| Special Xmas Week Sale j
i All silver mesh bags and vanity cases to be
V closed out at one-half price
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All Casseroles at One-Third Off
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A large assortment of candies in beautiful Xmas boxes ;
from which to select. •> > •
Many durable and entertaining toys for the young folks jj
OWL DRUG CO. jj
BH88KLL HERMANN, Manager.
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STEAM HEATED HOT AND COLD BATHS
Copper Block Hotel
VALDEZ, ALASKA
“The House of Comfort”
PHONE'7 FOR MEN ONLY
MERCHANT’S CAFE
^ FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAIRY
Phone 63 Ohas. Fischer, Propr.
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ALASKANS WANT SOMETHING
TO NAME FOR BROOKS.
Anyone knowing of a nice, high
mounts::., .u Alaska without a name—
one a little higher than Mount Mc
klnley preferred; or failing a moun
tain, if they know of a river in Alas
ka that is as big or a little bigger
than the Yukon, they will confer a
favor on a number of residents of
the Territory and of the Fairbanks re
gion in particular, by sending infor
i matibn as to location and other par
ticulars. The Fairbanksians want to
name it Mount Brooks or Brooks
River, in honor of Alfred H. Brooks,
head of the United States geological
survey.
Brooks spent seventeen years in
scientific exploring in Alaska. He has
discovered numberless unnamed riv
ers and mountains, and has indicated
a dozen times the places where gold
and other minerals would be found.
He explored the headwaters of the
Tanana River many years ago. In
1902 his reports indicated that gold
would be found at a certain point on
this stream. Prospectors went there
with the result that the-town of Fair
banks sprang into being. Two or
three years ago his reports indicated
the presence of placer gold in the Tol
ovana region. It was found there by
Jay Livingobd on a stream which he
named for himself.
Alaskans are not ungrateful. They
Bad seen^tneir mountains unu rivers
and towns named for people of more
or less consequence and thought it
about time that the head of the geo
logical department should be recog
nised. He had been too modest to
name anything for himself. So, when
someone at the miners’ meeting fol
lowing the discovery, asked for sug
gestions on a name for the camp, a
dozen voices shouted: “Let’s name it
after Doctor Brooks!” It was car
ried unanimously and enthusiastical
ly. Brooks it was.
But it didn’t remain Brooks very
long. A postoffice was asked for, and
then some clerk ddwn at Washing
ton discovered that there are al
ready a couple of postoffices in the
States name® Brooks, so they chang
ed the northern one to Livengood.
Were the miners going to stand
for this affront to their meeting?
They were not. They consulted Fed
eral Judge Charles E. Bunnell, re
questing him to creat a new district
and directing that the court be situ
ated at the city of Brooks. So, here
after, letters must be addressed to
Brooks, Alaska, Livengood postof
fice.’’
And that isn’t the end of it. The
Northerners are going out to look
for a new mountain or a big river
so they can name it Brooks; and if
the postal authorities are not watch
ful they are liable to steal the name
from Mount McKinley or St. Elias and
stick up a Brook’s monument at the
su'mmit.—J. J. Underwood in Seat
tle Times.
POLKS DRIVEN FROM
HOMES LIKE BEEVES
PORTLAND: J. Nehring, ^ resi
dent jpf this city, has just received a
V.etter from a German friend who is
®a resident of Russia, telling of the
hardships of the people interned. The
latter in part says:
“On June 20 last we were forced
to leave our homes in Volhynia, and
on July 27 we arrived here. (Jaroe
lay); during that time we underwent
cruelties such as not one of us had
ever dreamed of facing.
“Not only hundreds, but thou
sands of our people died on the way
of starvation and the cruel treatment.
We were treated worse than dogs.
We were driver out of our homes, and
off our lands, without food and with
out money, and sent eastward. We
were not given an instant’s time to
provide ourselves with any necessar
ies of life. We are not told where
we are going or what will be done
with us, but we are driven like cat
tle to the slaughter, and one person
does not know where the other one
has gone.
“On reaching Minsk we were sep
arated from our,friends and now my
wife and I are alone.
“We are unable to sell anything to
raise money for our needs, as the
Jews were prohibited from buying
anything we Germans had to offer.
If a Jew bought a cow from a Ger
man he was sent to prison for six
months and fined 3,000 roubles and
the Russian peasants simply could
not buy.
’’Many of our people are scattered.
A man knows nothing of the where
abouts of his wife and children have
been separated from their parents.
Everywhere there is misery, weeping,
complaint, absolute want, starvation
and illness. Everywhere are sick
people. At every village cemetery
we passed two or three of the fallen
are buried. *
I reared all along that I would be
beaten to death, and so 1 strained
myselt to continue on the way, for
the Cossacks drove us like cattle and
whoever fell back was cruelly beaten.
We were driven like dogs, and women
and children were brutally beaten un
til they could rise no more. Once in
three days we received food except
at one point. That was when we were
still in the Volhoynia. Whoever had
a little money could buy food but
those without money had to beg. The
farmers gave many a one a piece ot
bread and did all they could for us.
Finally, as a result of the awful mis
ery and want, the hearts of even the
Cossacks softened and some of the
starving people were given a little
food by the soldiers, or many, of ut
would have starved to death.”
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 keel
up with the automobile business, at
It is setting a rapid pace for our lim
ited means, as we have no bank con
nected with the business; hut we so
licit your patronage just the same,
and if you have an axe to grind, Just
bring It along; the emery wheel it
running. Valdez Iron Wks. sat-tf
Notice to the Public.
As the management and the em
ployes wish to attend the Ploneer’t
Ball at Eagle Hall tonight, the Lib
erty Theatre will be closed. A. new
flrst-claifc program Is Arranged foi
Sunday night.
The Liberty extends its wishes foi
a happy and successful New Year tc
all.
MRS. ALBERT WHITE.
Furnished rooms at t
Prices reasonable.
STORM PULS
DOWN THE SOUND
Launch Katalla Queen Battles with
Waves Between Knight’s Isl
and the Narrows.
The launch Katalla Queen came up
the lay last night from Knight’s Isl
and and her passengers report a ter
rific storm raging outside the nar
rows. On her way from Knight’s
island the launch was forced to seek
shelter and was kept in a quiet bay
for a whole day. When the Katalla
Queen was nearing the Valdez Dock
last night and the men were prepar
ing to tie up to the wharf, the engine
stopped and before it could be start
ed again the launch drifted out into
the bay where she was tossed about
by the storm. After an anxious half
hour the engine was started and a
landing effected.
During the trip the waves repeated
ly broke over the launch, drenching
the man at the wheel and necessitat
ing frequent changes of steersmen.
The Katalla Queen is one of the most
seaworthy launches in these waters,
and was used for several seasons in
the lighterage business at Katalla
during the railroad construction and
oil boom days.
The passengers were the miners
and others who have been working
on the copper property which P. J.
Benner and associates are develop
ing at Knight’s Island, including V.
G. Vance, P. O’Brien, V. Pox, Alvin
Buffo, L. Mun,K, Jos. Anderson, C.
Sanders, and P. H. Bonner.
UNCLE SAM FINDS WIFE
FOR FORMER ALASKA N
The many Valdez friends of Geo.
Dreibelbis, who for a time was con
nected with the U. S. marshal’s of
fice in this division some years ago
will be interested in the following
story taken from the columns of the
San Francisco Examiner.
Uncle Sam has prosecuted scores
of matrimonial agents. Now, invol
untarily, he has become one of them.
Here’s how!
Charles Dreibelbis, owner of a four
thousand acre ranch in Montana,
came to the stockyards last Spring
with fifteen carloads of cattle. He
sold his stock, then strolled out to
see the sights, and saw the sign of
the federal employment bureau. The
rancher wanted a housekeeper. He
had lost his wife eight years before
in the gold fields of Alaska.
Ward E. Thompson, government
employment agent, asked concerning
his means.
“Well,” said the rancher, “I sup
pose if I had to I could raise $600,
000 in two hours. I have a home in
Montana, fifty-six miles from a rail
road. I want someone to tidy up
the house a bit and keep it looking
pretty.”
Thompson thought of a woman
who had applied for work. He tele
graphed to her and she came to his
office. She was followed by a 17
year-old son. Drebelbis offered to
pay $40 a month to her and her son.
But the woman hesitated. The
rancher returned home without her,
but left money for her transportation.
The woman, seeking matrimony,
wrote him many letters, but he was
not anxious to marry. All he wanted
was a housekeeper.
On May 16 a pretty wiaow, -so
years old, accompanied by a little
boy, asked. Thompson to find a posi
tion for - her son. She had been a
stenographer.
“I have just the place.” Bald the
agent, and he wired to the rancher.
“Send her along,” was the answer.
The widow went to Montana.
And now Thompson has received
an engraved announcement. It reads:
“Charles Dreibelbis and Mrs. Marjo
rie L. Yates announce their marriage
Saturday, July 24, 1916. At home,
Wolsey, Mont.”
And with it was an Invitation tc
Thompson to “come out and brln|
the family.”
The United States is the largest
producer of raw sealskins in the
world and the greatest consumer ol
finished seal skins.
A process has been patented for in
creasing the durability of lead painte
by the addition of soft water, sine
sulphate and kerosene.
China has oil and salt wells more
than 2000 feet deep which were drill
ed through solid rock by hand with
the most primitive instruments.
> Ope of the worlds most powerful
wireless stations is being built bj
the French government on the Island
of Tahita.
Experiments are under way ir
England with a new fuel for auto
mobiles that Is made from sugar re
finery refuse and is said that have t
power greater than gasoline.
JOFFRE PLANS WAR
FOR TWO YEARN AHEAD
PARIS: The plans of General
Joffre, who has been supreme com
mander of all the French forces en
gaged in the various theatres of war,
and head of the council of the Allied
forces, contemplates two more years
of war at least, and the defeat of the
Central powers, according to infor
mation that is alleged by the Paris
Journal to be absolutely authentic.
It is said that the plan of campaign
contemplates the defeat of the Aus
tro-German and Bulgarian armies in
Serbia, the severance of the commu
nication that has been established
between the Teutons and Turkey and
the humiliation of Turkey during the
coming winter and early spring. Fur
ther than that beyond Italian gains
in the war with Austria and Russ'a
offensive operations there will be no
attempt to measure strength on a
big scale until sometime next yea-.
Gen. Joffre is working on the theory
that in order to win the war Ger
many must be defeated, and all of
the campaigns along the various
fronts—that in the west which ex
tends from Belgium to Switzerland;
that in the Alpine country which ex
tends from Switzerland to the Adri
atic; that in the Balkans, which ex
tends from the Montegrin and Alba
nian frontier to the Roumanian Dan
ube; that in the east, which extends
from the aBltic to the Roumanian
border, and the Turkish campaigns —
are all being waged with the ulti
mate defeat of Germany in view.
The redemption of Serbia and the de
feat of Turkey, planned for the win
ter and early spring, are incidents in
the final purpose, the defeat of Ger
many and through that, the end of
the war and peace.
Gen. Joffre Is planning that this
end will be arrived at through the
methods adopted for the present year
—the gradual wearing away of the
German forces and the gradual ex
hausting of German resources. He
figures that Germany is now losing
10,000 men daily, and he intends the
loss shall not become less. This will
mean 300,000 a month and 1,250,000
before spring. In the meantime, he
believes that the forces of the Allies
will gain in numbers faster than the
Germans. In the spring he believes
the Russians will be able to complete
the work that they will begin in the
winter, of expelling the Germans
from their country. Later in the
summer he believes that it will be
possible to defeat the German army
in the west and drive it from Bel
gium and France. With the coming
of the winter of 1010-17 he plane that
the German and Austrian armies will
be confined to German and Austrian
soil and they will .be cut off from
communication with any other coun
try with the possible exception oi
Norway and Sweden. This much will
be the work of the next year. Then
will begin another year of the same
process. He does not believe that it
will be advisable to rush the Germans
after they get on their own soil, al
though he believes that Russia will
be able to occupy a considerable por
tion of German territory, probably
before the end of 1917. But with
the Germans on their own soil he says
the Allies can continue the "wearing
out” process for- one, two or three
years as long as it may be necessary
With the Germany army gradually
getting smaller and the Allies forces
gradually increasing there will come
a time when the Germans may be de
feated without the price being toe
great to pay. But, while Joffre be
lieves that it will be possible to de
feat the German forces within ' t
year or a year and a half, he thinks
the less expensive plan the more hu
mane one will be to slowly wear tbs
country out.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Our fresh candy arrived on thli
last boat late for tbe holidays, 12%
cents half ponnd at the Emporium
Panoramic views of Child’s and
Miles glaciers, Dawson, Valdez and
Wrangel on sale at the Valdez Drus
store. tf
Just received ,the finest line ol
neckties ever shown in Valdez, at
Ben Silverman's.
Holiday goods, wearing apparel
household utensils and articles of ev
eryday needs coming on every boat
and sold at a bargain. There will b<
no half or one-third off after the Holi
days at tike Emporium. The goodi
are now marked at bottom prices;
you will find many articles on oui
five-cent counter you have been cue
tomarily paying 16 and 26 cents for
Bargains at the Emporium; opei
from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. *
Anything In the Jewelry line at thi
Valdez Drug Co. tf
Pictures developed at the Valdes
Drug Company. tf.
Far good home-cooked meals trj
Mrs M. Olson, on Hobart Street. *
Fancy btatlonery- at the Valdes
Drag Store. *
CITY EXPRESS
MEETS ALL BOATS AND NEVER MISSES A TRAIN
Auto for Hir e Day or Night.
Buy and Sell Anything.
Phone 82 J. A. SPENARD, Prop.
| Independent Laundry Co.
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' ’ Satisfaction Guaranteed | I Foot Keystone Ave
,, Telephone 66 I | Roujfh Dry 10c lb
When in Chitina Stop at the
CHITINA HOTEL
Fioeat Hotel n the Interior—Well Hented, Clean Roobm.
Bar in Connection, Rates Reasonable
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Best of Meals—Prices Reasonable
GENERAL STORE. - TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chitina.
General Freighting. KNU1E NAFSTED. M#r.
1 VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
| Real Estate, Insurance, General Brokerage <
c Absentees Business Properly Handled '
| Treat Building, Alaska Ave. Telephone No. 60 |
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
PLLMBING, 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 PUGET SOUND |
California Alaska
ALASKA
Steamers sail from Seattle at 9 P. M. on |
5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH
Steamer Sailing 15th calla lllaman and Kodiak—All Sailing eall at Knlk }
ymd Anchorage. S
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to San Francisco every Wedneaday and Sunday, connecting with !
Steamera Yale and Harvard (or Southern California.
Right reserved to change schedule without notice i
RICHARD J. RING WOOD, Mgr., Seattle) VALDEZ DOCK CO„ Local Agt. j
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
S. S. ALAMEDA AND S. S. NORTHWESTERN SAIL FROM SE
ATTLE THE 10TH, 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. Sheep
Creek, Treadwell. Douglas. Skagway, Cordova, Etlamar, Valdes and Da
touche. Explosives, S. S. Seward, on the 5th; Datouche, On the 15th; S. S.
Cordova, 26th of eaoh month—right reserved to change this schedule
without notice.
F. B. TRACY, Gea'l Agent VALDEZ DOCK CO, Local Agent.
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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.