STEAM HEATED HOT AND COLD BATHS
Copper Block Hotel
VALDEZ. ALASKA
“The House of Comfort”
PHONE 7 for men only
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Buy Alaska Made Cigars ]
ASK FOR W. R. King, Terminus, or Lavanna, j
Made in Seward by union workmen. £
We maintain onr atardard. Sold everywhere |
Notice to Creditors.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned has qualified as executor of
the will of George M. Yoshida, de
ceased; and that all persons having
claims against the estate of said dece
dent are required to present them
with the proper vouchers to said ex
ecutor at- the Owl Drug Store in Val
dez, Alaska, within six months from
the date of this notice, or the same
will be barred.
Dated January 15, 1916.
ANDY YAMASAKI,
Executor of the Will of George M.
Yoshida, Deceased.
First publication Jan. 15, 1916.
Last publication Feb. 5, 1916.
To the Merchants.
Don’t think we are slighting you
if we don’t call in every day and
make a purchase as there is so many
of you in the same line that we
would have nothing left to lay In
modern tools and machinery to keep
up with the automobile business, as
it Is setting a rapid pace for our lim
ited means, as we have no bank con
nected with the business; but we so
licit your patronage just the same,
and if you have an axe to grind, Just
bring it along; the emery wheel is
running. Valdez Iron Wks. sat-tf
Gus Anderson, of Ellamar, took an
involuntary bath In the Icy waters of
Valdez Bay yesterday afternoon while
helping to get the Katalla Queen,
which was swamped near the Valdez
dock, to shallow water. He was pull
ing on a line which parted, and ht,
went over backwards into the bay. He
was pulled out and suffered no ill ef
fects from his bath.
Col. Hardy, a well known capitalist
from the States, who has spent sev
eral months at Seward investigates
the possibilities of that district, w-i
a through passenger on the Admiivl
Evans this morning en route to his
home. He will return next summer.
The Best Place In Valdez to
Stop at is the
Arctic Hotel
Win, Light Room-Tie Home of Comfort
RATES ‘REASONABLE
BATH ROOM Special Ratea By tie Monti
PHONE 133 MRS. SYRING, Prop.
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING
/
McKinley Street, Valdez
ED. WOOD. Proprietor
VALDEZ 1/ODGE
NO 108
Free anil Awr|»«**l Mn»on»
Regular Communications first Wed
oeMiiay In each month In McKinley
Hall. Visitors alwn.vn welcome.
A. R. UKICSBY, W. M.
ED. WOOD. Secretary.
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
ecoeot SCXTON. ■»*«»'.
SiRICTLv FIRST CLASS
Fo«irtli: Ave, Seward, Alaska
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Waatara Fadaration of Minara
ROBERT SHAFFEB^Praridaat, >
CRAS.afaCAU.UM^argp^.
PANAMA CANAL. RECORD
BROKEN IN TRENCHES
WASHINGTON: While the gov
ernment of the United States is la
menting the delay that has been caus
ed by slides in the Panama Canal, of
ficials of the state department^have
received through the French embas
sy some startling statistics calculat
ing the amount of soil that has been
moved in the work of trench making.
There are about 600 miles of first line
trenches all the way from the North
Sea to Switzerland. And there are
five or six lines of trenches on each
side. A total of ten lines of trenches
on the two sides would give a length
about 5,000 miles and this, says the
statistician, has involved a task of
excavation twice as great as that oi
the Panama Canal. And it has been
done by hand labor and with military
shovels, while much of it has been
done under fire and by men who have
to work while lying on their chests.
—Ex.
DIAMOND SMUGGLING
GAME WAS NIPPED
NEW YORK: The confiscation by
a British cruiser of a parcel post
package containing $480,000 in con
cealed diamonds, on board a boat
bound from Rotterdam to Copenha
gen has ended a scheme which has
allowed $5,000,000 worth of dia
monds to be smuggled into the Uni
ted States from Antwerp by parcel
post. Parcels which usually were
mailed at Amsterdam went to Rotter
dam, thence to Copenhagen, and
placed on a boat for the United
States. Prosperity in America has
caused a heavy'demand for diamonds
so that those smuggled Into this
country have not affected the mar
ket. in a recent week importations
of precious stones from Amsterdam
and London at New York were thirty
times what they were in the same
week a year ago.
DRY WAVE AS CREST
AND READY TO TOPPLE.
LOUISVILLE: “The prohibition
wave, like any other wave, must top
ple at its crest,” said T. M. Gilmore,
president, in making his report at
the annual meetihg of the National
Model License League.
“The crest was reached when a
genuine prohibition bill became oper
ative in Arizona this year. As soon
as the effect of this drastic measure
began to be felt the units of the pro
hibition wave began falling over each
other in a wild effort to get back to
normal conditions. The history of
the prohibition wave that rose so high
and fell so far in 1855 is about to be
repeated.”
Catholic Church Services.
Rev. John T. Corbett, S. J.. Pastor.
For the Revered Nuns: Holy Com
munion at 6:45 a. m. Mass and Ser
mon at 9:00 a. m. Benediction at
6:30 p. m.
For the Parish: Holy Coirmnnion
Service at 7:30 and 8:30 a. m. Mass1
at 10:30 a. m. Sermon, topic. “The
Divine Physician and the Ministry of
His Priests.” Sunday School at 2 p.
m. Vespers and Benediction at 7:31*
p. m. Conference, topic: “Hallowed
Be Thy Name.” Meeting of the La
dies’ Sewing Circle in the Rectory
Parlors at 2 p. m. Tuesday. .Meeting
for choir rehearsal at 7:30 Friday
evening; meeting of the altar boys,
2:30 Sunday afternoon.
The Ursullne Nuns announce that
they will receive visitors from 2 to
5 Sunday afternoons.
Week-day Mass at 7:30 in the
church except during very inclement
weather.
KATALLA QUEE^'
ESCAPED DAMAGE
The launch Katalla Queen, oVned
by the Bay of Isles Mining company,
which was swamped yesterday morn
ing near the Valdes Dock company’s
wharf, was towed at high tide to a
safe place on the tideflat, where she
will be made ready for service. It is.
reported that the launch suffered no
damage except to her electric batter
ies which will have to be renewed.
SEWARD MAH IS
DEFAMED JUDGE
Councilman Bergen Makes Statements
Before Council Which He Should
Know Are Untrue.
The Seward Gateway states that the
peopre of that town are indignant
over the utterances of Councilman
Borgen of Seward, who declared at a
recent meeting of the council, that
Judge Fred M. Brown had been in
fluenced in his decision in the recent
dock case tried before him here.
The Seward councilman is report
ed to have declared that “Brown gave
that decision because he was a stock
holder in the wharf and you bet his
decision will be reversed.” The amaz
ing assertion was made during a dis
cussion in the council meeting over
the right of the municipal authori
ties of Alaska coast towns to grao*
wharf franchises.
• The Gateway states that Mayor
Myers, of Cordova, was not present
when the assertion against Judge
Brown was made or in all probability
the councilman would have been re
quired to retract the statement.
Judge Fred M. Brown’s connection
with the Valdez Dock is too well
known by the residents of Valdez to
require reiteration. They know that
he was one of the enterprising pio
neers of this town who spent their
money to provide facilities for tai.fl
ing passengers and freight from *be
steamers in order that others might
be induced to come here and help
build the town. Judge Brown, it
was shown during the trial, in which
he rendered the decision to which the
Seward councilman objects, has long
since severed his connection with the
enterprise and in rendering his deci
sion in the case was guided only by
the precedents in law governing the
rights of municipalities to extend Jur
isdiction over the waterfronts.
Judge Brown is at present on his
vacation to the states and it is not
known if he would take any action
against his defamer if he wore here
but his many Va'ldez friends resent
the imputation that in rendering his
decision in the case that he was in
fluenced in any way. Aside D-om his
judi.,!al duties Judge Brown has
shown that he is always readv to sac
riflee his personal interests for the
Ibeheilt ..f the community.
The reward ^ham~or 01 Commerce
is urging the esi>~—shment of a
large cold storage plant there in or
der to enable the small fishermen to
work the hauDut ba_»vd In this sec
tion. ». is said that under present
conditions the smaller boats work
ing between Middleton Island and
Kocnak are unable to compete with
the largest boats because the present
storage facilities are too far away.
The Chamber of Commerce believes
that it will experience little difficulty
in enlisting capital in the enterprise
of providing for the storage. The
fishermen of the district have also
forwarded a petition to Washington
asking government aid to destroy the
hundreds of hair seal which prey
upon the fish in the vicinity of Res
urrection Bay.
H. W. Fisk, who spent seven years
on the coast of Alaska, has written to
the Fairbanks Chamber of Com
merce that he is building a flatbottom
boat to ply. on the shallow rivers of
the interior. The boat will be
equipped with an entirely new mod
el of stern wheel which he has in
vented. The paddles are five and
one-half feet long, twelve inches
wide. They travel around their course
in a vortical position. In other words
they strike the water edgewise, trav
el straight back and come out of the
water edgewise and are pushing all
the time they are in the water. .The
builder believes that his boat, 45
feet overall with ten feet beam, can
be operated in twelve inches of water,
carrying from six to eight tons.
.The miners in the Dime creek dis
tricts are again demanding that a re
cording precinct be established there
in order to obviate their making the
long trip to Council to record claims.
They say that the long journey to
Council in the winter is almost im
possible to some of the miners and
its attendant expenses work a hard
ship on all of them.
The demand for the hides of the
white whales is reported to be in
creasing but the price as yet is not
much of an incentive to engage in
the industry. Nome fisherman are re
ceiving live cents per pound for the
hides, which bring about $3.76 each.
The blubber and meat also find a
ready sale and fisherman using
smatl boats believe that things will
boom a bit in the trading line next
summer.
4
Session of Territorial Committee
Goes Over Until February to
Get New Rules.
The meeting of the Republican ter
ritorial committee has been postpon
ed from January 27 until the arrival
of the steamer Evans in Seward early
in February. A message from Chair
man Chas. E. Herron to E E. Ritchie
today states the postponement as fol
lows:
“Have wired Whittemore to call
meeting on 27th and note an ad
journment until arrival of steamer
Evans about February 6, on ac
count of delay in receiving new
rules promulgated by national com
mittee at Washington, December
seventh.’’
As the steamer Evans will not reach
Seattle before January 28, she will
not sail from that port in time to
reach Seward February 5, but the
statement made in the message indi
cates that she will sail as soon as she
can get ready for her return trip.
The latest information regarding
the Republican territorial convention
is that it may not be held until April.
It is reported from Seattle that some
of the politicians consider March too
early. That was the time first sug
gested by Chairman Herron. The
Valdez Republican club a week ago
recommended a date between April
10 and April 20 as the most fitting
time.
The drill taken in the Moose Pass
district to prospect the mining pro
perty of Herschel Parker and others,
for the Miami Mining Company, will
he shipped to San Francisco on one
of the first steamers and will be sent
to South America where it will be
used in investigating properties in
which the company is interested.
W. J. Rowe Is of the opinion that
there is more prospecting going on
this winter than for many years and
states that the number of small outfits
going to the hills is far greater than
ever l^efore in all his experience. His
teams have all been busy from the
day that the first snow made travel
ing easy and at times the pressure
has been almost greater than could
be handled even with Its excellent fa
cilities.—Nome Nugget.
LOCAL llliEVITIEB.
Pasteurized Whipping Cream and
pure Buttermilk at Love-Whltley’s.
B. F. Watson, general agent for
the Pacific Alaska Navigation com
pany in Alaska, was a through pas
senger on the Admiral Evens this
morning from Seward en route to
Seattle. He has been appointed assis
tant passenger and freight agent for
the company at Seattle and will make
his home there.
Pictures developed at the Valdei
Drug Company. tf.
A fine display of nugget jewelry at
Valdez Drug Co. tf
Furnished rooms at Mrs. Osland's
Prices reasonable. *
H. Carey, formerly freight clerk
on the Admiral Evans, Is acting lr
the capacity of purser on this trip of
the steamer in place of the well
known Tom Keough. Reports have'it
that Keough is soon to desert the
rpnks of the bachelors.
Pure Fresh Drugs at the Valde?
Drug Store. *
Hats Cleaned and Blocked.
Hats cleaned and blocked; suits
cleaned and pressed.
tf CUV F. CAMERON.
PORTRAITS made bv appointment
Tn your own home, by E, W. Sheelor
Phone 185. tf
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Nugget jewelry made to order at
the Valdez Drug Co., by O. O.
Reinka. tf
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FOR RENT: Nice three-room cot
tage down town, completely furnish
'd. Rent $15.00. Apply to James
Fish. tf
Just received .the flnest line of
i neckties ever shown In Valdez, at
Ben 8ilvorman’s.
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Anything m the jewelry line at the
Valdez Drug Co. tf
Kodak Supplies at the Valder
: Drug Comnany. tf
Panoramic views of Child’s and
Miles glaciers, Dawson, Valdes and
Wrangel on sale at the Valdes Drug
store. tf
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 I I Foot Keystone Ave
Telephone 66 1 I Roujrh Dry 10c lb
MERCHANT’S CAFE
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone 03 Clias. Fischer, Propr.
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Beat of Meals—Prices Reasonable
GENERAL. STORE. - TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chitina.
General Freighting. KNUTE nafsted. Mgr.
VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Real Estate, Insurance, General Brokerage
Absentees Business Properly Handled
Treat Budding, Alaska Ave. Telephone No. 60
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
rLI MBING, 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
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
PUGET SOUND Admiral* PUGET SOUND
California Lino Alaska
ALASKA
Steamers sail from Seattle at 9 P. M. on
5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH
Steadier Sailing 13th call# Illumna and Kodiak—All Sailing call at Knlk
uutl Aucltorngr.
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to San Francisco every Wednesday nnd Sunday, connecting with
Slenuiera Vale and Harvard for Southern Californio.
Right reserved to change schedule without notice
RICTIARD J. IIIXUIVOOU. Mgr.. Senttlei VALDEZ DOCK CO., Local Agt.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
S. 8. ALAMEDA AND 8. 8. NORTHWESTERN SAII4 FROM SE
ATTLE THE 10TH, 20TU AND 30TH,
EVERY MONTH
FROM VALDEZ SOUTH—8TH, 18TH, 28TH, FOR CORDOVA,
JUNEAU, WRANGEIi, KETCHIKAN AND SEATTLE.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Sheep
Creek, Treadwell. Douglas, Skngway, Cordova, Eliainar, Valdes and Ln
touclie. Explosives, S. S. Seward, on the 6th; Lalou-'he, on the 15th: S. 8.
Cordova, Hath of each month—right reserved to change this schedule
without notion.
P. B. TltACY, GeaT Agent VALDES DOCK CO„ Local Agent.
When You Leave
For the Outside
take the
“MILWAUKEE”
One road—one management—one service all the wag
through to Chicago. It’s the Short Line to the East
over
THE NEW STEEL TRAIL
For information and literature write or aifc
J. C. MARTIN, Agent, Valdes, Alaska.
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE A ST, PAUL RY.
A E. HARRIS, Freight and Passenger Agt,
Juneau, Alaska.