E have just opened and,
placed on sale a very choice
line of toilet soaps, tooth
pastes, talcum powders; Eaton,
Crane and Pike's stationery, e/e.
| Reasonable pricings.
Valdez Mercantile Co., Inc.
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REDUCE SERVICE
kyaunch Will Make Semi-Monthly
Trips to Port Wells 1 hiring the
Pull Winter Months.
Capt. Tint Marcum, of the lauuch
Shamrock, who has been making
weekly trips to Port Wells and way
points, is contemplating cutting the
service to two trips each mouth ow
ng to travel having fallen off by rea
son of the fact that the prospectors
are nearly all in from the hills and
the miners are established for the
winter, having landed their outfits
earlier in the season.
The Shamrock has proved herself
well adapted for the Port Wells trade
as she is stoutly built and has suffi
cient power to make headway against
the storms which sweep outside the
narrows. The launch also has good
freight carrying capacity and should
any travel develop between .Portage
Bay and Anchorage the Shamrock
would be an ideal craft to handle the
business between Valdez and Portage
Bay. The Port Wells mail contract,
which Capt. Marcum now handles,
provides for one trip each month dur
ing the winter and two trips each
month during the summer.
The launch will be open to make
special trips at any time which does
aot conflict with her regular service
to Sound points, and unless business
is offered will omit making her trip
aext Saturday.
WILL INVESTIGATE
PORTAGE ROUTE
i
H. I*. Sullivan Will Go Over the Pro
posed Route for the Commer
cial Association.
At the meeting of the Commercial
Association, held yesterday evening,
•t was decided to investigate the pos
sibilities of making Valdez a supply
point from which Anchorage mer
chants can get their shortages. It is
also believed that considerable travel
can be diverted at Mile 63 on the
Alaska Northern and the people
brought to Valdez.
With this end in view Harvey Sul
livan has been employed by the Asso
j ciation to go to Portage Bay and
i make a trip over the route to where
the Portage river connects with the
| Anchorage trail from Seward. He
j will leave on the Shamrock in the
i morning, and upon his return, the
: Association 'is expected to take suit
' able action upon his report.
The Association also passed reso
lutions endorsing the work of the
Alaska Road commission and com
mending Col. Richardson for bis able
management of tne affairs of the
Board. The resolutions will be
printed in full in the Miner next
Sunday.
“Deestrict Skule" u Success.
“The Deestrict Skule” held a two
hour session last night at the Liberty
theatre, and e prognostications of
the Prospector that there would be
“standing room only” was not quite
correct as many were turned away
for want of room.
Teacher Quinn was especially good
and he had splendid support from all
the “children.” Everybody seemed
to enjoy the performance immensely
and about $100 was netted for the
benefit of Everyman’s club house.
Socialist Members of Reichstag Force
Imperial Chancellor to Accede
to Their Demands.
LONDON, Dec. 3.—Early today
dispatches from Amsterdam Btate
that the German Imperial Chancellor
has been forced to accede to the de
mands of the Socialist members of the
Reichstag and will tell the house
upon what terms Germany will make
peace, on December 9th.
He has warned them not to ex
pect that Germany’s terms will be
such that the enemy nations will
gladly accept as, Germany has not
been fighting alone for her existence
but for the future peace of Europe.
It is believed that Germany's
terms for making peace will include
her being permitted to retain posses
sion of the territories now under
Teutonic control, which include Bel
gium, northern France, Poland and
Serbia, as well as the restoration of
her colonial possessions.
James Brennan gave a Democratic
box party at the Empress theatre a
few nights ago and witnessed a good
show. The members of the party
were C. J. Todd. G. C. Wilson, Olaf
Olson, G. W. Sealey and Jas. Brennan.
Owen Meals, who has the local
agency for the Ford Automobile com
pany, has received advices that the
Ford car which will be drawn for
during Christmas week, will arrive on
the next trip of the steamer Alamoda
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[ FRYE-BRUHN CO.
|< Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
| Beef, Mutton, Pork, Veal, Poultry
| and Produce.
| Sole Agents for MAYFLOWER BUTTER and EGGS. Phone 29
Imported and Domestic, j
Winis, Liquors and Cigars
Phone 69
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TILLIKI CLII8
SUITS STARTED
District Attorney Spence Piles Pour
Complaints Against Club
and Certain Members.
Pour separate complaints were
filed in the office of the clerk of the
district court this afternoon by the
district attorney's office against the
Tillikum Club, and persons who
were members of the club for the
years 1914 and 1915. The complaints
were laid on information furnished
United States District Attorney W.
N. Spence.
Two of the complaints are against
the Tillikum Club, as a corporation,
and allege that the defendant corpo
ration did unlawfully engage in sell
ing Intoxicating liquors without first
having obtained retail liquor licenses,
against the peace and dignity of the
United States.
The complaints covers a period of
two years and show that one offense
took place on the 10th day of May,
1914, and that a similar crime was
commiiieu on February 16.
The complaint against certain
members of the club during 1914 is
styled The United States vs. S. Blum,
J. M. Dathrop and Jas. Fish, Jr. The
date of the offense is the same as
that when the Tillikum Club com
pany committed its offense May 10,
1914.
In the case ol the ui.nci States
vs. L. A. Kunzig. J. C. Martin and
Jas. Fish, Jr., the offense covers the
period during the present year when
the Tillikum club is alleged to have
violated the law.
The complaints will be served upon
the defendant company and the club
members this afternoon when Lieut.
L. A. Kunzig, J. C. Martin and Jas.
Fish will receive notice that they
must appear in court in due time to
defend themselves upon the charges
of having sold liquor without first
having obtained a license. S. Blum
and J. M. Lathrop are absent In the
states and are not extraditable un
der the charges which have been
made against them.
The filing of the complaints by the
district attorney’s office at the pres
ent time has proved a surprise as it
was understood that the Tillikum
Club and its affairs had been sub
jected to a rigid investigation by the
last grand jury, and that the grand
jury had found no evidence to sus
tain the charges which had been laid
before it that the club had violated
the law.
A list of the members of the Til
likum Club follows:
The Tillikum Club furnishes the
following list of its membership dur
ing the last three years,'for the ben
efit of such curious persons as are
alleged to be in search of this infor
mation, to-wit:
A. J. Adams, Lieut. W. W. Ander
son, L. Archibald, George E. Bald
win, M. Blum, S. Blum, F. M. Brown,
G. B. Brubaker, C. E. Bunnell, E. E.
Campbell, R. E. Capers, Capt. Carl
ton, Sidney L. Carter, C. N. Crary,
W. H. Crary, Dr. H. Cockerille, W. N.
Cuddy, Dr. E. C. Dalton, Henry Deyo,
A. J. Dimond, T. J. Donohoe, A. C.
Dowling, Lieut. C. A., Dougherty, Al
vah Eames, Edwin Eckern, Capt.
Glen E. Edgerton, Capt., Isaac Brwin,
George Max Esterly, Robert Fergu
son, William Finical, James Fish, J.
R. Gelineau, Cap. Harry George, T. P.
Geraghty, A. E. Grtgsb/, Isaac Ham
burger, Lieut. Harris, George C. Haz
elet, M. F. Hendrickson, JAeut. How
ard, C. G. Hubbard, Alfred B. lies,
J. H. Kahler, Frank Kernan, C. H
Kraemer, Lieut. G. R. Koehler, Lieut.
L. A. Kunzlg, Arthur Lang, J. M.
Lathrop, John Lyons, George J.
Love, Rev. E. H. Molony, J. C. Mar
ttu, Lieut. J. C. Mehaffey, Dr. W. B.
Meister. L. L. Middlecamp, B. F. Mil
lard, W. R. Millard. J. H. Murray,
Capt. -J. P. O'Neil, John Y. Ostrau
der, Lieut. W. E. Prosser, T. G.
Quinn. J. L Reed, IS. D. Reiter, Col.
W. P. Richardson. E. E. Ritchie. H.
.1. Rutherford, T. -S. Scott, Thoma3
R. Shepard, Lieut. Sherrard, Charles
Simeustad, Dr. D. H. Sleem, George
E. Smith, Lynn W. Storm, H. P. Sul
livan, Geo. C. Treat, Dr. Von Schroe
der, Geo. R. Walker, F. C. Weber.
Lieut. Weeks, E. B. Wheat, H. T.
Whitley, James E. Wilson, Rev. W.
H. Ziegler, John Zug.
;■
The trail is broke and the Tele
phone No; 86 Is working, Pid you
eyer stop to think that every.ttjne
you leave a dollar with yQ1if local In
dustry that you have a fighting
chance to get it back, as they live and
eat in the old home town and it costs
something at that. You may not get
(t back directly from him; he may
have to give it to some one else who
has to give it to you. Try the Val
des Iron Works. fr-tf
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.
STEAMER ROCKING
IS CONFISCATED
Washington Officials Amazed b.v Ac
tion of British Government in
Confiscating Ship.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 3.—
Official advices have been received
from the Ujiited States consul at Hal
ifax, stating that the American
steamship Hocking, which was seiz
ed by British cruisers two months ago
shortly after she had sailed from
New York harbor, has been requisi
tioned by the British government be
cause she was partly owned by Ger
mans. •
The action of the British govern
ment in pressing the Hocking into
service has amazed the officials here
and it is understood that President
Wilson has demanded that the Hock
ing case be submitted to the prize
court for decision.
When the Hocking was seized out
side New York harbor by the British
cruised she. was convoyed to Halifax
where a search of her cargo revealed
the fact that clearance papers had
be9n" obtained from the New York
customs by fraud. The cargo which
was listed as general merchandise
was found to consist of rubber, cop
per and other contrabands.
The Hooking belonged to an inter
national steamship company in which
s number of German capitalists were
stockholders,
ADMIRAL EVANS DUE
IN VALDEZ TONIGHT.
• .1
Advices from Cordova state that
the steamer Admiral Evans has re
ported by wireless that she will reach
Cordova about 5 o’clock this after
noon. It is not known how long the
steamer will remain in Cordova but
she is expected to reach Valdez dur
ing the night, as usual.
TIDE TABLES EOR VALDEZ.
Predictions for high and low water
aie taken from the official tide tables
prepared by the U. S. Coast and geo
detic Survey. The time given for
high and low water Is Valdez time,
and the figures Immediately follow
ing the time, indicate the height of
the tide at Valdez. To find the depth
d£ water, add the tabular height to
the soundings given on the chart,
unless a minus (—) sign Is used be
fore the height, in which case sub
tract it.
Friday, December 3.
High—8:59 am., 9.3; 10:10 pm., 6.7.
Low—2:26 am., 2.4; 8:65 pm., 0.1.
Saturday, December 4.
High—9:43 am., 10.1; 11:06 pm.,
7.0.
Low—3:20 am., 2.6; 4:44 pm.. —1.0
Sunday, December 5.
High—10:39 am., 10.7.
Low—4:09 am., 2.5; 5:31 pm. —1.8
Monday, December 6.
High—12:58 am., 7.3; 11:16 pm.
11.2.
Low—4:59 am., 2.6; 6:01 pm., —2.3
Tuesday, December 7.
High—12:47 am., 12:03 pm., 11.4.
Low—6148 am., 2.6; 7:06 pm. —2.6
Wednesday, December 8.
High—1:36 am., 7.5; 12:62 pm.,
11.3.
Low—6:37 am., 2.4; 7:46 pm. —2.3
Thursday, December 0.
High-^-2:26 am., 7.6: 1:43 pm., 10.8
Low—7:23 am., 2.6; 8:42 pm., —1.8
Friday, December 10.
High—3:16 am., 7.6; 2:37 pm., 9.9.
Low—8:26 am., 2.7; 9:32 pm. —1.1
Saturday, December 11.
High—4:08 am., 7.6; 8:34 pm.. 8.#.
Low—9:29 am. 8.8; 10:22 pm. —0.2
Sunday, December 12.
High—6:03 am., 7.7; 4:37 pm.. 7.8.
Low—10:42 am, 2.9; 11:18 pm. 0.7
Monday, December 18.
High—6:08 am., 7.9; 6:36 pm., 6.8
Low, 12.07 am.. 2.8.
Tuesday, December 14.
High—6:64 am., 7.*},7;18 pm, 6.2
Low—0.06 am., 1.6; 1.33 pip:, 8.8
Wednesday, December IB
High—7:46 am., 8.4; 8:41 pm, 6.0
Low—1:02 am, 2.8; 2:43 pm, 1.6.
THE PINZON
j
Cigars Tobacco Fruit Candy1
Billiards Pool Card Rooms
El Sidello
Carabana
Juan de Fuca
CIGARS
Optimo
Monopole
Van Dyck
1
Have You Smoked a Garcia Vega?
Our Specialty-Haas & Sons Candy
CHMIDT’S BAKERY
FOR GOOD THINGS TO EAT
Doughnuts what am—Cakes and Cookies.
Wiegeb High Grade Candies.
Delicatessen and Lunch Goods—Bread 3 for 25c. Call 156
■H. l. W.Mi'i. H W-H SWIFT DELIVERY •tfHH I-UHttl 11
Valdez Dock Co • PHONE WO. y
JOBBER IN >V
COAL, HAY
GRAIN and
LUMBER
Office, foot of Wall street
Alaska Water, light and Tele; Co.
Arcade Cafe
' OPEN UNTIL » P.M.
We Serve Corona Coffee
Strictly Fresh Eggs.
Jack Callin_- _Proprietor
Chas. Peppy
Seattle^
*14 Camp/e/c Services
IN THE HEART OF THE CHT
1155Roows with bath-50 Samdelfa«n»l
Thursday, December 16.
High—8:32 am, 8.6; 9:50 pm, 6.1
Low—1:58 am, 3.9; 3:39 pm, 0.9
Friday, December 17.
High—9:16 am, 8.8; 10:47 pm, 6.8
Low—2:62 am, 3.3; 4:26 pm, 0.3
Saturday, December 18.
High—9:66 dm, 9.6.
Low—3:40 am, 3.6; 6:06 pm, —0.2
Sunday, December 19.
High—12:43 am, 6.6; 10:43 pm. 9.2
Low—4:26 am, 3.6; 6:42 pm. —0.6
Monday,, December 80.
High—0:13 am. $.7; 11:09 pm. 9.4
Low—5:01 am, 3.5: 6:16 pm, —0.7
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE SEXTON. Pro*
SiRICTLy FIRST CLASS
Fourth Ave, Seward, Alaska
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING
McKinley Street, Valdes
ED. WOOD,
DONALDSON SCHEDULE
Lvb. Fort Liscum Lrs. Valdes .
8:16 a.m. 9:45 a.m.
1:15 p.m. 4:00- p.m.
TUESDAYS
8:16 a.m. 9:46 a.m.
1:15 p.m. 2:00 p.m.
4:80 p.m. 6:00 paA.
SATURDAYS
1:16 p.m. 4:00 n.m.
7:00 p.m . 10:|6 p,m.
There will be nC trip of the tauneb
on the Mttodd ana fourth Fridays at
each month, these days being used te
clean boilers. .