AM CLOSING OUT
FRUITS
SOAflS, 7 bars for.-.25c
CATSUP, Schneider’s, each }. ,0c
RELIANCE SOLID PACK TOMATOES, two for 25c
RELIANCE FANCY MAIN CORN, two for 25c
WHITE FIGS, fancy, a pound. 10c
BLACK FIGS, 4 pounds for . Z5c
DRIED APPLES, 3 pounds for . Z5c
ITALIAN PRUNES, fancy, 3 pounds for 25c
DRIED PEACHES, 4 pounds for _ » 25c
SOUP, Tomato, soiled labels, 4 cans for.25c
MEXICAN BEANS, 4 pounds for .Z5c
GREEN PEAS, 4 pounds for. 25c
LIMA BEANS, 4 pounds for.-25c
And Other First-Class Goods at a Steerage Price.
ALL REAL BARGAINS
Schmidt’s Table Queen Grocery
Located at Old P. O., Next to Silverman’s
STEAM HEATED HOT AND COLD OATHS
Copper Block Hotel
VALDEZ, ALASKA
“The House of Comfort”
PHONE 7 FOR MEN ONLY
LOCAL. BIVJSVIHKS.
A. Shyman, representing Seattle
wholesale houses, arrived on the Ad
miral Farragut.
Hotpoint Electric Heatere, Cookers,
Bakers. Percolators and Vacuum
Cleaners arrived on the last boat for
ttte Emporium. tf
Mike Lindgren came up from Hobo
Bay yesterday on the launch B. F. M.
and will visit in Valdez for a while.
Panoramic views of Child’s and
Miles glaciers, Dawson, Valdez and
Wrangel on sale at the Valdez Drug
atora tf
Julius Jensen, the well known
miner, came up from the Granite
mine yesterday on the launch B. F.
M.
Valdez Drug Company nave a fine
tine of School Stationery. ti.
Thos. Mantel, a commercial man.
arrived in Valdez on the Admiral
Farragut and will go to the west
ward on one of the next steamers.
Furnished rooms at Mrs. Osland’s.
Prices reasonable. *
Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Middlecamp of
Bllamar, were returning passengers
on the ^dmiral Farragut from an ex
tended vistt%» Pacific Coast points.
Kodak ^Supplies at cue Valdez
Drug Company. tf
Look.
Visit the Liberty Theatre tomor
. row night. Four piece orchestra and
; well arranged program. Good music.
High Explosives.
A Matter of High Explosives with
I all its ups and downs is the laugh
, able comedy at the. Empress. Change
iof movies tonight,
i _
| Mrs. Ward Estey, of Ellamar, who
; has been visiting in the states dur
ing the past few months returned to
J Valdez on the Admiral Farragut this
, morning,
i
The trail is broke and the Tele
i phone No. 85 is working. Did you
' ever stop to think that every time
yon leave a dollar with your local in
dustry that you have a fighting
^hance to get it back, as they live and
eat in the old home town and it costs
something at that. You may not get
it back directly from him; he may
have to give it to some one else who
has to give it to you. Try the Val
dez Iron Works. fr-tf
James Fish, who made an extended
trip to Cordova and points along the
Copper River railroad in the inter
ests of t^e New York Life insurance
company^returned home on the Ad
miral Farragut.
Frank White, who has spent a
number of years prospecting and
mining in this district, came up from
the Granite mine yesterday on the
launch B. F. M. and will leave for Ihe
Cook Inlet district at an early date.
He plans to make the trip over the
divide from Portage Bay to the rail
road and is looking for a partner to
make the trip with him. Mr. White
will spend the summer prospecting
the country through which the rail
road will pass.
Fred Delander returned on the
Admiral Farragut from Chitina
where he has been living for the past
several months.
Anythihg in the jewelry line at the1
Valdez Drug Co. tf
When the district court convened
this morning it was adjourned by
Judge Brown until 10 o'clock Mon
day morning when all those having
business with the court .will be
present.
Nugget jewelry made to order at
the Valdez Drug Co., by 6. O.
Reinke. tf
G. A. Vinger, the popular traveling
;man, arrived on the Admiral Farra
gut and will spend a few days circu
lating among the business men of
Valdez taking orders for his house.
Look.
Visit the Liberty Theatre tomor
row night. Four-piece orchestra and
well arranged program. Good music.
Ft>r good nome-cookea meals try
Mrs. M. Olson, on Hobart Street. *
Ernie Sundt, who has been em
ployed with the Granite mine for
some time, came up to Valdez on the
launch B. F. M. yesterday and will
S^end a few days in town.
Pasteurized Whipping Cream and
pure Buttermilk at Love-Whitley’s.
Gustaf Sieffert, a well known min
ing man of the Seward and Knik dis
tricts, was a through pasesnger for
Seward on the Admiral Farragut en
route home after a business trip to
the states. He was joined in Valdez
by Mrs. Sieffert,, who had been the
guest of ;Major and Mrs. Peter W.
Davidsoir for a few days.
Pure Fresh Drugs at the Valdez
Drug Store. •
Fancy Stationery at the Valdez
Drug Stnre. •
S. G. Wing, special salesman of the
West Coast Grocery company, was a
passenger on the Admiral Farragut
tkis morning en route to Anchorage,
where he will ldok over conditions
with a view of establishing a branch
of the wholesale house there. After
returning from Anchorage he will
visit all Alaska coast towns in the
interests of his house.
Pictures developed at the Valdez
Drug Company. tf.
A fine display of nugget jewelry at
Valdez Drug Co. tf
Spring Samples in heavy weights,
for Alaska wear. Gny F. Cameron,
Tailor. tf
Look.
Visit the Liberty Theatre tomorrow
night. Four piece orchestra and well
arranged program. Good music.
Jas. E. Wilson, the freighter, who
has a large number of teams operat
ing out of Cbitina to the mines in
the interior, returned to Valdez on
the Admiral Farragut. He reports
that good progress is being made in
delivering the big shipment of sup
plies and machinery from Strelna
station on the Copper River Railroad
to Nugget Creek for the Alaska Con
solidated Hines Co.
NEW YORK FEARS
■ THE ANARCHISTS
Extraordinary Precautions Taken t<
Protect Guests at Knights of
Columbus Ilall East, Night,.
[■
NEW YOKK, Feb. 19.—Owing tc
the attempted poisoning of the guests
at the University club banquet ir,
Chicago last week extraordinary po
lice protection was afforded the
guests at the Knights of Columbus
ball last night.
Sixty detectives in plain clothes
guarded the entrance of the hall and
detectives acted as cooks and wait
ers in serving the guests. The pre
cautions were taken as the police had
received letters stating that an at
tempt would be made to destroy the
building while the ball was in pro
gress and that guests would be pois
oned.
Acting on the advice of the police
nearly every church in the city is be
ing closely guarded and double guards
will be maintained during the hours
of service on Sunday. The entire city
is excited over the rumors of Anar
chistic plotR and many of the resi
dences of the wealthy people are sur
rounded with officers in citizen’s
clothing.
Mrs. Mooney and child arrived in
Valdez on the steamer Admiral Far
ragut this morning. They are the
wife and son of Sergt. Mooney of the
local office of the Signal Corps.
Telephone communication between
Valdez and Fort Liscum was inter
1 rupted this morning hut it is believed
that the defect will be remedied this
evening as workmen are investigat
ing the trouble.
No Show Last Night.
Owing to the show at Moose Hall
last night no movies were given at
the Empress. The same program
which was to have been given last,
night will be shown this evening. .
| Xo Dance at Moose Hall Tonight.
! The entertainment committee of
tlie Valdez Moose have announced
that owing to the storm the usual
Saturday evening dance at Moose
Hall will not be held this evening.
U. 8. Buys from Venezuela.
Venezuela has an area of 393,976
square miles, which exceeds that of
Texas and Arkansas combined. The
population is 3,000,000, of which 73
000 is in Caracas, the capital. For
twenty years a direct line of Ameri
can steamers has run regularly be
tween the United States and Vene
zuela and this line has a mail con
tract with the postoffice department,
yet the steamers are said to be slow
er and inferior to those of the Royal
Steam Packet Line between Venezu
ela and Europe. The monetary sys
tem is on a sound gold basis and no
paper money is used as legal tender.
All interest on the public debt has
been paid promptly during th6 trying
time of the War. For the fiscal year
1913-14, the United States was the
largest customer of Venezuela and
also supplied a larger share of the
imports than any other country.
8ixty-Five Vessels for Yukon.
The management of the White Pass
Route which operates the American
Yukon Navigation company’s fleet of
steamers on the Yukon and other in
terior rivers, has announced that the
fleet will be enlarged to sixty-five
vessels in the event that the Alas
kan Engineering commission decides
to* begin construction on the Fair
banks end of the government rail
road this summer. .
Dr. E. C. Gross, who will be the
physician for the Ellamar Mining
company, was an incoming passen
ger on the Admiral Farragut this
morning. The doctor comes from
Seattle and was formerly connected
with Dr. Willis, one of the most
prominent surgeons on the Pacific
Coast.
Joe Cote, a miner, who recently
arrived in Dawson from the Pelly
river, says that there is a prospect
ing boom on in the district. Some
of the miners have taken in outfits
sufficient to last three years and it
is believed only a matter of time un
til something good is Struck. Col
ors can be found on any of the
streams emptying into the Pelly but
so far with the exception of a few
spots, nothing approaching pay has
been found.
Passengers coming up from the
Granite mine report that the infant
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Raymond is
very ill. The patents had planned to
bring the child to Valdez on the
launch B. F. M. yesterday but decid
ed to await the arrival of the Admi
ral Farragut from the westward.
PEOPLES OF THE WORLD.
TH« Aryan or White Race and Ita Nu
merous Divisions.
The division of the earth’s popula
tion according to race is ns follows:
Iudo-Gennaulc or Aryan race iwhitei,
occupying Europe, America, Persia, In
dia and Australia, about 775.000.000;
Mongolian or Turanian (yellow and
brown), living in Asia, about 0S2.000,
(00; Semitic (white), living in Asia,
Arabia, etc., about 05.000.000; negro
and Bantu (black), found in Africa,
about 150,000.000; Malay and Polyne
sian (brown), inhabiting Australasia,
about 30,000,000; American (Indian red),
found in North and South America,
number, including halfbreeds, about
25,000,000.
The Slavs are one of the chief divi
sions of the Aryan race. They are di
vided, as a race, into two leading fam
ilies, the eastern and western Slavs.
The eastern Slavs comprise the Rus
sians (Great Russians, Little Russians
and White Russians); Bulgarians. Ser
! bo-Croats, including the Servians and
Montenegrins, and Slovenes In Carin
tbla, Carnlola and part of Syria. The
western Slav family is divided into
the Poles, in Russia, Austria and Prus
sia, and the Kassubes; the Czechs, or
Bohemians, and the Moravians, with
the Slovaks irf Hungary, and the Lusa
tian Wends or Sarbs in Saxony and
Prussia. The theory is that their orig
inal home was in Volhynla and White
Russia. _
VICTIMS OF NIAGARA.
Water Birds Go to 8leep and Are
Swept Over the Fall*.
Swimming too near the brink of the
•falls, hundreds of water birds, even
•wans, ducks and geese, go over Niag
ara falls to their death each year In
the migratory season. So many birds
pay the peualty for their daring each
year that bird lovers on both the
American and Canadian sides of the
fails are considering steps to lessen
the annual toll of the feathered life.
Since a majority of the victims are
claimed in the night, the theory Is ad
vanced that the birds go to sleep while
swimming and don't wake up until the
rapids have carried them over the dan
ger line. Usually they are killed out
right in the fall. Sometimes they are
only stunned and are picked out of the
river below the falls and sold for food.
In 1912, so Ernest Harold Bnynes.
the naturalist, relates, 140 whistling
swans weft over Horseshoe falls.
Boys and men fished the birds out,
knocked them on the head and sold
them.
••James Savage of Buffalo/ Mr.
Baynes says, ‘‘with some friends once
saved a flock of swans by chasing
them in a power boat and making
them fly away just before. nightfall.
It was a daring thing for these men to
do, for if by any chance the engine
had become disabled nothing could
have prevented their going over the
falls,.»—Philadelphia North American.
African Marriage System.
You cannot fancy how deeply compli
cated the African marriage system is
nor how many ramifications there may
be to a woman palaver. One day Mr.
Ueminger was sitting in a hut talking
with two members of his congregation,
wives of one husband. He was talk
ing to them about their sins, which
were of an obvious character. The
younger woman had been accused ol
stealing food. Then he turned to the
elder. Wawa, she of the ten children,
five of them dead and five of them
cruel.
“Wawa.” said he, "why cannot you
live at peace with this wife of your
husband? Why are you always quar
relingV” (They are notorious scrap
pers.) “Well,” said Wawa. “she was
bought with one of my children, and 1
cannot forget it"—Jean Kenyon Mac
kenzie in Atlantic.
Turk*’ Names For Greeks.
The Turks have definite names for
the Greeks who inhabit Ottoman terri
tory and for those who are their own
masters. The latter are Yunan and
their country Yunanistan—names de
rived from “Ionia”—while the Greeks
and Turks are Rum. By origin this Is
simply “Romans" and is an Inheritance
from the Byzantine days, when the in
habitants of Constantinople, the New
Rome, were ealled Romaloi. while the
provincials were known ns Helladikoi.
“Rum” was the conquering Turks'
name for the Byzantine empire. It sur
vives in Roumelia, while the popular
Greek language of the present day Is
still known as Romaic. But every
Greek, in Greece or in Turkey, calls
himself a Hellene.—Loudon Chronicle.
An Ominous Symptom.
"A good wife Is heaven’s greatest
gift to man and the rarest gem the
earth bolds.” remarked Mr. Jarpbly the
other morning. “She is his Joy. his in
spiration and bla very soul. Through
her he learns to reach the pure and
true, and her loving hands lead him
Softly over the rough places. She Is”—
“Jeremiah.” said Mrs. Jarphly sol
emnly — “Jeremiah, what wickedness
have you been up to now?”
•w
Evan Break.
"Well, did your husband succeed In
beating the carpet?" ,
“My sportlly Inclined brother sayn
that the contest was a draw.”—Louis
Tllle Courier-Journal.
Just What DM Ha Mean?
"Do you remember when yon pro
posed to your wife?*
"My boy. 1 can never forget it”—
Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Grief Is crowned with consolation.—
Shakespeare.
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
Foot Keystone Ave
Roujfb Dry lCc 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
Phone US 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
PLLMBING, STEAM AND HOT WATER HEATING,
Sheet Metal Work, Mine Air Pipe, Pipe and Fittings, Valves, Ktc.
Motor Boat Supplies, Paints and Oils.
Located on Valdez Dock, Opposite Prospector Office. Phone 24
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
8. 8. ALAMEDA AND 8. 8. -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, Ellamar, Valdez and La
touche. Explosives, S. 8. Seward, on the 6th; Latourhe, on the 15th; S. S.
Cordova, 26th of each month—right reserved to change this schedule
without notion.
F. B. TRACY, Gen’l Agent VALDEZ BOCK CO„ l ocal Agent.
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
PUGET SOUND
California
Admiral
Line
!
PUGET SOUND
Alaska
ALASKA
Steamers sail from Seattle at 9 P. M. on
5th, 15lh, 25th—EVERY MONTH
Mnan Sailing 10th calls Illamaa and Kodiak—All Sailing call at Knlh
and Anchorage.
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to Saa Francisco every Wednesday and Sunday, connecting with
Steamers Vale and Harvard for Southern California.
Right reserved to change schedule without notice
RICHARD J. RING WOOD, Mgr* Seattle! VALDEZ DOCK CO* Local Agt.
When You Leave
For the Outside
take the
“MILWAUKEE”
One’road—one management—one service all the w4y
through to Chicago. It’s the Short Line to the EliKt.,
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.