All silver mesh bags and vanity cases to be
closed out at one-half price
^ All Casseroles at One-Third Off
A large assortment of candies in beautiful Xmas boxes
from which to select.
Many durable and entertaining toys for the young folks
OWL DRUG CO.
RUSSELL HERMANN, Manager.
MERCHANT’S CAFE
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone OS Clias. Fischer, Propr.
Notice of Final Settlement.
to Commissioner’s Court for Valdez
Precinct, Territory of Alaska,—in
Probate. „ .
to the Matter of the Estate of Peter
i Johnson, deceased.
• Notice is hereby given that W. H.
Caswell, administrator of the above
named estate, l}*!s filed his final ac
count as such administrator in the
above-entitled cw.rt, and an order
has been made wL the court setting
Thursday, February 10, 1916, at 2
O’clock p. m., as the time for hearing
objections to said account and the
settlement thereof. All persons in
terested in said estate are notified to
file their objections to said account,
if any they have, on or before the
date named, specifying the particu
lars of such objection*.
Dated, December 9, 1915.
* W. H. CASWELL,
Administrator of the estate of Peter
Johnson, deceased.
First publication, Dec. 9, 1915.
Last publication, Dec. 30, 1915. thu <
Notice of Final Settlement.
to Commissioner's Court of Valdez
Precinct, Territory of Alaska,—in
In *tSe>^Matter of the Estate of Rob- j
• ert Martin, deceased. |
Notice is hereby given that W. H.
Caswell, administrator of the above
named estate, has filed his final ac
tiotint a® such administrator in the
above-entitled court, and an order has
keen made by the court setting Thurs
day, February 10, 1916, at 2 o clock
n. m., as the time for hearing objec
tions to said account and the settle
ment thereof. All personsinterested
in said estate are notified to file
their objections to said account1*
any they have, on or before the date
named, specifying the particulars of
ench objections.
Dated December », 191b.
W. H. CASWELL,
Administrator of the estate of Rob
ert Martin, deceased
First publication. Dec. 9, 1916.
Last publication, Dec. 30. 1915. thu
republican LEADER is
FOR SELF GOVERNMENT.
•V A
William A. Gilmore, former mayor
of Nome and Armer Republican can
didate for delegate to Congress sug
gested in a speech in Seattle last
week that the Seattle Chamber of
Commerce take up the matter of in
ducing Congress to pass such legis
lation as would enable Alaskans to
adjust their affairs for themselves.
“We are qualified to adjust these
things,” said Gilmore, “but under the
enabling act, we are not allowed to
legislate. The territorial government
granted to us has a string to it ,and
every time we pass a law, somebody
at Washington gives the string a
yank. Under the law we cannot even
build a road or a schoolhouse, with
out first running down to Washington
to get permission.
Need Full Territorial Government.
“We should have a territorial law
giving AlaskanB the right to adjust
their own local affairs, with the pro
vision that when we pass a law it
shall become a law unless Congress
sets it aside within a given period.”
Gilmore expressed the gravest
doubt as to anybody present, or their
children, living to see Alaska granted
statehood.
<• No Chance For Statehood
"Did it ever occur to you that Al
aska is not a part of the United
States ?" he asked. “It is non-con
tiguous territory—an insular posses
sion—and Congress will always se
riously object to granting statehood
to atf territory, that lies beyond the.
seas.T
DELEGATE ASKS INCREASE
FOR PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
Mail advices state that Delegate
Wickersham on December 6 intro
duced a bill in congress for an appro
priation of $450,000 for public build
ings in Juneau. Following is a copy
of the bill:
A bill to increase the limit of cost
for the construction of the United
States public building authorized at
Juneau, Alaska.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Uni
w-am^w^ Amorim jn DonzresB as
at Juneau, Alaska, authorized by sec
tion four of the Public Buildings Act
approved June 25th, 1910, be and the
same is hereby increased by the sum
of $4 50,000 to meet the cost of addi
tional space needed for rooms for the
Territorial Legislature and for the
Territorial library and museum to be
located therein, and the secretary of
the treasury is hereby ruthorized to
enter into contract for tue completion
of said building within the limit of
cost provided in the act of 1910. and
the additional limn herein authoriz
ed.
BEING INSTALLED
building Will Be JKeady for Occupan
cy Before the Middle of Janu
ary—Combination lx>cks.
Contractor Sam McNiece is busy
installing the new furniture of the
postoffice as the lock boxes arrived
on the Northwestern. He promises
that the office will be ready for
Postmaster Jefferson before the mid
l
die of January.
When the work is completed Val
dez will have one of the best appoint
ed qffices In the north. Care was used
in the Selection of the lumber for the
panels and the beautiful grain of the
wood shows through the varnish.
There will be three hundred and
thirty lock boxeq, two hundred and
forty of which are single and ninety
double. Box holders need not fear
that they will lose their keys as the
boxes are fitted with combination
locks, requiring no keys.
When the contractor has complet
ed the installation of the boxes and
other fixtures the building will pass
into the hands of the painters and
will be rushed to completion.
I Weather Report.
Valdez, Dec. 29, 1915.
Barometric pressure .39.495
Temperature 7 p. m. 27
Mean temperature .28
Minimum temperature .19
Mean temperature .23.5
Precipitation . 1.27
Cloudy, wind northeast four miles,
snowed at night and from 7 a. m. to
7 p. m.
Interior Weather.
Valdez, Dec. 30, 19i’6.
Fairbanks, 8 below; 11 inches of
snow; cloudy, Windy.
Salcha, —4; cloudy, strong wind,
trail fair.
Richardson, —7; cloudy, calm,
trail heavy.
McCarthy, —7; cloudy, windy, trail
heavy. '*
Donnelly,*—6; 29 inches snow;
clear, calm, trail heavy.
McCallum, —7; 42 inches snoW;
cloudy, high wind, trail fair.
Paxson, —33 inches of snow;
cloudy, windy, trail fair.
Hogan, —5; 22 inches of snow; j
cloudy, windy, trail drifted.
* Gulkana, 10 above; 19 inches of
snow; cloudy, trail fair.
Copper Center, 7 above; 18 inches
of snow; cloudy, windy, trail drifted.
. Tonsina, 12 above; 17 inches of
snow; cloudy, windy, trail heavy.
^eikhell, 17 abpvetf^p; Jpchee of '
•now- clekr. calm, trail heavy,
Beaver Dam, 14 above; 40 inches
of snow; cloudy, windy, trail heavy.
Summit, 12 above; 8 feet snow;
strong wind, trail drifted.
Wortman's, 12 above; 40 inches of
snow; clear, strong wind, trail heavy.
Tonight.
At the Liberty Theatre, the V. H.
S. will stage the three-act comedy j
“Captain Rackett." The fun com
NARROW ESCAPE
Rolled Down Mountainside for Dis
tance of Six Hundred Feet and
Stopped on Edge of Cliff.
I
John Ronan, formerly' of Fair
banks, but now engaged in develop
nng a quart property on Kenai pe
ninsula, was a passenger on the
Northwestern last night en route to
the States, where he will spend the
balance of the winter. He still shows
marks of a narrow escape from death
which he experienced a few weeks
ago when he fell and rolled down a
mountain side for a distance of sev
eral hundred feet.
While traveling on the mountain
he stepped on a boulder which rolled
from under him throwing him off his
feet. The fresh snow prevented him
from regaining his feet and he shot
down the mountain feet first for a
distance of two hundred feet until
he struck a rock which bounced him
into the air. After hitting the rock
he rolled about four hundred feet
farther and was stopped by boulders
when within fifty feet of a precipice
more than a thousand feet high.
The accident was witnessed by Ro
nan’s partners who believed he had
been killed when he encountered the
rock in his first slide. It required
hours of hard labor on the part of
the other men to cut steps in the
snow down to the point where Ronan
had finally stopped. Fortunately he
suffered no broken bones although
his body was one mass of bruises.
STAMPS OBTAINED
AT FAIRBANKS ONLY
Secretary Davidson has been noti
fied that documentary internal reve
nue stamps are obtainable in Alaska
at Fairbanks only.
The reply is from David A. Gates,
acting commissioner of Internal rev
enue and is the result of a query sent
to Washington by Mr. Davidson.
The act as passed by congress pro
vides that all instruments filed for
record must have the necessary reve
nue stamps affixed or they are not le
gal and cannot be accepted for filing.
The secretary is instructed to hold aH
papers filed without the stamps and
to notify the Tacom'a office. The
stamps are to be obtained from Geo.
Hutchins, of the internal revenue ser
vice of Fairbanks.
The reply means that before docu
ments requiring revenue stamps are
recorded here the stamps must be ob
tained from Fairbanks.—Juneau Em
pire.
OUTPUT TANANA VALLEY
LARGER THAN THOUGHT
While many people of the Fair
banks district and the Tanana Val
ley expected that the output for the
season of 1915 would be larger than
that of 1914, but few thought that it
would be larger than that of 1913.
Yet figures show the total precious
metal output of the Tanana valley to
be larger than that of either of the
previous years.
For 1913 the records for the Wells
Fargo company showed that $3,630,
899.03 had been handled through the
Fairbanks office. Last year the total
shipments of the Wells Fargo office
amount to $3,109,072.24. In the
year a number of large ship
ments from the Ruby office were
handled through the Fairbanks of
fice of the Welip Fargo company, and
were incluu^u in the output of the
Tanana valley. This year, the total
output of the Tanana valley, not In
cluding any shipments from Ruby, is
Mtilnated at $3,611,000, or only
$20,000 less than shown by the
books of 1913, which included the
big shipments from the Yukon river
camp.
LIEUT. MEHAFFEY WILL
VISIT THE INTERIOR.
_
Lieut. Joseph Mehaffey, the engi
neer officer of the Alaska Road com
mission is planning a winter trip of
fourteen hundred miles through in
terior Alaska* in order to familiarize
himself with differeiit sections of the
country.
He will gp into the interior via
Seward and will be accompanied by,
Anton Eide, superlnienrfeiit of the
commission. F#om Seward they will
go by dog teate over the trail to An
chorage. thence on to Iditarod, Kal
tag, and Ruby before going to Fair
banks. "*
Lieut. Mehaffey, it is understood,
will also visit the Tolovana, the new
placer camp of the Interior, which
promises to make good as a produc
er. The trip will consume two
months and as he plans to leave Sew
ard about the middle of January,
iA)CAL BREVITIES.
• Gus Hogbloom, the piledrlver 'van.
is in town from Ellamar.'
One, Two, Three.
One laugh,—two hours of it—in
three acts. Nufsed. "Capt. Rack
ett” at the Liberty theater tonight.
Alex Thompson was an outgoing
passenger on the Northwestern for
the states.
Bargains at the Emporium; open
from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. *
Anything in the jewelry line at the
Valdez Drug Co. tf
John Klerk is in town from La
touche, having come over from the
copper town on the Northwestern last
night.
Pictures developed at the Valde2
Drug Company. tf.
For good home-cooked meals try
Mrs. M. Olson, on Hobart Street. *
W. H. Whittlesey, assistant United
States district attorney, returned
from Seward on the Northwestern
last night, after having spent his
Christmas in the westward town.
Furnished rooms at Mrs. Osland’s.
Prices reasonable. •
Our fresh candy arrived on this
last boat late for the holidays, 12%
cents half pound at the Emporium.
Ed Wood, of the Copper River
Transfer company and a member of
the Valdez city council, was a pas
senger on the Northwestern last night
for Seattle.
Panoramic views of Child’s and
Miles glaciers, Dawson, Valdez and
Wrangel on sale at the Valdez Drug
store. tf
George W. Seay, who has been sell
ing Richmond, California, real es
tate to' Alaskans during the past few
weeks, left on the Northwestern last
night for Cordova.
Hats Cleaned and Blocked.
Hats cleaned and blocked; suits
cleaned and pressed.
tf GUY F. CAMERON.
_ j
Joseph Roy, who has been connect-i
ed with the local office of the Signal*
Corps for a number of years, was an
outgoing passenger on the Northwest^
ern last night for Seattle.
Valdez Drug Company have a fine
line of School Stationery. tf:
Pasteurized Whipping Cream and
pure' Buttermilk at Love-Whitley’s.
The TiliiKum , will keep open
house on New Year’s Day from 3 to
6 p. m., with the ladies of members’
families ■ in charge. All friends of
the members are invited to call.
Fancy Stationery at the Valdez
Drug Store. •
Nugget jewelry made to order at
the Valdez Drug Co., by G. O.
Reinke. tf
The members of the Minnesota
Club, which is composed of about a
dozen young men, have announced
that they win keep open house to
their friends on New Year's Day from
3 to 6 o'clock.
Brooms 26c, 36c and 50c; for the
best at the Emporium. tf
The drawing fof the new Ford ma-.
chine for which tickets have been
given with purchases by the saloons,
will be held at the Pioneers of Alas
ka’s masquerade dance on December
31, at 12 o’clock. tf
—r—
George Freind.a well known min
ing operator of Iditarod and other in -
terior camps, was a passenger on the
Northwestern last night, having come
over the winter road from Iditarod.
He is also interested in mining prop
erties in the Seward district.
If you were sick would you go to
a blacksmith for repairs? Why then
do you go to a lung mechanic for In
formation about machinery when ydu
have mechanics in your home town
that stay there the year around, and
depend on their knowledge and abil
ity to do your work satisfactorily for
their existence ds mechanics. Try the
Valdes Iron Works; we are here to
stay with your assistance. th-tf.
CAPT. TIM MABOCM
Sails for Port Wells, Portage'
Bay, Granite Mine, Saturday
at 9:00 a. m., from tbe Val- <•
dez Dock Company’s Dock.
For Ellamar, Land lock Bay,
and Fidalgo, every Wednes
day, 9:00 a. m., from Val
dez Dock Company’s Dock.
CITY EXPRESS
MEETS ALL BOATS AND NEVER MISSES 4 TRAIN
Auto for HIr e Day or Night.
Buy and Sell Anything.
Phone 82 - J. A. SPENARD, Prop.
Independent Laundry Co.
Satisfaction Guaranteed I I Foot Keystone Ave
Telephone 66 I | Rouuh Dry lCc lb
When in Chitina Stop at the
CHITINA HOTEL
Fiaeot Hotel ia the laterior—Well Heated, Cleea Room.
Bar in Connection. Rates Reasonable
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Best of Meals—Prices Reasonable
GENERAL STORE. - TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chitina.
General Freighting. KNUTE NAFSTED. M*r.
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
PLliMBING, STEAM AND HOT WATER HEATING,
Sheet Metal Work, Mine Air Pipe, Pipe and Fittings, Valves, Etc.
Motor Boat Supplies, Paints and Oils,
located on Valdez Dock, Opposite Prospector Office. Phone 24
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
PUGET SOUND Admiral PUGET SOUND
California Una Alaska
ALASKA
Steamers sail from Seattle at 9 P. M. on
5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH
Steamer Sailing 15th calls Iltamna and Kodiak—All Sailing call at Knlk
and Anchorage.
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to San Krancl.ro every Wednesday and Sunday, connecting with
Steamers Yale and Harvard for Southern California.
Right reserved to change schedule without notice
RICHARD J. RINGWOOD, Mgr., Seattlei VALDEZ DOCK CO., Local Agt.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
, 5 I • > ,
S. 9. ALAMEDA AND 8. 8. NORTHWESTERN SAIL PROM 9R
t ■ ATTLE THE 10TH, SSOTH AND 80TH,
EVERY MONTH
FROM VALDEZ SOUTH—STH, 18TH, 28TH, FOR CORDOVA,
JUNEAU, WRANGEL, KETCHIKAN AND SEATTLE.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell. Juneau, Sheep
Creek, Treadwell, Douglas, Skagway, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdes and La
touche. Explosives, S. S. Seward, on the fith; Latouche, on the 16th; S. S.
Cordova, 26th of each month—right reserved to change this schedule
without notloei ...
P. B. TRACY, Gen’l Agent VALDEZ DOCK CO- Local Agent.
When You Leave
For the Outside
take the
, * Jut .,v JJtl M ■-.* f<: «. -■
“MILWAUKEE"
,{ ,'i. >■ j» ■■ • -f • •• •» ‘i m •
One road—one management—one service all the way
through to Chicago. It's the Short Line to the East
; I-1. ■ - over ■ .1
THE NEW STEEL TRAIL
f ■ f *'. s , 1 ' ' '
, 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.