New Arrivals in Dress Goods, Silks, Elc.
The New Spring Merchandise Is Now
Beginning to Arrive. On the Last
Boat:—
Black Crepe de Chene, fine quality,*40 in., $2.00
Black Faille Francai*, new, 36 inch, $1.50..
Black Crepe Faille, 36 inch, $1:50.
Fancy Pin Check Taffeta, 26 inch, $1.25.
Fancy Blue-Green changable, 26 inch, $1.50.
Fancy Green Strip, Taffeta, 36 inch, $2.00,.
Canton Crepe, a new blue, 40 inch, $1.50.
Domestic
Red Star Diapers, torn and hemmed, 24x24 and
24x48, $1.25 and $2.25 a dozen..
Pequot Sheeting, fen quarter, Devonshire Cloth,
Long Cloth, Nainsook, etc.
Wool Goods
Hairline Suiting, black, white hairline, 56 inches
wide, $2.50 the yard.
Victoria Crepe, black and med. blue, 36 inch,
$1.00 a yard..
* * + Comfy Cut Unions and Vests ♦ * *
Good Eats
Olympia Pancake Flour
Olympia Cake and Pas-,
try Flour.
Swastika brand of Long
Branch salt wafers
and soda crackers.
Grape Juice in Welch's
and Bass Island white
Doles Pineapple Juice.
Beech Nut, Peanut But
ter in 20c and 35c
glass jars.
In Sauces we have Hein
ze’s Chili Al-57 and
Mustard; Also Major
Grey’s Chutney; Lea
& Perrins Worcester
shire.
Heinze Pickles in bulk,
sweet, sour and dill.
German Breakfast, and
McLaren’s cheese.
. * * *
Selling Merchandise of
the best quality—A ser
vice we believe you will
appreciate.
Valdez Mercantile Co.
phone TAMVC DI ArTSEATTlE
es lUm 5 rLAUfc. hotel
EVERYTHING
F1RS1 CLASS
ANTON CARLSON,
Manager.
GQIVENTION OF
WOMEN’S CLUB
(JURAT CATHKIUNU NKW YORK
Mrs. VV. T. Cramer will Represent
the Territory of Alaska at the Con
vention of Federated Women’s
Clubs.
Of the biennial convention of Fed
■
erated Women’s Clubs, to be held ;la
Now York M3y 23, to which Mrs. W.
H. Cramer of this city has been chos
en as Territorial Delegate au ex
change says:
Father Knickerbocker will tip his
three-cornered hat to twenty thou-,
sand club women while two million |
others throughout the United States <
and Its possessions watch from afar
the opening Of the biennial conven
tion of Federated Women’s Clubs of
the United States, In New York May
23.
Hardly a city or town in the United
States, Hawaii, Porto Rico, the Pilip
pinea or Panama but whose most
prominent club women will journey
to Gotham for the monster feminine
meetings in the mammoth Seventh
Regiment armory. This convention is
looked forward to as one of the big
gest and most important, gatherings
of women ever held
Every feminine and many a mas
culine problem will be considered
from the moment Mrs. P. V. Penny
packer of Texas, President of the
General Federation, bangs the block
with her silver crusted gavel, until
the last argumentative female voice
is stilled'at the close of the sessions
June >r2nd.
Thd list of subjects will include
the price of peace and petticoats, the
length of loVe and lingerie; women’s
spheres and women's tears; . chops
and chowder; paints and powder; ba
bies, ballots, civic betterment and the
way to . avoid crows-feet, the manage
ment of husbands and other hired
help; war, divorce and hats, of
course.
To be sure this does not begin to
approximate the length of the list,
but when you pause to consider the
number of things one woman can
think of to talk about, then multiply
that by twenty thousand and start
them all up with the avowed purpose
of talking why, no wonder.
Alaska Investment Co.
Real Estate, Insurance, Mining Stocks
Public Stenography Reed Building Accounting
Imported and Domestic
Wines, Liquors and Cigars
Phone 69
The women want Preident Wilson
to open the convention. William
Howard Taft, Miss Jane Addams.
Mayor Mitchel and other notables
will speak. Mrs. John Hayes Ham
mond is chairman of the Conven
tion’s Advisory committee. Mrs. 'Wil
liam Todd is honorary chairman of
the convention. Mrs. Francis D. Ever
set of Chicago is chairman of the
program committee. Mrs. William
Grant Bro#n of New York is chair
man of the local Biennial Board
A merry, merry session is fully ex
pected when it comes to the election
of a new National President to suc
ceed Mrs. Pennypacker.
EXTREME COM) WEATHER
KIIiLS GAME ANIMAIiS
The Admiral Watson reported dif
ficulty in gettiug water on her trip to
the westward. The extreme cold
winter had frozen up everything at
Seldovia, the lakes having been
frozen to the bottoms, while hundreds
of dead ducks were lying along the
beach, having starved to death by the
freezing of their feeding grounds.
Hunters and mushers from the
Kenai report that the big game of the
peninsula has also suffered from the
heavy snow and extreme cold. Hun
dreds of moose are said to have died,
one bunch of twenty-five having been
found near Kenai, dead from lack of
food and the cold.
FOR RENT: Furnished and un
furnished houses from $10 up. Good
locations. Alaska Inv. Co., Reed
bldg. 2t
FOK SALK: Soven-room house,
electric pump, bath, hot and cold wa
ter, piano. Terms. Mrs. Korth. eodtf
Spring Samples in heavy weights,
for Alaska wear. Guy F Cameron,
Tailor. tf
Furnished rooms at Mrs osland's.
Prloes reasonable. •
Anything in the Jewelry line at the
Valdes Drag Co. tf
Just Received—the latest Popular
Songs and Music. Valdes Drag .Co. tf
Panoramic views of Child’s and
Miles glaciers, Dawson, Valdes and
Wrangel on sale at the Valdes Drag
store. tf
F. A. Kante, an old-timer of the 40
mile country, arrived on the steamer
Admiral Evans, and will spend a
short time in Valdes. Later he will
go over the trail to Napoleon creek,
in the 40-mile district, where he has
mining interests.
WILL RUSH II
WliiJL KMT*M>Y OVKK -H.QOO MEN
Commission Kxpects to Have One
Third of Railway Completed by
November 1—Twenty-two Miles of
Rails Already Been Laid.
■ With a satisfactory labor supply
and good weather conditions. Chair
man W. C. Edes of the Alaskan En
gineering Commission hopes to have
in operation nearly one-third, of the
iaska by November t. It is the hope of
the commission that the work on the
railroad can be pushed to the Matan
U3ka coal fields by fall.
What the opening of this railroad
will mean in the development of Al
aska is merely a matter of conjecture,
but the fact that a town of *500 has
grown up at Anchorage, one of the
terminals of the railroad, since the
announcement of the route, indicates
that the development of the north
country wi.* t;e great when the road
finally is completed.
During the coming season it is
planned to construct about 150 miles
which will comprise a connecting lipe
between the Alaska Northern Rail
way, now owned by the government,
and the lines under consthuction, ta
aranch line running from Anchorage
into the Matanuska coal fields and
several miles of rauroad running out
pf Fairbanks the proposed northern
terminal of the lines. !
The construction of this railroad is
a tremendous engineering task. At
Broad Pa3s the lines will run through
a stretch of twelve miles of almost
solid rock. wu. .. will entail the
building of numerous tunnels, the
,ngest of which will' be 1100 feet.
At Broad Pass, also, there will have
to be constructed a steel bridge 1500
feet in length and at Fairbanks sev
eral smaller bridges will be bu.it.
Under favorable conditions, by May
1, 4000 men will be employed on the
construction work, ai. more than a
million dollars worth of machinery
taken to Alaska from the Panama ca
nal zone will be in operation.
Although 22 miles of rail already
have euii laid between Matanuska
and Anchorage, no a itempt has been
made to operate it. However, dur
ing the present winter the Alaskan
commission lias been operating the
Alaska Northern, which the govern
ment has taken over, for a distance of
34 miles out of Seward. Three trains
a week have been run over the line
and the operations have been a finan
cial success, since the cost of mainte
nance is not included in the operating
expenses. Before the Alaska North
ern railway can be operated to the
full extent of its 71 miles, a large <i
mount of repair work will have to be
done, and this will be undertal sn
during the coming sum ner.
j If the present plans of the cr. imis
sion materialize and a force ol 4000
men is put to work it is believed that
n large part of this force will locate
in Alaska and take advantage of its
i ineral and agricultural wealth, and
thus the first step in the develop ent
of the country will have been ac
complished
Mrs. H. O. Scheie bon, wife of Dr.
Scheleben, of Seward, was a visitor
in town over boats, having come over
on the Watson to meet her husband,
who was a passenger on the Evans. •
Fancy .stationery at vne Valdez
Drag Store. * -
Kimonos, House-dresaes. Aprons,
Caps and 1/Cool Petticoats arrived on
the last boat for the Emporium tf
■■ ..— 1 ■ ■1
HENRY M. PINDELL.
Peoria Publisher Mentioned
as Possible Secretary of War.
.
We have the Facilities
For Properly Handling 1
Your Business.
We issue Drafts on all parts of the world
THE FIRST BANK OF VALDEZ
: RESOURCES $250,000.
THE PINZON
Making a Specialty of Haas & Sons" Candy
We Have -
Varied Sweets Nut Chocolates
Glace Fruit French Mixed
Old Fashioned Chocolate Supreme
Home Made. Specials
*
The Largest Stock of Candies in the North1
Valdez Dock Co. PHONE NO. II
JOBBER IN
COAL, HAY
GRAIN and
LUMBER
Office, foot of Wall street.
We Are Agents For The
*
Dayton Electric House Pump^
Which have fewer parts, run. more
easily and quietly, require less
attention and cost less per year of
service than any other pump on
the market.
And the
“Thor 5” Vacuum Gleaner
This is one. of the finest household
cleaners ever made for the low
price at which it sells.
We stand back of both the above machines.
Alaska Water Light & Tel. Co.
CHAS.PHRnV
EATTLE
cmakfc Service
IN THE HEART OF THE CITY*
| I35ft>ana with !rafa"505aMpIafooma
DONALDSON SCHEDULE
Lvs. Fort Llscum Lvs. Valdes
8:15 a.m. 3:46 &.m.
1:15 p.m. 4:00 p.m.
TUESDAYS
8:15 a.m. 9:46 a.m.
1:15 p.m. 2:90 p.m.
4:20 p.m. 5:00 p.m.
SATURDAYS
1:16 p.m. 4:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m. 10:20 ptm.
There will be no trip of the launch
on the second ana fourth Fridays of
each month, these days being used to
dean boilers.
Post Office Inspector Neal was a
passenger on the Evans for Seward,
where he will check over the transfer
of the Seward office to the newly ap
pointed postmaster, W. E. Root.
E. D. lteiter, of the Alaska Mines
Corporation, returned on tho Admi
ral Evans from a business trip to the
Slates..
Hi Carey, the regular, purser of the
Admiral Evans 1b in the hospital at
Seattle, where he has undergone an
operation for goitre. W. Nourse, the
former freight elork of the Evans, la
acting as purser.
J. Blink, of the firm of Blodgett A
Blinu, of Kodiak, was a through
passenger on the Evans.