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lot ATS with a reputation, priced
I according to their worth-that’s our
idea of true value giving in hats.
Knox Hats
Stetson Hats
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have many distinctive features not found
in others; style, durability and all-around
satisfaction. We are showing some
“good ones” in
Knox at $5.00 and Stetson at $4.00.
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TRUE VALUES
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On the basis of Security and Service . i:
we solicit your account. i:
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY. j;
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO. |
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You admire it every
time! you visit them—the
harmonious lighting, the
, clean and orderly ap
pearance of everything,
I the always-ready perr
sonal conveniences, the c
atmosphere of comfort
and luxury.
“Hill is a lucky dog,”
you say; but did you ever
stop to think how easily
youcould be as fortunate?
The electricity that
does so much for his com
fort is obtained from the
same wires that pass by
your own homo. It oper
ates his lamps, flatirons*
sewing machines motors,
fans and other useful
electric heatingand cook
ing devices.
You can have it at
slight cost-let us discuss
wiring with you.
Alaska Water, Light
& Telephone Co.
NOTICE OP FORFEITURE.
_____________
To William Hogan.
You are hereby notified that I
have expended during the year
1912, one hundred and thirty
three dollars and thirty-three'
cents, lawful money of the Unit
ed States, in labor and improve
ments, upon your two-nintns in
terest in those certain lode claims
lying and being on Knights Is
land, in the recording precinct of
Valdez, Alaska, which are known
as and called the “Shamrock"
claim.; the “Tramp” claim; the
“Star No. 2" claim; the “Mother
Hill” claim; the “Beach" claim,
and the Last Chance” .claim,’ the
location notices of saicTclaims be
ing of record in the office of the
Commissioner and Recorder, at
Valdez, Alaska, in order to hold
said claims under the provisions
of Section 2324 of the Revised
Statutes of the United States,
concerning annual labor on min
ing claims, being the amount re
?|uired to bold said lode claims
or the •period ending on tbe 31st
day of Deeember, 1912.
... And .unless within ninety days
0
after the completion of the publi
cation of this notice, to-wit: with
in ninety days after the 6tb day of
July, J913, you contribute your
proportion of such expenditure
incurred n performing said an
nual labor and improvements,
which is the sum of one hundred
and thirty-three dollars and thir
ty-three cents, your interest in
the claims will become the prop
erty of the subscriber of this no
tice, your co-owner, who has
made the required expenditure,
by the terms of said section.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, fliis
5th day of April, 1913.
S. A. IIEMPLE.
Date of first pub. April C, 1913.
Date of last pub. July 6, 1913.
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FORFEITURE NOTICE.
Valdez, Alaska, April 23, 1913.
To H. Muir, your heirs and ad
ministrators, and to all whom
it may concern:
You are hereby notified and
will take notice that 1, the sub
scriber, T. E. Dougherty, have
expended during the year A. D.,
1912, one hundred dollars ($100)
in labor and improvements upon
the “Minnie" lode mining claim.
Said claim is situated and lies in
the Valdez Recording Precinct,
Territory of Alaska, about six
miles from Shoup bay. The no
tice of location thereof is of rec
ord in Book 8 of Records, at page
370, in the office of the United
States Commissioner for the Val
dez Recording Precinct at Val
dez, Alaska, to which book and
page reference is hereby made for
a more particular description of
said claim. Said expenditure was
made for the purpose of'holding
possessory right and title to said
mining claim under the provis
ions of Section twenty-three hun
dred and twenty-four of the Re
vised Statutes of the United
States and the amendments there
to, providing for the annual la
bor upon mining claims, said
amount being the sum required
to hold said mining claim during
the period ending the thirty-first
day of December, 1912.
if you fail or refuse within
ninety days from the personal
service of this notice, if person
al service be had, or within ninety
days after the publication of this
notice to contribute your propor
tion of such expenditure as a co
owner, your proportion, being ini
the sum of eighteen dollars and
seventy-five cents ($18.75), yoyr
interest in said claim will become
the property of the subscriber,
who is vour co-owner, and who
has made the expenditure Odd*
improvements as above mention
ed pursuant to the provisions:*}!
the said statute. * s
Dated Valdez, Alaska, April 23,'
1913.
T. E. DOUGERTY.
Sunday in New York.
The Call, New York’s Socialist
organ, offers these few remarks
on Sunday in New York City:
“We are a strict people in ob
serving the Lord’s day. So what
ever, is good we close up; what
ever is bad stays open. The-sa
loons are closed, except through
the back way. That maintains
outward order and decency and
promotes drunkenness. The reg
ular theaters are closed. That
leaches the actors that they are
still regarded by many as out
casts. But the worst of the vari
ety shows are in full blast. That
helps in the culture of indecency.
“We refuse to provide adequate
facilities for recreation. That
forces the people to travel far and
makes them a prey to sharks. But
it promotes business. It fats the
purse1 of the politicians and oth
ers. It is good for the stockhold
ers in traction companies and on
railroads, and it is line for the
owners of steamboats. Everybody
who goes near a beach is taxed
for tlie privilege. That is fine for
'those who have stolen the beach
es.
“Young and old are herded and
driven. The utmost latxiy pre
vails. The utmost laxity pre
vails. Many of the places at the
beaches are disreputable beyond
description. That is excellent for
the while slave traffic.”
Reported Strike Near Slat*.
I It is reported at Chitina that a
j rich placer strike was recently
made on Johnson creek, about 20
miles from Slate creek, and a
stampede is on from Fairbanks to
the new’ diggings, as the result
of two men appearing in the Tan
ana valley with immense pokes of
dust, which they claim was tak
en from one of the claims on
Johnson creek. Six prospectors
from Chitina have left for the new
strike.—Chitina Leader.
Not Opposed to Exum.
The Daily Alaskan is in receipt
of a letter from Attorney E. E.
Ritchie in which he says Torn
Parker feels justified in filing an
action against this papev for li
bel and estimates his damages
at $50,000 for publishing a state
ment to the effect that said Park
er attended a meeting of the Val
dez Chamber of Commerce which
passed resolutions opposing the
confirmation of E. \V. Exum as
United Slates marshal of this di
vision.
Mr. Ritchie says that Parker
“happened info (he room to see
a man whom he knew was I here,
while the meeting was in pro
gress, buf took no part," and he
'doesn’t care a rap whet her Mi.
Exum gets to be marshal or nol.j
Parker also writes that he is
not a member of the chamber, has !
never taken sides with any aspir- I
ant for a federal position, knows
nothing against Exum, other Ilian i
whal he read in the public press, j
and upon this he had never ex-j
pressed an opinion. Under the j
circumstances we must admit I
that a% injustice has been done
Mr. Parker, and feel that a re
traction is due him for the asso
ciation of his name at a meeting
of a few political soreheads whose
moral sense of duly has been
greatly aroused because President
Wilson saw fif, to name another
than a Valdezite for United States
marshal—Cordova Alaskan.
Wall Dressed.
*'lhe way the merchants of
Fairbanks are slaughtering men’s
clothing this spring is a sensa
tion, and there ought to be a fair
chance for the coming excursion
ists from Seattle and the East
to see in the people of Fairbanks
the best-dressed people they will
meet upon their trip. Clothes
they have always charged us $40
or $50 for, they are now selling
at $15. To be sure, it is harder
today to get the $15 with which’
to buy a suit than it was years
ago to get $40 or $50, but the
resourceful Fairbanksan should
be able to find a way. Even a
Fairbanks newspaperman ought
to be able to connect with a new
pair of trousers, at present prices,
oun. inability to do so- reminding
us of the old newspaper chestnut,
which goes thus:
Lives of great men all remind us
Editors don’t stand a chanete—
Th§ more we work there grows
behind us
Bigger patches on our pants.
On our pants, once new and
glossy, .
Patches are, of different hue,
■liji'because subscribers linger
yXnd won’t pay us what is due.
Tjifbn, let us be up and doing,
Send you mite, however small,
Qh, when snows of winter strike
us
We will have no pants at all.
—Fairbanks NewsrMiner.
AFFECTATION. :
Young Bulger’s heto at, home
again a-visiling a while. He made
a hit back East and then began
to put on style. He wrote a book
that brought his name into the
magazines, and now he’s basking j
in his fame; he struts to beat the
queens. He bangs his hair and '
wears a lie that jolts the village
hard; a single window’s in his eye
with gold chain by the yard. He
tries to look like Byron and lie
talks a lot of art; he’s bound we
all shall understand how smooth
be is, and smart. I have no doubt
Bulger thinks we look at him as
swee't—but every village solon
winks when he goes down the
street. The graybeards sit and
gossip some hard by the common
pump, and when they see young
Bulger come, they say: “Oh, what
a chump.” The women hold I lion
sewing bees, the heathen hosts to
drape, and when young Bulger
past tjiom (lees, they sigh: “He’s
like an ape.” Young Bulger thinks
lie cuts a swath, when in his
brave array, whereas he only stirs
up wrath and mad desires to
slay. Sane people have a hitter
spile against the swelled-up man:
so if you can’t he modest quite,
he modest as you can.
WALT MASON.
The Ocean.
(By George Fitch.)
The ocean is a huge and highly
seasoned body of water which
surrounds the land.
There is so much ocean that
no matter in what direction we
travel we are bound to run into
it sooner or later. The ocean is
the one thing in the world which
does not have to be conserved or
protected. Men are using up the
land, blasting down the moun
tains, tampering with the rivers
and stealing the forests. But the
ocean can take care of itself. Man
has been fooling with the ocean
for 0,000 years but there is just
as much ocean now as there was,
and it is in just as good condi
tion, though perhaps a little dirt
ier around the edges. It has been
pretty hard on man, however.
The ocean is very salty and
contains oysters, clams and lob
sters. Heated up with a little
pepper and butter, the ocean
would make pretty fair table d’
hole soup.
There are really live oceans,
but they art* all closely connected,
like the competing portions of a
busted trust. A medium -sized
ocean is 3,0(10 miles across and
wet all the way. It is also five
miles deep in places. Persons
who cannot swim are cautioned
about wading out too far into I he
ocean. Eventually 11k- wader is
almost certain to get beyond bis
depth.
The ocean is strongly impreg
bergs, crabs am| other foreign
matter and is very useful to man.
mated with whales, codfish, ice
'With the aid of a fish line and
plenty of bail, a man can live for
ye'ars on whal he pulls out of the
ocean. It, also serves mankind hy
dividing the old world from the
new. Owing to the long sea voy
age involved, there has been very
little bickering between the two
hemispheres. If Europe had been
divided into nations by oceans,
instead of imaginary lines, the
death rate hi the last 1,000 years
would have been much lower.
It once took two months to
cross the ocean, but fast steam
ers now do it in five days. Men^
also cross in sail boats, motor
boats and row boats and are ex-\
perimenting with trans-Atlantic
aeroplanes. Unlike other wild j
things, the ocean is, not danger- J
ous when it has been crossed.
The ocean when calm is a beau
tiful and friendly sight, but when
it roars in the tempest and its
white-crested waves roll moun
tain high, its awftil majesty
strikes man dumb with awe and
reminds him that after all he is
only a tiny morsel in the jaws of
eternity. This is the principal
mission of the ocean—to keep
man humble and ready to take
suggestions from the Almighty.
(TIDE TABLES |
Friday,‘June 6.
High tide, 12:15 a. m., 2:03 p. m.
Low tide 7:27 a. m., 6:55 p. m.
Saturday, June 7.
High tidee, 1:02 a. m., 2:49 p. m.
Low tide, 8:09 a. m., 7:49 p. m.
Sunday, June 8.
High tide,' 1:50 a. m., 3:38 p. m.
Low tide, 8:58 a. m., 8:45 p. m.
Boots & Shoes
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A. M. Dieringer
Valdez Transfer
Company
General Trucking and Freight
ing to all interior points
LIVERY air d FEED STABLE
STORAGE
Teaming of all kinds
Positively no coal delivered
unless paid for in advance
CITY EXPRESS
MEETS ALL BOATS
When in a hurry call on me.
“QUICK ACTION”
>* my motto.
Phone 82. J. A. SPENARD, Prop,
Fagerberg Bros.
NIZINA, ALASKA
General Merchandise
Miners & Prospectors Supplies
Freth Goods-.Reasonable Price*
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
Washington* D. C.
DENTIST
Phone 92 Fourteen years in
| Office injWhading building VALDEZ
Next to cable office
OR. GERMAN
p“" " THE DENTIST
Office rooms over owl Drug store. Office hours
9 a. m.. to 6 p. m., 7 p, m.,to9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
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SEWARD, - ALASKA
MINING ENGINEER
F. BUTTER WORTH
Civil Engineer end
* U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
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CAMP VALDEZ No. 10
Meet every Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock In
Eagle Hall. All members are requested to
ttend. S. McNIECE. Arctic Chief
Valdez Lodge
No 168.
Free and Accepted Masons
Regular Communications first Wednesday iu
each month in McKinley Hall Visitors always
welcome.
James H. Patterson..W. M
C. C. Reynolds. Sec
FOE
VALDfcZ AK&1K No. 1971
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