Send your broken pipe
to the
“BUFFET’
Pipe Hospital
1894 CHAS. R. CRAWFORD 1917
PIONEER CONTRACTOR and BUILDER
OF ALASKA
CAN HANDLE ANY CLASS OF BUILDING
Building material of all kinds, and several grades of
wall board kept in stock at all times
OFFICE AND FACTORY, VALDEZ ALASKA
Phone 18
REFERENCES t S. BLUM & CO, Valdez, and Cordora,
BANKERS ( B. M. BEHRENDS, Juneau, Alaska.
Merchant’s Cafe
Phone 03 OPEN ©,%Y AN© NIGHT Cbee. Fteeher. Propr.
.Il'ST AN ORDINARY
GOOD HT
Isn’t sufficient for our standard
of tailoring. The garments must
fit perfectly at every point or it
is no sale with us. We would
, like to show you our skill by
making that new suit for you.
Drop in and select the cloth and
leave the rest to us. Don't wor
. ry about the cost. We don't
5 break you or come anywhere
1 near It.
BEN SILVERMAN
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
PLUMBING STOVES and RANGES HEATING
MOTOR BOAT SUPPLIES, PAINTS and OILS
Mine Air Pipe, Valves, Hose, Pipe and Fittings
Valdei Dock- Opposite Prospector Office._Telephone 2d
OUR MACHINERY
Is thoroughly up-to-date. It en
ables us to turn out perfect
work in a short time. This ma
chinery does more than wash
the articles sent to us. It prac
tically serilizes them too. Send
your things ehre this week as a
test. That will demonstrate the
| superiority of our work. We al
so wash and clean carpets.
Phone 166.
INDEPENDENT
STEAM LAUNDRY
4 NOUS CHISHOLM—FRANK GUSTAFSON
CIGARS AND BILLIARDS
N&cato Furnished Rooms;* t-«> * Phone 35
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THE P1NZ0N
TOBAGCO AND CIGARS
■_——
GafflcL^SLChocolatcJ1
POOL AND BILLIARDS
PHONE 69 Me Kinley St, Valdez
. .t\ - •. > . • i '.hi .
and useful articles are now eomlnc
on ever? W*44*taT .?*• *mpor,®BU **
. .v ViMR #** P«ese
. ^ -Jf ^
Dock; Halibut, .05 oanta pound on
flsbing grounds; blank ood .01 1*1
cents.
** - O. W. LONG.
▼•Men lien Wmg tf |N kurort
aajtbing nine to An go AiMtog. M,
THOUGHT WILL RULE WORLD
8ol«ntl«t Asserts Ships at S«a Will Bt
Controlled From Shore and Qaeollne
Will Be Grown Like Com.
Tn the lobh.v of n big Fifth avenue
plub one evening recently, a group of
scientific men were discussing the war
as being the necessity that will bring
about some startling inventions, notes
a New York correspondent. If the
sprinkling of intellecturnl lutninnti |
were not stamped by genius, It Is prob- ,
able that an ordinary bystander would ;
have tapped hi* forehead knowingly. i
One of them was telling about a set- j
enlist who is already telephoning to
airplanes without wires. And another
quoted a famous Inventor who said
that It would only be a short while '
until all telephone wires would he abol
ished as unessential.
“The fact Is.” he said, “that tele- 1
phone wires do not In reality carry
our messages. Kvcry srlenllst knows j
that. Back of It all Is the great proc
ess of thought which we are only be
ginning feebly to understand.
“The more we delve iltlo Ibis proc
ess of thought—whatever It Is-—the
more we come lo the conclusion ilnd
the material phenomena Is the pro
jection of thought. We konw lhat ev
ery material thing comes from a
thought or an Idea.
"We are arriving at the conclusion
that even space Is thought, for we are
annihilating space every day through
u thinking process. It will not lie
mnn.v generations before every ship at
sen Is controlled by thought from
shore. Our trains are going to be ran
without fuel, and we are going to grow
gasoline Just like we raise corn."
BUTCHER CITES BIG PROFITS
Meat Dealer Points Out Pilla, Mineral
Water and False Teeth as Pro
ducers of Immense Margins.
“Talk about food profiteers!" grow l
ed the butcher, as lie charged up a
two-pound rump steak at (10 cents a
pound. “Why I know people whose
profit has been from time Immemorial
fl.ikm per cent and more. Yet vmi
don’t Jump on them. Why. then. Jueq
on tne?
“Take Junck’s liver pill, for Instance
I know Otto .Itmck’s bookkeeper, and
the man tells me that tills .Innek [nil
sells wholesale Ht exactly fi.000 per
cent profit.
“Take mineral water—plain soda.
You cun make and sell plain soda at
a profit of in.0P0 per cent. And, mind
you. no kicks.
“Take false teeth. They used to
make false teeth out of Ivory, anti <n
those days tt was right to charge Jioo
a set for them. Hut now false teeth
arc made of |Hircelaln. They cost l<»
cents apiece. Itentist's profit, Tfi.ottti
per cent.
“So I could go on. And you ask tin
if my conscience l-n’t sore about thi
fiO-cent rump steak. Oh!"
Center of Fashion.
Paris, the center of the world's fash
ions. has no fewer than titl.OOO women
dressmakers, not counting deslgncr
nnd titters, which would bring lie
uinnher up to close on 11)0,000. Tin
designers, who sketch out their idea
in pen and ink or with water-colors
and often originate the fashions tha
prevail throughout the world, earn
easily over four figures a year, oh
serves a correspondent.
(bind mannequins are the most dilti
cult to obtain. Some of the largcsi
Parisian houses employ twenty or thir
ty. whose whole time Is passed In try
lug on dresses before the eyes of fash
tollable French women. .Vaturally the
numbers ure fewer nowadays, and
ninny of the most famous mannequins
of Paris are now nursing In tile hos
pitals or employed III the French muni
tlon works.
Forty Mile* of Jam.
So enormous lms (lie business of
Jhiu making become In Dundee, Scot
land. since the great firms there or
ganized to supply preserves to the
British army and navy that, according
to a report sent by K. K. Pottle, II. S.
vice consul there, to the department of
commerce, the tins In which they put
up one week's supply alone "would. If
stood end on end. form a column fuPy
40 miles high. It Is no uunsual thing
for this Arm to deal with 100.000.00t)
oranges, and all kinds of fruit are
dealt with on a similar scale.”
The Dundee manufacturers are
about to give up the use of earthen
ware. glass Jars and tins, for a stout
cardboard container Is now being
made ami experiments with It have
proved highly successful.
Referred to Boy Scoute.
When war broke out a young man
who was every kind of rogue sud
denly acquired a brand-new con
science, and worked it overtime, says
London Tit-Bits. When he came be
fore the tribunal be had got his oou
sclentlous objections all cut und dried.
The chairman listened gravely for a
little while, until the bogus 0. O..
wanning to his subject, began to get
flowery.
“Yes,” he cried, liftiug his eyes to
heaven, “In 11X15 1 was born again!”
“In that case." broke In the chair
man, quietly, “have you any objec
tlon to Joining the boy scouts?"
Lumping Them Off.
A tiny girl had made it her custom
to enumerate by name all the members
of the family aud the close friends,
In her evening prayers, hut at the
jtsee of a -strenuous day -of play she
waa tired and after the opening peti
tion she yawned then added sleep
tty: “And please Jnst bless the whole
hnneh."
I
STORY OF A SICK FIANCEE
FAILS TO HAVE SOLDIER
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 26.—A
story that he had gone to visit his fi
ancee who he declared to be seriously
ill near Seattle and was told to remain
with her by a physician failed to save
Private Walter E. Powell, coast ar
tillery corps, Puget Sound, from a
dishonorable discharge from the army
and two years at hard labor at the
hands of a court martial, for being
absent without Ipave, aeon-ding to an
am.ounccment by the western depart
meet of the army here yesterday.
The court martial found that the
story was fabricated in every particu
lar. Tlie department also announced
the imposition of a sentence of 16
years at hard labor and a dishonorable
discharge on Private Cary W. Moeh
ring. national army for deserting the
service after being drafted at St.
Maries. Idaho.
A 10-year sentence and dishonor
able discharge was imposed on Pvt.
Arthur Perrine, Troop B. 7th cavalry,
for desertion at Bozeman, Mont.
I. S. WANTS YOl’NG MEN
TRAINED FOR VARIOUS TRADES
CENTRALIA, Jan. 25.- In a letter
received from Secretary of the Inter
ior Lane by Edgar Reed, superintend
ent of city schools, yesterday, the sec
retary wanted to know how many
young men there are in this city who
could be trained for various trades
In case their services are required.
Secretary Lane’s letter did not specify
whether the young men referred to
were high school students or draft
registrants. Several heads of mechan
ical establishments with whom Prof
Reed conferred expressed a willing
ness to have night schools established
in their places of business.
man with check for
980,000 IH ARRESTED
PORTLAND. Ore., Jan. 25.—E. L.
Zimmer, aged 42, of Oaklapd, Cal.,
was arrested here last night on a
charge of having a forged check in
PLAYS SLUETH GOING
found a check for $30,000 in his
pocket, signed Samuel Thorpe, and
that Zimmer had been negotiating a
real estate deal for which he intend
ed using the check for payment. Dis
trict Attorney Walter Evans said the
|evidence against Zimmer was obtain
ed in Oakland.
PLAYSSLEUTHE GOING
EAST, FINDS BOOTLEGGERS
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Jan. 25.
T. G. Bishop, an Indian leader of Ta
coma, is here to work for measures
of benefit for the Indians. Coming
across Wyoming he discovered that
.bootleggers were smuggling liquor on
board the train to the soldiers, and
he performed f ne patriotic duty of re
porting them when he arrived here.
NO MEN OF DRAFT AGE
TO STAY WITH Y. M. C. A.
PARIS, Jan. 25.—The American
• army and navy Y. M. C. A. in France
■ issued a statement today that it is
1 not accepting for its service any men
i who are eligible tor military service.
| All men now in the Y. M. C. A. ser
vice who are subject to the draft have
I been requested, with the approval ol
jthe American army authorities, to re
main at their posts until their draft
numbers are called.
All eventually will be replaced by
jmen over draft age or those reject
jed tor military service.
■ It is said that only 10 per cent of
’the present Y. M. C. A. personnel in
France consists of men subject to the
'draft and that nearly 50 per cent of
those eligible who arrived during the
first six months the organization was
established here already have enlist
ed.
I'AMOI H RANGER OF TEXAS
BORDER CROSSES DIVIDE
EL FASO, Texas, Jan. 25.—Anoth
er Texas border character died here
recently in the person of George Her
old. Confederate soldier. Texas ran
gen and veteran police officer. Herold
claimed credt for the killing of Sam
Bass, the notorious Texas outlaw,
about whom a popular chanty of the
cow camps was composed by some
cowboy bard. He also defended the
city Jail when it was attacked by ne
gro soldiers of the Fort Bliss com
mand many years ago. He carried six
bullet wounds as trophies of his ex
periences on the boarder and in the
Civil war.
CHARACTERIZES STONE
AS A PRO-GERMAN
WASHINGTON. D. C„ Jan. 25.—
Theodore Roosevelt, in addressing the
National PresB club last night, char
acterised Senator Stone’s attack up
on him as an Insidious attempt to
help the kaiser.
. . The .Valdes Drug,company has re
eehreda shipment ot new Aide tables,
compiled tor the year 191*.
St'GAR SENT E/%BT
BY PARGRIi POST
TAGOMA, Jan. 26.—A heavy, com
pact parcel was lifted gingerly thru
the bars of the Tacoma poatofflce to
the clerk in charge.
"Insure it,” the customer said.
"Nine pounds, $1.08 puree) post,"
the clerk said, "What is it?"
"Sugar." the customer answered
defiantly. "They haven't hail any for
[weeks back there."
—
NAME OK PIONEER HAM,
HAH BEEN CHANGED
The name of Pioneer Hall has heeu
changed to that of Valdez Hall, with
the permission of Commissioner Ger.
Love.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Morgan will h<*
outgoing passengers on the North
western for Seattle.
Kodaks and kodak supplies at t-ha
Valdez Drug Co. tf
T- ey do the one thing
you have always
wished a
Cigarette
, ■ A would do:
and that
•
is—
They Sat
isfy —*and
yet they’re
MILD.
• »•*.*■>** -% ■ • ■ - ■ • ■ •
WHEN FUAMES FILL
THE FACTORY
despair fills the owner who has
neglected to look alter his in
surance. We handle the insur
ance ot some very large con
cerns. We place it in the beat
companies, pay the premiums
promptly and attend to renew
als. Let us do that (or you.
It will not cost you anything
for our service.
Valdez Real Estate Agency
f*lione So. 1. VALDEZ DOCK OO., Agent, Vaider Alaska.
Our Large Fleet of Magnificent Steamships Offer Frequent,
PERFECT SERVICE
Between All Points in
ALASKA and CALIFORNIA
Leave Beattie lO a. at.— From Vaider to Seattle—
Feb. 5.—S. S. Adm. Evans Keb. IS,- s. S. Adm. Evans
(for Kodiak)
Feb. 17.—S. S. Spokane. Feb. 27. S. S. Spokane.
S. S. Curacao sails from Seattle Feb. 1st carrying explosives ami
general freight.
CALIFORNIA ROUTE
Leave Seattle Monday, Friday and Saturday for
SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES
San Francisco to Los Angeles, Daily Except Sunday
San Francisco to San Diego, Monday, Thursday and Saturday.
IF TOUR TICKET READS “PACIFIC STEAMSHIP^COMPANY”
YOU ARE ASSURED THE VERY BEST.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
From Seattle 9 a. m.—
Feb. 1—S. S. Victoria
Feb. 8.—S. S. Northwestern
Feb. 16.—8 S. Alaska
Valdez to Seattle—
Jan. 25.-—S. S. Northwestern
Feb. I.—S. S. Alaska
Feb. 7.—S S Victoria
Call at Ketchikan, Juneau, Cordova. Ellamar. Fort Llscum, Valdes,
Latouche and Seward, except S. S. Victoria which sails via “outside”
route between Beattie and Cordova.
S S. Northwestern Sailing from Seattle Feb. Stli connects with S. S.
Dora at Seward for Alaska Peninsula points.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell. Juneau. Sheep
Creek. Treadwell. Deuglaa Shag way. Cordova Ellamar, Valdea and La
touch*. Explosive*. Right reserved to change schedule without notice.
VALDEZ DOCK CO- Local Agcat
Valdez Transfer Co.
A. M. DIERINGER, Proprietor
, t
Office on Valdez Dock, Next to Prospector
Building.
General Tracking and Freighting to
AUTOS FOR HIRE,
^ , . DAY 0$ NIQHT
No Coal Delivered Unless Paid in AcUance
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