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Enlarging and copying photos and
views at Jenners the Photographer, tf
For good nome-cooKed null try
Mrs. M. Olson. 0* Hobart street. •
Old-Fashioned Hoarhound lumps
at Hunt’s Candy Kitchen. tf
Cash register for sale, apply Hunt’s
Candy Kitchen. tf
Anything in nugget and ivory Jew
elry at Valdez Drag Co.
B. C. Dalzelle ajid G. M. Scott, two
well-known traveling men, were ar
rivals on the Mariposa and arc call
ing on our local merchants.
Try the Cottage Dining Boom for
good home-cooked meals. Mrs. M.
Rucker, Phone 1S1. if
Pictures and Panoramic Views
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Valdez Miner, $3.00 per year.
j TIDE TABLES FOB VALDEZ.
I
j Friday. January 26—
j First High Tide, 2:27 a. ni.. 9.2.
! Second High Tide, 2:25 p. m., 9.3.
| First High Tide, 8:21 a. m., 0.5.
jSecond Low Tide, 8:43 p. ni., —1.0.
Saturday, January 27—
I First High Tide, 3:09 a. m., 9.3.
jSecond High Tide, 3:16 p. ni., 8.2.
First Low Tide, 9:14 a. m., 0.5.
Second Low Tide, 9:21 p. m., 0.0.
Sunday, January 28—
First High Tide, 3:50 a. m.. 9.2.
Second High Tide, 4:10 p. m., 7.1.
First Low Tide, 10:11 a. m., 0.7.
Second Low Tide, 10:10 p. ni., 1.0.
Monday, Jan. 29—
First High Tide, 4:37 a. m., 8.9.
Second High Tide, 5:15 p. m., 6.0.
First Low Tide, 11:16 a. m., 1.0.
Second Low Tide, 10:44 p. m., 2.0.
Tuesday, January 30—
First High Tide, 5:29 a. m., 8.6.
Second High Tide, 6:39 P- m., 5.3.
First Low Tide, 12:34 p. m„ 1.2.
Second Low Tide, 11:35 p. m., 2.9.
Wednesday, January 31—
First High Tide, 6:30 a. m., 8.2.
i Second High Tide, 8:23 p. m., 5.1.
|First Low Tide, 2:03 p. m., 1.2.
Temperature Drops Inside.
This morning’s weather report from
the interior shows a temperature of
54 degrees below zero at McCarty;
50 below at McCarty and 4$ below at
Delta; about as cold as has been
i registered this winter at these points.
At Fairbanks and Richardson 42 and
144 below respectively were register
ed. Zero and below is also reported
| at McCallum, Paxson, Hpgan, Gul
kana and Copper Center, the tjier
I mometer registering zero at the lat
1 ter place and 25 below at the first
named. Tonsina, Teikhell, Beaver
Dam, Thompson Pass, all report
weather ranging from zero to 10
above. Heavy wind is reported from
all stations from McCallum tpis way.
League Meeting Postponed.
The meeting of the Valdez Civic
League, scheduled to take place Sat
urday afternoon, has been postponed
i until 3 o’clock Monday afternoon.
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Rexall Drugs! Absolutely pure. Owl
Drug Store.
Notice to the Public,
j The Alaska Gold Hill mining stock
i will be withdrawn from the Vgldez
'market at 12 m., Saturday, January
j 27, 1917.
, 3t F. M. KEMPFER.
WANTED — Work by first-class
baker. Good references. Advise
"R," Prospector. k30
Steamship Sailings
Admiral Evans—Sailed north for
Valdez Jan. 25.
Victoria—Sailed north from Seattle
Jan. 24, with freight only.
Mariposa—Sailed north from Seattle
January 20, at 9 a. m.
Alameda—Sailed south from Valdez,
January 20.
Spokane—Sailed south from Valdez,
Jan. 14.
Admiral Watson—Sailed south frurn
Valdez, Jan. 4.— Struck on rocks
near Irish Cove, Fidalgo Bay.
Alaska—Sails from Seattle frr Val
dez, Jan. 26.
Northwestern—Sails from Seattle for
Valdez, Feb. 1.
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DONALDSON SCHEDULE:
_
jLvs. Fort Liscum Lvs. Valdez
8:15 a.m. 9:45 a.m.
1:15 p.m. 4:00 p.m.
TUESDAYS.
8:15 a.m. 9:45 a.m.
1:15 p.m. 2:00 p.m.
4:30 p.m. 5:00 p.m.
SATURDAYS.
1:15 p.m. 4:00 p.m.
7:0 p.m. 10:30 p.m.
i There will be no trip of the launch
on the second and fourth Fridays of!
each month, these days being used to
clean boilers.
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Daily Weather Re|K>rt.
Jan. 26, 1917, 7 P. M.
Barometric pressure .29.810
Temperature .27
Maximum temperature .27
Minimum temperature .22
Mean temperature .24.5
Snow on ground .60 in.
Jan. 26, 1917, 7 A. M.
Barometric pressure .30.025 \
Temperature .25
Maximum temperature 29
Minimum temperature .13
Mean temperature .21
Snow on ground .55 in.
Clear, northeast wind. 30 miles.
—Myrtle F. Billings, Obs.
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U. S. Signal Corps Report.
Valdez, Alaska. Jan. 26, 1!>17.
Fairbanks—42 below. 15 inches of
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snow: clear, calm.
Salcha—54 below, 18 inches snow,
clear, calm, trail good. X. ('. team
north 9:30 a. m.; Slater and Eiser.
menger south 12:30 p. m. yesterday.
Little Delta—Mail south 11:45 a.
m. yesterday.
Richardson — 44 below. 7 inches of
snow, clear, calm, trail good.
McCarty—50 below; 18 inches of
snow; clear, calm, trail fair.
Donnelly—48 below; 25 inches of
snow: clear, calm, trail fair: north
imail by 11:20 a. m. yesterday: one
jmusher south this morning.
McCallum—25 below; 55 inches of
snow; cloudy, storming, high wind;
| trail drifted, stage south 1:30 p. ni.
j yesterday.
Paxson—11 below; 20 inches of,
snow, cloudy, high wind; trail heavy,
l'orih mail out; south mail out. 2 pas
sengers G a. m.
Hogan—8 below; 35 inches snow
clear, calm, trail fair.
Sourdough — Road Commission I'rt.
team south.
Gulkana—10 below; G inches of
snow; clear, heavy north wind; trail
fair.
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Copper Center—zero; snow drift
ing, cloudy, storming, trail fair !
South stage out 6 a. m., four pas
sengers.
Tonsina—2 above; 18 inches s.-ow,
clear, strong wind, trail drifted bad
ly; no traffic.
Teikhell—2 below; clear, wind.
heavy snow, 25 inches; Davis south,
Arrowsmith north 8 a. m. breaking
trail.
Beaver bam—zero, 40 inches of
snow; clear, high wind, trail drifted
and heavy.
Thompson Pass—2 above; 74 in.
of $now; cloudy, storming; trail very
heavy and drifted.
Wortman—10 above; 42 inches of
snow; clear, strong wind; trail drift
ed and heavy.
Flump girdle.
She (after the service)—You
dreadful fellow. Why did you smile
during the offertory?
He—I couldn’t help it. There
was Miss Addle Pose singing, “Had i
the Wings of a Dove.” The mental
picture of a 200 pounder trying to fly
with a pair of four-inch wings was
too much for me.
Has aij Electric Pitcher
CINCINNATI, 26.—Dode Pas
kert, star outfielder of the Phila
delphia Nationals, visited Cincinnati
today with a new baseball pitching
machine that he believes will solve
the problem of batting practice. Pas
kert is trying to Interest President
Herrmann of the Reds in the con
trivance enough to get him to install
one of the machines at the Rhine
land training camp at Sheveport.
The electrical? controlled “pit
cher” will delivajr any kind of a ball
desired—high fijpUow, inside the
plate or outsidQj|'The balls do not
come absolutely straight, either, as
when they are ^pinched” and let go
by the apparatus enough yf a twis*
THE FIRST BANK OF VALDEZ
Resources over 3300,000.
Drafts sold on all Foreign Countries.
Wells Fargo Travellers checks tor sale
Safe Deposit Boxes For Rent.
DEPOSITARY FOR THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA
AND POST OFFICE SAVINGS BANK.
Valdez Dock Co • phone no. i
JOBBER IN
COAL, HAY
GRAIN and
LUMBER
Office, foot of Wall street.
Do It Electrically
Electrical helps make housekeeping easier. Few
people realize the number of electrical labor-saving
devices that have found a place in the household.
The Electric Iron has become a household ne
cessity and ninety per cent of the families using elec
tric light also use an electric iron.
Other labor saving devices are the Vacuum
Cleaner that averages less than seven pounds in
weight. Then there is the washing machine for fam
ilies that do their own laundry, Electric Buffing mo
tors for polishing the silverware, and small electric
motors for running churns, ice cream freezers and
for numerous other purposes.
Are your electrical appliances working satis
factory? If not notify the
Prince William Sound Water,
Power, Light & Tele. Co.
is imparted, it is said, to make the
ball curve in or out.
Paskert says that one of these ma
chines could be fastened to a plat
form with a handle and rollers, and
pushed to the pitcher’s box before
big league games, an electric wire
run out and connected, and enough
fast balls delivered to the batters of
each team to use up a dozen pitcher3.
Cutting Down Force.
A number of men employed at the
Granby mine at Solomon Basin have
been laid off temporarily and have re
turned to town. The ore bunkers both
on the wharf and at the mine are fill
ed to overflowing and no advices have
been received as to when a steamer
may be expected to take the ore away.
The management has therefore decid
d to lay off a part of the crew until
arrangements have been made by the
company to.transport the ore to the
smelter at Anyox. The smelter is run
by water power, and the extreme cold
weather prevailing at Anyox of late
has cut down the water supply until
It became necessary to close down a
part of the plant, thus curtailing their
output for the time, and necessitating
the company advising a number of
their shippers that they will be unable
to accept ore shipments until about
the first of March.
The Moose will hold their regular
Saturday night dance this week. Ex
cellent music and a good time assur
ed all who attend. 2t
Taxes Drive Ryan Out.
RICHMOND. Va., Jan. 2fi.—Thom
as Fortune Ryan, the well known fin
ancier, who was forced under the
“Omittance Tax” to pay $337,000 to
the county and state in taxes on mil
ted intangibles, has notified the com
missioner of revenues of Nelson coun
ty that he has transferred his resi
dence to Washington, D. C.
Mr. Ryan’s transfer of residence
will mean a tax loss of $80,000 annu
ally to the State and countv Mr.
Ryan’s removal was caused by the ex
orbitant taxation placed upon capital
in Virginia.
Maglnnis Takes Bride.
Second Steward Maginnis of the
Mariposa, is absent from his post on ♦
the present voyage of that steaaer,
having taken a trip to Chicago where
he has taken unto himself a bride in
the person of Miss FMannigan, one of
the belles of the Windy City. He will
rejoin the ship on her return to Se
attle.
Malcolm Brock, manager of the
Blum mercantile and banking busi- 4
ness at Cordova is a visitor in town.
Capt. J. C. MehafTey of the Alaska
Road Commission returned on the
Mariposa from a business trip to the
States.
The Chinaman listed for Valdez on
the Mariposa's passenger list was a;
| employe of the Copper River Packing
[Company at Cordova, and disembark
ed at that place.
Hawaiian Su^ar Productions l>rop.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jail. £«.—
Hawaii produced 53,237 tons less su
gar in 1916 than 1915. despite the
increased area planted to sugar cane.
Returns to the department of agricul
ture show that the year’s output was
approximately 592,763 tons. The de**P
creased production was due a lower
yiehj of can per acre and a smaller
average of sugar per ton of cane. ^
Rexall! Rexall! Investigate Rex
all products at the Owl Drug Store, (f
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