$18, $16, $14 and $12 Baby Cabs
At $12.75, $10.50, $9.75, $7.75
AN unusual opportunity; the reason, simply this:—
Last year we missed our gues& and as a result
had these baby buggies left at the end of the season.
Now we are not afraid of having them left on our
hands not in Valdez, but we desire to move them
out and do so quick. Hence this unusual price at
the very beginning of the season.
. All are collapsible, the folding
up kind, of the best material
throughout; finished in black en
amel and nickle, with side and
storm curtains; the better kinds
having mud-guards and wheel
locks. Regular prices: $18.00,
$16.00 $14.00 and $12.00
Prices to Clear: $12.75,
$10.75, $9.75 and $7.75
Bed Spring Special
One-half, three-quarter and full sizes, wood frame
bed springs, closely woven top; a good strong arti
cal throughout. Regular prices $5.00, $4.50, $3.50.
Special Price: $3.25, $3.00 and $2.75.
Valdez Mercantile Co. *■
m TRUE VALUES
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
—- DENTIST,
io bath companies Fourteen vears in
Office Rooms in VALDEZ
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
Phone 18 THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Drug store. Office hours
9 a. m.. to 6 p. m.. 7 p, m.. to 9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
Attorneys at Law
Offices in Whaling Building
Phone lOl Valdez. Alaska
DONOHOE &DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 34 Valdez, Alaeka
Valdez Hospital
Largest and Best Equipped Hospital
in Southwestern Alaska.
Graduate Nurses—Privste Rooms for Patients
For Terms'and Particulars Apply to
E. C. DALTON, M, D., Physician in Charge.
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miners
H. M. CARTER, President,
Granite Mine..
CHAS. McCALLUM, Secretary,
Valdez, Alaska.
Chas. PeRK'Y'
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Seattle to San Francisco every Wednesday and Sunday connecting with
Steamers Yale and Harvard for Southern California.
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HELP SERBIANS
Rockefeller Foundation Wants Head
of Army Medical Service To
Aid Serbians.
WASHINGTON, April 12.—The
Rockefeller Foundation has request
ed Major General William Gorgas,
surgeon-general of the United States,
who made such an enviable record
during the construction of the Pan
ama canal, to take charge of the
fight against typhus fever which the
foundation will make in Serbia.
The surgeon-general received a long
letter from the foundation today re
questing his aid and asking that he
take charge of the work.
It is feared that the German gov
ernment will make a protest against,
the granting of leave of absence to
an army officer who will spend his
efforts in aiding a country which is
at war with Germany. The conditions
in Serbia are known to be very ser
ious and thousands of non-combatants
have perished.
"Avenged ”
“Avenged” at the Orpheum to
night, also “The Legend of the Phan
tom Tribe,” in two ptjits.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
E. Anderson came over from Cor
dova on the Alameda today on busi
ness.
Captain Lathrop, the Cordova trans
portation magnate, was a west-bound
passenger on the Alameda today and
will return on the Admiral Watson.
A. C. Taylor, the freighter, left for
Seward on the Alameda, taking his
horse and dray and he will enter the
transfer business in the westward
I city.
H. L. Jones, who worked for the
Alaska engineering commission last
summer on a gasoline launch near
Ship Creek, was a passenger for Sel
dovia on the Admiral Watson yes
terday. He expects to get up to Ship
Creek on a small boat prior to the
big rush that is expected on the first
boats from Seattle.
Weather Report.
Valdez, April 11, 1915.
Barometric pressure .29,400
Temperature at 5 p. m. 39
Maximum temperature . 42
Minimum temperature . 32
Mean temperature . 37
Precipitation . 37
Cloudy air, wind southwest 4 miles.
Rained at night frequent showers ail
day.
Notice of Forfeiture.
To G. A. Brown, his heirs and ad
ministrators and to all it may con
cern :
You are hereby notified that we
have expended during the years 1912,
1913, and 1914, the sum of three hun
dred dollars ($300.00), lawful money
of the United States, in labor and
improvements, upon your one-sixth
Interest in those mining claims lying
and being on Mineral creek, in the
recording precinct of Valdez, Alaska,
which are known as the Monte Carlo
group consisting of the Monte Carlo,
Monte Carlo No. 2, Monte Carlo No.
3, Monte Carlo No. 4, Monte Carlo
No. 5, Monte Carlo No. 6, the
location notices of said claims
being of record in the office of
the commissioner and recorder, at
Valdez, Alaska, pages numbered 322,
323, 325, 326, and 327, of Book 2 Min
ing Records, in order to hold said
claims under the provisions of Sec
tion 2324 of the Revised Statutes of
the United States, concerning annual
labor on mining claims, being the
amount required to hold said lode
claims for the period ending Decem
ber, 1934.
And unless within ninety days af
ter the completion of the publication
of this notice, to-wit: within ninety
days after the 6th day of May, 1915,
you contribute your proportion of
such expenditure Incurred in perform
ing said annual labor and improve
ments, which is the sum of three
hundred dollars (1390.00), your inter
est in said claims will become the
property of your co-owners, who have
made the required expenditure, by the
terms of said sec**on.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 4th
day of February, 1915.
MIKE BARRETT.
JULIUS JUNGHOLM.
Last publication May 6. 1915.
On the basis ot Security and Service
we solicit your account.
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
BATTLES AND DOWNPOURS.
There le No Connection Between Gun*
fireand Rainstorms.
So far as the records are available,
the rain accompanying or Immediately
following great battles is not unlike
that which might have been expected
In the course of natural events, says a
writer in the Popular Science Monthly.
Rearing in mind the fact, already stat
ed, that throughout lnrge areas rain
occurs on an average once in three or
four days nnd also the subjective fact
that rain associated with July 4 cele
brations or with battles would doubt
less not have been remembered had It
not been for such associations, the hy
pothesis appears to have no foundation.
In 1892 the United States government
disproved the Idea by experiments In
which violent explosions of dynamite
were produced within clouds by means
of kites and balloons, with no rain fol
lowing as a direct or even as an indi
rect result. The practice, still followed
in various European countries, of at
tempting to prevent hall by bombard
ing approaching clouds or of projecting
vortex rings of smoke upward also Is
without scientific basis. The relatively
feeble conveetional currents resulting
from these artificial attempts to in
fluence the weather are too meager
to have any appreciable effect upon
the massive convection accompanying
storms nnd are wholly Inadequate to
influence precipitation.
SWISS MILITARY SYSTEM.
Tests All Youths Must Pass Before
They Become Soldiers.
The Swiss system is ultra militaristic
ami probnhly would never be accept
able to the United States. But it is
interesting, nevertheless, as indicating
how the problem of defense has been
met and apparently solved by the earn
est and patriotic people of a republic
like our own.
The Swiss system is compulsory and
begins with the early schooling of each
boy. He does not drill or handle flre
nrms, however, until he is twenty years
old, when he reports to federal au
thorities for physical and literary ex
amination. He must be able to read
and write and figure, and answer ques
tions in elemental Swiss history and
geography.
The physical tests require that the
applicant shall cover at least eight feet
in a running Jump, lift a weight of
thirty-seven pounds in both hands at
least four times, and run eighty yards
i in fourteen seconds.
Those who fall in these tests are
given an extension of time for further
training, not to exceed four years, and
if physically disqualified at the end
of that period they are obliged to pay
a tax, or to take some assigned posi
tion which they can fill—Kansas City
Journal.
Th* Sixteenth Century Carver.
At the formal banquet of the six
teenth century the man who carved
the rncnt was bound with the red tape
of precedent. When carving for distin
guished guests he had to remember
that certain parts of the birds or meat
must be set aside. In carving for his
lord and lady he was expected to exer
cise great discretion in the size of the
pieces he sent round, “for ladles will
lie soon angry and their thoughts
soon changed, and some lords are soon
pleased and some not, as they be of
: complexion.” lie was expected to have
the rules both of the kitchen and the
peerage at his knife’s end. A pike, for
instance, must be dished up whole for
a lord and in slices for commoner folk.
The rank of his diners, too, determined
whether a pig was to be served up
whole, sliced, plain or with gold leaf
or whether new bread or bread three
days old should be eaten.
Care of the Ear.
Never be alarmed If a living insect
enters the ears. Pouring warm water
into the canal will drown It, when It
will generally come to the surface and
can easily be removed by the fingers.
A few puffs of tobacco smoke blown
Into the ear will stupefy the Insect.
Never meddle with the ear If a foreign
body, such as a bead, button or seed
enters It. Leave It absolutely alone,
but have a physician attend to It.
More damage has been done by injudi
cious attempts at the extraction of a
foreign body than could ever come
from its presence in the ear.—Health.
Attacked In Front and Rear.
A youngster of our acquaintance who
has a faculty for getting into scrapes
recently expressed the wish that he
was a postage stamp. When asked
why, he answered, “Because a postage
stamp can only be licked once,”
whereupon we pointed out that the
stamp received, besides the licking, a
severe punch in the fuce.—Boston
Transscript.
Distinction.
“What distinction do you make be
tween ‘entertainment’ and ‘art?’”
“ ‘Entertainment,’ ” replied the thea
ter manager, “Is what people want.
‘Art’ Is what people want to make oth
er people think they want.”—Washing
ton Star.
Pretty Thin.
“Thin!” replied the man who was
talking about a mutual acquaintance.
"Well, he’s so thin that when ho eats
macaroni he can only swallow it one
piece nt a time!”—Pittsburgh Press.
Declined With Thanks.
Beggar—Won’t you giro me a nickel
for my starving wife, sir? Pedestrian
—Nothing doing. I’m married already.
—Philadelphia Ledger.
To persevere in one’s duty and to be
silent is the first answer to calumny.—
Washington.
LOCUST TREES.
They Are Very Easy to Raiee and Yield 1
Valuable Timber.
No wood Is easier or more Quickly j
grown than tho common locust, and
but few If nuy kinds of timber are
more valuable to their owners at this
time of need In lumber that has a com
mercial value.
Curiously enough locust trees will
grow in almost any soil. They are
easily started and can be transplanted
without danger of loss. They also may
be grown in out of the way or waste
places where the soil is unfit for culti
vation, and they grow so rapidly that
in a few years a locust grove will have
trees that are large enough to be made
Into posts for fencing or lumber for
furniture or house finishing.
Locusts bear the most honey laden
flower carried by any tree extensively
grown In Americn, and tvhere there
are plenty of locusts and bees in tho
same community there will be a heavy
yield of honey.
Locust posts have been known to re
main In the ground for fencing pur
poses for a period of sixty years, and
when removed the hark wns not decay
ed, and the wood was almost as solid
ns iron.
The latest use for locust is in the
manufacture of fine furniture and In
ferior finishing of fine residences. The
wood hns a grain and color not found
In any other timber.—New York Jour
nal.
TWO FINE SHOTS.
They Won Fame For the Marksman as
a Lion Killer.
A good story Is told of n trading
agent in Nyassnland. He was obsessed
with a particularly real horror of lions
One of these brutes began to eat up the
natives of the nearby village, doing ter
rible havoc. The agent barricaded
himself In his room and slept with six
native watchmen on duty in case the
Hon should try to break into his house.
One night ho thought he heard the
Hon prowling around and promptly
fired out of the window, knocking a
hole in the government boat The fol
lowing morning ho was astonished to
see what had huppened.
That night he again heard sounds
which seemed to foretell the presence
of the Hon. He seized his rifle and
fired and this time succeeded in bag
ging the district officer's favorite mule
at the first shot.
A certain well known sportsman,
who shall lie nameless, was hunting in
the district and heard the story. He
wrote to the agent and congratulated
him on shooting his first lion. The
agent roge to thg occasion apd now si
lences nil skeptics l>y producing the let
ter. He has since acquired quite a
reputation as a lion hunter on the
strength of this testimonial.—Captain
W. Robert Foran in American Boy.
Birds’ Eggs.
Even the same kind of bird often
lays eggs thnt show a great difference
in their marking. And often this is
true of the same individual bird. At
least one long, infertile egg Is Included
In the clutch of n house sparrow, be
sides several eggs that are of a darker
or lighter shade than each other. One
may find a dozen clutches that contain
some one typo quite different from the
rest. The tree sparrow also lays one
always different from the others in the
clutch. Some birds always lay an un
colored egg, such as the golden eagle,
osprey and others. Some birds’ eggs
vary much more than others in color
and markings. A result of experience
shows that the following are among
the common birds that lay eggs which
vary considerably: Robin, linnet, rook,
skylark, cuckoo, hawk and snipe.—Chi
cago Herald.
Two Trees.
The two navel orange trees that are
the parents of all of California’s mil
lions of Washington navel trees aro
still alive. One of the trees is In the
garden of Frank Miller's Mission Inn,
where It was transplanted by Theodore
Roosevelt when he was president The
other Is at the head of the famous
Magnolia avenue at Riverside. The
two trees were sent by the government
to L. C. Tibbetts, a Riverside colonist,
In 1873. Then followed the develop
ment of California’s great navel or
chards.—San Francisco Chronicle.
____
A Bad Bargain.
"They say she literally bought the
count, and now I guess she wishes
she'd bought him on the Instalment
plan.”
“Why so?"
"Then all she’d have to do would be
to stop payments and they would take
him away.”—Boston Transcript.
Father’* Knock.
Irate Father—How can that young
man do a day’s work after sitting here
playing and yodellng till midnight?
Marlon—He says four hours’ sleep Is
all a man needs. Irate Father—Who
told him what a man needs?—New
York Globe.
Queer.
“Queer, Isn't It?”
“What Is?”
“You never hear a man admit that
he’s a self made failure.”-Detrolt
Free Press.
The One Exception.
Mrs. Flubdub—You have never done
anything really clever in your whole
life. Mr. Flubdub—You seem to forget,
my dear, that I married you.—Judge.
8he Won.
Newlywed—My angel, I wish you
wouldn’t paint Mrs. Newlywed—Now,
Jack, have you ever seen an angel that
wasn’t painted?—London Mall.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
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The best groceries receh ed
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
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Moved to Reed Building, on Wall
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MEALS \ Lunch 12 m to 1 v rn
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BOARD & ROOM $SO!per Mo.
Summons By Publication
In the District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division.
J. L. Deed, plaintiff, vs. Eri Thomp
son and M. A. Ellis, defendants.—
No. S-49. Summons by Publication.
The President of the United States
of America, greeting: To Eri Thomp
son, the above named defendant: You
are hereby summoned to appear in
the District Court for the Territory
of Alaska, in the Third Division, at
Valdez, within thirty days after the
completion of the publication of this
summons against you, to-wit: within
thirty days after the 19th day of Ap
ril, 1915. and answer the complaint
of the above named plaintiff, tiled in
the clerk’s office of the above entitled
court; and unless you so appearand
answer or otherwise plead, the plain
tiff will apply to the court for the
relief demanded in said complain*,
to-wit: a decree subjecting to the
lien of certain judgments duly docket
ed in the above entitled court, in fa
vor of the plaintiff and the said de
fendant Eri Thompson, on the Battle
Ax placer mining claim, in Cook Inlet
Precinct, Territory of Alaska, and or
dering that the same be sold to satis
fy said judgments.
This summons is served on you by
publication thereof, pursuant to an
order duly made and entered by the
above entitled court, on the 8th day
of March, 1915, which publication was
directed to be made once a week for
six consecutive weeks.
Witness the Honorable Fred. M.
Brown, judge of said Court, this 8th
day of March, 1915.
(Seal) ARTHUR LANG,
Clerk of the District Court.
By CHAS. A. HAND, Deputy.
D^te of first publication March 8.
1915.
Date of last publication April 19,
1915._
Notice of Forfeiture.
To Mrs. M. F. Roberts, her heirs
and administrators and to all it may
concern: You are hereby notified that
I have expended during the past year,
1914, the sum of $66.66 (sixty-six dol
lars and sixty-six cents) lawful money
of the United States in labor and im
provements upon your one-third inter
est in those mining claims lying and
being on Avery river, in the recording
precinct of Valdez, Alaska, which are
known as the Beauty Bird and Beauty,
Bird No. 1, the location notices of
said claims being of record in the
office of the commissioner, and rec
j orded at Valdez, Alaska, pages num
| bered 95, 96, in Book 10, Mining Rec
j ords. in order to hold said claims
under the provisions of section 2324
! of the Revis d Statutes of the Unit
j od States, concerning annual labor
on mining claims, being the amount
required to ho’d said lode claims for
the period ending December, 1914.
And unless within ninety days after
the completion of the publication of
this notice to-wit: within ninety days
after the 7th day of June, 1915, you
contribute your proportion of such ex
penditure incurred in performing said
annual labor and improvements,
which Is the sum of $66.66, your in
terest In said claims will become the
property of your co-partners, who have
made the required expenditure by the
terms of said section.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 8th
day of March, 1915.
JULIUS RONNING.
Last publication June 7, 1915.
This is a good lime to return that
nook you’ve read to the library at
Everyman’s Club. Library hours:
1 to 2 p. m. every day, Monday, We*
days and Fridays 7:30 to 9:30 p. m.
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
“baclT” a good plan, a
good idea, a good busi
ness venture or a good
mining prospect-other
wise a good many of to
day’s successful business
enterprises would still be
mere dreams.
Advertising has brought
about a majority of the
introductions of the man
w;ith the idea, the man
with a prospect or busi
ness to the man with the
dollar.
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