ROF1T SHARING maktt yoa a partaer to the Bakery
whea yea pay 25c tor 3 Homemade Breads made
from the famoas Occident Flour. Why pay more?
BREAD | j 83c a loaf
Pb«^156
SCHMIDT’S BAKERY
Swift DeHteiy
--
STEAM HEATED HOT AND COLD BATHS
Copper Block Hotel
VALDEZ, ALASKA
“The House of Comfort”
PHONE 7 FOR MEN ONLY
f When Id Seward Stop at the
• COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE SEXTON. PROP.
STRICTLY FIRST CLASS
Fourth Ave, Seward, Alaska
Valdez Miners Union No. 108
Western Federation of Miner*
ROBERT SHAFFER. President.
Granite Mine.
CHAS. McCALLUM, Secretary,
Valdez Alaska.
THE SENATE
ANGUS CHISHOLM—FRANK GUSTAFSON
CIGARS, BILLIARDS
Nicely Furnished Rooms._ Phone 35
”L4 Comp/c/e Services
■' !N THE HEART OF TEE CITY®
255Boo.T6\vif!'.!>dh-503ampieRcom5
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MAY TIDE TABLES.
The following tides are given for
Valdez bay. Parties outside should
add to or subtract from the times of
high and low water for other locali
j Monday, May 29.
*High, 11:21 am, 7.1; 10:39 pm, 9..
Low, 5:02 am, —0.4; 4:30 pm, 2.9
Tuesday, May 30.
High, 12:03 am, 7.2; 11:14 pm, 9.7
Low, 5:40 am, —0.7; 5:08 pm, 3.0
Wednesday, May 31.
High, 12:42 am, 7.2.
Low, 6:16 am, —0.9; 5:44 pm, 3.1
DENY HEARING
OIL LAND CASES
The Juneau land office has receiv
ed a decision by the Secretary of the
Interior denying the motion of the
i appeal of the Alaska Petroleum &
Coal Company for a rehearing as to
eleven coal claims applied for in the
Bering River coal field. The Secre
tary of tht Interior, on November
11, 191’dWejected the application of
this conjfpany for these claims be
cause of the failure on the part of
the company or the granters of the
company to open a mine on either
of the claims.
* The Secretary at that time allow
®ed the application of the company
as to the Frement claim, first located
by D. W.'Hunt and later transferred
. to the company. These properties com
pose part of what is locally known
as the Lippy-Davis group and the
company applying for them was act
ely promoted by Clark Davis.
Clark Davis, who was one of the
original promoters of the Alaska Pet
_ roleum & Coal Company, is at pres
* ent reported to be actively interest
ed with the Campbell Brothers, who
are promoting the building of a rail
road from tide water near Katalla
to the Bering River coal fields.
The railroad promoters propose to
secure the coal from the Fremont
claim mentioned above, and also
;4rom the Seattle claim, patent to
Abich has already been granted to
M. A. Arnold, and to place it on the
martwfts of Alaska and Seattle. It
reported that they also expect to
v#urnlsh transportation to tide water
'for coal from claims worked under
.^jjgase in the field and to aid in the
.jlarketiRg of the product.
“cORBlbVA GOES WET
* yjk FOR ANOTHER TEAR
■t ^V _
Saloon licenses will be granted in
Cordova for another year, according
to the vote of the people as given by
Knumerators George Mosser and
Chas. M. Rosswig. The Jigures re
turned to Commissioner Medley as to
toe vote are: Wet 428, dry 191, no
Aftpinion 39.
As those who refused to voice an
opinion are counted in the dry column
plurality of the wet forces is 198.
prospector ads. bring RESULTS.
DONALDSON SCHEDULE j
Lvs. Fort Liscum Lva. Yaide< j
8:15 a.m. 9:45 a.m.
1:15 p.m. 4:00 p.m
TUESDAYS
8:15 a.m. 9:46 a.m
1:15 p.m. 2:00 p.m.
4:30 p.m. 5:uO p.m.
SATURDAYS
1:15 p.m. 4:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m 10:30 p.m. ;
There will be no trip ol the launch
on the second ana fourth Fridays of
each month; these days being used to
clean boilers.
Candy Kitchen
E. W. HUNT—In Owl Dm* Store.
FOUNTAIN DRINKS
HOT--COLD
LOCAL BREVITIES
Kodak Supplies at the Valdez Drug
Company. tf
Anything in the jewelry line at
the Valdez Drug Co. tf
ire you particular about your
health? Then be particular about
your druggist. The Owl for yours.
Stop that Infernal Racket
Show your wife how much you
love her and send that noisy old
pump to the Valdez Iron Works and
let them remove the peace disturber,
your neighbors will appreciate it. tf
_
Ice! Ice! Ice!
Delivered to all parts of the city.
One cent per pound. Love-Whitley. tf
Try a Rainey Sundae at Hunt’s
Candy Kitchen. tf
Try a Cherry Sundae or Cherry
Phosphate, true fruit flavor, at Hunt’s
—. «
Men, women’s and children's wear
ing apparel, household utensils and
articles of every day need, at the
Emporium. •
Marshmallow sundaes, a specialty
at Hunt’s Candy Kitchen. tf
'
Bristles in your teeth? Not if you
buy a guaranteed tooth brush at the
Owl. tf
Just received the largest shipment
of paints and brushes that has come
to Valdez in many years, and we have
the only complete stock in the town.
Get to work and phint the^own as it
needs it badly. C. C. Rudolph. tf
Fancy Stationery at the Valdez
Drug Store. tf
Just Received—the latest Popular
Songs and Music. Valdez Drug Co. tf
WANTED....Good, live dishwasher,
$2.50 a day. The Arcade. tf
Try the Cottage Dining Room for
good home-cooked . meals. Mrs. M.
Rucker, Phone 131. tf
Parties not receiving tnelr papers
before 8:00 o’clock should telephone
the office and a special messenger will
be sent with one. Turn your com
plaints in to the office. tf
A Sprig of
Rosemary
Which Is For Remembrance
By MARION TRAVERS
A man and a maid stood on the
porch of a little New England farm
house. The man had barely passed
his majority, and the years of the
girl numbered less than his by three.
The man was going hundreds of
miles to the westward, there to find
a competence.
When he had succeeded the girl
was to come to him for the rest of
the happy years. In his hands were
two sprigs of rosemary, one of which
he gave to the maid.
“It’s for remembrance, Betty.
Not that we will either of us need it,
dear, but T shall carry it with me
wherever I go.”
“You know you’ll always be in my*
thoughts, Tom. I’ll put it under
my pillow at night that I may
dream of you and wear it next my
lie,art in waking hours that every
beat may be for you. Goodbv, Tom,
and God bless yon and send you
back to me.” And tlie maid turned
her lips upward for her lover’s kiss.
“Goodby, Betty. It won’t be /or
long, and then we will be together
lor the rest of our lives.” And he
gave her one last caress before he
turned and started down the grav
eled path bound on the putt rail.
Betty had been motherless since
her sixth year, and at the close of
a winter’s day the soul of her father
left its gaunt frame, and she was
alone.
Tom wrote a letter full of tender
consolation, and it was on the ab
sent sweetheart she leaned during
the days and nights of her affliction.
Betty’s father had been frugal
and shrewd, and there was enough
to provide for the remainder of her
days.
She had no relatives in the home
of her father, and when legal mat
ters were finally adjusted she left
for a big western city to live with
an aunt while she was waiting for
Tom. It was then the first blow
fell.
No letter came from her sweet
heart in the far west. At first she
did not worry, for he had written
that he was going on a long pros
pecting trip and might be weeks,
even months, from civilization.
But when spring came and in
turn gave way to summer and sum
mer fled before the chilling blasts
of autumn and the weeks dragged
drearily by until a year had passed
Betty abandoned hope.
She wrote to the authorities of
the frontier town where he usually
outfitted, but they could tell her
nothing. Tom had left in April.
He had not returned. They knew
nothing of his fate.
In the passing of the years her
grief was softened, but the agony of
her loss was there, locked with her
love in the innermost recesses of her
heart. Suitors came, but were sent
away, not hurt, but firmly, gently
denied. Her cousins married, little
ones came to bless them, and to all
she was Aunt Betty.
There was another Betty now, a
pretty, graceful maid of seventeen,
joying -in her first glimpses of so
cial life and rapturously happy be
cause she was just living. They
were great cronies, these two Bet
tys, and it was often remarked that
their resemblance extended away
and beyond the name.
“Aunt Betty, why didn’t you mar
ry?” asked the little Betty one aft
ernoon when the two were having a
long, confidential chat.
Then faded old letters were
brought out and read, the dimmed
tintype of a country boy with a fine
featured face was cried over and
the withered sprig of rosemary lift
ed gently from the jewel case, where
it had reposed so many years in
state.
“And the rosemary, auntie?
queried little Betty.
“Rosemary is for remembrance,
dearie. We each had a sprig and
were to keep it always, so that when
ever we saw it the other’s face would
appear i» our dreams,” said auntie.
“And do you dream of him yet?”
pursued the younger.
“Bless you, Betty, I’ll always
dream of him, and I pray now that
after death hero I may see him ”
“And so that’s ,the reason you
didn’t let Dr. Thornton and the oth
ers marry you when they asked ?”
"Betty, how did you know ?”
' “Oh, I heard mamma talking
about it! But I won’t tell, auntie,”
she promised penitently. “But it’s
lovelyy Aunt Betty. It’s perfectly
splendid to love so long and so hard
when you know he’s dead. Would
he care, do you think, if you mar
ried some one else ?”
“Ho knew I never would,” and
f.he older Betty sighed.
After that the little Betty had to
go away to school. She was sent to
a distant city to be taught all man
ner of things embraced in that word
“finished.”
To her romantic soul came many
experiences, many temptations to
surrender to what she thought was
love, but always she measured the
depths of her emotions by Aunt
Betty’s loyalty of a score of years.
“Would I love him like that?”
she would ask of herself, and al
ways the suitor failed in the test.
One afternoon she went to a mati
nee at a downtown theater. As she
was leaving the playhouse she was
confronted by a stalwart man whose
agitation was greater than her own.
“Betty Randall!” he all but shout
ed in his excitement.
“Aurftie!” gasped Betty.
“Are you Betty Randall ?” queried
the stranger. “Of course not.
You’re just a child, and Betty
would have been more than twice
your age if she were alive,” and he
apologized for his rudeness as he
turned to go.
It flashed over Betty in an in
stant. Could it be true? She de
cided to risk it.
“Tom!” she called softly.
The man wheeled at the word and j
stood staring at the girl.
“Are you Tom Wilson?” she ask
ed. “And did you leave over twen
ty years ago to go out west, and”—
she continued.'
“Yes, yes! Why—how—who are
you?” he demanded.
“Betty Randall is my aunt,” said ;
Betty, “and she has your sprig of!
rosemary.”
“Here’s mine!” he cried, and he i
plunged into his pocket and brought j
forth a worn wallet.
That night Mr. Wilson bad a long
talk with Betty at the school. She
arranged to go home the next morn
ing, and Tom was to follow the day
after. He explained how he had
been sick for a year from exposure
while lost, in .the mountains, how he
wrote to the old address, but got no
j reply.
He had gone back to the JNew
Hampshire town, but no one could
give him Betty’s address. So, with
fortune beyond his boyhood dreams,
he had rambled up and down the
world, hoping, hunting and misera
ble.
“Aunt Betty,” said little Betty
two days later, “suppose Tom is
alive. Suppose he didn’t die, but
couldn’t find out where you were.
Wouldn’t that be fine?” And her
eyes danced with what the elder
took to be girlish enthusiasm for a
romance so near to her.
There was a knock at the door,
and a maid entered with a card tray.
“There’s a gentleman downstairs
to see you, Miss Randall. He
wouldn’t give me his card, but said
you’d understand by this.” And she
held out the tray so that there was
disclosed thereon a sprig of rose
mary.
“Betty, it’s true! He’s alive!
It’s Tom!” And the speed with
which she descended played havoc
with orthodox ideas of dignity. She
fell rather than ran into the sitting
room, there to be clasped in two
arms, while a man’s voice came soft
ly to her:
“At last! Thank God, at last!”
Boys and Busineaa.
"We are a business race, we
Americans,” says a writer in the
Woman’s Home Companion. “Nine
tenths of our boys are destined for
business, and the other tenth, who
enter professions, need a knowledge
of how business is transacted even
more. Parents who covet a clean
cut, successful business career for
their boy can do him a tremendous
service by laying the foundation of
that career while they have him still
in their own hands. It was Cardinal
Newman who said, ‘Give me a child
until he is seven years old, and I
care not who has him afterward.’
And psychologists are proving to us
more conclusively every day that
the years we once considered wast
ed, from an educational viewpoint,
are the years in which most of our
habits, including business habits,
have their root.”
Four Kind* of Liars.
The late Sir Frederick Bramwell
was famous both as a witness and
arbitrator in engineering disputes.
It is recalled that his brother, the
late Lord Justice Bkamwell, on giv
ing advice to a young barrister told
him to be careful of four kinds of
witnesses—first, of the liar; second,
of the liar who -could only be ade
quately described by the aid of a
powerful adjective; third, of the ex
pert witness, and, finally, of “my
brother Fred.”
Squarely Caught.
“What a pretty hat Mrs. Pinkey
wore this evening.”
“Did you like it, doar?”
“Yes; it was very becoming. Why
don’t you get hats like that?”
“You mustn’t blame me if I
laugh, John. The hat you like is
my hat. Mrp. Pinkey borrowed it
this evening. It’s the thirty dollar
hat you called a fright.”—•Cleve
land Plain Dealer.
VALDEZ . and - ANCHORAGE
CITY EXPRESS
Meets all boats! On the job, day or night
We never sleep.
J. A. SPENARD, Proprietor Phone 82
| VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Real Estate, Insurance, General Brokerage
| Absentees Business Properly Handled
Treat Building, Alaska Ave. Telephone No. 60
Buy Alaska Made Cigars
ASK FOR W. R. King, Terminus, or Lavanna,
Made in Seward by union workmen.
We maintain our standard. Sold everywhere
MERCHANT’S CAFE
EREsH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone C3 Chas. Fischer, Propr.
Independent Steam Laundry
[ Satisfaction Guaranteed |
£ Telephone 66
i
Foot Keystone Ave <
Rough Dry lCc lb J
4
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
PLUMBING STOVES and RANGES HEATING
MOTOR BOAT SUPPLIES, PAINTS and OILS
Mine Air Pipe, Valves, Hose, Pipe and Fittings
Valdez Dock. Opposite Prospector Office. Telephone 24
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
PUGET SOUND kiwi PUGET SOUND
California une. Alaska
SAILINGS FROM SEATTLE, 11:00 A. M
April 30—S. S. Admiral Evana—Kodiak and way porta.
May 7—S. S. Admiral Farragut—Knlk Anchorage and way porta.
May 14—S. S. Admiral W’ataon—Knlk Anchorage and way porta.
May 31—8. S. Admiral Evana—Kodiak and way porta.
May 38—S. S. Admiral Farragut—Knlk Anchorage and way porta.
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SAILINGS SOITH FROM VALDEZ—
April 38—S. S. Admiral Farragut.
May !#— S. S. Admiral Wataon. -
May 13—8. S. Admiral Evana.
May 10— 8. S. Admiral Farragut.
May 30— S. S. Admiral W’ataon.
June 3—S. S. Admiral Evana.
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to San Francisco every Wednesday and Sunday, connecting with
Steamers Vale and Harvard tor Southern California.
Right reserved to change schedule without notice.
K1CHAKD J. Kl.VGWOOD, Mgr., Seattle; VALDEZ DOCK CO., Local Agt.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
j Sailings from Seattle—
April SO—S. 9. Northwestern.
May 5—S. S. Mariposa.
May lO—S. S. Alaska.
May IS—Alameda.
May 30—S. S. Northwestern.
May 35—S. S. Mariposa.
May 30—S. S. Alaska.
Sailings South from Valdes—
April 30—S. S. Alaska.
May S—S. S. Alameda.
May 12—S. S. Northwestern.
May 13—S. S. Mariposa.
May 20—S. S. Alaska.
May 20—S. S. Alameda.
June 1—S. 9. Northwestern.
, Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Sheep
> Creek, Treadwell, Douglas, Skagway, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez and La
| touche. Explosives. Right reserved to change schedule without notice.
■ F. B. TRACY. Gen'l Agent VALDEZ DOCK CO., Local Agent
When You Leave
For the Outside
take the
“MILWAUKEE”
One road—one management—one service all the"way
through to Chicago. It’s the Short Line to the East
/ over
THE NEW STEEL TRAIL
For information and literature write or ask
J. C. MARTIN, Agent, Valdez, Alaska.
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST, PAUL RY.
A. E. HARRIS, Freight and Passenger Agt,
Juneau, Alaska.