The First Bank of Valdez
CAPITAL $25,000.
4% PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS
OUR STOCKHOLDERS ARE
S. BLUM JOHN LYONS
M. BLUM J. M. LATHROP
E. B. WHEAT W. M. WILSON
JAFET LINDEBERG
TERRITORIAL DEPOSITORY.
Valdez Dock Co. PHONE NO. 1 |
JOBBER IN
COAL, HAY
and GRAIN
Office, foot of Wall street.
VALDEZ SHEET METAL WORKS
Plumbing, Steam and Hot Water Heating.
MOTOR BOAT SUPPLIES
Pumps. Well-Points. Valves T Water. Steam and Suction
and Packing. Hose.
PIPE AND FITTINGS
TO-NIGHT!
EVERYONE WELCOME
FREE DINNER
Will be served at 9:30 p.m.
Every Evening at
The Big Place
MENU
Meat, Potatoes, Beans, Bread,
and Coffee.
Do Not Hesitate. Welcome Means Welcome.
AL White & Co
PROPRIETORS
Valdez Lodge
No 168,
Free and Aocepted Masons
Regular Communications first Wednesday s
each month in MoKtnley Hall Visitors always
weloome.
A. E. GRIGSBY. W. M.
C. C. Reynolds. Sec
RED GROSS HOSPITAL
PRIVATE ROOMS.
Open to All Physicians
MISS JONES,
Hobart Street. Matron.
Valdez Hospital
Largest and Best Equipped Hospital
in Southwestern Alaska.
Graduate Norses—Private Rooms for Patients
For Tenns*and Particulars Apply to
' E. C. DALTON, M, D., Physician in Charge.
If you want all the news all the
time, read the Prospector.
LOCAL VALDEZ
Socialist Party ot Alaska
M6ets every Saturday at 8 p. m.
Next door to Senate Saloon.
Everybody Welcome.
ARCADE CAFE
“We Never Close.**
Private Dining Room.
The Best of Everything. We Bake Onr Own
Bread and Pastry. Bread foKSale.
Jack Callin--Proprietor
Notice To Pioneer Women.
All those desiring to become chart
er members of the Auxiliary of PiO'
neers of Alaska must have their ap
plication filed with the secretary be
fore February 4, 1916. Auxiliary
meets every Thursaay night at Plo
neer hall at 8 o’clock sharp.
MAE C. HARRINGTON,
Secretary and Treasurer.
FOR SALE China closet, China din
ner set, library lamp, dresser, bed anl
other household furniture. Call at the
residence of Mrs. C. E. Burnell. 11
BAD FIDE IN
ROEBLING WORKS
TRENTON, N. J„ Jan. 19— A fire
in the wire department of the John
A. Roebling Manufacturing Company
resulted in a loss estimated at fully
$1,000,000. The company have been
working day and night to fill orders
for wire placed by foreign govern
ments and it is believed that the fire
was incendiary and was set by some
sympathizer of Germany or Austria,
as the orders for wire were from the
British and French governments. The
entire fire department of the city was
called to the scene and succeeded in
saving the surrounding structures.
CUIMCT
HOLDSMEETING
The town council met last nighi
at the city hall and transacted con
siderable business. The new election
ordinance was laid over until Wed
nesday, when a special meeting has
been called to consider the measure.
Walter Stuart, of the fire depart
ment, informed the council that with
an expenditure of $180 the Crawford
electric pump on Wall street could be
equipped with hose and kept in readi
ness for instant use in the event of
fire. It is proposed to buy 500 feet
of hose. The matter was referred to
the fire committee.
GERMANS REPULSE
RUSSIAN ARMY
(Continued from page 1.)
fleeing in disorder towards the city
of Erzerum. The Turkish forces have
been so badly crippled that but lit
tle attention need be paid to them
•from now on.
Goeben Badly Damaged.
ROME, Jan. 19.—The Turkish
cruiser Goeben, formerly of the Ger
man navy, is reported badly damag
ed, having been struck by two Rus
sian mines and badly damaged in
the neighborhood of the Bosporus two
weeks ago. The cruiser has two big
holes on her water line and it will
take two or three months to make
the repairs. The people of Constan
tinople have not been informed of the
accident to the ship.
Blame Austria Now.
PARIS, Jan. 19.—German officers
now prisoners of war in France in
sist that they are fighting the pres
ent war for Austria and that the Aus
trian government has been found to
tally unprepared to carry on a war
with a first-class power, thus putting
the burden all upon Germany. Some
of the officers insist that peace
should be secured by the dismember
ment of Austria between Germany
and Russia, while France would se
cure the provinces of Alsace and Lor
raine. Germany would take all of
Austria between Bavaria and the Ad
riatic, thus punishing Italy for her
failure to keep treaty rights.
Austrian Warship Damaged.
ROME, Jan. 19.—It is now known
•that the Austrian battleship Radetzky
is in the naval docks at Pola under
going repairs, having been badly
damaged some time ago when the
land batteries at Pola fired upon their
own shipB following the entrance in
to the harbor of the French sub
marine Curie. The land batteries op
ened fire against their ow \ ships an
chored in the harbor believing them
to be ships of the Allies. One of
the commanders of a fort near the
entrance of the harbor has committed
suicide.
Pay Double for Copper.
GENEVA, Jan. 19.—Advices receiv
ed here from Germany set forth that
copper, owing to the great demand
and the limited supply, is now sell
ing in the empire for 2,500 marks
($625) a ton.
A fair price in the United States
for copper would be $300 a ton.
Fortifying the Rhine.
BASEL, Jan. 19.—Die Wacht am
Rhein is something more than the ex
pression of a national sentiment. The
watch on the Rhine is very close, in
deed. From Basle to Coblenz the
right bank of the river has been put
in an extraordinary state of defense.
From a barge owner, who has been
down the Rhine from here to Mann
heim, It is learned that there are
earthworks in certain parts along the
river bank, that some places near
•
| br'dges have been mined and others
, strewn with branches and debris to
make a hostile crossing difficult.
A mile or two away from the Swiss
frontier, at Suringen, reserve troops
even now are working hard on de
fense preparation. Higher up Altbreis
ach Is being transformed into a riv
er bank fortress. Between these
towns the ground has been careful
ly prepared for trenches. SimTar
measures have been taken between
Altbreisach and the port opposite
Strassburg.
Strassburg itself, before the war
one of the strongest fortresses in Eu
rope, is surrounded by newly built
earth and cement works, which are
still being strengthened, and there are
heavy defense preparations on the
right side of the river and a line of
first-rate fortresses—the line of Neu
breisach, Strassburg, Gemersheim,
and Mainz. Most Germans seem to
think that Strassburg cannot be taJ:
en.
McCarthy declares
- AGAINST SALOONS
War between the wets and drys
of McCarthy has been declared and
the latter are circulating a petition
from which the following extracts are
taken:
“We, the undersigned citizens of
McCarthy and vicinity, believing that
the bets interests of this part of Alas
ka will be conserved by a discontin
uance of the saloons, agree that we
will not sign a petition for a saloon
license during the present year. This
locality is rich in minerals and every
available dollar is necessary lor out
fits and development work.”
The petition was circulated last
Thursday and as signed by approx
imately 75 per cent, of all adults liv
ing within the two-mile limit. Among
those not signing were several that
were out of town, a great many of
whom were known to be in favor of
the movement; some others refused
to sign for business reasons. The
signers wish it understood that their
motive is to change existing condi
tions, in which there is nothing per
sonal.
i
Weather Report.
Valdez, Jan. 18, 1915.
Barometric pressure.29,931
Temperature at 7 p. m. 30
Maximum temperature. 36
Minimum temperature . 25
Mean temperature . 30 1-2
Precipitation .93
Partly cloudy, light wind southwest
8 miles. Mixed snow and rain last 24
hours.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Imported Japanese baskets at Val
dez Drug Co. tf
1 »
Charles Crawford, the mill man, re
ceived a shipment of clear cedar and
fir on the Admiral Watson.
Yakima netted Oem spuds, 17 lbs.
for 50c at Yakima Fruit Co. tf
Latest popular copyrights and clas
sics at Valdez Drug Co. tf
Large stock of cut glass and Paris
ian ivory at Valdez Drug Co. tf
HOUSE FOR REmT furnished or
unfurnished. Enquire of Mrs. C. E.
Bunnell. tf
For home cooked meals go to Mrs.
Matilda Olson's on Hobart street.
Phone 219. Special Sunday dinner
served at 5 o’clock. Week days din
ner served at 6 p. m. tf
Jeff Devinney, the famous guide,
trapper and hunter took a party of
hunters across the bay on Sunday and
showed them where to hunt for ptar
migan. The party, consisting of E.
E. Campbell, Lieut. Dougherty, M.
Hendrickson, Lieut. Kunzig and
Cook, returned last night and brought
back sixty birds. Jeff had to give
several of the members of his party
lessons on how to shoot.
Blooded Dogs for Sale.
Two airedale terrier puppies, breed
ing unsurpassed. Fine head, ear, eye
and coat. Pedigrees furnished. Eight
champions in three generations. En
quire at Prospector. tf
A Big Laugh
If you want a big laugh don’t fail
to attend the Orpheum tonight. The
New York Comedy, in two reels, will
sure get you going. This is something
out of the ordinary in the comedy
line. Tonight.
Notice To Eagle*.
The regular meeting of Valdez
Aerie January 22 will be called to
order at 7 o’clock. At 8 o’clock a
smoker will be given to which all
Eagles are invited.
This is a good time to return that
book you’ve read to the library at
Everyman’s Club. Library houra:
1 to 2 p. m. every day, Monday, Wed
days and Fridays 7:30 to 9:30 p. m.
eSt&a.dJca ’Mxm
PRODUCERS and CONSUMERS EXCHANGE—Valdez
- - ■ - -ADAM SWAN. Manager.- - -
Inventor*, Importers, Manufacturers and producers:—We handleigoods on
consignment and Cut-Out Go-Between Profits as direct Convenors and
Distributors to the Users, Wearers and Cunsumers of Home Furifishings,
Household Utensils. Electric Appliances, Wearing apparel. Notions, Sta
tionery, Jewelry, Cutlery, Novelties. Toilet Articles, Dainties, etc., etc.
VALDEZ ELECTRIC COMPANY
THE CONSUMERS’ COMPANY
Office in Copper Block, on Broadway
From Kiver to Kiver
When you buy a Box of Apples from us we Guarantee
every apple from cover to cover.
We repack every box before delivery.
Remember: By Their Fruits You Shall Know Them.
Delivery. Phones 55.
The Yakima Fruit Company
When in Chitina Stop at the
CHITINA HOTEL
Fineet Hotel in the Interior—Well Heated, Clean Roome.
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. Mgr
List Your Houses with the
VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Houses for Rent or Sale. Collections Made.
C. B. SMITH, Proprietor. Office on Wall Street.
Chas. R. Crawford w*“ 159
Plate Glass, Window Glass, Roofing and Building Papers, Roofing
Pitch, Lime, Cement, Plaster Lath, Shingles, Builders’ Hard
ware, Shop and Job Work of all kinds.
Windows, Doors, Moulding, Finishing Lumber. fairbAJksImorse a co
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Prescriptions carerully compound
ed at Valdez Drug Co. tf
Suits pressed for 51.00 at Silver
man's the tailor. Telephone 198.
The big free dinner at the Big
Place tonight at 9:30. All are wel
come.
A nice line of art pictures Just re
ceived from New York at Valdez
Drug Co. tf
The most exquisite hand-painted
china ever seen in Valdez at Valdez
Drug Co. tf
Over a dozen varieties of apples to
pick from at the Yakima Fruit Co. tf
Suits pressed for 51.00 at Silver
man's the tailor. Telephone 198.
DOG TEAM for hire. See Joseph
V. Wachter or address P. O. Box 53,
Valdez, Alaska. k 25
G. O. Relnke, the watchmaker and
jeweler, is at the Valdez Drug Co.
All work guaranteed.
Remington and Smith Premier type
writers for sale or rent at Valdez
Drug Co. tf
Best Yakima netted gem spuds 20
lbs. for 50c at the Yakima Fruit Co.
To demonstrate our electric heateis,
cookers, bakers and percolators, we
will serve coffee and ? at the Em
porium. ■-*
Chinese noodles and chop suey at
Valdez Cafe after 7 p. m. if
Cooking apples J2 per box at the
Yakima Fruit Co. tf
Corsets at half price. We are clos
ing out all of our corsets at one-half
cost. Hosiery and underwear at less
than cost at Harvey’s Toggery. (f
Universal percolators and chafing
dishes at Valdez Drug Co. tf
See Tod Winter for your watch and
jewelry repairing at E. Winter’s store.
All work guaranteed. tf
Beautiful hand-painted vasea just
received at Valdez Drug Ce. tf
Only The Best
Smokers Can Now Enjoy
the Best
Juan De Fiica Cigars
U. S. Government Inspected.
Made la Bond
Ingram & Bush
SOLE AGENTS »
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE SEXTON, PROP.
STRICTLY f'irst class
Fourth Avc Skward, Alaska
A. M. Dieriuger
Valdez Transfer
Company
General Trucking and Freight
ing to all interior points
LIVERY and FEED STABLE
STORAGF
Teaming of all kindr
Positively oo coal deliveied
ooless paid tor io advance
DONALDSON SCHEDULE.
Leaves Fort Liscum. Leaves Valdes
8:15 a. m. «• m.
1:15 p. m- 4:00 p. m.
TUESDAYS
8:15 a. m. 9:45 a. m.
1:16 p. m. 2:00 p. m.
4:30 p. m. 5:00 p. m.
SATURDAYS
1:15 p. m. 4:00 p. m.
7:00 p. m. 10:30 p. m.
There will be no trips of the launch
on the secoLd and fourth Fridays of
eaoh month, these days being used
to clean boilers.