Nugget-Nugget & Ivory
Chains, Charms, Brooches, Scarf Pins
Rings, Bracelets, Crosses.
Just Received on the Northwestern,
A Large Assortment of Toys
Do Yonr Christmas Shopping Early,
OWL DRUG CO,
Same Location New Management
When in Chitina Stop at the
CHITINA HOTEL
Fineat Hotel in tW laterior—Well Heated Clean Room
Bar in Connection. Rates Reasonable
Independent Laundry Co.
Sathiiactioii Guaranteed I j Foot Keystone Ave
Telephone Bti 1 I Rouzh Dry lCc lb
1t>R. H. CQ^.ERILLE
Graduate NtfHonal l'iiver»«y.
Waabiagtoi, D. C.
DENTIST
Foarteen Years In Valdez.
PHONE 110
Office Rooms in Whaling Building
DR. GERMAN
pho™ 19 THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Drag Store. Of
fice hoars 9 a. m. to 6 p. m„ 7 to 9
%. m. Sunday by appointment.
All Work Guaranteed.
E. C. DALTON, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Phone 42
Alaska Avenue Valdez, Alaska
DONOHOE & DIMOND
.ITTOKWBVS-AT-LAW
t»Hee Op.Mttr Craft Hnar
Pint M VALIIBZ, ALASKA
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTOR NET S-AT-LA W
^ Oflrei* in Whaling Building
Phone HH VALDEZ. ALASKA
Red Cross Hospital
Keystone)’and Hobart Sts.
OPEN TO ALL PHYSICIANS.
Private Rooms for Patients.
Pbope 144 MRS. C. H WILCOX. Matron
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING
McKinley Street, Valdez
ED. WOOD, Proprietor
* /
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company
Office on Alaska Avenue, in
Ceorge C. Treat Building
Telephone No. 60
General 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
DELEGATE’S PLANS FOR
THIS SESSION OF CONGRESS.
Following is the list of bills that
Delegate Wickersham told the people
of Seattle in his speech at the Arctic
Club that he will introduce in con
gress during the winter, as taken
from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Judge Wickersham will introduce
into Congress four matters of special
interest to Alaska. The first and
more important a measure providing
for the centralization of federal ad
ministrative offices of the Territory
into one commission of five to be
composed of the governor of Alaska,
secretary of state, and three other
resident Alaskans; the second is a
bill prifriding for statehood; the third
to nnfflfy the homestead law as ap
plied to Alaska to give Alaskans Who
have already taken up a homestead
in the United States the right to take
up a claim in the Territory, and,
fourth, a measure to provide for the
re-establishment of a naval base at
some Alaskan port.”
JUDGE SAYS POOR MAN
CANNOT GET JUSTICE
Portland: “A poor man lias :io
chance to get justice under the laws
of this state,” Judge Gatens told a
group of jurymen in his court this
morning: “If you have money, you
ean defeat justice; if you are broke,
justice will beat you."
Judge Gatens had just learned that
Deputy County Clerk Bush had. re
fused to honor Gatens’ order direct
ing County Clerk Coffey to allow G.
H. Wolff to tile without cost an an
swer to the Alaska-Oregon Canning
Association's appeal from a district
court decision awarding Wollf $16l
for labor. Under the law. the coun
ty clerk must receive all tiling fees in
advance.
Wolff, answering an advertisement
of the cannery company, worked for
two months in Alaska. Then he wa3
sick two days. When he came back
ready to work he was refused em
ployment. He came to the states and
started suit. He was awarded *161
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
Merchandise
The best groceries received
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits, and
nuts.
. -W- . - -'S
VALDEZ LODGE
SO 168
Vrc* and Accepted Havana.
Regular Communications flrst Wed
nesday in each month in McKinley
Hall. Visitors always welcome.
_ __A. E. GRIGSBY, W. M.
ED. WOOD. Secretary.
. :
IMiJl^ATfLE
Complete Services
I IN THE HEART OF THE Cmr
1155 tooma with bafh-50 Sample Rooms
damages, and the company appealed.
Bradley Ewers, his attorney, showed
Judge Gatens this morning that Wolff
was without funds.
WOLVES ABE PLENTIFUL
IN THE IHTNA COUNTBY
Iditarod Pioneer: Felix Boucher
and A. A. Willis returned to Flat City
last Saturday night from the headwa
ters of the Ditna and Moore creek,
where they were prospecting and
hunting. They report that game is
unusually plentiful in that region.
They saw hundreds of caribou on the
Ditna and succeeded in killing four
of the animals. Being unable to cache
them they left them lying on the
ground over night and on their re
turn next day found they had been
devoured by wolves. They say that
these predatory animals are unusual^
ly numerous and voracious in that re-J
gion this year.
LACK OK i—. LIGHT
RETARDED SURVEY WORK
That the Bering River coal field is
a region prolific of trouble of all
sorts is no jest, as we are now inform
ed that the government surveyors
who were operating there during the
past summer had trouble locating the
orb of light, which interfered some
what with their work. In their re
port to the general land office at
Washington it was stated that the
season had been extraordinarily fog
gy and misty and that the sight of the
sun so necessary in their surveying
work, was but rarely. However, they
managed to get through, and the res
idents of Alaska are anxiously await
ing the announcement by Secretary
Lane that the coal lands can be leas
ed in convenient bodies for commer
cial use.
SPENCE CHARGES HAVE
REACHED WASHINGTON.
The fight which the Alaska Demo
crats are making against District At
torney N. Spence, of Valdez, was giv
en publicity here today, when the at
torney general’s department announc
ed that definite charges had been filed
against Spence. Charges have been
preferred by the Democratic territori
al committee, and also by the Valdez
commercial bodies. The things
brought against Spence are numer
ous, alleging incompetency, and the
fact that he has never shown himself
a Democrat since coming to Alaska,
the specific charge being made that he
opposed the election of the regular
Democratic candidate for delegate to
Congress at the last election. It is
charged that Spence did all he could
to elect Delegate Wickersham, who
has always been a Republican and
will run again next year as a repub
lican. When Mr. Wickersham was
intereviewed here on the matter he
denied all knowledge of the facts in
the case, but said that he had heard
that Spence had aroused the antago
nism of the Guggenheim interests in
Valdez.-f-Cordova Times.
Weather Report.
Valdez, Dec. 12, 1915.
Barometric pressure .29.55!!
Temperature 5 p. m.19
Minimum temperature .14
Mean temperature . 17.5
Precipitation .36
Cloudy, gentle wind, northeast 14
miles; snowed at night and all day.
Interior Weather.
Valdez, Dec. l'S, 1915.
Fairbanks, —18; 9 inches of snow:
cloudy, calm.
Salcha. —15; 14 inches snow;
cloudy, calm, trail fair.
Richardson. —31; 14 inches snow;
cloudy, calm, trail good.
McCarthy, —20; 18 inches snow;
cloudy, calm, trail good.
Donnelly, —30; 19 inches snow;
cloudy, calm, trail good.
McCallura, —25; 36 inches snow;
clear, calm, trail good.
Paxson, —23; 30 inches snow;
cloudy, calm, trail good.
Hogan, —14; 19 inches of snow;
cloudy, calm, trail good.
Gulkana, —19; 17 inches snow;
cloudy, calm, trail fair.
Gulkana, —19; 17 inches snow;
cloudy, calm, trail good.
Copper Center, —16; 18 inches of
snow; cloudy, calm, trail good.
Tonsina, —11; 17 inches of snow;
cloudy, calm, trail good.
Teikhell, —4; 24 inches of snow;
cloudy, calm, trail good.
Beaver Dam. 2 above; 35 inches of
snow; cloudy, calm, trail fair.
Summit, zero; 60 inches of snow;
cloudy, windy, trail drifted.
Wortman’s, 3 above, 21 inches of
snow, trail heavy.
Granite Is High Grade.
Juneau Empire: Senator B. F.
Millard has called the Empire to mis
take in connection with an Item re
cently printed concerning the Gran
ite Mountain mine of which the Sen
ator is president and general mana
ger. It was'stated that the mine is
milling 1,100 tons of ore daily. The
item should have said that $1,100
worth of gold is being amalgamated
dally. This is the product of 65 tonjs
of ore treated each day. The figures
show gold values amounting to *17
a ten.
NAME OF MAN BELIEVED
LOST APPEARS ON RECITER.
It is reported in Ketchikan that the
name of Mike DeCosta, one of the
three men who were believed to have
perished in the Chickamin river early
in October, appears on the books of a
Seattle Hotel under date of October
26. The party left Ketchikan on
October 9 for Chicamin river to in
vestigate alleged fish poaching. The
others in the party were Sandy ( 'lark
and R. F. Irwin, federal flsneries in
spector. The father of the latter lias
offered $1,000 reward for the body of
his son. How DeCosta’s name came
to appear on the register of -t Seattle
hotel several weeks after the party
was lost is being investigated by the
Seattle anUiorities. DeCosta is re
ported to have been very erratic and
it is feared that he may have murder
ed his companions.
MOTHER LODE COMPANY
WILL MAKE BIG SHIPMENT
There is reported to be consider
able activity at McCarthy and sur
rounding country as a result of the
copper boom. The Bonanza and Jum
bo mines are employing more men
than ever, while the Mother Lode
Copper mine is freighting ore over
the snow trail to the railroad and will
shortly make a big shipment to the
Tacoma smelter. Many other mines
in the district are being developed
and there is an air of properity about
the whole interior country.
SEATTLE SHIPPING
SHOWS GREATEST GAIN
Recording the largest gain in the
United States, the expert business of
the Washington customs house dis
trict for the nine months ending on
September 30, last, shows the re
markable increase of 90 per cent as
compared with the trade of the cor
responding period last year. This is
shown in the monthly summary of
foreign business just issued by the
United States Department of Com
merce.
Wellington was also the third dis
trict in the country in imports for
the month of September, 1915, busi
ness here being surpassed only by
New York and Boston. The gain of
the district in imports that month
was 33 1-3 per cent as against a loss
of 25 per cent for San Francisco. The
increase in outgoing business from
Washington ports for September was
45 per cent.
The figures on which Washington’s
90 per cent export gain is based are
1914, $33,116,765; 1915, $61,581,
204. The percentage of increase by
San Francisco was exactly one-half of
Washington. The figures for San
Francisco are 1914, $42,895,232;
1915, $60,969,859.
AMERICAN SHIPPING
IS GROWING FAST
Boston: The United States is now
the second largest merchant marine
nation in the world, owning and op
;erating 6400 vessels, aggregating
, 8,700,000 tons.
Great Britain owns 11,350 vessels,
aggregating about 21,300,000 tons,
iand of the total of 8,700,000 tons of
| vessels owned and operated in the
United States, about 2,500,000 tons
are operated on the Great Lakes.
The following table gives vessel
tonnage of the principal maritime na
tions of the world as of June 30,
last:
Nation No. Ves. Tonnage
Great Britain .11,353 21,274,068
United States . 6,140 8,710,648
Germany . 1,166 4,706,027
Norway . 2,174 2,529,188
France . 1,539 2,285,728
Japan . 1,155 1,826,068
Italy . 1,177 1,736,548
Holland . 809 1,622,547
Sweden . 1,462 1,122,883
Russia . 1,256 1,064,762
Austria . 433 1,018,210
Greece . 510 908,725
Spain . 642 899,204
Denmark . 835 864,996
These figures include only vessels
of 100 tons gross and upwards.
Most of the shipyards in the States
are now running full time. There
are under construction about 36 gen
eral cargo steamers, aggregating
175,000 tons, and some 22 bulk oil
steamers, aggreting about 223,000
tons, making a total of approximate
ly 400,000 tons exclusive of govern
ment vessels, barges, scows, tugs. etc.
—Boston News Bureau.
Erwin Gets New Offices.
Fairbanks Times: In addition to
the several offices which .he holds ex
officio, Marshal L. T. Erwin has been
given another. Yesterday Chief
Deputy Marshal J. H. Miller was no
tified that Marshal Erwin had been
appointed special disbursing agent
for the General Land Office. This is
so that the special agents, located at
Fairbanks, will not be compelled to
wait for their accounts to go outside
for approval before they can be re
imbursed.
That lightning flashes appear to
zigzag is an optical illusion, accord
ing to a German scientist, who con
tends the effect is due to the eyes
twitching when flashes occur.
CITY EXPRESS
MEETS AIX BOATS AND NEVER MISSES A TRAIN
Auto for Hir e Day or Night.
Buy and Sell Anything.
Phone 82 J. A. SPENARI), Prop.
If You Want s,r!)c"if,e*hE‘'8!’ ,BuHer> Frf
u w‘*1, and Groceries, and appreciate
* prompt deliveries, try
KING’S GROCERY
Phone 188
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Best of Meals—Prices Reasonable
GENERAL STORE. - TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chitina.
General Freighting. KNUTE NAFSTED Mgr.
MERCHANT’S CAFE
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone 63 Chas. Fischer, Propr.
VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Real Estate, Insurance, General Brokerage
Absentees Business Properly Handled
Treat Building, Alaska Ave. Telephone No. 60
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
PLLMBING, STEAM AND HOT WATER HEATING,
Sheet Metal Work, Mine Air Pl|>e, Pipe und Fittings, Valves, hitc.
Motor Boat Supplies, Paints and Oils.
Located on Valdez Dock, Opposite Prospector Office. Plume
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
PUGET SOUND Admiral PUGET SOUND
California Lilia Alaska
ALASKA
Steamers sail from Seattle at 9 P. M. on
5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH
Steamer Sailing IRth calla lllninna and Kodiak—All Sailing rail nt Knlk
and Anchorage.
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to Saa Francisco every Wednesday and Sunday* connecting with
Steamers Yale and Harvard for Southern California.
Right reserved to change schedule without notice
RICHARD J. RING WOOD. Mgr., Seattle; VALDEZ DOCK CO., I/oeal Agt.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
8. 8. ALAMEDA AND 8. 8. NORTHWESTERN SAIL FROM SE
ATTLE THE 10TH, 20TH AND 30TH,
EVERY MONTH
FROM VALDEZ SOUTH—8TH, I8TH, 28TH, FOR CORDOVA,
JUNEAU, WRANGEL, KETCHIKAN AND SEATTLE.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Sheen
Creek, Treadwell, Douglas, Skagway, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez and La
touche. Explosives, S. S. Seward, on the 5th; Latouche, on the 16th; S S
Cordova. 26th of each month—right reserved to change this schedule
without notice.
P. B. TRACY. Gen’l Agent VALDEZ DOCK CO„ Local Agent.
When You Leave
For the Outside
x 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.
i A. E. HARRIS, Freight and Passenger Agt,
Juneau, Alaska.