EXPLOSION KILLS
PORT WELLS MINER
Body Was Riddled with Flying Rock
and Death Was Relief From
Terrible Suffering.
Joseph Moser, a well known Port
Wells miner died in Cordova last
Saturday from injuries received
while working on 'he North Star min
ing claim on Averv river, Port Wells,
by an explosion of dynamite.
Moser, who was working for Gus
Ohm, in the development of the
North Star claims, had six shots
planted and had ighted five of the
fuses and was lighting the fifth, when
one of the charges exploded and the
unfortunate man was practically rid
dled with pieces of flying rock.
Miners carried the injured man
from the mountain side and he was
taken to Cordova fn a launch, where
he received treatment from Dr. W. H.
Chase. Paralysis set in and death
ended his sufferings Saturday night.
Deceased was 41 years old and
will be buried in the Cordova ceme
tery.
FEAR IBECK AND WIFE
HAVE BEEN DROWNED.
Considerable a" .iety exists in Cor
dova as to the safety of Joe and
Mrs. Ibeck, Miss Dorothy Hancock
and Master Hanco k, who left Cor
dova for Middleton island about
August 11 and since which time
nothiag has been heard from them.
Another launch which passed Middle
ton some time later reported that the
party had not reached the island and
believed that possibly the party had
been caught in a storm and put back
to Boswell Bay. A launch will make,
the trip from Cordova to Middleton
island to see if the party are well as
their friends are much exercised as
to their safety.
Serial Story.
Series Nine and Ten of Lucille
Love, with Francis Ford and Grace
Cunard in the titlf- roles. At the Lib
erty tonight. *
ENTOMBED COAL MINERS
ARE RESCUED ALIVE.
LANGFORD, Pa., Oct. 6.—Nine
miners who were entombed alive in a
coal mine near here for eight days,
have been rescued alive and are re
ported to have suffered no injuries
which will prove fatal. When the
explosion occurrea the miners were
working in another part of the mine
and escaped the full force of the con
cussion. The rescuers were forced to
drive a tunnel several hundred feet
long to reach the imprisoned men, as
the old workings had been rendered
dangerous by the explosion.
WANT EIGHT-HOUR, DAY
AND UNION Jt1$GOGNIZEI>.
SCHENECTAD V N. Y., Oct. 5.—
Five thousand employes of the Gen
eral Electric company here have
struck for an eight hour day with the
present wage scale to be continued.
The employes have been working nine
hours and are determined that their
union shall be rec< gnized by the com
pany. The officials of the company
state that they will have no difficulty
in filling the places of the strikers.
PRESIDENT WILSON TO
SEE GREAT BALL GAME
WASHINGTON, Octfl 5.—It was
announced from the White House to
day that President Wilson will go to
Boston next Saturday to witness the
second game of the series in the fight
for the baseball chompionship of the
world, between the Boston Americans
and the Philadelphia Nationals, the
winners of their respective leagues.
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Tonight.
Series Nine an '. Ten of Lucille
Love, the Girl of Mystery, at the
Liberty Theatre tonight.
PINK SALMON PRICE IS
BELOW THAT OF LAST YEAR.
Cannerymen are disappointed over
the opening price of pink salmon,
which is 75 cents, or fifteen cents
lower than the opening price of last
year. The packers believed that the
price would be higher this year, ow
ing to this being an off-year on Pu
get Sound and Southeastern Alaska.
The opening prices of red and medi
um red salmon are up to expectations.
The prices are as follows: Per doz
en, tails—Reds, $1.50; medium reds,
$1.15; pinks, 75 cents; chums, 65
cents.
FRYE-BRUHN CO.
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Fresh
Beef, Pork, Veal, Mutton,
Poultry, and Provisions.
Fresh Stock on Every Boat.
PHONE 29.
FREE
AT THE
PINZON BAR
The following are the conditions
governing the gift of the Ford Au
tomobile advertised by the Pinson:
With each One Dollar purchase one
Coupon will be given entitling the
holder to one chance on the car—
absolutely free of charge.
The car to be given during Christ
mas week.
Family trade solicited. All orders
delivered. Remember a Dollar pur
chase entitles you to cne Coupon.
PINZON BAR
PHONE 69
CURIOUS MCE
STATE IN RUSSIA
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War Puts Gold at Discount Because
It Cannot Be Exported—Takes
Long Time to Close Busi
ness Deuls.
LONDON, Oct. 4.—Writing in the
London Standard, John Foster Fra
ser gives an interesting account of
curious money conditions in Russia
and also describes the American
business representatives in Petro
grad. He says:
“I see there is a stern appeal that
Englishmen should hand all their
gold over to the banks and receive
paper money in return. All the time
I was in Russia i never saw a piece
of gold; there is nothing but paper.
The exchange has slumped in Russia
is it never did before. In normal
tires you got to about 98 rubles for 10
tmisey uog to about 98 rubles for 10
pounds. It has been up to 160 and
a wayfarer like myself was able to
get 147.50 on a idler credit—or 30
pounds in Russian currency for my
twenty pounds of gold which was sup
posed to be lying in a bank at home.
“It is strange that the war puts
gold at an actual discount. I want
ed to change some English sovereigns
for Russian paper money at a Petro
grad bank, but I was offered an ex
change of 112, whereas on my check
I could get 147.50. A check is nego
tiable; it will buy goods in London
at its face value, whereas gold is not
negotiable, because its exportation is
prohibited.
“At the Finnish Swedish frontier
most travelers are searched and if
there is hidden gcd it is taken from
them. If it is si;i rendered there is
returned to them 112 in Russian
notes. You have no use for them
because you are going to Sweden, and
if you nurse the paper till you get
to London and reconvert it into En
glish currency you are lucky if you
get seven pounds for your original
ten pounds.
“Where the intervening three
pounds goes you do not know, but
you have to be satisfied; it has dis
appeared in the mystery of interna
tional currency.
“You have only to saunter into
the restaurant of the Astoria Hotel
in Petrograd to imagine that a boat
load of American tourists had sud
denly landed. The language of the
United States strikes the ear like the
hum of bees that are swarming.
“But they are i ot tourists. They
are American business men, who,
knowing that Russia needs things—
motor cars, aeroplanes, what you will
—which she canno* supply sufficiently
to herself, which she cannot get from
Germany, and which she has diffi
culty in securing from her allies,
France and England, who are in need
themselves, are willing to make con
tracts with the Russian government.
“Things do not hustle in Petro
grad, and it takes a mighty deal of
time to get a contract through.”
MACHINERY COMPANY FILES
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
The Harmon Machinery Co. has
been incorporated at Cordova and
articles were filed with the Secretary
of the Territory. The company is to
engage in a general machinery busi
ness, but is also empowered to ac
quire and work mines if it desires.
The capital stock was placed at $50,
000 and G. A. Harmon, Ed F. Med
ley and Fred Glashrenner are the in
corporators.
SIX PIONEERS ASK
BOARD FOR PENSION.
The Board of trustees of the Alas
ka Pioneers’ home received applies^
tions for allowances under the law
passed by the last legislature from
the following named men: Robert
M. Becker, 81, of Skagway; John So
len, 75, of Fairbanks; and Joseph
Nors, 71, Fred Seger, 71, Thomas
Hill 66, and Frank V. Lamb 65, all
of Nome.
Who Knows Where Tills Man Is?
Sherman Robnelt, of 700 W. Park
Ave., Columbia, Mo., has written to
Mayor Boyle, requesting the assis
tance of Alaska papers to help him
locate his father, John Robnett, who
was in Valdez when last heard from,
seven years ago. The boy is yearn
ing to hear from his father and any
one having Information concerning
the missing man are requested to in
form the boy at the above address,
or to Mayor Boyle.
Serial Story.
Series Nine and Ten of Lucille
Love, with Francis Ford and Grace
Cunard in the title roles. At the Lib
erty tonight. •
YOU want
not the slight
est shadow of
a doubt when
YOU bring your
prescription to a drug
store — investigate the
Valdez Drug Co’s pre
scription department.
773,500 CASES OF SALMON
IS THE S. E. ALASKA PACK.
A Juneau man who has kept close
tab on the canneries of Southeastern
'Alaska has compiled the following
estimates of the salmon pack In that
district for the season just closed. It
.is as follows:
;Sitkoh Bay . 95,000
.Hawk Inlet . 75,000
Funter Bay . 93,000
P. A. F., Excursion Inlet. 99,500
Petersburg . 63,000
Kake . 45,000
Handley-Madden, Copper river 60,000
A. P. A., Cook’s Inlet . 62,000
N. W. Fisheries, Chignik. 48,000
Deep Sea Fishing Co., Knik.... 13,000
Deep Sea Fish Co., Cape Ed. 45,000
N. W. Fisheries, Dundas . 35,000
Hoonah Pkg. Co. 60,000
Total .773,600
What Was That “War of Kebellion?”
The advertised "War of Rebel
lion” was explained last evening at
the “Mission” as the condition result
ing from the rebellion of man against
the law of God as intimated by the
conscience. This rebellion was brand
ed as an act of folly, ingratitude and
contempt of God on whom man ut
terly depends for his happiness. The
inward wickedness of this rebellion
was brought home to sinners by the
consideration of the wickedness in
herent in the rebellion of a son who
disowns the good father to whom he
owes his existence. The evil of sin
was further brought out by viewing
the monuments erected by sin in the
fall of the angels, and in the rebel
lion of our first parents, which brot
on humanity such an awful curse
that to lift it, the great God Himself
had to assume human nature and in
that nature expiate sin by making
Himself a suffering murdered vic
tim;
In the light of the cruelty of sin
which crucified the God-man the
speaker went on to urge his hearers
to an aversion from sin to a conver
sion to God by a penitent surrender
to His suffering love. The subject to
he treated this evening at 7:30 will
be "The Sting of Defeat.”
German Books Barred.
STOCKHOLM, Oct. 4.—The pos
session of books printed in the Ger
man language is now a crime in Rus
sia. The Petrog rad correspondent
of the Svenska Tidende, reports that
Dr. Paul Robikow, a scientist of Mos
cow, has been sentenced to three
years at hard labor because the po
lice found a number of German works
on philosophy and chemistry in his
library.
Received on last boat, a shipment
of Fresh Halibut and Ling Cod. Frye
Bruhn Co., Phone 29.
THE
CONTINUOUS SHOW
YOU CAN ALWAYS DEPEND
ON SEEING A GOOD SHOW AT
THE LIBERTY.
MORE FEATURES TO
FOLLOW.
WATCH ANNOUNCEMENTS
Admission 25c Children 10c
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING
McKinley Street, Valdez
ED. WOOD, Proprietor
The First Bank of Valdez
CAPITAL $25 000.
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ax PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS
OUR STOCKHOLDERS ARE
S. BLUM JOHN LYONS <
M. BLUM J. M. LATHROP <
E. B. WHEAT W. M. WILSON J
JAFET UNDEBERG <
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TERRITORIAL DEPOSITORY. ‘ j
The Pinzon
Cor. McKinley and Broadway VALDEZ, ALASKA.
Finest Pool and Billiard Room
In Alaska.
El Belmont ( I AQQiEI Sidello
Admiration \ IVJ/’AlVO ( Carabana
We handle only the Best
Cigars and Tobaccos.
Haas and Vogan Candies.
Free Auto Tickets
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PHONE 7 VALDEZ, ALASKA
Valdez Dock Co. PHONE NO. 1
JOBBER IN
COAL, HAY
GRAIN and
LUMBER
Office, foot of Wall street.
The After-Hours
Salesman
MANY concerns lose money every night by not attract
ing the attention of the crowds on the streets in the
evening. On the other hand, many other concerns pros
per because they employ the after-hours salesman—Elec
tric Light. You can readily pick out these stores on the
busiest thoroughfares—their show windows pouring a
brilliant flood of light upward, outward and downward,
thereby adding an attraction to the goods displayed not
obtainable in any other way. Few people can resist a
glance at the beautiful effect—most people stop and ad
mire it. The proprietors of these shops are well versed
in all modern methods which make for success in devel
oping trade. They know that the lavish use of electric
light pays, and use Edison Mazda Lamps to obtain it at
a minimum cost.
Alaska .Water, Light and
Telephone Company
DONALDSON SCHEDULE
Lvs. Port Liscum Lvs. Valdez
8:16 a.m. 9:45 a.m.
1:15 p.m. 4:00 p.m.
TUESDAYS
8:16 a.m. 9:45 a.m.
1:16 p.m. 2:00 p.m.
4:30 p.m. 5:00 p.m.
SATURDAYS
1:15 p.m. 4:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m. 10:30 p.m.
There will be no trip of the launch
on the second ana fourth Fridays of
each month, these days being used to
clean boilers.