S. BLUM & CO.
INCORPORATED
BANKERS
CAPITAL $200,000.00.
We do a general banking business.
We sell exchange on all parts of the world.
We pay 4 per cent interest on Time Certificates of Jleposit
Prospectors,
Don’t neglect your health on the trail.
The VALDEZ DRUG CO.
is prepared to fill your medicine kit
with the purest and best of drugs,
medicines, and surgical bandages.
Give Your Freight Contract to
Robert McIntosh
DELIVERY GUARANTEED
Contracts taken for delivery in fhe NELCHINA,
CHISANA, and SLATE CREEK sections.
No contract too large, none too small.
For prices apply to Rob’t McIntosh, Valdez.
J. E. WILSON
FREIGHTER
Special price on mills and large outfits—Special atten
tion given to Fairbanks, Nelchina and
Chisana freight.
Teams are always ready to go to any point in Third or Fourth Divisions.
Ernestine Road House
On Government Road 65 miles from Valdez.
HARRY MILLER. Prop.
Good clean beds.
Excellent meals.
Everything First Class
Fine warm’.barns. Ac
comodaton for'60 horses.
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Best of Meals—Prices Reasonable
GENERAL STORE. - TRADING 'POST.
Telephone connects withIChitina.
General Freighting. KNUTE INAFSTED.!M*r.
TAZUNA HILL ROAD HOUSE
is open for freight and accommodations for the new
strike at Nelchina—Horses on hand at all times.
JAMES L. SIMPSON.
Wortman’s Road House
E. P. CASHMAN.'.Proprtetor.
20'miles from Valdez.
The best meals and most comfortabld beds Procurable.
When in Chitina Stop at the
CHITINA HOTEL
Finest Hotel in the Interior---Well Heated, Clean Rooms.
Bar in Connection. Rates Reasonable
GET THE HABIT
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The
PLANS TO ADOPT
MANY CHILDREN
Wealthy Oklahoma Citizen Is Caring
For Seventy Children Now—Will
Make It 1,000.
Charles Page, a wealthy oil man
of Tulsa, Okla., has seventy adopted
children, and purposes to adopt one
thousand. He Is also preparing to
care for 100 poor widows.
For the care of the seventy chil
dren he has built a large house on
a wooded hill. It is filled with boys
and girls. He is preparing to build
this Spring another house for two
hundred children, and when that is
finished he will begin building more
homes until he has accommodations
for one thousand.
He. has already built eight homes
for poor widows, has four more un
der construction, and soon will have
one hundred) 'more finishe.’ Kacli
house will have two rooms, with free
gas for heating and cooking, free wa
ter, free electric light, and a garden
plot.
The seventy boys and girls have
an eighty-acre park for a playground,
a lake of fourteen acres for swim
ming and boating, a wading pool for
the smaller ones, lawn swings, and
all sorts of contrivances for their
amusement, a hospital, a zoological
garden, a kindergarten and grade
school, and a $40,000 high school.
Mr. Page also expects to build a
hospital, where, if his plans are car
ried out, any person in America who
is to poor to pay may come and be
operated upon by the greatest sur
geons in the country.
To maintain these institutions and
keep them going forever Mr. Page
has created an endowment fund, the
foundation of which is nearly all of
his holdings of real estate, gas lands,
oil wells,, railroad and other prop
erties, aggregating several million
dollars in value.
According to a story told by his
brother, these acts of benevolence are
inspired by the experiences of the
wealthy man’s youth, when his moth
er was left a widow with several
children and had to take in wash
ing. One day, when at the age of
ten, he was watching her at work,
he exclaimed:
"You just wait, mamma, till I get
rich and you wont have to wash any
more, nor any other woman won’t,
either. I’ll take care of all the poor
widows and orphans.”
i And now, having won wealth large
| ly through oil wells in Oklahoma, he
| is trying to carry out his childish
I vow.
I •
WILL TAKE STAND
IN OWN DEFENSE
Directors of tfhe Western Fuel Com
pany Are to Tell Jury How
It Happened.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 7.—It was
slated today by the attorneys Tor the
officers and directors of the Western
Fuel company that four of the de
fendants would take the stand in their
own defense and will testiffy • as to
the importation of coal by the com
pany and the alleged underweigh
ing.
The case still attracts much inter
est in this city because of the prom
inence of the men involved and the
court room is packed at every session
of the court.
Catholic Church.
Sunday services:
Confession and holy communion.
8:30 a. m.
Mass and sermon, 10:30 a. m.
Sunday school, 2:00 p. m.
Rosary, instruction and benediction,
1)7:3# p. m.
FATHER VAN der POL. S. J..
| Harvey’s Toggery are closing out
jtheir complete line of dry goods and
[ladies’ furnishings. Now is .tne tlmt
to get real bargains. tf
tV.lt i
i Have your watch repaired at the
Valdes Drug Co, by aa eaperienced
^workman. All work guaranteed and
promptly done tf
Pits pressed for 31,00 at Silver
'll ,•im.
, —TetW'^r-T1 t
atch 25$. Plant & Co. tf
HUM OUT BLOOD,
PURfFY, POT BACK
Surgeons of Johns Hopkins
Perform Maryelous Feat.
HEART ACTION UNDISTURBED
Every Drop of Fluid Removed From
Body of a Dog and Run Through
Fifty Foot Coil of Tubes—Mysterious
Force, Not Weight or Convolutions,
Gives Brain Power, Says Dr. Melius.
Three doctors from Johns Hopkins
university of Baltimore, by actual dem
onstration on a living animal, showed
members of tho Federation of Ameri
can Societies For Experimental Biolo
gy. in sesslou in Philadelphia, that it
wus possible to remove every drop of
blood from a living animal, clean the
blood of its impurities and return it
to the animal without interrupting the
heart beats.
The demonstration was made on a
dog. The demonstrators were Profes
sor J. J. Abel and two of his colleagues,
Dr. L. G. Rountree and Dr. B. B. Tur
ner. all of Johns nopkins. In their
experiment they had every drop of
blood out of the dog’s body and cours
ing through a coil of tubes whose con
nected length measured nearly fifty
foot.
Onlookers Amazed.
Scientists who watched ttie demon
stration in wonder saw the entire cir
culation of an animal going on in glass
tubes outside the uniinal's body and
blood propelled through the tubes by
the action of the dog's heart, which
never stopped beating while they
watched it.
At the same time, by the use of a
salt solution, through which the blood
was coursing, the animal’s blood was
being purified of sugar, urea aud all
diffusable materials. By varying the
solution and sending the blood through
chemicals of different sorts, other kinds
of poisons can be removed from the
blood by the same process.
Professor Abel and Ills colleagues
would venture no prediction us to u
practical application of their method
Scientists who witnessed the demon
stration, however, did not conceal their
enthusiasm over the channel of op
portunity opened up by the Baltimore
men.
"If this method of diffusion removes
urea from the blood,” said one, ”It
can be used as a cure for uraemia. By
varying the chemical the same process
can be used to remove acetone from
the blood, the poison associated witli
nephritis."
May Remove Bichloride.
Hr. W. Salant, head of the federal
public health service at Washington,
made this comment:
■•’I’liis apparatus is positively tile
newest tiling for cleansing the blood.
It is the most interesting thing in
this convention. It may be possible,
though 1 have not tested this machine,
to remove bichloride of mercury from
tile blood.”
Dr. A. .1. Carlson of tile University
of Chicago demonstrated on himself
the efficiency of a hunger testing ma
chine. which is his own invention.
Dr. Carlson defined hunger as a sen
sation which arises in the stomach,
while appetite, he explained, is a nerv
ous phenomenon of the brain. He swal
lowed a small cigar shaped rubber bal
loon which had been fitted with long
rubber tubes, inflated the balloon in
his stomach through the tubes and
then attached the latter to sensitized
paper.
Huuger. he said, caused the muscles
of the stomach to grip the balloon and
drive out the air which registered the
amount of hunger on the sensitized
paper.
Upsoto Old Brain Theories.
In a recent paper read before tbe
American Physiological society of the
University of Pennsylvania, by Pr. E
Linden Melius of Johns Hopkins uni
versity he contradicted the. theory .ac
cepted by many,.scientist* that the in
tellectual prowess of human beings de
pends to a large extent on the con
volutions and size of the brain. His
announcement was assumed to have
opened up up entirely new Held for
scientific research.
••The theory that the weight of a
brain lias anything to ilo with Its ef
ficiency." Dr. Melius said, "was of
course exploded long ago. The Inter
theory, generally accepted, that intri
cate convolutions were a sign of brain
power or efficiency seems based rath
er on the desire for anatomic explana
tion than on any procurable facts. I
have investigated countless brains of
all classes of individuals, and I have
yet to meet with anything that would
bear out tills* theory "
The results of Investigations, said the
physician, convinced him that some
mysterious force not yet found or de
fined and us strange as the nerve im
pulse itself animated the brnfu cells,
changed their formation and their re
lations and thus made for or against
mental efficiency regardless of the size,
weight, or outward appearance of the
brpjn Itself. ,,
Thirteen Million Jews In the World.
According to the Jewish year book,
which Is Just out in London, the num
Imr of Jews III the world now ex
feeds 1.1,000.000. made up thus: Europe,
P.nno.lTr,: Asia. 484.3T>»; .\frlcu. 404.
830: 2,104.001: Austin loots,
141.41.V .Jtpftl.
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I Foot Keystone Ave
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Valdez Dock Co . PHONE NO. 1
JOBBER IN
COAL, HAY and GRAIN
AGENT FOR
Alaska Steamship Company
Alaska Coast Company
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
S. S. Mariposa and S. S. Northwestern
Sail from Seattle 10th, 20th of 30th
EVERY MONTH
From Valdez south —8th 18th and 28th for Cordova, Skag
way, Juneau, Wrangell, Ketchikan and Seattle.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan. Juneau. Sheep creek Treadwell. Douglas.
Cordova, Kllamar. Voldez and La touche. Kxpiosiues. S S Seward. S S Seward. 3th:
S S Latouehe. 13th: S S Cordova. 23th of each month—Right reserved to change this
schedule without notice.
F B. Tracy, Gen’l Agt- Valdez Dock Co., Local Aft.
is
Pacific Alaska
Navigation Company
Alaska Pacific S. S. Co. Alaska Coast Co.
PUGET SOUND-ALASKA ROUTE
Steamers sail from Seattle every ten days of each month on
the 5th, 15th and 25th,
via the Inside Passage for Ketchikan, Juneau, Yakutat, Ka
talla, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Cook Inlet points and Kodiak.
PUGET SOUND—CALIFORNIA ROUTE
Seattle-San Francisco, connecting with steamers Yale and
Harvard for southern California ports.
Right reserved lo change dates and steamers without notice
B. F. WATSON VALDEZ DOCK CO.
Owner*! Agent __Locel Agent
Chas. R. Crawford
Wall Street Phone 159
Plate claw, window claw. roofing aad
bdldlnc papa. .. «W«M Pitch. Bne^ce;
meat. pUetoi lath, ehlnclaa. hoadew
Mwara. Shop and job work of all kind*
Window*. Door*. Moulding. Fini*h
ing Lumber
Agent* for Fairbanks, Morse & Co.
Valdez Sheet Metal Works
r ? » » } ;
Manufacturers of
YAKSHAW STOVES
Plumbing, Steam and Hot
Water Heating, Pumps and
Well Points.
Sheet Metal Work of Every
Description, Hose Valves,
Iroi °ipe, Fittings.
a M. Dieringei
Valdez Transfer
Company
General Trucking and Freight,
ing to all interior points
LIVERY ar d FEED STABLE
STORAGE
Teaming of all kinds ZZZm
PisM it ml deliiand
Mint paid lor to admin
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE SEXTON. Prop.
SiRICTLY FIRST CLASS
Fourth Avi Seward, Alaska
Copper River
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Draying Co
Freighting and iiaaeeofere t* ail nan*
or the late.-lo\ General Tracking
McKinley Street, Valdes.
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