Do You Need a Pipe?
We Have Them in All Styles
and Sizes at
The Buffet
1894 CHAS. R. CRAWFORD 131/
PIONEER CONTRACTOR and BUILDER
OF ALASKA
CAN HANDLE ANY CLASS OF BUILDING.
Will take contracts on wharves, bridges, fish traps in any
part of Prince William sound.
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, Valdax, and Cordova,
BANKERS ( B. M. BEHRENDS, Juneau, Alaska.
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Merchant’s Cafe
Phone 68 OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Chw. Fischer, Propr.
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. Oppoette Frozpector Office. ^ Telephone_24^
LET US MEASURE YOU
for your new suit and let us do
it now. The new fabrics in serge,
worsted, thibet, etc., are in and
we are prepared to cut them in
to suits of class and snap at a
very low rate considering the
quality of the cloth and the tail
oring. Do it now.
BEN SILVERMAN
THE TAILOR
Independent Steam Laundry
Satisfaction Guaranteed I
Telephone 66 I
Foot Keystone Ave
Rough Dry 11c lb
THE SENATE
ANGUS CHISHOLM FRANK GUSTAFSON
CIGARS, BILLIARDS
Nicely Furnished Rooms*Phone 3^
PORT WELLS MILL
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LUMBER COMPANY
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Going To Fairbanks?
Ask For the Sheldon Service
SHELDON AUTO STAGE LINE
Through Service from Valdes to
Fairbanks and all Interior Points.
For further information call on or
addrefes
THE AGENT, at the Prospector Office
BEAR SLAIN IN TIME
TO SAVE LABORER’S LIKE
Members of the crew laying steel
on the main line of the government
railroad near Mile 195 were ter
ror-stricken yesterday by the sudden
appearance among them of a vicious
brown bear and the life of one of
their number was saved by only a
narrow margin as the result t)f the
quick and accurate aim of a fellow
worker. The huge animal was slain
just as he was about to pounce on
a laborer.
As one of the workmen, a Swede
was walking along the track a short
distance from the station camp, lie
was attacked by the bear, ‘ which
emerged almost beside him from a
small clump of trees immediately ad
joining the railroad. The man at one
leap broke Into full speed and ran be
tween the rails toward camp. The
bear swung clumsily up a sight grade
embankment and on the right-of-way
and gave pursuit.
The animal didn’t make a noise like
a racing machine, but he covered the
ties at a deceptively fast pace. The
speeding worker, try as he might,
could not ncrease the thirty-foot lead
he had at the start. Indeed, with a
quick glance toward the rear, as he
approached the station camp, he re
alized his pursuer, gathering momen
tum at every bound, was rapidly over
taking him.
Steel ended at the camp, ana wnen
the fugitive bounced off the ties he
had to step high for the unfinished
new grade was soft and bumpy. These
conditions, so unfavorable to the man
seemed made to the bear’s order, for
on reaching this part of the course,
the animal began to fairly annihilate
distance.
The racing laborer dashed through
camp yelling for help. His fellow
workers, filled with fright and con
sternation, had parted into groups
and were standing mute on either
side of the grade. They might have
deflected the animal from his pursuit
by throwing stones at him, but while
no doubt they were duly concerned
and alarmed at the dangerous plight
of their companion, they evidently
preferred that he, rather than they,
should try to cheat the hungry beast
of a human feast.
One of the workers, however, had
the presence of mind to hurry to a
near-by tent for a riflle. With the
loaded weapon, he hastily returned to
the right-of-way and leaped to the
top of the grade, so, unobstructed by
brush and trees he could get a fair
shot at the voracious hear.
He realized he needs must have a
mighty accurate aim. As his glance
quickly traveled along the top of the
rifle barrel, he saw perhaps seventy
feet in front of him the lumbering
but swiftly moving animal, close—
not more than five feet—to the flee
ing laborer.
The finger pressed the trigger. An
impulse for an instant had been not
to shoot, for missing the bear would
make certain the hitting of the man
directly in line ahead. Yet not to fire
meant in a moment the tragic end of
a desperate race that with every step
was becoming more hopeless for the
human contestant.
At the flash of the report, the
marksman dropped to one knee to
peer under the smoke for the result
of his effort, and twenty pair of anx
ious eyes from the sides of the right-1
of-way were trained on the animated
target.
The bullet carried home. The bear
dropped in his tracks, dead.
The speeding laborer turned his
head and realized hia delivery. But
he continued twenty feet, his fellow
wqrkers say, before he could come to
a stop, and in putting breaks on him
self, they affirm, his soft-soled shoe
packs struck sparks off gravel in the
loose roadbed.
An examination of the bear dis
closed that the bullet had ploughed
through the top of his shoulder into
his neck. His carcass weighed 800
pounds.—Exchange.
WANTED—A position as camp
cook at sawmill or roadhouse by ex
perienced woman. Inquire Prospec
tor. tf
CREAMERY CLOSES
KOR WANT OK MILK \
MOUNT VERNON, Oct. 12.—The
Mount Vernon Cream Company plant,
Renown as the Little condenser, shut
down today. The company, according!
to Manager L. R. Hardenhergh, of I
the Carnation Milk Products Com
pany, has no plans for the buildings.!
except to (dismantle them and take
the machinery to some other points as
soon as possible. This action has been
taken on account of the falling off j
of the company’s milk receipts heie,
which made it inadvisable to run two,
plants. Mr. Hardenhergh said: “The
future alone will determine how lotigj
we will be justified in running the
Carnation plant. It is not our desire
to pull out of Mount Vernon, hut
should our milk supply here ever fall
so low as to make it too costly for us
to do business in our large plant, such
a move would be inevitable.”
The shut-down effects more than
forty people, a few of whom will be
transferred to the big plant, the skill
ed hands going to other cities.
PKKEKHKKI) DEATH TO
SEPARATION BV WAR
WINNIPEG, Oct. 12.—After lying
dead on her bed for three days with
a 4 5-calibre bullet wound in her fore
head, the body of Mrs. W. H. Mather,
of Vancouver, was found in her room
in the Royal Alexandria hotel today.
W. H. Mather, B. A., her husband,
formerly professor of literature in
Sifton college, Iowa, late of Vancouv
er, said to be a returned soldier in
the army service corps, was In the
room when the police arrived. Both
his wrists had been slashed with the
blade of a safety razor, which was
found in bed under the body of his
wife. He will recover.
One of the police officials stated
this afternoon that the tragedy gave
every indication of being a suicide
pact.
Mather had been at the front and
had returned to Vancouver. Under
the new military service act it ap
peared he would have to serve again.
This preyed on the minds of both, and
the thought of separation and the pos
sibility that Mather would not .re
turn decided them to take the step
which ended in the death of the wo
man.
SOME heating stoves at Mead’s. *
Old papers in bunches of 100 at
this office, only 10 cents. tf
DOWNS FIFTY GERMANS.
Captain George Guynemer,
French Aviator, Haa Record.
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Captain Uuynemer is now the high
est “ace” in the allied flying service.
He won his fiftieth victory when he
brought up to that figure the number
of German machines he has destroyed
The Satisfy!-and
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WHEN FLAMES FILL
THE FACTORY
despair Alls the owner who has
neglected to look after hia 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 Estate Agency
SB Tony’s Place ZT
Orders to ANTON CARLSON, Manager.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
From Seattle 9 a. m.—
Oct 2.—S. S. Alaska.
Oct. 8.—S. S. Mariposa
Oct. 16.—S. S. Alameda
Oct. 24.—S. S. Alaska
Valdez to Seattle—
Oct. 7.—S. S. Alameda
Oct. 13.—S. S. Alaska
Oct. 18.—S. S. Mariposa
Oct 26.—S. S. Alameda
Call at Ketchikan, Juneau, Cordova, Ellamar, Kort Llscum, Val
dez, Latouche. Seward and Anchorage.
S. S. Alameda and S. S. Mariposa call at Skagway southbound.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell. Juneau. Sheep
Creek. Treadwell, Douglas, Skagway, Cordova. Ellaraar, Valdes and La
touche. Explosives. Right reserved to change schedule without notice.
F. B. TRACY, Ges'l Agent VALDEZ DOCK CO, Local Agent
gMMsagigaaiigjri^HBBg
Phone No. I. VALDEZ DOCK CO., Agent, Valdez Alaska.
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Our Large Fleet of Magnificent Steamships Offer Frequent,
PERFECT SERVICE
Between All Points in
ALASKA and CALIFORNIA
Leave Seattle 10 a. m.—
Sept. 24—S. S. Adm. Watson
(For Kodiak)
Oct. 2—S. S. Adm. Evans
Oct. 10—S. S. Adm. Farragut
Oct. 18.—S, S. Adm. Watson
From Valdez to Seattle—
Sept. 28—S. S. Adm. Farragut
Oct. 7—S. S. Adm. Watson
Oct. 14—S. S. Adm. Evans
Oct. 22—S. S. Adm. Farragut
Oct. 30.—S. S. Adm. Watson
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 STEAMSHIP COMPANY”
YOU ARE ASSURED THE VERYJIEST.
LOUIE’S CAFE
Open Day and Night McKinley Street, Below Cable Office
Fresh Bread, Pies, Cakes,
All Kinds of Pastry for Sale.
EVERYTHING THE BEST ANDY MAROVICH, Propr.
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Take a look at our new line of
postcards and pictures of the Canyon
etc. Valdes Drug Store. tf
If it isn't an Eastman It Isn’t a
Kodak. We carry a complete line of
Eastman Kodaks and supplies. Val
des Drug Store. tf
A special on stationery at the Val
les Drug Store. Box paper, worth
from 50c to 11.00 now 25c. tf
Ansco Films Will
It any standard make o f camera,
rbey are the standard. Guy E. Cam
sron. tf
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A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company
Office on Alaska Avenue, in
George C. Treat Building
Telephone No. 60
Senetal Trucking and Freighting
to all Interior Points.
autos for hire
DAT OB MIGHT
positively No Coal Delivered U»
less Paid for in Advance
KAMA QUEEN
Capt. Otto Elfstrom
Weekly trijis to Port Wells
and all Sound Points.
tor charter for par
ties OR TOWING
H>r rates and sailing dates see
CAPT. OTTO ELFS'^OM,
On Boat, Valdes *,„ck
Gandy Klhfien
E. W. HUNT---la (K»< urmg Stirt.
FOUNTAIN DR IKS
HOT-COLO
A nice line of carpenter toCu at
Rudolph's. If
Lowney’s box Canutes at Hi t’s
Dandy Kitchen. tl
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