:35 am. 3.8: 12:55 pm, 0.8.
Wednesday, April 26.
High, 7:17 am, 7.6; 8;3S pm, 7.7.
Low, 1:22 am, 3.4; 2:05 pm, 1.0.
Thursday, April 27.
High, 8:40 am, 7.6; 9:25 pm, 8.4.
Low, 2:47 am, 2.5; 3:00 pm, 1.2.
Friday, April 28.
High. 9:47 am, 7.7; 10:05 pm, 9.1.
Low, 3:46 am, 1.4; 3:47 pm, 1.3.
Saturday, April 29.
High. 10:42 am, 7.9; 10:40 pm. 9.6.
Low. 4:36 am, 0.5: 4:28 pm, 1.5.
Sunday, April 39.
High, 11:29 am, 8.0: 11:13 pm. 9.9.
Low, 5:18 am. 0.3: 5.:04 pm, 1.7.
AIR COMBATS INCREASE
WITH VERDUN FIGHTING
y'^eports from Paris state that the
’campaign at Verdun has furnished
the occasion for the first encounters
resembling the air battles pictured
before the war. The fights took place
when German aircraft were sent up
in considerable groups to take note
of the effect produced o'n French field
works by the heavy guns, and had to
be dispersed.
After assembling their heaviest ar
tillery and their best regiments be
fore Verdun, the Germans sent their
air experts to the scene for overhead
work. AH the best of them were on
hand with the exception of Lieuten
ant Immelmann, who remained in the
Artois. At their head was the famous
Lieutenant Bolke. They found adver
saries worthy of them in Lieutenant
Guynemer, Adjutant Navarre, and
such emulators of their exploits as
an anonymous recruit of the 1916
contingent, who brought down a Ger
man flier on his first trip in actual
warfare.
The German tactics in the air are
the same as in the field, their aim
apparently being to overwhelm their
adversary by numbers. They found
the French, to be sending up men
■ singly to observe the movements of
troops fend the positions of the artil
lery, and they began sending their
men up in pairs. The French accord
ingly doubled their scouts, Then the
Germans quadrupled theirs, and since
r, the first week in March their flying
i squadrons here never have comprised
t less than ten machines, and often
* were more.
Groups of flying machi|j*s were as
sembled by the French to meet them,
and engagements at heights of 2,000
yards in Which a score of machines
was employed were the result. The
losses increased in proportion on both
sides.
The French feel sure that they
have had the better of it so far, al
though Lieutenant Guynemer was
put out of action for a fortnight on
acount of flesh wounds in the arm,
and machines landed every day with
file pilot or observer wounded or kill
ed.
In two cases both occupants of the
machines were fatally injured. These
two machines, of the same group,
came back and lauded normally, hut
no one got out of either. The observ
er oi one was apparently killed while
it was in the air, and the pilot died
just|after the landing. The pilot of
the other lived long enough to bring
his aeroplane home. He was uncon
scious when the machine landed. The
observer died the following day.
Lieutenant Guynemer was engaged
one day last summer with two Ger
man fivers at once. One of his ad
versaries was observed to land so ab
ruptly as to warrant the supposition
that his machine was demolished.
Bullets from the other put one of
Lieutenant Guynemer out of action,
but he succeeded in getting back to
his base by employing the other arm
skillfully.
While the Germans, in some en
gagements. have had the advantage
of numbers, the French pilots ap
pear to surpass them in audacity in
manoeuvering. The French machines
are epual in horizontal speed to all
of those of their adversaries, except
ing the newer types, and are quicker
than any in getting into the air. This
superiority in ascensional speed is
said by competent authorities to be
the trump card ofthe French in air
fighting, where the upper hand
counts in deadly fashion.
It is asserted here that the German
news agencies report, as shot down,
French machines that return normal
ly and land safely at their starting
point, and that they thus figure the
French losses as greater than their
own, wherefls, all the information
that can be obtained on this side of
the line goes to show that the French
aviators have more than held their
own in the aerial activities around
Verdun.
Stop that Infernal Racket
Show your wife how much you
love her and send that noisy old
pump to the Valdez Iron Works and
let them remove the peace disturber,
your neighbors will appreciate it. tf
If you have real estate, mining
stocks or mining claims for sale list
them with the Alaska Inv. Co. for
quick action. 2t
Mrs. J. H. Patterson underwent a
successful major operation at the Red
Cross hospital yesterday. Drs. Duck
wall and Winans performed the oper
ation.
Mrs. H. D. Bush will leave for the
Granite Mine Saturday to join her
husband who lately entered the em
ploy of that company.
Plea of an Artist.
.
“Shine, boss?”
“Why, I just bad them shined.”
“Yeah, but they ain't no class to that
high polish. Let me put a dull finish
on ’em for you.”—Pittsburgh Press.
EMISSARIES GO SW’ ITZERI.ANI*
Italy .Gives Credence to Rei>ort that
Turks and Bulsars Would Effect ai
Treaty of Peace witJi .Entent Allies
and With Italy.
MILAN, Italy, April 14.—Despite
the skeptical attitude in London re
garding reports from neutral source*
regarding the Turkish peace mission
importance is given here to a com
munication received itere by the
Rome National Press agency based,
it is alleged, on diplomatic author
ity.
“Two (emissaries of Ihe Ottoman
Government officially charged to re
establish relations as a prelude to
f«rrthcomi«g negotiations for peace
recently arrived in Switzerland. It is
no longer a matter of vague tentative,
such as were rumored on former oc
casions. The delegates, one «f whom
is the former Turkish Ambassador at
Rome, Naby Bey, make no secret that
the internal conditions of their coun
try were such that only speedr peace
could save it from ruin.
“Moreover it is not the Turks only
who are seeking through open diplo
matic channels the realization of
peaoe as their only hope of salvation.
£ot there are at present in Switzer
land two representatives of the Bul
garian government intrusted with a
s’inilar mission. These two Eulgar
delegates further expressed a desire
to proceed to Rome to discuss pre
cise proposals on the subject, despite
the fact that the BulgaTS together
with their allies are placing obstacles
in the way of our occupation of Al
bania.
“Since it is not possible that Tur
key and Bulgaria could take action
unknown to Germany this latter pow
er is evidently seeking fresh means of
bringing about peace."
BROADWAY’S LAWS
BEFORE ALASKA
Sen-Sa-Laf, the Esquimaux girl
who notified the police she was go
ing to bring the laws of the Ber
ing straits to Broadway, and
avenge a wrong done her by scalp
ing the assailant, has agreed to
sheathe her dirk. At the request
of Detective Williams she promised
to await the action of the law.
Today Detective Williams arrested
J. D. Brides, No. 1515 South Ard
more avenue, on a complaint charg
ing battery, sworn to by Sen-Sa-Laf.
The warrant was issued Friday in
Police Judge Chesebro’s court.
The attack, which happened Feb
ruary 15, is one of the most sensa
tional in the police records. Brides,
who is alleged to be the assailant,
was a clerk in the Glence hotel, No.
934 West Seventh street, where Sen
Sa-Laf was lodging.
According to Sen-Sa-Laf’s com
plaint to the police, a man she de
clares is Brides, entered her room at
night. There followed an amazing
struggle. For three hours the girl of
the Alaska barrens says she fought
the intruder, until he choked her in
to unconsciousness.
More than twenty letters have been
received by the police offering Sen
Sa-Laf support in her prosecution of
the man. The letters are from prom
inent society persons who are inter
ested in the young Eskimo girl, be
cause of her tribal distinction. She is
the only surviving member of what
was once a large tribe. It became
decimated through repeated epidem
ics of smallpox until the last mem
ber is now doing servant work in a
cafeteria here.
For five days after the attack Sen
Sa-Laf refused to work and spent her
time standing on Broadway at a spot
where her assailant was accustomed
to pass. In the bosom of her waist
was a big dirk with which she intend
ed to scalp Brides, according to the
laws of her tribe, which provided that
a woman so attacked should avenge
the deed by scalping her assailant,
and then hanging the scalplock to
the wall in her bedchamber as a
warning.
It was only when Sen-Sa-Laf was
warned by Detective Williams that
she, too, would be prosecuted if she
scalped the man that she laid aside
the law of her people for the law of
Broadway.—New York Telegram.
LOCAL BREVITIES
I have an offer of $650 for my
house and lot 34x150 with barn and
garage; who takes it for $700 oash?
JOE SPENARD, Prop.
Mrs. Jarr’s beauty treatment ex
posed this evening at the Empress. A
change of pictures, Pathe News and
other fine movies.
Pure Fresh Drugs at the Valdes
Drug Store. *
OLD TIME BATTLES. j
They Were Mere Skirmishes When
Compared With Modern War.
In the light of modem warfare the
old time battles shrink to the propor
tions of ordinary street brawls. The
opposing armies were usually arrayed
in lines within bearing of one another.
Frequently the actual combat'was pre
luded by an exchange of opprobrious
profanity tn order to get up the proper
sentiment of “holy wrath," which was
considered an indispensable clement In
a soldier’s efficiency.
Alexander the Great conquered the
orient with only 25.000 men. On a still
smaller scale the great battles of Is
rael appear to have been conducted, as
told in the Bible accounts. For In
stance. In the fight against Gideon the
Israelites are said to have suffered se
vere losses—to wit. thirty men.
The Egyptian army which Invaded
Falestine and subjugated the whole
country counted barely 5,000 soldiers.
Saul confronted his Palestine adversa
ries with an “army" of 000. which in
■the course of time was increased to
1.000 after the "militarists" of those
•days had persuaded the authorities to
[provide a reserve force, a sort of “land
fiturra," of 400 warriors brave and bold.
King David’s military establishment
did not exceed his predecessor’s in
numbers. According to the first book
of Kings, however. King Ahab must
have been pretty much of a war lord.
Judging by the standard of olden times.
In his army were 7.000 soldiers and a
constabulary force of 230 men.—Argo
naut.
EASY COFFEE GROWING.
The Plant Flourishes With Little or
No Attention In Haiti.
Coffee, the great staple product of
Haiti, the West Indian island, grows
with little attention. It supplies the
hulk of the revenues of the govern
ment, together with the meager de
mands of the simple peasantry of the
mountains and valleys whose business
it is. especially thu women and chil
dren, to gather it and bring it to the
seaport towns ou their heads and on
the backs ef donkeys and horses.
This plant is seen on nearly all the
uplands and mountain sides of the coun
try. and as the product Is easily port
able it is brought to market from far
aial near in all conceivable quantities,
from one or two pounds up to 200
pounds, accordingly as it is carried on
the head of a child, the back of a
horse or in sacks in ox carts.
Notwithstanding that the coffee plant
is scarcely cultivated at all It goes on
reproducing itself from fallen berries
so successfully that the crop only va
ries from year to year through ex
traneous influences like a variation in
the rainfall—the lack of or too abun
dant rain near or during the flowering
season.—London Telegraph.
Fortifications of New York Harbor.
The narrow approaches to the har
bor of New York have made the fortifi
cation of it a simpler matter than
usual. On Sandy Hook is Fort Han
cock. with an urtillery garrison; on
the Narrows. Fort Wadsworth, artil
lery garrison; on the Staten Island side.
Fort Tompkins; across the Narrows,
Fort Hamilton. The older Fort Lafa
yette, between Forts Hamilton and
Wadsworth, is now used ns a store
house. On Governors island are Fort
Jay, infantry, important barracks and
the New Y'ork arsenal of the ordnance
department. Castle Williams is now a
military prison. Fort Totten, artillery
l>ost. is on Willet’s Point, and directly
across from this battery is Fort Schuy
ler. On Sandy Hook is the proving
ground of the ordnance department
A signal corps is stationed at Fort
Wood, Bedloe’s island.—New York
Times.
Information Wanted.
Will some one please give a hint in
regard to the whereabouts and the
welfare of the family? This honored
institution began to disappear a gen
eration or so ago, just about the time
that the dissipation of inconveniences
attendant upon the rearing of children
made families feasible. Ever since the
passing away of one room log cabins,
abject poverty, home grown wearing
apparel and common sense the family
has been losing weight and numbers.
Its recent complete withdrawal from
society has caused grave concern
among those who favor the further
propagation of the species. If the fam
ily will kindly come back and re-es
tablish itself among the race of men
no questions will be asked and none
answered.—J udge.
_ i
No Such Person.
••The trouble with you,” her husband
said, "is that you make mountains out
of molehills."
“I don’t do anything of the kind,”
she replied. “I want you to understand
that nty mother brought me up to be
a lady, and I know nothing at all
about housework. 1 never made a
mountain out of a mole hill In my
life. I am perfectly helpless in a kitch
en.”—New York American.
Pepper.
The value of'pepper was known of
old! We read that when Rome had to_
be ransomed from the barbarian con
queror in the year 400 Alarlc demand
ed 3.000 pounds of pepper among the
payments and that Hippocrates used It
In medicine, applying It to the skin.
A Follower.
Caller—The minister's son 1b follow
ing in the footseps of that spend
thrift young Jinks. Miss Prim—Isn't
that scandalous; Caller—Hardly as bad
as that You see. he’s a tailor and Is
Just trying to collect his bill.—Ex
change.
VALDEZ - and - ANCHORAGE
CITY EXPRESS
Meets all boats! On the job, day or night
We never sleep.
J- A. SPENARD, Proprietor Phone 82
Independent Steam Laundry
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Telephone 66
Foot Keystone Ave
Rouith Dry 10c lb
Buy Alaska Made Cigars
ASK FOR W. R. King, Terminus, or Lavanna,
Made in Seward by union workmen.
We maintain our standard. Sold everywhere
MERCHANT’S CAFE
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone 03 Chas. Fischer, Propr.
VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Real Estate, Insurance, General Brokerage
Absentees Business Properly Handled
Treat Building, Alaska Ave. Telephone No. 60
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
PLUMBING STOVES and RANGES HEATING
MOTOR BOAT SUPPLIES, PAINTS and OILS
Mine Air Pipe, Valves, Hose, Pipe and Fittings
Valdez Dock. Opposite Prospector Office. Telephon 26
When You Leave
For the Outside
take the
“MILWAUKEE”
One road—one management—one service all the*way
through to Chicago. It’s the Short Line to the East
over
THE NEW STEEL TRAIL
For information and literature write or ask
J. C. MARTIN, Agent, Valdez, Alaska.
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST, PAUL RY.
A. E. HARRIS, Freight and Passenger Agt,
Juneau, Alaska.
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
PUGET SOUND M] PUGET SOUND
California Line. Alaska
SAILINGS FROM SEATTLE, 11:00 A. M.—
Monday, Mar. 5, Admiral Farragut for Seldovia and Way Porta.
Wednesday, Mar. 15, Admiral Watson for Seward and Way Ports.
Sunday, March 10, Admiral Evans, for Kodiak and Way Ports.
Sunday, March 26, Admiral Farragut, for Seldovia and Way Ports.
Sunday, April 2, Admiral W'atson, for Seldovia and Way Ports.
Sunday, April 0, Admiral Evans, for Kodiak and Way Ports.
Sunday, April 16, Admiral Farragut for Anchorage and Way Ports.
Sunday, April 23, Admiral Watson, for Anchorage and Way Ports.
Sunday, April 30, Admiral Evans, for Anchorage and Way Ports.
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to Saa Francisco every' Wednesday and Sunday, connecting with
Steamers Yale and Harvard for Southern California.
Sight reserved to change schedule without notice
RICHARD J. R1NGWOOD, Mgr., Seattle) VALDEZ DOCK CO, Local Agt.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
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S. 8. ALAMEDA AND 8. 8. NORTHWESTERN SAIL FROM SE
ATTLE THE 10TH, 20TH AND TOTH,
EVERY MONTH
FROM VALDEZ SOUTH—<8T!H, 18TH, 28TH, FOR CORDOVA,
JUNEAU, WRANGEL, KETCHIKAN AND SEATTLE.
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