DOUGHNUTS
The secret to the doughnuts did not burn.
,, Come—1 fry them, you buy them—and our
Sale Still Continues
Some fine bargains yet—Lots of new
goods have arrived.
Entrance, first floor former P. O. Building to
Schmidt’s Table Queen Gruceiy
The Home of the Home-Made Doughnut.
Fresh Butter and Eggs.
STEAM HEATED HOT AND COLD BATHS
Copper Block Hotel
VALDEZ, ALASKA
“The House of Comfort”
PHONE 7 FOR MEN ONLY
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miner*
ROBERT SHAFFER. Prudent.
Granite Mine.
CHA5. MeCALLUM, Secretary,
Valdez, Alaska.
si Shamrock
CAPT. TIM MARCUM
Sails for Port Wells, Portage
Bay, Granite Mine, Saturday
at 9:00 a. m., from the Val
dez Dock Company’s Dock.
For Ellamar, Landlock Bay,
and Fidalgo, every Wednes
day, 9:00 a. m., from Val
dez Dock Company’s Dock
For Rates, Apply on Boat.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
Merchandise
The best groceries received
s on every boat,
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thfcsh vegetables, fruits, and
/ nuts.
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Notice to Y. M. C. A. Subscribers.
All persons who subscribed to
wards the building fund of the
Young Men’s Christian Association
are requested to file with the under
signed the amount subscribed so that
due credit therefor may be given on
the books of the Association.
JAMES FISH, 8ec.
SEXOID—a marvelous cure for
weakness in men; restores lost pow
ers; price $1; money refunded if it
fails. Address Dr. T. Pierce, Seattle,
Wash. 6t
George Ade’s Fable Comedy at the
Empress tonight. Also the scream
•comedy, Love, Oil and Grease,” by
Bud and Ham. *
WANTED: Experienced' woman de
sires worit as cook or maid. Refer
ences given. Address Prospector.
Hotpoint Electric Heaters, Cookers,
Bakers, Percolators and Vacuum
Cleaners arrived on the last boat for
the Emporium. tf
A fine display-of nugget jewelry at
Valdez Drug Co. tf
Juat Received- the latest Popular
nga and Music. Valdez Drug Co. tf
Far good nome-cooKea meals try
Mrs. M. Olson, on Hobart 8treet. *
Pure Fresh Drugs at the Valdez
Drug Store. •
Valdez Drug Company nave a fine
line of 8chcol Stationery. tf.
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Furnished rooms at Mrs. Oslmnd'a.
Prices reasonable. *
Anything in the jewelry line at tht
Valdez Drug Co. tf
| LOCAL BREVITIES.
B. F. Millard arrives from a flying
business trip to Seattle.
Shot Tonight.
Set- Shot in the Excitement, at the
Liberty theatre tonight. The best
comedy yet. *
George Bettis, traveling salesman
for the Seattle Brewing &' Malting
Company was a through passenger to
Seward.
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For Sale.
Launch 3-M. 57x12x3.0. Make us
an offer. T. J. Morris, by X). E. Mor
ris. Agent. Call Prospector office, tf
District Attorney Spence and As
sistant District Attorney Whittlesey
were passengers to Seward orr the
Northwestern.
Panoramic vie Vs of Child’s and
Miles glaciers. Dawson, Valdez and
Wrangel on sale at the Valdez Drug
store. tf
A. E. Grigsby is busy moving from
the Sullivan residence to the house
formerly occupied by Lieut. Weeks.
Shot Tonight.
See Shot in the Excitement, at the
Liberty theatre tonight. The best
comedy yet. *
The Postoffice Department has
made the office at Ellamar a money
order station.
Music and Good Show Tonight.
The Liberty Theatre presents for
tonight. Good music by a good or
chestra rendering thp latest selec
tions. Also five^good reels of Him
including “Shot in the Excitement”
Some comedy. You know the Lib
erty’s comedies well; this beats them
all. Visit the Liberty, the home of
good pictures. See ad in other part
of this paper.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Sullivan will
moye into their residence on Broad
way tomorrow.
“A Girl in the Case,” swell two
part Vitagraph Drama, featuring
Maurice Costello and Estelle March
at the Empress tonight. •
Dan Hoss the well known prospec
tor and miner returned on the S. S.
Evans from Chitina.
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Pictures developed at the Valdes
Drug Company. . tf.
Mrs. R. P. Ferguson is reported to
day ns gradually improving and it is
now expected that she will recover
from her severe illness.
Rev. George Learn, in Charge of
the Kodiak Baptist Orphanage, was
a through passenger to Kodiak on
the Evans.
George Ellis the well known and
accommodating freight clerk on the
S. S. Northwestern is again on the
job after a two-months vacation
spent at his old home in Butte,
Montana, which city he says is boom
ing on account of the big copper bus
iness.
Prof. Davis is moving his house
hold effects from the Phillips house
on Alaska avenue to the N. E. Olson
house-on Sherman street.
ARTIST SHEELOR
BUILDING HIGH!
Valdez Artist Building Boat to Be
Used In Panoramic Work on
Alaskan ('oast- and Kivers.
K. w. Sheelor, the artist, whose
panoramic views have made Alaska
famous, has contracted for a 45-foot
boat to be built this year, the keel to
be laid in Seattle somtime in the
early summer. The boat will be of
the converted cruiser type, 45 feet
long, 10 foot beam, and with ample
horsepower to stem the swift cur
rents of the Alaskan rivers.
The boat will be used by Mr. Sheel
or in taking panoramic views of the
many glaciers and mountains along
the coast, and will be the last thing
in comfort and seaworthiness. Her
construction will be supervised by
Mr. Sheelor, who will adopt many of
his own ideas in her interior finish,
to make her convenient for his pano
ramic work.
Mr. Sheelor has also purchased a
25-35 Red Wing Thoroughbred light
weight aluminum base motor, and as
soon as the ice lircaks on the Yukon
will go to Whitehorse, where he will
construct a river boat after his own
design, in which he will travel down
the Yukon to St. Michaels, taking pic
tures of that interesting waterway,
on his trip down river. Arriving at
Michaels, he will pack and ship his
films and pictures, and return up the
river on his boat to Whitehorse,
where the craft will be dismantled,
and the motor shipped outside to be
used in a speed launch as a tender for
his cruiser.
He will be accompanied on the trip
by his wife, and they will take pano
ramic views of all place of interest
on the interior.
Mr. Sheelor makes the finest pano
ramic views in America, and has trav
eled extensively through the mining
districts of Nevada, Arizona. Colorado
and Utah, taking panoramic views of
all the principal mining camps. Some
of his photos are gems of the photog
rapher's art, 2 feet wide and twelve
feet long. Also he takes smaller
views one foot by five feet long.
The pictures are taken with a cam
era made by Mr. Sheelor himself and
run by clockwork. The camera is set
on a toothed gear, which is revolved
an entire circle by clockwork. The
films are made specially for this big
machine, and are 2 feet by 12 feet.
They are wound on a cylinder on one
side of the machine and as the carne
rg revolves, passes slowly in front of
a slot a half inch wide behind the
lens, which is of great strength. The
film runs one direction and the cam
era another thus keeping the film the
same speed exactly as the camera re
volves. After exposure the negatives
are developed in a specially construct
ed tank, devised by Mr. Sheelor. and
printed in a special frame. So im
mense is this outfit that it takes five
men to carry it to the top of a moun
tain, and sometimes a whole day is
required to get one negative, which
often costs as high as one hundred
dollars.
Mr. Sheelor has panoramic views of
all the towns in Alaska with the ex
ception of Anchorage, and also of all
the important glaciers. He will leave
next week for the-Mt. McKinley dis
trict, accompanied by his wife, where
they will take pictures of the moun
tain made famous by Dr. Cook.
Mr. Sheelor receives hundreds of
orders from the big art. houses in the
States, and his work finds a ready
sale wherever exhibited. He has
spent several years along the Alaskan
coast and he and his wife have visited
every town in the interior.
The officers of the Evans report
that they had a large passenger list
from Seattle to the westward, many
of them going to the cannery towns
of Seldovia, Port Graham and Kodi
ak; also a large number of the offi
cers and employes of the cannery at
Kakutat.
A. C. Baldwin, W. F. Way and Lo
gan Archibald have rented the Ray
Larson cottage on Keystone avenue,
and will immediately establish a
bachelors’ club.
Alvah Fames, Chief Clerk of the
Railway Mail service was a through
passenger for Seward on the North
western.
Mrs. Dolan and the children re
turned from an extended visit to Se
attle on the Northwestern. This was
the first time the boyB had seen the
town since the last fire last July,
and they were very much interested
in noting" what had been rebuilt.
Ben Silverman, the local clothing
merchant, has gone to Seattle on a
short business trip connected with his
mining interests.
WHOLE POWER-DRIVEN FLEET
ORDERED BY CARLISLE CO.
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Orders for a new cannery tender!
to cost about $12,000 and a whole j
fleet consisting of twenty-six power I
driven launches have just been plac-j
ed by the Carlisle Packing Company |
of which Frank Wright of this city is I
president.
The new tender on which construe- i
tion has started at the ilson Ship
yards in Seattle is to be ready March
1. when it will be sent to operate in
the Copper River District at Cordo
va. In order to overcome difficulties
presented by shallow water, the draft
of the boat is kept down to eighteen
inches. The boat will be of the tun
nel stern type and will be .driven by
twin Atlas engines of 40 horsepower
e&ch.
In addition to this tender the Car
lisle, Packing Company plans the con
struction of twenty-six smaller seine
boats for the use of fishermen work
ing at the new cannery established at
Cordova. Sixteen of these boats will
have 4-horsepower Atlas engines,
while ten will be equipped with four
horsepower Ferros. The new Cordo
yn plant which is a two-line cannery,
will be operated this year, with a
complete outfit in every department.
This is the third cannery secured |
by t'ordova this year.
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MOTHER LODE SHIPS
THIRTY PER CENT COPPER
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The Mother Lode Copper Mine 1
company shipped one hundred and
fifty tons of ore to the Tacoma smel
ter last week. The ore is not the
highest krade ore that has been trans
ported from the interior but it is ex
pected to average better than thirty
per cent pure copper. The shipment
had a value of $21,000. The mine is
employing a force of fifty miners and
expects to soon send another ship
ment of ore to the smelter.
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FI P A LOO BAY MINE * « j
SHIPPED 350 TONS OF OREj
Miners coming up the Sound re
| port that when the steamer Admiral
i Farragut called at Fidalgo Bay she
! took three hundred and fifty tons of ,
lore from the Alaska Mines Corpora
tion bunkers to the Tacoma smelter.
The steamer was behind in her sched
ule and was unable to wait to empty'
the bunkers. The Admiral Evans is
expected to call and load five hun
dred tons and will be followed by the
Admiral Watson which will also take
five hundred tons. The mine is ex
pected to ship about fifteen hundred
tons per month for the balance of the
winter.
NOME1TE KILLED BY
EXPLOSION OF GAS.
A shocking accident occurred in
; Nome hist Wednesday in Reed’s ma
chine- shop which resulted in the
death of Leo Watkin, a machinist. He
had been engaged in tapping a hole
in a tank which gas been used for
acetylene gas and after finishing the
hole he struck a match to see the re
sult of his work. The explosion which j
followed instantly killed Watkin, as
it threw him against the roof and
mashed his head to a pulp. The tank 11
was blown through the roof and the
building demolished.
PORT WELLS TRADING ]
POST CHANGES OWNERS
William Byers, the pioneer trader
and storekeeper of Golden, Port
Wells, has disposed of his business
there and will engage in fox raising
on Byers and other islands in the
Sound. He will also operate in con
nection with one of the Cordova sal
mon canneries during the summer^
Mr. Byers is postmaster at Golden,
and has sent his resignation to the
department in Washington. Mr.
Spaulding, former superintendent of
the Golden Eagle Mining company, is
the new owner of the Golden trading
post and will probably be appointed j
postmaster there.
POOD SALE WAS
VERY SUCCESSFUL
The food sale held at Love-Whit
ley’s store last Saturday for the
benefit of the Woman's Guild of the
Episcopal Church, was a great suc
cess, everything being sold out at
an early hour.
The Guild netted the neat sum of
twenty-five dollars, and it has been
decided to make these sales a fea
ture every month, and give every
body a chance to get some of the good
things cooked and prepared by the
ladies of the* organisation.
F. Swallow, chief Chauffeur for the
Alaska oRad Commission returned to
Valdez on the Admiral Evans after a
three months’ vacation In the States.
Mr. Swallow is local agent for .the
Dodge car. one of the best cars made.
Wy have been handling the Ferro
engine for the past six years and
have derived less income through
them for repairs than any other make
of engine on the Bay. Valdes Iron
Works. w-tf.
CITY EXPRESS
will guarantee that both you and your baggage will
reach the boat on time—Let us do the
worrying.
J. A. SPENARD, Proprietor Phone 82
Independent Steam Laundry
Satisfaction Guaranteed I I Foot. Keystone Ave
Telephone 66 ! I Hour'll Dry 10c lb
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
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone. 68 Chas. Fischer, Propr.
| VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
J Real Estate, Insurance, General Brokerage ■
j Absentees Business Properly Handled
5 Treat Building, Alaska Ave. Telephone No. 60
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
PLUMBING, STEAM -AND HOT WATER HEATING,
Sheet Metal Work, Mine Air Pipe, Pipe anti Fittings, Valves, Etc,
Motor Boat Supplies, Paints anti Oils.
Located on Valdez Dock, Opposite Prospector Office. Phone 24
When You Leave
For the Outside
take the
“MILWAUKEE”
OneProad—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.
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
PD6ET SOUND
California
Admiral
Line
PUGET SOUND
Alaska
ALASKA
Steamers sail from Seattle at 9 P. M. on
5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH
Steamer Sailing 15th ealla Illamna and Kodiak—All sailing rail at Knlk
aad Anchorage.
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to San Praaclseo every Wednesday aad Snaday. connecting with
Steamers Yale aad Harvard tor Southern California.
Bight reserved to change schedule without notice
RICHARD J. RING WOOD, Mgr., Seattle! VALDEZ DOCK CO, Local Agt.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
9. 8. ALAMEDA AND 8. 8. NORTHWESTERN SAIL FROM SE
ATTLE THH 10TH, BOTH AND SOTH,
EVERY MONTH
FROM VALDEZ BOOTH—8TH, 18TH, SSTH, FOR CORDOVA,
JUNEAU, WRANGBL, KETCHIKAN AND SEATTLE.
K B. TRACT, OMl ifnt V ALDER DOCK OO, Ucd i(M