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Superba Coffee Excels
TWO FEATURES OF SUPERBA
Coffee-tastes better and goes
further. Packed ini airtight cans.
Guaranteed to give satisfaction or
your money back. Let your next
coffee purchase be Superba.
Priced a pound, fifty cents.
Valdez Mercantile Co.
CHAS. R. CRAWFORD
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER
Dealer in Agent for
Building Material. Machinery, Gas Engines
"Z TONY’S PLACE’™
EVERYTHING ANTON CARLSON,
F1RS1 CLASS Manager.
A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A AAA A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A d
PENN COLLEGE
IS DESTROYED
FLAMES CLAIM TWO VICTIMS
College Founded l>.v Friends at Oska
loosa, Iowa, Burned to Ground—
Loss Is Estimated at $100,000—
Attendance of Over 500 Students.
OSKALOOSA. Iowa, May 30.—Fire
destroyed Penn College here last night
entailing a loss of more than $100,
000.
Two lives are reported to have been
lost in the conflagration, those of Rob
ert Williams, business manager of the
institution and Harry Makley, a stu
dent.
Penn College was a sectarian school
founded by the Friends in 1873. It
had an attendance of a little over 500
students and employed about thirty
instructors. It also had a magnificent
library of over 8000 volumes, which
was destroyed.
LOCAL BREVITIES
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Why Look Further?
2 cabins and lots, good location,
price $250
Alaska Investment Co. 2t
Pictures developed and printed at
the Owl Drug.
Pure Fresh Drugs at the Valdez
Drug Store. **
An up-to-date line ot cook stoves
and ranges at Mead’s. tf
Furnished rooms at Mrs. Osland’s.
Prices reasonable.
WILL COMPLY
WITH OEMANOS
WIEL STOP MAIL SEIZURES
Information from Official Sources Is to
the Effect tiiat Britain Will Comply
with the Terms of American Note
—Occasions Some Surprise.
WASHINGTON. D. C„ May 30.—
Advices received here state that Great
Britain will meet the demands of the
American note on the seizure and ex
amination of American mails. No in
timation is given as to what steps the
government will take, but it is said
that the reply will be satisfactory in
every respect to President Wilson.
The report is said to have its origin
in official circles, and its receipt here
has occasioned some surprise, as it
was anticipated that the British gov
ernment would attemtp to delay mat
ters for a time, particularly in view of
the fact that prominent British States
men have stated that Britain would
not recede from her present stand in
this matter. ■ The British reply is
awaited with considerable interest.
Pictures developed at the Valdez
Drug Company. tf
New hats tor men, women and chil
dren at the Emporium. tf
A swell line of crepe dechine and
wash silk waists just arrived on the
last boat at E. Winters.. tf
Shellac, varnish, stains, enamel
paints and bronze at Mead’s tf
I Banquet Steel Ranges, plain and
polished tops, at Mead’s. tf
\ Alaska Investment Co.
I Real Estate, Insurance, Mining Stocks
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WILL WORK AS
NO OTHER COOLD
SAYS NOMINEE OF DEMOCRATS
I
Charles Sulzer, in Address of Accep
tance at Juneau, Says He Is An
Alaskan and Will Work for Alaska
If Elected.
JUNEAU, May 26 (Delayed)—In
accepting the nomination of the Dem
ocratic party for Delegate to Congress
from Alaska, Charles Sulzer said he
was an Alaskan, and if elected by the
people of Alaska to represent them at
the National Capital he would work
as no other delegate could for the up
building of the territory. His address
I was received by the utmost enthusi
asm by the delegates who wildly
cheered the candidate.
FOOD RIOTS IN
GERMAN CITIES
i,
SUPPLY GROWING VERY SHORT
Women in Frankfort-on-Main Attack
Shops in Attempt to Secure Supplies
—Riots Rfeports in Other German
Cities—Situation Serious.
AMSTERDAM. Holland, May 30.—
Dispatches received here report food
riots in many parts of Germany. At
Frankfort-on-Main yesterday hun
dreds of women of the working class
es attacked the stores and markets
clamoring for food, the shortage of
which has become serious. Prices of
most foodstuffs have become almost
prohibitive and the poorer people are
suffering from the want of the actual
necessities of life.
The police succeeded in restoring
order, but did not resort to the usual
harsh measures, fearing an uprising
if the women were injured.
mt. McKinley views
THE BEST EVER
F. W. Sheelor has printed some of
the panoramic views he recently se
cured on his trip to McKinley and
fie town of Anchorage and to say they
are beauties' is drawing it too mild.
They are too grand for comprehen
sion. The Mt. McKinley picture shows
all Mt. Foraker and foothills of the
vast mountain, and peak after peak
stretches back until lost in the clouds
in the distance. The-picture is five
feet long by one foot high and is re
markably clear and distinct.
The picture of the new railroad
town of Anchorage reminds one of
the old mining towns of Nevada and
Colorado in the early days. It is a
splendid panoramic view of the entire
city and is a revelation to one who
has thought Anchorage but a small
village.
Mr. Sheelor is deluged with orders
and is working night and day to get
out his prints and get away to Skag
way, where he will embark on his
picture-taking trip down the Yukon
to Michael.
Income is the result and measure
of ideas and effort.
L0TER isiFEDl
OF OBLIGATIONS
NOT OBLIGED TO PAY DEBTS
Court Holds that Attempt to Corner
Wheat was Gambling Proposition
and Claimants Have No Standing
in Courts.
CHICAGO. May 30.—In a decision
handed down today the court rules
that Joe Letter need not pay cine
quarter million dollars in debt in
curred while attempting to corner the
wheat market. The court holds that
such a transaction was gambling and
therefore illegal. Consequently the
holders of claims against Letter, it is
held, have no standing in court.
Our repentance is not so much re
gret for the evil we have done ds ffear
of the consequences.
Some men never feel real devilish
until they land in a strange town.
CASTLE WILLIAMS.
Hiatory of tho Anciant Fortification on
Govornora laland.
All New Yorkers and most visi
tors to the city, especially those who
approach it from the sea, are famil
iar with the old round fort on
Governors island in the city’s upper
harbor. The name of the fort is
properly Castle Williams, although
it is frequently and erroneously call
ed Castle William. The history of
the ancient fortification, now valuer
less as a city defense, is given in
“Military History of Governors
Island,” by Edmund Banks Smith:
Castle Williams was begun in
1807 and completed in 1811, as the
crumbling dates in the stone over
the gateway set forth. It was de
signed ana built by Lieutenant
Colonel Jonathan Williams, engi
neer corps. The material of the
castle is Newark red sandstone. It
rests on a bed of rock at the ex
treme northwesterly point of the
island. In form it is three-fifths
of a circle, 200 feet in diameter.
• The walls are forty feet in height,
casemated with bombproof arches
for two tiers of guns. Guns are
also mounted on the top, to which
access is had by two interior stone
turret staircases.. The walls are
eight feet thick on the lower tier
and seven feet on the upper tier.
The arches are thirteen in number
and are of thirty feet span, two
feet thick and twenty-four feet
long.
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thick between the arches and
twelve feet at the termination of
the segment. The guns are mount
ed in such a manner that the center
of motion is immediately under the
muzzle of the guns, so that, al
though the angle of lire is fifty-four
degrees, the mouth of the gun occu
pies always' the same place, which
permits the throat of the embrasure
to be so small that a shot could not
pass between the gun and its side
and the lines of fire cross at twenty
feet distance.
The wall arches are turned over
each pair of embrasures, so that if
it were possible for the enemy’s fire
to batter a break into the lower tier
the upper one would rest upon those
arches and exhibit the appearance
of a bridge composed of very solid
tiers. The outside cut of the wall
is laid in Flemish bond and each
stone dovetailed in such a manner
that no one could be dislocated
without first being broken to pieces.
It contained in 1812 two stone pow
der magazines and an inexhaustible
well of finest water, from which all
the shipping might be watered with
ease. _
Homemade Paste.
What child does not like to cut
out pictures and paste them? Here
is an inexpensive paste that will
keep indefinitely. If it gets too
thick add some cold water and cook
and stir until it is smooth.
A cupful of flour, a teaspoonful
of powdered alum, half a cupful of
cold water, two cupfuls of boiling
water, two tablespoonfuls of lime
water, a few drops of oil of cloves
or wintergreen. Mix the alum, flour
and cold water and beat until per
fectly smooth. Add the boilng wa
ter slowly, stirring all the time.
Place on the stove and stir until it
boils, then put in double cooker and
cook about thirty minutes, stirring
oftqn. Keep in covered jars or cans.
—Rural New Yorker.
Perforated 8tamp Sheets.
Perforated sheets of postage
Stamps were unknown before 1*854.
Until that year postage stamp’s were
issued in sheets, which the purchas
er had to cut up in. any way he
found convenient. The perforating
machine was invented by an Irish
man named Archer. Wtien it was
submitted to the British govern
ment the treasury offered him $3,
000 for his patent rights. As Archer
had spent over four years in per
fecting this machine, this offer was
indignantly, rejected. Eventually Ar
cher was awarded $20,000.
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Tho X Ray.
The X ray, so called, was discov
ered on Oct. 8, 1895, by Professor
W. C. Roentgen. The professor was
experimenting with a Crookes vacu
um tube, electrically excited, and
enveloped in a black covering, when
he noticed that some of the rays
proceeding from the tube passed
through the black paper and affect
ed a fluorescent screen some two or
three yards away. In such way did
his great discovery come to him,
when he was least expecting it.
Europaan Tattooara. I/,
Tattooing is not by any means
confined to stiVage peoples. Tnqw
are races in Europe which make it .k
regular practice, and tneii, womeh
'and children bear on their bodies
ornamentations that are as ornate
and queer, although iiot as exten
sive as are markihgs on the bodies
of the south sea savages. These
European tattooers are among the
Albanians and Bosnians, who live
in the famous Balkan peninsula.
j! REPORT OF THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF
[ The First Bank of Valdez
l LOCATED AT VALDEZ, TERRITORY OF ALASKA, AT THE CLOSE
F OF BUSINESS ON THE 1STH DAY OF MAY, 1(M«
F RESOURCES: ^
? Loans and Discounts.$119,736.78
b Overdrafts .....u... 786J7
[ Bonds and Warrants . 41,478.62
F Furniture and Fixtures... 3,53S.fjfy
C Checks on Other Banks and Other Cash Items 482!42
[ CASH ON HANQ AND SIGHT 4 nr n^n a n
F EXCHANGE ...._J 05,370.48
5 TOTAL ... $271,390.87
f LIABILITIES:
5 Capital Stock Paid in.. $ 25,000 00
; Surplus Fund _ 500.00
• Undivided Profits 3 517.41
J Due to Banks—Deposits L55(L26
5 deposits 239!345!26
; Certified Checks 1,477.94
j TOTAL . $271,390.87
! United States of America, Te.ritory of Alaska, Third Judicial Divi
J sion, ss.
J I. J. W. GILSON, Cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly
j swear that the foregoing statement is true to the best of my knowl
, edge and belief. j. w GILSON.
• Cashier.
! Correst Attest:
I
I M. BLUM,
; S. BLUM,
! JOHN LYONS, [ Directors.
J. C. MARTIN.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 23rd day of May. 1916.
(Notarial Seal) ANTHONY J. DIMOND.
Notary Public in and for the Territory of Alaska.
My Commission Expires March 13, 1917.
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