or style, fit and Material
-real tailored goods
Wear a ‘ ‘ ffienj'am in
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 Light*
THE COPPER BLOCK
Finely Furnished Rooms All Modern Conveniences
Good Tiir DIICCCT G 0 0 d
Goods I nH DUir LI Goods
Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
ALL KINDS OP
^Native and V f UVADCD and Building
Puget Sound LUIVlDLiV Material
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Prices Right W. M. FINICAL, Mgr. Phone 18
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ersing a country of surpassing scenic grandeur, historical interest
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TWO FAST THROUGH TRAINS DAILY
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For further information regarding fares, train service, reservations, etc.,
cal on or addrcs.
C. H. Kraemer, General Agent,
Alaska Steamship Co. and Alaska Coast S. S. Co., Valdez, Alaska
City Ticket Offices, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
443 Hastings St. West, Vancouver, B. C.
Second Ave. and Cherry St., Seattle
THE PINZON CIGAR STORE
DICK'S PLACE
Fine Line of Cigar* ud Tobacco;
Fruit*. Nut*. Candie*.
Card Room Soft Drinks of All Kinds
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
-fob
PORT WELLS and
Way Porte.
FOR SPECIAL TRIPS SEE CAPT. STAMEY
_V ALPEZ] 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. Bunhell, at Valdes,
Alaska, the same being the place for
the transaction of the business of
said estate.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 24th j
day of November, 1913.
A. J. WENDLER,
Administrator of the estate of David
Date*of'first pub. November 26, ’13.
Date of last pub. December 26, ’13.
Hospital of the Good 8amarltan.
For |6.0o we will give you a ticket
entitling you to hospital service and
care tar 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 aU the news all the
time, read the Prospector.
A TRIBE OF TRAMPS.
East African Outcasts That Won't
W»^ and Will 8tsal.
While on u bunting expedition to
British Hast Africa In quest of pictures
of wild horses Paul J. Itainey discov
ered that even among savages there is
a tribe which closely resembles our
own "knights of the road." They are
the Wandorobo. They are found along
the Guaso Nyiro and Guaso Narok riv
ers and are regarded as outcusts by
the other native tribes.
The Wandorobo most closely resent- i
bles bis Americun brother, the trump,
in that be refuses to work. He Is a
hunter nnd is exceedingly expert with
the poisoued urrow, which he uses ex
clusively. A lurge club he' curries is
used to ward off and to scare wild
beasts that may come too near.
Although the Wandorobo has settle
ments In some places, he wanders far
from home and usunlly makes bis bed
in the top of a tree to be safe from
wild animals. He is a notorious thief,
and whenever he approaches an en
campment the nskarl, or policeman,
who is the only native permitted by
the government to wenr arms, watches
the Wandorobo very carefully, for
there is uothing too hot or too heavy
for him to try to make off with.—Cl.,
cago Inter Ocean.
CUTTING THE BASES.
Mike Kelly Once Scored From Second
Through the Pitcher’s Box.
Writing on "Take a Chance Versus
Play It Safe” In baseball In the Amer
ican Magazine, Hugh S. Fullerton tells
the following story about Mike Kelly,
the great Chicago ball player of a
generation ago:
“The chances Kelly took were the
marvels of Ids era. I have seen him
again and again cut straight across
the diamond from first to third base
or from second to the home plate aud
land In safety because the umpire fail
ed to see his reckless move.
"One day Kelly cut from first to
third on a slow infield bounder. lie
ran past the umpire, who was racing
toward first, screaming at him to
watch the play. and. swinging straight
across, he tore for third. Gaffney
called the runuer out at first and
whirled just In time to catch ‘Kef go
ing into third, then cnlled him out.
Kelly walked to the umpire, protested
an instant: then, knowing Gaffney had
caught him in the act, he remarked,
•All right, Mr. Umpire; I’ve never been
on these grounds before and didn’t
know which was second base.’
“Two Innings later he scored from
second base through the pitcher's box
and was not seen.”
Curious Ear of the Catfish.
The catfish uses his lungs as an or
gan of hearing The needless lung be
comes a closed sae filled with air and
commonly known as the swiin bladder.
In the catfish, as In the suckers, chubs
and most brook fish, tile air bladder is
large and is connected by a slender
tube, the remains of the trachead. to
the esophagus. At its front it tits
closely to the vertebral column. The
anterior vertebrae are much enlarged,
twisted together, and through them
passes a chain of hones, which con
nects with the hidden cavity of the
air. Tlie bladder therefore assists the
ear of the catfish as the tympanum
aud its bones assist the ear of the
higher animals An ear of this sort
ran entry little range of variety iu
sound. It probably gives only the im
pression of jars or disturbances in the
water.
A Singer’s Avarice.
We hear n great deal about the enor
mous salaries paid to famous primu
donnas nowadays, and we also hear a
great deal about their charity and
good nature. In the reign of Queen
Anne one of the most celebrated
singers was Mrs. Tofts, who had a
veritable cruze for money making as
well us a great deal of personal cou
eelt Pope, who never spared any per
sons or objects that he satirized, wrote
an epigram that must have greatly an
noyed the avaricious singer:
3o bright Is thy beauty, so charming thy
song,
As had drawn both the beasts and their
Orpheus along.
[tut such is thy avarice and such is thy
pride
That the beasts must have starved and
the $oet have died.
—London Standard.
A Doubtful Transaction.
“I don't know whether my older boy
Is treating uie right or not," said Mr.
Bligglns. rather gloomily. “1 told him
thnt if he wouldn't smoke until he was
twenty-one venrs old I would give him
a thousand dollars.”
“Did he keep Ills part of the agree
ment?"
“Yes. but be took tbe thousand dol
lars and bought an interest in a cigar
store."—Washington Star.
All In a Bunch.
[■"ather tlooking up from his book aft
er a volley of ipiestlous from elgbt
year-old soni—The answer to the first
fire questions Is yes. to the next four
no. and to the last question. I don't
know.-8t. I/nils i'ost-D.lspateh.
Chaar Up.
' ”1 sometimes wonder If life Is worth
living." mused the pessimist
‘‘It Is." replied the optimist. “It Is
worth living much better than most of
ns live lt."-Mpplncott's
Blinding the I Ala.
While ru|Hilring a temple the Chinese
cover up tile eyes of the idols. In order
tlint I lie deities may not tie offended
at the sight of the disorder.
After nil. there is nothing in this
world hill character - Bishop Fowler.
SHOOK OFF DEATH.
Ordeal Through Which Archdeacon
8tuck Once Passed.
Archdeacon Stuck, who climbed
Mount McKinley, the great American
peak, once had Ills life saved in a
most extraordinary way.
Lute one evening, while exploring In
the arctic regions, he was unlucky
enough to fall through the Ice into the
water on his way back to camp. He
was accompanied by an Eskimo boy
In charge of a sledge and a team of
dogs, and the boy soon had blm out
again, but us the thermometer was
then about 70 degrees below zero the
possibility of saving his life seemed
very remote. He was wet through,
of course, and before a Hre could have
been got well alight the chances were
that he wonld have frozen to death.
Tile resourceful boy thought of a
better plan than that. The explorer
was already scarcely uble to move, but
the boy took one of tbc dogs out of
the traces and forced the archdeacon
to take Its1 place. Then be lashed the
unfortunate man’s legs until he was
compelled to run. applying his whip
mercilessly every time the nrchdeneon
shAwed signs of flagging.
In this way the hoy kept him mov
ing rapidly toward their camp, and
by the time they readied it the terrible
languor of death that had threatened
to overcome the archdeacon bad been
shaken off. —Pearson's Weekly.
SOOTHING STEINITZ.
Pathetic Scene After Lasker Had Beat
en the Old Master.
rt>r thirty years the late William
Stelnitz beat every player wbo ven
tured to oppose biin and was at last
beaten by n mere youtb. I bad proph
esied that his hour bad come, writes
Robert J. Ruckle in the Chess Ama
teur, and at Hastings the moment he
saw me he rushed in with a redhot
attack. “How dare you say Lasker
would beat me?” lie almost screamed
in response to my outstretched band
and attempt at a smile of welcome.
Lasker bad actually beaten him, as
l laid foretold. The crowd looked on
for a row. We were lu the dining
room of the Queen’s—a score of mas
ters present. I took- his arm and led
him outside.
“You had no right to say it,” he
cried, "and I demand an explanation."
He continued to protest until we had
reached a quiet corner. “Why did
you say it—why did you say it?” lie
repeated shrilly.
I waited till he had blown off steam,
then “Because you were sixty,” I said.
That softened him. He examined me
with his innocent blue eyes.
"A man of twenty-two,” I continued,
“after a hard day's play is fresh next
morning. A man of sixty-two is still
brain fagged. You were giving the
odds of forty years, it was too much.”
A Sunset In Scotland.
It was a sunset of strange tints that
evening, a background of clouds of
j deep violet tipped with crimson. The
I sky. of the very palest blue, bad been
| turned by the brightness of the sun
i Into a lake of silver, in which flonted
' small fleecy cloudlets of brilliant rose
| pink, like islets floating in a crystal
I sea. The rays of the sun behind the
| purple clouds threw long shafts of
dazzling brightness, which tipped the
dark background with silver as the sun
kisses the petals of a daisy. Every
; peak in the long range of mountains
on the west was rose tipped, but the
highest of them ail towered clear and
cone shaped in the distance, glistening
j in a shimmering mantle of si^jer and
I pale blue, as if the sky laid wrapped it
| round ils own cerulean color.—“A Har
den of Spices." by A. Keith Eraser.
Do We Dodge Death?
Can we mortals always be trusted
to do the right tiling? The fear of
death Is general. Life is sacrificed
every hour because the rules of healtli
are not obeyed. Death is the one great
monster of dread and from whom all
! flee. Yet how many safeguard their
living in such a way ns to avert his
coming? The rules of healtli are vie
lated becnuse of the immunity we feel,
but finally the penalty must he paid
No argument Is needed to euforce the
lesson. Everybody knows it. The rules
of right living are clear, explicit. Vic
intemperance, wrong living, overeat
ing ns well as overdrinking, continue
to pay their tribute to the undertaker
land the graveyard.—Leslie’s.
Just Like a Man.
“John." she said. “1 have an awful
pain in my right side. I'm afraid it’s
appendicitis ”
“Are you sure?" lie replied, without
looking up from his paper.
“John." she walled a moment Inter.
“It's getting worse."
“Is It?” he as! .1. still Interested In
the sporting page.—Chicago Record
Herald. _
Very Handy.
Closetist—It cost ine over $5,000 to
give Harry that course lu Industrial
arts. Herdso-Itut he must be quite
handy with his tools now? CloseOBt—
Yes. and the Qrst job he did was to
put up aweings on the shady side of
the house.
A Chance.
Husband-My colleague Is the most
insatiable man I ever saw. He wants
everything he se»*. Wife—Can’t yon
Introduce our daughter to him?—Lon
don Mall.
Aeal Thing in •attlemant.
"What did the old man settle on the
young couple when his daughter mar
rledr
“Himself.”-Baltimore American.
,Sept'll others for tbejr virtues and
thygelf for thy vices —T. Fuller.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Delath Cook left this morning for
Juneau,
Fresh Seal shipped oysters on ev
ery boat for Frye-Bruhn Co.
Keystone comedies tonight at the
Orpheum.
Suits pressed for $1.00 at Silver
man’s, the tailor. Telephone 198.
Emil Havnes returned to the Cliff
mine this morning.
The Valdez Drug Co. has an elegant
slock of Hammered Brass Ornaments.
Mrs. C. A. Eby returned to Cor
dova on the Alameda.
The Valdez Electric Co. sells Mazda
lamps. Telephone 57.
J. C. Hepfinger left on the steamer
this morning for Seattle.
Fresh Seal shipped oysters on ev
ery boat for Frye-Bruhn Co.
George Lewis was an outgoing pas
senger on the Alameda.
The Valdez Electric Co. sells Mazda
lamps. Telephone 57.
Joe Bourke returned from Ellamar
today on De Hart’s launch.
Kiddies Christmas chairs and rock
ers at Rudolph’s.
J. Y. Ostrander is sick in bed suf
fering with stomach trouble.
Blum's are showing a large line oi
cut glass for Xmas.
Charles Schlosser, the prospector,
left for Cordova on the Alameda.
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Fancy Meerschaum Pipe:- specially
i priced at the Valdez Drug Store.
i Mrs. M. M. McDonald left this
: morning for her home in the stales.
S. Blum & Co. are sole agents for
Hart Sehaffner & Marx fine suits.
| William Schroder left this morning
j with the Miller outfit for Slate creek.
Chinese Chop Suey and Noodles at
: the Valdez Cafe, after 7 p. m. if
, Sam Rogers will leave in the morn
i ing over the government road for
! Chitina.
S. Blutu <!i Co. are showing the
largest line of Xmax goods in town.
I -
Fred Reese left today for Teikbell
| with supplies for his mine. He has
i three head of stock.
i We have cigars in Christmas pack
| ages. Valdez Drug Store.
! Don’t miss the fine pictures at the
I Orpheum tonight. A special Saturday
> change tomorrow.
Suits pressed for $1.00 at Silver
man's, the tailor. Telephone 198.
i _
Louie Larson, the prospector, left
on the Alameda for Seattle, where
he goes for medical treatment,
i _
! John Burns started tihs morning
for Slate creek with the first of the
Jack Miller outfit. They have five
1 horses.
I -
1 See the exquisite Parisian ivory
| Toilet Articles at the Valdez Drug
I Company’s store.
—
| Emil Anderson, Fred Johnson, Jack
i Peterson, Ross Ileckey and Millwright.
■ Dowell will leave for the Nelchina
j in a few days.
i _
i R. J. Boryer, of Cordova, who has
been in Valdez several days on leg
i al business, returned to the railroad
I town on the Alameda.
Sewing Macnine tor Sale—Your
choice of a White or Singer machine;
both in lirst-class- condition; drop
heads; for $20.00. Call at Mrs. Si.
Marie’s. tf
Mr. Hemple, a brother of Ed. Hem
pie, who was drowned last Sunday
n'ght at Ellamar, came to Valdez to
day on De Hart s launch.
A very complete line of Xmas Art
Leather Goods is shown at the Val
dez Drug Store.
Harry Miller, the Ernestine road
house keeper, arrived in Valdez last
night from his station and reports a
fair trail all the way across the sum- *
mlt.
H. E. Ellis, who has been suffering
with a bad knee, left this morning on
the Alameda for Seattle, where he
will seek medical attention and hopes
to have his knee cured.
L. V. Shaw, the Seward editor, who
has taken the position of commis
sioner in the Nelchina district, ar
rived on the Alameda with his dog
team and outfit and will leave for his
new statics, going in'over the gov
ernment road.