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VOLUME 4, WO. 33_-VALDEZ, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1905. OFFICIAL CITYPAPER.
Tailor Made Clothes
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our Clothing Shipments have Just
reached us and we are now prepared to Please and
Fit most any customer, no matter how fastidious.
Great Care has been taken in the selection of
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Patterns and Styles and as we bu>' on,y
from the vfcry best Eastern Manufac
turers wbo bavr clothes 'making down to a pine
Art, you may be sure, hot only of Quality and
Style, but a*so» which is fully as important, of
Perfect Fit.’
If you buy a suit from us you will find that
it win Look Fine, Fit Wfell and give you
absolute Satisfaction >n tbe wear.
A Guarantee of Quality" g°es with every High Grade Suit
.purchased from us, and you are not taking the least chance:
We can fit you BETTER t^ian ordinary tailor. Yes, Even Better
than the first-class tailor, unless you can get-a try-on before the suit is finished.
This is not 1 Erhfety Talk but A Fact which we demonstrate every
day.
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Overcoats.
Our line of Overcoats is now Complete and
with wither not very far away we would suggest that
vou look them over before the assortment is broken.
Tine Shoes.
Examine our line of Men's Fine Shoes
Hats and Ceps, Underwear and Neg
ligee 'Shirts, stocks of which are Lacge and
Varied.
Give Us X Trial and if we cannot fulfill every
promise made You Get Your Money Back*
The Railroads
The railroad construction party
of the Valdez-Yubon Co. is making
rapid progress along the right-of
way over the flats lietween Valdez
and Keystone canyon. Beginning
at the easterly side of the town all
the timber and brush has been
cleared for a distance of several
miles, and a number of men are
rapidly building up a grade, while
the engineers are in the tield laying
out the work ahead.
The company has about twenty
miles of steel rails, now at Vancou
ver. which will lie ship|ied here as
soon as the roadbed is ready.
Tht management states that
work will lie kept going until con
ditions force them to stop.
Last Monday a number of citi
zens, upon the invitation of O. P.
Hubbard, counsel for the company,
visited the camp and enjoyed a
pleasant hour and a hearty dinner.
Doing Rock Work.
Work on the right-of-way through
Keystone canyon is being carried
on by a gang of men in charge of
H. Deyo, for the Copper River iV
Northwestern Railroad Co. The
rock work is progressing rapidly,
and it is expected that it will he
completed through the canyon in
the early winter.
At the townsite work on th«
wharf has been temporarily sus
pended, owing to lack of piles.
Real Estate Transfers
The Valder Real Estate Agenc\
has this week made a number of
transfers of real estate, as follows:
The two Nelson houses on Mc
Kinley st., were sold to T. \\.
Dougherty for $1,<)00.
Two lots on Hobart street to
E. Ohlsson. Consideration $31)0.
House and lot on McKinley
street, $150.
Larson-W orkman.
Oscar Larson, familiarly known
as "King Oscar” and Miss Bessie
Workman were united in marriage
Thursday evening. Sept. 14, and
left next night for the States on the
Excelsior.
Eide-Stokes.
On September 14, aij;Seward,'by
Judge H. H. Hildreth, Miss’Pearl
Stoke and Anton Eide were united
in the h<>ly. boV.ds of matrimony.
Thebride was formerly a resident
of Port Townsend. Wash. The
groom has been ror several years a
resident of this city. The happy
couple are spending the honey
moon in Valdez.
Investigating Trip.
F. C Chnrchill, special agent ot
the Interior department, who has
been in Alaska this summer in
vestigating the charges against
Governor Brady and other officials,
passed through here on the Dora
enroute for Sitka, where he will
stop for a time. He was accom
panied by his wife.
Placer on Eagle Creek
Frank Bartlett ami W. W. War
den returned to town this week
fron the Chistuchtna country,
where thev spent the summer pros
|*ecting. They re (tort the discov
ery of a pay streak on Eagle Creek,
a tributary of the I.ake fork of the
Chistuchina, (lowing in near Lake
Meneomen.
'1 liis creek has Wen prospected
in a desultory fashion for the past
four years, hut this season Bart
lett and Wardell devoted most of
the summer to sinking, above the
| canyon, and succeeded in locating
good pnv. They located the stream
and will return next summer to
[open up the property. Eagle creek
has Wen located several times
since the first rush to that country.
It has a good fall, is close to tim
Wr and is easy to work.
Mearns Drowned.
George Mearns, purser of the
Inlet steamer Tvonic, was drowned
early this month by falling off the
l>oat at night when at Fire island,
near Kodiak. The only one on
deek at the time was the night
watchman, who, hearing a splash
and a cry, shouted for help while
he ran to the side and threw over
a rope. This the drowning man
missed, and by the time a boat was
lowered no trace of Mearns could
be found. The steamer proceeded
on her way up the Inlet, leaving
a small boat with two men to
search for the body, but at latest
accounts the body had not been
found.
Mr. Mearns had ln-en in Alaska
for several vears, most of the time
acting as manager of the W'ether
l>eo store at Kenai, but this season
took the position of purser for the
season.
Ever since the birth of the Pnos
PKctor Mr. Mearns has been a
valued contributor.
Will Take Stock To Delta.
Johnnie Nelson, of the Slate
creek firm of Leslie & Nelson, will
move their stock of merchandise
this winter to the head of the Delta?
where he will operate a store for
the benefit of the Fairbanks mush
‘ars.
Professor Georgeson, head of the
agricultural experiment stations in
Alaska, was a passenger on the Ex
celsior enroute to Sitka, where he
resides. He this year made a tour
of the Yukon and Tanana valleys,
and expresses the l>elief that the
Tanana will prove the best valley
in Alaska for agricultural pur
jioses.
The Dora, which rnns from Val
dez to the westward, left here this
week for Seattle, where she will he
thoroughly overhauled before re
turning to her old run. In the
meantime the small steamer Shel*
ikoff will take her place.
The Boulder bay eopjter prop
erty belonging to S. Hemple and
James Fielder is now showing up
in fine shape. Mr. Fielder has
lalored incessantly for the past
itwo years running a tunnel to tap
, the lead at a considerable depth,
and has finally succeeded in do
1 ing so.
VALDEZ COLD STORAGE CO.,
and CITY MEAT MARKET.
OPP. A. L. LEVY A CO.
FRESH
VEGETABLES
Wholesale and
Retail Dealers
Live and Dressed Meats, Poultry,
Fish, Oysters, Butter and Eggs.
OWL DRUG COMPANY
Pure Fresh Drugs
MEDICINE OUTFITS FOR THE TRAIL
Stationery Phone 40 Newspapers, Magasines
Telegraphic News
W ashingtou, Sep. 20—The hoa'Al
of consulting engineers is now in
session considering plans for the
Panama canal. They hope to fig
ure nut some plan by which the
canal can be completed -tn --film
years.
New York. Sep. 20—F rede rick
Carlton, of Brooklyn, who was ac
cused of murdering several wives
for the insurance money, has hec’n
indicted only on the charge of big
amy.
Washington, Sep. 20—As a re
sult of the visit of Speaker Cannon
and party to Alaska, they have
decided that one delegate is insuffi
cient to represent such a vast terri
tory. It is claimed that if any
delegate bill is adopted it must
provide for three delegates instead
of one. As a substitute for the
delegate idea it is propose 1 that
congress establish an Alaska com
mittee to attend to necessary legis
lation.
New York, Sep. 20—Norn an
Ream, of Chicago, while returning
to the United States on the steamer
Kaiser Wilhelm, won $1(0,000 at
l>oker ficm F. A. Heinze, II. C.
Friek and George Westinghouse.
Washington, Sep. 20—Exchange
of the ratification of the i>eace
treaty between Russia and Japun
will be made here when signed;
probably at the White House.
Gold Quart*.
T. D. Bradshaw, president of the
Tidewater Consolidated Coal Co.,
operating coal mines at Coal Har
l>or, Alaska, was a passenger on
the Dora bound for Seattle. He
rejiorts that on Popoff island, one
of the Shuniagin group of islands,
there are evidences of a very large
body of gold bearing rock.
About a year ago gold was dis
covered in the sand upon the beach
on Pnjioff island, and some $20,
000 have since been taken there
from. Tracing up the source of
this beach gold led to the discov
ery of what is lielieved to be an ex
tensive dyke of gold bearing por
phpry or conglomerate which cov
ers a large area of country, and
from which numerous samples have
been assayed, showing a value of
$•'> per ton, with higher values in
places; but the gold in the porphy
ry, however, assays uniformly $5.
|>er ton. Further tests of the
ground at different points are being
made to ascertain the probable ex
tent of the deposit.
Copper Claim 8old.
A transfer was this week made
of a half interest in the two copper
claims on Glacier island belonging
to William Wagner and Prank
Nelson. Warner sold his interest
in the property to Phil Collins, the
consideration being one thousand
dollars.
This property shows up very
well for the scant amount of wofk
that has been done upon it. A
shaft has hefcn sunk almost at tide
water, and it is expected that the
ledge will be struck a short dis
tance from where the present work
stops. The ledge lies in a position
similar to the ledge at Kllamar,
showing up on the beach at loW
water and dips toward the fthorfe.
A disastrous fire occurred at
Nome on the 13th. Sixty build
ings, including the city hali.'Vere
destroyed. The( losrfamounted to
about <ftie hun'dr&l and fifty thous
and dollars.
Billy Ripstein, who is interested
with Charles Rua in a copper prop
erty on Boulder bay, is building w
house near the claims and tflrn
side there permanently.