PROFIT -SHARING makes yon a partacrto the Bakery
when you pay 25c tor 3 Homemade Breads made
from the famous Occident Flour. Why pay more?
BREAD { awTpotato*Yea«t \ 83c aloaf
n«* is. I SCHMIDT’S BAKERY | *■*
STEAM HEATED HOT AND COLD BATHS
Copper Block Hotel
VALDEZ, ALASKA
“The House of Comfort”
PHONE 7 FOR men only
i When Id Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
3EORGE SEXTON, PROP.
sirictly first class
Fourth Ave, Seward, Alaska
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
We*tern Federation of Miner*
ROBERT SHAFFER, President,
j Granite Mine.
CHAS. McCALLUM, Secretary,
Valdez Alaska.
MAY TIDE TABLES.
The following tides are given for
Valdez bay. Parties outside should
add to or subtract from the times of
|ibigh and low water for other locali
ties:
Saturday, May 20.
High, 1:25 am, 10.7; 2:59 pm, 7.5
Low, 8:30 am, —1.8; 8:09 pm, 2.9
. Sunday, May 21.
Highfc2:17 am, 10.2; 3:54 pm, 7.4
Low, 9/50 am, —1.3; 9:08 pm, 3.1
Monday, May 22.
High, 3:13 am, 9.4; 4:55 pm, 3.2
Low, 10:16 am. —0.6; 10:19 pm, 3.2
Tuesday, May 23.
High, 4:15 am, S.5; 5:56 pm, 7.6
Low, 11:13 am, 0.1
Wednesday, May 24.
High, 5:34 am, 7.6; 6:57 pm, S.O
'“Low, 11:44 am, 3.1; 12:14 pm, 0.8
Thursday, May 23.
High, 6:59 am, 7.0; 7:52 pm, 8.5
Friday, May 26.
High, 8:22 am, 6.7; 8:41 pm, 8.9
Low, 2:31 am, 1.8; 2:10 pm, 2.0
Saturday, May 27
High, 9:33 am, 6.7; 9:23 pm, 9.3
Low, 3:31 am, 0.9; 3:02 pm, 2.4
Sunday, May 28.
High, 10:31 am, 6.9; 10:02 pm, 9.5
Low, 4:19 am, 0,2; 3:48 pm, 2.7
Monday, May 2».
High, 11:21 am, 7.1; 10:39 pm, 9.7
Low, 5:02 am, —0.4; 4:30 pm, 2.9
Tuesday, May 30.
High. 12:0a.«mt 7.2; 11:14 pm, 9.7
Low, 5:40 am, —0.7; 5:08 pm, 3.0
Wednesday, May 31.
High, 12:42 am, 7.2.
Low, 6:16 am, —0.9; 5:44 pm, 3.1
Notice of Marshal’s Sale.
United States of America, Territory
of Alaska, Third Division, ss.
Public notice is hereby given that
by virtue of a writ of execution dated
May 10th, 1916, issued out of the
District Court for the Territory of
Alaska, Third Division, on a judg
ment rendered in said court on the
9th day of May, 1916, in favor of S.
Blum & Company, a Corporation, and
against Rex Alaska Mining Company,
a Corporation, I will offer for sale at
public vendue to the highest and
best bidder for cash on Friday the
16th dayi&f June, 1916, at 2 o’clock
in th^jifRernoon of said day, at the
front labb* of the Court House at
Valdez, Alaska, all the right, title and
interest of said Rex Alaska Mining
Company, a Corporation, in and to
the following placer claim, to-wit:
"that certain placer mining claim
situated on Rex Gulch, one of the
confluents of Chititu Creek in the Ni
zina mining district, Chitina Record
ing Precinct, Third Division of the
Territory of Alaska and known as
and called Edison Association Claim,
the said claim being formerly known
as Nos. 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17 placer
mining claims on faid Rex Gulch.”
The above described real property
was heretofore attached by me under
and by virtue of a writ of attach
ment issued out of said District
Conrt in the said cause in which the
said S. Blum & Company, a Corpo
ration, was plaintiff and the said Rex
Alaska Mining Company,, a Corpora
tion, was defendant, being Cause No.
79\0 of the Civil Register of said
Court.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 12th
day of May, 1916.
F. R. BRENNEMAN,
United States Marshal.
Dates of Publication May 13, 20, 27;
June 3, 10. 5t
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Notice of Forfeiture.
To Juliet Steinipetz. smipy Petersen
and Mandy Petersen, Heirs of Pe
ter Steinmetz, Deceased, and Devi
sees Under His Will; and Charles
Newblll:.. •
You and each of you are notified
that the undersigned, co-owner with
you of the Big Queen and Little
Queen lode mining claims, situate
naar the head of Landlock Bay, Val
d«i Precinct, Territory of Alaska, has
pero>rmed the annual labor required
by/Taw to hold said claims for the
year 1916; that said work was done
in the year 1916 and to the amount
of $100 on or for the benefit of each
of said claims. And you, Juliet
Steinmetz, Emmy Petersen and Man
dy Petersen, are notified that the
amount due from you for said annual
labor as owners of the interest of Pe
ter Steinmetz, deceased, which said
Interest was an undivided one-third
of said claims, is $66.67. And you,
Charles Newbill, are notified that the
amount due from you for said an
nual labor as owner of an undivided
one-third of said claims is $66.67.
And unless wlihin ninety days aft
er completion of publication of this
notice you pay to your co-owner who
has performed said annual labor, the
proportion thereof due from you as
aforesaid, your interest in said claims
will become the property of said co
owner.
Dated, February 26, 1916.
ROSS PADEN.
First publication February 26, 1916.
Last publication May 27, 1916. sat
STRANGE OCCURRENCES
THROUGHOUT COUNTRY
A hen belonging to Thomas Gay
nor, of Punta Gorda, Fla., took pos
session of a litter of kittens and cared
for them.
A young sergeant in the French
army had extracted from his heart a
splinter from a hand grenade. The
splinter remained in the ventricle
four and a half months before it was
extracted.
A Holstein cow on the Colony
Farm, British Columbia, broke all re
cords in Canada for milk production.
During 86 successive days she produc
ed 9376 pounds of milk and 107
pounds of butter.
Joseph C. Cunningham, of Law
renceburg, Ind., caught a white perch
weighing 32 1-2 pounds.
Abraham J. Randall, 91 years old
and Mrs. Ann Scott, aged S5, were
married at Kansas City, Mo.
DO MORE IN FOUR YEARS
THAN REPUBLICANS IN FORTY
In an article recently published in
the Indianapolis News, Leslie M.
Shaw, secretary of the treasury in the
first Roosevelt cabinet, said:
“I have no hesitantc# in admitting
grave doubts whether the Republican
Party can, even if it should try, and
also whether it ought to try to defeat
the party now in power upon an issue
of excoriation because it has failed
to accomplish in four years what we
failed to do in forty years. If we have
a small and inadequate army and navy
the Republican Party is 80 per cent
responsible for its inefficiency, for the
Republican Party has been in power
80 per cent of the last half century.
If our coast defenses are silly, I sub
mit it does not lie in the mouth of the
Republican Party to say much about
it. Let the next administration be a
business administration, and while
preparing for peace let it also do
what we all agree should be done—
prepare for eventualities that may en
sue.”
ALASKA
INVESTMENT
COMPANY
For special bargains in homes. 2t
LOCAL BREVITIES
Several pieces of desirable proper
ty for sale. Oscar Fish. tf
Just Received—the latest Popular
Songs and Music. Valdez Drug Co. tf
A fine display or nugget Jewelry at
Valdez Drug Co. tf
For good home-cooked meals try
Mrs. M. Olson, on Hobart street. *
. * %
A new line or Middy suns, just re
ceive^ at E. Winters’. tf
Valdez Drug Company has a fine
line of School Stationery, tf
Banquet Steel Rafti&s, plain ’and
polished tops, at Mead's. ,, tf
The Barber Shop next to the Post
Office is now being run by Brown and
Hudson. tf
Just received a fresh line of box
candies. Candy Kitchen. tf
Spring Samples in heavy weights,
for Alaska wear. Guy F. Cameron,
Tailor. «t
i
SINGLE HANDED
DEFIES NATION
VILLA MICH IN THE LIMELIGHT
Mexican Outlaw Leader the Only Man
who ever Enlisted the Armed
Strength of a Whole Nation in his
Pursuit.
EL PASO, Tex., May 20.—No man
has loomed larger in the newspapers
in repent weeks than Pancho Villa.
He was born Francisco Villa, Pancho
is to Francisco what Jack is to John.
The border knows him only as Pan
cho.
In a day you can collect as many
views of Pancho as the number of
men you talk to.
All agree that Villa is a murderer;
a killer, they call it here, where near
ly every second man carries a "gat”,
or small cannon. You get a wholesale
impression that Villa is a throwback
to some chief of the barbarians who
swept from Asia to Europe and brot
with them the dark ages.
When in power he stood his best
friends against the "dobe” wall and
riddled them.
His love of splendor showed in
strutting and gold lace. On his cam
paign he fed the war correspondents
with champagne and gave them a pri
vate car. He didn't love them but he
loved notoriety. He could sign his own
name in a mere scrawl. That was his
educational limit.
But the men who fought with him
and against him agree that be had
marvelous organizing skill, personal
bravery, rude animal magnetism that
bound his soldiers to him and made
many a hero out of a peon.
Vet Villa for nearly all his thirty
eight years of life has been a bandit.
A few weeks more than four years
embraces his career in the world’s
eye. <
Crossing the border with four men
in March, 1912, he at one time com
manded 80,000 armed men; and
around his tent was camped 18,000
cavalry, always his most prized arm
of service. Probably that was be
cause Villa is a superb horseman.
It takes a Latin nation to develop
the combination of a hero and mur
derer and to give it stage space. In
colder climates the vision dies.
The border understands it, for in
the day of Villa’s prosperity he made
many an American rich. Most of them
are on this side of the border today.
They don’t want to cross the river.
You ask them why and the should
ers shrug. Many recollect companions
in shallow graves on the Mexican side.
They were and are gun runners, am
munitions smugglers, soldiers of for
tune who thrive on border war.
Some of them are Mexicans who
held high offices in the Villa, Huerta,
Madero or one of the half dozen con
vulsions that have shaken Mexico in
the last six years.
A Mexican passes a street group:
“See there!” whispers one, “Villa
told him to go to the bank once with
860,000 in gold. He came to the
American side. He is a smart man
and invested his money wisely.”
Maybe you are curious about the
Mexican generals whose names have
appeared in public print for years.
You can find enough of them doing
porter work in El Paso cafes to form
a general staff.
You can organize a formidable
revolution—on paper— for a dozen
packages of cigarette and a dollar in
vested in beer.
Up in Detroit or Milwaukee Gener
al Blank may sound like a ton of
gold braid.
Take a crowded El Paso Saturday
night street and yell "general!” and
you can get a dozen with totally good
titles to the name.
Probably all these are part of the
reasons why the country at large
doesn’t understand Villa and the cult
that made him.
Charles Powers, who was a pay
master on the Mexican Northwestern
road, with headquarters at Madero,
Chihuahua, does.
Powers was in Madera when Villa
declared war on Americans last De
cember. He got out alive with his
wife. With two boxcars loaded with
American refugees, Powers and his
wife spent Bve days and nights cover
ing the 126 ro"P8 from Madera to
Chihuahua.
Villa stopped at every town and
showed hlB captives. They expected
death, at every stop. Powers had his
“45" 'iiii his pocket. Hi
a sma^e| revolver in I i
were tf&nir for the end.
“W$y don't you go btj
Villa?'i' I'asked Powers.- *]
“I .don’t want him I’ve lhad all of
him i wan^riljStay on thh^ejfde until
Powerfl ifew^^Bw'a'rd etiiier. They
pick braVe^jijwiBibe American pay
masters on the Mexican line.
During file famoiis ‘trip fr'ora Mad- *
sra to Chihuahua, Powers was point
ed out as an American railroad man.
rhe engine was stalled on a grade
ind the Mexican engineer couldn’t
budge it.
Villa called on Powers and sent
him into the engine cab. In a few
minutes Powers found the difficulty.
As' Powers climbed down Villa paid
his compliments to the nation now
hunting him down. “You damned
Americans know how to do every
thing,” was his remark.
Probably in modern history Pancho
Villa is the only man who practically;
single handed defied a great nation
and certainly the only foreign citizen
who ever enlisted in his pursuit the
military strength of a world power.
TERRIFIC POWER OF
WATER ODER PRESSURE
A stream of water consiedrably less
than an inch in diameter, which
moves with such amazing velocity
that it cannot be cut by a bullet or
by the finest tempered sword, is des
cribed in the Popular Science Month
ly.
“A iactory in Grenoble, France,
we are told, “utilizes the water of a
reservoir situated in the mountains
at a height of 200 yards. The water
reaches the factory through a verti
cal tube of the same length with a
diameter of considerably less than
an inch, the jet being used to move
a turbine. Experiments have shown
that the strongest men cannot cut
the jet with the best tempered sword
and in some instances the blade has
been broken into fragments without
deflecting a drop of the water and
with as much violence as a pane of
glass may be shattered by a blow
from an iron bar. It has been calcu
lated that a iet of water a small frac
tion of an inch in thickness, moving
with sufficient velocity, could not be
cut by a rifle bullet.
“The engineers of some big water
power projects in the far west are
willing to wager that a two hundred
pound man swinging a four pound
ax with all his might, cannot make
a dent in the water as it emerges
from the nozzle at the power house.
Burying an ax in a stream of water
looks like child’s play, and the av
erage 200 pound visitor is likely to
bite. He invariably loses. So great
is the velocity of the water emerging
from the nozzle in these modern pow
er plants than an ax, no matter how
keen its edge, is whirled from the
hands of the axman as soon as it
touches the water. The water travels
under a pressure exceeding five hun
dred pounds to the square inch in
many instances, and no power on
earth can turn it off at the nozzle
once it gains momentum. It has the
same effect on one’s fingers as a
rough emery wheel and will shave a
plank with the nicety of a razor edg
ed plane.”
IXM’AI, BREVITIES
A swell line of crepe dechine and
wash silk waists just arrived on the
last boat at E. Winters. tf
Try our Malted Milk. Hot or Cold.
Candy Kitchen. tf
Kodak Supplies at the Valdez Drug
Company. tf
Cherry Special and Grape Punch
at Hunt’s Candy Kitchen tf
Fancy Stationery at the Valdez
Drug Store. tf
New hats for men, women and chil
dren at the Emporium. tf
LLOYD THOMPSON.
Champion Auto Raoar Broaks
Haight Racord In Aaroplana.
VALDEZ - and - - ANCHORAGE
CITY EXPRESS
Meets all boats! On the job, day or night
We never sleep.
J. A. SPENARD, Proprietor Phone 82
VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Real Estate, Insurance, General Brokerage
Absentees Business Properly Handled
Treat Building, Alaska Ave. Telephone No. 60
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Buy Alaska Made Cigars
ASK FOR W. R. King, Terminus, or Lavanna,
Mode in Seward by union workmen.
We maintain our atandard. Sold everywhere
MERCHANT’S CAFE
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone 63 Chas. Fischer, Propr.
Independent Steam Laundry
Satisfaction Guaranteed I I Foot Keystone Ave
Telephone 66 I I Roujrh Dry 10c lb
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. Telephone 24
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
PUGET SOUND PUGET SOUND
California Alaska
I
SAILINGS FROM SEATTLE, 11:00 A. M_
April 30—8. S. Admiral Evana—Kodiak and way ports.
May 7—S. S. Admiral Farragut—Knlk Anchorage and way porta.
May 14—8. S. Admiral Watson—Knlk Anchorage and way ports.
.May 21— S. S. Admiral Evans—Kodiak and way ports.
May 28—S. S. Admiral Farragut—Knlk Anchorage and way ports.
SAILINGS SOUTH FROM VALDEZ—
April 28— S. S. Admiral Farragut.
May 5—S. S. Admiral Watson.
May 12— S. 8. Admiral Evans.
May 10—8. 8. Atlmiral Farragut.
May 20—S. 8. Admiral Watson.
June 2—8. S. Admiral Evans.
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to San Francisco every Wednesday and Sunday, connecting with
Steamers Yale and Harvard for Southern California.
Right reserved to change schedule without notice.
RICHARD J. RING WOOD, Mgr., Seattle; VALDEZ DOCK CO., Local Agt.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
Sailings from Seattle— Sailings South from Valdez—
April 30—S. S. Northwestern. April 30—$. S. Alaska.
May 5—S. S. Mariposa. May - 5—S. S. Alameda.
May 10—S. S. Alaska; May 12—S. S. Northwestern.
May *15—Alameda. May 15—S. S. Mariposa.
May 20—S. S. Northwestern. May 20—S. S. Alaska.
May 25—S. S. Mariposa. May 25—S. S. Alameda.
May 31^—S. S. Alaska. Jane 1—S. S. Northwestern.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Sheep
Creek, Treadwell, Douglas, Skagway, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez and La
touche. Explosives. Right reserved to change schedule without notice.
F. B. TRACY, Gen’l Agent VALDEZ DOCK CO., Local Agent
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 die East
. over
THE NEW STEEL TRAIL
For: information and literature Write or ask
J, C. MARTIN, Agent, Valdez, Alaska^
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST, *£UL;RY.
A. E. HARRIS, Freight and Passenger Agt,
Juneau, Alaska.
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