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VOLUME 2. WO. T. VALDEZ. ALASKA. THURSDAY. MARCH 26.1903. OFFICIAL CITY PAPER.
JAMES EISH £> CO
Furnishing Goods.
_
Everything to Wear.”
IP you WANT
Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes,
Pants, Overalls,
Ready-to-Wear Suits,
Sweaters or Slickers,
_1
You an get them here
and save money. We
have the Finest, exclu
sive everything-to-wear
stock in town.
WeJiUHeadquarters for Underwear
Anil ran lit von in anything you
want, from Flwct-Limil. at #1.50
a suit to Mereerizt-il Silk at #S.OO
a suit. Twenty-five styles to select
from.
COTTON UNDERWEAR,
WOOL UNDERWEAR,
SILK UNDERWEAR.
Cure That Cold at
P. O. DRUG STORE.
P. E. KERN,
GOLD and SILVERSMITH.
We Carry a Large Lo: of
Souvenir Spoons
Nugget Jewelry
Rings, Etc.
Fine Watch Repairing
City Market
NEXT TO MERCHANT’S CAKE.
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Beef, Mutton,PorkandPoultry
Our Prices are RIGHT. Give us a call.
The Watch of the Hour;
And the Hour of the Watch.
On it Life may depend! To this end get the
PROJECTOR
A TRUSTY RELIABLE WATCH.
Special Price $2.00.
See it and you’ll believe it, try it and vou’U buy it.
Tliu* make a double strike, Time and Gold.
W. C STULL, Nugget Jewelry Made to Order
Optician, Jeweler and Expert Watchmaker.
On the Glacier.
There are now aland 25 people
on their way across the glacier.
Only one party has passed the
summit so far. That is the outfit
sent by Al. White into the Matu
uuska country.
Sam Taylor ami Alec Oldhauscn
are canqKxl at the foot of the sum
mit.
Louis Rosenthal, James Baker,
John Greenwald, Hans Christensen,
Carl Swanson and John Burr are
at the fifth bench.
At the fourth liench there are
three tents occupied by E. W.
Merrill, James Simpson, Jack Stew
art and Hans Hanson.
There are several tents at the
relief station. Xiel Robeson and
party, Ben Howell and several
others are camped there.
Some of the outfit have tlieir
caches on the summit, and with
three or four clear days most of
the mushers will lie over the big
ice.
The trail this year runs toward
the center of the glacier at the
third bench and does away with
the bad grade at the top. The only
steep pull by the new trail is just
after leaving the flat, where there
are two or three short pitches.
There was a large attendance at
the chamber of commerce meeting
last Friday, hut through some mis
understanding Mr. lies was not
{•resent to give the particulars of
us railroad scheme and no action
was taken. It is exjiected that
another meeting will lie called soon
to place the matter before the peo
ple. The proposition offered is as
follows: Mr. lies will agree to
build a railroad from Valdes to
the foot of Lowe river summit, at a
cost of not less than 9550,000, pro
vided the people of Valdez will
give a subsidy of 950,000, in four
payments, as each five miles of the
road is completed. Work to licgin
within sixty days and road com
Slcted to. the summit this year.
Ir. lies states that he has the
assurance that the government will
give a right-of-way along the gov
ernment trail.
A. W. Tibbitts now has his out
fits well started on the trail and
will leave in a few days for the in
terior.
IOMT WAT
THE ROUTE PROM VALDEZ 18
THE BEST
To The Tanana Me
Several Hundred Miles Shorter,
and Open All the
Year.
To any one who has investigated
the different routes from the out
i side to the new strike on the
Tanana, it is evident that the
\ aldez route is the shortest quick
est and eliea|>est.
Last month Hawes anil Hunt
ington left here for the strike.
They were eight days and a half
making the mouth of the Chistuch
ina a distance of 1K0 miles, each
taking a load of 350 pounds. .Since
then several other parties have left
over the same trail, which is as
follows:
From Valdez over the govern
ment trail to Copper river 140
miles; From the Center up the
Copi>er to the ('histuchina 60
miles; up the Chistuchina 45 miles;
thence across the country to the
head of the Delta 45 miles; down
the Delta to the Tanana H5 miles;
thence to the diggings 71 miles
making the whole trip alwut 401
miles.
To a party going late this route
could Ik- varied by continuing on
past the Chistuchina to the Slana;
then up the Slana to Mentasta
pass and down totheTokio. If by
that time the snow was disap]iear
ing, I mats could Ik* built and then
it would Ik> plain sailing down the
Tokio to the Tanana; thence down
the Tununa to the diggings.
Any route taken other than via
Valdez involves extra traveling of
hundreds of miles.
If one goes in by way of Skag
way, the usual expense and worry
is encountered attending a trip to
Dawson, and from Dawson to the
diggings, by the very shortest |mis
sible route, (which according to the
Dawson Sun is impracticable for
sledding), is .‘tttO miles of mushing.
To go by way of the Yukon
means getting there in midsummer,
too late for any practical purpose.
So taking ^lll points into consid
eration, the traveler will do well to
takt the Valdez route, which can
be used at any season of the year,
with a saving of time, lal>or and
exi»ense, and almost half the route
is covered by good, comfortable
roadhouses.
Solomon Golch.
Work will soon be renewed with
extra vigor on the Solomon gulch
property. The heavy snow of this
season put a stop to the surface
work, and Mr. George Barrack took
advantage of the lull in the work
to take a trip to the states in the
interest of the company. He left
here on Dec. 25, and has been busy
ever since selecting machinery suit
able for extensive oiwrations on
the mine. The whole outfit is now
on the wharf at Seattle, and will
lie shipped here on the next trip of
the Nome City.
Transact No Business.
The city council met Monday
night, but owing to the absence
from town of the mayor, no busi
ness was transacted. There have
been no committees appointed, and
until Mayor Goodell returns and
names the committees, no action
can be taken on matters now before
the council.
Cash paid for second hand goods
of all kiuds. Richards A Co. I
Moike Take* a Trip.
Woktma.nV. Sat. Mar. 21.
I*eft Valdez on the morning of
Man'll 20. light, with the intention
of making No. 3 next day. The
weather commenced to get had
shortly after leaving Valdez. By
the time we arrived at Camp Com
fort the trail was completely tilled
with light snow that stuck to the
sleds ami nearly pulled the life out
I the horses.
I,eft comfort at 2:30 p. m. for
! Wort man’s, with Sam Lynch ami
| Jns. McCarty for company: Mr.
I Hollingsworth was with Lynch,
| also. The trail to Xo. 2 was very
| had. Here we found altout In
I trailers cactied at the side of the
j trail. Scenting danger ahead we
I cut our loads in two, and lightened
! them in everv wav lmssible. The
I , * • 1
hrst half mile through the canyon
j was not bad—quite heavy, that was
J all. When we got to the snowslidc
section the fun commenced and did
not cease until we were seated at
the dinner table at Wortman’s at
10 p. m. The first incident of any
note was a snowslidc. McCarty
was quite a distance ahead; Sam
being heavy loaded could not make
j such good time. Hollingsworth
and I were walking behind Sam’s
sled. All of a sudden we heard a
sort of hissing and sliding sound.
I looked up in time to, see Lvnch
lie down on his sled just as a slide
of soft snow covered him com
j pletely. When it struck him, lie
i gave a sort of a— well I can’t
j quite descrilie the sound he did
make— It was a sort of a cross lie
tween a Malamute howl and a half
! X el son hitch. With just a dash of
i Basso I’rofundoski. If I live to he
as old as Staghound Bill I will
never forget that sound—or noise.
After lie was out and on the wav
again I asked him what he meant
by making such a racket. He re
plied he was merely sounding the
key-note to the situation. We had
gone hut a short distance when his
horse was struck by another slide
that carried him over a bluff into a
deep liole._ It took us about an
hour to get him out and hitched
up again. By this time the snow
flakes had assumed the size of a
winter’s coal hill ami were not as
scarce as snow-shoes in Valdez. It
was getting dark and we were not
half-way through the canyon, and
by no means over the worst part of
it.
There has been a very heavy fall
of the beautiful (?) for the last
week ami the canyon is well-filled
with snow, and judging from ap
pearances is good for five weeks,
yet.
We arrived at this end in safety,
though very tired and wet. No
one, except the mail carrier, has
come from the other side for a
week. Moikk.
Another new industry has been
added to our town, which will,
without doubt, delight the ladies.
Mrs. M. M. Sheffer and Mrs. M. E.
Rodley, hot h of Seattle, have opened
an establishment on McKinley st.,
next to Fish & Co. They have on
display a large stock of Ladies’
Furnishings, including hair goods,
millinery and ladies’ suits. Both
ladies are ex)>erts in hair dressing
and manicuring, and a parlor will
be maintained for that purpose, in
which everything pertuining to a
ladies’ toilet will be attended to.
Mrs. Sheffer is, no doubt, well
known to some of our ladies, as she
maintained a large establishment
in Seattle for several years, and
from there shipped goods to all
parts of Alaska.
G uy F. Cameron. teacher of banjo,
mandolin and guitar. Music fur
nished for all occasions. For les
sons, etc., inquire at Broadway
Pharmacy.
Vocal and piano instruction.,
French or German language classes, i
Schneider Sisters, Broadway.
WHILE TAKING A DRINK AT
A WATER HOLE
Mer^Movned
Ice Broke and The Swift Current
Carried Him Under. Body
Not Recovered.
I). (i. MeTavish arrived from the
Xizina diggings, by wav of Tasnuna
Tuesday night, and rejmrts the
drowning of Mr. Josejdi Merge, in
C'hittyna river, almut five miles
below the Xizina. on March I'*.
Mr. Merge and his |>artner, H. I).
Patricks, were traveling along the
river In-hind the rest of the outfit
of seventeen men, when Merge
stnjijied his team and went over to
a water hole to get a drink. His
partner saw him stamping on the
iee to see if it was strong
enough to bold his weight, and saw
him get down on his knees and
drink; when he looked again the
iee had broken and he had disujs
peared and the swift water had
carried him under. His body was
not recovered. The Mlei jiartv of
nineteen men reached the diggings
on the 18th of the month and are
now busy whipsawing lumber for
cabins and getting the eamj> ready
for the big outfit.
Appropriation for Alaska.
'Hie sundry civil hill as agreed
u|K>n by Ixith houses and sent to
the president contains the follow
ing items: Lighthouse. Alaska,
♦201 MXX); Alaskan exhibit at St.
laiuis, ♦50,000; relief of natives of
St. George and St. Paul island,
Alaska, ♦15,000; to pay expenses
of Alaskan Itoumlary commission,
♦100.000; protection of salmon
fisheries of Alaska, ♦7,000; inci
dental and traveling expenses,
Alaska department of justice,
♦10,000. _
A restraining order was issued
last Friday from the Court of
Lovers’ Pleas, ordering all others
to keep off and not trespass; plain
tiff claiming the right to take to a
dance the charming young lady in
the suit (white). It np|iears that
that Cupid drove an iron wedge
into the heart of plaintiff; it left
him courage enough to appear l>e
fore the court hut his courage oozed
out through the blecdin’ wound
and he did not have grit enough
left to invite the aforesaid lady, so
the other fellow took her.
Mr. Herman Meyer, manager of
the Nizina Trailing Co., left here
today in company with Ur. Woods,
the company physician. They are
liounil for the Ni/.iua, where Mr.
Meyer will have a large stock of
good-' to sell. Anyone who is
forced to get in light can secure a
sufficient outfit for working or
prospecting. Mr. Meyer has sent
a force of men ahead who will erect
suitable warehouses for the busi
ness, which will Ik- opened up just
as soon as the manager gets there.
The Misses Richards gave a de
lightful little party last Monday
evening at their home on Keystone
avenue. Cards and other games
were the main features of the
evening followed by a very tasty
aud tempting array of refresh
ments. Those present were Mr.
and Mrs. Eames, Mr and Mrs.
Harry Stool, Miss Root, Mine
Kellie Richards. Miss Pearl Rich
ards, Mr. Worden and Mr. Elwell,
Owing to the recent heavy snow
storms work on the new wharf at
the fool of Keystone avenue wag
suspended for a few days. All
the land bents are completed,
and the pile driver being mounted,
was put in place Wednesday. Log*
have been taken from the raft aud
are being rapidly driven into place.
Capt. Cteiger exi>ectg to have tl*
wharf in working order at a very
parly ilate.