S. BLUM & CO.
I NCORPORATfeD
BANKERS
CAPITAL $200,000.00.
We do a general banking business.
We sell exchange on all parts of the*world.
We pay 4 per cent interest on Time Certificates of Deposit
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ROBERT MdNTOSH
DELIVERY GUARANTEED
Contracts taken for delivery in the NELCHINA,
CHlSANA, and SLATE CREEk sections.
No contract too large, none too small.
For prices apply to Rob’t McIntosh, Valdez.
J. E. WILSON
FREIGHTER
Special price on mills and large outfits—Special atten
tion given to Fairbanks, Nelchina and
Chisana freight.
Teams are always ready to go to any point in Third or Fourth Divisions.
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Best of Meals—Prices Reasonable
GENERAL STORE. - TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with'Chitina*
General Freighting. knute; NAFSTED, Mgr.
Wort man’s Road House
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E. P. CASHMAN. Proprietor.
20 miles from Valdez.
The best meals and most comfortabld beds Procurable.
TAZLINA HILL ROAD HOUSE
is open for*freight and accommodations for the new
strike at Nelchina—Hor;«> on hand at all times.
JAMES L. SIMPSON.
Ernestine Road House
On Government Road 65 miles from Valdez.
HARRY MILLER. Prop.
Good clean beds. Evorvihinff Eil*Ct PIlCC ^'“e w,rm *,*rn*' Ac"
Excellent meals. LlOl Jlllllljj IHdl UIQwd eomodaton for 60 horses.
GET THE HABIT
Otpbeum Movies
Every Evening
BE A BOOSTER
A. H. P1NKUS, Mgr.
HUGO FELS
Contractor and Builder
Day Work if Dpsired
Estimate* Furnished
WORK GUARANTEED
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:n. of said day.
The following persons shall be qual
ified electors: All adults who are cit
izens of the United States, or who
have declared their intention to be
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cojne such, and who are, residents of
the ,Ve]f||ez ,ischool district.,.. ,
Dated this 12th day of December,
1913.
A. VON ,,<»UNTHER,
"•C. E. BUNNELL,
Members of Valdez School Board.
Hospital Of the Good 8amar!tan.
For $6.0tf we will give you a ticket
infilling you to hospital service and
care for any eight weelcs oqt of the'
year front date of your ticket, when
incapacitated by injury or sickness.
See W. H. Ziegler.
Dougherty & Ferguson
. GENERAL
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The best groceries received
on eveiy boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits!
i and nuts.
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Notice of 8pecial Election. '
Notice iil herbby glVen feat a special
election for the purpose of electing
a Treasurer, .of! tlxp'yi^ez Schoo^
/Board, to fill the vacancy caused by
the removal pf C. Wilcox from the
City of 'Valdez, Alaska, will be held
December 24, 1913, at the Fire Hall
in the Town of Valdez, Alaska. The
poles will be open at 9:0'0 o'clock a!
m. and will close at 5:00 o’clock p.
AMI* HOYT
Mrs. Chris Peterson Demands Damage
age Because of Alleged False Ar
rest in' the Sum of $5,100.
Mrs. Chris Peterson, who was ar
rested upon the complaint of Buck
Hoyt, of Gulkana, charged with vio
lating the federal statutes in that
she had in her possession jointly
with her husband a live fox, yester
day commenced a suit against Buck
Hoyt for $5,100 damages.
Mrs. Peterson was discharged from
custody immediately after Commis
sioner Jones had been notified by the
United States district attorney at
Valdez that no offense had been com
mitted.
The case grew out of the capture,
of a live fox wanted by a number
of interior fox raisers, Tom Aiken of
fering $1,500 for it, Bert Skinner of
fered $1,600, Buck Hoyt tendered $550
for the animal, and Jake Nafsted
claiming it because the Petersons
were in his employ at the time, in
charge of his roadhouse at Upper
Tonsina.
After failing to buy the animal Hoyt
swore out a complaint before Com
missioner Jones, resulting in the ar
rest of Mr. and Mrs. Peterson, and |
for this action he was sued by Chris ,
Peterson and the jury returned a ver
dict of $3.00 for Peterson. Now Mrs.
Peterson demands $5,100 because of
damage suffered by her when arrest
ed.
The case will come up for trial at
the next term of the district court.
WEATHER RECORD.
Taken at 8:00 a. m. Snow is given
as depth on level, in inches.
Locations— Temp. Snow
Workman's, cloudy, calm .. 50
Summit, cloudy, calm. 78
Beaver Dam, cloudy, calm . 10 38
Tonsina, cloudy.. cr,.. 12345123451234
Tonsina, clear, calm . -2 15
Gulkana, clear, calm.-12 8
Copper Center, clear, calm 9
Hogan’s, clear, calm . 14
Paxson’s, clear, calm. 18 20
Friday, December 19, 19t3.
YVortmans, clear, calm .... 50
Summit, part cloudy, calm 78
Beaver Dam, part cldy, elm -5 38
Tonsina, clear, calm .-5 15
Copper Center, clear, calm 9
Gulkana, cloudy, calm .... 2 8
Hogans, clear, calm . 16 20
Paxsons, fair, calm. 16 20
Thompson Pass reports McIntosh
breaking trail on Summit this morn
ing.
Weather Report.
Dec. 19, 1913.
Barometric Pressure .29.800
Temperature at 7 p. m.24
Maximum Temperature .25
Minimum Temperature .14
Mean Temperature .19.5
Precipitation..Trace
Cloudy, calm, wind S. Y\’. three
miles. Snowed at night.
L. JONES.
Christmas Dinner, Free!
The Big Place has made arrange
ments with the Delmonico Cafe to
furnish fifty of the homeless people
of the town with a good Christmas
dinner. The dinner, the best obtain
able—the compliments of the Big
Place—will be given to those who
have no home at which to enjoy the
usual Christmas dinner and the good
cheer of the day. Those who wish to ]
enjoy the hospitality of the Big Place
should make reservation immediately,
as the first fifty will be given the
tickets for the meal. First come, first
served. k 22
Moose pance.
The Order of Alaskan Moose will
give, their regular weekly dance Sat
urday night at their hall, to which all
friends of . the organization are in
vited. Dancing will begin at. 9:30
sharp. Tickets can be had of mem
bers. Good music.
Miss Gunther wishes to announce
to the ladies' of. Valdes that she has
taken apartments oyer. Plant & Co.’s
jewelry store and, 1? now prepared to
do ail kirids of plain and fancy dress
making, tf
Special communication . of Valdez
Lodge No. 168 at Masonic hall Friday
evening at 8 o’clock. Work In ti e
third degrpe. Visiting . brothers wel
come. C. C. REYNOLDS. See y
The prevailing* fad Is Parisian ivory
Toilet Articles. A handsome line is
being shown .t the Valdez Drug Co.’s
store.
CARELESS WITH GOLD.
Any Old Thing Serves the Klondike™
For Holding Nuggets;
Persons who are accustomed to ob
serve the extreme care with which
bankers handle gol(l would be aston
ished by the lax methods of the men
who risk their lives for the precious
metal In sparsely settled regions
where It Is mined.
In the log cabins in which Klondik
e's live It has to take Its chance along
with boots, cooking utensils and pro
visions, waiting to be transported by
the most expeditious route. Any re
ceptacle, It seems, is good enough to
hold gold. Old tobacco cans and fruit
and vegetable caus stand full of nug
gets on the shelves, and sacks of gold
dust are (lung upon the floor.
On one occasion a little pack train
of three mules brought to Dawson
City $120,000 worth of gold in com
mon sacks, over which the mule driv
er, acting on his own responsibility,
fastened a bit of sailcloth, lest a mule
falling on a rock or against a branch
should accidentally rip open a sack
and spill the contents. The whole lot
was thrown with other goods into the
packer’s office and left there until the
following morning. ,
At another time $40,000 worth was
sent down on one horse. The packer
In charge did not know who bad given
it to him and there was no sign of
ownership attached. It was identified
by the fact that within the larger
sack of dust was a small sack of nug
gets.
The bags are not scaled, but merely
tied with a leather thong or a bit of
twine.—Chicago Record-Herald.
RAINMAKING FALLACIES.
Nature’s Processes Too Gigantic to Be
Imitated by Man.
Warm air is like u sponge. It will
suck up'a lot of moisture and carry it
without spilling any. But if warm
air. well loaded with moisture, is sud
denly cooled the sponge is squeezed
and the moisture falls out as rain.
Many years ago some hopeful gen
tlemen went to one of our arid regions
and exploded a lot of dynamite on the
theory that the concussion would mix
the strata of warm air near the earth
with the cooler strata above and so
cause the necessary precipitation of
moisture. There happened to lie light
showers about (lie time of the experi
ments. which encouraged the experi
menters. but didn't convince anybody
else.
Tlie fact is that nature's ratnmnking
machine is too gigantic to be affected
by the puny efforts of humans—at least
by any methods so far discovered.
Nature pumps the moisture laden air
up into the cold regions of the upper
atmosphere with a wheel a thousand
miles In diameter. When this tre
mendous wheel of air is revolving nor
mally it hoists millions of tons of wa
ter vapor to an elevation where it can
no longer be carried In solution and
so falls in rain
When the wheel is off adjustment it
is as futile to bombard the sky with
dynamite as it would he to fire popgun
corks at the side of the latest Dread
nought.—Kansas City Star.
Red Water.
Apropos of the "red water" seen in
and about.,salt lakes Mr F. Whitteron
writes that in all the samples exam
ined by him (at Geelong. Victoria.
Australia) the color was wholly due
(<> a curious little organism, either
oval or round, and equipped with two
small llngcjla or lashlike extensions
When examined under a microscope
the bodies of these minute specks of
living mutter are seen to lie intensely
pigmented with n red coloring matter.
\yhen the brine becomes saturated the
oval form changes to a circular shape.
When such a tyrine hegiqs to crystal
lize the resulting spit has a reddish
tipgp. gnd Mr. Whitteron suggests
(hut each organism may be the nucle
us about which a crystal forms.—New
York Post.
How It Impressed Her.
A young woman from the interior
saw the Atlantic for the first time re
celitly at Cape May. As she stood on
(lie windy bench, gazing dreamily out
over tlie vast blue expanse of tum
bling water, her escort said to her:
"So fiiis is the first time you've ever
seen the sen. ell
"Yes. the very first time." she an
swered.
“And what do you think of it?" he
asked.
"Ah.” she said, with an ecstatic
smile, "it smells just like oysters!”
Kxcliange.
Important Question.
“George dear." began a bride while
on the way to the station for the
honeymoon. “I want you to answer me
Inst one question, and then I shall feel
sure of you."
"What Is it. darling?"
“If yon knew that I loved you as
much as you love me. would yon love
me ns much as I love yon?"-London
Answers.
Wrong End First.
'‘Willie.*" said the lufant's mother,
agitated by the sudden appearance of
a rich relative, “Willlg, dgps, Visa your
Uncle Jo4n aud then go and wish y°ur
face at once.”—London Telegraph.
Shut Your Mouth.
“One should always breathe through
the nose When asleep." says a physi
cian If yon awake and And your
mouth open, get up and shut It.—Ex
| change.
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I'Vrtnne has often been blamed for
f her hllnilncss. hut fortune Is not so
liliiid as men are. Sam tel Smiles.
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Marca Rica Cigars
VALDEZ MOST POPULAR SMOKE
INTEGIt IPAQ’S
BELMONT’S “
VAN DYKEf
SMOKECRAFT’S
CL sjDBLLO’8
ftEPRESERTA'S
OPTIBIO’S
LOVEM’8
Direct From The Factory
INGRAM & RUSH
EXCLUSIVE CIGAR DEALERS.
Independent Laundry CoJ
Satisfaction Guaranteed I I Foot Keystone Ave
Telephone 66 I I Roujrh Dry 10c lb.
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Valdez Dock Co. phone no i
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JOBBER IN
COAL, HAY and GRAIN
AGENT FOR
Alaska Steamship Company
Alaska Coast Company
ALASKA CSASS
Steamers via the INSIDE PASSAGE calling at Ketchikan. Ju
neau, Yakutat, Katalla, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez Fort Lis
cum, Latouche, Seward, Cook Inlet Points and Kodiak.
Steamer Jeanie
Sailing from Seattle
Dec. 10th, with Mail and Freight
^SAMPSON calls at Kodiabjeach trip.
California connections—Alaska-Pacific S. S. Co.
R'irht is reserved to change this schedule without notice.
’b. F. WATSON VALDEZ DOCK CO.
General Agent Local Agent
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
S. S. Alameda, S. S. Northwestern
Sail
10th, 20th and 30th
EVERY MONTH
For Skagway, Juneau, Ketchikan and Seattle.
F. B. Tracy, Gen’l Agt- Valdez Dock Co., Local Agt.
Chas. R. Crawford
Wall Street Phone 159
Plate glass, window glass, roofing and
building papers, roofing pitch, lime, ce
ment, plaster lath, shingles, builders
hardware. Shop and job work of all kinds
Window,, Doors, Moulding, Finish
ing Lumber
Agents for Fairbanks, Morse & Co.
Valdez Sheet Metal Works
Manufacturers of
YAKSHAW STOVES
Plumbing, Steam and Hot
Water Heating, Pumps and
Well Points.
Sheet Metal Work of Every
;i Description, Hose Valves,
Irot °ipe, Fittings.
3" 1 : J - __
A M. Dierkngei
Valdez Tiwfar
General Trucking and' Freight
kg.te # MHSMvi
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LIVERY nr i FEED STABLE
STORAGE
Teaming of all kinds
.riMMi no coal deHraod'
oritutaM for I* ehMM
When In Seward Stop at the ♦
COLEMAN HOUSE j
GEORGE SEXTON, RR«R. f
SiRICTLY FIR6T CLASS t
,;FRUfTM Ave. ! 4 AiAM* 4
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Copper Rirer
Draying Co :
Fr«lichttar aai oaasaaiera to »H mtii
or *fco loiorto rwaevol TruoWo*
Wi. Wood, Hrorietai
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