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\ OLUiflE 2, NO. 23. VALDEZ, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1903. OFFICIAL CITY PAPER.
You Are Not A dam.
You can’t stand it to get wet. We have the wear that will keep you dry and warm
This list ought to interest you.
RUBBER BOOTS AND SHOES
These arc the well known “MALTESE CROSS” brand. If you have never worn
them, come in and let us demonstrate their sui>crior quality. we also sell the
“Gold Seal” brand and cheaper brands too.
RUBBER STORM SLIPPERS AND OVERSHOES
RUBBER HATS, SQUAMS AND SOUWESTERS
OIL COATS AND MACKINTOSHES
All these goods are from the best makers and are made with an idea of keeping
you dry the longest possible time. The prices are just right.
UMBRELLAS
These range in price from 91.50 to 90.00. While the handles arc neat and attract
ive, the real value is in the fabric. Thep will keep you dry. Our assortment is
large.
Everything To Wear.
JANES FISH & CO
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Cure That Cold at
P. O. DRUGSTORE.
P. E. KERN,
GOLD and SILVERSMITH.
We Carry a Large Lot of
V aides/ irncrds,
Cut Glass, Silverware,
& Musical Instruments.
Fine Watch Repairing
City Market
NEXT TO MERCHANT'S CAFE.
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Beef, Mutton,PorkandPoultry
Our Prices are RIGHT. Give us a call.
Your Watch
Contains 260 separate pieces, . ... , „
Requiring 3.750 distinct operation* in the production.
Tlie balance runs a mile an Imur. 24 miles a day.
One wheel revolves 4.730.450 times a year.
The balance makes 1^7,680,000 vibraUous every 12 month*
and keeps it up for years.
Is it not a faithful servant?
Are you a good master?
W. C. STULL,
Optician, Jeweler and Expert Watchmaker, Diamond Setter.
Rights Watch Wrongs
Yak tag and White River.
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The White river rises in the Mal
aspina glacier and flows southerly
eight miles, where it empties into
the ocean eight miles east of Cape
Yaktag and al>out 70 miles east of
Kayak. The whole river including
benches has been 'staked for placer
gold, and work was ltegun early
this season. A large lot of lumber
was whip sawed, and a wing dam
was being put in place when the
water rose to such an extent that
it threatened to put them out of
business. They quit the dam and
settled down to work with rockers.
They are taking out one to two
ounces per day to the man. When
the necessary machinery is put in
to liydruulic the river it will prove
very remunerative for the small
amount of capital necessary. The
prospects are very good from No.
11 below discovery to the middle
of the upper canyoq, or, say a dis
tance of a mile up stream from 11.
The gold evidently comes from
large beds of conglomerate situated
in the mountains above the creek.
rv . 1 1 1 . « a* •
vit uiu ucuuii tu v/upt* in King a
number of men are rocking out
from two to five dollars per day.
Early in the season they took out
as high as from $50 to $150 per day,
but a severe storm arose and cov
ered the diggings with a layer of
gravel 3 to 4 feet deep. The next
storm is likely to clear all this off.
The pay streak on the beach is
from one-half to six inches thick.
The thinner layers being the rich
est. Since the storm the men have
been working on the upland along
tike beach with good results.
In an interview with Billy Geli
neau, who spent the season thus
far in that neighborhood, he stated
that with seven or eight thousand
feet of hose to supply water from a
nearby stream, and about two
sluice boxes with amalgamated
plates, there would be no difficulty
in taking out 18 ounces per day.
A year ago this land was staked
and recorded by A. B. Gilison for a
St. Louis company. The necessary
mining and saw mill machinery
Coiitimn«l on Sixth l'nge.
To mu DOdS
ORDINANCE INTRODUCED IN
COUNCIL
Vicious Dogs Must Not Run At
Large. No More Horses
on 8treets.
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Owing to the reception to Gen.
Funston Monday night, the coun
cil adjourned until the following
evening.
An ordinance was introduced
creating the office of |H>undinastcr,
and providing for a tax of two
dollars ench on dogs. The
tax is an annual one and l>eoomes
due on the first day of August of
each year.
The ordinance also makes it a
misdemeanor to allow horses or
other animals to run at large in the
streets, and it provides for the im
pounding of an)’ animal found
loose in the town.
Any vicious dog or bitch in heat!
that is running at large may he
killed by the marshal if the owner
does not coniine the animal within
twelve hours after being notified.
The following bills were ordered
paid:
V. E.L..P.& T. Co., lights, $ 2f>.00
E. C. Haney, salary, 150.00
John Foldin, labor, 28.00
Geo. W. Robbins, lalior, 48.00
L. S. Coleman, “ 18.00
C. J, Craig, cross walks, 129.28
Max Adler, sacks, 10.(K)
Rutherford & Raymond, mov
ing. tire ball, 200.70
Sullivan, cutting wires, 50.00
Walter White, painting, 10.00
For Better Mail Service.
The chandler of commerce has
taken up the question of the mail
service from Seattle to Valdez, and
are making a strong protest against
the manner in which it is handled
by the P- P. & N. Co., who have
the contract (No. 78,109). A pe
tition signed by the business peo
ple of the town will lie sent out on
the next steamer to W. S Shallen
lierger, second assistant postmaster
general, calling his attention to
the facts as they exist. The peti
tion states that from actual count
kept of the arrival of 13 mails one
was on time, and the other 12 were
on an average 44 days late, and
that on one occasion the mail boat
was actually 14 days late.
The |>etition further asks that
the department take immediate
steps to enforce the fulfillment of
the contract, and claim that as the
distance from Seattle to Valdez is
but 1,208 miles it can easily lie cov
ered in from 5 to t> days, if unne
cessary and unwarranted stops are
cut out.
Notice.
An Entertainment followed by a
dunce will lie given in the Von
Gunther Hall on next Tuesday
evening for the benefit of Hospital
fund. The following will take part:
Messrs. Place, Fielding, Bourke,
Stoel, and Misses Jennie Schaeffer
and Florence Root. AJvah Karnes
and Prof. Stoel managers.
All the claims on Slate and Miller
are now working in full blaBt and
most most of them have on night
shifts. Nearly all, in fact all the
men who are there are able to find
work if they can get grub. There
is liable to he quite a famine before
the pack train gets hack.
Latest improved labor saving
gold rocker for sale cheap. Also a
complete mining pump. Richards
& Co.
As Others See Us.
Ei.i.amak; July 8th.
Dear Editor—You requested an
outsider’s opinion of tiie show on
the 4th, I will say as follows:
Your oorrosjmndent st«s)d on one
foot fully two hours waiting for the
train tearing the allegeil Hot Air
show to pull into town. The cause
of the delay was owing to the fact
that the only engine on the system
was taking part in the street par
ade. It was 6 p. m. Indore the
vast sea of canvas was towering
skyward. A young man of ques
tionable nationality crawled on the
block and liegan to tell the throng
of the many attractions that would
positively appear on the inside of
the canvas. The young man’s voice
resembled that of a malamute dog
howling with a mouthful of Mulli
gan. When I was alsnit to enter
the tent I was accosted hv a youth
selling reserved seat tickets; a few
minutes’ talk with the young man
convinced me that he was badly in
need of a plumber. 1 finally low
bridged and got inside.
1 Ik* hrst attraction on the line
was the tattooed man; he appealed
to me as one of Mark Twain’s char
acters, ‘'Baldbcck”—(look up the
dope,) gray hair and space prevent
further discusssion.
Next was the snake charmer;
she was a big, burly, rough mick,
and had been previously engaged
doing long shore work on the beach.
The strong man was instantly
recognized bv the audience as a
Mellin’s food baby. His act was
so strong that the management fur
nished each visitor with a Untie of
smelling salts.
As the push wended their way
along they ran into the bearded
lady; she had a bunch of germ
collectors that would make a mangy
dog look like a selling plater among \
a lot of stake horses. She was im
mediately dubbed “entomologist.”
After a short talk with the Wild
Man I found that he was father of
the President of the Standard Oil
Co. He was just waiting for them
to strike oil at Kayak, when he
would immediately bring up H(K)
chickens, and start a maynnaisc
dressing factory. I went down fur
the count—the bell was all that
saved me.
The cause of Adonis taking to
the woods was the man in black.
He strips like a figure often seen in
Kansas corn fields. His act on the
pi|*e suggests that he is quite fa
miliar with a hop joint.
We stood for plenty but when
Miss Wiggle was introduced that
was the limit; we have seen coons,
creoles, etc. do that stunt, hut when
a child of theCihctto broke into the
business it was the cause of Mary
McLean and the bums laming their
heads in shame.
The gentlemanly announcer on
the inside deserved a letter fate,
lie is now a raving maniac on a
fox island. But it was all for sweet
Charity’s sake. A Nativk.
General Funston.
Gen. Frederic k Funston, in charge
of the Columbia, accompanied by
Lieutenant Mitchell arrived Satur
day on a tour of inspection.
He took up quarters at Ft. Liscum
and will leave on tlie return of the
Newport from the west.
Monday evening the residents of
Valdez tendered the Gen. a recep
tion at Moose HalL Recitations,
songs and sjeech making were in
dulged in. And the evening
wound up in a very enjoyable dance
that lusted till midnight
Put Steel Locks in your new
houses. They will not breuk if you
slam the door. They are 50c at
Brojrnell’s.
MADE BY FJELD AND PAUL
SON
Hear Head ol tana
Pounce 1 SBs Worth of Cold Out of
lhc fc,uartx. Thirty
Claims.
K. J. Fjeld and Paul Paulson
both old sour doughs in this section
having come into the country in
"W with tin* Holman party are
somewhat different from the latter
day heroes of the Ni/.ina. Theso
gentlemen like a few others of the
same stamp having arrived hero
determined to stay with it till they
would make a hit, and they havn
this season made it. They left here
last winter with an outfit hound for
the Tnminn. where they arrived in
good time. After the snow left they
began to prospect and ... located
some rich free-milling ledges on
which they staked .’it) claims.
In prospecting they evidently did
well for in sending their location
notices to Mix, their partner at
Copper Center with instructions to
fix them up nnd forward them on
to Kagle for record, iticy also sent
him $So worth of gold to pav for
the same. This we are given to
understand they ground out of the
rook. After doing all they could
to perfect their locations for this
season they left and mushed over
to Slate Creek where gruh is more
plentiful.
Another Probable Drowning.
There is now no douht that
the two dogs seen on the shore at
tlie mouth of the ('hiltvim river
belonged to .Manuel Rainier, and
that lie was drowned in his attempt
to come to the eoast, according to
the statement of Robert Small, who
just arrived here. Rainier left Sour
Dough eity early in the season,
with two dogs packed, .and started
to walk out. He evidently tired of
walking and built a raft to ride
down stream and was lost in the
attempt. It was ah nit tiiat time
that a raft was seen bv the nativis
of Taral as it floated hy their vil
lage, with nothing on hut a couple
of sacks.
Rainier, we are informed was
from Philadelphia. He worked for
the Wild (loose Co. at Nome, and
later came on to Valdez. Last win
ter he worked in the Nizina saloon,
till it was time to go to the mines.
He was about ‘2d years of age.
That the oil fields along the
southern coast of Alaska are at
tracting attention is shown hy the
fact that l)r. (.1. C. Martin, of the
geological survey, was directed hy
his department to come to Alaska,
investigate and report on the same.
He was to leave Seattle alsmt July
8th, and will go direct to Controller
bay. From there he will work
along to the various {Miints where
oil is known to exist.
On Monday last the small steam
er Albion arrived here in quest of a
supply of coal. She belongs to Mr.
Harrimaiv, of the So ill hern Pacific
R.R., and is here with some oil ex
perts on board, investigating the
oil situation along tlw* coast. Mr.
Harrimim thoroughly understands
oil lands, and may become inter
ested in this section.
It is reported that a strike hag
been made on Indian river, a trib
utary of Copper, 12 miles above
Cliistueliina. A number 5>f people
arc h aving Slate for llu* strike.