Selling Knit Ms
Including Misses' Childrens' and
Infants' Toques and Hoods at a
Third Less.
A Splendid Stock of
good, warm blankets and quilts
to be had at reasonable prices.
Valdez Mercantile Co.
The Daylight Store.
•ST TONY’S PLACE’S
EVERYTHING
FIRST CLASS
ANTON CARLSON,
Manager.
OTHER BUILDINGS
HUD CLOSE CULL
Feared for a Time that Fire Which
Destroyed Fort Gibbon Bar
racks Would Sweep Post.
--uiBBON, Alaska, March 8.—
Tho fire which destroyed the big bar
racks here Tuesday night when three
members of Company B, Fourteenth
Infantry, were cremated, also de
stroyed ail the records, equipment,
property of the men and instruments
and music of tho band. Capt. S. B.
McIntyre, commanding officer of tbe
Post, directed tho efforts of the fire
fighters. Investigation of the origin
of the fire shows that the cause is un
known but it is believed to have re
sulted from an over-heated stove
pipe.
In addition to Privates Herman
!,lied, Honrio Miner and Curtis II.
Willis losing „neir lives, Sergt. An
thony Krivinak is in the hospital suf
fering from loss of blood through
severing an artery in his left wrist
when he broke tile window with his
hare hand. Private Gross Kelly, who
crawled from his hod after he had
been awakened to consciousness by
a cry of fire, bad a.bard time break
ing tbe window. He fell to the
ground, a distance of twelve feet, and
is believed to be seriousiy injured.
The fire destroyed the barrack*,
the oil and munition house and seri
ously damaged the pump house. The
oil which had been stored in thp
building was removed as soon as the
fire was discovered but the heat was
too intense to attempt the recovery
of tho ammunition cases and Capt.
McIntyre ordered the men to desist,
fearing that they would be blown to
pieces by tho exploding cartridges.
The pumping house caught fire several
times but the flames were brought
under control by the firefighters
throwing snow on the building.' The
flames were fanned by a fifteen mile
an hour wind and for a time it was
feared that all tho buildings in the
path of the flames would be destroy
ed.
DEPUTY MAKES QUICK
TRIP OVER THE TRAIL
Advices have been received by the
U. S. marshal’s office that A1 Dowl
ing, U. S. deputy marshll, who went
over tho road to Anchorage to bring
Fd Timonsen who had been adjudg
ed insane before the U. S. Commis
sioner’s court there, has arrived back
at Saward and will return to Valdez
on the first steamer from the west
ward. Ckis Holmstrom, who was
bound over to appear before the
grand jury on a charge of shooting
with intent to kill Mike Bayo at Sel
dovi.i, will also be brought to the
local jail. Another prisoner who will
be brought to Valdez by the deputies
is S. fhmizi, a Japauese, who has been
bound over to the grand jury on the
charge of selling liquor to Indians
The offense was committed at Kenai.
Deputy Marshal Dowling .was ac
companied on the trip to Anchorage
by Joe Spenard and they will con
tinue on to Seattle with the insane
mau who will then be sent to Morn
ingsidc sanitarium.
PREPARING FOB
A BUSY SEASON
hive Hundred Laborers Wif! Leave
Seattle During Next Two Weeks
to Work for Canneries.
SEATTLE, March 8.—The cannery
companies with headquarters in thH
city are making active preparations
for the coming season’s operation?
and figures have been compiled which
show that nine thousand tons of sup
plies and five hundred laborers will
leave for canneries on the Alaskan
coa3t during the next two weeks.
Many of the cannery companies op
erate their own vessels and these are
now taking on cargo preparatory to
taking their departure for the north,
while other companies have contract
ed for freight space with the steam
ship companies operating regularly.
A number of new canneries are be
ing established along the coast of
Alaska from Ketchikan to the Bering
Sea and many of the laborers who
will go north on the first boats will
be carpenters to erect the buildings.
SENATOR CHAMBERLAIN’S
ARMY BILL MEETS SNAG
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 8.—
The army bill introduced in the up-,
per house by Senator Chamberlain of
Oregon which provides for the feder
alization of the state militia has de
veloped the fact that it may be neces
sary to amend the constitution of the
United States before the state troops
can be brought under the control of
[the War Department which would
| take at least two years.
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Phone 69
HOME IS Mli
FOR APPROPRIATION
Chamber Cabled
Washington Endorsing the Ap
propriation for Alaska Road.
NOME, March 8.—Yesterday’s tel
egraphlc advices from Washington
that General Hugh Scoff, acting sec
retary of war, had included in the
juplomentary army appropriation bill
in Item of five hundred thousand dol
'ars for the completion of the Val
dez-Fairbanks automobile road, hat
aused the Seward Peninsula cham
ber of commerce to start a campaig.
to Svtture the appropriation.
At a special meeting of the cham
ber held last night it was decided tr
urge all commercial bodies in Alaskr
.0 co-operate In support of thte move
ment to secure the appropriation ir
->rd9i- that congress may become con
vinced that Alaska Is united In its de
3ire to have the road completed.
Resolutions were adopted favoring
ffie appropriation and these have beer
cabled to President Wilson, the Act
ing Secretary of War, prominent
members In both houses and to Dele
gate Wickersham.
VALDEZ END GABLE
BEEN PICKED UP
No Business Has Been Allowed to
Accumulate as it Has Been
Handled Over Wireless. .
The cableship Burnside has picked
up the Valdez end of the broken ca
ble and last night the operators in the
local office received a flash from the
operator on the Burnside. He report
ed very rough weather prevailing
and indicated that the BurnsideV
crow were in a hurry to get the break
in the cable repaired as he merely
said, “Howdy, stormy, good bye.” II
t expected that the break will be re
paired today and that direct commu
nication between Valdez and Seattle
will again be restored.
During the interval while the ca
ble has been out of commission tin
business of the Signal Corps has bee!
kept cleaned up by using the. govern
ment radio system between Sitka and
Whitshed. In former years befo.-t
the wireless stations were establish
ed, a break in the cable always re
suited in several days heavy work fo
the operators here to clean up the
business whi< h had accumulated.
STEAMER ALASKA DUE
HERE EARLY TOMORROW
The steamer Alaska, of the Alaskp
steamship company's fleet, reached
Cordova some time last night and is
discharging freight there today. It is
•eported that she brought nearly one
hundred passengers for Cordova and
’.everal big shipments of lumber and
supplies for cannery companies that
are establishing business there. The
’.learner is expected to reach Valde.7
early tomorrow morning as the lat
est advices from Cofdova this after
noon stated that she would be detain
ed there until midnight and possibly
later.
The passengers on the Alaska for
Valdez from Seattle are as follows:
fohn Emel, Agnes Woodard, J. Gal
vin, L. Garvey, Mrs. Garvey, J. Mc
Dougall and wife, E. Kerr, J. A
Hazelett, Frank Kernan, George Mad
den, William Crawford and wife
There are also seven in the steerage
ifor Valdez.
WASHINGTON STREET CAR J
STRIKE HAS BEEN SETTLED
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 8.—
Tho employes of the street car com
pany In this city who struck whe"
their demands for shorter hours and
an increase in the wage scale was de
d led by the officials of the company,
have resumed their work as the
strike has been settled.
Weather Report.
Valdes, March 7, 1916.
Barometric pressure 1.29.446
Temperature 7 p. m. 7
Maximum temperature--12
Minimum temperature- —01
Mean temperature —.. 6.8
Clear, moderate gale 40 miles, wind
northeast.
No meeting of the Valdes city
■ouncil was held last night owing to
the Illness of Councllmen Thomas and
Von Gunther. The meeting was post
poned until tonight.
POUNDS OF MEAT
Government is Asking Bids for Sup*
plying Construction Camps with
Meat for Coming Year.
Bids are being asked to supply 1,
170.000 pounds of meat to the Alas
kan Engineering commission duri ic
the coming year. The meat Is to be
delivered to construction points be
tween Kern Creek and the Talkeetna
forks of the Susitna river between
July 1 of this year and July 1, 1917.
The bids invite furnishing and dc
iverlng 840,000 pounds of fresh beef.
200.000 pounds of pork and 130,000
pounds of mutton. This does not In
clude the meat supplies for the Sew
ard division or the men employed at
Anchorage but for such points as are
remote from established settlements
where the commission will be forced
to establish mess houses or a commis
sary for supplying station men.
The amounts in which the meats
are to be delivered at the various con
struction points where mess houses
will be run show about how the work
will be distributed. The bids call for
delivery as follows:
Anchorage and vicinity, which can
be reached by railroad line.
July 1, 1916, to November 1, 1916.
150.000 pounds. November 1, 1916,
to July 1, 1917, 120,000 poundB.
Kern Creek to Ship Creek Junction
which can be reached by boat from
Anchorage during the open season
and by trail during winter.
July 1, 1916, to November 1, 1916,
150.000 pounds. November 1, 1916.
to July 1, 1917, 135,000 pounds.
Matanuska Branch, which can he
reached by railroad to Matanuska
Junction at any season and by boat
to Matanuska landing during open
season and from these points by trail
to the camps.
July 1, 1916, to November 1, 1916,
160.000 pounds. November 1, 1916,
to July 1, 1917, 200,000 pounds.
Matanuska Junction to Talkeetna
Porks of Susitna river, which can be
reached by railroad to Matanuska
Junction thence by trail, or by boat
from Anchorage to various points on
the Susitna river, thence by trail.
July 1, 1916, to November 1, 19 i 6,
105.000 pounds. November 1, 1916,
to July 1, 1917, 150,000 pounds.
Additional railroad transportation
will be available from time to time as
the railroad advances, but no assured
information can be given as to date
of such extensions.
GATEWAY SAYS LINDERBERG
MENTIONED FOR GOVERNOR
Through some channels which It is
impossible to follow the report has
com ; that Jafet Linderberg, one of
the discoverers of Nome and the
president of the Pioneer Mining
Company .will be a candidate for the
governorship of the territory if the
Republicans win the national elec
tions this year. Linderberg is reputed
a millionaire and is undoubtedly pop
ular. For several years, even before
he became a full-fledged American
citizen, Linderberg has been associat
ed in a prominent way with Republi
can politics and was even a delegate
to a national convention. He was also
-ecently decorated by the king of
Norway. The question of a candidate
for Republican gubernatorial honors
-teems now to' be agitated quite a bit.
There Is nothing more heard about
he idea that Wickersham will be a
candidate but one might guess that
nothing more will come out until af
ker ■ he . Republican territorial conven
Mon. Onp little item which must be
'-aken into account, however, is the
side that will be elected in the presi
lencial struggle.—Seward Gateway.
FAIRBANKS BRIDGE BE
BUILT THIS SUMMER
The steel bridge which will span
Chena elough, between Fairbanks
and Garden Island, will be construct
ed by the Pennsylvania Bridge com
pany of Beaver Falls, Pa. When the
bids were opened by Lieut. Colonel
Cavanaugh, of the Corps of Engi
neers, United States army, it was
found that the company’s bid of $11,
529.90 was the lowest for the work.
The specifications provide that the
structure shall be completed before
the close of navigation this year and
the material will be sent op the Yu
kon river on one ot the first steam
ers leaving St Michael after the open
ing ot navigation.
Yes, Tonight,
Five Reels of solid amusement; a
Pathe Weekly News, Mabel’s Busy
Day, a comedy; Fear of his Past, two
reels and Ethel Gains Consent. Vis
it the Liberty tonight.
Just Received—the latent Popular
Songs and Music. Valdes Drug Co. tf
We have the Facilities
For Properly Handling 1
Your Business.
-.
We issue Drafts on all parts of the world
Safe deposit Boxes for Rent
THE FIRST BANK OF VALDEZ
RESOURCES $250,000.
THE PINZON
Making a Specialty of Haas & Sons’ Candy
(
.We Have
Varied Sweets Nut Chocolates
Glace Fruit French Mixed
*
Old Fashioned Chocolate Supreme
Home Made Specials
The Largest Stock of Candies in the North^
Valdez Dock Co. PHONE NO. 1
JOBBER IN
COAL, HAY
GRAIN and
LUMBER
Office, foot of Wall street
Alaska Water, Light &
Telephone Co.
Everything Electrical
Chas. Perry
'SmuT
I mMffiABtDF THE Sty*
1155Bboma witfi bafh-SOS&mplelfaoma
DONALDSON BCULDULK
Lva. Fore LI scum Lr». Valdes
6:15 a.m. 9:45 a.m.
1:1JS p.m. 4:00 p.m.
TUESDAYS
8:16 a.m. 9:46 a.m.
1:16 p.m. 8:00 p.m.
4:89 p.m. 6:44 p.m. .
SATURDAYS
1:16 p.m. 4:44 p.m. ^
7:09 p.m 14:841 am
There will be no trip of the launch
oa the eeoond ana fourth Fridays 98
each month, these days bains seed *®
clean boilers.
! Frequent Visitor to States.
The ordinary Alaskan goes into
the interlbr and remains there twen
ty years before coming out at all, but
D. D. Blankfleld, a Fairbanks mer
chant works the other system. Mr.
Blankfleld has been In Alaska eigh
teen years and has made forty three
trips to the states in that time, says
the Seattle P. I. "I believe In getting
out occasionally even It I d& have te
travel during weather that would
nearly baffle a polar bear,” he said.
“I am Just from Fairbanks and on
the stage trip from Fairbanks to
Chltlnu the mercury ranged from SB
below to 80 below. It was cold but wo
got through all right.”