Complete lines of Bedding in
Pillows, Quilts, Eiderdown
Comforts, and Woolen
Blankets. We wel
come your inspec
tion.
VALDEZ MERCANTILE CO.
STBAMFIt SAILINGS
Steamship Admiral Evans—Sailed
West from Valdez for Kodiak Dec.
24.
Steamship Victoria—Sailed west from
Valdez, Dec. 22.
Daily Weather He|w»rt
7:00 p. m. 7:00 a. m.
30.308 Marometer 30.404
—2 Temperature -—12
2 Maximum —10
—6 Minimum —16
-3.S Mean —13
Clear, strong N. Clear, calm,
wind.
— Myrtle P. Billings, Obs.
By H.
I
DONALDSON eCHEDUlJ
The following schedule for the har
bor boat "Lt C V Donaldson" will
take effect today. All orders to the
contrary are revoked.
Monday. Wednesdays. Thursdays,
and Fridays:
Lve. Fort Liscuin Leave Valdez
8:15 a. m. 9:45 a. m.
1:15 p. m. 4:00 p. m.
TUESDAY
1:16 p. m. 2:00 p. m.
4:30 p. m 6:00 p. m.
SATURDAY
1:16 p. m. 4:00 p. m.
7:15 p. m. 10:30 p. m.
11:15 p. m. 12:00 m. m.
There will be no trips of the boat
on the 2nd and 4th Fridays <*f each
month, these days being used to clean
boilers.
Special trips or cancelling of the
above will be made without nxllce
only to meet exigencies of the ser
vice.
Al! official business between Val
dez and the Post should he arranged
for transaction, where possible, so
that advantage will be taken of the
scheduled trips and extra trips will
be made at a minimum and made only
when urgently needed.
O. R KOEHLER.
Capt. 14th Infantry, A. Q. M.
Notice to Alien Enemies
Applying to subjects or natives of
Germany and Austria-Hungary who
have not become citizens of the
United States. The President has
made the following regulations
concerning alien enemies, and a
violation thereof will subject such
alien enemy to internment.
A alien enemy shall not approach
or be found within 100 yards of any
canal; nor within 100 yards of any
wharf, pier, dry dock used directly or
by means of lighters or by any ves
sel or vessels of over 00 tons gross
engaged in foreign or domestic trade
■other than fishing; nor within 100
yards of any warehouse, shed, elevat
or, railroad terminal, or other ter
minal, storage or transfer facility ad
jacent to or operated with any such
wharf, pier, or dock; and wherever
the distance between any two or such
wharves, piers, or docks, measured
along the shore line connecting them,
is less than 880 yards, an alien ene
my shall not approach or be found
within 100 yards of such shore line.
An alien enemy shall not. except on
public ferries, be found on any ocean,
bay, river, or other waters within 3
miles of the shore line of the United
States and its territorial possessions:
said shore line for the purpose of this
proclamation being hereby defined as
the line of seacoast and the shores of
all the waters of the United States
and its territorial possessions con
nected with the high seas and navi
gable by ocean-going vessels: nor on
any of the Great Lakes, their connect
ing waters of harbors, within the
boundaries of the United States.
No alien enemy shall depart from
the Territory of Alaska for any place
without permission from the Attorney
General of the United States, made
after due application through the Uni
ted States Marshal or his deputy.
All alien enemies are hereby re
quired to register at such times and
places and in such manner as may he
hereafter fixed by the Attorney Gen
era* of the United States.
K. R. BRENNEMAN.
United States Marshal, Third Divi
sion, Territory of Alaska.
Cannery Sites
We have customers for select can
nery sites located in the Prince Wil
liam Sound District. If you have any
thing to offer send full particulars,
location, description, etc., to
BOND & BABSON,
Field Dept.
32 Broadway,
New York City.
Christmas Suggestions
A nice line of Fancy Ribbons suit
able for bags and all kinds of fancy
work. E. Winter. tf
Christmas Suggestions
Silk PetticoatB, with Cloaflt jersey
tops. Silk bloomers, colors, fleBh,
black and white. Kayser’s silk hose.
E. Winter. tf
Toys I Toys! Toys!
Of ail descriptions at the Valdes
Drug Store. tf
Buy your groceries direct. Save
fifteen to twenty-five per cent. The
house that sells direct to consumers.
Randall Grocery ft Brokerage Co.,
Inc., 82 Marlon St., Seattle Wn. tf
LOUIE'SCAFE
Open Day and Night McKinley Street, Below Cnblo Office
Fresh Bread. Pies, Cakes,
All Kinds of Pastry for Sale
EVERYTHING THE BEST' ANDY MAROVICH, Propr.
KEYSTONE PRODUCE CO.
GROCERIES
Heinz 57 Varieties
A Large Assortment of Fanpy Boxes
af Chocolates and Bon Bons
KBYSTONB AVSNCE. " XcKDfLRT 0TT5W,
sec. no
EXPUUNS PUN1
Soldier* Required to Contribute Half
of Pay to Support Famine*—
lUMurunre Provided
The Secretary of the Treasury, thru
the Bureau of War Risk Insurance,
has been charged with the administra
tion of the War Insurance Law enact
ed by the Congress as a measure of
justice to the men and women who
have been called to give their lives,
if need be .in the service of their coun
try.
1 wish to acquaint you with the
benefits and privileges which your
Government has placed at your dis
posal. It is essential that you and your
families at home should know of
your and their rights under this law
in order that full advantage may be
taken of them.
To care for the wifO and children
of the enlisted man during his ser
vice, the War Insurance Law compels
him to contribute up to one-half of his
pay for their support The Govern
ment. on application, will generously
add to thlB an allowance of from $5
to $50 a month, according to the size
of the family. Morever, if the enlisted
man or an Army or Navy nurse should
be disabled, provisions is made for
compensation of from $30 to $100 aj
month to him, and, should he die.
compensation of front $20 to $75 a
month will be paid to his wife, his
child, or his widowed mother.
In order, however, fully to protect
each person and family. Congress has
made it possible for every soldier,
sailor, and nurse to obtain life and
total disability insurance. This insur
ance applies to injuries received
while he or she is in the service or
after he or site will have left it.
Kxposure to tne extra dangers of
war makes the cost of life insurance
in private life insurance companies
prohibitive. It was, therefore, a plain
duty and obligation for the Govern
ment to assume the risk of insuring
hundreds of thousands of our soldiers
and sailors who are making the su
preme sacrifice. Under this law, every
soldier and sailor and nurse, commis
sioned and enlisted, and of any age,
has the right, between now and Feb
ruary 12, 1918, to take out life and
total-disability insurance up to $10,
000 at very low cost, with the Gov
ernment without medical examina
tion. This right is purely optional.
The soldiers and sailors are not com
pelled to take insurance, but if they
desire to exercise the rl^ht, they must
j do so before the 12th of February,
I 1918. The cost ranges from 66 cents
| monthly, at the age of 21, to $1.20
monthly at the age of 51, for each
j *1,000 of Insurance. This is a small
charge on a man’s pay—small in pro
portion to the benefits it may bring.
The premiums will lie deducted from
his pay, if he desires, thus eliminat
ing trouble on his part.
To provide adequate protection un
jtil February 12. 1918, during the per
iod when the soldiers and sailors are
i learning the details of this law, the
I Government automatically insures
i each man and woman, commissioned
or enlisted in the military service of
the United States. It pays the man $25
a month during total permanent dis
ability; if he dies within 20 years, it
pays the rest of 240 monthly install
ments of $25 each to his wife, child,
or widowed mother.
I desire L> call the provisions of this
just and generous law to the atten
tion of our officers and enlisted men
and women so that they may not be
be deprived of their rights through
lack of knowledge. Full information
now be obtained from the Bureau of
War Risk Insurance of the Treasury
Department, Washington, D. C. I
earnestly urge that the officers of the
Army and Navy give to the men un
der their command all possible aid In
helping them to understand fully the
benefits that this Insurance may bring
to their families and the small cost
at which it may be obtained.
This is the greatest measure of pro
tection ever offered to its fighting
forces by any nation in the history of
the world. It is not charity; It is sim
ply justice to the enlisted men and wo
men and their loved ones at home and
each and every one of them should
promptly take the benefits of this
great law. ,
W. G. McADOO,
Secretary of the Treasury
PRESIDENT SPENDS XMAS
QUIETLY AT HOME
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Dec. 2«,—
President Wilson and Mrs. Wilson re
mained a home all day yesterday.
They had planned to go to church hat
a heavy fall of rain made It so dis
agreeable that they remained Indoors.
A Christmas tree was lighted for the
President's little grand-children at
the' White House.
FUNSTON AS STRIKE BREAKER
Um4 Riflo aa Persuader to Indue* In
dian Packers to Procsed on
Journey.
In 1SSW Frederick Fnnstoo net out
for Alaska on s commission to collect
botanical specimens. Today the trail
over Chilkoot pass is familiar, but at
that time It was known only to Indian
guides and a few dnring miners who
had followed its devious ways. Funa
ton with two companions went np the
pans and over to the Yukon, says the
Youth’s Companion. One Incident of
the trip he describes In his own pic
turesque language as follows:
“The Indians carried the loads while
we dragged the empty sleds. The snow
fell Incessantly for five days, and It lay
along our route from 5 to BO feet deep.
Day after day we wallowed and strug
gled on aa we worked onr way grad
ually upward to the summit of the
range. One cheerful little diversion
occurred on the second day. The low
browed chief packer who seemed to
have charge of the other Indians threw
his load Into the snow and announced
that unless their p:iy waa materially
Increased he and the other packers
would get themselves back to the vil
lage, and thus leave ns In a pretty
pickle.
“My temper had been at white heat
all day. and without thinking what
might be the consequence of such a
move, I shoved the muzzle of a cocked
rille into the face of the advisory com
mittee of that strike, and the way the
Most Serene (irand Master of the
Amalgamated Order of Chilkoot Sal
•qion Biters reshouldered his sack of
Ix-itiM and tugged along through the
blond expanse of the beautiful snow
shows that it is sometimes a good
thing for every well-regulated family
to have a gun In the house."
BIG PHILIPPINE SUGAR CROP j
Modern Machinery, Supplanting Hand ^
Labor, Results in Planting of
Immense Acreage.
The Philippines are like most of the
sugar cane growing regions In that the
available labor supply Is comparatively
limited. To overcome this, the tractor
and modern power machinery is beim. :
inirodneed. As this does not pay <>n .
the small plantations, the custom K
for one organization to operate sev
eral hundred or thousand acres, and a .
w< ,'-organized system is involved i
throughout the year. Labor-saving uc- |
vices are employed wherever possible.
The first process In harvesting sugar ,
cane is stripping the leaves from the i
stalks, au operation requiring much
time and labor, as tills must be done
hy hand. A cane knife or bolo Is used
by the native laborer, who passes the
knife down each side of the cane,
knocking off and throwing them Into ;
the middle of the row, where other la- i
borers pick them up and load them
to be hauled to the mill.
Sugar cane milling under modern
methods msy he divided into four es
sential processes, namely, the extrac
tion of the juice from the cane, tin*
clarification of the Juice by boiligg, the
evaporation of the Inice so as to re
duce the sugar to the crystalline form,
nnd the freeing of the sugar from
impurities. The most modern ma
chinery for all operations is fast being
installed throughout the Philippine Is
lands, and Americau consumers may
look forward to securing (he hulk of
their sugar from these distant dots
on the Pacific, which ow their de
vetopment to American capital and
American leadership.
Big Saving of Meat.
“The soldiers at Fort Htirrlson are
going to do some feeding.” said T. M.
Conron. Chicago meat packer, who was
at the Hotel Severlu recently, accord
ing to the Indianapolis News.
Conron had In his pocket a contract
to send to the fort 175,000 pounds of
meat. The contract also called for 8.
000 pounds of batter and 6,000 pounds
of best oleomargarine. Conron aaya
that meat packers are encouraging the
public to set aside a meatless day. He
estimates that the average family will
require two pounds of meat a day.
“Figure It up," he said, “and yon will
And that the American public will save
In the neighborhood of 10,000,000
pounds of meat every time they ob
serve a meatless day.”
Didn't Lova Har Enough.
“No, Herbert,” she said in a low
tone, “It la Impossible. I fear to trust
my future with yon.”
“And why?”
“I have watched your conduct very
closely. It lacks the mark of such de
votion as m.v soul craves.”
“Do I not come to see yon four
.lights In the week?"
“Yes, but I have detected a calcu
lating selfishness In yonr nature which
1 fear ”
“What do you mean?”
“Yon hava never yet failed to leave
in time to catch the last baa.”
“But that Is only common sense.”
“I know It Is. Herbert, and, there*
fore, It la not love.”
—
Theory That Doesn't Work.
A great social truth, aaya the Phil
adelphia Ledger, was enunciated by
the Janitor of a New Yerk apartment
house, who had lost his Job, ha ex
plained by his wife’s Jealousy of the
elevator girls he had employed and
was being sued by ber for nonsupport:
“Girls are glrts^yald this shrewd ob
server, “and yownva to pay moro at
tention to theoAbn yon do to men.”
The theory th^Kpmea who go into
business shou^t treated “Just Uke
men” la bold by many, especially by
the woman themselves. It la an excel
lent theory, but It does not always
work.
Financial Reserve
There is hardly a day passes but most
of us are called upon to draw upon our re
serve, either physical, mental or financial.
\
Have vou some in store?
This bank is a good place to start a fin
ancial reserve and it cannot help but be of
real sendee to you.
SAKK I>Kl*OHIT BOAK8 FOR RKNT
THE FIRST BANK OF VALDEZ
VALDEZ, ALASKA
Valdez Dock Co . PHONE NO. 1
JOBBER IN
COAL, HAY
GRAIN and
LUMBER
Office Foot of Wall Street
MAKE YOUR CHRISTMAS GIFT
A PRACTICAL ONE
Universal Electric Home Needs, Glean, con
venient, quick to do household services for
you. <
A Percolator will bring new delight to the
whole family, every day in the year.
A New Electric Flatiron would be welcom
ed, to replace that old one. which has done its
duty.
Or an Electric Toaster Stove would be ap
preciated, as it can be used for so many dif
ferent purposes.
A Portable Reading Lamp will bring the
light just where it is wanted, and will be such
a comfort to those that work or study at night.
YOURS FOR A LIGHTER, BRIGHTER,
WHITER CHRISTMAS
Prince William Sound Water,
Light, Power, Tel. Company
Beginning with an educational film
and ending with a Luke comedy, the
third in the series of great Walling
ford pictures will be shown at the
Empress theatre tomorrow night. The
title of the get-rich-quick episode is
“The Bang Sun Engine.*'
Second Gall
We will accept Liberty Bonds for
stock in the Valdes Iron Works.
Make your money earn 26 per cent
Instead of 4 per cent. tf
Christmas Suggestions
Something new in Corset Covers,
combination of lace and ribbon. Also
Crepe de Chine and Kayser silk cor
set covers, flesh and white. Women’s
Crepe de Chine and Jap silk combi
nation suits, flesh and white. E. Win
ters.
Some very pretty crepe collar*,
plain Upon and fancy handkerchief*.
Dent** kid glove*, bla^k, white and
tan. H. Winter. tf
Vhides Fish Prices
Halibut .07 cents a pound. City
Dock; halibut .66 cents pound on
fltb«wg grounds; black cod .01 1-S
cents.
G. W. LONG.
Valdes Iron Works. If yon kavn’t
anything else to do go fishing. tf
Jail received *U the Uteet popu
lar cones at Q. O. Keinke's. U i
i
Housexeepor wanted at O. J. I
Zlnns. u
Special Sale
Closing out entire stock of Needle
craft Shop this week. Some real bar- i
gains. Mrs. Capris. k31
A complete line of nugget and Ivory • !
Jewelry, watches, diamoads, etc., at •
the Valdes Drug Store. - *
I
For Qrst-claaa meals and good serv
ice at reasonable prices try the Mer
chants’ Cafe. ‘ H
Fox’s snappy drinks for this cold j
weather at Hunt's. tf
CITY RXPRB88. Phone SS; ready |
to transfe. that baggage for yon. tf |
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Hot-Point Bloc trie Heaters and I
Cooking-Appliances at the emporium. !
Christmas goods coming on the not :
beat. tg !
Use Raxall Hair Tome and yea trtti
ass ae ether. Taldee Drag Sieve, t*
Prtaes Tssetashls * a
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