Hear Ye!
v Hear Ye!
Schmidt’s Bakery
Is Now In Session.
Bread, Cookies and Doughnuts
That Your Mother Could Not Make
Fresh Every Morning
Entrance ground floor, old P. O. building.
STEAM HEATED HOT AND COLD BATHS
Copper Block Hotel
VALDEZ, ALASKA
“The House of Comfort”
PHONE 7 FOR men only
Alaska Investment Co.
Real Estate, Insurance, Mining Stocks
Public Stenography Reed Building Accounting
MUSHERS 8AVE MAN FROM 1
DEATH ON WINTER TRAIL
W. R: Jackman of Anchorage,
through the Cook Inlet Pioneer has
publicly thanked three men who sav
ed his life on the trail when he had
become exhausted and was in danger
of freezing to death. The men are
Dr. Yager. Doc Sheehan and Archie
Donald, and Jackman does not be
Arcade Cafe
OPEN ALL NIGHT
Private Dining Rcom with Electric
Heater.
BREAD FOR SAIrE
J«clt Callin - - ‘ Proprietor
Dougherty & Ferguson
The best groceries received
on every boat,
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Fresh vegetables, fruits, and
nuts.
VALDEZ LODGE
NO 168
tret aa4 Am»l«4 Maaaaa
Regular Communications nrst Wed
nesday In eaclt Mienrth In UdKInley
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ED WOOD, Secretary.
B5 Shamrock
CAPT. TIM MARCUM
-Sails for Port Wells, Portage
, Bay, Granite Mine, Saturday
at 9:00 a. m., from the Val
dez Dock Company’s Dock.
For Ellamar, Landlock Bay,
and Fldalgo, every Wednes
day, 9:00 a. m., from Val
dez Dock Company’s Dock.
For Rates, Apply on Boat.
Complete Services
IN THE HEAIiT OF THE CITY»
[ l35Rpomr>yfift Mh-50 5amp!eRbows
lieve that there are three men like
them in Alaska. While walking be
tween Anchorage and Seward he had
reached Mile 53 traveling through
deep snow and had sat down for a
rest. When he started to resume his
journey he found that he was unable
to move and soon became uncon
scious. When the party found him
they dragged him four miles to an
old box car where they built a fire
and worked over the unconscious
man until he recovered. His fingers,
toes and ears were badly frost-bitten
but not seriously.
MAIL CARRIER MAY HAVE
PERISHED IN STORM
Late advices received in Seward
from Anchorage state that fears are
entertained for the safety of Alexon,
the mail carrier who has the run be
tween John river and over the divide
to Happy river, via Rainy pass. A
big snow storm is reported to have
occurred as the mail carrier was due
to pass over the divide and as he
has not since been heard from search
parties have been sent out to the
rescue.
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March 6 to 11
Save ten cents a pound
GOLDEN GATE
COFFEE
ATAUGRQOXRS
To convli||^TOby trial that
It is better tffln other coffees, and
to- induce you to make the test,
we reduce the price during
FOLGER WEEK
Grocers will collect the difference from as
45c
Coffee
45c
Quality
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Tk trie* trie*
1 La. .48 .33
2 “ .83 .88
2% “ 1.00 .76
6 “ 2.00 1.60
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Somd or tolophona your ardor to your1" doator to day
J. A. FOLGER & CO.^j
San Francisco
ASKING INGREASE
Men Employed in Interior Mines of
the Kennecott Company Want
Increase no Cents per Day.
The miners employed by the Ken
necott Company In the Jumbo and
Bonanza mines at Kennecott have
asked for an increase in their pay,
the request having been made to Su
perintendent Seagrave by a commit
tee of two men from each mine.
On March 1 the Kennecott Copper
Corporation voluntarily gave the,men
an increase of five per cent in their
wages, but they now ask for fifty
cents a day more for pJl classes of la
bor, and it is reported that the com
pany has been given until March 10
to make their decision. At present
machine men are paid $3 per day
and board, and helpers $2.50 and
board.
Superintendent Seagrave has taken
the matter under consideration and
has communicated with the com
panys headquarters in New York, hut
it is believed that the increase asked
by the men will be granted as the
wage scale paid by the Kennecott
company is considerably lower than
that now being paid the miners em
ployed in the copper mines at Butte.
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INVESTMENT COMPANY WILL
HAVE Ml NEKA 5, CABINET
The Alaska Investment company is
the name of a new business firm
which opened offices in the Reed
building this morning. The members
of the firm are Hal Jones and John
Roseen both of whom are well known
in Valdez and surrounding district.
They will pay particular attention to
mining, insurance and real estate,
and will also be prepared to do sten
ography and expert accounting.
Both the members of the firm have
a wide acquaintance among the
miners in this district and they will
make it their business to promote the
interests of the mining industry by
securing samples from the different
properties to form a collection which
may be seen by mining men and tour
ists who visit Valdez or are passing
through on the steamers.
WHITEHORSE IS READY
FOR THE HANGING
If the decree of the court is carried
out, and there is no, reason to be
lieve that it will nQt be, Alex Gagofj
who murdered four men near White
horse on September 30 last year, will
be hanged on March 10. The gallows
has already been constructed and
Sheriff Brimstone of Yukon has re
turned to Whitehorse from Califor
nia, where he has spent the winter.
The condemned man appears to real
ize bis position but shows that stoi
cism which might be expected from
a man who would kill four men in
cold blood. He has never denied his
guilt.
FORM OF THE EARTH.
it Has Changed but Very Little In
Many Millions of Years.
The earth's form Is that which Its |
rotation period demands. Undoubtedly!
If the period has changed the forni has
changed. Given a little time, solids
tinder great pressure How quite read
lly Into new forms.
Now; any great slowing down of the
earth's rotation |>ertod within geologi
cal limes would lie expected to show
In the surface features. The strain
should have wrinkled, so to speak. In
the equatorial regions and stretched
In the polar regions if the earth
changed from a spheroid that was con
siderably Hatter than il now is to its
present form.. Mountains, as evidence
of (be folding of the rock strata,
should exist tu profusion lu the torrid
gone and lie scarce In or absent from
the higher latitudes of fhe earth.
Such differential effects do not exist
and It seems to follow that changes Ih
the earth's rotation period and In Its
form could have been only slight while
the stratification of onr rocks was In
progress. Geologists estimate from the
deposition of denudation and sedimen
tation that the formation of the rock
strata has consumed from (10,000,000
to 100.000.000 years.
If the earth bad substantially Its
present form 80,000.000 years ago we
are safe In saying tbal the period of
time represented in (be building up of
the enrth from a small nucleus to Its
present dimensions hns been vastly
longer, probably reckoned in the thou
sands of millions of years.—W. W.
Campbell in Scientific Monthly
VIRTUE OF A GOOD LAUGH.
A Tomo That Stimulates the Body
and All Its Organs.
There Is not the remotest corner or
little inlet of the minute blood vessels
of the human body that does not feel
some wavelet from tbe convulsion oc
casioned by good hearty laughter.
The life principle, or the central
man. Is shaken to the innermost
depths, sending new tides of life and
strength to the surface, thus mate
rially tending to Insure good health to
the persons who indulge therein.
The blood moves more rapidly anti
conveys a different Impression to all
the organs of the body as it visits
them on that particular mystic jour
ne.v when the man is laughing from
wllat it does at other times.
For this reason every good, hearty
laugh in which a person indulges
lengthens bis life, conveying, as it
does, new and distinct stimulus to the
vital forces.
Doubtless tbe time will come when
physicians, conceding more importance
than they now do to the influence of
tbe mind upon tbe vital forces of the
body, will make op their prescriptions
more with reference to tbe mtnd and
less to drugs, for them and will. In so
doing. And the best and most effective
method of producing the required ef
feet upon the patient
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And, All This Was Polite, i
Royal banquets In France at any
era between tbe reign of Francis 1
and Louis XIV. would sbow the duch
ess, her napkin tied securely around
her neck, nibbling a bone, tbe noble
marquis surreptitiously scratching him
self, tbe belle marquise withdrawing
her spoon from her lips.,to help a
neighbor to -sauce with it. -another, fair
creature scouring her plate with her
bread, a gallant courtier using his dou
blet or the tablecloth as a towel for bis
fingers - and .two footmen bolding a
yard of damask under a lady’s chin
while she emptied her goblet at a
draft Ail «T these at one era or an
other werp tbe usages of polite society
During .a feast of Inordinate length It
was sometimes necessary to substitute
a clean cloth, for the one which the
carelessness or bad manners of the
guests reduced to a deplorable condi
tion
A Queer Thing About July.
How we< come to-pronounce Jnly as
we do. new with the accent on the sec
ond, syllable Is one of : the unsolved
mysteries of speech. Named, of course,
after Julias Caesar, It should really be:
pronounced ter'lime with “duly,” and
so our forefathers actually did pro
nounce, IL Spenser, for Instance, has
the line. “Then came hot July boyllng
like to Are.” and even so late ns John
son's time the accent was still on the
"Ju." It Is one of many words which
would startle those ancestors of ours,
spoken as we speak them now.—Lon
don Telegraph.
Greatnos and Efficiency.
“A great man's mind Is superior to
envy.” remarked the philosopher.
“Yes," replied the ordinary person.
•It 1b If he’n great enough to gel
what he floes- after Instead of .having
to see some.one else walk off with it.”— -
Washington Star.
Apparent Contradiction,
“She twists her husband around her
#ttle Unger.”
“Why. I thought you said she had
him under her thumb.” — Baltimore
American
Comprehensive.
“Yon may have «»ne wish,” said the
good fulryi vnnd It shall lie granted "
“Well.'" replied Johnny Wine, “J wish
thin I lunfjmve everything I want”
— Indianapolis Star.
Told No Lie.
Man From Collection Agency—Da
yon recognize this luxe?. Impecunious
One-1 can't say that,.l’ve ever met lt
Knstou Transcript
Fame Is the perfume of heroic deeds.
-Socrates.
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CITY EXPRESS j
will guarantee that both you and your baggage will j
reach the boat on time—Let us do the
worrying. j
J. A. SPENARD, Proprietor • Phone 82 j
Independent Steam Laundry I
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Telephone 66
4
Foot Keystone Ave 4
Roujjh Dry ICc lb j
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 83 ('has. Fischer, Propr.
VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY i
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Real Estate, Insurance, General Brokerage !
Absentees Business Properly Handled
Treat Building, Alaska Ave. Telephone No. 60 j
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
PIjBMBING, steam and hot water heating.
Sheet Metal Work, Mine Air Pipe, Pipe and Fittings, Valves, Etc.
Motor Boat Supplies, Paints and Oils.
L/ocuted on Valdez Dock, Opposite Prospector Office. Phone 24
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.*£. HARRIS. Freight and Passenger Agt,
Juneau, Alaska.
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
PUGET SOUND
California
Admiral
Line
PUGET SOUND
Alaska
ALASKA
Steamers sail from Seattle at 9 P. M. on
5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH
Sicaarr flalftlag 15th calls lllaaaa aad Kadiak—All Salilag( «atl at Kaftfc
aad Aactaragct
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to Saa Kraarlnro every Wrdarsday and Sunday, connecting with
Steamers Vale and Harvard (or Southern California.
Right reserved to change schedule without notice
RICHARD A RING WOOD, Mgr. Seattlei VALDEZ DOCK CO. Local AgL «
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
8, 8. ALAMEDA AND 8. 8. NORTHWESTERN SAIL FROM 8E
, ATTLE THE 10TH, 20TH AND 80TH,
EVERY MONTH
from Valdez south—sth, ihth. zsth, for cokdova,
JUNEAU, WRANGEL, KETCHIKAN AND SEATTLE.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Sheep
Creek, Treadwell. Douglas. Skagway, Cordova, Eliamar, Valdes and La
touche. Explosives, S B. Seward, on the &th; Latou'he, on the 16th; S. S.
Cordova. 26th of each month—right reserved to change thla schedule
without notion.
P. II. TRACY, Oral Agent VALIUM DOCK CO. Lncnl Agent.