Report of the Financial Condition of
THE FIRST BANK OF VALDEZ
located at Valdez, Territory of Alaska, at the
close of business on the 10th day of February, 1915
RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts.$109,434.03
Overdrafts . 297.33
Bonds, warrant and other securities . 9,205.77
Furniture and fixtures. 4,324.00
Due from banks. 27,197.00
Checks on other banks and other cash items. 1,258.53
Cash on hand, including gold dust .•. 29,672.70
Total .$181,389.36
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid in.$ 25,000.00
Undivided profits . 2,669.52
Duo to banks—deposits. 8,246.74
Deposits . 145,367.30
Certified checks . 105.80
Total .$181,389.36
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, )
TERRITORY OF ALASKA, j- SS.
THIRD JUDICIAL DIVISION. )
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I, W. M. Goodwin, Cashier, of the above named bank, do solemnly
swear that the foregoing statement is true to the best of my know
ledge and belief. W. M. GOODWIN, Cashier
Correct Attest: [ J^LYONS [directors
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 17th day of F ebruary, 1915
J. W, GILSON,
Notary Public in and for the Territory of Alaska.
[seal] My Commission expires January 21, 1917.
Valdez Dock Co. PHONE NO. 1
JOBBER IN
COAL, HAY
and GRAIN
Office, foot of Wall street.
Valdez Sheet Metal Works, Inc.
Plumbing. Steam and Hot Water Heating.
Motor Boat Supplies. Paints and Ofls.
Pumps, Well-Pointy, Valves T Water, Steam and Suction
and Packing. /V 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
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Meat, Potatoes, Beans, Bread,
and Coffee.
Do Not Hesitate. Welcome Means Welcome.
AL White & Co
PROPRIETORS
Valdez Lodge
No 168,
Free and Accepted Masons
Regular Communications first Wednesday In
each montb in McKinley Hall. Visitor! always
weloome.
A. E. GRIGSBY. W. M.
Ed. Wood, Sec
G. O. Relnke, tea watchmaker and
jeweler, la at the Valdez Drug Co
All work guaranteed.
Latest popular copyrights and clas
sics at Valdez Drug Co. tf
Remington and Smith Premier type
writers for sale or rent at Valdez
Drug Co. tf
The big free dinner at the Big
Place tonight at 9:30. All are wel
come.
Beautiful hand-painted vases Just
received at Valdez Drue Co. tf
NORTHWESTERN TO
SAIL WEDNESDAY
Has Been Converted Into An Oil Burn
er and Renovated From
Top To Keel.
SEATTLE, Feb. 23.—The steamer
Northwestern will leave Seattle on
tomorrow evening, taking the place
of the Mariposa, while that vessel
goes into dry dock for her annual
overhauling.
Approximately $80,000 has been
spent by the Alaska Steamship com
pany in changing the Northwestern
from a coal to an oil burner, and in
renovating the liner so that she will
be equal in every way to the com
pany’s crack boats the Mariposa and
Alameda.
buncoIaSTto
FLEECE MINERS
Los Angeles Man Advertised for 500
Men To Work In Mine Near
Valdez, Alaska.
Chas. Iehl, who was connected with
a local electrical company and will
be remembered as one of the locators
of the Valdez fining company’s
claims, is now in business in Los An
geles. He is secretary of the Mu
nicipal Motor Car Company, with of
fices in the Merchant’s National Bank
building. He reports that the Cali
fornia city is full of Alaskans who
are spending the time there until
spring, when they will come north.
Mr. Iehl sends the following want
ad. which appeared in a number of
Los Angeles papers and the sequel
as published in the Examiner Feb
ruary 8:
“WANTED—500 men to go to Alas
ka to work in mine, 50c per hour to
start, steady work, fare and board
from here, boat starts April the first.
See C. B. Brown, 11314, South Los
Angeles street.”
“Detective Burgess and License In
spector Hilf today saved W. H. Mc
Gee from itough treatment at the
hands of an angry mob. Afterwards
the officers booked McGee at cen
tral station on suspicion of being im
plicated in a bunco game.
"McGee declares that he is inno
cent of any wrongdoing. He said
that he answered an advertisement
and was hired by C. R. Brown to re
cruit 500 miners for Valdez, Alaska.
“McGee said he had been promised
$4 a day to sit in the Improvised of
fice near Second and Los Angeles
streets and take the names and de
posits of the applicants.
“McGee said he was instructed to
obtain $5 from each man. This mon
ey was to be placed in escrow and
would be returned to the depositors
when they boarded the ship at San
Francisco.
“A number of the miners asked to
see Brown and when he could not
be found they began a demonstra
tion, directing their attack on Mc
Gee, whom they held responsible for
the advertisement."
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Snow glasses 15c and up, at the
Emporium.
Large stock of cut glass and Paris
ian ivory at Valdez Drug Co. tf
Prescriptions carerully compound
ed at Valdez Drug Co. tf
See Tod Winter for your watch and
jewelry repairing at E. Winter’s store.
All work guaranteed. tf
A nice line or art pictures Just re
ceived from New VorK at Valdez
Drug Co. tf
The most exquisite nand-palnted
china ever seen in Valdez at Valdez
Drug Co. tf
Men’s wool socks, 25c; Hold-Heai
electric stove, $2.50, and everything
else in proportion at the Emporium.
The Ladies' Aid will give a tea In
the lecture room of the Congrega
tional church Thursday afternoon,
February 25, from 2:30 to 5 o’clock.
All are cordially invited to come.
Suits pressed for $1.00 at Silver
man’s the tailor. Telephone 198.
BELIEVE DARDNELLES
SOONJE FORCED
(Continued from page 1.)
to have been checked and, the Ger
mans are now on the aggressive. An
attempt of the Russians to break
through the German lines near Rawa,
southwest of Warsaw, in an endeav
or to threaten the German line of
communication to before Warsaw was
repulsed after desperate fighting.
Norwegian* Are Angry.
CHRISTIANIA, Feb. 23.—For the
first time since the outbreak of the
European war the people of Norway
engaged in demonstrations against
Germany when the news spread on
Sunday that another Norwegian
steamer had been sunk by hitting a
floating German mine. It Is believed
the government will again call a con
ference of the kings of Sweden, Nor
way and Denmark to send a joint
protest to the German government
against the des*ruction of neutral ves
sels by Germany.
Russian Army At Bay.
LONDON, Feb. 23.—The Tenth Rus
sian army which retreated from East
Prussia into Russian Poland is mak
ing a desperate stand against the
Germans along the Nare and Niemen
rivers 'northeast of Warsaw. Dur
ing the engagements on Saturday the
Russian forces were able to check
Gen illndenburg’s troops at Lohmza
and forced them to retreat at Oseo
wlec but the Germans have sent
strong reinforcements to that dis
trict and now have the Russians on
the defensive.
Believe Move To Capture Warsaw.
The German aggressive movement
from Russian Poland is believed by
military experts to be a move to ef
fect the capture of Warsaw from the
north, and would also isqlate the
Russian armies along the Vistula
•river and before Warsaw.
Russians Recognize Danger.
Grand Duke Nicholas, of the Rus
sian army, is evidently aware of the
dangerous positions of his Polish arm
ies as fresh troops are being rushed
to the district. It is asserted by the
military experts that the battle which
Is now rapidly converging near Os
owiec will be one of he most des
perate of the war and may decide
the fates of the armies engaged. The
Germans have been pouring troops
into the district over the railroad
from For* Lyck to Grajewo, while
'he Russians have been bringing
troops from interior Russia and be
fore Warsaw.
Poland Lacks Railroads.
PETROGRAD, Feb. 3—The Russian
war ofPce asserts that the retire
ment of the Russian armies from East
Prussia was owing to the Germans
having railroad facilities for the rap
id assembling of troops in numbers
at certain points where they would be
able to break through the Russian
lines before reinforcements could
reach them. It is asserted that Grand
Duke Nicholas Instructed his gener
als to withdraw from East Prussia
into Russian Poland where the Ger
’s would be without means of
transportation. The belief is express
ed fihat tihe German advance is
checked and that the Russians will
win the battle which is now being
waged in the Osewiec district.
Russians To Attack Constantinople.
VIENNA, Feb. 23.—information has
reached here that a strong Russian
army is being concentrated at Odes
sa, on the Black Sea, and it is be
lieved that an attack is soon to be
made to capture Constantinople. It
is admitted by the Turkish govern
ment that the Russian fleet is in
command of the Black Sea and that
the Turkish Black Sea fleet dare not
give battle without the assistance of
the Goeben, which»will require weeks
to complete her repairs.
Norwegian Ship Sunk.
LONDON. Feb. 23.—The German
submarines claimed their first victim
in the blockade from neutral nations
when a Norwegian merchantman was
torpedoed by a submarine off the
coast near Dover. The Norwegian
colors were painted on the ship.
The crew were saved.
Wire Netting To Catch Bombs.
LONDON, Feb. 23.—Engineers have
devised a wire netting which it is
believed will catch and explode
bombs dropped from the clouds by
German aviators. The netting will
be erected over the Royal Palace as
a protection.
Germany Took Many Prisoners.
BERLIN, Feb. 23.—The report of
the war office shows that 100,000
prisoners. Including several generals,
were captured during the campaign
of Gen. Hlndenburg to clear East
Prussia of the Russian Invaders.
VALDEZ ELECTRIC COMPANY
THE CONSUMERS’ COMPANY
' Office* in Copper Block, on Broadway
JUST RECEIVED
On The Mariposa,
Fresh Vegetables and Fruit
The Yakima Fruit Company
Your Houses with the
VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Houses for Rent or Sale. Collections Made.
C. B. SMITH, Proprietor. Office on Wall Street.
When in Chitina Stop at the
CHITINA HOTEL
Finett Hotel is the Interior—Well Heated, Clean Room.
Bar in Connection. Rates Reasonable
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Best of Meals—Prices Reasonable ’
GENERAL STOfe. - TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chltina.
General Freighting. knute; nafsted, Mar.
F *
Chas. R. Crawford WaU street Phone 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. fairb<&ks?morse * co
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE SEXTON, Prop.
S'lRIGTLY FIRST CLASS
Fourth Aye Seward, Alaska
ALASKAN EXHIBITS
AT THE GREAT FAIR
The Presbyterian /Board of Mis
sions are maintaining an Alaskan ex
hibit at the San Francisco fair. The
exhibits consist of work done by the
natives and moving pictures of Alas
ka and tfce north. Rev. S. Hall
Young, the aged missionary who
came to Alaska thirty-five years ago
and has lived In all parts of the ter
ritory, is in charge of the moving
picture part of the exhibit and fur
nishes information on Alaska.
Notice of Forfeiture.
To G. A. Brown, his heirs and ad
ministrators and to all it may con
cern :
You are hereby notified that we
have expended during the years 1912,
1913, and 1914, the sum of three hun
dred dollars ($300.00), lawful money
of the United States, in labor and
improvements, upon your one-sixth
interest in those mining claims lying
and being on Mineral creek, in the
recording precinct of Valdez, Alaska,
which are known as the Monte Carlo
group consisting of the Monte Carlo.
Monte Carlo No. 2, Monte Carlo No.
3, Monte Carlo No. 4, Monte Carlo
No. 5, Monte Carlo No. 6, the
location notices of said claims
being of record in the office of
the commissioner and recorder, at
Valdez, Alaska, pages numbered 322,
323, 325, 326, and 327, of Book 2 Min
ing Records, in order to hold said
claims under the provisions of Sec
tion 2324 of the Revised Statutes of
the United States, concerning aftnual
labor on mining claims, being the
amount required to hold said lode
claims for the period ending Decem
ber, 1914.
And unless within ninety days af
ter the completion of the publication
of this notice, to-wit: within ninety
days after the 6th day of May, 1915,
you contribute your proportion of
such expenditure incurred in perform
ing said annual labor and improve
ments, which is the sum of three
hundred dollars ($300.00), your inter
est in said claims will become the
property of your co-owners, who have
made the required expenditure, by the
terms of said secMon.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 4th
day of February, 1916.
MIKE BARRETT.
JULIUS JUNGHOLM.
Last' publication May 6, 1915.
Cable Office Houre.
Week days 9 a. m. to » p. m
Sundays and holidays 9 to 10 a. nt.
and 5 to 6 p. m.
ir yon want all tn« news all the
time read the Dally Prospector.
Only The Best
Smoker* Can Now Enjoy
the Beat
Juan De Fuca Cigars
U. S. Government Inspected.
Made In Bond
Ingram & Bush
SOLE AGENTS
A. M. Diertager
Valdez Transfer
Campanil /
General Trucking and Freight
ing to all interior points
LIVERY and FEED STABLE
STORAGE"
Teaming of all Irindr
Positively no anal dadveied
unless paid (or In advance
DONALD3QN SCHEDULE.
Leaves Fort Liscum. Leaves Valdez
8:15 a. m. 9: <5 a. m.
1:15 p. ns. 4:00 p. m.
TUESDAYS
8:15 a. m. 9:45 a. m.
1515 p. in. 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. 10:80 p. ns.
There will be no trips of the launch
on the secoi.d and fourth Fridays of
each month, these days being used
to clean boll its.
This is a good time to return that
book you’ve read to the library at
Everyman’s Club. Library hour;;:
1 to 2 p. m. every day, Monday, Wed
days and Fridays 7:39 to 9:30 p. m.
Blooded Dogs for 8ale.
Two airedale terrier puppies, breed
ing unsurpassed. Fine head, earf ye
and coat. Pedigrees furnished. Eight
champions in three generations. En
quire at Prospector. tf
Universal percolators and chafing
dishes at Valdez Drug Co tf
Suits pressed for 51.00 at Silver
man’s the tailor. Telephone 198.