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Finely Furnished Rooms All Modern Conveniences
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Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
ALL KINDS OF
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Puget Sound LiUlVlDUX Material
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Prices Right W. M. FINICAL, Mgr. Phone 18
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The Newest and Shortest Line to the East
Crossing the Cascade Mountains, the Kittitas Valley, the Colum -
bia River, the Bitter Root Mountains and Montana Canyon, trav
ersing a country of surpassing scenic grandeur, historical interest
and wonderful development.
TWO FAST THROUGH TRAINS DAILY
“The Olympian” and “The Columbian”
The NEW ALL-STEEL TRAINS to
BUTTE. MILES CITY, SIOUX CITY.
MINNEAPOLIS. ST. PAUL, MILWAUKEE an* CHICAGO
For further information regarding fares, train service, reservations, etc.,
cal on or address
C. H. Kraemer, General Agent,
Alaska Steamship Co. and Alaska Coast S. S. Co., Valdez, Alaska
City Ticket Offices, Chicago, Milwaukee Sc St. Paul Railway
443 Hastings St. West, Vancouver, B. C.
Second Are. and Cherry St., Seattle
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VALDEZ, ALASKA
Notice to Creditors.
In the United States Commissioner’s
Cojirt, ex officio Judge in Probate,
Valdez Precinct, Third Judicial Di
vision, Territory of Alaska.
In the matter dt 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
said estate.
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, T3.
Schedule or the Donaldson.
The following schedule for the
launch "Lieut. C. V. Donaldson” will
take effect today. All orders to the
contrary are revoked.
Daily, Saturday and Sunday except
ed:
Leave Fort L.sctim, Alaska, 8:15 a.
m. and 1:15 p. m.
Leave Valdez, Aluska, 9:45 a. m., 2
p. m. and 5:30 p. m.
Tuesdays:
Leave Fort LlBCUm, Alaska, 8:15 a.
tn., 1:15 p. m. and 5 p. m.
Leave Valdez, Alaska, 9:45 a. m„
2 p. m. and 5:30 p. m.
Saturdays:
Leave Fort Liscum, Alaska, 1:15 p.
m. and 7 p. m.
Leave Valdez, AlaBka, 4:00 p. m.
and 10:30 p. m.
There will be no trips for the
launch on the 2nd and 4 th Fridays
of eaoh month, these days being us
ed to clean boilers.
Special trips or cancelling of the
above will be made without notice
only to meet exigencies of the ser
vice.
By order of Lieut. Col. O’Neil.
R. G. SHBRRARD,
Second Lieut. 30th Infantry, Quar-‘
termaster.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
S. Blum & Co. are sole agents for
Hart SehafTner & Marx fine suits.
,W. Lufkin s in town from out the
trail.
Fancy Meerschaum Pipes specially
priced at the Valdez Drug Store.
We have cigars in Christmas pack
ages. Valdez Drug Store.
C. M. Johns is up from Gdlden for
Christmas.
If you want all the news all the
time, read the Prospector.
Fresh eastern oysters at the Vai
dez Cafe. tf
Phil. Wilson arrived in town from
the summit today.
Take a glance at the Winter window
and see the great big, beautiful doll.
If you want all the news all the
time, read the Prospector.
F. Whitehead is up from the Cliff
to spend Christmas in town.
The Valdez Electric Co. sells Mazda
lamps. Telephone 57.
Goods coming on every boat at the
Emporium. Open from 12 to 4 p. m.,
and from 7 to 8:30 p. m. tf
Romane Scott and R. Wentzler came j
up from Port Wells last night.
The Valdez Electric Co. sells Mazda j
lamps. Telephone 57.
Get your wife or girl a set of furs
at Blum’s.
*
There will be a matinee Saturday at
the Orpheum for the children of Val
dez.
Kiddies Christmas chairs and rock
ers at Rudolph’s.
Angus McDougal, from Fidalgo bay,
came up to spend the holidays in
Valdez.
Suits pressed for $1.00 at Silver
man’s, the tailor. Telephone 198.
Excellent pictures tonight at the
Orpheum. Special Christmas change
tomorrow.
_
See the exquisite Parisian Ivory
Toilet Articles at the Valdez Orug
Company's store.
Alex. Singletary returned last night
on the B. F. M. from his property in
Port Wells.
—
S. Blum & Co. are showing the
[largest line of Xmax goods in town.
Ben Silverman won the silver
mounted pipe set at Ingram &
Bush’s yesterday.
————.
Everything for the ladies and the
babies at E. Winter’s store.
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Fine two-reel feature at the Orph- i
eum tonight. Special Christmas j
change tomorrow.
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Suits pressed for $1.00 at Silver
man's, the tailor. Telephone 198.
Bert Rutherford and Charles Sharp
came in las': night from the Ruther
ford-Ramsay i roperty.
Blum’s are showing a large line oi
cut glass for Xmas.
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Andy Burkland, who has been doing,
representation work on the Gold
Queen, is in town from Port Wells.
Hubby, don’t forget to buy me one
of the pretty Parisian Ivory Toilet
Sets at the Valdez Drug Co.—Wifey.
Charles Fowlkes arrived last night
from Betties bay. Mr. Foulkes is suf
fering with a bad sne , which h re
ceived at the mine.
Fine watch and jewelry repairing
all work guaranteed. H. V. Hern
don. wiij owl Drug Co.
H. L. Jones, the chauffeur for the
Road Commission last summer, is now
operating the hoist for the Ruther
ford-Ramsay company. ,
A fine assortment of Christmas
novelties at E. Winter's.
Nothing more appropriate than a
box of Lowney’s dainty candies as a
Christmas gift. Valdez Drug Store.
The McIntosh teams, in charge of
Patsy Marshall, reached Valdez last
night and report a splendid trail from
Valdez to the Interior.
Harv y’s Toggery are closing out
their complete line of dry goods and
ladleB’ furnishings. Now is the time
to get real bargains. tf
Mrs. Rose Johnson and son Charles
made a tAp yesterday with) more
freight for her claims near the gla
cier, whlcb are being opened up.
WORK OF THE OCEANS, i
—
They Do More Than Merely Separate
Aeree of Dry Land.
Oceans are fbund In various parts of
the world, where they spend their time
n lapping shores. Infringing upon the
tights of continents and swallowing
up Islands, ships and people.
Oceans are Baity to the taste and |
ire used by yachtsmen to get away j
rrom their wives, also to cover up ca- j
bled newspaper stories about kings j
jnd queens aud to float navies and j
itber debts.
An ocean spends Its time in having
storms and making surf. It delights In
making Innocent people sick and In
playing with children's legs. Without
oceans there would be no steamships
ind gambling would decline.
Every ocean has a set of flsh which
lo not even pay ground rent, but spend
their time like people who live on
land—namely, In devouring each other.
Besides ordinary flsh. oceans have
whales, lobsters and mermaids. The
mermaids live on rocks JUBt as girls
on dry land do. The lobsters also live
shellfish lives In lobster palaces. The
whales lie around and wait for the
happy time when they can perform
useful work supplying bones for cor
sets.
Some oceans employ professional
sea serpents, which they use during
the summer for advertising purposes
Oceans also \>ave zones, seaweed and
sponges. When an ocean has been out
all night It likes to take a sponge bath;
hence It always keeps on hand a con
stant supply of these useful toilet ar
ticles.—Life.
FARMS THAT FAIL
The Way Food Making Crops Rob the
Soil of Its Fertility.
An acre of wheat deprives the soil of
forty-five pounds of nitrogen, twenty
three pounds of phosphoric acid and
thirty pounds of potash. On the mar
ket nitrogen Is worth 17 cents a pound,
phosphoric acid 7 cents and potash 4
cents. Therefore the actual money
value of the nitrogen removed from the
soil by an acre of wheat is $7.05; of
phosphoric acid. $1.01. and of potash
$1.20, making a total loss of $10.40 an
acre a year. If the farmer raises twen
ty acres of wheat a year for twenty
five years the loss will be $5.2.10.
Each acre of oats consumes fifty
pounds of nitrogen, twenty pounds of
phosphoric acid and forty pounds of
potash. In the same way an acre of
corn will take from the soil $18.50
worth ef fertility, provided both the
grain and fodder are removed. If you
have fifty acres in corn $025 worth of
fertility is removed each year. Intwen
ty years you will have taken out $18.
500 worth of the elements necessary to
produce n good crop.
Should you raise fifty acres of wheat,
fifty acres of oats and fifty acres of
corn for twenty years on your farm the
money value of the elements removed
from the soil would bo more than $40.
000. Is it any wonder, then, that the
farms begin to wear out when you fail
to return those elements to the soil
which are necessary to produce a crop?
—Farm and Fireside.
Lincoln’s History of Himself.
When Abraham Lincoln was elected
to congress Charles Lanmau. then edi
tor of the Congressional Record, ac
cording to the regular custom, for
warded to Mr. Lincoln ns well as to
all other members elect a blank to be
filled out with facts and dates which
might be made the basis for a bio
graphical sketch In the directory. Mr.
Lincoln's blank was returned prompt
ly, tilled up in bis own handwriting
with the following Information: I
"Born Feb. 12. I-S00. In Hardin coun
ty, Ky.
“Education, defective.
"Profession, lawyer.
“Military service, captain of voluu- j
teers in the Black Hawk war.
“Offices held: Postmaster at a very j
small office, four times a member of ;
the Illinois legislature and elected to j
the lower house of the next congress.” |
London’s Dullest Job.
Tbe dullest job lu Londou inn; be
come an absorbing occupation in time
There Is a clerk at tbe law courts
whose sole duty Is to take papers, one
by one, from a pile on the left side of
bis table, bang a stamp down on them
and place them in tbe same order on
his right. He bus been doing this job
for about thirty-five yeurs and recently
confessed that It has become such a
part of tils nature that. If tbe supply
of documents dried up he would have
a nervous breakdown Fortunately,
tbe block of litigation at tbe courts j
will prevent such a catastrophe for i
some time.—Ixjiuion Standard.
Ear For Music.
"What Is that tune your daughter is
playing?"
"Which daughter?” asked Mrs. Cum
rox. "If It is the older girl It’s Liszt’s
Hungarian Rhapsody, and If It's the
youuger one It’s Exercise 27.”—Wash
Ington Star.
In a Dilemma.
"What's tbe trouble, old man?”
“I'm up agalust It for fair."
“As to bow?" 9
“My liver doctor expressly orders me
to eat sugar, nod my stomach special
ist positively forbids It"—Kansas City
Journal. ___
Hopeless.
“So you tblnlc that Mrs. Jinks la a
failure oa a hostess?"
“Yes. She couldn't even entertain a
hope properly.”-Buffalo Express.
If yon will not hear reason she will
surely rap your knncklaa —BunJam In
Franklin
Light and Power
Since the organization of the
Valdez
Electric
Company
Valdez consumers are getting
electric current at a reduction of
forty per cent in rates.
Support the new company and
keep rates down to bedrock.
Office in Copper’Block
Phone 57
PIONEER BARBER SHOP
WM.CIL.LJNEAU. Prop.
Tonaorlal Parlors
Beat Appointed
BATH ROOM
ia Valdez.
Fine, Large Tabi-Plenty Hot Water
Go to the
ARCADE
for quick, clean service.
RAKFRY IN CONNECTION
OHNLI\ I everything GOOD
JACK CALLIN & CO.
BEST PLAGE TO EAT
MRS. ST. MARIE’S
Crawford Building, opposite Tele
phone Exchange.
c 7 si m to 9 a m
MKALS < Lunch 12 m to I |> in
( 6 to 7 p m
BOARD & ROOM $50 per Mo.
CITY EXPRESS STORE
U/C Buy Anything
W Hi Sell Everything.
LYNCH & SPENARD
MILK-MILK-MILK
< > Fresh Milk and Cream
o VALDEZ DAIRY
n Telephone orders to Phone 187
LAUNCH BRIGHTON
- for
PORT WELLS and
Way Porta.
FOR SPECIAL TRIPS SEE CAPT. STAMEY
VALDEZJDOCK
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.
THE PINZON CIGAR STORE
DICK'S PLACE
Fine Line oCCigari im! Tobacco;
Fruits^Nuts. Candies,
Card Room Soft Drinks of All Kiads
LAUNCH IDA
Leaves from Valdez dock for
SHOUP BAY
and way points at 10 a. m. Daily
W. J. CALLAGHAN.
ft*up Hotel
the usiormniiiw
in the minor man..
135lhgisllnto-5DSti»ua«»o
Cable Office Heura.
Week days 9 a. m. to 9 p. m.
Sundays and holidays 9 to 10 a. m.
and S to 6 p. m.