1,000 flower Bulbs for Sale
The Finest Ever Offered For Sale in Valdez
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O T HIN G helps so much to make a home beautiful as a
N flower here and there— On the last boat a shipment in
cluding nineteen different varieties were received. There
- are Crocus, Jonquils, Narcissus, Tulips, Chinese Lilies, Hya
cinth, Lily Longi Florum, Etc.
Full directions are given as to their planting and care.
A Suggestion:- Start them growing now, by Christmas they’ll
make an excellent Xmas gift.
trice- 5, 10, 15, 25 cents
--Valdez Mercantile Co.
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Your Groceries will come ou
time. Don’t worry about dis
appointments about the gro
ceries either. Your house
wifely judgment will be thor
oughly satisfied. As for prices
—well just compare ours with
others of equal grade. Spe
cial attention to out of town
orders.
KING S GROCERY
PHONE 188
ANGUS CHISHOLM—FRANK GUSTAFSON
CIGARS, BILLIARDS
Nicely Furnished Rooms. _Phone 35
ALASKA INVESTMENT CO.
Real Estate, Insurance, Mining Stocks
Agts. for EQUITABLE Life Ins.
public, sssx R«d Md«- PhoDe-196
Quartz and Placer
Location Notices
For Sale at
Stop M Infernal Backs*
Show your'wife bow amdh. you
love her and send that nolgr »||
pump to the Valdez lion Work* aoft
let them remote the peace disturber,
your neighbors wUl appreciate ft! ft
Kodak Supplies at the Valdez Drug
Company. **
Try the Cottage Dining Room for
.good home-cooked meals. Mrs. II.
Rucker, Phone 131. tf
Fresh Augustine & . Kyer Butter
iKrisp and Queen Victorias at Hunt’s.
All kinds of cocktails. At the
Candy Kitchen. tf
Location notices, noth quartz and
placer, at the Miner office.
A Big Shipment.
Just received, a fresh line of Haas
Candles, the kind you like, at Levy ft
Ross’ U
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Come and see our new line of nug
get and ivory ware at Alaska Jewelry <
Company. ** '
Turkeys! Turkeys! Turkeys!
The Love-Whltley company has
just received on the last boat, the fin
est lot of fresh killed Turkeys ever
brought to Valdez. Call and see
them. We will be glad to show,
them to you.
Northwestern—Sails from SeattTS on
Nov. 26.
Mariposa—Sails from Seattle Decem
ber 1.
Alameda—Sails from Seattle Decem
ber 8.
Admiral Evans—Sails from Seattle
for Valdez, Oct. 23.
Admiral Goodrich—Sailed from Sitka
Nov. 17, carrying freight only.
Admiral Watson—Sailed south from
Valdez, Nov. 21.
DONALDSON SCHEDULE.
Lvs. Fort Liscum Lvs. Valdez
8:15 a.m. 9:45 a.m.
1:15 p.m: 4:00 p.m.
TUESDAYS
8:16 a.m. 9:45 a.m.
1:15p.m. 2:00 p;m.
4:30 p.m. 5:00 p.m.
SATURDAYS
1:14 p.m. 4;00 p.m
7:00 p.m. 10;30 p.m.
There will be no trip of the launch
on the second and fourth Fridays of
each month, these days being used to
clean boilers.
Consul Relieved
AMOY, Nov. 83.—Clarence Guass,
formerly American vice-consul at
Shanghai, has taken charge of the
American consulate here, relieving H.
Hoyle Sink, acting consul. 8ink re
mains as vice-consul.
Alaska Gold Hill
Mining Company
OFFERS ITS FIRST ISSUE OF
100,000 SHARES OF STOCK AT 10c
Why You Should Buy Alaska Gold
HU1 Mining Stock.
The company has ground pro
nounced by experts as warranting de
velopment.
The money derived from the sale of
stock will bo spent in the ground.
Preliminary arrangements for the
winter’s work already made.
There is not one cent of indebted
ness.
Treasury stock only for sale.
The adjoining property will be :■
producer in a short while
This is a moving concern and the
stock is going to be active.
The Alaska Gold Hill property is
in sight of Valdez and is backed and
managed by conservative people.
A dollar spent here is also a dolla:
to help Valdez.
Stock on sale at the office of Sec
retary and Treasurer George J.
Love. Adv.—tf.
“THE CRUCIBLE” AT TIIE
EMPRESS TONIGHT
“The Crucible,” in five acts at The
Empress tonight. Marguerite Clark
plays the part of little Jean Fanshaw,
at first a hoyden and tomboy, unjust
ly confined to a reformatory, who lat
er triumphs over the shame of her
imprisonment and the sordid corrupt
ness of her environment, returning
good for evil to those who worked
havoc with her life.
She triumphs over her enemies and
marries the man of her choice. The
acting is good and the scenes are per
fect. At the Empress tonight.
WRECK OCCURRED
NEAR OLD HOME
Harry E. P. King states that the
dispatches regarding the stranding
of the American steamship Siberia
off the English coast and the landing
cf the crew at Deal were particularly
interesting to him, inasmuch as the
landing place of the surivivors at
Deal Is his old home, and his mother
still resides there. Harry left there
thirty years ago.
TOWN 18 WIPED OUT
SECOND TIME IN YEAR
WIRT, Okla., NOV. 23.—For the
second time in a year fire last night
virtually wiped out this little town
In the Healdton fields. Fifty build
ings were destroyed with a loss of
$125,000 and more than 300 persons
made homeless.
Harry Hoyt will leave for Cordova
on the Alameda, where he will work
this winter.
Gus Dgarf will leave on the Ala
meda for ra visit to his old home in
Minneapolis. Mr. Dgarf will return
in about three months.
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.The Moose basketball team will
play the Post team at Moose hall
Monday night.
Harry Ober and his father are
building an addition ‘to their home
bn *Keyston0‘Uvehue. u '
Si'-< i
The telephone company is issuing
a new'directory, and patties wishibg
their names in;tbe same should havm
’phones Installed immediately.
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80 SAYS SECRETARY OF STATE
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Official Asserts the Returns from Two
Precincts Are Missing—Generally
Conceded Certificates Will Be Is-'
sued Xow that Hughes Concedes.
SACRAMENTO. Nov. 23.—A sen^
sation was created here last evening'
when the Secretary of State announc
ed that he may withhold certificates
of election from the Democratic elec-j
tors on the ground that the returns:
from two small precincts were miss-:
ing. It is generally conceded that the
certificate will be issued in due time,'
the two alleged missing precincts be- ;
ing too small to materially alter the
results in any way. •
Daily Weather Report.
Valdez, Nov. 22, 1916.
Barometric pressure .30.069
Temperature 7 p. m.20
Maximum temperature'.24
Minimum temperature . 5
Mean temperature .12.5
Cloudy, east wind, 5 miles, 8 inches
of snow on ground.
-—Myrtle F. Billings, Obs.
Interior Trail Conditions.
Valdez, Alaska, Nov. 23, 1916.
Fairbanks, —15, clear, calm.
Salcha, —23, 1 inch snow; clear,
calm, trail fair, Flanagan and Ray
south with dog team 8:45 a. m.; N.
C. auto, 5 passengers, south 11:35
a. m.
Richardson, —19, 1 inch of snow;
1 musher south 2:40 p. m.; mail with
3 passengers south 3:10 p. m. yes
terday.
McCarthy, —25, clear, calm, trail
fair. McNally and McLoughlin south
8:30 a. m.
Donnelly, 24, cloudy, calm, no
snow; trail bare.
McCalluin, —24, clear, calm, trail
good; south mail by 8 a. m.
Paxson, —34, 6 inches of snow;
clear, calm, trail fair, north mail by
12 m. yesterday.
Hogan, zero, 4 inches of snow;
clear, calm, trail fair, Sheldon’s out
fit by south during the night, 9 pas
sengers; 2 mushers south from Sour
dough this morning.
Gulkana, —2, 2 inches of snow;
calm, cloudy, Sheldon’s cars and pas
sengers left south 8:30; stage north
7 a. m., Meiers freight team south 7
a. m.
Copper Center, —28, 3 niches of
snow; cloudy, calm, trail good; mail
southbound out 6 a. m.
Tonsina, —5, 3 inches of snow;
cloudy, calm, trail fair; Wilson’s
team started yesterday morning, re
turned this morning unable to get
over the hill. Jewelson arrived at 9
p. m. 22nd.
Teikhell, —3, 6 inches of snow;
calm, cloudy, trail good, Wilson’s
outfit north 1:15 p. m. yesterday.
Beaver Dam, 7, 16 inches of snow,
clear, high north winds, trail good.
Loder and Rudides south 7 a. in.;
Rowbottom here and returned to
Teikhell.
Summit, 5, 49 inches' of snow;
Jepson and Sitz finished hauling
wood yesterday; departed for Beav
er Dam.
Wortman’s, 10, 3 inches of snow;
elear,: calm, trail fair, two Road
Commission men arrived last night
to remove slide in canyon.
FOR SALE—IT fobt boat, with
2% p. m. Cushnian engine. 'Quarter
decked and canvas covered. ' Nearly
new. Big snap if taken at once.
Alaska Inv.'Co. ' ’ 2t
It is nearly the monthly anniver
sary of another fire in our city.
Veff *M8BwlaHnj-Tiiis
You mix your batter in the
morning, and bake at night if
you use.—
jEBl CRESCENT;
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She ruralts are Just as fine
as If ybk put (he biscuit or ‘
‘the cake in the oven when M
batter mixed. '*
' GROCER
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CRAB :nt mfg. CO.,
Waeh.
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