DOUGHNUTS
* "The secret to the doughnuts did not burn,
tome—I fry them, you buy them—and our
Sale Still Continues
Some fine bargains yet—Lots of new
goods have arrived. ....
, Entrance, first floor former P. O. Building to
Schmidt's Table Queen Grocery
The Home of the Home-Made Doughnut.
Fresh Butter and Eggs.
STEAM HEATED HOT AND COLD BATHS
Copper Block Hotel
VALDEZ, ALASKA '
“The House of Comfort”
PHONE 7 FOR MEN ONLY
In the ikyorce case of Isabel Mc
Donald vs. Ray McDonald, before the
district court yesterday afternoon, a
decree was granted.
The U. S. marshal’s office has re
ceived advices that Ed Timouen, a
citizen of Anchorage, had been found
insane in Commissioner David's court
on February ISth. He will be
drought over the winter trail by one
of the deputies from the office here
and will be taken to the Morningside
sanitarium.
Don't Miss It.
Be sure and see that Broadway
Masterpiece tonight at the Liberty
Theatre “The Lost House” adapted
from the book of the same title by
Richard Harding Davis. *
Ed Hunt is now all ready for bus
iness in the Owl Drug tSore. He has
a fine new counter.
James Hagen was a passenger on
the launch Shamrock for Fidalgo bay
this morning, having accepted a po
sition with the Alaska Mines Corpo
ration.
Ohas. Knoche of Ellaraar, who has
been spending a few days in town
on business, returned to the copper
city this morning on the Shamrock.
Andrew Griswold, who is exten
sively engaged in fox raising and
trading at Sand Point, near Unga,
was a passenger on the Alameda yes
terday en route to the States. He re
ported that severe storms have been
raging to the westward for several
weeks and that small boats have
been compelled to keep close to their
places of shelter.
i Furnished rooms at Mrs. Oe land's.
Prices reasonable. •
..At The..
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10,000,000 People Already
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MUTUAL
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EYES OF THE DEER.
An Incident That Spoiled a Hunter's
Pleasure In the Chase.
A Canadian hunter tells this incident
of ha*' he once came face to face with
his quarry and hadn’t (he heart to Are:
••It wasn’t a case of ’buck fever,’ such
as a novice might experience, for I had
been a hunter for many years and bad
killed a good many deer.
“This was a particularly Ane buck
that I had followed for three days. A
strong man can run any deer £o earth In
time, and at last 1 had my prey tired
out. Krom the top of a hill I sighted
him a few miles away. He had given
up the fight and bad stretched himself
out on the snow. As I stalked him he
changed tils position and took shelter
behind a bowlder, and. using the same
bowlder for a shelter, I came suddenly
face to face with him. He didn’t at
tempt to run away, but stood there
looking at me with the most piteous
pair of eyes 1 ever saw.'
j “Shoot? I could have no more shot
him that I could have shot a child,
i Had ihe chance come from a distance
j of a hundred yards I would have shot
him down and carried his antlers home
in triumph, but once having looked Into
those eyes it would have been nothing
! less than murder. I have hunted deer
| since then, but I find the sport affords
I me little pleasure. Whenever 1 draw a
j bead the picture or those mute, appeal.
I Ing eyes comes before me. and though
j it lias not prevented me from pulling
\ the trigger. I have always fell glad
| somehow when m.v bullet failed to find
I its mark.”
THE WIDOW CUSTIS.
1 She Was an Heiress and a Great Catch
When George Won Her.
j George Washington in marrying a
i great .heiress set a precedent which
j few of his successors have followeiL
! The pretty, bright eyed, little Virginia
j widow Mrs. i.'uistie, whose lands, slaves,
dollars and mansions were Inherited
from both her husband and her father,
was the greatest “catch” of her day.
; and young Washington was greatly en
vied when he persuaded her to say
; “Yes." This marriage enabled him to
hold his own among tbe plutocrats of
the time and to be free from any tinan
vial worries.
Mrs. Washington, whose wealth could
have added most to tbo splendors of
Die White House, never occupied the
mansion, as it. was finished only four
months before- the expiration of John
Adams’ terra, and Mrs. Adams was Its
first chatelaine. It was then referred
jo as “the palace.” and each president
was expected to provide for its mainte
nance and pay for its hospitalities out
of bis salary of $25,000 a year.
[ At this rate few presidents left the
White House as well off financially as
they entered it. So meager were the
; appropriations for the "care and main
tenanee" of the White House during
, the first half of tbe nineteenth century
j that several president# departed from
it deeply in debt, and nearly alt died
poor.--New York World.
The Treasury Department.
Alexander Hamilton was the first
secretary of the treasury (l7S9-9i>i
Michael Hillegas was the first United
States treasurer Hillegas was appoint
ed to the office July 29, 1775. when he
and Oeorge Clyrner were chosen to
gether in the formation of what was
the germ of the treasury department.
Hillegas served alone through pracieal
ly his entire term, however, as Clyrner
soon resigned to take a seat as delis'
gate to congress. Hillegas' term ex
pired Sept. 11, 1789, and he was suc
ceeded by Samuel Meredith. Both men
were from Pennsylvania. The treasury
department was formally organized
by act of Sept 2, 1789. but, strictly
speaking, this was merely a reorgani
zation, for the department under vari
ous names had been in existence since
1776.
Th» New Zealand Eel.
.At a recent meeting of one of the
New Zealand acclimatization societies
the curator of a game farm reported
that be had included eels in the list of
vermin which caused the death of
young pheasants. He gave bis assur
ance that no fewer than seventeen
young birds had been lost oWing to
cels seizing their bends while they
were in the act of drinking creek wa
ter. The deaths of innumerable young
ducks had been caused by eels, and it
was a common thing to see scores of
ducks minus a leg, which hau been
dragged off by these voracious fish.
Best Wishes.
"Father, i had a fight ’With Percy
Raymond toduy.’
"I know you did." replied the father
soberly. “Mr. Raymond came to see
ute about it.” '
“Well," said the son, “1 hope you
came out as well as I did.”—Ladles’
Home Journal.
Thoughtlessness.
“Which ure the pictures In your gal
lery that you value most highly?"
“1 dunnoi" replied Mr. Cumrox.
♦Mother an’ the girls told the man to
go round and take off the price marks
I had put ou ’em before I had time to
learn ’<*m by hoart.’’—Washington Star
He Had Painted Too.
■‘My dear fellow,” said the artist,
"you can’t Imagine bow much work
there was in painting that picture.”
“Oh, yes 1 ean.” said the young coun
try lad. “my father made me paint the
barn oue summer." -- St Louis Post
Dispatch.
Still Worse.
Kathryn—I hear that you said I was
double faced. •
Kltt.ve— 1 never did. i merely said
you were double chinned.—Hew Ydrk
Globe: <
WET GUNCOTTON.
More Stablo Than Dry and Explodes j
Only From a Severe Shock.
Owing lo iSo high percentage: of nitXo- |
n oxide, guncotton when exposed to I
.• in ;i dry state rapidly absorbs oxy
cii from tlie air and becomes very
dangerous, exploding spontaneously or
from slight shock. Dry guncotton ill
unconflned mass merely burns with a
ilasli like gunpowder, only much more j
rapidly; it does not exert explosive of- j
feet unless confined, as in a shell. In j
its dry state guncotton is seldom used j
for primers and detonntors. as it is too '
unstable and will explode with a slight
shock or blow.
The guncotton carried aboard war
vessel# and submarines for the ex- !
plosive charge of torpedoes is always ;
wet guncotton, kept in air tight con-j
talncrs to prevent evaporation of mois- !
lure. Wet guncotton can be exploded j
only by a severe shock; hence primers !
or detonators of some more powerful j
explosive are necessary, these explod- !
ing on impact of the torpedo against, a ,
ship's side and In turn exploding the j
guncotton in the war head. Fifty to 100 !
pounds is the usual charge of a tor- ;
pedo.
Ordinarily safe If properly slowed :
away from heat and kept moist, gun- ;
cotton becomes dangerous from lialiil- 1
ity (o spontaneous explosion when a j
slight, excess of acid is present, and I
constant and regular tests for acidity i
are part of the duties of ordnance ofii- ■
cers of war vessels and ammunition
depots. Ouncotton giving a high acid
test Is promptly condemned and either j
destroyed or reworked and washed.— 1
American Druggist.
LAW OLD AND NEW.
A Cynical View of Past Methods and '
Those of the Present.
Law. more especially criminal law,
bus usually been an occult science, ft.
is still (Jie practice in Burma, we be
Move, to give two disputants candles of
the same size, to be lighted at the
same lime. The one whose candle
burns longest, gets judgment against
the other.
Less than 100 years ago a defendant
in an English criminal trial appealed
to the ordeal of battle, and the court
was more or less surprised to find that
the ancient taw oil which he relied had
never been repealed.
Determining a man's guilt or inno
cence by tils ability to walk on hot
plowshares or carry a hot iron or
drink a poisonous decoction or by
throwing him Ixiund into water has
been pra<*tlced for ages among many
peoples. The medieval method of let
ting accused and accuser fight tt out
with weapons was common over Eu
rope.
Our modest ancestors confessed their
inability to Hud the merits of the
cause and so relegated the whole af
fair to the intervention of supernatural
agencies.’ The main difference h that
we are less modest. Instead of the
ordeal of battle or the old key and Bi
bb* test or the ' sieve witch." we have
the defendant play a game of trip the
court. If he can catch the judge put
ting down an "i“ dot over an “e” tie
wins and Is pronounced innocent.-Sat
urday Evening Post.
Snuff and a Crook.
Hubert Pinkerton unce told a story
of bis father, the founder of the de
tective agency, which Illustrates the
elder Pinkerton's caution. A noted'
criminal was detained in Pinkerton's
Chicago office. The elder Pinkerton
left the room and when he returned
took the precaution of holding a re-1
volver in front of him ready for use.
lie saw the criminal standing by the
•door with a snuffbox be bad picked
up from Pinkerton’s desk iu his band.
•‘This is good suuff.’ affably re- j
marked the crook as he took a sniff.
••For rite eyes or the nose?" asked
Pinkerton, who knew that the crook
had intended to blind birii in an effort
to escape.
•Well." remarked the criminal. "I'm’
sorry to say that the nose gets it this
time."
Flexibility of English.
Fnglisb is not. only, as Richard Jef
feries asserted, the most expressive,
and flexible of- tongues, but also, in
Swinburne's opinion, 'the most musical,
lie proclaimed the lines—
Music dial geuilier on the spirit lies 1
Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes
to be unmatched for melody in any
language. And few would venture to
contradict such a master of music.and
tongues. But surely French ranks next
on the roll of languages. Fur clearness
of diction it is unrivaled, and. thanks
to its abundance of vowels (close on
one for every consonant), it. flow’s
rhythmically from the tongue.
An Odd Apology.
This is the classic apology of a cele
brated statesman of the last, genera
tion: “Mr. Speaker, In the beat of de
bate I stated that the right honorable
gentleman opposite waa a dishonest
and unprincipled adventurer. 1 have
now, in a calmer moment, to state
that I am sorry for it.”
■ i
' Ono Lesson Loamod.
"In this practice to become a soldier
your first lesson must be of prompt
and unquestioning obedience to yonr
superior officer."
“That’s all right, captain; I’m mar
ried. What’s the next lesson?"—Balti
more American.
The Old Family Tree. •
“What a lot of men get Jobs on the
strqpgtb of their ancestry!"
"Yes. A good-family tree has pro
duced many a plum!”—New York Tele
graph.
CITY EXPRESS
will guarantee that both you and your baggage will
reach the boat on time—Let us do the
worrying.
J. A. SPENARD, Proprietor Phone 82
Independent Steam Laundry
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Telephone 66
I
Foot Keystone Ave
Rou*fb 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
Phoue 68 '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
PJULMBIXG, STEAM AND HOT WATER HEATING,
Sheet Metal Work, Mine Air Pipe, Pipe and Fittings, Valves, Etc.
Motor Boat Supplies, Paints and Oils,
located on Valdez Dock, Opposite Prospector Office. Phone 24
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
S. S. ALAMEDA AND S. S. NORTHWESTERN SAIL FROM SE
ATTLE THE 10Tn, 20TH AND 30TH,
EVERY MONTH
FROM VALDEZ SOUTH—8TH, 18TH, 28TH, FOR CORDOVA,
JUNEAU, WRANGEL, KETCHIKAN AND SEATTLE.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell Juneau, Sheen
Creek. Treadwell Douglas. Skagway. Cordova. Ellamar, Valdez and La
touche. Explosives, R. S. Seward, on the 5th; Latouche, on the 15th- S s
Cordova. 25th of each month—right reserved to change this schedule
without notice.
P. B. TRACT, Gen’l jkgent VALULA DUCK OO.. Local Agent.
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
PUGET SOUND
California
Admiral
Line
PUGET SOUND
Alaska
ALASKA
Steamers sail from Seattle at 9 P. M. on
5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH
Steamer Sailing: lltk enlla llftnmnn and Kodiak.—All Sailing: eaffe at KnSJk
and Anehorngre.
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to San Francisco every Wednesday and Sunday, connecting with
Stenmera Yale aad Harvard for Southern California.
Right reserved to change schedule without notice
RICHARD J. RING WOOD. Mgr.. Seattle: VAL.HEt DOCK CO* l.oeal Ast
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.