I We Are Now Showing Complete I
.Stocks of Women's Kid Gloves f
; HERE is no need now of having to ;
send out to buy gloves, for right here
! you will find varieties large enough ;
[ to satisfy every want. There are plain ; j
! colors in black, white, tans, blues, grey j;
f and brown. They come in the plain stitch
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ings, and the1 heavily embroidered hacks ;:
! now so much in demand—black with ;■
white, white with black, etc. All the fa- ;:
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! mous makes are represented:—Perrins, j:
! Dents, Fownes, Steinburger, Kalisher and j •
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I Bacmo.
• Priced a pair, $1.50, $1.75, $2.00, and $2,50 \ \
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i Valdez Mercantile Co. !
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strictly fresh Eggs, Butter, Fruit
and Groceries, and appreciate
prompt deliveries, try
KING’S GROCERY
Phone 188
STAMPEDERS BACK PROM
STRIKE ON RUDE CREEK.
Dawson: A number of the stam
peders who went to Rude creek, in
^ the Whitehorse district, have return
ed to Dawson and express the belief
that the new camp has merit.
They report several miles of Rude
staked, and some of Deep creek and
Galena creek also staked. Rude
creek flows into Deep creek. Galena
is two hours’ mush over the divide
beyond Rude.
Stampeders are leaving on the boat
today, and some are reported coming
down from Hootalinqua and other
points. The launch Nita left here to
day with a party.
One party which got back last
night include O. F. Kastner, John
Ross, Dan Moriarity apd Mr. Bur
rell. Three others, Dave Ray, Pete
Anderson and partner, who made the
trip over at the same time took the
boat at Isaacs creek for the outside
and will return during the winter to
prospect their claims. Mr. Kastner
says:
“The creeks are shallow and are
best adapted to summer work. The
wood is on Rude, but can be
had on Deapwid nearby creeks.
“The discoverers had gotten fifty
ounces of gold, not coarse, after
working thirty days, and doing 150
hours’ actual sh(we»'i-ng. They have
3,500 feet in discovery, 1 below and
1 above. They worked the upper end
of discovery and have a hole on No.
A* above; and another hole on the
lower line of discovery, and pay in
all. They got five to fifteen cents
to the pan in the first four inches of
gravel on bedrock, and one cent or
better above that. The creek has
two feet of gravel in the creek bot
tom, and six to eight feet of gravel
on the sides. There is little muck.
The valley is about 150 yards wide.
“The discoverers cleaned up less
than 600 square feet of bedrock,
which makes it less than $1.50 to the
square foot.
V/; “Rude creek is about six miles
) long. It was staked when we were
\ ) there to 6 above and 18 below. We
panned and got good prospects.”—
'■ h Dawson News.
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Taxes Due.
> j*. Taxes for the Town of Valdez for
the year 1915 are now due and pay
able at my office at the corner of Key
Si stone avenue and McKinley street.
Taxes will be delinquent on Monday,
December 6th, 1915, at 6 o’clock p.
1m., and unless paid prior thereto,
a penalty of 10 per cent will be added
to the amountand interest at the rate
of 12 per cerif per annum.
Warrants issued by the present
Council will be accepted in payment
ft* taxes.
** Office Hours: 10 a. m. to 12 m.
and 2 p. m. to 4 p. m., except Sun
Dated this 3d day of November,
1916.
H. G. AMES,
Town Treasurer.
Kill 11-18
i ARMENIA AS A NATION
A THING OF THE PAST.
| The deliberate murder of a nation
is taking place in this twentieth cen
tury. Turkey is now in the act of
murdering Armenia, and she has al
most completed her work.
There are no ablebodied male Ar
menians left anywhere in Turkey.
They have either been brought to an
end in the ranks of the Turkish army
into which they are dragged, or have
perished in prisons and at the gal
lows—the best of them in the latter
manner. The remained of the Ar
menian nation, composed of women,
children and old men have been driv
en out of their homes; towns and cit
ies have been completely depopulat
ed of their Armenian inhabitants, in
most instances amounting to thou
sands in number. They are driven
out on a two months’ journey on foot,
with no more definite destination than
Arabia. Two-thirds of them perish
on the way, either from exposure, or
at the hands of plundering and rap
ing Mohammedans. These reports
are from missionaries, Consuls and
Red Cross nurses of other nations.
This state of affairs is the natural
course of the Turkish government’s
openly expressed policy. What is to
be done? Is humanity so situated as
to see deliberate murder committed?
And that on such a scale?
Ambassador Morgenthau is report
ed as having done his utmost' to
stave oft such happenings, but with
out avail, and if America cannot ex
tend a helping hand, no one else can
at present.
Armenia as a nation is dead. Its
land is devastated; only the individ
ual lives of its remaining women and
children can be saved. And the only
means of rescue is their transporta
tion to this or some other country.—
New York Times.
I LOCAL BREVITIES.
“The Gunmen of New York," a
three-reel feature Introducing Hon.
Chas. Whitman, formerly district at
torney and ijow . Governor of New
York State, and the late Mayor Gay
nor of New York City. At tbfi Lib
erty Theatre tonight, admission al
ways the same, 2&c.
Workmen are erecting poles for the
transmission lines of the Alaska Wa
ter, Light & Power company to re
place the charred poles in the dis
trict burned over by the fire last
July. The poles are several fccf
higher than the old ones and will car
ry the transmission lines up so that
almost any building in town could < c
moved under them without interrupt
ing the service.
Private C. D. Whalen, who was
connected with the looat office of the
Signal Corps for a long time but who
went to Cordova to relieve the situ
ation following the destruction of the
wireless plant there by fire, left on
the Admiral Farragut for Seattle and
will later go to San Francisco.
VILLA LOSES A
THOUSAND MEN
Believed to Have Abandoned Attempt
to Capture Mexican Border
Town of Agua Prleta.
DOUGLAS, Ariz., Nov. 4.—Fight
ing of a desultory nature was kept up
yesterday and last night by General
Villa’s troops against Agua Prleta,
the Mexican border town across the
line from Douglas. It is authentically
reported that Villa’s forces suffered
the loss of one thousand men since
the engagement began last Sunday.
The attacking army has apparently
abandoned the attempt to capture the
town and have withdrawn to the
south and it is believed that Villa
now recognizes the futility of attack
ing the Carranza forces while they
can secure unlimited stores of muni
tions from the United States.
During the fighting yesterday a
number of Douglas citizens were in
jured by bullets from the Villa
forces in the attack against Agua
Prleta, and the United States troops
were held in readiness for .instant
action to engage in the battle should
the firing become general into Doug
las.
CAPTAIN STRIXNER
SUFFERS OOHNS
Launch Mary Lee Threatened with
Destruction When Gasoline
Catches Fire from Lantern.
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George Strixner, captain of the
Granby Mining company’s launch,
Mary Lee, suffered severe burns about
the face yesterday afternoon when a
quantity of gasoline caught fire and
for a short time threatened to de
stroy the launch.
Mr. Strixner had experienced some
difficulty with the engine and was
making repairs, when a jar containing
gasoline was upset, falling upon his
lantern and setting the liquid on fire.
He was alone on the boat at the time
but by using fire extinguishers was
able to keep the flames under con
trol until the gasoline had burned
when water was used to extinguish
the flames which had caught in the
woodwork.
During the excitement the Mary
Lee was cut loose by other launch
'owners and pushed away from the
wharf, fearing that she might set the
other launches op fire and threaten
the wharf.
Mr. Strixner was treated at the hos
piial and is able to attend to his du
ties today, but is suffering from a
very sore face as his nose, chin and
heeks were badly blistered, but is
Ilia”! Cul that it is no worse as for a
time he feared that his sight might be
impaired.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
i The fire department today put ev
erything into first-class shape to pre
vent the hydrants from freezing dur
i"g the cold weather which is expect
ed this winter. The hydrant at the
Pin7on corner is housed and will be
1 ready for emergencies at any time.
| The IT. S. marshal’s office has re
I eived information from Anchorage
‘hat two more of the defendants in
the liquor cases, C. C. Bush and P.
M-Guire, were convicted of selling li
~uor without licenses. The other
••ises will be tried at Knik, before U.
1 Commissioner David.
It is believed that Delegate Wick
'•■'ham is now in Cordova as he left
' 'niThanks for Chitlna on the stage
giving the interior town on October
o. and that he will come to Valdez
'■ the Admiral Farragut, due to ar
rv-r here a^out Sunday next.
r’arpe"ters are making rapid pro
. - i the finishing work of the
s’ a Water, Light & Power corn
er v’s new office building on the ap
n-b to Va’dnz city dock, and it will
>e (he hands of the painters.
"’Tin building will afford an operating
for the te'ephone office as well
• a business office and show room.
New Postmaster at Seldovla.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 4.—
T-lii A. Herberth, member of the
"e eral merchandise firm of Her
' erth '& Co., of Seldovia, Alaska, has
' een appointed postmaster at Seldo
via.
CARLYLE AND THE ARTISTS.
Hie Impatience With Whiatlar and Hie
Growl at Watta.
In the article on Whistler In “Sketch
es of Great Painters,” by Edwin Watts
Chubb, there Is a characteristic Carlyle
anecdote. Carlyle had seen the famous1
painting by Whistler of his mother,
and this led to Carlyle’s willingness to
sit for the great artist. “He came one
morning,” writes Mr. Chubb, "sat '
down, waited a few moments while
Whistler made the final arrangements <
of canvas, brushes and palette and
said:
“ ‘And now, mon, fire away!’
“When Carlyle noticed that Whistler
Ignored his Injunction and did not
think that that was the way to paint a
portrait he added testily:
“ ‘If you’re fighting battles or paint
ing pictures the only thing to do is to
fire away/
“On another day Carlyle talked about
other artists who had painted his por
trait:
“ ‘There was Mr. Watts, a man of
note, and I went to his studio, and
there was much meestlflcatlon, and
screens were drawn around the easel,
and curtnius were drawn, and 1 was
not allowed to see anything. And then,
at last, the screens were put aside, and
there I was. And I looked. And Mr.
Watts, a great mon, he said to me,
"How do you like it?” And then I
turned to Mr. Wntts. and I said, “Mon,
I would have you know 1 am in the
habit of wearin’ clean linen..
PROPER COOKING.
It Destroys Bacteria and Makes the
Food More Digestifcle.
Cooking is one of the principal forces
in civilization, and it has played a tre
mendous part in bringing mankind to
the high place it now holds.
The principal reason for cooking our
food is to destroy disease germs. For
many ages no one knew what caused
illness, but now nearly all maladies are
traceable to these tiny germs, many of
which are found in food and can be
destroyed only by the heat of cooking.
Man. owing to the very complicated
machinery of bis body, falls a prey to
disease more easily than the animals.
Consequently food which an animal
can take without harm may kill a man.
Cooking destroys a large proportion of
the parasites, microbes and bacteria in
food, thus giving man a chance to di
gest a diet that otherwise would kill
him.
In order to achieve the best results
in the destruction of bacteria and in
the increasing of digestibility meat and
other foods should be subjected first to
intense heat so us to form a retaining
skin, ns is done in roasting or broiling.
Then the heat should be reduced and
kept on for a long term, during wliich
the juices gradually soften the rnuscu
lnr fibers.
This heat acts as a deathblow to the
millions of bacteria which would other
wise have found a place in the stomach
of the man or the woman who was to
eat it—New York American.
Byron’s Pet Geese.
Italian geese figured in the long suc
cession of pets Byron kept at one time
or another. The Countess Guiccioli
told Lord Malmesbury that, “with all
his abuse of England. Byron when in
Italy insisted on keeping up old cus
toms in small things, such ns having
hot cross buns on Good Friday and
roast goose on Michaelmas day. This
last fancy led to a grotesque result.
After buying a goose and feuriug it
might be too lean he fed it every day
for a month previously, so that the
poet and the bird became so mutually
attached that when Sept. 29 arrived he
could uot kill It, but bought another
and had the pet goose swung in a cage
under his carriage when he traveled.
After four years he was moving about
with four geese.”—London Chronicle.
Cruel Thingl
The elderly "girl” was gushing*
round, as usual, and Molly Smart® was
getting tired of it
“Oh, look here!” cried the would be
youthful dame. “Here’s such a fuuuy
advertisement In the paper. A beauty
specialist says be can make you look
ten years younger in twenty minutes.”
“How Interesting!” exclaimed Miss
Smarte. with a smile. “Why don’t you
try his treatment for—er—an hour or
so?”—London Answers.
Enough to Make Trouble.
He—You don't seem to be ns fond as
you used to be of Miss Sweetthing.
She—I’m not either. Why. the horrid
little cat went around telling folks how
much respect and regard she bad for
tne and how she had learned to rely on
the teachings of my long experience.—
Richmond Times-Dlspatcb.
Experience.
“There’s one thing I can say,” said
the woman who had married twice.
“And that is?" they asked.
“You never appreciate the good qual
ities of your first husband until you
discover the bad points of your sec
ond.”—Detroit Free Press.
Altltudinous Art.
“I don't seem to recognize your sister.
Is this a likeness?”
“Of course not. This is a high art
photograph.”—Louisville Courier-Jour
nal.
An Exchange All Right.
‘“Pa. what Is a stock exchange?”
“A place, my son. where an outsider
is apt to exchange a stock of money
for a stock of experience.’*—New York
Mall. _
Great works are performed not by
strength, but by perseverance.—John
son.
CITY EXPRESS
MEETS ALL BOATS AND NEVER MISSES A TRAIN
Auto (or Hlr e Day or Night.
Buy and Sell Anything.
Phone 82 J. A. SPENARD, Prop.
Jas. E. Wilson, Freighter
Large or Small Deliveries Made
jj; To Any Part of the Country.
§ PROMPT BEHTTCB~_MTKEB VALDEZ, ALASKA
When in Chitina Stop at the
CHITINA HOTEL
Finest Hotel in tie Interior—Well Heated, Clean Rooms.
Bar in Connection. Rates Reasonable
MERCHANT’S CAFE
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone 68 Chas. Fischer, Propr.
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Best of Meals—Prices Reasonable
GENERAL STORE. - TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chitina.
General Freighting. KNUTE nafsted. M*r.
I VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY j
| Doing Business As Usual |
I Independent Laundry Co.
' 1 Satisfaction Guaranteed I I Foot Keystone Ave
I I Telephone 66 I ' R'»«i-rb Dry 16c lb
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Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
PLLMBING, STEAM AND HOT WATER HEATING,
Sheet Metal Work, Metallic Roofing, Mine Air Pipe, Pipe and Fit
tings, Valves, Etc. Motor Boat Supplies.
Located on Broadway VALDEZ, ALASKA
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I Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
PUGET SOUND Admiral PUGET SGUND
California Line Alaska
ALASKA
Steamers sail from Seattle at 9 P. M. on
5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH J
Steamer Sailing 15th calle Illamna and Kodiak—All Sailing call at Knik
and Anchorage.
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to San Francisco every Wednesday anil Sunday, eon arc ting with
Steamers Vale and Harvard tnr Southern California.
Right reserved to change schedule without notice J
RICHARD J. RING WOOD,; Mgr., Seattle i VALDEZ DOCK CO., Loeal AgL J
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.;;
; S. S. Mariposa, S. S. Alameda and S. S. Northwestern '
sail from Seattle the 6th, 12th, 18th,24th erd 30th !!
EVERY MONTH jj
From Valdez south-7th, 13th, 19th, 25th and 31th for Cer- 11
! dova, Skagway, Juneau. Wrangall, Ketchikan and Seattle. !
I Regular freight servicei for Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Sheep ! '•
i Creek, Treadwell Douglas. Skagway, Cordova, Eliumnr, Valdes and La- i .
i touche. Bxphmlve* 3.R Sewnrd, on the Sth; Latouohe, on the ltth; 8. 8. ■>
• Cordova, tSth of each month—right reserved to change this schedule ■>
Without notloe. ■.
r V. B. TRACY, Oea'l Agent 'VALPBS DOCK CO, Local Agent. !
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