STEAM HEATED HOT AND OOLD BATHS
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VALDRZ, ALASKA
"The House of Comfort”
PHONE 7 FOR MEN ONLY
THE FIRST TRY OX
of a suit tailored by us is gen
erally the last. For we meas
ure so thoroughly and so accu
rately that a perfect fit is as
sured from the start. But we
do more than supply a perfect
fit. We furnish clothing that
imparts distinction and stamps
indelably the wearer as a de
cidedly smart dresser.
. BEN SILVERMAN
THE TAIEOR
1894 CHAS.R. CRAWFORD 191/
PIONEER CONTRACTOR art IHER
OF ALASKA
CAN HANDLE ANY CLASS OF BUILDING.
Will take contracts on wharves, bridges, fish traps in any
part of Prince William sound.
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 j S. BLUM St CO., Valdez, and Cordova,
BANKERS ( B. M. BEH RENDS, Juneau, Alaoka.
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
MERCHANT’S CAFE & BAKERY
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone «S OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Clias. Flsclier, Propr.
THE SENATE
ANGUS CHISHOLM—FRANK GUSTAFSON
CIGARS, BILLIARDS
Nicely Furnished Rooms.Phone 35
Independent Steam Laundry
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Telephone 66
I Foot Keystone Ave
I Roujrb Dry lCc lb
and Placer
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Location Notices
For Sale at
Only a Brst-elass drug store can
secure an agency for Rexall products.
Tbe Owl Drug Store, exclusive agents
for Valdez. tf
Complete line cf Bulk Chccolates.
Candy Kitchen. 1 tf
Anything in nugget and ivory jew
elry at Valdez Drug Co.
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The best of everything in box
Chocolates at the Candy Kitchen tf
Rexall! Rexall! Investigate Rex
all products at the Owl Drug Store, tf
Valentines, three for five cents and
upward, at the Emporium. tf
Valdez Miner, 33.00 per year.
Why not a VICTROLA? We have
them from $15 up. Valdez Drug
Co. tf
For nrBt-class meals and good serv
ice at reasonable prices try the Mer
chants’ Cafe. tf
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Fresh candy at the Emporium, tf
WANTED:—Mill man’s job as a
foreman; excellent references from
San Francisco Mint, and Seattle, Val
dez and Seward assayers. Expert
amalgamator on copper and silver
plates. Inquire at Prosnector. tf
Remember—Good Eats.
At the Women’s Guild sale Satur
day afternoon from three to five at
Love-Whitley's store. 2t
FINDING NATURAL GAS.
It la Really a Mining Venture Baaed
Almaat Wholly on CHwoa.
The obtaining of natural gas Is es
sentially a mining proposition with. ;
however, more unknown, uncontrolla
ble and uncertain features to contend i
with than exist in any other class of i
mining or In any other busJness.
There is absolutely no certain way
of finding natural gas. The only meth
od to pursue is to drill holes in the
ground until a field is developed.
There are no sure surface Indica
tions for guidance, although some go- j
ologists claim that they can locate gas.
The results of their endeavors, how- 1
ever, very rarely substantiate such
claims.
The tirst process in the work is to
send out men to secure the leases.
They visit the farmers and landowners
and endeavor to secure the gas rights
on the most favorable terms.
If the territory is strictly “wildcat"
-that is, remote from gas develop
ments—the land can usually be leused
without much difficulty and at prices ;
ranging from 10 to 25 cents an acre a
year, for say ten years, with the pro
vision that unless oil or gas Is found
in paying quantities before the expira
tion of the term the lease becomes
null and void.
If. however, a successful well Is
drilled during the term of the agree
ment the lease is extended for “so
long as oil or gas Is found in paying
quantities."—Natioual Magazine.
FINE MEAT IN THE SEA.
The Supply Is Plentiful, but Man Al
lows It to Go to Waste.
It is reported that in 1690 an inhab
itant of the island of Kantucket. which
has very poor soil, looklug at the
whales playing in the ocean, said:
“There is a green pasture where our
children's grandchildren will go for
bread.”
He considered the ocean from a com
merclal point of view. We now ob
serve ns we look at tbe waterscape of
the world, “There is a green pasture
where our children’s grandchildren,
far removed, will go for meat." So
writes Zoula Baber of Chicago in the
Scientific Monthly in an article urging
“an international closed season for all
marine mammals except tbe killer
whale—the only one that destroys
warm blooded animals—until these val
liable sea creatures eould multiply in
sufficient numbers to replace In part
the position In the food supply now oc
cupied by sheep and cuttle."
Among the animals that are being
extinguished by man, animals tliut If
properly preserved could supply us
with an almost limitless quantity or
fine meut, are the whules, manatees,
dugougs, sea cows, seals anil walruses.
Roman Bricks.
When the preparations for rebuild
uig the Campanile, in Venice, were un
dertakcu the archaeologists were af
forded un opportunity to make some
interesting studies of the bricks. It
wtis found that they had been used in
arches, fortifications, tlie tops of walls
and in other ways before they were
built into the campanile and that they
were not Venetian hut Homan bricks
These ancient bricks were made In
slices, for in mnuy the layers could be
scon undisturbed. It Is said that bricks
made this way can bear a greater
weight than modern bricks. The bricks
examined were of the first century
One of them bore the imprint of a
horseshoe, which may prove that Ro
mans used a horseshoe Uke ours, al
though it is generally believed that
their horseshoes were strapped on. not
nailed.
Broke tfie Rule.
A new story is being told about a
certain London club, famed interna
tionally for both its exclusiveness and
Its dullness.
In one of the rooms a rule of silence
is stringently enforced, any necessary
order to a waiter having to be given in
a whisper. One day occupants of the
room were startled to see a member
press a bell button with evident an
noyance and when the waiter appeared
to hear him exclaim, pointing to a
neighbor in a chair:
“Waiter, remove that member.’’
The man in the chair had been dead
three days.—Exchange.
Occupational Disaasea.
A study of the subject of occupa
ttonal diseases affords abundant sur
prises Housemaid's knee, for instance
which for many years has served as a
subject for humorous comment, prove
to be a frequent malady of miners
Dust lias been found to contain not
only minute particles, but a watery en
velopc surrounding the particles. Sav
ing certain kinds of woods is said i<>
, produce Irritation of the mucous mem
! branes of the nose, throat and eyes
Chimney sweeps are especially subject
to cancer tiecause soot gets into the
system.—Popular Science Monthly.
The Lost Art.
The four-year-old had Just been re
proved at the table. He continued to
talk cheerfully, though unanswered,
to father. After some minutes of r;>
liloqu.v he turned to mother and re
marked:
I ’‘Your husband doesn’t talk very
much this noon, does he, mother?”—
Harper’s Magazine.
Thumb- Rings.
Thumb rings, which must have been
very ungainly and ugly, were worn
from the fourteenth to the seventeenth
century, and in “Henry IV." Falstnif
boasts that In his youth he was slim
enough to “creep into any alderman's
thumb ring."
Talent gets paid every Saturday.
Genius often has to wait years.
THREE BILLS 1
MAKE ALASKA DRY
DELEGATE INTRODUCES TWO
Senate Bill dually I’assetl Contains
Appropriation of SlOO.tMtO for the
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Establishment and Maintenance of
Schools. i
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Although the Alaska Prohibition j
Bill has occupied a prominent place;
in the newspapers of the Territory for |
some time past, it is apparently not i
known or at least has not been given
prominence that no less than threj
bills to make Alaska dry have been
introduced in Congress, including th.»
Senate bill, introduced by Senator
Jones and which has been passed by
both houses of Congress and is now
awaiting the signature of the Presi
dent.
The first bill. House Bill No. 1918S,
was introduced December 19, 1916,
by Delegate Wickersham. In this bill
Section 35 was signed to take away
from the Alaska Fund -the license
moneys now paid into that fund, and
turn thtm over to the Territorial
treasury, thus depriving the Insane
fund, School fund and Road fund of
the sums heretofore annually derived
from this source. ThiB measure was
submitted ot the Secretary of War.
and it is reported that he informed
the Chairman of the House Commit
tee on Territories that the passage of
the bill with Section 35 included
would undoubtedly hamper the work
of constructing roads and trails in the
Territory at least to the extent of the
money usually received by the Road
Commission from the Alaska fund,
and might also have a deterrent ef
fect upon Congress with relation to
further appropriations for road work
in the Territory. Particularly would
this be true in the event the Territo
rial Legislature failed to make appro
priations for this work from the
funds turned into the treasury by the
terms of this measure.
The House, Committee evident’y
look a similar view of the situation,
and the Bill was never reported out
of Committee. On January 22, 1917,
Delegate Wickersham introduced a
second bill, House Bill No. 20,361,
very similar in terms to his original
measure, but with the ol jectionable
paragraph 35 omitted.
On January 23, Senator Jones or
Washington, introduced in the Senate
a bill practically identical with that
introduced by Delegate Wickersham
the day previous in the House. This
bill, however, contained an additional
section, Sec. 30, providing for the
maintenance of public schools in the
Territory. This section reads as fol
■ lows:
“Sec. 30. That for the purpose
1 of supplying any deficiency in the
revenues of the Territory of Alaska
; by reason of the loss of moneys
■ from licenses for the sale of intoxi
cating liquors, there is hereby ap
propriated the sum of $100,000 to
be expended solely for the estab
lishment and maintenance of public
schools in Alaska, to be expended
under the direction of the author
ity now having the disposition of
the ‘Alaska Fund.’ ”
The Wickersham Bill No. 20,361
; passed the House, and was sent to the
I Senate, but before being acted upon
i by that body the Jones Bill was takeq
'up and passed and in the course of
■events went to the House, and was
also passed by that body, thus cut
ting off the Wickersham bill entirely.
The Jones bill and the Wickersham
bill both contained provisions permit-,
ting the district judges to grant li-,,
censes for any period of time less
than one y«kf upon a pro rater of the
license f4| for one. year, but not to
extend beyo^Ahe first, day of Janu
ary, 1918. .
The proviafSa of the Jones bill re
garding theImyopriation of $100,000:
for the estMphment and mainte
nance of schod»fn the Territory Is. in!
the opinion oS number of the mem
bers of the ba4\ery vague as to how
the sum shall bVapplied. Apparently j
the sum so appropriated will not be
available for the use of schools with
in incorporated towns, as the moneys
from the Alaska Fund were for use
only for schools outside of incorpo
rated towns, and as the present ap
propriation is apparently to supple
ment the school moneys derived from
this fund it is believed it can be used
only for the same purposes to which
moneys heretofore derived from this j
fund have been applied. It is possi- j
ble that a decision of the courts will
be sought on this point, as without
assistance from this fund, or through |
special appropriations from the Ter- j
rltorial Treasury, the schools in prac- j
tically every incorporated town will;
have to be maintained on a materially
decreased scale.
Location notices, noth quartz anrt i
placer, for sale at the Prospector of
flee. j
OPEN FIRES AND
CHRISTMAS CANDLES
have been the cause of much
loss both of life and property.
Protect yourself against the
latter by having us issue you
a Are insurance policy on your
home and its contents. Then
if Are does come you will have
the ready means to replace
your home. Foresight is bet
ter than regrets.
Valdez Heal Estate Agency
TONY’S PLACE sa*
EVERYTHING
FIRS1 CLASS
ANTON CARLSON,
Manager.
Pacific Steamship Co.
(ADMIRAL LINE)
Our I^arge Fleet tot Magnificent Steamships offer Frequent, PER
FECT SERVICE Between all Points in
Alaska and California
From Beattie to Valdes—
Feb. 15—S. S. Adm. Farragut
For Seward
Feb. 25—S. S. Adm. Watsoo,
For Kodiak
Mar. 2—S. S. Adm. Evans
Mar. 9—S. S. Adm. Farragut.
From Valdez for Seattle—
Feb. 23—S. S. Adm. Farragut
Mar. 8—S. S. Adm. Watson
Mar. 10—S. S. Admiral Evans
CALIFORNIA ROUTE
Leave Seattle Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays for San Francisco,
- Los Angeles
San Francisco to Los Angeles, Daily Except Sunday
San Francisco to San Diego, Mondays, Thursday and Saturdays.
IF YOUR TICKET READS PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY
YOU ARE ASSURED THE VERY BEST
For Full Particulars Address
Phone 1 VALDEZ DOCK COMPANY Valdez, Alaska
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
Nailing* from Seattle—
Feb. 16—S. S. Alaska
Feb. 24—S. S. Northwestern
Mar. 1—S. S. Mariposa
Mar. S—S: S. Alaska
Mar. 16—S. S. Northwestern
Valdez to Seattle—
Feb. 15—S. S. Mariposa
Feb. 23—S. S. Alaska
Mar. 4—S. S. Northwestern
Mar. 8—S. S. Mariposa
Mar. 16—S. S. Alaska
-CABLING AT
KETCHIKAN, JUNEAU, CORDOVA, ELLAMAR, FT. LISCUM,
VALDEZ, LATOUCHE AND SEWARD.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Sheep
Creek, Treadwell, Douglas, Skagway, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez and La
toyche. Explosives. Right reserved to change schedule without notice.
F. B. TRACY, CcbT Agent VALDEZ DOCK CO., Local Agent
Make it a Smokeless, Dustless,
Gasless, Trip East This Year
tn addition to the cleaner conditions due to Elec
trification, you’ll enjoy the comfortable accommo
dations and you’ll like the little courtesies inci
dent to “Milwaukee” service.
J. C. Marti*, VaUex, Pboaa 1 A. E. Harris, T. P. A. Jooeaa, AL-ka.
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Rexall! Rexall! Always gets firbt
call by discriminating buyers wh »
know that Rexall stands for superla
tive excellence. Owl Drug Store, ex
clusive agents. tf
Pure Fresh Drugs at me Valdez
Drug Store. tf
For fine Candies see our stockJ
Valdez Drug Co. tf
a new line or neatero priced right,!
at Mead’s. tf]
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Just received, a new line or Toilet
Waters and Perfumes. Owl Drug Co
Just Received—the latest Popular
Songs and Music. Valdez Drug Co. tf
CITY EXPRESS,. Phone 82; ready
to transfe. t_wt bagtabo for you. tf
Furnished rooms at Mrs Osland's.
Prices reasonable. 4 •
• ' A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company
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Office on Alaska Avenue, in
George C. Treat Building
Telephone No. 60
Genes al Trucking and Freighting
to all Interior Points. •
LIVERY and FEED STABLE.
STORAGE,
Teaming of All Kinds
Positively No Coal Delivered Un
less Paid for in Advance
Location notices, ootn quarts and
plaoer, at the Miner office.