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\Valdez Miners lliitan No. 18B
Western Federation-of Miner*
(ROBERT SHAFFER. Ptesident.
Granite Mine.
CHAS. McCAUASM, s.oretarr,
Valdez Alaska. . '
Tfotioe so Stockholders
Xiall and notice of special meeting of
the stockholders of the Cliff Min-‘
ing Company.
Notice is hereby given that a spec
ial meeting of t’ne stockholders of
the Clift Mining Company will be
held at the office of the company
' Valdez, Alaska, at 11 o’clock in the
enoon of "Wednesday the 10th day
May, 1916, for the purpose of con
sidering and taking action upon a
certain resolution duly and regularly
adopted by the Board of Directors of
said company at a meeting of said
Board held at the company’s office
at Valdez, Alaska, at 11 o’clock in
the .forenoon of Saturday the Stb day
of April 1916, which said resolution
states that in the judgment of the
Board of Directors of said company ;
it is deemed advisable and beneficial |
for the Cliff Mining Company, a cor- ,
poration, that it should be dissolved I
and its aliairs wound up a speedily as;
possible.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 8th
■day of April, 1916.
J. C. MARTIN, Sec.
Pub. April 10, 17. 24, May 1 and 8,
Summons.
No. 809.
In the District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division.
Guy F. Cameron, Plaintiff, vs. Mae E.
Cameron, Defendant,
The President of the United States of
America, Greeting:
To the Above Named Defendant:—
You are hereby required to appear
in the District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division, with
in thirty days after the completion of
the publication of this summons, to
wit, within 30 days after the 29th
day of May, 1916, and answer the
complaint of the above-named plain
tiff in the above-entitled cause.
The said cause is an action brought
by said plaintiff against you praying
fos-W/judgment and decree of this
Cour*adjudging and decreeing that
you now hold the title to Lot 7 in
Block S9 of the Valdez town-site as j
shown on the official plat of the Val-1
dez Townsite, sub-division of U. S.
Survey No. 439 on file in the office of
the U. S. Commissioner and ex-officio
Recorder at Valdez, Alaska, in Book
13 A at Page 1, as trustee ex malificio
for the said plaintiff and that«you be
required to convey to the plaintiff
such premises and property, and for
such other relief as to the Court
shall seem just and equitable.
The order for the publication of
this summons was duly made and en
tered in the above-entitled Court on
the 14th day of April, 1916.
And you are hereby notified that if
you fail to appear and answer the
said complaint as herein required the
plaintiff will take judgment against
you for want thereof and will apply
to the Court for the relief demanded
in said complaint as the same is here
inbefore set out.
The date of the first publication of
this summons is the 17th day of
April, 1916, and the date of the last
publication thereof is the 29th day
of May, 1916.
Witness the Honorable Fred M.
Brown, Judge of said Court and the
seal thereof this 14th day of April,
in the year of our Lord the one thou
sand, nine hundred and sixteenth and
of our independence the one hundred
and fortieth.
(Official Seal) ARTHUR LANG,
<Clerk of the District Court for the
Territory of Alaska, Third Division.
By T. P. Geraghty, Deputy Clerk.
Donohoe & Dimond, Attorneys for the
Plaintiff.
Pub. Apr..17, 24; May 1. 8, 15. 22, 29
Department of the interior,
fdaskan Engineering Commission.
» ADVERTISEMENT
Sealed proposals are invited for
furnishing and delivering standard
railroad cross ties and piling to the
Alaskan Engineering Commission for
use in the construction of the Alaska
Railroad as hereinafter described.
Class 1.
100.000 Standard Railroad Cross
Ties to be used in the construction of
section of line along north shore of
Turnagain Arm between Kern Creek
and Ship Creek Junction.
Class 2.
150.000 Standard Railroad Cross
Ties to be used in the construction of
Matanuska Branch Line and Main
Line from Matanuska Junction north
ward to Willow Creek.
Class 3.
2,000 Standard Piling in lengths
25 to40 feet; to be used in same ter
ritory as material called for under
Class i.
Native spruce and hemlock timber
for making cross ties and piling can
be secured from certain designated
sections of the Chngach National For
est Reserve and from other public
lands lyipg without the Forest Re
serve as described in the General
Conditions and Requirements.
One-half of one per cent of the to
tal amount involved in the bid must
be deposited with each proposal as a
guarantee that the successful bidder
will execute formal contract with
bond, H required, within fifteen days
after receipt of notice of award.
No bid will be considered for less
than 50,000 ties or 500 piling.
On or about the 15th of each
month, payment will he made for all
ties and piling accepted during pre
ceding month, less 15 per cent, which
will be retained until completion of
entire order.
Specifications, Form of Proposal,
General Conditions and Require
ments, Form of Contract and further
information may be had at the Offices
of the Alaska Engineering Commis
sion, Anchorage and Seward, and at
the offices of the Alaska Road Com
mission in Valdez and Juneau.
Bids will be opened at the Office of
the Alaskan Engineering Commis
sion, Anchorage, Alaska, at two (2)
o’clock P. M., June 15, 1916.
The right is reserved to reject any
or all bids. No bids will he consid
ered from employees of the Alaskan
Engineering Commission.
F. MEARS,
Commissioner.
Published 1, 8, 15, 22, 29; May 6, 13,
20, 27.
TIDE TABLES FOB APRIL.
The following table Is compiled for
high and low tides in Valdez Bay.
Sunday, April 16.
High, 11:17 am, 8.1; 11:16 pm, 9.4.
Low, 5:09 am, 0.5; 5:05 pm, 1.5.
Monday, April 17.
High, 11:59 am, 8.2.
Low, 5:46 am, 0.4; 5:35 pm, 1.6.
Tuesday, April 18.
High, 11:45 am, 10.0; 12:42 pm, 8.3.
Low, 6:25 am, 1.1; 6:14 pm, 1.7.
Wednesday, April 19.
High, 12:22 am, 10.4; 3:24 pm, 8.1.
Low, 7:05 am, 1.5; 6:49 pm, 2.0.
Thursday, April 20.
High, 12:58 am, 10.5; 2:19 pm, 7.7.
Low, 7:49 am, 1.3; 7:30 pm, 2.3.
Friday, April 21.
High, 1:36 am, 10.4; 3:00 pm, 7.3.
Low, 8:36 am, 1.3; 8:10 pm, 2.7.
Saturday, April 22.
High, 2:25 am, 10.1; 3:57 pm, 6.8.
Low, 9:29 am, 0.8; 9:13 pm, 3.2.
Sunday, April 28.
High, 3:17 am, 9.4; 5:06 pm, 6.5.
Low, 10:29 am, 0.2; 10:07 pm, 3.6.
Monday, April 24.
High, 4:23 am, 8.7; 6:26 pm, 6.6.
Low, 11:39 am, 0.4.
Tuesday, April 25.
High, 5:44 am, 8.0; 7:40 pm, 7.1.
Low, 11:35 am, 3.8; 12:55 pm, <W8..
Wednesday, April 26.
High, 7:17 am, 7.6; 8:38 pm, 7.7.
Low, 1:22 am, 3.4; 2:05 pm, 1.0.
Thursday, April 27.
High, 8:40 am, 7.6; 9:25 pm, 8.4.
Low, 2:47 am, 2.5; 3:00 pm,. 1.2.
Friday, April 28.
High, 9:47 am, 7.7; 10:05 pm, 9.1.
Low, 3:46 am, 1.4; 3:47 pm, 1.3.
Saturday, April 29.
High, 10:42 am, 7.9; 10:40 pm, 9.6.
Low, 4:36 am, 0.5; 4:28 pm, 1.5.
Sunday, April 80.
High, 11:29 am, 8.0; 11:13 pm, 9.9.
Low, 5:18 am, 0.3: 5:04 pm, 1.7.
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Setting the Limit.
Miss Tonsils—Would you like to bear
me sing “All Through the Night?’
Mr. Lobrough—I’m going to beat it
about 10. Better knock off then.—Bos
ton Globe.
• Stop that Infernal Racket
Show your wife how much you
love her and send that noisy old
pump to the Valdez Iron Works and
let them remove the peace disturber,
your neighbors will appreciate it. tf
UfiOH UNION IS
smug mil
,
LABOR C03NHITI0N8 BETJUHBD
Secretary of Niarw Alaska labor Un
ion Writes a® Interceding letter
Concerning tine Situation in the
New Railroad Town.
Charles McCaUam. Secretary of the
local branch of tbs- Western Federa
tion of .Mines, is in .receipt of the fol
lowing interesting letter from P. H.
Ringstad, Secretary of the rec'-nlly
formed Alaska Labor Union, regard
ing the union and Jhte labor situation
at .Anchorage:
“As we have enlisted in our mem
bership many former members of the
Valdez Miners’ Union and as we are
carrying on a campaign to enlighten
and inform ail unions and workers in
Alaska of conditions on railroad and
construction work in this vicinity we
take this opportunity to write you in
this respect. .As you hare no doubt
read newspaper accounts of general
conditions here 1 may say that at the
time of the walkout of the steel gang
on the railroad, af ter being refused
their demands, conditions were in
tolerable. Men slept on their blan
kets on the frozen ground all winter
and were pressed in different ways
beyond endurance ant! commissary
conditions were poor and unheal1 by
Under such conditions agitation natu
rally arises and the men decided to
ask for a raise from 37 l-2c to 50c
per hour and better living conditions,
and if their demands were not grant
ed by February 7tb, they were to quu
work and attempt the formation of
an organization comprising all -work
ers in this vicinity. On February 7th
the hall was not large enough to ac
commodate one-third of the workers.
"Jt was then decided to form a
permanent organization on the 8th
for which a larger hall had to be se
cured. In five days time the organi
zation grew to 1100 members and be
ing the majority composed of the
workers in ihis vicinity, our demands
were sent by committee to Commis
sioner Mears, who then informed us
that he was not empower to grant
same but would forward by wire to
Commissioner Edes and Riggs at
Washington, D. C.
On March 1st the boys decided to
declare a general strike on March 7,
if their demands were not granted by
the Commission. On March 3, Mr.
Mears received wires from Secretary
Lane at Washington. This telegram
informed them that a committee ap
pointed by the Secretary of Labor was
en route to Anchorage for the pur
pose of investigating and adjusting a
wage scale, said wage scale to be put
int& effect on the railroad construc
tion work.
On March 4th the Union decided to
defer action regarding a general
strike until after the arrival of this
committee and to return to work at
the old wage scale if an agreement
could be made between Commissioner
Mears and the Union that the men
were to receive back pay for the time
employed from March 6, until the
time the committee set the new wage
scale.
“There are 761 members employed
at present under these conditions and
we have a total membership today of
1800. Men are now coming over the
trail and are falling in line and join
ing the union.
The investigating committee is now
in the city but have not at this time
informed us of action to be taken.
The members of this union decided
that this organization should not af
filiate with any outside union and
that it should be formed on the in
dustrial plan and incorporate and is
sue charters to any and all workers
in the different parts of Alaska. In
due time we hope to send organizers
around to organize under our ban
ner. The coal mines at Matanuska
are just opening and the miners are
now being hired from this Union.
Prom time to time I shall inform
you on conditions here. I trust your
union is meeting with success and
that your members are steadily em
ployed and hoping to hear from you
regarding conditions in your locality,
we are yours for emancipation.
P. H. RINGSTAD.
FOR SALE— 2 room cabin, finely
furnished. Good location. A big snap.
Alaska Inv. Co. Phone 196. 2t
“Stars Their Courses Change,” in
three big acts and presenting Fran
cis X. Bushman and Edna Mayo at
the Empress this evening. Also the
scream Two Part comedy, “The
Property man.” One show at 8. p. m.
sharp.
Pure Freeh Drugs at the Valdez
Drug Store. •
Anything in the jewelry line at the
Valdez Drug Co. tf
VALUABLE BUBBISH. .
Fortune* Wad* Now In What Waa_
Once Looked Upon a* Refuse.
A gold mine In a refuse heap may
sound strange, but It Is a fact, for
many things once considered mere
waste are now a source of more wealth
than an ordinary gold mine would
yield.
In the earlier days of gas lighting the
coal tar was regarded as a horrible
nuisance and surreptitiously got rid of.
Then the great discovery was made
that all the hues «f the rainbow dwelt
in this dirty looking stuff which men
despised and threw away. Today the
byproducts of coal tar are counted by
the scores.
In Lancashire alone cotton waste,
once considered rubbish, has an annual
value of £15,006,000! It consists of
fag ends and sweepings and pickings
and combings. Thousands of women
are employed to divide this stuff Into
good, middling and bad, and it is sold
at various prices for different purposes
, —papermaking. matting, surgical wad
ding and, most of all. the making of
•shoddy.
Soap boilers used to have great diffi
culty in getting rid of a thick, evil
•smelling liquid, which was the chief
byproduct of their industry. They ran
it into streams and sewers. Presently
some one began collecting it and refin
ing it. The result was pure glycerin.—
London Answers.
INDIA’S GREAT POET.
Plain Living and High Thinking Rule
Hie Existence.
In “Rabindranath Tagore.” by Bnsan
ta Koomar Roy, is this picture of the
simple life of the great poet and seer
of India, who won the Nobel prize for
literature:
“Tagore himself lives alone in a
house. He gets up with the morning
bell, sometimes before, and takes hi3
morning bath, goes on the roof and
loses himself in meditation for hours
at a time, in this house he quite of
ten cooks his own meals in an ‘eco
nomic cooker.’ He does not eat much.
Boiled rice, boiled potatoes, cauliflower
or beans, enough of butter are all that
he cares to eat He is not fond of milk
or sweets. He takes long walks for
exercise and is fond of gardening.
“Plain living and high thinking is
the keynote of his life at Bolpur. He
preaches to the boys and to the teach
ers twice a week in the temple. His
love for the children is of an idealistic
nature. At times one of them will j
steal into his room and watch him
smile and move bis head to and fro as
he writes or thinks over a poem. One (
such' boy startled him by exclaiming, i
That’s bow the madmen do.’
“ ‘Yes, my child, poets are worse
than madmen. When did you come
into the room?”’
Testing an Explosive.
One of the most dangerous of explo
sives is iodide of nitrogen, a black pow
der which the slightest touch will
often cause to explode when dry with
great violence. In experiments to de
termine the cause of its extreme ex
plosiveness some damp iodide of nltro
gerf was rubbed on the strings of a
bass viol. It is known that the strings
of such an instrument will vibrate
when those of a similar instrument
having an equal tension are played
upon. In this case, after the explosive
had become thoroughly dry upon the
strings, another bass viol was brought
near and the strings sounded. At a
certain note the iodide of nitrogen on
the prepared Instrument exploded. It
was found that the explosion occurred
only when a rate of vibration of sixty
a second was communicated to the
prepared strings. Vibration of the O
string caused an explosion, while that
of the E string bad no effect
The Siamese Topknot.
A Siamese child, whether boy or
girl, wears its hair in a little topknot
until it has attained the age of eleven
or twelve years. On reaching this age
the topknot cutting ceremony takes
place. The child is dressed in its best
and amid much rejoicing of relatives
and friends the topknot is cut one
lock at a time. The bead is then com
pletely shaved by the priests. All
guests invited to the ceremony bring
presents, usually money, which is
carefully Invested for the child by its
parents or guardians. A yonng prince
or princess will sometimes receive as
much as $25,000 in presents at his or
her topknot cutting ceremony, while
a poor child may get $10 or $15.—Wide
World Magazine.
Ths Red 8quirrel.
When the red squirrel begins tap
ping maple trees for £he sap the ani
mal makes an Incision in the bark and
waits until the sap has trickled a short
distance down the trunk of the tree.
He then begins at the bottom of the
stream and licks up until he has reach
ed the source of the flow, when he
again waits and repeats the perform
ance until satisfied.
Difficult Dentistry.
Pulling a lion’s tooth Is not easy.
Ordinarily the beast Is tied to the floor
of his cage. Then a' board 1b removed
from directly under his head. Through
this the doctor reaches up with huge
forceps and performs the operation.—
New York Telegram.
* -..- ■. n \
Right to ths Point.
Magician—I can read minds. Engi
neer—Yuh ken? Hen yuh read mine?
Magician—Certainly. Engineer—Why
don’t yuh hit me. then?—New York
Globe.
A He always has a certain amount
of weight with those who wish to be
lieve it—Rice.
VALDEZ - and - ANCHORAGE
CITY EXPRESS
Meets all boats! On the job, day or night
We never sleep.
J. A. SPENARD, Proprietor Phone 82
Independent Steam Laundry
Satisfaction Guaranteed |
Telephone 66 i
I Foot Keystone Ave
I Routrh 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 63 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
plumbing STOVES and RANGES heating
MOTOR BOAT SUPPLIES, PAINTS and OILS
Mine Air Pipe, Valves, Hose, Pipe and Fittings
Valdez Dock. Opposite Prospector Office. Telephone 26
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.
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
PUGET SOUND
California
Admiral
Line.
PUGET SOUND
Alaska
SAILINGS FROM SEATTLE, 11:00 A. M.—
Monday, Mar. 5, Admiral Farragut lor Seldovia and Way Ports.
Wednesday, Mar. 15, Admiral Watson for Seward and Wray Ports.
Sunday, March 19, Admiral Evans, for Kodiak and Way Ports.
Sunday, March 26,, Admiral Farragut, for Seldovia and Way Ports.
Sunday, April 2, Admiral Watson, for Seldovia and Way Ports.
Sunday, April 9,* Admiral Evans, for Kodiak and Way Ports.
Sunday, April 16, Admiral Farragut for Anchorage and Way Ports.
Sunday, April 23, Admiral Watson, for Anchorage and Way Ports.
Sunday, April 30, Admiral Evans, for Anchorage and Wray Ports.
CALIFORNIA
Seattle te San Franelaco every Wednesday and Sunday, connecting with
Steamers Vale and Harvard for Southern California.
Right reserved to change schedule without notice
RICHARD J. RING WOOD, Hgr* Seattle I VALDEZ DOCK CO. Local Agt.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
S. 8. ALAMEDA AND 8. 8. NORTHWESTERN SAIL FROM SE
ATTLE THE 10TH, BOTH AND BOTH,
EVERY MONTH
FROM VALDEZ SOUTH—8TH, 18TH, 28TH, FOR CORDOVA,
JUNEAU, WRANGEL, KETCHIKAN AND SEATTLE.
Without' BOtlM.
r. B.TBACY, Gca’l A*«at VALDES DOCK CO, Laeal Afut